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♫ In this elaborately written letter, ♫

♫ all the words of love are filled with you.♫

♫ The flowers within ten miles blossom elegantly for you. ♫

♫ I perform the zither, ♫

♫ as if you are standing behind me. ♫

♫ The rain falls while I foolishly wait for you. ♫

♫ Use these deep, shallow, near, and far distances ♫

♫ to add a touch of poetry to our regrets and entanglements. ♫

♫ This bitter, sweet, dream-like, and fantasy-like origin of our intertwined fates ♫

♫ that you and I can listen to the rain as we stand under the eave. ♫

♫ In this elaborately written letter, all the words of love are filled with you. ♫

♫ The flowers within ten miles blossom elegantly for you. ♫

♫ These words, sentences, sentiments, and intentions contain hopes ♫

♫ that you and I can listen to the rain as we stand under the eave. ♫

[Bloody Romance] [Episode 12]

Waiter! Serve the food!

- Coming! - You get to work. I'll take care of that table.

Madam, what do you want to eat?

I was upset by my useless husband the whole of last night. My mouth is feeling bitter this morning.

I'll have a bowl of Golden Strand Bird's Nest, for me to rinse my mouth.

Madam, Bird's Nest is more nourishing when consumed in the evening.

For someone as beautiful as you, Madam, you should have some almond porridge in the morning

with a dish of freshly baked special Hu cake on the side. As for your husband...

He should have the most famous dish in Zhaixing Tower,

the sliced mutton soup.

- All right. - I observed yesterday that

you have fair and light skin. I knew then that you were not a local.

Are you from the South?

You're very observant. My husband and I are from Southern Changle. We are on our way to the capital city.

Madam, you also have a sword. I believe that you are skilled in martial arts.

That is correct. There are not many people in Changle who can match my skills with the sword.

Even my husband was chosen after a series of martial arts competitors who fought against me.

What do you think, shopkeeper? Do you want me to give you a demonstration?

No, no need. I can tell from just one look that you are highly skilled in martial arts.

You're not some amateur like us that we can compare ourselves.

This place is absolutely ridiculous. You bully your customers and check on them at night.

And my room was secretly searched today. Where is your boss? Ask her to come here!

Who is that? Throwing chairs in broad daylight. Where is your respect for the law?

Madam, it looks like your husband is a little bit injured.

Can I help you bring him to the room?

No! I must go up there and settle my score with her.

Madam! Madam, you may not be aware that

the person throwing the chairs is Young Madam Tang Rou of the Tang family in Shuzhong.

I can't afford to offend her.

All right then. Out of respect for you, I will let her off this time.

Waiter, hurry! Take him up to his room.

Okay!

Our shopkeeper had me bring this healing balm up to you.

It's said to have amazing results. Please apply some now

and reapply before bedtime, then he will surely recover by tomorrow morning.

Please thank your shopkeeper on my behalf.

Master, do you remember that there were two ordinary looking men at the side of the front counter?

I remember. One was wearing a waiter's garb.

There was a man in white sitting near the entrance, drinking soup. And an old man eating biscuits quietly by the window.

And when the chair was thrown down,

there was a man in a brown vest at the entrance. All these men are skilled in martial arts.

The man in the brown vest is likely to be their group leader.

His internal power is unlikely to be lower than mine,

but I'm unable to judge the background of his martial arts skills.

This place was not so heavily guarded when we arrived yesterday.

I observed when I came upstairs just now that they've stationed guards on every floor.

Every floor has four guards, but I'm not clear about the situation on the ninth tier yet.

But there should be no fewer than four guards there, too.

Their martial arts skills would not be better than their leader's.

I can win if I fight two of them at the same time.

What about one against four?

I might not lose, but it will be a hard fight.

What Gong Zi said is true. There's a spy in Guihua City.

This news must have come through last night.

Ruan Niang must know that someone is here to assassinate her.

Gong Zi, Chuixing Tower has really provided insider information to Yue Qingya.

He even has information on Wan Mei's name and special features. He really wants Wan Mei dead.

I've intercepted this information and made some changes to it. As far as the Grand Tutor is concerned,

he only knows that someone from Guihua City is on a mission to assassinate Ruan Niang. He does not know who it is.

That's good.

I've obtained the gu species from Xuanji Palace.

As long as Wan Mei can bring back the Fenduo Map,

I will be able to destroy the Blood Lotus Sect in one fell swoop.

It is not so easy to manipulate Ruan Niang.

After all, she socializes with so many people every day.

She also helps Yue Qingya gather information from the Jianghu realm and the royal court.

She really is Yue Qingya's left and right arms.

But in the end, he only values her in order to use her.

But I heard that Yue Qingya treats Ruan Niang exceptionally well.

He even sends many highly skilled masters from the Blood Lotus Sect to protect her.

No matter what it is, Yue Qingya is definitely not being sincere.

Those secrets that Ruan Niang had gathered for him should still be in Zhaixing Tower now.

To Yue Qingya, these things are

much more important than Ruan Niang's life.

So our problems right now are:

one, we won't be able to see Ruan Niang.

Two, this location is so heavily guarded that

we have no opportunity to search for the Fenduo Map.

Unless... she brings it out herself.

This is something that Yue Qingya has entrusted to her.

Under what circumstance would she bring it out on her own?

If Yue Qingya betrayed her.

But we have no opportunity to cause a rift between them.

I've got it. If Yue Qingya was in danger,

Ruan Niang would definitely destroy all of his secrets.

Or move them to a different location

to keep them as an exchange for her own life.

Someone has come to Zhaixing Tower to assassinate her.

This is the first signal that there is danger.

Right. But at the moment, she is still heavily guarded and well defended,

so we have to create another crisis for her.

Yue Qingya relies heavily on the backing of the royal court now.

In other words, his greatest crisis

will come from the King himself.

I've got it! We'll relay a message to Ruan Niang.

We'll say the King has put Yue Qingya under house arrest in the Grand Tutor's Manor and no one knows how things will end up.

The capital city is but a hundred li from here. Any false reports can be easily exposed.

Then we'll use their own methods to relay the news.

Isn't it said that Zhaixing Tower is where Yue Qingya passes on information?

As long as we find out how they relay the information, our problem will be easily solved.

[Heming Teahouse]

Dear customers, what kind of tea would you like to buy?

Do you have Xianglapian tea from Beiyuan?

Both of you are experts in this. Not every teahouse sells this kind of tribute tea.

But the price... Yes, we have it.

Please follow me. I'll brew a pot for the both of you to try now.

Thank you, Boss.

The Young Madam of the Tang family from Shuzhong

has always been arrogant and domineering. You had the nerve to provoke her?

Young Madam Tang is beautiful and young,

always behind closed doors, and even keeps an umbrella with her.

Besides Young Madam Tang,

are there any other suspicious persons in this building?

Is there any other young and beautiful ladies who are also skilled in martial arts?

There is someone else. She is staying in the Silver Fox Suite on the east side of the eighth floor.

She was almost crushed by a chair thrown by Young Madam Tang at breakfast this morning.

Wu Fu and Sixth Chen investigated but didn't find anything amiss.

I think that based on her limited skills in martial arts,

it's really a great joke if she's here to assassinate you.

Did you spar with her?

No.

Why don't you hurry up and investigate that?

Yes.

Turn here. Sweep here. Hurry and move the table over there.

- Aiya, really. - Sixth Chen!

Explain to me again what happened with the tigress this morning.

Her husband dashed forward and blocked the chair from hurting her.

She was so angry she slashed the table with her sword.

- Where's the table? - There. It's there.

This lady has internal power and its energy is considerable.

They left only an hour ago.

They asked specifically for the location of the Heming Teahouse before they left.

They said they were going to purchase the best Xianglapian tea leaves from Beiyuan.

Get the horses ready! Call the men! Follow me!

Yes.

This is the superior tribute tea from Beiyuan. Madam, please try some.

Boss, your Xianglapian tea appears to be a little old.

- This... - Boss,

the taste of this tea is not right.

Let me sniff a little.

Transport these people out of the city by the waterway.

Tie them up for three days and then let them go. Take this silver and return to your old home. Buy some land and live well.

- Yes. - Have you prepared the things that I've asked for?

Yes. This is the blood from a pig slaughtered this morning.

Chang An, if the Boss of the teahouse hears news that Yue Qingya has lost his power,

where will he hide it?

Generally speaking, the best way to relay information is through business transactions.

If I were him...

I would hide the information inside a tea bundle

and wait for the messenger to buy these tea bundles.

But how do we put the slips of paper into the tightly packed tea?

When a customer buys tightly packed tea, the shopkeeper normally takes a piece of dried reed and passes it through here.

This is an easy way to carry the tea away.

Look, this pen is so fine.

It is normally used for copying script, so I'm sure it is also used for relaying information.

Here are some notes made by the shopkeeper.

Do you know how to imitate someone's handwriting?

I've practiced a few days. I may be exposed if I write on paper,

but I should not have a problem if I write on a leaf with veins.

We need some tracks of a corpse being dragged on the road from the back of the house to the river.

Go and get it done. They should be searching here very soon.

All right.

You are getting bolder. You are beginning to give orders to your master.

- Move aside. Quickly. Hurry and give chase. - Move aside, move aside.

Here. Hurry and give chase.

Hurry. Hurry.

Are you here to buy some tea?

You just had breakfast at Zhaixing Tower with your wife

and now you're tending to someone else's shop.

- Take him away. - Yes!

Let's go.

Bring him back to Zhaixing Tower.

Would you rather be beaten to death than to confess honestly?

What do I have to discuss with a rascal like you?

Boss!

Continue to beat him, until he confesses.

Yes.

[The Grand Tutor is under house arrest. Escape quickly.]

It's not possible.

This is news we just received from the Heming Teahouse. It can't be wrong.

How could I not have known about such a big move?

Not knowing anything is the worst news.

Did something really happen to the Grand Tutor?

Was the news you received yesterday written in the Grand Tutor's own handwriting?

This won't do.

I have to send another letter to the Grand Tutor.

How is the interrogation going with the person you captured?

He's quite stubborn. He's even asking to meet you.

Meet me?

Chang An!

Why are you here?

- I'm here to rescue you. - I've not confessed yet.

The words of three people can create a tiger. I intend to stir up even more false news relating to Yue Qingya losing his power.

But you...

It's fine. Since when has a Shadow from Guihua City been afraid of a beating?

Moreover, these ropes can't really hold me.

I'd have escaped long ago if I had wanted to.

What you need to consider now is how to get back to the eighth floor. Zhaixing Tower is in such a state of chaos today.

There will surely be areas overlooked in the security. You must keep a close eye on it.

Someone's coming. Leave now.

The person you wish to meet is here. Tell us everything that you know.

How can I know if this person is the real one?

You don't know what's good for you!

First, tell us something valuable. Ruan Niang will naturally meet you after she hears it.

All right. The person from the Heming Teahouse is not dead.

I'm keeping him prisoner in a certain place.

He'll be released in three days.

What else?

The person who sent me paid a sizable amount for Ruan Niang's life.

Why?

She knows too many secrets. They have to seal her mouth totally and utterly

before the Qianniu guard arrives.

Whose crony are you? Prince Yi? General Qi? Or Magistrate Ying?

Who are you? Who are you?

From the look of things, it should be Magistrate Ying.

Move the screen! Move the screen! Let me see who she is!

Don't leave!

Stop shouting!

- Why are you chasing us out the minute you've opened? - There is an assassin somewhere in Zhaixing Tower now.

We did it out of consideration for all our customers.

So we're inviting you to change to another accommodation.

Please don't worry. We'll reimburse to you twice the amount of your original fee.

Would any of us who dared to stay at Zhaixing Tower care about your money?

- That's right. - How is this a small matter? - Can you just change our location at will?

So sorry. So sorry.

You don't have to come in. No one can come up here without my orders.

Yes.

Could something have really happened?

[Grand Tutor Manor]

Grand Tutor.

What time is it?

It's almost the yin hour. (between 3:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m.)

Grand Tutor,

there's something I don't understand.

The situation has obviously already been settled.

Why is the Ministry of Works suddenly checking on all these old accounts again?

I feel strongly that someone is deliberately creating trouble for you, Grand Tutor.

Like laying a trap for you.

Did you just say that

there's a letter from Zhaixing Tower,

- enquiring if all is well with me? - That's right.

I've already replied to it,

saying everything is well. I asked Ruan Niang to not worry.

That doesn't add up.

It's not right.

There's definitely something.

Zhaixiang Tower is but a hundred li from here.

We will make an overnight trip there.

Then all these...

The Ministry of Works would not dare to take my life.

Yes.

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[From Grand Tutor]

You had a sword at least.

But me? I didn't have anything.

What's so fantastic about an inferior sword? Stop grumbling.

Quickly get him up.

Is Xie the family name of your lady boss?

The entire city knows her by the name Ruan Niang.

- Where is she now? - On the ninth floor.

In this entire world, no one cares about me.

I care about you.

Would you treat me so well if I was not your master?

Whatever it is, I will never fail you.

I'm not the only person who cares about you.

There will be many more in the future.

I will not let you die. I will keep

the promises I made. No matter what she has done,

it is my concern. I will bear all this for her.

Ruan Niang.

What's wrong with your leg?

I'm fine.

- Grand Tutor is here. - Good.

I just defeated the assassin and she fell into Yongyue Lake. I'll go down to see him now.

By the way, the female assassin's accomplice came up here earlier.

Did you see him?

He ran off so quickly I didn't manage to catch him. Take someone with you and go search for him.

- Yes. - Wait.

I've got something important inside this room. Don't let anyone see in.

Send someone here to seal the entire ninth floor. Absolutely do not let anyone up here.

Yes.

Miss.

You have reached the end of your road. You'd better surrender now.

She took the Fenduo Map of the Blood Lotus Sect.

I deserve to die.

Bring her back to be interrogated.

Yes.

Bring her back.

[Zhaixing Tower]

Grand Tutor, we didn't find anything on this person.

Are you absolutely certain that she took the item?

It was my oversight. Grand Tutor, please punish me.

Why is your palm

so sweaty?

Are you afraid of me?

Actually, you've only lost one thing.

From the look of things, the item cannot be brought outside now.

No need to be so anxious.

Rise.

Thank you, Grand Tutor.

Grand Tutor.

Why can't I have a moment of peace?

Go and get ready. Return to the capital with me.

Yes.

Grand Tutor,

what's happened?

An urgent summons from the King. It's nothing major.

But we still have to make the trip back.

Grand Tutor, then what should I do with this assassin?

Why not leave her here in Zhaixing Tower for me to interrogate?

You need to focus on more important matters of the royal court.

No.

I have to take this person back with me.

What happened in the Royal Court

and the situation with this female assassin here in Zhaixing Tower

actually concern the same thing.

What is hidden on this lady's body

is far more than just a simple map.

Take her away.

Yes.

That means Wan Mei has failed in her mission?

That's exactly so.

It's a pity. Such an intelligent girl.

Send my orders down. The longevity lamp of the Earthly Assassin Courtyard shall be lit continuously for seven days

to acknowledge my pain and grief

for losing such a talent. In addition,

don't publicize this matter yet.

After all, this Wan Mei

is someone whom Gong Zi thinks highly of.

If Gong Zi knows about this, he'll be greatly grieved.

Gong Zi.

You need to take your medicine.

What's wrong?

Where does it hurt?

I'm not sure why, but suddenly I felt a sudden palpitation.

It's no matter. I'll prepare another bowl.

Is there any news from Wan Mei?

Prince!

What is it?

The Grand Tutor suddenly sent someone here to invite Your Highness over to discuss an urgent matter.

Gong Zi is unwell. The distance between here and the capital city is quite far.

Can't he wait a few more days?

The Grand Tutor said that he is aware that Your Highness is not in the Prince Manor,

so he asked me to relay his words here and request that Your Highness leave immediately.

I know it now. You may leave.

Yes.

Yue Ying,

help me.

Master, please don't worry.

As long as I am here, I will protect you.

I won't let you die.

I will keep whatever promises I made.

Whatever it is, I will never fail you.

Every word I say is from my heart.

Xie Huan,

it's really you.

In 897 AD, the renowned sword maker Xie Tingyun

and his entire family were killed by his enemy Cha Luo, the master of Guihua City.

Thirty-six people died.

Only two of them, the young mistress, Xie Ying, and her stableman, Xie Huan, managed to escape.

After Cha Luo's departure, Xie Ying and Xie Huan hurriedly buried as many bodies as they could using only their hands

and thereafter separated to embark on their difficult journeys to revenge.

[Fenduo Map of Blood Lotus Sect]

- Where are you taking me? - Let's go.

Let go of me! Let go of me!

Miss.

These years,

I seldom interrogate suspects myself.

But...

before each interrogation,

I light some incense and take a bath.

This is not an easy job.

When extracting something out of a person's body,

it's a kind of feeling

that I do not like.

Grand Tutor, you are so refined and elegant.

Miss, do you want to know why

your lower body has suddenly lost all sensation?

The person who hit you with the pole just now

is Dao Hangqian, the grand disciple of the military martial arts grandmaster.

But he did hold back on his full power.

At least, you will not be able to stand

for a few hours.

Many great men who came here

wasted their breath with heroes' rhetoric.

Like,

they would rather die standing

than be alive in a kneeling position.

It was obviously something that can be solved with one whack from a pole.

They were really naive

to think that they could decide their own fate.

I can decide my own fate!

Good.

Grand Tutor, the guest is here.

My guest is here.

Miss,

do not forget later

what you said just now. Huh?

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♫ I've never acted with proud indulgence. ♫

♫ See how the fallen flowers look so ignorant. ♫

♫ Your words “I will wait” prompt the racing of my heart. ♫

♫ I will wait for the wind and rain to brew this fragrant wine into a gentle drift. ♫

♫ I've never inexplicably fallen into disgrace. ♫

♫ I sigh that time is an elegant swan goose in flight. ♫

♫ I will use my lifetime of pain and loneliness ♫

♫ to welcome the simultaneous ring from the zithers into the night. ♫

♫ Who worsens the ache in my heart? ♫

♫ My heart's warmth will make these autumn leaves concentrated. ♫

♫ When will you grow drunk in the autumn wind with me, ♫

♫ so that I will be able to walk out of my dreams? ♫

♫ The zither music evokes feelings of desolation and cheerlessness. ♫

♫ Of a lifetime, the moon is always high, the dew is always heavy. ♫

♫ Alone, I foolishly sit among the blue ocean waters,

♫ while the conifer plants grow in exuberance. ♫

♫ Who worsens the ache in my heart? ♫

♫ My heart's warmth will make these autumn leaves concentrated. ♫

♫ When will you grow drunk in the autumn wind with me, ♫

♫ so that I will be able to walk out of my dreams? ♫

♫ Who worsens the ache in my heart? ♫

♫ My heart's warmth will make these autumn leaves concentrated. ♫

♫ When will you grow drunk in the autumn wind with me, ♫

♫ so that I will be able to walk out of my dreams? ♫

♫ so that I will be able to walk out of my dreams? ♫

♫ so that I will be able to walk out of my dreams? ♫