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"Go Ahead Fearlessly" - Liu Yuning

♫ Grudges and karma, right and wrong ♫

♫ The past hides blood and tears ♫

♫ It is hard to catch up after years of separation ♫

♫ The truth cannot be fully revealed ♫

♫ Fate is full of twists and turns ♫

♫ Life and death, fortune and misfortune go hand in hand ♫

♫ Obsession is hard to get rid of, keeping the truth and getting rid of the lies, let the wind blow ♫

♫ Tossed about by the wind and rain, I will never regret it, I will accompany you for my whole life ♫

♫ At least you share my joy and sorrow ♫

♫ Unravelling fate, fearlessly, a dream returns ♫

♫ The mountains and rivers are bright and beautiful, holding hands, together we return ♫

​♫ In this life, my heart returns untainted of dust and ash ♫

[Melody of Golden Age]

[Episode 2]

[Shen Mansion]

My Lord, Grand Empress Dowager bestowed you the marriage.

Should we make some preparations?

Uncle Zhong, it's not your turn to take action.

With me here, she won't be able to enter the mansion.

It's that trick of yours again?

The immortal method of throwing heads and piercing darts is just to scare people.

This time it's the Grand Empress Dowager who bestowed the marriage.

- Could it be…? - So what?

As always, we'll scare her away.

Prime Minister Zhang, well…

All right. Stop it.

Just do as I said.

Academician Yan, you are wise.

I believe you won't let me down.

Rest assured, Prime Minister Zhang.

Shut the gate.

Husband.

Prime Minister Zhang has come in person. What's the matter?

Shen Du has never involved himself in factions in the court.

Especially in the competition between Prince Xian and Princess of Valor,

he's always been neutral.

Prime Minister Zhang is the Prince Xian's strategist.

Our third daughter was chosen this time, surely not just for her talents.

Does he want Caiwei to be a spy?

Keep your voice down.

No way. I can't let Caiwei marry him.

Just now, Prime Minister Zhang mentioned to me again

about the matter of the Six Ministries' reselection.

If our third daughter does not marry, I will be sent to defend the frontier desert in the official selection.

And our whole family will have to move.

Prime Minister Zhang actually threatened Father with exiling his whole family to the desert.

Master! Madam! Something's wrong.

Third Miss has run away,

saying she was eloping with a scholar named Han Shiyuan.

[Hoping Father approves of us to be together.]

- What a rebellious girl! - Master.

- Husband! - Father.

- Master. - Husband.

Father.

Why are all of you looking at me?

Have you found our third daughter?

If not, hurry up and go look for her.

Even it means to go through Xiang'an, you must find my disobedient girl

and bring her back to me.

Go look for her carefully.

Hurry up.

Wait.

Keep it a secret.

Don't let others know the third miss is missing.

Right. Don't let anyone know the third miss is missing.

Just say that Sixth Miss's rabbit is lost.

Yes, Madame.

Sixth Miss.

You often move around outside, so you are quite familiar with the area.

And you have a good relationship with Caiwei.

Let's go out and look for her together.

Okay.

- Then I'll go to look for the rabbit. - Okay.

Sixth Miss Yan.

Are you ladies of the Yan family not allowed to go home?

Why are you hanging out all day?

Great Chief, please move aside.

My rabbit is lost. I need to go look for it.

Really?

So your rabbit is lost.

The gate of Yan Mansion has been shut all day today.

I thought you were busily preparing for the wedding.

So you were just looking for a rabbit.

Great Chief, if you are finished talking, I will keep looking for it.

Then you must find it.

Tomorrow is the wedding between me and your third sister.

At that time, I am very much looking forward to seeing you

coming to the wedding with the rabbit.

Great Chief, may I ask you a favor?

Ask me a favor?

Except for the prisoners in the cell who want to die, in the whole of Great Cang,

I'm afraid there's no other one who wants to ask me for a favor.

Great Chief, please break the engagement with my third sister.

Do you know what you're saying?

Yes.

Great Chief, please cancel the engagement with my third sister.

Although you have no official rank,

at least you're a literate clerk.

Don't you know what "heaven's mandate cannot be opposed" means?

The Grand Empress Dowager bestowed this wedding.

There's no way to cancel it.

The Grand Empress Dowager values you much,

so she wants to give you a good match.

Yes.

The Grand Empress Dowager has meticulously selected,

and Prime Minister Zhang has guaranteed it.

I believe I will be a good match with your third sister.

That's the Grand Empress Dowager not knowing what the ladies of the Yan family are like.

Seeing how rude and disrespectful I am,

you should know my third sister and you will definitely not be a good match.

Are you saying

your third sister's talents are all fake?

Deceiving the world to steal fame is a crime against the sovereign.

I… I'm talking about me.

You indeed are rude and disrespectful.

But I'm not marrying you.

It is your third sister. You are such an impolite half-sister.

But you've never met my third sister.

Aren't you afraid that you will not be in love with each other

and end up being a couple with different dreams?

So what?

How can it be okay?

One should always be with the one he loves.

Treating each other with mutual respect and valuing each other.

This is what makes a lifetime happy.

It doesn't matter.

You…

You are so silly and unreasonable.

How dare you!

Shen Du,

even if I don't want to believe the rumors from outside,

but look at you now.

You are talking mean, acting outrageous,

being ruthless, and unreasonable.

Even if my third sister doesn't have someone she likes,

why would she marry you?

Treating each other with mutual respect and valuing each other.

These things are already far from me now.

Mother.

Someday, I will move you to the noblest cemetery in the world, [Bi Luo]

where you will be worshipped.

Master, everything is ready.

Great Chief, although Sixth Miss Yan doesn't speak nicely,

don't you also wish to cancel this engagement?

Since we haven't scared them away yet,

and they are already asking for a cancel,

why don't we just go with the flow?

Of course, this wedding can't be completed.

But I...

shouldn't be the one to cancel it.

Right, right.

Grand Empress Dowager bestowed you the marriage, so you naturally should be grateful.

Still, the Yan family must be the ones to cancel the engagement.

According to the scouts, Third Miss of the Yan family

has eloped with that scholar, yet has not been found.

Even if they don't cancel the engagement, then tomorrow's bridal pickup is naturally canceled. Right?

They are in the wrong,

and to the Grand Empress Dowager,

Prime Minister Zhang will naturally have to find a way to smooth things over.

How can we only watch half of a play?

Where the bride is, that's the Yan family's business.

Tomorrow morning, I will naturally send a team to pick up the bride.

[Happiness]

[Yan Mansion]

[Awaiting Punishment from the Grand Empress Dowager]

Everyone,

you have been working in the Yan Mansion for years.

Now that we have encountered such a disaster,

I'm afraid Heaven wants to doom our Yan family.

I have prepared some money for you, so you can find a new place to settle.

[Happiness]

I have already finished the will.

Mother, I don't want to die yet. Mother.

Mother.

Mother.

- Mother. - All right.

I'll be the bride.

What time is it already?

Why hasn't the bride come out yet?

We're going to miss the auspicious time!

♫ May you also look up to see the brilliant stars and moon ♫

♫ Among countless others, I've found only you ♫

♫ Time is fleeting and fate is shallow ♫

♫ The winter in warm memories ♫

♫ Never mind the destined solitary fate ♫

♫ Blazing a lifetime of magnificence ♫

♫ I have waited until time bloomed into flowers ♫

♫ The ice and snow slowly melting ♫

♫ I hear those gentle words ♫

♫ He said he loves her ♫

♫ The flower in the mirror, the moon in the water, present in my dreams ♫

♫ It’s not illusory glamor ♫

♫ Why fear the flying sand on the road ahead ♫

♫ Chasing time, riding a white horse ♫

Sixth Miss!

Sixth Miss, no way!

Sixth Miss!

This won't work out.

Think about that White Ghost.

He's someone in the Shen Mansion who crawled out from a pile of dead bodies.

Could you live a good life after marrying him?

Run. Take this.

You know people in the Ministry of Justice.

When the time comes, find a place to hide for three months.

Return home after this period passes.

Don't worry about me.

Your father is just a paper tiger, he can't do anything bad to me.

At worst, I'll serve him well for the rest of my life.

Serving him tea and water, massaging his shoulders and legs.

If it really doesn't work out, you can just divorce me.

I'll go and sing opera again.

I can support the two of us.

Mother, which troupe would take in an elderly actress like you?

Although I am a concubine's daughter,

under your protection since childhood, I have not suffered much.

My third sister has been nice to me.

I was unwilling to practice the female arts of needlework,

I was eager to apply for the position of a female official.

It was my third sister who knelt for an entire night in the ancestral hall for me.

You child!

You just remember the good in others.

I am part of the Yan family,

naturally, I can't watch the Yan family suffer.

My third sister doesn't wish to marry, because she has Young Master Han in her heart.

I have no one in my heart. So I shall marry on her behalf.

I have no one in my heart. So I shall marry on her behalf.

Silly girl. It is not that simple.

Mother, don't worry.

I have seen many dead bodies at the Ministry of Justice.

Even the White Ghost can't scare me.

Besides, he's still a human.

Can he really lure me to the underworld?

All right.

Father.

Mother.

Please take good care of my mother for me.

I am leaving.

[Yan Mansion]

Pick up the bride!

[Happiness]

[Happiness]

Great Chief, before the wedding ceremony, the bride and groom should not meet.

The bride dropping the bridal sedan chair halfway will bring bad luck.

Moreover, as the groom, you haven't even changed into your wedding attire.

Enough with the nonsense! We'll follow the Imperial Guards' rules.

The Great Chief decides what to do.

Well…

My wife.

Let me take a look...

[Happiness]

....at the virtuous lady of the Yan family who has learned a lot.

This virtuous lady...

is me.

Great Chief, are you going to kill your wife in public?

Don't forget this marriage is bestowed by the Grand Empress Dowager.

Although I don't have any official rank, and I am not an official,

at the very least, I am a clerk in the Ministry of Justice.

This is not a crime scene, nor is there a suspect holding anyone hostage.

Even if you are the Great Chief, you cannot just kill an innocent clerk.

Really?

Since when...

could a fly be a clerk?

You don't need to humiliate me like this.

Since you're so upset about this marriage,

why don't you kill me now?

Don't rush me.

This sword today hasn't chopped your neck,

but very soon,

it will leave you with no way out.

Sixth Miss Yan is really bold,

daring to marry for her third sister.

This is a crime of deceiving the emperor.

The Grand Empress Dowager only said to bestow a marriage to a lady from the Yan family.

The Grand Empress Dowager doesn't care which lady at all.

- But you… - I care even less.

She will be driven away sooner or later.

There aren't many interesting rabbits in the Yan family.

A bold one is intriguing.

It's rare that she is not only bold,

but also smart.

Sixth Miss.

Sixth Miss.

Sixth Miss.

Chuichui.

Sixth Miss, it really is you.

I heard that your third sister was to marry today and wanted to find you to join in the excitement.

But upon arriving at the Yan Mansion, I saw Lady Jin crying at the gate,

saying that it was you who was to be married.

Sixth Miss, are you unwilling?

But the groom is Shen Du.

He's no longer Shen Du,

but the cruel and ruthless White Ghost.

- Chuichui, don't worry and go back. - No way.

How can I just watch you falling into the hands of the White Ghost?

I'll go with you. I will be with you.

- Terrible. - What's wrong? Take your time.

The bride has arrived. [Butler of the Shen Mansion, Shen Zhong]

Bride?

What's the special family rule?

The Shen Mansion is made to look like a mourning hall.

It doesn't look like it's going to have a wedding at all.

There are so many white lanterns.

Madam, upon your first arrival at the Shen Mansion,

the servants will never dare to neglect you.

This wedding is all about the right timing, location, and people.

A few days ago, we invited someone to tell the fortunes of you two.

So today, it is not suitable for wedding celebrations.

It's okay. As you please.

Please.

Because the Great Chief has lived alone for years, the main chamber lacks the air of auspiciousness,

so it is not suitable as a bridal chamber.

It could easily lead to disaster.

A new room has been specially prepared for you.

You should rest early and wait for the Great Chief to return.

Don't bully others too much!

It's okay.

Please lead the way.

Please.

Butler Shen.

I wonder if you remember what my birthdate is.

Well…

I know you don't want to say my birthdate in public.

Thank you for your consideration.

Please.

Chuichui, have some preserved fruit.

Are you still in the mood to eat?

Madam, wish you two to have a child soon.

Spread it now?

Did you never even consider that Sixth Miss would marry into the family?

Chuichui, don't make it difficult for them.

They're being ridiculous.

They probably thought I might run off halfway.

But this is so absurd.

It's nothing. Just some courtesy.

Empty courtesy? Your family has suffered a loss.

I've heard that what Shen Du sent to your family

were all just for show, none of them was valuable.

Well…

You might as well marry into an ordinary family.

At least that would be sincere.

People would value much on their weddings, but you got nothing.

And you can still smile now?

Since he doesn't want to marry, then I insist on getting married.

[Three]

Great Chief, it's terrible! There's news from the Imperial Guards up ahead.

That bride is simply outrageous.

Not only did she not leave, she actually came.

She should already be at the Shen Mansion now.

It is indeed Sixth Miss Yan.

The key is that no one thought this wedding would actually happen, so nothing was prepared.

But she went to the venue to set up and offer suggestions.

Let her be.

Previously, there were many ladies who wanted to marry into the Shen Mansion.

But with some tricks, they ran away in an instant.

Who would dare to enter the bridal chamber after seeing your sword?

After entering the mansion, Butler Shen deliberately withheld her dowry.

Not only was she not angry, she still wants to get married.

This woman is well-trained, and rises to the challenge.

Prime Minister Zhang sending her here is definitely a big conspiracy. [Six]

If you can tell, then it's not a conspiracy at all.

This rabbit...

Compared to those in the past,

is indeed much more intriguing.

The matchmaker…

Great Chief, rest assured.

I have already given a heads-up to the bridal pickup team.

Now everyone will only think that your marriage went smoothly and the wedding is done.

Now I understand why Shen Du is known as the White Ghost.

Just look at these.

In broad daylight, it's like a memorial hall.

When evening comes, it is still as brightly lit as day.

Could it be to illuminate the underworld to guide the ghosts?

Perhaps he's afraid of ghosts knocking at midnight.

Sixth Miss.

Now, do you really hate the White Ghost?

I was silly in my youth, thinking he was a nice guy.

But after these past days, I've seen through him now.

Then he said those words when he stopped the sedan…

I think he didn't want me to enter the mansion, so he wanted to scare me away.

Then what will you do?

Don't worry.

After all, it's a marriage bestowed by the Grand Empress Dowager.

He won't lay a hand on me that soon.

I will be careful and cautious, taking it one day at a time.

I must hold on until the court decides on the personnel for external appointments,

so my family won't be exiled to the frontier.

This is not a marriage.

You are entering a den of demons.

Seeking life in the underworld is not that easy.

It's getting late, you should head back

or your father will be anxious.

I won't go. I want to stay here with you.

Can you come to stay with me every day?

I can't get you involved.

Rest assured. Tonight, he will definitely put on an airs of neglecting me and despising me.

He won't enter my room.

What are you doing here?

This is the Shen Mansion.

And tonight is my wedding night.

Why can't I come?

But you…

As the lady of the Yan family,

you are praised for your talents,

with knowledge of the past and present.

Your reputation as a virtuous lady is known throughout Xiang'an.

I wonder if what I mentioned is you.

It's a match.

Of course, the Grand Empress Dowager thought

I would be extremely well-matched with you.

Otherwise, why would she bestow a marriage?

Great Chief, if you are dissatisfied with me,

then just divorce me.

The thoughts in my wife's head...

are the same as your face.

You are dreaming too much.

What a pretty lady you are.

I will definitely cherish you,

why would I divorce you?

I have never seen a bride running around before the wedding ceremony.

If you don't want to

accidentally break a leg or lose an arm in the Shen Mansion,

then remember to behave yourself.

Husband, you are right.

Husband,

now that I have married you,

I must naturally do whatever I should well,

to serve you well... perfectly.

Just because of this, you want to flirt with me?

Since you say to serve me well,

then let me tell you three things.

First, don't try to be the real Madam Shen.

Between you and me, we are in name only.

Second, don't expect any information from me.

I know what Prime Minister Zhang sent you for.

Third, you are not the wife I want to marry,

don't try to survive in the Shen Mansion.

My Lord, have you seen Madam?

About the wedding ceremony…

Let's regard it as completed.

Well… The west wing room…

Just let her stay there.

Great Chief.

Ming Hall is on fire.

- Great Chief. - Why did Ming Hall catch fire?

Someone set himself on fire in Ming Hall, resulting in a fire.

The person who set himself on fire has been burned beyond recognition.

Send more men to ensure the safety of the palace.

Find out who that guy is. Nothing can be left out.

Yes.

Why won't you let me see her?

I am the female official of the Ministry of Justice.

I came here with her yesterday.

We cannot let you in, Miss.

- Without the butler's instructions... - Please.

- ...we cannot let you in. - Yes.

- Chuichui. - You can't go in.

Sixth Miss, it's terrible!

- Madam. - Madam.

In the bamboo forest of Ximing Temple, a couple of bodies were found nearby.

The bodies look so weird.

The Ministry of Justice and the inspector have already sent people there.

- Let's go. - Let's go.

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"Only Want You" - Ding Yuxi, Deng Enxi

♫ One look confirmed our fate ♫

♫ Upon meeting again, I know you're the one for me ♫

♫ Gaze at the stars, dreaming about old times ♫

♫ A pair of people have already taken root ♫

♫ Lovers before the candlelight, do not ask their thoughts ♫

♫ Affection is bound, lasting forever ♫

♫ Using the evening breeze to express deep love ♫

♫ I have someone I long for in this life ♫

♫ Deeply in love, you are the one I have chosen ♫

♫ Autumn moon and spring breeze, I only want you for my whole life ♫

♫ The trace of your palm ♫

​♫ Your gaze ♫

♫ Our love is heating up ♫

♫ Deeply in love, you are the one I have chosen ♫

♫ Autumn moon and spring breeze, I only want you for my whole life ♫

♫ The trace of your palm ♫

​♫ Your gaze ♫

♫ Our love is heating up ♫

♫ You are the only one for me ♫

♫ Embracing each other, how serious we are about our love ♫

♫ Every moment is treasured ♫

♫ From dawn to dusk ♫

♫ You and I, forever inseparable ♫

♫ Without noticing, you broke into my heart ♫

♫ Slowly immersing myself, I become undaunted by perils for love ♫

♫ I charge into battle with unmatched resilience ♫

♫ Because you are my responsibility ♫

♫ Deeply in love, you are the one I have chosen ♫

♫ Autumn moon and spring breeze, I only want you for my whole life ♫

♫ The trace of your palm ♫

​♫ Your gaze ♫

♫ Our love is heating up ♫

♫ Deeply in love, you are the one I have chosen ♫

♫ Autumn moon and spring breeze, I only want you for my whole life ♫

♫ The trace of your palm ♫

​♫ Your gaze ♫

♫ Our love is heating up ♫

♫ You are the only one for me ♫