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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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The Story of Yanxi Palace Episode 16
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I've always heard your knowledge is wide with mastery of medicine works, Consort Chun.
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Today, I am truly gaining an understanding.
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Noble Consort's generous compliment. I am humbled.
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Let's go.
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Examiner Zhang, can jujube and crystal sugar be added to the prince's clear porridge?
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May your ladyship not panic. I shall try to find a way.
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I trouble you then.
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Zhen'er, go with Examiner Zhang to get the prescription.
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Yes.
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It seems you are in no mindset
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to accompany me for leisure of tea and painting.
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Thank you for helping me get out of the fix. I don't know how to thank you.
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When 4th prince is recovered, I will invite you.
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I am content knowing you feel this way.
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However, your kindness almost fed to an wolf.
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And you're still not angry at all?
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As long as 4th Prince recovers, I seek nothing.
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Attendant, this is your dinner.
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It's so far and I can already smell it's rancid.
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This is for human consumption?
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Look here, you've entered the Northern Three (cold palace).
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Someone delivers food to you.
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That's a huge blessing so just be content.
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No matter how I befall to demise,
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I am still the birth mother of 4th prince.
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But you treat me this way? Tell your supervisor to come.
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If it weren't for 4th Prince's account,
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you'd have to go and fetch the cold food yourself. Suit yourself if you don't want to eat.
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Come back. Come back to me!
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Did you come enjoy my plight?
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Why do you torment yourself
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Torment myself?
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What right do you have to say that to me?
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It was you who snatched away my son.
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From the getgo, it was you yourself who did wrong.
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Having a birth mother like you, 4th Prince can easily be implicated.
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His Majesty loves his children, thus allowing him to go to Chengqian Palace.
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If you sincerely want what's best for him, don't cause more trouble.
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Do you think I wanted to?
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What Empress?
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What Noble Lady Yu? What huge grievance do they hold against me?
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Useless.
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I am just punished in someone else's stead.
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You willingly aligned with Noble Consort Gao.
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And you plotted the scheme and you willingly heralded.
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Who can you blame now?
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Noble Consort?
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When I first entered the old prince manor,
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she was only a handmaid.
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She was even lower than me.
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But so quickly, all because her father gained power in the court,
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the late emperor promoted her as second wife.
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Later, after His Majesty's ascension,
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overnight, she became the noble consort.
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Her whole family carrying the yellow banner, overriding crowds of people.
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But what about me?
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No love, no favor.
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No one to depend on.
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Barely birthing 4th prince.
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And only promoted to imperial concubine.
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Tell me, if I don't attach myself to her,
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how can I preserve myself whole?
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How can I preserve my son?
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Precisely because I acted as her herald,
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that my father and my brothers all received a tie.
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You can lay such a vicious hand on Yongcheng, and you are undeserving to be a mother.
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I have to survive first so I can take care of my son.
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You all don't understand.
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His Majesty doesn't understand either.
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He only blames me for being sully, being vicious.
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But for Yongcheng,
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for my son,
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I can be Noble Consort Gao's dog.
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Whoever she tells me to go and bite, I will go and bite.
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Even if my bones shattered into pieces, I have no regret.
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Who would love my son more than me in this world?
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Who else?
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It's all you!
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You all snatched away my son.
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You snatched away my hope.
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I didn't come today to hear you speak of these.
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I only want to ask clearly, Prince Yi confiding the secret to His Majesty.
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Was that Noble Consort Gao's idea?
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I am asking you a question. Why won't you answer?
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Since this is my plight already, there's nothing I can't say.
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It's true. It was Noble Consort Gao who instructed Prince Yi.
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To tell him to go and report the secret to His Majesty.
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So my family's demise is linked to Noble Consort Gao?
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Wrong.
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All wrong.
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Huifa Nara clan is demised.
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It's all your fault, Consort Xian.
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It was you who put on pretense of being lofty, rejecting Noble Consort Gao's advance.
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It was you marking your steps by the rule.
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You wouldn't beg favor for your brother.
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It was your act of cruelty that led your mother to be knocked to death at Gate of Divine Might.
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You are in the forbidden city. It's all your own fault.
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Your plight is worse than a dog.
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Who do you not owe?
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Huifa Nara clan falls to demise.
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It's all your fault. All my life!
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The biggest regret.
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Is to birth an incompetent daughter like you!
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Even today. If it weren't for Consort Chun rescuing you,
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could you have passed the disaster so easily?
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The incompetent will be trampled over.
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This is your reason for failure.
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Ack.
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I saw the nanny feed the meat porridge to the child that day.
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I already had suspicion.
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So I invited Consort Chun for tea.
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Because Consort Chun is versed in medicines.
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She debunking the incident is better than me doing it. Do you comprehend?
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What did I do wrong exactly?
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Where do I owe you all?
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Why do you all force me.
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Changshou, my mother's death,
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I am responsible for all.
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But others can't escape either.
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Those who bullied me. Those who owe me.
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I will harvest it back one by one and all.
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Your Ladyship.
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Your Ladyship, where did you go?
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I was looking for you everywhere but found no trail of you.
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Are you alright?
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I'm fine. I was just feeling stuffy so I strolled around alone.
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Your Ladyship, look how your clothing is all wet.
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I will help you change.
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Your Ladyship.
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Your Ladyship, what's wrong?
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What time is it?
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It's only midnight. Please sleep more.
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I will be on guard here.
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No. Did you hear that crying?
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I didn't.
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Let me go see 4th prince.
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Your Ladyship. Your shoes.
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What's wrong?
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What's wrong? You're fine.
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Come.
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Where did all the caretakers go? Where?
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I will go find them now.
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No need. I'll deal with that later.
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Get me a bowl of water and some clean clothes.
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Your Ladyship, put on your shoes first.
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Hurry and go.
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Yes.
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Come.
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From now on, I am your mother.
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Are you full?
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Something happened at Northern Three.
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Are you full, Yongcheng? Go get the ring puzzle.
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Mother will play with you.
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Consort Xian, the woman in Northern Three hung herself to death.
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How pitiful.
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Send some memorial gifts for me.
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Your Ladyship, she got what she deserved.
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You don't need to heed attention to her.
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On 4th prince's account.
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I must put in some thought.
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Want to eat more? More?
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More?
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Patience.
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I told you to write forgiveness.
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But you wrote a hundred pages of patience.
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Why?
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Forgiveness and patience,
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aren't they the same?
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Forgiveness is understanding.
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Patience is hibernating.
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Do you think I don't know what you are thinking?
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You don't even think you were at fault at all.
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In your opinion,
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all your waiting is to save up energy.
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When the time is ripe, you will give your enemy the final blow.
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Yingluo. I taught you so much.
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Why can't you understand?
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I am a hard stone.
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I worried you.
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You are!
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Empress. Attendant Jin of Nothern Three's funeral.
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It's already finished.
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Pitiful 4th prince.
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So young and he already lost his birth mother.
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If you are fond of 4th prince,
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why not bring him to Changchun Palace to raise him?
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I manage the six palaces and the affairs keep me busy.
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Consort Xian is graceful natured and upright.
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She is most suitable for raising 4th prince.
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Furthermore, she just lost her family.
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4th prince's existence is a consolation to her.
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Your Highness. Forgive me for being wordy.
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Changchun Palace is too quiet.
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It's time to add a little prince.
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Your Highness. You are the empress, the legitimate palace.
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You need to birth a legitimate son for His Majesty.
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So the tradition of Great Qing can be carried on.
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Erqing, why would you say that?
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I know.
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You are magnanimous and mother of the world.
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You regard other consort's children as your own.
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But Noble Consort is always watching with tiger eyes.
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- Chuxiu Palace...
- Stop saying it.
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If she beats you a step and births a royal son,
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your position will be shaken.
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I disallow you to say more.
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Your Highness.
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- Erqing.
- Your Highness.
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Why are you rushing suddenly?
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In this palace,
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a child affects the future of an imperial consort.
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Even if His Majesty adores her highness and values her,
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having no child of hers,
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her position will just get more treacherous.
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Every time I bring this up to her,
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she would always get upset and I don't know what to do.
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Maybe Her Highness has her own hidden feelings.
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His Majesty cherishes her so much.
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What hidden feelings?
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Your Highness, what's wrong?
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Yingluo. I am . . .
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Your Highness, hold on. I will fetch someone right away.
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Don't go.
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Don't alarm others.
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Put another blanket on me. Hurry.
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Yes.
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Is it better?
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What's going on?
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Why is it that you're ill but you won't tell others?
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Who said I am ill? I am not.
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Your Highness!
- Go now.
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Yes.
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Greetings to Empress.
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No need to be so cordial.
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I invited you here today to ask you a favor.
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Mingyu, Erqing, we don't need any attendants here.
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Go now.
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Yes.
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What do you suppose Empress wants to tell Consort Chun,
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that she even sent us away.
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Her Highness's business. Let's not ask much about it.
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I just don't believe you're not curious.
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Empress never hid anything from us.
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This time, it must be something big.
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Since she won't let us in there,
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we guard the door here. Got that?
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Guard the door.
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I entrust everything to you.
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Be assured, Your Highness. I will go and prepare.
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I will return soon.
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Erqing, come in with me.
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This way, Your Ladyship.
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What's happening?
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Really?
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Those two women are so strange.
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Consort Chun has been ill for years and doesn't attend to bed.
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Empress treats her like a real sister.
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Those two are supposed to be love rivals.
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How is there no grievance?
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It's true. Consort Chun serving the empress.
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She serves her more diligently than she does His Majesty.
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Though Empress is magnanimous.
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She's never as gentle to anyone else as she is with Consort Chun.
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Those two must be up to something.
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What's strange about two women. It's not like . . .
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Right. In this world,
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what's impossible?
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When I put it that way,
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everything that's not right can be comprehended.
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Your Ladyship, you mean?
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Now this, they delivered it to me themselves.
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If I don't use it,
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I'd be disappointing them.
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Zhilan, spread a word for me.
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Your Ladyship, do you mean it?
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If you want to accumulate good reputation,
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you'll need to commit yourself to good deeds forever.
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If there's anything tint of filth,
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then the big crumble.
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It's nearby you.
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Remember this.
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Don't worry how absurd this is.
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Just as long as someone believes it,
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then it's true.
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I think there's something unusual between the two.
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Can't be. Impossible.
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Did you hear? Changchun Palace mistress.
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And Consort Chun.
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What are you looking at? So suspicious.
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Look.
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What's there to see?
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Yingluo, don't you find it very strange?
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Strange, how?
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I mean, Consort Chun and Empress.
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Consort Chun would stay at Empress's sleeping chamber daily
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for four hours.
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Maybe Empress and Consort Chun have matters to discuss.
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It's seven or eight days already. What's there to discuss that's not ended yet?
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This is the business of the mistresses.
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What's it to you?
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I already spelled it out to you but you still don't understand.
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You are talking in circles. What exactly do you want to say?
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Where did you hear such rumor?
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Careful if Mistress finds out, she will rip your mouth.
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It's already all over the six palaces.
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Everyone says that.
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Clearly someone is trying to damage our mistress's reputation.
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How come you're adding to it?
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Alright. I won't say anymore. Won't that do now?
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Erqing?
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How are you still not asleep?
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This is Mistress's inner clothes?
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She just had a nightmare and had a round of cold sweat.
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So she took it off.
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It's so late. Why don't you wait until tomorrow to wash it?
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I just went ahead to wash it.
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You're on duty tomorrow morning so you should go rest.
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Alright. Then after you wash the clothes,
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you should rest soon too.
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Your Majesty.
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Did you really find "Sunny After Snow"?
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I heard you have in your possession Wang Xianzhi's "Mid-Autumn Post".
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Wang Xun's "Letter to Boyuan".
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You only lack Wang Xizhi's "Sunny After Snow".
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So I especially asked my brother's favor.
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To search everywhere in Suzhou. Finally he found it.
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Would you like to go see it?
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"Sunny After Snow" by Great Calligrapher, Wang Xizhi.
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His strokes are gentle like flowing water.
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Compared to Mid-Autumn Post and Letter to Boyuan,
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it is clearly a step even above.
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Indeed he's Wang Xizhi.
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00:29:12,570 --> 00:29:17,640
Just that, these four characters, shan-yin-zhang-huo. Compared to the strokes of the main text,
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seem different in style.
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Your Majesty has such good discernment.
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This calligraphy post was in the hands of a collector in Suzhou.
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I imagine he added that line himself.
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Regrettable. It ruins the beauty of this post.
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How regrettable indeed.
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♫ Powder the juniper rouge
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Who's singing opera?
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Your Majesty. They are showing a new opera on stage.
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This is close to Chuxiu Palace.
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00:29:57,130 --> 00:30:01,180
It startled you. I will go now to tell . . .
- No need.
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♫ Sniffing the plum blossoms
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♫ by mistake..
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Your Majesty.
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♫ by mistake..
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Exhibition Stage
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♫ In this life you and I are knotted as sisters.
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♫ In the next life, we are knotted as brothers. Will we?
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00:30:43,990 --> 00:30:51,890
♫ No. I am already married to Lord Fan.
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♫ If you marry Lord Fan too,
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♫ we are just sisters.
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♫ We won't have ranks.
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♫ Singing together, never apart.
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♫ Closer than husband and wife.
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Greetings to Your Majesty.
367
00:31:18,950 --> 00:31:21,040
What are you singing?
368
00:31:24,750 --> 00:31:28,570
Your Majesty, they are just singing Li Yu's "Fragrant Companion".
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00:31:28,570 --> 00:31:32,370
It's about two beauties that love each other and married the same man to be with each other.
370
00:31:32,370 --> 00:31:36,100
Your Majesty, you don't know but woman to woman love,
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is entertainment to third-rate literati.
372
00:31:44,010 --> 00:31:46,590
Why are they singing that opera in the palace?
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Your Majesty. Your Majesty.
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00:32:00,700 --> 00:32:02,860
What's wrong with His Majesty?
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00:32:02,860 --> 00:32:05,640
He just heard the two singers play out "Fragrant Companion".
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And I hear the story is about Consort Chun and Empress.
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What? Really?
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That's why His Majesty was like that.
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Your Majesty. How dare you audacious servant!
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I deserve death. I deserve death. May you cast forgiveness.
381
00:32:48,180 --> 00:32:49,920
What are you doing?
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00:32:51,650 --> 00:32:54,870
Your Majesty, it's all my fault. All my fault.
383
00:32:54,870 --> 00:32:58,150
All my fault. Your Majesty.
384
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I ask you. Why are you in such a panic?
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00:33:01,790 --> 00:33:04,450
Your Majesty, it was Empress that instructed me
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to get a new bowl of water.
387
00:33:21,750 --> 00:33:24,990
Your Majesty. Your Majesty!
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Greeting to Your Majesty.
389
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:31,800
What are you looking at?
390
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:53,830
Just making a painting. Then why did you have to shut the doors?
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00:33:57,390 --> 00:33:59,200
Get up and talk.
392
00:34:02,150 --> 00:34:05,250
Your Majesty. Actually,
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I was secretly planning your birthday with Empress.
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Birthday?
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In two months, it's your birthday.
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I had thought to throw you a surprise.
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So I secretly invited Consort Chun to discuss.
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We didn't know what to gift you.
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00:34:26,100 --> 00:34:30,740
But at last, Consort Chun suggested that I paint a scenery for you.
400
00:34:30,740 --> 00:34:33,660
But today, I kept trying many pages.
401
00:34:33,660 --> 00:34:36,090
But I still it lacks some beauty.
402
00:34:36,090 --> 00:34:38,940
Yes. I accidently
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even splattered ink all over Empress.
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I see then.
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Empress, you're being to secretive.
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It actually doesn't matter what you gift me.
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I will be happy with anything.
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00:34:58,230 --> 00:35:00,880
Your Majesty. Your clothing is all wet.
409
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:04,210
It's thanks to the gifting by your favorite palace maid again.
410
00:35:08,390 --> 00:35:12,290
Yingluo. Why are you clumsy?
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Hurry and beg forgiveness from His Majesty.
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Yes.
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I deserve death.
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May Your Majesty forgive.
415
00:35:30,300 --> 00:35:35,070
Your Majesty. She's just rushing that caused her troublemaking.
416
00:35:35,070 --> 00:35:39,940
If you have the leisure to be angry, why not go and change?
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Your Majesty.
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00:35:57,560 --> 00:35:58,910
Who said you could come in?
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Your Majesty. It was Empress that told me
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to make amend for my mistake with a merit.
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00:36:05,540 --> 00:36:09,160
No need. Go out and kneel.
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00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:10,750
Yes.
423
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:10,270
Your Majesty. Why are you so upset today?
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00:37:12,290 --> 00:37:16,850
Empress, do you know someone's spreading rumors in the palace?
425
00:37:18,390 --> 00:37:22,270
Rumors? About what?
426
00:37:25,750 --> 00:37:29,810
They are saying Empress and Consort Chun,
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have a relationship that is too close and that's unfitting.
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00:37:37,710 --> 00:37:40,730
Your Majesty. Such rumors.
429
00:37:40,730 --> 00:37:42,890
Can't be that even you believe it?
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00:37:46,270 --> 00:37:50,400
When I think about it, it is indeed absurd.
431
00:37:51,650 --> 00:37:53,190
I believed too easily.
432
00:37:53,190 --> 00:37:55,080
Don't worry, Your Majesty.
433
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I will investigate who was the one to spread it.
434
00:37:58,820 --> 00:38:01,660
And govern the rules of the harem properly.
435
00:38:03,140 --> 00:38:07,170
But Empress, you need to manage your close attendants too.
436
00:38:08,540 --> 00:38:10,880
Your Majesty, I think Yingluo,
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was just careless for the moment.
438
00:38:12,770 --> 00:38:15,110
That girl is usually very careful.
439
00:38:15,110 --> 00:38:17,650
And very detailed in her chores.
440
00:38:19,510 --> 00:38:22,740
Don't you see anything?
441
00:38:22,740 --> 00:38:24,600
See what?
442
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:30,610
She clearly ran into my embrace on purpose earlier.
443
00:38:30,610 --> 00:38:35,430
It means what I said before was true. That palace maid is relying on her little bit of beauty,
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to lure the dragon for her own advancement.
445
00:38:38,780 --> 00:38:41,070
Lure the dragon for advancement?
446
00:38:41,070 --> 00:38:44,200
Your Majesty, from what I understand about her,
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she isn't someone who would.
448
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:55,510
I saw it clearly.
449
00:38:55,510 --> 00:38:58,940
And I am wrong? If I have not guessed wrong,
450
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she is trying to lure me for sure.
451
00:39:01,140 --> 00:39:04,730
It could be she's in love with me. Or she wants vanity.
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00:39:04,730 --> 00:39:07,870
Whatever the reason, she is clearly a fox.
453
00:39:07,870 --> 00:39:10,410
Coming to seduce the king!
454
00:39:11,180 --> 00:39:14,740
Look at her gaze. Her smile. She clearly . ..
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00:39:14,740 --> 00:39:17,670
You clearly hold bias against her.
456
00:39:17,670 --> 00:39:21,690
Because you misunderstand her, every action and word of hers,
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you take it wrongly.
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00:39:25,860 --> 00:39:29,180
Forget it. I will not argue this with you.
459
00:39:29,180 --> 00:39:32,860
But one day you will come to know what I said is true.
460
00:39:32,860 --> 00:39:35,810
That Wei Yingluo wants to behold wealth.
461
00:39:35,810 --> 00:39:38,020
She is calculating.
462
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:41,700
You must manage her well.
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I understand.
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I send Your Majesty off with honor.
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Shameless.
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Shameless.
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Yingluo. You don't know what Consort Chun and I doing.
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00:40:12,020 --> 00:40:15,300
Why did you rush back to warn us?
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Get up and talk.
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Yes.
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I didn't know what happened indeed.
472
00:40:24,940 --> 00:40:27,650
But since your doors are shut.
473
00:40:27,650 --> 00:40:31,580
It means you didn't want others to know your hushed matter.
474
00:40:31,580 --> 00:40:35,660
So I wagered my life to rush back to alert you.
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You knew nothing.
476
00:40:38,850 --> 00:40:40,830
But you just guarded me?
477
00:40:40,830 --> 00:40:43,470
Empress, you taught me to read and write.
478
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To conduct myself as a person. You are a rare good person.
479
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Since you don't want to speak of it, you have your reason.
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Yingluo's duty is to secure your secret.
481
00:40:55,210 --> 00:40:57,340
It's not to snoop.
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Show it to her.
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00:41:07,350 --> 00:41:08,790
Yes.
484
00:41:17,900 --> 00:41:20,050
This is?
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00:41:20,050 --> 00:41:25,700
After I birthed the second prince, an air of chill spread in me.
486
00:41:25,700 --> 00:41:30,110
Until after this winter, it got more severe.
487
00:41:30,110 --> 00:41:34,280
Every night, the pain pierces into my bone and I am unable to fall into a sleep.
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My whole body sweats in cold.
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00:41:37,310 --> 00:41:41,660
Half an hour and I need to change already.
490
00:41:41,660 --> 00:41:47,310
So Empress invited me to come and treat her.
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00:41:47,310 --> 00:41:54,390
This matter isn't good for others to know but I didn't imagine.
- I didn't imagine the palace is . . .
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Spreading such rumors.
493
00:41:56,570 --> 00:42:03,550
It's absolutely absurd.
- If His Majesty had burst in here to discover our secret,
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the consequence can't be imagined.
495
00:42:06,830 --> 00:42:10,180
The women of the harem is valued by their heirs.
496
00:42:10,180 --> 00:42:12,260
Think about it.
497
00:42:13,460 --> 00:42:18,400
A woman who is weak to her bone. How can she birth children?
498
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:21,600
How is she capable to take up the ranking of Empress?
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00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:26,230
So I am not inclined to trouble the royal physician's court.
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00:42:26,230 --> 00:42:29,650
I can only plead Consort Chun's help.
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Yingluo, from now on,
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you and Erqing help me and guard Changchun Palace.
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Yes.
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♫The Forbidden Palace's walls surround them, feeling like a good place to reside.♫
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♫As the walls sever the setting sun's rays, they lose their past dreams as it grows cold.♫
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♫Decaying leaves cover the neglected shuttered window, that remembers the cold winds of twenty harvests.♫
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♫ Knowing only how to go with the flow and pass the years.♫
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♫Unmarried and hopeful, the heavy, dark gates are locked, ♫
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♫Cultivated and proud, gem-like beauties, and yet somehow♫
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♫Flowers who stay may endure breakage, causing them ask to change their karma♫
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♫Can not an empty branch give them a carefree place to rest upon?♫
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♫Longing to be together with him, separated as the illumination in the western window declines,♫
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♫At leisure to be melancholy, also perplexed and worried about it all.♫
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♫Who will pity her, and record her lifetime full of misery?♫
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♫A pretentious, showy vision on a stage.♫
517
00:44:24,720 --> 00:44:32,430
♫Longing to be together with him, separated as the illumination in the western window declines,♫
518
00:44:32,430 --> 00:44:39,580
♫At leisure to be melancholy, also perplexed and worried about it all.♫
519
00:44:39,580 --> 00:44:47,240
♫Who will pity her, and record her lifetime full of misery?♫
520
00:44:47,240 --> 00:44:53,020
♫A pretentious, showy vision on a stage.♫
521
00:44:54,690 --> 00:45:04,270
♫A pretentious, showy vision on a stage.♫