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The Scholar and the Emperor
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The sandbag is ready.
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It will warm you and drive out the chill.
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Let me apply it for you, Director.
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I can do it myself.
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Director Meng.
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Now that you're the Empress-designate,
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does that mean from now on
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we should deliberately keep our distance?
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That isn't what I meant.
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What's gotten into you lately?
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I was just thinking
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how quickly everything can change.
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The Office of Public Inquiry...
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Is it going to be dissolved?
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Look.
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Just look at all these gifts they sent.
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Aren't they wonderful?
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Let's see which of those gossips outside
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still dares say a word against our lady.
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We owe it to the Second Young Master
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for standing by us when we needed him.
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You're still calling
him Second Young Master?
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You should call him Son-in-law now.
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But come to think of it,
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I could tell long ago
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that our new son-in-law
had feelings for her.
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-Madam.
-Madam.
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Today's the bride's homecoming banquet.
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Go fetch the master of the house.
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Tell him to stop fussing over the cooking.
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-Yes, Madam.
-Yes, Madam.
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Come, Anian.
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Now that Zhili has married you,
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there are some things I must say.
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Whatever happened before,
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from now on, you must support each other
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and cherish the bond you now share.
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Don't worry, Father.
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I will treasure Zhili above all else
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and never let her suffer
the slightest harm.
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Good.
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Zhili.
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Anian may always give way to you,
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but now that you've
married into the Di family,
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you mustn't be as willful
as you were at home
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or bully Anian.
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I may dote on you,
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but I'll stand up for Anian too.
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Father.
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I will be a good daughter-in-law
to the Di family.
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Good.
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Zhili.
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Anian is Marquis Wu's only son.
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If you can give the Di family heirs soon,
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then our Shen family
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we can answer to Marquis Wu's spirit
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with a clear conscience.
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Father, Zhili loves
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your sweet-and-sour ribs most.
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When you have time, you must teach me.
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Then I can make them for Zhili.
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I should have taught you long ago.
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If Zhishu heard me say that,
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that rascal
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would get jealous and compete with you
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over who loves Zhili more.
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Zhishu always has to join the fun.
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You don't know the half of it.
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They used to fight over a single rib,
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those two siblings,
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until their chopsticks became weapons.
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But now,
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with a husband protecting her,
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that rascal won't get
a chance to snatch one.
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Brother still hasn't returned.
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He even missed my wedding to Anian,
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and hasn't sent a single letter home.
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Your brother is carrying
out an imperial mission.
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He can't leave his post for now.
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When he returns,
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we'll all have a proper reunion.
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Come, Father.
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To our reunion.
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Come.
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Father.
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Is your chest hurting
again? Get his medicine!
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It's all right.
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I'm fine.
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It's an old complaint.
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It's almost funny.
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In the past,
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that rascal always made
my chest ache with anger.
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And now,
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I can't even blame him for it.
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Your Majesty...
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Your Majesty!
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Your Majesty!
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An urgent express dispatch from Qingzhou!
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Your Majesty...
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You rotten boy!
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Come out here!
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I want to speak to you face-to-face!
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Zhishu...
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While carrying out his orders,
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he encountered danger.
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Come out here!
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Come out!
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I serve with the Qingzhou garrison.
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By General Huo's order,
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we have escorted Young Lord Shen
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home.
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You...
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You must have made a mistake.
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Zhishu would never...
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leave without a word
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and abandon all of us.
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Zhishu.
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My son...
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Zhishu!
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My son...
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-Father!
-Father!
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You said that on my birthday,
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you'd give me that half
of the bronze tally.
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By my reckoning,
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I won't be back in time.
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Can't I have my birthday gift early?
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What I said was:
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when you can truly stand on your own
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and shoulder the Shen
family's duty as a minister,
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then you may ask for the
half of the tiger-head tally.
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Father!
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You're far too stingy.
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I've begged you for that
half-tally for three years.
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If you still won't give it to me,
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-I'll trade my half for wine tomorrow.
-You dare!
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You insolent boy!
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Father, once I've sold it for wine,
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I'll bring you back the
finest jar money can buy.
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Before he left,
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he proudly told me
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he had been appointed
a fourth-rank Censor.
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He even asked me for his birthday gift.
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I was afraid he would grow conceited,
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so I scolded him.
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If I'd known it would be
the last time I saw him,
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this bronze tally...
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would have reached his hands.
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Zhishu said
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that as soon as he returned,
he'd arrange the wedding
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and marry me.
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Miss Yan.
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This is your birth-date card.
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Please take it back.
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Before he left, Zhishu
wrote the marriage contract
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and prepared the betrothal gift list.
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He begged me to prepare the three marriage
documents and six betrothal gifts,
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so when he returned,
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he could marry you with full honor.
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I'd like to see who dares
lay a hand on her today.
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Fuzhi, I'm sorry I'm late.
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If I, Shen Zhishu, am to marry,
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not one of the Six Rites may be omitted,
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and all three marriage
documents must be prepared.
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When the auspicious day comes,
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I will send a grand bridal sedan
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and welcome Fuzhi into
the Shen family in honor.
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I don't believe Young Lord Shen,
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surrounded by all the noble
ladies of the capital,
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would truly give up
that garden of beauties
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for a merchant's daughter like me
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and bind his heart to mine
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for the rest of his life.
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What if I cut down every peach blossom?
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Then...
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clear away every last
flower and weed around you,
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every one of them,
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and ask me again.
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I promise you,
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if I ever chase another woman again,
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you may leave me without another word.
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Wait for me to come back.
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Zhishu and I never bowed
before Heaven and Earth,
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but in my heart, I already chose him.
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If you will accept me,
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I wish to be a daughter-in-law
of the Shen family.
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Silly child.
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You're still in the bloom of youth.
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Don't sacrifice your whole future.
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-Please, get up.
-My mind is made up.
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Unless...
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you truly cannot accept me.
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Only today do I understand
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why Zhishu gave his heart to you.
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To have you love him so sincerely
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was my son's good fortune.
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Good child.
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Please, get up.
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Good child.
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From now on, we're one family.
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One family.
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Father.
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Mother.
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Rest assured, Director Meng.
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This medicine will let Miss
Yan sleep for a full day.
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She hasn't closed her
eyes the entire journey.
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A little calming tea was the only way
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to make her get some proper rest.
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Lord Meng.
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Manager Yan...
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How is she?
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What kind of question is that?
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Just thinking that we'll never
see Young Lord Shen again
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makes my heart ache.
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Imagine how the manager must feel.
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Only last month, Young Lord Shen
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helped us finish blending a new wine.
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He said he'd taste it when he came back.
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What monster did this to him?
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Young Lord Shen
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was one of us at the Office too.
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I won't let his death go unanswered.
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And I won't let you
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spend every day drowning in tears.
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Your Majesty.
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Your wounds from the whip haven't healed.
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You mustn't keep practicing.
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If they split open again,
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how could this old servant
answer to the late Emperor?
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I'm wounded,
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not dying.
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Chief Steward You.
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Let me.
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Director Meng.
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Please talk some sense into His Majesty.
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Not only is he practicing
swordplay while wounded,
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he hasn't eaten a thing all day.
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I know Your Majesty is grieving.
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I am willing to avenge Young Lord Shen.
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If you discovered
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that someone you knew was
in the Blood Moon Society,
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what would you do?
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Your Majesty, rest assured.
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Though Situ Xue and I get along well,
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I know where to draw the line.
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If the Blood Moon Society
harms Daning's people,
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I will show them no mercy.
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Your Majesty's wounds haven't healed yet.
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Let me apply the medicine.
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Your Highness, it is past midnight.
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Our contact still hasn't arrived.
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Something may have gone wrong.
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Wait a little longer.
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Your Highness.
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The Blood Moon Society cannot be trusted.
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Last time, they not only broke their word,
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they even killed our secret envoy.
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Can you truly trust people
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who change their word so easily?
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Last time, everything
happened too suddenly.
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I've always suspected
there was more to it.
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I must negotiate with the Blood
Moon Society in person again.
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But the First Prince
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strongly favors a policy of conciliation.
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This time,
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if Your Highness contacts
the Blood Moon Society,
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I fear...
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My elder brother
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is indecisive
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and hopelessly naive.
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Does he truly think one marriage pact
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can buy lasting peace?
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When Ying Gua rejected
the marriage alliance,
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Beijian's honor
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was already trampled underfoot.
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A wolf does not wag its tail and beg.
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Only a dog does.
278
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For the past two years, Daning
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has poured troops into the border,
280
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stockpiling grain and
building fortifications.
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They may well be planning
282
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to trap us in the northern
desert until we die.
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This time, I will make Daning
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see for itself
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what Beijian's iron cavalry truly means.
286
00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:22,840
And I will prove to Father
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that the world
288
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is not won by kneeling and begging,
289
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but by fighting for it
with sword and steel.
290
00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:32,720
Your Highness, someone's coming.
291
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Sir.
292
00:17:21,600 --> 00:17:23,840
I've cleared up the misunderstanding
with Beijian's Second Prince
293
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and confirmed someone did
impersonate our Society
294
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to sabotage the alliance.
295
00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:29,040
The Second Prince of Beijian
296
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has agreed to join forces with us
297
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and continue the war against Daning.
298
00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:34,200
Their blood will not
have been shed in vain.
299
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Daning's blood debt
300
00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:40,880
must be repaid with mountains
of corpses and seas of blood.
301
00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:49,880
Daning's court is in turmoil now.
302
00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:51,640
Our Princess
303
00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:53,280
is about to rise to the pinnacle of power.
304
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Once her bloodline memories awaken,
305
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we will welcome the Princess at once
306
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and restore our realm.
307
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Welcome the Princess! Restore our realm!
308
00:18:05,360 --> 00:18:08,160
Welcome the Princess! Restore our realm!
309
00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:10,800
Welcome the Princess! Restore our realm!
310
00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:14,280
Welcome the Princess! Restore our realm!
311
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Grand Tutor!
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The Young Master's spirit has returned!
313
00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:27,480
Father.
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Mother.
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I'm home.
316
00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:38,000
Brother!
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Brother!
318
00:19:58,040 --> 00:19:59,200
Your unfilial son
319
00:19:59,960 --> 00:20:01,480
has made you worry.
320
00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:04,600
My son...
321
00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:09,960
You're home. That's all that matters.
322
00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:11,720
That's all that matters.
323
00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:16,120
My husband...
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00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:24,600
Fuzhi.
325
00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:43,400
Shen Zhishu!
326
00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:49,560
You've gone too far!
327
00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:52,320
Do you know how many paper
offerings I burned for you?
328
00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:55,240
Do you know how heartbroken I was?
329
00:20:57,080 --> 00:20:59,360
How could you joke about life and death?
330
00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:14,560
Let me see.
331
00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:17,000
It'll frighten you.
332
00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:36,680
Father.
333
00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:38,480
Are you...
334
00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:40,080
disappointed in me?
335
00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:42,880
All your life, Father,
336
00:21:43,360 --> 00:21:44,400
you've achieved great things.
337
00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:47,520
I'm afraid I may never equal you.
338
00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:50,840
The only thing I had that could compare
339
00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:53,080
was this face of mine.
340
00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:56,600
Now I've lost even that advantage.
341
00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:03,520
You are the eldest son of the Shen family.
342
00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:06,600
You grew up studying beside His Majesty.
343
00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:08,160
At twenty,
344
00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:10,520
you could enter officialdom
through family privilege.
345
00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:14,080
Compared with scholars
born to humble families,
346
00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:15,920
you have been extraordinarily fortunate.
347
00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,600
But with the honor of such a family name,
348
00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:21,280
you must possess civil talent
349
00:22:21,360 --> 00:22:22,800
as well as martial skill.
350
00:22:23,360 --> 00:22:25,560
As His Majesty's trusted friend,
351
00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:28,680
you must never openly hunger for power,
352
00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:30,640
but neither can you be
wholly without ambition.
353
00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:32,400
More importantly,
354
00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:34,160
on your shoulders rests
355
00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:35,880
the entire Shen clan
356
00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:38,160
and the duty to carry its honor forward.
357
00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:43,400
I demanded so much of you
358
00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:46,440
because I feared one achievement
would make you complacent.
359
00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:47,600
That is why I...
360
00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,040
why I kept putting you down.
361
00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:57,360
After hearing what happened to you,
362
00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:01,040
there was something I kept wanting to say.
363
00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:07,080
You are the pride of the Shen family.
364
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:11,280
I was wrong.
365
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:20,480
I never thought
366
00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,320
I'd hear the words "I was wrong"
from a stubborn old man like you.
367
00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:28,320
If I'd come back half a month later,
368
00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:30,600
would you have handed the
whole Shen family over to me?
369
00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:32,120
You little...
370
00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:36,040
You little rascal.
371
00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:39,480
That must hurt terribly.
372
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:44,920
Compared with the beatings
Father gave me as a boy,
373
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,160
this is nothing.
374
00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:03,920
Though I was wounded,
misfortune brought a blessing.
375
00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:06,800
I was carrying the Blood
Moon Society's scepter
376
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:08,440
when members of the
Society found and saved me.
377
00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:10,800
While recovering among them,
378
00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:12,240
I learned something important.
379
00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:14,000
Mr. Shangguan of the Blood Moon Society
380
00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:14,960
is not only alive,
381
00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:16,720
he is hiding among the officials at court.
382
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:20,480
I should have known.
383
00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:22,560
A man like him would never die so easily.
384
00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:24,960
Your Majesty, shall we investigate
the entire court at once?
385
00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:28,160
If we mishandle this, the
ministers will turn on each other.
386
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:30,960
Then if the Blood Moon Society
and Beijian strike together,
387
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:32,800
we'll face enemies within and without.
388
00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:34,720
But the marriage proposal
from Beijian's First Prince
389
00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:36,720
clearly shows he broke with
the Blood Moon Society first.
390
00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:39,600
Mr. Shangguan is colluding
with the Second Prince.
391
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:41,440
Most likely.
392
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:43,800
I've heard the Second Prince has never
gotten along with his elder brother.
393
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:45,800
And compared with the First Prince,
394
00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:47,200
he is far more warlike.
395
00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:49,760
His intentions are hard to fathom.
We cannot let our guard down.
396
00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:51,000
Whatever happens,
397
00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:52,120
if Your Majesty rejects
this marriage alliance,
398
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:53,880
war on the frontier may be unavoidable.
399
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:55,400
What inch of this realm
400
00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:57,440
was not won by sword and cavalry?
401
00:24:58,200 --> 00:24:59,200
Beijian has a wolf's nature.
402
00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:00,640
Whichever prince it is,
403
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:02,440
if he can secretly collude
with the Blood Moon Society,
404
00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:04,040
why would he keep his word later?
405
00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:06,360
This marriage proposal
406
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:08,240
only proves they fear
our frontier cavalry.
407
00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:11,120
The misunderstanding between
Beijian and the Blood Moon Society
408
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:12,800
will be exposed sooner or later.
409
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:14,040
My father once said
410
00:25:14,120 --> 00:25:16,120
Beijian is ravenous and
deceitful, full of schemes.
411
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:18,560
I am ready to go to war at any time.
412
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:20,120
But before that,
413
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:21,480
we must find Shangguan.
414
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:22,960
I suspect Shangguan
415
00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:26,400
is someone close to us.
416
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:31,880
When Your Majesty first
ascended the throne,
417
00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:33,440
I had not yet entered the court.
418
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:36,320
Yet I boldly asked for a post
at the Office of Public Inquiry
419
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:40,120
and was even rebuked by Your Majesty.
420
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:45,280
I still remember looking at you then,
421
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:47,360
so outrageously bold,
422
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:49,640
and knowing no one but you
423
00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:50,680
could lead the Office of Public Inquiry.
424
00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:52,720
And now,
425
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:56,160
you've fulfilled every word you said then.
426
00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:58,560
In fact, you've done
427
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:01,440
even better than I expected.
428
00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:06,440
When I entered the court,
I had no attachments.
429
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:09,080
Only Fuzhi was someone I worried about.
430
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:11,720
That was why I never hesitated.
431
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:14,760
Exhuming bodies, investigating cases,
432
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:15,960
pursuing Ling Yunfei...
433
00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:18,080
I never once faltered.
434
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:19,560
But now,
435
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:22,240
there are more people I want to protect.
436
00:26:23,360 --> 00:26:24,960
So I've learned what fear is.
437
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:29,000
We're both afraid of losing those we love.
438
00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:31,280
These past days,
439
00:26:31,360 --> 00:26:32,640
I have watched helplessly
440
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:35,240
as one person after another
close to me was taken away.
441
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:41,400
What happened to Zhishu
442
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:46,200
has made me more afraid than ever.
443
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:14,360
I may possess this entire realm,
444
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,160
yet perhaps I still can't
keep the people I treasure.
445
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:27,320
I won't leave Your Majesty.
446
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,160
I want to remain at the
Office of Public Inquiry
447
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:31,280
and continue serving you.
448
00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:43,640
Meng Tinghui.
449
00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:46,720
Let's get married.
450
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:51,480
The court is settled now.
451
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:53,000
No one can stand in our way anymore.
452
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:55,560
This hairpin...
453
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:57,520
I spent three months making it myself.
454
00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:59,440
I've waited to place it in
your hair and crown you,
455
00:27:59,960 --> 00:28:00,920
then proclaim you to the entire realm.
456
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:06,040
Your Majesty.
457
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:07,960
Right now,
458
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:10,040
I cannot marry you.
459
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:11,840
Why?
460
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:13,080
Your Majesty knows me.
461
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:15,840
Everything I've fought for
462
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,120
was to root out entrenched abuses
throughout the court and government.
463
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:20,880
The Blood Moon Society seeks
464
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:22,800
to overthrow Daning itself.
465
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:24,800
What frightens me even more
466
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:27,280
is that Shangguan is
hidden within the court.
467
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:29,640
So I beg Your Majesty
468
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,240
to let me investigate the
Blood Moon Society thoroughly.
469
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:33,200
Ask me for anything else.
470
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:34,640
But not the Blood Moon Society.
471
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:37,200
I have given the Blood Moon Society case
472
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:39,160
entirely to Zhishu.
473
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:41,280
Your Majesty is hiding something from me.
474
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:44,920
I once asked Your Majesty
475
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:47,560
whether we had truly opened
our hearts to each other.
476
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:49,400
So it turns out...
477
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:51,800
we haven't.
478
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:54,200
The burden of the realm is immense.
479
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:56,040
The palace has depths upon depths.
480
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:57,600
Even to you,
481
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:03,360
I cannot lay every
secret of my heart bare.
482
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:10,360
I will take my leave.
483
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:38,240
Shen Zhishu!
484
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:40,680
How long are you going to hide from me?
485
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:43,960
Fuzhi.
486
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:45,000
We should part.
487
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:49,560
Don't come looking for me again.
488
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:56,160
Part?
489
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:03,560
What about the marriage
contract you wrote yourself?
490
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:07,360
Are you taking it back?
491
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:13,480
I failed to keep our promise.
492
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:16,720
I came back scarred.
493
00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:18,480
Even my face...
494
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:20,640
It's only a scar.
495
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:23,240
A real man can weather far worse.
496
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:24,680
What's the big deal?
497
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:32,600
I think
498
00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:34,680
that scar
499
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:36,760
makes you look even more gallant.
500
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:38,480
I'm serious.
501
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:39,760
As a minister,
502
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:42,240
I gave up any fear of death long ago.
503
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:47,280
Daning now faces dangers
within and without.
504
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:49,320
The Shen clan bears a heavy duty.
505
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:52,840
The next time I carry out an assignment,
506
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:54,320
I may suffer far worse than a wound.
507
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:20,120
Then I'll wait for you to come back.
508
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:22,720
And if you never do,
509
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:25,200
I'll wait for you for the rest of my life.
510
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:30,840
I loved the flirtatious young lord
511
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:34,920
who once drunkenly picked flowers for me.
512
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:37,400
Of course I did.
513
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:42,280
But now,
514
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,680
this brave man with a scar on his face
515
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:48,200
makes my heart ache even more
516
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:53,600
and is worth loving for a lifetime.
517
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:22,800
Mengmeng.
518
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:23,840
His Majesty truly
519
00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:25,480
treats you wonderfully.
520
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:27,800
He even granted you this
imperial hot spring.
521
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:29,080
And that's not even mentioning
522
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:30,840
how he overturned ancestral law for you.
523
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:32,560
That shook the entire realm.
524
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:34,000
Who wouldn't envy you?
525
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,480
When did you become his advocate?
526
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,320
Now even my closest friend
527
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:46,640
has been won over by him.
528
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:48,720
It seems behind my back,
529
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:50,720
I truly have no one left.
530
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:54,320
Dear Mengmeng.
531
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:58,600
Whatever happens in the future,
532
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:00,160
I will always stand behind you.
533
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,520
What matters to me isn't
some grand principle.
534
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:05,200
It's you.
535
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:07,160
It's just that
536
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:08,880
I truly think there is
no one in this world
537
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:10,280
worthy of standing beside you
538
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:11,440
except His Majesty.
539
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:15,000
I've seen how hard
540
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:16,600
you've fought to come this far.
541
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:19,200
That's why I still wish
542
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:21,480
there were someone powerful
enough to protect you.
543
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:23,160
Fuzhi.
544
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:26,000
Marrying His Majesty
545
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:29,320
means placing myself under
countless watching eyes
546
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:31,480
and accusing fingers.
547
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:36,240
If I become Empress,
548
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:39,040
even one extra word with him
549
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:41,280
would have the entire court saying
550
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:43,560
the Empress is meddling in state affairs.
551
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:46,920
I don't want the glory of an
Empress's crown and robes.
552
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,440
I want to stand openly
and honorably in court.
553
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:53,840
I want him to become a
wise ruler for the ages.
554
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,560
But I won't sacrifice half
a lifetime of ambition
555
00:33:58,080 --> 00:33:59,520
to be confined behind the Empress's seal.
556
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:04,040
Of course I understand.
557
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:06,480
It's just...
558
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:09,000
do you truly not want to marry him?
559
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:13,640
All right. I won't say any more.
560
00:34:13,720 --> 00:34:15,600
Let's not talk about
things that trouble you.
561
00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:17,520
Today, let's just...
562
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:18,640
relax and enjoy ourselves.
563
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:31,280
Mengmeng.
564
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:33,320
When did you get that mark on your body?
565
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:34,680
What mark?
566
00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:36,280
It looks like a bird.
567
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:37,560
A red one.
568
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:39,440
A red bird?
569
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:53,480
This mark on your back
570
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:54,920
is rather unusual.
571
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:56,120
Which mark do you mean, Your Majesty?
572
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:57,360
This drawing.
573
00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:58,520
Do you recognize it?
574
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:05,040
Yao'er.
575
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:07,760
Brother Shangguan.
576
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:12,720
That's my father's Black Bird.
577
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:15,520
It's the most powerful divine bird of all.
578
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,240
Brother, draw one for me too.
579
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:21,200
Draw one even bigger than the Black Bird.
580
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:22,880
No.
581
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:24,400
My husband has to draw mine first.
582
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:26,880
Draw my Black Bird in red.
583
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:28,920
My brother won't draw one for you.
584
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:30,560
-My brother is mine!
-No, he isn't!
585
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:31,920
My father said
586
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:32,960
Brother Shangguan
587
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:34,320
will be my husband someday.
588
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:36,360
-Brother Shangguan is mine!
-He's mine!
589
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:39,200
Yao'er, quickly!
590
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:44,880
Someone's over there. After them!
591
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:47,880
Are you all right?
592
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:50,320
Brother Shangguan.
593
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:52,320
-Your hand...
-Keep your voice down.
594
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:53,840
Where's little Xixia?
595
00:35:54,720 --> 00:35:56,120
She died in your place.
596
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:02,680
Yao'er, remember this.
597
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:04,000
You must live.
598
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:06,240
Forget today. Forget who you are.
599
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:08,880
Retreat! Quickly!
600
00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:13,280
Brother Shangguan!
601
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:41,120
What happened?
602
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:54,200
What's wrong?
603
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:56,200
Your Majesty.
604
00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:58,720
Let's marry.
605
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:14,080
Have you thought this through?
606
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:16,160
I don't want you to force yourself.
607
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:45,840
By Heaven's mandate,
608
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:47,280
I rule all under Heaven.
609
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:48,680
Meng Tinghui of the Meng clan
610
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:50,360
is valiant and virtuous,
611
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:51,560
possessing noble character
612
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:53,160
and truly fit to embody
the virtues of an Empress.
613
00:37:53,240 --> 00:37:55,000
I hereby invest her as Empress,
614
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:56,160
to serve as mother of the realm.
615
00:37:56,240 --> 00:37:58,680
The proper offices shall choose an
auspicious day and prepare the Six Rites.
616
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:00,880
I shall personally ride forth
in the imperial carriage
617
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:01,880
to welcome her into the Central Palace.
618
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:04,120
Let this decree be carried out.
619
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:26,920
Yin Qing.
620
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:44,320
Three years...
621
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:47,360
and I never once noticed
622
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:49,040
the scar on your hand.
623
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:57,720
You devoted yourself
entirely to punishing evil.
624
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:00,440
Why would you notice such a small detail?
625
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:01,800
But
626
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:04,560
everything has its proper time.
627
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:08,320
Seeing it now is not too late.
628
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,160
Some choices could have...
629
00:39:11,240 --> 00:39:12,520
Some choices,
630
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:14,680
once I've made them,
631
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:16,640
I never turn back.
632
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:22,640
This newly compiled Records of the Realm
633
00:39:22,720 --> 00:39:23,880
states in its third chapter
634
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:26,120
that after the waterworks in Daning's
seven prefectures were completed,
635
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:28,240
grain output rose by thirty percent.
636
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:30,760
Have you read it?
637
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:35,280
I only wonder whether that extra grain
638
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:38,360
can fill the bellies of those
639
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:40,640
forced to dig the canals
and build the dikes.
640
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:43,120
Beneath prosperity,
641
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:44,280
there are always shadows.
642
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:48,080
These past years, Daning
643
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:49,560
has indeed been peaceful and prosperous.
644
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:54,160
Peaceful and prosperous?
645
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:56,720
Beneath the scent of ink,
646
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:58,480
how much blood and how
many tears are hidden?
647
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:00,840
This peace written on paper...
648
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:03,280
how many bones lie cold beneath it?
649
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:09,160
I live in Daning.
650
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:11,080
As one of its people,
651
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:13,640
I have watched Daning grow
more prosperous each day,
652
00:40:13,720 --> 00:40:14,840
the state wealthy and its people strong.
653
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:16,280
And as an official,
654
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:18,680
I've watched His Majesty
labor from dawn until night
655
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:20,440
so his people may live and work in peace.
656
00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:22,480
The peace we seek
657
00:40:23,240 --> 00:40:24,640
is not far away.
658
00:40:24,720 --> 00:40:27,160
And what of those who
won't live to see it?
659
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:40,880
I believe
660
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:44,280
the rain will soon pass
and the skies will clear.
661
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:45,880
The Rain Bell
662
00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:48,400
was made to create illusions.
663
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:50,000
You've stared at it for so long
664
00:40:50,720 --> 00:40:51,560
that you've forgotten
665
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:53,440
the rain never stopped.
666
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:02,280
Even this rainbow is false.
667
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:43,520
Mengmeng.
668
00:41:49,240 --> 00:41:50,280
Our Director Meng, who wouldn't blink
669
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:52,120
even if Mount Tai collapsed before her,
670
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:54,080
can actually get so
nervous her hands shake.
671
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:56,760
You are marrying the Emperor of Daning.
672
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:58,440
I wouldn't believe you if
you said you weren't nervous.
673
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:03,840
Come. Tonight, we don't
stop until we're drunk.
674
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:05,640
Cheers!
675
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:21,360
-Cheers!
-Come on.
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