- At the banquet, they suggest for MC to have reading companions. Her dad lets her choose people. Uncle system tells to to avoid the candidates that were proposed by the reborn protag (who is her dad's cousin I think, he has the title of wang). Uncle system tells her that he is bad and will hurt her daddy, so she ignores them and chooses other little dumplings to be her friends. One of them gives her a love token and he gets glared at by her dad.
- Og storyline is unclear because of MTL, but I think that there was a rebellion and dad got the throne, but his uncle and cousin was not happy. In the og life, they cultivated a woman to suit the emperor, get close to him and use her to set his palace on fire. But he managed to escape and three years later returned and killed a lot of people, especially the concubines. The og protagonist also died in the bloodbath. Dad emperor started a reign of terror. Now reborn protag wants to change his death. Seeing that the kids he wanted MC to chose were not chosen, he gifts MC 2 jade rabbit sculptures. MC says he is a bad uncle and repeatedly warns her dad to stay away from him. Palace staff are constantly in awe of how MC talks to her had lol. Dad gets the sculptures tested, and find that there is a poison in them that makes people crazy and confused, losing their minds. So dad arrests the cousin and his dad, locks them up. No one tells MC though.
- MC is going to classes with her 5 companions and the teacher is a famous scholar. Except he is getting frustrated because MC keeps sleeping in his class. After 3 days of sleeping, he tells the emperor. Her dumpling companions are worried for her, what if the emperor gets mad and doese't like MC anymore? She is so cute they cannot bear for her to have any suffering. One boy tells a story that he heard, how this couple adopted a son but after 2 years they had a real son and the adopted son became worse than a slave. The boys are very distressed. One says that if the emperor disowns the MC, he will take her back to his family as his little sister. They argue over who will keep her. They run after the messenger boy who deliver the news to the emperor, to try to stop him. Dad emperor hears the news and goes to the place, sees the boys squatting outside and they beg the emperor for mercy for MC she's still a baby. Emperor comes and tells the teacher that if he doesn't like MC sleeping in class he can leave. Teacher decides to stay to prove to emperor. He also rewards the little boys. After that MC is attentive in class and teacher is very impressed with her.
- Later the boys invite MC out to the markets. MC invites her dad and the boys are like . Dad carries her on his shoulders and she says that she's the tallest person alive.
- Later her dad regrets letting her choose her own companions cause they are all boys. He should have juts picked a bunch of girls. He also has a dream about the past life where he was injured in the fire and kills a lot of people a revenge. But he wakes up and sees MC and ignores it.
Oh also I forgot to mention for the ending first arc, it goes back to the og story line where MC wasn't there. Og story line was that Luo grandpa died in a car crash and Luo mother committed suicide and their family went bankrupt. Then LS (dad) left for 5 years or something, came back and destroyed the three major families that schemed against his family, resulting in economic crisis and a lot of jobs and lives lost. LS was captured by the original protag (Mu Bai) but it was part of LS's plan, and he killed the protag and escaped too. It flashes back to this storyline, where LS is still creating a mess of things. He has this feeling, a premonition and sees a scene of MC calling him daddy. He then sends a letter with evidence to the police about the three major families and showing how corrupt they are and what they did. Now everyone knows that they were the cause of the Luo family demise and he is just getting revenge. He also says that he is going to look for his daughter. Then he dissapears. But people are like, when did you have a daughter??