I used to gaze at the mountains and the sea.
The vault of heaven opened all of a sudden.
Do you know love can last a lifetime?
A willow is no match for the wind,
the sea is no match for a mote.
We wait for our love to last forever
until we're grey-headed.
I'm playing a sorrowful tune on the lute.
But I've got no one to appreciate my music.
A beauty is reduced to a lonely life.
With tears in her eyes, she's reluctant to leave.
Time elapses so quickly.
The vermilion gates and the green tiles have long gone.
I hope you'll show pity on me
and allow me to exist for love.
I'll be reincarnated time and again for you.
All I ever want is to be part of your life.
Even if it's just a dream,
I'd love to indulge in it and never wake up.
I come for you, my love
is the tenderest dialogue.
The mortal life is transient, but my love for you is permanent and always the same.
Dreaming Back to the Qing Dynasty Episode 18
Keep this a secret.
Do not tell others about it.
Sister.
My best regards, Your Highness.
Go. Stop looking.
Go.
It's you, Mingwei.
Why do you come to the imperial palace today?
I come with Yinxiang to visit Consort De,
and to see Concubine Zheng in Palace of Great Benevolence by the way.
Aren't they Yu'er and Cui'er?
Do you also know people
around Concubine Zheng?
When I have time in the imperial palace,
I often go to talk with Concubine Zheng.
Gradually, she and I get familiar.
Now I guide the two maids in her palace,
so that they can serve her well in the future.
You're so considerate.
Concubine Zheng and you are as close as sisters.
Now you no longer work in the imperial palace.
As your sister,
I should do more.
Thank you, sister.
Mingwei,
don't stand on ceremony.
I'm leaving.
Is what you said true?
My maids have all been bought in
by Minghui and Eighth Prince?
I'm not sure.
I only heard something from Fourth Prince and Yinxiang.
And according to what I saw today,
it is highly possible.
Crown Prince is poor enough.
Why don't they let him go?
And I have
no grudge against Minghui.
Why does she want to harm me?
Because you are not them.
You want a true love
rather than the throne and power.
What should
Crown Prince and I do?
You can't meet Crown Prince again.
This...
Xiaochun,
it's a big sin to have an affair with
the emperor's concubine.
If I can't meet Crown Prince again,
my life will be meaningless.
I understand your feeling,
but...
At least you can't meet him
at the moment.
I can promise you.
And you should transfer your personal maids
to the outer room.
I've arranged a reliable person for you.
Who?
Come in.
Your Highness,
it's me.
Zhu'er is on our side.
If anything happens in the future,
you may tell him
to let him find me and Yinxiang.
I'm willing to do anything at all costs
for Your Highness.
Stand up.
Thank you.
There's nothing you can do here.
You may leave.
Got it.
You've helped me so much.
I don't know how to thank you.
Xiaochun,
the relationship between you and Crown Prince is immoral.
You can't be together anyway.
I know.
Falling in love with Crown Prince is a road to nowhere.
I've long known the result a little bit.
So every time I see him,
I take it as the last time.
Even if I am beheaded now,
I have no regrets.
I only hope god won't let me die too miserably
for the sake of my true affection.
Xiaochun,
I will do my best to protect you.
Thank you,
Wei.
Minghui,
you told me confidently
you were 100% sure.
It's been more than half month now.
My men have been keeping watching there,
but Crown Prince didn't take any action.
In addition, you seem to get no news
about Concubine Zheng.
Wei must be behind this.
I don't care how you sisters fight,
but if you want me to help you,
you should make me satisfied.
Rest assured,
Your Highness.
I don't want to owe you,
so I won't let you down.
Now Crown Prince and Concubine Zheng have been aware.
I'm afraid it's not so easy to
catch them in bed.
Then we should let them meet.
Yinxiang and Wei are guarding
Crown Prince and Concubine Zheng.
I'm afraid
it's not that easy as you think.
It depends on
whose means is better.
Please stay, Your Highness.
Why are you here?
It's getting dark.
Please go back to sleep.
Crown Prince sent a letter that
he wants to meet me.
His Highness is self-willed
and can't stand the lovesickness,
so you should stand it for him.
I'll just meet him.
I'll leave after meeting him.
It'll be too late if you meet him.
Thirteenth Princess Consort exhorted me repeatedly
that I can't let you meet Crown Prince at this moment.
But...
Your Highness.
It doesn't matter you put me in a dilemma,
but please do not fail Thirteenth Princess Consort's
painstaking efforts on you.
Your Highness,
please have breakfast.
I feel tightness in my chest
and feel weak.
I don't want to eat at all.
Take them away.
Your Highness,
I know you're suffering.
But you'll get ill
if you don't eat and drink all day long.
Your Highness,
please listen to me.
Just have some.
Otherwise...
Otherwise, Crown Prince will feel distressed for you.
Your Highness.
Summon an imperial doctor!
Your Highness.
Imperial Doctor Zhang,
what's wrong with Her Highness?
Her Highness is not ill,
but seems to be pregnant.
You...
What did you say?
Well, Imperial Doctor Zhang.
Being pregnant with the emperor's child is something big.
If you are wrong,
you might get killed.
This...
I'm not very sure.
It seems to be so.
Let me feel Her Highness' pulse again.
Okay.
I'm feeling bad today.
I want to sleep for more time.
Please come again another day, Imperial Doctor Zhang.
Since Her Highness said so,
please go back
and come again another day.
Zhu'er,
what should I do now?
Your Highness, is it Crown Prince's child?
His Majesty hasn't come to Palace of Great Benevolence
in a few months.
So this child can't be kept.
No.
I want to keep this child.
It's the child of me and Crown Prince.
But...
But you can't hide it when your belly becomes bigger and bigger.
You can't even
keep yourself alive by then,
let alone saving the child.
It's good you understand.
I'm going to arrange it now.
Wait.
I want to meet Crown Prince.
-Your Highness. -I have to meet him.
I have to meet him.
-Your Highness. -I have to meet him.
I beg you.
Your Highness, please don't do this!
Your Highness, sit down.
All right.
I have some connections in the imperial palace.
I'll arrange it.
But, Your Highness,
please promise me
you will do it just this once.
Do not do it again.
I'm leaving.
Your Highness,
do you feel better?
Your skill is getting better and better.
It's my fortune that
you like it.
Just now you said Concubine Zheng summoned an imperial doctor.
I heard that she's pregnant with
His Majesty's child.
What?
But please don't mind it too much.
Perhaps the imperial doctor misdiagnosed.
Misdiagnose?
Even an ordinary doctor can tell
if a woman is pregnant,
let alone an imperial doctor.
But, Your Highness,
I heard from the personal eunuch head
around His Majesty that
His Majesty hadn't gone to Palace of Great Benevolence
in a few months.
A day away from a dear one is like three seasons.
I feel as if I hadn't seen you
for several hundred years.
So do I,
Yinreng.
But now
we can only bear it.
Bear it?
When don't we need to bear it?
I miss you every day,
but I can only stand far away from
the gate of Palace of Great Benevolence for a while.
I'm so afraid that
others may see my abnormal behavior.
Such days are too hard.
This may be our fate.
Touch our child.
What did you say?
Our child.
Are you pregnant with my child?
After this night,
it will no longer exist in the world.
I took the risk to meet you
only to let you touch it.
No,
I don't allow you to do this.
I want you to keep this child.
It's impossible, Yinreng.
I do want to keep it,
but we...
We've gone against ethics
and can't be accepted by the world.
It can be born
into the world.
Xiaochun,
I'm sorry.
I...
As long as you don't regret meeting me,
even if I would go to hell and can never have a second life,
I am willing to accept it.
Xiaochun,
do not say such words again.
Every time you say such words,
I feel great pains.
I can't even protect the woman I love the most
and my own child.
Let alone I'm Crown Prince,
even if I am an ordinary man,
I don't deserve it.
I...
I don't deserve it.
You're Crown Prince,
the future emperor,
and the only one in my heart
as well as the man I love most.
Crown Prince.
Your Highness,
wear this.
All you need to do when reviewing the troops is hold your head up.
You'll be brave.
Trust me.
Now it's time for me to do something for you.
Xiaochun,
you go back to the palace now.
Wait for my message.
Where are you going?
I'm going to meet my father.
I will bear all the sins
to save you and the child.
If you go, I'll go as well.
Xiaochun,
let me go.
This is the mistake we made,
so let's bear it together.
No matter what the result is,
as long you as are with me,
I can bear it.
We'll go together.
We'll die together.
Okay.
With your true love,
even if I would be dead today,
I don't have any regret.
Why are you alone here?
Where's Her Highness?
She'll be back soon.
Eunuch, what's this?
I don't need your help.
Get me a cup of water.
There's water here.
This is tea for easing mind for Her Highness.
That's good.
Eunuch Zhu'er, you can't drink it.
This is for Her Highness.
I'm going to make another pot for you.
Go.
Wait.
It occurs to me that there are several rolls
of silk fabrics to be received in the Imperial Household Department.
You go to take them back.
I will give this
to Her Highness in person.
Go now.
Got it.
The tea smells odd.
Your Highness.
You are so anxious.
What happened?
Qin Zhu asked me to give this to you.
He said it's urgent.
Her Highness is diagnosed as being pregnant.
She has gone to North Garden to meet Crown Prince.
It's strange.
I'm afraid she's trapped.
Prepare a carriage
for me now.
I'm going to the imperial palace.
Got it.
This is a trap.
Xiaochun,
don't fall into the trap.
Xiaochun.
My best regards, Noble Lady Nalan.
North Garden is a forbidden place in the imperial palace.
Thirteenth Princess Consort comes in a hurry.
You seem to be looking for someone.
Your Highness,
Xiaochun is Concubine Zheng's infant name.
I come here to look for Concubine Zheng indeed.
I wonder if you saw her.
Minghui said Concubine Zheng has an affair with a man
with someone's secret help.
I didn't believe at first.
Now it seems you're the helper.
Sister,
Concubine Zheng is pregnant.
I guess this matter can't be hidden any more.
Have an affair with a man?
Be pregnant?
I don't follow.
I heard that when Concubine Zheng was still a lady-in-waiting,
she had gone on a tour with Crown Prince.
You don't need to cover it for her.
Xiaochun and I are coming here
to offer sacrifices to Xiaoyu today.
Why does she become
a heinous sinner in your mouth?
Offer sacrifices to Xiaoyu?
The lady-in-waiting who died in the lotus pond?
You still remember her.
Concubine Zheng and I
were Xiaoyu's best friends before her death.
We agreed to come here to offer sacrifices to Xiaoyu,
but I was delayed for something,
so I was in a hurry.
I broke into the room before making it clear.
Is what you said true?
Hope you can believe me.
Alright.
For Yinxiang's sake,
I won't blame you for this.
But don't go where you shouldn't go in the imperial palace,
and stay out of the matter that you shouldn't meddle in.
Do you understand?
Yes, I do.
You got away with it this time,
but you won't be so lucky next time.
Father, I know
even death can't atone for my sin.
But...
But the fetus in Xiaochun's belly is your grandchild.
It's also your descendant.
I beg you to show mercy.
Please spare Xiaochun and her child.
Father!
Your Majesty,
I've brought Concubine Zheng here.
Xiaochun,
what's wrong with you?
Your Majesty,
diagnosed by three imperial doctors,
Concubine Zheng is not pregnant.
Xiaochun,
why?
Didn't you tell me...
The imperial doctors said
all my morning sickness reactions
were caused by medicine, and I'm not pregnant.
So I was trapped again.
That's also good.
Instead of sneaking around
and suffering from lovesickness,
it is better to uncover it as soon as possible.
No,
I dragged you,
Yinreng.
Your Majesty,
it's all my fault.
I seduced Crown Prince
shamelessly.
I'm willing to accept any punishment.
Please show mercy
and forgive Crown Prince.
No,
father!
I forced her.
It's all my fault.
Enough!
It's my fault.
I brought up such a good son.
You're great.
You love her deeply
and are willing to die for her,
do you?
Fine.
I will help you.
Someone!
Take them away
and punish them severely.
Got it.
Your Majesty!
Xiaochun.
Xiaochun!
Great.
Crown Prince is deposed.
Yinsi will definitely become the crown prince.
Of course.
Thanks to Minghui,
we can bring down Crown Prince this time.
Well,
Minghui,
I'll drink a toast to you.
Well,
we'll drink it first.
Drink.
Your Highness,
would you like to drink with me?
You hate Fourth Prince
and Thirteenth Prince most, don't you?
Now Crown Prince has been deposed,
so you should be happy.
That's the way Yinti is.
Leave him alone.
Well,
Minghui,
we'll drink with you.
Enjoy the dishes.
Yinti,
thanks to Minghui,
otherwise it wouldn't go so smoothly.
Owing to Yinsi's wisdom
and Minghui's scheme,
we have brought down Crown Prince.
Next, we'll bring down Yinzhen and Yinxiang.
Without Crown Prince and Yinzhen,
Yinxiang can do nothing.
Yinsi can bring him down easily.
No,
you are all wrong.
Yinzhen never relies on Crown Prince,
but Yinxiang.
With Yinxiang,
Yinzhen won't be down.
Eighth Prince is right.
Bringing down Crown Prince doesn't harm him much.
We can only hit him hard
by bringing down Thirteenth Prince.
Minghui,
do you have any good scheme?
I have long got a plan.
Please wait for some time.
The good play will begin soon.
Hey,
man.
Go, go, go.
Let's go to have a drink.
I'd better not.
I may make mistakes easily when drunk.
Who will bear it if something happens?
She
will be beheaded sooner or later.
Go, go, go.
That's right.
Go.
The relationship between
you and Crown Prince is immoral.
Who's this?
Falling in love with Crown Prince is a road to nowhere.
I've long known the result a little bit.
I really admire you.
You're more persistent and braver
than me in terms of love.
It turns out
this is my ending.
It's on fire!
Go to call people to help.
It's on fire!
Help!
It's on fire!
Have some more, Yinti.
Your Highness,
something happened in the imperial palace.
Concubine Zheng...
Concubine Zheng just burned herself to death in prison.
She's dead?
She died so soon.
It doesn't matter.
She's an abandoned chess piece anyway.
She's not useful to us any more.
Did Thirteenth Prince do anything today?
His carriage entered the imperial palace shortly before.
As expected.
I don't follow.
Does it have anything to do with Yinxiang?
Minghui,
do you suspect that Concubine Zheng's death
has something to do with Yinxiang?
It must have.
Thirteenth Princess Consort and Concubine Zheng are close friends.
Thirteenth Prince and Crown Prince are close brothers.
They met with a misfortune this time,
and Thirteenth Prince and his wife won't sit by.
She burned herself to death for her sin after being in prison for half a day.
If I'm not wrong,
they are playing a trick of escape by feigned death.
It turns out this is the good play you said.
Your Highness,
please send more men
to chase Thirteenth Prince's carriage.
If you can get the hard evidence that Thirteenth Prince substituted the fake
for the genuine and took the convict sentenced to death out of the imperial palace,
we can bring him down with one action.
Yintang, Yin'e,
you go to do it.
Be sure to be careful on the way.
Rest assured, Yinsi.
We won't make any mistake.
Go.
Yinti,
let's drink.
What's wrong with you tonight?
You keep silent all the time.
Nothing.
Someone thinks herself clever.
Why should I say so much?
Your Highness,
what do you mean?
Nothing.
I just want to tell you.
Your methods can bring down Crown Prince,
but can't bring down Yinxiang.
These schemes and tricks
won't work on Yinxiang.
Stop.
Good health to you, Your Highness.
Your Highness,
it's so late.
Why can't we go?
The carriage of Thirteenth Prince's Mansion is stealthy,
so I come to search it specially.
Open the carriage.
I...
I dare not.
You dare not?
I'll do it in person.
Your Highness,
get out of the way.
I need to see who's in the carriage.
Yin...
Yinxiang?
Why are you on the carriage?
This is our carriage,
so of course we're on it.
The moon is so beautiful tonight.
It's a sweet time for couples.
Yintang, Yin'e,
you don't accompany your wives
and come to destroy our romance instead.
And you let so many people see it.
Well,
did you do it on purpose?
Yintang, Yin'e,
we're just going out of the imperial palace.
You come to stop us with so many people.
What do you mean?
We're sorry, Yinxiang.
Please forgive us.
Can we go now?
Go. Go.
Your Highness,
please stay in it for the moment.
Thank you.
What is so smelly?
It's smelly. So smelly.
Thirteenth Princess Consort
actually dressed me up like this.
It's so smelly.
I feel so bad.
I didn't expect
I could meet you alive again.
Fate is sometimes very magical.
Sometimes you think you're at the end of your rope,
but you'll see the light soon.
I prepared some clothes and money for you.
They are enough for you for some time on the way.
The carter will take you out of the capital as soon as possible.
You go to find a peaceful place,
conceal your identity
and start over.
Thank you.
I owe you so much.
How should I repay you?
Live on,
and do not fail all people who love you.
That's the biggest return for me.
Xiaochun,
after going through so much,
do you ever regret?
Do you believe in cause and effect,
Wei?
I do.
I always feel he and I are destined to meet.
Maybe because I owed him the last life,
I should pay it back this life.
Every moment I am with him
is always risky,
but it's also very sweet.
I would only cherish
this kind of sweet and bitter
intertwined destiny.
Why do I regret it?
Destiny?
The relationship between me and him has ended this life.
I haven't had time to say goodbye to him yet.
Please give this letter to him for me
to say goodbye.
Okay.
Crown Prince also has a letter for you.
Lose no time.
You'd better set out now.
Wei,
thank you for your company these days.
Thank you for standing out for me so many times.
I'm so lucky to be
your best friend in this life.
You have to take care of yourself
in the future.
I will.
The road is long ahead.
It might be very hard.
Do take care of yourself.
Hope we
can meet again some day.
We will.
We will meet again.
Your Highness,
can I ask you a question?
I could help you save her,
but why did you let me
dress up as such an ugly old man?
What's your purpose?
I don't have a purpose.
I just like it.
Don't you think
the costume and makeup
match your appearance very well?
Wait and see.
Xiaochun,
I guess you're leaving the imperial palace now.
Everything today is caused by me.
I couldn't protect you
till the last moment.
♪A willow is no match for the wind,♪
I'm sorry.
♪the sea is no match for a mote.♪
But I deeply understand that
our love is misplaced,
but it's not a mistake.
The time when I've been in love with you
is the best time of my life.
I will remember and miss it in the rest of my life.
♪With tears in her eyes, she's reluctant to leave.♪
♪Time elapses so quickly.♪
♪The vermilion gates and the green tiles have long gone.♪
=To Crown Prince=
♪I hope you'll show pity on me♪ =To Crown Prince=
♪and allow me to exist for love.♪ =To Crown Prince=
♪and allow me to exist for love.♪
How are you?
Please don't blame yourself.
I've never blamed you.
Our ending is the price
that we have to bear for our love.
As we dare love, we can't avoid it.
I'm no longer that timid Xiaochun.
I will face my future bravely.
Hope you will also be brave.
♪The mortal life is transient, but my love for you is permanent...♪
Now I only wish you and I would meet again
and you wouldn't be born in the royal family in next life,
so we could be free to love each other.
I'm sitting on the rooftop.
The breeze kisses my face.
I feel it light.
The scenery is gorgeous,
but I feel so lonely.
You and I
live in two different spaces.
In your space it's also spring.
There's also a gentle breeze.
There's also this beautiful scenery.
Your face is close to mine.
I can feel your breath.
Your smile has been engraved in the azure sky.
On the lonely rooftop I find no trace of you.
Engraved in my mind
is your tearful face.
I'm no stronger than you.
Deep inside, I'm weeping.
But I want you to remember
my smiling face.
Your face is close to mine.
I can feel your breath.
Your smile has been engraved in the azure sky.
On the lonely rooftop I find no trace of you.
Engraved in my mind
is your tearful face.
I'm no stronger than you.
Deep inside, I'm weeping.
But I want you to remember
my smiling face.
I'm no stronger than you.
Deep inside, I'm weeping.
But I want you to remember
my smiling face.