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[ Legend of the Phoenix ]
[ Episode 27 ]
Mr. Yan, I have carefully check it
This house's layout is the same as
Are you that sure?
I once have been in the Empress' s side as a solider for three years.
Lang Kun use seven years to make such a long mountain road
and built this cabin, that's arranged exactly like her Majesty's sleeping hall.
Interesting. It's getting more interesting. Search the outside and inside once more.
-See if there are any suspicious objects. -Yes
- Come here. -Yes.
Take this off.
Lang Kun, I have something that I want you to do
You take my handwritten letter
Find Li Wenxiang in Guangling County.
That's how it was.
Understand. I understand everything.
You're here.
- Your Majesty - Have you been followed? -Of course not.
-Your Majesty, why do you want to see me in a rush?
Lang Kun built a cabin for me, so
that I have a place to stay when I'm in distress.
But someone just reported that Yan Zheng just discovered the cabin.
Yan Zheng did whatever to discover our identities.
and now that he found the cabin, he will definitely make a fuss.
What's in the cabin to make you guys so anxious?
The cabin was arranged exactly like my sleeping hall.
Anyone would know that it's been built for me.
The most important thing is that cabin has a letter from Her Majesty to Lang Kun.
I'm worried that the letter is already in Yan Zheng's hands.
If Lang Kun's past is discovered,
then you two will also be exposed.
When that comes along, the consequences will be unimaginable.
This morning, I encountered the Price of Guangding and the Princess Royal.
They both acted like nothing had happened. Prince of Guangding is like an open book. He couldn't have faked it.
I'm afraid that Yan Zheng hasn't told them yet.
He's tried several times and hasn't been able to expose us,
This time we need to have a good plan before we act.
He must be trying to find more evidence,
to expose the relationship between the empress dowager, you and me.
Then what should we do now?
We made a small mistake. We could make a bigger one to cover it up.
Step by step, have him walk into the trap.
Please go back to Wanxiang Hall, Noble Consort Ning.
I'm just going to say two phrases.
Wei Guang, I need to know your plan. And your plan needs to include me.
Noble Consort Ning's boldness is such different from the usual.
You are joking. I'm still the old Ye Ningzhi.
This phoenix robe is just allowing me to do more.
I'll see you at the temple of the patron god tomorrow.
Grand Marshall Wei Yan's Tomb
You've still come.
Lang Kun told you my father's grave is here, didn't he?
I figured it out when you mentioned the temple of the patron god yesterday.
Lang Kun told me a lot about your father's past.
Is it so? What did he say?
He mocked you and your father,
saying you must have owed the emperor in your previous lives,
so this lifetime, you guys are carrying his bad name.
My father served the emperor. So do I. So there is that.
It's necessary to do these things for his Majesty.
He also said the last emperor was way too ambitious in a battle he fought.
He insisted on pursuing a group of enemy soldiers that were retreating.
Eight thousand soldiers, the whole army dead.
He blamed the event on your father.
Your father was suspended from his office as the grand general for two years.
Is it so?
It's not that my father was blindly devoted to his emperor, or I to mine.
If the Emperor falls, the world will fall into chaos.
The people are stuck between peace and order under a despot and war in anarchy. Either way, their lives are miserable.
When the empire stumbles, the underprivileged are the first to feel the shock.
The last emperor was just cruel,
letting such a faithful servant die for something that wasn't even his fault.
The Princess Royal has thought that
is my father.
What are you saying? The Princess Royal didn't kill your dad?
Someone who served the Princess Royal once told me:
Princess Royal, Wei Yan is a warrior, and also already has a family.
This is way better than I deserve.
Humans are animals of emotion.
This word will forever be with me.
How can you be so cruel?
Go ask my maids,
They used to describe me as plump.
but now, for you,
I can't eat. I can't sleep. And this is all you have to say to me?
I deserve to die.
Everytime you go on an expedition,
I will always wait for your victorious arrival.
And you? I yearn for you day and night, and think about you all the time.
But all I get is what?
I'm a royal.
Yet here I am, begging you.
What else do you want me to do?
You've said that you can't abandon your wife,
fine. I can let her follow you as a concubine.
I don't mind that you have a son,
I told you before.
I'll take him as my own son.
What else do you want me to do?
I am so good to you, why do you act like this towards me?
You put me in this situation.
How could you have such a rock-hard heart?
I was still young at the time,
every time she came,
I would become super scared.
She really loved like crazy. I didn't think that
in the end, my father lost his life in her hands.
A man like this
is a disaster no matter what.
Going crazy for love,
if you are not careful, you'll fall into the abyss.
You can talk about your plan now.
You must be in the plan so that it can be realized.
Grand Marshall Wei, go to the North for a trip.
Contact your men there. I will get you their names when I have them.
-Okay. -Why don't you leave that mission to me?
The emperor is sick with a chill. He can't shake it.
He told me to find a good physician to treat his condition.
Wouldn't it be just right to do this mission?
I think delivering the list is just a cover for you, isn't it?
What you really want is to meet Grand Marshal Wei in private outside the palace.
Aren't you a little impatient?
I think you both can wait.
When we are done with this big job and the emperor steps down,
I will marry the two of you myself.
Your Highness, there is nothing between Grand Marshal Wei and Noble Consort Ning.
I saw them meet with each other outside the palace seven times and every time they were all business.
There was no chemistry at all.
and hasn't even held hands before.
If other people saw, they would probably think that
their usual intimacy is acted out.
Mr. Yan, I may not be the most virtuous girl in the world,
but I have pride as a woman.
Lord Wei and I have feelings for each other, but we never did anything unbecoming of who we are.
How can we ever expect to become a legitimate couple if we don't have honor and integrity?
There is no way we would ever get intimate in a place where you can see us.
Is that so? I'm afraid your honorable relationship is but a story
when you just pretend you are into each other so Her Highness will let her guard down.
The only thing real is the spy working for the emperor.
Mister Yan,
let me tell you a touching love story.
Twenty years ago, there was a young princess that fell in love with a Grand Marshall.
This princess was very pretty, and was only seventeen years old.
The grand marshal is in his 30s.
has a wife and a son.
But the princess never minded,
She is in love with him
and tattooed his name on her body.
The princess didn't ask him to marry her. She kept her feelings under control
because she knows this love will bring the Grand Marshall
a bad name.
She doesn't want to do so
because she loves this Grand Marshall.
Grand Marshall Wei, why did you just speak of such a story?
Her feelings for him were profoundly strong.
Every time he was away on an expedition, she would sit on top of the city wall waiting
until the Grand Marshall comes back.
She was royal. All she needed was an order from the emperor and
she could obtain the person she dreamed for.
But she didn't do so.
Mister Yan, do you know what it was like when the princess was alone with the Grand Marshal?
-is like? -How is it like?
She never crossed the line.
She never did anything more than maybe a quick peep because she was afraid of
implicating this Grand Marshall.
According to your theory, their feelings
is acted out?
You are trying to make a weak case stand.
What kind of evidence is that?
Mister Yan, I admire your strategic thinking,
but when it comes to love, maybe you don't understand that
true love is not like a fire that quickly burns out.
It's sustainable like a river and deep like an ocean.
Grand Marshall Wei, don't talk it about it anymore.
I believe that you and Noble Consort Ning's feelings for each other
are authentic.
Let's continue to talk about the list of people.
You are dismissed.
Yes.
The love of the princess for the grand marshal
was really touching.
I was so afraid my father might hear it from beyond the grave.
He would certainly throw a bolt of lightning at me.
But I wasn't really prepared for the confrontation with Yan Zheng.
That was some quick thinking of yours. Otherwise, the prince royal may become suspicious.
He wanted us to expose ourselves.
He was just too impatient and we have all the time we need.
Wei Guang, there's something I don't understand.
The Princess Royal has clearly killed you father,
but why was she so touched by hearing your words?
Does she still love your father?
Human love is very complicated.
Love and hate is often a momentary thing.
Not to mention that the Princess Royal has always thought that
she was the victim in this relationship.
So she will be touched by herself.
When we first met, you were like a piece of wood in love.
I didn't think that you'd feel so much.
You will understand when your feelings are strong enough.
There's another thing I don't understand,
Does Yan Kuan have the letter the empress dowager wrote to Lang Kun?
if he already has it, why doesn't he take it out?
We wouldn't have been able to defend ourselves.
I think he has it. He wouldn't have tested us if he doesn't have it.
He should be looking for more solid evidence,
since that letter can only prove the relationship between Lang Kun and Empress Dowager.
The man is hard to read. Be careful.
Your Majesty.
You are the emperor.
How are you, Your Highness?
How long has mother slept for?
She's slept for a bit.
Does she usually talk in her sleep?
She talks in her sleep when she can't fall into a deep slumber.
But it won't be long.
Then, what does she usually say?
Just little things in the palace.
I don't remember clearly.
She has so much trouble sleeping.
I need to be here to keep an eye on her.
- Someone knows your true identity. - Mother, who are you telling to leave?
-Your past... -What past?
no one already...
knows.
Chen Fu...
-Greetings, Your Majesty, Your Highness. -Get up.
Thank you.
Your Majesty, I think he's the most suitable.
-I agree. -Chen Fu, I have a highly classified job for you.
Tomorrow morning, I will send people to secretly send you out of the palace.
-Yes. -Go down.
There are too many variables in this plan. I'm not so sure.
Your Majesty, let's play this board of chess together.
Isn't this what they call support from your allies?
You're reading military books now?
I can't stay an ignorant girl after so many years serving you.
Do not worry, Wei Guang has thought about it well.
Speak!
Speak! Are you going to say something?
-Lord Yan. -Has anyone confessed?
Lord Yan, we beat them hard,
but we still haven't got anything out.
Speak!
You are tough! You are really tough!
What do you want us to say?
My son-in-law, Huo Yanghong, cured Lord Lang's condition.
He is now trying to return the favor. That's why...
It's enough.
This is not that simple, is it?
You see, four of your seven children have died.
You want to lose them too?
There will be no one to mourn you at your funeral.
And you. You have all seen Lang Kun.
Did you notice nothing at all?
He just said hi to us every time he came to her grave.
We told you everything we know. What else do you want from us?
Right. What else do you want from us?
Quiet!
If they still won't talk,
get the father to beat his children
and get the husband to beat his wife.
And remember, beat them as hard as you can.
I punish impotence and reward efficacy.
Whoever pries verifiable information out of them before sundown
will get a big promotion. Those who get nothing
will be punished as Lang Kun's accomplices
and spies. Clear?
Yes, sir.
You have only a few hours before sundown.
What are you waiting for?
Messenger coming in!
Lord Yan, Noble Consort Ning left the palace a few hours ago.
It appears she is going to Youlong Township.
And Wei Guang looked a room at Yunlong Hostel.
Go on.
Many kung fu masters from the Flying Tiger Battalion have entered Youlong Township in disguise.
-How many? -Not sure. But maybe 100 or 200.
They only have 300 warriors in Flying Tiger Battalion. You are saying more than half of them are there?
Is the emperor coming?
-Find out more. Get more people on it. I will be there soon. -Yes, sir.
Go!
[Yunlong Hostel]
Your Majesty.
Sister, here you are.
You sent for me at such short notice. What can I do for you?
It's been a while since you came back
and we haven't had a chance to talk.
I just wanted to see you and have a little chat.
Is that so?
[Yunlong Hostel]
Do you think you can fool him?
It depends on how good an actor the empress is.
Your Majesty, listen to yourself.
We are siblings. Your empire
is my empire.
Why would I sabotage your empire?
The great plan you and Prince of Guangding put together
is so obvious. A three-year-old can see it through.
I will let you.
I will make you a duke and duchess.
You can have the 18 counties north of the river.
Is that enough?
Your Majesty, if there is nothing else,
will you excuse me?
Go ahead.
Lord Yan, here is a classified message for you.
-Leave me. -Yes, sir.
Yan Zhen, let's trade. Give me my wife's body.
Let her family go.
And I'll tell you who I workd for
and who else are with me.
If you are interested, meet me
at JIngxuan Restaurant in Nanji at 1 o'clock this afternoon.
Anyone here? Such weather.
It was just fine and sunny and now it's pouring.
- How are you, Your Majesty? - At ease.
What are you doing here alone?
Aren't you the princess royal's advisor, Mister Yan?
I am.
- Waiter! - Your Majesty, I have something important to do here and I need this place.
I have vacated the entire restaurant.
Please forgive me and grant me permission to do my job.
I can't have some snacks?
All right. I'm having my identity concealed for this trip.
It's about some private business, so I didn't bring anyone.
I hope you won't tell anyone.
I understand. But I really have something important to do.
Could you make yourself scarce? Since it's raining,
I can have my men take you somewhere else.
No need. I'm keeping this a low-profile trip.
I don't want to be seen.
I'll get out of here since you have your job to do.
Take care, Your Majesty.
What are the odds?
I'll wait no more. Get my tag.
Take the prisoners to the palace. Do it today.
I'm moving up my plan.
Your Majesty.
Your Highness. Where are you going in such a hurry?
Nowhere. The empress dowager is feeling better.
She told me to see her in Chengxiang Palace for a little chat.
Now if you will excuse me, I shouldn't keep her waiting.
[Guangxuan Palace]
[Huaxiang Palace]
You wanted to see me for something urgent?
Who are they?
Your Highness.
You summoned me at such short notice. What can I do for you?
It is Mister Yan who wanted to see the three of you today.
What would Lord Yan need from us?
Close the doors. No one in or out.
Yes, sir.
Everyone is here. I have bad news for you.
The emperor arrested another 36 officers of ours.
It's all because there is a mole among us.
He leaked their names to the emperor.
Wei Guang. Lang Kun. Noble Consort Ning.
Am I right?
I'd be damned
if I can't expose this mole today.
Not again, Mister Yan.
You can't just accuse someone of being the mole without evidence.
Do you have witnesses? Any material evidence?
You should recognize the handwriting of this letter.
The letter is evidence that Lang Kun has been colluding with the empress dowager.
I'll read it out for you.
Lang Kun, I have a job for you.
Take this letter to the capital of Guangning County and find Li Wenxiang.
Your Highness, see?
This is the empress dowager's handwriting.
Yan Zheng, I'm grateful.
If you hadn't provided me the names of the traitors,
my empire would be in jeopardy.
Your Highness, the emperor has distinct handwriting.
You should recognize it.
Yan Zheng, I could forge
100 copies of letters in certain handwriting.
It was all done by Mister Liu of Runfang Studio.
You are trying to frame me when you produce this for your evidence.
Prince of Guangning, do you still want to trust them?
Every time you gave them a list, our men died or were arrested.
- Do you really think this is all just coincidence? -Of course not.
There is indeed a mole among us.
But it's not one of us. It's you, Mister Yan.
What a joke.
Yan Zheng, you made a great move.
You were the emperor's man from the beginning and you have been a mole in the princess royal's palace.
Every time you betray her, you blame it on us,
scapegoating us.
This is what you did after the eastern gate arsenal explosion.
And you are doing this again after the 36 officers' arrest.
You are the culprit calling the police. You are calling black white!
Lang Kun! You are the thief who calls "Stop the thief"!
Your Highness, didn't you tell me you gave the list to Noble Consort Ning?
I saw her give the list to Wei Guang
yesterday morning at Yunlong Hostel.
Wei Guang passed the list to someone else.
And that man was the emperor, who was there in disguise.
Really?
Mister Yan, did you really see me and the emperor in Yunlong Township?
Of course.
That's strange.
The emperor told me he met with the princess royal yesterday.
He was offering to make peace.
But he was rejected.
Your Highness, did you really meet the emperor yesterday?
It was an imposter.
I heard the emperor has at least five doubles.
The princess royal grew up with the emperor.
You think she wouldn't recognize her own brother?
I see.
This is a trap. The man I saw yesterday was an imposter.
Wei Guang! You set me up!
You are such a traitor.
A moment ago you said the princess royal was with an imposter.
Now you are saying the one you saw was fake.
But Prince of Guangding and I saw you and the empress yesterday at Jingxuan Restaurant.
Is that not real? We saw you enter the restaurant.
And the empress went in not long after. We don't know what you discussed in there.
Soon after the empress left, you left too.
Is that right? Or is this a false accusation?
My sister told me yesterday
that she saw the emperor sneak into Guangxuan Palace to meet the emperor.
Then the 36 warriors were arrested.
It must have been you who sneaked out to give her the list,
which the empress passed to the emperor.
Yan Zheng,
I feel so bad for the 36 warriors.
They didn't deserve to die.
My sister and I worked so hard to build that arsenal.
This is all on you!
Your Highness, I have always been serving by your side as your advisor.
I get rid of anyone who gets in your way.
Do you really believe I'm the mole?
Mister Yan, you can't have a double standard.
You sentenced us to death based on speculation.
Today, you have been exposed.
Are you still trying to get out of this?
I don't want to believe it.
But I went to Chengxiang Palace the other day to see the empress dowager.
She was talking in her sleep.
And she mentioned the mole's name.
I asked them and they said they heard the name many times.
And the mole is you.
Yan Zheng.
This is very impressive. I'll give you that.
Arrest him!
Wei Guang!
You don't have to fear now. You can tell the truth.
Your Highness, it's been 18 years since my daughter died. He is a monster!
He dug out her coffin!
Of the 16 of us, only four are alive now.
Your Highness, he killed my son.
And he forced me to give false confession so he could frame a good man. He is evil.
I'll kill him! I'll revenge my son!
Kill him!
Wei Guang!
Kill him!
[Huangxiang Palace]
Take him out and kill him!
My lord! Don't kill me!
My lord! I'm not the mole!
That was some damning evidence.
Yan Zheng, are you still trying to deny it?
If you want to kill me just because the wicked ones gave a statement against me,
what about the other men who work for you?
They will be so disappointed.
If you want to kill me, at least give me a chance.
My lord!
How do you propose to prove your innocence?
Something is going to happen tonight
and it will show you that I'm not the mole.
If I'm wrong, you can kill me then.
All right.
Take him away. I'll deal with him tomorrow.
Yes, sir!
My lord! You have to believe me!
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