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[A Dream Within A Dream]

[Episode 3]

Jia Ruru,

are you really not

going to lock me up in a room

and beat me up?

What's going on?

Why aren't they moving?

Help! The script is killing me!

Miss Song fell into the water!

Seriously?

Taking my life again?

I've died so many times.

Nan Heng?

He looks exactly like Nan Feng.

The same smug look.

The same...

I'd rather be dead.

I'd sooner be drowned

than go through the plots with you.

It was His Highness's decision to jump?

Are you sure?

It is so

wise of His Highness.

How brilliant.

Yiting!

Yiting!

I heard someone fell into the water.

Are you okay?

I'm standing right here. Of course I'm fine.

It was my sister who fell into the water,

followed by the Seventh Prince.

Heng?

No way!

Did it really happen?

This is bad.

Here comes the iconic scene.

[A Dream of Qingning] [Scene 4, Episode 3]

Thank Your Highness

for saving my life.

Well, I need to be somewhere else.

I have to go now.

Song Yimeng,

I know

you deliberately fell into the water

to seduce the Seventh Prince!

I don't know what you're saying.

Let me go.

You want to leave?

Now you're scared, huh?

Remember what you just told me?

"Chu Guihong wants to marry me."

"So does the Seventh P..."

Yimeng,

what is this about?

How am I supposed

have the answer?

He's still putting on an act.

Fine.

I'll take a risk then.

This story line must end here.

What are you doing?

I just saved your life.

You saved my life?

Your Highness are approaching me

for a purpose, aren't you?

What?

It's true, isn't it?

You're aiming

for my family's power, aren't you?

Do you really think I'm ignorant?

Well said!

The Song sisters are unexpectedly

perceptive.

You mean I should

have just let you drown,

right?

Right.

A famous person once said,

"Do not try to help others.

Let their fate take its course."

Do you get it?

Okay.

When you're in danger next time,

I'll definitely not interfere.

There won't be a next time.

Your Highness and I

had better go our separate ways

and never see each other again.

Farewell!

Again?

Your Highness, what should we do now?

Wait. You...

Your Highness,

was it you

who saved my life?

I...

Gosh. What are you doing?

Your Highness,

I don't have

much to offer.

In order to

repay your kindness,

I'd like to marry you.

I...

Cut it out!

Overcranking?

Spotlights?

Arc shots?

Stupid scriptwriter,

I hate you!

What is going on?

Why can't I control my body?

♪ Look at the sky, flowers bloom and fragrance fills the air ♪

♪ The sound of heartbeats resonates in the passing time ♪

♪ Look at the way you're going, destiny has it all planned out ♪

His Highness seems to be enjoying it.

Is this part of his plan?

♪ We lead remarkable lives in this mundane world ♪

The Seventh Prince has lost his first kiss.

She got control of me.

Fugui,

take this vixen away!

Bah!

I'm the one being taken advantage of.

Your Highness seem distraught.

Was that your first kiss?

I...

That was Heng's first kiss?

Is it true?

So the God of Death is in fact an innocent boy.

How unbelievable. Someone at your age

should...

Get a move on! Shut up!

His Highness is a real Casanova!

Have you heard?

The Seventh Prince just lost his first kiss.

Who boldly took it?

Minister Song's older daughter.

Really?

This is only between you and me.

Don't tell anyone about it.

You have my word.

I promise not to leak it.

Is it true?

They just hit it off

and clicked right away?

Like two desperate people

who finally found love?

I saw it myself.

I swear it is true.

The Seventh Prince

has put Miss Song's fiancé, General Chu,

behind bars!

My goodness!

Sounds crazier than fictions!

Miss Song has a same hairpin.

That's what she attracted the God of Death with!

Our newly launched fragrance!

Boys will fall head over heals for you!

The rouge that charmed the Seventh Prince

was bought from me.

[Laiyi House]

This is what Miss Song used to take

the Seventh Prince's special something away!

What special something?

Are you saying what I'm thinking?

What else could it be?

That special

something!

What is it then?

You're gossiping outside Miss Song's house.

Don't you have work to do?

Behave like grownups,

you gossipers.

Get back to your work!

You are an actress

in a career upswing.

You merely did a kissing scene

with a co-star.

That's all.

Just a kissing scene.

No big deal, was it?

All actors have done it.

Right?

However, that co-star of yours

is a little...

perverted.

A scumbag, too.

He's a philanderer.

He plays hard to get.

He's a scheming seducer.

A duplicitous man.

A thug in disguise.

A heartless guy.

He's nothing!

Gosh.

I had never ever been

part of such a ridiculous drama.

What a humiliation.

Scriptwriter, can't you be nice to me?

To move the story along doesn't

mean to mistreat the actors, right?

[Erudition and Elegance]

My Lady,

did you really take the God of Death's

special something away?

Good heavens!

My Lady, what got into you?

How could you get involved with the Seventh Prince?

Don't you find yourselves fickle?

You're scared now.

Should I remind you

who insisted I go to the palace this morning?

It was her!

[Nan Heng] [Yingqiu] [Zhixia] [Coachman] [Guards]

Only I have read the script.

In other words,

I'm the only one who knows

what the story is about.

Despite the will of these characters,

they only exist to

assist in forging

[Nan Heng] [Yingqiu] [Zhixia] [Coachman] [Guards]

a relationship between me and Nan Heng.

They're just pawns.

Now I get it.

Going to the palace...

Falling into the water...

Being saved...

And that

uncontrollable kiss...

The script decides that those must happen.

[Iconic scenes in the script]

So, as the female lead,

I not only have to fight against

the male lead, but also the script?

[Seventh Prince's Mansion]

Your Highness,

about what happened in the royal garden,

I've issued a gag order.

Your Highness's reputation

won't be damaged.

If anyone...

Your Highness,

if anyone dares to talk about it again,

I will... I will...

Your Highness,

you must've caught a cold.

Come on.

Here.

Have some soup.

Your Highness,

that was a brilliant

trick of yours.

To enamor Miss Song,

you jumped into

the lake despite the cold.

Then, when everyone was watching,

though humiliated, you made a huge sacrifice

by sharing a dynamite kiss

with that girl, looking fully

rapt in the moment.

That nearly deceived me.

I didn't mean to do all that.

What I did ashore today

was not within my plan.

Then why did Your Highness...

Song Yimeng must have cast

some sort of an evil spell on me.

Your Highness,

was it you

who saved my life?

That explains everything.

Your Highness are a decent gentleman.

Why would you become completely

different when you saw that girl?

What should we do now?

Your Highness,

shall I invite some masters

over from Ziyun Temple

to perform exorcism?

It's no wonder that Chu Guihong

is still saving himself for her.

She must be a leprechaun.

Chu Guihong hasn't got married because of her?

Yeah. Just like us,

he's a sad single man.

Your Highness,

I mean...

When Miss Song was six years old,

Lord Qianyu arranged

for her to marry into the Chu family.

It was approved by the Emperor.

Your Highness were in the cold palace at that time,

so you didn't know about it.

The Chu family has been defending

the borders over all these years.

That arrangement was thought to have been cancelled.

However, for some reason,

Chu Guihong has never found himself

a wife or a concubine.

It seems like

he's waiting for Miss Song.

I didn't know that before.

Chu Guihong is obsessed with her then.

This can be

my opportunity.

Your Highness are saying...

Withdraw that gag order

about today's incident.

I want the news to reach every corner.

Got it!

Your Highness,

Chancellor Gao is back.

Uncle.

Your Highness.

Forgo the formalities.

Shouldn't you be in Huai region

working on disaster relief now?

Why did you suddenly come back?

I just got some news.

[Chancellor of Great Jing Dynasty] [Gao Changyin]

The Emperor has secretly asked the officials

in the Huai Region to help the Eighteenth Prince

and his supporters set up soup kitchens.

The Emperor is partial to him.

It's no secret.

No matter how many

battles I've won

or achievements I've made,

he wouldn't notice me.

That piece of news

is no surprise, is it?

Your Highness, do you have a plan?

My troops around the nation

and the 20,000 soldiers of my Xuanjia Army

are no less competent than Chu Guihong's Qianyu Army.

But the ancestors' guide

on the method of weapon forging

is in Chu Guihong's hands.

If Xuanjia Army has it,

we can better protect ourselves

or even...

start an uprising

with a higher

chance of winning.

Then I'll set up a trap again

to help Your Highness succeed.

Is there good news, Uncle?

In wartime, Chu Guihong

often wrote letters back

to the capital, to his fiancée.

On the eve of Pingrong Battle,

he even had an urgent letter

delivered to the capital.

I think

his fiancée

has the guide now.

You mean Song Yimeng?

You're acquainted with her?

She's more than an acquaintance.

Her father is the Minister of War.

I once planned to bond with Song Yude through her.

Little did I expect

that she'd bring me surprises.

Move the boxes inwards!

[Song Residence]

That's right!

Keep up, guys!

Hurry!

Yes, bring the cases in.

Three chests of art works.

Three chests of jewelry.

500 taels of gold.

[Laiyi House]

-A pair of jade coral. -So much money!

A jade decoration.

-Two boxes of pearls. -So many precious items!

[Laiyi House]

A night illuminating pearl.

A jade pendant.

Treasures!

Miss Song,

you must've been frightened yesterday.

His Highness would like you

to accept these humble gifts

and meet with him.

Are these all from Nan Heng?

I'm sorry.

I'm not a good fit for him.

Off you go!

Your Highness,

Miss Song declined the gifts

or to meet with you.

What should we do?

She's playing hard to get.

What a prude.

She can't stop me

from doing what I want.

[Day 1]

This one looks nice.

It seems good.

Quite nice.

This one is pretty.

Sir,

what are you doing?

Nan Heng?

Hurry up.

♪ Candied haws are wonderful ♪

Let's go.

♪ Candied haws, we're proud of you ♪

♪ Candied haws are wonderful ♪

[Day 2]

♪ Candied haws, we're proud of you ♪

Thank you, sir.

No problem.

Candied haws on a stick!

♪ They say the Seventh Prince is a god in the story ♪

Candied haws on a stick!

♪ They say the Seventh Prince is already yours ♪

♪ Seventh Prince, how much do you love me? ♪

♪ They say the Seventh Prince is already yours ♪

What?

Why is he everywhere?

I won't eat candied haws again.

I won't!

[Day 3]

The Seventh Prince wrote a new poem again.

Have you memorized it?

A new poem again?

Yes.

Have you heard?

The Seventh Prince's Xuanjia Army makes

candied haws every day.

I'm not hearing any of that.

♪ Candied haws are wonderful ♪

I'm not hearing anything.

♪ Candied haws, we're proud of you ♪

It can't bother me.

I'm not hearing anything.

Seventh Prince!

♪ Candied haws are wonderful ♪

Seventh Prince!

♪ Candied haws, we're proud of you ♪

Seventh Prince!

Seventh Prince!

Little birdie,

♪ They say the Seventh Prince is a god in the story ♪

what's wrong with you?

Seventh Prince!

♪ They say the Seventh Prince is already yours ♪

God,

♪ Seventh Prince, how much do you love me? ♪

I don't want to be with the male lead.

♪ Here I present you the yummy candied haws! ♪

Is it too much to ask?

Spill it.

What do you want me to do now, Mom?

Aren't you ashamed to ask that?

Song Yimeng

had the guts to entice the God of Death.

What did I

tell you before the party?

I asked you to get the Eighteenth Prince's attention.

The entire country sees him as an auspicious symbol.

The Emperor values him as the heir to the throne.

Can you possibly find

a better husband than him?

I'm talking to you.

I have

figured out where the Eighteenth Prince

will be in the coming days.

Why don't you doll up, go out,

and pretend to run into him?

Don't bother.

I've made up my mind.

I will never

get married.

Song Yiting,

you're not getting any younger.

You think I can provide for you forever?

Listen up,

you must take action now

before all

the eligible bachelors are taken.

You'll regret it

when everything's too late!

What?

Shannai, Yinzhu,

let's go.

Yes.

Song Yiting!

What is this?

[Closing the doors, I receive no guests] [Looking at the sky, I lean by the bamboo with pride]

I can't write poems,

but I can tame my husband.

[Song Residence]

Your Highness,

Miss Song really is sick.

This is His Highness's tenth visit.

Miss Song has been sick in seven of them.

That day, in the royal garden,

I didn't see

Miss Song was so delicate.

She caught a cold today.

The weather's been bad.

Bring it up.

Whether it's a cold or diarrhea,

minor injuries

or deficiency of Qi and blood,

or a fatal disease,

I've prepared the medicines for all of them.

What else can you say?

Let me tell you.

The rumor about what happened in the royal garden has gone viral.

Your young mistress refused to meet with us.

She just doesn't want to

be responsible for His Highness, does she?

Did he really say that?

The Seventh Prince also said,

"Today,

I will see her no matter what.

Tell her to give up her struggle

and stop resisting.

Otherwise,

she'll never be able to clear her name

for tarnishing the reputation of a good prince."

Isn't that blackmailing?

I've never seen

such a shameless person.

If he were put in modern times,

he would be really good at

staging a showmance.

[Salted Fish Escape Plan]

That's odd.

There's no plot

of his passionately pursuing me here.

Is it the script playing tricks again—

forcing a romantic subplot

between the leads?

Miss.

Miss.

Miss.

Bad news.

The Seventh Prince and his men broke in.

You two, cover for me.

I'm outta here.

Miss,

Master wants to see you.

The Seventh Prince is also there.

Mr. Song, have you recovered from your cold?

Yes, I just got over it.

White tea is brewed with snow water,

mixed with Evodia fruit and dried tangerine peel.

You have a good taste, Mr. Song.

The water was from the jar of snow

I collected in the plum woods outside the city

the year it snowed heavily.

I knew Your Highness were coming today,

so I asked someone to take the jar out from underground.

Your Highness,

try this tea.

It's ambrosia that has been sealed for three years.

It is indeed ambrosia.

Everyone says that the Seventh Prince has great military merits

and uncommon perspectives.

I didn't expect you also excel in

these refined pastimes of winter.

My daughter is different.

All she knows is fooling around all day.

She never behaves properly.

I put well water and water from the sky

in front of her at the same time,

and she couldn't tell the difference!

It seems that Your Highness and my daughter

are like clouds and mud.

I can't agree with that, Mr. Song.

I've seen many beautiful girls,

but I'm only into

Miss Song's natural

and uncarved personality.

How can a favored man like you

be mentioned in the same breath as an ordinary woman like my daughter?

You will achieve great things in the future,

but my family...

I'm not young anymore.

I'm afraid

that when I'm six feet under,

our family will have nothing to help you.

There are things,

Your Highness,

that you have to have other plans with.

Miss Song and I

love each other.

Why did you talk about helping me?

However,

I deeply appreciate your love for your daughter.

So, rest assured.

As long as you are willing to

leave your daughter in my care,

when you pass away,

I will take care of the Song family.

Isn't this

a win-win situation?

You... Well…

Father.

Your Highness.

Yimeng.

Come, sit down.

Miss Song, has your cold

recovered, too?

Your Highness,

the cold did get better,

but I'm left with this ailment

of coughing.

That's why I dare not

go out recently.

What's going on?

Didn't the script say

they never got along?

Why did he invite Nan Heng to sit here?

Yimeng,

didn't you say

there was a misunderstanding between you two in the royal garden?

I invited His Highness here today

so that you can explain everything

with him face to face.

I can't agree with that, Mr. Song.

That day, the shore was crowded with onlookers.

Miss Song and I

love each other.

There's no misunderstanding.

Your Highness, this isn't something to say without thinking.

My daughter

has been engaged to Chu since childhood.

She has always abided by the rules.

The rules are rigid,

but people are alive and should be flexible.

But we can't let

the living people be drowned

by other people's slander.

So,

my daughter

dare not have any feelings

toward Your Highness.

So, Your Highness,

please don't take it the wrong way.

Come on.

Have some tea.

Have some tea.

So, Mr. Song, do you mean

I think too much?

Yimeng,

who is right between me and His Highness?

Miss Song,

tell us.

This is an EQ question.

Miss Song.

That day,

I saved you from the lake.

But if you don't remember

what happened on the shore,

I don't mind describing it

for Mr. Song.

Your Highness is wise.

Thank you for saving me

in the loyal garden that day.

It's a blessing for me.

Your Highness,

what you have done for me these days,

I'm really grateful.

I'll never forget your kindness.

It's just that…

love

can't be forced.

Just take what I did that day as

an act of drunken recklessness.

My mind was fogged.

Just consider it

a mistake that most women would make.

But I also have something

to ask you.

You're obviously skilled in martial arts

and invincible,

but why did you let me

molest you in public?

You didn't take the initiative,

but you didn't refuse

or take responsibility, either.

Is it that

you want to make

the mistake that every man would make?

Why does Yimeng behave like a different person?

So,

it takes two to tangle.

I

might be a player,

but Your Highness,

you seem to be one, too.

But don't worry.

I'm not the kind of woman

who cries and threatens to hang herself

to force the man to take responsibility.

When the fleeting passion

fades,

let it fade.

From now on,

let's just

go our separate ways.

How is it, Your Highness?

This should break

the romantic subplot with him, right?

Don't get drunk again.

Do you hear me?

Your Highness.

The misunderstanding has been cleared up.

Here.

Have some tea.

Have some tea.

Mr. Song,

since it's a misunderstanding,

it's great that it's solved now.

I won't bother you then.

Miss Song,

can you see me out?

No, this is not appropriate, Your Highness.

We have just made this clear.

Others would gossip again.

Yimeng,

all who come are treated as guests.

His Highness is so very understanding.

Besides,

refined people like us

can't be rude.

Please, Your Highness.

Your Highness,

Miss Song doesn't seem to play hard to get.

She really doesn't like you.

Shut up.

What a waste of my delicacies.

Fugui.

Go ahead and watch for me.

I have something

to tell Miss Song.

I don't think it's necessary.

We've said

all that we should say, haven't we?

You...

What do you want?

I just want to see

what will happen.

That day,

you controlled me.

Am I right?

I...

You were under…

control, too?

"Too"?

Stop pretending.

Say it.

You played tricks to control me.

What is your agenda?

I...

I don't understand what you're talking about.

I saved you when you fell into the water that day.

You didn't appreciate it.

But then you threw yourself into my arms on the shore.

And now "misunderstanding" is your excuse

for turning me down?

What?

Do I look like a fool?

No, Your Highness.

This really is a misunderstanding.

It's true.

Your Highness!

This is where the Minister of War…

Say it!

How can I explain it?

If I tell him it's the script's setting

and the romantic subplot between the leads

or it's the iconic scene mechanism,

he'll stab me now.

Say it!

Okay.

Okay, I will, Your Highness.

Calm down. Calm down.

I'll tell you everything.

Actually...

Actually it's all because of...

well,

Mr. Screenwriter.

Mister…

Screenwriter?

Yes.

It's Mr. Screenwriter.

This is

a mysterious power from the ancient east.

He knows everything

and can control

everyone's life, death, pain, and joy.

If you

really can't understand,

you can take him

as Bodhisattva,

God of Earth,

Buddha, or any other god.

The point is

he sent me many dreams.

They were all about you.

So, Your Highness,

I came to this world

to help you succeed.

We are on the same side.

God?

Sent you dreams?

Keep lying.

I'm not making up stories.

When you were nine,

did the emperor leave you in the cold palace or not?

You had chilblains on your hands and feet,

but he turned a blind eye.

At the age of ten,

you fell victim to a plot

while training in martial arts.

Your right arm

was fractured in three places

and nearly ended up disabled.

Am I right,

Okay.

When you were 12, there was a drought in the capital.

Then, you were in the cold palace,

you had absolutely nothing to eat.

At that critical moment,

wasn't it the grass in the yard that saved your life?

Fine.

Those are just anecdotal rumors

about the palace.

Ask any of the old eunuchs

and they'll tell you.

Fine.

If you don't believe any of those,

what about what happened between you and Chu Guihong?

You two

had been best friends since childhood.

[Chu Guihong (as a child)]

[Nan Heng (as a child)]

But because of the death of the late Empress,

you two fell apart

and became enemies.

I know all of it.

Really, I know everything.

I also know

you've been through a lot,

but no matter how hard you try,

the world only sees you as God of Death

and someone evil.

Even His Majesty

has never even spared you a proper glance,

because all he sees is

that Eighteenth Prince, Nan Rui.

That's why you're feeling wronged.

That's why you want to revolt.

That's why you want to take back

everything that should've been yours in the first place!

Am I right,

Your Highness?

I really underestimated you.

Who told you these things?

Chu Guihong,

Song Yude,

or someone else?

Wait, bro.

You don't believe in anything.

You're just being a troll now, huh?

What exactly do you want to hear?

What on earth do you want?

What does he want?

[A Dream of Qingning, Scene 29, Episode 38]

What exactly do you want?

Within three days,

I want you to hand in all the letters

between Song Yimeng

and Chu Guihong.

Otherwise…

Letters?

What exactly are you looking for?

The method of weapon forging.

The method of weapon forging.

The method of weapon forging.

Am I right, Your Highness?

Now, you should

trust me?

Miss Song, do you know what you're talking about?

Of course I know what I'm talking about.

The method of weapon forging

of the Qianyu Army.

Your Highness.

If you want to find it,

I can help you get it.

Really.

Nan Heng.

It's better to have one more ally than enemy.

I can really help you get it.

Can...

Can...

Can you let me go first?

Please.

Fine.

What happened today

is a secret between you and me.

From now on,

you and I are allies.

Miss Song, I'll count on you

to help me in the future.

Don't worry, Your Highness.

I will. I will.

For sure.

[Song Residence]

The method of weapon forging.

The method of weapon forging.

The method of weapon forging.

Where can I find the method of weapon forging?

It's clearly written in the script

that it's in the letters Chu Guihong wrote to me.

But the rich family has so big a mansion.

It will take me forever to find it!

[Dear Yimeng, Heyuan people frequently cause trouble at the border these days]

Chu Guihong

is not a general

but a writer, isn't he?

He wrote so much!

[The Method of Weapon Forging]

I found it!

Come on, Mr. Screenwriter.

If you can't write,

you can just quit.

Now, you're killing me!

Miss, what happened?

Nothing.

You guys…

go get me a grave plot.

Instead of having all my limbs cut off,

I'd rather kill myself.

Your Highness.

We've got the news.

Ten years ago,

when Chu Guihong went to the border on a military expedition,

it was Miss Song who saw him off in person.

Since then, they've corresponded with each other every month.

Before, in the capital,

Miss Song

lived in seclusion.

She didn't have many friends.

And she didn't get along with her sister.

Say something useful.

Miss Song

rarely came to the palace.

And we didn't find

she's ever paid any attention to your news.

What she said today

is probably true.

I don't buy into

all the supernatural stuff,

but a young lady who lives in seclusion

knows so much about me.

She even knows about my great cause.

Who is she loyal to?

Nan Rui

or His Majesty?

No matter who she is loyal to,

that mouth of hers

is better to be shut.