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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 18
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You must not let the people know about this.
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Your Majesty, did you forget? During the lychee feast,
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there was mention of a physician in Jiangnan.
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- Why don't we invite him here to take a look?
- Consort Xian. Are you clueless too?
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How long are you going to procrastinate?
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Your Majesty, you must not delay this any further.
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Once it's daybreak, we won't be able to stop any gossips.
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His Majesty only has a thin number of descendants.
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If this child merely contracts any strange illness and it's handled this way,
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it may harm the child.
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Your Majesty, Empress Dowager is not in Forbidden City now.
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If she's here, she will be very sad.
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Relay this to Ye Tianshi.
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Is this the renowned physician from Jiangnan?
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Your Majesty. I think
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you shouldn't waste your time.
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Ye Tianshi sends his greetings to His Majesty.
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Ye Tianshi.
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Yes.
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Take a look at the little prince and check what's going on.
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Yes.
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His Majesty wants you to diagnose the illness.
- What are you doing?
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Your Majesty, please forgive me.
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The decorations here are very colorful.
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I was dumbfounded by them.
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Do your diagnosis now.
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Yes.
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To reply Your Majesty,
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there's nothing serious with the little prince. It's just jaundice.
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It can't be. It's not like I have never seen jaundice in children.
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Even his pupils are golden yellow in color.
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That's because you are lacking in knowledge.
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A visiting physician even dares to make derogatory remarks.
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When a common jaundice shows up in a child,
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it will only appear on the face, neck and limbs. Why would it spread to the pupils?
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That jaundice you're talking about is congenital.
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Even if it's not treated, he can recover within seven days
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but the little prince's jaundice is pathological and related to the bile of the expectant mother.
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- It's usually connected with the pregnant mother having too much accumulation of bile.
- What congenital disease?
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He is clearly spouting nonsense.
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I come from three generations of physicians. They passed down their skills to me. I have never heard of this.
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Yes, I'm not that broad in my training compared to the Imperial Physicians
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but I have been to everywhere as a physician.
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I have seen many strange illnesses.
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So to say, there's no problem with Second Prince?
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He has only contracted some strange illness.
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Your Majesty. What do you think?
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I get it.
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Ye Tianshi, can he be cured?
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Your Majesty, don't worry. If I prescribe a formula to reduce the jaundice,
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in less than two weeks, Second Prince's jaundice will subside.
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Men, take Second Prince away now
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and attend to him carefully.
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Your Majesty, after Second Prince has met a renowned physician,
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things have taken a new turn.
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I should be blamed for being ignorant and inexperienced.
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I couldn't even tell it's just a common jaundice
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and placed Second Prince's life in danger.
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Your Majesty, please forgive me.
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Even the Imperial Physician couldn't tell the difference.
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How could you blame yourself?
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Your Majesty is merciful. I'm very thankful.
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It's just that...
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the rest will suspect my intention
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that I wanted Second Prince to die.
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Relay my decree.
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Ban others from talking about this again.
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Thank you, Your Majesty.
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Greetings, Your Majesty.
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Greetings, Your Majesty.
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Consort Chun, rise.
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Are you here because of what happened to Second Prince and to visit him?
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No, I'm here because of a major issue.
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What major issue?
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Carry him here.
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Consort Chun, what are you doing?
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Noble Consort. You are not afraid when you killed a person
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but why are you afraid when you see a corpse?
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Your Majesty, listen to what Consort Chun said.
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I just said there must be someone
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who will misunderstand by intention.
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Look. Before I leave Changchun Palace,
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the news have already traveled out.
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Consort Chun is blaming me now.
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Noble Consort Gao.
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Do you really don't recognize this body?
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How would I know him?
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He's the Mongolian chef from the Imperial Kitchen.
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He was also the one who cooked food for Noble Lady Yu.
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Consort Chun, what are you implying?
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This is a Mongolian snack. It's from my hometown.
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I thought I wouldn't be able to eat this again when I enter the palace.
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I didn't expect there would be a Mongolian chef in the Imperial Kitchen.
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The scones that he baked, they are fragrant and crispy.
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- Yingluo.
- Yes.
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Looking at you, something seems to be on your mind.
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Noble Lady Yu loves Mongolian scones.
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She would eat three pieces every day when she was pregnant.
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She even preferred them to be hot before she ate them.
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I was also astounded.
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Your Majesty. The food that was made by the chef,
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I instructed it to be brought here too.
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Your Majesty, let me take a look.
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It's very fragrant.
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I wonder what this scone is made of.
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Milk was added to the dough or perhaps, ghee to the skin.
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You must mentioned that Noble Lady Yu loves to eat grilled scones.
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What else does she usually eats?
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Assorted confectionery to replace staple food.
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No wonder. No wonder.
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What do you mean?
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Your Majesty. Her child contracted jaundice
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It's mostly because the mother body is moist and hot, hence, the bile gets accumulated.
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I usually advise pregnant women to watch their food intake
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and not to eat too much sweet, hot and unpleasant smelling food
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to prevent damage to the spleen and stomach.
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Grilled scones can't be eaten too?
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No, you have misunderstood.
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Food for pregnant women are not that restricted. They can eat whatever they like
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but they must not go overboard.
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If we take this grilled scone and butter as an example,
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you can have it once a day as a meal.
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But if you have it twice a day as your meals, it's overboard.
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Mongolian women usually eat grilled scones.
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Hunan women likes spicy food. They are safe and sound.
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You are ignorant and inexperienced.
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The spleen is a moist organ, hence, it's easy for moist air to enter the body.
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Taking in spicy food is to eliminate the moistness.
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As for the Mongolian wives, since they been taking these foods for a long time, their body has gotten used to it. So of course, they are fine.
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Eating habits, the local environment,
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and the state of one's health are intimately connected.
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Noble Lady Yu has been living in the Forbidden City and things suddenly became abnormal
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in her excessive diet. Naturally, it will cause disorders.
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Physician Tianshi is saying that,
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because of excessive usage of grilled scones and sweet cakes,
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Second Prince contracted jaundice.
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Of course, this is possible.
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Consort Chun, how did this person die?
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Drawing from the lesson of Fourth Prince,
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I was naturally worried about Noble Lady Yu's food and ordered someone to investigate this first.
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Who knew that when we just went into the Imperial Kitchen,
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he has already killed himself due to escape punishment.
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If we're going to ask who the mastermind behind him is,
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we just have to look at who insisted to bury 5th Prince alive
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and we will know who it is.
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Consort Chun, you are making groundless accusations!
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He's already dead. On what basis are you accusing me then?
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Your Majesty, Fifth Prince is just a newborn.
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What crime did he commit?
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Unless someone doesn't want him to be born safely.
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Carefully thinking about it, since Noble Lady Yu got pregnant,
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Her Highness Noble Consort has repeatedly made things difficult for her.
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First, the traumatic experience in the Imperial Garden.
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And then repeating it during the Lychee Banquet.
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When Noble Lady Yu gave birth,
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the first person to charge into Changchun Palace was also Her Highness Noble Consort.
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She insisted on having Fifth Prince buried alive.
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To say that this matter has nothing to do with her, it's really hard for anyone to believe that.
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Your Majesty, it's really not like that. I really didn't know.
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You must not listen to the lies of this servant.
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Your Majesty, when Consort Chun and Consort Xian
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heard that prince is in trouble,
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the first thing they thought of is to ask for an imperial physician.
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But Her Highness Noble Consort want prince to be executed.
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Even when Noble Lady Yu went up to her to stop her,
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she didn't spare her.
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If she doesn't have any intention to kill,
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why must she be so hasty and resolute?
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Your Majesty, the matter isn't like what she said.
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Sentencing me for a crime just based on a corpse,
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I will never accept such verdict.
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Moreover, the person is dead.
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Who knew if someone else forced him to kill himself so as to frame me?
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Your Highness Empress, at this point,
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you still aren't giving up defending yourself.
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When I sent my men to the Imperial Kitchen, they discovered one blood letter and 20 taels of gold.
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It shows that this person has sensed that something bad will happen to him.
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He left evidences beforehand.
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[The person who will silence me will surely be the mistress of Chuxiu Palace.]
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Your Majesty, it wasn't like this.
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It really wasn't like this. I really didn't know.
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I'm being framed.
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- Your Majesty.
- Enough.
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I don't want to hear your explanation.
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Men.
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Starting from today, Noble Consort Gao will be detained in Chuxiu Palace.
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Without my consent, no one is allowed to go in and out from there.
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Take her away.
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Your Majesty.
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I was framed.
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- My Lady.
- I was framed, Your Majesty.
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Your Majesty.
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Your Majesty, I want to report someone.
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How dare you? You even dare to block the way of His Majesty. Do you want to die?
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I know I'm guilty and I can be punished later
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but this concerns a major matter. I dare not hide this.
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Noble Consort wants to kill Fifth Prince.
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Wei Yingluo took out the golden seal of the Empress
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to scare Noble Consort but the actual truth is,
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Her Highness didn't pass the golden seal to her. She used it to fake the order.
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Your Majesty.
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Your Majesty, it was urgent.
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I didn't had a choice then.
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Could you fake the order even if you had no choice?
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Wei Yingluo, this is a penalty by death.
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Wei Yingluo, do you know your crime?
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Your Majesty, I deserve to die
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for deceiving Noble Consort.
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Deceiving Noble Consort?
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Your Majesty, please punish me.
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What do you mean?
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Zhenzhu.
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Show everyone the golden seal
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that I gave you.
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How could I dare to use the Golden Seal of Her Highness?
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This is a major crime for using the seal to relay orders.
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But during that situation,
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if I didn't protect Noble Lady Yu and Fifth Prince,
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they wouldn't be able to wait for Your Majesty.
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For the sake of Noble Lady Yu and Prince's safety,
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I could only take that risk.
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Of course, I deceived Noble Consort.
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I indeed committed a mistake. May Your Majesty forgive me.
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Your Majesty, had good intentions behind it.
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Deceiving Noble Consort is a small matter, but saving Fifth Prince is a huge merit.
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With such a contribution, if you punish her, won't that sadden the heart of a lot of people?
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Take her away and cane her 50 times.
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Your Majesty! Your Majesty!
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Your Majesty! Your Majesty!
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I'll go check on Noble Lady Yu and Fifth Prince.
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- I'll go with you.
- Okay.
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Consort Chun.
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Can we talk privately?
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Let me boldly ask a question.
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Is the yellowing of Fifth Prince
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really due to Noble Consort Gao?
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Wei Yingluo, on what basis are you questioning me?
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Consort Chun's reaction
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exactly told me
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that everything isn't as simple as it seems.
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Why did you suspect me?
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One, excessive intake of roasted pancake and sugar cakes
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are voluntary actions of Noble Lady Yu.
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Noble Consort Gao can guide her to it, but not truly control her.
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Second, Doctor Ye only said
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that intake of these food
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can increase the chances of Fifth Prince getting sick,
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but not really lead to an illness.
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Why then would Noble Consort Gao risked that much danger
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for something that's uncertain.
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Third, if Noble Consort Gao would really make her move,
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why then did she not search clearly
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and left a blood letter?
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Isn't that bringing oneself trouble?
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Since you know that there are inconsistencies,
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why then did you still renege to help me?
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Because Noble Consort has went too far.
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The child is innocent, but she insists on having him killed.
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I only can bite back.
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Yingluo, the children who grew up in Forbidden City
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is destined to get involved in the struggle for power.
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For those who dies young, it's their fate.
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Even if they successfully grow up,
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they still have to face a fierce battle for the throne.
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If you want to enjoy a luxurious life, you then must pay a price.
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If they have to blame someone, they can only blame being reincarnated into the wrong family.
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I can understand your words, but I don't agree with them.
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Only a ferocious beast
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would eat young animals.
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If a person harms a young child,
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what is his difference with a beast?
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Your Highness Consort Chun, forgive me for taking my leave.
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If you continue to have such kind thought,
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your life will soon be in peril.
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Your Highness, eat something.
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Greetings, Lord Gao.
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Zhilan?
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Eunuch Desheng. Can I speak with Lord Gao alone for a while?
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His Majesty is still waiting for lord to discuss some state affairs. Don't delay it...
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It won't be too long.
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Why are you you here and not attending to Her Highness Noble Consort?
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Replying to Master, Her Highness Noble Consort has been locked up at Chuxiu Palace and has already gotten sick from anger.
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She won't eat all day and she's slowly getting thin.
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When I was talking to her earlier, she didn't have any reaction.
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As if she has completely changed to another person.
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I got it. You go back first.
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Master! Are you not going to visit Her Highness
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and urge her?
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I'll decide once I've seen His Majesty.
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Eunuch! Let's go.
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- Yes.
- Lord Gao! Lord Gao!
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Yongqi has grown so white and fat.
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He's really so cute.
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Replying to Your Highness Empress, it's all thanks to Doctor Ye's meticulous care
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and...Miss Yingluo risking her life to save us.
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If not because of her, our lives
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would have been gone.
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I will remember Yingluo's contributions.
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I dare not forget the instructions of Her Highness Empress.
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If not because everyone worked together, we wouldn't have deterred Noble Consort Gao.
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What merit did she do? Always trying to be in the limelight.
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So wanting everyone to know how good she is.
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Kneel.
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I can't order you around anymore now, is that it?
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When I was not around,
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what have you done?
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I thought you would repent on your mistakes,
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but never thought that I thought too highly of you.
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The previous 50 caning isn't enough.
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You want it to be 100 caning
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before you'll understand your mistake, is that it?
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With your attitude,
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I also am to lazy to care about you.
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Go out and kneel.
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Your Highness, the lower palace maids are around.
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Give Mingyu some dignity.
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Mingyu, let me ask you,
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do you know that you did wrong?
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I'll just go out and kneel.
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Mingyu!
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Your Highness, Mingyu just have that kind of personality.
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You're magnanimous, so just overlook it.
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I'll go get her now to ask for your forgiveness.
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Your Highness Empress, I've disturbed you for too long.
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I should go back now.
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Why not stay a while longer?
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That is not appropriate according to the rules.
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But Your Highness, don't worry,
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I will frequently bring Fifth Prince over.
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It's just that...don't know if Fifth Prince
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can still stay by my side in the future.
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You're worried that because your status isn't high enough,
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Fifth Prince can't stay by your side and be raised by you, is that it?
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I've already asked His Majesty in your behalf.
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His Majesty considered that you've contributed merit by bearing him a child, hence, he promoted your status.
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He'll make a decree tomorrow to make you Imperial Concubine Yu, the mistress of Yonghe Palace.
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I will never forget the great graces
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of Your Highness Empress!
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Get up.
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Fifth Prince.
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Look at this little thing, he looks so handsome.
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Doesn't he look like His Majesty?
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Greetings, Your Majesty.
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Get up.
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Thank you, Your Majesty.
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There are a lot of discussion about your proposed water management proposal.
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I need a reason to support you.
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Explain it in details.
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I've been managing the river systems for a long time.
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I noticed that the Yellow River flows in a rapid manner from its origin to Qing River.
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It is closely connected to the Neibi Canal.
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Please earth up the southern dike to become the far dike of the northern bank of the Yellow RIver. This way,
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we can prevent the yellow river from overflowing.
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Continue saying it.
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Jiangdu cuts through the river and its topography is quite low.
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Have its gates redone, not to make it deeper but should surpass the Yellow River,
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to decrease the amount of the Huai River getting into main river.
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Doing that can decrease the chances of the Huai River causing any calamities.
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Continue.
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Yongding river as at the tail end and is unobstructed.
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I ask that it be made into a triangular lake with opened side channels and for irrigation canals.
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The upper part would be connected the the Zheng family reservoir. The lower will be connected to the old river head of Daqing River. Remove the soil.
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As for the northern bank, surround them with sloping dykes
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to guard against the north getting exceeded. For the southern bank, we also would build some dykes to restrict the water from slipping southwards.
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The low river mouth under must always be cleared.
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What about the upstream?
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The upstream should have bleeders.
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On Shuangying at the southern bank,
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and on Hulindian and Xiaohuijia Village at the northern bank,
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each should build a mortar dam.
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And the embankment should be decreased to be lower than the dam.
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On the southern bank, the Guojia Dyke is just an old grass dam.
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It also should be rebuilt.
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Gao Bin, do you know how many human and material resources
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will this series of operations use up
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and who can dare accept such a huge project?
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Your Majesty, our Qing Empire
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frequently suffers flooding and the affected areas are so vast.
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Every year, there are hundreds of thousands of citizens
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whose fields are completely destroyed, they are forced to leave their homes and wander, their family are left devastated.
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Hence, this waster disaster must be put under control.
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It must not be delayed.
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I'm not talented but I'm willing to exert my measly efforts
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in bending to a task and sparing no effort for the Qing Empire and for Your Majesty,
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until the day I die.
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Okay. I will then make you the governor of Zhili,
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so you can supervise the river channels.
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As for the several criticisms in the court,
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I will suppress them all for you.
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I won't let anyone destroy your proposed river management system.
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Don't disappoint me.
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The more you mustn't disappoint the citizens of Qing Empire.
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I'm accepting the decree and thanking your graces!
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Leave now.
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What else?
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Your Majesty, I heard that Her Highness Noble Consort...
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Gao Bin, this is my private matter.
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I'm scared. I dare not interfere with your family matters.
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But this eldest daughter is the person that I most cared about.
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I'll be leaving to manage the river channels.
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I don't know when I can be back to the capital.
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May Your Majesty have mercy and allow me to visit Her Highness Noble Consort.
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Master.
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I asked His Majesty to allow me to visit Noble Consort. I can only stay here for an incense time.
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Yes, I'll tell Her Highness Noble Consort right away. She'll surely be very happy.
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Your Highness, Master is here to visit you.
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This is the graces of His Majesty. It means that His Majesty still cares about you.
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I don't want to see anyone.
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You and that man outside,
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you all leave.
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Leave!
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Master, Her Highness...
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I heard everything.
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Her Highness is in a bad mood. Don't put it to heart. Wait for me to convince her.
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No need.
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Ningxin, you can be willful and behave unscrupulously,
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decadent and dejected, but don't forget
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that I have four daughters.
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Other than my second daughter who married Orongshi,
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you still have a third and fourth younger sisters.
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They are currently in the prime of their youth with outstanding beauty!
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Old man, you stop right there!
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You daughter is currently being locked up in Chuxiu Palace.
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Everyone in this palace is trampling on me.
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Are you also looking down on me?
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Also giving up on me?
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I've been a government official for so many years.
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From a little sixth rank director of Imperial Household Department,
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to a current first rank high official.
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Throughout my journey, you don't know how many storms and waves I've encountered,
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but I was still standing and kept getting promoted.
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What I relied on is
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just striving my utmost effort
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and swearing loyalty until death to the Qing Empire,
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to His Majesty!
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Towards my children, I treated you all equally
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and meticulously cultivated each one.
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I only have one request.
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That is you must give everything you got and aim for the best
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in doing anything wherever you are.
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Go back and look at yourself in the mirror. Look at this useless self of yours.
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How are you like a daughter of my Gao family?
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Such awe-inspiring righteousness.
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Your political career now is so successful, rapidly going up the ranks.
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But have you ever thought about my mother?
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Have you every thought of me?
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Have you ever felt any guilt towards us?
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Could you have forgotten?
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How did my mother die?
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Your mother...was washed away by the Yellow River!
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No! She didn't!
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You clearly know very well
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that she died for you.
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Old man, you remember this.
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As long as I'm around, don't even think of sending those two bitches into this palace!
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Don't that Ma woman ever think of replacing my mother.
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Never.
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If you want to fulfill that dream,
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I fear that you must stabilize your foothold here in the palace more.
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Old man, let me tell you this!
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I haven't toppled yet and will never topple!
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You want to easily replace me?
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You better give up on that idea right now!
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Your Highness.
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It must be that woman who is sowing discord.
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- Who are you talking about, Your Highness?
- Who else?
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That bitch Ma.
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Third and Fourth little sisters are all her daughter.
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Even if I die,
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I wouldn't let her and her daughters get their way.
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Your Highness, she's currently the main madam of the Gao family.
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I must pull myself together. I mustn't give them any chance to exploit.
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♫ A human life is akin to a spring dream
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Wait.
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Stop.
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[Chuxiu Palace]
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♫ Help yourself
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Lower down the carriage.
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♫ drink your fill
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Your Highness, please have some wine.
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Your Highness.
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Your Majesty.
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Your Majesty!
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How come what she drank was real wine?
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Replying to Your Majesty, Her Highness Noble Consort was in a bad mood.
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She said that she wants to drown her sorrow with alcohol,
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so she ordered me to prepare a jar of wine.
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I dare not stop her.
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Wanton.
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Noble Consort.
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Your Majesty.
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Let me assist you back to your room.
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Eunuch Li.
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Eunuch Li, why are you so idle tonight
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to visit this cold and cheerless place of ours?
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Miss Zhilan, you're joking with me.
503
00:36:13,310 --> 00:36:18,480
This is the Chuxiu Palace of Her Highness Noble Consort. How could it be cold and cheerless?
504
00:36:19,140 --> 00:36:23,460
A few days ago, I repeated asked for your help, but you kept refusing.
505
00:36:23,460 --> 00:36:26,220
Today, you're quite eager.
506
00:36:26,220 --> 00:36:31,400
If not because His Majesty personally entered here, I think you wouldn't think of coming.
507
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,830
It's all my fault, okay?
508
00:36:34,830 --> 00:36:38,740
Miss Zhilan, this..forgive me, okay?
509
00:36:38,740 --> 00:36:41,590
What's the use of me forgiving you?
510
00:36:41,590 --> 00:36:44,010
It depends on Her Highness.
511
00:37:28,340 --> 00:37:32,660
Noble Consort, why are you crying?
512
00:37:34,380 --> 00:37:39,950
Your Majesty, why don't you call me Ningxin'er anymore?
513
00:37:39,950 --> 00:37:44,760
Don't you used to like calling me that?
514
00:37:50,290 --> 00:37:54,740
I don't want to be a noble consort anymore.
515
00:37:54,740 --> 00:37:58,370
I just want to be your Ningxin'er.
516
00:37:58,970 --> 00:38:02,060
Noble Consort, you're drunk.
517
00:38:02,060 --> 00:38:04,430
I'm not.
518
00:38:07,530 --> 00:38:13,120
Before, I...loved to sing.
519
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:15,510
I also dance.
520
00:38:16,170 --> 00:38:20,940
Your Majesty also loved to come watch me.
521
00:38:20,940 --> 00:38:23,990
But now...
522
00:38:26,590 --> 00:38:30,140
Your Majesty isn't coming anymore.
523
00:38:30,860 --> 00:38:34,330
You also have become distant from me.
524
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:37,340
It's not me who changed.
525
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:41,100
It's you.
526
00:38:41,870 --> 00:38:44,620
I changed?
527
00:38:46,590 --> 00:38:49,680
I'm your noble consort.
528
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:52,180
The noble consort of the Qing Empire.
529
00:38:52,180 --> 00:38:57,080
If I just continue to sing and dance,
530
00:38:57,080 --> 00:39:00,240
everyone will laugh at me
531
00:39:00,240 --> 00:39:02,880
for not acting appropriately.
532
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:05,940
Hence, I can't sing.
533
00:39:05,940 --> 00:39:08,410
I also can't dance.
534
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:14,800
Your Majesty, is it because of this that you don't love me anymore?
535
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:18,020
I don't want to be well-behaved or act in proper decorum.
536
00:39:18,020 --> 00:39:23,410
Without your tender affection, what's the point of all these?
537
00:39:23,410 --> 00:39:28,170
Your Majesty, don't leave me.
538
00:39:28,170 --> 00:39:31,220
In this huge Forbidden City,
539
00:39:31,220 --> 00:39:33,700
you're the only one
540
00:39:33,700 --> 00:39:36,440
that I can rely on.
541
00:39:39,410 --> 00:39:41,470
The floor is cold.
542
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:48,790
Your Majesty, father came to visit me yesterday.
543
00:39:48,790 --> 00:39:51,300
I remembered my mother.
544
00:39:52,050 --> 00:39:57,810
Your mother got washed away by the Yellow River when she was accompanying your father in mitigating the flood.
545
00:39:57,810 --> 00:40:01,720
No. It's not like that, Your Majesty.
546
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:08,130
That time, Yellow River kept causing flooding.
547
00:40:08,130 --> 00:40:12,070
There was a group of water pirates that settled there and frequently robbed the nearby houses.
548
00:40:12,070 --> 00:40:15,450
Father advocated the elimination of the pirates and flood prevention.
549
00:40:15,450 --> 00:40:18,130
This invited revenge from the water pirates.
550
00:40:19,250 --> 00:40:24,600
That year, I was just 5.
551
00:40:29,500 --> 00:40:35,120
I floated on the river for a long time.
552
00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:39,050
I got saved by a fisherman.
553
00:40:40,270 --> 00:40:45,020
And they searched for 7 days, 7 nights.
554
00:40:45,020 --> 00:40:50,600
What they found was the pitiful corpse of my mother.
555
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:59,550
If a woman falls into the hands of the water pirates, what can happen to her?
556
00:41:00,310 --> 00:41:03,890
Anyone can imagine it.
557
00:41:03,890 --> 00:41:08,230
And the Gao family denied her to be buried in their tomb estate,
558
00:41:08,230 --> 00:41:11,330
denied her a place in the ancestral chamber.
559
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:18,170
My mother bore my father children and raised them all her life.
560
00:41:18,170 --> 00:41:23,190
She was filial to her in-laws, maintained the household well, and supported the family's career.
561
00:41:23,950 --> 00:41:30,650
In the end, she died without a full corpse.
562
00:41:31,390 --> 00:41:37,730
And father would actually say that since he's always out,
563
00:41:37,730 --> 00:41:43,120
he need a new wife to run the house.
564
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:46,920
In less than a year,
565
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:50,490
he married that Ma woman home.
566
00:41:51,510 --> 00:41:53,740
That...
567
00:41:57,490 --> 00:42:03,580
Since she entered our home, she repeatedly abused me and my siblings.
568
00:42:03,580 --> 00:42:09,940
From then on, my days felt so long like they were years.
569
00:42:09,940 --> 00:42:14,540
It was living hell, Your Majesty.
570
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:29,390
I know that you've suffered.
571
00:42:29,390 --> 00:42:34,040
Your Majesty, I didn't harm Fifth Prince.
572
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:36,070
I really didn't.
573
00:42:36,070 --> 00:42:39,000
I can swear.
574
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:42,550
I believe you.
575
00:42:43,180 --> 00:42:47,440
Really, Your Majesty? You really believe me?
576
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:49,630
I'm not lying to you.
577
00:42:49,630 --> 00:42:51,280
You've drank too much.
578
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:55,220
Be careful of hurting your health. Rest early.
579
00:42:55,220 --> 00:43:00,420
Your Majesty, don't leave tonight.
580
00:43:00,420 --> 00:43:02,460
Okay?
581
00:43:03,110 --> 00:43:05,360
Your Majesty.
582
00:43:09,970 --> 00:43:17,990
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583
00:43:38,100 --> 00:43:45,560
♫The Forbidden Palace's walls surround them, feeling like a good place to reside.♫
584
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:52,940
♫As the walls sever the setting sun's rays, they lose their past dreams as it grows cold.♫
585
00:43:52,940 --> 00:44:00,260
♫Decaying leaves cover the neglected shuttered window, that remembers the cold winds of twenty harvests.♫
586
00:44:00,260 --> 00:44:06,790
♫ Knowing only how to go with the flow and pass the years.♫
587
00:44:06,790 --> 00:44:09,510
♫Unmarried and hopeful, the heavy, dark gates are locked, ♫
588
00:44:09,510 --> 00:44:14,170
♫Cultivated and proud, gem-like beauties, and yet somehow♫
589
00:44:14,170 --> 00:44:17,010
♫Flowers who stay may endure breakage, causing them ask to change their karma♫
590
00:44:17,010 --> 00:44:22,490
♫Can not an empty branch give them a carefree place to rest upon?♫
591
00:44:22,490 --> 00:44:29,850
♫Longing to be together with him, separated as the illumination in the western window declines,♫
592
00:44:29,850 --> 00:44:37,100
♫At leisure to be melancholy, also perplexed and worried about it all.♫
593
00:44:37,100 --> 00:44:44,580
♫Who will pity her, and record her lifetime full of misery?♫
594
00:44:44,580 --> 00:44:51,830
♫A pretentious, showy vision on a stage.♫
595
00:44:51,830 --> 00:44:59,390
♫Longing to be together with him, separated as the illumination in the western window declines,♫
596
00:44:59,390 --> 00:45:06,710
♫At leisure to be melancholy, also perplexed and worried about it all.♫
597
00:45:06,710 --> 00:45:14,150
♫Who will pity her, and record her lifetime full of misery?♫
598
00:45:14,150 --> 00:45:20,850
♫A pretentious, showy vision on a stage.♫
599
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:32,370
♫A pretentious, showy vision on a stage.♫