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[Episode 72]
Muyun Sheng!
You're from the royal family!
You're the crown prince!
Save them!
Say something!
Let go of me!
I have to save them!
Let go of me!
How are you going to save them?
Tell me.
I'd like to hear about it.
You finally understood?
You've lost the authority.
You've lost your supporter.
You know nothing about horseback riding, archery, or martial arts.
Even if I let you go now
what else can you do apart from cry along with them?
Certainly, you can draw portraits for every one of those who are about to die
so that they can be remembered.
People will then bear in mind just how foolish it is to stay true to a promise.
They will remember what awaits them in the end when they are loyal!
They will remember just how incompetent they will be without ambitions!
I'm not incompetent.
You are incompetent.
Without your Whiz Charmer self, there's nothing you can do.
Unless...
you release him.
No.
He's a monster.
He'll harm the others.
I'll show you what it truly means to hurt people.
Mother!
Execute!
Mother!
Man Man! Don't!
Mother!
- Man Man! - Mother!
Dan Dan...
The Muru Cavalry didn't back down!
Let him through!
I'm Muru Han Shan!
Get lost!
Let him in!
The Muru Cavalry didn't back down!
The Muru Cavalry...
We never backed down!
Han Shan...
The Muru Cavalry...
We didn't back down.
The Muru Cavalry didn't back down!
My Han Shan...
Father...
You missed one?
Send him to Shang Prefecture as well.
No.
We'll hang the heads of those who dare to kill the emperor on the city walls.
People will then only remember that the Muru family are traitors.
Yes, Your Majesty.
Chancellor, wrong choice of words.
You can only say that after my coronation ceremony.
You're more decisive than anyone when it comes to killings.
Deep down, I've already acknowledged Your Highness as the emperor.
You're good with words.
I promise you that if I do well, so will you.
There's also my daughter.
Chancellor, if you're concerned...
The coronation ceremony and wedding...
can be held at the same time.
It sounds very good.
Mother, are you happy today?
Let me go.
Let me help Han Jiang.
He is my friend.
The weak...
Who are you to make a request?
Muyun Sheng.
The sixth prince.
It seems that you've had such an easy life.
You actually don't even know the simplest theory in the world.
In this world...
only the strong get to make requests.
Only the strong get to enjoy happiness.
Nonsense.
Happiness never existed in this world.
Muyun Sheng...
I suddenly realized that you're very pitiful.
Forget it.
I'll let you take another look...
This smells so good.
What flower is it?
This is amber begonia.
Consort Yin Rong likes the fragrance of this begonia.
She planted them herself when Your Highness was born.
Every year on your birthday
Her Ladyship would bring you here to admire the flowers.
You shouldn't be here.
I've watched Your Highness grow into your twenties here in Yong Yin Hall.
But you now act as if you don't know me?
Are you acting cheeky because you forgot to give me a painting?
Yong Yin Palace was burnt down a long time ago.
When Her Ladyship returns from her stroll with His Majesty
we'll see if His Majesty punishes you with archery and cavalry training
if you still act so cheeky.
You're Mister Mo.
You're deceiving me with transfiguration magic.
Mother?
The coronation ceremony is just around the corner.
The new Chief Eunuch is of no use.
General Yu Xin Ji has sent me to make an inventory
of things needed in the palace that we're now short of.
I'll see to it.
How comfortable.
It's no wonder so many people want to sit on this throne.
Godfather...
Don't worry.
I, the royal one, won't ever forget what you have contributed today.
How do you feel right now?
Peaceful.
What exactly is it that you want?
I want you to wake up!
Muyun Sheng, don't you understand?
You're not just some ordinary Charmer or prince of the Humans!
It's not just a mere chance that your parents met each other!
The Muyun Pearl didn't just end up in your hands for no reason!
You were destined to be born into this world!
You have the mightiest power in the entire world.
That is a power as mighty as the gods'.
I want it.
I want it!
Release your power!
The Muntjac Corpse Pin has pierced his bones.
It's all right.
I'll think of a way to take it out.
Once I extract it, the Whiz Charmer within you can be freed.
He won't be freed.
I won't allow that monster to break free.
You still don't wish to harm those innocent lives?
You still want to be a good person?
Answer me.
Who is Lin Xiu Man?
Do you still remember her?
The Charmers carry the basic instinct to strike back in defense
but your mother willed herself to control her powers.
She used her magical powers to hurl the attack back on herself.
All because of her love for your father.
As a result, her powers were diminished.
But she left something behind.
I shouldn't have told you about such a brutal truth.
Although Consort Yin Rong has lost her beautiful looks
the beauty in her soul and mind still surpasses everyone in the palace.
There are many complications in life.
In pursuit of simplicity, it takes great will and the courage to give up.
Born as one of the Charmers...
she only goes in pursuit of perfection.
She truly surpasses ordinary folk.
Lin Xiu Man!
You took the Heart Wrencher?
Heart Wrencher?
What is the Heart Wrencher?
Lin Xiu Man told you that secret.
Yet she ended up engulfed by the Heart Wrencher.
She sacrificed her life in order to save you.
However, have you even once thought of her during these years?
I can't...
I can't seem to remember what she looked like.
She was a lady-in-waiting chosen from a bureaucratic family as a study partner.
As long as she was willing to vie against the others
she could have been ranked among the consorts.
However, she assumed herself to be unsullied and noble.
She said that it was beneath her to compete with others.
But what then?
She served another for half her lifetime.
In the end, she died alone and tragically.
Even the person she once saved with her own life
doesn't remember her anymore.
There are many complications in life.
In pursuit of simplicity, it takes great will and the courage to give up.
Then there's that emperor father of yours!
Is he a good man or just incompetent?
Lord of Wan was indeed the crown prince then.
However, he lost his position
but not because your mother used her magical powers on him.
It was my father who wasn't fond of his temperament.
He insisted on abolishing the crown prince then.
He had his soup drugged to make him lose his senses.
I... didn't tell him the truth.
My older brother has always been a proud man.
He thought that he was my father's favorite son.
I'd rather let him accuse me than have him lose his pride.
Prince Qin's army is right outside the city.
Are you going to give up this sovereignty or this woman?
Your father knew of Muyun Luan's weakness.
If he hadn't cared about brotherly affection at all
and trampled down Muyun Luan's confidence
why would he have been forced into stabbing your mother?
That emperor father of yours always chose to be
that good person in the eyes of others when he had to make a choice.
What then?
This good person ended up stabbing his beloved.
This good person imprisoned his most beloved son.
This good person can't even protect his closest friend of a lifetime.
Royal authority declined and the nation is now in peril.
The world is in a state of chaos.
This good person...
He ended up being killed by a mere servant.
Father...
My young mistress is the best woman in the world.
You don't cherish her!
So die!
Who would have known that it hurts even more to know the truth?
Sheng, you need not say another word.
The more you tell me
the more foolish your father will seem.
Yin Rong...
I was wrong.
He was...
He was trying to protect everyone in the world.
Who is everyone in the world?
Do you actually really know any one of them?
You have their interests at heart, but what have they done for you?
For the sake of someone else
you'd keep compromising and sacrificing your loved ones and kin whom you cherish.
Even yourself!
Doesn't this just make you a fool anyone can bully?
If everyone thinks like you do, what will this world become?
There will be people left in this world.
They will all become demons.
Demons who will tear people apart anytime.
You are wrong.
Your mother was wrong.
She was one of the Charmers.
She had the ability to influence minds.
Yet she held in her powers and allowed herself to be killed!
It was her!
She passed on her cowardice to you!
My child.
Keep this in mind.
Don't be obsessed with the most beautiful things in life.
They last only for a short while.
Mother...
Since you knew that happiness would be taken from you
why didn't you fight back?
Why didn't you strive for it?
Every flower has its season.
Human minds are unpredictable.
Those you love might not love you.
Even if they do love you, one day, they might not anymore.
You can't hold on to them by force.
Even if you win them over with your Charmer magic
how would you be content when you know that it isn't real?
You'd have harmed the one you love.
It's better to just let go.
It's because of love that you chose not to vie for it?
Or was it because you were afraid of losing?
It's because of love that I couldn't bear to vie for it.
What if Mother had chosen to fight for it then?
Since I've made a decision, I should bear the consequences.
There is no "if" in this world.
There is.
If Mother had fought for it
you'd still be here by my side.
Sheng.
I'd rather that Mother fought for it then
and made everyone believe in you with your magical powers.
Made Arch Prince Ye forget his ambition to own the world.
Made Father choose you over his throne.
If so, you'd still be alive now.
I wouldn't have been left behind in the palace alone to fend for myself.
I'd then have a home.
I'd then have my parents.
I'd be able to enjoy the sorrows and happiness of an ordinary person.
That monster wouldn't exist in my mind.
Mother, you chose to be a good person.
You cared not for your own life.
But Mother, you abandoned me.
Pan Xi?
Pan Xi...
Do you know why you lost me?
I beg you to let me see him one last time.
He can't make it here.
There's no justice for the weak.
Good people aren't kind.
A good person isn't defined by the compliments of others.
As long as you become the strong
you can have anything you wish for.
You can protect anyone you wish to protect.
You can decide on the law and order you presume is right.
Only then can you say that you're a good person.
If you don't wield any authority
whatever protection you promise will be nothing more than just words.
You've failed many times already.
Haven't you come to your senses yet?
In this world... there is one last person who truly cares about you.
He's waiting for you to save him.
The last person who cares about me?
I still think that you've been bullied.
But that's all right.
From now on, I'll protect you.
Thank you.
Don't mention it.
But why did you make a decree to kill my family?
By the decree of the crown prince!
Execute Muru Han Jiang!
Are you a good person?
Or are you just incompetent?
What can I do to rescue him?
You have me.
I taught you to wield magical powers.
Now, I'm teaching how to become one of the strong.
Do you know what it means to stop at nothing?
It's to keep striving and never stop.
Wrong.
To stop at nothing actually means...
if anyone gets in your way
you must get rid of them one by one.
Is this you, Pan Xi?
Why have you become different from how you once were?
Were you created from my imagination...
or have you really returned?
This isn't the real Pan Xi.
You've created this illusion with magical powers to trick me.
You'll understand if she really is Pan Xi after you witness this.
I took the "Book of the Charmers."
Then I locked myself up inside this underground temple
and practiced for years.
All the magical powers that your Pan Xi can wield...
I've learned them all.
Now, Pan Xi...
She's no longer of any use to me.
Stop it!
Look at how useless you are.
When you can hold me back... we can talk again then.
Stop it!
Just come at me!
Awaken now.
Stop it!
Awaken that Whiz Charmer inside you.
Let go of her!
Fine.
I'll let her go.
Am I really useless?
How are you useless for seeking peace within your mind?
The God of Desolation created men out of an evil intention.
He placed both kindness and evil into the souls of men
so that they would suffer from their own dilemma.
The suffering of men is the power that fuels the God of Desolation.
When facing a choice, it's always a kind thought that first leaps to mind
but then at the same time, there's a voice questioning you.
If you choose to be kind, will you be at the disposal of others?
Fear then makes everyone choose differently.
Those who conquer fear will continue to be kind.
Those who are defeated by fear will take from others.
It seems as if they have won.
But then they will feel insecure.
They will become more and more frightened.
Whatever they might achieve, they won't be happy.
Life is long.
Victory and defeat aren't decided in just a moment.
But you must learn to observe.
After years have gone by
only those who still keep a genuine smile on their faces truly know
the secret to this world.
Pan Xi...
You really are Pan Xi.
You're still around.
As long as you miss me, I'll never have left.
Haven't you noticed?
When you were at your weakest
what was it that appeared in your mind at that time?
The smiling faces of all those I care about.
The smiling faces of good people.
Kindness is too quiet.
It's so quiet that it's almost forgotten.
It's the mighty power that can relieve you of your insecurity.
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