The Glory Episode 13 Recap, Plot

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After the people of the Zhuang family were taken away, Ruan Xiwen finally avenged her great hatred and had no regrets in this life. Meanwhile, Zhuang Hanyan, who had just felt the warmth of maternal love, was now facing the pain of losing her mother.

She walked alone through the streets, and in a daze, she seemed to see herself as a barefooted child who once sought refuge with the Zhuang family, only to realize now that it was all a fleeting illusion. She could not accept that her loved ones were leaving her one by one. Fu Yunxi was ordered to lead a raid on the Zhuang family.

Zhuang Hanyan questioned him, believing he must have known the truth but had hidden it so deeply. She swore that she would not sit idly by and would go to the imperial prison to save her mother, even if it cost her life. Fu Yunxi did not want her to take such a risk and hoped she would stay at the Fu residence, but she refused to live under someone else’s roof.

Zhuang Shiyang was granted a final meeting with Zhuang Hanyan. He explained that the secret passage was something he had been forced into by Pei Dafu and secretly passed her information, instructing her to use it to help him escape. After leaving the prison, Zhuang Hanyan went straight to a property broker. From the broker, she discovered that the Zhuang residence originally belonged to Wu Youzhi, the former Prince Shunping of this dynasty.

At that moment, she suspected that Prince Shunping was the mastermind behind all these conspiracies and matched the profile of Pei Dafu’s rebel son. If she could find Wu Youzhi, she might be able to save the Zhuang family. Upon learning that Wu Youzhi had gone missing and that only the princess remained in the palace, she disguised herself as a maid planted by the prince and approached the princess, inquiring about his whereabouts.

The princess mistakenly believed that the prince had returned and trembled in fear. From her expression, it was clear that she was terrified of him. As it turned out, she had long suffered domestic abuse, and their marriage was merely in name. She wished that the prince would disappear forever. The true wife of the prince was actually a courtesan from Hongliu Garden. Zhuang Hanyan then went to Hongliu Garden to investigate.

The courtesan, seeing the ownership document she had longed for, confessed that although the prince often spent the night with her, he never touched her and never removed his clothing. This statement confirmed Zhuang Hanyan’s suspicion—Wu Youzhi must have been of official background, so he avoided intimate relations with both his princess and the courtesan, merely using a life of debauchery as a cover for his true identity.

The courtesan unintentionally revealed that a handsome official from the Court of Judicial Review had recently visited before Zhuang Hanyan arrived. At that moment, Zhuang Hanyan suspected that it must have been Fu Yunxi. Having nowhere to go, Zhuang Hanyan went to the Fu residence and falsely claimed she hadn’t eaten all day, hoping to have a proper meal. Ah Zhi was playing with Fu Yunxi’s waist token like a toy.

Fu Yunxi was on guard, fearing that Zhuang Hanyan would take it to rescue someone, but he was tricked by her diversion. Zhuang Hanyan then stole someone else’s waist token and headed to the Court of Judicial Review, claiming that Fu Yunxi had been captured by Wu Youzhi and presenting the waist token as proof. Upon hearing this, Chief Mu hurriedly led Zhuang Hanyan to a secluded courtyard where Wu Youzhi had previously been detained.

However, the courtyard’s eerie calmness made Chief Mu realize he had been deceived by Zhuang Hanyan. Fu Yunxi rushed to the courtyard, realizing he had underestimated Zhuang Hanyan’s cunning. At this moment, Zhuang Hanyan pieced everything together—from the start, rather than saying her mother had planned everything with Yu Wen Chang’an, it was actually Fu Yunxi who had been orchestrating events from behind the scenes.

Zhuang Hanyan declared that she had just found familial warmth and would not let this opportunity slip away. She was determined to find Wu Youzhi. When she heard that his body was buried in the rear forest, she immediately went there. Suddenly, she felt weak and, glancing at the tea in front of her, realized that Fu Yunxi had drugged her.

Fu Yunxi hoped she would give up, explaining that Wu Youzhi had been arrested months ago but had died under the first round of torture. Although he was a prince of a different surname, he was still of royal blood, and as the chief examiner, Fu Yunxi could not escape responsibility. If his body was exposed, the emperor would surely punish him. Using the last of her strength, Zhuang Hanyan pulled out her hairpin and stabbed him.

When Zhuang Hanyan awoke, it was already evening. She vaguely remembered that Wu Youzhi was buried in the rear forest clearing, so she dug up his grave with her bare hands and rushed to the Court of Judicial Review with his body. Noon was approaching, and the Zhuang family members were about to be publicly executed. At the same time, Zhuang Hanyan dragged the corpse forward step by step.

As the moment of Zhuang Shiyang’s execution arrived, he desperately shouted that the Zhuang family’s old residence was purchased from Prince Shunping and that they were being framed. At the critical moment, Zhuang Hanyan arrived at the execution ground with the corpse of Prince Shunping. Ruan Xiwen collapsed to the ground—she never expected that all her years of scheming would be undone by her own daughter.

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