My Destined Consort Episode 18 Recap
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Since Lian Wantang arrived at the Lu residence, she had tried every possible way to get close to Lu Jingming, and Lu Jingming seemed quite accommodating as well. When in a good mood, he even took her to the jewelry shop and bought her ornaments. Lian Wantang thought Lu Jingming was showing affection toward her, so she said she liked the jewelry Shen Qilan wore in Lu Jingshu’s room and hoped to have a similar set.
Lu Jingming readily agreed and even asked the shop owner to bring a painter to craft a new set based on Lian Wantang’s description. Later that night, Lu Jingming took the initiative to suggest that Lian Wantang stay at his place. Lian Wantang obediently ordered Lu Jingming’s subordinates to furnish her room with more furniture and books.
Lu Jingming’s tone then shifted—he instructed his men to keep watch and said that from now on, apart from Shen Jiangli, no one was allowed to approach Lian Wantang. Only then did Lian Wantang start to feel something was off. Lu Jingming went to Shen Jiangli’s room and reminded her that there might be hidden truths about her mother’s death.
Over the past few days, Lu Jingming had tested Lian Wantang in various ways and found that she was not as simple as she appeared. A few days ago, at the ancestral hall, the person she identified—Tian Xiaozhen—was not the real culprit behind Shen Jiangli’s mother’s death. At that moment, Shen Jiangli’s senior martial brother also arrived.
Through experiments, he proved that the small amount of thunder vine inside the bracelet was not enough to be fatal unless combined with a heating element. Shen Jiangli took note and returned to her maiden home with her maid. She deliberately wandered around Concubine Zou’s room and then sent her maid to search it. Sure enough, the maid found a wool cloak in the secret chamber.
Shen Jiangli carefully brought the cloak back for examination and finally discovered that the sleeve seams were lined with many heating patches. A maid who had served Shen Jiangli’s mother at the time also testified that Concubine Zou often came to the side courtyard and helped tend to that wool cloak. The stitching clearly showed signs of alteration—otherwise, the sewing wouldn't have been so inconsistent. After finding solid evidence, Shen Jiangli went to confront Lian Wantang again.
Seeing her schemes exposed, Lian Wantang had no choice but to present her own evidence and claim she had been threatened by Shen Qilan. Shen Qilan had secretly ordered her men to kidnap Lian Wantang’s mother and warned that if she didn’t follow instructions, she would never see her again. That’s why Lian Wantang had pushed all the blame onto Tian Xiaozhen at the ancestral hall.
Although Tian Xiaozhen did tamper with the bracelet, Lian Wantang hadn’t expected Concubine Zou to be even more malicious. Because of the heating patches, the poison’s potency had multiplied. To prevent Shen Qilan from ruining her plan again, Shen Jiangli deliberately made up an excuse, claiming that she had been exhausted lately by Lian Wantang and even said that Lian Wantang had her eyes on Lu Jingming, and she was planning to get rid of her.
Hearing this, Shen Qilan felt secretly pleased and naturally let her guard down. Shen Jiangli took advantage of that moment to return to her maiden home with the evidence and the witness—Lian Wantang. When her father saw the evidence regarding her mother’s death, he turned pale with fear but still tried to defend Concubine Zou, even going so far as to strike Shen Jiangli. At that critical moment, Lu Jingming arrived, right on time to stand up for his wife.
Just as Concubine Zou was about to be sent to the authorities, Shen Qilan showed up. She immediately argued that her mother knew nothing about it and that the person responsible was a maid who had died two years ago. Shen Qilan quickly signaled her mother, and the two began to act, but Shen Jiangli had seen every kind of scene before.
She calmly asked how Shen Qilan knew so many details and why she was going to such lengths for a mere maid. Realizing she had slipped, Shen Qilan fell silent. Not wanting to implicate her daughter, Concubine Zou confessed that it had indeed been her doing.
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