Song of Phoenix (思美人)

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Song of Phoenix

Episode 45

The wind soughing and the branches and leaves swishing, I miss you and my heart is filled with gloom. - Mountain Spirit from Nine Songs

From now on, the only man in the household is you.

Tears cannot solve anything.

Neither can it feed your family.

Come, have something to eat.

We don't know when the next time we'll be able to eat together is.

Lu Yi, after we leave,

you must take good care of yourself. Do you understand?

Why don't you let Lu Yi stay at my place?

I won't go! If not for you,

my sister wouldn't have had to go to the palace. And such a thing would not have happened!

Lu Yi! You're still young.

There are many things that you don't understand.

I'm not young anymore! I understand!

If not for him...

Lu Yi, enough.

Lord Qu, please let Lu Yi continue to live here.

I've already let my relatives know. They will take good care of him.

Don't worry.

When we return to the palace, I will beg His Majesty

to release you and Qing'Er as early as possible.

I will make a name for myself.

I will save my sister on my own!

Yi'Er, come here.

Sister!

I will wait for you to grow up.

Has Mo Chou returned?

Yes she has. In accordance with the Dowager's order, she has been locked in her chamber.

But don't worry, Your Majesty. The girl called Qing'Er has been with Mo Chou all the way.

I dare not directly defy the Dowager's order.

Take care of them in private.

I understand.

Your Majesty, Concubine Zheng wishes an audience with you.

Let her in.

I beg for your punishment.

Tell me what you did.

I was negligence in my inspections and overseeing the servants.

I never thought that Xiao Qiao would do such a thing as harming Your Majesty.

You still dare to say that?

Don't you know that Mo Chou almost died because of her?

I deserve death! Please punish me.

Be glad that nothing happened Mo Chou, and Xiao Qiao is on the death row. Otherwise,

You wouldn't be let off the hook.

I deserve death.

Get up!

There is something I would like to ask you.

When my State of Chu exterminated the State of Zheng that year, did you hate the State of Chu?

Resent me?

The State of Zheng was destined to crumble.

If were for the State of Chu eradicating the State of Zheng,

The other States would have obliterated the State of Zheng.

Although I am a princess of Zheng, I'm not of direct blood line.

For these past years, if not because of Your Majesty's love for me, how could I have my respectable status now?

It's good that you understand.

Mo Chou has been isolated in her chambers.

I hope you can go and visit frequently.

You are all my concubines. I do not wish for anything to happen to you.

I understand.

Sister, are we going to be stuck her for the rest of our lives?

My Lord. - Father.

When can Miss Mo Chou be released?

Why are you concerning yourself with this?

I'm just asking for the sake of asking.

Is that really all?

It's not Qu Yuan who asked you to ask about it, is it?

If it's really Qu Yuan,

that he would cease communication with Mo Chou.

But he has broken his promise time and time again!

Regardless, since the poison wasn't added by her,

please think of a way to save her.

Save her? If it wasn't for me speaking up for her to the Dowager,

she'd be dead by now!

Enough. Go back.

Husband, how can you speak to your child like that?

It wasn't easy for Xia'er to come home and visit us.

Is she here to visit us?

She's her to plead on behalf on Mo Chou!

As the Chancellor of Chu,

You can't just watch an innocent person be framed.

Innocent?

What do you know? Go back to the Qu Residence!

Xia'er, mother will see you out.

Enough. Let her leave on her own.

My Lord, treating Xia'er like this,

Aren't you being too strict?

If I don't speak so harshly, would she wake up?

Others think of ways to hold on to their husbands.

She on the other hand, keeps doing silly things.

If I had known Qu Yuan was like this, I shouldn't have married Xia'er off to him.

Vice Chancellor Qu, you can't go in there!

Vice Chancellor Qu! You mustn't enter!

Vice Chancellor Qu, you really can't!

Vice Chancellor Qu!

Royal subject Qu.

Your Majesty, the case of the poison has already been settled.

Hope you can give the order to remove the restriction on her palace.

What do you mean, Your Majesty?

Mo Chou is not someone I can release just because I want to.

Your Majesty, you were the one who ordered me to investigate this matter!

You had strongly insisted on proving Mo Chou's innocence.

Now the sufficient evidence is present, and the truth uncovered, and yet this is what you tell me?

Imperial subject Qu. I want to save Mo Chou more than anyone else.

If you wanted to save Mo Chou, she'd have already been released.

Preposterous! How can you speak to me like that!

As the monarch of our state, your righteousness,

Your dignity, what became of them? Were you not going to confer her as your consort?

You can't even protect her properly. What right do you have to make her your consort?

Do you think I can save anyone just because I want to?

As the ruler of this nation, you can't even do this?

You're forcing me? -I dare not.

I'm just worried about Lady Mo Chou's safety.

You still remember that Mo Chou is my consort?

Since she's my consort, whether or not I save her is my business.

What has it got to do with you?

This family matter between me and my consort

does not need your interference.

Your Majesty! -You're dismissed!

Yu Quan, how dare you!

Your Majesty, Vice Chancellor Qu does not understand your situation, thus it's natural he spoke in that manner.

He had the impudence to inquire me.

Now it seems like I have regarded him too highly.

Vice Chancellor Qu is simply too worried about Her Ladyship.

Moreover, Her Ladyship saved him on the battlefield before.

Poor Mo Chou.

I have yet to formally bestow her the title of consort, and such a calamity has befallen her.

The Mo Chou Palace I have conferred her,

I didn't expect will be the cold palace that will be her prison.

Your Majesty, the blood of the Grand Shaman of Chu flows in Lady Mo Chou.

She indeed isn't suitable to be an imperial consort. Your Majesty should just try to think in a broader sense.

Qu Manor

You! Take a look at yourself!

Look at just what you have become!

You useless thing! I'm going to kill you!

To think that you're in this state because of a woman!

How did your father and mother die? Have you forgotten?

Don't you think you're letting them down by being like this?

Do you know you carry the hopes of how many common folks as the Vice Chancellor of Chu?

Just how much duty and responsibility? Just take a look at yourself.

What right do you have to be the Vice Chancellor, to fight in this war?

Uncle, I never forgot any of the things that you said.

Just how my father, my mother, and my brother died.

I've never forgotten.

This blood debt that the State of Qin owes to our Qu Clan,

Owes to our State of Chu, I will repay it back multi-fold!

Very well. I await it.

Lower, over here.

Here?

The case of poison attempt on His Majesty is finally resolved.

For the past days, I really was so exhausted.

So today, I came especially to keep you company.

Recently, the palace is quite vigilant. Everyone's eyes are watching.

You should stop coming here so often.

You're afraid?

You're not afraid?

If you were going to be afraid, you shouldn't have gotten together with me in the first place.

If you have the time, help me to find out about someone.

Tian Ji.

What? Is she vying with you over His Majesty's affections?

Is Uncle Wang afraid that I'll lose His Majesty's affections?

If it's something trivial like vying over his affections,

Would I need you to make a grand appearance?

It's just that I feel that this person seems to be hiding some secret.

Why? Did you discover something?

No, I didn't.

I just feel that this person is unfathomable.

I've interacted with her for a while now.

But I don't know what's going on in that mind of hers.

Or just what it is that she wants.

She is but a consort.

Other than vying for His Majesty's affections, what else is there to vie for?

This person is definitely not that simple.

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Hey.

Hey, look.

Pigeons? How many times have you seen them?

If I remember correctly, around three or five times.

The both of you, go back and keep watch. If you see the pigeons again,

You are to shoot it down.

Yes, sir.

I pay my respects, Chancellor.

The Qi-Chu alliance has succeeded.

Then what should we do now, Chancellor?

What should we do? Wait for the king to sentence us to our punishments.

Your Majesty, I am incompetent.

I wasn't able to stop Qi and Chu from making an alliance. May Your Majesty punish me.

But I think that even if there is an alliance,

Qin will also not surely lose.

Chu has millions of brave soldiers and now has a Qi helping them.

Do you want them to reach our doorsteps before you will consider us losing?

Millions of brave soldiers are not really as good as they claim to be.

Xiong Huai thinks that just because he has millions of valiant soldiers, he can already sleep soundly.

But he doesn't know that having numerous soldiers but have no proficient skills is just like a loose sheet of sand.

Once there are any movements from either Qi or Chu, we can initiate an attack.

Royal Father, stop listening to Zhang Yi's nonsense already!

Qi and Chu's alliance already caused our country to be in the passive side.

This is all due to Zhang Yi's incompetence. I request that Royal Father remove him from the Prime Minister position.

If Your Majesty can't trust me, I am requesting that you remove me from my position.