Tribes and Empires: Storm of Prophecy

Just leave such matters to the eunuchs.

How could I allow others to do what I dream of doing?

Is it a dream?

After all, the others do see you as the empress.

I am Yin Rong, Lady Duan.

I'm not the empress.

You've never asked me why I treated you as--

I don't wish to know!

Yin Rong doesn't wish to know.

Yin Rong... gets to serve at Your Majesty's side.

This is the best.

Why?

I also often ask myself that question.

Is it because...

I'm the emperor of Novoland?

If it pleases Your Majesty to think so

that is exactly what I have on my mind.

Is it really so important...

to make me happy?

It's more important than anything.

How long has it been since the Great Duan Empire was founded?

313 years.

How long did the Great Cheng Dynasty last?

1,242 years.

That is such a huge difference.

Perhaps...

we still won't surpass them in the end.

If the Duan Empire... ends during my reign--

Your Majesty!

Your Majesty, it's just some unruly people in Han Prefecture.

Our founding emperor also had to resort to a scheme to subdue them.

Your Majesty mustn't put such blame on yourself.

Han Prefecture...

I'm not concerned about Han Prefecture.

Then what is it?

You shouldn't ask.

If I don't ask about it...

How could I share Your Majesty's burdens?

Is it trouble that's close at hand?

Is it a threat from within?

Or is it that curse from the gods?

Your Majesty...

Sheng is already in captivity and being punished for it.

If Your Majesty doesn't anoint him as the crown prince again

and chooses another heir apparent, everything will be fine.

Sheng...

Do you really think that he was guilty?

I...

I don't understand what Your Majesty means.

Then I shall...

I'll ask him for you.

- Qin Ming! - Present!

Your memory is quite good.

Your Majesty, I've only been able to serve you for so many years

because of my great memory.

It happened a year and eight months ago...

Do you still remember?

Yes, I do.

The wine that Crown Prince had...

You swapped it out.

- Yes. - Who was it?

Who made you do that?

You were the little eunuch who cleaned Jin Ning Quarters 30 years ago.

Yet now, you've become His Majesty's favorite.

Fortunately, I had been good to you in the past.

Your Highness, it wasn't just in the past.

I only got to where I am today because of Your Highness's reminders.

Prince De has even prepared a residence just for you.

It's just nearby.

It might not be as grand as my manor in Wan Prefecture

but it's still more comfortable than any arch prince's manor in the capital.

Thank you, Your Highness.

Qin Ming is content to have served Your Majesty in this lifetime.

I asked you a question.

Answer me right away!

I had Crown Prince's wine swapped with a drugged wine.

That was what made him lose his senses.

I asked you who it was!

Who instigated you to do so?

Your Majesty, no one did! It was all me!

Guards!

Slap him!

Your Majesty!

Although I was born of a lowly status

I don't wish to see the Great Duan Empire fall into the hands

of a half-human, half-Charmer who isn't one of our kind!

Your Majesty...

I didn't wish to hurt Prince Sheng.

Your Majesty, I just wanted everyone to see that Prince Sheng isn't capable of

being the Great Duan Empire's crown prince!

Who taught you to say this?

Who did?

Your Majesty!

When Muyun Sheng was born, it snowed in June!

He stabbed Your Majesty and killed all your guards when he was 14!

Even if I didn't do this for the people, I had to do it for myself, Your Majesty!

Who would dare serve a Charmer like him?

Your Majesty...

Wretched slave.

Drag him away to be interrogated!

- Yes! - Yes!

Thank you... Your Majesty.

Forgive us, Your Majesty!

Bury him lavishly.

Yes!

Your Highness.

Your Highness.

What is the matter?

Yu Xin Ji congratulates Your Highness.

Your Highness will soon be released.

Wei Ping Residence will no longer be sealed.

It's very likely that Your Highness shall be reinstated

to an important position in the Duan Empire.

General, have you forgotten?

Everyone in the royal court called me an outcast.

His Majesty ordered me to investigate the case.

It's now been confirmed that on the night of the banquet

Your Highness's wine had been tampered with.

Your Highness was set up.

I was set up?

If Your Highness's absurd behavior at the banquet

can be proven unrelated to the Charmer

someone must have tried to make you lose your senses

in order to lure out Pan Xi and take her down.

You may go now.

Pan Xi...

I thought that you had disappeared again.

When you think of me in the future...

what will come to your mind first?

When I think of you?

I won't have to think of you.

Because from now on

you'll have to be good and stay by my side.

You can't leave me for even a split second.

How can two people not even be apart for a split second?

As long as you're willing...

we can do it.

Are you willing?

Yes.

Then why are you crying?

Who is hurting you?

Take me there!

Muyun Sheng!

Hold me in your arms.

Pan Xi!

Pan Xi!

Are you all right?

Call my name again.

The name you gave me.

I like to hear you say it.

Pan Xi.

This name is actually quite ordinary.

But when it's uttered by you...

it's one of a kind.

Pan Xi...

If you like to hear me say it, I'll call your name.

I'll call your name as many times as you want me to.

All right?

Yes.

Take a break.

There are all sorts of magical powers in this book.

I only managed to do slightly well

after practicing for years in the glass bead.

How could you hope to achieve so much in just a year or so?

This book is the only thing you left me.

That's why I wish to read it each and every moment of my day.

I can't help but think that

if I master all the magical powers in the book

I'll be able to see you again.

I can no longer make it back.

My threads of roaming energy have dispersed.

The original Pan Xi no longer exists.

Even if you master all the magical powers

you still won't see me again.

I want to master the powers.

I want to prove that I was wrong.

I once thought that as long as I didn't hurt anyone

no one would try to hurt me.

There's actually no such logic in this world.

I don't wish to see you become like this.

All right now.

You can go back.

I know that you're just the other voice in my mind.

The voice of the weak.

I am no longer the same Muyun Sheng I once was.

I have the force of the Charmers.

In no time, I shall master magical powers.

No one will ever be able to hurt me again.

No one can take away what is mine again.

Those who once hurt you...

Very soon...

I'll make them suffer the pain of losing everything.

Kin becomes foe!

Lovers kill each other!

The people involved know it's an act, but they can't leave the stage!

The onlookers smirk in their minds, but hope to get on stage!

This is the royal family!

This is the emperor!

All of you are lunatics!

Take him away!