Quippe: Yetan eats and causes chaos like the Monkey King and we love her for it.
Dew: The lesson here is to NEVER negotiate on an empty stomach ladies and gentlemen!!
EPISODE 6 RECAP
Youqin comes up with a plan to get Yetan under control, get the deities’ stuff back for them, and doesn’t make himself look bad. He has lots of delicious food made for Yetan then makes her pay for it. Poor man, he wants to be reading Taoist texts and dissecting high-brow art right now, not coming up with little schemes against a mortal girl. He seems to be pretty good with little schemes, though.
And since Yetan is always hungry, she has no choice but to use the items she just won to pay up.
Yetan starts gulping down the food. Youqin comments that her table manners are terrible. What, was she starved when she lived with her father? This touches a nerve because Yetan had been starved before, not always, but more than a few times. By her own father!
We get an actually good reason as to why a female lead has to stuff her face while eating and it doesn’t have to do with being “relatable” or a characteristic for the male lead to find her “endearing”. Thank you Third Prince for switching the carriage because Yetan would have had every reason to make everyone suffer as the Void’s ruler.
Seeing her pensive face, Youqin feels a little bad and attempts to make peace by bringing a food place closer to Yetan. But Yetan takes it he wants to deny her the food after she’s already paid, so she shoots up to snatch the plate back but ends up spitting food all over Youqin’s clothes. Hah, he doesn’t have the slightest idea on how to be romantic and she’s definitely not helping.
He’s fuming from his perfectly groomed head and shouts at Feichi, his right hand man, to not grab his hair as the latter tries to calm him down. I don’t know if Youqin is keeping count, but this is not the first time his perfectly calm demeanor gets all stirred up by Yetan. But he’s definitely trying not to let more intrusive thoughts bubbles hinder his energy. Deep breath, Youqin, we’ve got a long way to go.
Youqin also arranges for Yetan to attend classes in the Heaven Palace. The sooner she learns their ways and becomes an immortal, the sooner she can give up mortal food and he can go back to his peaceful life. Or so he thinks.
Back at his quarters, Youqin secretly gives Feichi a list of Yetan’s favorite food that he’s noted down in the last few days. Feichi, bless his heart, says to Youqin’s face that he thought the millennium-long training would make his master have “no interpersonal skills” HAHAHA, so he’s surprised that Youqin would think of doing something like this for someone else.
Despite having his patience tested in lord knows how many different ways since meeting Yetan, Youqin tells Feichi he realizes the sacrifices Yetan is making by being the consort while having a freedom-loving personality. He just wants to make it up to her; and food, he’s learned, can really make Yetan happy.
But Yetan runs into trouble on her first day of classes. A bratty princess – who is also Youqin’s cousin who kind of has a crush on him – bullies another girl.
Yetan recalls how things like this happened to her in the past too. She had to watch from afar as her sister got a proper education. She was even bullied by the servants. I don’t really get these girls’ father. Even if he disliked Yetan, why did he have to treat her like dirt? He wanted her to marry into another clan and her behaviors and intellect would be important to make the marriage alliance work, right? So why deny her education when she wanted it?
So many hateful memories associated with this “father” and the way he led the horrible treatment of his daughter. It doesn’t help that she’s also a twin so the nonstop juxtaposition she felt about unfair behavior that she got that her sister did not get is so sad. *practices Youqin’s deep breathing to calm down*
Anyway, Yetan stands up for the young girl and fights the bratty princess. They take the matter to the schoolteacher, who tells Yetan that her behavior is a disgrace and she can’t attend school here. And I would have respected his view if he hadn’t totally ignored how the bratty princess behaved. You expel a student who failed to come to you when trouble arose but don’t bother to look into the problem anyway?
Youqin manages to negotiate for Yetan, though. The teacher agrees to let her back in if she can pass a test which will happen in three days. Youqin promises to help Yetan get ready for it. Solitude and peace once again out the window for the guy, but he hopes very much that maybe, mayyybe after this test…
At the Void Kingdom, Chaofeng nearly gets axed by his father, but the First Brother Wudai shows up in time to bail him out. Apparently, Wudai has found evidence of treachery committed by Prince Yun’er. I didn’t catch his full name but his mother calls him Yun’er, so I’ll go with that for now.
The father didn’t bother to investigate, seems like he just wants to punish a son today, so Chaofeng killing one of Yun’er’s men is a good thing now.
The father orders Wudai to kill all of Yun’s men and their families and Wudai does not hesitate. Ok, that’s a little much.
Chaofeng is cleared of all charges and gets promoted to army supervisor along with Wudai. Access to troops achievement, activated!
Back in the heavenly classroom, the young girl who Yetan helped, we learn, is called Husui. She finds a scroll and starts to practice magic from it but is interrupted by Qingheng. He finally gets a chance to ask her why she looks so familiar to him. He thinks she’s the coriander plant that he helped water when he was little through a magic mirror but she just looks uncomfortable about the assumption and tells him he got the wrong person.
Qingheng brushes it off and tells her she doesn’t need to read scrolls in secret and can come to him any time she wants. Qingheng is anything but shy, guys!
Skipping to the Beast Kingdom, Prince Dilanjue decides it’s time for him to step in and rescue his human princess Yetan! Off he goes – off a cliff, literally. Oh young love.