Original subtitles

[How dare you!?]

[Episode 6]

How dare you!

Your Majesty!

Your Majesty!

Your Majesty, I'm only doing this for Great Xia!

Even if it may displease you,

I must speak up!

Th—That's right!

I am willing to die to make my point!

Me too!

I wasn't talking about you.

Come on.

My beloved ministers,

please rise.

Get up.

-Hurry. -Get up.

Up, up, up.

Thank you, Your Majesty.

Recently, several of the Empress Dowager’s faction

have submitted memorials impeaching your father.

I pretended to have a headache to brush them off.

It seems the Empress Dowager means to make an example of him.

Should we respond?

We could.

Just...

demote him.

That heartless?

It’s not heartless.

It's for his own good.

How so?

On the surface, they’re impeaching him.

In truth,

the Empress Dowager is warning me.

After all, the incident of Noble Consort Wei losing the sarira agate

escalated because of me.

If she doesn’t vent her anger,

this nominal father of mine

may suffer far worse.

Then we can't just demote your father.

I should probably give you the cold shoulder for a while too.

We have to make it look real.

CEO Dan, you’re meticulous.

Minister Yu!

How dare you!

Your Majesty,

I am

wrongly accused, Your Majesty!

Your Majesty!

It’s true I enjoy playing cards

and often gather with a few friends.

But...

accusing me of taking bribes

is simply false!

I’m just better at cards than most,

so winning a bit more is normal.

However,

the game I play

is 10 coins a round,

with a daily cap of half a string of coins!

How...

How could that

possibly count as taking bribes, Your Majesty?

How dare you keep making excuses!

If only one person impeached you, you could claim injustice.

But now 3 court ministers are impeaching you together,

with evidence to back it up!

How can you argue your way out of this?

Guards!

Take off his official hat!

Yes!

It’s already fallen off.

Then demote him and dock his pay!

Get out!

Your Majesty!

Your Majesty!

I...

I am innocent, Your Majesty!

Your Majesty, I am innocent!

Your Majesty,

for my sake,

please spare my father!

You dare plead for him?

If I spare Minister Yu,

how will the court officials view me?

And how do I answer to the people?

My father...

My father only gambles for fun.

He never took bribes!

Stop making excuses!

Between officials,

there is no such thing as gambling for fun!

Well then...

have some aorta.

Here.

Have some vegetables.

You’ve got mouth ulcers.

Your Majesty,

are you really unwilling to show me even a bit of leniency?

I’ve already shown plenty.

Otherwise, how would that old man

still be alive?

Kneeling won’t help!

Go back to your Zhaoyang Palace immediately!

I'm not full yet.

Say two more lines.

Any more and it's just filler dialogue.

Just pad it a bit.

You’re heartless, cold,

and completely unreasonable!

How dare you call me heartless,

cold,

and unreasonable?

Then answer me this.

How am I heartless,

cold,

and unreasonable?

Your Majesty, please calm your anger!

I will never do it again!

If there's a next time,

I’ll wipe out your entire clan!

I honestly can't keep up with your performance.

Let's call it a day.

No, no, no!

It's worth half my lifetime’s wages.

No matter how expensive it is,

can you take it with you?

[Bilan Pavilion]

Have you heard?

His Majesty flew into a rage

and kicked Consort Yu straight out of his bedchamber,

all the way to the palace gate.

She has completely lost face.

Does His Majesty really have that kind of strength?

Of course he does.

I also heard that Consort Yu

stayed at the palace gate and refused to leave,

begging nonstop for her gambler father.

In a fit of anger, His Majesty

almost had her executed.

Sisters, where did you hear all this?

Is it true?

Oh, my silly little sister.

I don't know about other things,

but no one gathers gossips

better than Concubine He and Concubine Chu.

Your Majesty!

Your Majesty!

Why are you so heartless?

That is my father

who gave birth to me, raised me, and taught me everything!

This time, Consort Yu

is done for.

She's doomed.

Then...

what are we waiting for?

Sisters,

since ancient times they’ve always said that beauty brings ruin to nations.

It refers to people like Noble Consort Wei and Noble Consort Yu.

Some rely on family background,

others on beauty.

But they only bewitched His Majesty for a moment.

And what kind of man is His Majesty?

He cares for the realm and holds all the people in his heart.

How could he be so easily bewitched?

As consorts, we must not imitate

those demonic consorts who bewitch their ruler.

Instead, we should keep Great Xia in our hearts and share His Majesty’s burdens.

Am I right, Sisters?

Where is everyone?

They all went to share His Majesty’s burdens.

Wait for me!

[Bilan Pavilion]

Wait for me!

I'm coming too!

With the likes of you,

how can you compete with her?

Your Majesty.

Consort Shu just came by.

Fearing she might disturb your rest,

I had her tell me about what happened to Consort Yu

and sent her away.

His Majesty dealt with

Minister Yu so swiftly?

I really

didn’t expect it.

What is there to be surprised about?

A caged canary—

once released,

can it really fly up to the sky?

You're right.

Consort Yu indeed

made a huge scene because of it.

His Majesty scolded her harshly

and kicked her out in the end.

She’s too inexperienced.

So short-sighted.

She doesn’t understand

how quickly a ruler’s heart can change.

Yes, indeed.

This Consort Shu,

however, has real insight.

Have her come to pay her respects to me within the next few days.

Yes.

Your Majesty,

Lord Mu has been waiting outside for a long time.

Let him in now.

Greetings, Your Majesty.

Mr. Mu,

how did you come up with that idea?

Mr. Mu

is remarkably sharp.

How did he know

that Minister Yu loves to play cards?

This is truly killing two birds with one stone.

The plan

seems perfectly logical.

It pleased me greatly.

Thank you, Your Majesty.

I only offered a small strategy.

It was all thanks to Consort Shu’s brother.

The few words he spoke in court

proved crucial.

Not only did every word hit the mark,

but they also blocked any possibility of His Majesty showing mercy.

Good.

Useful people like him

must be heavily rewarded.

Thank you, Your Majesty.

I

will take my leave now.

Your Majesty,

I'll go prepare the rewards now.

Rewards?

To be able to serve me

is the greatest reward of all.

You are too honest.

Look.

These 3 little birds

are becoming brighter and brighter.

How did the Minister of Revenue

die?

And who arrested

Grand Tutor Wei?

As for General Luo's son,

if he didn’t want him to enter the palace,

could he really not stop him?

The knife was handed to him by others,

but whether he takes it or not

ultimately depends on His Majesty’s will.

His Highness, you mean...

Our Emperor

has always been unpredictable.

Still, I must remind you all

not to be fooled by his mad-king facade.

Especially now,

in this palace,

he is no longer alone.

Ever since the fire at the library,

His Highness has not entered the palace again.

I went to inquire at his residence.

They only said

His Highness has been busy with official duties.

I then asked whether His Highness

had seen the letter in the brocade pouch,

and they gave no reply.

Your Highness, with Consort Yu’s father demoted

and she herself

fallen out of His Majesty's favor,

all other consorts

are doing everything they can to vie for His Majesty’s attention.

Let them fight for it.

I don't care.

Yu Wanyin was right.

Here,

a man can lift you to the heavens today

and cast you into hell tomorrow.

Their love and hate are but a fleeting whim.

Your Highness.

Your Highness, Eunuch An is here with a decree.

Concubine Xie.

His Majesty decrees that Concubine Xie is to attend him tonight.

Congratulations, Your Highness.

What?

He wants me to attend him tonight?

What?

Let her attend me?

Yes.

You want me to find another woman...

to serve me in bed?

Keep it down.

What's going on inside?

His Majesty and Noble Consort Yu seem to have a quarrel.

A quarrel?

Why does it feel like I'm forcing a good boy into prostitution?

It's not like she'll actually serve you in bed.

I just figured out

how to get the list of scholars out of her.

Mr. Bei.

Mr. Bei.

You've roamed the world for so long

and lived among the common folk.

Do you know of any drug

that can make someone hallucinate?

You want to drug Dan?

No, no.

How could I do that to CEO...

I am using it for a proper purpose.

I need someone to tell the truth.

Simple.

Get him drunk.

Right.

Drink makes people talk.

But what if she remembers everything

the next morning?

That’s even easier.

Make her drink more.

You know I speed-read the book,

so I don't remember the scholars' names at all.

But Xie Yong'er does.

She went through the entire

"A thousand trees blossoms at night in the East" carefully.

When those talented and virtuous scholars

died unjustly,

it was truly heartbreaking.

It must have made a deep impression on her.

And when the next imperial exam comes,

the list of candidates Prince Duan is going to poach will come from her.

Stop grunting.

Why don’t you...

think it over again?

Besides, I’ve already acted without consulting you

and had Eunuch An notify her.

You...

So, for the greater good,

make a small sacrifice.

Where’s the wine?

Mr. Bei prepared 2 jars of the strongest stuff.

You’d better make sure it works.

I'll try my best.

Try?

I guarantee it.

A 100%

guarantee.

Why is he angry?

Eunuch An, eat more.

Delicious.

Try this.

[Zhaoyang Hall]

It's not bad.

Try mine.

Good, right?

Delicious.

Not bad.

Your Majesty.

Go back to my palace!

Depart!

Stop eating! Hurry!

[Zhaoyang Hall]

Hurry up!

This Xiahou Dan...

When did he become so weird?

Was it at Banyue House?

Or even earlier?

♪ A letter, a line of words ♪

♪ Picking up the pen again and again ♪

♪ A cup of tea, a glass of wine ♪

Is this the legendary Suspension Bridge Effect?

♪ Drinking alone, hard to get drunk ♪

♪ Words unspoken ♪

If one of us

has to be a love-struck fool,

it shouldn’t be Xiahou Dan.

♪ Shyness unhidden ♪

Am I just flattering myself and overthinking it?

♪ Walking down a street together ♪

♪ Shoulder to shoulder ♪

♪ Raising my head, lowering my eyes ♪

♪ Blushing slightly ♪

♪ A face flushed red at first sight ♪

♪ A smile like a flower in my heart ♪

♪ Whose longing lingers day and night? ♪

Yu Wanyin, oh Yu Wanyin.

♪ Piling up stories and countless thoughts ♪

Sober up.

Don't be a love-struck fool.

♪ Walking through once, taking a glance ♪

He cares about you

♪ All lingering and wandering ♪

because this is a survival game,

♪ How many rains, how many winds? ♪

♪ Looking back, it's all like smoke ♪

and you’ve read the script,

which makes you more valuable than the others.

♪ Watching the hazy world ♪

He’s only forced to form a closer bond with you

♪ Who still guards that yearning? ♪

♪ Still unchanged ♪

to survive dangerous situations.

♪ Even if months and years pass in a blink ♪

♪ One thought for a lifetime ♪

♪ Waiting for someone to appear ♪

Your Majesty.

Your Majesty!

Your Majesty!

Hurry!

Hurry!

Hurry!

Why are you...

♪ Whose longing lingers day and night? ♪

I can summon her to serve me,

but you must stay by my side the whole time.

♪ Piling up stories and countless thoughts ♪

You’re not allowed to leave.

♪ Walking through once, taking a glance ♪

Do you hear me?

♪ All lingering and wandering ♪

♪ How many rains, how many winds? ♪

♪ Looking back, it's all like smoke ♪

♪ Watching the hazy world ♪

Why are you smiling?

♪ Who still guards that yearning? ♪

Don't worry,

CEO Dan.

♪ Still unchanged ♪

We're in the same boat.

♪ Even if months and years pass in a blink ♪

I'll help you to the end.

♪ One thought for a lifetime ♪

♪ Waiting for someone to appear ♪

Am I really

going to serve him in bed?

With a man I don’t love at all?

And the one I do love

stays distant, drifting in and out of reach with no word at all.

Why is it that even with the script,

I still can’t control my own life?

Then does everything I’ve been fighting for

truly mean anything?

Your Highness,

please go in.

His Majesty is waiting inside.

Greetings, Your Majesty.

Drink up.

So direct?

No finesse at all?

Keep drinking.

Drink from the bottle.

What’s 1 plus 3?

4.

What about 46 plus 31?

77.

426 plus 674?

1,100.

How did she calculate that?

So fast.

You can really hold your liquor.

You flatter me, Your Majesty.

Eunuch An, bring more wine!

I will drink with you.

Drink while you can.

Don't let life wear you away.

My dear,

bottoms up.

Good days pass, bad days pass.

All I ask is to stay in a good mood.

Your Majesty, cheers.

With a kindred spirit, a thousand cups aren’t enough.

Tonight, don’t even think about

dodging the drink.

You don’t get drunk like this very often.

Who cares what’s right or wrong?

If you don’t drink and I don’t drink,

what’s the palace wine for?

If you don’t get drunk and I don’t get drunk,

the tyrant’s bed...

I can't sleep in it.

What?

I didn't ask you to serve me in bed.

My dear?

My dear?

What is 1 plus 3?

Are you crazy?

Stop talking nonsense.

Just drink!

Come out. She’s cursing me now.

Looks like she’s drunk enough.

Ma Chunchun.

Who is Ma Chunchun?

It's her real name in the novel.

Who is it?

You messed with my storyline,

and you're asking who I am?

You know my name.

You know my name?

So you must be Seven-Tailed Fox,

the author of

"A thousand trees blossoms at night in the East."

That's right.

I never thought you'd enter my book

and stir up trouble.

How are my parents?

They are fine.

I never thought you'd transmigrate into my book

and stir up trouble.

What place did my idol come in?

The platform cancelled the voting.

What place?

Tell her something she wants to hear.

First place.

First place.

Impossible.

That platform is the worst.

As a 2D character,

isn't her character setting a bit too fleshed out?

My poor idol.

My sweetheart!

Alright, Ma Chunchun.

Let's get down to business.

I didn’t expect you

to stir up so much trouble,

completely deceive Prince Duan,

and mess up

the original storyline.

How do you plan to take responsibility?

If I follow your storyline,

I’d just end up

dying early as cannon fodder.

But you shouldn't have

leaked the names of those failed scholars

to Prince Duan.

That way they’d lose the chance to be strengthened.

Exactly.

Strengthened?

You call that strengthened?

In the original story,

after Li Yunxi and Yang Duojie

exposed that rogue for cheating,

they were beaten to death

in sacks once they left the exam hall!

Li Yunxi.

And Er Lan.

Er Lan disguised herself as a man.

When she was discovered, she was assaulted

and then kicked out of the capital.

In the end,

she killed herself in anger and resentment.

Killed herself?

And Wang Zhao,

Du Shan,

Cen Jintian—

you created them all.

Why did you kill them off with your own hands?

That's right.

It's them.

If we find these talents,

Yan millet yields will reach 1,800 per mu,

with no fear of drought or inflation.

[Li Yunxi][Yang Duojie][Expose]

But these ambitious scholars

[Wang Zhao][Du Shan][Cen Jintian]

must hate the tyrant to the bone.

[Erlan][Disguised as a man]

That is why Prince Duan was able to poach them.

If I want to convince them to work for me before the imperial exams,

I need to come up with an idea.

You damned author!

I'm here!

You've made me suffer so much.

Alright, alright.

It's okay now.

Keep your voice down.

There are people worse off than you.

I don't care about anyone else's misery.

[Li Yunxi, Yang Duojie, Wang Zhao, Du Shan, Cen Jintian, Er Lan]

I worked so hard,

but why doesn’t Prince Duan trust me?

I was the one who gave him the idea.

I told him to poison Deputy Commander Zhao,

but in the end, he didn’t believe me

and poisoned the guy's horse instead!

What did you say?

Yes,

I admit it.

His idea worked better than mine.

But I was following your storyline.

Why did he change the script?

That's right.

In the original story, Prince Duan

did follow Xie Yong'er’s advice,

using an aphrodisiac

to get Deputy Commander Zhao to harass the Imperial Guard Commander’s concubine,

causing the two of them to become enemies.

In the end, for self-preservation, Deputy Commander Zhao

allied himself with Prince Duan.

But...

why, in Xu Yao's records,

is was a different plan?

Invite Deputy Zhao to drink,

poison his horse,

and let the crazed horse trample the late Emperor’s ceremonial carriage set.

That set was a gift bestowed on Prince Duan by the late Emperor.

Destroying an imperial gift is a far graver crime

than harassing a commander’s concubine,

enough to frighten Deputy Commander Zhao out of his wits.

Could it be

that Prince Duan has deviated from the original script

and developed a will of his own?

And that wasn't the first time.

If he

never trusts me,

then won’t I

be useless to him?

How am I supposed to change my fate then?

-Wanyin. -Something is wrong.

I've thought of a way.

Keep an eye on her.

I need to go back.

Without what happened today,

I might never have noticed

these subtle changes.

Even if I had,

I would’ve brushed them off as faulty memory.

If I hadn’t obtained Xu Yao’s book

and had continued following the plot

of Transmigrated: The Devil's Beloved Consort,

directing Xiahou Dan to do rash things,

we would have kept missing these details

and eventually fallen into utter ruin.

[Kill the imperial censor's secret guards in the backyard]

[to eliminate future threats.]

Why?

Why can Prince Duan always predict my predictions?

Could it be...

-that when I think I’m at the very top, -Greetings,

[Ways to win over Deputy Commander Zhao]

-Consort Yu. -Prince Duan

has already standing one level higher, seeing the whole board?

It can freely travel between different worlds.

That's much better.

So his feigned ignorance before...

was just a smokescreen.

Can he see

what happened tonight as well?

We’re the real mice, toyed by Prince Duan.

Could it be that in his eyes,

I am a real 2D character?

You said you'd stay with me the whole time,

but you left Xie Yong'er with me

and came here to drink alone.

Wanyin,

you're unreliable.

CEO Dan.

We're done for.

Why do you say that?

Offer the Emperor the beauty from the Qiang State.

[Spread false information at the border,]

[getting spies from other countries to remove Li.]

[The secret letter has been sent out. Awaiting updates.]

remove Li on charges of espionage.

What does that mean?

This is from the original book.

But look at

what Xu Yao wrote.

[Spread false information at the border,]

Spread false information at the border,

[[getting spies from other countries to remove Li.]]

[The secret letter has been sent out. Awaiting updates.]

getting spies from other countries to remove Li.

It’s still about getting rid of Mr. Li,

but Xiahou Bo’s method

has changed.

On the 15th night of the 1st month,

by the golden willows by the river,

bribe the son of Grand Tutor Wei,

using a beauty

to get the ledger.

On the 12th night of the 1st month,

report Grand Tutor Wei’s son to the Court of Revision

for obtaining the ledger through bribery.

Kill the imperial censor's secret guards in the backyard

to eliminate future threats.

Kill the imperial censor's secret guards in the backyard

to eliminate future threats.

Without what happened today,

I might

never have noticed

these subtle changes.

Even if I had,

I would’ve brushed them off as faulty memory.

CEO Dan,

Prince Duan is a real person.

And we, like Xie Yong'er,

are just a few lines of words.

Press delete,

and we’re gone.

So you mean...

Xiahou Bo can predict our predictions,

and he is the real person

standing at the highest level?

Exactly!

So...

you want to give up?

Actually, I have another option.

I can wave the white flag right now

and defect to his side.

Do you think

he would take me in?

No.

He doesn't...

need me at all.

Maybe...

you could make him fall in love with you.

And then...

take back

the female lead script that belongs to me?

Forget it.

He...

already has Xie Yong'er.

Xie Yong'er can't compare to you.

♪ Tell me ♪

Of course.

♪ Why so many laments echo in the wind ♪

So...

♪ Walk past me ♪

♪ Like an aloof passerby ♪

do you want to give it a try?

♪ Don't watch me as the rain falls ♪

♪ Love burns too hot as it passes ♪

♪ Even a lifetime of war cannot be extinguished ♪

I don't think I'm willing to do that.

♪ Blame me ♪

♪ For the frailty of fate ♪

Why?

He is too scary.

He could easily play mind games

♪ Hide me ♪

♪ With light snow or thick ink ♪

to make me fall hopelessly in love with him,

then willingly

♪ We met in the crowd ♪

give everything for him,

♪ There's no mistake in this life ♪

throw myself in front of him

♪ I only regret being clumsy in words ♪

to block a blade

♪ And shrinking from speaking it out ♪

or an arrow,

♪ Even when destiny mocked me, hurt me ♪

and finally die in his arms,

♪ Destroyed me, or trapped me ♪

♪ I never yielded ♪

without any regrets.

♪ But why ♪

He’d casually shed a few tears,

♪ Can't I bear to see even a single tear in your eyes? ♪

give me a grand burial,

♪ But we once fell in love, went wild ♪

and then immediately go find Xie Yong'er.

♪ Split up, and lost each other ♪

♪ They are all unforgettable memories to me ♪

This...

♪ The first time I met you ♪

This is how men achieve great things.

♪ It felt like something suddenly lit up my soul ♪

Well...

what about Xiahou Dan?

[Prince Duan's Mansion]

Your Highness!

Your Highness!

Your Highness!

Your Highness!

Your Highness.

Noble Consort Yu's calligraphy works

are truly hard to find.

[Lyrics of Butterfly Love]

In the entire Yu Residence,

there isn't any.

I spent

a lot of effort

and finally

found this scrap of writing

at her maternal grandfather’s place.

Noble Consort Yu's...

handwriting...

is quite graceful.

Yes.

Where's that one?

[Butterfly Love]

[Colorful black, haha]

What do you think?

These two pieces...

This one is a poem.

While that one...

[Colorful black, haha][Earth Element]

Well...

In my humble opinion,

these...

these two pieces

don’t seem to be written by the same person.

It's time to meet her.