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The Lament of Autumn episode 18 recap: Luanzhou retaken
Sun Xuewu dies saving Yu Changxuan, Luanzhou is retaken, and Yu Changxuan is promoted, turns down a match with Tao Ziyi and snubs Ye Pingjun in public.
What happens in episode 18
Sun Xuewu is killed shielding Yu Changxuan and leaves a letter behind; the boy soldier Xiaobao blows himself up with a grenade to take the enemy with him. Gu Ruitong and Li Boren get Yu Changxuan out, and Luanzhou is retaken.
He is awarded first-class merit and made deputy commander of the Yu army. His brother-in-law Kuang Bingwen looks uneasy. At a family dinner he pushes back the marriage with Tao Ziyi, and before the memorial tablets of the dead he orders that his soldiers' letters reach their families.
At the opera house he coldly ignores Ye Pingjun in front of everyone.
Kuang Bingwen kills two officers who mocked him and sets a fire to cover it up. His wife Yu Jinxuan sees blood on his hands and stays cold. Hotel owner Jin Zhongfang talks with Yu Changxuan about what the war is for.
Why it matters
The war changes Yu Changxuan, and Kuang Bingwen's violence marks him as the danger inside the family.
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