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Watching the person in the mirror's countenance pale and grow haggard,
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Examining love together with regret, both new and old.
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Keeping watch still by a lantern though it is daybreak, drenched with tears,
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Watching others meet as promised, as twilight falls.
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Story of Yanxi Palace Episode 33
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Yingluo, what did you call me earlier?
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What porridge is this? How come it feels a bit like—
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Don't change the subject.
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Say it. What did you call me?
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You risked your life to cover up for me.
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I willingly said that 'brother' earlier.
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From now on, I'm your Little Sister Yin.
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We will share the blessings and the hardships.
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That's all?
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Wei Yingluo, when people become sworn brothers, they have to bow to the heaven and earth.
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You mustn't brush me off this easily.
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Brother, couples getting married are the ones bowing to the heaven and earth.
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For sworn brothers, it's called burning incense and bowing.
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Yes... Anyway, this is a very sacred thing.
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I want your birth day and hour.
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We still must to get tablets for the heaven and earth. Okay?
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We've already fallen into this state.
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Make it simpler...
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No, we mustn't!
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You're the only little sister I have in this life.
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How could it be done so simply?
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Let's exchange age cards later.
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Brother, that's not called age card.
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It's called golden orchid card.
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Fine...who cares.
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Anyway, later, let's write an age card.
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You eat first. After eating, you must write an age card.
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Wei Yingluo.
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What's that for?
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Promise me that you'll write an age card after you eat.
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Fine... Age card then.
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Miss Mingyu!
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Miss Mingyu!
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Imperial Guard Fuca?
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Imperial Guard Fuca, you need anything from me?
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Miss Mingyu, is it convenient for you to come out so we can talk?
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You're not afraid that I'll pester you?
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You're not that kind of person.
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That's right. I'm able to put down what I lift.
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Miss MIngyu, can you come out to talk?
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Imperial Guard Fuca.
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What did he tell you?
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- Secret.- Hey!
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I heard that when Noble Consort died,
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her two sisters also followed her.
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Lower down your voice.
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But now that Noble Consort is gone,
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Empress will be dying soon too.
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What nonsense are you saying?!
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Let go!
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Her Highness Empress is currently recuperating.
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What you said is very disrespectful.
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I didn't say rubbish.
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All the people in Changchun palace are saying that empress' high fever is not abating.
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Her illness has gotten worst.
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Let go. You're sick.
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You always..
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...fall sleep before midnight.
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How come it's you?
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Her Highness Empress, she...
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Young Master, you devised this trick to fool me.
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Her Highness Empress is completely fine. Am I right?
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After seeing me, you already knew that it was a setup.
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It means that you're not that dumb.
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Do you know how hard it is for me to come here to Changchun Palace?
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You still tricked me like this?
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You were once a high ranking palace maid by the side of the Empress.
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Visiting your old mistress is not forgetting your origin.
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You totally can come here in an open and upright manner.
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Why do it in a sneaky manner like climbing through the window?
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I...
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Since you've been caught by me,
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stop being sneaky.
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Come here in an open and upright manner.
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I'm not coming anymore.
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What do you want?
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Whenever Mingyu is on duty,
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there won't be anyone here during zi time .
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You can come to see empress again.
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Remember, only during zi time.
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Okay already. Climb out now.
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Fuheng!
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It wasn't easy for me to come here and visit Her Highness Empress.
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I should at least see her before leaving, right?
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Yingluo.
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Don't forget the words I said.
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Or else, I'll remind you every time I see you.
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If you want to stay here in Workhouse, I'll wait for you.
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I'll wait until you're able to let go of your grudges and put down your burdens.
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No matter how long,
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even if I have to spend my whole life, I will wait for that day.
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Imperial Guard Fuca.
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Miss Mingyu, thank you.
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You don't need to thank me.
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But...regarding Noble Consort, was it really her doing?
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Okay. Okay. I won't ask anymore.
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For her to visit empress, it means she's still has a conscience.
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From now on, I will secretly let her in when I'm on duty. You don't need to worry.
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Imperial Noble Consort Gao has provided merit, prestige, and auspiciousness when she was alive. She assisted in managing the imperial harem.
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Is well-versed in painting and history. Is kind, benevolent, and has been part of the imperial harem at a young age.
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She was a good assistance in cleaning the harem; was sincerely filial.
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Has a majestic prestige; well-trained in being stately and poised.
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She is regarded with esteem, regarded as an auspicious object.
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She didn't let her title be in vain.
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The imperial harem has lost a model.
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Hence, I'm now conferring her the posthumous title Imperial Noble Consort Huixian.
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Just like that. Spread the decree.
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Yes.
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Your Majesty, the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial Household Department are in conflict with some funeral matters.
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They want to ask you to decide.
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Empress is gravely ill
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and unable to manage such affairs.
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You just decide on it.
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In my opinion, let's follow the funeral rites of the deceased Imperial Noble Consort Dunsu.
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Your Majesty is busy with state affairs and I shouldn't disturb you anymore.
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I will take my leave now.
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Consort Xian!
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How is the health condition of Consort Xian?
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Your Majesty, don't be anxious. I still have some words to ask.
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Zhen'er, did Her Highness still have other symptoms today?
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Her Highness would frequently have fever and cough at night, produce sputum in the morning.
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Whenever she coughs, she'll describe an unbearable pain on her chest.
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Zhen'er don't make up things.
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Your Highness, you're already this ill.
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You just wouldn't invite any imperial physician to check you and just endured it.
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What if you really get sick, what would we do then?
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Your Majesty, don't listen to Zhen'er. I indeed was coughing a few days ago.
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I'm already better today.
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Your Highness, you're so wrong.
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Having chest pain when coughing is because the coughing is dragging one's chest, hence, the pain.
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You mustn't belittle it.
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Zhen'er, be honest. How is Consort Xian's health lately?
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Your Majesty, the wound of Her Highness has repeatedly ulcerated and swelled. I couldn't bear to look at it anymore.
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But just to handle the funeral of Noble Consort,
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she still stubbornly went to Chuxiu Palace to handle the affairs despite being sick.
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I've urged her so many times, but she wouldn't listen.
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Zhen'er, stop saying it.
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You all go out first.
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Yes.
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Consort Xian, you're gravely ill.
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Why didn't you tell me?
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It's all Zhen'er's fault for exaggerating things.
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I'm really fine.
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The wound is already ulcerating and you still say you're fine?
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No. Put down all the things you're handling right now.
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I will entrust the funeral of Noble Consort
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to a funeral officer.
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Your Majesty.
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Listen to me. Just go back and recuperate in peace.
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I was entrusted by Empress Dowager to temporarily handle the affairs in the palace.
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How could I just put down everything just because of a measly illness?
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Empress is gravely ill and Noble Consort left so suddenly.
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The hearts of people are currently stirring and gossips are spreading.
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Even if I'm ill, I must endure it until the next few days.
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It would be fine after the funeral of Noble Consort.
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I promise you that after this matter, I will focus on recuperating.
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Why are you this stubborn?
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What are you doing? Quickly get up.
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Please allow my request.
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Let me finish my task so I can be at ease.
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I promise you that after the funeral of Noble Consort,
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I will not meddle with any affairs anymore, go back to Changqian Palace, and reuperate in peace.
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Your Majesty, Consort Xian is gentle and kind.
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Has a lofty moral character.
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Since she started handling the palace affairs, everyone has been praising her.
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It's really a rare feat.
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When Noble Consort was still alive,
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she would always make things hard for her.
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Sometimes, even I couldn't take it.
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But she? She totally didn't mind it.
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While dragging her sickly body, she kept going around and busying herself
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for the funeral of Noble Consort.
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If the soul of Noble Lady Gao can hear us,
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she must feel so ashamed right now.
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What you said is so right.
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I also respect and admire Consort Xian a lot.
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Consort Xian has attended to you since you were a prince.
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Although she currently still has no children,
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But, she's a very considerate person.
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While handling the funeral matters, she still didn't forget
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to come here to Shoukang Palace to greet and take care of me.
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If the imperial consorts here in the palace could be at least half like her,
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I don't need to worry anymore.
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Are you reminding me
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that it's time to promote Consort Xian?
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That's just one reason.
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I want to remind you
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When the flower has blossomed and right for picking, then pick it.
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Don't wait when there are no more flowers to start picking.
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You should learn to cherish the person in front of you.
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Yes.
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As mandated by the heaven, His Majesty is giving this decree.
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Consort Xian from the Hoifa-Nara Clan has a gentle and docile temperament.
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Has a kind character. Today, she's being promoted to a Noble Consort
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to show my graces and care. That's all.
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Thank you, Your Majesty.
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Your Highness,
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Doctor Ye said
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that if you keep lying down like this,
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it will affect your walking and recovery in the future.
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Your Highness, I miss you.
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I want to hear your voice.
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Even if it's a scolding, I'm fine with it.
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Please open your eyes.
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Okay?
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Greetings, Your Majesty!
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Don't follow me inside anymore. I want to talk to empress in private.
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Your Majesty!
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Chief Steward Li, while His Majesty is inside, he would need someone to attend to him.
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If I'm inside, it would be more convenient to serve him water or tea.
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Didn't His Majesty already say that he wants to speak to empress alone.
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Do you want to disobey his decree?
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Empress,
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I want to look for someone to speak with.
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But in this huge Forbidden City,
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I couldn't even find a person that can hear me speak.
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How good it would be
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if you're awake right now?
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There were a lot of things that happened in the palace lately.
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Noble Consort Gao has died.
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She entered my Prince Manor when she was 14.
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She accompanied me for 12 years. I know
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that she has always yearned for care and love.
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But what I can give her is just the title Imperial Noble Consort.
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I was sad
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for her death.
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But if given another chance,
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I will still make the same choice.
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Guess who I am.
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Wan'er's mother is my nurse maid.
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She accompanied me growing up.
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I was closer to her than other people.
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But because of kidding around,
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she was executed by Royal Father.
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At the start, I bore hatred and grudges.
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Until that year that Noble Consort Nian died,
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I saw with my own eyes
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how Royal Father drove everyone away
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and cried in front of her coffin.
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In just a month after Noble Consort Nian died,
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Nian Gengyao got removed of his noble title and position.
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Only then did I suddenly understand.
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Wan'er's death is a warning from Royal Father.
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As an emperor,
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I can dote on my imperial consorts
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but I can't love them.
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My special treatment with Wan'er
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is also her death amulet.
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Empress...you can hear me, right?
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Empress.
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Empress,
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do you also feel that I am
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cold-blooded and heartless?
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I wasn't good to you.
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I also wasn't good to Noble Consort--
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Come out.
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That annoying person has finally left?
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What do you think?
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Put down the tea and leave.
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I was forced.
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Why were you hiding here?
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Your Majesty, I came to visit Her Highness Empress.
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I heard footsteps, panicked,
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so I hid behind the curtain.
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Who allowed you to sneak into here?
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Your Majesty,
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I miss Her Highness Empress.
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You indeed should be grateful to empress.
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But the more you should have fear.
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Because without her protection,
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I can kill you anytime.
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Your Highness!
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Your Majesty, the hand of Her Highness moved a bit earlier!
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Hand...her hand moved.
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This...hand--
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Your HIghness, it's time to take your medicine.
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Didn't I already take it?
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That was a medicine take in to nurse your internal health.
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This one is Persian white jade cream. It mainly used Persian white jade powder,
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cinnabar, and white otter spine to make.
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If you apply it everyday, it can hasten the healing of your wound.
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It can also remove scars.
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Your Highness, that cream is so precious!
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Why did you just casually throw it away?
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If this wound would indeed leave a scar, it may be too late to have regrets.
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I exactly want it to scar.
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It's best if it can leave a deep impression in the heart of His Majesty.
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Let him forever remember
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that I got hurt because of him.
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Imperial Guard Fuca.
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May I ask what your instructions are, Your Highness Consort Chun?
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There were a lot of happenings in the palace lately. First, Her Highness Empress fell ill.
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Next, Noble Consort Gao died. Changchun Palace is after all is part of the deep inner palace.
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If Imperial Guard Fuca keeps going in and out from it, it can't be helped for criticisms to arise.
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Your Highness Consort Chun, Empress is my older sister.
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His Majesty also allowed me to visit her.
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May I ask what you mean by your advice?
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I recently heard of a rumor.
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It's about Imperial Guard Fuca being infatuated and in love with Wei Yingluo,
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hence, you refused the marriage bestowed by His Majesty.
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It's really absurd.
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Imperial guard came from an illustrious family and you have a noble character.
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How could you have a private affair with a palace maid?
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The person spreading this kind of rumor is clearly harboring evil intentions.
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However, even if it's just a rumor,
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as time goes by, it can't be helped for it to reach the ears of His Majesty.
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It might affect your future.
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It's not a rumor. Thank you for your warning.
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This is my private matter. It's inconvenient for me to tell you more.
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I'll take my leave.
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Forbidden City is a place where waves can occur even without any wind.
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To survive here,
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you must be very careful and cautious at all times.
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Imperial Guard Fuca, you are the biological brother of empress
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and a close subject to the emperor.
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You are destined to go up the ranks.
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Don't get bewitched by a woman and destroy your future.
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Your Highness, you're out of line.
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Your Highness!
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What's wrong with you?
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Your Highness, we've agreed that you won't write anymore.
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Why have you forgotten it?
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If people see it, you'll get executed.
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Executed?
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Yes. Not only your reputation will get tarnished, even Imperial Guard Fuca—
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Don't mention him!
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Chunhe...
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Chunhe...
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I remember everything, but he doesn't anymore.
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These past years, all the hard work I've done
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have become a joke.
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I took notice of all the women from noble families in the capital.
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I endured the heart ache
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and recommended them to empress, Made plans for him.
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Because I know
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that one day, he'll marry and have children.
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Hence, I'm going to choose the most beautiful
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and best lady to accompany him.
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But he?
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He actually fell in love with a lady from the Workhouse.
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This is totally the worst joke!
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Your Highness, that is a matter of the Fuca Family.
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Why must you torment yourself?
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I've assisted empress for so many years.
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Now, Fuheng has committed a mistake.
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How could I not share the burden of empress?
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Your Highness, what are you doing?
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Call the supervisor of Workhouse.
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Your father didn't focus on managing the flooding, and instead want to return to the capital to attend the funeral.
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This is so disappointing.
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Replying to Your Majesty, father has always put importance to family.
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Plus the fact that Noble Consort suddenly died, and my two little sisters...
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This for father is such a huge blow.
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Shut up! The affection between a father and her daughter
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is a natural thing.
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There's actually nothing wrong with him returning to the capital to attend the funeral.
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However, there are currently flooding everywhere.
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Several hundreds of thousands of refugees have no home to go back to.
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Their homes have become a vast body of water.
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Their loved ones have becomes starved dead bodies.
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Who can save them then?
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Manager of External Rivers Chen Kejun,
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Manager of Sea Defense Wang Dexuan,
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have a deficit of at least 30,000 taels.
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As the river channels governor-general, Gao Bin
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didn't even notice it. He acted as if it's just normal.
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I can endure all that. I just hope that he can focus on controlling the flooding.
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But he only thought of returning to the capital.
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That is a crime punishable by death!
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Your Majesty, please forgive him. Please calm down.
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Quickly get out!
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I will take my leave.
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Your Majesty, please calm down.
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Spread my decree. Gao Bin has obtained huge imperial graces,
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but he didn't know how to repay it. He's being stripped off of his post,
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but will stay to work so as to pay for his crime.
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Your Majesty.
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What hour is it?
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Your Majesty, it's already the rat hour.
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Your servant greeting Your Majesty's royal wellness.
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Your Majesty, I will never allow Wei Yingluo to enter.
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Is she here?
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You need me to ask you again?
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She's in the back garden.
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Your Majesty, your servant is with offense.
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What are you holding?
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Prescription by Physician Ye.
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I wanted to do something for Her Highness the Empress.
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So I gathered this chore.
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Get on up.
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You are indeed devoted to Empress.
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Your Majesty, Her Highness is sincere with you as well.
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The women of the harem.
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They either want to fight for my favor.
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Or they want to me to grant them a title.
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Or a reward.
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What is their difference in nature?
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Your Majesty, Her Highness is different.
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I know.
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Empress seeks sincerity.
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But why doesn't she think?
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As an emperor, the lives of millions are in my bequeath.
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The master of the world. How can he behold the sentiments of love and longing?
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Your Majesty is saying,
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Empress is short-sighted and inconsiderate?
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Have I said it wrong?
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Now, floodings are raging with uncountable refugees.
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I am pouring all the power of the nation into controlling the rivers.
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But the officials in charge of managing the rivers,
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making layer after layer of false reports to fill private coffers.
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Now the refugees outside of the capital are one or two thousands.
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I am burning with anxiety and unable to sleep.
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But what are the imperial harem doing?
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Your Majesty. Since birth,
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women are confined to one corner of the world.
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Even after marriage,
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she is only transferring from one cage to another cage.
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Clearly a pampered yellow oriole.
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How can it be like the eagle, seeing the wide sight and soaring over the four seas?
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Don't forget. A cage.
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It's created meticulously by the men of the world.
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Pompous.
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I misspoke. May Your Majesty forgive.
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I am muddled now.
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To hear the ignorant palace maid speak these.
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Quietly listen to the drippings of the palace.
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The house shielded for a moment from the rampant bustling.
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And nothing is more entertaining than poetry.
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With perfect timing of dim scents delivered by the plum shoots
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You can recite my poetry?
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Her Highness just taught me the Four Books and Five Classics.
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Then she started to teach me Your Majesty's poetry and prose.
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I defied but Her Highness insisted it.
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Since His Majesty's ascension to throne, he has been devoted to governing.
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Cultivating deserted land into farmland, stopped political posts gained through bribery.
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Attaching importance to agriculture. Exonerating wrongly jailed.
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Rescuing the people from fire and water disasters.
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So he is a good emperor.
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She really said so?
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Yes.
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I want to be a sage king.
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But reality tells me,
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it's truly too difficult.
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This empire is like a giant ship.
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I want to helm it well.
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But again and again I am foiled, losing my direction.
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Your Majesty. Wuzhong once had a folk rhyme.
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Qianlong treasure helps you selected.
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Qianlong money, hundred million years.
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I know all your doings,
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the people remember it in their hearts and see with their eyes.
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I know the nation is vast and incidents are many.
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But Your Majesty just needs to take on one by one,
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even if the results aren't to your satisfaction,
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it still leaves you guiltfree to yourself and to the heavens.
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Guiltfree to heavens?
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That saying. I will remember it.
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Actually, all your poetry and prose.
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Her Highness can recite them masterfully.
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Not because your poetry skills are outstanding.
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But because she wants to comprehend your thinking and your desires.
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She wants to know when you are joyful and when you're sad.
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If you wish to tell all your troubles to her,
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you won't need to worry no one understands you in the world.
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You talk in such a large circle and it's still for Empress's sake.
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She didn't pamper you for nothing.
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No.
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You say it again.
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If you are willing to tell your thoughts to Empress,
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you won't need to worry no one understands you.
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No. Not that one. You said you kept defying it.
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And you said my poetry skills aren't outstanding. What did you mean?
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Wei Yingluo, you dare to reject me?
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Her Highness is waiting. Your servant takes her leave first.
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Hengchen , you are director of affairs.
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Do you know the yearly balance of our treasury?
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Your Majesty, if you wish to know,
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I will have Accounting Department investigate and report.
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Ortai, how about you?
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Your Majesty, I will go now to . . .
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You all don't need to. I know it.
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My first year in reign.
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Accounts Department held 33 million and 950 thousand.
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Second year, 34 million and 380 thousand.
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And by this year, 33 million and 170 thousand.
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Other than the treasury account, the various provincial treasuries,
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all can be said are plenty,
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so I will remit the national tax.
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Your Majesty. Each year, the endowments,
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pay for government and army salaries and various expenses.
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The remainder is less than two million.
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That doesn't pay enough for water and drought relief.
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If we remit all the taxes now,
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we would be adding frost to snow.
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The accounting department will run insufficient.
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61st reign of my imperial grandfather.
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He pardoned taxes once.
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My royal father always put effort into reducing levy.
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I want to carry on the narration.
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I confer a special decree.
508
00:42:39,470 --> 00:42:42,520
In the year of Fire Tiger , all taxes are remitted.
509
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:44,650
What wrong is there in that?
510
00:42:44,650 --> 00:42:49,380
Your Majesty, Emperor Kangxi's 49th year in reign, a remittance decree was issued.
511
00:42:49,380 --> 00:42:53,010
And Your Majesty has only been in reign for 10 years.
512
00:42:53,010 --> 00:42:57,350
This move is perhaps too rushed.
513
00:42:58,070 --> 00:43:04,930
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514
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:14,190
♫Softly falling into the hollow of my palm,♫
515
00:43:16,860 --> 00:43:25,400
♫Resting frozen in the center of my palm.♫
516
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:36,960
♫Our meeting across past incarnations was inevitable,♫
517
00:43:38,720 --> 00:43:47,830
♫Joined together, deeply experiencing and holding onto the end of happiness.♫
518
00:43:49,830 --> 00:43:58,390
♫Though plainly given words of discouragement,♫
519
00:44:00,620 --> 00:44:09,450
♫Pretending to hear nothing but exhortation.♫
520
00:44:11,550 --> 00:44:22,420
♫ Endless tears, believing it cannot be true,♫
521
00:44:22,420 --> 00:44:31,750
♫ In this life, being born under an unlucky star.♫
522
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:39,140
♫ In this life, being born under an unlucky star.♫
523
00:44:39,140 --> 00:44:43,980
♫ Though I close my eyes, it's impossible to stop the vision.♫
524
00:44:43,980 --> 00:44:50,420
♫ Nothing you can do about being approached, not being inconsistent in love,♫
525
00:44:50,420 --> 00:44:55,390
♫ Though merely holding onto it from the outside, prone to this sort of circumstance.♫
526
00:44:55,390 --> 00:45:00,960
♫ I hear the sound of the snow slowly falling♫
527
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:05,700
♫ As though you are holding me closely, and speaking sweetly.♫
528
00:45:05,700 --> 00:45:13,360
♫ Opening your eyes to a sky filled with merciless snow falling,♫
529
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:22,570
♫ Who, after suffering this loss for a lifetime, is fond of this scene?♫
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