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[Unchained Love]

[Episode 22]

Yinlou, thank you.

I know you're helping me

reconcile with Wan Wan.

I'm happy

you're so considerate of me.

Of course

I'm considerate of Your Majesty.

In my heart,

you're just like the Princess.

You're like

a sibling to me.

Sibling?

Yes.

You have treated me very well,

I can't even begin to repay your kindness.

I am the late Emperor's concubine,

but I have entered the Inner Court.

I've caused much trouble

for Your Majesty.

I don't deserve everything you've done for me.

Soon, I will request to

go to serve the Empress Dowager.

For the rest of my days,

I will pray for blessings for Your Majesty.

You'd rather devote yourself to the Buddha

than be my woman?

Your Majesty.

Do you really

like someone else?

Is it your cousin?

Bu Yinlou, let me tell you.

Whether you're willing or not,

I will never let you leave me.

Help Her Highness take a bath and change her clothes.

Yes.

[Yongze Palace]

Mistress,

His Majesty is waiting outside the hall.

Do you really

not want to do this?

I don't have any expectations

out of this life.

Let me take your place.

What kind of bad idea is that?

Don't you know it's a crime

for a palace maid to ask for something like this?

How could I

risk your life for this?

Don't even think about it.

We can't

keep waiting here like this.

Right, we shouldn't wait anymore.

Mistress.

Are you really going to give up your life

for a man?

What are you talking about?

This is a secret medicine of the Inner Court

that I got from Wan Wan.

Once ingested,

it will make sores grow all over my face.

The best thing is that

the imperial physician won't be able to find the cause.

Why do you want this?

To avoid His Majesty.

My brother has always loved you,

so much so that he can disregard public opinion for you.

Do you really

feel nothing for him?

Do you really not know

if I feel anything for him?

I'm scared.

I can't even breathe

when I'm around him.

Would you like him if you were me?

But...

Wan Wan,

I know I'm putting you

in a tough spot.

But I'm also human,

I'm selfish too.

I'm not asking you for a favor,

I'm making a deal with you.

It's up to you whether you agree or not.

Fine, I promise you.

I've heard that Noble Consort Shao

used this medicine

in the years

she fought for favor.

She raised quite a ruckus in the Inner Court,

it was very chaotic.

You want to raise a ruckus in the Inner Court?

I'm raising a ruckus on myself.

When my face is full of sores,

no one

will be willing to lay hands on me.

Others used it to compete for favor,

but you want to use it to avoid favor.

Why are you so hard on yourself?

Is this being hard on myself?

To be manipulated like an object,

and to become a shadow of my former self,

is to be hard on myself.

In the past, I might have put up with it.

But now,

I've met the best person for me.

I have been loved, cherished,

and happy.

I cannot go back

to living the way I did.

Mistress.

You know very well

you can have nothing

to do with Chief Xiao.

You must plan

for your future.

Just accept your fate.

At this point,

whether I can have him or not,

I won't accept my fate.

I've been married once,

and he'll be the only one I marry.

That's enough.

I wonder if this medicine works.

I'll down it.

Stop it.

His Majesty has arrived.

How long do you want me to wait?

Your Majesty.

Why don't you eat something first?

Do you think

I'm in the mood to eat right now?

I'm a little nervous,

I want to have a drink to calm the nerves.

Tongyun, pour some wine.

Mistress, let's not drink.

Give me the wine.

I offended Your Majesty just now.

Let me make a toast to you.

Forget it.

Pour some for me as well.

I'll drink with you.

We'll forget about the unhappy things.

Go ahead.

You...

Look at me.

You're nervous?

You must be thirsty.

Here, drink it.

Yes.

Drink!

Your Majesty!

Your Majesty!

It's all my fault,

it has nothing to do with my mistress!

What's in the wine?

The wine...

I...

The wine is...

Fine, don't say it if you don't want to.

Don't.

Finish this flask.

Drink!

Your Majesty.

There is indeed something in the wine.

Mistress!

Mistress!

But it's not poison.

It's a strong drug

that can damage one's appearance.

A strong drug-

A strong drug that can damage one's appearance?

Okay.

I'll deal with her first.

Drag her out and flog her thirty times,

then send her to the Dyeing Workshop!

-Yes. Drag her out. -Your Majesty!

-Please spare my life! -Your Majesty!

Hurry up.

-Your Majesty! -Master!

Tongyun!

Bu Yinlou.

I've never fallen in love with anyone.

You're the only one.

My unrequited love for you keeps me up at night.

I've always given you

everything you've wanted.

Your willfulness,

your immaturity,

I've tolerated it all.

Even when you got yourself involved

with other men,

I've never blamed you.

What about you?

How did you treat me?

How dare you ruin your face

to keep your chastity for that man?

What do you take me for?

What do you take me for?

Your Majesty! No!

Your Majesty!

Don't touch me!

No!

Don't touch me!

Don't touch me!

Your Majesty!

Don't make me hate you!

Your Majesty!

Your Majesty, what happened?

Yinlou.

Please punish me, Your Majesty.

This-

Get out!

Get out!

You- You want to avoid me,

so you're forcing me to punish you.

Fine!

Pass my order and announce to the world that

Bu Yinlou has served me well,

and pleased me deeply.

She will be conferred the title of Consort Duan.

Your Majesty.

Bringing Her Highness to the palace

has already created

much gossip in the court.

If this goes public,

it—

I want everyone

in the whole world to know

that you, Bu Yinlou, are mine!

You will belong to me forever!

Xiao Duo.

Where are you?

Zhuoying.

Zhuoying!

Zhuoying.

Godfather.

If you return to the capital,

you'll be defying imperial decree.

Spread word that

I have been injured by bandits,

♫ Flowers fall in the wind, borrowing sorrow ♫

and need to rest.

Then, find a substitute

who looks like me.

I want everything to be ready within three days.

♫ For whom does this river flow ♫

♫ You say that willow ♫

♫ Means hesitation ♫

♫ Don't be sorrowful ♫

♫ In the late autumn, for whom do the swallows wait ♫

♫ Lingering among the flowers and turning sallow ♫

♫ Are you also ♫

♫ Wallowing in sorrow ♫

♫ The moon crescents ♫

♫ The twists and turns of my previous life ♫

♫ I can't let go ♫

You bastard.

Since you said you like me,

♫ The push and pull of this life ♫

you're mine.

You are not allowed to suffer anymore.

♫ Shouldn't have begun ♫

My heart will ache for you.

♫ Why am I ♫

No matter what happens in the future,

♫ Tired of the moonlight ♫

you can't hide anything from me.

Okay, I promise you.

♫ I treat the moonlight ♫

♫ As a kind of crime ♫

♫ I'm still awake ♫

♫ Still pretending ♫

♫ This song of moonlight ♫

♫ Will be harmonized ♫

♫ The candle is out ♫

♫ How can I cover my tears ♫

♫ I was too harsh ♫

Floral Immortal on high,

Zhuoying and Fangjiang

are joining in marriage as husband and wife.

We will stand by each other

for as long as we shall live.

From now on,

I'll always be with you.

[Nullity and Tranquility]

[Garden of Xiao's Residence]

You've been taking his pulse for so long.

How is his injury?

It's okay.

The bleeding has stopped. I can see that.

What about now?

He's burning up.

Of course I know that,

I'm asking you what to do now.

Take medicine.

Ruolan, bring the imperial physician to get the medicine.

Yes.

Don't hurt my brother.

Brother.

Brother.

I'm sorry.

I can't do anything.

I'm sorry.

Mistress.

I've sent the imperial physician away.

You shouldn't

fall for the prince.

Now, the Prince of Nanyuan has fallen,

and he's imprisoned in West Shu.

The Yuwen clan is destined to decline.

But you are the Princess,

you have your responsibilities.

His Majesty might bestow you

a marriage to a minister, a general,

or an aristocrat.

He might even send you to a neighboring state

to form a marriage alliance,

in order to protect the peace of the Great Ye.

But he will never

marry you to him.

I understand.

But just once, I want to be reckless.

Just this once.

But everything

wants to call me to my senses.

I don't want to hear this from you too.

Mistress.

You have been

reckless enough for him.

If His Majesty finds out

you gave that medicine

to Her Highness of Yongze Palace,

what will you do?

I'm already at the end of my rope.

Liangxu is innocent,

so I must save him.

Yinlou is innocent,

so I must help her.

What about my brother?

I don't even know whether doing this

is right

or wrong.

Your Highness.

Yesterday, there was news from Yongze Palace

saying that the Bu Yinlou had been conferred the title of Consort.

Strangely, though,

someone saw that

His Majesty looked rather pale.

There was even an injury on his head.

It seems that

she really is Murong Gaogong's beloved.

We can't damage our relationship with His Majesty

because of this.

They'd better be passionate

and fired up for each other.

Let's go.

We'll add some fuel

to the embers of His Majesty's passion.

Your Majesty.

Your Majesty.

The discussion hasn't ended yet,

you shouldn't dimiss the court

just like that.

What's there to discuss?

I made Yinlou my consort.

They're all latching onto this

and refusing to let off.

They're all trying to make things difficult for me!

Even Yinlou-

Even Yinlou is making things difficult for me!

Why is there not a single thing,

or a single person,

that can go my way?

Your Majesty.

Have some tea. Calm down.

Your Majesty.

With all due respect,

it's fine if you

keep her Highness

in the palace secretly.

But now that it's exposed,

it's a source of trouble.

It even seems that

she doesn't want to accept your kindness.

I've done so much for her.

Why is she not satisfied?

How can she not accept me?

That man.

It must be because that man.

Tell Yu Zun

to find that man.

I want him alive.

Empress Rong'an seeks an audience.

I heard Your Majesty likes lanterns.

This bone sculpture lantern is exquisite and unique,

so I have come specially to present it to you.

I haven't touched these toys for a long time.

You should take it back.

There's a story about this lantern.

Your Majesty, why don't you listen to it?

Many years ago, in the mountain,

there was a clever little fox.

On snowy nights,

it will light a lantern

to illuminate the way home

for those passing by.

A young master who loved tales of the strange

came in search of it.

He wanted to own

this fox that could light lanterns.

So he set a trap

and caught the little fox.

He fed it

the best meat,

and let it sleep in the best silks.

But no matter how well he treated it,

that little fox

was ungrateful.

Not only did it refuse to light lanterns for him,

it even bared its fangs at him

and kept trying to escape back into the mountain.

The young master was very angry.

Your Majesty.

Do you know

what he did?

He probably locked it up

and kept doing as he did.

No.

From then on,

he starved the little fox,

and whipped it every day.

The fox's leg was broken,

so it couldn't escape anymore.

It didn't have the strength to light lanterns anymore either.

Then, that young master

killed the little fox.

He skinned it,

pared away its flesh,

and made a lantern with its bones.

From then on,

the little fox

could light lanterns only for him.

Surely you didn't come all the way here

just to tell me

a story?

I just want to tell Your Majesty

that no matter how well you treat someone,

she will never obey you.

Only by letting her know pain

and suffering,

will she be tamed,

and become yours.

How dare you plant spies around me?

I only happened to find out,

and wanted to share Your Majesty's burden.

You're kind enough to show favor to Bu Yinlou,

but she doesn't know what's good for her.

You must teach her a lesson,

let her know that without you,

she's nothing.

I'm willing to help Your Majesty

with this.

Fine, tell me.

How will you help me?

Bu Yinlou defied Your Majesty.

Don't keep her in the palace,

send her to the royal's family's marginal residence.

It's deserted there,

and Your Majesty can send someone to watch her.

Cut her off from all information

from the outside.

She is but

a delicate girl,

how can she stand

that kind of loneliness?

As for the rest,

leave it to me.

I will make her obey you.

Tell me.

What do you want

in exchange?

Xiao Duo.

I only want Xiao Duo.

Just scare her.

Don't go too far.

Yes, Your Majesty.

You may leave.

I'll take my leave.

Your Majesty.

Empress Rong'an

colluded with Prince of Nanyuan

against you.

Now, you're handing Chief Xiao to her

to make a deal.

If Chief Xiao joins hands with her

when he returns to the palace,

it'll be rather disadvantageous to you.

She's just a woman sequestered in the Inner Court

who has already lost her power.

What threat is she of to me?

I'm not concerned about her

in the slightest.

Just send a few people

to keep an eye on Changqing Palace.

If she really...

can change Yinlou's mind,

what's wrong with

sending a servant like Xiao Duo to wait on her?

Yes.

The lady of the Bu clan is virtuous

and elegant.

She will hereby be invested as Consort Duan,

and move into the royal family's Deer's Reed Residence.

Your Highness.

I'm Suhuai, Head Maidservant of Deer's Reed Residence.

[Head of Deer's Reed Residence, Suhuai]

Greetings, Consort Duan.

Let's go.

Chief. Everything is ready,

we can go now.

Godfather, you can't go.

If His Majesty finds out,

you will be executed.

The capital will only know that

I'm recuperating in West Shu.

No one will notice

if you all keep a low profile here.

Staying till today

is the limit of my patience.

I must go back to see her.

But she may not want to see you.

I didn't dare to report

news from the capital to you.

She served His Majesty in bed at the beginning of the month.

The next day, His Majesty

ordered the Court of the Imperial Clan put her on the royal genealogy

as Consort Duan.

Bu Yinlou.

Why didn't you trust me?

Why?

Why?

Has no one made boots

for you before?

Other than my mother,

you're the first.

[Imperial City, Deer's Reed Residence]

[Heart Pure as Snow]

I wonder how Tongyun is doing.

Will she be okay?

Now that we've left the Imperial City,

when can I

get close to Empress Rong'an?

What should I do

about all of this?

This won't do.

I have to find a way out.

[Permeating Fragrance]

Your Highness, what can I do for you?

I'm going out for a walk.

His Majesty has ordered

that you must not leave

Deer's Reed Residence.

Sister Suhuai.

I know

His Majesty's orders.

But these things can be flexible.

My personal maidservant made a mistake

and was flogged for it.

Now she's been demoted to the Dyeing Workshop.

I want to visit her.

Please make an exception.

Your Highness, don't worry.

That maid

merely suffered some minor injuries.

She's very hardy.

She will recover in a few days.

Well,

I'll take a walk in here.

This is okay, right?

Go ahead, Your Highness.

Go do your work,

don't worry about me.

Your Highness, His Majesty has ordered

that we must stick close to you.

Wherever you go,

we must go.

If we lose you,

we will also

lose our lowly lives.

Please have mercy on us.

Please have mercy on us.

Have you all practiced this?

It's really lively here at Deer's Reed Residence.

Consort Dowager Duan.

I should call you Consort Duan now.

Why are you so happy?

Of course I'm happy.

I don't know

a single person around here.

It's not easy to see

a familiar face, like Your Majesty's.

Familiar?

I've been here

for a while now,

but you haven't greeted me yet.

Your Majesty, you've misunderstood me.

I wanted to greet you,

but then I reconsidered.

Now that the Emperor has changed,

how should I address you?

Isn't it inappropriate to still address you

as I would an Empress?

Your Highness,

what was your maiden clan's name again?

Her Highness's surname is Zhao.

Your Highness, Zhao.

Your Senior Highness, Zhao.

Greetings, Your Senior Highness, Zhao.

How dare you!

I was wrong.

It's my fault.

Your Highness, please calm down.

Kneel down!

I'll kneel. The ground is cool.

Stop acting innocent

in front of me.

How could someone of your calibre

get Xiao Duo

so smitten?

I hate people

who touch my things.

Let me warn you.

Keep your head down

and act as you should, Consort Duan.

If you do,

I can put a good word in for you

with His Majesty.

Got it?

Today, I will

teach you a lesson.

Your Highness.

Consort Duan is not in good health.

If she gets hurt,

His Majesty will punish us.

I'm teaching her how to behave,

on behalf of His Majesty.

How dare you stop me?

Do you want to lose your pitiful life?

Get lost!

Yes.

How dare you!

Let go of Her Majesty!

If my hands tremble,

and hurt you,

that'll be too bad.

Don't move!

Let's talk.

-Yilan. -Let's go.

Yilan, go get help!

-Guards! -Go!

Guards!

Your Highness!

Don't move.

Don't move.

Are you crazy?

I am the Empress!

How dare you hurt me?

Do you know how serious a crime this is?

Don't move.

You used to be the Empress.

But things have changed.

Think about it, is there still a place for you

in the Imperial City?

Your Majesty.

Doesn't this sound awkward?

His Majesty personally invested me as Consort Duan,

it's a legitimate title.

You and I are not on equal footing.

If we were to compare,

is your rank really higher than mine?

What do you want?

I have something

I want to ask you.

Your Majesty.

Your Majesty, I've gotten the guards.

Don't move.

Consort Duan took me hostage,

she's up to no good. Take her down!

Don't move.

Your Highness.

Blood!

What are you doing?

Blood!

Your Highness.

Your Majesty.

You came with such fanfare

to Deer's Reed Residence.

His Majesty must know about this.

How serious a crime is it

to assault a concubine?

Will you be

consigned to a temple again?

If you go in again,

can you get out?

How dare you threaten me?

Empress Rong'an.

There is a visible injury on Consort Duan.

If His Majesty finds out,

he won't let you off easily.

Blood!

Your Highness.

I feel dizzy.

Your Highness.

How dare you!

I won't let this slide!

Let's go!

Your Majesty.

Safe journey.

Help!

We need help!

Your Highness!

Over here!

Quick, help Her Highness.

It hurts so much.

Empress Rong'an.

Empress Rong'an.

Consort Duan was just impulsive.

Please don't hold it

against her.

It was tough on you just now.

This is for you,

a token of my apology.

My apologies,

I dare not accept your reward.

After all,

it was His Majesty who wanted to punish Consort Duan.

I didn't expect

to implicate all of you servants.

I know

you understand this.

You came to plead with me

because you're afraid Consort Duan will be implicated,

and make life tougher for you.

You should

put some thought into this yourself.

If His Majesty

valued Consort Duan that much,

would he send me here to teach her a lesson?

He even sent you

to keep watch over her.

How is this different from detaining a criminal?

She offended His Majesty,

so her prospects are limited.

You look like a smart person.

You know who you should obey in the future

to survive.

Right?

I'll do as you say.

These bandits are really troublesome.

We attacked them

so many times,

but we still haven't captured their leader.

How many days have we wasted?

Stop talking.

He's here.

Now.

The bandit leader has been captured.

We will return to the capital immediately.

[Deer's Reed Residence]

Your Highness, it's time to eat.

Leave it there.

Yes.

I won't let this slide!

Let's go!

Your Highness is really interesting.

There's no bait on the hook,

how can you catch a fish on it?

None of your business.

You may leave.

Yes.

It took the bait, didn't it?

You'd better not let go.

How was it?

Consort Duan ate it all,

but there is nothing wrong

with her at all.

How is that possible?

This medicine is damaging to the heart and lungs.

Anyone

would fall severely ill.

Perhaps Consort Duan

is exceptionally hardy,

and a single dose wasn't enough.

Give her more then.

Three meals a day,

plus snacks and supper.

It will definitely work then.

Yes.

How am I worthy

of Rong'an's concern for me?