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Watching the person in the mirror's countenance grow pale and 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 9
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Mother! What are you doing?
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- Quickly get up.
- Since you've become an Imperial consort of His Majesty,
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your father and I never took advantage of it.
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We instead became more cautious with our actions and speech. Feared getting branded as losing proper decorum.
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I didn't blame you for refusing to help your father in his career.
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But you must save your little brother!
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I only have this one son.
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You must not let your white-haired mother send off your black-haired little brother to his death.
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Does Father know that you came here?
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He doesn't know, am I right?
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For twenty years, Father has been cautious and conscientious. He has served the public with integrity.
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He was very afraid of making the wrong move. Hence, he named me "Shushen".
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Gentle and respectful, careful and kind.
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Father wants me to always remember to act cautiously.
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Little Brother broke the state laws. He should be punished for it.
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If I beg His Majesty to be lenient, that is openly breaking the law
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and bending it for personal favors.
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You will just watch your little brother
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get beheaded?
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If that will be the sentence of the Ministry of Justice,
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I will send him off on his last journey.
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That counts as doing my duty as his sister.
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You are really filial to your father.
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Must you two be this devoted to the public interest?
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Okay. You be your "good person".
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Once your little brother goes up onto the execution stage,
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you will never have a mother again!
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Your Highness.
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Are you really not interfering?
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You're not really going to beg His Majesty?
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No.
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I can't go.
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If I do that, not only will I wrong His Majesty,
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I will wrong the many years of teachings of Father.
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I shouldn't help my little brother escape punishment
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when I know that he indeed did wrong.
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Your Highness, your headache and body pains
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must be from stagnated heat in the lung meridian because of getting exposed to cold.
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It isn't a big deal. Later, I'll prescribe some cough-relieving medicines
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made of ginger and pear. Recuperate for half a month
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and your body will get completely cured.
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Medical Inspector Zhang, you are a divine doctor.
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I am of course at ease with your skills.
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Or else, why would I hand Noble Lady Yu to your care?
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Oh, right.
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Regarding Noble Lady Yu, is her health well lately?
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You can be frank when in front of me.
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Your Highness the Empress, Noble Lady Yu will frequently have dizziness symptoms.
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I meticulously helped her nurse her health, but the effect is minimal.
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The root of the problem is that Noble Lady Yu
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thinks too much such that her emotions and consciousness is becoming unstable.
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Emotionally and mentally unstable?
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I never heard of such an illness.
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People have seven emotions, which are joy, anger, anxiety, worry, sadness, shock, and fear.
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The changes in emotions will affect the state of her health.
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Hence, the concept of moral and spiritual cultivation.
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Noble Lady Yu is worrying too much.
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Her state of mind is now affected. If this continues,
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it will surely affect the fetus in her womb.
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It's actually that grave?
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Now that the matter has come to this,
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I only hope that Noble Lady Yu can untie the knot in heart soon and focus on nursing her health.
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May Medical Inspector Zhang exert more effort for her.
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May Your Highness not worry. I surely will do my best.
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- Erqing.
- Here.
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- Walk Medical Inspector Zhang out.
- Yes.
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I thank you and take my leave, Your Highness.
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This way please.
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Mingyu, help me change clothes.
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Your Highness, you're sick yourself. Where else are you going?
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I'm going to visit Noble Lady Yu.
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- Your Highness.
- Your Highness.
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You must not. You just caught a cold.
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You mustn't get exposed to the wind again.
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Why don't we do this? Let Mingyu go in your behalf.
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You can just visit Noble Lady once you've recovered.
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Mingyu, we still have some tribute ginseng in the warehouse.
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Deliver them to Yonghe Palace.
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Tell Noble Lady Yu to focus on her pregnancy.
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- I will visit her soon.
- Yes.
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Your Highness.
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Go to Yonghe Palace.
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Tell Noble Lady Yu that Her Highness the Empress is always thinking of her.
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Tell her to be at ease and focus on caring for her pregnancy. Can you remember it?
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I can.
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Quickly go and return. Don't make delays.
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Laws aren't one man's law. If one broke the law, abolished a command, disrespected the society,
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As if the subjects were to abandon the monarch, it's an act of trespass.
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Void would then follow, the kingdom would become frail.
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If the subordinate were to step upon the superior, then the efforts of the latter will be lost. What can I...
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Mistress, Her Highness Consort Chun is here.
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Consort Chun, why are you here?
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Sister.
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The law is not just for one person.
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If one broke the law, abolished a command, disrespected the society,
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that's like a subject abandoning his monarch, a subordinate offending his superior.
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If his subjects abandon the ruler, the ruler will then be unable to solidify his might.
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How come you must write such words in your family letter.
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It's nothing.
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Yuhu, do you know where those words come from?
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King Zhuang of Chu once issued a command (T/N one of the five Hegemons who wrested power from the Zhou)
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that anyone passing by the Mao Gates must get off their carriage.
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The Crown Prince broke the rule and the law enforcer killed the carriage driver on site.
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The Crown Prince then turned and complained to King Zhuang of Chu.
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King Zhuang of Chu told him that the law was not for one person.
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If you encounter a person who disobeys the law,
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and you don't stop him, people will then start following suit.
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The law will then become useless. If it is allowed to continue, subjects will start to hold the law in contempt.
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Abandon their ruler and offend their superior.
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Military personnel will not act as one. Officials will not act as one. The state will soon not look like a state.
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I've long heard that Lord Naerbu is very strict in discipline. (T/N Consort Xian's father)
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Seeing it today, it is indeed that way.
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Looks like, you are determined
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not to ask for leniency for your little brother.
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Since I was little, Father has taught me the principles of proper conduct.
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As a close Imperial consort of His Majesty,
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even more so, I must not beg for leniency from him just for personal reasons.
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You say it in such a stern and just manner.
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But in your heart, can you really bear to?
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If you can do this,
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why then is the paper drenched with your tears
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and the words have become blurred because of them?
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His Majesty is currently extremely angry.
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Even if you beg him for leniency now, it might not work.
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But if it is Her Highness the Empress who goes, it will be totally different.
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You are asking me to beg Her Highness the Empress?
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If you go alone, you might be suspected of being partial because of personal connection and will draw criticism.
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But if Her Highness the Empress goes,
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not only will she able to save your little brother,
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she will also preserve your virtuous name.
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You think I refuse to beg for leniency because I'm afraid
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that my reputation will be smeared?
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Consort Chun, you have thought too lightly of me.
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Let me tell you this, I won't beg anyone.
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His Majesty killed Oshan to display his might
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and to tell the court officials to be alert at all times.
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If he spares Changshou, that's telling everyone openly accepting bribes isn't illegal.
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That will surely invite the grudge of the people and political criticisms.
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I will never do such a thing.
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What are you laughing about?
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I'm laughing at you for being high-sounding but impractical.
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After entering the palace for so many years, you're still so naive.
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For whole-hearted devotion to your master, you'd rather abandon the life of a loved one. You think that by doing that,
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His Majesty will care?
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Currently, following the trend is easy, but it's hard to maintain moral uplift alone,
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because whole-hearted devotion to one's master would become a joke,
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and not bending the law to favor self-interest will get criticized by others.
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Consort Chun, I will never beg the Emperor nor the Empress,
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because I do things not to seek understanding from eminences, but just to keep a clean conscience.
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I'm going to write my letter now.
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Consort Chun, if there is nothing else, you can leave now.
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Hope Sister will not regret this.
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Your Highness, why won't you listen to the advice of Consort Chun?
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Before I got married off to the Prince Bao Manor, my father told me
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that I must insist on my original character no matter what I go through.
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Consort Chun keeps urging me to beg the Empress. If I go,
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that's equivalent to siding with the Empress.
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I don't want to join those dirty collusions and quarrels.
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Even more so, I don't want to flow with the trend and lose my original character.
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Do you understand?
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Noble Lady Yu!
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Noble Lady Yu!
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What are you doing!
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Noble Lady Yu! Noble Lady Yu!
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Noble Lady Yu!
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Help!
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Help! Help!
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- There's a--
- Arrest her!
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Don't run! Arrest her!
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Open the door! Open the door!
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- Erqing.
- Here.
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How long has it been since Imperial Concubine Yi left?
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Your Highness, why are you suddenly asking?
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Time flies by so fast.
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If my memory serves me right,
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today should be the forty-ninth day after her death.
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Open the door!
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Open the door!
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Noble Lady Yu!
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- Noble Lady Yu, quickly wake up!
- Open the door!
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Open the door! Open the door!
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Continue banging on it!
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Open the door!
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Open the door!
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Open the door! Hurry!
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Open the door! Quickly open the door!
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Hurry!
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- What's going on?
- Yonghe Palace is on fire.
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Quickly gather everyone to help put out the fire.
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Go.
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Yonghe Palace is on fire!
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Help!
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- Yonghe Palace is on fire! Help!
- Capture her!
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- Save Noble Lady Yu! Help!
- Quickly cover her mouth!
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- Help!
- Block her mouth!
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Someone is coming.
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Kill Wei Yingluo on the spot for trying to assassinate Noble Lady Yu!
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Hurry!
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Respectfully greeting Your Highness the Noble Consort.
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What is going on here?
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I passed by Yonghe Palace today
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and thought of visiting Noble Lady Yu.
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Who knew that I'd coincidentally bump into Wei Yingluo trying to kill Noble Lady Yu.
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Of course, I have to arrest her.
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Quickly save Noble Lady Yu. Quickly save Noble Lady Yu first!
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Immediately call for the Imperial Physician!
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Noble Lady Yu! Noble Lady Yu!
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- Noble Lady!
- Hurry!
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- Noble Lady, what's wrong with you?
- Noble Lady Yu.
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Assist her outside to rest first.
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Be careful.
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Wei Yingluo, immediately explain the matter to me.
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I was ordered by Her Highness the Empress
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to come here and visit Noble Lady Yu.
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However, I discovered...
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that eunuch was trying to strangle Noble Lady Yu!
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I knocked him out then attempted to escape and call for help.
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However...I bumped into Noble Consort Gao.
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When Noble Consort Gao saw me,
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she immediately wanted to kill me.
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I had no choice
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but to escape back inside the room,
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create smoke to lure people to come here and save me.
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You are full of blood and are panic-stricken.
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What's surprising about my asking people to capture you?
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But you...hid inside the room,
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would rather die than open the door. Your actions are very suspicious.
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Of course, I have the reason to suspect you of trying to murder Noble Lady Yu.
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- Hence, I ordered people to charge in.
- Wake that eunuch up.
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We will then know who ordered him.
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Men! Use water to wake the eunuch.
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Talk. Who ordered you to kill?
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Talk!
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It was Her Highness the Empress who ordered me to kill!
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Since when did I become the mastermind of a murder?
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How come I am ignorant of it?
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Greetings to Your Highness the Empress.
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If not because I remembered that today is the forty-ninth day death commemoration of Imperial Concubine Yi,
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and worried that Noble Lady Yu would be pondering too much, hence, I personally came to visit,
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I wouldn't have known that Yonghe Palace would be this lively.
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Empress, you heard it earlier, right?
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This eunuch personally said
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that it was you who sent him to kill Noble Lady Yu.
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Lift your head.
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When did I order you to kill Noble Lady Yu?
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Your Highness the Empress, it's not that I want to say that...
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It was...because the scheme got exposed.
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I have no choice but to say it.
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You lost your son.
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You hate Noble Lady Yu for getting pregnant.
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You then used the excuse of the Imperial Household Department sending more people here to help
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to place me inside Yonghe Palace.
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You told me to eliminate Noble Lady Yu.
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Today is the forty-ninth day death commemoration
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of Imperial Concubine Yi. The palace forbids offerings for the dead.
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Noble Lady Yu could only send everyone away,
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so I found the chance to make my move.
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You totally are so daring!
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Your Highness, your health is more important.
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Your Highness the Empress, the truth will eventually come out.
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Who told you to slander the Empress?
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You must know that this is a crime punishable by executing up to the nine degrees of relation.
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Say it! If you don't, I'll break your leg!
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Your Highness the Empress, if it wasn't you who ordered me to kill,
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how could I be this bold?
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Now that things have come to this, if Your Highness the Empress will not admit it,
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I can only die
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to fulfill my loyalty for you.
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He hid poison between his teeth and has committed suicide.
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Everyone heard what he said earlier.
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Your Highness the Empress actually tried to kill Noble Lady Yu
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and the child in her womb because of personal gain.
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This is so shocking.
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If Her Highness the Empress wanted to kill Noble Lady Yu,
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why would she send me here to visit her?
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Maybe...the Empress was worried that he wouldn't be able to do it by himself.
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Noble Consort, are you saying that I came to supervise the killing?
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That is also possible.
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On this eunuch, there are three kinds of wounds.
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On the neck, there is a wound left by the tip of a hair pin.
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On his head are bloody wounds from being hit by a flower vase.
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That greenish swelling on his forehead was when I forcefully hit his head on the ground.
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If Her Highness the Empress wanted to commit murder,
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why would she send me to stop the perpetrator?
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Isn't that self-conflicting?
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Maybe the Empress sent you to silence him?
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If I'm going to silence someone,
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why did I come empty-handed?
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Not only do I not have a dagger,
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I didn't even have any rod.
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Did Her Highness the Empress tell me to be resourceful,
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and just use the flower vase of Noble Lady Yu to kill?
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I came to visit Noble Lady Yu
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and especially brought some ginseng.
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May I ask Noble Consort, what did you bring with you?
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Her Highness Noble Consort brought with her a group of eunuchs.
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Such fierce-looking party,
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it doesn't look like they're here to visit.
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It looked more like seeking vengeance.
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You dare suspect me?
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Offending your superior, slap her mouth!
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Offending one's superior is a grave crime.
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Of course, I dare not do it.
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But with the same reasoning,
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how could Her Highness the Noble Consort through a testimony of a killer
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just casually suspect Her Highness the Empress?
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Is it because Noble Consort is self-assured of how noble your status is,
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that's why you feared nothing and spoke carelessly?
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You're just a dog-like slave...
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Who gave you the guts to talk with me like that!
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I think
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that every word she said is very reasonable.
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Your Highness the Noble Consort,
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I want to ask you a question.
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Why did you bring so many people today to Yonghe Palace?
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Zhilan!
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Her Highness the Noble Consort was initially planning to go to the fabric warehouse.
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She intentionally brought the eunuchs to train them.
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When we were passing Yonghe Palace, she suddenly thought of visiting Noble Lady Yu.
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Who knew that upon entering the courtyard, we saw Wei Yingluo being panic-stricken.
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From the looks of it, Her Highness just misunderstood it.
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- Saw it wrongly.
- For just one wrong perception, can one already casually falsely accuse a good person?
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Who do you think you are?
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Do you want Her Highness to still apologize to you?
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Of course, I cannot bear to accept
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the apology of Her Highness the Noble Consort.
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But Her Highness the Empress is well-deserving of it.
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- You—
- All of you, shut up!
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Noble Consort Gao,
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what do you think?
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Today, I listened to the slanderous talk of a eunuch
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and blamed Your Highness the Empress by mistake.
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It was all my being too rash.
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Your Highness the Empress is magnanimous. Please forgive me.
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Not only did you falsely accuse me,
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you even almost mistakenly wrongly killed Wei Yingluo.
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Return to your Chuxiu Palace
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and reflect on your mistakes.
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Let's go.
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It's all my fault.
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When Noble Lady woke up today, she already didn't look good.
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She said that she sensed bitterness in her mouth. She ordered me to go to the kitchen
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and get her a red date and lotus root soup.
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I actually believed it.
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It's all because I'm stupid, that I almost harmed Noble Lady.
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Okay already.
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Noble Lady intentionally drove you away. She would naturally come up with a lot of reasons.
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Immediately wipe away your tears.
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Don't disturb the Imperial Physician in examining her.
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May Your Highness the Empress be at ease. Noble Lady Yu is blessed by the heavens.
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She's just temporarily unconscious, but is safe.
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Noble Lady. Noble Lady...you're awake.
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Noble Lady.
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Noble Lady Yu.
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Don't kill me!
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- I beg you, don't kill me!
- Noble Lady!
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Don't kill me...
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Noble Lady Yu got traumatized.
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I can only prescribe some sedatives so she can rest well.
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Okay.
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I beg you, don't kill me...
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Don't kill me.
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Young Master.
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This medicine is good for superficial wounds. Apply it two times a day.
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Why are you avoiding me?
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A man must not look straight at a woman's body.
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You apply it by yourself.
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Thank you, Young Master.
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So painful.
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I'm done. Young Master can now turn around.
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I have questions to ask you.
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Ask away.
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Why did you light the curtain on fire?
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Do you know that if you weren't careful, you might get burned and die?
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I know that it was very dangerous.
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But in that situation,
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that is the only way I could lure other people to come.
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Young Master, try thinking this way. If I just shout that the Noble Consort is trying to kill someone,
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who would still dare charge into Yonghe Palace?
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Those people are all afraid to encounter a matter like that.
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They would only pretend to not hear it.
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But if the palace is on fire, it would be different.
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Everyone will come to put out the fire.
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Then, Noble Yu and I will have a chance to be saved.
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What if Noble Consort was able to charge into the room before everyone arrives?
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Just do one can do and leave the rest to heaven's will.
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If the heavens want me dead, I can only accept my fate.
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If you really accept your fate,
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you wouldn't be so bold
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as to openly question the Noble Consort.
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I...
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If Her Highness the Empress wasn't there,
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I wouldn't dare to do it either.
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I was just a fox assuming the majesty of the tiger,
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pretending to be fierce because I have a backer.
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It's my first time hearing you laugh.
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This is not proper either?
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Not proper.
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Didn't your mother teach you
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the proper etiquette for a lady from a respectable family?
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I'm not a lady from a respectable family. And I don't have a mother.
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Sorry.
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As soon as I was born, my mother was gone.
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Everyone says that I have a hard fate.
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But it's fine, my sister was like a mother.
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She was the most important person in my life.
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I didn't know...
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Being born, aging, getting sick, and dying are common occurrences in life.
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What's there to apologize about?
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Thank you, Young Master, for your medicine.
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I'm deeply grateful.
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The Empress most likely still has things to ask me.
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I will take my leave now.
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Young Master, do you know A'Man?
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I do not know her.
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But you look like
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you know her.
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I already said that I don't know her.
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That's too bad then.
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A'Man is my older sister.
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I was bold and reckless.
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I almost brought Your Highness trouble.
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May Your Highness punish me.
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Rise.
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Yes.
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Today, if not because of you,
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I would never be able to clean myself up of this muddled water. (T/N remove stain on reputation)
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Your Highness the Empress, I'm guessing that
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eunuch who tried to commit murder
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was sent by Noble Consort. Or else, she wouldn't have arrived in such perfect timing,
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to be the first one on scene. Once Noble Lady Yu dies,
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they would then claim that she hanged herself and committed suicide.
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Smooths everything out just like that.
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Noble Consort Gao not only wanted to commit murder, she also want to personally see
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Noble Yu dead.
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It shows how savage she is
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here in the palace.
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She has become extremely unrestrained.
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It's just that she didn't expect you'd arrive before her and hinder her plan.
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She could only push the boat with current and throw all the muddled water to me.
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Your Highness, why don't we report all of this to His Majesty?
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With him handling it—
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The killer eunuch is dead. We now don't have a witness.
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Just our words against hers, no evidence to back it up.
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Moreover, for this incident,
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Noble Lady Yu indeed committed a grave mistake.
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You're talking about
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Noble Lady Yu making offerings for Imperial Concubine Yi?
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Noble Lady Yu and Imperial Concubine Yi had always been close, like real sisters.
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Imperial Concubine Yi died because of her. She surely felt anxious about it.
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Today just happen to be the forty-ninth day of Imperial Concubine Yi's death.
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She drove away all the people around her and stayed in the hall alone so that
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she can make some offerings to an old friend.
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But in the palace, only the master of the Forbidden Palace can do any offering rituals.
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What Noble Lady Yu did, if we're going to put it lightly, is just breaking palace rules.
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But to put it gravely, it's openly cursing His Majesty and Empress Dowager.
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Noble Consort Gao was certain about this, hence, she dared to be so emboldened.
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So in order to preserve Noble Lady Yu, we mustn't escalate this matter.
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Your Highness the Empress is kind.
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I am deeply moved.
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I also am not doing this just for Noble Lady Yu.
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It's more for the child in her womb.
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I really don't want the child to face cold stares,
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curses, and discrimination upon getting born.
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But Yingluo, since Noble Consort Gao failed this time,
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with her domineering personality, she wodn't leave this matter like this.
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I'm just worried that she'll surely make things difficult for you in the future.
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Your Highness the Empress, even without these matters,
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Noble Consort will not let me off.
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So what?
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Your Highness, forgive me!
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Useless! You couldn't even do things properly.
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How did I instruct you?
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How do you people do things!
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You couldn't even suppress a lowly palace maid.
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This matter almost got escalated.
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I give you people good food and drink every day. I should just feed them to the dogs!
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Your Highness the Noble Consort.
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Imperial Concubine Jia, please be for leniency in my behalf.
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Quickly get up.
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Your Highness the Noble Consort, I've heard what happened earlier.
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Don't be angry now.
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Don't be angry?
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The Empress has been extending her hand to such a great length.
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00:35:53,110 --> 00:35:56,850
It wasn't easy to finally put Xiao Luzi in Yonghe Palace.
493
00:35:56,850 --> 00:36:02,070
We learned that Noble Lady Yu would secretly make offerings to Imperial Concubine Yi every seventh day from her death.
494
00:36:02,070 --> 00:36:05,510
I've said before to just directly expose her.
495
00:36:05,510 --> 00:36:09,620
It was you who said to eliminate the grass by the root, so I asked Xiao Luzi to act.
496
00:36:09,620 --> 00:36:11,720
Your Highness, this...
497
00:36:11,720 --> 00:36:14,140
I also didn't expect it would be like this.
498
00:36:14,140 --> 00:36:18,080
That Xiao Luzi was so incompetent. He couldn't even suppress a palace maid.
499
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:24,800
If I'd known this would happen, I would have just exposed Noble Lady Yu and made her unable to make a comeback.
500
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:29,160
But now, really great. I'm left not knowing what to do.
501
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:31,940
It's making me mad.
502
00:36:32,750 --> 00:36:34,540
Your Highness, don't be angry.
503
00:36:34,540 --> 00:36:37,330
We also did gain something from this.
504
00:36:37,330 --> 00:36:41,560
I heard that Noble Lady Yu got traumatized so badly.
505
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:46,020
Whether that child will be able to be born safely is still a big question.
506
00:36:46,020 --> 00:36:49,760
The Empress now have ordered the Imperial physicians to treat her in shifts.
507
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:53,560
The whole Yonghe Palace is a big mess.
508
00:36:56,550 --> 00:36:59,360
Although that is the case,
509
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:02,790
I still feel very angry.
510
00:37:06,140 --> 00:37:07,790
What is that?
511
00:37:07,790 --> 00:37:09,900
Your Highness the Empress, this is a pekingese.
512
00:37:09,900 --> 00:37:14,650
Young Lord Gao especially sent it here to the palace to relieve you of boredom.
513
00:37:16,180 --> 00:37:18,840
He still remembers he has a little sister?
514
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:21,370
Your Highness the Noble Consort, you can really joke. Young Lord Gao
515
00:37:21,370 --> 00:37:23,340
always thinks of you.
516
00:37:23,340 --> 00:37:26,110
He personally trained this pekingese.
517
00:37:26,110 --> 00:37:27,870
Look.
518
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:40,880
Good thing he still cares.
519
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:45,410
This pekingese is like a pile of snow.
520
00:37:45,410 --> 00:37:47,560
Let's call him Xueqiu then. (T/N "Snowball")
521
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:50,620
Tell people to feed him. He mustn't be maltreated.
522
00:37:50,620 --> 00:37:52,200
How would I dare to?
523
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:56,360
I will ensure that it will be trained to become smart, energetic, and adorable.
524
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:57,650
You may withdraw.
525
00:37:57,650 --> 00:37:59,160
Yes.
526
00:38:11,070 --> 00:38:15,350
Your Highness really has outstanding, great fortune.
527
00:38:15,350 --> 00:38:18,140
Lord Gao is now the Grand Chancellor of the Imperial Household Department
528
00:38:18,140 --> 00:38:19,930
and Viceroy of the Southern Rivers.
529
00:38:19,930 --> 00:38:23,800
Young Lord Gao is also moving up the ranks. His Majesty has successively rewarded him.
530
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:26,230
You can say that he's one of the highly-favored officials of His Majesty at present.
531
00:38:26,230 --> 00:38:29,370
With Your Highness having this kind of great fortune,
532
00:38:29,370 --> 00:38:33,380
who else would dare compete with you?
533
00:38:33,380 --> 00:38:36,840
Your Highness, you shouldn't be angry just because of some lowly person.
534
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:45,440
But...His Majesty has just scolded Zhang Tingyu and Ortai,
535
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:51,030
and now he's heavily favoring the Gao family. Isn't that self-conflicting?
536
00:38:51,030 --> 00:38:56,550
This...I also don't understand.
537
00:38:56,550 --> 00:38:59,320
But, my guess is
538
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:02,480
His Majesty did this to placate them.
539
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:05,640
So that they can be at ease in doing their jobs and stay loyal to the nation.
540
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:09,480
After all, the two Lord Gaos are pillars of the government.
541
00:39:10,290 --> 00:39:13,460
That is also because my father and brother are capable,
542
00:39:13,460 --> 00:39:17,720
hence, His Majesty would especially heavily favor them.
543
00:39:21,330 --> 00:39:24,150
Guess what I went to do earlier.
544
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:26,850
Didn't you go handle the corpse of the killer eunuch?
545
00:39:26,850 --> 00:39:31,010
That's right. I skinned that man and threw him into the mass burial site.
546
00:39:31,010 --> 00:39:35,420
But I never expected that man to have wounds all over.
547
00:39:35,420 --> 00:39:37,990
Especially on his neck and head.
548
00:39:37,990 --> 00:39:40,630
The injuries on those two areas are quite deep.
549
00:39:40,630 --> 00:39:44,020
How could a little palace maid have such a cruel heart
550
00:39:44,020 --> 00:39:45,210
and sinister hands?
551
00:39:45,210 --> 00:39:47,890
If someone wants to kill you, would you still hold back?
552
00:39:47,890 --> 00:39:51,190
That's right too. But her attacks were too direct and without hesitation.
553
00:39:51,190 --> 00:39:54,560
The resoluteness of how it was done seem more like that of a man.
554
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:56,530
It doesn't seem to be from a woman.
555
00:39:56,530 --> 00:39:59,260
Young Master, do you know A'Man?
556
00:39:59,260 --> 00:40:03,460
A'Man is my older sister.
557
00:40:03,460 --> 00:40:05,460
Fuheng, look.
558
00:40:06,420 --> 00:40:08,490
What is that?
559
00:40:08,490 --> 00:40:10,860
That is the beloved dog of Noble Consort Gao.
560
00:40:13,650 --> 00:40:17,300
I've only seen a person walking a dog, and never a dog walking a man.
561
00:40:17,300 --> 00:40:19,570
This is so Western!
562
00:40:19,570 --> 00:40:22,860
The dog of Noble Consort is of course more noble than a servant.
563
00:40:23,890 --> 00:40:26,560
How could then it allow a servant to walk in front of it?
564
00:40:27,390 --> 00:40:29,860
Those are the palace rules.
565
00:40:29,860 --> 00:40:31,860
Noble Consort is really highly favored.
566
00:40:31,860 --> 00:40:35,800
A dog of hers is more precious than a human.
567
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:40,670
Say, why do you think His Majesty scolded Ortai first
568
00:40:40,670 --> 00:40:44,340
then promoted Gao Bin, an ally of Ortai?
569
00:40:44,340 --> 00:40:46,420
Divide to conquer.
570
00:40:49,230 --> 00:40:52,450
Suppressing Ortai and then promoting Gao Bin
571
00:40:52,450 --> 00:40:54,710
is to split them.
572
00:40:56,180 --> 00:41:01,220
To put it simply, as the grace that Gao Bin receives increases, he surely will become overconfident.
573
00:41:01,220 --> 00:41:03,580
And then Ortai would start to fear him.
574
00:41:03,580 --> 00:41:07,500
How could a political party tolerate having two leaders?
575
00:41:07,500 --> 00:41:09,930
The two of them will turn on each other sooner or later.
576
00:41:10,990 --> 00:41:13,650
This is the check and balance principle of an emperor.
577
00:41:13,650 --> 00:41:19,480
Say, you, being a lady, you almost lost your life like that.
578
00:41:20,290 --> 00:41:24,590
In that situation, I had no more time to think.
579
00:41:25,550 --> 00:41:29,120
You...what must I say to you?
580
00:41:30,240 --> 00:41:35,820
Momo. I saw Fuheng today.
581
00:41:36,990 --> 00:41:39,760
He said that he never knew my sister.
582
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:42,520
You're still investigating this matter?
583
00:41:47,330 --> 00:41:49,720
Based on Sister's personality,
584
00:41:50,510 --> 00:41:55,560
if she have picked up a precious jade pendant like that, she would have returned it to the owner.
585
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:58,090
But she instead kept it.
586
00:41:59,100 --> 00:42:01,580
There's only two possibilities.
587
00:42:01,580 --> 00:42:06,190
One is it's a lover. Otherwise, it's a person she bears a grudge against.
588
00:42:06,190 --> 00:42:09,710
Sister has a lover. Even though she got heartlessly abandoned by him,
589
00:42:09,710 --> 00:42:13,030
she would never easily have a change of heart.
590
00:42:13,030 --> 00:42:15,550
Then there is only one possibility left.
591
00:42:16,420 --> 00:42:18,760
Fuheng raped Sister.
592
00:42:21,010 --> 00:42:29,060
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♫The Forbidden Palace's walls surround them, feeling like a good place to reside.♫
594
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♫As the walls sever the setting sun's rays, they lose their past dreams as it grows cold.♫
595
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♫Decaying leaves cover the neglected shuttered window, that remembers the cold winds of twenty harvests.♫
596
00:43:11,630 --> 00:43:18,080
♫ Knowing only how to go with the flow and pass the years.♫
597
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:20,740
♫Unmarried and hopeful, the heavy, dark gates are locked, ♫
598
00:43:20,740 --> 00:43:25,460
♫Cultivated and proud, gem-like beauties, and yet somehow♫
599
00:43:25,460 --> 00:43:28,270
♫Flowers who stay may endure breakage, causing them ask to change their karma♫
600
00:43:28,270 --> 00:43:33,770
♫Can not an empty branch give them a carefree place to rest upon?♫
601
00:43:33,770 --> 00:43:41,150
♫Longing to be together with him, separated as the illumination in the western window declines,♫
602
00:43:41,150 --> 00:43:48,400
♫At leisure to be melancholy, also perplexed and worried about it all.♫
603
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:55,870
♫Who will pity her, and record her lifetime full of misery?♫
604
00:43:55,870 --> 00:44:02,320
♫A pretentious, showy vision on a stage.♫
605
00:44:03,290 --> 00:44:10,650
♫Longing to be together with him, separated as the illumination in the western window declines,♫
606
00:44:10,650 --> 00:44:17,860
♫At leisure to be melancholy, also perplexed and worried about it all.♫
607
00:44:17,860 --> 00:44:25,470
♫Who will pity her, and record her lifetime full of misery?♫
608
00:44:25,470 --> 00:44:32,100
♫A pretentious, showy vision on a stage.♫
609
00:44:32,860 --> 00:44:43,060
♫A pretentious, showy vision on a stage.♫
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