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* DeathFakedForYou: Yuwen Yue pretends to kill Chu Qiao and gets a doctor to confirm her "death". It's actually a ploy to get her away from Yuwen Huai. Unfortunately the people not in on the plan think Chu Qiao is really dead and try to bury her.
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* DeathFakedForYou: Yuwen Yue pretends to kill Chu Qiao and gets a doctor to confirm her "death". It's actually a ploy to get her away from Yuwen Huai. Unfortunately the people not in on the plan think Chu Qiao is really dead and try take her body to bury her.be cremated.
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* DeathFakedForYou: Yuwen Yue pretends to kill Chu Qiao and gets a doctor to confirm her "death". It's actually a ploy to get her away from Yuwen Huai.
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* DeathFakedForYou: Yuwen Yue pretends to kill Chu Qiao and gets a doctor to confirm her "death". It's actually a ploy to get her away from Yuwen Huai. Unfortunately the people not in on the plan think Chu Qiao is really dead and try to bury her.
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* DeathFakedForYou: Yuwen Yue pretends to kill Chu Qiao and gets a doctor to confirm her "death". It's actually a ploy to get her away from Yuwen Huai.
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* BreakTheCutie: Yan Xun and Yuan Chun. Yan Xun loses his entire family; Yuan Chun knows about the plot against them beforehand, but is caught and locked in the palace before she can warn him. Both of them end up well and truly broken after that.
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* TraumaCongaLine: In the space of a day Yan Xun is arrested, thrown in prison, accused of treason, learns his family have been murdered, is confronted with their decapitated heads, and witnesses his mother's suicide.
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* TraumaCongaLine: In the space of a day mere days Yan Xun is arrested, thrown in prison, accused of treason, learns his family have been murdered, is confronted with their decapitated heads, and witnesses his mother's suicide.suicide, thrown back in prison, forced to cut off his own finger, and learns Yuwen Yue -- someone he considered his best friend -- knew about the plot against him and didn't warn him. Any one of those events would be deeply traumatic. All of them, one after another... No wonder Yan Xun [[BreakTheCutie snaps]].
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* {{Fingore}}: Yan Xun cuts off his own fingers to save Chu Qiao.
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* {{Fingore}}: Yan Xun cuts off his own fingers finger to save Chu Qiao.
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* SadisticChoice: Xi Feng forces Yan Xun to choose between cutting off two of his own fingers, or watching as Xi Feng crushes Chu Qiao's fingers. Yan Xun chooses to cut off his own fingers.
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* SadisticChoice: Xi Feng forces Yan Xun to choose between cutting off two of his own fingers, finger, or watching as Xi Feng crushes Chu Qiao's fingers. Yan Xun chooses to cut off his own fingers.finger.
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* {{Fingore}}: Yan Xun cuts off his own fingers to save Chu Qiao.
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* SadisticChoice: Xi Feng forces Yan Xun to choose between cutting off two of his own fingers, or watching as Xi Feng crushes Chu Qiao's fingers. Yan Xun chooses to cut off his own fingers.
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* EmpathicEnvironment: The weather is calm before Bai Sheng's suicide. Afterwards, on the other hand, cue the thunder, lightning, and rain.
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* SkywardScream: Yan Xun screams "Mother!" at the sky after Bai Sheng's suicide.
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* TokenGoodTeammate: Wei Shu Ye is the only one of Yan Xun's so-called friends who truly is his friend, and who tries to save him when he learns he's in danger.
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Bai Sheng]] commits suicide after her family are murdered.
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* TraumaCongaLine: In the space of a day Yan Xun is arrested, thrown in prison, accused of treason, learns his family have been murdered, and is confronted with their decapitated heads.
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* TraumaCongaLine: In the space of a day Yan Xun is arrested, thrown in prison, accused of treason, learns his family have been murdered, and is confronted with their decapitated heads.heads, and witnesses his mother's suicide.
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* {{Determinator}}: Nothing will stop Yan Xun reaching his family's bodies. Not a small army of heavily-armed soldiers, not a rain of arrows, ''nothing''.
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* HumanPincushion: Yan Xun is shot repeatedly in episode twenty-four. He snaps the arrows' shafts so they don't get in the way and continues fighting.
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* HumanPincushion: Yan Xun is shot repeatedly in episode twenty-four. He snaps the arrows' shafts so they don't get in the way and continues fighting.trying to reach the box holding his father's head.
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* HumanPincushion: Yan Xun is shot repeatedly in episode twenty-four. He snaps the arrows' shafts so they don't get in the way and continues fighting.
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* AntiVillain: Yan Xun becomes one after his family's murder.
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* BareHandedBladeBlock: Chu Qiao blocks Yuwen Hao's blade -- which is sharp enough to slice through rock -- with her bare hands.
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* BareHandedBladeBlock: BareHandedBladeBlock:
** Chu Qiao blocks Yuwen Hao's blade -- which is sharp enough to slice through rock -- with her barehands.hands.
** Yan Xun grabs the blades of two spears at once, snaps them off, and uses them against the soldiers.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Most of the time Yan Xun is a good-natured guy who's rarely seen without a smile. But if you hurt someone he cares about -- or even worse, murder his family -- then heaven help you.
** Chu Qiao blocks Yuwen Hao's blade -- which is sharp enough to slice through rock -- with her bare
** Yan Xun grabs the blades of two spears at once, snaps them off, and uses them against the soldiers.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Most of the time Yan Xun is a good-natured guy who's rarely seen without a smile. But if you hurt someone he cares about -- or even worse, murder his family -- then heaven help you.
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* DecapitationPresentation: The decapitated heads of Yan Xun's family are put on display. Yuwen Huai torments Yan Xun even more by holding up his father's head.
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* DecapitationPresentation: The decapitated heads of Yan Xun's family are put on display. Yuwen Huai torments Yan Xun even more by holding up his father's head.head and mocking him.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Yan Xun goes absolutely berserk after learning his family have been murdered and seeing Yuwen Huai hold up his father's head.
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: ''Yan Xun''. All of his villainous actions are to get revenge for his murdered family.
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* DramaticIrony: When they're captured Yan Xun tries to assure Chu Qiao his father will come to their rescue. Unknown to him, his father and the rest of his family have already been murdered.
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* AxeCrazy: Yuwen Huai and Zhao Xi Feng. Yuwen Huai's idea of entertainment is to kidnap dozens of unarmed, defenceless girls for his friends to hunt down and kill. Zhao Xi Feng is delighted by this idea.
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* AxeCrazy: Yuwen Huai and Zhao Xi Feng. Yuwen Huai's idea of entertainment is to kidnap dozens of unarmed, defenceless girls for his friends to hunt down and kill. Zhao Xi Feng is delighted by this idea. Later Xi Feng gleefully murders a pregnant woman as she tries desperately to escape.
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Curly dies this way after Yuwen Huai shoots her.
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice:
** Curly dies this way after Yuwen Huai shootsher.her.
** Yan Hong Xiao dies the same way as Curly, thanks to Zhao Xi Feng.
* ImperiledInPregnancy: Taken to horrific extremes when Yan Hong Xiao is murdered during her pregnancy.
** Curly dies this way after Yuwen Huai shoots
** Yan Hong Xiao dies the same way as Curly, thanks to Zhao Xi Feng.
* ImperiledInPregnancy: Taken to horrific extremes when Yan Hong Xiao is murdered during her pregnancy.
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* AndThisIsFor: As she beats him to death Chu Qiao tells Yuwen Xi her punches are for Zhi Xiang, Lin Xi, and all the girls he's murdered.
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* AssholeVictim: Yuwen Xi is a serial rapist and murderer, so no one is sorry when Chu Qiao kills him.
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* CombatHaircomb: Chu Qiao uses a sharp hairpin as a dagger.
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* ExactEavesdropping: Chu Qiao overhears Yuwen Zhuo and Yue Qi discussing how Yuwen Yue's training her to use against the enemy, and she'll probably be killed.
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* SecretRoom: Yuwen Yue's house has an astonishing number of very large secret rooms and extensive secret passages.
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* ActionGirl: Chu Qiao's flashbacks show she was one even as a child. She becomes even more of one after training to be a spy.
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* MacGuffin: The Eyes of God. Yuwen Huai wants to kill Yuwen Yue to get control of them, but apart from that they have little effect on the plot. It's not even clear what they are.
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Chu Qiao, a slave girl, is rescued by Yan Xun, Prince of Northern Yan. An enemy kingdom arranges for Yan Xun's family to be branded traitors and massacred. Yan Xun tries to use Chu Qiao in his revenge plan. She becomes increasingly distrustful of him and eventually decides to work against him.
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Chu Qiao, a slave girl, is rescued by Yan Xun, Prince of Northern Yan. An enemy kingdom Yan, and becomes a servant of Yan Xun's friend Yuwen Yue. The emperor of Wei arranges for Yan Xun's family to be branded traitors and massacred. Yan Xun tries to use Chu Qiao in his revenge plan. She becomes increasingly distrustful of him and eventually decides to work against him.
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* GorgeousPeriodDress: All over the place, on both men and women.
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* TheStoic: Yuwen Yue. He barely ever smiles, and not even assassination attempts can disturb his calm. Only one person can mildly fluster him: Chu Qiao.
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* MinorInjuryOverreaction: Xiao Ba suffers a -- very shallow -- cut on her face. She promptly freaks out about the possibility of getting a scar, screaming that her future is ruined and trying to get Chu Qiao to call off the escape attempt so she can get ointment.
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* CombatHandFan: The assassin who attacks Chu Qiao twice wields a fan made of metal blades.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Madam Song corners Chu Qiao and her sisters on a bridge and tries to drag them away against their will. Then she trips, falls off the bridge, and drowns.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: LaserGuidedKarma:
** Madam Song corners Chu Qiao and her sisters on a bridge and tries to drag them away against their will. Then she trips, falls off the bridge, anddrowns.drowns.
** Jin Zhu escapes prison with Chu Qiao's help. Instead of being grateful she blames Chu Qiao for putting her in prison in the first place -- [[NeverMyFault even though it was her own actions that brought her there]] -- and goes to betray Chu Qiao to Yuwen Huai. Minutes later Yuwen Huai unceremoniously kills her.
** Madam Song corners Chu Qiao and her sisters on a bridge and tries to drag them away against their will. Then she trips, falls off the bridge, and
** Jin Zhu escapes prison with Chu Qiao's help. Instead of being grateful she blames Chu Qiao for putting her in prison in the first place -- [[NeverMyFault even though it was her own actions that brought her there]] -- and goes to betray Chu Qiao to Yuwen Huai. Minutes later Yuwen Huai unceremoniously kills her.
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* UngratefulBastard: Chu Qiao gives Jin Zhu a chance to escape prison, a change of clothes, and lets her leave unharmed. Jin Zhu repays her by [[NeverMyFault blaming all her misfortune on Chu Qiao instead of her own actions]].
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* FakingTheDead: Yuwen Zhuo survives the assassination attempt. He and Yuwen Yue decide to pretend he died. Yuwen Yue holds a fake funeral for him while Yuwen Zhuo recovers in peace.
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* AnimalAssassin: Yuwen Huai sends poisonous snakes into Yuwen Yue's room. The assassination attempt fails because Chu Qiao arrives in time to stop them biting Yuwen Yue.
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* StabTheScorpion: Chu Qiao stands over an ill and unarmed Yuwen Yue, sword in hand, remembering how he killed Lin Xi. She raises the sword... and uses it to shove away the snake about to bite Yuwen Yue.
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* MacGuffin: The Eyes of God. Yuwen Huai wants to kill Yuwen Yue to get control of them, but apart from that they have little effect on the plot.
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* MacGuffin: The Eyes of God. Yuwen Huai wants to kill Yuwen Yue to get control of them, but apart from that they have little effect on the plot. It's not even clear what they are.
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* TheCaligula: The emperor of Wei isn't as obviously deranged as some examples, but he's crazy and paranoid enough to have an entire family murdered because he's convinced some of them are traitors.
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* SelfFulfillingProphecy: The emperor thinks the Yan family are plotting against him. So he has them all killed... except for Yan Xun, who plots against the emperor to get revenge.
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* SuddenlyShouting: When the emperor tells Yuwen Yue he suspects Yan Xun's family of treason he speaks calmly at first. When Yuwen Yue disagrees the emperor continues to speak calmly... for a few seconds. Then he yells at Yuwen Yue for daring to contradict him.
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* BlindIdiotTranslation: The [=YouTube=] subs lag behind the dialogue, sometimes appearing only after a character has finished saying the line they're translating. Worse, the subtitles often fall victim to misspellings, grammar errors, and just plain inexplicable translations.
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* BlindIdiotTranslation: The [=YouTube=] subs lag behind the dialogue, sometimes appearing only after a character has finished saying the line they're translating. Worse, the subtitles often fall victim to misspellings, grammar errors, and just plain inexplicable translations. By far the most amusing mistake is misspelling "Duke" as "Duck".
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* CurbStompBattle: Jin Zhu makes the incredibly stupid choice to pick a fight with Chu Qiao. Minutes later she's tied up and hanging from a pole.
