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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 63
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Greetings to Mistress Empress.
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I beg Mistress to grant me punishment severely.
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I've said nothing and you already know where you've wronged?
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I punished Consort Ling unauthorized.
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Mistress Empress, I am easing your worry by doing so.
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What a pompous servant! Where did it become your turn to read Empress's intention?
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You bribed the royal physician and faked a record.
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To have Consort Ling's medical history clearly structured.
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Too bad it was too rushed and thus leaving a trail of wild goose.
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Surely now something is left that can be used against you.
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Mistress, you mean . . .
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Even if Consort Ling is to die, she can't die in my hand.
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Hurry and prepare two items.
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One item send to Yangxin Hall. The other,
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send to Yangxin Hall as well.
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- What are you doing now?
- I just don't like such simple orchid painting.
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The more gaudy the better.
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Your Majesty, look! This can't do?
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You're being insensible.
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Your Majesty.
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Your Majesty? Yanxi Palace has summoned the royal physician.
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Who told you to solicitude Yanxi Palace news? Arrogant assertion.
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I know my wrong.
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Go out.
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Yes.
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Come back.
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Your Majesty.
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What is the illness?
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Replying to Your Majesty, Consort Ling has on a vegetarian diet for years.
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Her neglect on her diet has left a stomach illness.
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Royal Medicine Bureau has already made a prescription.
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To instruct her to drink clear porridge daily to nurse the stomach.
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Adjust slowly.
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A disaster lasts a millennium.
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I just know she can't die.
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Go now.
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Yes.
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Your Majesty.
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What now?
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Consort Ling, when she left Yuanming Garden, she left behind Sound of Moonlight Dew.
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I am asking Your Majesty whether I deliver it to Yanxi Palace now.
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Where is Sound of Moonlight Dew?
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Your Majesty. The zither.
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Burn it.
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Burn it?
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His Majesty's imperial gift has left to neglect like this.
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It's clear Consort Ling doesn't even
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care about His Majesty. She brought it upon herself. Die!
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Burn it. Burn it.
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I really burn it?
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Burn it!
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[ Sound of Moonlight Dew ]
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What is this?
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This is a letter Yanxi Palace wants to deliver to Yangxin Hall.
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I intercepted it in the middle.
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That whore is expecting His Majesty to turn back to her so you must take precaution.
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If you don't remove the root of a weed, it will be future disaster.
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Mistress, you must make the decision sooner.
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Everyone thinks,
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it's me who wants to kill Wei Yingluo.
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Even you say so.
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Do yo loathe me now?
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Everything I've done was to help you.
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Look at my plight now.
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This is how you help me?
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We fight desperately when confronting mortal danger.
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If I don't push you to the limit,
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how would you be willing to give up your life now?
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I don't know what you mean.
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Yingluo. Listen to me clearly.
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Forbidden City has fame, honor and riches.
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But that is all just passing smoke and cloud.
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Without His Majesty's favor, at your fierce disposition,
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how long can you live?
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Chenbi. How many faces do you really have?
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I have said so already. I am helping you.
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A great woman like you.
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You should be cherished in one's palm.
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What do you wish to accomplish?
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Why don't you understand still? I'm helping you.
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No, to be more precise, I am returning a kindness.
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Returning whose kindness?
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Lord Fuheng's. If it hadn't been him, I would've fallen in the deep abyss long ago.
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He's young, and courageous, and gentle and attentive.
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A woman's dream husband.
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All along, I've wanted to repay him.
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But I didn't know what to do.
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Until I discovered,
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he loves you.
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That's all in the past.
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But he's loved you all along, never ever changing.
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You forced Mingyu to die.
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That was to repay a kindness too?
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What a joke!
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I've said it many times.
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It's she who chose death herself.
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You can't always be fettered by affection.
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You should think about yourself more.
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Think about myself?
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Someone used your name to send a dried gardenia to Yangxin Hall.
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It came into my hands.
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Do you want to know who sent it?
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Empress.
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Yes. It was Empress.
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If you don't go now, you will die here in Forbidden City for sure.
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What place is Forbidden City,
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that I can actually leave?
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I will help you.
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From now on, the world is wild and high and you can fly to your desire.
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You and Fuheng can be together forever.
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I was presented to His Majesty like a gift.
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I lost the love of my kin.
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I've lost freedom.
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I can't leave.
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I can never leave.
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But you're not the same.
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You still have a chance.
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Yingluo.
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Before this frightening palace swallows you whole,
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go!
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Go far!
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Never to return.
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As the days and years go by,
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you would wear shackles and proceed in such toilsome manner.
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Why can't you just remove them
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and bravely strive for the thing that you want?
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Really live for yourself this time.
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Even if it's just for a day.
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Who did that?!
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- Who?!
- Your hands...
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You're awake?
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Your Majesty.
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Your Majesty. Greetings, Your Majesty.
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Borrowing wine to drown your sorrows.
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Hailancha, you got nerves.
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I also don't want to be like this.
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But when I got home,
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seeing that house full of red,
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it became more piercing.
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I'm a crude person. I only know how to fight.
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It's my first time knowing what a heartbreak is.
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Hailancha, you are a man.
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No matter how sad you are, you mustn't forget this.
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An imperial bodyguard has the duty to protect.
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If everyone is like you,
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being so drunk while on duty,
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then wouldn't my head already been taken
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without you knowing?
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I have committed a crime! May Your Majesty punish me!
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I...
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...can't let you stay here anymore.
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Your Majesty.
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Your Majesty, I was wrong.
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I really know that I did wrong.
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You can hit or scold me!
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Don't drive me away, Your Majesty!
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Your Majesty! Your Majesty, I beg you to not drive me away!
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Your Majesty! Your Majesty, sorry!
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Do you still remember your promise?
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You said that you will join the battlefield
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and contribute great merit to the Great Qing Dynasty.
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I've received military report
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that in the northern parts of the Huolan Tribe, a small army has appeared.
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I suspect them as being the remnants of the rebel army.
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Do you dare go?
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I'm willing to sacrifice my life for you
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and not have any regrets even if I die.
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No woman
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is worthy for you to lose your heroic spirit.
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Yes.
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If Mingyu can see you down there,
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she also would look down on you.
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Lord Fuheng.
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Desheng, please inform His Majesty that I need to have an audience with him.
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I have an important matter to say and must see him now.
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His Majesty is currently meeting with Imperial Guard Suolun.
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Please wait for a while.
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Lord Fuheng!
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Why are you in a rush?
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Desheng, please also inform His Majesty
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that I have an important matter to see him.
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Yes.
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Looks like your rationality won.
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You'd rather watch her die
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and stay loyal to His Majesty.
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That is...
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She agreed.
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Fuheng, you've disappointed her once.
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Are you going to fail her the second time?
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Your Highness Imperial Concubine Shun, His Majesty said that he still has something to attend to.
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Please return to Lijing Pavilion first. His Majesty will surely visit you this afternoon.
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Lord Fuheng, please go inside.
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Mistress, will he say it?
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Fame, wealth,
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power, and position, he has all of them.
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But he still is always melancholic.
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Being able to obtain the woman he wants
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is a great temptation for him.
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No matter how he suppresses it,
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he won't be able to suppress the desire in his heart.
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What is it?
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You've disappointed her once.
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Are you going to fail her the second time?
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Your Majesty, I'm here for the military report regarding the Huolan Tribe.
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I already know about that.
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Fuheng, His Majesty is sending me to lead an army
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and help General Jaohui to pacify the rebellion.
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It's good that you're able to prop yourself up.
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There's nothing more?
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Since Your Majesty has already made the arrangements, there's nothing more.
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Leave then.
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I will take my leave.
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- Hailancha.
- Yes.
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How is Fuheng's memory?
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He has a photographic memory.
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A person with a photographic memory
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would forget that he has submitted a memorial last night?
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Your Majesty, he's very serious with his job.
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He probably is just asking for your decision.
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Hailancha, there's still one more thing
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that I want you to do for me.
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Imperial Concubine Shun made instructions
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that you mustn't be neglected.
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If I'm you,
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it's just deserving to die from starvation.
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Living like a dog.
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Don't know why you still want to live.
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Your Highness, Imperial Concubine Shun went to Yanxi Palace today.
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But after she left, Consort Ling is still alive.
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What are you smiling about?
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I can borrow a knife to kill someone.
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Of course, Imperial Concubine Shun can do the same.
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Greetings, Your Highness Empress.
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Your Highness.
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Mistress.
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Look at that.
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It has come.
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You know what to do, right?
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Zhen'er.
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Chief Steward Yuan.
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It's like this. I haven't thanked you yet for helping me last time.
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We are both working for Her Highness Empress.
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It's just right that we assist each other.
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Moreover,
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I also won't help you for no reason.
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Say it. How do you want me to repay you?
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Yuan Chunwang, this year,
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I'm 29 years old.
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You're saying that Her Highness Empress still hasn't let you out of the palace?
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Of course not.
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If Her Highness Empress is that kind of person,
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would I still loyally serve her?
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Why then?
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Her Highness Empress offered to reward me with a huge amount of money and choose a husband for me.
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I refused them all.
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Usually, a palace maid can leave the palace when she's 25.
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But I've been serving Her Highness ever since.
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I couldn't bear to part with her.
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Moreover, if I leave, who will accompany her?
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Then...
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Hence, I told Her Highness
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that I chose you.
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Zhen'er.
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You didn't say that just to make Her Highness be at ease, right?
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Of course not.
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- Li Yu, call for an imperial physician.
- Yes.
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Dancing but unfocused.
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You're still accompanying Empress Dowager to Yaowang Temple tomorrow,
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but your injury hasn't fully healed yet.
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Your Majesty, didn't the imperial physician already say
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that this injury is very shallow.
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No need to be worried.
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One still mustn't neglect a superficial injury.
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What if it leads to sequelae? What then?
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Your Majesty, you're so good to me.
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You are my most beloved Imperial Concubine Shun.
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If I don't treat you well, who should I be good to?
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But I'm not good to you.
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Based on what you said, you're hiding something from me?
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I've been hiding a secret from you.
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I don't know how to tell you about it.
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But you treat me so well.
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If I still hide it from you,
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my conscience couldn't take it anymore.
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What has happened?
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Greetings, Your Majesty.
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Your Majesty!
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On the 10th of next month, Empress Dowager will go to Yaowang Temple to pray. She'll be taking most of the imperial guards with her.
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By then, the imperial guards inside the palace will be halved. This is your best chance.
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She agreed.
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You've disappointed her once.
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Are you going to fail her this second time?
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She has offended so many people.
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00:26:58,340 --> 00:27:02,590
Now that she ended up in this state, it's just natural for some to take advantage of it.
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Cutting off any news about her. Only serving her water every day.
303
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How long can she still last?
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00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:14,710
She and you were supposed to be married, but you abandoned her.
305
00:27:14,710 --> 00:27:20,010
You're the mastermind that pushed her to her current situation.
306
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Yingluo was supposed to have a blissful life.
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Because of you, it completely got destroyed.
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[Imperial Household Department Badge]
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Hurry up! Hurry up!
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The sky is about to get bright. Empress Dowager is going out of the palace today.
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Her breakfast must be served an hour earlier.
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Be nimble! Be nimble!
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Quickly.
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Every midnight, we have to go to Yuquan Mountain to get some spring water.
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- Journeying from there to Forbidden City, won't exhaustion kill you?
- Indeed.
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Say, what's the difference of the groundwater here with the spring water of Yuquan Mountain?
317
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Aren't all just water?
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Eunuch...
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Water that would be served to His Majesty and Empress Dowager must of course be the best kind of water in the world.
320
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The water of Yuquan Mountain is so refreshing and sweet.
321
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Can the well water even compare?
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You are right, Eunuch.
323
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If you dare to speak nonsense again, I will pull out your tongue.
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Hurry up you all. Don't delay the meal time.
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Cangzhen Door by Yanxi Palace is where the daily water carriage must pass through.
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And it's also your only chance.
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Hurry.
328
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Your Majesty, it's meal time.
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Send my order. Seal off Gate of Divine Might.
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- Your Majesty, Empress Dowager is going to Yaowang Temple today, if I . . .
- Seal it!
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Concubine Shun, you can't go in. Consort Shun.
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Your Majesty.
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Your Majesty.
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Give Yingluo a path to life.
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Your Majesty. Consider it my plea.
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Let her go.
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I really regret so much why I told you.
338
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For doing so, I am deserving of death.
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00:31:11,420 --> 00:31:13,950
I cannot redeem myself from this crime.
340
00:31:25,020 --> 00:31:29,100
At this hour, the Yuquan Mountain water carriage should be out of the palace, right?
341
00:31:29,100 --> 00:31:33,020
Yes, probably out of Gate of Divine Might already.
342
00:31:34,150 --> 00:31:39,070
What a pity that I won't get to see this great show.
343
00:31:39,070 --> 00:31:42,280
Your Highness already can fathom how it will play out on stage.
344
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,370
What is there to really see?
345
00:31:44,370 --> 00:31:46,970
You said it great!
346
00:31:46,970 --> 00:31:54,280
I just thought I'm feeling a bit empty after losing an eye thorn.
347
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His Majesty's order. Seal off the gate.
348
00:31:58,250 --> 00:32:01,760
Hurry. Stop the water carriage leaving the palace.
349
00:32:05,620 --> 00:32:07,050
What's happened?
350
00:32:07,050 --> 00:32:09,380
Yes, what's happened exactly?
351
00:32:09,380 --> 00:32:12,340
We need to rush to leave Xizhi Gate still.
352
00:32:12,340 --> 00:32:18,740
Nothing really. Palace property is missing and we were afraid it's smuggled in this water carriage.
353
00:32:18,740 --> 00:32:22,890
So the supervisors said to have a look.
354
00:32:31,690 --> 00:32:34,760
Empress Dowager. Gate of Divine Might has been sealed.
355
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:37,060
What's happened?
356
00:32:38,990 --> 00:32:42,080
Plundered?
357
00:32:43,130 --> 00:32:44,980
This matter isn't right.
358
00:32:44,980 --> 00:32:49,680
Unless a precious item was plundered, why would His Majesty get involved personally?
359
00:32:50,420 --> 00:32:56,190
The bigger the fanfare, the bigger the cover-up.
360
00:33:00,140 --> 00:33:04,730
Reporting to Your Majesty, the water carriage has been recovered.
361
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:14,840
Your Majesty, Yingluo has always been proud and arrogant.
362
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:18,630
How can she withstand the Yanxi Palace in dismal coldness.
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00:33:19,910 --> 00:33:25,640
That plead of hers. To ask me to save her.
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00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:30,970
I really can't bear to turn on her.
365
00:33:30,970 --> 00:33:34,100
And I owe Lord Fuheng a kindness for saving me too.
366
00:33:34,100 --> 00:33:37,800
So that's why I agreed to help the two elope.
367
00:33:38,770 --> 00:33:42,230
But since I agreed,
368
00:33:42,230 --> 00:33:46,170
I have been tormented.
369
00:33:46,170 --> 00:33:52,380
I feel I owe you and that's why I told you the truth.
370
00:33:54,870 --> 00:34:00,990
Your Majesty. May you consider the olden days,
371
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and spare the two's lives.
372
00:34:34,030 --> 00:34:35,990
Your Majesty.
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You do it.
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00:34:44,340 --> 00:34:45,950
Yes.
375
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:00,350
Greetings to Your Majesty.
376
00:35:00,350 --> 00:35:01,940
How is it you?
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00:35:01,940 --> 00:35:04,740
Your Majesty, may your anger dissipate. I was ordered by my mistress,
378
00:35:04,740 --> 00:35:07,280
to hide in the water barrel.
379
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:08,530
Your mistress?
380
00:35:08,530 --> 00:35:12,760
Yes. My mistress Consort Ling, naturally.
381
00:35:14,330 --> 00:35:18,340
She's playing this ghostly trick, for what?
382
00:35:18,340 --> 00:35:21,220
Your Majesty, Mistress has said,
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00:35:21,220 --> 00:35:23,740
someone in Forbidden City is trying to harm her.
384
00:35:23,740 --> 00:35:28,120
In order to lure this person out, she had me hide in the water carriage.
385
00:35:29,820 --> 00:35:31,490
- Summon Consort Ling.
- Yes.
386
00:35:31,500 --> 00:35:34,500
No need, Your Majesty. I'm here.
387
00:35:43,310 --> 00:35:45,450
Greetings to Your Majesty.
388
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:53,470
What's going on exactly?
389
00:35:53,470 --> 00:35:57,830
Concubine Shun first lured me to run away for love.
390
00:35:57,830 --> 00:36:01,210
Then installed a plan to catch me in the act.
391
00:36:01,210 --> 00:36:05,660
Such a simple trick and how can that deceive Your Majesty?
392
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:21,260
Yingluo. Did you figure out that the plan wasn't going well,
393
00:36:21,260 --> 00:36:23,440
so you prepared this in advance?
394
00:36:24,610 --> 00:36:26,490
But even so,
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00:36:26,490 --> 00:36:29,520
you shouldn't frame me.
396
00:36:31,650 --> 00:36:35,200
Your Majesty, this incident happened suddenly.
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00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:37,440
Even if Consort Ling figured it out,
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00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,100
that something strange was happening in the palace,
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00:36:40,930 --> 00:36:44,930
her contacts to the outside world all depended on my help.
400
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:47,660
If you want to know who is lying between she and I,
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00:36:48,750 --> 00:36:52,640
go see if Lord Fuheng is still waiting outside Xizhi Gate.
402
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:54,490
And you'll know clearly.
403
00:36:54,490 --> 00:36:58,580
Concubine Shun, you are an eloquent speaker.
404
00:36:58,580 --> 00:37:00,590
Yingluo admires you.
405
00:37:04,310 --> 00:37:06,000
Yingluo.
406
00:37:07,850 --> 00:37:10,500
We are close sisters.
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00:37:11,570 --> 00:37:13,460
I didn't imagine,
408
00:37:13,460 --> 00:37:16,120
we'd befall to this.
409
00:37:17,220 --> 00:37:19,330
In my heart,
410
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,930
it's just too agonizing.
411
00:37:28,580 --> 00:37:31,050
Greetings to Your Majesty.
412
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,000
You've seen it now.
413
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:38,020
We've caught him outside Xizhi Gate on the spot.
414
00:37:38,020 --> 00:37:41,860
Now it can prove I said the truth, right?
415
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:45,050
You tell His Majesty.
416
00:37:45,070 --> 00:37:47,030
Reporting to Your Majesty.
417
00:37:47,030 --> 00:37:49,440
There was only an empty carriage outside Xizhi Gate.
418
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:53,160
It was on my way to report to duty at the palace that I ran into His Lordship at Gate of Divine Might.
419
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:57,730
Your Majesty, Concubine Shun presented herself to me suddenly one day.
420
00:37:57,730 --> 00:38:00,490
Saying I should take Consort Ling and run away.
421
00:38:00,490 --> 00:38:04,140
I could not bear it and wanted to report it to Your Majesty.
422
00:38:04,140 --> 00:38:08,660
But when I thought about it, I had no evidence so if I were to accuse her,
423
00:38:08,660 --> 00:38:11,480
it would be difficult to believe, so I had no choice,
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00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:13,790
but to set out a longer rope to catch a bigger fish, and feigned my consent to her.
425
00:38:13,790 --> 00:38:17,620
Your Majesty, you must not listen to Lord Fuheng's wild words.
426
00:38:17,620 --> 00:38:19,560
He's just lying!
427
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:24,070
Earlier you said I have no access to news.
428
00:38:24,070 --> 00:38:27,300
But that Lord Fuheng would surely be waiting at Xizhi Gate?
429
00:38:28,170 --> 00:38:30,570
How is it that your tune's changed now?
430
00:38:33,870 --> 00:38:38,030
Yingluo. I finally realize it now.
431
00:38:38,030 --> 00:38:39,640
You realize what?
432
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:44,040
That day you hurt me accidentally and His Majesty punished you.
433
00:38:44,060 --> 00:38:47,330
So you must resent me so much.
434
00:38:47,330 --> 00:38:50,330
- So?
- So you colluded with this bastard servant.
435
00:38:50,330 --> 00:38:52,260
To put on a show of injury to gain my confidence.
436
00:38:52,260 --> 00:38:57,070
To use your tears and our affection of the past,
437
00:38:57,070 --> 00:39:01,290
to force me to help you with your elopement.
438
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:05,860
Actually, it was you and Fuheng all along.
439
00:39:05,860 --> 00:39:08,370
You two put on this show.
440
00:39:09,060 --> 00:39:11,220
Your Majesty didn't find the person in search.
441
00:39:11,220 --> 00:39:15,460
So naturally he would suspect me. You two!
442
00:39:16,430 --> 00:39:18,130
You two joined hands,
443
00:39:18,130 --> 00:39:20,630
joined hands to throw me into injustice.
444
00:39:25,500 --> 00:39:29,590
You figured out an excuse so fast? My admiration to you.
445
00:39:37,970 --> 00:39:41,430
Your Majesty, you must believe me.
446
00:39:41,430 --> 00:39:43,890
Even if I were to frame Consort Ling,
447
00:39:43,890 --> 00:39:46,590
why would I implicate Lord Fuheng too?
448
00:39:46,590 --> 00:39:51,610
He is my savior! Consort Ling's words.
449
00:39:51,610 --> 00:39:53,880
They hold no value.
450
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:58,820
I also want to know just why you try to frame your savior.
451
00:40:02,260 --> 00:40:04,970
Even if a million people won't believe Chenbi,
452
00:40:06,130 --> 00:40:08,310
Chenbi isn't afraid.
453
00:40:09,220 --> 00:40:11,510
But Your Majesty.
454
00:40:12,900 --> 00:40:16,010
You must believe me.
455
00:40:20,730 --> 00:40:27,070
Li Yu. Present the box Hailan Cha rushed 800 miles to bring.
456
00:40:44,570 --> 00:40:46,560
Fuheng.
457
00:40:47,650 --> 00:40:51,360
These are the reasons why Imperial Concubine Shun framed you.
458
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:54,840
Your Majesty. These are?
459
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:57,640
Huolan tribe remnants have been pacified,
460
00:40:57,640 --> 00:41:01,170
but Hailan Cha went to investigate Concubine Shun's past by the imperial edict.
461
00:41:01,170 --> 00:41:03,840
Aibida's young daughter went missing.
462
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:09,320
For many years she was searched by tirelessly and only recently was she found and presented to the royal palace.
463
00:41:09,990 --> 00:41:12,300
This is a lie?
464
00:41:12,300 --> 00:41:14,460
The finding of the daughter is true.
465
00:41:14,460 --> 00:41:19,490
But this precious daughter they found wasn't happy to oblige coming into the palace.
466
00:41:19,490 --> 00:41:26,300
Back then when she reached the marriageable age (15), her foster father presided over her wedding.
467
00:41:26,950 --> 00:41:29,470
Aibida realized her beauty was outstanding.
468
00:41:29,470 --> 00:41:32,240
So he wouldn't spare her from being his great pawn.
469
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:40,920
So you already long suspected me.
470
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:43,510
Wei Yingluo would never, over a momentary fury,
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00:41:43,510 --> 00:41:45,990
raise her hand to harm someone.
472
00:41:51,250 --> 00:41:55,110
Chenbi. You've married before.
473
00:41:55,110 --> 00:41:58,100
She's married before and birthed a child.
474
00:41:58,100 --> 00:42:00,340
Yes.
475
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:06,630
I have married before and I have birthed a child before but I still had to come to the palace.
476
00:42:06,630 --> 00:42:10,550
No matter how unwilling I am, I still had to come to the palace.
477
00:42:11,340 --> 00:42:14,240
How did you pass the body check?
478
00:42:15,090 --> 00:42:17,690
I had my way for that.
479
00:42:17,750 --> 00:42:19,940
Do you wish to know?
480
00:42:21,230 --> 00:42:23,990
Why didn't you say it sooner? If you had told me . . .
481
00:42:23,990 --> 00:42:26,240
Tell you and what?
482
00:42:34,050 --> 00:42:37,630
You're the lofty Emperor.
483
00:42:40,730 --> 00:42:45,350
And you. Fuheng.
484
00:42:45,350 --> 00:42:49,780
I wanted to end everything with my death, but why did you have to save me?
485
00:42:49,780 --> 00:42:51,420
So you fell off the cliff on purpose?
486
00:42:51,420 --> 00:42:53,400
Yes.
487
00:42:54,660 --> 00:42:56,540
Your meddling act,
488
00:42:56,540 --> 00:43:00,760
pushed me into an endless abyss completely.
489
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:04,910
So when I discovered that scented pouch,
490
00:43:07,370 --> 00:43:10,070
I purposely got closer to Wei Yingluo.
491
00:43:10,070 --> 00:43:14,200
To earn her trust and plot your reunion.
492
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:18,320
Then, lure His Majesty to misunderstand.
493
00:43:19,730 --> 00:43:22,510
I wanted to use your elopement,
494
00:43:22,510 --> 00:43:25,220
to throw you into a net together.
495
00:43:25,220 --> 00:43:28,050
How pitiful.
496
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:32,170
What a pity indeed.
497
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:35,130
The entire incident.
498
00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:38,380
It has nothing to do with me.
499
00:43:38,380 --> 00:43:40,060
Yes.
500
00:43:40,650 --> 00:43:43,460
It is indeed unrelated to you whatsoever.
501
00:43:44,650 --> 00:43:49,570
But too bad you are Fuheng's beloved.
502
00:43:49,570 --> 00:43:52,140
And His Majesty's pampered consort.
503
00:43:52,740 --> 00:43:55,100
But I just didn't imagine.
504
00:43:55,100 --> 00:43:57,890
That this Fuheng was such a big fool.
505
00:43:57,890 --> 00:44:01,710
He was so tempted by my suggestion.
506
00:44:01,710 --> 00:44:04,720
But he still abandoned it.
507
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:14,580
What he abandoned was himself.
508
00:44:14,580 --> 00:44:18,830
In order to help you.
509
00:44:20,990 --> 00:44:24,200
Why are you always so lucky?
510
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:33,620
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