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Luoyang
Episode 15
Eastern Palace
Come with me.
Yes, my lady.
Your Highness.
Li Dun, the Crown Prince
Have a seat.
How may I help you, Your Highness?
Take a seat first.
Thank you, Your Highness.
Siyue,
the life of everyone in the Eastern Palace
is now in your hands.
That would be a stretch,
Your Highness.
Youjue, we're brothers.
What is the kneeling for?
I have something serious to report to you.
Is it about Gao Bingzhu?
Yes, Your Highness.
What a good-for-nothing Gao Sheng is!
How could Gao Bingzhu escape under his watch?
I've asked him to investigate it.
Once it's clear,
no matter who did this,
I won't let them get away with it.
Your Highness,
Siyue is also involved in it.
No wonder Siyue was also there
when we were catching Wang Dengcheng.
This girl
really leaves us trouble.
Your Highness,
Siyue is young, naive and reckless.
Please show mercy to her.
But in my humble opinion,
this is not supposed to do you no good.
Go on.
Gao Bingzhu
has little to do with the Crown Prince.
What is untrue will always be untrue.
If we really tell Her Majesty about this,
given her mindset,
what will she think?
Now we have caught
the real murderer.
You could simply tell her the truth
to show her your impartiality
and commitment.
How about Gao Bingzhu?
Now that he has run away,
we'd better not make a scene
to catch him.
Or people will notice this.
I think
the best solution is
to not make a big deal out of it
and just let it go.
Why are you still on your knees, Youjue?
Get up.
Thank you, Your Highness.
Youjue, among the youngsters in the Wu family,
who I care about the most
are you and Siyue.
Don't disappoint me.
We'll never do that!
I'm wondering why you said that, Your Highness.
Sit down.
I'm sure you've known
Her Majesty ordered the King of Jin to oversee the Song Liang case.
It seems Your Highness
is bothered by this case.
The King of Jin
has a problem with the Eastern Palace.
Now he got a big case of rebellion.
He'll surely take the chance
to point the finger at me.
Don't get me wrong.
I have nothing to do with the Song Liang case,
I swear to God.
I believe you, Your Highness.
You don't seem to know the situation.
Song Liang has gone crazy.
In the prison, he's been slandering others.
He even said that he and I
were like-minded
and that we were close friends.
Don't worry, Your Highness.
In detection, we only make judgments based on evidence.
Now,
whether there is evidence
doesn't matter anymore.
The thing is
the King of Jin will surely take advantage of this
and set the Eastern Palace up.
Siyue,
Her Majesty must have known about this,
but she hasn't summoned me.
So,
I haven't slept or eaten well these days.
There's no one I can turn to.
The only person that can help me out
is you.
I'm afraid that
even I won't be of any help.
You will.
You're an interior guard
in Her Majesty's favor.
If you can say something for me
to Her Majesty,
she will listen.
I got what you mean, Your Highness.
Your Highness invited me here
and said all these to me.
I believe Your Highness has a clear conscience.
I will verify everything said by Song Liang
and won't let him slander anyone.
But what worries me now
is that I did have contact
with Song Liang.
If he slanders me,
I won't be able to defend myself.
When I was going from Fan Prefecture back to the capital,
I was ambushed by assassins.
Mother!
-Mother. -Li Dun.
Song Liang led the Capital Battalion
and rescued me.
Bring His Highness out of here!
Were the assassins
from Four Season Divine?
Yes.
Song Liang was the Deputy Minister of War.
It was his job to chase and kill the assassins.
Within ten days,
he killed hundreds of people from the Divine
and captured the leader alive,
who's called Lord Freedom.
Since then,
the Divine has disappeared.
Lord Freedom.
It was Song Liang who destroyed the Divine.
All this was credited to Song Liang.
Since then, he has been promoted
all the way to the Minister of War.
Your Highness,
those from Four Season Divine are crazy and ruthless.
How could Song Liang
wipe them out so easily?
You mean...
Your Highness,
do you know where Lord Freedom is kept?
The cleansing mask
was made from illite clay minerals.
Welcome, ladies.
It's best for purifying the skin.
I was able to
spare you one jar
from the gifts bestowed by Her Majesty.
It feels so smooth.
No wonder it's from the royal family.
Wrap it for me, then.
No problem.
Lad.
My lord.
Sir,
has Lady Liu bought isinglass from you?
I don't know this lady.
This box is from you, right?
My lady,
if you'd like any food,
just let us know.
I'll have someone make it for you.
Let's go outside.
Come in.
Hongyi.
Sit down.
Among 18 stores selling isinglass in the capital,
this is the only one you frequently visit.
Yunzhi told me
there had been no isinglass at home.
If you wanted any,
you had to buy it from the store.
So, it's not hard
to find you.
The chef's lamp soup is not fresh now.
So, I asked Tao to cook this just now.
Eat it when it's hot.
Why are you here, Hongyi?
To find you.
Find me,
just to eat soup with me?
After you finish,
go home with me.
Who is Lord Freedom?
He's kept by interior guards.
Don't tell me you don't know it.
I really don't...
I really don't know.
Where is he?
Take me to see him now.
He's kept here by Her Majesty.
Even Sir Wu will need Her Majesty's written order.
Order
Secret Prison, Interior Guard Services
You're Lord Freedom, huh?
Lord Freedom, Four Season Divine
The 27th one.
A girl even.
Interesting.
I am Madam Wu Siyue of the Interior Guards.
The evil Empress and female officers lead the country.
Even a woman can be an interior guard.
What a ridiculous world!
You are held here.
Why has no one from the Divine come to save you?
Centuries shall pass before the greater good is achieved.
How can ordinary people understand?
The greater good?
You're now a prisoner.
Enough with the greater good!
A dogmatic person hears nothing.
The ordinary can't be enlightened
because they're a frog in a well.
They only see what is in the well.
Only when they jump out of the well,
will they know how the world goes!
By that, do you mean to kill people at will,
like what you Divine people do?
Everything is already written.
Lowly weeds have been thriving.
Precious plants were undeservedly humiliated.
Burning them to ash
was the only way out.
So, Four Season Divine
wasn't wiped out five years ago.
You kept quiet
for a comeback.
You've been biding your time.
There's a man good with the halberd.
What's your relationship?
Impossible.
There's no way he's still alive.
Who?
Siyue.
He's insane.
He won't tell you.
When the Hidden Phoenix shows up, the world will collapse!
The Hidden Phoenix I want
is not the one they want.
They want to get rid of me
to achieve the greater good.
Am I wrong,
or are they wrong?
Who are they?
Is the person with a halberd one of them?
The 16th Night.
Who?
The 16th Night!
What else do you know?
♫The Dachun tree in ancient times♫
♫Grew in the northwest♫
Where is the 16th Night? Tell me!
Siyue, he is a lunatic.
Give it up.
Madam Wu!
♫The Dachun tree in ancient times♫
Liu Shi, Master of the Liu family
Father.
Hongyi is a blunt person.
If he said something and offended you,
I apologize to you for him.
I'll bring him
to apologize to you.
No need.
When you got married,
I was not there.
Did you feel disappointed in me?
Our Liu family has been of high rank for generations.
It was not well-suited
that you married a Baili.
If I had come back that day,
you two wouldn't have gotten married.
It's only because I was away
and other nobles couldn't tell you what not to do
that you were able to marry him as you wanted.
Father,
I got it.
Our Liu family
once offended Her Majesty.
I've lived in seclusion for years
just to let Her Majesty know
that the Liu family backed off.
If your uncle hadn't lost his mind,
I wouldn't have come back.
But,
the fact that our family has declined
doesn't mean we have fallen.
Your uncle
deserved what he got.
But he has died.
The one to blame is already gone.
The rest of our family
should not still be bothered
or even afraid.
I have tolerated it for years
only to keep our family safe.
If I continue to tolerate all this,
our family
will never rise again.
Father,
you've suffered so much away from home all these years.
You have done so much
for the Liu family.
I have eaten dirt for half of my life,
but it's not a big deal to me.
The thing is you, my daughter,
cannot be unfairly treated.
I won't put up with it.
Father,
everyone says Hongyi is an aloof man.
Even he himself thinks so.
I don't know
what he said to you
that makes you so worried.
But please believe me, father,
he is not aloof.
I know it.
I believe you.
He went to 18 cosmetic stores.
Not even I have ever done that
for your mother.
Eighteen cosmetic stores.
My lady,
what did Master Liu say to you?
You've been smiling the whole night.
18 cosmetic stores, Yunzhi.
Even Father could tell
Hongyi cares about me.
He went to every cosmetic store in the capital to find me.
Thank God he found you today.
Or Master Liu wouldn't let him off.
Neither would I.
Where's Hongyi?
Did you find anything?
I've been to the places Gao Bingzhu used to go to.
No one has seen him.
When looking for his whereabouts,
I also asked a Grand Court officer I know
and got some news
about Song Liang.
He told me
Song Liang is slandering others in the prison.
All nobles in the capital are worried
and want to cut ties with him.
He was such a high official.
Look what he's become!
What's the point?
The thing behind him isn't that simple.
Why?
I went to the arsenal the other day
and I felt something was wrong.
They did forge a lot of weapons,
but the secret tunnel in the Ghetto
is narrow and twisty.
This means
there wouldn't be many rebel forces.
But Song Liang is not an idiot.
He wouldn't think
he could really make it, right?
Song Liang must have known
his attempt to rebel
was doomed to fail.
But he said that
he was about to achieve the greater good.
About to achieve the greater good?
Apart from the rebellion,
he must've been up to something else.
My lord, forget about it.
It's not that likely
that you can figure all this out tonight.
I feel I have overlooked something important.
Did you forget that
Master Liu is still here?
Tonight,
you and Lady Liu may have to sleep in the same room.
Master Liu?
Lady Liu's father.
But what exactly is Song Liang plotting?
Madam Wu.
Fan Changling, Interior Guard
What are you looking for?
Have you heard of the Hidden Phoenix?
No.
When the Hidden Phoenix shows up, the world will collapse.
The world will collapse?
Does it mean
there will be trouble in the capital?
Madam.
Is it about Gao Bingzhu?
No.
It's about the Grand Court.
Wang Dengcheng died.
Wang Dengcheng died?
Baili Mansion
Father,
I'll go visit you.
Don't worry about the servants.
They're just gone for now.
I will try to rehire them
and won't leave myself untended.
I'm leaving.
Baili Mansion
Hongyi,
let's go home.
Okay.
Hongyi, let me help you with these.
Hongyi,
I broke your model.
I... I...
I...It's all my fault.
I'm really sorry, Hongyi.
Hongyi,
what should I do?
It's okay.
I made this model with pine.
Pine easily gets warped and damaged
when it's damp.
It's not the right material.
Don't feel bad.
Really?
Evil Empress,
I will wait for you in hell!
I see.
Interior Guard Services
The Interior Guard Services
caught Song Liang
thanks to you, Lord Hongyi.
We do have desk jobs available.
If you'd like to become an official,
I'll see what I can do.
Do you know
Madam Wu's relationship with Gao Bingzhu?
Why has she been down
since she came back?
If you want to know it,
why not ask Madam Wu herself?
Heavenly House
Sir.
We haven't counted the weapons seized in the Ghetto.
They're all here in the yard.
The sword is very heavy.
It's made of copper from Mount Lian.
I didn't expect you to be so strong.
How's that possible?
Copper from Mount Lian is of high quality.
It won't crack easily
or have so many impurities.
These weapons
were not made of copper from Mount Lian.
Wang Dengcheng colluded with Song Liang.
He knew about the rebellion.
I can't believe you neglected him
and let him die in the prison.
Please calm down, Madam Wu.
Wang Dengcheng had been apprehensive since he got arrested.
He had a heart attack last night
and died before the doctor came.
Have you sent a coroner?
Are you sure he was not murdered?
We had many autopsies.
There were no mortal wounds
or any signs of poisoning.
It's unlikely that he was murdered.
Where's the body?
It's been sent to the mortuary.
This man had admitted all his crimes
before he died.
The confession has been...
Since you came back from the Interior Guard Services,
you've been looking at this map.
Have you found anything?
Gao Bingzhu and Madam Wu
found the copper had been replaced
at the Dragon Gate Ferry.
I thought
the switched copper
went to Riverside Resort,
so that Liu Xiang could forge counterfeit coins.
Later, I found
Riverside Resort was just a cover.
The remaining copper
was sent to the Ghetto
for Song Liang to make weapons for the rebellion.
However, those weapons
were of low quality
and not made of copper from Mount Lian.
Then where
did the copper go?
Mount Lian
Perhaps I have to go to the place
where all this started
to find out.
Where is this?
The two informers came from here.
It's Mount Lian.
Siyue.
Liu Ran.
What happened?
Nothing.
That is to say,
your friend's buddy
was arrested
and died in prison.
So, you think
you don't deserve
your friend's trust.
You must really care about that friend,
don't you?
I...
I'm an interior guard,
but I keep making mistakes in this case.
I just feel
I failed myself.
Really?
Let me ask you this.
If the guy who died
had nothing to do with your friend,
would you still not let it go?
Siyue,
you once told me that
if there's something I want to do,
I should try everything to achieve it.
Right?
Then, do it my way.
If you keep thinking about it,
your guilt will never go away.
If you can do something about it,
you will feel relieved.
I thought
you would never grow up.
But marrying Hongyi
changed you so much.
Everyone says Hongyi is distant,
but I don't think so.
I am the only one
that knows how nice he is.
He is really a good man.
You're easy to please, my lady.
Small praise for Lord Hongyi
can cheer you up all day.
Be careful with it.
Shen Fei.
Lady Liu.
Are you getting on a long trip?
Where's Hongyi going?
His lordship wants to go on an outing today.
An outing?
But this carriage
is clearly for a long trip.
You won't need so many things for an outing.
Map of Luo Prefecture.
Why do you need
such a complex map for an outing?
Where is Hongyi going?
Where's Hongyi?
My lady.
Where are you going in such a hurry?
Stay at home.
I'll be back soon.
Shen Fei acted weirdly.
You are not going on a normal outing.
You are being evasive,
so I guess it's about Uncle.
If I'm right,
you should stop keeping it from me.
Am I right?
All of these started from the Mount Lian Copper Mine.
I have to sort it out in Mount Lian.
Let me go with you.
Hongyi,
your father's death is related to the copper.
My uncle also killed himself to escape punishment.
If I can't figure out the cause,
I'll be constantly bothered.
Gradually,
we will grow apart.
And we'll never truly get along.
Hongyi, let me go with you.
No.
Hongyi.
Ma'am.
Lanqing
My lady.
My lady?
Hongyi.
Shen Fei, stop!
Hongyi.
It's something serious.
Don't mess around.
Hongyi,
from what Shen Fei said,
I can tell
what you're going to do.
I can also do detection.
I really want to help you.
Shen Fei,
go to the station ahead
and get Liu Ran a carriage.
Hongyi.
My lord, it's late.
How about taking Lady Liu with us?
If you are worried,
go back to the capital with her.
I'll get a carriage myself.
My lady.
Shen Fei.
My lady.
The station is just a short walk away.
Please go back, my lady.
Shen Fei.
What's the problem with Mount Lian?
Why can't I go there?
Nothing.
It's just that the long and bumpy ride
can be physically challenging for you.
My lady,
I can tell you the truth,
but promise me
you'll go back, all right?
Mount Lian is owned by officials.
If you just rush in,
it can be a one-way trip.
A one-way trip?
Don't worry, my lady.
It's going to be fine.
I will be there.
I'll go back, then.
Sure.
Take care.
We will.
The wind's coming. It's a bit cold.
Seems it's going to rain.
It's getting late.
I'm afraid Lady Liu won't listen
or just go back to the capital.
If she goes somewhere else,
it'll be a problem.