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[Episode 12]
- Your Highness! - No matter what happens
you're not to come in.
What are you going to do?
Your Highness!
Sheng...
Sheng! My son, Sheng!
Sheng!
Father...
Who are you?
I am you.
You are not me.
You pretended to forget.
You've locked away the memory of me.
I will always exist.
One day...
I will return.
Since I can have you locked away
I can do so forever.
That's your own wishful thinking!
You and I are one.
There's no telling us apart.
You don't really know when I will be unleashed again.
I can do it.
Then why have you failed to find true happiness all these years?
Why do you keep thinking about escaping into that glass bead?
Fool.
I am you.
The demon within me!
You've harmed people, so you shall be destroyed!
Fool...
You wish to protect the people.
You think that all people are kind and innocent?
They don't have their own demons?
Should you discover one day
that everyone in the world has become demons...
who will protect you?
It won't happen.
Are you out of the glass bead, or am I in it?
This is all illusion. You are wherever you want to be.
How beautiful.
Really?
Don't you find it strange in some way?
There's the sun.
But I can't feel its warmth.
There's also wind, but I can't seem to feel it.
And...
there is no other sound.
Wherever we are, we're there, but we're also blocked out of it.
Apart from seeing it with our eyes
there are no other senses.
Nothing else could make you feel lonelier than this place.
How long have you been in the glass bead?
Time doesn't exist in here.
Time goes on.
In a day, it's the sequence of morning, noon, evening, and night.
There's no such sequence here.
Whatever time of the day you have on your mind
it shall appear in here.
Therefore, I can't figure out or calculate how long I've been in here.
That's quite nice as well.
People can then remain young forever.
That's quite a blessing.
Without the old as a comparison, how is there youth?
Without the flow of time...
there is no indicator of the past.
Nor the future.
There is no past?
Then how did you get into the glass bead?
I also often ask myself this question.
However...
I really can't remember.
As far as I can recall, I've only been in one other place.
It's been on my mind.
I also don't understand.
What place is it?
I'm always right here.
It's also always here.
But I can't remember why.
It's just as if...
my hometown is in the sea.
But it's so vast that I don't know where it is.
There are words written on that ship!
Duke Heng?
Is there anyone else in this glass bead?
Take care.
Server!
Get us another bottle of wine!
Sir, just a moment.
Coming!
Madam, two pots of tea, please?
Serve wine in the rooms!
Madam?
Madam, are there any seats left?
Yes, there are! Come right in!
Madam, another half a kilo of beef!
Half a kilo of beef!
Sure! Half a kilo of beef!
Serve the food quickly!
Sure! Coming!
You saw it?
There are other people in the glass bead sometimes.
And sometimes not.
Did you also imagine those people?
I had also thought so in the beginning.
Then I gradually realized that
their looks and time of appearance aren't exactly controlled by me.
They don't know where you were from either?
No matter how many people I've seen in here
you're the only one who can speak to me.
Really?
Only I can speak to you?
Why are you so happy?
I don't know why either.
I just suddenly feel happy.
I couldn't hide such joy in time.
Look!
There's nothing over there.
Why have you left?
Are you angry?
If I've done anything wrong, please come out and tell me.
I'll apologize to you.
I know that you can hear me.
You've told me that only my voice exists in here.
Come on out!
I don't even know your name yet.
You've really left?
I'll head home as well then.
Haven't you already left?
I thought that it was too lonely for you to be here alone.
It's quite pitiful.
I'm not.
Apart from having no one to talk to
this place has everything that I want.
Is it all right for me to come and chat with you from now on?
- Really? - Yes.
No, thank you.
What is your name?
I don't have a name.
How could you not have a name?
You can have as many ordinary names as you want.
But I didn't like any.
I'm waiting for a name that belongs only to me.
How about I give you one?
You've come to see me so you could give me a name?
You told me once.
You're one of the Charmers.
What abilities do Charmers have?
We can create magical powers?
Is there any magical power that can cure illnesses?
Is this why you have come to see me?
You wish to learn from my magical powers?
That was why.
However...
after I met you--
Is that why you said you'd come and chat with me often?
It isn't so.
You actually have an ulterior motive.
Your Highness!
Sir.
Have you come to see me for a reason?
Yes.
What is the matter?
Sir...
Could you help my prince?
If you need any help, I'll surely be of service.
It's not me.
It's His Highness who needs help.
I'm Prince Sheng's maid.
I boldly...
I boldly ask you for help on behalf of His Highness.
Tell me what it is about.
His Highness is keen on saving His Majesty.
He's asked the lady in the glass bead about magical powers.
However, he ended up offending her.
She now refuses to ever see him again.
His Highness has to study occultism on his own.
However, he doesn't have a clue.
He hasn't slept for days.
I had no other choice but to impose on you.
Has His Highness asked about the origins of that woman?
He said...
she's from the sea.
Has she mentioned a book?
I've never heard His Highness mention it.
How about this?
I'll have my men escort you home first.
Don't worry.
We'll surely help His Highness.
Thank you, sir.
Prince Ye, please look.
The woman in the painting is holding a scroll.
What is drawn on its cover?
What is it?
This is...
the "Book of the Charmers."
"Book of the Charmers"?
Exactly.
There are six tribes in Novoland.
Only the Charmers excel in magical powers.
There are two reasons.
The first reason is...
The Charmers are formed by spiritual energy.
Practicing occultism consumes great spiritual energy.
The Charmers have greatly surpassed the other five tribes.
The second reason is...
It's said that the Charmers have their own secret algorithm.
This "Book of The Charmers" is said to have recorded
the secret algorithm to their magical powers.
Every occultist in the world...
They regard this as a sacred book that they covet!
Hold on!
Why are you taking the Sky Knocker with you?
Why should we waste time on Muyun Sheng?
We might as well kill him and take his glass bead.
I can also see that woman.
Have you ever considered
why that glass bead ended up in the hands of Muyun Sheng's mother?
Why would that matter?
Of course it matters.
A Charmer of the sea is sealed within a glass bead.
I seemed to have read this legend somewhere.
Prince De.
Please assist Muyun Sheng in summoning out
the woman in the glass bead.
I--
I'll look into the origins of this glass bead.
Sheng.
This is fruitless.
What would I have to do then?
I can teach you how to coax the girl you like.
You even know of such matters?
I...
I'm quite good at it.
The books of the Longyuan Chamber stolen on the night of March Moon's rebellion
have already been located as Follower has requested of me.
I am too low of a status to look through them.
Master Follower, please visit the place in person.
His Majesty's birthday is around the corner.
How should we celebrate it?
Do you have any suggestions?
Prince Han and Prince Lu have been outstationed for years.
They have yet to be summoned back to Tian Qi City.
I think that all princes should be summoned
to celebrate His Majesty's birthday.
His Majesty could then enjoy a family reunion.
Inappropriate!
The two princes are guarding the nation.
Their duty is important. How can--
- Your Majesty! - Your Majesty!
Seal off all access to information.
No one is to let slip His Majesty's critical condition.
Master Nanku, give orders to fortify the garrison at Shang Yang Pass.
Defend it well.
You're taking the role of a ruler now?
I am the head adviser.
If I'm not taking charge, should you be the one to do so?
Should anyone rise in rebellion within the palace now
can you bear the responsibility?
Well said!
Master Gusong.
List out all the requirements stated in the Great Duan Empire's law
on anointing an heir apparent.
Look for an opportunity to announce it to the world.
If...
His Majesty passes away...
If His Majesty passes away...
If he has yet to make a royal decree to anoint his heir apparent
we'll abide by the law of the Great Duan Empire to anoint
the eldest prince, Prince Han, as the heir apparent.
Muru Shuo!
Nanku Qi.
That is the ancestral code.
Will you object to it as well?
I wonder...
I wonder if there's any news of Great General Muru's third son.
Master Nanku Qi, thank you for your concern!
I am late.
Your Highness, please forgive me.
How is my father faring?
He's yet to regain consciousness.
My father really hasn't written down a decree to anoint his heir?
Whether His Majesty did so...
only Jin Bing Yi, who served him, would know.
However, Jin Bing Yi was already executed by the empress.
There is no other way now.
We can only keep searching.
The Royal Tian Qi City has 9 palace halls and 12 quarters.
For the past four years
we've searched everywhere, but to no avail.
How are we to keep searching?
Perhaps...
Perhaps there is a decree in the Sword Chamber
that was written by His Majesty years ago.
Your Highness, we've already searched through it.
There is not.
What if...
What if it suddenly appears?
That's also possible.
It's just that it will require the royal seal.
Your Highness, Master Jia Si Ming, who now safeguards the royal seal
is also a past acquaintance of Master Nanku.
It won't be too difficult.
However...
His Majesty's handwriting...
Master Muru has known it since they were children.
Who could forge it without being exposed?
Is there really no other way?
I wonder if Your Highness has heard of the Sovereign Seal.
Isn't that the token of Novoland's emperors?
Since the Great Duan Empire was founded, it has yet to be discovered.
It's said that the descendants of the former royal Ji family took it
and can no longer be found.
Does Your Highness know that
since the Great Duan Empire was first established
Emperor Taizu made an oath?
Of the Muyun family's descendants, whoever it is...
as long as he can find the Sovereign Seal
he can become the emperor of the Great Duan Empire.
That was hundreds of years ago.
Who would still acknowledge that oath?
As long as it's the ancestral code, the oath will be valid.
If it can be found, they would have found it.
This won't happen.
All right!
You may go.
Yes.
I'm sorry to make you hide.
[Nanku Yue Li]
It's good that you apologized.
I'm very displeased that I have to sneak around all the time.
I first met you in my uncle's manor when you were 12 years old.
I knew then that you were mine.
I belong to the future emperor.
Don't you...
Don't you want an emperor who is only devoted to you?
For instance, you?
Me.
Are you sure that you can become the emperor?
I'm not.
But I'll do my best.
Because...
I want you.
Yue Li.
No one else in this world but me knows...
what it is that you want.
And will willingly give it to you.
Is that so?
I'll give it my all so that you can have everything you want.
Whatever ambitions you have...
I'll satisfy them.
I pledge you my heart.
I still wish to give you what you desire the most.
Glory.
Can I trust you?
Do you want me to make a promise?
Or will you wait to witness the outcome?
I'm very good at forging handwriting.
I know.
When I first met you...
you were transcribing my father's poems.
However, whether I help you or not...
Allow me to think about it.
What else is there to consider?
Your Highness.
If Muyun Han really inherits the throne, it's only reasonable.
As for Your Highness's ambition...
why don't we strike beforehand and send our troops into Tian Qi City?
Then we'll force the emperor to abdicate.
But Shang Yang Pass is guarded by the Muru Cavalry.
There are also Muyun Lu's personal troops.
Our army will surely be spotted.
If we were to take them head on, we might suffer too great a loss.
Huo Si Zhong's men...
They might be of some use to us.
They have go through Shang Yang Pass as well from Yue Prefecture.
They might be able to take some of our weapons and rations across.
We'll meet up in Zhong Prefecture.
Get that done.
Yes.
Enough.
Get some rest.
Father!
Here, sit down.
Han Chuan.
How have you annoyed your father today?
He seems to be coming down on you a lot more today.
It's not Han Chuan's fault.
It's me, then?
If Father's angry, just come at me.
I can take a beating better than Han Chuan.
How are you any better?
I can surely take a beating better than you!
You might lead the army to war, but back at home, you're just children.
How is that what Madam Muru would say?
It's already troubling to think of the state affairs.
You should at least relax when you're at home.
With your family by your side
take a short break and perhaps
you might look at some matters more clearly.
His Majesty has been in a coma for days.
Have you carried out the tasks I've entrusted to you?
Great General.
In order to prevent arch princes in various prefectures from
invading Tian Qi City's strategic passes
Shang Yang Pass, Heng Yu Pass, Yun Ge Pass are all fortified.
However...
Nanku Qi...
He has also planted his own captains to participate in
military discussions with the other generals.
There was initially reinforcement at Tian Qi City
but Nanku Qi didn't consent to it.
He said that His Majesty is unwell.
It's inauspicious to reinforce the city with more soldiers.
Therefore, I could only reinforce the city with the Lion Fang Guards
the Muru family's personal soldiers stationed in the suburbs.
Only Lion Fang Guards can be deployed without Nanku Qi's permission.
It's just that there are too few of them.
There are no more than 3,000 men.
There is another matter.
Why have you kept stalling from carrying it out?
Have you found Muru Han Jiang?
Father.
Han Chuan has been busy defending Tian Qi City.
I've been in charge of searching for Han Jiang.
It's just that I'm incompetent.
I've visited various places over a long period of time
but I have yet to find him.
Maybe you simply don't want to find him.
I wouldn't dare.
For the sake of your brotherhood?
Right.
Overlooking the general situation?
Wrong.
I'll give you a month to find Muru Han Jiang.
Tie him up and bring him to me.
Should he resist...
Should he escape...
kill him on the spot.
Yes.
Yan'er.
I understand.
As a member of the Muru family...
your life is no longer your priority.
Neither are your family's lives.
It's been quite a while.
Are they all right?
Our Corporal Wang will surely be fine!
- Right? - Corporal Wang will be fine!
It's hard to say for Corporal Han Jiang!
Tonight, we'll surely get the merit for it!
It's definitely ours!
Why are you just like your Corporal Wang?
- All you care about is merit. - Of course!
If not, why would we have joined the Muru Cavalry?
We're upholding law and order in this world.
Upholding law and order during such times?
Your corporal has led you all into holding useless principles.
Han Jiang once said
the more people feel lost in life
the more we should light a fire within us.
Otherwise, without the light, we will really be living blindly.
He can't hold his breath any longer, look!
Han Jiang can't hold it.
I'm out of breath!
- Han Jiang has won! - Han Jiang has won!
- Han Jiang! - Han Jiang!
Wang Yi Jia!
- Han Jiang! - Han Jiang!
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