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[The Substitute Princess's Love]

[Episode 15]

Come on.

Your Highness.

I can do it myself.

Don't move.

Does it hurt?

I've made you suffer.

Your Highness.

I don't feel wronged.

But it seems that I'm not a good husband.

I've made you wait at home day and night,

let you suffer in front of my relatives,

and turned you into an adult

who endures the pain silently

no matter how much it hurts.

Your Highness.

I did all these things voluntarily.

Just take them

as my own thoughts.

I think if I can sacrifice more,

you'll love me more.

I love you.

Your Majesty, why do you have time

to take a stroll with me here today?

Accompanying you is what I should do.

No matter how busy I am with state affairs,

I should spend some time with you.

It's delicious.

Right.

Mine looks great.

Greetings, Your Majesty.

Greetings, Your Grace.

Since when have we been able to buy sugar figures in the palace?

Did you sneak out

of the palace to buy them?

Your Majesty, Your Grace,

I dare not do it.

I swear to God that

I've never stepped out of the palace.

This sugar figure

was made by a sugar-figure chef hired by

a certain master in the palace.

It is said that this chef's skill is the best in the capital.

I couldn't help but long to eat it,

so I queued up to ask the chef to make several sugar figures.

These are just some low-end snacks among the commoners.

Can they be so delicious?

As the candidates for the emperor's harem, you ate sugar figures here secretly.

How inappropriate!

Your Grace, please forgive me.

Your Majesty, please forgive me.

I won't dare to do it again.

Mother, don't be angry.

I think

this sugar figure

looks quite interesting.

It's vivid.

The skill

is excellent.

Next time, invite a sugar-figure chef to the Imperial Kitchen

so that these candidates for my harem won't feel bored.

This should be

a product from the top time-honored

brand in the capital, right?

The sugar-figure chef said that

he dared not claim to be

the top one in the capital.

There was a girl who used to run a stall next to him,

and the sugar figures made by her tasted better than those made by him.

However, later that girl

entered a prince's mansion and became the prince's wife.

Since then, she has never run the stall anymore.

Why don't I know that

there is prince who has

such a wife who was born as a commoner?

When did they get married?

I don't remember.

But that sugar-figure chef said that

it might have happened last winter.

The only one who got married last winter

is Prince Jin.

Mother!

[Jiaxi Palace]

Mother.

Taste these

fruits which have just been sent here as tributes

so as to quell your anger.

The weather

is getting cold.

My heart

also feels cold.

I know that

Prime Minister Shen is an important and capable minister of yours.

But Wen Ye

is also your younger brother who grew up with you

and guarded the border painstakingly for you.

The Shen Family asked a fake legitimate daughter to marry him in order to embarrass him.

In the future,

they might do something to bully him.

Let me tell you.

if you don't uphold justice

for your brother on this thing,

in the future,

you don't have to see me anymore.

Mother,

how could I not know Wen Ye's kindness?

I've already

asked the Supreme Court to investigate this case.

By then,

I won't go easy on them.

Their homes will be searched and their property will be confiscated,

or their clan members will be all executed according to their crimes.

I'll give you and Wen Ye an explanation.

Just don't think about

killing all their clan members.

Now I can't bear to hear such bloody news.

Just kick the substitute princess out,

and cancel their marriage. Then it'll be fine.

Yes.

What your said is right, Mother.

[Auspiciousness and Gook Luck Are Gathered Here]

Tao, give me more.

Okay.

Here you are.

Your Highness.

You...

What are you doing?

The weather is nice,

so I want to dry the books for His Highness.

Well,

I'll ask two servants to help you.

Thank you, Uncle Fu.

Come on, you two.

Come here.

Coming.

Place the books on the table well.

Don't let them get blown away by the wind.

Your Highness,

please come with us to the Supreme Court.

For what?

You'll know when you get there.

My lord.

If there's anything wrong,

please wait until His Highness comes back. Okay?

We're here to arrest her under His Majesty's order.

Even if His Highness is here,

it'll still be the same.

Take her away.

Your Highness!

What are you doing?

Your Highness!

Where is His Highness?

I don't know.

Bei, do you know?

He said he went to catch a spy leader.

Go find him now!

Yes.

Who spread the news that

she was a substitute bride?

Now His Majesty

has asked the Supreme Court to try this case openly.

It will implicate our whole family,

and we will bear the blame for deceiving His Majesty.

At this point,

it's useless for you to be anxious.

What are you talking about?

If the members of Shen Family are implicated because of this,

can you still live like this?

My lord,

I'm already half crippled.

No matter what life I live,

is there any difference?

Dear,

you and I

share honor

and humiliation together.

My lord,

I'm just a woman.

What solution can I have?

I'm not like you.

You can always handle everything

so cleverly and so well.

I'm sure you must

have a way to handle the scandal of

the substitute bride.

There is a way indeed.

His Majesty wants to investigate this case strictly

probably in order to

give an explanation to the imperial court and the harem.

As long as

the initiator is punished severely,

our Shen Family won't be implicated much.

Of course we should

let Shen Keyi take all the blame.

This thing is bit serious now.

We still need

some solid evidence.

What evidence?

Father.

Father.

Why are you here?

Father, look.

This is a new dress the Liuxian Pavilion sent to me today.

Is it beautiful?

Yes.

It's very beautiful.

Father.

Why did you come back home so early today?

Have you finished all your work in the imperial court?

Ling,

do you think

I'm good to you?

Of course you're good to me.

If I want the stars and moon in the sky,

you'll be willing to pick them for me.

Ling.

I...

I want to ask you

to do me a favor now.

Are you willing to help me?

Of course I'm willing to help you, Father,

as long as I'm able to do it.

Father.

Why is your hand bleeding?

This...

Ling!

Ling!

Come out at once!

Madam!

Madam!

Ling.

My child.

My child.

I'm late.

Shen Yurong!

She is your legitimate and biological daughter!

Your Highness!

Your Highness.

Her Highness was taken away by people from the Supreme Court.

What?

[Supreme Court]

My lord.

We arrested Princess Jin.

If Prince Jin wants to blame us for it,

we...

we can't afford the consequences.

We arrested her under His Majesty's order.

Why do you think we can't afford the consequences?

Don't talk nonsense.

Be careful, or you'll be beheaded.

Yes.

I'm sorry.

I was talking nonsense.

Your Highness, please wait.

[Supreme Court]

Your Highness.

His Majesty ordered that

you should avoid suspicion in this case.

After the Supreme Court finds out about the truth,

they will give you a satisfactory explanation.

What if I don't avoid suspicion?

His Majesty has also said that

if you insist on taking this step,

Her Highness will be executed

at noon tomorrow.

Please go back to your mansion and wait for the news.

The Supreme Court will make a fair verdict.

Your Majesty,

Your Grace,

Lord Shen wants to see you.

We won't see him.

Ask Prime Minister Shen

to go back to his mansion to reflect on himself

and wait for his punishment.

Go at once!

Your Majesty,

Prime Minister Shen is kneeling outside with three

chaste tree twigs on his back and with his legitimate daughter.

He said he was willing to take the punishment.

If Your Majesty and Your Grace don't see him,

I'm afraid he'll kneel there forever.

What?

Is he trying to use the trick of torturing himself to get my sympathy?

Mother.

Well,

Shen Yurong

is an important official in the imperial court after all.

If he keeps kneeling there like this,

and other officials see that, it'll not be good.

What will those imperial censors say about me?

Mother.

Why don't we just see him?

Let's see how he'll explain it.

By then,

it won't be too late to punish him.

Let him in.

Yes.

Your Highness!

Your Highness!

His Majesty is having a meeting in the study room.

Please let me inform him first.

Your Highness!

Brother!

Brother.

Come with me.

My lord.

Who is it?

My lord.

Under the order of my master Lord Shen,

I'm here to give you some small gifts.

My master hopes that you can enforce the law impartially,

and won't let her off easily.

My master has drafted the document about her crime.

He hopes that the Supreme Court can close the case as soon as possible.

But she's the wife of Prince Jin.

I can't punish her so easily.

Don't worry, Lord Gao.

My master has said that

Prince Jin can't interfere in this case.

His Majesty's order

will be sent to the Supreme Court soon.

[Jiaxi Palace]

Your Majesty, Your Grace, this is the misfortune of my family.

On that day, when I heard that Prince Jin had sacrificed his life for our country,

and my legitimate daughter needed to marry him and become a widow,

as her father, I had a selfish motive indeed,

and didn't want her to marry him.

But I thought that Prince Jin had spent his whole life being a soldier

and making contributions to our country,

so it was our Shen Family's honor that

my daughter could be a widow for him.

However, I didn't expect that

after Shen Keyi knew this news,

she took the initiative to come to us,

saying that

in order to get a high position and great wealth,

she can be a widow in place of her elder sister.

Of course I wouldn't agree.

But

she ruined the face of her sister.

I panicked at that time,

and thought that my family's scandal couldn't be exposed.

I was muddled at that time,

and even concealed the truth for that girl.

I

didn't teach my daughter well.

You mean in order to be a substitute bride,

Shen Keyi hurt her sister's face?

But I think

this scar looks light red.

It doesn't look like an old wound.

Your Grace,

you know what?

this illegitimate daughter of mine was so evil-hearted that

she put poison on the dagger.

Because of that, Ling's wound has failed to heal all the time.

If you still have doubts,

you can ask the imperial physician to check the wound.

But it's all my fault,

and I should be blamed.

I should have let this illegitimate daughter

stay by my side so that I could educate her myself.

Then she wouldn't have gone astray like this.

Your Majesty.

Your Grace.

If you need to punish someone,

just punish me.

I can't believe that

there's such a secret behind the story.

Mother,

you're just

too kind-hearted.

This girl

is disloyal, unfilial, heartless and unrighteous.

Once we find out about the truth,

I'll punish the criminals severely

and bring justice to Prince Jin's Mansion and the Shen Family.

I believe Your Majesty is fair and strict,

and won't tolerate such crimes.

You poisoned your elder sister,

and forced the Prime Minister to send you to Prince Jin's Mansion.

Now everybody knows what you did.

If you confess sooner,

you'll suffer less physical pain.

Why should I confess something

I've never done?

Don't be so stubborn.

Sign your name on this document about your crime

so that you won't suffer physical pain anymore.

My lord,

I grew up in the countryside

and I've never attended school,

so I can't write my name.

Sorry to disappoint you.

Since you don't want to accept my kindness,

I'm afraid I have to torture you.

Can you write your name now?

Minister of the Supreme Court,

you don't go find out about the truth of the substitute bride,

but you're in a hurry to make me confess by torturing me here.

However, I can endure

such little pain.

Go on torturing her.

How many soldiers and horses can we use inside the city?

Do you want to break into the prison and rescue Her Highness?

Brother,

in order to make his lie plausible,

Prime Minister Shen even ruined his legitimate daughter's face.

If you say that he's lying, who would believe that?

Then what about Shen Keyi?

Do you want me to give up on her?

Brother,

she is just a woman after all.

Compared with what we've been doing,

namely, eliminating the bad officials around His Majesty to maintain law and order in the imperial court,

these sacrifices are nothing.

She is not a pawn that I can give up.

She's my family whom I want to protect.

If I sacrifice my family for the great cause,

what's the difference between Shen Yurong and me?

Brother,

Prime Minister Shen will use unscrupulous methods

to get your wife's confession.

Once people of the Supreme Court torture her,

how long can she endure it under the cruel torture?

When I have no chioce,

I can only do this.

Sir.

Don't worry.

I'll go to the prison and save Her Highness

out of that place even at the cost of my life.

Sir,

this is too risky.

Even if we save Her Highness out of the prison,

in the future,

she won't have a decent identity.

Will she need to hide herself all the time?

I'll risk everything to protect her.

Your Highness.

Sister.

This is an unwise tactic after all.

We still have a chance

to save your wife.

Why did you say that?

Have you ever thought that

who dared to bypass Prime Minister Shen

and directly report to His Majesty

about deceiving the emperor with the substitute bride?

Why did this person report the secret in the harem,

instead of the imperial court?

Maybe the informant

is a woman.

You mean that...

I don't understand politics in the imperial court,

but I know a little about what women in the harem think.

Maybe

since Prime Minister Shen protected himself selfishly

and wanted to protect his official position by sacrificing his family,

someone from the Shen Family has betrayed him.

Brother,

the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon.

You must bring her back.

She needs to be brought back here

justifiably with the identity of Princess Jin.

I got it.

Thank you, Sister.

I'd like to ask you to

prepare some things for me

and send them to her in the prison.

Please say it, Your Highness.

Just make some mooncakes

and put lotus petals

inside the mooncakes.

Lotus petals?

This is a hamper from Prince Jin's Mansion, and it's for you.

When you see the unstained lotus which has emerged from the dirty soil,

you should know that you need to keep a pure heart.

She will understand what I mean.

Daughter,

I will find you a famous doctor

to treat the wound on your face.

You contributed a lot to our Shen Family.

No matter what you want,

I'll give it to you.

With a face like this,

which man from an aristocratic family would marry me?

How can I get married?

Ling,

don't forget that

I'm the Prime Minister, and you're my daughter.

No one will look down on you.

I will

definitely find you a good husband.

Do you know

Minister Li's son?

Recently,

they've come here to propose a marriage several times.

I think we should just...

Doesn't Minister Li's son suffer from mental deficiency?

But Minister Li is a high-ranking official in the imperial court.

His family is prosperous.

They've been a prestigious family for three generations.

If you marry his son,

it will be beneficial

for our Shen Family.

Ling.

Ling.

In the end, you even want to

sell your daughter at a good price.

Ling.

Great.

You...

How can you think of me like that?

I just want to find you

a good husband.

Only when our Shen Family is good

will you be good.

Right?

Fine.

I'll listen to you.

Minister Li's son who has mental deficiency.

I should have married a prince or an earl,

and lived a wonderful life.

The family who loves me the most

has actually ruined my life.

What a joke.

Who?

Your Highness.

If you resist by killing yourself,

It'll be quite unfair to yourself.

Fairness?

Don't you think that

it's quite ridiculous to talk about

whether a woman's experience

is fair or not here?

In this big house surrounded by high walls,

benefits are more important

than family affection.

If everything is fine,

we will love each other.

If there is a disaster,

we can only run away respectively.

Those who escape slowly

will be sacrificed.

Don't you want to use the east wind

to be the one who escapes fast?

Are you the east wind?

Prince Pingxiu’s fief is in Luo City.

He is the only prince who has a different surname in our dynasty.

I've always been on good terms with him.

I can write a letter to ask him to take you in

so that you can be safe all your life.

If I only want to be safe all my life,

my father can also help me achieve this goal.

You're a smart woman.

Just don't deceive yourself.

What do you want?

Enter the palace with me

and expose your father's lies.

I thought you came here

to win me over

and ask me to help you overthrow your political enemy.

So you're here to save Shen Keyi.

She is my wife.

She is just an illegitimate daughter who married you in place of me.

If I had married you...

There's only the relationship about interests between you and me.

I won't help you save her.

If you don't agree,

we won't even have the relationship about interests.

I'm jealous.

She's a wild girl whose background

and appearance are worse than mine.

How come she can live better than me?

So,

you're willing to end up like this?