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"Go Ahead Fearlessly" - Liu Yuning
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♫ Grudges and karma, right and wrong ♫
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♫ The past hides blood and tears ♫
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♫ It is hard to catch up after years of separation ♫
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♫ The truth cannot be fully revealed ♫
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♫ Fate is full of twists and turns ♫
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♫ Life and death, fortune and misfortune go hand in hand ♫
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♫ Obsession is hard to get rid of, keeping the truth
and getting rid of the lies, let the wind blow ♫
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♫ Tossed about by the wind and rain, I will never regret it,
I will accompany you for my whole life ♫
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♫ At least you share my joy and sorrow ♫
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♫ Unravelling fate, fearlessly, a dream returns ♫
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♫ The mountains and rivers are bright and beautiful,
holding hands, together we return ♫
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♫ In this life, my heart returns untainted of dust and ash ♫
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[Melody of Golden Age]
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[Episode 7]
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I've practiced the pipa for two hours.
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It's more exhausting than having a day of autopsy.
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Qin, get me some preserved fruits.
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Yes.
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Great Chief.
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What are you doing here?
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This is the Shen Mansion. I can do whatever I want.
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But you…
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Do you really consider yourself the hostess here?
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How dare you ask my servant late at night to get the preserved fruits from the kitchen,
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and play noisy sounds on the pipa.
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I'm sorry.
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I bought these preserved fruits from west street.
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Next time, I will get them myself and not trouble your servants.
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As for the noisy sounds,
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in order to make them pleasant as soon as possible,
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I can only practice all night to make it sound good.
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Please forgive me.
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Singing and dancing require talent.
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Cramming at the last minute will only invite ridicule.
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I advise you to give it up to pretend to be a courtesan.
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- What if I succeed?
- Even if you succeed, you won't solve the case anyway.
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- What if I succeed?
- Even if you succeed, you won't solve the case anyway.
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Don't forget the murderer targets one man and one woman.
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Just you alone is not enough.
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There must also be a man constantly entangled with the courtesan.
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Well, I do have a candidate in mind.
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Great Chief, please invite him over.
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Well, I…
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Director Wu.
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Today, please accompany Madam Shen to the Mizar Festival together.
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She insisted you take this role.
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Great Chief, you have misunderstood me.
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I am wronged.
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If you don't believe me, inquire at the Ministry of Justice.
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Madam Shen and I are by no means close.
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We can't get along well and are at loggerheads with each other.
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You don't have to be that anxious.
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Today, Madam Shen is only disguising herself as your pretty mistress.
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Great Chief, well…
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Why me?
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Great Chief. Don't drag me.
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Great Chief! Great Chief!
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Why me?
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Because your mistress is so beautiful and famous in the Imperial City.
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You!
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Let me go.
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Great Chief. Madam Shen rarely dresses up like this, she looks quite charming indeed.
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If you have time to flatter me here, you'd better do something practical.
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Yes.
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Follow me.
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Good! Good!
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Good! Good!
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During the Mizar Festival, the Grand Empress Dowager will make a street parade, requiring my escort.
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You must keep a close watch on Madam Shen.
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If there's any weird movement, capture him immediately.
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If something happens to her, you will be held accountable.
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Long live Your Majesty!
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Grand Empress Dowager, may you live long!
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Good!
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Splendid!
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I wonder if there are any talented men or ladies who would like to perform on stage.
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Everyone!
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My beloved concubine wishes to present to you a piece of pipa music.
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Good!
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How dare this Wu Taiming bring his mistress here openly!
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How can he call the courtesan who has not been married in his family his concubine?
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He's embarrassing Madam Wu.
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Long live Your Majesty!
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Grand Empress Dowager, may you live long!
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Greetings, Your Majesty!
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Greetings, Grand Empress Dowager!
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Your Majesties are coming to west street to parade for blessing.
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May Heaven bring good luck and great prosperity to Great Cang.
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May wind and rain come on time.
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May the country be prosperous and the people at peace.
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Good! Good!
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Really good!
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Look! It's a phoenix!
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It is a phoenix!
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It is really beautiful! It's a divine bird!
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[Phoenix]
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Good! Good!
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It's Heaven's will.
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May Heaven bring good luck and bless our Great Cang.
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What is this fragrance? It's so strange.
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Thousands of butterflies and spring stars dance as the sleeves flutter.
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Nine-branched bells arise as melodies fill the night pavilion.
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Well matched! Good!
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Madam!
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- Madam!
- Jing Lin.
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Great Chief, Wu Taiming and Madam are missing.
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Get on!
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Say it.
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Who is the mastermind behind the murder case?
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Murder case? What murder case?
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Where is Madam Shen?
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Spare my life.
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Great Chief, spare him!
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This is a scandal in my family.
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My brother-in-law had an affair.
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I wanted to teach him a lesson. Is this a crime?
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Most of these paired corpses knew each other well in life.
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They were often seen together.
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However, there are two pairs, for whom no entanglements have been found prior to their deaths.
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Oh no!
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I am Shen Du. Are you all right?
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Brother Shen Du.
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Brother Shen Du, do you still recognize me?
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Of course, I recognize you.
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Yan Xing.
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I would never forget you.
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None of this is real.
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Should I recognize you?
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Don't try to be the real Madam Shen.
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You are not the wife I want to marry.
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Don’t even think about surviving in the Shen Mansion.
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- Where is this?
- You don't need to know.
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Why have you killed so many people?
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You don't need to know.
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Why do you talk so much nonsense?
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It seems today, I can't escape from you.
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Why don't you take off the mask and show me your face?
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Everyone knows you are smart, Sixth Miss Yan.
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If I show you my face, after you die,
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you will be a ghost
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and tell your husband in a dream.
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What would I do then?
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You have killed so many people.
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Their resentment has long turned into fierce ghosts surrounding you.
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And accompanying you day and night.
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Can't you see them?
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They are nothing,
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but people who deserved to die.
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Even if they turned into ghosts, they would still not dare to appear before me.
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Or I'd kill them again.
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Am I also someone who deserves to die?
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The people you mentioned all share common traits,
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and you think they deserve to die.
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In your eyes, do I also deserve to die?
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Even if you ask so many questions, you have to die anyway.
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But…
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I still need to wait a little longer before taking action.
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What are you waiting for?
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I'm waiting for your blood to coagulate.
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Then when I take your heart out, you won't even bleed.
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But I'm the Great Chief's wife.
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If you dare to kill me,
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when they find you, they will certainly skin you alive and tear out your tendons.
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Even if I don't kill you, Shen Du won't let me go if he catches me.
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I have to die anyway.
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I might as well drag Madam Shen down with me and use her as a scapegoat.
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I can plead for you.
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He might leave you an intact body.
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We have a very good relationship.
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The whole Xiang'an City knows it well.
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He will listen to me.
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He will listen to me.
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He will listen to me.
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He will listen to me.
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Shut up!
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You shut up!
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You shameless hussy!
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He won't listen to you.
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He is mine, mine, mine!
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Stop.
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Let me go!
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Sixth Miss.
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Are you all right?
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Sixth Miss.
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Thank you for arriving in time.
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Fortunately, you'd sprinkled flour on your clothes.
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The dog could follow your scent over here.
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How do you feel?
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I-I'm fine.
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But…
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Have you caught the murderer?
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But I had a dream.
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Jing Lin.
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Take off her mask.
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It's you.
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Sixth Miss.
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Take her to the Imperial Guards.
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Yes.
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- Take her away.
- Yes.
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Sixth Miss, you're awake.
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Chuichui, how long have I slept?
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Where is Madam Tang? Has she been interrogated?
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You've only slept for two hours.
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Why are you asking these questions right after waking up?
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No wonder Shen Du asked me to keep a good eye on you.
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What's the outcome?
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Of course, she won't admit it.
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But the Empress Dowager visits the Imperial Guards
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to interrogate her personally.
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Let's see if she will admit it this time.
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I'll go.
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You stay.
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You're not even off your medicine yet.
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I've been investigating this murderer for a long time.
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I know how to make her talk.
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No way.
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You'd almost lost your life today.
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The sky won't fall without you.
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Besides, Shen Du told me to keep an eye on you.
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Are you my friend or his friend?
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Chuichui, you know me.
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No one can stop me from doing anything I want.
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There is one thing I need your help with.
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I truly never expected that the one who committed this heinous crime
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would be the widow of Tang Chengyi, a loyal official.
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Why would you do such a thing?
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I remember you and Madam Tang were very close.
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Now, she is the suspect in the murder case.
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Princess of Valor,
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do you have an inside story?
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Mother Empress, although I had some interactions with Madam Tang,
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I really didn't know anything about her committing murder.
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If I had known she was the murderer,
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I would never have gotten close to her.
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Let me ask you.
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Why would you kill so many innocent people?
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They are not innocent.
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Great Cang has its own laws.
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If they are innocent or not, it's not for you to decide.
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I am Yan Xing, a clerk from the Ministry of Justice.
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Sorry for the abruptness in this urgent situation.
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Grand Empress Dowager, please forgive me.
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I have been lax in managing my household and have disturbed Your Majesty.
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I humbly request your punishment, Your Majesty.
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It's all right.
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I've heard that Madam Shen is quite skilled at solving cases through deduction.
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This Meng Ceran refuses to confess.
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What do you think?
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In response to Grand Empress Dowager.
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Those men Madam Tang killed all had matrimonial engagements.
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Yet they loved to have fun with courtesans.
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And those women all had a similar appearance, with a flying fairy hairstyle,
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and were courtesans skilled in playing the pipa.
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Shut up! Who would believe such nonsense?
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Grand Empress Dowager, all the bodies that have been found
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have been treated with cinnabar to delay decomposition,
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resulting in the inaccurate estimated time of death.
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Later, we deduced the correct date of death.
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Astonishingly, we found they were all during the Mizar Festival calculated by the Astronomical Bureau.
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Madam Tang,
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are you really doing all this just to vent your hatred?
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At first, I was guessing you did it based on the similarities in their faces.
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But later I discovered that it involved much more about a deep fixation on their status.
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I think the women you killed
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were mostly associated with someone very close to you.
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Shut up!
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Have you suffered any trauma?
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Or perhaps, did you have any emotional entanglements with other men
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that occurred on Mizar Festival?
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Nonsense!
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If you want to accuse someone falsely, you can always find a reason.
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Right, a few days ago, my husband caught a cold at night.
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The weather has turned colder recently, so you must take care.
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It's much better now.
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If you take any more care of me,
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I won't catch a cold.
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But you…
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You have been frightened; why don’t you rest well?
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I am...
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worried about you.
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Great Chief, you really treat the Imperial Guards as your home.
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Madam Shen has taken this place as if it were her own bedroom.
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Seeing the deep affection between you both, I am very pleased.
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But, Madam Shen, the case is of great importance right now.
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You need to handle the investigation with discretion.
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Yes, I'm sorry.
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Marshal Xu Xiangren requests an audience.
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I'm Xu Xiangren.
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Greetings to the Grand Empress Dowager.
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Sixth Miss.
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I take my leave.
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Another pair of male and female bodies were dug up at the inspector's place.
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This is the reconstruction portrait of the male victim's face that I have made.
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You give it to me!
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Give it to me!
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Just as expected.
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In your mind, you are the victim. Right?
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You know nothing.
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This is not my fault.
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They betrayed me first.
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It's them…
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This is all their fault.
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I treated him so well.
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Why did he betray me?
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The one you're talking about is the person in the portrait,
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your first husband.
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It is him.
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During my childhood,
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my younger sister was kidnapped.
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When we met,
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she had become a courtesan who was skilled at pipa.
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At that time, I was already married.
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But I never expected on the Mizar Festival…
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On the Mizar Festival, I discovered
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she was having an affair with my husband.
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The two people I loved the most.
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The two people I trusted the most.
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Both betrayed me.
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To save face, I gave her a cup of poisoned wine.
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But unexpectedly, my husband drank the wine.
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No!
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After my husband passed away,
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my younger sister also disappeared.
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I really looked for her for a very long time.
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In the end, I found her in a grave.
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The two of them were still tightly embracing each other!
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No.
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It's not like that.
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It's not like this.
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It's not like that.
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It's not like that.
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That despicable woman wasn't my younger sister at all.
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She was just a courtesan who seduced my husband.
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She deserved to die.
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She did not choose to be a decent person,
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instead, she seduced my husband.
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She deserved to be torn to pieces.
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She deserved to be skinned and deboned.
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She deserved to be humiliated by the world and laughed at by everyone.
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So you killed those who resembled your younger sister?
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Does it look good?
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Pretty.
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They deserved to die.
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And those despicable men!
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Why do they always love those courtesans?
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In this world, not everyone has the right to choose their own life.
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Among them, many were born in the music house
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and can only serve others with beauty, without any choice.
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Moreover, you can't kill others for this reason.
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Actually, at first,
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I also blamed myself.
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If it weren't for me, my younger sister wouldn't have died,
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nor would my husband.
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If it weren't for my momentary lapse in judgment...
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I wouldn't have lost both my loved ones at the same time.
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So, you regret it.
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You put those bodies in a hug pose to fulfill their wish.
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Madam Shen,
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you're indeed smart.
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You hit the nail on the head.
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But do you think that with your wisdom,
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you can forever win a man's heart?
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Do you think he's going to keep protecting you like that?
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He says he loves you,
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but he only loves himself.
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He will surely deceive you,
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breaking your heart into pieces and making you feel like life is worse than death.
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What's wrong with loving yourself?
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Everyone should love themselves before they love others.
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Between a couple, it should never be one-sided taking,
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nor should it be one-sided protection.
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A couple should weather the storm and face challenges together.
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That's what a family should be.
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Grand Empress Dowager, the truth is now clear.
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And the murderer has confessed to her crime.
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As for how to deal with Madam Tang,
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I defer to Your Majesty's judgment.
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Grand Empress Dowager, in my opinion, the murderer has become insane.
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Please do not let old sentiments cloud your judgment, Your Majesty,
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and close the case quickly.
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Considering she is the widow of a loyal official,
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leave her an intact body.
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Yes.
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Like a moth to a flame, live at dawn, die at dusk.
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Not entering the cycle of reincarnation, undying.
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Jing Lin, put out the fire.
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Yes.
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Isn't that what Chen Huo'e said before she died five years ago?
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- Take this madwoman away.
- Yes.
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Have you been this nosy since you were a kid?
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It's a matter of life and death. How can you say so?
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I know. You asked Chuichui to keep an eye on me.
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But if I hadn't gone there, how could Madam Tang's case be that easily settled?
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Today...
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you did well.
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Aren't you going to scold me?
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Another pair of male and female bodies dug up. It's what you made up yourself. Right?
400
00:34:38,720 --> 00:34:42,859
I asked Brother Xu to get the portrait of Madam Tang's first husband,
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in order to provoke her into telling the truth.
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00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:48,500
The truth is clear now.
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00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:51,679
But…
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00:34:51,679 --> 00:34:57,040
But we're missing something in this case.
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What exactly are we missing?
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The hearts.
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00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:12,540
Madam Tang has killed so many people and all the deceased had their hearts taken out.
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00:35:12,540 --> 00:35:15,440
So where have all those hearts gone?
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00:35:34,660 --> 00:35:38,700
Madam Tang, I have something important to ask you.
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00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:46,980
Murder is easy. Moving the body, digging a hole, and reburying
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are not something a woman could easily do.
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You must have had help.
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To go to such great lengths, what's it really for?
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Like a moth to a flame.
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Like a moth to a flame.
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00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:14,100
She's gone mad.
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She's very important.
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00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:20,960
How can she be mad?
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00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:28,080
I will never die.
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00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:33,340
I will become a moth and live forever.
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Flying.
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00:36:39,220 --> 00:36:42,040
You've killed so many people, where have all the hearts gone?
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00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:43,600
I'm flying.
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00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:45,860
- Meng Ceran.
- I'm flying.
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00:36:57,340 --> 00:36:59,880
Please burn me to death.
426
00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:02,480
Please, I want to be reborn from the flames.
427
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:06,060
I want to be reborn from the flames. Please. Please.
428
00:37:06,060 --> 00:37:10,880
No need to ask. Whatever a madwoman says lacks credibility.
429
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:15,120
- Burn me. Burn me now.
- She will be executed soon.
430
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:17,740
Burn me.
431
00:37:17,740 --> 00:37:20,400
Burn me now.
432
00:37:35,300 --> 00:37:37,340
What are you thinking about?
433
00:37:39,900 --> 00:37:42,520
I'm thinking about Madam Tang's case.
434
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:45,980
Her love turned into hatred and became her obsession.
435
00:37:45,980 --> 00:37:49,580
Yet it's a mix of love and hatred, which she can't let go of.
436
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:54,000
It's so sad.
437
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:59,320
A fool would indulge himself in a relationship.
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00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:02,580
And in this world, fools often do evil deeds.
439
00:38:02,580 --> 00:38:04,780
What's there to be sad about?
440
00:38:06,700 --> 00:38:11,700
Yes. That sounds like something someone as smart as you would think.
441
00:38:11,700 --> 00:38:15,760
Great Chief, I am exhausted. I need to rest.
442
00:38:20,720 --> 00:38:26,060
Prince Xian has successfully completed the disaster relief affairs and will soon arrive safely at Xiang'an.
443
00:38:26,060 --> 00:38:28,160
That's good news.
444
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:36,600
From now on, there's no need to wander over to the pigeon coop.
445
00:38:41,700 --> 00:38:44,200
I wonder who gave you that false information.
446
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:47,180
But the secret letters from the Imperial Guards
447
00:38:47,180 --> 00:38:49,160
don't need carrier pigeons.
448
00:38:50,660 --> 00:38:52,720
I know that.
449
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:59,520
Those pigeons in the coop all have soft feathers and are simply incapable of long-distance flight.
450
00:39:01,300 --> 00:39:05,620
But I have to wander around the mansion.
451
00:39:05,620 --> 00:39:09,240
You have your jobs. And I have my jobs.
452
00:39:09,240 --> 00:39:13,740
I have to pretend to do something. But no real action will be taken. Rest assured.
453
00:39:16,660 --> 00:39:20,660
Now you can believe that even a tiger will not eat its cubs.
454
00:39:20,660 --> 00:39:23,340
Let alone the strongest of them all.
455
00:39:23,340 --> 00:39:25,260
Stop it, I don't want to hear it.
456
00:39:25,260 --> 00:39:29,280
I don't want to hear what I shouldn't, lest trouble finds me.
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00:39:32,340 --> 00:39:35,340
Right, I have something to tell you.
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The Ministry of Justice and the inspectors are holding a celebration banquet
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and have sent over invitations, inviting both you and me to attend.
460
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:44,920
- I know. You won't go.
- I…
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00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,440
I'm just letting you know.
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- Jing Lin.
- Yes, Great Chief.
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00:39:59,780 --> 00:40:03,720
Tell Uncle Zhong to make another set
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of the light-blocking curtains.
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00:40:10,240 --> 00:40:12,280
Yes, Great Chief.
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00:40:34,780 --> 00:40:38,620
What beautiful flower buds. What a pity.
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00:40:40,940 --> 00:40:43,840
- Your Highness.
- Sir.
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00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:46,700
Your disaster relief and pacification efforts this time are of immense merit and hard work.
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00:40:46,700 --> 00:40:51,640
I've heard that the Grand Empress Dowager will reward you greatly.
470
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:55,020
Was your journey back peaceful?
471
00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:03,560
Rest assured. Imperial Guards escorted me throughout the journey.
472
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:05,640
It was very safe.
473
00:41:06,500 --> 00:41:09,120
I have brought back some local specialties this time.
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Prepare one portion and let him take it back.
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00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:16,900
Prepare another portion and send it to my imperial sister.
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It's my kindness to her.
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00:41:20,860 --> 00:41:22,620
Yes.
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Your Highness, you are kind-hearted and love your sister.
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00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:29,440
I am truly moved.
480
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:34,740
But recently, Princess of Valor was involved in the case of Madam Tang.
481
00:41:34,740 --> 00:41:37,800
I am afraid she's having a difficult time these days.
482
00:41:40,500 --> 00:41:43,620
When I was on the way back, I also heard about this.
483
00:41:43,620 --> 00:41:47,440
She has always been on good terms with Madam Tang, and both support the poor scholars.
484
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:52,100
But the public opinion now is very unfavorable towards them.
485
00:41:52,100 --> 00:41:55,660
Indeed. In the Madam Tang case,
486
00:41:55,660 --> 00:41:59,620
I didn't expect Sixth Miss Yan to make great contributions.
487
00:41:59,620 --> 00:42:03,320
I didn't expect this concubine's daughter would have
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some tactics at a critical moment.
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Prince Xian, do you think this Sixth Miss Yan could be…
490
00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:22,400
The one you value would naturally be excellent.
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I think she is the one
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who breaks the deadlock.
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This flower needs to be fertilized.
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[Princess of Valor Mansion]
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Your Highness, it seems many women are claiming illness
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and will not attend this Floral Banquet.
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Understood.
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Those who don't want to come,
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don't have to come anymore.
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Those who cannot be used by me…
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"Only Want You" - Ding Yuxi, Deng Enxi
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♫ One look confirmed our fate ♫
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♫ Upon meeting again, I know you're the one for me ♫
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♫ Gaze at the stars, dreaming about old times ♫
506
00:43:35,934 --> 00:43:38,978
♫ A pair of people have already taken root ♫
507
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♫ Lovers before the candlelight, do not ask their thoughts ♫
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♫ Affection is bound, lasting forever ♫
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♫ Using the evening breeze to express deep love ♫
510
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♫ I have someone I long for in this life ♫
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♫ Deeply in love, you are the one I have chosen ♫
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00:43:57,710 --> 00:44:01,738
♫ Autumn moon and spring breeze, I only want you for my whole life ♫
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♫ The trace of your palm ♫
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​♫ Your gaze ♫
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♫ Our love is heating up ♫
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♫ Deeply in love, you are the one I have chosen ♫
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♫ Autumn moon and spring breeze, I only want you for my whole life ♫
518
00:44:16,850 --> 00:44:18,790
♫ The trace of your palm ♫
519
00:44:18,790 --> 00:44:21,650
​♫ Your gaze ♫
520
00:44:21,650 --> 00:44:24,430
♫ Our love is heating up ♫
521
00:44:24,430 --> 00:44:29,224
♫ You are the only one for me ♫
522
00:44:41,944 --> 00:44:45,721
♫ Embracing each other, how serious we are about our love ♫
523
00:44:45,721 --> 00:44:49,391
♫ Every moment is treasured ♫
524
00:44:49,391 --> 00:44:54,050
♫ From dawn to dusk ♫
525
00:44:54,050 --> 00:44:57,083
♫ You and I, forever inseparable ♫
526
00:44:57,083 --> 00:45:00,909
♫ Without noticing, you broke into my heart ♫
527
00:45:00,909 --> 00:45:04,749
♫ Slowly immersing myself, I become undaunted by perils for love ♫
528
00:45:04,749 --> 00:45:09,266
♫ I charge into battle with unmatched resilience ♫
529
00:45:09,266 --> 00:45:12,146
♫ Because you are my responsibility ♫
530
00:45:12,146 --> 00:45:15,834
♫ Deeply in love, you are the one I have chosen ♫
531
00:45:15,834 --> 00:45:19,710
♫ Autumn moon and spring breeze, I only want you for my whole life ♫
532
00:45:19,710 --> 00:45:21,580
♫ The trace of your palm ♫
533
00:45:21,580 --> 00:45:24,530
​♫ Your gaze ♫
534
00:45:24,530 --> 00:45:27,342
♫ Our love is heating up ♫
535
00:45:27,342 --> 00:45:31,042
♫ Deeply in love, you are the one I have chosen ♫
536
00:45:31,042 --> 00:45:34,895
♫ Autumn moon and spring breeze, I only want you for my whole life ♫
537
00:45:34,895 --> 00:45:36,799
♫ The trace of your palm ♫
538
00:45:36,799 --> 00:45:39,650
​♫ Your gaze ♫
539
00:45:39,650 --> 00:45:42,523
♫ Our love is heating up ♫
540
00:45:42,523 --> 00:45:47,165
♫ You are the only one for me ♫42109
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