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You really are the killer!

For your revenge, you'll never let me go.

The recruitment has a happy ending.

Soon I can go back to Hong Kong of 2015.

Shuk-kwan, you are still alive.

Have mercy on me, let's start anew.

You did a great job with the recruitment. I am very pleased.

This time I am asking Goddess Guan Yin to give you blessings,

for you and Miss Wong to have a happy ending.

Mother, I know what I am doing.

Man-jing, do you remember our wrestling when you were small?

Why?

The Guangdong trip helped me recall my memory before four.

What? You were already a teenager when I was still a toddler.

How could we have done that?

You are right.

It was so many years ago.

Then who was wrestling with me?

You were so small, how could you remember?

You just said it's so many years ago.

Don't dwell on it.

Let me see you to your room.

Mother, how come your hand is so cold?

It's turning cooler.

I do feel a bit cold.

Dress warm.

One remark from Prince Man-ho

and you rank official are now demoted to an 8th rank officer.

Of course you resent it.

Don't worry, so long as I am still Sire's favourite,

I guarantee, you'll have a comeback in time.

I've figured it out, really.

Lady Yim, we can’t fight Prince Man-ho.

What are you talking about?

If you are in a hole, stop digging. Trim one's sails.

Lady Yim, take a reality check and stop dreaming of riding on your son's coattails.

A minion is always a minion.

I've propped you up all these years.

Yet when the wind is blowing Prince Man-ho's way,

you can’t wait to change sides.

Yes, I am a minion.

Still, it's because you are out of favour,

or I wouldn't have got kicked around.

Even though I am out of favour,

I can still get rid of you with ease.

I just don't believe I can't take down Prince Man-ho.

I find it suspicious he could recover from his scarlet fever so suddenly when he's four

I have to find out the truth.

Fok Yee-tai.

Yes, Highness...

I don't care if you like it or not.

You and I are in the same boat.

Watch Prince Man-ho and his gang.

Report anything suspicious to me.

Yes, Highness.

I got into the wrong boat.

Milady, Imperial Physician Chan is here.

I retired 20 years ago.

Highness, what is it that I could still be of help?

Prince Man-ho contracted scarlet fever when he was four.

I think you cured him, right?

Highness, I wouldn't claim credit for it.

His condition was very serious. It's beyond cure.

But he suddenly full recovered in a day.

Did you check why he had had this sudden recovery?

Highness, Lady Shun probably found me incompetent.

She never let me treat Prince Man-ho again.

I have not seen him again all these 20 years.

Milady, a sudden recovery from a grave illness?

And his attending physician was sent away.

This is getting even more interesting.

Tung-suet, what are you doing here?

The rosary belongs to Lady Shun.

What nerve! Who are you to shout at me?

We are both maids.

Yes, but our mistresses are different in status.

Lady Shun, they...

Forget it. Just let it be.

You are back in favour.

I thought you would have been given a lot of jewellery.

But there is just a handful.

Lady Yim, what can I do for you?

I mean to ask you for your family prescription for scarlet fever.

What family prescription?

I am sure you have one,

or Prince Man-ho wouldn't have recovered so speedily when he was four.

Why was Physician Chan sent away?

What actually happened?

What happened to Prince Man-ho when he was four?

Tell me.

Who are you to confront me with that?

Do you really think you are now high and mighty?

Don't forget who you once were.

You were just one of my maids.

Lady Shun...

Lady Yim, this is Yonghe Palace. You crashed my place.

You even took my chair

and toyed with my rosary.

You even confronted me with Physician Chan.

You wouldn't rein in your underling. I'll smack you if that happens again.

I dare you...

Whoever dares to harm my son Man-ho will have me to contend with.

Even a hen will take its chicks under its wing when an eagle approaches.

She can peck an eagle to death.

What are you two doing here?

Sire, greetings.

Haven't I told you to be friendly with each other?

What's this row about?

I am asking you. What is it about?

I overheard about Physician Chan.

What is it about?

Sire, our son has a cough.

I am here to ask Sis what to do.

Yes. I understand Physician Chan is an expert in treating babies, so...

She's very kind.

She referred Physician Chan to me.

(Wong Wah Post Station)

"...Do your best to serve the country. Do not fail me."

Thank you, Sire.

At ease.

We have been on our knees.

Would it really get us a position?

Of course! Or we would have kneeled in vain.

Come get your respective attire and seal.

Shum Ho, you've been appointed lieutenant,

a 6th rank officer.

Thank you, Your Honour.

Lau Sing, you're now a 5th rank officer.

Thank you very much.

Suen Man--cheung, junior 3rd rank lieutenant-colonel.

I studied hard for ten years.

Instead of getting an imperial appointment, I became a pirate.

Twenty years in piracy, however, with hands stinking of blood and money,

I got myself a high position.

Life is a bundle of antinomies.

Cheung Po-tsai, you've been appointed colonel, at the 3rd rank.

Don't worry.

I am sure he'll take it.

Cheung Po-tsai, Prince Man-ho recommended you as a 3rd rank colonel.

None has ever started so high.

You have set a record in the navy.

I am no one's subordinate.

I was the commander in the pirate world.

I won't settle for less in officialdom.

Though starting out at the 3rd rank,

I am sure I'll be a 1st rank official in no time.

What's your rank?

In no time indeed.

Shek Kiu.

There are female officers in the navy?

I am a woman.

Cheng Yat is named posthumously a 2nd rank lieutenant-general,

to be accepted by his widow Shek Kiu.

Brother Yat, you had your brothers in mind.

Now they are all given proper positions.

You've been named lieutenant-general, a 2nd rank official.

Your spirit in heaven should be pleased.

What? Wong Yat-hin has come to terms with Chu Shuk-kwan's past?

So they have patched up?

He's now tied to her apron strings.

Bravo...they are now a proper couple.

They will have children in no time

and I will definitely come to this world.

Everything has gone smoothly.

Cheung Po-tsai has been recruited as well.

Yes, the recruitment was a success.

Still, something is missing.

Oh, the corn stall is open for business.

Boss, should I throw dice to pick my piece as before?

No, no rolling of dice.

It's the liar's dice now.

What? Liar's dice?

It seems it has spread after you have taught me how it's done.

Oh no...I have changed history again.

Now I was inventor of the liar's dice.

Six nines.

Liar! No six nines.

We'll see.

Bring it on!

It's getting late. I need to go back.

Let me see you back.

No, thanks, I can go back on my own.

Actually I have a message for Po-tsai.

Maybe you can tell him for me.

Sire is hosting a banquet in the royal garden

for him and the other recruited pirates.

I'll tell him about it.

Goodbye.

Fifth rank officer!

Sixth rank officer!

You a 5th, and you a 6th, and I am a junior 3rd rank officer.

Salute me!

Honourable Suen, greetings.

Who are you to be cocky, just a junior 3rd rank?

I am Cheung Po-tsai, a Colonel, of the 3rd rank.

Honourable Cheung, greetings.

3rd rank, junior 3rd rank, 5th and 6th, big deal!

Second Rank Lieutenant-General here!

Sis Kiu, wife of a 2nd rank lieutenant-general.

Still a 2nd rank, right?

The highest in rank has the say!

I am the highest in rank here.

Hey, I think I am the highest in rank here.

"Wong-tai...mui"..."the emperor's sister".

What? Why not?

Highness...at your service.

That's my boy.

Cheung Po-tsai, you can be called good looking.

A 3rd rank colonel is not good enough for you.

Let me promote you to Chief...Eunuch!

Castrate him! Yes!

Hey...help...it hurts...

Stop it...

I am now an officer...

If only my brother and sister-in-law were still around,

they would be overjoyed.

If only my wife were still alive...

Scholar Suen, don't think about it.

None of us have kin.

We brothers have one another.

I miss my sister, too.

Po-tsai...actually...maybe...

it's likely...you still have living kin around.

Sis Kiu, what are you talking about?

Do you remember you had a missing brother when Brother Yat took you back?

What? Po-tsai has a brother?

You said my elder brother died during the run away.

That's what you and Father said.

We used to live by the sword.

Pirates had to go for broke.

Worrying about your family or kin would make you vulnerable.

We didn't know you would become an officer.

That's why I am telling you this secret.

Not long after Brother Yat had taken you back...

(Hui Chun Tong Pharmacy)

Brother Yat, if you mean to adopt Po-tsai as your son,

stop beating him up every day.

He may not be able to survive it.

That's why I am getting him plaster.

If he proves to be resilient, he has it to be my adopted son.

Get me two dosages of kudzu root decoction.

Yes, Gong-Gong.

It has been days, yet your temperature still persists.

I want my brother...

We have to hurry back to the capital.

We don't have time for your kid brother Cheung Po-tsai.

Maybe he's already dead.

Proceed!

Do you mean to find Po-tsai his brother?

From what we've overheard, maybe he really is...

The truth doesn't matter.

To us, his brother died in the famine.

I don't want Po-tsai to have ties.

Then he can be a committed pirate.

My brother is still alive!

I have family!

Did you hear that?

My brother is still alive!

Maybe we can be reunited.

Cheung Po-tsai, congrats!

Congratulations to me...

We are here in the capital to be named officers.

Then you got news of your brother.

How unexpected!

Yes, unexpected!

But Beijing is so big.

Looking for a person here is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Yes, haystack...

What are you talking about?

Don't you rain on my parade!

But it's the truth.

You have no clues at all.

Don't fight...

We have clues.

From what Sis Kiu said,

the one taking your brother to the capital should be a eunuch.

We can follow this lead.

The palace is not for us commoners.

How can we follow the lead?

Someone we know has easy access to the palace.

If he will do it, it'll help us with the search.

(List of Known Pirates)

Highness, this is the map of South Sea islands from the Ministry of War.

Let me have a look.

With the surrender of Cheung Po-tsai and the other pirates,

the waters here will become safe.

Highness, Miss Wong is here.

And Cheung Po-tsai as well.

You want me to help you look for your long lost brother?

It means a lot to me.

Princeling...I mean Prince Man-ho,

please do me the favour.

You have no other clue but the term Gong-Gong,

and it happened so many years ago.

Prince Man-ho is not some deity.

A deity may find it hopeless,

but you can figure out a way, right?

Siu-fu. Yes.

Go to the Imperial Household Office to check the records of that year,

see which Gong-Gong has gone to Guangdong for procurement.

He may be the one we want.

Yes, Highness. Tomorrow morning.

Right away.

Yes, Highness.

I owe you another one.

But I always repay kindness owed.

If at some point you happen to be in trouble, in need of help or on the run,

I'll help you out.

Anyway, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Water Mui, it's about time we left.

Po-tsai, I am not going back with you. I want to stay behind...

To pay Honorable Wong and Chu Shuk-kwan a visit.

They have finally patched up, I should congratulate them.

Miss Ha Sim, please show me the way.

Of course.

Goodbye. Take care.

Winter ushers in spring.

A good snow means there's going to be a good harvest.

The spring thaw actually marks the coldest days of the year.

Miss Wong, your clothes are thin.

Why not ask Highness to have some warm clothes made for you?

Don't bother. I am leaving in a couple of days.

Won't you stay behind to keep Highness company?

I am going back to Guangdong with Cheung Po-tsai.

Does Highness know about it?

I'll find the right time to tell him about it.

Miss Ha Sim, take good care of him after I am gone.

Do you remember how I tied his scarf for him once?

Have you learnt how to do it?

Yes! I just don't know if it's to his liking.

You...

Miss Ha Sim, that's him.

You can’t always let him have his way.

If you think he's made the wrong decision,

stand up to him and point it out to him.

Don't ever mention my name once I am gone.

Time is the great healer.

"You've captivated my heart and soul... You're on my mind wherever I go."

"How I wish you want me too, as I'm ready to get wedded to you!"

Good poem...

That sounds familiar.

"She can captivate your heart and soul She has me in her heart wherever I go."

"Though she wants to marry me a lot, Yat-hin just can’t tie the knot."

Oh, it's the breakup poem you wrote me in Macau.

Do you mean to...

They are different.

There are some critical changes of wording.

"Your heart", "my heart"; "in her heart", is now "on my mind",

"just can't", is now "ready".

Though it's now a love poem,

Don't you find these minor corrections rather casual?

That's literary flare rather.

The right words make all the difference.

Are you talking back?

No...no...it never crossed my mind.

Alright, you are behaving well.

You didn't treat me this way back then.

So you never loved me?

I instantly fell in love with you the first time we met in Macau.

We are two of a kind,

you should know what I was thinking.

I do. We are both selfish people.

Though deeply in love,

We would wait till the other side fell in love first.

Because the first to confess love would be at a disadvantage.

Neither of us would cut a losing deal.

That's why we are a match made in heaven.

We could end up together,

the credit goes to Water Mui.

Time to thank me, your great-granddaughter.

That busybody?

You too find her nosy?

Nosy?

Hey, how nosy?

Do you think I wanted to be involved?

It's because you are my great-grandparents.

Otherwise, I couldn't have cared less.

Silly girl, how many times do I have to say it?

I am not your great-grandma.

How crazy can you get?

I am just a dozen years older than you are.

How can I be your great-grandpa?

If you were my great-granddaughter,

you wouldn't have been born till a hundred years later.

I came from Hong Kong of 2015.

I got here through time travel.

OK, I know words can’t convince you.

Look at this portrait.

Isn't it the one you just drew for great-grandma?

No way can I have another one, right?

Yes.

Look carefully.

How come?

Believe it or not.

Let me repeat, I did come from Hong Kong of 2015 through time travel.

I am a policewoman in Cheung Chau of Hong Kong.

Tycoon Yang Tao-guo was kidnapped by the bandit boss Bowie.

A waterspout appeared when I was chasing them.

It was the time of the Leonid Meteor Shower

I went right into the waterspout in a speedboat.

I had no idea what was going on.

I could just feel time fast receding in the waterspout.

In the end I found myself in the Qing Dynasty.

I had managed to travel in time.

Though what she said was hard to believe...

Yet the evidence is making it hard not to believe her.

I have seen the world, yeti have not seen this shiny thing before.

Great...you two finally believe I am your great-granddaughter.

Great-grandpa, Great-grandma,

You have to help me go back to Hong Kong of 2015.

Since I am your great-grandpa, of course.

Wait till you know what you should do.

Upcoming on the 4th day of the 3rd month,

a waterspout will appear in the waters off the Nine Dragons Temple.

I'll go back to Hong Kong on this day.

You two go back to Guangzhou to seek Mr Robertson's help.

Ask him to make me a speedboat.

The motor is hidden inside the Heroes' Den.

Highness, according to Imperial Household Office's records,

Leung Gong-Gong was the eunuch who took Cheung Po-tsai's brother.

He was transferred here as a mausoleum guard 20 years ago.

Do you know why?

No.

Highness, let me go to the supervisor here.

This is how everyone ends, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

But what makes a life worth living?

Live it to the full!

Highness, Leung Gong-Gong is very old and he's bedridden.

He can't come out to welcome you.

He says he can only see you alone.

Alright, I won't insist on proper etiquette.

Wait for me outside. Yes.

This day has finally arrived.

Highness, you've come to me at last.

You knew I would come to see you?

I'd been waiting for 20 years.

Highness, you are here about the secret 20 years ago, right?

I want to ask you about the child you brought to the palace 20 years ago.

Where's he now? Dead or still alive?

He's right in front of me.

What are you talking about?

You are the child I brought to the palace.

What nerve!

The secret is finally out.

You now know you are not my natural son.

Mother, what are you talking about?

My son Man-ho died 20 years ago.

You were taken in as his substitute.

I didn't want to do it, but I had no other option.

Sire's love for me was fading away.

I thought a son could keep his heart.

But Heaven took away my last hope.

Man-ho...Heaven, how can you be so cruel?

Why did you take away my son?

Don't worry, I have one thing for you.

Son, the jade pendant will bring you longevity and happiness in your next life...

I was taking you back to be a eunuch.

You may have the good fortune of waiting on Sire.

But it's not in your destiny.

You are not blessed.

Not blessed?

Not blessed?

Lady Shun, greetings.

Leung Gong-Gong, this child...

I took him back from Guangdong.

I find him a pretty child.

He has no kin.

So I brought him back to be a eunuch.

However, his fever just wouldn't go.

It has now cost him his memory.

He doesn't remember I took him back,

nor does he know who he is.

Poor boy...

Maybe Heaven took pity on me.

I could bump into a child that looked exactly like my son.

For fear of infection,

Sire had not seen Man-ho for a year.

Sire, thanks to your concern,

though Man-ho had a brush with death, he managed to survive it.

Heaven was kind to him.

He's my favourite son.

Now that he has fully recovered from the illness, it sure is good.

Sire, greetings.

Man-ho, you had been ill for so long, have you lost weight?

Let me have a good look at you.

Man-ho, greet Sire.

Sire. Good boy...

I thought the secret could be kept forever, how naive of me.

You can't wrap fire with paper.

What a twist of fate.

Cheung Po-tsai the recruited pirate is Highness' long lost kid brother.

Man-ho, though I didn't give birth to you,

I have raised you as my natural son.

You sure can feel it, right?

You aren't mad with me, right?

No. I know you are lying.

How can I not be your natural son?

Man-ho...

It must be you...

You're bribed to make this story up to frame me!

Drop dead!

I am dying already. Why should I lie?

Lai Gong-Gong, I have been good to you.

How could you collude with them to frame me?

I got it.

You happened to overhear Cheung Po-tsai asking me to look for his lost brother,

so you made up this lie.

Highness, the truth is the truth.

I know it's hard to take.

Mother, you find me too ambitious.

You said it out of love. You lied in order to protect me, right?

Man-ho, I have failed you.

Mother, I promise, I'll lie low,

I won't covet the throne.

I want nothing at all...

I just want you to say I am your own son.

Man-ho, I have failed you.

Man-ho, my son...

I don't want to hear it.

Man-ho, I am sorry...

Highness...

I am going back to Guangdong tomorrow for the time travel.

I may not be able to see Prince Man-ho ever again.

I don't have time to make it clear with him.

Why?

Maybe I am trying to avoid it.

Why?

Why?

Highness, what is going on?

Weren't you helping Cheung Po-tsai look for his brother?

Po-tsai...

What happened?

Why? Why him?

Why him?

I shouldn't have been such a fool.

I shouldn't have agreed to do it.

It's my fault.

I almost blasted him up at the battle of Fan Lau Gorge.

You didn't mean it.

I almost killed him at the Heroes' Den. Don't you know that?

You've been given the short shrift in this relationship.

Why? Cheung Po-tsai shouldn't have existed.

Heaven, why have you done this to me?

Why? Why are you taking away all I have?

Highness...stop hurting yourself.

I really have no choice.

I know I have broken your heart.

You can hate me.

It's not easy for me either.

Do you know how hard it is to give up the man you love?

Do you know how heartbroken I am?

Highness, forget me once I am gone.

Just be a good prince.

I am not a prince anymore.

What are you talking about?

The brother Cheung Po-tsai wanted me to look for is me.

I am not a prince anymore.

I am just a nobody they picked up.

I am just a substitute.

I am not my mother's own son.

I am not Sire's son...

I would bear with anything all these years.

That's because I have Aisin Gioro's blood inside me.

Everything is over for me now.

How could Heaven do this to me?

No, I shouldn't have let you known about this secret.

Let me bear it alone.

I am not going back to Guangdong with you.

Because of Prince Man-ho?

Stop being so rational.

Follow your heart.

Put your faith in me.

I can't! I really can’t!