My queen has returned (Road to Empress 2)

Name: My queen has returned (Road to Empress 2)
Uploaded: 2026-06-10
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0:00 as a small team that has long dedicated ourselves to crafting cinematic dramas, we are deeply grateful for the attention we've received. the past two years have seen our team devote every moment to crafting every storyline and line of dialogue. it is crazy that this game is made by a quote unquote small team. now i'm just taking their word for it because it literally looks better than any movie netflix has released since roma.
0:25 the shang dynasty embraces all walks of life and we value the diversity of opinions. based, maybe. i don't know. we gotta see how that manifests in the game. the fact that i wouldn't have even thought about it until they put it at the end of the spiel there. wait a minute. they got her on the damn, what is this called? is this the snapchat rewind?
0:56 first amendment type, sure, that's absolutely right. by the way, for all the nl viewers who watched road to empress 1 and have not seen anything since and have just been waiting with bated breath for road to empress 2, i started learning mandarin like three weeks ago, so i think i'm gonna be pretty able to understand what the heck is going on. i mean, ask me anything.
1:23 ask me anything. no subtitles would be a serious problem. that's what killed the other game that i tried to play, is that it just didn't have any subtitles. but, uh... yeah, we played that learning game? yeah, exactly. you think i don't know shit about bing kan? we're just gonna get... oh, sorry, the storyline has been locked, man. i guess you start the game by pressing return? holy shit. the gates of destiny open once more.
1:56 from a forgotten kyren to an up will you survive the palace of blades and prevail in the court of shifting loyalties? step into the forging of an empress every choice shapes your journey only by seeing the story through can you discover your exclusive trade sketch will be generated? thank you for your purchase and so, okay when the movie starts with thank you for your purchase? you know we end up shooting time when you follow i
2:29 damn, they were really going belt to ass at the end of the game. i forgot about that.
2:46 trust no one?
3:06 yes, i remember. i think i had this soup about 75 times if i had the gas.
3:25 it's really coming down out there.
3:39 it also seems insane that didn't we play this like eight months ago? how is there already a sequel? i mean slay the spire 2 took
3:56 11 years to come out. and it's the same game. i'm not complaining, it's maybe my favorite game of all time, but it's the same game. i did not say mega crit are hack frauds, i just said like, the speed of the work is crazy. lazy devs? stop it.
4:26 i was sequestered at the end, i recall. i understood that. they said, bull. i understood that. pivotal choice in the days ahead. you want to... okay, this is literally like a far cry style choice. if you take one, the game ends.
4:59 and i'm on permadeath mode. if you take two, the game starts. so you literally, you have to, you have to just see what happens if you try, if you go, actually, i think i'll be a nun forever. blue pill for me thing. hi morpheus, i'll take two of the blue pills.
5:32 i'll contact him on wechat. he can take the shanghai maglev. he'll be here in 18 minutes.
6:13 the end. man, her stroke order is all fucked up. he's got a way with words.
7:01 i think the first choice actually dictates what prints gets you out. so you're telling me like i permanently, uh, i've scuttled my save file. i've made a choice that i didn't know would have ramifications for the rest of my life? choices actually matter? in my cinematic adventure game telltale could never, man.
7:36 damn, she's right. and now i'm the one wearing the shang gong robes.
8:16 she came in through the bathroom window. and when you say there's many who would like to finish him off,
8:50 do you mean it in the same way that most of the people playing this game... ...want to finish him off? or do you mean it in like a more insidious sort of way? hmm... umm... i'm gonna seize the hairpin and take her out. lu xi, it's curtains for you. you might as well be zu xia. ah shit, never mind.
9:29 complete a quick time event for the first time her life is in your hands, dude
10:10 sweep the leg, break the wrist, walk away. damn, things are starting hot. this is like what lord of the rings the two towers would have been like if they saved the death of boromir for the start of that movie instead of the end of fellowship, which made fellowship better, but fellowship was already really good. they needed a little extra sauce in the two towers to make it as good as the rest of the trilogy, even though it's still good.
10:43 what's going through my head? it's bittersweet because now we gotta hide the body. that's extra work. stash or corpse, make it look like an assassin's work or bolt out of here. and it's a make or break choice in the prologue. i mean, how are we gonna make it look like an assassin's work? that seems insane. here's what i, my logic right now, well, all choices are illogical.
11:24 if we bolt out of here, why couldn't we have just left to begin with? stash or corpse make it look like an assassin's work. seems like a hundred percent someone with a long mustache kicks down the door and goes like, you thought you were going to get away with this. we're going to put you in prison forever. so let's try making it look like an assassin's work, but... i knew that was going to happen.
11:56 she's on 1 hp too, she's got motion blur. leave behind the glamorous life of a nun. the world is wide and vast. the world has exactly one ocean and five countries as we know it right now. let's explore.
12:31 it could take us as much as two years to see the entire earth according to our maps. kill him? obviously i'm not gonna kill him. that's insane. take me with you. kill him is crazy. or is it? what the? zhang xi? this is like when spider man fought mysterio at the end of spider man far from home.
13:28 what the hell happened? the leetai before your eyes was nothing but a sweet phantom? lu zi's hairpin carried a lethal poison that warped your senses. when such blissful phantoms arise, if you yield to the helplessness in your heart and indulge in delusions of being saved, you will never awake again? the moment you entrust your freedom to someone else is the moment it ceases to be yours. that's crazy! that's insane!
13:57 how could you have known? get used to it. okay, i mean, i guess we go back to prince of wei's promise here and we just kill him symbolically eliminating the poison within our body, neutralizing the lethal hallucinogen that we've been dosed with. game over. you have killed the love of your life for no reason. i'm not a man of the past. i'm a man of the past. i'm a man of the past.
14:31 it's a lot to stake on a coin toss, but he's like, damn, i was just being nice. they did say, you are not him.
15:04 yeah, yeah, yeah. shift the blame and call it an assassin's work. again.
15:38 it's true, sir. she's my friend, she'll cover for me. yes, murder is frowned upon.
16:13 in ancient china. i thought we were friends! what do you mean take ming kong away? we make it out of this. literally, that's how we win. you can't fire me, i quit. what killed you? i guess the poison?
16:56 come back where you belong. damn. alright. dress as the oh! you know what? i'm stupid. she lampshaded the shangong robes. if i wasn't the favorite of the new emperor, then why would i be wearing the shangong robes? she's basically saying as long as you wear the cloak of protection, nothing can harm you. oh shit. you have the robes have exploded. oh.
17:41 which keepsake do you choose to leave behind? i mean, i gotta be honest with you, it's a pivotal choice. li tai is the prince. li zhi is the warrior, right? and gao yang is the sister who hates us because we were her friend but then we forced, we aided and abetted her getting married so that we wouldn't die or something like that.
18:15 no, li zhi is the emperor, li tai is the warrior. this is like older brother, younger brother. oh, because you didn't let her marry the bald monk. well, honestly, gao yang's not fucking with me. i'm not fucking with her, man. i leave behind the amulet.
18:54 why are you here all alone? we have to run. there's no shot. we're gonna impersonate lu shi. oh, motherfucker. that didn't work at all! okay, yeah, yeah, i've seen this one before. it loaded in like mad dog mccree.
19:30 oh, she's leaking. what you think was going to happen? i thought we were just out runner. fight to survive and find the answer. you hit full sprint? that was full sprint? you weren't even in zone two. one person against every guard in ganye temple? how's that a fair fight? obviously they've never played
20:07 007 first light. it's pretty much every day for a beast like me. oh! woah, shi yushangong! yeah, yeah, that's not okay.
20:40 you know that's where we drink from.
21:24 okay, well i know what people are gonna want me to take here. push her into the well or force her to keep your secret? i mean, she has gotten me killed like three times which i think has revealed the truth of her spirit. she's not fucking with me so we push her into the well and see how she likes it.
21:55 you gotta grab the legs lady! you gotta grab the legs! motherfucker man! maybe we'll put this on 2x here. you gotta sweep the legs!
22:30 guy who puts the chinese game on 1.5x so he can learn mandarin 50% faster. okay, i guess i'm gonna force her to keep my secret then. okay, okay, slow down, slow down, slow down.
23:16 she tripped! and now we're sprung.
23:55 no job, no hope, no cash. hair has never looked better though. the guards didn't check her face. bro, that face card never declines. that's how they talk these days. that face card doesn't get declined.
24:25 they hate me. they hate me because i'm becoming too contemporary with my vernacular. that's the hottest guy you've got? guards?
24:52 kill him. yeah, this is a sick society, man.
25:19 the decadence has gone too far. she's sick, man. she has to hold the damn whip.
25:53 oh shit. dude, pick something to trade for the silver you need to start over. we trade the the peony hairpin which is the murder weapon and then we're free. it's pure gold. it's baobei. she thinks she's ras rabagliati.
26:32 oh. you're drooling. 50 50 gold!
27:00 75 gold! slow acting poison. takes somewhere between 2 minutes and 72 hours to get through your system. oh damn.
27:30 okay, they're really they're forcing us to choose man. well, i think we should take the emperor's route shame you had to leave the subtitles on yeah, kory. uh, give me a second here. whoa yee dee ar putong ha yee dee ar yee dee ar putong walk not enough. i don't understand enough putong walk. we want to give you the
28:10 golden one from li tai so that we can become the empress. that's my thinking. i found her at goodwill.
28:44 you're already on the li tai path? motherfucker! two playthroughs! the streamer! no, no, i fucked up my playthrough! the viewers! whoa, two playthroughs? you gave me some gold? here's some gold.
29:23 laulau's got a scar from here to here. she will make your mugshot disappear. you zombie. you guys remember this?
29:57 oh shit, it's our aunts, no the former, our dad's concubine's daughter. our dad's concubine's daughter.
30:12 no, li's... li's... she's dad's concubine's daughter. yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. we must save her. step in and save her daughter. this can grant us favor with the court. she thinks she's at the continental.
30:49 damn he's captivated man. now you have an army.
31:18 she's lower than dirt essentially we call her we call her mud her name it doesn't really translate there's no word for it in english, but it's something like when it rains on cow poop so
31:57 this is literally what it's like to be the dodgers when free agency opens. you know how it is, we kind of like treat them like mushrooms, feed them shit and keep them in the dark. oh, and you begin coughing up blood.
32:39 no, not after all we've been through. she's gonna take me to the court to get good medical. this isn't how i go.
33:15 oh shit, a new ghost. it was literally self defense, worst case scenario, negligence causing death, criminal negligence causing death.
33:52 no way, i'm not giving up. what's crazy is that this is actually like my model for how the immune system works.
34:32 if you accept that you're gonna get sick, 100% you will get sick. if you think that you won't get sick, there is a chance you won't get sick. not a guarantee you won't get sick, but there is a chance you won't get sick. we in the damn squid game now. with the duo shiei. nin tai kuchi. you gotta say nin tai kuchi to that. end of the chapter?
35:18 a question for the soul. chapter 17, man. ganyu temple, no escape 2? i'm not a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a man. i'm a
36:06 people from miragecavillion know i'm a fugitive, yet they still choose to help, so that means i'm worth more to them than the risk.
36:29 the music cut out. i think we are going to be killed. it's the same vibe as jonathan majors as... what was the name of the villain that they tried to get going in marvel but then he ruined his own life?
36:53 hang, this is like the end of loki season one. hang the conqueror, yeah, yeah, yeah. he goes, yeah, right from quantumania? yeah. damn, she's one tapped. honestly, what are you to the prince of wei?
37:34 so for li tai, we are not carrying his baby. that's... well, i don't know. i don't think we are. but he didn't wrong me. didn't i wrong him? wasn't i kind of like a... i felt like i strung him along a little bit and then at the end of the game i said, actually i'm going for the other guy, which i intended to continue with but i made the wrong choice at the start of the game. so... i'm not going to let you go.
38:06 you have told the truth, which is a sign of weakness, and for that you will be killed by blood poisoning.
38:49 as the mirage pavilion fucking is the prince of wei. i've taken more lives than i can count.
39:37 i can count it. yee. ar. san. shih. lu. liu. qi. ba.
40:14 why is she dressed like my cardiologist? can i be done? good answer, because i'm fucking him.
40:53 mean, i'm the guy who is he the real chance not the quick and it's a tall sheen. hmm your latte is your local pie. he's the way on the team eating. oh, he's a yah, sir to see tree we want you to show me this is so much like crank to high voltage you need to show the truck will need you to a home. yeah, what's up?
41:28 you must commit at least one murder per fortnite. let's be honest, mirage pavilion is going to be here forever. it's been here for 20 years. if it was going to go out of business, it wouldn't happen by now.
42:05 boop. got your nose. no, it's actually a suppository. that's where you're wrong, buster.
42:43 i'm already calling it. the lady emeraj temple is going to see what we have done and feel sympathy for us. she is going to betray the golden masked man and give us the full antidote so we can escape and be with li tai. she has evil vibes. she literally just has red lipstick.
43:20 we'll keep sending one baddie at a time, okay? that's the way the mirage temple has done it since the day we were incepted 11 years ago.
43:55 you're not the only one who's been in the world for a long time. you're the only one who's been in the world for a long time. you're the only one who's been in the world for a long time. you're the only one who's been in the world for a long time. you're the only one who's been in the world for a long time. you're the only one who's been in the world for a long time. you're the only one who's been in the world for a long time.
44:13 okay, good job. thank you for that. yeah, yeah, yeah.
44:46 you better not. look at my doctor, bro. when your doctor is... when your doctor is mei mei, is that right?
45:16 yeah, you got it? okay, thank you. what the hell? sure. it's mao mao? no, i meant she's my little sister. she's my little mei mei. i don't give a hoot what you do, jay. hold my finger.
45:50 if we'll ever meet again. i'm gonna keep it from her for now so i can tell her later in exchange for the antidote. clementine will remember that. oh shit. losing hp at the start of the voyage like... i was gonna say that.
46:27 an american on a two hour flight. which is not fair, but it is funny. but the flip side is that they gain hp on a 10 hour drive which makes no sense to me and is honestly kind of aspirational. a brit on a two hour flight though? not ready. i'm not quite ready for that. oh shit. shidan switched up her whole look.
47:09 maybe we should stop having our spies kill each other. oh, you aren't ethan hunt. don't flatter yourself. that work we don't even look alike is crazy.
47:38 the neurodivergent logical answer? you have not been swapping faces for years, that's insane. oh shit, cast the powder!
48:18 i'm locking the fuck in. it ain't going down like that. okay, that didn't look right. something... i need to see... can i go back just a second?
48:52 there's something of something about this did not look right. if the devs are watching, i'm not trying to be evil. it was just a really, really funny shot. oh, man. it was like a control team mouse drag in photoshop. it's li ji! it's li tai, the prince of wei!
49:34 lost the 50 50? my cousin knows him? your cousin is involved in a romance scam. the real lee ty lived 1100 years ago.
49:53 in imperial china. he is not asking for money to visit. he is not living on a research vessel in antarctica and six weeks away from getting leave and coming to visit her, okay? you need to save her before she loses her life savings.
50:12 kate, i accidentally took your path. you should be flattered. i made a decision at the start of the game that has locked me in to the bad boy prince instead of who i thought i would go for, the prince who follows all the rules and in this meritocracy happened to be the best son born first to the emperor and thus deserving of his throne. so i'm locked into the bad boy path, which means we have to play, we're gonna play through the game twice to get both paths.