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[Lost Love In Times]
[Episode 34]
Your Highness, are you all right?
Did Prince Ling make things hard for you?
I've given them two hours to consider.
If Black Armor Army doesn't retreat before sunset
I will break through by force.
Your Highness, have you really thought this through?
All these years, Your Highness has treated the Imperial Army kindly.
The entire Imperial Army is willing to sacrifice ourselves for you
to protect Great Wei.
Is Your Highness really going to forfeit your status as heir apparent
and leave us behind?
I'm a crown prince without any virtue.
Yet you have held me in such high regard.
I have nothing to repay you with.
However, the choice I've made today is what I have yearned for.
I hope that you could all allow me to do so.
I understand.
If so, the Imperial Army will not let Your Highness down.
We'll do our very best to ensure the safety of Your Highness!
I, too thank General Zhang.
Black Armor Army, obey my command.
Seal off every exit.
Whatever happens, Crown Prince must not leave Yong Prefecture.
Yes, Your Highness!
You and I will stay here.
Yes, Ling.
Your Majesty, it's an urgent report from the army.
Xiao Xu is leading an army of 50,000 men to press on our border.
They have now arrived outside the city of Yong Prefecture.
Liang State indeed.
They are using this chance to invade our border.
Your Majesty, Liang State never acts in good faith.
Yong Prefecture is of great strategic importance.
It can't be taken!
Your Majesty, please make a decision swiftly.
Xiao Xu has taken quite an abrupt action.
Could he have learned of the marital bond we're tying with A-Chai Tribe?
He's sending in his troops to stage a protest?
Minister Wei.
What is your suggestion?
Your Majesty, if it's because of the marital bond
I believe that Liang State wouldn't attack our city so recklessly.
At the moment, we need time to stabilize domestically
so... why don't we send someone over to negotiate terms?
Let's try to hold them off first.
Summon Prince Zhan to the palace.
What is your opinion on this matter?
Father, Liang State is now pressing on our border.
It's obvious that they belittle Great Wei.
However, if they insist on attacking us
we might not have to fear them.
It's just...
This isn't the best time for us to be engaged in a battle with them.
We have yet to relieve the flooding disaster
and our people are restless.
Moreover, we now have a problem with Crown Prince.
We're shaken both internally and externally.
It's exactly what they wanted.
However, Father need not be too worried.
I believe that Hao has only acted on an impulse.
Besides, Ling and Che have already gone after him.
I believe that they will return soon.
As for Liang State's army...
Why don't we negotiate with them first?
We'll figure out their intention before we plan our next move.
In your opinion, who would be the most suitable person for this negotiation?
If Father trusts me, I'll be happy to do so.
You're my son.
Why would I not trust you?
Tell me how you intend to convince them.
Liang State might seem to be targeting Great Wei by pressing on our border
but A-Chai Tribe will feel threatened as well.
Therefore, I'd like to ask Father to allow me to visit
Princess Duo Xia first in order to get hold of A-Chai Tribe's situation.
Then I'll think of ways to tackle Liang State.
There's no conclusion to the marital bond yet.
You must try to appease A-Chai Tribe as much as you can.
- It's to prevent more trouble. - Yes.
If you could keep both states safe, I shall reward you handsomely.
If the Imperial Army gets into a conflict with Black Armor Army
it's hard to predict who will win.
If we fail to break out of the encirclement...
Could you make me a promise?
I know what you're going to say.
If I have to die either way
I'd rather die out here among the mountains and under the skies.
All I ask is that I could be born a free person in the next life.
It's easy to die but I want you to stay alive.
Protect our child.
Luan Fei, I only feel alive after I've met you.
Yet now, this happiness has come to an end.
I still get to watch one last sunset with you...
I'm content.
So many rulers had made such great achievements in life.
All they sought was sovereignty.
Yet in the end, they all died in the cold, hard palace.
Thinking about it, how pathetic that was.
I'm willing to follow Your Highness in life and death.
Have you really prepared for it?
Fireworks in the daytime could be so radiant?
This is the signal for the Imperial Army to launch an attack.
Could Crown Prince have deployed the Imperial Army?
Yes. If the Imperial Army and Black Armor Army get into combat
the consequences will be dire.
I'd be so bold as to ask Father to fulfill a wish of mine!
Ask away.
My request doesn't concern the state.
It's personal.
As a son, I couldn't serve my mother.
It makes me uneasy at all times.
I hope that Father could grant me my wish.
You'd like me to pardon your mother?
Mother has committed a grave sin.
However, she now regrets it deeply.
The Cold Palace is one tragic place.
Mother fell ill some time ago.
Her health has deteriorated greatly.
I hope that Father could forgive her for the sake of her past affection.
Please allow me to serve both my parents so as to save me a lifetime of regret.
You're so filial.
I'll agree to your request to pardon her
but you must remember that it isn't the term you laid
for serving as an envoy to Liang State.
I understand.
Thank you, Father!
Soldiers, obey my command!
Protect Crown Prince!
- Get ready to break siege! - Yes!
Your Highness, I'll arrange for our men to guard this empty carriage.
We'll lure Black Armor Army away from the front.
Your Highness and Miss Luan Fei should leave from
the small route behind the village.
Perhaps, you could then shake off the pursuing troops.
You'll leave with the soldiers first.
Didn't we say that we'll stick together through life and death?
Why would Your Highness make me leave first?
Zhang Shu and I will lure Black Armor Army away together.
Otherwise, neither of us will be able to leave this village.
I'm not leaving.
If it is so, Your Highness could never flee from those soldiers.
This is the only way I could protect you.
Be good.
It will be too late if you don't leave now.
I don't need you to protect me.
Whatever happens, I must remain by your side!
- Guards! - Yes!
- Take her away! - Yes!
No, I won't leave!
Let go of me!
Your Highness!
Let go of me!
Your Highness!
I won't leave! I won't! Your Highness!
I won't leave!
Your Highness!
Your Highness, the Imperial Army is getting ready to break siege.
How should we respond to it?
Guard the exits but be sure not to cause any casualties.
Most of all, Crown Prince must not be harmed.
Yes! Let's go!
Ling, I've left one route opened.
Luan Fei should have left from the small route in the village now.
This is good.
We could then fulfill Hao's wish.
However, we would need to keep this all within control.
Black Armor Army must not cause Hao any harm.
Hold on!
Eunuch Sun and I are acting upon His Majesty's decree.
I am to speak to Crown Prince.
Perhaps, I could convince him to change his mind.
Your Highness, His Majesty has made an oral decree.
Crown Prince must not be harmed.
You are all to step back!
Without my orders, none of you are to take any action.
Step back!
I've set Luan Fei free.
Eunuch Sun, Your Ladyship, please be careful.
Commander Zhang, do you know your actions would only
do great harm to Crown Prince?
His Highness left the palace rashly.
His Majesty flew into a fury.
If he refuses to return to the palace
not only will he be punished but the Imperial Army will be killed as well.
Could I say a few words to His Highness?
Zhang Shu! Let them in!
Yes, Your Highness!
Luan Fei, haven't you already left?
Why wouldn't you obey me?
Your Highness, I will be where you are.
I'll never leave without you.
Why would you do so?
Crown Prince.
Could I speak to Luan Fei in private?
Fleeing from the palace will have you sentenced to death.
Why would you choose the path to imminent death?
I want to be with Crown Prince.
There's no other way apart from seeking the last resort.
Yuan Ming!
Since you know about my relationship with our brother-in-law
why would you keep approaching him again and again?
That day in Muyuan Hospital...
I saw how he looked at you.
Even if it were just a hint of it...
I understood right then that he has taken you for Xian Wu!
You know all the more better than I do
that he had no place in his heart for anyone else but Xian Wu.
I've tried so hard for so long...
Why couldn't I win him over?
What is the point in staying alive?
You wish to die?
Yet you would consign Crown Prince beyond redemption?
If only death could leave a mark on someone's heart for life...
I have nothing to fear.
Why would you accept the drug I gave you?
Take this.
At a critical moment, this might be able to save you.
What is this?
Think this through carefully.
You can make up your mind when the time comes.
Why should I believe in you?
It's because I know of all your secrets.
Yet you are left with no other choice.
The herb is called Netherworld Mandrake.
It's a drug that can fake one's death.
Fake death?
Then there would no longer be Crown Prince and Feng Luan Fei?
Once this drug is taken
not only will the breathing and heartbeat stop
but the body will also go cold.
To most people, it would seem no different from a corpse.
Even the imperial physician won't be able to tell.
However, it is just a false appearance.
The effect would last for 10 days.
As long as the antidote is taken in time, there will be no harm caused at all.
You and Crown Prince should take this drug.
As for the rest, leave it to me.
All these years, His Majesty has invested so much time and effort in Your Highness.
He intends to hand over the sovereignty of Great Wei to you.
I understand what Eunuch Sun just said.
But that was never my ambition.
Your Highness, you're being silly!
- You-- - Your Highness!
Your Highness, I wish to speak to you.
All right.
Zhang Shu, come here. I need to speak with you.
Your Highness.
Follow my orders.
Take Qing Chen as our hostage.
Yes, Your Highness.
Your Highness, Luan Fei is willing to go along with my arrangement.
I wonder if Your Highness--
What do you mean by this, Your Highness?
Your Highness!
If you don't wish for her to die here, you'd better stay away!
Your Highness, you mustn't do so!
I never expected Crown Prince to do anything as such.
I have no other choice. Forgive us.
Ling has had us completely trapped.
You're the only one he cares about.
You're the only bargaining chip that can get us out of here.
Once you leave Yong Prefecture, your life will be in peril.
Would you want to die under such indecent cause?
Qing Chen, don't worry about us.
Since His Highness and I have already made a decision
this is our fate.
Despite what we might have to face...
Your Highness should think it through.
If you insist on leaving in this manner
it is certain that you could never turn back again.
Please fulfill my wish, Your Ladyship.
Zhang Shu, we'll take the small path.
Yes!
Let's go.
Your Highness, it's a dead end.
Who knew that after all the efforts we've made
we still came to a dead end?
It's all right. I'm here for you.
Your Highness, I'm sorry.
I've become your burden.
I've already told you.
We're in love with each other.
What burden is there?
I'm willing to be with you till the end of the world.
However, we could only end this love right here now.
Luan Fei...
I still can't protect you.
Your Highness...
All in all, I'm the one who owes you.
Don't be silly.
May we both be reborn as ordinary people in our next lives.
Sure.
In our next lives, we'll just be like an ordinary couple.
We'll stay together and grow old leading a quiet life.
Your Highness.
- You mustn't, Your Highness! - Shut up!
"He searched heaven and hell..."
Luan Fei...
No one could tear us apart again.
Netherworld Mandrake shouldn't have caused such a reaction.
How could this be?
This isn't possible!
Hao!
What did you discuss with Miss Luan Fei?
What did you discuss?
Let go of her!
We'll talk about this when we get back!
[Crown Prince of Great Wei, Yuan Hao's memorial tablet]
I had left you my sovereignty.
Is this how you repay me?
Open your eyes.
Answer me.
Even if you're not fond of the sovereignty and power
you should cherish your own life.
You think that if you leave like this...
You could have what you wished for?
My silly son...
What a silly child...
When you set out, what did you promise me?
You promised to bring my crown prince back to me safe and sound.
Yet you've brought back to me a cold corpse.
I have let Father down.
I'm willing to be punished for it.
Punish you?
What good will it do to punish you?
Will it revive my crown prince?
Then there's you as well.
Zhang Shu.
Is the Imperial Army going to rebel against me?
I entrusted the Imperial Army to you.
But what have you done with it?
I admit to my sins!
Guards.
Have Zhang Shu thrown into the Celestial Dungeon!
Yes, Your Majesty.
Father refuses to see anyone at the moment.
He's only entrusted Crown Prince's funeral entirely to me.
This is my fault.
I didn't expect things to turn out like this.
What do you mean?
The drug that Luan Fei took was from me.
That's the Netherworld Mandrake.
It can fake death as a camouflage.
However, it ended up becoming a lethal poison.
Why didn't you tell me sooner?
Why?
What about Hao?
Did Hao know about this?
Judging from what they said to each other then
Crown Prince didn't seem to know.
There must be a problem with Luan Fei.
Why would they seek such an end when they have a way out of it?
I thought that I had everything under my control.
However, I didn't expect Luan Fei to be so devoted.
All I can say is that Luan Fei truly was devoted to Hao.
No.
Luan Fei wasn't in love with Crown Prince.
It was Prince Ming.
Ji...
I've already made use of Luan Fei to get rid of Crown Prince.
When I succeed the throne, I'll prepare great wine as an offering to you.
I'd never have you and Xian Wu die for nothing.
This...
Having to bury my own child...
My daughter...
How would you have me go on living on my own?
Isn't this as good as killing me?
Father, please take care.
I've spent all my life in uncertainty, ups and downs of bureaucracy.
Be it battles and great obstacles, what have I not overcome?
Who knew...
In the end, I couldn't even protect my own daughters...
Father, don't reproach yourself.
However hard we try, there are matters we can't change...
Luan Fei...
She was too deeply in love.
She had her life ruined because of love!
She had lived this life and died with the one she loved...
I wonder if this is the final choice she made?
Whether this is the final choice she made or not...
It is the deepest and greatest agony a father could possibly endure.
Here, start shoveling. Quickly.
Your Highness, someone from Muyuan Hospital delivered a letter.
I was told to hand it to Your Highness.
[Autumn Pavilion, south of the city.]
[I'll wait till you show up, Feng Qing Chen.]
Your Highness.
The one from Muyuan Hospital asked to meet up with me.
That sorceress has always been very cunning.
If she suddenly asks to see you, there might be a trap.
Am I to be afraid of her?
It's not that.
It's just best to be cautious.
If Your Highness is really going to meet up with her
it's still better to have me protect you in secret
just in case anything happens.
You might as well.
You'll come along with me to see what tricks they are up to.
Your Ladyship usually avoids me like a plague.
Yet today, you've asked me over--
Brother-in-law.
Luan... Luan Fei?
What exactly is going on?
What are you doing here?
I owe this all to my sister's arrangement.
She knows that Your Highness and I are deeply in love.
She specially arranged for us to meet here.
What is it?
Is Your Highness very surprised to see me?
You're not happy?
Why would you say so?
I'm extremely happy to see you.
You must have endured much hardship having to stay by Hao's side?
As long as I can fulfill your wish, I don't find it hard.
That's good.
You still know me best.
Do you now see him for what he truly is?
Would you still seek death for a man like him?
Do you know that Luan Fei not only wanted to kill Crown Prince
but also sacrifice her life to fulfill your wish?
However, the gods took pity on her.
The Netherworld Mandrake happens to cure the poison of Crane's Red Crown.
You haven't thought of that?
You didn't even have to kill her.
Just a few words from you and she would sacrifice her life for you willingly.
What nonsense is that?
Luan Fei, tell him.
Had Crown Prince made up his mind to kill himself?
You must have discovered that I'm pregnant.
That's why you gave me the Netherworld Mandrake.
Since you can figure this out, why can't you see him for who he is?
Qing Chen, I wish to speak to him.
Please?
Xian Wu has always remained in your heart.
Is it because she's dead and could never be revived?
That's why Xian Wu will always be beautiful and perfect.
No one in this world can replace Xian Wu.
Most importantly...
A man's heart could only be promised to one woman.
There could only be one love of a lifetime.
Apart from her...
I could not tolerate anyone.
I see.
I should have known.
I had thought that as long as I persisted...
I could still win over even the hardest of hearts.
Now that I think about it...
We are all alike.
We both have someone on our minds.
We are actually the same type of person.
Luan Fei...
Let him leave.
I wish to sacrifice my life in exchange for his survival.
My sister...
Please help me this one last time.
Brother-in-law, this is the last thing I could do for you.
- Luan Fei! - Stay away!
For the sake of a man who doesn't love you...
Is this worthwhile?
You should know it better than I do.
It's not about whether it's worthwhile or not.
It's only whether I'm willing or not.
Brother-in-law, what are you still waiting for?
Sister Qing Chen...
I'm sorry.
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