Untouchable Lovers (凤囚凰)

Untouchable lovers

Episode 43

Why did you insist on having a competition with Huo Xuan?

Why wouldn't it be good?

What do you treat me as? Am I not a human?

Haven't I got the power and privilege to choose for myself?

An independent choice? You naturally don't have one.

Chuyu!

Rong Zhi, it's not because of you that I accepted this competition with Huo Xuan.

All the people in the capital are looking down on me, belittling me,

telling me that this Liu Song princess is no mate, not fit to attend Great Wei's noble Prince Regent.

Certainly I, in the same way, need proof to supply for the benefit of those onlookers,

that I am not a useless person, and that I do understand some matters,

have I somehow not deserved to have a man to stand next to on this earth?

No matter what, immediately stop this competition.

But His Majesty has already given the decree. Everyone on the streets knows about it now. How are you going to stop the competition?

Chuyu, you can't beat her.

Do you know how strong Huo Xuan's fighting skills are,

what kind of training she received since she was little?

If you insist on competing, you surely will be paying an unimaginable price.

That's right! Her martial arts skills are outstanding and she's very smart.

She even can train soldiers to fight battles. Even men willingly submit to her.

But I'm not that bad either, right?

I believe that as long as I work hard, I surely will have a chance to compete with her on even footing.

That's why even if I lose, I must lose after competing,

and not because I feared her when the competition hadn't started yet. That's an act of a coward.

Also, I am grateful that you sent Her Highness the Empress Dowager there to help me out of that difficult situation.

But I've already made a pact with her, and will not take it back.

No need for you to be bothered by this.

What's the first round about?

Competing on wealth.

His Majesty gave me and Huo Xuan one thousand gold coins each.

He wanted us to spend this money on items

to be given to the citizens on his behalf.

Whoever has the item considered to be worth the most and would attract the most number of people, she's the victor.

Fengya Court

Everyone! Come look!

These are gifts given by His Majesty to the Wei citizens!

Place them.

It's coming down...

Look...

Fengya ("Elegance") Court

Everyone, hurry up!

These are the gifts!

It's silver! Mine! Don't compete with me!

Silver! This is mine!

This is mine! Thank you, Your Majesty!

General Huo, I'll wait for your answer!

So she didn't really think of shopping to buy anything,

but converted the entire amount of the gold into silver boats.

This way, it will be lively and auspicious.

What matter can create a better atmosphere like this?

Thank you, Your Majesty!

I have an idea now.

Huo Xuan!

Why did you bring me here?

Is General Huo answering my challenge here?

The Prince Regent's Consort just needs to continue watching and you'll understand.

The General is here.

Such a magnificent sight of golden rain.

Prince Regent's Consort, this is the gift that the General prepared.

I once heard that there was a rich salt merchant who wanted to spend ten thousand in gold.

His retainers then used this gold to buy golden leaves

and piled them up into a golden mountain. When the wind blew, they all got blown away in an instant.

It flew among the grasses and the trees and couldn't be recovered.

I initially thought it was just a legend.

Never thought that I'd be seeing a real one.

I'm sure that General Huo did a lot of work to turn the gold into golden leaves.

General Huo! You are the victor for this round!

I admit defeat!

Taihua Palace

I heard that Chuyu directly admitted defeated in the first round of competing with wealth.

Yes. I released some silver boats by the river

and indeed attracted several citizens.

But General Huo's golden rain has attracted half of Pingcheng.

For this round, no need for Your Majesty to judge it. I accept my defeat.

The Princess Consort is quite practical.

Your Majesty, isn't it?

If you're to win, you should win beautifully. If you're to lose, you should lose in a fitting manner.

But a competition is a competition. There should be a victor.

Since the winner for the first round has been determined, let's start the second round.

May Your Majesty give the topic.

Royal Mother, you give the topic for this round.

In the first round, you competed about wealth. I'll be clever then.

- For the second round, compete about poverty. - How are we competing with that?

Each of you must look for an impoverished individual within Pingcheng.

Within ten days, you must make them rich.

There are no limits in the method you can use.

What Your Highness the Empress Dowager means...

you want us to compete in terms of our wealth?

Of course, it's not asking you to directly give them money,

but to rely on your intelligence in helping those poor and dejected people.

How about it? Can you two do it?

General Huo's Manor

Where are you going?

To an appointment.

You have so many things to handle in your military camp, yet you just leave them like that.

You instead choose to go crazy with a childish lady.

Do you want people to say that you're similar to her, unruly and insensible?

Why are you so mad?

You're blaming us for treating you as a stake?

Or you're afraid that I'll bully Chuyu?

Huo Xuan!

Don't worry. My martial arts skills are better than hers and I've been on the battlefields often.

It can't be helped for me to win without fighting much in that aspect.

I've already offered the condition that we won't compete in martial arts nor military strategy.

We will just compete based on intelligence and problem-solving skills.

Why are you still worried then?

But you two have caused a great ruckus about this. How then will you both properly close it?

Then is the Prince Regent afraid that I will give up on you if I lose,

or afraid that Chuyu will leave Pingcheng?

What really do you want to say?

In my memory, there were never an instance that you got speechless.

Was I able to to guess what your heart's desire is?

Huo Xuan, I hope that you think about this clearly.

If Chuyu loses, she surely will leave Pingcheng.

Have you thought about it? She's the Prince Regent's Consort. How then can she return to her homeland?

If you lose, with your proud personality, you surely will just put down everything and leave. What about the Huo Army then?

A dispute caused by personal feelings like this is meaningless.

Maybe in the eyes of others, it is indeed like that.

But Rong Zhi, you are my reason for fighting.

A long time ago, I already knew that you would be my husband.

That's why I made your dream my dream,

I made your goal my goal.

As long it was you who hoped for me to accomplish something, I would do anything to fulfill it.

I wouldn't even ask for reasons.

This time, can you please consider things

from my standpoint?

Huo Xuan...

My soldiers are watching. The whole city of Pingcheng is watching! I must compete!

And I must defeat Chuyu.

Become your wife in an open and above-board manner.

No matter who,

not even you, can't stop me from doing it.

Okay. I understand now.

From now on, I won't meddle with your affairs anymore.

Thanks.

Who do you think I should look for?

Qingyue!

- Let go of me! Let go of me! - What's going on?

Let go!

You little thief, you dare to steal from me?

You look rich anyway, while I'm about to starve to death.

Will giving me some cause you to lose any flesh? Stingy ghost!

Everyone, come look! They are bullying me! Quickly come!

Let go of me!

Let go!

Uncles and aunties, I haven't had any parents since I was little.

I was just too hungry, that's why I committed a mistake.

I didn't mean to do it...

Let me go...

Lady, let's settle this amicably. Don't use force.

That's right. He's still a child.

- It's bad for the strong to bully the weak. - He's emaciated from too much hunger.

He probably just had a moment of wrong decision.

Just forgive him this time.

Look at your clothing. Just one look and we know that you're from a rich family.

What's wrong with giving someone charity once in a while?

Pitying the weak is a normal human affection.

But stealing just because of being poor

and getting forgiven because of being pitiful,

then everyone should just stop working hard.

All of you just go steal. Anyway, when one is poor,

stealing is reasonable. Anyway, I can cry, so I'm not afraid even if I got arrested.

Why do you talk like that? We're just helping out.

But the reason you wanted to tell me earlier was clearly

that I should share him my wealth because I'm rich, and that he should be spared because he's pitiful.

If I don't let him go and even take him to the local court,

you all will say that I don't have any charitable heart.

Let me ask you all then. Did the money of rich people just fall down from the sky?

They should get robbed, is that it?

You all earlier not only stopped me from catching a thief,

you even forced me to get money from my pouch to give to him as alms.

How can there be such a logic in this world!

Those who doesn't work, will not have any food to eat.

Those who are lazy and keep playing underhanded tricks will be poor for a lifetime.

Not only can I not let you go, I must even teach you a lesson. Come with me.

- Painful... - She's too unreasonable...

Lady, I just took your item earlier.

I already returned it to you!

How come you still won't let me go?

I initially wanted to let you go, but you not only refused to admit your mistake,

you even cried, shouted, and begged for those people to pity you.

Okay. I'm going to take you to the local court.

No, Lady! Don't take me to the local court!

I won't dare to do it anymore! I was just too hungry earlier.

I promise that there won't be a next time.

You don't want to go to the local court?

Okay. That's okay too.

Help me with something.

What do you want me to do?

You tell me.

I won't sell my body!

You wish. You think I would like you?

Brother Li!

Brother Li, take these medicines.

Take care of your wounds when you go back home. Once you're done with them, just come back to me to get more.

- Okay... Thank you, Brother Gu. Thank you. - Go now. - He's there! Hurry!

Who told you not to pay your debts...

- What are you men doing? - Kick him!