Untouchable Lovers (凤囚凰)

Untouchable Lovers

Episode 1

Your Highness, drink some.

- Here. - Here.

Annoying.

Taste this.

Your Highness! Your Highness, it was I who seduced the Prince Consort! Spare him!

Get lost!

Your Highness, forgive me. It was my fault.

- Beat him up! - Your Highness, have mercy!

I will not do it again! Stop hitting me! Your Highness!

Your Highness, have mercy! I won't do it again...

Your Highness, have mercy...

Your Highness...

Jump.

Jump down!

Since the Jin dynasty, anyone who married a princess led a miserable and hellish life.

Like Wang Dun, who feared his wife throughout his life, as if she were a tigress.

Like Huan Wen, who would frequently get beaten up with a stick.

Like Wang Yan, who got stripped naked and tied onto a tree.

Like He Rui, who died in a dried-up well.

Like Xie Zhuang, who willingly forfeited his career.

Like Yin Chong, who almost got beheaded.

No matter how manly and heroic, or having an illustrious family background,

just because their wives are of the royal family, powerful and rich,

they can only swallow their pride, endure contempt, and drift along for the rest of their lives.

The princesses are haughty, overbearing and blame them at every instance.

The prince consorts cannot see the morning stars of the dawn or the evening skies.

They were strictly managed and controlled. Alas, what a tragic life.

The Supreme Audience Hall, Jiankang (Modern Nanjing) Liu Song (Southern Song) Dynasty, 464 CE

Supreme Audience Hall

Be careful.

Please put them down over there.

Greetings to Your Majesty.

I, your servant, have already completed the portrait that Your Majesty commanded me to paint. Liu Ziye, courtesy name Zi Fashi, Emperor Qianfei of Song

That one really is my paternal great-grandfather!

Replying to Your Majesty, precisely, that is Gaozu, Emperor Wu. (T/N The first Emperor of the Song Dynasty)

He indeed was a great hero,

worked to grab up the thrones of several "rightful" Emperors!

- Impressive. - Very impressive! Liu Yu, Prince Xiangdong, Uncle of the Emperor

This one is really my paternal grandfather?

You were difficult to deal with, especially in your elder years, until the point you ran out of luck

and your son cut off your head!

Liu Xiuren, Prince Jian'an, Uncle of the Emperor

Imperial Father!

Imperial Father! I was fond of you and miss you, Imperial Father!

Imperial Father...!

Your Majesty.

Prince Xin'an!

This...this...this can't be Imperial Father's favorite son, Liu Ziluan?

What's this? He's extremely dead, you see...

You have to tell how he died. Speak!

Prince Xin'an, right as he was facing death's door, cried incessantly.

Right before, an attendant heard him say he wished in the next life, not to be reborn into the royal family.

Get lost! Scram!

You! Come here!

Yes, Your Majesty.

Your Majesty.

My father really did have a drunkard's nose! A drunkard's nose! Why isn't it shown in the picture?

Your Majesty. If I drew that up in the painting, it would be a huge disrespect, Your Majesty!

You build the legend to leave out the truth, build the story to leave out facts, right?

Your Majesty, save me...!

- Attendants! Drag him out! Your Majesty!

- Your Majesty, save me! - What is he doing?

Princess Shanyin has arrived!

Imperial Sister?

Liu Chuyu, Princess Shanyin

Imperial Sister.

Fashi, he forgot to add that into the painting.

It can be added into the painting, there's no need to get angry.

Right, it can be added in.

Add that "drunkard's nose" immediately!

Yes, Your Majesty.

Imperial Sister, why did you come here?

Fashi, consider that you and I are people born of the same mother and father,

clearly we're our parents' offspring. I am a woman, but after all, we both are clearly the blood relatives of the late Emperor.

I'm sure that's a good thing, right? Therefore, you need to call on

your Imperial Harem full of countless concubines, instead of me.

I only have this one Prince Consort.

You can see so many pretty faces every day. I can only see one face.

It's very boring for me all day. This is so unfair.

So, can you tell me what can I do?

Unfair. Right, it's really unfair.

It's alright, Imperial Sister. I have a solution.

Men! Summon all the handsome men in Jiankang City into the palace.

Cry! Can you stop crying? The Tianji Tower

Look at you now. You are servile all day and cry non-stop! (Liu Xiuren)

What's the point of crying now?

No matter how much you cry, you can't stop the fact that this country is meeting its demise soon.

Tianji Tower is renowned as the number one sect in the world. Our sole responsibility is to assist the monarch and serve the country.

Now that a fatuous ruler is in reign, and the country is like a mansion on the verge of collapse,

our Liu Clan is nothing,

but how about the country's citizens?

Are they going to perish together with this fatuous ruler?

Have the two of you decided? (The Pavilion Master)

Twelfth Brother, Ziye is our nephew. (Liu Yu)

You think of him as your nephew, but he might not let you live.

Don't forget that bloody head that was in the hall.

Eleventh Brother, Ziluan was only ten years old.

May the Pavilion Master help us eliminate this muddled monarch.

Give my citizens back a carefree and safe world!

Zhu Que (Vermilion Bird), did you hear it?

I am accepting your command.

Look! It's the number one beauty, Princess Shanyin.

- Who are those people following her? - Those are "menke" (skilled guests/servants/retainers) granted to her by the Emperor.

- Those menke are all so handsome. - The Princess has always loved to collect beautiful people.

Her manor is already full of them.

Now that she was granted a decree to collect handsome people, she surely will become more unrestrained.

With so many handsome men staying in the Princess' Manor, won't her husband, the Prince Consort, be very angry?

HE only lacked wearing a green scarf on his head.

Not just one, but ten!

Completely green all over. He's turning into a grassland.

Right. A huge thousand-year-old turtle with algae on his back.

Yes...

What's going on?!

Hurry! Protect the Princess!

Yue Jiefei! Where are you, Yue Jiefei? What's going on?

Hey! Protect the Princess!

Yue Jiefei! Come save me!

Move out of the way!

- Yue Jiefei! Save me! - Princess!

Save me! Where are you, Yue Jiefei! Yue Jiefei!

Save me!

Save me!

Yue Jiefei!

Hurry and save me! Save me!

Accumulating Talents as the Way

Princess' Manor

Your Highness, you're awake.

- Your Highness! - Your Highness!

Rong Zhi, Menke

Throughout the night, your fever refused to break. Just now, it suddenly spiked again,

so I had to use my body heat to keep you warm. I have no intentions of harming you.

Who are you?

Your Highness, do you not remember?

My head hurts so much. The moment I woke up, I saw so many people. Just who are you?

I am Rong Zhi, a menke in this manor, and your most-trusted aide.

I don't remember.

Let me see.

I will invite the physician over now.

Your Highness, the Emperor heard you were injured,

and has specially invited the Royal Physician to come and heal you.

Could Your Highness please extend your hand?

Your Highness' pulse is stable, and your body has no serious injury.

However, you need to take special care of your forehead for a full recovery,

so that you will not have a scar.

What do you mean, there is "no serious injury"? I can't remember anything!

Your Highness, please do not be angry!

It could be because you hit your head too hard, that's why such a thing is happening.

How do I cure it?

Well...

I'm asking you a question! Have you become dumb?

Your Highness, do not get anxious. This kind of illness must be carefully taken care of.

As for your memory, if I tell you some things about the manor,

sooner or later you will get your memories back.

Your Highness! Your Highness, where are you going?

The Emperor heard I was sick and sent over the Royal Physician.

Of course I must enter the palace, to personally thank him.

Your Highness. You carry blood on your body.

What do you mean?

Because of the accident that happened, you have seen blood.

That's Tai Sui (stars opposite of Jupiter) antagonizing the Sun Master,

it will bring a bad aura to the Emperor.

So according to the rules, before you recover, you cannot enter the palace.

Your Highness... how did you forget all of this?

My head hurts so much, I have forgotten everything!

Then why didn't you take the responsibility to remind me! Useless.

It is all my fault!

All of you leave.

- Physician, come with me. - Yes.

"Princess Yu" (monogrammed incense)

What is that smell?

It's a fragrance especially prepared by Rong Zhi for Your Highness.

I am currently seriously ill, I cannot take the scent of such a heavy incense. Get rid of it.

Yes.

I want to see the Princess!

Liu Se, Menke

The Princess is currently recuperating, and has sent down her command.

Yue Jie Fei, Bodyguard

She has sent orders that no one is to visit her.

I don't believe you. The Princess hasn't called us for several days. This is very weird.

Today, I must go in!

So painful.

Just you wait! Once I see the Princess, I'll make you suffer!

Say it again.

Four goldfishes are swimming.

- Already this old and still wears flowered underpants. - That's right.

So embarrassing.

Get away! Get away!

Did you see Liu Se earlier? He was wearing printed underpants with goldfish on them!

That's right, four goldfish!

Youlan!

Your Highness.

Who is being loud outside?

Replying to Your Highness, it's a menke of our manor, Liu Se.

Liu Se?

Except for him, when Your Highness was unconscious for several days,

all the menke would come here and cause a ruckus once a day,

claiming that they wanted to take care of you.

Menke Rong didn't let them disturb you, but this Liu Se is so unruly.