Shao Zi will do anything to keep her beloved home safe, but that doesn’t mean everyone else in her life wants to see her sacrifice it all.

Ah, we can always count on Shao Zi to be as dense as a brick. I wish we could get more moments between her and the scholar, but Shao Zi’s tavern life wouldn’t be the same without all those other hijinks.

This chapter, we take a short breather from the central conflict and bring things back to Shao Zi and her scholar.

So I realized I made a big derp for the previous arc and was translating Yun Shang’s name wrong. It should actually be Yun Chang. The Chinese character (裳) has two pronunciations and I went with the latter, but I’m more certain now that…

The Chinese term people use when they want to pay respects or prostrate towards someone in order to form a master-disciple relationship is “拜師” (bài shī), which is a respectful term that literally means bow to the master. I wasn’t sure of the best…

In this section, we find out some more of the little snake demon and the dragon deity’s backstory. Shao Zi reacts hilariously at first, but goes into panic mode upon hearing the rest of the story. The scholar…reveals a rare flash of sensibility.

As we know by now, Yi Mei Tong Qian loves being cheeky with her writing. Here’s another bit of information about peonies that’s relevant in this chapter: The 藥 (yào) in 芍藥 (sháo yào), the Chinese word for peony, also means “medicine.” Eastern medicine…