Chang Gong and Xue Wu go to visit the Queen Dowager. (I feel the need to comment on the unusual use of the green screen. The actors playing the Queen Dowager and An De appear to be actually on set, while the actors playing Lan Ling and Xue Wu are obviously in front of a green screen. Why couldn't they all get together? What gives, Taiwan? I'm assuming this show was mainly filmed in Taiwan as it seems to be raining all the time. But I digress, as I usually do.)
Anyway, Fu (I'm still calling her that) expresses her worries over trouble brewing between Chang Gong and Gao Wei. She knows her time on earth will draw to a close one day and asks Xue Wu to protect Chang Gong.
The next day Chang Gong and Xue Wu return to our dimension. He takes her out for a romantic walk in the woods. Once again the prince is slowly making his move. Once again his move is blocked when Xue Wu hears a peasant child crying. She'd rather help the kid than get kissed. Xue Wu starts to take the child home to feed him/her/can't tell. Chang Gong instead gives the child some money and hustles him/her/it away. "Get lost, kid. You're cramping my style."
Chang Gong brings up the fact that she needs to learn not to trust random kids. Remember the last time she trusted a child? She got drugged and kidnapped. Xue Wu doesn't like to be reminded of her past faux pas and storms off in a huff. She instantly arrives at a village and sees the little urchin munching down on some food. She asks the kid what he/she did with all the money they just gave him. The kid says it put the money away and offers to show Xue Wu where. Like the trusting fool she is, Xue Wu follows and gets a hikeeba to the neck. Let this be a lesson to you, kids. Never trust peasants.
Xue Wu awakens to find herself in an abandoned house with King Yuwen Yung of all people. I thought you sent Shen Ju to get her? What are you doing there? Chang Gong is listening from the doorway as Yung tells the divine sorceress his sad sack tale of a dying niece. Won't she please come and help Zhen? Xue Wu pleads lack of medical skills. She would be of no help at all.
Chang Gong continues to just stand there as Yung pulls out a huge knife and threatens to kill himself. When that doesn't work, Yung plays his final card and offers to release all the Qi prisoners he's taken if Xue Wu will come to Zhou for just a month. Xue Wu asks that a message be sent to her fiancé to tell him where she's going and why.
Chang Gong is still standing there when suddenly the Man In The Iron Mask attacks. Chang Gong easily disposes of him while Xue Wu and Yung don't hear a thing. Two other masked men are sneaking around outside. Are these supposed to be elite Zhou warriors? Because they're acting like Laurel and Hardy. Chang Gong, now dressed in his opponent's mask, returns and gets caught up with the other two oafs. Xue Wu and Yung continue not to hear anything.
Everyone returns to Zhou. Yung takes Xue Wu straight to Zhen's sickbed while the masked men stand guard. Xue Wu makes a quick diagnosis and gives a long-ass prescription.
Prime Minister Yuwen Hu is having a dinner party for his cronies. He has Yu Tu serve some wine. She addresses the gathered cronies and proclaims she hates the king for wiping out her tribe and she is now on Hu's side. To prove her loyalty, Yu Tu reveals that she's poisoned everyone's wine on the king's orders. Yet to test her even more, Hu offers Yu Tu a glass of his own poisoned wine. Once she drinks it she must come to him every week for the antidote or die. Yu Tu boldly drinks the wine.
After making all his cronies also drink the poisoned wine, the Prime Minister audaciously announces his plans to overthrow the king. Yet later that night we see Yu Tu reporting all this to Shen Ju.
Xue Wu is in the royal bathroom tending to Zhen's bath. Black masked Chang Gong tries to peep inside to see what Xue Wu is up to. He gets caught by Laurel and Hardy who accuse him of being a pedophile.
Xue Wu comes out and accuses all of the masked men of being pedophiles. Laurel and Hardy quickly blame Chang Gong as the real perv. Xue Wu threatens to rip Chang Gong a new one.
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