Good Bye My Princess (Dong Gong / 东宫)

Sir.

What do you find out?

Right at the outskirt of the capital. Li Yan is audacious enough.

He put the copper coin refining workshop near the practice arena for Tongchang residential guarding troops

He really knows to pick a location.

Tongchang residential guarding troops.

That's Lord Zhong's manor guards.

No wonder we can't find anything searching the city upside down.

Li Yan and the Crown Prince have closed that workshop.

Now that there's no one inside the palace to coordinate with us.

How shall we reveal this to the King?

In the capital,

in order to let the King hear something.

That's not hard.

Reporting to your majesty.

I have a strange matter

to report to your majesty today.

What strange matter?

I heard that there are some commoner,

near Tongchang residential guarding troops practice arena

dug out many copper coins.

I send some people to investigate.

As a result found out that

these cooper coins compare to the government made copper coins

have slight difference.

I found this matter odd, strongly feels this is an important matter.

Therefore came to report it.

Tongchang Residential Guarding Troops.

Isn't that...

It is Lord Zhong your highness' residential guards.

You may not tell this matter to others. You may go down now.

Yes, your majesty.

Imperial Court of Justice.

Ninth Princess,

Your majesty decreed that no one may see the Prince Yu.

But I am not a subject of your Li Empire.

Everyone says Prince Yu gave me the poison. I need to speak to him personally.

Please let me in.

Ninth Princess, just before when the Queen came to visit Prince Yu, she was also stopped.

You better return. Don't give me a hard time.

Princess, I've told you already. Definitely can not go inside.

Let's go back.

Whenever you want to see me.

Or when you need my help. Just shoot the whistle up into the sky.

I will appear.

You really come?

Are you feeling better?

Much better.

Didn't you tell me that regardless of what matter.

As long as I request it, you will help me.

I have a matter now. I want to go into the Imperial Prison.

Because of Prince Yu?

He went to imperial prison because of he harm you with the poison.

He is my friend, I believe that he wouldn't do such a thing.

That's why I want to go in person to find out what exactly happened.

The whistle I gave you is not meant for this purpose.

But since you requested. I will help you.

Come with me.

This imperial prison only locked in royal family and privilege people.

Also are temporarily imprisoned, so there are no outsiders.

I will stand watch for you here. You go and return quickly.

All right.

Li Chengyin.

Why are you here?

Are you better?

This princess is worthy of being helped by the Heavens. I recovered just by sleeping it off for a few days.

It's good that you are well.

I brought you some snacks. It's still hot. Eat it while it's still warm.

You believe I've been falsely accused.

Of course I believe you. We just finished investigating Crown Prince and Li Yan's matter.

Resulting in both of us in trouble.

Only has to think about it to recognize something fishy is going on.

But father king does not believe.

I can help you go beg for your majesty's pardon.

No need.

You should rest more since you just recovered.

You need to tell me how I can help.

It's my fault I didn't consider matters more carefully. Caused you to suffer as well.

That's not your fault.

No, I was too eager for instant success and quick profits.

I used you to mention the fake copper coin issue in front of father king.

I implicated you.

I am the one who caused you harm.

You shouldn't say that. I normally can not stand by these fraud and deceptive matters.

I should've listened to at that time. If I didn't act so rashly.

Then wouldn't have inadvertently alert the enemy.

The matter is already so. There's nothing we can do about that.

But Crown Prince already took action against you, no guarantee that he wouldn't do again.

The inner palace it's hard to defend against hidden enemy.

You must learn to protect yourself.

What about you? Are you willing to be stuck here, wrongly charged?

Me...

The royal family is like this.

Those who succeed is the King, those who lose is the bandit.

You should leave quickly.

It's cold here, you keep this.

Take care of yourself.

I am going now.

You too.

All right, Crown Prince.

Your critiques on the official reports have much improved.

Methodical and orderly. Shows good understanding.

It's royal father's proper guidance.

Crown Prince, today in the imperial court.

On Ninth Princess' poison case.

You didn't make any comments. There are no outsider here.

Tell me your opinions.

Fifth brother and myself are blood siblings.

I don't believe that he will do something like this.

But the Imperial Justice Court already have testimony.

Also found evidence at Prince Yu's residence. He is not beyond justification.

Crown Prince, Prince Yu originally wanted to poison you.

Then why do you still believe in him?

Royal Father.

Even if it's Fifth Brother's work.

I still will not blame him.

As the Elder brother, I couldn't decline.

Even if Fifth Brother resents me, it is normal.

I ask that Royal Father give a light sentencing to Fifth brother.

You truly have a broad mindset.

Able to tolerate what others can not tolerate.

I am gratified.

Father King over praised. It's your conduct that is my role model.

I am only following in the footsteps of my father.

That's right.

When Li Yan mentioned the deceased Crown Prince,

I suddenly felt my heart was stabbed.

You have a good relationship with Li Yan. What do you think about this?

You have already closed the case. The deceased Crown Prince was killed by Dan Chi.

Li Yan is really insubordinate to say what he did.

But, since Royal Father has already punished him,

he should be in deep reflection now.

Crown Prince, you think

none of this involves Prince Yi, right?

Father,

I can't give you an answer to this questions. But I've thought about it before.

If Elder Brother, Prince Ji, could hear us now,

I'm sure he wouldn't want to see brothers kill each other.

Your Imperial Majesty, we found Chang'er's family. They already changed their names.

They are now living in a big house outside the city.

The people in the surrounding area say they just moved in about 2 months ago.

Chang'er's family was not well of.

Now that they are living in a big house, there must be a benefactor.

- Do you know who that is? - He is hidden really well, so we haven't found out yet.

We also don't want to arouse any suspicion if we arrest her family members for questioning.

They say, no one will lie

if they have endured 3 days of torture at the Ministry of Judiciary.

You are not a simple servant girl.

It took exactly 3 days, no more and no less.

Tell me, what has your master given you as reward?

You have a father and mother as well as a 80-year-old grandmother.

Two teenager brothers and

one 4-year-old sister right?

Too bad. They were

all killed

and their bodies are in the wild.

The Crown Prince's promise to you wasn't fulfilled.

That's impossible! Impossible!

He promised me that

he would keep them safe.

That's impossible! No!

No! That's impossible!

It's too hard on you to live alone.

I'll send you to see your family.

Chang'er has admitted her guilt. Her confession was true.

Fifth Prince poisoned Crown Prince.

Fortunately it did not result in an unforgivable crime.

He can escape death by being banished to Qian province. Never to return to the capital.

Your Imperial Majesty is wise.

Royal Mother, you tried the best. I am not filial.

My poor son! Stand up.

You've suffered.

It is me who's worthless.

All I could do was worry. I couldn't even protect you.

Royal Mother, you've tried hard. I'm the one who failed.

I know you were framed.