[The Princess Weiyoung]
[Episode 17]
Madam, please let me see Wei Young!
How many times have I told you?
Wei Young is severely ill.
Master confined her to her quarters
for fear of passing the illness to family members.
Madam, please show her some mercy.
She must be terrified.
Just let me take one look at her.
Just one look!
At worst, you can have me locked up in Junlan Quarters as well.
Madam!
Stop pestering me about this matter.
- Madam, please! - Madam!
Why are you making such a fuss?
Where are your manners?
Madam.
I just saw Prince of Gaoyang coming here to visit you with an imperial physician.
It's said to be Crown Princess Consort's kind gesture.
Master is leading them here now.
What is Prince of Gaoyang doing here?
Is it because of last time...
What exactly is going on?
Speak up!
It's nothing actually.
It's just...
I'll sort you out later.
Chun Ming.
Prince of Gaoyang arrives!
Greetings to Prince of Gaoyang.
Rise.
What are you doing?
Do it!
What are you doing?
Aren't you scared of retribution?
- Grab her! - Help!
Cover her mouth.
Quickly!
- Help! - Grab her!
Catch her quickly!
Your Highness, Madam Li's pulse is steady.
She's just a bit frail.
Once she recuperates for some time, she should be fine.
That's good to know.
If so, my mother will be relieved.
Thank Her Highness for her graciousness.
Thank you for your kindness, Prince of Gaoyang.
I'm deeply grateful.
Madam is still unwell. Don't stand on such ceremony.
By the way
I've heard that Lady of District Anping hasn't been feeling too well either.
Since Imperial Physician Liu is here, I'll have him take a look at her as well.
- Help! - Catch her!
- Help! - Hurry up!
Get hold of her quickly!
- Knock her out! - Let go of me!
- Drag her over here. - Yes!
Young Mistress!
What is the matter?
Your Highness.
We have just hired a doctor to examine her.
She might have already fallen asleep.
Yes, indeed.
Wei Young is just fine.
Let's not hold up Imperial Physician Liu.
Prince of Gaoyang, please take a seat in our front hall.
Here, this way, please.
Prince of Gaoyang.
Your Highness, please save Wei Young!
She's in really bad shape now.
- Young Mistress! - Drag her up there.
Don't...
Young Mistress!
Seventh Concubine, have you lost your mind?
How dare you say such nonsense to His Highness?
Anyone there?
Help Seventh Concubine back to her room.
- Quickly! - Prince of Gaoyang!
You must save Wei Young! She's terribly ill!
Your Highness, don't pay attention to her.
My sister has already recovered.
Your Highness.
Seventh Concubine has always been frail.
We're afraid that she might contract the illness.
We stopped her from visiting Wei Young and she became so worried.
Imperial Physician Liu, come with me.
Wei Young!
- Wei Young! - Bai Zhi!
Wei Young!
Wei Young! Are you all right?
Imperial Physician Liu!
Whatever you do, you have to revive her!
Don't worry, Your Highness.
I will surely do my very best.
Wei Young!
You have to be all right.
What is this servant doing in her room?
If you even dare to lie, I will have you killed right away!
Second Young Mistress was trying to hang herself.
When I got there, it was already too late.
I was trying to save her when Your Highness came in.
Is that so?
I wouldn't dare lie to Your Highness.
Why would Miss Wei Young hang herself?
Since this has happened
I wouldn't dare keep Your Highness in the dark anymore.
There is indeed an unspeakable reason.
It has to do with a fan.
Is it this fan?
It is that one.
Your Highness.
As the legal mother of Her Ladyship
I have the right to discipline her.
We discovered that Her Ladyship had hidden a man's fan.
After rounds of interrogation
Her Ladyship still refused to reveal where she got this fan from.
Left with no other options
we had to ground her in the hope that she would repent.
Who knew that she would actually take her own life?
This is entirely my fault.
I failed to discipline her.
She acted shamelessly and disgraced our family.
Your Highness even worried about her.
Your Highness!
- Wei Young! - Her Ladyship is awake.
Wei Young.
Your Highness.
Wei Young.
How are you feeling?
Tuoba Jun.
Bai Zhi...
Where is Bai Zhi?
Bai Zhi is all right. Don't worry.
Jun Tao...
What about Jun Tao? They took Jun Tao away.
Make them release Jun Tao right away.
Didn't you hear her?
Release Jun Tao right away!
Yes, I'll do that now.
Your hands...
This child...
What can't be resolved?
Why would you be so foolish and take your life?
Are they telling the truth?
The witchcraft incident will implicate many.
It might implicate Grandmother and my mother.
Chiyun Rou knew that I wouldn't be able to tell anyone the truth.
Yes.
I was wrong to do so.
I acted too impulsively.
Mother might have been too strict, but she did it for my own good.
My parents were angry at me.
Once they aren't mad at me anymore, they won't hold it against me.
Am I right, Mother?
All parents love their children.
Who wouldn't care about their daughter?
However, Wei Young, you really went a bit too far this time.
That fan...
If it's because of this fan
I'd like to ask Madam to stop reprimanding her about it.
She only kept it from you for my sake.
It's because this fan belongs to me.
You are all dismissed.
Here.
I'll head home.
Get some rest.
It was such a close shave.
If I had arrived a bit later...
I wonder who informed His Highness.
Your Highness.
It's her.
I recognize that young lady.
She's the one who informed Your Highness.
She was also the one who spoke up for Miss Wei Young before Her Highness.
Greetings to Your Highness.
I'm on my way to visit my cousin.
I heard that Your Highness saved her.
Thank you, Your Highness.
I can't take all the credit for saving Wei Young in time.
That letter requesting assistance...
You had it delivered to me?
Your Highness, you must keep it a secret for me.
Should Madam Li and Chang Le know about it
I'm afraid...
They really are the culprits behind Wei Young's accident.
For the sake of my second cousin, please inquire no more, Your Highness.
I will remember what you did for Wei Young.
I have to go and visit her now.
Go ahead.
I've never heard of the third young mistress of the Li family.
Compared to Miss Chang Le
Third Young Mistress isn't too eye-catching.
A woman shouldn't always be known for her talents and good looks.
But most people are blinded by such superficial qualities.
You're crying?
You still have the nerve to cry?
Mother...
If you hadn't taken unnecessary action to visit Prince of Gaoyang in private
that Li Wei Young would be long dead by now.
Now that Prince of Gaoyang is involved
all the effort that I made has all gone down the drain.
You still have the nerve to cry?
How was I to know that is Prince of Gaoyang's fan?
It is just an ordinary item.
Besides, Li Wei Young refused to tell the truth about it.
I get it.
Li Wei Young tricked me.
She purposely made me think that fan was a gift from her lover.
She knew that I would go to Prince of Gaoyang
and when he saw the fan, he would suspect that something was wrong.
She tricked me.
What use is it that you've figured it out now?
I risked my life to set this up, but now it is all in vain.
It will be even more difficult to deal with her now!
But Prince of Gaoyang is so protective of her in every way.
He even gave her his fan.
He's obviously fallen for her already.
Didn't Prince of Gaoyang say that it was just a fan?
It doesn't mean anything.
Prince of Gaoyang broke his promise to me because of Li Wei Young.
Even if I have to risk my life, I won't let them be together.
Even if Prince of Gaoyang does indeed have feelings for Li Wei Young
do you think that it's really that ideal?
Will this relationship be a blessing or a curse for Li Wei Young?
That is still uncertain.
Imperial Physician Liu is really remarkable.
Just after taking a few pills
Bai Zhi is already looking much better now.
How about this?
We'll take Bai Zhi back to her room.
No.
I'm still worried about her.
She only got hurt because of me.
Should anything happen to her
I will never ever forgive myself.
You're too soft-hearted.
It's only right that servants suffer a bit of hardship for their masters.
To me, she isn't just a maid.
She is like a sister to me.
All lives are equally important.
Silly child, you...
How are your injuries?
Does it still hurt?
I'm fine.
Chang Le is still so young.
How could she do this to you so ruthlessly?
She has someone to back her up.
What has she got to fear?
Young Mistress!
- Jun Tao! - Young Mistress!
- Jun Tao! - I've failed to protect Young Mistress.
You have suffered. I deserve to die for it.
Get up quickly.
This is all because of me.
I've dragged you both into this.
Jun Tao has also returned.
We have finally pulled through this ordeal.
This hasn't come to an end yet.
I have to do something about this.
I can't allow people I care about to get hurt again because of me.
[Come meet me at Tianyi Restaurant.]
I shouldn't implicate him
but who knew that he would still get involved in this?
Now...
How am I to face him?
[Tianyi Restaurant]
Your Highness.
Miss Wei Young is here.
Greetings to Your Highness.
You need not curtsy to me if there's no one else around.
Of course, Cheng De is no outsider.
Thank you, Your Highness.
You saved me again.
Whenever you see me, all you do is thank me.
Apart from that, do you not have anything else to say to me?
I wonder why Your Highness asked me here today.
As for that previous accident
although everyone in the Li family gave me the same answer
I somehow felt that there is more than meets the eye.
You're keeping something from me.
It was exactly what you saw.
What about these wounds? And...
Your maid was almost beaten to death.
What was that about?
That was because...
My family thought that I was acting indecently
and they punished me for it.
You're lying. You're keeping something from me.
Wei Young, why can't you just tell me the truth?
What's wrong with you, Your Highness?
I already told you that I'm fine!
Why do you have to keep pressing for an answer?
Do you really not know?
Li Wei Young...
When will you stop acting ignorant?
It's because I worry about you. It's because I like you.
I've long wanted to say that to you.
Do you know that when I held you in my arms
thinking that you were already dead, I was scared out of my wits?
Wei Young...
Do you really not understand my feelings for you?
But I don't like you at all.
I don't feel the same way for you.
If you don't like me, tell me then.
Why did you still keep that fan?
Why would you keep it like some precious treasure?
That's because when I saw it, you had already left.
I thought that it belonged to my savior.
If I ever get the chance to meet my savior again
I will be sure to return it to him.
That was why I took it with me.
If that is so
why didn't you bring it up when I met you previously?
It slipped my mind.
Why did you refuse to tell Madam Li
where you got the fan from when she interrogated you?
If what you just said is true, why didn't you tell her so?
Even if I told her the truth, Mother would never let me off.
I might as well use it to get help from Your Highness.
I don't believe you.
You're not like that at all.
Whether you believe it or not, I'm telling the truth.
After Miss Chang Le handed this fan to me
it was only after six hours that I realized something was amiss.
Why would she have this fan?
Why would you suddenly fall ill?
That was easy to notice and yet
it wasn't until six hours later that I figured it out.
Do you know why?
Because in those six hours, I was as happy as a fool.
I kept thinking why you would keep this fan.
I wondered if you look at this fan every day.
When you look at it, do you think of me?
It now turns out that it was just my wishful thinking.
Your Highness is right.
It was just your wishful thinking.
This fan is but a joke.
What is the use of keeping it?
Get out of my way!
Min De?
Why have you come home so suddenly? So soon?
I was worried about you.
What are you doing here?
It's all because of that lousy fan?
You haven't gone home yet?
Third Aunt misses you every day.
Go on. Head back home quickly.
- What are you doing here? - What are you doing here?
Wei Young?
Wei Young, are you all right? Wei Young!
This fan is but a joke.
What is the use of keeping it?
I'm sorry... Tuoba Jun.
I just heard about the witchcraft incident.
If my mother hadn't told me, would you have told me about it?
How are your hands?
They are all right now.
I didn't mean to keep it from you.
I just don't want you to be worried.
Look! Don't I look all right now?
That witch.
She's still relentless.
She's always coming up with ways to harm you.
That's so despicable.
Fortunately, you got through this safely.
Otherwise, I'd never let her off.
Thank you, Min De.
She failed in this attempt, so she surely won't give up yet.
If you have the time, you should come up with a strategy.
You can't just take a beating without striking back.
I'll make her pay for whatever pain she inflicted on me.
Whatever happens, count me in.
Don't worry, I'll help you.
Thank you, Min De.
Bull's-eye!
Li Min De!
Why does he look as if he's seen someone with the plague?
Am I that frightening?
If you won't teach me, I can practice on my own.
I don't believe that I will still miss the bull's-eye.
How outrageous.
Madam Li was unwell, so I was seriously worried about you.
Now that Madam is looking well
I can finally feel relieved.
Thank you for your concern, Your Highness.
I had wanted to thank Your Highness once I fully recovered.
However, there are too many matters to handle in the manor
so I haven't been in a good mood.
I worried that I would dampen your mood if I visited you.
As the matron of a household, there are many matters to oversee.
It really has been hard for you.
Why are you suddenly doing this?
Qiu Yi, help Madam Li up.
I'm truly grateful for such sentiments.
I feel guilty about Your Highness.
Why is that?
Your Highness.
This is entirely my fault.
I've failed to discipline my daughter and now Prince of Gaoyang is implicated.
I shouldn't bring up our family scandal, but Your Highness is so kind to me.
I really can't keep it from you anymore.
This concerns Jun?
What exactly happened?
Some time ago
I found out that illegitimate daughter Wei Young had a man's fan.
I suspected that Wei Young could have been compromised
but then I only found out recently
that the fan belonged to Prince of Gaoyang.
What?
Madam.
This antidote must be taken at fixed hours.
If there is any poison left, it will harm your body.
Chang Le, don't worry.
Crown Princess Consort has always had high expectations for Prince of Gaoyang.
How could she possibly let him be tainted
by some powerless and illegitimate daughter before he's married?
I've already been to see Her Highness today.
Wait and see.
Her Highness will surely put an end to it.
Without Her Highness's consent
Li Wei Young can't even dream of getting close to Prince of Gaoyang.
Mother.
You can finally relax now.
If you set out to do great things, you must have a broad mind.
Don't be influenced by a few words from the servants.
Yes.
I will remember Mother's teaching.
[Taifu Hall]
The flooding we had earlier this year
brought suffering to my people and worries me.
Fortunately, all my dear subjects have worked hand in hand
to offer disaster relief in time.
Now that the condition of my people is stable
I am deeply pleased.
Today, I shall reward all of you for your hard work.
Prince of Dongping!
You went to the distressed areas without any fear of hardship.
I should list it as first-class merit.
What reward would you like?
It is my duty to share Father's burden.
I don't need any reward.
You're indeed my good son.
Prince of Gaoyang!
Your Majesty.
You did a great job of coordinating disaster relief-related affairs
in an orderly and organized manner within Ping City. Well done.
I can't take all the credit for that.
It was a combination of efforts made by many officials.
Prince of Gaoyang is so modest.
Exactly.
Prince of Gaoyang isn't eager to take credit.
He clearly has a great breadth of mind.
This is the true demeanor of a ruler.
Indeed! Indeed!
Your Highness has dedicated much work to disaster relief.
His Majesty has rewarded you well.
Congratulations.
I had to forego my identity to interact with those lowly victims
in order to be complimented by Father.
He's lucky.
It was all easy and comfortable for him.
Yet he also won Father's favor.
Why?
Whatever Jun did since he was a child has been comfortable for him.
Brother Han, you should know that just some time ago
Jun went traveling for a year.
If we did that, Father would surely reprimand us.
Not only did Father not scold him, but he even assigned him
an important task in disaster relief.
That's how he rendered a good service so easily.
I have to say that Father does treat Jun differently.
Jun!
I'll have to congratulate Jun for being commended by Father.
How about this?
I'll host a dinner at my place tonight.
I wonder if Jun would care to join us.
It's my honor to be invited by Uncle Han.
However, my mother is also hosting a dinner tonight
and I can't be in both places at the same time.
Uncle, do forgive me.
I see.
We'll get together next time.
I'll take my leave now.
He doesn't even appreciate it.
Your Highness went to the distressed areas with Prince of Dongping.
However, he is busy trying to win the public over.
Your Highness had to take care of all disaster relief-related affairs.
Prince of Dongping ended up taking credit for it.
He didn't even mention your efforts at all.
This is just too mean.
Would my father not know
just because Prince of Dongping didn't bring it up?
Your Highness means...
Who do you think my father is?
Could he possibly not be informed of such matters?
However, to my father no matter how much or how well I do
it doesn't mean much when compared to my lowly birthright.
I just need to stay by his side and carry out missions.
I won't take credit for anything or make a move.
Father might then think more highly of me.
But if that is so
wouldn't Your Highness have to cower under Prince of Dongping?
Your Highness is capable of running a nation.
How are you inferior to Prince of Dongping?
If I am to do great things, how could I be so shortsighted?
I might be a prince, but I have neither power nor influence.
If Crown Prince were still alive
I'd never get to where I am today by coming up with ways
to win the trust of Prince of Dongping.
I'd just have work on more official affairs for Prince of Dongping
Father will notice my strengths.
If Prince of Dongping holds a very steady position
I won't get a chance.
However, once his position wavers
I have my own way of winning over Father's attention.
But judging by how highly His Majesty praises Prince of Dongping
and the support of the officials
Prince of Dongping's hold on his current position is as steady as a rock.
What is Prince of Dongping like?
You and I both know that he has the courage, but not the brains.
He's petty and fond of beautiful women.
As of now, he has my support, so he has nothing to worry about.
However, Jun is now becoming more and more mature.
Father also assigns Jun with more important tasks.
Han is now very jealous of him.
If I agitate him a bit more to incite him into doing something foolish
it won't be hard to make him fall out of Father's favor.
Once they both suffer from the competition
Your Highness could then make use of the power you have harbored
all these years and replace them.
One who laughs last laughs best.
Mother.
Your Highness.
You are all dismissed.
Mother summoned me over so urgently.
Did you miss me?
Don't fool around.
Come here.
I need to speak with you.
What could make Mother so worried?
Answer me.
What is between you
and that illegitimate daughter of Prime Minister Li?
Why would there be such an awful rumor that you have some illicit interaction?
Mother, who did you hear that from?
That doesn't matter.
You just have to tell me if it is true.
I'm really confused.
If this isn't true
why would anyone dare spread such a rumor behind your back?
That Li Wei Young...
When I first met her
I just found her a bit too eloquent.
Who knew that she is actually so obscene?
Mother has yet to know the truth.
Why would you speak so poorly of her?
Jun.
You have never spoken to me with that attitude.
Are you going to act like this because of that illegitimate child?
You told me once that you like a woman from the Prime Minister's family.
Could it be her?
I... I behaved badly.
Mother, please calm your anger.
Do you know why I despise her so?
She is of lowly birth, but she met privately
with Prime Imperial Grandson in order to move up the ranks.
She is so ignorant of her status.
That is the gravest mistake that she has made!
Mother, you have misunderstood her. That isn't the truth.
The so-called illicit interaction is just because I carelessly lost my fan
and she happened to find it.
She was misunderstood by her own family because of it.
I happened to hear about it, so I testified to her innocence.
However, the story somehow took a twist and it became a rumor.
I can guarantee you that Miss Li has nothing to do with it!
It's because...
It's because Miss Li has no affection for me.
Are you telling the truth?
I didn't lie to you.
It's good that it isn't true.
It's hard and cold on the floor.
Why are you still kneeling there?
Get up quickly.
Here, take a seat.
Jun, don't blame me for being doubtful.
My ideal daughter-in-law has to be beautiful and talented
as well as from a prestigious family.
She must be able to help you.
She can't be like Li Wei Young
who is powerless and of a lowly illegitimate birth.
I have always had high expectations of you.
Don't let me down.
Mother, why do you bring this up again?
Haven't I already made it very clear to you?
I do know what it is you wish for, but...
That isn't what I desire.
Your father was the Crown Prince.
If someone hadn't driven a wedge between them
His Majesty would never have doubted him and he would never have died.
That position...
It has always been yours.
What is Prince of Dongping?
He's not fit to compete with you.
Now, His Majesty favors only you.
Your father's past subjects are also very supportive of you.
Once we plan it all out, the position will be yours to take.
Mother.
This is one dangerous task.
One mistake could get the entire clan wiped out.
I don't wish to put Mother and all other officials at risk.
I have no desire to take the throne.
Nor do I want to be married for the sake of benefits.
Jun!
I have made up my mind.
If Mother truly wishes the best for me, do not bring this matter up again.
Jun...
Why don't you understand?
You've already become a thorn in their flesh.
Only by winning the throne can we truly stay safe.
For your sake and our eternal glory, I won't let you act so willfully.
Has His Highness still locked himself inside?
Yes, it's been five days.
Every day, His Highness stays in the study to read and write
and won't allow servants to disturb him.
We only leave meals at the door
and let His Highness take them inside himself.
All right, I understand.