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Watching the person in the mirror's countenance pale and grow haggard,
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Examining love together with regret, both new and old.
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Keeping watch still by a lantern though it is daybreak, drenched with tears,
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Watching others meet as promised, as twilight falls.
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Story of Yanxi Palace
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Wei Yingluo, what are you doing?
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I should be asking you this question instead.
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What woman doesn't want to pave a good path for herself? What did I do wrong?
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Your so-called "paving a good path for yourself"
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is to pretend to sprain your leg and make Fuca Fuheng support you,
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and use this opportunity to climb up the social ladder?
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Yes. Can't I do that?
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He is a powerful child of a noble family.
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He has seen many beautiful women.
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Just by relying on your face, do you think he will carry you in a red sedan to enter the door? (T/N Marry her)
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If I want to be a wife and not someone else's fool,
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I'm willing to.
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These people have pig's brains. Even a person without any sense of shame will think the same way too.
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What is this place?
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The Forbidden City. If a palace maid and an Imperial Guard commit adultery
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and this is exposed,
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he's the relative of the Imperial family and can easily get away with this.
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As for you,
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it's a dead-end for you.
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I'm telling you this because we came out together today.
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I don't want to be implicated by you.
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If this were another time,
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I won't stop you if you want to seek death.
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The pot's calling the kettle black. You don't have the rights to lecture me.
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- Say that again.
- You!
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I'm going to deliver the clothes. Okay?
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"People with pig's brains"?
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"No sense of shame"?
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Isn't that so, Wei Yingluo?
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Miss Yingluo. It seems like you are biased towards men.
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What about me and His Majesty?
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Imperial Guard Fuca, you must be mistaken.
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In this world, there are definitely many of those who deceive ignorant and gullible young women.
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They have pig's brains and are without any sense of shame.
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But His Majesty is the true Imperial Son of Heaven.
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You are among the brave and talented.
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How could you be mixed up with those people without any sense of shame?
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Wei Yingluo, you are really good at weaseling your way out.
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Imperial Guard Fuca, you are right in lecturing me.
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I will be cautious, behave in the future
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and conform to the rules.
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Wei Yingluo.
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Imperial Guard Fuca, are there any further instructions?
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Regardless of what bias you have,
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don't look down on men.
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Imperial Guards in the palace are warriors.
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Yes, I accept your lesson with humility.
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Imperial Guard Fuca is here.
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Fortunately, he's here.
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He can always enter and leave Changchun Palace. Mistress can have one more person to lean on.
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Do you think just anyone can enter and leave the Imperial palace?
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Even if he's her younger brother, it's still a taboo.
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His Majesty allows Her Highness and Imperial Guard Fuca to meet frequently
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because he is very kind to Her Highness.
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Fuheng, what are you trying to do?
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Fuheng, return it to me!
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Return it to me! Where is my item?
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Where did you leave the longevity lock?
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Help me to look for it!
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No one is allowed to look for it!
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Where's the longevity lock?
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My longevity lock.
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My longevity lock.
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Who gave you the right to take my item? What gives you the right to mind my business?
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It has been three years since Yonglian had the tragedy.
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Three years have passed, and you are starting to cry and refusing to see people.
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Even now, you are still not in your right state of mind and depressed.
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Elder Sister, when are you going to stop grieving?
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- Imperial Guard Fuca...
- Retreat.
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Release me. Stop managing my business.
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I don't want to manage it,
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but I can't ignore it.
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As long as you are still the offspring of the Fuca family
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or the Empress of the Great Qing,
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you shouldn't indulge in private grievances
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and forget to shoulder your responsibilities.
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I have never forgotten to shoulder my responsibilities.
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Do you still dare to say that?
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What the Empress ought to do?
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What the Empress should be like?
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Before you got married, what did your father repeatedly say, to avoid being embarrassed?
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Once you stepped over the threshold of the Aisin-Gioro family, (T/N married into the ruling family)
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you should make preparations for your life.
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You!
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What gives you the right to criticize me?
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What gives you the right?
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Just because I didn't manage the harem well?
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Because I lack the ability to do so?
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Why is it still so sad to have lost Yonglian?
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I don't want to live with such extreme grief.
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I was pregnant with him for ten months. (T/N by the Chinese calendar)
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I was in pain for a day and a night before I gave birth to him.
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He was the most important person in my life. My most beloved child!
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If I really could,
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I'd be willing to use my life to exchange for his life.
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You have never experienced this kind of pain.
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You don't have the right to criticize me!
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- Elder Sister.
- Stop calling me.
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You are standing here today. Did His Majesty tell you to come?
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Go and tell him.
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I will always be Yonglian's mother. Yonglian has left.
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He can be indifferent but I can't.
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So, you have always resented His Majesty.
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Do you think that regarding Yonglian's premature death,
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he has always been indifferent?
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Other than the five days after Yonglian passed away,
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when he was in deep sorrow and grief,
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he subsequently seems to have forgotten about the child.
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He went to the Imperial court, as though nothing had happened,
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to handle his government affairs. Of course,
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it didn't matter to him.
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He has many women to give birth to a child for him.
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He can have many sons in the future,
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but I don't have any.
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I don't have any. I only had Yonglian.
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I only had one son.
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My lock.
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My lock.
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My lock.
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Move aside.
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Elder Sister, I know you resent me a lot,
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but there are certain things which you detest but I still need to do them.
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It's because I'm your biological younger brother.
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Other than Father and Mother, I care about you the most.
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Erqing said you are fine during the day.
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When it's evening, you sit on the ground till daybreak.
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Mother is very worried about you.
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After she last saw you, she kept crying later.
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She said you have changed into another person.
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Although you still love to talk and smile,
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none of your smiles are genuine.
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Elder Sister.
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She's our mother.
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How could your pretense escape her eyes?
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Mother also said if she had known earlier,
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even if she fought desperately for her life,
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she didn't want this splendor and wealth.
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When Father heard this, he quarreled with her.
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He felt bad for entrusting you under His Majesty's care.
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He felt bad for the Aisin-Gioro family
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for raising such a weak daughter.
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When Gao Bin was the Governor of Jiangnan, the late Emperor trusted and re-used him.
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He even rewarded Madam Gao and promoted her as Secondary Consort. (T/N lower than Princess Consort to Prince Bao)
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Second only to you. (T/N Empress Fuca was the Princess Consort Bao - the legal difujin over the two cefujin)
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Now, the power of the Gao family has greatly increased.
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They are also involved in the internal strife between Zhang Tingyu's party and Ortai.
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A slight change will affect the overall situation.
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Elder Sister. As the Empress, if you don't stand up again,
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you will only make it more difficult for His Majesty.
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There's something which His Majesty wants me to hand over to you.
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Once you have regained your good mood, open it and take a look.
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Your Highness Consort Chun.
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May I boldly ask Your Highness to help me.
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Mistress, Her Highness Consort Chun is here.
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Greetings to Your Highness the Empress.
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Rise.
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How is your body?
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I'm quite fragile, I fall ill whenever I catch a little breeze during the changing of seasons.
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After taking two batches of medicines, I'm feeling better now.
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Those are old problems, Your Highness doesn't need to worry.
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That's good, I was going to visit you initially.
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When I was here the last time,
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I noticed that your eyes were little red, I plucked some chrysanthemums,
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I had Hongluo sieve them through boiling water.
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Your Highness can put them under the eyes later on, and have some steam to infuse them.
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You'll be feeling a lot better afterwards.
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But careful to not hurt your eyes.
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Consort Chun is so meticulous. the last medicinal cushion you brought over,
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Her Highness has been using it well.
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The wick grass and the peach tree branch need to be exchanged regularly.
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When the cushion gets old, I'll have someone bring over a new one.
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Consort Chun, you smell very fragrant.
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Which fragrant powder are you using?
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My mistress never uses any fragrant powder.
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The fragrance you mentioned, do you mean the one from the clothes?
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Besides the smell of soap on the clothes,
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what fragrance is there?
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When washing clothes in our palace, we'd add washing fragrance.
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A powder made from peonies and spikenard essential oil. (T/N this oil comes from Nardostachys jatamansi)
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Adding it during the rinsing phase, the clothes will have a natural scent afterwards.
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This is habit my mistress always had before entering the palace.
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Yuhu...
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If Your Highness likes it, I'll have it sent over tomorrow.
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Consort Chun, you are smart and talented.
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If you'd spend half as much effort on
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on His Majesty compared to me,
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it would be such a good thing.
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Your Highness, you are not a fish, how can you understand the happiness of being one?
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I'm already satisfied when I can spend time around you.
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I never have hoped for the graces from His Majesty.
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You...
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You only made a pot of tea, why are your eyes so red?
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It's nothing, when I used boiling water just now,
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I accidentally steamed them.
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You were crying?
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I didn't, didnt.
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Empress, I'm speaking up boldly for Hongluo.
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No, no, I'm okay, Consort Chun, please don't say anything.
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Consort Chun, continue.
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When I entered the inner court just now.
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I saw Hongluo being sullen.
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I asked her about it, she was being incoherent.
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Later on, I found out
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she turned twenty-five last year, she's qualified to leave the palace.
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But apparently her betrothed didn't want to wait,
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and wants to marry someone else.
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Hongluo, why didn't you talk to me?
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Your Highness, Hongluo by her age is qualified indeed to leave the palace.
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- But...
- They should normally report to Your Highness,
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to let Hongluo leave the palace and get married.
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But Your Highness was in a bad mood.
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No one wanted to disturb you with a small matter.
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One thing led to another, the matter has been put off.
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The female servants who reach the qualified age to leave the palace,
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is a small matter to me indeed.
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But to them, it's no small matter. It's a matter that impacts their entire lives.
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Go to the Imperial Household Department immediately and sign up Hongluo!
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Yes.
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Hongluo, I will grant you a set dowry,
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so that you can get married extravagantly.
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I will never forget about Your Highness' benevolence and mercy!
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Rise.
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You can leave now.
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Your Highness is very tolerant, and leads the harem diligently.
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There's no one better than you.
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Hongluo is walking in front of me every day.
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I was totally in the dark...
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Changchun Palace is under my eyes,
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how could such a mistake have happened?
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Let alone, the entire Forbidden Palace?
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How many mistakes are happening every day?
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I'm an Empress who has neglected her duty.
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Consort Chun, I understand now.
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What?
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Fuheng has asked you to help,
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but you could not tell me directly.
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So you let me see through this matter
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the consequences of neglecting one's duty.
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Your Highness, Young Master Fuca said
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that you have to take a look at the box he left for you.
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Maybe it'll open your mind.
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The Emperor who was chosen by heaven proclaims
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Yonglian, my legitimate child,
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is intelligent, precious and extraordinary.
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Implicitly showing the signs of bearing great responsibilities.
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After I ascended to the throne, he kept to the established laws and regulations.
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I hereby personally write down that he is to be named the crown prince,
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this decree is to be hidden behind the "Open and Above Board" plaque at Qianqing Palace.
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Qianlong, seventh (lunar) month, second day, first year of reign
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Your Highness, what's wrong?
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Your Highness.
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He named Yonglian,
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as the Crown Prince.
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When Yonglian was alive,
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he was already Qing Dynasty's Crown Prince.
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This is a good thing.
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The day he ascended to the throne, he had already named his successor.
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For Yonglian,
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he had high hopes.
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But I hated him, blamed him.
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I wanted him to be like me.
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But he is the Emperor.
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He's the Emperor of Great Qing.
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He is the Emperor...
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Your Highness...
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His Majesty must have been heartbroken as well.
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Please don't blame him any longer.
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It's all my fault.
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I couldn't protect Yonglian.
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He didn't only lose a son,
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he also lost his Crown Prince he just named.
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And I... All these years...
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I only let myself live in pain.
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I didn't fulfill my duty as an Empress.
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I was wrong, I was wrong...
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I was so completely wrong...
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My father was right,
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I'm a sinner in the Aisin-Gioro family.
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In the Aisin-Gioro family,
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I'm the sinner...
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No, Your Highness, you weren't at fault.
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It's destiny's fault, it took the Second Prince away.
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The destiny took away your life.
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Your Majesty, it's already san-geng hour. (T/N 11:00 pm to 1:00 am. Twelve "hours", each two hours long)
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You should rest.
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Yes.
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Erqing, Empress should be awake.
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Her Highness is unwell in her health. Let her rest more.
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But the consorts will come to pay respect to her soon.
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Then do as usual, spare it.
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All of you, come in.
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Dress me.
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Yes.
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Usually when I have invited you for tea,
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you'd put it off and won't come.
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But now you're quite diligent.
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It's my duty to greet the Her Highness the Empress and wish her health.
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If Empress won't wake up, she shouldn't let us wait in vain.
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Imperial Concubine Jia, let's go.
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Yes, Your Highness.
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I haven't arrived and someone wants to leave?
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Are we too much in a rush?
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Greetings to Your Highness the Empress.
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I thought Your Highness forgot again about the greeting.
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Noble Consort Gao.
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I remember when you first came into the manor,
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you were so good at pouring tea.
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How come you're getting more unruly as the years pass?
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Maybe once we came into the palace
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and you were installed as the Noble Consort, you forgot what the hierarchy of status means?
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All of my sisters, you are excused from formality.
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Thank you, Your Highness.
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Since we're all gathered today,
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there are a few things I need to bring up.
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I am usually sick.
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So many things in the palace have gone undone despite my care.
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Now I am much better,
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so these matters should be tended to.
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- Noble Lady Yu.
- Yes.
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You're pregnant with a royal heir but you've always suffered from weak health.
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You need someone capable watching over you.
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Other than the royal physicians required to check your pulse daily,
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the Internal Affairs Bureau will send a few sharp and skilled hands to care after you.
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Of course, if someone continues to be blind
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and be offensive, you can come to me all you want.
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I will seek justice for you.
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Thank you, Empress, for your care.
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Rise.
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Also, Imperial Concubine Yi.
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So young in age and she left.
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Such a regrettable and lamentable matter.
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I will ask His Majesty to bury her honorably.
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As for her family, they will be settled well too.
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Your Highness the Empress.
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Imperial Concubine Yi killed herself.
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If I am to speak ugly words, if it were a palace maid committing this grave offense,
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the family would be beheaded or exiled.
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Today you are speaking of an honorable burial?
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Could it be that
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Empress wants everyone to follow suit?
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I said Imperial Concubine Yi died from illness.
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But you claim she hung herself, Noble Consort Gao.
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Who is really right?
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Consort Chun?
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Surely Your Highness the Empress is right.
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Consort Xian?
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Yes.
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And all you other sisters?
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How would the Empress be wrong? Naturally it was death due to illness.
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Look then.
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Even a newly-entered Noble Lady is more aware of the rules than Noble Consort Gao.
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How shocking.
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Empress!
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Sure. If Empress says she died from illness, then we’ll regard it as such.
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I may be able to forgive and move on from what’s happened in the palace already.
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However from now on, if anyone should cause disturbance
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I shall absolutely not overlook it.
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Is that all clear to you, Sisters?
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Whore!
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The Empress usually never pays attention to the inner palace matters.
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Why did she go against the usual and suddenly appear today?
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If you ask me, who do I ask?
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In my opinion, if the Empress really gets back up...
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A sickly cat is always still a sickly cat.
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A rare roar, and that still doesn’t make her the tigress.
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She’s not paid heed to matters for so long already.
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She wants to reclaim the authority to mind matters now?
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That’s not so easily done.
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Your Highness' words are so precise.
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However with the Empress watching now,
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we may need to be more vigilant in our conduct.
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We will see about that.
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Let’s see how long she can make that breath last.
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Your Highness, are you alright?
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Forgive me, Consort Xian. I am with offense!
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Where are your eyes? You bumped into her straight on!
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You’ve dirtied up her nice clothes.
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That’s enough, Zhen’er.
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You’re not injured?
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Rise.
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Yes. Thank you, Your Highness.
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Be careful walking in the future.
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What’s wrong?
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Consort Xian. My mother is gravely ill.
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But the supervising ward won’t let me visit her.
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I am so worried I won’t get to see my mother for the last time.
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That’s why I walked in a daze.
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Which palace do you belong to?
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I am from Ruyi Hall.
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If you’re telling the truth,
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I will speak with Supervisor Wu to release you for a sick visit.
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Thank you, Your Highness!
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Your Highness Consort Xian, I will never forget your merciful grace!
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Sister, you are titled as Consort Xian, meaning "virtue".
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Everyone in the Forbidden City knows this,
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And I have found out.
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You are revered and loved by everyone in the palace.
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That is not a title you earned for no reason.
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Just a helping hand. Nothing worth mentioning.
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Many helping hands added together.
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Everyone in the palace sees it.
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No wonder Noble Consort Gao wants to be on your good side too.
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You are making a joke.
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Today the Empress was drastically different than before.
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I believe it’s your merit.
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Sister, you are overthinking.
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Before, Her Highness didn't like to manage the affairs because she's sick.
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Now that her health has greatly improved, she surely must return in managing the harem.
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In the past, when the eight of us were still attending at the Prince Bao Manor,
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other than the deceased Consort Zhe,
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there were Empress, Noble Consort Gao, Imperial Concubine Jia, Noble Lady Yu, and Noble Lady Wan.
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I actually can see clearly what each one wants,
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except for you, Consort Chun.
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Until now, I can't see it clearly.
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What exactly do you want to point at, Consort Xian?
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Among we eight, in terms of appearance and talent,
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you are the most outstanding.
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But within a year, I never saw you showcasing this even once.
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It's as if you're always sick.
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My health is weak and it has dragged me down.
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But when Empress needs you to be around,
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you will be by her side.
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I understand. Empress is the mother of the nation. She commands the six palaces.
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Being close to her will indeed be beneficial.
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But Sister, you never asked for anything.
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Tell me, what do you really want?
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Aren't you the one who is truly without worldly desires?
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Glory, splendor, wealth, and fame, all those desires, you don't get involved with any of them.
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In your heart, His Majesty is the most important.
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Look at you. You can clearly see through everyone.
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But what about you? I just couldn't fully understand you.
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Since you're not attending the tea gathering of Noble Consort Gao,
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will you accept my invitation to admire the flowers?
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If it's purely just to admire the flowers,
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of course, I will be happy too.
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But if it involves others, then forgive for disrespectfully refusing it.
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Sister, while living in the Forbidden City,
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it won't be easy to isolate one's self for preservation of integrity.
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I don't ask for that, but I ask to have a guilt-free conscience.
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Sister, I'll take my leave.
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Sister Zhilan.
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You are?
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We are embroidery maidens. Supervisor Zhang told us to bring the finished spring clothes here.
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Is there an issue?
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Look how we're all wearing the same palace maid outfits,
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but when you wear it, you stand out so much.
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And the embroidered flower by the collar is so pretty.
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I can tell right away you're a skillful person.
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You're pretty good at talking.
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But pity that scented pouch.
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If it's touched up with some cyan threads, it'd be prettier.
460
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Sister, I actually have cyan-colored threads on me.
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If you don't mind,
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I'll add it on for you now.
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Linglong, we need to rush back to the embroidery house.
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What's there to be scared of? Go back and tell your Momo Zhang
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that I thought this girl was pretty sharp, so I kept her for a chat.
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You come with me.
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The skills of the embroidery house maidens are good indeed.
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The added color adds more balance.
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This is nothing though. There's a girl named Yingluo in our house.
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She's not only exceptional in her embroidery skills, she's also a sharp mind.
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Last time, if it weren't for her, none of us would have known the loquat ointment was so complicated!
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What did you say? Loquat ointment?
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Yes.
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Yingluo mentioned in Yonghe Palace last time about her childhood days, when she accidentally ate a loquat pit.
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If it weren't for her, we wouldn't have known the young leaves are poisonous and can't be used for medicine.
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Sister, did I say something wrong?
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Of course not. We're just chatting.
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I am relieved then.
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Sister, I thought you'd be bored by me coming to chat out of nowhere.
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I didn't realize what a nice person you really are.
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By the way, that palace maid you mentioned.
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Her name is Yingluo?
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Wei Yingluo.
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Pretty good.
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- Yingluo, what are you embroidering?
- I'm embroidering the clouds tinged with sunset hues.
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You can embroider all things in the world,
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except that the clouds at sunset are hard to embroider.
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Every time you embroider it, it just looks like a cloud. How meaningless.
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You all come look.
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She embroidered it so well.
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Yingluo, you used the full embroidery technique?
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I thought only the full embroidery technique can show the clouds tinged with sunset hues.
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Look. This is red, gradually fading to white.
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Then progressing to blue.
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Then you can experience the gradation of the sunset clouds.
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The red glow against the blue sky, contrasting each other.
497
00:37:45,540 --> 00:37:47,410
It's indeed quite beautiful.
498
00:37:47,410 --> 00:37:52,160
Supervisor, I want to embroider it on clothing.
499
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:54,680
Maybe the noble women would like them.
500
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:07,830
Miss Zhilan, what brings you here?
501
00:38:07,830 --> 00:38:10,930
Is Her Highness unhappy with the spring attire?
502
00:38:10,930 --> 00:38:12,750
We needn't have troubled you for your personal trip here.
503
00:38:12,750 --> 00:38:16,990
You could send a palace maid with word and I'd come to Chuxiu Palace right away.
504
00:38:16,990 --> 00:38:21,930
Noble Consort is indeed unhappy with the embroidery, so she wants a different look.
505
00:38:21,930 --> 00:38:26,390
I hear you've got a Wei Yingluo here with exceptional skills.
506
00:38:26,390 --> 00:38:28,800
Have her come with me.
507
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:31,790
Alright then. Let me give her some instructions.
508
00:38:31,790 --> 00:38:34,300
Noble Consort sent an order, so we don't dare to delay.
509
00:38:34,300 --> 00:38:36,000
Let's go, hurry up!
510
00:38:44,500 --> 00:38:47,390
Yingluo. Yingluo!
511
00:38:50,290 --> 00:38:54,060
Supervisor Zhang, I feel like something's off!
512
00:38:54,060 --> 00:38:58,970
Did that Wei Yingluo commit some grave crime?
513
00:39:00,050 --> 00:39:01,960
Who knows.
514
00:39:04,500 --> 00:39:09,160
I guess the good show is about to begin.
515
00:39:18,990 --> 00:39:21,320
What's going on?
516
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:26,270
I bid the two mistresses wellness!
517
00:39:26,270 --> 00:39:28,360
You are Wei Yingluo?
518
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:30,310
Yes. Your Highness!
519
00:39:30,310 --> 00:39:33,110
Why are you so loud? I'm not deaf.
520
00:39:36,090 --> 00:39:37,780
Quieter.
521
00:39:39,030 --> 00:39:42,970
I have been a loud talker since I was young.
522
00:39:42,970 --> 00:39:46,010
Supervisor hit me many times already.
523
00:39:46,010 --> 00:39:48,790
No. No.
524
00:39:48,790 --> 00:39:51,940
I can't change.
525
00:39:52,990 --> 00:39:56,990
You said young leaves of loquat are poisonous?
526
00:39:58,910 --> 00:40:00,400
Yes.
527
00:40:01,090 --> 00:40:04,920
It's poisonous. You can't eat it.
528
00:40:06,350 --> 00:40:09,380
Noble Consort, look.
529
00:40:09,380 --> 00:40:11,350
It really is her.
530
00:40:12,750 --> 00:40:16,430
Noble Consort, you want to eat loquat too?
531
00:40:16,430 --> 00:40:20,750
But you can't eat the pit and don't touch the young leaves.
532
00:40:20,750 --> 00:40:22,760
They are both poisonous.
533
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:27,530
When I was little, I loved to eat so much. Once...
534
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:35,140
I accidentally ate too much.
535
00:40:36,940 --> 00:40:40,070
Vomiting and diarrhea.
536
00:40:40,070 --> 00:40:44,950
I almost died. Last time!
537
00:40:44,950 --> 00:40:49,380
The mistress in Yonghe Palace wanted to eat loquat too.
538
00:40:49,380 --> 00:40:52,260
I told her not to.
539
00:40:52,260 --> 00:40:55,060
So dangerous.
540
00:40:55,060 --> 00:40:57,050
What is this mess?
541
00:40:57,050 --> 00:40:59,950
Incoherent and unintelligible!
542
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:05,710
What are you staring at?
543
00:41:05,710 --> 00:41:10,920
Noble Consort, what are you eating?
544
00:41:13,450 --> 00:41:18,330
I've never eaten rice glue balls before.
545
00:41:21,030 --> 00:41:23,810
This is lotus-root powder balls.
546
00:41:26,790 --> 00:41:30,050
I'm talking to you, stop sidetracking.
547
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:36,660
Noble Consort, this foolish maid seems to be a little stupid.
548
00:41:39,050 --> 00:41:40,990
You, approach me.
549
00:41:42,240 --> 00:41:45,470
Have you ever eaten lotus-root powder balls before?
550
00:41:45,470 --> 00:41:48,950
I will grant this bowl to you.
551
00:42:22,350 --> 00:42:25,030
Do you want more?
552
00:42:31,330 --> 00:42:33,100
So delicious!
553
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:50,950
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554
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:17,630
♫The Forbidden Palace's walls surround them, feeling like a good place to reside.♫
555
00:43:17,630 --> 00:43:24,950
♫As the walls sever the setting sun's rays, they lose their past dreams as it grows cold.♫
556
00:43:24,950 --> 00:43:32,400
♫Decaying leaves cover the neglected shuttered window, that remembers the cold winds of twenty harvests.♫
557
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:38,830
♫Knowing only how to go with the flow, and pass the years.♫
558
00:43:38,830 --> 00:43:41,600
♫Unmarried and hopeful, the heavy, dark gates are locked, ♫
559
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:46,260
♫Cultivated and proud, gem-like beauties, and yet somehow♫
560
00:43:46,260 --> 00:43:50,770
♫Flowers who stay may endure breakage, causing them ask to change their karma♫
561
00:43:50,770 --> 00:43:54,560
♫Can not an empty branch give them a carefree place to rest upon?♫
562
00:43:54,560 --> 00:44:01,950
♫Longing to be together with him, separated as the illumination in the western window declines,♫
563
00:44:01,950 --> 00:44:09,120
♫At leisure to be melancholy, also perplexed and worried about it all.♫
564
00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:16,680
♫Who will pity her, and record her lifetime full of misery?♫
565
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:24,080
♫A pretentious, showy vision on a stage.♫
566
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:31,490
♫Longing to be together with him, separated as the illumination in the western window declines,♫
567
00:44:31,490 --> 00:44:38,760
♫At leisure to be melancholy, also perplexed and worried about it all.♫
568
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:46,240
♫Who will pity her, and record her lifetime full of misery?♫
569
00:44:46,240 --> 00:44:52,380
♫A pretentious, showy vision on a stage.♫f
570
00:44:53,620 --> 00:45:04,000
♫A pretentious, showy vision on a stage.♫