What karma? What life and death?
Nothing can cower me.
Whoever wronged me has to die!
You could do this to your own sister.
You are not human at all.
Yan Mei-leung, a life for a life!
You can't get away. Surrender yourself.
I will go back with you.
But no one can touch my wife.
Or I'll make sure they won't die in one piece!
Open the chest.
Yes, Miss.
Take her out.
Sis, you saved me.
What happened to me?
I couldn't breathe.
It's because we are sisters.
We are linked by blood.
You and I are one.
No. You're redundant.
I am not here to save you.
I am here to see you suffer.
I want you two to be separated forever.
I want Chu Cheung-sing to be a living dead.
Sire, I have picked up martial arts for you
I miss you very much.
You have not spared a thought for me?
Sire, look... Sire...
My head aches, I need some rest. You are excused.
Sire, please don't go. Let me wait on you.
Stop it! I have had enough!
You monsters have gone too far.
Don't show your faces again, or I'll beat you all up!
Go away...
No way will I let you stain me.
Sire, Fung Nam-tin at your... Sire, She Pak-nin at your...
Sire's mind seems to be not here, and he's avoiding his consorts.
None of his consorts is presentable.
Sire avoids them like a plague.
He has not spent a night with any of them.
Has he read the impeachment memorial on Ma Chuen-kung?
Yes, but he has not commented on it.
No wonder he's avoiding me.
Report Sire's every move to me.
Yes, Master.
What a pest.
It's good there's this chapel as a sanctuary.
Sire. Sire, greetings.
Why are you hiding here? Plotting a revolt?
Or colluding with Uncle Tuen to overthrow me?
We are praying for blessings for you.
I won't believe you.
You are praying for my premature demise.
Sire, you're not feeling well again?
Why did you miss the morning audience?
Sire, are you alright?
Are you teasing me for getting lazy?
You think I am back on drugs?
My mind can't be clearer.
I know what you are actually thinking.
Sire, you know it very well.
The human heart is treacherous.
Please listen to me.
The post of chancellor is most important.
You have to fill it with the right person. Don't entrust it to the wrong man.
Fung Nam-tin is my right-hand man.
He has the brain and the guts.
You Kungsuen family is now out of power,
so you try to alienate us.
The leopard will never change its spots.
Please, you shouldn't show yourself in public.
You are giving the Buddha the creeps.
I don't want to see any of you. Go away...
Then let's go.
Please excuse us.
Go away...
Sire, greetings.
You could still find me?
Sire, Ma Chuen-kung and others have been taken here.
Sire, please be discerning.
Have you checked carefully?
The evidence is against them.
Is it watertight?
Sire, it's ironclad.
Chuen-kung and I are fast friends.
Cheung-sing's known for his loyalty.
How could they have broken the law?
It breaks my heart too.
But they have to pay for what they did.
According to the Song Code, they should be executed.
I really am confused.
At first they suspected you.
Then they committed one offence after another.
Could something have happened in between?
I am worried they are being framed.
Sire, the evidence is against them.
The courtiers keep submitting memorials.
This can't be stalled any further.
If you still ignore it, the courtiers will go into an uproar.
They will accuse you of playing favourites.
Sire, you have to do it by the book,
or your name will be ruined.
I really am at a loss.
I really can't do it.
Sire...
What are you doing?
Let me make the decision for you.
Your Honour, no...
No...what are you doing?
Sire, I groomed Cheung-sing and Chuen-kung.
I should be held responsible.
If Sire can't handle it,
let me close it with my life.
Your Honour, no...
Take it easy...Don't kill yourself...
Get up first...
Put the dagger down...
I am human too. I don't want to bring them to justice either.
But the country comes first.
I have to harden myself.
I feel your pain.
Let me take care of them right away.
Yes, Sire.
Sire, I killed no one.
Cheung-sing was set up.
He had no choice but to stage the prison break.
What nerve! Who are you to make a scene here?
You are partners in crime.
Tai-lik, Cheung-sing, you two robbed a gold shop.
You have signed your confession.
You took a felon away in full public view.
Yeung Mau, you were their help outside. You are an accomplice.
No way can you guys clear your names.
Cheung-sing's wife was abducted. She got killed afterwards.
He should have reported it to the Phecda Bureau.
But Fung Nam-tin's the mastermind behind it
He's doing it to cover up his identity as a Jin mole.
He's a Jin mole? What a joke!
Where's your evidence?
Sire, Honourable Fung knew Ma Chuen-kung would deny it,
so we interrogated Mo Shun again and again.
He had a deathbed repentance.
He told us about how a Ma descendant became a Jin mole.
He put everything down in this letter.
These traitors here bought him off to frame Honourable Fung.
Honourable Fung saw you as his kin.
Yet you are so ungrateful!
Mo learned of their secret.
They wouldn't even let a colleague live!
What nonsense!
I didn’t kill Mo.
Mo said you're a Jin mole before she died.
Chuen-kung, I thought you would repay the country.
But you followed your father's footsteps and became a ]in mole.
All Ma descendants are Jin moles.
The letter indeed is Mo Shun's handwriting.
He's dying anyway. Why should he lie?
Chuen-kung, I trusted you, but you meant to sabotage Song.
Sire, my father was innocent, so am I.
Fung Nam-tin twisted the facts. Sire, please understand.
Sire, the evidence is against them. Be resolute.
I really am confused.
Why won't you repent, but insist on passing the blame?
You are supposed to uphold Song's law and order,
not to break the laws.
Sire, they are framing us.
Do you know what you committed are capital crimes?
But if you will confess, you can earn leniency.
You can kill me but you can't wrong me.
Sire, please spare my life and let me go.
What are you doing?
You care to live in infamy?
Call me shameless. I just want to live.
Sire, for the sake that we defeated Prince Tuen for you,
for the sake that Chuen-kung grew up with you...
Have mercy.
Sire, be resolute.
Sire, please dig into it.
You don't want Chuen-kung to die wrongfully
I know what to do.
Cheung-sing lost his wife. He should be cut some slack.
Whether Chuen-kung is a Jin mole is still unclear,
not to say committing murder.
But you did break into prison.
Alright, I can be lenient.
You are spared death.
But you are removed from your posts,
and your fortunes confiscated.
You are now just civilians.
You are not allowed to form gangs or use force,
or you will be executed.
Sire, I have never lied to you.
Please don't be taken in.
My mind is made up.
The palace is now off-limit to you.
Sire, no...
Fung Nam-tin, I have dispensed punishment.
Tell the courtiers to stop bombarding me with memorials.
My decision is final.
Whoever raises the issue again will lose his job.
Yes, Sire.
Come. Yes.
Take them away.
Sire meant to let them off.
That spells trouble in future.
They are now down and out.
There's nothing they can do.
Moreover, pursuing it further will show we have a secret agenda.
I'll watch their every move.
Your Honour can take care of the real business.
Your Honour, when will the Jin take action?
How should we prepare for it?
I'll spare no efforts for you.
Sparing no efforts for me?
You think killing a person has put you high in my book?
I know how much you are worth.
Just take out my orders and don't you botch them.
Why did you ask me to come here?
You're not being followed?
No.
I stole a letter from the Yuen Tin Hall.
It's written to Honourable Fung from an army commander.
His Honour is in a high position.
It's not unusual is he's privy to military matters.
But it's written in codes.
I've decoded it.
It's about military deployment and how to make Song lose.
I suspect Fung Nam-tin is a mole.
It's not possible.
It's true.
Let's go to the Pacification General.
No.
Why not?
We can’t tell who's the enemy and who's not anymore.
We are in a dangerous situation.
Exposing Fung Nam-tin is the only way out.
Mo, we have another choice.
Let's join Fun Nam-tin's side.
You're out of your mind? We can’t be traitors.
Give me the letter.
This is my chance to make a comeback.
I was wrong about you.
You are more useless than I thought.
Mo.
Get down to work.
We'll watch the coast for you.
Don't rush, but be quick.
We'll be in trouble if the jerks are back.
Thank you.
Be quick...
What now?
My crystal glass.
It might be here.
What are you three doing?
Take it easy. We are no outsiders.
You are outsiders. Just go.
We are here to get our own stuff.
Cut us some slack.
Have you seen my crystal glass?
No cutting slack.
You jerks, what an about-face!
We've been written off already?
We used to be colleagues after all.
You are no longer Phecda men.
You can't take anything away.
Turncoats! You've been bought already?
What have they promised you?
They are just doing their job.
Unlike you despicable ones.
You have put the Bureau in shame.
You can lie with your eyes wide open.
You three are lucky to be alive.
These things belong to the Bureau. You can't take them away.
Throw them out.
Give the book back to me.
Chuen-kung...
Go ahead!
"Go ahead"? That means using force.
It's against Sire's order.
She Pak-nin, you lackey!
Don't be foolhardy. Let's go.
You will get what you deserve!
Just wait here. I'll make my comeback.
Justice is slow but sure.
Just go! Go away!
I can walk.
Just go! Go!
I can walk.
Don't you push me, I can walk.
Get lost! Move it.
Chuen-kung was so good to you.
Get lost! You rascals.
Just beat it.
Stay away from the Bureau!
Hey, take your junk with you.
They get in our way.
Take them with you.
These are your treasures.
I know you cherish them.
We have packed them for you.
We were waiting for you to come back for them.
Thank you.
We wronged you guys.
We should say "sorry" instead.
We have to watch our steps.
We have to play along.
Buddies!
The Sun Section is really of one mind
Cheung-sing is right.
Sire refused to listen to us. We can’t force our way.
We have to bide our time.
You work from the inside and we, on the outside.
Let's stay in touch.
Keep the Bureau for us.
The time will come soon.
The Sun Section won't fall apart.
We'll make our comeback.
Just go away. I don't want to drag you in.
I have already caused my wife's death.
I don't want to lose you as well.
If you leave me out of it, you're not seeing me as your buddy.
It's personal. It doesn't concern you.
Tao Fa was your wife, she's sister-in-law to me.
If you mean to kill Yan Mei-leung, count me in.
It's the slut.
Yan Mei-leung, you killed my wife, a life for a life!
It's a royal sedan-chair.
No one can stop me!
Yan Mei-leung is summoned by Sire.
Don't you dare harm her.
I have to avenge Tao Fa!
I didn't want to take this step.
You had already resigned,
but you insisted on getting nosy.
You asked for it.
If you had gone back to Wuzhou with Tao Fa, she wouldn't have died.
You two were in collusion.
How could you be so heartless as to let Tao Fa die?
You asked for it. Don't you blame others.
Whoever gets in my way has to die!
You want your buddy's head to roll?
Cheung-sing, don't bother with me.
Let's be buddies in our next life.
Fung Nam-tin, how wicked of you!
Just go.
I'm always ahead when it comes to ruthlessness.
I had it arranged for you.
You could have lived a peaceful life, be a blessed couple with Tao Fa.
But you insisted on sticking a finger in.
Why insist on being obstinate?
How many more do you want to drag into your demise?
You are right. I asked for it.
Let him go.
I killed Tao Fa. I did my buddies in. I am the one to blame.
Revenge is best sewed cold.
Let's go back to figure a way out.
Everyone out.
Go away... Go away...
You want to be arrested?
Just go...
What are you doing here?
She Pak-nin, the Dragon Gang and the Phecda Bureau never crossed paths.
What do you mean by stepping into my turf?
If you want trouble, I'll play along.
Those behind you are offenders convicted by the court.
They are not allowed to form gangs.
You have taken them in as gang members.
That makes you an accomplice.
I am just doing my job.
Which one of your eyes saw me taking offenders in?
Your right eye or left?
They are loyal friends and great heroes. They are my good friends.
Need I report to you for being hospitable? So stupid of you!
That's exactly what you should have done.
Take anyone who refuses to cooperate.
Yes !
I dare you.
You want to make arrests? Ask me first.
Do it over my dead body.
Father...Mind your health. Sit down first.
Uncle Hung...
Let me handle him...
Sit down first...
She Pak-nin. You are here to stir up trouble.
You mean to make it difficult for us.
I am so terrified my heart beats fast.
Just bring it on.
If I can’t give you a hard time, my name is not Hung Sap-kau.
Cut it out and just do it.
Don't fall into his trap.
If we fight him, we'll give him an excuse to arrest us.
She Pak-nin, don't push your luck.
We have been ousted from Phecda.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
He's the dog here. He's not human at all.
He could kill his woman.
We mean nothing to him.
Trash! You'll get what you deserve.
You are down and out.
Winning the war of words gets you nowhere.
Pak-nin, take it easy.
We won't use the Dragon Gang to make provocations.
Moreover, you have us watched around the clock,
nothing we do can escape you.
Uncle Hung and you are no foes.
Do me this favour, leave him alone.
It serves you no purpose to make enemies everywhere, right?
Cheung-sing, are you begging me?
Now you know who is the better one?
Yes, you are the dragon and I am the worm.
Let me tell you, toe the line,
or I'll make the Dragon Gang disappear.
However hard the path, we have to take it.
We can’t let Fung Nam-ting get away with it
We can’t turn a blind eye just to save our own skins.
I'd rather die than live in shame.
Chuen-kung, forget it.
Don't bang your head against the wall. It's not worth it.
Even you have turned defeatist?
Where's your fighting spirit?
Tao Fa's dead. She won't come back to life.
It's because of that urge
that I didn't get on the carriage and go back to our hometown with her,
and the mistake was made.
If I had not followed the urge...
If being a hero means losing Tao Fa, I'd rather be a coward.
I don't care.
Uncle, I know you are not a coward.
But what about Sap-kau?
You want him to die before you?
And Tai-lik and Yeung Mau.
It's not easy for them to be together.
If anything happens to either of them,
they'll be separated for life.
Is it worth it?
Tai-lik, what you should do now is to take care of Yeung Mau.
Just stick by her side.
Yeung Mau, state affairs are not for individuals to change.
What we can only do is to live on with our beloved.
I understand. We have our own convictions.
I won't force others to do it my way.
Chuen-kung, don't be impulsive.
Let's talk it over.
Someone has to risk it.
I am the phoenix that always rises from the ashes.
Others may call him a muddle-headed emperor.
I'll do my best to make him see.
Yeung Mau, buddies,
we'll go our separate ways after this cup of tea.
What now?
There is no everlasting feast.
We have to finish the tea.
Yes, Chuen-kung is right.
My toast to you with this cup of tea.
Alright, buddies, take care.
Good! As long as the rivers ﬂow!
The Dragon Gang got your back!
Cheers... Cheers...
Excuse us...
What's wrong with you?
What now?
Excuse us...
What now? Excuse us...
Mind your way... Excuse us...
What's wrong with your arm?
Look.
You are back to stealing?
Sometimes we have to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps.
Look, our travelling expenses in no time.
Mau, with me by your side, you won't starve.
You can be a thief, but I won't be one.
Tai-lik, even if our backs are against the wall,
you cannot go back to your old ways.
Or your last two years were spent in vain.
If I knew you wouldn't change,
I should have let Chor Chat-kim kill you.
Hey...alright...no more stealing.
But I have no other expertise, how can I make a living?
No stealing, no robbing. You can stand tall.
We can work to feed ourselves.
Alright, whatever you say.
Swear you'll never break the law again.
Alright. I swear I'll always do whatever Yeung Mau says.
I'll go where she points.
I will just follow her, even if it's a dead-end road.
Heaven and earth be my witness!
If I go back on my word,
let me be a jerk for life.
Alright now?
Hey, there's a magistracy in front.
What? Magistracy?
Who will believe I picked these from the ground?
I mean to get the secretary to write me a betrothal letter.
Hold it...what betrothal letter?
Who asked you to get one?
Who is the man? Whom are you marrying?
You, who else?
Did I hear what I heard?
Yes.
Since Tao Fa died, I have come to realise that life is fickle.
I don't want to wait anymore.
Life is short, I want us to get married as soon as possible.
Then I can die with no regrets.
One more thing, you are now my man, you can’t go back on your word.
No way. I can’t be happier.
With this look of mine,
I still can have such a beautiful wife.
Mau, I don't know how to repay your kindness.
By spending your life with me.
Of course. I'll repay you by spending my life with you.
I am getting married...
I am getting married.
I am getting Yeung Mau as my wife.
If you had not bought this house with your nest egg,
I'd have had to sleep on the street.
Many a time I woke up, hoping to see you in front of me,
but you are no longer around.
Since you left, everything has turned upside down.
I can no longer tell right from wrong.
I still can’t believe Fung Nam-tin is a wicked man,
but he has promoted She Pak-nin to commissioner.
I still think it was Pak-nin who killed Mo.
Fung Nam-tin is now chancellor, second only to Sire.
Come on...
What's the most evil is that
Fung Nam-tin and Yan Mei-leung are now partners.
Through Fung Nam-tin's effort,
she's able to go into court and waits on Sire.
She is now Sire's favourite.
She has got Sire indulged in sensual delights, forgetting about state affairs.
The officialdom is raw in tooth and claw.
When a loyal courtier is suddenly found dead,
I am sure Fung Nam-tin is behind it.
It's clear Fung Nam-tin is ready to strike,
The upheaval is near.
Once a hero, now a pariah. There's nothing I can do.
If it's bound to happen, no one can stop it
The only good news is Yeung Mau and Tai-lik have got married.
Even if the sky falls, if you are with your beloved, then it doesn't matter.
As for Chuen-kung, he still insists on thwarting Fung Nam-tin.
He has been to the Pacification General.
But what he gets is beating after beating.
No ﬂower is like peach-blossom flower.
Tao Fa never lived in a place without peach-blossoms.
There's a peach blossom groove in Wuzhou. There's one in Bianjing too.
(Here lies my wife Tao Fa)
Where there are peach-blossoms, there is Tao Fa.
I have finally found a place with peach-blossoms for Tao Fa.
Where there's Tao Fa, there's happiness.
With Tao Fa by my side, life becomes easy.
Chu Cheung-sing, you mean to stay here forever?
Get up! Wake up!
You mean to sleep to your death?
Should I dig your grave for you?
Waking people from their sleep is a crime.
Don't just spend your time with Fa's tomb.
You can hug it forever, but Fa won't come back to life.
You are Chu Cheung-sing, not some nobody.
You are meant to make it big.
There is always a way out, unless you don't want to seek it.
Get up!
We buddies can start anew.
What about an escort agency?
Or I can finance the reopening of the Peach Blossom Groove.
Leave me alone.
Tao Fa's dead.
What's Peach Blossom Groove without Tao Fa?
You are hurting those that love you.
Fung Nam-tin and Yan Mei-leung can’t be happier seeing you like this.
You are Hawkeye.
Can you be contented with this?
Revenge means living better than your foes. Do you get it?
How long has it been since your last bath?
You stink worse than shit!
That's why you attract ﬂies.
Come on, go back for a bath.
Get up...
Sap-kau has not experienced the loss of his wife.
He doesn't understand that this pain can’t be numbed.
Even the slightest breeze can hurt you.
I don't want to wake up,
because I can only meet Tao Fa in my dreams.
Night soil collecting never ends. Night soil collector is a job no one cares.
Clean the night soil buckets with heart. You can smell it without a doubt.
Beware of fire! Beware of thieves.
Night soil, night soil, it is my joy.
Imperial Chef, thank you indeed.
Thank you.
But you don't have to do the grocery shopping yourself.
I don't want to either.
But Yan Mei-leung is now in the palace and she's Sire's favourite.
Whatever she cares to have, Sire makes sure I prepare it for her.
This time she wants chicken tongue soup.
I have to prepare a pot for her every day.
It takes hundreds of chicken tongues.
What a fussy eater.
Then Bianjing may soon run out of chickens.
She's the favourite, so everyone dances to her tune.
What can I do?
I have to go back.
Come on.
Halt.
Imperial Chef, back from grocery shopping?
It's so hard for you!
I had no choice.
Oh, I am in a hurry.
Alright.
Come on.
Let him pass.
I want to see Sire.
Aren't you Ma Chuen-kung?
Sire, for the sake of old days, let me in.
I have something to say.
Come...assassin...
Mind yourself first, eunuch!
Sire...
Come...
Sire, Chuen-kung here.
What nerve! Sneaking into the palace is an offence.
Sire, allow me to speak my mind.
This slut can’t be trusted. She's a mole.
Fung Nam-tin sent her here to bewitch you.
What mole?
Sire, she really is a mole.
Being a mole has gone to your head?
I was not a mole.
Sire, how many times do I have to tell you that?
Sire, you no longer have me in your heart.
This slut has bewitched you and you believe everything she says.
My heart can't be clearer.
I can tell who is a mole.
Yan Mei-leung is so lovely and understanding.
Don't you frame her.
This witch is wicked.
She stole people's husband and she killed his wife.
She could kill her own sister Tao Fa, Chu Cheung-sing's wife.
Is that true?
What nonsense.
Sire, Tao Fa did die an untimely death. It broke my heart too.
I too long to avenge her.
This man tries to frame me. He's wicked.
Sire, you have to believe me.
I sure believe you.
Sire, what Fung Nam-tin accused me of was all false.
Sire, please turn back.
Don't fall into their traps and ruin Song.
Stop it!
You are a pest.
I don't want to hear it...
Sire, if this witch lives, Song will fall.
You will fall!
She is carrying my child.
Sire, it's not your child.
She's carrying Chu Cheung-sing's child.
She imposed as Tao Fa and made Chu Cheung-sing sleep with her.
That's how she got pregnant.
Sire, please understand.
Sire, he's smearing me, he's ruining my honour.
What I said is true.
Sire, I felt her pulse.
So what?
I can tell whether the child is mine or not
I just can’t stand your pestering of me.
Be you a mole, you have gone mad or you're full of infatuation,
I refused to chop your head off for old time's sake.
Why you won't leave me alone?
How can I make you see?
If I kill myself here and now, will you throw this witch out?
What do you want me to do?
Even if I'll throw her out,
I have no feelings for you anymore.
What a pest.
If I throw you out, you may stir up trouble or spread rumours.
All I ask is to be left alone.
Sire, send him to a monastery to be a monk.
Good idea!
I order you to join a monastery and be a monk.
Then you can forget all earthly desires.
Sire...are you alright?
Sun Boy, take him to Ching Leung Monastery.
Shave his head and make him a monk.
Yes, Sire.
Take him away.
Witch, don't be so cocky.
Heaven has eyes.
Beware of the thunder.
You'll get hit by lightning.
Amitabha.
Let yourself be inducted. Buddhist teaching is profound.
I got it.
The infatuated will be lost.
The enlightened will have relief.
I know every teaching and rule by heart.
Reverend, just do it.
Only a true man can see through the fickleness of life.
I said I got it.
Give up the secular for nirvana, which is beyond imagination.
Forsake the material for the aspiration. Give up desires for the pursuit.
Spread Buddha's teachings.
Seek salvation for all.
Reverend, just do it.
With the cutting off of the hair, secular impurities are removed.
I really got it.
Be a man at home. Be a monk in a monastery.
Undertake the five precepts at home,
Undergo the ordination ceremony.
Reverend, just shave my head.
You are now a Buddhist. I now name you Yu-boon.
Yu-boon? It means sticking to the root,
and don't get distracted from Buddhist teaching pursuit.
Seek your true self. That's Yu-boon. Good name.
Yu-boon, you are now assigned to be a patrol monk.
You'll announce the hour at 5 am every morning for every hall.
The bell is tolling. My job is done.
Tin Goong Goong, where is Prince Tuen? Tell me.
Yu-boon, the monastery isn't that big.
It's not that hard to look for a man.
Tin Goong Goong, you gave me the hint.
Why not do me a favour and just be straight-forward?
You forced your way into the palace. It's capital offence.
Sire was lenient and just ordered you to be a monk.
He has set you free.
You are like a fish that's set free.
Go back to your own place.
Leave me alone.
I got it. The Set Free Pond.
You are quite bright.
Allow me to be cocky.
I am not quite bright, I am very bright.
Prince Tuen!
Prince Tuen, at your service.
I am serving my penalty here. At ease.
How are you doing?
I am fine. A simple life is a blessing.
Are you aware of what's going on in the palace?
Out of sight, out of mind.
Song is in danger.
Fung Nam-tin is a Jin mole.
The old fox has gained the trust of Sire and got rid of his enemies.
He has put the witch Yan Mei-leung by Sire's side.
If that's allowed to go on, Song will fall.
Good, that fool has it coming.
Fung Nam-tin means to gut Bianjing of its military force and to let the Jins in.
I don't want to hear it.
You were once in command of the Ministry of War.
You are well-acquainted with commanders on the frontier.
If you will pull the strings, they will listen to you.
Please lead our fight against ]in invasion.
Stop it! I am a recluse here. I just want a peaceful life.
I don't think you are contented with such a life.
I won't meet trouble halfway again.
I spared no efforts for Song back then but so what?
My ancestors sought to keep honest officials through paying them well,
but the court is still full of corrupt officials.
Even after learning from the history of the five dynasties and ten kingdoms,
they're putting the pen above the sword.
The result is weakness in defense and harassment on the frontier.
Then reform was sought.
That ended up in tearing the court apart and letting in internal rife.
The remedy was worse than the illness.
Your Highness still care about Song. Love well, whip well.
You didn't say so when the Bureau pushed me against the wall.
The times has changed.
The consolation came too late.
I was the traitor. I wanted a coup.
It's because I knew Song would come to its demise in the hands of that fool.
That's why I was forced to grab power.
I meant to prolong the Song reign.
It's still not too late.
Only you can turn the tide and reverse Song's fortune.
Why should I help that fool?
I am called the traitor, all thanks to him.
I hate the guts of him.
I can't wait for him to fall.
Let him be the emperor that will lose Song. He has it coming.
How will you say "yes"?
If you will take up the course, I can be your beast of burden.
You know what a bhiksu is?
A bhiksu is a beggar monk.
They beg for enlightenment and daily provisions.
Be a bhiksu and beg me 30 million taels to show your determination.
Otherwise, don't show your face again.
Alright. I'll take your dare.
My determination knows no bounds.
I'll do it right away.