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=Recruit A General to lead the Troops=

=Episode 21=

Li Aotian!

Perfect timing, Chengyu.

News from the capital. The Chancellor has taken his own life.

What?

We need to figure out

something.

Got it.

Where are you going?

None of your business.

Are you going to find Chen Xinrou?

Don't you get it?

Now that things have come to this point, she doesn't matter anymore.

She does.

She matters more than anyone else.

Xinrou!

Xinrou!

If you're gone...

Chengyu.

It's too late.

Chen Xinrou is dead.

So are the Chancellor

and his followers.

If we join forces,

no one can match us.

Chengyu.

I'm your brother.

Let's stage a rebellion together.

Then this world will belong to our family!

I don't care to whom this world belong. I don't want it!

Yet if anything happens to Xinrou,

I'll make you pay with your life.

Well done.

Chen Xinrou is gone for good.

Since you like me,

you must remember

to always back me up.

(Qingfeng Stronghold)

(Chen Xinrou is dead.)

(Qingfeng Stronghold is having a grand funeral,)

(and no outsiders are allowed.)

(But you can access it.)

I've betrayed them.

Since you've chosen this path,

don't ever try to be considerate of them.

Do me this one last favor.

Once the task is dealt with,

I'll marry you.

(Help me get rid of)

(Li Chengyu.)

I knew it were you.

I'm sorry.

I was left with no choice.

And I'm done with making choices.

Did you know that Tao Lianxin

gave Xinrou a life-saving hairpin when she was in jail?

Put it on.

Did you know she could've stabbed you

(when you were poisoning her?)

Did you know she'd rather suffer to death

(than killing you with that hairpin?)

She trusted you

and treated you so well.

Yet you did that to her.

She will not rest in peace.

Guards.

Get them out of here.

It was you.

How come it was you?

Li Chengyu.

Li Chengyu!

It turned out it was you.

I'm sorry.

Li Chengyu!

That useless Qin Manyue,

what's taking her so long?

She's failed it for sure.

Chengyu.

Since you're not going to join my side,

that makes us enemies.

Instead of fighting a war,

I should just get rid of you now.

Hang in there, Xinrou.

We're on the way to the medical hall,

so hang in there.

We're almost there.

Let's go home.

The antidote is there.

I'm sorry.

Don't cry.

I'm sorry, Leader.

It's all right.

I don't blame you for that.

It's all right.

Leader.

I'd like to have a word with General Li.

Thank you for saving my life then.

I saved your life?

Looks like you don't remember it.

Five years ago, my family and I almost got killed in jail.

It was you who saved me,

not Li Aotian.

It was dark in there,

so I couldn't see your face clearly.

I only remember there was a man who took the blows for me.

General.

You got the two scars on your back

from having saved me.

After that, Li Aotian was looking for someone to work for him in jail.

I actually mistook him for my savior.

All these years, I've loved the wrong man

and committed those grave mistakes.

Now there's no turning back for me.

Erniang was right.

Fate plays tricks on us.

General.

My life belongs to you.

If you want it,

just take it.

Since Xinrou has spared your life,

I will do the same.

Leave now.

General.

General.

You've broken everyone's trust.

You're a sinner.

That's all the more reason to live.

You shall repent and atone for your sins.

I never expected her to try to poison me to death.

Take the decoction.

And I never thought

I'd get to witness my own funeral.

Luckily, I sealed your blood in time

to stop the poison from spreading.

Otherwise, the funeral would've become a reality.

Antidote...

Where's the antidote?

Where's the antidote?

I'm sorry.

I lied to you.

Actually, there's no antidote to it.

Li Chengyu.

Forgive me.

I...

I just want to spend more time with you.

And...

And I'd like to tell you a secret.

I'm actually from the modern world.

So are you.

I know.

You knew it all along?

Since I was a kid,

I always hoped a great hero in armor would appear,

(charging into battle for me.)

Until

you showed up.

I'm not afraid of dying.

I'm just afraid

that once I die,

I'll never see you again.

If I hadn't almost lost my life,

you still wouldn't have told me the truth.

Li Aotian and the Chancellor are sworn enemies at court.

He's been recruiting troops and stockpiling arms for long.

He even incited the Vice Minister of War to rebel.

When that failed,

he tried to pin the blame on the Chancellor

so as to get rid of his rivals.

You were just one of his pawns.

It just so happened

you became his excuse to frame the Chancellor.

Manyue had always been loyal to Li Aotian.

Both of us fell for the same poison.

So that's how it is.

On the day of the palace coup,

the real Li Chengyu was probably already poisoned to death.

That's why I showed up.

Speaking of which,

let me give you some good news.

I know how to cure

your poison now.

For real?

Mm.

I knew nothing about its ingredients,

so I had no idea how to cure it.

Having experienced it myself, I know the way now.

(Qingfeng Stronghold)

♪If you've never seen a bloom, you can't know hope♪

♪If you weren't here, I wouldn't have come♪

♪On a soda-lit night, only the wind knows my love♪

♪It's a helpless kind of feeling♪

♪Like a feather of morning love falling into the deep sea♪

♪Being unnoticed, yet I still tell you I love you♪

♪But my confession is drowned out by the wind♪

♪You can't hear it♪

♪I also want to rush forward♪

♪To give you all my heart♪

♪Yet it's pushed away by you♪

♪Whether love is spoken or left unspoken♪

♪I know you understand♪

♪It's just an accident♪

♪You longed to wander once more, by my side through the throng♪

♪I know you weren't really here for me♪

♪Yet still, who else could bring a surprise quite like you♪

♪After you left, I didn't want to let go♪

♪You brushed past me, leaving your trace in the crowd♪

♪I didn't shut you out♪

♪But I couldn't wait for you to stop♪

♪Yet I seem to clutch you, unable to let you fade into the crowd♪