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[The Female Assassins in the Palace]
[Episode 38]
General Chang! General Chang!
Please be magnanimous and let the family go.
Arch Lord Batu, you heard what Arch Princess Consort said.
I am just doing what I was ordered to do.
Let's go!
General Chang!
What?
Arch Prince Chong wants to have my whole family beheaded?
Yes, Your Highness.
Arch Prince Chong already gave the order.
If you really want to save them
you have to take care of your body
and eat something.
Arch Prince Chong, this is going too far.
E-Erduo's death already proves my innocence!
Not only will he not let me go
but now he's also targeting my family.
They're so innocent.
Since he insists on doing this
he can't blame me for fighting back.
Your Highness, don't get agitated.
I'm sorry about this.
I can't believe that happened.
The family is quite pitiful.
Hey...
His Highness won't eat today either?
No, he's still not eating.
- He won't even eat. - Yeah.
Hurry and report this to His Highness!
Cheng Gang.
Here.
It's not that I don't want to
but Guo Xin hasn't been proven innocent.
How can I trust you
and let you two continue investigating?
Your Highness, I swear on my life
that I won't dare to do anything out of self-interest.
I ask that you give me another chance
to arrest Mo Yun and those traitors.
Your Highness, now that Vice Prince Huiwu's family
is about to be executed
Arch Lord Batu, who is responsible for this case, is going through a lot.
How can he concentrate on solving this case?
The worst thing would be to slow down
the investigation and arrest of these traitors.
The two of us are committed to helping you resolve this problem.
Please consider the severity of this case.
Why can't you give the two of us another chance?
We will definitely not let you down.
Your Highness.
Your Highness, something bad has happened.
Vice Prince Duoluo Huiwu... ran away.
What?
Caidie, trust me!
I'll get you out! Caidie!
Arch Lord Batu, you've been shouting for a couple of hours.
Please get some rest.
If you keep making a scene
I can't be held responsible if His Highness casts blame.
General Chang, Caidie is about to be beheaded.
How can I go rest?
General Chang, please help me out.
Please, let me see Caidie.
Arch Lord Batu, it's not that I don't want to help you.
It's that Arch Princess Consort has given orders
and so has Arch Prince Chong.
I don't dare to go against their orders.
Please go back and stop wasting time here.
I'm begging you.
No, if I don't see Caidie today
I absolutely won't leave.
If you insist on doing this
then forgive me for doing this.
- Guards! - Here!
Take Arch Lord Batu away.
Yes!
General Chang! General Chang!
What are you doing?
Father!
Are you all okay?
Father, why are you here?
Why are you dressed like that?
I don't have time to explain.
Arch Prince Chong wants to kill our whole family!
Hurry and come with me!
- You're being too rash! - Father!
We might be able to turn this around.
But if we just leave like this, then we really won't be able to turn back!
Don't be foolish!
Arch Prince Chong planned this.
If we continue to stay here
then we'll fall into his trap.
Don't say anything else. Let's go!
Let's go!
Let me go!
- Your Highness. - Batu.
On your way here, did you see Qi-E?
Your Highness, why are you asking that?
Arch Lord Batu, we just received news
that Vice Prince Huiwu has run away.
His Highness hurried here to find him.
How could this happen?
Your Highness, they are all gone!
How dare you, Qi-E!
You dare to defy me like this?
Father, Father! You must calm down!
If we leave like this, things will be more complicated.
Arch Prince Chong has given me no other choice.
He's always been guarded against me.
Everyone is well aware of this.
I just can't believe he'd be so harsh this time!
But, Father, if we just leave like this, others will talk badly about us.
They're about to kill our whole family!
You want us to just sit around and wait for our deaths?
He started this
so he can't blame us for fighting back!
Shut up!
How dare you, Qi-E!
You're too bold!
I've been so kind to your whole family.
You dared to defy my orders!
You rebel!
Stop putting up a pretense, Your Highness!
I know exactly what you're thinking.
What did you say?
All these years, there have been rumors
that I never gave up looking for the treasure from the treasure map.
On the surface, you pretended to be calm
and even showed affection
and adopted Caidie as your goddaughter.
Your motive was to make me lower my guard, wasn't it?
Why would I do that?
The reason I adopted Caidie as my goddaughter
was because of love!
Stop pretending!
Your intentions are like Sima Zhao's!
I can see them clearly!
Originally, if you didn't bother me, I didn't bother you.
We could get by in harmony.
I didn't think that this time
you'd actually try to kill every last member of my family!
How could you think that?
I didn't want this to happen either.
But Zi Hui found proof.
So I had to take care of it justly.
I do what I can with the proof that I have.
I'm not partial toward anyone.
Stop with your pompous words!
I am as innocent as can be!
Yet you keep framing me time and time again!
My patience is at its limit!
Your Highness, don't say anything else.
If I don't say it now, when should I say it?
Your Highness.
I won't be like E-Gutai and Dailang
and die quietly!
I will go to His Majesty
and ask him to punish you for your crimes!
You must be the mastermind behind Mo Yun!
Don't think you can trap and frame me!
How dare you, Qi-E!
I show you such respect
but you aren't satisfied with that
and now you're slandering me!
- Guards! - Here.
Arrest them!
Yes!
Who dares to arrest me?
I want to see His Majesty
and have him judge this fairly!
I will kill
anyone who dares to try to stop me!
Father!
Hurry and get him down from there!
Yes! Wei Tang, General Chang, let's split up our men and go after him!
- Let's go! - Yes!
Father, General Chang, I'll go this way.
You guys go around the back.
Okay! Let's go!
What?
Vice Prince Huiwu escaped?
Yes, Chief Tie brought soldiers here.
They're getting ready to surround Vice Prince Huiwu.
Your Highness, I'm begging you not to fire the arrows!
I'm begging you not to fire the arrows and hurt my father.
Qi-E, you're surrounded. You have nowhere to go.
Come down and surrender.
Qi-E, hurry and come down!
Don't mess around with your life like this!
Qi-E, if you keep doing this
don't blame me for being heartless!
I'll take your life!
Please, Your Highness, I'm begging you!
Please don't hurt my father! Please don't fire the arrows!
I'm begging you!
Your Highness, please!
- Your Highness, please be lenient! - I'm begging you.
Get up!
All of you, get up now!
We are being framed!
Don't beg him!
We must be dignified!
Even if we die...
we must die with dignity!
Your Highness, don't say that.
It pains me.
Your Highness, I've been with you for so long.
I've never begged you before.
Today, I'm begging you
please hurry and come down!
Whatever it is, let's talk about it.
Don't oppose His Highness.
Father, listen to Mother.
Come down now. We can talk things though.
Please come down.
Father, hurry and come down!
I'm begging you!
I don't want to do this either!
But why must we keep getting blamed for this crime?
Is it just because my father looked for the treasure map in the past
that we must bear the responsibility for this crime?
Your Highness, why won't you believe me?
I really don't have any intention of looking for the treasure map!
I have absolutely nothing to do with the hairpin killers!
Vice Prince Huiwu, calm down!
Let's talk things through.
If you really are being framed
His Highness definitely won't make things difficult for you.
Your Highness, there must be a misunderstanding.
Let's withdraw the troops.
Qi-E, come down.
We can talk things through.
I won't fall for your tricks anymore!
You keep making things difficult for my family.
How can I trust you now?
Fine, Qi-E, I'll give you one last chance.
If you keep disobeying my orders
persisting in your views, and refuse to come down
don't blame me for what I do!
- Your Highness! - I'll give you one last chance!
I'll count to three!
If you don't come down
I'll have them fire the arrows!
- No! Your Highness! - Father, hurry and come down!
Come down, Your Highness!
- Hurry down. - Father!
Hurry down, Father!
One!
Father, come down! - Your Highness!
- Hurry down! - Father!
Your Highness!
Father!
Father, come down!
Two!
Your Highness! Your Highness!
Father!
Fire!
Your Highness!
- Your Highness! - Father!
A hairpin killer!
Wei Tang, hurry and go!
Yes!
Your Highness, Vice Prince Duoluo Huiwu is...
Father!
Your Highness!
Caidie! Caidie!
Caidie!
Where's the hairpin killer?
Your Highness, the hairpin killer shouldn't be far from here.
There are a lot of troops guarding the manor.
I'm sure the hairpin killer won't be able to get away this time.
- Go search! - Yes!
Wei Tang, let's go!
Caidie!
Wait.
It smells like something is burning.
The smell is coming from here.
Let's go take a look.
What is this?
It looks like Vice Prince Huiwu's head.
What? The head has been burned?
Your Highness, please forgive me.
We didn't make it in time.
His Highness's head was burned beyond recognition.
The hairpin killer defiled him after she killed him.
She is too cruel.
But this head was burned beyond recognition
how can you be sure
that it is Qi-E's head?
Your Highness, I examined it carefully.
It is definitely Vice Prince's head.
Looks like we wrongly accused Qi-E.
And caused him to lose his life.
Did you find the hairpin killer?
Your Highness, I had my men look everywhere.
We couldn't find the hairpin killer.
Please forgive me.
You couldn't find the hairpin killer?
How is that possible?
My manor is heavily guarded with troops.
There are so many eyes!
How could she just disappear into thin air?
Your Highness, the hairpin killer did disappear without a trace.
Please punish me for it.
I am incapable.
What's the use of punishing you?
The manor is heavily guarded
but the hairpin killer was able to get in and out so easily.
How can I be at ease?
Batu, what do you think about this?
Arch Lord Batu.
His Highness is asking you a question.
Your Highness, I didn't hear you because I was distracted.
Please forgive me.
Batu, you seem absent-minded lately
and haven't said anything.
What are you thinking about?
Your Highness, I'm worried about Caidie
so I...
I understand how you feel.
But your relationship with Caidie is over.
You should forget about her.
Caidie is a criminal now.
I urge you to be smarter.
Protecting yourself is more important, okay?
Your Highness.
E-Erduo and Vice Prince Huiwu were murdered by hairpin killers.
It has been proven
that Vice Prince Huiwu isn't the mastermind behind the hairpin killers.
Please spare Caidie's family.
I'm willing to take the punishment.
These are two different matters.
Even though it's proven that Qi-E
isn't the mastermind behind Mo Yun and the hairpin killers
we still don't know Mo Yun's motive for killing Qi-E.
Besides, your fake marriage with Caidie is a fact.
You're not trying to say that I'm wrongly accusing you, are you?
I wouldn't dare.
But Caidie isn't the only one at fault for this matter.
I hope you'll spare Caidie
since she is your goddaughter.
Don't say anything else.
If it were up to me... I don't want to do this either.
But this matter involves many people
so I can't just decide this on my own.
You keep thinking about Caidie.
You are unable to help me
investigate this case right now.
It's useless for you to stay here.
Just go.
Your Highness, if you are willing to ask His Majesty
Caidie's whole family can be saved!
Housekeeper Wang, take him out.
- Yes. - I feel agitated when I look at him.
Your Highness!
Arch Lord Batu, please don't make this difficult for me.
I will take my leave.
Don't mind him.
Tell me, how could the hairpin killer disappear into thin air?
Your Highness, there is a secret door in the warehouse.
Behind it is a secret passage.
Lady Shijia was able to come and go freely using the secret passage.
She must be the true killer of E-Gutai
which proves she is a hairpin killer.
Your Highness, the hairpin killers had a secret door
in E-Gutai's manor, which allowed them to come and go freely.
If I may be bold, I speculate that
there might be a secret door in Arch Princess Consort's room.
Don't mind me.
I will stay here and wait for His Highness.
I'll ask him to spare them.
Arch Lord Batu, His Highness is currently very troubled.
If you beg him now, you're just asking for trouble.
If you really want to beg him, I suggest that you do it another day.
Go on.
These hairpin killers are ruthless.
They treat life like it's nothing.
After killing someone, they don't even keep the body intact.
To kill so viciously and absurdly...
When exactly will we bring them to justice?
Your Highness, if I may be bold, I would like to request
that you allow me and Wei Tang to continue to investigate this case
and arrest Mo Yun.
Didn't I already say
that because of your relationship with Guo Xin...
Your Highness, as you just saw
because of Caidie's situation
Arch Lord Batu is greatly affected and can't concentrate on this case.
Please give the two of us another chance.
If I try to cover up anything
once you investigate and confirm it
I'm willing to accept death.
Please allow us.
Housekeeper Wang, what do you think?
Your Highness, from what I see
what Wei Tang says is reasonable.
Arch Lord Batu has too much on his mind.
He can't investigate the case anymore.
General Chang has many things to do
and can't completely concentrate on the case.
Since Wei Tang is willing to make this guarantee with his life
Your Highness should give them a chance.
If you still can't trust them
have General Chang watch them.
Fine.
Since that's the case, Cheng Gang, Wei Tang, General Chang, take this order.
- Here. - Here.
Arch Prince Chong has finally allowed us to continue investigating.
This is great.
We must speed up our investigation
so that His Highness will see our determination.
You two have just heard
that His Highness asked you to take care of this investigation.
But no matter what evidence you find and what you do
you must notify me.
I will report it to Arch Prince Chong.
Of course.
Thank you, General Chang.
I have something to do, so I will leave now.
- Take care. - Good luck in your investigation.
Take care.
Father, let's go search Arch Princess Consort's room
to see if we can find a secret door.
Wait.
I have something to tell you.
What do you want to say?
Do you remember what Vice Prince Huiwu said before he died?
Stop with your pompous words!
I am as innocent as can be!
Yet you keep framing me time and time again!
My patience is at its limit!
Your Highness, don't say anything else.
If I don't say it now, when should I say it?
Your Highness, I won't be like E-Gutai and Dailang
and die quietly!
Why must we keep getting blamed for this crime?
Is it just because my father looked for the treasure map in the past
that we must bear the responsibility for this crime?
Your Highness, why won't you believe me?
I really don't have any intention of looking for the treasure map!
I have absolutely nothing to do with the hairpin killers!
I do remember.
Father, why are you bringing that up all of a sudden?
Wei Tang, listen carefully.
Even though Arch Prince Chong made it clear to His Majesty
and everyone else that he did not collude with Mo Yun
it was only a one-sided claim.
We still haven't caught Mo Yun's true partner.
We must not lower our guard.
We must still consider Arch Prince Chong a suspect.
Everyone, search carefully.
You must look everywhere that could hide a secret door, got it?
- Yes! - Search!
Wei Tang, if we really do find a secret door in Arch Princess Consort's room
then Arch Prince Chong will look very suspicious.
Your Highness, Lady Hui Yu is here.
Greetings, Your Highness.
You may rise.
Thank you, Your Highness.
Hui Yu, you came at the perfect time.
Because of the hairpin killers case, I have a massive headache.
Please play a tune for me
to make this headache go away.
Yes, Your Highness.
Caidie, your father and E-Erduo are already gone.
How do we go on living now?
Mother.
This all happened...
because of Batu.
If he hadn't taken Father away...
Father wouldn't have run into such misfortune.
E-Erduo wouldn't have died in such a tragic way.
How can Batu ever repay us?
That Batu...
He'd rather listen to the speculations of outsiders
than trust his own family's innocence.
We treated him with such sincerity. What a waste.
Now, I can't wait to kill him!
Enough, don't say another word.
They're already dead.
What's the use in saying all this?
I will take my leave.
Imperial Physician, how is Her Highness?
Arch Lord, Her Highness was greatly shocked
so she fainted.
I made her drink a medicine that will wake her.
She'll wake up later
so please don't worry.
Thank you, Imperial Physician.
It's my job.
If you don't need me for anything else
I will take my leave now.
Chief Tie, we found a tunnel in the room.
Let's go.
Did you go down to investigate?
No, I didn't want to act rashly.
As soon as I discovered it, I notified you.
Father, I'll go down the tunnel to investigate.
Wait, Wei Tang.
Mo Yun is very meticulous and vicious.
If this tunnel was established for the hairpin killers
there's an 80 percent chance there are some mechanisms
to prevent outsiders from using it.
Or a killer will be hiding inside.
Let's go together so we can look out for each other.
Let's go.
Hui Yu, why did you stop?
Your Highness is breathing quickly.
Although your hands seem to be moving with the beat
they're a little off.
Your Highness, are you distraught?
Hui Yu, you are really good at seeing how others are feeling.
You're much better than those who aren't blind.
You flatter me.
I just want to take care of you.
Besides you and Zi Hui
I don't trust anyone else.
Good thing I still have you, my soul mate.
Forgive me for being bold.
Can you share your troubles with me?
Maybe I can help you resolve them.
It's the hairpin killers.
When we found the knives at the Duoluo Huiwu manor...
I thought Qi-E was the mastermind behind them.
I didn't expect that Qi-E and E-Erduo would be killed by hairpin killers?
How could that happen?
Now, it seems Qi-E wasn't the mastermind behind Mo Yun.
He was framed.
First it was Hong Jun.
Now it's Qi-E and E-Erduo.
Mo Yun is so cruel.
Not only does she kill the people I trust
but she also frames princes to break our family apart.
When I catch her, I'll dismember her and chop her body into ten thousand pieces!
Your Highness, don't be angry. You have to take care of your body.
It's just that when Qi-E was killed
we were all there.
We couldn't save him.
Where did the hairpin killers come from?
They're so bold!
To have done this in my manor, where there are thousands of soldiers...
They have no respect for me at all.
Have you caught the hairpin killer?
No.
This is the part that worries me most.
The hairpin killer disappeared before our eyes again.
There must be an insider in the manor.
Otherwise, how could they just come and go so freely?
No wonder you're so worried.
There are thousands of people in the manor.
It won't be easy to catch an insider.
I've ordered the Ties to investigate the case.
Since Caidie and Batu have a fake marriage and deceived His Majesty
Batu can't concentrate on this case.
But Princess Guo Xin is still being investigated.
Won't it be hard for Chief Tie to investigate this case?
Chief Tie has worked for me for so long
I understand him completely.
I trust that he won't cover for her.
Wei Tang might be young
but Cheng Gang is also working on it
so there won't be any problems.
But...
But what?
Because such a huge incident happened with the Huiwu family...
and Caidie has committed a crime
I really can't bear to keep punishing them.
But Zi Hui...
Your Highness, if you're troubled because of this
I have a suggestion.
Since it has been proven that Vice Prince Huiwu
had nothing to do with the hairpin killers
now that he has passed away
he should be buried.
You should let his family
bury him and mourn.
As for the fake marriage...
you can just take care of it another day.
You're right. We'll do that.
Housekeeper Wang.
Here.
This is my order.
Yes.
What disaster did our family create...
that we're in this state?
Father.
Caidie!
Father.
- Father. - Caidie!
Caidie, you're finally awake!
Mother, where's Father?
Where's Father?
Your father has finally cleared his name.
But...
it was at the cost of his life.
Mother, don't be like this.
Father.
I never would've thought that things would get this bad.
First it was E-Erduo
and now Father-in-Law has passed away unexpectedly.
How do I console Caidie?
Princess Caidie.
Arch Prince Chong orders
out of sympathy for Vice Prince Huiwu's death
Caidie's fake marriage case will be handled another day.
Today, the family is allowed to take the remains
and take care of the burial.
Have you found my father's head?
Yes, we have.
But it was burned beyond recognition.
His Highness said to bury him grandly.
Later, His Highness will send someone to escort you to your manor.
Please stay at the manor and do not leave.
Father, I didn't expect the tunnel to be so long.
It led outside the manor.
This is definitely not something that could be built in a few days or months.
It's clear that the hairpin killers planned this a long time ago.
But how did the hairpin killers know
that in order to surround Vice Prince Huiwu
we'd surround Arch Princess Consort's room?
As soon as Vice Prince Huiwu ran away
you sent people to guard Arch Princess Consort's room.
Why was that?
It was Peng Da Hai's idea.
He thought it was the highest place
and had the best line of sight.
No matter which direction Vice Prince Huiwu ran
it would be easy to spot him.
I thought that sounded reasonable, so I sent soldiers there.
Wei Tang, the hairpin killers are astute.
They used the terrain
and made plans long ago.
Father, since the tunnel leads here
there must be some clues here.
Why don't we get people here to search right now?
There's no need, Wei Tang.
It'll be dark soon.
We can send people here tomorrow to search.
Let's go home and discuss this
so that we don't fall into Mo Yun's trap.
Let's go.
How do you explain what happened to E-Erduo?
How dare you act on your own accord and kill E-Erduo?
If I hadn't done that
how could I have cleared your name?
How dare you say that.
I don't care how ruthless you are normally.
But you must make up for E-Erduo's death.
What do you want me to do?
Father, I have something to do.
I won't go with you now.
Wei Tang, it's so late.
What do you have to do?
Nothing much. There's just something I'm worried about.
I want to go to the Intelligence Unit to take a look.
All right.
Since you want to go, then go ahead.
But remember to come back soon.
We have a lot to do tomorrow.
Understand?
Yes, I understand.
Your Highness, how could you bear to leave us?
Father, E-Erduo, don't worry.
I will avenge you.
Just wait.
Forgive me for saying this.
Your Highness, even though His Highness passed away
please take care of your health.
Yes, Your Highness.
You must take care of yourself too.
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