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I wonder if it's because

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the Crown Princess is expecting,

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but she seems much gentler today.

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Indeed.

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She's usually so reserved

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and so aloof.

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Yet today, she hasn't stopped smiling.

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At a time

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of such uncertainty,

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His Majesty's health
isn't what it used to be.

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We'll keep everything simple.

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Today is just a family gathering.

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Everyone,

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please make yourselves at home.

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Prince Lie is on duty today.

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Send him

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some dishes.

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That way,

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he can still share
in this family celebration.

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Come.

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- Thank you, Your Majesty.
- Thank you, Your Majesty.

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- May Your Majesty enjoy everlasting health.
- May Your Majesty enjoy everlasting health.

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- May you live as long as heaven and earth.
- May you live as long as heaven and earth.

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Come.

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Please continue chatting, everyone.

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I'll go freshen up

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and be right back.

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Your Highness!

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Someone, hurry!

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Assassins!

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There are assassins!

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Someone, hurry!

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Protect His Majesty!

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Where are the East Palace guards?

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Your Highness.

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Protect Mother and the ladies first.

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Qing, be careful.

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Tian Yuan.

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Escort the Crown Princess
to the side hall.

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Yes.

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I'll stay with you.

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Don't worry.

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Take care of yourself.

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Tian Yuan.

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Yes.

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=Blossoms of Power=

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(Adapted from the novel, After My
Bloom, All Flowers Wither by Jin Huang)

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=Episode 32=

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Quick!

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Attack!

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Changqing!

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Go protect the Grand Empress Dowager!

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Your Majesty, your safety comes first.

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We should leave now.

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Quick, keep up!

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Tian Yuan.

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Go protect the Crown Prince.

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But His Highness told me...

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I can protect myself.

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Go now.

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Yes.

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Go.

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Although Changtai
is nowhere to be found,

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he harbors deep resentment.

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He won't let this end so easily.

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He's already at the end of his rope.

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The Imperial Guard
is heavily guarding the palace.

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How could anything still go wrong?

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It's because
he's at the end of his rope

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that he won't care
about the consequences.

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If anything happens in the palace,

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I'll have someone send up
a flaming arrow as a signal.

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You must bring the troops here at once.

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Rest assured, Huayong.

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Follow me.

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- Yes!
- Yes!

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Quick!

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Bar the door!

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Find something heavy, too.

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- Brace the door!
- Yes.

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Yes.

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Use this.

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- This one.
- Over here.

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Quick, help me!

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- Hurry!
- Here.

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This one.

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Move!

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Put it here.

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Okay.

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Xihe.

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Quick!

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Come stand over here.

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You're with child.

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Don't go any closer.

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Mother.

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What should we do now?

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Judging by what just happened,

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I'm afraid there's a traitor among us.

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They've colluded with the Palace Guard.

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I'm afraid they're staging a rebellion.

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What are we going to do?

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Stop crying.

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The guards are fighting
in the main hall.

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They can't spare anyone to rescue us.

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There is no back exit here.

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There's no way out.

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What could

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be more frightening than death?

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At a time like this,

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what do we still have to fear?

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What are you doing?

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These gold hairpins

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are usually just ornaments.

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But now,

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they can also serve as weapons
to defend ourselves.

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Good.

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Rather than sit here and wait to die,

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we should

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fight to the death.

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Any daughters of military families

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trained in martial arts, step forward.

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We'll hold the front.

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Everyone else,

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fall back to the rear steps.

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- Yes.
- Yes.

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Zhen Zhu, Mo Yu.

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Collect everyone's sachets.

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- Yes.
- Yes.

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Here.

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Your Highness.

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Keep these three.

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I'm going to prepare an incense blend.

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- Yes.
- Yes.

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Huayong.

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Father.

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I trust you've been well.

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You ungrateful son!

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How could you commit such a heinous act?

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Is there

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any sense of human decency left in you?

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Human decency?

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You married me off to a foreign kingdom

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and cut off my path to the throne.

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Later, after I'd let go of my obsession

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and Yanhui and I had fallen in love,

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you ordered me

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to treat her as an enemy

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and forbade me from feeling
the slightest affection for her.

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In your eyes,

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I was never anything
more than a living sacrifice,

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a tool without flesh or blood.

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When have you ever
shown me a father's love?

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When...

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When have you ever truly
loved me as your son?

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Shut up!

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I,

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as the Emperor of Daxing,

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must bear the burden of the nation.

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Born into the imperial family,

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the sovereign
always comes before the father.

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You,

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care only about
your personal grievances.

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When have you ever understood

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the burdens of being
an emperor and a father?

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Huayong.

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Open your eyes.

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This is our good father.

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All he sees is his throne,

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his realm, and his power.

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To him, we sons

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are nothing more than pawns

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to be weighed and sacrificed at will!

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Fine.

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Father.

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Then today,

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I will

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put an end to all of this!

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Huayong.

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Now that you know the truth,

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why do you still try to stop me?

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Changtai.

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If you stop now,

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there's still a way out.

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Even now,

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you still believe his lies?

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You're beyond saving.

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Prince Lie. I am Zhao Zhenghao.

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Upon seeing the signal,

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I came under the Crown Prince's orders

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with Embroidered Envoys
to rescue His Majesty.

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Good.

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Follow me.

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Move!

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Quick!

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Your Majesty!

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Guards!

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Your Majesty!

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Watch out!

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San Zhi!

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San Zhi!

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Huayong.

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Huayong.

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Huayong!

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Father!

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Your Highness!

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We can't win this.

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Retreat now!

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Huayong.

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Retreat!

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Huayong!

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- Your Highness!
- Huayong!

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Protect His Majesty!

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Yes.

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Everyone, follow me!

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- Yes.
- Yes.

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Changtai.

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Changtai.

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Stop now.

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For the sake of our brotherhood,

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I won't kill you.

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Go before Father
and confess your crimes yourself.

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Changying.

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I've always envied you.

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Although you were never
Father's favorite son,

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you grew up under
your own brother's protection.

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No wonder you're so innocent.

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I am Father's son, too.

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Yet now,

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I have become

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a traitor everyone in Daxing wants dead.

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When did I ever have any brothers?

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When...

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When did I ever have a father?

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I was nothing more than
a living sacrifice,

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a bargaining chip
to be weighed and traded.

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Yanyan.

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I'm coming.

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Changtai!

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Changtai!

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Yanyan.

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Yanyan.

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All your life,

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you've always yielded to me.

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You've suffered so much.

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No matter how reluctant I am,

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this time,

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I'll do as you wish.

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Yanyan.

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Yanyan.

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Changtai.

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Farewell.

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Huayong.

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I'll go find
the Imperial Physician for you.

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Rest here in the main hall.

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There's no need...

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I want to ask you something.

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Go ahead.

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Who was it,

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that poisoned me?

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I want to know.

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That person...

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was it really you?

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Huayong.

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Huayong.

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Over the years,

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I've suspected many people,

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but I never suspected you.

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And more than anything,

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I hoped it wasn't you.

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So today,

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I want to hear it from you.

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That person...

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who was it?

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Was it really you?

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Huayong.

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It wasn't me.

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I didn't poison you.

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I never once intended to harm you.

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If a single word I say is false,

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I'd rather die by your sword.

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Huayong.

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For more than ten years,

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I've searched tirelessly
for the culprit.

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Sadly,

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there's still no trace of them.

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Huayong,

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I have failed you.

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Huayong.

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Huayong.

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Huayong.

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Father.

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Father.

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00:24:32,510 --> 00:24:33,790
I'll never forget

294
00:24:35,550 --> 00:24:37,070
that after I was poisoned,

295
00:24:38,510 --> 00:24:40,550
I was bedridden for months.

296
00:24:42,830 --> 00:24:44,790
Apart from attending court,

297
00:24:45,750 --> 00:24:47,790
you stayed in the East Palace
day and night

298
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:50,000
to care for me.

299
00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:54,720
You held me in your arms as I lay dying

300
00:24:56,110 --> 00:24:57,680
and knelt at every ancestral shrine.

301
00:25:00,310 --> 00:25:02,270
Your fatherly love

302
00:25:03,270 --> 00:25:04,400
is still vivid in my mind.

303
00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:09,110
If not for your love,

304
00:25:10,790 --> 00:25:12,960
I would never have lived to this day.

305
00:25:17,350 --> 00:25:19,400
If you say you didn't do it,

306
00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:23,590
then I believe you.

307
00:25:30,590 --> 00:25:31,680
Huayong.

308
00:25:34,350 --> 00:25:35,680
My Huayong.

309
00:25:46,590 --> 00:25:48,350
I have failed you.

310
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:07,920
Grand Empress Dowager,
are you all right?

311
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:09,400
I'm fine.

312
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:10,624
Where's the Crown Prince?

313
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:12,368
He's been in the main hall with Father.

314
00:26:13,270 --> 00:26:13,790
Xihe!

315
00:26:14,750 --> 00:26:15,270
Mother.

316
00:27:16,030 --> 00:27:16,750
Huayong.

317
00:27:18,030 --> 00:27:19,440
What are you doing?

318
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:22,400
Father.

319
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:25,720
My condition

320
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:29,350
is beyond cure.

321
00:27:39,830 --> 00:27:41,350
I beg you, Father,

322
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:45,480
to grant the child in Xihe's womb

323
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:48,350
the name Junshu.

324
00:27:49,030 --> 00:27:50,030
Junshu?

325
00:27:54,270 --> 00:27:55,920
This is a name reserved for an emperor.

326
00:27:57,720 --> 00:27:58,720
I...

327
00:28:01,350 --> 00:28:02,790
understand your intention.

328
00:28:04,270 --> 00:28:06,160
You wish to secure a safeguard

329
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:08,160
for Xihe and your child.

330
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,590
How difficult life will be

331
00:28:17,790 --> 00:28:20,310
for the Crown Princess
of the East Palace without her husband,

332
00:28:21,904 --> 00:28:24,464
and for the young heir
of the East Palace without his father.

333
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:30,350
My final wish

334
00:28:32,110 --> 00:28:34,070
is that Xihe and our child

335
00:28:35,270 --> 00:28:36,830
may live in peace

336
00:28:37,750 --> 00:28:39,400
and be safe year after year.

337
00:28:41,030 --> 00:28:42,440
I beg you to grant my wish.

338
00:28:48,830 --> 00:28:49,720
Huayong.

339
00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:01,310
I promise you.

340
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:04,070
Whether it's a boy or a girl,

341
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:06,350
the child shall be named Junshu.

342
00:29:07,750 --> 00:29:09,310
Thank you, Father, for granting my wish.

343
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:11,200
Come.

344
00:29:47,510 --> 00:29:48,640
Where are you going?

345
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:57,310
To find Xihe.

346
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:23,910
♪Time is like a river flowing backward♪

347
00:30:23,910 --> 00:30:26,540
♪The story is sketched anew♪

348
00:30:26,540 --> 00:30:30,180
♪The moonlight
is sewn together by the dusk♪

349
00:30:31,630 --> 00:30:34,400
♪The tide engulfs the lines on my palm♪

350
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,130
♪Pushing me to converge with you♪

351
00:30:37,130 --> 00:30:41,610
♪Sifting for joy in a sea of sorrow♪

352
00:30:42,250 --> 00:30:44,890
♪I step onto this winding path♪

353
00:30:44,890 --> 00:30:47,230
♪What was swept away?♪

354
00:30:47,420 --> 00:30:51,590
♪Joy and sorrow show no emotion♪

355
00:30:52,630 --> 00:30:55,200
♪The clouds twist into a vortex♪

356
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,950
♪Reaching out to touch you♪

357
00:30:57,950 --> 00:31:02,730
♪Only to find it's just a bubble♪

358
00:31:03,910 --> 00:31:06,180
♪Scene after scene of yesterday♪

359
00:31:06,180 --> 00:31:09,050
♪Lies between the sky and the water♪

360
00:31:09,050 --> 00:31:11,420
♪The stars are sinking♪

361
00:31:11,420 --> 00:31:14,420
♪Like a sunken vow♪

362
00:31:14,910 --> 00:31:17,590
♪You drifted away alone♪

363
00:31:18,220 --> 00:31:22,660
♪Without a single word of goodbye♪

364
00:31:23,530 --> 00:31:26,140
♪Leaving no room to turn back♪

365
00:31:26,140 --> 00:31:30,410
♪I can only stay there forever♪

366
00:31:30,410 --> 00:31:35,640
♪In the coming years, I'll always
remember that year, my graceful lover♪

367
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:38,050
♪Love hangs on the crest of the waves♪

368
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:42,450
♪Waiting for regret to swallow me up♪

369
00:32:40,300 --> 00:32:44,460
(Jade Terrace and Auspicious Dew)

370
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:49,750
Xihe.

371
00:32:52,790 --> 00:32:54,590
It's so good to see you.

372
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:56,590
Your Highness.

373
00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:58,750
Let me take you
to the Imperial Physician.

374
00:32:59,350 --> 00:33:00,790
Don't go, all right?

375
00:33:03,750 --> 00:33:05,750
I want to talk to you.

376
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:15,720
I've imagined countless times

377
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:20,440
what my final moments would be like.

378
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:25,070
But I never imagined

379
00:33:27,510 --> 00:33:29,510
they would be this beautiful.

380
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:35,160
The one I love

381
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:36,960
is right before me.

382
00:33:40,590 --> 00:33:42,400
We're watching the snow together.

383
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:46,310
It's beautiful.

384
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:02,960
Xihe.

385
00:34:06,830 --> 00:34:08,960
Do you still remember

386
00:34:10,710 --> 00:34:13,000
the day the maple leaves
were at their reddest?

387
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:21,550
After our afternoon nap,

388
00:34:23,630 --> 00:34:25,920
we quietly

389
00:34:27,550 --> 00:34:29,510
drank plum juice together.

390
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:39,150
By the little window,

391
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:41,960
with the gentle breeze drifting in...

392
00:34:44,550 --> 00:34:46,590
That simple kind of life

393
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:51,840
was life's greatest blessing.

394
00:34:58,320 --> 00:34:59,150
Your Highness.

395
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:02,840
We promised

396
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:07,360
that this year,

397
00:35:10,550 --> 00:35:13,000
we'd watch
the maple leaves together again.

398
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:15,280
Next year,

399
00:35:19,510 --> 00:35:21,710
we'd count
the apricot blossoms together.

400
00:35:23,150 --> 00:35:24,320
Year after year,

401
00:35:25,550 --> 00:35:26,800
we'd stay by each other's side.

402
00:35:46,190 --> 00:35:47,630
Xihe.

403
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:51,230
I'm afraid

404
00:35:53,110 --> 00:35:55,190
I have to break that promise.

405
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,760
I barged into your life,

406
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:05,440
only to leave before you.

407
00:36:09,710 --> 00:36:10,670
I'm sorry.

408
00:36:14,070 --> 00:36:15,550
I only hope

409
00:36:20,190 --> 00:36:21,440
you'll never

410
00:36:22,670 --> 00:36:24,550
regret marrying me...

411
00:36:46,630 --> 00:36:48,440
Marrying you in this life

412
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:51,070
is something I will

413
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:53,030
never regret.

414
00:37:00,350 --> 00:37:06,060
♪Let it all go,
give my tears to the flowers♪

415
00:37:07,500 --> 00:37:13,400
♪Beneath my feet, eternal doom
is more than wind and sand♪

416
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:20,070
♪That perfectly plotted love
hides in the clamor♪

417
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:27,020
♪Between us, it's both
treacherous and flawless♪

418
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:33,930
♪I want destiny,
and also tender words of love♪

419
00:37:34,330 --> 00:37:42,080
♪As night stains my eyes, I'll gaze
once more at the rosy clouds♪

420
00:37:42,330 --> 00:37:45,710
♪I have a dream
of a long wind in my sleeves♪

421
00:37:45,910 --> 00:37:49,270
♪My heart rises and falls,
we embrace in a sea of clouds♪

422
00:37:49,470 --> 00:37:52,810
♪In this eternity, you are a part of it♪

423
00:37:52,810 --> 00:37:56,400
♪My longing can level mountains
and cross countless rivers♪

424
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:59,670
♪Drunk or sober, it's all like a dream♪

425
00:37:59,810 --> 00:38:03,360
♪Stars sink into my hair,
the moon slips through my fingers♪

426
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:06,930
♪For how much joy
do we share this life together♪

427
00:38:06,930 --> 00:38:13,380
♪Withering and flourishing,
year after year♪

428
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:17,190
♪I have a dream
of a long wind in my sleeves♪

429
00:38:17,190 --> 00:38:20,850
♪My heart rises and falls,
we embrace in a sea of clouds♪

430
00:38:20,850 --> 00:38:24,280
♪In this eternity, you are a part of it♪

431
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:27,820
♪My longing can level mountains
and cross countless rivers♪

432
00:38:27,820 --> 00:38:31,070
♪Drunk or sober, it's all like a dream♪

433
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:34,750
♪Stars sink into my hair,
the moon slips through my fingers♪

434
00:38:34,750 --> 00:38:38,290
♪For how much joy
do we share this life together♪

435
00:38:38,290 --> 00:38:41,450
♪Withering and flourishing,
year after year♪

436
00:38:46,940 --> 00:38:49,030
♪May the sand and dirt in my sleeves♪

437
00:38:49,270 --> 00:38:51,950
♪Become the tears
in the corner of my eyes♪

438
00:38:52,090 --> 00:38:55,160
♪And blossom into a flower♪

439
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:07,230
What he could do,

440
00:39:07,550 --> 00:39:08,480
I can do as well.

441
00:39:08,630 --> 00:39:09,760
From beginning to end,

442
00:39:10,190 --> 00:39:11,710
I have always been your husband.

443
00:39:11,710 --> 00:39:13,150
Why was it Xiao Huayong,

444
00:39:13,150 --> 00:39:14,190
and not me?

445
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:15,510
In this world,

446
00:39:15,510 --> 00:39:17,280
no one can compare to him.

447
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:19,150
If even the gods refuse to save me,

448
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:20,760
then I'll save myself.

449
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:22,230
Shen Xihe.

450
00:39:22,230 --> 00:39:24,110
She will become my consort.

451
00:39:28,710 --> 00:39:31,650
♪I've hidden so many words♪

452
00:39:32,270 --> 00:39:35,070
♪Too reluctant to tell you♪

453
00:39:35,940 --> 00:39:42,910
♪So never uncover♪

454
00:39:43,100 --> 00:39:45,460
♪The sand that slips away
with one grasp♪

455
00:39:46,590 --> 00:39:49,320
♪The flower that withers
after one bloom♪

456
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:55,620
♪Silently buried deep inside my heart♪

457
00:39:57,380 --> 00:40:00,200
♪Every answer I gave♪

458
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:03,850
♪Was both bittersweet and absurd♪

459
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:08,010
♪Hiding my tear-filled eyes
when I hurt you♪

460
00:40:08,270 --> 00:40:11,580
♪How hard it truly was?♪

461
00:40:14,550 --> 00:40:17,990
♪The wounds that healed
with just a little comfort♪

462
00:40:18,980 --> 00:40:21,310
♪The lies made whole
with a single embrace♪

463
00:40:22,580 --> 00:40:28,340
♪Pretending to be brave
as if I'd never been hurt♪

464
00:40:29,750 --> 00:40:32,880
♪It's a shame I never could♪

465
00:40:33,330 --> 00:40:36,340
♪Give you a moon in return♪

466
00:40:36,450 --> 00:40:43,090
♪With the same open heart you loved me♪

467
00:40:43,090 --> 00:40:46,760
♪I've crossed the wasteland of memories♪

468
00:40:47,630 --> 00:40:50,390
♪Never knowing I was lost♪

469
00:40:50,830 --> 00:40:53,960
♪Why don't you take me away?♪

470
00:40:54,400 --> 00:41:00,350
♪Lead me out of this endless game
of hide-and-seek♪

471
00:41:01,750 --> 00:41:05,300
♪You'll never♪

472
00:41:05,580 --> 00:41:15,050
♪Know how much I long to, long to♪

473
00:41:41,220 --> 00:41:44,700
(No animals were harmed
in the making of this film)