Subtitles by DramaFever
[Perfect Couple]
Episode Forty-Three
This is all my fault.
I've dragged everyone into this.
This is all my fault.
I couldn't take care of my mothers and Qi Ling.
Don't worry, as long as we're alive, there is still hope.
You will be all right.
Yuan Bao is right.
Our family is here together...
Yuan Bao, go and get some medicine.
Yes.
Mother.
Mother...
- Did you manage to steal the medicine? - I got it.
This is great.
Did anyone try to stop you on the way?
They were all discussing about the next step to take.
No one was bothered about keeping an eye on me.
Thank goodness that the gods are watching over us.
Thank goodness.
Ah Fu isn't destined to die young.
Luckily, Ah Fu wasn't stabbed too deeply.
I didn't expect that jerk, Liu We Zhao, to be such an ungrateful bastard.
I curse him.
I curse him that no one takes care of him when he is ill
and no one cares when he is dead.
The gods will punish him. He'll suffer the consequences one day.
That rascal Liu Wen Zhao.
He will definitely suffer.
Buddha, please watch over Young Master and keep him safe
so that he could return to the manor to rid us of these monsters.
Auntie Wang in charge of the kitchen came to me for poison.
She wants to poison the meals.
She wants to poison the jerk Liu Wen Zhao to death.
Why didn't you give it to her?
I don't have it with me.
It's such a pity that my herbs have all gone to waste.
Liu Wen Zhao has destroyed all of them.
Auntie Wang even told me to give her any random drugs.
Even if it's that porridge we served on Madam Jin's birthday.
Please spare us, Housekeeper Liu!
Please spare us, Housekeeper Liu...
- Please spare us, Housekeeper Liu... - Shush!
Look at me.
Look at me!
What did you just address me as?
Please spare us, Master Liu!
Bandage my wounds right away.
Get lost.
Get lost!
Here, feed this medicine to Mother.
- That animal, Liu Wen Zhao - Mother.
is just a weakling putting on a bold front.
He locked us up in the manor
and tortured us for so many days.
Now that we have escaped
he'd definitely try to seek audience in the imperial palace
with Empress Dowager to rat us all out.
He will expose the secrets of Qi Ling marrying in Xiao Xuan's stead
as well as Yuan Bao's legitimacy.
We mustn't sit around doing nothing.
We have to try to seek audience in the imperial palace.
But Liu Wen Zhao is telling the truth.
What could we do about that?
So what if that is the truth?
For the past twenty years, I've managed Bureau of Weaponry for Empress Dowager.
I've been loyal and faithful.
I've never made a single mistake.
I believe that Empress Dowager will at least take that into account.
But this sort of crime that has deceived the emperor
won't be overlooked completely.
I could only try my luck at this.
I hope that Empress Dowager could see through Liu Wen Zhao's ambition.
The Crown Prince is about to take the throne.
As long as Empress Dowager still has the need for Jin family
there's still hope for us.
Mother, although the will of the emperor can't be anticipated
as long as Crown Prince inherits the throne successfully
we can still take a chance.
No matter what, the Empress Dowager is still my aunt.
She's spent so many years in the palace.
I'm the only family that she has left to handle matters for her.
Could she not trust me?
We'll see what she decides to do in the end.
We won't know the outcome of our visit to the palace.
Her Highness might let Jin manor off the hook
but she might also kill us all.
Since I started this
I will seek audience in the palace on my own.
All of you must stay in hiding.
At least then, the bloodline of Jin family can continue.
No, I'm the culprit behind the fake marriage.
I should take full responsibility for everything that has happened.
You must not be the scapegoat.
- No, Qi Ling... - Mother.
Don't say such words anymore.
We'd never abandon you.
I understand.
I understand what Madam Jin means.
My Lady, I hand her over to you.
Mother!
- Mother! - Mother!
Mother...
- Mother, are you all right? - Are you all right, Mother?
Mother!
I'm all right...
I'm all right.
Fortunately, we managed to escape.
I haven't...
I haven't been a burden.
It seems that I can't hold on much longer.
- Mother... - Mother...
Hui Lan! Hui Lan, I've failed you.
I ruined your life.
No, My Lady...
Please don't say that.
After I left the manor
I adopted Qi Ling.
I watched Qi Ling grow up day by day.
I thought to myself
I thought to myself that my Yuan Bao is by your side
and he must be growing up healthily.
I know that you're a forgiving person.
When I was in the manor
you'd never made things difficult for me.
I knew that you'd treat Yuan Bao kindly.
Later on... I met Yuan Bao.
You brought him up so well.
He's so outstanding.
You gave him the best of everything.
I'm grateful to you, My Lady.
I'm truly grateful to you.
I...
I've failed you.
My Lady, you haven't failed me.
I thank you.
Thank you...
Mother, that's enough.
Qi Ling...
Mother.
Mother...
You must... keep your husband company from now on...
Be filial to your mother-in-law...
Yuan Bao's mother is your mother.
Madam Jin is Yuan Bao's real mother.
Mother, I will.
Hui Lan, I, Liu Ru Yue, swear to you
that as long as I shall live
I'll protect these two children for you.
I swear!
Mother, stop talking...
Mother...
Yuan Bao, I can't be with you anymore.
I really... can't be with you anymore...
That won't happen.
Mother!
- Mother! - Hui Lan!
Hui Lan!
Mother!
- Mother! - Mother!
Mother!
Mother...
I'm sorry.
I should have reunited with you sooner.
I'm sorry...
- Your Highness. - Forgo formalities.
You may all leave the room.
What do you have to report in the middle of the night?
I hope that whatever news you have was worth getting me up at midnight.
It's definitely worth it.
Say it.
Jin Yuan Bao is the son of General Jin's concubine.
He's not Madam Jin's son
So Madam Jin has lied about his legitimacy.
As for the young mistress of Jin manor, Jiang Xiao Xuan
was impersonated by a peasant girl from the wilderness.
Her real name is Yu Qi Ling.
The real Jiang Xiao Xuan escaped from the marriage and is still out there.
Although Madam Jin and Jin Yuan Bao knew about Yu Qi Ling's true identity
they covered up for her when they were summoned to Empress Dowager.
They had committed lese-majesty.
Is this all true?
Do you have any evidence?
How would I dare to report this to you
without any solid evidence for such an accusation?
Great. No wonder for the past six months
there has been commotions about filing for divorce, taking concubines
running away from home and begging for a cure.
It has been very hectic.
It seems that I should be grateful to Jin Yuan Bao for being a hopeless romantic.
And also Madam Jin.
The stupid woman who brought up someone's son as her own.
With these two counts of crime in my hands
I wouldn't have to worry that
they won't hand over the Bureau of Weaponry.
You rushed to inform me of such a huge secret late at night.
You must be after something.
Go on, tell me what you want.
Honestly, Your Highness
I will seek audience with Empress Dowager tomorrow morning.
I'll disclose the lese-majesty that Madam Jin and her son committed.
But Empress Dowager and Madam Jin are very close as aunt and niece.
If she should sympathize with them
and decides to silence me
I hope that Your Highness could help me.
That's true.
Empress Dowager's reaction is indeed unpredictable.
You want me to help you...
But what do I get to gain from that?
If I'm killed
all the moles that I've planted in the Bureau of Weaponry
would never be known to others.
Master Liu.
I haven't seen you for a couple of days and
you seem to be doing things impeccably flawless now.
I'm not very talented.
This is just a step that I took for fear of losing my life.
Fine.
I agree to it.
When we were at E-Mei Mountain
she even killed the only hen that laid eggs
to make chicken broth for me.
[Deceased Mother, Jin Hui Lan, nee Wang]
I even suspected that the broth was poisoned.
Your mother is a remarkable woman.
Her love was as clear as spring water
that never ceases to flow.
I'm nothing like her.
Let's go.
Let's go to the imperial palace.
We'll seek audience with Empress Dowager.
We still have a lot more to do.
Isn't that Jin family's young master?
What's happened to him?
He used to be in luxurious clothes and ride white horses.
Madam Jin, Young Mistress, and Jin Yuan Bao.
What are they doing?
How would I know?
Your Highness, Liu Wen Zhao asks to seek audience with you.
Liu Wen Zhao asks to seek audience with me?
Did he say what it is for?
He said that it is an extremely important matter.
He has to seek audience with you.
What important matter could he possibly have to report?
Could it be that Jin manor...
Lu Song, give orders to let him in.
Yes.
- Go away. - You're not allowed in!
How dare a beggar come here?
Are you tired of living?
Jin Yuan Bao, son of the deceased General of the Empire, Jin Da Tong
is here with my mother and wife to seek audience with Empress Dowager.
You?
Jin Yuan Bao? Madam Jin? Daughter of the Prime Minister?
Are you insane?
Can you prove it?
The three of us ran into mishaps along the way here.
I only have the detective's seal to prove my identity.
You wish to see Empress Dowager with the proof of a detective's seal?
I'm the Capital's best detective, Jin Yuan Bao.
Empress Dowager Liu is my grandaunt.
Deceased General of the Empire General Jin is my father.
My mother, Madam Jin is the niece of Empress Dowager Liu.
We're ordered by the Imperial Court to manage Bureau of Weaponry.
We're here to seek justice with the help of Empress Dowager.
Please let us in, Sirs.
I'm the widow of General Jin Da Tong Imperial Mandate Lady, Madam Jin.
I am here to seek audience with Empress Dowager.
Please inform her of our request.
Look at how poorly dressed you are.
Now that you're standing here, you said that you're Imperial Mandate Lady
and you're the young master.
How could we believe in you?
Sir, if you have any doubts
the three of us won't insist that you let us in.
We'll just keep on waiting here.
But as far as I know
Empress Dowager Liu always heads out to the temple to pray
on the first and the fifteenth day of the month.
Her maid in waiting, Miss Lu Song prepares her imperial gown
on the third day of every month.
Today is the twenty-eighth.
We can keep on waiting.
But this matter concerns the Bureau of Weaponry
could you both bear the consequences of this delay?
You know Miss Lu Song?
Of course I do.
Auntie Lu Song is the best in needlework.
Since I was little, she has made me all of my socks and shoes.
Why don't you ask her to come out here?
She will know right away if we are who we say we are.
But pardon me for being frank
your rank isn't high enough to ask Auntie Lu Song out here.
How about this? Fat Zhang was offered to Empress Dowager by my mother.
He brings snacks to Her Highness.
Why don't you ask him out here? He can prove our identities as well.
All right, wait out here.
I'll go and notify him.
Please do.
Grand nephew, Liu Wen Zhao, greets Empress Dowager!
I wish you great health and longevity!
- You may rise. - Thank you, Your Highness.
You're here very early in the morning. What is the matter?
Forgive my boldness in disturbing your tranquility.
I really have an important matter to report to you.
Your Highness, the guards at the front gate reported that
some people who claimed that they are Madam Jin and her family
are here to seek audience with you in regards to an urgent matter.
The mannerisms are right, he also knows my name.
It's just that they are shabbily dressed and came without servants.
He only has a seal with him.
That seems suspicious.
Show me the seal.
This is made with the agarwood that I gave to Yuan Bao.
It's as I had expected.
Something serious must have happened in Jin manor.
Show them in.
Yes, Your Highness.
Your Highness, I am here to report to you...
Is it about Jin family?
Yes, Your Highness.
You can talk about it later when they get here.
What has gone wrong?
Your Highness, the three of them had committed lese-majesty.
Please allow me to report the details to you.
Your Highness, you have always doted on Madam Jin and Jin Yuan Bao.
Sadly, Madam Jin was audacious
and deceived Empress Dowager on two accounts.
Firstly, Jin Yuan Bao isn't Madam Jin's biological son.
This so-called young mistress of Jin manor, Jiang Xiao Xuan
daughter of the Prime Minister
isn't the real Jiang Xiao Xuan.
The young master of Jin manor, Jin Yuan Bao
is actually the son of General Jin and his concubine, Wang Hui Lan.
Because Madam Jin couldn't have children
she robbed the mother of her child and drove her away.
She then lied to say that Jin Yuan Bao is her legitimate child.
This is obviously lese-majesty.
Moreover, this young mistress of Jin manor
is just a peasant woman who took on a false identity.
She is actually called Yu Qi Ling.
She is the adopted daughter of Jin Yuan Bao's biological mother.
The real Jiang Xiao Xuan escaped the marriage and is still out there.
Madam Jin and Jin Yuan Bao are aware of Yu Qi Ling's true identity.
But they have kept it a secret.
Therefore, Madam Jin, Jin Yuan Bao, and Yu Qi Ling have all kept the secret
so as to hold the power of the Imperial Court in their hands
as well as its important assets.
Liu Ru Yue.
Has Liu Wen Zhao told the truth?
All that he said is the truth.
What audacity!
Your Highness, I'm willing to bear the consequences for my mother.
Jin Yuan Bao, it turns out that you're not my grand-nephew.
Your Highness, whether I am your blood or not
I'll always respect you as my elder
and be grateful for your lovingness.
At the same time, I'm grateful that you bestowed marriage to me.
Otherwise, I wouldn't have met Qi Ling.
Everything that they have done was for my sake.
Allow me to take the punishments for them!
Your Highness, my actions in taking the stead of Jiang Xiao Xuan
in marriage had nothing to do with Madam Jin and Jin Yuan Bao.
They were kept in the dark.
I've incriminated them.
I beg Your Highness to investigate and uphold justice!
I'm willing to bear all the consequences.
But please uphold justice for me, Your Highness!
What a joke!
You dared to deceive me
and still expect me to uphold justice for you?
Why don't you tell me what justice you expect me to uphold?
I beg Your Highness to uphold justice for the world.
Please execute Liu Wen Zhao for murder!
Liu Wen Zhao has long been ambitious.
He has coveted Jin family's Bureau of Weaponry for years.
For that reason, he killed the maid Xi Er
and Midwife Liu who delivered the birth of Jin Yuan Bao.
He flogged Madam Jin and my mother in the manor in front of everyone.
He also killed Jin manor's pageboy, Ah Fu.
He killed my mother as well.
I did commit lese-majesty in the first place.
No matter how Your Highness intends to punish me, I'm willing to accept it.
But I hope that Your Highness could uphold justice for these innocent victims.
Your Highness, in regards to the legitimacy of Yuan Bao's birth
and Qi Ling's impersonation, I wouldn't dare deny these crimes.
Neither would I dare to escape unscathed.
But before you make a final decision
I beseech you to allow me to report the events that occurred.
Your Highness, don't you want to know why the three of us are so shabby?
Speak up.
Liu Wen Zhao is overwhelmingly ambitious.
For years, he's wanted to take over Jin manor
and Bureau of Weaponry.
For that reason, he was willing to stay under the roof of Jin manor
and pretended to work modestly.
I was absurd in thinking that our kinship as aunt and nephew is deep.
He lost his parents at a young age and I was deceived by his feign obedience.
I never knew that I have brought up a wolf in disguise in my household.
Shut up!
How dare you tell someone to shut up in the imperial grounds of my quarters?
I was too furious to notice my manners.
I hope that you could understand.
Liu Wen Zhao must be instigated by someone, or working with him.
He's arranged to have Yuan Bao assassinated several times.
Fortunately, we were blessed with Empress Dowager's protection
and Yu Qi Ling's keen defense
Liu Wen Zhao had always failed.
But a cornered beast would do anything.
He couldn't contain his desire anymore and sent his men into Jin manor.
He locked down the entire manor and started a killing spree.
Everything that Yu Qi Ling has just said
was done by him.
And... And Qian Qian...
She was also killed by her own brother.
Your Highness, I have indeed done some wrong.
But because I still have some unrealistic illusions
I even tried to persuade Madam Jin to come clean to you about all her lies.
Who knew that she would think so highly of herself
and assumed high merits for her services?
She refused to listen to me and I had no other choices but to resort to this.
Although I might have acted slightly out of vengeance
I have been faithful and loyal.
- Please... - Liu Ru Yue.
Do you admit to these two severe charges of lese-majesty
that Liu Wen Zhao just stated?
That is entirely my fault.
Please punish me alone.
Spare the two children.
That's easy for you to say.
How could lese-majesty be overlooked just because of your words?
Liu Wen Zhao has indeed done wrong in certain ways
but the three of you collaborated and covered for one another.
You have defied the Emperor.
Lese-majesty is a far more severe crime than that of Liu Wen Zhao's.
Your Highness, the imperial family is also a family.
The three of us might have committed lese-majesty
but we have never done anything against human ethics.
My mother lost her senses then and snatched someone's child.
She covered up the truth.
But she has never killed anyone.
For the past twenty years, she has tried her best to make up for her mistakes.
To Your Highness, to Jin family and to me, she owes us nothing.
The most despicable person is the villain, Liu Wen Zhao.
He is full of lies.
Your Highness, you must punish him.
You must uphold justice!
Your Highness, my loyalty to you and Crown Prince is visible to everyone!
You are all to dismiss for now
apart from Ru Yue.
Yes.
Liu Ru Yue, little did I expect you to be so bold.
Back then, I had no other choices.
The general died young, and his extended families were watching me.
I said that you're bold, but I wasn't referring to the stealing of the child
or the fake marriage.
I've always known that you're courageous and daring.
Even on this day
the three of you still dared to defend each other in front of me.
You've really acknowledged that audacious Yu Qi Ling.
Do you intend to use this to move me
and do away with the crime of lese-majesty?
Your Highness, I know that I could not deceive you.
But I dared to be so bold
because I know that you have always been righteous in punishments and rewards.
Beside these two crimes that I have committed
I have been faithful and diligent for the past twenty years
in managing the Bureau of Weaponry for the imperial family.
After years in the palace, Your Highness should understand
my pain of being childless and scrutinized by the extended family.
How bold of you to say so.
I speak from the bottom of my heart.
Since I found out that Yu Qi Ling married in the stead of the bride
I felt lost and panicked.
All I could think of was how to protect my son.
But they are truly in love.
Yu Qi Ling risked her life several times to save Yuan Bao.
How could I have the heart to expose her identity?
I did keep Yuan Bao's birth a secret.
Yu Qi Ling did marry under a false identity.
But the three of us are loyal to you and Crown Prince.
Nothing we did was for our own interests.
Your Highness, may I be so bold as to say another word?
Yuan Bao might not be my son
but he has inherited the bloodline of the general.
He is exceptionally gifted
kindhearted and loyal.
You have also seen Yuan Bao today.
Even though he hasn't inherited your bloodline
it doesn't mean that he isn't fit to inherit Jin manor
or that Yu Qi Ling isn't fit to be your grand-niece-in-law.
What about Liu Wen Zhao?
He is also your nephew.
He also inherits the bloodline of Liu family.
The crimes that Qi Ling accused him of are all true.
It hurts me to know that we have such a cruel person in our family.
Liu Ru Yue snatched the child of another's twenty years ago.
She polluted the family tree of the Jin family.
The evidence of her using that matter to gain authority over the manor is solid.
Yu Qi Ling interfered with the imperially bestowed marriage
and married in the stead of Jiang Xiao Xuan.
There's concrete evidence to prove it.
Liu Wen Zhao did very well in exposing these two matters.
The dignity of the imperial family must not be violated.
Liu Ru Yue, Jin Yuan Bao, Yu Qi Ling, you have all done wrong.
You should all know the consequences.
We're willing to accept the punishment from Your Highness.
But I do not want to give out punishments so recklessly.
I've been deceived by my own niece for the past twenty years.
I need some time to think about what I should do.
Auntie, I have let you down.
The three of you should head home and await my summon.
Thank you, Your Highness.
Your Highness.
You deserve credit for exposing them.
Go back and await my verdict.
I'll abide by your orders.
[General's Manor]
Look! They are home!
They have all come home!
- Come on out! - Come out here! They are all home!
They are home. They are all home.
My Lady!
- Xiao Xuan... - My Lady...
Yuan Bao...
You're home.
I'm finally home.
I knew that you'd be home.
I'm home.
I'm home, dork.
Come on inside.
I'll see to your injuries.
Liu Wen Zhao and all his evil servants have left.
My Lady, I've waited for your arrival for so long.
That animal and his men have all left.
Let's head back into the manor and get changed.
Open up the ancestral chamber!
- Yuan Bao, I owe you. - Mother!
Please don't be like this!
Twenty years ago, your mother made sacrifices because of me.
I've never done anything wrong to anyone in my life.
This is the one exception, the one sin that I could never atone for.
Mother...
Your mother died because of me.
My life means nothing.
But I promised your mother
to protect you for the rest of my life.
Yu Qi Ling, for as long as I shall live
I will always protect you.
I'll remember that there was once a woman called Wang Hui Lan
who suffered hardships all her life
but she treated others with love.
Mother, from this day forth
you are my mother.
Mother... Qi Ling...
I swear to you that
even if I have to risk my life
I'll ensure the safety of our family.
Young Master, Madam Jin.
Young Mistress, help yourselves to more food.
You must be starving.
Have more to eat and take in more nutrition!
Haven't any of you suffered as well?
- Here, Xiao Xuan. - Have more.
Xiao Cui, you should all sit down. There are no masters and servants today.
Our family should get together properly today, all right?
- Xiao Cui? - My Lady, we're happy to be busy.
- Take a seat. - That's right.
Sit down and eat with us.
- Don't be so busy. - All right, Xiao Cui.
Yuan Bao, have more food.
Yuan Bao, look!
I've saved Ah Fu.
- Ah Fu? - Young Master.
- This is great! - Ah Fu...
This is wonderful.
Young Master, Madam Jin ordered me to take good care of you.
How would I dare to die first?
Liu Wen Zhao can't even stab a person properly.
He's so useless.
Shush! Children don't know what not to say.
Ah Fu, thank you for saving my family.
My Lady, don't say that.
My dear Ah Fu.
Thank you.
You're helping me if you don't run off without a word in the future.
I'll keep an eye on him for you!
Why hasn't anyone mention me?
Let me tell you that
I didn't use anyone's remedies. I used my own medication to cure him!
I can vouch for that.
Physician Gu really didn't end up killing me with his remedy.
Cheers!
Mother, don't drink too much.
I know where to draw the line. Don't worry.
Xiao Xuan.
I'll hand my son over to you.
I'll just relax and enjoy the happiness of leisure.
Sure, thank you, Mother!
I hope that this moment lasts forever.
Mother, don't worry.
God's mills grind slow but sure.
Evil people will definitely be caught.
Here, let's have another toast.
Here, cheers!
- Cheers! - Cheers!
[Thousand Beauties Chamber]
Master Liu, would you like a few ladies to keep you company?
No, I want all of them to dismiss.
I just want to be left alone in peace.
Yes.
You may all dismiss. Go on.
Subtitles by DramaFever