Resumo do episódio 11 de The First Jasmine
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Mo Xiuyao cornered the leader of the Red Scorpion Gang, demanding to know who hired them to target his wife. Trembling under the Prince's cold gaze, the gang leader quickly confessed that a wealthy client had paid them a handsome sum to capture Ye Li. He explained that they were on the verge of seizing her when a highly skilled swordsman intervened, striking like lightning.
The gang, recognizing they were outmatched, chose to retreat rather than force Ye Li off the cliff. He admitted he did not know the client's identity and only had a location. Mo Xiuyao then coldly asked his final question to find out who the mastermind was. Meanwhile, at Songyue Mountain Villa, Ye Li rested in her room, noting a rich scent of jasmine in the air.
Her maid explained that the villa lord ordered seasonal flowers every quarter to craft scent beads, describing him as a remarkably young, newly-married talent who was highly celebrated in the capital. Intrigued by this description, which contrasted sharply with the elderly gentleman she had imagined, Ye Li took action. When an old flower gardener from the eastern outskirts arrived with a fresh delivery of double-petal, two-toned jasmines, she summoned him.
Offering him a generous reward of one hundred guan, she quietly tasked him with delivering a secret message to the capital on her behalf. In the capital, Ye Ying was consumed by anxiety. Seeing a heavy deployment of Jingzhao Prefecture guards marching out of the city, she realized that the situation had escalated far beyond her expectations. Fearing the consequences, she ordered her carriage to take her to Songyue Mountain Villa to find Mo Jingli.
Along the way, the carriage jolted to a sudden halt as the driver spotted a severely wounded, blood-covered man blocking the road. Pretending not to know him to her servants, Ye Ying recognized the man as Han Mingxi, the assassin she had hired. Struck by a sudden wave of pity, she decided to bring him along to seek medical attention.
While a physician worked to treat Han Mingxi's blocked Qihai point and reversed Sanjiao meridian, Ye Li finally pieced together the identity of her mysterious host at Songyue Mountain Villa. The maid's earlier descriptions of the villa lord's age, martial arts, and recent marriage made it clear that her savior was Mo Jingli. Once her vision fully recovered from the venom, Ye Li immediately summoned him to her room.
Mo Jingli arrived fussing over her health, explaining that he had only concealed his identity because he feared she would refuse to rest if she knew he was the one caring for her. He spoke passionately of watching her outside Zhengyi Temple and following her to the cliff, but Ye Li remained cold, demanding to leave and insisting they have no further association.
When Mo Jingli desperately tried to justify their bond, Ye Li reminded him of his marriage to Ye Ying. Mo Jingli dismissed the marriage as something forced upon him and, in a fit of dramatic desperation, handed her a blade, urging her to kill him. In the struggle, Ye Li ended up stabbing him. When Mo Jingli later awoke to find she was still there, he self-indulgently assumed she must still care for him. Ye Li quickly shattered his delusions.
She bitterly recounted the deaths of Senior Guan—who had once taught her to press the Hegu point for pain relief and later died under a rain of arrows—Senior Chen, whose eight-year-old child had never seen his face, and twelve-year-old Junior Zhou, who had admired him. All of them had perished protecting Mo Jingli during his return to the capital in the fourteenth year of Jinghe.
Declaring that she would never forgive him, Ye Li ordered him to clear his guards so she could depart. Just as the confrontation peaked, Mo Xiuyao arrived at the villa at the head of the Jingzhao Prefecture guards. The prefecture guards quickly overwhelmed Mo Jingli's men, declaring that anyone who resisted would be arrested for obstructing official duties.
Mo Xiuyao took the injured Ye Li into his custody, leaving a frustrated Mo Jingli to watch helplessly as she was carried away. Back in the capital, Ye Ying watched as Han Mingxi finally woke up. When she urgently questioned him about Ye Li's fate, Han Mingxi revealed that Ye Li had survived the fall and had been rescued.
He openly mocked Ye Ying's contradictory behavior, noting how strange it was for her to hire an assassin only to look so relieved that the target was still alive. Dismissing his remarks, Ye Ying told him the contract was finished and left him to tend to his own safety. That evening, Ye Li sent a carrier pigeon to Li Feibai, warning him that a second group of assassins had been lurking in the forest during the ambush.
Acting swiftly on this information, Li Feibai tracked Han Mingxi to his inn the following morning. Despite Han Mingxi's attempts to resist, the injured assassin was easily overpowered and knocked unconscious by Li Feibai. At dawn, Mo Xiuyao went to check on Ye Li, only to discover she was gone. The maid, Tao'er, informed him that Ye Li had left early for Shende Shop alongside Qingyu.
Along the way, Qingyu voiced her concerns about Ye Li exerting herself before fully recovering from the snake venom, but Ye Li remained quiet, guiding her to a ruined house on the outskirts. Inside, Li Feibai was waiting with the bound Han Mingxi. Han Mingxi immediately recognized Ye Li as the woman who had previously saved his life on an ox cart.
Expressing deep remorse for his actions, Han Mingxi confessed that his employer was a foolish woman who had never truly intended for Ye Li to die, and that he had simply botched the job. Ye Li easily deduced that the mastermind was Ye Ying. Heartbroken by Mo Jingli's dissolute behavior, Ye Ying returned to Prince Li's Mansion, only to find the guards blocking her path under the pretense that Mo Jingli was conducting urgent business.
Refusing to be ignored, she barged into his quarters, where she found Mo Jingli drinking expensive Western Region wine and carousing with dancers. When Ye Ying demanded to know why he subjected his lawful wife to such public humiliation, Mo Jingli responded with cruel indifference, shouting at everyone, including her, to get out. Ye Li later met with Li Feibai to discuss her rescue.
To keep her deeper personal secrets safe, she fabricated a story, claiming that Master Zhu had magically appeared at the bottom of the cliff and used a tree branch as a sword to slay the venomous white-jointed snakes before she fainted. Li Feibai believed her account, entirely unaware that she actually suffered from split personality disorder.
Ye Li then requested his help with a delicate task regarding her grandmother's upcoming birthday feast, which led Li Feibai to pay a quiet visit to Ye Wenhua's current wife, Wang Shi. Wang Shi was meeting secretly with her former lover, a down-on-his-luck scholar named A'yuan, when Li Feibai broke in, politely requesting her assistance with a favor. As night fell, Ye Li and Qingyu finally returned to Prince Ding's Mansion.
Anticipating Mo Xiuyao's anger, Ye Li instructed Qingyu to claim they had only been at Shende Shop reviewing the accounts. However, Mo Xiuyao was furious and immediately saw through the lie, revealing that he had sent search parties to Shende Shop twice that day and found no trace of them. Deeply hurt by her reckless behavior so soon after her rescue, Mo Xiuyao turned to leave in his wheelchair.
Ye Li quickly jammed the wheels of his wheelchair to stop him, forcing him to listen to her explanation. She began to recount her shared history with Mo Jingli, explaining how they had grown up together on Lishan Mountain and how their engagement had first been decreed by the late emperor. Finally, she addressed Mo Xiuyao's long-delayed leg injury, explaining that it would require breaking and resetting his bones. When Mo Xiuyao expressed his absolute trust in her, Ye Li softly promised that she would cure him.
