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♪ The white sail came too late ♪

♪ Where did he go? ♪

♪ Snow veils the mountains ♪

♪ Love endures beyond life and death ♪

♪ A black chess piece ♪

♪ Whose game did he stumble into? ♪

♪ All his life, there's no escape ♪

♪ In ten thousand years, what will still remain? ♪

♪ Will anyone still love with an unchanging heart? ♪

♪ I will remember ♪

♪ Those days long past ♪

♪ As the wind drifts with the white sail ♪

♪ Ten thousand years ago ♪

♪ Did you once walk this shore? ♪

♪ Why can't our bond be severed in this life? ♪

♪ I am lost yet willing ♪

♪ Still I love you with a steadfast heart ♪

♪ Until all things fade away ♪

♪ The stars will remember us ♪

[Love & Crown]

[Adapted from the novel "My Queen" by Xie Lounan]

[Episode 20]

Cangcang,

don't worry.

His Majesty's a blessed man.

How can I not worry?

His condition's getting worse by the minute.

Why isn't Physician Li here yet?

I received a report

that Li Hongqing is escorting Physician Li

on his way over.

He should be here any minute.

Your Highness.

[Post Station]

What brings you here, Your Highness?

A matter of life and death.

Please mind your words.

Looks like he really is on his last legs.

Then I all the more have to see him one last time.

- Hey... - Physician Li is here.

You're here.

Quite the crowd you've got here.

Where's that brat?

This way, please.

Cangcang, calm down.

Physician Li already said

he can still be saved.

But he's been treating him all day

and there's still no change.

Your brother is blessed by heaven.

Don't work yourself up.

No.

I'll go check on him.

Physician Li!

How is he?

Your Majesty,

as long as His Majesty pulls through

and wakes up,

he'll be out of danger!

He'll be fine?

Cangcang,

what's going on between you and Xiao Huan?

What's between us

isn't something you can explain in a few words.

If he really gets better,

will you go back to the palace with him?

I don't know.

Given Master's death,

Luo's tragedy,

and everything between my father and him...

Let's not talk about this.

Why isn't he waking up yet?

You're awake?

Where's Cangcang?

She's outside catching up with Zhong Lin.

You saved me at last.

That stubborn Physician Li forced me

to hand over the Frost Blossom.

I honestly wasn't planning to save you.

But Her Majesty

sent her best friend, Zhong Lin,

to cling to me and beg nonstop.

Only then did I decide to spare your life.

Once you're better,

I'll come settle the score with you.

So you're saying

I don't need to thank you,

just my empress,

Zhong Lin

and Physician Li?

Hey...

How can you be so heartless?

So,

do you like the present

I gave you?

This pouch is for you.

When the time is right,

you can open it.

I don't like it.

When I needed it, it wasn't there.

If you send it too late, it doesn't mean anything.

It's just like a true heart:

if it gets no answer,

then there's no need to answer ever again.

Is that so?

Then give the Divination Chart back to me.

Hey...

Trying to take back a gift

you've already given?

Then spit out the Frost Blossom

and give that back to me too.

To find that lousy leaf

that could save your life,

I almost lost mine.

What are you laughing at?

Name it.

What else do you want

besides the Divination Chart?

Let me think about it.

The poison you took that day was incurable.

His Majesty

gave you his Frost Reed.

He gave you the only Frost Reed

that could have saved his life!

Cangcang...

I'm here.

I'm right here.

Don't leave me...

Cangcang,

I really like you.

Marry me,

will you?

♪ Faint fireflies fade in late autumn... ♪

Cangcang,

Father,

My death means nothing!

♪ Who is reading this heart of mine? ♪

♪ In ten thousand years, what will still remain? ♪

♪ Will anyone still love with an unchanging heart? ♪

♪ I will remember those days long past ♪

♪ As the wind drifts with the white sail ♪

♪ Ten thousand years ago, did you once walk this shore? ♪

♪ Why can't our bond be severed in this life? ♪

♪ I am lost yet willing, still I love you with a steadfast heart... ♪

Has the Empress not come yet?

Her Majesty should already be resting.

You should rest early too.

I'll go check on her.

Your Majesty.

Your Majesty,

do you think my golden reputation

hasn't been smashed hard enough by you?

Physician Li,

I'm already fine.

Fine, my foot!

You just haven't managed to die yet!

Now hurry back!

What a beautiful hairpin!

When the pear blossoms are in full bloom,

I'll take you to my pear garden.

This splendid Capital

is riddled with scheming and deceit.

I've lost

and I'm tired.

Cangcang,

what are you thinking about?

Nothing.

What is it

that's got you so happy?

Nothing.

It's just that His Majesty said

life at the border is harsh,

so he'll give me a month off every year

to come back and visit you and Father.

Really?

He even wrote the decree himself.

He's also sending officials over agriculture and works

to open up trade routes for Jiangzhou.

Later, I'll meet with Kumor to discuss

how to resettle the people of Xijiang.

That's wonderful.

Cangcang,

Father always told me

emperors are the most heartless,

that a ruler's heart is unreadable.

He wanted me to train hard

and become a strong warlord.

But I think

His Majesty isn't as heartless as Father said.

He's an emperor,

but he has a kind heart.

Yes,

he's a good emperor.

Most importantly,

he treats you well.

He's willing to ride into the enemy camp for you,

risking his life.

You can't ask for more than that.

Cangcang,

hurry up and give birth to a little prince.

I'm dying to be an uncle.

You brat,

what do you think about all day?

Cangcang,

I feel like

things between you and His Majesty

are a little off.

Back when he was seriously ill,

you stayed by his side every moment.

When he was in danger,

you even risked your own life to save him.

But now that he's awake,

you won't go and see him.

What's between us

isn't something you'd understand!

There's nothing a good drink can't fix.

Cangcang,

back when you insisted on roaming the martial world,

Father was dead set against it.

Didn't you say

all those martial world dreams

aren't worth a single cup of wine?

I've never seen you

this weighed down before.

Yeah.

A sword and a jar of wine,

that's the Cangcang I'm supposed to be.

Cangcang,

where are you going?

His Majesty's better now.

I've still got things to do,

so I have to leave first.

You're not staying with His Majesty?

[Post Station]

Your Majesty,

Her Majesty left early this morning.

Summon Kumor and Ling Jueding to discuss affairs.

Your body still can't take too much strain.

It's fine.

I need to get everything in Xijiang and Jiangzhou

properly arranged

so we can set out as soon as possible.

Yes, Your Majesty.

Hongqing,

escort Physician Li back to the Capital.

Shi Yan,

return to Fenglai Pavilion.

All right.

General Ling,

even though Jiangzhou is settled,

there will be plenty of loose ends.

I hope you won't relax your guard.

I obey, Your Majesty.

I will see to everything personally.

General Ling,

do you know

where the Empress has gone?

My sister didn't tell me.

But...

Your Majesty may head toward Yanxia Lake.

She once said

she wanted to see it.

All right.

Thank you, General Ling!

Your Majesty!

You've only just begun to recover.

You can't push yourself like this!

Physician Li,

didn't I tell you

I'm already fine?

And I just took my medicine, didn't I?

Your Majesty...

Don't kneel.

Madam,

General Lu requests an audience.

Let him in.

Yes, Madam.

Preceptor Du.

General Lu.

How is His Majesty?

His Majesty and Her Majesty

will be able to return soon.

How is His Majesty's health?

His Majesty is in excellent health.

It's just...

it's just...

Just what?

His Majesty gave a verbal edict

for me to pass on to you.

What edict?

His Majesty said

the Empress will soon return to the palace,

and that you...

that you are

to remember what he told you

back in Jiangzhou.

In this world,

there is more than one person

who can heal my body.

But as for my empress,

there's only Cangcang.

I obey,

Your Majesty.

Madam!

Madam,

what happened to you?

I followed His Majesty's will

and reflected in Nanrong Palace.

But you can't hurt yourself.

So what if I hurt myself?

No one cares anyway.

I...

Coward.

Madam...

You like someone but don't dare admit it.

If that doesn't make you a coward,

what does?

Madam,

do you still remember

your mother's last words?

Think this through.

If you stay by my side today,

you belong to me from now on,

your life and death at my command.

If you want my heart,

I will give it to you!

Come catch me!

Catch me!

You can't catch me!

I never imagined

that after all these years,

there'd be so many shops here.

Sir,

one plate of fennel dumplings.

Got it!

Today

is my foster son's birthday.

And also,

bring a small jar of wine too.

All right!

Luo!

Cangcang!

I can't protect you anymore!

Live well.

You must live on!

Cangcang,

we'll meet again someday.

Good child,

I'll be waiting

for good news from you.

I will not

fail your expectations!

Long live Lingbi!

All hail the Protector!

Long live Lingbi!

All hail the Protector!

Xianxue,

you've done very well.

You make me proud.

Thank you for backing me, Father.

But what brings you here

this time?

Has something happened in Jiangzhou?

The Jiangzhou crisis is over.

Jueding

got out of it in one piece.

But Xiao Huan

sacrificed the status verification system

to make Kumor agree to withdraw.

But Father,

wasn't the system

your idea?

Xiao Huan wants Xiao Qianqing to act as Regent

mainly to counter me and the Empress Dowager,

so he can reap all the gains,

and push his talent recommendation system through.

New emperor, new court.

He means to stand against me completely.

And that's not all.

Xiao Qianqing even went to Jiangzhou in person.

Who knows what he's plotting.

At this rate,

not only our Ling clan,

but Cangcang as well

will find it

even harder

to survive

in that imperial city.

Whatever you need of me,

I will not refuse.

Cangcang,

go easy on the wine.

This really isn't like you.

Jueding said

a jar of wine and a sword,

that's the real me.

Isn't that just the old Ling Cangcang?

How is that not me?

At this point,

you have to learn to move on.

Yeah,

move on.

That's why I'm saying,

why don't we go back and rebuild Fenglai Pavilion?

What's wrong?

You're acting really strange.

Are you hiding something from me?

- Cangcang, I... - I know.

You've been bewitched by Xiao Qianqing.

What are you even talking about?

You're lying to me.

No...

We're talking about you.

How did this get turned on me?

Look how flustered you are.

I hit the mark, didn't I?

You do like him.

Don't talk nonsense.

So what if you like him?

What's so hard about admitting it?

Cangcang,

I actually...

What are you doing here?

So my brother can come,

but I can't?

Cangcang,

why did you leave so suddenly?

Come back to the Capital with me.

You promised you would.

It's harsh out here,

nothing like the palace.

Why don't we

head back a little earlier?

We?

You mean...

you and I going back to the Capital together?

Xiao Huan,

stop coming after me.

You're the Empress of Great Qi,

head of Fenglai Pavilion.

How can someone like you go back on her word?

Ten more li ahead,

and we'll reach Yanxia Lake.

We can take the waterway back.

I just feel

there are things

I need to sort out in my head.

He's chased his wife a thousand li,

and you insist on getting in the way here.

They get to enjoy the scenery on their way back,

while I have to deal with all those old foxes.

How is that fair?

She's the Empress of Great Qi.

How could that be the same?

I'm warning you,

with that attitude,

watch they don't dump you halfway

and feed you to the wolves.

I'm not scared.

I've still got you, don't I?

You won't have the heart to dump me.

I'll toss you in first!

Please don't hurt my child!

Zhong Lin!

Zhong Lin!

Zhong Lin!

What did you make her take?

You think we're idiots

who'd swallow your poison?

Say one more word

- and I'll stab her again! - Wait!

Stop!

Eat it, now!

I thought it was something serious.

Turns out it's just some cheap soft-bone powder.

Hardly worth all this fuss.

Talk!

What do you people actually want?

Send someone who can negotiate.

[Zhu Sha, branch leader of the Lingbi Sect]

Honestly,

none of you know how to treat a lady.

Such a pretty little thing,

how can you be so rough with her?

Who on earth are you?

Don't hurt her.

If you want to talk, talk to me.

Talk to you?

Sure.

Come here.

Cangcang, don't come any closer...

This is Bone-Eating Ice,

deadly poison.

So you're one of us.

No wonder you know what Bone-Eating Ice is.

How funny.

Since when did the Lingbi Sect's assassins

grow so soft-hearted?

What are you talking about?

What Lingbi Sect assassin?

Looks like your friend

still doesn't know who you really are.

We've got two grown men right here.

Why are you bullying a girl?

If you've got guts, come at us!

Don't rush.

Here I am.

Heal her.

Otherwise,

there's nothing to talk about.

Sir,

how did you know I wanted to talk to you?

If anything happens to her,

I can guarantee

that what you want

will never be yours.

Oh, I'm so scared!

Treating her

isn't out of the question.

This sir,

you were so fired up just now.

What,

trying to play the hero?

And what if I am?

How about this:

if you stab yourself once,

I'll treat her wound.

Xiao Qianqing,

don't listen to this madwoman...

Well?

If you don't,

Miss Zhong will die from this Bone-Eating Ice.

Not deep enough.

Go deeper

and the two ladies will go to the VIP parlor.

There'll be food,

drink,

medicine,

and a warm brazier.

That's the spirit!

Take Miss Ling and Miss Zhong to the VIP parlor.

Yes, Madam!

The drug we gave you

does more than just sap your strength

and block your inner force.

It also slows your bleeding.

You'll die very slowly,

and ever so beautifully.

What are you really after?

I thought you knew.

How would I know if you don't say?

Don't rush.

You can stay here

and slowly admire your brother's misery.

Cangcang...

there's something

I've never known how to say to you.

I...

You don't have to.

I already know.

I've actually suspected for a long time

that Master sent you to my side.

After his identity was exposed,

I started doubting who you were too.

But...

if the truth had really come out,

I wouldn't have known how to face it either.

Cangcang,

I never meant to hide it from you.

You're the person I care about most.

I'd rather go to my death

than ever hurt you in the slightest.

I know.

That's why I trust you.

I won't hold it against you.

After everything we've been through,

I've finally realized

a lot of things aren't simply black or white.

I know

you must have had your reasons.

You've changed.

It's like you suddenly grew up.

Let's drop it.

Our top priority now

is figuring out how to get out of here.

Those people are from the Lingbi Sect?

Right.

They know who we are,

and they know ordinary poisons

can't do anything to Xiao Huan,

so they hit us with soft-bone powder right away.

Looks like

they came well-prepared.

What is she after?

How's your wound?

I hate it when you dodge the question like that.

Same.

I hate it when you keep badgering me.

I only got hurt because of you.

You clearly just wanted to play the hero.

What's that got to do with me?

Of course it has to do with you.

They were obviously coming for you.

If I'd known, I should've wiped them all out.

What else do you know

about the Lingbi Sect?

Ever since Master Li Lu sent me to you,

I've barely had any contact with them.

I only heard their saintess came out of seclusion.

And not long ago,

a Lingbi Sect Protector suddenly came to me

and ordered me to kill Xiao Qianqing.

There was such a thing?

And Xiao Qianqing pulled a disappearing act

and helped me get away.

But now that they've recognized me again,

they definitely won't let this go.

But this time, I won't dance to their tune.

Their earlier attempt to kill Xiao Qianqing

is surely not as simple as it seems.

And the woman today

doesn't seem to want him dead.

Then what does she want?

This operation

is to intercept and kill the Emperor of Great Qi

and take back the Lingbi Sect's sacred relic.

That's the Emperor of Great Qi!

And you dare set an ambush for him?

Don't forget:

if he doesn't die,

you will.

I forgot to introduce myself.

I'm Zhu Sha, branch leader of Shuyang chapter

of the Lingbi Sect.

As for me,

I love thinking up

new ways to torment people.

So should I try them out on you,

or on Ling Cangcang?

If you lay a finger on her,

I swear

you'll never get

what you're after!

They say emperors are heartless.

But you'd turn out

to be such a lovesick fool!

I heard the Ghost King's token, the Moon-Eclipse, is in your hands.

How about this:

divorce Ling Cangcang,

and I'll marry you.

You be the Emperor,

I'll be the Ghost King.

We'll work together

and rule the world.

My brother

doesn't need to work

with some freakish witch like you.

Xiao Qianqing,

do you want Zhong Lin dead that badly?

Guards!

Go tie Zhong Lin up!

Wait!

Miss...

Miss Zhu Sha,

hold on.

Don't be hasty.

If he won't agree,

you can have me.

I... I am younger than he is,

and a lot gentler.

We can work together.

Really?

Guards,

open the cage.

But I like

the proud streak on you even more.

If you're willing to spend one night with me,

I'll let them go.

How about it?

What's wrong with your taste?

He's got no sense of romance at all.

I'm different.

Guards,

take him to my room.

Yes, Madam!

You really are a stunning beauty.

No wonder the Emperor fell so hard for you.

Cut the nonsense.

What exactly are you after?

There are so many lovesick ones in this world.

Whether their love is real,

my Illusion-Butterfly Powder will tell.

Tell me,

for your sake,

will Xiao Huan hand over the Moon-Eclipse?

Cangcang,

does it still hurt?

Let's think of a way

to get out of here.

Your Majesty...

Cangcang,

what's wrong?

Cangcang!

It's me, Xiao Huan!

She's inhaled my Illusion-Butterfly Powder.

It traps people in illusions.

Her mind and the drug will tear at her,

driving her into agony

until her insides collapse and she dies.

How long

do you think she can last?

Zhu Sha,

how can you be so vicious?

You're only realizing that now?

You just want the Moon-Eclipse, don't you?

I can give it to you!

Right now, in her eyes,

you're a mortal enemy she's fighting to the death.

Cangcang,

it's me, Xiao Huan.

I don't believe you'd really kill me.

♪ Who walks lone through storm and snow ♪

♪ Reading every warmth and chill ♪

♪ Of the heart? ♪

♪ Who stands proud against a thousand weights ♪

♪ Grace only a mask he wears? ♪

♪ My blade sweeps the heavens ♪

♪ Blood once drenched ♪

♪ My armor and charging steed ♪

♪ I know what it means to let go ♪

♪ When to step in, when to hold back ♪

♪ A broken blade cuts through ♪

♪ Years of winter and summer ♪

♪ Enemy flags burn to ash like gauze ♪

♪ Yet my heart still bears the scars of rise and fall ♪

♪ I'm willing to wield my sword with you and burn the waning moon ♪

♪ I'm willing to brave all storms with you, boiling with passion ♪

♪ I'm willing to break my wings and become the blade in your hand ♪

♪ I'm willing to write with you this torn, enduring page of history ♪

♪ I'm willing to travel thousands of miles, seeking your ambition ♪

♪ I'm willing to give my life to keep you safe for a lifetime ♪

♪ I'm willing to sing through every farewell and wait for you another thousand years ♪

♪ I'm willing to live and die with you, my one and only wish in this lifetime ♪