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♪Don't feel sad for the fallen flowers♪

♪Falling in the mortal world♪

♪Keep all the memories♪

♪Can't find any peace anymore♪

♪The storms can't kill my passion♪

♪But I need to endure♪

♪Be serious even though I'm naive♪

♪If this is the destined fate♪

♪Even if I'll be hurt♪

♪I'll protect the people♪

♪The mountains sun and moon can be my witnesses♪

♪Full of passion♪

♪Deep love and hatred♪

♪Melts in my heart along with the snow♪

=Royal Rumours=

=Episode 20=

Miss,

you have been busy all day.

Have some tea and take a break.

Miss.

Crown Prince and Second Prince

are going at it in the front yard again.

General and Madam said that

you must deal with the trouble of

your love life by yourself.

I don't want to move,

listen to it

nor care about it.

I'm really sick!

I'm sick.

You must be tired, Princess Hua.

Let me pour you a cup of hot water.

Then,

I will place it right here.

Don't forget to drink it.

Your Highness,

forgive me for not greeting you.

I'm not feeling so well.

You should drink more hot water

if you aren't feeling well.

These two cups of water have become cold.

Let me pour you another cup of hot water.

Your Highness,

there's no point

drinking hot water.

Why don't you

go to my parents' room?

My medication

is in their room.

(She's trying to get rid of me,)

(but this is such a rare opportunity)

(to enter)

(her parents' room.)

Never mind.

How can I bother

Your Highness

to do such a thing?

Yuan Wei.

No need for that.

It is a pleasure for me

to serve you, Princess Hua.

I will go.

I will go.

Song and Yuan Wei, please escort him.

Your Highness.

Your Highness.

Your Highness.

Why won't you look at me?

Don't be mad.

You know that He Yuanting

is cunning

and persistent.

Also,

I suspect that

he wants to steal my family's

defence map.

I know.

I was just going to

discuss this issue with you.

Master.

We have already found

the defence map's location.

We can send someone to tell

His Highness tonight.

Okay.

You can settle this matter

by yourself.

Yes.

Do we have any mission these days

for Yun Han?

We should wait for a while.

Let me find out about the health

of Changlong Emperor

before we decide.

This is not the best time

for him to take action.

The capital is still a mess.

If we were to take action,

it must be a killing blow.

Find an opportunity

to remind him that he is

the son of a guilty official.

He mustn't forget his hatred

just because the crown prince treats him well.

Yes.

Shi Qing.

Please

tell my father to let us out.

Miss,

you should stay in the room.

It is really

not safe outside right now.

We will be obedient.

Miss,

it has nothing to do with

being obedient or not.

Prince Consort has big plans.

I'm afraid that you two will

be abandoned if you

become his weakness.

It is safer to just

stay inside.

Am I right?

Shi Qing!

Open the door!

Princess Royal and Miss,

please remember to eat.

(He wants to steal the map.)

(What are you going to do about it?)

If you want the fish to take the bait,

you must first throw the bait.

So we must be heavily guarded

on the surface,

but secretly

show him some flaws.

Most importantly,

he has to think that the map

he's stealing is the real one.

You have tricked He Yuanting before.

He is bound to be suspicious.

I have an idea.

We should lure him in

and pretend to cover it up.

Your parents must

also be tricked.

Your Highness.

It should be very easy for

that tiger to figure out where the map

is with his ability.

However, He Yuanting still has to

be the one to take action.

So, all we have to do

is to keep an eye on He Yuanting

and wait for him to take the bait.

I will give you some men of Blackmail Troop.

You must figure out a way

to find that person

in this battle.

Also,

the hidden hand will

definitely figure out a way to

send a message to He Yuanting.

Stay at Hua Mansion

and replace the real message

with this fake one.

He Yuanting cares about the defence map.

Pei.

This person is skeptical.

We should do something

out of the ordinary.

The more ridiculous the bait seems,

the more likely he will take it.

(No way, Your Highness.)

(The map is on Hua Yingting's pants.)

There's something wrong with the people of the State of Jin.

(I need to report to General A'Wa.)

(The three days that Hua Changkong)

(is sitting for the imperial exam are the perfect chance.)

Yen Yuan asked about perfect virtue. Confucius said,

"To subdue one's self and return to propriety is perfect virtue.

If man can master that, then

perfect virtue will prevail the world."

You almost scared me to death!

You scared me!

Father, what are you doing here?

What are you doing here?

I came to hang the dumpling.

Why are you hanging it?

I read in a book that

the examinees in the capital

hang dumplings on a beam.

It symbolises that they will do well.

That's my girl.

Look here.

Have you decided where to hang it?

I'm thinking of hanging it on a lantern.

It'll be so high up.

Why are you looking at me?

I am just a sick

and weak girl.

Father, you can't be

thinking of stepping on me

to hang the dumplings.

You are my precious daughter.

Why would I step on you?

Hold this.

I will think of something.

Here. I'll hang it.

The other one.

Get good grades.

Get good grades!

Father, don't let brother hear us.

Why are you shushing?

I heard everything.

Do you like it?

Thank you, father.

Thank you, little sister.

Get good grades.

- Get good grades. - Get good grades.

♪The spring breeze carries the song away♪

Yuan Wei.

♪I travel around, passing through the fireworks♪

What are you doing?

I'm just asking you for something.

What does His Highness

want to give Miss?

Nothing.

Nothing for today.

Why are you here then?

I'm here to accompany you.

Really?

Yes.

I've made some mistakes

in the past.

I wanted to make it up to you.

I still have work to finish.

Let me help you with them.

Why would Chief Minister

of Supreme Court help me?

It's because…

It's because we're friends.

♪We are destined to be together♪

Really?

Yes.

♪Let me sing for you forever♪

Yuan Wei.

(Ambitious)

(Ambitious)

Father and mother.

Son,

I've been on the battlefield half my life.

It is filled with intense vibe.

No matter how your luck will be,

you'll be invincible.

Wear my armour

and it will protect you

from bad luck.

Thank you, father.

Son.

Mother.

I believe that

you will succeed.

Yes.

You will succeed.

Liuli.

Changkong.

This is for you.

Don't be nervous.

The god in charge of literary affairs will protect you.

Besides, we already

have two marquises

in the family.

You can still come back and

take care of our parents with me

even if you don't do well.

Okay.

General Hua, General Wei,

Princess Hua and Changkong,

I have come to see

Changkong off for the exam.

I've also brought a special gift.

Please take a look.

General Hua, you

must accept this gift.

In Jinpo, parents

wear purple pants to see

their children off to exams.

All parents worry for their children.

The purple pants

are for good luck.

Sure!

All for the good luck!

(This was such a smart move.)

(Examination Hall)

Father, mother and Liuli,

I will enter now.

Go.

Your Highness, thank you for your blessings.

Don't be nervous, Changkong.

Okay.

You all should go home.

I will stay here and wait.

Father,

let me go home and bring you

a small folding chair.

Sure.

I will accompany you

to get the chair.

(This is the perfect timing to return.)

Princess Hua,

bring three chairs.

Your Highness.

General Hua.

Your Highness.

General Wei.

Your Highness.

Second Prince, you keep putting off

the negotiation, but it seems

you're more interested

in the State of Jin's

(Examination Hall) imperial examination.

I am the Second Prince of Jinpo.

I'm only here today

to learn a little.

Then you shouldn't leave.

Stay here and learn for three days.

I will accompany you.

I still need to get the chairs.

Princess Hua can get them.

Liuli.

There is no need to stay here.

You should go home with General Wei.

Okay.

Thank you, Your Highness.

Mother.

Don't be nervous.

It's fine even if

Changkong does not do well.

I...

I'm not nervous.

Your father is nervous instead.

I'm going home now.

This is such an important matter

that can bring glory to the family.

How can I not be nervous?

(Examination Hall)

Your Highnesses,

please have some tea.

(Virtues, Diligence, Elegance and Peace)

(Hua)

(Examination Hall)

Your Highness.

Thank you.

The osmanthus cake here is delicious.

Let's eat it when we go home.

Okay.

(Hua Mansion)

(Your Highness.)

(I have been monitoring Hua Mansion)

(closely for the past two days.)

(I have found the best opportunity)

(to steal the defence map.)

(The entire State of Jin has been)

(heavily guarded,)

(but I will get this job done)

(no matter how hard it is.)

(Examination Hall)

(When you fake it for too long, it might become convincing. Vice versa.)

(We must make things messier)

(to set up the trap.)

(The only way to win)

(is to be unpredictable)

(but)

(why is the imperial examination)

(taking such a long time?)

(I wonder if things)

(are going well for A'Wa so far.)

(Grand Preceptor Mansion)

Do you mean

Crown Prince and Princess Hua

have made no progress in the peace talks

for the past couple of days?

Yes.

Princess Hua hasn't even been

to Ceremonial Hall for the past three days.

I have prepared a memorial

to be presented to the Emperor

after the imperial examination

to reprimand them for their actions.

Linzhou,

what do you think?

In my opinion, the matters of

Qinghan Steppe has been an issue

between the two states for a long time.

It's a difficult problem to solve.

Princess Hua and Crown Prince

are still young

and have little experience.

They have done

a decent job so far.

If they accepted

the marriage proposal

by the Second Prince of Jinpo, I'm afraid

it would have long been resolved.

I have grown old.

(Virtues Are like Lingering Scent)

Pants.

Hua Yingting's pants.

One pair, two pairs,

so many pairs of pants.

Which pair has the map?

Take all of the pants!

Changkong

has finally finished the exam.

It's about time to

change back to my pants.

Who stole

all of my pants?

There're so many of you guys

yet you can't even keep my pants!

A bunch of useless people!

Don't worry, General Hua.

It may have been

the thieves in the capital.

Even if they only

stole a few pair of pants,

they must be severely punished!

How dare they steal

from the Hua family.

All I did was shout a little

in my courtyard.

How did Supreme Court

find out about what happened?

I'm so humiliated.

Why did they only

steal my pants?

(I see.)

What is so special

about father's pants?

I...

I also want to know.

Crown Prince has arrived.

Your Highness.

Your Highness.

I only lost some pants,

yet you came all the way here.

General Hua.

His Highness is

also in charge of the capital.

He needs to manage this situation.

My name has been tainted

all because of the pants!

Go on and talk!

I'm leaving!

Father.

Mother.

Song Guang.

You are a veteran.

Why are you so negligent,

lacking the basic vigilance?

You're so easily drugged.

Doesn't Hua Mansion have

a lot of traps and devices?

How were the thieves able to get in?

(Hua Mansion)

There's one thing I don't understand.

We should send the defence map

out of the capital

immediately since we

already have it.

We should wait for a while.

What if it's a fake one?

This...

Look.

Song Guang is captured.

It's proof that it is real.

How can it possibly be fake,

seriously?

What does it say?

The crown prince has sent an urgent

message to change the border defence.

(The defence map is stolen. Change it immediately.)

The messenger has been secretly stopped

by Xie Linzhou's people.

Send the defence map back to

Jinpo before the crown prince finds out.

Yes.

Wait.

How many days will this take?

If they keep going day and night,

it will take five days.

His Highness will return in a while.

Please wait for a while, Princess Hua.

Do your work.

(I hope we can win this negotiation)

(and that those people from Jinpo)

(will return home disappointed.)

(I also wish that my brother will get)

(good grades in the imperial examination.)

(I hope that the crown prince)

(and my family will be blessed.)

(I'll make a few more wishes.)

Come down!

Did I stand in the wrong place?

I was making wishes upon the rainbow

and you blocked it all.

Rainbow?

You're making wishes?

Hold on a second.

Everyone else makes wishes

upon stars at night.

What are you doing making wishes

upon a rainbow in broad daylight?

Mind your own business.

I'll mind my own business.

I'll mind my own business.

Apologise.

It's my problem.

No,

it's all my fault.

Don't apologise to me.

Apologise to that.

Rainbow,

it's my problem.

No, it's all my fault.

I was wrong.

Are you satisfied?

This is the crown prince.

He always looks so fierce

and kind of dumb.

Don't take his words too seriously.

She's right!

Rainbow!

Don't take me too seriously.

Don't take my words seriously.

Fafa likes you

even more now.

Of course,

its owner likes me so much.

Without a doubt, it'd like me even more.

By the way,

I heard that He Yuanting

already sent the fake map

to Jinpo.

Yes,

the fish has taken the bait,

but

my father suffered the most

this time.

I made my father

lose all his pants.

As his daughter,

I feel quite bad.

I will compensate General Hua.

Song has suffered though.

Thank you, Your Highness.

No need to be so polite with me.

It's my responsibility.

Liuli.

You did really well this time.

It's called hitting it off.

I will hold your hand through it all.

(Ceremonial Hall)

Officer Hua.

What do you have to say about

the Jinpo officials not arriving yet?

The Second Prince of Jinpo has arrived.

Finally.

The Second Prince of Jinpo,

you're on a high horse,

arriving so late

on the negotiation day.

Are we negotiating today?

I did not receive the notice.

I've sent someone to notify you.

Where are the other envoys?

Aren't they here?

Look.

I told you

we weren't notified.

Obviously, you guys...

Officer Zhang,

now that the main negotiator

for Jinpo has arrived,

we should get started

on the main topic right away.

Your Highness,

please.

No need to be in a hurry, Officer Hua.

The envoys of Jinpo haven't arrived.

Why are you so impatient?

I've sent people to

notify them already,

Your Highness.

Officer Hua.

The envoys of Jinpo aren't here.

They said they're free.

So they went to visit the nearby areas

to check out the local customs.

Also,

it will take them days to come back.

Well, that is quite unfortunate.

In the future, if you would like to

negotiate, please notify us beforehand,

Officer Hua.

Since we can't get anything done

today, you are all

dismissed.

We shall negotiate another day.

He Yuanting!

(Ceremonial Hall)

Please be

magnanimous today,

Princess Hua.

You should also come to terms

with reality, Your Highness.

Stop trying to stall for time

or there would be no tomorrow

after today.

Princess Hua, you are right.

According to what I see,

it may be hard to have

tomorrow after today.

There will be no tomorrow

for the State of Jin.

Why is the State of Jinpo so arrogant?

Princess Hua,

I have come today to personally

see you off as you go on to fight for the state.

Thank you so much, Great Preceptor.

As the State of Jin's

great talent, you need to assist Officer Hua.

Don't let other states

look down on us.

We will keep Great Preceptor's words in mind.

The late Emperor once said,

"Use this Emperor's Whip to

whip those who act improperly.

You can hit incompetent rulers

and treacherous officials."

After he passed away,

the Emperor's Whip

was placed in my home.

This may not be a battlefield,

but it is another battlefield.

I am giving this to you.

May you have a triumphant return.

I shall not let you down.

Your Highness,

are...

are you not heading over?

Great Preceptor is boosting

Liuli's morale in front of everyone.

I do not need to be there

at this moment.

(Ceremonial Officer) We talked about who should claim

the Qinghan steppe the last time

we postponed the negotiations.

Can Your Highness

sign the treaty now?

Jinpo

cannot agree to such a condition.

We would rather restart the war

than signing the treaty.

You have already lost.

What makes you think you can

restart the war?

The State of Jinpo has had great

achievements for hundreds of years.

This loss has affected us,

but I believe that

we still have it in us to fight.

Who cares about the hardship of war?

We will do our best to fight

to repay our state.

Your Highness,

there is nothing to negotiate

if you choose to go about your way

disregarding the people's needs.

(She must be extremely)

(anxious right now.)

(The defence map has been stolen and)

(the border situation is uncertain.)

(She should be wanting to end)

(this negotiation as soon as possible)

(I won't let her off that easily.)

(Hua Liuli.)

(You never thought that you)

(would lose this time, did you?)

Officer Hua,

you fooled me once

and I trick you once.

We're even.

The State of Jin owes nothing

to the State of Jinpo.

I owe you something.

I'm sorry to you.

It's just like how I finally understood

why you treated me like that then.

I hope that you will

understand me this time around.

(We should be able)

(to end this)

(prolonged torment today.)

(Pursue Virtue and Righteousness)

Battle report from the frontier is here.

Officer Hua, the frontier report.

Officer Hua, who do you think

won?

Of course it'd be the State of Jin.

We won.

Battle report.

Jinpo led 3,000 soldiers

on a night attack in Qinghai Prefecture.

Hua Jingyi, the eldest son of the Hua family,

led a troop that wiped out half

of the enemy, leaving a small group

who escaped back to Jinpo.

The State of Jin won.

We won!

That is so great!

We won!

Look, we won.

Your Highness.

Even though the State of Jin promotes

peace between the two states,

it does not mean that

we are afraid of fighting wars.

Don't you forget

why you came here.

The State of Jin seized

total victory in the war at year end.

The State of Jin would still have won

regardless of what happened between us.

This battle report

is the best proof of that.

Take a look.

(Battle Report)

Your Highness.

Will you sign

the treaty or not?

I'm sure you are able to come

to a decision, Your Highness.

(Peace Treaty)

(Ceremonial Hall)

(Pursue Virtues and Righteousness)

Very good.

Yes.

Master.

Master.

Master.

How did it go?

Master,

we have succeeded!

We've succeeded.

That's great.

All I wanted my entire life

was for the world

to be at peace!

- Master! - Master!

Master!

Get an imperial physician!

(Ceremonial Hall) Get an imperial physician!

Master!

Get an imperial physician!

Hua Liuli!

I want to ask you.

Where did I

go wrong

this time?

What do you think?

Hua Liuli.

Why do you fool me again and again?

Why?

Who wanted the marriage alliance?

Who wanted to live in my home?

Who was it

that schemed to steal

the defence map from my parents?

We finally were able to stop

the battle on the borders,

but you still wouldn't give up.

He Yuanting,

the defence map that you stole

was a fake one.

We'd already sent a message to

Qinghan Prefecture to warn my brother.

Of course you would lose, attacking

us using the fake defence map.

This war

was avoidable, but you

still wouldn't turn back.

That's why it ended like this.

(Pretentious Hour)

Why haven't the crown prince

and Miss come out yet?

It's too cold,

isn't it, Junior Secretary Pei?

Yuan Wei.

Thank you so much

for reminding me,

I almost forgot.

Help me to hold the umbrella.

Okay.

You don't have to do that.

Excuse me.

This persimmon tree is

precious to His Highness.

We can't let it freeze.

Pei Jihuai!

Hmph!

Yuan Wei.

♪A new song is played by my fingers♪

♪I can't talk or sleep under the moon♪

♪I'm missing someone walking around the pavilion♪

♪I can hardly tell anyone♪

♪Who will be in this mortal♪

♪Know my heart and how I cry without showing anyone♪

♪The memory has gone♪

♪Whose face is showing in my dream♪

♪How many times do I need to go through this♪

♪Crying alone in front of the window♪

♪Hearing the rain last night♪

♪But my heart will not change♪

♪The clouds are being covered by the shadow of the moon♪

♪Who is rolling up the sleeve with the wind♪

♪Not worried about the grudges but for the ones not around♪

♪Telling my sorrowfulness in Fengyi Pavilion♪

♪But it's a shame a few autumns have passed♪

♪It's hard to balance between the world and the one we love♪

♪The clouds are being covered by the shadow of the moon♪

♪I'm waiting while turning back♪

♪I sighed as the old days are no longer here anymore♪

♪How many worries are there♪

♪How many of us can grow old together♪

♪I wish you can have the world and the one you love♪

♪I wish you can have the world and the one you love♪