Nirvana in Fire Rewatch Episode Twenty-Four
MCS and Jingyan pledge to each other to investigate the Chiyan case.
The palace bell rings to announce the passing of great-grandmother. MCS collapses.
The CP is eating at the vigil when he should be fasting. When Prince Yu catches him, CP offers him some and he accepts. This emboldens other princes, but Jingyan refuses. The ministers observe and comment on it.
Nihuang returns to the capital and comes to MCS. There are emotions. (I yell at him to kiss her, but he doesn't. This happens a lot.)
Xie Yu is released from prison into exile. His family come to see him off and bribe his guards for a chance to talk. Liyang passes a message from MCS to write a letter detailing what he knows about the Chiyan case and leave it with her. He does so publicly and Liyang takes it without reading it.
The prince with no ambition and Nihuang go to keep vigil at great-grandmother's tomb for a year.
Jingyan visits MCS. They have been discussing military supply chains. Jingyan almost recognises him as Lin Shu.
Xia Dong nearly kills Xie Yu as he's leaving, but Jingrui stops her.
At Gao Zhan's suggestion, the Emperor visits Jing-fei for her birthday and brings extra presents. He finds Jingyan there. Jingyan and his mother work together to get a pardon for an old teacher of hers.
MCS calls himself Su-mou when pledging to Jingyan, 'mou' being a humble way of referring to yourself. I would like to note I heard this without any help from subtitles.
Jingyan, MCS and Nihuang all call great-grandmother tai-nainai during this episode, which is the common word without any imperial title.
Jingyan calls Prince Ning san-ge; Prince Ning calls his brothers by their names, including the CP who's older than him.
Nihuang says Lin-bobo for Lin Shu's father.
MCS makes a half-hearted attempt to talk Jingyan out of investigating the Chiyan case, knowing full well it won't work.
MCS hoped that he'd be able to reveal his identity to his great-grandmother before she died.
Fei Liu is trying origami and failing.
MCS actually talks! about! his feelings! to Nihuang. He even lets his guard down enough to mention the fire and ice of the poison, which is something he almost never talks about. He was doing so well... and then he started back on "I'll get distracted if people are close to me".
Xie Yu tells his son Xie Bi to look after his mother, but has no other words for him, and nothing for Jingrui. His children really are an afterthought to him.
MCS kowtows to Jingyan when he pledges to him; JIngyan kowtows in return. The first is fairly normal, the second is very much not.
27 bells are rung for the death of a dowager empress.
Everyone in the palace wears white headbands during the mourning period. The emperor and the princes wear white headbands and sleeveless white robes over their usual silks.
The mourning period means Nihuang doesn't have to fear any renewed attempts at marriage.
There was a general amnesty for criminals after great-grandmother's death, which helped Xie Yu get his sentence reduced from death to exile. However the amnesty doesn't apply to certain crimes, such as the guy who violated imperial naming taboo in the imperial examinations and got exiled over it along with his father (who was Jing-fei's teacher in her youth).
By the end of the episode it's summer.
Xie Yu was exiled somewhere called Qianzhou, which is cold. The naming taboo guy was exiled to Lingnan.
