Pursuit of Jade

Eat slowly. Don't choke.

I am wise? That's right.

I thought you wouldn't come.

I had to see you off one last time.

to make this soup especially for me.

the execution ground, don't they?

Don't let your efforts go to waste.

I definitely wouldn't have pulled you out.

something I had longed for all along—

You once had it too.

but your mask kept you from seeing it.

yet you still granted my wish.

I really like you a lot.

if there's a next life,

we never meet again.

who you are really—

I want to die knowing the truth.

You liar.

I came from a place far, far away.

[and peace prevailed throughout the realm.]

Long live the Emperor!

Don't forget what you promised me.

Only incompetent emperors suspect their subjects.

When you take power in the future,