The following is a semi recap plus review plus opinion on the specific episodes, emphasising more on the review than the recap. Spoilers alert and highly opinionated. Read at your peril.
HQG is one busy gal. She has to..
1. feed her shifu with her own blood
2. bottle up her blood by the bottle
3. cook for him
4. cook for herself, including drinking awful herbal supplements
5. deal with difficult people who makes her life hell like NMT and Mo Yan
6. dealing with being anemic I think, for the blood she had to bottle
7. find a way to get all magical items
8. persuade shifu to stop having death wish
9. deal with the emotional issues like shifu banishing her
10. frequent trip to ice bed, own bed, fainting, etc etc
And on top of that, she now has to wipe off people's memory, including her shifu's. Did I mention she also had to do the laundry?
How much more can someone take? For someone with the highest EQ of all like HQG, a lot more as we shall see.
Recap begins for a relatively short contents in this episode.
I did not banish Xiaogu because she is my fated calamity. I banished her because of my affection for her - BZH
Ok fans, this is the pivotal moment. All of you waiting and waiting for shifu to say I love you, well he is Prof Higgins and that is the best he could say. I believe at this point he is so affectionate towards her it is slowly blossoming into love but he doesn't realise it. He did observe she has been with her for 4 years and so she is no longer a child but now a woman. He recognises that and I believe this is the moment where perhaps his feelings may be different. But there were so many red herrings. I shall point them out as I go along, at the top of my head I can think of only 1 obvious one.
Before I begin, shifu's poisoned stated #5. Wow, 5 episodes already!
He looked terrible. Anyway recap!!