Yanxing's Ascending Path of Revenge - Episode 5

Courtesans wake to a sudden rule: all official girls must serve returning soldiers starting tomorrow, threatening Yanxing’s chance to leave. Nanny Pan urges escape but secretly drugs Yanxing and reveals a different plan: the other girls will stage a mutiny and report the riot in Yanxing’s name. They provoke the soldiers and sacrifice themselves so Yanxing can live to pursue justice. A palace envoy, claiming to be Pan’s friend, brings Yanxing forward as a rewarded guest, but the emperor is ill. Yanxing insists she must see him tonight—"Do you have an idea?"