ep 9 spoilers ahead

Alright this episode seems normal/fixed on viki.

1.Lu zhen seems to have become friends with...the emperor? Anyways, she is promoted to the rank of 2nd made to Madame Zhou. Jealous girls continue to conspire against her but she seems to be born to be lucky.

2.Not a whole lot happens in this episode other than the fact that Madame Zhou is dying and and Lu Zhen wants to help her but the powers that be are against her. Even her other mentor, who is allowing her to study her books, warns here there is no such thing as a good person in the palace

3. Madame Zhou's former fave sets up a show that requires a piece of flesh to help cure Madame Zhou and she is about to stab Lu Zhen when other maids intervene and call her out. the girl wielding the knife is made to submit her own flesh, and then sent to the dungeons to be tortured.

4.We learn that this 'savior' is part of a larger plot orchestrated by Madame Lou who is trying to seize more power from Madame Wang. She will use the incident to gain control over the isolated palaces.

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