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[Episode 55]
Wu Ru Yi, did you tell His Highness
that my young mistress hasn't slept well for days, waiting for him?
I already did.
It's fine. I'll wait a bit longer.
It's only right that he wishes to see his father first.
He'll visit me once he's greeted His Majesty.
It's all right. I'll wait.
Your Highness, please head back.
It's been a day.
If His Majesty wished to see you, he'd have come to meet you by now.
If you insist on staying for too long
I'm worried that His Majesty will blame us.
Young Mistress, have a bite to eat.
He Ge hasn't eaten yet.
Where's He Ge?
Where has he gone?
Has he already left the palace?
His Highness has been kowtowing in front of His Majesty's door.
He's been doing it all day.
His Majesty refuses to see him?
The door has not even been opened.
Wu Ru Yi.
Lead the way to His Majesty's quarters.
Young Mistress!
Don't go there!
If you do... you'll become upset again.
Young Mistress!
Son and subject Muyun He Ge is grateful for Father's graciousness.
The negotiation in Han Prefecture...
I will be sure to succeed!
I'm not an incompetent man.
Father once said that I'm very capable!
Just for the sake of this compliment
even if Father would have me die in Han Prefecture
I'd rejoice from the bottom of my heart!
I thank Father for your graciousness!
I promise to accomplish my mission!
I will be sure to meet Father's expectations.
I'd like to hear Father praise me for being capable.
I--
Father! Father!
Father!
Mother, do you really know what's best for me?
If I can't retrieve the glory that I once had...
how can I take care of you?
When I see you... all I feel is shame and guilt.
I want to stay alive!
Even Mother has forgotten who I am.
I'm Muyun He Ge.
The blood of the royal Muyun family courses through my veins.
So does the blood of the Nanku family.
I won't admit defeat.
I cannot forget glory.
Even if I have to die after doing all I can...
I will choose to die in glory.
I'll never choose to survive in humiliation.
Foolish!
I'm grateful to Mother for giving birth to me.
As for how I go on with my life...
I hope that Mother will allow me to decide.
Master Xue.
It used to be Qin Yu Feng who would greet me.
Why is it different today?
Master Xue, Arch Prince Ye is waiting for you.
He's very anxious.
Your Highness.
You're bringing the sword with you back to Wan Prefecture?
I'll leave it here to De.
Perhaps...
He might need it.
Han Jiang is severely injured.
The plan won't work.
It's only safe for Prince De if he returns to Wan Prefecture with us.
De has great ambitions.
I'm afraid that Wan Prefecture isn't good enough for him.
Your Highness...
Your Highness.
Come in!
Your Highness.
I heard that the person Prince De recruited isn't available.
His Majesty...
He won't get killed?
I'd quite like to listen to Master Xue's backup plan.
If I do, it's my business.
It's come to the crucial stage now.
Your Highness plans to withdraw unscathed without doing anything?
Yet you'll get a share of the outcome.
How can there be such a bargain?
Prince De uses Novoland Inn to win over officials and sell information.
He intends to monopolize the purchasing rights of salt.
Salt is the foundation of a nation.
Could this son of yours have some ulterior motive?
Your Highness intends to just walk away.
Then you can't blame me for getting hold of Prince De.
Oh? I'd quite like to see how Master Xue could do so.
We all share the same goal.
Why bother laying it all out to embarrass everyone?
It's not exactly that difficult to kill His Majesty.
There's someone else who also hurts His Majesty deeply.
It will be easier for her to do it.
It depends...
It depends on how we can convince her.
Who can do it that easily?
The empress.
What are you looking at?
I'm looking at...
the most beautiful painting in this world.
And in the painting...
there's the most beautiful person.
I'm now past the age when I used to like sweet-talking.
You can save your breath.
Clever women never listen to what men have to say.
They want to see what men would do.
What would you like me to do?
Stop He Ge from going to Han Prefecture.
You've overestimated me.
I am but an arch prince.
It's His Majesty's decree to send He Ge there for the negotiation.
Then kill those men in Han Prefecture!
Those men are the lords of Han Prefecture's three clans.
If the three clans rebel, chaos will overtake the Duan Empire!
None of that matters more than He Ge's life!
You don't wish to be the empress anymore?
When I was the empress at a young age...
I thought it was glamorous.
I thought happiness was to have the best things in the world.
It was only after I married into the palace that I realized...
this is just a cage.
In here...
I wish for my husband's love, but in vain.
I wish for family happiness with my son, but in vain.
I finally realized...
that even if I can hold the most beautiful jade and pearls in my hands
they will still prick me, just as ice would.
In my mind...
there isn't a moment of peace.
As time goes by...
you want to bite others.
Humans...
Here in the palace...
They become beasts.
Ming Yi...
You're wrong.
The palace isn't your cage.
Muyun Qin is your cage.
An unparalleled woman like you...
When he's ill, you go all out to take good care of him.
When he misses some other woman, you pretend to be her.
I've never seen anyone but you
who could forsake her dignity to that extent.
He could have cherished you.
Cherished your son.
But how has he treated you?
He killed the entire Nanku Clan.
He humiliates you every day.
He now sends your son to the negotiation.
Sending him to his doom.
Ming Yi...
A woman as clever as you are...
It's about time you come to your senses.
What, then, if I do?
When I come to my senses...
what can I do?
If...
If you don't wish for He Ge to attend the negotiation
you'll have to make His Majesty's decree no longer valid.
What am I to do to make His Majesty's decree no longer valid?
Ming Yi.
Answer me.
What is it that you want the most in this world?
A husband who loves me.
A son who is clever and capable.
As for all that... Can Muyun Qin fulfill your wishes?
He can't.
If I told you that... someone else can fulfill those wishes for you
would you want it?
Someone else?
Who is someone else?
Me.
Ming Yi...
I feel bad for you.
I want you to know how it feels to be loved by a man.
I want you to know what warmth in this world feels like.
You've always been good to me.
I'm well aware of it.
What should I do to repay you?
I don't need you to do anything in particular.
What is it that I have to do?
This is--
You just need to swap His Majesty's incense out...
You'll get everything that you wish for.
This is...
poison?
This is... love.
You promise to be good to me?
For all my life.
You didn't agree to save He Ge's life.
Instead, you'd have me...
kill the emperor?
You wish to be good to me?
You don't want it?
The incense...
I'll keep it.
In exchange for He Ge's survival.
Should anything happen to He Ge...
His Majesty will find out that Muyun Luan gave this incense to me.
Ming Yi.
I just want you to live the rest of your life well!
I already told you.
I am done with sweet-talking at this age!
Actions...
They speak louder than words.
Your Highness.
Yue Li would like to see you.
Come in!
Greetings, Your Highness.
Someone said that you...
You resemble the empress.
I've always admired my aunt's beauty since I was a child.
I've purposely learned how my aunt moves and speaks.
Hence... it's inevitable that we're somehow alike.
You came to see me...
for some matter?
I'd like to ask Your Highness for a favor.
Speak!
Assist me in becoming... the Great Duan Empire's next empress.
Assist you in becoming the Great Duan Empire's next empress?
It seems that many women have overestimated me today.
That's because we believe that Your Highness is capable of it.
Don't bother sweet-talking me into helping you.
De already made it clear to Master Xue that you're now a state prostitute.
Not only do all officials know that you're a state prostitute
but that you also receive guests.
With this reputation of yours...
you are not suited to be empress.
I don't expect Master Xue to keep the officials quiet.
All I ask is that you take me to meet Prince He Ge.
After I meet the prince, I'll have my own solution.
You're alike.
It isn't only your looks...
but also that same unyielding spirit.
So...
you've agreed?
Do you think that...
I'll help you without getting anything in return?
When I become the empress
- Your Highness can-- - These are all just words.
There's no guarantee.
You can... turn me down.
Your Highness.
Can you take me to Prince He Ge?
Well...
It depends on you.
Your Highness, if you promise me but go back on your word
I'll be sure to make you regret it.
Regret...
That's the gift I get from women of the Nanku family.
Princess Jing.
There's matter to discuss with you.
I'd like to have a word with you in private.
Yan Shuang.
Yan Shuang!
I can't bear to see the Muru Army come to a dead end.
I'm returning to Yue Prefecture without your permission
to persuade my father to gather rations.
It won't be easy to persuade him.
Your Highness, please allow me to be away for 10 days.
If I fail to persuade him, I'll be too ashamed to see you.
I'll then bid you farewell.
What exactly is this about?
Say it.
Princess Jing.
I need an item from Your Highness in order to pacify Han Prefecture.
I wonder if Your Highness is willing to help me.
Tell me.
I'd like to borrow Your Highness's life.
Your Highness.
You can't bear to part with it?
If it can be of any use, take it by all means.
Thank you, Your Highness.
I'd just like to know what you intend to do with this life of mine.
Princess Jing.
Forgive me!
Muru Han Shan.
What exactly are you going to do?
My father is absolutely against using magical powers.
It took me great effort and all I found was this Tracker Arrow.
I'll be able to know where Your Highness goes.
I only hope that Your Highness can lead us to the Helan Clan's main camp.
In your dreams.
- Attack! - Attack!
Step back to formation!
- Attack! - Attack!
Step back to formation!
- Attack! - Attack!
Step back to formation!
- Attack! - Attack!
If we win this battle against the Muru Army
what's the first thing you wish to do?
Cross the sea.
Take down Tian Qi City.
You're still better than me.
I just wish to eat, drink, sing, and dance with the whole clan.
Then have a good sleep.
We'll discuss the rest when I wake up.
That also sounds good.
Shuofeng He Ye!
Muyun Yan Shuang...
I saw Muyun Yan Shuang.
She... she's dying!
Shuofeng He Ye!
You're going to save that woman?
Trample me down if you must!
Helan Tie Duo...
When Jin Zhu Hai died, I made a vow.
If anyone hurt my woman again...
I'd kill them.
That woman appeared so suddenly.
Aren't you afraid that it might be a trap?
Forget those two women.
Just forget those women!
Can you not have me in your heart?
Ever since the first day I met you
I've made sure that I'd become a woman who is worthy of you.
I already am!
I, Helan Tie Duo, am worthy of you!
I should be the one you like!
My sister...
I've never, ever fallen for you.
Shuofeng He Ye will never fall for Helan Tie Duo.
Get out of my way!
Tie Duo, where are you going?
We have secretly informed all our people of the Suqin Clan.
Once Your Ladyship gives the orders
we'll break off from the alliance with you immediately.
We'll leave Helan Tie Yuan.
Have you explained it clearly to them?
We won't rely on the Iron Wielder's alliance.
The Suqin Clan will take on the Muru Cavalry alone.
We might all end up dead.
We have the determination to do so at the cost of our lives.
The Suqin Clan...
We're descendants of the male eagle.
10 years ago
we were massacred by the tiny Shuofeng Clan.
On that day...
the once proud Suqin Clan became the laughing stock of the prairie.
We've survived humiliation.
How is that better than a joyful death after killing our enemies?
No regrets?
All we ask is that Your Ladyship leads us into a delightful combat.
Our crossbow revolvers are all in the tents.
We can only take them with us if we have the Iron Wielder's token.
Leave that to me.
Each of you should get ready.
Tomorrow...
the Suqin Clan...
We'll break off from the alliance.
What are you writing?
My hands only hold blades.
Never brushes.
You're keeping something from me.
In this tent, I'm not the Iron Wielder.
I'm just Suqin Zi Yan's man.
There is only loyalty and protection.
No secrets.
What's wrong?
If you've been using your lambskin for a while, dry it under the sun.
Leave that to Shuofeng Lan.
He's quite thoughtful.
You must have less salt.
If you have too much of it, you'll become swollen easily.
You'll often feel tired.
It's enough that I have you to worry about me.
What's wrong?
I'm all right.
A woman's words are like the chirping of birds on the prairie in the morning.
If we don't nag a bit every day...
it's as if the day has yet to begin.
I just wish to remind you that during the times of war
you should take care of your health all the more.
You've been coming home late these days.
What have you been busy with?
The mining team was killed.
I had to look for some others who have the expertise to start again.
Don't worry yourself with the Suqin Clan's chores.
Why?
You're carrying my child.
With or without your child, I'm still the Lady of the Suqin Clan.
- What is this? - Don't look at it!
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