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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 64
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An imperial consort that's favored,
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such a sight can make one angry,
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make one go crazy.
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You're really insane.
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Yes, I'm insane.
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But this crazy woman...
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...can't leave on her own, right?
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Your Majesty!
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You all are the wrong ones here.
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It's all your fault! You all deserved to die!
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You all deserved to die! Why?
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Why is heaven not punishing you people?
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Why? Why?!
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Take her away and temporarily put in house arrest at Lijing Pavilion.
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Wei Yingluo, come inside with me.
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You...when did you know?
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When did you know?
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You clearly knew that there's something wrong with Imperial Concubine Shun,
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but deliberately fell into her trap.
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Were you luring me to get anxious?
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You clearly were suspecting Imperial Concubine Shun,
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but deliberately covered it up.
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Were you trying to test me?
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Why would I?
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Why would I lure you to get anxious?
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Wei Yingluo,
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you deliberately used Imperial Concubine Shun to see
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if I would go crazy from being mad at you.
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Your Majesty,
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you used Imperial Concubine Shun
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to see if Fuheng and I would elope.
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Your suspicion has no basis.
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You suspected Imperial Concubine Shun
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and ordered Hailancha to covertly investigate her.
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After learning the secret report about her,
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you clearly could have stopped it,
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but you just allowed things to happen.
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When an emperor suspects that his imperial consort is having an affair,
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shouldn't the first thing he'll be doing to put her on house arrest
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and strictly interrogate her?
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Catching them on the act is indeed more pleasurable.
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But if it gets out, it would tarnish the prestige of the imperial family.
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Your Majesty dared to risk such a huge danger
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because you want to test me.
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Of course, I would do my best
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to satisfy you.
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Earlier, I was hiding at a corner.
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I saw how bad your face was.
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You didn't even had the courage to open the lid of the jar.
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Rubbish!
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I was very mad that there would be a imperial consort
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who dared to have an affair.
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Really?
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What else could be the reason?
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I'm guessing
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that you favored Imperial Concubine Shun
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because you want me to get jealous.
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Or else, how come those frequent gifts
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are all jewelries?
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Isn't it obvious that you want her to wear them
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so I'll get jealous?
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Wei Yingluo.
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Aren't you being too assuming?
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I favored Imperial Concubine Shun to pacify the Huolu Tribe.
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Even if I don't love Imperial Concubine Shun,
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that doesn't mean that I will love you.
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What's wrong?
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Li Yu! Li Yu!
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I'm here.
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Go and get Ye Tianshi.
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Yes. I'll go get him right away.
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Quickly!
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Your Majesty, you're not worried about me at all.
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Not one bit.
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Your Majesty.
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Your Majesty, Empress Dowager is calling for Her Highness Consort Ling.
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Your Majesty.
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Save me. Trouble has come.
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You're saying that the reincarnation matter is a hoax?
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Everything is my fault.
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May Empress Dowager forgive me.
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Wei Yingluo... You dare to...
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- Your Highness Consort Ling, how could you do such a thing?!
- Empress Dowager!
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Do you know how happy Empress Dowager was thinking that Princess He'an is back?
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Empress Dowager,
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I know that my sin is unforgivable.
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I'm willing to accept any form of punishment. I just wish that you can stop being angry.
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I can't forgive you.
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I will never forgive you!
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Men!
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Empress Dowager.
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Empress Dowager, Yingluo was just trying to rescue someone,
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hence, made up this big lie out of a moment of desperation.
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Please forgive her.
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At this time,
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you're still begging for leniency in her behalf?
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Regarding this matter...
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...I also knew about it.
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You two colluded
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to deceive me?!
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No.
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Yingluo did it to protect Imperial Concubine Shun,
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while I...
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...just wanted to make you happy.
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I've been deceived by this lie
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for so long.
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And now,
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you two are saying that it's to make me happy?
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What a joke.
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What a huge joke!
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Emperor, I can forgive your filial piety.
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But I will never forgive her!
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Empress Dowager! Empress Dowager!
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It's all my fault.
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Yingluo! Yingluo!
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Congratulations, Empress Dowager! Congratulations, Your Majesty!
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What's wrong with Consort Ling?
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Your Majesty, Her Highness Consort Ling is pregnant.
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What did you say?
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Based on the pulse, it should be three months.
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Your Majesty!
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Congratulations, Your Majesty!
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Is this something that you can be mischievous about?
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Why didn't you tell me such a huge news?
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My health is weak, hence, I have irregular periods.
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How could I tell you something that I don't know myself?
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Consort Ling.
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Empress Dowager, please ask.
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He'an really didn't come back?
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Replying to Empress Dowager, Imperial Concubine Shun isn't He'an.
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Princess has already went to the happy land.
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You're very good.
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Very good.
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Your Majesty, I was so scared earlier.
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Empress Dowager looked so frightening.
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If I didn't come,
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Empress Dowager will really kill you.
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She won't.
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I'm pregnant with your child.
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She won't kill me.
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And you still claim that you didn't know?
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I knew about it when I was locked up in Yanxi Palace.
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But Your Majesty, when I was locked up,
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those servants wanted to starve me to death.
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Wrong. They wanted to starve your son to death.
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They even said that you ordered it.
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Those group of dog-like slaves. They should be sliced into pieces.
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When have I said those damned words?
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It was you who locked me up in Yanxi Palace.
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With such a situation then, if I didn't do that,
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Empress Dowager would surely have killed you.
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You said that you didn't care about me.
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I almost believed it.
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Don't flatter yourself.
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I'm not concerned about you. I'm concerned...
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...concerned about the child in your womb.
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Your Majesty, I hope that this is a prince.
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Why?
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If it's a princess, she'll also bear children in the future.
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That is a gate to hell.
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Yingluo,
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you've suffered.
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Regardless of others, I'm risking my life just for you.
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Yet you still treat me like this.
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I treated you coldly and kept testing you
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because I want to understand
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if you truly have placed me
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in your heart.
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Your Majesty,
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a woman would only be willing to bear children for the man she loves.
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Chief Steward Li.
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Greetings, Your Highness Empress.
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Chief Steward Li, why are you here?
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Arrest him.
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Chief Steward Li, what is the meaning of this?
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Yuan Chunwang, you haven't forgotten what you've done to Consort Ling, right?
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I only followed the imperial decree.
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Chief Steward Li, did I do anything wrong?
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Has His Majesty told you to stop the food supply of Yanxi Palace?
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Chief Steward Li, you don't know the real story.
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Her Highness Consort Ling has a stomach ailment.
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Providing him clear porridge everyday is for the good of her health.
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What stomach ailment? Consort Ling is pregnant!
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Impossible! This is impossible!
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Consort Ling has been locked up in her palace for so long!
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How could she had the chance—
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Consort Ling has been pregnant for more than 3 months, which is consistent with the chamber records.
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Not only you, even the imperial physician on duty then can't escape punishment.
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If you want to explain, just save it for the Office of Careful Punishment.
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Take him away!
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- No! No!
- Get lost.
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Your Highness Empress, I'll take my leave now.
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That Consort Ling is really something.
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Your Highness, I beg you to save Yuan Chunwang.
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He has bent his back and spared no effort to help you. He has always been loyal.
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Idiot! Why didn't Li Yu wait for Yuan Chunwang to leave this palace before arresting him?
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Because Consort Ling suffered torment, His Majesty is venting his anger on me.
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He wants to openly punish Yuan Chunwang to make things difficult for me.
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That is his fate.
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Let him accept it.
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Your Highness! Your Highness!
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Greetings, Your Highness Consort Ling.
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What are you all doing?
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His Majesty ordered that Lijing Pavilion will be put on lockdown.
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Your Highness, you mustn't pity Imperial Concubine Shun.
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She's so vicious. Even I got caned 30 times
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and had to be bedridden in Anle Hall for a month.
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I almost didn't make it.
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You were able to learn well this survival skill of pretending to be insane.
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- You're here.
- Right. I'm here.
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Why did you come?
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I came to tell you that because of your assassination attempt, your three older brothers have been implicated.
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People have been executed or exiled.
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In front of me, you don't need to act anymore.
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Chenbi, at the start, I didn't understand.
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You had so many chances to kill His Majesty.
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Why must you attempt to assassinate him so openly?
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You clearly know that if you do such a thing, your clan would be affected.
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Now, I understand. What you've always wanted is for them to be punished.
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Is that so?
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You did everything to harm me,
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even to the point of sacrificing yourself.
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Everything you did were so extreme and wild.
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Can you tell me why?
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Aibida has always remembered the defeat and death of his biological brother, Necin.
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He fears that he has no more hope for a promising career.
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Hence, he searched for beautiful women among his territory
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to be offered as tribute to the emperor of the Qing Empire.
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Afterwards, he chose me.
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I already know that.
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Do you know then that he got me drunk and delivered into a horse carriage?
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When I woke up, he used the safety of my son to threaten me.
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He asked me to be obedient.
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Left with no choice, I could only agree to his demands.
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Since you've already agreed, why must you stir up trouble?
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Along the way, the maidservant attending to me couldn't hold it in
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and told me that A'Xia snuck out.
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He said that he wants to find his mother.
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However, Aibida discovered it
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and chased after him throughout the night.
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Accidentally,
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A'Xia fell into
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a trap setup to hunt beast.
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He fell.
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I initially planned to just follow A'Xia and leave this world.
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But Fuheng meddled and saved me.
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Just like that, I arrived in Forbidden City.
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I understand now.
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You want to force His Majesty to kill me and Fuheng.
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Getting betrayed by his imperial consort and favored subject
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is also a fatal blow to the emperor.
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I...am just an item that can be sacrificed.
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Don't make yourself look so innocent.
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The very outstanding Wei Yingluo, there's no one here in Forbidden City who understands you more than I do.
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What do you understand about me?
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Since Mingyu died, you started to suspect me.
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You didn't directly confront me, but went to Yangxin Palace instead.
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You probably wanted to tell it to His Majesty.
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But His Majesty got misled by me and didn't see you.
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After leaving Yangxin Palace, you've already come up with a plan.
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You carried the weapon with you at all times, forcing me to attack you.
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Taking advantage of the situation to get grounded in Yanxi Palace.
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Really?
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First, you want to borrow the hands of Empress and mine
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to fall into a miserable abyss.
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Lure me to expose my true self.
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Second, use the elopement matter
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to make His Majesty realize how much he cares about you.
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But once he learns of the truth,
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he surely will feel so much guilt.
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Look. Everything was schemed by me.
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You're so innocent. So loyal. So pitiful.
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And Fuheng...
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Between you and him, he chose to fulfill your wish.
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He didn't fulfill my wish.
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He just knows me.
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Since I chose to enter the palace to become an imperial consort, I then will never turn back.
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Wei Yingluo, I'm guessing that you still have a third card, am I right?
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I'm pregnant.
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Wei Yingluo...
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You're really good.
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All the words that should be said has been said.
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It's time for the show to end.
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How come I never heard you mention your husband?
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Where is he?
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- I don't have a husband.
- If you don't have a husband,
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where did your son come from?
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Having a beautiful face
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might not be a good thing.
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A gift that only drifted with the waves.
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How can there be a husband?
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Wei Yingluo, you are very fortunate.
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There are two men who loves you.
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Even if I've employed all the tricks that I know,
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I wasn't able to earn the love of His Majesty.
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I've spouted lotus flowers (speak eloquently), but Fuheng still chose to protect you.
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I want to ask you this. Between these two men,
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who do you really love?
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Chenbi,
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continue to be insane.
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If you stay crazy for a lifetime, you can continue to live.
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Take care.
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Chief Steward Yuan, you've worked hard.
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Xiao Quanzi, you've been acting all along?
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I'm a traitor servant.
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Her Highness Consort Ling gave me a chance to start over.
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How could I not cherish it?
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Moreover, a lowly eunuch like me
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is just one of the many here in Forbidden City.
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If I want to progress, I must closely watch only one master.
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Stick on her to continue climbing.
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Just one word from her and I already knew
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that this is a ruse to inflict suffering on herself to win other people's trust.
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And I am that yellow lid.
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Hence, you came here to brag?
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You've been released.
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The Office of Careful Punishment sentenced you to 200 caning.
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Her Highness Consort Ling pardoned you and allowed you to maintain your life.
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She told me to deliver a message to you.
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What she owed you
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has now been totally repaid.
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From this day on,
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you two go your separate ways
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and have no more ties.
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Dream on!
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Your Highness, I have changed your water.
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If you want to beg for leniency in behalf of Yuan Chunwang,
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don't bother saying it.
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Your Highness, even if Yuan Chunwang committed a grave mistake,
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it was also for your sake.
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He used my name to settle a personal grudge.
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He still dared to say that it's for my sake?
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Your Highness Empress, even though Yuan Chuanwang has some selfish intentions,
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he was indeed good in fulfilling his tasks. You need him by your side.
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I beg Your Highness to give him one more chance.
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He surely will be more serious in doing his tasks from now on, and won't leave any traces.
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I don't have a servant that's unruly like that.
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Your Highness.
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Why must you fall in love with a man that is so scheming?
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Zhen'er, you're only bringing yourself hardships.
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Your Highness, I ask that you give considerations on past affection
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and forgive him this time.
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I will be grateful to you forever.
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Get up.
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- Quickly get up.
- Your Highness, I beg you.
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Fine.
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Thank you, Your Highness. I'll tell him to go back now and rest.
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No.
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Let him kneel at another place.
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Your Highness, Yuan Chunwang kept kneeling outside.
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He said that Empress ordered him to come here and seek your forgiveness.
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Xiao Quanzi,
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didn't you relay to him my message?
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How can I dare not?
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I told him every word that you said.
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Don't mind him then.
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He's still a servant of Chengqian Palace.
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If we let him continue to kneel like that, won't that embarrassing the Empress?
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She sent him to kneel here exactly to make me upset.
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Don't mind him.
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Xiao Quanzi.
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Her Highness has instructions?
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Her Highness is very unhappy yesterday.
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Today, she wants you to go to Yangxin Palace to relay a message.
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What message?
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Mistress said that if she's still unable to eat any Suzhou meat dish today,
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he won't be having any lunch anymore.
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Tell His Majesty that he's on his own.
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I'm relaying such a message? Won't my head be in danger then?
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It's of no use to leave it on anyway.
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Quickly go. Mistress is waiting.
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Your Highness Empress, you're here to beg for leniency in behalf of Yuan Chunwang?
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He's just a servant. I won't put any attention on him.
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You're now pregnant.
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You're about to propagate the bloodline of the imperial family and is indeed great joyous news.
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Of course, I must personally come to congratulate you.
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Your Highness Empress, you come here to congratulate me, but didn't bring any gifts.
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You are more petty than Consort Shu.
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When Consort Shu came yesterday, she filled up my whole table.
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You're a smart person. Why must you still make things complicated?
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I'll be direct then.
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Please teach me.
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Looking at how you've decorated your palace,
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from as little as ruyi and flower scent, to as huge as purple incense, tables, and chairs,
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all are the interest of His Majesty.
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It shows how considerate His Majesty is about you.
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What do you really want to say?
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He indeed gives you must importance.
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But you're still from a booi background.
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Let me remind you
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that I'm the empress of the Qing Empire. No matter how favored you are,
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no one can replace me.
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Your Highness Empress, do you know what task I had
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Xiao Quanzi do earlier?
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I had him deliver the goat's milk and mountain herbs soup yesterday
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to Yangxin Palace, in exchange for a Suzhou meat dish.
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You can really do things.
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Yes. I dare to do anything.
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I also can do anything.
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This is the advantage of being a favored consort.
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But if I become the empress,
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I have to do everything according to rules, always being restricted.
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I'm unable to do that.
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You're telling me that you don't have the wild ambition?
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If Your Highness Empress don't actively provoke me,
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of course, I naturally won't have the desire for it.
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Even if you give birth to a prince, you won't make plans for him?
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What kind of a person is His Majesty? Would he allow his imperial harem to dictate who should be the imperial heir?
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Let me say some practical words with you.
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I have never been afraid of fights.
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The more I fight, the more energetic I become.
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If you want to continue, I'll accompany you until the end.
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But you won't be able to topple me,
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nor will I be able to defeat you.
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Fighting like that back and forth, all just tormenting each other for nothing.
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You lowered down yourself today just to ask for a reconciliation.
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Why must you keep testing me?
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Let me say these words.
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Rather than fighting until only one remains alive,
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why not just lay down the flag and still the drums, each one being safe and sound.
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You're quite straightforward.
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But, I have one condition.
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What condition?
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Your Highness Empress must promise me
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that no matter when or for what reason,
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you mustn't hurt the children.
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Your child or other people's child?
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All the children in Forbidden City.
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I disdain hurting the young ones.
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Aren't your words belittling me?
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Okay. As long as you would do as you said,
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I guarantee you that Forbidden City will only have quiet breeze and calm waves.
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The world will be in peace.
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It's a deal then.
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It's a deal.
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Yuan Chunwang, I didn't save you when you committed a mistake.
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Do you bear any grudge against me?
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Replying to mistress,
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after making such a huge mistake,
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you were still able to spare my life.
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That's already excessively being magnanimous.
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For punishing you to kneel here,
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do you find me heartless?
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Mistress, I'm a servant of the Chengqian Palace.
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If I commit a mistake and you didn't punish me harshly,
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what would others say?
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Hence, I know
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that my kneeling is not for Consort Ling,
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but for everyone in Forbidden City to see.
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Let's go back.
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Mistress!
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Consort Ling...
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Starting today, Forbidden City will be quiet for a long time.
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Fifth Prince shot thirty five times and hit thirty times.
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- Great!
- Great!
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Fourth Brother, Royal Father already said,
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not to take it out on any objects.
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Why can't you remember this?
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Twelfth Brother, since when it's your turn to lecture me?
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Disrespectful.
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I hear Fourth Brother went hunting a few days ago
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and injured his arm. I think it hasn't recovered yet.
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There's no need to be so eager to achieve results. It's more important for you to recover.
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If I have recovered from my injury, would you still have a place here?
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4th Prince, before, you drew the bow before His Majesty when you were hosting Guicheng,
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you broke the bow accidentally due to carelessness.
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And you were punished by having your salary forfeited for six months. Do you know why?
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His Majesty studied writing when he was four years old. At nine years old, he learned martial arts,
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archery and shooting skills.
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At age 11, he confined himself to the mountain to focus on shooting.
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At age 12, he followed Emperor Kangxi to Mulan Hunting.
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Emperor Kangxi shot a black bear and happily went to retrieve it.
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The black bear suddenly attacked. If His Majesty didn't used his gun to shoot in time,
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the consequences would have been disastrous.
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When His Majesty goes hunting at Mulan every year,
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he would assess the princes, dukes, ministers, civil and military officials.
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It's because he doesn't want you to forget
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that Great Qing was established on the back of horses.
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Guicheng was ill in bed for six months and could not shoot the arrow but he was punished just the same.
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Even if you are injured, you must not slack off too.
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Talking about reasons in front of His Majesty will not work.
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Thank you, Lord Fuheng, for your advice. I will remember it.
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Fifth Prince. Previously, you talked about improving the musket.
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I was about to ask you this.
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Now the green army's shotguns are mostly weak.
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We usually train on flat ground.
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Just before striking at battle, the bullet drops before even firing.
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Yongqi is adept at literary and martial arts.
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Not to also mention, astronomy, geography and history.
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Royal Father already said that
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Yongqi is the most outstanding.
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Why are you still here wasting your strength?
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Royal Mother said that practice makes perfect.
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Even if the skill is not as good as others, we must still catch up.
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Royal Father won't despise those who work hard.
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Take it out.
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- Your Highness...
- Why are you hiding it?
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Afraid that I will be unhappy?
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Your Highness. I...
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I'm the Mistress of the six palaces. I worry about minor and major matters
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and aged faster than anyone.
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No wonder.
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No wonder what?
510
00:41:37,030 --> 00:41:40,760
That year, I asked Consort Ling...No, it's Noble Consort Ling now.
511
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:46,030
Whether she wanted to be the Empress. She said she can't as she didn't had the fate for worries.
512
00:41:46,970 --> 00:41:49,790
Look at her. For the past ten years,
513
00:41:49,790 --> 00:41:54,330
she can eat whatever she likes and play whenever she likes.
514
00:41:54,330 --> 00:41:56,460
I observed her carefully that day.
515
00:41:56,460 --> 00:41:59,180
Her hair is still glossy
516
00:41:59,180 --> 00:42:01,850
without a trace of white hair.
517
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:08,040
Look at me. My eyes are bloodshot.
518
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:12,760
Her eyes are still clear and bright.
519
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:15,940
She's more than thirty years old and she still lives like a child.
520
00:42:15,940 --> 00:42:18,400
That's because she is selfish.
521
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:20,650
In the past year, when the Empress Dowager didn't want to see her,
522
00:42:20,650 --> 00:42:24,670
she shamelessly sent Seventh Princess to Shoukang Palace.
523
00:42:24,670 --> 00:42:28,200
The Empress Dowager couldn't maintain her frosty face thereafter.
524
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:29,870
Forget about this.
525
00:42:29,870 --> 00:42:33,220
Six years ago, when Imperial Concubine Qing was promoted,
526
00:42:33,220 --> 00:42:37,120
to pull her to her side, Consort Ling even sent Fifteenth Prince away.
527
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:39,610
I honestly don't understand.
528
00:42:40,550 --> 00:42:42,200
Didn't she always say that,
529
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:46,730
a woman will never be good to another?
530
00:42:46,730 --> 00:42:50,360
I can see that she doesn't love anyone.
531
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:54,770
She only loves herself like a pearl.
532
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:57,590
Everyone knows this.
533
00:42:57,590 --> 00:43:03,120
The princes and princesses have the wet nurses to take care of them.
534
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:07,870
Even if they are sent to others to be raised, it's only just to make it sound good.
535
00:43:08,980 --> 00:43:11,320
Didn't you see this?
536
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:17,110
When Seventh Princess, Ninth Princess and Fifteenth Prince are not busy, they will run to Yanxi Palace.
537
00:43:17,110 --> 00:43:20,360
She is naturally playful
538
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:23,450
and would scream and run wild with the children the entire day.
539
00:43:23,450 --> 00:43:27,700
Yanxi Palace has become a nest for the children.
540
00:43:27,700 --> 00:43:31,020
The well behaved Fifteenth Prince has been badly influenced by her.
541
00:43:31,020 --> 00:43:35,640
Unlike Twelfth Prince who's diligent in his studies and hardworking in his martial arts training.
542
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:38,790
Even the teachers praise him for his hard work.
543
00:43:39,460 --> 00:43:42,490
But compared to Yongqi,
544
00:43:42,490 --> 00:43:45,300
his talent is very lacking.
545
00:43:50,370 --> 00:43:53,810
- Mistress.
- Greetings, Royal Mother.
546
00:43:55,790 --> 00:44:01,010
Mistress. When Twelfth Brother was training today, he injured his hand.
547
00:44:03,150 --> 00:44:06,220
What's wrong? Let me take a look.
548
00:44:08,940 --> 00:44:11,060
Look at you. Why are you so careless?
549
00:44:11,060 --> 00:44:15,190
To reply, Mistress. Twelfth Prince was training under the scorching sun
550
00:44:15,190 --> 00:44:17,490
for two hours and bruised his hand.
551
00:44:17,490 --> 00:44:21,330
I requested the Imperial Physician to bandage and treat the wound. The Imperial Physician repeatedly advised that
552
00:44:21,330 --> 00:44:24,610
he can't draw the bow for a month.
553
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:29,460
Foolish child. Why were you so desperate?
554
00:44:31,820 --> 00:44:38,910
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