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The Legend of Zhuohua (2023) 灼灼风流 Episode 20 Recap & Review
Episode 20: Mu Zhuohua becomes a doctor in the Ministry of Rites
Teacher Shang asked Mu Zhuohua if she really liked Liu Yan. Mu Zhuohua admitted but she couldn’t like Liu Yan. Because she had a bumpy road along the way, and she had to endure a lot of hardships to get here. She was afraid that because she fell in love with King Ding, all this would be in vain.
Teacher Shang told her that if a woman loves someone, she must abandon herself. This is the fault of the world, not her fault. Mu Zhuohua is clear in her heart, but she can’t change the status quo, she should bury her feelings for Liu Yan in her heart. Before Mu Zhuohua left, he told Mr. Shang that if he was unhappy, he would go to Dingjing to find her, and she would definitely honor him. Teacher Shang told her that being an official is honoring him.
Liu Yan asked Mu Zhuohua to go first, he had something to say to Mr. Shang, and Mr. Shang happened to have something to say to Liu Yan. He felt that Liu Yan’s affection for Mu Zhuohua would be lucky if he put it on someone else, but it was mostly fetters on Mu Zhuohua.
Liu Yan knows in his heart that Mu Zhuohua has a bright moon in his heart, and he will see the sun for Mu Zhuohua. He promised Teacher Shang that he would not let Mu Zhuohua stagnate because of him. He was lucky to meet Mu Zhuohua in his life, and he would not expect too much. Teacher Shang was very happy to hear Liu Yan say this, and he thought Liu Yan was very good. Mu Zhuohua followed behind Liu Yan, she raised her hand behind Liu Yan’s head, looking very happy at the two people in the shadow.
Just as Liu Yan was about to pull Mu Zhuohua’s hand, she ran over with a sword and interrupted the two of them. Seeing that someone saw Mu Zhuohua, she ran away shyly. Zhuang Wenfeng was detained and returned to Dingjing, and the people threw rotten leaves at him when they saw him along the way. The people took out presents to the princess one after another, and Liu Chen was by his side to let her accept them.
Seeing this scene, Mu Zhuohua was very relieved that Zhuang Wenfeng was also arrested. Shen Jinghong told Mu Zhuohua why Zhuang Wenfeng became this official. He felt that Zhuang Wenfeng’s arrest might not be the end but the beginning. Mrs. Zhuang watched her son being escorted back to Dingjing, and she punched and kicked Mu’s son again.
Lao Ba blamed all this on Mu Zhuohua, she thought how could she be an official and bully others, but she ended up like this. She knew that Mu Zhuohua was the Zhuang family’s escaped concubine, and that she had changed Geng Tie, so she wanted to go to Dingjing to report on Mu Zhuohua. Mu Zhuohua returned home with her mother’s ashes, she saw that the house where Prince Ding lived was her mother’s former home, recalling the scene when her mother was there, she burst into tears.
Zhimo came to find Guo Juli, and he brought delicious food to Juli. Juli saw Zhimo whom she hadn’t seen for a long time, and she pulled Zhimo to ask questions. The two were talking and laughing together eating dessert, Zhi Jian saw it and asked Zhi Mo if he didn’t like sweets.
Mu Zhuohua learned from Guo Juli that Liu Yan had been impeached for leaving Dingjing to go to Jiangnan. She boldly met with His Majesty Liu Ju to express her thoughts. Liu Ju told her that he blocked all the impeachment memorials just because he knew Liu Yan’s character. The eldest son of the Mu family beat the Dengwen drum. After hearing this, Liu Ju thought that this person would rather suffer thirty punishments than complain. It seemed to be a great injustice. Liu Ju met with the eighth daughter of the Mu family.
She reported on Zhuang Wenfeng and Zhuang Zixian in the lobby, and took out a book of evidence to tell their evidence. After speaking, she fainted. Zhuang Zixian still felt that he was unjustly accused and His Majesty refused to listen to him and sentenced him and Zhuang Wenfeng to death.
He also rewarded the eighth son of the Mu family, and named Mu Zhuohua a doctor in the household department and Shen Jinghong a doctor in the official department. Princess Roujia also received a reward, which she exchanged for rice and used it in Jishan Hall. Mu Zhuohua was very grateful to Liu Yan for her achievements today, and Liu Yan told her that this was all the result of her own efforts.
Liu Yan discovered that Mu Zhuohua and her eighth sister had colluded for a long time. Mu Zhuohua asked him if he blamed himself for not telling him in advance. Liu Yan told her that she could just decide some things by herself, and there was no need to tell him everything. Mu Zhuohua came to visit her eighth sister, and she told her eighth sister that she would no longer have to rely on others to survive.
