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The King's Woman
Episode 40
Queen Dowager, come. Be careful.
Queen Dowager!
Lord Lü.
Lü Buwei? Is this him?
Lord Lü.
Yu'er, I knew that you will come.
Let us two talk privately.
Since Queen Dowager already came as agreed, you must not hurt her.
She is my woman in this lifetime.
What are you afraid of?
Queen Dowager, I am just outside the door.
Lord Lü!
You indeed did not forget me.
Where have you gone?
Do you know that I frequently think about you?
Are you not shocked that I am still alive?
Do you not know that His Majesty once visited me in Luoyang?
I have forgotten about it.
But all those are not important now. What is important is
you are here and I am here.
Is it not that is enough already?
Is Zheng'er not treating you right
that is why you look so frail?
In the eyes of Lord Lu,
am I not beautiful anymore?
You do not like me anymore?
You do not want me then.
Come.
You are old, so am I.
Forget it. I came to see you today
because I have some things that I must discuss with you.
What else is there that cannot be talked about between us?
But I thought that you will take me out to have fun.
Tell Zheng'er to bring the Qin army outside of Handan.
I can then force the king of Zhao to abdicate his throne and let Zhao Jia ascend to it.
And also, I will let Zhao Jia submit to Qin.
Without moving any soldiers or pawns,
Zhao state will already become a vassal of Qin.
So...
what you want to discuss with me is this matter.
Queen Dowager, this matter is very important.
This concerns the future of us three.
Stop pretending to be crazy and dumb.
I thought that...
you are going to patch up our broken relations.
I thought that you will talk about our Zheng'er with me.
Queen Dowager.
Do you know that Zheng'er has changed?
He does not hate me anymore.
I think that maybe...
maybe the three of us...
can be like how a real family should be.
Queen Dowager, stop being naive.
How were we forced to our present situation?
Was it not due to our son?!
Zheng'er is naturally born to have the face of a tiger and a wolf (fierce being),
to unite the world, to become the world's number one.
This is his destiny. All others are not important.
I do not want to hear! I do not want to hear! I do not want to hear all of these!
- I do not want to hear all of these! - Calm down,
Queen Dowager, right now, the Qin and Zhao armies are battling. The situation is very urgent.
Hurry and go back and relay my words to Zheng'er. Understand?
I do not want to!
You are not really here to see me.
You do not care about me.
And you do not care about our Zheng'er.
What you still care for the most is your power, your grand ambition.
Lü Buwei, I will never become your pawn again.
Do not force me to become hostile towards you!
Let go of me!
- Let go of me! - Queen Dowager!
Let go of me!
What are you doing?!
Lü Buwei, what are you doing? Let Queen Dowager go.
Do not come near. If you come forward any further, I will stab her to death.
Calm down first. Put down the dagger first.
Tell Zheng'er that I want to personally see him.
If he does not follow, I will kill his royal mother.
You hear me?!
If you dare kill Queen Dowager, I will kill you first.
Stop playing tricks. Leave now!
Or else, I will kill her.
Okay, I will follow what you said.
I will go bring His Majesty here. But if you dare touch even a hair of Queen Dowager,
I will never let you get what you want.
That is more like it.
Queen Dowager, I surely will return to save you.
Let us first send out our cavalry and claim their middle
as a feign. We will hide our main army of foot soldiers on the left flank of their army.
Once the middle army and the cavalry started fighting, we will then dispatch the foot soldiers.
Li Mu handle troops like a god. Just seeing minimal clues and he will already know what is happening.
I am guessing that
once he sees that our cavalries infiltrate the middle army, he will then know that there is an ambush waiting in the forest.
He most likely will pull the middle army back
and lure our army to enter deeper and then do their counterattack.
This way, the foot soldiers we have waiting in the forest
will not be able to give any support to the cavalries.
The cavalry will be completely annihilated while we
will not be able to obtain our purpose.
Your Majesty, it would have been better if this was just some other normal general. But...
But the opponent just have to be Li Mu.
Other than being well versed in military strategies and being well-experinced,
he is a general with very good foresight.
there is no strategy that is surprising, no formation that is extraordinary.
No matter what method the enemies use, they all seem to be within his expectations.
Even if it will be beyond his expectations,
he still can quickly come up with a way to solve it.
Your Majesty, I am useless. Please punish me.
Wang Jian, get up.
Wang Jian, this is not your fault.
Li Mu is indeed a rare military talent.
But...
I also am not totally out of countermeasure to use.
Could it be that His Majesty has some wise strategy?
Confucius said that the supreme art of war is to be able to make your enemies submit to you without fighting.
My army will continue to press forward towards Zhao State.
May everyone just act according to the circumstances.
Yes.
Where is Lord Lü?
Lord has some important matter to do and said that he will be gone for several days.
A huge problems has happened.
How could he have chosen to go out at this critical time?
Lord, what huge matter has happened?!
Guo Kai was able to get a secret letter
saying that General Li Mu has secret dealings with the Qin state.
Right now, the palace is in disarray.
General Li Mu? That is so unlikely.
I also feel that this is impossible.
It is just that they now have hard evidence.
Plus the fact that His Majesty had always not trusted Li Mu.
I fear that this is the evidence against Li Mu that he so wanted to find.
Since such grave matters have happened, I initially planned to look for Lord Lü and discuss strategies to resolve this. This...
Sikong Ma, you must find him immediately.
Lord did not tell me where he was going this time.
Right now, we can only wait for his return.
I fear that when he returns, it will already be too late.
[Battlefield, Zhao State]
Informing General, the strength of the Qin army is inferior to ours and they are now starting to retreat while fighting.
This is a plot of Wang Jie. He wants to lure our army deep into their trap.
- Spread my orders. Tell the middle army not to chase after them. - Yes!
General is really good in predicting things.
This move by the Qin army was completely known by you.
They most likely will be withdrawing very soon.
Do not be that happy too early.
The king of Qin, Ying Zheng, is not some normal individual.
If he will easily just give up,
the Qin state will never be in such good condition as it is now.
He surely has some moves that he has not yet made.
- We still need to carefully guard against it. - Yes.
Li Mu, receive the decree! Li Mu, receive the decree!
Li Mu, receive the decree!
These men are from the royal palace.
Could it be that something bad has happened to His Majesty?
Could it be that because the Qin army failed to defeat us by battle,
they instead sent an assassin to kill His Majesty?!
Ying Zheng is an arrogant person.
It is unlikely for him to do such a thing.
But cavalries from the royal palace coming here at this time
will surely be not some good news too.
The royal cavalry of the palace came here to deliver the royal decree. Li Mu, accept the decree.
I am here to accept the decree of His Majesty.
General Li Mu has connived with Qin and planned to overthrow the government of Zhao.
Evidences have been found supporting it. I am ordering Li Mu to immediately handover the seal of the army commander
and return to the royal palace in Handan for his trial.
Accept the decree already.
How could that be possible? How could General Li Mu...
General.
Ying Zheng, o Ying Zheng...
I really never thought that you will employ a 'driving a wedge in between' strategy like this.
I even thought
that you are sincere in fighting with me to determine who really is more valiant.
Never thought...
Criminal general Li Mu, stop dilly-dallying.
Are you still not going to quickly hand over the seal of the commander?
You said that I have colluded with the Qin army.
And there are even evidences to back it up. Where are the evidences?
If you are unable to show me those evidences today, I am not going to accept this.
The secret letters between you and the king of Qin
have long been gathered by Minister Guo Kai.
Right now, all of them are in the hands of His Majesty.
His Majesty already verified it. What excuses do you still have?
Letters? I have never exchanged any letters with the king of Qin.
Nonsense!
In the whole Zhao, everyone recognizes your handwriting.
And also, it was even personally verified by His Majesty.
- Are you then saying that His Majesty is making up things?! - You!
Is it that hard to copy my handwriting?
It must be Ying Zheng who found people from Jianghu
to copy my handwriting, make a fake letter,
and then send the letter into Zhao.
How come you all believed such a stupid thing?
That is right! It must be fake!
Criminal general Li Mu,
you were only asked to hand over the seal of the commander and you already came up with so many excuses.
Could it be that you are guilty? Men, arrest him!
- Who dares to?! - Stop!
All of you stop!
But general, this...
This must be a scheme of Qin. If you handover the seal of the commander,
the Zhao army will surely lose!
If the two of you fight now, if the soldiers in the front line see their general revolting
and not listening to the orders of the king of Zhao,
it will also cause their morale to decrease and eventually losing the battle!
Then...could it be general that you will just...
handover the seal of the commander and return to the royal palace?!
It is impossible to return to the royal palace anymore.
Then it means that you are planning to go against the royal decree?!
Is it not that you all just want the seal of the commander? I can give it to you!
Men, bring over my seal of the commander!
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Take it.
I, Li Mu, had been a military horse all my life.
Had been loyal to my country and had never betrayed it.
Since the king of Zhao does not trust me,
I can only
die here to show my loyalty!
General!
General! General!
[Royal Palace, Zhao State]
Zhao...Jia, why are you here? Should you not be guarding outside?
I led my army to risk life just to resist them,
to protect Handan. From twenty miles from the city,
we are being defeated and kept retreating. Without General Li Mu,
our Zhao army is humiliatingly getting defeated.
Just one step and everything has now gone out of hand.
It was all because of you!
Because you are a muddle king! It was you who killed Li Mu!
And you, Guo Kai!
You crafty and fawning minister that has brought disaster to our Zhao since the past king!
Today, I will kill you
to comfort the soul of General Li Mu in heaven!
Prince, have mercy. Prince, have mercy.
- Your Majesty! Your Majesty! - You cannot kill him.
If you kill him, what will happen to me?
Then, I will just kill you!
Li Mu died because of you. The citizens of Zhao hates you to their bones.
No one will feel sorry for you.
Prince! Prince, you must not! Prince, you must not!
Prince, you must not! Prince, you must not!
You must not! You must not!
Zhao Jia, you...listen to me.
We are after all real brothers. Even if you kill me now,
you still will be unable to stop the Qin army.
Why not instead let me negotiate with the King Zheng of Qin?
This way, maybe our Zhao can still have a gleam of hope.
Prince, you cannot kill His Majesty.
What we must do now is to preserve Zhao.
Only by preserving Zhao can we have hope.
Rather than meeting force with force with that king of Qin,
why not...
why not we just surrender and give him the city? Maybe our Zhao will still have a chance to survive.
A chance to survive!
Prince, put down the sword first. Put down the sword.
Please. [Manor of Prince Jia, Handan, Zhao State]
Lord Lü, you finally are back. My Zhao is almost dying
yet you are still here calm and composed?!
Prince, do not worry.
I indeed was handling this matter that is why I was out for a few days.
Ying Zheng will come see me. I will let him force Zhao Qian to abdicate his throne.
The throne will then belong to Prince already.
What capabilities do you have to make Ying Zheng see you?
Before, he wanted you to die. Did it change now?
Moreover, if Ying Zheng is decided to end the state of Zhao,
what use is there still for me to have this royal throne?
I have in my hands right now something that will make Ying Zheng follow.
Since he has come here to Handan, it surely will remind him of his childhood memories.
No matter how cruel and heartless he is, in this world,
there will always be a worry that he will never forget.
May Prince not worry. He will surely come.
Where did you and Ying Zheng agree to meet?
Handan Pub.
May Prince just wait for my good news.
Okay. I will trust you one last time.
Lü Buwei, I have helped you for so many years. Do not forget
that if not for me, you are just
a corpse in Luoyang City. Do not disappoint me anymore.
[Outside Handan City, Zhao State]
[Zhao]
The surrender letter is here. May Your Majesty read it.
No need anymore. I will read the surrender letter once I return to my palace.
Give me the jade of the He family.
Li'er, this jade of the He family is the most beautiful jade among the whole six states.
You two reflect each other.
Compared to you, I instead feel that
this jade of the He family is a bit inferior.
Thank you, Your Majesty. This jade indeed is quite a beauty.
but it was gotten in exchange for the life of one great general of our generation, Li Mu.
I really lament for the people of Zhao.
For the King of Zhao to be in this current state was something that he brought unto himself.
The sacrifice of General Li Mu indeed was pitiful.
But Li'er, do not worry.
Once I return to Qin, I will establish a stone tablet for him.
Your Majesty, I have one matter to report.
Your Majesty was busy with attacking the city these past days so I was afraid that this will cause you distractions.
That is why, I just stayed here and waited for the arrival of the Qin army.
Actually, Queen Dowager has already entered Handan City and is waiting for Your Majesty within the city.
Your Majesty.
No matter what happens, you must stay calm.
Royal Mother.
How come you did not tell me that you are here in Handan?
Zheng'er.
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I am sorry.
Lü Buwei?!
So...you were alive all these times?
You were in Zhao state all along.
The person who caused my Qin to successively lose is you.
The mastermind behind all these was also you!
You also were not bad.
You actually were able to think of using the strategem of sowing dissension to get rid of Li Mu.
I was a step too late. I have underestimated you, Zheng'er.
Do not call me Zheng'er!
Think about it. In this world now,
how many people are still there that has the capability to control the universe
and state affairs? If the two of us, father and son, join forces,
very soon, the world will be ours.
Shut up!
Upto now, do you still not understand my real intentions?
Fame, position, power, and wealth, all those can just be floating clouds.
Zheng'er, you are my only son.
I tried my best to survive until now so as to let you understand that
I just wanted to enjoy all of these with you and your royal mother.
Let me go back to Qin with you.
Attack!
King of Qin, the time of your death has come!
Brothers, attack!
Lü Buwei!
At this stage, you still dared to set me up to harm me?!
No, it was not me. I definitely did not instruct anyone.
No, Zheng'er...it is not like this. It is not like this!
Lü Buwei, hurry and explain.
Hurry and explain things to Zheng'er!
Li'er, quickly help me convince Zheng'er. It is not like what he thinks.
- Quickly convince him! - Queen Dowager...
You lied to me again.
For so many years, you have always been lying to me!
Do you want my throne that much?!
Zheng'er, you must believe me.
Your Majesty...
This was all due to my sins!
Your Majesty! Your Majesty! [Royal Palace, Handan, Zhao State]
Your Majesty, the Qin army has started to massacre the city.
Massacre? Is it not I already surrendered?
I even gave him the jade from the He family. How come he still...
I also do not understand the reason. The Qin army just started killing everyone.
The Han city now is like hell in the mortal world.
Maybe soon, they will already charge into this royal palace.
This King Zheng of Qin, how come he did not do as he said?!
What should we do? Where is Zhao Jia? Where is he?
Does he not want this royal throne anymore?
Since he likes this royal throne so much, then he should defend Zhao with his life.
Your Majesty, what time is it already? Save yourself first.
Hurry and escape!
Zhao Qian! Are you planning to escape?
You...Mindai.
I previously thought of a thousand of possibilities
of how I will return in this palace that I am so familiar with.
I previously thought of being your queen,
be your only woman.
But I hate you. I hate you for being heartless.
Hate your womanizing personality! It was you...
It was you who trampled on me! It was you who fooled me!
You said that you will guard me for a lifetime.
I then followed you for a lifetime.
So funny. So sarcastic.
So...you were willing to marry off to Qin...just to take revenge on me?
That is right!
Zhao Qian, I hate you.
That is why I helped Zhao Jia.
I am going to drag you down the royal throne.
I want to see you suffering to the point that you would rather die.
But from the looks of it now,
the grand plan of you and Zhao Jia in him returning to the throne is such a failure.
Failure?
Personally seeing Zhao die in your hands
is my last revenge.
Mindai, you are too lamentable.
Are you not a citizen of Zhao?
By the time that you did not choose me to be your crown princess,
when I married off to Ying Zheng,
I have already forgotten that I am a citizen of Zhao.
The previous Mindai has already died.
Mindai...
If we are only ordinary people,
just a pair of ordinary man and woman,
how great will that be?
Handan City...
I am back.
After going through so much,
I have finally come back.
You all should know that my name before was Zhao Zheng.
I lived in this street.
In this street, everyone looked down on me.
Everyone bullied me!
You all know that
my real father is not Zichu
but it is Lü Buwei.
Today...
none of you should think of escaping.
Zhao Zheng! Zhao Zheng! Do you still remember me?
I am Li Cai. We grew up playing together.
Please let me go. Let me go, okay?
- I beg you to let me go. - Of course, I remember.
How could I have forgotten you?
Stop! Don't run! Don't run!
Stop! Stop!
Zhao Zheng! Zhao Zheng!
No father, no guts. Have a mother that sings in an opera.
In the past, you all...surrounded and insulted me.
You all rode on me.
You all peed on my head! Can I forget that?!
I...did not.
In this lifetime, I will not let you off.
From now on, in this Handan city,
there will no one anymore who will dare bully me.
[Wine Pub, Handan]
I fear that Queen Dowager this time cannot be saved anymore.
My medical knowledge is shallow. May Madame punish me.
You do not to blame yourself too much. Queen Dowager is ill to begin with.
Royal Physician, from your opinion, how long can Queen Dowager still last?
The pulse of Queen Dowager is very weak. She is just being supported now by her breathing.
At most, I fear that it will only be for half a day to a day.
Okay, I know already.
- Leave first. - Thank you, Madame.
Zheng'er...
My Zheng'er...
Where is Zheng'er?
Queen Dowager, your body is weak. Just talk slowly.
I want to see him.
Where is he?
Madame.
Li Zhong, is His Majesty with you?
Earlier, His Majesty was with us fighting against the royal guards of Zhao Jian. He continuously charged up to the center of the city.
But do not know why, His Majesty just disappeared in a blink of an eye.
I initially thought that there was a troop of Huben Army following His Majesty.
Who would have known that they would also got separated from him.
I am a man killing wild demon.
I can even kill my own father.
What else can I not do?
I am full of sins.
Hurry and leave me. Quickly go!
I am not leaving. I am not going anywhere.
I am just by your side.
Have you really already forgiven me?
Royal mother....
Such a good distraction scheme. That hateful King Zheng of Qin!
Zhao Jia, considering that you are a member of the royal family of Zhao, I will give you a chance to live.
What a joke! You think that I will not be able to defeat a woman like you?!
Black Banner of Qin, listen to my command!
Yes!
Kill all of them!
Kill!
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♫ 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. ♫