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"Fuyao" by Karen Mok

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♫ I start to dance nimbly and gracefully ♫

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♫ For what my beautiful face is frowned? ♫

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♫ Without him, I'll drift with the current ♫

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♫ Why is the tune of the zither a farewell song? ♫

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♫ Without me, he'll be lonely in this universe ♫

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♫ My heart silently waits at the cliff of Firmament ♫

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♫ The heaven, the earth, the sun and the moon are all in my bosom ♫

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♫ How can I own the top freedom in this world? ♫

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♫ There is no fear from my heart ♫

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♫ Deep love won't hide ♫

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♫ True love won't run short ♫

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♫ Dreams give hopes through all the ages ♫

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♫ Why go through storms and stress to be bright and beautiful? ♫

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♫ There is no struggle from my heart ♫

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♫ Swaying along with the wind ♫

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♫ I can do anything freely ♫

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♫ I enter my dreams easily and unrestrainedly ♫

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♫ What a beautiful dance ♫

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[Legend of Fuyao]

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~Episode 61~

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Your Highness, where are we going now?

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Go back.

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Ha?

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Go back to the Imperial City.

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If we dare to return to the Imperial City now, then that's walking into a net.

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Could it be Your Highness has some additional plans?

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Plan?

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This is my last plan.

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I've long secretly taken note of the configuration of Zhangsun Jia's army.

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If he isn't reliable,

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this then will be my last life-saving straw.

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Your Highness is wise.

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If a person...

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...doesn't know to prepare oneself a backup path,

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then that's forcing oneself to walk a doomed path!

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When we returned to the Imperial City,

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Your Highness can tell His Majesty

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that just for the empire, you bore the humiliation and sided with the enemy, so that you can investigate their military situation.

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Your Highness is after all...

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...His Majesty's own flesh and blood. His Majesty will be lenient.

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Yes!

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No matter how my Royal Father will punish me,

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as long as I'm alive, that's way better than anything!

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Right?

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Xu Lai...

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Do you know what I did wrong?

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My mistake is getting born in this imperial family, be this unfavored son,

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and being unable to resign to my fate!

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Your Highness, don't blame me.

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You can only blame the unfairness of this world.

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I've followed you for such a long time and just wanted to have a good future.

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You have now lost your power.

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I have to find myself a way to survive, right?

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Prince Virtue said that you're unreliable. If you escape, I must kill you.

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For a person like me, I never had any principle.

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I only care about who's stand I'm taking, and not who's right or wrong.

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You were the one who taught me all these.

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Young Lord, it's already the fourth night watch period (1 to 3 am). You should rest.

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Tell me,

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if these chess pieces have thoughts,

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what will they be thinking?

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The world is like a game of chess. Although we're not chess pieces,

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just because we don't want to accept being manipulated, we unknowingly will give in.

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After a long time, we tend to forget the principle that even if we keep calculating our wins and losses,

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we won't be able to escape this small area.

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Who really is this person that you're talking about.

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Who do you think?

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It can't be the person that I'm thinking...

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But in doing this...

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...what is his purpose?

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Who is he targeting? Is it Prince Virtue?

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Or you?

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Could it be...Wuji?

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You are quite clever.

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This...

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I don't understand.

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Of course, you won't understand.

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All of these can only be explained by the past.

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That year, I was just 16.

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But in my heart, I already was deeply in love with a certain person.

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We wanted to be together for a lifetime.

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When he was preparing to go to my house and ask for my hand in marriage,

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the newly crowned

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Father Emperor announced that he wants to marry me.

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I didn't want to get married. I wanted to escape.

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But behind us, there were a lot of loved ones.

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In the end, I hesitated.

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He gave up.

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But only when I married into the palace did I know...

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...that the emperor who married me didn't really care about me.

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Everything he did was just to separate us.

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If not because of Wuji...that one day...

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...he'll be able to become the emperor, I would have long given up on all these

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and just went away with him.

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As long one can be with the person she loves,

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those gossiping mouths

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and a chaotic world won't really mean a thing.

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You want to leave?

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Want to live paradise-like days with him?

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Those ideas are possible too.

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But Empress,

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you always like to mix reality with imaginations.

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In this world, how can there be so many romanticism and sweetness?

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Informing Prince.

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Was your injury grave?

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I was incompetent.

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Did you get any information?

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Empress indeed got abducted by His Majesty.

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Our plan got leaked?

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Yes.

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I risked my life to return and inform you. I fear that the other palace spies have already...

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Do you know where she's being locked up right now?

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His Majesty did this matter in a very covert manner.

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I wasn't able to find it out.

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Leave and get your wounds treated.

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I wasn't able to fulfill your order. I deserved to die! May Prince punish me.

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It's fine.

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This wasn't your fault too. Go now.

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Prince, the reinforcements that Crown Prince mobilized has already arrived through the southern mountain pass.

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Roughly estimating it, there are about 300,000 of them.

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Also, they seemed to be trying to surround us. Our plan...

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Spread my order, we'll go to battle tomorrow.

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When they see the smoke signal, let General Ma set out to war.

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What about our arrangements in the palace?

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I still have to carefully think about it.

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Leave now.

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Yes.

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Leave now.

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I'll send men to escort you. Nothing bad will happen to you.

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In the past, it's me who was unfaithful to you. The sins, the mistakes,

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the retributions should all be paid by me.

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It's me who didn't take good care of you two. In the future,

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I fear that I won't have any chance to make up for it anymore.

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The only thing I can do now is to let you go.

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Let you live well.

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Why aren't you asking...

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...for the reason that I took Lian'er and left without a word?

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Where have I been hiding all these years? How did I live my days?

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I was disloyal to you. You should hate me.

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I didn't search for you two then, not because I was heartless,

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but because staying farther away from me

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might allow you two to live better.

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Live better?

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You totally don't know what happened that time.

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What really do you want to do?

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Try guessing where Wuji's army is now.

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No...

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Wuji is the crown prince of Megrez! He's your son! You...

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You shouldn't treat him like this!

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You're going to harm Wuji?!

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Isn't it enough that you take Zhangsun Jia and my life?

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Why must you still involve Wuji in this?!

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What mistake has he done?!

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Wuji respected you so much! You actually want to use him to seek revenge?!

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You all think that I'm using others, but have you ever realized...

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...that the whole Megrez is also using me?

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The Father Emperor may look like he has power over the whole world, but that's not actually the case.

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He's being restricted by the Five Regions, being exhausted by millions of citizens. You all can see that.

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We still have time today.

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In here, I'll tell you two a story.

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Maybe after today,

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no one will know about the origin of this matter anymore.

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Once, there was a pair of brothers born from the same mother and grew up together.

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It can be said that they had deep affection for each other.

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The little brother was intelligent and quick-witted, easily earning the doting of people.

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Everyone would love him

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a bit more.

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And this older brother was young but lacked vigor and drive, was not eloquent.

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His father treated this character of his

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as being mediocre and dull.

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He wasn't good in explaining,

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so he just focused on studying hard,

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from early in the morning to late at night.

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Hoping that one day, he can

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unburden his parents on some responsibilities.

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You have guessed it, right? The younger brother is Zhangsun Jia.

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And that dull older brother is me.

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Afterwards,

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my Royal Father never hid

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his favoritism on Zhangsun Jia. Everyone in the government knew it.

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After conferring me as the Crown Prince, the voices of people

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wanting to remove me and making Zhangsun Jia as the Crown Prince didn't stop,

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but my Royal Father never did so.

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Fuyao, do you know why?

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Maybe...your Royal Father still cares about you.

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That's also what I initially thought.

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The emperor position of our Megrez is really an ominous one.

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For the past 3 or 4 emperors, not one was able to live beyond 40 years old.

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With His Majesty suddenly collapsing from sickness now, it must be an unlucky sign.

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To tell you the truth, based on His Majesty's appearance earlier,

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he probably will just last for 3 to 5 days. Even if they are able to come up with a method to save him, I fear that it's already too late.

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- But we must preserve our life.

- Of course.

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I heard that someone just died in the palace today. What's that about?

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Someone wanted to suggest making Second Prince as the crown prince.

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This angered His Majesty so much that he ordered his execution right there and then.

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But doesn't His Majesty always favored Second Prince?

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Since he loves him so dearly, how can he bear to let him suffer that evil curse of the royal throne?

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That's right too. Before, I heard His Majesty and Her Ladyship saying

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that Second Prince is their favorite.

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They are not wiling to let him unfairly die just for the Five Regions.

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So, they were talking about this?

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Yes. Think about it. If he becomes the emperor, he'll only be able to live upto 30 plus years.

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But isn't this being too unfair to Crown Prince?

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But afterwards, I learned that Royal Father clearly knew

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that the emperor throne of Megrez

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is a death game (hopeless situation) that no one can decipher. And I...

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...was just a chess piece in his hand that he pushed into that throne. In the end,

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I became a sacrificial offering to the throne of Megrez Empire! A sacrificial offering!

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Since you knew it, why didn't you make a choice?

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You still couldn't let go of that supreme power.

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Of course, I've thought about it. I realized

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that even if I won't get a good death while on this throne,

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but other than myself,

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I will be able to control the life and death of everyone!

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Yours, hers, the life and death of all of you!

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Your Majesty, but for so many years,

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you were able to sit on that throne.

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It's enough to prove that those short life rumors are false.

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Those rumors are not false.

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It's because I used several decades to decipher a way out of that death game, but in exchange,

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I am to suffer pain for a lifetime.

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But so what? The descendants of Zhangsun

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can now forever be rid of this curse.

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In my Megrez imperial throne,

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the heir can now live for a very long time,

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so all these pain is nothing.

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Your Majesty, since that's the case, why then must you—

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Because someone betrayed me!

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Not only a betrayal, she caused an emperor to suffer humiliation!

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So...you've known it all along?

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Empress...I want you to tell it to me personally.

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Whose son is Wuji?

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It's...

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Wuji is...

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Wuji is...

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These past years, have you always thought that it was because

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I discovered your affair with Empress, and in a moment of anger,

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took Lian'er and left?

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I indeed believed so.

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Yes... The peach flower that year...

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...blossomed so beautifully.

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I brought Lian'er to the palace to admire the flowers.

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If not because we accidentally saw you and Empress secretly meeting,

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we wouldn't have left in a rush.

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The more we wouldn't have lost our way inside the palace...

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...and heard things that we shouldn't have heard.

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Mother, where are we going? Mother.

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- I'll take you home.

- Your Majesty!

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These past years, Pingrong and I never did anything wrong.

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How come the one who is a crown prince now is her son?

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The royal throne of Megrez has always been for the most talented and not who is the eldest.

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Wuji has been outstanding since he was little.

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And now, he has been chosen as a disciple of the Changqing Palace Hall in Firmament.

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Making him the crown prince is what the public desires.

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But Pingrong...is your real son.

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Your Majesty, you clearly know

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that Wuji...is just an illegitimate child!

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Shut up!

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Royal Mother.

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That day, I learned about the greatest secret of the imperial palace.

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I was so afraid.

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I...

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I was afraid...

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I took Lian'er

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and tried to escape for our lives, escape back home.

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The only thing I could think of is you.

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I didn't care what you've done.

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As long as you could preserve Lian'er's life, I can overlook everything else.

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But where were you?

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You were in the warm embrace of that woman, while Lian'er and I were being chased to be killed!

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Go look around. They are just nearby.

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Don't make a sound.

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Afterwards, Palace Master Fei Yan rescued me out of the fire.

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She never saves people out of pity.

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One has to pay a price.

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What price?

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She took away a part of my lifespan.

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Muddled my consciousness.

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I became a crazy woman. But Lian'er...

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My Lian'er...

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I couldn't find my daughter.

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I will never...

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...will never find her again.

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When Lian'er and I needed you the most, where were you?!

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Our pain and suffering allowed you and that woman to successfully be together.

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Yes, the person who wanted to kill me is your Royal Brother Zhangsun Jiong.

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But the one who truly killed me is you!

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I know...

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I know that any explanation is useless anymore.

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I don't ask for your forgiveness.

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But for the situations in the past...sometimes, I was left with no choice.

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Of course, you had a choice!

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If from the start, you didn't have an affair with the Empress, all of these wouldn't have happened!

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It was you who killed Lian'er. It was you created all of these!

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I hate you! I hate you!

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Hence, you allowed Zhangsun Jiong to use you to kill me?

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Kill you?

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Your life is worthless.

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Zhangsun Jiong just want me to tell you a truth.

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If I'm able to do it, he will tell me where Lian'er is.

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No matter if what he said is true or not, I'm willing to give it a try.

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I finally can go see my daughter.

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What truth?

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Zhangsun Wuji is yours and Yuan Qingyi's son.

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Is he crazy?!

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Wuji is the most outstanding among the descendants of the Zhangsun clan,

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but he is that person's bloodline.

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As a ruler, I think highly of his talent, loves him.

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But as a man, I hate him.

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He is after all not my son.

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Every time he calls me Royal Father,

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my hatred towards him would increase.

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But Wuji is innocent!

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No one is innocent!

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As the descendant of the Zhangsun clan, the more he should understand

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the principle of survival of the fittest.

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A sin stained with blood can only be washed cleanly using more blood.

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No one can escape it! No one—

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Enough!

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Other than forcing Zhangsun Jia to death,

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what else do you want to do?!

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Empress,

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I have a medicine here that when a person takes it in, her consciousness will shatter and her liver and gallbladder will rupture.

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- He will slowly die in pain.

- No...

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No! You mustn't treat Wuji this way!

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How should I treat the child that you and my younger brother gave birth to?

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Don't... Your Majesty...

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Of course, I won't let him die now.

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He is the royal heir that I've chosen.

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He must ascend to the throne of Megrez.

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I want him to know that even with the supreme kind of honor and glory, one can't break a death game.

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You and Empress had been having a secret affair for so many years.

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Have you never thought that her son might be yours?

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Impossible...

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Impossible! Impossible! Totally impossible!

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Zhangsun Jiong is really so patient.

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He favored Crown Prince for so many years, wasn't it to wait for this day?

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Wait for you to incite an uprising,

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you and your son meeting with swords and spears, hurting each other.

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Let that woman who betrayed him suffer this heart wrenching pain!

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He...used 20 years?

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You are saying that he used 20 years to set up a game (trap)?

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When you become the supreme ruler, you sever your affection for all your six relations. (close family ties)

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He...hated you so much.

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What do you plan to do now?

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What else?

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Fight.

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You clearly know that he is your real son.

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You clearly know that this is Zhangsun Jiong's trap. You still are fighting?

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I have no choice.

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Hence, just to continue living,

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just for power and prestige, you're not even sparing your own son?

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Right now, I am a traitor of Megrez.

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Anyone has the right to punish me.

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If Wuji kills me, he'll be able to win the hearts of the people, the world.

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Only if I die in the battlefield,

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can Wuji's crown prince position be preserved,

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can I give Zhangsun Jiong...

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...the last fatal blow.

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I never had the wild ambition of usurping the throne.

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All of these today

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was a product of Royal Brother's pressuring.

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Since I now know that Wuji is my son,

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how can I treat him as my enemy?

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This path to the throne...

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...Wuji...

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...must step on my corpse to climb up to it.

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This imperial throne has always been stained by the blood of one's kin.

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Wuji will not be an exception!

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Is this...

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...the revenge of Zhangsun Jiong?

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I'm going to make him endure pain and injury that's...

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...beyond the ordinary.

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Oh, right.

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You two are the most important people for Wuji.

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If one of you...

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...personally poisoned the other one,

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how would Wuji deal with that?

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Don't...

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Your Majesty,

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ever since, Wuji has treated you like his real father.

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He respected, loved, and cared for you.

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From Deep Water Nation to now, he has been cautious and careful.

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He dared to not be lax at any moment.

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It was because he was afraid to disappoint you.

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Because in his heart,

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you are his most respected person.

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Now...maybe...

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...because he wasn't of your bloodline,

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can you really bear to treat him like this?

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Wuji...

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...is a good child.

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He never disappointed me.

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But today...

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...just treat today as the last class I'm giving him...

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...about the principles of being a ruler.

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Even if everyone will abandon him,

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he still must continue moving forward alone

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with a heart that's as strong as iron.

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After one incense time,

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this place will be filled with poisonous mist.

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I don't care if either one of you poison the other and leave this place,

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or you two both die in here. You two decide.

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My Wuji...

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You will finally be able to experience the taste of extreme agony...

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...just like I do.

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Your Majesty, don't! Don't...

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Your Majesty...

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Your Highness Crown Prince, Prince Virtue's rebel army has been surrouonded. He has no chance of winning.

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Why are you still hesitating?

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Prince.

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Informing Prince, the time has come. Crown Prince's army indeed entered our trap. I'm just waiting

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for your command. Upon lighting the smoke signal, General Ma can then set out with his army.

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Prince, chances come and go in an instant. Please immediately give the order.

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Fine. I'll personally face him.

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Prince.

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Spread my order. Tell Ma Wende to withdraw.

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Prince, you must not!

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If General Ma withdraws, we will surely lose this battle!

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I have made my decision. Don't try to urge me anymore.

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I'll bear the result of this battle...

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...by myself.

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- Prince!

- Spread my command!

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Yes.

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Wait.

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In the past, whenever you set out for war,

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it has always been me who puts on your armor and sword.

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Today,

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can you let me put it on you one more time?

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Before, whenever you leave, I would recite these words 3 times in my heart,

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"Come back safely..."

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Every time, you would come back safely.

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Being a married couple,

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no matter what, it's a fate we've cultivated for thousands of years.

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Too bad...we're both old now.

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I wronged you.

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From now on, our ties are severed. You made your choice.

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Life or death, rich or poor, all are destined. You don't need to worry about anyone anymore.

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Your Princess Virtue is already dead.

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A'Rong...

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I believe that our Lian'er is still alive.

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You must find her. No matter what, you must find her.

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You two...

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...must live well.

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"Hard-to-Get Love" by Lala Hsu

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♫ What do you know? ♫

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♫ What are good about the three realms? ♫

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♫ If there were no three poisons, if there were no worries, ♫

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♫ How can it make me reluctant to leave? ♫

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♫ Worry for love, beg for hate ♫

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♫ And even discard my soul for affection ♫

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♫ The one, who asks me to love him, loves me ♫

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♫ I only want him to love me ♫

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♫ What do you use to exchange for this hard-to-get love? ♫

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♫ If there's no sickness or weakness, if there's never oldness ♫

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♫ How can it make a spark to chase after stars alone? ♫

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♫ Slim down for him, stay for my heart ♫

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♫ And even chase away all luck for dreams ♫

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♫ It wants me to be so pretty that I seize his soul ♫

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♫ And continue dazzling in his heart ♫

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♫ There is a saying that what a person asks for the lifetime ♫

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♫ Is no more than staying together with one's lover by any means ♫

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♫ If one can't obtain what one asks for ♫

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♫ one is filled with anxiety and with knitted brows ♫

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♫ There is a saying that if a person asks for the next lifetime ♫

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♫ one should only ask to know everything about warfare ♫

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♫ Dreams beg heart to grant me love ♫

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♫ And have someone's company for the rest of my life ♫

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♫ Have someone's company♫

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♫ There is a saying that what a person asks for the lifetime ♫

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♫ Is no more than staying together with one's lover by any means ♫

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♫ If one can't obtain what one asks for ♫

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♫ one is filled with anxiety and with knitted brows ♫

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♫ There is a saying that if a person asks for the next lifetime ♫

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♫ one should only ask to know everything about warfare ♫

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♫ Dreams beg heart to grant me love ♫

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♫ And have someone's company for the rest of my life ♫