♫ 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 42 ~
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Give me back Chun'er.
What?
Jerk!
Older Brother!
Heir Apparent!
- Older Brother. This is Chun'er. - Heir Apparent!
- Older Brother!
Heir Apparent!
Let me see.
Not good! The knife has poison on it.
Doctor! Call the doctor!
- I'll go get a doctor. - Go!
Older Brother. Older Brother, what happened to you?
Hurry and run, Chun'er.
Older Brother, what's wrong with you?
Older Brother. Wake up, Older Brother!
Older Brother, wake up please. Older Brother!
- Get out of the way! - Older Brother, wake up please.
Older Brother, don't scare me.
Stop.
Let them go.
- Heir Apparent! - Older Brother, don't scare me.
What are you all still standing around for?
Don't worry, Heir Apparent. I'll arrange people to send them back.
Heir Apparent!
Heir Apparent! Heir Apparent!
Men! Hurry and come.
Heir Apparent! Heir Apparent! Here.
Get on my back.
Be quick!
- Quick! - Older Brother, wake up please.
- Hurry. - What do you want to do?
I'll kill them to avenge Heir Apparent.
Do you want to disobey orders?
- Men! - Yes.
Go arrange ten soldiers to send them back to Chang'an safely.
- Yes. - Older Brother, wake up, please.
Older Brother, don't scare me.
Wake up, please. Older Brother!
Older Brother.
Don't scare me.
Older Brother.
Doctor.
Miss Yu!
Doctor, how is it?
It's good that he isn't heavily poisoned nor is his vital part injured.
It's just that he is still at stake because of an excessive loss of blood.
Whatever methods you use,
you must cure Heir Apparent.
Well, you see, the herbal medicines are very scarce in this area.
I think, it's not good to stay long.
Okay.
We'll pack immediately.
Yes.
Drink some.
Have some, brother.
Commander He, have some food.
Miss Chu, I'm not hungry. You eat.
Commander He,
what are you thinking about?
Miss,
do you think the Northern Yan will forgive us, Xiuli Army?
What? Don't you trust me?
I trust you, of course.
If you were not here, we, Xiuli Army, may have ceased to exist.
But there is not need for you to sweet-talk me as a child,
like the words of "Heir Apparent didn't abandon us and sent you to save us."
Although I, He, am a bumpkin, I can still tell rights, wrongs, truths and lies.
Commander He,
everyone has one's unchangeable preoccupation.
Unavoidably, they might do crazy things on some occasions.
Back then, Xiuli Army betrayed the Northern Yan and
caused the people in both North Shuo and Hongchuan
to be greatly massacred by the enemies.
This may be an accusation that you guys cannot get rid of for your whole life.
Being misunderstood and oppressed now
roots from what you had done wrong before.
There was no reason for others to respect you.
But you are all different now.
You fought your way out of Chang'an, battled in all different locations,
traveled across the roads inside Wei,
and won over them with your small number, never losing any battle.
You are an iron army now.
You use every battle to witness your loyalty to the Northern Yan.
So, you should believe in yourself.
Believe in the value of your existence.
We are making amends for previous faults by good deeds.
I believe that Yan Xun will forgive you.
Don't worry. Even if we have to think the worst,
if Yan Xun doesn't accept you guys,
I will protect you.
Time will tell your heart.
I believe he will gradually accept you.
Commander He, you—
I, He Xiao, earnestly request Miss Chu
to be the Commander of Xiuli Army. Please accept.
What are you doing?
Get up.
Be our commander, Miss. Please accept, okay?
- Please accept our request, Miss. - Be our commander, okay?
I know you are chivalrous, saving us regardless of your own safety.
We are willing to follow you in life or death.
Miss, only when you become our commander,
can we return back to the Northern Yan with no worry.
Please don't refuse, Miss.
Miss, don't refuse.
- Miss, don't refuse. - We beg you, okay?
Sorry, I can't accept.
- Why? Why? - Why can't you accept?
I don't accept your proposal
because the Northern Yan can only have one master.
You can only be loyal to one person.
That person is Heir Apparent Yan.
There is a troop in front. Wu Danyu is currently fighting with them.
How many people are there?
About... about ten plus people.
Let's go and have a check.
Miss Chu,
it's me.
I'm Song Qian.
It turns out to be our own people. A misunderstanding.
Okay.
What's wrong with you, Wu Danyu?
At this juncture, you still have conflicts with His Highness Heir Apparent's people?!
I'm sorry, everyone. It's just a misunderstanding.
Untie them immediately.
How could I know they are people of Heir Apparent?
They all look suspicious.
They didn't wear the uniform of Northern Yan, either.
They don't look like good people.
By the way, didn't Heir Apparent leave this area a long time ago?
Why are you back?
Miss, we are on a task.
Oh, right, hurry and go to Farewell Escarpment.
Heir Apparent has been waiting for you.
He hasn't left yet.
What task needs you to go back towards Chang'an?
Miss, it's a secret task assigned by Heir Apparent.
It's not good to tell with so many people around.
Why is it not good to tell?
The Northern Yan is at war against the Great Wei right now.
What exactly are you doing
by sneaking back to Chang'an?
Say it! Are you a spy from Chang'an?
Miss, we didn't do anything.
We are not spies from Chang'an.
We are escorting Prince Yu, Yuan Song, and
Princess Chun to Chang'an according to Heir Apparent's order.
What?
Yuan Song is here?
Where is he?
Are you finished? Be quick! Be quick!
All right, all right.
What are you doing?
Take these two out and cut off their heads!
- Forgive us! - Forgive us!
- It's His Highness' order. - That's right.
- Forgive me, official. - This is His Highness' order.
Please let us go.
We're just following the order.
I'll take you outside.
I'll take you home.
Sorry.
Why... do you want to treat me this way?
I hate you all. I hate you all.
I want to kill you all.
Why treat me like this?
Why treat me like this?!
I hate you all! I want to kill you all!
Why treat me like this?
- I'm sorry. - I want to kill you all!
Why treat me like this?
Come.
This is the secret flower tree that I found.
Now as I told you, it's our secret garden now.
Who cut Yuan Song's arm?
It's Heir Apparent.
Liar!
No, I am not!
Miss, it's really His Highness who cut his arm.
Yuan Song wanted to assassinate Heir Apparent. Then, Heir Apparent cut one of his arms.
We all wanted to kill him. Heir Apparent didn't allow us.
He then ordered us to escort them back to Chang''an instead.
Why didn't Heir Apparent kill them?
I assume he was afraid to anger you.
Miss, Heir Apparent ordered us to escort them back to Chang'an.
Didn't that mean we were supposed to take actions on the way?
Is this what Heir Apparent said?
Yes.
Yeah, right!
Let me tell you. If you continue to speak rubbish, do you believe I'll kill you right now?
No need to say anymore.
Take them down.
Chop all their heads off.
Miss! Miss! I didn't lie.
Look at us! Which one of us doesn't hate Great Wei?
Our parents, children, brothers and sisters
were all killed by Great Wei people three years ago!
If Heir Apparent didn't want us to kill them, why did he send us?
Right! Why catch us? We didn't do anything wrong!
Exactly! We just dirtied Great Wei's princess.
My sisters were all raped by nobles of Great Wei.
My parents reported to the officials but were all beaten to death.
What did we do wrong?
Exactly!
Let me tell you! What you all did wrong!
The people who hurt your parents,
the people who raped your sisters,
the people who wronged you,
aren't them!
But they are that dog of an emperor's children!
Every injustice has its perpetrator.
You keep saying revenge.
Are you going to become the same way as your enemies?
He Xiao,
drag them away.
Put them all to death!
Yes.
Listen! Xiuli Army!
Bring all criminals away.
Execute them summarily!
- Yes. - We're unwilling to submit.
- What fault do we have?
Commander He,
you lead Xiuli Army to join Heir Apparent first.
I am unable to accompany you now.
Miss Chu, are you okay?
Because I have things more important to do.
Grandfather.
Did you let that maidservant escape?
I've tried my best.
She escaped out with her capabilities.
Besides, she is no longer a maidservant.
I almost forgot
that she's become Yan Xun's woman.
What?
Not happy?
You raised up a nestling, teaching her how to look for food and fly,
but she ended up flying away with another man.
Don't you feel a sense of loss?
I hope you realize you don't belong to anyone.
No matter how much you do, it's still meaningless.
You are a descendant of Yuwen family.
You should never waste your thoughts on a woman.
You still have a lot of important things to do.
I understand.
His Highness Prince Xiang is back.
I have been discussing with him about the plan to chase Yan Xun.
You haven't fully gotten it.
Your father didn't want you to get involved.
The Chang'an rebellion is the aftermath of the Emperor's own hatching.
Your father pretended to be sick and didn't take any actions on the frontier.
I've always thought that he, as an important official of the country,
should take action in the time of our country's crisis.
You rescued the Emperor, so what?
In terms of protecting emperors, this is not the first time for the Yuwen family.
After the crisis, you will become the Emperor's biggest concern for your merits!
Then there're only two endings left for you.
If not powerful enough, you'll get killed after success.
If powerful enough,
you'll also get killed when you become inattentive and
show your flaws.
Yan Shicheng's tragedy is a warning.
I didn't do things for my personal honor
but for the people of Chang'an.
I really can't believe
after so many years of efforts,
I have only cultivated an idiot for your father.
I had been adopted to Household One since my young age.
I am no longer his son.
You're treacherous.
He had you adopted by me twenty years ago.
But he only left your genealogy in our ancestral temple for safe keeping
and never really changed you to be placed under my household.
Do you still not get it?
No.
I only know that my mother was murdered.
I was abandoned.
For the past twenty years, I've been threatened by countless crises.
I have never gotten any protection from him.
Your father has his own concern.
What concern
values more than his wife and child?
He is the Great General of the Nation,
a war warrior of Wei who is only under one man but above all people.
What is he afraid of?
He has only his ambitions,
power
and his trusted followers.
Does he still remember that he is also the father of a child
and the husband of a woman?
Sometimes, one cannot have both family and country.
If we can't even protect those that we love,
then why talk about protecting the nation?
I will never be that type of hero.
Yue'er.
Grandfather, I am very grateful to you for raising me.
I have grown up.
I have my own thoughts on some things.
I have never had fatherly love for the past 20 years.
From now on,
I don't want it, either.
Now that Yuwen Huai is dead,
Qingshan House is now quieter.
I re-selected the slave girls here in Qingshan House.
They can be more trusted.
From now on, you don't need to stay in the secret room anymore and be able to freely move around.
These are all that I can do for you.
As for other things, please leave me alone.
I will be leaving now.
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Don't leave. Don't leave.
I'm here. I... I won't leave your side.
Don't leave. Don't leave.
Don't go with him. Don't go with him.
You will lose your life if you do.
I won't go. I won't go anywhere.
I won't leave you.
Fool, don't go.
I can protect you, Ah Chu.
Ah Chu.
Ah Chu. Ah Chu.
Don't go. Don't go.
Don't go, Ah Chu.
Older Brother, you are still thinking about her.
It's because of her and Yan Xun that we are so dreadful.
Meteor, I can only rely on you for tonight.
Chun'er.
Older Brother, don't move.
It's me who didn't protect you well.
I didn't.
Older Brother, I am fine.
I really am fine.
It's me who didn't protect you well.
No...
I should just go die.
Older Brother, please don't be like this.
It's not your fault.
I don't blame you.
I was bad. I should have listened to you.
I shouldn't have run out. It was my fault.
Heir Apparent, it's time we head out.
I know you worry about Ah Chu.
He Xiao sent a message.
After Ah Chu sends the Yuan siblings back to Chang'an, she'll immediately head to Northern Yan.
Ah Chu no longer has any relatives.
She only has two little powerless sisters.
She only has me now. If I don't wait for her,
who will wait for her?
If I don't watch over her,
who will watch over her?
But if she were here, she wouldn't want to see you like this, Heir Apparent.
You are seriously wounded.
It was lucky for you to stay alive.
Now the remains of your poison is still there.
If you keep delaying, it'll surely bring in problems.
If Ah Chu comes back and isn't able to find you,
then what is the point of all this?
Heir Apparent, you have to believe that Ah Chu will be back safe.
What we can do is wait for the Xiuli Army to return together to Hongchuan City.
Wait for the Xiuli Army to return to Hongchuan city?
They are traitors! If I don't kill them,
how do I face the innocent deaths in Northern Yan?
Betrayal, is the worst crime.
Just like how the Emperor of Wei betrayed our whole Northern Yan.
I want to let the citizens of Northern Yan know
betrayers only have one ending, death.
They have to pay the consequences of their actions.
If they come back,
then we'll send them to the northwest border
and have them on the front lines.
Front lines? Heir apparent,
that's how Northern Yan treats their death row prisoners.
Execute.
Pass down my order.
Prepare to return to Hongchuan city.
Yes.
Have you guys woken up yet? We should head out.
Older Brother asks you to come in.
Go ahead, leave.
I don't want to see you anymore.
I want to send you two home. There's still two days worth of traveling to reach Chang'an.
I can't be at ease for you two to go back alone.
If we live or die, what does it have to do with you?
This area has met with battles. Everywhere are thieves and bandits.
With me around, I can ensure your safety.
I've told you,
if we live or die, what does it have to do with you?
Yuan Song,
I know that you hate me.
I know what I do is far from enough to pay you back.
But I can't see you two to lose your lives.
Ah Chu,
do you know what I liked about you the most before?
It's the look of you now.
You are always confident
regardless of your identity and status.
You always believe strongly in your capabilities.
But I hate your appearance very much right now!
You are arrogant and proud of yourself.
What do you think you are doing?
Charity?
Salvation?
Or do you want to do something to make you at peace and return to live with that jerk?
No.
Yuan Song—
I've said
I have broken off with you once and for all.
It's either you die or I die when we meet again later.
Betray the country.
Being mean and having no sense of shame.
Massacre citizens.
Cause citizens not be able to survive.
Get out.
After I see you enter Chang'an city, I'll leave then.
No matter how much you hate me,
the trip is quite long.
You also have to think about the princess.
You probably don't want...
that thing...
to happen again to her either, right?
Shut up!
My little sister,
I can protect myself.
Older brother,
- we still should let— - Chun'er!
Have we really reached the point where we need to be protected by our enemy?
You had a fever all night.
It's gone now.
If you die, who will escort us back to Chang'an?
Ah Chu,
are you leaving?
Yes.
Are you going to back to see him?
Yes.
Will you return?
I don't know.
I might come back. I might not come back.
You see?
I'm really a weak man.
Yuan Song,
thank you for still willing to say goodbye to me.
You can risk your life to protect and escort me this long way back.
Am I so pathetic that I can't even say a few words to you?
But this will be the last time.
This really will be the last time.
The next time we meet...
let's treat each other as a strangers.
Even if we meet next time,
I won't kill you, either.
That's your business.
Whoever betrays Great Wei
will only die.
What is Great Wei?
What is the law?
There's no right or wrong. There's only winners and losers.
That year your father tricked his friend, and massacred Northern Yan.
He killed all of Yan Xun's relatives.
How do you count this hatred?
For these past three years,
how many attempts of assassinations or plotted murders have you personally seen?
The so-called marriage alliance
is only a scheme setup by Yuan's dynasty to cheat the public.
On the wedding day, if Yan Xun didn't rebel,
I wouldn't even be alive standing in front of you today.
Yuan Song, you've always been lying to yourself and others.
You think if you close your eyes, you won't see the tyranny of Great Wei.
You think if you plug your ears, you won't hear the cries of the people.
Why don't you think why a small rebellion
can cause such a devastation to Great Wei?
Ah Chu,
I misjudged you.
You didn't misjudge me.
You just don't understand all of me.
During these three years, I've hinted to you and distanced myself from you more than once.
However, you never wanted to acknowledge the truth.
All officials of Great Wei
knew His Majesty wouldn't free Yan Xun.
Only you, naively believed that your Emperor Father
would pardon this fugitive from Northern Yan.
I've never thought about lying to you, but...
I have hurt you again indeed.
The kindness and protection you've shown me these years, I will always remember them.
Yuan Song,
living in this time period
is our misfortune.
Three years ago,
Yan Xun had given me a hand when I was in a desperate situation.
When I decided to walk onto Forever Serene Platform with him,
your and my fates were set to be opposites.
You are Great Wei's prince...
but I was destined to be a rebel.
You and I...
would eventually be enemies on the battlefield.
All this has been me reaping what I sowed.
For these years,
I never wanted to give up the chance to hold onto you.
I always thought if I worked a little harder I could keep you.
I worked hard to create lies,
that I couldn't escape from it anymore.
Wei will soon capsize.
Although I kept saying that Yan Xun betrayed the country,
what really hurt my heart
was that you let me go without hesitations.
Chu Qiao,
you should go.
I never want to see you ever again.
Yuan Song!
If he wasn't forced into a dead end,
he would've never hurt you.
If he wasn't heavily injured,
he wouldn't have sent those people to escort you.
You've hurt him
severely, life threatening. Right?
Right!
He can't live much longer.
Perhaps if you return now,
you might make it in time to send him your wishes.
Thank you for letting me know.
Meeting in a narrow path, killing people as a cover up.
Sending you off for thousands of miles, no need for any words.
I used to think in your heart, he and I were almost equal.
Only now do I know
how wrong I was.
Ah Chu, how much I wish I was able to protect you.
But that's all not possible anymore.
Chun'er!
- Seventh older brother. - What happened to you?
It's all because of Chu Qiao.
If she was not around, none of this would have happened.
It's all because of her.
Seventh older brother, hurry and go catch her. Hurry and go catch her!
Hurry and go capture her! I want to kill her!
Chu Qiao?
That's right. It's her.
If you catch her, you can catch the rebel Yan Xun.
Hurry and go catch her! Hurry and get revenge for me and our brother.
Thirteen younger brother, where did Chu Qiao go?
That way.
"The Flame of the Heart" by G.E.M.
♫ The wild wind blows the moonlight into confusion ♫
♫ My life is as 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 ♫
♫ And 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 ♫