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Nine-Part Rhyme by Ye Xuan Qing
♫ Time is like a shuttle which just passed by but comes back right away ♫
♫ Feeling is like silk that we're unaware of how entangled it has become ♫
♫ Weave a piece of glamorous ornamentation ♫
♫ With both of our deep loves ♫
♫ It's hard to entrust this love-sickness to someone ♫
♫ I'm willing to become that extremely hopeful bluestone ♫
♫ with your name seal carved into my heart ♫
♫ Turn back to be a butterfly inside a sealed cocoon to weave spring silk ♫
♫ which cannot be cut but is mingled forever and ever ♫
♫ I'm willing to become that extremely hopeful bluestone ♫
♫ with your name seal carved into my heart ♫
♫ Turn back to be a butterfly inside a sealed cocoon to weave spring silk ♫
♫ which cannot be cut but is mingled forever and ever ♫
The Eternal Love
- Come drink this. - Geez, I'm not drinking this.
All medicine is at least 30% poison.
This is medicine to nurish your body. If you drink it, how are others to believe you?
Why don't you drink it, besides no one will find out.
If I was to drink it and become hot,
will you douse my fire for me?
Is it bitter?
Your Highness, the sitution right now,
is indeed not very optimistic.
So that's why I wanted to come and discuss this matter with you father-in-law.
The 8th Prince has always been very careful. It is hard to find any of his wrongdoings.
If you want to attack him,
then you will have to start from his weakness.
What is the weakness you speak of?
-Tan'er.-Tan'er is your own daughter.
Yes. Tan'er is my daughter.
My heart does ache.
But she can be sacrificed for your great ambitions.
Since it has already come to this, if we don't use her properly,
wouldn't it waste her efforts?
Your Highness, at this moment, the Crown Prince position is the most important.
Then, Father-in-law, you intend to...?
What will you do to Tan'er?
I will use her. I will properly use her
to make sure the 8th Prince won't be the Crown Prince.
I know you care a lot about Tan'er.
But now, it is the most important moment for naming the Crown Prince.
For your future empire,
I can only make Tan'er suffer a little.
There is no other way.
I got it.
The Crown Prince position is more important. I will not be swayed by personal emotions.
Father-in-law, please tell me what your plan is.
Good! Your Highness, let's do this.
This is great! I finally don't have to stay inside my room!
I can finally see sunlight!
What? Just stepping outside your room
makes you this happy?
Of course! If you let me go outside the manor for a walk,
-I'd be even happier!-8th Sister-in-law!
8th Sister-in-law, look what I brought you!
What is this? Radish cake?
What? Sister-in-law, you really are ignorant of valuable items.
This is a thousand year ginseng!
I got it just for you to strengthen your body!
Thank you.
I'll let you leave the manor after you eat this ginseng.
I have to strengthen my body again? I can't do it anymore.
I'll burn to death if I strengthen my body anymore! (Chinese health medication heats up the body.)
Miss, have some snacks.
Jing Xin?
Jing Xin, I heard the guards say
the the assassination attempt was done by rebels from the previous dynasty.
It wasn't Brother Yi Huai.
It really wasn't him, right?
That's right! It's always been Xiao Tan around recently,
so you just heard about it, Miss!
This time Miss, you can be at ease, right?
I always knew it wasn't him.
Now, hearing that he wasn't affected by this,
I am at ease.
That's right Miss. Those two annoying concubines are outside.
They asked to see you.
Let them go back.
Just say that I do not feel well.
Yes! They wanted to establish ties with one stupid painting? In their dreams!
Wait!
What painting?
They're holding an antique painting.
They said they wanted to enjoy it with you.
I'm free anyway.
Since there's a antique painting to look at, it's okay if I look at it.
Yes!
Princess Consort, please take a look.
I got this antique painting from an expert!
I heard that this painting hides a mystery within it.
But I am stupid, I do not understand.
So I brought it here for you to help me take a look.
That's not right. Today is the first of September.
Why does this painting have the fifth of September written on it?
It clearly wrote Dingmo year
which means it was made this year.
How can this be some antique painting?
It shows that this painter and Sister Yun are both muddleheaded.
You're not trying to use some street painting to trick the Princess Consort, are you?
If you understood, would he be an expert?
Put it away.
Okay.
What's wrong, Princess Consort?
I don't feel very well.
Let us admire the painting up to here today.
Please go back first.
Princess Consort, are you okay?
I'm okay. I'll be alright after some rest.
This painting...I want to keep it to admire it.
Big Sister Yun, can you...?
Of course.
I'll give this painting to you.
Then we'll leave first.
Yun You Lian!
You've never been on good terms with the Princess Consort.
Why did you give her the rare antique painting just like that?
It's just a painting. I'm not as petty as you.
Miss, what's wrong?
Why do you look so troubled by this painting?
This painting
is from Brother Yi Huai.
Why do you say that?
This female bird is me, and the male bird is him.
The date is thirteen days from now.
That means,
a palanquin will come in thirteen days
to bring me to see him.
But how can you tell
that it must be from the First Prince?
This painter's name is Mu Xing.
It's taken from the Tan in Tan'er and Huai in Yi Huai
and made into a Mu.
When I was at Qu Manor,
I often used this name to send letters to him.
No one else knows about it.
Then Miss, are you really going to go?
Jing Xin! Please help me tell Xiao Tan
that no matter what, I want to see Brother Yi Huai.
I want to hear him talk about what happened recently.
Xiao Tan must find a way to get me out of the manor.
Xiao Tan!
Xiao Tan! How long do you need to think for?
Just help my Miss!
Can you be sure that it's Mo Yi Huai who wants to see her?
This could be a trap!
Didn't I already tell you?
Miss is very certain!
Only she and the First Prince know the name "Mu Xing".
No one else knows!
Xiao Tan!
Okay! I'll help her this once!
But, Cheng Cheng won't let me leave. I must think of a way.
Jing Xin! Where is the big ginseng Xiao Xuan brought over?
Weren't you afraid the Prince would make you eat it so you had me hide it?
Hurry and find it! Starting from today,
I'm going to eat that big ginseng three meals a day!
Within three days, I must completely eliminate that
weird looking huge radish.
Come come, eat some more.
Eating ginseng salad is a bit salty.
This soft fry ginseng is quite not bad.
Jing Xin! Give me some chicken soup!
Forget it, I'll just drink the whole bowl!
You like eating ginseng that much lately?
After I finish this, that big ginseng Xiao Xuan brought
will be all gone!
Alright alright, I'll let you leave the manor.
Really? That's great!
Cheng Cheng, you're too handsome! I'm all full.
I'll be leaving first!
Bye bye!
Bye bye?
The Princess Consort has been talking strangely lately. "Bye bye" is...?
"Bye bye" probably means farewell.
Your Highness, a message has come from the palace.
You are invited to go to the Royal Library tomorrow to discuss something important.
Got it.
Jing Xin, I'll be going now.
Miss, you must say all the things you want to say today.
Also, you must return before the Prince does.
I hope Miss can do what she wants today!
That from now on, she won't be sad anymore.
The Emperor is busy and has made you wait.
He has given three cups of tea for you to enjoy.
Thank you, Emperor Father.
Why is it cold?
What does 8th Brother think of this tea?
These servants are really negligent of their duties. Serving teas when they are already cold.
My 8th Brother will surely not like it.
This road isn't the one to the Eldest Prince Mansion
nor the one towards the place where Brother Yi Huai and I usually meet.
It looks more like...
May I ask where you are taking me?
Wait! Where are you taking me?!
Hurry and put me down!
The Emperor is here!
Respectfully greeting, Imperial Father.
Rise.
Thank you, Imperial Father.
You all have drank these tea?
These cups of tea are paired with the ones earlier.
They are called love yearning and heartbreak (gut breaking) tea.
If you only drank the heartbreak tea earlier,
your gut will perforate and becomes necrotic and you will die.
But if you drink this love yearning tea now,
not only will it neutralize the previous poison, its taste is also exquisitely good.
It's like being in love with a exquisite beauty, soul-stirring.
But if you seek only the splendor of being in love and not willing to experience heartbreak,
you will then get poisoned by the love yearning poison and bleed all over then die.
This tea is really interesting
so today, I especially asked you all to try it.
Drink.
Hurry and drink. Or else, if the poison of the heartbreak tea starts acting up,
I would have caused my children to die just because of a moment of enjoyment of mine.
Why is 8th Little Brother not drinking. Don't disappoint Imperial Father's good intentions.
I already tasted this tea earlier and it's just like as father said,
the lingering taste is indeed exquisite and soul stirring.
I tried to remove the heartbreak poison earlier and has used up all my internal energy.
What should I do now?
What is it, Cheng'er?
Why are you not drinking? Could it be you didn't drink the heartbreak tea earlier?
Replying to Imperial Father, I'd rather die for the citizens via a broken heart (gut)
rather than suffer the pain of yearning with the person that I love.
I won't drink this tea.
You really are not afraid to die?
I can ask my servant to make another love yearning tea for you.
When Tan'er was gravely injured due to me and on the verge of death,
I already experienced the pain of yearning for one's love. It was really painful.
I'd rather die than experience it again.
And this worrying heartbreaking pain, I have never experienced it.
I'd rather experience and endure it.
8th Brother, you only drank the heartbreak tea then won't you die when your gut perforate and become necrotic?
Imperial Physician, hurry and call an Imperial Physician!
- No need.- Royal Father!
These tea have no poison.
It was being rude and just playing a joke with all of you.
But Cheng'er, your breadth of mind, bravery,
and your real feelings towards 8th Princess Consort really impressed me.
Thank you, Imperial Father.
I was a bit rude earlier. May Imperial Father forgive me.
It's fine. No need for formalities.
Today, tasting some tea and chatting with my sons, I saw that all of you have improved.
I really feel very happy.
But Xuan'er, you are always with your 8th Brother, how come you show no improvement at all?
Imperial Father, you are laughing at me again.
8th Brother's intelligence isn't something that I can just learn because I want to.
I think so too.
I already feel contented that your 8th Brother was not getting badly influenced by you.
With Royal Father thinking highly of 8th Brother like this, I must indeed work harder.
Or else, in the future, how can I assist 8th Brother well?
Fourteen, don't say nonsense.
Xuan'er, could it be that in your heart, you have already made a decision for me?
Imperial Father, that's not what I mean.
I had spoken rudely earlier. May Imperial Father forgive me.
Imperial Father, 14th Little Brother being able to say that,
looks like it is because I was useless and inferior to 8th Little Brother so 14th Brother doesn't give importance to me.
Looks like in this government, there isn't really just one person who has the same opinion as 14th Little Brother.
I can only work harder.
Or else, I can only be left farther and farther behind by 8th Little Brother.
Royal Older Brother, you are being too humble.
In terms of intelligence and strategy, I am all inferior to you.
I am just an idle person and even got plotted against before due to the Imperial Command Token.
I totally have no strength to counterattack. How can I be compared to Royal Brother?
Enough already.
You two brothers have your own unique skills.
In my heart, there is no one who is best.
It's just, Xuan'er.
You have to learn to take responsibility for your words. Don't talk rashly.
Yes. I know.
You can all leave.
We will take our leave.
8th Little Brother.
The remarks of 8th Little Brother earlier really made me feel ashamed of being inferior.
Royal Brother has so many contacts here in the Palace.
How can you not know that the lovesick and gut wrenching teas have no poison?
Compared to that, I am indeed inferior.
How did you know that the teas have no poison?
Imperial Father used the same tea cup as ours.
How can a usually careful Imperial Father make such a mistake?
This then proves that the teas have no poison.
I have lost so willingly.
Oh, right, don't know how your wife is doing lately?
Everything is well. No need for Royal Brother to worry.
Oh? Is that really the case?
What does Royal Brother mean by that?
Nothing. I just want to remind you
to must take good care of her. Don't let her suffer.
- Yu Hao!- Prince.
Hurry and go back to the manor and check on 8th Princess Consort.
What's wrong with 8th Princess Consort?
Mu Yi Huai words earlier seem to be suggesting something. I am worried.
Yes.
8th Princess Consort, you already reached the doorstep of our house.
Why are you then in a rush to leave?
Respectfully greeting, Madam.
You've already arrived at our home so why don't you just follow me in?
Greetings, Father, Eldest Sister, don't know--
Kneel.
- Kneel!- Kneel!
Say it. Why do you acted in collusion with 8th Prince
and keep going against with the Qu family and Eldest Prince?
I don't know what is the meaning of father's words.
Even if I go against with anyone, I will never go against Eldest Prince
and will never go against Father.
Father, how can Tan'er bear to go against Eldest Prince?
She clearly just can't bear to see me, her eldest sister,
to become the Crown Prince's Wife soon
that's why she colluded with 8th Prince to be my obstacle.
Qu Tan'er, you really are so shameless.
On one side, being sweet and loving with 8th Prince.
On the other side, you don't forget to seduce Eldest Prince.
Totally working with both sides just for your own gain.
I am not.
May older sister not casually speculate.
Enough already, Qu Tan'er, stop making excuses.
We asked you to come here today to give you some lesson.
- Men!- Here!
Take her to the garden and make her kneel.
Whenever she understands her mistakes already, that is when she can get up.
Yes!
Father... Father...
Kneel!
Where is the Princess Consort?
Princess Consort went out for a stroll.
If she went out for a stroll, why didn't you inform us?
Hurry and tell me, where is the Princess Consort?!
What really has happened that you are in a rush like this?
Eldest Prince is provoking 8th Prince in the Palace.
Hinting that this matter has something to do with Princess Consort. 8th Prince was worried so he especially told me to look at it and Princess Consort is indeed not here.
Eldest Prince is in the Palace? When did he go?
He has been there early on, earlier than 8th Prince.
Hurry and tell Prince that Princess Consort might be in danger!
Do you not know where Princess Consort went?
I also don't know right now. Anyway, just hurry and tell Prince about it!
Hope Xiao Tan will not get in trouble...
8th Prince, what is the purpose of Imperial Father for this? Why is he letting us wait this long?
14th Prince need not be in a rush. Imperial Father might be having a hard time deciding something.
I believe that the next time Imperial Father calls on us,
some matters might have already been settled.
- Come with me.- Yes.
His Majesty has a decree asking to see 8th Prince Mo Lian Cheng.
Qu Tan'er, do you admit to your mistake?
I never did any matter that wronged Father or Eldest Prince.
I can't admit to any mistakes. Eldest Prince...
will surely trust me.
You even have the nerve to mention the Eldest Prince?
How about you think clearly why you ended up here today?
Who then do you think arranged for all of these today?
8th Prince and Xiao Tan both suspect that Eldest Prince sent the assassins.
Qu Tan'er, when will you understand
You are just an abandoned pawn of Eldest Prince.
Fine then, Qu Tan'er. It is also good to make you realize things clearly today
so as not to let you keep daydreaming. Eldest Prince,
oh, I should call him the future Crown Prince,
and the whole Dong Yue will soon be Pan'er's.
Stop making wishful thinking of changing your lowly position in our family.
Just be at ease and continue being this pitiful creature.
I had never bore any feelings for Eldest Prince.
In the future, we also are people walking on different paths, will have no more connections!
♫ Rain will be falling soon, the sky has turned gloomy ♫
♫ Shrouding the unavoidable pain ♫
Xiao Tan, I beg you hurry and come out.
I really can't endure this kind of pain.
Can you see my pain? Xiao Tan,
sorry.
How come I am in Qu Manor? Isn't Qu Tan'er suppose to meet with Mo Yi Huai?
How come my heart is very painful? How come I can't control my tears?
How come I feel so weak all over? What really happened to Tan'er?
Could it be...Mo Yi Huai?
Qu Tan'er really love him so much. How could he bear to trick her like this?
What should I do? Cheng Cheng,
where are you?
♫ My pain are all due to your extravagance ♫
Tan'er!
Do you not know that you are the 8th Princess Consort?
I know.
Did you ever put that to heart?
Oh, my, Tan'er.
Look how it's raining this hard so why are you still kneeling here?
Hurry up and get up. If you get sick and 8th Prince blames us, that will not be good.
Get your dirty hands off! Come, Tan'er, quickly get up.
Madam, let me warn you.
Tan'er is my wife. If you dare do this again,
I can't guarantee that you can still be standing alive here.
8th Prince!
8th Prince has visited yet I wasn't able to welcome you immediately.
8th Prince, hurry and please come sit inside.
The door sill of Qu Manor is too high.
I am not able to get in.
♫ How come you still don't understand? Give me a warm embrace ♫
8th Prince...
Prince! Respectfully sending off 8th Prince!
What Princess Consort endured today, I surely will pay you back double!
This matter today really didn't waste all our efforts.
Now, the Crown Prince position,
will surely be Eldest Prince's.
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♫ Being together or separated, a flutter of fate will control ♫
♫ What is a flutter of fate? ♫
♫ The fruit of the world's karma suddenly descends from the heavens ♫
♫ which has been confusing to people ♫
♫ Heart fluttering is the prettiest moment ♫
♫ Infatuation is to float into a whirlpool ♫
♫ From removing the estrangement to degenerate willingly ♫
♫ Going downhill is a dead fish and a broken fishnet ♫
♫ With a happy heart or a mistake, ♫
♫ It keeps a record of who has come by ♫
♫ One doesn't live one's life in vain unless one has shed tears and repented ♫
♫ During my first awakening of love, I don't know whether it's worthy or not ♫
♫ Love til' turning the world upside down is only for the happiness now ♫
♫ The gentleness of a small stream which flows far ♫
♫ isn't something that extremely frivolous youngsters know ♫
♫ Should one be stingy because of the affection one has given out? ♫
♫ Doing things vigorously will only promote joys and sorrows, separations and reunions ♫
♫ Everyone lingers and is unable to let go ♫
♫ What one can obtain is only agony ♫
♫ There is no choice ♫