Resumo do episódio 31 de Unveil: Jadewind
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Workers at the Liuli Palace uncover a massive stone head buried underground. Initially hailed as an auspicious dragon, the find is quickly reported to the Emperor. However, Shen Chuan, the Assistant Director of the Palace Workshop Service, identifies the skeletal structure not as a dragon, but as a fossilized "Hou"—a legendary fierce beast known for preying on dragons. While inspecting the site, Shen Chuan suffers a suspicious fall down the stairs and is seriously injured.
Meanwhile, a secret bamboo message reaches the palace, and rumors spread through the streets that the star Taibai will soon reappear during the day, a celestial omen suggesting the rise of a female ruler. Xiao Huaijin analyzes the situation at the Astronomical Bureau and concludes that the bamboo message was intercepted and altered to create a false omen. He suspects this incident, along with the nursery rhymes circulating in the city, is a deliberate attempt to frame Consort Shu.
Xiao asks Gu Lingzhou to inform Li Peiyi so she can warn the Consort. When Gu suggests that Xiao should deliver the message himself, Xiao declines, noting that both stars and humans must follow their own predetermined paths. Later, Xiao has an audience with the Emperor to clarify that the daytime appearance of Taibai is merely one astronomical possibility, not a certainty.
The Emperor, weary of recent disturbances and wary of the "unlucky" Hou fossil, expresses a firm desire to prevent any chaos before the upcoming Grand Festival. Li Peiyi arrives at the excavation site to investigate. While descending the stairs, she nearly falls just as Shen Chuan did, but she uses her martial arts training to catch a rope and steady herself.
She discovers that the ladder was deliberately coated in oil and moved from its corner to the walkway to ensure an "accident." A bandaged Shen Chuan returns to the site, loudly accusing his subordinates of framing him to steal his position, though others mock him for his past failures—such as the "Flower on the Wall" case—and suggest his misfortune is the result of his own desperate attempts to flatter the Emperor.
Xiao Huaijin deduces that the killer is obsessed with the five elements and meticulous timing. He instructs Gu Lingzhou to disguise himself as the injured Shen Chuan and walk outside the palace at night to lure the culprit. The plan works, and the assailant is unmasked as Yu Shishun, an official from the Astronomical Bureau.
Xiao explains that the murders were timed to align with the five elements: previous victims died during the hours of Si (Fire) and Zi (Water), while the attempt on Shen Chuan occurred during hours associated with Earth (Wei and Chou). Following his arrest, a hysterical Yu Shishun begs Li Peiyi to save his family from the "Star Lord."
Li Peiyi leads her team to the Yu mansion in the southwest corner of the Chongren Ward, but they arrive to find the servants and Yu’s parents already murdered by steel needles driven into their necks. Only Yu Shishun’s young son, Yu Lan'er, is found alive, having hidden in a water jar. Xiao Huaijin notes that the tea water is still warm, suggesting the killer—who masqueraded as the deity "Lord Taibai" using flash bombs and smoke—had only just vanished.
Yu Lan'er is brought back to the Palace Investigation Bureau. Traumatized, he tells Wu Ren about the "immortal" who walked on mist and taught him a nursery rhyme about the five elements and the Hou beast. Li Peiyi is struck with guilt, realizing her failure to act sooner has made the boy an orphan, just like her.
She attempts to interrogate Yu Shishun, but the official is paralyzed by fear, claiming the "Star Lord" has finally found him after fifteen years to punish him for a past sin. Before he can confess, Yu loses control and violently strikes his head against the wall until he loses consciousness. Later, Li Peiyi finds Yu Lan'er in the back courtyard obsessively stabbing a straw man to avenge his mother.
Seeing her own past reflected in the boy's hatred, she finally understands why Xiao Huaijin once stopped her from taking her own revenge. She gently consoles the child, warning him that living only for vengeance will consume his life and alienate those who love him. She eventually persuades Yu Lan'er to help her identify the killer by describing the "Star Lord's" face to a court artist so they can bring the true culprit to justice.
