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My children,
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it's been 30 years.
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We are at the final turning point.
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It will all be settled soon.
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Wang Pu.
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{\an8}GRAVE OF WANG PU, DECEASED SON
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{\an8}He hasn't been dead long.
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{\an8}I can preserve the body.
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But can you wait?
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Growing a face takes 100 days.
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I cannot wait.
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Seven days at most.
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And you tell me now?
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Did you bring me here
just to waste my time?
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The aim of growing a face
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is to protect the puppet.
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Since he's already dead,
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{\an8}Mr. Long,
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just cut his face off for me.
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Sometimes I wonder,
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between you and Yan Fengshan,
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who is the more terrifying one.
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Before entering the palace,
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Gu Yu left me a 100-man unit.
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{\an8}But Yan Fengshan's residence
is crawling with shadow guards.
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{\an8}According to the plan,
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{\an8}we must slip in without a sound
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and place the puppet inside.
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For that, 100 men are far from enough.
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I understand.
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I will help.
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Once you kill Yan Fengshan,
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start living like a human again.
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Desperate imagination
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can bring the dead back to your side.
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Don't you find that interesting?
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Can't you see Wang Pu now?
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A brilliant stratagem
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indeed.
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In the past 15 years,
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I've run through countless possibilities.
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Your order has reached
the forces outside the city.
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My message has been sent as well.
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The regional commanders
are waiting for the result.
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Those old, calculating fence-sitters
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will not act
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until they see your head
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or my corpse.
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Impressive, White Hair.
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You have long surpassed
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your father.
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Indeed.
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The night my family was slaughtered,
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I learned never to show mercy to an enemy.
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The night before you killed him,
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he intended to strike first.
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He kept
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repeating your name at home.
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Yes, you rose in power,
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but you were his first disciple.
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He still believed
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his own disciple
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would not be so ruthless
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as to deal him such a cruel blow.
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After tonight,
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there will be no more Yan Fengshan.
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When tomorrow comes,
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what will you live for?
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What will I live for?
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When I escaped back then,
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I hid in the city for a long time.
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Every day, I watched people
walking through the streets,
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busy, rushing.
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And I wondered:
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"Why do they hurry?"
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"How is it they all
have homes to return to?"
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That was when I understood
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there would be nothing left
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for me to hope for.
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Then tomorrow,
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walk around Chang'an.
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Sometimes,
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the city has beautiful sights.
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All right.
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Finish it, White Hair.
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No.
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You must die slowly.
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That hurts more.
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Farewell,
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General Fengshan.
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General Fengshan ordered
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that we slaughter Xiao Wuyang's army.
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Good.
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After surrounding them for so long,
we can finally finish them off.
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I received word.
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A young man named Xie Huai'an
says he is one step away
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from killing Yan Fengshan.
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He wants us to wait two more hours.
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What we are doing
will either crown a new emperor
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or mark ourselves as traitors.
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Two hours
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is worth waiting.
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Gentlemen,
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time to decide.
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Without Yan Fengshan,
you lack the strength
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to seize Chang'an on your own.
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His Majesty is still alive,
and so is Gu Yu.
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Think carefully before choosing your side.
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You all earned great merit
under the founding emperor.
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Why not leave a good name
for your descendants?
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His Majesty has granted me full authority.
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I can promise you this:
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if the four of you lay down your weapons,
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the siege will be wiped clean,
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and the matter of military command
can be renegotiated.
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Yan Fengshan is dead.
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Huben shadow guards,
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whether fleeing or hiding,
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surrender, and live!
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Yan Fengshan is dead.
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Huben shadow guards,
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whether fleeing or hiding,
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surrender, and live!
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Yan Fengshan is dead.
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Huben shadow guards,
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whether fleeing or hiding,
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surrender, and live!
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Yan Fengshan is dead.
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Huben shadow guards,
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whether fleeing or hiding,
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surrender, and live!
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Yan Fengshan is dead.
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Huben shadow guards,
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whether fleeing or hiding,
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surrender, and live!
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Yan Fengshan is dead.
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Huben shadow guards,
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whether fleeing or hiding,
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surrender, and live!
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{\an8}IMPERIAL PHYSICIAN'S HALL
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Stop worrying so much.
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What if your senior brother guessed wrong?
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Besides,
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{\an8}if that boy meant you harm,
he'd have poisoned the snow-pear tonic.
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You finished it, and nothing…
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Mr. Xie Huai'an sent us to inform you
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that Yan Fengshan is dead.
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He's dead?
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Are you sure?
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Are you sure the body wasn't switched?
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What about
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Xie Huai'an?
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Where is he?
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Did he personally confirm the body?
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Just a while ago,
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Mr. Xie took Yan Fengshan's head
out of the city to end the battle.
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Didn't you hear that?
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Yan Fengshan is dead!
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I want to walk alone for a while.
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Mr. Xie also instructed us
to inform you of another matter.
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It concerns Ye Zheng.
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Greetings, Mr. Xie.
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The armies of the four regional commanders
have begun to withdraw.
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Inside the city,
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Gu Yu placed a 100-man Baiwenhu unit
at my disposal.
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I've sent people into the palace
to clear out the Huben forces.
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His Majesty is safe.
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There is no need for worry.
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Where is His Majesty now?
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Please wait a few more days.
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His Majesty
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will return.
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Your Majesty,
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are these candles for him?
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Many have already lit candles
for General Fengshan.
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I lit these for myself.
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It is said that after death,
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these lights help guide the soul
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so it does not lose its way.
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I was taken out of the mountains
by Huben members
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and raised by them.
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I always knew they weren't my real family.
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But without them,
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I would've been eaten by beasts
in the mountains long ago.
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No one in this world cares about me.
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After I die,
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no one will light a candle for me.
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I am ready.
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I know everything
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you just said.
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I also know you were involved
in my sister's death.
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The Huben Army saved you,
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but they also used you as a pawn.
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They dragged you into their game
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in that murder plot.
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Then,
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they made you stand before the world
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as a fake emperor.
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If it were me,
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I would never let a child
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bear that kind of guilt.
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You have repaid
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the Huben Army's kindness.
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You don't need to die here.
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But before the true emperor returns,
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you must remain on the throne
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to keep the realm steady.
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When all of this is over,
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I will find you a way to live.
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Perhaps
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I will find you a place
where no one knows you
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so you can live out your days in peace.
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I, Xie Huai'an,
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offer my respects to Your Majesty.
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I am sorry.
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I was wrong.
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I am sorry.
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I was wrong.
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I am sorry.
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I was wrong.
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I am sorry.
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I was wrong.
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TAIQING PALACE
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HOLD THE UNCARVED, KEEP THE TRUE
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This painting of you
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represents my wish for you.
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I hope you can tend flowers,
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keep a cat,
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nap on the porch,
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and live a peaceful life.
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Keep it with you,
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as if your family is still by your side.
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You must keep living.
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Your Majesty, all has been done
according to your instructions.
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Yan Fengshan is dead.
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The Huben Army has scattered.
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I knew we would soon see Your Majesty.
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You were playing
"Saying Goodbye," weren't you?
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It is somewhat fitting for tonight.
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That tune is nothing more
than feigned sorrow.
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The people here live in comfort.
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They have never tasted true hardship.
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Then play the "White Bone Ballad" instead.
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Let Chang'an be filled
with the sorrow of us Tiemo people.
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Yes, Your Majesty.
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KING OF TIEMO
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I have been looking for you.
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Had I known you were of Tiemo,
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I would've given you some Bitter-After
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when I bought it.
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Chewing Bitter-After would draw suspicion.
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I was trained as a shadow guard too.
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Not a single Tiemo habit
could remain with me.
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The King wants to see you.
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White Hair,
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come with me.
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Were you involved
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in my father's death?
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Your father showed me kindness.
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I was not in Chang'an then.
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But Tiemo was involved.
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To Tiemo, Liu Ziwen
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was someone who had to die.
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If you wish to know
how deeply we were involved,
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ask the King
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when you meet him.
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The Tiemo people killed my father,
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let Yan Fengshan rise,
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and waited for him and Xiao Wuyang
to tear each other apart.
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You cleared the Huben guards
outside Yan Fengshan's residence for me.
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And you sent me a puppet
that looked just like Wang Pu.
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Now that Yan Fengshan is dead
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and the regional commanders
have withdrawn,
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Chang'an
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is at its weakest.
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A well-laid plan indeed.
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About 40 years ago,
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there was a battle north of Chen Valley.
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There was no righteous or evil side.
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We wanted that piece of land,
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so war broke out.
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Back then, I was just a commoner,
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and I was ordered to evacuate.
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I stood by the river
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and watched others wade across,
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unable to bring myself to leave.
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I was worried
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that my sheep might not survive,
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that the hawk I caught might fly away,
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and that my house
might be burned to the ground.
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Someone crossing the river asked me,
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"Why aren't you worried
about your family?"
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Yes.
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My family should have been
my greatest concern.
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But…
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they were already gone.
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And they did not die in war.
298
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,400
Tiemo's winters are bitter cold.
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Children born in winter rarely live
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to see the snow melt.
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My children
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were born in winter.
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We want our children to grow up safely.
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We want the sick
to have herbs for treatment.
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00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,920
We want our cattle and sheep
to have steady grazing grounds.
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00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:21,680
We want people to stop killing each other
over a scrap of dry food.
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00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:22,920
But
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Tiemo's land is far too barren.
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So
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we had to take your land,
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no matter the cost,
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even if it meant
lying in wait for 30 years
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for the faintest chance.
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Our land also has young children
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and sick people.
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If we give all our land to Tiemo,
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how are we supposed to live?
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How are we supposed to live?
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You are right.
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But
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what does that have to do with me?
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It has nothing to do with you.
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00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:31,360
Now that Yan Fengshan is dead,
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I am no longer of use to you.
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Mr. Long,
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you have no reason to take me
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to your king.
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00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:48,120
Xiao Wuyang is missing, isn't he?
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When I went to see him,
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he had already awakened,
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but he told me not to say anything.
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I did not understand then.
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Now I do.
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You were controlling
the pace of his recovery
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just to delay
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when he would wake.
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You are White Hair.
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I cannot hide anything from you.
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00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:22,280
Your ambush failed
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because your target was Xiao Wuyang,
the King of Death.
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00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:27,920
You never stood a chance.
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00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:30,360
With you in our hands,
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he will show himself sooner or later.
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Let's search over there.
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Come on.
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Tiemo's winters are freezing cold.
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00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:18,280
Wolves come to steal livestock,
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00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:21,120
and herders must shoot them down.
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00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:25,600
Forced to walk
into the boundless snowfields,
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some never make it back.
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00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:33,960
The next year,
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when winter ends and the snow melts,
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a mother who has lost her child
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finds a pile of white bones on the ground.
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00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,720
Those bones belong
to the wolves and her son.
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00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:50,640
She makes a flute
out of the wolves' bones,
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00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:52,400
and its mournful sound
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echoes across Tiemo's land.
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00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:57,160
That is the "White Bone Ballad."
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00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:04,760
General Gu,
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00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:09,440
you may have heard the story,
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00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:11,520
but what you don't know
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00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:16,320
is that Tiemo shadow guards
entered Chang'an
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20 years ago.
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00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:24,120
They've long blended into the city,
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living as ordinary people.
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00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,360
They learned Chang'an's culture,
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00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:31,240
weaving, and tailoring,
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00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:34,360
their skill no worse than the locals'.
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Some even married people of Chang'an
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and had children,
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enjoying an ordinary, peaceful life.
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But we had an agreement:
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when the "White Bone Ballad"
echoes over Chang'an,
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that will be the moment
they return to their true nature.
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00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:18,600
Young man,
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00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:23,280
it really is you.
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00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:26,560
Why are you out in such a panic
in the middle of the night?
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00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:28,520
Did you provoke
someone you shouldn't have,
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00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:29,560
and now they're after you?
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00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:31,280
The city is in chaos.
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00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:32,520
It's dangerous at night.
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00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:35,320
Why don't you come inside
and sit for a bit?
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INCENSES AND CANDLES
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00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:01,040
Young man, your hair…
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00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:07,080
Both times we met,
you looked completely lost.
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00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:08,280
What happened tonight?
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00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:11,520
A thief broke into my home.
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00:39:12,240 --> 00:39:13,520
I came out to report it.
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00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:18,280
Chang'an grows more unsafe by the day.
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00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:20,160
Ill fortune clings to you.
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00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:25,240
Wash your face first. Here.
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00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:35,880
- Go on. Here.
- Thank you.
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00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:37,360
Think nothing of it.
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00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:40,280
I feel for those who suffer.
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00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:42,240
Everyone in this world suffers.
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00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:44,440
Everyone suffers.
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00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:18,000
General Gu, do you know?
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00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:22,120
The wolves prey on our livestock,
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00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:25,920
yet we Tiemo people
still take the wolf as our totem,
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00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:29,080
because the wolves taught us
how to plunder.
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00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:31,280
We Tiemo people
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00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:35,280
don't deserve to live forever
on cold, barren land.
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00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:38,520
So we must ride out and plunder.
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00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:40,880
We must seize fertile ground.
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00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:45,200
Not a patch of Chang'an's land
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00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:47,720
will you ever take.
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00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:52,200
Not a single resident of Chang'an
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00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,000
will submit to you.
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00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:01,520
Hasn't your army
already been cut down by mine?
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00:41:02,240 --> 00:41:05,760
Aren't you already my spoils of war?
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00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:08,440
Chang'an is about to fall.
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00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:11,480
What else do you have to say?
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00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:13,480
Rest assured.
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00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:17,200
Chang'an will not fall.
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00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:22,680
Right now, I pity only my warhorse.
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00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:26,080
It carried me out of the city to fight
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00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:28,800
and carried me back to die.
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00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:53,240
You're bleeding out,
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00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:55,440
yet you still had that move hidden?
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00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:03,240
A pity
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00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:07,520
I'm a cripple.
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00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:52,520
You're from Tiemo.
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00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:54,520
Tell me
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00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:57,000
where your master is.
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00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:02,600
Fortunately,
there are still those in Chang'an
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00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:06,600
you cannot defeat.