Resumen del episodio 2 de Unveil: Jadewind
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Xiao Wenyuan, the Grand Tutor, visits his son Xiao Huaijin at the Astronomical Bureau. Huaijin has lived there for five years to comply with laws forbidding officials of the bureau from associating with court ministers. Despite the Emperor granting special permission for the visit, the atmosphere is cold. Wenyuan warns his son that Li Peiyi is a deeply calculating woman who may be feigning memory loss regarding the night her father, the Prince of Duan, allegedly slaughtered his family.
Huaijin maintains that she hasn't recognized him and reminds his father that he is currently bound by an imperial decree to assist Peiyi in her investigation. A new murder occurs in Yanshou Ward. Xiao Huaijin is the first to arrive but is detained by General Lin Ning until Li Peiyi arrives to clear him, confirming she had been following him and he had no time to commit the crime.
The victim is identified as Cui Manshu, the niece of the Right Chancellor and Consort Shu. Peiyi, who had planned to question her regarding the death of Princess Wanshun, performs an autopsy and finds a tuft of hair clutched in the victim’s hand. In a secret room behind a screen, they discover wet blood, remnants of gunpowder, and oiled boot prints that match evidence found at the palace explosion site, confirming the courtyard was the killer’s hideout.
Struggling with nightmares of her parents' deaths, Li Peiyi visits Du Zhixing at the Palace Investigation Bureau to review the case files from fifteen years ago. Du Zhixing maintains the official record: her father suffered a mental breakdown and killed everyone before committing suicide. He reminds Peiyi she only survived because she was in the palace with a fever and urges her to stop obsessing over the past and focus on the current case.
Peiyi continues her investigation by interrogating Cui Manshu’s servants. After dismissing a watchful matron, she learns of a former maid named Li Niang who was brutally punished by Cui. Peiyi tracks Li Niang to a tea shop in the West Market. Li Niang reveals her disfigured face, explaining that Cui Manshu had her branded for accidentally damaging a garment.
Li Niang expresses no pity for the victim, noting that Cui was a cruel bully who had made many enemies, including her own noble associates: Wang Yuhua, Zhao Luoshen, and Zhou Helan. Xiao Huaijin discovers that on the night of the murder, Cui Manshu returned to the Chancellor’s manor in a yellow dress but was later found in a wedding dress in Yanshou Ward. To investigate further, Peiyi invites Cui’s associates to Yunchui House.
Wang Yuhua claims she was home with her mother, while pointing to Zhou Helan as Cui’s closest friend. Huaijin arrives with palace records showing that the Zhou family, led by the Weaponry Commander, sent three carts of gifts to Consort Shu, but only two were logged. Peiyi examines Zhou Helan’s hands under the guise of palmistry, noticing her fingers are dry from handling gunpowder and identifying unique fingerprints that match the lease for the hidden courtyard in Yanshou Ward.
Under pressure, Zhou Helan confesses. She reveals a history of abuse where Cui Manshu forced her and her mother to kowtow 200 times at the Cui family shrine over a misunderstood gift of fox fur. Princess Wanshun had intervened to save them, but this only made Cui view the princess as an enemy. Cui later discovered a secret about the princess and orchestrated her marriage alliance as revenge.
Finally, Cui forced Zhou to smuggle a third cart filled with gunpowder into the palace. Out of fear for her parents' lives, Zhou complied, realizing too late that the powder was used to kill the princess. The investigation is interrupted when Zhou Helan and the other noble ladies suddenly vomit blood. Peiyi identifies the poison as raw aconite toxin hidden in the sashimi sauce.
As Madam Wang arrives with guards and threatens to seize Peiyi for the Emperor’s judgment, Peiyi realizes she is being framed. To buy time and prove her innocence, she intentionally consumes the poisoned sauce herself. Before losing consciousness, she instructs Xiao Huaijin to prick the Shaoshang and Zhongchong acupoints on her right hand to drain the toxic blood, telling him she will only survive if the blood turns from purple back to red. Li Peiyi then collapses before the horrified crowd.
