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By decree of the King of Great Yan:

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Consort Helian of Great Yan, virtuous by nature,

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diligent, and gentle,

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is hereby elevated to Queen of Great Yan, effective immediately.

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Huo Sang, elder of the Baichuan Tribe, hails from a lineage

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that has been loyal and valiant for generations.

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His daughter, Baichuan—virtuous, gentle,

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and accomplished in both character and talent—

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is hereby granted the title of Consort.

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The daughter of the Elder of the Pale Tribe is hereby appointed Consort,

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with the three cities of Linchuan, Shazhou, and Jiuhe

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bestowed as her personal fief!

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-Thank you, Your Majesty! -Thank you, Your Majesty!

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[REBIRTH]

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[Episode 38]

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Chu!

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I'll marry you and make you the Queen of Great Yan.

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I'll take you to ride Mount Huihui horses.

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Chu...

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Helian.

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Thank you for being willing to help me.

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Your Majesty.

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Since childhood, I've dreamed of one day

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becoming the queen of Great Yan.

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Only this way

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could I bring honor to our tribe,

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stop my brother from bullying me,

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and protect my clansmen from further humiliation.

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So today

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is the day my wish comes true.

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I am very happy.

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Tomorrow,

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the troops of the Pale and the Baichuan Tribes

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will arrive here.

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In three days,

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I will lead the campaign to Ximeng

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to fight the Yong Army.

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Your Majesty once said...

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you hoped I could become your ally—

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someone useful to Great Yan.

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Have I done so?

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You have.

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Your Majesty!

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All 10,000 Baichuan troops are assembled!

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All 9,000 Pale troops are assembled!

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All 6,000 Helian soldiers are assembled!

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15,000 from the Black Eagle Army

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and 12,000 from the Great Yan Army—

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totaling 52,000 troops—

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have all assembled outside the city,

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awaiting Your Majesty's orders!

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Your Majesty!

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Your Majesty,

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please take this sword with you on the campaign

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and protect Great Yan with it.

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This was General Cheng's wish.

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And General Cheng would once again

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bring Your Majesty back safely.

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I promise you.

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I will uphold Cheng Yuan's will to protect the land

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and return safely.

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March!

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Yes!

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Yes! Yes! Yes!

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Yes! Yes! Yes!

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I, Chu Qiao, daughter of Great Yong's Emperor,

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hereby present the jade seal and military tally of Ximeng,

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pledge my allegiance to Great Yong,

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and will never break the treaty.

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Guards!

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Chu Qiao is a witch.

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She has angered the ancestors of Great Yong

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and brought down heavenly fire.

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Seize her!

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Nobody move!

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Step back.

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Stand down.

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Ministers, there is no need for panic.

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There is no such thing as "heavenly fire."

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What caused the portrait to burn on its own was,

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in fact, flint powder.

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What is flint powder?

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It's a substance that can spontaneously ignite.

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When exposed to strong sunlight and rising temperatures,

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it will catch fire on its own.

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The fire seen that day at the Jiuyou Platform

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was caused by flint powder.

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Zhao Che

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has been using the Faceless God Sect

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and flint powder to fool you all!

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Nonsense!

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The Faceless God Sect is the sacred religion of Great Yong—

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how dare you slander it!

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You've been using its name

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to eliminate your political rivals.

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Muhe Lie, Wei Guang,

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and the late General Meng—

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were all murdered simply because they

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were not his cronies.

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How could the Crown Prince commit such a treasonous act?

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If you don't believe it,

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order an immediate search of the secret passage beneath the ancestral temple.

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Mu Shen confessed before his death.

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On Zhao Che's orders, he used the temple renovations as a pretext

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to hide large quantities of flint powder

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in the secret passage.

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Xing Le.

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Yes, Your Majesty!

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Search!

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Yes!

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[Chengde Hall]

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There really is flint powder.

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Father,

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this is Chu Qiao's scheme to frame me.

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Mu Shen is dead.

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How can she prove that the powder was placed there on my orders?

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Father.

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This woman Chu Qiao harbors treacherous intentions.

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She's colluded with Yan Xun,

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seeking to throw our court into chaos.

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Every move of her has been a calculated scheme!

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Father, you must not fall for her scheme.

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Your Majesty,

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Your Highness,

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urgent report from the frontier—

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the armies of Great Yan and Ximeng have split into several forces

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and are heading toward our border.

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This.... This is bad.

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Father,

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this is precisely Chu Qiao and Yan Xun's conspiracy.

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She falsely accuses me here today

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just to drive a wedge between us,

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plunging Great Yong into chaos.

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And Yan Xun seizes this opportunity to dispatch troops,

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forcing our state to face attacks from both sides!

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Now, the empire stands on the brink of collapse.

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At this moment of national crisis,

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will you believe Chu Qiao, a witch,

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or me,

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the future heir of Great Yong?

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Guards,

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seize the witch Chu Qiao

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and throw her in prison!

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Don't move!

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Move, and I'll kill him!

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Don't move.

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Witch Chu Qiao, in collusion with General Xing Le,

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has framed the Crown Prince

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and misled the Emperor!

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Her crimes deserve death!

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Execute her on the spot!

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Your Majesty...

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Zhuge Yue.

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You...

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His Majesty has passed away.

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From this moment on, the Crown Prince is the new Emperor.

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All shall obey the Crown Prince's command!

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Witch Chu Qiao, together with the traitor Xing Le,

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has committed regicide and rebellion.

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Seize them both!

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Let go!

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Who dares to move?

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Huan Huan.

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Let Chu Qiao and General Xing Le go!

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Otherwise, I'll kill you!

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Huan Huan...

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Don't force me.

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Do I need to say that again?

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Let them go!

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Step aside!

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Huan Huan.

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Come with us.

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Chu Qiao,

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Yan Xun's army and Ximeng's army

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are already on their way.

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Do you want us all to die here?

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General Chu,

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let's go.

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Hurry.

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Huan Huan,

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why do you force my hand?

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You know—

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better than anyone—

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I have no choice!

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As long as you stop now,

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it's not too late.

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And if I don't...

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you will kill me,

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right?

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Yes.

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Huan Huan,

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from the day you and I were ambushed

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in the woods of Great Yan,

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from the day you accompanied me to Yan County

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to rally my troops—

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there has been no turning back for me.

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No,

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there is.

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I know

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you are not a man consumed by greed and ambition.

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I know there is goodness in you.

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The endless warfare of Great Yong

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is not what you want to see either.

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Zhao Che.

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Let go of all this...

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and come with me.

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Let's restore peace to Great Yong and Great Yan.

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We can call a truce and make peace,

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just as your father and the old King of Great Yan once did.

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Then...

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we can leave together,

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okay?

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Okay.

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Zhuge Yue, Prince of Jing, hear my order—

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surround General Xing Le's residence immediately

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and launch a citywide manhunt for the witch Chu Qiao.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Huan Huan,

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you were still too naive.

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This world was never meant for someone like you.

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General Xing,

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what's the situation with Great Yan and Ximeng?

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My men just sent word—

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Great Yan's army has broken through

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the border of Great Yong from the southwest.

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The Yong Army has been forced to retreat from Ximeng Pass

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and is rerouting via the Yuan River to reinforce the southwestern frontier.

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Moreover,

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Biantang has also dispatched troops.

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General Sun Di is leading 50,000 soldiers

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to join forces with Great Yan and Ximeng

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to advance on Great Yong.

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Are our men

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ready?

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I've gathered

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all the trusted troops I could mobilize—

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a total of 100 men.

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They're assembled at Shili Hill outside the city,

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awaiting your orders.

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One hundred men

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are enough.

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That's Zhao Che's, right?

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We met in Baige Town in Great Yan.

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I didn't know who he was at the time.

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After I returned to Great Yan, I found him framed

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and already wounded from being hunted down.

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He asked me to escort him to rejoin his old subordinates.

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But I never imagined

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he would bring his troops back to Zhenhuangcheng

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just for this day.

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I'll be using a sword tomorrow,

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and wearing this will get in the way.

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Won't you regret it?

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We made a pact long ago—

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the next time we met,

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we'd only be enemies.

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The sword pierced Your Highness's abdomen,

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striking

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the child in the womb.

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Your Highness's life is not in danger,

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but

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the child cannot be saved.

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Your Majesty,

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Great Yan's army

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has already breached our southwest border.

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Our troops at Ximeng Pass

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have been dispatched to reinforce the southwest.

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But this leaves

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the northwest frontier dangerously underdefended.

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If the Ximeng Army takes this chance to attack,

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we may be caught completely off guard!

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What should we do?

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Pass down my orders—

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send troops to reinforce Ximeng Pass at once.

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Your Majesty,

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our forces are already stretched thin.

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The remaining men must guard the capital.

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If we draw more soldiers from the capital now,

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it will only invite further chaos!

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How far have Great Yan's forces

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advanced?

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They've already reached Ling County.

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Once they cross the Luanxi River,

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it will truly be too late!

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Brother!

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There is only one way left.

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The Quanrong people in the northwest are burly and skilled in battle.

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Please, Your Majesty, propose a marriage alliance with the Quanrong,

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offering me in return for their military support.

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That way,

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we can quell the crisis on our border.

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A marriage alliance?

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Sending the Princess to a foreign land

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would indeed secure military support,

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but this is truly humiliating!

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What would become of Great Yong's dignity?

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The state is

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on the brink of collapse!

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Which matters more—

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dignity, or the survival of the nation?

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Since the founding of Great Yong,

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there has never been

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a precedent for a princess being married off to a foreign state.

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No precedent—

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so no exception can be made?

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It must not be done!

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It must not be done!

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Stop arguing!

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[Temple of the Faceless God]

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Your Majesty,

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are you really going to send Princess Chun'er

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to the Quanrong for a marriage alliance?

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Why not?

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Jia Meng has come from the Quanrong.

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She's brought a state letter of marriage alliance from their chieftain,

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offering 100,000 Quanrong troops in support.

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The Quanrong are brutal

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and bloodthirsty by nature.

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For years, we have kept our distance from them

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with virtually no contact.

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To trade the Princess for their soldiers now—

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setting aside whether those 100,000 troops

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would truly obey us—

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if they harbor any ulterior motives and seize the opportunity to act,

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by the time

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we react,

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it may already be too late.

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Zhuge Yue,

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you oppose this marriage alliance with the Quanrong in exchange for troops?

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Is it because you fear

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they may turn against us,

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or because you can't bear to watch Ximeng perish,

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to see Chu Qiao die?

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Zhuge Yue,

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do you wish for Chu Qiao and Great Yan to win,

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or do you want to go back to being King Ximeng?

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There's something I still haven't asked you—

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yesterday at the ancestral temple,

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you acted on your own and killed the late Emperor.

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What exactly was your intention?

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I did so to

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get Your Highness out of the dire situation.

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If you hadn't acted yesterday,

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Chu Qiao would never have had the chance to escape.

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And I wouldn't have had to bear the crime

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of patricide and regicide in front of everyone.

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Did you do that

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to help me

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or to help Chu Qiao leave?

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Your Highness,

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the late Emperor had already discovered your plan.

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Pretending to believe you was just a temporary measure.

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If we hadn't acted then,

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given his wariness and caution,

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the moment he walked out of Tianyuan Palace,

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he would've tried everything to turn the tables.

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By then,

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it would have been too late

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for us to act.

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Zhuge Yue,

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do you know?

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When the late Emperor successfully inherited the throne,

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your grandfather Zhuge Muqing rendered great service.

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Yet the late Emperor

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never regarded him with the same suspicion and ruthlessness

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he showed toward Yan Shicheng.

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That was because your grandfather

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knew his place.

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He understood

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he stood beneath the sovereign.

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He would not interfere in matters

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that were not his concern.

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This subject

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understands.

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I want you to help me stop Zhao Che

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and completely transform the realm of Great Yong.

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Today,

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I shall see who emerges victorious

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in this Faceless God Temple.

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Zhao Chun'er has opened the border gates

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and allowed the Quanrong to enter.

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I have made my decision—

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I shall lead the army to face them in battle.