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Guardians of the Ancient Oath
[This story is purely fictional.]
Episode 19
Your Highness, Your Majesty,
Marquis Anxi’s Mansion has been
prepared for
the wedding day.
But, I’m still
worried about that.
The marriage was widely anticipated.
The date is coming.
What if someone
causes any trouble?
Why are you worried?
Are you afraid that Hongyi
will disobey the order?
Aunt, Marquis Zhenbei’s Mansion
has always
misunderstood me.
I was even impeached by them before.
He Yao,
it has all passed.
You don't have to be cautious
and defensive.
Well…
I think, you know the reason
why I ordered
you to get married.
Your Majesty is considering for the future of Yo,
I’m really grateful.
I also have thought about it
for a long time.
Nothing would happen to it.
I worried too much.
Marquis Zhenbei
has come to me for the marriage.
He wanted me to withdraw it.
Mother,
I gave him
a stern rebuff.
As what I said before,
Hongxuan
is still a sensible person.
Although he is unhappy about it,
he still accepted it.
At least, it’s an important thing
which is about Yo’s future.
He’ll let go of his selfish thoughts
and won’t cause any trouble.
Son, you have grown up.
Your Majesty is wise.
I feel inferior.
This marriage between
Marquis Anxi’s and Marquis Zhenbei’s Mansion
is about Yo’s royal majesty.
There must be no mistake.
Yes.
I understand.
Go get yourself prepared
to insure the wedding will go on smoothly.
Yes.
My lady.
Mr. He, you slacked off again!
The door was opened
later than usual again.
My lady, where did you go?
Skip it.
Where is Hongxuan?
He has been staying in the study room.
I’m going to see him.
You were up all night?
Why are you back?
If I escaped,
what would happen to Baili?
That’s the imperial order.
If I ran away,
that’s disobedience.
All the people here
will be punished.
You’re just Duke Pingyuan’s adopted daughter.
You don’t need to
sacrifice your happiness for us.
What?
Now you disrelish me
for that reason?
I have been
a member of the family,
the second lady of Duke Pingyuan’s Mansion
since the day father rescued me.
This is about your marriage.
I know you love me.
But I have to be sensible.
Over the years,
you’ve carried
all the burden alone.
As a part of the family,
I have no reason to escape.
I can’t let all of you
be punished for me.
What’s more,
it’s just He Yao.
If I can’t see you
and Hongshuo again
because of him,
that is what he wants.
If he dares to marry me,
I’ll dare to marry him.
I can give him a hard time.
And,
maybe
Marquis Anxi is worrying as well.
He must be
worried about when I’m married to there,
I’ll mess
their place up.
Maybe it won’t be long
before they go to Her Highness
and ask for a withdrawal.
Hongyi,
I want to hug you.
I’m sorry.
It’s OK.
Nine stars are yin and yang.
Metal, wood, water, fire and earth.
Nine stars are yin and yang.
Metal, wood, water, fire and earth.
Metal, wood…
Brat!
How dare you sneak
into my place!
I need to teach you a lesson.
What brat?
I’m General’s personal bodyguard.
So furtive.
What are you doing here?
Furtive?
I’m fair and square!
I’m here to protect General.
Look at how effeminate you are.
Protect him?
Save it.
You should go back now.
He is definitely safe here.
Bodyguard shouldn’t stay away from the General
for more than five meters.
I think
you are not here to protect him,
but to steal skills furtively!
How could you say that?
What steal?
I…
I just want to listen to it
and learn something.
If General can’t remember all these,
we can discuss about it.
I’m doing this for his good.
How about… we together?
You take me for a fool?
Is my Master’s magic anything
you can get as you want?
I’m General’s bodyguard.
He can listen,
then I can as well.
How stubborn!
Will you listen again?
-No! -Will you?
I’m really General’s
-bodyguard! -Will you do that again?
Don’t fight me!
Sir.
In order to protect Baili,
Hongyi came back this morning.
Send more people to keep her safe.
Yes.
All the people in the mansion
are up to her now.
We have to watch over her.
Are you afraid that
she will leave again?
It’s about the family’s future.
So now
I have no choice.
I understand.
And,
don’t let Hongshuo know
about Hongyi’s marriage.
Yes.
You may go.
General,
message from Ye City.
Yo’s King gave the order
to let He Yao marry Baili Hongyi.
Is it reliable?
Yes.
He Yao proposed the marriage
at the banquet in palace.
Many nobles there
are witnesses.
How could this happen?
He Yao proposed in the New Year's eve.
He is said to use the marriage
to repair the relationship between the two families.
The Empress Dowager agreed on the spot.
Not long ago
He Yao still wanted to kill
the three of Baili.
Why did he suddenly
propose marriage?
What did Baili Hongxuan say?
Did he accept it?
It seemed that he did.
What about Baili Hongyi?
She is willing to marry He Yao?
Baili Hongyi refused on the spot.
But since they went back home,
she has been being kept in the Mansion.
How scoundrel!
General.
General, where are you going?
I'll be away for a while.
If you are absent from the new
battalion after ten days,
I am afraid the situation
will be very unfavorable to us.
Ten days?
If you are going to Ye City,
you will be late for the battalion’s roll call.
Does Baili Hongshuo
know this marriage?
Baili Hongshuo is still in Li City.
He doesn’t know.
I’ll be back before
the new battalion’s roll call.
If anyone asks me where I am,
help me out.
Is general going to a place far away?
General!
General didn’t
ask anyone to follow.
Step aside.
General didn’t
ask anyone to follow.
I’m his woman.
You…
You came back here.
There must be struggles in your heart.
Maybe a lot of things are not
as complicated as
people think sometimes.
When I first knew that
I would marry Hongxuan,
I was also worried.
Although he is a
famous master in Ye City,
he was said
to be strict and unreasonable.
I was too worried that I couldn’t even
eat and sleep.
But, after I came here,
I found that he is not
as what people said about him.
On the contrary, he is so kind.
So, Hongyi,
don’t worry too much.
Maybe He Yao
is also not as overbearing
as what people say.
You don’t need to comfort me.
He Yao can’t be compared
with my brother.
I know him.
We had a fight when we were at age of ten.
I know how arrogant
he is.
He is not a man
what people describe.
He will only be worse than what they say.
It is a pity to
marry someone you don’t love.
But, Hongyi,
this is your home here forever.
Your brother and I
will always stand by your side.
I know your love to me.
Thank you.
He’s Mansion is also here in Ye City.
You can
come back home often.
And you can
also see your brother and Hongshuo.
I’ll be back more often.
Jinyang,
please take good care of them.
You also treat me as your family now?
Of course we are a family.
As a bodyguard,
you can’t even defeat a girl?
Shame on you.
General, she didn’t win too much either.
What did that Taoist teach you?
He talked a lot,
but didn’t teach me anything.
He knows nothing
but he can still catch demons.
Why is that?
Anyway,
I won’t come back here again.
Wait here.
General!
Ming Yefeng,
what are you doing in Li City again?
I want to make a deal
with you.
I told you before.
Baili would never
cooperate with Lang.
But we did a good job
together last time.
You have already forgotten it?
Ming Yefeng,
you took Hongyi hostage last time.
That’s why you took the advantage.
Don’t forget that
you are in Li City now.
If you dare to do that again,
I won’t spare you
even if you are
Lang’s future Great King.
The marriage
between your family and Duke Pingyuan’s Mansion
really gave you a lot of courage.
What?
You don’t know about it?
Baili’s second young master,
or, your sister,
is going to marry
the master of wealth in Ye City,
the new Governor, He Yao.
Now Marquis Anxi’s Mansion
unites with Duke Pingyuan’s Mansion by marriage,
your family will become more powerful.
Congratulations.
We know each other at least.
Please
remember
to invite me to the wedding.
What are you taking about?
Even I, an outsider from Lang,
have got the news.
You, the bride’s brother,
still don’t know about it?
Hongyi.
Hongxuan.
I’m too busy recently
to see you.
You got a lot of work to do.
It’s OK.
You don’t look well.
Do you feel bored?
I can have a walk with you.
OK.
Let’s go.
I’m sorry.
I failed to
stop the marriage.
Do you hate me?
Hongxuan,
you did nothing wrong.
Her Highness is to blame
for giving the order.
Hongyi…
Hongxuan, don’t feel guilty.
I know
as a member of Baili,
I have to consider of our family.
Hongxuan, I’m sorry.
It should be me to say that.
Why did you apologize?
I caused trouble to you
when you got married.
I think now I can understand
how you felt at that time.
You have grown up.
General.
How is it?
Any news from Ye City?
Nothing?
Absolutely nothing.
It’s abnormal.
I think
it looks like someone
deliberately blocked the news.
Go call Hou Zhengze here.
Yes.
And,
I never inquired the news
of Hongyi.
Understand?
I see.
[Yiwang Hall]
As long as I went out before,
Mr. He would be so nervous.
He worried that you would cause trouble.
Hongxuan,
what wishes
did you always make here before?
The most of the wishes I made
never came true.
So I stop making wishes then.
What about you?
What wishes
did you make here?
My wishes haven’t come true either.
The wish was that
I hope you, I,
and Hongshuo
can be together forever.
I don’t know if Hongshuo
has received the letter.
I think
he should have received.
I want to see him before I get married.
After that,
our meeting will change a lot maybe.
I will go beg His Majesty.
Your wedding day is important.
Hongshuo should come back to accompany you.
Thank you, Hongxuan.
[Yiwang Hall]
What wish did you make?
I hope
the wishes you and Hongshuo
make in the future
can come true.
OK. Let’s go to the market together.
[Yiwang Hall]
General, you want to see me?
You always said that
you are loyal to me.
How loyal are you?
Of course I’m the most loyal one.
Since that,
do me a favor.
General,
I can do anything for you.
Take off your clothes.
Take off your clothes!
Wait… General,
I’m the only kid
in my family.
They're counting on me
to carry on the family line.
General…
I can’t let them down.
You…
Do you believe that
-I can cut your family line right now? -General! No!
Please no!
What are you
thinking of?
I want you to change into my appearance.
Only that?
What else can it be?
That’s easy.
Come here.
Wait.
Why should I do that?
I’m ordering you to do that!
Cut the crap!
No, no,
General, I have my own principle.
I’m not an idiot.
You…
I will!
I will do that, OK?
I need to leave for a few days.
You will be me when I’m out.
Leave?
Where are you going?
Ye City.
Please don’t!
It’s a felony for border guard
to leave the post without permission.
General, you are our leader.
If you go somewhere else
and leave me alone here,
this can’t work.
You…
No, no.
General, you can’t do that.
What?
You don’t want to help me?
I can help you.
General, my life doesn’t matter.
But if you leave for Ye City,
once you are found,
you will be sentenced to death.
You are leaving
your life to me.
I can’t bear it.
As long as you obey my arrangement,
it will be OK.
But I…
I’m going to save your friend, Bai Yi!
Bai Yi?
What’s wrong?
What happened to him?
He is a girl actually.
She is Baili Hongyi.
Then she disguised herself as a man
and came with me to Li City.
Now the Empress Dowager
ordered her to marry He Yao.
If I don’t go back,
she will marry that bastard.
Marry He Yao? She can’t!
She will be bullied!
Yes.
So I have to go back to save her.
Now, we should.
General, let’s change clothes.
God Water Xuanming will go back to Ye City.
So, you already
knew everything.
Then why did you
make me so worried?
We have planned so hard.
But it’s their own business to choose.
Since they have their choices,
we don’t bother to worry.
Even so,
we still need to guide them
to help them through the chaos
and get an early insight.
This is what you and I should do.
You have arranged it for God Wood as well?
You have already guided him
to figure out what to do.
Come on, touch me.
OK.
Come back early.
I will try my best.
Be careful
and come back early.
I will wait for you.
OK.
Please remember to come back early.
I’m afraid.
If you are not like me now,
I really want to…
Right,
if they come to see you,
what should I do?
If they come,
tell them you are sick
and ask Mu Qi to handle it.
He will do it well.
Then…
what if Mr. Mu
can’t handle it?
Trim the sails.
Trim the sails…
Then
what if they
find it out?
If so,
not only my family,
but your family will also be doomed.
General! Take care!
Trim the sails.
General.
General,
the heads of the tribes have gathered to stand by.
Everything is ready for the
new battalion’s roll call in three days.
Follow me.
Yes.
Has the date of Bali Hongyi’s wedding be settled?
Yes.
Three days after.
The same day?
Yes.
What’s wrong?
This is Qianshan Order.
It can gather the people of Youwu.
General.
Take it.
[Order]
It’s urgent.
There is no time
for me to gather them myself.
Give my order for me
that after three days,
take Youwu
to the woods at the eastern suburbs of Taigu border
and wait for my news.
General,
Taigu is at the border
between Yo and Lang.
General, you are going to Yo?
Then what about the roll call?
I got something more important
to do.
The roll call will be OK.
General,
I will wait for you at the place
you ordered.
[Marquis Zhenbei's Mansion]
Take it. Be careful.
OK.
Put it right there.
I see, Mr. He.
Hurry up.
Be careful.
Take it easy.
Yes, take it easy.
Don’t break it.
Got it, Mr. He.
Hurry up.
OK.
Leave me…
Hongyi.
You brat!
Finally you are back.
I asked brother to beg His Majesty
to call you back.
I didn’t expect that he would agree.
What are you doing?
I…
I’m going to get married.
Hongshuo?
Why are you back?
Hongyi is getting married.
Can’t I be back?
Of course you can.
I’ll go tell Hongxuan now.
He must be happy.
Don’t be rude to her.
Jinyang is a nice one.
What’s more,
after I leave here…
Come with me.
To where?
It’s a big world.
We can go anywhere we want.
What are you talking about?
If you stay here,
you will have to marry He Yao.
Don’t you know
what kind of people he is?
Of course I know.
But I am a girl,
I have to marry someone.
Don’t you always
push me to get married?
I didn’t mean that you should marry him.
I know
you are worried that
I will be bullied.
But he has never
won in our fights since childhood.
I won’t be bullied.
Are you willing to marry him?
It’s not a matter
about my will.
It’s the imperial order.
No one can refuse it.
What’s more,
I think he is the only one in Ye City
who dares to marry me.
Right?
Since you are back,
have a seat and drink with me.
Let’s get drunk together today!
Then I won’t know
where they will take me to
tomorrow.
Follow me.
To where?
To beg His Majesty
to marry you to me.
What are you talking about?
I meant it.
I know you are worrying about me.
But this is no joke.
I’m serious.
Hongyi, I want to marry you.
I don’t know since when
you have
lived in my heart.
Maybe it’s the time
when father took you back to our home.
[Or maybe]
[from the time when you bit me.]
I don’t want to leave you.
I don’t want to leave you either.
You are my closest
and beloved brother.
But that
is different from love.
Understand?
I know.
That’s great.
I know,
and that’s why I must marry you.
I won’t let you
marry anyone else.
Baili Hongshuo,
if you talk nonsense again,
I will get mad!
I won’t
let you go this time.
Hongyi,
please leave with me.
I meant it.
What are you doing?
Hongxuan,
Hongshuo is here to see me off.
Why is that?
Hongyi,
Jinyang wants you to try the bottom drawer.
From now on,
I won’t let anyone
take Hongyi away from me.
Hongshuo,
you…
Go now.
Hongyi,
you heard what I
said just now.
I’ll keep my word.
Wait for me.
It is a capital crime for a general
to leave his post!
Why did you ask Hongyi
to marry He Yao?
It’s the imperial order
from His Majesty and Her Highness!
No one can defy!
Then I will go beg His Majesty
to marry Hongyi to me.
Ridiculous!
His Majesty
wants to use this marriage
to balance the rivalry between the He’s family
and us.
How could he let you ruin it?
So I need to take Hongyi
away from Ye City,
the place
in where we can only be controlled.
It’s also
Hongyi’s choice to marry He Yao.
Hongyi, or you,
since you
got the family name of Baili,
you are doomed to pay everything
for the family.
Love, marriage,
even life!
Since she
is a member of our family,
she should understand this.
I know.
Hongxuan,
you have paid a lot for Baili.
But now
are you going to
sacrifice Hongyi’s happiness
as well?
You still care about Hongyi.
Then let me take her away.
Will she be happy if you take her away?
She only treats you as her young brother.
She doesn’t love you at all.
It's just your wishful thinking.
At lease she doesn’t
need to marry someone
she doesn’t love if she leaves here.
Hongyi won’t leave with you.
Are you sure about it?
If you are,
why did you lie to her that
I will come back?
Why did you hide the news
about her marriage from me?
Because I know you!
If she leaves here,
all the people in Mansion will die.
So you arranged all the guards
outside the city,
didn't you?
You are afraid that she will escape,
so you want to push her to the bad end,
right?
As long as I am here,
I won’t allow you
to destroy our family.
Are you going to fight with me?
Hongxuan,
is that really what you want?
Do you really want
to send Hongyi to the danger?
Hongyi.
Hongxuan.
Where is Hongshuo?
He left.
He said he doesn’t want to see you get married.
It’s late now.
I’ll go back to rest.
Hongyi.
You know
Hongshuo’s temper.
He will say
anything if he is mad.
I know.
He said those ravings because he
doesn’t want me to marry He Yao.
Do you want to drink?
I can accompany you.
Forget it.
I’m afraid I will get drunk,
which will make you angry.
And, I have to get up early tomorrow.
Then, have a good rest.
It will be tiring tomorrow.
This is a good thing.
It’s called obsidian.
It comes from the heaven.
You will like it.
Yes, it’s so beautiful.
[Are you willing to marry him?]
[It’s the imperial order.]
[No one can refuse it.]
[Follow me.]
To where?
To beg His Majesty
to marry you to me.
Hongyi, I want to marry you.
I don’t know since when
you have lived in my heart.
Maybe it’s the time
when father took you back to our home.
Or maybe
from the time when you bit me.
[I don’t want to leave you.]
You’re awake.
I want to see Hongyi.