Legend of Zang Hai Episode 30 Recap, Plot

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The Queen of Dongxia personally escorted the world’s rare treasure—the Jade Embryo—to present it to the Emperor of Great Yong. She even had a wooden palace made to house the Jade Embryo, specially crafted using the lost techniques of Kuai Duo. Zang Hai quickly cracked the mechanism and opened the wooden palace. Ming Yu Su Ti suspected that Zang Hai was either Kuai Duo’s son or his disciple.

Xiang Antu had once written to Ming Yu Su Ti, mentioning that she liked Zang Hai, prompting Ming Yu Su Ti to force Zang Hai to hand over Xiang Antu. Zang Hai brought Ming Yu Su Ti to an abandoned tomb, falsely claiming that Xiang Antu was imprisoned inside. As soon as Ming Yu Su Ti and her group entered, Zang Hai activated a mechanism and escaped, trapping them all inside.

Ming Yu Su Ti sent people to search for an exit, but they found nothing. Guan Feng brought food to Xiang Antu, and she desperately questioned him about Zang Hai’s whereabouts. Guan Feng evaded the question, but Xiang Antu guessed that Zang Hai had gone to seek revenge on her mother. Worried about Zang Hai’s safety, she lied and claimed she was pregnant with his child and asked Guan Feng to take her pulse.

Seizing the opportunity, she subdued Guan Feng and used him to escape from the secret room. Liu Chu saw Xiang Antu come out holding Guan Feng hostage and tried to dissuade her from looking for Zang Hai. At that moment, Zang Hai was accompanying her mother, Ming Yu Su Ti, around the capital. Xiang Antu was frantic. Her mother, being the Queen of Dongxia, was no ordinary person—and she had long known Zang Hai’s true identity.

This encounter was extremely dangerous for Zang Hai. Xiang Antu wanted to save him, but Liu Chu advised her to give up. Zang Hai was determined to avenge himself against Ming Yu Su Ti; by now, the confrontation was likely already over. Ming Yu Su Ti’s men finally discovered the first mechanism. It activated a corridor. She led her group through, but the stone door behind them closed. On the stone door were five lotus flowers.

Including her, there were six people. Ming Yu Su Ti had one person stay behind and then managed to open the next door. Another corridor followed. Each successive door had one less lotus flower than the last. Each time, she left one person behind until the final door, which had only one lotus flower. Ming Yu Su Ti guessed Zang Hai wanted to meet her alone.

She left everyone else behind and entered the final door, which led to an empty tomb with no exit, its walls covered in murals. Zang Hai had been waiting. Ming Yu Su Ti recognized from the murals that it was the tomb of Princess Yongning, daughter of Emperor Zhenzong. The murals were painted by the emperor himself to honor his deceased daughter. Zang Hai pressed Ming Yu Su Ti to confess if she had murdered his family.

She didn’t answer but guessed that Zang Hai had repainted the murals and tried to persuade him to let go of his hatred. Zang Hai raised his crossbow at her, but Ming Yu Su Ti, seasoned in battle, didn’t see him as a threat. Zang Hai had prepared flour mixed with explosives. If he threw it into the fire, Ming Yu Su Ti would surely die.

She urged him to think of Xiang Antu—if he killed her, Xiang Antu would live a life full of hatred like his. Zang Hai knew this would wrong Xiang Antu, but he couldn’t let his family die in vain. He swore to kill Ming Yu Su Ti. Suddenly, Xiang Antu arrived at the tomb. She volunteered to die in her mother’s place, ending the feud between their two families once and for all.

She pulled out a dagger, ready to take her own life. Zang Hai desperately tried to stop her and agreed to let Xiang Antu take Ming Yu Su Ti away. But Xiang Antu didn’t want Zang Hai to live in regret and insisted on dying. Both Zang Hai and Ming Yu Su Ti acted simultaneously to save Xiang Antu. Ming Yu Su Ti clearly stated that she had not killed Kuai Duo and began telling Zang Hai a story.

Years ago, Dongxia suffered a great defeat, and the royal court fell into chaos. Ming Yu Su Ti’s throne was in danger. She was pursued by traitors and, wounded, fell off a cliff. Kuai Duo, who was building the Fengshan Altar at the time, rescued her and brought her back to camp. When Ming Yu Su Ti woke up, she learned that Kuai Duo had saved her life.

In gratitude, she promised to bring his wife and children to Dongxia, but Kuai Duo politely declined. Half a month passed. As she recovered, Kuai Duo worked in the freezing cold, constructing the altar for the Emperor of Great Yong while holding a trinket he had made for his son, Zhinu. Seeing that he missed his family, Ming Yu Su Ti chatted with him. She mentioned her daughters, Ming Yan Yinshu and Xiang Antu.

Kuai Duo had long known Ming Yu Su Ti was the Queen of Dongxia and notified her soldiers to retrieve her so she could return and restore order in the court. After returning to Dongxia, she couldn’t forget Kuai Duo. When she heard the altar had collapsed, fearing for his safety, she rushed to Fengshan Altar and encountered Kuai Duo on the way. He had found the Gui Seal on Mount Dansui and intended to report back to the emperor.

Ming Yu Su Ti warned him that the Gui Seal was an ominous object. If it fell into the wrong hands, it could bring catastrophe to the world. She asked him to hand it over, promising not to use it in a war against Great Yong. Kuai Duo refused. Ming Yu Su Ti asked for a farewell hug, intending to steal the seal. Kuai Duo, however, subdued her with anesthetic.

Before leaving, he gave her a handwritten book he had compiled over the years and rode off. A month later, Ming Yu Su Ti heard that Kuai Duo’s entire family had been massacred. She was devastated. After recovering from the grief, she buried her feelings for Kuai Duo and focused entirely on being Queen of Dongxia. Using the geomantic techniques recorded in Kuai Duo’s handwritten book, Ming Yu Su Ti helped the people of Dongxia live prosperous lives.

She used the same techniques to construct the wooden palace for the Jade Embryo and returned the handwritten book to Zang Hai. After learning the truth, Zang Hai realized he had wrongly blamed Ming Yu Su Ti. She had one more important mission in Great Yong—and she needed Zang Hai’s help to complete it.

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