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♫ One flower, one world; One leaf, one enlightenment ♫
♫ The raindrops pattering against the banana leaves last night awoke me gently and gracefully. ♫
♫ Continuously and closely, continuously and closely, intoxicated within the aromatic air ♫
♫ Closely touching you, closely touching you. ♫
♫ So many poetic lines were left behind inside of dreams ♫
♫ The raindrops in front of the house drenched the spring clothing ♫
♫ Pitter-pattering raindrops, pitter-pattering raindrops, sprinkling and trickling over the memories ♫
♫ Entirely about you. Entirely about you. ♫
♫ I desire to ride a fair wind to separate, but my heart can't escape ♫
♫ Wanted us to be intertwined trees growing as one, wanted to enjoy the world together ♫
♫ I'm having fun in the mortal world, a cherry blossom free against the sky horizon ♫
♫ Playing you as a flute song, holding you prisoner within my embrace ♫
Untouchable Lovers
Episode 40
Your Highness.
Your Highness. Urgent news from Xishan (Western Mountain).
His Majesty accidentally got hurt while hunting. May Your Highness immediately go to Xishan.
Anyone who did acts that have strained the citizens must be truthfully reported.
Your Highness.
I heard you.
His Majesty was accidentally injured during hunting, and they reported it only tonight.
I fear that this matter isn't normal.
Your Highness, how about you let me go to the mountains to check first?
Just stay here in Pingcheng to manage the general situation, and wait for my news.
I'll go on my own.
Your Highness.
Since it was His Majesty's decree, as his subjects, we must follow it.
- But— - Stay here in Pingcheng, and wait for my orders.
- Everyone, assemble! - Yes!
Lanruo! Lanruo! Lanruo!
- Princess Consort. - Lanruo, what's happening outside? Why is it so noisy?
Princess Consort...
Rong Zhi!
Permanent Palace Attendant Zhao, once I leave,
take good care of the people inside the manor.
Yes.
It's already so late. Where is the Prince Regent going?
I'm asking you! Why are you not answering?!
His Highness just instructed me to prepare the horses.
He didn't tell me where he's going.
What matter is that urgent
that he didn't tell you either?
- Shen Yu! - Princess Consort.
Tell me.
Princess Consort, let's talk inside.
You said that His Majesty fell from his horse and is hurt?
So Rong Zhi is rushing to Xishan this late at night to see His Majesty?
How come you didn't go?
His Highness was afraid that there may be unforeseen events that might happen, so he asked me to stay.
Oh, that...
Who else knows about His Majesty falling off from his horse?
They could have just informed only the Prince Regent, right?
- This... - If anything bad happens,
they should also inform Her Highness the Empress Dowager, right?
The Prince Regent manages the state affairs. He holds great responsibilities.
If His Majesty is really gravely injured, to prevent any chaos,
it's not surprising for them to seal off any news.
Right... What you said is right too.
I must be just be too nervous.
That's right. His Majesty is hurt. If outsiders learn this,
it will surely induce turmoil.
That's why they only told the Prince Regent about it.
Maybe he has some important matters to tell him.
Princess Consort, what's wrong with you?
I don't know. I just feel frightened.
You are just being too nervous.
Maybe that's the case. Maybe it's because I got awakened by the noise earlier.
I'm fine now. You go back to your work.
I will take my leave.
Hey, Shen Yu!
Princess Consort, you have any instructions?
Go to the palace, and ask around.
Was Her Highness the Empress Dowager really uninformed about this?
Don't ask me why! I don't know why either, I just feel uneasy.
- Go. Hurry and go. - Yes.
Hurry and go!
Princess Consort, it's already late. Rest now.
Lanruo, tell me.
Rong Zhi will safely return, right?
What are you saying?
His Highness is just going to Xishan to visit His Majesty.
How could he be in danger?
But you, if you still don't sleep,
your eyes will be swollen again tomorrow morning.
Yes. My imagination must be just running wild.
Rong Zhi is so outstanding. What could happen to him?
Red Phoenix Room
Your Majesty, you're awake.
You are now hurt.
A minor injury like that...
still won't cost me my life.
- Your Highness. - Leave us.
Royal Brother, talk with me.
It's late. You had better just rest first.
Sit.
What really do you want to talk about?
Why?
When your mother was executed,
it was my Royal Mother who brought you back to Yiluan Palace.
The first time I saw you, you were cowering behind Royal Mother's back.
Those eyes were full of tears.
Your body was trembling.
At the time, I secretly made a promise
that I must protect this brother well.
I couldn't let him have this scared gaze again.
But Your Majesty, after you grew up,
you didn't need me anymore.
Royal Brother, your heart seems to be full of indignation.
I'm not. Even if I used to have it,
that is now in the past.
I only wanted to be a prince, and assist your governance.
What a pity you only needed the Prince Regent.
You didn't need an older brother like me anymore.
It was you...you who betrayed me!
You think that by holding the lord while you control his vassals,
you can really do what you want? No.
You're unable to do so. You can never become me.
Whether it's a success or failure,
Your Majesty, just wait and see.
Before the Prince Regent arrives here,
just behave and stay here.
You used the news of me getting hurt to lure the Prince Regent here?
To put it more accurately, the Prince Regent knew that Your Majesty was hurt,
and harbored evil intentions, and therefore was killed by me.
Prince Kang, you...
Your Majesty, I'm guaranteeing
you will soon see the uncle that you admired the most.
But it'll be a cold corpse.
What are you looking for? What really has happened?
It's not here.
There is nothing here too.
I can't find it. Why can't I find it?
Princess Consort...Princess Consort.
What is it now?
- A guest has come. - A guest?
This...the sky isn't even bright yet.
This person's identity is special, and she insists on seeing you.
I dare not drive her away. Just go and see her.
You are...
Princess Consort.
You are Prince Kang's...
I am Le Yun.
Why did you come?
This is a letter between Prince Kang and the provincial secretary.
This has been burned. I can't really clearly see what's written here.
For the past month, there have been people frequently entering the manor to discuss things with Prince Kang during late at night.
And they acted furtively, and were very secretive.
I flipped the whole study of the Prince Kang's Manor upside down and still couldn't find any clues.
In the end, I found this letter in the stove.
It can then be deduced that all the secret letters have been destroyed.
If it's not during a critical juncture, why would Prince Kang do such a thing?
What did you say?
Princess Consort, I suspect that the hunting in Xishan is fishy.
Please relay to the Prince Regent that he must guard against it.
Princess Consort, don't mind this woman.
She is Prince Kang's favored concubine,
visiting here late at night and even full of nonsense.
This must be a trap.
Why did you come see me?
This matter is urgent. I am unable to find the Prince Regent. I could only look for you.
If you couldn't find the Prince Regent, you could have looked for Shen Yu.
My whole family owes the Prince Regent a lot.
I did everything to enter the Prince Kang's Manor, just to repay him.
But that time, there were some unexpected circumstances in our plan.
Just to completely remove Prince Kang's suspicion,
I previously foiled the Prince Regent's plan.
Shen Yu has already assumed that I've betrayed them.
Even if I go to him now, he might not believe me.
Rong Zhi arranged for you to enter the Prince Kang's Manor.
What's empty will eventually be filled, what's full will eventually be emptied.
A lie that's half true and half false is the hardest to discern.
How would I know then that you're not lying to me?
Princess Consort, I can make an oath to the heavens
that if I have spoken any lies today, thousands of arrows will pierce my heart in the future, and I'll die tragically.
I can only ask you to remind His Highness to be careful today.
- The Prince Regent has already left for Xishan. - What did you say?
Princess Consort, how could you tell her that?
His Majesty fell from the horse, and got injured. He was urgently asking for the Prince Regent to see him.
So he rushed off to Xishan tonight.
Oh, no! His Highness is in danger!
Princess Consort, how could you believe that woman's words?
Whether it's true or not, I must go.
Princess Consort! Then...I'll accompany you.
No! This matter is top secret. We must not let anyone know.
- Hurry and leave. - Princess Consort.
Princess Consort!
Qingyue. Qingyue!
Prince Regent's Consort, what do you need?
Commander, the Prince Regent's Consort asks for an audience.
- Let her in. - Yes.
Prince Regent's Consort.
Princess Consort, why did you come here this late at night?
Commander Chen, the Xishan hunting trip is an evil scheme of Prince Kang.
His Majesty is in danger. Immediately lead your men to Xishan to save him!
Princess Consort, the Longlin Army is indeed Great Wei's elite troop.
At this time, hunting on Xishan,
they surely will meet the need protect His Majesty and ensure his safety.
What if Prince Kang has set up an ambush beforehand?
May I ask...
what evidence do you have?
I...I am unable to hand you any evidence.
But everything I'm saying is true.
If you don't believe me, you can personally go to Xishan and verify it.
Without His Majesty's decree, we can't mobilize the army by ourselves.
Commander Chen!
If you still wait for evidence, I fear that Prince Kang might successfully carry out his plan!
By that time, everything will be beyond retrieval!
Princess Consort, please be careful with what you're saying.
You're really not saving them, is that it?
Prince Kang and the Prince Regent are at odds to begin with.
This is something that the whole court knows.
Now, the Princess Consort has no evidence,
yet you keep saying that he's rebelling.
- This...I really dare not believe it. - Forget it!
If you won't save them, I'll think of a way myself.
Men!
What are you trying to do?
The Princess Consort is spreading rumors to mislead the public.
To prevent any unrest in the state situation,
I can't let you go. Once I enter the court tomorrow,
when I see Empress Dowager Feng and the Prince Regent, I'll let them handle your case.
Chen Yong, you dare to?
Princess Consort. Just be at ease and stay here. Please.
Chancellor Ma, you were really shrewd in your calculations.
The Prince Regent's Consort has really fallen into our trap.
In the end, she's just a foolish little girl.
It's fine if she uses some quick wit and cleverness during usual days.
But when faced with a major problem,
she really amounts to nothing.
Why then are we not immediately killing her?
No rush. The general situation takes priority.
Once we're done with the Imperial palace matters,
we'll slowly take care of her.
I've already sent Peng Ge to carry the Imperial decree.
At this time, he most likely has breached the four palace gates.
Right now, we're just waiting for Shen Yu to fall into our net.
Is this person trustworthy?
Chancellor Ma, don't worry. This person has followed me for so many years.
He is the most loyal general within the Longlin Army.
Old Chen...
this is a matter that can get us beheaded.
If not because I promoted him, he would have been lying in a pile of corpses now.
Chancellor Ma, just be at ease.
Urgent news from Xishan. I must enter the palace.
Open the gates!
Le Yun! You have disappointed His Highness!
That partly-burned letter was a bait for me?
For you? No.
That was a bait to lure the Prince Regent's Consort.
In the time you spent going there and coming back here, she must now be a guest of the Longlin Army.
So His Highness has always suspected me?
No. His Highness just felt that there was a spy within the manor,
but he didn't know who this person was.
He surely had hoped that the person who informed the Prince Regent's Consort tonight
would not be his most-favored Madam Le.
You want to kill me?
You are His Highness' person. Of course, I must wait for him to handle you. Arrest her.
Stop.
You already said that I'm His Highness' woman.
No need for dirty hands to touch me. I can walk on my own.
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My stomach is so painful.
I urge you to better not play any tricks. Or else, I'll make you be unable to see tomorrow's sun.
- What? - Shut up.
If Commander hears you, be careful of your tongue getting cut out.
Since we're here already, it's just a matter that will happen sooner or later. What's there to fear?
Chen Yong is part of the revolt?
You learned about it too late. Hurry and move.
- Qingyue! - Stop!
Princess, hurry and go!
After them!
Commander, the Prince Regent's Consort has escaped!
Useless!
Enough! That won't help. Important matters should take priority.
Why are you still standing here? Aren't you going to hurry and chase after her?
Yes.
They surely have escaped back to the Imperial palace.
No. She won't be going to the Imperial palace.
She is going to Xishan.
To save the Prince Regent?
Chen Yong, how was your preparation on the path going to XIshan?
I've already made adequate preparations.
This time, I surely will be able to kill the Prince Regent.
No.
Rong Zhi has always been cunning and crafty. And now, you have an unforeseen circumstance like Chuyu.
While the sky isn't bright yet, you must personally go!
Okay. I'll personally go.
I'll personally go to the Imperial palace.
Little Empress Dowager, I'm coming.
Huben General Shen Yu has trespassed into the Imperial palace at night,
and is harboring evil intentions! Immediately capture him!
Yes!
Let go of me!
General Shen Yu...
just relying on individual brute strength can't solve the problem.
You are still too young.
Peng Ge, you actually dared to betray His Majesty?
You wanted to sound the alarm? Since you want to send a message, why don't I just fulfill your wishes?
Let's lure all the mice here, so we can catch them all in one net.
General Peng, he is the Prince Regent's beloved general.
We should eliminate the grass by the roots.
For Old General Shen, the life of his only son
is more useful than any offer of higher position or better pay.
Despicable, vile person!
Take him away. As for the others, come with me.
Yes.
Let go of me!
Search there!
Your Highness the Empress Dowager, what's wrong?
That is...
It's a signal from a personal bodyguard.
Personal bodyguard? But that signal seems to be
coming from the Taihe Gates.
Something bad has happened in the palace.
Go and fetch the Prince Regent to enter the palace. Hurry.
- Your Highness, it's already very late. - Go.
Immediately go.
Yes.
Your Highness, the soup is here.
Is dried human placenta really effective?
Dried human placenta is very nutritious to begin with. After taking it in, your ears and eyes will work better and you'll look younger and more radiant.
It is just has a bit of raw taste. Just endure it for a little bit.
This taste is so hard to endure.
Just to preserve Your Highness' beautiful face, this is worth it.
Your Highness, please gargle.
Say, if a woman can be young forever,
how great would that be?
Forever young and beautiful?
Yes. Even as you enter your coffin,
you can still look so full of life.
Just like...
Just like...how Guiren Feng looks.
A skin as soft as cow's milk.
A color as fair as the flowers.
Your Highness, don't worry. With this medicinal formula, you'll be better than her by a hundred times.
Enough already. We're just deceiving ourselves here.
No matter how beautiful a woman is, the time will still come that a flower discolors and withers.
No one is an exception.
You brothers go search over yonder.
The rest of you, search over there!
- What sound was that? - Yes!
Your Highness, you must have heard it wrong. There were no sound.
No. I didn't hear it wrong.
It seems that something is going to happen.
Your Highness, where are you going? It's already late!
Your Highness! Your Highness!
All of you...?
Imperial Consort Dowager Qi.
What are you all doing?
There is unrest in the palace tonight. We were ordered by Prince Kang to come here and ensure your safety.
Unrest? What unrest?
- Speak. - May Your Highness immediately return to your palace.
May Your Highness immediately return to your palace.
Where is Prince Kang? Where is Tuoba Yun!
Tell him to come! Tell him to immediately come!
Your Highness, are you confused? His Highness Prince Kang is in Xishan.
These bastards! Saying that they were ordered by Prince Kang...
You all think that I'm stupid!
What is this place! Why would my Yun'er...
Your Highness.
You know something, right?
Your Highness.
Tell me!
Your Highness, Your Highness, I really don't know anything!
Before His Highness Prince Kang left, he especially instructed that whatever happens tonight,
I must not let Your Highness leave Yiluan Palace by even a step.
I am his birth mother.
With such a huge thing happening,
he actually dared to hide it from me?
Is he crazy?
How many times have I told him that...
he must do it slowly.
Do it slowly. Who instigated him!
He actually became so impatient!
Hunting at Xishan...
He fooled His Majesty to go to Xishan.
He actually dared to...
No. I must stop him.
I must not let him commit a grave mistake.
Your Highness, you can't go!
Even if you rush to Xishan now...
it is already too late.
What did you say?
His Highness has already made his move.
Help! Help! Someone's killing people!
Help!
Guiren! It's full of people shouting help, they're being killed outside!
The two palace servants that went out to check it haven't returned. They might have...
You're saying that outside, it's full of people calling for help from getting killed?
Yes. Nothing like this has happened in the palace.
Guiren, what must we do now?
Guiren! Hurry and think of an idea.
How about we rush to Xuanhuang Palace to hide?
The security there is stricter. It's way safer than our Yuehua Palace.
Close the main gates. Don't listen, or do anything.
We're not going to do anything?
Then...what if those people outside charge in here?
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Your Highness, His Highness will surely rush into the palace once he gets the news.
Don't be this anxious.
There is still the Longlin Army.
No, this is not right. With such a huge event happening inside the palace,
how come Chen Yong is not doing anything? This is not right.
Your Highness, they are getting nearer and nearer.
Help me dress up.
You can't go out now.
Immediately dress me up.
Yes.
Why are you panicking? What big wind and waves have I not seen?
No matter what happens, you must always remember...
I am Great Wei's Empress Dowager.
Qingyue, let's separate to look for him.
No.
Qingyue, don't worry. I'm fine.
Rong Zhi!
- Rong Zhi. - Who told you to come?
- Rong Zhi, Prince Kang plans to revolt. - Do you know how dangerous it is here?
Did you hear me?! The Longlin Army has sided with Prince Kang.
They have now taken over the Imperial palace.
Why? Answer me!
Because you're here.
You foolish girl.
After her!
You...what you all are doing is revolting! Revolting!
I should have guessed it already.
The Longlin Army has already mutinied.
Ma Zhongliang!
It is indeed you.
Empress Dowager, you have such good eyesight.
Usurping the throne.
Do you know the consequences of failure?
Empress Dowager, are you crazy?
You must not speak nonsense. I came here to promulgate the Imperial decree.
His Majesty's decree?
Empress Dowager Feng, believed in slanderous talks,
used her power to monopolize state affairs,
and brought chaos into the Imperial regime.
She is being ordered to commit suicide. That's all.
Impossible. This is impossible.
His Majesty is on Xishan hunting.
Who then made this Imperial decree?
The Imperial decree is here.
If the Empress Dowager doesn't believe it, you can personally verify it.
The Imperial decree is in your hand.
Then His Majesty must be in your hand too.
Ma Zhongliang, do you still remember how Chancellor Yi Hun died? (T/N aka "Yifu Hun", a tyrannical regent, attempted a coup, executed by Empress Dowager Feng)
He was very foolish. How can he compare to me?
Feng woman, so as not to shame you too much, I allowed you to talk until now.
Since Empress Dowager doesn't know to cherish her good name... (T/N by suicide rather than being slain)
- you men send her on her journey. - Yes!
Ma Zhongliang!
Stop that this minute!
Empress Dowager, you have already come round?
I am the Empress Dowager of Great Wei.
Even if I am to die, I don't need to trouble anyone to do it.
She is my close attendant. Let her send me on my journey!
One bowl of tea.
Once the time has come, I'll tell them to go in and collect your corpse.
Senior Maid Qin. Let's go back to the palace.
You men go there. You men, come with me!
Rong Zhi, we won't really die here, right?
Don't be afraid.
It seems that since I met you, nothing good has happened to me.
But being able to die with you,
it can be said as "sticking together through thick and thin".
Don't look at me like that. I don't plan to commit suicide with you.
I am just...
Prince Kang schemed to cause an uprising. I was ordered to pacify the rebel.
- If there are any who will resist, kill them all! - Yes!
Didn't you go to Sizhou? Why are you here?
I'll go chase after the rebels. Immediately take some men to Xishan. Let's meet there.
No need to chase after the escaping rebels.
Huo Xuan!
There are so many assassins and traps scattered in the forest. Hurry and chase after General Huo!
No. Immediately rush to the Imperial Temporary Palace. Let's go!
No need for thanks.
You brat. I did save you earlier.
Qingyue! I'm still waiting for you to repay me by giving yourself to me.
- How many people do we now have? - Fifteen hundred soldiers.
All are fierce warriors that the General personally chose.
Where is Huo Xuan?
The General still hasn't rushed back.
Stay to wait for her. I'll rush to the Imperial Temporary Palace now.
Your Highness, the General ordered me to follow you.
A commander's order is like the mountain. I dare not disobey it.
Let's go.
Move!
You...why are you here?
General Huo. Don't you know that this forest is a natural warehouse.
There are so many precious medicinal herbs here. I frequently come here.
And then, I got brought by this war horse here.
Where then is your medicinal basket, and your bamboo pole for exploration and hitting snakes?
You even especially wore like that.
What really is going on?
It's like this. Deputy Commander Wang was afraid that your old injuries would act up,
so he especially hid me among the soldiers.
Wang Ze, actually dared to—
General, please remove your armor.
What?
You have severely injured your back. You need to be treated immediately.
No. I must rush to the Imperial Temporary Palace.
If you don't listen to me and continue insisting on doing what you want,
I guarantee that you will already collapse before reaching Xishan.
I'm ready.
Please endure it a little.
What are you doing?
I want to assist you.
I can get up on the horse by myself.
- What are you doing? - Let's go. I'll take you.
I can go on my own.
You are now my patient. I can't let my patient get hurt again.
Don't move too much. I don't have any bad intentions. I just want to help you.
I have always relied on my own self. I don't need anyone's help.
I don't know how strong you were before.
I just know that you need me a lot now.
Sit well. Be careful not to fall off.
Just this once.
What?
Only just this once.
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♫ If life is like first meetings ♫
♫ It would be better to yearn more than meet ♫
♫ The misty rain of Jiangnan is so short-lived (idiomatic phrase, literally "night-blooming cactus blooms once") ♫
♫Even while it's raining, it drizzles continuously ♫
♫ If we will see each other often in life ♫
♫ What must we do so we won't get fed-up with looking at each other? ♫
♫ At this day last year, It's the same sky ♫
♫ But the faces are different ♫
♫ I'd really like to see you again ♫
♫ Confess to you all my regrets in parting with you ♫
♫ Drawing a circle in the air ♫
♫ Praying that love will never change ♫
♫ I so want to rub my face against yours ♫
♫ Being greedy about your every moment ♫
♫ Don't ask how many years was I in pain ♫
♫ Turning back, it's all my tears...from my eyes ♫
♫ Don't ask how many years was I in pain ♫
♫ Turning back, it's all my tears...from my eyes ♫