Resumo do episódio 1 de Unveil: Jadewind
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Li Peiyi, the Princess of Fuchang County, was raised in comfort until the Lantern Festival of her ninth year, when her family was massacred. The official report claimed her father, the Prince of Duan, had slaughtered his household in a fit of madness before taking his own life. Li Peiyi, refusing to believe her father was a murderer, spent years hiding her resentment and training herself to become an investigator.
She eventually joined the Palace Investigation Bureau to seek justice for the wronged and uncover the truth behind her family's death. While investigating a series of stolen female corpses, Li Peiyi goes undercover. She takes a Breath-Stopping Pill to feign death and poses as the late Xie Qiaolian. She is taken to the home of Guo Ruilin, the Director of the Court of State Ceremonial, who intends to use the body for a ghost marriage to satisfy his late son.
Li Peiyi reveals herself and accuses the official of illegal activities, but the Breath-Stopping Pill has left her internal energy in a state of chaos. Seizing her weakness, Guo Ruilin decides to bury her alive as a sacrifice for his son. To prevent her spirit from seeking revenge, he orders four peach wood nails to be driven into her arms before sealing her in a coffin. Fortunately, her colleague Wu Ren, also known as Ma Xiaoran, leads a rescue mission.
Li Peiyi survives and retaliates by striking Guo Ruilin four times with her blade for the four nails used against her. Back at the Bureau, a desperate Guo Ruilin tries to bargain for his life by offering to help with the upcoming marriage alliance of the Fifteenth Princess, Wanshun. Meanwhile, at the Astronomical Bureau, Deputy Director Xiao Huaijin observes an ominous guest star in the Girl mansion, a constellation governing marriage.
Though his office is forbidden from making divinations, he knows the blue-black star foretells disaster. This coincides with the arrival of the Uyghur Prince Yaoluoge Wutele, who has come to wed Wanshun. Wanshun, now titled Princess Ningyuan, is Li Peiyi’s close friend. On the day of the ceremony, the Bureau's Chief, Du Zhixing, warns Li Peiyi that she is better suited for solving crimes than managing people.
During a celebratory dance, a flaming yaksha kite descends from the Ruyi Pavilion, and the stage is engulfed in an inferno. Wanshun is trapped on the platform and killed, leaving no remains. The Emperor orders a joint investigation by the Palace Investigation Bureau and the Court of Judicial Review. Xiao Huaijin is detained near the scene, but he remains composed, offering cryptic clues about "fire on stone" and "gold beneath wood."
Li Peiyi initially dismisses him, but she soon discovers the mechanical genius behind the tragedy. At the top of Ruyi Pavilion, she finds remnants of a timed mechanism—wax and silk threads—that released the kite as candles burned out. In his cell, Xiao Huaijin draws a map that perfectly matches the crime scene layout. The Emperor secretly summons Xiao Huaijin, revealing that he received a secret report about the ill-omened star three hours before the official one.
Suspecting a conspiracy to sabotage the marriage alliance, the Emperor orders Xiao to assist Li Peiyi, granting him a qilin badge for palace access. Li Peiyi convinces the solitary Xiao that their cooperation is the only way to satisfy the Emperor’s anxiety. The investigation reveals that the water buckets used during the fire were smeared with tung oil and that the stage fire was fueled by low-quality, privately made black powder. Their leads point to a eunuch named Liu Deyi.
Li Peiyi searches the palace quarters but is incapacitated by hallucinogenic incense, causing her to see a vision of her mother as a fire phoenix. By the time Wu Ren breaks into the room, Li Peiyi is recovering, but Liu Deyi is already dead, his throat slit by a dagger just minutes prior. While Xiao Huaijin investigates outside the palace, he is caught in a "ghost wall" illusion near the abandoned mansion of the Prince of Duan.
He is followed by a mysterious black-clad figure but is saved by the timely arrival of Prosecutor Gu Lingzhou. Analyzing the shadows cast by the moon, Xiao Huaijin mathematically deduces that the killer is approximately six feet tall. Searching Wanshun’s room, Li Peiyi is heartbroken to find it sparsely furnished. A maid named Xue Rui reveals that the princess lived in poverty, selling her own embroidery to pay for expenses.
Xue Rui also mentions a potential grudge involving Cui Manshu, a noble lady who was humiliated two years prior when the Emperor preferred Wanshun’s needlework over hers. Joined by General Lin Ning and the Imperial Guards, the investigators head to Yanshou Ward to search for a secluded courtyard near the canals that may be serving as the killer's hideout.
