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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 33
Greetings, Your Majesty.
This lady is full of spirit.
It's better than those beautiful women statue.
Imperial Concubine Dowager, am I right?
Yes, Your Lady Majesty Empress Dowager.
I have never seen such a pretty lady.
What is your name?
- Feng Hongxiu. - She is indeed intelligent and pretty.
Since Your Majesty likes her, why not keep this lady?
Starting today, you're now Guiren Feng.
Come, sit beside me.
Greetings, Empress Dowager.
Your Majesty, we should continue with the banquet.
I ordered them to especially prepare an exquisite delicacy.
May everyone sincerely taste it.
Start then.
Your Majesty, what are they doing?
Your Majesty, a deer is a sacred beast.
It has pure yang within in and has a long life. It's best in supplementing our qi and blood.
Just to bring this effect to the fullest, I've asked people to feed him ginseng for a month.
Although this method is a bit sanguinous,
we can only ensure the freshest internal organs if we do this.
Later, I'll order them to grill them on site.
I guarantee that the aroma will very memorable.
Oh, right, the deer's heart is the best part.
It can nourish one's qi and regulate your breathing. Everyone should taste it later.
Guiren Feng, you have something to say?
In front of Your Majesty, I dare not be rash.
I'm allowing you to say it. I won't blame you if you make any mistakes.
Your Lady Highness Imperial Consort Dowager, we all know that His Majesty is a vegetarian,
but he doesn't restrict his subjects to dine and drink.
This is all because of his benevolent heart.
But, today is his birthday.
Using this method of obtaining the organs while the deer is alive, isn't it...
isn't it too cruel?
I heard before that when His Majesty goes out to hunt,
he would deliberately let those young preys escape.
His purpose is to let the mountain forest recuperate and build up strength.
It shows that he as a benevolent heart.
If...it's just to satisfy the desire for good food,
why not just directly kill it?
How come we still must bloodily torture it like this?
Unruly!
Your Majesty, forgive me! I had talked nonsense!
I already said it that I won't blame you.
My words don't carry much weight. I shouldn't have said too much.
But...
But this is a pregnant female deer.
What pregnant female deer? A bunch of nonsense!
Whether I'm making up things or not,
won't everything be clear just by looking at the deer's abdomen?
Eunuch Pan, go look at it.
Yes.
Replying to Your Majesty, what Guiren Feng said is indeed right.
This deer indeed is pregnant.
Your Majesty, I had good intentions. I didn't know...
- I... - Imperial Consort Dowager Qi,
bloodily extracting the meat right here in the great hall
is already very cruel.
As the Imperial Consort Dowager, you should be cultivating more inner good morals and act in a generous manner.
Yes.
Royal Mother, come. It's fine...
It's in! It's in!
- Just a bit short. - It's in! It's in!
You're so good.
I thought Prince Regent's Wife wouldn't dare to go out anymore.
Never thought that she's this bold and went out without care at all.
Today is His Majesty's birthday. Of course, Prince Regent's Wife must attend it.
Who in Pingcheng doesn't know about the Prince Regent's Wife
getting abducted by an assassin?
If she has any shame, she should have just behaved herself and stayed inside the manor.
Look at her now. Not only does she feel no shame,
she even joined the shooting the jar game.
So afraid that no one will notice that she's here.
Song people are very particular about etiquette.
They actually were able to come up with such a woman who lacked womanly virtue. I really feel embarrassed for them.
Really have no social decency.
You think everyone is deaf like you?! That they can't hear it if you don't speak loudly?!
What? Did I say something wrong?
Since we dared to say it, then we're not afraid that you'll hear it.
May I ask what is womanly virtue?
Wei previously has the practice of the son taking over the father, the younger brother taking over the older brother.
Before, I didn't understand it too.
But later, someone told me that it was for the propagation of descendants
and more so for survival.
When the sibling dies, the woman had to be remarried to another family.
All the food and children will be taken too.
For a household, how big of a loss is that?
Are you going to say that all your ancestors are immoral?
Those are old practices and has long been abandoned.
Now, we all have been taught on proper lady virtues. We know about the sense of propriety, justice, integrity and honor.
We naturally will not do those immoral acts.
The son inheriting that of the father, the younger brother inheriting that of the older sibling,
these are indeed ugly practices.
But the woman involved was innocent.
They have no way to control their fate and life.
Your Wei princess was also like Han Zhaojun.
When the khan of Rouran died, she had to remarry his brother.
This is not for herself. It's for the citizens and the state. But with just the movement of your lips,
you have humiliated her to the point of her body being badly bruised all over.
Why don't you think first
that if not because of their sacrifices, how can there be peaceful times now?
You would have been treated like a beast and get sold!
If we have already been humiliated (raped), we surely will not continue living an ignoble existence
and let the world mock our husband and family.
The more I won't shamelessly swagger through the streets and become everyone's laughingstock!
Shut up!
Stop saying it.
I'm not talking about Prince Regent's Wife. I'm just talking about how a woman should act.
What is there to fear?
Are you all not talking
because you all agree with her opinions?
Princess Consort, we all were just joking earlier. Please don't mind it.
Yes. I indeed got abducted by an assassin.
But as a woman, you should be feeling pity about my encounter
and rejoice for my safe return.
But what about you all? Hiding here,
spreading rumors, and destroying my reputation.
How come it is always a woman that will throw stones at another woman?
You are harsher to other women than how you treat your men.
You want to use a few rumors to force me to die? Dream on!
Don't you want to die?!
Okay. I'll then fulfill your wish, you long-tongued woman!
Help!
Princess Consort, have mercy!
- Princess Consort. Princess Consort, you must not be rash. - Guiren Feng.
Hongxiu, no need for you to ask forgiveness in her behalf.
A woman like that who pretend to be so chaste should be made to experience unbearable embarrassment.
Didn't you say that all humiliated women should die?
I'll then take off all your clothes
- and let you roll around the great hall for a round. - Princess Consort! - Come over here.
Chuyu! Today is His Majesty's birthday banquet. You must not act absurdly.
For my sake, just let her off this time.
Does she really know her mistake already?
Princess Consort was so fortunate to have been saved by General Shen.
Other than experiencing a bit of shock, she didn't suffer any other injuries.
There are people who are deliberately spreading rumors
obviously to destroy the reputation of Princess Consort.
Ladies, it's fine if you get to listen to them.
But if you spread it through your own words,
that will be destroying the prestige of the imperial family.
Are you all really not afraid of getting executed with your family?
Princess Consort, let her go now.
Will you not make casual remarks again?
No. I won't dare anymore.
I have remembered your face.
If you let me see you again spreading lies behind my back,
I surely will hang you by the city walls tomorrow.
Yes.
Leave.
Wait a minute!
Princess Consort, I really dare not do it again.
Who allowed you to walk out like that? Crawl out.
I'm not a person that repay grudges with goodwill.
Either you remove your clothes and crawl out,
or you crawl out with all your limbs and head touching the ground. No third choice.
Chuyu.
I'm doing this just to let her know
what it feels to be humiliated. Only by experiencing it
can she understand why Zhaojun endured the humiliation and remarried.
Only then will she understand the feelings of the Wei princess who had to leave her homeland
and still endured getting mocked at and misunderstood.
A woman who has to bear such kind of insult but still continued living is a woman worth admiring.
So far better than a delicate rich daughter like you.
If I'm you, I will immediately make my choice.
Hurry up!
Next time, who else doesn't want their life anymore, I won't mind sending them to their journey.
- Chuyu. If this matter gets out— - I've already held back...
but wasn't successful with it.
You really has such bad temper.
You scared me to death earlier.
I even thought that you would really force her to crawl out naked.
I was just scaring her,
so she wouldn't be talking nonsense again.
Hongxiu, are you really entering the palace now?
Chuyu, if I enter the palace, those kids won't need to starve and have no one to rely on to.
But this is the imperial palace of Wei. You can never turn back once you get on this path.
Don't worry. I'm willing to bear all the consequences.
You looked surprised when you saw Hongxiu today.
I don't understand. His Majesty already has so many women.
Why must he continue to get more?
Will you complain that there are so many beautiful dresses?
For a man, a beautiful woman is like a precious treasure,
a beautiful clothing. The more you can collect, the better.
Just to be a man's collectible item, a woman must then give up her freedom and the right to go out of the palace?
What's wrong?
Replying to Your Highness, the cart of a man selling lanterns in front got overturned.
Who is it?
Just an annoying lowly person.
Since I entered Pingcheng, someone has been wanting to kill me.
They have already trapped me numerous times. I still haven't pay them back.
Pay them back?
I've already made an oath. I'll let these people scheming against me behind my back
all pay the price.
Such bold statement.
What are you laughing at? You don't believe me?
I don't believe you.
Just wait and see then.
That flower basket earlier is not bad.
That's right. This is also not bad.
It will be Daughter's Festival soon, the day when Niu Lang and Zhen Nu will be meeting.
Just to let Niu Lang see the Magpie Bridge well,
Nu Lang will put lanterns on the lake and write her wishes on them.
Praying that their lives will be wonderful and their marriage a success.
I thought that only Song ladies will believe such things.
Never thought that all women in the world are the same.
Chuyu, there will be a lot of people out during the Daughter's Festival.
If you want to—
Let's go back.
Chuyu.
Master! Master!
Master, it's good that you're home.
What has happened?
Master, hurry and go save Mistress.
If you still don't care about her, you might never see her again!
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What's going on here? Why did she become like this?
Mistress has been like this for a long time. No matter how much I urge her, she won't listen.
Go and call Rong Zhi to come here.
Mistress won't let me go look for Prince Regent.
I dare not disobey, so I could only go look for you.
Xueyun.
What do you mean by this?
Father, what we desire are different.
You won't be able to understand me and I don't need it.
Didn't you promise me before that
you will put the general interest first.
Yes, I did promise you
to put the general interest first.
But there is no more need for it now.
What are you saying, Xueyun?
I don't understand any word of it.
I have always been putting the general interest first.
Prince Regent marrying Chuyu, I endured it.
He kept defending her, I also endured it.
Because I thought that if I just patiently wait,
he surely will love me. If I cooperate with father's grand plan
to assist him, I could then become his most important woman.
What then is the difference now?
Now? The only difference is he has fallen in love with that Liu Song princess.
He will never love me anymore.
Enough!
It's always the same things all day.
What your brain is thinking are always these romantic follies.
You have been blinded love. What else can you see?!
Where have you put the Ma Family? Where have you put your portliness?
Didn't I teach you well?
Father...
What you kept saying are all about self-interest.
Have you ever cared about me?
Enough...
Sit...
Xueyun, when I allied with Prince Regent before,
wasn't it exactly because of you?
Okay then.
Do something for me one more time.
Kill Chuyu. Kill her.
Sure, but not now.
Why?
You tell me why.
Prince Regent now is surrounded by danger.
Prince Kang is eyeing him covetously.
We need the Liu Song princess. We need her identity.
But I am unable to wait anymore!
Enough! Calm down! Calm down!
You have lost the proper way to behave. You have become irrational.
Let me tell you this. Your brutal acts these past days have already spread that everyone now knows about it.
You are giving a lot of people
an excuse to attack Prince Regent.
Will you really only stop once you get driven out of the Prince Manor?!
Daughter, listen to me.
Control this temperament of yours
or else no one can help you.
Listen. You are a daughter of my Ma family.
As long as you are willing to endure it, everything
will be yours eventually. But the premise is you must endure first.
If you are able to endure the small things, you'll foil the great plans—
Leave! Leave!
- Xueyun, what's wrong with you? - I don't want to hear those grand reasons anymore! Leave!
Xueyun! Xueyun!
Leave! Don't touch me! Leave!
Bixi, take good care of your Miss.
If she does any strange acts, immediately inform me.
Get out!
- Put them there. - Yes.
Princess Consort, what are you doing?
I'm joining the lantern portion of the Daughter's Festival. We're making river lanterns.
River lantern?
If you do it like this, this will disintegrate upon touching the water.
In making river lanterns, you can't just use paper.
You must find a wood to use as the base
and then look for oil papers to wrap it like this to be its lantern body.
Once we've completed everything, that's when you put the candle inside.
Where is she going?
To look for wooden planks. Weren't you the one who said that?
This girl...she can really run fast.
Lanruo, hurry and teach me how to do the lantern's body.
Okay.
Mr. Tree, so sorry.
You must forgive me.
I also don't want to do this.
I was give no choice.
Because comparing you to Princess,
it's still Princess who is more important.
I also don't want to do this...
Later, I'll do it lightly.
Just endure it for a little while.
That is His Highness most favorite Chinese parasol tree!
- River lantern? - Yes. In the garden earlier, I learned that Qingyue can't find any wooden planks,
so she cut off your Chinese parasol tree.
Shen Yu, I have something I want you to do.
[Red Pheonix Room]
Qingyue, hurry up.
You're ready?
How did you know that I'm going out?
I meticulously prepared for this.
Since you discovered it, let's go together then.
Your Highness! Your Highness!
Mistress is sick. She's very sick. She wants to see you.
Did she take her medicine already?
Your Highness, hurry and see Mistress.
I fear that she will...
Just go.
Qingyue, let's go.
- So far. - So beautiful.
It really went so far.
Princess, let's go release some lanterns too.
Let's wait for a little more while.
He's here!
Princess Consort, His Highness ordered me to accompany and protect you.
Look at our lantern, it has flowed so far.
You just release them by yourself.
Princess!
- I... - Qingyue, let me help you.
Sure!
Come.
Hold this.
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Leave! Leave! Move aside!
Move! All of you leave!
What's going on? Let's hurry and leave.
Get lost! Move!
So many people? What are they doing?
- Your Highness. - Come.
Your Highness, look. It's that one.
Beautiful. Sit.
Put the lantern into the water.
Yu'er, tell me, what wish did you make earlier?
Guess it.
I can't.
I won't tell you then.
Look! That lantern is on fire!
Master, I was careless. Please forgive me.
That's right. What's going on?
You can't even do such a thing well. What use have I still for you?
Men!
Master, it was just a moment of carelessness. Please spare me.
Wait.
This is the rule of our Prince Manor.
Doing a mistake must indeed be punished, but he can make up for it with a merit.
Servant.
As long as you are able to fish this jade bracelet up, I'll forgive you.
If not, we'll follow the old rules.
He jumped. Hurry and save him.
Your Highness, look.
Such absurd thing...
Whoever is able to fish all these jade bracelets,
I'll give these all to him.
Come.
Hurry and go grab them.
Hurry and fish them!
Hurry and come! Come and fish them!
Your Highness, they really all jumped.
It's enough that you're happy.
Aren't you two too excessive?!
Fish. Fish them well.
If you are able to fish them, I'll heavily reward you!
Are you all crazy?
The water is so deep and it's so cold, don't you all want to live anymore?!
Princess Consort, you must not.
Are we just going to let them be?
A person dies for wealth, a bird dies for food. This is an old saying.
Help! Help!
- Someone is drowning! Save him! - It's fine...
Save him!
Help! Someone's drowning!
Help!
Xueyun, why won't you let the doctor examine you?
I'm not sick.
Don't hide a sickness for fear of treatment and drag a small illness into a major one.
You'll regret it by then.
Why are you looking at me like that?
Is Your Highness being caring for me like this because of my father's instructions?
No one can force me to do things that I'm not willing to do.
I should feel fortunate then.
Your Highness isn't cold and heartless towards me.
If there's nothing else, I'm going now.
Your Highness!
Xueyun, I don't understand you.
Didn't we agree to not involve feelings in our undertaking?
Chancellor Ma kept saying that he's thinking for your bliss,
but he didn't really let you choose by yourself.
Even if you don't enter the Prince Regent's Manor, you will never marry an ordinary citizen.
With our position, we can never get what we want.
Why then must you be so obsessed with love?
Your Highness, if you will never fall in love with anyone in this lifetime,
I surely will be my Concubine Ma in peace.
Enjoying this fake bliss. Forcefully comforting myself
that you will not get entangled with romantic love for your grand ambition.
But I realized that it isn't like that.
You can love.
You know love.
But the person you've fallen in love with isn't me.
I've already discussed this matter so many times.
I don't want to repeat it again.
Your Highness! Your Highness!
Your Highness! I won't let you go!
I will never let you go!
Why must you rip the external peace apart?
Why won't you just let the pretenses continue?
You kept saying that you love me. But your love is full of schemes.
You want both glory, splendor, wealth, and fame, and also want my heart.
Xueyun, a person shouldn't be too greedy.
Rong Zhi, we have the same characteristics.
We both are cold, heartless, and unscrupulous.
We live within a world of power struggle.
Competing for position has already become our instinct.
Everyone around us is the same.
Even that high and noble Feifeng General,
she's also a cold-blooded monster.
In your eyes, I have so many bad traits,
but I at least can understand and accommodate you.
Can Liu Chuyu do that?!
Liu Chuyu's nature is very simple and pure.
She hates competing for position, hates power struggles.
Only I can understand your grand ambition.
Only I can stay by your side without any complaints.
As long as you're willing to forget her,
I can immediately change back to that gentle, warm, and kind Concubine Ma.
Everything will be just like how they were. Isn't that a good thing?
Your Highness, answer me.
You said it right. She doesn't suit me.
Your Highness, are you willing to look back now?
But a woman who's full of envy,
is more not suitable to me! Remember that.
Rong Zhi!
Your Highness, Princess Consort must be waiting for you.
Just send 2 more men to protect her. Go now.
Yes.
I found it! I found it!
I finally found it!
You did great. I'm satisfied.
You caused a person to die!
Let me see.
Just for one jade bracelet, you caused the death of a person.
No. The one that killed him isn't me,
it's human greed.
If not because he lusted for my jewelry, how then was he unable to resist temptation?
All of these were caused by himself.
You're heart is colder than ice.
Thank you for your praises.
Father...wake up!
Wake up, father!
Look.
Here. Here.
Father...
Did you have fun?
Why didn't you come?
If you're tired, go rest early.
I'm asking you a question. Why didn't you appear tonight?
Did I promise you that I'll go?
Even if I did have the whim to do so, I might not be able to persist until the end.
Moreover, I'm not interested in those little toys.
It was you who wanted to go. I didn't invite you.
You're the one who stood me up and you still dare to give me a scowl?
Fine. I initially have a huge secret to tell you.
But now, I don't plan to tell it to you anymore. Just continue copying then.
Princess Consort.
Your Highness, the task is done.
You have worked hard.
Your Highness.
What is it?
Are you really not telling Princess Consort?
No need to tell her such things.
Yes.
This time, I surely would have played them well. Too bad, I'm unable to see their faces.
How did Princess Consort know that they surely will look for the lantern?
Last time, when I returned from the palace,
I have noticed that someone keep following me, hence, they surely hasn't given up yet.
This time, I'm giving them the chance. You think they will not pounce on it?
Lanruo, you don't know that I've placed itchy powder on the lantern.
Once they've noticed it, they must already feel very itchy all over.
Princess Consort, you really will take revenge on even the small grudges.
Of course. Who told them to accuse me of being a Song spy?
And even said that I killed someone? I'm just giving them minor punishment for such grave crimes. I'm already being generous.
Am I right, Qingyue?
You said it right.
Then tell me, will Prince Regent tolerate you to be this mischievous?
Seriously.
What's wrong?
Rong Zhi... It was him who said that he's coming to release river lanterns with me.
But in the end, he just didn't show up like that. So hateful.
It's really rare for Princess Consort to be mad like this.
It shows that Prince Regent is quite special in your heart.
Don't misunderstand. I'm not because of him.
It's because of who then?
I...am sleeping now.
- Catch him! - Yes!
Let go of me! Who are you guys?!
Don't hit me...
You bastard! Talk! Hurry and talk!
You bastard, not saying anything at all. Better teach you a lesson—
Enough!
Why must you vent your anger on a child?
How is he a child?
Here. Eat some.
Your Highness.
Pour him some water.
Go.
Don't be afraid. I won't hurt you.
I just want to know why you will appear by the riverside.
I went to pick up lanterns.
Liar!
River lanterns? Why?
I find them fun.
Fun?
If you won't say the truth,
we can only lock you up.
Let me tell you that people who enters the prison of Prince Kang Manor never comes out.
I...no...
There is also nothing valuable in the lantern.
You have been begging within Pingcheng City for several days.
Relying on minute food to support yourself and your little sister.
During this time, you should be in the most bustling area outside a restaurant begging for food.
But what's abnormal is why would you appear in the downstream of the river?
You clearly were waiting for that river lantern.
Was I right?
There were so many lanterns than flowed down that time.
You exerted so much effort to fish the one that's farthest.
Why is that then?
Is it because its external appearance is unique or it has some mark on it?
I'm being pleasant with you
just because I want to know the answer.
If you still won't say anything, I can only hand you to him and let him deal with you.
No...there was someone who told me to go there.
Who?
I don't know. He gave me money and told me to get it.
What happens after you get it?
He is just hiding behind the dilapidated temple where I stay.
At third geng today (11 pm to 1 am), he will come and give me more money.
I don't know who he is. I really don't know.
Take him away.
No...this has nothing to do with me!
Go to the temple he stays in. Wait for the rabbit to come out.
Yes.
Are there any clues on this lantern?
Let me see.
You? I can't even see anything wrong.
What can you know?
There's a weird smell.
Your Highness.
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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 ♫