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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:12,000 Subtitles brought to you by The Gentle Empress Team @ Viki. 2 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:17,000 Watching the person in the mirror's countenance pale and grow haggard, 3 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:23,800 Examining love together with regret, both new and old. 4 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:30,600 Keeping watch still by a lantern though it is daybreak, drenched with tears, 5 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:38,900 Watching others meet as promised, as twilight falls. 6 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:48,800 Story of Yanxi Palace Episode 39 7 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,200 Is he willing... 8 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,200 to be my son? 9 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:05,500 Your Majesty, you're drunk from alcohol today. 10 00:02:05,500 --> 00:02:08,500 Perhaps you'd like to rest at Yangxin Hall first. 11 00:02:08,500 --> 00:02:11,000 - Your Majesty. - I'm not going anywhere! 12 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:14,700 I am going to stay here to be with the Empress. With the Empress! 13 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:18,200 Li Yu. 14 00:02:19,100 --> 00:02:21,800 It's late and it's chilly. 15 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:24,100 His Majesty just drank. 16 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:27,110 I'm worried he will get a chill. 17 00:02:27,110 --> 00:02:30,200 Have His Majesty stay with me tonight then. 18 00:02:30,950 --> 00:02:32,530 Yes. 19 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:39,500 Mingyu, invite His Majesty to rest in east side room. 20 00:02:39,500 --> 00:02:41,800 I will escort the Empress back inside. 21 00:02:53,500 --> 00:02:56,400 So His Majesty feels the same as I do. 22 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:59,100 He never forgot Yonglian. 23 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:11,100 Your Highness, don't think too much. 24 00:03:13,590 --> 00:03:15,700 Rest well. 25 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:27,340 Yingluo. 26 00:03:35,990 --> 00:03:38,800 Is the east room properly arranged? 27 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:40,600 Supervisor Li is on guard. 28 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:44,400 His Majesty isn't happy so I ordered them all to stay away, 29 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:46,400 so they don't court trouble for themselves. 30 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:55,400 Ask Yonglian. 31 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:59,000 I was busy with state affairs before. 32 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:03,000 I never spent a day with him. I didn't even ever hold him. 33 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:07,200 Does he blame me? Is he willing, 34 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:09,600 to be my son? 35 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:29,800 To me, you can never be compared to Wei Yingluo. 36 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:35,000 Your evil and meanness completely disgust me. 37 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:00,700 What is this? 38 00:05:00,700 --> 00:05:03,700 - Sobering tonic. - Sobering tonic? 39 00:05:07,840 --> 00:05:09,640 Go on in. 40 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:20,200 Gonggong Li. 41 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:22,200 Who just entered? 42 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:23,200 Replying to Gonggong Li, 43 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:25,600 that was someone delivering sobering tonic just now. 44 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:26,600 Did you check? 45 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:28,400 I checked. I checked. 46 00:05:32,100 --> 00:05:33,400 Your Majesty. 47 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:34,800 Your Majesty! - What's going on? 48 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:36,400 Some movement. 49 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:38,400 Some movement? 50 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,400 - Whoever His Majesty favors is that person's blessing. - Yes. 51 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:45,200 Careful of your head if you're going to listen and watch so much. 52 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:46,700 Yes, yes. 53 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,400 Hupo, did you deliver the sobering tonic? 54 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:05,200 It's already delivered. 55 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:06,600 Then you go and rest up. 56 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:08,100 Yes. 57 00:06:54,220 --> 00:06:57,740 Greetings to Your Majesty. 58 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:00,310 Your Majesty. 59 00:07:02,790 --> 00:07:04,380 Get lost. 60 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:09,700 Get lost! Get lost! 61 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:03,900 Hupo. 62 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:08,310 Sister Mingyu. 63 00:08:09,500 --> 00:08:11,200 What are you doing? 64 00:08:11,900 --> 00:08:15,400 Last night, His Majesty was drunk and vomited everywhere. 65 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:17,600 Chief Supervisor Li ordered me to clean it up. 66 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:20,200 But why are you so nervous? 67 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:23,200 I have lots of chores left. 68 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:24,800 I'll get going now. 69 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:28,200 - Wait. - Mingyu. 70 00:08:29,100 --> 00:08:30,600 Erqing? 71 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:36,900 I'm leaving the palace today. 72 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:39,400 I came especially to say farewell to you. 73 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:40,400 So suddenly? 74 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:42,400 Fuheng is back in the capital. 75 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:45,800 I shouldn't stay here any longer. 76 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:50,200 Send word to Fuca Manor when Her Highness delivers. 77 00:08:51,100 --> 00:08:52,500 I'll be going. 78 00:09:17,510 --> 00:09:19,170 What's wrong? 79 00:09:22,900 --> 00:09:26,800 Yesterday, His Majesty rested in the east room. 80 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:29,400 I think he favored a palace maid. 81 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:40,400 This is Changchun Palace. If His Majesty is fond of a palace maid, 82 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:43,300 why wouldn't he let the Empress know first? 83 00:09:44,500 --> 00:09:46,600 Even if you're telling the truth, 84 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:50,900 that palace maid, after getting favored, shouldn't she ask for promotion today? 85 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:53,900 You're right. 86 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:56,300 But... 87 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:02,600 Never mind. Maybe I was seeing things. 88 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:25,800 Third Sister-in-law! 89 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:27,700 You needn't be so formal. 90 00:10:29,340 --> 00:10:33,370 I haven't seen you in a few days. Have you been well, Fourth Brother-in-law? 91 00:10:34,130 --> 00:10:38,300 Thank you for your care, Third Sister-in-law. I've been well. 92 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:42,400 It seems you are very happy. 93 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:44,200 Is something good about to happen? 94 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:49,100 Well, of course. I've endured and endured. 95 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:54,200 Finally I found the best way to vent my anger. 96 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:56,300 How can I not be happy? 97 00:10:57,600 --> 00:10:59,600 I don't really understand. 98 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:02,200 What did you draw? Open and let me see. 99 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:03,900 It's nothing. 100 00:11:17,500 --> 00:11:19,800 You painted me. 101 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:23,700 So it's up to me to decide if it should be destroyed. 102 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:26,900 Third Sister-in-law. 103 00:11:27,500 --> 00:11:29,600 You painted it very nicely. 104 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:48,740 Your Majesty, the entire royal physician's court is here. 105 00:11:48,740 --> 00:11:53,420 The Empress is blessed and she will surely give birth smoothly. 106 00:11:53,420 --> 00:11:57,920 Hurry. Water. More water. 107 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:00,110 Hard. 108 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:03,850 Your Highness. 109 00:12:08,150 --> 00:12:11,550 Miss Mingyu, this isn't good. 110 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:30,600 Your Highness. 111 00:12:33,420 --> 00:12:37,110 The baby's legs are facing downwards. It's a breech birth. 112 00:12:37,110 --> 00:12:39,680 Your Highness, don't scare me. 113 00:12:39,680 --> 00:12:43,370 - I am so scared. You have wished for this prince for so long! - Your Highness! 114 00:12:43,370 --> 00:12:47,100 Don't give up, Empress. Please, Your Highness! 115 00:12:52,060 --> 00:12:53,070 Hurry and see. 116 00:12:53,070 --> 00:12:54,640 Yes. 117 00:12:56,430 --> 00:12:59,060 Hurry and think of a way. Think of a way. 118 00:12:59,060 --> 00:13:02,300 If you can't save Her Highness the Empress, you won't end up well either. 119 00:13:02,300 --> 00:13:05,850 The only way is to putting the hand into the birth canal to touch the prince's legs. 120 00:13:05,850 --> 00:13:10,420 May the heavens watch over that the prince is smart to hold his own head so there's hope. 121 00:13:10,420 --> 00:13:11,570 Hurry and try it then. 122 00:13:11,570 --> 00:13:15,730 But this is only one out of ten chance. It's too... 123 00:13:15,730 --> 00:13:18,890 But it's better than seeing Empress's life dangling by a thread. 124 00:13:18,890 --> 00:13:20,370 Hurry and try it. 125 00:13:20,370 --> 00:13:22,860 Yingluo, help me hold back the Empress' torso. 126 00:13:22,860 --> 00:13:24,420 Hurry! 127 00:13:25,570 --> 00:13:29,050 Yingluo. Yingluo, what are you doing? 128 00:13:30,950 --> 00:13:34,760 Miss Mingyu! Miss Mingyu, do we try it? 129 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:36,290 Yes! 130 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:38,610 Your Highness. 131 00:13:39,170 --> 00:13:41,620 - Your Highness. - Yingluo. 132 00:13:41,620 --> 00:13:45,180 - Your Highness. - Yinghuo...Is Yingluo here? 133 00:13:45,180 --> 00:13:47,660 - Your Highness, hold on. - Yingluo! 134 00:13:47,660 --> 00:13:50,560 Don't give up. 135 00:13:50,560 --> 00:13:52,650 Your Highness, push. 136 00:13:52,650 --> 00:13:56,010 Push, Your Highness. 137 00:13:57,060 --> 00:13:58,720 Miss Yingluo, you're..? 138 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:00,940 Something went wrong inside? 139 00:14:00,940 --> 00:14:03,110 Push. 140 00:14:03,610 --> 00:14:05,960 Assistant Minister Fuheng. Her Highness is in labor. 141 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:08,320 May you wait in the side hall. 142 00:14:16,750 --> 00:14:19,050 Don't give up, Your Highness. Your Highness! 143 00:14:19,050 --> 00:14:21,970 Almost. Push. 144 00:14:21,970 --> 00:14:24,830 Your Highness. Your Highness! 145 00:14:24,830 --> 00:14:26,900 Your Highness, push harder! 146 00:14:26,900 --> 00:14:29,660 Your Highness, more! 147 00:14:56,860 --> 00:14:59,560 If you cover your ears, you can't hear. 148 00:15:06,030 --> 00:15:10,140 The Empress isn't your mother. She won't die. 149 00:15:10,140 --> 00:15:12,720 She will endure through safely. 150 00:15:13,420 --> 00:15:17,860 The tragedy will not repeat. Everything will be well. 151 00:15:19,610 --> 00:15:22,300 Before, you were bullied. 152 00:15:22,300 --> 00:15:26,700 You were shamed. And you were punished. 153 00:15:26,700 --> 00:15:28,810 But you never cried. 154 00:15:29,620 --> 00:15:31,820 And now you cry. 155 00:15:32,550 --> 00:15:34,660 Is it really that scary? 156 00:15:57,510 --> 00:15:59,640 Thank you, Assistant Minister Fuheng. 157 00:16:00,740 --> 00:16:02,700 I must go back. 158 00:16:04,970 --> 00:16:06,520 Yingluo. 159 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:45,520 Greetings to Your Majesty. 160 00:16:57,910 --> 00:17:00,850 The Empress gave birth smoothly and His Majesty is elated. 161 00:17:00,850 --> 00:17:05,030 He doesn't have the mindset to worry about you. Let's go see. 162 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:14,430 Congratulations, Your Majesty. 163 00:17:14,430 --> 00:17:16,710 Mother and son are well. It's a prince. 164 00:17:16,710 --> 00:17:19,010 My. 165 00:17:30,410 --> 00:17:34,090 Your Majesty. You have been on standby the whole day. 166 00:17:34,090 --> 00:17:35,810 Now it's already the hour of the rat (11pm-1am). 167 00:17:35,810 --> 00:17:39,570 Since the Empress and your son are well, you should go and rest-- 168 00:17:39,570 --> 00:17:42,040 Li Yu, Empress Dowager's been waiting for news all along too. 169 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:44,060 She must be anxious. Hurry and go report. 170 00:17:44,060 --> 00:17:45,210 Yes. 171 00:17:45,210 --> 00:17:48,680 Your Majesty, the Seventh Prince has a full appearance with perfect roundness and squareness. 172 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:51,710 He's got the great look of a rich man. 173 00:17:52,450 --> 00:17:57,630 This child's looks. They take after me so much. 174 00:17:57,630 --> 00:17:59,650 Such a look. 175 00:17:59,650 --> 00:18:02,850 Not just rich. 176 00:18:02,850 --> 00:18:06,920 His future blessings are boundless. 177 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:10,680 Right? Huh? 178 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:19,650 Everyone's smiling. 179 00:18:19,650 --> 00:18:22,560 Why is it that you're the only who's crying? 180 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:24,610 Your Highness the Empress. 181 00:18:29,590 --> 00:18:32,960 I never saw you so frightened. 182 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:37,400 And I never saw you run away. 183 00:18:38,210 --> 00:18:40,280 I'm sorry. 184 00:18:42,110 --> 00:18:44,320 I was... 185 00:18:45,980 --> 00:18:50,010 Everyone's happy over the Seventh Prince's birth. 186 00:18:50,910 --> 00:18:55,460 Only you. Staying by my side. 187 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:58,750 Your thoughtfulness of me. 188 00:18:58,750 --> 00:19:02,560 I understand. Thank you. 189 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:04,850 Earlier, I... 190 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:08,030 was really scared. 191 00:19:09,150 --> 00:19:11,540 I, Yingluo, lost my mother. 192 00:19:14,410 --> 00:19:16,720 Lost my older sister. 193 00:19:17,810 --> 00:19:20,580 I'm the only one left. 194 00:19:31,370 --> 00:19:34,110 Thank you for staying alive. 195 00:19:41,030 --> 00:19:45,050 Empress. For this child, 196 00:19:45,050 --> 00:19:47,600 I will name him Yongcong. 197 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:51,350 Do you like it? 198 00:19:58,470 --> 00:20:00,160 I like it. 199 00:20:09,650 --> 00:20:11,940 Yingluo, do you know? 200 00:20:11,940 --> 00:20:15,550 What do you think His Majesty named the Seventh Prince? 201 00:20:15,550 --> 00:20:18,740 Yongcong. Do you know what cong is? 202 00:20:18,740 --> 00:20:20,370 I don't know. 203 00:20:20,370 --> 00:20:24,860 Big dummy. Cong means Imperial clan's temple jade. 204 00:20:24,860 --> 00:20:28,940 His Majesty intends for the Seventh Prince to succeed... 205 00:20:28,940 --> 00:20:30,510 Disaster comes out of the mouth. 206 00:20:30,510 --> 00:20:35,520 But it's true. The Sixth Prince's character rong is the sound of jade striking. 207 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:38,950 But our Seventh Prince, it's the jade of the Imperial clan's temple house. 208 00:20:38,950 --> 00:20:42,450 There's difference in gravity. All very obvious. 209 00:20:42,450 --> 00:20:44,090 Yes. 210 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:46,750 I'm busy brewing medicine. 211 00:20:46,750 --> 00:20:49,470 How are you not happy at all? 212 00:20:50,870 --> 00:20:53,650 Her Highness the Empress bore the Seventh Prince. 213 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:56,780 She almost died bleeding out. 214 00:20:57,470 --> 00:21:01,950 The royal physician also said she's lost a few years. How is that worthy of happiness? 215 00:21:01,950 --> 00:21:06,050 As an Empress, she has to have an heir to stand firm. 216 00:21:06,050 --> 00:21:09,770 Not just the harem consorts, it's the same for all women everywhere. 217 00:21:09,770 --> 00:21:13,580 If you don't have your life, so what if you have striking power and wealth? 218 00:21:13,580 --> 00:21:15,160 What use is that? 219 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:18,950 But...but the Empress doesn't care about power or status. 220 00:21:18,950 --> 00:21:22,140 She's just satisfied having the Seventh Prince. 221 00:21:22,140 --> 00:21:24,280 A woman is still a human. 222 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:29,820 No matter what, her own life is what's most important. 223 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:34,980 Her Highness the Empress is blessed and has a noble life. 224 00:21:34,980 --> 00:21:36,820 She endured. 225 00:21:38,060 --> 00:21:40,280 But what if she couldn't endure? 226 00:21:41,910 --> 00:21:45,800 What's left would be a motherless child, in the Forbidden City. 227 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:48,410 Can he live out his life smoothly? 228 00:21:49,260 --> 00:21:52,620 Those who disregard their lives in order to bear children... 229 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:55,900 they are all fools. 230 00:21:55,900 --> 00:21:57,750 This one is here, is that alright? 231 00:21:57,750 --> 00:21:59,610 Sister. 232 00:22:01,860 --> 00:22:03,470 Sister. 233 00:22:07,220 --> 00:22:10,870 How is the chess still placed out there? 234 00:22:11,890 --> 00:22:14,000 Because I haven't figured out a way to break through. 235 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,060 So I just kept it placed there. 236 00:22:17,060 --> 00:22:18,670 Sit. 237 00:22:22,130 --> 00:22:25,930 Her Highness the Empress is frail and the Seventh Prince is a newborn. 238 00:22:25,930 --> 00:22:29,380 His Majesty has already given out instructions for this year's New Year's Eve reunion meal. 239 00:22:29,380 --> 00:22:32,150 We will hold it at Qianqing Palace and it's to end early 240 00:22:32,150 --> 00:22:35,300 to prevent the Seventh Prince from getting wind on him and getting a chill. 241 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:39,150 I have never seen His Majesty 242 00:22:39,150 --> 00:22:43,520 cherishing any prince as much as this. 243 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:46,440 Yongcong is the legitimate son of the legitimate wife. 244 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:50,850 The day he was born, the heavens cast down nectar and eased the drought of Gansu. 245 00:22:50,850 --> 00:22:55,080 It's not just the Emperor. Even the Empress Dowager has stated this child is under a heavenly providence. 246 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:57,230 A very blessed child. 247 00:22:57,230 --> 00:23:00,230 So everyone's saying 248 00:23:00,230 --> 00:23:03,920 that when Seventh Prince is grown, 249 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,490 he will be most suitable for succession. 250 00:23:06,490 --> 00:23:08,560 Succession? 251 00:23:10,580 --> 00:23:13,120 Didn't Late Emperor state clearly 252 00:23:13,120 --> 00:23:15,410 that it should be carried out in secrecy? 253 00:23:15,410 --> 00:23:18,950 But that's just an official rule. You don't remember? 254 00:23:18,950 --> 00:23:22,880 Though Late Emperor did not state clearly in the past, the Imperial clan, the palace and the entire court of ministers, 255 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:26,340 everyone knew His Majesty would be the future Emperor. 256 00:23:26,340 --> 00:23:28,940 Now His Majesty cherishes Seventh Prince so much. 257 00:23:28,940 --> 00:23:31,590 The Imperial clansman and the high ministers would surely have an understanding. 258 00:23:31,590 --> 00:23:34,090 Even the foreign kings and the foreign ministers, 259 00:23:34,090 --> 00:23:36,940 they have all sent in congratulatory gifts. 260 00:23:36,940 --> 00:23:38,900 That's right. 261 00:23:40,380 --> 00:23:43,160 Here. Again. 262 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:48,050 So His Majesty loves Seventh Prince so much. 263 00:23:48,050 --> 00:23:51,980 In all generations of the Great Qing emperors, 264 00:23:51,980 --> 00:23:54,310 no legitimate heir has ever succeeded the throne. 265 00:23:54,310 --> 00:23:56,730 Not even Emperor Kangxi. 266 00:23:56,730 --> 00:24:00,910 For that, His Majesty regards it as his aspiration. 267 00:24:00,910 --> 00:24:05,140 The Seventh Prince isn't grown yet. Who knows how he will qualify. 268 00:24:05,140 --> 00:24:06,460 How can he just inherit the throne? 269 00:24:06,460 --> 00:24:10,020 Yuhu. Don't talk recklessly. 270 00:24:10,020 --> 00:24:11,000 Here. 271 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:15,600 Having a legitimate son is having the hearts of everyone. 272 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,630 How about stacking it like this? 273 00:24:25,670 --> 00:24:27,490 When the Seventh Prince is grown, 274 00:24:27,490 --> 00:24:30,880 he would be most suitable to succeed. 275 00:24:31,650 --> 00:24:35,570 Having a legitimate son is having the hearts of everyone. 276 00:24:35,570 --> 00:24:37,330 All stacked up. 277 00:24:38,750 --> 00:24:42,400 Don't cry. I'll stack them again for you. 278 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:45,470 Your Highness, what's wrong? 279 00:24:46,730 --> 00:24:48,930 I'm sorry, Yongrong. 280 00:24:48,930 --> 00:24:50,580 It's all my fault. 281 00:24:50,580 --> 00:24:55,170 I vented my anger wrongly and startled you. I'm sorry. 282 00:24:58,850 --> 00:25:01,100 I promise you. 283 00:25:02,150 --> 00:25:05,290 I will give you 284 00:25:05,290 --> 00:25:07,800 all the best of the best in the world. 285 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:13,920 Your Highness, how about engraving on a lotus flower? 286 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:15,840 A lotus comes from silt but it is not soiled. 287 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:20,470 Clean as clear water and not bewitching. 288 00:25:20,470 --> 00:25:23,200 Most suitable to your character. 289 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:28,000 Your Highness, have I said something wrong? 290 00:25:28,940 --> 00:25:31,210 Comes from silt but unsoiled. 291 00:25:31,210 --> 00:25:34,060 Clean as clear water but not bewitching. 292 00:25:34,060 --> 00:25:37,280 Clever. Very clever. 293 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:40,050 Her Highness agrees, so see to it. 294 00:25:40,050 --> 00:25:41,580 Yes. 295 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:54,310 Your Highness, haven't you said to keep this scar 296 00:25:54,310 --> 00:25:56,830 to garner more pity from His Majesty? 297 00:25:57,900 --> 00:26:00,830 After a long period of time, guilt and pity, 298 00:26:00,830 --> 00:26:02,970 will become disgust. 299 00:26:03,750 --> 00:26:07,200 I am not that dull. 300 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:09,330 Your Highness is wise. 301 00:26:41,550 --> 00:26:45,930 Your Highness, do you really think Noble Consort Chun will mobilize? 302 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:48,560 Human greed is never-ending. 303 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:51,930 In the beginning, you only want a child. 304 00:26:51,930 --> 00:26:56,120 But once the child is born, you will want more. 305 00:26:56,120 --> 00:26:58,610 I planted a thorn in her heart. 306 00:26:58,610 --> 00:27:01,730 It will torment her day and night so that she is bleeding nonstop. 307 00:27:02,380 --> 00:27:04,640 When she can no longer endure it, 308 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:07,280 it's time to make the move. 309 00:27:08,450 --> 00:27:10,710 Who is it? Come out. 310 00:27:12,650 --> 00:27:16,840 Your Highness, I was careless and left a needle earlier. 311 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:18,060 Hurry and take it and leave. 312 00:27:18,060 --> 00:27:19,770 Yes. 313 00:27:31,790 --> 00:27:33,580 A great intimate friend in the past. 314 00:27:33,580 --> 00:27:37,120 For the sake of the crown, slaughtering each other. 315 00:27:38,170 --> 00:27:42,770 I am so very much looking forward to this show. 316 00:27:46,270 --> 00:27:47,770 So great. 317 00:27:47,770 --> 00:27:50,690 I don't know if it's a girl or a boy yet. 318 00:27:50,690 --> 00:27:53,370 Mother. On what occasion have you summoned me so urgently? 319 00:27:53,370 --> 00:27:55,360 Fuheng. 320 00:27:55,360 --> 00:27:58,250 I'll tell you the great big news. 321 00:27:58,250 --> 00:28:01,890 You will be so elated once you find out. 322 00:28:01,890 --> 00:28:03,930 What great news is it? 323 00:28:05,030 --> 00:28:09,210 Your wife. She's pregnant. 324 00:28:09,850 --> 00:28:12,590 Her Highness the Empress is fully recovered. 325 00:28:12,590 --> 00:28:15,660 And the Seventh Prince is beloved by His Majesty. 326 00:28:15,660 --> 00:28:19,980 I don't worry about anything else, except you. 327 00:28:21,030 --> 00:28:25,870 But now, I can be at ease. 328 00:28:25,870 --> 00:28:27,680 - Erqing. - Mother. 329 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:30,930 You are truly a great blessing to our family. 330 00:28:30,930 --> 00:28:34,070 Fuheng, you must care after her well. 331 00:28:34,070 --> 00:28:36,890 Do not allow her to languish even a bit. 332 00:28:38,450 --> 00:28:39,670 Yes. 333 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:41,820 Let go of me! 334 00:28:43,970 --> 00:28:45,920 Whose child is it? 335 00:28:47,260 --> 00:28:48,410 Guess. 336 00:28:48,410 --> 00:28:51,840 I'll ask you again. Whose child is it? 337 00:28:54,510 --> 00:28:59,420 Everyone says, Fuca Fuheng is immensely sharp. 338 00:28:59,420 --> 00:29:01,660 A very shrewd man. 339 00:29:01,660 --> 00:29:04,370 So young and he's already in the military bureau. 340 00:29:04,370 --> 00:29:07,650 A high officer most trusted by His Majesty, 341 00:29:07,650 --> 00:29:11,510 with the future that's limitless. 342 00:29:12,270 --> 00:29:16,610 But to me, that's all vain talk. 343 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,890 Your own wife is pregnant, 344 00:29:20,890 --> 00:29:23,950 but you don't even know who did the deed? 345 00:29:23,950 --> 00:29:26,250 So laughable. 346 00:29:28,090 --> 00:29:34,300 What's wrong? You can favor a handmaid, 347 00:29:34,300 --> 00:29:37,260 but I can't be held by another? 348 00:29:45,390 --> 00:29:48,250 Generations of good reputation of the Fuca house, 349 00:29:48,250 --> 00:29:51,910 and my mother's wish can't be destroyed by you. 350 00:29:54,690 --> 00:29:58,280 I will not kill a woman. You do it yourself. 351 00:30:01,530 --> 00:30:04,010 So no matter how lenient a man is, 352 00:30:04,010 --> 00:30:07,800 he still can't make allowance for his own wife to grow her red apricot branch over the wall. (T/N have an affair, wives stay in their walled courtyards) 353 00:30:09,970 --> 00:30:14,640 So regretful that you can't kill me. 354 00:30:15,290 --> 00:30:17,430 I won't kill myself either. 355 00:30:18,500 --> 00:30:20,940 Because this child, 356 00:30:22,410 --> 00:30:25,700 he's an Aisin-Gioro. (T/N member of the royal bloodline) 357 00:30:26,630 --> 00:30:28,610 Did you hear that clearly? 358 00:30:29,500 --> 00:30:33,190 I am pregnant with the royal heir. The blood of the Emperor! 359 00:30:33,190 --> 00:30:35,800 If you dare to touch a mere finger of mine, 360 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:37,790 the great disaster will beckon at you right away. 361 00:30:37,790 --> 00:30:40,750 No. His Majesty couldn't commit such an act. 362 00:30:40,750 --> 00:30:44,130 His Majesty couldn't, but I could. 363 00:30:44,130 --> 00:30:46,360 In order to find the best time, 364 00:30:47,210 --> 00:30:50,410 I put in so much effort. 365 00:30:50,410 --> 00:30:52,450 Why did you tend to His Majesty in bed? 366 00:30:52,450 --> 00:30:54,600 Fuca Fuheng. 367 00:30:57,140 --> 00:31:00,640 You are the magnificent young master in the hearts of the crowd. 368 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:03,390 All the women in the world wish to marry you. 369 00:31:03,390 --> 00:31:08,750 Even that Wei Yingluo. She is so infatuated by you too. 370 00:31:10,010 --> 00:31:14,300 But I just want to watch you cower and kneel, and bear the insult. 371 00:31:14,300 --> 00:31:16,720 I just want to see you in pain. 372 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:21,400 Every time you kneel before the Emperor, you will remember this. 373 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:24,430 Every time you bow, you will remember. 374 00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:29,920 You traded your wife for the tail feather on your hat. (T/N the more ornate the hat, higher the rank) 375 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:33,870 You hate me, but you can't kill me. 376 00:31:33,870 --> 00:31:36,650 You loathe this child, 377 00:31:36,650 --> 00:31:39,290 but you have to raise him all your life. 378 00:31:47,100 --> 00:31:50,010 I thought of this idea for so long. 379 00:31:51,450 --> 00:31:53,480 Isn't it extremely amusing? 380 00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:55,990 You are not only evil and mean, 381 00:31:55,990 --> 00:31:57,200 you are also crazy! 382 00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:59,020 I am crazy! 383 00:31:59,020 --> 00:32:02,020 That's because you and Wei Yingluo forced me into madness. 384 00:32:02,020 --> 00:32:04,360 This is the price you pay for insulting me. 385 00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:08,360 Don't even think of ever getting rid of Hitara Erqing in your life! 386 00:32:14,940 --> 00:32:18,010 Don't go. Don't go! 387 00:32:18,010 --> 00:32:21,410 Come back to me! Come back to me! 388 00:32:22,100 --> 00:32:23,770 Are you scared now? 389 00:32:23,770 --> 00:32:26,170 Why are you scared of turning around? 390 00:32:26,170 --> 00:32:28,440 Fuca Fuheng! 391 00:32:31,690 --> 00:32:33,730 You're scared now. 392 00:32:34,410 --> 00:32:36,400 You're scared now. 393 00:32:39,470 --> 00:32:41,350 He's scared. 394 00:32:42,820 --> 00:32:47,170 You hurt him and you hurt yourself. Why did you do that? 395 00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:53,970 In the palace, 396 00:32:55,060 --> 00:32:57,970 the years I lived cowering and kneeling. 397 00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:03,190 I endured for six years and waited for six years. 398 00:33:03,190 --> 00:33:05,580 I finally married him. 399 00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,890 I thought I got a gentle and warm man, 400 00:33:09,890 --> 00:33:12,290 with a brilliant future waiting. 401 00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:15,240 But in the end, 402 00:33:16,910 --> 00:33:22,750 I still only salvaged loneliness and a cold pillow. 403 00:33:24,290 --> 00:33:27,190 This pain. 404 00:33:27,190 --> 00:33:30,450 Why should I be the only one to endure it? 405 00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:33,650 Fuca Fuheng. 406 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:40,980 Your pain is only just starting. 407 00:33:43,810 --> 00:33:46,720 - Young Master. - Starting today, 408 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:49,270 order someone to deliver three meals a day to her room. 409 00:33:49,910 --> 00:33:53,040 Don't allow the Young Mistress to step out of her room by a step. 410 00:33:53,940 --> 00:33:56,160 Young Master, how can we do that? 411 00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:58,500 What if Old Madam asks about it? 412 00:33:58,500 --> 00:34:01,980 Young Mistress has a hereditary, strange illness. 413 00:34:01,980 --> 00:34:04,440 It got worse upon getting pregnant. 414 00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:08,780 To prevent her from harming others and herself, even if Old Madam comes, 415 00:34:08,780 --> 00:34:11,580 you must not allow her to see her. 416 00:34:11,580 --> 00:34:13,400 Strange illness? 417 00:34:14,330 --> 00:34:16,240 Just do as I said. 418 00:34:17,100 --> 00:34:18,840 Yes. 419 00:34:24,930 --> 00:34:28,250 [ Qianlong Year Thirteen - From actual Ascension Date, not Era ] (T/N Western Calendar Year: October 1747 - October 1748 CE) 420 00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:47,170 Look... 421 00:35:00,230 --> 00:35:05,940 Yingluo. Have the New Year's Eve meal and money already been distributed? (T/N Today is January 29th - Year of the Dragon, January 30, 1748) 422 00:35:05,940 --> 00:35:09,330 When I asked, Noble Consort Xian had already made the arrangements. 423 00:35:09,330 --> 00:35:11,320 This year, everyone in the palace gets a share. 424 00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:13,370 Because the Imperial Household Department received a lot of tributes, 425 00:35:13,370 --> 00:35:15,020 it's double that from last year, 426 00:35:15,020 --> 00:35:17,000 everyone is so happy. 427 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,870 When Noble Consort Xian does things, it's really appropriate. 428 00:35:19,870 --> 00:35:22,230 No wonder people keep praising her. 429 00:35:22,230 --> 00:35:24,300 Why are you standing there? 430 00:35:24,300 --> 00:35:25,830 Come here. 431 00:35:27,430 --> 00:35:28,800 Come here. 432 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:30,500 Stop minding her, Your Highness. 433 00:35:30,500 --> 00:35:32,460 She's just petty. 434 00:35:32,460 --> 00:35:36,210 Still hating Seventh Prince from almost harming you. 435 00:35:36,210 --> 00:35:39,470 It's been so long, yet she still won't even look at him. 436 00:35:40,530 --> 00:35:44,540 Come. Let mother carry you. 437 00:35:47,810 --> 00:35:50,160 Yingluo, come here. 438 00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:56,790 Let me carry Yongcong. 439 00:35:57,480 --> 00:35:59,790 Amuse him. 440 00:35:59,790 --> 00:36:01,430 Your Highness! 441 00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:07,180 Mingyu! How do I amuse him? 442 00:36:07,180 --> 00:36:08,900 Amuse him. 443 00:36:09,970 --> 00:36:13,280 You...smile a little. 444 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:16,710 How do I amuse him? Smile a little. 445 00:36:21,090 --> 00:36:22,430 Carry him higher. 446 00:36:22,430 --> 00:36:24,080 - Your Highness the Empress. - Smile a little. 447 00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:27,570 - Smile! - News came from the Wei Manor. Yingluo's father is gravely injured from falling off a horse. 448 00:36:27,570 --> 00:36:30,660 He asks that Your Highness be merciful and allow his daughter to go back home to visit him. 449 00:36:33,980 --> 00:36:36,030 Don't cry... 450 00:36:37,670 --> 00:36:40,340 Yingluo, take my badge 451 00:36:40,340 --> 00:36:42,150 and go out of the palace. 452 00:36:42,150 --> 00:36:46,240 No, I'm not going. 453 00:36:46,240 --> 00:36:49,370 Just for a measly Imperial Household Department managerial position, 454 00:36:49,370 --> 00:36:51,320 he even dared to use his own daughter 455 00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:53,720 as a bargaining chip. 456 00:36:53,720 --> 00:36:57,140 I don't need a father like that. 457 00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:02,730 Yingluo, among the different kinds of kindness, filial piety comes first. 458 00:37:02,730 --> 00:37:05,800 If you don't go today, in the future, 459 00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:07,550 you surely will get criticized by others. 460 00:37:07,550 --> 00:37:09,190 Your Highness. 461 00:37:09,190 --> 00:37:12,490 The more grudges you have in your heart, 462 00:37:12,490 --> 00:37:14,640 the more pain you will feel. 463 00:37:15,190 --> 00:37:17,360 The more gratitude you have in your heart, 464 00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:19,740 the more good fortune you will encounter. 465 00:37:21,870 --> 00:37:25,290 This is a beaded bracelet that I've always carried with me. 466 00:37:25,290 --> 00:37:29,420 Take it. It can bless your father to be safe. 467 00:37:39,910 --> 00:37:41,710 I'll go now and be back right away. 468 00:37:41,710 --> 00:37:45,200 If you come and go, the palace will surely be locked by then. 469 00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:50,310 I'll return tomorrow. 470 00:37:50,310 --> 00:37:53,720 Go now. I'll wait for your return. 471 00:37:54,460 --> 00:38:01,000 Subtitles brought to you by The Gentle Empress Team @ Viki. 472 00:38:01,730 --> 00:38:05,670 Your Highness, Wei Yingluo has left the palace. 473 00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:24,420 Good baby, go sleep now. 474 00:38:24,420 --> 00:38:29,190 Good baby, go sleep now. 475 00:39:10,150 --> 00:39:12,830 The warm room is on fire! Men! 476 00:39:12,830 --> 00:39:15,120 - Your Highness! - The warm room is on fire! 477 00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:18,360 Help! Help! It's on fire! 478 00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:19,580 Fire! 479 00:39:19,580 --> 00:39:21,600 Put out the fire! Quickly put out the fire! 480 00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:23,910 Men! Quickly go! Go get some water! 481 00:39:23,910 --> 00:39:25,800 Yes! 482 00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:28,310 Hurry up! 483 00:39:28,310 --> 00:39:30,630 How come it has frozen! 484 00:39:30,630 --> 00:39:32,620 Go to the fire room. You two go to the back yard. 485 00:39:32,620 --> 00:39:35,060 - Get some well water! - Yes! 486 00:39:36,450 --> 00:39:38,330 The fire is too big. We can't get in. What should we do? 487 00:39:38,330 --> 00:39:41,070 What are you all doing? Hurry and look for people to put out the fire! 488 00:39:41,070 --> 00:39:43,180 You two go to the backyard and get some well water! 489 00:39:43,180 --> 00:39:45,520 - Your Highness! You can't go in! - Yongcong! 490 00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:48,380 - Your Highness! - Let go of me! 491 00:39:48,380 --> 00:39:51,320 - Your Highness! - Let go! 492 00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:54,080 Your Highness! You can't go in! 493 00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:55,820 Your Highness! 494 00:39:57,050 --> 00:39:58,770 Your Highness! 495 00:40:10,830 --> 00:40:12,220 Help! 496 00:40:12,220 --> 00:40:14,940 - Your Highness! - Help! 497 00:40:14,940 --> 00:40:16,830 Your Highness! 498 00:40:18,570 --> 00:40:20,200 Hurry! 499 00:40:21,030 --> 00:40:24,680 Hailancha, the Empress and the Seventh Prince are inside the fire! 500 00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:26,430 Quickly spray it with water! 501 00:40:29,930 --> 00:40:31,530 Splash me with water! 502 00:40:33,110 --> 00:40:36,470 Your Highness! Your Highness the Empress! 503 00:40:36,470 --> 00:40:38,110 Your Highness! 504 00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:46,640 Your Highness! 505 00:40:48,740 --> 00:40:50,710 Be careful. 506 00:40:50,710 --> 00:40:54,200 Your Highness! Be careful! 507 00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:55,280 Your Highness! 508 00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:58,530 Your Highness! Hurry up! 509 00:40:58,530 --> 00:41:00,580 Your Highness, quickly come out. 510 00:41:02,300 --> 00:41:04,570 - Your Highness. - Yongcong. 511 00:41:04,570 --> 00:41:06,650 Seventh Prince. 512 00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:12,710 Yongcong! Yongcong! 513 00:41:22,420 --> 00:41:26,590 Your Majesty, the warm room of Changchun Palace 514 00:41:26,590 --> 00:41:28,720 has a no fire escape below it. 515 00:41:28,720 --> 00:41:33,200 What started the fire is the charcoal brazier inside the warm room. 516 00:41:35,990 --> 00:41:38,100 The brazier... 517 00:41:39,990 --> 00:41:42,170 has a netted cover. 518 00:41:45,020 --> 00:41:47,840 Where then did the spark come from? 519 00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:50,600 Although the chrysanthemum charcoal used in the brazier (T/N aka "tea charcoal", high-grade) 520 00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:54,890 easily burns, it also easily produces sparks. 521 00:41:55,630 --> 00:41:58,580 I'm suspecting that a eunuch 522 00:41:58,580 --> 00:42:02,530 might have not tightly closed the netted cover, and thus the spark got out. 523 00:42:04,020 --> 00:42:09,080 The auspicious jar has metal inner lining, 524 00:42:11,350 --> 00:42:13,890 so it can be used to burn wood. 525 00:42:15,260 --> 00:42:19,940 Why then did the water still freeze? 526 00:42:21,450 --> 00:42:25,260 Your Majesty, the eunuch of Heating Office 527 00:42:25,260 --> 00:42:28,890 should have used black charcoal to warm the jar 528 00:42:28,890 --> 00:42:31,490 before the water froze. 529 00:42:32,100 --> 00:42:33,670 But... 530 00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:37,460 yesterday was New Year's Eve. 531 00:42:37,460 --> 00:42:39,340 The eunuchs... 532 00:42:47,460 --> 00:42:50,200 They were negligent in their work, am I right? 533 00:42:50,820 --> 00:42:55,000 Your Majesty, there are a total of twelve eunuchs involved in this. May Your Majesty decide on what to do with them. 534 00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:57,900 Your Majesty! I tightly sealed the brazier. 535 00:42:57,900 --> 00:43:00,420 I really did check it beforehand, Your Majesty! 536 00:43:00,420 --> 00:43:02,990 Yes, Your Majesty. The auspicious jar uses four jin of charcoal every day. (T/N jin = .5 kg, 1,1 US pounds) 537 00:43:02,990 --> 00:43:05,410 Since the first day of the eleventh lunar month, it never stopped! 538 00:43:05,410 --> 00:43:08,640 I really don't know why the water still froze. 539 00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:10,600 I'm innocent! I'm innocent! 540 00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:14,760 The charcoal fire spreading out and the water in the jar freezing are all facts! 541 00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:17,590 You all still dare to claim innocence! 542 00:43:21,310 --> 00:43:26,170 All the involved eunuchs 543 00:43:26,170 --> 00:43:27,760 will be executed by hanging. 544 00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:29,910 Your Majesty, have mercy! 545 00:43:29,910 --> 00:43:34,270 I'm innocent, Your Majesty! 546 00:43:34,270 --> 00:43:38,790 Your Majesty, have mercy! 547 00:43:38,790 --> 00:43:40,950 Your Majesty! 548 00:43:42,930 --> 00:43:49,850 Subtitles brought to you by The Gentle Empress Team @ Viki. 549 00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:59,160 ♫Softly falling into the hollow of my palm,♫ 550 00:44:01,830 --> 00:44:09,830 ♫Resting frozen in the center of my palm.♫ 551 00:44:12,630 --> 00:44:21,650 ♫Our meeting across past incarnations was inevitable,♫ 552 00:44:23,610 --> 00:44:32,620 ♫Joined together, deeply experiencing and holding onto the end of happiness.♫ 553 00:44:34,810 --> 00:44:42,970 ♫Though plainly given words of discouragement,♫ 554 00:44:45,530 --> 00:44:54,100 ♫Pretending to hear nothing but exhortation.♫ 555 00:44:56,430 --> 00:45:05,500 ♫ Endless tears, believing it cannot be true,♫ 556 00:45:07,430 --> 00:45:16,490 ♫ In this life, being born under an unlucky star.♫ 557 00:45:18,530 --> 00:45:24,110 ♫I hear the sound of the snow slowly falling♫ 558 00:45:24,110 --> 00:45:28,860 ♫ Though I close my eyes, it's impossible to stop the vision.♫ 559 00:45:28,860 --> 00:45:35,400 ♫ Nothing you can do about being approached, not being inconsistent in love,♫ 560 00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:40,280 ♫ Though merely holding onto it from the outside, prone to this sort of circumstance.♫ 561 00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:45,900 ♫ I hear the sound of the snow slowly falling♫ 562 00:45:45,900 --> 00:45:50,700 ♫ As though you are holding me closely, and speaking sweetly.♫ 563 00:45:50,700 --> 00:45:58,530 ♫ Opening your eyes to a sky filled with merciless snow falling,♫ 564 00:45:58,530 --> 00:46:07,300 ♫ Who, after suffering this loss for a lifetime, is fond of this scene?♫ 45740