Original subtitles

♫ Not meeting each other, not meeting each other That one person, that one glance ♫

♫ Not resenting the years we wasted ♫

♫ In a certain year, that one gaze, who is nostalgic, who is silent? ♫

♫ Brushing past each other's shoulders, do not argue about our fate ♫

♫ If not for that one look, the fleeting sense of yearning ♫

♫ I would be unaware I had loved that person for a lifetime ♫

♫ Until now, even if the city is abound with rumours, do not explain ♫

♫ Using up the world's medicine, it is still hard to cure the affections of the mortal world ♫

♫ The heavy rain is coming and the ground is damp The memories are fading in front of my eyes ♫

♫ Many years later, all the stories turn out to have similar endings♫

♫ Don't say you love someone, don't say but Please do not overdo the tears ♫

♫ Gains and losses will always come around in a cycle ♫

The Imperial DoctressEpisode 21

All the traditional herbal therapies and prescriptions are only intended for usage in this drama. Please do not test or imitate.

That Princess Cohort feels bloatedness and stomach pain.

I then remembered that it's written in the Imperial Food book.

Imperial people during the Yuan dynasty all like to eat Soured Buttermilk.

Sometimes, kids would suddenly have diarrhea

or ate something that upset the stomach.

Eating medicine doesn't work.

instead they are cured after drinking a cup of Soured Buttermilk.

I was thinking, why not try this method?

Suen Xi Miao used to say that patients with dysentery must not eat curdled milk.

You actually used it to stop the diarrhea.

You are a bit too daring!

But he also mentioned

that it's good for the lungs and intestines.

But since they passed it down,

It must have it's purpose.

It's just that, at the time, I didn't have anything else so I used it.

Also,

Princess Wang doesn't want to eat her medicine.

Acupuncture is not too good.

If it went past three days, then her highness will kill me.

You admit that your acupuncture is not good?

You know all these bizarre methods.

No wonder your senior Cunxiao says you won't go on the righteous path.

There are some times where I even think,

you're someone who uses voodoo magic.

Teacher! How can you say it like that?

This is what my other teacher at the time taught me.

Then he's also a voodoo magician.

But,

at least you didn't taint my reputation.

Look at you.

Why?!

Why is the Medical Bureau method I used still not as fast as her?!

Why is master always siding with her and praising her?!

Why?! Why?!

Chunxia, no need to be upset.

She was just very lucky today.

In reality, she can't even be counted as your opponent.

Really?

Of course. Just think about it.

Today, she can't even do acupuncture well.

If she didn't take any shortcuts,

how could she compare with you?

Exactly. She must used some dark methods!

Her method was not even mentioned in the Medical Book.

It's not medicine! She definitely didn't use medicine!

Uncle, I am right.

I am the strong one. I am stronger than you.

Tell me, uncle. Tell me that is true.

Of course.

I raised you.

You are the most talented one

in our Chen Family.

Even in Medicine Bureau,

you are the genius in the public eyes.

Exactly. I am a genius. I am the best.

No one can surpass me.

I will win against her time. I must!

The Inner Palace gate will close soon.

Call for a eunuch to get a carriage quickly.

I understand.

Master, please rest.

Let's go.

I am so tired today.

Yuxian.

I am bringing you back to the palace.

- That day - That day

I am sorry about that day.

I misunderstood you. I had already verified.

That day, my mother was pretending to be sick.

I should've thought of it.

For someone as greedy as my mother,

how would she change her attitude overnight,

accepting you.

I was only thinking that

mother was sick at that time,

so I hoped you would be nicer to her.

But that mistreated you instead.

Please don't be mad anymore, ok?

Qiyu,

I really can't give up medicine.

And,

I am not an officer and I also have a master.

But I can promise you,

unless it is a must, I won't treat men.

Like my Teacher, I'm choosing to specialize in Gynecology.

Please just

give in to this, okay?

Okay.

Just don't kick me out next time.

How did I not realize that your personality was so stubborn before?

Your Majesty, I heard that at that time,

Cheng Cunxia's face even cracked!

Really? Fine.

I still want to keep ears

and listen to the bureaucrats explain in Changshou Court.

Also good, also good.

I just couldn't hold it in that moment

Your Majesty,

this news is actually already circulating in Beijing.

Everyone is saying that Your Majesty has sacred eyes like a torch.

Able to choose such person with great medicinal skills --

You flatterer!

But I like it.

Let's go back.

Minister Hang of the Imperial Pharmacy

Gained merit for curing the queen of Puoni.

Allowed to wear the regulated color red within the Palace.

That's all.

Thank you, His Majesty.

Long live the Emperor.

Minister Hang, please accept this.

Congratulations, Minister Hang. Thank you.

Minister,

Consort Li had someone come to tell you to go speak with her.

Okay. Eh?

But I don't know her.

You don't know her, but she knows you.

You are currently very famous here in the Palace. Everyone wants to get close to you.

Famous?

I am just a female physician. What can I do?

You don't know about this?

The Emperor was married for more than 10 years,

not a prince or princess was conceived or born.

The concubines all over the palace, in order to carry a son,

have been taking medicine from the Imperial Hospital

as if they were drinking water.

Now, the sky has dropped a miraculous physician like you,

who's even more skilled than Cheng Cunxia. How could they not hurry for you?

So that's how it is.

But, the Emperor, shouldn't he--

I think his health is pretty good.

Your Majesty rarely exert any effort in this aspect.

Besides going to the Empress, he rarely finds other consorts.

Actually, there are only those few consorts.

They were all arranged by the Empress Dowager.

The Emperor doesn't want them to get any ideas

and hurt the Empress'.

Palace maids are always punished like this.

Nothing weird about it.

You lazy servants.

Minister Hang is coming, and you didn't even tell me.

Greetings, Your Highness.

Don't be so formal.

I heard you already call the Empress "jie jie".

How could I receive your formal greetings?

Come, let us talk inside.

Your Highness,

I don't know what this palace maid did to deserve this.

Talking about it is frustrating.

She dropped my Feiyun Tablets into the water.

That was actually brought over

from Hanyang by our Korean ambassador.

- Feiyun Tablet? - Indeed.

We Korean court members all use it.

It's said that a divine person carried the recipe down.

After women use it,

the skin will become as white as snow.

Your Highness has used this?

Yes, it's because I felt it was not bad after several times

that I continue to use it.

I advise Your Highness to not use it so much.

The ingredients are not good.

There is actually poison inside.

- Poison? - Yes.

It's expensive

because it's made of mercury.

The medical books has records.

That princesses used mercury to make facial powder.

Its alias is Feiyun Tablet.

Your Highness, after using it,

do you feel that your skin whitened really quickly?

When this is used, it is effective.

However, after awhile,

it will turn women's skin black and cause discomfort.

If I am not mistaken,

Your Highness is having difficulty sleeping lately.

and your temper has become more aggressive .

This is the affect of the poison in Feiyun Tablets.

This bowl has pure water. This bowl has lime water.

Your Highness, you must usually also like to use soap and bath beans in taking a bath, right?

These two medicines behave like the lime water.

Think about it. If you continue to use it,

what will your face look like?

Oh my god! I have been rubbing poison on my face!

Doctor Hang, is my poisoning severe? How long do I have to live?

Your Highness, you do not have to worry.

You haven't used the cream for too long. The poisoning should not be too severe.

As for the damage it's done to your body,

I'll know it after I check your pulse later.

That's good. I will depend on you.

Your Highness,

seeing that courtesan

coincidentally made a great contribution,

please forgive her mistake.

Truly, she didn't have ill intentions.

Enough, enough. Tell her to get up.

Your Highness, hold your hands out straight.

That's enough.

People who are deeply poisoned by mercury usually have hand tremors.

Your Highness does not have this.

That means everything is still fine.

You should have soup made of peas and dried green vegetables.

If you add some ingredients that can protect from the wind, the effect will be better.

Remember them. Peas and dried green vegetable soup and anti-wind.

You don't need to bother memorizing it.

I will have the Imperial Pharmacy prepare.

Oh right, if you can also eat more fungus congee, the poison can be removed faster.

This is good! Did you not use this way to cure the Empress Dowager?

Then are there any medicines that could be used for beautification?

After Your Highness recovers,

I'll use the ancient books' formulas

Use Shandong donkey hide glue, black sesame, walnut kernel, and yellow wine

to make Your Highness some Tao Hua Ji.

This is a dessert and serves many purposes.

It can help your body, replenish blood, and beautify.

Good, sister, you must come visit me often

and give me more advice.

I understand.

Minister, this Imperial Pharmacy has become more and more unruly.

A few days ago, during my duty,

a lot of Imperial Concubines won't even look at me straight.

They're only willing to speak to the courtesans at the Imperial Pharmacy.

And ask that Minister Hang to check on their pulses.

Isn't this blatantly taking business from our Medicine Bureau?

What are you talking about?

We are not the same as the doctors outside.

What business are you talking about?

If the consorts do not summon you,

Ain't that give you a chance to rest?

Uncle, I understand what you mean.

But the Imperial Pharmacy is really bullying intolerably.

The Imperial Physician checking on Inner Court personnel's health is the rule.

That Hang is abusing her power. If something bad happens,

the Medicine Bureau will still have to take the blame!

Me and the other Imperial Physicians want to request Your Majesty

to shut down the Imperial Pharmacy.

Cunxia,

how much trouble do you still want to make?

- Come with me! - Yes.

Go.

Kneel!

Today,

in front of our ancestors, repeat

what I said to you

when I accepted you as my disciple.

Use one's heart to treat. Practice with virtue.

Consider only the difficulty of the illness, and not if he's rich or poor.

Don't be boastful and impatient. Don't be too happy or too jealous.

Must not use one's skills to concentrate on scheming for fortune.

Must not show off one's name and criticizes others.

Always learn and practice.

Always remember and be humble.

Then tell me, which of these have you done?

Beforehand, you changed the skills exam on your own.

Using a lowly method to make it difficult for Yunxian.

I already warned you once.

But how about now? You even plan to impeach her?

Do you have any considerations that both of you are under the same tutelage?

She just beat you a little when she cured Puoni's queen.

But you couldn't let it go.

Don't think I don't know that your good Uncle connived with the Head Monk of Tai Chang Temple.

Cunxia, you really disappoint me!

Teacher!

Uncle wanted to help me,

But I really didn't used that Puoni soil. I did not made it difficult for her.

Being a government official and seeing them overstepping their powers,

why can't I report that and request for their closure?

That Hang is Your Majesty's current favorite.

But Teacher, you shouldn't also keep indulging her.

- Even if the Emperor has been bewitched, there is still the Empress Dowager!- Shut up!

The Imperial Pharmacy although is called a pharmacy,

but who in the palace doesn't know

that the people there have always been practicing medicine.

Last time when Concubine Huang had a fever,

didn't your uncle considered it troublesome,

so he just sent the eunuch from the Imperial Pharmacy to check her pulse

and sent some Chinese thorowax soup there?

The patients always choose physicians by their skills.

The reason the consorts do such a thing,

do you really not know in your heart?

Cunxia, you are my treasured disciple.

and is also a rare medical genius.

I've always been proud of you,

so all the more I wish for you to walk the right path.

Do not let a short time of vanity, fame, and profit

push you to do irrational things.

Cunxia,

I've aged.

The more I want that you and Yunxian can exchange knowledge with each other.

So that both of you can improve further your medicinal skills.

But all she uses are dishonest practices.

I'm not intentionally making things difficult for her,

but I'm not willing to let people think

that when we doctors treat patients, it's doing incantations, voodoo magic,

and drinking some hideous things then they can be healed.

Since she made those medicinal foods,

the consorts of the palace won't take medicine!

If drinking some soup can treat an illness,

what's the point of having us physicians?

Cunxia, you know very clearly

what Yunxian's medical skills are like.

She did learned a lot of unneccessary things

that's why she can do those alarming moves.

But now,

she's already obediently and honestly learning under my tutelage

to reestablish her basic knowledge.

I'm teaching her now like I taught you in the past.

Cunxia,

I hope that you can learn from her that

not sticking to one pattern type of medical approach.

And not keep on focusing on her non-conformity to conventional morals.

About those incantations and prayers,

are just part of the methods of Zhu You.

These days, I

also looked for a lot of old Zhu You books.

If you're free, take a look at them.

Broaden your knowledge.

Learning medicine do require some obsessiveness.

But being too obsessive, he surely can't become successful.

Cunxia, promise me

that you'll get along with Yunxian.

Promise me.

Yes.

Your Highness,

I did everything according to your plans,

but these past few days, Yu Er suddenly changed.

Just now he even told me that the bitch is a female official,

She's ordered by Your Majesty to head the Imperial Pharmacy.

He's also using the one I said when I'm sick

- that I won't interfere anymore with whom he marries -- - Enough.

don't drag on.

You can't even control your son. How can you be a mother?

That Miss Hang really does have some skills.

Cheng Shisan set up a scheme to make her suffer

but she was really able to cure that foreign queen.

I initially wanted to use that situation to get rid of her.

But now, I seem to admire her talent.

How about

we accept her into the household as a consort?

That is possible too,

but I must ask Meilin about this.

No! That won't do!

Don't be rash. Listen to me.

What Prince don't have concubines and consorts?

Moreover, Prince Cheng is determined to marry Miss Hang.

You have been appearing in front of Prince Cheng for so long already

but he never had any response to that.

If I force him now to leave that Miss Hang and marry you,

he will hate you for life.

And also, I have seen that Miss Hang.

She's not really some dangerous or evil person.

Why not just accept her as a consort?

Prince Cheng will respect and love you more.

I don't want that type of respect, that type of love.

Prince Cheng can marry anyone except her.

Auntie...

I'm your only niece.

Can you endure to see me sad?

What does that Hang thinks she is?

Just kill her, won't that solve everything?

Or maybe destroy her face.

Or maybe destroy her virginity.

Just don't let this vixen continuously sticking with Your Highness.

Mei Lin...

Why are you this insensible?

She's currently a government official.

How can you just kill her?

And also, the Emperor, will not let it happen.

You're the one who wanted me to marry Prince Cheng then.

The one who wants him to become the new Emperor is you.

But right now, the one who wants me to take into account Your Majesty is also you.

Auntie...since you returned the court power to Your Majesty,

your words are not as powerful anymore.

Even just a lady official, we have to take into consideration now.

You're too unruly!

I've usually spoiled you

but you are becoming more and more unruly.

Go back and think about it well.

Ask your dad first before coming back to talk to me.

Enough!

Dad, tell me, is it because Miss Hang previously treated Auntie

so Auntie has now changed?

You are becoming more and more unruly.

How dare you quarrel with your Auntie inside Ren Shou Palace?

If you want to marry Prince Cheng, we still have to depend on your Auntie.

So what if that Miss Hang becomes a consort?

One Prince Cheng doesn't see her as something fresh (exciting) anymore,

then you can just think of ways to make her suffer.

Why must you now

insist on competing with her?

Dad! Why are you helping her too?

That Miss Hang is an enemy of our family.

That Miss Hang knows medicine and drugs.

If I live in the same house with her,

aren't you afraid that she'll put something on my meal?

This I never thought about...

It's indeed possible.

If there's you, there's no her. If there's her, there's no you.

Looks like Empress Dowager will not be helping us anymore.

We must help ourselves.

If we can't enter the Palace from the outside,

then we'll enter from the inside.

- From the inside? - Right.

Isn't it rumored

that this Miss Hang and Your Majesty's relation

is not ordinary?

The thing I instructed you, you must do it well.

Here.

- Here are your meals. - What beautiful colors.

Sister Qian, wait a little. There's still more.

Why is Yunxian so happy today.

I heard that there's good news from Prince Cheng.

Seems like Consort Dowager Wu has already agreed.

Then it's no wonder.

Sister Qian

This is the quail soup I made. Go and taste it.

What medicine did you put in here?

I've put in dodder, mugwort leaf, and chuanxiong.

It's to nourish your kidneys and flush away toxins.

Sister Qian's Palace is quite cold. Drinking this is most beneficial.

It's really fragrant.

You, clever ghost.

You're really treated well in the different palaces and halls for these past few days.

You're quite free today and was able to come here.

There's just news from Cheng Wang today

and you quickly come here to fawn this Royal Sister-in-law of yours?

That's not true. I've been always --

I know that you've been regularly giving Ru Xiang prescriptions.

I'm just only joking.

Don't just blush so easily.

Sister Qian is bullying me.

Sister Qian, do you have any problem?

Yuxian, if you have free time, go and try to adivise Your Majesty.

Even though Empress Dowager has already relinquished power,

but those subjects are still not very obedient.

Other than Prince Cheng being able to help in the building department,

there's really not much usable person around for Your Majesty.

Hence, he trusts and favors Wang Zhen more and more.

Right now, even my advice, he won't listen anymore.

Sister Qian

There's one thing I want to ask you.

Your Majesty told me that it's Wang Zhen who told him

that Empress Dowager caused his biological mother's death.

Is this thing true?

Your Majesty even told you about this?

Your Majesty just mentioned it by chance.

Don't overthink. Actually...

I have always felt that something's amiss.

Your Majesty's biological mother

suddenly died 10 years ago during New Year's eve.

That year, my father happens to be on guard duty at the Palace.

He remembered that she clearly died of illness.

That time Your Majesty is already under the care of Empress Dowager.

The Previous Emperor then asked men to secretly bury his mother in the Imperial Tomb.

But, years ago,

Wang Zhen suddenly brought a letter written by Your Majesty's biological mother before her death.

Saying that she's been poisoned by Empress Dowager using arsenic.

Advising Your Majesty to be at ease in becoming an Emperor and not to seek revenge for her.

Because of Your Majesty's anger,

he went to the Imperial Tomb and have her bones exonerated.

He discovered that the bones are black.

From then on, he believed firmly that Empress Dowager

is his biological mother's killer.

What about it does Sister Qian suspicious of?

Empress Dowager adopted Your Majesty beforehand

while his biological mother died after.

If Empress Dowager really wanted to do something,

why will she wait for 1 year before doing it?

Furthermore,

I heard Grand Empress Dowager said previously

that Your Majesty's biological mother

seems to be illiterate.

Then...could it be Wang Zhen lied to Your Majesty?

Most likely that's the case.

But I cannot also find any evidence.

Unfortunately, Empress Dowager and Your Majesty are always not getting along well

so this made it more likely that Empress Dowager might really be the killer.

These years, when Your Majesty feels alone and helpless,

it's always Wang Zhen who's there behind him.

So Your Majesty's relationship with Wang Zhen

then became deeper.

Given Eastern Depot's power, making a fake will

is not that hard.

But that corpse bone

is really Your Majesty's biological mother.

This one can't fool anyone.

Yuxian, just put this thing in your heart.

While we still don't have any evidence,

never mention it to anyone.

This thing, after all, is one of Your Majesty's painful secret.

I understand.

That's enough. Let's go back and eat.

Sister Qian

I feel that...your appetite is much better now than before.

Really?

That's right. I've always been beside Your Lady Highness.

Usually, Your Lady Highness only eat half cup of porridge and some vegetables during lunch

but now she finished a whole cup of porridge and ate a lot of meat and fish.

Usually just half a cup?

Sister Qian, I like to check your pulse again.

Your pulse is deep, thin, and weak.

Usually your appetite is bad.

Why didn't I think of it being due to a weak spleen?

Sister Qian, do you usually eat very few?

Others think that you take in very few because you want to maintain composure

but the truth is you really don't have the appetite.

And also, your character is quiet and contented. Usually you don't talk much.

You usually are pale-looking.

These are also signs of a weak spleen.

Qi and blood are the source of biochemical processes.

If the spleen is weak, then the qi and blood will not be enough.

So this make it difficult to get pregnant.

It all makes sense.

Then...how can we treat it?

Knowing the cause makes it easier.

I'll immediately give you a change in prescription.

50 grams of sour jujubes, 50 grams of Xia Hezi

25 grams of the rhizome found on atractylodes, 15 grams of donkey hide gelatin,

25 grams of the rhizome of yam and 5 grams of medicated leaven.

This should be right.

But I want to verify it first with Teacher.

Sister Qian, eat your lunch first. I'll just go to the Medicine Bureau first.

She's usually quite composed.

But in the end, she's still a child.

What is this?

This is the palace's hot spring water that I transferred. I already asked teacher.

He says it can be used.

We think that your womb is probably

not warm enough, so it's hard for you to get pregnant.

Apart from taking medicine, we'll have you try a medicated bath.

The bath will directly open up and soak into your acupoints.

Perhaps it'll provide results.

Will this work?

Of course it can.

I even added mugwort leaves, atractylodes, and Chinese dodder seeds.

I also mixed in essential oils.

Qian jiejie, don't look at it like it's medicine. T/N: "-jiejie" is an endearing term used to address older females

Just take it as a daily bubble bath.

This will also be good for your sleep.

The prescriptions for the warm spring water are different. I've already arranged them according to the days.

When you send them to Kunning Palace in a while,

you mustn't get them wrong.

Yes.

Minister,

There are two Eunuchs outside.

Apart from seeking medicine, they want you to look at them.

I wonder if you will see them or not?

Of course not.

You been serving for this long, yet don't you know?

The Imperial Pharmacy isn't the Medicine Bureau. Since when was it in charge of consultations?

But they're from the Internal Affairs Office.

I dare not offend them.

Can't the Imperial Pharmacy provide consultations?

When I was at Kunning Palace, I remember that

as long as the palace servants are sick, they can come to the Imperial Pharmacy for consultations.

Didn't I say this before?

Palace servants below the fifth rank have no right to see the physicians.

They can only collect medicine based on their own diagnosis.

Palace servants who are ill also have to wait for the senior maidservant's seal of approval

before exchanging the prescription for medicine.

It's become a habit for them to say

that they're here to be examined.

That can't be.

These many servants and eunuchs don't even have one physician?

Exactly. Who can we blame for our lowly lives?

But everyone is different; each condition is unique and requires specific treatments.

They aren't physicians. How could they request medication without a prescription?

Tell them

to wait in the Imperial Pharmacy for a while. I'll head there right now.

Yes.

Don't get too involved in everything.

I've never seen an Imperial Dispensary that examines patients as well.

Distributing medicine is good enough.

There are so many eunuchs and maids in the palace court,

Can you handle all of it alone?

If I can't handle it, then I'll train you, and others to help.

Regardless, I can't stand by and watch when someone is ill.

Here.

Minister Hang! Minister Hang!

Save me, Minister Hang!

Minister Hang!

How did this happen?

Ding Xiang, bring some dragon's blood over.

You can't, Minister. He's a eunuch.

A eunuch's life is also a life. Besides, who here apart from me can heal the sick?

But men and women are different after all.

Enough. We do not distinguish between men and women here.

There are only patients.

Minister Hang.

Here.

- What about here? - It hurts!

- Here? - It hurts!

Here?

Go back, all of you.

The Minister can only see 30 people in a day. It's raining heavily.

Go back quickly. If you're sick, come back tomorrow.

- Go back. - Ding Xiang.

This is something His Highness instructed me to give to Minister Hang.

Thank you, Xiao Ma'zi.

Why do you have so many people here?

They're all here for a consultation with Minister Hang.

You can go back first. I'll give this to her later.

All right. Then I'll be leaving.

Get back to your work.

Go back quickly, all of you.

I heard that Minister Hang's hands are soft and white.

They're just like...winter snow.

A living Guanyin has come to the Palace.

Even if I'm not sick, I should let her give me a check up.

You wish!

Let's talk about this later.

Go back!

In any case, I really couldn't listen any further.

She's too ignorant of the sinister thoughts within the palace.

Your Highness, I think

You should still remind Physician Hang.

Otherwise, this will become a rumour that'll spread quickly through the court.

At that time, if the Empress Dowager were to find out...

That won't do.

We mustn't let Mother know of this.

Yunxian just entered the Imperial Pharmacy. This is the period with the greatest public interest.

If I speak to her about it now, we would definitely argue.

Let's do this.

Go to the Imperial Medicine Bureau and find Supervisor Liu.

Tell him everything that has happened.

Tell him to warn Yunxian.

Also, tell Dingxiang to find some people

and remove all the servants who seem to be harbouring rude thoughts.

Yes.

- Your Highness. - Your Highness.

Your Highness-

Don't you watch where you're going?

I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I was in a rush to go to Kunning Palace. I didn't see you for a moment.

You're from the Imperial Pharmacy.

What are you going to Kunning Palace for?

Minister Hang has no way to go to Kunning Palac e to check on the Empress.

She wants me to notify her quickly.

All right. Go.

I take my leave.

Xiao Ma'zi,

Tell Mother that I have urgent business tonight and can't dine with her.

- Yes. - All right.

Let me.

Drink up. Hurry and finish your soup.

Do you get ill if you don't stick your nose in other's issues?

I wanted you to manage the Imperial Pharmacy

so that you would have something to do, not to tire you to death.

One should fulfill the responsibilities of their role. How am I sticking my nose in other's issues?

Zhengqi, I only learned today that the many eunuchs and maids in the palace

don't even have the right to see a physician once they fall sick.

You're the Emperor. How can you not care?

Is that so? I really didn't know.

Xiao Shun'zi.

Minister Hang is right. Humble people like us

do not have the right to consult with the imperial physicians.

This is a rule that has been passed since Yongle's time.

I...I really never took notice.

Now that you know,

can you adjust the palace rules?

I don't want you to make a big change.

I just wish that the Imperial pharmacy or Medice Bureau

can select eleven maids to train in medical practices.

This way they can treat simple illnesses.

Would they be able to do it?

And this is involves an ancestral rule.

I was able to pass the Medical Bureau's exam. They definitely can too.

Ancestral rules are important, but human life is even more important.

Your Majesty, you don't know

how many palace maids and eunuchs have died because of a trivial cold.

You are the Son of Heaven of Ming. Aren't these palace maids and eunuchs your people?

Let's do this.

I'll consult the Ministers tomorrow,

and discuss the expansion of it.

- Thank you, Your Majesty. - Don't thank me. Sit.

Thank you, Your Majesty. Thank you, Minister Hang. Minister Hang is really kind.

Only Minister Hang truly treats us eunuchs as people.

Stop pretending.

You are my favored subject. Many would want to fawn over you.

Return to Palace of Heavenly Purity to wait for me.

But Your Majesty...

Go!

Yes.

This little eunuch.

Yunxian, in the future, if I don't come to see you,

will you take the initiative to come see me? I miss you sometimes.

Didn't I have someone send you osmanthus honey already?

Also you're so busy...

Enough.

Someone already told me what you said

at the Empress' palace.

You already knew?

Don't imagine things.

From the first day I knew you,

I already told you that I have a wife.

I wasn't imagining things.

Consort Dowager Wu isn't making a fuss now.

That's rather good.

Also, the marriage decree for Qiyu and you

has already been prepared.

It won't happen that fast.

Although Consort Dowager Wu has agreed to accept me into the family,

she still wants Prince Cheng to take a real wife.

She's dreaming!

If not for my respect for Qiyu, I would have made her shut up earlier.

♫ Used to think the winter had always been this cold, ♫

♫ unrelated to my stubborn obsession ♫

♫ If the heavy snow froze everything ♫

♫ I will wait at the beginning, waiting for you to appear. ♫

♫ Perhaps our vows will change, as will the times ♫

♫ Constant, yet ever changing ♫

♫ even if the world changes ♫

♫ Even if my complexion ages with time, I am still the young one white ♫

♫ until the day I return to meet you ♫

♫ When that day arrives, we will return to familiar places ♫

♫ Appreciating the colourful world, and watching the light dance across your face ♫

♫ When that day arrives, we will return to the first snowfall ♫

♫ Forgetting our obsessions and the past we have lost ♫

♫ Even if my complexion ages with time ♫

♫ I am still the young one in white ♫

♫ until the day I return to meet you ♫