To Get Her Episode 16 Recap
> To Get Her Recap
Tu Siyi and Lin Zhen'er prepared to depart for the Imperial Mausoleum, as mandated by the Emperor's decree. As they bid farewell to Siya, Cui Xun, and Shen Daifu, Siya expressed a desire to accompany them. Tu Siyi gently refused, explaining, "The imperial decree is no joke. It will be good for you to stay here and look after the house for me."
Shen Daifu offered some parting medical advice, urging them to "go to bed early and get up early next morning, drink more water and eat more vegetables. Go to a doctor when you are ill, because a minor illness left unattended will deteriorate into a major one." Tu Siyi and Lin Zhen'er both responded with "Take care." Their escorts conveyed them for a significant part of the journey before stopping.
The lead escort informed them, "Your Highness Third Prince and Third Princess. It will take you one more half an hour to reach the imperial mausoleum ahead. There is a dwelling halfway up the mountain. As the imperial decree states, we have to leave you here." Lin Zhen'er protested, "An hour's way is not long, but no one will accompany us. You don't even leave a horse to us."
The escort, however, reiterated the Emperor's strict orders, "As His Majesty said, not a single man or horse to give you. I don't dare to disobey His Majesty's order." Tu Siyi accepted their fate, "It doesn't matter. Thank you for escorting us all the way here." The escort concluded, "I just did what I ought to do. Your Highness Prince and Princess. From now on you can only rely on yourselves. I hope you can take good care of yourselves."
As they walked towards their new home, Tu Siyi tried to lift Lin Zhen'er's spirits, pointing out the scenery, "Zhen'er. Look!" He asked, "Zhen'er. You're not happy by my side, are you?" Lin Zhen'er confessed her sadness, "Yes. I didn't expect that we have to wait such a long period of time as two years before we return to the Capital City. I don't know what to do."
Tu Siyi, however, embraced their new situation, "If all of this hadn't happened, I would not be with you now. Look! What beautiful scenery here! All the noise in the world has nothing to do with you or me. No one is here except you and me. Haven't you thought about being with me like this?" Lin Zhen'er admitted, "Yes, I have. Perhaps this is a god-sent vacation during which we can guard such a beautiful place under orders.
Isn't that nice?" Tu Siyi agreed, "We really haven't had a vacation like this for a long time." Lin Zhen'er pondered their future dwelling, "What will the dwelling we are going to move in be like?" to which Tu Siyi replied optimistically, "Only members of the imperial family can live here. So it should be good." Upon reaching their assigned residence, Lin Zhen'er was dismayed, exclaiming, "This place is even worse than the imperial prison."
The neglected wooden house was indeed covered in cobwebs. Together, they cleaned the room. Afterwards, Lin Zhen'er felt bored, stating, "I feel like I've done all that I have to do for years in one morning. It's so boring. We're not really going to be here for two years, are we?" Tu Siyi, feigning offense, asked, "How dare you! You feel boring when being with me? Do you want to die?" Lin Zhen'er retorted dramatically, "I'd rather die than live."
To combat their boredom, Tu Siyi revealed he had brought a "cuju" ball and proposed a new game. They adapted it to a basketball-like game. The Chinese plot indicates that Lin Zhen'er, with her excellent martial arts, easily caught every ball from the Third Prince, which frustrated him; however, without using "qinggong", Lin Zhenzheng would have been easily defeated. While playing, Tu Siyi was pleased when he scored, exclaiming "Goal!"
However, Lin Zhen'er found the game boring, stating, "I think it's the most boring game in the world." Tu Siyi disagreed, "No. I think it's interesting. I think I'm starting to like this place. Because I can practice Qinggong kung fu." Lin Zhen'er quickly interjected, "You shall not practice Qinggong kung fu!" As Lin Zhen'er prepared to cook, Tu Siyi instructed her, "Zhen'er. If you have nothing else to do while you are cooking, please wash the clothes.
I am going to play the Guqin." Later, he complained about her cooking, causing her to lash out, "How can I eat this? Hey! Don't you know that I never do the cooking? Back at home my mom cooks food for me. And I have maids in my house. You are playing the Guqin in an idyllic place while I am cooking food in the kitchen. Don't you know that I am also a Master not your maid."
Tu Siyi tried to calm her, "Okay. Chill out. You will be much hungrier if you get angry." When Lin Zhen'er suggested eating dry food, Tu Siyi admitted he hadn't brought any, explaining, "It tastes bad. I'm a fussy eater. How can I eat this kind of food?" With no food, Tu Siyi declared, "Zhen'er, don't worry. I will never let my wife go hungry.
As you can see, we are in such a wild place and our dining room is surrounded by mountains and rivers. I believe there is much food in this area." Lin Zhen'er, however, was impatient, urging him, "Be quick! Get me something to eat. Be quick!" As they searched for food, she kept repeating "I am hungry," to which Tu Siyi assured her, "You can rest assured that I will find you something to eat." They soon found wild fruits.
Tu Siyi, concerned about poison, insisted on being the first to taste them. " Don't you eat first!" he told Lin Zhen'er. " Let me take the first bite. If I am still okay half an hour later. You can eat. Because we're in a remote wild place like this, and the variety of this fruit is also very strange, I fear that it's poisonous." Lin Zhen'er bravely declared, "It doesn't matter. If we're gonna die, we will die together."
However, shortly after eating, they both suffered upset stomachs. Tu Siyi admitted, "Zhen'er. We cannot eat these fruits," to which Lin Zhen'er agreed. Still hungry, Lin Zhen'er, now desperate for meat, declared she would return to the capital, even if it meant being beheaded, just to eat meat first. Tu Siyi promised her, "Okay. We'll eat meat. We'll surely eat meat." She then demanded, "Go and catch some fish. Tu Siyi. Go and catch some fish."
While trying to catch fish, Lin Zhen'er chided Tu Siyi for his lack of success, suggesting, "Why don't you have a try? After all you are a kung fu master. You have a try." In the process, she accidentally pricked Tu Siyi's foot. She quickly apologized, "Sorry. Your Highness. I really want to eat meat."
Tu Siyi then waxed poetic about the natural beauty, observing the "chirps of birds are like music" and "fish are frolicking in the river," but admitted that his hunger made him view all these as "food, but not on my plate." Just then, a rabbit hopped into their view. Lin Zhen'er affectionately suggested naming it "Baby Tu," given Tu Siyi's surname. Tu Siyi, ever practical, pointed out, "What I'm thinking is that we can also eat the rabbit."
Lin Zhen'er was shocked, "How can you eat a rabbit?" She asked if he would release it, but Tu Siyi refused. After some thought, he offered a grim consolation to the rabbit, "I'm sorry. After you fill us up, we will take good care of your family when we meet them," which Lin Zhen'er sarcastically followed with, "When we meet its family, we will possibly eat them. Right?"
Tu Siyi explained his sentiment, "What I said is just to make it feel better when it dies. You're so. . . Since you are kind-hearted, you don't need to eat it later on." Carrying the rabbit, Lin Zhen'er complained, asking Tu Siyi to carry it for her. He refused, claiming he needed to lead the way to scare off snakes. Lin Zhen'er quipped that if there were snakes, they would eat those too.
She pressed him, arguing that as a man, he should help, pointing out his limited contributions so far. Tu Siyi retorted that he would be responsible for making the fire. Lin Zhen'er reflected in a voiceover, "Sometimes Tu Siyi is so rebellious that he is like a child. The more you take him seriously, the more naive he is."
Tu Siyi, in his own voiceover, mused, "I think when two people together, it's impossible for either one of them to change the other. That's the best love." When they tried to make a fire, Tu Siyi realized he had forgotten the flint stone. Lin Zhen'er accused him of being responsible for bringing essential items, but Tu Siyi countered that they should remind each other.
Their argument escalated, with Lin Zhen'er insisting it was his fault for not bringing his assigned items. Tu Siyi, tired of arguing, then declared, "I don't want to argue with you anymore." During the heated exchange, Lin Zhen'er twisted her ankle. Tu Siyi asked, "Zhen'er. What's wrong? You hurt your ankle." He mistakenly identified the wrong foot, but quickly tended to her. Lin Zhen'er blamed him, "It was all your fault. I have told you not to walk around."
Tu Siyi, however, took responsibility, "Well, I won't say anything. It was all my fault." After she complained "It hurts," their argument cooled, and they finally roasted and ate the rabbit. Tu Siyi commented, "Lovely animals are so delicious. We shall not eat such lovely animals next time." To secure more food, they decided to compete in catching rabbits. Tu Siyi proposed, "Zhen'er, you go that way. I'll go this way. Let's see who catches more rabbits."
Lin Zhen'er confidently accepted, "Okay. I won't lose." However, neither caught anything. Lin Zhen'er cried, "Tell me what to do. Not a single rabbit can I catch." Tu Siyi then remembered a strategy, "Zhen'er. I have an idea. Do you still remember the music competition at Cui's mansion?" Lin Zhen'er understood, and working together, they successfully captured a rabbit. Their daily life settled into a rhythm of playing their modified "cuju" game and hunting rabbits.
One day, while playing the game, Tu Siyi expressed his happiness, "Zhen'er, do you know why I like this place? Because I have idyllic life, music and you. That's enough. I didn't expect that in this world I can realize the dream I have in the real world." Lin Zhen'er wistfully replied, "Tu Siyi. If you had pursued this life earlier, we would not have gone through a lot of trouble to come here."
Tu Siyi agreed, finding peace in their present circumstances, "Right. We don't need to worry about our future. Right here right now, I have nothing to worry about." Meanwhile, back in the capital, Princess Qianyue of Huanyue State initiated her husband selection competition. An announcer declared the rules, "If you want to be the husband of her, you must be an outstanding person with good appearance and great talent and intelligence.
So, the questions of the competition were designed by Princess Qianyue. Altogether three questions. Only the person who can answer all the three questions correctly can marry the princess." The first question was posed, a complex problem about filling and draining a basin simultaneously. The Second Prince eagerly urged the exam officer to "Think about the question."
After the time limit, the announcer revealed the successful candidates: "Now I declare that the persons who have the correct answer are Second Prince, Young Master Yang, Young Master Liu, and Young Master Zhu." The Huan Emperor questioned an attendant, "Is there anything wrong?" The attendant confirmed that only these four had passed Princess Qianyue's challenging first round. The Huan Emperor expressed his dismay at the lack of talent in Chuxing State, but Qianyue insisted on continuing.
The second question followed, a word problem about two brothers' journey to school. During this round, the Second Prince attempted to bribe the exam officer, saying, "If you let me make it to the next round, you will benefit a lot." However, when time was up, only Young Master Liu was announced as correct. The Second Prince, furious, protested, "My answer can't be wrong!" The official, after reconfirming the error, declared him eliminated.
The Second Prince, invoking his father's name, resisted being escorted out, but was removed nonetheless. When the Huan Emperor asked if he had anything else to say, the Second Prince claimed he had written the correct answer. The official then challenged him to publicly state his answer for Qianyue to judge, but the Second Prince conceded, "Your Majesty. I have made a mistake. I lost." Young Master Liu, now the sole remaining participant, gloated, "Now I'm the only one here.
I am the winner." The Huan Emperor, deeming the prince "too weak," had him removed. Disappointed by the poor showing of Chuxing's men, the Huan Emperor decided to postpone the competition, telling Qianyue, "Yue'er. Go home with me. We'll talk about it later." Qianyue, however, refused to give up, pleading, "No. Your Majesty. Though there is no winner this time, I hope to hold another round of competition."
The Huan Emperor was skeptical, arguing, "Is there any use having another round? As you saw today, even Second Prince lost. I believe that Chu Emperor doesn't really want to help us." Qianyue then proposed a powerful incentive, "I humbly request that we present our national treasure Guizhong Flower as the prize of the competition."
She described the Guizhong Flower as "billed as the king of national treasure," blossoming "once a hundred years," and capable of "relieving the most unusual poison." She confidently asserted that with such a prize, "there will be many outstanding men taking part in the competition." The Huan Emperor reluctantly agreed, "Okay. I'll give you one more chance." Shortly after, Princess Qianyue privately instructed her maid Qinghe, "I have one thing for you to finish for me."
While Tu Siyi was out, Lin Zhen'er sensed a disturbance outside their dwelling. Investigating, she found nothing amiss and unknowingly drank poisoned tea. When Tu Siyi returned with pears, he found Lin Zhen'er unwell and unresponsive. " Zhen'er. What's wrong with you? Don't be afraid. I'll take you downhill to see the doctor," he frantically said. He quickly rushed her down the mountain, pleading, "Zhen'er, hold on, hold on.
Even if I disobey the imperial decree, I would return to the Capital City and make Shen Daifu cure you. Hold on." Princess Qianyue received confirmation from Qinghe that Lin Zhen'er was "unconscious" and that local doctors were "unable to cure her." Just as Qianyue expected, Tu Siyi was "rushing back to the Capital City." Back in the capital, Tu Siyi urgently brought Lin Zhen'er to Shen Daifu's residence.
Shen Daifu, surprised to see them, quickly assessed Lin Zhen'er's condition. " This is a symptom of being poisoned," he gravely stated. " It's not life-threatening at the moment, but her body is declining. That's very bad. We shall not miss the best time to cure her." However, Shen Daifu admitted the poison was "so intense" that he was "afraid there is nothing I can do with the poison."
He then revealed a glimmer of hope: "But there is a kind of flower called Guizhong in Huanyue State, which blossoms once a hundred years. That flower can relieve any poison." Tu Siyi immediately offered to go find it, but Shen Daifu stopped him, explaining, "That flower is here, in Chuxing State."
When Tu Siyi asked who possessed it, Shen Daifu revealed the crucial information: "There is a competition to choose the prospective husband of Princess Qianyue, the prize of which is Guizhong Flower." This implied that the only way to obtain the antidote was for Tu Siyi to win the competition and marry Princess Qianyue.
