Glory Episode 21 Recap
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Believing the situation was firmly under his control, Yang Yitang visited Rong Yunshu to express his gratitude. It was her suggestion to fabricate a shameful identity for Yang Yun, branding her a prostitute to ensure that no one in court would believe her testimony. Rong Yunshu smiled coldly, mocking Yang Yitang for having the stomach to follow through with such a malicious scheme despite her being the one who provided the idea.
As a token of appreciation for her strategic brilliance, she accepted a luminous pearl from him, though she privately found it ironic to gift such an item to a "blind" woman. Meanwhile, the investigation into the decade-old Wei family case reached a critical point. Lu Jianglai, realizing he needed a new approach, disguised himself as a traveling physician and visited the home of the late Wei Laowu. There, he found an elderly woman and her granddaughter living in extreme poverty.
The woman, Wei Laowu’s mother, wept as she recounted her son’s wrongful death and how he had only received a small amount of rice and cash as a "reward" for helping the Wei family find a missing bride. During the visit, Rong Shanbao discovered an old walking cane. Lu Jianglai noted that both the grandmother and the girl suffered from a severe hereditary eye condition known as "cerebral night blindness."
This discovery proved that Wei Laowu, who shared the same affliction, would have been physically incapable of navigating a dark, rainy night to transport or bury a body. The trial resumed the following day. Lu Jianglai brought Wei Laowu’s mother and daughter to the prefectural office to testify.
Although Xu Song attempted to shield the defense by dismissing the witnesses as a blind woman and a child, Lu Jianglai used medical texts to explain their condition, proving that the dark, rainy night of the crime would have rendered Wei Laowu completely sightless. To further expose Yang Jisheng, Lu Jianglai ordered him and Yang Yun to write down the medical history and prescriptions of the late Master Yang.
While Yang Jisheng faltered, Yang Yun provided detailed information that matched the records of the renowned physician Gao Shuwei. Lu Jianglai then exposed Yang Jisheng’s heinous crimes: how he had mistreated his father, sent his illegitimate half-brother to a temple to secure his inheritance, and even broke his dead father’s fingers to snatch a jade pendant.
When the focus shifted to the Rong family’s role, Steward Cheng pulled Rong Shanbao aside, relaying the Old Madam’s warning that the family’s interests must come before all else. Torn, Shanbao initially claimed she did not know Yang Yun’s true identity. However, Lu Jianglai then called upon Rong Yunyin and the simple-minded Rong Yunwan to testify. Yunwan immediately recognized Yang Yun as the "Ms. Liang" who had raised her for ten years and presented childhood drawings as proof.
Fearing the Rong family would be charged with harboring a fugitive, Yang Yun desperately tore the drawings and falsely confessed to being a fraudulent prostitute. Infuriated and looking for an excuse to end the trial, Xu Song ordered her to be beaten with forty strokes. Unable to watch her foster mother suffer, Shanbao finally broke her silence.
She testified that the woman was indeed Yang Yun and presented a blood-stained garment saved from ten years ago as evidence, explaining she had waited for an upright official to arrive before revealing the truth. With the truth revealed, Lu Jianglai sentenced Yang Jisheng and stripped Xu Song of his official robes, ordering his arrest for his years of corruption and obstruction of justice. The people of Linji cheered for the arrival of true justice.
However, the victory came at a high cost for Shanbao. Back at the Rong Residence, the Old Madam was livid that Shanbao had ignored her warnings and invited trouble by involving the family in a scandal that offended powerful hidden forces. Encouraged by Rong Yunshu’s subtle instigations, the Old Madam refused to see her. Shanbao knelt in the pouring rain to beg for forgiveness until she eventually collapsed into the arms of Yan Bailou.
Determined to find the true mastermind, Lu Jianglai visited the imprisoned Xu Song. Terrified, Xu Song hinted that the person behind the scenes was too powerful to challenge without causing national turmoil. Just as he was about to reveal the name, he suddenly died from poison hidden in the food sent by his own family. Following the case's resolution, Wen Can’s father arrived to take him away from Linji.
Before departing, Wen Can found Shanbao and urged her to be cautious, revealing that the tip regarding Yang Yun’s location had been deliberately leaked by someone within the Rong family. Meanwhile, Yang Yun chose to leave the Rong Residence to live in seclusion, finally reclaiming her own name after a decade of hiding.
