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Recruitment is Water Mui's idea.

Water Mui?

Bravo...

Are you looking for an affair?

Don't you forget we had a formal wedding.

You are a Wong.

If you leave the flower unattended,

it'll be picked by others.

Dream on.

You mean to bring them together with this romantic atmosphere.

Great-grandma is a natural.

Once a man gets jealous,

he can't slip through the woman's fingers!

May I?

How come you are here?

I thought you were in Beijing.

How come you are in Guangzhou?

How come you would come to this ball?

I didn't know you know Western dance.

Hey, answer me...

How come you are here?

Hush...

I took a crash course last night.

OK, let's enjoy the dance.

Do you think it'll work out between Prince Man-ho and Wong Tai-mui?

If both are willing, I see no obstacles between them.

Come on.

It's not possible. She won't...

I have not been this happy for some time.

I've had such an adventure,

I've been a pirate.

I've reunited with my kin...

and played their matchmaker.

I am going back with a lot of fond memories

May I have another dance with you?

(So intuitively the image is locked,)

(following the lead of the heart beat)

(awaking a scene in a dream.)

(High up in the night sky a star is shining like our witness from Heaven,)

(echoing the voices of our hearts.)

(This heart will never change)

(no matter how long we'll be apart.)

(In both worlds we'll overcome the trials)

(like it's our pledge to meet again, life after life...)

You are the first woman that has made my heart flutter.

You are the first woman that has changed me.

(This heart will never change)

(no matter how long we'll be apart.)

(I close my eyes and see your face,)

(like it's a pledge to meet again life after life...)

Po-tsai...

(Like the sea is close to the sky, wherever they are, whatever the time...)

Po-tsai...

Po-tsai...

Why?

Water Mui?

Wine...more wine...

More wine...

Just let go.

Go away!

Water Mui wants you to surrender because she's in love with Prince Man-ho.

I said "go away"!

Don't make me hit a woman!

I am a fool. It's my wishful thinking.

She has never been in love with me.

Why? Why did I still believe in her?

Why did I still believe in her?

The agitation has triggered the jinx I put on you.

Well? Are you having this smarting pain?

Like some ants are biting me inside...

This is the first manifestation.

It'll only get worse.

Besides biting your internal organs,

in the end, the Sacred Five will burst out of your body.

But rest assured,

I won't let my beloved die.

I can undo it for you.

Highness and Miss Wong were this close to becoming an item.

It's that Cheung Po-Bats fault.

His Highness need not lose heart really.

They both feel for each other.

What can Cheung Po-tsai do?

You women only have love in mind.

His Highness is thinking about the recruitment.

What has that got to do with falling in love?

Am I being too selfish?

I am fully aware I'll be back to Hong Kong of 2015 in two months.

No man can keep me here.

I shouldn’t have given Prince Man-ho the chance or given Po-tsai the hope.

If just for my memory of falling in love in Qing,

these two remarkable men end up fighting for me...

No...I have to be decisive.

Highness, I need a word with you.

Me too.

I have been thinking...

Which is more important?

The recruitment or my beloved?

Have you made up your mind?

I have.

I am going back to the water stockade tomorrow morning.

I am going to make it clear with Po-tsai, it's not possible between him and me.

Will make it clear with him,

it's not possible between you and me either.

I don't want you two to make an irreversible decision because of me.

So the decision doesn't rest with me.

The recruitment's success or failure concerns the lives of tens of thousands.

I do hope you can talk Cheung Po-tsai over, to accept our invitation to surrender .

You are the first woman that has made my heart flutter.

You are the first woman that has changed me.

Why did you do this to me?

How could you hurt me so hard?

Cheung Po-tsai, don't worry.

I won't harm you again.

I won't poison you ever again.

It's you?

Sis Na.

Master Po, Water Mui is back.

She's back?

Cheung Po-tsai...

Sis Kiu, I am back.

You went missing after the battle of Fan Lau Gorge,

I was so worried about you.

Now we finally meet again

and yet you're already our enemy.

Sis Kiu...

I should have killed you when you first came here.

Water Mui, be honest with yourself,

have we ever wronged you?

We all saw you as one of our own.

Why did you go over to the other side?

I hate people badmouthing me at my back.

Yet I laughed it away when you called me an adulterer.

Scholar Suen is a fence-sitter.

Yet he always took your side.

Sing kills without any qualms.

Has he ever turned physical with you?

Sis Kiu, I know you are all kind to me.

But let me see Po-tsai first.

Why? Have you no shame?

He has been steadfast since he met you.

Yet you always kept your distance.

Do you want to hurt him deeper still?

No, Sis Kiu.

I am here on Prince Man-ho's behalf.

Prince Man-ho?

Has he drugged you or what? You are totally smitten.

Our kindness was thrown to the wind.

You're asking us to surrender.

That's pushing us to our deaths.

Water Mui, it's not too late to repent.

I too once fell under Prince Man-ho's spell.

I almost did the wrong thing.

You have my word.

If you'll admit your mistake,

no one here will speak ill of you.

Sis Kiu, let me see Po-tsai.

I want to make it clear with him.

We have nothing to talk about.

Po-tsai...

No. Call me Commander of the Seven Seas.

Po-tsai...

You are in no position to call me by my name.

Miss Wong, so you are here on Prince Man-ho's behalf.

He's sincere with his offer.

Then why wouldn't he come in person?

Is it out of shame? He can’t face Po-tsai?

Do you guys agree?

If Prince Man-ho wants to recruit us,

he has to come in person.

You are right.

If he's sincere, he should come alone.

Exactly.

He sees himself as a hero.

Don't tell me he's scared by us.

I'm sure that's exactly the reason.

Recruiting us indeed.

Just forget about it.

Forget about it.

You heard it very clearly, right?

If he won't come alone,

he can forget about the recruitment.

He knows you all hate his guts.

Why should he come to his death?

I have figured out a way for you.

Once he sees this hair of yours, he'll come.

(To His Highness, Prince Man-ho)

Cheung Po-tsai, newly elected

Commander of the Seven Seas,

invites you for a meeting in the Heroes' Den regarding the recruitment.

They want me to go alone?

No, you can't put yourself at risk.

Highness, it's likely a trap. Think twice.

How could you do this to her?

It's the Commander's idea.

But she's still safe and well.

If you don't have the nerve to go alone...

Fine. No risk, no gain.

I'll go alone.

Highness...

Stop trying to talk me over. My mind is made up.

The recruitment concerns the wellbeing of the people.

Besides, Wong Tai-mui is in danger.

How can I just stay out of this?

Highness?

Miss Wing-yu, not a moment too soon.

Could you get your brother here? I have something to talk with him.

We are looking for him too.

He and Shuk-kwan have not been back since the ball.

Really, he chose this critical time to go missing.

Siu-fu. Yes.

I am going alone.

It's not the enemy's den that worries me.

I am worried that Fok Yee-tai and others will stab me in the back.

Highness...

Highness...come on...look this way.

Who is it?

Brother Man-hong, I've picked this...

All out.

Out...we have business to talk about...out...

Prince Man-ho has the nerve to go alone.

He's giving us a chance to do him in via a third party.

When he's on enemy turf,

we'll launch a suppression attack.

The pirates will get mad and...

chop him into pieces.

Once I am re-appointed commander-in-chief things will go our way.

Cheers... Cheers...

Prince Man-ho really will care to come to talk about recruitment with us?

In his letter sent by messenger pigeon, Scholar says he'll be here today.

Chief, this is a golden chance.

Yes, I've been waiting for this chance.

Me too.

He killed so many of us in the battle of Fan Lau Gorge.

We can finally pay him back.

Sis Kiu, should we shoot arrows at him once he gem into our waters?

Don't!

Chief, so you want to kill him yourself?

Good idea!

Let your saber feed on his blood!

Chief, if you dream of those resentful dead brothers again,

you can tell them you have avenged them.

Right, killing Prince Man-ho will greatly help boost Po-tsai's commandership.

He can ride on the success and lead us in the fight against the Qing dogs.

Another fight means more lives will be lost

I have something to talk with you about.

Chief...

Scholar Suen has taken Prince Man-ho here.

Really?

Well done!

No...

Chief, don't you worry.

As your wife, I know what you are thinking.

We'll take him to you and let you kill him yourself.

Let's go! Yes!

Kiu...

If Prince Man-ho's killed, there'll be no turning back.

Blood for blood...Kill him...

I would come alone

because I have faith in the leaders at the Heroes' Den.

You may have become pirates,

but you have your honour.

But I have curses as greetings.

Kill him...

You again?

I have a name, Wusona.

I saved Cheung Po-tsai's life.

My gut feelings as a woman tells me

you care for Po-tsai so much because you are in love with him.

What gives you this insight? Your love for him?

I am here not about relationships.

I am here for the recruitment.

Neither of us can leave before we have made it clear.

Don't you find yourself selfish?

You are full of lofty words.

Po-tsai only has you in his heart

Yet you flirted with Prince Man-ho.

When he's smitten, you came back to Po-tsai

I don't know what you are thinking.

You just want two men to fight over you.

Please, stop it!

I am here to make it clear with Po-tsai.

It's not possible between us.

I'll make it clear with Prince Man-ho, too.

It's not possible between us.

Are you doing it to spare them...

Are you satisfied now?

What else do you want?

Do you find yourself very noble?

Do you think a mere statement will kill his love for you?

It'll only make him love you even more.

Let him kill Prince Man-ho.

Then you will hate him for life.

Cheung Po-tsai?

This is the ring where our fate will be decided.

You must be thinking, I lured you here with Water Mui's hair just to kill you.

Yet I'd rather you had refused to come.

You would come alone,

so it means you are willing to die for Water Mui.

Besides that, I am here in the hope that you'll submit yourselves to surrender

so that a lot of lives will be spared.

Recruiting us? Sure.

But you have to beat me first.

Talk only when you can step over my dead body!

I don't get it. Why should Master Po insist on a one-on-one combat?

That prince would have been chopped to pieces if we were allowed to join in.

Po-tsai can't live with that because it would not be fair.

Only by winning one-on-one will he show he's a true hero.

Whatever.

If Master Po kills Prince Man-ho, Water Mui will never forgive him.

He's Commander of the Seven Seas after all.

He's a coward if he won't kill his rival.

His woman will not forgive him if he does.

It sucks being a man.

Po-tsai...Prince Man-ho...

Let's root for Po-tsai...

Kill Prince Man-ho...

Kill Prince Man-ho...

Brute force can’t win...

This is the way to do it.

Kill him...

stop!

Po-tsai, calm down...

Even if he's dead,

it's not possible between us.

I too have told Prince Man-ho,

it's not possible between me and him.

Why should you two still fight?

Why did you do it?

Why must you give me up for the recruitment?

I don't want more lives to be lost.

But more than that...

I don't want

either of you to die.

She's just a girl

and yet she can put love second.

We are men. Why can't we put love aside?

Put love aside?

Sis Kiu, you are the elder here.

So many were killed in the battle of Fan Lau Gorge.

We'll listen to you.

Po-tsai, you are now the commander.

What you should consider is not just your personal relationship.

There is also the future of your brothers.

You can put love aside,

but what about avenging the deaths of your brothers?

Are you going to put it aside as well?

Avenging my brothers...

Po-tsai...

I came here alone,

I never meant to go out alive.

I did kill a lot of your people in the battle of Fan Lau Gorge.

I alone am responsible.

If I can trade my head for your submission,

I am willing.

Brother, what took you so long to come home? We had been waiting for you.

What happened?

Prince Man-ho left his seal behind and went to meet the pirates alone.

You're finally back!

How impatient of him.

Master...Prince Man-hong, Prince Man-leung and Fok Yee-tai want to get the seal.

I won't let you go in.

I won't let you get the seal.

You dog, what nerve!

Who are you to stop me?

Just a deputy! You are just an ant to me.

Get lost!

It's Prince Man-ho's order.

Not even if the sky falls.

Get it over my dead body!

He knew you would stab him in the back.

Here you are, taking advantage of his absence.

Hussy, I have yet to settle the score with you over my son's death.

Who are you to fart here?

You want the commander's seal?

Over my dead body!

As if I have qualms killing you.

You were just one of my running dogs.

You keep getting in my way since you went over to Prince Man-ho.

Want to play the hero?

Let me blow your head off!

Go ahead!

Siu-fu, no...

Now die a hero!

If you shoot, then there goes his head,

and your arm.

The knockback is no laughing matter.

If you shoot, it'll cost you your arm.

This is not the way to shoot.

This is the way to do it.

What nerve! How dare you shoot in my presence!

The plaque has made it clear.

This is Wong's Residence.

It's my residence.

I don't care if you are a prince or an admiral.

This is trespassing.

I am just shooting at intruders.

Honourable Wong, I'm glad you're back to handle this.

Prince Man-ho was right about you.

You really are his true friend.

Hold it...I am no one's true friend.

I am not that selfless.

He used to pay me generously.

Money makes the world go around.

I only have...

Good! Money makes the world go around.

Name me your price.

All I want is the seal.

You are forthright.

300,000 taels?

It's a bit steep, but it's worth it.

No. Prince Man-ho used to pay me more than that.

I mean the foreign trade of Guangdong, Fujian and Guangxi.

I want the exclusive rights to deal with foreigners, on navy supplies, ships and all

for the coming three years.

I'll get 30% of the total profit.

That'll make you the wealthiest man!

It has always been my aspiration.

Good! You've got a deal.

Give me the seal, and I'll make your wish come true.

Highness, here you are.

No...

You are doing Prince Man-ho in.

Well done!

Someone finally beats me in unscrupulousness.

You deserve this admiral's residence.

You are too kind.

Let's go.

Uncle, couldn't you show some honour for once?

Why? Why did you have to fail me again?

Can't you make me proud for once?

Chief.

You two stand guard outside.

Let no one in.

But...

Don't worry. I'll be fine.

Yes.

You Qing dogs killed so many of my brothers

How should I settle the score with you?

I was just doing my job.

You've killed many of my men, too.

How should I settle the score with you?

Yes, we were doing our jobs.

I have lost many of my brothers over these years.

The navy has suffered heavy casualties, too

It really is a difficult score to settle.

Let's seek peace instead.

Submitting to our recruitment is the only way to stop further killings.

That's why I would risk my life to come here.

Alright! I shall put the lives of my brothers and fellow in your hands.

If you really will opt for peace,

I thank you on behalf of the people!

I would surrender not because I want your gratitude.

Nor will I see the Qing dogs differently.

I just can’t stand to witness more of my brothers die battling at sea.

I only want them to have some peaceful twilight years.

It's also for Po-tsai.

He's now the commander.

It's not easy to lead the 7 gangs in 3 provinces with 60,000 members.

It's not fair to him if he has to bear the blame of surrendering as well.

If there is resentment, let me be called a coward instead.

You are not a coward.

You know sometimes you have to stoop to conquer...

Chief Cheng...

Be kind to my brothers and Po-tsai. And...

Chief... Chief Cheng...

Chief... Chief Cheng...

Kill him...

Kill him...

I am an honest man.

I didn't kill Chief Cheng.

Calm down...the truth is not known yet.

We have evidence and witnesses. What truth is not known?

Why would I have killed him? He'd agreed to surrender.

You killed my father, and you're defaming him now?

Those were his own words.

Shut up!

I should have killed you back then.

You are smearing his honour.

He hated Qing troops. Why would he surrender?

He didn't want to see you guys die in a battle

and he cared about your name.

Po-tsai, he has a point.

What about the death of your brothers?

What about the death of your father?

Why listen to her?

She's the most wicked.

Master Po, don't hesitate anymore!

Do it to avenge Chief.

Avenge the brothers killed at Fan Lau Gorge!

Po-tsai, trust me one more time.

He couldn't have done it.

If you won't do it, let me!

Prince Man-ho...

Chief, we had been a couple for so long.

Now we are together no more.

If you have any unfulfilled wishes,

come tell me in my dream.

(To Po-tsai and Shek Kiu)

You deliberately missed the mark.

I didn't want you dead because I wanted to know how my father died.

Their anger got the better of them.

None would listen to us.

So Po-tsai came up with this idea.

That means you don't believe I killed your father.

You risked your life to come here alone.

Killing my father means suicide.

I don't believe my worthy opponent could be this stupid.