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♪Confessing to the moon in the rustling wind back then♪

♪Like a boat being swallowed up among the cities♪

♪Watching the flowers fall in unease, worries and troubles fill my mind♪

♪Am I going to where I want♪

♪To stay or to leave, you decide♪

♪Nations are different♪

♪One without desire is one that is not alive♪

♪Looking at the sky side by side♪

♪We've gotten closer with time♪

♪One glance, the city of Chang'an is bare♪

♪Among the ridiculous people and things is me♪

=Dream of Chang'An=

=Episode 15=

Your Majesty.

Do you know

where Cheng Ruoyu is?

Yuzhen Hall?

He's telling you to meet him at Yuzhen Hall?

I've already sent someone

to give a letter to His Majesty.

If he wants you alive,

he must come alone.

Do you think

he'll come?

Who exactly are you?

What is your relationship

to Zhenwu and rebels

like Wang Yang?

Why are you seeking revenge from His Majesty?

Your Highness Prince Guang.

Tell the young talent you chose

who the real rebel is.

Eight years ago,

because Qiu Ziliang was too powerful,

the late emperor was like His Majesty now,

living in torment.

Li Xu, the Chancellor back then,

and Fengyang's military commissioner Zheng Lu agreed

to use Morning Dew as the name

to lure Qiu Ziliang to the Left Battle Hall

and kill him.

Everyone, this way please.

Everyone.

Please take a look.

General Han.

This is Morning Dew?

Right.

It's such a cold day.

Why is are you sweating so much, General Han?

I've been sick lately.

Thank you for your concern, Official Qiu.

Could it be due to another reason?

There's an ambush.

Run!

Hurry!

Chase after them!

But who knew

that Qiu Ziliang

received news beforehand

and killed Li Xu and Zheng Lu instead.

He commanded the Shencai Army

to charge into the late emperor's bed chambers

and locked him up.

What's written in the resume

is false indeed.

Zheng Wu's father wasn't a rebel.

The pitiful Wu.

Wu.

The late emperor knew that he was dying soon,

so he wrote a posthumous edict

and commanded

General-in-Chief Han Yue

to bring the posthumous edict

to Chancellor Wang Yang.

Kill him!

- Charge! - Charge!

Stop!

He's over there!

Hurry!

- Hurry! - Charge!

- Hurry! - Stop!

Kill him!

- Don't run! - Hurry!

- Come on! - Don't run!

Capture him!

- Let's go! - Stop!

- Don't run! - Stop!

- Stop! - Don't run!

- After them! - Stop!

Kill him!

Stop!

Stop!

- Stop! - Charge!

- Chancellor, leave. - Official Wang.

Chancellor.

Official Wang!

General Han.

- Mr. Han. - Mr. Han.

General Han.

Official Wang, receive the imperial edict.

(Chancellor's Residence)

Charge!

(Chancellor's Residence) Charge!

- Charge! - Charge!

Go, hurry.

Chamberlain.

Save Chancellor!

Hurry!

General Han died for them.

However, Qiu Ziliang

appeared at the secret passage's exit

in the end

and stopped Official Wang.

Qiu Ziliang

didn't find

the posthumous edict on them.

Out of anger,

he created a bloodbath in Heng'an

and even used the opportunity to punish

and imprison his political enemies.

Back then,

up to 1,000 officials

were dragged down in the incident.

What does the posthumous edict say?

Pass the throne to Prince Guang.

(Virtuous and Prestigious) Greetings, Chess Overseer!

Bring people there first

and surround Yuzhen Hall.

I'll catch up with you.

Remember.

Don't alert them.

Wait for me to get there first.

All right.

(Qiu)

Follow me.

Chess Overseer.

Chess Overseer.

Someone named Ziyuan

came to seek help.

She said

that Cheng Ruoyu commanded her to come.

Chess Overseer.

She's the one I mentioned.

Cheng Ruoyu told you to come to me?

Zhenwu's military advisor occupied Yuzhen Hall

and captured everyone in Yuzhen Hall.

I was the only one who managed to escape.

How do you want me to help you then?

You two are working together?

Too bad.

You found out too late.

One betrayed Yuzhen Hall.

The other betrayed Chess of Generals Camp.

You should know

that even if I don't have any martial arts skill,

I have at least ten ways

of protecting myself.

Left Knight.

I'll give you one last chance.

As long as you swear

to stop betraying me,

I can forgive you

for what you're doing now.

Qiu Yanzhi.

You're great in buying people off indeed.

What a shame.

The trick used in "Seven Captures of Meng Huo"

is completely useless to me.

Can I ask

what your next step is then?

Use you to get Qiu Ziliang involved.

Use...

Rosa rubus.

Both cannons in Huainan.

Right Chariot in Lucong.

Left Chariot in Zhaoyi.

Now,

these four people are missing at the same time.

No.

Not at the same time.

Some must have gone missing before and after each other.

However,

they were brought

to me at the same time.

Who could have done it?

I haven't

been provoked this way in a long time.

I'll investigate immediately.

Eight years ago,

the late emperor

intended to pass the throne to me indeed.

Qiu Ziliang imprisoned him for eight years.

The late emperor passed away

in the beginning of this year.

Before he died,

he already tacitly consented

to pass the throne to His Majesty.

Can he not tacitly consent?

Qiu Ziliang was eyeing him with hostility.

The late emperor had no power to retaliate.

Those of you living an ignoble existence,

do you want to wait

until Qiu Ziliang dies of old age

before you free yourself from misery?

Let me tell you.

That's impossible.

The eunuch's power is already deeply rooted in the hearts of people.

If you don't kill him

at the peak of his power,

it's impossible to shake his foundation.

How would you kill him?

By relying on Zhenwu?

At least I dare to try.

Do you?

Qi Yan has arrived.

Since they're all here,

it's time for us to leave.

(Yuzhen Hall)

(Yuzhen Hall)

Isn't Chess Overseer here yet?

We'll pick her up now.

Wasn't this secret passage sealed?

Even if it was sealed, it can be reopened.

His Majesty.

Don't worry.

He won't die.

Even if he dies,

he must do it after Qiu Ziliang does.

Let's go.

Master.

Everything is in order now.

All right.

Based on my calculation,

it's about time.

Clean up a bit

before bringing Qi Yan to meet us.

Yes.

Ziyuan.

Do you really want to help a villain do evil

and continue your wrongdoing?

You're the ones who are wrong.

Let's go.

(Yan's Textile)

Is it here?

Yes, sir.

His Majesty and Left Advisor

are both inside.

- Lead the way. - Yes.

(Yuzhen Hall)

Official Qiu.

Their throats were all slit.

There were no traces of fighting.

Their facial expressions are very calm.

They must have fainted

before being killed.

See

if you can find His Majesty's corpse.

- Yes. - Yes.

This is Chess of Generals Camp's dungeon.

Indeed.

The most dangerous place

is the safest place.

The military advisor chose the place well.

Qiu Yanzhi.

You're quite smart.

Eight years.

You suppressed me for eight full years.

This day has finally come.

I guessed that the military advisor

placed a pawn in Chess of Generals Camp.

I didn't expect that it was you.

What do you think?

How does it feel

to be controlled?

You're such a petty man.

No wonder

Father chose me to be Chess Overseer.

How stubborn.

I'm here.

Where is Cheng Ruoyu?

Release her.

What's the matter?

Are you worried about your little lover?

It's lonely in prison.

Isn't it good to have her

with you?

I don't need her company.

I feel annoyed when I see her.

Release her.

That makes sense.

Since you're already here,

what's the use of keeping her alive?

I'll kill her then

to prevent any issues in the future.

You just want

me and Qiu Ziliang's life.

I'll give you my life.

This has nothing to do with her.

Release her.

No.

I planned this for eight years

before I got this opportunity.

I can't allow for any mistakes.

If you want to blame anything,

blame it

on your ill-fated love,

which will cause her death.

You don't kill innocent people.

Yes.

That's why the old me died already.

I want to talk to you.

What do you mean?

What I'll say is very important.

I don't want other people present.

Why should I give you that chance?

Because the General-in-Chief of Jinwu Guards

would agree.

Qiu Yanzhi.

I'm warning you.

Don't play any tricks.

Left Knight.

Bring Qi Yan out first.

I want to talk

to Qiu Yanzhi alone.

Yes.

Ms. Ziyuan.

Yu'er's heart meridian is damaged.

She needs to be treated immediately.

Cheng Ruoyu is the bait for Qi Yan.

As for her life,

you can have it.

Where did you bring His Majesty?

Don't move.

What are you planning to do?

Yu'er.

Your life is in danger now,

and you're still worried about the man you love?

Your Majesty.

Yu'er, sit down.

Go inside.

Your Majesty.

Uncle, are you all right?

Your Majesty, are you all right?

Are you injured?

Yu'er.

You're injured.

I'm fine.

Savior

already checked my pulse earlier.

I'm fine.

I'll recover very soon.

Why are you smiling?

Nothing.

I'm just

happy.

You're already a prisoner,

and you're still so happy.

Originally,

I thought that I'd die.

But I didn't.

Originally, I thought

that you're suspicious of me

and that you won't trust me again.

I didn't expect

that you still came to save me.

I just came to catch

the mastermind.

Since we

already know who the mastermind is,

what should we do next?

You don't

look worried at all.

I'm worried.

But I'm more happy than worried.

I'm happy

that we're one step closer to the truth again.

How did you know

that I'm the Left General-in-Chief of the Jinwu Guards?

"The customs are rich.

The emperor is kind and amicable.

Walking while humming a tune,

everything is peaceful."

You are...

That's impossible.

Aren't you already dead?

What about you?

Eight years ago,

I saw you die.

I'm Ruoqing.

Greetings, General-in-Chief.

General Han.

I didn't expect us to meet again.

You're really

Wang Ruoqing?

(Duke Chu's Residence)

You haven't found them?

Yes.

Yanzhi, Left Knight,

His Majesty, Prince Guang,

Cheng Ruoyu.

We didn't find any of them.

Oh, right.

Left Advisor too.

Left Advisor is alive?

You're awake?

Left Knight.

Why am I here?

What happened?

What do you think?

You were the one who lit

the rosa tubus candle there.

What is your relationship

with Zhenwu's military advisor?

It seems like you're not that stupid.

I didn't expect that without Qiu Yanzhi,

you

are quite smart.

Why did you do that?

I know.

Qiu Yanzhi and I are the same.

We hid our real identities.

But I did it to seek revenge.

What about her?

What is the reason? Tell me!

I don't know.

Let's find

the answer together then.

Tell me.

How important are you

to Yanzhi?

Will she kill herself

for you?

Left General-in-Chief of the Jinwu Guards,

Han Yue?

He's the late emperor's confidant.

During the Morning Dew Rebellion,

he was the one who brought the posthumous edict

to Wang Yang.

He's not dead?

Your Majesty, you've long known?

Your Majesty.

I'm guilty.

Uncle.

Your Majesty.

Three days after the Morning Dew Rebellion,

late at night,

someone knocked on the door of House 16.

After opening the door, I realized

that he was Han Yue.

I took a great risk in saving him.

I even asked someone to send him outside the border.

But afterwards,

I never heard from him again.

I'm guilty.

You were the one who saved Han Yue?

This is the heavens' will.

You don't need to blame yourself.

He came back this time

to seek revenge for the late emperor.

He wants to kill His Majesty and Duke Chu.

Your Highness.

Do you also think that the rebellion back then

was His Majesty's fault?

I

once told you something.

Today,

I'll say it again.

I'm willing to assist Your Majesty

in making Xing prosperous again.

While I'm still alive,

that will never change.

Uncle.

"Regardless if it's cold and the horse is freezing,

I only see the wars in the borders and try my best to kill the enemies."

Thank you

for risking your life to save me

when I was in danger that day.

Ruoqing.

Stand up.

I feel ashamed.

I wasn't able to save you in the end.

When I woke up,

I heard that the entire Wang family

was already sentenced to death.

*was already sentenced to death.

Grandfather died by Qi Yan's arrow.

His body was dragged to the downtown area and cut in half.

Grandfather!

Qi Yan struck an arrow

into my younger sister's heart and mine.

When I woke up,

it was already late at night.

The entire mountain was filled with corpses.

I looked everywhere,

wanting to find my grandfather and sister.

I couldn't find them.

Later on, I saw someone came over,

so I can only give up searching

and went down the mountain secretly.

In the end, I fainted

in front of a pharmacy.

Perhaps the heavens were protecting me.

That arrow didn't go through my heart,

so I survived.

(Zhang's Pharmacy) But I never found my sister,

and I don't know if she's alive or not.

Fortunately,

the pharmacy's owner has some medical skills

and cleaned my wound.

Miss.

Miss.

I was afraid of dragging them down,

so I left when I woke up the next day.

Afterwards,

I wandered around

and fell into the hands of human traffickers.

After being in different places,

I was sold back to Heng'an.

At that time,

the Music Hall owner who bought me said

that a big shot would be coming tomorrow

and that we should perform well.

Guess who that person was.

Qiu Ziliang.

Sir, please come in.

Based on your request,

I picked 20 people.

They're all very clever girls

below 12 years old.

Please come inside.

Greetings, General-in-Chief.

Why did you come out?

Go.

You know me?

You're the Cavalry General-in-Chief,

Supervising Military Envoy and Military Commissioner of the Left and Right.

The most powerful man now.

When I saw that Qiu Ziliang was the one who came,

I was very angry.

But I also knew

that I can't seek revenge since I'm weak.

I used oleander powder

to ruin my face,

then recommended myself to him.

Who knew that Qiu Ziliang wouldn't buy it?

After he left,

because I was disrespectful,

I angered the Music Hall owner.

For a period of time,

I wished I were dead.

If I stayed a few more days back then

to look for you, that would be great.

Perhaps I could bring you with me.

What a shame, Ruoqing,

I didn't know that you're still alive.

It's my fate.

After two months,

I pulled a trick to kill the Music Hall owner

and made everyone there convinced.

At that time,

Qiu Ziliang came to pick me up.

It turns out that it was the last challenge

he gave me.

I passed.

So he personally

chose me to join Chess of Generals Camp.

But I didn't expect

that he made my home

the Chess of Generals Camp's base.

Every day, I keep watching

and wondering

how that place

turned out this way.

That gave me more motivation to live on.

Live on,

and seek revenge.

General Han.

The grievance for killing my entire family,

the hatred for massacring my city,

the pain of bringing disaster upon my nation,

I never dared to forget them.

General Han,

please let me assist you.

Yu'er.

Yu'er.

Are you all right?

I'm fine.

Don't worry.

We can surely find a way

to get out of here.

It's true.

I'm fine.

Don't move.

Yanzhi?

Yanzhi, how are you doing?

Did he give you a hard time?

Are you all right?

You're the ones who are not fine.

His Majesty is here.

My father didn't come.

As long as Father don't come,

I'll be fine.

You were snubbed, didn't you?

She's not in a good mood.

It's probably because she sees me here,

and Qiu Ziliang isn't here yet.

So,

you must know

how luck you are, don't you?

I'm just a guard.

I can't believe I could let you risk your life by coming here alone.

However,

Yanzhi...

I don't know if Qiu Ziliang

will risk his life

for his goddaughter.

- Let Princess go! - Let me go!

- Let Princess go! - Let go!

Let me go!

Kneel!

We're royal retainers

who brought Princess Ninghe back to Heng'an.

How can you treat us so rudely?

Bring him up.

Yes.

The wound was from a scimitar indeed.

And Zhenwu has

this kind of scimitar.

What does this mean?

Tell me.

Who was His Majesty meeting

in Yuzhen Hall?

I don't know what you're talking about.

It was your scimitar.

You don't know?

All of us were in the relay station.

No one went out.

Is that so?

Tell me.

What have you seen?

Duke Chu.

I saw this man go out.

You may go.

Yes.

He was talking about you.

Where did you go?

I...

I...

You don't want to tell me?

This is what we'll do.

Since you don't want to tell me,

let's play a game

until you tell me.

This is an hourglass.

All the sand inside

go down there from above.

From this moment on,

what's going down aren't the sand.

It's

ten Zhenwu royal retainers' lives.

Think about it carefully.

Yes.

- Take them away. - Yes.

- Stand up. - Let's go.

- Hurry. - Let's go.

- Let's go. - Come on.

Let's go.

- Don't move around. - Come on.

Stand up.

Hurry!

- Hurry. - Come on.

You're randomly killing Zhenwu royal retainers.

Aren't you afraid that royal retainers will create a disturbance?

It's not that I want to kill you.

Lucong's assassin sneaked into Heng'an

and tried to kill His Majesty first,

then he killed Zhenwu's royal retainers.

You should

settle this score with Lucong.

You're a monster.

I'll kill you!

Princess!

Princess!

Time waits for no one.

♪Life is a dream, how long do happy times last♪

♪In the windy rain, where will my heart settle?♪

♪The sword can't break this karma♪

♪Look how blurry and lonely the world is♪

♪Fate can't do anything about the bleak bonds of this world♪

♪Still can't let go of this life as time goes by♪

♪Even the iron and golden dagger-axe cannot extinguish the fire in my heart♪

♪Remembering the past and letting time while away♪

♪The past is in front of you♪

♪Forgetting while piecing it together♪

♪Like when I sincerely put my hands together♪

♪I only wish that you can be saved♪

♪The past is in front of you♪

♪Forgetting while piecing it together♪

♪Like when I sincerely put my hands together♪

♪I only wish that you can be saved♪

♪I only wish that you can be saved♪