♫ 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 56 ~
It's your people who came down the pass to provoke us and then lure me to come here.
The terrain here is very dangerous.
It looks like, there was someone who deliberately lured us here to kill you.
Is it that Cheng Yuan?
Does Yan Xun also turn a blind eye to this?
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I'm afraid that the hatred in Yan Xun's heart is harder to melt than the ice of this lake.
Yuwen Yue,
at the beginning, I only wanted to escape and live well.
Then I met Yan Xun and heard him mentioning Northern Yan.
I felt my heart gradually reviving.
I thought that my existence had its value.
Maybe there is a secret divine intervention.
But my wishes still fell through.
It's because I am too arrogant.
I thought my power was strong enough to change a lot and protect a lot of people.
Till the end, it turns out that my own power is too limited.
My friends, my families, all left me one by one.
Not only didn't I protect them well,
but I actually caused more deaths upon more people.
I am not a good commander.
Xiuli Army doesn't have much faith.
Their only faith is their trust in me.
But my existence
keeps dragging them into wars and troubles, and
causing them to bleed and die.
Yet, all my promises of a good life
have not been fulfilled at all.
All I did was save them that one time.
I shouldn't be so selfish that I keep making them go into battles for me.
If...
I think that if I just followed Yan Xun before and exiled the Xiuli Army out of Northern Yan,
then many members among them would not have died.
They could all be living their lives right now.
Do you regret it?
My life is full of difficulties,
so hard to move forward.
I have done a lot of things and walked on many paths.
Some were right and some were wrong,
but I have never regretted what I did.
Because I can see my heart clearly.
I'm just...
just a little bit tired.
If you are tired, then stop and rest well.
Only then will you have the strength to keep walking forward.
All things cannot be achieved by just one step.
Even without that Cheng Yuan, there will be others.
What place do you think Northern Yan is?
Everyone are loyal and brave? Everyone knows great righteousness?
Everyone is anticipating the return of you all to lead them?
If there are people, then there will be disputes.
Which person who has achieved grand ambitions didn't walk through a path full of plotting, traps, corpses, and a sea of blood?
Since you have picked this path, you have to walk to the very end of it no matter what.
Why are you telling me these things?
Aren't you against me going back to Northern Yan?
Rather than making you stay by my side,
I hope more for you to live by following your heart, to live happily.
Yuwen Yue, I never owed anyone.
Only with you, I have owed too much and am unable to repay it.
If you want to cry,
then cry to your content.
When you are done, you can become strong again.
♫ Because of one person, I give up a whole city ♫
♫ I think I'm doing it to find the balance of love ♫
♫ Because of one person, I search everywhere my whole life ♫
♫ I'm still me who seems have never left ♫
Yan Xun!
How about the things we had agreed?
♫ That person opens the city gate that imprisons us ♫
♫ He melts the coldness and accompanies me to gallop everywhere ♫
We had agreed.
♫ 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 ♫
♫ At the end of love, no one is the winner ♫
[King of Yan Manor]
Ah Chu, it's me.
Come in.
Ah Chu, I came to say goodbye.
Ah Chu, you are still blaming me for not standing out that day to help you save the Xiuli Army, right?
You must know that His Highness was determined to kill them that day.
If I stood out, not only would I be unable to save them, I would even harmed the person that I wanted to protect.
That's why, I cannot interfere.
Soon, I'll be going to Blue City already.
And then, send Mr. Wu to leave Northern Yan.
Mr. Wu?
Is the Mr. Wu you are talking about Mr. Wu Daoya?
Yes.
Cheng Yuan's men went to Blue City to take their grains. Blue City suffered a great flood this year.
Mr. Wu then led the citizens there and had a clash with him.
In the end, he got imprisoned by His Highness.
Mr. Wu is the soul of Northern Yan.
If he dies, then Heir Apparent will disappoint all the citizens of Northern Yan.
That's why, I cannot help you.
Ah Chu, sorry.
You have your predicament. I understand.
His Highness initially was a plain and natural person.
But after the matter at Forever Serene Platform, I fear that a lot of his thoughts have undergone great changes.
Reality eventually cannot steadily happen based on what we think.
I am just worried that if this continues, we will be further away from our initial ideas.
People will change.
Ah Chu, do you know that
when I see those patrolling guards on the streets,
I realize that their faces are already not those people I was familiar with.
I suddenly realized that among those people I am familiar with,
some have died in battles and some already left Northern Yan.
Maybe this is already the time for me to leave.
I can understand your feelings.
Actually, I am like you.
I previously personally saw his hatred and pains.
I personally saw the insults he had gone through.
It is impossible for bystanders to understand and feel.
Every person has the right to choose the path they want to go.
This is his choice.
Although I am unable to agree with it,
I respect his choice.
Who can say that what they are doing is completely correct?
Who then can say that it is totally wrong?
It's just that we all have our own persistence and limits.
Although we are unable to journey together,
we will not walk the wrong path and become enemies, either.
In this world where life is so unimportant and unstable,
other than the freedom and love that I chase after,
the only other thing that is worthy for me to risk my life to protect is my belief.
And my belief has been left here in the great plains of Northern Yan.
Miss Yu,
why don't we leave together?
I know that you won't.
Ah Chu, His Highness can have the world crawl down to his feet,
and he also can use his sharp blade to conquer every land.
As long as he is willing, he can do his best to destroy everything that he doesn't like.
But only in facing you, he becomes powerless.
Ah Chu,
don't give up on him.
Only you can pull him back.
Think about those days on how he was able to walk step by step to where he is now.
Think about those hard trials he went though.
Don't let him be blinded by hatred and grudges.
The more you must not let a sinister and fawning subject like Cheng Yuan get what he wants.
Before you leave, can you help me with a favor?
I want to see Mr. Wu.
Mr. Wu.
Chu Qiao, we finally meet.
Yes, it was really hard to be able to see mister.
As the number one intelligence sack of the Duke of Northern Yan Manor,
when the Duke of Northern Yan was killed, you were not around.
When Northern Yan got massacred, you were not around, either.
When Madam Bai Sheng hit her head to a cauldron and died in Forever Serene Platform,
the three years where Yan Xun had numerous encounters with death in Chang'an,
and the fire that eventually happened in Chang'an afterwards
which incited the start of war and the defense of Hongchuan, you were all not around then.
It almost made me doubt if your heart was still in Northern Yan or not.
And if I still need to meet a person like you.
Our meeting has nothing to do with Northern Yan.
You surely know that very well.
I heard that you have amnesia.
Are you better now?
There are some memories that appear and disappear.
I remember some but they are very blurry.
Coincidentally, I remember them very well.
Since I have idle time today, let's then chat about it.
In my memories, my younger days are always in a discontinuous manner, in shattered pieces.
Among the martial arts in the world, only being fast can make you invincible.
As long as your speed can reach the pinnacle, you don't really need to care about the technique.
You only need one move and you already can subdue your enemy.
I only remember that mother will frequently be away from my side.
She frequently would be gone for several days and
left me alone to train martial arts.
I don't know what Mother was busy about.
She also had never told me about it.
One time, before she left, she told me that she didn't know when she would return.
She took me into a secret room and passed me the Cold Ice Skill Inner Power.
Afterwords, she told me to find a Jing family.
Hence, I went to the Jing family and was given a name Jing Xiaoliu.
My Jing parents treated me as their own child.
My siblings also loved me a lot.
I slowly grew up and my martial arts skill improved,
but I didn't stop worrying about my mother.
But I wasn't able to wait for my mother
and instead got bad news.
I had to go save her because she was my only family in this world.
- I secretly infiltrated the prison and ran to my mother. - Mother!
- But at the moment I embraced her, it was an unfamiliar face that was maliciously smiling at me. - Mother!
That person looked a bit similar to me.
Mother must be gone already.
Hence, I charged out of the prison
and discovered a dense number of soldiers coming towards me.
During that dangerous moment, the woman who initially disguised as my mother suddenly appeared.
She disguised as me, charged out, fought with the black clothed man,
and created a chance for me to escape.
When I was escaping,
I heard the black clothed man slanderingly say that I was the one who killed my mother.
I am saying that it was you who killed your mother, Luo He.
As for why that woman saved me,
has always been a puzzle in my heart that I can't solve.
That girl who disguised as you is Xia Chong, an assassin from the Afterlife Camp.
But my memories are in shattered pieces.
Who am I really?
Your mother Luo He is the Commander of Fengyun Order, the head of the jianghu spies.
And you are her daughter, Chu Qiao.
Who killed my mother?
Yuwen Hao, a member of the Wei feudal clans and Yin Xin from the Liang Secret Bureau.
But the real killer most likely was a traitor by Luo He's side.
Why then must they kill my mother?
Promote the interest of the world.
Eliminate those that will harm it.
Because of her idea of releasing the slaves and stopping battles, in the eyes of the feudal clans,
she is a female demon.
She is always going against them.
The Commander of Fengyun Order is able to command all the jianghu spies in this world.
That's why, she was a great threat to them.
What really is the Fengyun Order?
Your mother has transferred to you the Fengyun Order.
You just didn't know it.
Fengyun Order is a red spider lily mark
that appears on one's shoulder once you are able to completely learn the Cold Ice Skill.
Your mother previously sent me a secret message that she had transferred 80% of her inner energy to you.
That's why, you are the new Commander of the Fengyun Order.
But I don't really have any red spider lily mark.
And I don't know how to use some Cold Ice Skill, either.
And the more I am not some Commander of the Fengyun Order that can command the world.
Maybe it was your amnesia that sealed your Cold Ice Skill.
Maybe, it is only in a very cold place that your Cold Ice Skill will get stimulated.
Zuo Baocang previous used prayers and spells to wake some of my memories up.
But it's a pity that he got stopped midway.
Regarding my identity, what else do you know?
I know some matters that happened after you infiltrated the prison.
That time, I had sent the loyal warriors of our alliance, Lady Snake and Three-World Traceless to rescue Luo He.
Too bad, they were already too late.
Lady Snake took you to break through the heavy encirclement and rescued you from danger.
At that time, you were badly injured.
The two of them escorted you in your escape.
Unluckily, they met Yuwen Hao leading his army to pursue you.
Yuwen Hao was a valiant general of Wei.
The Yuwen feudal clan that he belongs to is the one that is in control of the Spy Network of Heavenly Eyes.
For generations, they were at odds with the jianghu spies.
His methods were very vicious and sinister and he wanted to catch you alive.
Lady Snake was very chivalrous. She was grateful for being able to meet your mother, Luo He.
Even though she knew that she would die, she still tried her best to ensure your safety.
She used up all her last remaining energy to battle with Yuwen Hao
and almost died from it.
Quickly go!
In the end, the death of Three-World Traceless was able to delay Yuwen Hao.
Lady Snake was able to safely guard you away from him.
Who knew that you two would meet the ambush of the Liang spy, Yin Xin.
Lady Snake fell due to her severe wounds.
Out of anger, you were able to knock Yin Xin unconscious
and engaged in a fierce battle with Yuwen Hao.
In the end, you used the Cold Ice Skill to kill him
while you also fell into the Yellow River.
Afterwards, Lady Snake found me while in her final struggle.
After I learned that you had fallen into the river after getting hurt,
we had sent men to look for you in the upstream and downstream for 10 days,
but we never found you, either.
From the looks of it, you got taken away by slave traffickers.
The only constant thing in life is changing and destiny really likes to make fools of people.
Who would have thought that you would enter the Yuwen Manor as their slave
and stay by the side of your mortal rival Yuwen Yue?
Who also would have thought that after several years of hiding,
you had killed three generations of the Yuwen Household Three for revenge.
And afterwards, you followed Yan Xun to return here to Northern Yan.
And Northern Yan is the place that your mother swore to protect with her life.
Maybe due to some unseen forces, everything has its preordained fate.
Now that the truth is clear,
I know that the relationship between you, Yuwen Yue, and Yan Xun is hard to severe.
Between these two difficult choices, you make the decision on what path to take.
I want you to help Northern Yan to peacefully settle down.
Can you?
I am already not suitable to keep staying here.
Come with me, too.
You are Luo He's daughter. You should inherit her position.
Sorry. I have forgotten almost everything in the past.
Thank you for your sincere words today.
But I cannot leave.
I cannot let Yan Xun fall more deeply into the sea of hatred and grudges.
Even if I have to use up all my energy, I still must help Yan Xun go up the shore.
Your Highness, I have been looking for you for 2 months.
I finally found you.
Your Highness.
How were you able to find me?
I guessed that you would be going in this direction so I searched along the way.
Just ten miles from here is Meilin Pass.
Yuwen Yue is there.
Even you have noticed it.
After serving by Your Highness' side for so long,
I know about your thoughts more or less.
In these past months, I have allowed myself to just wander around.
It is exactly because I discovered that Older Brother Yue is Yuwen Yue.
My pen pal and bosom friend that I think about often is actually the enemy that I have kept on fighting against.
This joke that the heavens made for me is really too huge and absurd.
I know that I shouldn't keep him alive.
But I just can't bear to kill him.
What really should I do?
I really don't know.
Your Highness.
I understand your feelings, Your Highness.
I have some sincere words.
I don't know if Your Highness is willing to listen or not.
Just say it.
In my heart, even though Your Highness is a noble princess,
but you never act gentle and lovely like usual rich daughters.
You aim for grand righteousness. You strategize within your tent but are able to win battles miles away.
Such ambitions and imposing manner are not slightly inferior to any great men in this world.
Your Highness, how can you break down just for a Yuwen Yue?
I understand all these principles you are saying.
But it is not something that one can put down so easily.
Your Highness, now that the world is in chaos, Chang'an City is being surrounded, and
Hongchuang City also almost got conquered.
Rebels and bandits are rising in arms.
Like the fire in a prairie, problems have successively arisen.
All of these concern the future of Liang.
Your Highness is the future leader of Liang.
No matter what, you must not give the country up.
No matter if it is Liang or Wei, it's the same.
But now...
Right now, I... just want to keep myself out of all these things. Can't I?
I understand the suffering that Your Highness is in right now.
This suffering of getting stuck in between romantic love and the responsibility for one's country.
But has he, Yuwen Yue, ever experienced the same thing?
Think about it. If today, the two of you were to have an exchange in position,
if he is placed in this difficult position instead, how would he choose?
Will he disregard being enemies with us just for you?
For Your Highness, is everything doing well?
Thank you for sparing the life of Princess Yuan Chun.
When Prince Yu learned about it, he was really very grateful.
It's very peaceful here on the borders.
Although Yan Xun's hatred is hard to pacify, and is still eyeing Wei with hostility,
the guards here in Meilin Pass have been trained adequately.
The defense is already stable and firm.
It is already good enough to deal with the cavalries of Northern Yan.
I hope that a peaceful treaty will happen soon. May Your Highness not worry about us.
Yuwen Yue
Men!
Mister, what are your instructions?
You must personally hand this letter to His Highness Prince Xiang.
Yes.
Waiter, hurry and serve the dishes!
Yes! Your order is here!
Fill them up. Fill them up first.
- Come. - Customer,
- please enjoy.
Your order.
Customer, please enjoy.
Customer, your order is here.
Come, let us just continue eating.
Your dishes are here.
Customers, please enjoy.
Yes! Coming!
Come in.
Your Highness.
I have killed the messenger agent.
I think the dream of a peaceful negotiation is fake and it is the presence of undying hatred that is true.
If they want a peaceful resolution, I fear it won't be that easy.
This matter is very important.
If just based on a secret letter, Yuan Ce might not really believe it.
The more it is urgent, the more he has no time to overthink it.
Moreover, I have previously investigated the Afterlife Camp.
Their methods of relaying messages are not really that hard to understand.
And also, I have familiarized myself with Yuwen Yue's
every words and every actions for these past years.
Even if I casually imitate him, I will surely not get caught.
[For Your Highness, is everything doing well?]
- It is now all up to you. - Yes.
[Dear Older Brother Yue, I'll meet you around midnight in the forest outside of town.]
In this chaotic world, it's hard to find an oasis.
I am willing to become a boulder and be unyielding even between rushing waves of the Yellow River.
A floating leaf that has fallen off will eventually have a place to rest on.
Who are you?
In this bottomless mortal world, I actually have forgotten who I am.
In this world, only Mr. Yue will be able to wake me up.
Hence, I asked you to come here today.
You've read my letters before.
Could it be that you are?
That's right.
Older Brother Yue, I am Little Yu.
Actually, I didn't expect that the person who was exchanging letters with me was you,
my greatest rival in my life.
The Liang Spies and the Spy Network of Heavenly Eyes are indeed natural mortal enemies.
It's as if they were born to diminish each other.
It is not my wish to be the leader of the Liang Spies.
We both are people that were chosen.
In front of our countries, we are only as light as a goose feather.
Actually, getting the wooden bird for me is surely like a bestowed gift.
I am able to share with Older Brother Yue a lot of things that I cannot say to the people around me.
I've found another me, that real me.
Me too.
Different kinds of life experiences, all the difficulties that I have gone through, I can tell them all to Little Yu.
Because Little Yu is Older Brother Yue's most loyal friend who keeps his secrets.
Yes.
Too bad—
I will destroy the little wooden bird.
Little Yu will also disappear from now on.
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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 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 ♫