The Legend of Hao Lan (Mou Qin / 皓镧传)

~ Moonrise by Lu Hu & Huang Yali ~

The Legend of Hao Lan

Episode 61

Please wait here for a while, later the ritualist will bring you towards the great hall.

Heavens, what is going on? - Why are there two empresses?

Shush, lower your voice. Don't spout nonsense.

Princess Yun Meng, why are you here?

I am the Empress of Great Qin.

If I don't sit here, where should I go?

You are the Empress of Great Qin? Then who am I?

Bring it up.

What do you mean by this?

You can fool others, but you cannot fool me.

A mere commoner of Yan actually dares pretend to be the daughter of royalty!

If the royal family of Great Qin finds out, not just you,

everyone else in Yan State will suffer the consequences.

I will give you a kind way out. Take these jewels and escape.

I will personally bid you farewell.

What are you doing?

Whether I am of the royal family of Yan or just a commoner,

The conferment of queen in this instance will be done with the complete Six Etiquettes .

After the grand ceremony, I will officially be the Empress of Great Qin!

A bramble finch will always just be a bramble finch (small and insignificant).

Even if you were to perch on a branch of a Wutong (Chinese parasol tree), you would still never become a phoenix.

Are you sure that the Ba Zi sent to the temple are yours? [Ba Zi: Eight characters in four pairs; including the year, month, day and hour of a person's birth]

Princess Yun Meng, I am the Empress hand picked by the Emperor of Qin.

In this aspect, you cannot contest me.

If you do not leave, when the Emperor arrives

I'm afraid that you will be kicked out of the palace and Chu State will become a laughing stock.

Do you really think,

Lü Buwei will allow the culprit who assassinated the Emperor escape?

Today's wedding is just an excuse to bring Crown Prince Dan into the palace to die.

What did you just say?

You don't believe me? You can find out for yourself.

Your precious Crown Prince Dan has become meat paste.

Where are the other guests? - Other than you, there is no one else.

What does the Emperor of Qin mean by this?

Watch out!

Li Ge? Why are you here?

Hurry and leave the palace. The wedding today

is a trap set by Lü Buwei to kill you.

If you don't leave now it will be too late!

With just the two of us, how do we escape the palace?

How are we supposed to leave Xianyang?

Furthermore, this is a plan by Lü Buwei.

It might not be the Emperor of Qin's intentions.

Older Brother,

Lü Buwei has ultimate power in Great Qin and he wholeheartedly wants to kill you.

How can you escape this?

What will happen if they find out the truth about the actual situation?

Don't mention Lü Buwei, even the Emperor of Qin will not let you off!

Hurry and leave!

No! I cannot leave.

In order to gain his trust, you had no regrets sacrificing a girl who liked you.

Now you still want to add on your life to this?

You are a royal member of the Yan family.

You were originally supposed to be a concubine of Qin.

Just that because of fate, the Emperor of Qin favours you.

So luckily you became the Empress of Great Qin.

Then?

After I become Empress, I can send news of Qin to Yan State.

I can help the people of Yan State rebel.

Then I can halt Great Qin's plans of conquering the six states?

Or, after I become Empress,

I can ensure your safety in Great Qin,

let you safely get through your life as a hostage prince?

Then have you ever thought of me? Even a little bit?

I am the Crown Prince of Yan State!

Yan State is too weak and small, we cannot defend ourselves.

In order to protect the people I can only do this.

Li Ge, you are also a citizen of Yan.

How can you bear to stand by and watch as the Emperor of Qin ravages Yan State,

slaughtering our citizens?

I have personally seen Nong Yu's downfall.

I know I am unlike her, and would not be able to silently endure.

My outcome may even be worse than hers.

Whenever I look into the Emperor of Qin's eyes,

I cannot bear to lie to him.

I am unable to do it!

Older Brother, let's just escape back to Yan, alright?

Could it be, towards him you...

No. I did not. I did not!

Let's leave! The banquet has not begun.

The Princess of Chu can't wait for me to leave.

Maybe we still have a chance!

Hurry, let's go!

Your Majesty, have you seen it for yourself?

You know that the thing I hate the most,

are lies and betrayal!

My father died in battle.

Thanks to the mercy of the Yan Emperor, ever since young

I have stayed in Yan palace.

Today I follow him into Qin in order to accompany him.

But you are the Qin Emperor.

Whatever you want is yours for the taking.

So... from a commoner of Yan

I have become a gift to be bestowed upon you.

So from the start till the end,

you have never said a single word of truth to me.

But what could I do?

In the six countries, who would dare

offend the Qin Emperor for the sake of a woman?

I am of a lowly status, don't mention being a gift,

even if I am to be sacrificed, I cannot resist.

Your Majesty, women are just like pretty clothing.

There are not worth much.

Why must you be so angry?

You want Li Ge to remain by the Qin Emperor as a sword. Now that you have failed,

you actually dare say such words. You are really thick-skinned.

Your Majesty, Crown Prince Dan brought this woman into Qin.

I fear that he has already known that the Princess of Yan is incapable.

He wanted to use Li Ge's looks to become their reason for success.

Otherwise, why didn't he keep this woman for himself,

but allowed her to slowly advance to the position of Empress?

Is what he said true?

Lü Buwei, don't you dare jump to such conclusions.

Your Majesty... for lying to you,

I am willing to die to repay for my crimes.

Please let the Crown Prince go.

Even if you want to die, you can only die because I kill you.

I do not allow you to commit suicide!

Your Majesty, Your Majesty!

Li Ge!

Li Ge! Li Ge!

Your Majesty, you don't have to.

Too bad I can't make it to the boiling pot penalty.

Shut up, shut up!

I thought he was a valiant man.

I didn't know...

But I received help from Yan's royal family.

How could I betray Yan?

I couldn't, I couldn't.

Your Majesty,

You are very different

from how I originally thought.

If I was honest with you when we first met,

would the ending be different now?

Li Ge, Li Ge, Li Ge!

Li Ge!

Your Majesty, today is your wedding. It's time for you to attend the wedding.

Princess Yun Meng is waiting for you now.

You plotted everything.

To make me marry the Princess of Chu,

you would use any means.

Your brother-like friend and the woman you like cooperated in lying to you.

The King of Qin was played like a monkey. All I did was to let you see the truth.

Everything was for you and for Qin.

Should I have let Prince Dan succeed in his scheme?

If my Zhong Fu was really thinking for my sake,

you could have told me in advance. But you have to wait til the wedding day,

and I end up seeing Li Ge die in such misery.

And I have to go marry like nothing happened.

You want to tell me that you're the only one who is right in this world.

To disobey your wish, one would pay a drastic cost.

All you want is a subservient king, a real puppet.

Mother, you saw it all with your own eyes.

This is how he treats me.

Are you still staying silent?

- Zhao Gao. - Yes.

The King is not feeling well.

Tell the Minister of Rituals to postpone the wedding.

- Yes. - Even you are forcing me to marry.

Why?

Did you already know? Did you plot it with him to lie to me?

Why?

Is it because I'm not obedient?

You had to tear open this bloody truth?

Mother, why are you treating me this way too?

Why, why?

Have you had enough nonsense?

Today is the King of Qin's grand wedding. All the officials and people of Qin,

and even envoys from other countries are all waiting outside the palace to congratulate you.

I don't care if you married Li Ge,

or Princess Yun Meng,

you have to fulfill your responsibility to Qin.

I will not marry Princess Yun Meng today.

Great Qin will not have a Queen.

Prince Dan fooled you, and Li Ge lied to you.

You are blaming everyone else here, but why don't you ask yourself why you believed them easily.

The way you look so distracted and miserable,

you're not worthy of being my son, nor the King of Qin.

So you don't want to marry?

Fine, I'll fulfill your wish.

Guards, escort the King back to Heroic Six Palace.

Lock up Xianyang Palace. If you gossip about anything,

I'll want your head!

Yes.

Even you think I did wrong?

You didn't do wrong, not at all.

To let the King of Qin mature, any means is good.

But, you knew there could be a better way, but you still did it without care.

As the King of Qin,

he is much more fragile than his father.

As for you, you just want to be a loving mother.

In Zhao, my son and I relied on each other. I took good care of him.

But after we came to Qin, first Zichu

took away three years from my son. You actually inherited the project.

Treat him like a prisoner, manipulate him like a puppet.

Mother.

What is a mother?