After being reborn, Jiang Yao rises from a palace maid in the Yongxiang to take revenge, exposing the truth that Shen Jundu and his cousin Shen Linlang joined forces to use her and Empress Pei Yun as scapegoats.
She allies with Pei Yun and carefully brings Shen Linlang down, ultimately leaving her to die of illness in the Cold Palace.
Jiang Yao poisons Shen Jundu over a long period. Only on his deathbed does he learn the truth. After he dies, Jiang Yao helps her father clear his name, then lives in seclusion at a temple, using secret incantations to condemn Shen Jundu to eternal hell and repay the blood debt for her three children.
Theme: Better to risk everything than suffer in silence
