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Auntie,

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are you my father's new consort?

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You're not as pretty as
my mother or my other mother.

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"Auntie"?

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Call me Sister.

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And who are you calling not pretty?

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You have to pay for it! Pay for it!

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-Pay for it!
-Alright, alright.

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Okay, stop.

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I heard it the first time.

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Am I amazing?

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Amazing!

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You little brat.

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I've long heard that Lady Xie
is not interested in embroidery,

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cares nothing for the refined arts,

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neglects proper pursuits,

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and behaves arrogantly.

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But seeing you today,

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I find you clever and full of spirit—

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quite delightful, in fact.

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I've also heard that your marriage
was an unhappy one,

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that you've lived
in loneliness and resentment.

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Yet seeing you today,

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you're actually content and at ease,

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carefree as the breeze, Yuanji.

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Clearly, not every rumor
is worth believing.

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Mother rarely goes out

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because she's too poor.

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Every time she does,
she can't resist buying books.

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And they're very expensive.

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One ancient scroll costs as much as
three of my Nine-Linked Rings.

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I don't have many hobbies.

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I just like to collect books.

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Just these past few days, I even found

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about 20 scrolls
of interesting unofficial history

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and several baskets of religious scriptures
from the Western Regions.

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Oh,

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and a few books of tales
from the previous dynasty...

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Once I start talking about books,

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I tend to ramble.

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I must be boring you.

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I understand.

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I love collecting all sorts of stones,

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and I like to tinker
with clever little mechanisms.

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Perhaps I can make a bookcase for you

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that categorizes your books,

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making them easy to organize and find.

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It also comes apart
so you can carry it with you.

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If you truly can make such a thing,

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you'll do me a tremendous favor.

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Since you're fond of ingenious mechanisms,

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I believe I have a few books

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on long-lost ancient craftsmanship.

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I could never make sense of them,

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so they've been gathering dust.

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If you don't mind,

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consider them my gift to you.

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Then I'll gladly accept them, Yuanji.

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[Key to the Phoenix Heart]

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[Episode 5]

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Trinkets, pretty little ornaments!

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[Xiyue Restaurant]

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Take a look.

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[Jing Lan, Owner of Xiyue Restaurant]

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I heard that two years ago,

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you and Liu Da,
the owner of Qile Tavern on East Street,

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had a fight.

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You took his chef

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and injured his staff.

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In the end,

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the Capital Prefecture
suspended your business for three months

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as punishment.

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Bull...

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Bullshit.

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That lover of Liu Da's

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is related to that Capital Prefect

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through God knows
how many branches of the family.

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The Capital Prefect abused his authority

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to rule against me unfairly!

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What a jerk!

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What a coincidence.

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I've already killed the Capital Prefect.

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You're Xiao Wuyi,
the heir of

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Prince Jing'an?

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Your Highness, these are

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the Young Master of Miraculous Craft's ledgers
you asked for.

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Burn them.

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Yes, Your Highness.

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I...

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Actually, you've known

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the Young Master of Miraculous Craft's
true identity all along, right?

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From this moment on, you don't.

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No matter who asks you about

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the Young Master of Miraculous Craft,

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you know absolutely nothing.

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Understood?

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You're from Luzhou in the Northwest.

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You have a younger brother

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serving in the Pang'e Army there.

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You've lost contact with him for years,

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and you've been
searching for him ever since,

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not knowing whether he's alive or dead.

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I'll find a way to help you locate him.

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Take these silver ingots,

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and you'll work for me from now on.

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I need a place like your restaurant

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to gather intelligence
from across the city.

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As for whether this restaurant

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belongs to you or someone else,

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I don't care.

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All the profits are yours.

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Say yes already.

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Don't be a fool.

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With His Highness backing you up
from now on,

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do you still need to
be afraid of that Liu fellow?

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Jing Lan is at Your Highness's command.

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Good. From today on,

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your restaurant will
host storytelling performances.

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Hire more storytellers

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and have them tell the stories well.

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Crown Prince Wenxi.

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Phoenix Heart Token?

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Does anyone still believe such old rumors?

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Understood.

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Ask nothing, say nothing.

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Record everyone
who asks about the whereabouts

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of the Phoenix Heart Token.

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Yes, Your Highness.

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One more thing.

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The Secondary Consort
got up early this morning

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and visited the Princess's
and the Consort's quarters.

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She drank two bowls of duck soup,

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and the Consort gave her two books.

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Just now, she followed
the Consort and Young Master Ziqi

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to Madam Ruisheng's quarters.

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She's certainly making herself at home—

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eating and accepting gifts.

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Isn't it because Your Highness instructed
the household earlier

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to treat Lady Xie well?

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I just don't see
what you're gaining from this.

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You married a troublemaker,

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and you've spent so much money

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buying the Xiyue Restaurant for her,

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just so no one would discover

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that she's
the Young Master of Miraculous Craft.

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How much private savings do you even have?

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Do you want to be caned?

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Your Highness,

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the bodies
of Lady Xie's maid and secret guard

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have been brought back.

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Good.

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Let's go see what Xie Jiayu looks like

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after Ruisheng's gotten hold of her.

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Ow! Ow! Ow!

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Ruisheng, I can't take it anymore!

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This is the Yongquan acupoint.

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If this spot hurts,

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it means you have poor circulation.

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This is
the Foot Yangming Stomach Meridian.

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Your digestion
hasn't been very good either, has it?

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Yuanji, Yuanji, save me!

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Bear with it a little longer, Jiayu.

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It hurts now,
but once the massage is done,

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you'll feel much better.

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Consort, you didn't

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go to bed until after midnight again
last night, did you?

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-I...
-If you keep doing that,

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don't expect me to
make you any more calming tonic.

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Sisters,

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I never imagined you two were so close.

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What?

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Did you also believe the rumors outside

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that we're constantly
at each other's throats?

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No, no.

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When I gave birth to Ziqi,

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it was Consort
who took care of me personally.

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All these years, while I've been away
with the army,

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she's been raising Ziqi for me.

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If you ask who in this household
I'm closest to,

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it's not the Heir,

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but

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his consort.

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Even my monthly letters home

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were addressed to Madam Ruisheng.

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Impressive, impressive.

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Xiao Wuyi, you're really something.

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You are as skilled at leading an army

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as you are at running your household.

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Secondary Consort, His Highness the Heir
wishes to see you.

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The Heir wants to see me?

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Xiao Wuyi,

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you've finally rescued me for once.

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I'll take my leave first, Sisters.

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Excuse me.

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The Heir has specifically instructed you

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to help nurse
the Secondary Consort's health?

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Yes.

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He really has gone to great lengths.

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Why did you bring me here?

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Such a beautiful place...

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A place this beautiful

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is naturally the best for killing someone.

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Oh, I'm so scared.

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You're that certain I wouldn't hurt you?

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Ruisheng and Yuanji are both good people.

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If they haven't teamed up to poison you,

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that means you're...

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not that bad after all.

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This is for you.

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This is Cang'er's hairpin.

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Your maid and the secret guard

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are buried there.

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When Beifu soldiers die in battle,

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if their bodies are recovered,

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they should be respectfully dressed
and buried under a tree.

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That's our military tradition.

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They were your loyal servants.

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They deserved the same honor
for sacrificing for you.

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Carve their names on it.

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Cang'er,

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my secret guard,

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I'm sorry.

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I got you both killed.

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If there's another life,

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don't be servants again.

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May you become hawks,

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soaring across the sky.

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Even if there are storms,

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you'll know no hunger or hardship.

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[Prince Jing'an's Mansion]

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Your Highness, a letter for you.

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My Lady, it's from Mr. Jing
of Xiyue Restaurant.

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He said someone went to the restaurant

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looking for the Young Master of Miraculous Craft
to discuss business.

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What did you just deliver
to Lady Xie's quarters?

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It was a letter from Xiyue Restaurant
for Her Highness.

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A legend has long circulated
across the realm—

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"When the Phoenix Heart Token appears,
peace shall be restored in the world."

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It's said that Empress Wenxi's child
never actually died.

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Once the Phoenix Heart Token resurfaces,

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Crown Prince Wenxi
will reappear in the world

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and unite the realm.

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Ladies and gentlemen, make yourselves
comfortable with some tea...

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Mr. Jing, you're looking for
the Young Master of Miraculous Craft?

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Do you still remember

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Mr. Xiao, who asked you to design
the repeating crossbow

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last time?

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Why is it about
the repeating crossbow again?

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Is there no end to this?

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This time it's not about the crossbow.

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It's about Mr. Xiao.

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He owes me a lot of money.

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Food on credit,

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drinks on credit—

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at this rate, he's going to

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bankrupt my restaurant.

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I need to sue him.

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Really?

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I remember he was quite a big spender
when he came

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to buy the crossbow from me last time.

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Yeah, well, who knows?

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Anyway, he owes me a lot of money.

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I'm going to sue him right now.

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But I...

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I don't quite remember what he looks like.

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Could you draw me a portrait of him?

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He owes you a fortune,

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yet you don't remember what he looks like?

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You might not know,

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but I can never remember people's faces.

271
00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:30,450
I really can't tell faces apart.

272
00:12:30,450 --> 00:12:31,790
Besides, those wealthy young masters

273
00:12:31,790 --> 00:12:33,720
all dress about the same.

274
00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:34,670
They all look alike too,

275
00:12:34,670 --> 00:12:35,790
with their fair, delicate features.

276
00:12:35,790 --> 00:12:37,650
I honestly can't tell them apart.

277
00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:40,550
Then what about all the staff
in your restaurant?

278
00:12:40,550 --> 00:12:41,670
Are they all bad at recognizing faces too?

279
00:12:41,670 --> 00:12:44,550
Not all of them are,

280
00:12:44,550 --> 00:12:46,980
but none of them can paint.

281
00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:49,240
Recognizing faces is one thing;

282
00:12:49,340 --> 00:12:50,870
being able to draw them is another.

283
00:12:50,870 --> 00:12:51,790
You

284
00:12:51,790 --> 00:12:53,600
and our restaurant go way back.

285
00:12:54,030 --> 00:12:55,150
Please help me out.

286
00:12:56,150 --> 00:12:56,720
Alright.

287
00:12:57,480 --> 00:12:59,410
Young Master of Miraculous Craft?

288
00:13:01,010 --> 00:13:03,300
Why does that title sound so familiar?

289
00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:05,930
Repeating crossbow...

290
00:13:07,510 --> 00:13:08,310
Could it be...

291
00:13:09,510 --> 00:13:11,770
Mr. Jing really knows how to spin a story.

292
00:13:12,030 --> 00:13:13,360
We've got the portrait.

293
00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:21,750
Did Xie Jiayu suspect anything?

294
00:13:21,750 --> 00:13:22,440
Not yet.

295
00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:26,790
Start the investigation
from within the palace.

296
00:13:26,790 --> 00:13:28,480
And check the students
at the Imperial Academy

297
00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:30,480
and see if anyone matches this face.

298
00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:34,320
Your Highness suspects
Grand Tutor Xie and the Empress Dowager?

299
00:13:35,750 --> 00:13:37,550
I hope I'm just overthinking it.

300
00:13:47,390 --> 00:13:48,270
Did you know

301
00:13:49,030 --> 00:13:50,960
Xie Jiayu is
the Young Master of Miraculous Craft,

302
00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:54,040
who makes and sells ingenious devices
through Xiyue Restaurant?

303
00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:56,040
I've never heard that title before.

304
00:13:56,850 --> 00:13:59,850
But Jiayu is indeed skilled at
making mechanical devices.

305
00:13:59,850 --> 00:14:01,780
She even made me a portable bookcase.

306
00:14:01,780 --> 00:14:04,550
If she's been secretly selling
small items in the market,

307
00:14:04,550 --> 00:14:05,630
it's not surprising.

308
00:14:05,630 --> 00:14:07,790
The repeating crossbow
that caused the Beifu soldiers

309
00:14:07,790 --> 00:14:08,960
to die in vain

310
00:14:09,510 --> 00:14:12,240
was made
by the Young Master of Miraculous Craft.

311
00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:14,080
I found a repeating crossbow

312
00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:15,270
in Xie Jiayu's dowry chest.

313
00:14:15,270 --> 00:14:16,530
I've compared the two.

314
00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:18,470
Its size, design, and mechanism

315
00:14:18,470 --> 00:14:19,510
are exactly the same.

316
00:14:19,510 --> 00:14:20,870
She must have had an ulterior motive

317
00:14:20,870 --> 00:14:22,320
for marrying into the household.

318
00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:23,630
She cannot be allowed near Ziqi.

319
00:14:23,630 --> 00:14:25,100
You and Mother must be careful as well.

320
00:14:25,100 --> 00:14:27,030
Get rid of that bookcase she gave you.

321
00:14:27,030 --> 00:14:29,360
The Heir asked for this marriage himself.

322
00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:30,940
It wasn't what Jiayu wanted.

323
00:14:30,940 --> 00:14:32,270
If you are worried, Yao,

324
00:14:32,420 --> 00:14:34,050
why don't you ask the Heir directly?

325
00:14:34,050 --> 00:14:35,170
And say what to him?

326
00:14:35,910 --> 00:14:39,110
He's probably already been bewitched
by this evil woman!

327
00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:44,050
Young Master Yao and the Consort...

328
00:14:46,390 --> 00:14:47,750
Careful! Watch out!

329
00:14:47,750 --> 00:14:48,480
Watch out!

330
00:14:51,510 --> 00:14:52,240
Are you okay?

331
00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:54,840
Come with me!

332
00:14:55,670 --> 00:14:56,510
No, Yao.

333
00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:57,510
-Yao.
-Move!

334
00:14:57,670 --> 00:14:59,120
-Ziqi.
-What did I do?

335
00:14:59,120 --> 00:14:59,790
Are you okay, Ziqi?

336
00:14:59,790 --> 00:15:00,520
-Yao.
-Move!

337
00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:01,910
Let's go.

338
00:15:01,910 --> 00:15:03,240
-Let go of me!
-Let's go.

339
00:15:05,550 --> 00:15:06,410
Your Highness.

340
00:15:06,750 --> 00:15:08,790
Young Master Yao claims
the Secondary Consort tried to harm Ziqi.

341
00:15:08,790 --> 00:15:11,550
He's taken the matter
all the way to the ancestral hall.

342
00:15:11,550 --> 00:15:13,150
Alchemy was popular in the former dynasty,

343
00:15:13,150 --> 00:15:15,750
and that's when fireworks were
first created.

344
00:15:15,870 --> 00:15:17,840
In addition to saltpeter,
sulfur, and charcoal,

345
00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:20,040
you can add copper, iron, cotton,
and other materials

346
00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:21,600
to produce different colors.

347
00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:23,600
The fireworks I make sell very well.

348
00:15:24,790 --> 00:15:25,480
Forget it.

349
00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:27,080
You wouldn't understand
even if I explained.

350
00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:28,280
Let me put it this way.

351
00:15:28,630 --> 00:15:29,840
If I really wanted to hurt someone,

352
00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:30,910
I wouldn't make it so complicated.

353
00:15:30,910 --> 00:15:33,110
A little more of one ingredient,
or a little less of another—

354
00:15:33,110 --> 00:15:35,390
and I could make sure
no one here would survive,

355
00:15:35,390 --> 00:15:36,320
including you!

356
00:15:36,870 --> 00:15:39,030
So you admit you've hurt people.

357
00:15:39,030 --> 00:15:40,150
I can hurt people,

358
00:15:40,350 --> 00:15:41,880
but that doesn't mean I did.

359
00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:43,690
You've already harmed people.

360
00:15:43,810 --> 00:15:46,480
You're the Young Master of Miraculous Craft,
aren't you?

361
00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:48,480
My Beifu soldiers were killed by...

362
00:15:49,790 --> 00:15:50,440
Brother!

363
00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:57,930
Consort, take Ziqi away first.

364
00:15:58,080 --> 00:15:59,010
Jiayu, go first.

365
00:15:59,550 --> 00:16:01,360
I have something to say to my brother.

366
00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:02,670
Ziqi, let's go.

367
00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:05,150
Go.

368
00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:06,250
I'm not leaving.

369
00:16:07,510 --> 00:16:09,750
What exactly did I do
to all of you?

370
00:16:10,510 --> 00:16:12,510
It was the repeating crossbow you designed

371
00:16:12,510 --> 00:16:14,770
that killed 30,000 of my Beifu soldiers.

372
00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:21,480
Brother!

373
00:16:31,630 --> 00:16:33,480
And you're still covering for her?

374
00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:35,210
You've been so blinded by lust!

375
00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:36,720
Xie Jiayu,

376
00:16:37,670 --> 00:16:39,570
you say you didn't intend to
harm Ziqi today.

377
00:16:39,570 --> 00:16:41,230
I won't argue with you on that.

378
00:16:42,150 --> 00:16:45,610
But what about the souls
of my 30,000 innocent Beifu soldiers?

379
00:16:46,030 --> 00:16:48,290
Dare you say
it has nothing to do with you?

380
00:16:49,310 --> 00:16:52,110
It was the flawed repeating crossbow
you designed

381
00:16:52,470 --> 00:16:55,800
that caused 30,000 Beifu soldiers
to be nearly wiped out.

382
00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:00,700
Fortunately, Wuyi held on
until reinforcements arrived.

383
00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:04,510
Dare you say you knew nothing about it?

384
00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:08,079
What exactly was your Xie family plotting?

385
00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:19,380
Impossible. There must be some mistake.

386
00:17:20,030 --> 00:17:20,750
Xiao Wuyi.

387
00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:27,680
I clearly...

388
00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:31,280
I clearly designed it
for a noble young master.

389
00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:35,880
Don't worry,
the Young Master of Miraculous Craft

390
00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:39,080
will definitely design
the repeating crossbow you want.

391
00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:41,350
He only said
he was taking it to a literary gathering

392
00:17:41,350 --> 00:17:44,080
and just needed it
to look good and intimidating.

393
00:17:46,590 --> 00:17:48,050
Which noble young master?

394
00:17:50,110 --> 00:17:51,480
He said his name was Xiao Sheng.

395
00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:52,400
Xiao Sheng?

396
00:17:53,770 --> 00:17:54,530
Xiao Wuyi,

397
00:17:55,150 --> 00:17:59,010
she said you were the one who commissioned
the design. Do you admit it?

398
00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:03,660
Why are you called Xiao Sheng?

399
00:18:05,030 --> 00:18:06,490
Isn't your name Xiao Wuyi?

400
00:18:06,790 --> 00:18:08,320
Xiao Sheng is my birth name.

401
00:18:09,120 --> 00:18:10,520
Wuyi is my courtesy name.

402
00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:14,050
Ever since I went to the battlefield
at 14,

403
00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:16,400
no one has called me Xiao Sheng anymore.

404
00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:18,200
No wonder.

405
00:18:19,750 --> 00:18:21,000
No wonder when Qing Long and Yan Yue

406
00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:23,000
came to Xiyue Restaurant to find me,

407
00:18:23,420 --> 00:18:26,150
they got upset the moment
I mentioned Xiao Sheng.

408
00:18:28,350 --> 00:18:30,010
But that still doesn't add up.

409
00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:31,620
It wasn't you who came to find me then.

410
00:18:31,620 --> 00:18:34,200
But he looked like a pampered young maste
at first glance.

411
00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:35,600
If it's really as you say,

412
00:18:35,790 --> 00:18:38,740
then he disguised his identity
from the very beginning.

413
00:18:38,740 --> 00:18:41,130
So who was really behind the deaths
of my 30,000 Beifu soldiers,

414
00:18:41,130 --> 00:18:42,690
using you as their pawn?

415
00:18:43,270 --> 00:18:44,680
And who else knew

416
00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:48,570
that you'd designed
the flawed repeating crossbow?

417
00:18:56,030 --> 00:18:57,560
How would he know my father?

418
00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:24,080
The first lesson I learned
after growing up

419
00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:26,930
was that life doesn't always
give us a choice.

420
00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:29,510
You must be the pawn.

421
00:19:32,150 --> 00:19:32,590
Jiayu.

422
00:19:33,030 --> 00:19:34,160
Where are you going?

423
00:19:38,590 --> 00:19:40,720
You really knew about this all along.

424
00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:43,510
And yet, you're still protecting her?

425
00:19:43,510 --> 00:19:45,510
I'm sure you can see it too, Brother.

426
00:19:45,790 --> 00:19:47,590
Xie Jiayu knew nothing about it.

427
00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:49,030
But if this matter gets out,

428
00:19:49,030 --> 00:19:50,880
wouldn't it chill the hearts
of the soldiers?

429
00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:52,920
And this Xie woman, with her honeyed words
and deceptive charm—

430
00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:53,880
before she even entered the household,

431
00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:56,110
she'd already harmed
so many Beifu soldiers.

432
00:19:56,110 --> 00:19:58,770
Don't those soldiers
deserve to know the truth?

433
00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:00,790
Does erecting a monument mean

434
00:20:00,790 --> 00:20:03,070
that my soldiers' grievances are settled?

435
00:20:03,070 --> 00:20:04,070
Of course not.

436
00:20:06,790 --> 00:20:08,390
Then what do you intend to do?

437
00:20:10,270 --> 00:20:12,200
You'll know soon enough, Brother.

438
00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:16,030
Take care.

439
00:20:16,030 --> 00:20:17,030
Look at this cloth.

440
00:20:17,030 --> 00:20:18,490
You have a really good eye.

441
00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:35,540
-Father.
-Father.

442
00:20:35,830 --> 00:20:36,890
-Mother.
-Mother.

443
00:20:38,310 --> 00:20:39,110
Good, good.

444
00:20:40,150 --> 00:20:41,010
Darling, look.

445
00:20:41,750 --> 00:20:43,400
Have you ever seen Yaoyao

446
00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:46,030
so gentle and graceful?

447
00:20:46,750 --> 00:20:47,510
Heir,

448
00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:50,230
has my daughter caused you any trouble?

449
00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:53,000
Jiayu has been wonderful.

450
00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,200
Everyone in the household is fond of her.

451
00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:58,200
My daughter might not be
exceptionally outstanding,

452
00:20:58,200 --> 00:20:59,510
but I never imagined

453
00:20:59,990 --> 00:21:01,720
marrying her off in such haste,

454
00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:04,510
much less as a secondary consort.

455
00:21:04,830 --> 00:21:06,030
To be honest,

456
00:21:06,790 --> 00:21:09,110
I didn't expect this marriage
to actually happen.

457
00:21:09,110 --> 00:21:11,510
Since Jiayu entered our household
for the sake of the realm,

458
00:21:11,510 --> 00:21:13,160
our family will naturally treat her well.

459
00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:14,510
Please rest assured, Princess.

460
00:21:14,510 --> 00:21:15,160
Mother,

461
00:21:15,590 --> 00:21:17,880
he knows I enjoy
making mechanical devices,

462
00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:20,160
so he set aside a space
in the household for me

463
00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:21,680
to make the things I like.

464
00:21:22,310 --> 00:21:23,590
The wedding was so rushed,

465
00:21:23,590 --> 00:21:26,320
and I didn't have time
to take many things with me.

466
00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:27,350
Now that I'm back,

467
00:21:27,350 --> 00:21:28,920
I'd also like to take my books
on mechanisms

468
00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:30,110
and tools with me.

469
00:21:30,860 --> 00:21:31,510
Heir,

470
00:21:33,110 --> 00:21:34,640
go with Nanxing to my study

471
00:21:34,790 --> 00:21:36,180
and take all my blueprints.

472
00:21:36,180 --> 00:21:37,590
Don't leave a single one behind.

473
00:21:37,590 --> 00:21:40,720
I still have something I want to say
to Father and Mother.

474
00:21:57,510 --> 00:21:58,310
Yaoyao,

475
00:21:58,890 --> 00:21:59,950
what are you doing?

476
00:22:00,650 --> 00:22:03,850
Are you going to help Xiao Wuyi
improve military weapons?

477
00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:09,840
Then do you know
what you are doing, Father?

478
00:22:10,030 --> 00:22:11,720
Thirty thousand Beifu soldiers—

479
00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:13,450
that's thirty thousand lives!

480
00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:16,110
Father, you deliberately
arranged for someone to come to me

481
00:22:16,110 --> 00:22:18,510
and commission
the repeating crossbow, didn't you?

482
00:22:18,510 --> 00:22:21,110
I once saw the man
who called himself Xiao Sheng

483
00:22:21,750 --> 00:22:23,610
entering and leaving your study.

484
00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:28,200
What does that prove?

485
00:22:28,610 --> 00:22:30,670
That indeed doesn't prove anything.

486
00:22:31,350 --> 00:22:33,210
But now I understand, in my heart,

487
00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:35,790
why you encouraged me to design

488
00:22:35,790 --> 00:22:37,480
the repeating crossbow back then.

489
00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:38,960
I even told you

490
00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:39,890
about its flaws.

491
00:22:40,790 --> 00:22:41,680
Not long after,

492
00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:43,640
that man calling himself Xiao Sheng

493
00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:46,110
came looking for
the Young Master of Miraculous Craft to buy it.

494
00:22:46,110 --> 00:22:46,720
Father,

495
00:22:47,590 --> 00:22:50,720
can you truly say none of this
had anything to do with you?

496
00:23:08,350 --> 00:23:09,480
These three kowtows

497
00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:12,570
are to thank you and Mother
for raising me.

498
00:23:12,830 --> 00:23:14,490
If you had sacrificed only me,

499
00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:16,320
I could have understood—

500
00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:18,130
you simply stood on a different side

501
00:23:18,130 --> 00:23:19,090
and gave me up.

502
00:23:20,310 --> 00:23:21,640
But what you've done now

503
00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:24,280
is unworthy of the honor and integrity

504
00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:26,080
expected of a great noble house.

505
00:23:29,990 --> 00:23:31,840
Then what are you going to do?

506
00:23:33,110 --> 00:23:34,170
Are you going to...

507
00:23:38,120 --> 00:23:39,450
expose me, your father?

508
00:23:41,790 --> 00:23:42,400
On the night of my wedding,

509
00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:43,310
I couldn't do any of the things

510
00:23:43,310 --> 00:23:44,400
you asked me to do,

511
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:46,020
nor will I ever do them.

512
00:23:46,270 --> 00:23:48,750
The repeating crossbow
created a debt of lives.

513
00:23:48,750 --> 00:23:49,590
If one day

514
00:23:50,030 --> 00:23:52,630
the Beifu soldiers
come and ask me to pay for it,

515
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:54,200
then, as the daughter you have raised

516
00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:55,350
all these years,

517
00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:58,920
I will repay that debt
with my life in your stead

518
00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:00,250
and have no complaints.

519
00:24:00,590 --> 00:24:02,520
But what this world is really like,

520
00:24:03,110 --> 00:24:04,310
I will see for myself.

521
00:24:05,350 --> 00:24:06,590
And the road ahead,

522
00:24:07,750 --> 00:24:09,150
I will choose for myself.

523
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:10,680
So will Mao.

524
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:19,330
Mother, forgive me.

525
00:24:19,750 --> 00:24:21,150
I really have no appetite

526
00:24:21,590 --> 00:24:23,250
for this homecoming banquet.

527
00:24:36,750 --> 00:24:37,950
We'll take our leave.

528
00:24:46,030 --> 00:24:46,680
Darling,

529
00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:48,780
eat while it's hot.

530
00:25:02,590 --> 00:25:05,750
About how many people
are there in the city?

531
00:25:06,590 --> 00:25:08,050
Over 200,000 households.

532
00:25:08,830 --> 00:25:10,510
Every Lantern Festival,

533
00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:13,290
the city hosts its largest gathering.

534
00:25:14,450 --> 00:25:16,450
The streets are packed with people.

535
00:25:17,710 --> 00:25:19,370
Would there be 30,000 people?

536
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:24,370
There should be.

537
00:25:26,340 --> 00:25:27,410
That many people?

538
00:25:31,270 --> 00:25:33,270
That many people died because of me.

539
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:41,330
I need some time alone.

540
00:25:46,510 --> 00:25:47,440
Qing Long, Yan Yue,

541
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:49,480
stay close.
Don't let anything happen to her.

542
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:50,140
-Yes.
-Yes.

543
00:26:06,900 --> 00:26:10,720
[Chengyi Hall]

544
00:26:09,420 --> 00:26:10,350
Excuse me, Shopkeeper.

545
00:26:10,350 --> 00:26:11,030
Who is it?

546
00:26:12,310 --> 00:26:13,510
-We're closed.
-Sir.

547
00:26:14,620 --> 00:26:16,510
Sir, I'd like a bag of pear blossom candy.

548
00:26:16,510 --> 00:26:17,170
Sorry to bother you.

549
00:26:17,170 --> 00:26:18,300
Come back tomorrow.

550
00:26:18,310 --> 00:26:20,160
My sister is in a bad mood today.

551
00:26:20,360 --> 00:26:22,270
She's always loved
your pear blossom candy.

552
00:26:22,270 --> 00:26:24,130
I'll pay 10 times the usual price.

553
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:47,500
What's the point of burning them?

554
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:51,420
Are you here to laugh at me?

555
00:26:51,550 --> 00:26:52,880
Why would I laugh at you?

556
00:26:53,510 --> 00:26:55,270
Laugh at how your own father used you

557
00:26:55,270 --> 00:26:57,070
to bring ruin upon my Beifu Army?

558
00:26:58,030 --> 00:27:00,000
You're the commander of the Beifu Army.

559
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:01,400
Aren't you angry with me?

560
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:03,890
Though it wasn't my intention,

561
00:27:04,030 --> 00:27:06,360
I did cause
the deaths of so many soldiers.

562
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:08,720
Why am I bothering with an idiot?

563
00:27:09,830 --> 00:27:10,920
You're an idiot.

564
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:14,500
Why do you have so many questions?

565
00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:17,550
There is no good or evil inherent
in a technique; it is only a technique.

566
00:27:17,550 --> 00:27:19,010
If I had to blame everyone,

567
00:27:19,110 --> 00:27:19,880
besides you,

568
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:21,680
I'd have to start with Lu Ban.

569
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:23,920
What does he have to do with this?

570
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:26,050
If he hadn't invented all those tools,

571
00:27:26,270 --> 00:27:28,470
the art of mechanical carpentry
would never have come into being.

572
00:27:28,470 --> 00:27:29,270
And after him,

573
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:31,640
I would also blame Mozi,
who pioneered mechanical engineering.

574
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:32,640
Tracing back even further,

575
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:35,110
there's Zhang Hui,
grandson of the Yellow Emperor.

576
00:27:35,110 --> 00:27:36,920
Legend says he invented the bow and arrow.

577
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:38,030
Don't you want to place blame?

578
00:27:38,030 --> 00:27:39,550
Every wrong has its source.

579
00:27:39,550 --> 00:27:40,680
Bring them all to me.

580
00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:43,270
I want to settle accounts with
each of them properly.

581
00:27:43,270 --> 00:27:45,640
As for you, at most, you're an accomplice.

582
00:27:51,550 --> 00:27:52,610
From Chengyi Hall?

583
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:54,880
It must've been Mao who told you, right?

584
00:28:00,790 --> 00:28:02,000
Mao gave this to me.

585
00:28:02,350 --> 00:28:03,610
Mao treats me the best.

586
00:28:10,070 --> 00:28:10,720
Xiao Wuyi,

587
00:28:11,510 --> 00:28:12,720
you and your family

588
00:28:13,270 --> 00:28:14,870
are not quite what I'd heard.

589
00:28:18,070 --> 00:28:20,070
The night your father sent you here,

590
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,000
what exactly did he tell you?

591
00:28:23,510 --> 00:28:24,400
Let me guess.

592
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:26,070
Did he say

593
00:28:26,590 --> 00:28:28,480
that my family commands the Beifu Army

594
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:30,540
and is bound to rebel sooner or later?

595
00:28:30,590 --> 00:28:32,240
And that, even if only for Li Mao's sake,

596
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:34,720
you had to marry into this family
to keep an eye on me, right?

597
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:36,070
How do you know everything?

598
00:28:36,070 --> 00:28:37,130
Are you some kind of demon?

599
00:28:37,130 --> 00:28:38,930
War is waged on the battlefield—

600
00:28:39,590 --> 00:28:40,520
and in the heart.

601
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:43,360
If only I could see things

602
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:44,830
as clearly as you do.

603
00:28:45,510 --> 00:28:47,170
I don't understand my father.

604
00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:49,590
Isn't the Beifu Army
guarding the Northern Border?

605
00:28:49,590 --> 00:28:50,660
Why did he do this?

606
00:28:52,310 --> 00:28:54,570
I think you're better off staying a fool.

607
00:28:57,190 --> 00:28:59,730
By the way, there's something serious
I need to tell you.

608
00:28:59,730 --> 00:29:01,320
What serious business
could you possibly have?

609
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:02,080
Mao is sick.

610
00:29:02,430 --> 00:29:04,350
What? How could he be sick?

611
00:29:05,030 --> 00:29:06,640
There are so many imperial physicians
looking after him.

612
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:08,170
How could he still get sick?

613
00:29:08,750 --> 00:29:10,160
Is it serious? Take me to the palace now.

614
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:11,790
The imperial physicians
have already examined him.

615
00:29:11,790 --> 00:29:13,050
It's nothing serious.

616
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:15,620
He just hasn't had
much of an appetite lately.

617
00:29:15,620 --> 00:29:17,320
He wants you to
make him some hawthorn cakes,

618
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:19,200
and I'll take them to the palace for him.

619
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:20,510
Is he really alright?

620
00:29:21,070 --> 00:29:22,320
He just wants some hawthorn cakes?

621
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:23,480
Why would I lie to you?

622
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:24,110
Alright.

623
00:29:24,310 --> 00:29:25,710
I'll make them tomorrow.

624
00:29:29,350 --> 00:29:30,000
Xiao Wuyi.

625
00:29:31,310 --> 00:29:33,400
The incident involving the repeating crossbow
was never my intention.

626
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:34,550
But I owe you an unparalleled weapon

627
00:29:34,550 --> 00:29:37,220
that will let your army
turn defeat into victory,

628
00:29:37,220 --> 00:29:39,030
protect your soldiers
as they charge fearlessly ahead,

629
00:29:39,030 --> 00:29:40,830
and secure the Northern Border.

630
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:44,200
I give you my word.

631
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:45,600
I'll definitely make it.

632
00:29:45,790 --> 00:29:47,320
What, you don't believe me?

633
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:51,030
Okay.

634
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:53,570
I'll be waiting.

635
00:30:01,830 --> 00:30:04,240
What? Why is he smiling all of a sudden?

636
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:08,010
Is Prince Qi sick today?

637
00:30:08,110 --> 00:30:09,880
You didn't go to
the palace today, Your Highness.

638
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:11,590
It was just to
find Xie Jiayu something to do

639
00:30:11,590 --> 00:30:13,700
so she wouldn't sit around
brooding all day.

640
00:30:13,700 --> 00:30:15,700
The pear blossom candy is too sweet.

641
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:17,670
Go get me a cup of hawthorn juice.

642
00:30:17,670 --> 00:30:19,750
I think you're the one
who wants some hawthorn cakes.

643
00:30:19,750 --> 00:30:20,810
You love sour food.

644
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:26,830
Your Highness, there's something
I can't figure out.

645
00:30:26,830 --> 00:30:28,550
Given how naive Xie Jiayu is,

646
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:30,200
she was basically born
to be someone else's pawn.

647
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:31,160
Grand Tutor Xie went to such great lengths

648
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:32,350
to marry her to you.

649
00:30:32,510 --> 00:30:33,750
What was he hoping to achieve?

650
00:30:33,750 --> 00:30:34,960
Surely he doesn't actually expect

651
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:36,750
her to bring back intel from our mansion.

652
00:30:36,750 --> 00:30:39,270
Grand Tutor Xie is a master manipulator.

653
00:30:39,790 --> 00:30:41,250
It's just that the one he's

654
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:43,410
scheming against isn't Xie Jiayu.

655
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:44,720
Then who is it?

656
00:30:44,790 --> 00:30:46,940
If you can't figure it out,
go ask Yan Yue.

657
00:30:46,940 --> 00:30:47,920
I'm not asking her.

658
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:49,380
I'll figure it out myself.

659
00:30:51,470 --> 00:30:53,110
This is the reward
bestowed by His Majesty.

660
00:30:53,110 --> 00:30:56,550
Lu Dayong, you led your men
and refused the reward.

661
00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:58,630
Are you trying to defy the imperial edict?

662
00:30:58,630 --> 00:30:59,990
If I accept the reward,

663
00:30:59,220 --> 00:31:01,660
[Lu Dayong,
Lieutenant General of the Beifu Army]

664
00:31:00,620 --> 00:31:01,400
I'd be betraying

665
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:03,360
the men who died in vain
at Jiuzhang Plain!

666
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:04,180
[Feng Wu,
Lieutenant General of the Beifu Army]

667
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:05,410
Still talking nonsense? Still...

668
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:06,980
What are you doing?

669
00:31:07,300 --> 00:31:08,260
Are you rebelling?

670
00:31:08,260 --> 00:31:10,020
Step aside! Kneel!

671
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:14,960
My Beifu soldiers

672
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:16,490
do not kneel without cause!

673
00:31:17,380 --> 00:31:18,380
Get up, all of you!

674
00:31:23,790 --> 00:31:24,850
Give me the roster.

675
00:31:32,110 --> 00:31:32,910
Feng Zhiyuan.

676
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:37,920
Fang Shiba.

677
00:31:42,790 --> 00:31:43,590
Cao Xing'an!

678
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:45,340
Your Highness,

679
00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:47,920
in the battle of Jiuzhang Plain,

680
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:50,030
why did our 30,000 soldiers die in vain?

681
00:31:50,030 --> 00:31:52,960
At that time, the Directorate of Armaments
rushed out a batch of repeating crossbows.

682
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,840
They said those crossbows
could fire nine arrows in one shot.

683
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:57,190
But on the battlefield,

684
00:31:57,350 --> 00:31:59,950
the crossbows lost accuracy
after a few shots.

685
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:01,590
Only last night did we learn

686
00:32:01,590 --> 00:32:03,310
that the one who designed the crossbow

687
00:32:03,310 --> 00:32:05,270
is your newly wedded secondary consort—

688
00:32:05,270 --> 00:32:07,470
Grand Tutor Xie's daughter, Xie Jiayu!

689
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:09,400
May I ask, Your Highness—

690
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:11,380
was your marriage to Xie Jiayu

691
00:32:11,790 --> 00:32:14,050
meant to seek peace with the noble clans?

692
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:16,200
Are you going to participate in
the peace talks with Northern Qin?

693
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:17,260
Have you forgotten

694
00:32:18,070 --> 00:32:20,590
our blood feud with Northern Qin?

695
00:32:20,830 --> 00:32:21,510
Insolence!

696
00:32:21,750 --> 00:32:22,310
Stop!

697
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:26,650
Fifty strikes with the military rod.

698
00:32:26,650 --> 00:32:27,180
Yes, sir.

699
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:29,240
Men, take him away.

700
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:41,250
Distribute the reward.

701
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:54,920
-Your Highness, we're incompetent.
-Your Highness.

702
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:58,680
We still let word about
the Young Master of Miraculous Craft slip out.

703
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:00,010
Was it Young Master Yao?

704
00:33:00,510 --> 00:33:03,240
Is he displeased
that you haven't punished Lady Xie,

705
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:04,810
so he deliberately spread
the news within the army?

706
00:33:04,810 --> 00:33:05,330
No.

707
00:33:06,310 --> 00:33:07,640
Maybe it was the Empress Dowager.

708
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:09,570
Have we found any leads on that impostor

709
00:33:09,570 --> 00:33:10,630
within the palace?

710
00:33:10,790 --> 00:33:11,480
Not yet.

711
00:33:12,110 --> 00:33:12,970
Your Highness,

712
00:33:13,590 --> 00:33:15,920
I'm afraid there are spies
in the army now.

713
00:33:16,030 --> 00:33:17,270
If we don't give the soldiers
an explanation,

714
00:33:17,270 --> 00:33:19,270
the consequences
may not end with you alone.

715
00:33:19,270 --> 00:33:21,470
There might even be a mutiny in the army.

716
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:28,110
Yuanji. Yuanji.

717
00:33:28,350 --> 00:33:29,010
Wait for me.

718
00:33:31,030 --> 00:33:33,160
Are you going out to buy books, Yuanji?

719
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:34,110
Can you give me a ride?

720
00:33:34,110 --> 00:33:36,350
Didn't the Heir forbid you from going out?

721
00:33:36,350 --> 00:33:38,480
Why are you in such a hurry?

722
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:40,920
I want to make some hawthorn cakes,

723
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:42,720
but we've run out of osmanthus honey,

724
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:44,580
so I want to sneak out and buy some.

725
00:33:44,790 --> 00:33:45,590
For the Heir?

726
00:33:46,310 --> 00:33:47,070
No.

727
00:33:47,310 --> 00:33:48,510
Why would I give the cakes to him?

728
00:33:48,510 --> 00:33:49,480
I heard from Mother-in-law

729
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:51,400
that he loves hawthorn cakes the most.

730
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:53,480
Actually, he likes anything sour.

731
00:33:54,420 --> 00:33:56,150
But I'm not making them for him.

732
00:33:56,260 --> 00:33:58,520
They're for my good friend in the palace.

733
00:33:59,110 --> 00:33:59,880
Li Lejun,

734
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:01,130
Princess Pingning.

735
00:34:01,260 --> 00:34:02,120
She's been sick

736
00:34:02,230 --> 00:34:04,350
and wants something sour
to whet her appetite.

737
00:34:04,350 --> 00:34:06,610
I wonder how they're doing in the palace.

738
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:09,900
With so many
imperial physicians and servants,

739
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:12,030
how could she still be sick
and lose her appetite?

740
00:34:12,030 --> 00:34:14,320
Yuanji, you're
the Empress Dowager's niece.

741
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:16,150
You must know her better than anyone.

742
00:34:16,150 --> 00:34:18,400
Is Her Majesty easy to get along with?

743
00:34:26,389 --> 00:34:27,840
Yuanji. Yuanji.

744
00:34:29,429 --> 00:34:30,760
What are you thinking about, Yuanji?

745
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:32,409
You've been lost in thought for so long.

746
00:34:32,409 --> 00:34:33,380
Don't worry.

747
00:34:34,150 --> 00:34:36,659
The Empress Dowager has always
been kind to those useful to her.

748
00:34:36,659 --> 00:34:39,090
And Prince Qi and Princess Pingning

749
00:34:39,190 --> 00:34:40,440
are the most useful people

750
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:41,440
to her right now.

751
00:34:42,110 --> 00:34:43,150
They'll be fine.

752
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:45,210
That's a relief.

753
00:34:45,210 --> 00:34:45,770
Get lost.

754
00:34:48,550 --> 00:34:49,110
Scram!

755
00:34:51,100 --> 00:34:51,750
Da?

756
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:53,340
Stop the carriage.

757
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:54,840
Get lost now.

758
00:34:55,590 --> 00:34:57,650
A mute, wanting to
join the Imperial Guard?

759
00:34:57,650 --> 00:34:59,070
Do you really think you're worthy of that?

760
00:34:59,070 --> 00:35:00,510
What? I told you to get lost.

761
00:34:59,980 --> 00:35:01,490
[Yue Qingyang,
Commander of the Imperial Guard]

762
00:35:00,510 --> 00:35:01,770
Can't you understand?

763
00:35:01,980 --> 00:35:03,440
Why can't you understand?

764
00:35:05,590 --> 00:35:06,790
You dare fight back? I...

765
00:35:06,790 --> 00:35:07,430
Stop!

766
00:35:12,490 --> 00:35:13,340
Are you okay?

767
00:35:16,590 --> 00:35:17,860
Why are you hitting him?

768
00:35:17,860 --> 00:35:19,880
Everyone admitted to the Imperial Guard

769
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:21,880
comes from a distinguished family.

770
00:35:22,470 --> 00:35:24,730
Him—a commoner with nothing to his name—

771
00:35:24,870 --> 00:35:27,130
do you really think just anyone can join?

772
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:29,540
The notice doesn't say mutes can't join,

773
00:35:29,720 --> 00:35:31,780
nor does it say only nobles may apply.

774
00:35:32,420 --> 00:35:33,630
As long as they meet the requirements,

775
00:35:33,630 --> 00:35:34,690
anyone can sign up.

776
00:35:35,110 --> 00:35:36,370
The Imperial Guard embodies
the authority of the throne.

777
00:35:36,370 --> 00:35:37,620
It protects the capital

778
00:35:37,620 --> 00:35:39,280
and safeguards
all the people under the Emperor.

779
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:40,940
How dare you abuse your power?

780
00:35:40,950 --> 00:35:43,010
You've certainly got a sharp tongue.

781
00:35:44,030 --> 00:35:47,400
If you have the guts,
come argue in my Imperial Guard Office.

782
00:35:47,740 --> 00:35:48,400
Seize them!

783
00:35:49,190 --> 00:35:49,800
Hold on!

784
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:52,920
Yuanji.

785
00:35:54,110 --> 00:35:56,020
The commanders
of the Imperial Guard mostly

786
00:35:56,020 --> 00:35:56,990
come from powerful noble families.

787
00:35:56,990 --> 00:35:57,800
Better not start a conflict with them.

788
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:00,630
So it's the ladies
from Prince Jing'an's household.

789
00:36:00,630 --> 00:36:02,590
Young Lord Xiao is truly lucky in love.

790
00:36:02,590 --> 00:36:03,590
I wonder

791
00:36:03,590 --> 00:36:05,440
which two ladies have graced us today.

792
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:06,400
What's it to you?

793
00:36:06,470 --> 00:36:07,470
Just curious.

794
00:36:08,150 --> 00:36:10,360
I recently heard a story at a restaurant

795
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:12,030
saying that
the Young Master of Miraculous Craft,

796
00:36:12,030 --> 00:36:14,540
who caused the death
of 30,000 Beifu soldiers,

797
00:36:14,540 --> 00:36:17,800
is the new secondary consort
of the Heir of Prince Jing'an.

798
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:20,000
Young Lord Xiao is so romantic

799
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:21,000
and broad-minded

800
00:36:21,070 --> 00:36:23,550
that he even married
the culprit who caused

801
00:36:23,580 --> 00:36:25,190
the death of the Beifu soldiers.

802
00:36:25,190 --> 00:36:27,250
I just wonder if those Beifu soldiers

803
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:31,320
could be as forgiving as he is.

804
00:36:33,250 --> 00:36:35,380
That Young Master of Miraculous Craft

805
00:36:36,330 --> 00:36:38,190
wouldn't happen to be you, right?

806
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:40,030
You...

807
00:36:43,630 --> 00:36:44,430
Who shot that?

808
00:36:44,740 --> 00:36:46,180
W-Who shot the arrow?

809
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:50,200
Yue Qingyang, instead of
running your mouth here,

810
00:36:50,630 --> 00:36:51,960
you should train your troops more

811
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:53,510
and focus on your duties!

812
00:36:54,110 --> 00:36:56,230
Then perhaps, when the Prince of Changsha
staged his coup,

813
00:36:56,230 --> 00:36:58,190
your men wouldn't have wet themselves

814
00:36:58,190 --> 00:37:01,720
waiting for our Beifu Army
to march all the way here and save you!

815
00:37:02,710 --> 00:37:03,970
Return to the mansion!

816
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:10,920
You'll regret this.

817
00:37:11,700 --> 00:37:13,000
Da said that after Mao entered the palace,

818
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:14,540
he had to find a way
to survive on his own.

819
00:37:14,540 --> 00:37:15,230
He tried to join

820
00:37:15,230 --> 00:37:17,380
the Imperial Guard
just to be closer to Li Mao.

821
00:37:17,380 --> 00:37:18,810
But the Imperial Guard accepts only

822
00:37:18,810 --> 00:37:19,970
nobles or men from respectable families.

823
00:37:19,970 --> 00:37:22,630
He went many times
and was chased away each time.

824
00:37:25,710 --> 00:37:28,110
You did it to be closer to Mao?

825
00:37:30,470 --> 00:37:32,070
"His Highness saved my life.

826
00:37:32,470 --> 00:37:33,670
Naturally, wherever he goes,

827
00:37:33,670 --> 00:37:34,530
I will follow."

828
00:37:35,830 --> 00:37:36,560
In that case,

829
00:37:37,550 --> 00:37:39,480
are you willing to
join the Beifu Army first?

830
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:42,680
Once I find a chance,
I'll get you into the Imperial Guard.

831
00:37:44,590 --> 00:37:45,360
Get up.

832
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:52,530
Thank you, Young Lord Xiao.

833
00:37:53,230 --> 00:37:53,840
Let's go.

834
00:37:58,400 --> 00:37:59,110
What?

835
00:38:02,550 --> 00:38:03,950
Who said you could leave?

836
00:38:04,510 --> 00:38:05,360
Hey, what are you doing?

837
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:06,450
Who said you could leave the mansion?

838
00:38:06,450 --> 00:38:08,180
I warned you on our wedding day—

839
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:10,360
don't go around causing trouble
under the title of my secondary consort.

840
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:11,800
How did I cause trouble?

841
00:38:11,980 --> 00:38:13,630
Didn't you ask me to make hawthorn cakes?

842
00:38:13,630 --> 00:38:15,440
How was I supposed to make them
without osmanthus honey?

843
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:17,000
Mao doesn't like sour food.

844
00:38:17,550 --> 00:38:20,150
And another thing,
I'm not really your secondary consort.

845
00:38:20,150 --> 00:38:22,100
I'm just staying temporarily
at your household.

846
00:38:22,100 --> 00:38:22,900
Temporarily!

847
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:24,920
If it weren't for Mao...

848
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:25,670
If it weren't for Mao,

849
00:38:25,670 --> 00:38:27,330
you wouldn't be staying
in this mansion at all.

850
00:38:27,330 --> 00:38:28,920
I don't need you to remind me of that.

851
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:29,710
Do you think I enjoy

852
00:38:29,710 --> 00:38:31,590
looking at your annoying face every day?

853
00:38:31,590 --> 00:38:33,440
Me? Annoying?

854
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:34,720
From today on,

855
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:36,050
you are not allowed to leave the mansion

856
00:38:36,050 --> 00:38:37,280
without my permission.

857
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:38,740
Yan Yue, keep an eye on her.

858
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:40,690
Yes, Your Highness.

859
00:39:05,230 --> 00:39:06,830
Say whatever you want to say.

860
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:09,110
Your Highness is only trying to
protect Lady Xie.

861
00:39:09,110 --> 00:39:10,540
If you'd explained it to her properly,

862
00:39:10,540 --> 00:39:11,940
she might have listened.

863
00:39:14,590 --> 00:39:15,450
I don't need it.

864
00:39:16,070 --> 00:39:17,670
Your Highness, we have news.

865
00:39:18,030 --> 00:39:20,960
The fake Xiao Sheng
was the Empress Dowager's doing.

866
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:33,530
This indeed looks like my mother's doing.

867
00:39:35,550 --> 00:39:36,480
Grand Tutor Xie,

868
00:39:38,290 --> 00:39:41,020
Mother used
the Young Master of Miraculous Craft

869
00:39:41,130 --> 00:39:43,550
to undermine
Xiao Wuyi's influence within the army

870
00:39:43,550 --> 00:39:45,210
and implicate your daughter.

871
00:39:45,710 --> 00:39:48,840
If Xiao Wuyi really
takes action against your daughter,

872
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:51,280
do you resent Mother for it?

873
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:54,880
The Empress Dowager wasn't wrong
to curb the Beifu Army's power.

874
00:39:59,500 --> 00:40:00,140
Fine.

875
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:02,590
Mother wants power,

876
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:05,770
Xiao Wuyi wants the northern expedition,

877
00:40:07,130 --> 00:40:09,350
you want to preserve
the prestige of the noble clans,

878
00:40:09,350 --> 00:40:11,810
the officials want to
keep their positions,

879
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:12,760
and Li Mao...

880
00:40:16,170 --> 00:40:17,830
I don't care what Li Mao wants.

881
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:22,030
You all scheme and plot
right in front of me,

882
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:24,690
and I don't care about that either.

883
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:28,030
At most, I have

884
00:40:28,030 --> 00:40:29,440
another year or two left.

885
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:31,450
As long as I can still stand,

886
00:40:31,970 --> 00:40:34,700
I'll keep holding things together
for all of you.

887
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:36,460
The day I can no longer hold on,

888
00:40:36,950 --> 00:40:40,350
the realm will be yours
to do with as you please.

889
00:40:42,660 --> 00:40:44,870
I'm tired. You may leave.

890
00:40:48,020 --> 00:40:49,830
I obey, Your Majesty.

891
00:40:52,940 --> 00:40:53,870
Grand Tutor Xie.

892
00:41:04,180 --> 00:41:06,970
You recommended Li Mao.

893
00:41:07,950 --> 00:41:11,070
Valuing friendship and loyalty
is both his strength

894
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:12,520
and his weakness.

895
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:16,480
Xiao Wuyi once saved his life.

896
00:41:16,990 --> 00:41:18,110
One careless step,

897
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:20,730
and he might become Xiao Wuyi's puppet.

898
00:41:22,230 --> 00:41:24,230
I don't want to go to the underworld,

899
00:41:24,870 --> 00:41:26,710
ashamed to face my ancestors,

900
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:30,760
who would say I chose a ruler
who ruins the country.

901
00:41:31,570 --> 00:41:35,010
For now, I've granted him
the honor of regency,

902
00:41:35,430 --> 00:41:36,310
but if

903
00:41:37,690 --> 00:41:39,550
he fails to meet my expectations,

904
00:41:41,660 --> 00:41:43,660
I will not make him the crown prince.

905
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:48,280
Do you understand?

906
00:41:50,110 --> 00:41:51,800
Please rest assured, Your Majesty.

907
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:54,570
The crux of this whole game
between Xiao Wuyi and Prince Qi

908
00:41:54,570 --> 00:41:55,900
is my daughter, Jiayu.

909
00:41:57,630 --> 00:41:59,030
Prince Qi is benevolent,

910
00:41:59,140 --> 00:42:01,030
but even the most benevolent person

911
00:42:01,030 --> 00:42:03,570
will have desires once he feels
something is beyond his reach.

912
00:42:03,570 --> 00:42:05,900
And nothing awakens desire

913
00:42:06,390 --> 00:42:08,750
more than watching the woman he loves

914
00:42:09,070 --> 00:42:10,800
drift farther and farther away

915
00:42:11,230 --> 00:42:13,090
while being powerless to stop it.

916
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:16,810
You married your own daughter
into Prince Jing'an's household

917
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:20,670
simply to manipulate Li Mao's ambition?

918
00:42:22,700 --> 00:42:23,900
Your Majesty is wise.

919
00:42:25,550 --> 00:42:28,590
You're truly a loyal subject of my realm.

920
00:42:44,900 --> 00:42:45,830
Did you see that?

921
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:49,040
So these are your master's true colors—

922
00:42:49,550 --> 00:42:52,300
the statesman who has served three reigns.

923
00:42:54,230 --> 00:42:55,230
You want to leave,

924
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:56,710
but can you?

925
00:42:57,560 --> 00:42:58,590
We're all just pawns

926
00:42:58,590 --> 00:43:00,800
in the hands of these old men.