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♪There seems to be a trace of fragility in your look,♪

♪which tugs at my heartstrings as we fool about.♪

♪How should I describe my feelings?♪

♪Perhaps there is no word for them.♪

♪I don't understand. I show no interest. I feign ignorance.♪

♪But I can't resist your persistence.♪

♪Your love for me is long-lasting and strong.♪

♪How should I accept it?♪

♪In tranquility. Calm as the wind.♪

♪We don't regret living in this world.♪

♪I'd take anything fate gives me.♪

♪I'd let everyone misjudge me.♪

♪So what?♪

♪I don't care about right and wrong.♪

♪Perhaps our feelings can't be described and only we understand them.♪

"The Heiress"

Episode 9

What's wrong with me?

It's okay.

I was just scared of riding the horse today.

Okay, see you, Miss.

Yun'er.

Mr. Zhou.

What are you doing here?

Wait a second, Yun'er.

Thanks

Yun'er.

Yun'er, yours is broken.

Take this one.

Well...

It's okay.

I want you to have it.

Yun'er, are you taking

so many things home?

Let me help you with them.

No, thanks. I'll go home myself.

I earnestly request you put the country first,

decide on a crown prince and set people's mind at ease.

We earnestly request

you decide on a crown prince and set people's mind at ease.

Stand up.

Thank you, Your Majesty.

My health has been declining.

It's indeed time

I decided on a crown prince.

Your Majesty,

the Fifth Prince, Prince Qi, is

Empress Yuan's son with distinguished war service.

He's the obvious choice as the crown prince.

Your Majesty, Marquis Jin is wrong.

The Second Prince, Prince Zheng, is the eldest,

wise and competent. He should be the crown prince.

Prince Qi brings peace to the country. He should be the crown prince.

Your Majesty, Prince Zheng is kind to the people.

He should be the crown prince.

Among the public, the son of the first wife

also inherits the family property.

Prince Qi is the son of Empress Yuan.

The country should belong to him.

Your Majesty, Prince Zheng is also your wife's son.

When Prince Zheng was born,

his mother was just a beauty on a low grade.

How come he's the wife's son?

During the Shang dynasty,

Di Yi wanted to make his eldest son, Weizi Qi, his heir.

According to the code, the Court Historian thought

although Weizi Qi had the same mother as King Zhou,

he was born when their mother was a concubine

and King Zhou was born

when their mother was the empress.

He emphasized

that King Zhou was the son of Di Yi's wife.

So Di Yi enthroned his youngest son instead of the eldest one

and the country was conquered.

Consequently,

it'll cause disaster not to enthrone the eldest son.

You're being unreasonable.

Weizi Qi and King Zhou had the same mother

but Prince Qi and Prince Zheng don't.

Prince Qi's mother is Empress Yuan.

He's more eligible for the throne than Prince Zheng.

Enough.

You've argued about this for years.

Haven't you had enough of it?

I love both Yanhao and Yanyi.

We'll solve it like this.

Tell them to take part in affairs of state together.

Who's capable of it

will own the Eastern Palace.

Prime Minister's Mansion

Uncle, I'm here.

Your Highness.

Quickly, come, come, come.

Take a seat.

Have a cup of tea.

Your Highness,

why did you come today?

I came to ask you something.

What do you think of the decision

Father made today?

It's hard to read the emperor's mind.

Decisions Father made recently

are more and more confusing.

His Majesty ordered you and Prince Qi take part in affairs of state together.

He wants to choose a virtuous crown prince.

He wants you two to compete.

But it is hard

to deal with my brother.

I also underestimated him before.

Now he has made me

lose quite a few capable men in the name

of wiping out risks from the former dynasty.

How was it? Was it serious?

We don't have military power now.

We count on those people

to do many things secretly.

It wasn't serious.

Yanyi is advancing on us.

If we don't do anything now,

I'm afraid we'll be forced to a dead end.

Don't worry too much, Your Highness.

The one who wins the emperor's favor and the Eastern Palace

will be the real winner.

His Majesty wants you to compete.

I'll be there for you.

The Chu family has military power

but His Majesty won't ask you

to fight at the front, will he?

Is there anything else?

It's a tricky one.

I may need you to get things moving.

Duke Han's Mansion

I, a playboy from the Han family,

haven't met any ladies for a long time.

This is really suspicious.

It's time I was seen in public.

Wonderful.

Wonderful.

My Lord.

Hong'er,

it's really a great honor of mine

to have your company today.

You flatter me, My Lord.

Hey, dude.

Bro, bro, don't hurt her.

How much money do you want?

These are valuable. Take them.

I'll give it to you whatever you want.

Don't hurt her.

Stop.

My Lord, help me.

Arrest him.

Stop.

I'm Han Shiyi, Duke Han's son. Don't you act rashly.

Lord Han,

this man committed a serious crime.

Please make way for us.

Don't come over here.

If anyone moves, I'll kill this woman.

Commander Chang Qi works for Prime Minister Wang.

These soldiers won't listen to me.

I gotta play my ace.

Hong'er,

don't worry.

You're pregnant with my child.

If they dare to hurt you,

they'll make an enemy of the Han family

by causing me to be heirless.

I'll request His Majesty to kill all their families.

Everyone knows my family have only

had a son for three generations.

If this woman dies,

my dad and I will tell His Majesty

and make you pay for it.

Use your brain and think about it.

Will His Majesty kill your commander, Chang Qi,

or all of you

to pacify us?

Get out now.

Get out now!

Let's go.

Quickly!

Bro,

let's talk things out.

You are Duke Han's heir, Han Shiyi?

Yes,

that's me.

Actually,

there's a way out for you.

Let her go

and hold me at knifepoint.

I'm Duke Han's heir.

If you leave the city with me,

no one will dare to stop you.

Stop.

Han Shiyi,

you're still so cocky.

You've seen me before?

What you said will indeed work.

Everybody knows Duke Han and his family.

If I hold you at knifepoint,

I may really be able to leave the city.

Come here!

Young master.

Young master, a wanted man broke in.

Your Highness, something happened in Yidian Pavilion.

-My Lord. -Han Shiyi,

you really can't recognize me?

Let go of him.

-I'll let you live. -I'll help you leave the city.

What a coincidence.

You two are also here.

Who are you? If you dare to take a step forward,

I will kill him now.

They're my classmates.

Maybe I've been too loyal to them

so they came to help.

Are you here to help

or hasten my death?

How could you joke at such a moment?

Do you want to die?

Bro,

hold the knife steady

or my life will come to an end

and my child that hasn't been born

will be fatherless.

Besides, there's not an enmity between us

and you can't leave

even if you kill me.

Isn't it weird for two men

to die together?

Shut up!

Let go of him.

Leave here.

Take my tally. No one will dare to stop you.

But you need to be quick.

When the City Guards seal off the city,

you'll never be able to escape.

Don't move.

If you take one more step forward,

I'll kill him now.

Do you think I'm a kid?

If I weren't having him in my hands

and you were afraid of hurting him,

you would have hacked me to death.

If I get in your carriage,

I'll be shot to death.

If you want him to live,

order those at the door to retreat

and get out of my way.

When I leave the city safely

and go beyond the range of your crossbows,

I will let him live.

Am I mistaken?

When have they been so friendly to each other?

Did they just make eye contact?

The City Guards, fall back. Let him leave the city.

I will take the consequences.

Fall back, the City Guards.

If anyone comes forward, I'll kill him right away.

Fall back!

Fall back.

Fall back!

My Lord. Don't hurt Lord Han.

Bro,

I've always been devoted to Hong'er.

People never understand me

and always talk nonsense.

-Shut up. -Bro,

I really don't want to die.

As long as you don't hurt me,

I will help you leave the city.

I don't care

whether they catch you or not.

I'll trust you

after I leave the city.

Now that you risked coming to the capital,

why are you getting out now?

Don't talk so much.

I haven't done it yet.

Were you hurt?

I'm okay.

He lost too much blood and passed out.

He passed out at a good moment.

I must have done too many good deeds before

and I didn't deserve to die.

Han Shiyi, cut it out.

Don't act too much.

That was an awesome move.

What's going on?

Didn't they just exchange glances?

Why are they one another's enemy again?

Mr. Wang,

this man is a criminal.

I will take him to the prison now.

To the Department of Capital Security and Administration.

To the Ministry of Justice.

Who...

who on earth is this guy?

As the person who was held at knifepoint,

I need to hear this case

no matter where he's taking.

I must find out who he is.

He almost made my Han family heirless.

I have seen lots of faithless men

but I had no idea you'd treat me like that.

I can die without regrets now.

Don't always talk about death.

Isn't it nice to stay alive?

My Lord, I didn't know this until today.

You seem to be a playboy

but you can be very affectionate.

You are a real man.

Uncle, figure something out.

How could you let Xue Jia come to the capital?

Those capable men of mine

have been caught by Chen Yanyi

as risks from the former dynasty.

It's too late to send any men now.

So what shall we do?

We need to dispose of Xue Jia.

Take it easy.

I have told Chang Guozan.

Now that Xue Jia has been arrested,

it's not suitable to kill him now.

If we don't kill him

and Xue Jia

tells them everything,

how shall we cope with it?

Reckless offender,

how dare you try to abduct Duke Han's heir?

You've committed a heinous crime.

Soldiers, pull him out and beat him.

Wait.

You haven't even asked what his name is.

Are you trying to cover something up, Mr. Chang?

What makes you think like that, Mr. Gu?

This villain almost killed Lord Han.

Shouldn't he be beaten?

The tension

between the Ministry of Justice and the Department of Capital Security and Administration

has been so severe already.

Lord Han was almost hurt by him.

Could we let him avoid being beaten?

Though he threatened me at knifepoint,

I wasn't hurt a bit.

When the City Guards came to catch him,

they said he committed a serious crime.

How serious is it?

Have they told you about it?

Send for Company Officer Xu Sheng from the City Guards.

I, Xu Sheng, am here.

Xu Sheng,

what crime did he commit? Why did you chase him?

Xu Sheng, stand aside.

Yes.

Who's kneeling in court? Tell us your name.

Your Lordship,

my name is Xue Jia.

My father is the Prefect of Qingzhou, Xue Fuliang.

He was framed for appropriation.

Now he's in the prison of Qingzhou

and will be beheaded in autumn.

I was banished to Minyue

and almost killed on my way there.

I didn't want to die and escape.

I came to demand justice for my dad

but I didn't expect I'd been hunted all this way.

You were banished and you escaped

without permission. You're doubly guilty.

The City Guards were right to catch you.

Soldiers, pull him out and beat him.

Wait.

Aren't you too quick, Mr. Chang?

The criminal has been in court.

Are you afraid he'll escape?

Now that he said Xue Fuliang was wronged

and he came to demand justice,

certainly we've got to let him

have his say.

After all, you and I are sitting

under this plaque, "Qin's Mirror Hangs High".

We can't go out of our mind here.

That's right.

Mr. Chang,

you can't keep ordering he be beaten.

How boring that is.

I seldom watch a trial.

You've got to do it carefully.

Don't force an innocent man to confess.

You're right, Lord Han.

Xue Jia,

you said Xue Fuliang was wronged.

Do you have any evidence?

Yes.

I've taken it with me.

Untie him.

Wait!

This man committed a serious crime.

Isn't it improper for you

to untie him?

This is the evidence. Please have a look at it.

Take the evidence here.

Here you go, Your Lordship.

I, Xue Jia, demand justice for my father.

I'm suing the Second Prince.

Now we can only

scapegoat someone else.

Xue Fuliang has died.

As long as you shift the blame

onto the Chiliarch of Qingzhou, Pan Zhanpeng,

and pretend you don't know where the relief is,

you won't be convicted of anything.

Even so,

Father will think I didn't do my best

and I'll be regarded as inferior to Chen Yanyi.

What matters most now

is to sort out this mess about Qingzhou.

Don't let anything else be involved.

How dare you? You talked nonsense

and slandered the Second Prince.

Soldiers, pull him out of here.

Hold on.

The drought relief didn't come after a long waiting.

Many people were starved to death.

I had no choice but to open the granary of Qingzhou.

I've recorded how much rice villagers took

and will return all of it after the autumn harvest.

Relief for the drought

in Qingzhou was allocated by the Ministry of Revenue.

The Government has sent it there.

How come it didn't come after a long waiting?

You slandered the Government. How dare you?

Your Lordship,

Qingzhou didn't receive a grain of rice

or a single coin.

My dad had no choice but to open the granary.

Please investigate it thoroughly.

Your Lordship,

what I said is all true.

Dai Xing,

how do you explain this?

Your Majesty,

the relief was allocated by the Ministry of Revenue.

It was all recorded in detail

who took it and how much was taken.

I wouldn't dare to fake anything.

Investigate it thoroughly, Your Majesty.

Stand up.

Bring Xue Fuliang to the capital.

I need to question him myself.

Your Majesty,

I've sent a dispatch to Qingzhou

to tell them to bring Xue Fuliang to the capital.

Unexpectedly, I got the news of his death.

They said he was sick in prison...

What?

and has died there.

He's dead?

Now that who Xue Jia sued is the Second Prince,

tell him to see me right now.

Your Majesty,

the Second Prince asked to see you outside.

Let him in.

Yes.

Father, I'm here.

You haven't recovered yet. Stand up.

I failed you. I'm sorry.

Did you really embezzle the drought relief?

On no account would I dare to do that

but I'm guilty of negligence.

I trusted the Chiliarch of Qingzhou, Pan Zhanpeng,

and almost caused people in Qingzhou

to be homeless, starved and frozen.

I'm guilty.

Stand up.

Thank you, Father.

I wasn't familiar with the situation in Qingzhou

so after I arrived there,

I had a discussion with Chiliarch Pan Zhanpeng

and Prefect Xue Fuliang.

We made a relief program that night.

The next day Chiliarch Pan Zhanpeng

came to take the relief

and I gave it all to him.

In the afternoon, I was told Mother was seriously ill.

I was so worried so I waited for a day

before I went to the stricken areas.

Later I found that villagers in the afflicted areas

had received food to survive the winter.

I thought Chiliarch Pan Zhanpeng

had given out all of the relief

and came back to the capital that night.

I see.

Even though

you were negligent,

it is

forgivable.

But Yanhao,

it was such an important matter.

How could you be so careless?

Your Majesty,

I have a question

for the Second Prince.

Feel free to ask him.

Your Highness, you had been resting at your house.

How did you know about Xue Fuliang?

And how did you come just in time?

Marquis Jin,

last night Director Chang from the Department of Capital Security and Administration

mentioned this at my house.

Only then did I realize I may have made a mistake

because of being negligent.

Please investigate it thoroughly, Father.

Okay.

Send someone to go to Qingzhou

and find out where the relief is

and how Xue Fuliang died.

This is an important case.

The Department of Capital Security and Administration

and the Ministry of Justice will investigate together.

Yes, Your Majesty.

Yes, Your Majesty.

I could never expect one day

I would be able

to be invited by you

to go in this room

and stay alone with you.

Now

Wang Zhongyu will have nothing to show off.

You flatter me, My Lord.

If you hadn't helped me

regardless of danger that day,

I'm afraid I would have been killed.

There's nothing I can repay your kindness with.

That's alright, Hong'er.

Wait a moment, My Lord.

I'll be right back.

Okay.

It's not finished.

It should be the script Yidianmei has just written.

The heroine is quite interesting.

But how come it looks so familiar

and the handwriting

is kind of like Wang Er's?

Is it...

My Lord,

sorry for keeping you waiting.

There's nothing I can repay your kindness with.

If you like,

I'm willing to be faithful to you.

Hong'er, stand up first.

Hong'er,

I would love this

but the two maids of mine

are really strict with me.

If I'm with you,

I'm afraid

you'll suffer in the future.

I didn't believe there would be

a man who truly loved me

until I met you.

I will always remember

that you did for me that day.

Perhaps I was born unlucky

and don't deserve this kind of happiness.

Hong'er,

I like listening to you singing,

watching you dance

and appreciate your good character.

If you like,

could you be my bosom friend,

talk about plays,

drink and chat with me?

I will

accept this.

You often cut classes

and made so many excuses.

I will request His Majesty to punish you severely

to maintain the Imperial College's prestige.

Mr. Zhu,

don't trouble His Majesty

with such a little thing.

Why don't you just punish me?

But let me make myself clear.

I can't accept any physical punishment.

Even my dad won't hit me.

Look at the student you brought here.

He has simply ruined

the Imperial College's name. Name!

You were absent for days.

Copy "Mencius" a hundred times!

Get out. Mr. Zhu is so angry already.

A hundred times?

Will twenty times do? Or fifty?

Two hundred times.

I'm off.

Go. Go.

Let's go.

Han Shiyi,

what happened? You look bad.

I was told to copy "Mencius"

a hundred times.

Copy "Mencius"?

Listen,

stop pretending. Don't overdo it.

Why am I pretending?

Do you think I'm you?

What's wrong with me?

What did I pretend?

What are you doing?

Come with me.

Han Shiyi,

what on earth do you want to do?

I've known it.

Your secret.

What... what secret do I have?

Take it.

Look.

The handwriting is the same.

No wonder you were always

with Hong'er and Luan'er before.

So this is the reason.

It's not bad. Did you write it?

What's it about?

Let me see.

Yidianmei.

You wanna deny it, don't you?

Hong'er has told me.

How funny.

I am the son of the current Prime Minister.

Why would I be Yidianmei

who's such a talented writer?

Don't throw it on the ground.

Did you see this?

Hong'er gave me a sachet.

She has told me everything.

You are Yidianmei.

But you don't have to be sad

or unhappy.

No one can keep a secret

from the person he or she likes.

Don't you think so?

So the person I've always liked

is you.

She... she likes me?

The Imperial College

Wang Er, Wang Er,

why would Han Shiyi's

confession of love make your heart thump?

She's just a character in your story.

Did I

fall in love with her?

Impossible. Impossible.

It must be an illusion.

It's an illusion.

What's an illusion?

Nothing.

Yidianmei,

I read your story.

I found it extremely interesting.

But the more I read it,

the more familiar the heroine is to me.

Have you given this story a name?

Why will I get

so nervous that I can't breathe

when I look at her face?

Answer me.

What are you gonna write later?

Han Shiyi,

you like my story, don't you?

How about this?

Don't be with the Fifth Prince.

Be with me.

You'll be free and have scripts to read.

Isn't it great?

How could you have this bad idea?

Don't you know what he's like?

You

just keep hanging around with those ladies.

-I was... -Han Shiyi,

get in now.

Your Highness.

Your Highness.

Your Highness,

what's on your mind?

Do you really like Yidianmei?

Yes.

Will you still like him if you're a lady?

Stop kidding.

How could I be a lady?

I was just supposing.

Suppose I'm a lady...

Yidianmei is so good at writing.

That shows he's very talented.

And his love scenes are so embellished.

That proves he knows women well.

I guess every woman will like

such a warm guy of talent.

But he's such a mysterious man.

No one knows what his name is

and what he looks like.

Besides,

it's none of my business however excellent he is.

I'm not a lady.

But you threw your arm around Wang Zhongyu's shoulder.

It was so improper.

We're both men. Why can't I do that?

Your Highness.

Can't I also throw my arm around your shoulder?

What...

Your Highness,

you're not jealous, are you?

I've told you long ago.

Don't be so into me.

Our interests are different.

There's no way we'll be together.

You'd better give up.

Marry a lady

and have some kids, okay?

Do you know...

Off you go.

Are you serious?

I'll be off, then.

Bye, Your Highness.

What should I do with you?

Make it quick.

Thank you, sir.

Don't do this. You'll make me lose my job.

Get in now.

Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

It's you.

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♪She and he are the same person.♪

♪Nobody can see through her disguise.♪

♪She is young and frivolous,♪

♪not knowing where to look.♪

♪She jests that the world was so big,♪

♪yet too small for a few people.♪

♪Stubborn as a mule,♪

♪she stays in an alien land.♪

♪She howls at the sky♪

♪and vows to become♪

♪a good man♪

♪with a sense of propriety.♪

♪One's love life♪

♪changes constantly.♪

♪How many years♪

♪have slipped away?♪

♪It's a love-hate relationship.♪

♪The end of the story♪

♪has been no secret♪

♪to us.♪

♪How come you♪

♪still have hopes?♪