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"Fuyao" by Karen Mok
♫ I start to dance nimbly and gracefully ♫
♫ For what my beautiful face is frowned? ♫
♫ Without him, I'll drift with the current ♫
♫ Why is the tune of the zither a farewell song? ♫
♫ Without me, he'll be lonely in this universe ♫
♫ My heart silently waits at the cliff of Firmament ♫
♫ The heaven, the earth, the sun and the moon are all in my bosom ♫
♫ How can I own the top freedom in this world? ♫
♫ There is no fear from my heart ♫
♫ Deep love won't hide ♫
♫ True love won't run short ♫
♫ Dreams give hopes through all the ages ♫
♫ Why go through storms and stress to be bright and beautiful? ♫
♫ There is no struggle from my heart ♫
♫ Swaying along with the wind ♫
♫ I can do anything freely ♫
♫ I enter my dreams easily and unrestrainedly ♫
♫ What a beautiful dance ♫
[Legend of Fuyao]
~Episode 61~
Your Highness, where are we going now?
Go back.
Ha?
Go back to the Imperial City.
If we dare to return to the Imperial City now, then that's walking into a net.
Could it be Your Highness has some additional plans?
Plan?
This is my last plan.
I've long secretly taken note of the configuration of Zhangsun Jia's army.
If he isn't reliable,
this then will be my last life-saving straw.
Your Highness is wise.
If a person...
...doesn't know to prepare oneself a backup path,
then that's forcing oneself to walk a doomed path!
When we returned to the Imperial City,
Your Highness can tell His Majesty
that just for the empire, you bore the humiliation and sided with the enemy, so that you can investigate their military situation.
Your Highness is after all...
...His Majesty's own flesh and blood. His Majesty will be lenient.
Yes!
No matter how my Royal Father will punish me,
as long as I'm alive, that's way better than anything!
Right?
Xu Lai...
Do you know what I did wrong?
My mistake is getting born in this imperial family, be this unfavored son,
and being unable to resign to my fate!
Your Highness, don't blame me.
You can only blame the unfairness of this world.
I've followed you for such a long time and just wanted to have a good future.
You have now lost your power.
I have to find myself a way to survive, right?
Prince Virtue said that you're unreliable. If you escape, I must kill you.
For a person like me, I never had any principle.
I only care about who's stand I'm taking, and not who's right or wrong.
You were the one who taught me all these.
Young Lord, it's already the fourth night watch period (1 to 3 am). You should rest.
Tell me,
if these chess pieces have thoughts,
what will they be thinking?
The world is like a game of chess. Although we're not chess pieces,
just because we don't want to accept being manipulated, we unknowingly will give in.
After a long time, we tend to forget the principle that even if we keep calculating our wins and losses,
we won't be able to escape this small area.
Who really is this person that you're talking about.
Who do you think?
It can't be the person that I'm thinking...
But in doing this...
...what is his purpose?
Who is he targeting? Is it Prince Virtue?
Or you?
Could it be...Wuji?
You are quite clever.
This...
I don't understand.
Of course, you won't understand.
All of these can only be explained by the past.
That year, I was just 16.
But in my heart, I already was deeply in love with a certain person.
We wanted to be together for a lifetime.
When he was preparing to go to my house and ask for my hand in marriage,
the newly crowned
Father Emperor announced that he wants to marry me.
I didn't want to get married. I wanted to escape.
But behind us, there were a lot of loved ones.
In the end, I hesitated.
He gave up.
But only when I married into the palace did I know...
...that the emperor who married me didn't really care about me.
Everything he did was just to separate us.
If not because of Wuji...that one day...
...he'll be able to become the emperor, I would have long given up on all these
and just went away with him.
As long one can be with the person she loves,
those gossiping mouths
and a chaotic world won't really mean a thing.
You want to leave?
Want to live paradise-like days with him?
Those ideas are possible too.
But Empress,
you always like to mix reality with imaginations.
In this world, how can there be so many romanticism and sweetness?
Informing Prince.
Was your injury grave?
I was incompetent.
Did you get any information?
Empress indeed got abducted by His Majesty.
Our plan got leaked?
Yes.
I risked my life to return and inform you. I fear that the other palace spies have already...
Do you know where she's being locked up right now?
His Majesty did this matter in a very covert manner.
I wasn't able to find it out.
Leave and get your wounds treated.
I wasn't able to fulfill your order. I deserved to die! May Prince punish me.
It's fine.
This wasn't your fault too. Go now.
Prince, the reinforcements that Crown Prince mobilized has already arrived through the southern mountain pass.
Roughly estimating it, there are about 300,000 of them.
Also, they seemed to be trying to surround us. Our plan...
Spread my order, we'll go to battle tomorrow.
When they see the smoke signal, let General Ma set out to war.
What about our arrangements in the palace?
I still have to carefully think about it.
Leave now.
Yes.
Leave now.
I'll send men to escort you. Nothing bad will happen to you.
In the past, it's me who was unfaithful to you. The sins, the mistakes,
the retributions should all be paid by me.
It's me who didn't take good care of you two. In the future,
I fear that I won't have any chance to make up for it anymore.
The only thing I can do now is to let you go.
Let you live well.
Why aren't you asking...
...for the reason that I took Lian'er and left without a word?
Where have I been hiding all these years? How did I live my days?
I was disloyal to you. You should hate me.
I didn't search for you two then, not because I was heartless,
but because staying farther away from me
might allow you two to live better.
Live better?
You totally don't know what happened that time.
What really do you want to do?
Try guessing where Wuji's army is now.
No...
Wuji is the crown prince of Megrez! He's your son! You...
You shouldn't treat him like this!
You're going to harm Wuji?!
Isn't it enough that you take Zhangsun Jia and my life?
Why must you still involve Wuji in this?!
What mistake has he done?!
Wuji respected you so much! You actually want to use him to seek revenge?!
You all think that I'm using others, but have you ever realized...
...that the whole Megrez is also using me?
The Father Emperor may look like he has power over the whole world, but that's not actually the case.
He's being restricted by the Five Regions, being exhausted by millions of citizens. You all can see that.
We still have time today.
In here, I'll tell you two a story.
Maybe after today,
no one will know about the origin of this matter anymore.
Once, there was a pair of brothers born from the same mother and grew up together.
It can be said that they had deep affection for each other.
The little brother was intelligent and quick-witted, easily earning the doting of people.
Everyone would love him
a bit more.
And this older brother was young but lacked vigor and drive, was not eloquent.
His father treated this character of his
as being mediocre and dull.
He wasn't good in explaining,
so he just focused on studying hard,
from early in the morning to late at night.
Hoping that one day, he can
unburden his parents on some responsibilities.
You have guessed it, right? The younger brother is Zhangsun Jia.
And that dull older brother is me.
Afterwards,
my Royal Father never hid
his favoritism on Zhangsun Jia. Everyone in the government knew it.
After conferring me as the Crown Prince, the voices of people
wanting to remove me and making Zhangsun Jia as the Crown Prince didn't stop,
but my Royal Father never did so.
Fuyao, do you know why?
Maybe...your Royal Father still cares about you.
That's also what I initially thought.
The emperor position of our Megrez is really an ominous one.
For the past 3 or 4 emperors, not one was able to live beyond 40 years old.
With His Majesty suddenly collapsing from sickness now, it must be an unlucky sign.
To tell you the truth, based on His Majesty's appearance earlier,
he probably will just last for 3 to 5 days. Even if they are able to come up with a method to save him, I fear that it's already too late.
- But we must preserve our life. - Of course.
I heard that someone just died in the palace today. What's that about?
Someone wanted to suggest making Second Prince as the crown prince.
This angered His Majesty so much that he ordered his execution right there and then.
But doesn't His Majesty always favored Second Prince?
Since he loves him so dearly, how can he bear to let him suffer that evil curse of the royal throne?
That's right too. Before, I heard His Majesty and Her Ladyship saying
that Second Prince is their favorite.
They are not wiling to let him unfairly die just for the Five Regions.
So, they were talking about this?
Yes. Think about it. If he becomes the emperor, he'll only be able to live upto 30 plus years.
But isn't this being too unfair to Crown Prince?
But afterwards, I learned that Royal Father clearly knew
that the emperor throne of Megrez
is a death game (hopeless situation) that no one can decipher. And I...
...was just a chess piece in his hand that he pushed into that throne. In the end,
I became a sacrificial offering to the throne of Megrez Empire! A sacrificial offering!
Since you knew it, why didn't you make a choice?
You still couldn't let go of that supreme power.
Of course, I've thought about it. I realized
that even if I won't get a good death while on this throne,
but other than myself,
I will be able to control the life and death of everyone!
Yours, hers, the life and death of all of you!
Your Majesty, but for so many years,
you were able to sit on that throne.
It's enough to prove that those short life rumors are false.
Those rumors are not false.
It's because I used several decades to decipher a way out of that death game, but in exchange,
I am to suffer pain for a lifetime.
But so what? The descendants of Zhangsun
can now forever be rid of this curse.
In my Megrez imperial throne,
the heir can now live for a very long time,
so all these pain is nothing.
Your Majesty, since that's the case, why then must you—
Because someone betrayed me!
Not only a betrayal, she caused an emperor to suffer humiliation!
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So...you've known it all along?
Empress...I want you to tell it to me personally.
Whose son is Wuji?
It's...
Wuji is...
These past years, have you always thought that it was because
I discovered your affair with Empress, and in a moment of anger,
took Lian'er and left?
I indeed believed so.
Yes... The peach flower that year...
...blossomed so beautifully.
I brought Lian'er to the palace to admire the flowers.
If not because we accidentally saw you and Empress secretly meeting,
we wouldn't have left in a rush.
The more we wouldn't have lost our way inside the palace...
...and heard things that we shouldn't have heard.
Mother, where are we going? Mother.
- I'll take you home. - Your Majesty!
These past years, Pingrong and I never did anything wrong.
How come the one who is a crown prince now is her son?
The royal throne of Megrez has always been for the most talented and not who is the eldest.
Wuji has been outstanding since he was little.
And now, he has been chosen as a disciple of the Changqing Palace Hall in Firmament.
Making him the crown prince is what the public desires.
But Pingrong...is your real son.
Your Majesty, you clearly know
that Wuji...is just an illegitimate child!
Shut up!
Royal Mother.
That day, I learned about the greatest secret of the imperial palace.
I was so afraid.
I...
I was afraid...
I took Lian'er
and tried to escape for our lives, escape back home.
The only thing I could think of is you.
I didn't care what you've done.
As long as you could preserve Lian'er's life, I can overlook everything else.
But where were you?
You were in the warm embrace of that woman, while Lian'er and I were being chased to be killed!
Go look around. They are just nearby.
Don't make a sound.
Afterwards, Palace Master Fei Yan rescued me out of the fire.
She never saves people out of pity.
One has to pay a price.
What price?
She took away a part of my lifespan.
Muddled my consciousness.
I became a crazy woman. But Lian'er...
My Lian'er...
I couldn't find my daughter.
I will never...
...will never find her again.
When Lian'er and I needed you the most, where were you?!
Our pain and suffering allowed you and that woman to successfully be together.
Yes, the person who wanted to kill me is your Royal Brother Zhangsun Jiong.
But the one who truly killed me is you!
I know...
I know that any explanation is useless anymore.
I don't ask for your forgiveness.
But for the situations in the past...sometimes, I was left with no choice.
Of course, you had a choice!
If from the start, you didn't have an affair with the Empress, all of these wouldn't have happened!
It was you who killed Lian'er. It was you created all of these!
I hate you! I hate you!
Hence, you allowed Zhangsun Jiong to use you to kill me?
Kill you?
Your life is worthless.
Zhangsun Jiong just want me to tell you a truth.
If I'm able to do it, he will tell me where Lian'er is.
No matter if what he said is true or not, I'm willing to give it a try.
I finally can go see my daughter.
What truth?
Zhangsun Wuji is yours and Yuan Qingyi's son.
Is he crazy?!
Wuji is the most outstanding among the descendants of the Zhangsun clan,
but he is that person's bloodline.
As a ruler, I think highly of his talent, loves him.
But as a man, I hate him.
He is after all not my son.
Every time he calls me Royal Father,
my hatred towards him would increase.
But Wuji is innocent!
No one is innocent!
As the descendant of the Zhangsun clan, the more he should understand
the principle of survival of the fittest.
A sin stained with blood can only be washed cleanly using more blood.
No one can escape it! No one—
Enough!
Other than forcing Zhangsun Jia to death,
what else do you want to do?!
Empress,
I have a medicine here that when a person takes it in, her consciousness will shatter and her liver and gallbladder will rupture.
- He will slowly die in pain. - No...
No! You mustn't treat Wuji this way!
How should I treat the child that you and my younger brother gave birth to?
Don't... Your Majesty...
Of course, I won't let him die now.
He is the royal heir that I've chosen.
He must ascend to the throne of Megrez.
I want him to know that even with the supreme kind of honor and glory, one can't break a death game.
You and Empress had been having a secret affair for so many years.
Have you never thought that her son might be yours?
Impossible...
Impossible! Impossible! Totally impossible!
Zhangsun Jiong is really so patient.
He favored Crown Prince for so many years, wasn't it to wait for this day?
Wait for you to incite an uprising,
you and your son meeting with swords and spears, hurting each other.
Let that woman who betrayed him suffer this heart wrenching pain!
He...used 20 years?
You are saying that he used 20 years to set up a game (trap)?
When you become the supreme ruler, you sever your affection for all your six relations. (close family ties)
He...hated you so much.
What do you plan to do now?
What else?
Fight.
You clearly know that he is your real son.
You clearly know that this is Zhangsun Jiong's trap. You still are fighting?
I have no choice.
Hence, just to continue living,
just for power and prestige, you're not even sparing your own son?
Right now, I am a traitor of Megrez.
Anyone has the right to punish me.
If Wuji kills me, he'll be able to win the hearts of the people, the world.
Only if I die in the battlefield,
can Wuji's crown prince position be preserved,
can I give Zhangsun Jiong...
...the last fatal blow.
I never had the wild ambition of usurping the throne.
All of these today
was a product of Royal Brother's pressuring.
Since I now know that Wuji is my son,
how can I treat him as my enemy?
This path to the throne...
...Wuji...
...must step on my corpse to climb up to it.
This imperial throne has always been stained by the blood of one's kin.
Wuji will not be an exception!
Is this...
...the revenge of Zhangsun Jiong?
I'm going to make him endure pain and injury that's...
...beyond the ordinary.
Oh, right.
You two are the most important people for Wuji.
If one of you...
...personally poisoned the other one,
how would Wuji deal with that?
Don't...
Your Majesty,
ever since, Wuji has treated you like his real father.
He respected, loved, and cared for you.
From Deep Water Nation to now, he has been cautious and careful.
He dared to not be lax at any moment.
It was because he was afraid to disappoint you.
Because in his heart,
you are his most respected person.
Now...maybe...
...because he wasn't of your bloodline,
can you really bear to treat him like this?
Wuji...
...is a good child.
He never disappointed me.
But today...
...just treat today as the last class I'm giving him...
...about the principles of being a ruler.
Even if everyone will abandon him,
he still must continue moving forward alone
with a heart that's as strong as iron.
After one incense time,
this place will be filled with poisonous mist.
I don't care if either one of you poison the other and leave this place,
or you two both die in here. You two decide.
My Wuji...
You will finally be able to experience the taste of extreme agony...
...just like I do.
Your Majesty, don't! Don't...
Your Majesty...
Your Highness Crown Prince, Prince Virtue's rebel army has been surrouonded. He has no chance of winning.
Why are you still hesitating?
Prince.
Informing Prince, the time has come. Crown Prince's army indeed entered our trap. I'm just waiting
for your command. Upon lighting the smoke signal, General Ma can then set out with his army.
Prince, chances come and go in an instant. Please immediately give the order.
Fine. I'll personally face him.
Prince.
Spread my order. Tell Ma Wende to withdraw.
Prince, you must not!
If General Ma withdraws, we will surely lose this battle!
I have made my decision. Don't try to urge me anymore.
I'll bear the result of this battle...
...by myself.
- Prince! - Spread my command!
Yes.
Wait.
In the past, whenever you set out for war,
it has always been me who puts on your armor and sword.
Today,
can you let me put it on you one more time?
Before, whenever you leave, I would recite these words 3 times in my heart,
"Come back safely..."
Every time, you would come back safely.
Being a married couple,
no matter what, it's a fate we've cultivated for thousands of years.
Too bad...we're both old now.
I wronged you.
From now on, our ties are severed. You made your choice.
Life or death, rich or poor, all are destined. You don't need to worry about anyone anymore.
Your Princess Virtue is already dead.
A'Rong...
I believe that our Lian'er is still alive.
You must find her. No matter what, you must find her.
You two...
...must live well.
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"Hard-to-Get Love" by Lala Hsu
♫ What do you know? ♫
♫ What are good about the three realms? ♫
♫ If there were no three poisons, if there were no worries, ♫
♫ How can it make me reluctant to leave? ♫
♫ Worry for love, beg for hate ♫
♫ And even discard my soul for affection ♫
♫ The one, who asks me to love him, loves me ♫
♫ I only want him to love me ♫
♫ What do you use to exchange for this hard-to-get love? ♫
♫ If there's no sickness or weakness, if there's never oldness ♫
♫ How can it make a spark to chase after stars alone? ♫
♫ Slim down for him, stay for my heart ♫
♫ And even chase away all luck for dreams ♫
♫ It wants me to be so pretty that I seize his soul ♫
♫ And continue dazzling in his heart ♫
♫ There is a saying that what a person asks for the lifetime ♫
♫ Is no more than staying together with one's lover by any means ♫
♫ If one can't obtain what one asks for ♫
♫ one is filled with anxiety and with knitted brows ♫
♫ There is a saying that if a person asks for the next lifetime ♫
♫ one should only ask to know everything about warfare ♫
♫ Dreams beg heart to grant me love ♫
♫ And have someone's company for the rest of my life ♫
♫ Have someone's company♫
♫ There is a saying that what a person asks for the lifetime ♫
♫ Is no more than staying together with one's lover by any means ♫
♫ If one can't obtain what one asks for ♫
♫ one is filled with anxiety and with knitted brows ♫
♫ There is a saying that if a person asks for the next lifetime ♫
♫ one should only ask to know everything about warfare ♫
♫ Dreams beg heart to grant me love ♫
♫ And have someone's company for the rest of my life ♫