What’s wrong?
I probably shouldn’t talk about it.
Don’t worry. You can tell me.
Liu Ji said we should also bring Ms. Cao and her son.
Should we pick them up?
Good boy. Be good when you see your father.
Oh, my!
I heard,
Liu Ji sent his men to pick us up. We're ready.
Why didn’t you tell us?
Can’t you hear me? Where’s Liu Ji?
Where’s Liu Ji?
Oh.
He sent a message, but he didn’t say he’d pick you up.
Bullshit! I don’t believe he'd forget us.
I don’t believe it either.
Why would he forget you?
Mother. He forgot us. What should we do?
Don’t listen to her nonsense. She knows nothing.
All right. I can stay here.
But he’s Liu Ji’s son.
Liu Ji should bring him.
Liu Ji’s children are all sleeping in that room.
Bullshit! You shameless wench!
Wait till I meet Liu Ji.
I’ll tell him what you said. Let’s go.
Mother, but I ate the chicken.
Shut up about the chicken! Let’s go!
Be careful. Put this on that cart.
Sure.
Give me a hand.
Liu Ying, take this. Take this package.
Don’t drop it.
Mother, where are we going?
We'll meet your father. Your father built a house.
We’ll live with him.
Is it fun there?
Of course, you’ll have whatever you want.
-Come here. -Listen to me.
You shouldn't be naughty on our way there.
If you’re naughty, I’ll leave you here. Understand?
Yes. We’ll be good. We promise.
Remember my words. Let’s go.
Are we all set?
Get in the cart. Be careful.
Here. Be careful. Don’t drop the package.
Okay.
Good. Good.
Father.
It’s heavy. Let them carry that.
It's okay. I can do it.
-Be careful. -Don’t worry.
Everybody, hold tight.
My Lord! We’ve come to see you off.
-All of you are here. -Please take this.
You needn’t give me gifts. Thank you.
My fellows, I’m very happy to tell you this.
My son wrote to me saying, he’s now king of Han.
-Congratulations. Congratulations. -Father. Father.
My son, Liu Ji, brings prestige and honor to my family.
He also wins glory for our hometown!
Yes. Yes.
If you need any help, just tell me
and I’ll tell my son to help you.
Yes. He’ll help you.
Thank you, My Lord. Please don't forget.
Don't forget us country fellows.
Of course. I’ll never forget you.
-And I hope I can see you soon. -Yes...
-Anyone wants to come along? -Move aside.
You'll be well-fed and well-clothed, you need not worry about anything.
Thank you, My Lord. Thank you.
-My countrymen. -Father, please.
My countrymen, please put these on the cart.
-Thank you. This way... -Sure...
-What’s wrong? -If all of them follow us,
-when will we arrive, father? -I know. I know.
-You did what I said, made us look good? -Yes, yes.
-I made him proud. -Yes. That's enough talk.
All right, all right. Let's go.
Take care, My Lord.
Good bye, My Lord.
Take care, My Lord.
Have a safe journey, My Lord.
Do come to see us.
My greetings, Mr. Fan.
Liu Ji has arranged men to pick up his family.
It’s his first step to betray Xiang Yu.
We must kill them before they get there.
Yes.
What’s wrong?
Are you okay?
-What happened? -The cart is broken.
-Are you okay? -Yes.
There’s a cart.
-Stop the cart! -Stop the cart!
-Don't!
Don't stop! Don't stop! Get going!
Stop the cart!
Don't stop!
-Stop the cart! -Let the children get on!
You wicked wench!
Let's go! Let's go!
Hurry!
-There! Go! -Hurry!
Hurry!
Hurry! Hurry up, get in!
-Hurry! Keep quiet! -What about you?
Don’t worry. I’ll distract them.
-No one is here. -Search thoroughly.
Over there! Get them!
Get down. Search!
Chase! Chase!
Be careful.
Let’s go.
Ma’am, this way.
My greetings.
General, you seem eager to see me.
Pardon me for not meeting you sooner.
My apology.
Are you really Xiang Yu?
You’re not fooling me, are you?
I heard Xiang Yu is a real hero.
He has wings and horns.
Is that true?
My eyesight isn't that good now.
Let me have a close look at you.
Sure. Have a good look at me.
Oh? You have no horns.
You must be a very handsome man.
Being able to have a drink with Xiang Yu
is such an honor for me.
It's truly an honor for me.
I’ll never forget such an honor.
Please step inside.
Please.
All right.
This way, please.
Please tell Wang Ling
we only want his mother to have dinner with us.
Do not worry.
We’d like to make friends with him. We just want to be friendly.
Yes. My Lord told me to pick his mother up.
He didn't mean to trouble General Xiang Yu
with a trivial matter like this.
Why are you saying that? Go back.
Tell him to come here.
General Pu.
Madam.
Please forgive his rudeness.
Wang Ling is known by the world.
I hoped to meet him.
But I just haven’t had the chance.
I'm glad that this time
I happened to see you in Pei County.
Please stay in my camp for a few days and wait for Wang Ling.
You can introduce us and we’ll be friends.
What do you think of my idea, Madam?
I see what you mean.
Of course, it’s a good idea.
My son has always been pig-headed.
You've been very kind to us.
But if he refuses you this time, I’ll not forgive him.
In a bit I’d see the messenger off
to pass a few words to my son.
All right.
Please, Madam, have some wine.
Liu Ying, don’t mess up things.
Don’t worry. It’s fine.
Be a good boy, will you?
Good morning, ma'am. You’re awake.
Here. Have some water.
Thank you. Forgive us for troubling you.
It's all right. My father said
you could stay here for some time.
Thank you.
We found a place for your cart.
My father made a check of your articles.
It’s strange that your articles are safe.
Weren't those bandits trying to rob you?
In this area, no one would put valuables outside.
Take the shortcut. Come on!
Who are you? Who sent you here?
We are the subjects of Wang Ling. We’re here for Liu Ji’s family members.
Here’s his seal.
I'm sure he can be trusted.
-Careful. -Lyu Zhi, this time,
-will we be misled again? -Don’t worry, father.
Where’s your sister-in-law and her husband?
Don’t worry about them. Wait in the cart.
Tell them to hurry.
Get in the cart.
Be careful.
Get in the cart.
Hold on, hold on.
Ma'am, can you bring me along?
You want to come along? Who are you?
I’m Xiahou Ying’s fiancée.
Xiahou Ying's fiancée?
Well then, get in.
Wait for me! Don't go!
There are people here!
Oh my God!
Come...
What's this? What are you doing?
The cart is not here for you.
Don’t. Don’t leave me here.
It’s a chaos out there. If we stay, we’d be killed.
You don’t deserve that.
Who would bother killing you?
You should live and die here.
Set off.
Father!
Don't go! Don't go!
Father! Father!
Lyu Zhi, you ungrateful wench!
How can you abandon me?
I can’t live here!
Reporting. Liu Ji’s family is here.
Father, watch your step.
He's here.
My Lord, my greetings.
I’m too old to remember you.
Who might you be?
My Lord, I’m Wang Ling, Liu Ji's friend.
He entrusted me to escort you to meet him.
We can’t afford any delay.
I think it almost exhausted you.
Please forgive me.
Don’t say that. Don’t feel bad about that.
My son should show great thanks to you.
That’s very kind of you. You must Liu Ji’s wife.
My greetings.
My greetings, ma'am.
My Lord.
We will rest here tonight
and be on our way tomorrow morning.
-Thank you. -Good. That's good.
Let's go.
Messenger, please tell my son
that he should be loyal to Liu Ji, the king of Han.
Liu Ji is a kind man.
I believe Liu Ji will be the emperor.
Don’t worry about me.
I’d rather die than being a hostage!
Madam.
She died? How?
She committed suicide.
Mr. Fan, why did she choose to kill herself?
Isn’t it obvious?
She's telling her son to be loyal to Liu Ji with her death.
This made me the sinner who killed Wang Ling's mother.
Well, that’s pretty much undeniable now.
Prepare a funeral for her.
A funeral?
Didn’t you hear me? An elaborate funeral!
Yes, sir.
So, that's how,
Wang Ling’s mother saved all of us with her death.
Liu Ji, Want Ling is a great man.
Our family is very indebted to him.
He did a great help to you.
Our family owes him a lot.
You should never fail him.
I see. I’ll not fail him.
Furthermore, I’ll promise before all of you.
I’ll treat Wang Ling with the utmost respect.
Wang Ling’s son, Wang Ling’s grandson,
I'll treat every generation of his family with respect.
Good. That’s what you should do.
I know you suffered a lot on the way here, father.
After settling down here,
I hope you can live a happy life here.
Not here! Later.
What’s the matter?
Oh, nothing! Uh, guys!
We know what happened already.
All of you must be exhausted.
Just rest well now.
-All right. Let's go. -My grandchildren, let’s go.
-Let’s go. Go. -Have a good rest.
Come.
How are you?
I know you suffered a lot.
You’re so thin.
You haven’t aged a day.
Aged? How much more do you want me to age?
This whole time,
I know what you’ve suffered taking of my father,
and our children.
Come here.
I heard you have another woman with you.
Yes. It’s true.
Do you still remember what we said,
on the day we got married?
What?
I said you can have another woman,
but you must tell me about her.
I was going to tell you.
Lyu Zhi, there's this woman...
What’s use of those rags in this palace?
Throw them away.
Hurry up. Here.
Sir, in hard times, we’ll have to rely on these rags.
We shouldn’t throw them away.
How can you do this?
Indeed an unusual girl from my hometown.
Frugality should be praised.
A’Ying.
He’s a marquis now.
-This way. Hurry. -You’re a marquis now, too?
It's nothing.
I’m Xiaoxian.
Xiaoxian?
A’Ying, how could you forget your fiancée?
You are the neighbor’s daughter?
Yes.
You’re all grown up! Aren't your parents worried that you're here?
They're no longer here.
Let's not talk about it. Give it to me.
Let's go inside.
Come on.
Lyu Zhi, it’s hard to imagine
how you endured all these years.
On the way here, I was thinking,
I’d have a lot to tell you when I see you.
But the moment I see you,
I felt the weight of all the suffering was lifted from my shoulders.
It’s just part of being your wife.
You saved my family.
They said I shouldn’t call you Liu Ji anymore.
How's that?
They want me to call you “king”.
It seems so bizarre.
Ignore them. That’s all their idea.
We came of age roaming the land,
and now they want to call each other minister or marquis.
They think it sounds good. But it’s just fancy words.
How did your sister-in-law treat you?
Fine. We are a family after all.
We all know life is not easy out there.
You’re living out day by day,
we don’t want to burden you.
Do you know something?
Father barely complains about me anymore.
It seems impossible.
Those first few months after you left,
I almost fell into despair.
I thought...
I’d never see you again in this life.
And I felt greatly depressed.
You suffered so much. There was no choice.
Back then, I fought in the army to protect myself.
But it's different now.
This is for the sake of the world.
Now that we've come to this, there's no way to retreat
and I must move on.
It’s lucky that...
I have you...
as my wife, Lyu Zhi.
Who is your wife, by the way?
You are.
But don’t you already have a wife?
Here we go again.
In this household I’m just the... mistress.
No matter where I go,
I’ll not forget that you are my only wife.
You are the head of our entire family.
You hear me?
Let go of me.
General.
Why do you tie him up?
We did a roll call this morning and he was missing.
Behead him tomorrow.
Yes, sir.
You can behead me, Han Xin.
I’ll never accept you as my general.
Move it. Move it.
What’s wrong? What’s wrong?
What is his crime? Who tied him here?
Kou Qin, what’s going on here?
What crime has he committed?
Fan Kuai, he violated protocol.
Violated protocol?
Oh, Kou Qin.
You’ve been with us forever. Don’t you know we must obey rules?
I-- I...
Tell me what happened.
My father...
almost starved to death at home and he came to look for me in Nanzheng.
But he fell ill halfway. I...
It's my fault that I didn’t get back in time.
Damn that protocol! Set him free.
Fan Kuai! We can’t!
And why is that? What can we do?
Let’s talk to Mr. Xiao. Only he can help.
-But he-- -Let's go. Come on.
Mr. Xiao, Cao Can requests to see you.
Let him in.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Xiao.
What’s wrong?
Mr. Xiao, Kou Qian didn’t return on time was sentenced to death.
Were you aware?
I know.
But he’s followed our lord for years.
He’s found honorably in the past.
He’s committed such a trivial crime,
but general-in-chief sentenced him to death
and we cannot accept it.
Mr. Xiao, please talk to Liu Ji, try to spare Kou Qian.
Cao Can, on this one, I’m afraid my hands are tied.
How can you be so indifferent?
Are you aware what's troubling our lord recently?
I know. He’s dealing with Xiang Yu.
So, I think this isn't the best time
to bother Liu Ji.
Mr. Xiao, to be frank...
we don’t understand why our lord values Han Xin so much.
Suppose Han Xin can lead us to Xianyang,
I believe Xiang Yu will also come to attack us.
How can our 30,000 warriors
ever match Xiang Yu’s elite 100,000?
How can we take him? What if we fail?
Does he know the consequences?
What plan could he possibly have? What plan?
You know, war strategies,
are not my strong suit.
You...
Since Liu Ji wants Han Xin,
why should we stay here?
Don’t be impulsive.
Han Xin is much more talented than us.
He’s the only one who can help our lord to rule the world.
Without Han Xin,
it won’t be long before we lose our shelter here in Nanzheng.
At such a critical time, we can’t waste Liu Ji’s time,
we must help him, am I wrong?
So, even in your eyes,
Kou Qian’s life is not important at all?
This world is a turbulent one,
I think you know what is most important.
Mr. Xiao, I never thought...
back then in Pei, we were like brothers
sharing everything, singing and drinking,
we would someday become such unbearable strangers.
Probably it’s my fault. I couldn’t adapt myself to such a wicked world.
Fine. Han Xin’s your new buddy. You don’t need your old friends.
Mr. Xiao, please take care.
From now on,
I shan’t call upon you.
Oh gosh!
Mr. Cao! Mr. Cao! How was it?
What did the premier say?
Mr. Cao!
Stop asking. It’s clear enough.
-What’s wrong? -Isn’t it obvious?
This is terrible.
Tell me what’s on your mind.
Liu Ji appointed Han Xin general-in-chief.
We can’t accept that.
All these years, it was us who bled and toiled with our lord.
But what has Han Xin done?
Before he came here, wasn’t he in Xiang Yu’s camp?
He has never fought in war or led any men.
What makes him worthy of general-in-chief?
Why didn’t our lord discuss this with us first?
Why’d he choose an outsider?
Any of us from Pei County is better for the post than him.
Is it Liu Ji doesn’t trust us?
If that’s it, just say so!
I’ll go back to Pei County tomorrow.
Mr. Xiao, think about it.
We followed our lord from Mangdang all the way here.
All these years, we fought along him.
Take Lu Wan.
Why can’t he be our general-in-chief?
Cao Can, I'm not the only one!
Didn't you want that post? Didn't he want it?
Yes... I wanted that post.
Fan Kuai also wanted it.
Why?
Because we’re family and we want to share the burden.
Han Xin is an outsider, what does he care?
How can he possibly care more than we do?
Where's Fan Kuai? Why isn't Fan Kuai here?
He’s heartbroken. He’s drinking in his room.
Are you finished? Allow me to speak.
First, don’t complain.
Second, don’t blame Liu Ji. I recommended Han Xin to him.
All of you followed our lord here from Pei County.
I understand where you’re coming from.
We rebelled at Mt. Mangdang and started in Pei.
We’ve been through countless hardships together.
After arriving at Bashu,
we kept our army for battle.
What's all this for?
So that we can settle down nice and comfy here?
We’ve all tasted the magnificence of the Qin palace.
We know what we’ve lost and what we should seek.
I recommended Han Xin,
because I believe he can lead us back there
to defeat Xiang Yu,
and the other vassals, and rule the world.
Let me ask you.
Can any of you handle this?
Since he has appointed Han Xin general-in-chief,
we should obey him and do what he tells us.
We should carry out his orders.
Sooner or later, my prediction will come true.
My fellows from Pei County,
for the sake of Liu Ji
and all his subjects,
I am most grateful to you.
Kneel.
General.
He spread rumors that a girl is looking for you
and made fun of you.
What girl?
General, the girl said
you saved her life in Xianyang
and you even gave her twenty coins.
Where is she?
She’s in the camp.
Bring her here.
-Yes, sir. -Yes, sir.
General, she’s here.
Bring her some food.
Yes, sir.
Han Xin, do you remember me?
I’m Li Yuan. You don't know me anymore?
Or are you scared of me? General-in-chief!
General-in-chief!
Why did you come here?
I’ve been looking for you.
I heard you were appointed general-in-chief. I doubted it.
It couldn’t be you.
I didn’t expect it’d all be true! I’m happy for you!
I’m still Han Xin.
Don’t look at me like that. I don't feel at ease.
Can I stay at your side?
I promise I won’t trouble you much.
If you feel I’m bothering you, you can send me away.
Why didn’t you go home?
I can’t go back.
Are there hardships at home?
I can suffer any hardship.
It depends on with whom.
You can stay for two days. We’ll decide later.
General. Yes, sir.
Well, help yourself.
Great, I'm hungry.
You can’t stay in the camp.
I’m general-in-chief, I can’t keep you here.
My men will send you home.
I hope you can live a good life.
I hope you’ll be happy.
One, two, three...
Guys, the general-in-chief is here to see us.
General-in-chief.
Guys! Thank you for your effort.
The plank road you’re repairing is of vital importance.
We must not delay.
The earlier we finish, the earlier we can go back
and reunite with our families.
All of you will be the heroes of our camp!
-Thank you, general. -Thank you, general.
Come on. Let's continue!
Come on. One, two, three! One, two, three!
Make them work day and night.
No delay can be allowed. Got it?
Sure. Don’t worry.
General, we found some spies from Chu.
Please give us the order to arrest them.
Don’t bother them. Let them spy us.
Just pretend that we didn’t see them.
Yes, sir.
One, two, three...
My Lord.
What’s wrong?
We received news from our spies in Nanzheng.
Liu Ji appointed Han Xin general-in-chief. They’re repairing the plank road.
In your opinion, what should we do now?
In my opinion,
we should immediately prepare to defend against invasion.
The plank road...
can’t be restored that easily.
I think it may take
several years to fix it.
But, My Lord.
That's enough.
Liu Ji is just a farmer.
He knows nothing about war.
Even if he attacks us, he's not a threat at all.
Han Xin is even less of a concern.
I’m surprised that Liu Ji appointed a nameless soldier his general-in-chief.
This man must be out of the ordinary.
Hmm, well...
Send some men...
to watch over the repair work of the plank road...
and try to learn everything about Han Xin.
I want to know every single detail about him.
Do you understand?
Yes, sir.
Subtitle translation by Loretta Kok