♫ 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 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 30 ~
[Qingshan House]
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Mister,
I have prepared Xing'er's cenotaph.
♫ You're a star falling into a dream so vivid in this life ♫
♫ Heart-killing and ruthless ones all come across each other ♫
♫ It's easy to speak coldly but hard for the heart to forget ♫
♫ I'm irresolute at all times ♫
♫ Once I've loved, I cannot let it go in this lifetime ♫
♫ Having avoided the enemies is as a drop in the ocean ♫
♫ Putting in feelings is better than nothing ♫
♫ Waiting for you to enter into my trust ♫
♫ But the mountains and oceans have been overturned numerous times ♫
♫ Moon and stars are facing one another far away ♫
♫ With lots of complications ♫
♫ There are tons of sufferings for right and wrong, ♫
♫ But love has no fear ♫
♫ I've risked my life and gone against my heart only if you know why ♫
♫ Where will I go this time? ♫
[Xing'er's cenotaph]
Sorry to make Mister wait. Recently, Heir Apparent hasn't felt well.
He doesn't want to see guests. Please return.
[Chang'an]
If anything happens to Heir Apparent, let me know immediately.
Under emergent situations, feel free to mobilize Qingshan House and the Spy Network of Heavenly Eyes.
I understand.
The road you will be traveling is far. May Mister take care.
[Yulan Magnolia]
I can still smell the fragrance of the wine, like the smell of the moon.
Ah Chu, have you tasted the moon?
But when I see the moon later, I can then smell the fragrance of this Yulan Magnolia wine.
You have never seen the moon at Xiuli Mountains.
Compared to here, it's bigger, brighter, and cleaner.
Then we'll have to wait.
One day I will definitely see it in person.
On the day that we go back to the north, let us open this and drink merrily.
Let us wait for three more years.
Hopefully, we will not disappoint the moon and this wine.
Hopefully, I will not disappoint you.
For the sake of drinking this wine 3 years later,
we must be more proactive.
We cannot keep defending and just waiting for death to come.
What you said is right.
With such few people, we can't escape Chang'an.
We still have a lot to do.
Then we'll do them one at a time.
I never thought that the Duke would end up in such a state.
A son must not criticize the mistakes of one's father.
Your Highness should watch what you say.
It's good that Heir Apparent Yan Xun still has his life.
The soul of the Duke in heaven
can be considered to still be a little comforted.
It's all my fault.
I only have a low position and my words are weak. I have the intentions but no power.
Your Highness has exaggerated.
Your Highness already worked hard.
Duke has already died. What is sir's plan then?
Will you go back to find Heir Apparent Yan?
I am indebted to the Duke.
That is why I agreed to stay by his side and serve him.
But now that Duke is dead,
I don't want to return to that painful place.
Since it's like that, how about you just stay with me?
Be at ease, Sir.
I surely will treat Sir with utmost respect just like what the Duke did.
Sir, stop hesitating. Stay, all right?
Once Sir has a better place to go to,
I definitely won't hinder you.
Since it's like this,
I will then just accept it to show my utmost respect.
I thank your highness for your love.
Okay. That is best then.
With you here in my camp, I can play chess with you.
Now there's another chess player.
Unlike these warriors in my camp,
they don't even know how to play chess.
I heard that Yuwen Yue of the Yuwen Manor has angered His Majesty.
He has been exiled to the borders.
He will soon arrive to be under your banner in order to serve you.
He's a very skilled chess player.
Does Your Highness still worry about not having someone to play chess with?
A descendant of a feudal family, they are all just men with grandiose aims but puny abilities.
The border area under my watch is quite a destitute place.
I think he won't be able to last here for more than a few days and will go back.
Not likely. I heard some rumors about this mister.
I do have some expectations of him.
Your Highness Prince Xiang, I, Yuwen Yue, came to work under your banner.
Why would a member of a noble feudal family not stay in a flourishing place like Chang'an City,
but come to this remote and rural area of mine?
As a prince, you are able to stay in such a place so why cannot I come?
You have quite a lofty and unyielding character.
In this journey of yours to this border, you have surely seen it.
Enemies have numerously attacked our borders and war fires are nonstop.
I was in need of intelligence and manpower.
Since you are the descendant of the Spy Network of Heavenly Eyes,
I am sure that you know military tactics well.
Take my imperial token and recruit new members.
I just arrived here in the military camp; I still do not know anything yet,
and I am already going to recruit new soldiers?
I don't know you, either.
I don't know if you really are intelligent
or just for decoration.
I will not let you handle my current troop.
If you want to entrench yourself on this border,
you need to train your own soldiers.
When you have the qualification,
then come talk to me. Take it.
[Tombs of Jing Linxi and Jing Zhixiang]
[Tomb of Xing'er]
From now on, you're a spy.
What I am giving you is the Rainbow Ruining Sword.
Don't disappoint it.
- Hold onto me. - Hold where?
My sleeve.
Where else do you want to hold on to?
There are so many people. If we get separated, I would have to go search for you.
For an uncontrollable woman, rather be a dead woman.
You chose me to be your maidservant. Gave me a silver bell.
Granted me the Rainbow Ruining Sword.
It was all to make me your Xing'er.
But Xing'er has been personally killed by you.
The one living in this world now
is only Chu Qiao.
Rainbow Ruining Sword?
Why won't you come in?
Someone said that no matter how huge the matter is, no one is allowed in.
Really?
If I said that, then why do they still dare let you in?
Miss Chu, you've finally returned.
Heir Apparent knew you would come back today.
He insisted on waiting to eat with you.
I've heated up these dishes many times.
Really?
Are you sure it's not because you didn't make good dishes
and Heir Apparent disliked you?
How is that possible?
Whether or not I made it well, you'll know once you taste them.
You tell me. I've made so many dishes.
If you don't eat them, I won't be satisfied.
Let's go. Let's eat.
Ah Chu,
you're probably starving now that you're back.
Eat more to replenish yourself.
Listen to me.
Now that you're back, don't leave again.
After 3 more years...
After 3 years, I can bring you back to Northern Yan.
Once we return to Northern Yan
it should be the peak of summer. The grass will be very green.
I will take you to Xiuli Mountains.
Go to Xiuli Mountains to hunt for horses.
♫ Because of one person, I search everywhere my whole life ♫
♫ I'm still me who seems have never left ♫
♫ This city traps lonely souls ♫
♫ All the wounded ones are the proof of bloody battles ♫
♫ That person opens the city gate that imprisons us ♫
♫ He melts the coldness and accompanies me to gallop everywhere ♫
♫ Because of one person, I give up a whole city ♫
♫ I think I'm doing it to keep your gaze ♫
♫ Because of a city, I lose a person ♫
- It's so late. What's wrong? ♫ At the end of love, no one is the winner ♫
- Can't sleep? ♫ At the end of love, no one is the winner ♫
I'm smelling the fragrance of the wine.
Anxious?
The wine we buried underneath that tree, has been there for more than a year now, right?
Yes.
1 year, 1 month, and 3 days.
So much time has passed.
No wonder the fragrance greets me and makes me drunk.
Just be patient and wait for a little more while. Once the three years pass,
it would be its most fragrant time.
Report! Report, General!
There is another enemy approaching. Their number is about 2,000 more or less.
Their speed is quite fast. They have now reached Fengbo Ridge.
Map!
Looks like their purpose is Prince Xiang.
His Highness is currently battling the men led by Lu at Guitou River.
We'll go meet them.
But there are only 500 of us. There is a wide disparity in our numbers compared to them. General--
In such an urgent situation, we need to give up minor matters and protect the major ones.
Spread my order. All soldiers must polish their weapons.
Follow me to battle.
Yes!
Yuwen Yue, after yesterday's battle,
I understand now.
When I came to the border then, I just treated it as being exiled by Emperor Father.
Only now I finally understand this.
I'm not really living for the sake of my Emperor Father.
Why then can I not bear to part with those luxurious palace lives and the unending scheming and plotting?
What's in front of me is the world that needs me.
I am no longer fighting just for Wei or for my Emperor Father, either.
It is for those poor citizens here on the border.
After seeing so many killed will one understand
that the most precious thing in this world is life.
So, Yuwen Yue, I need to thank you.
I should be thanking you.
What are you thanking me for?
After experiencing this battle,
I realized that I am already not just a stray soldier.
I will listen to your command and help you train soldiers.
What's the use of better soldiers?
In every battle, no one is the final victor.
Killing 1,000 of your enemies but losing 800 of your men.
People will die eventually.
Yuwen Yue, you are the Spy Network of Heavenly Eyes' successor.
You have important government duties to bear.
Your battlefield shouldn't be here.
One good spy is like one good army.
Right now, the Liang spies are very active.
Letters sent by the government that I haven't even read yet,
they already are able to memorize them very well.
The recent numerous defeats here in the frontline were all their doings.
Yuwen Yue,
I know, in the past when you were in Chang'an,
you encountered a lot of sad things.
But we are all men.
We all have personal responsibilities we must take on.
You've escaped long enough.
It's time to return.
Come out.
So annoying.
Whenever I want to play hide and seek, you discover me right away.
Not fun.
Princess.
What did you say?
What did you call me?
Chun'er.
Let me ask you, why didn't you come to my birthday celebration?
I sent you an invitation.
Forgive me, Princess.
What did you say? What princess?
Who's a princess? Where's this princess?
Chun'er, something came up.
What could have possibly happened to you?
I know!
You probably didn't want to see Wei Shuyou and those people.
He just completed his confinement punishment.
I don't know why he showed up, either.
Older Brother Yan Xun, don't be angry with me anymore. All right?
Princess has thought too much. I wouldn't dare.
Why is it always princess?
Older Brother Yan Xun, do you or do you not treat me as one of your own?
You treat me like a stranger.
Today is my birthday. You didn't even come find me.
I had to come find you.
I'm Northern Wei's royal princess.
At the celebration there were so many princesses and misters.
They all like me so much.
But Older Brother Yan Xun, why can't you like me a bit?
There must still be some show of respect in terms of our status difference.
I hate that the most!
Wouldn't it be great if we were just like when we were young?
Do you remember when I was 9? You secretly took me out of the palace.
And then on the streets we ate a lot of good food and had a lot of fun.
You also took me to a fight.
But now, you're so stiff just saying my nickname.
I was young and insensible then. May Princess forgive me.
Older Brother Yan Xun, if you keep talking like this to me, I'll get mad.
I'll pay you no more attention. I'm leaving now.
Princess, please wait a moment.
Ah Jing!
For Princess' birthday, to express my greetings,
this is a small thought. Please accept it.
You prepared a present for me, didn't you?
This is Huan Huan's tail, right?
Yes.
A few days ago, I heard that Huan Huan had bitten your finger.
Noble Consort ordered it to be killed and thrown away.
You cried a long time.
I ordered people to find the rabbit,
and cut its tail as a souvenir.
It's a small thought. Princess please accept it.
I would usually receive jewelry and gold so it is already quite boring.
With this one, it will be like Huan Huan has never left me and always by my side.
Older Brother Yan Xun, this is the best present I've received.
Thank you.
Then I'll head back to the palace, I'll come find you another day.
Ah Jing.
Take it and burn it.
Yes, Heir Apparent.
What are you drawing?
It's a secret.
Eat some when you're free.
Heir Apparent, Mister Wu sent a message saying that he is currently recruiting men and buying horses in Northern Yan.
At the same time, he is also making plans here in Chang'an for your return.
Heir Apparent, I know you share everything with Miss Chu,
but this is a big deal,
so please—
Ah Chu?
What can I not say to her?
What secret are you keeping in that bag of yours?
Are you still unable to reveal it?
Could this be the legendary Domino Effect Machine?
Yes.
I've previously saw it at Yuwen Manor.
Later on, I made slight changes on it based on the terrain of the Yingge Garden.
Be careful!
Don't bother me. You should go rest.
I haven't left my manor for two years. I felt so oppressed.
I feel great today!
It is all thanks to Yan Xun for converting your manor into a prison.
If I do not seek revenge for it, I am not human.
It's almost been 3 years.
If you don't take action now, there might not be another chance.
In the case where His Majesty says to free Yan Xun,
then that would be a big problem.
Whether or not His Majesty frees Yan Xun, he has to die.
Dragging it will only bring about more nightmares. It is more suitable to act fast.
[Boutique Shop]
Hey, Owner Wei, I came here because of your shop's fame.
In order to buy this type of clothing for my wife,
I already went into all types of shops here in Chang'an.
Everyone says that I will only be able to buy it here.
I didn't think you would really have it.
It's just like how people said. Where did these clothes come from?
From the south.
We have all kinds of good products from different regions here.
Also, I guarantee that everything has top quality colors.
We even have a promo from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. everyday.
You can buy this style that you want at a 90% discount at that time.
We can also send it to your manor.
In a few days, a new order will come from the south.
In all of Chang'an, we're the only store.
It's definitely a good product. But today's weather isn't good.
Owner should close the shop early,
so as to prevent the strong wind and rain to damp and damage these exquisite products of yours.
I want all of these.
Please have them sent to this manor's address.
Valued customer, don't worry. We'll have them sent by tomorrow morning.
Then please, have a good day.
Good.
(Notes about Wei Shuyou's plan on revenge on Yan Xun)
Heir Apparent, Ah Chu, Wei Shuyou have been released.
This troublemaker, the first thing he does after being released is bother us.
Looks like after this time, we have to get rid of him.
Why after this time?
Get rid of him this time.
[Yingge Garden]
How many people are really in here?
- The intel we got was wrong. What should we do? - Retreat.
[Hearing Hall]
It's finally over.
Not afraid of getting robbed but afraid of knowing that we will be robbed again.
Heir Apparent, it will not be easy to live through these remaining 3 months.
All the feudal families will not easily give up.
I am out in the light while my enemies are hiding in the dark.
We cannot be this passive anymore.
Do you guys have any ideas so we can retaliate?
Then, we must deal with the three great feudal families: Yuwen, Wei, and Zhao altogether.
The royal tomb of the previous emperors...
Let us first make our move in there and use it to drive a wedge between the three families.
Three birds, one stone.
But these three families do not really have interactions when it comes to official matters.
How to hit three birds with one stone?
For the Royal Tomb, who did the construction, who supervised the procurement of the building materials,
and now, who is guarding it?
The one guarding the Royal Tomb is Yuwen Huai.
The one who constructed it was the Zhao family.
The one who provided the building materials was the Wei family.
If the Royal Tomb gets robbed, all 3 families will surely be blamed.
Not bad.
The power of these 3 feudal families have slowly increased for years.
It has long threatened the imperial power.
His Majesty has long tried to find something wrong with them.
We will be only hastening this dog-eat-dog scene of theirs.
It is just that...Yuwen Huai is in the Royal Tomb.
Ah Chu, we still have to be very careful, and wait for the right moment.
Right moment? It could happen anytime.
You said Yuwen Huai has waited for 3 years.
With his personality, do you think he is still guarding there?
He surely will not. He was so against it.
He would surely be hiding somewhere far and will not really seriously work for his master.
Long time no see.
It is still the wind of Chang'an that is extremely sweet.
The sweeter a thing is, the more dangerous it is.
In the past, because of getting exiled out of Chang'an, I even cried so hard.
Now that I think about it, it was childish.
But I'm thankful for these years I'd left Chang'an.
Looks like Prince Mu, Yuan Qi, now has some additional competition.
He's that dumb.
Can he even be considered our opponent?
We cannot belittle our enemies.
This city hides tigers and dragons.* (*outstanding talents)
The real expert is still hiding.
Let us go.
Miss Yu, take a look.
We can take advantage of this leaking underground water and make an issue about it.
The Royal Tomb gets robbed, the stolen goods get sold,
and the casket even gets submerged in water.
Let's see how big a wave can that filial emperor of ours create.
Let's move.
Someone's coming. Split up and go.
Go! I'll start the fire.
Okay.
Ah Chu!
Are you okay?
I'm fine.
How did you get hurt?
I met an expert inside.
The fire is burning. Let's hurry and go.
Okay.
Mister, please get into the carriage.
Rainbow Ruining Sword?
It is Xing'er.
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♫ 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 the 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 heaven and earth ♫
♫ The red spider lily blooms again ♫
♫ To burn into a light ray of the horizon ♫
♫ The red spider lily blooms again ♫