Resumen del episodio 7 de Unveil: Jadewind
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Li Peiyi disguised herself as a maid and replaced a weeping girl to serve a mysterious guest in a room draped with red curtains at Xiuhong House. The guest, whose face was hidden behind a mask, was impressed by her boldness. After leading her deeper into the room, he struck her with a whip, a pain she endured to maintain her cover.
When he grew more aggressive, Li Peiyi fought back and knocked off his mask, revealing him to be Lu Zhenglian, a high-ranking official. Meanwhile, Jiang Tingwei managed to free himself from the bench where Li Peiyi had previously bound him. He alerted the madam, Zhenniang, and they quickly mobilized to capture Li Peiyi.
As the house was cleared of guests and the girls were moved to a secret location, Xiao Huaijin and Wu Ren used their imperial qilin badge to force their way inside. However, Li Peiyi was already surrounded and captured by Jiang Tingwei. Realizing she was an officer of the Palace Investigation Bureau, Jiang Tingwei decided to avoid direct execution. Instead, he ordered his men to tie a heavy stone to her and sink her into the lake.
At the lakeside, Li Peiyi revealed her true identity as the Princess of Fuchang County to the servants. Terrified of the consequences, one servant secretly slipped her a dagger before pushing her into the water. Once submerged, she used the blade to cut her ropes and was pulled to safety by Wu Ren. Du Zhixing and his guards soon arrived and arrested the staff of Xiuhong House, though Li Peiyi spared the man who had helped her.
Gu Lingzhou also joined the search, but by the time they reached the hidden chamber, the room had been meticulously transformed into a common embroidery hall, and all the girls were gone. Taozhi had only left behind a red bracelet as a clue. Gu Lingzhou later spotted a wedding carriage leaving the city and found a flower Taozhi had dropped, confirming the girls were being smuggled out. Du Zhixing later intercepted Zhenniang as she tried to flee with her savings.
During the interrogation, the cunning madam admitted to "lack of oversight" regarding her guards' behavior but refused to disclose the girls' whereabouts. The investigation hit a political wall when Eunuch Guo arrived from the palace to demand Lu Zhenglian’s release. Li Peiyi took the matter to the Emperor, but he was under immense pressure from over a dozen ministers who had petitioned in Lu’s defense. Lacking concrete evidence, Li Peiyi was forced to release the official.
While recovering from her wounds, Li Peiyi received a visit from Consort Shu, who revealed that Xiao Huaijin had saved Li Peiyi’s life once before when she fell into the Moonlit Pond as a child. Li Peiyi thanked Xiao Huaijin, who was surprised to learn she was the girl from the pond. When she asked if he had seen anyone push her that day, he recalled that no one else was around.
To break Lu Zhenglian’s alibi, Li Peiyi and Xiao Huaijin returned to Swallow House. A waiter revealed that a mysterious "Mr. Lu" had paid a fortune for a special embroidery piece that night, but Lu Zhenglian had overshadowed the event by falling down the stairs with a courtesan named Liu Ying'er. This incident occurred at exactly the second ke of the Xu hour—the same time Lu was supposedly at Xiuhong House.
When questioned, Liu Ying'er insisted Lu had been with her all night, even reciting a poem he supposedly wrote about the moonlight at that moment. However, Xiao Huaijin detected a critical flaw in her poetic description of the moon, realizing the alibi was a coordinated lie. He immediately led Li Peiyi back to the bureau to confirm the astronomical discrepancy.
