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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 08]

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According to Heaven’s will, the auspicious hour has come.

Xuan, daughter of the Wang Clan, shall go to her new home today

and hereby bids farewell to her ancestors.

Begin the ceremony to bid farewell in her ancestral hall!

Place the incense with reverence!

Bow to the heavens, the earth, and the ancestors!

Rise!

Ancestors in the heavens above,

my daughter, Wang Xuan, has been clever and wise since she was young.

Today, in accordance with the imperial edict, she shall be married to Prince Yuzhang, Xiao Qi.

All six rites have been completed according to the patriarchal clan system.

I hope the ancestors above hear my prayer.

Please bless my daughter of the Wang Clan with a harmonious marriage, a man who will be her companion,

and a love that lasts forever.

A’Wu, from today on, you will be someone’s wife.

You cannot continue to be willful.

Everything—

I, your daughter, bid you farewell, Mother.

A’Wu, I have wronged you.

- There is a big wedding today! - Where at?

Prince, your attire is really handsome.

I wore my armor under these clothes.

Stand upright.

- Are the fireworks ready? - Ready.

- What about the stepping stool for the carriage? - It’s ready.

- Is everything ready? - Everything is ready.

They’re coming! They’re coming! Stand properly. Everyone, stand upright.

They’re coming! They’re coming! Everyone liven up.

Everyone, the newlyweds are here!

Play music!

The bride and the groom are entering the hall joyously!

♫ 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 ♫

♫ Waiting for the sea to change and wash away the burden ♫

♫ 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 ♫

Kneel!

First bow to Heaven and Earth for harmony!

♫ The words of farewell fades from our lips ♫

♫ The stampede of horses is a song, bringing out a sand storm ♫

Next bow to the universe for enlightenment!

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

They have completed the ritual together!

Light the candles together as one!

The two clans shall unite with this new flame!

From now on, you are on the same boat!

The beautiful ceremony is completed as intended by the heavens!

Congratulations to Prince Yuzhang and Princess Consort Yuzhang

on your marriage!

Escort to the room!

♫ Waiting for the sea to changed and wash away the burden ♫

♫ Spend time with you ♫

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

Come on! Let’s make a toast to His Highness!

Prince,

we ministers congratulate you for your joyous new marriage!

- Princess Shangyang is one of a kind! - One of a kind!

What great fortune you have, Prince Yuzhang!

Congratulations, Prince Yuzhang! Congratulations, Prince Yuzhang!

Report! Your Highness!

Reporting to Your Highness! There’s an urgent report from the border!

Why isn’t that Prince Yuzhang here yet?

Our princess has been waiting for a long time now.

Princess, why don’t you take off your Phoenix crown and rest for a bit?

She must not!

Only her husband can remove it, in accordance with customs.

Princess Consort, His Highness will be here soon.

Please wait for a while longer, Your Highness.

Princess Consort! Princess Consort!

Princess Consort, there’s news from the wedding hall.

Prince Yuzhang, he-he must leave.

Leave?

That is too much.

Princess Consort! Princess Consort! Princess Consort!

- Princess Consort, you cannot leave. - Princess Consort! Princess Consort!

It’s a great taboo to leave the bridal chamber on the wedding night.

- That’s right, Princess Consort. - That’s right.

Princess Consort, please think carefully.

Your Highness! Your Highness! Where are you going on the night of your grand wedding?

An urgent report from the border states that Hulan is attacking. Did you not hear?

Even if there’s an urgent report from the border and you want to leave the capital,

you must have an order from the imperial court to do so.

Marquis Wei, are you confused?

According to the rules of the imperial court, when protecting the border,

one can take actions according to the circumstances in military emergencies.

Even if there’s no order, t-then at least notify the prime minister.

Marquis Wei, rest assured.

I will naturally notify the prime minister.

But once war breaks out, there must be no delay.

Prince Yuzhang, please set off immediately.

Princess Shangyang is still in the bridal room.

Then, if you leave like this with no regards...

- Princess Consort! Princess Consort! - Princess Consort, you cannot leave!

Princess Consort! Princess Consort!

- Princess Consort, you cannot leave! - Princess Consort!

Princess Consort! Princess Consort!

- General, you cannot enter. - Princess Consort!

General—

I, Song Huai’en, am reporting to Princess Consort.

There was an urgent report from the border stating that Hulan is attacking the border.

Great Prince had no choice but to leave the capital immediately and rush to Ningshuo.

Couldn’t he wait for a moment?

He should have at least waited until the wedding was over.

The groom leaving, what do we make of this?

It is a military emergency. His Highness also had no choice.

Please be understanding, Your Highness.

Before he left, he sent me here to bid farewell on his behalf.

Even if he wanted to leave, he should have bid farewell himself, in person.

Being so rude... Does he have no regards for my princess?

I originally thought that your prince

was an indomitable man who dares to take responsibility for his actions.

I didn’t expect that he would be a coward who only knows how to escape during critical times.

Princess Consort, there was really an urgent report from the border.

Please place the overall situation above others, Your Highness.

Overall situation?

Please tell me...

What is considered the overall situation?

Before the completion of the wedding, he left without biding farewell.

Isn’t that the overall situation?

Abandoning me to go to the “imperial mausoleum,” (T/N: saying that the battlefield is a tomb for many die fighting for the imperial family)

isn’t that also the overall situation?

Taking away my love and forming a marriage alliance for greater military power,

isn’t that also the overall situation?

The overall situation you speak of is nothing but the conflict between gentry for power.

I married beneath my status to a man of humble origins and gave up on my own love.

Isn’t that for the importance of the overall situation?

Do you still want me to swallow my humiliation

and willingly tolerate this shame?!

You all saying that I should consider the overall situation

is just a sanctimonious

and pretentious hoax.

You all make pretentious grand gestures and want me to put importance on the overall situation.

Yet what I see

are a bunch of despicable, selfish,

ugly, and shameless faces.

I am mistaken!

Your Highness, you cannot!

This hairpin of unity must be personally taken off by your husband.

Please give this item to your prince.

Tell him...

that a man should take responsibility for his actions and think carefully before he acts.

No one can do his duties on his behalf.

Princess Consort.

This is an order from Princess Consort Yuzhang, do you dare to not do it?

I obey.

Depart!

[Prince Yuzhang’s Manor]

It’s as if I’m trapped in a dream from which I cannot wake.

In this dream,

I walk alone in a dense fog.

It is vast and boundless. I cannot see any light.

I am not willing to turn back, yet I also do not know what is ahead.

I just wish that I can wake up from the dream one day.

[Ningshuo]

Your Highness, you have sent gifts and letters to Huizhou for the past three months.

Her Highness has not given any reply.

This woman is indeed difficult to comfort.

Then continue sending them.

Your Highness, you have already been playing for four hours.

Are there any letters from Huizhou?

No.

Imperial Father was best at chess.

When I was little, he would always teach A’Wu and me.

Early spring in the North is always the coldest. Please do not catch a cold, Your Highness the Third Prince.

How about I go find some more charcoal for the fire?

No need.

One can recover from a cold,

but how does one warm a heart that has gone cold?

- Your Highness, are you awake? - Yes.

How long have I slept?

You were drunk and have been asleep for half a day now.

If you drink like this every day,

then all the plum wine your brother sent you half a month ago will be gone.

Then go get some more for me.

Where do I go to get some?

This kind of wine can only be found in the capital.

I don’t care.

You’re smart. Think of a way for me.

You have been here for months now.

You are probably tired of this place.

I indeed miss my mother quite a bit.

Your Highness, Prince Yuzhang sent a courier with a letter.

He is still at the entrance. He’s waiting for your reply.

You just reply for me.

During this time, he has sent many letters and things,

are you not going to take a look?

Makes sense. He deserves it.

Who told him to run off on the wedding night and leave us here?

- Aren’t we quite carefree here? - Yes.

Princess, Third Prince also sent someone with a letter.

Burn it.

I am already Princess Consort Yuzhang.

There is nothing left between us.

Princess, hurry and look.

A mandarin duck lantern.

Higher!

Can it go higher?

Princess, how high do you want this mandarin duck lantern to fly?

If it gets any higher and the wind blows, it will be blown away.

I don’t care! I am here, so the wind is not allowed to blow it away.

I want Older Brother Zitan to see it.

It really did go higher!

Princess Consort, why don’t we return to the capital

after the Thousand Lantern Festival?

Great! Good!

Wait for me! Wait for me!

Don’t run!

Hurry! Hurry!

So pretty!

- I did not expect this Thousand Lantern Festival to be so lively. - That’s right.

Huizhou originally did not have a Thousand Lantern Festival.

It was Madam Wu who wanted to please you while you were here,

so she spent two months arranging this festival.

Madame Wu treats me so well. I must repay her kindness in the future.

Great! Great!

- Greetings to Princess Consort Yuzhang. - Greetings to Princess Consort Yuzhang.

Please hurry and rise.

Something delayed us. Please forgive us for being late.

Welcome, Your Highness. You have graced the Thousand Lantern Festival with your presence.

Madame Wu, you flatter me. I haven’t seen such liveliness in a long time.

Thank you for your thoughtfulness.

I am just being a good host. As long as you are happy.

Princess Consort, this way, please.

Princess, look.

Miss Wu is so talented!

Madame Wu has done a great job teaching her.

She is unskilled and must look laughable to you, Princess Consort.

This girl is vivacious. Is she your daughter?

She is my daughter, Huixin.

Huixin has always admired Your Highness. I will have her greet you in a bit.

Great! Good! Wonderful!

Hurry and look! It’s so beautiful over there!

So pretty!

So beautiful!

So beautiful!

That is pretty! This is pretty!

Over there! Over there! It is pretty over there!

- Don’t make a sound. - Who are you?

Great! Wonderful!

- Princess! - Princess Consort!

- Who is that? - Princess Consort!

Jin’er!

Princess!

Princess! Princess! Princess！

Save me!

Princess!

Who is that?

Get out of the way!

Quickly!

Quickly! Quickly!

Get out of the way! Scram!

Move aside!

Hurry!

Hurry!

Don’t make a sound.

Be quiet.

Move aside!

If you disturb my sleep,

then I will break your neck.

Get out of the way! The smallpox is fatal!

Move aside!

Get out of the way.

Quick.

Scram! The smallpox is deadly!

Do you not want to live?

Move aside, move aside, move aside! If you get smallpox, you will die!

[Huizhou]

Let us out! Let us out!

Officer! Officer, I’m begging you!

We want to go out! Let us out!

[Notice]

[Princess Consort was forcibly taken by someone. Anyone with news in regards to this matter shall be heavily rewarded.]

Get out of the way! Move aside!

Stay far away! Move aside!

We have a document! We have a clearance document!

Someone suddenly died from smallpox!

Move aside! Move aside!

- Quickly! - Stop!

- Quickly! Quickly! - Stop, stop, stop. - It is the smallpox!

I have the document!

Stop! Stop the wagon. Open the coffin.

- General! - Open it!

General, this is the official document from the provincial government, allowing us to pass.

This family’s young master suddenly died from smallpox and must be taken out of the city right now.

Even all the members of his family have to quarantine themselves in the mountains for a month.

They can only return when they don’t show signs of the disease.

- What if Princess Consort Yuzhang is actually laying in the coffin? - General, she—

Then wouldn’t we fall into the criminals’ scheme? Open the coffin to check!

General! Officer! You can’t! He has smallpox!

General, you really cannot.

Stop wasting your breath. Check the coffin!

General!

- General, listen to me! - General! - General, the smallpox.

If anyone gets close, he will die! General!

- Officer! Officer! - Enough with the nonsense.

- You cannot, General! - General!

General, this pox is contagious!

- Let them go! - Okay. Let’s go.

Quickly!

Quickly, quickly, quickly!

- Continue to stop and check those exiting. - Yes.

Imperial Father.

Imperial Father, it’s time to take your medicine.

Your Majesty, you’ve come?

How is he?

Crown Princess Consort is inside.

Just now, Eunuch Xue told me that His Majesty must rest quietly.

Crown Princess Consort alone inside is enough to take care of him.

He commanded me to not let anyone in,

so as to not disturb His Majesty’s rest.

Bastard!

Eunuch Xue is getting bolder and bolder.

He even dares to stop Her Majesty from entering.

Your Majesty, please come in.

Her Majesty has arrived.

Greetings to Empress Mother.

I don’t know if I can afford to take your greetings, Crown Princess Consort.

I heard that with you serving His Majesty here, even I am not allowed to enter into his chambers.

Should I, the empress, greet you instead?

Please do not be angry. Since His Majesty has woken up, the crown prince has ordered that I serve His Majesty well.

I dare not disrespect Your Majesty.

- Who are you? - Here.

Drink this medicine.

Your Majesty, are you okay? Did you get scalded?

Please ease your anger, Your Majesty.

His Majesty is still ill.

Your Majesty, please head back.

Insane.

Farewell, Empress Mother.

Wanru, Empress Mother’s words just now were about that Eunuch Xue.

You must not take it to heart.

I know that you’ve been wronged.

Your Highness, do not worry.

I will not take Empress Mother’s words to heart.

I was just afraid that the servants were not meticulous enough,

so I went to the Shiqian Hall to serve Imperial Father.

Imperial Father’s illness requires careful care.

From now on, I will go see and take care of him often.

This is hard to come by, this filial piety you have.

My Xie family is still guilty.

I am here today because of your protection, Crown Prince.

I can only repay your kindness by being filial to Imperial Father in your place.

I really never would have thought

that you were such a virtuous and kind woman.

If Imperial Father can become clearheaded again,

he will definitely praise you.

Praise you for having the demeanor of “a mother of the nation.” (Demeanor of an empress)

Crown Prince, you flatter me.

This is all a part of my duty. It is not worth mentioning.

However, being able to have a grandchild for the imperial family,

to continue the imperial bloodline,

is a real great deed.

If you are really willing, then let’s have a whole bunch of children!

Every day, they can surround us here, running around.

- Isn’t that great? Isn’t it? - Your Highness, you’re speaking nonsense again.

- A whole bunch of children? - That’s right.

It’s not like we are going to raise dogs or cats.

- I’m just making a comparison - But I...am willing.

Your Majesty, why do you think His Majesty became like this?

How would I know?

Becoming insane is also good.

If the emperor becomes clearheaded,

wouldn’t that be bad for you and the prime minister?

The Xie family is already deposed now and all the power is in the hands of my Wang family.

Even if His Majesty becomes clearheaded, what can he do?

We got news from Huizhou that Prince Yuzhang

continuously sends letters to the princess since she has gone to Huizhou to rest.

It looks like he is quite nostalgic for the princess.

A’Wu is a daughter of my Wang clan.

Ever since she was young, I have cared for and groomed her.

Her beauty and temperament are second to none.

Naturally, all men are enamored with her.

Prince Yuzhang is of humble origins,

but, in terms of military strategy and skills, he is actually

better than Prince Qingyang.

Speaking about it, Xiao Qi not being easily used by my older brother

may not necessarily be a bad thing.

Those two feuding may be a good thing for the crown prince in the future.

- Your Majesty! - You are in such a panic. What is it?

Just now, we received an urgent report.

Princess Consort Yuzhang was kidnapped at the Thousand Lantern Festival in Huizhou.

No one knows where she is now.

Move aside!

Father, I know you’re inside.

I don’t care if you agree or not. Tomorrow, I will personally go to Huizhou to save A’Wu.

- You cannot. - Why not?

No one knows if she is alive or dead. As her older brother, should I do nothing?

I said you cannot.

You definitely cannot leave the capital.

If you suddenly and strangely leave the capital, how would we hide this from your mother?

She has been ill to begin with.

If she finds out that A’Wu has been kidnapped and is missing, do you know what the consequences will be?

Something has happened to A’Wu,

yet do you also want to risk your mother’s life as well?

I know what you are thinking.

Once I learned that A’Wu was in danger,

I already deployed all my forces to Huizhou to rescue her.

A’Wu will certainly be safe and sound.

During these days, spend more time with your mother.

Faster!

Faster!

You shut up! You with the surname Tang.

What do you mean by those words?

Right now, it is the prince’s wife who has been kidnapped,

yet you are still talking to me about some bullshit envoy and military parade! What military parade?!

What about the princess consort? Are we not going to look for her?!

It is clearly written in the edict.

The imperial envoy, Xu Shou,

is visiting Ningshuo under the order of the crown prince on behalf of the emperor.

Crap!

Xu Shou has scheduled a military parade seven days from now.

If His Highness were to leave, wouldn’t he be disobeying the edict?

An urgent report from Huizhou.

A letter being delivered from Huizhou to here in Ningshuo by the fastest flying pigeon takes at least three days, right?

Three days! That means the princess consort was taken away for three days now!

While her life is at stake, you are t-t-talking about...

Disregarding the facts that the princess consort is the biological niece of the current emperor

and the biological daughter of the current prime minister.

If she is just the wife of an ordinary man and has been taken,

as her husband, does he not go looking for her?

When did I, Tang Jing, ever say to not look for the princess consort?

It is just that it is hard to disobey an edict and the military parade has not commenced, how can he leave Ningshuo?

The princess consort has been taken for three days now.

The world is huge. There are too many places to hide her.

Even if His Highness were more powerful than he is now, could he possibly search every corner?!

Prince, since that is the case, why not send someone to rescue her?

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The Hulan people were just defeated.

A new king succeeded the throne.

Settling their internal dispute should be their priority.

It is not anyone from Hulan.

The culprit went through so much trouble to take the princess consort,

he must want to hold her hostage

to achieve some kind of goal.

Holding the princess consort as a hostage,

the person he can threaten is...

either the Prime Minister...

or me.

♫ 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 ♫

♫ Waiting for the sea to change and wash away the burden ♫

♫ 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, I’ve lived a lifetime of prosperity♫

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

♫ Home at all corners of the earth ♫

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