Zhou was very angry when she learned about Jiang's father's impeachment of Xue Yuan. When she was questioning Jiang's father, she saw Jiang Xuehui who came to plead guilty. From Jiang Xuehui, she learned that Xue Shu targeted the Jiang family to prevent Jiang Xuehui from participating in the selection of concubine.In order to protect Mingzhe, the Zhou family wanted Jiang Xuehui to withdraw from the selection of concubine. Jiang Xuehui expressed her feelings for Shen Jie and violated the Zhou family for the first time because of what Jiang Xuening had said before.Zhou criticized him and then left angrily.

Jiang Xuening learned about the situation from the maid's mouth and knew Jiang Xuehui's true nature.

Dayue Kingdom recently sent documents to Daqian Kingdom to make peace with the country, but unexpectedly it invaded the territory of Qian Kingdom for no reason. The war broke out, which was a good opportunity for Yan Mu to come back.

Xue Yuan took the initiative to ask Ying to go to the front line to fight, but was blocked by Zhang Zhe.When Shen Lang saw Zhang Zhe proposing Yan Mu, he didn't agree.

After going to court, Xie Wei and Lu Xian were together, analyzing Xue Yuan's request to defend his territory, and guessed that Xue Yuan wanted to take this opportunity to recruit his own private soldiers to prepare for rebellion.Zhang Zhe recommended Yan Mu. Shen Lang deliberately suppressed Yan Mu, so naturally he would not give back his military power easily now.

At the party, Jiang Xuening saw that Shen Zhiyi was depressed and drank to drown her sorrows. She learned from the maid that in order to quell the war, Shen Lang intended to marry Shen Zhiyi.Jiang Xuening recalled that in her last life, Shen Zhiyi's marriage ended in disgrace. In this life, she deliberately persuaded Shen Zhiyi to refuse, but Shen Zhiyi decided to get married for the sake of her family and country.

In order to prevent the princess from getting married, Jiang Xuening took the initiative to find Xie Wei, and Xie Wei awakened Jiang Xuening by playing chess.

Jiang Xuening arranged for Xue Dingfei to incite rumors in the capital about the princess's marriage. Since the border war was caused by the Xue family, the people believed that the person to marry should be Xue Shu.

Xie Wei learned about Jiang Xuening's plan from Xue Dingfei, and then met Zhou Yinzhi, who was looking for a way out because he had been suspected by Xue Yuan, and instigated Zhou Yinzhi to collect evidence of Xue Yuan's crime and abandon the secret.

Soon, the evidence of Xue Yuan's crime was sent to the Criminal Department. Gu Chunfang was confused about the speed, but Zhang Zhe thought it was normal for the hozenes to scatter after the tree fell.

At the same time, Xue Yuan, who was already troubled, learned that Xue Ye was dissatisfied with the literati for accusing the Xue family of beating people. He had no other choice but to follow the trend and let Xue Shu get married.

Xue Shu accidentally learned that her father wanted to give up on her. She went to the palace to seek help from the Queen Mother but failed. Seeing the gecko cutting off its tail and running away, she decided to seek help from Shen Lang. After meeting with him, she recommended herself to the mat.

Xue Shu became Shen Lang's concubine, but Shen Zhiyi still couldn't escape the consequences of getting married for the sake of her family and country. Jiang Xuening was worried that the princess would die when the two countries went to war like in the previous life, but Xie Wei wondered why Jiang Xuening knew that the two countries would go to war.