Ever Night Episode 3 Recap
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Three horse thieves, upon seeing Ning Que's boxwood bow and three broadswords, immediately recognized him as the infamous "Woodcutter of Shu Bi Lake," a formidable killer of their kind. As they prepared to flee, Ning Que called out to them, clarifying that he only targeted the "useless firewood" that troubled the Tang border. He then surprisingly asked for their wine. Terrified, the men quickly handed over their flasks and fled without looking back.
A child named Xiaoman thanked Ning Que for saving him and his mother, Li Yu. The sight of the boy reminded Ning Que of his own difficult childhood. Despite being rescued, Li Yu remained cold toward Ning Que until he candidly revealed that he had known she was a princess from their first meeting. To repay his life-saving deed, Li Yu offered to secure him a promising future in the capital.
However, Ning Que stated his only goal was to pass the entrance exam for the Academy and become a disciple of the Headmaster. Li Yu then confided in him, recounting how her mother, the late Empress Cui, had on her deathbed fifteen years ago urged her to guide her younger brother, Hunyuan, to be a good emperor.
She also recalled her fear after her father married a woman named Xia, whom Li Yu once witnessed secretly using magic on the Emperor. Li Yu also spoke of the devastating legend of the Eternal Night and a prophecy delivered by the Tianshu Office, which foretold that a female ruler—identified as her—would bring chaos and ruin to the Tang. The enraged Tang Emperor dismissed it as nonsense and had the messenger executed.
Li Yu confessed that her greatest worry while in the Golden Horde was for Hunyuan and invited Ning Que to call her "Yu'er," a childhood name, as she continued to share her story. As she spoke, an exhausted Ning Que fell asleep on her shoulder. The next morning, Commandant Huashan Yue of the Yulin Army arrived to escort the princess.
As they prepared to leave, Ning Que awoke and told Li Yu he had something important to say, but she told him to wait until they reached the capital. Huashan Yue shot Ning Que a hostile glare. Meanwhile, outside the capital, General Xia Hou was ambushed and arrested by Commander Xu Chongshan and his elite guards.
In a prison cell, the Tang Emperor viciously beat Xia Hou, accusing him of dispatching assassins, including Mind Masters, Sword Masters, and Demonic Cult members, to kill Li Yu, his only daughter. Xia Hou insisted his actions were for the good of the kingdom.
The Emperor furiously recounted how Li Yu had endured a political marriage, survived her husband's death, and escaped the barbarian custom of being buried with him, only to be ambushed by Xia Hou's men on her way home. Empress Xia Tian rushed in, pleading for her brother Xia Hou's life. She claimed he must have been manipulated by the West-Hill Divine Palace, just as High Priest Wei Guangming had manipulated him into slaughtering General Lin's family years ago.
She swore to treat Li Yu and Hunyuan as her own children. Xia Hou, however, maintained that Li Yu's return would bring chaos. The Emperor warned Xia Hou that if Li Yu did not return safely, he would die in prison. After the Emperor left, Xia Hou recalled an encounter from twenty years ago.
The West-Hill High Priest, Wei Guangming, had confronted him, revealing that he knew Xia Hou and Xia Tian were survivors of the Demonic Cult who had escaped the West-Hill Coalition Army's purge. Wei Guangming offered a deal: the Divine Palace would keep their secret if Xia Hou eliminated the Son of Yama. Later that night, Li Yu had Sangsang bring Ning Que wine to ward off the chill.
Joking with Sangsang, Ning Que feigned a grand confession of love for the princess. He then fell into a troubled sleep, haunted by a recurring nightmare of a butcher and a drunkard who always repeated the same phrase: "The night is falling." He awoke startled, wondering about the meaning of this lifelong dream. Elsewhere, in the Northern Badlands, Long Qing, Prince of Yan, and his subordinate Zi Mo searched for the Demonic Cult.
Spotting a child in a forest, Long Qing approached, only to be surrounded by hunters. Zi Mo and his men arrived, and Zi Mo brutally interrogated the hunters about the location of the Demonic Cult's entrance. When they claimed only their elder knew, Zi Mo killed them. He moved to kill the child, but Long Qing intervened, only to be defiantly spat upon by the boy he had just saved.
On the road, the practitioner Lv Qingchen tested Ning Que, discovering that eleven of his apertures were blocked, rendering his "Qi-Sea and Snow-Mountain" empty. He declared that Ning Que could never become a cultivator. A disappointed Ning Que, refusing to give up, asked Lv Qingchen to teach him about cultivation theory.
Lv Qingchen explained the different practitioners: Sword Masters, who fight with blades of will; Mind Masters, who kill from afar with psychic power; and Talisman Masters, who channel the primordial Qi of heaven and earth into ink. He detailed the five main realms of cultivation—Initial Awareness, Perception, No-Doubt, Seethrough, and Knowing-Destiny—and mentioned that at the same level, a Mind Master is stronger than a Sword Master.
When Ning Que described a dream of sensing a vast "ocean" of energy, Lv Qingchen scoffed, noting that even the gifted Sword Saint Liu Bai had only perceived a "river" in his initial state. In the capital, an official from the Department of Transportation was assassinated. The Emperor tasked Prince Li Peiyan with the investigation and, on his recommendation, appointed Zhang Yiqi, an official left idle for fifteen years, to head the department.
Li Peiyan was separately informed that the assassin was highly skilled with a non-Tang fighting style and had been wounded on the right wrist. That night, Zhang Yiqi visited Li Peiyan with lavish gifts. He then raised the issue of succession, noting Li Yu's return would bolster her brother Prince Hunyuan's claim, while many officials favored the Empress's son. Zhang Yiqi angered Li Peiyan by alluding to the Tang tradition of a younger brother inheriting the throne, a remark the prince deemed gravely disrespectful.
