Nirvana in Fire Episode 14 Recap
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Yan Que finally agreed to stop. He asked Mei Changsu why he wanted to help him. Mei Changsu replied: Your Excellency is a person with feelings and righteousness in his heart, I can save one person if I can, please do not act rashly again. Yan Que praised him for his great righteousness, while also sighing that he should not help Prince Yu ascend to power.
Because Prince Yu is most like the Emperor of Liang, ruthless and unrighteous, cold and cruel. At parting, Yan Que pleaded: If disaster arises within the walls in the future, save my son's life! Mei Changsu readily agreed. Prince Yu found a scapegoat, and with the cooperation of the Ministry of Justice, swapped out He Wenxin. Mei Changsu, through the matter of He Jingzhong recovering from illness and attending court, keenly perceived that Prince Yu had tampered with He Wenxin.
Mei Changsu ordered Helmsman Li to go investigate, and also leaked this information to Xie Yu, in order to kill with a borrowed knife and seize the territories of the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Justice. Although Qi Min had repeatedly instructed He Jingzhong to quickly send He Wenxin away and absolutely not let him celebrate the New Year at home.
But He Wenxin had always been favored, and after being released from prison, he still returned to the mansion once, giving Xie Yu time. Xie Yu and Baron Wenyuan blocked He Wenxin, who was trying to escape, at the gate of the He mansion, and caused a commotion at the Holy Temple, which shook the capital.
On New Year's Eve, every family was happily staying up late, Fei Liu was eating dumplings with high spirits, and the mansion of Duke Ningguo Xie Yu was equally lively. But approaching midnight, Xie Yu dismissed everyone and secretly plotted with Zhuo Dingfeng to assassinate the eunuch delivering food.
Yan Yujin learned from his father that after Mei Changsu's dissuasion, the Yan clan was saved, and on the first day of the Lunar New Year, he specially came to express his gratitude. Xiao Jingrui discussed the chaos in court politics from the case of He Wenxin, remembering Mei Changsu's remark about "establishing the ruler by establishing virtue", which made Yujin guess that Mei Changsu was not truly assisting Prince Yu at all.
The eunuch who routinely left the palace by imperial decree to "bestow food" upon important officials and the accompanying imperial guards were assassinated, which angered the Emperor of Liang. He blamed the Commander of the Imperial Guards, Meng Zhi, for insufficient protection, gave her twenty strokes with the court rod, and ordered her to solve the case within thirty days.
Inside the Duke Ningguo mansion, Xie Yu told Zhuo Dingfeng not to show his face for the time being, and the next step was to have the Jianghu individuals who had already been recruited come forward. In addition, the Emperor of Liang would send the Xuanjing Division to secretly investigate this case, so he should be prepared. Mei Changsu took Fei Liu to the Mu Wang mansion to pay a New Year's call.
A subordinate of the Mu Wang mansion reported the case of the murder on New Year's Eve. Mei Changsu analyzed that it must have been done by the Crown Prince or Prince Yu.
