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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< br> Episode 7
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Congratulating Your Highness the Empress, wishing
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Your Highness eternal youthful years and long life!
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Isn't this maidservant...
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How come you did not remove the silk cover upon entering the hall?
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His Majesty has sent his gifts!
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Rise!
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Greetings to Your Highness the Empress. I wish Your Highness to be blessed with long life and good health!
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Gonggong Li, rise.
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Your Highness the Empress,
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His Majesty instructed me to deliver your birthday gifts for this year.
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I thank His Majesty for his grace.
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All the Imperial consorts may rise!
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My sisters, no need for formalities.
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Please sit down.
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Your Highness the Empress, for this year, other than the usual silk fabrics, gold, and silver,
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His Majesty has especially prepared a gift for you.
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Oh?
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This is...
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This is a clock?
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Your Highness the Empress, just to give you this surprise,
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he gave instructions to the clock manufacturer from early on.
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It took them quite a long time to make you a birthday clock.
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But His Majesty said that it is not a custom of our Qing Dynasty to give gifts like that during birthdays.
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Hence, he ordered them to remodel it.
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Look. This is a make-up box.
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This small box on top can accurately report the time.
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Your Highness the Empress, I caught a cold last night, I was unable to eat.
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I cannot attend your birthday banquet anymore.
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Thank you for sparing me of my crime.
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Your Highness the Empress, Yongcheng has been sickly lately.
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I will take my leave now.
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I wish you long life and peace.
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Your Highness the Empress, I still have to go back and update His Majesty.
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I will take my leave now.
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Li Yu, I will personally go thank him later.
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Yes.
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The one from the Embroidery House, quickly remove the cloth.
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Yes.
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This does not look like it's a gold thread nor silver thread.
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The more it is not peacock feather thread.
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Your Highness, you are right.
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This more looks like it is a thread made from animal fur.
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How dare you!
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You dared to use such a coarse material to fool the Empress!
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I dare not.
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You dare not?
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What is that thing then? Do you want to die?
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What did you use to make this?
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Replying to Your Highness the Empress,
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in the past we would use gold, silk, or peacock feather thread to embroider it.
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This year we especially turned deer tail fur into fine thread.
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How come your Embroidery House used such a thread?
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I heard that Your Highness the Empress has always been frugal.
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You once said that gold and silver threads are extravagant and wasteful.
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And to commemorate the experience of our ancestors during the dynasty's first founding days,
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all the clothes and accessories were made from deer tail fur thread.
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This time, I boldly gave up the gold and silver threads,
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returned to the old tradition.
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To honor Empress' wish to reduce extravagance during events.
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It can also remind everyone to remember the hardship our ancestors went through to establish the empire.
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Never thought that a small palace maid can be so eloquent.
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That is right. And it sounded quite reasonable.
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What reasonable?
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Your Highness the Empress, you must not get fooled by this sweet talk.
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I think that there must be another reason behind this.
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What reason can there be?
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It is just that this little servant has meticulous and clever thinking.
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Within the palace now, the air of extravagance is slowly increasing.
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If everyone can remember the hardships of our ancestors in establishing our empire,
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we should forego luxury, and live our days in simplicity and frugality.
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Servants! Reward her!
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What did Yingluo say?
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Not only did she not get punished, she even was rewarded.
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Where is Yingluo? Why is she still not back?
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After accepting a reward, one must of course express gratefulness to Her Highness the Empress.
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Everyone else has left.
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How come you are still out here kneeling?
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Your Highness the Empress, I am here to ask for punishment for my crime.
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Oh? What crime have you done?
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Actually, the Embroidery House lost the peacock feather thread.
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So I had no choice but to substitute it with deer tail thread.
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Just to fool my way at the main hall earlier, I fabricated my speech.
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I know.
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Every year, the Embroidery House will gift me a court dress,
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but they never used such a thread.
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I did not expose you earlier
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because today is my birthday.
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I do not wish for any unhappy matter to happen. Do you understand?
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Your Highness is benevolent. I will forever remember it in my heart.
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Erqing said that when you were waiting outside the hall, you kept delaying the time.
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What were you waiting for?
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Only if Your Highness the Empress will not punish me will I dare say it.
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I pardon you for your crime. Say it.
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Your Highness the Empress is highly-favored by His Majesty.
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I then guessed that His Majesty will surely send gifts today,
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hence, I kept waiting.
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I wanted to borrow the easterly winds of His Majesty to make Your Highness happy.
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This way, when I entered the hall and informed you of your gift,
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Your Highness the Empress would not get too mad.
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How dare you!
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I have already prepared myself.
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If Your Highness will give punishment, please just punish me.
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Do not involve the innocent people of the Embroidery House.
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Are you not afraid of death?
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I am afraid,
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but I also know that being afraid is of no use.
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Whether I stay alive or not is just a moment of decision by Your Highness the Empress.
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You're quite a bold servant. You dare to use His Majesty.
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May Your Highness the Empress forgive me.
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You want to use His Majesty's gifts to make me happy,
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and then use that chance to absolve yourself from your crime.
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You are quite cunning.
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If His Majesty learns of this, he surely will get very mad.
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But, since you lost the peacock feather thread, I still must punish you.
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I'm punishing you to make me another casual dress...
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using deer tail fur thread.
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Did you take note of it?
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Yes.
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Erqing.
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I am here.
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I have never seen such a cunning maidservant.
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If Your Highness likes her,
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let us transfer her here to Changchun Palace to add some fun.
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I quite like her.
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Why not transfer her here once she finishes the court dress.
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But regarding a thief suddenly appearing inside the palace,
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Wu Shulai cannot deny his responsibility for this.
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Order him to investigate this matter.
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Yes.
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Yingluo, you are quite fortunate and so bold.
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You actually dared to say those words in front of Her Highness the Empress.
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If it were me, I would have been stunned from fear with my knees buckling down.
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Jixiang, from now on, you must be very meticulous in doing things.
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You must not make any more mistakes.
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Yes. Yingluo, I have one question to ask you.
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Ask away.
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Why must you tell Her Highness the Empress the truth?
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Actively telling it to her is way better than her knowing the truth from someone else in the future.
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But I keep feeling that it was too risky.
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If Her Highness the Empress is really like as Momo Zhang said,
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a generous and warm ruler of the six palaces,
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I then have won myself some chance of survival.
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Moreover, as long as you are able to grasp all crises properly,
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you can turn them into opportunities instead.
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The Empress is intelligent and wise.
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By taking the initiative to admit my mistakes, exposing all those childish thoughts of mine to her,
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I might win her favor.
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Yingluo, what really do you want to do?
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I want to go to Changchun Palace.
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Ha? Why are you going there?
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Imperial Guard Fuca is the biological younger brother of the Empress.
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I'm going to Changchun Palace...
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Of course, it's so I can frequently bump into him.
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What? Yingluo, didn't you say that you are not interested in making connections with the high society?
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So I was lying to you earlier.
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Stupid!
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Hey! You actually dared to fool me?
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Hey, have you heard? Her Highness the Empress liked Yingluo a lot.
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Chief Steward Wu also especially instructed Momo Zhang to transfer Yingluo to Changchun Palace.
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Really? She gets to attend to Her Highness the Empress?
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She is so fortunate.
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Yes, I envy her.
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But I am not as daring as she was to spout that rubbish while in the main hall.
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But no matter what, she did earn fortune from a misfortune.
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Going back to it, Linglong, it was really quite a pity for you.
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What's so pitiful?
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Of course, it is quite a pity.
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In terms of appearance and embroidery skills, you are not inferior to her.
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But Momo Zhang is too biased.
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If the person who offered the gift was you, the person going to Changchun Palace
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wouldn't be Yingluo!
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Actually, it's also good that she'll be leaving.
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From now on, Sister Linglong will be the center of attention.
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Yes. The Embroidery House will be relying on Linglong from now on.
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This fabric is so smooth and silky. It's softer than my hands.
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Of course. These were tributes submitted by the weaving factory in Jiangnan.
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Yingluo is so fortunate.
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Let me touch them too.
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Me too, so I get to share with the blessing.
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Before I leave the Embroidery House, I must catch that thief.
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Hey! Stop touching them!
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All these are gifts bestowed by Her Highness the Empress.
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If they are damaged by anyone even a bit, it would be a crime of disrespecting a master. Don't damage it.
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Petty.
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Indeed.
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Yingluo is right.
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The gifts bestowed by our masters should be treasured and worshiped.
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Yingluo, I'll help you store them.
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Keep them well.
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Linglong, you must be the one who stole the peacock feather threads, right?
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Yingluo, you... What are you saying?
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First of all, having the chance to use the charcoal brazier to induce a commotion,
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that person must be staying here in the palace.
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Second, she deliberately avoided the time when I was the one guarding the peacock feather threads
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and chose to make her move when Jixiang was the one keeping watch.
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This person most likely knows our temperaments very clearly.
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Third thing, if the Embroidery House is unable to offer a gift, all the palace maids in here will get punished.
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This person must hate me a lot for her to do it.
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If you failed the first time, you would try to destroy me another time.
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So I purposely said I would put away the gift to lure you.
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Yingluo, I...
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I just haven't seen such beautiful gifts.
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I know that you never liked me.
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Hence, I could only secretly touch it during late at night, when there's no one watching.
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How could you say that I'm a thief?
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It's not you?
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- It's not me.
- Who then could it be?
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It's really not me.
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Come with me and explain it to Momo Zhang.
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Yingluo!
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Since I was little, no one has ever falsely accused me like this.
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I did not do anything,
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yet you say that I'm a thief.
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Okay.
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I'll die to prove that I'm innocent!
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It was really not me. You all must believe me. It wasn't me.
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Yingluo, you are going overboard!
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Linglong just wanted to touch it. Is that committing some heinous crime?
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Hey! Why are you bullying people like this?
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On what basis are you saying that she's a thief? What evidence do you have?
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Yingluo, just drop it.
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I feel that it wouldn't be Linglong.
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Maybe, there is really some misunderstanding here.
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Linglong, while people do things, the heavens are watching.
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I hope that you are truly innocent.
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Chief Steward Wu, Momo Zhang.
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Where are they going? Moving so hastily.
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I heard that Chief Steward Wu and Momo Zhang are going around to capture the peacock feather thread thief.
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You think they'll be able to catch her?
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It's hard to say. Her Highness the Empress was the one who issued the decree.
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Chief Steward Wu will surely not stop until he catches the thief.
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Wow! Yingluo, where did you get these noodles?
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I got it from the kitchen by exchanging it with some embroidered items.
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But how did you know that today is my birthday?
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On the day we entered the palace, when the eunuch in charge was verifying the name list,
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did he not especially mention it?
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You remembered it since then?
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That time, you were standing right beside me.
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He repeated it three times. How could I forget?
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Yingluo, you are really good to me.
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Once you go to Changchun Palace, I won't be able to see you every day.
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I surely will miss you a lot.
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Jixiang, while in the palace, you must use your brain more.
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If you have any problem, you can come see me.
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Remember, you must always be cautious.
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Yes.
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What's wrong?
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Before, only my grandmother would care for me like this.
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I miss her.
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I also miss my sister a lot.
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You have a sister?
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How come you never mentioned it?
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She's gone.
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Yingluo, sorry.
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It's fine.
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No matter where I go, I can feel my sister accompanying me.
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Then from now on, let's take care of each other,
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like real sisters.
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Okay. Let's take care of each other.
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Here.
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I'm gifting you this silk handkerchief.
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Jixiang, I wish you many more birthdays to come.
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Thanks.
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Wow! So pretty. I will cherish this.
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Just quickly eat your noodles.
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I must hurry and return to work. I'll get going now.
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- Okay. Go now.
- Hurry and eat.
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Jixiang, do you hate me a lot right now?
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Before we entered the palace, we were very close.
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But after entering the palace, we've grown far apart.
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I know that you don't like me always targeting Yingluo,
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but you must think for my sake too. I worked so hard.
280
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My embroidery work is not inferior to hers. Momo keeps favoring her. I...
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Can I not have any grudge in my heart?
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You still shouldn't keep targeting her.
283
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I know that I was wrong.
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Yingluo hates me. You also blame me and ignore me.
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I really regret my actions.
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Jixiang, before, your stepmother was very harsh to you.
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My mother would take you home to eat with us.
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Our relationship was like real sisters since we're little.
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Even if I did anything bad, can't you just forgive me?
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Linglong, can you guarantee that you won't do anything bad again?
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Yes. I swear that if I still have any evil thoughts,
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let the heavens punish me to have a tragic death.
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Don't say that word. It's against the rules.
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Jixiang, do you forgive me now?
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Yes.
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Oh, right. Today is your birthday. I have a gift for you.
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Really? Where is it?
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Making it so mysterious.
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What gift is Linglong giving me?
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Jixiang! What are you doing?
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Chief Steward Wu, Momo Zhang, why are you here?
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I was wondering why this thief can't be caught.
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Is she able to fly or escape underground?
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So it turns out you put a flag where you hid your dirty act.
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A maggot of the embroidery house wants to revolt?
306
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Chief Steward Wu, what are you saying?
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What am I saying? Let's just open that and everything will be clear.
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How come it's like this?
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Didn't you steal these?
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No, Chief Steward Wu! I didn't steal these!
311
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Have you seen a thief that will admit his crimes?
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It was Linglong. She told me she's giving me a birthday gift. That's why...
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Shut up!
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Don't listen to her nonsense. Take her away!
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Chief Steward Wu, these were really not stolen by me! Chief Steward Wu!
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- I didn't steal them!
- Jixiang!
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Momo Zhang, I didn't steal them!
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Momo Zhang, you must believe me!
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- Jixiang!
- Momo Zhang, it wasn't really me!
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Chief Steward Wu, Jixiang has always been honest.
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She surely wouldn't steal.
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There must be some misunderstanding behind this.
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How about you investigate it further?
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She was caught red-handed. Why is there still a need to investigate further?
325
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Moreover, Her Highness the Empress only gave me two days.
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Now that I've caught the thief, I will be able to report to her now.
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Momo Zhang, don't cause any more unnecessary trouble. Understand?
328
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Chief Steward Wu, how do you plan to punish her?
329
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Stealing the peacock feather threads...
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Of course, she'll be caned to death.
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So pretty. I will cherish this.
332
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Linglong, stop crying. Your eyes are swollen.
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I grew up with Jixiang.
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I really couldn't believe that she's that kind of person.
335
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Something must be amiss.
336
00:25:59,900 --> 00:26:04,620
Quickly look. She didn't even cry one teardrop now that her best friend is gone.
337
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As the old saying goes, "You can test a horse's strength by the length of travel. You can see a person's heart as time passes."
338
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:13,090
It is at this time that you can see who truly has affection.
339
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Even if Jixiang made a mistake, she was true to her.
340
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Whenever she would be late, Jixiang would save her food for her.
341
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But now she's so cruel-hearted.
342
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:28,130
Indeed. Really never noticed that she's this kind of person.
343
00:26:35,730 --> 00:26:39,840
Yingluo, look at this yourself. How did you sew this clothing?
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The sewing method and color combination are all wrong.
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Sorry, Momo. I will redo it.
346
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Do you know what fabric this is?
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You think you can just alter and redo it?
348
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You have disappointed me!
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00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:56,910
Momo, Yingluo has been doing too much work lately.
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She must be just too exhausted, hence, made a mistake.
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Momo, you are magnanimous. Please forgive her.
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If there are any tasks, just let me do them.
353
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Linglong, she never treated you well and you're still helping her?
354
00:27:09,890 --> 00:27:13,880
We entered the palace together. We should be helping each other out.
355
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Everyone makes careless mistakes. Shouldn't we help each other?
356
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Enough. Yingluo,
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do this clothing well. If there's a next time, I won't be this forgiving.
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Yes.
359
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Yingluo, let me help you.
360
00:27:33,750 --> 00:27:35,360
No need!
361
00:27:48,770 --> 00:27:50,910
Why are you so careless.
362
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Get lost!
363
00:27:53,360 --> 00:27:56,820
Yingluo, they all say that you're heartless,
364
00:27:56,820 --> 00:28:01,020
but I know that you are very upset that Jixiang is dead.
365
00:28:01,020 --> 00:28:03,150
Jixiang wasn't the thief.
366
00:28:08,050 --> 00:28:12,660
I..I also don't believe it, but it's the truth.
367
00:28:12,660 --> 00:28:14,580
Tell me then,
368
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,400
why would Jixiang steal the peacock feather threads?
369
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:23,560
Jixiang lost her mother very early. Her father then married again.
370
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:27,230
Since she was little, it was her grandmother that raised her.
371
00:28:27,230 --> 00:28:31,760
A few days ago, her grandmother got very sick.
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I'm guessing that she was gathering money for her medicine.
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Act. Continue acting.
374
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I don't believe one word of it.
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I will find out the perpetrator who framed Jixiang sooner or later, and clear her name.
376
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:52,990
Just wait.
377
00:29:00,950 --> 00:29:04,750
The seamstress in charge of His Majesty's usual clothing is sick.
378
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She still has a bunch of work she didn't finish.
379
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:11,270
Now, we need to find someone to help her out
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and finish the remainder of her task.
381
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:15,140
Momo, can I do it?
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Momo, let me do it!
383
00:29:19,180 --> 00:29:22,160
Momo, give the task to me.
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If I give it to you, can you do it?
385
00:29:24,090 --> 00:29:26,960
Casual clothes are easier to make than Imperial robes or court dresses.
386
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Moreover, my recent embroidery skills have improved a lot.
387
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I can surely do it.
388
00:29:34,210 --> 00:29:38,520
Momo Zhang, tasks like this were usually given to me.
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Yingluo.
390
00:29:39,490 --> 00:29:43,050
The quality of an embroidery work depends on the individual's skills.
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00:29:43,050 --> 00:29:45,000
Since you would like to do it so badly,
392
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why don't we have a competition?
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Let's see who does it better.
394
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:53,100
Yingluo, never thought
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you have such a deep prejudice against me.
396
00:29:59,030 --> 00:30:02,740
Just say if you dare to compete or not.
397
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:05,320
Linglong, compete with her!
398
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:06,830
Right. What's so good about her?
399
00:30:06,830 --> 00:30:08,400
Linglong, compete with her.
400
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:09,920
Yingluo, fighting!
401
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:11,330
Yingluo, we support you!
402
00:30:11,330 --> 00:30:13,780
Linglong we support you!
403
00:30:15,270 --> 00:30:20,550
Okay. If you want to compete, I will keep you company.
404
00:30:20,550 --> 00:30:22,900
Okay then. We'll set it at three days.
405
00:30:22,900 --> 00:30:27,830
At that time, I will only look at the result and choose the one with better sewing work.
406
00:31:11,290 --> 00:31:16,180
The stitch-work is so pretty on this and the edges are so fine.
407
00:31:16,180 --> 00:31:18,150
I have only sewn half of it.
408
00:31:18,150 --> 00:31:22,160
Just with that, you think you can beat me?
409
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:25,370
Yingluo, why do you talk like that?
410
00:31:26,100 --> 00:31:30,350
The finishing is the key. The eyes of the dragon matter most.
411
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,870
The face of the dragon is supposed to represent a diety.
412
00:31:34,870 --> 00:31:37,300
You can create that?
413
00:31:37,300 --> 00:31:40,790
Linglong hasn't finished embroidering. How sure are you that she can't?
414
00:31:40,790 --> 00:31:44,420
Okay. Let's wait and see.
415
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:06,720
Yingluo is still not back?
416
00:32:07,410 --> 00:32:09,310
She's really something.
417
00:32:09,310 --> 00:32:12,150
We usually will just do spring clothing of the servants from different palaces.
418
00:32:12,150 --> 00:32:14,550
The highest ones will be those for the Imperial consorts.
419
00:32:14,550 --> 00:32:16,880
When did we ever touch work for the Yangxin Palace?
420
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:20,330
Only the most skilled seamstresses can do jobs like those.
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She's really bent on defeating Linglong.
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423
00:34:02,770 --> 00:34:05,800
Linglong, you embroidered that dragon so well.
424
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:09,060
Mighty and serene. So life-like.
425
00:34:09,060 --> 00:34:12,500
That's right. Your current skills keep getting better.
426
00:34:12,500 --> 00:34:14,260
When will you teach us?
427
00:34:14,260 --> 00:34:16,440
I just do my best.
428
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:17,980
Linglong!
429
00:34:19,350 --> 00:34:21,260
Where is the robe I made?
430
00:34:22,660 --> 00:34:24,900
What are you saying?
431
00:34:24,900 --> 00:34:29,050
When I woke up today, my clothing got switched.
432
00:34:29,050 --> 00:34:31,920
This is totally not that robe that I made!
433
00:34:32,970 --> 00:34:36,130
Yingluo, you're confusing me.
434
00:34:36,130 --> 00:34:37,790
This...
435
00:34:37,790 --> 00:34:42,630
If this wasn't the one you made, who made this then?
436
00:34:42,630 --> 00:34:45,440
Wei Yingluo, Linglong has submitted this work and Momo Zhang was so satisfied.
437
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:48,830
She immediately had it delivered to Yangxin Palace.
438
00:34:48,830 --> 00:34:51,010
You lost, so just accept it.
439
00:34:51,010 --> 00:34:53,570
Indeed. You were always in a daze.
440
00:34:53,570 --> 00:34:55,800
Unable to finish your work and you still dare to blame it on others.
441
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:57,360
Linglong.
442
00:34:58,670 --> 00:35:01,030
Can you dare swear by the heavens
443
00:35:01,030 --> 00:35:05,360
that the casual robe you submitted to Momo Zhang was personally made by you?
444
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:11,200
I swear to the heavens that I made that robe!
445
00:35:12,530 --> 00:35:14,110
Okay.
446
00:35:16,770 --> 00:35:20,170
Linglong, don't mind her. She's just jealous.
447
00:35:20,170 --> 00:35:22,450
How come I couldn't find her?
448
00:35:22,450 --> 00:35:24,220
Desheng.
449
00:35:24,220 --> 00:35:27,780
Say, could that maidservant have flown to the sky or dug her way underground?
450
00:35:27,780 --> 00:35:29,650
Chief Steward Li, you can really joke.
451
00:35:29,650 --> 00:35:32,510
How can there be a person in this world who can fly or disappear underground?
452
00:35:32,510 --> 00:35:35,130
Why then can't I find her?
453
00:35:35,130 --> 00:35:37,210
The personnel here in Forbidden City are too numerous and complicated.
454
00:35:37,210 --> 00:35:39,310
It's just normal to be unable to find someone.
455
00:35:39,310 --> 00:35:41,100
Bullshit!
456
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:45,670
I initially thought that this will be a chance for me to gain merit.
457
00:35:45,670 --> 00:35:50,410
Who knew that I would just waste efforts and get nothing, and even end up being scolded.
458
00:35:50,410 --> 00:35:55,030
This is a memorial from Zhong Yongtan. Read it yourself.
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00:35:55,030 --> 00:36:00,820
[ I heard that Oshan frequently receives bribes...]
460
00:36:00,820 --> 00:36:06,370
Your Majesty, this is an impeachment complaint from Zhong Yongtan against Infantry Commander Oshan
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receiving a bribe of ten thousand liang in silver.
462
00:36:07,930 --> 00:36:10,300
Not only Oshan,
463
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:13,320
he also complained about Zhang Tingyu.
464
00:36:14,450 --> 00:36:17,130
Did you not sense anything?
465
00:36:17,810 --> 00:36:21,950
Zhong Yongtan is a disciple of Grand Secretary Ortai.
466
00:36:27,490 --> 00:36:31,950
Right. Hence, this impeachment complaint
467
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:36,460
is Ortai waging war against Zhang Tingyu.
468
00:36:36,460 --> 00:36:39,190
And he even wants to use me as his sword.
469
00:36:39,190 --> 00:36:41,200
Zhang Tingyu and Ortai
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are important subjects of the late Emperor. We must not handle this matter hastily.
471
00:36:44,790 --> 00:36:47,520
It is exactly because they were the right-hand men of the late Emperor,
472
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:49,850
that's why I have repeatedly tolerated them.
473
00:36:49,850 --> 00:36:52,330
But what did they do?
474
00:36:53,670 --> 00:36:56,750
Last year, Liu Tongxun also filed an impeachment complaint against Zhang Tingyu
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00:36:56,750 --> 00:37:00,500
conniving with the Zhang's and Yao's of Tongcheng
476
00:37:00,500 --> 00:37:02,390
to includ half of the number of names in the list of officials.
477
00:37:02,390 --> 00:37:04,950
I thought then that it was over-exaggerated.
478
00:37:04,950 --> 00:37:07,400
But from the looks of it now...
479
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:10,460
What he said that was extremely to the point.
480
00:37:11,090 --> 00:37:16,850
As for Ortai, his second son Oshi and original wife just died not long ago,
481
00:37:16,850 --> 00:37:19,790
he then immediately married the daughter of Grand Secretary Gao Bin.
482
00:37:19,790 --> 00:37:22,850
Establishing family ties with Noble Consort Gao.
483
00:37:22,850 --> 00:37:25,090
Tell me, what is he planning?
484
00:37:25,090 --> 00:37:29,280
Your Majesty, the Han people now have attached themselves to Zhang Tingyu,
485
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:31,150
while the Manchurians are siding with Ortai.
486
00:37:31,150 --> 00:37:33,210
Not only the officials in the Imperial court,
487
00:37:33,210 --> 00:37:35,630
but even the local governors are choosing sides.
488
00:37:35,630 --> 00:37:39,020
If you want to touch Ortai and Zhang Tingyu, we must wait for the right time.
489
00:37:39,020 --> 00:37:40,670
I've waited long enough!
490
00:37:40,670 --> 00:37:42,070
Your Majesty! Your Majesty, please calm down!
491
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Your Majesty.
492
00:37:52,500 --> 00:37:54,860
In catching the thieves, you should catch their ruler first.
493
00:37:54,860 --> 00:37:57,570
I'm going to call Prince of the First Rank Yi, Prince of the First Rank He,
494
00:37:57,570 --> 00:38:00,660
Grand Secretaries Ortai, Zhang Tingyu, and Xu Ben,
495
00:38:00,660 --> 00:38:03,830
and Minister Neqin for an audience and a public trial.
496
00:38:03,830 --> 00:38:06,450
I'll take Oshan's head off first.
497
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:09,780
Your Majesty!
498
00:38:09,780 --> 00:38:11,230
Your Majesty, what's wrong?
499
00:38:11,230 --> 00:38:13,400
Your Majesty, please forgive me!
500
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:15,240
What is this?
501
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:25,350
Your Majesty, it must be just a negligence of the workhouse.
502
00:38:25,350 --> 00:38:27,080
It might not be some deliberate murderous act.
503
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:29,240
Your Majesty, please do not be mad!
504
00:38:29,240 --> 00:38:33,310
Those servants in the workhouses are all useless! They actually dared harm Your Majesty's body!
505
00:38:33,310 --> 00:38:37,050
Your Majesty, it is my negligence!
506
00:38:37,050 --> 00:38:39,910
For an unimaginable thing like this to happen,
507
00:38:39,910 --> 00:38:42,560
it shows how lax the person is who made these clothes!
508
00:38:43,180 --> 00:38:46,340
Investigate it! All involved personnel
509
00:38:46,340 --> 00:38:48,230
must be severely punished!
510
00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:00,910
Chief Steward Wu, she's Linglong.
511
00:39:03,610 --> 00:39:05,610
Take her away!
512
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:10,550
Chief Steward Wu! Momo! Momo!
513
00:39:11,430 --> 00:39:13,340
Chief Steward Wu!
514
00:39:19,030 --> 00:39:22,830
Chief Steward Wu...what did I do wrong?
515
00:39:22,830 --> 00:39:26,350
What did you do wrong? You tell me!
516
00:39:26,350 --> 00:39:27,960
You were asked to make His Majesty's casual clothing.
517
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:31,450
You dared to be careless and leave a needle in the collar!
518
00:39:31,450 --> 00:39:32,970
Do you know what this is called?
519
00:39:32,970 --> 00:39:35,260
If it had caused great damage, you would have been sentenced for rebellion!
520
00:39:35,260 --> 00:39:37,710
We all would lose our heads because of you!
521
00:39:37,710 --> 00:39:39,490
What should we do?
522
00:39:40,270 --> 00:39:42,050
That's right...
523
00:39:42,050 --> 00:39:44,770
No...
524
00:39:44,770 --> 00:39:47,280
I don't know about any needle!
525
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:52,530
It was Yingluo! That robe was made by her!
526
00:39:52,530 --> 00:39:54,970
It must have been Yingluo who was careless.
527
00:39:54,970 --> 00:39:59,530
Yingluo, quickly tell Chief Steward Wu
528
00:39:59,530 --> 00:40:01,360
that you were the one who made that clothing.
529
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:03,320
It was you who was careless for a moment.
530
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:06,940
It wasn't me! It wasn't me!
531
00:40:06,940 --> 00:40:11,260
Chief Steward, it was indeed Linglong who personally sewed that casual robe
532
00:40:11,260 --> 00:40:15,090
and handed it to me. I didn't get it wrong.
533
00:40:16,010 --> 00:40:18,390
Take her away!
534
00:40:18,390 --> 00:40:20,610
No! Chief Steward Wu!
535
00:40:20,610 --> 00:40:22,810
It wasn't me! It's true!
536
00:40:22,810 --> 00:40:27,520
Momo! Momo! It wasn't me!
537
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:36,080
Someone would even dare visit a palace maid who has committed a crime?
538
00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:37,820
This is rare.
539
00:40:37,820 --> 00:40:41,420
But there is no such rule here in the Office of Careful Punishment. Quickly leave!
540
00:40:41,420 --> 00:40:42,930
Gonggong.
541
00:40:44,240 --> 00:40:46,100
Just for a while.
542
00:40:48,210 --> 00:40:49,950
I will not cause you any delay.
543
00:40:49,950 --> 00:40:52,530
Let's go and have some tea first.
544
00:41:07,470 --> 00:41:09,910
You... It was you!
545
00:41:09,910 --> 00:41:11,640
You framed me!
546
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:15,860
No. It wasn't me.
547
00:41:15,860 --> 00:41:18,000
I kept thinking about the Jixiang's death.
548
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,700
Because of my absent-mindedness, I left that needle.
549
00:41:20,700 --> 00:41:24,800
Before handing it over, I surely would have checked it first.
550
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:27,730
But you were too anxious.
551
00:41:27,730 --> 00:41:33,090
Maybe...it is Jixiang who is punishing you.
552
00:41:33,860 --> 00:41:37,020
I don't understand what you're saying!
553
00:41:37,930 --> 00:41:40,530
Because you killed her.
554
00:41:41,300 --> 00:41:42,700
No.
555
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:44,920
I didn't.
556
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:48,900
Jixiang...would never steal.
557
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:55,130
It was you who stole the peacock feather threads.
558
00:41:55,130 --> 00:41:58,040
You got afraid when Chief Steward Wu started investigating. To rid yourself of any suspicion,
559
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:02,490
you fooled Jixiang to go into the Embroidery House at night and she eventually got caught red-handed.
560
00:42:02,490 --> 00:42:06,810
That day just happened to be her birthday.
561
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:10,270
My guess is you told her
562
00:42:10,270 --> 00:42:14,330
that you hid a gift there as a surprise.
563
00:42:14,330 --> 00:42:16,420
But Jixiang was naive.
564
00:42:16,420 --> 00:42:20,360
She never would have thought that you would use such a sinister method to frame her.
565
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:23,300
You're making up things. You don't have any evidence.
566
00:42:23,300 --> 00:42:25,620
At this point,
567
00:42:25,620 --> 00:42:27,330
is there any use for you to keep hiding it?
568
00:42:27,330 --> 00:42:30,240
Right. It was me who made Jixiang
569
00:42:30,240 --> 00:42:32,640
my scapegoat.
570
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:36,380
She is dumb to begin with, so she deserved it.
571
00:42:36,380 --> 00:42:38,490
You want to frame me
572
00:42:39,530 --> 00:42:41,740
and seek vengeance for Jixiang?
573
00:42:42,230 --> 00:42:43,840
It was just a minor negligence.
574
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:46,040
His Majesty has issued a decree
575
00:42:46,810 --> 00:42:49,410
to cane you eighty times,
576
00:42:49,410 --> 00:42:54,700
banish you to Ningguta, and never allow you back into the capital.
577
00:42:58,770 --> 00:43:08,900
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578
00:43:28,230 --> 00:43:35,560
♫The Forbidden Palace's walls surround them, feeling like a good place to reside.♫
579
00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:42,870
♫As the walls sever the setting sun's rays, they lose their past dreams as it grows cold.♫
580
00:43:42,870 --> 00:43:50,360
♫Decaying leaves cover the neglected shuttered window, that remembers the cold winds of twenty harvests.♫
581
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:56,790
♫ Knowing only how to go with the flow and pass the years.♫
582
00:43:56,790 --> 00:43:59,470
♫Unmarried and hopeful, the heavy, dark gates are locked, ♫
583
00:43:59,470 --> 00:44:04,110
♫Cultivated and proud, gem-like beauties, and yet somehow♫
584
00:44:04,110 --> 00:44:06,960
♫Flowers who stay may endure breakage, causing them ask to change their karma♫
585
00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:12,500
♫Can not an empty branch give them a carefree place to rest upon?♫
586
00:44:12,500 --> 00:44:19,830
♫Longing to be together with him, separated as the illumination in the western window declines,♫
587
00:44:19,830 --> 00:44:27,210
♫At leisure to be melancholy, also perplexed and worried about it all.♫
588
00:44:27,210 --> 00:44:34,570
♫Who will pity her, and record her lifetime full of misery?♫
589
00:44:34,570 --> 00:44:41,690
♫A pretentious, showy vision on a stage.♫
590
00:44:41,690 --> 00:44:49,370
♫Longing to be together with him, separated as the illumination in the western window declines,♫
591
00:44:49,370 --> 00:44:56,510
♫At leisure to be melancholy, also perplexed and worried about it all.♫
592
00:44:56,510 --> 00:45:04,040
♫Who will pity her, and record her lifetime full of misery?♫
593
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:10,040
♫A pretentious, showy vision on a stage.♫
594
00:45:11,570 --> 00:45:21,670
♫A pretentious, showy vision on a stage.♫