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[General And I]
[Episode 4]
Your Highness.
Congratulations.
- Is everything ready? - It's all ready.
The Hua family will stick to the story.
The imperial decree also arrived. Everything is going well.
Your Highness, our ceremonial team will arrive soon.
Just the ritual of the proposal and exchange of birth date cards is left.
Your Highness.
Once this ritual is over
as long as our guards keep watch securely
nothing could go wrong with this matter.
I don't care much about such trivialities.
I'm asking after her.
Miss Bai left early this morning.
She went with Miss Hua to get her bridal gown made.
Is she eating well?
She's quite calm. Nothing out of the ordinary.
There's nothing strange.
It's just that...
What is it?
Our guards intercepted a messenger dove.
It seemed to be released by Miss Bai.
There are two words on the note.
Which two words?
Cease fire.
Cease fire?
Those words are meant for me.
This woman...
She's not really willing to marry me.
She's obviously here to persuade me for the sake of her master.
If so...
Even so, I will marry her.
Miss Bai.
His Highness sent me to bring you a gift.
Its wings are trimmed.
It cannot fly anymore.
His Highness will have you keep it for company.
Thank His Highness for me.
Don't be afraid, Madam. It's a joyous occasion.
It's the auspicious hour. The ritual...
How dare you!
Do you know who I am?
The betrothal gifts are presented in the hall
and lined up in the courtyard.
Today, I am the Princess Consort of Zhenbei!
According to the customs of Great Jin State
this is the outfit I am going to put on my husband personally.
Husband?
It sounds particularly loving to hear you say such words.
I blended the color of this dye myself.
The color of sunset.
May your every conquest be blessed with a return.
I heard that even the poorest of women in Jin State would save
to make such an outfit for her future husband
in hope of spending every day together for a lifetime.
Sadly, Great General is too valiant.
You could easily kill tens of thousands of their husbands.
Fine.
Since Princess Consort is so thoughtful, I too have a gift in return.
There are nine virtues of the zither. Its tune reflects one's mind.
This zither is named "The Phoenix."
The music it produces is ethereal.
May it relieve Princess Consort of your troubles.
If Jin State and Yan State weren't at war
you would surely be my soul mate in music.
What a pity.
Sister!
Ping Ting!
I might never be able to play the zither again.
Your Highness!
This clothing is poisoned!
It's poisoned?
Summon Imperial Physician Huo!
Prince of Zhenbei's Manor has sent men over urgently.
[Imperial Physician Bureau] What happened? What is going on?
- Imperial Physician Huo! - Speak up!
Princess Consort of Zhenbei...
Bad news! There's been an accident!
What?
Prince of Zhenbei was poisoned at Hua Residence.
It seemed that... It seemed that the princess consort...
The princess consort could have...
It was the princess consort...
Useless scum!
How could you stammer when reporting such an important matter?
Prince of Zhenbei is an essential subject of Great Jin!
Are you trying to make the empress even more worried when she's already ill?
[Noble Consort Zhang]
I'm willing to visit the prince on behalf of Your Highness.
Your Highness.
You're Great Jin's Prince of Zhenbei.
Your health is our priority.
Let Physician Huo treat you first!
- Shut up! - Your Highness!
Get out!
I will kill whoever dares to come in!
Your Highness.
How is she doing?
Your Highness, set your mind at ease.
The poison has been drained out of her body.
Whoever concocted this poison is a skilled assassin.
If there was a bit more of Yellow Rotang Palm and monkshood root
not even the gods could save this young lady from death.
Here, Your Highness.
What is this about? This is...
Master.
This is really serious.
Should anything happen to Prince of Zhenbei, what should we do?
Exactly. If anything goes wrong...
Madam, you mustn't say such depressing words.
You should know that.
This is so maddening!
Father!
Mother!
This is...
Miss Bai handed this to me before she left the dyeing room.
She told me to open it only when it's past noon.
- Past noon? - Noon.
What is this?
Noon? Past noon?
Open it up right away!
- Yes! - This matter... This is...
This is...
What is this?
"Blame it on the maid"?
Father.
What does that mean?
"Blame it on the maid."
The maid...
- The maid? - The maid?
I understand it now.
Should the prince...
Should any mishap befall the prince in our residence
we can just claim Miss Bai as our maidservant.
She purposely poisoned him. She is a spy.
Although we are at fault for not investigating her background
it's not enough to get us killed.
Moreover, Prince of Zhenbei brought that Miss Bai here in the first place.
It had nothing to do with our family.
Am I right?
- Thank goodness! - Master!
What is it again?
The palace has sent someone!
Hua Residence greets Noble Consort Zhang.
Where is Prince of Zhenbei?
Prince of Zhenbei is...
- Take me to him right away! - Yes!
Here, I'll take you to him.
- Let's go. - All right.
This way, please.
Physician Huo!
How is His Highness?
Both the prince and the young lady are fine.
Do not worry.
Thank you, Doctor.
I will take my leave now.
Please.
How dare you poison the dye.
If you wish to die, you could tell me.
I won't marry you.
- This way, please. - Prince of Zhenbei!
This way.
Prince of Zhenbei!
- Prince... - Mo Ran greets Noble Consort Zhang.
You are all dismissed now.
- Yes. - Leave now.
Hurry up! Leave now.
Yes.
Bei Jie!
Bei Jie, are you all right?
Bei Jie, it's me. Are you all right?
Bei Jie, open the door!
Bei Jie, can you hear me?
Bei Jie!
Did you try to kill me because you don't wish to marry me
or you wish to avenge Prince of Jing An's family?
Or...
Are you trying to save your virginity
for that useless man who needs your strategies?
Obviously...
I didn't manage to kill you.
You can do so now.
If you don't kill me now, I will definitely marry you.
It seems that you can't bear to kill me either.
Chu Bei Jie!
Chu Bei Jie, open the door!
Chu Bei Jie, what on earth are you doing in there?
Bei Jie!
Your Highness.
Noble Consort is furious.
She's left.
That's the noble consort.
Is this the time to smile?
I'm sleepy.
I'm going to sleep a while longer.
Since Noble Consort has been here
this accident will surely be investigated tomorrow.
There's a risk that your identity will be exposed.
You can't stay in the Hua Residence anymore.
When you get a bit stronger, we will return to my manor together.
That will have to be after I get some sleep first.
The woman who tried to kill me two hours ago
still has residual poison in her body and yet acts as if nothing has happened.
Bai Ping Ting.
You don't truly wish to kill me.
But you won't marry me.
What exactly is it that you want from me?
I find it all the more interesting to fight this battle of wits against you.
Whose fabric is it?
Whose dye is it?
Who tailored the outfit?
Both the prince and the princess consort were poisoned.
One of you must have done it.
Give them a sound beating!
Your Highness!
Master!
- I didn't do it! - Don't hit him!
- Master! - Why would you beat me?
Beat them to death!
Master!
Stop it!
- If we don't find the culprit today - Spare us, Your Highness!
don't you even think of stepping out of this residence!
- Master! - Please let my master off!
Stop hitting him!
- Speak up! - Stop it, Your Highness!
Who dared to poison Prince of Zhenbei?
How bold you all are!
We had nothing to do with that outfit!
Miss Bai had that made and dyed all by herself!
- Stop! - Stop it!
Noble Consort, I'll tell you everything! I will tell you the truth!
Prince of Zhenbei, His Highness
brought Miss Bai to my residence.
He forced me to take her in as my goddaughter!
Nonsense!
Keep beating him!
That is not nonsense.
- Master! - Don't hit our master!
Stop it!
- Please spare my master! - Stop it!
Stop it!
Quickly! Help Master up!
Bei Jie...
- Bei Jie! - Master!
- Are you all right?
Your Highness. I have been wronged.
Bei Jie!
Bei Jie, how are you feeling?
Is the poison cleared?
What are you doing?
Slowly, Master.
Before the culprit is found
Hua Residence is to be held responsible.
It's the engagement day for me and my princess consort.
I accidentally infected myself with a poisoned arrow.
How is this anyone's fault?
Fine.
Answer me.
What goddaughter? Who is Miss Bai?
What exactly was that about?
Who is the princess consort?
She is of course the woman I love.
Bei Jie, ever since you returned from Changzi City
you have changed.
What is it that made you...
Your Highness, conduct yourself with respect.
Mo Ran.
Noble Consort. This way, please.
Chu Bei Jie.
You're actually so heartless?
Noble Consort, do not forget your current identity.
My identity?
Fine.
Fine!
Since you care so much about my identity, don't go against me.
Behave yourself.
Get ready to head back to the palace!
Yes!
Investigate that woman who was brought into Hua Residence by Prince of Zhenbei.
I must find out who she is.
Yes.
What is it?
Your Majesty.
I grew up alongside Prince of Zhenbei.
We're just like siblings.
Now that he has been harmed, I not only fear for my brother's safety
but also worry that Your Majesty will lose your right-hand man.
Especially when I learned that woman...
Woman?
What woman?
It's the woman who is about to become Prince of Zhenbei's consort.
She is actually King of Yan's spy.
After breakfast, I have to talk to you.
Plum blossom congee?
You really don't think that I will try to poison you again?
I don't suppose you'd let those blossoms go to such a waste.
This congee counts as a token of my apology.
You were kind enough to take me for a stroll last night
but I misunderstood your kindness.
Sometimes, I really can't figure out when you're telling the truth
and when you're lying.
That was a lie.
What I'm going to say next is true.
This rice congee is prepared traditionally
by newly married women of Yan State.
A newly married bride has to make rice congee
for her husband on their first morning to symbolize warming his heart.
I ruined the outfit last night
so I'm making up for it with a custom of Yan State.
I have a favor to ask of you.
General, please put an end to the battles.
You are the God of War.
Wherever you wield your sword, there is a loss of lives.
If you're willing to put down that sword of yours
and end this circle of hatred
I would find it worthwhile even if I am sacrificed for it.
General.
Lives could only be saved if you're determined to stop fighting.
Is that what you're negotiating?
If I were to drink this newlywed bride's congee
I'd have to forfeit my loyalty to Great Jin?
Bai Ping Ting...
You're using yourself to lure me into this trap?
Your sympathy and seduction...
Your sword and flowers...
Those are all ways to lure me into your trap.
I know that is what you are thinking.
Otherwise, you wouldn't have left this note.
[Cease fire]
Have you ever considered that I wish to marry you
and spend the rest of my life with you
regardless of those schemes and conspiracies?
I treated you wholeheartedly and yet you would have me give up my career?
If you're truly willing to do so
I shall repay such kindness all throughout my lifetime.
Bai Ping Ting...
You have always been determined to do so.
You knew that Imperial Physician Huo is skilled in curing poisons
so you didn't add enough of the poison.
It wasn't to kill me, but to expose your identity.
You refused to return to my manor last night
not because you wished to go riding with me
but because you wanted to stay here until they come and arrest you.
Speak!
Why would you do so?
All I have is two words.
Cease fire.
By the imperial decree
arrest the spy of Yan State Bai Ping Ting!
Since General has had my congee, please remember the promise you made me.
Answer me.
Who sent you here?
What is your motive?
Where are your accomplices?
Half a month ago, the great fire burned down Prince of Jing An's Manor
and rendered me homeless.
I wandered here with the refugees.
No one sent me. I have no accomplice.
You mean that you came here alone to assassinate Prince of Zhenbei
to avenge your masters?
Slap her until she tells the truth!
Yes.
Reporting to Your Majesty!
It isn't that I failed to investigate her background
but that she and I truly share a mutual affection.
If there hadn't been complications, she would now be my wife.
On behalf of all my merits and contributions to Great Jin
could Your Majesty blame me solely and let my wife off?
Your wife?
How is she your wife?
Hua Residence's Miss Hua should be your rightful wife.
Prince of Zhenbei.
You're the Chief Commander of the army.
Your every word and action are to be judged by all the soldiers!
Exactly.
Prince of Zhenbei.
You seem to be threatening His Majesty by mentioning your contributions.
I can tell you the truth
but Your Majesty has to make me two promises.
Who are you to negotiate any terms with me?
Just because I was the one who came up with the strategy
to flood the passage at the battle of Puban City. How about that?
I never would have thought...
How could this be?
This can't be true.
- Exactly. - The strategist is actually a woman?
I think that's impossible.
How could this be?
Is she telling the truth?
Bai Ping Ting did tell the truth.
I had thought that He Xia's strategist who advised him during battles
is an all-knowing old scholar.
Who knew that it's actually such a young and frail woman?
All right.
Lay down your terms first.
First, be sure to guarantee the safety of the Hua family.
Second, please return my corpse to my hometown.
Sure.
That isn't difficult.
I will agree to them.
I sought audience with Your Majesty just to say these words to you.
A collaboration between Jin State and Yan State
would be the first step in connecting and extending
the trade routes from the north to the south.
However, it's now unstable in the north and Great Jin has been at war for years.
The people are in poverty and the army in fatigue.
If King of Yan hadn't mediated the conflicts
all other northern states could easily use Yan State
as a passage to invade Great Jin.
If you could cease fire for three years
Great Jin will surely prosper and fortify more than ever before.
This woman does have a point.
I have discussed this matter many times with Prince of Zhenbei.
I know that he also shares the same opinion as mine.
Your Highness.
Do you still remember those two words you told me this morning?
You dragged yourself here step by step into this land of slaughter
knowing that you can't make it out of here safely.
Even so, you would still propose the peace treaty.
I am not one to fear death.
Your Majesty!
If I were to lead our army to war with Yan State again
I would deem it most unwise!
I've finally come to a realization.
You and this spy from Yan State must have long plotted
to talk me out of conquering the north.
Exactly.
Prince of Zhenbei, how could you believe the words of this witch
and collude with her to destroy Jin State from the roots?
Prince of Zhenbei.
Are you truly bewitched by the tricks of this witch?
This witch is trying to mislead us.
Your Majesty, please kill her!
Exactly!
Kill her!
This woman mustn't stay alive!
She is a witch!
Kill her!
Your Majesty, you must kill her!
- Your Majesty, kill her! - Guards!
Take this bewitching spy of Yan State into the dungeon and behead her tomorrow!
- Yes! - Your Majesty!
Anyone who pleads for Bai Ping Ting will be executed as well!
Ping Ting!
Prince of Zhenbei!
Guards!
Hold him back!
Your Majesty.
This is the new tea of the year.
Have a taste.
Appease your anger.
You don't have to plead on her behalf.
It is a unanimous court decision to have her killed.
I can't help you.
Bai Ping Ting asked for a cease fire.
I truly do not find that suggestion inappropriate.
Years of war have rendered the treasury empty
and stirred up discontent among your people.
Your Majesty.
Why don't you make use of the time to recuperate while our enemy is weak?
Return the soldiers to farms.
Allow the people a world of peace for some time.
A world of peace.
These four words
They grate on my ears at such a time.
Your Majesty, please appease your anger.
Do you know why I hit you?
Since you won the war
you should keep pursuing the next victory.
Yet you talk back at His Majesty in court for the sake of a spy
and refused to deploy the army?
How does His Majesty treat you?
He just conferred you as a prince and you already become disloyal?
You spoke up for a witch?
You were deceived by that woman.
Do you know how foolish you are?
That's enough.
Noble Consort, you should also calm down.
You grew up with Bei Jie.
You're just like siblings.
You shouldn't fight over a trivial matter.
I've never forgotten Your Majesty's kindness.
Above all, I'd never dare forget Jin State is my nation.
It's just that...
It isn't just an enemy's woman who is involved in this matter.
She is my wife.
You have always been valiant at war and resourceful in military strategies.
Why is it that today you fail to see the whole picture?
If I were to release her back to her country...
She once came up with a plan to flood the passage.
What else will she come up with?
Releasing Bai Ping Ting back to Yan State is as good as setting a tiger free.
She will surely be a great threat to Jin State.
Therefore, I can't have you marry her or release her.
I can only kill her.
Even if she weren't here
I already had the intention to cease fire.
I had sacrificed Prince of Jing An's entire household
to cease fire for the people of Jin State.
If that were to be the beginning of a series of massacres
then those in Prince of Jing An's Manor were sacrificed for nothing.
I feel deep guilt for them.
Forgive me for defying your orders!
That's enough!
I'm tired.
I have had enough of your nonsense.
You are dismissed now.
Chu Bei Jie!
If you should dare plead for that woman again
you are as good as a traitor!
Do you understand?
Step down now.
Prince of Zhenbei asked me to bring this to you.
In addition, he asked me to tell you that this is the second night.
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