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Katherine Rule The World
Episode 18
How is she, doctor?
Princess.
Gedai's bruises are not serious.
As long as apply the medicine carefully,
stay away from water,
she'll get recovered in ten days around.
But the root cause of her illness...
I'm afraid it's long-time tiredness
that makes her weak and vulnerable.
That's to say.
It forms gradually during a long time.
So it's not possible to cure her in a short period of time.
Even being nursed with care,
she still needs three to five months to get truly recovered.
It's good that she can be cured.
Time is not a problem.
Okay.
I'll go write a prescription and get the medicine for her.
Okay.
Princess.
Domestic affairs header wants to see you.
Let him in.
Please come in, sir.
Greetings, princess Buyiyamaha.
Rise.
Princess.
We also have heard of what happened to Gedai.
Now she's so sick.
I'm afraid that she can't fulfill her duty to serve you.
Beile told us to choose another maid for you.
Don't worry, princess.
This maid is very experienced.
I bow before princess Buyiyamaha.
Beile said that in person?
Even though beile didn't say it openly,
but he's always thinking of you.
Look.
Go tell beile.
Thanks for his kindness.
But I don't need this maid.
It's enough to have Gedai with me.
But Gedai is so sick...
I'm afraid that she can't serve you.
Gedai is not my servant.
I don't need her to serve me.
She's my sister.
After she's awake,
I'll officially accept her as my sworn sister.
Gedai is so lucky.
Since she has you as her master.
All right.
Leave us if there's nothing else.
Excuse us, then.
Bye.
Yiliqi.
My lady.
From now on.
Gedai is your master.
You must do your best to take good care of her.
Keep her healthy.
Yes, my lady.
Stop.
What.
You've avoided me for days.
Still want to avoid me?
I know.
You're afraid that I'll ask you about Gedai.
But I still gotta ask.
Who made Gedai hurt so badly?
You can't hide it from me.
No matter what.
I'll figure it out.
That day when you got kidnapped by Baindari,
I was going to drive Gedai out.
After all, many people here hold grudges against you.
They might make it hard for Gedai when you're not around.
But she's just like you.
So stubborn. Wouldn't leave.
Said that she'll wait for you here.
Later, we had a fight with Ula.
She's lucky enough to have survived that.
Ula?
Does this have anything to do with Ula?
You forget that?
Bokeduo is Gedai's father.
Bujantai is her cousin.
Hudali who hurt you is her full brother.
The war at Wujie Stock.
Should have had nothing to do with a maid.
Sometimes you want to be good to someone.
But it might not be good for her.
There are many people who want to give full play
to this thing.
That's to say.
Gedai got hurt so badly.
Because of me.
This is not your fault.
It's just, there are too many ill-intentioned people.
Gedai is just a petty servant in Hetuala.
Once Bokeduo rebels,
those who hold grudges against you
will take full advantage of it.
They can do nothing to you. But can't they do anything to a maid by your side?
To give you a blow. Meanwhile.
Maybe they can also take down prime consort Abahai
who's also from Ula.
Isn't this perfect?
Dongge.
Father can pamper you.
But it doesn't mean the others can as well.
So you better learn from Abahai.
Just take care of your business every day.
Stop worrying about the others.
Okay?
Why people all will get hurt
every time they get closer to me?
I'm so useless.
Wait again.
Dongge.
Be patient.
I'm afraid that I can't bear it any more.
Dongge.
Do you believe me?
Then it's enough.
Gedai, you're awake.
You're finally awake.
How long have I slept?
Seven or eight days.
Makes princess so scared.
Where's princess?
Why don't you serve princess but come here?
Gedai.
You don't know that.
Princess has taken you as her sworn sister.
From now on, you're also a master in this house.
She also asks me to serve you.
What did you say?
You...
Princess. Princess.
Gedai!
You're already princess's sworn sister.
Princess.
Princess, I...
How can I afford it?
I...
Princess...
Princess, thank you for taking care of me these days.
You saved my life.
From now on.
I'll be yours dead or alive. Even if...
Enough. Enough.
I don't want you to become a ghost and haunt me.
My lady. I have another request.
Although you've taken me as your sister,
I hope you still allow me to serve you.
Okay.
If I grant your request,
you're also gonna promise me one thing.
Listen up.
Don't say "my lady" ever again.
From now on, call yourself my sister and me your sister.
If you can't do it,
I'll make you...
Transcribe ten Han books!
Princess.
You're bullying me.
You can make me do any tiring work.
But transcribe Han characters?
I can't even hold the writing brush! Transcribe Han characters, won't it kill me?
Princess, you make fun of me again.
Then remember, call me sister in the future.
Yes, prin...
Sister.
My good sister.
Get up.
Come, sit down.
Beile.
Our spy in Hulun Hoifa sent back a report.
Said that Baindari has been building walls these months.
Added two more to Hurki outer rampart.
Turned Hurki into a city with three fold protective walls.
Father.
It seems that Baindari
has felt that we'll send troops to Hulun Hoifa.
Father.
I'm afraid that we've
missed the best timing to attack the city.
Breaking into a city needs plenty of armed forces.
But now there are three walls in Hurki.
So we can only attack wisely, not blindly.
Let me think more about it.
It's really strange these days.
Only thunder, no rain.
Soon.
It'll rain soon.
I'm afraid that it'll rain heavily to submerge Hurki.
Since that.
Why do you pull a long face every day?
We'll attack Hurki.
But it's not that easy to take it down.
Defense in Hurki is really...
What are you reading?
[ Doing one thing to cover up for another ]
About attacking Hulun Hoifa.
Did you get any idea these days?
Father.
I've got an idea.
Don't know if it's feasible.
Enlighten me.
We can send a troop of soldiers with good Kungfu.
To disguise as businessmen in Hurki.
When our main force goes directly to attack Hurki
and attracts all their defense,
our soldiers in Hurki
can fight within the city to cooperate with us.
Then we'll probably take Hurki down.
Good.
Hong Taiji, this is a good idea.
Hong Taiji, you've really advanced fast.
Congrats, father.
Now you have another wise general.
In this case.
Cuyen, Daisan, be responsible for attacking from outside.
As for the inside work, will be Hong Taiji's.
Yes, father.
Won't let you down.
Daisan.
What's wrong with Hong Taiji?
Why didn't he send us any signal?
Just wait.
Big brother.
It seems that he makes it.
It's time to give out the order.
Soldiers!
Hurki has already been taken by us! Go!
Kill!
Father.
These are heads of Hulun Hoifa beile Baindari and his father.
Please take a look, father.
Good.
You may leave.
All rise.
Thank you, father.
Good.
God gives me three excellent sons.
It's really a bliss to me and Jianzhou.
Especially Hong Taiji.
Taking down Hurki this time didn't cost us a single soldier. Thanks to Hong Taiji!
I gotta reward you handsomely.
What do you want? Just tell me.
To reduce your burden is my duty.
If you want to reward me,
please give me horses and armors.
So I can contribute again to Jianzhou.
Good.
Days ago, Mongolian beile sent me two
high-blooded ferghana horses.
I'll keep one and let you have the other.
Thank you, father.
Father.
Now Hulun Hoifa is a part of our Jianzhou.
Next, shall we attack that treacherous Bujantai?
Beile.
Ula beile Bujantai's envoy wants to meet you.
It seems that Bujantai thinks the same way.
Well, go meet him with me.
Let him in.
Ula's envoy!
Greetings, Jianzhou sure beile.
I'm asking for your forgiveness on behalf of beile Bujantai.
Did your lord Bujantai commit any crime?
Our beile said that he wasn't himself.
So he believed Yehe beile Gin Taisi and betrayed the alliance.
Harassed Waerka tribe and your princes at Wujie Rock.
He's really guilty!
Back then you were so aggressive at Wujie Rock.
Now you're defeated by us.
Come to ask for mercy till you know our Jianzhou's power.
Go back and tell your beile.
If he really feels guilty,
come to us with his own head chopped off! Cuyen, don't be rude.
Father!
Greetings, father.
Cuyen is straightforward and quick-tempered.
He can't let go of the Wujie Rock fight.
He'll claim to fight with Ula.
But I want to know your thoughts on this issue.
Father.
About this thing, I...
Speak out your mind.
Yes.
Father.
If we refuse Bujantai's pleading,
it equals to pushing him away to Yehe's Gin Taisi.
Neither Yehe nor Ula will be a threat separately.
But once they join hands,
consequences will go beyond imagination.
After we included Hulun Hoifa into our territory,
Ming empire started to notice us.
Our spy in Ming reported that they've already gathered armies outside the border.
If we fall out with Bujantai now,
we'll be between Scylla and Charybdis.
You spoke out my mind.
I'll not only accept Bujantai's pleading.
But also marry princess Mukushen to him.
To hold him for three or five years.
When our Jianzhou becomes stronger,
I'll cut this treacherous man into pieces!
Look at that crescent in the sky.
It'll be full in ten days.
But once humans get separated,
it'll be hard for them to be together again.
Princess, are you worrying about princess Mukushen?
Bujantai is a faithless, sinister man.
If princess Mukushen married him,
she surely will live a hard life.
Besides, the peace between Jianzhou and Ula is just for now.
When the time is ripe,
both side will fight fiercely.
By then.
Princess Mukushen...
Princess.
Average people all think it's a bliss to be born in the mansion.
But how could they know,
as long as you're born in the mansion,
you'll never get hold of your fate in this lifetime.
Whether you want it or not,
you'll only be a sacrifice to some war.
Don't know if aunt Monggo also felt helpless and sad
back then when she was still alive?
Princess, why did you suddenly think of aunt Monggo?
I don't know, either.
Don't know why.
Perhaps.
It's the way Lady Giyamuhut-Gioro saw her daughter off
that reminds me of aunt Monggo.
Gedai.
It's been four or five years since aunt left us, right?
Yes.
Princess, you have a good memory.
I should have a look at aunt.
You didn't get any news?
Forgive me, my lady.
I've tried all means but failed to know who's living in concubine Monggo's room now.
I only know that she's one of our Jurchens.
Not a Han girl.
Even can't find a servant from her room?
This is the strangest point.
None of her servants is from our beile mansion.
What?
Doesn't use any servant here.
If no other ways, let me break into her room .
Forget it.
If you end up in trouble, I can't keep you safe.
Well...
I'll go there in person.
Prime consort arrives!
Report again.
Yes, my lady.
Prime consort arrives!
Prime consort, please stop there!
Prime consort.
Beile told us.
Not to let anyone approach this room.
Beile told you?
Since you're beile's men,
you should have known that as the prime consort,
I have the right to look over every room here.
All step aside!
Prime consort.
You're in a high position and very powerful.
But in this mansion,
there's still some place that you can even take a step in.
Miss, you must get me wrong.
I'm not here to get any information.
I just want to send some silk fabrics and jewelry
to the woman Beile cares about.
Also to fulfill my duty as the prime consort.
Thank you, prime consort.
I have enough clothes and playthings here.
Beile has given me all what I should have.
I'm afraid that,
I have more things than you, prime consort.
How could you talk to my lady like this?!
You... Don't you know
you can't draw the blade in this mansion?!
Nazha.
Let it go.
In this case.
I'll stop bothering you.
Miss.
Please behave yourself.
I heard that you've been to Monggo's room.
Yes.
So you must have seen princess Sundai.
So her name is Sundai.
Your soldiers guarded the door.
How could I get in there?
It's just, I got several good satins days ago.
Wanted to give miss Sundai.
Didn't expect that she refused to see me.
She's got everything needed.
Don't need to worry about her any more.
Beile, you place miss Sundai in Monggo's room.
So you must like her very much.
Since that, why do you have to hide her away?
How about you marry her as your secondary concubine?
Or because she's not from a decent family?
Never mind. If you like her, I can take her as my sister.
So she can marry you as an Ula princess. Okay?
Beile, ease your anger.
You're in charge of thousands of people here.
Still don't feel tired?
Now you also want to step in an outsider's business?
Please forgive my transgression.
Prime consort.
What is that Sundai's background?
You just asked a few questions. But beile got so mad.
Prime consort, you're also weird.
For such a strange girl from no where,
why you didn't persuade beile to send her away,
but tell him to marry her?
Don't you find that beile cares about her very much?
Shouldn't we send her away sooner, then?
Over these years, apart from Dongge, Sundai is
the second one who makes beile care about her so much.
If we can put her in a high position,
perhaps we can make beile forget Dongge forever.
Is this a good move or a bad one?
Depends on our action.
Keep watching Sundai for me. To get more information.
Yes, my lady, I got it.
Did you bring oranges?
Aunt liked eating oranges the most when she was alive. Yes, I did.
Fried chestnuts?
Yes. Everything is here.
Princess, just relax.
I've got everything.
Don't forget anything.
Are you heading to Mt. Niyaman?
Yes.
No.
Why?
You still remember Mt. Niyaman.
Then do you remember how you left there last time?
Leaving the city so rashly.
Who is gonna be your kidnapper this time?
Bujantai?
I just want to see aunt.
Haven't thought that much. Don't go, then.
Dongge, please.
If mom knows you're taking such a big risk,
just to see her,
she won't feel happy.
I know you miss my mom.
I miss her, too.
On mom's memorial day next year,
I'll go with you, okay?
If you go to Mt. Niyaman alone,
I will feel worried.
I really can't lose you again.
All right. All right.
Gedai.
Go take a look at aunt's previous room with me.
To show my filial piety.
Yes.
Thank you, Dongge.
Gedai.
Is this room deserted after aunt passed away?
Yes.
I also remember that beile has sealed up this room.
Then who's living in it now?
I don't know, either.
By riverside are cooing, a pair of turteldoves.
A good young man is wooing, a fair maiden he loves.
Water flows left and right, of cress long here, short there.
The youth yearns day and night, for the good maiden fair.
His yearning grows so strong, he can not fall asleep.
But tosses all night long, so deep in love, so deep!
-Now gather left and right, cress long or short and tender. -Princess.
What is the girl inside reading so loudly?
A poem from the Book of Songs.
Written by Han people.
Princess, you mean.
A Han girl is living in there.
I don't know, either.
By riverside are cooing, a pair of turteldoves.
A good young man is wooing, a fair maiden he loves.
Water flows left and right, of cress long here, short there.
The youth yearns day and night, for the good maiden fair.
No.
Why are you reading this peon so rigidly?
-Let your voice be softer. -Princess, Beile is in there.
-How about we leave first? If beile... -By riverside are cooing, a pair of turteldoves.
A good young man is wooing, a fair maiden he loves.
Princess.
Water flows left and right, of cress long here, short there.
Princess, let's leave. Stop looking. It's okay. It's okay.
His yearning grows so strong...
I don't wanna learn this any more!
What a peon is this? So hard to recite.
I've almost twisted my tongue. Sundai.
You'll turn twenty in two years.
You're not going to get married?
Get married?
Why should I be anxious?
I don't want to get married.
I don't want to leave here.
Princess.
Who do you think is living in that room?
How dare she talk with beile like that?
And beile just lets her be.
Apart from you,
no one dares to talk with beile like that
in the entire Jianzhou, let alone in this mansion.
Did beile marry any new concubine lately?
No.
We would have known it if he gets a maid,
let alone a new concubine.
But this time, we didn't hear anything about it.
My lord.
Waerka tribe's Wukya wants to see you.
Let him in.
Wukya.
Greetings, beile.
Please rise.
Have a seat.
Thank you, beile.
So, how do you feel working in my Jianzhou army?
Thank you for your concern, beile.
Everything goes well.
Soldiers in Jianzhou are well trained.
I benefit a lot from my work.
Are your family used to living in here?
I heard that you have a sister named Adanzu.
She's as brave as any man. Very awesome.
To be honest, beile.
I'm here today just for my sister Adanzu.
Here is the thing.
On our way to Hetuala from Feiyou city,
Adanzu fell for prince Hong Taiji at the first sight.
And prince Hong Taiji saved her at the Wujie Rock.
So she says to me every day that she wants to marry him.
Says that she's willing to be even his secondary concubine.
I really have no other choices.
So.
I'm here to ask you for the marriage.
What a coincidence.
These days, I also wanted a marriage with your family.
Considering to marry a princess to you.
But you started it first.
To be favored by princess Adanzu
is a bliss to Hong Taiji.
Hong Taiji has made great progress these years.
Making Adanzu his prime consort won't degrade her.
Since beile has permitted,
Then...
Let me thank you first on behalf of my sister.
Prince Hong Taiji.
I, Adanzu, bow before prince Hong Taiji.
Princes Adanzu.
Prince Hong Taiji.
Have you heard of that?
Beile has permitted our marriage.
I'm here just for this thing.
Princes Adanzu.
I've had someone I love.
Once I swore to myself,
I'll only marry her.
So.
Please take back the marriage thing, princess Adanzu.
I know you have someone you love.
I don't expect you to love me back.
I just hope you can give me a chance.
Let me stay by your side, okay?
Princess, if you've seen how concubines live here,
you'll know how painful a marriage without love is.
I can't fail the one I love.
Nor let you be caught in the painful mansion life.
Please take it back, princess.
Is that true? Really?
I've told you.
What did I say? I told you. But you didn't believe me.
What day is it today?
Those princes rarely came. Why they're all here today?
Today is the 15th.
Every prince should come in here to greet beile.
I see.
We better avert them.
It's tiring to see those princes come greeting us.
Have you heard that?
Days ago Waerka princess Adanzu asked to marry Hong Taiji.
But Hong Taiji refused in any way.
Also wanted to cancel the engagement.
Really?
Only he didn't show up before father today. So he's angry about that thing?
You haven't seen that princess.
I heard that she's good at riding like a man. And she's very bright, brave and gorgeous!
Speaking of that, Hong Taiji is really weird.
Is he really not interested in women?
We can make a bet. Just wait for a good show of Hong Taiji.
-Let's go. -Go.
Wait and see.
Those princes are so boring.
How could they gossip behind prince Hong Taiji's back?
Hong Taiji has taken in charge of affairs in the mansion since childhood.
Annual salary, monthly allowance, slaves and servants.
Flocks and herds, land, property and so on.
All must be handled by him.
If he manages such trivia fairly,
he definitely will offend them.
Let alone...
Look, does Hong Taiji really...
Hurry, let's go back. Tell his servant Andali to see me.
I have to ask him some questions.
Okay.
Princess. Andali, Dundali are here.
Andali.
Dundali. Bow before princess.
Rise.
Andali.
Tell me.
Has prince Hong Taiji approached any woman outside home?
Princess.
His lordship is busy with martial arts every day.
Only only learns Manchu language, but also Han language.
He studies every day, never slacks off.
His lordship hasn't approached any woman.
And I also dare not take him to do those bad things.
If I lied or influenced him negatively,
I'm willing to be punished.
Well...
In his room, apart from you two, any maid serves him?
No. Definitely no.
Just rest easy on this, princess.
Rest easy?
How could I rest easy when it becomes like this?
Princess, ease your anger.
It's my fault. I failed to take good care of prince Hong Taiji.
And made you worried. Princess, ease your anger.
You two, raise your heads.
Forget it. Forget it.
Leave. Leave.
Yes. Yes.
Princess, why have to be like this?
Those princes were just talking nonsense.
Why take it so seriously?
You really don't know what kind of man prince Hong Taiji is?
I...
Today I gotta say it anyway.
Even it goes beyond my position.
Princess, you always say I'm thick-skulled.
But actually you're the slowest one, princess.
Even me have seen through prince Hong Taiji's love for you.
Princess, you really haven't felt any thing?
Prince Hong Taiji's love for me...
No. No. No.
-He's still a kid. -Princess.
Prince Hong Taiji has already become a brave and wise hero.
Back then, in Hada.
In Mt. Niyaman.
And at Wujie Rock.
Every time when you're in danger, he always showed up before you, did he?
And princess you?
You say that he's still a kid.
But once you have anything bothering you,
the first one you think of is also him, right?
No. No.
You silly girl.
Is what you said related to the present?
Now, the problem is not this.
But that.