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♪ The human heart hatches schemes, stuck fast in the mire ♪
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♪ In the Judge's ledger, the accounts are settled ♪
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♪ Reckon the human face and the beastly deed. Count the debts of injustice ♪
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♪ Walking the dark path, pleading for moonlight ♪
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♪ The pitiful suffer, while the privileged command respect ♪
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♪ Pluck one hair, and the stench of sin runs through the skin ♪
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♪ Scoundrels have a form, while ghostly lies are intangible ♪
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♪ Looking inward brings no answer. Ask Heaven for mercy ♪
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♪ The book of sins is presented, proof of guilt recorded chapter after chapter ♪
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♪ Grant mercy, and ruin follows ♪
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♪ An inescapable net is cast. Look up in all four directions ♪
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♪ Retribution will follow ♪
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♪ Tigers, leopards, and wolves. Darkness laid bare ♪
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♪ Your mercy only serves to share the loot ♪
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♪ In the ledger of good and evil, words unfurl without end ♪
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♪ Heaven's way tolerates no wrongful judgment ♪
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♪ The book of sins is presented, proof of guilt recorded chapter after chapter ♪
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♪ Grant mercy, and ruin follows ♪
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♪ An inescapable net is cast. Look up in all four directions ♪
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♪ Retribution will follow ♪
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♪ Tigers, leopards, and wolves. Darkness laid bare ♪
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♪ Your mercy only serves to share the loot ♪
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♪ In the ledger of good and evil, words unfurl without end ♪
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♪ Heaven's way tolerates no wrongful judgment ♪
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[Adapted from a Shuqi.com novel]
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[Original Author: Senlin Lu]
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[Unveil: Jadewind]
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[Episode 4]
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Of course,
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and you, too.
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Peiyi.
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How do you think Father
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will treat me?
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Like he's gotten me back,
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or will he hate
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having a rude,
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unfilial daughter like me?
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His Majesty is gracious and merciful.
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No matter what,
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you're still his daughter.
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[Palace Investigation Bureau]
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Your Ladyship.
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Inspector Du wants to see you.
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I'm not in the mood.
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Your Ladyship, you should go.
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I haven't seen him
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that scary in ages.
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Why are you kneeling?
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Master, you called for me.
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It must be because I messed up.
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What did you do wrong?
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I was too aggressive.
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I had no sense of limits.
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I overstepped my authority.
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Enough.
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All these years,
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I've spoiled you too much.
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From today on,
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stop taking cases.
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That Palace Investigation Bureau badge,
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hand it over.
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Why should I?
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Because as an Inner Guard,
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after you found the killer,
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you didn't bring her to justice at once.
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It looks like you were covering for her!
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At best, you neglected your duty.
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At worst,
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you bent the law for personal ties!
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Hand it over!
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But I didn't take Wanshun
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out of the Western Capital.
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You didn't take the last wrong step
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because Her Highness knew the bigger picture.
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If Her Highness
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had insisted on leaving,
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right now,
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would you already be
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on a boat heading south?
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If every enforcer
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were like you,
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how could the law work?
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Today someone covers for you,
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tomorrow you cover for them,
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and the law becomes meaningless!
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If I've done wrong, I'll take my punishment.
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But she's Wanshun.
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She must face justice too!
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People aren't made of wood.
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Who can be without feelings?
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But you're the one enforcing the law.
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To rule and punish, you can't shield your kin.
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Your duty
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is to find the truth,
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not judge right and wrong.
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If you can't even
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understand that,
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[Palace Investigation Bureau] you can't shoulder
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this badge anymore!
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I know you reported everything truthfully.
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From here on,
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let His Majesty decide.
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[Zichen Hall]
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Heed His Majesty's decree!
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Left General of the Imperial Guards, Lin Ning,
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lusted after Princess Ningyuan's beauty
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and secretly bought black powder to stage an accident.
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He took advantage of the chaos to kidnap Her Highness,
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but Cui Manshu, niece of the Right Chancellor,
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and several others stumbled upon it by chance.
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Lin Ning saw his plot exposed
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and brutally killed them.
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He fled in fear of punishment.
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Princess of Fuchang County, Li Peiyi,
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and Deputy Director of Astronomy, Xiao Huaijin, saw it all clearly,
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and killed him as he fled.
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You two acted without hesitation,
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brave and smart.
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Princess Ningyuan was quick-witted,
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and escaped safely.
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All shall be rewarded.
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Accept the decree!
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Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness.
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Her Highness is still recovering.
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In three days,
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His Majesty will host a banquet at Penglai Terrace
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in Her Highness's honor.
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You two may come as well.
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Understood.
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Stop!
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Come.
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Come to my side.
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[Penglai Terrace]
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Please, Your Highness.
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I'm sorry to worry you, Father.
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Come.
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Wanshun.
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I know you were wronged.
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I know it all.
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Father...
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You're so generous and kind,
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yet for my own selfish gain,
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I stirred up such chaos.
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My child, you've suffered.
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I won't let any child of mine
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be wronged.
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I'll prepare another
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generous dowry for you,
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so you'll marry
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in peace,
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with no worries.
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Congratulations, Princess Ningyuan!
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Your Majesty,
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what boundless favor!
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In Uyghur,
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Her Highness will be
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the most honored, noblest queen.
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Thank you, Father.
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Don't be rash.
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Please withdraw your order, Your Majesty.
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Wanshun is a daughter of my Li family,
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a princess of Great Tang.
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If your father and mother
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were still alive,
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they'd surely explain
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the sense of it all.
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But since they're gone,
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I don't have to understand it.
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Peiyi.
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Your Majesty,
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Her Highness was blessed by your grace
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and turned disaster into luck.
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Her match with Prince Wutele
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is fated to be.
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Peiyi...
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Let me speak
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to His Majesty myself.
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Your Majesty, if you're still in the mood,
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may I offer a dance,
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the Zhezhi Dance.
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Mother once performed for you,
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to thank your grace?
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[Penglai Terrace]
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For eighteen years,
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I never had the chance
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to speak with you.
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Today is a rare opportunity.
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I want to say what's in my heart.
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Or later,
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I may never get the chance.
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I'm lucky
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to be your daughter.
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But my luck is also limited.
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In eighteen years,
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you only saw me three times.
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The first time,
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I was still little.
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You were checking
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the princes' and princesses' lessons.
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You praised me for my talent,
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so I studied hard.
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From then on,
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I never had another chance
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to show you my work.
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The second time,
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at your birthday banquet,
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I embroidered for you.
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"Dragon Soars Across the Seas."
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You praised it greatly,
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and finally remembered
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you had a daughter
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born of a desert dancer.
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So I kept improving my embroidery.
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Your Highness, please.
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Your embroidery has gotten even better.
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Give it to His Majesty before the spring hunt.
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He will surely be pleased.
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But my patterns
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never had another chance
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to be shown to you.
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The third time
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was this betrothal.
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This might be
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the best fate for me
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as your daughter.
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But it's not so bad.
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Father,
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you won't forget me again.
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Wanshun!
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Your Highness!
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Wanshun?
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Wanshun...
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Peiyi...
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You're so stupid.
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Why would you do this?
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Because
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this way
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no one can force me again
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to do what I don't want.
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Stop acting.
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Who keeps
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staring at a flower all day?
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His Majesty didn't see you.
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Those palace maids
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didn't see you either.
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You just tripped.
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Don't mind it.
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But it's fine.
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I saw it all, every bit.
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His Majesty asked me to give you this.
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Since you already finished that horseback piece,
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why didn't you tell me sooner?
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Then I could help you
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get it to His Majesty before the spring hunt.
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He would surely want to see you.
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It wasn't well done.
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Next time.
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These gold bangles are the prettiest.
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One for you, one for me.
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I hope someday
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we'll meet again.
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♪ The night's not all that fades ♪
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♪ A cawing crow deepens the gloom... ♪
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The ones who killed Wanshun,
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Lin Ning is one.
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Cui Manshu is one.
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I'm one.
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And...
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Who else?
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Your Majesty,
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the county princess has been tirelessly working.
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And she lost her closest friend today,
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overcome with grief.
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Please allow her
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to rest for a few days.
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His Majesty is considerate.
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Your Ladyship, rest well.
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Stay away from the hall,
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or seeing things there
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will stir old feelings
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and make you upset again.
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[Zichen Hall]
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[Virtue Shining, Ever-Progressing]
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Your Majesty, the matter you ordered
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has a lead.
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Speak closer.
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[A star has appeared in the Girl mansion. It is a most ominous sign.]
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[On the Wuwu day of the first month, the star has appeared.]
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This paper
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was found
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in Princess Ningyuan's residence.
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Wanshun must have been misled
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by that traitor Lin Ning
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to come up with such a foolish move.
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Lin Ning could move freely
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in the palace.
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Getting a secret memorial into the palace
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was not difficult task.
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Now that Wanshun has passed,
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has the omen come true?
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I dare not presume Heaven's will.
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But it seems this matter
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doesn't involve the former dynasty.
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Your Majesty needn't worry.
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[Princess Zhaoyuan]
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Wanshun paid with her life
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to escape that road.
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In the end, someone still has to walk it.
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There's something
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I must confess to Your Ladyship.
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Before the banquet that day,
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I met the Fifteenth Princess.
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Greetings, Your Highness.
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Deputy Director Xiao,
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I have a question.
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I wouldn't dare.
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Do you think
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the stars above
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can truly foretell human affairs?
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I only know
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the stars don't cause conflicts.
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But people
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use star omens to stir up trouble.
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Then in your view,
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was the chaos of the Lantern Festival
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caused by an omen,
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or by people fabricating one?
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Every matter has its reason
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and a whole story behind it.
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Your Highness being safe
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is what matters most.
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So you already knew.
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Looks like
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you don't believe in fate.
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I do.
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But we mortals
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can see what fate looks like
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only at the end of life.
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Thank you.
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You saw that secret memorial?
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You must've guessed
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it was me and the Princess together.
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At the Princess's residence,
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I found clues
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tied to that secret memorial.
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But the Princess alone
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couldn't have gotten that memorial
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into His Majesty's study.
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It's a pity that even after seeing
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such a dire omen,
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His Majesty still wouldn't change his mind.
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Congratulations, Deputy Director Xiao.
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Why congratulate me?
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Back then you agreed
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to help me with the case
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because you wanted the chance
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to help His Majesty find
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who delivered the secret memorial.
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Now the Princess's case is solved.
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The matter you wanted to check
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is clear as day.
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Isn't that worth celebrating?
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His Majesty believes
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this was all Lin Ning talking the Princess into it.
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Mr. Xiao,
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law and loyalty,
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how can you have both?
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The law
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is where rule begins.
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A gentleman
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is where rule is rooted.
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I'm odd and unruly.
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I'm no gentleman.
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But I'm no villain either.
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I don't really know you.
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So I can't judge.
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And I won't accuse you.
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Farmers have their hardships.
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People in the deep palace have theirs.
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I just had a bit of luck,
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played a few clever tricks,
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won a little favor,
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and only then stood back up.
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Wanshun was another me.
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A me who never stood back up.
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His Majesty has ordered
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a lavish burial for the Fifteenth Princess.
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Posthumous title: Zhaosi.
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His Majesty still cherished
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the Fifteenth Princess.
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You and I both know
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what "cherish" means.
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"Soaring past clouds,
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the soul ascends."
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Good thing
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she's already gone
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to the place she wanted.
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You're not
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a cold, rigid man of law.
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I know that when you came back from the temple
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00:24:23,010 --> 00:24:24,330
you didn't go to see His Majesty.
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[Palace Investigation Bureau]
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[Xiao]
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[Xiao's Mansion]
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Huaijin is usually on duty
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00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:23,190
at the Astronomical Bureau
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00:25:23,970 --> 00:25:24,980
and rarely comes home.
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00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:29,020
[Wang Yuxiu, Madam Xiao] Looks like you came for nothing.
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00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:31,520
It's fine.
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00:25:31,890 --> 00:25:33,230
The cakes you made
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are even better than the palace ones.
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I didn't come for nothing.
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00:25:36,250 --> 00:25:37,250
Your Ladyship,
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00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:38,990
so you like touhua cakes?
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When I was little, I'd throw a fit.
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Only touhua cakes could cheer me up.
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They're soft, sweet.
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One bite and I'd feel right.
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00:25:47,730 --> 00:25:48,990
Then I'd calm right down.
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00:25:51,690 --> 00:25:53,110
Madam, your scent
421
00:25:53,410 --> 00:25:55,150
is different from Mr. Xiao's sachet.
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00:25:56,970 --> 00:25:57,970
That kind of sachet
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00:25:58,450 --> 00:25:59,260
was made
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just for him and his father.
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00:26:01,120 --> 00:26:02,390
My own incense
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00:26:02,890 --> 00:26:04,340
is mostly floral.
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00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:07,910
You make your own incense?
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Bring me my incense.
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00:26:33,730 --> 00:26:36,230
None of these are what Mr. Xiao uses.
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00:26:36,490 --> 00:26:37,630
They've used theirs up,
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00:26:38,010 --> 00:26:39,130
and I haven't made more yet.
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00:26:39,650 --> 00:26:40,710
These scents
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00:26:41,210 --> 00:26:42,670
don't include the one you like?
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00:26:43,120 --> 00:26:44,430
In Mr. Xiao's sachet,
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00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:45,870
there are sandalwood and myrrh.
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00:26:46,170 --> 00:26:47,170
I really like it.
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00:26:47,690 --> 00:26:48,690
Princess Consort of Duan
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00:26:49,210 --> 00:26:51,190
also likes men's incense.
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00:26:53,450 --> 00:26:55,630
Your Ladyship is so dashing.
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00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:57,260
You really do look
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00:26:57,560 --> 00:26:58,910
like her in her youth.
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00:27:01,450 --> 00:27:02,470
I misspoke.
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00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:04,280
I've offended you.
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00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:07,150
Please forgive me.
445
00:27:08,410 --> 00:27:09,430
The case at my home
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00:27:09,650 --> 00:27:11,150
fifteen years ago was too tragic.
447
00:27:12,010 --> 00:27:13,060
It's no secret.
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00:27:13,970 --> 00:27:15,020
But these fifteen years,
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00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:17,390
everyone's been afraid to offend me.
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00:27:18,120 --> 00:27:19,430
So about my parents,
451
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:20,640
they all keep it hush-hush.
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00:27:21,010 --> 00:27:22,626
I thought no one remembered Prince of Duan
453
00:27:22,650 --> 00:27:23,650
or his consort anymore.
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00:27:25,170 --> 00:27:26,950
Hearing you praise my mother just now,
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00:27:27,450 --> 00:27:28,450
I'm truly comforted.
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00:27:31,270 --> 00:27:32,740
Madam, don't be so stiff.
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00:27:33,410 --> 00:27:34,506
I'd actually like to hear more
458
00:27:34,530 --> 00:27:35,820
about my father and my mother.
459
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:40,230
When I was young,
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00:27:40,930 --> 00:27:42,500
I met Princess Consort of Duan once
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00:27:43,170 --> 00:27:45,300
at the Shangsi Festival.
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00:27:45,890 --> 00:27:46,890
Her Highness
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00:27:47,490 --> 00:27:48,630
was stunning,
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00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:50,470
bright and bold.
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00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:51,960
Unforgettable at first sight.
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00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:53,560
Prince of Duan
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00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:55,260
was brave in battle,
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00:27:55,730 --> 00:27:56,950
his name known far and wide.
469
00:27:58,040 --> 00:27:59,040
Heaven
470
00:28:00,490 --> 00:28:02,020
is always so unfair.
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00:28:04,650 --> 00:28:05,650
Yes.
472
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:07,910
From that Lantern Festival on,
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00:28:08,650 --> 00:28:09,426
I could never reunite
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00:28:09,450 --> 00:28:10,470
with my parents again.
475
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:14,580
That Lantern Festival,
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00:28:15,690 --> 00:28:16,690
Huaijin
477
00:28:17,250 --> 00:28:20,300
was on night duty at the Astronomical Bureau
478
00:28:21,250 --> 00:28:22,250
and didn't come home.
479
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:24,020
My husband and I
480
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:26,190
kept Old Madam Xiao company.
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00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:28,950
She was used to keeping vigil and chanting sutras
482
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:30,820
during the Lantern Festival.
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00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:33,430
She only slept after midnight.
484
00:28:34,970 --> 00:28:37,740
That night my husband had official business,
485
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:39,670
but to honor his filial duty,
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00:28:40,410 --> 00:28:41,870
he stayed with Old Madam
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00:28:42,170 --> 00:28:43,470
through the Zi hour,
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00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:45,100
then hurried out.
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00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:49,320
The Zi hour?
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00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:52,950
Early the next morning,
491
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:54,670
my husband came home.
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00:28:55,170 --> 00:28:56,260
Only then did I learn
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00:28:56,930 --> 00:28:58,210
something terrible had happened.
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00:29:04,410 --> 00:29:06,060
I was too young back then.
495
00:29:06,930 --> 00:29:08,330
I don't remember that night at all.
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00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:10,080
For some things,
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00:29:11,210 --> 00:29:12,210
to forget
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00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:14,630
is a blessing in itself.
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00:29:29,970 --> 00:29:30,970
Move.
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00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:36,630
So you finally visited the Xiao's mansion.
501
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:39,840
How else would I find the killer?
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00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:41,990
If you can
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00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:42,950
find the killer here,
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00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:44,300
I'll call you Master.
505
00:29:45,650 --> 00:29:46,650
Why can't I?
506
00:29:47,490 --> 00:29:49,210
So you really are hiding something from me!
507
00:29:50,210 --> 00:29:50,540
Yes.
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00:29:51,170 --> 00:29:52,170
I hid it from you.
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00:29:52,210 --> 00:29:53,870
I drank great wine at Zuixian House.
510
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:55,776
And I ate a plate
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00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:57,940
of top-notch braised lamb.
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00:30:01,730 --> 00:30:02,730
So what did you find?
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00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:08,190
Looks like you found nothing.
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00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:09,870
My guess is,
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00:30:10,010 --> 00:30:11,836
on the Lantern Festival night fifteen years ago,
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00:30:11,860 --> 00:30:12,940
they haven't
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00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:15,680
sent anyone to visit your family.
518
00:30:17,690 --> 00:30:18,690
Clearing suspicion
519
00:30:18,970 --> 00:30:20,020
is still a gain.
520
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:22,360
Peiyi,
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00:30:23,010 --> 00:30:24,340
let it go.
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00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,260
Clinging too hard makes you see enemies everywhere,
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00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:28,470
and clouds your mind.
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00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:30,470
What was clear and simple
525
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:32,470
will turn hard to grasp.
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00:30:34,410 --> 00:30:35,300
But if I can't even
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00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:36,360
trust myself,
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00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:40,710
who can I trust?
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00:30:54,250 --> 00:30:55,250
Don't worry.
530
00:30:56,690 --> 00:30:58,190
Whatever I said back then,
531
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:00,560
today
532
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:02,190
I'll say the same.
533
00:31:04,250 --> 00:31:05,250
Do you think
534
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:08,430
she truly forgot?
535
00:31:10,650 --> 00:31:12,430
She is sharp and quick.
536
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:14,780
She came today
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00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:16,736
for more than just liking
538
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:17,870
that incense.
539
00:31:19,010 --> 00:31:20,020
If she remembers,
540
00:31:20,970 --> 00:31:22,260
we must find a way to handle it.
541
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:24,430
If she doesn't...
542
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:26,470
We must stop her from remembering.
543
00:31:29,010 --> 00:31:29,710
If she doesn't get
544
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:30,990
the answers she wants here,
545
00:31:31,690 --> 00:31:32,810
she likely won't come again.
546
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:36,760
Thank you, Mother.
547
00:31:37,170 --> 00:31:38,850
I'm going back to the Astronomical Bureau.
548
00:31:39,250 --> 00:31:41,060
Your father will be back soon.
549
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:43,386
See him before you go.
550
00:31:43,410 --> 00:31:44,410
No need.
551
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:46,120
And today's matter
552
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:47,630
needn't be told to Father.
553
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:51,800
I'll be going now.
554
00:32:00,150 --> 00:32:03,910
[Spring of the 13th year of Dali; Xingqing Palace]
555
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:13,870
So there really are
556
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:16,230
such special flowers in this world.
557
00:32:16,970 --> 00:32:18,630
I thought it was an exaggeration.
558
00:32:26,250 --> 00:32:27,250
Your Majesty, look.
559
00:32:28,210 --> 00:32:29,260
When the breeze blows,
560
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:30,950
they glimmer with light.
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00:32:31,690 --> 00:32:32,990
Like droplets of water.
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00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:36,426
They aren't like the peony,
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00:32:36,450 --> 00:32:37,470
so grand and noble,
564
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:38,540
so bold and open.
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00:32:38,890 --> 00:32:40,470
But they're delicate and enchanting.
566
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:43,910
And their scent
567
00:32:44,410 --> 00:32:45,740
is faint, yet there.
568
00:32:46,210 --> 00:32:47,710
It makes you want to lean in.
569
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:50,040
No wonder they're called "Hundred Charms."
570
00:33:06,930 --> 00:33:07,930
Your Majesty,
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00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:10,100
this lady truly is so beautiful
572
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:12,870
that it shames the moon and flowers.
573
00:33:14,490 --> 00:33:15,490
These flowers
574
00:33:15,930 --> 00:33:17,050
should be given to a beauty.
575
00:33:17,650 --> 00:33:20,470
This servant will pick them for you at once!
576
00:33:37,970 --> 00:33:38,470
The wall!
577
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:40,200
There's something inside the wall!
578
00:33:43,690 --> 00:33:44,690
Your Majesty!
579
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:56,950
- Your Majesty! - Hurry!
580
00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:58,386
Get Consort Shu back to her palace, now!
581
00:33:58,410 --> 00:33:59,656
Get Consort Shu back to her palace!
582
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:00,910
I deserve death!
583
00:34:01,010 --> 00:34:02,700
I deserve death!
584
00:34:07,370 --> 00:34:08,500
In Xingqing Palace,
585
00:34:08,890 --> 00:34:10,270
such cruelty happened!
586
00:34:10,770 --> 00:34:12,136
Summon the Palace Investigation Bureau
587
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:13,320
to thoroughly investigate it!
588
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:15,620
This servant obeys!
589
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:28,500
Thanks for covering for me, Deputy Director Xiao.
590
00:34:29,010 --> 00:34:30,010
That robe
591
00:34:30,290 --> 00:34:31,870
let me burn it for you.
592
00:34:32,810 --> 00:34:33,810
Much obliged.
593
00:34:35,460 --> 00:34:36,460
Hurry!
594
00:34:58,350 --> 00:35:01,190
[Flower on the Wall]
595
00:35:10,930 --> 00:35:11,930
Your Ladyship,
596
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:13,660
you just got your post back.
597
00:35:13,720 --> 00:35:14,720
Don't do anything rash.
598
00:35:14,810 --> 00:35:15,580
By the order of His Majesty,
599
00:35:15,770 --> 00:35:16,946
you are forbidden to examine the body.
600
00:35:16,970 --> 00:35:18,140
Keep your voice down.
601
00:35:18,410 --> 00:35:19,430
Then no one will know.
602
00:35:21,720 --> 00:35:22,950
"Hundred Charms"?
603
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:24,750
More like "demon charms."
604
00:35:26,010 --> 00:35:27,650
What did the Assistant Director here say?
605
00:35:27,930 --> 00:35:29,790
Tried to be clever, scared stiff,
606
00:35:29,930 --> 00:35:30,990
he couldn't say a word.
607
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:32,270
Take him back.
608
00:35:32,450 --> 00:35:33,100
We'll question him tomorrow.
609
00:35:33,450 --> 00:35:34,530
- Understood! - Understood!
610
00:35:43,980 --> 00:35:44,750
Your Ladyship,
611
00:35:44,890 --> 00:35:45,990
I heard
612
00:35:46,030 --> 00:35:47,616
there's a man-eating flower in the South Sea.
613
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:49,020
Its seeds are tiny as sand,
614
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:49,950
light as dust,
615
00:35:50,010 --> 00:35:51,010
hard to notice.
616
00:35:51,720 --> 00:35:52,746
If it lands on someone,
617
00:35:52,770 --> 00:35:53,770
it takes root right away,
618
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:56,830
feeding on flesh as soil, marrow as fertilizer.
619
00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:57,986
By the time you notice,
620
00:35:58,010 --> 00:35:59,010
it's already too late.
621
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:01,620
You can only be drained alive,
622
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:03,700
and die in agony.
623
00:36:28,260 --> 00:36:29,260
Xiang embroidery...
624
00:36:29,850 --> 00:36:31,050
It must be from the palace.
625
00:36:32,030 --> 00:36:33,910
The seeds in the sachet sprouted,
626
00:36:34,850 --> 00:36:35,790
using the soil inside the wall
627
00:36:35,850 --> 00:36:36,906
and the spring rain,
628
00:36:36,930 --> 00:36:37,950
and bloomed into flowers.
629
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:41,986
Director of Embroidery, take a look.
630
00:36:42,010 --> 00:36:43,620
Is this stitching Xiang embroidery?
631
00:36:44,010 --> 00:36:44,770
Your Ladyship,
632
00:36:45,010 --> 00:36:46,010
it is Xiang embroidery.
633
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:47,430
And workmanship like this
634
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:48,700
can only be Birou's.
635
00:36:49,010 --> 00:36:50,010
Get her out here.
636
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:51,746
Birou isn't with the Palace Workshop Service.
637
00:36:51,770 --> 00:36:53,190
She serves Talent Wang.
638
00:36:53,530 --> 00:36:54,530
Please wait.
639
00:36:58,890 --> 00:37:00,170
Your Ladyship, are you saying
640
00:37:01,930 --> 00:37:03,076
the owner of this sachet.
641
00:37:03,100 --> 00:37:03,787
[Birou, Palace Maid]
642
00:37:03,811 --> 00:37:04,910
Is already dead?
643
00:37:11,770 --> 00:37:12,770
Your Ladyship,
644
00:37:13,890 --> 00:37:14,890
I gave this sachet
645
00:37:15,370 --> 00:37:16,660
to Hanxiao.
646
00:37:18,240 --> 00:37:20,620
Hanxiao from Consort Shu's palace?
647
00:37:22,810 --> 00:37:23,810
Did Hanxiao
648
00:37:24,010 --> 00:37:25,090
have any identifying marks?
649
00:37:25,410 --> 00:37:27,140
On the inside of both ankles,
650
00:37:27,330 --> 00:37:28,540
she had cinnabar moles,
651
00:37:28,930 --> 00:37:29,930
perfectly symmetrical,
652
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:31,220
very distinctive.
653
00:37:35,970 --> 00:37:36,970
Your Ladyship,
654
00:37:38,370 --> 00:37:39,660
did that body have them?
655
00:37:43,870 --> 00:37:45,986
[Palace Investigation Bureau]
656
00:37:46,010 --> 00:37:47,136
I found Hanxiao's exit record in the Bureau of Palace Ladies,
657
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:48,660
dated half a year ago.
658
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:50,386
His Majesty cares for the palace maids.
659
00:37:50,410 --> 00:37:51,367
Every maid released
660
00:37:51,391 --> 00:37:52,620
gets a resettlement payment,
661
00:37:52,850 --> 00:37:54,176
so they can marry
662
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:55,200
and make a living.
663
00:37:55,290 --> 00:37:56,580
She already collected the money.
664
00:37:56,890 --> 00:37:58,056
Her exit date and household register
665
00:37:58,080 --> 00:37:59,080
are all here.
666
00:38:03,240 --> 00:38:04,240
Chang'an County...
667
00:38:08,630 --> 00:38:10,130
Is this the Cai household?
668
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:11,520
Yes.
669
00:38:14,450 --> 00:38:17,050
[Zhenzhen, Hanxiao's younger sister] Miss, you're from the palace?
670
00:38:17,770 --> 00:38:19,210
Do you know my elder sister Hanxiao?
671
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:20,800
So, you're Hanxiao's younger sister?
672
00:38:21,330 --> 00:38:22,330
Yeah. My name's Zhenzhen.
673
00:38:22,970 --> 00:38:23,500
Miss,
674
00:38:23,770 --> 00:38:25,130
do you have any news of my sister?
675
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:26,600
Who is it?
676
00:38:28,240 --> 00:38:28,750
Mother!
677
00:38:28,970 --> 00:38:30,180
They're from the palace!
678
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:33,180
So,
679
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:34,910
do you have any news of Hanxiao?
680
00:38:36,810 --> 00:38:37,810
Hanxiao
681
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:40,100
was my best friend in the palace.
682
00:38:41,290 --> 00:38:42,350
After she left the palace,
683
00:38:42,450 --> 00:38:43,450
we lost touch.
684
00:38:43,810 --> 00:38:45,620
I came to Chang'an County on business today,
685
00:38:45,720 --> 00:38:46,920
so I thought I'd check on her.
686
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:48,700
How could she go missing?
687
00:38:50,930 --> 00:38:52,346
Outside the palace,
688
00:38:52,370 --> 00:38:53,580
did she have anyone close?
689
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:55,056
She never
690
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:56,140
talked to us about that.
691
00:38:56,770 --> 00:38:58,270
So I don't know.
692
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:06,120
Miss,
693
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:07,600
I heard
694
00:39:07,850 --> 00:39:08,850
the court gives
695
00:39:08,970 --> 00:39:10,060
those leaving the palace
696
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:12,020
a resettlement payment.
697
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:13,680
Is that true?
698
00:39:14,490 --> 00:39:15,490
Of course.
699
00:39:15,720 --> 00:39:16,990
It's a lot of money.
700
00:39:17,240 --> 00:39:18,270
Then
701
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:20,470
can we... claim it?
702
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:24,560
Why?
703
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:26,180
Is your family short on money?
704
00:39:28,720 --> 00:39:30,350
My husband has been sickly.
705
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:32,060
He can only mind a shop for others,
706
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:33,430
and earns next to nothing.
707
00:39:34,010 --> 00:39:35,950
But everything costs money at home.
708
00:39:36,240 --> 00:39:37,990
Thankfully, we had Hanxiao.
709
00:39:38,490 --> 00:39:39,890
She landed a position in the palace
710
00:39:40,010 --> 00:39:41,060
and supported us all.
711
00:39:41,290 --> 00:39:42,580
She was our backbone.
712
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:44,640
If you rely on Hanxiao to support you,
713
00:39:44,970 --> 00:39:46,140
shouldn't you find her first?
714
00:39:48,240 --> 00:39:49,240
We...
715
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:51,220
We will!
716
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:53,270
But our whole family
717
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:54,830
has to live, too.
718
00:39:57,010 --> 00:39:58,310
Madam, it's been so hard on you.
719
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:02,830
This is all the money I have.
720
00:40:03,450 --> 00:40:03,830
Here.
721
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:05,280
Oh...
722
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:08,680
Well
723
00:40:08,770 --> 00:40:09,770
I just don't know
724
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:11,830
where else to get news of Hanxiao.
725
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:16,750
We have letters she sent before.
726
00:40:17,850 --> 00:40:18,500
Go get them, now!
727
00:40:18,770 --> 00:40:19,770
Hurry!
728
00:40:22,330 --> 00:40:23,990
The really old ones are gone.
729
00:40:24,720 --> 00:40:26,350
These are from the past two years,
730
00:40:26,490 --> 00:40:27,216
up until.
731
00:40:27,240 --> 00:40:28,800
[To Mother and Father] she went missing.
732
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:30,220
I kept them all carefully.
733
00:40:31,290 --> 00:40:32,290
Miss, take a look.
734
00:40:32,450 --> 00:40:33,450
Maybe they'll help.
735
00:40:37,410 --> 00:40:38,530
I'll come again another day.
736
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:40,346
If you remember
737
00:40:40,370 --> 00:40:41,370
anything else,
738
00:40:41,490 --> 00:40:42,490
tell me right away.
739
00:40:42,930 --> 00:40:44,020
Yes!
740
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:47,750
Hanxiao was blessed
741
00:40:47,810 --> 00:40:48,517
to have friends
742
00:40:48,541 --> 00:40:49,950
like you two.
743
00:40:50,240 --> 00:40:51,310
Truly blessed!
744
00:41:05,370 --> 00:41:06,370
Miss!
745
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:09,200
Miss!
746
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:11,176
If you find my sister,
747
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:12,200
please tell her
748
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:13,560
I'm grown up now.
749
00:41:13,970 --> 00:41:14,746
I can fold 500 paper ingots
750
00:41:14,770 --> 00:41:15,790
and earn one wen.
751
00:41:16,290 --> 00:41:17,390
I can help the household.
752
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:19,960
She doesn't have to work so hard.
753
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:23,680
And
754
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:26,140
if she really doesn't want to come back,
755
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:28,560
then let her go.
756
00:41:30,010 --> 00:41:31,050
I won't beg her to return.
757
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:33,220
I just want her safe.
758
00:41:48,850 --> 00:41:49,540
Hide it well.
759
00:41:49,850 --> 00:41:50,870
Don't let anyone find it.
760
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:53,136
If your parents try to send you into the palace
761
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:54,160
or force you to marry,
762
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:55,620
take this jade token
763
00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:57,536
to the Palace Investigation Bureau in Xingqing Palace.
764
00:41:57,560 --> 00:41:58,560
Remember?
765
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:00,200
Promise me,
766
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:02,000
and I'll help you find your sister.
767
00:42:04,950 --> 00:42:07,590
[Zuixian House]
768
00:42:10,240 --> 00:42:11,540
Money for her father's medicine,
769
00:42:11,770 --> 00:42:13,016
money for her brother's schooling,
770
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:14,390
money to fix the stove,
771
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:16,040
money for coal and winter clothes...
772
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:17,270
These letters are basically
773
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:18,826
about the family asking for money,
774
00:42:18,850 --> 00:42:19,890
and Hanxiao sending money.
775
00:42:20,490 --> 00:42:21,656
That family is playing poor,
776
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:22,826
squeezing their daughter dry.
777
00:42:22,850 --> 00:42:24,250
You paid so much for these letters.
778
00:42:24,290 --> 00:42:25,216
You're encouraging
779
00:42:25,240 --> 00:42:26,390
their habit of extortion.
780
00:42:27,770 --> 00:42:28,500
Look again.
781
00:42:28,720 --> 00:42:30,220
Do they say anything else?
782
00:42:30,890 --> 00:42:32,386
Where she'd go after leaving the palace,
783
00:42:32,410 --> 00:42:34,136
whether she needed her parents to meet her, anything.
784
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:35,540
There are lots still unopened.
785
00:42:35,890 --> 00:42:36,930
I'll read them one by one.
786
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:39,100
Even if there is, it's not worth that much.
787
00:42:40,850 --> 00:42:41,850
This lamb is so tender.
788
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:43,160
Try some.
789
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:52,950
What I gave Hanxiao's family
790
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:54,500
was tribute silver.
791
00:42:55,330 --> 00:42:56,576
The moment it hits the market,
792
00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:57,600
someone will report it.
793
00:42:57,970 --> 00:42:59,170
The money will come back fast.
794
00:42:59,770 --> 00:43:00,770
So these letters
795
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:02,200
didn't cost anything.
796
00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:07,306
I checked both the Capital Prefecture
797
00:43:07,330 --> 00:43:08,500
and Chang'an County offices.
798
00:43:08,810 --> 00:43:09,386
In the past half year,
799
00:43:09,410 --> 00:43:11,050
there's no record of Hanxiao registering.
800
00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:13,640
She left the palace,
801
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:15,480
yet her body ended up back inside.
802
00:43:16,010 --> 00:43:16,790
Looks like the killer
803
00:43:16,850 --> 00:43:18,430
can move freely in the palace,
804
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:19,950
go anywhere without suspicion,
805
00:43:20,450 --> 00:43:21,930
and even come and go from the palace.
806
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:23,830
What kind of status would that be?
807
00:43:24,290 --> 00:43:25,910
And they can hide a body in the harem.
808
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:28,720
Mr. Xiao has the qilin badge.
809
00:43:28,890 --> 00:43:29,890
He could do it.
810
00:43:32,290 --> 00:43:33,730
Or maybe it's not someone important,
811
00:43:33,890 --> 00:43:35,020
but someone low enough
812
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:36,390
that no one notices them.
813
00:43:38,290 --> 00:43:39,810
Did you spread the word I told you to?
814
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:40,470
I did.
815
00:43:40,970 --> 00:43:42,170
Hanxiao got along with people.
816
00:43:42,450 --> 00:43:43,750
Hearing she died so horribly,
817
00:43:43,970 --> 00:43:44,746
some palace maid
818
00:43:44,770 --> 00:43:45,470
will surely come with clues.
819
00:43:45,770 --> 00:43:46,770
Didn't His Majesty
820
00:43:47,010 --> 00:43:48,310
order a quiet investigation
821
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:49,790
to avoid panic?
822
00:43:50,970 --> 00:43:52,016
His Majesty also ordered
823
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:53,100
we solve it fast.
824
00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:57,640
I'm done eating.
825
00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:00,000
Let's go back to the Palace Investigation Bureau and wait.
826
00:44:00,810 --> 00:44:02,050
We already have a lead so soon.
827
00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:05,540
Your Ladyship, blessings.
828
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:08,790
I'm Qingquan from Consort Shu's palace.
829
00:44:09,290 --> 00:44:10,290
I
830
00:44:12,010 --> 00:44:14,020
I know who killed Hanxiao!
831
00:44:35,910 --> 00:44:42,230
♪ Gazing at the moon from a distant terrace ♪
832
00:44:42,750 --> 00:44:49,390
♪ The dreams are weighed down by suspicions ♪
833
00:44:49,910 --> 00:44:56,910
♪ The injustice in the world remains unrighted ♪
834
00:44:57,390 --> 00:45:03,670
♪ Yet all I do is kick up a cloud of dust ♪
835
00:45:05,430 --> 00:45:09,070
♪ The verdict sounds like thunder in my ears ♪
836
00:45:09,390 --> 00:45:12,990
♪ I see the truth, sharp as a blade ♪
837
00:45:13,070 --> 00:45:17,030
♪ I read the books of sin stained with blood ♪
838
00:45:17,310 --> 00:45:20,790
♪ What wise words do you offer? ♪
839
00:45:22,430 --> 00:45:26,070
♪ This journey will take me to uncover buried truth ♪
840
00:45:26,350 --> 00:45:29,470
♪ And dive into deep waters for the reflection of the moon ♪
841
00:45:29,750 --> 00:45:33,270
♪ I swear to bring back a peaceful world ♪
842
00:45:33,590 --> 00:45:36,790
♪ And eliminate all evil ♪
843
00:45:36,910 --> 00:45:40,550
♪ I will leave no hiding place for darkness ♪
844
00:45:40,790 --> 00:45:43,950
♪ And illuminate this glorious age ♪
845
00:45:44,430 --> 00:45:47,750
♪ Justice is my sword, piercing through the fog of mystery ♪
846
00:45:47,910 --> 00:45:52,310
♪ Let stars and moon shine through the dark night ♪
847
00:45:52,790 --> 00:45:56,350
♪ The verdict sounds like thunder in my ears ♪
848
00:45:56,710 --> 00:46:00,270
♪ I see the truth, sharp as a blade ♪
849
00:46:00,390 --> 00:46:04,830
♪ I read the books of sin stained with blood ♪
850
00:46:05,110 --> 00:46:08,630
♪ What wise words do you offer? ♪
851
00:46:09,830 --> 00:46:13,590
♪ I will leave no hiding place for darkness ♪
852
00:46:13,870 --> 00:46:16,950
♪ And illuminate this glorious age ♪
853
00:46:17,430 --> 00:46:20,790
♪ Justice is my sword, piercing through the fog of mystery ♪
854
00:46:21,070 --> 00:46:24,310
♪ Let stars and moon shine through the dark night ♪
855
00:46:24,390 --> 00:46:27,750
♪ One day, the sky will turn clear ♪
856
00:46:28,070 --> 00:46:31,510
♪ One day, the sky will turn clear ♪
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