EPISODE 25
Hanxiang is alive and healthy again. Some time after her near-death experience, she seeks out the emperor to thank him and apologize for whatever has happened between them. among the things she says is: the old Hanxiang is no longer.
Of course, the emperor chooses to see this as her way of accepting him. He feels like something is fishy but is too happy to question it.
I’ll be honest, the costumes in this scene aren’t very good.
Now, the gang begins executing their plan that day: keeping the emperor busy with a party and distracting the imperial guards.
Ziwei and Xiaoyanzi are in charge of making the emperor drunk during the party so that he would need a long rest afterward, giving them more time to get ready for the lie. Needless to say, Ziwei feels horrible about this.
While trying to sneak Hanxiang out of the palace dressed as a servant, Erkang and Yongqi run into some trouble with the guards, it’s such a dangerous situation that Erkang has to get ready for a fistfight. And you know things are serious when Erkang makes a fist behind his back.
In the end, thanks to Qing’er’s aid, they get out safely. Poor Qing’er thinks she’s just helping Xiaoyanzi sneak out for fun. She has no idea she’s committing a crime there.
Later that night, the gang meets at Shufang Palace to go over what they will do next.
Ziwei can’t get over the guilt, she suggests they should just confess their crime.
The others turn that down immediately, too many people are involved, they can’t just tell the truth and put everyone around them in danger.
Furthermore, they have a better plan. Don’t they? I hope they do.
This is what happens next: the following morning, the Shufang Palace’s girls run all around the imperial grounds in their high heels, yelling at the top of their voices: Lady Hanxiang has turned into a butterfly and flown away!
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Guys… I love you, but this is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. Ziwei is right, you should have just confessed.
When the emperor comes out with Lady Ling to ask them what’s going on, Xiaoyanzi and Ziwei begin telling the story. There’s so much detail in that story that you can just tell it’s made up.
Erkang and Yongqi join in and act like they don’t know anything. This, of course, once again puts the entire burden of the crime on the girls’ shoulders.
Xiaoyanzi’s “let it go” attitude doesn’t really help, either. The problem is: these girls try too hard to make their story sound real, but they forget to act as part of it: as Hanxiang’s close friends, they should be weeping in sadness right now, not spouting about rainbows and musical angels waiting for Hanxiang in heaven.
Does this look like the face of someone who has just witnessed her beloved friend depart from the earth?
In the end, however, they all have no choice but to accept that unusual story because everything about Hanxiang has been unusual from the beginning.
But the emperor doesn’t give up that easily, he makes Ziwei and Xiaoyanzi swear on their lives that their story is true, which they do.
Then Nanny Rong raises a good question: why are Ziwei and Xiaoyanzi always the ones found at the scene when something weird happens?
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