Episode Title:
Water's Voice
Episode Description:
During dark, moonless nights, it is usual for Shouxue to sleep in tearing pain as she is unable to keep Niao Lian within her body. On that same night, after seeing Niao Lian flying in the sky, Feng Xiao Xue, a student of Master Feng Xiying, wanted to go to the inner palace. He promised to introduce him to a connection, not knowing that Xiao Xue has plans to kill the Raven Consort. Meanwhile, as she recovers from that night by teaching Yi Siha, her new stead, how to write, Gaojun gets suspicious about the reason why she forbade him from visiting that night, and asks Xue Yuyong about her. The next night, a court lady named An Huilan comes to ask Shouxue help about hearing voices from within the water, that of Xi Wanlin, dubbed the Magpie Princess, and the consort she once served who, on the day before the emperor is to visit her, she finds her slippers by the lake and assumed that she drowned in it, and that she started hearing the voices after being sent to the wash house as a laundry woman. After a little background investigation of her own, Shouxue visits Quechao Palace, and finds Huilan at the edge of the lake. She says that Huilan did not really like Wanlin because of what really happened: Huilan's lover, a young visiting bookseller, broke into her room, was arrested, and beheaded on the spot...
