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[Episode 9]
Your Majesty!
Do not harm His Majesty!
Your Majesty.
The Duan Empire's military power...
From this day forth...
I'll share my military power with Chief Secretariat Nanku Qi.
Wench.
Thank you, Your Majesty.
Convey!
His Majesty's royal decree!
Muyun He Ge is to be reassigned back from Lan Prefecture!
He is to assist with political duties!
Yes!
It's been rumored that General Muru rose in rebellion.
He attempted to assassinate His Majesty.
I don't believe in it.
What I've heard that it was actually the Charmer prince
who attempted to assassinate him.
His Majesty hasn't attended the royal court recently.
The rumors are spreading freely.
What are we to do in the future?
In my opinion, the world will soon be in chaos!
Gentlemen, lower your voices.
Young Master, where are you going?
I have to visit Muyun Sheng.
Prince Sheng is no longer in the palace.
Where is he?
Lan Yu'er!
Is he all right?
Take me to him.
Don't alarm him.
What happened to him?
When he sees people he knows, he sometimes loses his mind.
Come with me.
I'll look after the both of you.
They come from the palace every day.
Every morning and evening.
They make him visit His Majesty in the palace every day.
Why?
They didn't make him do so even when he was in the palace.
The empress...
she likes to torment him so.
Lady-in-waiting, Su Yu Ning, pleads to return to the palace.
A-Shan, tell me.
Who would dare to kill my uncle with magical powers?
Yin Rong.
But... Consort Yin Rong...
She's been lying supine in Yong Yin Hall all this time.
She can't even move.
She has a son, Muyun Sheng.
Muyun Sheng injured His Majesty with his magical powers.
Why couldn't she have killed my uncle?
Yes.
Yin Rong...
You and your son must understand...
I am the most ferocious beast in this cage.
If you take one thing from me...
I want you to pay for it a hundredfold.
Wu Ru Yi asks to seek audience with the empress!
Come in!
Your Highness!
Lady-in-waiting Su Yu Ning, who disappeared for days, has returned.
Did she say where she went?
Your Highness.
Su Yu Ning said that she can't speak of it.
She can't?
Su Yu Ning said that she fell off a cliff for an unknown reason
during the hunting trip and was rescued.
Whoever saved her asked that she keep their identity a secret.
Her natal chart indicates that
she is to become the empress of the future emperor.
All ladies-in-waiting are to greet Su Yu Ning in the highest respect!
I'd just like to know what could get a lady-in-waiting expelled.
Or... even killed?
You're just picking on Su Yu Ning.
She will be of use to me.
Auntie!
You believe in that prophecy?
Whoever marries her gets to be the emperor?
Your Highness, Su Yu Ning has violated the regulations.
According to the law--
Summon her father, Su Cheng Zhang, to take her home.
She is to be grounded at home.
Yes.
You really have totally embarrassed me.
- You-- - Father!
Don't embarrass yourself any further.
Please halt!
Young lady, may we have a word in private?
Han Jiang asked that I hand this over to you.
Han Jiang?
Where is he?
He...
He's gone in search of the life he wants.
He would like you to look after yourself.
I take my leave.
Han Jiang?
- Han Jiang! - Shush!
Where are our other brothers?
They left.
Where's Gao Wu Yin?
He suddenly disappeared that night.
Someone said that he was taken away by a tall and lean man.
Han Jiang, now that you've returned, we'll follow your lead.
I'm here today to bid you all farewell.
You'll have to look after yourselves.
Where are you going?
I'm going to join the army.
The royal physician has given instructions.
Your Majesty must work out more often.
I don't trust those maids and eunuchs to look after you.
Your Majesty, what did you say?
Don't... touch me.
Your Majesty doesn't like it?
Go... away!
I'm just as anxious as you are.
You can't even move.
What can you do?
Let me take care of you.
Only then can you survive.
You still refuse to do as I wish.
Yin... Rong.
Who is Yin Rong?
Love...
of...
a...
lifetime.
Never will you forget her.
Never...
can I...
forget her.
I'm all that you have left.
I'm the only one looking after you day and night.
So...
So what?
In my heart...
there's no place... for you.
None?
I've loved you for half of my lifetime.
Yet I'm not even in your mind.
Fine.
Very well.
Go on, then.
Go to your Yin Rong!
Before Yin Rong came along...
you must have loved me.
You looked into my eyes...
Those words you said to me...
they were all true.
You took me horse riding outside the palace.
You were so happy then.
When you saw me put on new dresses...
you looked at me in adoration.
When you held the newborn Muyun He Ge in your arms...
you said to me dotingly, "You've had a hard time."
Why has it now changed?
It's not what it was.
Can't we turn back time?
Can we be how we once were?
Give me back what was once mine!
Please?
Take me back into your heart again.
Will you?
Please?
Take me back into your heart again...
I didn't lose...
I didn't lose! Say it!
Say it!
All men are fickle-minded!
If another woman who is more beautiful than Yin Rong appears
you'll also forget her, right?
Then at least, it wasn't Yin Rong who defeated me.
It was the fickle mind of a man!
Say it!
If another woman more beautiful than Yin Rong appears
you'll forget her too, right?
Yin Rong...
Take a look.
Take a good look at her.
Take one last look at her.
This won't work.
Yin Rong...
She will always be in my mind.
In my heart.
- In my heart... - I...
I won't allow it.
Sir, please come in!
Please come in!
- I'll fetch you some tea. - Sure.
- Have some tea. - I really don't want any.
Young man, you must be tired?
It's a hot day.
Hot tea is best on such days.
Here you go.
- Have some. - No, thank you.
I don't have any money. I'm only asking for information.
It's all right.
Tea isn't worth much during such times.
Information is.
Certainly, if we get acquainted
we can also provide the information for free.
Here, have some tea.
I'd like to ask if there's a ship named Duke Heng at Quan Ming Harbor.
You know someone who is on board Duke Heng?
I don't.
That's all right, then.
Have some tea first, go on.
I'll tell you where to find Duke Heng after you've finished your tea.
I have a friend.
He said that I just have to show this to the people on board that ship
and they can take me to Han Prefecture.
That's good.
Here, have some tea.
It's this--
What's the matter?
Is he all right?
Let's have a look.
We'll see what's valuable enough to get him on board Duke Heng.
This is--
I beg you not to kill us.
We meant well... by sending him here.
Don't kill me! Don't!
He has this on him!
Get lost.
Mister Tang, he's awake.
Which Mister Tang are you talking to?
Mister Tang Man. Mister Tang Que.
He has Tian Luo's snare wire on him.
Mister Long has told him to bring it here.
Long Jin Huan does know how to trouble us.
What can we do?
He once had a match with the king of the Oceanides in the Mighty Ocean.
What animal spirit do you think his half-Charmer self drew power from?
The answer can't get me any money.
I don't care.
Excuse me, do you know which ship is Duke Heng?
Our ship is named Duke Heng.
Where would you like to go?
Han Prefecture!
Yin Rong...
I was wrong.
Love and hatred are just like day and night.
Ever since you appeared...
my world has descended into chaos, oblivious to night and day.
I can't even figure out who I really am anymore.
I had thought that if I resembled you
it would be the best way to deceive others and myself.
Only now do I understand...
I can't keep deceiving myself.
Night and day come hand in hand.
They last just as long.
Both love and hatred carve their marks on our hearts.
Love makes one remember, but so will hatred!
Love is yours.
Keep it, then.
I won't take it from you.
All I want is hatred!
I want Muyun Qin to slowly forget what love feels like.
Until there's only hatred left in him.
Then, in his world, day won't exist anymore.
I'll be the only one in his mind.
Nanku Ming Yi.
How pitiful you are.
Father!
Let me out!
I'm your daughter!
Father, let me out!
I'm your daughter! Father!
- Let me out! - Listen up.
Keep a close eye on your young mistress.
- Father! - Yes, Master.
Father! Father!
Father, let me out!
Father!
I'll see where else you can go!
One!
Two!
Three!
Four!
Five!
Who is that?
[Four years later]
[Great Duan Empire, Yongning Reign 19th Year]
[Wei Ping Residence, Zhong Prefecture]
What are you here for?
[Princess Ji Yun Cong, previous dynasty] Is Muyun Sheng home?
How did you get here?
Are you referring to those guards at the entrance?
They let me in.
That's impossible.
- Who are you? - Nanku Qi is my uncle.
I'd like to meet the famous Prince Sheng I've long heard of.
Therefore, I pestered him unceasingly for days.
He gave me this.
It does come in handy.
Why have you come to visit Prince Sheng?
It's urgent. I can only talk to him about it.
It's urgent?
You just want His Highness to draw your portrait.
How did you know?
What other reasons do ladies of the royal court have these days
for visiting His Highness?
They have all heard that His Highness is skilled in drawing women.
Those who have come have trampled our grass at the gate.
I am like them, but also unlike them.
I want a portrait.
But only to have it burned.
That's new.
However, since His Highness learned that his paintings were sold
he has refused to draw for anyone so easily.
Lan Yu'er, let her in.
Your Highness.
Shouldn't you bow upon seeing His Highness?
Lan Yu'er, you may go.
Yes.
Speak.
Why do you want my painting?
And why do you wish to burn it?
It's said that Prince Sheng can draw the best features of a lady.
The most striking eyes.
If you are to gaze at the lady in the portrait
it's as if you're speaking to the person.
Therefore...
I'd like a portrait of myself to burn as an offering to my late lover.
We had been engaged since we were children.
He had wanted to become a general before he married me.
Sadly...
on his way to Shang Yang Pass...
he fell from his horse.
He fell off a cliff.
I'd like to...
[Muyun Sheng] If I burn my portrait as an offering...
perhaps then, we could often see each other in my dreams.
I could speak to him.
A woman misses a man so deeply.
Yet you can't be together.
You heaved and sighed.
That is also a beautiful sight.
Come, I'll draw your portrait.
Thank you, Your Highness.
Sorry to have troubled you, Your Highness.
There is one other matter.
I wonder if Your Highness will agree to it.
Lan Yu'er!
Get me a bigger basin.
What is it for?
It's interesting.
It's the first time that someone is burning my painting before my eyes.
Wait for a while. You'll get what you need soon.
I suddenly can't bear to burn it.
Your Highness, please do it for me.
Why has she left?
Your Highness.
I wonder what she's up to.
We mustn't let anyone in so easily again.
Fortunately, her portrait is still here.
Excuse me!
May I ask if you've lied to me?
So what if I did?
Who would have known that the world renown artist
Muyun Sheng, was so gullible?
So you didn't lose your lover?
I made that up.
That's wonderful.
What's wonderful about it?
There's one less lady mourning for her lover.
How lovely.
Thank you.
We can be said to think alike if you know how to deceive me.
The prophecy stated that...
you'd cast Novoland into destruction and spill blood over the lands.
How could you actually be someone as described?
I have retrieved what you wanted.
Can you also fulfill the promise that you made me?
It depends on what you got me.
Not bad, indeed.
This is the drawing of the legendary Muyun Pearl's illusion.
Today, I finally have it.
So, Castellan Huo, the mercenaries at Yue Prefecture's Nine Dragon Fort...
Can I call them to my command?
Miss Ji, you're too naive.
I can allow the mercenaries I've trained to be hired by anyone
but I'd never hand them over to you to fight a war you can never win.
I won't make a business deal that brings no profit.
Huo Si Zhong.
You made me a promise.
I'd also like to remind you.
If I have you captured and handed over to Great Duan's emperor
it will make me quite a lot of money.
The people of the Great Duan Empire...
They are all dishonest and shameless.
Prince Sheng.
One of your paintings is still missing.
I knew that there was something amiss.
It's been tough on you to keep track of them.
Definitely.
You don't like having them tidied up, and left them lying around.
I have to keep track of the quantity.
Otherwise, we wouldn't know if there were any missing.
What if someone steals some and sells them?
Your Highness, should I get a box and lock them up?
Burn them.
Burn them?
Your Highness!
Do you know how many people in Novoland covet your paintings?
In the black market, they are selling one for 100 thousand goldlings.
If any commoners in Tian Qi City have 100 thousand goldlings
it's enough to feed three generations!
Burn them.
Your Highness...
It's just a few sheets of paper.
Why bother stirring up greed in people with them?
But--
Your Highness, look.
These are all the drawings of visions you see in the pearl.
Aren't you going to keep them?
It's good enough that I have it with me.
You are dismissed.
Yes.
Your Highness.
Is there really a lady in the pearl?
If there really is one, why did you only draw her from the back?
There's no sight of her face.
Perhaps, she doesn't really wish to see me.
Perhaps, I don't really wish to see her.
Your Highness, you're being silly again.
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