EPISODE 5 RECAP
Yetan has been having nightmares these days. What with leaving her sister in an evil realm and lying to the Heaven family, she’s not feeling easy. So one day, Yetan decides to talk with her sister Qingkui. Yep, by writing on her skin with a knife again.
Dew: I know it’s important to the story later on but I can say with certainty that carving into your own flesh is my least favorite magical xianxia way of communicating through the realms. Can we get two crystal balls?? Overnight delivery, please!!
Qingkui, on the other hand, has made up her mind. After having a taste of being an outcast, she now understands how Yetan always felt growing up, so she wants to take Yetan’s place in the Void Kingdom. Yetan calls her a fool. Aww, sisterly love is what drives this drama.
Yetan plans to escape again. But because of all the little spying orbs Youqin has planted on her, she can’t do anything without getting painful reminders. She makes a magic… kind of a mini toilet plunger and tries to purge them out but all in vain.
The PLUNGER needs to be a show merchandise. Ditto. I can’t think of a more hilarious magical item in all the realms.
No amount of plunging is working for Yetan and Manman gives an idea: All the best magical items are with the Jade Deity!
Now the worst thing she can do is play mahjong with the Heaven deities. This, we can count on Yetan to be very good at. She wins all of their possessions, and they have no choice but to come to Youqin to ask for his help to retrieve those things because they’re kind of important.
Mahjong? Gambling in the Heaven Palace?? Youqin is furious. How could his serene and magnificent home have sunk this low? He wants to punish the deities too for gambling.
But these deities start guilt-tripping him — remember when you were a lonely boy and I played with you? Remember when you broke my stuff and I didn’t tell anyone? — so in the end, Youqin promises to help them. One more thing to add to his long list of damage control because of Yetan.
The Heaven Queen visits Youqin. She wants to bond with him but, as always, he just wants to be left alone. She regrets that she let him be locked away for so long, now he’s not even interested in talking to his own mother. This is the first fantasy drama I’ve seen that actually addresses the problem of bad parenting in these heaven kingdoms. You can’t keep a guy isolated for hundreds of years and then expect him to come out socializing like normal, can you?
The Heaven King comes in at this time. He lets Youqin know that rumors have been around again about Yetan’s bad behaviors so Youqin had better teach his wife better. Well, I guess you can’t have both parents be understanding. One of them has got to be a jerk for conflict’s sake.
In the Void Realm. Qingkui plucks up her courage and goes to visit Chaofeng in jail. He’s not really in jail, he just says so to make her believe that he’s on her side.
He’s having a full feast inside the jail because they’re all his men but to keep up appearances, he asks his right hand man Caobo to beat him up. Caobo does so happily. Chaofeng is surprised to hear Qingkui is the one to visit him and watches with curiosity and joy from afar to see she’s willing to sell anything she has to the void guards so she can come inside to visit him.
Innocent Qingkui asks Chaofeng to take off his shirt so she can look at his injuries. The girl knows some first aid. This touches Chaofeng’s shrunken heart a little, but he is still far from giving up his sinister plan. Although, by the look of the Void court, I wouldn’t say that an assassination of the current king and some of the princes are a bad idea at all. It might just do the whole realm a favor.
Back in the Heavenly Realm, Youqin has unlocked his own “scheming” side to create a plan to get back all the treasures that Yetan took. And it includes the one way he knows will get to Yetan.
Food. Lots and lots of food!