Love in Pavilion Episode 3 Recap
> Love in Pavilion Recap
Ten days later, the Nangong family's Sword Unveiling Ceremony was held as scheduled. This time, Dongfang Huaizhu made a move, hoping to strike with a single blow and help Yang Yan rescue Mu Xiaowu. Nangong Ye arranged for her to stand on his left side as a sword attendant. When Wangquan Hongye saw Dongfang Huaizhu, he couldn’t help but be surprised, and he also realized that Nangong Ye’s plan was anything but simple.
Nangong Ye ordered four demon cores to be retrieved and forged into four treasured swords, which he presented to the heads of four noble families. The other clan heads accepted them with smiles, but Wangquan Hongye refused. A dancer used her pipa to trigger a reflected bell sound formation behind Wangquan Hongye, causing him to lose all senses except touch.
Yet he remained calm, and Nangong Ye wasn’t sure if the trap had worked, so he sent Dongfang Huaizhu to investigate. After a brief inspection, Dongfang Huaizhu found that Wangquan Hongye was indeed forcing himself to hold on. After only a few moves, Wangquan Hongye was defeated. Even so, he never let go of his sword, which Dongfang Huaizhu admired.
As she expected, Wangquan Hongye was extremely cautious in his movements, fearing Nangong Ye might realize he had been affected, and he avoided making any abrupt sounds. Dongfang Huaizhu struck him directly into the bath pool, and Wangquan Hongye lost consciousness. Afterward, Dongfang Huaizhu cast a spell on Wangquan Hongye so that the two could temporarily share vision and hearing within five steps. When Wangquan Hongye awoke and drank tea, he found that his sense of taste had returned.
However, once he stepped more than five steps away from Dongfang Huaizhu, he lost all his senses again. Dongfang Huaizhu had executed the spell with precision, leaving Wangquan Hongye with no choice but to cooperate with her. Wangquan Zui used a magical artifact to perform mental control on a servant of the Nangong family but failed to uncover Nangong Ye’s plan for the next day’s Sword Unveiling Ceremony. All she learned were a bunch of the young master's shortcomings.
Yang Yitan interrupted her casting, joking that such mental manipulation was useless on these lowly servants and wouldn’t work against someone powerful. Dongfang Huaizhu and Wangquan Hongye sat down for a proper conversation. Just as Dongfang Huaizhu said, a phoenix never rests without treasure—if Nangong Ye could make her a promise, then Wangquan Hongye certainly could as well. Wangquan Hongye used an invisibility talisman and went with Dongfang Huaizhu to the area near the sword furnace.
Outside the furnace was a Mystic Sound Formation that grew stronger the deeper they went. Dongfang Huaizhu helped Wangquan Hongye break the formation, and the two entered the sword furnace located in the Nangong waterside pavilion. As expected, not a single guard was in sight. The furnace flames inside burned fiercely, and who knows how many demon cores had already been smelted within. Around the furnace were many cages sealed with talismans.
A Bifang bird demon sat beside them, under the control of a talisman. Her name was Ah Nan. Dongfang Huaizhu removed the talisman and learned that Nangong Ye had deceived her, saying that once the demon swords were forged, her mother would return. To incite the demons’ hatred, the young Nangong master used the demon fire within the divine bird clan to control the furnace. Once a demon core is removed, the demon cannot possibly survive.
Nangong Ye had tricked young Ah Nan and used her demon fire to refine her own mother's demon core—an act of unspeakable cruelty. A man like Nangong Ye deserves to die a hundred times over. Dongfang Huaizhu intended to destroy the sword furnace but was stopped by Wangquan Hongye. He insisted that the demon sword must be forged; otherwise, it would disrupt his plans.
In his urgency, Wangquan Hongye accidentally called out Dongfang Huaizhu’s name, and only then did she realize he had known her identity all along. The young Nangong master was already calling out from outside, demanding that they leave the sword furnace at once. Dongfang Huaizhu didn’t know whether to trust Wangquan Hongye, and he told her to trust her instincts.
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