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So the real Prince Man-ho's dead. This one is an imposter.

Those who know about the secret shouldn't be allowed to live.

Sire, if you must push me to a dead end,

I'll fight you all the way!

If we had failed to get away, then the little prince...

I would have had to kill him.

Kill him?

Since we couldn't live anyway,

killing the little prince would devastate Sire for life.

How could you be so cruel?

He's innocent!

You really believe I could be this cruel?

Highness...

Highness, we have all changed.

Can we go now?

Yes, we have no time to lose.

Right away. Yes!

It's not easy for me either!

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

Wong Tai-mui, sometimes what you see or what you hear may not be true.

Stop being so rational,

just follow your heart,

believe in the man in front of you.

I can't. I really can't!

I doubted you and broke your heart.

I am sorry.

From where I came, the people are different.

They talk about evidence, reasoning, and rationality.

People there, me included, have forgotten how to trust others from the heart.

If Prince Man-ho would be there by my side when I died,

I would die contented.

The emperor did keep his word. There's no one after us.

Because I have the little prince. He dares not do that.

Bear it in mind, when you are in Guangdong, lie low.

When the chance comes up, go overseas.

Sire won't let you off.

Take this boat.

A bigger boat will pick you up at the river mouth.

Highness, aren't you going with us?

We should go separately.

If I go down south with you guys,

it makes it easier for Sire to catch us in one go.

What are you going to do?

Don't worry. I have contacted Robertson.

A boat is waiting for me at another pier 5 miles to the east.

Qing has no place for me anymore.

Barring any accidents, I will go overseas.

We brothers have just reunited.

Yet we are going to be separated again.

Po-tsai, who knows?

Maybe we will meet again very soon.

I do hope so.

We will.

Take good care of Water Mui.

Rest assured. I will.

It's getting late.

The longer we tarry, the more dangerous it'll be for us.

Get on board.

Water Mui, you must have something to tell Brother.

Sis Kiu, let's get on board to get things ready.

Po-tsai, you should be proud to have such a brother.

He's an upright man who only has the country in mind.

And bends to no one or pressure.

He's equally decisive...

even in love.

He's a man that truly walks tall.

Anyway, we do have a happy ending.

I thought the choice rested with me.

Actually it never was the case.

Nor did it rest with me.

All at the spur of the moment.

That goes for kinship,

goodness or evil, life or death,

or love and relationship.

I will never forget I was once in love with such a remarkable man.

Lai Gong-Gong. Highness...

Lai Gong-Gong...

Highness, Ha Sim, you two are out of danger

Yes, Highness has also helped Cheung Po-tsai and others flee.

Highness.

Thank you for your help.

If you had not risked your life abducting the little prince,

Cheung Po-tsai and I would have been done in.

I did it to return Lady Shun's kindness.

It's hard for you.

Where's the little prince?

Lai Gong-Gong, I'd have this letter delivered to Sire.

He will have little prince fetched as directed.

What are you going to do?

Going into hiding?

Where's your native place?

Do you have living kin?

Highness, forget the letter.

I'll take the little prince back to the palace.

Do you mean...

I owe my life to Lady Shun.

Now that she has passed away,

there's no point for me to carry on living.

No! Lai Gong-Gong, you can’t do that!

Highness, my mind is made up.

But why?

Indeed...

Fate decides it all.

Let me cast off my identity as a eunuch.

I am back to my proper identity as a Qing courtier.

What if Man-ho goes back on his word and harm my son?

He's not like you, a man of dishonesty.

Sire, I've taken your son back to you.

Give way!

Rascal, how dare you go over to Man-ho!

You shut up!

What nerve! I am the emperor!

How dare you shout at me?

Why can't I?

The little prince's life rest with me.

You...what do you want?

I just want you to apologise for what your wrongdoings.

You...

I had been loyal and yet you granted me castration.

Do you admit to your flagrant mistake?

Lady Shun served you all these years.

Yet you poisoned her without giving her a thought.

Do you admit your guilt?

You keep calling for sibling bond,

yet you've been provoking sibling rivalry among the princes.

Do you admit your guilt?

Alright, I am guilty. Let my son go.

Louder! I couldn't hear you.

Yes! It's my fault!

Let my son go...Please...alright?

Lady Shun, I've failed you.

This is all I could do to avenge you.

The prince is fine now...

Though heavily pregnant,

she insists on escorting her husbands body back to his native place for burial.

Siu-fu was not a corrupt official.

Life will not be easy now that she has to raise their child on her own.

Who put an envelope here?

How come there are so many money notes?

Who did it? Who's helping me out?

Siu-fu gave me his total loyalty.

His family are my responsibility.

Prince Man-ho, is that you?

Is it you giving me help?

Highness, I know it's not convenient for you to show yourself.

Siu-fu had named his child Ngo Nam-jing, southern expedition.

He said the southern expedition was the highlight of his life.

Highness, you live, I live.

You die, I die.

Highness, do you think we'll meet Miss Wong again?

What does that matter?

I've let go already. Why haven't you?

Ha Sim, since when did you fall in love with me?

Highness, I was just an ordinary court maid

I never thought I could meet a prince.

Meeting you has made my life remarkable as well.

Fok Yee-tai wanted me dead.

You used the imperial yellow jacket to save me.

Hon Yung time and again tried to molest me.

You would put the battle outcome aside to kill him for my honour.

I never dreamt that you would care so much about me, or about my happiness.

It's my good fortune that I could work for you,

that I could share your happiness and worries.

I do feel that Heaven has been partial to me

That has made me laugh in my dreams too.

I ask for nothing more.

I am just an ordinary court maid.

I am not worthy enough to love you.

What if I am willing to give you this good fortune.

Or, will you give me the good fortune?

Highness, after we've gone to England with Mr Robertson,

will you find the uneventful life there too boring?

How come? I mean to buy a large piece of meadow and set up a range.

I mean to raise hundreds of pigs.

Why so many?

To make you stewed pork.

We can spend the springs rowing on the lake

the summers on stargazing, and autumns on viewing the red leaves...

What about in winter?

I'll depend on you to make me babies.

Highness, we received orders to get your head back to Sire.

Sire is still a step ahead of me.

Highness, I am indebted to you.

But I can't defy an order.

I really have no choice!

What a good excuse.

Life or death, goodness or evil... ...it all hinges on our conscience.

I have stood tall and left no regrets.

I have lived up to my ideals and lived my life to the full,

I am contented.

My head is a shortcut to a bright future.

I'd rather it falls to the hands of buddies who have been to hell and back with me.

Highness, I really...

You are here to execute an order.

I am no longer your highness.

Cut it out and do it.

I am sorry.

Ha Sim, would you take the last leg with me?

I can die with you and I am contented.

Kill...

Sire named me Man-ho.

Having lived in the palace for 28 years,

I have seen how fish rot from the head.

There's only treachery in the palace.

The Court can't care less about the wellbeing of the people.

They're just forcing the people to rebel.

It was once my aspiration to right the wrong.

I begged Sire for the chance to lead a mighty fleet

to wipe out pirates led by Cheung Po-tsai.

The carnage turned out to be a sibling feud

Life is full of twist and turns.

Though I've finally awoken from my dream,

what await me is yet more carnage.

They were once my comrades.

If it's Heaven's will that I should die a violent death, so be it.

I am glad that I have Ha Sim to keep me company.

My life has no regrets.

Bring it on!

Shoot!

I am just an ordinary court maid.

I am not worthy enough to love you.

What if I am willing to give you this good fortune?

(...I'll wait till Heaven grows old)

(We'll create our own legend or simply set sail again)

(My only regret is we cannot go on with this adventure...)

Here we are, back in the Heroes' Den.

It has come a full circle.

We were once pirates...

Then we were made officials.

Now we are back where we started.

We can’t stay here forever.

What plans do you have now?

I am Commander of the Seven Seas.

Well, was.

It's about your own life and death.

I don't want to decide it for you.

I'll leave it to yourselves.

Have you all written it down?

Good.

Pastoral recluse.

It's a well-thought-out decision of mine.

Plucking chrysanthemums under the fence,

viewing in serenity the southern mount...

Isn't that poetic?

What poetic? That's just going back to be a farmer.

Loser!

Indeed. Do you know farming?

Which of us knows anything about farming?

Really...

Next.

Regroup and restart.

That's mine.

Back to piracy?

Do you remember what Chief said before he died?

Next.

Go overseas.

My turn to be smart!

Siam as your new home?

Just drop dead!

It's Wusona's turf.

Sis Kiu, next.

Good.

Go westward!

Water Mui, I have nowhere else to go.

Let me go back with you, alright?

Good...I like this idea. Good!

Sis Kiu, read mine please.

Yours...let me see.

I've decided to time travel back to Hong Kong of 2015 tonight.

What are you talking about?

I thought you would keep me company.

What time travel back to Hong Kong?

I know it's hard to make you believe it.

Actually I didn't come from the Western world.

I came from Hong Kong of the future.

I came here through time travel.

What?

I came from 200 years in the future.

What?

You don't get it?

Shuk-kwan and I found it outrageous the first time we heard that.

But it's true.

I am her great-grandmother.

What?

You are her great-granddaughter?

But you two are of the same age.

Oh my god!

How come?

Some fairy tale?

We can’t take it! We can't take it!

Let me show you something.

Then you will believe me.

Great-grandpa, Great-grandma, what about the boat I asked you to make?

What Chief Cheng brought back was not some "Nine Dragons Pearl".

It's a motor from my time.

With it, a boat can go at great speed without sails or oars.

It's a motor?

That's right.

Po-tsai, do you remember the first time you saw me?

I actually dropped out of a waterspout.

That stuff brought you to Qing.

There'll be a waterspout this evening.

Water Mui, I have good news for you.

Robertson has consulted Western astronomy.

The Leonid meteor shower you said will appear again tonight.

Meteor shower, waterspout and speedboat.

All the conditions are here.

I can time travel back to Hong Kong at last

Po-tsai, now you see I was not lying.

But a waterspout is tens of feet high.

It's risky.

It's dangerous.

This was the way I came,

and the only way for me to go back.

It's dangerous, but I have to risk it.

Alright, you may have come from the future,

but that doesn't mean we have to break up.

Po-tsai, I know you don't want me to go.

But I can't stay here in Qing.

I have family. They are waiting for me to go back.

I am not asking you to stay behind.

I am going back with you to Hong Kong of 2015.

What?

Po-tsai, listen to me.

Time travel is not easy.

There are many unknowns.

I am not sure if I can land on modern day Hong Kong.

Think about it.

I may land in some other time.

Or I may get stuck in time.

The worst case scenario is...

We may die. I know.

I am being serious.

I am being serious too.

Water Mui, we've been through so much.

Do you think I still fear death?

Po-tsai, I understand how you feel for me.

I promise you I'll always bear your love in my mind.

I'll never forget about it.

But I really don't want you to take the risk with me.

You said time travel is dangerous.

I can't let you face it alone.

What if you got stuck in time forever?

How could I not be there with you?

Or if you were sent to an known age,

how could I not be there with you?

The worst case scenario is not death,

it's me stuck here worrying about you alone

Po-tsai.

It's you who said it when we were in jail.

If you can die with your beloved...

you will have no regrets!

Will I look weird in the modern age?

If you don't dress like this, you'll be stopped by the police.

Po-tsai, you are the country bumpkin this time.

Follow Water Mui's directions when you are in Hong Kong.

No talking back, got it?

Got it?

OK.

A sprinkling of English words will help you blend in.

So this is Hong Kong in 200 years.

Some world!

What is this?

It's a Roller Royce. It's for the rich.

When you see cars coming your way,

don't step out, get it?

OK! I remember what you said.

This is a taxi, right?

You pay according to the meter.

This is a bus.

You press the bell to get off.

A fast learner.

There are more.

I remember the television, the flush toilet and the refrigerator you mentioned.

But I don't get it why vehicles have weird names like "shit"?

Another question for you.

What is a hand phone?

I sure remember this.

A hand phone is not about the hand.

It's for talking.

Press a button and you can talk with others

You two be careful when you are in Hong Kong.

Yes, Sis Kiu.

It's a pity the hand phone was dropped into the sea.

Or it could have been left for Sis Kiu for taking our calls from Hong Kong.

Po-tsai, Mui, just be careful.

This may be the last time we call you Master Po.

Master Po...

I'll be a good boy.

Master Ho, Master Sing.

I wonder if I can live to 200.

If I could, we would meet again.

I'll wait for you.

We can’t live that long.

I just wish my great-great-grandchildren can meet you.

Then I am their great-great-great Master Po.

Great...

Po-tsai, come over here...

Sis Kiu, I'll miss you.

The world is your oyster.

I'll just see it as your Seven Seas adventure.

The only difference is that you won't come back again.

Still, you have to be obedient.

You father had gold and jewellery hidden in a cave in Cheung Chau.

When you are in Hong Kong and short of cash

Do you hear me?

Yes, Sis Kiu, yes...

Or I'll twist your ears off.

Got it?

It hurts...

Mui, take it easy.

I am happy I have a great-granddaughter as policewoman in 200 years' time.

You even played matchmaker for us.

Who would believe it, really?

I can't believe I have had such a magical adventure.

Great-grandpa, what are your plans?

I am thinking of finding a haven for retirement.

Cheung Chau is a haven.

The Hong Kong in future is a prosperous haven.

A waterspout!

Mui, look!

Here it comes.

Bon voyage?

Take care! Take care!

Water Mui, what if we got separated in Hong Kong?

Whatever happens, we'll meet in the North Lookout Pavilion

at the Cheung Chau Bun Festival that takes place on the 8th of the 4th month.

Bun Festival? North Lookout Pavilion?

You'll get it when you are in Hong Kong.

Cheung Po-tsai, fleeing and living happily ever after with Water Mui?

I won't let it happen.

Watch out!

Po-tsai...

Wusona...

Water Mui...

Water Mui, hang in there...

We have no time.

Go into the waterspout!

But you are injured

Po-tsai, Qing medicine can't help me.

I have to go back to Hong Kong.

Water Mui...

We have to go to Hong Kong.

Only then can she be saved!

Water Mui...

Water Mui, hang in there...

Once we are in Hong Kong of 2015, you can be saved.

I swear on my blood, and I'll jinx you with my life.

Water Mui, you will forget Cheung Po-tsai forever.

Water Mui...

((Hong Kong 2015)

Here it comes again...

How incredible!

It's back!

It's not a trick, is it? No...

It's not a trick of the eye...

It's real. It's back...

Water Mui...

Mui...

You guys stay here. Others go with me...

Mui...

Water Mui...

Mui, hang in there...

We've called the Government Flying Service.

Water Mui...

You'll be taken to hospital.

Don't sleep...

Mui.

Water Mui.

Take her up quickly, come on.

Hang in there. 1, 2, 3.

Hang in there.

Come on

Lie down...

He looks like Brother.

Brother, are you alright?

What did you call me?

He looks like Brother.

But Brother is still in Qing. He can't be him.

Mistaken identity.

Why are they after you?

I am the Bandit King. I should be wanted by cops.

What? Now that you know you have saved a bandit king,

scared?

Why should I?

We are two of a kind.

I have killed quite a number of soldiers.

Two of a kind?

You are a bandit king, I am a pirate king.

Pirate king?

So we both are outlaws.

How come you are all wet?

Where did you come from?

I came in a boat. Where from?

You wouldn't believe it even if I told you about it.

It doesn't matter.

Your identity doesn't matter.

The point is, you saved me.

Thank you. My name is Bowie.

Cheung Po-tsai.

What loving me for life?

Water Mui...

Cheung Sir, though we are peers,

if you do that again, I'll charge you for molestation.

Molestation?

I don't know any Cheung Po-tsai.