This post is for Joy Of Life Episode 3 Recap
- Fan Xian asks about the temple. It’s a holy temple, the same as everywhere else. Fan Xian enters the temple. He looks around and finds a girl hiding underneath the table. It’s Lin Wan Er, daughter of Minister Lin Ruo Fu.
Love at First Sight
- Fan Xian asks if she’s an assassin. She says no and he thinks she’s sent from the heavens. She leaves without giving her name but gives him the chicken leg she was holding. The party leaves before Fan Xian can chase after her.
The Emperor
- The guards clear the streets. Inside the carriage is the Emperor. Gong Dian, the Deputy Chief of the Imperial Guards apologizes for letting Fan Xian enter the temple. Other soldiers arrive and report on killing the females at Fan manor.
- Wan Er smiles inside her carriage after meeting someone interesting. Her maid hopes young master Fan is just as interesting. The Emperor has proposed for them to be married.
- Gong Dian talks with the Emperor about Fan Xian. He thinks the Emperor arranged for Fan Xian to be at the temple. The Emperor tells him to guess who planted the females. Gong Dian thinks it might be the Crown Prince. The Emperor also knows Gong Dian took a liking to the Crown Prince’s painting.
Fan Manor
- Fan Xian arrives at Fan manor. He’s to enter through the side door at the request of Lady Liu. He runs into Fan Si Zhe, his younger brother. Si Zhe tries to open the locked box.
- Fan Xian heads in to meet Liu Ru Yu. She’s sleeping and has told him to wait outside. Fan Xian agrees to wait.
- In the palace, Gong Dian meets with the Crown Prince and rips up his paintings. He no longer has interests. He returns the gift from the Crown Prince and tells him the Emperor met with Fan Xian.
- Fan Zhou sleeps outside. Lady Liu comes out to greet him. They talk “nicely” to each other. Si Zhe arrives and she leaves. He lectures Fan Xian and wants to teach him a lesson. He’s about to hit Fan Xian when he’s stopped by Ruo Ruo, their sister.
Ruo Ruo
- Ruo Ruo tells Si Zhe to kneel and lectures him. She hits his hands. After, he runs back to his mother, crying.
- Si Zhe tattles to his mother. He wants money to ease the pain. Lady Liu yells at him.
- Fan Xian heads to Ruo Ruo’s room. He takes a box to place the chicken leg. She tells him all the gifts in her room are from different ladies to get updates on Fan Xian’s Red Mansion story. Everyone loves his book and wants more. He tells Ruo Ruo the story is actually from a Mr. Cao.
- Gong Dian tells the Crown Prince they need to cut all ties. Being the security for the Emperor, it’d be wrong to be close to the Crown Prince. The outing to the temple was a test of Gong Dian and his loyalty to the Emperor.
- Ruo Ruo tells Fan Xian someone notified her his return date so she was able to come back in time. She’s always been in charge of Si Zhe so he’s extremely scared of her. Fan Xian thinks it might be Wu Zhu.
- Master Fan comes back and asks to see Fan Xian. Lady Liu wonders why he kept Fan Xian in Dan Zhou all these years.
- Fan Xian enters the library to see his father.
