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The King's Woman
Episode 44
Left Prime Minister,
for what reason are you in a hurry to see me about?
Madame, since matter has already come to this, I will be frank already.
For almost a year, I and the Chu general Xiang Yan
have secretly created a spy network but it seems that
they have already been destroyed by Qin one by one.
Lord, what do you mean by that?
Just to relay the battle strategy of Qin,
from Xianyang to the southern Chu, from Yushang, Wangling, Xiling,
and then to Yingdu, along all these route are our spies
that were secretly relaying the secret messages.
But recently, a lot of spies have been arrested
and have undergone interrogation.
I fear that anytime soon, my plan
will be exposed.
What Lord means is...
His Majesty...
I also cannot be sure of what the possibilities are.
Although these spies are very loyal to Chu,
they will temporarily not say who is giving them the messages.
While none of them really know who
is the asset inside the Qin palace. But
once the crime has been proven,
His Majesty...
His Majesty will surely not let me off!
Lord, what are you doing? Hurry, hurry and rise.
No. I... No, I, Xiong Qi,
is earnestly begging Madame here now as the prince of Chu.
I am begging Madame to save Chu.
Madame,
you...kept saying that you married far into Qin
but sincerely was not after the queen position of Qin.
You just wanted to use the role of being the head of the six palaces
to plot good blessings fro Chu.
We both know that with the present situation in this world,
we have already come to a very emergent level.
Han, Wei, and Zhao have been annihilated.
My Chu and Qi and Yan are just struggling by the Heaven's door.
If one day Yingdu will be in trouble,
I...
no matter what, is a prince of Chu.
I would still be able to preserve the Chu royal bloodline.
But Madame...
I understand already.
What you mean is to let me have an audience with His Majesty
and tell him the truth
that I am that mastermind who have plotted to rebel against Qin
and have secretly sent to Chu
the battle strategies of Qin.
Madame! You must not, Madame!
Madame, if you will do that, all the citizens of Chu
and military advisers will thank you!
Madame! You must not, Madame!
Madame! Madame!
Madame...
I have made my decision.
I will agree to your request. I will go.
I will go see His Maejesty.
Xiong Qi, listen well.
In this lifetime, you cannot do anything against Chu.
Or else, even if I will become a malicious spirit or a vengeful soul,
I surely will return to take revenge on you.
I am going to entrust to you the task of reviving Chu then.
I will abide.
May Madame not worry.
Madame! You must not, Madame! Madame!
Gao Jianli? Why is he here?
Brother Gao.
You are going to assassinate the king of Qin, am I right?
Jing Ke, I am so disappointed in you.
I told you to take care of yourself and not let others use you.
Never thought that you got used so thoroughly.
For Yan Dan, you actually plan to sacrifice your life.
Brother Gao...
His Highness Crown Prince is not like what you think.
He has always treated us sincerely.
He really was thinking for the sake of his state, for the citizens.
State and citizens?!
Do you understand, Jing Ke?
I have told you before.
Those were just his schemes, his ambitions.
Look at the present situation.
You actually plan to sacrifice your life
in exchange for the already hanging by the death's door existence of the corrupt royal family of Yan?!
What really is the point of that?
Is it not that all of these are progressing based on the plan of Yan Dan?
Jing Ke,
you are not dumb.
Could it be that in your heart, you never noticed
that what hides behind the sincere external appearance of Yan Dan
is just superficial selfishness.
Correct, Yan Dan indeed was using me.
But how am I not using him too?
Brother Gao, what I wanted was
exactly a chance like this.
No matter what, the king of Qin...I am determined to kill him.
I am not doing this for His Highness Crown Prince.
I am doing this for myself! Me!
Since that is the case,
then go through me first.
Brother Gao,
you will not be able to beat me.
I want to give it a try.
Let us see if it is your Huluo Sword that is stronger
or it is my Yanxiang Sword that is better.
Stop it already, Brother Gao.
Did you not notice that I was already lenient?
I will not stop.
Even if I have to pester you,
even if I would look so bad in fighting with you,
I still will stop you in throwing your life away.
Why?
How come all of you cannot understand?
I just have to kill the king of Qin!
I hate him.
I hate that he annihilated my Wei state. I hate him for killing my master.
I hate him for causing so many people to become destitute and homeless.
These grudges...
just let me seek vengeance in their behalf.
None of you can stop me!
I must go!
Jing Ke!
Since it is for the world,
then give it your all and do not leave any regrets.
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How have you been recently, Sister?
Quite fine. Just...
a bit homesick.
Our southern Chu has warmer weather and lots of rain.
During spring time, flowers bloom everywhere.
During summer, the whole palace is green and the atmosphere is very energetic.
Unlike this Qin palace.
It is sand all around and there is not even any garden.
If it is not painful cold wind then it is extreme heat.
Do you know that, that time,
Grand Queen Dowager was still planting flowers in the garden.
She said that when she smells the fragrances of the flowers,
it felt as if she had gone back to her home.
Sister,
what is wrong with you?
Nothing. Whenever I think of my mother state,
I would want to go back and take a look.
Just feeling a moment of sentimentality.
Could it be that something has happened to Chu that is making you worry?
Li'er...
Before, I did a lot of excessive things against you.
Can you forgive me for all of them?
Sister, those were already so long ago.
I also understand that Sister was difficult on me then
because of Grand Queen Dowager and the Chu state.
How can I not understand your intention?
Then it means that you have forgiven me.
I feel more relieved now. Oh, right.
I brought these all from southern Chu.
After entering the palace for so many years, I had never been able to take good care of you.
Accept them as my gift.
How can I do that?
Sister, these were all your family inheritance.
Moreover, I already said clearly earlier
that I really am not harboring grudges for the past things.
An tacky princess like me,
other than these, do not really have anything else that I can give you.
If you refuse them, then that is refusing my good intentions.
Sister, do you really have some problems?
You can tell them to me.
Sometimes, thinking back,
I feel that humans are really so little.
No matter how hard you try, how you struggle,
you can never change the situation and destiny of this world.
Before my royal mother will always say that I am quite a strong-willed girl.
She said that if I am a boy,
either I would become a king or a high minister.
Never thought that at this age,
I finally understood that if I am a man,
I might have been able to do something for my mother state.
Li'er...
You are a rare and surprising lady. You have good foresight
and knows martial arts.
If you are a man,
you surely will be an outstanding and famous commanding general.
Too bad, you are now living inside the Qin palace.
It is quite an injustice to you.
Li'er...
listen to my one advice.
No matter how much His Majesty spoils and dotes you,
you must forever remember to make a back up plan for yourself.
Do not completely trust all his words.
Because in his heart, he never really fully trusted anyone.
A person like him who wants to dominate the all world and become the emperor for eternity,
any matter that will go against his interest
must be sacrificed.
Even if it is his most favored royal concubine, ministers,
or family, he will not let them stay.
Even if he usually put up this facade of being so righteous in front of you,
those are because he is hiding too many dirty secrets
that others just do not know.
Sister...
Li'er...
Take care.
Remember the words I said.
Subject Jing,
Subject Qin, please.
Subject Jing,
I was fortunate to be able to request for Warrior Wei to escort you safely to Xianyang.
That is great. Have to trouble Warrior Wei then.
Where is old man Tian Guang? Is it not that he is the most avid supporter of Young Warrior Jing?
In such a very important day, how come he is not here?
Lord Tian Guang, he...
he went faraway.
Faraway? Where did he go? Why did he choose to leave at this time?
Young Warrior Jing, Lord Tian Guang instructed that he will be waiting for you there.
Where?
What really are you two talking about?
Brave warriors, I will drink this first to show my respect.
Your Highness Crown Prince,
it is unknown if I will survive this trip.
I am going to toast Your Highness Crown Prince a cup, the first cup.
Young Warrior Jing, for Yan and for me,
you made such a sacrifice. I really have no way to repay you.
Hope that in the next lifetime, you can be the king
and I am your subject. Let me serve you.
Your Highness Crown Prince,
actually the reason I agreed to assassinate the king of Qin from the start
is not because of Yan nor because of you.
Rather, it’s for the many people in this world who are oppressed and frightened
under the tyranny of the Qin king.
However, you..you also are not doing it for Yan State,
But it is for your own selfish desires.
I see it clearly now.
The reason that you always keep saying some righteous words
was to make yourself feel better.
Is that right, Your Highness Crown Prince?
His Majesty is here.
Jing Ke is right. I am killing him not only for the people,
it’s also because I hate him to the bone
for being a hostage in Qin all those years. He and I are royalties.
As a hostage prince, people treated me as unimportant and lowly everywhere.
Thank you Your Majesty
Yan Dan!
On the day a crow’s head is white and a horse is born with a horn,
You can leave!
I’m killing him for Yan State, but it’s even more for myself.
But now,
I have to thank you for creating a chance for me to kill Ying Zheng.
Regardless of who it is for, our purpose is the same. Is that right?
Your Highness Crown Prince, I toast to you.
Why is Madame seeking an audience?
You probably know why I am in the palace hall.
Is that right?
Your Majesty, the mastermind who secretly sent the letter to Chu State was me.
I sent a person to spy on Qin State’s strategies and made the secret letter.
This has been happening for more than a year. Now that this matter has already been discovered,
I know I am guilty of rebelling against Qin.
If Your Majesty wants to execute as a punishment, I absolutely won’t object.
Is everything you just said true?
Why should I seek death by lying to Your Majesty?
You are not seeking death, but you are protecting someone.
Right?
I know about the secret letter that was sent to Great Chu.
Ruo’er
If you can be honest with me in the main hall,
I can forgive you.
The princess marries to connect both countries by marriage.
From the start when I married into Qin State,
to be honest, it is to benefit my Great Chu.
These past years, I was hurrying to achieve the queen position
also for the benefit of my Chu.
Now that the matter has come to this,
maybe Your Majesty will not love me dearly anymore.
In that case, Your Majesty makes me enter the cold palace to be cold and lonely until old age
or execute me for the crime,
there is no difference.
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Ruo’er
I have wronged you.
Ever since you have entered the palace, I have not cherished you properly
because I felt you didn't belong to me.
You belonged to the Grand Queen Dowager.
No matter how hard you tried to show goodwill towards me, I felt
from start to finish, I couldn't trust you.
You understand this reasoning, right?
Now, compared with Lord Changping,
I really do not need you anymore.
Zhongchang Attendant
I am here.
Go prepare
to send Madame on the way.
Yes
Your...
Majesty
Ruo'er
The last kindness I am giving you
is not letting you suffer any more pain.
Wait until after Southern Chu is exterminated,
I will scatter your ashes in your homeland.
Subject Jing, take care on your travel.
Your Highness Crown Prince, my friend is seeing me off.
We bid farewell here.
Let us go.
The wind is whistling as it blows the shores of the Yi river to become very cold.
The warrior that left will never return again!
Assassinating the king of Qin is as dangerous as going into the lair of a tiger or into the palace of the dragons.
But heroes like us who is brave and have heroic spirits can create rainbows when we look up and exhale into the sky.
Madame,please do not leave me alone in the Qin palace.
Madame, I am begging you not to do this.
Come. Stand up.
Dying for your mother state,
I do not have any regrets in my life.
Madame
Quite the opposite. I am feeling blissfulness that I have never felt before.
Do you still remember this comb?
Mother queen left this for me.
I brought it from Chu State to Qin State.
I have had it with me all these years.
I am giving it to you today.
Seeing the object makes one miss its owner.
When you look at it in the future, it will be like seeing me.
- Madame - Take it
In half an hour, let the palace maids enter.
You must not come.
I am afraid you will be frightened when you see my face.
Madame, I will not go. Madame.
Do not cry. You really do not look very good when you cry.
Madame, I will not go.
- Go - Madame, I will not go.
Go!
I regret I am not a man in this lifetime.
I was not able to ride my horses into the battlefield,
shed my blood, and lay down my life
for my mother state of Chu.
This is the last thing I can do for Great Chu.
I was born as a Chu citizens and I will die as a Chu soul.
Royal Father, Royal Mother. I am coming to find you.
Assisting my Great Chu
Thrive soon
Madame! Madame! It is not good. It is not good.
What is it, Qing’er? Panicking and causing a commotion.
Madame, didn’t you tell me to invite Madame Chu over to drink tea?
Yes. Where is Madame Chu?
She..she hung herself!
What?
She went to give herself up to His Majesty. In order to save Southern Chu,
She secretly made a report of Qin State’s strategies
and sent it to Southern Chu. Her spies have already been arrested.
The proof is undeniable. His Majesty granted her a white silk fabric.
Madame..she is dead.
So..the reason Madame Chu came to see me that day
was to see me for one last time?
Impossible. Madame Chu would not do that.
His Majesty
Madame! Madame!
Greetings Your Majesty
Are you not engrossed in the art of war recently?
I heard that even when Fusu and Tianming invited you to go hunting with them in the western mountains, you were not interested.
Why are you suddenly coming to see me?
I heard Your Majesty executed Madame Chu.
I cannot even read a book or eat.
Your Majesty, what happened? Did Madame Chu really rebelled against Qin?
It is not important who rebelled against Qin.
Rather, it is who supports this crime.
The envoy that Yan is sending to express their surrender is junior brother.
What?
Junior sister, you know more than anyone else
that it is unlikely for junior brother to submit to the king of Qin.
That is why this surrender is actually a plan to assassinate Ying Zheng.
Making Tianming the Crown Prince is on one hand, forever keeping Madame Li by my side.
The other reason is that Fusu is originally my eldest legitimate child.
I am using Tianming to stimulate him.
Maybe only through this can he improve.
So what Your Majesty means is that
after several years, you will eventually make Prince Fusu the Crown Prince.
Of course.
I already let Zhongchang Attendant prepare the ceremony of crowning Tianming as the Crown Prince.
See if you like it.
Ying Zheng, you still are lying to me.
I will not let Tianming become your pawn.
Royal mother!
Tianming, Tianming, starting today, you are going to leave the Qin palace already.
You are going to live with Uncle Han.
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♫ Although we are poles apart with the whole galaxy between us, ♫
♫ I wait a thousand years just for this once. ♫
♫ Across numerous mountains and streams, I gaze at your beauty, ♫
♫ with the stars and moon as our intermediator. ♫
♫ The distant sky and sea converge. ♫
♫ The dark night falls. ♫
♫ My love is locked outside this city’s gates. I painfully await my lover’s return.♫
♫ I waited until time and space have shattered, mountains and rivers have turned to ash, ♫
♫ and my face has withered. ♫
♫ I leave love behind, and continue to reincarnate into this world. ♫
♫ I fully understand the innumerable twists and turns of joy and sadness. ♫
♫ I will follow you through life and death. ♫
♫ We will travel across the vast heavens and earth. I will freely fly with you. ♫
♫ Yearning for you is better than lonely seclusion. ♫
♫ You are my only weakness. ♫
♫ I gaze with eager expectation. My tears fall like meteors. ♫
♫ I use a mirror to fix the makeup on my eyebrows. ♫
♫ If I can peacefully rest in your heart, ♫
♫ I will not fear rain nor wind. ♫
♫ The troubles of the secular world will become as still as water. ♫
♫ Even if my body shatters, or if my soul becomes ashes, ♫
♫ I will never regret true love. ♫
♫ I have known the love of the evening mist and morning clouds, but I only want your embrace. ♫
♫ I fully understand the innumerable twists and turns of joy and sadness. ♫
♫ I will follow you through life and death. ♫
♫ We will travel across the vast heavens and earth, and freely fly with you. ♫