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[Novoland: Eagle Flag]

[Based on a fiction by Jiang Nan]

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[Episode 25]

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Is it time yet?

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There's still three minutes to go.

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Pull him up to check.

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You are really not afraid of death?

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For now...

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I can't die.

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I still have someone to kill.

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You said you are here in the capital to kill someone?

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It was the previous person...

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who was in-charge of this prison.

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My mother and I suffered under his extreme bullying and humiliation.

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Mother.

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Mother!

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Release my mother.

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Mother!

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Release my mother!

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I will never spare anyone who caused my mother to suffer.

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You are a soldier from Lower Tang.

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How could you have spent time in this prison?

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I...

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I was born in the capital. When I was young, a misfortune occurred in my family.

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Father left with the main wife and my younger brother.

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He didn't remember to take my mother and me along with him.

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When we were caught, we lived in this place.

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This place won't drown me.

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I was imprisoned in this Water Prison.

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Main wife?

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Are you the illegitimate child of a concubine?

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Yes, I'm an illegitimate child.

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You said that you are here in the capital to kill someone.

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You must live.

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Even if you pay a heavy price,

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you must live.

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Your Highness, what are you looking for?

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Our Dali Temple has preserved the dossiers of seven hundred years of the Great Yin dynasty.

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Within the last 20 years, I want to see any file that contains a "Ji" character.

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Why are you still standing here?

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Look for it!

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- Yes.

- Yes.

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Look for it now.

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This is not it. Look for it in the front.

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I found it. I found it!

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I found it.

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Prefecture Princess.

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Prefecture Princess.

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Sun Zhimiao?

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It's Sir Sun. He achieved excellent at work,

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and has been promoted to the Treasury Department.

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There are no records of that woman's final outcome in here.

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No records? She's probably dead.

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Dead?

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How did she die?

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We don't continue to pursue the cases of criminals in Dali Temple.

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Bring a brazier here.

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Prefecture Princess, this is the only copy.

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I'm warning you. It's best that you see this and forget it.

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If not, I will dig out your eyes.

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Prefecture Princess, spare our lives.

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Lord.

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Go in. Let her eat something to boost her health.

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Yes.

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Eat this.

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Lord.

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Send her back to the prison later.

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Lord has a charitable heart.

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You always tell me to deliver food to her when you are done with her.

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Back then, I was just a prison guard.

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There was a woman who was quite pretty.

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Every time we finished, she would ask me for a bowl of chicken soup and a drumstick.

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The women in prison are really pitiful.

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Sir, today is the day to open the private treasury.

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You should leave.

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All right, I know.

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Auntie, why did you ask me to be here?

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You told me to come, but won't speak to me.

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What are you writing?

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You are writing a letter to His Lordship?

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We should tell him about the situation here.

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You are telling him about your situation instead.

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You always seem so stern but you are so warm and gentle towards him.

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This is just like how the Crown Prince treats you too.

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It's a huge world and there are different kinds of people.

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It's not easy to find someone who's warm and gentle with you.

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You should cherish him.

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Why do you always mention the Crown Prince?

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Do you think Asule and I must be like you and His Lordship? Using each other for mutual benefits?

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Is this how you think of my relationship with His Lordship?

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You are his new bride.

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He has weak health, of course you should take good care of him.

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Take this gold tally. It will make it easy for you to enter the Grand Qing Palace.

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So Auntie called me here today is to send me to Grand Qing Palace?

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Auntie, do you really care about Asule's health,

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or, you only care about Lower Tang and Qingyang's stupid alliance?

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I'll tell you. I care about both.

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You are his wife and he is my niece's husband, of course I worry about his health.

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But it also involved Lower Tang's future.

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Since you care about him so much,

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then you go stay by his side.

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Yu Ran.

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I'll make it clear to you today.

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Asule is my friend.

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I only care about whether he lives well.

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If you want to use me to control him,

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you should kill that idea.

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I know the person you really care about is that kid Ji Ye.

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That's the most difficult rope to untie in this world.

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It's when one person cares about another.

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Often times we can't do what we want.

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Ye'er.

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Ye'er.

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Ye'er.

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You must stay alive.

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No matter how great the cost,

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you must stay alive.

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Your Majesty.

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Today is the day to open the treasury.

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Have you prepared the 20,000 taels of gold, Your Majesty?

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Lord Li, please stay calm and not rush.

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What I promised, I will surely have it done.

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Sun Zhimiao.

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You are the official at the Treasury Department.

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in charge of coin minting and related matters.

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You are most familiar with the reserve in the private treasury.

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I now order you to prepare carriage and horses,

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to carry all the reserved money in front of the grand hall

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for the Lord of Li State to inspect personally.

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I shall obey.

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However, this private treasury

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is owed by the royal family, not just myself.

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So I would ask my Aunt to provide the other key.

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Ning Qi.

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I, Sun Zhimiao, shall carry out your command.

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Within two hours, I will complete the mission.

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Your Majesty, Grand Princess, and Lord of Li State, please wait for a short while.

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I will take my leave.

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Get up.

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Go.

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Master, same as before, 100 pieces of rice cakes.

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Princess, you are really benevolent. Those children have lost their parents,

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but luckily they have you and His Majesty. This is the kindest grace from Heaven.

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It's my brother's idea. I'm just doing it for him.

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Today is the day when my brother opens the treasury for Ying Wuyi,

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so he can't come. I'll go see the children for him.

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His Majesty is opening the private treasury for my sake.

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I feel indebted.

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Crown Prince, you shouldn't feel so indebted.

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Ying Wuyi was simply using a scapegoat.

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Do you really think he would left my brother off if he didn't have you?

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The Thunder Calvary is getting more arrogant than ever.

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Princess Little Zhou,

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when I left this morning, Yu Ran asked me to do a few things for her.

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Untie him.

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You can all leave.

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If anyone eavesdrops, he'll lose his ear.

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- Yes.

- Yes.

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Aren't you afraid

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that I'll use you as a hostage again?

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Why would you?

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The oldest son of Ji family in Revelation City is a descendant of a noble family.

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Why would you do anything that is ungrateful?

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Besides, I have a gift to give you.

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How did you find out?

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I went to the Ministry of Justice to check your file.

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Fourteen years ago, the emperor announced the Heavenly Samurai Regiment as insurgents.

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A Ji family was affected by connection.

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This family has had Samurai for generations. Even the descendants were low-keyed in style,

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their identity was dug up by troublemakers.

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Ji family's patriarch found out about it in advance.

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He escaped with his family in a hurry.

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But he left behind a lowly concubine

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and the son that she bore.

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Mother and son were imprisoned in the Ministry of Justice.

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The Ministry of Justice's prison.

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Even adults often go in but never come out.

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A child...

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how did he stay alive?

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It's because he had a beautiful mother.

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Shut up!

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Don't talk anymore.

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You need to listen.

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Don't you want to know the truth from back then?

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You were still young, didn't know much.

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You've always suspected but can't be sure, right?

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So I questioned Sun Zhimiao's housekeeper.

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The housekeeper keeps visiting the prison.

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He would bring out some female prisoners who were pretty.

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He said his master has an unusual hobby.

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He likes to molest female prisoners.

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Even though he is now a high official, and there are pricey prostitutes who would love to appease him,

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but he always says these women aren't good enough

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and won't let him do as he pleases.

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The housekeeper also said, Sun Zhimiao has a strange habit even to this day.

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Every time he finishes molesting a female prisoner,

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he would let someone give her

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a braised chicken drumstick.

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The reason is that the woman that had fully satisfied him before

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always asked for food after they finished.

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I think that woman was trying to keep her son alive.

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Otherwise, how could such a small boy

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stay alive until now?

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Sun Zhimiao is here.

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That's the gift I'm giving you.

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Stop!

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Charge!

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What's going on?

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Please relay this report. Sun Zhimiao's caravan has run into an assassination. Many guards are dead or injured.

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Your Majesty! Something bad happened!

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Why are you so flustered?

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According to troop report, treasury official Sun Zhimiao,

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on this way back, he encountered an assassin.

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What? Who is that brave?!

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How is Lord Sun?

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We don't know yet but it wasn't easy for Guard Jinwu to escape back to the palace.

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He's injured and has lost consciousness.

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You...

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Who are you? Are you crazy?

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You even dared to rob a Treasurer's official carriage?

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Robbing a Treasurer's official carriage is a death sentence!

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You...

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Kill him!

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Someone! Where are you?

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Someone! Save me!

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Someone!

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Don't come near me.

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I will give you whatever you want.

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Someone's life is in danger.

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Over there.

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Over there. Let's go.

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Over there.

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Spare me and I will give you gold.

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I will give you an official post.

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When you submerge my mother in water then,

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did you ever think of sparing her?

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Did you?!

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You...you are that woman's child.

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Did you ever spare her?!

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Stop!

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Ji Ye?

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What are you doing in the capital?

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Why are you killing him in the street?

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He deserved to die.

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There must be a misunderstanding.

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You are not one to kill innocent people.

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Come with me!

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There is no mistake. I am the kind to kill innocent people.

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This eagle is finally ready.

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Ji Ye.

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Let's go.

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Yu Ran is here in the capital.

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Don't you want to see her?

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Move aside!

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Move aside! Everyone, move aside!

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What's going on?

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To answer Your Majesty, First Princess.

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Treasurer Sun Zhimiao was just killed by someone in the street.

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What's going on with all those bricks?

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Could it be that when the the assassin killed Lord Sun, the gold was secretly replaced?

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Crown Prince, what are you doing here? What did you personally witnessed?

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Your Majesty, I was just passing by. I don't know what happened.

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I am honored by Your Majesty.

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and opened his personal warehouse.

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Everyone in Li state is extremely grateful.

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But how did the gold ingots turned into bricks?

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Your Majesty, this joke has gone overboard.

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The military expenses that I requested from you, it's not for my personal stash.

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I have exerted my strength and wisdom,

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in order to help Your Majesty in the Northern Expedition and clear away all the treacheries in the Bai family.

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Now that this has happened, how do you expect me to go on the expedition?

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I can only remain in Revelation City

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and slowly raise the fund for the military expense.

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Don't worry. I burned the dossier in Dali Temple.

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It will be incinerated soon.

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The past will be forgotten.

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You only need to remember that you have a good mother.

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And what she did for you.

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But I remember. I remember everything.

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My father usually says that it's hard to remember people who are too good.

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It's said that Revelation City is the core of the Nine States.

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I don't see anything great about it.

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The twisted milk sugar in this shop is really good.

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When you drink a cup of warm tea with it, your mood will feel better.

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Wait here.

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Good. Please come again.

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Welcome, Miss! What do you want to buy?

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Give me half a box of sticky rice balls and half a box of twisted milk sugar.

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Just these only!

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Help the lady package these.

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Here are your items.

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Wow Miss, you are really generous.

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Take care!

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Here.

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Only the capital has such good stuff.

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Aren't you happy now that you've revenged?

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Didn't I already say? If you don't have strength and power in this world, then you have nothing.

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That Sun guy deserved to die.

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But if not for me, then at this time you would be on the run.

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If you were caught, the lightest sentence is execution.

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I know all that.

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How do I think you?

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No need to thank me.

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I have my purpose to help you.

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What's purpose?

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My father regards you highly. There aren't many such people.

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He said that some day, when you become a strong general, you can go fight with him for the world.

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That means you are qualified to become his enemy.

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My father will rule all nine states.

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His enemy is someone who will work for me or die.

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You want me to work for you, but my family is in South Huai.

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If I pledge allegiance to you, my family will suffer.

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Pledge allegiance?

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It's not enough to pledge allegiance. I want you to be my slave.

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Your slave?

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I am the Prefecture Princess of Li State, there are plenty of braves who will be my slaves.

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I am not using your gratitude to get something from you.

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To be my slave,

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finish three missions for me.

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You can do whatever you want before you finish those missions, I won't care.

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Once you finish the missions, you can go wherever you want,

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I won't care, either.

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What if you don't let me finish those missions?

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I would be stuck forever.

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Then maybe someone I'll get into a good mood, lose interest in you, and just set you free?

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Alright.

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There are only 300 men in my father's Thunder Brave Camp.

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but they dared to charge at 3,000-men Iron Calvary.

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The first mission that I want you to do is

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to join the Thunder Brave Camp.

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Everyone there wears a mask, so should you.

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Then no one will recognize you as the older son of Ji family.

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From today on, you are my slave.

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Why are you here?

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I saw Ji Ye just now.

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How is that possible? Isn't he in the border troops?

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He is in the capital now.

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An official was assassinated in the street just now.

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The killer is Ji Ye.

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Why did he kill the official?

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I don't know either.

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I asked him, but he wouldn't say.

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Then where is he now?

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This is an arrow belonging to Perfecture Princess Ying Yu of Li State.

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Ji Ye left with her.

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So the hero that killed Sun Zhimiao turns out to be my precious daughter.

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With Sun Zhimiao's position, he wouldn't have offended you.

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Why did you kill him?

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He is an animal hidden under righteous exterior.

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Ever since he was in charge of the prison, his favorite hobby was to molest female prisoners.

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Then he is despicable and deserves to die.

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This can't be your only reason to kill him, right?

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He is also Ji Ye's enemy for revenge.

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Who is Ji Ye?

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He's the one that you said would become a strong general before the battle at the old monument.

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The one that you tied up and brought over?

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Yes.

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Father, haven't you always taught me to conquer someone's heart in order to conquer the person?

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I beat that rascal for half a month, he never...

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he never said one word to beg.

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So I wondered, how do I conquer his heart?

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I learned that he had an enemy at the capital.

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He came to the capital in order to kill that enemy.

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It's Sun Zhimiao. So I personally devised a plan to let him carry out his revenge.

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Of course he obediently became my slave.

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Alright, no more on that matter.

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There is something else. After the carriage was turned over,

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did anyone replace the gold ingots?

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It was all under my watch. Who dared to?

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Alright,

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you can leave.

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Who dares to intrude into the Lord of Li State's manor?

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I admire your guts.

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Come on out by yourself.

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I might not kill you.

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This manor is not different from a military camp. No one would use fragrance.

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You may not be able to smell your own fragrance, but I can.

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Come on out!

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I didn't expect the Li State's Prefecture Princess has a nose like a canine's.

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What's going on?

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You are from Lower Tang.

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Your clothing style is Baili family's.

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Your position must be pretty high in Lower Tang.

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I am Prefecture Princess Yu Ran of Lower Tang.

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What can you do with me?

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You are Bailing Jinghong's daughter?

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I am not his daughter.

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If he didn't beg me, I wouldn't have wanted to become a prefecture princess.

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Like I thought. Baili Jinghong is so ugly,

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how could he have fathered such a pretty daughter?

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Besides, the personality is very different.

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As a prefecture princess, you intruded into my residence,

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are you here to spy on me?

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What nonsense is that?

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Your daughter captured my friend.

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I am here to find my friend.

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We have a dungeon at the manor. In it are soldiers who have violated military rules

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as well as spies who mixed in here.

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I admire this little prefecture princess's guts.

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Go. Find your friend.

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If he didn't commit a big crime, take him away.

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But he is not a soldier or a spy.

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What is his name?

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His name is Ji Ye.

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Ji Ye?

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We do have someone named Ji Ye,

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but he is my slave.

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He is not anyone's slave.

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He is my slave!

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Go find him. If you find him, I'll let you take him away.

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At the Li State's Thunder Brave Camp, every brave is a slave.

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From the moment they enter the camp, they are not called by their names.

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They are called numbers like 65, 89, etc.

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When one dies in battle, another takes his place.

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The new one inherits his predecessor's mask.

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I threw that Ji Ye into this camp.

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Go look around. If you find him, you can take him away.

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Line up!

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♫ The scars in the world number one person's life burn the armor in the sunset ♫

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♫ There is no more worry in my heart ♫

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♫ What should I sacrifice my precious life to? ♫

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♫ I want to defend for your strength of character and revere our luxuriant homeland ♫

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♫ I want to defend for your smooth future ♫

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♫ We are brothers in life or death ♫

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♫ I want to defend for your tears and dance with you in this mundane world ♫