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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 13
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Young Master.
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You... What are you doing?
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Why did you fool Hailancha?
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Are you scheming something again?
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Tell me, what really is your motive?
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It's very painful!
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Let go of me!
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I don't understand what you're saying.
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Wei Yingluo, stop pretending.
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That fox skin you gave has a black spot on its tail par.
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But I remember that Xueqiu is white all over.
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I'm sure that you tampered with it.
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Say it. Why did you do that?
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Are you planning to frame Hailan Cha?
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No!
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I really am not!
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I don't believe you. Come with me to see His Majesty now.
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Xueqiu. Don't bark.
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Why is it here?
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Young Master...
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Dog is just an animal.
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It doesn't know to discern right from wrong.
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If it meets a good master, it will guard your home and courtyard.
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If it meets a bad master, it will only get harmed and used.
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I don't want Xueqiu to innocently die like that.
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Hence, I switched it and secretly cared for it here.
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Now...can you let go of me?
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Sorry.
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Sorry...
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Sorry.
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Give it to me.
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Why?
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How big is Forbidden City?
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If it gets discovered, you'll be sentenced for deceiving the emperor.
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Don't you want your live anymore?
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But you still mustn't kill it.
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Who said that I'm killing it?
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I'll personally take it out of the palace.
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Really?
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Young Master, can you promise me one thing?
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What?
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Find Xueqiu a master that will truly care for it.
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Okay. I promise you.
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Young Master, you're such a good person.
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Xueqiu, you heard that?
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Young Master Fuheng said that he'll take you out of the palace.
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Are you happy?
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Your wrist...
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Young Master, you exerted too much strength earlier.
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Look. My wrist is all red.
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Sorry. I was too suspicious.
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I now believe that you didn't mean to do it.
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What?
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Nothing.
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Young Master...
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If you can blow it for me, my wrist won't hurt anymore.
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Sorry. You're too close to me.
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It's inappropriate!
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I remember it very clearly.
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After entering Forbidden City, my knees seem to be not mine anymore.
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No matter if it's in the fake mountain or on the stone paths,
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as long as I meet the masters, I would automatically kneel.
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Momo.
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Try putting this cover or your knees.
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See if it's more comfortable.
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Your hands are really skillful.
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I also just saw those eunuch wearing them.
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I just couldn't find a good animal skin.
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Once I was able to get one, I'll change that.
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What's wrong?
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Yingluo, Xueqiu's skin is clearly white all over.
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Why did you choose one with a flaw on it.
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Because Imperial Guard Suolun and Fuheng are good friends.
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I don't understand anymore.
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Imperial Guard Suolun is careless and negligent, while Fuheng is very smart.
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He surely will quickly notice that I tampered with it and had saved Xueqiu.
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But why do you want him to find out?
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Last time, I gave him a hog bladder.
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Although I bluffed my way out, once he was able to think about it,
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he surely will get suspicious. How then can I eliminate his suspicion?
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Only by making him feel that I'm kind
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and safe to be with.
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Momo, I'm very evil to begin with.
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Just to seek vengeance for sister, I will get more evil.
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Don't advise me against it anymore. I will never change.
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How could an evil person repeatedly save Noble Lady Yu?
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Even to the point of not hesitating to be enemies with Noble Consort Gao.
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How could an evil person save Xueqiu,
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even saving her own meals just to feed it?
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Just to clear myself from my crime,
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I used a dog. Of course, I would feel guilty.
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Yingluo,
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in this Forbidden City,
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if you want to be evil, then you should make it complete.
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Tough mouth but soft heart, leaving some kindness behind,
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would instead lead to greater disaster.
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[Chuxiu Palace]
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What is this?!
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Your Highness, that is the West Lake longjing tea that the Imperial Household Department has sent earlier.
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I've always loved drinking yunwu tea and everyone in the palace knows that.
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Right now, I haven't fallen out of favor yet.
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But the Imperial Tea House is already treating me this lowly.
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What messed up thing did they send to brush me off?
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Your Highness, please calm down. This year, there was continuous rain in Lushan and the tea roots got damaged from getting soaked.
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It's not that the Tea House doesn't want to send us yunwu tea leaves, there really aren't any.
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I don't believe it.
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Go and get me the Tea House Head.
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- This...
- You're still not going to hurry?!
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Yes.
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Greetings, Your Highness.
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You even dared to come at this time
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You think you haven't caused me enough trouble?
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Your Highness, everything was my fault.
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I belittled that servant too much.
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Please forgive me just this time. I'm willing to repay you with the best that I can.
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Your Highness.
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Why are you still not leaving?
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Can't I order you around now?!
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I dare not. When I just got out of the gates, I bumped into the messenger eunuch
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of Prince Yi of the First Rank.
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What did he say?
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Reply to Prince Yi of the First Rank
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that he can just handle it according to the law.
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Just relay my words to him.
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He would then understand what to do.
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Yes.
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I can forgive you.
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It's just that flea from Changchun Palace that kept jumping to and from
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is really such an eyesore.
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As long as Your Highness is willing to forgive me this once,
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I surely will make amends for my mistake.
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Your Highness, what are you thinking?
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I'm worried about Changshou. He's sick while in prison.
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No one's taking care of him.
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We've sent the money out.
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Madam will surely think of a way to let the doctor see him in prison.
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Be at ease.
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Changshou is indeed a good-for-nothing.
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Always creating troubles.
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But he's still my biological brother.
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When we're growing up,
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he'd always protect and respect me.
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When he knew that I'm going to be married off to the manor of Prince Bao of the First Rank,
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he cried until his eyes were red.
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He kept asking to come with me.
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Afterwards, he got a hard beating from father.
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While limping,
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he came to send my carriage off.
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When I refused to ask for leniency for him this time,
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maybe he would blame me.
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Your Highness, you've done everything that you can do.
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Young Master knows about your heart. He won't blame you.
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I'm only looking forward that Changxiu can get better soon.
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He will. He surely will.
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Are you looking forward for Changshou to get better
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and continue destroying my empire?
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Greetings, Your Majesty.
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Your Majesty, why did you come?
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I didn't even go out to welcome you. Please forgive me.
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You still haven't answered my question.
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Your Majesty, Changshou is too young.
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Because of a thoughtless moment, he committed a mistake.
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But I know the laws, so I won't beg for leniency.
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I'm just worried of his suffering in prison.
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This is just normal human behavior. Your Majesty, why must you strongly denounce it?
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Your younger brother is young and muddled.
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What about that good father of yours?
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Are you going to say that he's too old
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that's why, he's more muddled?
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Your Majesty, my father
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has always did his duty with fairness, just, and cautiousness.
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The only criticism about him is he wasn't strict in disciplining his son.
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Why then did you say such a thing?
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Today, Prince Yi of the First Rank submitted a memorial saying that your father,
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Naerbu, personally offered him some silver.
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Impossible!
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Why would he give Prince Yi of the First Rank silver?
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Because I ordered Prince Yi of the First Rank to join the public trial.
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Naerbu requested Prince Yi of the First Rank
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to be lenient in sentencing Changshou.
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Your Majesty, my father is so honest and just.
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Where will he get the silver to bribe anyone?
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Consort Xian, the silver that Naerbu gave him
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was those 500 taels that Empress rewarded you during the lychee banquet.
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I sent those 500 taels to them to get a doctor to treat Changshou.
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You're saying that father used it to bribe people? I would never believe that even if you cane me to death.
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I completely believe the character of my father. What you should be doubting
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is the motive of Prince Yi of the First Rank.
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Why would I suspect him?
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Everyone in the imperial court knows that Prince Yi of the First Rank
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is very close with the father of Noble Consort Gao.
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He slandering my father of bribing
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might be the instruction of some people.
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Shut up.
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Your Majesty, I believe that my father will never bribe anyone.
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I'm willing to use my life as a guarantee.
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The truth is already like this, yet you still are covering your eyes with a leaf.
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Okay! I'm allowing you to go to prison
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so you can ask that honest and dutiful father of yours.
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You are falsely accusing a loyal subject. You surely will regret this.
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Can you let us see Hoifa-Nara Changshou?
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His Majesty has give orders that you can only see Naerbu.
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Father!
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Your Highness Consort Xian!
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Father, what time is it already and you're still caring about such things.
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No matter what, I'm forever your daughter.
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It's His Majesty who allowed you to come here?
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His Majesty let me come see you.
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I...am ashamed to face His Majesty.
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I indeed disappointed his graces.
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Father, this isn't your mistake.
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Prince Yi of the First Rank has always been colluding with the Gao family.
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I also kept refusing to bow down to Noble Consort Gao.
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This must be her throwing a stone to our family who's already fallen into a well.
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I'm the one who dragged you down.
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Father, don't worry. I surely will do my best
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to clear your name.
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I'll go beg His Majesty now to reopen the case and give you justice.
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Don't go. You must not go.
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Why?
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Father.
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Could you have...
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I'm sorry.
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I wronged our Hoifa-Nara clan!
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It was all my fault. It was because of a thoughtless moment...
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...I committed such a grave crime.
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Father, you have always
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looked down on those officials who shelters evil practices.
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For 20 years, you never received any dirty money.
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How could you go bribe?
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How is that possible?
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I also didn't want to do it,
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but your mother was threatening me with her life.
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She forced me to go and beg for leniency.
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Finally, they spared the life of Changshou.
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Changshou is my only son.
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He's the only descendant of our family. Tell me, I...
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Just to save Changshou,
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you bribed Prince Yi of the First Rank?
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What about the words you taught me before? You said that a person can lose anything
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except for his conscience. You said that as an official,
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you will never break the law and go against your initial character.
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You don't ask for a high position or salary, for wealth or a noble status,
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but just to be honest, upright, and have a guilt-free conscience.
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In the palace, no matter how hard my life is,
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I would follow your instructions. Now, you're telling me that
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you bribed someone?
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Father, I believed every word you said.
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I've always been proud of you.
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But today, you actually...
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It was my mistake! Shushen, forgive me!
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Sorry...
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Help me! Save me! Shushen...
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Zhen'er, let's go.
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Shushen...!
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Shushen, don't go! Shushen...
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In this world, only you can save me now.
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Shushen...
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Your Highness, we're about to enter the Gate of Divine Might.
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Stop crying.
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Yes, I'm fine.
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No need to worry.
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Consort Xian, your mother is here.
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Shushen!
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Shushen, you're father...
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It was you who forced father to beg Prince Yi of the First Rank. Am I right?
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I can't watch your little brother just lose his head like that.
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I also was out of methods.
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I just wanted to beg Prince Yi of the First Rank to be magnanimous.
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Allow that he be transferred out so he could be treated.
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The prison is so dark and moist.
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That's not a place for people.
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How could his body take it?
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For so many years, you kept pressuring father to progress in status.
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Father wasn't willing to join alliances, you then forced Changshou.
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Now, you've forced him into the prison.
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But that's not enough, you even forced father to bribe people.
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Now, even him has gone in!
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This...is also not my fault.
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If it's not yours, who should we blame?
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Since I was little, I would hear you complain about how useless father is
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or how I'm not thinking of improving my status.
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We both are useless people who couldn't bring you glory and wealth.
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Now, our whole family is gone. Are you satisfied?
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- Am I right?
- Your father has been an official all his life.
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but he's still just an Assistant Captain. He's really useless.
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I'm eager to excel. Although I kept blaming him,
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gave him supercilious look, and ridiculed him, I still sold all my dowry
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to make up for our house needs. When I go back to my maiden family
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to drink some tea, I would suffer supercilious look from them.
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Good thing, I was fortunate to have you.
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I didn't care about your brother and gave you all the good food and clothes.
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I only hoped to send you into the palace
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and that you can excel.
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I'm also a woman!
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I want a good future. I want wealth and splendor!
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Is there anything wrong with that?
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I don't want to hear it anymore.
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Shushen! It's all my fault! I don't want anything anymore!
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I don't want wealth and splendor!
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But you must not ignore your father and your little brother.
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It's not that I don't want to save them.
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Now that the matter has come to this,
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I also can't do anything anymore.
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Madam, Young Master is gone.
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What?
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Your Highness Consort Xian, the condition of Young Master rapidly deteriorated.
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He didn't get revive.
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He's dead?
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Changshou is dead...
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Your little brother is dead...
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If you care about him,
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you would have begged His Majesty.
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- He then wouldn't have died in that cold prison.
- Mother...
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You want to be lofty.
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You want to be a good person.
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Even if I have committed so many mistakes,
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I'm able to face the Hoira-Nala Clan.
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What about you? In this Forbidden City,
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you live worse than a dog!
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Who can you face?
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Mother...
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Listen well.
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Hoifa-Nara Shushen,
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your family was ruined and its members died...
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...all because of your fault!
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The thing I regret the most in this life
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is to give birth to an incompetent daughter like you!
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Mother!
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Someone come here! Save my mother!
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Mother, it was all my fault.
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Come back!
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I don't want anything anymore.
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Come back, mother.
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Mother...
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Yingluo, come write too.
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Yes.
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[Wei
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Ying...]
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My god, is that writing a word or drawing some caterpillar?
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It is exactly because I couldn't write well,
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that's why, I want to learn from Her Highness Empress.
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You will never compare to the beautifully written words of Her Highness even if you write for a hundred years.
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How could a student compare herself to her teacher?
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That's disrespectful.
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You're such a rascal. When did Her Highness said that she's taking you in as a student?
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I was bold and said the wrong words.
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Yingluo was right.
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It is exactly because she doesn't know how to,
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that's why, she must be diligent in practicing how to write.
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Yingluo is very smart.
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I believe that in the future, your handwriting will become very good.
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I also am very happy to have a student like you.
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Your Highness, bad news!
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Chengqian Palace is in trouble.
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00:26:03,540 --> 00:26:08,720
That face of Consort Xian right now must be so good to look at!
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Too bad, I'm currently reflecting.
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I have no way to admire it.
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Your Highness, I don't understand.
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You initially could have used the bribery case of Naerbu to threaten Consort Xian.
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How come you did it like this?
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That woman is so stubborn.
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Can being contented with poverty and striving for virtue be converted to food to eat?
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I repeatedly recruited her, but she didn't appreciate it.
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Why would I give her another chance?
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Your Highness said it right.
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That Consort Xian didn't know what's good for her. It is indeed time to teach her some lessons.
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But after all, it was Empress who showed her graces first.
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No matter what you do now, she wouldn't feel grateful.
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Why not kill the chicken to warn the monkeys
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and let the people here in Forbidden City see your methods.
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Methods?
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If I have methods,
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I wouldn't have tolerated a lowly servant to behave atrociously.
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That is because Empress kept defending that servant.
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She's also a rascal who can do anything.
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00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:22,500
Because we have some qualms, we are then sparing the rat to save the dishes. (being cautious)
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But...we couldn't kill her,
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still someone can.
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Who?
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One matter shouldn't bother two masters. Your Highness, don't forget,
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there's still one Prince Yi of the First Rank.
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He?
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Although Hongxiao inherited the nobility title of the old Prince Yi of the First Rank,
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the power of the House of Prince Yi has dwindled after the death of the former emperor.
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Although he is also a legitimate royal bloodline,
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he was only able to became an imperial guard of Gate of Heavenly Purity,
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and didn't even get promoted to an imperial bodyguard. He is bearing a huge grudge about this.
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Now, he and Young Lord Gao are best friends.
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He is bent on getting some promotions from you, so he surely will do everything to be on your good side.
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00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:11,200
Or else, he wouldn't have sent you the news about Naerbu.
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But he is an imperial guard of the Gate of Heavenly Purity.
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With so many eyes looking,
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could his hands extend to the imperial harem?
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Your Highness, if you're going to hit a snake, you should hit its weak spot.
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00:28:26,150 --> 00:28:30,050
I've already sent men to the Embroidery House and ask around regarding Wei Yingluo.
403
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I discovered that she once had a scandal with an imperial guard.
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Your Highness Empress, please forgive me.
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When my mistress returned, she locked herself in her room and wouldn't come out regardless who calls her.
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- I'll tell her now that you're here.
- No.
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Since Consort Xian is not in the mood,
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I will not force it anymore.
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You must take good care of her. Got it.
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Yes.
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Go now.
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Let's go to Yangxin Palace.
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00:29:08,470 --> 00:29:11,120
Your Highness, why are we going to Yangxin Palace?
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Naerbu bribed an official, and Consort Xian suffered because of it.
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His Majesty is currently very angry about this matter.
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You must not make him unhappy too.
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00:29:19,930 --> 00:29:23,030
How could I not know that His Majesty is very angry right now?
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00:29:23,030 --> 00:29:26,370
But if even I don't meddle in this matter,
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Naerbu will then indeed be beyond redemption.
420
00:29:28,830 --> 00:29:30,520
If he couldn't be saved, that's their family's matter.
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What's that got to do with Changchun Palace, with Your Highness?
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00:29:42,260 --> 00:29:46,610
Yingluo, what is your opinion?
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Your Highness Empress isn't really meddling with state affairs,
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but pitying Her Highness Consort Xian.
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Right. Consort Xian and I have been together for so many years.
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I deeply know her personality.
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She's generous and magnanimous.
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She strictly adheres to the righteous principles and has helped a lot of people.
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If a person like that would have this kind of fate,
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isn't that the heaven being blind?
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That's why, I want to help her
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save her father.
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Then, you must not be too frank with your words.
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Don't anger His Majesty.
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His Majesty is very intelligent.
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If one makes circular reasoning in front of him, that's inviting trouble.
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- What do you suggest then?
- Of course, you should be direct and blunt.
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But you must say it in another way.
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You're not begging for leniency in behalf of Naerbu,
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but begging for Consort Xian.
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What's the difference?
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The difference is very big.
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Your Majesty, Her Highness Empress is here.
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Greetings, Your Majesty.
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Empress, why did you come here?
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I heard that you've eaten a lot of lychees today
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and didn't even eat much of your meal.
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00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:24,770
If you dry the leaves of the lychee and make it into tea,
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it can reduce internal heat and exhaustion. Your Majesty, give it a try.
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Yingluo.
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If this was in the past, you surely will urge me against giving into my food cravings,
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so that my health won't get affected.
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How come today, you didn't mention that at all
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and even made me some tea?
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Of course, it's to
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fawn on you and make you happy.
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Why?
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I...
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...want to ask for leniency in behalf of Consort Xian.
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Empress.
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Your Majesty, I know that the imperial harem mustn't meddle with state affairs.
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00:32:21,250 --> 00:32:24,650
But I came here not for Lord Naerbu,
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it's for Consort Xian.
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Consort Xian entered the Manor of Prince Bao of the First Rank when she was 14.
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Calculating it, it has been 9 years.
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Your Majesty, a woman who has been by your side and has attended to you for 9 years,
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now lost her mother and younger brother
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successively. If Naerbu gets sentenced to be executed,
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Consort Xian will truly become alone from now on.
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00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:10,270
Empress, I mustn't waive implementing the law just for personal reasons.
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I know.
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00:33:12,020 --> 00:33:16,390
For Lord Naerbu to bribe Prince Yi of the First Rank when the wind and waves are the highest (peak of scandal)
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is indeed a reckless act and unpardonable.
474
00:33:19,620 --> 00:33:23,920
But Your Majesty, those 500 taels
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were given by me to Consort Xian.
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If that time, I instead sent the imperial physician to the prison,
477
00:33:33,270 --> 00:33:36,920
maybe, the situation would be different today.
478
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,090
But I was worried that time
479
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that there would be people gossiping.
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Saying that I was deliberately recruiting Consort Xian to my side, hence, I showed her graces.
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Never thought that because of avoiding suspicions,
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it instead led to Changshou's death.
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00:34:00,250 --> 00:34:05,160
Empress, everything that happened has nothing to do with you.
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Don't assume responsibility for all the offenses.
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I earnestly beg Your Majesty
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to give Naerbu a chance to live.
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Even if it's just leaving Consort Xian some decency.
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00:34:25,650 --> 00:34:30,680
Or else, not only will Consort Xian be overwhelmed with grief that she won't desire to live anymore,
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even I will feel guilty for the rest of my life.
490
00:35:04,590 --> 00:35:07,650
Your Highness! Your Highness!
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Your Highness, I got news from Yangxin Palace that Empress personally went there to beg for leniency.
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His Majesty has agreed to pardon Master.
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Get out.
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- Your Highness.
- I told you to go out.
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00:35:21,550 --> 00:35:23,320
Yes.
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00:35:33,700 --> 00:35:36,390
In this Forbidden City,
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you lived worse than a dog!
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00:35:39,140 --> 00:35:42,020
Who can you face?
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00:35:42,020 --> 00:35:44,790
Listen well.
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00:35:44,790 --> 00:35:48,330
Our Hoira-Nala Clan getting ruined and its members dying...
501
00:35:48,330 --> 00:35:51,380
...is all your fault!
502
00:35:53,150 --> 00:35:57,290
The thing I regret the most in this life
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is to give birth to an incompetent daughter like you!
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00:36:29,900 --> 00:36:33,510
Your Highness, where are you going to this early?
505
00:36:33,510 --> 00:36:35,910
To thank Her Highness Empress for her graces.
506
00:36:35,910 --> 00:36:39,390
Yes, we should indeed thank Her Highness Empress.
507
00:36:58,300 --> 00:37:01,200
Greetings, Your Highness Consort Xian.
508
00:37:02,810 --> 00:37:05,040
I came to greet Her Highness Empress.
509
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:07,020
Her Highness is currently reading books.
510
00:37:07,020 --> 00:37:09,330
I'll take you to see her now.
511
00:37:09,330 --> 00:37:11,760
Thank you, Miss Erqing.
512
00:37:28,700 --> 00:37:32,040
What are you looking at? Quickly go back to work!
513
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:34,940
There's something different with Her Highness Consort Xian.
514
00:37:36,590 --> 00:37:40,050
A person who is in mourning will naturally look different.
515
00:37:40,050 --> 00:37:41,980
Quickly go back to work.
516
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,210
The matter is more or less like that.
517
00:37:53,210 --> 00:37:55,420
I will go back then.
518
00:37:56,930 --> 00:37:58,770
Prince Yi of the First Rank!
519
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,190
Prince Yi of the First Rank, who are you talking to?
520
00:38:09,190 --> 00:38:12,500
That palace maid earlier looks familiar.
521
00:38:14,620 --> 00:38:16,270
I lost the sheath of my fan.
522
00:38:16,270 --> 00:38:18,490
I asked her if she saw it.
523
00:38:18,490 --> 00:38:20,170
Really?
524
00:38:21,410 --> 00:38:25,130
Are you suspecting that a distinguished Prince of the First Rank like me
525
00:38:25,130 --> 00:38:27,120
will have any affairs with a palace maid?
526
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:28,950
Of course, I dare not.
527
00:38:31,150 --> 00:38:36,130
Fuheng, don't think that because His Majesty favors and trusts your Fuca Clan,
528
00:38:36,130 --> 00:38:38,540
you are not going to give me any importance.
529
00:38:38,540 --> 00:38:43,290
I inherited my noble rank when I was 9. I'm an iron-cap prince based on the rule of nobility inheritance.
530
00:38:43,290 --> 00:38:45,660
You want to surpass me?
531
00:38:45,660 --> 00:38:47,810
It's too early.
532
00:39:02,340 --> 00:39:04,470
Greetings, Prince Yi of the First Rank.
533
00:39:04,470 --> 00:39:06,190
Get up.
534
00:39:08,500 --> 00:39:14,450
Qingxi, I heard that you're preparing to get promoted.
535
00:39:14,450 --> 00:39:17,670
Prince, you're joking with me. I'm currently just a second-grade imperial guard.
536
00:39:17,670 --> 00:39:20,000
Who doesn't want to be on the top level?
537
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:24,750
If I recommend you,
538
00:39:24,750 --> 00:39:27,210
it surely will not be difficult.
539
00:39:27,210 --> 00:39:30,060
Prince, you're helping me?
540
00:39:30,060 --> 00:39:32,200
As long as you help me with one task,
541
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:36,640
I'll immediately see the Grand Minister in Attendance to promote you
542
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:38,500
once you're done with it.
543
00:39:38,500 --> 00:39:39,800
Don't say just one task.
544
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:41,930
Even if you ask me to go up a blade mountain or go down the sea of fire,
545
00:39:41,930 --> 00:39:44,050
I will do so to repay you for appreciating my skills.
546
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:47,570
It's just stepping on a little ant to kill it.
547
00:39:47,570 --> 00:39:49,260
I will just need you to exert some effort on lifting your leg.
548
00:39:49,260 --> 00:39:52,800
No need for you to go up a blade mountain or go down a sea of fire.
549
00:40:13,430 --> 00:40:18,990
One who owns the world is the world's master.
550
00:40:18,990 --> 00:40:23,040
One who heads a country is the country's ruler.
551
00:40:23,690 --> 00:40:26,760
I am already its master.
552
00:40:27,830 --> 00:40:30,560
What does this mean?
553
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:33,560
I am already its master...
554
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:37,510
King Wen of Zhou saw a decaying bone by the road.
555
00:40:37,510 --> 00:40:39,610
He then ordered his men to give it a proper burial.
556
00:40:39,610 --> 00:40:44,240
His officer asked him, "Why must we bother with a decaying bone which no one is claiming?"
557
00:40:44,240 --> 00:40:46,220
King Wen answered,
558
00:40:46,220 --> 00:40:49,730
"If you're blessed to have the world, then you're the world's master.
559
00:40:49,730 --> 00:40:53,430
If you have a territory, then you're that country's ruler.
560
00:40:53,430 --> 00:40:57,610
Now, since I saw this bone, I then am its owner.
561
00:40:57,610 --> 00:41:00,390
How could I bear to see it just exposed out here in the wilderness?
562
00:41:00,390 --> 00:41:04,890
What this story means is an emperor who have the world
563
00:41:04,890 --> 00:41:08,250
is responsible for the all the citizens in its territory.
564
00:41:08,250 --> 00:41:10,550
He should give them adequate care.
565
00:41:10,550 --> 00:41:12,690
Am I right, Your Highness Empress?
566
00:41:13,390 --> 00:41:16,430
But, I'm just a lowly palace maid.
567
00:41:16,430 --> 00:41:20,420
What's the use of learning grand principles like this?
568
00:41:20,420 --> 00:41:23,570
Each of us have a different status and position.
569
00:41:23,570 --> 00:41:28,250
We then have to bear their corresponding responsibilities. For example, the emperor.
570
00:41:28,250 --> 00:41:31,840
He must be diligent in governing, love his citizens, and share his blessings to everyone.
571
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:37,230
For example, me. I should manage the six palaces and be a motherly model to the world.
572
00:41:37,230 --> 00:41:40,850
And you, other than doing well on your designated duty,
573
00:41:40,850 --> 00:41:44,940
what else is there that you can do for others?
574
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:49,220
I feel that just having self-discipline
575
00:41:49,220 --> 00:41:51,590
is enough.
576
00:41:52,450 --> 00:41:55,280
If you're lacking, then pay attention on your moral uplift despite getting isolated.
577
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:58,130
If you're eminent, share it with the world.
578
00:41:58,130 --> 00:42:02,330
Let's just talk about that once I'm really well-off.
579
00:42:06,860 --> 00:42:11,300
Yingluo, your elbow kept trembling.
580
00:42:11,300 --> 00:42:13,070
How could you write well like that?
581
00:42:13,070 --> 00:42:16,190
Whenever I lift a brush,
582
00:42:16,190 --> 00:42:19,530
my elbow just involuntarily trembles.
583
00:42:22,830 --> 00:42:31,990
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584
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♫The Forbidden Palace's walls surround them, feeling like a good place to reside.♫
585
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:05,730
♫As the walls sever the setting sun's rays, they lose their past dreams as it grows cold.♫
586
00:43:06,930 --> 00:43:14,270
♫Decaying leaves cover the neglected shuttered window, that remembers the cold winds of twenty harvests.♫
587
00:43:14,270 --> 00:43:20,830
♫Knowing only how to go with the flow, and pass the years.♫
588
00:43:20,830 --> 00:43:23,520
♫Unmarried and hopeful, the heavy, dark gates are locked, ♫
589
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:28,160
♫Cultivated and proud, gem-like beauties, and yet somehow♫
590
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:30,960
♫Flowers who stay may endure breakage, causing them ask to change their karma♫
591
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:36,480
♫Can not an empty branch give them a carefree place to rest upon?♫
592
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:43,860
♫Longing to be together with him, separated as the illumination in the western window declines,♫
593
00:43:43,860 --> 00:43:51,190
♫At leisure to be melancholy, also perplexed and worried about it all.♫
594
00:43:51,190 --> 00:43:58,630
♫At leisure to be melancholy, also perplexed and worried about it all.♫
595
00:43:58,630 --> 00:44:05,760
♫A pretentious, showy vision on a stage.♫
596
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:13,300
♫Longing to be together with him, separated as the illumination in the western window declines,♫
597
00:44:13,300 --> 00:44:20,550
♫At leisure to be melancholy, also perplexed and worried about it all.♫
598
00:44:20,550 --> 00:44:28,150
♫Who will pity her, and record her lifetime full of misery?♫
599
00:44:28,150 --> 00:44:34,340
♫A pretentious, showy vision on a stage.♫
600
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:45,000
♫A pretentious, showy vision on a stage.♫