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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
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Why are you running around?
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Your Highness, don't worry. Everything has been arranged.
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I won't ever see that lowly servant again, right?
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I guarantee to you
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that you will never be bothered by her again.
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Why did you choose to deliver the medicine on the day of the tea party?
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The shell powder was especially washed with dye
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to prevent getting found out. The amount of dye used was very minimal.
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You need several months of taking it in for its poison to accumulate
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enough to show symptoms.
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But that Noble Lady Yu only used it for more than a month
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but already showing abdominal pain and having consults with the imperial physician.
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She's making such grand movements.
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Don't you find it too deliberate?
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What you mean is...
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Empress recently has been quite close with the Yonghe Palace.
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Wei Yingluo has also been delivered pearl powder frequently.
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What if we indeed got found out?
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More likely, she is setting us up so she can capture us on site.
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But Noble Lady Yu suffering from excessive mental trauma leading to instability in her pregnancy
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may be true too.
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Are you sure about this? Don't mistake the shadow of a bow in one's cup as a snake.
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This...I dare not be certain.
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But the best method
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is to go to the Imperial Academy of Medicine and ask for the medical records of Noble Lady Yu.
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We surely can notice any clues.
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If the medical records are not in sync with the words of Fangcao,
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we then are being deceived.
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If the result is similar with your guess,
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how do you plan to handle it?
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I heard that Empress trusts Wei Yingluo a lot.
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She especially handed her the task
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of taking care of the lychee trees.
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Your Highness, don't you hate her very much?
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I've thought of a way
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that can make her disappear forever.
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It can even cause the face of Empress to reach rock bottom (be extremely embarrassed).
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Her mighty prestige completely destroyed.
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What must I do now?
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What happened?!
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The lock got pried open. The lychee trees...
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...are dead from being watered with very hot water.
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Yingluo, what should we do?
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Yingluo! Where are you going?
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Greetings, Your Majesty.
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Rise.
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All of you, sit down.
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Why are your hands very cold?
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Have you not yet fully recovered?
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Or your subordinates are tiring you too much?
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Your Majesty, this has nothing to do with others.
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I've always had cold hands and feet.
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The imperial physician has already prescribed me medicines. Consort Chun
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has also gave me a medicinal soup for dipping my hands and feet.
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However, they all have been not that effective.
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The imperial physicians in the palace indeed are highly skilled in medicine, but they are too conservative.
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They don't know to be flexible. Just in prescribing medicines, they are usually trembling with fear.
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How could they cure diseases?
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A few days ago, I heard from Fuheng that there is a famous doctor in Jiangsu named Mister Nanyang.
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He has divine-like medical skills.
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He can cure dead people, revive skeletons.
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I've already sent someone to get him and transport him rapidly back to the capital.
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By then, I'll let him nurse your health.
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Thank you for your care, Your Majesty.
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Yingluo, let's quickly report it to Her Highness Empress.
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Can't you see that the emperor is there too?
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The emperor? So what if His Majesty is there too?
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The tribute from Fujian got totally destroyed.
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If you're the emperor, will you get mad?
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Of course...
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He might even have us beheaded.
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Someone destroyed the lychee trees then frame it on us.
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What should we do now?
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What to do?
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Of course, it's to start a war.
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I don't understand.
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Now, carefully listen to my words.
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Choose a most acceptable looking batch among the lychee fruits.
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Send it to the Imperial Kitchen and tell them
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- that Empress is having a lychee banquet. Tell them to immediately think of a way.
- Consort Chun.
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Afterwards, inform Her Highness Empress
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that the lychees from the two trees were made into food.
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The fruits of the remaining tree will be picked on site.
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Picked on site? No...
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It's exactly if it's picked on site that we will get found out.
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Her Highness Empress has already said that she's going to personally pick a lychee for His Majesty to eat.
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Of course, she can't casually take it back.
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There must be one that's going to be brought into the banquet.
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Of course, we still have to think of a plan beforehand.
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What plan...
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Consort Xian, on my birthday last time,
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you gave me a pair of jade ruyi.
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After looking at it several times, I couldn't notice any unusual with it.
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Afterwards, it was even Erqing who pointed it out
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that you actually had the Heart Sutra carved on its handle.
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Afterwards, I heard from imperial physician that your finger got injured
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because you personally carved the Heart Sutra.
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I really feel guilty about it.
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For Your Highness Empress birthday, I only just exerted my measly effort.
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I hope that Your Highness can have good health and a peaceful and smooth life.
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Erqing.
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Your Majesty, I've said before
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that I will choose my most favorite among all my birthday gifts
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and then reward the person who gave it.
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Initially, it was Your Majesty's gift that is the most unique.
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But, you are the emperor of Qing and you already have the empire.
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I have no way of rewarding you.
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Hence, I want to give this reward to Consort Xian.
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What do you think?
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Your Highness Empress, I don't deserve it.
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The reward of Empress shows her sincere appreciation to you.
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You mustn't refuse it.
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Thank you for your reward, Your Highness Empress.
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I will accept it.
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Hurry and rise.
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Just trying to win people's hearts. Fishing for fame and compliments.
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So pretentious.
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Hurry and get it back.
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Yingluo, will this work?
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Of course, not.
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Not?
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Guard here. You must not leave a step.
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You also must not let anyone get near.
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Just go there when it's time to offer the lychees.
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You understand?
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Yes.
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But...
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Noble Lady, today is the lychee party that Her Highness Empress organized.
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If you keep hiding like this and refusing to see people,
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it will really hurt the heart of Her Highness Empress.
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With me being like this,
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it's better to not go there and kill the joy for everyone.
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All the members of the harem have went there. Only you are not going.
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What if others learn of it? They will again say that you're using your pregnancy
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- to look down on everyone else.
- I already told you that I won't go. Can't you understand that?
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Yingluo.
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What are you doing?
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I'm here to invite Noble Lady Yu to attend the lychee banquet.
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Even you are going to put me in a difficult spot?
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You clearly know that I'm afraid of seeing those people.
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I don't want to go. I don't want to see Imperial Concubine Jia.
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The more I don't want to see Noble Consort Gao.
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Leave first.
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What are you doing?
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Aren't you afraid?
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Once you're dead, then everything will be over. No one will try to harm you again.
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Yingluo...
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Noble Lady Yu, Noble Consort Gao and Imperial Concubine Jia
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repeatedly tried to harm you.
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You think that by hiding here, you'll be fine?
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The more you're afraid of trouble, the more they will bully you.
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Think about the tragic death of Imperial Concubine Yi.
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Think about how you almost got strangled to death.
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This palace is not a safe harbor.
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It's just a tomb that can be sealed anytime.
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This place buried Imperial Concubine Yi. The next one...
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...is you.
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You're right.
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I'm afraid.
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I'm so afraid.
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Every time I remember those people,
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remember the things they've done,
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I would tremble in fear.
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But Yingluo, I did fight once.
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You also saw what happened
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to Sister Imperial Concubine Yi.
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Noble Lady Yu, when I was eight,
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I got bit by a bad dog.
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It was so painful that I cried the whole night.
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The next day, I took a bamboo rod
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and chased after that bad dog.
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I chased it around to almost half of the capital. Towards bad dogs,
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you must become braver and fiercer,
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so you can scare them away. With the same reasoning,
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evil people bully the weak but scared of the strong.
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The more you are afraid, the more they will bully you.
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For your child,
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for the unfortunate Imperial Concubine Yi,
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life your weapon
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and face your enemies.
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Weapon...
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Me?
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What weapon do I have?
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Your weakness,
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your tears,
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your imperial child,
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are all your weapons.
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If you want to fight back,
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today is your best chance.
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Your Highness Empress, these are the White Snow Red Plum
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especially prepared by the Imperial Kitchen.
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The Imperial Kitchen really toiled for this.
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The look itself is refined enough.
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Your Highness Empress, it's easy to have excessive internal heat with lychees.
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Hence, they especially soaked them on salted water
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and even paired it with wolfberry to neutralize its effects.
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A lychee being used in a meal is quite common.
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After all, there are dried lychees being sent here every year.
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But if you add other ingredients with the lychees,
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its taste would be different.
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People who really know lychees
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are only interested with the fresh ones.
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Your Highness Empress, didn't you say that you're going to personally pick the fruits today?
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How come we still haven't seen that yet?
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Where's Yingluo?
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She...
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Where is she now?
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Your Highness,
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Yingluo—
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Noble Lady Yu has arrived!
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Noble Lady Yu.
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I came late. May Your Majesty and Your Highness Empress forgive me.
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Noble Lady Yu, you're here.
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Quickly rise.
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Your Highness Empress has set up a banquet.
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It's just right that I come.
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Your Highness Empress is caring, the more I shouldn't be idling around.
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Noble Lady Yu, how's your health?
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Thank you for your concerns, Your Majesty.
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My health has recovered a lot.
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That's good. You must take good care of your health,
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so that Empress won't be worrying and tiring herself just for you.
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Yes.
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Hurry and sit down.
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Your Highness Empress, where's Miss Yingluo?
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My mouth is watering for that fresh lychee.
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Empress, where really did she go?
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- Your Majesty—
- I was making some preparations.
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Sorry to have you all wait.
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Your Highness Empress, please personally pick the fruits.
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Your Highness!
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Xueqiu!
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Your Highness Empress!
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Help! Don't bite me!
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Catch that dog!
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Men! Catch that dog!
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Quickly go after it!
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Don't come near me!
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Don't be afraid...
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It's alright now. The dog has been caught.
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It's fine now.
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Are you alright, Noble Lady Yu?
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Noble Consort Gao , you've frightened me last time in the imperial garden.
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Today, you're frightening me again!
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Are you deliberately trying to kill me!
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What's going on here?
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What is Noble Lady Yu talking about?
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Replying to Your Majesty, a month ago, at the imperial garden,
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Xueqiu suddenly charged out and scared Noble Lady Yu badly.
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Because no one got hurt that time, Her Highness Empress was magnanimous and didn't investigate it further.
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It's just that Noble Lady Yu had to drink nerve calming soup every night since before she can sleep.
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Today, she's in a much better spirit, but unfortunately, encountered the dog again.
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Consort Chun, what do you mean by that?!
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Are you saying that I ordered that beast to harm people?
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Everyone saw it.
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Noble Consort Gao, why bother denying it?
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Consort Chun, you are so good in making unfounded remarks.
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Did you see Xueqiu only charging towards Noble Lady Yu?
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Your Majesty...save me.
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I really couldn't endure it anymore.
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Your Majesty, if this continues,
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I fear that it will end up with one corpse and two lives lost.
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Your Majesty, save me...
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Assist Noble Lady up first.
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Your Majesty.
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- I beg Your Majesty to give me justice.
- Stay on the side and rest first.
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I will decide on this.
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Noble Lady Yu, get up first.
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Your health is more important.
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Noble Lady Gao, you repeated disturbed Noble Lady Yu.
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I let it pass. But today is my lychee banquet,
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yet you indulged your pet to act wildly.
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You caused Noble Lady Yu to get traumatized again. What is your motive?
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Noble Consort Gao, hurry and answer the question of Empress.
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Your Majesty, I really don't know what's going on.
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Xueqiu is very obedient. It never caused any trouble.
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- The one in the imperial garden last time was just a misunderstanding. Today—
- Misunderstanding?
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My lychee tree has already been destroyed to that state and you still say that it's a misunderstanding?
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I repeatedly warned you
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to not indulge your bad dog to bite people.
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Today, the dog actually didn't bite anyone.
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It just took interest on the tribute product of Fujian,
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the gift that His Majesty gave me.
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Your Majesty, if you could just have delivered a tree to Chuxiu Palace,
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how could this matter today even happen?
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At the bottom of it all, it was because Noble Consort Gao harbored resentment
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and vented her anger on this innocent lychee tree.
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It was just quite a suffering for Noble Lady Yu.
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She had to remember that fearful past again.
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Then it means that Noble Consort Gao feels
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that I'm biased towards Empress and harbored resentment for it,
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deliberately used this dog to launched an attack on Empress, and show me your might?
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Your Majesty...
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Xueqiu is a beast to begin with.
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It disturbed everyone's enjoyment today.
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I'll skin it when I go back.
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It is just a dog.
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How could it know about right or wrong?
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You're going to blame all the mistakes
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on a dog?
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A tiger and a rhinoceros got out of thier cage,
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the tortoise shell and jade offerings got destroyed while in their container,
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who is to blame then?
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Your Majesty, the tiger and rhinoceros coming out of their cages,
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the tortoise shell and jade ornaments getting destroyed in their container,
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is of course the mistake of the person in-charged to keep watch of them. When we were transporting the tree today,
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Xueqiu was running around by her feet.
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But it happens to be a beloved pet of Her Highness Noble Consort,
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so the servants wouldn't dare pursue or drive it away, hence, causing this kind of matter to happen.
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It was my fault for not properly watch the tree. I'm willing to accept punishment.
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Wei Yingluo,
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you indeed committed a mistake. I'm punishing you—
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Punishing you to have no salary for half a year.
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Thank you for your grace, My Mistress.
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I'm going to be bold and ask in behalf of Noble Lady Yu.
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The person watching the lychee tree has been punished. What about the one that destroyed it?
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How dare you servant! Do you have a place to talk here?!
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Can't the person involved defend herself?
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Moreover, she's asking in behalf of Noble Lady Yu.
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Doesn't the victim have any right to ask anymore?
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Your Highness Empress, you are kind. Forgive me for being disrespectful.
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Noble Lady Yu is carrying an imperial child. Her status is very honorable.
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The lychee was the yearly tribute of Fujian, and was bestowed by His Majesty.
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Her Highness Empress is magnanimous.
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Her position is to be revered and any provocation shouldn't be tolerated.
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All these matters are connected with Xueqiu,
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but Xueqiu is an animal. It doesn't understand etiquette or rules.
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If we're going to blame anyone, it's it master.
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She didn't discipline or controlled it.
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I boldly ask Your Majesty to make judgement.
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Noble Consort Gao,
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what do you have to say?
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Your Majesty,
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it was all my fault.
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Her Highness Noble Consort knew that Xueqiu is quite naughty
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and that it might destroy the banquet of Her Highness Empress, hence, she especially instructed me to keep watch of it.
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It was me who was careless. A moment of negligence almost caused such a huge mistake.
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It totally has nothing to do with Her Highness Noble Consort.
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Noble Consort Gao is the main mistress of Chuxiu Palace.
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Imperial Concubine Jia, if you've committed a mistake, can she exclude herself from the crime of not disciplining you well?
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Your Majesty, it's all my fault. If you want to punish anyone, just punish me.
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Your Majesty, please forgive me.
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This lychee three is the annual tribute of Fujian.
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It had to travel thousand of miles to arrive here in the capital.
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I personally gifted it to Empress,
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so that she can be happy.
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But because of this negligence of yours, all my hard work was gone.
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You shouldn't be apologizing to me.
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You should be apologizing to Her Highness Empress.
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Your Highness Empress, it was all my fault.
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I'm incompetent and didn't discipline the dog well.
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May Your Majesty Empress have mercy. Please forgive me.
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May Your Majesty Empress have mercy. Please forgive me.
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What got destroyed for me is just a banquet.
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But Noble Lady Yu this time
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suffered another huge trauma.
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If anything bad happens to her,
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if her imperial child is harmed,
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how are you going to pay for it?
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I fear that no matter how many head you have, you won't be able to make up for it.
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Imperial Concubine Jia,
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what Her Highness Empress means is
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you should be apologizing to Noble Lady Yu.
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Imperial Concubine Jia, what else are you waiting for?
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Could it be you are not contented with the judgment of His Majesty,
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or, you're not sincere in repenting?
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I...dare not.
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Noble Lady Yu,
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it's because of a moment of my negligence
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that a grave mistake almost happened.
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Please forgive me.
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I...
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...am not worthy to accept your bow.
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Of course, you do. It's all my fault!
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May little sister forgive me.
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Hope that you're repenting sincerely.
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Stop tolerating that bad dog in harming others.
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I won't. I won't anymore.
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What about you Noble Consort Gao?
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Your Highness Empress,
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Although it was just a moment of negligence from Imperial Concubine Jia and she wasn't able to discipline it well,
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I also have a fault.
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From now on, I surely will restrict Xueqiu more.
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I won't let that dog commit any mistakes again.
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No need!
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I don't want to see that dog again.
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Due to a moment of negligence, Imperial Concubine Jia committed a grave mistake.
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She's demoted to a noble lady and grounded for 3 months.
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- Your Majesty...
- As the headmistress of Chuxiu Palace, Noble Consort Gao
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couldn't discipline her people and her dog.
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You're really so incompetent.
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I'm punishing you to have no allowance for 1 year and go back to your palace to reflect on your actions.
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Your Majesty!
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Respectfully sending off Your Majesty.
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Your Highness...
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Sister, how come the punishment was so severe?
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What do you know? Destroying the tribute item from Fujian,
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disturbing the banquet of the Empress,
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plus traumatizing Noble Lady Yu which almost harmed the imperial child,
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after committing those series of crimes, who can escape punishement?
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No matter how smart that Xueqiu is, it's still just a dog.
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If you don't make its mistress pay, who would?
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Isn't that matter in the Imperial Garden already in the past?
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It's not that she didn't seek vengeance, the timing is just not right yet.
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Today, didn't the new and past debts all get paid?
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Your Highness Empress, that's the complete detail of what happened.
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What?
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Quickly get him back.
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Xueqiu! Xueqiu!
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Xueqiu! Xueqiu!
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What are you looking for?
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Have you seen Xueqiu owned by Her Highness Noble Consort?
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- It seems to have went that way.
- Xueqiu!
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I decided on my own. May Your Highness Empress forgive me.
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Yingluo...
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You even dare think of such an idea.
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Noble Consort Gao used Xueqiu to scare Noble Lady Yu.
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Having her pay for an old debt today
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is not really aggrieving her.
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It's a small matter for me to admit my mistakes and accept punishment.
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The action of Noble Consort Gao and Imperial Concubine Jia
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is to completely embarrass you. How could I let them succeed?
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I wasn't able to watch the trees properly.
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It is considered a major offense that the lychee tress got destroyed.
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But compared to Noble Consort Gao instigating that bad dog to harm Noble Lady Yu,
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and destroying the lychee tree to spoil your banquet,
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my crime was way smaller.
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Noble Consort Yu kept shouting and asking for justice.
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His Majesty has not time to care about your mistake anymore.
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He focused his attention on Noble Lord Yu instead.
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But Yingluo, you told me
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that you didn't study much.
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How come you were able to continue His Majesty's words?
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The tiger and rhinoceros escaping out of their cages,
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the tortoise shell and jade offering getting destroyed while in their containers, who is at fault?
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Your Highness Empress, are you talking about these words?
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His Majesty said it too fast.
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I wasn't able to react immediately.
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His Majesty was trying to go after the perpetrators.
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Your Highness Empress, in the "Analects of Confucius",
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I only know 3 statements,
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"Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?";
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"When I walk along with two others, I surely will learn from one of them.";
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and lastly "The tiger and rhinoceros escaping out of their cages,
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the tortoise shell and jade offering getting destroyed while in their containers, who is at fault?"
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Those three statements were even heard by me from the Cultivated Talent neighbor of ours.
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I only guessed half of the time.
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Yingluo,
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you are very quick-witted.
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It's just that
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you didn't get taught well when you were at home.
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I came from a poor family.
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Being able to have a full meal and warm clothes are already great fortune for us.
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How could I still have luxurious hope of studying?
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Your Highness, most women in this empire
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are like that.
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Starting tomorrow, I will teach you.
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Your Highness Empress.
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You're so intelligent. I'll teach you
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to read books and know the proper etiquette.
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We must not waste the talent and intelligence
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given to you by the heaven.
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I thank Your Highness Empress!
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Your Highness Consort Xian.
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It was you who told Her Highness Empress that I urgently need money, am I right?
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Yes.
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Why did you do that?
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I only mentioned it as some idle gossip.
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Who knew that Her Highness took it to heart and especially granted you a gift today.
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I know that you aren't willing to be of one group with me.
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But today, let me tell you some sincere words.
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Her Highness Empress has never had intentions to recruiting or roping in people to her side.
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She also never demanded anyone to repay her kindness.
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She just helped you because she heard that you're in trouble.
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She was afraid that you'll have some mental burden, hence, she looked for a reward as an excuse.
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She even especially did it in front of His Majesty to make it more legitimate.
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This money is now officially yours.
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No one will comment about it now.
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Sister, now that you have the money, quickly save your brother.
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Your Ladyship, you're assured now, right?
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Why not?
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Can't be that you're still suspicious of Empress's intention?
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I never suspected Empress.
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If she really wanted to cast mercy on me, she could've easily summoned me quietly to Changchun Palace.
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Today she rewarded me under proper measures.
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Because she didn't want me to carry a burden.
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But Consort Chun.
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What's wrong with Consort Chun?
497
00:34:36,620 --> 00:34:38,270
Consort Chun is very sharp.
498
00:34:38,270 --> 00:34:42,730
She knew I wouldn't accept money so she told Empress.
499
00:34:42,730 --> 00:34:47,860
In doing so, this favor of hers, even if I don't want to owe, I must.
500
00:34:47,860 --> 00:34:50,640
Your Ladyship, your servant can't comprehend your words.
501
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:54,150
I only know that Young Master can be saved now.
502
00:34:54,150 --> 00:34:58,740
Alright. Since it's already like this, I can only repay the favor slowly.
503
00:34:58,740 --> 00:35:01,520
Hurry and deliver the silvers out of the palace.
504
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:03,150
Yes.
505
00:35:13,810 --> 00:35:15,540
Eunuch Li.
506
00:35:15,540 --> 00:35:17,760
Guard Suolun. His Majesty has cast an order.
507
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:21,340
To dispose this dog.
508
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:24,630
We are all His Majesty's close attendants.
509
00:35:24,630 --> 00:35:27,390
If we get blood on us and there's a clash, that wouldn't be good.
510
00:35:27,390 --> 00:35:29,660
It's best for the guards to carry it out.
511
00:35:29,660 --> 00:35:31,340
Eunuch Li.
512
00:35:37,650 --> 00:35:39,440
What fear of blood taint?
513
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:42,200
He's just worried that Noble Consort Gao would come after him.
514
00:35:44,460 --> 00:35:46,830
You guys go patrol elsewhere.
515
00:35:57,910 --> 00:35:59,400
Guard Suolun.
516
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,640
You are . . .
517
00:36:02,290 --> 00:36:04,470
Oh, the one in Yonghe Palace last time.
518
00:36:04,470 --> 00:36:07,010
I am a palace maid of Changchun Palace.
519
00:36:07,010 --> 00:36:09,590
I know. Your name is Wei Yingluo.
520
00:36:09,590 --> 00:36:11,490
When you hit that junior eunuch last time.
521
00:36:11,490 --> 00:36:13,710
That was so fierce. I'll never forget it.
522
00:36:13,710 --> 00:36:18,160
To preserve myself, I had no choice. May you understand, my lord.
523
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:21,960
I am here today because Snowball hurt Noble Lady Yu.
524
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:25,760
And ruined Empress's banquet and caused me to be punished.
525
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:27,370
I want to take this dog back with me.
526
00:36:27,370 --> 00:36:29,460
Take it back to Changchun Palace?
527
00:36:29,460 --> 00:36:31,030
What are you going to do with it?
528
00:36:31,030 --> 00:36:35,650
First, I will air my anger, then I'll kill it.
529
00:36:35,650 --> 00:36:39,620
You're just a miss and can you bear to?
530
00:36:39,620 --> 00:36:41,830
You're funny, my lord.
531
00:36:41,830 --> 00:36:45,650
This dog almost made me lose my life.
532
00:36:45,650 --> 00:36:50,660
Though I got to keep my post barely, I got scolded by my mistress harshly.
533
00:36:50,660 --> 00:36:52,590
If I don't skin it!
534
00:36:52,590 --> 00:36:55,100
Fine. I'll let you handle it then.
535
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:01,160
Wait.
536
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,030
What is it?
537
00:37:04,030 --> 00:37:06,170
If His Majesty asks about it later?
538
00:37:06,170 --> 00:37:10,580
Don't worry, my lord. Naturally, I wouldn't cause you to seem derelict of your duty.
539
00:37:10,580 --> 00:37:13,240
Alright. That's a deal.
540
00:37:23,430 --> 00:37:25,890
You're so bold! You dare to pass off your duty?
541
00:37:25,890 --> 00:37:29,360
She asked me for it herself. Not like I forced it on her.
542
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:30,920
Don't pretend.
543
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:33,350
You were worried Noble Consort Gao would wake up later,
544
00:37:33,350 --> 00:37:35,640
and ask about how her beloved dog died.
545
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:39,990
She can't do anything about His Majesty but not so with guards.
546
00:37:39,990 --> 00:37:43,970
A woman's hatred is the scariest. It's best not to touch it.
547
00:37:43,970 --> 00:37:45,740
Then you just push it on Wei Yingluo?
548
00:37:45,740 --> 00:37:49,970
She's a Changchun Palace maid. Changchun Palace and Chuxiu Palace were always enemies.
549
00:37:49,970 --> 00:37:52,760
Adding more hate to enemies isn't anything to be scared of.
550
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:56,830
I just worry that she couldn't bare to do it since she's a girl afterall.
551
00:37:56,830 --> 00:37:59,330
Maybe you underestimate Wei Yingluo too much.
552
00:38:24,310 --> 00:38:26,530
Your Majesty, what's wrong?
553
00:38:26,530 --> 00:38:28,210
It's not right.
554
00:38:28,210 --> 00:38:30,180
What's not right?
555
00:38:32,410 --> 00:38:36,560
Do you still remember how that lychee tree looked at the end?
556
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:39,040
I don't understand what Your Majesty means.
557
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:42,190
That lychee tree was ruined by Snowball, wasn't it?
558
00:38:42,190 --> 00:38:44,810
The lychees on the lower part could be ruined.
559
00:38:44,810 --> 00:38:47,170
But the ones on the higher part?
560
00:38:47,170 --> 00:38:48,760
That?
561
00:38:55,190 --> 00:38:59,880
Go to Changchun Palace right away and bring me that girl. I am going to seek her crime!
562
00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:01,420
Yes.
563
00:39:05,330 --> 00:39:06,800
Wait.
564
00:39:07,430 --> 00:39:09,430
Come back.
565
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:13,460
Your Majesty.
566
00:39:13,460 --> 00:39:15,360
No need to go again.
567
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:17,470
Your Majesty, you . . .
568
00:39:17,470 --> 00:39:22,590
That audacious girl! She played a game of redirecting disaster.
569
00:39:22,590 --> 00:39:26,250
What's the use to go now? When all the dust's settled already.
570
00:39:26,250 --> 00:39:28,790
Your Majesty, for that precise reason,
571
00:39:28,790 --> 00:39:32,090
we can't let that girl off. I will go and carry her here at Changchun Palace immediately.
572
00:39:32,090 --> 00:39:35,240
Carry what?
573
00:39:35,240 --> 00:39:38,400
I just finished punishing Concubine Jia and Noble Consort Gao.
574
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:42,510
Then in less than four hours I revoke myself?
575
00:39:42,510 --> 00:39:45,170
Your Majesty, then you don't blame her,
576
00:39:45,170 --> 00:39:47,970
for framing Noble Consort Gao and Concubine Jia?
577
00:39:47,970 --> 00:39:50,900
Seeing how apprehensive Noble Lady Yu was,
578
00:39:50,900 --> 00:39:56,150
Chuxiu Palace must have had something to do with the lychee and Noble Lady Yu matter.
579
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:02,310
Now, we'll just consider it as her own karma.
580
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:04,940
Your Majesty.
581
00:40:04,940 --> 00:40:07,640
You are just going to let her go like that?
582
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:12,100
That girl put all her mind into it,
583
00:40:12,100 --> 00:40:14,540
for the sake of protecting Empress.
584
00:40:15,190 --> 00:40:20,190
If nothing else, on the account of the empress, I can't be too harsh.
585
00:40:21,230 --> 00:40:25,750
Just that she actually used my hand to take her revenge.
586
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:30,510
Despicable. So despicable.
587
00:40:36,610 --> 00:40:39,700
Supervisor Li, what's wrong?
588
00:40:39,700 --> 00:40:41,050
Desheng.
589
00:40:41,050 --> 00:40:45,250
How is our emperor usually?
590
00:40:45,250 --> 00:40:46,320
Diligent in governing and loving of his people?
591
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:48,720
No, I don't mean that.
592
00:40:48,720 --> 00:40:51,120
Then . . . oh.
593
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:52,590
He's decisive in killing and punishing.
594
00:40:52,590 --> 00:40:56,450
Yes. Look. Who is His Majesty?
595
00:40:56,450 --> 00:40:59,110
The emperor of Great Qing. The master of the world.
596
00:40:59,110 --> 00:41:01,450
He can just ka-ka and it's done if he's not fond of someone.
597
00:41:01,450 --> 00:41:05,750
When did he ever spare someone? That's courting trouble to yourself.
598
00:41:05,750 --> 00:41:08,990
Supervisor, maybe His Majesty has some reservations.
599
00:41:08,990 --> 00:41:12,710
What reservations can there be?
600
00:41:12,710 --> 00:41:16,940
Osan. So cherished and so many begged for his mercy.
601
00:41:16,940 --> 00:41:22,180
In the end, he was killed when he was needed to without a blink of an eye.
602
00:41:25,900 --> 00:41:27,790
What are you laughing about?
603
00:41:27,790 --> 00:41:29,370
No, not the same.
604
00:41:29,370 --> 00:41:32,830
- That depends on if it's a man or woman.
- Woman.
605
00:41:32,830 --> 00:41:36,750
Now, if it's a woman, it depends on if she's pretty or ugly.
606
00:41:36,750 --> 00:41:39,410
She's very despicable looking. When I think about it . . .
607
00:41:39,410 --> 00:41:42,270
Slower here.
608
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:46,320
You. What did you mean?
609
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:50,220
Actually when I think about it in detail, she's very good looking.
610
00:41:50,220 --> 00:41:52,290
You mean . . .
611
00:41:52,290 --> 00:41:54,780
Impossible. Absolutely impossible.
612
00:41:54,780 --> 00:41:59,900
Supervisor Li. The world is so vast so how is anything impossible?
613
00:41:59,900 --> 00:42:01,480
You . .
614
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:05,600
His Majesty's intention. You think I can't grasp it?
615
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,970
If I say it's impossible, then it's impossible.
616
00:42:08,970 --> 00:42:10,650
Then it's impossible.
617
00:42:10,650 --> 00:42:14,140
I am the one deluding myself in trying to fathom His Majesty.
618
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:19,250
Impossible.
619
00:42:23,830 --> 00:42:24,760
Did you kill it?
620
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:27,380
It ruined the mistress's banquet.
621
00:42:27,380 --> 00:42:30,240
I beat him up to air my anger.
622
00:42:30,240 --> 00:42:32,370
Then I killed it.
623
00:42:32,370 --> 00:42:33,410
Where's the flesh?
624
00:42:33,410 --> 00:42:36,480
At first I was going to send it to the imperial kitchen.
625
00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:40,220
But I heard before Great Qing was established here,
626
00:42:40,220 --> 00:42:43,460
our banner men all hunted for living accompanied by hunting dogs.
627
00:42:43,460 --> 00:42:47,820
So since the days of Taizu, the law was set to ban the consumption of dog meat.
628
00:42:47,820 --> 00:42:51,460
Though Snowball was ordered by His Majesty to be killed, we still can't eat it.
629
00:42:51,460 --> 00:42:55,460
I was so angry I just decided to bury it right then and there.
630
00:42:55,460 --> 00:42:59,500
Then afterwards, I remembered I need to preserve evidence for you, my lord.
631
00:42:59,500 --> 00:43:01,830
So I delivered the fur here.
632
00:43:03,750 --> 00:43:06,880
Alright. Then, you keep it.
633
00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:09,550
If Eunuch Li asks about it, I will answer to him fittingly.
634
00:43:09,550 --> 00:43:11,780
Thank you, Lord Guard.
635
00:43:31,740 --> 00:43:41,680
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636
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♫The Forbidden Palace's walls surround them, feeling like a good place to reside.♫
637
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♫As the walls sever the setting sun's rays, they lose their past dreams as it grows cold.♫
638
00:44:15,970 --> 00:44:23,330
♫Decaying leaves cover the neglected shuttered window, that remembers the cold winds of twenty harvests.♫
639
00:44:23,330 --> 00:44:29,780
♫ Knowing only how to go with the flow and pass the years.♫
640
00:44:29,780 --> 00:44:32,480
♫Unmarried and hopeful, the heavy, dark gates are locked, ♫
641
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:37,180
♫Cultivated and proud, gem-like beauties, and yet somehow♫
642
00:44:37,180 --> 00:44:40,040
♫Flowers who stay may endure breakage, causing them ask to change their karma♫
643
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:45,510
♫Flowers who stay may endure breakage, causing them ask to change their karma♫
644
00:44:45,510 --> 00:44:52,930
♫Longing to be together with him, separated as the illumination in the western window declines,♫
645
00:44:52,930 --> 00:45:00,150
♫At leisure to be melancholy, also perplexed and worried about it all.♫
646
00:45:00,150 --> 00:45:07,600
♫Who will pity her, and record her lifetime full of misery?♫
647
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:14,920
♫A pretentious, showy vision on a stage.♫
648
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:22,360
♫Longing to be together with him, separated as the illumination in the western window declines,♫
649
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:29,580
♫At leisure to be melancholy, also perplexed and worried about it all.♫
650
00:45:29,580 --> 00:45:37,140
♫Who will pity her, and record her lifetime full of misery?♫
651
00:45:37,140 --> 00:45:43,490
♫A pretentious, showy vision on a stage.♫
652
00:45:44,610 --> 00:45:55,030
♫A pretentious, showy vision on a stage.♫