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♫ No indulgence in self-admiration, no desire for splendor. ♫
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♫ Living in a scene of bustling prosperity, viewing oneself as a made-up mirror image far away. ♫
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♫ Removing her ornate woman's attire, ♫
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♫ donning martial armor. ♫
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♫ Gentle and wonderful scenery fills the eyes, ♫
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♫ how is this not still a battlefield? ♫
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♫ Autumn departs, winter arrives, just as Bailu ("white dew") turns to frost. ♫
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♫ The road is distant, the days are long, and only finished by death in battle. ♫
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♫ My heart wants to spend its last years with you, placed at your side. ♫
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♫ However long our lifetimes, ♫
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♫ there's no time for melancholy. ♫
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♫ In the ash-grey sky, love exists above all, ♫
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♫ just lift your head and look up hopefully. ♫
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♫ Brave and chivalrous bones, yielding emotions forged into steel, ♫
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♫ sharpened by practice to a cutting edge. ♫
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♫ Time is like a blade carving every moment onto your face, ♫
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♫ one will have no regrets, if you have loved. ♫
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Oh My General
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Ever since the General came,
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Junwang...
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has never looked for me.
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The General solely having the Junwang's attention is inappropriate.
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Child-preventing medicine.
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General, Junwang, have some tea.
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Junwang...
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This cup is for the General.
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This cup is yours.
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Is there any difference?
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There is a vicious wolf beyond this pass.
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That is not an ordinary wolf, it's a ghost wolf.
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Ghost wolf?
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No one can catch it. It comes and goes without any trace.
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Everyone in that village got beheaded and skinned by it.
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Lord, this is the most beautiful singer here in Jiangbei Province.
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There is actually such a beauty in this world?
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General, do you feel better now?
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I feel much better.
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The General's health has always been good.
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What's happening now?
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Don't know if you are willing to live with me in a foreign land.
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May I ask what foreign land are you talking about?
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Western Xia.
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Episode 39
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I see that we've hired a new singer.
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Her beauty and bearing are both good.
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I only have Lian'er as my maidservant.
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She has to serve me tea and water and even prepare my medicine. It's already too much for her to handle.
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Why doesn't Husband grant me this singer
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so someone can accompany me for chats?
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The singer that you're talking about is Xian Nichang?
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Cannot Husband bear to part with her?
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Wife, there's something you don't know.
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This singer isn't an ordinary one.
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She has a big purpose for me.
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Does Your Highness plan to keep her by your side for self-enjoyment?
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Wife.
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You can't seriously be unruly about this.
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Don't you know about my feelings for you?
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It's again for that grand ambition of yours.
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Stop calling it that!
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Wife, your words today are too excessive.
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Didn't I already say
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that you mustn't talk about my grand ambition while inside the manor?
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What right do you have to not let me talk about it?
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Why can't I say it?
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Just for your grand ambition, I've endured a lot.
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I also lost a lot!
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Did I have it easy these past years?
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Was it easy for me to endure it until today?
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It wasn't easy that I...
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You-You...
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go back to your room!
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If I return to that room,
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will your heart get redeemed?
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If I return to that room,
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will I be able to live a peaceful and harmonious life?
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If I return to that room, will my son be waiting for his mother?
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In that room without any living thing, I am just being locked up.
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I can't see any hope.
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Don't know for how long will I continue to be locked up.
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Just for your grand ambition,
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you must pretend to have no desire for the throne in front of His Majesty.
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Have no threat of any descendants that can inherit your position.
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You sent a just one-month-old Ji'er
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out of the house behind my back.
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Up to now, there isn't any news about him.
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I don't know if he is still alive or not.
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Wife,
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I promise you.
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Just endure for a short while longer.
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Just a short while.
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By then Xiushui, Jiangbei, and even the whole Dongjing City will be yours.
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The Song citizens will become your children.
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Isn't that good enough?
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I don't want the Song citizens.
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I don't want any grand benevolence and love.
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Isn't that vague? Isn't that absurd?
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I just know the pain of getting separated from my flesh and blood.
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I just want my son!
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I've searched already.
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I've sent men to meticulously investigate it.
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That family has already left.
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Where do you want me to look!
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Nonsense.
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If you really wanted to find him, how could you not find him?
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No one is filling the burning desire in your heart.
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No one is filling your very deep ravine!
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Even if you reach the peak of power,
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it was also obtained in exchange for your own flesh and blood.
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Even if you are the Emperor, in my heart,
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you are a heartless, ruthless, immoral, and inhumane person!
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Enough!
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Stop speaking!
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Wife, I promise you.
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Once I succeed, even if I have to turn the whole Song Empire upside down,
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I will find our son and bring him to your side.
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But before that, you must cooperate with me.
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You must not create any more trouble.
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Miss Nichang, I was ordered by Prince Qi
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to bring these people here to be your maidservants.
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Also, for usual tasks like the buying of new make-up
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or doing errands...
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You, come over here.
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Just let this mute servant do them for you.
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Thank you, Senior Maid.
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I'm grateful to His Highness for favoring me.
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It's just that I'm used to being alone and I dare not trouble anyone.
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Moreover, I am originally of a slave status, too.
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I shouldn't be enjoying such kinds of treatment.
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Miss, just accept them.
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All the rules here in the Prince Qi Manor were set by His Highness.
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May Miss not make things difficult for me.
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From now on, Miss Xian will be your new mistress.
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All her basic needs, whether minor or major, must be considerately taken care of.
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If you make any mistakes, be careful of His Highness' punishment.
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Yes.
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I will take my leave.
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Little Mute, go settle them down first.
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I'm tired and I want to rest.
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(Okay)
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I've long heard that the wines of Western Xia are fragrantly sweet and strong.
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But in our place, you have to taste a wine's sweetness and details.
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Come.
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Tasting wine is how one should test it. Thank you for Your Highness' teachings.
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- Come. Let's drink one more cup.
- Cheers.
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Wrong. Let's taste one more cup.
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Okay. Let's taste one more cup. Cheers.
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Miss Xian'er's dance can be said to be very unique.
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It's like her sleeves are full of light wind, but it also looks as if a it's a heavy golden wind.
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It's really a unique dance in this world.
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Lord, you have such good sight.
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This is a dance that Nichang especially created for you called "Lord of the Easterly Winds."
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"Lord of the Easterly Winds?"
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Hope that during the next easterly winds, I'll be able to reunite with my friend.
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If you look at it closely, her dance has a bit of sorrow into it.
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Lord, you actually can sense such a deep meaning?
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I am impressed. Come.
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I am giving Lord a toast.
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- Bottoms up.
- Bottoms up.
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Nichang, come here.
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Nichang, you've met a soulmate today.
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Not only was this Lord able to read that your dance is related to the wind,
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he also was able to guess its melancholic mood.
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Lord is giving me too much love.
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I just merged a few random movements together.
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Don't know why it showed a melancholic mood.
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Okay, already. Whether it's melancholic or not,
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you and Lord Haerdun just continue talking about it in detail.
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Today, I'm already a bit drunk.
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I'll take my leave now.
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Thank you, Your Highness.
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Xian'er,
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for the first drink I give a toast to your unrivaled beauty.
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Thank you, Lord.
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This second cup
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is to give a toast to your unique dance.
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This third cup—
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Lord.
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Xian'er's alcohol tolerance and bearing seems to be that of a high and noble person.
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Could it be that you're asking that I spare you from drinking this third cup of wine?
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I am just of a servant status.
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My alcohol tolerance, of course, can't compare to those women of noble classes.
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If Lord insists that only by my drinking this cup of wine will you feel fully content,
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how can I dare not obey?
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Lord, if you don't have anything else, I'll take my leave now.
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Lord!
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I initially thought our hearts understood each other.
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Never thought that you're just a mediocre person who covets my beauty.
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Miss Xian'er, please forgive me.
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I was just drunk and got disrespectful.
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I'm a bit tired now. I'll take my leave.
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Xian'er! Xian–
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Elegance Balcony
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Miss, are you going to change your clothes and sleep already?
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Huan'er, you all leave first.
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Just enter once I've given the instructions to.
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Yes.
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Left post: "Literary works like water, having no flaws. "
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Right post: "Moral integrity like that of a pine tree, straight and has heart."
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Okay already. Whether it's melancholic or not,
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you and Lord Haerdun just continue talking about it in detail.
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Today, I'm already a bit drunk.
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I'll take my leave now.
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Thank you,Your Highness.
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Elegance Balcony
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"Literary works like water, having no flaws."
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"Moral integrity like that of a pine tree, straight and has heart."
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Thank you, Little Mute.
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What have I taught all of you?
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You are all so idle, yet unable to guard just one person?
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Letting such a mess to happen right under your watch.
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Huan'er!
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My heart also had eyes watching over mistress.
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But last night, Miss Nichang didn't show any strange actions.
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She only said that she's tired and wants to rest early.
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In the first half of the night, I still kept watch and didn't dare close my eyes.
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But never thought that on the second half of the night, I fell asleep.
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Fell asleep?
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Did you all fall asleep?
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Illustrious Virtue Hall
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Where is Little Mute?
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Little Mute!
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Your Highness.
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When did it happen?
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Informing Your Highness,
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probably around the third night watch hour (11 pm to 1 am). I've already sent men to look for her.
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Since she's a lady, I reckon she won't be able to escape far.
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Who was in charge of watching her?
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It was I.
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Who is she?
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Her name is Huan'er. She's a servant that grew up with me.
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She usually is quite quick-witted.
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Quick-witted?
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If she's quick-witted, why then did she allow her to escape!
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Yes.
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Let me tell you that you must handle this matter covertly.
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Don't disclose it to anyone. Do you understand?
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Yes, Your Highness.
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- Go now.
- Yes.
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Shunfeng ("Smooth Sailing") Teahouse
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Miss, what do you want to drink. We have top-grade biluochun,
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dahongbao, zhuyeqing, and other more. (T/N: these are varieties of tea leaves)
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- Give me an order of zhuyeqing.
- Okay.
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Your tea is here.
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Please pay for your tea first.
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I surely will pay you.
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Miss Nichang, please come back with us.
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It's still not too late to leave after drinking this tea first.
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We are just following the Master's orders. Please do not make it difficult for us.
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Please.
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Please.
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Your Highness the Crown Prince looks very troubled.
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Royal Father has sent a letter asking me to rush back to Western Xia.
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He said that we have an important matter to discuss.
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In a few days, I'm returning to my homeland.
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Returning to one's homeland is a good thing.
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You can reunite with your family and friends. Why then is your face full of sorrow?
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Jiangbei is better.
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You don't have any problems, worries, grudges, and hatred. Such a leisure and carefree life!
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Jiangbei is just a small remote area.
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There's nothing here that's worthy to be remembered.
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But...
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it must be some wonderful wine and a beautiful woman that you're really worried about.
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Beautiful woman, beautiful woman!
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These past days, how come I haven't seen Miss Xian'er?
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That's right. I also find it strange.
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Crown Prince, did you offend Miss Xian'er in any way?
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Crown Prince, although Nichang is just a dancer,
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but she has refined bearing and she has both beauty and talent.
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She might not be just an ordinary lady before she lost her memories.
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It wasn't my intention to offend her.
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That day, I drank too much and then I uncontrollably...
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Crown Prince, no need to blame yourself too much.
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I just want to ask you this.
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Are you really sincere in wanting to take Xian'er back to Western Xia with you?
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Hope Your Highness can allow it.
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I'm just worried that Xian'er will be leaving her homeland on this trip.
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Her heart will surely feel conflicted.
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Xian'er is clear as ice and clean as jade. Extremely fairy-like. (T/N: "spotless")
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I surely will make her my main wife.
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Okay. Crown Prince has such deep love for her. I am impressed.
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I surely will do my best to convince Xian'er.
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In a few days, I'll order my men to prepare the carriages and escort you two back to Western Xia.
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I will never forget Your Highness for this favor of bringing us together.
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I hope Your Highness will succeed in your grand ambition.
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Okay. Crown Prince is a man of your word.
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I indeed wasn't wrong about you.
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May Your Highness not worry.
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When I go back, I surely will inform my Royal Father
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to grab hold of such an important chance.
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Open the doors.
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I want to drink wine.
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I want to drink wine!
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Mistress, just wait. I'll go get it now.
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Your Highness. Informing Your Highness—
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Enough. I know already. You may withdraw.
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Yes.
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Miss Xian'er.
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I especially brought wines to apologize to you.
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I am just a dancer.
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How could I dare let my client apologize to me?
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May Miss Xian'er give this unreasonable man a chance.
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Since you lowered your status and came here,
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please sit down.
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In front of you,
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I really feel very ashamed.
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Miss, please.
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Miss, just drink as you want. Let me offer another apology drink to you.
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Rather than being awake every day,
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why not just get severely drunk?
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If Miss wants to get drunk,
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I surely will accompany you until the end.
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A slave for a day is a slave for a lifetime.
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A client risking his life to accompany a slave...
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If that gets out, I fear that it will just cause a great laugh.
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Miss Xian'er, you're very smart and are an outstanding beauty.
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You shouldn't end up being a slave inside an official's household.
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If you're willing to give me a chance,
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I will surely do my best
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to give you a free and comfortable world.
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Give you a chance?
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You men just love saying empty words like that.
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The so-called promises are just half-hearted dreams to skimp a certain moment.
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My every word was sincere.
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Once...
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There was also a person once that told me the same words.
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He said... that he'd take me to travel the world.
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Ride our horses to Nanshan. Retire in the countryside.
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Who has such a luck?
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What about now? Where is he?
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Now?
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He's embracing another bitch in his arms.
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Living a carefree life.
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The more I get close to Miss Xian'er,
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the more I feel that you are straightforward and adorable.
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But with your looks and talents,
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how many men in this world can bear to abandon you?
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You must be amusing me.
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Amusing?
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Amusing?
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He...
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is actually not a man.
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Right! A person like that isn't worthy to be a man!
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Right.
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He can't be a man at all.
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Can't be a man?
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What Miss means is... why don't I send someone to cut it off.
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- Cut it off?
- Cut it off, so he can never be a man again.
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You are so bold.
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Who do you think you are?
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What if he...
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holds great power and is of high position?
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High position?
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No matter who he is, as long as he dared to hurt the woman I love,
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I will never let him off.
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But based on what I know...
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the client is just a businessman.
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The business I do isn't that ordinary.
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It's inconvenient for me to tell you more.
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No matter how huge a business is, your target will just be gold and jewelry.
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Client, you won't tell me about it
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probably because you fear that I'll ask for some.
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Xian'er, you're getting more and more adorable.
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You are more dazzling than the most sparkling gem in this world.
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As long as you want it, I can give you a city.
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A city?
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You are so bold!
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Could it be...
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you're of a royal bloodline?
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Xian'er, you are truly intelligent.
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I indeed am of a royal bloodline.
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The Crown Prince of Western Xia Haerdun greets Miss Xian'er.
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If you're willing,
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I, Haerdun, will surely make you become the most respected and noblest woman in Western Xia.
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Leaving Song to go to Western Xia?
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Correct.
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Leave Song to go to Western Xia.
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Let yourself be worshiped by thousands.
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Let them greatly admire
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your intelligence and outstanding beauty.
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I will then accompany Lord
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to go to Western Xia together.
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Xian'er... Xian'er... Xi–
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Your Highness, Xian'er has already agreed to go to Great Xia with me.
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Congratulations to Your Highness the Crown Prince.
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This is a result of the Crown Prince's sincerity.
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I will let Miss Xian'er become the Crown Prince's Consort of Great Xia.
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Crown Prince's Consort?
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Crown Prince, I have one worry.
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After all, Xian'er's life used to be very hard and unclear.
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If your father, the King of Western Xia, will intervene...
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I would be put in a difficult spot.
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Your Highness, don't worry.
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Miss Xian'er is clear as ice, clean as jade, and extremely fairy-like.
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When my father sees her, he also will treat her as a precious treasure.
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Okay. Since that's the case, I will then recognize Xian'er
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as my goddaughter. With her accompanying Your Highness back to Western Xia this time,
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let's just treat it as me marrying off my daughter.
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Thank you, Your Highness.
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Once Xian'er and I have our wedding, I surely will pay you back with gifts befitting that of a godfather.
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Crown Prince, no need to dwell on such formalities.
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From now on, we'll be close like one family.
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No need to separate between you and I.
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Is the relationship between Your Highness and His Majesty well lately?
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Talking about that, I should be thanking you.
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His Majesty was very happy after eating
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the pickled (in wine) whitefish that you sent last time.
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It's good that Your Highness and His Majesty liked it.
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I brought two again this time.
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I've already asked the palace maid to deliver them to the Imperial kitchen.
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Little Sister, you've troubled yourself. But next time, no need to gift us such things.
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You also know that His Majesty likes to live a simple life.
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He isn't particular with his food, clothes, and items used.
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I just don't know
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how long His Majesty's curiosity will last.
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Empress, your brother, General Guo is holding great power and a high position in the government.
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He has earned His Majesty's trust.
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With such a firm backer,
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the more the Empress has the intimidating power here in the Imperial harem.
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Even though that's the case,
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unfortunately His Majesty is still a man.
425
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The natural temperament of men is that they easily fall for a beautiful woman.
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The abundant flowers haven't withered yet, but new buds are sprouting.
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Empress, no need to worry about that.
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In a usual aristocratic family,
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the fight between wives and concubines is already very intense.
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The more it is in an Imperial harem of three thousand beauties,
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all their eyes just looking at His Majesty.
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Indeed.
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My heart has never been at ease.
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For every day of the year,
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I've been living between frost and swords every day.
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Your Highness the Empress,
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the Empress is the Empress.
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A position and prestige like that isn't something that the other Imperial concubines can hope to reach.
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It is you who knows me.
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As a woman of the Imperial harem, you can't prevent having this sadness.
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It's just that lately...
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His Majesty is spending less bed time...
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with me.
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Your Highness the Empress, no need to worry. With you being this young and beautiful,
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are you still afraid that you won't be able to get His Majesty's favor?
446
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I can only pray to the gods to bless me every day
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to let His Majesty choose me more to accompany him in bed.
448
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Waiting won't work.
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You should try to look for more chances to approach His Majesty.
450
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What do you mean?
451
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I heard that there is a kind of Western Region medicine
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that was obtained from the body of a sika deer. (T/N: a small spotted deer species)
453
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It's called "fine deer powder."
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Greetings, Mother-in-law.
455
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These are the recent books of expenses of the Junwang manor that you requested.
456
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Okay.
457
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How are the Junwang and Ye Zhao getting along lately?
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Replying to Mother-in-law,
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the Junwang and the General have their heads rubbing against each other, very intimate and sweet.
460
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Really?
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I'm getting closer to holding my grandchild.
462
00:41:41,100 --> 00:41:41,800
That...
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how is Ye Zhao's health after Meng Xingde's been nursing her?
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The General's health...
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- Leave first.
- Yes.
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Replying to Mother-in-law,
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the General has been drinking the medicines prescribed by Imperial Physician Meng lately.
468
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But it seems that she's not improving.
469
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The General has been fighting for such a long time. Her body might look strong and firm,
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but in reality, her womb has excessive cold. (T/N: TCM, one of the six excesses, can lead to infertility)
471
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I fear that...
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drinking a womb-warming soup for three to five years might not really show any improvement.
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♫ From disaffection and doubt until trust is formed ♫
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♫ How many times must two people embrace tightly before one won't feel like a stranger? ♫
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♫ Turning back to think about the past life, while living in the present lifetime ♫
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♫ In this lifetime, to never casually mention separation ♫
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♫ Sincerely you embrace me, to remember my body's warmth ♫
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♫ In the center of my heart, your fingerprints are engraved ♫
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♫ Both love and hate, seriously taken to heart ♫
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♫ Only for one not to live one's life in vain ♫
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♫ I am willing to be loyally steadfast to you ♫
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♫ Using this in exchange for a missing depth of affection ♫
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♫ I'm grateful for your recognizing my worth ♫
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♫ For granting me a healthy body ♫
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♫ Even though the world is rich and diverse ♫
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♫ It cannot compare to your pure and honest gaze ♫
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♫ I am willing to be loyally steadfast to you ♫
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♫ Using this in exchange for a missing depth of affection ♫
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♫ I'm grateful for your recognizing my worth ♫
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♫ For granting me a healthy body ♫
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♫ Even though the world is rich and diverse ♫
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♫ It cannot compare to your pure and honest gaze ♫
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♫ I am willing to be loyally steadfast to you ♫
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♫ Not caring about the scars ♫
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♫ Setting aside my pride ♫
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♫ and submitting to you ♫
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♫ Even if I disappoint the entire world ♫
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♫ I will never turn my back on you ♫
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♫ My only care in this life is one person ♫
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♫ It's you ♫