The Dauntless Youths Episode 12 Recap
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Jiang Wenhuan instructed Xin Jia to carefully search for evidence, holding a night candle. Xin Jia had initially planned to shirk his duty and just go through the motions. To his surprise, he actually found a glowing bead under the bed, and on it, the words "Qiankun Alley" were clearly embedded, making it all the more suspicious. On the other side, A Si accidentally noticed her father acting surreptitiously, which immediately raised her suspicions.
She quietly followed him to a familiar black market. In the black market, she inadvertently discovered a secret chamber. With curiosity and apprehension, she found something in a box inside the chamber that greatly surprised her. Elder Li solemnly handed the contract to Ning Ziyu, but the Young Lord acted shamelessly, pleading with Elder Li to continue working for him. Through the books in the box, A Si unexpectedly discovered that her father had quietly done so much for her.
It contained all the wealth her father had left for her, even some dowry, filling her heart with emotion and guilt. She secretly made up her mind to save her father from his predicament through practical actions. The next day, Elder Li gave A Si a piece of jewelry meticulously crafted with a luminous pearl, repeatedly cautioning her not to get involved with Jiang Wenhuan and others.
However, A Si was full of doubts, not understanding the reason, and resolutely decided to investigate the truth. Jiang Wenhuan handed the retrieved bead to A Si. After carefully examining it, A Si stated that the bead was a counterfeit, clearly planted by someone to frame another. However, upon hearing this, Kunwu, who was nearby, sensed something unusual about A Si.
Thus, overnight, Kunwu and Jiang Wenhuan disguised themselves as servants from Elder Li's residence, cleverly blending into the procession for the Gao Mei Sacrifice. One of them delivered a message to Ning Ziyu, informing him that Marquis Beibo and Jiang Wenfeng had formed an alliance. Upon hearing this, Ning Ziyu was furious and immediately ordered the Gao Mei Sacrifice to proceed as scheduled, vowing to make those people accompany his father to his grave.
At this moment, someone brought wine to Chong Yibiao, who immediately keenly detected poison in it. However, the person who delivered the wine, seeing that their plot was exposed, unhesitatingly took poison and committed suicide. Jiang Wenhuan and E Shun were rushing back to the Young Lord's camp to deliver an important message, but their whereabouts were keenly detected by Ning Ziyu. Unfortunately, the two were captured.
Just as they were about to be beheaded, A Si rushed over, threatening her father with her own life to release Jiang Wenhuan and E Shun. However, Elder Li did not agree. Out of helplessness, he had no choice but to confine them in a room and placed two unknown objects outside the door to impersonate them, creating the illusion that they had been burned to death.
At this point, an Envoy came to verify whether Jiang Wenhuan and E Shun had been executed. Ning Ziyu, however, stated that he had already burned them to death, and even adopted a strong stance, refusing to be directed by this Guifang Envoy. He claimed that their cooperation was a matter of mutual needs: the Envoy sought elixirs, while he merely desired revenge. This attitude, however, prompted the Envoy to consider eliminating Ning Ziyu.
Jiang Wenfeng and Gongsun Wuyu, along with other generals, proceeded to the Gao Mei Sacrifice. Unsuspecting, everyone drank wine laced with a narcotic, which turned out to be a carefully orchestrated plot by Ning Ziyu. He ordered these people to be burned alive to appease the hatred in his heart. At the critical moment, Jiang Wenhuan, A Si, and others appeared in time, desperately rescuing everyone.
However, Ning Ziyu, furious and humiliated, sought to perish with them, triggering a cave mechanism. At this moment, the cave collapsed with a deafening roar, and in the midst of the chaos, Elder Li, to save his daughter, unhesitatingly held Ning Ziyu back, only to be mercilessly crushed beneath a stone statue. Afterward, A Si frantically searched for Elder Li, desperately hoping to rescue her father at the last moment. However, Elder Li knew he had no chance of survival. In his final moments, he affectionately entrusted A Si to Jiang Wenhuan, his eyes filled with reluctance and hope, before numerous large stones fell upon him.
