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<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nChu Yu shares with Xue Hanmei that there are hostile intentions within Li Changming\u2019s group of followers. She doesn\u2019t mention the case. Rather, Chu Yu talks about having discovered some of her gifts in Qiliu Store, which means there are followers stealing from Li Changming and selling the gifts.<\/p>\n
She moves to ask about the selection process for followers. Xue Hanmei tells her that talent is a criterion. The other is that they also need to be handsome. He also confirms that a background check is done.<\/p>\n
With the selection process appearing to check out, Chu Yu finds it strange how followers with hostile intentions could be let in. This is when Xue Hanmei asks Chu Yu whether she suspected him. Since he\u2019s the closest to her and he appears to have some influence over her decisions, he could have the influence to guide her towards the selection of preferred followers.<\/p>\n
No. Chu Yu denies thinking of him as a suspect. She tells him that if she thought so, she wouldn\u2019t be telling him about it in the first place.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nLi Changming appears before them with a questioning air. They\u2019re both brought in and given a chance to explain themselves. Xue Hanmei speaks first intentionally to get Chu Yu into more trouble. He tells Li Changming that Chu Yu had told him not to tell her about what they were doing. When Chu Yu takes all the blame for the meet-up, Xue Hanmei drops in a lie that Chu Yu called him by his first name to give the impression she was making advances towards him.<\/p>\n
Chu Yu dared to joke and not correct the suggestion made from Xue Hanmei. It sees Li Changming test her with whether she should give her to Xue Hanmei. Chu Yu stops and asks for forgiveness, telling her that it was a joke and to punish her for it.<\/p>\n
Xue Hanmei\u2019s reaction to being offered to Chu Yu is a frown. The indifference surprised him. Li Changming\u2019s always made all the advances towards him, showing how much she favoured him, yet here she was, so easily offering to give him away to Chu Yu. He\u2019s probably questioning how much Li Changming actually likes him. It\u2019s the first time we see Xue Hanmei show a bit of his feelings towards Li Changming.<\/p>\n
Li Changming lets the whole matter go. She decides she won\u2019t punish Chu Yu. However, she warns her that if there\u2019s a next time, she won\u2019t let things slide.<\/p>\n
Xue Hanmei moves to provide a reason for the late-night visit, seemingly helping to, at least, say something that would explain it. He tells Li Changming that Chu Yu wanted to get close to Li Changming and wanted to gift her something\u2014an explanation that Chu Yu goes along with. It sees Li Changming ask Chu Yu for a solution to get the nobles to donate 100,000 taels to relieve the strain on the national treasury (this is the reason Emperor Chunde won\u2019t let go of the pearls without payment).<\/p>\n
The idea Chu Yu comes up with is an auction banquet where the nobles donate their personal items for auction. The place she suggests to hold the banquet is in the remote Qinxi Valley located in the south of Huajing City. The auction banquet and the remote location are deliberate suggestions Chu Yu comes up with to buy her and Wei Yun a good amount of time to search Yao Yong\u2019s mansion for evidence whilst Yao Yong attends the banquet.<\/p>\n
Chu Yu\u2019s choice of location is one that has Xue Hanmei give a rather curious look. A follower who\u2019s just a simple follower probably shouldn\u2019t react to whatever location is suggested, but it had him ask Chu Yu about it later on. It makes you wonder why her choice of location stood out enough for Xue Hanmei to react. It could be explained away with a simple concern for Li Changming\u2014he was heard reminding Chu Yu to not let anyone harm Li Changming. However, with the revelation that Qinxi Valley is a meeting place for the long scheme of annexing Great Sui, anyone in Li Changming\u2019s group of followers could be a traitor, including Xue Hanmei.<\/p>\n
Li Changming reveals to Xue Hanmei later that she actually suspects Chu Yu of wanting something from her. She didn\u2019t believe it to be as simple as her wanting to get close to her. When Xue Hanmei asked why she agreed to the auction banquet, Li Changming told him it\u2019s because she finds Chu Yu interesting as well as being curious about what she\u2019s up to. She was just going to sit back and watch.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nChu Yu is greeted by Wei Yun when she finally makes her way out of Li Changming\u2019s mansion. He\u2019s been waiting for her since discovering Wanyue waiting outside, telling him that Chu Yu was inside.<\/p>\n
The trip back with Chu Yu sees Wei Yun riding the carriage with a long face. He\u2019s not happy about her going to Xue Hanmei as a starting point to find out who amongst the followers is a problem. He\u2019s got a tendency to be quite guarded when dealing with people of interest in an investigation or people whom he suspects, but this time, it\u2019s also because she\u2019s being too close to a man.<\/p>\n
Wei Yun\u2019s feelings for Chu Yu are getting stronger. After returning to their place, hearing Chu Yu call her puppy “Xiao Qi” doesn\u2019t get Wei Yun to feel as offended as usual. Chu Yu insisted on keeping the name because she thought \u201cXiao Qi\u201d was a good name. That had Wei Yun let her have her way. After all, Xiao Qi was a puppy she adored, and it shared the same name as his nickname.<\/p>\n
Back then, Wei Yun saw the naming of her puppy as an attempt to make him comparable to a dog. Now, it could be seen as something Chu Yu really likes. Maybe it’s meant to show a change in Chu Yu\u2019s view of Wei Yun, too. She appeared to choose the name to rile up Wei Yun at the beginning, but now she reveals she thinks it\u2019s a good name.<\/p>\n
Wei Yun decides to ask Chu Yu whether she would have married Wei Jun if he were still alive. Her answer seems to be that it would be unlikely. She sees him as one of the best men in the world and believes he would have met another woman.<\/p>\n
Interestingly, her thoughts are very similar to the words Wei Yun had said to his brother in Episode 2. When Wei Yun found Chu Yu suspicious and thought that Wei Jun had chosen her as his loved one, he expressed that his brother was one of Great Sui\u2019s finest and deserved the best woman. Wei Yun was corrected by his brother at that time, telling him that the best woman is the one whom one loves the most.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not clear what Wei Yun thought when he heard Chu Yu\u2019s response, but he had smiled, as if acknowledging her thought to be on the same wavelength as his\u2014which is good news. If Wei Jun\u2019s words about the person whom one loves the most is the best woman\/man, then the best man for her is the one she loves. The fact that she said that she was unlikely to be the woman Wei Jun would end up with would then suggest she doesn\u2019t see Wei Jun as the one she would love most.<\/p>\n
But then Chu Yu reminds him of reality. There is no such thing as \u201cif\u201d in this world. The fact is she\u2019s married to Wei Jun and is currently known to everyone as Wei Jun\u2019s widow and she is his sister-in-law.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nBack in his room, Wei Yun falls asleep at his desk and dreams of Chu Yu asking him to be with him, revealing inner thoughts and desires. He\u2019s reluctant to admit his feelings. \u201cWhat are you afraid of?\u201d The Chu Yu in his dream had asked. His dream shows him avoiding Chu Yu\u2019s gaze and becoming flustered by her approach.<\/p>\n
It was clear he had feelings for her, but he\u2019s been resisting acknowledging the feelings since the time he helped her untangle a hair ornament from her hair. The dream had Chu Yu call him out on keeping her hair ornament as a sign he liked her. The Chu Yu in his dream called him out on his jealousy whenever he saw her talk to another man (likely referencing the times he interrupted the meetings between Xue Hanmei and Gu Chusheng).<\/p>\n
The time Wei Yun seems to have noticed and was attracted to Chu Yu, though, is confirmed again to be outside Spring Breeze House after he returned from battle and saw her dance on the rooftop in the red dress. \u201cBack in the Spring Breeze House, you were the first man I saw. I know you like me. Am I right?\u201d<\/p>\n
Wei Yun is jolted awake after the analysis of his subconscious feelings for Chu Yu. Wei Yun scolds himself for dreaming about something like this, but he couldn\u2019t deny his feelings now. As well as the things mentioned in dream telling him he liked her, there are also the couple of times she looks to have made his heart beat just a bit faster. When they returned home together, Chu Yu\u2019s sudden move to feel his forehead to see if he was unwell had him stiffen in place. Immediately, his hands that were clasped together tensed up. In Episode 11, when he and Chu Yu were trapped in the secret room at the Arsenal Bureau, he also tensed up when Chu Yu was lying on top of him.<\/p>\n
He tries justifying his desire to be with her with the fact that nothing actually happened between Wei Jun and Chu Yu. He then becomes defiant\u2014what if he insists on his feelings and go after her?<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nOn the day of the auction banquet, Chu Yu and Wei Yun carry out the plan to use it as an opportunity to search Yao Yong\u2019s mansion while he\u2019s obligated to attends it at Qinxi Valley. Chu Yu was to attend the auction banquet and holds him off from attempting to return to his mansion while Wei Yun and his guard\u2014Wei Qiu\u2014try to break into Yao Yong\u2019s study for any evidence relating to his involvement in helping North Qi achieve their mission.<\/p>\n
Multiple times Yao Yong had tried to leave. The moment he saw that only Chu Yu showed up at the auction banquet, he was suspicious what Wei Yun might be up to. Chu Yu had used the same reason Yao Yong didn\u2019t show up at Wei Yun\u2019s Thanksgiving\/investiture banquet\u2014that he was busy working. However, once Wei Yun is fine with work, he would attend.<\/p>\n
Unable to leave the banquet, Yao Yong could only rely on the guards to keep a tight watch of the study room and get the word back to them that Wei Yun might be at his place.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nBefore the guards receive this information, though, Wei Yun manages to lure away the guards outside the study room with nuggets of silver that they thought were common behaviour of crows that like to steal silver because of its luminance.<\/p>\n
When they enter the room, they come across a lock that is a challenge to unlock, but Wei Qiu eventually succeeds. Wei Yun and Wei Qiu enter the study to discover a room of weapons he had secretly kept there. It\u2019s around this point the guards receive information of Wei Yun\u2019s possible presence, and they all descend on the study room, as this was the last place they\u2019ve yet to check.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nBack at Qinxi Valley, Yao Yong is visibly impatient as he sits through the auction banquet. He had attempted to leave before the auction started, making up an excuse that there was an urgent family matter he had to attend to suddenly, but just as he made his move to leave, Li Changming finally arrived.<\/p>\n
The auction banquet was off to a slow start, as no one dared to make a bid on the first item up for auction\u2014a one-of-a-kind white jade ring from His Majesty. In the end, it was Li Changming who put up her hand to bid for her own item.<\/p>\n
To get the ball rolling on getting all the noble guests to donate an item, Chu Yu offers her item first\u2014a dagger. She then encourages Yao Yong to donate an item. He seems to have come empty-handed, and so, he simply offers to bid for Chu Yu\u2019s dagger. However, Chu Yu wasn\u2019t satisfied with just a purchase and pressured Yao Yong to donate an item. Yao Yong pulls off the jade pendant on his belt and donates it.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nAt the halfway point of the auction banquet, Yao Yong sees his opportunity to leave after a break is called. With Yao Yong having already done his part for the banquet\u2014he\u2019s purchased something and he\u2019s offered up an item for auction\u2014there\u2019s not much Chu Yu can do to stop him from going back to his mansion.<\/p>\n
Only one problem pops up with Chu Yu\u2019s claim. Chu Yu was seen injuring her own arm. Wang Linlang happened to pass by and saw Chu Yu slice across her own arm with a dagger and called her out in front of everyone.<\/p>\n
Yao Yong moves to expose Chu Yu, demanding her wound be checked. As well as claiming an assassin was present, she claimed that the assassin had wounded her with a scimitar. He also attempts to implicate Chu Yu in wanting to have people suspect Li Changming of colluding with North Qi\u2014therefore, making Chu Yu appear to have ill intentions towards Great Sui\u2019s Eldest Princess.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nFortunately, Li Changming is not on Yao Yong\u2019s side and doesn\u2019t let him move the narrative in this direction. She stops him from using his own person (who he claims is a physician) to verify the wound was caused by the weapon Chu Yu had claimed and instead calls Tuantuan over to check on Chu Yu\u2019s wound.<\/p>\n
In a private room, the wound is revealed to be one caused by a dagger and not a scimitar as Chu Yu had made it out to be. However, the truth isn\u2019t reported back. Instead, Li Changming had Tuantuan lie so that Chu Yu\u2019s story checks out\u2014that indeed there was an assassin in the area. Lu Changming had once again decided to help Chu Yu. For what reason\u2014that\u2019s yet to be revealed.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nTuantuan\u2019s report has Wang Linlang confused. Xue Hanmei, as a simple follower of Li Changming, shouldn’t be reacting to the report. However, he too shows confusion as a deep frown appears and his eyes move around as if he were trying to work out what was going on.<\/p>\n
Chu Jin also speaks up and questions Chu Yu about how she manages to get herself hurt when she\u2019s normally so fierce. It touches on her story being unimaginable, but Chu Jin could also be expressing concern that\u2019s masked as a bit of a scolding.<\/p>\n