Original subtitles

♫Swords tell all the scars, and I sigh for fleeting life♫

♫Once we meet, how can I like to be apart?♫

♫Walking alone with cold in heart, I deep hide the past♫

♫I keep love and hatred deep in heart, naive no more♫

♫My memories roll when I see you again♫

♫I only dare to be gentle in my dream♫

♫This kiss is boiling with your complex♫

♫Intimacy has disturbed the stars♫

♫Take art of healing as a weapon to guard the homeland♫

♫I'm not swallowed by sorrow and hatred♫

♫I don't want to regret in troubled times Let me change sincerity for eternity♫

♫Let's embark this journey for a slim portion of prosperity♫

♫I'd like to rewrite life, but your looking back breaks my heart♫

♫With you for the rest of my life, I'll risk everything and wait for the morning♫

♫Early morning♫

Episode 31

Danfengmen

Guanghuamen

Third Prince

Litterateur Qi Xuan

I haven't seen

such clear and quiet starry sky for a long time.

I used to watch it with my father

or watched it alone on road.

Now the starry sky hasn't changed,

but the people under the sky have changed.

If it isn't for war,

the night sky

will be more beautiful.

You know what?

In late summer and early autumn,

the sky

will be dotted with stars.

On the ground,

with the shimmering light,

the sky

would merge into a pattern,

like the Milky Way

pouring into the world.

Really?

I really want to see it.

That's easy.

Next summer,

I'll take you there.

Okay.

Do you know it?

What?

You can't hide

something in your eyes.

Jun Jiuling.

I've been

looking for some answers

in your eyes.

What did you call me?

Jun

Jiu

Ling.

♫Swords tell all the scars, and I sigh for fleeting life♫

♫Once we meet, how can I like to be apart?♫

♫Walking alone with cold in heart, I deep hide the past♫

♫I keep love and hatred deep in heart, naive no more♫

♫Despite the rumors, I firmly believe you.♫

♫When I meet you again, I fall in love for you.♫

♫This kiss is our promise to be together forever, in life or death. ♫

♫When you call me again, my loneliness is cured.♫

♫Take art of healing as a weapon to guard the homeland♫

♫I'm not swallowed by sorrow and hatred♫

♫I don't want to regret in troubled times Let me change sincerity for eternity♫

♫Let's embark this journey for a slim portion of prosperity♫

♫I'd like to rewrite life, but your looking back breaks my heart♫

♫With you for the rest of my life, I'll risk everything and wait for the morning♫

♫Take art of healing as a weapon to guard the homeland♫

♫I'm not swallowed by sorrow and hatred♫

♫I don't want to regret in troubled times Let me change sincerity for eternity♫

♫Let's embark this journey for a slim portion of prosperity♫

♫I'd like to rewrite life, but your looking back breaks my heart♫

♫With you for the rest of my life, I'll risk everything♫

♫and wait for the morning♫

♫Early morning♫

Do you miss her?

I'm the one you've been missing.

You finally tell me.

You know

how long have I been waiting for this?

From the beginning,

I asked you repeatedly out of doubt.

Until when you treated my acne

in Qingshan Court,

and you said something to my ears…

Jiuling.

Ling Jiu.

I'm here.

Jiuling is here.

I thought I feared nothing

after narrowly escaping death.

But I'm

very afraid now.

I'm afraid I'll never see you again.

Do you know?

If you can come to yourself,

I will tell you everything,

Okay?

I heard those

specious words.

At that time,

I thought

you should be her.

But it cannot be verified.

We've been through so much together.

I know

how hard your life is.

You have a lot to hide.

But do you remember what I said?

As for something,

I won't ask you

unless you take the initiate to tell me.

I'm waiting for you.

I'm waiting for you

to tell me

you are Chu Jiuling.

I'm sorry.

♫Outline in my dream♫

♫can be carved on your face♫

♫Time interlaces in the eye waves♫

♫For unspeakable cause and effect♫

♫Let me weigh every word♫

♫Life is full of twists and turns♫

♫So hard to be free and easy♫

♫Tomorrow always comes♫

♫I'd like to entrust myself to you♫

♫to enjoy stars and the land together♫

♫In long silence♫

♫We are far separated by a sea of faces♫

♫What else can I do except for a sigh?♫

♫The rest of my life is bumpy♫

♫You are like vast nature, while I'm a gust of wind♫

♫I'm be eventually be passed by♫

♫The wind is in hot pursuit♫

♫to stay with nature♫

♫If memories can tell♫

♫It will make me shed tears♫

♫Rare to meet you again, tears well up in my eyes♫

♫Tomorrow always comes♫

♫I'd like to entrust myself to you♫

♫to enjoy stars and the land together♫

♫In long silence♫

♫We are far separated by a sea of faces♫

♫What else can I do except for a sigh?♫

♫The rest of my life is bumpy♫

♫You are like vast nature, while I'm a gust of wind♫

♫I'm be eventually be passed by♫

♫The wind is in hot pursuit♫

♫to stay with nature♫

♫If memories can tell♫

♫Every of its words will make me shed tears♫

♫Rare to meet you again, tears well up in my eyes♫

♫You are like vast nature, while I'm a gust of wind♫

♫You shuttle through the bottom of my heart♫

♫Has nature ever asked for any clues about the wind?♫

♫If my longing for you can be written down♫

♫Every word would be as strong as pouring rain falling down♫

♫You take me as a stranger when we finally meet again♫

♫Tears well up in my eyes♫

I think the Heaven blesses me.

The fate is fair.

It gave me

a chance

to tell you everything

and let me meet you again by chance.

So I can tell you everything,

and experience the wind and frost with you.

You know what?

All the hardships along the way

and all the twists and turns

seem to fade away slowly

when you accompany me.

I seem to know now

what I have been insisting on.

I didn't expect that

the past and pain

have become

the most precious witness to our love.

Jiuling.

I'm sorry.

I didn't recognize you earlier

to protect you.

I even missed you.

From now on,

I won't miss you again.

No one

and nothing

can separate us.

Ling Jiu.

Thank you.

Donation?

How could your ministry think up such an idea?

Not our fault.

The treasury can't afford so much money.

Since we receive His Majesty's salary,

we should try best to work for His Majesty.

So naturally,

we had to think of a way

to solve the reward problem of Lord Cheng.

Otherwise, if we can't pay

to appease the soldiers,

it might cause trouble.

What should we do by then?

We can only ask people to donate some money.

We are not

to blame for this.

Then who

is to blame?

Of course, Lord Cheng is to blame.

He is overbearing

when requesting for a reward.

All officials

learn from him

to take credit and receive rewards.

Because of him,

the state can't pay salary to all officials in time

and a tax is levied on people.

He alone

makes all people in the capital city suffer.

Who else is to blame

except for him?

Good idea.

It's all arranged?

Don't worry, Your Excellency.

Everything is ready.

Just wait for

Zhu Shan reaching the capital city.

Great.

It's time for us

to settle all the old

and recent grudges with him.

What are you looking at?

I'm watching you.

Why are you so beautiful

and so cute?

Had you ever thought we'd do this before?

Do what?

I mean, sitting by

the lake together

for a blow

and putting everything aside.

Do you want to hear the truth?

Yes.

What else had you thought about?

I also thought…

Say something sweet

to make me happy first.

I'll tell you by then.

Shouldn't boys

say sweet talks to the girls?

Why don't you say some

to make me happy?

Okay.

I'll say something.

I don't like this world.

I only like you.

Jiuling.

That's all?

It's rustic.

It doesn't work?

Then you say something.

Well,

luck always goes against me.

But the greatest luck in my life

is to meet you.

Although I don't know

what will happen to us in the future,

I'm not afraid of anything

on the thought that you are by my side.

But there's one thing you can be sure of.

No matter how the world changes,

I like you.

You are mine always.

We will always be together.

Go.

-Look out. -Go.

Mount the horse.

Zhu Zan.

Inform the brothers ahead.

Zhu Zan and Jun Jiuling

have left the range of Hejian Prefecture.

Go.

You know what happened in the capital city?

They are base.

They can't defeat us openly,

so they just plot secretly.

So we have to find a way.

There is a way.

But I need your help.

It's hard for your men to do this.

But it'll be much more convenient

for people of Deshengchang to do it.

No one will be suspicious about them.

It's easy to

handle the trouble makers.

But scholars

are stubborn and pedantic.

It's hard to convince them.

I have a way.

Most scholars in the capital city

are students of Mr. Qi Xuan, a great tutor.

If we can invite him to help us,

this thing will be solved.

This is a good way.

But I heard that

he has been retired for a long time.

No one knows where he is.

One person

really has this ability.

Ning Yunzhao, Childe Ning.

After entering the capital city,

let's split up.

Okay.

Lord Cheng

will return soon.

How is

the donation order going?

Lord Cheng leads the army

to protect millions of people.

Fortunately,

Your Majesty's people are sensible.

Surely,

they are willing to

make some contribution to generals and soldiers.

But, Your Majesty,

with all due respect,

I hope you can

keep strictly the rules for reward and punishment.

Please do not condone

Lord Cheng's sin.

What wrong did

Lord Cheng do?

Your Majesty is kind

and understands the hardship of Lord Cheng returning from the North.

So for this matter,

he should be awarded.

However,

after we signed the peace agreement,

Lord Cheng resisted the imperial edicts to return.

Besides, he entered the territory of Beiqi again.

We have to guard against him.

I believe in

Lord Cheng.

Your Majesty,

please take back

the summoning order at the city gate

and refuse to open the gate

to welcome Lord Cheng.

Before,

Lord Cheng disobeyed the decrees

and refused to return.

But now,

he would like to return.

We don't know

what he did with Beiqi

during this period of time.

Once the gate is wide open

for some spies,

it will pose a threat

on your safety.

If the defense facilities in our city

are learned by Beiqi,

our state

will face a huge crisis.

I

will never let Your Majesty

and Tianyou face any danger.

Your Majesty.

Here are

my congratulations, Your Majesty.

Congratulations, Your Majesty.

You intended to praise Lord Cheng for his military merits.

But if the gate is opened now,

it will be that thousands of people from the three counties come to capital city

regardless of hardships

to thank Your Majesty for your kindness.

In this case,

it will be that Lord Cheng

and people from the North

praise you for your merits.

Minister Ning,

aren't you deaf to things outside the window?

Your Excellency Huang,

I'm just deaf to

those things that have nothing to do with me.

But this is a state affair.

Your Majesty,

in this way,

you can subdue Beiqi

and make it pay tribute to our state as a vassal

to comfort the ancestors.

And you can also take in tens of thousands of people.

Your benevolence

will be widely known and praised.

You will be

an unprecedentedly great emperor

as Yao and Shun.

This is Your Majesty's merit.

It should be celebrated by all people.

Now peace agreement has been reached

and the state is prosperous and the people are at peace.

I believe the people

will certainly appreciate Your Majesty's great kindness.

So, I

congratulate to Your Majesty.

Congratulations, Your Majesty.

Your Majesty.

All right, all right.

What you discuss

is all the state affair of Tianyou.

Let me

think it twice

before I make a decision.

I'm a little tired.

You can leave.

As long as I'm here,

there will be countless obstacles.

Zhu Shan.

You wait.

They actually used this trick.

It seems that

they've been planning for a long time.

Huang Cheng's move

is to push Lord Cheng

to the teeth of the storm

as the target of public criticism.

He hasn't arrived yet.

But this will provoke the hatred of all officials and all the people.

Lord Cheng's return to the capital city is really dangerous.

I'm afraid

he can't even enter the capital gate.

Uncle, rest assured.

Naturally, we will not allow the evil

to confuse the emperor and fool the people.

What do you have in mind?

They forgot that

another person is coming to the capital city.

You mean

Miss Jun?

Yes.

Now she is Lord Cheng's daughter-in-law.

She is smart.

She must have expected the difficulties

in entering the capital city.

Naturally, she must have been planning for it long ago.

Every step is intentional.

Yunzhao.

You like Miss Jun?

Uncle.

She doesn't like me.

I've tried to fight for her.

It can only be said that

we are inappropriate

or we are not that destined.

Now she has been married.

I'm happy for her, too.

They paid a lot of money

to incite another group of people to make trouble.

They have incited hundreds of people.

They paid

so many people.

They made the payment

to adults and kids clearly

and told the people how much

they could get by crying.

How shameless!

I'm afraid such shameless people

are the most difficult to deal with.

But Miss Jinxiu,

don't worry about it.

Miss Jun

already knows about it.

She is prepared.

Young master

also has some arrangements.

In my opinion,

we should tell the public directly

the wife of His Lordship

is Miss Jun of Jiuling Drugstore.

Who dares to block her way

since she is a great doctor?

Isn't that a loss?

No one dares to stop Miss Jun.

Lord Cheng cannot be stopped.

These are two different things.

Two honors

can't be lost.

Chengyu.

He sleeps again.

How bold she is

to do this business!

Grandma.

No need to worry about it.

You've been through so many things

and have grown up.

What Jiuling did

contains many dangers.

You don't understand this.

Grandma.

It's enough

as long as I know

she does the right thing.

What she did

is not just for the Fang family.

You and I are the same.

We are willing to do our best

to help her.

But

you are worried about her.

Didn't you enter the capital city with Lord Cheng?

Why did you arrive first?

Because I want to

ask you for help for something.

It seems that Lord Cheng's

way back to the capital city

is not peaceful.

Scholars are upright.

It's hard to convince them once they are instigated.

I've thought about it repeatedly.

I'm afraid only one person can convince them.

Mr. Qi?

Exactly.

Lord Cheng,

give nobody like me a way to live.

Who's there?

How dare you stop the Zhu Army?

Lord Cheng.

You claim credit to His Majesty,

but the empty treasury

can't meet your desire.

Then you exploit common people like us.

Lord Cheng.

You made money from wars.

But you can't corner us.

That makes sense.

Exactly.

Lord Cheng

builds up the army and is greedy for wars,

which wrecks the state and bring disasters to the people.

He did things offensive to the Heaven and justice.

Do us justice.

Hit him.

Hit him.

Do us justice.

Hit.

Hit.

The officers and soldiers killed people!

The officers and soldiers killed people!

Put the knife away.

My soldiers

can only show blade

to kill enemy soldiers.

Don't use a knife against our people.

Whoever violates my order

will be punished by military law.

He did things offensive to the Heaven and justice.

He should be hit.

-Hit him. -He did evil!

Hit him.

Deshengchang congratulates Lord Cheng

on returning in triumph.

So it offers silver for charity.

-Deshengchang congratulates Lord Cheng. -Jiuling Drugstore congratulates Lord Cheng

-on returning in triumph, so it offers free medicine for charity. -Offer silver for charity.

We've brought

-medicine and silver here. -Shopkeeper Liu.

-All can get silver. -Free medicine.

Everybody, hurry to get them.

Come and get them.

Come and get them.

Stop. Stop.

Come on, come on.

Don't go.

All can get some.

Here you are.

All can get some.

Here you are.

-The one behind. -Here you are.

Here you are.

Those behind.

Here you are.

Here you are.

Give me one.

-Here you are. -Take it.

All can get some.

Here you are.

Come here to get the silver.

-Don't worry, don't worry. -All can get some. All can get some.

Jiuling Drugstore offers free medicine.

Here you are.

All can get some.

Here you are.

Here. Here you are.

Come on, come on.

All can get some.

My father ordered me to take charge of the overall situation.

But Lord Cheng is late.

It's really annoying.

Your Excellency.

Your Highness.

Lord Cheng had some accidents,

so he might

be later.

We have been waiting here for a long time.

When will he arrive exactly?

Your Highness, calm down.

Lord Cheng is out of control in the North.

I think he is used to be undisciplined.

Definitely he can't arrive on time.

I'll wait.

Let's wait and see

when

Lord Cheng will arrive.

Zhu Shan.

You boast of protecting and loving the people.

I'd like to see

how you would deal with

those cornered people.

Minister Ning,

who are you sighing for?

I sigh for His Majesty's face.

If Lord Cheng fails to arrive on time,

although it would be a slap to his face,

it would be more

a slap to His Majesty's dignity.

I believe Lord Cheng

will understand the righteousness of this cause

and certainly protect His Highness's face.

Lord Cheng

returns in triumph

as decreed by His Majesty.

Why are you blocking the way here?

Are you dissatisfied with the imperial decree?

Please get off your horse and remove your armor

to offer a humble apology!

Don't you dare!

Lord Cheng has great contributions to our state.

What sin did he commit?

Sin One.

He disobeyed the imperial decrees,

which led to chaos in the North.

Sin Two.

He is warlike and values material arts,

which causes the soldiers to fight endlessly.

Sin Three.

He asks for reward and name,

causing military and political chaos.

If things go on like this,

our state will be weakened

and perished because of you!

You, Zhu Shan, the Lord Cheng,

will be the minister leading to the subjugation of our state!

The Zhu Army will lead to the subjugation of our state!

Watch your mouth!

-You! -Stop.

You are all well-read.

I don't believe you

would come to block my way

after hearing some hearsay rumors.

Who ordered you to do this?

Lord Cheng.

Let me just ask you a question.

When Kaide Prefecture was defeated that day,

did you halt the troops and wait?

I should put the overall situation first

and guard the most important place.

So you are committing your guilty.

That's a sophistry!

Lord Cheng led troops to resist Beiqi

and rescue the people.

But you just confound black and white

and confuse right and wrong here!

You woman

don't deserve to talk about the imperial laws with me!

Don't you dare!

Ba.

Since so,

am I worthy to talk about the imperial laws?

I haven't showed up for a long time.

I don't know

the world is getting thus worse in the capital city.

Mister,

you misunderstood me.

It's Lord Cheng.

I can't afford to be your teacher.

In my opinion,

You read sages' books in vain.

You don't know the great righteousness

but disregard the safety of the people.

Touch your conscience

and ask yourself

what wrong

Lord Cheng did.

Thank you

for your help, sir.

But these scholars are also innocent.

I think they've been in the capital city for so long

that they are blinded by others

before they realize it.

You are really broad-minded.

These scholars

abuse you

and coerce you like this.

But you can stay calm

and fair,

which is really valuable.

However,

in my opinion

among these people,

those who are innocent and deceived

can be forgiven.

But for those scum

who took the lead in deliberately inciting scholars,

they are unworthy of reading

and being officials.

Move out of my way!

Lord Cheng.

Please.

Thank you, sir.

Where is Lord Cheng now?

He has brought tens of thousands of refugees from the North

to arrive outside the city.

It's estimated that

He will enter the city

in 15 minutes.

Tens of thousands of refugees from the North

quietly arrive outside the city?

I didn't realize it before.

Zhu Shan

is going to deal with me via the people's support.

Lord Cheng.

Are you making trouble

or going to rebel?

If you want to blame Lord Cheng,

please blame us first.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

We are all homeless refugees

because of the war in the North.

Do you know what "homeless" mean?

It means we have no home.

We can't sleep well or have no enough food to eat.

When the enemies came, they killed our people at will.

Everything we have is gone.

Lord Cheng

brought us all the way here.

But you

want to send a punitive expedition against him!

If you want to do this,

just blame us first.

Yeah, agreed.

Shut up.

How dare you to be so rude to His Highness!

I, Zhu Shan,

complete the task

and return with people from the three counties

as decreed by His Majesty.

Your Highness, please ask His Majesty for orders

to properly resettle these refugees.

Brother.

Brother.

Congratulations, brother. Congratulations, brother.

When are you so

close to Lord Cheng?

I don't know this.

I have nothing to do with him.

I'm talking about the great tutor, Mr. Qi.

What?

Brother, you know that

Mr. Qi

has secluded

in an unknown place

for a long time.

Now he shows up outside the capital city.

Our state

gets such a great master of literature.

That's why

I'm here to congratulate you.

Mr. Qi has arrived outside the city?

Yeah.

Why didn't you report such a big thing?

They did not report this to me.

I don't know it.

Brother.

You can't cold-shoulder him.

Previously,

you ask officials to donate salaries

to reward generals and soldiers.

This unprecedented move

is hardly accepted

by civil officials and scholars.

If His Highness

stops Mr. Qi outside the city,

and

once this spreads,

our state will be deemed to belittle literature

and close the door

on all the scholars.

What's more,

Earl of Qinghe just went to the North.

The Zhu Army must have great doubts.

Why don't you take this opportunity

to comfort Lord Cheng?

This is conducive to

stabilizing the military.

Once the North is settled,

the silver in the treasury

won't be spent in vain.

Although you let His Highness

and Minister Huang preside over the overall situation,

you should prevent

them from

smearing your good reputation.

Pass on my oral instruction.

Let the third prince open the gate

to welcome them into the capital city.

Yes.

Brother, you are wise!

Lord Cheng,

you are warlike and greedy for military merits,

bringing disasters to the people.

Are you clear about your sin?

Your Highness,

if Lord Cheng did these,

he wouldn't bring these refugees back.

If he is greedy for power,

he wouldn't lead his close men back only.

This is a false charge.

Lord Cheng denies it.

If so,

why were they

blamed by the people and scholars on the way back?

Your Highness, please figure out

this is because whether I lost people's support

or I was framed up deliberately.

Some people read sages' books

just acted like villains.

They confuse right and wrong

and slander loyal officials

and good generals based on some hearsay.

Clearly, they

don't obey the imperial laws.

It's you, Lord Cheng,

who disobeys the laws!

Several urgent edicts were sent to you.

But you refused to obey them.

I have always followed His Majesty's decree

to resettle refugees from the North all my way back.

Now I return to the capital city as decreed as well.

Your Highness,

when did I despise the laws?

Your Highness.

I'm Qi Xuan.

If you still respect me,

just open the gate.

Please open the gate.

Please open the gate.

Please open the gate.

Please open the gate.

Please open the gate.

Your Highness, no.

Lord Cheng brings

tens of thousands of refugees from the North.

Once they enter the city, it will be difficult to resettle them.

In addition,

among these tens of thousands of refugees,

there might be thieves and spies inevitably.

What should we do

if they cause chaos in the capital city?

Please open the gate.

Please open the gate.

Please open the gate.

♫Outline in my dream♫

♫can be carved on your face♫

♫Time interlaces in the eye waves♫

♫For unspeakable cause and effect♫

♫Let me weigh every word♫

♫Life is full of twists and turns♫

♫So hard to be free and easy♫

♫Tomorrow always comes♫

♫I'd like to entrust myself to you♫

♫to enjoy stars and the land together♫

♫In long silence♫

♫We are far separated by a sea of faces♫

♫What else can I do except for a sigh?♫

♫The rest of my life is bumpy♫

♫You are like vast nature, while I'm a gust of wind♫

♫I'm be eventually be passed by♫

♫The wind is in hot pursuit♫

♫to stay with nature♫

♫If memories can tell♫

♫It will make me shed tears♫

♫Rare to meet you again, tears well up in my eyes♫

♫Tomorrow always comes♫

♫I'd like to entrust myself to you♫

♫to enjoy stars and the land together♫

♫In long silence♫

♫We are far separated by a sea of faces♫

♫What else can I do except for a sigh?♫

♫The rest of my life is bumpy♫

♫You are like vast nature, while I'm a gust of wind♫

♫I'm be eventually be passed by♫

♫The wind is in hot pursuit♫

♫to stay with nature♫

♫If memories can tell♫

♫Every of its words will make me shed tears♫

♫Rare to meet you again, tears well up in my eyes♫

♫You are like vast nature, while I'm a gust of wind♫

♫It's me♫

♫You shuttle through the bottom of my heart♫

♫Has nature ever asked for any clues about the wind?♫

♫Any clues?♫

♫If my longing for you can be written down♫

♫Every word would be as strong as pouring rain falling down♫

♫You take me as a stranger when we finally meet again♫

♫Tears well up in my eyes♫