Nancheng Banquet Episode 7 Recap
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Xiao Qiang Zi returned to his room late at night, and Yan Zhangyun questioned him about his late return. Xiao Qiang Zi said that the Emperor had been personally teaching martial arts recently, and he believed that with diligent practice, he would be able to defeat Yan Zhangyun in a few days.
Yan Zhangyun suspected the Emperor's intentions and still doubted Xiao Qiang Zi's identity. He used Xiao Qiang Zi's martial arts to probe his own identity. As expected, a few days later, the Emperor asked Xiao Qiang Zi to spar with Yan Zhangyun, using the Qin family's techniques that Yan Zhangyun had practiced with the Emperor as a child.
Yan Zhangyun guessed the Emperor's intentions and deliberately did not avoid Xiao Qiang Zi's moves, resulting in being injured on the spot. The Emperor insisted on taking care of Yan Zhangyun and checked the wound on his chest. Not seeing any old wounds on Yan Zhangyun's chest, he left with half-belief.
When everyone left, A Cheng felt that Yan Zhangyun's martial arts should not have been injured at all. At this moment, Yan Zhangyun tore off the old skin covering the wound, luckily having prepared in advance to evade the Emperor's scrutiny.
On the way back to the palace, the Emperor recalled how he was forcibly given the imperial seal by others when he was a child, leading to the massacre of his friend Qin Yan's family. Whenever he thought of Qin Yan, he felt guilty.
Xiao Qiang Zi apologized to Yan Zhangyun for injuring him in the spar, blaming himself for being too eager to win, which led to hurting him. He promised to take good care of him in the future and not leave his side. The Empress decided to transfer Xiao Qiang Zi to her side to attract the Emperor's attention, but Yan Zhangyun, with his stubborn temper, was worried about letting him go.
Yan Zhangyun was in a bad mood, and the Empress did not directly explain her intentions but instead pretended to visit him for his injury. When she saw the opportunity, she pretended that there was a shortage of manpower and wanted to borrow Xiao Qiang Zi.
On the way back, the Empress did not expect that Yan Zhangyun not only agreed but also immediately threw Xiao Qiang Zi's luggage out. Xiao Qiang Zi, knowing that he had offended the Empress before, flattered her to save himself. The Empress was pleased and asked Xiao Qiang Zi to write a hundred secrets that would please the Emperor overnight.
The next day, the Empress, holding a thick stack of secrets, immediately tested one of them. However, the maidservant beside her did not trust Xiao Qiang Zi, so the Empress ordered Xiao Qiang Zi to use this secret on Yan Zhangyun first. Soon, Xiao Qiang Zi, with a gentle demeanor, approached Yan Zhangyun, who directly refused him. Seeing the failure, the Empress had to test whether the next secret was effective.
Xiao Qiang Zi, with meaningful eyes, picked up a dagger and begged the Empress to spare him repeatedly. Xiao Qiang Zi, with a crying face, showed his injured arm to Yan Zhangyun, hoping to be transferred back to the Qianyu Guard. Yan Zhangyun, seeing the wound from a distance, felt heartache, but sternly rejected him. Xiao Qiang Zi, feeling sad, returned to the Feng Palace, expressing that he no longer had Yan Zhangyun's favor.
The Empress, seeing the failure of the secrets, ordered Xiao Qiang Zi to be tortured. Xiao Qiang Zi was held down by everyone, with feathers touching the soles of his feet, and he laughed heartily all day. That night, Xiao Qiang Zi lay still on the bed, and his comrades came to visit with white flowers. Wei Tianjiao said that Xiao Qiang Zi liked silver rather than white flowers.
Xiao Qiang Zi blew the jade whistle a few times, then sadly threw it away, expressing that he would no longer trust Yan Zhangyun. In the middle of the night, Yan Zhangyun came to Xiao Qiang Zi's room to bandage his wound but found that it was a fake wound, angrily leaving. When Xiao Qiang Zi woke up and found that the wound had faded, he was urged by the maidservant beside the Empress to go to work.
To avoid going to the Empress's side, Xiao Qiang Zi deliberately wrote a farewell letter and placed it conspicuously on Yan Zhangyun's desk, but it was buried at the bottom by Chang Sheng's books. Xiao Qiang Zi deliberately walked slowly, hoping that Yan Zhangyun and his comrades would come to stop him. But when he reached the last palace gate and still saw no one coming, he was disappointed.
Just as he was disappointed, Chang Sheng caught up, and Xiao Qiang Zi mistakenly thought he was coming to stop him, but Chang Sheng was there to interrogate a prisoner. Xiao Qiang Zi was stunned. Since joining the Qianyu Guard, he had always been taken care of by Yan Zhangyun, but he didn't expect Yan Zhangyun to be so heartless. If he wished to leave, Xiao Qiang Zi would fulfill his wish and left the palace alone.
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