The Legend of Hao Lan (Mou Qin / 皓镧传)

~ Moonrise by Lu Hu & Huang Yali ~

The Legend of Hao Lan

Episode 58

When Royal Father passed away, you did not shed a single tear.

It attracted a widespread of discussion in the late king's palace.

Now you want to incinerate the treasures that he bestowed to you.

Do you really want the whole world to talk about you?

Bestow? Yes..

He is the high and mighty King of Qin.

The gift that he gave me can only be called bestowed.

The king bestows.

Who dares to refuse? I dare to!

Burn it!

Mother!

Burn everything!

- Mother! - Don't leave a single one!

Mother! How can you be so heartless?

This is between your Royal Father and me. You don't have a say in it!

Mother! I beg you!

Zheng'er, don't tell me you believe in the rumors, too?

You believe that your mother is an emotionless woman?

No. She is just the opposite and is too emotional.

I just don't want others to gossip about Mother behind her back.

Furthermore, I don't want her to become the target of the people.

Aunt Chun, can you please go help me look at Mother? Would you?

Zhao Gao.

Please speak, Your Majesty.

Whoever gossips about the queen, kill.

Yes.

All of you, whoever dares to leak a word out, I will kill without hesitation.

Yes.

Continue.

Royal Father.

Zheng'er misses you.

Haolan, there is an old saying.

I know it is useless but I still want to say it.

The deceased is gone, please don't grieve too much.

Do you think I am sad?

No. I am not sad at all.

Haolan.

It's been eight years.

The life of my son and I have constantly been threatened.

You have experienced with us the time when we lived an inhuman life.

Who would understand it better than you?

Since I've entered the Qin, he told me to learn the Qin law.

I understand.

He wants me to love Qin like my homeland.

To love the Qin citizens like my own children.

I accomplished it.

But what about him?

He promised to respect me, to trust me.

When danger was imminent, he pushed me far away.

Did he think that I would be grateful?

Haolan, the King did that because he had no choice.

That night,

I waited outside for him the whole night.

In the end, what did I wait for?

He still left me alone outside.

He wouldn't even see me for the last time.

Yes,

he is worried about the matters of the State of Qin.

He is worried about the young prince.

He didn't have any time left for me.

He didn't even have time to say the last words to me.

I understand him.

He is the king of the State of Qin.

He doesn't only belong to me.

But he left a will.

To burn all of his relics.

He's not even giving me a chance to remember him.

Fine. If he wants to burn it,

then burn it all.

Even the present that he gave me and our affections for each other,

lets burn it all.

Haolan.

Zichu.

I will not forgive you.

For the rest of my life,

I will not forgive you.

Xiaochun, I'm tired.

I want to rest.

Go back.

Your highness, it's time. All the chancellors are still waiting outside.

To congratulate your highness on your succession.

Let's wait a bit more.

I have already sent someone to Yongmen Palace.

I'm afraid that it will not be good to miss the time of the ceremony.

Your highness, the ceremony should start.

The great queen has arrived.

Mother.

Mother.

Mother. Please sit.

Zheng'er. Today is the day of your succession.

Come.

All ministers, greet the new king!

Congratulations to our king for your succession to the throne!

Your Majesty, may you be limitless for years to come!

May you be limitless for years to come!

May you be limitless for years to come!

You may all rise.

Your Majesty, thank you.

Ministers, enter the palace to offer your gifts.

Empress Dowager, even if I have committed any crimes, there would be the Great Qin Law to mete punishment on me.

What's your intent in interrogating the criminal in private?

General Bai.

Withdrawing the army from the Southern Province and leaving the people behind without any protection,

leaving the army stranded in Xianyang, and coercing His Majesty to command the ministers,

do you know you were wrong?

A woman who has been living in the inner palace for a long time, how would she know what's right or wrong? It's laughable.

General Bai, your luck is no longer good.

When you run into me during my unfavorable state of mind,

you would be flogged eighty times before you can talk.

His Majesty has overindulged Your Highness

and that gave you the boldness to meddle with the criminal process.

According to the Great Qin convention,

before the new king is crowned,

matters of the imperial court is to be decided by the empress dowager.

Not to mention having you flogged eighty times.

Even if I were to have you flogged to death, who would dare to question?

Beat!

It is considered heartless to desert the people of the Southern Province;

it is considered unrighteous to recklessly kill the good people;

it is considered unfilial to abandon your father's wishes;

it is disloyal to coerce His Majesty.

You are a disloyal, unfilial, heartless and unrighteous person.

What qualifies you to make noise in front of me?

Do you believe if I were to throw you back into the Southern Province now,

the people would tear you up into pieces.

That illustrious father of yours with an outstanding military service,

even though he is dead and buried deeply underground, he would be disgraced by you.

Just kill me right away

and let me be happily contented!

Death?

Death is the easiest task in the world.

Lord Wu An had been fighting wars his whole life.

He expanded boundaries for the Qin State and shed blood in the battlegrounds.

The reputation and glory he had earned

would be tainted because of you.

You don't think of helping your father to scrub off the humiliation and disgrace he had suffered,

but only think about seeking personal vengeance, and now even want to end it all with death?

Fine. I'll grant you your wish.

Drag General Bai to the city,

read the charges of his crimes out loud in public,

then let this old man of Qin take his own life.

Actually, I really want to see

how the people of the Great Qin would treat a treasonous official.

When you descend to the underground, how you would face your father,

face those in your Bai Clan who died because of you,

face those departed spirits of the innocents who died tragically at the Southern Province!

Go then!

Empress Dowager! I know I'm wrong.

I know I'm wrong!

The Great Qin is my country and my home

His Majesty is the one I've pledged an oath to be loyal to all my life.

I shouldn't have focused on seeking personal vengeance and forgotten all about righteousness.

Please give me another chance.

I swear I'd be loyal and devote my lifetime to serve you.

So long as I can scrub off my humiliation and disgrace in the battlegrounds.

Can I still believe in you?

If I were to violate my oath,

I'd be shot in the heart by random arrows and die without my body intact (suffer a tragic death)!

Good.

From now on, you will no longer be the heroic general in the battlegrounds,

but just a military master, Wei Liao, who would teach His Majesty military skills.

Empress Dowager.

This is your only chance.

Whether you are able to grab hold of it, it's all up to you.

Official Wei Liao sincerely accepts Empress Dowager's decree.

Yin Xiaochun!

In my lifetime, you're the first woman I trust greatly.

Why did you betray me?

Clearly, you've promised me

What is love?

It's but a game to idly while away one's time.

Also, what does one live for?

It's to achieve one's dream and worth.

Everything else is secondary.

General Bai, that's what you said before.

Your dream is to kill Lu Buwei.

but mine is to cure patients and save people.

We are not allies.

Why should I help you?

Are you taking vengeance on me?

I suppose that year when I killed Zhao Yi,

you've plotted step by step to make me fall in love with you gradually.

and then pushed me down ruthlessly from high up in the clouds.

You are seeking revenge for him!

No!

When two armies are at battle, it is based on their respective strategy.

One dies, so the other lives.

That was his fate. I don't blame anyone.

But you shouldn't devalue my feelings.

Nor denigrate women.

In your eyes,

women can betray even their best friends for the sake of love.

They would do anything for the men they love.

Let me tell you, you underestimate me too much.

I've known Haolan for 15 years.

We've been through ups and downs in the worst turbulence.

Even if you put all the world's men together,