But you've miscalculated this time
I believe that,
The empress dowager will love this gift
Why is Consort Xian here?
I heard that you were preparing the Empress Dowager's gift
And so I came to see it with the emperor
You wouldn't mind, would you
Would you leave if I said I mind?
Since you won't, why say it?
You've been so blunt for many years
And you're still the same way
Your highness
You'll have a preview tonight
If they perform well,
I would command for 12 more performers for the Empress Dowager's longevity feast
Then it'd be truly spectacular
Zhilan tell them to start
Yes
“”Their furnace fire illumines both earth and sky
Red sparks spiking its purple smoke awry.
A night in clear moonlight, the red-faced smelters,
Their songs bestir the wintry stream nearby."
Come to think of it, Li Bai's poetry might just be describing this view
The place of Qiupu is famous for manufacturing iron
Li Bai passed through here (Li Bai is a famous Tang Dynasty poet)
he greatly admired the sparkling copper bits radiating everywhere
In the nighttime , the smelted iron creates a picture of autumn.
But this amazing colorful sight
is far better than the sparking of iron-making.
Supervisor Li
This wonder all over the sky is truly superb.
Nobel Consort Gao is really terrific.
Every concubine who could rise victorious in the Palace,
is smart and has her own methods.
You just learn slowly and properly.
Emperor
I plan to build a performance stage here
and orchestrate dance by myself
to let these beautiful dancers
dance trippingly under a sky full of spark
Empress Dowager will definitely crack a smile.
The Nobel Consort certainly has a creative mind
If this "blaze of colors"
could be performed on the birthday of Empress Dowager,
People in our whole nation will be astonished.
By that time,
the performance stage will be built here.
Your highness, wouldn't it be too close?
What are you scared about? You're not dancing.
Just build it here.
Yes
Hurry up and arrange for it.
Yes
Nobel Consort
Your highness
Be careful, Emperor
Protect the Emperor
Your highness
Protect the Emperor, Protect the Emperor
Stop right there
Are you alright? Your highness
Summon imperial doctors.
It was him.
Summon imperial doctors.
Catch him. Summon imperial doctors.
Your highness
Hurry
Stop.
All of you, stop it
Your highness
Consort Xian. Summon imperial doctors. Summon imperial doctors.
Your highness
How is it? Your highness
Your highness
Wait
Guard Suolun
What has happened?
Open it.
This is the waste cart. I asked you to open it.
Check it.
Go
Check
What's wrong?
What are you doing?
Guard Suolun
It's you?
What is this about?
There are assassins in the Palace. We're trying to find the assassins.
Will the assassins be washing waste bucket in the Imperial Palace?
Guard Suolun, are you people coming to make trouble on purpose?
I am sorry. But this is my duty.
How's the search going?
None. None.
None.
Miss Yingluo, sorry for disturbing you.
Go
To report to the Emperor, I am afraid that Nobel Consort...
How's Nobel Consort?
Imperial Doctor Zhang, it's already like that. You couldn't hide from it.
Emperor, Nobel Consort is severely injuried. I have to apply medicine on her. But she doesn't allow me to.
Your highness On my back,
it feel like burning.
It hurts so much. Zhilan
It hurts so much. Your highness
You couldn't touch it. You must not touch it.
Doctor Ye. Doctor Ye
Emperor, for such severe scald must cool it down and apply medicine
But Nobel Consort kept asking me,
if it would leave scars.
If it would be scars, she's not willing to get my treatment.
Ridiculous
Emperor
I will be watching here in person
Doctor Ye
Here
You apply medicine for Nobel Consort.
Yes
Don't, Emperor
I can't have scars.
I don't want to apply medicine. Hold her. Emperor.
Emperor, I don't want to apply medicine. Emperor
Do you want her to die?
Life is more important than anything.
Do it quickly.
Yes
Zhilan, save me.
Zhilan
I don't want scars.
Emperor, I can't have scars.
I can't have scars.
Your highness
Scars could be treated slowly, but your wound is burn.
If it were not treated in time, it will endanger your life.
Doctor Ye, be quick.
Yes
No No
Your highness, please bear with it.
Your highness.
I can't have scars.
Your highness.
No
No, Emperor
That's not good.
What's wrong?
The smell is not right.
I'm afraid it's not iron water, but gold water.
Yingluo
Be honest with me
Have you decided long ago,
to cover for the craftsman who wanted to assassinate Nobel Consort?
I have nothing to do with those people at all.
I see.
You act purposely
as indifferent, cold and heartless
Because you're worried that it would implicate the Empress. Right?
You delivered milk to Chuxiu Palace deliberately.
You had a conflict with Nobel Consort purposely.
If someone investigate you in the future,
you would say you did this to Nobel Consort because of personal grudge. Right?
In order to keep Changchun Palace away from suspicion
you've worked yourself to the bone for it.
Shut your mouth.
My business
doesn't need you meddling.
You helped the assassins like that,
it's not just for revenging for the Empress,
you actually...
you actually wanted to redress an injustice for those craftsmen who died unjustly.
Right?
I...
Yingluo
Your highness
How could you throw yourself like that?
If it destroyed your face,
you're the one who suffer losses.
The spoon of iron water was targetted on Nobel Consort Gao.
The distance and time were just perfect.
Apparently it's not willing to harm innocent people.
Alright.
Stop crying.
Am I not alright now?
Greetings, Emperor.
Greetings, Emperor. It's not necessary.
How's your injury?
Imperial doctor has come over already. It's just some burn. It's not serious.
But I don't know if Nobel Consort...
Sit.
Nobel Consort is severely injuried.
And,
That person was vicious,
mixed gold water into iron water.
What is gold water?
So-called gold water,
is feces water.
When two parties are in war, occasionally hot water is used to repulse the enemy.
If feces water was mixed into it,
then the wounds of the enemy army would get infected repeatly,
it's really hard to be healed.
Fortunately the Emperor wasn't injured. Otherwise the consequences are unbearable to think about.
Let me see your wound.
I'm afraid it might scare you.
Let me see it.
Both are scald injuries,
she screamed so loud and hope everyone in this world could hear it,
while you're silent about it.
It really doesn't hurt?
It hurts.
I am also just made of flesh and blood. How could it not hurt?
But thinking that Emperor didn't get injured, I feel really relieved in my heart.
No matter how painful it is, I will not put it in mind.
Shushen
Emperor
You haven't called me by this name for many years.
I...
have been neglecting you.
But at the moment when it is the most dangerous,
yet it turned out you were the first one who pounced on and protected me.
But you were aware clearly,
I had sufficient capability to protect myself.
You didn't need to sacrifice yourself
to give your life.
Right.
I knew the Emperor had the ability to protect yourself,
but under the circumstance at that moment, I had no time to think about it.
I will listen to the Emperor
to protect myself first in the future.
And don't let the Emperor to worry about it.
Go away.
Your highness.
You're a good-for-nothing.
I am incompetent. Your highness please calm your anger.
You said, to use light salt brine to clean and disinfect,
and to tear open bubbles
I agreed on all of these,
why hasn't it scabbed yet?
Why there is still no sign of getting better?
Your highness
Your wound wasn't big originally.
You only need to take rest for half a year and it could be healed. But...
But iron water was mixed with gold water. Gold water is dirty.
It causes the wounds to be infected repeatedly.
I...I've tried my best.
Your highness
Your highness, you must not get angry.
I don't need your "tried my best"
Please don't get angry. Please don't get angry.
Get lost.
Your highness. Please don't get angry.
Your highness, you have to calm down. Please don't get angry.
Your highness
Doctor Ye, take a look at her quickly.
Doctor Ye
Please save her highness quickly.
Nobel Consort's wound bursts and sometimes yellow water comes out.
Her pulse is weak. She has fever and coughs. I...
I couldn't cure her.
Doctor Ye. Doctor Ye
Doctor Ye, you can't leave.
Doctor Ye, you're a miracle doctor.
You could cure the death and make skeletons grow flesh.
How could you stop treating?
Nobel Consort's wound deteriorates constantly.
I've cleared rotten flesh and burst blood blisters for her three times.
I put a lot of effort to keep her life. But her highness...
But her highness doesn't cherish it.
Now wrath harms her health. The situation of her wound worsen.
Even if Hua Tuo (most legendary doctor in China) comes alive he couldn't save her. I don't believe it.
Her highness
Her highness is fine.
Let me tell you,
no longer than one month,
or could be as little as ten days,
she will be die from rupture of wound on her body.
Doctor Ye
Your highness.
You...
You keep an eye on her highness. I will be back soon.
Did you hear what the imperial doctor just said? Nobel Consort isn't going to survive.
What should we do then?
I am here to see Nobel Consort.
You shall leave.
Didn't hear me?
Yes.
Water
Why are you here?
Why are you so surprised?
Nobel Consort is not willing to see me?
Zhi Lan
Where is Zhi Lan?
Where are other people?
Where has everyone gone?
Nobel Consort, your wound isn't healed for a long period.
You're supposed to control your temper and take rest quietly.
How could you be so impatient and irascible?
HuiFaNaLa ShuShen
Rest assured
I will definitely get well.
I won't let you laugh at me.
Get well?
Sure.
Do you know how's the injury at your back now?
But right,
who would have the nerve to tell you about the truth?
What do you mean?
Your highness Nobel Consort is a national beauty and belle of the Palace.
Normally if you dropped a piece of hair,
others would feel pity about it.
But now, do you know that your back
is vibrant red and full of rotten flesh.
Even if it is cured in the future,
it will leave large black scars.
Nobel Consort
Did you realize that was hot iron water?
Gao Ning Xin, just take a look at yourself.
The former Nobel Consort Gao was the prettiest in the Palace
But do you still look a bit like before?
Why are you staring at me like that?
Didn't you always take advantage of your beauty look askance at everyone in the Palace?
It will be different in the future.
You can't serve the Emperor with this whole body of scars.
You could only live by the privilege of your Gao Family
and the Emperor's pity.
You also have to bear with disdain and sneering glances from the whole Forbidden City.
It was you. It was you.
To be precise it wasn't just me.
There are just too many people who hate you.
Someone wanted to use "blaze of colors" to scald you.
To destroy your skin and give you a heavy blow.
But this person was too merciful.
It didn't aim at your pretty face.
And didn't take your life.
Surely I would have to help her.
Right. Even the most beautiful flower needs dung to nourish.
So I added feces water into the iron water.
To nourish you - a national beauty and heavenly fragrant peony.
Bitch
I'll kill you.
Gao Ning Xin
Do you still remember how you have treated me before?
Your jewelries?
Where was your jewellery from?
It was all given and rewarded by the Emperor.
The gifts from the Palace,
I didn't touch any.
These are all prepared by my family before I married into the residency.
None of them are belongings from the Palace.
Now I am short of money. I take my own things to sell outside.
What's wrong with it?
I beg Nobel Consort Gao
do me a favor this time.
Do it now.
Don't.
Zhen'er. Don't. Don't.
I don't care how you trample my dignity
But how dare you use King Yi to lure my father to bribe.
It caused the deaths of my family members and my family was broken up.
From that moment on,
I have been waiting
to ask you to repay your debt.
When that secret letter was sent to Chengqian Palace,
I was aware,
the opportunity had come.
Are you not worried that I would tell the Emperor?
Nobel Consort
I am the meritorious person who saved the Emperor.
If you didn't say anything,
the Emperor might still have some pity on you.
If you falsely accuse me, the Emperor will detest you completely.
If you don't believe it, you could give it a try.
But,
do you still have time?
Consort Xian
You're really good.
Gao Ning Xin
I will just wait and see how you peony flower wither to earth.
Do not let me down.
Your highness
These useless servants
I was just left for a little while
When I was favored and in power,
they flattered in all different ways.
Now I don't have chances to rise again,
everyone of them,
flees like flock of birds.
Don't you see that Nalan Chunxue
doesn't even come here any more.
Your highness
The most urgent and important thing, is to take rest and recover from the illness.
When you're cured, we'll punish them.
Where's Doctor Ye?
Did he say
it can't be cured.
Right?
Your highness
Don't be disheartened.
Even without Doctor Ye,
there is still Imperial Doctor Zhang,
and the whole Imperial Hospital.
Your highness. You don't need to worry.
Consort Xian was right about one thing.
Even if I was cured,
I will still have a body full of scars.
Every time the Emperor sees me,
he would think of
this is a woman covered with scars.
Your highness
don't worry
you'll get well.
You definitely will.
I would rather be detested by all other people,
than being disliked by this one person.
Zhi Lan
I'd like to take a bath and change my clothes.
Your highness
you won't be able to make it.
Don't force yourself.
I still have more important thing to do.
Even if you want revenge,
you should wait until you're recovered.
There is no rush.
Earlier,
I think about it over and over again,
how to tear Consort Xian to pieces.
But I know,
there's not enough time.
Time should not be wasted on her.
Zhi Lan
Go
ask the Emperor to come over here.
Emperor
What's wrong? Who allowed her to come here?
Emperor. Please go see Nobel Consort for the last time.
Emperor
What do you mean "for the last time"?
Isn't Nobel Consort recuperating in Chuxiu Palace?
To reply to Emperor, Doctor Ye said,
Nobel Consort might couldn't make it through tonight.
She...
Why don't you rest up to recuperate?
What is it now?
Emperor
I must make time,
I am aware that I don't have too much time to live.
I hope to dance for the last time for the Emperor.
There will be a day when I am gone,
I hope the Emperor could still remember what happened today.
Please do not forget ever.
I told you that you could recover.
Then you would definitely be recovered.
Perhaps I have never woken up in my own opera,
Emperor, please let me act willfully for one more time.
Stop it, Ning Xin'er
Stop it. Quick, stop it.
Emperor
You're so good.
But why don't you love Ning Xin'er?
Is it because I am proud, arrogant and stupid?
It's not. It's not.
I know you're not stupid at all.
In order to reassure me,
you pretended to be stupid and unreasonable.
I know
my father is in very important position
and he is also member of E‘ErTai party grouping.
Emperor doesn't trust him completely,
and also doesn't trust me completely.
Your favor for me,
has always been so alienated,
so vigilant.
Your glances,
are always so cold,
as though you are so disgusted
If I didn't pretend to be a bit more stupid,
the Emperor would dislike me even more.
Am I right?
Ning Xin'er
I didn't ever find you repugnant.
In the eyes of the Gao Family, I am a chess piece of the Palace.
In the eyes of the Emperor,
I am a tool that the Gao Family uses to flatter.
As time goes by,
Who truly is Ning Xin'er,
even I myself don't know about it.
Ning Xin'er
To recuperate properly
Let's both forget about those unhappy things.
Alright?
There's not enough time, Emperor.
I can't waste it any more.
As the saying goes,
"Men speak kindly in the presence of death"
There is still one last thing that I'd like to beg,
Don't worry
I will definitely find out the murderer for you.
No
Emperor
These things are no longer important to me.
What is it that you want then?
Emperor
I know that although Emperor is ruler of the nation,
he can't randomly ask about family issues of ministers.
So I've never made a request.
In the past I had fantasies
that if one day I became the Empress,
You could confer a posthumous title for her in a legitimate way
To arrange her returning burial.
To have people in the Gao Family wear mourning for her.
Kowtow to her and apologize.
But it's a dream,
is always just a dream.
Now I can only be brazen
and earnestly request His Majesty
to allow Mother to conform with burial customs
and not let my soul drift in all directions
not having any refuge.
I agree
I promise you
Lord Gao
Consort Gao doesn''t want to see you
Kneeling here is of no use.
Lord Gao
You plan to continue kneeling here
Consort Gui
she won't change her mind.
You really won't see Lord Gao?
Madam
Help me again
to put on one last show.
This pear tree
Is where I, Yang Yufang will end my life
I, Yang Yufang, thank the emperor
As from today on, we won't see each other again
Madam
Ning Xing
Your Majesty
Consort Gui has passed away
Deliver my imperial order
Consort Gui
Born into a distinguished family
assisted in the governing of the imperial harem
Was filial
Was gentle
I confer her the title
Imperial Noble Consort
Noble Consort Gao's funeral
will be jointly arranged by the Ministry of Works, Ministry of Rites , and the Imperial Household Department
Has always been so alienated,
So vigilant
Your glances are always so cold,
as though you are so disgusted
If I didn't pretend to be a bit more stupid,
the Emperor would dislike me even more.
Your Highness
Leave
Yes
You
Stop worryig
Even though the Emperor has given orders for punishment
But none of the blacksmiths would confess
This Blaze of Colors show
Was prepared especially for the Empress Dowager
So it definitely cannot touch blood
In the end, it would be settled a matter by leaving it unsettled
The blacksmiths will be released too
You can stop worrying now
You the type of person who keeps worrying about others
Why don't you worry about yourself?
Take care of your illness
Come, eat it while it's still hot
Let me
Thank you
Just a thank you? That's it?
Wei Yingluo
I've told you
I'll need you to repay me for each spoonful of congee
Don't think it'll be so easy to get rid of me
You're already the supervisor
Why would you need me to repay you for?
Supervisor?
A Supervisor like me
There's around eight of us here at the Department of Hard Labor
You think I'll just stay here?
Brother, you're sure full of ambition
Now you know
Wei Yingluo
What did you just call me?
What congee is this?
It's a little... Don't change the subject
Say it again
What did you just call me?