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"The Twin Flower Legend"

Episode 12

There's hope now!

Ms. Mu Jin.

Miss?

Only the masters...

can get to enjoy these frozen fruits.

I'll confiscate this.

Young Lord Fei Bai.

Young Lord Fei Bai.

If she comes to this medical hall again...

charge all the medicines that she takes...

to my account.

Noted on that. Thank you, Young Lord Fei Bai.

Although things got delayed,

your legs will recover in another month's time.

Really?

Yes.

Mu Jin.

All medical halls in the city do not sell gadfly.

Where did you get this?

This is a gift from Physician Lin.

Thank you.

Mu Jin.

What are you doing? Quickly get up.

Mu Jin, my sister is weak.

She needs this medicine too.

Take these to treat your sister.

Here. Quickly get up.

Take good care of her.

-Thank you, Mu Jin. -It's fine.

Our men are ready and waiting for your order.

Got it.

Once I meet Madam Lian, we'll head to the capital at once.

Keep in mind.

Don't let Madam Lian know about me going to the capital.

Don't worry, my Lord.

He's the real king of Zi Yuan.

The only person in this world who can save me...

is him.

His Majesty hasn't stated his stand on the Yuan family.

Yet, His Majesty has stripped us of all our power in the capital.

Will Yuan family...

end up like the Lian family?

Don't worry.

I'll take care of everything at Yuan mansion.

Don't think too much.

Take the medicine first.

My Lord.

I will surely give birth to a chubby son for you.

Actually, it's not such a bad idea to have daughters.

My dear.

I'll be away to the drill ground in the western suburbs...

to train a new battle array.

While I'm away,

I'll need your help...

to ensure things are in order in Zi Yuan.

Don't worry, my Lord.

All right.

Drink up.

In these troubled times for the Yuan family,

why would his Lordship ask you to lead the troops into the capital?

No.

Going to the capital at this time is the best strategy.

Mu Jin, great minds think alike.

But Dou Ying Hua is a man with wild ambition.

We have to guard against him.

Brother Ming Lei.

I have a perfect plan.

I pledge my life to serve the Yuan family.

Please take me along to the capital.

I know going to the capital will put my life at stake.

But if the Yuan family hadn't saved me back then,

I would have starved to death on the streets.

This is all not true from your heart.

That's right. I couldn't reconcile myself to it.

As candidates who passed the exam,

why can't women aim for greater heights?

If we go...

we might not come back alive.

I'd rather risk my life than to resign to my fate!

Whether your Lordship hold me in high regard or not,

thank you for saving me.

All right.

Let's see...

if your life was worthy to be saved.

Step out of the way.

It's indeed a good idea.

How much can you store in this little mind of yours?

You should be his Lordship's secretary.

I'm a woman. I'm not an ambitious person.

All I hope is that you can set the world on fire,

and achieve great accomplishments.

Mu Jin!

Jin Xiu?

I'm leaving.

Why are you standing outside? Come on in.

Your clothes are covered in dirt.

When will you learn to look after yourself?

Jin Xiu, you're here.

I'm going to the capital with his Lordship tonight.

Take good care of Bi Ying.

-You're going to the capital as well? -As well?

Is Brother Ming Lei going as well?

I don't know how he persuaded his Lordship to let him participate.

There's danger lurking everywhere.

Be sure to stay united with Brother Ming Lei.

-You think I'm not as good as him. -I...

Jin Xiu, this isn't the time to let emotions cloud your judgement.

You have to listen to Mu Jin.

I want to rise above the crowd.

I won't let Mu Jin stay in the General Affairs Bureau forever.

I want you to have the best life.

These are all material things.

I don't want anything.

I can stay here for as long as I have to.

It's fine doing hard labour.

What matters is you're safe and sound.

I'm leaving.

Yet, you still didn't come.

I wonder if I could see you again...

after I leave.

But I want to make it to the top...

even if it means dying in a foreign land.

Only then...

you'll be able to notice me.

All those who enter the city for the Martial Examination...

have been replaced with our assassins.

Tomorrow, all the guards at Sima Gate...

will be our men.

The people of the Yuan family who came to take part in the exam...

have been taken care of.

After tomorrow...

the world belongs to the Fourth Prince.

-Sister Bi Ying, what's the matter? -I...

The Martial Examination is around the corner.

But the ambitious Dou Ying Hua and Zhang Shi Xian,

are helping the Fourth Prince to usurp the throne.

Mu Jin, will Brother Ming Lei and Brother Fei Yan be in danger?

I've told Brother Ming Lei the layout of the plan in detail.

Given Brother Ming Lei's intelligence and Brother Fei Yan's skills,

they will return triumphantly.

Greetings, Your Majesty!

Long live Your Majesty!

Your Majesty.

All the candidates for the Martial Examination are present.

I, Pan Zheng Yue,

is the examination officer!

All of you have drawn lots.

The order of competition will be determined...

based on the lots drawn.

Team up and fight in groups of two.

The Martial Examination...

begins now!

Your Majesty.

-Please forgive me. -Lowly servant, leave!

Your Majesty.

I feel so exhausted.

I'm afraid I'm might be getting heatstroke.

May I excuse myself?

Sure, your health is more important.

You're dismissed.

Thank you, Your Majesty.

Protect His Majesty!

Yu, be sure to perform well in front of your father.

Leave!

It's 11 am now.

What about it?

At this time, Young Lord Fei Qing and Brother Fei Yan as the vanguards,

should be staying close by His Majesty's side...

to strike back on Dou Ying Hua and Zhang Shi Xian.

Yu Fei Yan of the Yuan family is late to Your Majesty's rescue!

Please forgive me!

Zhang Shi Xian!

You traitor!

Although Dou Ying Hua's people have been placed,

at the gate of Bian City and Sima Gate,

they wouldn't have thought...

that Brother Fei Yan has led the Dark Army into the city.

Once the competition starts,

even if all of Dou Ying Hua's troops are within Sima Gate,

the Yuan family's Dark Army is already in action.

Brother Ming Lei will lead the troops all the way into Sima Gate.

Ming Lei.

I'm Song Ming Lei. Sorry for coming late.

Your Majesty, leave!

What did you say?

Based on my speculation,

there are palaces around the observation deck.

Dou Ying Hua and Zhang Shi Xian must have set up an ambush...

as the final obstacle.

But people often pursue a narrow gain while neglecting a greater danger.

To win,

one must consider the possibility of dangers from all directions.

-My Lord, let's go! -Let's go!

Feng Ding.

Your arm.

It was His Lordship who helped to treat it.

I'm his secret guard.

Hurry! Go save His Majesty!

I, Yuan Qing Jiang, came late to Your Majesty's rescue!

Please punish me.

All rise!

Song Ming Lei.

-Yes! -Kill the rebels!

-Leave no survivors! -Yes!

After them!

Quickly leave.

Hurry.

-Leave! Hurry! -Mother.

It's you!

It's all your fault that I ended up like this.

I'm going to kill you!

I'll kill you!

I'll kill you!

Even if you kill me.

you wouldn't be able to escape from His Majesty's punishment.

I'll wait for you...

on the way to hell.

At this point,

why don't you think of a way to turn the tables around?

Stop! After him!

-Stop! -Don't run!

Stop! After him!

-Stop! Don't run! -Help me!

Everyone has to the right to kill the traitors.

There's one more of them!

I'm killing the rebels!

Prime Minister Dou killed the rebel.

It's a merit to the country.

Prime Minister Dou, please come with me to see His Majesty.

All right.

Your Majesty.

I, hereby, offer the head of the one who tried to usurp the throne.

Dou helped to take down the rebels.

All credit goes to you.

Your Majesty.

There are many doubtful points about the Sima Gate rebellion.

Although Zhang Shi Xian was the Duke of Chuanyong,

he was just a civil servant.

He didn't have the ability to control the imperial guards.

The mastermind is someone else.

In your opinion,

who's the mastermind behind...

The Sima Gate rebellion?

Your Highness.

Why don't you tell us?

His Majesty managed to tide over the crisis...

all because His Majesty is the rightful emperor...

and has the Mandate of Heaven.

The rebels plotted to usurp the throne,

to take over the country.

Who will be the one...

to benefit from it?

Your Majesty!

The Fourth Prince asked to seek an audience with Your Majesty,

with a skewer loaded with human heads.

-Send him in. -Yes.

Father!

I deserve to die!

I just found out...

about the Sima Gate rebellion!

Father!

I...

These heads...

are the heads of the rebel remnants from mother's palace.

Mother.

How many times have I told you?

All the wealth and power...

couldn't be compared to the bond between my father and me!

The one sitting up there...

is my father.

Mother, why did you do all this behind my back?

Are you trying to force me to be unfaithful and unfilial?

Father!

I don't deserve to call you that.

Your Majesty.

How many in this world...

who would be able to place righteousness before family?

The Fourth Prince is one righteous man.

Stand up!

You're an unfilial son.

In the past ten years,

I did everything I could...

and finally managed to bribe,

the imperial guards with an enormous amount of money...

and plotted all this with my brother...

and have blood on my hands!

I did all this for you...

so that you can ascend the throne sooner.

But you unfilial son!

In the end, you want to have your own family punished?

Screw the bond between father and son!

All the petty kindness!

Father!

The heaven and earth can bear witness to my heart!

Father, please punish me.

People!

That being said...

you're the one behind this?

If that's the case, who was behind Empress Lian's death...

the Third Prince's imprisonment,

and the property seizure of Lian family?

It was all me!

You wicked woman!

The Zhang family attempted to commit treason.

All shall be sentenced to death!

Your Majesty.

The Fourth Prince is a talented man who has rendered great service.

Besides, he scrupulously abides by the father-son relationship.

That proves his filial piety.

I beg Your Majesty to go easy on him.

The Fourth Prince, Xuan Fu Yu,

failed to detect his mother's treachery.

He's to be punished with 50 strokes of cane!

Father, thank you for sparing my life.

Drag him out.

Execute all the rebels who surrender.

Release the Third Prince, Xuan Fu Che, at once...

and announce to the world...

to right things for the Lian family.

As for the Sima Gate rebellion...

the Yuan and Dou families...

have rendered great service.

Yuan family.

Yes.

I bestow Yuan Qing Jiang the title as the Duke Wu of Jin.

Thank you, Your Majesty.

-Yuan Fei Qing. -Yes.

I shall bestow you a royal wedding with Princess Shu Qi.

Thank you, Your Majesty.

I shall bestow Dou Ying Hua...

the title as Duke Yang of Huai.

Thank you, Your Majesty.

Pan Zheng Yue.

Yes.

You shall be made the General of the Imperial Guard.

Thank you, Your Majesty.

Yu Fei Yan.

I'll award you the title as the Martial Art Scholar of the year,

and appoint you as the fourth rank General of Tiger's Might.

Thank you, Your Majesty.

Your Majesty.

Yu Fei Yan is a rare talent.

Right now, we have enemies on all sides.

Yue Prefecture's general position is vacant.

I would like to recommend Yu Fei Yan...

for the position as Colonel of Fei Calvary...

to lead 5,000 Tianwei Army,

to defend Yue Prefecture against Wu Yue.

Your Majesty, Yu Fei Yan has never been to war.

He's still a bit wet behind the ears...

and couldn't take up such a huge responsibility.

No one's born a general.

Just get on the battlefield and he'll learn.

Your Majesty is wise.

Thank you, Your Majesty.

The war situation in the southern states of Wu and Chu is intense.

It's no surprise if one dies on the battlefield.

General Yu.

Will you hold a grudge against me for the recommendation I made?

If I can give my life on the battlefield,

I can die without regrets.

General Pan, thank you for the recommendation.

The Yuan family...

will surely repay your favour...

with meritorious service.

Thank you for putting in good words for me.

I won't let you down.

How's your injury?

Thank you for your concern. It's just a minor injury.

I'm fine.

A man who is never content is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant.

Greed destroys everyone.

Noble Consort Zhang is not the only greedy one.

Did they take me for a fool? That I didn't see through their plan?

Is that why Your Majesty conferred Dou Ying Hua and Yuan Qing Jiang...

with the same title?

We must guard against Dou Ying Hua.

But Yuan Qing Jiang is in power now.

He's not to be underestimated.

Only by having both of them checking each other...

can we sit on our hands.

After the Sima Gate victory,

his Lordship rewarded Song Ming Lei and Yu Fei Yan...

with 1,000 gold at the celebration feast in the capital...

and even commended Yuan Fei Qing and Fei Bai for nurturing good talent.

His Lordship will reward both West and East Battalions when he's back.

How about Hua Jin Xiu?

She's rewarded with hundreds of taels...

and conferred the title as the first rank Martial Art Maiden.

Yu Fei Yan assists the East Battalion, and Song Ming Lei the West Battalion.

Right now, they have the support from Hua Bin's daughters.

Of course they'll do great.

But as long as we get rid of Xiao Wu Yi...

the wings for both the East and West Battalions...

will be broken.

Mu Tou Hua, you seem happy.

Sister Bi Ying has recovered after taking two doses of medicine.

-The gadfly really works. -For real?

Mu Jin, that's awesome!

Chu Hua, are you looking for me?

Madam Lian would like to see you.

Madam Lian?

Greetings, Madam Lian.

Hua Mu Jin, do you recognise this?

Yes, it's the gadfly.

Hua Mu Jin.

There's no grudge...

between my baby and you.

Why did you ask someone...

to use the drug against him?

I've never thought of hurting anyone.

It's been ten years since I got married into the Yuan family.

It wasn't easy for me to become pregnant.

But lately, I felt uneasy with the fetal movement.

If my servant hadn't found out in time...

who would have known that you added gadfly...

in my medicine to prevent miscarriage.

Gadfly has cold and poisonous properties.

Good for blood stasis and injury such as contusion from fall.

However, it's prohibited against pregnant women.

Madam, please know this.

Sister Bi Ying hasn't been feeling well lately.

The physician said we need to use gadfly as medicine.

Madam, I can vouch for her.

Hibiscus asked for this medicine to treat my sickness,

not to use it against the unborn child.

Shut up! I didn't ask you to speak!

Madam, please calm down.

I was only using gadfly to treat Sister Bi Ying's blood stasis.

No other intention.

Of course you wouldn't admit it.

But you're the only one in the entire Zi Yuan...

who has the gadfly that's sold out in the entire city.

Where did these gadfly come from?

Who's behind this?

Tell me!

Otherwise...

you and Yao Bi Ying...

will be caned to death!

Madam, please know this.

Even if I'm the only one in Zi Yuan who has the gadfly,

I'm just a servant.

Without the official pass, I couldn't even enter Rong Bao Hall...

what more tampering with your medicine.

Yuan Wu's younger sister...

is a maid at Rong Bao Hall.

So you bribed him...

and colluded with him to add poison in Madam Lian's medicine.

This is his testimony.

What else do you have to say?

That's not right.

I felt sorry because her sickness is similar to Sister Bi Ying's.

That's why I gave him some gadfly.

Madam, you can ask Yuan Wu here and I can confront him face to face.

Yuan Wu?

Madam is not feeling well lately.

She couldn't stand the stench of blood.

Right now, Yuan Wu...

might not be able to come here to have a confrontation with you.

You...

You executed severe punishment on Yuan Wu?

Hua Mu Jin, stop pretending.

Who was behind this?

Was it you or Xiao Wu Yi?

Or someone else? Spill!

I swear to God...

Xiao Wu Yi and I...

don't have any ill intentions towards Madam.

If there is, I'm at your disposal.

But if anyone sets up me...

I'll curse that person...

to be disdained by all!

Hua Mu Jin, how dare you!

How dare you curse in Rong Bao Hall?

Don't get carried away simply because his Lordship...

thinks highly of Xiao Wu Yi.

It looks like you refuse to submit even unto death.

I didn't do it.

Why should I admit it?

Madam, the prescription should still be in the little cottage.

You can send someone to search,

and you'll know if I was lying.

I knew you would say that.

I've sent someone to search for it.

Madam, Huai An just returned from his search at the little cottage.

Send him in and we'll know.