Only two days after the Dowager Concubine had the poisoned medicine, she asks after the boy who came to visit Lu Zhen, and wonders whether if she should give the decree for them to get…. After all, if the Dowager gets a little bit sick, it’ll get Lu Zhen in trouble and Lu Xun and He Rei will be back in power. The powder is only some strong almond extract powder (which The Dowager Concubine is allergic too), it’ll only make her a little bit sick. If the Inner palace affairs comes and asks why in the 5 or 6 years she and Lu Xu has taken care of the Dowager Concubine, she has never been better, they would get punished. He Rei reasons that in the month or so Lu Zhen has been here, the Dowager Concubine has grown not only stronger but her old illness is fading. He Rei prepares some medicine for the Dowager Concubine and was about to slip in some mysterious powder when Lu Xu catches her in the act. He Rei (the other head maid) watches in jealousy. The Dowager Concubine favors Lu Zhen a lot, even giving her jewelry. Over the next few weeks, Lu Zhen takes care of the Dowager Concubine and the latter begans to gradually get better and stronger. Lu Zhen bribes Dan Niang with some honey chestnut candy and Dan Niang skips off, leaving Lu Zhen in contemplation. Dan Niang shakes her head and tells Lu Zhen, in all of Dynastic history, no maid has risen has fast has she has, jumping from 4th level to 2nd in mere days. Lu Zhen, unaccustom to the kind of respect Dan Niang has shown her, begs her to treat her as before. Gao Zhan had came to see the Dowager Concubine to ask her for permission, and after seeing him, the Dowager Concubine thought he was a nice boy.ĭan Niang takes Lu Zhen to her new room and bows to her. Once Lu Xu and the other girls leave, the Dowager Concubine tells Lu Zhen it’s okay for her to meet the boy.

To make sure that Lu Zhen doesn’t get bullied anymore, the dowager concubine raises Lu Zhen from a 3rd Level Palace Maid to a 2th Level Palace Maid, only a level below Lu Xun and He Rei, and almost equal in power. She’s on her knees begging for forgiveness. Lu Xu knows that by calling the owner of the cloak a bastard, she has comitted grave offense. She had asked Lu Zhen to take it out for an airing. The Dowager Concubine doesn’t bat an eye and says that this cloak belonged to the former emperor.

She shows the Dowager Concubine the cloak as evidence. She asks what’s going on and Lu Xu tells her that Lu Zhen has been meet with some bastard or another and must be hauled off. Lu Xu accuses her and tries to drag her to the inner palace affairs department ( like a justice bureau) when the Dowager Concubine comes out. Lu Zhen lies that no one was here (it’s forbidden for palace maids to talk to men, it’s acutally an offense punishable by death). Gao Zhan flees as the cloak falls off Lu Zhen’s shoulder. Lu Zhen agrees and says that she really likes the Dowager Concubine. He told her that he was going to move her out of the palace of isolation but then realized that it might put her in the war in the harem again. It’s such a quiet and sweet moment as he pulls it tighter for her. They walk and he takes his cloak and puts it on her. He’s shocked to know that she was sick and grabs her hand. She smiles happily when she sees him and asks why he hasn’t visited her when she was sick. Gao Zhan comes to visit her and sees her sighing. This pisses off the other two head maids, and the maid Lu Xu makes it clear that now she won’t be so kind to Lu Zhen. Lu Zhen is back with the Dowager Concubine, who is happy to see her and elevates her from the 4th Level maid to 3rd level maid. In the episode, the interaction between Chen Xiao and Zhao Li Ying practically sparked a fire on my new computer. As for Lu Zhen, she makes a difficult choice that she later regrets. Now I’ve seen it again, I feel like I totally missed the cute first part. So I completely brain farted on this episode when I saw it for the first time.

The girl who sees scents ep 9 recap