Zhen Huan Zhuan (2011) s01e10 Episode Script
Episode 10
~ Episode 10 ~ Now, the Internal Affairs Authority chooses the best thing and sends to us Everyone knows that his majesty loves young mistress And his majesty asked imperial physician Wen to make herbal tonic for you once a day It's not that good as you think the tonic is very bitter Oh, by the way, Yu is so mean I heared that after she moved out of Palace of Essence she curses young mistress all the time Leave her alone I haven't done anything bad.
I won't have any karma coming after me.
But, she cursed so vicious Send servant to report to the Empress and ask Empress to help Let's not make her life any more miserable Forgive her She lost his majesty's favor, can't feel well she'll be fine after some time Young mistress is so kind Young mistress, the tonic is ready The tonic is so acid recently Maybe Dr.
Wen changed the prescription I just got up not long ago, now I'm tired again These days, young mistress are sleepy Shortly after gets up, I got sleepy again Help me in and sleep Huanbi When did I become sleepy About 3 or 5 days ago, young mistress became easily sleepy You almost sleep 10 to 12 hours a day You almost sleep 10 to 12 hours a day The day before yesterday, when his majesty came it's almost noon but young mistress was still in bed There's something wrong, right? Young mistress, don't sleep first I'll ask Lord Wen to come Don't let others know You just say it's a regular check up Young mistress, pardon me.
This will hurt a bit.
This acupoint is called Hegu acupoint If young mistress are just physically sleepy the needle will not change If it's due to drugs, this needle will change color.
Indeed someone has been tampering with my medicine.
Young mistress, please look This needle tip has a light blue-green color What is it? Poison? No In my medicine, someone added more of an ingredient than the prescription called for.
This person was very cautious A very small dosage was added so that during young mistress's regular check ups, it would be very hard to detect.
But even so, if this dosage is consumed for long periods of time, young mistress will start to feel exhausted and sleepy at first.
In under half a year, it will cause delirium, tantamount to dementia.
The conspirator is thinking highly of me using such a careful way to murder me Fortunately it was discovered early young mistress will be fine after some treatments Clearly this person wants to subject young mistress to death This tactic is too sinister Fighting over favor in the inner palace has always resorted to extreme, unscrupulous measures.
It is truly impossible to guard against If not for Lord Wen, I would probably die in my sleep.
It is my negligence that caused young mistress to suffer.
In the future, I must be extraordinarily careful From procuring to preparing the medicine, until young mistress takes it, I will do everything personally.
I won't let anyone else intervene Although it's important to take precautions, the most urgent matter now is to find that person who wants to poison and harm me.
All the medicine is delivered here according to the prescription and brewed in my palace.
In order to put the poison inside my palace It must be someone here A month ago, young mistress's palace got several new servant ladies and eunuchs.
And young mistress's medicine just happened to have problems after they arrived.
Seems that in this matter, I should pay more attention to those new servant ladies and eunuchs.
Young mistress, what would you like to do? I would like Lord Wen to put on a play with Huan'er.
Pretend as if nothing happened, to avoid alerting the enemy I will do everything that young mistress ask It is so kind of you, Lord Wen Lord says I'm fine, I can now rest assured Feeling drowsy and oversleeping in the spring is common Might as well take this opportunity to get some good rest Many thanks Lord Wen Young mistress, servant discovered a small hole underneath the palace walls.
It hasn't been there for long, seems a bit strange Troubles start inside the house.
It must be made on purpose Just pretend you don't know When brewing the medicine tomorrow, you and Xiao Yunzi stay vigilant.
catch him and physical evidence when he is unprepared Yes Xiao Yunzi knows some kung fu he will not let the assassin escape Respect to Empress Respect to each Jiejie Stand up Sit Thanks, Empress I'm assured seeing Precious Shen get well Precious Shen's falling is really a blessing in disguise Gains his majesty's favour and visitations Such a fortune is a wild wish to others Yeah Recently, I saw many people around the Thousand Carps Pond I wonded why but I think Maybe they want to fall into the pond like Precious Shen in this way, his majesty's favour would certainly come You are good at joking Who will use their lives as a joke? Right Precious Shen has always been favoured Only those old and out of favour will try their best to keep His Majesty Hearing Niang niang's words, I am really scared Who wouldn't one day grow old and ugly? I'd better go to the Hall of Splendid Treasure and pray pray to the buddha I wish that I could stay as young and beautiful as Princess of Glory Buddha is busy in dealing prays have no time you'd better accumulate virtue on your own and pray yourself I heard that when Precious Shen was still sick in bed, Precious Smiles was there waiting on you Why isn't she here with you today? No matter how deep one's friendship is it cannot withstand the Emperor's favour I heard His Majesty asked Precious Smiles to his study room which is why she isn't here today Oh, I see your deep friendship is merely thus Your servant has been standing watch the whole time while Pei'er brewed the tonic No one else got close It's still been poisoned.
Your servant must have slipped up Please young mistress forgive us it's not your fault he can poision under your nose without being caught and no one get close to it during brewing We must be missing something.
Huanbi, pour out the medicine later and don't let others see Yes What are you looking at? I was thinking If no one personally put the poison in, then these things must have been tampered with.
Let me see Nothing seems wrong Maybe we're thinking about it the wrong way Come take a look Isn't the color of the lid a bit darker than the rest of the jar? Really! If you don't look closely you really can't tell Why is that? Could it be that this jar lid was boiled in medicine water for a long time and absorbed the medicine? So it turned darker? Once young mistress's medicine comes to a boil, it will touch this "drugged" lid.
Then the medicine in the lid will mix with young mistress's medicine, without anyone knowing.
What a sophisticated method No wonder we couldn't find anything So there were preparations made in advance Who's usually in charge of these things? Originally it was me but now they are maintained by the new servant lady Hua Sui.
Xiao Yunzi Here Dump the medicine.
Then put the jar back.
Don't make them suspicious Yes Then check out Hua Sui's background for me Yes Yun Gong Gong Hua Sui Why are you standing so suspiciously behind my back? Yun Gong Gong, the little kitchen is not clean why did you personally trouble yourself to come over? I am Shattered Jade Palace's Head Eunuch is there anywhere in this place where I cannot go? If I weren't to come here, I'd still be in the dark This old medicine pot How come you're still using it for our mistress's medicine? An onlooker seeing it would think that our mistress has lost favour! Go and get it changed immediately Gong gong, you may not know this the tools used to brew tonics don't need to be expensive On the contrary, ones that have been used the longest are the best Otherwise, the medicine will lose it's potency so we shouldn't change it so easily That's reasonable Then keep using it for now Yes Do your job well, and you will be well-rewarded Yes Right Young mistress needs to nap after taking her medicine Quickly prepare the medicine for tonight Don't delay Yes Aiyo I inquired about it Hua Sui was previously a servant to Lady Yu After Yushi was demoted, several of her servants were sent away.
Hua Sui was among those sent away She was then assigned to young mistress's palace Seems like that wench is taking revenge for Yushi! What a loyal servant Ask her in here, I have something to ask her Yes Since you're going to the kitchen, bring some pieces of hot charcoal The kind that turns bright red when it burns It will definitely be useful later Huanbi Jiejie is here Mistress' tonic is almost ready Not a hurry.
I will stay here for a while.
Doctor Wen said these were the best medicines for our mistress I've been watching it the entire time Hua Sui, although you're new here, you're rather loyal It's my fortune to be able to serve in Palace of Shattered Jade I dare not be unloyal Mistress knows that you're loyal she said she wants to reward you later Go on in Mistress wants to reward me? Hurry up and go in, otherwise you'll be making her wait In a while bring the coal burner, so that the medicine doesn't cool Yes Raise your head, you act like we want to eat you Don't be scared I just want to ask you a few things Yes Jinxi says you're doing well at your work and you're very organised and tidy I'm very happy and was wondering how I should reward you so that the others will know that I'm fair with my rewards and punishments and do better at their jobs Thank you, Mistress! I'm just doing my job You're one of the best amongst the new batch of servants Which palace were you from previously? Your mistress could actually bear to let you go? Your servant is clumsy and lazy, I never followed a good mistress before Working for Precious' palace is my greatest fortune Yu Shi has been demoted and thus cannot be considered a good mistress But she must have given you a lot to be thankful for Otherwise how would you dare to commit an offense deserving death? Your servant did serve Mistress Yu in the past But your servant does not know what Precious is referring to Do you really not know what I'm talking about? Then what's the matter with the lid of my tonic-brewing pot? Your servant does not know I am loyal to you Please investigate! All right, since you say you're loyal to Precious, we'll give you an opportunity to prove your loyalty You have worked for Yu Shi before which is why Mistress must pay extra attention to you If you dare to hold this coal burner in your hands we will all believe that you're innocent and loyal and treat you very well in future Hurry up and go Do you not dare to? It looks like your loyalty to our mistress is fake! Please spare my life, Precious Then tell me honestly If there is even a hint of untruth you'll be dragged out immediately and beaten to death After I entered Palace of Shattered Jade One day, Mistress Yu asked your servant to go over She gave me a lot of money and forced me to work for her Your servant was foolish I'm begging for your forgiveness You just keep talking about yourself This is your chance to redeem yourself If there are any hidden truths, I will not spare you Mistress Yu said your servant need not worry about anything else as long as I put the poison in your medication and food Your servant followed Mistress Yu's orders and dug a hole by the wall Whenever Mistress Yu had instructions or wanted to bring something in someone would stick a note into the hole and all I had to do was retrieve it Was that how the poison was brought in? Was Mistress Yu also the one who taught you to boil the lid of the pot in the poison? Yes Do you have other accomplices? No, there's nothing else! Then, what time does Yu Shi put the note in the hole? This - Xiaoyunzi - I'm here Force open her mouth and shove a coal inside I'll speak, I'll speak! Every other day, Mistress Yu will have someone place the poison in the hole All I have to do is retrieve it Every other day? Isn't that tonight? At what time do you retrieve the medicine? Are there any hidden codes? At the first hour of the day there will be two bird's calls outside the palace wall Then that's that Your servant then replies with two bird calls Have you ever seen the person who delivers the poison? Through a wall; your servant has never seen him But it's a man's hand On his right palm, he has a scar Xiaoyunzi lock her up in the storehouse, and don't let her commit suicide If anyone asks say I sent her to Precious Shen Yes Let's go Jinxi, pretend to be Hua Sui tonight and retrieve the poison Then get Xiaoyunzi and some strong eunuchs to wait in ambush Yes, I will go do that now I have to tell Mei jiejie about today's incident Yes, Precious Shen should know she can contribute ideas too What about Promise An? Lingrong is timid Don't tell her lest she gets scared All right Mistress must be firm this time, you cannot be forgiving Mistress, Xiaoyunzi is up there When the bastard turns up he will jump down and catch the person alive Your servant will go take a look Xiaoyunzi knows some martial arts If one doesn't pay attention, one really can't tell that he's there He's been caughtbrbrXiaoyunzi, he's been caught! Hurry up and go! Catch him! - Walk! - Let me go - Please let me go - Man up! - Please let me go - Stop struggling - I'm begging you, let me go - Kneel! Mistress, please let me go Raise his head, I may know him Xiaoyingzi? Ying Gong Gong, how are you? Greetings, Precious Although we haven't met in a long time But we were master and servant for a while Just answer whatever I ask you Has the paddle been prepared? Replying, young mistress, it's been prepared Where are you working now? I'm working for Official Lady Yu That must be hard on you As a servant, I have no choice who I follow there is nothing good or bad You certainly look on the bright side of things At the time, didn't you follow your Shifu to work for Pin of Beauty? Why are you with Official Lady Yu now? Shifu wanted to return to you and offended Pin of Beauty.
I was also dragged down with him Pin of Beauty let me atone for my mistake by serving Official Lady Yu.
Pin of Beauty plans far ahead for you I want to ask you, what are you doing in the middle of the night sneaking around my palace? This - Xiaoyunzi - Here Brutally beat this back-stabbing betrayer Beat him until he owns up with the truth Yes Precious, please spare my life! Precious! Precious, please spare my life.
Precious! Everything I've said is true! Please spare my life! He couldn't take torture He already confessed saying Lady Yu put him up to this.
Tie him up.
Lock him up with Hua Sui.
Watch those two closely Yes Look at this situation.
How could I not be bitterly disappointed? I treated him well in the past You don't need to be disappointed in this type of person Now it's clear It must be Yushi exacting revenge out of hatred I have already exercised enough restraint with Yushi But she's still forcing me step by step Mei Jiejie, living peacefully in the palace why is it so difficult? Man doesn't want to hurt the lion, but the lion wants to hurt man You and I haven't forced anyone Yet they want to take our lives This matter should be reported to the Emperor and Empress.
You have all the evidence, Yu Shi can't deny it It's just thatif His Majesty still has any old feelings for her, it will be difficult.
Poison and curses haven't killed our mistress She still has a reason to live But the act of treason demands the perpetrator's death Young mistress, do you remember your servant asking you on the night of new year's eve, is anyone masquerading in Garden of Winter Plums? Niang Niang What's so urgent? Xiao Yinzi didn't return to Yushi's all night I received news first thing in the morning that after entering Palace of Shattered Jade, he never came back out.
Incompetent idiot Niang Niang, eunuchs have no balls They can't endure any torture.
He probably already confessed.
Yushi definitely can't be saved Will she rat out Niang Niang? What do you think? End things once and for all No If Niang niang makes your move now you will garner attention to yourself Just let Yu Shi deny everything She wants Zhen Huan to die for her own revenge But for the chance of living, why wouldn't she betray us? She wants to live But what she wants more is for her whole family to live You spoke for so long? The meaning has to be clear, I am not eloquent If you are not eloquent, then few are Things have to be said clearly and it must be said in a way that moves the Emperor, right? Thank you, Gong Gong, for your advice We've known each other for so many years yet you're still doing this? What did His Majesty say? What else could he say? Next, we'll have to rely on you Su Pei Sheng! Who are you? How dare you barge your way in here! On His Majesty's orders, Yu Shi is annulled and will be thrown into the Cold Palace I don't believe this, I don't believe this! I want to see the Emperor! You want to see the Emperor? The Emperor does not want to see you! Move! I don't believe you.
I want to see the Emperor! I greet your Majesty, may you have good health Rise Thank you, Your Majesty Did you sleep well last night? Thank you for Your Majesty's concern But I didn't sleep very well I know Jinxi came by this morning to tell the Empress and myself From now on, your medicine and food will be monitored carefully This dark deed will not happen again It's my fault for being careless and not realising it It's not that you did not realise it It's that the fighting for favour in the back palace was something that I never expected I have ordered Hua Sui and Xiaoyingzi to be killed As for Yushi, I have had her stripped of her title and thrown into the Cold Palace for life Huan Huan, you needn't be scared anymore Huan Huan has never competed with anyone for anything But because I unintentionally offended Yushi so many other people's lives were implicated Huan Huan's sins are plentiful, I have no right to receive your favour You're thinking too much You were innocently wronged and frightened Don't cry yourself to sickness Huan Huan prayed during the New Year's Eve I wish.
If the wind can understand my heart, brthen it shall not break me.
(comparing herself to the winter plums) But heaven does not abide by the wishes of me.
Where did you make this wish? And what did you wish for? The night of New Year's in the Garden of Winter Plums I hope if the wind can understand my heart, brthen it shall not break me.
That night, the snow was slippery I even wet my shoes and socks Then did you meet anyone? How does Dearest 4th know? That night, when I was in the Winter Blossom Garden, I ran into a male stranger But because I was outside while ill, and I wasn't supposed to interact with males, so I had to lie and say I was a palace maid in order to get away Don't tell me that man I lost my composure, I did not know it was Your Majesty Please punish me So it was you.
It was actually you I mistook someone else for you Su Pei Sheng! Your servant is here Send out my edict, Yushi of Cold Palace has committed treason and tried to poison my concubine She is sentenced to death (by suicide) Yes, your servant will do so immediately What's wrong, Your Majesty? Why do you suddenly want to kill Yushi? She lied to me She actually claimed to be the lady from the winter blossom garden and used it to gain my favour She's committed so many wrongs but because of that night, I've spared her life Now, however, she has nothing to save her Yushi's many wrongs came about because of her admiration for Your Majesty A ruler does not lie.
Yushi's crimes are unforgivable But, since you have pleaded for her, I will allow her body to be returned to her family Thank you, Your Majesty That day when you were praying in the Winter Blossom Garden, were you carrying any personal effects on you? Like a satchet or a jade pendant or jewellery? Those are just a girl's playthings If Dearest 4th likes it, Huan Huan can make another This matter has caused you undue stress You should wait until you have released this burden to make it I'm not in a hurry; our days are still long I asked you over here to tell you something The Ministerium has been ordered to build a farming field The Officials are all in a flurry of discussions Some are for it, some are against it I was thinking, rather than let them make useless noise, why don't I make a trip down myself? It's just outside the Capital, so the trip will only take a few days Farming fields are what the commoners rely on Nothing else is more important When is Your Majesty leaving? Everything has been arranged I can leave immediately Your Majesty must be careful while you're out of the palace I wanted to bring Su Pei Sheng But he's a Eunuch, it's not convenient for him to leave When I was a Duke, I used to travel on the behalf of my Father so I know how to take care of myself Stay in the palace and look after your health Wait for me to come home Has Precious Cao's matter been dealt with? Niang Niang, don't look she often head down like a puzzle.
br(puzzle means taciturn person) What she says all are reasonable.
She has to settle for Yu's family.
She is careful If she didn't have the ability to handle matters for Niang Niang, she wouldn't be suitable to stay by your side.
Speaking of ability Back then at the Duke's residence you were more favored than her Why is it that now, you can't compare? Doesn't Precious Cao have a daughter? Of course His Majesty sees her more Yes, even having a daughter is good Why are both of you so glum? I am feeling suffocated.
What's wrong? I hate being ambushed and I hate Hua Sui and Xiaoyingzi But His Majesty really ordered for them to be killed I don't feel good about that Yeah I don't feel good seeing someone get killed either Moreover, we had overthrown one person, don't know after that how many people are there.
We'll deal with it one at a time As long as we're united, no one can harm us Jiejie, really.
You kept something this huge from me I had to hear about it from the Empress that Yushi wanted to kill Jiejie and that she even pretended to be Jiejie in order to win His Majesty's favour I didn't mean to keep it from you But such matters are frightening it's best to be ignorant about it But I treat you like my real older sister There is no logic in a younger sister not knowing when her older sister is in trouble It's good that everything is over As long as you're all right His Majesty has ordered Yushi to be killed Whoever wants to harm us has to die Lingrong is usually gentle and quiet but she's also a person with ideas and fortitude Mistress Yushi refuses to die and is kicking up a big fuss in the Cold Palace She insists on seeing the Emperor one last time How can she? At this hour, His Majesty has probably already left the palace Are we supposed to let her live until the Emperor returns? Do you report back to Empress? These days Empress headache.
Can't get out of bed.
So she can't deal with this matter.
Then only the Princess of Glory can handle this matter There is no movement from the Princess of Glory at all She said she's not feeling well She has been close with Yushi She must be avoiding the risk of being connected to her Yushi says that she has been maligned She broke the poisonous wine and appears to have gone mad and is even cursing our mistress in the Cold Palace Her words are vicious and not fit to be heard Let her be, protesting against death Jiejie, it looks like it's getting late I'll go back first Be careful on your way back Walk slowly, sister Baojun, what kind of place is the Cold Palace exactly? That's where the anulled concubines are locked up in In the past, a lot of deposed concubines went crazy or died because they could not stand being locked up in there Everyone feels that this is a place of bad luck and evil that's why it's called the Cold Palace Then does anyone normally go there? What kind of place is that? In the past, servants living nearby often saw spirits coming from there and heard crying throughout the night It's terrifying I want to go take a look Young mistress, let's not go in It's scary Let go of me Let go of me! Yushi, just accept your fate Let go! Let go of me Why has Promise An come here? Zhen Jiejie heard that Yushi is cursing her and asked me to come here and take a look Let go, let go of me! What's wrong? Gong Gong's work is not done? Still wildly.
Why is it you? Where is the Emperor? Let go of me! - Drag her away.
br- Let go of me! Emperor has a precious identity.
How could he enter Cold Palace easily.
It's all Zhen Huan's fault! That btch! Talking the Emperor into killing me! You don't want to die so much just because you want to know the reasons.
Then I will tell you You were the one who tampered with Zhen Jiejie's medicine, weren't you? Yes, I was the one that gave the order If it weren't for her, I wouldn't have lost favour with the Emperor and be left in my current state! I want to gnaw on her bones and drink her blood so that that wench won't be able to be reincarnated! What's the use of desperate want? The winner takes it all.
You must hurry to die.
No, I can't die The Emperor and I met on the New Year The Emperor likes to listen to me sing Kun Opera He can't bear to let me die On the night of New Year's Eve in the Garden of Winter Plums "If the wind can understand the plums' intention , it will not break the plums" You took from Jiejie's favour What grace do you have left to continue to live? It's her.
It's actually her! No, I can't die.
I cannot die! Your Majesty! You like to listen to me sing Kun Opera! Gong Gong, may I speak with you in private? I'll sing for you again, Your Majesty! Young mistress His majesty is vexed, and The Empress has a headache again For her to continue making a fuss like this will not be tolerated Your Majesty! His Majesty granted her death by suicide But this crazy woman has broken the poison wine jar and ripped up the white cloth (for hanging) It's practically impossible Hasn't Gong Gong served His Majesty for many years? Your servant has been with the Emperor for more than 30 years Gonggong have worked hard and performed a valuable service and well-informed in the palaces always know what his majesty wants At the moment, His Majesty is away from the palace Are you really going to wait until he returns to deal with her? What young mistress means is? Since His Majesty granted her death by suicide, once she's dead, Gong Gong's task is also finished.
Who will actually investigate whether she died by suicide or by other means? For example, the concubines should be buried alive with the emperors' death what would you do if they don't want Your servant understands Gonggong knows better than Lingrong what "the night is long and full of dreams" means With her dealt with, His Majesty would have put down one burden Understood.
Your servant sends young mistress out Your Majesty, save me.
Your Majesty! Zhen Huan! Even if you don't die in my hands, someone else will help me finish you! You will die a horrible death! At death's door, she still doesn't know to repent Yushi will definitely die But why must young mistress come to this spooky place I want Jiejie to know that I'd do anything for her You never treat us eunuchs like people Now you fall into our hands Xiao Xiazi Here Before I told you to endure.
This time, don't hold back.
Don't! Don't! I am the Emperor's woman You cannot kill me! You cannot kill me! Greetings, Precious Smiles and Precious Shen Yushi has committed suicide It's good that it's over a quick one Please rest assured Rest assured? Yes Wasn't it mistress who asked Promise An to come? Yushi was kicking up a big fuss Promise An said that she'd be dead either way which was why your servant strangled Yushi She was strangled to death? Yes This was Promise An's idea? Yes Otherwise, even Shifu didn't think of it But Yushi is disliked by all so no one will say anything about it Good job, you're dismissed Your servant takes his leave Young mistress, are you alright? Young mistress, are you alright? She's already dead, leave it be Why say such disgusting things? Young mistress, quickly inhale this fragrance to dispel your disgust.
Greetings, Promise An Where is Jiejie? She's having tea with Precious Shen inside I'll let her know you're here No need I exactly want to go asking for a cup of tea.
I will go in myself Mei Jiejie Did I overdo it We will not attack unless we are attacked But I didn't think that Lingrong would be so heartless in this matter.
Lingrong did it for us There are too many killings in this palace If we are not vicious to other people other people will be even more vicious to you I know this But this matter started because of you Lingrong was never implicated But now she's gone to the Cold Palace to order Yushi to be strangled to death! Such an action is competely unlike her usual warm and gentle self Thank you for watching! brPlease join us! Presented by the Legend of Zhen Huan Team @ Viki
I won't have any karma coming after me.
But, she cursed so vicious Send servant to report to the Empress and ask Empress to help Let's not make her life any more miserable Forgive her She lost his majesty's favor, can't feel well she'll be fine after some time Young mistress is so kind Young mistress, the tonic is ready The tonic is so acid recently Maybe Dr.
Wen changed the prescription I just got up not long ago, now I'm tired again These days, young mistress are sleepy Shortly after gets up, I got sleepy again Help me in and sleep Huanbi When did I become sleepy About 3 or 5 days ago, young mistress became easily sleepy You almost sleep 10 to 12 hours a day You almost sleep 10 to 12 hours a day The day before yesterday, when his majesty came it's almost noon but young mistress was still in bed There's something wrong, right? Young mistress, don't sleep first I'll ask Lord Wen to come Don't let others know You just say it's a regular check up Young mistress, pardon me.
This will hurt a bit.
This acupoint is called Hegu acupoint If young mistress are just physically sleepy the needle will not change If it's due to drugs, this needle will change color.
Indeed someone has been tampering with my medicine.
Young mistress, please look This needle tip has a light blue-green color What is it? Poison? No In my medicine, someone added more of an ingredient than the prescription called for.
This person was very cautious A very small dosage was added so that during young mistress's regular check ups, it would be very hard to detect.
But even so, if this dosage is consumed for long periods of time, young mistress will start to feel exhausted and sleepy at first.
In under half a year, it will cause delirium, tantamount to dementia.
The conspirator is thinking highly of me using such a careful way to murder me Fortunately it was discovered early young mistress will be fine after some treatments Clearly this person wants to subject young mistress to death This tactic is too sinister Fighting over favor in the inner palace has always resorted to extreme, unscrupulous measures.
It is truly impossible to guard against If not for Lord Wen, I would probably die in my sleep.
It is my negligence that caused young mistress to suffer.
In the future, I must be extraordinarily careful From procuring to preparing the medicine, until young mistress takes it, I will do everything personally.
I won't let anyone else intervene Although it's important to take precautions, the most urgent matter now is to find that person who wants to poison and harm me.
All the medicine is delivered here according to the prescription and brewed in my palace.
In order to put the poison inside my palace It must be someone here A month ago, young mistress's palace got several new servant ladies and eunuchs.
And young mistress's medicine just happened to have problems after they arrived.
Seems that in this matter, I should pay more attention to those new servant ladies and eunuchs.
Young mistress, what would you like to do? I would like Lord Wen to put on a play with Huan'er.
Pretend as if nothing happened, to avoid alerting the enemy I will do everything that young mistress ask It is so kind of you, Lord Wen Lord says I'm fine, I can now rest assured Feeling drowsy and oversleeping in the spring is common Might as well take this opportunity to get some good rest Many thanks Lord Wen Young mistress, servant discovered a small hole underneath the palace walls.
It hasn't been there for long, seems a bit strange Troubles start inside the house.
It must be made on purpose Just pretend you don't know When brewing the medicine tomorrow, you and Xiao Yunzi stay vigilant.
catch him and physical evidence when he is unprepared Yes Xiao Yunzi knows some kung fu he will not let the assassin escape Respect to Empress Respect to each Jiejie Stand up Sit Thanks, Empress I'm assured seeing Precious Shen get well Precious Shen's falling is really a blessing in disguise Gains his majesty's favour and visitations Such a fortune is a wild wish to others Yeah Recently, I saw many people around the Thousand Carps Pond I wonded why but I think Maybe they want to fall into the pond like Precious Shen in this way, his majesty's favour would certainly come You are good at joking Who will use their lives as a joke? Right Precious Shen has always been favoured Only those old and out of favour will try their best to keep His Majesty Hearing Niang niang's words, I am really scared Who wouldn't one day grow old and ugly? I'd better go to the Hall of Splendid Treasure and pray pray to the buddha I wish that I could stay as young and beautiful as Princess of Glory Buddha is busy in dealing prays have no time you'd better accumulate virtue on your own and pray yourself I heard that when Precious Shen was still sick in bed, Precious Smiles was there waiting on you Why isn't she here with you today? No matter how deep one's friendship is it cannot withstand the Emperor's favour I heard His Majesty asked Precious Smiles to his study room which is why she isn't here today Oh, I see your deep friendship is merely thus Your servant has been standing watch the whole time while Pei'er brewed the tonic No one else got close It's still been poisoned.
Your servant must have slipped up Please young mistress forgive us it's not your fault he can poision under your nose without being caught and no one get close to it during brewing We must be missing something.
Huanbi, pour out the medicine later and don't let others see Yes What are you looking at? I was thinking If no one personally put the poison in, then these things must have been tampered with.
Let me see Nothing seems wrong Maybe we're thinking about it the wrong way Come take a look Isn't the color of the lid a bit darker than the rest of the jar? Really! If you don't look closely you really can't tell Why is that? Could it be that this jar lid was boiled in medicine water for a long time and absorbed the medicine? So it turned darker? Once young mistress's medicine comes to a boil, it will touch this "drugged" lid.
Then the medicine in the lid will mix with young mistress's medicine, without anyone knowing.
What a sophisticated method No wonder we couldn't find anything So there were preparations made in advance Who's usually in charge of these things? Originally it was me but now they are maintained by the new servant lady Hua Sui.
Xiao Yunzi Here Dump the medicine.
Then put the jar back.
Don't make them suspicious Yes Then check out Hua Sui's background for me Yes Yun Gong Gong Hua Sui Why are you standing so suspiciously behind my back? Yun Gong Gong, the little kitchen is not clean why did you personally trouble yourself to come over? I am Shattered Jade Palace's Head Eunuch is there anywhere in this place where I cannot go? If I weren't to come here, I'd still be in the dark This old medicine pot How come you're still using it for our mistress's medicine? An onlooker seeing it would think that our mistress has lost favour! Go and get it changed immediately Gong gong, you may not know this the tools used to brew tonics don't need to be expensive On the contrary, ones that have been used the longest are the best Otherwise, the medicine will lose it's potency so we shouldn't change it so easily That's reasonable Then keep using it for now Yes Do your job well, and you will be well-rewarded Yes Right Young mistress needs to nap after taking her medicine Quickly prepare the medicine for tonight Don't delay Yes Aiyo I inquired about it Hua Sui was previously a servant to Lady Yu After Yushi was demoted, several of her servants were sent away.
Hua Sui was among those sent away She was then assigned to young mistress's palace Seems like that wench is taking revenge for Yushi! What a loyal servant Ask her in here, I have something to ask her Yes Since you're going to the kitchen, bring some pieces of hot charcoal The kind that turns bright red when it burns It will definitely be useful later Huanbi Jiejie is here Mistress' tonic is almost ready Not a hurry.
I will stay here for a while.
Doctor Wen said these were the best medicines for our mistress I've been watching it the entire time Hua Sui, although you're new here, you're rather loyal It's my fortune to be able to serve in Palace of Shattered Jade I dare not be unloyal Mistress knows that you're loyal she said she wants to reward you later Go on in Mistress wants to reward me? Hurry up and go in, otherwise you'll be making her wait In a while bring the coal burner, so that the medicine doesn't cool Yes Raise your head, you act like we want to eat you Don't be scared I just want to ask you a few things Yes Jinxi says you're doing well at your work and you're very organised and tidy I'm very happy and was wondering how I should reward you so that the others will know that I'm fair with my rewards and punishments and do better at their jobs Thank you, Mistress! I'm just doing my job You're one of the best amongst the new batch of servants Which palace were you from previously? Your mistress could actually bear to let you go? Your servant is clumsy and lazy, I never followed a good mistress before Working for Precious' palace is my greatest fortune Yu Shi has been demoted and thus cannot be considered a good mistress But she must have given you a lot to be thankful for Otherwise how would you dare to commit an offense deserving death? Your servant did serve Mistress Yu in the past But your servant does not know what Precious is referring to Do you really not know what I'm talking about? Then what's the matter with the lid of my tonic-brewing pot? Your servant does not know I am loyal to you Please investigate! All right, since you say you're loyal to Precious, we'll give you an opportunity to prove your loyalty You have worked for Yu Shi before which is why Mistress must pay extra attention to you If you dare to hold this coal burner in your hands we will all believe that you're innocent and loyal and treat you very well in future Hurry up and go Do you not dare to? It looks like your loyalty to our mistress is fake! Please spare my life, Precious Then tell me honestly If there is even a hint of untruth you'll be dragged out immediately and beaten to death After I entered Palace of Shattered Jade One day, Mistress Yu asked your servant to go over She gave me a lot of money and forced me to work for her Your servant was foolish I'm begging for your forgiveness You just keep talking about yourself This is your chance to redeem yourself If there are any hidden truths, I will not spare you Mistress Yu said your servant need not worry about anything else as long as I put the poison in your medication and food Your servant followed Mistress Yu's orders and dug a hole by the wall Whenever Mistress Yu had instructions or wanted to bring something in someone would stick a note into the hole and all I had to do was retrieve it Was that how the poison was brought in? Was Mistress Yu also the one who taught you to boil the lid of the pot in the poison? Yes Do you have other accomplices? No, there's nothing else! Then, what time does Yu Shi put the note in the hole? This - Xiaoyunzi - I'm here Force open her mouth and shove a coal inside I'll speak, I'll speak! Every other day, Mistress Yu will have someone place the poison in the hole All I have to do is retrieve it Every other day? Isn't that tonight? At what time do you retrieve the medicine? Are there any hidden codes? At the first hour of the day there will be two bird's calls outside the palace wall Then that's that Your servant then replies with two bird calls Have you ever seen the person who delivers the poison? Through a wall; your servant has never seen him But it's a man's hand On his right palm, he has a scar Xiaoyunzi lock her up in the storehouse, and don't let her commit suicide If anyone asks say I sent her to Precious Shen Yes Let's go Jinxi, pretend to be Hua Sui tonight and retrieve the poison Then get Xiaoyunzi and some strong eunuchs to wait in ambush Yes, I will go do that now I have to tell Mei jiejie about today's incident Yes, Precious Shen should know she can contribute ideas too What about Promise An? Lingrong is timid Don't tell her lest she gets scared All right Mistress must be firm this time, you cannot be forgiving Mistress, Xiaoyunzi is up there When the bastard turns up he will jump down and catch the person alive Your servant will go take a look Xiaoyunzi knows some martial arts If one doesn't pay attention, one really can't tell that he's there He's been caughtbrbrXiaoyunzi, he's been caught! Hurry up and go! Catch him! - Walk! - Let me go - Please let me go - Man up! - Please let me go - Stop struggling - I'm begging you, let me go - Kneel! Mistress, please let me go Raise his head, I may know him Xiaoyingzi? Ying Gong Gong, how are you? Greetings, Precious Although we haven't met in a long time But we were master and servant for a while Just answer whatever I ask you Has the paddle been prepared? Replying, young mistress, it's been prepared Where are you working now? I'm working for Official Lady Yu That must be hard on you As a servant, I have no choice who I follow there is nothing good or bad You certainly look on the bright side of things At the time, didn't you follow your Shifu to work for Pin of Beauty? Why are you with Official Lady Yu now? Shifu wanted to return to you and offended Pin of Beauty.
I was also dragged down with him Pin of Beauty let me atone for my mistake by serving Official Lady Yu.
Pin of Beauty plans far ahead for you I want to ask you, what are you doing in the middle of the night sneaking around my palace? This - Xiaoyunzi - Here Brutally beat this back-stabbing betrayer Beat him until he owns up with the truth Yes Precious, please spare my life! Precious! Precious, please spare my life.
Precious! Everything I've said is true! Please spare my life! He couldn't take torture He already confessed saying Lady Yu put him up to this.
Tie him up.
Lock him up with Hua Sui.
Watch those two closely Yes Look at this situation.
How could I not be bitterly disappointed? I treated him well in the past You don't need to be disappointed in this type of person Now it's clear It must be Yushi exacting revenge out of hatred I have already exercised enough restraint with Yushi But she's still forcing me step by step Mei Jiejie, living peacefully in the palace why is it so difficult? Man doesn't want to hurt the lion, but the lion wants to hurt man You and I haven't forced anyone Yet they want to take our lives This matter should be reported to the Emperor and Empress.
You have all the evidence, Yu Shi can't deny it It's just thatif His Majesty still has any old feelings for her, it will be difficult.
Poison and curses haven't killed our mistress She still has a reason to live But the act of treason demands the perpetrator's death Young mistress, do you remember your servant asking you on the night of new year's eve, is anyone masquerading in Garden of Winter Plums? Niang Niang What's so urgent? Xiao Yinzi didn't return to Yushi's all night I received news first thing in the morning that after entering Palace of Shattered Jade, he never came back out.
Incompetent idiot Niang Niang, eunuchs have no balls They can't endure any torture.
He probably already confessed.
Yushi definitely can't be saved Will she rat out Niang Niang? What do you think? End things once and for all No If Niang niang makes your move now you will garner attention to yourself Just let Yu Shi deny everything She wants Zhen Huan to die for her own revenge But for the chance of living, why wouldn't she betray us? She wants to live But what she wants more is for her whole family to live You spoke for so long? The meaning has to be clear, I am not eloquent If you are not eloquent, then few are Things have to be said clearly and it must be said in a way that moves the Emperor, right? Thank you, Gong Gong, for your advice We've known each other for so many years yet you're still doing this? What did His Majesty say? What else could he say? Next, we'll have to rely on you Su Pei Sheng! Who are you? How dare you barge your way in here! On His Majesty's orders, Yu Shi is annulled and will be thrown into the Cold Palace I don't believe this, I don't believe this! I want to see the Emperor! You want to see the Emperor? The Emperor does not want to see you! Move! I don't believe you.
I want to see the Emperor! I greet your Majesty, may you have good health Rise Thank you, Your Majesty Did you sleep well last night? Thank you for Your Majesty's concern But I didn't sleep very well I know Jinxi came by this morning to tell the Empress and myself From now on, your medicine and food will be monitored carefully This dark deed will not happen again It's my fault for being careless and not realising it It's not that you did not realise it It's that the fighting for favour in the back palace was something that I never expected I have ordered Hua Sui and Xiaoyingzi to be killed As for Yushi, I have had her stripped of her title and thrown into the Cold Palace for life Huan Huan, you needn't be scared anymore Huan Huan has never competed with anyone for anything But because I unintentionally offended Yushi so many other people's lives were implicated Huan Huan's sins are plentiful, I have no right to receive your favour You're thinking too much You were innocently wronged and frightened Don't cry yourself to sickness Huan Huan prayed during the New Year's Eve I wish.
If the wind can understand my heart, brthen it shall not break me.
(comparing herself to the winter plums) But heaven does not abide by the wishes of me.
Where did you make this wish? And what did you wish for? The night of New Year's in the Garden of Winter Plums I hope if the wind can understand my heart, brthen it shall not break me.
That night, the snow was slippery I even wet my shoes and socks Then did you meet anyone? How does Dearest 4th know? That night, when I was in the Winter Blossom Garden, I ran into a male stranger But because I was outside while ill, and I wasn't supposed to interact with males, so I had to lie and say I was a palace maid in order to get away Don't tell me that man I lost my composure, I did not know it was Your Majesty Please punish me So it was you.
It was actually you I mistook someone else for you Su Pei Sheng! Your servant is here Send out my edict, Yushi of Cold Palace has committed treason and tried to poison my concubine She is sentenced to death (by suicide) Yes, your servant will do so immediately What's wrong, Your Majesty? Why do you suddenly want to kill Yushi? She lied to me She actually claimed to be the lady from the winter blossom garden and used it to gain my favour She's committed so many wrongs but because of that night, I've spared her life Now, however, she has nothing to save her Yushi's many wrongs came about because of her admiration for Your Majesty A ruler does not lie.
Yushi's crimes are unforgivable But, since you have pleaded for her, I will allow her body to be returned to her family Thank you, Your Majesty That day when you were praying in the Winter Blossom Garden, were you carrying any personal effects on you? Like a satchet or a jade pendant or jewellery? Those are just a girl's playthings If Dearest 4th likes it, Huan Huan can make another This matter has caused you undue stress You should wait until you have released this burden to make it I'm not in a hurry; our days are still long I asked you over here to tell you something The Ministerium has been ordered to build a farming field The Officials are all in a flurry of discussions Some are for it, some are against it I was thinking, rather than let them make useless noise, why don't I make a trip down myself? It's just outside the Capital, so the trip will only take a few days Farming fields are what the commoners rely on Nothing else is more important When is Your Majesty leaving? Everything has been arranged I can leave immediately Your Majesty must be careful while you're out of the palace I wanted to bring Su Pei Sheng But he's a Eunuch, it's not convenient for him to leave When I was a Duke, I used to travel on the behalf of my Father so I know how to take care of myself Stay in the palace and look after your health Wait for me to come home Has Precious Cao's matter been dealt with? Niang Niang, don't look she often head down like a puzzle.
br(puzzle means taciturn person) What she says all are reasonable.
She has to settle for Yu's family.
She is careful If she didn't have the ability to handle matters for Niang Niang, she wouldn't be suitable to stay by your side.
Speaking of ability Back then at the Duke's residence you were more favored than her Why is it that now, you can't compare? Doesn't Precious Cao have a daughter? Of course His Majesty sees her more Yes, even having a daughter is good Why are both of you so glum? I am feeling suffocated.
What's wrong? I hate being ambushed and I hate Hua Sui and Xiaoyingzi But His Majesty really ordered for them to be killed I don't feel good about that Yeah I don't feel good seeing someone get killed either Moreover, we had overthrown one person, don't know after that how many people are there.
We'll deal with it one at a time As long as we're united, no one can harm us Jiejie, really.
You kept something this huge from me I had to hear about it from the Empress that Yushi wanted to kill Jiejie and that she even pretended to be Jiejie in order to win His Majesty's favour I didn't mean to keep it from you But such matters are frightening it's best to be ignorant about it But I treat you like my real older sister There is no logic in a younger sister not knowing when her older sister is in trouble It's good that everything is over As long as you're all right His Majesty has ordered Yushi to be killed Whoever wants to harm us has to die Lingrong is usually gentle and quiet but she's also a person with ideas and fortitude Mistress Yushi refuses to die and is kicking up a big fuss in the Cold Palace She insists on seeing the Emperor one last time How can she? At this hour, His Majesty has probably already left the palace Are we supposed to let her live until the Emperor returns? Do you report back to Empress? These days Empress headache.
Can't get out of bed.
So she can't deal with this matter.
Then only the Princess of Glory can handle this matter There is no movement from the Princess of Glory at all She said she's not feeling well She has been close with Yushi She must be avoiding the risk of being connected to her Yushi says that she has been maligned She broke the poisonous wine and appears to have gone mad and is even cursing our mistress in the Cold Palace Her words are vicious and not fit to be heard Let her be, protesting against death Jiejie, it looks like it's getting late I'll go back first Be careful on your way back Walk slowly, sister Baojun, what kind of place is the Cold Palace exactly? That's where the anulled concubines are locked up in In the past, a lot of deposed concubines went crazy or died because they could not stand being locked up in there Everyone feels that this is a place of bad luck and evil that's why it's called the Cold Palace Then does anyone normally go there? What kind of place is that? In the past, servants living nearby often saw spirits coming from there and heard crying throughout the night It's terrifying I want to go take a look Young mistress, let's not go in It's scary Let go of me Let go of me! Yushi, just accept your fate Let go! Let go of me Why has Promise An come here? Zhen Jiejie heard that Yushi is cursing her and asked me to come here and take a look Let go, let go of me! What's wrong? Gong Gong's work is not done? Still wildly.
Why is it you? Where is the Emperor? Let go of me! - Drag her away.
br- Let go of me! Emperor has a precious identity.
How could he enter Cold Palace easily.
It's all Zhen Huan's fault! That btch! Talking the Emperor into killing me! You don't want to die so much just because you want to know the reasons.
Then I will tell you You were the one who tampered with Zhen Jiejie's medicine, weren't you? Yes, I was the one that gave the order If it weren't for her, I wouldn't have lost favour with the Emperor and be left in my current state! I want to gnaw on her bones and drink her blood so that that wench won't be able to be reincarnated! What's the use of desperate want? The winner takes it all.
You must hurry to die.
No, I can't die The Emperor and I met on the New Year The Emperor likes to listen to me sing Kun Opera He can't bear to let me die On the night of New Year's Eve in the Garden of Winter Plums "If the wind can understand the plums' intention , it will not break the plums" You took from Jiejie's favour What grace do you have left to continue to live? It's her.
It's actually her! No, I can't die.
I cannot die! Your Majesty! You like to listen to me sing Kun Opera! Gong Gong, may I speak with you in private? I'll sing for you again, Your Majesty! Young mistress His majesty is vexed, and The Empress has a headache again For her to continue making a fuss like this will not be tolerated Your Majesty! His Majesty granted her death by suicide But this crazy woman has broken the poison wine jar and ripped up the white cloth (for hanging) It's practically impossible Hasn't Gong Gong served His Majesty for many years? Your servant has been with the Emperor for more than 30 years Gonggong have worked hard and performed a valuable service and well-informed in the palaces always know what his majesty wants At the moment, His Majesty is away from the palace Are you really going to wait until he returns to deal with her? What young mistress means is? Since His Majesty granted her death by suicide, once she's dead, Gong Gong's task is also finished.
Who will actually investigate whether she died by suicide or by other means? For example, the concubines should be buried alive with the emperors' death what would you do if they don't want Your servant understands Gonggong knows better than Lingrong what "the night is long and full of dreams" means With her dealt with, His Majesty would have put down one burden Understood.
Your servant sends young mistress out Your Majesty, save me.
Your Majesty! Zhen Huan! Even if you don't die in my hands, someone else will help me finish you! You will die a horrible death! At death's door, she still doesn't know to repent Yushi will definitely die But why must young mistress come to this spooky place I want Jiejie to know that I'd do anything for her You never treat us eunuchs like people Now you fall into our hands Xiao Xiazi Here Before I told you to endure.
This time, don't hold back.
Don't! Don't! I am the Emperor's woman You cannot kill me! You cannot kill me! Greetings, Precious Smiles and Precious Shen Yushi has committed suicide It's good that it's over a quick one Please rest assured Rest assured? Yes Wasn't it mistress who asked Promise An to come? Yushi was kicking up a big fuss Promise An said that she'd be dead either way which was why your servant strangled Yushi She was strangled to death? Yes This was Promise An's idea? Yes Otherwise, even Shifu didn't think of it But Yushi is disliked by all so no one will say anything about it Good job, you're dismissed Your servant takes his leave Young mistress, are you alright? Young mistress, are you alright? She's already dead, leave it be Why say such disgusting things? Young mistress, quickly inhale this fragrance to dispel your disgust.
Greetings, Promise An Where is Jiejie? She's having tea with Precious Shen inside I'll let her know you're here No need I exactly want to go asking for a cup of tea.
I will go in myself Mei Jiejie Did I overdo it We will not attack unless we are attacked But I didn't think that Lingrong would be so heartless in this matter.
Lingrong did it for us There are too many killings in this palace If we are not vicious to other people other people will be even more vicious to you I know this But this matter started because of you Lingrong was never implicated But now she's gone to the Cold Palace to order Yushi to be strangled to death! Such an action is competely unlike her usual warm and gentle self Thank you for watching! brPlease join us! Presented by the Legend of Zhen Huan Team @ Viki