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Watching the person in the mirror's countenance grow pale and 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
Episode 30
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Can you all hear that sound?
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Sound?
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Empress Dowager! Be careful!
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Empress Dowager! Your Highness!
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Get away!
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Your Highness...
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Your Highness! Your Highness!
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Your Highness Empress!
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Your Highness!
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Quickly go call the imperial guards!
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Protect Her Highness.
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Whoever dares to run around and shout would be dealt with according to palace rules!
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My arm!
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Help! Help!
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Empress has fallen off the building!
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Your Highness!
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Your Highness! Your Highness!
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Help! Quickly save Her Highness!
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Your Highness... Quickly save Her Highness!
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Hurry!
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Hurry!
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Your Highness, quickly wake up.
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Your Majesty, you've been sitting for the whole night.
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Should you go back first and rest?
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Your Majesty, your health is more important.
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I will be stay here to guard her.
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If there are any news, I surely will report it to Yangxin Palace immediately.
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Your Majesty, how about I ask them to make some snacks
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and deliver it here to Changchun Palace?
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Enough. Stop crying.
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Quickly go out.
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No. I'm going nowhere.
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I'm going to guard Her Highness.
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If not because of your negligence, how could Her Highness suffer like this?
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Stop crying here. If His Majesty hears it,
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you'll get caned.
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Quickly go out.
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You hear me?
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Let's go.
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[Shoukang Palace]
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Are there any news from Changchun Palace?
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Empress Dowager, it's already midnight. Sleep for a while.
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If there are any news, I will report it to you.
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It's all your fault for stopping me.
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Or else, I would be in Changchun Palace now waiting for news.
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It's way better than staying here and worrying.
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Fuheng!
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Mingyu! How is sister?
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Her Highness Empress is still unconscious.
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The imperial physicians only said that the child can't be preserved anymore.
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They still don't know about the other things.
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What do you mean by 'they still don't know'?
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Fuheng, where are you going?
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I'll look for Doctor Ye!
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Miss Mingyu, stop crying.
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It's all my fault.
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It's because I had a moment of carelessness.
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If I tightly held onto Her Highness Empress,
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this matter today wouldn't have happened.
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There were so many people in Yujing Pavilion that time.
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Everyone got shocked because of the bats.
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All are running wildly and bumping at each other.
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Would you be able to pull Her Highness Empress by yourself?
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You don't know. You don't know anyting.
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Yingluo told me that no matter where I go, I mustn't care about anything else.
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I just have to tightly guard Her Highness.
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It's me who didn't listen to her.
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It's my fault.
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I should have protected Her Highness Empress.
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That way, she wouldn't have slipped and fallen off Yujing Pavilion.
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It's all my fault.
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The mistakes have been done. Things have become like this.
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Can crying resolve anything?
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Her Highness Empress is already unconscious.
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Everything is in disarray.
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If you keep crying here in such grief,
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other than adding to trouble, it won't benefit anyone at all.
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Why not think about what to do?
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Find her. I'll go find her.
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- Miss Mingyu!
- Let go of me!
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How come both of them are like that?
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Have they been possessed?
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Empress Dowager, stop worrying.
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Empress is a blessed person. She surely will be alright.
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His Majesty is still in Changchun Palace.
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If you go there, His Majesty must worry about you and the Empress at the same time.
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I'm sure that there would be news sent here very soon.
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Usually, you are quite quiet.
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But during critical times,
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all the other imperial consorts are in disarray.
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Even Empress has fainted.
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Only you was calm and able to stabilize the situation.
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Indeed...
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That group of bats has covered the whole sky. It really scared me so much.
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Good thing, Her Highness Consort Xian was quick in reacting and very resolute.
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She was able to protect Empress Dowager.
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During that situation, I was also afraid.
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It's just that Empress Dowager was still around. I dare not show any fear.
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I could only put a bold face and do it.
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Or else, if anything bad happens to you, I wouldn't be able to deny my responsibility for it even if I die.
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Now, empress is sick.
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Noble Consort Gao also got hurt.
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But the order in the palace must be maintained.
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Please exert more effort.
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I don't know much.
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Good thing Consort Chun is very quick-witted.
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I will assist her in managing the palace affairs
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and will try my best not do commit any mistakes.
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That time, Consort Chun was just by my side.
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When she saw the bats coming, she got so terrified as if she lost her soul.
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For a weak lady like that,
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I can't put my hopes on her.
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But you, you don't have the delicateness of a lady.
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You are courageous and unswerving like a man.
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If I entrust everything to you, I'll be at ease.
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Empress Dowager, don't worry.
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I will surely do my best.
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How come a good Double Yang Festival
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would end up like this?
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Mingyu!
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Yingluo!
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What has happened?
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Empress Dowager organized a Double Yang Festival celebration in Yujing Pavilion.
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But don't know why, a group of bats suddenly got lured towards there.
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The place was in chaos. Her Highness Empress...
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Empress accidentally fell off the stone steps.
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How is she now?
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The whole Imperial Medical Academy is treating her.
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But Her Highness is still unconscious.
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Didn't I already tell you. No matter what time, you must—
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I didn't mean to. That time, there were so many people.
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I didn't know who pushed me and then I suddenly fell.
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Who is the first one that discovered Her Highness Empress has fallen off the stony steps?
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Men! Empress fell off the building!
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It's Noble Consort Gao. She's the first one to shout it.
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I just knew that it's her.
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You suspect Noble Consort Gao?
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No... Impossible.
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Noble Consort Gao kept holding onto Her Highness Empress.
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Her hand even got dislocated because of it.
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If she intended to harm her, why then did she save her?
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Was she able to save her?
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If she wasn't able to save her, then it means her actions were just to cover up the truth.
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Let's go to Changchun Palace.
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How do you cure people? Can't you see that Her Highness is in so much pain?
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Your Highness Noble Consort, how could joint reduction not be painful?
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You must endure for a while. This will be over soon.
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- You're still going to massage it?
- Enough!
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You useless thing. How come it took you so long to reduce my shoulder?
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- I will take my leave.
- I'm already having cold sweats.
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Your Highness, why must you hurt yourself?
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My heart aches just by watching you.
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That's right, Your Highness. You usually feel upset just by losing a hair strand.
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The more if it's a shoulder dislocation.
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What do you all know?
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I was so near the Empress.
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If I just watched her and did nothing,
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won't all the blames fall on me?
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Now, I got hurt because of her.
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Although I wasn't able to save her, I did give my best.
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Even His Majesty won't be able to say anything harsh.
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Lighter!
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- Yes.
- Your Highness have gave it a thorough thought.
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I'm impressed with your ruthlessness.
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Although inflicting pain on oneself to earn the pity of others is quite a rotten trick,
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but it's useful.
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Let's hurry.
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Let's quickly go in too.
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Why are you not moving anymore? Her Highness Empress is still waiting for us.
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I'm not going anymore.
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Why are you not going in anymore?
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Her Highness Empress kicked me out of her palace.
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I'm already not a member of the Changchun Palace.
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Why would I go in?
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Wei Yingluo, say that again.
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I'm not a member of the Changchun Palace anymore.
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Her Highness Empress still being unconscious has nothing to do with me anymore.
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Her Highness Empress was so good to you.
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Now, she's unconscious and you still dared say such words?
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Do you still have a conscience?
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Indeed. We've served Her Highness Empress for so many years.
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Who hasn't been here longer than you?
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But Her Highness just like you the most, even Erqing couldn't compare.
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Saying such cruel words now, aren't you wronging Her Highness?
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What's wrong with going in and looking at her? Would you lose a flesh?
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You after all still came from Changchun Palace.
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Have you forgotten your previous master-servant relationship?
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When Her Highness Empress expelled me out, no one beg for leniency.
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I ended up being a servant in Workhouse and suffered enough laborious work.
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Now, everyone are spouting righteous words. Each one saying that I'm heartless.
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On what basis? If I enter and look at Her Highness Empress, would she wake up?
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- You...
- If I have such time to do that, it's better to just do more work.
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Or else, the one starving would be me, and not you people.
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- You're totally evil!
- Are you all done?
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I really have a lot of work to do.
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I'm not all of you, high ranking palace maids that's so pampered.
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You just need to open your mouth and you'll have good clothing and food.
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Leave! Immediately leave! You're not welcome here!
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Now that Her Highness Empress has fallen,
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Changchun Palace won't also be favored place anymore.
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Even if you all kneel and beg me, I don't care.
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Leave! Immediately leave!
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Evil woman! She's really an evil woman!
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Forget it, Mingyu. Stop being mad.
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The health of Her Highness Empress is more important.
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- As for others—
- Imperial Guard Fuca, why are you still chasing after her?
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Just let him be.
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What are you doing?
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Imperial Guard Fuca, do you still have questions to ask?
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Yingluo, why did you do that?
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You touched my hand earlier.
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Why didn't you look at it closely?
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Did you see it clearly now?
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These were originally the hands of an embroidery maid.
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There's not one scar nor callus.
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Only hands like that has the right to touch the softest fabric.
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But now, these hands are full of wounds and blood.
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Even if they heal,
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I won't be able to hold a needle with thread anymore.
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Who should I thank for this?
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- Your sister.
- Yingluo.
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A few days ago, I was removing grasses.
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Because I looked forward for Empress to notice me, I got whipped a few times by Momo Liu.
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If not because she missed a bit, my face would have been damaged!
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But from start to end, Empress didn't look at me one bit.
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In her eyes, I'm no different with those dirty mud on the imperial lane.
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For a cold mistress like that, why must I worry about her?
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Yingluo, although Empress expelled you out of Changchun Palace,
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she still taught you to study and to identify words.
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You can choose not to treat her as your mistress,
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but she's still your teacher.
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She's now unconscious. Is it that hard for you to visit her?
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How come you all like to do useless things?!
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If I go visit her, would she get better?
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I'm not an imperial physician nor a deity.
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My tears are not some miracle medicine.
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If I stayed too long here, I'd get beaten and punished when I get back.
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Would any of you people standing on high places and blaming you be willing to suffer the punishment in my behalf?
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Do you know how painful a whip is?
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- Yingluo.
- Enough!
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From the moment that Empress drove me out of Changchun Palace,
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our master-servant relationships, teacher-student relation, have been severed.
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Fuheng, you and your sister are the same.
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Both are pampered and of high status.
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People like you won't be able to understand my pain and grievances.
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If you keep pestering me, I will just hate you more extremely.
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I heard that you lost your temper in Changchun Palace last night.
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Don't know what you're thinking right now.
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Aren't you the bug in my stomach?
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Guess it.
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I'm guessing that you're coming up with a scheme right now. Am I right?
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You're wrong.
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I'm just a lowly slave of Workhouse.
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How could I have the right to get involved in palace fights?
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This time, I don't want to care.
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I'm unable to care.
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Just want to srub my commodes well in exchange for mantous that can fill my stomach.
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That's what I should do.
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I've gotten sick of hearing those words from the imperial physicians.
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I want to know if there are any way to make empress wake up.
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I did some acupuncture treatment Her Highness Empress. Her life is temporarily safe, but...
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when will she wake up, I also have no confidence to say so.
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Even you are out of methods?
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The brain of Her Highness got injured. There's a huge internal hematoma.
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Now, she's conscious and her pulse is deep and slippery.
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Her illness is too grave and her health is too weak.
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We can only do our best and listen to the will of the heaven.
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Hope that Her Highness is worthy for the heaven's help.
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That she will be blessed to wake up sooner.
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Your Highness Consort Chun.
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- You...
- What did Doctor Ye said. When can Empress wake up?
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Doctor Ye also is not sure when.
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He can only do his best and leave the rest to the heaven.
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Fuheng!
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Sister, why are you here?
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Why are you teary eyed? Is the condition of Her Highness Empress not good?
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Her Highness is still unconscious.
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I was just too anxious, hence, I lost myself.
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Little sister, no need to worry. I understand your thoughts well.
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Let's go and I'll accompany you to visit Her Highness Empress.
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Are there still bats at the back?
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Quick!
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How is the investigation?
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Empress Dowager pays a lot of attention on taking care of health. The Imperial Kitchen prepared some deer blood as cubes.
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Empress couldn't tolerate the raw meat's smell. It was immediately asked to be removed after just getting served.
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The palace maid carelessly spilled the blood all over the floor. The deer blood's scent was too strong.
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It lured all the bats from the deep forest outside the palace into here.
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We indeed discover a lot of bat lairs. The palace maids here also said
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that they would usually see bats gathering in this place.
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Usually, there would only be at most 10 plus bats.
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But that night, there were thousands. I don't think this matter is that simple.
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What you mean is this was a set up?
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Where's the palace maid that spilled the meat?
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That palace maid was careless.
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She fell off from the railings of the Yujing Pavilion and died right there and then.
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Now, we don't have any witness. What did all the other people on the scene say?
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I've already sent men to interrogate all the palace servants that were at the scene.
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Everyone is saying that the bats knocked off the lamps.
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It was chaotic everywhere. No one really saw who pushed Empress.
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What about Chuxiu Palace?
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You suspect Noble Consort Gao?
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Whoever is closest to Empress that day would be the prime suspect.
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But just to save the empress, Noble Consort Gao's left shoulder got dislocated.
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After being the joint was returned by the imperial physician, she's currently recuperating.
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From the looks of it now, we don't have much evidence.
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The best way is to wait for empress to wake up.
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Have you heard it?
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Empress is unconscious for more than 10 days. She's still hasn't woken up yet.
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Tuixiu Mountain is so high, and the steps going up is so steep.
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It's already fortunate for Empress to still be alive.
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But with her collapsing like that, what about the palace?
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If you ask me, Consort Xian is more magnanimous than Empress.
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When Empress was handling the inner palace, she kept asking people to stop being extravagant and wasteful.
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She ordered the inner palace to decrease its expenditures.
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Now that Consort Xian is in charge, there are meat in the dining tables here in Workhouse.
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Empress was still once your mistress.
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So ruthless and heartless.
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No wonder people are saying that you're a heartless monster.
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Since you're afraid, why do you still keep provoking me? I really don't know what you're thinking.
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If it's just to vent some useless anger, you better just save your strength.
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Go back and work.
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Jinxiu, are you so idle again?
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Hurry and deliver the cow's milk to Chuxiu Palace.
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Momo, how come it's always me?
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The cow's milk is so heavy, and I must deliver it three times.
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I don't want to go anymore.
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If you don't go, who will go? If you keep complaining, be careful of getting flogged.
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Let her go.
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Hasn't it always been the newbie delivering the cow's milk to Chuxiu Palace every year?
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Momo, that was a rule that you personally set before.
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Sure. I'll go then.
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Okay already. Don't be idle too. Squat on the three palaces to remove the grasses.
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Yes!
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You think delivering cow's milk is easier than cleaning commodes?
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Let me tell you
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that when you arrived in Chuxiu Palace, you would have enough torment to take.
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You move so slowly! Do you want to be caned again?
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Oh, an old acquaintance.
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Sister Zhilan, I'm here to deliver the cow's milk.
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Her Highness Noble Consort is waiting for it. Quickly go in.
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Yes.
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Wei Yingluo?!
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How come you ended up in such dire straits after leaving Changchun Palace?
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You were once so full of life before.
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Now, you're being blown by the wind and exposed to sunlight.
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Do you want me to help you?
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Your Highness Noble Consort,
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I've delivered the cow's milk. I'll take my leave.
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Your Highness bestowed you some cow's milk. That's a great grace. You still haven't thanked her, so where are you going?
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What else do you still want to do?
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Look at this pair of nimble hands.
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They have now become coarse and horrible looking.
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Why don't I just remove it for you, so they'll stop being an eyesore.
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Don't worry. I'll tell the craftsmen to make you wooden hands.
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I guarantee that they'll be more powerful than this.
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What? You're still glaring at me like that?
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Don't you want your eyes too?
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Greetings, Your Majesty.
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- Where's Noble Consort Gao?
- I...
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Noble Consort... Her Highness Noble Consort...
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Your Highness Noble Consort, His Majesty is here!
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Wei Yingluo, if you know what's good for you, then shut your mouth. Or else, don't think of leaving this palace alive.
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Your Majesty!
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Get up.
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Didn't your arm got dislocated? Why are you not lying on your bed?
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The imperial physician has already reduced my shoulder joint. I feel much better.
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I was just ordering people to carry water for my bath, when I bumped into this servant maid.
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So clumsy. She spilled the cow's milk.
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Look. My dress is already wet.
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So dumb and clumsy. Quickly leave.
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Yes.
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Your Majesty, why didn't you inform me beforehand that you're coming?
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I could have made some preparations. Look at all the spills inside this room.
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It's so inconvenient.
382
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I heard that you're sick, so I came to check on you.
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Since you're fine, I'll return to Yangxin Palace then.
384
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Li Yu, place the gifts over there. Nurse your health well.
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Your Majesty! Your Majesty!
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Your Majesty, it's raining so hard. What are you searching?
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Your Majesty! Your Majesty!
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Your Majesty! Your Majesty!
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Your Majesty, isn't that...
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Stop acting so pitiful in front of me.
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What I hate the most is a pretentious woman like you!
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Go someplace where I can't see you!
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Your... Quick! Your Majesty! Your Majesty!
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Your Majesty, even if you give Miss Yingluo that umbrella,
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she wouldn't dare to use it. It's an umbrella for the emperor.
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If she uses it and takes it back with her, don't know how big of a trouble it might cause.
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She's a natural-born rebel. She's just reaping what she sowed.
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Li Yu, when did it become a trend to bathe in cow's milk here in the palace?
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Your Majesty, this...
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Noble Consort Gao preserving her skin is also just to make you happy. It's understandable.
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The cow's milk are supplied to the Imperial Kitchen for cooking purposes. No one is allowed to waste them.
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Starting today, send an order to the Imperial Household Department
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The amount of cow's milk supplied for each palace will be according to their ranking.
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A wasteful action like this is strictly prohibited.
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- Can't you understand?
- Yes.
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Your Majesty! Your Majesty!
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Stop!
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Your Highness, it seems to be a weeding palace maid of Workhouse has fainted.
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Ask for an imperial physician to examine her.
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Let's go.
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You're so fortunate to bump into the sedan of Her Highness Consort Xian.
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If this is another person, who would care about the life of a servant?
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That's right. Among the masters here in the whole Forbidden City,
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only Her Highness Consort Xian has such benevolent heart.
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When you burn incense and pray to Buddha next time, you must remember this grace of Her Highness.
416
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Where am I?
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Momo Liu saw that you're sick, so moved you into the stockroom. Come.
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Get up. Since you're sick, so stop hiding it already.
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You... If not because people found you,
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you might have died midway.
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Here. Drink your medicine.
422
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It's not grave.
423
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I just got soaked in the rain and developed a cold.
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Continue acting tough. You clearly has a strife with the Chuxiu Palace.
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You still volunteered to go there.
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Are you crazy?
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If I'm able to hide from it now, will I be able to avoid it next time?
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I can't avoid them forever.
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Drink this first.
430
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:42,000
You can fool others, but not me.
431
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Honestly tell me, why did you deliberately angered Noble Consort Gao?
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Say it.
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I feel a bit dizzy.
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I'll sleep for a while more.
435
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Throwing eggs onto a rock.
436
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Overestimating one's strength. Look at yourself now.
437
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I'm really mad now.
438
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Let me tell you that other than me, no one else would care for you.
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You're not allowed to go out and risk danger again. You hear me?
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Remember.
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Lord Fuheng, why are you here?
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Just casually walking around.
443
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:20,610
I personally saw you ordering that eunuch to bribe the supervisor of Workhouse.
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You saw it wrongly.
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Don't you usually hate such action?
446
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:28,720
How come just for Wei Yingluo, you can forego even your principles?
447
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Shut up!
448
00:39:30,670 --> 00:39:35,010
Don't think that I don't know that you're asking her to take good care of her.
449
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Hey! Where are you going? Wait for me!
450
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How is your arm?
451
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Empress Dowager, my arm is better. Thank you for worrying.
452
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Too bad, I was too incompetent.
453
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In the end, I still wasn't able to save Empress.
454
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You've tried your best.
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It's just that misfortunes are following the empress,
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hence, an accident like that happened.
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These past days, not only Empress Dowager was worrying,
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even His Majesty rarely smiled.
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In a few days, it will be your birthday.
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I am thinking of organizing it.
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There's still 6 months before my birthday.
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You're too rushing.
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Now, Changchun Palace
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is covered by gathering clouds and rolling mists.
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How can I be in the mood to celebrate?
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00:40:39,740 --> 00:40:43,260
Empress Dowager, it's exactly because of that, hence,
467
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I invited an acrobatic troupe from the commoners
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to perform for you and His Majesty, so as to make the atmosphere lively.
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It would also be able to drive away the gloomy atmosphere here in the palace,
470
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so people will stop having knitted eyebrows and feeling frightened
471
00:41:01,630 --> 00:41:04,130
Empress Dowager, Her Highness Consort Xian is here.
472
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Quickly let her in.
473
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Greetings, Empress Dowager.
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You came just in time.
475
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I've read the account books you've submitted yesterday,
476
00:41:23,570 --> 00:41:28,450
Are you confident that you'll be able to handle the opening of the moat well?
477
00:41:29,150 --> 00:41:33,160
Open the moat? What do you mean?
478
00:41:34,290 --> 00:41:39,180
Since the 16th year of Emperor Kangxi's rain, the area encompassed by the moat had lotuses and chestnuts planted on them.
479
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But we only use a third of these ingredients as food.
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The rest are just wasted.
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Hence, I suggested to Empress Dowager
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to sell the lotuses and chestnuts.
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Also, breed some fishes and waterfowls within the moat.
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All the money that we'll earn would be noted in the books.
485
00:41:56,940 --> 00:42:01,480
How much can we get from that and we still have to exert a lot of efforts?
486
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A fox's fur coat isn't made from just one fox's skin.
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It was made from several fox's skin merged together. Just like accumulating sand to make a tower.
488
00:42:07,290 --> 00:42:11,740
The most simple method is to rent out the lotus flower garden out. I've calculated it.
489
00:42:11,740 --> 00:42:15,860
We can collect 125 taels and 9 coins of rents every year.
490
00:42:15,860 --> 00:42:17,660
It's still an income.
491
00:42:17,660 --> 00:42:23,200
Consort Xian, you've just started handling the affairs of the palace and you're already touching an old rule of the palace. Isn't that inappropriate?
492
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:25,250
Old rules may not be always good.
493
00:42:25,250 --> 00:42:28,850
Just like how the Imperial Household Department used to manage 26 pawnshops.
494
00:42:28,850 --> 00:42:31,460
His Majesty has closed 15 of them this year.
495
00:42:31,460 --> 00:42:33,790
He loaned the money to the businessmen.
496
00:42:33,790 --> 00:42:36,290
The interest earned was higher than the profits obtained from the pawnshops.
497
00:42:36,290 --> 00:42:38,610
There are also old rules that couldn't be managed anymore.
498
00:42:38,610 --> 00:42:43,060
During the time of Emperor Kangxi, there are only 57 households working for the Imperial Household Department.
499
00:42:43,060 --> 00:42:45,360
Now, it has doubled.
500
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:49,720
If we keep following the old rules, how are we going to clearly manage them?
501
00:42:49,720 --> 00:42:53,560
In managing finances, it's not about earning more money,
502
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:56,080
but to let the people in the palace see
503
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:59,580
is completely different with the extravagant Ming Dynasty.
504
00:42:59,580 --> 00:43:03,500
The food, clothing, and usage of resources is 10 to 20% less than theirs.
505
00:43:03,500 --> 00:43:07,350
Even opening up new fund sources and decreasing the expenses have all been implemented.
506
00:43:07,350 --> 00:43:11,250
If by doing this, everyone in the palace will follow,
507
00:43:11,250 --> 00:43:14,240
it then will truly become a good thing.
508
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:24,000
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509
00:43:25,460 --> 00:43:33,970
♫Softly falling into the hollow of my palm,♫
510
00:43:36,290 --> 00:43:44,990
♫Resting frozen in the center of my palm.♫
511
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:56,020
♫Our meeting across past incarnations was inevitable,♫
512
00:43:58,230 --> 00:44:06,960
♫Joined together, deeply experiencing and holding onto the end of happiness.♫
513
00:44:09,270 --> 00:44:17,970
♫Though plainly given words of discouragement,♫
514
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:28,950
♫Pretending to hear nothing but exhortation.♫
515
00:44:30,950 --> 00:44:40,580
♫ Endless tears, believing it cannot be true,♫
516
00:44:41,970 --> 00:44:50,920
♫ In this life, being born under an unlucky star.♫
517
00:44:53,150 --> 00:44:58,660
♫ I hear the sound of the snow slowly falling♫
518
00:44:58,660 --> 00:45:03,330
♫ Though I close my eyes, it's impossible to stop the vision.♫
519
00:45:03,330 --> 00:45:09,850
♫ Nothing you can do about being approached, not being inconsistent in love,♫
520
00:45:09,850 --> 00:45:14,890
♫ Though merely holding onto it from the outside, prone to this sort of circumstance.♫
521
00:45:14,890 --> 00:45:20,500
♫ I hear the sound of the snow slowly falling♫
522
00:45:20,500 --> 00:45:25,220
♫ As though you are holding me closely, and speaking sweetly.♫
523
00:45:25,220 --> 00:45:32,890
♫ Opening your eyes to a sky filled with merciless snow falling,♫
524
00:45:32,890 --> 00:45:41,000
♫ Who, after suffering this loss for a lifetime, is fond of this scene?♫