♫ The ones standing on the top of the thistles and thorns to look up ♫
♫ will see through vicissitudes of life ♫
♫ In this city where both good and evil are hiding from each other, ♫
♫ I will survive with you ♫
♫ That ray of light guides me to overcome sorrow by its brightness ♫
♫ Meeting you at that time means you're my destiny ♫
♫ Desires wear down the edges and corners of my heart and ♫
♫ laugh at forever-losing leniency ♫
♫ I insist on being the grain which cannot be burned down by the wildfire ♫
♫ to feed the love ♫
♫ Standing in the center of the surges, winds are my thoughts ♫
♫ Rain is the hunting ground urging the horse to fight back ♫
♫ Lift up my head to look at the unreturnable times at a distance ♫
♫ The torch in front of my eyes is surging ♫
♫ The sky is getting darker and darker ♫
♫ The path is getting longer and longer ♫
♫ I know hearts cannot waver ♫
♫ Whoever dares to be a king during the chaos of the world ♫
♫ will stop evils with all his might for sure ♫
♫ Then there is hope ♫
[Princess Agents]
~ Episode 28 ~
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Take all the corpses and withdraw!
Yes.
Yuwen Huai's people?
Yes. It was our people who heard from second Mister's room.
They said that assassins hadn't reached Yingge Garden and already got killed.
Looks like we do not need to inform him anymore.
Princess is just worrying for nothing.
Yuwen Yue is a person that is cold on the outside but warm on the inside.
Superficially, he acts as a traitor to Yan Xun.
Privately, he actually cares for him very much.
That's good.
What I can't do, at least someone is doing it for me.
Hope those people can be more courageous than me.
Mister.
You may leave.
Yes.
Heir Apparent, has the water been tasted?
Didn't we already test the water from that well yesterday?
From now on, we need to test food everyday.
I will bring some mice back to raise.
After the mice have tested for poison, don't immediately start eating
because some poisons show effect immediately whereas others show effect more slowly.
We must wait at least two days, and if the mice are fine, then the food can be eaten.
It's same with the water.
But right now the weather is so hot, food won't last for two days.
Eating spoiled foods is better than dying from food.
[Boutique Shop]
Heir Apparent's matters have stabilized.
Your mission has completed.
You and your three sisters can return to Northern Yan to look for Mr. Wu.
If you want, I can give you some money
or I could help you do some trading.
With your intellect, you should be able to have a peaceful life.
We don't want to live like that. We want to follow you.
You better think carefully.
Yes, or either we won't have called you over today.
Following me means that everyday can be more dangerous than what you guys have ever experienced in the past.
I know. We are from Northern Yan.
From the minute Northern Yan was taken, our families were all killed
meaning that we also have no home to go back to.
Our following you these few days is in hoping that we can have our revenge one day.
So, you want to follow me?
Yes. Follow you. Follow Heir Apparent.
I know that after Heir Apparent goes through all of these things, he will again pull himself together.
And all people in this Chang'an City are our enemies.
But are you not afraid of losing your lives?
A few lives means nothing compared tor Northern Yan.
Also, who knows what will happen in the future?
Maybe, we will kill the Wei Emperor.
Heir Apparent will let us return to Northern Yan to be some officials.
Miss Yu, just let us stay.
If there's something we don't know, we'll work hard to learn it.
We'll definitely not slow you down.
I don't know if I'm helping you
or hurting you.
So you agree?
Since we're playing with our lives, then you need the ability to play with your lives.
If you all want to stay, then you must listen to everything I say,
so as to prevent you all dying in vain in the future.
Yes, yes, yes. We will listen to anything you say.
- We will listen. - Me too. - Me too.
Since you are all here, it must mean that you heard everything we said, right?
From now on, we will live and die together.
Okay!
[Yingge Garden]
Heir Apparent Yan Xun, you cannot keep weapons here inside the Yingge Garden.
If someone discovers them, it'll be a huge crime.
It is not easy to do our job, so we hope Apparent Heir Yan Xun can understand.
Thank you, Heir Apparent Yan Xun, for cooperating.
Everything will be okay.
I don't know whether someone will come tonight or not.
I don't know. You should sleep first.
- Then, remember to wake me up. - Yes.
Informing Your Highness, only one among the people we sent to test Chu Qiao was able to return.
I heard that maidservant of Yan Xun is quite ruthless when she fights.
But the technique she uses are from the Yuwen's family
not from any famous sects of Jianghu.
Are you talking about the martial arts technique of the Yuwen family?
Do you still want to try her out again?
No need.
Heir Apparent Yan Xun, after not seeing you for a few days, you still have the same elegant demeanor.
If you need anything, just tell me.
This person is—?
My maidservant.
Only one?
There is another one.
Yesterday, an assassin came here and cut her face.
She's currently resting inside.
The peace and order here in Chang'an is getting worse.
I will inform the local officials about this as soon as possible and let them investigate it clearly.
- Don't worry. Relax. - No need.
I killed them all.
You have such great martial arts skills so you will surely not mind such a thing.
I don't need to introduce him. Wei family's second son.
We're all old friends.
What do you two need?
My guards said that you guys are hiding weapons here in this garden.
I came to check it out.
Check it out?
Is there something wrong? Are you against it?
When we came here, it was already checked.
Just because it was checked, does it mean we can't check it again?
I'm suspicious that this place wasn't checked thoroughly. I came to check personally.
Search!
Halt!
Heir Apparent said with such a loud voice. Are you trying to scare me?
You really think of yourself as the Heir Apparent in the past.
I'm clearly telling you, even if His Majesty let you live,
I won't let you break the rules.
Heir Apparent, if they want to search, then let them search.
We're their meat on their chopping block.
We can't out argue with them.
This maidservant of yours has quite the foresight.
Heir Apparent, stay clever and you'll suffer less.
Search!
- Over there. - Yes.
- Over here.
Hurry.
What's wrong with this slave girl?
If your face was sliced, you would know what was wrong.
Mister, we didn't find anything.
Since you didn't find anything, I ask you two to please leave.
Do not rush. We still have not checked her injuries.
Second Mister of Wei, that shouldn't be necessary.
If there's any necessity, it's my decision.
Not anyone can see the maidservant of our Heir Apparent.
Heir Apparent.
The Duke of Northern Yan's head has been chopped off.
How could he still count as the Heir Apparent? Yes?
Wei Shuyou!
You have gone overboard.
So what if I go overboard on you?
A phoenix who has fallen from grace is inferior to a chicken.
What can you do to me?
Come. Take good care of the maidservant of Heir Apparent.
Tell your maidservant to remove the bandage on her face.
Hurry and remove it!
Did you not hear what Mr. Yuwen said?
Stop it!
Princess.
Wei Shuyou you have such great might.
Is this still the Yingge Garden?
Did I take the wrong path and end up in your backyard?
Princess, Mister Wei is just doing his job based on the rules.
Doing his job based on the rules?
Which rule and which job?
My Emperor Father wanted you to come here to protect Older Brother Yan Xun.
He asked you two to be responsible for the security of Yingge Garden,
which also means that you two are servants here.
Older Brother Yan Xun is the master here.
A servant searches one's master.
Who do you think you are? Yes?
You all listen up. Here lives my Older Brother Yan Xun.
I do not care who ordered you two to do this or what motives you two have.
When you arrive here, put them all away!
If I learn that you two are only complying in appearance but opposing in heart, still secretly doing your thing,
and having even a bit of evil intentions,
let me tell you two, your masters will never be able to protect you!
If you understand then you may leave.
Yes.
Older Brother Yan Xun, are you okay?
I'm okay. Thank you, Princess.
Then lets go in.
With the arrival of Princess, we should have welcomed you in a grand manner.
But this Yingge Garden is quite dirty and disordered.
- Move. I'm not here to see you. Move. - Prin—
If you stay here, you'll dirty yourself.
Do you not understand me? I said to move.
Forgive me from being frank. The clan of Heir Apparent Yan Xun have already been executed.
Please do not associate with him.
Not associate with him?
Am I supposed to associate with you?
Don't think I don't know what you're thinking.
I hate your expression as a villain holding sway the most.
Although Older Brother Yan Xun has temporarily angered my Emperor Father,
he is still better than you by several times.
Stop trying to please me. You are just making me feel annoyed.
- Caiwei. - Yes.
Have the people not involved leave.
Mr. Yuwen, please.
Miss Ah Chu, it was difficult on you.
Right now, there are spies of the feudal families both inside and outside of Yingge Garden.
Wei Shuyou and Yuwen Huai will surely find a chance to harm Heir Apparent.
If he knew you were still alive, not only would he kill you,
Heir Apparent would have another Achilles' heel.
Let us always be vigilant.
Yes.
Brother Yan Xun, if I don't initiate a conversation with you, would you not have anything to say to me?
What do you want me to say to you?
Anything is fine. Stories, jokes,
or stuff about when we were young.
It's fine as long as it's happy.
My parents are dead. My sisters and brothers are killed.
My whole Northern Yan clan suffered casualties that almost no one is left.
I cannot collect their corpses.
I cannot exercise filial piety.
I cannot even show too many grieving emotions.
And, at this time, do I even have to
accompany Princess here to talk cheerfully, joke around and tell you stories?
Sorry, Older Brother Yan Xun.
I didn't do it on purpose.
Chun'er just wishes for you to be happier.
- Chun'er. - Yes?
We can't return to the past.
The Yan Xun of the past is already dead.
I don't know how long today's Yan Xun can still survive.
We grew up together.
I've treated you as my little sister since I was little.
So... now...
while I still have a conscience and hold care for you, you should leave me quickly.
The further away the better.
Don't destroy yourself.
I choked.
Older Brother Yan Xun,
I don't know what you are saying.
I don't understand.
Chun'er, you understand it.
Older Brother Yan Xun, I'm sorry.
I know that it's my parents that killed your whole family.
Even though they all say that your father wanted to rebel,
I know that it's my Emperor Father who has wronged you.
Whenever I see you, I feel especially hurt and sad.
Now that I slowly don't recognize you anymore,
I feel horrible and guilty.
But... But think, Older Brother Yan Xun,
you don't have a family anymore. You don't have a father.
You only have Chun'er. I will protect you.
I will never leave you.
I won't let Yuwen Huai and those bad guys hurt you.
Don't you think so?
Let's not talk about this anymore.
Caiwei, bring the desserts I prepared for Older Brother Yan Xun.
Yes.
Older Brother Yan Xun, I prepared for you your favorite dessert.
Look. Look, these are... There are wuren sweet bread cakes.
This one. This one is wisteria cake. And your favorite candied fruit.
Take a look. What do you want to eat first?
Let us first eat the wisteria cake.
Try a bite.
Open your mouth. Try a bite, okay?
How is it? Doesn't it taste good?
Eat a little more.
Then a different one. You've tried this one.
Taste one candied fruit.
Eat a little more? Okay?
The princess gave it to you?
Throw it away.
Why throw it away?
Princess definitely wouldn't poison you.
- Yan Xun. - I—
Yan Xun, what's wrong with you?
What's wrong with you? Yan Xun?
Yan Xun?
Heir Apparent?
What's wrong with him?
The princess poisoned him.
With that brain, how could she poison him?
I fear that someone used her hand and did some trick.
It is the three legged soft-shell turtle poison.
It is a form transforming poison which attacks ones guts and twists the abdomen.
What's the cure for the poison?
I fear that we can only use poison to counter the poison.
Right now, we must find a drug, senso.
It is a liquid made from the skin of toads.
It is just it is rarely available in ordinary drug stores.
Then you use acupuncture to suppress the poison. I'll go look.
Heir Apparent.
[Yingge Garden]
[Kindness Pharmacy]
Owner, sorry to trouble you. May I ask if you have any senso?
Nope.
Owner, do you have any senso?
Senso?
Senso is our store's most precious drug.
It is quite expensive.
Did you bring enough money?
I brought enough.
How much do you have? I want all of it.
All of it?
You can really talk big.
One qian* for 10 liang silvers. (* unit of weight)
Can you afford it?
One qian for 10 liang silvers?
Boss, this is a life-saving medicine.
Is it proper for you to ask for so much money?
Expensive? Did you know that to make a qian of senso requires more than 100 toads?
Also this is an emergency life-saving medicine.
Other shops do not have it, only mine does.
Rare commodities are naturally more expensive.
I can see that you came from a well-off family.
Tell your master.
A financial loss might prevent a disaster. Do not risk losing a life instead of just some wealth.
Without his life, what would he need his money for?
What about you? Do you want money or your life?
- My life! - Is this amount enough?
Enough! Enough!
You have to take out all your senso. Stop saying nonsense!
I'll get it.
Who is that?! Daring to trespass into Yingge Garden.
It's you. Stupid girl. What are you doing out this late at night?
Pretending to be mute? Let's see if you'll talk.
Beat her!
Speak! Hurry and speak!
Speak!
Yan Xun, you're awake?
Ah Chu.
What happened to you?
I'm fine. Lay down, don't get up.
What happened?
Guards found out that I went out earlier to buy you medicine.
I was hit a few times. It's okay.
Hit a few times?
Did you just let them hit you like this?
My current identity is your house slave.
And we just had that matter with Wei Shuyou. We cannot make any more mistakes.
Don't worry about me.
When you recover, we can go teach them a lesson.
Or after a few days, I'll go back and beat them up.
I'm fine.
Come.
♫ I can't learn to admit defeats ♫
♫ Maybe I can only bear them ♫
♫ It's hard to know the cruelty of a human's heart ♫
♫ Let me dare to rise and fall ♫
♫ I can't see the path ahead clearly ♫
♫ I can only take a step forward ♫
♫ Even if the game ends, ♫
♫ I still have all my pride ♫
♫ I don't care if I can't learn ♫
♫ Who cares if I'm confused in a flash ♫
♫ Who protects his belief, ♫
♫ is also someone who wants to be protected ♫
♫ Before the sunset, ♫
♫ I hope for your big smile ♫
♫ To bestow warmth upon my fingertips ♫
♫ while being tossed about by the wind and rain ♫
♫ I can't learn to back off a little ♫
♫ I fall and am wounded horribly ♫
♫ There are sorrows, happiness, joyfulness, and angers in my life, ♫
♫ But I've only cried for you ♫
♫ I can't see the path ahead clearly ♫
♫ I can only take a step forward ♫
♫ Even if the game ends ♫
♫ I still have all my pride ♫
♫ I can't forget because I care too much ♫
♫ I'd rather to be lost on the earth ♫
♫ Whose naivety and blindness ♫
♫ are toppled by another's tenderness and softness? ♫
♫ Before the sunset, ♫
♫ I hope for your big smile ♫
♫ To bestow warmth upon my fingertips ♫
♫ While being tossed about by the wind and rain ♫
[Yingge Garden]
Today's dishes aren't bad.
After a few days, it won't be so hot anymore.
Things won't go bad as quickly anymore.
There's string in the kitchen. Later I'll make a basket.
After checking the food, we'll use the basket to put the food in the well.
It's cooler there. It can stay there for two days at least.
That is a good idea.
We can't continue like this.
There is no such thing as guarding against bandits forever.
Our strength has its limits.
Especially now that there's more than one group that wants to kill me.
If we continue like this, eventually we'll die by their hands.
Heir Apparent, what do you want to do?
The important thing is what His Majesty wants to do.
He naturally wants me dead.
But recently, he also felt that if I die,
he is also unable to face the different feudal families rallying together to attack Northern Yan.
The whole Northern Yan will then be divided very cleanly.
So he let me live temporarily.
So if His Majesty knew that this many people want to kill you,
what would he do?
Naturally it would be like when he wanted to kill Heir Apparent.
He will rack his brain to protect Heir Apparent.
Then let's come up with ways to let him know.
Here. Here.
What? Just because the Princess said a few things to you, you're still unhappy?
I dare not randomly criticize Princess.
The princess's attitude hasn't been just once or twice.
- Mister. - Yes.
Shuye, did you go to practice archery again?
I now realized that the saying 'A stupid bird will fly first' is fake.
No matter how I practice, I can't reach your archery ability.
Shuyou! Why are you using Five-Stone Powder again?!
How many times have I told you, don't ever touch these things again!
Chronic use will cause your consciousness to fade and you will just destroy your future!
Also, if Uncle knew—
Uncle is my father.
As a distinguished legitimate descendant of the Wei primary family,
I am unlike someone else who is trying so hard to prove himself in front of my father.
-You— - Cousin, take care of yourself.
Read more books, practice more archery.
- Here. - Shuyou.
Do you know why His Majesty made a decree prohibiting the feudal families from getting near Yan Xun?
My father said that... about some balance thing.
To silence the criticizing mouths of the world.
But His Majesty also has his troubles.
Troubles?
Yes, because he can't just order to have him killed.
As people by his side, it should be us who helps carry his burdens.
As long as we are able to eliminate Yan Xun, eliminate the grass from the roots,
His Majesty will surely become overjoyed.
Makes sense.
Shuyou, you are the direct descendant of the primary family
because your mother was born from a high class
while I am an illegitimate descendant.
Whether in human resources, wealth, or other power,
which part of you isn't better than Wei Shuye?
But are you part of the Handsome Five of Chang'an?
Who are you?
No one knows you.
Mister Huai, I still have things to do. I'll leave now.
Mr. Wei.
These tactics of yours of borrowing someone's hand to kill is really wise.
Looks like His Majesty has made up his mind in protecting Yan Xun's life.
He wants to use Yan Xun to preserve the lands of Northern Yan.
While I have assigned Wei Shuyou to the Yingge Garden.
He will kill if he is given the chance.
Even if he is unable to kill him but causes a lot of trouble,
it would still be his Wei family that will bear the crime.
Brilliant! Brilliant!
Have someone follow Wei Shuyou. When he's struggling, help him.
Yes.
Let's go.
Mister, something happened at the Hongshan House.
Zhi Siliu is bringing some people and is heading to the Yingge Garden.
Go!
[Hearing Hall]
Do you think someone will come tonight?
It'll be good if they come.
I want someone to relieve me of this tightness.
Wei Shuyou!
You rabbit! Is it your place to shout my name?
Just fold you arms and surrender quietly.
I can leave your corpse in one piece.
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"The Flame of the Heart" by G.E.M.
♫ The wild wind blows the moonlight into confusion ♫
♫ My life is like being expelled ♫
♫ The flame is hidden in my heart ♫
♫ Who will laugh at my rough interior ♫
♫ My wings are destroyed by fate ♫
♫ I fall into the bottomless abyss ♫
♫ Memories are sealed ♫
♫ The wind and snowfall are unbridled ♫
♫ Even if I am trampled, I won't look up to you ♫
♫ What doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger ♫
♫ This breathing is heat ♫
♫ This heartbeat is light ♫
♫ Bit by bit, it brews the power for all my life ♫
♫ The boiling in my eyes lights up the hope ♫
♫ No matter how many wounds I have ♫
♫ I'm willing to burn the flame in my heart to shine through everywhere ♫
♫ To melt the coldness of the secular world ♫
♫ If only the bright moon knows my thoughts ♫
♫ If there is a long path and eternal darkness, so what? ♫
♫ I want the boundless flame of the heart to be boiling again ♫
♫ To burn into a light ray of the horizon ♫
♫ I'm reborn after a fire bath ♫
♫ Fragrance fills the heaven and the earth ♫
♫ The red spider lily blooms again ♫
♫ To burn into a light ray of the horizon ♫
♫ The red spider lily blooms again ♫