EPISODE 7
Who is it?
Feng Hao, get up.
Goodness, seriously? Who are these people?
At least let me know the truth before I die.
Feng Hao.
Watch out!
Feng Hao, get up!
-Mother, save me! -Don't move.
-Take them away.
-Yes, my lord. -Go.
-Don't move. -Stay still.
Go.
Your Highness!
-Let's leave. -Feng Hao!
Don't go after them.
-Feng Hao! -Don't, Feng Zhiwei.
Mr. Tailor,
save my mother and my brother.
I'm sorry.
Why are you apologizing?
You're Prince of Chu. The entire world belongs to you.
Go and tell them I was the one who killed Madam Yuhua.
They have nothing to do with it!
Save my mother and my brother.
Don't be impudent!
I wasn't being impudent.
He is a prince. There is nothing he can't do.
I am a useless prince.
You are wounded.
It is dangerous here. Leave.
Leave!
Leave. Go!
Zhu Yin.
Why were you so careless?
I told you not to come. You just wouldn't listen.
-I am all right. It's nothing. -Where is the wound?
On the arm that you are pulling now.
-Let's go. -I am glad you are alive.
Let's not waste time. Come.
-Slowly, now. -I am fine.
Feng Zhiwei.
Hurry up.
Let's go.
I'm sorry.
I didn't know you were wounded.
You risked your life to help me.
I shouldn't have blamed you.
Had something happened to you,
I wouldn't have known what to do.
I told you. I am all right.
If you really feel that guilty,
sell yourself to my residence
and serve me for the rest of your life.
Are you really that reluctant to serve me?
No.
I'm just...
This is all my fault.
All of you were right.
I am the one to blame.
Had I watched my mouth in the past,
I wouldn't have offended Madam Yuhua.
My mother and brother got into trouble because of me.
You got injured because of me too.
I'm sorry.
I...
You look hideous
when you cry.
I will help you rescue your mother and brother.
Really?
Of course.
Like you said, the entire world belongs to our family.
Besides, I am your savior. Have you forgotten that?
It's better for you not to be my savior.
What should I be then?
Be a wicked man.
Because the wicked ones live forever.
Every time I see you, you are always in bad shape.
Be a wicked man instead of a savior?
Live forever? That's a monster.
It's so cold.
I'm cold.
Thank you for the clothes.
Look at the time.
Did you even send people to look for your lord?
We did.
Haven't you heard from them yet?
Official Zhao.
Don't worry. He should be back soon.
It's the middle of the night.
His Majesty summons for my lord so urgently.
-What is it about? -How dare you!
We, the servants,
shouldn't question what our masters do.
Yes, I made a terrible mistake.
I spoke improperly.
Don't ever do it again.
-Keep that in mind. -I will.
Official Zhao.
-Your Highness. -Your Highness.
Your Highness!
-Your Highness. -Your Highness.
What happened to you?
I was attacked by an assassin at House of Lanxiang.
We caught him and realized he was with Bloody Pagoda.
Bloody Pagoda? Where is he now?
He escaped.
Guards!
Protect His Highness and Official Zhao!
-Your Highness. -You are bleeding.
Summon the imperial doctor.
Hurry up.
-Take care of Prince of Chu. -Yes.
What is going on?
RESIDENCE OF PRINCE OF CHU
Official Zhao.
Sorry for troubling you the past few days.
This way please, Official Zhao.
You are too stupid.
It won't be easy for you to find a husband.
How about this?
You are a silly woman and I am a useless prince.
Actually, we are a good match.
I, Feng Zhiwei,
swear by the name of my deceased father.
I will never,
under any circumstances,
marry Ning Yi.
If I break my oath,
my mother, Qiu Mingying's soul
will never rest in peace.
You are awake.
Does the wound still hurt?
It hurts terribly.
Should I get the imperial doctor?
Your Highness.
May I ask you a question?
I thought about it all night long.
I am still confused.
No, you may not.
Why did you come to rescue me?
What?
Why did you come to rescue me?
It hurts.
I need to get more sleep.
It hurts.
Stop pretending.
I got hurt because of you.
Uncle.
Does this incident prove that your prediction came true?
Bloody Pagoda reached out to Qiu Mingying to take revenge on Gu Yan.
And they created all these disturbances.
I have interrogated the guards who went to arrest Qiu Mingying.
The sword moves used by the two men in black
didn't seem like Bloody Pagoda's.
What about the man who attacked Ning Yi? Wasn't he a Bloody Pagoda?
We can't be sure yet whether he was a Bloody Pagoda member or not.
But according to what Zhao Yuan said, Ning Yi was wounded badly.
It didn't seem like a ruse.
I don't care who that man was.
He would be doing us a great favor if he could really kill Ning Yi.
But the situation has gotten out of hand.
Our extermination of Bloody Pagoda has now turned into a joke.
The entire thing is too strange.
This time,
I am confused as well.
I heard that His Majesty was furious last night.
I have been waiting for His Majesty all day to summon me and give me a scolding.
But I still haven't heard from the palace yet.
It's been way too quiet. It makes me even more anxious.
Your Royal Highness, Prince of Zhao is requesting to see you.
What is he doing here?
Your Royal Highness.
You asked Headmaster Xin to investigate secretly.
Have you heard anything from him yet?
Too many things are on my mind lately.
I almost forgot about that.
Let him enter.
Yes, my lord.
Come to think of it,
you started to experience all these setbacks
after Ning Yi got out of Zongzheng Temple.
It seems they are always one step ahead of us.
Are you still suspecting Ning Yi?
I suspect every prince who can succeed to the throne.
Your Royal Highness, allow me to pay my respects.
Ning Yan, you may rise.
You look joyous.
Do you have good news?
Tell me about it.
Let's talk about the happy news. Take a seat.
Your Royal Highness, as I'm sure you've heard,
Ning Yi was attacked by a Bloody Pagoda member and was badly wounded.
Speaking of which, I must praise His Majesty's wisdom.
I thought that I had exterminated all the Bloody Pagoda members.
It didn't occur to me that some might have gotten away.
I am ashamed of myself.
Your Royal Highness.
We are family.
Why are you talking to me like I am a stranger?
Ning Yan, what do you mean?
Your Royal Highness, didn't you ask me if I had good news?
The good news is that I am waiting for Your Royal Highness to reward me.
Your Royal Highness.
These are the members of Bloody Pagoda who were killed by the Crown Prince.
Ning Yan, you are being brash. Don't startle the Emperor.
She is the one. Arrest her!
Your Royal Highness.
I followed your order to carry out the canal construction.
I didn't profit from it at all.
Instead, I contributed one year's worth of my salary.
You really made an outstanding effort to help me this time.
If you need anything in the future, just let me know.
It's not a big deal.
I did what I had to do.
By the way,
the horse market in Dayue was originally your idea.
Colonel Qiu is in charge of it now.
I suppose he must give you a monthly report.
I see.
I will order Colonel Qiu
to report on the horse market to you instead from now on.
How does that sound?
Your Royal Highness, let me thank you in advance.
Please allow me to be dismissed.
See yourself out.
Hares may pull dead lions by the beard.
How dare he threaten me?
Your Royal Highness.
He knows the identities of the 13 bodies.
Detain Qiu Mingying for now.
We have to reconsider our plan.
We must ensure there are no more unexpected problems.
I won't let anyone have anything on me again.
Your Highness, please stop here. I don't dare to bear the responsibility.
You should go back to your room and rest.
These past two days must have been tiring.
His Majesty was concerned about your health.
That's why he ordered me to bring you precious medicine every day.
It is such a sin to make His Majesty worry about me.
Your Highness.
-Your Highness. -Yes.
If you wish to relieve His Majesty's heavy burden from worrying about you,
you must take good care of yourself from now on.
Please allow me to be dismissed.
All right. Take care.
Don't try to hide from me.
I just want to know how you found out that I was in danger.
What's the matter?
Did I touch your wound?
I'm sorry.
Get the imperial doctor.
Okay. Wait here. I'll go get him now.
What a liar.
Your Highness,
you can't keep hiding from that impostor.
I am not hiding from her.
In fact, I am going to see her now.
There she is.
Slowly, now.
There is no place for you to hide.
I saved your life, after all.
I don't expect you to repay my kindness,
but you shouldn't be so rude
to your savior.
If you answer my question,
I will repay you, of course.
But unless you give me a good answer,
I have to reconsider whether you are actually a savior or a villain
who puts my family at risk.
You are always chasing after me.
How could a girl be so shameless?
Doesn't she feel any shame?
Are you saying that I have no shame?
But I am fond of girls like you.
That's why I rescued you.
What's wrong?
What is it?
You like...
That's right. That's why I saved you.
You shouldn't joke about that.
I wasn't joking.
Why else would I have saved you?
It doesn't matter if you were joking or not.
I thought about it,
and the more I think about it, the more I find it strange.
How were the guards already at the door
right after Madam Yuhua died?
And how did Your Highness find out?
You are a prince.
If it was only about the death of a concubine,
why couldn't you show your face when you rescued me?
Why did you disguise yourself and help me in secret?
You are a prince.
And I owe you a debt of gratitude.
I can't force you to answer me,
but I don't know whether my family is dead or alive.
So I beg you to tell me the truth.
I will be grateful to you.
-Get up. -I won't get up.
I won't tell you if you don't get up.
A girl like you also happens to be very smart.
Is it a blessing or a misfortune?
I had no idea what happened to the three of you.
But Colonel Qiu divulged after he got drunk
that you wouldn't survive that night.
Therefore, I went to rescue you.
Our uncle is a high-level officer in the government after all.
We have nothing to be afraid of.
I am afraid that your uncle has already found out
and has given his permission.
As expected, my uncle was involved.
I couldn't expose my identity
because of my personal reasons.
I understand.
If I am still alive
after I get my mother and brother out,
I will repay my debt of gratitude to Your Highness
with my life.
With your life?
I will do something for your mother and brother.
Stay at my residence for a few more days.
Shouldn't you thank me?
Thank you, Your Highness.
You may leave now.
Ziyan, when did you arrive?
I got here before she came.
Three heads are better than two.
I wanted to step in,
but the two of you seemed very fond of each other.
I didn't want to interrupt while you were making eyes at her,
so I could only stand here and look at the fish.
Unfortunately, this is a heartless world.
Humans are fortunes' fool.
Do you know who she is?
You must know something.
Of course.
The ones you fought that night were Chang Hai's men.
The Crown Prince made the arrest.
The two of them are currently being held in his secret chamber.
In this case,
the two of them
must be really important people.
They are not just important people.
There are some things that I cannot bear to tell you.
I am afraid it will break your heart.
This love that has just budded
is destined to be doomed.
Because...
Your Highness are her sworn enemy who killed her father.
Her mother, Qiu Mingying,
is the widow of Gu Heng, the leader of Bloody Pagoda.
And Feng Zhiwei is his child.
We can't be certain that she is the child
of Gu Heng.
THE IDENTITIES OF COLONEL QIU'S SISTER'S CHILDREN ARE SUSPICIOUS
YUHUA
One of Qiu Mingying's children is the remnant of Dacheng Empire?
A concubine.
A spiteful woman's words.
This is not reliable.
This is great.
Whether you believe it or not,
we will be able to arouse the Emperor's suspicion
as long as we have this letter.
The Crown Prince is holding them captive.
We should beat him at his own game.
Expose the fact that he didn't kill the remnant,
but made a false claim that he did.
And that he still shows no remorse today.
When he found out that the remnant was still alive,
he didn't report it, but tried to murder him instead.
No. Absolutely not.
You don't want to hurt Feng Zhiwei.
I also don't want to hurt Gu Heng's widow and Feng Hao, whom I have never met.
If we kill innocent people,
we are no different from Ning Chuan.
That night,
Gu Yan asked me.
Between the title of Crown Prince and the life of an infant I do not know,
which was more important to me?
I had already made my decision that night.
Ziyan.
You once told me
that you were going to assist me in becoming a great emperor.
A great emperor.
If I were to help you
ascend to the throne and become the emperor,
how many sacrifices must be made?
How many people have to give up their lives?
Is it even worth it?
Ziyan.
If one day,
I enter Chengming Palace as an emperor,
I wouldn't want my throne
to be tainted with innocent blood.
Understand?
You don't want your throne to be tainted with innocent blood?
All right.
It's a deal.
What about Qiu Mingying's arrest?
What are you going to do?
The Crown Prince went through a lot of trouble to arrest them.
He is not going to kill them right away.
So we have enough time to plan something.
So the person who is in critical danger is Feng Zhiwei who is still at large.
That's right.
That's why you are hiding her in your residence.
I am the only one who can protect her.
All right.
I am the only one who can protect her.
Your Highness!
WE MAY NOT MEET AGAIN FENG ZHIWEI
How audacious, Feng Zhiwei.
You are too reckless.
Go.
Find her. You must bring her back!
Your Highness, please calm down. I will do it now,
even if I have to knock her out and abduct her.
Hold on.
Your Highness.
Let Ning Qing and Ning Zhuo do it.
You...
Come with me to Qiu Residence.
Slowly, now.
Zhiwei.
What are you doing here?
Didn't you go to Mount Luming to pray
with Madam Mingying, Feng Hao, and Madam Yuhua?
That's right.
We went there to pray
at Mount Luming.
Why did you come back alone?
It is one of those days.
It is a difficult subject for us to talk about.
Do you understand?
It is one of those days we cannot hold incense and pray.
You are also a girl, how could you not understand?
Yes, it is forbidden.
Should I cook some sugar water for you?
Sure.
This is kind of embarrassing.
You must not tell anyone.
Of course, don't worry.
Hey, Cui.
Where is the lord?
I came back alone. I will have to let him know eventually.
You shouldn't talk to the lord now.
I was in the garden just now.
He was having a fight with the lady.
Really?
I will talk to him later then.
Pray?
Don't try to fool me with those lame excuses
that you used to fool the servants.
Two nights ago, so many guards came to our residence.
And the next morning, the Fengs and Yuhua were gone.
I am the madam of this house.
Four adults have gone missing.
Can you just tell me the truth?
No, I cannot.
Dear, for the sake of the lives in this household,
they have gone to Mount Luming to pray.
Do you understand?
-My lord. -Who let you in?
Speak!
Prince of Chu is here.
It's so boring.
What was Father thinking?
How could he allow Feng Zhiwei to go to Mount Luming?
Did he forget that I am actually the pitiful one
who needs to pray and get rid of my bad luck?
This way, Your Highness.
Take a look around.
That impostor must be here.
Got it.
Prince of Chu, Ning Yi?
Why is my life so hard?
I am Qiu Yuluo.
Please allow me to pay respect, Your Highness.
Please rise.
What is the matter?
Your Highness, it makes me sad
when I think about the fact
-that we are not destined to be together. -Ning Cheng.
Your Highness, you have no idea how much I have suffered.
Your Highness.
I haven't slept or eaten for days.
I have so many things to tell you.
Actually that birth card--
Yuluo.
What are you doing?
How dare you charge at Prince of Chu?
What a disgrace!
Go back to your room.
Yes, Father.
Your Highness, please allow me to pay my respects.
You need to discipline your daughter.
I will definitely teach her a lesson.
This way, please.
I didn't know Your Highness was coming.
Please forgive me for not giving you a proper welcome.
Your Highness, how may I be at your service?
It's nothing important.
I just came here to have a drink with you.
I am flattered indeed.
Ning Cheng.
I am going to have a drink with Colonel Qiu.
You may be dismissed.
Yes, Your Highness.
Your Highness, please wait a minute.
I will tell my servants to prepare some side dishes
to go with the wine.
That's a good idea.
Go now.
Huo Laosan brewed this wine.
Whose money is that?
Go now.
Huo Laosan's wine surely lives up to its reputation.
Thank you, Your Highness.
You are welcome.
If Your Highness has something important to attend to,
we can do this again some other time.
It is a troublesome matter.
Never mind.
There is nothing I can do about it.
I should just get drunk with Colonel Qiu here.
I wish I could get drunk.
ROYAL GUARDS
Sir, I have something to report.
It is a solemn place. Authorized personnel only.
Sir, please don't be mad. It is really an important matter.
It's about Colonel Qiu's family.
What is it about?
Sir, some men pretended to be guards and made an arrest at Qiu Residence.
My lord.
There is a lady outside claiming that fake guards
arrested a woman and her son at Qiu Residence.
I couldn't find her anywhere, and she shows up here on her own.
Colonel Qiu.
It seems like something is bothering you too.
There is no one in the world who isn't troubled by something.
Your Highness, you are a prince.
If you didn't have trouble,
you wouldn't be here drinking with me.
That's right.
Everyone in the world
has a family, relatives, and friends.
But I feel that if a person
could truly reach a state where he cares for no one,
wouldn't he be free of trouble?
Cares for no one?
I really hope that I could truly care
for no one.
Man proposes,
God disposes.
So what's the use of being a high-level officer?
I am just drifting through life.
Every man for himself. The devil takes the hindmost.
But if a person becomes heartless
merely for the sake of himself,
can he be considered a person?
Colonel Qiu.
Let me make a toast to you again.
Here.
Thank you, Your Highness.
Subtitle translation by Judy Lu