Original subtitles

-Your Grace. -Eunuch Wang.

How's His Majesty?

This way.

Mei Sun.

I'm afraid His Majesty has lost his consciousness.

Why is this stuff here?

Mr. Ji came to see His Majesty.

He probably left it behind.

I want to teach you The 13 Needles of Guimen.

There is a Haiquan acupoint on the human tongue.

It can treat amnesia.

It has a miraculous effect for those in danger.

Ji Yong is always mysterious.

He doesn't say things clearly.

Turns out that this acupuncture technique is supposed to be used today.

So this is his series of strategies.

It's to eliminate the evil.

He served as the secretary of Prince Qing.

On the surface, it looks like he is revolting.

But actually, it was ordered by His Majesty, right?

During the investigation of the incident at Futing,

His Majesty knew

the death of the Duke of Ding

was done by Prince Qing.

So only by letting Prince Qing

act rebelliously

can those deeply hidden traitors

show up one by one

and be annihilated.

Ji Yong deceived everyone.

He also deceived Song Mo and me.

But in the court, those who support Prince Qing

were far more than His Majesty expected.

Even several princes

also blatantly sided with Prince Qing.

And that person who ordered

and commanded the overall situation

was actually the person who slept beside His Majesty.

That's how today's dead end came along.

It's not necessarily a dead end.

Eunuch Wang, come and help me lift His Majesty.

(Blossom)

(Episode 34)

Keep the Yuanyang Formation

and get ready to break out at any time!

The end of the power.

Kill them!

No one is allowed to live.

Kill them!

My reinforcements are here.

Your Highness.

You have been deceived and blinded by traitors

thus raising the troops and disrupting peace.

I promise that

those who put down the weapon

and go back to the right path

will not be punished.

Otherwise,

with my heavenly troops here,

the rebellious traitors

will never be reincarnated!

Listen to me, Tengxiang Guards.

Your commander, Song Han,

deceived the superiors!

He hid it from you and plotted a rebellion.

His Majesty lured you in

and has laid out the enforcers.

You

have no chance of winning!

No one is allowed to back out!

Anyone who backs out

will be killed!

Father.

The Crown Prince has been assassinated.

According to custom,

I should ascend to the throne.

Brothers!

We endure silently for years

just for today!

We want to stop the rebels

and protect the country!

It's time to act now!

Stop the rebels and protect the country!

Now that it has come to this, we'll go all out.

Attack the Qianqing Palace and seize the imperial seal.

At that time, I will confer the titles to you!

Kill them!

Kill them!

Mei Sun.

This time, I...

I won't let you down again.

Your Highness, this is bad!

The Crown Prince and Count of Yunyang's troops

came from Duanmen in the south.

Wang Xing Yi and Mr. Ji

came with a large number of people too!

Father, I'm sorry for being late.

Kneel!

Your Highness, please return to the palace!

Your Highness, please return to the palace!

Dou Zhao wanted me to hand this letter to Your Highness.

This is extremely urgent.

(With Your Highness away, the Empress will rise a revolt)

(during the palace banquet on the Lantern Festival.)

(When Your Highness read this,)

(kindly lead the troops back to the palace to put down a revolt)

(to secure the country.)

Your Majesty,

I led three battalions and 40 thousand soldiers to assist.

Prince Qing!

Your soldiers outside the city

have been fully controlled.

Surrender now!

The Duke of Jing, King Jihuai, and King Yuan

have been arrested and confessed.

Your Highness, the game is lost.

Get up!

Get up!

Get up!

Get up!

Get up!

Ji Yong.

I treat you as my teacher and I tolerate you.

Why did you betray me?

I am greedy for fame and career

because I want to get rid of wealthy families with their cronies

to save the country from sinking.

No matter how you treat me,

in my eyes,

you're the first evil man that should be removed.

The grievances of the Duke of Ding,

the people's suffering,

it's time for you to pay.

What's the point of dragging the citizen into your revenge?

You're funny.

We made it.

We should fight for justice.

Let me go!

Your Majesty, the Crown Prince returned safely.

Please spare my aunt from the death penalty.

This matter about the Empress,

it's a state affair.

No matter what the decision is,

it's not up to you

or me.

You should return.

You fought to get into the Qianqing Palace

just for this.

I will give it to you now.

Hold it!

You know well that with your achievements and virtue,

you can't bear the weight of this responsibility!

I can't bear it.

But Mother can bear it.

When I ascend to the throne,

Mother will govern the country.

She may not lose to the previous wise kings.

You owe her this.

Your mother suffered for half her life.

I keep her kindness in my heart,

that's why she is the empress.

She is the empress.

But not only did she serve you with medicine day and night,

she also helped you govern the country.

When you were weak,

she was so busy with the state affairs that she hurt her eyes.

But have you ever treated her as your wife?

You're afraid of her,

just like you're afraid of Jiang Mei Sun.

You Ting!

Do you know why you lose?

When the time comes, heaven and earth work together.

And when fortune comes,

all things walk together.

It's because in Father's heart,

the Duke of Ding and Empress Wan

are different from each other.

Could it be that all this...

All this is for Jiang Mei Sun?

For the citizen, Mei Sun could even empty his wealth.

He ignored his life and had no friends or cronies!

But what did you and your mother do?

Who made me have a weak body?

Before disposing of me,

may I ask you this?

Since when

did you plan this?

The ruler.

Investigate this.

Who punished him?

Who harmed Mei Sun?

Don't let anyone go!

And the reign title.

(Below is the edict from the emperor.)

On this beautiful day,

the reign title will be changed to Fengming.

Fengming?

How about using this as the reign title?

It means to make the achievements of the past generations known to all.

So that no one will doubt the laws.

Inherit the achievements of the ancestors

and virtue shines on the people.

Having strict laws to dispel the injustices in the world.

I wonder if the Minister of Rites will allow it.

Don't bother.

As long as we remember it.

Alright. As long as we remember it.

Measure the land,

remove the redundant officials,

pacify the wars,

suppress the tyrants.

Those ambitions of the past,

until he died,

I didn't realize any of it.

Before I die,

I got to give it a try.

But he is just an unrelated official!

But this unrelated official

sacrificed his life to save the country.

Instead, you, my flesh and blood,

tried to kill me to seize the throne and killed the good officials.

Your Highness, do you really think

people like Mu Chuan and the Duke of Jing

really value Your Highness

and support Empress Wan as the ruler?

They just wanted to use Your Highness

to enjoy eternal glory!

Those vermins in the imperial court

love and hate each other.

And they're all related

to the royal family.

That time,

when I pressed down the incident at Futing,

I already knew that

you're not the only one who's guilty.

I want you to come out one by one

so that I can remove all of you in one go.

You're cruel.

To ruin your wife and son's reputation,

to make your relatives who gained power from their past achievements

to surrender their power and submit to the law,

you put on a show for them to hurt each other.

Your Majesty,

Prince Qing rebelled and should be punished.

Should we summon the Jiying Guards?

Your Majesty, I believe I made an achievement tonight.

I boldly request Your Majesty

to issue two favors.

Do you

want me to kill him?

Those who dare to plot rebellion and treason

have long regarded life and death as nothing.

What he was looking for was a grand ambition.

What he did was trampling on his father and brother.

I request for Your Majesty

to ground Prince Qing in a three-foot secret room

that never sees the light of day in the West Garden forever.

Send someone to report the achievements of Your Majesty and the Crown Prince

one by one, to him every day!

No, I don't want it. I don't want it! Father!

Take him away!

Just kill me. Father!

-Take him away, hurry! -Please, just kill me!

Father!

Father, please kill me.

Father!

Even if Jiang Mei Sun was here,

he wouldn't dare to deal with the prince for me.

You're bold.

Say it. What else?

Song Mo! What are you doing?

I, Song Mo, request to be exempted from all titles and military merits.

I beg Your Majesty

to clear the innocence

of the Duke of Ding and the Jiang family.

Of course, I will clear the Duke of Ding's innocence.

But you...

What are you doing?

What I'm asking for is not for myself.

It's for justice.

My life

was once for loyalty and filial piety.

After that, it was for revenge.

Until I met Dou Zhao.

She made me understand this.

When a deer hunter sees a rabbit,

he must be patient.

But when a deer hunter sees the mountain,

he must be open-minded.

I don't have much time left.

I want to live for myself

and see that openness.

Little Song Mo.

Hold it.

Little Song Mo.

Do you really want to leave me?

An Su.

An Su.

I knew it.

You will be by my side.

An Su.

Why do you

betray me

after I fall in love with you?

Mu Yu.

I used to

cherish you very much, really.

The boy

who handed me a handkerchief when I was in trouble.

How could you look down on her?

What's wrong with her being a businesswoman?

She makes money with her brain.

That's way better than a lackey from a wealthy family.

You know my vulnerability

and understand my difficulties.

Wipe your sweat.

This is the second time you gave me a handkerchief.

That boy...

During the festivals,

he would huddle

and looked at the lonely moon.

I once understood you

and admired you.

I will go and ask His Majesty to annul the engagement.

I'm willing to marry you.

But now

you want me dead.

Dying in my hands,

you'll be more comfortable.

I hated you before.

But I don't want others to taint you.

An Su...

If I could turn back,

would you forgive me?

During the incident at the jewelry pavilion,

you've guessed the whole picture.

It's more of a gamble

than a guess.

If I lose the bet,

it's nothing more than dying faster.

If Your Majesty take over the power as you wish,

you won't let me live long either.

Every time I see you,

it's like seeing me before coming here.

No.

We're different.

The person I love in this life,

I trust him.

Your Majesty.

His Majesty summoned to see Your Majesty.

Now that it has come to this,

I feel disgusted seeing him again.

His Majesty said

if Your Majesty are ashamed to face His Majesty,

Your Majesty should move to Qianxi

and never leave Qianxi forever.

Is he not abolishing my title?

His Majesty is magnanimous.

But I no longer want to act in this play anymore.

And I don't want

this fake marital status.

Whether it's in hell or the afterlife,

I just hope that I will never see him again.

Tell him this.

I ask to be abolished

and demoted to common people.

I ask for death.

Dou Zhao.

Goodbye.

Yan Tang!

Don't make me wait for you outside the palace again.

I don't want to see this cold palace wall anymore.

You can stop worrying about this.

I won't die.

Did the emperor give you the antidote?

Your Majesty.

Why did Your Majesty give the only Snow Lingzhi to Song Mo?

That's your life-saving lingzhi!

Indeed, Snow Lingzhi has been extinct for hundreds of years.

But the emperor who established the country

once gifted Snow Lingzhi to Wanfo Temple.

I risked my life to come here because of this.

You have Snow Lingzhi,

but Grudgebane is poisonous of all.

Preparing the antidote requires careful consideration.

It doesn't happen overnight.

I'm nearing the end of my life.

I don't need it anymore.

If Yan Tang has it,

he can protect You Sheng forever.

You're not young anymore.

Why do you still act like a child?

I can't even remember the last time you cried.

That was more than 50 years ago.

That's right.

It's more than 50 years ago.

I want to walk by myself.

(The heavenly law is not far away,)

(and the condemnation is not in vain.)

(The fault of all)

(is mine alone.)

(Now I am in pain to blame myself)

(for giving the slandering and flattery a chance)

(to wrong the loyal official and punish the Jiangs.)

(God has condemned me but I wasn't aware of my ignorance.)

(The people were complaining,)

(but I was not aware.)

(The emperor issued an edict to take the blame himself)

(and the Duke of Ding and Jiang family have been vindicated.)

(The cronies of Prince Qing were executed for treason.)

(The following year, the Crown Prince ascended the throne)

(and amnesty was given.)

(Ji Yong was promoted to Minister of Personnel)

(and became the first Grand Secretary of the new Grand Secretariat.)

(Wu Shan also returned to the capital)

(and was promoted to assistant minister of the Ministry of Work.)

(The new dynasty implemented reforms.)

(It emphasizes on mulberrying, and return the land to the people.)

(All officials are strictly inspected.)

(It was a brand new government.)

(Five Years Later) (Granary Festival)

Go get the seeds.

Here.

Let's put more.

Let's have a bumper harvest!

We'll have a full harvest.

It's so high!

Yours is higher!

Pretty good.

The lot is cast.

The dynasty has changed and many things waiting to be done.

Why did you retire?

I used to think that healing the country is important

and by being the Grand Secretary, I would not waste my life.

But now that I have become one,

I find it boring.

Spiritual practicing is much more comfortable.

Only by letting go of your ego

can you feel at ease.

You're open-minded now

because of one person.

Nothing is real

beside karma.

This worldly past is like passing clouds.

I hope you can understand the cause and effect of the world.

Only then the troubles will disappear on their own.

Father! Mother!

Wake up! Father! Mother! Come and play with me!

Your daughter is calling for you.

She climbed trees and caught fish yesterday.

She's only slept for a few hours.

Father! Mother!

Father! Mother!

Get up and play with me.

Father! Mother! Get up and play with me.

Coming, coming...

Father! Mother!

Go play in the yard for a while first, alright?

I'll be there soon.

Father, Mother. Hurry up.

-Go. -Slowly.

Teaching children

is more difficult than doing business.

It's more tiring than going to war.

We always said that

when the world is pacified,

we'd go for a trip to the mountains.

But what have we been doing?

Every now and then,

we'd be either repairing the broken wall

or the exploded garden.

We've been delaying it year after year.

Instead, Grandma has been to many places over the years.

And she'll be back soon.

This time, we definitely can go for an outing.

Why?

Have you forgotten?

Lian Jun will go to school soon.

You're right!

Let's arrange it.

Let's set off!

Mr. Feng was born into a scholarly family.

He's ranked No. 4 in the Imperial Examination.

He's a poor boy!

How can he be worthy of Princess Anyu?

I came to evaluate the candidates for the Ministry of Revenue,

not to choose a husband.

You'll have it if you choose one.

The eldest son of Taiyuan Bank

and Third Master Wan of the Dongting Chamber of Commerce,

they truly admire you.

So what if they're wealthy?

The combined wealth from the three of them

cannot be compared to Princess Anyu's!

The son of Marquis Dongping, Lord Han,

is good in both civil and military.

He has the perfect background.

He is a good match for Princess Anyu.

-He must be rich! -Mr. Feng is better!

-Lord Han is better! -The few of you

are chattering loudly.

Is this appropriate?

Gentlemen.

This thing in the portrait can be used as a staple food.

It can also be used in making dessert or wine, and grinding flour.

It can be planted in both north and south of the country.

Whoever can calculate

the costs and profits

of growing and selling this plant for a year,

I will choose him.

They're not diligent and can't differentiate the grains.

No wonder people say that scholars are useless.

I should just have you who is capable.

Tell them to leave.

Don't do this. You must choose one of them.

This is the Empress' order.

The cob is huge!

Whatever Su Su brings for us

is not a problem for me.

Hurry, get the corn.

I want to fry with this.

Lotus root and corn,

is it a good combination?

Two things that don't seem to match

will create a unique flavor when put together.

Don't you understand this?

I understand.

Just like us.

What are you talking about?

Nothing.

Whatever my wife says is right.

Stop flattering.

Hurry up. My grandma will be here soon.

Mother, you've been traveling for three months.

I'm bad as I didn't keep you company.

The next time you want to travel again,

why don't you wait for me to have days off so that I can travel with you?

Well, I'm healthy.

I have Tuo Niang taking care of me

so don't worry.

You've been promoted

and you're compiling scriptures and histories for His Majesty.

You don't have the time.

Filial piety comes first.

I have time to spend with you.

I just hope that

you won't think of me as an eyesore.

I heard that recently

many people from the imperial court wanted to help you find a partner.

But you rejected them.

I'm not young anymore.

Mother, stop arranging this for me.

Lately, I've been dreaming about Gu Qiu.

The magnolia tree in our old house,

it finally bloomed this year.

I made some magnolia wine.

If she was here,

she would definitely love it.

I told Shou Gu

to keep the matchmaking confidential.

How did you find out about it?

Great-grandma! Grandpa!

-My great-granddaughter. -My lovely granddaughter.

Great-grandma knew everything.

But Grandpa, you don't know that

Great-grandma has a spy in the residence.

Let me carry her.

Madam, didn't you buy a gift for her?

You're right.

My good great-granddaughter.

Let's go take a look, shall we?

Mother, what spy?

I bought a lot of specialties

This famous minister is known for his strong character

and living a frugal life.

The imperial court gave him a carriage

to make it easier for him to go to court.

But his son used his carriage secretly to go to school.

Yang Zhen shouted to stop the carriage

and reprimanded his son for using a court-issued carriage privately.

When he was young, he was too lazy to walk to school.

How could he endure hardship when he becomes an official?

Exactly!

That's right.

Knowledge comes from books

and the experience of the world.

An official should learn from his experience too.

For the people...

Jiang Shu.

When did Lian Jun leave?

(The Duke of Ding's Son) When you mentioned

"knowledge comes from books and the experience of the world",

Lian Jun slipped away.

She's just like her mother.

The flower is blossoming

and we have the wine with us.

What an unrestrained life!

We have the beautiful scenery for the outing.

Just what you asked for.

What about wine?

It has the fragrance of magnolia!

Where did you get this?

The wine your father made.

I took it secretly.

The injustice is cleared up

and our wish for a trip to the mountains has been fulfilled.

Shou Gu.

Let's make a new wish.

Sure!

Be loved up and stay together forever.

How's it?

Not so good.

My mother had the same book.

I don't want this.

My mother has told me

the story in the book.

It's not like what's written in your book.

You can't say that.

What's in this book

may have happened before.

Maybe there were some very great people in this world

who changed the fate of the people in this book.

Not only those people mentioned in the book,

they changed the fate of those people

who were not mentioned in the book too.

The fate of thousands of people in that land

was changed too.

So the book you read was different.

I don't understand.

I think you're a liar.

I'm leaving. Stop lying to children.

I'll tell my mother about you.

Wait a minute. Girl.

If you don't like the book just now,

besides "Nine-Layered Purple",

I have "Ten-Layered Purple" and "Eleven-Layered Purple".

Each book has a different ending.

Do you want to see other endings?