Lost Track of Time 覆流年 Episode 3

The queen personally fed the prepared poison soup to the seriously ill emperor, for which the emperor died suddenly. Mu Chuan tried every means to find blood ginseng to save Lu Anran. Fortunately, he found it, Lu Anran had been in a coma for a month and woke up after taking blood ginseng. After waking up, Lu Anran learned that she had missed the funeral of her younger step-brother Lu Yun, and that the emperor was also killed by King Yi. Three days later, Mu Ze would inherit the throne.

Mu Ze returned to the house to visit Lu Anran, blamed himself for letting Lu Yun be killed by Mu Lin, and promised to protect Lu Anran and the Lu family with his life in the future. In the first year of Jinghe, Mu Ze got his wish and ascended the throne. Mu Ze brought Lu Anran, who was named queen, to the palace to pay homage to his biological mother. Lu Anran learned at this time that Mu Ze's biological mother was not the queen who raised him, and she was the one who killed his real mom. . Lu Anran accompanied Mu Ze to pay homage to his mother, and believed that Mu Ze would inevitably become a good emperor loved by the people in the future. On New Year's Eve of the third year of Jinghe, Lu Anran became pregnant again, and the Lu family also went to the palace to accompany their daughters to celebrate the New Year. While the whole family set off fireworks to celebrate the New Year, Lu Anran told Mu Ze the good news of her pregnancy. Mu Ze was also very happy. Mu Chuan, who was watching all this, was envious.

Two months later, the empress dowager passed away for no apparent reason, and Mu Ze's eagerness to execute Jiang imperial doctor made Mu Chuan puzzled, so he simply came to question him. Mu Chuan believed that Mu Ze, who had been on the throne for three years, had a great change of heart. He not only went back on his word and executed King Yi's subordinates, but also acted arbitrarily, not knowing right or wrong. Mu Ze was furious, and imprisoned him in the room for the crime of disobedience. 

Lu Anran came to visit Mu Chuan regardless of the obstacles. She knew that Mu Ze had always treated Mu Chuan generously, and this time he was punished because Mu Chuan found something that violated Mu Ze's taboo. Not wanting Lu Anran hurt because she is pregnant, Mu Chuan had to tell the truth. Lu Anran knew what Mu Ze did after he ascended the throne, but now only Lu Anran and Mu Chuan are Mu Ze's are family, and only they can pull him back from evil. Mu Chuan persuaded Lu Anran to take care of herself first if she encounters something that cannot be done.

Back in the bedroom, Lu Anran accused Mu Ze of being so arbitrary, regardless of his siblings' affection, not distinguishing right from wrong and black and white. Lu Anran couldn't believe Mu Ze now. He had already got his wish, so why did he kill them all? Now Lu Anran doubted not only the death of the empress dowager, but also the death of the late emperor. This remark angered Mu Ze, and Mu Ze even doubted Lu Anran's feelings for Mu Chuan. The couple's ten-year relationship has changed from mutual trust to mutual suspicion, which is sad. Lu Anran scolded Mu Ze for taking people's sincerity as a fake, saying one thing and doing another, throwing away his original aspirations as a teenager, and becoming who he is today. Mu Ze threatened Lu Anran with the lives of the Lu family, and thought about the Lu family before speaking wildly in the future.

Dahan built the country by the water, but the world's rivers are in the hands of the Lu family. Now the queen wants to investigate the cause of the queen mother's death, which makes Mu Ze feel murderous. Lu Anran accidentally saw the origami rabbit in the hands of Xiao Jingque's son Lin'er, and only then did she learn that Xiao Jingque would fold the rabbit that she gave to her son back then. She came to ask Xiao Jingque if it was related to Yu'er's death, but Xiao Jingque told her that Mu Ze knew that she was the murderer from beginning to end, and Lu Anran was just a pawn in Mu Ze's hands. Xiao Ying also told Lu Anran that Mu Ze sacrificed Lu Yun and the entire vanguard army to overthrow King Yi in exchange for the current throne. He also told her that Mu Ze executed her whole family and clan behind her back.

Mu Ze sentenced the Lu family to the death. Lu Anran ran to ask Mu Ze three questions, whether he attacked the Lu family in order to recover the Lu family’s port and fleet, whether he planned the death of the vanguard led by Lu Yun, and whether he deliberately concealed the fact of their son death at the hands of Xiao Jingque. Mu Ze did not deny these three things. Lu Anran was heartbroken, thinking that the other party loved the throne more than anything else, and then shattered the jade pendant that was given to her as a promise of marriage long ago.

It was snowing heavily in the sky, but it was hard to match the coldness felt in Lu Anran's heart. Lu Xinran comes into Lu Anran's chambers to inform her that the Lu family was framed all because Lu Xinran. She said that Mu Ze, secretly conspired with her and her second uncle to frame the Lu family. Lu Xinran said she chose the royal family and abandoned the Lu family. Since she was a child, she was dissatisfied that her background was lower ranked than Lu Anran. Lu Xinran while trying to killed Lu Anran, Lingxi ran to save Lu Anran and got stabbed. Lu Anran told Lu Anran that the peach cake she hand-fed to Madam Lu was the root cause of Mrs. Lu's death, and the plate of poison peach cake was originally prepared for Lu Anran.

The forty-six members of the Lu family were all beheaded, Mu Chuan was also given poisoned wine and died, and Lu Anran, dressed in red, also set herself on fire in the Hanguang Hall. In ten years, in order to accompany Mu Ze to the throne, she became an accomplice. Killed countless people, and now it is considered to be buried with those who died in vain.