Lost Track of Time 覆流年 Episode 5

When Lu Anran and Mu Chuan came out of the tavern, they encountered a girl, Dong Qing, who was forced to sell her body. Lu Anran did not want to see Dong Qing commit suicide, so she simply offered 5,000 taels of silver to redeem her. Although Lu Anran paid money to buy her, she also hoped that Dong qing would be free in the future to live her life. Dong qing insisted on following Lu Anran, and Lu Anran simply brought her into the Lu family for resettlement. After Lu Anran returned to the house, she arranged for Lingxi and Dongqing to get along well, and even applied medicine to Dong qing's wounds.

Lu Anran accidentally discovered the birthmark on Dong qing's arm and asked her about her background. Only then did she learn that Dong qing and her parents were lost when she was a child. Now her adoptive father was addicted to gambling and sold her into a brothel. Likewise, the heart grows on the right side. Lu Anran promised to help Dong qing find her family, and Dong qing was very moved to see the kindness of Lu Anran and Lingxi to her.

Although Lu Anran did not find any evidence that Liu Mingyu had murdered Mrs. Lu, she still arranged for Lingxi and Dong qing to find all the things placed by Mrs. Lu's aunt in Mrs. Lu's house. In the end, Lu Anran smashed the Guanyin statue to find the poison string hidden in it, and asked the doctor. It was only after knowing that this string had a substance that was in conflict with the warming and nourishing medicinal, that Lu Anran learned the truth that her mother had been seriously ill for many years.

On the night of the Huachao Festival, Lu Anran saw the children on the street rushing to set the river lanterns. She remembered her son Yu’er who died early in his previous life, so she also bought a rabbit lantern and put it into the river to pray for Yu’er. The ninth prince, Mu Chuan, also came to set it up. Deng, Lu Anran used the excuse that Yu'er was her rabbit pet and that he fell into the water and died, but she still prayed for Yu'er in her heart and hoped that he would have a smooth and safe next life. Mu Chuan put a river lantern to pray for his deceased mother, and Lu Anran comforted him with the words that Mu Chuan comforted her with in the previous life. Mu Chuan took Lu Anran's drunken words to heart, and even carved a rabbit for Yu'er, so he went back to the inn to get the rabbit and asked Lu Anran to wait patiently for him. While waiting, Lu Anran unexpectedly noticed that all the boats on the river were reserved by Mu Ze, and only then did she realize that everything that Mu Ze had done for her in the past was was set up by him. She finally realized she was just a chest piece in his game.

Lu Anran was looking for Mu Ze's figure on the street, and sure enough, she saw that he was discussing with Mr. Cai how to approach her and make her fall in love with him and use her affection to do whatever he wants her to do. Lu Anran didn't fully realize until this moment. From beginning to end, Mu Ze didn't have the slightest sincerity to her.  From the beginning of the encounter, it was a carefully designed scam. She finally knew Mu Ze never loved her. Instead of waiting for Mu Ze to calculate on another scheme, Lu Anran decided to take the initiative and meet Mu Ze according to the plot of the encounter in their previous life, and she also missed Mu Chuan who came to find her. When Mu Chuan saw Mu Ze and Lu Anran together he dropped the rabbit lantern and left. 

Although Lu Anran and Mu Ze were not attracted to each after they met again, Mu Ze still admired Lu Anran's talent on the ship. He thought that if Lu Anran's talent could be used for his purpose, ships and warships, the Great Han Warriors must be grateful. Seeing Mu Ze's thoughts, Lu Anran politely declined the proposal, which made Mu Ze helpless. Lu Anran and Mu Ze went to the Yuelao Temple to ask for the their fate.  Lu Anran asked for her future love's fate and every fate chip was positive and the same, she knew that it was set up and was using this to manipulated her. Seeing that he couldn't hide it from Lu Anran, Mu Ze simply admitted that he had come up with this strategy to make the beautiful woman happy. Lu Anran decided to satisfy Mu Ze's wish, decided to marry him as his wife, and accepted Mu Ze's jade pendant as a marriage promise, but Lu Anran also stated that she only had a covenant with Mu Ze and had no feelings. They will be married by name only with no love or romance involved. She agree to help Mu Ze as he wish.

Mu Chuan came to look for Mu Ze and asked him the purpose of coming to Su City. Mu Ze only explained that he was here for personal affairs, and also said that Mu Chuan was about to have a sister-in-law. Mu Chuan learned that the sister-in-law was Lu Anran, the direct daughter of the Lu family, and felt very disappointed. After leaving Mu Ze, he came to Tianbian to borrow wine to relieve his worries, and looked at the bracelet that was never given away.