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[The King's Woman]
[Episode 12]
By the way,
I heard that His Majesty personally carried Li liangren out of Huayang Palace.
Who is the most favored consort?
Are you unable to tell?
I am so angry.
Madame, please calm down.
In the future, if anybody allows Consort Min into my palace,
I will kill that person!
Madame, please calm down.
You are awake.
How long did I sleep?
It is currently dusk.
Here.
I slept the whole day.
The physician said you need rest these days.
Do not run around anymore.
Somebody will deliver your supper for you.
Why did you
not tell me about this incident?
Your Majesty is busy all day long. How could I bother you with such a small matter?
Will you then torment your body for it?
There are many consorts and concubines in the harem.
If Grand Queen Dowager gave her orders,
how could I refuse?
In the future, no matter who,
they can only summon you when my permission.
I already said,
I am your only king.
Whether you are happy or not,
you are my consort.
I will not allow anybody to bully you.
Not even a single piece of hair on your body can be hurt.
I am not your property.
Li'er,
you can hate me,
but you cannot ignore me, as others do.
You are not Madame Min.
You are not Madame Chu, either.
You do not belong to the Six States.
Moreover, you do not belong to Grand Queen Dowager.
You are mine.
Do you understand?
Just behave,
and I will give you what you deserve.
I do not want
anything that you give me.
Zhao Gao.
I am here.
Prepare supper.
I will eat supper here.
Until midnight,
nobody
is allowed inside Li liangren's chamber.
Yes.
- Qing'er. - Here.
- Get the medicine. - Yes.
Sir, why are so many people here today?
His Majesty is here at Li Liangren's place. Where are you stationed?
I am from over there.
Li Liangren, accept this imperial edict.
Li Liangren from the Wey State's Gongsun family,
due to giving birth to a prince,
has been promoted to a First Rank Madame and will move into the Zhaode Palace.
She will be gifted six pieces of silk cloth,
three pieces each of gold and silver currency,
and two pieces each of jade and coral.
End of imperial edict.
Brother Jing,
didn't you want to practice with your sword?
I am free now. I will practice with you.
Brother Jing, is your hand alright?
It is fine.
It's all my fault! So clumsy! So careless!
It is my fault.
I was absent-minded during practice.
Let me see. Is it severe?
No need.
I am sorry.
I want to calm down a bit alone.
You practice on your own.
♫ I looked up. The sky has turned dark again.♫
♫ I prayed for my blue wish. ♫
♫ In the bamboo forest, the falling leaves create a line. ♫
♫ Narrating in details the changes in things as time passes. ♫
♫ Yet I cannot turn against the already ascertain curve. ♫
You two look so good together.
If you are able to have children, they surely will be handsome and beautiful children.
Does it look good?
It looks good.
I just fear that all men in this street later will faint from being enchanted with you.
♫ I cannot pretend to like something. ♫
♫ Is the secular world like smoke? ♫
♫ The way you look at me is filled with love. ♫
♫ It is also a scar I am unwilling to remove. ♫
♫ The road is long. My heart has chased him afar, ♫
♫ but who is the first one to forget? ♫
♫ How could I be satisfied with being unable to see through this? ♫
♫ My empty tears are tied down and are unable to be released. ♫
♫ What to do? Even if I turn around, I am destined to be alone, ♫
♫ but I do not demand forgiveness. ♫
♫ I look across the mountains and rivers. My yearnings for you are true. ♫
♫ Over years and months, my pain remains deep. ♫
♫ While I try to mask my laughter, the flowers fall like tears. ♫
♫ I have merely turned around. ♫
♫ Giving too much meaning on how you looked at me ♫
Senior,
♫ It is also a scar I am unwilling to remove. ♫
where are you now?
♫ The road is long. My heart has chased him afar, ♫
I really miss you a lot.
♫ but who is the first one to forget? ♫
Li'er.
Why is Your Majesty here?
This is my royal palace.
You are my royal concubine.
Why can't I be here?
I'll take my leave first.
Can't you still look at me directly until now?
Look at me.
Look at me!
Since I already have such great power,
I don't need your pity.
The more I don't need your charity.
The more I won't force you.
I will wait for that day
that you are willing to lie on my embrace
before I will touch you.
I've changed my mind.
I am going to let Tian Ming stay by my side.
Why is that?
Because only by doing that
will you stay by my side.
Even if my person stays by yours side,
my heart will never be with you.
I don't care.
As long as you are by my side, that's enough.
Li'er, I must obtain your heart.
Crown Prince, Average Attendant Eunuch Zhao Gao is here.
Let him in.
Yes.
Please.
Greetings, Crown Prince.
For what urgent reasons is Average Attendant Eunuch suddenly visiting me tonight?
Prince surely already know
that the king of my Zhao state has came to Xianyang today
and His Majesty holding a banquet for him.
Then does Prince know that Zhao King already gotten the permission of His Majesty
to attack Yan State?
Why is Average Attendant Eunuch telling me this?
Prince, to tell you the truth,
although I've entered Qin for a very long time,
I still care for the Zhao state. I was requested by Lord Jia
to protect the safety of my Zhao state.
I am worried that this attack by the Zhao King on Yan
is actually a two birds with one stone trick of His Majesty.
The Zhao army will not succeed in attacking Yan
and instead will suffer great military casualties and heavily hurting the state's power.
I especially came here to offer a strategy to Prince.
Actually, after the battle at Changping,
the vitality of my Zhao state has already greatly sapped, it's already hard for us to form a strong army.
This plan to attack Yan is actually just a king of Zhao's own wishes and has no foresight at all.
Hence, Lord Jia wishes
that Yan and Zhao can ally and fight Qin together.
Don't know what Crown Prince thinks about it?
You say that it is an alliance but I'm sure that Yan must give a corresponding price for it.
Prince is wise.
In sustaining a military army, we will just need money and rations.
Only with Yan and Zhao allying together can Qin be unable to control us.
Zhao Gao, you know that I've been a hostage here in Qin for quite a long time already.
If royal father still gives importance to me,
why then when Ying Zheng has already become the new king,
I am still here,
having a home that I can't go home to?
Crown Prince don't you fear that this is a trap?
With my current situation,
what can I do?
Jia! Jia! (Horse command)
Jia!
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Who are you guys?!
It's not important who we are. What's important is
that you plan to go to the Zhao military camp to send a message, right?
Say it. What is the secret message?
Qin...
Qin will soon use the excuse of saving Yan
to...
- Say it. - To attack Zhao.
Who told you to relay this message?
Say it!
Master, this...
Drop it already. Whoever wanted to relay that message, Lord will know it.
Zhao State, Handan Palace
Leave!
Your Majesty!
How was it?!
Our army has just left Julu and was planning to go northwards but they were suddenly ambushed by the Qin army.
Using the excuse of saving Yan, Qin sent the Shangdang and Dongjun brigades to sandwich us from both sides.
The military situation is very grave.
I actually fell into your evil plot.
I fear that if Your Majesty doesn't immediately order Pang Luan to retreat back,
our army will suffer gravely which will be irreparable!
Call...Pang Luan to return. Return!
- Hurry and go! - I will abide!
Ying Zheng...
I will kill you!
Your Majesty! Your Majesty!
Our army were utterly defeated and His Majesty asked General Pang Luan to retreat.
At the royal court, His Majesty vomited blood and died.
Afterwards, someone discovered the corpse of our secret messenger
50 miles from Julu.
Lord, Crown Prince Qian will soon be conferred as the king,
and Guo Kai as his prime minister. Because of this, Crown Prince Jia is very angry.
Lord, what do you think we should do?
Looks like that in this Qin palace,
there must be someone who noticed our movements,
hence, they were able to be one step ahead of us and harm the secret messenger.
The secret messenger most likely didn't rat us out.
Or else, we both would have been imprisoned by His Majesty already.
From the information I got, the people who killed the secret messenger
are most likely jianghu great masters.
What people would be willing to be used by Qin?
Could it be the mastermind behind this is His Majesty?
No.
His Majesty has long have the intention of attacking Zhao and saving Yan.
With his confidence, even if the Zhao army knows of this beforehand,
they might not be able to resist the attack of the Qin army.
Looks like someone wants to cut off the lifeline of my Zhao state.
Immediately send a letter to Crown Prince Jia in my behalf.
Tell him that it looks like
we have to re-plan this matter.
Yes.
The matter of stopping the secret messenger was done very well.
King Zhao Yan initially planned to use our Qin to gobble up Yan.
He never thought that he will lose lands and men because of this
and just earn insult that he deserved. He even lost his life because of it.
Too bad, Master and I weren't able to let the secret messenger to confess who his masters are.
This man instead bit his tongue to kill himself.
In this Qin palace right now,
only those people are left
who will be very concerned about the situation of Zhao.
Lord, do you need us to interfere?
The right time hasn't come yet.
His Majesty just got hold of power and exiled Lü Buwei.
He is still in the process of preparing things and giving them a try.
Right now, a group of old ministers have left Qin with Lü.
His Majesty is in need of hiring new talents.
I also will choose this chance
to differentiate who is our friend and who is our foe.
Okay.
Two noble warriors,
starting now, I urgently await that you two become my pillars.
May you two be at ease. I surely will heavily reward you two.
We are willing to serve Lord anytime.
Respectfully greeting Madam Chu.
Lord, be at ease.
Thank you, Madam.
The battle at Yangcheng really caused Zhao state to suffer.
Winning and losing are just normal things in a battle.
The Zhao tried to occupy Yan and wishfully thought to ask help from Qin.
They indeed misjudged the situation.
What Average Attendant Eunuch said was so right.
If the Zhao state can't be said to have suffered injustice,
then the previous Crown Prince Jia that have been waiting for so long
can't be sad to be suffering injustice too?
I know that the past Zhao King removed his first son as crown prince and conferred it to another one from another concubine.
Crown Prince Qian doesn't like to study.
And Guo Kai have taught him the pleasures of women and pet animals.
Now that the Zhao King has died, Qian will be ascending the throne in place of him.
How could Lord Jia be able to endure this anger?
Madam Chu really knows about my Zhao inner palace situation
very well.
Although I and Average Attendant Eunuch look completely unrelated to each other,
we both are foreigners here in Qin.
Although I hope that Qin will prosper,
who wouldn't worry about the safety of their mother nation?
Chu State now is prosperous and strong.
Isn't Madam Chu's words being too humble?
Even if it is indeed strong right now,
we still have to be vigilant during peaceful times.
Lord, am I right?
Madam invited me to come here today
isn't most likely just for leisurely chats, right?
Average Attendant Eunuch really understands things rapidly.
May Lord come up to speak.
Lord, please open it.
Royal Father stored some gold in Xianyang for me.
Take this jade token and go meet a Lord Qu in the eastern market.
He will give you the gold that you need.
You will need soldiers and horses. It isn't easy to get the throne back.
You have so many people to bribe.
Let me give past Crown Prince Jia some help then.
Madam, since you are this concerned about our Zhao matters,
I then am willing to provide you help with my measly strength.
Does Madam have anything you want me to do?
May you just instruct me.
I really am very weak right now.
Lord, please come near me to talk.
Yes.
In the past nights, there have been cries of a baby spreading in the palace.
So noisy that I can't sleep anymore.
If it is my own son, I surely will be happy to hear it.
If it isn't mine,
the sound just annoys me.
I just have that one little problem.
Average Attendant Eunuch, will you be able to help me solve my problem?
Just a small thing. I understand already.
Junior Sister, I heard a few days ago that Queen Dowager Huayang called for you to her palace
and had you copy scriptures but actually was torturing you.
If not because I fear that it might cause you and Tian Ming trouble,
I so want to immediately go to Huayang Palace and skin that old woman.
How come such a little thing also got known by you?
There is a small resting place for guards in the palace.
All rumors will spread there in less than a day.
Moreover, you who has just gave birth to a prince and got promoted to being a Madam,
the most favored royal concubine of His Majesty.
All of these are just rumors. There's no such thing as being favored or not.
Junior Sister, honestly tell me. Did Ying Zheng hurt you?
Senior, you also know that Tian Ming
isn't Ying Zheng's child.
Ying Zheng and I didn't really have any sexual contact yet.
Ying Zheng has always slept alone.
He never let any royal concubine stay with him overnight.
Rumors say that it was because he is too suspicious.
As long as there are someone by his side, he won't be able to sleep soundly.
He did so many evil deeds so of course, it will be hard for him to sleep well.
Honestly, since I came to Qin,
I have tried to commit suicide numerous times. I even thought of using this chance
to kill Ying Zheng.
But whenever I thought about Tian Ming, I then was unable to do it.
If I die and I left Tian Ming alone here in this palace,
no one will be protecting him.
I don't want him to be an orphan like me. How pitiful will he be then?
I have wronged Senior Jing.
What wrong did you do? You were just saving him.
But I instead made him fall into suffering.
If not because of me, he wouldn't be like how he is now.
All these started because of me.
Although Ying Zheng is able to let Tian Ming stay and be reared here in the palace,
Tian Ming is still not his real son.
I am worried that if one day, he suddenly changes his mind,
what can I do then?
That's why, I can only stay in this cage.
Living this ignoble existence.
If I get the chance to get near Ying Zheng, I surely will personally kill him.
Eldest Senior, don't put yourself in danger just because of me.
Not just for you, it is also for the world.
Junior, there will come a day that I will take you and Tian Ming out of this palace.
I won't let you two suffer anymore.
Don't worry. I will live well to protect you and Tian Ming.
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Oh, no, Madam!
What's wrong nursemaid? Why are you panicking like this?
Come, stand. Talk while standing.
Madam, something bad has happened. Prince Tian Ming is missing!
Last night, he was just sleeping by my side.
He cried once during the night and I even nursed him.
Afterwards, I then fell asleep. But I don't understand why
upon waking up, Prince Tian Ming is missing already!
Impossible... How could Tian Ming just disappear like that?
Where is Tian Ming?
Let us inform His Majesty. Hurry and go.
Okay. I'll go now.
Tian Ming... Where did he go?
Who else can enter and exit the nursemaid's room?! The security in my inner palace is very strict.
Yet you even lost the prince?!
You group of servants, if you don't confess the truth now,
I will execute you all!
Your Majesty, have mercy!
We still haven't found out the truth behind Tian Ming's disappearance.
If the criminal really wanted to sneak in,
isn't the time we are using to interrogate these palace servants
just giving those criminals the time to escape?
Your Majesty, forgive me for saying this but Li liangren is right.
What's important now is to immediately find clues on the whereabouts of Prince Tian Ming.
Moreover, an assassin appeared in your chamber last night. I was negligent on my duty and was unable to catch him.
Could it be the same assassin kidnapped Prince Tian Ming?
Okay. About going after who is responsible,
- I can put it aside first. Li Zhong. - I'm here.
Immediately send someone to seal all exits of the Xianyang Royal Palace.
Until the Prince is found,
no one or thing can leave the palace.
Yes.
And also you all,
go to every corners of the royal palace and search.
If you are unable to find anything, I surely will
take all your lives.
What is your name?
My name is Han Shen.
How long have you been here in the palace?
Replying to Lord, almost one year already.
You have quite a strong and healthy physique.
Not bad.
How could you have risked such a danger? What if...
If I was able to successfully assassinate the Qin king, you and Tian Ming would be free already.
Eldest Senior...
The Qin Palace isn't as simple as you think.
- Ying Zheng, he actually treats me-- - Junior sister,
do you want to be trapped here forever?
Don't you want to be free and leisurely go to where you want to go just like before?
Do what you want to do?
I heard that you lost Prince Tian Ming so I especially came here to visit you.
Then Madam Chu seeing me looking so lonely and disappointed, are you satisfied now?
Madam Chu will not come to my chambers for no reasons at all.
She surely is planning something.
Your Majesty, please hold your steps. I have some urgent matters to report to you.
What matter?
It is about Prince Tian Ming's disappearance.
Hurry and say it!
♫ Although we are poles apart with the whole galaxy between us, ♫
♫ I wait a thousand years just for this once. ♫
♫ Across numerous mountains and streams, I gaze at your beauty, ♫
♫ with the stars and moon as our intermediator. ♫
♫ The distant sky and sea converge. ♫
♫ The dark night falls. ♫
♫ My love is locked outside this city’s gates. ♫
♫ I painfully await my lover’s return. ♫
♫ I waited until time and space have shattered, mountains and rivers have turned to ash, ♫
♫ and my face has withered. ♫
♫ I leave love behind, and continue to reincarnate into this world. ♫
♫ I fully understand the innumerable twists and turns of joy and sadness. ♫
♫ I will follow you through life and death. ♫
♫ We will travel across the vast heavens and earth. I will freely fly with you. ♫
♫ Yearning for you is better than lonely seclusion. ♫
♫ You are my only weakness. ♫
♫ I gaze with eager expectation. My tears fall like meteors. ♫
♫ I use a mirror to fix the makeup on my eyebrows. ♫
♫ If I can peacefully rest in your heart, I will not fear rain nor wind. ♫
♫ The troubles of the secular world will become as still as water. ♫
♫ Even if my body shatters, or if my soul becomes ashes, ♫
♫ I will never regret true love. ♫
♫ I have known the love of the evening mist and morning clouds, but I only want your embrace. ♫
♫ I fully understand the innumerable twists and turns of joy and sadness. ♫
♫ I will follow you through life and death. ♫
♫ We will travel across the vast heavens and earth, and freely fly with you. ♫