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♪So this is what love is♪

♪I want to transform into a butterfly and pretend to meet you by accident♪

♪Gentle yet playful♪

♪You are as sweet as honey and as beautiful as springtime blooms♪

♪Yes♪

♪I have secretly fallen in love♪

♪My eyes filled with longing. I can't help but care deeply about you♪

♪In this lifetime, I'll practice hard♪

♪To master your enchanting worldly charm♪

♪You are like a love story, a poem, a dream, and a stunning view♪

♪The unparalleled and everlasting love in this world, all that touches my heart♪

♪Your dress brushes past the copper bell♪

♪Laughing foolishly, feeling fortunate to have met you♪

♪Cherry blossoms fall into my heart♪

♪You are like a mood, sometimes happy, sometimes mad, and sometimes sunny♪

♪I'm the happiest when I think of you and I want to pick the stars for you♪

♪I'll be gentle with you for the rest of my life♪

♪You make me want to be close to you♪

♪Let's travel together to the ends of the earth♪

♪There's a girl, playful and unique♪

♪A smile of hers can make the whole street bloom♪

♪How could the world ever let down a pair like us, unmatched in the world?♪

♪The world is no longer fun. I don't want to explore it without you♪

♪There's a girl, mesmerized by the spring breeze♪

♪Like falling petals meeting flowing water, hoping for eternity♪

♪I shall confess my love for you♪

♪There is someone♪

♪I really like♪

♪You are like a love story, a poem, a dream, and a stunning view♪

♪The unparalleled and everlasting love in this world, all that touches my heart♪

♪Your dress brushes past the copper bell♪

♪Laughing foolishly, feeling fortunate to have met you♪

♪Cherry blossoms fall into my heart♪

♪You are like a mood, sometimes happy, sometimes mad, and sometimes sunny♪

♪I'm the happiest when I think of you and I want to pick the stars for you♪

♪I'll be gentle with you for the rest of my life♪

♪You make me want to be close to you♪

♪Let's travel together to the ends of the earth♪

[Practice Daughter]

[Adapted from An Yimo's original novel The Charming Thief Princess]

[Episode 6]

Hurry.

Quickly.

Someone coming!

Greetings, Your Highness.

Greetings, Your Excellency.

So it's you, Your Highness.

I thought it was a puppy barking.

So we freaked out and fell down.

So she's the maid

with marvelous painting skills.

From afar, I thought it was a thief

trying to break into the Chongwen Academy.

Didn't expect it to be

the Grand Chancellor's daughter climbing the wall with a maid.

It was all because they didn't open the door for us!

We knocked but got no response.

We had no other choice but to try this way.

How about this?

I know that you're eager to study.

Let me help you.

I scared you just now.

Take this as my compensation.

Really?

Thank you for your help. Your Highness, Your Excellency.

I really appreciate it.

Hurry.

Slowly.

Be quick!

Okay, I'll let go.

- Come on, hurry. - Take it slow.

Hang in there. I'm letting go.

Be careful.

Be careful.

Watch out.

Be careful!

Be careful.

- Be careful. - Watch out.

- Take it slow. - Take it slow.

You guys go in first.

I have my own way.

Hurry! Let's go.

Come on.

They wouldn't have expected this.

You...

How did you get in here?

I forgot to tell you

I have the key.

Screw you!

Did you make fun of us on purpose?

[Little Book Boy] Thanks to His Majesty's benevolence

and Her Majesty's virtues,

since the founding of our dynasty, this is the first time

that noble women are allowed to enroll in the Imperial Academy.

Everyone,

please learn with an open mind and don't waste time.

On the first day of school,

for you to understand the subjects,

you'll have classes in jurisprudence and etiquette in the morning,

and an entrance examination in the afternoon.

Please be prepared.

- Examination? - Examination?

What's this entrance examination?

What does it cover?

- I'm not ready at all! - Please tell us more!

Is the entrance examination hard?

How am I supposed to know?

But for you, Miss Mei,

it must be easy.

Your Highness, I...

Make way!

Three chi.

Three chi!

What does that mean?

His Highness asked us

to keep three chi away from him.

My good sister,

where's your valuable writing brush?

Would you like to trade it for my seat?

Don't rub it in.

What?

You can't bear to give it to me?

Didn't you ask to trade it with me yesterday?

I've changed my mind!

Really?

Really!

Are you having hemorrhoids?

Can't you just sit down?

Then will you continue to tease me or not?

No.

Why didn't His Highness

keep three chi away from her?

I don't know what His Highness is thinking.

Why doesn't she have to follow that rule?

A quarter past Chen hour.

It's the jurisprudence class.

Here comes the Grand Tutor!

Hurry.

Let's go.

Good morning, Grand Tutor.

Sit down, everyone.

All of you are either princes or noble ladies.

When you become the ruler or the ministers in the future,

you need to participate in making decrees.

Therefore, understanding ancient laws and regulations

will be a mandatory course starting today.

The sage's laws

must be plain, easy to learn, and rightly named,

understood by both the foolish and the wise.

Thus, appointing judges

and legal officers in charge of the law

as instructors to all,

lest the people fall into peril.

That means you must make laws

easy to understand

so that both the foolish and the wise can grasp them at a glance.

Laws are the lifeblood of the people,

and the very foundation of governance

to prepare the people.

Discarding laws to govern

is like forgoing food to avoid hunger,

removing clothes to avoid cold,

or going west for the east.

The folly of such endeavors is self-evident.

The class is over?

Sit down.

Well...

I can tell

that my speech has been rather boring.

I ask for your patience and understanding.

Well,

let me tell you a story now.

A story!

The Canon of Laws

written by Li Kui.

He once set a principle:

make no distinction

based on intimacy or status,

but do everything according to the same standard of law.

One day,

Li Kui tried a case.

The defendant made a statement

about a murder from three years ago

which astounded Li Kui.

Why?

Because this murder case from three years ago

had been closed by him.

But due to his misjudgment,

an innocent man had been executed.

According to the legal principle set by Li Kui himself,

that was a capital offense.

Therefore,

sticking

to the legal principle set by himself,

Li Kui wrote a suicide note.

He committed suicide!

Is that a true story?

Grand Tutor...

Did he really kill himself?

I have a question.

Is the legal code definitely correct?

Yeah.

She has a point.

The code is also made by people.

Is it absolutely correct?

- It can also be wrong. - How can we explain this?

He was killed by the laws made by himself.

Yeah.

Well...

Why did you ask so?

I just doubt what is written in the book.

The wrong words can be corrected,

but a dead man doesn't have a second chance.

This is an interesting point of view.

Yeah, that makes sense.

Well...

Li Kui's tragedy was inevitable.

People living in this world

will definitely have different emotions.

Even the most virtuous person

can be selfish sometimes.

Asking an individual to make the law

will inevitably cause trouble.

That's true.

Yao has stood up.

Since the law is applied to the people,

it should come from the people.

Only by gathering the wisdom of the masses,

can we make the perfect code.

Exactly!

Use it carefully and constantly refine the code.

This is what

I want to teach today.

Stop it!

A quarter past Si hour.

Time for the etiquette class!

Let's go.

What a nice figure.

Greetings, Madam Liu.

[Madam Liu]

Let's begin the class.

I'm Liu Jiao, the Imperial Consul of the Ministry of Rites,

also known as Madam Liu.

By the order of the Empress,

I came to the Chongwen Academy to teach you etiquette.

This subject aim to help the princes and ladies understand

the significance of etiquette.

In today's lesson,

we need to learn about composure,

a very important concept in etiquette.

Princes and ladies, please line up in two rows.

The so-called composure

means no matter what happens in front of you,

you should hide all your emotions from others.

Let's practice anti-disturbance ability in groups.

Do whatever you can to either amuse or intimidate each other.

Those who can keep an unchanged face for thirty breaths

will pass the test.

This test concerns the reputation of the imperial men.

We must succeed.

No failure!

Give me back the pearl!

Or I'll surely emerge victorious!

In your dreams.

Start!

Your Highness,

please begin your performance.

You can make it, Your Highness!

Go for it!

Come on!

- Come on! - Yao.

- I believe in you, Your Highness! - you can do it!

Start!

I'm done performing.

Then I guess it's my turn.

You can't win.

Come on!

Hold on, Your Highness!

Go for it!

Come on!

His Highness is so handsome!

- His Highness is so handsome. - His Highness will win for sure!

Still that poker face?

You can make it, Your Highness.

I give up.

[Win/Lose] His Highness won!

Even that couldn't make him laugh?

Awesome!

Tomorrow, at a quarter past Shen hour,

we'll have the entrance examination.

It coincides with the visit of ambassadors from a friendly state.

Their Princess An is also with them on the trip to Jixi.

Hearing about the entrance examination held by the Chongwen Academy,

she decided to come to take it too and compete with you.

Please take it seriously and do your best on the exam.

Your writing must be clear,

with no answers left blank.

Anyone who makes random answers

will receive a heavy penalty.

- What? - Why can't we leave any answers blank?

And there's a heavy penalty!

Princess An won't be punished.

Is it that legendary young princess from the friendly state,

known for her perfect singing, dancing, wisdom, and diligence?

Exactly.

It's said she's so intelligent.

What can we do?

No one in her state can teach her anything new.

Why is she competing with us?

Is she coming to make trouble?

Hold on. You said "heavy penalty".

What's that?

Why do you even have a penalty for an exam here?

What? Are you scared?

No, I'm not!

No one can tell who the winner is now.

[The Next Day, Chongwen Academy]

Here comes Princess An!

So she's that princess.

That's Princess An?

You go talk to her.

- You go. - You go.

- I'm not doing it. - Just go!

Greetings, Princess An.

[Princess An] I've heard you're very knowledgeable.

We are going to have the entrance examination today.

If we fail,

all of us will be punished!

You have to help us!

Princess An,

I've heard a lot about your capabilities.

We really need your help.

Yes, Princess!

We don't want to be punished.

We want to lose to that newcomer, Mei Yushan either.

Please do us a favor!

Don't you

spend any time studying?

What's the use of cramming at the last minute?

I can't help you with that.

The entrance examination begins now.

Five papers for each of you.

One question per paper.

There is no restriction on the way to answer the questions.

The assessment is decided by the Grand Tutor.

The exam begins!

Answer by yourself.

What?

No peeking!

Let me take a look.

- No. - Don't show her.

Mei...

I finished the papers, sir.

That's so fast!

Yeah.

You finished it so quickly, Your Highness.

Miss Mei, it's been a while,

yet you haven't even finished a single question?

These questions are too simple for me.

Not challenging at all.

Miss Mei, given the fame for your talent,

are you going to hand in blank papers for the first entrance examination?

No way!

I'm writing my answers.

It's no big deal for me!

My answers are not necessarily inferior to yours!

The Crown Prince answered with grandeur and rigor,

showing the demeanor of a future emperor.

He can be a role model for all the students.

And Princess An's answers

are unique.

I can't assert that no one in the future can do it the same way.

But they're definitely unprecedented.

I should learn from her.

Awesome!

Incredible!

I'm flattered.

I don't think I'm doing my best this time.

If I weren't leaving in a couple of days,

I'd really like to take a test again with everyone.

No need.

Ladies are first-time enrollees.

Uneven performance is inevitable.

We won't be hard on you.

Where are Mei Yufan's answer sheets?

She didn't finish them, did she?

I have long heard about the talent of Grand Chancellor Mei's daughter.

Today, let me see her abilities.

What's wrong?

Read it.

- Why don't you read it? - Yeah!

- Read it! - Come on!

- Why don't you read it? - Just go ahead.

Question One.

The Peach Blossom Spring is a thousand feet deep,

but not as deep as Wang Lun's affection for me.

Who is Wang Lun?

Your Highness,

you read it.

[Did Wang Lun jump off the cliff?]

Did Wang Lun...

Jump off the cliff?

She doesn't even know who Wang Lun is!

I really know nothing about Wang Lun!

Is he famous?

Why did he jump off the cliff?

And why is there a poem to commemorate him?

Just one question. It's nothing.

Let's see the next question!

Question Two.

The couple used to be birds of a feather,

yet they flew separately in the face of disaster.

Why did it become a famous line in the storybook?

[You two are a perfect match.]

- You two... - What the heck is this?

are a perfect match.

I know this one!

Neither of the couple was a good guy.

They flew separately in the face of disaster.

In our language,

they were not faithful at all!

That's why I call them a perfect match!

What nonsense are you talking about?

Question Three.

I invite you to drink another cup of wine.

Go west and see the sunshine pass without a friend

What kind of artistic conception is expressed?

[So brutal]

- Brutal? - So brutal...

She's such a freak!

Question Four.

If my friends in the North should ask if I'm all right;

my skiff has left ten thousand mountains away.

Which two poems are these lines from?

What?

What's her answer?

- What did she write? - I can't see.

Did he owe someone money?

He ran so fast!

That's so ridiculous!

Grand Tutor!

Physician!

Fetch the imperial physician!

Grand Tutor!

Grand Tutor! Are you alright, Grand Tutor?

Grand Tutor.

Are you okay, Grand Tutor?

Grand Tutor! Are you alright, Grand Tutor?

How do you feel, Grand Tutor?

Are you alright?

Grand Tutor.

How are you feeling, Grand Tutor?

Mr. Zhou is quite good at treatment.

But he doesn't usually show it.

The physicians in the imperial palace are actually not better than him.

Just let him handle it himself.

That's so amazing.

- Grand Tutor. - What is he doing?

Grand Tutor?

What's wrong?

- Amazing! - He's alright!

He's fine now!

Glad to see you alright!

- That's incredible. - He's fine.

Unbelievable!

[Xingqing Hall] The Grand Chancellor's daughter,

Mei Yushan misbehaved at the Academy

and disrupted the examination order.

The Grand Tutor punished her for copying books every day after class.

And hand it over to me...

Hand it over

to the Crown Prince for inspection.

The punishment will last half a month.

It's time for dinner, Your Highness!

Shall we have dinner?

I'm not hungry. Keep copying.

I finished copying.

That fast?

It's not only full of typos.

That's the root of the Later Han's decline.

It should be followed by

"The Late Emperor

often discussed these topics with me..."

But why did you miss this part and skip to

"The Late Emperor did not despise me for my background.

He humbled himself..."

Did I miss this part?

Maybe I made this mistake because they both start

with "The Late Emperor".

You missed more than this part.

"The Late Emperor knew my prudence,

so before he passed away,

he entrusted me with his great cause."

You missed this, too.

You continued with

"It is my duty to repay the Late Emperor's kindness

and prove my loyalty to Your Majesty."

I couldn't see it clearly.

It's getting dark.

And I'm starving.

Everyone is resting.

Why so serious?

Do you think I want

to stay here and supervise you copying books?

Then let's go have dinner?

Recopy it.

[Imperial City]

It's three-quarters past Mao hour.

If there are still errors or omissions,

you should recopy them again.

Recopy.

He knew which one I was going to copy yesterday.

So he must have secretly prepared

to pick at me on purpose.

Let's see if you can still gloat today!

Free and Easy Wandering?

You didn't copy the Yueyang Tower?

Did I copy the wrong one?

I remember the Grand Tutor asked me to copy

this one.

Never mind.

Free and Easy Wandering can also do.

The mushroom of a morning knows not the alternation of day and night.

The chrysalis knows not the alternation of spring and autumn.

Why is it followed by "The perfect man ignores self;

the divine man ignores action; the true Sage ignores reputation."

Did I miss copying something again?

No way!

Besides,

you've missed

275 words

and misspelled 82 words.

You even know how many words I've missed?

Sure.

I don't believe it.

Are you sure it's 275 words?

Does one more or one less character

count as your failure?

Sure.

Then, if you lose,

you should give me back the Moon Spirit Pearl!

Deal.

What if I win?

If you win,

I'll admit you're awesome.

You can be my teacher.

It's really 275!

You...

How did you know that?

Recopy.

Did you copy it backward from the end?

Yes, Your Highness, my little master.

Now you can do nothing, huh?

I don't believe you can check in reverse!

You've missed 132 words

and misspelled 27 words.

Mainly in that paragraph, from "To go up this tower

is to find inner peace

and to forget both praise and curse"

to "embracing distant mountains and swallowing the mighty Yangtze River,

rolling on and on."

Recopy.

Recopy!

Recopy.

Recopy!

Recopy.

I need

to switch my body back and leave the palace immediately.

Douzi.

Others enjoy a life of abundance as noble ladies,

while I have to study every day

with my stomach grumbling all the time.

So painful!

Douzi's hands are quite agile!

Douzi!

Little Master, please check it.

Quiet!

Is it for me?

Obviously.

Do you hate me a lot these days?

No!

My little master is excellent and knowledgeable

like a living encyclopedia!

And you gave me roasted sweet potatoes!

How could I hate you?

You're just browning nose.

You can go back.

No more recopying?

Not a word misspelled or missing.

Why should you recopy?

Little master, that's so nice of you!

I'm sorry for that, Your Highness.

When there's no one around,

you don't need to call me that way.

Yes, little master.

No dining etiquette.

The sanctimonious little master

is molesting his female student in the study!

I'm taking my leave!

Who taught you that?

My first teacher is even better than you!

Who's it?

The toothless old storyteller on Xuanwu Street!

Who's there?

♪It's your mesmerizing glance♪

♪Freezing the gentle breeze of the mundane world♪

♪Your gentle call awakens me from my unfinished dreams♪

♪It's hard to convey my love for you when fighting for the homeland♪

♪Our destined encounter♪

♪I am meant to accompany you on this journey♪

♪Wishing for a bit more♪

♪So love feels even more real♪

♪You and I, each completing the other, year after year♪

♪Accompany me to explore the world♪

♪We walk together on bustling streets♪

♪My heart leans towards your warm embrace♪

♪We're both kites reclaimed from the edge of the sky♪

♪If it's an unfathomable fate, let me do it again♪

♪We're both misunderstood, yet we accept it willingly♪

♪Step forth boldly and join me without asking where we're heading♪