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The Kings' Woman
Episode 17
Junior Brother.
Brother Jing!
Why did you still come?
Li'er told me to take care of you.
I am not a child. I do not need you to take care of me.
Junior,
no matter what you are thinking, everything that Li'er did is for you.
I do not believe it.
If she really is what you are saying, that everything that she did is for me,
why then was she refusing to tell me the truth?
Could it be that compared to the king of Qin, she can trust him more?
Does she not know what kind of person I am?
Eldest Senior, you entered the Qin palace for more than a year, was it really just to protect junior sister?
What do you mean?
You have the chance to get near junior sister so you surely had a chance to get near Ying Zheng.
Have you forgotten the teachings of our master?
Why did you not kill him?
- I tried. - You tried but you did not succeed.
You want to tell me that, am I right?!
What really is it that you want to say?
You entered the Qin state and also became the lackey of the king of Qin.
I was right, is it not?
Junior, I will not quarrel with you. You have currently lost any rationality.
So what if I lost my rationality. At least, I know who I am.
I will never stay in the same room with that tyrannical king of Qin and not eliminate him for the good of the people!
Even if I kill Ying Zheng, so what?
What about Li'er? If Ying Zheng dies and I get caught,
can she come out of the royal palace alone? Moreover, there is--
There is what?! There is what else?!
There is that son she had with Ying Zheng, am I right? She cannot bear to leave that child, am I right?
You...
Junior,
the you now has already deviated from the hopes that master placed on you. I hope that you can calm down and think about it.
Brother Jing, stop!
Listen well. The one who betrayed our state and our master
were you and Li'er and not me!
Draw your sword! Draw your sword!
If you have any anger, just vent it on me.
I know that you are in great pain right now but Brother Han did not do anything wrong.
Are you also standing on their side?
Junior, calm down. Let us talk amicably.
We do not have anything to talk about. If you want to be a lackey of Qin, then go.
From now on, we will not call each other brothers.
I am breaking all our ties.
Brother Jing!
Brother Han, why must Sister Li torment Brother Jing like that?
Do they not love each other?
If they love each other, why cannot they just be together?
Lady Lan'er, there are a lot of things that are not as simple as what you imagine.
If people can be together just because they love each other, then there will not be so many unmarried men and women in this world.
There also won't be so many separations and reunions.
In the end,
this matter between the two of them must be resolved by themselves.
We can only be anxious but unable to do anything.
So many people guards the Zhaode Palace yet you allowed an unarmed woman to just leave like that?
Is my Qin Royal Palace a place that
anyone can enter and leave? Why do I need all these stupid guards?!
- Li Zhong! - I am here.
Go and drag those palace servants out and beat them to death.
Yes.
- Zhao Gao! - I am here.
Go and drag those palace maids in Yongxiang out and torture them by flogging!
If no one will be able to tell the whereabouts of Madame Li, execute them all and leave no on alive!
I will abide.
Reporting!
Informing Your Majesty, Madame Li is back.
I went out of the palace without permission and caused a ruckus here in the palace. I am here to receive my punishment.
- Guard! - Here.
Madame Li went out of the palace without permission, hence, has broke the law.
Immediately lock her in the prison!
Madame! Madame!
Qing'er! Qing'er!
- Madame... - Qing'er...
Why did they beat you up like this?
Madame, where did you go?
Sorry. It was all because of me.
Don't say that.
Madame Li, if you want to know how it feels to undergo the torture that Miss Qing suffered,
I can also let you experience it.
If you want to punish anyone, punish me. Going out of the palace was my own decision. It has nothing to do with Qing'er.
If you dare touch her again, just try.
Anyone who entered Yongxiang has never left with complete hands or feet.
Madame Li, if you cannot wait to experience it,
I can actually give you some taste of it.
Men! Serve her our torture method!
Do not touch Madame!
- Let Madame go! - Qing'er!
- Madame!
Madame! Madame! Let Madame go!
Let Madame go!
The Emperor is here!
- What are you all doing?! - Your Majesty.
Have I ordered you to torture her?
This...I also am just following the rules here in Yongxiang.
Are you still not going to hurry and release her?
Yes. Release her.
Men! Untie her!
Yes. Yes.
I am going to talk with Madam Li. You all leave.
Yes.
Can you tell me now
why you went out of the palace on your own?
Your Majesty surely know
that before I entered the palace, I have been living a carefree life where I can go wherever I want to go.
But after entering the palace, I cannot go to the streets and just casually have fun,
cannot go beside the stream to practice my sword.
For a person like me who is used to wielding my weapon,
the life in the palace is really so painfully boring.
You are saying that you went out of the palace without permission
just to play?
Where did you go?
Just walking around alone. I did not go to anywhere special.
With whom?
No one.
The security in Zhaode Palace is very tight.
How were you able to go out on your own?
Was there really no one who secretly helped you?
I have been training martial arts and swords since I was little. As long as I want to go out,
you think I cannot boldly give it a try?
Okay.
Even if you are able to get out of the chamber palace, from the inner palace to the outer palace,
there are people guarding. If you are just alone,
how could you have passed through those numerous palace gates?
Could you have planned to go out of the palace long before?
Why must you choose now?
Why did you not go out when you were still pregnant with Tianming?
Because I was afraid that I might get a miscarriage.
What about now?
You treated this place like an inn and just come and go as you want.
Did you think that even if I catch you,
I will not punish you? Am I right?
I am not that arrogant.
Regarding Your Majesty's accusations and blames, I do not have anything to rebut it.
If Your Majesty wants to punish me, then I am willing to accept it.
Since you know that you are going to be punished,
why must you still come back?
Because I have Tianming.
Since I went out of the palace, I already planned to return.
You can tell me
where you want to go play.
Can you not still look at me straight up to now?
Looks like I belittled your strength.
From this day on, I am going fix the management of my palace.
Strictly control the entrance and exit of people in Zhaode Palace. If I do not punish you,
it will be hard for me to establish the might of the inner palace.
Zhao Gao!
I am here.
Take Madame back to the prison so she can repent on her actions well.
Without my permission, no one is allowed to torture her.
Yes.
Men, take Madame Li away.
Yes.
- Qing'er... - Madame.
- Qing'er... - Madame...
- Qing'er... - I am fine.
Qing'er, sorry. It was all my fault.
Madame, don't say it like that. It was my fault.
It was me who was not able to take good care of you.
Qing'er...
It was me who went out of the palace without permission. How can you be blamed for this?
I am willing to do anything for Madame.
Madame, did you suffer?
I am back. I will not let you suffer anymore.
Brother Jing, you...
I am fine. Just leave me alone.
You have not eaten for a day already.
How about I make you something to eat?
I am not hungry.
Just go eat.
Brother Jing, how about you pracitce swords with me?
Sword practice?
That's right. Practicing your sword not only can make your body stronger and healthier,
it can also make a person forget his worries and be focused.
With your state now, it is most suitable for you to practice your sword fighting.
Make one's body stronger and healthier.
Sword techniques and martial arts.
What is the meaning of swordplay? I've trained in sword fighting for more than ten years.
Don't talk about taking revenge for my master and fulfilling my grand aspirations,
I cannot even protect the woman that I love.
You just practice on your own.
How about you just accompany me to the market?
Do you know that I saw a pair of birds earlier in the market--
I am not going. You go by yourself.
Let us go already. It really is quite boring if I go alone.
Let us go. Let us go. Just go with me.
When I said I am not going, I am not going!
Lan'er, sorry.
I know that you have good intentions.
But I really am not in the mood to do these things.
Just let me be alone.
Did you not eat? Put on some power.
Yes.
Zhongchang Attendant!
What is it? Being so panicky like that.
Lord, I followed your instructions and checked the request for absence of the palace servants and guards for the past days.
I discovered that it included that Guard Han that helped Madame Li find her son last time.
What did you say?
Madame Li left the palace for five days. On the day before Madame Li left,
Guard Han requested for a leave to go back to the province and has not come back yet.
Quite interesting. There is no such thing as a coincidence. Everything are just cause and effect.
Guard Han went on a leave but it just have to coincide with Madame Li leaving the palace?!
These two surely are connected.
Hurry and go investigate the background of Guard Han when he entered the Palace.
Yes.
This time, I do not believe that I will not catch any evidences against you two.
What are you trying to do?
Han Shen, you disobeyed the royal palace rules. You are immediately being arrested for trial.
Men! Arrest him!
Yes!
Take him away!
Move.
Zhongchang Attendant is requesting an audience!
Greeting, Your Majesty.
I hastily requested an audience with you because we just arrested the traitor that helped Madame Li get out of the Palace.
Traitor?
Indeed. May Your Majesty allow me to bring this criminal in and be interrogated.
Let him in!
Come, bring him in!
Han Shen?
Your Majesty, I already verified that on the day before Madame Li left,
this Guard Han informed that he will absent for he will be going back to his province.
The address that Guard Han reported when he entered the Palace
was Puyang of Wey State. From Xianyang to Puyang,
Even if you ride your horse as fast you can, you still need at least 10 days to go back and forth.
Moreover, he still have to visit his relatives and comfort his elders.
But this Han Shen returned to the palace in just five days.
Hence, I am sure that
this Han Shen did not really go back to the prince to visit his relative
but actually went to some other place.
Han Shen, His Majesty is here. Are you not going to hurry and confess everything?
Zhongchang Attendant,
even if Guard Han hid this matter of going out of the palace,
It doesn't mean that he is connected with the matter of Madame Li going out of the Palace.
Your Majesty, please forgive me for boldly saying these inferences.
Our Xianyyang royal palace has very strick defense.
Madame Li surely cannot leave the palace alone.
There must be someone who secretly helped her.
And this person surely is Han Shen!
He dared to publicly disobey our Qin rules and palace laws
here in the inner palace of the capital Xianyang.
His actions are not only abducting a royal concubine out of the palace,
he clearly is endangering Your Majesty's safety,
He treated the guards of our palace as non-existent.
How can I not investigate further an evil person like that?
Your Majesty, although what Zhongchang Attendant said are just inferences, they are also quite reasonable.
Why not ask Guard Han and see if he has any connection with Madame Li going out of the Palace?
Han Shen.
Do you have anything to say?
Your Majesty, when Prince Tianming went missing last time,
This Han Shen boldly used his life as a guarantee
to request Your Majesty to investigate the Southern Palace.
Afterwards, His Majesty said that you are rewarding him.
He then said that he wanted to seek a leave to go back to this province.
But right now, his actions does not match with reality.
He surely is hiding something. Since he is not willing to say it,
I suggest that he should be immediately be punished with the supreme penalty
to correct the reputation of the laws of my Qin.
Is the royal harem peaceful these past days?
About that, I indeed have something to report to Grand Queen Dowager.
What is it?
A few days ago, Madame Li left without permission while His Majesty was nor around.
Zhongchang Attendant, locked the usual palace servants serving Madame Li
directly to the Yongxiang and tortured them strictly.
Causing the whole Zhaode Palace to be in chaos.
After Your Majesty received the news about it and rushed back, he dispatched the Huben army
to search Xianyang and the areas outside the city.
There was actually such a thing that happened?
That is right. His Majesty was so mad.
In the end, that Madame Li just leisurely rode her horse
back here as if nothing happened.
Grand Queen Dowager, do you know that a group of palace servants and guards
almost died because of her.
This Madame Li is after all a top level royal concubine that serves as the model of proper wife etiquette.
How can she act so inappropriately and immorally?
What Grand Queen Dowager said is so right.
Yet in the end, His Majesty just temporarily locked her at Yongxiang.
She didn't even get any punishment at all.
In my opinion, I'm guessing that after the clamor about this matter has passed,
he will just let that Madame Li leisurely go back to her palace.
Grand Queen Dowager, I really am worried about the defense of the palace.
If all people are like that Madame Li, going in and out of the royal palace so casually,
who still will put the safety of our royal palace to heart?
Grand Queen Dowager, do not harm your health.
How can I not be angry?
Good thing, Ruo'er, you told me about this matter.
Such a thing actually happened in such a huge inner palace.
I distanced myself and stayed in Huayang Palace to get some peace and quiet.
But these young generations are not really giving me any importance.
If I still do not do anything to control and punish them and this gets out,
the people in this world will really think that the inner palace has no rules at all.
Is not that insulting the reputation of our Qin?!
Grand Queen Dowager, you are wise.
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If you still will not say it,
I will then lock you in the prison and have you and Madame Li directly confront each other.
What? Madame Li is in prison?
She broke the palace rules and left without permission.
If I do not punish her, will I not let the world laugh at me?
Your Majesty, I actually abducted Madame Li.
I developed evil intentions against Madame Li
so I forcefully abducted her and took her out of the Palace.
But Madame has great martial arts skills so she was able to escape from me midway.
Your Majesty, Madame Li did not tell you the truth
because she is benevolent and magnanimous and does not to bring harm to me.
Is that true?
Madame Li and you do not really have any interactions. Why then will she cover up for you?
I also do not know.
But this matter indeed started with me. It has nothing to do with Madame Li.
Han Shen,
you think that by saying it now, you will not be punished to death anymore?
Since you know that this will happen, why did you return?
I risked my life to return hoping to get lucky.
Because after doing this matter, I really regretted it.
The salary here in Qin palace is very good. I really should not have done this matter.
Your Majesty, this matter has nothing to do with Madame Li. May Your Majesty punish me!
Your Majesty, what he said was so unreasonable.
May Your Majesty investigate this matter clearly. Do not listen to the nonsense of this man.
Shut up! Lock Han Shen up in prison.
I want him to personally face Madame Li!
Do not come near.
Both of you, do not do anything.
Fengyi, His Majesty has orders that no one can torture Madame Li.
What are you being nervous about?
I did not really bring out those flesh torture methods of our Qin to scare her.
I was just instructed by Queen Dowager Huayang to teach Madame Li the rules of our royal harem.
You have to delay this matter. I already informed His Majesty about this. His Majesty will here any minute.
Little brother, just pretend that you did not see anything.
- Cut off the hair of these two girls! - Yes.
Let me see who among you will dare to come over here!
Stop!
What are you all doing?
Who allowed you to make a scene here?
Informing Chamberlain, I also tried to stop them.
But they say that they were instructed by Queen Dowager Huayang so I dare not...
What are you all still doing here? Leave.
Yes.
These palace servants of Huayang Palace are getting more and more undisciplined and uncontrolled.
Have you had enough reflection already?
Let me ask you again.
Who really helped you leave the palace?
I already told Your Majesty that it was really just me who went out of the palace.
A few days ago, you just returned to the palace so you were still exhausted.
That is why, you just made up some reasons.
I not investigating it further is because of my great kindness towards you.
But right now, Guard Han has already surrendered to me.
He said that he forcefully kidnapped you and took you out of the palace. What can you say about that?
Men! Bring Guard Han over here!
Your Majesty, I have brought the criminal Han Shen.
There is one between the two of you who is lying.
Who is it?
Say it. Who is the one lying?
Just a small inner palace guard...
Why must you defend him like this?
If Your Majesty do not believe me, then just punish me.
If you believe me, then stop investigating further.
Your Majesty,
Madame Li was abducted by me. She does not really have any intentions of going out of the palace.
May Your Majesty just punish me. Your Majesty can do anything to my invaluable life.
If I admit now that Han Shen is my eldest senior,
will it harm him instead?
Eldest Senior, why were you so stupid? Why must you return?
Okay.
Since it is like that, I will just treat it that my wife lied to me.
Guard Han now is being sentenced for the crime of abducting a royal concubine from the royal harem.
- Men! - I am here.
Lock Madame up in the inner palace and place her in confinement.
Without my permission, no one is allowed to visit her.
I will abide.
Madame, please.
Zhao Gao.
I am here.
Han Shen broke the palace rules of Qin.
Just deal with him
as one should deal with his crime.
Yes. I will abide.
Men!
Persisting loving someone, but even if that love is not reciprocated, it doesn't matter.
As long as I can stay quietly stay by her side, that's enough.
I hope you will value yourself more and not only be thoughtful of others,
especially when you are in a calamity. You must have an escape route for yourself.
Remember, you can ask for my help anytime.
I am by your side.
Eldest Senior
Why are you so foolish?
I made the mistake. It is fine to let me assume the responsibility alone.
Now that it is like this.
What should I do?
Guard Han. Guard Han
I did not think the story between you and Madame Li
is so outstanding and bizarre.
You did not know.
That day, Madame Li rode alone on the horse to return to the palace.
She looked valiant and formidable. No matter how you see it,
she did not look frightened and not knowing what to do as what abducted people will usually look like.
It turns out there is some inside information we are unaware of.
Han Shen, you still have some integrity.
But you think if you do not make a sound, I won’t be able to guess your thoughts?
Were you not going to elope with Madame Li?
Otherwise you wouldn't be bent on hell to chase her back.
There are plenty of more fishes in the sea.
Madam Li is indeed beautiful than any other woman.
But just for a woman...
You! -- How dare you.
Han Shen, let me tell you. I'm keeping you alive because I'm giving you face.
You've already violated the Law of the Qin State, your crime is irrefutable.
Don't even think about leaving here alive today.
- Someone. - Present.
Beat him, beat him severely.
Yes.
You can all leave.
Yes.
Qing'er.
I want you to help me with something.
Madam, just instruct me, I will go do it.
I must see go see Guard Han once.
Madam, it's not easy for you to come out from prison.
You're going again, it's too dangerous.
Qing'er listen to me, right now outside the room, there's so many guards,
if you don't help me, it'll be hard for me to get away.
But if he dies, then I'll never be at peace.
I know this will put you in a difficult spot.
But I keep thinking, but can't think of any other way.
Forgive me for speaking out of turn.
I want to ask, what relationship do you have with Guard Han?
Last time you went out, were you with him?
Qing'er
my relationship with Guard Han is not like what others have said.
One day I will explain it to you.
Guard Han is really a good person.
I can't let him die in vain.
Madam. My family background is poor and my position is low.
But ever since serving Madam, you have been good to me.
I only wish that I can serve you for the rest of my life.
No matter whatever you want me to do, I will risk my life to do it.
But...
But...but I'm afraid.
I don't want you to be in a difficult position.
Qing'er, I know that last time I left the palace, I've implicated you.
But this time, no matter what happens, I will not leave.
I will protect you. Please, just help me this once.
I will go do it.
I'm tired, you may leave.
Madam, rest early, I'll take my leave.
Stand there.
Sir, what is it?
Is Madam asleep?
Madam is already asleep.
You can leave.
King.
Last night in the prison, I have carefully interrogated Guard Han.
From start to finish, he insist that he's abducted Madam Li himself.
On the surface it seems that Madam Li is innocent.
I just don't understand. If Madam Li was abducted,
then this Guard Han is a very evil person.
Why after Madam Li returned to the palace, she hasn't come confess this to you, King.
If to say, Madam Li had suffered any unspeakable grievance outside the palace.
It's fine that she doesn't want to speak of it once she's returned to the Palace.
But once Madam Li found out that we have seized Guard Han
she didn't come out to redress the injustice.
This... is really violate what is normal.
To say that Madame Li really treats everyone so magnanimously and forgives and forgets all their mistakes,
that is so illogical. That is after all an evil person that abducted her.
This... a man and a woman alone together. It violates traditional order.
Living and sleeping together for so many days,
Could it be that Madam Li doesn't want to stand up and plead innocence for her chastity?
Unless, they already had a prior hidden relationship.
What are you two talking about?
King.
Since you are here, then don't leave.
Until now, you are still thinking for that man.
For him, it doesn't matter, even if you sacrifice yourself, right?
Your Majesty, with things being like this, is it not yet very obvious?
Guard Han cannot be Madam Li's Senior.
As I see it, General Meng should put down his weapon.
To avoid killing or hurting someone.
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