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[Episode 46]
Just leave such matters to the eunuchs.
How could I allow others to do what I dream of doing?
Is it a dream?
After all, the others do see you as the empress.
I am Yin Rong, Lady Duan.
I'm not the empress.
You've never asked me why I treated you as--
I don't wish to know!
Yin Rong doesn't wish to know.
Yin Rong... gets to serve at Your Majesty's side.
This is the best.
Why?
I also often ask myself that question.
Is it because...
I'm the emperor of Novoland?
If it pleases Your Majesty to think so
that is exactly what I have on my mind.
Is it really so important...
to make me happy?
It's more important than anything.
How long has it been since the Great Duan Empire was founded?
313 years.
How long did the Great Cheng Dynasty last?
1,242 years.
That is such a huge difference.
Perhaps...
we still won't surpass them in the end.
If the Duan Empire... ends during my reign--
Your Majesty!
Your Majesty, it's just some unruly people in Han Prefecture.
Our founding emperor also had to resort to a scheme to subdue them.
Your Majesty mustn't put such blame on yourself.
Han Prefecture...
I'm not concerned about Han Prefecture.
Then what is it?
You shouldn't ask.
If I don't ask about it...
How could I share Your Majesty's burdens?
Is it trouble that's close at hand?
Is it a threat from within?
Or is it that curse from the gods?
Your Majesty...
Sheng is already in captivity and being punished for it.
If Your Majesty doesn't anoint him as the crown prince again
and chooses another heir apparent, everything will be fine.
Sheng...
Do you really think that he was guilty?
I...
I don't understand what Your Majesty means.
Then I shall...
I'll ask him for you.
- Qin Ming! - Present!
Your memory is quite good.
Your Majesty, I've only been able to serve you for so many years
because of my great memory.
It happened a year and eight months ago...
Do you still remember?
Yes, I do.
The wine that Crown Prince had...
You swapped it out.
- Yes. - Who was it?
Who made you do that?
You were the little eunuch who cleaned Jin Ning Quarters 30 years ago.
Yet now, you've become His Majesty's favorite.
Fortunately, I had been good to you in the past.
Your Highness, it wasn't just in the past.
I only got to where I am today because of Your Highness's reminders.
Prince De has even prepared a residence just for you.
It's just nearby.
It might not be as grand as my manor in Wan Prefecture
but it's still more comfortable than any arch prince's manor in the capital.
Thank you, Your Highness.
Qin Ming is content to have served Your Majesty in this lifetime.
I asked you a question.
Answer me right away!
I had Crown Prince's wine swapped with a drugged wine.
That was what made him lose his senses.
I asked you who it was!
Who instigated you to do so?
Your Majesty, no one did! It was all me!
Guards!
Slap him!
Your Majesty!
Although I was born of a lowly status
I don't wish to see the Great Duan Empire fall into the hands
of a half-human, half-Charmer who isn't one of our kind!
Your Majesty...
I didn't wish to hurt Prince Sheng.
Your Majesty, I just wanted everyone to see that Prince Sheng isn't capable of
being the Great Duan Empire's crown prince!
Who taught you to say this?
Who did?
Your Majesty!
When Muyun Sheng was born, it snowed in June!
He stabbed Your Majesty and killed all your guards when he was 14!
Even if I didn't do this for the people, I had to do it for myself, Your Majesty!
Who would dare serve a Charmer like him?
Your Majesty...
Wretched slave.
Drag him away to be interrogated!
- Yes! - Yes!
Thank you... Your Majesty.
Forgive us, Your Majesty!
Bury him lavishly.
Yes!
Your Highness.
What is the matter?
Yu Xin Ji congratulates Your Highness.
Your Highness will soon be released.
Wei Ping Residence will no longer be sealed.
It's very likely that Your Highness shall be reinstated
to an important position in the Duan Empire.
General, have you forgotten?
Everyone in the royal court called me an outcast.
His Majesty ordered me to investigate the case.
It's now been confirmed that on the night of the banquet
Your Highness's wine had been tampered with.
Your Highness was set up.
I was set up?
If Your Highness's absurd behavior at the banquet
can be proven unrelated to the Charmer
someone must have tried to make you lose your senses
in order to lure out Pan Xi and take her down.
You may go now.
Pan Xi...
I thought that you had disappeared again.
When you think of me in the future...
what will come to your mind first?
When I think of you?
I won't have to think of you.
Because from now on
you'll have to be good and stay by my side.
You can't leave me for even a split second.
How can two people not even be apart for a split second?
As long as you're willing...
we can do it.
Are you willing?
Yes.
Then why are you crying?
Who is hurting you?
Take me there!
Muyun Sheng!
Hold me in your arms.
Pan Xi!
Are you all right?
Call my name again.
The name you gave me.
I like to hear you say it.
Pan Xi.
This name is actually quite ordinary.
But when it's uttered by you...
it's one of a kind.
Pan Xi...
If you like to hear me say it, I'll call your name.
I'll call your name as many times as you want me to.
All right?
Yes.
Take a break.
There are all sorts of magical powers in this book.
I only managed to do slightly well
after practicing for years in the glass bead.
How could you hope to achieve so much in just a year or so?
This book is the only thing you left me.
That's why I wish to read it each and every moment of my day.
I can't help but think that
if I master all the magical powers in the book
I'll be able to see you again.
I can no longer make it back.
My threads of roaming energy have dispersed.
The original Pan Xi no longer exists.
Even if you master all the magical powers
you still won't see me again.
I want to master the powers.
I want to prove that I was wrong.
I once thought that as long as I didn't hurt anyone
no one would try to hurt me.
There's actually no such logic in this world.
I don't wish to see you become like this.
All right now.
You can go back.
I know that you're just the other voice in my mind.
The voice of the weak.
I am no longer the same Muyun Sheng I once was.
I have the force of the Charmers.
In no time, I shall master magical powers.
No one will ever be able to hurt me again.
No one can take away what is mine again.
Those who once hurt you...
Very soon...
I'll make them suffer the pain of losing everything.
Kin becomes foe!
Lovers kill each other!
The people involved know it's an act, but they can't leave the stage!
The onlookers smirk in their minds, but hope to get on stage!
This is the royal family!
This is the emperor!
All of you are lunatics!
Take him away!
Your Majesty, please make a decree
to command Ling He Qing, High Priest of the Astrology Chamber
to wield magical powers to kill Pan Xi!
Put your people's minds at ease.
Your Majesty, please make the decree!
Sheng...
I once blamed others for taking away my beloved.
Who would have known...
I...
would do the same to you as well.
Subjects Gusong Zhi and Master Xue Huo seek audience!
Master Gusong.
I'm feeling unwell.
I'm dizzy, so why don't you go in there alone?
That's enough!
Will you be responsible for the consequences? Come!
Master Gusong!
It's a crime to alarm His Majesty!
I'll accept any punishment!
The Gusong family has generations of censors!
All we care about is to advise bluntly!
His Majesty's punishment will only make my family proud!
Master Gusong...
- Your Majesty! - Your Majesty!
Gusong Zhi and Master Xue Huo seek audience with Your Majesty!
Wu Ru Yi.
Present!
Let them in.
Yes.
Come!
Greetings, Your Majesty!
You're both so anxious?
You've even come all the way into my harem?
Your Majesty, I'm not anxious.
But Master Gusong is.
Your Majesty hasn't attended the royal court lately.
The officials have matters to report and we're here to do so on their behalf.
I've been very busy.
I believe Your Majesty must be busy handling state affairs.
I know what you plan to report to me.
You!
You want me to punish Muru Shuo for his repeated defeats.
Xue Huo!
You!
You wanted me to cut the Muru Cavalry's military expenses.
Your Majesty, we really don't have any money left.
The war in Han Prefecture has been going on for more than a year.
The transport fees in delivering the rations
cost up to 400,000 goldlings a day!
There's a flood in Lan Prefecture.
There's a drought in Yue Prefecture.
Lords of each prefecture have written to request a deduction in taxes.
It's snowing in June now.
- Rations are-- - Your Majesty!
Great General Muru spends so much on training his army
and he has yet to be victorious.
All officials are criticizing him!
If no punishment is handed out, we can't appease the people!
Sure.
Wu Ru Yi!
Present!
Convey my decree.
Families of soldiers of the Muru Cavalry who died in the war
are to be rewarded 3,000 goldlings each!
Bestow to them the purple Qilin beast family crest.
Their families shall inherit their positions in the Muru Cavalry.
As for Muru Shuo...
He is to be handsomely rewarded!
Bestow to him...
meat that was offered to the ancestors of the royal clan!
Yes!
Your Majesty...
No one has ever been rewarded for their defeat in war!
I'm afraid...
this will be mocked by the people.
What should we do then?
Should I dismiss Muru Shuo and send the two of you there?
Your Majesty... Is Muru Shuo the only one who can defend the Great Duan Empire?
Gusong Zhi.
Present.
Answer me.
Have you ever truly trusted anyone?
I... I don't understand the significance of Your Majesty's question.
I trust you to advise bluntly and honestly.
I believe that you do it out of loyalty without a hint of personal gain.
Your Majesty!
I...
I also trust Great General Muru.
I trust that he would fight without any fear.
In regards to Great General Muru
as long as I shall live...
I shall always rely on him.
Your Majesty.
If you wish to reward them, I can't stop you from doing so.
However, the military budget is now very tight.
I really can't come up with goldlings--
That's enough.
I'll help you.
Wu Ru Yi.
- Present. - Convey my decree.
Announce this to all arch princes in respective prefectures.
From this day forth, their taxes...
shall double!
It will be so until the war ends.
Yes!
Your Majesty.
The lords of every prefecture have been complaining.
I'm afraid they won't oblige.
Note this down!
Muru Shuo!
He's defending this sovereignty for the Muyun family!
It didn't matter if you cheated and kept money stashed away.
However, you're still so stingy at this crucial stage!
Are you waiting for the people of Han Prefecture
to storm right into your homes to snatch away goldlings and wives
and kill all your offspring?
Your Majesty!
Oh, right.
There's one other matter.
I...
I'll be visiting Crown Prince Muyun Sheng at Wei Ping Residence soon.
The two of you are to come with me.
Your Majesty...
Prince Sheng... he's still in captivity for his punishment.
Prince Sheng was convicted of his crime, so how can he still be the crown prince?
You may go now.
- Your Majesty! - Your Majesty!
You may go now!
- Yes. - Yes.
Have the guard deliver this to Arch Prince Ye.
No one must know of this.
Yes.
Prince De, read it quickly before I submit it to His Highness.
How is that royal physician that I hired for your mother?
My mother is now fully recovered.
I'm forever grateful to Prince De.
There's no need for such formality.
This was sent by the empress?
It's Eunuch Wu who serves the empress.
Deliver this to my father.
- Yes! - Thank you.
How interesting.
Father, you've asked to see me?
I've heard that His Majesty is going to Wei Ping Residence.
His Majesty is visiting a prince who is in captivity?
What does that mean?
Is he going to pardon Muyun Sheng?
I think...
There are many who don't want His Majesty to visit him.
I understand.
I'll make the arrangements now.
Hold it.
Muyun Sheng... must not stay alive.
However, I think that he might still be of use to us.
Those we can't manipulate...
The more capable they are...
the more useless they are to us.
We can just turn him into someone we can manipulate.
There's no need to be frightened.
Who did you say is frightened?
Father, I admit my mistake.
Father, if there's nothing else, get some rest soon.
I'll take my leave.
Congratulations, Prince Sheng!
His Majesty is coming to visit Your Highness!
I refuse to see him.
Your Highness, do you not understand?
If there's anything you wish to protect, you must wield certain authority.
I have nothing left to protect.
You do, Your Highness!
Your Highness.
You still have someone on your mind.
You must understand that if you can't protect yourself
once you no longer exist, neither will this person.
Not to mention that His Majesty feels guilty toward Your Highness.
They have been waiting for a while.
This way, please.
Sir.
Master Gusong.
You're all here?
Highly ranked officials are gathered in private.
Aren't you concerned about being suspected?
Emperors of the Duan Empire have never visited a convicted prince.
His Majesty's action means to exonerate Muyun Sheng.
This is so that he can reinstate him as the heir apparent again.
We shouldn't forget that all of us offended him at the Astrology Chamber.
How can we hand over the Great Duan Empire's sovereignty
to an outcast who is half a Charmer?
The Humans' world...
How can we allow an outcast to corrupt it?
We're here today to brainstorm and come up with a solution.
Master Gusong, if you refuse to join us
and you wish to leave now...
we won't keep you.
General Yu.
You said that he feels guilty?
Your Highness.
His Majesty has already set out.
I don't need his guilt.
I just need a few words from him.
My mother...
Pan Xi...
Are they outcasts to him?
What are you doing?
Your Majesty! You mustn't go to Wei Ping Residence!
I've verified that someone set Muyun Sheng up
to behave abnormally that night!
It was triggered by the effect of a drugged wine.
He's innocent!
Muyun Sheng was born a sinner.
The Charmers...
They're a lowly tribe of Novoland!
How can they be allowed to contaminate the royal bloodline
of the Great Duan Empire?
Step down!
Your Majesty, please turn around!
I told you to step aside!
- Step aside! - Your Majesty!
- Step aside!
Your Majesty!
If Your Majesty insists on doing so
you'll have to trample across corpses of meritorious officials
to visit your son!
From then on... Your Majesty will certainly be reproached by your people!
You're threatening me in the name of my people?
All of you are disloyal!
Your Majesty!
I, Gusong Zhi, came from a family who served as censors
for 13 generations for the Great Duan Empire.
Loyalty matters more to us than our lives!
Yet today, Your Majesty accuses me of disloyalty!
I'm ashamed to see my ancestors!
- Master Gusong! - Master Gusong!
Master Gusong!
- Master Gusong! - Master Gusong!
Your Majesty, please turn around!
It's been 12 hours.
Your Highness should head inside to get some rest.
If His Majesty does get here, someone will ride ahead to inform us.
I'll wait right here.
Don't bother waiting.
Didn't anyone inform Your Highness?
His Majesty is hosting a banquet for the officials now.
He won't be here today.
Prince De, are you telling the truth?
My father is greeting them at the palace.
His Majesty must have been so busy that he forgot about Your Highness.
He sent me to take a look.
See?
He did forget about you.
Prince De.
I've misspoken.
The servant sent to inform Your Highness must have been held up.
Prince Sheng.
Could we have a word in private?
What is it that you wish to say?
We haven't seen each other for more than a year.
You've lost some weight.
That's all you have to say?
You really are pitiful to have a father like His Majesty.
I'm just here to take a look for fun.
I want to see how badly he has to be bullied
to stop putting up with it!
In a fight, if the one who gets the upper hand stops hitting
that's considered kind.
If the one who loses stops fighting, that's not being kind!
What is it, then?
It doesn't matter.
If my woman is killed by someone
and my mother is still insulted, even after her death...
I will make sure everyone in the world knows that I've never been kind.
Everything has been taken away from you.
You still haven't come to your senses?
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