(Eternal Love of Dream)
(Episode 20)
Elope?
What do you mean?
Rumor has it that General Ye disappeared with Her Majesty.
His Majesty was so furious that
he had all the Imperial Guards search for them.
Well...
How could they be together?
Right!
Now ministers are talking.
Rumor has it that General Ye and Her Majesty
are close to each other in private.
I also heard that
letters between them have been found in Yue Hua Palace.
It seems they've loved each other for quite some time.
Love each other?
How dare she!
She shows no respect to the imperial family.
When they are caught,
I wonder how they will defend themselves.
Really?
Now we have to stop all our plans.
The Crowning Ceremony for the empress is called off suddenly.
We can't find another opportunity to break into the imperial palace.
Your Highness, take it easy.
I find it
to our benefit instead.
What do you mean?
Your Highness, think about it.
Ye Qingti and the new empress have an affair.
Whether he's caught or not,
will His Majesty still trust him?
Your Highness once told me that
the Imperial Guards under the command of Ye Qingti are unbreakable.
What about now?
He's gone.
Your Highness,
aren't we blessed by the God?
Your Highness, we're waiting for you.
Everything is ready.
Shall we take a break?
How long will it take for us to leave the State of Chengyu?
Two days and two nights.
It still has to take so long!
Now we're heading north.
We have to pass Hui'an and Luwei to reach the border.
Only after leaving the State of Chengyu
can we be completely safe.
Do you regret it?
No.
I just feel sorry
to drag you into this.
No need to be so polite to me.
Well, hurry up and go.
Now all the forcing troops in the imperial palace
are probably sent out to search for us.
The longer we stay, the more dangerous it will be.
OK.
Damn it!
They're here.
General! Your Majesty!
Come back with us.
Xiaojiu, leave now.
I'll handle them.
General,
His Majesty's order can't be defied.
Don't make me!
Stop!
Why don't you leave?
I can't watch you die!
You should run away.
If I run away,
I won't be able to forgive myself the rest of my life.
I'll go with you.
Fine!
If I can't give you a new life,
I might as well die with you.
Sorrowless cake?
Is it made by Your Majesty yourself?
Certainly, it's made by myself,
but it's not sorrowless cake.
Have a taste first.
It's delicious.
I specially choose lily to make it.
According to the secret recipe,
it's elaborately made through three procedures.
I'll call it
lily cake.
Lily cake?
It's a good name.
The name of sorrowless flower
means one can be carefree,
while lily represents ones who worship each other
can have a harmonious union for a hundred years.
It's a common wish between the two.
Isn't the implied meaning of lily
much better than that of sorrowless flower?
In the future, you don't need to be afraid.
In the palace,
my love for you is the most powerful weapon for you.
You can use it at your free will.
You can do whatever you want to do.
I believe that
one day
you will entrust me.
You're the first one who treats me this way.
Your wound?
I happened to get
an effective ointment for curing scars.
This is cotton rose ointment
I specially made for you, Your Majesty.
Please go inside.
♪ Whisper love in dreams. ♪
♪ Everything I think about is for my lover. ♪
♪ In one moment, I forget about what confuses me. ♪
♪ Because I'm surrounded by love. ♪
♪ If we become strangers only to recognize each other again, ♪
♪ will you remember our past? ♪
Are you fond of what I've awarded you?
I made the incense in person,
and I also selected the censer for you.
Do you like it?
Really?
Your Majesty made it in person?
I like it.
This kind of reward is enough for me.
I'll protect you from now on.
And I won't force you to do anything.
♪ Go far away in your shadow. ♪
♪ I'm free but I have nothing. ♪
♪ Let memories gather dust. ♪
♪ I can't see us be together forever. ♪
Tonight,
I originally planned a big garden tour.
For us,
the entire garden is planted with lilies,
implying that we'll live a harmonious life for a hundred years.
I also had someone
invite the most famous theatrical troupe in the State
to perform your favorite play.
What a pity!
You missed the chance.
So did I.
When did you start with him?
I know you've been lying to me.
That night,
you told me you lost yourself in the story you heard.
But inside the capital,
no storyteller told a story about
the emperor and his beauty that day.
You were with him, right?
Yes.
I asked General Ye to take me away.
Why not go away that time?
Why?
Because I didn't want to give up high position and great wealth.
Then what you told me before
are all lies.
You told me
your feelings for me are real
even if you act against your will.
I don't feel like telling the truth from the false.
Just tell me directly.
What am I to you?
I risked universal condemnation
and made you the Imperial Lady, the Madam, and the empress!
What did you do?
Is this how you pay me back?
Is this how you treat me?
I'm...
I'm sorry!
Don't apologize to me!
I should admire you!
Because you really make me feel that
I can't even get a woman.
I made you my empress,
but even that didn't get me your love,
or awake your conscience.
Why did you wait
till the Crowning Ceremony to put on such a show?
Am I a big joke to you?
You're still thinking about him and worrying about him,
right?
I'm thinking that
it's a mistake from the start.
You regret meeting me,
right?
Your Majesty, if I didn't meet you,
I wouldn't have been able to save you.
I've never regretted meeting you.
I don't want to see you ever again.
Guards.
♪ It's like falling leaves tapping on the gate. ♪
♪ I used to be a fool who followed you all the time. ♪
♪ The transient affection ♪
♪ only gets deeper for hatred. ♪
♪ If we bid farewell only to meet again, ♪
♪ will you give up on us. ♪
♪ I'd rather wake up from my sweetest dream to keep you safe, ♪
♪ even if I have to be burnt down in flames. ♪
♪ I can't decide whether to leave or to stay. ♪
♪ The vast universe changes nonstop. ♪
♪ Never have you stopped fighting for our love. ♪
♪ Go far away in your shadow. ♪
♪ I'm free but I have nothing. ♪
♪ Let memories gather dust. ♪
♪ I can't see us be together forever. ♪
♪ Hide the hopeless dream in the bedside sleeve. ♪
No need to see each other ever again.
♪ I said I love you, and I'll honor that promise forever. ♪
Your Majesty!
♪ If I was in your eyes, ♪
♪ remember not to let tears take me away. ♪
Don't touch her!
Take her to prison.
Mother!
Your Majesty,
treacherous and adulterous as they are,
they actually did something so shameless.
I beg Your Majesty to kill them
to show the innocence of our State.
Your Majesty,
you can't be indecisive in this.
Coming from the countryside,
Bai Xiaojiu is of unknown origin.
Now she even made the State of Chengyu a joke!
And she made Your Majesty a joke!
She's definitely a disaster.
We must kill her!
Right, Your Majesty!
That's all for today.
The court session is finished.
Your Majesty, see you!
Your Majesty! Your Majesty!
Go somewhere with me.
Where?
I want to see him
and ask him for the truth.
I want to talk with General Ye.
Leave us alone.
Yes!
Take a seat.
I dare not.
You even dared elope with my empress.
What else dare you not do?
Won't you explain to me?
What's done is done.
It's useless to explain.
You're quite honest.
You won't tell me.
Fine.
I'll ask you questions.
Just answer them.
When did you start?
The minute I knew she's a woman,
I fell in love with her.
However,
she was soon appointed as the empress.
What about her?
I don't know.
You don't know?
Xiaojiu only told me that
she preferred to abandon herself to nature
than stay in the imperial palace.
I was the one who brought her into the imperial palace,
so...
So you took her out the day before her Crowing Ceremony.
Ye Qingti,
did you embarrass me
and the State of Chengyu on purpose?
I've made a huge mistake this time.
Death is not sufficient for my sin.
The celestial phenomenon today
is rarely seen over the past decade, with Yin Qi reaching its prime.
It's the God's will that
the State of Chengyu goes through an upheaval!
How many men have you got me?
Thirty.
Thirty?
Are you kidding me?
How can I attack the capital with only thirty people?
Your Highness,
don't underestimate them.
They're the first-class martial arts masters
of the State of Chong'an,
who can withstand a hundred men.
Let's split up later.
One team attacks the capital,
and the other takes the treasure.
What about the war inside the capital?
Your Highness,
you only need to open the gate for me.
Someone will lead a hundred men to attack the troops inside the capital.
Isn't Ye Qingti in prison now?
Without Ye Qingti,
the Imperial Guards will be utterly routed.
Your Highness, you don't have to mind the war inside the capital.
Just go straight to take the treasure.
Also,
we'll make a feint somewhere else to hide our real target.
Nothing can go wrong this time.
Your Highness, I've got something for you.
What's this?
It's the Demon Knife Lanyu.
Lanyu?
Your Highness, if you're in danger,
the knife can help you.
If anyone stands in your way,
just kill him.
Then let's
wait and see.
I've seen it all high above.
What a silly girl!
Why did you do that?
His Majesty has to take the romance misfortune.
But by doing so,
my heart really hurts.
Well,
you shouldn't have come to the mortal realm back then.
What's the point of saying that?
Luckily, it's all gonna end soon.
To be honest,
I'm really impressed that
you could cause such big trouble this time.
In the mortal realm,
I read many stories.
I tried all the methods
with which those ladies successfully hurt those childes' feelings,
but His Majesty still loved me dearly.
Now I failed not only His Majesty,
but General Ye.
You failed His Majesty for Emperor Dong Hua's sake.
What about General Ye?
Actually, we know nothing about
human love in the mortal realm.
But love is a sin.
Meeting and departing are uncertain.
Perhaps, meeting with you
is a misfortune for him in his life.
Fine.
I'll keep you company a little longer.
Well,
this is for you.
What's this?
If His Majesty really wants to kill you,
it can relieve your pain when you go back to the Sky Kingdom.
What did you just say?
Say it again!
Mother, I beg you
to spare Xiaojiu's life.
She betrayed you,
but you still want to protect her.
Are you out of your mind?
Let me ask you.
How are you going to do with them?
Xiaojiu was brought back by me.
She doesn't belong to the imperial palace.
Just remove her title
and demote her to a civilian.
Let her go back to normal.
What about Ye Qingti?
You also want to spare him, right?
General Ye has fought battles for our State.
Though he has made a big mistake this time,
the Ye family is loyal and many of its members died as martyrs.
Old General Ye was killed in the battlefield to protect the late Emperor.
Ye Qingti is the only descendant of the Ye family.
Just take back the General's Mansion.
Order the Ye family to move back to their ancestral home to mourn for their ancestors.
Never shall they return to the capital.
Nor shall any member of the Ye family be appointed as an official.
Song Xuanren! Song Xuanren!
When sister was carrying you,
she told me that
she had prayed to God every night,
hoping that her child could be kind.
But unexpectedly,
your kindness has made you so weak
and easily bullied!
Ye Qingti shall be spared
for the sake of his ancestors,
but what about that woman?
She has disgraced not only you,
but the entire State of Chengyu.
I must kill her!
Mother!
What's the point of killing her?
Please spare her life.
If you let her live,
you're asking me to die!
Just leave.
I won't.
Mother, if you don't promise to spare her life,
I won't get up.
You!
Good for you!
You're actually on your knees for a woman!
Fine!
If you want to kneel down, so be it!
Damn it!
What's wrong?
Something's wrong.
Your Majesty!
Bad news!
It's an emergency!
Send all the Imperial Guards
to the gate of the imperial palace.
Don't let them break in!
Get out of the capital now and transfer some forces
to reinforce the imperial palace directly!
But General Ye was in charge of dispatching forces.
Now you're in charge!
Yes!
Why did they break in so fast?
I heard that an enemy agent has sneaked into the imperial palace.
Release General Ye from the prison
to guard the capital!
Yes!
Report!
What now?
Your Majesty,
word just came from the prison that
Madam Jiu asked to see you.
Did she say why?
Having heard an outburst of civil stifle,
Madam Jiu insisted on seeing Your Majesty.
General Ye, please.
General!
Where are the Imperial Guards?
They're all out guarding the capital!
What's up?
Your Majesty,
I heard today that enemy troops are invading the capital.
Though I don't know the details,
I do know that
Your Majesty must be deeply troubled.
Then thanks for your care.
Your Majesty, I have a request to make.
Go ahead.
I know I've committed a deadly sin
and got General Ye into trouble,
but right now,
I beg Your Majesty to put the State first
and release General Ye,
so that he can protect thousands of civilians in the capital.
So you have me here
to intercede for him.
No, it's not for him,
but for thousands of civilians,
for the State of Chengyu,
and also,
also for you.
Enough!
Your Majesty,
Unblessed and ill-fated as I am,
I don't deserve
everything you've done for me.
I know I shouldn't ask any favor
from Your Majesty now.
I'm willing to die to atone for my sin.
Please spare General Ye's life
and let him fight the enemy troops.
Your Majesty, thank you!
Come with me.
The show is finally on.
Your Highness,
it's time for us to move.
Imperial Guards!
Guard the capital with your lives!
Yes!
Charge!
Your Highness!
I'm here to take the Lingbi Stone at His Majesty's bidding.
Let us in now!
Your Highness, His Majesty ordered that unless he's here in person,
no one is allowed in.
This is...
It leads to the outside of the imperial palace.
I'll send you out.
Wait!
What's up?
Your Majesty, something's wrong.
Just think about it.
Why do the enemy troops invade so smoothly?
All signs indicate that
there's a spy inside the imperial palace.
But I think
it's not that simple.
Given what Chu Wan did,
plus the current riot,
all these might be set up by the State of Chong'an
to steal the Lingbi Stone.
Yang Shun.
Yes!
Find General Ye now!
Ask him to lead two thousand picked troops to the Emperor's Tomb immediately.
Ask him not to get too involved in the war.
Yes!
Follow me!
Go!
Go get it.
Emperor Dong Hua!
It's you!
You're also here!
The imperial palace is about to be destroyed,
and your men are about to be wiped out.
Yet, you still can't let go of the Lingbi Stone.
You colluded with the enemy troops.
Now you even want to steal the Lingbi Stone?
No.
You not only want the Lingbi Stone,
but the throne.
Yes!
You're right.
I'll take both of them today.
The State of Chengyu is supposed to be mine.
So is the Lingbi Stone.
Why should I steal them?
Speaking of stealing,
it should be you.
Song Xuanren!
What're you talking about?
In the imperial palace,
I'm your elder brother.
Your mother died,
so my mother becomes your mother.
She's favored you all the time since childhood.
She even forgets that
I'm her natural son.
How come you were made the Crown Prince at birth?
Why do father and mother
favor you all the time?
I've done so many things and tried so hard,
but they just don't see it.
In their eyes,
I'm just a loser.
But you,
Song Xuanren,
when you were born,
strange celestial phenomenon appeared and your own mother died.
Your birth
would actually bring misfortune to the State of Chengyu.
I brought misfortune?
You colluded with the State of Chong'an
and destroyed our capital.
Which one of us
actually brought misfortune to the State of Chengyu?