Tribes and Empires: Storm of Prophecy

Wu Ru Yi, did you tell His Highness

that my young mistress hasn't slept well for days, waiting for him?

I already did.

It's fine. I'll wait a bit longer.

It's only right that he wishes to see his father first.

He'll visit me once he's greeted His Majesty.

It's all right. I'll wait.

Your Highness, please head back.

It's been a day.

If His Majesty wished to see you, he'd have come to meet you by now.

If you insist on staying for too long

I'm worried that His Majesty will blame us.

Young Mistress, have a bite to eat.

He Ge hasn't eaten yet.

Where's He Ge?

Where has he gone?

Has he already left the palace?

His Highness has been kowtowing in front of His Majesty's door.

He's been doing it all day.

His Majesty refuses to see him?

The door has not even been opened.

Wu Ru Yi.

Lead the way to His Majesty's quarters.

Young Mistress!

Don't go there!

If you do... you'll become upset again.

Young Mistress!

Son and subject Muyun He Ge is grateful for Father's graciousness.

The negotiation in Han Prefecture...

I will be sure to succeed!

I'm not an incompetent man.

Father once said that I'm very capable!

Just for the sake of this compliment

even if Father would have me die in Han Prefecture

I'd rejoice from the bottom of my heart!

I thank Father for your graciousness!

I promise to accomplish my mission!

I will be sure to meet Father's expectations.

I'd like to hear Father praise me for being capable.

I--

Father! Father!

Father!

Mother, do you really know what's best for me?

If I can't retrieve the glory that I once had...

how can I take care of you?

When I see you... all I feel is shame and guilt.

I want to stay alive!

Even Mother has forgotten who I am.

I'm Muyun He Ge.

The blood of the royal Muyun family courses through my veins.

So does the blood of the Nanku family.

I won't admit defeat.

I cannot forget glory.

Even if I have to die after doing all I can...

I will choose to die in glory.

I'll never choose to survive in humiliation.

Foolish!

I'm grateful to Mother for giving birth to me.

As for how I go on with my life...

I hope that Mother will allow me to decide.

Master Xue.

It used to be Qin Yu Feng who would greet me.

Why is it different today?

Master Xue, Arch Prince Ye is waiting for you.

He's very anxious.

Your Highness.

You're bringing the sword with you back to Wan Prefecture?

I'll leave it here to De.

Perhaps...

He might need it.

Han Jiang is severely injured.

The plan won't work.

It's only safe for Prince De if he returns to Wan Prefecture with us.

De has great ambitions.

I'm afraid that Wan Prefecture isn't good enough for him.

Your Highness...

Your Highness.

Come in!

Your Highness.

I heard that the person Prince De recruited isn't available.

His Majesty...

He won't get killed?

I'd quite like to listen to Master Xue's backup plan.

If I do, it's my business.

It's come to the crucial stage now.

Your Highness plans to withdraw unscathed without doing anything?

Yet you'll get a share of the outcome.

How can there be such a bargain?

Prince De uses Novoland Inn to win over officials and sell information.

He intends to monopolize the purchasing rights of salt.

Salt is the foundation of a nation.

Could this son of yours have some ulterior motive?

Your Highness intends to just walk away.

Then you can't blame me for getting hold of Prince De.

Oh? I'd quite like to see how Master Xue could do so.

We all share the same goal.

Why bother laying it all out to embarrass everyone?

It's not exactly that difficult to kill His Majesty.

There's someone else who also hurts His Majesty deeply.

It will be easier for her to do it.

It depends...

It depends on how we can convince her.

Who can do it that easily?

The empress.

What are you looking at?

I'm looking at...

the most beautiful painting in this world.

And in the painting...

there's the most beautiful person.

I'm now past the age when I used to like sweet-talking.

You can save your breath.

Clever women never listen to what men have to say.

They want to see what men would do.

What would you like me to do?

Stop He Ge from going to Han Prefecture.

You've overestimated me.

I am but an arch prince.

It's His Majesty's decree to send He Ge there for the negotiation.

Then kill those men in Han Prefecture!

Those men are the lords of Han Prefecture's three clans.

If the three clans rebel, chaos will overtake the Duan Empire!

None of that matters more than He Ge's life!

You don't wish to be the empress anymore?

When I was the empress at a young age...

I thought it was glamorous.

I thought happiness was to have the best things in the world.

It was only after I married into the palace that I realized...

this is just a cage.

In here...

I wish for my husband's love, but in vain.

I wish for family happiness with my son, but in vain.

I finally realized...

that even if I can hold the most beautiful jade and pearls in my hands

they will still prick me, just as ice would.

In my mind...

there isn't a moment of peace.

As time goes by...

you want to bite others.

Humans...

Here in the palace...

They become beasts.

Ming Yi...

You're wrong.

The palace isn't your cage.

Muyun Qin is your cage.

An unparalleled woman like you...

When he's ill, you go all out to take good care of him.

When he misses some other woman, you pretend to be her.

I've never seen anyone but you

who could forsake her dignity to that extent.

He could have cherished you.

Cherished your son.

But how has he treated you?

He killed the entire Nanku Clan.

He humiliates you every day.

He now sends your son to the negotiation.

Sending him to his doom.

Ming Yi...

A woman as clever as you are...

It's about time you come to your senses.

What, then, if I do?

When I come to my senses...

what can I do?

If...

If you don't wish for He Ge to attend the negotiation

you'll have to make His Majesty's decree no longer valid.

What am I to do to make His Majesty's decree no longer valid?

Ming Yi.

Answer me.

What is it that you want the most in this world?

A husband who loves me.

A son who is clever and capable.

As for all that... Can Muyun Qin fulfill your wishes?

He can't.

If I told you that... someone else can fulfill those wishes for you

would you want it?

Someone else?

Who is someone else?

Me.

Ming Yi...

I feel bad for you.

I want you to know how it feels to be loved by a man.

I want you to know what warmth in this world feels like.

You've always been good to me.

I'm well aware of it.

What should I do to repay you?

I don't need you to do anything in particular.

What is it that I have to do?

This is--

You just need to swap His Majesty's incense out...

You'll get everything that you wish for.

This is...

poison?

This is... love.

You promise to be good to me?

For all my life.

You didn't agree to save He Ge's life.