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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 Episode 51
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Do you know what other relief centers did?
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Either exploiting the locals,
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those country wealthy houses, or using grassroots or bark.
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Then add on a strong military force to suppress the victims who can't dare to speak out.
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My father was the most foolish. Travelling to each and every depot.
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But he can't make threats or promises.
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So he reaped so little.
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So he put up all his own assets.
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Even the fields Your Majesty granted him.
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His manor, and all. He sold them all.
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Even the old family stead and home.
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That family stead passed on generation to generation.
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When the victims aired their grief, my father wouldn't use military force.
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He was afraid to harm the victims who had nothing to them.
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But they almost beat him to death.
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It as the acts of the victims of the disaster that incited the soldiers.
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So the deaths that happened later occurred. He is just incompetent.
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He couldn't bear. He just couldn't.
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I know.
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Your Majesty. I know you are in a difficult position.
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So I don't dare to ask for forgiveness.
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But on the account of his devotion, please spare his life.
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Your Majesty. I have only begged you once in this life.
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Spare him. Please.
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Your Majesty. I beg you.
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Alright.
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I won't kill him.
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Get on up.
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- Your Highness.
- Empress.
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Empress.
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Prince He. May you hold your step.
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Empress. Your health is still on recovery.
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How are you standing by the wind?
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I know you have with you the royal decree.
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To go and spare my father.
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Empress. Hongzhou is useless.
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I couldn't wash away Sir Narbu's wrongful accusation.
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No. You have toiled and traveled to seek investigation.
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For my father's incident, you have offended many. I have remembered these to heart.
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To be able to do something for you is my honor.
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And there's another matter I'd like to seek your help.
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Zhen'er.
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This is?
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My father will be exiled to Ningguta which is a bitter cold place.
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I prepared clothing and medicine for cold weather.
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His leg is beaten to injury. There will not be a good doctor on the journey.
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And no time to nurse the injury.
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I just hope these injury medicines can come to use.
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Empress, be at ease. I will surely bring it to him.
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Is there anything else you'd like to tell Sir Narbu?
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Tell him, his daughter is not filial.
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That I can't send him off personally.
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May he take good care.
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Yes.
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Your Highness, let's return.
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Zhen'er. The clothing we prepared for Father.
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Is it thick enough?
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Your Highness, you prepared leather and fur for winter.
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Of course they are thick enough.
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But Ninggu is really so cold.
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So cold.
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Open up.
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Sir Narbu.
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Sir. His Majesty spared you from death.
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And changed to exile. Hurry and thank the grace.
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Sir.
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My decree was a step too late.
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I already sent order to prepare a good funeral.
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If you want to arrange it personally, I can agree to it too.
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Did you kill him?
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No.
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Then it was Empress Dowager's doing.
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Empress. Your father.
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He killed himself.
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My father is loyal. He's foolish.
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But he's human and cherishes life.
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In order to live, he laid down his pride to come beg me.
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Now he was clearly falsely accused.
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So why would he commit suicide.
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Empress, he has already left.
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There's no point in pursuing this.
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Your Majesty.
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My father suffered and became
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the most corrupted official in everyone's eyes. In the prison,
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he committed suicide. Should his daughter
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tolerate this without crying and keep quiet?
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You clearly knew that he wasn't corrupted
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and used his family to make up for the deficit.
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In the end, he still needed to pay with his life.
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He was cautious and a Great Leader for more than twenty years.
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In the end, he lost his status and reputation and was cursed by everyone.
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Where's the justice in heaven and earth?
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Empress, I know that you are very sad.
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You can blame and hate me
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but not the Empress Dowager.
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Your Majesty, do you think that the Empress Dowager is unselfish?
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Empress.
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No matter how sad you are, you shouldn't be rude to the Empress Dowager.
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The nephew of the Empress Dowager also participated in the corruptions.
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Before my father's case erupted,
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her elder brother and his wife came to the palace to plead for clemency.
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Once this is investigated, it will implicate the family of the Empress Dowager.
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Hence, the Empress Dowager, without any hesitation,
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pushed my father to become the sacrificial lamb.
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Have you said enough?
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Your Highness, don't say anymore.
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Will His Majesty dare to listen to what I dare to say?
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You have already said up till here.
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Would I still not dare to hear it?
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Your Majesty. The palace officials are mediocre, incompetent, greedy
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and cunning.
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It's the same in the beautiful and flourishing harem.
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Everyone's a singer, chanting out a tune of a world in prosper with justice and clarity,
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and ganged up to lie and trick you.
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Even if you are diligent and hard working,
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you still can't protect your subject who is falsely accused.
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And you can't even kill vermin with unending greed.
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Li Yu.
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The Empress is sick.
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Tell the Imperial Physician to diagnose and treat her.
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I will abide.
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His Majesty doesn't dare to listen.
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Your Highness, I'm begging you. Stop talking.
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Empress.
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The world is far from being satisfactory.
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You are overly aggrieved today. I can forgive you this time.
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If you speak and do anything without fears again,
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I will not spare you.
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Empress isn't ill.
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Nonsense.
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Empress contracted hysteria.
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She's already starting to say crazy talk. How is she not ill?
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But I took her pulse.
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She's really very lucid.
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If she were fine, how would she contradict and offend His Majesty?
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His Majesty feels guilty so he pardoned her.
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But I treat it as hysteria?
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Yes, do that.
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Prince, in order to investigate this case,
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you haven't slept in days.
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Now the matter is resolved.
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You should return and rest up.
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Resolved? Clearly they were afraid the cover up would be revealed.
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So he was killed first to silence him.
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The person is gone.
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Now the case is hopeless.
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Prince, please preserve yourself.
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It's not your business in the first place.
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Zhen'er. What are you doing here?
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Oh. Prince He.
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I was . . .
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I was heading to Interior Bureau to retrieve something.
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You are always tending closely to Empress.
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When did it become your duty to run errands?
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Prince He, I really am, by Empress's order,
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heading to Interior Bureau. May you make way.
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Prince. The palace will be locked soon.
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Let's leave now.
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You wait for me at Gate of Divine Might. I need to do something.
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- Prince.
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Prince.
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Prince, what are you doing?
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What happened to Empress?
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Tell me! You're going to pretend like nothing's happened?
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Prince. Empress has disappeared.
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I looked all over Chengqian Palace and Imperial Garden.
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But I found no trace of her.
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I don't dare to tell others.
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So I can only search alone.
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Let's separate and search.
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We must find Empress before others discover it.
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Empress.
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You're here.
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What are you doing? Come down now.
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Can't be that you think I might jump off from here?
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Ack.
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Empress.
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Come down now.
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What are you trying to do?
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I stayed here all day.
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I looked at the scenery afar.
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Suddenly I wanted to know Fuca Rongyin.
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How she felt when she stood here then.
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So I came here personally to experience it.
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You've really gone mad.
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Fuca Rongyin and I.
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We came into the manor in succession.
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She was the main prince consort who is gentle and tender.
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I was the second prince consort who is prudent and cautious.
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We were similar in many ways yet different in so many.
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We were similar,
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in that we both entrusted our true hearts to our husband.
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Difference is that she jumped off from here.
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While I became the empress who is high and lofty above.
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The matter was so long ago.
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Why do you mention it again?
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You're not Fuca Rongyin.
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Yes, I am not Fuca Rongyin.
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Because even if I stand here, I never thought I would jump.
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Do you know why?
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Because I am not content to.
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I thought I would manage the six palaces.
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And the master of Great Qing.
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So I would never been trampled by others and never having to be cautious.
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But I was wrong.
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The Consort Xian of the past.
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She couldn't preserve her mother and brother.
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The empress now still couldn't preserve my father just the same.
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Because my power is too little.
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So little.
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No.
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It's not so.
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It's because
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you trust and admire His Majesty.
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You want to be a good empress to him.
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Your Highness.
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Come on down.
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Empress.
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My heart is straight towards my lord.
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To the tip of the cloud brushing away the blue sky.
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It's time to return.
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Empress.
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If there's a need for me after today.
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May you tell me. I want to do something for you.
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Greetings to Your Majesty.
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How is Empress?
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Her Highness is overcome with grief upon losing her next to kin, hence speaking such offensive words to Your Majesty.
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Now she is too late to regret.
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If she knew Your Majesty came, she'd be so happy. Allow me to announce to her now.
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There's no need.
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Take good care of Empress.
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Empress. His Majesty didn't pursue your loss of composure.
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Why are you still so rigid?
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Don't worry. His Majesty won't blame me.
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Why not?
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Because he feels guilty.
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Your Highness.
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You think I really went mad?
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Even if everyone in the world goes mad,
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I will still be ver lucid.
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My father's death. If you want me to act like nothing happened,
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then am I still living like a human?
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Your Highness, you mean . . .
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In the past, someone who acts according to rule and convention.
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A rare going mishap and His Majesty would care.
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As long as His Majesty remembers my grievance.
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Remember my frustrated fury.
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The entire six palace shall also remember.
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Empress, His Majesty had Supervisor Li send this.
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Put it down.
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- Your Highness.
- Emperor Chongzhen (Ming Dynasty) and Empress Zhou lost their harmony once.
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Empress Zhou went on a hunger strike and disobeyed.
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So Chongzhen sent an old leathered mattress to her.
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The two reconciled as good as before.
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Now His Majesty sent this old clothes to me.
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It's to tell me,
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he still remembers my unfairness.
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He still cares about our attachment of age.
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Then you want me to go see Prince He?
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Prince He appears to be licentious and unruly.
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But in actuality, he is passionate and righteous.
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If I am to subdue him,
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I need to put some thought into it.
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Your Highness. Are you really not sad?
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The matter's happened. What use is grief?
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It's better to think of how I should use this.
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To my biggest benefit.
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Alright. You may go as well.
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Greetings to Mother Ling. May you have peace and longevity.
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Get on up.
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In a blink of eye,
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5th Prince is already so big.
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Yongqi.
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When you were first born, you were golden yellow from head to toe.
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Everyone thought you were a monster.
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If it hadn't been Mother Ling who protected you with her life,
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you might not even be alive today.
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Thank you, Mother Ling for saving me.
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When Yongqi is grown up,
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I will surely be filial to you.
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Such a young kid,
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and he speaks so seriously.
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Get on up. Get up.
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Come here.
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Mother Ling, does it hurt a lot?
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Yes, it hurts a lot.
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But I can bear it.
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When Mother got hurt before, she was clearly in so much pain that her eyes were red.
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But she told me it didn't hurt.
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Mother Ling, you are different than Mother.
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Yongqi. Don't talk nonsense.
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5th Prince. If she clearly got hurt but she forced herself to endure,
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it's because your mother was worried about you.
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Your mother regards you as the most precious treasure in the world.
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In the future, you must be very filial to her.
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I will be filial to Mother but can I be filial to you too?
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My mistress will have her own kid to be filial to her in the future.
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We don't need to trouble you, 5th Prince.
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Mingyu, why do you speak so harshly?
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Last night, I kept hearing strange noise. I was thinking it's strange.
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The new year's not here yet, but the yellow weasel is already here.
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Mingyu.
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That girl Mingyu. It's been so many years.
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But she's not changed at all. Still that temper.
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Who's laughing?
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What's wrong? Such a big temper.
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Just a traitor so why show her good face?
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Who is a traitor?
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Tell me. Is Yingluo crazy?
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To forgive Consort Yu?
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She can't fight with Consort Yu outright though.
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Don't forget. It was Consort Ling that preserved 5th Prince's life.
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She can't bear to watch such a little kid lose his mother.
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Yingluo's changed. Before, she did whatever she wanted.
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Now, she's a different person. To be talking leisurely with smile with the enemy.
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She's grown up.
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- Mingyu. You too though.
- Me?
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Before, if it were this kind of situation,
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you would've shoved Consort Yu and 5th Prince out of Yanxi Palace by now.
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But I am still stubborn and immature.
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That's not called stubborn and immature. It's called not being good at pretending.
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Consort Ling has reasons to do things.
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I am guessing she is getting close to Consort Yu,
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because she wants to find a way to expose Noble Consort Chun.
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The more you get close to your enemy, the easier to find. Right?
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Hurry now and go back so Consort Ling doesn't worry.
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I am a month older than you, you know!
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How do you know?
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I . . .
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You looked into my age secretly.
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I don't care about you.
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Lighter, Your Ladyship. Even though the clamp is off,
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you have to mind your movements very carefully.
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I will prescribe an ointment for you to take on time for better recovery.
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That way you can heal completely.
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How is it? Much better?
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Thank you, Royal Physician Ye.
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I take my leave then.
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Are we still mad at me?
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Nope.
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If you're not, then bring my tag.
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And go to Interior Bureau personally.
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And get something.
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Here, to the left.
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Yes, to the right.
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Mingyu. Turn.
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That's not what Teacher Yin said. Reversed. This way.
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Yes, right.
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Slower.
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I don't want to dance. I can't dance.
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Mingyu.
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Try again.
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Yes.
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His Majesty.
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Greetings to Your Majesty.
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Get on up.
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What are you doing now?
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This Western item. It was getting dust on at Interior Bureau.
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So I asked Teacher Yin from France,
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and he showed me a dance.
368
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I had the French technician stay at Forbidden City to work out calendar and firearm.
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It's not for you to play with.
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Do you now how to dance, Your Majesty? I'll teach you.
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I'm not interested.
372
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I am not interested in horseback riding either.
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But for you, I went to learn it too.
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Be fair.
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00:29:10,420 --> 00:29:12,570
Your Majesty has to learn too.
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00:29:14,230 --> 00:29:17,660
- You're making farce.
- Step, left foot.
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Go. One, two.
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Left.
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Raise your head, Your Majesty.
380
00:29:30,850 --> 00:29:34,830
Your Majesty. Isn't it pretty fun to dance?
381
00:29:37,340 --> 00:29:40,600
That Westerner put his hand on your waist too?
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00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:44,900
Teacher Yin and the junior eunuch showed it to me like this.
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Your Mistress is something else.
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00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:53,120
His Majesty had a day of foul mood.
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Now so fast he's cheered up.
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00:30:01,070 --> 00:30:02,560
No.
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00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:04,560
What's wrong?
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Wait.
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I heard the Westerners, when they dance,
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the man holds the woman's waist.
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00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:18,420
Wei Yingluo, you're taunting me again.
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00:30:20,890 --> 00:30:23,020
Did I hurt you?
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I was trying to cheer Your Majesty up.
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By teaching me the woman's steps?
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Then we'll switch. Don't be mad anymore.
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Don't.
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Step left foot.
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This way, right?
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Your Majesty, so you know how to dance.
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You knew how to dance. You were tricking me.
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402
00:31:06,820 --> 00:31:08,890
Your Majesty is upset again?
403
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:15,020
Yingluo. If one person must be killed,
404
00:31:15,020 --> 00:31:17,090
what would you do?
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00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:19,770
Kill him.
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00:31:22,970 --> 00:31:25,830
If he was falsely accused?
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Release him.
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00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:31,770
What if he was falsely accused,
409
00:31:33,130 --> 00:31:35,460
but for the big picture,
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00:31:37,250 --> 00:31:39,020
he must be killed?
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00:31:39,020 --> 00:31:41,470
Both kill and release.
412
00:31:41,470 --> 00:31:44,010
What is that talk?
413
00:31:44,010 --> 00:31:46,990
On the surface, kill him decisively.
414
00:31:46,990 --> 00:31:49,530
But in privately, do a switch.
415
00:31:51,750 --> 00:31:53,720
Your Majesty can find someone,
416
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:56,710
who is on death row with similar appearance.
417
00:31:56,710 --> 00:31:59,000
And the secret switch.
418
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:00,860
That'll do, right?
419
00:32:02,550 --> 00:32:05,690
You think think the Ministry of Justice is the vegetable market?
420
00:32:05,690 --> 00:32:08,410
You have to ascertain one's identity before you behead him.
421
00:32:10,660 --> 00:32:14,270
Your Majesty is indeed talking about Lord Narbu.
422
00:32:14,270 --> 00:32:16,280
But you do want to kill him then.
423
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:20,070
Nonsense. I never thought so.
424
00:32:20,070 --> 00:32:23,080
Your Majesty, even if you granted Empress the grace,
425
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:27,270
to change beheading to exile, but during the exile,
426
00:32:27,270 --> 00:32:29,790
can he be safe?
427
00:32:29,790 --> 00:32:32,720
There's no one the emperor cannot spare in the world.
428
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:36,320
Your Majesty really don't want him to live.
429
00:32:42,380 --> 00:32:45,510
Can't be that because I said the truth,
430
00:32:46,420 --> 00:32:49,520
that you're going to kill me to silence me?
431
00:32:55,530 --> 00:32:56,840
Your Majesty.
432
00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,340
So you're scared of death too?
433
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,450
Was what I said right?
434
00:33:09,290 --> 00:33:11,090
You are right.
435
00:33:11,700 --> 00:33:15,240
Narbu didn't take disaster relief.
436
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:18,930
But his first wrong is not reporting when he knew of it.
437
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:23,320
Second wrong, muddle-headed and incompetent.
438
00:33:25,210 --> 00:33:29,830
Many places in Eastern Zhejiang face similar situations.
439
00:33:29,830 --> 00:33:34,500
But they didn't have any revolt or deaths of disaster victims.
440
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:40,160
Sometimes, a muddled and incompetent officer,
441
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:44,030
his jeopardy may not be less than that of a greedy officer.
442
00:33:44,030 --> 00:33:47,580
I sentenced him to exile.
443
00:33:47,580 --> 00:33:50,550
It was all on Empress's account.
444
00:33:52,190 --> 00:33:54,890
To give him an honorable death.
445
00:33:55,740 --> 00:34:00,600
I didn't think, Empress Dowager would be a step before me.
446
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:05,280
Yingluo,
447
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:12,290
do you feel that I am a cruel monarch?
448
00:34:12,290 --> 00:34:13,790
I do.
449
00:34:14,850 --> 00:34:19,100
So what if I do though? You always want to be perfect.
450
00:34:19,100 --> 00:34:21,650
But how can anyone be perfect?
451
00:34:21,650 --> 00:34:24,730
If you kill the greedy officer, the greedy officers will hate you.
452
00:34:24,730 --> 00:34:27,680
If you kill an ordinary subject, the ordinary subjects will resent you.
453
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:31,480
Let them hate and let them resent.
454
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:35,170
The fallen seed never regrets. Never turn around.
455
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:47,300
You pushed yourself again, didn't you?
456
00:34:47,300 --> 00:34:49,440
Last night you insisted on dancing.
457
00:34:53,720 --> 00:34:55,410
When an officer is ill,
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he still needs to attend court.
459
00:34:58,300 --> 00:35:02,670
When a consort is ill, she still needs to cheer up the emperor.
460
00:35:02,670 --> 00:35:04,630
This is called duty.
461
00:35:05,950 --> 00:35:08,080
You're so full of bizarre logic.
462
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:11,430
I'll go find Royal Physician Ye. Don't move.
463
00:35:18,020 --> 00:35:20,750
Why is it hurting so much suddenly?
464
00:35:20,750 --> 00:35:23,400
That's called boasting yourself excessively.
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Give me your hand.
466
00:35:32,780 --> 00:35:34,450
Brother!
467
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- How are you here?
- Consort Ling.
468
00:35:38,770 --> 00:35:41,130
You're a ranking consort now.
469
00:35:41,130 --> 00:35:44,540
But to call me brother still? I don't dare.
470
00:35:45,190 --> 00:35:48,330
No matter what, you're still my brother.
471
00:35:48,330 --> 00:35:50,530
Alright, Consort Ling.
472
00:35:50,530 --> 00:35:54,130
- You sit.
- Gentle.
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- You deserve to ache to death.
- Lighter, Brother.
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00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:05,710
So comfortable.
475
00:36:06,720 --> 00:36:08,660
My anger hasn't dissipated, you know.
476
00:36:08,660 --> 00:36:11,450
I have been angry at you the whole last six months.
477
00:36:11,450 --> 00:36:14,290
The stuff you sent me have piled up like a mountain.
478
00:36:14,290 --> 00:36:15,640
But you never showed up.
479
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:17,680
I was afraid I'd make you more angry.
480
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:19,420
You promised me back then.
481
00:36:19,420 --> 00:36:22,910
That we'd shoulder trouble together and enjoy fortune together.
482
00:36:22,910 --> 00:36:25,670
I thought through and now, you're Consort Ling.
483
00:36:25,670 --> 00:36:29,500
So I will stay at your Yanxi Palace and be the supervisor.
484
00:36:29,500 --> 00:36:31,130
Will you agree?
485
00:36:32,650 --> 00:36:34,440
Fine.
486
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:39,670
Consort Ling, don't call me Brother so easily in the palace.
487
00:36:39,670 --> 00:36:41,980
Many people and wily mouths here.
488
00:36:41,980 --> 00:36:44,250
Just call me by name.
489
00:36:44,250 --> 00:36:46,250
Meeting you is truly my misfortune.
490
00:36:46,250 --> 00:36:51,020
Meeting you, Brother, it's my lifelong fortune.
491
00:37:10,100 --> 00:37:14,010
Empress. Empress, be merciful and save me.
492
00:37:14,010 --> 00:37:17,360
I am dying. Empress.
493
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:21,060
Empress, forgive us. This servant is unruly and needs to be taught.
494
00:37:21,060 --> 00:37:23,250
Hupo, how dare you collide into Her Highness.
495
00:37:23,250 --> 00:37:24,650
Do you want to be whipped?
496
00:37:24,650 --> 00:37:27,460
Empress, I used to work at Changchun Palace.
497
00:37:27,460 --> 00:37:29,220
It's because I made a mistake,
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that I was punished by sending to Xinzheku and endured all sorts of torment.
499
00:37:31,970 --> 00:37:36,090
Empress. May you be merciful and save me.
500
00:37:36,090 --> 00:37:38,710
Empress. Save me.
501
00:37:38,710 --> 00:37:40,330
She is . . .
502
00:37:40,330 --> 00:37:44,150
Your Highness, she's Hupo who used to work at Changchun Palace.
503
00:37:44,150 --> 00:37:46,230
Hupo?
504
00:37:46,230 --> 00:37:48,110
I remember now.
505
00:37:48,110 --> 00:37:50,450
How did you befall to this plight?
506
00:37:50,450 --> 00:37:53,840
Empress, she was supposed to be assigned to Yanxi Palace.
507
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:55,650
But she offended Consort Ling,
508
00:37:55,650 --> 00:37:57,620
and she was sent to Xinzheku to do hard labor.
509
00:37:57,620 --> 00:37:59,060
But she can't endure any hardship,
510
00:37:59,060 --> 00:38:01,910
but Empress, don't worry, I will teach her properly.
511
00:38:01,910 --> 00:38:06,130
Empress. May you be merciful and save me.
512
00:38:06,130 --> 00:38:08,740
- Shut up.
- She's Late Empress's old servant.
513
00:38:08,740 --> 00:38:10,800
So she should be treated well.
514
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,070
Give her lighter chores.
515
00:38:13,070 --> 00:38:16,010
- And don't whip her anymore.
- Yes.
516
00:38:16,010 --> 00:38:18,740
- Let's go.
- Empress.
517
00:38:18,740 --> 00:38:22,420
Empress. Empress! Your Highness.
518
00:38:22,420 --> 00:38:24,760
- Empress. Empress!
- Stop daydreaming.
519
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:27,730
- Your Highness.
- Not even the empress can save you.
520
00:38:27,730 --> 00:38:30,020
- Empress.
- Shut up.
521
00:38:30,020 --> 00:38:32,230
Your Highness.
522
00:38:33,180 --> 00:38:36,560
Greetings to Mother Ling. Yongqi heard you can get up now.
523
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:39,110
So I came to bid you wellness especially.
524
00:38:50,110 --> 00:38:54,300
Mother Ling, I don't think Sister Mingyu likes me.
525
00:38:55,700 --> 00:38:56,600
Yep.
526
00:38:56,600 --> 00:39:00,900
By convention, shouldn't you actually say it's all a misunderstanding?
527
00:39:00,900 --> 00:39:02,680
Why should I deceive you?
528
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:05,270
But everyone in the palace does that.
529
00:39:05,270 --> 00:39:07,960
Mother Ling doesn't like that.
530
00:39:10,100 --> 00:39:14,300
Sit.
531
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:21,920
Eat.
532
00:39:27,150 --> 00:39:29,440
Clearly you really want to eat it.
533
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:32,620
It's by your hand, so why don't you take it?
534
00:39:32,620 --> 00:39:36,420
Mother said to grab it without asking is not cordial.
535
00:39:42,420 --> 00:39:43,940
Eat.
536
00:39:45,140 --> 00:39:47,570
Mother Ling said yes.
537
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:52,740
Is it good?
538
00:40:01,650 --> 00:40:05,540
Yongqi. Since you're already coughing,
539
00:40:05,540 --> 00:40:09,370
you shouldn't eat sweet things anymore. Got it?
540
00:40:21,990 --> 00:40:27,050
[ Yanxi Palace ]
541
00:40:45,750 --> 00:40:47,730
The tea is cold.
542
00:40:48,290 --> 00:40:50,400
I will go switch it.
543
00:41:00,550 --> 00:41:02,110
This.
544
00:41:06,270 --> 00:41:09,760
Give me.
545
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:47,400
What are you laughing about?
546
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:49,000
I'm laughing that you're a dumb egg!
547
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:50,620
She stole two very obvious chess pieces of yours.
548
00:41:50,620 --> 00:41:53,020
But you can't see it?
549
00:41:53,020 --> 00:41:55,660
Yingluo! You're too much.
550
00:41:55,660 --> 00:41:57,990
Last time you stole two chess pieces from His Majesty.
551
00:41:57,990 --> 00:41:59,820
His Majesty was so mad he ignored you for two days.
552
00:41:59,820 --> 00:42:02,980
- Now you're repeating?
- I just love seeing him mad.
553
00:42:02,980 --> 00:42:05,580
I love it when he's mad.
554
00:42:05,580 --> 00:42:07,790
You're such a strange one.
555
00:42:11,210 --> 00:42:12,860
I don't know why either.
556
00:42:12,860 --> 00:42:15,890
I just like to bully people who are serious.
557
00:42:23,090 --> 00:42:24,150
Supervisor Li.
558
00:42:24,150 --> 00:42:25,680
What brings you here?
559
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:28,460
Consort Ling, His Majesty invites you to go to Yonghe Palace.
560
00:42:28,460 --> 00:42:30,590
Yonghe Palace?
561
00:42:30,590 --> 00:42:32,000
Why would she go to Yonghe Palace now?
562
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,990
May Your Ladyship mobilize immediately.
563
00:42:34,990 --> 00:42:36,360
I will accompany you.
564
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:37,720
No.
565
00:42:38,940 --> 00:42:41,460
I will accompany your ladyship.
566
00:42:43,550 --> 00:42:47,200
Mingyu. You stay and watch Yanxi Palace.
567
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:50,500
Don't be nervous. Nothing will happen.
568
00:43:01,060 --> 00:43:03,960
Your Majesty, Consort Ling is here.
569
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:13,910
Greetings to Your Majesty.
570
00:43:16,590 --> 00:43:18,290
Is 5th Prince ill?
571
00:43:18,290 --> 00:43:20,120
What are you trying to do?
572
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:23,400
Consort Yu, what was that for?
573
00:43:24,530 --> 00:43:28,810
Your Majesty. How big is 5th Prince?
574
00:43:28,810 --> 00:43:31,210
She actually laid such a poisonous hand on him!
575
00:43:31,210 --> 00:43:33,480
How evil is she!
576
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:35,690
Poisonous hand?
577
00:43:35,690 --> 00:43:37,530
What does that mean?
578
00:43:37,530 --> 00:43:43,750
Consort Ling. Today, did 5th Prince go to Yanxi Palace?
579
00:43:43,750 --> 00:43:45,660
Yes.
580
00:43:45,660 --> 00:43:47,950
Consort Yu told him to come visit me.
581
00:43:47,950 --> 00:43:50,160
And brought reishi and deer antler to me.
582
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:52,950
Did he eat a snack there?
583
00:43:54,470 --> 00:43:57,920
- He ate a piece of lotus cake.
- There it is then.
584
00:43:58,580 --> 00:44:00,610
Royal Physician Liu.
585
00:44:01,340 --> 00:44:05,310
Consort Ling, 5th Prince has been coughing lately.
586
00:44:05,310 --> 00:44:07,880
I am managing his illness mainly with fritillary bulb.
587
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:09,880
But fritillary bulb has a peculiarity.
588
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:12,390
It cannot be eaten together with the likes of aconite no matter what.
589
00:44:12,390 --> 00:44:17,640
Such as wolf's bane, monkshood, devil's helmet and the alike. All are shunned.
590
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:20,260
If they are consumed together, what happens?
591
00:44:20,260 --> 00:44:22,430
Replying to Empress.
592
00:44:22,430 --> 00:44:26,990
If consumed together, it's very likely that due to the medicinal properties clashing, one would be poisoned.
593
00:44:26,990 --> 00:44:32,150
Such as paralysis of the entire body, unstoppable pain, or death.
594
00:44:32,150 --> 00:44:34,380
I took 5th Prince's pulse.
595
00:44:34,380 --> 00:44:37,130
I discovered he had signs of poisoned by wolf's bane.
596
00:44:37,130 --> 00:44:39,280
Yanxi Palace's lotus cake,
597
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:41,600
does it contain wolf's bane?
598
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:44,480
Only Consort Ling would know.
599
00:44:46,740 --> 00:44:52,910
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600
00:44:54,010 --> 00:45:02,070
♫Softly falling into the hollow of my palm,♫
601
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:12,790
♫Resting frozen in the center of my palm.♫
602
00:45:15,500 --> 00:45:24,310
♫Our meeting across past incarnations was inevitable,♫
603
00:45:26,610 --> 00:45:35,510
♫Our meeting across past incarnations was inevitable,♫
604
00:45:37,630 --> 00:45:45,710
♫Though plainly given words of discouragement,♫
605
00:45:48,370 --> 00:45:57,150
♫Pretending to hear nothing but exhortation.♫
606
00:45:59,310 --> 00:46:08,340
♫ Endless tears, believing it cannot be true,♫
607
00:46:10,310 --> 00:46:18,800
♫ In this life, being born under an unlucky star.♫
608
00:46:21,410 --> 00:46:27,050
♫I hear the sound of the snow slowly falling♫
609
00:46:27,050 --> 00:46:31,720
♫ Though I close my eyes, it's impossible to stop the vision.♫
610
00:46:31,720 --> 00:46:38,260
♫ Nothing you can do about being approached, not being inconsistent in love,♫
611
00:46:38,260 --> 00:46:43,260
♫ Though merely holding onto it from the outside, prone to this sort of circumstance.♫
612
00:46:43,260 --> 00:46:48,830
♫ I hear the sound of the snow slowly falling♫
613
00:46:48,830 --> 00:46:53,590
♫ As though you are holding me closely, and speaking sweetly.♫
614
00:46:53,590 --> 00:47:01,390
♫ Opening your eyes to a sky filled with merciless snow falling,♫
615
00:47:01,390 --> 00:47:10,100
♫ Who, after suffering this loss for a lifetime, is fond of this scene?♫