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There is a secret place in this palace that

has been known by word-of-mouth of every emperors

I never thought

to make use of it even once in my life

but I never expect...

Do you know

where Empress Dowager Dexuan was buried?

According to the royal protocol,

she should be buried in the imperial mausoleum

Empress Dowager Dexuan

is the mother of the emperors Suzong and Gaozong

in the past, in his scramble for the throne

Suzong murdered Gaozong, his elder brother

Empress Dowager Dexuan left the palace in a fury

and lived in seclusion in Ci'an Temple

So Suzong approved Ci'an Temple the title of royal temple

Empress Dowager left her last word on the deathbed

that she was not entitled to be buried in the imperial mausoleum

Without any other choice,

Suzong ordered to secretly built the underground palace to bury Her Highness in Ci'an Temple

Uncle is saying that

there is an underground palace in Ci'an Temple

This underground palace

has two exits

one is in Ci'an Temple

while the other

is right here

Shiqian Hall

You mean

We can run out?

Not us

but you

Your Highness,

What's going on?

Nothing

It seems that the princess has been playing chess with the emperor.

Playing chess?

Yes

Sister Awu

What's the result?

Zilv,

Though His Majesty is not your own father

But for the sake of

his raising for over twenty years

Please be kind to him

OK

I'll do you such favor

As long as your uncle would like to take my advice

I know what to do

Anybody?

Yes

Send Princess back to Fengchi Palace

Yes

Your majesty,

How was your talk with Awu?

What's the result?

Present to His Majesty

Yes

Your Majesty, please

I am tired today

Your Majesty

Are your teasing me?

Do you want to tease me?

I just feel tired

Your Majesty

Now

what's the point for you to make meaningless struggles?

Or you may think

there might be a turn for the better

if you delay purposely

You can rest assured that

I will give you what you want

but...

But what?

I know what's in your head

The day when you get the edict

there won't be two emperors at the same time

It will be the day of my death

Being on guard all the time

I feel tired of living any longer like this.

Your Majesty

If so,

why don't you write the edict？

Or you want to protect someone

by holding off the edict？

If that is what your are planning to do

you must be disappointed

Too much you're thinking

I don't even have time to care about myself

let alone the others

I'm doing this only for myself

Though I've been the emperor for years

I've never enjoyed a peaceful day

So I want to ask for another three days from you

Three peaceful days

Playing chess with Awu

Taking some walk in the Royal Garden

Standing on the gatehouse

to take look at the rivers and mountains

Three days later

I will make the edict available

and give up the throne to you

Why would I listen to you?

Please, I beg you

What did he say?

Your Majesty

His Majesty said

He begs you

Your Majesty, you are begging me?

You are the emperor

Emperor

Your Majesty

If one day

I beg you this same way

would you forgive me?

I would

Because anyway

you're my son that

I raised for over twenty years

You'll have three more days

Your Majesty

You're taking the wrong way

This is not the way back to Fengchi Palace

I can't even go to Zhaoyang Hall to

see the empress ?

You Highness, please don't make things difficult for us

Besides

Her Majesty is not here

Where's she gone?

Empress and Crown Prince

have been put into prison by the Second Prince

Why are there still palace staff going in and out?

It is the Princess Wang

who is living here

Your Highness

Stand up

Well arranged

All are arranged at your disposal, Your Highness

Wedding things for Your Highness

Where's the phoenix robe?

It still needs some time

Three days

Three days later

I must see the phoenix robe by then

Yes

You're back

Mi'er

Why do you look unhappy?

Is that because they didn't do things well?

Not them

Him

He begged me just now

Who is he?

Father

No.

Now I can only address him His Majesty

or Emperor

Mi'er

Don't worry about me

I'm just too tired

Having planned for such a long time

Those I want to seek revenge on

are still all alive

That makes me a bit impatient

Second Prince is not a simple person

You schemed to murder Zitan

and brought disaster to others

and stirred up the fight between the Wang and Xie family.

On the wedding night,

you helped Lord Yuzhang to leave the capital city

You colluded with King Jianning

and started the Huizhou rebel

You're really not simple.

What a pity

Prime Minister just knew all these too late

Yes

Half step late

A half step?

A half step of vital importance

However, Prime Minister

might have not expected that

the most wrong thing you've ever done

is to have a woman named Huan Mi

married to your son

Mi'er?

Zilv,

what have you done to Mi'er?

Mi'er

You are not in a position to call her Mi'er

Do you think

your family could bully me

just because you took my woman?

You dirty scum

Zilv,

You should come at me

It is me who arranged the marriage between Huan Mi and Su-er

You just come at me

I know you like her

So I took her away from you

Prime Minister

do you really think that I dare not do anything about you?

Be patient

for the moment

I don't want you to die

In a few days

I'll have a feast

for you, Prime Minister

Till then,

you would rather

die than stay alive

Su-er

Keep in mind

For today's disgrace

one day

I will let him to double pay back

Keep in mind

I will kill him

They've fallen sleep

It is an emergency

Your Highness,

Your Highness

What's wrong?

It's fine

Take it easy

Your Highness

What?

Your Highness

His Majesty became ill

all of a sudden

He's ill?

He was good in the day time

What trick is he playing?

Where's the imperial physician?

Checked by the imperial physician

The imperial physician said His Majesty is having Qi stagnation in his heart

and is having a fever

Medicine prescribed for His Majesty

But...

Say it!

But His Majesty wouldn't take medicines

saying someone would hurt him

Since Eunuch Xue is no more around

His Majesty only takes the medicines fed by Princess Yuzhang

and he wouldn't let anyone

to be around him

There's nothing else I can do

That's why I bothered your Highness

It's not surprised that he is on such alert

You go and invite Princess Yuzhang to take care of him

Yes

Hold on

Don't allow both of them to step out of the palace, not a single step

Offenders

Whomever it is

Must be dead.

Yes

Changing my clothes

Yes

Keep in mind

For today's disgrace

one day

I will let him to double pay back

How are you taking care of His Majesty?

Awu is here

Your majesty,

Please take your medicine

You are still so kind to my uncle

Of course

He is my father

Within three days,

I won't allow any mishap to him

All of you just leave

How could his majesty take good rest

with so many people around him?

I will stay and take care of him on my own

Then

Thank you Awu

Without seeing you

my uncle may get better faster

You have to get back to the palace before dawn

Otherwise,

once Zilu found that you are not in the palace

all will be dead

Remember

the tiger-shaped tally is right inside the animal head sculpture

at the foot of the Buddha wall

Hold it.

Just go and return soon

Axu

Axu

Your Highness, what's the matter?

I seem to have heard

Awu is calling me

Your Highness must be missing Princess

How could she be here

in the middle of the night?

Your Highness

Or tomorrow I'll go to the palace

to invite Princess here to meet you

The daughter that you gave birth to after ten month's pregnancy

No matter how the empress likes her

she has no reason to seize her so tight

Mother

Awu

Your Majesty

Aunt Xu

Your Highness, it is Awu

Awu

Mother

What's wrong?

What did you say?

Zilv rebelled?

I never expected that

Zilv

provoked such an accident

Mother, there's not much time left

I need to go to the barracks in the western suburbs

and I have to get back to the palace before dawn

Aunt Xu

I need a favor from you

Go ahead, please

Please get General Song Huaien here

Yes

I'm on my way now

No, Awu

I don't allow you to get back

Now that the palace is so dangerous

It took so much effort for you to escape from there

I don't allow you to get back in danger

I know, mother

But uncle has put

all his hope on me

I can't let him down

If I don't go back

all will be in danger

Awu

If possible,

I would rather suffer all this for you

It is myself...

Mother, don't worry

I will be very careful

Here comes General Guo

General Pang

Brothers.

This way

Is everything ok?

Yes, not even an ant has come in and out

Looks that the emperor has fallen asleep.

Princess Yuzhang is from the decent family

It's not easy for her to get through the night

You should be very careful in the late half of the night

If anything goes wrong

we have no excuse

to tell to the Second Prince

Yes, I see

I'm excused

Message from General Pang who returned with severe injury

the sister-in-law of Princess

has been having affair with Second Prince

Huan Family and Second Prince

are colluded with King Jianning

Sure enough

Be quick

Go to General Wei's residence

Yes

What do you do?

What are you coming here for?

Madam,

Someone wants to see you

Excuse me

Stop

Who are you?

The capital city has been locked down

No one is allowed in or out

Get back quickly

I am sister of General Wei

We have something urgent at home

I need to find him

Does General Wei has a sister?

Never heard of it

I'll see

who exactly is

this "sister of mine"

Brother

I know you're still mad at me

But we'd better not

let outsiders know about our family issue

We need to talk at a quite place

Here

Too many people here

Now that it is the family issue

please take it easy now

and follow me to the barracks

Madam

Excuse me

Princess Yuzhang

I

have heard the name of you for a long time

I'm wondering

why your highness

invited me here with this object

For the state affairs

State affairs?

This time the emperor came back to his power

and that destroyed the power and prestige of your Wang family

Princess is intended to make a comeback?

The Princess came at the order of the emperor

The order of the emperor ?

The emperor has gave secret edict to Second Prince

to regain the imperial power

The entire Wang family

are all convicted

I'm not sure

where did the order of the emperor come from?

General Wei please don't ever forget

though Princess is the daughter of Wang family

but she has the blood of the royal family as well

General Wei

do you recognize this object?

The tiger-shaped tally?

Why do you have it?

This...

Within a few days

two entirely opposite imperial edicts came

both stamped by the imperial jade seal

I am just a rough-neck

How am I able to

tell which is the real one?

Both the two secret edicts are real

but...

Circumstances have changed

The emperor is having a health condition

His original intention was to have Second Prince

to suppress my father

But he never expected

Zilv,

has colluded with King Jianning

He intended to usurp the throne

General Wei

Now the capital city

has been under Second Prince's control

If you don't believe

you may ask all the officers and soldiers

whether they have seen

any cart coming out of the city in recent days

Crown prince and Third Prince have been put in jail

All the staffs were trapped in Taiji Hall

even the emperor has been imprisoned

His Majesty wrote a secret edict and granted me the tiger-shaped tally

that allows me to be out of the palace for one night

But before dawn,

I have to go back

General Wei

I beg you

to let me out

to the capital environs

Only with the help of the armies

can there be a glimmer of hope

to relieve the capital city from its crisis now

How could I know

whether your highness tells the truth?

If there's anything that is untrue

I will be doing evil things

Let me say something

My Lord

There's been no news from Huaien for a long time

Would it really be like what Duke Huan said

that something happened in the capital city?

Something must have happened in the capital city

Huaien couldn't get away

so there was no news from him

If something happened to Huaien

the Princess...

Shut your mouth

My Lord

We can't keep waiting any more. We'd better get back to the capital city right away.

Go back. Go back...What you go back for?

King Jianning's troop is right outside

Waiting to fight us to the death

If you're afraid of death, watch me.

I'm afraid of death? I think it is you who's afraid of death.

Guanglie

Are you fully prepared?

All prepared

Just wait for the go-ahead

OK

At sunrise

the fog is heaviest in the valley

Duke Huan, please

at about 7:45

get our army together

and break out.

OK

I go and prepare for it

Lord

No matter what happens to the capital city

Princess will be

safe and sound

and get out of danger

My Lord

My Lord

We have a great number of soldiers

suddenly fall ill without known cause

What?

Go get Madam Wei here

Mother

Princess Yuzhang

I have nothing against you

Why did you kidnap my mother?

I have been taken good care of by Princess Yuzhang

without any mistreatment

I've been through majority of my life

what have I not seen?

It is the first time

that I've experienced today's thing

We've heard that for a long time

Princess Yuzhang is

the defender of Huizhou and she's resourceful and brave

Now I see her myself

It's my great pleasure

Madam is really

a broad-minded heroic lady

Her Highness said

In the old days, when the old General Wei

was defending Xiangyang,

thanks to Madam Wei

as a spectacular feat, Madam Wei led all women and kids build the madam wall

The wall has gone through ups and downs

and is still standing there

Madam Wei

Could you please

persuade General Wei?

Please forgive the offense for today

Wang Xuan

will come at your door and offer my apology

Your Highness, that's quite overstated

If Your Highness could come to my house and drink with me

I must offer the best wine

with the utmost courtesy

Deal

Deal

My son

Do you believe

what Her Highness said just now?

Mother

I have taken military command

I can't!

I am asking you

do you believe her?

Duke Huan, you really made a clever plan

It's really a brilliant maneuver

This Xiao Qi

couldn't sit still

Go quickly and report to King Jianning

Yes

It's almost dawn

Why hasn't Awu come?

Does she probably...

Your Highness, please be more patient

It's quite a long way

for Princess to go

It will have to take some time

The emperor's orders

how could I disobey?

Do you still remember that

the day you became the Upper Pillar General

what did I tell you?

Mother

once told me that

While facing decisions,

righteousness comes first

General Wei must have heard

the story of my husband Lord Yuzhang

He left the capital on the night of our wedding day

just to keep clear of my father

For me, it's the same

I'm here

Not for the Wang family

But for the cause of the country

It's 1 am to 3 am now

Even if I agree to let Your Highness go to the west suburb

It takes at least 2 hours to go there and back

From 7 AM to 9 AM

Troops under General Wu's command will on watch

If Your Highness want to enter the palace by then

General Wu won't allow it

If anything happens

How trivial it is, it will be passed into the palace

I'm afraid that Your Highness won't get rid of it unharmed

I have my own consideration

For now

I'm begging you, General Wei

For the sake of the emperor and court in-danger

Please help me out

Now among the twelve battalions of the capital army

6 of them are now under the command of the second prince

Even if I believe you

I might not be able to follow your lead

Stop talking my son

Now that

Your Highness needs to go out of the palace

There's no time to delay

Please set up as early as possible

General Wei

I will keep in mind

your kindness today

Thank you General Wei

Your Majesty

Huaien

I'm handing over the secret imperial edict and the tiger tally to you

What for, Your Highness?

What General Wei said makes sense

I shouldn't go out of the palace tonight

But you can

Your Majesty

Anyone who gets the tiger tally can command the army

I'm afraid that I'm not convincing for the armed forces

You are a capable man of the lord

I believe in you

I'm afraid that

I'll ruin the cause of you and the emperor

Time is up, no time to delay

After getting out of the palace

Try to send someone to inform the lord

to keep an eye on Duke Huan

Huaien

I trusted the destiny of everyone

and the country

to you

I won't let you down

I promise to live or die with the tiger tally and the secret imperial edict

General