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Under The Power
Episode 24
Yuan Jinxia,
I can't believe you have to die in such a horrible place.
The sense of loneliness
isn't fun at all.
So cold!
I'm so cold!
I wanna sleep.
One, two, three.
Three, two, one.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
The seven stars show us directions.
The Big Dipper pointing to the east means spring.
The Big Dipper pointing to the south means summer.
The Big Dipper pointing to the west means autumn.
The Big Dipper pointing to the north means winter.
The Big Dipper pointing to the east means spring.
The Big Dipper pointing to the south means summer.
The Big Dipper pointing to the west means autumn.
The Big Dipper pointing to the north means winter.
Mom?
Be careful.
Slow down.
Mom?
Mom!
Mom? Mommy!
Mom!
Mom? Mommy!
Mom!
Who would have thought
the hell is
taking me away so soon?
It's good, though.
The sooner I die, the sooner I'll be reincarnated.
Jinxia?
Jinxia!
Your Excellency.
It's you?
Who else did you think it was?
It's good enough having you by my side
in my last moment.
Don't talk nonsense.
Your Excellency,
you must consent to my request in the letter.
I beg you.
It's impossible.
If you're leaving irresonsibly,
yet you still want your pension?
I won't give you a penny.
Your Excellency,
you can't be such a ungrateful wretch.
I shouldn't have saved your life.
Who told you to act on your own?
My life doesn't need saving by exchanging with someone else's.
I have done it anyway.
Never mind.
We don't owe each other anymore.
Mom said that I'd always been a jinx since young.
So death stays away from me.
I've escaped from death for countless times during investigations.
Who would know that
I'd lose my life this time
just for saving you?
But Your Excellency,
if God really takes me away this time,
please don't make yourself feel uneasy about that.
I don't regret doing this.
Jinxia!
This wrist strap is for you.
Your Excellency,
well...
It's my mother's legacy.
I treat it like it's my life.
Because it's my keepsake.
Now I want you to keep it.
You must take good care of it.
I've always thought that there would always be someone protecting me if the skies fell down.
I'm not so worried now.
Your Excellency, you must be tired after the long day.
Let me massage your back and shoulders.
Let me massage your head
and smoothen your veins. You'll feel very comfortable.
Your Excellency,
how can you lose something so important like this?
Take it.
Your Excellency. Just hide here.
I'll get them away and come back to you later.
Hide.
Let's head back home.
No.
Even with just a little spark of hope,
we still have to try.
Your Excellency, you should take a rest.
By giving you this wrist strap,
I'm telling you that you must not die.
My mom passed away.
The harp's strings were broken.
I always bring the string that has my mom's bloodstain
with me
as something to remind me of her.
Your Excellency, is the wrist strap
what you don't wanna lose, or me?
Jinxia!
How are you feeling, Jinxia?
You're all here.
Looks like I won't die in loneliness.
Because I still have my friends here with me.
What nonsense are you talking about?
Jinxia,
you're not gonna die.
What's wrong with you guys?
Don't be like that.
I don't like this atmosphere at all.
Jinxia,
you can't leave me here.
Or my father will skin me alive
when I get back home.
And there is...
there is your mother, too.
She's still waiting for you at home.
My mother?
Your Excellency,
you must give my mother the pension.
Even at this moment,
you still talk about money?
-Jinxia! -Jinxia!
Jinxia, how are you?
Jinxia!
Little girl!
Doctor Lin.
Doctor Lin, come check her.
Ling, hurry up.
Doctor Lin, how is she?
I'll try my best.
I'll make some medicine for her.
Lu Yi.
Let's have a quick talk.
Jinxia,
you have to hold in there.
With Jinxia's state,
only a miracle
can bring her back to life.
Your Excellency.
If one day I were not with you anymore,
would you be sad?
Ling,
tell me the truth.
How likely can you cure her?
Very unlikely.
This is the last method
that I've found in the book.
We can only gamble now.
The last method?
There is an ancient prescription in my book
that uses the essence of seven extremely deadly plants,
which means we fight poison with poison.
It's just that the toxins are too strong to bear.
Besides,
I've never used this method before.
So I don't know if she'll bear it.
It looks like we can only gamble now.
Death really hates Jinxia.
I do believe that she can survive this.
This depends on her fate now.
Let me do this.
Jinxia,
you must overcome this.
There are many good meals that I want to take you to enjoy.
The medicine is ready.
Make way. Make way please.
Let me help you.
It's spilled.
It's really hot.
Let me.
Jinxia?
Jinxia!
Doctor Lin, what's going on?
Why is she not getting better?
Why is she like this?
I made her medicine with seven toxins
that are extremely poisonous.
After Jinxia drinks it,
the toxins will spread out and slow her blood flow down.
Her heart pulse will be back to normal
but her body will be like being in an ice cave of the ice age.
It's up to her fate
to decide whether she can make it.
Doctor Lin?
Doctor Lin!
Is there any other way?
I have never believed in Gods or Buddhas.
But this time,
I hope you can help me.
Leave him alone.
Let him give vent to it.
You should comfort that one.
He's all for you now.
I know you and Jinxia are like brother and sister,
and you two are also colleagues.
You must be really sad
seeing her like this.
Although we all feel sorry for what happened,
life and death are decided by fate,
and wealth and rank are matters of destiny.
You...
You must think of me as useless
when seeing me like this, right?
Back then when Xie Xiao ran away from the marriage,
it took me quite a long time to heal the wound,
to recover my mental health.
I know
it is useless to give you any solace now.
But as long as Jinxia still has just a weak breath,
we still have hope.
Right?
Take this.
Wipe your tears away.
If Jinxia sees you like this when she wakes up,
she'll be even more sorrowful than you are.
Your Majesty,
you don't look so well.
Please have some rest.
You can do that later.
No need.
How can I rest
if I don't read all these annoying things?
Go.
Get me the elixir that Danqing Taoist Temple
brought here.
Yes.
Your Majesty.
Slow down.
Your Majesty?
Your Majesty!
Men!
Your Majesty! Your Majesty!
Your Majesty!
Go, go get the imperial doctors.
Hurry!
-Doctors! -Your Majesty!
Your Majesty!
Your Excellency,
Eunuch Lu requests to meet you.
Commander Lu.
After having the elixir
that the Danqing Taoist Temple made,
His Majesty suddenly passed out.
Passed out?
Yes.
It's so chaotic there.
The doctors
are awaiting orders.
Cen Fu,
call some elite embroidered uniform guards together
to get to the palace to protect His Majesty.
Yes.
So fortunate for us!
She's saved.
-That's great. -That's great.
Great.
It's good she's waking up.
She made us so worried.
She's survived from such an incident like this.
Great fortune must be waiting for her.
I'll go make medicine.
Dajian.
OK, OK, OK, I'll go with you.
Mom!
Jinxia?
Mom!
Jinxia, you're awake.
Jinxia,
you've finally woken up.
Doctor Lin told us that
you've survived it.
You must be starving
after sleeping for so long, right?
Tell me what you wanna eat.
I'll cook for you.
I want...
to eat meat.
Meat?
Sure.
I'll make you a chicken dish.
Wait.
There are only vegetables at Doctor Lin's place,
no livestock.
Maybe I can hunt some wild animals.
Wait for me. Wait for me to come back.
Let me go instead.
Jinxia,
wild chickens,
wild ducks,
wild rabbits, or wild boars,
whatever you want, just tell me.
I'll get them for you.
Constable Yang,
just wait for me in the kitchen.
OK.
Hurry up.
And remember to catch big ones.
OK.
It's good now.
I'll help them.
Your Excellency,
you told me that I must live
to take care of this wrist strap.
It turns out I really didn't die.
But looks like I won't have my pension now.
It's quite a good amount of money.
Just be thankful to be alive.
From now on,
your salary will be doubled.
Thank you.
It's my mother's legacy.
I treat it like it's my life.
Because it's my keepsake.
Now I want you to keep it.
You must take good care of it.
Forgive me for what I'm about to say.
But is this wrist strap
a token of affection from a girl?
A token of affection from a girl?
It worked like that indeed.
And it's even a lifetime promise.
Why did His Majesty suddenly get sick?
I want to know why too.
What can we do now?
Who'll decide the court matters now?
What to do now?
Godfather,
this Taoist who made the elixir
was recommended by Xu Jing.
Should we use this chance to...
This makes everyone so worried.
As long as His Majesty is all right,
you and I can have great powers.
After all, "Every emperor has his own favorite people".
You're right.
Eunuch Li came out.
Mr. Yan Song.
How's His Majesty?
He just woke up.
His Majesty is inviting the presence of you all.
Your Majesty!
Mr. Yan Song, slow down.
-Your Majesty! -Your Majesty!
Mr. Lu!
-Your Majesty! -Your Majesty!
Mr. Yan Song, slow down.
Mr. Lu, you slow down too.
-Your Majesty! -Your Majesty!
-Your Majesty! Your Majesty! -Your Majesty!
I've been so worried this time
when Your Majesty was in danger like this.
I received everything from you, so I must be a loyal servant to you.
I didn't serve you well
as an official,
which left a bad guy a chance,
using the elixir to harm Your Majesty.
Please punish me.
That doesn't have anything to do with you.
Stand up, all of you.
Thank you, Your Majesty.
Please consider wisely.
My loyalty towards Your Majesty
can be approved by the gods.
Moreover,
Your Majesty has always been taking that elixir
and nothing went wrong.
Could it be that someone swapped the real elixir out?
About this,
I have a plan myself.
Mr. Xu,
before the truth is found,
you'll be temporarily
confined in your mansion.
I am innocent.
But I'll accept any punishment.
Get up.
Thank you, Your Majesty.
Everyone,
if you have no more business here,
you may leave.
Yes, Your Majesty.
Mr. Lu,
stay.
Your Majesty?
Mr. Lu,
what do you think
about this incident?
Your Majesty,
I think Mr. Xu has gotten the point.
You've used Master Yuanming's elixir
for years.
Had he gotten any bad intentions,
he would've done it long ago.
But because the incident happened due to the elixir,
suspicion on Master Yuan Ming is certainly unavoidable.
It makes sense.
You will be in charge of
investigating this.
Yes, Your Majesty.
Mr. Yan Song.
His Majesty ordered a house arrest on me.
So, I might not be going outside for a while.
So, I may
have to leave now.
All right.
Godfather.
Don't be so polite. I can't handle that.
I...
Godfather.
I know that
you're upset about what I said back then.
You're upset because I didn't listen to you.
But I really had no idea what to do.
That wicked Xu Jing
kept coming after me all the time.
He took advantage of Zhou Xianyi's case
to accuse me in front of His Majesty last time.
Had you not helped me,
I would've lost my official position already.
You're tough now.
You don't listen to me anymore.
So you're on your own now.
Godfather!
If anything bad happens to Jinxia,
I won't forgive you.
Is it because Jinxia saved me?
Yes.
Besides Jinxia,
I don't think we have anything
between us now.
Only Jinxia can settle this debt
with me.
It's none of your business.
Just because Jinxia can't get out of bed
to do that,
it doesn't mean you can do whatever you want.
If you stir up my passion,
I'll beat you up really hard.
Don't ask me for mercy then.
Fine.
Let's do it now.
Don't think that I don't know
what's in your mind.
If I hit you now,
you with your weak body
can never withstand it.
And beating wouldn't bring me any good.
And Jinxia saved your life.
I don't want her to waste the effort for nothing.
I don't know how much Jinxia
owed you in her former existence.
But
it's enough for her having lost half her life to save you.
I have a plan now.
I'll take her away
as soon as she fully recovers.
Since you can't protect her,
let me do it instead.
Are you sure that the Blue Hairpin poison
in Lu Yi's body has been removed?
I've confirmed that many times.
Besides, the old man we're looking for
is with Lu Yi and the others.
Looks like he and that woman from Maple Col
are really close to each other.
That old man came from Pharma King Valley,
yet he can only make poisons but not antidotes.
And everyone there
is not skilled in medicine.
If you say that the poison in Lu Yi has been removed,
it seems like that woman from Maple Col
is not simple at all.
What are you gonna do, chief?
If she really can remove the Blue Hairpin poison,
then she is extremely crucial to us.
Lu Yi, Lu Yi,
you're just lucky.
Be careful.
Jinxia,
I've arranged your seat.
Right there next to me.
So that I can take care of you better.
No need for that.
Jinxia will sit next to me.
I can take care of her.
There's no need to bother you.
Don't you understand my words?
You just crawled out of
the sickbed too.
And you are gonna take care of her?
The best you can do is not bothering anyone.
I'm fine sitting there.
You...
I...
Enough.
I haven't even finished...
Are you gonna let me have my meal peacefully?
You fight every single day.
Can't keep your mouth shut for a moment?
Please leave immediately
after finishing this meal.
Well...
Xi...
Miss, Miss Shangguan.
Moistened pancakes?
Why did you think of making this?
It's really hard to make.
It is, indeed.
But I think that
you can touch others' hearts
if you can give them the taste of home.
Taste of home?
What do you mean by that?
So, where do you think
Doctor Lin is from?
Based on what I see,
I think she's from Fujian.
I did notice that
the tea she drank was Tieguanyin from Anxi.
If it isn't because she's homesick,
why does she collect so much of that tea?
Unexpectedly, you are so meticulous and observant.
You noticed even the smallest details.
Well, thanks.
Miss Shangguan,
maybe you wanna try one first.
We should have this together.
OK.
All the dishes are ready, so let's bring them out.
OK.
All right.
Lunch is served.
Everyone,
today I have done
my best for these dishes.
You should try.
How do you like them?
Smells nice.
Mr. Beggar.
You're forgetting me, right?
Oh gosh, you people...
Actually,
I've made your share.
Yang Yue cooked these?
Yes.
Nice.
You guys seem to have recovered a lot.
Consider this meal
as a way to say goodbye.
Aunt Lin,
you can come to the capital to visit me.
The scenery is really nice there.
The red leaves on the Fragrant Hills are beautiful.
I will take you for a walk then.
I wanna go too.
You still haven't fully recovered yet.
Don't just think about playing around.
Why do you know how to make this moistened pancake?
My father loves this,
so I make it at home quite often.
If you like what he made,
let him stay a little longer.
He'll cook for you every day.
I guarantee he can cook new dishes every time.
Your father is from Fujian?
It's not like that.
It's just that he used to eat this long ago
and he'd been missing the taste from then on.
It's been a long time since I last ate this.
I didn't expect that
I can have it here!
You're a constable at Department Six,
so who's your father?
He's the head constable of Department Six, Yang Chengwan.
Aunt Lin, you have heard of my master?
No.
It's just
it reminds me of an old friend.
May I ask
how to write the characters cheng and wan?
Cheng and wan in "peng cheng wan li (have a bright future)".
I took him for
someone else with a similar name.
Let's eat.
Or the food will get cold.
Let's eat.
Let's get started.
Come on.
Eat more.
Come on.
Here.
Thanks, Your Excellency.
I didn't know an embroidered uniform guard could serve others.
It looks like you often
work as a servant.
This dish of meatball with coriander is really good.
Maybe it can help you get rid of that awful smell
of your mouth.
Lu Yi!
Don't push me.
You seem to be in a good health now
I think you're ready for a fight.
The loser will bow his head and admit that he was wrong.
Mr. Xie is so heroic.
I only have a weak body,
so I'll admit defeat.
You...
Everybody would die for his dignity.
What a rare man you are, Mr. Lu,
to be so carefree!
If it were someone else,
I believe, for his honor,
he would accept the challenge.
Honor is
a trap people set up for themselves,
and also the most useless thing.
So what is the most important
to you?
Please hold on, Your Excellency.
As long as we find that great doctor,
you'll be saved.
I'm afraid that you may catch a cold
and your condition may be worse.
If you agree to exchange your life with his,
I'm certain I'll help him.
That's a deal.
Your Excellency,
if God really takes me away this time,
I won't regret doing this.
Affection,
which can mean friendship and comradeship.
What a pity!
Affection drives a person old.
What? Why are you talking to him?
Alright, Fatty Xiao, you should stop talking.
Let's eat. I'm starving now.
You're also on his side now?
I wonder
why I have a crush on you!
Man...
I'm full now.
Miss Shangguan?
Xi?
You guys go on.
I'll handle that.
But...
Let him go.
-Go. -How can she be full without eating?
How can there be
a naive person like that?
Doctor Lin,
what do you mean by that?
Nothing. Nothing.
Come on.
Let's eat.
Eat more.
Why couldn't you marry me?
I know that you definitely didn't like
a childish person like me.
It must have been my father and your father that forced you to do it.
You are very dutiful.
So you agreed
this marriage reluctantly.
But I couldn't ruin your whole life.
I wanna protect Yuan Jinxia forever.
Are you relieved now?
If I didn't stop you,
Doctor Lin's whole Maple Col
would be demolished by your sword.
Just enjoy my joke.
There's nothing funny.
You just said
affection drives a person old.
We're all just ordinary people,
so of course we can't avoid that.
There's nothing to laugh about.
I joined Wu'an Sect when I was young.
I owe Uncle Xie a lot.
That's why I know that,
although I'm not surnamed Xie,
I'm always a member of the Xie family.
Xie Xiao loves freedom.
He didn't want to take over Wu'an Sect,
so I took that job on behalf of him.
Deep inside,
I've always been seeing him as my husband.
Aren't you gonna tell him?
Will that help?
I'd only ask for getting hurt.
From the beginning,
this love
is only just my one-sided effort.
Since it's like that,
why should I bother him?
I'm feeling fine now.
Alright.
Let's go.
Are you really okay?
Why do you have to be so harsh on yourself?
Why can't you be like normal girls?
If you're not happy,
get mad,
put on airs,
and wait for the other to cheer you up?
You're just thinking for him
and he'll never notice you.
I thought that
you were a really strong girl.
But it turns out
you're no more than a coward.
You think that I don't want to get mad,
don't want to say anything I want,
and ignore others' feelings?
I want to do those things too.
But I can't.
You're right.
I'm a coward.
I'm afraid that once I go self-willed,
he'll hate me.
I'm afraid once I do anything wrong, he'll be disappointed.
The normal girls who you mentioned
can be carefree,
because they feel secure in the knowledge that they have backing.
Only people who are loved by their families from birth
can have that kind of confidence.
But I...
I can never have that in my life.
Sorry.
I was a bit cruel on you.
You must really
wanna kill me now.
Seems like every time you're sad,
I'm always at the scene.
If it were me in this,
I'm afraid I'd kill that jerk .
You're laughing now.
That means you're alright now.
Actually, to me,
you're much better than you think you are.
Don't underestimate yourself anymore.