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This purse

is mine.

I wouldn't dare lie.

Yesterday, on the street,

with so many people around,

I thought I lost it.

I never expected

to find it here.

Is that so?

But hawthorn flowers are white.

Why did you embroider it red like that woman?

This purse

is indeed embroidered by me.

Noble ladies all prefer white.

I just think

red hawthorn flowers

are more special.

I have no other intentions.

Please, Your Highness, see the truth.

The stitch is exquisite.

You are so young,

yet you embroider so well.

The servants in Shengkun Palace should learn from you.

How should I

how should I use the needle?

This is the velvet needle technique.

Use raw silk as the warp,

and velvet as the weft.

The first stitch crosses four threads,

then picks up one thread.

The second stitch...

You continue.

As long as you finish without changing,

I will believe you.

Cross one thread,

pick up one thread,

Four threads over,

one thread up.

One thread up, four threads over.

Third layer.

One thread over,

one thread up.

Four threads over, one thread up.

This hawthorn flower stained with blood

must be very special, right?

I'm tired.

Come report when you're done.

It's better for you to tell the truth.

Do you want to die here?

Say it!

It has nothing to do with the court

or personal gain.

It's because in the last life,

you saved me

from danger at all costs.

So this time,

I want to change our doomed ending.

Prime Minister,

just kill Miss Jin.

The Empress is determined to get her to talk.

Killing her will end all troubles.

Lord Xiao,

do you intend to save her?

But the Empress will never let this go.

Going against the Empress now

brings no benefits to us.

As long as He Bao and Miss Jin are gone,

you'll have no more worries.

Who's there?

Leave no survivors.

Yes.

Follow me.

Have you thought it through?

Prime Minister,

we need to take the back roads to the gates.

The support team is outside.

The needle is poisoned.

There's no time.

We must detoxify it immediately.

It won't be long

before the Empress realizes Miss Jin is missing.

But where can we hide

in the palace?

Tonight is Nan Zhi's birthday banquet.

I must be the most beautiful one.

That hairpin brought from Chu

must be found.

Yes, Your Highness.

Your Highness,

why don't you go in?

I...

I'm tired.

You go first.

OK.

Does Prime Minister Lou

want to harm the princess of Chu?

Jinzhu!

You...

How could you...

Once we're safely away,

the antidote will be given to you.

She confessed.

Your Majesty,

Jinzhu is missing,

and the other maids have been killed.

Your Majesty,

what should we do now?

Search for her.

She can't go far.

If her poison is not relieved,

she will also die.

Yes.

Dare to save someone from me.

Interesting.

You.

How did you get like this?

You

have an affair.

No.

He

sick?

Why do you come to me?

Because no one would think she'd hide in your palace.

And you're a princess from a vassal state.

No one would break in.

The wound needs to be treated immediately.

Otherwise, the poison will spread.

You...

Wait.

If you can get married,

you don't have to marry Brother Nan Zhi,

right?

Shut up.

Feng Yan will bring the royal doctor soon.

He's my man.

Did you

give her Hawthorn Pill?

It's highly toxic.

There's no antidote.

She'll die of body decay.

It's not an ordinary poison.

The Empress didn't want you

to leave here alive.

Why didn't you expose me?

The Empress offered you

what you value most.

Agreeing to her

is the wisest choice.

I don't want to marry Zhou Nanzhi

because I don't accept being arranged by others.

But I never said

I would do anything

to survive.

Betraying me

is your price.

Others are just collateral damage.

Words of the weak.

This is a world of the survival of the fittest.

If you don't hurt others,

others will hurt you.

So to achieve the goal,

everything can be sacrificed.

Anyone can die,

including me.

Are you sure this cold and selfish you

is the real you?

Are you sure you really want to

pay everything for

for a fictional plot?

Are you sure your position

is the only thing in your life?

In the picture book world,

everyone is not in control of their own.

You and I are no exception.

It's just the nonsense of the picture book again.

It's getting late.

I must leave before the birthday banquet.

Your wound

must be treated.

Our fates

are unrelated.

That's what Prime Minister Lou said yesterday,

isn't it?

We're even.

Is Princess Jingyun here?

Who is it?

I'm Yanran from the Shengkun Palace.

The kitten in your palace is missing.

Have you heard anything?

No.

To avoid it hurting someone,

I need the guards to check first,

before I can feel at ease.

Search!

What are you doing?

Search!

I'm about to rest.

None of you are allowed in.

I serve Her Majesty the Empress.

Princess,

are you defying Her Majesty's orders?

You may serve Her Majesty,

but you're still just a maid.

I'll teach you today

what it means to respect the hierarchy,

and maintain the proper distance between master and servant!

If you wish to enter the Palace of Everlasting Spring,

then bring the Empress's decree!

Hongye,

get rid of them,

all of them!

Get out!

Out!

You dare to mess with the wrong person,

the Empress!

Now,

get out of my way!

And...

and

give me the antidote!

Who are you?

What are you doing?

Take them all away!

We can't leave now.

No one's coming in or out, right?

Don't worry, My Lady.

Both gates of the Palace

are heavily guarded.

Then let's wait for them to come out.

I'm curious

who's trying to save them.

It

shouldn't take long.

What's that smell?

It's on fire!

They're forcing us out!

It's on fire!

Princess, get out!

Princess!

Don't come any closer!

How dare they burn the Palace?

No,

I have to get out of here.

I won't die here with you.

Wait, Your Highness.

I'm already poisoned.

The Empress

won't stop until she sees me.

If you go out with me,

you'll be implicated.

So wait for me to get out first,

and then find a chance

to leave on your own.

Alright, alright.

You should go now.