Princess Agents Episode 28 Recap
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Yuwen Yue instructed the imperial princess Chun'er to use both carrot and stick on Chief Eunuch Wang, persuading him to recommend Yan Xun to inherit the title of Marquis Northern Settler after the emperor's anger had subsided. With Yan Xun's entire family gone and only him left, he posed no threat and could be confined in Chang'an indefinitely, effectively keeping Northern Yan under the emperor's control.
The emperor didn’t want Northern Yan to fall into the hands of the noble families, and this was the best solution for now. Yuwen Yue had calculated every detail, ultimately carving a path of survival for Yan Xun through thickets of thorns. The emperor’s decision to assign Yuan Song to guard the Heaven Prison had already made his stance clear. When Yuwen Huai received this news, he was furious.
He had hoped the noble families would eliminate Yan Xun, allowing him to reap the benefits, but since Yuwen Yue was going to such lengths for Yan Xun, he shouldn’t blame Yuwen Huai for showing no mercy. Yuwen Yue clearly valued his maid Xing'er greatly—so she would be the perfect target. Yuwen Huai had already prepared an order to extract Chu Qiao from the Heaven Prison, aiming squarely at Yuwen Yue.
Since Yuan Song wouldn’t assume his post until the next day, Yuwen Huai took advantage of the temporary lack of authority in the Heaven Prison to forcibly remove Chu Qiao and take her to his slave penitentiary. Sensing the situation was amiss, the jailer secretly reported to Yuwen Yue. Returning to the slave penitentiary, Yuwen Huai sat high on his platform as before, while Chu Qiao knelt on the ground, disheveled.
By the time Yuwen Yue arrived, this was the scene that greeted him. The fact that Chu Qiao had killed Yuwen Xi was indisputable, and with Yuwen Huai having officials from the Royal Court present, Yuwen Yue couldn’t openly intervene, no matter how much he wanted to save her. This was exactly the effect Yuwen Huai wanted—seeing Yuwen Yue in pain brought him inexplicable joy.
Yuwen Huai gripped Chu Qiao’s throat, studying Yuwen Yue’s expression, hoping to see agony on his face. Yuwen Yue remained expressionless. With a single needle, he struck a critical pressure point on Chu Qiao, causing her to vomit blood and collapse. As he coldly declared that a woman he couldn’t control might as well be dead, Chu Qiao’s gaze at him in her final moments was filled with sorrow and despair.
Since Chu Qiao was still technically a member of Qingshan House, Yuwen Yue had every right to reclaim her body. However, the emperor suddenly summoned him, forcing him to leave for the palace. Before departing, he ordered Yue Qi to take Chu Qiao’s body back and await his return for disposal. Kneeling in the grand hall, Yuwen Yue waited, but the emperor remained silent. As time passed, even his usually impassive face began to show signs of urgency.
The needle had struck Chu Qiao’s Guanyuan acupoint, simulating death, but if she wasn’t revived in time, she would die from obstructed blood flow. The emperor had summoned Yuwen Yue due to reports accusing him of secretly raiding the Heaven Prison—a baseless claim that Yuwen Yue quickly refuted. The emperor expressed his trust but casually proposed transferring control of the Spy Network of Heavenly Eyes to Yuwen Huai and sending Yuwen Yue to the border for training.
A man like Yuwen Yue had his own principles and was hard to control. While the emperor didn’t distrust him, he had no intention of granting him greater authority. Rushing back to Qingshan House, Yuwen Yue learned that his grandfather’s trusted subordinate Zhan Mou had already discarded Chu Qiao’s body in a mass grave. With only half an hour left, Yuwen Yue was frantic, galloping toward the burial site.
On the way, Xiao Yu intercepted him, but Yuwen Yue struck mercilessly, killing Yin Xin with a single slash to the throat. By the time he broke through and reached the mass grave, he was told that the female corpse in prisoner’s garb had just been cremated. Yuwen Yue ordered the fire extinguished immediately and sifted through the ashes, finding the ring he had once given Chu Qiao.
Remembering her radiant smile when she first received the ring, Yuwen Yue was overwhelmed with grief. He drowned his sorrows in wine, while Yuwen Huai mistakenly assumed his distress was due to losing the Spy Network of Heavenly Eyes and gloated. Yuwen Yue took Yuwen Huai to the heart of the network—the Spy Tower. But all Yuwen Huai found were stacks of worthless papers.
What he truly wanted were the secret registers of the Hidden Zong, the assassination manuals of the Killer Zong, the poisons of the Military Zong, and the treasures of the Silver Zong. Yuwen Huai knew nothing of the real Spy Network of Heavenly Eyes. Yuwen Yue casually retrieved a classified document, revealing countless unspeakable secrets of the royal family and noble clans. As Yuwen Yue recited them, Yuwen Huai’s mood soured completely.
He never expected that the network he had schemed so hard to obtain would become a death warrant—so many secrets that only the dead could keep. Yuwen Yue then showed him the tower’s self-destruct mechanism. He had often considered activating it himself, but now, he was free of the burden, leaving the dilemma to Yuwen Huai.
Seeing Yuwen Huai’s growing fear of the true network, Yuwen Yue provoked him further, hinting that the answer to whether Yuwen Xi was his grandfather or biological father also lay within the Spy Tower. Enraged, Yuwen Huai swept the documents off the table and punched the self-destruct mechanism. Traps activated, and flames erupted from the surrounding bronze statues. Yuwen Yue thanked his elder brother lightheartedly for destroying the cage that had confined him for years.
Realizing he had been manipulated, Yuwen Huai staggered out just before the tower exploded, utterly humiliated. When the emperor learned of Yuwen Huai’s destruction of the Spy Tower, he wasn’t particularly shocked. It seemed Yuwen Huai had been thoroughly frightened—hardly someone to rely on. The emperor ordered Yan Xun’s release, confining him to the Yingge Garden.
He knew keeping Yan Xun alive would one day make him a formidable threat, but without him, the other noble families would carve up Northern Yan. For now, the emperor preferred Yan Xun—a lone man with no power. Finally stepping out of the Heaven Prison, Yan Xun wore a plain green robe, his face gaunt, his once-carefree eyes now heavy with solemnity.
Zhong Yu had been waiting outside for a long time, accompanied by a veiled woman—Chu Qiao, who had neither died nor fled after regaining consciousness, choosing instead to return to Yan Xun’s side. The three headed to Yingge Garden, where the conditions were crude, a far cry from Yan Xun’s former life. But what was even more suffocating were the layers of surveillance outside. According to Chu Qiao’s observations, there were at least eighty visible guards—and likely even more hidden ones.
