This episode opens with a supernatural being celebrating that after a thousand years of cultivation it has finally taken human form—only to be stopped by a law: no supernatural beings after the founding of the nation. The scene cuts to two children, Xavier and Jenny, who proudly confess they poisoned their mother and assume she is dead. When the mother's hand twitches, panic erupts and someone shouts, "A ghost! She's a ghost!" The newly human creature finds the children and eyes them as a meal; their fate hangs unresolved as the threat closes in.
A chaotic household scene opens with a child beaten and accused of stealing money to buy meat; relatives drag two youngsters out to a remote dump. Mavis awakens to find she's the despised mother; Xavier pleads as others jeer. A divine voice orders Mavis to train among humans—to experience emotions and desires and endure life's eight sufferings as a trial for ascension. She grudgingly accepts the role, but returns to face villagers who accuse her of selling the children and shout 'traitor' and 'cripple'. Cornered and humiliated, she has no answer as the episode cuts to silence.
Two traffickers drag away a group of children, one pleading, "Father!" Mavis, who declares "I'm a mom now," sprints to stop them and tries to rescue Jenny. The traffickers taunt and threaten—"Keep crying and I'll kill you"—and accuse a woman of selling the children, escalating the confrontation. Jenny's fear and Mavis's anger intensify. Xavier is roused by the noise, groggy and angry, then confronts the kidnappers. He demands, "Let them go, or else I will make you regret it." The traffickers' response is left unresolved, leaving the children's fate uncertain.
A woman confronts a group and demands they release others; the men mock her and threaten retaliation. A live female tiger suddenly appears, terrifying the mob into pleading for mercy and scattering. Later, Jenny wakes and insists she saved them, but relatives accuse her of plotting and refuse to trust her. A scuffle breaks out when someone tries to seize Jenny's sister, and cries of "Father!" expose the family's wounded parent. The episode ends with a relative yelling, "You caused Father to end up like this. I'll kill you!", leaving Jenny facing an explicit threat.
In a tense household confrontation, Xavier menaces a woman, Mavis, accused of poisoning their crippled father, Leon, after a packet of rat poison is found. Relatives demand she explain the missing poison and insist she sell the children, Xavier and Jenny. Mavis protests she doesn't know them and pleads innocence while family members taunt her and move to seize the kids. Leon interrupts, saying the illness comes from poison inside him and that someone kept him alive, which complicates the accusation. The household fractures as plans to sell the children proceed and Mavis's fate remains unresolved.
Household confrontation opens when Mavis is shoved out and called a 'wretched girl' by a woman who orders her to leave and stay with 'that crippled loser.' Tension spikes as another person threatens the children—'Rather than let the children suffer... it's better to let them find peace with me today'—until Leon steps in: 'As long as I'm here, none of you will die!' The scene pivots when Father admits he's been poisoned and fears his trial will fail. Mother vows to find a doctor and insists she can save him, but others note Jenny is illiterate, leaving Father's fate uncertain.
A woman gives her breath to keep an ill father alive, draining her cultivation so his condition eases but leaving her weak. Mother insists on taking him to a bigger place for treatment but discovers the family is broke, so she vows to earn money by hunting mountain animals for their fur. She proves impressive archery, and the children notice her change. Meanwhile, someone reveals that David and his wife paid to ruin Mavis's reputation, offering three oxen as payment. As the family prepares to hunt and face a smear plot, a visitor returns asking, "Did you miss me?"
Hanson returns to a street confrontation with Mavis. He greets her—"Did you miss me?"—but Mavis and a companion taunt him, step on his foot and call someone a "crippled bastard," while boasting that Mavis's husband, Leon, is superior. Hanson offers to escort her home; she refuses. The scene escalates as onlookers attack Hanson's appearance, scolding him for wearing a mask and calling his face "disgusting." Tension erupts when a bystander suddenly shouts, "Miss, run!" The episode ends on that urgent warning, leaving Mavis exposed and the immediate threat unresolved.
When a bear attacks a hamlet, villagers shout 'Miss, run!' and accuse an herb gatherer of wrecking the bear’s cave. A woman who can talk to bears intervenes, convincing the bear to spare the accused if she finds it a new lair; she is given directions: two kilometers southeast, behind the waterfall. Onlookers discover her gift and a man introduces himself, saying, 'I am the renowned Master Healer,' then asks her to treat a long-poisoned patient she saved. As they set off together, a crowd turns on someone else—repeating 'ugly freak, get out'—leaving that person driven from the village.
Bullied, Xavier is jeered as an "ugly freak" and accused of stealing fish. A woman intervenes, forces the accusers to confess they framed him, names him "Xavier," and vows to protect him; she tells him to be confident and that he's part of her group. Then a man calling himself the Master Healer says he was saved by Xavier's mother and can treat Xavier's father's legs. He insists on repaying the favor and goes to examine the father. The episode ends with the family pleading, "Father, please don't die!"