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Forget it.

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I won't wear it.

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Yes.

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What he remembers

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should be what I looked like
with black hair.

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Back then, I rarely wore hairpins.

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I thought they were tacky.

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Mi,

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am I really getting old?

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Do you think Shaoying will be disappointed
when he sees me?

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You are not old at all, Your Majesty.

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You are just as beautiful

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as when you sent
Young Master Shaoying off to war.

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Never mind.

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I'll put it on.

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It can cover up my gray hair.

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This will be our last meeting.

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I hope he'll remember me at my best.

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Yes, Your Majesty.

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Your Majesty, maybe we shouldn't go.

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You've been in so much pain
that you haven't slept well for days.

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I want to go and hear

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what the other life

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that little girl talked about was like.

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-Let's go.
-Yes.

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What is the meaning of this?

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The Eagle King has ordered

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us to protect the Empress Dowager tonight.

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Your Majesty,

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could His Highness already know

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that you are meeting Mr. Yuan tonight?

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We are here under the Eagle King's orders.

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Tonight, the Jiankang Palace
is welcoming Princess Pingning.

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Fearing that Southern Ye
might cause trouble,

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we were specifically ordered
to protect you.

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I am the Empress Dowager of Northern Qin.

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Do my words
carry less weight than the Eagle King's?

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Step aside!

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Are you trying to rebel?

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Hold on!

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Xie Huaigui?

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This is a state affair of Northern Qin.

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We will not tolerate outsiders
interfering.

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Please conduct yourself with dignity,
My Lord.

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You are now on the territory of Ye.

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Naturally, you must abide by our laws.

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Besides, the Empress Dowager
is an old friend of mine.

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I wish to invite her
for a chat today.

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And as the Grand Tutor of Ye,

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would I plot against the Empress Dowager?

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Please, Your Majesty.

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[Key to the Phoenix Heart]

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[Episode 13]

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Grand Tutor, you didn't
break into Honglu Temple tonight

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just to get me

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out of this, did you?

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Is Hongyan Pavilion
in the Capital still there?

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It has now been renamed

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Lishui Pavilion.

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Twenty-five years ago,
the An and Lu families

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were executed at Hongyan Pavilion.

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You still can't let go

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of that ill-fated past, can you?

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Isn't what you're doing tonight

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also to put an end to that

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ill-fated past from 25 years ago?

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Everyone knows that back then,

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you and the youngest son of
the Right King of Virtue of Northern Qin,

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Mulian Ying, were deeply in love.

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But you were forced to marry into
the Northern Qin royal court.

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The Right King of Virtue
amassed military power and acted independently.

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He bribed the An and Lu families of Ye
with generous rewards

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and colluded with their armies
to fabricate military achievements.

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When the scheme was exposed,

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all these families were wiped out.

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The tragedy of the past is still vivid

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in my mind.

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I just want one word of truth from you.

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The case of the An and Lu families
back then—

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were they innocent?

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You're unwilling to accept it.

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I can understand.

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But back then, the An and Lu clans

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did collude with
our Right King of Virtue of Northern Qin.

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The evidence is irrefutable,

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and there was no frame-up.

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Stop the carriage!

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Grand Tutor Xie,

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we are both in our twilight years.

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The past should be left behind
like a flowing river.

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Those who should let go

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should let go.

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Master.

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Yaoyao asked me to tell you tonight

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that you must get the Empress Dowager
safely to Xiyue Restaurant.

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Now, only she

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can help you keep Lejun.

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[Xiyue Restaurant]

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[Closed]

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My Lady, bad news.

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The Eagle King has put
the entire Honglu Temple on high alert.

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No one is allowed in or out.

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Could the Eagle King
already know about tonight's plan?

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The Eagle King is ruthless.

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Once he's cornered,

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there's nothing he won't do.

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Especially since tonight's plan

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will ruin his grand plan.

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No.

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Shao Yang is in danger.

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I must go save her.

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♪ A dying memory glimmers low ♪

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♪ You appear, but I can't hold you so ♪

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♪ Time itself comes to a sudden halt ♪

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♪ So desolate ♪

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♪ I traded obsession for this loss ♪

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♪ If I could lay my heart bare and cross ♪

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♪ Would you once more have pity on me ♪

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Yaoyao.

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Mao.

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Why did you bring
the Empress Dowager of Northern Qin here?

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Did something go wrong?

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The auspicious hour has arrived.

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Please, Your Highness the Eagle King
and Princess Pingning,

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perform the ceremonial bows.

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Eagle King, please bow.

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Princess Pingning, please bow.

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Princess Pingning, please bow.

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Hold on!

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At the risk of my life,

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I oppose the political marriage!

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Here is my memorial.

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Please review it, Your Majesty!

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♪ Mother won't marry off her daughter ♪

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♪ The daughter is longing for her love ♪

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Step after step, I journey on;

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through a thousand miles of snow,
I return.

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We haven't seen each other in years.

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Shaoying, you've gone gray.

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I'm nearly fifty.

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Gray hair is hardly surprising.

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If you had made it back
on the day I was married,

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and we'd left together...

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how do you think things
would've turned out?

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Shao Yang...

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No one's...

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called me that in a very long time.

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Shao Yang.

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Back then, was it you

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who suggested that the late Emperor

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have my father killed?

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Is this cup of tea...

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poisoned too?

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Perhaps
the Empress Dowager of Northern Qin

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had her own reasons.

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Mao, if it were you,

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would you still want to see
this person you once loved?

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How...

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has Lejun been?

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Tonight is the night the Eagle King

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comes to wed Lejun.

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Aren't you going to see her off?

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I won't let Lejun leave.

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So you went to Cui Mansion?

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You asked Chief Clerk Cui
to contact the noble families

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to help Lejun reject the marriage,
didn't you?

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The foundation of Ye

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relies on the descendants
of the noble families.

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If we send Princess Pingning
to Northern Qin now—

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those Northern Qin people
are from a barbaric land.

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They are uncivilized

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and lack proper etiquette.

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Making a noble lady marry a barbarian

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is an insult to all noble families.

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Your Majesty,
have you forgotten the incident of Wenxi?

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In the past, the late Emperor
reduced the lands of the nobles,

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and internal strife
plunged the realm into chaos.

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Your Majesty, Empress Dowager,

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you must not repeat the same mistakes!

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Your Majesty, Empress Dowager,
we beg you to reconsider!

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Your Majesty, Empress Dowager.

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I do not want to marry into Northern Qin,

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nor do I want to disgrace Ye's prestige.

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I beg you to retract the order!

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If the political marriage fails today,

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the alliance will be voided.

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And the three prefectures
will return to our Northern Qin.

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In this puppet show,

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do none of us get a good ending?

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Jiayu doesn't know—

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you didn't want to see me.

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You wanted to kill me.

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I just want to know

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if you have let go of your hatred—

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your hatred for my son

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and the Northern Qin royal family.

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I have.

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You are lying.

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If you had truly let it go,

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why would you forge weapons
under Xiao Wuyi's command?

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All these years,
you've been helping the Beifu Army.

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You have hated us all along.

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You hate me, my son,

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and everyone in Northern Qin.

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If you had the chance
to overthrow Northern Qin,

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you wouldn't miss it, would you?

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So...

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before I die,

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I have to kill you.

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If I die,

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will you truly be at peace?

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Yes.

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Alright.

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My life...

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is yours now.

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Young Lord Xiao has arrived!

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Young Lord Xiao is here?

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Why is he here?

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Your Highness.

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This is an everlasting Ruyi lantern
I made myself.

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I'm presenting it to you
as a  celebration of your wedding.

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Greetings, Your Majesty, Empress Dowager.

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Since you came to congratulate,

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why did you wait until the auspicious hour

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almost passed to finally show up?

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Tonight

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is the wedding of the Eagle King
and Princess Pingning.

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All the people of Jiankang
lit lanterns to pray.

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Though it made my carriage
difficult to move,

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it shows the hearts of the people.

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Ye and Northern Qin have formed
an alliance through a political marriage,

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ceasing war, nourishing the people,
and reopening trade markets.

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There will be no more soldiers
shedding blood.

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This is truly a blessing
for all the people.

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You are wrong, Your Highness.

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Our noble families
have a century-old heritage.

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We are the pillars of Ye

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and the orthodox lineage of the world.

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Now, to form an alliance,

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we actually resorted
to a political marriage,

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groveling and flattering,
disgracing our national ethos.

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We absolutely cannot...

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Your Majesty.

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I also have a memorial to present today.

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Present it.

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During the severe flood last year,

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the Cui family, the Lu family of Fanyang,

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and the Wen family of Qinghe,

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under the guise of praying for the people,

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held a winding stream banquet.

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In reality,

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they took the opportunity
to seize the people's land.

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May I ask—

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is the dignity of the noble families
Chief Clerk Cui spoke of

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referring to this?

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Now,

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can you rest assured?

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Why?

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After so many years,

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don't you hate me?

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I know you were the one
who advised the late Emperor

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to kill my father.

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I also know

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that you
were already pregnant at that time.

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You were no longer just my Shao Yang.

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Rest assured!

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Yuan Xiaoliu won't die!

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I have already swapped the poisoned tea.

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Actually, I knew that the Empress Dowager

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came to tonight's meeting

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in the name of love,

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but in truth, she came for your life.

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But Your Majesty, I also wanted you to see

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the lingering affection between you two.

275
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Yuan Xiaoliu could have left,

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but he wanted to see you one last time.

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There's no need

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for you two to fight to the death.

279
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I can spare your life,

280
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but I need a promise.

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As long as you live,

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you must never set foot in Northern Qin.

283
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I promise.

284
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I will give the order.

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Northern Qin won't send anyone
to hunt you down anymore.

286
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From now on,

287
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you can live freely.

288
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Watch out!

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Yaoyao!

290
00:19:25,530 --> 00:19:26,730
It's Mulian Yu's men.

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He wants me dead.

292
00:19:29,510 --> 00:19:30,770
If I die in Southern Ye,

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the peace talks will be ruined.

294
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Shao Yang!

295
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Come with me!

296
00:19:47,290 --> 00:19:48,690
Shao Yang, hang in there!

297
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I will get you out safely!

298
00:19:56,690 --> 00:19:58,620
Your Highness, we can continue.

299
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Your Highness, to achieve your goals,

300
00:20:03,940 --> 00:20:05,740
you really do whatever it takes.

301
00:20:07,620 --> 00:20:09,180
Princess Pingning is not only

302
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the sister of your best friend,

303
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but also like a sister
to your secondary concubine.

304
00:20:13,940 --> 00:20:16,140
Don't you have any mercy?

305
00:20:16,860 --> 00:20:19,660
You keep saying it's for the people
of Southern Ye,

306
00:20:19,660 --> 00:20:20,970
but it's just for your own

307
00:20:20,970 --> 00:20:22,380
lust for power and ambition.

308
00:20:22,380 --> 00:20:23,820
So what?

309
00:20:24,620 --> 00:20:25,820
For the Beifu Reform

310
00:20:25,970 --> 00:20:27,500
and to reclaim the Capital,

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I can sacrifice anyone.

312
00:20:29,860 --> 00:20:32,460
So, Your Highness,
you have no choice tonight.

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This pact must be signed.

314
00:20:35,770 --> 00:20:37,140
What if I don't?

315
00:20:40,580 --> 00:20:41,450
Bad news!

316
00:20:42,660 --> 00:20:45,060
There's been a murder at Xiyue Restaurant!

317
00:20:45,140 --> 00:20:46,380
It's just a place of entertainment.

318
00:20:46,380 --> 00:20:47,580
What's to panic about?

319
00:20:47,580 --> 00:20:50,440
The Empress Dowager of Northern Qin
was also there!

320
00:20:57,250 --> 00:20:58,380
Did you think

321
00:20:58,490 --> 00:21:01,020
I would only send people
to kill Yuan Xiaoliu?

322
00:21:01,490 --> 00:21:03,100
Having fought with you for years,

323
00:21:03,100 --> 00:21:05,430
I naturally knew you'd have a backup plan.

324
00:21:06,010 --> 00:21:08,740
So I had people
ambush outside Xiyue Restaurant.

325
00:21:09,210 --> 00:21:10,900
If Xie Jiayu really managed to resolve

326
00:21:10,900 --> 00:21:12,970
the grudge between Yuan Xiaoliu
and the Empress Dowager,

327
00:21:12,970 --> 00:21:15,690
then I might as well
kill the Empress Dowager too.

328
00:21:15,690 --> 00:21:19,100
If the dignified Empress Dowager
of Northern Qin dies in Southern Ye,

329
00:21:19,100 --> 00:21:21,180
what will the situation be?

330
00:21:23,580 --> 00:21:26,620
Since Southern Ye broke the alliance
and the marriage agreement first,

331
00:21:26,620 --> 00:21:29,350
then sent assassins
to kill our Empress Dowager,

332
00:21:29,450 --> 00:21:31,620
-and...
-Prince Qi has arrived!

333
00:21:55,970 --> 00:21:57,170
Qing Long and Yan Yue?

334
00:21:57,190 --> 00:21:58,080
It's Xiao Wuyi.

335
00:21:59,140 --> 00:21:59,940
He knew long ago

336
00:21:59,940 --> 00:22:02,580
that I brought Yuan Xiaoliu to see
the Empress Dowager of Northern Qin.

337
00:22:02,580 --> 00:22:03,210
Let's go!

338
00:22:21,500 --> 00:22:22,760
Eagle King, Mulian Yu,

339
00:22:22,860 --> 00:22:26,120
receive the decree of the Empress Dowager
of Northern Qin.

340
00:22:29,210 --> 00:22:31,540
Eagle King Mulian Yu, receive the decree!

341
00:22:35,950 --> 00:22:38,100
Since you entered Ye
holding the tally of Northern Qin,

342
00:22:38,100 --> 00:22:40,180
you should follow the etiquette
of the world.

343
00:22:40,180 --> 00:22:43,100
Canceling the marriage agreement
with Princess Pingning

344
00:22:43,100 --> 00:22:44,660
and restoring the peace agreement

345
00:22:44,660 --> 00:22:47,340
is an act that follows the will
of heaven and the people.

346
00:22:47,340 --> 00:22:48,940
You're ordered
to sign the peace agreement immediately

347
00:22:48,940 --> 00:22:51,100
and return
the three prefectures to Southern Ye.

348
00:22:51,100 --> 00:22:51,900
Thus decreed.

349
00:22:53,340 --> 00:22:53,930
No.

350
00:22:54,580 --> 00:22:56,730
Xiyue Restaurant
is in a sea of fire right now.

351
00:22:56,730 --> 00:22:57,420
Our Empress Dowager...

352
00:22:57,420 --> 00:22:59,020
Your Empress Dowager has now

353
00:22:59,100 --> 00:23:01,300
returned safely to Honglu Temple.

354
00:23:01,770 --> 00:23:03,230
And she asked me to tell you

355
00:23:03,250 --> 00:23:04,780
that she has long been aware

356
00:23:04,820 --> 00:23:06,340
of your actions tonight.

357
00:23:06,940 --> 00:23:07,770
Impossible.

358
00:23:08,010 --> 00:23:08,860
Impossible?

359
00:23:09,050 --> 00:23:11,690
You can ask Young Lord Xiao about this.

360
00:23:35,340 --> 00:23:36,010
Lejun.

361
00:23:37,660 --> 00:23:38,720
It's all right now.

362
00:23:43,420 --> 00:23:43,940
Wuyi.

363
00:23:44,420 --> 00:23:45,380
Although I said

364
00:23:45,490 --> 00:23:47,340
I couldn't hide behind you all the time,

365
00:23:47,340 --> 00:23:48,660
for what happened tonight,

366
00:23:48,660 --> 00:23:50,060
I still want to thank you.

367
00:23:50,770 --> 00:23:51,830
No need to thank me.

368
00:23:52,250 --> 00:23:53,780
You should thank Xie Jiayu.

369
00:23:54,580 --> 00:23:56,250
I originally wanted
to watch from the sidelines,

370
00:23:56,250 --> 00:23:58,140
but she didn't give up
time and time again.

371
00:23:58,140 --> 00:23:59,660
I couldn't help but admire her.

372
00:23:59,660 --> 00:24:01,720
So I placed spies in Xiyue Restaurant

373
00:24:01,860 --> 00:24:03,390
to ensure absolute safety.

374
00:24:05,580 --> 00:24:06,640
Where is Xie Jiayu?

375
00:24:08,820 --> 00:24:10,880
She was injured in Xiyue Restaurant.

376
00:24:18,660 --> 00:24:20,730
Your Highness, please wait.

377
00:24:25,290 --> 00:24:27,820
Your Highness,
are you going back on your word?

378
00:24:27,820 --> 00:24:29,860
The one who just promised
to cancel the political marriage

379
00:24:29,860 --> 00:24:31,260
is your Empress Dowager.

380
00:24:31,340 --> 00:24:33,180
I always keep my word

381
00:24:33,510 --> 00:24:34,770
and never go back on it.

382
00:24:35,660 --> 00:24:37,190
Then what do you want to say?

383
00:24:37,340 --> 00:24:38,600
On the day of the match,

384
00:24:38,630 --> 00:24:39,760
I took a fancy to you.

385
00:24:40,730 --> 00:24:42,860
Wanting to marry you
was my selfish desire,

386
00:24:42,860 --> 00:24:43,900
but not a pretense.

387
00:24:43,900 --> 00:24:46,420
Don't talk nonsense. Shut up.

388
00:24:46,490 --> 00:24:48,380
This is our custom in Northern Qin.

389
00:24:48,380 --> 00:24:49,510
If you want someone,

390
00:24:49,730 --> 00:24:50,860
you shout it out loud

391
00:24:51,010 --> 00:24:52,410
so that heaven will know.

392
00:24:52,420 --> 00:24:53,210
Li Lejun,

393
00:24:54,290 --> 00:24:55,420
with or without the political marriage,

394
00:24:55,420 --> 00:24:56,480
I want to marry you.

395
00:24:57,050 --> 00:24:58,250
If you are unwilling,

396
00:24:58,650 --> 00:24:59,650
I won't force you.

397
00:25:03,580 --> 00:25:05,490
If you change your mind one day,

398
00:25:05,660 --> 00:25:07,100
come to Northern Qin to find me.

399
00:25:07,100 --> 00:25:08,430
My Eagle King's Mansion

400
00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:10,450
will always open its doors for you!

401
00:25:51,770 --> 00:25:53,590
How is your injury?

402
00:25:56,140 --> 00:25:56,690
I'm fine.

403
00:25:57,290 --> 00:25:58,290
Ruisheng used

404
00:25:58,290 --> 00:25:59,450
the finest wound ointment on me.

405
00:25:59,450 --> 00:26:01,050
It won't leave a single scar.

406
00:26:10,450 --> 00:26:11,980
It seems to have succeeded.

407
00:26:21,140 --> 00:26:22,270
Thank you for today.

408
00:26:23,180 --> 00:26:23,970
Why thank me?

409
00:26:24,420 --> 00:26:26,780
You saved the life
of the Northern Qin Empress Dowager.

410
00:26:26,780 --> 00:26:28,420
If anything had happened to her
in Jiankang,

411
00:26:28,420 --> 00:26:29,940
the consequences
would have been unimaginable.

412
00:26:29,940 --> 00:26:31,400
Actually, I was just lucky

413
00:26:31,530 --> 00:26:32,390
and won the bet.

414
00:26:33,690 --> 00:26:35,750
But if you don't want to do something,

415
00:26:35,770 --> 00:26:37,100
no one can make you do it.

416
00:26:37,770 --> 00:26:39,660
You knew early on
that I took Yuan Xiaoliu,

417
00:26:39,660 --> 00:26:42,250
so you had Qing Long and Yan Yue
guard outside Xiyue Restaurant,

418
00:26:42,250 --> 00:26:43,050
didn't you?

419
00:26:45,100 --> 00:26:47,140
But if it weren't
for your repeated insistence,

420
00:26:47,140 --> 00:26:48,800
things wouldn't be like this.

421
00:26:49,210 --> 00:26:50,730
The Northern Qin Empress Dowager

422
00:26:50,730 --> 00:26:52,390
has agreed to the peace terms.

423
00:26:55,380 --> 00:26:57,340
Later, the Northern Qin Empress Dowager
told me

424
00:26:57,340 --> 00:26:58,450
that she didn't want
the Eagle King to gain the support

425
00:26:58,450 --> 00:27:00,620
of the Southern Ye royal family
in the first place.

426
00:27:00,620 --> 00:27:02,250
She just wanted to see Yuan Xiaoliu.

427
00:27:02,250 --> 00:27:03,980
That's why she made this trade.

428
00:27:04,530 --> 00:27:07,050
Do you think Yuan Xiaoliu and she

429
00:27:07,100 --> 00:27:08,630
really let go of each other?

430
00:27:12,660 --> 00:27:13,460
What's wrong?

431
00:27:14,380 --> 00:27:15,180
Yizhi...

432
00:27:18,100 --> 00:27:19,030
wants to see you.

433
00:27:24,730 --> 00:27:25,590
-Yaoyao.
-Mao.

434
00:27:26,820 --> 00:27:27,880
How's your injury?

435
00:27:28,180 --> 00:27:29,240
Does it hurt badly?

436
00:27:30,250 --> 00:27:32,110
I'm fine. It's just a flesh wound.

437
00:27:34,140 --> 00:27:36,820
Lejun's marriage agreement
has finally been canceled.

438
00:27:36,820 --> 00:27:37,860
You two siblings

439
00:27:38,340 --> 00:27:40,340
don't have to be separated anymore.

440
00:27:40,970 --> 00:27:42,530
When I leave Jiankang with you,

441
00:27:42,530 --> 00:27:44,460
I'll figure something out for her.

442
00:27:47,530 --> 00:27:48,240
Mao.

443
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:50,980
I know you won't leave.

444
00:27:53,180 --> 00:27:54,180
I also know

445
00:27:54,660 --> 00:27:57,190
you're about to marry a girl
of the Cui family.

446
00:27:57,210 --> 00:27:59,010
Although neither of you told me,

447
00:27:59,450 --> 00:28:00,860
I already knew

448
00:28:01,770 --> 00:28:03,570
when you went to the Cui Mansion.

449
00:28:04,250 --> 00:28:04,900
Yaoyao.

450
00:28:07,770 --> 00:28:08,570
Do you hate me?

451
00:28:10,420 --> 00:28:11,580
Why would I hate you?

452
00:28:14,250 --> 00:28:15,450
Sometimes I wonder

453
00:28:16,940 --> 00:28:19,200
if it's because I was too childish before

454
00:28:19,860 --> 00:28:21,730
that neither you nor Xiao Wuyi

455
00:28:22,050 --> 00:28:23,850
was willing to tell me the truth.

456
00:28:24,450 --> 00:28:25,900
I was a bit angry at first.

457
00:28:27,050 --> 00:28:28,450
You have such ambitions,

458
00:28:28,820 --> 00:28:30,550
but why didn't you ever tell me?

459
00:28:33,820 --> 00:28:34,950
But later I thought,

460
00:28:36,250 --> 00:28:38,290
it was always me wanting to do something

461
00:28:38,290 --> 00:28:40,150
and dragging you to accompany me.

462
00:28:42,100 --> 00:28:43,970
But I didn't know what you wanted.

463
00:28:44,900 --> 00:28:45,580
Actually,

464
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:49,140
I never truly understood you.

465
00:28:49,940 --> 00:28:51,000
It's not like that.

466
00:28:52,010 --> 00:28:53,610
I just wanted to protect you.

467
00:28:53,940 --> 00:28:54,940
I hope you will live easily and happily

468
00:28:54,940 --> 00:28:56,290
for your whole life,

469
00:28:56,530 --> 00:28:57,690
and never see this world's

470
00:28:57,690 --> 00:28:58,660
cruel side.

471
00:29:02,290 --> 00:29:02,900
Yaoyao.

472
00:29:06,530 --> 00:29:08,380
Are you willing to enter the palace?

473
00:29:08,380 --> 00:29:09,530
Are you asking me to be your consort?

474
00:29:09,530 --> 00:29:10,660
I mean in the future.

475
00:29:11,530 --> 00:29:12,250
One day,

476
00:29:12,420 --> 00:29:13,750
I will truly hold power.

477
00:29:13,860 --> 00:29:15,010
At that time, there will be no He family

478
00:29:15,010 --> 00:29:15,770
or Cui family.

479
00:29:15,770 --> 00:29:16,970
There will only be us.

480
00:29:18,340 --> 00:29:18,970
I think

481
00:29:19,770 --> 00:29:21,570
you can divorce Xiao Wuyi first.

482
00:29:22,180 --> 00:29:23,970
Do you know there is
a Bureau of Devices in the palace?

483
00:29:23,970 --> 00:29:25,530
You can be a female official there.

484
00:29:25,530 --> 00:29:27,180
Don't you like mechanical devices?

485
00:29:27,180 --> 00:29:27,970
How could the craftsmanship
outside the palace

486
00:29:27,970 --> 00:29:29,370
be as good as that inside?

487
00:29:29,450 --> 00:29:30,580
But I don't like it.

488
00:29:39,470 --> 00:29:40,190
Mao.

489
00:29:41,690 --> 00:29:43,550
This is not the path I want to take.

490
00:29:45,940 --> 00:29:47,050
I have grown up.

491
00:29:48,820 --> 00:29:51,760
Between cruel truths and false illusions,

492
00:29:52,490 --> 00:29:53,490
I want the former.

493
00:29:56,490 --> 00:29:57,490
You just chose

494
00:29:58,250 --> 00:30:00,310
what you thought was more important.

495
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,120
So you don't need to feel guilty,

496
00:30:02,530 --> 00:30:04,330
nor do you need to worry about me.

497
00:30:14,690 --> 00:30:16,150
So you still want to leave?

498
00:30:19,730 --> 00:30:21,210
But you have never left Jiankang,

499
00:30:21,210 --> 00:30:22,420
and you will be all alone...

500
00:30:22,420 --> 00:30:23,950
The road is beneath my feet.

501
00:30:24,450 --> 00:30:25,650
Only by traveling far

502
00:30:26,490 --> 00:30:28,820
will I know where my home is.

503
00:30:42,420 --> 00:30:43,750
It seems that right now,

504
00:30:45,900 --> 00:30:47,430
I still can't keep you here.

505
00:31:09,250 --> 00:31:10,510
You should be grateful

506
00:31:11,010 --> 00:31:12,070
that you survived.

507
00:31:12,940 --> 00:31:14,400
Phoenix Bone Poison Pill.

508
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:20,000
Actually, today, it wasn't just her
who wanted to kill me;

509
00:31:21,050 --> 00:31:22,450
I also wanted to kill her.

510
00:31:22,810 --> 00:31:24,270
It was Jiayu's appearance

511
00:31:27,140 --> 00:31:28,540
that finally stopped me.

512
00:31:32,730 --> 00:31:33,730
What a waste.

513
00:31:37,530 --> 00:31:38,730
This girl Jiayu

514
00:31:39,860 --> 00:31:42,420
is always so drawn to the light

515
00:31:44,340 --> 00:31:45,530
and so passionate that the dark

516
00:31:45,530 --> 00:31:46,940
in one's heart

517
00:31:47,010 --> 00:31:48,140
has nowhere to hide.

518
00:31:49,530 --> 00:31:52,330
It makes me reluctant
to be too cruel to this world.

519
00:32:00,100 --> 00:32:01,530
Is this also the reason

520
00:32:02,290 --> 00:32:03,490
why you fell for her?

521
00:32:12,210 --> 00:32:14,470
The last time I saw you drinking like this

522
00:32:15,100 --> 00:32:16,580
was at Jiuzhang Plain,

523
00:32:17,340 --> 00:32:18,740
when there was no way out.

524
00:32:27,010 --> 00:32:28,540
Now that she's not leaving,

525
00:32:28,940 --> 00:32:31,010
is it possible for the two of you to...

526
00:32:31,010 --> 00:32:32,540
I don't have much time left.

527
00:32:34,530 --> 00:32:35,450
Xie Jiayu...

528
00:32:38,050 --> 00:32:40,250
Xie Jiayu was never my responsibility.

529
00:32:40,620 --> 00:32:42,550
And I have never expected her to be.

530
00:32:43,690 --> 00:32:44,890
I promised her mother

531
00:32:45,770 --> 00:32:47,370
not to involve her in danger.

532
00:32:49,100 --> 00:32:50,450
Haven't I told you?

533
00:32:51,450 --> 00:32:52,940
I read the fortune for you two.

534
00:32:52,940 --> 00:32:55,380
Your destiny with her
definitely won't just end here.

535
00:32:55,380 --> 00:32:56,290
You two are...

536
00:32:56,290 --> 00:32:57,890
I never believed in destiny.

537
00:32:59,620 --> 00:33:00,490
If what destiny leaves for me

538
00:33:00,490 --> 00:33:02,050
never belonged to me in the first place,

539
00:33:02,050 --> 00:33:03,250
I will personally...

540
00:33:03,340 --> 00:33:04,140
What?

541
00:33:09,010 --> 00:33:09,860
Cut it off.

542
00:33:15,690 --> 00:33:16,490
Cut it off?

543
00:33:37,380 --> 00:33:38,110
You're back?

544
00:33:40,050 --> 00:33:41,780
Why haven't you gone to bed yet?

545
00:33:42,210 --> 00:33:42,900
Tonight...

546
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:48,170
the moonlight is quite pretty.

547
00:33:56,530 --> 00:33:57,530
Have you...

548
00:33:58,940 --> 00:34:00,340
talked it out with Yizhi?

549
00:34:06,140 --> 00:34:07,800
Maybe ordinary people like us

550
00:34:08,050 --> 00:34:09,790
and people with lofty ambitions like you

551
00:34:09,790 --> 00:34:11,920
were never meant to walk the same path.

552
00:34:23,780 --> 00:34:25,310
Not having great ambitions

553
00:34:26,050 --> 00:34:27,909
doesn't mean having no backbone.

554
00:34:28,780 --> 00:34:29,380
Xie Jiayu,

555
00:34:31,820 --> 00:34:33,280
you're a very good person.

556
00:34:41,090 --> 00:34:43,750
I have decided
to take Yuan Xiaoliu as my master.

557
00:34:43,949 --> 00:34:44,840
From now on,

558
00:34:44,860 --> 00:34:47,699
I will follow him to improve my skills
in mechanics and construction.

559
00:34:47,699 --> 00:34:48,960
I will leave Jiankang.

560
00:34:49,530 --> 00:34:51,969
Maybe I will follow him to your Beifu.

561
00:34:57,010 --> 00:34:57,780
Xiao Wuyi.

562
00:34:58,050 --> 00:34:59,010
Yuan Xiaoliu's Cangfeng Forge

563
00:34:59,010 --> 00:35:00,170
works really well for me.

564
00:35:00,170 --> 00:35:01,860
Can you ask him
to share half of it with me?

565
00:35:01,860 --> 00:35:04,700
Who told you that Cangfeng Forge
belongs to Yuan Xiaoliu?

566
00:35:04,700 --> 00:35:05,630
Whose is it then?

567
00:35:07,220 --> 00:35:07,900
It's mine.

568
00:35:08,530 --> 00:35:09,610
Then can you share half

569
00:35:09,610 --> 00:35:10,900
of your Cangfeng Forge with me?

570
00:35:10,900 --> 00:35:12,300
Anyway,
after you go to the Northern Border,

571
00:35:12,300 --> 00:35:13,700
you won't use it anymore.

572
00:35:15,700 --> 00:35:16,860
Let me think about it.

573
00:35:16,860 --> 00:35:18,320
You need to think about it?

574
00:35:22,970 --> 00:35:24,430
Why can't I think about it?

575
00:35:25,010 --> 00:35:26,050
Even if I'm not at home,

576
00:35:26,050 --> 00:35:27,380
this home is still mine.

577
00:35:28,050 --> 00:35:29,900
With such a petty personality,

578
00:35:29,970 --> 00:35:31,900
no wonder you can't find yourself a girl.

579
00:35:31,900 --> 00:35:33,700
I already have 3 concubines in my mansion,

580
00:35:33,700 --> 00:35:35,500
which is annoying enough for me.

581
00:35:36,380 --> 00:35:37,380
Do the three of us

582
00:35:37,380 --> 00:35:38,980
have anything to do with you?

583
00:35:39,410 --> 00:35:40,780
If you keep acting like this,

584
00:35:40,780 --> 00:35:42,240
you'll be single forever.

585
00:35:42,820 --> 00:35:44,010
In case you die in the future,

586
00:35:44,010 --> 00:35:45,260
no one will collect your body.

587
00:35:45,260 --> 00:35:46,340
Taking heaven and earth as one's grave

588
00:35:46,340 --> 00:35:47,670
is also a kind of beauty.

589
00:35:48,090 --> 00:35:49,350
I don't need a partner.

590
00:35:51,220 --> 00:35:53,420
And I definitely don't need a weakness.

591
00:35:55,380 --> 00:35:57,980
I don't believe
you don't have anyone you like.

592
00:36:01,570 --> 00:36:02,530
No, no, no.

593
00:36:02,700 --> 00:36:03,490
That look in your eyes—

594
00:36:03,490 --> 00:36:05,050
you definitely have someone you like.

595
00:36:05,050 --> 00:36:05,820
What does she look like?

596
00:36:05,820 --> 00:36:06,820
Tell me about her.

597
00:36:06,980 --> 00:36:08,710
What does it have to do with you?

598
00:36:09,050 --> 00:36:10,010
Just gossiping.

599
00:36:10,170 --> 00:36:13,770
It's precisely because it has
nothing to do with me that I can ask.

600
00:36:24,780 --> 00:36:26,180
Why are you staring at me?

601
00:36:28,450 --> 00:36:29,380
Anyway...

602
00:36:30,970 --> 00:36:32,300
she is prettier than you

603
00:36:32,610 --> 00:36:33,900
and more sensible than you.

604
00:36:33,900 --> 00:36:35,610
She's better than you in everything.

605
00:36:35,610 --> 00:36:36,420
Impossible.

606
00:36:36,940 --> 00:36:37,820
In this world,

607
00:36:37,820 --> 00:36:39,420
there can't be such a person.

608
00:36:46,820 --> 00:36:48,340
Didn't you write a divorce paper

609
00:36:48,340 --> 00:36:49,490
for Yuanji?

610
00:36:49,970 --> 00:36:51,340
Before you go to the Northern Border,

611
00:36:51,340 --> 00:36:52,650
write me one too, will you?

612
00:36:52,650 --> 00:36:54,420
Aren't you not in a hurry to leave?

613
00:36:54,420 --> 00:36:56,150
Why do you need a divorce paper?

614
00:36:56,300 --> 00:36:57,220
Stop pretending.

615
00:36:57,220 --> 00:36:58,090
I saw your discarded draft

616
00:36:58,090 --> 00:36:59,220
on the desk that day.

617
00:36:59,900 --> 00:37:01,570
Just be a good person to the end.

618
00:37:01,570 --> 00:37:03,230
Who told you I'm a good person?

619
00:37:04,490 --> 00:37:06,010
Didn't you say earlier

620
00:37:06,340 --> 00:37:08,300
that I would laugh at you
from the bottom of my heart?

621
00:37:08,300 --> 00:37:09,830
How could I be a good person?

622
00:37:31,490 --> 00:37:34,050
[Honglu Temple]

623
00:37:32,950 --> 00:37:33,780
Mulian Yu,

624
00:37:34,450 --> 00:37:36,250
you attempted to assassinate me

625
00:37:36,490 --> 00:37:38,170
and committed rebellion
against the throne.

626
00:37:38,170 --> 00:37:41,370
According to the law,
your nine clans should be executed!

627
00:37:48,090 --> 00:37:50,820
But I am willing
to spare you the death penalty,

628
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:54,440
because you are
the right-hand man of Northern Qin.

629
00:37:55,530 --> 00:37:56,940
Our territory

630
00:37:57,610 --> 00:37:58,740
still needs

631
00:37:58,740 --> 00:38:01,450
a blood-stained sword like you
to guard it.

632
00:38:03,220 --> 00:38:05,750
Thank you, Your Majesty,
for sparing my life.

633
00:38:10,780 --> 00:38:12,340
Recorded in this roster

634
00:38:13,050 --> 00:38:16,310
are the unextinguished hidden forces
of our Northern Qin.

635
00:38:16,610 --> 00:38:18,820
Now I'm entrusting it to you.

636
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:21,810
And Xie Huaigui.

637
00:38:23,050 --> 00:38:25,850
His obsession with avenging
the An and Lu families

638
00:38:26,380 --> 00:38:28,650
is the sharpest blade
for stirring up turmoil in Jiankang

639
00:38:28,650 --> 00:38:31,510
and hindering
Southern Ye's northern expedition.

640
00:38:32,780 --> 00:38:33,900
You should know

641
00:38:34,170 --> 00:38:35,220
how to use him.

642
00:38:35,380 --> 00:38:36,310
Your Majesty, I,

643
00:38:37,220 --> 00:38:39,050
with all due respect,
would like to ask one more thing.

644
00:38:39,050 --> 00:38:42,170
Regarding the case of the Right King of Virtue
conspiring with the enemy and committing treason,

645
00:38:42,170 --> 00:38:44,230
was the evidence truly irrefutable,

646
00:38:44,260 --> 00:38:46,520
or was it a grand miscarriage of justice?

647
00:38:53,970 --> 00:38:55,650
Of course it was a miscarriage of justice.

648
00:38:55,650 --> 00:38:57,090
Otherwise, why would Mulian Ying

649
00:38:57,090 --> 00:38:59,010
hate me to the core?

650
00:39:00,020 --> 00:39:01,810
It was me who personally presented

651
00:39:01,810 --> 00:39:04,770
this vicious scheme to the late Emperor.

652
00:39:06,900 --> 00:39:08,300
And it was me

653
00:39:10,340 --> 00:39:12,540
who wiped out the entire Mulian family.

654
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:37,300
♪ The past is dust,
we're passing through ♪

655
00:39:38,230 --> 00:39:43,810
♪ No regrets for what we've lost and won ♪

656
00:39:44,470 --> 00:39:50,770
♪ The shape of time begins to fade ♪

657
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:57,520
♪ Half by choice, half washed away ♪

658
00:39:58,030 --> 00:40:03,450
♪ If fate is fragile,
what is right or wrong ♪

659
00:40:04,050 --> 00:40:09,420
♪ We only live for what we can't let go ♪

660
00:40:10,220 --> 00:40:13,870
♪ Love and hate fade
like the shifting sand ♪

661
00:40:13,970 --> 00:40:16,420
♪ What's right or wrong is better
left unsaid ♪

662
00:40:16,650 --> 00:40:22,670
♪ Every soul is bound by cause and fate ♪

663
00:40:21,530 --> 00:40:22,940
Memorial on the Beifu Reform.

664
00:40:22,940 --> 00:40:26,500
♪ The past is gone, so let it slip away ♪

665
00:40:24,570 --> 00:40:26,520
After deliberation by the ministers
of the Commandant of Justice,

666
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:29,490
♪ The heart's a cage,
but peace will break the chains ♪

667
00:40:27,090 --> 00:40:29,520
the Regent requests
His Majesty's review and approval.

668
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:34,990
♪ No need to speak,
just leave it all to fate ♪

669
00:40:29,530 --> 00:40:31,650
The "Memorial on the Beifu Reform"
submitted by

670
00:40:31,650 --> 00:40:33,570
Xiao Wuyi,
the Grand General of Beifu, is excellent.

671
00:40:33,570 --> 00:40:34,940
It has received His Majesty's approval.

672
00:40:34,940 --> 00:40:37,900
Xiao Wuyi,
Grand General of Beifu, is appointed

673
00:40:37,970 --> 00:40:39,970
Commander-in-Chief of the Six Prefectures.

674
00:40:39,970 --> 00:40:41,940
He shall oversee all military
and administrative affairs of Beifu

675
00:40:41,940 --> 00:40:43,870
under the authority of the Regent.

676
00:40:44,170 --> 00:40:46,490
He shall urge the various prefectures
to provide troops, horses,

677
00:40:46,490 --> 00:40:48,300
provisions, and supplies without delay,

678
00:40:48,300 --> 00:40:49,570
with all matters to be coordinated
under one command.

679
00:40:49,260 --> 00:40:54,680
♪ If fate is fragile,
what is right or wrong ♪

680
00:40:50,420 --> 00:40:54,380
Xiao Wuyi shall immediately lead his troops
back to the Northern Border.

681
00:40:54,380 --> 00:40:56,650
Xiao Yao is appointed
Director of Waterways

682
00:40:55,280 --> 00:41:00,650
♪ We only live for what we can't let go ♪

683
00:40:56,940 --> 00:41:00,300
and shall oversee all matters concerning the repair
of military supply routes and provisions.

684
00:41:00,300 --> 00:41:01,820
Thus decreed.

685
00:41:01,450 --> 00:41:05,100
♪ Love and hate fade
like the shifting sand ♪

686
00:41:02,050 --> 00:41:04,170
Thank you, Your Highness.

687
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:07,650
♪ What's right or wrong is better
left unsaid ♪

688
00:41:07,850 --> 00:41:13,870
♪ Every soul is bound by cause and fate ♪