Love in the Clouds Episode 30 Recap
> Love in the Clouds Recap
Ming Yi had meticulously planned to use the black lingzhi mushroom as bait to lure Ming Xin, intending to acquire the final piece of the Recording Mirror. When Ming Xin appeared, he futilely attempted to resist, but Ming Yi effortlessly subdued him. Enraged by Ming Xin's personal vendetta of poisoning her and his reckless release of netherbeasts that jeopardized the peace of the Six Realms, Ming Yi harshly broke his right hand as punishment.
During their confrontation, Ming Xin's taunts about the Golden Millet Dream made Ming Yi suspicious of Ji Bozai. Meanwhile, Situ Ling focused on cultivating the Diwu tree's core, reflecting on his journey and lamenting that he had become like his father and brothers, despite his earlier resolve to avoid such a fate. He realized that the blood of Zhushui flowing within them destined them to sacrifice their souls to attain positions of power.
Fu Yue, heartbroken by his internal struggle, reassured him that she would remain by his side, no matter what he became. Ming Xin, battered and defeated, escaped to Yaoguang Palace. Realizing Ming Yi now possessed the Recording Mirror, he feared exposure. He immediately sought an audience with the Emperor, fabricating a story that Ming Xian (Ming Yi) had betrayed Yaoguang Mountain, defected to Jixing Abyss, and was, in fact, a woman.
Although initially disbelieving that his son could be a girl, the Emperor was ultimately swayed by Ming Xin's elaborate lies and promised to conduct a thorough investigation, also agreeing to confer Ming Xin as the Crown Prince in three days. Still uneasy about the Recording Mirror's potential to expose his own treachery, Ming Xin confided in his mother, Madam Meng, that their top priority was to quickly prove Ming Yi was not the Emperor's biological child.
Back at her resting place, Ming Yi personally infused the black lingzhi mushroom's essence into Twenty-Seven’s cat bell, temporarily stabilizing Twenty-Seven's soul. She then questioned Ji Bozai about the Golden Millet Dream. Ji Bozai confessed that during her time in Zhangwei Mountain, he had discreetly incorporated the dream into a scallion pancake to cure her of the Heavenly Grief poison. He explained his sole desire was for her to live, not for any reward.
Deeply moved by his sincerity, Ming Yi embraced him tightly. Following this, Ming Yi and Ji Bozai orchestrated Ming Xin's capture. Using the Soul-seizing Technique, they forced him to confess the truth. Ming Xin divulged his collusion with Mu Qibai and his obedience to Chaohang. More startlingly, he revealed that Ming Yi was not the Empress's biological daughter but carried the bloodline of the Bo clan.
Stunned by this revelation, Ming Yi, with Ji Bozai's assistance in bypassing a barrier the Emperor had erected around the palace, infiltrated Yaoguang Palace to seek the truth directly from the Empress. The Empress, having no further reason to conceal the truth, tearfully recounted the events of the past. She explained that her marriage to the Emperor was one of convenience, devoid of affection.
The Emperor's subsequent favoritism towards Madam Meng, coupled with his public declaration to name Madam Meng's firstborn son as the Crown Prince, put immense pressure on the Empress. At that time, she was pregnant and gave birth to a son before Madam Meng, only to discover, to her despair, that her child was born without spiritual veins. Coincidentally, around the same time, Bo Yucen died during childbirth, leaving behind a baby girl with extraordinary spiritual potential.
To secure her own precarious position and protect her son, the Empress made a deal with Bo Yulan (Bo Yucen's sister): she would adopt Bo Yucen's daughter as her own son. In return, Bo Yulan would reveal the Bo clan's "Formless Technique" to conceal the child's gender, and the Empress would release the child's imprisoned father. Concurrently, Ji Bozai encountered She Tianlin. Through their conversation, Ji Bozai deduced that She Tianlin was Ming Yi's biological father.
She Tianlin, once a warrior of Yaoguang Mountain, had fallen in love with an outsider, Bo Yucen, which was forbidden. Though he was eventually freed through the Empress's intervention, he returned to the devastating news of Bo Yucen's death in childbirth. Heartbroken and powerless to reclaim his infant daughter from Yaoguang Palace, She Tianlin vowed to protect her from afar. He devoted himself to rising through the ranks, eventually becoming a Venerable in the Yaoguang Mountain warrior group.
This position allowed him to become Ming Yi's master, watching over her safety and growth year after year. Ji Bozai, empathizing with Ming Yi's life built on a foundation of lies, questioned She Tianlin, asking if he had ever considered revealing the truth to her himself.
She Tianlin, with a heavy heart, recounted his anguish and helplessness against the powerful Yaoguang Palace, explaining that he could only endure silently, clinging to the memories preserved in Bo Yucen's portrait and hoping for Ming Yi's future.
