01x08 - Episode 8

[bunniefuu]

♪ From our first sight to your fading face ♪

♪ Fleeting fate, like a dream we can't embrace ♪

♪ Who squandered that heart-fluttering chase? ♪

♪ Only a silhouette is left ♪

♪ The ripples of time, interwoven ♪

♪ Flowing through my palm ♪

♪ Leaving deep wounds behind ♪

♪ I gaze out, through mist and rain ♪

♪ But cannot attain your horizon ♪

♪ Worldly charm fades in comparison ♪

♪ To your sweetest words ♪

♪ Wind on my cheek ♪

♪ Stirs up tangled thoughts ♪

♪ I can't let go ♪

= Money is Coming =

= Episode 8 =

Pardon my forwardness in inviting you.

I hope you won't take offense.

You're too kind, Mr. Bai.

I must thank you for speaking up for me
at His Majesty's birthday banquet.

Princess Jielan insulted the Crown Prince.

After all, I am his uncle.

How could I stand by

and watch her act out?

I thought you're not on good terms
with the Crown Prince

just like the rumor has it.

Are you trying to trap me
into saying something?

Your Grace, you should know

why our family and the Crown Prince

are not on good terms.

In fact, the Liu Kingdom

did not insist on taking
the Crown Prince as a hostage.

There was room for negotiation.

So why did the Duke of State
insist on sending him?

Because of military power.

What were the terms?

Hand over the command of 200,000 troops
or send the Crown Prince as a hostage.

One of the two had to be chosen.

So the Duke of State chose the troops

and gave up the Crown Prince?

That's right.

Father said the family must come first.

My eldest sister is the Empress

and her children are all legitimate heirs.

Any one of them

could be made Crown Prince.

I was only 13 at the time.

I hid in the corner of the study

and heard my father and sister argue.

Father, Xingheng is only five years old.

You want him to be sent
as a hostage to Liu Kingdom?

That'd be like sending him to his death!

You're just overly compassionate.

If we relinquish military power,

that would truly bring doom upon us.

But he is the Crown Prince!

He is your own grandson!

How could you bear it?

Muxia, you are still young.

You will have more children.

All your children
can become the Crown Prince.

Since that day,

my sister was constantly melancholy.

She felt guilty towards Xiao Xingheng.

A year before Xiao Xingheng returned,

my sister was pregnant again.

But at six months pregnant,
she died from excessive blood loss

due to premature birth.

The child...

His Majesty didn't want this child.

My sister also felt that the child's birth

would lead the Bai family
to abandon Xiao Xingheng.

It was His Majesty.

His Majesty hadn't even acted yet.

It was my eldest sister.

That day, she overheard from Father

that Xiao Xingheng
was living poorly in Liu Kingdom,

even suffering humiliation.

She decided to hit her head
on the corner of a table to lose the child.

How ironic.

My sister followed the rules in life.

She didn't dare defy Father

and gave up on Xiao Xingheng.

In the end,

she became brave enough
to sacrifice her life

to protect Xiao Xingheng.

[It turns out there were
so many hidden stories]

[behind Xiao Xingheng's
hostage years and return.]

Why are you telling me this?

At the banquet that day,
Xiao Xingheng signaled to me

to help you.

I knew then

he has special feelings for you.

Then you must also know

about Xiao Xingheng's poisoning.

He said it was an old ailment,

but didn't really hide it.

I guess he might have been poisoned.

Then do you know why he was poisoned?

Xiao Xingheng, he

has had a very difficult life these years.

Can you imagine?

A five-year-old child
was constantly starving.

[Young Xiao Xingheng]
He was trapped in a dungeon,

fighting with insects and rats for food.

He was once Great Li's

Crown Prince.

Father, Mother, I don't want to leave!

I don't want to leave!

I will study and train harder.

I won't slack off anymore, Father.

I don't want to leave! Please!

He is the Crown Prince
abandoned by his homeland.

So thin and small.

He looks lowly.

No wonder his parents didn't love him
and sent him here to be a punching bag.

Look at him, not daring to fight back.

He's truly a coward.

Just looking at him makes me angry.

And they say he's the Crown Prince.

[Father,]

[Mother,]

[I'm in so much pain.]

[Have you truly abandoned me?]

[I miss you so much.]

[Why did you leave me?]

[Why?]

[I cannot die yet.]

[I must not let them triumph.]

[I will survive and return.]

[I will demand to know why.]

[I must survive and return.]

Xiao Xingheng was caught off guard

and forced to drink poisoned wine.

He endured excruciating pain every day.

[I cannot die yet.]

[I must not let them win.]



[to ask why.]

What happened then?
They didn't get punished?

They were all princes
and princesses of Liu Kingdom.

How could we punish them?

But he chose another way

to return the humiliation.

Later, on the b*ttlefield in Liu Kingdom,

he fought instinctively

through mountains of corpses
and seas of blood.

Those were bloody and tragic scenes.

Every inch of his skin,

and every bone was torn apart,

mended, and torn apart again.

Repeatedly, until the pain was unbearable.

He endured every relapse
of poisoning in solitude.

His eyes grew colder and more bloodthirsty.

Like an Asura from hell,

he's determined to tear apart all the darkness
and conspiracies of the world.

He captured seven cities of the Liu Kingdom,

forcing them to surrender
and willingly become a vassal state of Great Li,

paying tribute to us every year.

Your Highness, wake up! What's wrong?

Your Highness. Your Highness, what's wrong?

Wake up.

It's okay, it's okay now.

From now on,

as long as I'm Great Li's Crown Prince,

those people will have to bow before me.

He completed his revenge in his own way.

He is a person of extraordinary talent,

whether as a general

or as a Crown Prince.

So

he indeed has a strained
relationship with our family.

But as his uncle,

I'm on good terms with him.



[that Xiao Xingheng likes sweet things.]

[Is it because his past was so bitter]

[that he now craves sweetness?]

Over the years, Xiao Xingheng

has endured too much hardship.

As his uncle, no matter how much I try
to make amends, I cannot give him back

the vibrant youth he deserved.

But I can see

he treats you differently.

I hope you can make the rest of his life

a bit sweeter.

It's for you.

For me?

Yes.

I passed Jiqing Workshop on my way here,
and heard some vendors shouting,

so I bought one on a whim.

It's very sweet. Thank you.

I really like it.

But why did you suddenly give me a gift?

[I couldn't say]



[and felt sympathy for you.]

You were just staring at me in a daze,

as if you wanted to
devour me alive with that gaze.

And now you're giving me
such a thoughtful gift.

Could it be that

you have feelings for me?

[Register]

You're reading too much into it.

You just said I looked handsome,

and now you say I read too much into it.

Could it be that my appearance
has now withered

and no longer pleases you?

You're gentle and refined,

with a noble bearing.

So that's how I look in your eyes.

Alright, enough teasing.

Don't forget about the banquet
the day after tomorrow.

What?

Did you promise His Majesty
to host some farewell party?

Are you well enough?

I've been sick for too long.

It's time to recover.

[Otherwise, the ministers might soon forget]

[Great Li still has a Crown Prince.]

[Xingchen Palace]
Remember to come early tomorrow.

Why should I come early?

Just come.

Don't forget.

Okay.

♪ Just a glance, and the world ♪

♪ Becomes no longer bright ♪

♪ Unknowingly, we're bound ♪

♪ By a thread of red ♪

♪ Let's face the world's perils together ♪

♪ Before petals fall, fall in love again ♪

♪ Like the wind entwining with you ♪

♪ Crossed through the vast lands ♪

♪ And the crowds ♪

♪ In this life, deep feelings
can't fit in a short letter ♪

♪ After all the world's splendor I've seen ♪

♪ Your face is what I love the most ♪

♪ All the memories ♪

♪ Are flashing back ♪

♪ Whether forever or just a moment ♪

♪ What remains is called longing ♪

♪ Wishing to be by your side, for eternity ♪