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[Episode 32]
When Crown Prince left, he ordered Father to unchain you.
I heard that Crown Prince asked you a question.
It even left Father terrified.
How did you answer him?
I didn't answer.
Although Muyun Sheng said that I always act as my temperament wills
and I never hesitate...
he still got it wrong in the end.
I don't have an answer to that question.
I've never seriously thought that I'd have to answer such a question.
Your best friend...
If he suddenly becomes evil one day...
what will you do?
What happened next?
Next?
Muyun Sheng is Muyun Sheng indeed.
There won't be another person like him in the world ever again.
He drove out Father and Yu Xin Ji.
He then said a few words to me.
What did he say to you?
He asked me to carry out some tasks at certain moments in the future.
As for the tasks...
I can't let you know.
However...
What I can tell you is that...
He is a king.
He is a real king.
Will you do as he asked of you?
You've also just asked a question that I can't answer yet.
I'll know the answer by then.
Should the day come
grab on to your Bone Chiller and stab me with it.
Kill me and stop me from disappointing everyone.
That is saving me.
Your Highness.
It seems that His Majesty still misses Yin Rong?
You're also here to mock me?
No, I'm here to bring you a gift.
What gift is that?
Time.
I've been busy handling this matter for days
and managed to bribe quite a few connections.
I can only give you an hour.
Dress down tomorrow.
I'll take you out of the palace.
I can't leave the palace.
Unless you don't want to.
I haven't said if I want what you have to offer.
I think...
you will definitely want it.
Thank you, gentlemen.
He's been kept in captivity for a very long time.
Anyone would have found it unbearable.
You must stay cautious.
Don't forget this.
You only have an hour.
He Ge...
Mother has come to see you.
Mother...
You're here?
You've lost weight...
You've lost weight.
I'm all right.
I'm doing very well.
Do rise.
My subjects...
Do rise.
We're running tight on time.
We should hurry.
Visiting a sinned subject in captivity without permission...
Should anyone learn of this matter
we could be exiled for committing a felony.
I do know that.
What is it that you want?
What is it that I want?
I've also been thinking...
What exactly is it that I want?
On my way here, I've figured it out.
You riding in the carriage, and me walking alongside you.
Together, we head toward the same destination.
That is what I want.
It's even a good bargain.
I also get a return journey.
It's as simple as that?
It is as simple as that.
Why would someone like you act so foolishly?
I've always been smart.
I won't deny it.
As I reflect on the first half of my lifetime
I've always been busy.
Only the foolish matters left an impression on me.
Foolishness...
It reminds me of youth.
We should get going.
Could you be foolish one last time?
How so?
Ask His Majesty to release He Ge.
All your life, you've always given me a hard time.
Don't you like me?
If you like someone, should you do more for her?
Not to mention that...
I even gave you a return journey.
Fine.
After the family banquet...
I shall do as you so wish.
Prince De.
The Red Sleeve Scent you asked for.
This urn is aged and ready.
Leave it.
There's another batch that will be ready in a few days.
Prince De, you asked for it so urgently. What is it for?
I have to make the best of my time.
Father is heading into the palace for the banquet in a few days.
The wine will be brought in to be drunk.
It's for those in the palace?
This wine is delicate and soft.
It has a floral scent.
Prince Sheng might like it.
You do still think of him?
This wine is prepared for him.
He is now an heir apparent.
Do you regret having left him?
I served him for seven or eight years.
Then I suddenly left.
It's a lie if I say that I don't think of him.
But to say that I regretted it...
I never did.
I...
I'm happier when I am at Prince De's side.
You're dismissed.
Godfather!
What is it?
My father wants us to fill the wine with magical power.
The kind that drives people crazy right after consuming it.
Do you know any?
Yes.
Who is it intended for?
Muyun Sheng.
Why would he want him to go crazy?
I don't know why either.
My father simply can't stand that he's the crown prince.
You mustn't do so.
Have you forgotten about our great ambition?
I'm in a real dilemma being caught between two fathers.
It's just that my father keeps urging me.
He also wants someone to try it in advance to see the effect.
Godfather, why don't you add in the magical power first?
I will have a way to ensure Muyun Sheng's safety.
Tell me about it.
If you need to discuss any important matters
come over here.
These are all our people.
I'll trouble Arch Prince Ye, then.
Prince Han.
Yu Xin Ji.
You must also be wondering why I would have anything
to do with Arch Prince Ye when everyone knows of his ambition?
Your Highness, you must have your reasons.
It's just that I'm too slow.
I fail to understand.
Do lives matter more...
or one's reputation?
I will always follow the lead of Your Highness.
The banquet will soon be held.
Is everything ready?
Offering my service to Your Highness, I need not hesitate.
However, I beseech Your Highness to leave it to me when the time comes.
You just have to protect my father.
My own younger brother...
Leave him to me.
Who would have known?
It still has to come to hurting one another in the family.
Sheng has always been clever.
I shall always feel guilty for hurting him.
Your Highness only came to such a decision for the people
after much consideration.
Everyone will surely be in awe of Your Highness.
If I were born on the prairie...
there would be vast sky and lands before my eyes.
I would not be thinking all about personal gains and worldly affairs.
I'll be honest with you.
Since coming to this decision, I haven't been able to sleep for months.
My hair even turned gray.
Your Highness must have had such a hard time.
However, I still can't understand one matter
and would like to ask Your Highness.
How would Your Highness know for sure that
Prince Sheng's demons will act up at the banquet?
He needs only to drink that wine.
The moon will soon be full.
What a beautiful sight it'd be
if a reunited family could gaze upon the full moon.
As for the royal family, there's even more entertainment.
The wine...
It's ready?
I've tested it on someone.
Insanely drunk and obsessively crazy.
He could only be stopped by killing him.
It's all due to Father's eloquence that
one-track minded Muyun Han was convinced to stir up trouble.
No one will find fault with the wine we supplied.
Then...
it's best that you and Mister Mo don't attend.
I'll make up some excuses to report to His Majesty.
Father... You burn the bridge after crossing the river.
You're afraid that I'll take credit for it?
Would you still think so if there's potential danger?
Father, you're worried about me?
You're my son.
Who should I worry about if not you?
Father has worked day and night.
I'll gaze upon the moon with you.
Just like we did when I was a child.
Just like we did when you were a child...
I recall how you looked as a child...
You were so adorable.
Your Highness.
Get in the carriage.
Where to?
Do you want to chat with me?
There are many towns suffering from famine lately.
It's not often that I get to see the hustle and bustle of Tian Qi.
You won't even let me take a look or two?
I'll take you to an even better place.
Where to?
The palace.
I'm not going.
Even you think of it as a bird cage.
I'm not going there with you.
I'm taking you there to see someone.
Who is it?
You'll surely want to meet this person.
But you can only see this person in the palace.
And only I can take you there.
We beseech Miss Su to try on the gown.
I won't wear it.
Miss Su, please spare our lives.
Why would I take your lives?
If you refuse to try on the gown
we won't know if it fits you well.
Crown Princess Consort will have to greet His Majesty, the empress
and Crown Prince's mother in the wedding gown
the day after the wedding ceremony.
Each takes six standing greetings, three kneeling, and three bows.
There is no knowing how many times Miss Su will have to kowtow that day.
If this gown doesn't fit you in some way and the empress spots...
No.
If Consort Yin Rong spots it, how would we both stay live?
Please sympathize with us.
Consort Yin Rong?
Isn't Consort Yin Rong deceased?
Miss Su, do you really not know?
Nowadays, we are all to address the empress as Consort Yin Rong
whenever we are in the presence of His Majesty.
But we are never to mention her name to the empress.
A slight slip of the tongue, and our lives might be forfeited.
Greetings, Crown Prince!
You are dismissed.
Yes.
Do rise.
"Its protruding yet soft branches are just as complementary."
"A sight of freshness and magnificence."
"Amidst the cold, I’m the first to bud."
"Which other flowers dare to bloom?"
One of my works in my teens.
Your Highness, you must find it poorly written.
Everyone in the palace says that you write with such magnificence.
Your ambition is obvious.
They mean to say that I have the ambition to become an empress?
I knew nothing much then.
Back then, I saw that only the plum blossoms bloomed in the snow
so I came up with the poem spontaneously.
Little did I know that the tongue is not steel, yet it cuts.
That was not what I had meant to imply.
All the betrothal gifts were sent to your parents' residence in Yue Prefecture.
It isn't quite appropriate for you to tell me this now.
I have even more inappropriate words to say to Crown Prince.
I don't wish to marry Your Highness.
I hope that Your Highness could ask His Majesty to withdraw this decree.
Why?
It's because...
I have already fallen for another.
My feelings for him...
For all eternity...
never will this love falter.
Who is it?
It's...
Is there any food at all in these quarters?
I'm starving to death.
Why are you so impatient?
She was just about to tell me.
Tell you what?
Did I interrupt you?
- Eat it. - No.
The two of you are teasing me?
We have no such intention.
You're being too sensitive.
I haven't seen you for a long while.
I just wanted to see you.
Miss Su, I suggested doing so.
I wanted to confirm your feelings for Han Jiang.
Little did I expect to offend you.
If you're upset, blame it on me.
Don't blame him.
He's just helping me.
He brought me to the palace to see you.
So you...
Why have you come to see me?
Just say what you will.
Miss Su and Crown Prince are getting married soon.
I am here to congratulate you.
Han Jiang...
That day in the underground cave...
when we were caught between Tian Luo's snare wires...
do you remember what you said to me then?
I was just mumbling rubbish then.
I've already forgotten it all.
You forgot?
Su Yu Ning!
From now on, until the end of life, you are mine.
I don't care if you're the destined empress.
Nor do I care about the Muyuns' sovereignty and the Murus' honor.
I just want you by my side.
As long as I shall live.
From this day forth...
I'll protect you!
It's good that you've forgotten.
If you've forgotten...
you will have friends...
family...
and glory.
It isn't so!
What is it, then?
You have feelings for her
but why are you scared to speak from the bottom of your heart?
Say it quickly.
Don't let my efforts go to waste.
Crown Prince.
Do you think that I'll look nice in this outfit?
[Brothel, Tian Qi City]
Yue Li! You have a customer.
Sir, have a seat.
Is this your first visit?
No.
Are you nervous?
Yes.
Your father was once my superior.
I only play music.
Sure, sure!
It's still worth it.
Put that down first.
It's tiring to sit like that.
This?
I can't put this down.
I depend on this for my lifetime of wealth.
What is it?
You can't bear to tell?
You're afraid that I'll steal it?
Kingfisher's feathers...
Feather coat.
What's great about that?
When I was in the palace, the empress had a new one every year.
What are you looking at?
I'm looking at someone who fell into the mud
but still reminisces about the past beautiful scenery on the mountain.
It's even more exciting than a theater performance.
This one is more or less like the ones presented to the empress.
The quality is even better.
It's woven with 3,000 feathers under the wings of kingfishers
and embellished with 100 some luminous pearls.
It's very precious.
Even the Oceanides covet it.
This is the only one in Novoland.
I'd like to take a look at it.
You want to take a look?
This is going to be presented to the Duan Empire's next empress.
If I let you have a look at it...
wouldn't it be tainted?
The next empress...
Who is it?
Don't you know?
She's the daughter of Yue Prefecture's Su Cheng Zhang.
Su..
Yu...
Ning.
As her birth chart indicates
Su Yu Ning will be the empress of the next emperor.
If you hit me again, I will strike back.
Are you lying to me?
I am not.
I don't believe you.
I'm sorry.
You'll succumb to me?
I had wanted to keep putting up with it.
Well done.
There are only five strings.
Two are already broken.
It seems that I won't get to listen to a tune or two tonight.
How about...
we...
do something else?
What would you like to do?
What else can we do?
Catch up on the old times?
Catch up on the old times with me?
Is that fitting?
It is.
It definitely is!
It can't be more fitting!
Back then in Wan Prefecture
I only happened not to share the same opinion as your father.
Nanku Qi then sent someone into my manor
to go through my account books for more than three months!
My father went crazy because of that.
He had me and my son thrown into prison!
My son was beaten to death in the prison cell.
The day I learned of his death...
I made an oath to the gods!
"I have to stay alive."
"I have to stay alive to watch the Nanku family crumble and fall!"
Justice is served!
I finally got to see that happen...
This is such a joyous occasion.
How can I not have a chat with you about it?
What are you laughing at?
You...
You've been reinstated to your original position?
I am a capable official!
After the downfall of your father, I was even promoted two ranks higher.
You made a comeback.
Certainly!
I should be happy.
If you can...
so can I.
You're still dreaming of becoming an empress someday?
An empress from a brothel?
Young lady, come to your senses.
You're nothing more than a cheap wench who can be bought with money!
You like that glory of being supreme and mighty?
You like that glamour of being praised by all?
Be a dutiful prostitute.
That will also make your name known in history for generations!
Shut up!
This is your destiny!
You have to accept it.
Once you do...
you will then live in ease.
I simply refuse to accept it.
I refuse to accept it!
In this world, apart from myself...
no one dares to decide my destiny.
No one is fit to decide my destiny!
Murder!
Jin Lao Er, call the authorities!
Someone's been killed!
- Run! - Quickly!
Someone's been killed!
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