Yuwen Hui, the son of Yuwen Hu, the most powerful man in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, publicly kidnaps a woman. Dugu Jieluo and Yang Jian, who cannot stand to see injustice, chase after him to save the abducted woman.

Yuwen Hu hatches a plan to keep a rein on Dugu Xin and Yang Zhong's families who are becoming in-laws. Dugu Jieluo continues to be cold towards Yang Jiang.

When Yang Jiang's life is in danger, his father Yang Zhong and his brothers appear just in time to save him and Dugu Jieluo.

Yuwen Hu blackmails Dugo Xin into killing himself. However, when it does not seem to work, he takes matters into his own hands. Can Dugo Xin survive?

Dugu Jieluo voluntarily enters prison, joins her family and departs for exile with them. However, they are ambushed by a group of unknown men on their way.

Dokgo-gara plots to kill Woo Moon-ho, and Yang-gyeon secretly follows them to discover Dokgo-gara's whereabouts; when Dokgo Gara fails to kill Woo Mun-ho, Yang Gyeon is in danger, but Seo Tak rescues them.