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The Scholar and the Emperor
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-Cheers!
-Come on.
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Mengmeng.
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Do you remember our promise?
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We said
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if neither of us found someone we loved,
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I'd run a tavern,
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and you'd teach at a girls' school.
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When we grew old,
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we'd keep each other company
and never be lonely.
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Who would've thought
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you'd be getting married?
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Looks like fate has been kind to us.
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Zhili has Anian,
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I have His Majesty,
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and you have Young Lord Shen.
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Another toast.
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Cheers.
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Mengmeng.
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Ever since we came back
from the hot springs,
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you've been acting strange.
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Is something bothering you?
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If Mengmeng had something on her mind,
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wouldn't she tell you?
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She must be worried
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about tomorrow's wedding.
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To wear the phoenix crown,
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you must bear its weight.
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Becoming mistress of the Central Palace
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won't be as carefree
as serving at the Office.
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Relax.
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No matter how heavy the phoenix crown,
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all of us will be there
to help you carry it.
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Exactly.
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His Majesty will protect you at court.
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My brother and Anian
will watch over you in the palace.
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Fuzhi and I will stay by your side.
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And Yin Qing will keep you laughing.
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The five of us from the Office
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will always have your back.
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Come.
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Cheers.
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Cheers.
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I'm afraid this is all just a dream.
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And when I wake up,
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it'll all be gone.
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Mengmeng.
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If they ever wrong you in the palace,
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come back to Bofeng Tavern.
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This will always be your home.
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And I'll always be here for you.
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I don't care whether you live
in wealth and splendor.
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I only wish you
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joy and good health, year after year.
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Mengmeng.
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Whether you're Director Meng of the Office
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or Her Majesty the Empress
of the Central Palace,
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to me,
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you'll always be the sister
who helped me grow
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and kept me safe.
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You'll always be
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the girl I'm proudest of and admire most.
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All right.
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You're getting married tomorrow.
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No getting sentimental tonight.
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Come.
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Let's drink to...
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-The Empress of Daning!
-The Empress of Daning!
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And
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to nights when we can still drink like this.
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Your Highness.
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By this time tomorrow,
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every lantern in the capital
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will be covered in funeral white.
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Eight years of blood debt
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will finally be repaid.
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At the Battle of Humen Pass,
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when Ying Gua was still Crown Prince,
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that arrow pierced more
than my uncle's throat.
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It shattered the fortunes
of my mother's clan.
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After that,
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Father saw only my elder brother.
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What is he?
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Just a coward hiding in the royal tent,
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playing at schemes and power.
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Your Highness.
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The time for revenge has come.
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Daning's Left Chancellor believes
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you came to present warhorses
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and secure the marriage alliance.
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We already have the gate-opening warrant.
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Once the signal is given tomorrow,
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Beijian's Wolf Cavalry assassins
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can ride straight into the capital.
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Yes.
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I've kept you waiting, Second Prince.
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Mr. Shangguan, you leave no trace on snow.
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Even Beijian's Wind Listeners
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couldn't sense your presence.
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Truly remarkable.
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You're too kind, Second Prince.
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More importantly,
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you should be more concerned
with tomorrow's operation.
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At tomorrow's imperial wedding,
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the bridal procession must leave the Office
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and pass along Changle Street.
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We've already turned
the commander of its escort.
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He'll claim he's searching for assassins
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and draw away half the Imperial Guard.
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The alleys here form a maze.
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This is where Ying Gua will die.
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Sir,
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are you truly certain
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this ambush cannot fail?
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Ying Gua is sly as a fox.
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Back then, with only 3,000 light cavalry,
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he lured my army of 30,000
into a death trap.
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If this is another one of his schemes,
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you and I will be trapped
with nowhere to run.
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With our forces working
openly and in secret,
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Second Prince, you have nothing to fear.
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Your Highness's Wolf Cavalry
will strike head-on.
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My Blood Moon Society assassins
are already in place
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to support the Princess from the shadows.
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Even if Ying Gua casts a net
across heaven and earth,
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this wedding feast
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will still be his last meal.
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Interesting.
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But after all this time working with you,
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I've never seen your true face.
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The day Zhongwan is restored,
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this face hidden in dust for ten years
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will see daylight again.
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Then, Second Prince,
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we can drink wine from Ying Gua's skull.
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The Hour of the Rooster has passed.
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Ying Gua's death draws near.
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Daning's destiny
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has run its course too.
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This time, I'll do it myself
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and take Ying Gua's head.
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The imperial wedding of Emperor and Empress
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is a grand rite of state.
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We now present these betrothal gifts
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to show the Son of Heaven's solemn devotion
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and honor the Empress's virtue
as mother of the realm.
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Ten bolts of scarlet silk
with golden phoenix brocade,
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one pair of green-jade nuptial cups,
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one pair of kingfisher-feather
paired-phoenix vases,
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one black-glass pearl,
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one lingzhi-shaped ruyi scepter,
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and one set of gold-feather
phoenix hairpins.
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May dragon and phoenix bless this union.
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Will I still get to see you often
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after this, Your Majesty?
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Of course.
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I'll always be your Mengmeng.
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We promised not to cry today.
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We're sending Mengmeng off with smiles.
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The auspicious hour approaches.
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We respectfully invite
Her Majesty the Empress.
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I never thought those stories in the novels
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would actually come true.
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Shunzi.
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Go buy me a few more copies
of the Spring and Autumn Annals.
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Boss, what for?
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Obviously, next year
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I'm going to pass the metropolitan exam too.
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Your Highness.
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The phoenix palanquin has reached the
street.
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Look.
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What a sight.
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Die, Ying Gua.
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Run!
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You think stopping me
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means this is over?
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Back to the hall! Protect His Majesty!
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The auspicious hour has arrived.
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Escort Their Majesties into the hall
to honor the ancestors.
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Their Majesties, present the incense.
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First bow: to the Sacred Ancestor
who founded the realm.
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Yao'er.
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Second bow: may the realm endure forever.
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Third bow: may Emperor and Empress
be of one heart.
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Yao'er, kill him.
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-The rites are complete.
-Yao'er.
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Kill him.
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Yao'er, kill him.
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Yao'er, he destroyed your kingdom.
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Kill him.
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Yao'er.
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He destroyed your kingdom.
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Kill him.
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Yao'er.
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Kill him.
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Your Majesty.
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Guards! Protect His Majesty!
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Your Majesty.
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Mengmeng.
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What's wrong?
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One step closer
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and your Emperor
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dies without a burial place.
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Enough of your tricks.
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Who are you,
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to attempt regicide in Sacred Ancestor Hall?
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More than ten years ago,
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a hundred thousand of my people
were slaughtered.
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That blood debt...
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have you forgotten?
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A Zhongwan remnant.
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You destroyed our home and nation,
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then call us remnants?
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Today I'll use the Son of Heaven's blood
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to honor the dead of Zhongwan.
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I'll fight you to the death!
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Yin Qing?
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How could it be you?
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You've hidden behind a mask for so long.
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At last you show yourself.
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Did you truly think my palace
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was somewhere you could come and go
as you please?
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Mengmeng, you knew already?
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Yin Qing, your incense...
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I replaced it three days ago.
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Today I used myself as bait
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to draw all of you out.
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Do you know how long I've waited
for this moment?
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You joined forces with him to trap us?
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Reporting to Your Majesty.
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All nine gates around the hall are sealed.
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None of them will escape today.
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Beijian's Second Prince
and his Wolf Cavalry are destroyed.
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The Blood Moon Society
has no one left to rely on.
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-Impossible.
-Left Chancellor.
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You privately issued tribute credentials
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that allowed Beijian's Second Prince
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to ally with the Blood Moon Society
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and sneak armed men into the capital.
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Your Majesty, please hear me.
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I must have fallen for a traitor's scheme
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when I issued those tribute credentials.
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Your Majesty, what matters most now
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is exterminating the Zhongwan remnants.
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Ying Gua.
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I came here today
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with no intention of leaving alive.
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Seize him.
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Yin Qing, stop.
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Don't cling to this madness.
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You're the one lost in madness.
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I endured humiliation and planned every step
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to raise you above everyone else in Daning.
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Kill Ying Gua today,
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and Zhongwan can be restored.
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Restore the kingdom?
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That would only uproot the people.
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This blood feud...
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I would rather not avenge it.
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Besides,
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I am now a citizen of Daning.
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Director Meng is in league
with the Blood Moon Society?
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-Impossible.
-Impossible.
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Seize every remaining member
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of the Blood Moon Society.
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You forced my hand.
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Look closely.
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Would you truly let her become
Empress of Daning?
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The Mystic Bird emblem?
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The mark of Zhongwan royalty.
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You're the Princess of Zhongwan.
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A Zhongwan princess
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has been manipulating Daning's court?
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Guards!
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Execute her on the spot.
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Who dares?
277
00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:57,480
Your Majesty.
278
00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:01,560
Did you know her identity all along?
279
00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:03,680
Your Majesty.
280
00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:05,520
Are you going to hand Daning
281
00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:08,080
over to the remnants of Zhongwan?
282
00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:09,560
Meng Tinghui previously
283
00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:11,760
knew nothing of her birth.
284
00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:14,600
But everything she has done for Daning,
285
00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:16,760
I know better than anyone.
286
00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:18,800
Stop pretending, Princess.
287
00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:21,640
We planned the Infinity Pill disaster
together.
288
00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:23,840
Gu Qin's execution,
289
00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:25,720
the collapse of the Beijian
marriage alliance—
290
00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:27,480
all of it was to plunge Daning
291
00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:28,840
into crisis at home and abroad.
292
00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:31,600
You think if you cut off
every path she has in Daning
293
00:23:32,120 --> 00:23:34,080
and pin every disaster on her,
294
00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:35,920
she'll restore Zhongwan with you?
295
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:37,640
You keep her beside you
296
00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:39,680
only because you want to use her too.
297
00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:41,160
Between you will always stand
298
00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:42,800
the hundred thousand dead of Zhongwan.
299
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:44,800
You can never be together.
300
00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:47,400
Your Majesty, no more words.
301
00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:49,600
Execute this witch
and the Zhongwan remnants at once
302
00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:51,000
and end the threat forever.
303
00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:53,600
You all keep calling me
a witch who will ruin the realm.
304
00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:09,760
Today I'll carve away
this Mystic Bird emblem
305
00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:11,600
and show you where my loyalty lies.
306
00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:12,560
Don't!
307
00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,040
The Mystic Bird emblem is destroyed.
308
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:55,200
I am no longer the Princess of Zhongwan.
309
00:24:56,800 --> 00:24:58,280
I am only Meng Tinghui.
310
00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:45,080
Left Chancellor...
311
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:49,720
If you want to harm His Majesty of Daning,
312
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,960
you'll have to step over
Xu Ting's body first.
313
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:07,360
-Left Chancellor.
-Left Chancellor.
314
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:09,520
-Chancellor!
-Left Chancellor, wake up!
315
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:11,080
Fetch the imperial physician!
316
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:12,240
-Quickly!
-Yes!
317
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:14,200
-Imperial physician...
-Your Majesty.
318
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:21,320
Your Majesty.
319
00:26:23,120 --> 00:26:24,880
I was wrong before.
320
00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:28,600
Please... don't hold it against me.
321
00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:42,200
I...
322
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:46,960
can no longer serve Your Majesty.
323
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:49,920
-Chancellor!
-Chancellor!
324
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:51,520
-Chancellor!
-Chancellor!
325
00:26:56,200 --> 00:27:00,280
-Chancellor!
-Chancellor!
326
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:06,440
Chancellor.
327
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:16,360
Princess.
328
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:18,920
We should be happy.
329
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:20,480
I avenged you,
330
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:23,080
and my younger sister as well.
331
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:49,600
Kill
332
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:52,280
every last Blood Moon remnant.
333
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:56,560
Xu Ting is dead,
334
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:58,200
and now your heart aches?
335
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:01,960
When Daning's iron cavalry
336
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:04,400
slaughtered my people of Zhongwan,
337
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,480
do you know how it tore my heart apart?
338
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:09,640
You and I,
339
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:11,400
Zhongwan and Daning,
340
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:12,680
can never share the same sky.
341
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:18,280
If this blood feud can never be settled,
342
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:21,440
then today I'll use your life
343
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:25,520
to end it once and for all.
344
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:51,280
Sir.
345
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:53,160
Your Majesty.
346
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:54,440
Mengmeng.
347
00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:03,440
Haven't Daning and Zhongwan
shed enough blood?
348
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:07,600
Your Majesty, please spare Yin Qing.
349
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:11,160
The hairpin I gave you with my own hands...
350
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,320
and you use it to threaten me?
351
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:17,040
I know Your Majesty hates Yin Qing,
352
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:20,600
but I can't watch him die.
353
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:23,040
And I can't stand by
354
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:25,360
while hatred between Daning
and Zhongwan deepens.
355
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:28,200
The Left Chancellor died protecting me.
356
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:30,520
If I don't kill him today,
357
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:34,080
what right have I to defend the realm
and protect the people?
358
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:35,240
Today
359
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:37,400
is the day he dies.
360
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:40,480
Stop!
361
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:42,320
I am protecting Yin Qing
362
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:45,920
for Daning's sake as well.
363
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:51,960
Your Majesty, Meng Tinghui
has bewitched your heart.
364
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:54,040
You must not release
the mastermind behind this.
365
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:55,680
I beg Your Majesty
366
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:57,840
to execute the Princess of Zhongwan
and her followers
367
00:30:57,920 --> 00:30:59,040
and bring peace to the realm.
368
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:00,160
Your Majesty.
369
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:01,720
Spare the tiger, and disaster will follow.
370
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:03,920
Today we absolutely cannot
371
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:05,800
let them leave Sacred Ancestor Hall.
372
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:06,720
Anian.
373
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:08,120
Must you really kill every last one?
374
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:09,120
Your Majesty.
375
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:10,240
We failed to root them out before.
376
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:11,480
That caused today's calamity.
377
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:13,000
We must not repeat that mistake.
378
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:15,560
Zhishu, you know Mengmeng
would never harm His Majesty.
379
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:17,480
-Please...
-We beg Your Majesty
380
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:20,640
to execute the Princess of Zhongwan
and her followers
381
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:22,080
and bring peace to the realm.
382
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:14,880
The phoenix pendant is broken.
383
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:17,280
Our private bond is ended.
384
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:20,680
But I will not yield one inch
of Daning's realm.
385
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:25,480
Let them go.
386
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:27,440
-Your Majesty!
-Your Majesty!
387
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:00,720
The dragon throne sways,
388
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:02,800
the witch beguiles,
389
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:05,200
loyal ministers fall,
390
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:07,000
the frontiers burn.
391
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:08,720
The Emperor is besotted,
392
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,360
the realm withers.
393
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:13,240
The dragon throne sways,
394
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:15,320
the witch beguiles,
395
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:17,480
loyal ministers fall,
396
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:19,800
the frontiers burn.
397
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:46,360
Proprietor Yan.
398
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:49,440
Will Lord Meng really restore Zhongwan
and attack Daning?
399
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:51,760
-Proprietor Yan!
-Boss!
400
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:53,000
Bad news!
401
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:53,920
War is coming!
402
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:55,840
My relatives at the border saw enemy troops.
403
00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:59,000
Then let's hurry and stockpile grain.
404
00:34:59,080 --> 00:34:59,920
If war really breaks out,
405
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:01,560
grain will be what keeps us alive.
406
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:02,480
Yes.
407
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:09,720
-Your Majesty.
-Grand Tutor, no need for ceremony.
408
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:11,840
Please sit.
409
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:19,760
I assume you've already heard
410
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,240
that they're calling me a foolish ruler now?
411
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:23,440
In my view,
412
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:26,920
Your Majesty made the realm your board
and benevolence your bait.
413
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:28,680
That is great wisdom.
414
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:30,600
Zhishu tells me
415
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:33,640
Your Majesty intends to issue
a new policy for Zhongwan.
416
00:35:33,720 --> 00:35:36,360
Those who submit will be freed
from slave status and granted farmland.
417
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:38,520
They may enter government
through the examinations.
418
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:40,200
This measure
419
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:42,360
will show Zhongwan's survivors
420
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:43,800
Daning's sincerity.
421
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:45,120
I'll bear the infamy.
422
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:47,320
But this game for the realm
423
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:49,840
will be played by my rules.
424
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:52,320
Your Majesty means to lead
the campaign personally?
425
00:35:54,240 --> 00:35:56,560
With both chancellorships vacant
and the court unsettled,
426
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:58,920
and Beijian's wolfish ambitions,
427
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:00,120
colluding with Zhongwan remnants
428
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:01,280
to attack Your Majesty,
429
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:02,800
this journey will be perilous.
430
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:03,960
The realm needs a leader.
431
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,040
I asked you here today
432
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:07,960
precisely to have you hold the court
433
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:10,120
and oversee the Six Ministries
to keep the court stable.
434
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:13,800
I let Yin Qing leave
Sacred Ancestor Hall that day
435
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:15,200
not for Meng Tinghui.
436
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:17,400
Yin Qing leads
the Zhongwan survivors.
437
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:19,560
If we killed him
in Daning's Sacred Ancestor Hall,
438
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:21,400
it would inflame resentment
among those survivors.
439
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:23,760
Then Daning would face
440
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:26,040
encirclement by Zhongwan and Beijian.
441
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:28,040
We must fight Beijian sooner or later.
442
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:30,560
So we might as well strike first.
443
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:33,200
Besides, that day Meng Tinghui
444
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:34,640
was gambling with her life too.
445
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:37,960
She was betting I could find a third path,
446
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:39,280
one different from Father's
447
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:41,200
for resolving the feud
between our two states.
448
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,120
When you taught me the art of kingship,
you said
449
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:45,920
a true ruler of all under Heaven
450
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:47,840
must be broad enough to embrace the realm.
451
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:49,800
I intend to unite
452
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:51,640
this fractured realm
453
00:36:51,720 --> 00:36:53,520
and give the people
an age of peace and prosperity.
454
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:00,840
Grand Tutor, will you help me
455
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:03,560
play this game?
456
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:10,600
I once said:
457
00:37:11,240 --> 00:37:12,760
all under Heaven is a chessboard,
458
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:14,240
and the sovereign is the player.
459
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:16,880
I
460
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:19,560
am willing to take up this game
461
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:21,960
for Your Majesty.
462
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:28,720
I have not attended court in ten years.
463
00:37:30,240 --> 00:37:31,600
I never imagined
464
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:34,400
I
465
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:36,480
could once again
share Your Majesty's burdens
466
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,440
and serve Daning.
467
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:42,000
With you holding the court,
468
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:44,600
I can campaign without worry behind me.
469
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:46,400
From this day forward,
470
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:48,240
you will govern in my stead,
471
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:50,200
and oversee the Six Ministries.
472
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:52,760
I will not fail this trust.
473
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:55,360
I will do all in my power
474
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:57,480
to keep Daning's court secure
475
00:37:57,560 --> 00:37:59,600
and await Your Majesty's triumphant return.
476
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:01,880
Your Majesty.
477
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:03,480
Yin Qing's group entered old Zhongwan lands
in Qingzhou.
478
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:05,640
Beijian has massed troops at the border
but has not moved.
479
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:08,400
Yeqi is drilling troops at Qingxia Pass
as a show of force.
480
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:10,120
Taishui cavalry raided
our Jizhou camp at night,
481
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:11,920
burning three of our army's granaries.
482
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:13,720
War is breaking out everywhere.
We cannot delay.
483
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:17,800
Daning's forces will advance
on three fronts.
484
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:18,720
Shen Zhishu.
485
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:21,160
Lead your army to Yeqi. Tell its king
486
00:38:21,240 --> 00:38:23,240
whether he will be Daning's enemy or friend
487
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:24,560
is his choice to weigh.
488
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:27,040
-I obey.
-Di Nian.
489
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:28,440
Lead an elite force against Taishui.
490
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:30,400
You must take the city within seven days.
491
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:32,000
I will not fail Your Majesty.
492
00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:32,920
Your Majesty.
493
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:34,440
When the Second Prince's body returns,
494
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:35,760
Beijian will seize the chance to attack.
495
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:36,920
Then we'd face war on two fronts.
496
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:38,160
No need to wait for Beijian.
497
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:39,640
Three days from now,
498
00:38:39,720 --> 00:38:41,480
I will personally lead the army
against Beijian.
499
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:42,760
I'll make them understand
500
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:45,800
Daning is not theirs to trample at will.
501
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:49,560
I request to serve as the vanguard.
502
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:52,320
I owe the Left Chancellor a great debt.
503
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:53,960
I must avenge him.
504
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:56,560
Even if I am shattered to pieces,
505
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:57,560
I will not hesitate.
506
00:38:58,680 --> 00:38:59,560
Good.
507
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:01,640
Soldiers.
508
00:39:01,720 --> 00:39:03,480
Powerful enemies surround us.
509
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:05,040
One step back
510
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:06,600
and our mountains and rivers shatter.
511
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:07,960
One step forward
512
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:09,640
and our iron bones forge the walls.
513
00:39:09,720 --> 00:39:12,400
I will live and die with every soldier.
514
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:14,320
Defend our land!
515
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:17,080
Protect our people!
516
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:18,720
Defend our land!
517
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:20,600
Protect our people!
518
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:21,840
Defend our land!
519
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:23,720
Protect our people!
520
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:25,440
Defend our land!
521
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:27,160
Protect our people!
522
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:40,760
Princess.
523
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:44,880
This is the detached palace
where you often lived as a child.
524
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:47,440
Do you remember it?
525
00:39:48,240 --> 00:39:49,600
I've seen it in dreams.
526
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:58,160
Here are enshrined the spirit tablets
of Zhongwan's royal kin
527
00:39:58,240 --> 00:39:59,720
and loyal martyrs.
528
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:01,800
Every midnight,
529
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:04,680
you can hear them weeping.
530
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:06,800
After Zhongwan fell,
531
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:09,720
Daning neglected this palace too.
532
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:12,520
So we secretly established ourselves here.
533
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:13,560
On the first night,
534
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,840
many of our people were driven mad
by phantom cries.
535
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:24,040
Mr. Shangguan.
536
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:26,000
The old clan chief
has been waiting for some time.
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