Event Year: 2023

Maomao is taken to a mountain stronghold, where many of the secrets of the Shi clan are revealed to her.

The village holds a festival. Maomao attends, and Shisui introduces some of the village's history to her.

Maomao has been missing for ten days now. Jinshi's investigations lead him to a forgotten graveyard.

Suirei smuggles Maomao and Shisui out of the rear palace. Jinshi begins to search for Maomao.