Ying Luo is sick in bed and Fu Heng takes care of her, helping her put the ointment on. He secretly kisses her while she is sleeping. She wakes up the next morning and rubs her face, wondering who it was. She hears someone coming so she lies back onto the bed. She seems disappointed when she sees that it was only the Doctor Shi Tian that arrived. It looks like Ying Luo pretended that she got sick from the Emperor by eating peanuts, which she is allergic to. She did it so that the Emperor won't be able to punish her while she is sick, especially if she became sick caring for him. The Doctor admires her cleverness and vows to help her.
The Emperor finds out that Ying Luo got better. He notices that she tricked him since she got sick after him, but got better before him. When he is on her way to confront her, he overhears maids praising him for being big-hearted because he didn't kill Ying Luo despite the things she said to anger him. The Emperor once again gives up on punishing Ying Luo and she gets to live another day.
Ying Luo approaches Fu Heng from the back and covers his eyes. Fu Heng tells her to stop since they'll be in big trouble if they are caught being so close to each other.
Ying Luo: Oh, then how come someone took care of me all night?Just then, Hai Lancha comes in and tells Fu Heng to stop giving him his shifts. Ying Luo figures out that he was lying to her and walks out. He chases after her and grabs her arm. He begs her not to be angry at him. Ying Luo asks why he didn't admit it at first, then threatens to tell the Empress about it. She turns around to leave but Fu Heng grabs her arm to pulls her back.
Fu Heng: What are you talking about?
Ying Luo: Whenever I get an allergic reaction, my whole body would become itchy... but every night there would be a prince that comes to take care of me. Was it not you?
Fu Heng: You were sick?
Ying Luo: Weren't you the one taking care of me? How would you not know?
Fu Heng: I have work to do, when would I have time to take care of you?
Fu Heng: I know it was kind of out of line, but you were sick and needed someone to take care of you... So I helped.Fu Heng stutters and doesn't know how to respond.
Ying Luo: So you think you're a good and innocent person?
Fu Heng: Yeah.
Ying Luo: [leans in] Then why did you kiss me?
The Empress asks Ying Luo to help her choose a painting for the Emperor's birthday present. Ming Yu interrupts and says her opinion. The Empress is mad that she didn't obey her and tells her to leave. Ying Luo picks a painting and gives her reasons. The Empress and Lady Chun are both impressed. Outside, Lady Shu came to visit the Empress. Ming Yu sees this and tells them to leave and that the Empress is not home. Lady Shu is mad as she leaves.
Lady Shu ends up going to visit Noble Consort Gao instead, trying to win her favour. She accepts them to be part of her side.
Ying Luo gives the Empress the finished painting, only to see her being emotional while clasping her son's bracelet.
Ying Luo then visits Auntie Zhang and they talk about having no leads on her sister's death. She then asks to get something to help the Empress. Auntie Zhang states that she doesn't understand why she is helping the Empress - didn't she want to get close to her only to find out more about her sister's death? She said that the Empress is very nice to her and she sees her sister in the Empress.
The Empress gives the painting to the Emperor and he likes the present. Noble Consort Gao then presents him with a western orchestra. The Emperor seems like an excited little boy. Lady Shu then gives him her present - a pearl. This makes the Emperor really happy as well since it was something that the Empress Dowager was looking for for a long time. The Empress looks sad that her present was overshadowed by the others.
The Empress tells Ying Luo to document all the presents but to pick out a few for the Empress Dowager. Ming Yu comes and grabs the book from Ying Luo, saying that she always did the task. Ying Luo lets her do it and leaves.
Ying Luo is walking and all of a sudden Fu Heng grabs her. She didn't know it was him and steps on his foot as self-defence. She then sees a trap door on a wall and asks Fu Heng what it was for.
All of a sudden fireworks goes off and scares Ying Luo as she grabs on to Fu Heng. The Emperor and all the consorts are watching the fireworks at another area in the palace. Noble Consort Gao grabs on to his arm and points tot he fireworks. However, he ignores her to ask the Empress to enjoy the fireworks with him. The fireworks remind Consort Nian about her younger brother as they used to light up fireworks together as kids.
While the fireworks were happening, Lady Shu went missing. Later, Ming Yu finds out that the pearl is missing and blames it on the other maids and Ying Luo (as it was originally her responsibility to organize the gifts).
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Things seem to get more heated between Ying Luo and Fu Heng.
Ming Yu seems to make mistake after mistake without even realizing it herself or learning from them. Lady Shu is finally back into the picture and from the looks of it, she is going to be the upgraded version of Lady Jia.