Resumo do episódio 21 de Unveil: Jadewind
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Lady Yue set her scheme in motion by isolating Xiao Wan under the pretense of religious cultivation. During their meeting, she manipulated the desperate woman, claiming her husband Sun Renyi’s illness was a tribulation Wan had brought upon him. Lady Yue convinced her that the only way to save Renyi was to become a surrogate for a wealthy family with a matching horoscope.
Desperate, Wan agreed to bear a child for Wu Siping in exchange for the funds needed for her husband's medicine. While Wan was initially cared for at the manor, the cruelty of the arrangement surfaced two weeks before her due date. To ensure the child was born during a specific auspicious hour, Lady Yue forced Wan to ingest a massive dose of Tuohua decoction to induce labor. Wan survived the ordeal, but the infant was immediately taken from her.
Though Renyi recovered thanks to the money Wan earned, the premature birth and the harsh drugs left her health permanently shattered and unable to conceive again. The Sun family, who had known about the arrangement all along, eventually used the surrogacy as an excuse to despise her.
After Wan spent her final days in a state of fractured mental health, searching for her son at the Wu estate, the Suns eventually bound her in a cold woodshed, where she ultimately died. Old Xiao was heartbroken by his daughter's tragic end. To exact his revenge, he used his expertise in mechanics and carpentry to infiltrate the inner circle of the charlatan Xu Daoyin.
He persuaded Xu to construct a network of secret passages throughout the manor, which allowed Old Xiao to move undetected while making the fraudulent monk appear more powerful to his patrons. During this time, Old Xiao realized that Xu Daoyin, Liu San, and Lady Yue were running a dark business, using poor women as reproductive tools and frequently causing the deaths of both mothers and children through the forced use of Tuohua decoction.
When Old Xiao learned that Wu Siping planned to seek another surrogate child to solve his business failures—fearing that young Wu Mujin would be harmed or replaced—he decided to strike. Using the delivery of invitations for the Heaven-Inquiry Ceremony as cover, he entered the Wu mansion. That night, he bound Wu Siping and forced him to drink the same Tuohua decoction that had tortured Wan.
He then brutally beat Wu Siping with Xu Daoyin’s statue, leaving him to die in agony. Days later, during the ceremony, Old Xiao killed Liu San and trapped Xu Daoyin in the secret passages, forcing the man to swallow gold ingots until he perished from the excruciating pain. During his interrogation, Li Peiyi questioned Old Xiao about the deaths of the Sun family three years prior.
Old Xiao confessed that after Wan died, the Suns had feigned grief to take her body back to their ancestral grave. However, he soon discovered they had actually sold her corpse for a high-priced ghost marriage to fund a new wedding for Sun Renyi. On the night of the new wedding, Old Xiao set fire to their home, burning all three members of the Sun family alive as retribution.
Li Peiyi suspected Old Xiao had an insider within the mansion to help him manage the incense and track her movements. While Old Xiao tried to take the blame, young Wu Mujin stepped forward and admitted to being the accomplice. Realizing the boy had been manipulated by his circumstances and the desire for a real connection, Li Peiyi refused to punish him.
Madam Wu decided to rename the boy Xiao Yi’en and vowed to raise him as her own, seeing the tragedy as the karmic result of Wu Siping’s own greed. Later, Li Peiyi asked Madam Wu about Wu Siping’s sudden departure from the capital fifteen years ago. Madam Wu explained that while Wu Siping had been a guard for the Crown Prince, his decision to flee was his own.
She revealed that on the night of the tragedy at the Prince of Duan’s mansion, Xiao Wenyuan had arrived at their home before midnight to demand a command tally for a mysterious mission. Just as Madam Wu mentioned the timing of Xiao Wenyuan’s departure, a poisoned arrow struck Li Peiyi. A group of masked assassins ambushed them, and Li Peiyi fought to protect Madam Wu until she was nearly overwhelmed.
Xiao Huaijin arrived just in time, using black powder to create an explosion that allowed them to escape. Despite the poison in her system, Li Peiyi tried to push Xiao Huaijin away to save him, but he refused to leave her side. Her mentor, Du Zhixing, eventually arrived to provide an antidote and stayed behind to hold off the remaining assassins while Xiao Huaijin hurried Li Peiyi to safety.
