Episode 25 - Lou Oi Helps Ju Gei Eradicate Her Enemies

   

Siu Lung charged directly into the Lui mansion to condemn the person responsible. Lou Oi uses this opportunity to try to kill him.

Siu Lung remembers the episodes on how he met and shared hardships with Jiu Sin. His sadness started coming out from his heart.

After interrogating the wagon driver, Siu Lung believes that Jiu Sin's 'accident' occurred in the Lui mansion. He goes to the Chun king to beg him to release an edict, allowing him to search the Lui mansion. Bat Wai was vehemently opposed to it. Siu Lung then uses the rewards the king promised him in exchange for the edict and the king reluctantly agrees.

In the flower garden, Siu Lung finds Jiu Sin's broken cloths and the white rabbit given by Neung Yung to her. He investigates a bit more and discovers that there are eight people who didn't have an alibi for the time during the murder. Within the group were Lou Oi and Neung Yung.

Lou Oi hears that Siu Lung was going to search every room for evidence and feels uneasy. He suddenly discovers the concentric knot(1) left by Jiu Sin and hatched a plan that successfully saved him from blame.

Siu Lung declines the offer to be in charge of the palace bodyguards and Ju Gei takes advantage of this to suggest Loi Oi for the job. She asks the king to accompany her to Mount Lai's Jam Wan spring, causing him to feel awkward. He suggests that Ying Jing go with her instead, falling for her trap.

Lou Oi and Ju Gei go to Jam Wan spring, hand in hand. In the spring, she even made advances toward Lou Oi. The Chun king finds out about this and angrily goes to catch the adulterers. He instead finds only Ju Gei in the spring and was perplexed. Ju Gei returns to her room in tears and begs the king to kill her. He agrees to let Madame Sau Lai be placed into the 'Cold Palace'(2).

Ju Gei scolds Lou Oi for trying to frame Madame Sau Lai behind her back. Lou Oi says he did it for the sake of Ying Jing and the future for her and himself. Her heart started to get warm.

Siu Lung writes on Jiu Sin's tombstone 'the grave of my beloved wife Jiu Sin', realizing Jiu Sin's dream of giving her a title. When he was leaving, he saw Kam Ching appear in front of him.

The greedy officials and wheat traders collaborate to take more money from the people. For the group of orphans, Sin Yau and Ting Fong work together to take the seal from the official and the keys from the trader while at a prostitute house. Ting Fong accidentally kills the official, and was terrified.

Notes for Episode 25

1. I forgot to mention this yesterday, but if you didn't know a 'concentric knot' is... well it's usually made up of two single knots that are done together. It's usually given by lovers as a symbol that their love would last forever.

2. For anyone who's watched a lot of ancient period dramas, this term shouldn't be too hard to recognize. But if you didn't know, the 'cold palace' is reserved for the wives of the king or Emperor who have either lost favor with him or had done some horrendous crime. They're usually sent here to live out the rest of their lives in solitude. Usually the people who become wives or concubines of the king/Emperor fear this place because once you go in, you never come out of it alive.

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