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Watching the person in the mirror's countenance pale and grow haggard,

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Examining love together with regret, both new and old.

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Keeping watch still by a lantern though it is daybreak, drenched with tears,

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Watching others meet as promised, as twilight falls.

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Story of Yanxi Palace Episode 40

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- Your Majesty.- Her Highness Empress has lost her mind because of extreme grief.

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You mustn't get near her.

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It's me.

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Empress.

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Our Yongcong is gone.

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You must pull yourself together, okay?

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- No! No! Yongcong!- Your Highness!

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Yongcong!

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Empress!

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Yongcong...

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Empress!

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It's you.

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It's you who caused me to lose Yongcong.

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Let go of me. Let go of me!

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He's already dead.

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Empress.

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Yongcong has left.

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Pull yourself together.

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Don't lose your demeanor.

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Don't forget

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who you are.

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Who I am?

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Your Majesty,

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you tell me, who am I?

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You're my wife.

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The Qing empress who is the motherly figure of the whole empire.

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Right.

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I'm the empress of the Qing empire.

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Since the day I got conferred that title,

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I have to attend to Empress Dowager,

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respect Your Majesty,

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be nice to the imperial harem,

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do things in a cautious manner.

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I was afraid to do any mistakes

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and be criticized by the world.

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I'm virtuous and of good morals.

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I was afraid of getting spurned by you.

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I didn't bear grudges.

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I didn't get jealous.

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I also didn't hate anyone.

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In your behalf,

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I protected the imperial harem.

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I even treated their children

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as my own children.

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But Your Majesty,

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what did I get?

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Yesterday, new year's eve,

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the day of family reunions.

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I instead lost Yongcong on such a day.

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I used my life to give birth to him.

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He's the person I love the most in this world.

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Why? Why?

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All my life, I have never done

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an evil thing.

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Why did I end up in this state?

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Why, Your Majesty?

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Empress.

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You're tired.

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Your Majesty,

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even you can't give me an answer?

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You also don't have an answer.

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Am I right?

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Don't mind me anymore then.

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Where are you going?

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Let me just go!

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- You need rest. When you wake up, everything will be alright!- Let me...!

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Everything will be fine!

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I'm going to save my son!

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- Calm down!- Your Highness!- I don't want to be an empress!

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- Let go of me! I'm going to save my son!- Rongyin...

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- Rongyin!- Let me go see Yongcong. Your Majesty, I beg you.

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Let me go.

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I don't want anything. Let go of me!

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Rongyin!

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- Let go of me!- Hand me a rope!

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Let go of me.

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I don't want anything!

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Bring me a rope!

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Let me go...

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I beg you.

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Rongyin, you are my empress.

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The legitimate wife of Aisin-Gioro.

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You don't have the right to be unruly and willful.

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The more a possibility to withdraw midway.

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I don't care if you're sick

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or gotten insane.

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You must always remember

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the responsibilities on your shoulders.

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Responsibilities?

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In this life,

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what I have left are responsibilities.

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Starting today,

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you mustn't leave her side.

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Guard and take good care of her. Understand?

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Yes.

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Your Majesty, the funeral matters of Seventh Prince have been arranged.

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Your Majesty...!

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I want to personally handle the funeral of Seventh Prince.

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Your Majesty, this is against rules.

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My words are the rules.

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Then...regarding Empress Dowager,

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should I order someone to inform her?

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She also loved Yongcong a lot.

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This news...

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...I will personally tell her.

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Your Majesty! An urgent news!

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Governor-General Zhang Guangsi of Chuanshan sent an urgent military report

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that the Tribe Leader Shaluoben of Dajinchuan attacked the territories of the Mingzheng tribes.

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He desires to conquer the said vassal tribes.

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Are you blind?

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Seventh Prince just died.

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How could His Majesty be in the mood for that? Leave now.

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- Yes.- Wait!

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Tell Prince He of the First Rank

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to handle the funeral matters of Yongcong.

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Call for the Grand Ministers of the State to meet me in Yangxin Palace for a meeting.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Young Madam, what's going on?

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Why did Young Master sent men to put you in house arrest?

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Where did Fuheng go?

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An urgent military report reached the palace today and Young Master was called for an audience.

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At this time,

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he probably is in Yangxin Palace.

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Empress just lost Seventh Prince.

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His Majesty is the birth father and Fuheng is the biological uncle.

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Those two people are both not by her side.

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Men are so cruel.

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We just received the news today. Old Madam fainted from crying so much.

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I'm the sister-in-law of the empress.

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I should visit her in behalf of mother-in-law.

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But, Young Master won't let you out.

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If he doesn't let me out, can't I go out anymore?

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But...

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I'm pregnant.

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My health is very precious.

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While he's not around, let's see who can dare block me.

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- Where is Fuheng?- Your Majesty, Lord Fu hasn't arrived yet.

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Greetings, Your Majesty.

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Where did you go?

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Replying to Your Majesty, I went to Changchun Palace to visit Her Highness Empress.

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Just follow what we've discussed. Order Necin to be the commander and provide reinforcement. All of you can leave now.

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I'm taking my leave.

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Fuheng, stay.

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I called for you to discuss state affairs and you instead went to Changchun Palace?

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Who gave you the boldness?!

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Your Majesty, Empress is gravely ill.

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Please be merciful and allow her to leave the palace to recuperate.

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If Empress is sick,

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she should stay in Forbidden Palace to rest.

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Your Majesty, suffered extreme grief

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twice successively. She's about to lose it.

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If she continues to stay here, I fear that she might really go crazy.

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Go crazy?

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Go crazy?

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Fuheng,

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you started from being an imperial guard to a post in the Council of State.

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Your progression in the ranks was so fast, that people are casting side glances.

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Why did I give you much importance?

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Because I saw your ability,

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hence, I treated you like an important high official.

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But today, you disappointed me so much.

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Your Majesty,

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I'm willing to give my everything

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in exchange for sister's safety and happiness.

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Exchange?

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On what basis?

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Everything that you have is given by me.

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I can take them back anytime.

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You can take them back. You will not hear any word from me.

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Fuheng.

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You don't give any importance to power, status, fame, or wealth.

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Do you find yourself so mighty and very righteous?

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But do you know

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that because of this war that Sha Luoben of Jinchuan started, the border citizens are now in turmoil.

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While you only are thinking of your loved one,

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thinking about your sister.

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Your Majesty, I just couldn't bear—

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Couldn't bear to?

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A great man has the nation and its citizens on his shoulders.

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What can't you endure?

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What can't you abandon?

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Let me tell you that not only Yongcong,

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but if the one who died is Empress...wrong.

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If all the women in the imperial harem died,

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I still attend court meetings as if nothing happened.

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Because I'm the emperor.

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The king of the Qing, the ruler of the empire.

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I give you all glory, splendor, wealth, status, and power.

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Those are all to be paid with loyalty and sacrifices.

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When I need you,

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you then must go into the battlefield.

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Go fight for the citizens. Sacrifice your life for Qing.

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When heavy burdens are on your shoulders, you are duty bound.

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I'm like that. You are too. And so are all the citizens of this empire.

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Hence,

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your sister will never get out of the palace.

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Even in death, she's the empress of Qing.

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Do you understand?

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I understand.

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Erqing, why are you here?

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I took mother's visiting request.

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I went to greet Empress Dowager first.

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And then came over to check on Her Highness Empress.

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Her Highness doesn't want to see anyone right now.

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I know.

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But the more she's alone, the more her heart will be anxious.

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- Just let me in to talk with Her Highness alone.- But...

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Before, I'm best in knowing about the thoughts of Her Highness.

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Now, I'm also the daughter-in-law of the Fuca family.

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It's by duty to take care and ease the anxiety of Her Highness Empress.

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Mingyu, just let me in.

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Even if I'm unable to convince her, it can be comforting to her.

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Okay. Go in then.

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Zhenzhu! Zhenzhu!

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Yingluo said that she'll be back before sunset.

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Go to the palace gates to check.

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Yes.

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Did the mood of Her Highness Empress get better?

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With me talking with her, of course, it's better.

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I fear that she might think of killing herself.

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Don't worry. Her Highness is forgiving and magnanimous.

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She surely will figure it out. It's getting late.

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I must leave the palace before the gates are closed.

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You must serve her well.

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Hupo!

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Escort Young Madam out of the palace.

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Yes.

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Mingyu.

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Your Highness.

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I'm hungry. I want to eat something.

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I'll go instruct the kitchen now to prepare them.

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I want to eat the polished glutinous rice cake that you make.

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Your Highness, if I go make it now, it would take some time.

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You haven't drunk anything all day.

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Why don't I let the kitchen prepare some Job's tear grains congee?

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It's fine.

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Go now. I can wait.

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Okay. I'll go right away.

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Have a good rest.

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Mingyu.

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Is Yingluo back?

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Still not.

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I understand. Go now.

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My entire life. I've committed countless mistakes.

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Born into the Fuca House, but born despising restraint.

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Yet marrying into the imperial family of all families, and becoming the empress.

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That was my first mistake. Becoming the example of the six palaces.

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Obeying rules of tradition yet still nostalgic of the past.

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Never awakening from such grand dreams. A mistake.

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Losing my true self. Becoming a wood puppet with strings.

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Yet coveting love.

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Wishing to gain the love of the emperor.

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That is another mistake.

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Birthing Yonglian, Yongcong.

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Yet without any power to protect them.

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To suffer the pain of losing beloved sons. Unfit as a mother.

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That is a mistake. The world never had love.

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Etiquette and rites, rigorous and strict.

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Yet I deluded myself to think the emperor is loving.

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Unwitting of the fact that human hearts are evil and ways of the world are cruel.

268
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Again and again suffering betrayal.

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One step of mistake and every step a mistake.

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Your Majesty, you were right.

271
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I am not a good empress.

272
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♫ Though I close my eyes, it's impossible to stop the vision.♫

273
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♫ You have no way to approach me ♫

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♫  but that is not being sparse with your love ♫

275
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♫ Only coveting the beautiful scenery outside the window ♫

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♫ I can slowly hear the sound of the snow falling  ♫

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♫ It's as though you are speaking sweetly by me  ♫

278
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♫ When I open my eyes ♫

279
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♫ the sky covered with snow ♫

280
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I'm sorry, Yingluo.

281
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I agreed I'd wait for you to return to the palace.

282
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Regrettably, I can no longer wait.

283
00:24:50,690 --> 00:24:55,230
However, you must be happy for me.

284
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From now on, I will no longer be empress.

285
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I'll only be Fuca Rongying.

286
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I am only Fuca Rongying.

287
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Is that mourning bell?

288
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:33,140
What happened in the palace?

289
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Empress has left the world.

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Empress has left the world.

291
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Changchun Palace

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Changchun Palace

293
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Changchun Palace

294
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"Govern the six palaces with merit"

295
00:27:40,630 --> 00:27:43,860
Why are you just coming back now?

296
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:01,340
Changchun Palace suddenly met with a big fire.

297
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7th Prince died unfortunately.

298
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Her highness was struck by grief.

299
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And she jumped from the building.

300
00:28:14,150 --> 00:28:19,390
Wei Yingluo, why are you late by a day?

301
00:28:20,130 --> 00:28:23,660
Why are you coming back so late?

302
00:28:23,660 --> 00:28:28,620
No. No! Her Highness is full of blood.

303
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Don't look.

304
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Changchun Palace

305
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Greetings to Your Majesty.

306
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:30,630
Change Empress and put makeup on her.

307
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:37,020
I will have Empress leave honorably and grand.

308
00:29:37,020 --> 00:29:38,870
Yes.

309
00:29:45,780 --> 00:29:47,360
Your Majesty.

310
00:29:50,150 --> 00:29:53,420
I will clean Her Highness's blood.

311
00:29:53,420 --> 00:29:56,650
But Her Highness already chose to give up jewels.

312
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And accessories, these items of burden.

313
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May you spare them.

314
00:30:02,770 --> 00:30:05,000
She is empress.

315
00:30:06,060 --> 00:30:08,410
She can't leave unadorned.

316
00:30:08,410 --> 00:30:14,150
Your Majesty. If Her Highness really cared about these materialistic items,

317
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:20,870
why would she go from the high place,

318
00:30:23,150 --> 00:30:25,280
and jump down?

319
00:30:26,830 --> 00:30:30,020
Yingluo. Are you crazy?

320
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May Your Majesty be gracious.

321
00:30:34,540 --> 00:30:36,550
Allow Her Highness

322
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to leave without care or burden.

323
00:30:41,230 --> 00:30:43,790
Mingyu, dress up Empress.

324
00:30:43,790 --> 00:30:45,490
Your Majesty.

325
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:50,760
She is my empress forever.

326
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:57,100
She cannot be without burden. Even more so, she cannot be free.

327
00:30:58,470 --> 00:31:01,040
That is her fate.

328
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:04,490
You can brush it of so lightly, Your Majesty.

329
00:31:06,660 --> 00:31:09,710
Do you blame her for falling to death on her will?

330
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:12,910
And committed a grave offense?

331
00:31:18,490 --> 00:31:20,910
As the empress,

332
00:31:22,090 --> 00:31:24,500
to be so weak.

333
00:31:25,410 --> 00:31:27,810
So useless.

334
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:30,550
I . . .

335
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:36,680
Will never forgive.

336
00:31:39,990 --> 00:31:41,630
Your Majesty.

337
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:47,820
Her Highness had a body as chilly as icy.

338
00:31:49,140 --> 00:31:51,530
Her bone-deep pain was unbearable.

339
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:57,260
Yet she wagered her life to give birth to 7th prince nevertheless.

340
00:31:58,020 --> 00:32:02,630
Everyone says, she did it so secure her empress seat.

341
00:32:03,820 --> 00:32:05,500
It is not.

342
00:32:09,980 --> 00:32:12,530
Her Highness knew very deeply,

343
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:17,720
that Your Majesty wanted a legitimate son to succeed the crown.

344
00:32:18,460 --> 00:32:23,030
For Your Majesty's need, she sacrificed herself.

345
00:32:26,380 --> 00:32:29,610
Even if she paid for it with her own life.

346
00:32:30,860 --> 00:32:32,550
And the result?

347
00:32:36,650 --> 00:32:39,110
New Year's Eve.

348
00:32:41,550 --> 00:32:44,280
The pain of losing her son.

349
00:32:45,870 --> 00:32:50,420
Piercing through her heart and her bones.

350
00:32:52,090 --> 00:32:53,820
Your Majesty.

351
00:32:58,210 --> 00:33:01,250
You sit at Yangxin Hall daily.

352
00:33:03,930 --> 00:33:08,750
Did you ever hear Her Highness's cry of despair?

353
00:33:09,870 --> 00:33:12,730
She was waiting for you to rescue her.

354
00:33:12,730 --> 00:33:15,670
Yingluo, don't talk anymore.

355
00:33:15,670 --> 00:33:17,930
Why shouldn't I talk?

356
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:22,850
Her Highness loved Your Majesty sincerely.

357
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,940
She was sincere in her dealing of everyone in the palace.

358
00:33:29,740 --> 00:33:33,930
But her sincerity earned her your oversight.

359
00:33:33,930 --> 00:33:37,460
It got back to her the schemes and plotting of the harem.

360
00:33:38,050 --> 00:33:40,740
Everyone says Her Highness is a fool.

361
00:33:40,740 --> 00:33:45,290
No. She is not foolish at all.

362
00:33:46,170 --> 00:33:50,450
Her Highness was innately clever and she's the most kind-hearted person on earth.

363
00:33:50,450 --> 00:33:54,480
The best person. But she just couldn't bear.

364
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:59,450
She couldn't bear to hurt the women who was bound to the deep palace along with her.

365
00:33:59,450 --> 00:34:02,900
And she couldn't bear more so to hurt Your Majesty's feelings.

366
00:34:04,780 --> 00:34:08,680
But Your Majesty, why can't you,

367
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,600
give her a bit of pity?

368
00:34:17,250 --> 00:34:19,950
Give her a bit of love?

369
00:34:25,770 --> 00:34:28,940
Why are you so cold?

370
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,570
Is your heart,

371
00:34:33,570 --> 00:34:36,200
made of ice?

372
00:34:41,250 --> 00:34:43,140
Li Yu.

373
00:34:43,140 --> 00:34:48,170
- Your servant is here. - Wei Yingluo been offensive repeatedly.

374
00:34:48,170 --> 00:34:49,980
Acting rebellious.

375
00:34:49,980 --> 00:34:54,400
Grant her suicide. To be buried with Empress.

376
00:34:56,350 --> 00:35:00,640
Your Majesty. Your Majesty, you can't.

377
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:04,860
Yingluo. Hurry and beg His Majesty.

378
00:35:04,860 --> 00:35:06,500
Yingluo.

379
00:35:07,820 --> 00:35:12,010
- Come. - Your Majesty, you can't do that.

380
00:35:12,010 --> 00:35:13,650
Your servant.

381
00:35:14,590 --> 00:35:18,170
Is willing to follow Empress with her life.

382
00:35:18,910 --> 00:35:20,900
Thank you for Your Majesty's grace.

383
00:35:20,900 --> 00:35:25,240
Her Highness wouldn't want you to do so. Beg His Majesty.

384
00:35:25,240 --> 00:35:27,250
Yingluo.

385
00:35:30,990 --> 00:35:34,960
Yingluo. Yingluo!

386
00:35:36,340 --> 00:35:40,200
Your Majesty. Her Highness was most fond of Yingluo.

387
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:43,100
You can't do that.

388
00:35:43,870 --> 00:35:46,830
It's precisely because she is Empress's favorite handmaiden.

389
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:52,200
That I send her to accompany Empress.

390
00:35:54,890 --> 00:35:57,370
Continue to dress and brush Empress.

391
00:36:00,380 --> 00:36:03,990
Miss Mingyu, hurry now.

392
00:36:15,610 --> 00:36:20,350
She would never! Her Highness is so kind.

393
00:36:20,350 --> 00:36:23,520
She only wanted Yingluo to be happy.

394
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:29,120
Your Majesty, you don't understand Her Highness at all!

395
00:36:29,990 --> 00:36:32,440
Not at all.

396
00:36:55,250 --> 00:37:00,660
Miss Yingluo, this is also on the account of your fidelity to Empress.

397
00:37:00,660 --> 00:37:03,000
That you get this kind treatment.

398
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:07,200
If it's another, it's just a rope.

399
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,850
But you can choose.

400
00:37:30,540 --> 00:37:33,230
Wei Yingluo. Wei Yingluo!

401
00:37:33,820 --> 00:37:37,110
His Majesty has spared you. You don't need to die anymore.

402
00:37:40,820 --> 00:37:44,230
Empress left a will.

403
00:37:44,230 --> 00:37:47,160
To preserve your life.

404
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:52,750
Your Majesty, Rongyin leaves and we wil part forever.

405
00:37:52,750 --> 00:37:58,460
Only my handmaiden Yingluo with her iron devotion and conviction, unbending,

406
00:37:58,460 --> 00:38:00,940
and unsuitable to remain in the palace.

407
00:38:00,940 --> 00:38:05,860
May Your Majesty allow her to leave the palace to pursue her freedom.

408
00:38:05,860 --> 00:38:11,530
In hopes that she will cherish herself. Honorably Yours, Fuca Rongying.

409
00:38:26,420 --> 00:38:29,360
This letter only mentions Wei Yingluo.

410
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:33,840
Not a word left for me.

411
00:38:37,990 --> 00:38:39,810
Empress.

412
00:38:42,130 --> 00:38:44,440
The grudge in your heart.

413
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:48,340
Is it so deep as this?

414
00:38:51,270 --> 00:38:57,320
Your Majesty. By custom, we should report to the generals, the ministers and the imperial clansman,

415
00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:00,530
the grievance of the death of Central Palace.

416
00:39:00,530 --> 00:39:06,630
But the matter happened so suddenly and I truly don't know.

417
00:39:15,670 --> 00:39:17,640
Empress.

418
00:39:19,030 --> 00:39:23,580
Due to 7th prince's death, was overtaken by grief.

419
00:39:24,770 --> 00:39:30,140
And with the toil of the eastern patrol, was unable to recover after falling ill.

420
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:32,970
Thus her sudden departure from life.

421
00:39:32,970 --> 00:39:36,740
This. Everyone in the palace,

422
00:39:36,740 --> 00:39:39,190
I fear we can't keep it a secret.

423
00:39:41,330 --> 00:39:43,910
If you fail to stop the mouths of the servants,

424
00:39:44,460 --> 00:39:46,950
I will pluck your head.

425
00:39:49,260 --> 00:39:52,590
Then, what about Wei Yingluo?

426
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:04,280
Since it's the last will of the empress.

427
00:40:05,500 --> 00:40:07,970
Naturally, I can't kill her.

428
00:40:08,770 --> 00:40:13,540
I don't ever want to see her again in the forbidden city.

429
00:40:13,540 --> 00:40:18,090
Miss Yingluo, His Majesty has allowed for your immediate departure from the palace.

430
00:40:18,090 --> 00:40:21,330
You are to report to Yuanming Garden's celestial hall.

431
00:40:21,330 --> 00:40:24,070
To guard Empress's portrait.

432
00:40:24,070 --> 00:40:28,100
Never to return to the forbidden city.

433
00:41:27,790 --> 00:41:30,630
Didn't you come to work?

434
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:35,300
Brother. What are you doing here?

435
00:41:35,300 --> 00:41:36,900
I got transferred to Yuanming Garden.

436
00:41:36,900 --> 00:41:41,440
You are already in charge of interior bureau's storage and you are appreciated by Noble Consort Xian.

437
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:43,210
What are you doing transferring to Yuanming Garden?

438
00:41:43,210 --> 00:41:45,740
Yingluo, we agreed.

439
00:41:45,740 --> 00:41:48,820
You and I, no matter if it's the golden temple,

440
00:41:48,820 --> 00:41:51,990
or the infernal hell. We would be together forever.

441
00:41:51,990 --> 00:41:56,390
You promised me. You said so yourself so you better not go back on it.

442
00:41:57,810 --> 00:42:00,330
That's not what was said originally.

443
00:42:00,980 --> 00:42:05,720
Who even remembers the original words. Anyway, the gist of it was that we share the blessings.

444
00:42:05,720 --> 00:42:07,930
And we carry the troubles together.

445
00:42:12,060 --> 00:42:13,890
Have you gone mad?

446
00:42:13,890 --> 00:42:17,240
You worked so hard to climb up and you finally got this chance.

447
00:42:17,240 --> 00:42:19,870
But you just give up on it yourself?

448
00:42:20,790 --> 00:42:26,380
Therefore, Wei Yingluo, you must remember everything I give up.

449
00:42:26,380 --> 00:42:28,710
Yingluo, from now on,

450
00:42:28,710 --> 00:42:30,920
you and I stay at Yuanming Garden.

451
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:33,130
We will forever never part.

452
00:42:33,130 --> 00:42:36,350
If you don't say anything, I will regard it as you agreed.

453
00:42:36,350 --> 00:42:38,030
Wei Yingluo.

454
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:44,100
Wei Yingluo?

455
00:42:47,150 --> 00:42:53,170
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456
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♫Softly falling into the hollow of my palm,♫

457
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♫Resting frozen in the center of my palm.♫

458
00:43:15,830 --> 00:43:25,390
♫Our meeting across past incarnations was inevitable,♫

459
00:43:26,870 --> 00:43:36,170
♫Joined together, deeply experiencing and holding onto the end of happiness.♫

460
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:45,970
♫Though plainly given words of discouragement,♫

461
00:43:48,610 --> 00:43:57,690
♫Pretending to hear nothing but exhortation.♫

462
00:43:59,730 --> 00:44:08,640
♫ Endless tears, believing it cannot be true,♫

463
00:44:10,570 --> 00:44:19,990
♫ In this life, being born under an unlucky star.♫

464
00:44:21,820 --> 00:44:27,360
♫I hear the sound of the snow slowly falling♫

465
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:32,110
♫ Though I close my eyes, it's impossible to stop the vision.♫

466
00:44:32,110 --> 00:44:38,580
♫ Nothing you can do about being approached, not being inconsistent in love,♫

467
00:44:38,580 --> 00:44:43,560
♫ Though merely holding onto it from the outside, prone to this sort of circumstance.♫

468
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:49,070
♫ I hear the sound of the snow slowly falling♫

469
00:44:49,070 --> 00:44:53,890
♫ As though you are holding me closely, and speaking sweetly.♫

470
00:44:53,890 --> 00:45:01,670
♫ Opening your eyes to a sky filled with merciless snow falling,♫

471
00:45:01,670 --> 00:45:09,320
♫ Who, after suffering this loss for a lifetime, is fond of this scene?♫