This episode focuses on the Gu family's internal power struggle. Old Mrs. Gu attempts to morally coerce Gu Nuannuan, invoking the principle of an elder sister being like a mother, urging her to yield to her stepsister, Gu Xiangyan. The reborn Gu Nuannuan (in her childhood form) turns the tables, using her grandmother's own words to reclaim the property that was usurped, leaving her grandmother and servants speechless. Enraged, Old Mrs. Gu forcibly strips Su Minlan (Gu Nuannuan's mother) of her authority to manage the household. Gu Nuannuan outwardly complies but inwardly launches a sharp counterattack by publicly pointing out her grandmother's illiteracy and ignorance of capital city customs, warning that if she were to manage the household, her father, Gu Wu, would become a laughingstock.
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