Lost Track of Time 覆流年 Episode 1

Introduction: On February of the third year of Jinghe, in Hanjing City, Mu Ze killed countless lives by any means for the sake of the supreme position, and Lu Anran also became an accomplice in order to accompany Mu Ze on this road, and finally set himself on fire in red clothes. 

The drama begins ten years before the actual story,  in Sucheng, Lu Anran, the eldest daughter of the Lu family who was out at sea studying mines and dynamites on her own boat to deal with river bandits. She named her dynamites the Hunjianglong aka Hunjiang Dragon and it was very successful. At the same time, Lu Anran came across a boat that was being robbed by the river bandits, and used the Hunjiang Dragon to successfully drive the river bandits away. She was almost hit by a flying sword but the "little guardmen" saved her. She took a liking to the little guardmen who he told her he was named Mu Ze, but she didnt know he was the sixth prince of the Great Han Dynasty. Seeing that Mu Ze's kung fu is so good, Lu Anran still wanted to recruit him into her own ship, but was rejected by Mu Ze's attendant. But Lu Anran, who left afterward, did not know that Mu Ze had recognized her true identity from the shipping logo.

Lu Anran, who went home secretly, was caught by her mother, Mrs. Lu. Although her daughter was worried about shipping matters all day, the Lu family's parents had already prepared her daughter's birthday ceremony for the next day. Later, Lu Anran's younger brother Lu Yun also returned home. Although Lu Anran's stepmother, Liu Mingyu, complained that her son Lu Yun only likes to practice martial arts all day long and does not like to read books, but Lu Anran supports her young step-brother Lu Yun's ambition to become a general one day. Her step-mother Liu also specially prepared clothes for Lu Anran's birthday ceremony. Lu Anran regretted that her own mother was too ill and could not attend her birthday ceremony.

Lu Qingzhou rejected Mu Ze's map of the river system of the Great Yu Kingdom, because Lu Qingzhou bluntly said that his daughter would go on a long voyage and searched for the river map by herself, and because of this, Mu Ze admired Lu Qingzhou's daughter Lu Anran even more. Lu Qingzhou congratulated her on the day of her daughter's birthday ceremony, and gave the Pisces Ling as a birthday present to Lu Anran in public. The Pisces Ling pendant symbolizes the power to the whole clan, so therefore he handed the clan's power to Lu Anran. From today onwards, all the fleet of Thirty-six Ports will be owned by Lu Anran.  Lu Ting, the second master of the Lu family, complained against handing over such power to a female and not to the young son. But, Lu Yun backed his step-sister Lu Anran. The concubine of the Lu family, and Aunt Liu moved her eyes to signal to Lu Ting to not object. She stated out loud to everyone saying she believed that even if Lu Anran was in charge in the future, she would not treat her mother or her son badly.

Lu Anran stated to everyone that the second uncle Lu Ting has to see the relationship between the Lu family's sister and brother or strong. She vowed to make money for everyone and make them prosper. She stated that the clan's business belongs to everyone and not her's alone.

Lu Anran left the banquet early because her body broke up in a bad rash, and Mu Ze took the opportunity to contact Lu Anran and specially prepared flower box to the other party as a birthday gift, and applied Yurong ointment to it to relieve itching. Lu Anran was curious about Mu Ze's name, but Mu Ze did not tell her.

Lu Qingzhou did not seek wealth and honor, but only hoped that the family would be safe. For this reason, he did not want to be involved in the royal family dispute, and politely declined King Qing's intention to cooperate. Lu Anran wanted to know the news of Mu Ze, so she personally sent Mr. Cai, a subordinate of King Qing, to leave the house, but she couldn't help being very disappointed when she didn't see Mu Ze.

The ninth prince, Mu Chuan, saw that the rice seedlings in the rice field were sick, so he went down to the field and pulled them out himself. The farmers were screaming and called Lu Anran, she originally thought that the other party was a playboy who came to make trouble, but after listening to Mu Chuan's explanation, she realized that there was something wrong with the rice seedlings and needed to be uprooted and destroyed. Lu Anran then arranged for the people to deal with the matter. Mu Chuan asked why all the farmers would listen to a young girl words. Through Lu Anran's servant Mu Chuan heard that Lu Anran had opened up a river channel and diverted water from a tributary to Sucheng to irrigate the hundred acres of fertile fields, and he admired her very much. 

Lu Xinran invited Lu Anran to go to the Huachao Festival with her. Lu Anran brought her maid to see the lantern festival, but was accidentally squeezed under the bridge by passers-by and she fell off the bridge. Fortunately, Mu Ze rescued her in time. The two were boating by the river, and Lu Anran learned that the "little guard" she thought was named Mu Huaishu. When parting, Mu Huaishu confessed that he fell in love at first sight with Lu Anran, but he said he is just a guard and not worthy of her. Lu Anran didn't care about status or family background and wealth, and kissed Mu Ze. The two has proved they love each other.

The next day, Lu Anran bid farewell to Mu Ze who had left. Mu Ze personally gave Lu Anran the ancestral jade pendant from his family as a promise of marriage. 

Lu Anran did not receive a letter from Mu Ze after two months, and went to the pier to search for the letter in person. Mu Chuan saw Lu Anran at the dock again. She informed Mu Chuan that her heart belonged to someone special. Later, Lu Anran received the imperial decree to marry the King of Qing, Mu Ze. Although Lu Anran, was unwilling to accept the decree, but if she didn't her family would be in danger so she accpeted.  Lu Anran got Mu Ze's handwritten letter to know that the person she had in her heart was Mu Ze, the second prince, and that Mu Ze exchanged military merit for marriage, betting everything to accompany her for the rest of his life.

Although Lu Qingzhou questioned that King Qing did not simply want to marry  his daughter, but Lu Anran believed that Mu Ze was true to her. As Lu Anran was looking at her wedding dress, her made bought in some cookies. Her mother Mrs. Lu joked about her gaining weight, she put the cookie into her mom's mouth.  Mrs. Lu told Lu Anran that a woman's future husband was like a gamble, and it had nothing to do with one's family background, and no one knew who would win or lose until death. The Lu family's parents did not block their daughter's marriage because it was her choice.

On the wedding day, Mrs. Lu was seriously ill and died. Seeing the sedan chair approaching the door, Lu Anran was reluctant to leave. But the royal marriage should not be delayed. Her father and others asked her to go on with the wedding. Lu Anran knelt down to bid farewell to her mother's body and stepped onto the sedan chair to Hanjing with tears in her eyes. At this time, Lu Anran thought that the sudden death of her mother was the biggest regret in her life, but she did not expect that the picture of fate was unfolding in a painful way as she entered the palace.