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Summary of Episode 96:

So the evil Shin Hong’s plan was to kill Dae Jo Young.

Dae Jo Young was passed out from drinking but Mimosa had the intuition that something was going on and he send Gulsabiwu and gang. They managed to prevent the assassins from killing Dae Jo Young.

Meanwhile Xue Rengui, Li Wen and gang are begging for mercy from the Emperor Wu Zetian. She refuses to see them even though they had been kneeling for 2 days.

She eventually agrees to see Xue Rengui who tells her that he knows how to beat Dae Jo Young and Li Kaigu. Divide and conquer! Make Dae Jo Young and Li Kaigu turn against each other.

While the Khitans have claimed Yingzhou for themselves and crowned their own king, Dae Jo Young had declared a new state yet.

Xue Rengui asked the Emperor to acknowledge Dae Jung Sang (seniority comes first) as a new leader. By doing so, the Khitans will probably be outraged as the Emperor has not acknowledged them yet.

This episode ended with the Emperor’s envoy visiting Dae Jung Sang and Dae Jo Young with the news and Dae Jo Young is about to kill the messenger.

Summary of Episode 94

Xue Rengui, Li Wen and the rest of the Tang generals fell for Dae Jo Young’s trick. They believed that Dae Jo Young and his men have retreated into Yingzhou’s fort.

So they attacked Yingzhou.

Little did they know that Dae Jo Young had Gulsabiwu, Geumlan, Heuk Sudol, Gaepilsamun all stationed at various points.

The Tang was surrounded and defeated.

Li Wen and Hong Pei begged Xue Rengui to disguise himself as a Khitan soldier so that he can escape. After much anguish, Xue Rengui reluctantly agreed.

As they made their escape through the mountains, they were attacked by Dae Jo Young who had foreseen that this was their only escape route.

Xue Rengui, Hong Pei, Li Wen, etc. then pretended to be dead.

Dae Jo Young instructed all his men to look through the bodies to make sure that Xue Rengui was dead. His father, Dae Jung Sang, eventually found Xue Rengui among the bodies.

Xue Rengui asked Dae Jung Sang to kill him and that he’d gladly die in the hands of Dae Jung Sang, a great warrior.

But Dae Jung Sang let him go!

While they celebrated their victory, Dae Jo Young and Mimosa asked that the Goguryeo refugees be released which was why they helped the Khitans in the first place.

Li Kaigu and his sidekick Shin Hong tried to prevent them from doing so, stating one lame excuse after another.

But the Khitan king overuled them and said that Dae Jo Young will have the refugees as promised.

Li Kaigu was furious. Shin Hong is planning some dirty trick again, which has yet to be revealed.

The king and Dae Jo Young got wasted and Geom and Dae Jo Young’s son was called to help him to his bed.

As they made their way to the guest palace, Dae Jo Young stumbled and Geom was there to catch him. So Geom and Dae Jo Young are in “each other’s arms” when Chulin walked out and saw them.

She strikes her “anxious” pose (hehee, she always look anxious, her one look) and it ended there.

If you’ve not been following this series, Geom is actually Chulin and Dae Jo Young’s son. Nobody knows this except Chulin, Li Kaigu and Gulsabiwu who was somewhere sworn to secrecy.