The Legend of Hao Lan (Mou Qin / 皓镧传)

~ Moonrise by Lu Hu & Huang Yali ~

The Legend of Hao Lan

Episode 4

They suspect that you are a spy for Qin?

Royal Descendant, look at my appearance.

Who would ask me to be their spy?

There is insufficient food and clothing here. The icy coldness cuts through your bones.

You are weak. You should be more careful.

I'm alright.

Every time, when there's unrest betwee Qin and Zhao,

I would stay here for a period of time.

I'm already used to it.

You are broadminded. I admire you.

I'm a down-and-out Royal Descendant

who's struggling and completely worn out.

Brother Lu, is there a need to be so polite?

Lord Anguo has twenty seven sons.

But you were the one chosen.

It shows you must be extraordinary.

I'm a weak scholar. How can I be extraordinary?

My mother Consort Xia is from the Han state.

My father has many concubines.

My mother wasn't favored

She was like a common duckweed in a storm with nothing to rely on. Living in a constant state of fear.

As for me, I'm the most ordinary of my twenty seven brothers.

I wasn't favoured by my father,

nor was I talented like the rest of my brothers.

Hence, I was sent here to Zhao.

- You're not telling the truth. - Oh?

Lord Anguo is the crown prince of Qin.

When you arrived in Zhao,

it happened that Qin needed to move eastward urgently in order to advance upon Han.

The King of Han had no choice but to seek help from Zhao. In the end, the King of Zhao reaped all the benefits.

He blackmailed Qin into sending a hostage

in order to maintain good relations between the two countries

Qin attacked Han.

Han was also your mother's motherland.

Whether publicly and privately, you and your mother's situation was awkward.

You personally requested to come to Zhao to foster Lord Anguo's guilt

and preserved you and your mother's life.

Furthermore, you can accumulate more power to try and gain reputation.

How would one who lives in constant distress

have any ambition?

Brother Lü is making me out to be like you. You're overthinking it.

Since ancient times, there have been some who attack countries and some who attack people.

Royal Descendant's method is by attacking people's minds.

I don't know anything about psychological attack.

As for you, you are distinctly a businessman

yet you understand the political situation very well.

No wonder they suspect you of being a spy for Qin country.

Royal Descendant, I'm a businessman.

I travel extensively and widely. The world is my home.

If I know nothing about the situations of each country,

I'll probably become a corpse before I can even leave the Zhao borders.

This is the reason Brother Lü presented the beauty, right?

Are you talking about Haolan?

It's a nice name. It suits her well.

You like her?

Brother Lu, you are joking.

I'm but a prisoner, barely holding onto my own life.

How could I be interested in love?

Do you think we can still survive?

What do you think?

If you want them to release us, I fear it's even harder than ascending to heaven.

Since you already know, why are you still asking?

Man proposes, God disposes.

Someone like you will never die ingloriously in a small cell like this.

Haolan.

Are you really insane or are you pretending?

Haolan!

Don't hit me! Don't hit me!

I will be good.

I won't create a scene anymore. I won't!

- Don't hit me. - I won't hit you.

Don't.

Come.

I won't hit you.

Come here.

Come. I won't hit you.

Come, take a seat.

I won't hit you. Sit.

What's wrong?

Haolan.

Sorry.

I'm really sorry.

I didn't know you would turn out like this.

Sorry.

Frankly, I was already determined.

If I can obtain the throne,

I can give up everything.

It includes the woman I love.

But when you hated me and was angry with me,

and ignored me,

I felt extremely sad.

Haolan, do you know?

You are the person who understand me the most in this world.

You know that I love you.

Right?

You will recover.

You will definitely recover.

One day, we can go back to the way we were.

Master.

Your guess is wrong. She's really insane.

Really?

Haolan of the past

hates me to my bones.

How could she possibly let me get close to her?

What happened to your face then?

She has already fallen into this state.

Why are you still unwilling to let her go?

It's not that I'm unwilling to let her go.

It's she who doesn't want to let me go now.

A young and beautiful woman

runs into a pole and almost ruined her appearance.

Do you think she's pretending to be insane

so that she can live peacefully?

No. Sooner or later, she will bare her fangs

and devour your flesh and blood.

Princess, the Empress is not feeling well. Please go back first.

I will stay here.

When she is willing to see me, I will go in again.

Princess, the Empress is inviting you to go in.

Leave.

Yes.

Mother, Royal Father is going to kill the Royal Descendant of Qin. Do you know that ?

It is not for you to question the national security affairs of the country.

If national security affairs really doesn't concern me,

then what happened at that time when there was a marriage alliance with the state of Qin?

Why did you think of me then?

Ya'er, what do you really want to do?

Protect the person I love.

Because of a mere Royal Descendant of the state of Qin,

how many times have your disagreed with me? Is it really worth it?

I like him.

But to him,

you are just a tool to be made use of.

Mother!

Wasn't I right?

He has tempted you time and again all these years.

He made you acknowledge your allegiance to him.

But yet he rejected you time and again.

He really understands you well.

If from the very first time when you indicated that you liked him,

and he has generously consented to it,

you'd have found it dull very quickly.

But when he tempted you and then rejected you time and again this way,

you would reach the climax of your love

and fall into the labyrinth.

Do you know that the manner in which he treats you as neither friendly nor aloof

is all because of the control of the national security of the country?

And you? Because of him,

you have opposed your own biological parents time and again.

You don't know you own status anymore.

Mother, Royal Descendant is not like that. I understand him.

You are really muddle-headed.

That is because your heart is as cold as a rock.

So of course you don't understand me.

I have often suspect whether there is only power and position in your heart.

There has never been anyone's shadow there before.

Impertinent!

What I said is true. Why are you so angry?

I hit you because you are committing a gaffe.

Could I have been wrong?

Or do you think that it is wrong to love someone?

Even if the Royal Descendant of Qin is taking advantage of me,

I am willing.

If you are unwilling to help me, I will think of a way meself.

Stand where you are.

Reporting to Your Highness, the Prince is here.

Greetings to Mother.

Why is Ya'er here?

There's no need for you to ask.

Mother, it looks like Ya'er is in a bad mood.

This is the temper of a child. Don't think too much into it.

Mother, I am not throwing the temper of a child.

No matter how angry Royal Father is,

I will let the Royal Descendant of Qin continue living.

Even if ... even if it means exchanging my life for it.

I'm willing to beg for mercy on your behalf.

Really?

Really.

If he is really willing to marry you,

I will ask your Royal Father to release him immediately.

It is agreed as such then!

Thank you, Mother.

Mother, how could you promise her?

If her head is not broken and the blood flowing,

how would she realize that she is wrong?

Greetings to Prime Minister.

Who are you?

I am Situ Que, a visitor in the household of the Royal Descendant of Qin.

Why did you stand outside my door for one day and one night?

I came specially to ask to see Prime Minister because

I really have a very important matter.

The Royal Descendant has been thrown into prison.

Can Prime Minister please say a few good words for him in front of King Zhao,

so that he may be released as soon as possible?

In this box is my humble gift.

When the task is accomplished, you will be richly rewarded by the Royal Descendant.

The Royal Descendant has lived in the state of Zhao for a long time.