Original subtitles

[Flower-Crowned General's Mansion]

Whoa!

My Lord, we're at the General's Mansion.

Changyu.

What are you doing?

I miss you.

[Flower-Crowned General's Mansion]

Changyu.

Don't be like this.

Calm down.

His Lordship is seriously injured.

Here is the plan. You guys stay here and keep watch.

I'll go find a doctor.

A doctor won't help with this.

Why not?

Why won't a doctor help?

You don't understand?

I see.

I'll go to the Imperial Hospital to find a royal physician.

No need for that.

Inside there...

I can't explain it to you.

You guys,

find a few sensible older maids

and have them stand at the four corners

and keep watch from a distance.

Don't let anyone get close.

-Yes. -Yes, Brother.

Go.

What about me?

Just don't make trouble. Come with me.

But...

I've realized something about you.

You can't just fight wars all the time.

You need to understand life a bit.

Which aspect?

♪ In a lifetime of storms, a fleeting bloom ♪

Calm down first.

I'll get a doctor.

♪ The most beautiful scenery becomes a poem ♪

♪ For a chance encounter ♪

♪ A single letter of longing, half a lifetime apart ♪

♪ I'll burn out my passion for you ♪

♪ Just for a glance ♪

♪ In this life ♪

♪ All that I can see or hear ♪

♪ Is that we'll live and die together ♪

♪ On this journey ♪

♪ You're all that I care about ♪

♪ My soul yearns and my dreams linger ♪

♪ After we part ♪

♪ Where love dwells, where fear lies ♪

♪ Just one thought makes me sick ♪

Who am I?

♪ I wish to leave this world with you ♪

♪ In this life ♪

♪ All that I can see or hear ♪

♪ Is that we'll live and die together ♪

Fan Changyu.

♪ On this journey ♪

♪ You're all that I care about ♪

♪ My soul yearns and my dreams linger ♪

♪ After we part ♪

♪ Where love dwells, where fear lies ♪

♪ Just one thought makes me sick ♪

♪ I wish to leave this world with you ♪

♪ We'll never be apart ♪

It seems there is no need for me to intervene.

This is even better.

Nature takes its course.

Royal Physician,

you haven't even checked on him.

Are you the royal physician,

or am I?

I...

I told you that you don't need a doctor for such things.

And you actually invited a royal physician?

It was a wasted trip.

Let's go, let's go.

You two.

Let's go.

So what exactly is life?

[Pursuit of Jade]

[Episode 38]

The Emperor got a slap in the face?

It was worth the fire I sent him.

It's just a pity

that the Marquis of Wu'an and Fan Changyu escaped.

Your Li family has a traitor within.

Shouldn't he be punished properly?

My grandson

was bewitched by the Marquis of Wu'an and Fan Changyu for a moment

and ruined today's grand plan.

I will bear all the blame

for him.

Grand Tutor, there's no need for such seriousness.

In this way,

we have effectively cut off any possibility

of cooperation between the Marquis of Wu'an and Qi Sheng.

Besides,

I even prepared a big gift

for that butcher girl.

If Wei Yan knows it,

he will be very happy.

What is it?

The Tiger Tally he has been longing for.

The Tiger Tally

used to mobilize troops in the Northwest back then?

This is just the appetizer.

The main course is yet to come.

Please.

Alright.

Please.

Mother.

Look, I picked so many osmanthus flowers.

Good job, Zheng.

Later,

let's use these to make osmanthus candy. Okay?

Yay!

Smell them.

Mother!

You're here, Zheng?

Sit down. Have some osmanthus cake.

I finally

get to see you again.

Now that you have someone by your side

who understands and cherishes you,

I can rest easy.

Remember…

osmanthus cake

is my favorite.

What's wrong?

Did you have a nightmare?

I'm fine.

I just had a dream about my childhood.

Changyu.

For you to be with me like this…

I've treated you unfairly.

When I settle down,

I will definitely give you a proper wedding.

You didn't treat me unfairly.

I am willing to marry Xie Zheng.

But Yan Zheng married into my family.

That was also a wonderful wedding.

We haven't signed the Divorce Agreement yet.

Don't you deny it.

I won't.

I will be your matrilocal husband

for life.

This trip to the Capital

has been one trouble after another.

Now I just want to clear Father's name

as soon as possible,

return to Lin'an,

and live a peaceful life.

But regarding last night,

I'm afraid it wasn't that simple.

Don't worry.

I have a plan.

[Where Compassion and Grace Meet]

Be... be careful.

Easy.

I thought I'd never see you again.

I thought I was going to die there.

It's alright now.

I'm right here with you.

Don't cry.

It's alright.

Last night,

did you stay here and take care of me all night?

Yes.

You haven't rested at all?

Then how could you...

Yesterday, to save me,

you rushed into the fire.

I was so afraid you'd die in there.

-Alright, alright. -You must be hurt.

-Let me see. -Alright, alright.

You're very weak right now.

Stop talking.

Listen to me.

In the past,

I was always so timid.

But this time,

I want to tell you,

from now on,

no matter what happens,

I will stay by your side.

And only I can take care of you.

This Tiger Tally doesn't match.

It's fake.

Your Highness,

this Tiger Tally is real.

Crown Prince Chengde and General Xie can't hold on much longer.

Jinzhou is in danger!

For the sake of the country and the people,

please send troops to rescue them immediately!

General.

Come in.

What is it?

General,

Guard Jin has been waiting outside for a long time.

He asked that you see him as soon as you wake up.

I see.

You may go.

There is a letter here.

It's for you personally.

[To Fan Changyu]

[I'm fine now. Don't worry about me. Qianqian]

It's from Qianqian?

The Tiger Tally?

Where did this come from?

Last night,

a maid delivering a letter was found dead

at the gate of our General's Mansion.

Help!

[Flower-Crowned General's Mansion]

Help!

Help!

Guards!

[Flower-Crowned General's Mansion]

She's dead?

You guys, bring your weapons.

Search around for any suspicious individuals.

[Flower-Crowned General's Mansion]

Yes!

That dream just now...

Could it be that

Heaven also wants to seek justice for my father?

General.

Someone named Lady Shisan wants to see you.

Lady Shisan?

I'll go with you.

No need.

I want to talk to her alone.

That lowly maid has already delivered the Tiger Tally

to Fan Changyu.

Deal with it.

Yes.

You weren't drunk that day?

I love you so much.

Why did you do this to me?

Every time I think

you won't leave me

and that you're willing to be with me,

it always ends up like this.

Is my love so cheap

that you can just trample on it?

That isn't love.

It's possessiveness!

It's a desire for control!

I am about to become the Emperor.

Without me,

you won't be an empress.

You are nothing.

I don't care about being an empress.

Without you,

I will live a better life.

Kill me if you have the guts.

Are you alright? Are you alright?

I... I'm begging you.

Please tell me—

as long as you don't leave me,

whatever you want,

I will give it to you!

I don't want anything.

I just want to leave you forever.

You forced me to do this.

Bring the shackles!

Yes.

These are cast from refined steel.

Even blades and axes cannot break them.

If you want to escape,

you must cut off one of our hands.

You're crazy.

You must have lost your mind!

You can't escape.

In this lifetime,

you belong only to me.

I didn't expect you to be alive.

Why do you want to see me?

To avenge Sui Yuanqing?

It seems that

I'm the only one left who still remembers to avenge him.

This is for you.

Sui Yuanqing gave it to me.

And this.

I'm leaving you a way out.

Take this and go find Fan Changyu,

and I will give you a...

token of loyalty.

The Tiger Tally is yours.

And he is dead.

I guess

he just wanted Qi Min

to be doomed eternally.

What about you?

What do you want?

Me?

I used to think

you and Xie Zheng were my enemies.

You killed my brothers.

And Xie Zheng wiped out my Qingfeng Stronghold.

Later, I felt that

he played with my feelings,

causing me and Qingfeng Stronghold

to fall into ruin.

But today I realized,

worldly grievances are born of cause and effect.

Revenge is endless.

And all this killing

is never-ending too.

I've given you the Tiger Tally.

It...

Take the head with you.

I don't need it anymore.

You can leave his body intact.

Thank you for today.

I'll have someone get you a new travel permit.

You'll be free from now on.

Consider it repayment

for your kindness to Changning.

But as for the score between us,

we'll settle it when I return.

I hope the next time we meet,

you're still alive.

[Talisman of Army]

Qianqian sent this.

I dreamed of Father last night.

I woke up to see this Tiger Tally.

But I don't understand why

Lord Changxin framed my father.

Why should the defeat at Jinzhou

and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of soldiers

all be blamed on my father?

My parents had been living in anonymity for over a decade.

Why...

why were they still killed?

I want to clear my father's name before the world.

Your father

and the soldiers of Jinzhou who died in vain

all deserve justice.

But right now,

this pair of Tiger Tallies alone

is not enough to prove

that Wei Yan was the mastermind.

The mad palace maid who knew the truth

has already died in the fire.

There's nothing left in Qingyuan Palace.

Everyone involved in this matter

has been silenced by Wei Yan.

The mad maid's former mistress was Consort Virtue.

What is the relationship between Consort Virtue and Wei Yan?

It's rumored in the palace that they had an affair.

Then what exactly happened back then?

Are there no clues left at all?

That Qi Sheng...

Could he know something?

Don't be anxious.

Even if Qi Sheng knows something,

he wouldn't dare to say it.

He has been a puppet for decades.

He is terrified of Wei Yan.

He certainly wouldn't dare to pursue this.

Now,

if we want to take down Wei Yan

and make him confess,

we can only use force.

I called him Uncle for over 20 years.

I know his nature all too well.

I'm afraid

he has already started a rebellion.

Don't worry.

I will gather all the main forces of the Xie Army

to seek justice

for your father and mine.

So it has come to this, after all.

In that case,

we will act ahead of schedule.

Pass my order.

Deploy the troops back to the Capital immediately.

Yes!

At my command!

Spread the news that Fan Changyu

is the daughter of the traitor Wei Qilin!

As soon as possible!

Yes!

[Graceful and Ethereal]

Flower-Crowned General.

by regulation, anyone who wants to beat the Petition Drum

without authorization must first be paraded through the streets

and subjected to public censure,

only then may they strike the drum to present their grievance.

[In Memory of Wan, My Late Mother, Xie Linshan's Wife]

[In Memory of My Late Father, Xie Linshan]

[Guo's Wine House]

It's her!

Everyone, come and look!

It's her!

She is the daughter of the big traitor!

None of you in the Wei family are any good!

My father died in battle in Jinzhou!

Make her pay with her life!

What nonsense are you talking about?

You are spouting filth!

What nonsense are you talking about? Do you have proof?

Don't talk nonsense!

My sister is innocent!

[In Memory of Wan, My Late Mother, Xie Linshan's Wife]

Father.

[In Memory of My Late Father, Xie Linshan]

Mother.

I've been an unfilial child.

I pray your spirits in Heaven

will forgive me.

Beat her!

Beat her to death!

If you keep spouting nonsense, I'll tear your mouths apart!

The big traitor,

Wei Qilin.

He escorted the grain

with no loyalty

and cost 100,000 heroes their lives!

Hit her!

Hit her!

Hit her!

Kill her!

Hit her!

Beat her!

Beat her to death!

Sister!

Fan!

How can someone like her be a general?

Who threw it?

-Who threw it? -Who threw it?

-Good job! -Well done!

Good job!

-Will you ever stop? -You want to get physical?

Stop!

My father is Wei Qilin.

But he is not a traitor.

He was wrongly accused.

-That's your father! -Your father caused their death!

Of course you'd say he's innocent!

Exactly!

Hit her!

Enough is enough!

Back off! All of you, back off!

Kill her!

Officials are handling the case!

Bystanders, stand back!

Back off!

Step back!

Move back!

Are you alright?

Nonsense!

Flower-Crowned General?

More like Traitor General!

Shut up!

Did any of you see it with your own eyes?

Are you sure what you heard and saw

is the truth?

I'll go with you.

We'll go with you too.

The rest of the way,

I'll walk alone.

Once you take this step,

there's no turning back.

Let me go.

Let her go.

I'm Fan Changyu from Xigu Lane,

Lin'an Town, Qingping County.

I have come

to file an imperial appeal.

Those who file an imperial appeal,

if the accusations are false,

commit the crime of deceiving the Sovereign.

The penalty is immediate beheading.

Have you thought this through?

I have.

This trip is,

first, to denounce the injustice of Heaven.

[Yin]

Wei Qilin,

you are a traitor, worse than a beast!

[Wei Qilin, Traitor of Great Yin]

♪ The world is vast ♪

-Traitor -Traitor Wei!

Traitor Wei!

[Wei Qilin]

Beat him!

Second, to accuse the Emperor of ignorance!

♪ The storm is rising ♪

[Think with Caution]

Who's beating the drum?

Who's beating the drum?

Your Majesty.

It's the Flower-Crowned General beating the Petition Drum.

♪ Day and night ♪

She says she wants to file an imperial appeal.

♪ We strive to save the world ♪

Didn't Grand Tutor Li say

we could use Xie Zheng and Fan Changyu to deal with Wei Yan?

Deal with him, my ass!

She is beating the Petition Drum!

♪ All people ♪

And third,

to indict the treacherous ministers in power!

♪ Are part of the past ♪

I, Fan Changyu,

am here today to clear my father's name!

♪ What's the date today? ♪

♪ How lamentable ♪

♪ What's the date today? ♪

♪ How lamentable ♪

Zheng,

I made these osmanthus cakes myself.

Remember,

what I love most

is this osmanthus cake.

Yan, when you read this, it's like seeing me.

When you return in triumph and read this,

I will likely have passed away.

I only wish that in the next life,

you will be a commoner,

and I will be by your side forever.

Rongyin's final letter.

It was actually Brother

who returned to the Capital halfway,

causing the fall of Jinzhou.

So Linshan's death

was also caused by him.

Zheng.

The situation is unstable now.

[In Memory of Wan, My Late Mother, Xie Linshan's Wife]

The soldiers of the Xie Army are threatening

[In Memory of My Late Father, Xie Linshan]

my brother with their lives to make him reveal the truth of the Jinzhou case.

I'm caught in the middle, unable to make my own choices.

Perhaps only my death

can settle this dispute.

I hope this will also awaken my brother's conscience

and have him give you a chance to live.

Zheng,

do not miss me.

I can't be with you as you grow up.

Mother.

I'm unfilial.

It took me so long

to understand your good intentions.

[Wei Residence]

[Wei Residence]

Stop beating the drum!

Stop beating the drum!

The Princess Royal is here!

Brother!

Your Majesty!

Sister?

I know what you want to say.

But this is not the time

to talk about your friendship with her.

Once the Petition Drum is struck,

the Emperor must hold court

to hear the subjects' pleas or grievances!

Changyu's grievance

has been blown out of proportion by those with ulterior motives.

The whole world knows about it now.

Brother, you can't hide from this.

Brother!

You framed Xie Zheng

and nearly cost me my life.

I haven't settled this score with you yet.

But if you can show the authority of an emperor

and clear Changyu's name,

I will wipe the slate clean.

Brother!

One must respect oneself to be respected.

Show the bearing of a true ruler!

Do you want to be a puppet emperor forever?

Servants!

Summon Fan Changyu for an audience.

Proceed to Chongde Hall.

I am going to exercise the authority of the Emperor.

[Chongde Hall]

Regarding the unjust case of Jinzhou 17 years ago,

Wei Qilin was framed.

Today, I, Fan Changyu, stake my life

to implore Your Majesty

to uphold justice

and right the wrongs!

This is the Tiger Tally

Wei Qilin used to seek help in Chongzhou.

This is the truth.

But back then, Lord Changxin

claimed this Tiger Tally was a fake

and refused to send troops.

That is what caused the Jinzhou Massacre.

It shows

that someone deliberately delayed military action.

The Xie and Wei families

were both framed.

If this is proven true,

Fan,

how do you wish for me to punish the culprit?

This is a fake.

Shameless.

On what grounds do you call it fake?

On what grounds?

On the grounds that among those present,

the only one who was there during the massacre

was me.

You claim this is real,

but what proof do you have?

Although I am a new general,

I know that

all Tiger Tallies must be archived

with imprints as proof.

We can compare them.

All paper records

were destroyed in the fire 17 years ago.

How could it be such a coincidence?

It is just that coincidental.

I also know

why you are so obsessed with this.

It's simply because

of your own selfish motives.

[To the Prime Minister]

This is...

[To the Prime Minister]

a handwritten letter from He Jingyuan.

It reveals this girl's true identity.

Your Majesty, please take a look.

Wei Qilin deserted the battle back then

and died a violent death.

The only one who slipped through the net

is you,

Wei Qilin's daughter, Wei Changyu.

Wei Yan!

Stop twisting the facts!

I, Fan Changyu, have a clear conscience!

Wei Changyu

escaped the law back then.

And now she has come to court to mislead the public

and attempt to destabilize Great Yin.

Her intentions are worthy of execution!

Your Majesty,

today, I am going to impeach this evil remnant of the Wei family.

She should be sentenced to death

to honor the spirits

of the 100,000 soldiers who perished at Jinzhou.

Who is the real evil remnant?

Your Majesty!

My Lords!

If my father truly were a villain,

then why would Prime Minister Wei's trusted aide, General He Jingyuan,

[Diligent and Virtuous]

exchange letters with him

and want to protect the lives of my sister and me?

I would like to ask Prime Minister Wei a question.

If my father

were ever to become a big traitor,

who would be the one to benefit in the end?

Who would?

[Diligent and Virtuous]

General Fan is right.

I would also like to ask,

regarding the case back then,

who benefited the most?

Your Majesty, I heard you intend

to retry the case of the Jinzhou tragedy from 17 years ago.

This case involves my father, Xie Linshan,

Crown Prince Chengde,

and 100,000 heroic souls.

If the investigation is to be reopened,

how can I be absent?

Neither your national grudge nor your family grudge

has been avenged yet.

But today,

you're actually asking for rewards for this traitor's daughter.

The case of the palace burning has yet to be resolved,

and yet you are here defending her.

Could it be that you,

too, harbor thoughts of rebellion?

I'm afraid the one

with thoughts of rebellion is someone else.

This letter

is a plea for help written by Consort Virtue to Wei Yan back then.

Wei Yan, for his own private affection,

returned to the Capital unauthorized,

abandoning the soldiers of Jinzhou at the front line,

eventually

causing a great disaster.

[Yan, I hope this letter finds you well. Disaster has struck suddenly.]

[I can only hope you]

[will aid me in this time of peril.]

[The Beijue tribes have invaded Great Yin, and my father has led the army]

[to resist them. We thought this would ensure the safety of the country,]

[but it turned out to be a dark scheme]

[of treacherous men. That foolish ruler trusted slander too readily.]

It's a case of the guilty accusing the innocent.

Wei Yan,

you are the biggest traitor in the Battle of Jinzhou!

[Great Yin Gate]

[Great Yin Gate]

[Yin]

We have our people within the Imperial Guard.

The palace gates will fall without an attack.

I have already spread the news from the Imperial Astronomical Bureau.

The droughts and floods over these years

are all due to a disruption in the imperial bloodline

and an illegitimate succession.

Your Highness, you're the descendant of Crown Prince Chengde.

Your succession is the will of the people

and the desire of the officials.

Good.

It has been 17 years.

I have finally returned to this place.