Eternal Love Episode 41 Recap
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Zhe Yan, having confirmed his suspicions in Kunlun Void, decided to go to the Western Sea. He summoned the Bi Fang bird and hurried off. After a restless night, Bai Qian was woken early by Nai Nai, who was distressed about Ah Li. Nai Nai explained that after Ah Li drank fruit wine yesterday, she followed Bai Qian’s instructions to bring him back and watched him for several hours, but he hadn't woken up and his face was growing redder.
Nai Nai, not knowing what else to do, brought Ah Li to Bai Qian. Bai Qian checked Ah Li’s pulse and realized she had overestimated the little one’s alcohol tolerance. While most children would wake within a few hours, Ah Li's light alcohol tolerance meant he would likely sleep until the next morning. Bai Qian reassured Nai Nai, explaining that Ah Li’s flushed face meant the alcohol was being processed.
Observing that Nai Nai had been awake all night, Bai Qian commended her loyalty and told her to rest, offering to care for Ah Li herself. She instructed Nai Nai to prepare thick porridge for Ah Li the next morning. Watching the sleeping Ah Li, Bai Qian mused that Ye Hua had truly shown immense patience in raising a child alone for hundreds of years. The next morning, Nai Nai brought the porridge.
Although Ah Li was still asleep, his body was no longer hot, and his face was returning to its normal color, easing Nai Nai’s worries. Soon after, Lord of Lingbao sent an envoy to escort Bai Qian to the Heavenly Spring for healing. Bai Qian left Ah Li with Nai Nai and headed to the Spring. No sooner had Bai Qian departed from the Courtyard of Moonlight than Su Jin arrived.
Despite her apprehension towards Bai Qian, Su Jin felt she needed to understand her rival to secure her own position as a side consort. She claimed she was guided by a pure divine aura to the Courtyard of Moonlight and wished to pay her respects to High Goddess Bai Qian. Nai Nai, who always remembered how Su Su had been framed by Su Jin and forced to jump from the Immortal Execution Platform, deeply resented her.
Furthermore, Ye Hua had explicitly forbidden Su Jin from approaching the Courtyard of Moonlight or Ah Li. Nai Nai vehemently blocked Su Jin from entering, informing her that High Goddess Bai Qian had gone to High Clear Plane and was not in her chambers. Su Jin, knowing that Lord of Lingbao’s High Clear Plane had been closed for a long time and that Ye Hua had reopened the Heavenly Spring specifically for Bai Qian, felt a surge of intense jealousy.
As Bai Qian walked, she noticed two palace maids from a different palace gossiping ahead. Stopping to listen, she realized they were speaking ill of her. These two maids, from Su Jin’s palace, were lamenting their mistress’s fate, speculating that Bai Qian, being 140,000 years old, was an old woman who must have bewitched Ye Hua, and that their kind and generous mistress would suffer once Bai Qian took residence in Wutong Palace.
Though not angered, Bai Qian found being called an "old woman" deeply offensive. She calmly told her attendant that it was taboo in the Heavenly Palace to speak disrespectfully of High Gods and Goddesses, suggesting that these two maids were not suited for their positions and should be reassigned to other errands.
Satisfied, but her mood for soaking in the Heavenly Spring now disturbed and Ah Li not by her side, Bai Qian decided to return to the Courtyard of Moonlight to select some books for entertainment. Ye Hua arrived at the Courtyard of Moonlight, felt Ah Li’s pulse, and discovered he was still deeply inebriated. He immediately picked up Ah Li to seek the Medicine King. At the entrance, he encountered Bai Qian returning.
Ye Hua urgently questioned Bai Qian, asking if she had given Ah Li alcohol, why she hadn't informed him, and why she hadn't sought the Medicine King given Ah Li had been unconscious for so long. Bai Qian, dismissing Ah Li's prolonged drunkenness as a minor issue, argued that Ah Li was just a child and Ye Hua was overly anxious. She recounted her own childhood experiences of sleeping for days after secretly drinking Zhe Yan’s wine.
She added playfully that Ye Hua’s excessive pampering would make Ah Li too effeminate when he grew up. Ye Hua, already frantic with worry over Ah Li, was enraged by Bai Qian's nonchalant attitude. Without thinking, he retorted that since she hadn't raised Ah Li, she only saw him as a stepchild, and questioned if she would speak so lightly if he were her biological son.
Bai Qian, deeply wounded by his accusation, angrily retaliated that she, an old woman, could not give birth to such a delightful child. She sarcastically reminded him that the strong lady who had given birth to Ah Li had already jumped from the Immortal Execution Platform, and suggested that his kind-hearted side consort, Su Jin, might be a better caregiver for Ah Li so he wouldn't suffer with her.
Ye Hua fell silent for a moment, then looked at Bai Qian and quietly told her not to try to provoke him, as she knew he didn't mean it that way. He then rushed off with Ah Li to the Medicine King. Nai Nai returned from fetching water in the backyard, found Ah Li missing, and frantically searched for him, fearing Su Jin had taken him.
She ran into a disheartened Bai Qian, who quickly reassured her that it was Ye Hua who took Ah Li to the Medicine King, not Su Jin, and that if Su Jin had indeed taken him, she would have already gone to retrieve him rather than comforting Nai Nai. Relieved, Nai Nai calmed down. Observing Nai Nai’s strong apprehension towards Su Jin, Bai Qian suspected an untold history between Su Jin and Ah Li's birth mother.
She intended to inquire further, but Nai Nai reluctantly explained that the Heavenly Monarch had strictly forbidden anyone in the Heavenly Palace from discussing the matter, and all divine maids who knew about it had been demoted. Bai Qian, not wanting to trouble Nai Nai, dropped the subject.
Ye Hua brought Ah Li to the Medicine King, who assured him that His Young Highness was merely a lightweight, had simply drunk too much, and would awaken before dusk after soaking in a sobering bath. This finally put Ye Hua’s anxious mind at ease. Lian Song, having rushed over after hearing Ye Hua had hurried out of the Courtyard of Moonlight with Ah Li, was relieved to learn it was only drunkenness.
He noted Ye Hua’s grim expression, sensing his deep worries. In the grand hall, the Heavenly Monarch asked Si Ming about the Emperor’s mortal trial. Si Ming calculated that the Emperor, currently traveling incognito in the mortal realm, was at the point of encountering an assassination attempt and falling into dire straits. The Heavenly Monarch and the other immortals chuckled, remarking that the fate Si Ming had written was excellent.
As the Ruler of Heaven and Earth, Dijun had never known defeat, and now he would experience the taste of assassination and hardship. Si Ming, however, felt an underlying concern for Bai Fengjiu, silently urging her to be careful. On a stormy night, under cover of darkness, assassins surrounded the Emperor and Bai Fengjiu. Though the Emperor was skilled, he was outnumbered. In a moment of crisis, Bai Fengjiu shielded the Emperor from an arrow, sustaining a severe wound herself.
The Emperor carried the injured Bai Fengjiu to a dilapidated thatched hut. Weakened, Bai Fengjiu faintly told the Emperor that her aunt had taught her from a young age that even as a woman, she must not fear death and must protect those she cared for. The Emperor tenderly stroked her face, steadfastly declaring that she was the one he intended to protect. As the assassins breached the hut, Bai Fengjiu vaguely saw the Emperor fighting them before losing consciousness.
The Emperor rushed into the city with Bai Fengjiu in his arms, desperately searching for a physician. Yan Zhi encountered them and brought them to her home. Bai Fengjiu was extremely weak from her arrow wound. Yan Zhi asked the Emperor to wait outside while she tended to Bai Fengjiu. Xuan Nü, who was present but invisible, detected the scent of a nine-tailed fox.
When Yan Zhi described the phoenix flower mark on the girl’s forehead, Xuan Nü confirmed it was Bai Fengjiu. Overjoyed, Xuan Nü resolved to use Bai Fengjiu’s body to awaken her son. Yan Zhi vehemently objected to using such ancient forbidden magic.
Xuan Nü, having lost her sanity, was momentarily halted when Yan Zhi suggested that if they could obtain the Heavenly Tribe’s sacred Divine Ganoderma, and Yan Zhi transferred her cultivation to the child, it might awaken her second brother's son. Zi Lan, hearing this from outside, transmitted a warning to Xuan Nü, threatening to kill her if she dared to do anything evil. Xuan Nü reluctantly paused her plans.
After healing Bai Fengjiu, Yan Zhi told the Emperor his “wife” was awake and invited him to see her. Yan Zhi then sat down with Zi Lan, revealing her intention to move to the Eastern Sea to seek the Divine Ganoderma for Xuan Nü.
Zi Lan, uncertain whether he wanted to stay by Yan Zhi’s side to find Si Yin’s whereabouts or simply because he wanted to be with her, told Yan Zhi that since he had no parents, he would accompany her wherever she went. The Emperor brought Bai Fengjiu back to the palace. When Bai Fengjiu awoke, the Emperor showed her a small box containing the arrowhead that had wounded her when she shielded him.
He told her he would keep it forever. Nai Nai returned from Ye Hua’s location and reported to Bai Qian that Ah Li had awakened. Bai Qian, missing Ah Li, went to the Purple Morning Hall to see him. In the hall, Ye Hua’s mother, Le Xu, and Su Jin were both attending to Ah Li.
Le Xu, upon seeing Ah Li had been drunk, inevitably complained about Bai Qian, remarking that as a woman who had never given birth, she didn’t know how to care for children, and had allowed Ah Li to drink so much wine. Ye Hua quickly defended Bai Qian, saying she didn't do it on purpose. Ah Li, seeing Bai Qian, joyfully called her "mother" and explained she was the person in his father’s portrait. Su Jin commented that High Goddess Bai Qian bore a striking resemblance to Ah Li’s birth mother, which made Le Xu feel a sense of unease.
