Resumen del episodio 10 de Who Rules The World
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Upon his mother Baili's return, the Yong King advised Feng Lanxi to show filial piety, emphasizing Yongzhou's tradition of valuing respect for elders. He instructed Feng Lanxi to honor Baili by holding the whip for her carriage. However, Princess Feng Qiwu stepped forward to challenge the security arrangements. She criticized General Sun Mingyang, the queen's escort, for not sufficiently protecting the queen, especially given the ongoing turmoil in the Six States and Prince Yongping's (Feng Lanxi's) recent assassination attempt.
She argued that Sun Mingyang should face public flagellation. The Yong King deemed this too severe and instead ordered a three-year confiscation of Sun Mingyang's salary. Feng Qiwu then targeted Vice Minister Yang of the Ministry of Rites for the security lapse. Agreeing that the Queen's actions were inappropriate, the King then ordered Feng Lanxi to proceed with the gesture of reverence for his mother.
Chuanyun observed the Yong King's unusual delight upon hearing that Baili's mother was descended from the Xiao family. Ren Rusong explained that the King's own mother was a palace maid, meaning he would never have ascended the throne had the previous heir not died. He noted that Queen Baili's cunning far surpassed that of Feng Ju, warning that Feng Lanxi would likely face more hardship now that Baili had returned.
Later, the Yong King privately confronted Baili, accusing Feng Ju of attempting to harm his brother. He admonished Baili and Feng Ju to be obedient and avoid causing further trouble. The King explained that having Feng Lanxi publicly honor Baili was meant to project an image of a harmonious royal family to the world, warning that internal strife would leave Yongzhou vulnerable to the other Five States.
He also urged Baili to show more care for Feng Chang, his eldest son. Meanwhile, Feng Chang was consumed by sadness, feeling that his mother Baili had not even given him a glance, preferring instead to play the role of a loving mother to Feng Lanxi. He sought solace in drinking at the House of Jade, where the shopkeeper, seeing he hadn't revealed his royal identity, decided to dilute his wine.
Feng Ju, summoned by his mother, faced Baili’s reprimand for his recent failures. Baili revealed her deep understanding of the Yong King's true nature: his low birth led to his disdain for the late Queen Yige and her son Feng Lanxi, yet his ultimate desires were power and glory.
She cautioned Feng Ju that while the King had tolerated his attempts to overshadow Feng Lanxi, he disapproved of direct threats to Feng Lanxi's life, as Feng Lanxi was still the King's legitimate son by the first queen. Baili suggested that if others carried out the elimination of Feng Lanxi, they would remain blameless. Bai Fengxi, facing financial difficulties, tried to pawn some items but was offered very little.
She refused to part with a hairpin gifted by Hei Fengxi, which reminded her of his earlier offer: she could acquire anything up to a thousand silver leaves from any House of Jade branch. She promptly went to the House of Jade to request fifty silver leaves. There, she encountered Prince Feng Chang suffering an epileptic seizure. She quickly and discreetly helped him.
Before leaving, she assured the shopkeeper she would not speak of his condition and advised getting him a physician. A flashback revealed young Feng Chang's traumatic past, tormented by severe epileptic seizures. His birth mother, Baili, cruelly called him a "monster" and a "bastard," fearing his condition would jeopardize her standing and the child in her womb.
The young Feng Chang desperately sought his mother's affection, but she relentlessly rejected him, leaving him heartbroken despite the comforting words of his loyal Uncle De. Back in the present, Feng Chang, upon regaining consciousness, realized he had suffered another episode. His subordinate reported that all maids and servants who had witnessed the incident at the House of Jade had been "dealt with" to protect his secret.
Feng Chang, remembering the lady in white who had helped him (Bai Fengxi), ordered his men to find and eliminate her as well. Later, Hei Fengxi found Bai Fengxi asleep while grinding herbs for Langhua. Bai Fengxi explained that she refused to pay for the grinding, doing it herself instead. She expressed her exhaustion from being the acting leader of the Tianshuang Sect and marveled at how Hei Fengxi managed the vast Fountain Abode so efficiently.
Hei Fengxi offered to teach her his management skills in exchange for a bowl of her special ship noodles. Bai Fengxi joyfully prepared the noodles, which Hei Fengxi savored. Feng Qiwu approached Feng Lanxi, now officially Prince Yongping, to discuss their impending marriage. She boldly proposed that if he would formally ask for her hand, she would guarantee him a life free of worries.
Feng Lanxi politely declined, stating that he refused to be a man who relied on his wife's family for power. Feng Qiwu countered that after publicly defying the Queen, she was now reliant on him. Feng Lanxi reiterated his indifference to romantic entanglements and his reluctance to waste her life, claiming his heart belonged solely to the world. He promised that while he couldn't offer marriage, the Feng family would retain its influential position, second to none.
Feng Qiwu, though disappointed, acknowledged his ambition and renewed her pledge of loyalty, vowing to help him ascend to the position of heir. She mused that only Feng Lanxi could treat her so coldly, and if he had yielded easily, he wouldn't be the man she knew. Back at Prince Yongping's residence, Miss Huan, reviewing the accounts from House of Jade, found records of purchases for Snow Cloud Gauze garments and a Lunar Headdress—items exclusively for women.
Convinced it was a mistake since the residence housed no women, she ordered the invoice to be returned. Feng Qiwu, overhearing, volunteered to return the invoice herself, intending to discover for whom Feng Lanxi, who claimed to be uninterested in romance, had purchased such feminine items. At House of Jade, the shopkeeper cleverly dismissed the invoice as a forgery, a common scam to defraud wealthy households, thus protecting Hei Fengxi's secret.
Meanwhile, a homing pigeon sent to Bai Fengxi's master returned with the message undelivered. Worried about her master's safety, Bai Fengxi returned to the House of Jade, asking the shopkeeper to relay a message to Hei Fengxi, requesting to meet him there the next day at noon. In Jizhou, Huang Chao and Yu Wuyuan discussed the plan to return the (fake) Empyrean Token to the Emperor.
Yu Wuyuan explained that the Emperor would either reward Jizhou, inadvertently making it a target for the other five states, or, more likely, accuse Huang Chao of possessing a fake token. He reasoned that the Emperor benefits from the chaos caused by the missing token, so accepting the return of any token, even a fake one, would restore a semblance of order and ultimately benefit Huang Chao's grander ambitions for a unified world.
Suddenly, Princess Huang Yu, Huang Chao's sister, emerged, revealing she had been eavesdropping. She playfully complained that Yu Wuyuan hadn't visited her since his return and demanded his company before he departed for the Imperial City with her brother the next day. She then passionately played the zither for Yu Wuyuan, who admitted it stirred old memories. When Huang Yu pressed if it was the music or her that moved him, Yu Wuyuan gently rejected her affections.
He explained that his heart already belonged to another and cited the Empyrean Yu family's curse of not living past thirty, which prevented him from reciprocating her feelings. Despite the rejection, Huang Yu defiantly told her brother that she would continue to confess her love for Yu Wuyuan for every year he lived and would never marry another man. Huang Chao, trying to comfort her, offered her favorite osmanthus cakes. Later that evening, as Bai Fengxi left the House of Jade, she was ambushed by assassins who declared they were there to take her life.
