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(Episode 11)

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I asked you to deliver medicine
to the bathhouse.

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How did you end up
with both joy and sorrow?

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I have yet to say anything.

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How do you know
it is joy and sorrow?

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The joy...

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is that the Ji North Kingdom
finally has zither music again.

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The sorrow...

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is that the zither sounds mournful,

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and the melody is out of tune.

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In the end, I could not even tell...

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if I was lying to him...

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or to myself.

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The Lantern Festival
is in four days.

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You must not let
anything slip again.

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Duan Zi Ang has
to trust you completely.

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Only then will he lower his guard...

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and give Huo Ying and the rest
a chance to strike.

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During this period of time,

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we cannot have any mishaps.

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That is exactly what worries me.

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You are worried...

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you cannot guard your own heart.

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A ruler of a fallen kingdom...

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still holds in his heart the liar
who once invaded his land.

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I am so despicable.

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But right from the start,

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you never wanted this position.

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No matter what,

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the South Hui Kingdom
must not be ruined at my hands.

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Since the realm
has just changed hands,

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it should not be hard to recruit
soldiers loyal to the old dynasty.

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What are you trying...

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I, Xiao Shu He, am one
with the South Hui Kingdom.

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Its ruin is my ruin.

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I am not a good emperor,

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but at least I am a South Hui man
with pride and spine.

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How can love...

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outweigh the burden of the kingdom?

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You want to restore the kingdom?

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Only by thinking this way...

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can I force myself to live on.

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I am really not used
to you being like this.

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A few days ago...

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was the anniversary
of Shu Qian's death.

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In the entire year,

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only during the Lantern Festival...

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is there no curfew
in South Hui's capital.

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Once when I was little,

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Shu Qian disguised us
as commoners to stroll the streets.

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Now that the South Hui Kingdom
is gone,

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that moment, that scene...

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has become a thing of the past.

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I can no longer see it.

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There is no curfew anymore.

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The custom of
the Lantern Festival night market...

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has also been preserved.

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Tightrope walking,
stilt performances,

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and music troupes with drums
make for a lively scene.

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Do you wish to go and see?

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I do.

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But according to the customs
of the Ji North Kingdom,

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the one you go out with...

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during the Lantern Festival is...

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It is always...

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with the one you love.

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I want to go with you.

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Shu He,

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I will get someone right now.

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You promised me.

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From dawn to dusk,

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through all the seasons,

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you will always stay by my side.

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It is getting late.

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Tonight,

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rest in my chamber.

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When you released
the prisoners of war,

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were they still causing trouble?

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No.

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No one dares to cause trouble.

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We did as you said.

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Before they left,
we even gave them some relief food.

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Surely by now...

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they have already reunited
with their families.

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Good.

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This is
the first Lantern Festival...

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after you have pacified the realm.

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There are many remnants
of the former dynasty in the city.

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I have ordered the first battalion
to strengthen surveillance...

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and the second battalion
to guard all city gates.

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I guarantee no one
will cause trouble.

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Huai Yi.

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I wish to take a stroll...

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with Shu He
during the Lantern Festival.

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Zi Ang.

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You must not let feelings
for one person...

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affect the affairs of the state.

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Do you feel the same way too?

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As long as you are happy,

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I am willing to do anything.

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A few qing of humble fields to till,

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a few ladles of grain by day,

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and a bed of six chi at night.

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That was all...

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Shu He and I ever desired.

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But throughout history,

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if an emperor gave his heart
to true love,

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even if he ended well,

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he mostly lived in melancholy.

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That is why I no longer wish
to be this emperor.

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I want to pass the throne...

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to you.

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Does that mean
I cannot see you anymore?

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When the realm is at peace...

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and the people live in safety,

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then I shall know
you are safe as well.

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Though the realm is settled,

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the people's hearts remain unsteady.

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At this time...

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I do not have much time left.

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I want to leave it to Shu He.

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You wish above all to see me happy.

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Do you not?

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Yes.

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How did it go?

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Most of South Hui's former troops...

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are still held in the prisoner camp.

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However, I have secretly gathered
some loyal warriors who escaped.

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As long as we get to the canal,

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Your Majesty will be safe.

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Very well.

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Then what should we do
when the time comes?

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Before entering the night market,

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Your Majesty will pass
by a clay figurine shop.

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In the time Duan Zi Ang
spends buying clay figurines,

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we can take Your Majesty away.

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Good.

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Huo Ying.

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Promise me one thing.

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Please tell me, Your Majesty.

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Do not...

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Do not hurt...

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Duan Zi Ang.

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Yes, Your Majesty.

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I also have a favor to ask of you,
Your Majesty.

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What is it?

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The men I have gathered are loyal
to the South Hui Kingdom.

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Tomorrow, please do not hesitate.

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Otherwise,
it will bring death upon them.

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Of course.

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Tomorrow, our signal shall be
the sound of the phoenix flute.

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Bring this to Huo Ying.

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Cooperate with him.

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Do not let your personal feelings...

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break the hearts
of South Hui's people.

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Zi Ang, you look
truly dashing today.

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Is it not just the Lantern Festival?

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It was not easy
for Young Master Xiao to honor me...

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with this chance to redeem myself.

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Of course, I must dress up properly.

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The night market
is very lively today.

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Shen Song, are you not joining us?

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I am afraid of the cold.

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I have to trouble you,
Young Master Xiao,

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to bring me some peanut candy.

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The night market is up ahead.

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What is wrong?

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It has been a long time
since I last saw a crowd.

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I feel a little dazed.

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Say,

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how about we open
an inn in the future?

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An inn?

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Yes.

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I do not know how to farm,

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nor the ways of business.

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I have been at the mercy of others
since I was born.

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Then I fear this inn
will lose money every day.

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Or we could open
a medical hall with Shen Song.

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He will treat patients every day,

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while you and I do nothing.

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We will just be lazy young masters.

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Or we can do what you want.

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Find a forest...

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and build a hut.

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You can play the zither
for me every day.

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I will chop wood
and boil water for you.

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In this world,

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there are only you and me.

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Why are you crying?

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The North Kingdom...

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is windy.

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Do you want to head back?

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Let us walk some more.

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I want to be with you.

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Just the two of us.

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Let us stay a little longer.

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I will ask Huai Yi to head back
with the soldiers first.

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Tonight,

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it is only you and me.

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There is a clay figurine shop
up ahead.

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I loved playing with it
when I was a kid.

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Go and buy one for me.

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Then wait here for my return.

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Sir, make a clay figurine.

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It has to be festive.

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Make another one
to keep him company.

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A horse convoy
would be too conspicuous.

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If we walk three li from here,

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we can go downstream by boat,
return to our homeland,

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and contact
the surviving South Hui forces.

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This is a letter from Shen Song.

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Huo Ying.

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After this,
there is truly no turning back.

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I will not blame you
if you want to leave.

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I will always be
by Your Majesty's side.

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You should know better than I...

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how Shen Song treats you.

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I have wronged him.

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Your Majesty knows my heart
belongs to someone else.

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Do you think our Ji North Kingdom...

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is a place where you may come...

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and go as you please?

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The household soldier
reported yesterday...

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that someone sneaked
into Zi Ang's residence.

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I ordered him to play along...

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and set up defenses earlier.

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You...

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really are a loyal dog.

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You can do whatever you want to me.

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But do not lay a hand on Huo Ying.

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Duan Zi Ang!

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I planned everything.

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If you want to kill someone,
kill me first!

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I planned this escape alone.

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It has nothing to do with others.

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- Your Majesty.
- You still dare to call him that?

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Now in this world,

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only Zi Ang
is the heaven-ordained emperor.

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It turns out
I am the biggest villain.

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When did you start planning this?

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Since the very first day
you locked me up here.

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All this time,

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you have been lying to me.

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"A lie must be told
with a true heart."

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Duan Zi Ang,

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you taught me that.

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Do you really think
I would not dare to take your life?

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Zi Ang.

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I thought you had long
since changed your mind.

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I did not expect...

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I will kill you!

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Huo Ying.

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Your Majesty.

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You once said...

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the more you care about someone,

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the more they hurt you.

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Now,

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you are the one forcing me
to hurt you even more.

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I am forcing you?

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I have not let go of my hatred
for a single day.

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Duan Zi Ang,

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I said this before,
word for word, plain and clear.

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Did you forget?

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Or do you not want to hear it?

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So everything I have done is wrong.

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Yes.

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When the kingdom fell,
all I wished for was death.

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From the day you saved me,

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it was wrong.

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What do you want me to do then?

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Do you want me to watch you die?

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Living is worse than dying.

273
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Duan Zi Ang.

274
00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:52,560
You kept me caged here.

275
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What am I?

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A former ruler of a fallen kingdom?

277
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Or...

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your male pet?

279
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How cruel of you.

280
00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:16,880
Someday,
under the historians' brush,

281
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I hope my final words
as Xiao Shu He...

282
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will be:

283
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"The new emperor of Ji North,
Duan Zi Ang,"

284
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"struck down the former ruler
of South Hui,"

285
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"Xiao Shu He."

286
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Hate me then.

287
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Do you still recognize that?

288
00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:31,040
Remember this.

289
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This is what you should look like.

290
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You are a fallen ruler
of a lost kingdom.

291
00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:40,520
We should not have kept you alive...

292
00:21:40,521 --> 00:21:41,600
for so long.

293
00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:44,360
Zi Ang should have abandoned you
a long time ago.

294
00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:46,399
Now you want to contact
your former subordinates...

295
00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:47,400
and plot a rebellion.

296
00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:49,880
Do you not think it is ridiculous?

297
00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:52,639
Day after day, you worried over...

298
00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:54,240
the lives of South Hui's
prisoners of war.

299
00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:56,720
Now,

300
00:21:57,240 --> 00:21:58,920
they all lie in the underworld,

301
00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:02,000
waiting for you
to reunite with them.

302
00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:22,880
He lied to me all my life.

303
00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:26,520
My brother is a mighty ruler.

304
00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:28,919
To the countless wronged souls
under his sword,

305
00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:30,640
what is one mere prisoner camp?

306
00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:33,880
Killing prisoners of war...

307
00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:37,639
Over a hundred unarmed lives...

308
00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:39,720
of my South Hui people...

309
00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:43,720
In an instant,
they vanished into nothing.

310
00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:47,400
I really did not expect...

311
00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:51,560
that Duan Zi Ang would be so cruel.

312
00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:56,000
That is because you are stupid.

313
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:28,520
My brother is a mighty ruler.

314
00:23:29,120 --> 00:23:30,639
To the countless wronged souls
under his sword,

315
00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:32,120
what is one mere prisoner camp?

316
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:52,600
I think the world is all the same.

317
00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:54,640
When a dynasty rises,
the people suffer.

318
00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:56,960
When a dynasty falls,
the people suffer.

319
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:02,320
But most people's lives...

320
00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:04,200
are not in their own hands.

321
00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:08,800
Rather than entrusting another
as if it were a gamble,

322
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:11,200
it is better that this person
be Xiao Shu He.

323
00:24:12,120 --> 00:24:13,280
At least the realm...

324
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:15,760
will not become any worse.

325
00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:31,880
Once the heart has been damaged,
no remedy can truly cure it.

326
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:33,360
He can only endure it.

327
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:36,880
Remember, he must not
lose his temper again.

328
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:38,560
Is there nothing we can do?

329
00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:42,080
His body is spent,
like an arrow at its last flight.

330
00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:43,760
It is fortunate...

331
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:44,880
that we can maintain
his current condition.

332
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:49,320
These days,

333
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:51,760
General Li and the other generals
have long been dissatisfied.

334
00:24:58,160 --> 00:24:59,720
There is no need to waste your time.

335
00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:03,600
You may leave.

336
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:14,600
The Central Plains
have been pacified,

337
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:15,840
and the world is at peace.

338
00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:17,480
Zi Ang,

339
00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:20,080
you have already achieved
what ordinary men could not.

340
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:23,640
Why are you still
torturing yourself like this?

341
00:25:30,120 --> 00:25:32,080
What I am determined to do,

342
00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:37,080
even if it is impossible,
I will still see it through.

343
00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:40,600
The person I am determined to have,

344
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:44,080
even if he turns into
a handful of ashes,

345
00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,080
I will still make him turn back
on the road to the afterlife.

346
00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:54,560
But his heart is empty.

347
00:25:57,760 --> 00:25:59,240
I cannot hold on to him.

348
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:08,800
Love gives birth to worry.

349
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:11,200
Love gives birth to fear.

350
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:23,520
These days, I often wonder...

351
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:28,040
if I had not been so greedy,

352
00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:31,560
if I had not sought
to complete the mission,

353
00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:38,080
maybe I could have
had a sincere relationship.

354
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:45,640
If I had not insisted
on reuniting with you,

355
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:51,120
perhaps we might each be
living well on our own now.

356
00:26:55,120 --> 00:26:57,960
It seems like every time
I made a choice,

357
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:01,640
I made the wrong one.

358
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:14,560
Huai Yi.

359
00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:16,320
Yes.

360
00:27:17,120 --> 00:27:19,080
There are many men of talent
and ambition in the court.

361
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,040
You shall act as my regent.

362
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:27,760
All right.

363
00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:58,440
I did not kill you...

364
00:27:59,120 --> 00:28:00,240
because of my brother.

365
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:04,800
His body can no longer
withstand the slightest shock.

366
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:06,960
I cannot harm him.

367
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:11,800
So you are here today...

368
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:14,719
just to perform before me...

369
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:16,880
the deep brotherly bond
between you two.

370
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:19,840
Duan Huai Yi,

371
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:23,880
do you really think I cannot see
what you two are up to?

372
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:27,480
You can despise me all you want.

373
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:29,320
It does not matter.

374
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:33,120
But the Red Shadow Guards' diet
has been controlled since childhood.

375
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:35,320
I read all the records,

376
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:38,600
and all the chiefs
died in their prime.

377
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:50,800
As for the secrets behind this,

378
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:52,800
I do not know either.

379
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:56,600
He has done plenty for you,
Xiao Shu He.

380
00:28:57,600 --> 00:28:58,600
If it were not for you,

381
00:28:58,720 --> 00:28:59,800
the court officials
would not be in such fury,

382
00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:01,560
and he would not
have worried so much...

383
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:03,160
that his body deteriorated
so quickly.

384
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:08,360
Now he is frail and bedridden.

385
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:11,480
He keeps calling your name
in his sleep.

386
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:16,560
If you still have
a shred of compassion,

387
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:18,600
go and see him.