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♫ Those people, those affairs, those palace doors ♫

♫ One step into the commotions of this world ♫

♫ Listen to the wind, listen to the rain, listen to the endless ups and downs of life ♫

♫ Destiny indeed loves us ♫

♫ Look at the dreams sealed by the kiss of time ♫

♫ Remember half the life that's already been lived ♫

♫ In these red walls, remains one person ♫

♫ Wait for the dead of the night, wait for eternity ♫

♫ If the world is a storm, then everything in it must take refuge ♫

♫ I'll go with you ♫

♫ Traveling across thousands of mountains, don't be afraid of the wasteland ♫

♫ There'll be flowers on the side of the path ♫

♫ Love and hate are too messy; simply coming and going ♫

♫ The winds and clouds have not dissipated ♫

♫ Spring and fall are long; I can finally wander this mortal world with you ♫

[Rebel Princess]

[Episode 20]

The Princess Consort is back! The Princess Consort is back!

[ Manor of the Prince ]

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Greetings to Princess Consort for returning back to the manor.

We welcome Princess Consort back to the manor.

Princess Consort, so this is the Prince's manor in the capital?

It is so much better than what you said by a thousand and ten thousand times.

[ Manor of Prince Yuzhang ]

[ Manor of Prince Yuzhang ]

Greetings to Princess Consort.

Older brother.

- Let go. - Capture me.

- I’ll show you! - Say so after you get me!

Don’t run away.

You’re already married yet your hugging your brother, Aren’t you shy?

Not shy

I'm married, brother is still brother

Okay. Let me have a good look at you.

You have become skinny.

You’re talking about me.

But you have become lots weaker as well.

Guess what I have prepared for you.

What else can you prepare?

All of the excellent wine in the capital has been brought here.

Elder Brother, this welcoming feast of yours

is going to make me drunk for three days and three nights.

A’Wu.

Older brother wants to ask you something.

You must answer me truthfully.

I heard you and Xiao Qi have become mutually harmonious in marriage.

Is that true?

Good

This time, your older brother is at ease.

Why isn’t mother at home?

I just knew,

you would return to the Prime Minister's manor first,

and then see that mother wasn’t there and come here.

But Prince Yuzhang's manor has been designed so simply and crudely,

So, I specifically got some people to do this for you.

Why has Mother gone to live in Ci'an Temple?

Mother feels the Prime Minister's manor is too clamorous,

so she went to Ci'an Temple of her own accord for some peace and quiet.

Didn’t I already tell you?

It has already grown late, but I will take you to see her first thing in the morning.

Older brother. Tell me. What exactly happened?

Why must you force me? Every since His Majesty has woken up, he has been doing all sorts of things.

It hasn’t been good this whole entire time!

I don’t want to tell you this.

These few years, the whole political state was in the hands of aunt and father.

Mother is the Grand Elder Princess of this nation and is also the emperor's younger sister.

Facing these sorts of situations, how is she supposed to face her husband,

and how is she supposed to face the emperor?

The Wang clan has already gained control of the entire world.

What exactly do father and aunt want?

Has anyone ever thought of the hardships of mother?

Even if they have thought about it, what can they do about it?

Enough.

Wu Qian, just look at yourself.

Since you knew it would come to this, why did you commit treason in the first place?

Stop hitting me.

I have already said everything I am supposed to.

Have you really told me everything?

I have told you everything.

My wife has already died in their hands.

Wu Qian, you know that colluding with the rebels will only lead to your death sentence.

The Prime Minister is willing to give you an opportunity to atone for your crimes by rendering meritorious service

on account of the teacher-student relationship between you and him.

Don't assume for one second that dead men tell no tales even with the death of Marquis Xie.

All you have to do is reveal who the mastermind is right now.

Then who knows, I may really be able to let you live.

Our "teacher-student relationship"?

Does the Prime Minister think I'm one of his dogs from the Wang clan?

Dog?

How many people want to be a dog of the Wang Family?

But they don’t even have the luck to do so.

Continue hitting him.

What?

Wu Qian has fallen into Wang Xu's clutches?

Didn't I order you to get rid of him on the journey back? You useless creature!

Your Majesty. Your subordinates are incompetent.

Princess Consort Yuzhang sent her secret guards from the Wang family to escort Wu Qian in secret.

They managed to shake us off the moment they left Huizhou.

After they entered the city, he was handed over to the General Who is Firm and Majestic.

A’Wu.

You really are good. You can even hide from my people.

Wang Xu uses underhanded methods to extort confessions and has always been vicious!

Not one single person has been able to survive his methods!

And besides! Do you think a person such as Wu Qian who cares for nothing but saving his own skin

will be able to endure it anyway?

Fret not, Your Majesty.

According to my intel, Wu Qian is persisting with his story and staunchly insists on pushing all the blame to Xie Yuan.

Your Majesty and Duke Huan have not been implicated.

Shut up!

I’m telling you!

Only dead people can let my heart be at ease!

Get out of my sight!

This scene before my very eyes is just like going through the experience of déjà vu.

It takes me back to the day of the big wedding.

After Xiao Qi left, I lay all alone

on that beautiful marital bed decorated in red

and woke up the next morning, still in my wedding attire.

Fortunately, we've come full circle,

and in the end, we did not become passing ships.

On that day,

and for the rest of my life.

On that day,

and for the rest of my life.

At this moment, it looks as though the capital has not yet been startled even as the great waves come crashing down.

But I know a violent storm is about to break out soon.

In the end, I must become like Aunt and Mother,

and face it all on my own,

because my fate cannot be exchanged with anyone else's.

It wasn't me! It wasn't me!

Empress, what's wrong?

It wasn't me! It wasn't me!

Empress!

Someone come! Someone come quickly!

Empress, did you have another nightmare?

Your Majesty, that is a mirror! That is yourself!

All right, all right. No one is there.

There is no one there.

Drive them all away!

Drive them away!

All right, all right. Nothing's wrong.

- Your Majesty. - Come. Get up.

No one's there.

His Majesty keeps wanting to see Eunuch Xue.

I really did not have any other choice,

hence I had to invite you over.

What a useless bunch.

It's late now. You should rest.

Xue Dao'an.

Your Majesty, I am Jin Quan.

Xue Dao'an... he is sick.

From now on, he cannot serve Your Majesty.

Your Majesty, I shall now serve you to rest.

After finding out that you returned to the capital yesterday,

Grand Elder Princess had been sleepless all night.

Even before dawn, she had ordered me to welcome you.

How is Mother's health?

Grand Elder Princess's health is fine,

but she is overwhelmed.

Ever since you left for Huizhou after your wedding,

the estrangement between the Master and the Grand Elder Princess has become worse and worse.

Poor her. She's been so highly respected all her life.

She should be enjoying the company of her grandchildren,

but instead, all she has for company is an oil lamp before the statue of Buddha.

Mother has endured more hardship than that.

The capital is massive and the imperial palace is so wide,

yet none of these places will abide her.

Only this place allows for a thread of peace and quiet.

Princess Consort, when you meet the Grand Elder Princess, please talk to her of pleasant matters

so that she'll feel better.

I understand.

- Mother! - A'Wu!

Mother!

You've finally returned.

Mother, please return home with me.

The temple courtyard is cold and damp.

I do not wish for you to live here.

Home? I haven't had anywhere to call home for many years now.

There's nothing to be worried about anymore

now that I've seen you return safe and sound.

Who says you have nothing to worry about anymore?

Elder Brother and Father are waiting for you at home.

You are already married,

and Su'er already has a primary wife and a concubine.

The Prime Minister's manor is your home, the home of the Wang clansmen.

I am a daughter of the imperial household,

so naturally, I will have to return to the palace.

I may be from the palace and am the Grand Elder Princess,

but I have been weak and useless all my life.

I have disappointed you in the end.

Mother,

you cannot put it like that.

It is all my fault.

I shouldn't have left you.

I shouldn't have hidden away during your most solitary moments

and when you were feeling helpless.

I should have showed more interest in our family affairs.

I returned this time because I received a letter from Father.

He said you were grievously ill.

Do you still not understand the sort of man your father is?

He has always been proud and arrogant.

The only thing he brooded upon was the fact that he married me.

But from what I remember,

you and Father are a married couple who are very much in love.

Do you know who Lady Han was?

Lady Han?

I think I've heard Aunt Xu mention her before.

She was the only concubine Father took in,

but she'd already died of an illness before I was born.

She did not die of an illness.

She was forced by my Empress Mother to ingest wine infused with poison,

and died right in front of your father.

Your Majesty the Empress, I was wrong.

Please pardon her.

I promise I will never see her again.

Since the Prince Consort has personally asked to pardon her,

then I will grant her your wish.

She will be greatly satisfied.

Servants!

The poison-infused wine will be bestowed upon her!

- Empress Mother, you–! - Your Majesty the Empress, please spare my life!

A'Lin, save me!

Empress Mother...

What happened after that?

Later on, I became wracked with guilt

and constantly yielded to him and bore everything in silence.

I gradually shed the grand and exuberant characteristics of a princess.

I thought this matter had already faded from his memory since so many years had passed,

but I found out it had not the year Su'er got married.

I vaguely remember Eldest Brother's wedding.

I think... I was 12-years-old that year.

I'd wholeheartedly wanted to choose a lady from the imperial clan

who would be compatible with A'Su in both looks and status,

but your father passionately objected against it.

When I asked him the reason why,

all he said was, "When one takes a wife, one's wife must be virtuous."

"One does not need to demand for one's wife to have an important status."

Su'er himself had taken a liking to one particular lady.

She was Huan Mi.

Sister-in-Law was the lady Eldest Brother had taken a liking to?

But it appears to me the both of them aren't loving towards each other at all.

Eldest Sister-in-Law is frigid and taciturn.

I've never seen her smile.

Su'er didn't know Huan Mi had already been chosen

and was about to be conferred as Zilu's primary consort.

Zilu?

I was loathe to let Su'er marry Huan Mi,

but your father readily gave his assent.

The following day, he brought her into the palace to meet your aunt.

After that incident,

your father and I have only quarrelled twice.

Once was regarding your marriage,

and once was because of Su'er.

That day was the first time I saw him behaving in such a domineering and overbearing way,

and that was also the day he finally revealed his innermost thoughts.

I'm doing this for Su'er own good.

So what if the lady Su'er has set his sights upon

is supposedly about to become a prince's imperial consort?

Her marrying the Heir Apparent of the Wang clan

instead of an imperial descendant does not necessarily mean she is marrying an inferior husband.

As his mother, you should be delighted that Su'er obtained his heart's desire.

Where is the imperial family going to show their face

now that you've made such an unpredictable decision?

And when has the imperial family ever showed me, Wang Lin, any face?

When will you ever drop the subject?

The day you resurrect Lady Han from the dead

will be the day I drop the subject.

[ Supreme Enlightenment ]

It will be your birthday soon.

Another year has passed in the blink of an eye.

I would have forgotten all about it had you not mentioned it.

After celebrating this birthday with you,

I plan to shave my head and become a nun.

Mother... Must you do such a thing?

A'Wu, don't try to persuade me any longer.

I have already made up my mind.

You should go back.

Princess Consort, please.

[ Supreme Enlightenment ]

Princess Consort!

Princess Consort!

You also can't convince the eldest princess?

Will she really shave her head and become a nun?

No one wants to witness that.

Probably there is still someone who could convince her.

There might be the possibility to have a good turn of events.

Aunt Xu, you should go back first.

I will go to see my mother.

I understood, Your Highness.

The food arrived!

Why don't you come in to deliver it?

It's so dirty inside, who will deliver it to you?

Come here and eat now!

- What are you doing? - If you don't die, the master won't be at peace.

Your Majesty, I have already commanded to send out grains to Xiao Qi.

I think this is a great opportunity to ruin him.

You sent out grains?

Duke Han, it must be a good move.

Your Highness, I should also leave the capital.

But before leaving I have to send you a gift.

Your Highness, only if the vassal kings

keep Xiao Qi outside the city,

you will receive the tiger-shaped tally and the secret edict, since you are in the capital.

Then the empire will be in our hands.

Duke Han, we have been plotting this for a long time!

If we do not collect them now, then the black-headed goldfinches will all escape!

Eldest Brother, who else is so capable as to send a man of sacrifice to murder Wu Qian

right beneath our noses?

After analyzing this situation,

Xie Yuan and Xu Shou have all been taken care of.

I'm convinced there's a mole who has been planted.

Is it possible that it could still be Wen Zhongshen?

Enough.

Wu Qian has already died. You don't have to be in charge of this anymore.

I can deal with this by myself.

You should collaborate with Duke Han and collect grains for the soldiers.

Otherwise I won't have peace of mind.

Yes.

Her Majesty has already given the order! You are forbidden from taking even one step into Shiqian Hall!

Is His Majesty well?

- Is His Majesty doing well? - Leave now!

Let me stay here for a while!

Go now!

- Now! - Let me...

Let me took a look at him!

Scram! Now!

I am leaving...

I am leaving...

Master, you haven't eaten anything for the entire day!

- Stand up! - I can stand up by myself.

I have secretly prepared this stew for you.

It has the perfect temperature.

Eat it slowly, it shouldn't hurt your wound.

This has been prepared with my own hands.

Are you still worried?

You took good care of me in the past.

If I am to forget about it, then I will be the son of a b*tch.

I am not worried.

- Master... - Take it...

Listen to me...

Could you do something for me?

Tell me.

Take it.

After you deal with that matter,

don't you ever come back.

Dear officials, is there anything you must report?

Your Majesty, Your Highness.

Me, Wang Xu, I would like to expose today the crimes of a person.

General Wuwei, whom do you want to accuse?

Consoler Wen Zhongshen.

What? You first picked on Xie Family and tried to behead them.

Today, it's my turn, right?

Counselor Wen Zhongshen, watch your tone.

General Wang, speak up.

What crime has Wen Zhongshen commited?

Xu Shou colluded with Hulan in the past he plotted to poison the Yuzhang couple.

Fortunately, the plot fell through.

Now, Xu Shou died in Ningshuo.

He deserves to be punished. Death can't even wipe out his crimes.

But he still has accomplices in the royal court.

I received orders to secretly investigate Xu Shou's collusion with the enemy.

And as a matter of fact, I found a letter in his mansion.

Wen Zhongshen's writing style is famous all across the state.

I can't be wrong!

Crown Prince, please take a look at it!

This is indeed Advisor Wen's handwriting.

Wen Zhongshen, how can you explain what you've done?

Your Majesty...

If one is out to condemn somebody, he can always trump up a charge.

You must have found someone who imitated my hand writing! Framing me!

Wen's hand writing is an unique style!

Everyone in the state knows it!

So many literati...

if they were to learn it they wouldn't be able to imitate it.

Prime Minister, you mean...

In my opinion, Counselor Wen should spend a few days in the imperial prison.

If the Palace Attendant is found to be innocent after the investigation,

then all the General Who is Firm and Majestic has to do is apologise to him.

Wang Lin,

you're as ambitious as a wild wolf and that aspect is well understood by everyone!

Why don't you just drag me out right now to be beheaded and conclude matters?

Wen Zongshen!

I think the Prime Minister is absolutely right.

You haven't even been formally charged, what are you panicking for?

You're a stately Palace Attendant, yet you're making such an unreasonable scene in court.

How scandalous.

I think you have no choice but to be aggrieved for a few days.

Guards!

Arrest him!

Yu Xiu

Later, Sent someone to the house of the Third Prince.

To take Jin'er back

Zitan just came home

He must have someone attending him.

- Your Highness. There is something— - Yu Xiu

You and Jin'er

One stood by me in life and death situations,

One I grew up with.

Don't be to secretive.

Do you understand?

I understand.

Does the Empress want to see me or the Emperor

Your Highness, the Empress commands it.

Understood

Please arrive at the palace the day after tomorrow.

I take my leave.

One moment.

I have never seen you before.

This insignificant one used to be a servant at the Office of Improvements.

I was just sent ot Zhaouang Palace.

Yes I understand.

Yes, I take my leave

Your Royal Highness

You are of noble status

You should not be here.

You still blame me?

I don't know the so-called grievance of the queen

What is it?

If it is a matter of court.

I did resent the Empress

And the prime minister

That is true.

But if its about the past,

The Empress does not need to worry.

That was our best time,

the happiest of times

But instead ended up with the most tragic ending.

Strange...

Only blame us for being born into Nobility.

We had not control.

Alright , alright

It's all in the past.

Huan Xi Before I die,

can I see you again?

I will die with no regrets

Please go now.

I won't

I am here to save you.

[ Yifei Tavern ]

Your Highness, I am really ...

How dare you Quibble.

You have delayed me!

Now I missed Zidan

Since you are so useless, just crawl back to your master.

Don't pester me again.

Your Highness.

Your Highness I swear to the Heavens.

I saw with my own eyes that the princess took it.

But I don't know why.

His Royal Highness the Third Prince

I still remember

Maybe, maybe the herbs weren't strong enough.

I beg you... Please give me another chance.

I promise, I won't make a mistake this time.

Are you willing to do anything for His Royal Highness the Third Prince?

As long as its for the Third Prince

I am willing to do anything.

[ Yifei Tavern ]

I will send you back to Yuzhang's Home

Go to Wang Xuan

[ Huixiang Park ]

What?

Save me?

The Prime Minister wants to kill me

and the Empress wants to save me.

Remember in the past

Just because the Prime Minister said so, you left me just like that.

You left me just like that.

Now you are the Empress in power and I am a prisoner

just a few steps and still a thousand miles apart.

People in different paths cannot work together.

You should stop worrying about the past.

My brother wants to kill you

Because you have gone against the Wang Clan

Although the Xie Clan was defeated you won't give in.

I know you keep blaming me.

I failed you in the past.

But now , Whatever you do

I won't let my brother hurt you.

If you stand by the Crowned Prince

I will not only save your life

but reinstate your original position

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Your Majesty, you are to impatient

The Emperor is still alive

How can you say such a appalling thing?

Because he married me

Only to rely on the power of our royal family to ascend the throne

He wants to place another Heir to the thrown.

He has to ask the Wang Clan fist to see if we agree or not.

♫ The fear of rain and tears stain your plume ♫

♫ Time chases the distance of soldiers ♫

♫ There is still a limit to what you can miss ♫

♫ Why are there guests in this world? ♫

♫ Tears can be deceiving, love is hard to fake ♫

♫ I hear the wind withers and dies as if it's singing a thousand songs of sadness ♫

♫ In my dreams, I see you smiling like a painting ♫

♫ I'll be going to you on my horse ♫

♫ Return to your gentleness ♫

♫ I can't let go of my heart, I can't let go ♫

♫ I can't let go of my heart, I can't let go ♫

♫ Spend time with you ♫

♫ Because of you, I've lived a lifetime of prosperity ♫

♫ Waiting for the sea clouds to fade away ♫

♫ Home at all corners of the earth ♫

♫ We will meet again in spring, autumn, winter, and summer ♫

♫ For us, the moment that we've met ♫

♫ With the pace of a lifetime ♫

♫ To struggle, to worry ♫

♫ I will leave the world for your promise ♫

♫ Waiting for the sea to wash away the lead ♫

♫ Spend time with you ♫

♫ Because of you in this life ♫

♫ We meet again in spring, autumn, winter, and summer ♫

♫ When the sea has changed, the universe will already be changed ♫

♫ We meet again in spring, autumn, winter, and summer ♫