Xie Wei was with Jiang Xuening. When asked by Jiang Xuening, he confessed that he was grateful to Jiang Xuening for saving his life and would not take advantage of Jiang Xuening. He used his own difficulties to persuade Jiang Xuening not to give up on himself, and then let Jiang Xuening go on the grounds that attending lectures in the palace would not delay Jiang Xuening's piano learning.She went to her house to learn piano from herself, and finally pointed out that Zhang Zhe was not suitable for her.

When Jiang Xuening returned to the Jiang Mansion, she was criticized coldly by Zhou. Later, she learned from Jiang's father that someone told a story under the guise of telling a story about her secret meeting with her lover in prison. She guessed that it was the Xue family who did it.Zhou was angry because of the Jiang family's face and wanted to slap Jiang Xuening, but was stopped by Jiang's father.

After hearing the news, Jiang Xuehui guessed that Jiang Xuening's incident was deliberately done by Xue Shu to push her out of the concubine selection. After meeting with him, Xue Shu also used this matter to threaten Jiang Xuehui to withdraw from the concubine selection.

After learning that Jiang Xuehui and Xue Shu had met, Jiang Xuening was worried that Jiang Xuehui would give up on choosing a concubine for the sake of Jiang Mansion, so he wrote a letter and decided to let Shen Jie handle it.

There were rumors in the capital about Jiang Xuening going to Tongzhou. In order to investigate the situation, Xie Wei went to Zhang Zhe and told Zhang Zhe about Jiang Xuening's feelings for him.

After Xie Wei left, Zhang Zhe recalled with sadness that he had canceled the Yao family's marriage and his mother asked him who he loved.

After learning about the situation through Jiang Xuening's letter, Shen Jie broke into the imperial study at night and told Shen Lang that she already had a crush on her, but the Queen Mother insisted on marrying Xue Shu.After Shen Lang comforted Shen Jie and left, he guessed the Queen Mother's ambition.

Jiang Xuening, who returned to Jiang Mansion, learned that Jiang's father had decided to resign for her own sake, and blamed herself for being too willful and inconsiderate of Jiang's father.Father Jiang was very pleased to learn that Jiang Xuening wanted to deal with the problem alone.

The next day, in the court hall.Jiang's father impeached Xue Yuan in public for embezzling disaster relief food funds. Xie Wei filed a case of theft of arms. Zhang Zhe also publicly brought up the fact that Jiang Xuening went to Tongzhou to perform meritorious service, but Xue Shu created rumors and tarnished his reputation due to her own selfish desires.When Shen Lang saw the evidence collected by Zhang Zhe, Long Yan was furious and ordered a thorough investigation of all matters related to Xue Yuan.

Knowing that Xue Yuan was the target of public criticism because of Xue Shu, the Queen Mother beat Xue Shu angrily.

After returning to Xue Mansion, Xue Shu really wanted to complain to Xue Yuan, but she stopped talking to Xue Yuan.Xue Yuan was about to teach Xue Shu a lesson when he learned that Xie Wei and Zhang Zhe had arrived at Xingwuwei Yamen and rushed there immediately.