Resumen del episodio 39 de Pursuit of Jade
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Xie Zheng stands before the court, holding a letter hidden by his mother for seventeen years. He reveals it was a desperate plea for help written by Consort Shu (Qi Rongyin) to her brother, Wei Yan. Xie Zheng accuses Wei Yan of being the true traitor of the Battle of Jinzhou, asserting that the Chancellor abandoned his soldiers at the front lines to return to the capital for personal reasons, which triggered the disaster.
He points out that Wei Yan’s guilt was so profound that he never dared to touch the candy box where the letter was hidden. Wei Yan attempts to dismiss the evidence and the tiger tally as forgeries, but Xie Zheng calls upon Grand Tutor Tao. As the original supervisor of the tally’s creation, Tao identifies unique markings and confirms to the Emperor that it is genuine.
Emperor Qi Sheng finally finds his voice and orders the Jinwu Guards to seize Wei Yan. However, Wei Yan remains defiant, mocking the Emperor's cowardice and revealing that he has his own troops stationed within the palace. The situation escalates when a report arrives that rebel forces under Qi Min and Sui Yuanhuai have already breached the Dayin Gate.
Recognizing the gravity of the threat, Wei Yan tells Xie Zheng that while their family grievances must be settled, the rebellion must be dealt with first. Amidst the chaos, Qi Min leads his men into the Great Treasure Hall. He has forced Yu Qianqian into the robes of an empress, promising her the throne, though she remains defiant and calls him a madman. Qi Min finds the trembling Qi Sheng hiding behind the dragon throne.
Cowering in fear, the Emperor offers up the imperial seal and begs for his life, only to be dragged away to the dungeons on Qi Min's orders. At the Xuan Gate, Wei Yan and Xie Zheng confront the usurper. Xie Zheng publicly exposes Qi Min’s secret alliance with the Beijue tribes, revealing that the prince was willing to hand over the dynasty’s lands to barbarians to secure his power. Li Xing (Li Taifu) is horrified by this betrayal and faints.
Attempting to gain leverage, Qi Min brings out Madam Wei and Wei Xuan as hostages. While Wei Yan remains cold-blooded and indifferent to their fate, Xie Zheng acts quickly, firing two swift arrows to rescue the mother and son from the executioner's blade. As their respective forces clash, Xie Zheng and Wei Yan engage in a final duel.
Xie Zheng vows to use his father’s sword techniques to seek justice for the parents of Fan Changyu, the former East Palace, and the thousands of soldiers who died in Jinzhou. Meanwhile, Li Huai’an arrives to rescue the Emperor, who has been driven to madness by the terror of the coup. Seeing his defeat, the obsessive Qi Min is wounded by an arrow and falls from a wall, nearly dragging Yu Qianqian down with him because they are chained together.
Fan Changyu manages to catch her, and Qi Min finally chooses to let go, breaking his own hand to release her from the shackles before falling to the ground in a pool of blood. During the duel, Xie Zheng disarms Wei Yan. Just as victory is near, Wei Sheng fires a cold arrow at Xie Zheng’s back. Unexpectedly, Wei Xuan throws himself in the way, taking the hit to repay Xie Zheng for saving his mother earlier.
Wei Yan finally accepts his defeat, noting that Xie Zheng has truly surpassed him. As he is led away to prison, Xie Zheng and Fan Changyu reflect on the end of their long struggle, hoping for a better future. Three days later, Madam Wei visits Xie Zheng and kneels, begging him to spare Wei Yan’s life.
She confesses that Wei Yan is not Wei Xuan’s biological father; he had saved her from an execution after the true father, one of his subordinates, died in battle. Wei Yan had claimed he would never marry again and offered her a path of survival through a marriage of convenience. Meanwhile, Qi Shu convinces Consort Dowager An to speak the truth about the palace fire seventeen years ago.
The Consort Dowager reveals that the water used to extinguish the flames at Qingyuan Palace had been laced with tung oil. The late emperor had orchestrated the entire tragedy, using a fake pregnancy as a lure to trap Wei Yan and eliminate the Crown Prince and Xie Linshan at Jinzhou. In the prison, Grand Tutor Tao joins Wei Yan for a final game of chess. They reflect on a banquet held eighteen years ago at the East Palace.
On that snowy New Year's Eve, the young and reckless Wei Yan, fueled by wine and frustration over the late emperor's harsh treatment of Crown Prince Chengde, had boldly stated that an unvirtuous emperor should abdicate. This single drunken remark planted the seeds of suspicion in the late emperor's mind, leading to the massacre and the long years of misery that followed.
