Original subtitles

♪We are both dim light♪

♪Will time erase us?♪

♪Those who fade away in the shadows silently♪

♪Also crave a life under the bright sun openly♪

♪How can I break free from the chains of fate?♪

♪Who whispers in my ear♪

♪That I'm bound to fall?♪

♪Then burn me♪

♪Burn my stubbornness♪

♪The surging bitterness♪

♪The hot tears♪

♪Nobody knows♪

♪Entangling in the past♪

♪Silence in the darkness♪

♪The dim light finally turns♪

[Kill Me Love Me]

♪Into the fire of rebirth♪

[Episode 22]

Catch her.

Yes.

Follow me.

Your Highness.

It really is the antidote.

Jinghe,

your plan failed again.

There's one incense stick of time.

Your Majesty,

we're running out of time.

Please wake up, Your Majesty!

No need to struggle, beauty.

I won't kill you.

One incense stick of time.

I can't fall yet.

♪Dim light♪

♪Will time erase us?♪

♪Those who fade away in the shadows silently♪

♪Also crave a life under the bright sun openly♪

♪How can I break free♪

♪From the chains of fate?♪

♪Who whispers in my ear♪

♪That I'm bound♪

♪To fall?♪

♪Then burn me♪

♪Burn away my fears♪

♪The fragmented soul♪

♪Will be reborn through the flames upon the ruins♪

♪Then burn me♪

♪The raging wind serves as the battle song♪

♪Attempting to annihilate me♪

♪Cut through all those♪

♪Who once destroyed me♪

She can't get far.

Go after her!

My lord.

My lord.

Where are the leeches?

My lord,

the leeches are dead.

It seems only the Snow Dragon Whisker

can neutralize the poison.

My lord.

Mei Lin has left Fanghua Palace.

The Crown Prince spotted her.

♪The wind scatters the spring flowers♪

♪The dream was filled with sorrow for the entire night♪

♪Troubled thoughts shatter into a sky full of stars♪

♪If fate is too unbearable♪

♪I am mired in the mud♪

♪Love is helpless♪

♪Falling into the abyss♪

♪If life is♪

♪A predetermined sorrow♪

♪Love is♪

♪An endless wandering♪

♪A place in the heart♪

♪From which there is no return♪

♪It's a vain hope♪

♪It's in imagination♪

♪It's the distinguished light♪

Your Majesty.

Your Majesty, I beg you, please wake up!

Time is running out.

Your Majesty.

Your Majesty, I beg you!

Please wake up.

Your Highness, is something wrong?

It's nothing.

I just knocked over the candlestick,

restless seeing the Emperor neither eat nor drink.

How dare you!

Are you trying to enter the private chamber without permission?

I dare not, Your Highness.

Your Highness,

I failed in my duty.

Your Highness.

There's trouble at Yanming Palace.

Concubine Yan has entered the palace.

Your Highness!

Your Highness,

there's news from the General's Mansion.

The Crown Princess fainted.

[General's Mansion]

[Memorial Tablet of Lady Xue Yuying] [of the Zheng Kingdom]

[Memorial Tablet of Marquis of Wuyang,] [General Yin Sheng of Great Yan]

[Memorial Tablet of Lady Xue Yuying] [of the Zheng Kingdom]

[Memorial Tablet of Marquis of Wuyang,] [General Yin Sheng of Great Yan]

Jiangtu, leave me be.

It's me.

I went to battle with my father at 15.

I swore to be a righteous person

to protect the people of Great Yan.

But now,

I've killed my own people.

I can't let go of my sense of righteousness.

Nor can I abandon my feelings for you.

I thought if I closed my eyes,

I wouldn't have to see anything.

But now, when I close my eyes,

I see things even more clearly.

I'm far more cowardly than I ever imagined.

I wanted to have it all.

But I really don't know how to choose.

If you're still uneasy,

I will stay here and chant scriptures

until your heart is at peace.

May the stains be cleansed,

and innocence be revealed.

There are assassins in the palace.

By order of the Eastern Palace,

we are here to protect Your Highness.

What should we do, Chagu?

[Yanming Palace]

From now on,

Yanming Palace is sealed.

No food or drink shall be delivered.

No one is allowed to enter or leave.

With all remedies,

heal the three sufferings.

For the next few days, I will abstain from killing and meat.

I'll stay here, copying scriptures to atone for my sins.

Perhaps only by doing this

can I lighten the burden in my heart.

There's no way to have it all. You must choose me.

The Imperial Guards have surrounded Yanming Palace.

The Crown Prince has also put Concubine Yan under house arrest.

It seems her feeding the Emperor medicine has been exposed.

It's very likely the Emperor

won't make it through tomorrow.

Qingyan,

in the past, I always said

we weren't at a dead end yet.

But this time,

we're up against the elite forces of the Imperial City.

Even if we give it our all,

our chances of victory are slim.

Both of us

must prepare for the worst.

I will follow you to the death, my lord.

[Memorial Tablet of Commander Qingyan of the Weibei Army of Great Yan]

[Memorial Tablet of General Murong Jinghe of the Weibei Army of Great Yan]

Gather everyone.

We will storm the city and save the Emperor.

Yes.

Seeing you with all these wounds,

your mother

would be heartbroken.

I know

you would say

you're not afraid of pain,

nor of death.

I also know,

that if I asked you to risk your life,

you'd do it without hesitation.

You always say

you want revenge for the innocent people of Qingzhou.

But you've forgotten

that you, too, are innocent.

You've forgotten how to cry

and how to feel pain.

You gave it your all to stand before me.

How can I

drag you down a second time?

If you want the Snow Dragon Whisker,

what will you trade for it?

I will write a confession,

admitting I colluded with Liu Zhong,

plotted to kill Father,

and attempted to assassinate the Crown Prince.

I will admit it was all my doing.

That way,

you can ascend the throne

with a clean slate.

I want you to confess to the world.

[Prince Jing's Mansion]

Convince me

why I should trust you to protect her.

I am the Prince Heir of Xiyan

with an imperial edict from the Emperor to marry her.

And I vow to protect her with my life.

You can save her, but she won't be your wife.

In your current situation,

is there a better option?

You and the Crown Prince will inevitably clash.

If you lose, even if she escapes to Xiyan,

the Crown Prince will not spare her.

Only as the Princess Heir of Xiyan can she truly be safe.

She would never trade her freedom

for survival.

By the gods above,

I, Yue Qin, swear,

I will never force Mei Lin into anything against her will.

If I break this vow,

may everything I desire

be forever denied.

These are Snow Dragon Whisker seeds.

The Momai poison in her body hasn't been neutralized yet.

Only the Snow Dragon Whisker can save her.

I'm sorry.

This time, the choice isn't yours to make.

Jinghe.

[Memorial Tablet of General Murong Jinghe of the Weibei Army of Great Yan]

Mei Lin.

Master of the Shadow Works.

Mei Lin,

infiltrate the peace-making marriage delegation of Xiyan

and assassinate the Third Prince of Great Yan,

Murong Jinghe.

It's you.

That's right.

The Master of the Shadow Works

is me.

No,

it can't be you.

It can't be you.

Little beggar,

from the moment you tried to assassinate me ten years ago,

you became my dead piece.

The attempted assassination in the court

and the Momai poison

were both traps I set for you.

Had it not been for the token,

I would never have gotten you out of the Imperial Prison.

I cooperated with you

only because you knew the whereabouts of Zhang Yin.

You may be a disobedient pawn,

but you're still a useful blade.

It's always been

just an act

between you and me.

An act?

Yes.

From beginning to end,

it was all just an act.

I would never fall in love with a pawn.

If the ambush in Laowozi Village hadn't seemed so real,

how would you have willingly let me use you?

I never expected

you'd get so caught up in the act

and actually fall in love with me.

Jinghe,

you're lying to me.

You're lying again.

Lying to you?

At this point,

what's the point

of lying to you?

One more thing.

Your sweating isn't caused by the heat.

It's because the Momai poison in you

was never neutralized.

Now,

you only have a few months left to live.

Mei Lin,

your end is near.

Since you love me so deeply,

why not

do one last thing for me?

Little beggar,

staying alive

is the real torture.

Die for me.

Let's go!

I'll be holding onto your hairpin for now.

Once we've taken down the Crown Prince,

I'll give it back to you.

If you want to talk to your mother,

come to me.

However, the Lancang River is too far away.

So I moved the blue starry river here

for you.

I want you to see

the most beautiful scenery

I've ever seen.

♪Love is helpless♪

♪Falling into the abyss...♪

Is what you just said true?

Are you willing to take me,

Murong Jinghe,

as your live-in husband?

Let's make a bet.

If I can grow Red Fruits,

you will marry me.

♪A place in the heart...♪

You...!

♪It's a vain hope♪

♪It's in imagination♪

♪It's the distinguished light♪

Keep my hairpin well.

If it gets even slightly damaged,

you'll have to spend your life making it up to me.

How dare you

compare me to a dog?

That dog was my only companion

after the fire in Qingzhou.

A pawn

can never be a winner.

All I wanted

was justice for the innocent.

♪If life is♪

♪A predetermined sorrow...♪

Forgive me, but I can't work with you anymore, my lord.

♪An endless wandering♪

♪A place in the heart...♪

Qingzhou.

The true culprit is not dead.

You are not qualified to sleep.

Get up.

Jinghe.

♪If life is♪

♪A predetermined sorrow♪

♪Love is...♪

Mei Lin,

you must live.

♪A place in the heart♪

♪From which there is no return...♪

[Prince Jing's Mansion]

♪It's a vain hope♪

♪It's in imagination♪

♪It's the distinguished light♪

Capture the rebels! No one may enter or leave!

[Prince Jing's Mansion]

He did it to save me.

Stop the carriage.

Stop the carriage!

Mei Lin,

don't blame me.

This is the only way

to get you out of here.

[Prince Jing's Mansion]

Traitor Murong Jinghe colluded with Liu Zhong,

attempted to assassinate the Crown Prince,

and conspired to incite rebellion.

These crimes warrant execution.

He will be executed at the Wu hour.

The mighty General Weibei is fierce and bold.

His glory and power are built on bloodshed and cold.

In the living world, this mass murderer roams.

In the underworld, thousands of Qingzhou ghosts weep.

His heart has hardened like eyes of steel.

Sever his head and send him to the underworld.

Flesh devoured, blood drunk, bones crushed,

the mass murderer will be cursed for millennia.

Did you hear?

Killing you

is what the people want.

The people

want the real mass murderer dead.

Their will is unyielding,

and the truth will eventually come to light.

This truth was written by your own hand.

Murong Jinghe,

do you admit to your crimes?

I do.

Considering you're of royal blood

and blessed by Heaven,

confess your crimes

before your ancestors.

With Heaven above,

and Earth below,

the Murong clan,

ordained by Heaven's decree,

governs the people.

With ancestors honored, the nation has prospered.

But now, an unfilial descendant of Murong,

driven by selfish ambition,

has cast aside the ancestors' teachings

and committed three unforgivable crimes.

First,

he failed the Emperor, his father,

by plotting treason against his own family.

This makes him unfilial.

Second, as a prince,

he disregarded the people's welfare

and caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands in Qingzhou.

This makes him unjust.

Third, he betrayed the bond of kinship

by bringing harm to his own brother.

This makes him disloyal.

Such unfiliality, injustice, and disloyalty

make him unworthy to face his ancestors or serve the nation.

Jinghe,

take your own life

to repay the world.

I attempted to assassinate the Crown Prince

not out of greed for the throne,

but to rid the nation of evil.

The one guilty of being unfilial,

unjust,

and disloyal

is none other than the Crown Prince,

Murong Xuanlie.

Do you admit to your crimes?

Protect the Crown Prince!

My lord.

Go to Yanming Palace.

Murong Jinghe has rebelled.

Execute him on the spot!

Wang Quan,

take your men to guard Yanming Palace.

Yes.

The Imperial Guards outnumber us several times.

Avoid direct confrontation

before we reach Yanming Palace.

When the battle drums sound,

a soldier must fight and never retreat

until the drums fall silent.

As long as she still remembers the sound of the battle drums,

she will remember the duty of a general.

If we can win General Yin's support,

we will have a better chance of survival.

When the battle drums sound,

a soldier must fight and never retreat until the drums fall silent.

The Yin family has always been loyal and brave.

At this critical moment for Great Yan,

I hope you can act decisively

and turn the situation around.

[Memorial Tablet of Lady Xue Yuying] [of the Zheng Kingdom]

[Memorial Tablet of Marquis of Wuyang,] [General Yin Sheng of Great Yan]

Will the legacy of the Yin family

really end in my hands?

You're so clever, honey.

Father, your hands are so rough.

I forgot.

Mother said you held Great Yan in the palm of your hands,

and that's why they grew calluses.

Great Yan is so vast.

You can leave some of it in my hands, Father.

Very well.

Very well.

When you grow up and become a general,

I'll entrust some of it to you.

What a good child.

Peeking at the military drill?

Using the targets without permission?

Do you still not see your mistakes?

Father, do you also despise me for being a girl?

Have you forgotten the promise you made to me when I was a child?

I thought it was just idle talk.

Luomei,

I gave my life to the battlefield

and wronged both you and your mother.

I don't want you to follow my path.

I never felt wronged as a child

because I knew

you held the safety of Great Yan

in your hands

and were the backbone of the nation.

But now, kneeling before you,

I feel wronged.

I never wanted to walk your path.

I only want to walk the one I chose!

Does it hurt?

I lanced it

so it can heal faster.

At the Mao hour, the drill begins.

Anyone late will receive five strikes.

Have you agreed to let me become a general?

My daughter,

when the calluses on your hands

are as thick as mine,

you will be qualified

to become a general to protect the nation.

Since you've chosen this path,

do not betray

the Emperor's trust,

the people's hopes,

and my support.

I understand, Father.

Father,

now the calluses on my hands

are already thicker than yours.

[Yanming Palace]

The guards at Yanming Palace

are all the Crown Prince's elite forces.

We can only fight our way in.

Kill him!

Charge!

♪The wind scatters the spring flowers♪

♪The dream was filled with sorrow for the entire night♪

♪Troubled thoughts shatter into a sky full of stars♪

♪If fate is too unbearable♪

♪I am mired in the mud♪

♪Love is helpless, falling into the abyss♪

♪If life is a predetermined sorrow♪

♪Love is an endless wandering♪

♪A place in the heart from which there is no return♪

♪It's a vain hope, it's in imagination♪

♪It's the distinguished light♪

♪If life is a predetermined sorrow♪

♪Love is an endless wandering♪

♪A place in the heart from which there is no return♪

♪It's a vain hope, it's in imagination♪

♪It's the distinguished light♪

♪If life is a predetermined sorrow♪

♪Love is an endless wandering♪

♪A place in the heart from which there is no return♪

♪It's a vain hope, it's in imagination♪

♪It's the distinguished light♪

♪It's a vain hope, it's in imagination♪

♪It's the distinguished light♪