♫ 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 ♫
♫ Rain is the hunting ground urging the horse to fight back ♫
♫ Lift up my head to look at the non returnable 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 29 ~
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.
Those men were killed by me. He was wounded by me.
Do what you're supposed to do.
If we do not act now, it will be difficult to save the Heir Apparent.
Any action we take now will only reinforce Yan Xun's guilt.
We cannot just take a leap in the dark!
But the Emperor of Wei is capricious and easily provoked.
In the Imperial Court, the Heir Apparent is—
I have an idea.
It will work,
but it's too dangerous for you to go. Let me go.
Then okay. I can't go see him, only you can go.
There's no more time. If we keep on waiting, we won't be able to leave.
- Okay then, be careful. - Yes.
Princess.
What's wrong?
The maidservant of Heir Apparent Yan Xun bribed the Imperial guards and is waiting outside.
She says that Heir Apparent Yan is in danger and is begging for your help.
Hurry.
Master Siliu, Second Mister Wei has failed.
Right now, Yan Xun is being sent to the Imperial Palace to see His Majesty.
Mister said to take away the assassins bodies in complete secrecy.
- Hurry and go look. - Yes.
You men find an opportunity to bury those corpses.
Do it quickly, all right?
- Yes. - Yes.
Take away those corpses.
Get out!
Princess ordered, we must protect the corpses.
Hurry! Hurry!
Master Siliu, someone ambushed the guards from the Wei Manor.
The corpses have been taken away by the the Princess' bodyguards.
Ah... This idiot Wei Shuyou.
Master Siliu, what do we do now?
What do you think we should do? Snatch them back!
- Yes. - Go.
Carry them away and throw them outside of the city.
I think they will remain there for at least four hours.
They won't cause any trouble.
Your Majesty, your wine is gone.
I'll go get a new one for you.
Who are you?
I'm your slave girl. I'm Your Majesty's person.
My person?
Every place under the sun and everything on the earth all belong to Your Majesty.
You really know how to use your words.
What is your name?
My name is Lan'er.
Lan'er?
Your Majesty? Your Majesty, are you asleep?
The situation is extremely urgent.
Your Majesty? Your Majesty?
Come in.
Your Majesty.
What's wrong?
There's important matters you need to deal with.
She is not bad. Promote her to The Decent Beauty with the title Lan.
She can move into the Lanfu Palace.
Yes.
Yan Xun, I just forgave you.
You are still a criminal, yet you dare to injure people.
I panicked. I can't thank you enough for Your Majesty's infinite graciouness.
However, I only wanted to save my own life.
Wei Shuyou tried to assassinate me this night.
If I didn't fight back desperately, I wouldn't have a chance to survive.
Please Your Majesty, you decide for your servant.
I went there to make sure Yan Xun was safe and did a regular tour of inspection.
I didn't think this guy wanted to escape.
But he was discovered by me, and he wanted to kill me to silence me.
Your Majesty, Yan Xun is the same as his father;
a wolf with wicked ambition and must not be trusted.
Do you have a problem with your eyes?
How can you not see all the corpses in the Yingge Garden?
It's obvious that Wei Shuyou assembled the assassins and Yan Xun was just protecting himself.
Your Highness Yu, you cannot believe what you cousin is telling you.
Did Your Highness see the assassins?
Have you seen the corpses?
I didn't.
- But— - Song'er.
Stop.
Your Majesty, I have questioned the guards and obtained their testimonies.
There were only Wei Shuyou and Yan Xun, but no assassins this night.
[The whole incidence was seen by us in person so we write this document as a proof.]
Your Majesty, the guards of the Yingge Garden all came from the Yuwen Manor originally.
I think the testimonies are unreliable.
Your Majesty, I know it's very difficult for me to explain what happened that night.
But I've grown up in the Capital City since youth.
Your Majesty is sharp-eyed.
What kind of person am I?
Would I act like a gangster and do things like a villain?
I believe You Majesty will make a fair decision.
Your Majesty, if you punish Yan Xun for this now, I'm afraid it will look like persecution.
It's really like father, like son.
This trick to injure oneself to gain trust is really good.
Not only did you frame Second Mr. Wei, but you also fooled Your Highness Noble Consort, too!
Compared to your disgraceful father, we really don't know how much better you are!
What do we call this?
The pupil outdoes the master!
Mister Huai, if I were as good as you described, I wouldn't be in this situation today.
But hiding evil intention behind your smile,
calling a stag a horse,* (* deliberately misrepresent)
and confusing right and wrong
are real abilities of Mr. Huai. I've learned my lesson.
Heir Apparent, don't make me look like the bad one!
What is right and what is wrong, His Majesty will make his own conclusion.
However, you are already under custody.
We all saw you use a sword to injure people.
You said there were assassins. Who saw them?
Where's the proof?
You're clearly lying to His Majesty!
It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog.
I'm just the son of a concubine with no rights and no power.
Not mentioning being able to try to deceive everybody,
I don't even dare to use a sword to hurt people.
You overestimate me.
Yuwen Huai, you definitely don't have such abilities.
Your daughter greets Emperor Father and Consort Mother.
Who let you come in?
Don't make a fuss. Go back quickly.
Emperor Father, I have important things to report.
Speak.
The corpses outside the Palace are the assassins sent by the Wei Manor to kill Older Brother Yan Xun tonight.
It means one is the personal henchman of Wei Shuyou.
Wei Shuyou often takes this person around.
A lot of people in the palace recognize this person.
And some people in this hall must be familiar with him as well.
Mister Yuwen, don't you think so?
Song'er, Yuwen Huai, go out and check.
- Yes. - Yes.
Emperor Father, the dead are indeed the personal henchman of Wei Shuyou.
Chun'er was right.
Mister Yuwen, do you really not recognize him?
He looks familiar, but I do not know him.
Yuwen Huai, what do you mean he looks familiar?
You're always with Wei Shuyou.
How can you not know his personal henchman?
Shuyou, you go take a look.
See if it's really your family's slave.
You have to look carefully.
This matter, you cannot just refuse to admit your mistake and try to hoodwink us.
You also know, I have plenty of tactics to figure out whether you're telling the truth or not.
Yes.
Informing Your Majesty. Informing Your Highness Noble Consort.
That person is indeed my family's slave.
Yuwen Huai, did you hear that?
He already admitted it. What else do you have to say?
Your Highness, even if it's the servant of the Wei Manor,
I think it's a spy being arranged to be with Second Mister Wei.
- You— - Also,
because when Duke of Northern Yan was planning for his rebellion,
it wasn't hard for him to place spies around the officials.
You!
That's right. How could the Princess know what happened in the Yingge Garden in the middle of the night?
It's too coincidental that you would see the assassins and even brought them to His Majesty.
Your Majesty, this person was a person in our manor, but he was not my personal henchman.
I just thought he was smart, so I kept him around me.
I never thought he would be skilled in martial arts.
Most likely a spy who was put by my side by some powerful person.
I have been a hostage prince here in the capital since I was little.
I was very careful with my actions.
I fear of doing mistakes and inviting trouble upon myself.
Don't say martial arts masters, even just people who knows martial arts, I don't have any of them by my side.
You speak nonsense!
You keep two skilled martial artists by your side. One man, one woman.
If Your Majesty doesn't know, have them brought here and questioned!
Your Majesty, please investigate it well.
Wei Shuyou first wants to assassinate me, next he wants to falsely accuse me.
With a person having such vicious thoughts, it really makes people so angry.
I am a criminal that was lucky to be spared by Your Majesty; hence, I was able to preserve my life.
I would surely not keep people who knows martial arts by my side.
You speak nonsense!
If those two weren't around tonight, did you think you could still keep your useless life?!
You would have already been dismembered by our swords!
Oh, so it's like this.
Emperor Father, did you hear that? He personally admitted it.
Even if some people are more cunning, it shouldn't be of much use anymore. Right?
Didn't you say that other than Yan Xun and Wei Shuyou, there were no other people in the Yingge Garden?
Your Majesty, he is most likely just saying nonsense because of the effect of the Five-Stone Powder.
Do you think I'm confused?
Your Majesty, I'm at fault. I didn't check enough.
Your Majesty already gave a decree prohibiting the feudal families to get near Yan Xun.
Shuyou, you really have disappointed His Majesty's hopes on you.
You really are so bold to fool His Majesty and the laws of the state.
You deserve to die.
But Your Majesty, I watched him grow up.
Even though he's impulsive, he has a kind heart.
Today's incident definitely wasn't his original intention.
He must have been instigated by evil people, that's why he was able to do such disobedient actions.
What favored consort said is very right.
Emperor Father, now that the truth has been exposed
then quickly punish them.
Older Brother Yan Xun is a victim, so don't have him kneel anymore.
Yan Xun, you can get up.
Thank you, Your Majesty.
Wei Shuyou, on behalf of my Noble Consort, I am punishing you to be flogged 20 times.
Return to your manor and think about what you've done.
Without my command, you're not allowed to leave your manor.
Emperor Father, he wanted to assassinate Older Brother Yan Xun and he lied to you.
Such a large crime, will you just have him be beaten 20 times and that's all?
No rules.
- But Fa— - Chun'er!
You can all leave.
One good dream totally got destroyed by all of you.
Heir Apparent Yan Xun, you are quite quick-witted.
You were able to trick and shake Wei Shuyou away.
But since time immemorial, how many times has the fight among feudal families depended on being quick-witted?
You still have to rely on actual power.
Yuwen Huai!
You didn't grow a tongue for nothing.
You really know how to use words.
Princess, I was only trying to help.
Trying to help?
Please keep your help to yourself and keep it far away from my Older Brother Yan Xun.
If it happens again, I won't let you off easy!
I know that in your eyes, only your Older Brother Yan Xun treats you the best.
Whatever I do is wrong.
So I need to tell Princess something.
Do not trust the wrong people and end up hurting oneself.
Older Brother Yan Xun, I asked the imperial doctor for some wound medicine.
Take it back and apply it.
It's just some skin wounds. It's no big deal.
I also have to thank Princess for your help today.
I thank you again.
Older Brother Yan Xun, you...
your medicine.
Heir Apparent, please hold on.
Yan Xun, I grieve for what happened to you.
I'm really sorry I never came to see how you were doing.
What exactly do you want to say?
Since you have no feelings toward Princess Chun, then please let go of her.
Will Heir Apparent come home tonight?
He will.
You are injured.
It's just a skin wound. It's okay.
Go inside and rest. It's good enough that I wait here.
No need. It's okay.
Yan Xun!
Heir Apparent.
Yan Xun.
Are you all okay?
We are all fine.
What did the Emperor of Wei say?
Wei Shuyou got beat 20 times and then was sent home on house arrest.
That's it?
That's it.
His Majesty simply doesn't want to punish Wei Shuyou.
This is just a signal.
If the punishment was severe enough, people from now on would have some fear.
In the whole government, there will be no one who will dare touch Yan Xun again.
It's clear that this isn't what His Majesty wants to see.
He just wants to control Yan Xun. Use Yan Xun to control Northern Yan.
A Yan Xun that is in a precarious state is way easier to deal with than a safe one.
Looks like we need to be more careful in the future.
As long as we are in Chang'an for a day, we cannot lower down our guard.
The Emperor of Wei wants to kill me.
I also want to take his life.
[Hearing Hall]
Ah Chu.
- You're here. - Yes.
There shouldn't be any assassins tonight.
I will sleep here.
- Are you hurt? - Yes.
It's just some skin wounds. It's no big deal.
Let me see.
I'm really fine.
Let me see it.
I already disinfected it and stopped the bleeding.
Yan Xun! Where are you going?
To go get you some medicine.
Where?
I'm going to get some medicine from the Princess.
There are assassins out there and we are all wounded.
Even if they don't kill us, the Emperor will strongly punish us for leaving.
At this time, stop creating more trouble.
Yan Xun! Yan Xun!
Yan Xun, tolerate it; restrain yourself.
I'm really fine.
Do not lose control just because of me.
We went through a lot to survive until now.
We have to be careful with each step we take.
Think of your family, think of your parents.
They're all in heaven looking after you.
You must not be impulsive.
Tolerate it. Tolerate it.
Just tolerate it a little longer. It's all right.
I'm really fine.
[Qingshan House]
Mister, is there anything else we need to bring?
Gather the Yue Spies.
Yes.
[Bliss Chamber]
Mr. Yue, do not make it difficult for me.
Mr. Huai isn't here right now.
Mister is here to visit Grand Madame of Household Three and not Mr. Huai.
Grand Madame of Household Three has been paralyzed for so many years and has not seen outsiders for a long time already.
I ask Mr. Yue to wait until Mr. Huai gets back.
Everyone, go back now.
I, Yuwen Yue, respectfully greets Grand Madame of Household Three.
Grand Madame of Household Three, have you been well?
I am a living dead that has been dragging an ignoble existence.
How can one use the word 'well' on me?
Are you Yue'er?
I have heard since I was little that you devoted yourself in cultivating Buddhism and do not ask about worldly matters,
but I never thought that you were just being locked up in this secret room where you cannot see any daylight.
It has been 16 years.
I was like a rat that was unable to see daylight.
Sorry to have embarrassed myself.
I boldly visited you today to let you identify an old item.
This is the dress that my mother changed into when she went to Bliss Chamber that day.
Everyone said that this is a Chinese peony dress only worn by the low level concubines living in Bliss Chamber.
Two months ago, I got this dress from Bliss Chamber.
I then discovered that this is a paeonia suffruticosa dress that only the main madame can wear.
Tree peony and Chinese peony are easily mixed up to begin with.
There was someone who purposely stained it.
Everything you said was correct.
This is my dress.
My mother got falsely accused of
having an adulterous relationship because she was found drunk and lying with Yuwen Xi that night,
and also got changed into a dress that she herself cannot recall where it came from.
Yuwen Xi actually tricked people like this.
That night, your mom was with me.
With you?
I am the daughter from the Xie Family in Wuyi Lane in the southern dynasty.
I am an auntie of your mother.
That night, your mother came to see me.
We drank some wine. I asked your mother to stay for the night.
Yuwen Xi, that personality, I think you already know.
I was worried that your mother's reputation would be tainted.
I especially activated the security traps and entered this secret room.
I especially got this tree peony dress for your mother to change into.
And then?
And then, of course, a big problem occurred.
That night, Yuwen Xi used many ways to have me trapped here.
I got separated from the world for 16 years.
He only left 2 mute servants to keep watch and take care of me.
He was so cruel.
Then why didn't he kill you?
Do you think he didn't want to kill me?
He allowed me to live because of his greed.
He connived with the spies of Liang.
I said enough for today.
If you want to hear more stories,
you'll need to listen slowly.
Yuwen Yue, who let you in here?
I let myself in. Can't you see?
This is a fight that you started.
Don't blame me.
I forgot to tell you. I'm taking Grand Madame of Household Three with me.
Think over it carefully. Obediently, give me back my grandmother;
or else, I'll have your Qingshan House turned into a river of blood.
Are you threatening me?
Do you think I'm threatening you?
It is fine if you are not afraid of His Majesty and other feudal families;
laughing at us for having an internal conflict.
Are you really not afraid that upon the release of Grand Madame of Household Three,
your Household Three would get destroyed in a moment?
Once news of this gets out,
I indeed will not be able to deny my part in it;
but you are also a part of the Yuwen family.
Wanting to keep out of this affair? Definitely impossible.
Fine. Try it.
If I tell His Majesty about you Household Three conniving with the spies of Liang,
tell me, will His Majesty spare me for the merit of informing him about this matter?
Yuwen Yue, what exactly do you want?
I will be leaving already for the borders.
Over there it's windy and sandy. The air isn't good. It's not a good place.
I'm thinking, I'm going there to suffer
while Older Brother is just here in your manor enjoying a happy life.
I am a petty person. Not really happy about it.
How about this?
I will arrange a place for you to go to.
Go guard the Royal Tomb.
Because Older Brother, it is very suitable for you to interact with dead people.
I will give you three days to request it from His Majesty.
Before I leave, you have to leave Chang'an.
If not, I'll send you to keep your grandfather company.
Yuwen Yue, you bully me too much.
Mister? Mister?
Come in.
Mister, good news!
Yuwen Yue will be leaving Chang'an for the borders tomorrow.
Mister, why... why did you hit me?
No reason.
Because you deserve to be hit.
[Imperial Courtyard Shop]
Your Lady Highness.
Your Lady Highness, I received top secret information.
Grand Madame of Yuwen Household Three has been transferred from the Bliss Chamber to Qingshan House.
Oh?
No wonder that Yuwen Huai had requested from His Majesty to let him guard the Royal Tomb.
So it was a life-threatening hold
that Yuwen Yue obtained.
It is still Your Lady Highness who is wise.
Heir Apparent, we were ordered by His Majesty to receive the guard duties of Yingge Garden.
Also, this is the sword that His Highness Prince Yu told me to bring.
He said that he is just returning it to the owner.
Thank you to Prince Yu. Please relay it to him.
Yes. Starting tomorrow, we will lessen the restrictions here in the garden.
Other than Heir Apparent, other people can freely enter and exit.
Heir Apparent, seems like the news that Yuwen Yue and Yuwen Huai are leaving Chang'an is real.
The Yuwen family will temporarily not cause us any more trouble.
Although we do not have Yuwen Huai, this mortal malady anymore, we still have to be careful.
I understand.
Taste our Northern Yan's traditional dishes.
It's been a long time since we've eaten this.
- Is it reliable? - Heir Apparent!
Heir Apparent, Ah Jing is here.
Ah Jing, do you still remember me?
Heir Apparent, I thought that I would never get to see Heir Apparent again.
Get up. Where is General Meng He?
Heir Apparent, my father died on the battlefield in Northern Yan.
Before he died, he instructed me that I must find you.
Good thing, I was able to survive the battle.
I then came here to the capital and looked for you for three months.
Finally, I bumped into Miss Yu.
Heir Apparent, my father died a cruel death.
Be at ease.
We will avenge them.
Heir Apparent, I am willing to serve you.
I know not only how to cook, but also how to wrestle.
I'll definitely go through boiling water and walk on fire* without backing down. (* not afraid of any difficulty)
Okay. Just be my personal bodyguard then.
Thank you, Heir Apparent.
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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 are a long path and a forever night, 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 ♫