20 years
We both kept the secret for so long
Grand Secretary Zhao
Chief Zhao.
Bastard Zhao!
Why can't you hold out
at this important time?
Li Bao Chuan,
What do you want to do?
Do what?
We made a promise here that year.
Today, we will settle this here.
This started well and will end well.
What do you think?
Let me tell you
This is the Emperor's Imperial Study.
Don't you dare do anything to me
What will I be afraid of?
This isn't the first time
Someone
Stop yelling
Someone
I already dismissed everyone in the area.
At this important time,
you are having a heart attack.
Heaven is on my side!
Ayoo
You are already someone that is on it's way to death
This pill is already useless to you.
Li Bao Chuan,
I
When I become a ghost
I won't let you be
That was what the late Emperor said before he died.
We are on the same boat.
If you want to get off the boat first,
I will send you on your way.
Let me ask you,
That Chu Tian Xin's case
How is the investigation?
Uh
Why aren't you talking?
You don't dare say?
Uh
This
the books of Ben Cao,
have already been checked through.
It's confirmed that no mistake was made during compilation.
What you mean is
She has a reason.
She's innocent?
Okay
Since you've decided that she is innocent.
Then you tell the world
And I will go beg forgiveness from your father earlier.
If you don't want me to die
then you should behead that Chu Tian Xin earlier and finish this drama.
You must give me a clear answer today.
I have something to ask you
Say it
What kind of person was the late Emperor?
Why did you suddenly ask this?
Mother,
while I was investigating Ben Cao, I found out that
the late Emperor death,
was not simple.
The Physician said
he died of old age.
He went peacefully.
I find out
He did not die naturally.
I also found out
The people who knew the truth
Are only Eunuch Li and Grand Secretary Zhao
Right now Grand Secretary Zhao is Waiting in the reading room
Getting ready to tell me What happened back then
Uh
Then hurry go
Hurry go
Hurry find out the truth Then come back and report to me
Your Majesty
Uh
Grand Secretary Zhao
Grand Secretary
Find someone to save him
Yes
Someone
Grand Secretary
Grand Secretary Zhao
Father
Hurry get up
I already talked it over with Ming Qing
we will move to Jiangnan.
Hurry get up
let's go for a walk.
Hurry get up
Father
Let's go take a walk.
Take a walk.
Hurry say something
Father
Last time I lied to you
When I said I went back with Ming Jing to visit her relatives,
I didn't go
I went to Ji Nan to play actually.
And your horse
Your horse
Your horse didn't just runwaway like that
I freed the horse
Hurry get up
Hurry get up and yell at me Father
Father
Why aren't you saying anything?
Hurry get up and yell at me
Octopus Girl don't be like this Let youf Father go
Father
I'm impulsive
I never listen
Hurry get up and yell at me
Hurry yell at me
Where is Grand Secretary?
Where is he?
Grand Secretary
How can it be like this?
Huh?
How can it be like this?
How can you just leave?
Aiyoo
Eunuch Li How come?
Eunuch Li.
Eunuch Li
Leave in peace
Your daughter is like my niece.
I will take care of it
Let her marry into a good family
Niece,
you have my condolences.
Your Fathers funeral
I will take care of it
You you you
Don't worry
Go die
Stop stop stop Don't blame her
Don't mind her.
Her Father just passed away
She is quite upset.
Li Bao Chuan!
I won't blame you
Don't shed crocodile tears.
I know you caused my Fathers death
You caused his death
Aiya
Go die Not true
You're framing me
I am your Fathers old friend
Why would I kill him? Right?
It must be you
I need to get revenge for my Father
What are you doing?
What are you doing You
Li Bao Chuan I will get revenge on you
Go die
Theres meaning
What does you Fathers death got to do with me?
Li Bao Chuan...
Octopus Girl.
Bring back my Fathers life
Octopus Girl!
Bring back my Fathers life
Originally, Grand Secretary Zhao wanted to retire today.
And let Xiang Ning accompany him through his remaining years.
I never thought
This would happen
Its all my fault
If I didn't leave
For sure Grand Secretary Zhao wouldn't have died
Elder Brother
This was destiny
Who knew that Empress Dowager Would be looking for you
Grand Secretary was getting ready To tell me the reason for the late Emperors death
Now hes dead My only evidence is now gone
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Month 9 on the 13th
Chuan?
Tell me what this means
Your Majesty
I'm getting old. My brain got muddle-headed.
I don't remember writing that
Your Majesty where
Did this thing come from?
This was in Grand Secretary Zhao's reading room
The fall of Sage Kong,
the death of Zhou Ji,
Emperor Zhou as the God's captive.
God's captive,
What exactly is it?
What does "God's captive" means?
I Don't even know what that means
I don't know
You wrote this letter
How would you not know?
Aiyaa Your Majesty
Didn't I already tell you?
I'm old now
My brain has become muddle-headed.
Your Majesty
Why does this handwriting look so unfamiliar?
I wrote it?
How come I don't remember a thing?
Huh?
Let's compare the handwriting,
Then we will know if you did write this
No no no no.
You don't have to compare the handwriting.
Your Majesty you said I wrote this
Then I wrote it
Whatever you said I did then I did it
I am asking you nicely What kind of attitude is this
Your Majesty, don't accuse me of doing things that I didn't.
The late Emperor died on Month 9 on the 15th
Look at this
Month 9 on the 13th
I only asked you the motive of this letter.
But it didn't say it had any connection Towards the late Emperor
Right
Yes yes yes
It has no connection
No connection
Your Majesty You know Grand Secretary Zhao
We were close friends.
He said you suspect that the late Emperor did not die naturally. And that you are investigating.
Since I have said it indirectly,
didn't I just connect everything together?
Please don't listen to the rumors.
Don't listen to the outsiders spouting nonsense.
You-You have made yourself over-suspicious.
You even have nightmares at night.
Aiyah. Really.
If the Empress Dowager knows of this,
she will be so heart-broken that her headache will come back again.
The reason for the late Emperor's death,
I will definitely find the truth
Okay okay okay okay
Your Majesty If you must find out the truth Then you go ahead and find out the truth
If you need anything from me then let me know
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Eunuch Li, don't be too anxious.
You should just-
Shut your dog's mouth.
Eunuch Li
Concubine Mo sent someone to see you.
Cui Huan pays respects to Eunuch Li.
Are there any problems?
Concubine Mo sent me to invite you to Chu Xiu Chamber for a meal.
Aiyaa
Your Mistress is so interesting.
And thoughtful.
Then I must trouble you to tell Your Lady
that I will be there in a short while.
Yes
You may all leave
Yes
My Lady,
Eunuch Li is here
My Lady,
You may leave
Yes
Aiyah. My Lady,
How sorry
I have to make you wait before you can start eating,
I deserve death
Godfather
What's this?
What's this, My Lady?
Godfather hurry leave the Palace Leave as fast as you can
Why do you want me to leave the Palace
As fast as I can?
The wine is poisoned
Aiyah...
If you want to harm me,
Don't play these things with me
What's happening?
It's the Emperor
The Emperor wanted me to add the poison
Noway
I have always been loyal
Why would the Emperor want to kill me?
Because you
Always want to capture Zhang Zhe San and Chu Tian Xin
The Emperor is unhappy with that.
And to add in Grand Secretary Zhao's death
So therefore
he wants to get rid of you.
No
Grand Secretary died of heart problems.
What does that got to do with me?
But the Emperor believes that the late Emperor did not die naturally.
He wanted to plan against Grand Secretary Zhao originally.
But Grand Secretary Zhao collapsed suddenly.
The Emperor suspects you did it
But he has no evidence Why would he think I did it
If there were evidence
The Emperor would have caught you by now
It's because he has no evidence
So he decided to solve it himself
Godfather hurry and leave
Not right
I saw the Emperor grow up
He's benevolent and magnanimous by nature.
He is not the type to be so
Evil
How about this
why don't you go with me to see the Empress Dowager and report the situation to her?
Let Empress Dowager decide
Lets go
Godfather
Empress Dowager may favour you
But they are Mother and Son
Just leave now
No
The Emperor wants to kill me
You're letting me go Aren't you afraid of being punished?
Lets go
I have a plan
What are you doing?
Don't drink it
Don't drink
Don't drink it
Godfather
Godfather has been loyal to me all this time
If it wasn't for Godfather
I would have been dead already
Take
Take care Godfather
Eunuch Li
Who is it?
I am Xiao Xi.
Something happened at Chu Xiu Chamber.
The Emperor wants you to go
My lady
Your Majesty, you have my condolences.
My Lady
My lady
Concubine Mo died a wrongful death.
After I find out the truth
I will give her a grand funeral.
Until I find out the truth No one can leave this Palace
No one is allowed to leave
Leave
Yes
Why aren't you leaving?
Its been hard on you
I think Li Bao Chuan has fallen into our trap.
The one she used the needle on the wine
And then drinking the wine
Is not the same?
Thats right
This winepot is double-layered.
And is a good wine
But if you turn the top
Then now the wine has poison
Oh
Then how did you know that Li Bao Chuan would fall for it?
Li Bao Chuan has a scheming heart
If he thinks that I'm trying to get rid of him,
Isn't this method too risky?
Li Bao Chuan definitely has a connection To the late Emperors death
But right now I just don't have any evidence
So that's why I came out with this
Elder Brother
You thought this plan out?
Yi Rou thought the plan out
I already said
forcing him into a corner
Is not your style
To go against Li Bao Chuan
we must use extreme methods.
You think that everything Mo Yi Rou Did towards Xiao Tian
Is because of Li Bao Chuan?
You don't believe that?
Xiao Tian doesn't believe that
I believe Xiao Tian
Xiao Tian has suffered too much.
It's inevitable that she doesn't believe Yi Rou.
Listening to you
Then you believe for sure That Xiao Tian is framing Mo Yi Rou
I'm just judging things the way they are.
If Yi Rou wanted to harm Xiao Tian all along
Then how did Xiao Tian escape from Chu Xiu Chamber?
I saved her
If i didn't find out sooner
XIao Tian would have been long dead
Aiya
Whatever whatever
I know you don't like hearing it
I won't say anymore
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Your Majesty.
Don't move
This is how you killed the late Emperor right?
The late Emperor was killed by you
If you won't talk
Then I'll throw you in jail
I will torture you until you tell me the truth!
I want to see Empress Dowager
I won't allow that
If I don't see Empress Dowager
I won't say anything
Okay
As long as you talk
I will let you see Empress Dowager
Eunuch Li Bao Chuan is here!
Your servant pays respects to Your Majesty.
The Emperor said you tried to kill him It's true
Do I not treat you well?
You treat me like family.
Then
Then you
You
Then you
Then why did you want to kill me son?
Why for what?
Why did you want to kill my son?
Why?
I have committed a big mistake
Please have mercy on me.
Have mercy.
I want to kill everyone in your family.
Execute everyone of them!
I treated you so generously.
I see you as a family member
I listened to every word you said and took them to heart.
Did I say "no" to anything you wanted to do?
I know my wrongs
Don't be angry
Don't spoil your health!
Don't spoil your health.
I am not angry
My heart is hurting
My heart hurts
I don't know what this is
What happened?
What exactly happened
What happened between you and the Emperor?
Why did you want to kill him?
I treated you so...
How could you repay us this way?
How can I endure this?
I know my wrongs
Next time
Next time I won't do this again
I won't do this Won't do this
Since you
Were so loyal towards us during these years
I can save your families life
But you... You can't be spared.
You may leave
Empress Dowager
Wait a minute Empress Dowager
Empress Dowager
I know my wrongs
I won't do this again
Empress Dowager
Look
This is an edict you wrote back then
Please take a look
I have kept this secret for 20 years
Where did you get this edict?
A few years ago, when Grand Secretary Zhaoi was the person-in-charge of the Imperial Study,
He told me
that the late Emperor wanted to remove you as the Empress and your son as the prince.
He wanted to name a new Empress.
I wouldn't believe it
Then he gave this edict for me to see
Take a look
Isn't this the late Emperor's personal handwriting from a few years back?
My Lady, Empress Dowager!
I couldn't let such a thing happen.
That's why,
I hid this thing away.
The late Emperor wanted to remove me and my son...
What's the use of this edict?
I know it is of no use
I know its of no use
Emperor
The late Emperor You killed him?
I'm guilty as charged.
But I
couldn't let the late Emperor remove you in front of my eyes.
I couldn't watch you get banished into the Cold Palace.
See those enticing concubines,
step on your head
and bully you.
I did everything all for you
I was obsessed with the desire for gain.
I deserve death
I accepted bribery and was corrupted.
I deserve death
I was overcomed by the greed for power and influence.
I deserve death
I was possessed by the devil.
Deserve death deserve death
But
Only I treat
You with loyalty and respect
I never had a hidden motive.
You are my sky
You are my earth.
You are my ancestor!
I braved execution for you.
And risked having no burial ground when I die.
To protect you, I am willing to give my life.
My lady
Please plead the Emperor to spare me.
My purpose for staying alive is to pray everyday.
Pray for you for months. And for years to come.
I sincerely beg the Goddess of Mercy to protect you and the Emperor.
And live to thousand years old.
Thousand years old, thousand thousand years old.
Exile for 20 years.
If it wasn't Empress Dowager Choosing to let you keep your life
I would have killed you earlier
Your Majesty
I am a castrated person.
I'm pretty old
If you banish me for 20 years,
aren't you killing me?
After killing so many people, you only got banished for 20 years.
Are you still not satisfied?
Satisfied. Satisfied, satisfied.
I enjoyed 20 years of wealth and luxury.
Now I have to use 20 years to return them.
Justified. It's justified.
Empress Dowager doesn't want you to be worried
She will take care of your family
Thank you your Majesty
Thank you Empress Dowager
Your Majesty
You need to take care of Empress Dowager
Your Majesty
Li Bao Chuan made a fake edict To harm the late Emperor
The physician on duty that night tried to save him.
And this Physician
Is your Father
Physician Chu thought that the Late Emperors death is strange So he wanted to find the truth
Li Bao Chuan and Zhao Pu Song were worried that the truth will be exposed.
So he made a fake edict
and with the crime of errors in compilation,
made the 12 physicians on duty that day,
get executed with their families.
To cover his plot, Li Bao Chuan
killed 12 physicians from the Royal Clinic.
So my Father died because he was framed
Xiao Tian,
I will announce the news to proof that Physician Chu was innocent.
I will reinstate their positions.
And redress the wrongs they have suffered.
Thank you Elder Brother
Before Li Bao Chuan used his powers And caused havoic in the Harem
Yi Rou is just one of the victims
But now Li Bao Chuan is caught
Shouldn't you make up with Yi Rou?
Concubine Mo didn't do it of her own volition.
Now, Ben Cao can be out in the open.
And proven my Fathers innocence
Elder Brother
I think I should leave
You You want to leave?
Elder Brother
why are you so anxious?
My house is near
When you think fo me Then come visit me
When I have time I will also come visit you
Your Majesty,
Minister Qian requests to see you. He said that the frontier is under attack.
Tian Xin Then I'll leave first
Please
Octopus Girl
Li Bao Chuan has been caught
He caused your Fathers death
I already knew earlier
Ming Qing said
You haven't eaten anything
I don't feel like eating
You're just sitting and staring off Of course you don't feel like eating
I'll take you out for a walk Okay?
I don't want to go out
Your Father wouldn't want you to be like this
I said I don't want to go out
Let's go for a walk
Come on
Zhang Zhe San
Let go of me
Zhang Zhe San
Let go of me
I don't want to go out
Zhang Zhe San put me down
Miss
Put me down
Let go of me
What do you want?
Do you see the 3 words?
Do you know how the words Grand Secretary came to be?
Its from your Father and Li Bao Chuan Scheming there ways to get it
Shut up
They murdered the late Emperor,
bullied the people and were corrupted.
I don't want you to mock my Father
I didn't mock him
What I said is reality
You know for yourself that your Father is a Greedy person
But at the last moment he came to his senses
For you he and Li Bao Chuan got into a quarrel
He planned to tell the truth behind the late Emperor's death.
Although his hands were stained with blood,
he still dropped his weapon
at the very last moment.
I believe that if your Father was still alive
He would've become a good hearted person
He would've done alot of good deeds in his remaining days
to repent for his past mistakes.
Your Father is no longer around
you must shoulder the responsibility now.
You must do more good deeds on his behalf.
But not by refusing to eat nor drink.
Nor by hiding in your residence to resent and pity yourself.
Don't be afraid
Your Father is not here
But I'm here
I will take care of you
I will take care of you for the rest of your life
Father