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Episode Forty

The Crown Prince Xiao, here I am.

I knew you would come

to see me off.

I have been observing the stars recently.

I notice the Star of Zi Wei is dim and dark

and the Big Dipper is moving towards the south.

The north-west is surrounded by miasma.

It means something horrible will happen,

especially a war.

The city of Chang'an

won't be safe for long.

Qiaoqiao,

why don't you come with me?

We can get to know

each other better

along the way.

Although I can't read you,

I know you are not

as bad as you appear to be.

I am a noble man

and well-educated.

How can I be read

so easily?

If that's so, I am just losing face here.

The Emperor of the Wei State wants to make peace by marriage.

Did the Emperor agree

to let you go?

He wants me gone as soon as possible.

When I told him,

he immediately sent me away

as if I would bring bad luck.

Besides,

I don't like any of

his daughters.

They are too ugly.

I won't marry any of them.

In the entire city of Chang'an,

only you caught

my eyes.

However, you chose the wrong person.

You can

risk your life for Yan Xun,

instead of enjoying wealth and happiness with me.

You broke my heart.

Xiao Ce, I have a question for you.

If the Wei State starts a war with Yanbei,

will you help the Wei State

fight against Yanbei?

No.

Will you help Yanbei

fight against the Wei State?

No.

I won't help either of them

if they are at war.

Don't worry.

Even if the Emperor of the Wei State

wants me to marry his mother,

I still won't help him,

let alone his daughter.

Okay, since then

I'll treat you as my friend

for now

Time to leave

No matter what you do later on

I wish you good luck

and success

And

if you go to Yan but feel it

too cold

come to Liang to find me

With my status and wealth

and so many concubines

it won't be trouble to feed one more girl like you

Xiao Ce, if one day

you are bored of the scene of Jiangnan

you may come to me to experience

riding on the grassland in the snow

Beauties of Yan

will surprise you

and attract you

You really know me well

Remember to think

for me any time

We are both the puppet of

destiny

Occasions are

You may see the beginning

but cannot see the end

Qiaoqiao, I hope you can successfully escape

We'll meet again if there is the chance

We promised to

drink it together before leaving

Smellit. Tasty?

Yeah

Drink it

I almost

what the wine taste like

(Cough)

Slowly

Don't get drunk

I won't

A'chu

Are you afraid?

Are you afraid?

Here

How could be afraid?

I've never been afraid

Prince

We arranged some people

working for all kinds of gangs

in Chang'an

And we have supporters

in the palace and all the departments

On the wedding day

they will assist us on according to our move

and arouse chaos

Chang'an

has been keeping peace for such a long time

Zhong Yu

let A'chu leave the city in advance

You guys arrange the other things

But prince...

It's too dangerous

I worry that we can't ensure

her security

Three days left

Time walks too slow

the Yingge Courtyard

A'chu, at 10 o' clock tonight

you leave the city first

Leave?

Mend the floating bridge across the river

Prepare the the food and horses

on the road

So many things to do

I need to stay inside to

prepare for the assassination

A'jing need to follow the prince

Yu Jiang and the others are too reckless

I can't let them do that

You are the only choice

Does Yan Xun know?

He knows

Don't worry

We have prepared so much

We will win

and escape from Chang'an

Okay

Cai Wei, tell me

Will brother Yan Xun like

the dress I am wearing?

Princess, you are prettier than flowers

Not to mention

wearing this stunning dress

Nothing can change this fact

Do not worry

This dress is

unique buying in Weipin Attic

It follows the style of Yan

I arrange specific people

to buy it for you

at 9-o'clock update

In this dress

prince Yan will know

how much you care about him

Ice cube, why are you here?

There's something I want you to help me

Even you need help

of someone else

I follow the order to guard the Cuiwei Palace

But they are all from the palace

No familiar hands here to assist me

So I want you borrow me

a person

I am in the mood today

Whom do you want?

Chu Qiao

Chu Qiao?

Okay, I go find my mother to ask for her

I really appreciate it, your highness

Prince

Where is A'chu?

She was asked to go to the palace by the royal decreed

What is she doing there?

Someone from the palace come to pick her up

You were not in the palace. We cannot refuse

A'chu left the words

If she doesn't come back

tonight

she'll find a chance to

escape in the chaos tomorrow

She told you not to worry

How can I not worry?

I'll let our people in the palace

to watch out for her

She will be fine

What?

Intractable?

Do not cry after now

Come on

Uncle is taking you here to play

(Crying)

Master

Why are you here?

I've found you several times

You refuse to even see me

My baby is in your hand

How can I not be here?

Don't you think what day

it is today?

Go back

I can only get out

on such day

Yuwen Huai

Give me my baby back

Worrying?

Remember your attitude that day

when I go to see you?

I know what you are eager to know

Don't you want the identity of

Chu Qiao?

I can tell you

She is the daughter of Luo He

The successor of the Decreed of Wind of Cloud

Why should I trust you?

Because I am the maid of

Luo He

Okay, I'll talk with you again

when I have the time

You

Come back

the Yunifang

This mineral skin care mud is really great

Your skin now feels

extremely smooth

and transparent

Really?

Will brother Yan Xun like it?

He surely will

By the way, Cai Wei

How long do I have to wait

before he comes

Pretty long time

It's five a.m. now

The prince is just leaving his house

After mourning the ancestor in the Imperial Ancestral Temple at seven

the prince

will reach the Wanfu Palace

before eleven

Then help me preen myself

Okay

Don't you run now?

Aren't you afraid that Yan Xun left you behind?

A'chu?

A'chu

what are you doing here?

The concubine ordered me

to guard the princess

Must be Chun'er let her do it

Don't be sad in your heart

Go back

if you feel bad

I'll take care of the else

How could she feel bad?

She doesn't have heart

By the way my mother wants me

to be the man to accompany the bride

I can go to Yan

with you together

the Yingge Courtyard

Prince, please

The husband of princess is setting of to mourn the ancestor

Today is the wedding day of my daughter

Chun'er is

the daughter that I care about the most

Yan Xun grew up under my sight

I feel it reliable to

marry my daughter to him

The betraying of Lord Dinbei that year

Since I forgave Yan Xun

I won't punish him any more

In these three years

Yan Xun behaved

He keeps humble

I also believe that

he has learned about his mistake

Today he and the princess

will return Yan together

From now on

Yan Xun is new master of Yan

I hope all of you here

Please don't blame him

for what his father did

Be united and loyal to the Great Wei

The majesty is so mercy

Prince Yan will gratitude

so much

He will be loyal to you

Right, a kind majesty we have here

the future of Wei is prospective

Right

Princess

The wedding is beginning

Minister Song and Minister Li from Ministry of Rites

have arrived

Several ladies are

still kneeling in the hall

They are all waiting for you

Has been such long time

Brother Yan Xun is still not here

Tell me

Will there be something wrong?

Princess

It's astir out there

He may just be late

Please

do not worry

The time

for each rite is fixed

In addition, the civilians there

dare not to stop the royal carriage fleet

I just worry

Will anything wrong happen

during this time?

We'll know it after today

Live or die; win or lose.

Everything will be settled down

Move

Yes

A'jing

Where are we now?

Close to Jiuyou

the Jiuyou Attic

Say hello!

Don't give up,

even if you have to struggle to death

Do not forget

Yan is waiting for you

Why isn't anyone welcoming us?

I don't know either

Who are you?

Dare to stop the carriage of the husband of the princess

Get away now

Do you want to die?

How powerful minister Huo is!

Minister Zhao?

Get away, all of you

We found lots of

banned weapons

hidden in the Yingge Courtyard

We suspect Yan Xun want to rebel the majesty

Now I am

following the order of the majesty to arrest him

We will kill anyone that

intends to resist

Where is the decreed?

Step away, minister Huo

Do you want to protect the traitors?

You are of the Xiaoqi Camp

Do you want to be rebel either?

Xiuli Army of Yan is here

Brothers, kill them

Kill

I've told my father

We should kill you

as soon as possible

You won't have the chance

Three years

after Yan's border is broke

The people in City Beishuo and Hongchuan was slaughtered

Twenty thousand soldiers and people were burnt in the fire.

Their spirits have been

waiting for us

for three years.

Over the years,

Duke Dingbei had guarded the frontier,

and protected the territory of Wei State

using sabre and blood.

However, the emperor is fatuous.

He couldn't distinguish from good and bad.

He forgot bones of the dead

outside Beishuo City.

He forgot the vow

between he and Duke Dingbei

over the years.

He is treacherous and savage.

The whole family of Duke Dingbei was killed.

The people in Yanbei suffered from war.

He has become

my deadly enemy.

Today, I Yan Xun swear to God.

Even if mountains collapse

and blood is shed like ashes,

I will revenge.

Go!

Go fight!

Use the blood of the emperor

to sacrifice the spirits of our Yanbei people.

Use your fight

to tell the emperor that

I, Yan Xun, rise in rebellion toady!

We swear to follow Your Highness.

We swear to follow Your Highness.

We swear to follow Your Highness.

A disaster is imminent.

Your Highness.

Why are you being flustered? What happened?

A disaster is imminent. Yan Xun

What happened

to Brother Yan Xun?

Yan Xun rises in rebellion.

Your Highness.

We should report it to His Majesty

and make preparations soon.

Your Highness, what's going on?

There was a figure passing just now.

Princess.

Princess.

I... I killed someone!

I killed someone!

- I killed someone! - Princess.

I killed someone!

- I killed someone! - Princess.

He is dead.

Caiwei.

Is he dead?

He is not.

He is in a coma.

That's good.

That's good.

You go...

You go and tell Brother Yan Xun...

What are you talking about, Princess?

You go and tell him that I will not force him...

I will not force him to marry me.

- Now, I am going to - Princess.

plead to Father.

I shall not marry him.

- You go. - Princess.

Do you hear me? Go!

Step aside! Let me in.

Who is shouting outside?

Father, I have something to say.

Princess must be impatient.

Your Majesty, I'll go see her

and take her back.

Let her in.

Father,

I don't want to marry Yan Xun.

Please retract your order.

Absurd.

Father,

I am unwilling to

marry him, really.

Please retract your order.

The escort troop of Prince Yan Xun

is arriving.

You ask for His Majesty

for this marrige yourself.

We told the world about it

ten days ago.

Now you say that you don't want to marry him.

Is Sister Imperial Concubine

teaching you like this?

Chun'er.

Is it because that

you don't want to leave Father and Mother?

It's Okay.

Even if you go there,

you can come back and visit us anytime you want.

Today, with masters around,

don't show your bad temper.

Be a good girl and go back to your palace.

Mother, I am not

showing bad temper.

You always don't want me

to marry Brother Yan Xun.

Please beseech Father.

Allow me not to

marry Brother Yan Xun.

Please tell him, Mother.

That's it.

Take Princess back

and do the dressing and making-up.

And wait for the wedding chariot of Prince Yan.

- Father. - Yes, Your Majesty.

Father.

Princess.

I really don't want to marry him.

I don't want to marry him.

- Father. - Princess.

Princess.

Let me go. Let me go.

Let me go!

Princess. Princess.

Princess.

Father.

It is until today that I know

I don't like Yan Xun.

I hate him. I hate him.

I am really unwilling to

marry Yan Xun.

Father, please love me

for one last time.

Retract your order.

I beg you.

Song'er.

Take your sister away.

Father.

Father.

Father. Father.

- I am willing to - Chun'er.

marry the prince of Liang State.

I am also willing to marry into Mobei.

I can do anything

as long as I don't marry Yan Xun.

Please retract your order.

I am really unwilling to marry him,

Father.

Father.

Chun'er.

Chun'er.

Brother.

Brother.

I can't marry him.

I really can't marry him.

Please beg him

and let him retract his order.

I really can't marry

Yan Xun.

Please beg him.

Father. Father.

Father, I beg you.

Father.

Father.

Song'er.

Father.

Chun'er, go with me.

Princess.

- Chun'er. - Father.

- Father. - Go.

Please.

(Sound of crying)

Father.

Father.

I beg you, Father.

Father.

Father, I beg you.

Father.

Princess is really showing her filial piety.

There is an old saying of crying marriage.

Princess's action is for the national cause.

Your Majesty shows your kindness

and care to your children.

When they leave home,

they can't no longer listen to

Your Majesty's edification in the future.

They must be sad.

Right. It cannot be otherwise.

(Sound of laughing)

You are escaping.

No need to look. Nobody else is here.

Yan Xun has gone mad.

Fight or leave.

Don't talk rubbish.

Incorrigible and silly.

That's better than your stuipid loyalty

and coldness.

I am not loyal to Yuwen Household.

Instead, I am loyal to Wei State.

The emperor is brutal.

He killed the whole family of Yan Xun.

He can even use

his own daughter as a bait

to kill Yan Xun.

Why should a man like this

be the emperor?

Why should he make decisions for all people?

You can't tell black from white and help the evil.

What's the difference between

you and Wei Shuyou, Zhao Xifeng?

Yuwen Yue, if you insist on stopping me,

don't blame me for show no mercy.

Do you have the ability?

You can try it.

You will die if you follow him.

I don't need you to worry about me.

Mind your own business.

Is there no end of it?

Yes.

Who is it over there?

Still fight? You wanna die?

Don't follow me.

Who is it?

Hurry up.

Boss, you may have misheard.

That's not possible.

It may be a cat.

There are a lot of cats in this garden.

Search this place.

Today is the wedding day of Princess.

There must be no slips.

Yes, sir.

Reckless mad woman.

Mean man who is hard to get rid of.

You will certainly die

if you leave Imperial City now.

Really?

I don't think so.

Do you want to take a bet?

Bet on what?

You want to bet on

whether there will be less death

than that in Yanbei three years ago.

Or you want to bet on

after the war between Wei State and Yanbei is on,

how many innocent people

will lose their lives

by what you have done.

Yan Xun is a different person

from what he was then.

You have no idea

how mad his plan is.

He is a wolf,

a wolf raised by you,

who will rip off all of us.

Even if he is,

you made him that way.

Every one of you

has his family's blood in your hands.

You should take this responsibility.

You will regret it.

I will not.

How is it going

at Zhao Dongting and Yuwen Huai?

How come that

no word has come about Yan Xun's death.

Report!

Your Majesty, Princess Chun...

she...

How is she?

She is gone.

Report!

What is it? What is it?

Your Majesty, Imperial Concubine

and Masters,

please go to the safety zone.

Imperial Palaces catch fire. The fire is raging.

It burns all the way from imperial faiidan.

We can't stop the fire.

Fire? How is that possible?

What is fire brigade doing?

Why don't they put out the fire?

I don't know about that.

But everywhere I go,

there is fire.

Absurd.

Does Sun Yunpu, the head of fire brigade

want to lose his job?

Your Majesty, please don't leave the audience hall,

It is not safe outside.

There are a lot of assassins sneaking into Imperial Palaces.

Sixty-five people are dead.

Imperial Palaces are safely guarded.

How can there be assassins?

They all come from inside.

There are maids, eunuches

and housecarls.

They are all unconspicuous people

who go crazy

and kill everyone they see.

General Song of Palace Guards was killed, too.

Now, General Yuwen Yue from Xiaoqi Camp

is leading people from Palace Guards

to kill those assassins.

However, we don't know

how many of them are escaping.

So it is not safe outside.

Your Majesty,

please don't leave the audience hall for now.

General Yuwen Yue says that

there are more assassins outside the palaces.

The official of Chang'an Office

delivered a letter here.

He was killed

just outside the palaces.

The situation is serious.

Please make early decisions.

Who was killed?

General He of the palace guards.

General Lu of the west gate guards.

Commander Yu of the south gate guards.

Sentries in every signal office.

Master Sun Yunpu, the head of fire brigade.

Soldiers who are on watch at the southwest gate.

Good. Good.

Carefully selected and thoroughly planned.

Your Majesty, in my opinion,

- this is... - Report!

What is it this time?

What is it this time?

Report!

Your Majesty,

Yan Xun rises in rebellion!

Xiuli Army broke through the east gate.

Lvying Army,

Xiaoqi Camp,

and Chengfang Camp,

Jingji Big Camp and Chang'an Office

are all closed

and have no message.

Have no message?

How is that possible?

There are more than a hundrud thousand people in these camps.

Are they all killed by the assassins?

General Yuwen Yue says

generals of these camps have no power to send soldiers

so that no one can fight.

Please give orders to send messengers

to let generals of these camps

lead troops to kill the rebels.

Your Majesty, the situation is serious.

We can't procrastinate it any longer.

The rebels have broken through

Celestial Prison and Black Prison at Dali Temple.

The city is in a mess now.

Apart from rebel army,

there are also

escaped prisoner,

some Jianghu people,

and hoodlums

who sack people on the streets.

General Yuwen Yue

has lead palace guards

to the Street of Rosefinch.

Your Majesty,

we can't procrastinate it any longer.

Inurbane Yan Xun.

I command that

whoever kills Yan Xun will be rewarded with ten thousand taels of gold,

and the status of Duke.

Yes, Your Majesty.

Hold the gate and wait for Prince.

Hold on.

We must hold on.

Prince, go out quickly.

We are losing the east gate.

I must find Chu.

Mom.

(Sound of crying)

Mom.

Mom.

Mom.

Give it to me.

Give it to me.

Let go.

Give me.

Give it to me.

Let go.

Dad.

Dad.

Dad.

Chu, mount the horse.

Let's go.

Brother Yanxun.

Brother Yanxun.