Resumen del episodio 1 de Faithful
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Seven years ago, young girls gathered at the Yanyu Tower, eagerly awaiting the arrival of Wu Lian, the talented and handsome owner of the embroidery house. Wu Lian would traditionally invite a painter to create portraits of the girls, and he himself would also participate in the painting, a customary annual event. Meng Wan and her close friend, Lin Rulan, both skilled embroideresses, found themselves somewhat isolated by the others.
One day, Gao Chengcheng intentionally bumped into Meng Wan, causing her needle to damage an almost finished embroidery. Lin Rulan stood up for Meng Wan, confronting Gao Chengcheng, who eventually apologized. Wu Lian finally arrived, his handsome appearance and gentle demeanor captivating the girls. Nanny Chen gathered the girls for the annual portrait, but Ding Ru was missing. As one of the girls went to look for her, a terrible scream echoed through the tower.
The girls discovered a face in the well and recognized Ding Ru's shoe nearby. Lin Rulan suddenly recalled hearing Ding Ru crying the night before and seeing a dark figure heading towards the backyard. She had intended to investigate but was blocked by a black cat, causing her to dismiss it at the time. Now, filled with regret, she wanted to inform the Yamen, but Meng Wan stopped her, advising caution.
Lin Rulan secretly went to Ding Ru's room and found a prescription for an abortifacient. Given that embroideresses lived and ate together and only had one day off a month, she wondered how Ding Ru could have gotten pregnant. News of the death reached Chen Zhiyuan, the Prefect of Huaizhou Prefecture. He instructed Registrar Gao Changqing to inform Madam Ning, who had revitalized the Ning family by using Yanyu Embroidery to please the Empress Dowager.
Wu Lian was a distinguished guest of the Ning family, so Chen Zhiyuan wanted to gauge Madam Ning's reaction before proceeding with the case, to protect his position. Madam Ning was unconcerned about the death of an embroideress, remarking that as long as Wu Lian's Yanyu Embroidery remained the Empress Dowager's favorite, nothing else mattered. The Yamen quickly closed the case as an accident.
Ding Ru's parents arrived and left in haste, but her mother grabbed Lin Rulan's hand, claiming that Ding Ru had been forced to death. Lin Rulan felt something was amiss and returned to Ding Ru's room to investigate, discovering that her bedsheets were silk. Later, Wu Lian visited the embroidery room, gently reminding Meng Wan to practice more at night. This encouraging remark, however, made Meng Wan's heart tighten.
That evening, Meng Wan was indeed practicing in the embroidery room when Wu Lian suddenly entered and approached her. Meng Wan warned him to stay away from Lin Rulan, but Wu Lian, dismissing her warning, embraced her. At that moment, Lin Rulan suddenly appeared and witnessed the scene. Distraught, Lin Rulan fled in a panic and bumped into a passing embroideress, knocking Gao Chengcheng's silk bedsheets to the ground.
Nanny Chen passed by and scolded the embroideress for delivering silk bedsheets to Gao Chengcheng, telling her to bring linen sheets instead, implying it was the proper instruction. Lin Rulan, as if realizing something, rushed back to her room and found that her silk bedsheets had, at some unknown point, been replaced with linen ones. She couldn't help but recall that night of intimacy with Wu Lian and wondered if the sheets had been switched after that.
Lin Rulan later discussed Wu Lian with Meng Wan. Meng Wan told Lin Rulan not to heed people's praise of Wu Lian, stating he was merely their embroidery teacher and that once their studies were complete, they would have no further connection with him. She reminded Lin Rulan not to be gullible, because the world wasn't always as it seemed or as one wished.
Lin Rulan then pointed out that all the girls initially had white silk bedsheets when they first started, but now some had linen sheets and some still had silk. Meng Wan dismissed her concerns, saying it was just a bedsheet and not a big deal.
