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What strange disease do you have?

Who gets red rash all over the body

when getting close to a man?

Concubine was unable to serve twice.

It is worse than

being sent to the Cold Palace.

I hope His Majesty

will give you another chance.

Otherwise, you will only have one way out...

to die a natural death in the palace.

Mistress, do not be sad.

You are not the only one

who has not served in the palace yet.

There is still Nie Wushuang.

Don't compare me to that wench.

Giving up so quickly?

Concubine did not know that King of Rui is here.

I committed a breach of etiquette.

You are too gullible.

You and Zhaoyi Nie are different.

She has a heart of stone.

She will act aloof and indifferent

to any strike or blow.

How can she be compared with this concubine?

She's only

a female entertainer with no one to depend on.

Your identity may be different

but your situation is comparable.

Comparable

because you are both not favoured by the emperor.

Concubine... concubine is different than her.

His Majesty cannot get close to this concubine

because she has a strange disease

and cannot be touched.

And she...

she is just a lowly person.

She definitely did not remain pure.

It is natural for His Majesty to loathe to touch her.

You have to

cure your illness quickly then.

Do not let Zhaoyi Nie

beat you with one step

and gain emperor's favour.

It would be really bad then.

Concubine...

Concubine will never lose to her!

How can there be

such a strange disease

where you get a rash whenever you get close to a man.

Here.

Let go!

You have the capital

that men are really fond of.

Remember.

Make sure that Zhaoyi Nie is the only one

in the palace that has not been favoured.

Royal Highness King of Rui...

Mistress Jieyu Bao, you do not have the rash.

Yes, there is really no sign of it.

Congratulations, Jieyu Bao.

Why are you avoiding me?

I am not in the mood to play with you.

I have never treated you

as a game.

Your Royal Highness,

is there anything else you can do

besides playing with

women's emotions?

You must be angry with me

because you have

heard my conversation just now?

Wushuang never gets angry

at people unrelated to her.

I ask Your Royal Highness to not fancy yourself as a favourite of mine.

You are obviously so angry that you almost foam with rage

and still say that you are not.

This is exactly my purpose.

I am not interested

in whatever purpose you may have.

I only know

my purpose is revenge.

Is it not just like me?

Who is like you?

Let me advise you then.

If you want revenge,

win the emperor or me over as soon as possible

so that you can fulfil your wish

as soon as possible.

Thank you, Your Royal Highness, for the advice.

But I also want to implore Your Royal Highness.

Since there is no room for the owner

of this gem in my heart,

do not flaunt

your mercy or forgiveness everywhere.

Love is more shameless

than ruthlessness and unfeeling.

Your Royal Highness... Your Royal Highness?

Deshun took care of you since childhood.

I naturally know

what is Your Royal Highness thinking.

But with all due respect,

why does Your Royal Highness

always say things to Zhaoyi Nie that make her sad?

Because I want to know

how sad will I feel

knowing that she is sad...

Elder Sister, don't be angry.

Elder Sister told Xia Lan once

that Elder Sister

acquired that gem when you were drowning as a child.

If it really

belongs to someone that King of Rui cannot let go of,

then this person must be older than

Elder Sister and King of Rui.

Perhaps... Perhaps...

it is someone who is not among the living anymore.

Don't mention him.

I do not want to talk about him anymore.

Can you give me this jade pendant?

I want to hold this jade pendant in my hand.

Hold it in my hand all the time...

Princess...

you are always staring at this jade pendant.

Why don't you go

to the man who gave it to you?

Mind your own business. What do you know?

Maidservant listened to the information

concerning Commander Miao's feelings

to report it to Princess.

I guess this was unnecessary.

maidservant will not disturb the Princess

in staring at the pendant and thinking about that person.

What did you find about Elder Brother Miao?

Speak.

Speak.

How dare a maidservant put her finger into another's pie? (meddle in the affairs of others)

You truly have grown up today.

Are you going to say it or not?

Are you going to say it or not? Are you saying or not?

All right, all right, all right. I'll tell.

Maidservant will tell, maidservant will tell.

Maidservant has found out for the Princess

that since returning from Donglin Temple

His Majesty was worried that the plague

was actually Li State's conspiracy,

therefore, it was necessary for Commander Miao to dispatch more people

to guard the core of the imperial city,

palace' water consumption

and all the food in the palace.

Everything from tea lives to spices

has to be carefully examined.

Can't these trivial things

be done by Xue Bi?

According to this maidservant,

His Majesty is worried

that some people refuse to accept Commander Miao

so he especially arranged for him

to deal with these heavy tasks.

Commander Miao is acting

accordingly in silence.

But he is truly wronged by this.

What do you understand?

Li State is the only place

where he can

avenge his family.

I heard that his dead wife was pregnant

when she was beheaded.

His five-year-old son

was also not spared.

Good boy. When you grow up,

become a great hero

just like your father,

all right?

In the future,

help mother take care of your younger brother.

Father, you are back.

San'er...

Husband must be tired today.

Hurry up and wash yourself so you can have an early rest.

Father,

I would like to have a piece of rose cake.

All right, Father will get some for you.

Father will get it for you.

San'er,

father brought you the rose cakes.

Open your mouth, open it up.

Here, eat.

Father will eat one too.

Your mother said

she has just made us something to eat.

Come. Come with father.

Come, sit here.

San'er, you know

you should eat more

so in the future, when you grow up

you can be as strong

as your father is

so you can protect people on the side,

protect our homes and defend our country.

Come, open your mouth.

Look at that, this is how you suppose to eat.

To improve your health

you should eat more meat.

San'er...

Elder Brother Miao,

you need to have a strong body

to lead the new Lan State' army.

Lan State is powerful,

it will definitely avenge your murdered clan.

Lan State will definitely give you another home.

Withdraw.

Princess.

Prime Minister's mansion

is truly a nice place.

I have just made a tour around it.

One can see the host’s

painstaking effort to maintain

this happy home of a young couple.

Princess, what are you trying to say?

When I was helping

Prime Minister Gu to avenge his family,

you have promised me

that the Prime Minister’s mansion

will become imperial son-in-law’s mansion.

Princess, you are too persistent.

But since you stole my medical prescription

and gave it

to Prime Minister’s former wife in Donglin Temple,

I shall no longer be persistent.

I knew you would follow me.

But Princess,

I have been in the Li State for a long time already.

The drought and the loss of harvest

turned citizens into desolate refugees.

There are many dead bodies on the southbound road.

If the plague

overflows Lan State at this time,

the Juliao will certainly take advantage of the opportunity to invade the south

When the time comes, the refugees will have hard time to return home

and the country situation will be unstable.

It is all

because of your

love and hatred for me, Princess.

That is why

I cannot watch what is happening

with folded arms. (without lifting a finger)

So

what you saved was not Nie Wushuang,

not Lan State

but the world?

What a great achievement.

I know that I was in the wrong

and I am eager

to resign from the prime minister’s post

to apologize to the whole world.

Gu Qinghong,

do you really think

you can leave everything behind

and that the love between us will be lost?

If I can’t

dissolve Princess’ hatred

by doing so,

then Gu is willing to give my official uniform

and offer his neck

to the Princess.

I am not

a swordmaster to handle it.

I will give this dagger

to the person you love the most

and let her do it for you.

This will be

enough to satisfy me.

The plague was caused by me.

I will definitely use my own way

to remedy it.

What way?

A good way

to set us both free.

Is Princess really going

to carry out this plan?

How can a princess of Li State

lose to a mere

foreign female entertainer?

I heard that this Nie Wushuang

has never been favoured

since she arrived at Lan Palace.

How can she be called “a beauty that can overturn a country”?

King of Rui and King of Lan are both deeply in love with her.

Xiao Fengmin

should not let Nie Wushuang

become a thorn between

two brothers.

Princess can make good use

of this delicate relationship

to avenge your lost love.

King of Rui...

If he just hadn’t meddled

and saved that wench from the cold river...

There is no

place for Miao Qianqian in this world.

It seems that the fate between them two

is continuously diminishing.

Fate?

Fate is the most unreal and unpredictable

thing in the world.

Jiao Tong also has an old friend

in Lan Palace

that she had not seen for years.

I wonder

if we are fated to meet again.

You came.

Yes.

Wushuang knows that Your Majesty is busy with state affairs.

and is worried about His Majesty’s dragon body.

I do not know how to share His Majesty’s worries.

I could not think

of anything else

except making some fragrant tea.

You do not have to do anything.

It is enough

if you stay beside me.

Your Majesty.

it seems that your worries

are more annoying than mine.

Do you want to tell me about them?

Your Majesty,

Wushuang earnestly asks Your Majesty

to send me out of the palace.

Send you out? Why?

The emperors from Li State and Lan State

want to get the map that leads to the precious treasure.

Even Gu Qinghong

has slaughtered my family that day

because of this treasure map.

I want to go north to find it for Your Majesty.

If Your Majesty can get this map,

the unification of the north and south

will come one step closer.

You want to look for Gu Qinghong.

One that is not afraid of dying is truly fearless.

What if

Gu Qinghong presented the map

to Gao Yang?

One that is not afraid of dying is truly fearless.

You hate Gao Yang and Gu Qinghong

because they slaughtered your whole family.

I know your mood very well.

But

I will not let you out of the palace

because I have promised

to protect you well.

To provide shelter

for your elder brother, Miao Minghu.

Your Majesty,

Wushuang accepts Your Majesty’s

and King of Rui’s grace

that allowed to drag me out of ignoble existence.

Even if Your Majesty

uses Wushuang as a pawn,

Wushuang will not complain.

Wushuang just want to do something

for Great Lan in her remaining years

to return Your Majesty’s and King of Rui’s grace.

I ask Your Majesty to help me achieve this aim.

Do you think

I despise you

because of your background?

Absolutely not.

Do you think I treat you as a pawn

to make Miao Minghu stay?

Definitely not.

It seems that you do not know me very well.

I don’t have the time.

Thus

I won’t let you out of the palace

Your Majesty...

There is no need to talk about it anymore!

Having you by my side

is a sufficient reward for me.

By the way,

did you tell anyone

that I didn’t put

Meiren Wushuang

into the carriage?

This humble one is loyal to Your Majesty.

He has definitely not mentioned it to anyone.

And because you did not tell anyone

Fifth Younger Brother set the carriage on fire.

I am not the only one

who does not want Wushuang leave

the palace.

Shouldn’t you be at King of Rui’s place?

How could you be here?

Did something happened to King of Rui?

Where are you taking me?

Is that you?

Did you save me that year?

Are you the person

King of Rui cannot let go of?

What is your relationship with him?

Who is it?

Who is here?

Who are you exactly?

Why does this gem

have such magical power?

King of Rui...

No… I cannot go to her...

I cannot go to her...

- King of Rui. - I don’t know

what I am doing myself.

Uhm… your gemstone...

I won't be as worthless as it is,

clinging to you all the time!

Nie Wushuang,

I am an orphan in this palace.

An outcast!

No one wants to provoke me.

Why can’t you be

like everyone else?!

You do not have to do it.

I promise you.

If this gem reappears again,

I will not touch it.

If seeing me makes you so unhappy,

I will try not to appear

in front of you.

Are you really so unwilling to see me?

I will throw you back into the river

with this gem then.

Just pretend I did not save you.

Something bad happened, Your Majesty

What is it? Hurry up and speak.

A guard has stopped a carriage

that rushed from

the palace gate on the road

There was King of Rui

and… and Zhaoyi Nie in the carriage.

When the guard saw King of Rui

he did not dare to act rashly

and sent someone to report it immediately.

I forgot to give King of Rui

the token allowing him to leave the palace.

Pass my verbal instructions.

Those two shall not be prevented from leaving the palace.

Yes.

Release me.

Where are you taking me?

I am going to take you to a place

where there are only two of us

and we will never come back.

I am not going!

I have to return to the palace.

What are you going to do after going back?

Is there anyone else in the palace

you cannot let go of?

Can’t you let go of your hatred

or can’t you let go of the emperor?

I do not have to tell you this.

I have to know.

I, Xiao Fengqing

cannot let go.

♫ Waiting for our story to continue... ♫

Nie Wushuang, you win.

Come with me.

I can give you

a new identity.

I don’t want a new identity.

It is fine now. I do not want to leave.

Are you waiting for the emperor to favour you?

You...

Yes.

I am waiting for what all women in the harem

are waiting for.

So I do not want to leave.

King of Rui does not have to worry.

I once saved someone.

The moment I rescued her

from the river

and I saw a gem hanging on her neck,

I felt that there is a certain

fate that binds us together.

A wonderful fate.

She would do

anything for revenge, even swear that the black is white.

I told myself

that I want to help her to be reborn.

Empress Dowager was trying to hurt her

one time after another.

I pretended not to care at that time

but secretly guarded her all the time.

I put the carriage

heading to Jiuliao on fire.

At that time, I discovered

that I was not the only one who couldn't bear

to part with her

and so that is why

I have to take her away

before it is too late.

Even if that woman

never loved me.

♫ In the parallel time and space... ♫

No.

The owner of this gem

once told me

“once you fall in love, you will hurt somebody’s feelings and yourself”.

Do you still want to

find the owner of that gem?

Yes. I want to find her.

I want her to come back

and treat you well.

Let me tell you something then.

She has left.

She will never

come back here again!

No, she did not leave.

She is still in the palace.

I saw her

in the Shangyuan Palace last night.

What did you say?

The woman you cannot

let go of

has always been in the palace.

Do you know what are you talking about?

I really saw her.

It was this gem that appeared

in Cuihua Pavilion last night.

It took me there.

Where is she?

Where is she in Shangyuan Palace?

Where did you see her?

His Majesty’s verbal instruction!

Allow King of Rui and Zhaoyi Nie to pass!

♫ Parallel to our respective line of sight, ♫

♫ I want to reach out and hug you, ♫

♫ Waiting for the things to change with the passing of the years... ♫

Return to the palace.

♫ Waiting for our story to continue... ♫

Your Highness King of Rui

What are you doing?

If there is anything, please go into the imperial study.

Wait till His majesty comes and talk to him.

Your Royal Highness, look at your body.

You are drenched.

When will His Majesty come back?

His Majesty will return

to the imperial study afer

consulting ministers on political affairs.

I will wait for him here.

Your Royal Highness,

just listen to this humble one.

Your Royal Highness...

Your Majesty...

Nie Wushuang,

I won’t let you leave

without my permission in the future.

I told myself

that if you come back this time,

you will belong to me.

And if you leave,

I will give you to Fengqing.

Your Highness King of Rui

I am afraid that His Majesty

cannot come back to the imperial study today.

Why don’t Your Royal Highness return to your mansion first?

Where is my imperial brother?

I need to talk to him about something important.

Your Majesty is sleeping

at Zhaoyi Nie’s Cuihua Pavilion today.

Your Royal Highness...

Your Royal Highness!

His Majesty had no heart to wake Elder Sister.

He went to Shangyuan Palace early in the morning.

Congratulations to Zhaoyi Nie.

In the early morning, His Majesty instructed

the Office of the Internal Affairs to bring in many rare and exotic products.

It clearly shows His Majesty’s

consideration for Imperial Concubine.

Congratulations to Zhaoyi Nie.

You may all rise.

Thank you, Zhaoyi.

Eunuch Yang,

reward all the people in Cuihua Pavilion today.

Yes.

Let’s see

who dares to bully Elder Sister from now on.

When Elder Sister gives His Majesty

a dragon heir in the future,

her prospects will be even better.

Yang Zhi.

Take everyone out to receive their rewards.

Yes.

Xia Lan.

Where did

King of Rui went after we coming back yesterday?

I heard Eunuch Lin say

that as soon as King of Rui came back,

he stood outside the imperial study and waited for His Majesty.

Then he walked alone in the rain.

People in the palace called him to open an umbrella for him

but he acted like he didn’t hear them.

He walked all night

in the direction of the main road.

Reporting to Your Majesty,

Jiuliao Army has swept everything before it

southward,

taking all the flat land one could gallop straight across. (taking wide expanse of flat country)

If the army accidentally takes over Yecheng,

it will be difficult to protect ourselves.

Jiuliao has a natural border

with Li State.

It is common for them

to engage Li State into fights.

But now they have been so passive

that Jiuliao was able

to wiggle its way into Li State for thousand of miles.

It seems that losing Miao Weicheng

has a great influence on Li State’s army.

I do not know id Li State’s ruler

does not regret his action now.

Commander Miao, I have a question.

When I was living in the south for a long time,

I often heard a story about Commander Miao

of the Li State who fought against Jiuliao.

But why did the Li State army

become so vulnerable

after Commander Miao

has left the country?

Li State’ rules has borrowed Gu Qinghong’s hand

to eradicate my Miao Family.

He did it because he was afraid that Miao Family had

too strong support in the army.

After Miao Family’s calamity

King of Li was afraid of implementing changes in the army.

He had dispersed the troops

me and my father commanded

in those years.

Now the troops that have been fighting

with me and my father against Jiuliao

have left the country.

The current troops cannot be compared to the former ones.

I do not know if Commander Xue

is satisfied with my answer.

Your Majesty, Great Lan and Jiuliao

are thousands of li away.

As always, the well water did not intrude into river water. (each country was minding own business)

We can watch the fire from the other side of the river. (show utter unconcern for others’ trouble as long as we are safe)

We do not have to pay attention to it.

Besides,

great Lan has just sent

a gifted carriage to Jiuliao

with the intention of getting along with Jiuliao.

In this way,

our efforts will not be wasted.

What of

Jiuliao breaks through Li State

and take a shortcut south?

After conquering Li State

Jiuliao will be like an arrow at the end of its flight (its power will be spent).

He will not dare to venture south again

to harass Great Lan.

The epidemic disease was caused by the southward

migration of the refugees from the Li State

Empress Dowager and Princess Yunle

have barely escaped their deaths.

It is all the result

of Great Lan’s prosperity.

Jiuliao bringing danger

to Li State

is the result of bringing calamity upon itself.

Your Majesty is humane.

Great Lan helping Jiuliao will be similar to returning good for evil,

but every northern expedition

exhausts the people and drain the treasury

ad is destructive to country’s vitality.

May Your Majesty think carefully about it.

Li State has no credentials.

Will sending the Great Lan’s

troops to the rescue not be a bit...

difficult to predict?

What does King of Rui think of this matter?

Replying to Your Majesty

King of Rui brave the rain yesterday,

got cold and fell ill.

He failed to come to the court.

I want to hear

King of Rui’s opinion

and then make decision again.

Let’s adjourn the imperial court session.

Court session is adjourned.

Greetings, Your Royal Highness King of Rui.

It seems that King of Rui, this affectionate seed,

had his love aspirations thwarted this time.

I just cannot believe

that King of Rui would feel sad

over this Nie Wushuang.

How can there be pain

if you haven’t loved deeply enough?

This evil demon is really hateful.

Wushuang did you clearly see

the owner of this gem

in Shangyuan Palace?