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TITLE: [Weaving a Tale of Love]

[Episode 35]

Your Highness, it's people from the East Palace.

Shouldn't the East Palace's troops be inside the Black Tortoise Gate now?

I'm afraid we've been trapped by Crown Prince.

Pei Xingjian, aren't you afraid of dying?

Prince of Cao, you should worry more about your own life.

Men, take down the rebels and await His Majesty's decision.

- Yes! - Yes!

- How dare you! - Why can't he?

Prince of Cao Li Ming raises troops without authorization at Black Tortoise Gate.

All the officers and solders at Black Tortoise Gate,

and the two Ministers-Regent Zhangsun Wuji and Zhu Suiliang as witnesses. The evidence is confirmed.

Anyone can take down rebels and kill them. Take down the rebels!

Yes.

Wait!

[It's time to take action]

Both of you must not be fooled by Li Zhi's treacherous scheme.

The rebel that should be executed is clearly Li Zhi.

His Majesty has discovered the truth about him.

He has written a decree to pass the throne to me.

If you two don't believe it, you can just go to the palace with me

and see His Majesty together.

Right or wrong, truth or lies,

you will see at that time!

Pure nonsense! I am the crown prince proclaimed by His Majesty himself

as Great Tang's successor.

A few days ago, His Majest has just appointed Zhangsun Wuji and Zhu Suiliang as Ministers-Regent

to assist me in governing state affairs.

Everyone in the nation knows about this.

When has His Majesty ever say that he will pass the throne to you?

This is pure nonsense!

Li Zhi.

Those took place before His Majesty discovered the truth about you.

You have been exposed in front of His Majesty.

His Majesty has discovered that you've always harbored treason.

Why would he still pass the throne to you?

Crown Prince and Prince of Cao each states a different story.

We are willing to follow the two princes to the palace

- and ask His Majesty to make the judgment. - Right!

This best way is to go to the palace together and see His Majesty

and let him make the judgment. What I wonder is wehther Li Zhi

has the guts to go see His Majesty together?

What a joke! I am honest and upstanding, why won't I dare?

As it is, let's all enter the palace together.

We'll ask His Majesty to judge.

[It's time to take action]

Why are you still dawdling? Hurry and feed the medicine to His Majesty.

Prince of Cao, Crown Prince, and Zhangsun Wuji and Zhu Suiliang

are coming over here with people now.

This way.

It's here.

Pei Xingjian is indeed right.

This peron is the one who can stop our addiction.

All these many years, in this jail cell,

other than Prince of Cao Li Ming and the food delivery maid

there has never been anyone else who has come here.

Who are you people?

I and a young lady here

have been suffering thanks to the poison you made.

We've been looking for you. Of course it's to get antidotees to eliminate our addiction.

Senior, looking at your situtaion,

we can see that you've been imprisoned by Prince of Cao here.

You must have been forced by Prince of Cao to make the poison to harm people.

If you help to detoxify us, we will rescue you out of here.

From now on, you won't need to harm people anymore. How about it?

You can believe me or not,

but the poison in your bodies is incurable.

They imprisoned me here to make the poison,

but they have never asked me to make the antidotes.

As for me, I've long been a living dead.

I have never thought of leaving here.

What good is the antidote to me?

Everyone, listen to the imperieal decree.

This son and subordinate receives the decree.

The imperial decree is here. Why don't all of you kneel immediately to receive the decree?

Are you disobeying the decree?

His Majesty has decreed, Crown Prince Li Zhi

is atrocious, rebellious, committed patricide,

has betrayed the nation and the monarch, so is immediately abolished as Crown Prince.

Prince of Cao is both talened and virtuous, extremely sincere and filial,

as I am lingering upon death, I wish to protect and support the nation from diaster

I respectfully announce to Heaven, Earth, ancestors, and all people

that I proclaim Li Min as Crown Prince

to be installed in the East Palace and inherit the throne.

This son and subordinate accepts the decree.

His Majesty must have been fooled by the treacherous.

How could I have committed patricide?

Furthermore, I couldn't have committed any conspiracy.

I want to see His Majesty.

The imperial decree is here. Li Zhi, how dare you to disobey the decree.

Guards, arrest Li Zhi.

If he disobeys, execute him without mercy.

Who would dare?

To tell you the truth, His Majesty has already passed.

Impossible. Impossible.

Heaven blesses Great Tang so that, before His Majesty passed,

he found out that Li Zhi bribed the previous Director of Directorate of Eunuchs, Gao Quan,

to poison his imperial father.

Therefore, he installed a different crown prince, and entrust the nation

to Prince of Cao, Li Min, who is both intelligent and virtuous.

This is impossible.

I don't believe it. I want to see His Majesty.

His Majesty's death is absolutely true.

It's all thanks to you and Gao Quan uniting to poison him.

Consort Yang, murdering His Majesty is such a high crime.

How can Crown Prince be accused such a charge

with just your words?

This old minister is the lead Minister-Regent,

but I have never heard His Majesty mention this matter.

As for the last decree, whether it's real or fake,

it must be inspected for confirmation.

How Li Zhi bribed Gao Quan to poison His Majesty,

how His Majesty discovered

and was heartbroken yet considered for the sake of his people

that he changed the crown prince despite his sickly body, the entire process

is all known to the current Director of Directorate of Eunuchs, Pan Qinhai.

He can bear witness.

Pan Qinhai, it's time for you to be loyal to His Majesty

and expose Li Zhi's true face to everyone now.

Your Majesty, please just take me along with me

to the other side,

let me continue to serve you.

Consort Yang, spare me. Consort Yang, spare me.

Even though I am greedy and vain,

I have never had anyone's blood on my hands.

How could I dare to commit regicide?

Useless fool.

As things are now, do you think you'll be free even if you don't personally feed him the poison?

Not to mention Pan Qinhai who can't even speak a complete sentence now,

even if he opens his mouth to speak,

how is one eunuch's words believable?

Crown Prince is right. Consort Yang,

you mentioned two things,

Crown Prince's patricide as well as installing Prince of Cao as Crown Prince,

they are both too serious.

Excuse us old ministers that we cannot be convinced solely by your words.

Zhangsun Wuji, what do you mean?

Crown Prince rebels, so you also follow him to rebel?

Or, perhaps you already colluded with him.

He commits regicide, and you participated?

Don't keep talking about those grandiose reasons.

When you kill, you pay with your life. When you owe a debt, you pay money back.

You made the poison, so you should detoxify it.

If you don't find a solution,

I will let you live where you wish you were dead but can't die.

Let him go.

Senior, I know that you don't want to go out.

You also don't fear death.

But you said you committed sins.

I could tell that you are not someone without conscience.

You were forced to make poison to harm people.

I still remember when I was young,

Mother told me the story of Zhou Chu killing the three monsters.

My memory is limited, but I still recall two sentences.

One was,

When I want to study hard but I am already getting old, I fear that I won't be achieve.

The other was, the ancients value understanding wisdom so much even if one learns in the morning and dies at night.

Besides one's future is still open,

what one should fear is not having a goal,

why fear one cannot establish a good reputation?

Senior, you possess the unique medical knowledge.

I would like to plead with you to think of a solution

to save the two of us.

It can also serve as redemption on your sins.

Your mother must have been

a compassionate and knowledgeable person.

The story she told me is very good.

Liuli's mother was Attire Expert An of the Bureau of Imperial Attire.

She was harmed by evil people.

Liuli wanted to avenge her mother, and ended up this way now.

You are... Attire Expert An's daughter?

Yes. Senior,

do you know my mother?

More than knowing her,

your mother and I were close friends.

Years ago, I was the best pharmacist in the palace.

Attire Expert An was the best dressmaker.

We both got tired of living in the palace

and wanted to resign our jobs and leave the palace

to live an ordinary life.

Not long after your mother left the palace,

I also resigned my position.

Unexpectedly, just as I left the palace,

I was captured by Prince of Cao

and jailed in this dungeon

to make poisons for him.

Later, my eyes gradually became blind.

I continued to be forced by him every day

to commit sins.

You are the Medicine King from years ago?

- You are... - Medicine King,

I am Sun Decheng of the Courtyard of Misfortune.

Do you still remember me?

Eunuch Sun, I remember. Of course I remember.

Senior, rest assured, we will rescue you out

and go to His Majesty to expose Prince of Cao's evil doings.

His Majesty?

Prince of Cao is vicious. He made me concot a poison

to be used on His Majesty.

I'm afraid it's today.

This old minister watched Crown Prince grow up.

Crown Prince is kind and compassionate. His Majesty is very fond of him.

This old minister will never believe

that Crown Prince would commit regicide and rebellion.

If anyone dares to set up a scheme to frame Crown Prince,

stain Crown Prince's innocense and embroil him in dishonor and disloyalty,

we ministers would never stand by and watch.

Zhangsun Wuji, you are the older brother of Late Empress Zhangsun,

and Li Zhi's own uncle, of course you would take his side.

Who's to know that maybe you are the mastermind behind Li Zhi's regicide?

Li Zhi poisons His Majesty, of course it's because he couldn't wait,

and wants to ascend the throne sooner.

Today, I will clean house for His Majesty.

Guards, take down Zhangsun Wuji and Li Zhi

- together! - Yes!

How dare you!

Zhu Suiliang!

If you dare to block, you will be arrested too!

Consort Yang, this old minister has couseled His Majesty for more than 30 years.

I am deeply trusted by His Majesty.

I am also appointed by His Majest as a Minister-Regent.

I'm not someone that you can smear and denigrate based on your words without evidence.

Pan Qinhai, Dan Qing, Qing Hua can all prove what my mother said.

The handwriting on the decree can be confirmed by court ministers.

The handwriting can be faked.

The eunuchs and palace mades are your insiders.

How are they believable as witnesses?

Stop! Who are you?

Xiao Douzi is here to see Consort Yang,

Crown Prince, I have something urgent to report.

His Majesty has passed away. Miscellaneous people are—

Let her come in.

Xiao Douzi, didn't you say you have something urgent to report to me?

Speak.

His Majesty isn't dead.

As long as we all go see His Majesty,

who is rebellious, who is loyal, His Majesty will be able to judge.

What nonsense is that?

I am not speaking nonsense.

Whether HIs Majesty is alive or dead,

who wants to murder His Majesty,

as long as we all go to His Majesty,

everything will be cleared up.

His Majesty's has passed. How dare you spew nonsense here?

Guards, drag her out and cane her to death.

Impudent!

Don't forget that we are in front of Hall of Immortal Nectar.

Consort Yang, you are going to openly

kill someone to shut them up?

Your Majesty! Your Majesty!

Your Majesty, can you hear this old minister speak?

Your Majesty...

This old minister came too late.

Imperial Father,

wake up, take another look at me.

Imperial Father.

Prince of Cao forced me to make so many poisons.

After all, I am a medical practitioner.

I detest killing and harming people.

Besides, Prince of Cao wanted to kill His Majesty.

So, in the poison that Prince of Cao forced me to make,

I played a trick.

What I gave Prince of Cao wasn't poison,

but sleep-inducing

comforting pills.

Thank you for your kindness, Senior.

On behalf of Crown Prince, Pei Xingjian,

and all of Great Tang's people, I thank you.

Don't rush to thank me.

After all, I was a friend of your mother's.

I don't want to endanger you either.

Listen to my advice, don't get involved in this mess.

His Majesty is near the end of his natural life.

Right now, he cannot withstand any trouble.

He can pass away anytime.

If you go to the palace now, and if you are unlucky

and His Majesty happens to die,

you would be wasting your life for nothing.

Even if it's a mountain of blades or a sea of flames, I still have to go.

I cannot see Crown Prince and Pei Xingjian fall into the trap.

I have to save them.

What else is there to say?

Guards!

Notify the entire palace that His Majesty has passed away.

Prepare for his funeral.

How dare you!

What do you want to do?

I am a medical officer, so I can take His Majesty's pulse.

There are many imperial physicians in the palace. You don't get to do it.

Xiao Douzi, come here.

His Majesty still has a pulse.

His Majesty isn't dead!

Impossible...

- How is it possible? - Consort Yang.

Your Majesty.

What is happening?

It's so noisy.

- Your Majesty. - Why are you all here?

Your Majesty, you are awake?

Long live Your Majesty for ten thousand years and many more.

We survived the danger. We survived the danger.

Zhi'er, why are you crying?

You are the future emperor of Great Tang.

Crying like this will make you a laughingstock.

Your Majesty, if you didn't wake up,

Crown Prince would have been framed and killed.

What do you mean?

Your Majesty, you didn't know about this.

Just now Consort Yang already announced your death

and also read a last decree

that abolished Crown Prince Li Zhi to be jailed forever,

and installed Prince of Cao as Crown Prince.

Slowly, Your Majesty.

Slowly.

Did this really happen?

Falsify imperial decree to install another crown prince?

Announce that I already passed away?

And then what were you going to do with me?

Strangle me to death? Poison me to death?

No, no, no.

Your Majesty is wise.

Please look at this.

Your Majesty, please allay your anger. I am ignorant

and really believed that you had passed.

I was so sad,

and couldn't help but announce the news.

As for the last decree, it is because...

because I discovered that Crown Prince intended to rebel.

He is not loyal nor filial.

But as a woman in the inner palace,

all the court officials are close to the crown prince,

they obviously wouldn't listen to me.

For the sake of Great Tang and its people,

I couldn't help but come up with this plan.

In other words, I should thank you and the son

for your wholehearted loyalty to me

and will organize my funeral?

Your Majesty, Your Majesty, don't get agitated.

I am fine.

I won't die yet, for now.

The evidence is irrefutable.

Your Majesty, what I say is true.

Crown Prince conspired to rebel, but Your Majesty was unconscious.

I temporarily lost my sense of judgment

and wanted to discipline Crown Prince on behalf of Your Majesty.

You keep saying that Crown Prince conspires to rebel.

Do you have any proof?

Under his cape, Crown Prince is wearing a dragon robe.

His conspiratorial intention is clear.

Your Majesty is wise. Just inspect it now,

and my words will be proven true.

[Tomorrow at 11 am, Prince of Cao will raise troops at Black Tortoise Gate]

[Tricks]

This "Dou" word is different from what Xiao Douzi previously embroidered.

Why is there an extra dot?

This is where it is extra.

This serpant robe has an extra toe on the claw.

A serpant has four-toe claws.

A dragon has four-toe claws. Prince of Cao and his mother are so vicious.

This almost unnoticeable point,

if I were to wear this robe, I would be conspiring to rebel.

Xiao Douzi must have been forced. She couldn't help it

so thought of this idea to remind Your Highness.

Luckily Xiao Douzi is smart.

Also luckily that you saw through Xiao Douzi's puzzle.

Otherwise,

I would be sent down to the abyss.

Your Majesty, I am wearing a serpant robe with four-toe claws.

I have never harbored any intent to be unfilial and disloyal.

Why would I overstep boundarly on my clothing?

Consort Yang, you saw it all.

Do you have anything else to say?

Prince of Cao, your manor's troops have all been arrested.

You lost. Don't waste any effort now.

Your Majesty, as it is now, the truth has been revealed.

The conspirator isn't His Highnss the Crown Prince,

but Prince of Cao and Consort Yang.

What a wasted that I favored you for so many years.

You would actually commit such immoral high crime.

You disappoint me so much!

Your Majesty, Prince of Cao shot a whiste arrow in the courtyard just now

to send a signal to his troops that are stationed outside Tai Ji palace.

He got taken down by Imperial Guard Leader Pei Xingjian and is awaiting your decision.

Consort Yang.

Fine. Fine.

What a good son that I loved for many years!

Good son.

Good son...

Your Majesty.

Your Majesty! Your Majesty!

All the conspiracy today

was committed by me alone.

It's nothing to do with Ming'er.

I am afflicted with a serious illness and won't have much time left.

I know that my status in the inner palace is low.

Even though I received Your Majesty's affection, but I was often criticized.

With Your Majesty around, others won't dare to do anything to Ming'er.

But,

both our bodies

won't last long.

Ming'er and Crown Prince haven't been close.

I have been afraid

that after we are gone,

Ming'er might lose his life.

That's why I came up with this bad plan.

Your Majesty, please be merciful.

Just punish me, only me.

In consideration of your father-son relationship,

spare Ming'er.

What I've been most afraid of

still happened.

Transmit my edict.

Separately imprison Consort Yang and Prince of Cao.

Let Crown Prince thoroughly investigate this incident.

This is my family affair.

The imperial family's scanal, if spread to outside,

will damage the dynasty's dignity.

All my advisors, watch your mouths.

Do not reveal anything to the outside.

We obey Your Majesty's edict.

[Hall of Immortal Nectar]

Be careful.

- Your Highness. - Be careful.

- Xiao Douzi! - Xiao Douzi.

Summon the imperial physician to the East Palace.

- Hurry! - Yes.

Your Highness, don't be impatient.

Both imperial physicians are here from the Imperial Academy of Medicine.

Your Highness, don't be overly concerned.

Summon the imperial physicians.

My medical skills are weak.

I dare not speak nonsense.

Replying to Your Highness, my medical skills are not strong.

I really don't care to speak nonsense to you.

Imperial Physicians, you know my temper.

I detest those who try to protect their positions but hide the truth.

No matter what difficulty is involved with Xiao Douzi's illness,

please go ahead and candidly tell me.

To be honest with you,

this Xiao Douzi

has saved my life several times, so I regard him highly.

If you dare to hide anything about his illness,

I will severely punish you.

If you don't explain to me about Xiao Douzi's illness,

then don't dream of leaving the East Palace.

- Your Highness, please forgive us. - Your Highness, please forgive us.

Speak!

This subject deserves to die.

I do not dare poke into Your Highness' privacy

and only wish to save the patient.

I boldly ask Your Highness to confirm,

Xiao Douzi is a woman, right?

Male and female's bodies are naturally different.

Before a medicial practitioner prescribes medication,

if we cannot distinguish if the patient is male or female,

we cannot cure the illness

and save the life.

This... Xiao Douzi

is a man. How can he be a woman?

based on the pulse, Xiao Douzi

must be a female.

This is a serious matter. You two imperial physicians had better not be mistaken.

Does Your Highness really not know that Xiao Douzi is a woman?

We see how Your Highness is concerned about Xiao Douzi,

so we thought you had an unspeakable difficulty

and deliberately hid the fact that Xiao Douzi is a woman.

But Xiao Douzi is seriously ill now, if we cannot ascertain her gender,

we really don't dare to randomly prescribe medications.

Your Highness, Prince of Cao's rebel troops have been taken care of.

They are being questioned by the Court of Judicial Review.

Your Highness, Xiao Douzi is indeed a woman.

The situation is urgent. Please save Xiao Douzi's life first, imperial physicians.

As for the hidden reason,

please allow me to report to you, Your Highness.

Xiao Douzi is a woman?

Shouyue, what is going on?

Tell me quickly.

You heard what we said.

Xiao Douzi is female. She is a woman.

I'll entrust Xiao Douzi to you two.

Please do your best to save her regardless of cost.

- Shouyue, follow me. - Yes.

Your Highness, this is Liuli's background.

She hid her identity, and her helplessness and sadness in hiding in the palace,

I have told you all about it.

I plead with Your Highness to consider how Liu Li, despite her powerless situation, still upholds justice

and has saved Your Highness many times, please forgive her crime of deceiving you.

Shouyue, do you understand

how happy I am to find that Xiao Douzi is a woman?

Your Highness, you won't fault Liuli?

Of course not.

On behalf of Liuli, I think Your Highness for your generous kindness.

Not only that I won't blame Liuli,

on the contrary, Liuli's grievance,

her mother's grievance, I will take charge for her.

Shouyue, you are right.

Liuli has been powerless and endangered,

but she has strived to live positively

and has never given up pursuing the truth and facts.

I will not disappoint her.

Thank you, Your Highness.

Shouyue, A'Sheng.

I want the two of you to separately do something for me.

- Yes. - Yes.

How is it now?

I just fed her medicine.

The two imperial physicians said, whether she will wake up, we need to wait

and see how the medicine takes effect.

- You can leave. - Yes.

His Majesty isn't dead.

His Majesty isn't dead. His Majesty isn't dead.

Crown Prince is framed.

Crown Prince is framed.

Liuli,

I am fine.

His Majesty is fine too.

Don't worry, just rest well.

♫ The night is quiet and the sky is clear ♫

♫ When I'm next to you ♫

♫ In the middle of the night the moon worries ♫

♫ It has nothing to do with you ♫

♫ The long journey is long and quiet ♫

♫ Slowly appearing like ripples ♫

♫ To imitate the sorrow of fate and entering the spring river ♫

♫ Like stumbling along the way ♫

Why haven't I ever thought that you are a woman?

I should have realized a long time ago.

You are so good looking.

How could there be such a good-looking man in this world?

♫ I hope I’m your shining star ♫

♫ The silk cotton tree swaying in the evening breeze is romantic ♫

♫ My thoughts are silent but with a sigh it becomes waves ♫

♫ My thoughts are silent but with a sigh it becomes waves ♫

♫ It's hard to return to the past, but we can use the paper from agarwood tree to write a poem letter ♫

♫ It's hard to return to the past, but we can use the paper from agarwood tree to write a poem letter ♫

♫ As the drizzle rain complains to the brokenhearted ♫

That day, others thought I was hurt by the enchanting incense..

But I know that

I was truly moved.

How can enchanting incease so easily confuse my heart and mind?

It's so laughable.

Ever since then, I felt uncertain every day.

I wanted to see you but was afraid of seeing you.

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♫ Uncover the vicious cycle of the past ♫

♫ Fate has its uncertainties ♫

♫ I've spent this life with brush and ink in hand ♫

♫ Writing about what love is ♫

♫ Borrow from the relenting of the night ♫

♫ To exchange for the certainty of a promise ♫

♫ There are too many bumpy roads along the way ♫

♫ The more twists, the deeper it is ♫

♫ Breaking up and making up is like an illusion ♫

♫ Resembles a traveler traveling through this life ♫

♫ Time ignores everything including obsession ♫

♫ With the candlelight flickering indefinitely ♫

♫ With the candlelight flickering indefinitely ♫

♫ A bright moon that makes one's heart tingle ♫

♫ After the fire, there was only one thing left ♫

♫ A bright moon that makes one's heart tingle ♫