Episode 6
I want you to become
a Royal Consort of the Shu Kingdom.
I never would have thought
he is in fact
the abolished Crown Prince of the Shu Kingdom,
Meng Qi You.
I want you to become
a Royal Consort of the Shu Kingdom
and help me to seize back the throne.
Who is the current Crown Prince?
My younger brother born of the same mother and father,
Meng Qi Xing.
You want to harm your own brother?
No.
I am merely taking back
what is rightfully mine
and you want the same
to regain what belongs to you, right?
Is this the reason why you want me
to aid your cause
and you'll help me raise an army?
This will be our trade off?
Clever.
Is this the right move to make in this game?
Is something wrong?
Of course there is.
There are three things.
Number one:
the Prince arranged for me
to keep watch over you.
So speaking on a certain level
my status is higher than yours
so don't expect me to be waiting on you.
What is the second thing?
Number two:
the Prince in my eyes is
the nicest person in the world.
I don't care whatever the
the relationship between the two of you is.
If you dare to betray him
there will be unfinished business between you and me.
Meng Qi You is the nicest
person in the world?
That's quite amazing of him
to be able to fool you all
with such lies.
I know you're trying to cause a drift
between the prince and I.
Let me tell you,
don't even think about taking advantage of the Prince.
Right now I belong to the Prince
and someday
he may mutually belong to me.
Congratulations to you then,
Princess-to-be.
Number three:
you are currently sitting on
the bed of a Princess-to-be
so give way to me!
This is your bed?
Of course!
Your bed is over there.
Go see for yourself.
That's my bed?
The master should get the grand bed
and the slave should sleep on the small bed.
Don't you understand this basic principle?
Go!
The daughter of a County Magistrate
dares to dream of becoming a Royal Consort.
If you are a royal consort
then I'd be an empress!
If you're so amazing
then why don't you go ahead?
I'm devoted to the Prince.
I don't crave any titles.
Capture the assassin! Quick! Quick! Quick!
Capture the assassin! Quick! Capture the assassin!
Capture the assassin! Quick! quick!
What a bearer of bad lucks you are.
The first day you're here and there's an assassin.
Could he be here to kill you?
He's after the empress!
Quickly!
Capture the assassin!
Get him!
After him! Quick! After him!
Prince,
this assassin appears to be
very familiar with the palace grounds.
Nevertheless,
close off all the gates.
Upper guards, go search the Hall of Heaven and Earth.
While lower guards, follow me! Search!
Yes!
Quick!
If you want to kill her then kill her.
I'm just a servant.
She's the real master.
Don't shout!
Whoever screams, I will kill.
The assassin went this way. Quick, after him!
Yes!
Meng Qi You,
release me now.
Do you wish to die?
If you wish to die then kill me.
If you wish to live
then beg me.
These are your only options.
You...
What's with you?
Don't you think that he looks
outstandingly eminent?
He's been poisoned!
Help me support him.
Open up! Open up!
Open up! Promptly open up!
Why didn't you open the door?
Isn't there an assassin?
How am I to know if
the knocker is the assassin
or some other person?
Did anyone come in here just now?
No.
What happened here?
A small cat broke this.
What about this blood?
When I was clearing up this vase
I accidentally cut myself.
Prince,
nothing happened here.
You should swiftly search somewhere else
and leave me to help her.
If anything else happens
then I will notify you.
You know
that I am the most loyal to you.
Let's go.
What is it?
You're here to see whether I perished or not?
Imperial mother, I was worried about you.
More like worried that I'd punish you?
Had it not been for Mo Chou's rapid instincts
to injure the assailant with his very own weapon
would I be alive now?
I, thank you Mo Chou
for saving Imperial Mother.
Who would you say in this palace
bears such hatred towards me?
People in this palace...
Imperial mother.
Today, commander Han returned home for vacation
then come night fall there is an attacker.
I suspect
it must have been
someone with inside knowledge of the palace.
Is it possible that someone had
a map of the Imperial Palace
that was leaked out?
Yes, yes! According to what I heard from the imperial guards,
the assailant was very familiar
with the palace grounds.
Your humble servant believes
this was definitely an inside job!
Of course this was an inside job!
Otherwise,
how else would they be privy to information
such as the palace's duties roster?
Unfortunately, within this palace
those that are closest to me
are also those that harbor animosity towards me.
You Eer, who do you say this might be?
Imperial mother,
I do not know
and I dare not speculate.
You dare not?
In this world,
there's such thing as you not daring?
You left the palace completely without contact
then upon your return
an assassin makes an attempt on my life.
Tell me,
how am I to feel about this?
Imperial mother,
these were coincidences.
Coincidence? As soon as you've return
and no less comes an assassin.
I am unable to
willingly accept imperial mother's punishment
Unwilling? You overestimate your abilities
and it is because of this
that you don't submit to punishment.
I ask you
are you dissatisfied
with my decision to
strip your status of a crown prince
and establish your brother as the crown prince?
And you have no feelings of
resentment towards me?
None.
You're still lying! If there was none
then why did you leave imperial palace
without any correspondence?
Right now, I must regain control of you
to reproach your despisal for the laws and disciplines of the imperial court!
Guards, you are summoned!
Empress,
I beg you to have mercy on the prince.
He is your biological son.
From the moment you
abolished his crown prince status.
No matter how much animosity he felt
he never once spoke
an ill word against you, empress.
What ill words about me is there to speak of?
I don't believe.
Your royal highness (the prince) here,
if he has anything he is fearful of speaking up about then
go ahead and say it and don't hold anything back.
I...
Kang Zi!
Prince,
your servant is ignorant of the rules and begs your pardon
but let me finish what I have to say.
If I don't get it off my chest today,
I fear that the longer it goes unsaid,
the greater the grievances the prince will feel.
Your highness,
the prince is your biological son
who has always been
filially, pious and respectful.
Yet, your highness has always disliked
the prince.
People say "no matter how fierce a tiger is, it will not eat its young."
Shut up!
You rotten servant!
How dare you to speak of absurd comments of governmental affairs!
Let me tell you,
when imperial mother teaches me a lesson
it is because she loves and cares for me.
What's this "fierce tiger" idiom you're preaching?
Clearly you are slandering my mother.
If this was to circulate out,
it would surely smear my imperial mother's reputation.
If I don't beat you to death today
there'll be no other way to express my fury.
Enough!
This servant's words have reasonings.
You've already been removed of princely status
and not long after your return
I'm already attempting to assert my authority.
If outsiders get wind of all this,
it would be hard to not attract rumours.
Besides, if you kill someone in my chambers
don't you fear
that you'll dirty my floor?
I apologize, your son was too reckless.
Enough.
I've squabbled enough an entire night. I'm tired.
Everybody, leave!
Mother, calm your anger.I'm going to retire for the night.
Does it still hurt?
It doesn't hurt.
I was a bit heavy handed just now
so you must be in a lot of pain.
Look, your face is so swollen.
How could it not have hurt?
Kang Zi is fine.
Kang Zi did this for you, prince.
I would gladly have died if needed to be.
But...but...the empress,
how can she
misunderstand you?
How could she?
It's alright, it's alright.
Prince, you're her biological son.
You are the most good hearted person in the world!
Prince,
you should be the crown prince!
You cannot speak such things.
Right now, I
already have no desires to be the crown prince.
What I desire is...
This won't do.
The poison needs to be drawn out immediately.
Then, allow me to do it.
Hey, did I say to use your mouth?
What's with your urgency?
Are you acquainted with him?
No! Who the devil knows who he is?
Then why do you seem so concerned about him?
He's about to die anyway
so what's with all the questions?
Besides
I just thought that he looks pretty handsome
and wanted to take advantage of him.
You helped me covered a lie
and you're willing to help him out of trouble.
I imagine this situation is not that simple.
No way.
You are also aware
that the empress is rather evil.
She's always trying to find ways to hurt the prince.
In my opinion,
whoever wants to assassinate the empress
is certainly a good person.
Just find a way to save him already.
Really?
Hey, you ask me why I'm saving him
then why are you saving him?
I don't agree with you that your prince
is the good natured man you believed him to be.
So, somone he wants dead,
I'll conversely want to save.
Are you alright?
I'm fine.
You're leaving just like that?
Having not been killed to seal of my mouth
is already counted as my biggest thanks.
If you let tonight's events
get out to the public,
I may have failed to kill the empress
but killing a palace maid
would be easy.
Imperial father . . .
You Er, your kung fu has improved.
Your son pays respect to imperial father.
Rise.
Yes.
Looks like your kung fu hasn't been neglected
and you're still putting your heart into it.
My being is a gift from my parents
so as a son I don't dare to neglect myself.
I frequently train and
striving to become stronger.
So your kung fu hasn't suffered.
What about the matters of the heart?
Are they neglected?
Your son bears a heart for imperial father and mother,
for my education and my physical health.
I have no heart for other things
nor dare to ponder about them.
Your son only wishes to
exercise the will of imperial father.
Your answer was carefully worded
leaving me unable to believe
your feelings are free of hatred.
Imperial Father, I haven't been willful
but I would never dare to feel hate for imperial father.
Either way you argue this,
it is I, who has led imperial father to disappointment.
I'm also to blame for
the late delivery of this apology
to the extent that...
These sad bygones are not needed
between us, father and son,
and never to be mentioned again.
It's already time for the maiden selection and
you're still here playing with a hornet's nest?
True to the country bumpkin you are,
woman!
Come here and get yourself groomed already!
Allowing my "master" to help me get ready,
how can I accept such an "honour"?
Let me tell you
I'm helping you groom
not because of anything to do with you.
It's just that now there are outsiders
who think that I, Han Yun Zhu,
am your lady-in-waiting.
Then if my master was to
appear unkempt
and therefore be looked down upon
that will reflect badly on me.
Looked down on compared to whom?
Today all the fair maidens
are going to meet with the prince for the first time,
don't you know?
No wonder you're not at all anxious.
Were it not for that fact that
I want to maintain face,
if not then I'd be the first to not give a damn about you.
Then don't bother,
I'm too lazy to anyway. Let's just go.
You're just going to present yourself at court with a bare face?
Wait up for me!
My face!!
Which person dare to do this?
Show yourself to me! Show yourself!
Bullseye! Bullseye!
So fun! So fun!
You rascal! Get down here!
Your royal highness!
How did you climb so high up?
He is the crown prince?
Come down! Quickly, come down here!
He is the crown prince?
It's dangerous!
Your royal highness, please be careful!
Your royal highness,
your grand marriage is just before one's eyes
but why are you still so cheeky?
Look at all these virtuous beauties.
Do you all desire to be
a royal consort?
Alright.
Whoever I manage to hit the most
will be the one I choose.
Hurry! Hurry!
Hold it, don't run away...
Where are you running to? Don't run...
Hurry!
Stay still!
Are you hurt?
My leg...
Hold still...
There's no escaping now.
Give me more ammo.
Come, come, come.
Are you alright?
Stop it!Your royal highness,
you are bullying us
defenseless ladies.
In what way is that gracious?
You're calling me a bully?
Equip her with a sling and pellets.
Young lady,
are you brave enough to
prove who's more superior out of us two?
Fine, I'll play. Who's afraid of who?
If you lose, you can't say that I'm a bully.
Commence!
What did you say?
That girl
just got here and she's already stirring up trouble!
Your royal highness,
you're out of ammo. I won.
You can't be the winner!
Bring me more ammo!
Let's compete for another round. I...
Brother Qi You.
You're a fully grown adult now
yet you're still so naughty.
If imperial mother saw you now, she'd berate you.
Look at the state of your clothes.
She's the one who looks a wreck.
How audacious! Give your apologies to the prince!
Miss, are you alright?
Are you alright?
Come on, I'll help you get some medicine.
What is your name?
Crown prince, her name is Pan Yu.
She dared to offend your highness.
I'll get the empress to punish her by death.
Exactly.
Offending one's superior, how uncivilized!
How defiant!
Your royal highness,
you should immediately put her to death.
All of you shut up.
I, the crown prince, liked this.
Pan Yu, wait for me!
This...?
You'll be fine.
It'll feel better after a massage.
Be careful.
Pan Yu.
Oh, so this is where you live.
Let's go do something fun.
You still want to play?
Can't you see that this lady
is hurt.
What's the concern over a tiny injury?
How can you be so useless?
Pan Yu, I'll ask you.
Other than sling shots
what else do you play?
I'm able at many things:
gyroscope, kite flying, and fighting grasshoppers.
I can do everything and
I never lose.
Fighting grasshoppers? Good one! Let's go!
We'll fight another hundred rounds.
Wait!
I have to go catch a grasshopper first.
Yours might not be suited for me.
Beside, look at yourself, you're so dirty
and you still don't want to go clean yourself up.
Pan Yu, you're really fun.
Compared to those pretentious women,
you're really fun.
What's this calling me "fun"?
It should be "very interesting"
Want me to play with you?
Come again tomorrow.
How dare you?
If I say we're playing today,
then we're playing today.
That's enough!
Can't you see that
I'm attending to this lady here?
If you want me to play,
be good and listen to me.
Otherwise,
go and find those pretentious women
to play with you.
Alright. Alright.
What are you being so fierce for?
So it's decided for tomorrow!
Tomorrow.
Great!
Tomorrow, Imperial Garden, be there or be square!
This girl, Pan Yu, what are her antecedents?
Your highness,
this girl, Pan Yu, her family
is extremely poor.
Her father is named Pan Zhong.
Is he Jia Ling County's magistrate?
That's right.
Good for nothing!
Xing Er has blind taste and
is unable to differentiate between a fish's eye from a pearl.
What about Wan Er?
Lady Wan is trying to find a way.
Finding a way?
With me here she doesn't need to find a way.
Go and tell her that
she doesn't need to be too clever.
If the title of royal consort is
taken up by another lady then
I definitely won't be letting her off lightly!
Yes, your humble servant, will go deliver this message.
Are you speaking of the truth?
Auntie said that Xing Er and I...?
Naturally,
dragons match with phoenix according to the heaven's law and the earth's principle.
Moreover, you and the crown prince
both have the empress' royal group
of distinguished blood.
It's a pro plus another pro.
The position for the royal consort of the crown prince is definetly yours.
Grant him a reward.
Thank you, Lady Wan.
No, no.
Dad,
don't leave me.
How come you're here?
At night you were dining at
the Eastern Palace of Brother Xing.
You came into my room in the middle of the night
just to
ask me this question?
You should be very happy
that I'm already moving toward your goal
with a big leap.
You are my entity.
Even though I made a deal with you,
my body
still belongs to myself.
No, it does not.
It does!
If you're just here to provoke me then
please get out.
Just like you've said,
it is just a business deal between the two of us.
So my body
belongs to the owner
and the buyer of this body
which is the current prince, Meng Qi Xing.
I never thought that in a few short days
you've already comprehend it so thoroughly.
I worried too much.
Wait.
What did you mean by that?
"A beautiful tree out of a forest wil be ravaged by the wind" (idiom)
"Conduct exceeding others, isn't of the crowd" (idiom)
After the fight today,
you've drawn a lot of public attention.
I just came to remind my belongings
not to get carried away.
Remember, the silence in front of a raging storm
is always just a false appearance.
Master, drink some tea.
Why does God
change the weather so quickly, going from wind to rain?
Who knows where our Yu Er
is right now.
Whether or not she caused herself to drenched be
in this sudden pouring rain.
We're not fated with our daughter.
If only Yu Er
could accompany us
for a few more years
there would be no regrets in my life.
Who are you?
Bring them away!
Yes!
What are you doing?!
What are you doing?! Master!
Go quickly!
What are you doing?!
Wake up. You're still not going to say the truth right?
What I've said were all true.
I'm going to make you say the truth. Say it!
She is really our daughter.
I conceived her for 10 months and
gave birth to her as my biological daughter.
This Pan Zhong really thinks he's
clean
and able to contend with a prestigious general's household.
What a joke.
Yeah. This old dog should first
think about how much he weighs
before trying to block our path.
Yes.
My father visited him 3 years ago.
This old guy
has a rotten brain and does not know how to be flexible.
Old fool.
This is what you call karmic retribution.
He believes he is so righteous
and kind hearted.
But he dares to acknowledge Pan Yu as his daughter
then he is my opponent.
But Sister Wan...
This Pan Yu
really isn't Old Pan's daughter?
Obviously.
My father already checked.
The Pan family's real daughter
already died ages ago.
They're left with only an unfilial son
called Pan Qiu.
Unless
the Pan Yu that we're seeing now
is a reincarnation
then we're seeing a living ghost.
This time, the family is finished.
Trying to cheat their way to the top,
hiding secrets to turn from rags to riches.
Well, their scheming won't work.
Most likely not but
they still need to compensate the
couple's worthless lives.
What's going on?
The food and water aren't infected. You're wanting to become immortal?
What? Are you fighting malaria?
My body feels heavy.
I probrably caught a cold.
Let me tell you,
I have lots of other serious stuff to do.
I'm not like you
fooling around all day
and get sick when you're free.
Get some paper and pen here.
What?
I can write a prescription for myself.
Please help me get the medicine filled from the Imperial Medical Department.
If you can then a prescription,
I can even fly.
What garbage did she write?
All day,
she gives me trouble.
If it wasn't for the Prince,
I wouldn't be bothered to care.
Where is there so much nuisance?
A day full of problems.
I don't know why I...
What is this! Who?
You wretch, keep it down!
Or else you'll be
losing your head.
Who is the damn person that dares to grab this lady?!
Who?!
You wretch that isn't afraid of death!
Open your stupid eyes and look properly
at who the person standing in front of you.
Looking at how grandly you are dressed
you must be some imperial concubine.
Looking at your small face is quite adorable.
Not bad. I am an imperial concubine,
the one that is in control of all
the concubines of the palace,
the all mightly, powerful empress!
Quickly go and report to master.
Beating them up to reveal the truth is definitely not working.
Let her think of other ways.
Alright.
Yun Zhu told you?
I don't need your fake concern.
Prince.
Isn't it too late
to back down now?
It's not like that, Sister Wan.
Look at how bad their condition is,
I'm afraid they won't be able to make it.
The few of you here
should stop acting weak in front of me.
Today Pan Zhong and his wife
ended up like this...
You, you
and you.
All of your fathers had a part in this.
What is it?
We've come so close to extorting a confession
but now you're all so scared that your legs are shaking?
Fine. Leave if you want.
But let me tell you this first.
One day
when I'm in the empress seat,
don't blame me for remembering old affairs
and throwing all of you good sisters
into prison
so you all can repent your mistakes
for betraying me today.
Good sister, we're not going anymore.
We must make the two elders of the Pan family
reveal the truth
that Pan Yu is not their biological daughter.
This is more like it.
Lift your heads up, you two.
Do you dare to use your life to guaranteed
that your Lady Pan Yu's real father
is Pan Zhong.
She is just a foolish girl
that doesn't know how to enjoy life.
She also doesn't know how to order people around.
I told you she is a poverty stricken thing.
Servants, come and send this girl back.
Thank you, your highness!
Girl, go return and make your
untactful Lady Pan aware
not to spend day to night
enticing the Crown Prince to muck around.
Today, she has fallen ill.
In the future,
if she wants to play away
then both of your head and hers will be gone
This will be a serious matter.
Go!
What exactly is the relationship
between yourselves and Pan Yu?
Why are you allowing yourselves to be subjected to such torture for her?
Let me tell you both
we've already uncovered the truth
that your real Pan Yu has long passed away.
You're only left with your
prodigal son named Pan Qiu.
Our Yu Er isn't dead.
She genuinely is our daughter.
That's right.
We've already said as much, many, many times
that Yu Er is indeed our daughter.
You're telling lies! I don't believe you!
Miss,
Lady Pan's parents are in misery.
Sister Wan, it's already daybreak.
If news of this were to get out,
it will be bad.
Yes, miss.
The marshal has already explained that
this situation needs to progress secretly.
Are you all pig brained?
Haven't you heard of "Iron is best forged when hot"
"follow up a victory and press home the attack "?
I, Du Wan, have the empress'
backing.
What are you all so scared of?
I reckon you won't be able to withstand much longer.