Resumo do episódio 3 de Unveil: Jadewind
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Li Peiyi survives her self-inflicted poisoning thanks to Xiao Huaijin’s extraordinary memory and quick thinking in providing the correct antidote. The Emperor, who has always treated Li Peiyi as his own daughter, personally visits her manor to check on her condition. Inside the sickroom, Inspector Du Zhixing realizes that since she successfully purged the poison, she should be recovering well.
He correctly guesses that she is only pretending to be weak because the Emperor is present, and he half-jokingly vows to give her a proper scolding for her recklessness once His Majesty departs. Li Peiyi even manages to sneak some medicinal tonics from Du Zhixing’s room to aid her recovery. When the Emperor arrives at her bedside, he expresses his deep grief over already losing one daughter and tells Li Peiyi he cannot bear to lose her as well.
He intends to punish the Wang, He, and Zhao families for their hostility toward her, but Li Peiyi pleads for mercy. She points out that they acted out of grief for their own daughters and meant no real malice. Touched by her understanding nature, the Emperor grants them a reprieve to handle their funeral arrangements, though he orders Li Peiyi to let someone else handle the investigation. Li Peiyi firmly refuses, insisting that only she can uncover the truth.
Before the Emperor leaves, she asks him not to tell Consort Shu about her condition to spare the grieving woman further pain. Once she recovers, Li Peiyi discusses the case with Wu Ren and Xiao Huaijin. Wu Ren chides her for the dangerous gamble, noting that Xiao Huaijin was more terrified for her life than anyone.
Analyzing the events, they realize the killer who ignited the black powder must have hidden in a secret chamber before slipping out with the Uighur prince’s entourage. While that individual attacked Xiao Huaijin and killed Liu Deyi, the timing makes it impossible for them to have also traveled to Yanshou Ward to murder Cui Manshu. This confirms there were two killers.
Li Peiyi decides to search for information regarding Wanshun’s close friends or lovers, leading her to question Wanshun’s maid, Xuerui. Xiao Huaijin informs Li Peiyi that a man about six chi tall was seen hiding outside the palace walls on the night of the fire. Suspicion falls on Lin Ning, the guard who claimed he was blocked by a sudden flight of carrier pigeons while chasing the suspect.
Xiao Huaijin notes that the pigeons' release times are fixed, proving Lin Ning lied. Furthermore, a witness confirms that Lin Ning slipped away from the Uighur prince’s escort midway and was later seen near Yanshou Ward. Li Peiyi discovers an embroidery pattern in Lin Ning’s room that matches a poem found among Wanshun’s belongings: "Like reeds, my love is soft yet resilient; like rock, it is enduring and steadfast." This confirms Lin Ning was Wanshun’s secret lover.
Learning that Lin Ning has rented a boat to flee to Jinling, Li Peiyi pursues him to the docks. Just as her boat pulls alongside his, Lin Ning’s vessel erupts in flames. Li Peiyi leaps onto the burning boat only to find Lin Ning already dead.
After bringing his body back to the Palace Investigation Bureau, Xiao Huaijin examines the corpse and finds a blade wound on the arm, identical to the one he inflicted on the man in black who attacked him. Meanwhile, Xuerui is found burning Wanshun’s embroidery patterns, but Xiao Huaijin salvages several papers. Through Wanshun’s notes, they realize she had anticipated the explosion all along.
Li Peiyi remembers Wanshun expressing a desire to see the world beyond the palace and concludes that the Princess is actually alive. Li Peiyi eventually tracks Wanshun to her hiding place. Though Xiao Huaijin argues that harboring a fugitive is a crime, Li Peiyi is determined to protect her friend. She tells Xiao Huaijin that if Wanshun wants to leave, she will risk her own life to see her safely out of the capital.
Xiao Huaijin, bound by his duty to the Emperor, is torn but eventually leaves Li Peiyi to face Wanshun alone. Wanshun finally reveals the truth: she and Lin Ning fell in love during a previous Lantern Festival. Believing their meetings were fate, she felt loved for the first time since her mother’s death. However, when the Emperor ordered her to marry the Uighur prince, she and Lin Ning planned the palace explosion to fake her death.
Wanshun explains that she left a gold bangle and bones on the stage to simulate her death before escaping through a secret passage. She ran along the Qingming Canal toward what she thought was a new life of freedom. However, when she arrived at their secret meeting spot in Yanshou Ward, she found Cui Manshu waiting instead of Lin Ning.
Cui Manshu revealed that she had orchestrated Wanshun’s entire romance, even hiring the performer who originally brought Wanshun and Lin Ning together. Cui mocked Wanshun for being pregnant with a guard's child and insulted her as the "spawn of a foreign dancer." Driven to a breaking point by the cruelty, Wanshun stabbed Cui Manshu to death with a dagger. Li Peiyi is heartbroken to realize how much Wanshun suffered in silence.
Wanshun confesses that she was the one who poisoned the other noble ladies at Yunchui House as revenge for their bullying. She deliberately placed the poison in a raw fish dish, knowing that Li Peiyi never eats seafood because of the trauma of her parents' drowning and her own near-death experience in water.
Wanshun tells Li Peiyi that she was her only true friend, and that the others—Cui Manshu, Wang Yuhua, Zhao Luoshun, and Zhou Helan—received the justice they deserved for the malice they sowed. Wanshun’s final words suggest that even Lin Ning will carry the weight of their tragic, manipulated love into the afterlife.
