This is the recap for The Long Ballad Chinese Drama: Episode 2. Crown Prince runs into Li Changge. He asks her if the guy was her at the stadium. She explains that she didn’t intend to break through the place. He pats her shoulder and thinks she did a great job. He thinks he won the treasured dagger, and reveals Emperor awarded him for it.
The Long Ballad: Episode 2 Recap
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Crown Prince is surprised that Li Changge is better than her other brothers. He tells her to give him the treasured dagger. But she tells him that she gave it to Li Shiming. He scolds her for giving it to someone else. But she points out that Second Uncle isn’t someone else. He is furious to tell her not to mention any word of Qin Prince Palace.
Wei Zheng shows up and tells Crown Prince to calm down. He thinks he should get angry at Li Changge because she’s still young. Crown Prince thinks Li Changge will be a bad daughter even if she grows up. Because she likes Li Shiming. He tells him to follow him.
Li Changge visits Crown Princess. Crown Princess glares at Li Changge. She blames her for not listening to her words. Li Changge tells Crown Princess that she won the game and Emperor praised her. But Crown Princess gave Li Changge a slap. Li Changge touches her face and mentions Crown Princess never slapped her.
Crown Princess thinks she didn’t discipline Li Changge well, and made her challenge males. Li Changge is in tears. She asks Crown Princess why she always thinks she isn’t better than males since she gave birth to her. She says that she can go anywhere because she has hands and legs.
Crown Princess takes Li Changge to get on knees in front of Buddha. She asks her to swear not to have any resentment no matter what happens. Li Changge agrees to it. But she says that she will hate the person if he hurts her mom. Crown Princess helps Li Changge get up. She tells her that nobody will hurt her. She says that she just wishes her to live happy all her life.
Crown Princess tells Li Changge to remember the words she said. She tells her to pack her stuff because she wants to send her to Piyong academy to think about her fault. She tells her not to flee again.
The maid tells Li Changge that Crown Princess prepared the pastries and clothes for her. Li Changge asks the maid why her mom doesn’t come. The maid explains that Crown Princess is tired. Li Changge tells the maid to tell Li Leyan to wait for her because she doesn’t know she will leave. The maid comforts Li Changge that Li Leyan won’t really get angry because they’re the best friends.
Li Changge tells the maid San Niang to take care of Crown Princess. She takes over the pastries. Crown Princess shows up. She grabs Li Changge’s hand and tells her to take care of herself well. Li Changge tells her mom that she doesn’t want to leave.
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But Crown Princess rejects it. She tells her not to come back without her permission. Li Changge grabs her mom’s hand to beg her. But Crown Princess is cold. The food box drops after Li Changge handed over the food box to Crown Princess. Crown Princess asks Li Changge to call her mom again.
But Li Changge gets into the carriage. She leaves. San Niang asks Crown Princess why she let Li Changge leave since she wants her to stay with her. Crown Princess cries. She confesses that it’s the only way to let Li Changge live. Li Changge turns around and pulls back the curtains. She sees her mom getting into the palace.
Crown Prince rides the horse to get into the Xuanwu Gate. The general tells the bodyguard to close the gate. Li Changge takes a look at outside. She finds out that the the carriage isn’t going to go to Piyoung. She asks the driver about it. He comforts her that it’s the right path.
Li Changge realizes that Crown Princess concealed something from her. She jumps off the carriage, running to the east palace. She sees the blood on the gate. She opens the gate and walks into the palace. She finds out that there’s nobody in the palace.
Li Changge goes to look for her mom. She sees the servants and the maids kidnapped by the bodyguards. She hides and sees Li Shimin walking out of her mom’s palace. The bodyguard reports to Li Shimin that Crown Prince got killed. Wei Zheng hands over the letter to the follower. He lets him get Crown Prince to open the letter.
But Fang Xuanling tells Wei Zheng that it’s too late. He takes over the letter from the follower. Fang Xuanling thinks Crown Prince won’t take Wei Zheng’s proposal. He tells Wei Zheng that he came to save him. But Wei Zheng thinks it’s his duty as a follower.
Fang Xuanling tells Wei Zheng that he came to stop him. He thinks he will be fine if he stays in his palace. The follower reports to Ashina Sun that Crown Prince’s man Chang He blocks Crown Prince’s troops. Ashina Sun thinks Chang He betrayed Crown Prince.
Li Changge walks into Crown Princess’s palace. She sees her dead body. She cries. San Niang shows up. She tells Li Changge to flee. Chang He shows up. San Niang tells Li Changge that Chang He is a traitor. She pushes her away. Li Changge trips. She sees the knife which she gave to Li Shimin.
Chang He tries to kill Li Changge. But San Niang hugs his leg to stop him. She tells Li Changge to be alive. Chang He stabs San Niang from her back. Li Changge cries to flee. But the bodyguards block her way. She has to jump off the bridge. She falls into the water. The general asks the bodyguards to shoot her.
Ashina Sun asks Su Yishe to spread the message that Prince Qi is dead. He mentions the troops that went to the north were Prince Qi’s olde troops. He thinks Khan will have a good sleeping. Li Leyan is in her room. She sees the soldiers running outside.
The bodyguard breaks into her room. He reports it to her that the rebels were killed. She wonders why there were rebels. She asks him about the East Palace. He reveals Crown Prince and Prince Qi were killed. She cries and she asks him about Li Changge.
He reveals the prince fled when she was chased. She doesn’t believe it because Li Changge asked her to wait for her there. She tries to go to see her father. But the bodyguard stops her. He reveals Prince Qin doesn’t have time to see her.
The follower reports to Wei Shuyu that Li Changge fled. Wei Shuyu thinks Li Changge is fine if she fled. But he worries that the lady won’t give up. He asks the follower to go to watch on Qin Prince’s Mansion. Li Changge gets changed. She runs into the bodyguards on the street.
She walks to the house and she takes out a knife. She uses the knife to open the window. She sneaks into the house. We find out that it’s a kitchen. There’re many pastries. Li Changge takes a look at the pastries. She remembers her mother tried to give the pastries to her when she told her to leave. But she refused to accept the pastries. The pastries fell to the ground. Her mother asked her to call her mother again. But Li Changge ignored her and she got in the carriage.
Li Changge cries to apologize to her mother. She promises to live well. She eats the pastry. Someone walks into the kitchen. Li Changge hides. The boy eats the pastry when he puts more pastries into his clothes. Li Changge sees the master outside.
She drags the kid into the room and they hide behind the curtains. The master sees nobody in the kitchen. He leaves. Li Changge comes out from the room. The boy thanks her for saving him. She claims that she worried that he would get her involved.
He thinks she hid there because she has no place to go. He tells her that he has a bed which can let her sleep. She goes to see the bed he mentioned. She finds out that it’s just a floor with some straw. He lies on the bed and he claims that the bed is very good.
He lets her sit on the bed. He keeps asking her questions. She threatens to cut off his tongue if he says any word. He persuades her to to to steal the Crown Princess’s funerary objects with him. She’s furious to grab his shoulders. She asks him about the place. He reveals it’s in Honor and Grace Temple.
Li Changge goes to the temple. The guards have a talk. We learn that they were sent to the place because they followed Prince Qi. Li Changge brings the pastries to the guards. But the guards don’t trust her. They let her taste the pastry. They taste the pastries and they pass out. She walk into the room. She sees the coffin of her mother.
She walks to the coffin and she opens it. She sees her mother’s dead body. She cries when she strokes her mother’s face. She thinks those people bullied them too much. She mentions what her mother told her not to resent. She thinks her mother knew the result early. She thinks she was killed if her mother didn’t sent her away. She tells her mother that she has to hate. She breaks off the lipstick. She swears to kill the murderer on her own no matter how hard it will be. She stabs her hand.
Li Shimin gets the note Ashina Sun asked Su Yishe to spread. Fang Xuanling thinks the rumor will get worse even if Li Shimin goes to clarify. Du Ruhui thinks the guy who made the rumor planned to let Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji’s followers hate Li Shimin. He persuades Li Shimin to make the decision.
Fang Xuanling offers to invite the generals into the palace. But Du Ruhui worries that the generals won’t get into the palace if they have bad intention. Fang Xuanling points out that it will show the generals bad intention. Li Shimin decides to wait for a while.
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Hao Du goes to the temple. He finds out that someone sneaked into the room. The guards ask him for his mercy. They reveals they were poisoned by someone. They leak that it was an ordinary person and he gave them the pastries. Hao Du picks up the pastry.
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The bodyguard reports to him that the guy didn’t touch the Crown Princess’s stuff. Du Ruhui shows up. He thinks it wasn’t an ordinary poison case. Hao Du shows the pastry to his father. He reveals the guy didn’t steal anything. Du Ruhui thinks it was an old friend.