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<i>Translation and Timing carefully crafted by the Mei Daxia Team at Viki</i>

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<i>The Story of Ming Lan</i>

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<i>Episode 32</i>

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<i>[ Yuqing Monastery ]</i>

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Our doing this is not a good long-term plan.

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When I went out today, I almost got recognized by a servant guarding the gates.

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My knees wobbled from fright.

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I was even unable to get up into the carriage!

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Moreover, we're doing it in a temple, right under the eyes of deities and immortals.

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I'm afraid.

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It's not just you,

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even I have to think of all kinds of excuses just to be able to leave the house.

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If it's not some poetry meeting, it will be someone's birthday.

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I even have to handle those friends of mine to help me cover up the lies.

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This matter is more nerve-racking for me than for you.

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How can it be the same?

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If one day this matter gets found out,

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you will just get scolded and laughed at for a few days.

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While I... my whole life will be ruined.

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What do you want me to do then?

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Didn't we agree

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that you'll go to your mother and ask to marry me?

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Anyway, the one she likes is a lady from our house too. Marrying any of us is just the same.

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You don't know

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that since your Sixth Sister keeps giving excuses that she's sick,

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my mother has already understood your family's intention.

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Now she can't even bear to hear the word "Sheng".

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A few days ago, a servant of mine accidentally said it and got a severe scolding.

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If I go against her wish, she will surely scold me upon the mention of it.

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You're not telling her then?

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What about me?

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I'm a daughter of a rich and reputable family. I've already given you everything

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yet you're this irresponsible!

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I had better just go kill myself!

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Enough, enough already.

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Don't be like this. If you act like this,

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my heart feels like it's being cooked in oil.

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Sheng... 

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- Father.
- Sheng... 

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You shameful thing! You've tainted the reputation of our Sheng family!

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- Father!
- Servant!

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- Father!
- Tie that wench up! Tie her up!

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Father!

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Quickly go and tie her up!

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Father.

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<i>Darling Hong!</i>

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Darling Hong, Mo'er was just confused for a moment.

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<i>Forgive her this time.</i>

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If you want to hit anyone, just do it to me.

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You're not confused.

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First, you found out when the House of Count Yongchang

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would go to the temple to pray, what route would they take and what time,

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and then bribed people inside and outside to help you out.

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You asked your maidservant to wear Molan's clothes numerous times, so that it would appear that someone is inside her room.

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What great determination.

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What a good method. You're really something!

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You... all admitted it?

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Mother!

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Mother! Mother!

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She fainted again. How come she's not had enough of thatt?

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Father! All this was done by me.

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My mother didn't know anything. It has nothing to do with her.

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If you want hit or punish anyone, just do it to me.

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Mother! Mother!

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Fainting again?

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Servant! Drag her out!

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Wait.

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She is indeed pretending.

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- Darling Hong... 
- Mother.

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Darling Hong, w-we were left with no choice.

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Seeing how Mo'er is getting older every year, but there are still no good marriage prospects.

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Big Madam and Old Madam are not doing anything about it--

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Damn you!

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Let's not talk about Old Madam first. When did Big Madam say that she wouldn't take care of Molan's matter?

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Even if she doesn't, aren't I still here?

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I've repeatedly told you that I've already found a good choice.

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Must she personally go out to look for a man!

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No, no, no... During the <i>jiju</i> games at Jinming Pond,

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it was that Young Master Liang who liked Mo'er first, and forced her... 

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Bullshit! You all shielded this and have no sense of shame, engaging yourselves in a reckless and low affair!

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You still have the nerve to make excuses?

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Don't say anything anymore,

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so our ancestors won't hear it

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and feel embarrassed because of you two!

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Since Mo'er didn't know care for herself,

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a thing that only brought shame to our family, it's better to just beat her to death!

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- No, if you're going to beat her to death... 
- Mother... 

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If you're going to beat her to death, you better kill me first!

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She's your own flesh and blood.

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Darling Hong... Darling Hong?

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I-I've been your concubine for twenty years. I endured the humiliation and supercilious looks,

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all for the sake of my sincere love for you, just spare her, okay?

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- Darling Hong!
<i>- Informing the Master, Young Master Changfeng is kneeling outside.</i>

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<i>He said that he wants to beg for leniency for Mistress Lin and Fourth Miss.</i>

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Darling Hong... Darling Hong... Darling Hong, just--

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Even if you don't want to give consideration to our past affection,

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<i>then for the sake of Feng'er, </i>

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if you really kill his biological little sister,

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won't that harm your relationship with him?

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All the mistakes were committed by Mo'er and I.

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Feng'er has already changed his ways and has been focused on his studies for half a year.

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It will be the exam soon. If anything bad happens at this time,

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it will also affect the reputation of the House of Sheng, darling Hong!

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If not because I gave consideration that your older brother will be taking the civil examination soon,

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I would have caned you to death today!

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I should have had you kneel for a lifetime last time!

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Drag her out. Lock her inside the ancestral hall to kneel and repent.

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If she faints, just let her be!

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Whoever dares to beg for leniency will kneel with her!

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Concubine Lin... 

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illw be locked up inside Linqi Pavilion and not allowed to go out by even a step. Send people to guard her.

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Other people involved in this plan will be detained while awaiting their sentences!

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Drag them all out of here!

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The heavens have finally opened their eyes.

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He finally had that mother and daughter suffer a setback.

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And it's even a major setback that will give them no chance to redeem themselves.

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Say, I should be imitating that bitch?

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Cry myself lots of tears?

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Cry until I'm unable to get up from my bed,

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unable to eat, unable to handle the house matters!

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Let's see if the Minister will still pity that bitch!

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By doing it this way, letting Master handle that Concubine Lin,

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Big Madam didn't end up with a harsh reputation.

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Let's do it that way.

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Oh, right. Go and call Rulan over.

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I have to instructed her not to cause any trouble in front of her father.

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Yes.

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Hurry! Quick, warm me a pitcher of wine!

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I'm so happy! So happy!

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Informing Big Madam, Eldest Miss is back.

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Okay. Okay. She's just in time.

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Big Madam, you just went to the Yuan Manor a few days ago to attend a banquet

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and Eldest Miss is now back at her maiden house. Won't the Countess nag about it?

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My god! What ruckus is this all about?

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Mother, this... Is the matter between Molan and Young Master Liang true?

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Tell me!

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How did you find out?

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We had surrounded that place so tightly.

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Everyone had signed a death contract, hence they surely wouldn't have leaked it out.

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What do you mean, tight? The servants in the Yuan Manor are all talking about it!

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They said that Molan slipped while at Yuqing Monastery

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and got assisted up by the Sixth Young Master from the House of Count Yongchang.

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The two of them were intimately embracing each other, so improper. They narrated it so vividly.

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I fear that at this time, the whole of Bianjing already knows about it!

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What? They were not gossiping about them having an affair?

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What? An affair?

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My god... oh my god... 

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If the whole of Bianjing knows that... 

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Mother, how can I still live?

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- Big Madam! Big Madam!
- Mother! Mother!

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- Big Madam!
- Come!

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I wasn't strict in disciplining my children. I've brought trouble to my ancestors.

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I also caused you to be sick from anger.

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I'm fine. I just got so angry that it affected my heart.

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I heard that Big Madam has been having fainting spells.

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Rulan wanted to jump into the river one moment,

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and the next moment wanted to charge into the ancestral hall and kill someone.

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Hualan also came back home to cry.

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When things have become like this, you now come to me to ask

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if I have any ideas?

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I was muddled.

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You are an official.

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You have always been very careful.

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Politics is a very dangerous field,

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but you were able to survive it.

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However, Concubine Lin

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was able to scheme on you so accurately.

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This path that Molan is taking is what Lin Qinshuang took before, and she was successful in it.

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I was young at that time.

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Enough. The one who's young is my Minglan.

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Yes.

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I don't plan on going after your past,

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but how many mistakes has she committed?

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Every time she will flirt with you, pretend to be obedient, pretend to be muddled or miserable,

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will cry or threaten to kill herself.

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Every time, you will get soft. Lifting her up so highly and just lightly letting her off.

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The matters before were just minor and she's just muddle-headed for the time.

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A thousand <i>li</i> long dike is ruined by one ant-hole!

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You need me to teach you that principle?

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Mother, may your anger dissipate.

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I don't care if I offend you. Let's get to the bottom of this today!

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<i>If it hadn't been for your siding with that Lin clanswoman each and every time these last twenty years,</i>

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spoiling her so much she doesn't know the sky's limit and she's daring and wild to her whims,

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if it hadn't been so, this ugly matter wouldn't have happened!

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<i>Molan should have been a good child.</i>

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But she's learned from Lin Qinshuang to forget morality over gain, to lie, and for her own little benefit,

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she can abandon the reputation of all the women in the Sheng House!

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It might be better for Molan once she marries and leaves Lin Qinshuang's side.

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But Changfeng is Sheng House's son. If he's taught badly,

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that's not a matter of honor or reputation anymore.

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Last year, he befriended Qiu House and spewed nonsense.

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It caused you to be confined in the palace by His Majesty, and you already forgot it so soon?

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Which mother is on night watch outside?

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<i>My chest is very painful. May you relay the message,</i>

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and hire a doctor for me to check it.

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They still feed you in prison!

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His Lordship only told you to confine me to the room, but he didn't list my crime.

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Why in the world can I not get a doctor when I'm sick?

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Mistress, spare us that. Hearing your vigorous voice,

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<i>you don't seem sick at all. </i>

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<i>It was the Master's order to not mix words with you. </i>

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<i>If you don't concede then once the Master is back,</i>

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<i>go ahead and tattle to him about us. </i>

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Old hag! Wait until I get back up.

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Watch how I tidy you up!

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Now you're scared of me? Let me tell you.

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In this Sheng House, no one had better try to... 

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Hong, don't look at me. Don't look.

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A sick person is so ugly.

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Stop pretending. Get on up.

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I have something to ask you.

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Do you wish to kneel and reply at the ancestral shrine in the middle of the night instead then?

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Darling Hong. Forgive Mo'er already.

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Mo'er is young. If you want to beat or punish,

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let this mother take her place.

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Forgive her? And then what?

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Afterward, of course to propose marriage at Liang House and set a date for the wedding.

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What?

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Lord of Heaven... 

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Your daughter committed such a foolish affair and you want me to go and propose marriage for her?

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Everyone's gossiping about it out there already.

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If we don't propose marriage, then our entire family loses face.

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Yes. My Mo'er wasn't proper.

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But that Liang house can't be anything so great either!

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Mo'er and that Young Master Liang only love each other, just like you and I!

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You and I, dog shit!

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How do you know this is already being talked about?

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Even I, I only found out after Hua'er came home.

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You've been confined here all this time, how did you know?

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I . . .

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So it was you who spread it. Is that right?

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- Darling Hong--
- No wonder!

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No wonder when I started to interrogate, you and Xueniang came in later than everyone else.

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O-Others out there asked me and I could only make up a reason!

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I said Mo'er tripped and Young Master Liang helped her up, and I didn't say anything else.

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That way both of our families didn't lose too much face, and we have a step to get back down onto.

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That's your real daughter! Is this how you wasted her?

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How I wasted her?

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Darling Hong, you keep saying you're going to get her a marriage prospect.

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It's at best just selecting one of those poor scholars who need to take the Imperial exam!

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Mo'er is concubine-born, so if we don't think of a way,

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she might just be marrying into a poverty-stricken family and toil there bitterly for twenty-some years!

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And if she happens to get a loser, her whole life is done with and I'm the one wasting her?

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Who's actually wasting her?

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You only know the glory of a count's manor.

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You don't know the dangers inside.

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Isn't Hualan a great example of that? And she's the legitimate daughter of our Sheng House at that!

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That's because the Eldest Miss has no measures!

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Mo'er told me.

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She said that Young Master Liang only wanted to marry her.

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As long as she brings over ample dowry,

252
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then no one will look down on her!

253
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How much dowry? How's that?

254
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Who are those Liangs?

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They are the top one or two wealthiest houses in Bianjing!

256
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When Hua'er married, it was Big Madam that added to it.

257
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Your farmland and shops, they were all given by me!

258
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Bring them all and give them to her as dowry, but how much is that?

259
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Darling Hong. Darling Hong.

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Big Madam is the proper, legitimate mother.

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Though Molan wasn't given birth by her, she needs to put in a share... and there's also Old Madam--

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Shut that mouth!

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You're a concubine.

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You already live more lavishly than the legitimate wife!

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You should know your place, and teach the children well.

266
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But look at you. What has our Mo'er become?

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What did you teach her?

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What a great child and you've taught her to become..?

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What did you teach her to become!

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Now you're still brash enough to covetously look to Big Madam for dowry and the Old Madam?

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Do you have any shame?

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What did you say?

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Darling Hong, you think I have no shame?

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Back then I was chaste.

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But during the times you and I were illicit and wanton in daytime.

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when did you ever think about my sense of shame?

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Now I'm only trying to be devoted to my daughter.

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And now you blame me for being shameless?

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To the eyes of a scholar like you,

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what exactly is shame?

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Shuang'er.

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That's what you think?

283
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What does darling Hong want me to think?

284
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You said you were afraid of getting raided.

285
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My heart aches each time I hear it.

286
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I ache for you as a feeble woman, all alone with no one to go to.

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Come now, and you say this?

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Shuang'er. Let me ask you now.

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If back then, if I were just a poor scholar without any money,

290
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would you still say that?

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I would.

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As long as darling Hong wants to hear it,

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I, Shuang'er, will say whatever you want.

294
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You . . .
- What this?

295
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What, so darling Hong is going to hit his Shuang'er?

296
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Shuang'er. I have placed you in my heart for over twenty years.

297
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What did you treat me as? What did you treat me as?

298
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What did you treat me as!

299
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Darling Hong, you have such a big heart.

300
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<i>Mo'er's matter is already so big.</i>

301
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And you've got the leisure to

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reminiscent about the past with me?

303
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It's fine if you hate me, and fine if you resent me.

304
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Even if it's for Minglan and Rulan's reputations,

305
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instead of chatting about this with me now,

306
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go and propose marriage instead!

307
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You're threatening me. You're threatening me!

308
00:21:37,740 --> 00:21:41,470
I'm not threatening you. It's all for Sheng House's sake I'm thinking here!

309
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Liang House is wiling to marry Mo'er.

310
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It means they already had a marriage prospect long ago.

311
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They are already engaged to marry.

312
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So if they got a bit too close, it's no big deal!

313
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Or else I'm afraid Minglan and Rulan,

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both of those daughters won't be able to marry!

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Forget the poor scholar even.

316
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Even a wild man on the mountain might not marry a daughter from this kind of house!

317
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Sheng House loses face and Changbai loses face.

318
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If Changbai loses face,

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his wife, that Hai clanswoman. Will she have any honor left?

320
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I want your Wang House, Sheng House,

321
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Hai clan, and even Old Madan's house... .

322
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you all figure a way out for me!

323
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Bitch!

324
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Momo Kong once said this, "For a family,

325
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together is their glory and together is their demise". If this marriage prospect for Molan can't be done,

326
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we will all die together then!

327
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Lord of Heaven... 

328
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Shameless.

329
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Shameless.

330
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Mother, at least have some porridge.

331
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If you don't eat anything, your body can't bear it.

332
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Can't bear it? Can't bear it?

333
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I will take a knife then,

334
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and kill that Lin clanswoman first and then myself.

335
00:23:42,500 --> 00:23:46,150
I have no face to meet others anymore.

336
00:23:49,590 --> 00:23:52,630
Gets this idea for her own daughter?

337
00:23:52,630 --> 00:23:58,350
Seduce a man? And then go around to spread rumors?

338
00:23:59,260 --> 00:24:05,340
She's set on pulling my Rulan to die with her, if she can't marry off her own daughter to a rich house!

339
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Quieter, Mother.

340
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:11,130
You keep talking about dying and that's too ominous.

341
00:24:11,130 --> 00:24:13,900
And Sixth Sister just persuaded Rulan to go with her.

342
00:24:13,900 --> 00:24:17,060
Your crying will startle her and she's going to throw a ruckus.

343
00:24:17,060 --> 00:24:19,380
So what if there's a ruckus?

344
00:24:19,380 --> 00:24:22,630
This is all calamity planted by your father.

345
00:24:22,630 --> 00:24:25,260
I can't take care of it anymore. Let him take care of it!

346
00:24:25,260 --> 00:24:27,700
Mother, don't speak out of spite.

347
00:24:27,700 --> 00:24:30,550
Husband and wife should go through calamity together.

348
00:24:30,550 --> 00:24:34,830
Father must already know by now what Lin's true colors are.

349
00:24:34,830 --> 00:24:40,050
In the future, he won't take her side and spoil her anymore. Trust me.

350
00:24:40,050 --> 00:24:45,120
And this Rulan. She still has to marry.

351
00:24:47,390 --> 00:24:52,020
In the future, she still needs to live well in her in-laws.

352
00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:58,500
Hua'er.

353
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:06,050
- Tell me. Your mother-in-law reprimanded you again?
- It's nothing, nothing.

354
00:25:06,050 --> 00:25:09,940
Tell me the truth or I will go to your in-law's and throw a ruckus now.

355
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:17,370
She just came up with an excuse that I didn't have a good post-partum.

356
00:25:17,370 --> 00:25:19,690
So I need to rest.

357
00:25:19,690 --> 00:25:23,040
And then she took Shi away.

358
00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:25,400
I couldn't stop her.

359
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:29,910
That child, he's gone to someone else's room now.

360
00:25:29,910 --> 00:25:32,610
Are they even reasonable?

361
00:25:33,350 --> 00:25:35,520
No one thought,

362
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:36,990
no one thought yesterday,

363
00:25:36,990 --> 00:25:41,730
those cruel nannies in the courtyard just left Shi to nap alone.

364
00:25:41,730 --> 00:25:46,310
They all went to drink liquor and play. No one watched him.

365
00:25:46,310 --> 00:25:48,610
That child is just starting to crawl.

366
00:25:48,610 --> 00:25:51,650
He accidentally knocked over the smoke pan,

367
00:25:51,650 --> 00:25:54,350
and the burning ashes all fell on him.

368
00:25:54,350 --> 00:25:55,960
What?

369
00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:59,890
Luckily my daughter misses her little brother.

370
00:25:59,890 --> 00:26:03,970
So she will go see him every day, and she saw it.

371
00:26:03,970 --> 00:26:10,200
She rushed to wipe away all the ashes and pulled the child out from the fire.

372
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,010
Shi is doing okay.

373
00:26:13,010 --> 00:26:18,680
But my daughter's hands are all blistered and she can't touch anything.

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Mother.

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00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:24,900
Mother, this life. When will it ever get better?

376
00:26:43,810 --> 00:26:46,520
If this Molan matter can't be pacified,

377
00:26:47,650 --> 00:26:53,260
in the future, you, Ru'er,

378
00:26:53,990 --> 00:26:58,410
even Changbai too. None will be cleared.

379
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:02,210
That slut, Lin Qinshuang.

380
00:27:02,210 --> 00:27:06,420
She calculated so perfectly. So fiercely.

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00:27:06,890 --> 00:27:08,730
Hua'er.

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00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:14,710
- I even admire her.
- Mother.

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00:27:17,220 --> 00:27:21,670
Tomorrow, I will go propose marriage at Liang House,

384
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:25,280
to calm this matter down.

385
00:27:29,870 --> 00:27:32,680
A daughter like her comes out from Sheng House

386
00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,130
and you, Big Madam, haven't even beat her to death yet.

387
00:27:35,130 --> 00:27:38,040
Now you even came here to discuss marriage for her?

388
00:27:40,030 --> 00:27:42,750
What a merciful heart you have.

389
00:27:45,290 --> 00:27:48,000
She should be beaten to death actually.

390
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,750
But one hand doesn't make a loud clap by itself.

391
00:27:51,750 --> 00:27:55,590
The Sixth Young Master of your house isn't without fault either.

392
00:27:55,590 --> 00:27:57,770
We have been shamed, indeed.

393
00:27:57,770 --> 00:28:01,570
But a hereditary noble one like your house will suffer shame and loss of reputation as well.

394
00:28:01,570 --> 00:28:04,660
This is a matter of both families getting injured.

395
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:11,430
In that case, let's turn weapons into jade and silk instead.

396
00:28:11,430 --> 00:28:13,740
If our two houses become in-laws,

397
00:28:13,740 --> 00:28:17,330
then the idle talk will disappear like smoke and clouds.

398
00:28:19,420 --> 00:28:21,110
In-laws?

399
00:28:22,820 --> 00:28:25,790
A hereditary noble house like mine,

400
00:28:25,790 --> 00:28:28,670
you are asking me to take which one from your house?

401
00:28:29,580 --> 00:28:34,550
Yes. Molan's birth is a bit low indeed.

402
00:28:34,550 --> 00:28:38,270
But you were fond of our Sixth Girl before too.

403
00:28:38,270 --> 00:28:40,110
She's concubine-born too,

404
00:28:40,110 --> 00:28:44,800
so it shows you're magnanimous and don't nitpick pettily.

405
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,130
I understand what you intend.

406
00:28:47,130 --> 00:28:51,620
You're holding a pan with poop to beg me and that's not easy.

407
00:28:53,170 --> 00:28:55,930
Then let me pour out what's on my mind too.

408
00:28:55,930 --> 00:28:58,300
What I am fond of isn't who is legitimate or concubine-born.

409
00:28:58,300 --> 00:29:01,140
It's Minglan's brightness and sanguine disposition.

410
00:29:01,140 --> 00:29:04,160
Whether she's legitimate or concubine-born, I like her either way.

411
00:29:05,140 --> 00:29:08,720
But your Fourth Miss is different.

412
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:12,190
What she's about? I have some ideas.

413
00:29:12,190 --> 00:29:15,220
And you have some ideas too.

414
00:29:17,650 --> 00:29:22,330
Yes. My Sixth Son acted like a criminal.

415
00:29:22,330 --> 00:29:24,950
But I'll say something I shouldn't.

416
00:29:24,950 --> 00:29:29,830
If it were Minglan, she would definitely not have committed such a lewd act.

417
00:29:29,830 --> 00:29:33,030
You are wanting to exchange Minglan with Molan.

418
00:29:33,030 --> 00:29:35,430
Isn't that slapping me in the face?

419
00:29:36,730 --> 00:29:42,190
You just said it's not easy for me to bring this up.

420
00:29:42,190 --> 00:29:47,410
Now for my children's sake, I am begging you with my head lowered and voice down.

421
00:29:47,410 --> 00:29:50,130
It's because I'm out of options.

422
00:29:51,250 --> 00:29:53,550
Wouldn't I know your difficult position?

423
00:29:53,550 --> 00:29:56,310
This matter is like having swallowed a fly.

424
00:29:56,310 --> 00:29:59,220
It's disgusting whether it's alive or dead.

425
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:06,350
Fine then. Since you've mentioned it, I am not inclined to deny you easily.

426
00:30:06,350 --> 00:30:11,070
How about this? Let me propose a compromise and tell me what you think.

427
00:30:11,070 --> 00:30:13,390
Big Madam Wu, may you go ahead and speak.

428
00:30:14,380 --> 00:30:18,140
If Sheng House can marry both daughters over,

429
00:30:18,140 --> 00:30:22,460
Minglan as the proper wife and Molan as concubine, then it's perfect on both sides.

430
00:30:22,460 --> 00:30:24,470
It would fulfill my wish from before,

431
00:30:24,470 --> 00:30:29,030
and it will resolve your urgent shame too. Isn't it a good idea?

432
00:30:30,710 --> 00:30:32,500
<i>[ Harmonious Wind Sweet Rain ] </i>

433
00:30:32,500 --> 00:30:34,550
<i>Dream on!</i>

434
00:30:34,550 --> 00:30:37,550
That bitch caused this heaven-offending disaster

435
00:30:37,550 --> 00:30:39,970
and that's your own retribution!

436
00:30:39,970 --> 00:30:45,460
<i>You two want my Minglan to go clean up your mess?</i>

437
00:30:45,460 --> 00:30:48,260
Just keep on dreaming!

438
00:30:48,260 --> 00:30:51,510
<i>Old Madam, don't get too angry. You're an elder.</i>

439
00:30:51,510 --> 00:30:54,020
It's not worth it to make yourself sick.

440
00:30:55,770 --> 00:31:00,150
Minglan lost her Little Mother at such an age of eight! So scrawny like a kitten!

441
00:31:00,150 --> 00:31:04,490
She almost died, and I brought her to my side and raised her until now.

442
00:31:04,490 --> 00:31:07,780
I taught her to be versed in principles and books, and raised her like a flower.

443
00:31:07,780 --> 00:31:11,370
It's not for you to just waste her at your will!

444
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:16,140
That Sixth Son Liang is a loafer worse than that Second Son Gu!

445
00:31:16,140 --> 00:31:19,590
He's got someone pregnant, and they're in a fret to clean it up.

446
00:31:19,590 --> 00:31:22,400
And they need to get a proper wife to put on display first!

447
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,540
That's why they were in a rush to ask for Minglan!

448
00:31:26,300 --> 00:31:31,840
That Liang House. They want a Sheng daughter over to use as a spear!

449
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:36,690
Molan makes herself a slut and wants to go over and fight with a horde of women, and I don't care!

450
00:31:36,690 --> 00:31:39,810
You want to push my Minglan into a fiery pit?

451
00:31:39,810 --> 00:31:42,160
Over my dead body!

452
00:31:46,350 --> 00:31:49,530
Molan, if she can't marry into Liang House,

453
00:31:49,530 --> 00:31:53,730
then Rulan and Minglan's reputations are done too.

454
00:31:53,730 --> 00:31:56,310
Don't try to scare me with that.

455
00:31:56,310 --> 00:31:59,430
That Molan committed this ugly act that's so shameless,

456
00:31:59,430 --> 00:32:02,560
<i>and they go propagate it about to force us to help!</i>

457
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:05,970
I say... just shove her out the door.

458
00:32:05,970 --> 00:32:08,360
Whoever wants her can take her!

459
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:10,940
Or perhaps beat her to death with wild canes!

460
00:32:10,940 --> 00:32:13,360
We can then get ourselves a reputation for being a strict family.

461
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:17,350
My Rulan and Minglan are still good girls!

462
00:32:34,900 --> 00:32:37,570
You're already a prisoner.

463
00:32:37,570 --> 00:32:40,150
What noble air are you trying to put on still?

464
00:32:43,590 --> 00:32:45,770
So what if I'm a prisoner?

465
00:32:46,530 --> 00:32:51,310
No matter what, I'm still Sheng House's Fourth Miss.

466
00:32:51,310 --> 00:32:53,460
Father's flesh and blood.

467
00:32:55,210 --> 00:32:58,650
Mother went to discuss marriage with Liang House.

468
00:32:59,330 --> 00:33:03,930
<i>Madam Wu. She won't take you.</i>

469
00:33:10,650 --> 00:33:12,500
She won't take me?

470
00:33:14,430 --> 00:33:17,200
Then does Sheng House still care about its reputation?

471
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:21,430
Old Madam told us... 

472
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:24,330
to beat you to death... 

473
00:33:24,330 --> 00:33:28,900
so that the Sheng House honor can still be preserved.

474
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,040
Beat me to death?

475
00:33:37,260 --> 00:33:41,190
Two lives will be lost. Do you dare?

476
00:33:50,010 --> 00:33:52,230
Don't pull any tricks on me.

477
00:33:52,230 --> 00:33:56,790
Lin's slutty ways won't work.

478
00:34:00,340 --> 00:34:03,240
Why would I lie about this?

479
00:34:05,060 --> 00:34:07,900
Sister-in-law, if you don't believe me either,

480
00:34:07,900 --> 00:34:10,770
bring a doctor here for me.

481
00:34:10,770 --> 00:34:14,640
Take my pulse, and he'll know.

482
00:34:19,790 --> 00:34:21,910
Do you have any shame left?

483
00:34:21,910 --> 00:34:23,810
Shame?

484
00:34:23,810 --> 00:34:27,530
Does shame feed you, or can you use it like silver?

485
00:34:27,530 --> 00:34:32,170
This matter. If Liang House finds out, it's even more reason not to take you.

486
00:34:32,170 --> 00:34:34,580
And Mother-in-law already made a trip.

487
00:34:34,580 --> 00:34:37,050
She was turned back by Big Madam Wu.

488
00:34:37,050 --> 00:34:39,580
We can't show up at Liang House again.

489
00:34:39,580 --> 00:34:41,220
Even if we did, it wouldn't work.

490
00:34:41,220 --> 00:34:43,730
But we still have Old Madam.

491
00:34:43,730 --> 00:34:46,930
She's the daughter of Marquis of Yongyi.

492
00:34:46,930 --> 00:34:51,600
Forget the Liangs. Even in the palace she has some say.

493
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:53,980
What is Old Madam's status?

494
00:34:53,980 --> 00:34:57,190
You never tried to bring her joy or act filial toward her.

495
00:34:57,190 --> 00:35:02,100
Now you've committed a heaven-ruining disaster, and you want her to be your sword and spear?

496
00:35:03,330 --> 00:35:05,400
I had thought,

497
00:35:06,190 --> 00:35:08,660
it was Lin that taught you to be bad.

498
00:35:09,490 --> 00:35:12,160
But you were born this way.

499
00:35:12,750 --> 00:35:14,600
You are... 

500
00:35:15,550 --> 00:35:17,790
greedier and more shameless than your mother.

501
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:27,170
Greedy? How so?

502
00:35:27,170 --> 00:35:30,020
Greedy for wanting something that's not mine?

503
00:35:30,740 --> 00:35:35,100
So? You married into a count's house and that's proper.

504
00:35:35,100 --> 00:35:37,950
But if I marry into a count's manor, I'm being greedy?

505
00:35:37,950 --> 00:35:40,220
Why is that?

506
00:35:40,220 --> 00:35:43,730
Just because you and I came out from different mothers' bellies?

507
00:35:45,830 --> 00:35:50,180
Eldest Sister. You are two-faced.

508
00:35:50,180 --> 00:35:54,300
And you are suited to mention shame before me?

509
00:35:57,680 --> 00:35:59,910
This is not a matter of legitimate or concubine birth.

510
00:35:59,910 --> 00:36:04,750
Sixth Sister's birth is worse than yours, but Liang House only want her and they won't take you, no matter what!

511
00:36:04,750 --> 00:36:07,820
Why? Have you ever thought about that?

512
00:36:08,380 --> 00:36:09,900
<i>Let's go.</i>

513
00:36:21,310 --> 00:36:24,890
Why are you dragging me? Someone like her!

514
00:36:24,890 --> 00:36:27,370
It's useless even if you hit her.

515
00:36:27,370 --> 00:36:31,410
She must be bluffing. You can't just get pregnant so easily!

516
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:35,490
- I must get a doctor.
- You mustn't.

517
00:36:35,490 --> 00:36:38,300
If that doctor's mouth isn't tight and leaks a word or two out,

518
00:36:38,300 --> 00:36:40,870
then we've ruined our two younger sisters!

519
00:36:45,700 --> 00:36:47,770
What are you doing now?

520
00:36:48,450 --> 00:36:51,770
Actually, it doesn't matter too much if it's real or not.

521
00:36:51,770 --> 00:36:55,360
A man and a woman have had contact naked, and who will think on the better side?

522
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:57,630
You can never clear it no matter what.

523
00:36:58,260 --> 00:37:03,620
We're being forced to a dead-end by someone like her? And my grandmother is implicated too!

524
00:37:03,620 --> 00:37:06,520
Why doesn't God strike her dead with lightning!

525
00:37:08,470 --> 00:37:10,720
I'm going to my mother.

526
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:15,970
That prostitute is that wild?

527
00:37:15,970 --> 00:37:19,110
She is dead set on this, I don't dare to beat her to death then?

528
00:37:20,650 --> 00:37:25,310
Molan, that girl, she's gone to the extreme with us now.

529
00:37:26,230 --> 00:37:30,190
She knew I would succumb.

530
00:37:30,190 --> 00:37:32,880
And I have to consent, even if I don't consent.

531
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,160
You needn't consent, Grandmother.

532
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:38,370
It's useless if you say no!

533
00:37:38,370 --> 00:37:41,720
She's pushed us to a cliff!

534
00:37:41,720 --> 00:37:44,620
If Grandmother has to cower over this vile matter, I would rather never marry.

535
00:37:44,620 --> 00:37:48,870
Nonsense! How can a woman not marry?

536
00:37:48,870 --> 00:37:52,980
These years, I've saved up some private money and there's no problem for living to my old age.

537
00:37:52,980 --> 00:37:55,600
Second Brother is a good person, and Second Sister-in-law is also generous.

538
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:57,850
They won't kick me out!

539
00:37:57,850 --> 00:38:00,080
I, Minglan, am willing to serve Grandmother forever.

540
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,150
Serve Grandmother until the very end.

541
00:38:02,620 --> 00:38:05,860
After a hundred years, I could become a nun too!

542
00:38:05,860 --> 00:38:08,390
At any rate, I can plan for myself.

543
00:38:08,390 --> 00:38:11,220
This girl. What crazy talk is she saying?

544
00:38:11,220 --> 00:38:14,520
How can a woman not marry? That's laughable to others.

545
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:17,720
So what if others laugh? As long as I don't care about it.

546
00:38:17,720 --> 00:38:21,780
Stop this nonsense, child.
- When Molan caused this incident, your Second Brother said,

547
00:38:21,780 --> 00:38:23,690
"this family should never tolerate an evildoer".

548
00:38:23,690 --> 00:38:25,350
If . . .

549
00:38:25,350 --> 00:38:27,820
If Minglan and Rulan really can't marry,

550
00:38:27,820 --> 00:38:31,500
the siblings will still live in harmony forever here.

551
00:38:33,820 --> 00:38:36,340
What is this nonsense you and your husband discussed?

552
00:38:36,340 --> 00:38:38,960
Is this a place for you to talk?

553
00:38:40,370 --> 00:38:43,840
You don't want to marry, but Rulan still needs to marry!

554
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:45,850
If Rulan doesn't marry?

555
00:38:46,370 --> 00:38:49,070
Then what about Hualan at her in-law's?

556
00:38:49,070 --> 00:38:53,500
Her mother-in-law always gives her a hard time, and it's not like you don't know that!

557
00:38:54,350 --> 00:38:57,120
Shi got snatched by her mother-in-law.

558
00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:01,890
Zhuang's hands were burned and injured saving her brother!

559
00:39:01,890 --> 00:39:07,410
My Lord of Heaven... . Why are my days so bitter?

560
00:39:07,410 --> 00:39:10,080
Lin Qinshuang. That witch.

561
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:13,930
When will she stop harming my children?

562
00:39:14,510 --> 00:39:16,780
<i>Mother... Mother</i>

563
00:39:19,210 --> 00:39:21,120
Stop crying!

564
00:39:24,530 --> 00:39:26,470
My children's debt.

565
00:39:27,450 --> 00:39:31,230
If I don't clear it, I can't die.

566
00:39:31,230 --> 00:39:33,140
In that case,

567
00:39:34,270 --> 00:39:37,250
I'll stake this old face out,

568
00:39:37,250 --> 00:39:40,860
and make a trip to Liang House.

569
00:40:17,850 --> 00:40:22,390
What? You came to spectate my fallen state too?

570
00:40:27,180 --> 00:40:29,700
You all don't need to be jolly so soon.

571
00:40:30,430 --> 00:40:33,160
I'm just confined for the time being .

572
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:35,600
Just who is higher and who is lower in the future,

573
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:37,500
that's not for sure.

574
00:40:38,780 --> 00:40:43,290
Grandmother told me to come tell you that Liang House agreed.

575
00:41:08,310 --> 00:41:10,870
Even heaven helps me

576
00:41:10,870 --> 00:41:14,310
by not letting it be in vain, the painstaking plotting by Mother and I.

577
00:41:19,290 --> 00:41:21,090
Sheng Rulan.

578
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:25,470
You are always talking about legitimacy day and night.

579
00:41:25,970 --> 00:41:30,480
From now on, I'm going to be the main wife of a count's manor.

580
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:33,340
She will have to look up to me forever now.

581
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:38,890
Congratulations, Fourth Sister, to marry into a high house.

582
00:41:44,940 --> 00:41:46,950
My mother said this.

583
00:41:48,810 --> 00:41:51,430
Old mother wants to control the son.

584
00:41:51,430 --> 00:41:54,810
If what the son wants is what the parents want,

585
00:41:54,810 --> 00:41:57,590
then the son is said to be filial and obedient.

586
00:41:58,500 --> 00:42:02,630
If they don't agree, then the son won't care about being filial.

587
00:42:02,630 --> 00:42:04,630
He will only think for himself.

588
00:42:05,590 --> 00:42:09,550
Father was like that and Sixth Liang is the same.

589
00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:13,020
His mother always wanted that Sixth Girl.

590
00:42:14,630 --> 00:42:19,200
In the end, she still has to be docile and welcome me in.

591
00:42:20,500 --> 00:42:23,360
Liang House isn't some greatly blessed place.

592
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:25,640
Big Madam Wu is fierce and sharp.

593
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:28,630
Sixth Liang--
- Everyone must admire me so much.

594
00:42:29,990 --> 00:42:34,060
I'm going there and I'll be the legitimate wife!

595
00:42:35,060 --> 00:42:37,410
Who can fight with me?

596
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:47,620
Sister, you've reached high, and may you take care.

597
00:43:09,070 --> 00:43:17,030
<i>Translation and Timing carefully crafted by the Mei Daxia Team at Viki</i>

598
00:43:19,130 --> 00:43:27,060
<i>T/N In the following song, "Don't You Know, Don't You Know?", Lines 5 to the end are the poem by Li Qingzhao, a famous female poet of the Song Dynasty, the poem is titled "Spring Ends".</i>

599
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:41,410
♫ <i>One morning, a flower opened and approached a willow tree, </i>
<i>beautifully fragrant and mistaking him for her lord</i> ♫

600
00:43:41,410 --> 00:43:50,100
♫ <i>Even if drinking in water in the morning, red clouds have half a day of sunshine,
</i><i>the wind and rain do not affect them completely</i> ♫

601
00:43:50,100 --> 00:43:59,880
♫ <i>In the palace, you are constantly brave and growing thin,
</i><i>from on high, your cold tears of distress flow</i> ♫

602
00:43:59,880 --> 00:44:08,050
♫ <i>Brocade letters delivered to me dismiss me, only suddenly to recall me,
not for many years can I see you other than stealthily♫</i>

603
00:44:09,670 --> 00:44:14,250
♫ <i>Last night, gusty winds and rain
during my deep slumber did not spoil the wine's lingering effect</i> ♫

604
00:44:14,250 --> 00:44:18,370
♫ <i>When I asked someone, they rolled the blind up
and told me that all the crab-apple trees are as before.</i> ♫

605
00:44:18,370 --> 00:44:28,160
♫ <i>Don't you know, don't you know,
there must be flourishing leaves and fallen flowers?</i> ♫

606
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:32,680
♫ <i>Last night, gusty winds and rain
during my deep slumber did not spoil the wine's lingering effect♫</i>

607
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:36,780
♫ <i>When I asked someone, they rolled the blind up
and told me that all the crab-apple trees are as before.</i> ♫

608
00:44:36,780 --> 00:44:46,600
♫ <i>Don't you know, don't you know,
there must be flourishing leaves and fallen flowers?</i> ♫

609
00:44:48,250 --> 00:45:01,090
♫ <i>Don't you know, don't you know,
there must be flourishing leaves and fallen flowers?</i> ♫


