The episode opens with Yang Xiao's sister, Yang Xi, desperately begging the creditor Zhou Jianliang to spare her brother, who has been apprehended for owing a massive sum of usurious debt. Zhou Jianliang not only reveals that the principal of ten thousand taels has ballooned to one hundred thousand taels due to exorbitant interest, but also cruelly forces Yang Xi to change into a humiliating sheer garment in public for his amusement. Just as Yang Xi is about to succumb to save her brother, Yang Xiao, who had appeared listless until now, suddenly intervenes. He angrily stops Zhou Jianliang and his men, displaying his determination to protect his sister and his hidden dominance, setting the stage for an imminent conflict.
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