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Nirvana in Fire

Episode 53

I think...

The plead of all the ministers is very reasonableYour Majesty, please grant their plead

You, you

-Your Majesty, your Majesty--Leave me

What do you think you're doing

Are you forcing me?

Xie Yu is long dead!

Merely by a hand-written letter that is easily forged

and herher words that come of sheer imagination

You want me to remand a decade old case

Your Majesty, Your Majesty

Your MajestyThis case is not only about what to charge Xie Yu

but rather to convince the country of the Imperial Court's sentences

If we let this go, rumors are sure to arise

What will take damage is Your Majesty's name and stability of the country

Therefore, I again beg Your Majesty, to accept our plead

and grant the remand of the Chiyan Case.

Your Majesty, I too support the plead!Such outrageous injustice has been unheard of

Whoever hears of this, cannot keep a clear conscienceand pretend not to know

Since the verdict war wrong, it has to be righted againThat's the most simplest principle Your Majesty

How dare you

Mu QingMu QingAre you revolting too

I too join in the plead

Your Majesty, Grand Princess Liyang words just now

show a clear string of logic, the facts unambiguous

Whether according to law or to reason, there is nothing that speaks against reviewing the case

I do not understand, what it is that causes Your Majesty to hesitate as such

Precisely as Marquis Yan pointed outYour Majesty, we support the pleadPlease grant us your approval

We support the plead. Pleas grant us your approval.

You are all clan relativesPart of the clan

WhoWho made you treat me like this

How could you all treat me like this?

Your Majesty

Jingyan

I join the plead Please grant approval to remand the Chiyan Case

You

You...it was you. I should have known

It must have been you.

According to Liyang's charge

The main culprits are no one else besides Xie Yu and Xia Jiang

As they have already been executedwhy are you still pushing for a retrial

This case concerns the truth, the innocence

It's not just about convicting two people

Then who else do you intend to convict

This case concerns cardinal principles of right and wrong

All those who are guilty,all those who have failed their duties, need to be punished

Such grand words"those who are guilty" "those who have failed their duties"

Just who are you talking about

What if I don't give my consent

Is the Crown Prince going to force me to abdicate my any chance

Jingyan has been taught by Prince Qi in my early yearsAs everyone knows

Brother's sole wish was for the kingdom to last for eternityand for the people to live in happiness

What he did not do in the past, I too will not.

So you will notWhat about him

If not for Sir Su's outstanding talents

I probably will not see such a scene

Surely now you will not tell me, that you can hold back, can you, Sir?

Will you keep silent

26th year of JingyunYour Majesty was still a prince

Falsely accused, a Damocles sword at your pulse

It was your classmate and camarade, later Commander of the Chiyan Army, Lin Xie

who risked his life and found evidence of your innocenceBrought them back to your precedessor

that saved Your Majesty's life

Jingyun 29, Struggle of the Five Princes poured the capital into blood

back then General Lin was onlya Commander General at the City Patrols

He himself led 300 men on horses, stormed into the Imperial Guard's battalion, used all his powers, finally helped Your Majesty to the throne

Silence!I order you, silence!

Kaiwen 10, Xijin was lost, Jinling surrounded

It was again General Lin, from the distant Southern Borders,he came to take down the enemy's leaderIn a bloody battle that lasted 3 days,he ended the chaos in Jinling

Whether as a friend or as a subordinateGeneral Lin never once betrayed Your Majesty's trust

What the Crown Prince and the ministers ask for today

is nothing but to restore the truth back then

Just why is Your Majesty this antagonistictowards such a natural request

You, youWho are you?You are not Su Zhe!

You are the resurrected traitor, aren't you?

Guards, kill him! Kill him!

Traitor

Traitor. Out of the way.

Traitor. Traitor.

-Traitor-Your Majesty

Traitor

Your Majesty. Your Majesty.

Traitor.

Move aside.

Move aside

Do not think I won't kill you.

if I kill you, tomorrow, there can stilla new crown prince.

You can kill me.

You can kill anyone who daresto reopen the Chiyan case because you are the emperor.

But once you have killed everyoneare you still the elevated emperor?

Jingyan has always taken Prince Qi as a role model

But I, will never be another Prince Qi

Traitors

Traitors

-Brother-Traitors

Traitors

Traitors

Traitors

Traitors

Traitors

Traitors

Traitors

Traitors

Traitors

Traitors

So be it.After the ceremony, we shall continue our battle

Your Highness

"We shall continue our battle"

What is there I can fight over now

UnknowinglyA Crown Prince, only my delegate in Court

Has long slipped out of my grasp

The Imperial Army, the Capital Patrols

All of them adhering to the orders of the Crown Prince

The Ministry of Defense, the Xingtai Army outside the capital

They are all his people.

Although I am the emperor, high above all else,

yet he has pushed into the corner,into such a pitiful situation

You dare to show yourself before me?

Your Majesty, the Crown Prince is onlyrequesting to reopen an old case,

not start a rebellion.

What is His Majesty calculating troops for?

You mother and son,you two have been hiding your ulterior motives all along

Scheming stealthily to remand the Chiyan Case

I truly must have been blind

to favor and trust such unfilial, disloyal creatures as you!

So the we were scheming.

But there is on thing Your Majesty should realize

The reason the Chiyan case is bound to be reopened

other than our "stealthy scheming",

there is another important reason.

What reason?

The truth.

The truth that was always there.

Your Majesty, as the Son of Heaven

As long as you don't want toknow what happened

no one can force you to.

Yet, even the most powerful and dignified emperor

has things he cannot achieve

For instanceYou cannot influence the conscience and morals of the people

you cannot change the criticism of historians in the future.

Just as you cannot prevent the once close deceased

From entering your dreams, walking towards you

Has Your Majesty recently again dreamt ofConsort Chen,

Princess Jinyang

-Dreamt of Prince Qi--Stop it!

Why are they looking for me?

It wasn't my fault. It was all Xia Jiang... Xia Jiang and Xie Yu.

I do believe

Even someone as despicable as Xia Jiang

Will have to have one or two personshe dare not see in his dreams

One thing that Xia Jiang was right about -he has returned hasn't he?

All of this, it was because of him.

It was because he came back. Isn't it?

What does it matter if he has or not?

Xia Jiang's treason is a fact,Chiyan's innocence, too, is a fact

Your Majesty only has to be clear on these two things

you can see it like black and white, whatmore is there to infer?

Has Your Majesty still not realized

That time, the bond between father and son,the love between husband and wife,the fraternity between comrades,

the commitment between emperor and subordinateThey all disappeared

amidst your endless, ungrounded suspcions

I don't want to hear this. Gao Zhan!

Gao Zhan!

Coming

-Your Majesty-What is the current state outside?

-The crown prince is outside the palace-And the Ministers?

Your Majesty, none of them have left the court.

Your Majesty, would youlike to meet with the Prince?

No. Not the Crown Prince.

I want to see Su Zhe.

I want to speak with him alone.

Yes.

If you don't want to see him, youdon't need to go in.

There was a time when he wasjust a doting uncle.

But now there is only hatred and bitternessbetween us.

Xiao Shu

He cannot stop me from re-trialing the Chiyan case.

Don't worry. He and I will just be having a chat.

Greetings, your Majesty.

Remember the first time I met you, I asked you

why did you come to Capital for?

You said it was because you saw somethingin Jingxuan and Jinghuan

that you had to come, am I right?

It was the truth.

But it wasn't the whole truth.

At the time, everything was under your Majesty's control. How could I tell the complete truth?

And now? Now I have grown old and fragile in the palace

Unable to command a single soldier

So now, you no longer

need to have any scruples, do you?

Your Majesty is still Your Majesty.Even now, the people await your rule of virtue and justice

So you mean to say, that only if I agreeto reinvestigate the Chiyan Case,

will I be considered "virtuous" and "just"?

The Crown Prince has hold of the entire Court now

I can no longer do him any harm

Why did you not wait till I died beforere-trialing this case?

Because that would be different.

What would be different?

For Prince Qi, it would be different.

-How long has he been in there? He--His Majesty right now can't do anything to Xiao Shu.

Tell me then, at Jiu An San

why didn't you take action then?

This is what your Majesty asks.

Consort Chen. Prince Qi. Princess Jingyang.

Those that died, were they not related to your Majesty? Were they not your family?

But the moment their names are mentioned,what is it that your Majesty thinks?

I don't believe it. Do you really just want a re-trial?

Especially you. I don't believe you.

How hours has it been since PrincessLiyang spoke of Xie Yue's written confession?

Does your Majesty not want to seeXie Yue's confession?

Does the truth of what happened really not matter to you?

Your son, your blood, was forced to death,

-does this not bother you?-Enough!

Enough

I have seen this confession.How General Lin was framed,

how Prince Qi wronged, died in prison

Everything was written very clearlyand detailed.

I have a copy, does His Majesty wantto read it?

No

Or I can read it to His Majesty.

No, don't read it.

I..I don't want to hear it. Don't read it.

Does His Majesty not want to hear itor is it because he's afraid of what he will hear?

Prior to his death, Prince Qi insisted for the Imperial Orderthat instructed his execution to be repeated thrice

After he heard the edict, he said only one thing.

Father does not know the son, son does not know the father.

After saying that, he drank the poison wine. Does His Majesty know why he said those words?

If Your Majesty knew Prince Qi

You would not suspect him of ever wanting to revolt

If Prince Qi knew Your Majesty

He would never go as far as refusing to believe till his execution, that you truly wanted to kill him

Your Majesty, may I askNow, knowing that both Prince Qi and General Lin were innocent

Do you feel even the slightest bit of regret?

But Lin Xie, Lin Xie growing his military influeceand his defying the imperial authority is a fact

People I sent him, he sets aside,only trusting Prince Qi's men with important positions

Going into battle, he keeps on saying"On the front lines, a field commander must decideeven against the king's orders"

How could I indulge such arrogance!And there is Prince Qi

In court, he cultivates his support among the ministers,at his manor, he prone to presumptuous wild talk!

Even the daily reports of the ministers showed such traces

In their reports, the ministers would mention "...which is also intended by Prince Qi"

How, how am I to tolerate him

He is both subordinate and son

Yet he repeatedly defied me,all the while saying "for the country", "for the country"

Tell me! Is this country mine, or Xiao Jingyu's!

The country, is the people's country!

If not for the people, what need for an emperor

If not for the country, what need is there for a rule

For the spark of a doubt, you instructed a massacre

Your Majesty's heart, only has room for your imperial powers, has it ever granted so much as a corner to the nation?

Prince Qi's good name is earned through his own achievements

Whenever you differed in opinion,he always voiced as such to His Majesty directly,never resigned to disrespectful words behind your back

Yet his honesty and righteousnessis reduced to merely "defying" in Your Majesty's eyes

When he took the poison in prison

how desolated must he have felt in his heart

I assume Your Majesty would never understand

Even for the long gone bond between father and son

For Prince Qi's resolution,never to raise his weapons against you even in death

Is it so hard to re-investigate the case, is itso difficult?

It is not that I was born heartless.

As long you sit on this throne

people will change.

Remember, no matterhow jingyan is like now

when he sits on this throne, he toowill change.

The Court that Lin Xie once wanted

the empire that he desired

I could not give it to him. Prince Qi could notgive it to him.

No one could have given it to him.

Your Majesty's stray from the right path on the throne,lost your original intention

But not everyone will end up like this

As a father, you did not knowPrince Qi. And you don't know Jingyan either.

Very well then.

What you want, I will do it.

Re-investigate, Re-judge.

Then, I personally will announce the truth to the people.For all I care!

But I have one condition.

No matter what

Jingyan is my son.

But you

you are different

Blood of the Chiyan men have been shed all too much

I cannot let Lin Shu

I cannot let you live here, in this palace

standing in front of me, in front of everyone

do you understand?

Very well.

I promise.

What about Jingyan?

He won't agree to it. How would you convince him?

Your Majesty would never allowfor Lin Shu to exist

for the people would point at mistakes of the past.

This I had thought of already. Lin Shu no longerlives.

How I convince Jingyan, will be my business.

But from this day forward, youand I need not see each other again.

Wait. Wait.

You have to believe me, I was deceived by others.

Lin Xie supported me for ten years.

Your mother, Jingyang, was my blood sister.

I held you, took you riding with me,

piggy backed you, flew kites with you

do you remember?

His Majesty's decree

Grand Princess Liyang was the first plaintiff for the Chiyan case.

With Xie Yu's handwritten confession as evidence,

the Crown Prince is ordered to manage the reopening of the case.

Prince Ji, Marquis Yan and

official Ye Shizhen of the Supreme Court will be presiding the trials.

Re-investigate all evidence, interview all witnesses

and return justice to the world.

Receive this grace.

I accept the decree.

We accept the decree.

Everyone, please rise.

The criminal Xia Jiang is currently imprisoned in the Ministry of Justice.

You may call for him at any time. Please remember that

I only want the facts, and the truth.

There is to be no dishonesty and distortion of events.

This, I trust the three of you can do.

Yes.

This case took a month, and has finally finished.

I ask that Minister Ye report to His Highness.

Ever since the Chiyan case reopened, I have not been able to sleep.

Who would've thought that a longstanding General's household, an honorable Prince and tens of thousands of loyal officials and soldiers

would be wiped out by the hand of corruption.

If it weren't for the Crown Prince's anger and turmoil that burned until this day,

the truth of this case would never have been revealed.

Indeed. Everyone knows how concerned the Crown Prince is.

However, he has never involved himself in the trial. It is obvious that

he truly believes the innocence of his eldest brother and General Lin.

What is Marquis Yan thinking about?

I was think if this Su Zhe is...

Never mind, it's nothing.

The crown prince has arrived

What do you guys want to say

I was initially very worried the day you presented the case in front of the imperial court.

I was worried that once you achievedwhat you set out to do, thatlast bit of energy you had would be gone

Over the past 13 years, with every step I take, I have been able to be slightly relieved.

I've walked to this last moment simply because I want to see the outcome, and see my wish come true.

Since the result is within my grasp, what difference does the feeling of relief make?

Stop lying now. Do you thinkI don't know you?

What do you know about me?

Appearing to be composed doesn't mean that you are truly calm.

It is because you have never had a feeling of relief. Am I right?

You are afraid. Afraid that now everyoneis happy, your body takes for the worse

and cause worry for everyone.

So you are thinking that no matterwhat, you have to hold on a few more months.

Even if for a few days, it would be better than dying as soon as the case was overturned.

It is not that I don't trust your skills

If that is the case, then trust me

don't give yourself a timeline. Don't think abouthow much longer you can live, whether it be fivemonths or 10 months.

You just have keep trying, and I will too. Okay?

Okay.

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♫ How many scrolls can be filled with stories of change? ♫

♫ Troubled times stirring fear ♫

♫ Blood still flows but no one cares ♫

♫ Raging fires consume lifelong hopes ♫

♫ The sword is given away to her ♫

♫ With no wish to live out the rest of my years ♫

♫ The Emperor’s palace is still imposing, and towers above all ♫

♫ Crystal clear vows split the night sky ♫

♫ The red bow of yesteryear hangs empty on the wall ♫

♫ The march of battle begs for an end while the armor is still bright ♫

♫ The world cannot hide my pure heart ♫

♫ It is my belief that the world be like a painting ♫

♫ Holding up the spear at the borders, who will repair the heavens? ♫

♫ A spear of justice and sacrifice, the youth of yesterday ♫

♫ returns by his lonely self, beacon flames no longer seen ♫

♫ It is written for all to see ♫

♫ That wind ♫

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♫ scatters the clouds. ♫