A remarkable play

In this episode team flame takes a hit as one of its members is killed, team evil stages a great play to implicate Lei for Flame Lord's Death & tries to slander Ge'er's reputation; and Zhan Feng continues to illustrate that he is, if anything, a ruthless man who wants everything....but he can't have it all.

1)We open to Ge'er sitting and thinking of Yin Xue, because this time last year was when she had her dinner party in his villa and she got drunk and asked all those questions.  But times have changed.  Hueng Cong notifies her that Lei is in the area, so they begin to put their plan in action.  Phase 1--the set up--begins with Die Yi and Xun Yi collecting the medicine from Feng and openly discussing a trip into the city so that Ge'er may eat her favorite won tons.  Feng throws a curve ball by insisting that guards go with her.  Thus, at the won ton store, Lei sits down at her table however she has her guards send him away.  But it is the first contact and lets each other know, I presume, that they are not going to deceive the other.

2)Ge'er uses his illness as a cover to stay the night at the local inn.  Lei breaks inside, and she tells him she does not have much time before Feng lightly arrives to make her go back.  He tells her that he can prove his innocence, and he can do this by educating her on the proper use of the Quilin bomb.  She and Feng slip out to the mountains.

3)Back at the villa, Evil Housekeeper Li learns that Ge'er is staying the night in town.  He informs his soldiers to report that Lei will likely appear in town to meet with her.  They are to blow the town up with bombs, which would, he hope, kill Ge'er and Lei.  Meanwhile, Die Yi suddenly collapses on her way to collect the medicine that Feng has prepared (a servant sent her a message to collect it).

4)Back on the mountain, Lei digs up a couple of bombs he had buried and explains that the bomb can only be used if you pull the safety pin, however you must be far away from the bomb to do this, and it is a design flaw.  Hence, when they are normally used, a long line is created and the user then removes the pin from a safe distance.  Whoever used the bombs on her father would never have been inside to use them, they would have had to plant them in advance and multiple people would have had to been present to properly use the bombs and create an explosion that big.  Her father would have noticed that many people lingering outside.  Also, the floors of his rooms were coated in metal, which all but confirms that the bombs had to be planted on the floor.  He believes that someone who knew how to use the bombs used them after he died to dispose of the body---and evidence of how he was killed.  They then implicated his sect.  Just as he is about to demonstrate how they work, after giving her a bomb for her own as evidence, explosions shake the mountain.  They return to the town and find that there are collapsed buildings and fire.  Hueng finds her, and she leaves to return after thanking Lei and telling him to escape.

5)Meanwhile, Die Yi awakens in the guest house.  She is tied to a chair and Yi Li stands over her.  He tries to coerce her into talking, but it seems he has a seperate ulterior motive, one I never saw coming.  He admits that he has always wanted to 'try the girls' of Plum Court--and he becomes angry with her and wants to know why she likes a weak idiot like Zhongli--THE PLOT THICKENS--so it seems like Yi Li has a romantic inclination towards her?  He tells her she should come to his side, and if she doesn't, he will kill her and plants a bomb on her--oh and he also confesses to killing the Flame Lord and Die Yi says he will die a horrible death--these words are usually prophetic--and then the guest house is blown up.  

6)In a panic, Zhongli searches for Die Yi and encounters Li Yi and Feng (they just got into an argument, Feng is angry because of his actions but Li Yi accuses him of being blinded by the actions of Ge'er for love, and that she has betrayed them by meeting with Lei).  He wants to know where Die Yi is and Li Yi states that a maids body was found in the guest house, and that she is dead (IMPORTANT: So Die Yi is dead, we have no proof that it was her.  So my guess is she is alive, however or the purposes of plot, she is dead).  Zhongli accuses him of lying, and then turns to Feng and demands why he had to kill a maid who was uninvolved.  He leaves in tears.

7)Lei is cornered by Wu Xia and company.  Ge'er returns home and they learn that Di Yi is dead, shocking her.  Ge'er slaps Feng and wants to know why he killed a maid, and he blames Lei, however she accuses him of lying.  The Uncles all support Yi Li, and so she schedules a formal hearing to address these lies.  Yi Li goes the extra mile and invites all the important branch leaders, that is how confident he is.  Xun Li meanwhile cautions her not to admit she met with Lei because it will damage her relationship with the branch leaders but she says she must do this for Die Yi.

8)Yi Ling pleads his case first, and he really got creative.  He insists that he fought Lei at the Villa, after he planted the explosives that killed a maid, and believes he planted the explosives in town as well.  Ge'er challenges his story, and asks him three times if he is certain the man he fought was Lei, and he is.  Wu Xia then surprises her by bringing in an injured and tied up Lei,   Lei says that if they kill him, the real murderer will be laughing in the shadows.  Then Ge'er pleads her case, that Lei is innocent.  She informs them all that she met with Lei so it was impossible for Li Yi to have fought him.  Prepared, Li Yi brings in a terrified maid who after some coaxing testifies that she is Ge'er's personal maid and that the lady often confides in her; she was at home the entire night staring blankly out the window , sighing and repeating Lei's name because she is in love with him and is doing this all to protect him.  Ge'er is unruffled and even smiles....

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