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SAY NO TO PIRACY SUPPORT ORIGINALS
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ADAPTED FROM JIA JIN CHAI,
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ORIGINAL NOVEL
BY XIAOJIAREN ON JINJIANG LITERATURE CITY
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A-Chou.
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What else do you have to say?
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I have nothing to say.
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Guards!
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- Take her…
- Stop!
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Brother Jue!
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Grandmother is still sick.
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How dare you disturb her?
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Something so serious happened at home.
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If she isn't here, things might end badly.
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I had no choice but to put that aside.
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There's no conclusion to this matter yet.
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Why are you in a rush
to pin the crime on someone?
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Lady Shou'an.
She forged the Longlife Lock.
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The witness has overturned her testimony,
and the bribe is right before us.
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The crime of deceiving an emperor
deserves more than a hundred deaths.
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Are you going to plead for her?
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It's difficult to judge an old case,
but that doesn't mean it's impossible.
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She was right.
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The Longevity Lock was forged,
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but the clothes, shoes,
and socks are real.
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Besides, even though the wet nurse
and the guard are dead,
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there's still a possibility that
they were silenced.
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As long as there are any doubts,
we must investigate it.
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The truth must come to light.
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- Mother.
- I don't want to talk to you.
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Look at all of you.
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Each and every one of you is so keen
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for her demise.
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What are you trying to do?
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Maternal Grandmother!
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She took my title and my identity!
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She's backing me into a corner.
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Mother. Listen.
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Maternal Grandmother must be too senile
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for her to say those words.
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Old Madam Wei,
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their judgment might be clouded,
but you are wise.
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How could you entertain them
in this farce?
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Are you going
to take the word of a fickle wretch
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and a few strings of worthless coins
to simply declare her guilty?
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She is the only offspring left behind
by that dearest son of yours.
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Aren't you going
to investigate this thoroughly first
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to give Wei Jin's soul some justice?
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Look.
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A girl as delicate as a flower.
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How could you?
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How could you bear to do it, Old Madam?
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I can't bear to do it.
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I can't bring myself to do it.
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But there's evidence.
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You call that evidence?
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He can forge one today,
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and they can forge
something else tomorrow.
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Evidence is dead,
but she is a living person.
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She mustn't be killed.
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No one touches her.
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Guards.
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Take her away for now.
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Once I investigate this thoroughly,
I will make a decision.
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- Maternal Grandmother!
- Lady Shou'an!
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She used her title as a noble lady
to raise troops and gain support.
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She has 500 men now.
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If you don't strike
before she grows too powerful,
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you will never get
another chance in the future.
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An outsider has no right
to question my decision.
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Huo Jue, go.
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Yes.
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My Lady, I have no choice
but to put you through this.
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This way.
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This is serious.
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Any leaks bring trouble.
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Everyone, please stay here as guests
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and allow me to welcome
all of you as the host.
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You betrayed me!
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I'm only going to ask you one thing.
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Grandmother only had a cold.
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Why did you burn
such a strong calming incense?
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The physician told many times
that she was to stay in bed to recuperate.
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The medicine and incense used
were all based on the prescription.
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How is that my fault too?
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I hope you are telling the truth.
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- I'm really afraid…
- Liar.
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You kept saying that
everything you did was for my sake.
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You said you would do anything for me.
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Lies.
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I'm tired. You may leave.
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I know about many things,
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but I pretended to be blind.
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I pretended to be a fool.
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I kept covering for you,
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but I would never allow you
to harm Maternal Grandmother.
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This is against humanity.
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You're on your own now.
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Indecisive and sanctimonious.
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I knew he couldn't be trusted.
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They are all liars.
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Rao.
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Aunt Yufeng, why are you here?
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Please sit. Let me get someone
to serve you sugarcane juice.
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No need.
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I'm just a little worried about you.
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What do you plan to do next?
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That wretch has been captured.
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It'll be easy to kill her.
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What are you even worried about,
Aunt Yufeng?
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Silly child.
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Although she was captured,
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once the news
reaches the Duke's Residence,
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Lu Zhuo will never give up easily.
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He will never do anything
with my mother around.
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Don't think you can rest assured
just because you have evidence.
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Besides eating, a person's mouth
can be used to accuse others.
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It only takes an instant
to go against one's words.
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Don't forget.
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She's not some housewife
you can push around.
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She is Noble Lady Wu'an,
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who is loved by the refugees.
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Just wait and see.
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If she hasn't returned by dawn,
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someone will rally the refugees
to make a scene.
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When the time comes,
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even Lady Li will have no choice
but to release her,
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in spite of her reluctance.
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She really shouldn't be given
the title of a noble.
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She's such a nuisance.
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What should we do now, Aunt Yufeng?
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If you don't deal
with the trouble at its roots,
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it'll only cause further trouble.
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XIANZHUANG
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Fu.
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You've always been bright
and have a mind of your own.
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I've never interfered,
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but this time, you were too reckless.
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Mother, there was solid evidence.
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She was stumped,
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but you kept defending
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and protecting her time and again.
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Are you not afraid of upsetting Rao
and hurting your relationship with her?
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I'm not afraid of anything.
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I'm just afraid that you, my daughter,
will regret doing this.
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You think A-Chou is the real Wei Rao?
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I've seen many people in my life.
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The Wei Rao who grew up
in the Earl of Cheng'an's Residence
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was born with a vicious
and cruel personality.
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She's unlike you or Wei Jin.
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It's all my fault.
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She only turned this way
without a mother to guide and counsel her.
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I've lived in the palace for many years
and have been away from my daughter.
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But her grandmother and uncle
are at Wei Residence.
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She also has servants to serve her.
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There's no way they didn't recognize her.
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You said she was unlike me.
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Does A-Chou feel like
my biological daughter instead?
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She's like you and unlike you
at the same time.
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Mother, hearing you say that
confuses me even more.
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She is decisive and confident.
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Her ambitions and shrewdness
are qualities that resemble yours.
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But she is smarter, more benevolent,
and cares more about others than you do.
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These qualities
are like her father, Wei Jin.
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Mother.
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Are you that sure?
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Meet that child alone.
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Have a good chat with just the two of you.
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Mother.
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Let me…
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Let me think this through.
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Why are you even hesitating?
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Why do you keep avoiding this
and walk around in circles?
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Being afraid of a child
is unlike you, is it not?
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This isn't like you at all.
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- Who is it?
- My Lord!
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My Lord, something has happened
to Noble Lady Wu'an.
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Lady Li abducted her
while you were escorting His Majesty.
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Didn't you submit the evidence?
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We told them everything,
but no one believed us.
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She said the Longlife Lock was fake.
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That animal, Lv Lun, went against his word
and betrayed Noble Lady Wu'an.
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Lady Shou'an tried to stop them,
but I'm afraid it will be futile.
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Tomorrow at dawn,
they will execute Noble Lady Wu'an.
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- Zhao Bai.
- Yes.
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Gather the men and head to Xianzhuang.
Zhao Song.
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- Lead the army back to camp.
- Yes.
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Wei Rao, wait for me. I will be there.
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It's heavily guarded here.
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How did you come in?
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I am Lady Li's dearest daughter.
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Do you think
the imperial army can stop me?
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Her indenture contract was burnt…
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but I still have her parents and siblings.
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They are her close ones after all.
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I'm sure she can't disregard their lives
and swear loyalty to you.
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It's only natural.
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You need to forgive her.
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Am I right, Bitao?
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Oh, I've been talking away.
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You must be hungry. Let's eat first.
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What? Are you afraid that
I might poison you?
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You're not the only victim here.
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Yes.
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I did grow up in a rich background.
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But Grandmother is old.
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She can't take good care of me.
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The servants fawned on the powerful
and looked down on the weak.
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They bullied me
for having no parents to rely on.
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They kept finding ways
to take things away from me
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to line their pockets.
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I'm just going to share this with you.
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Someone called Governess Luo
gave me less food when I was sick.
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She told Grandmother that
I needed to fast for the sake of recovery.
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When I recovered,
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I lured her to the pond in the garden.
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Then, I pushed her into the pond.
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Why are you telling me all this?
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I know you hate Mother.
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I hate her too.
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She left me alone in the residence.
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I was very lonely and afraid.
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Everyone sided with Third Sister
and bullied me.
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I won't take that silently.
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All of those who bullied me
and took things from me must pay.
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I've never said this to others.
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Because they won't understand.
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But you do.
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You understand.
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After all,
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you have it rougher than I do.
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You are alone with no one to rely on.
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No one has ever loved you.
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The result has been decided,
and our identities are confirmed.
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I don't really need to kill you.
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As long as you promise me
to leave the capital and never return,
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I can beg Mother to spare your life.
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Bitao.
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This is the Double Cavity Pot.
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XIANZHUANG
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There's a hidden mechanism inside
that can help Rao get her wish.
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You know what to do.
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You fool!
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You can't even do such a simple thing?
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You are not doing anything wrong.
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Everyone has to look out for themselves.
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You are not the one who decides my fate.
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Don't feel guilty.
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You mean it?
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As long as you promise me,
I won't trouble you.
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Let this cup of wine be our pledge.
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It's a promise.
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I've never seen someone as stupid as you.
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A few words from me,
and you trusted me completely.
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Did you know what you drank?
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It's poisonous wine!
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You fool!
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XIANZHUANG
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We have imperial orders
to seal off the manor.
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No one can enter this place
without being summoned.
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My Lord, please don't cause us trouble.
261
00:21:09,360 --> 00:21:10,960
What if I insist on doing that?
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Rao!
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00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:29,280
Rao!
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00:21:29,360 --> 00:21:30,960
Rao, wake up!
265
00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:32,640
Don't scare me, Rao! Rao!
266
00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:36,400
How did you… Rao!
267
00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:38,920
Don't scare me. Rao!
268
00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:44,080
Rao…
269
00:21:47,360 --> 00:21:50,360
You murderer! Return Rao to me!
270
00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:52,360
Return Rao to me!
271
00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:54,960
No. Lady Wei Rao wanted
to poison Noble Lady Wu'an,
272
00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:56,960
but something went wrong.
273
00:21:57,040 --> 00:21:58,800
She ended up drinking
the poisoned wine instead.
274
00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:00,200
Noble Lady Wu'an
has nothing to do with this.
275
00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:02,560
Lady Wei Rao was the one
who brought the poisoned wine.
276
00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:04,240
You can just test the wine.
277
00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:06,520
You traitorous servant!
278
00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:08,120
You'll die a cruel death!
279
00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:13,760
Lady Li!
280
00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:15,240
Lady Li!
281
00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:16,320
Lady Li!
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00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:19,640
I am Rao's aunt.
283
00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:24,280
Seeing Rao die such a tragic death
devastates me,
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00:22:24,360 --> 00:22:27,480
let alone you, her biological mother.
285
00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:28,600
Lady Li.
286
00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:30,200
You must avenge her.
287
00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:32,760
Kill this woman. Kill her!
288
00:22:57,720 --> 00:22:59,040
Did you do this?
289
00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:03,080
Yes. It was her!
290
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:04,320
She did it, Lady Li!
291
00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:06,800
Why are you hesitating?
292
00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:08,960
Kill her right now!
293
00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:10,560
I did it.
294
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:13,200
She tried to kill me with poisoned wine.
295
00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:16,800
I only returned the favor.
296
00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:18,720
I did it.
297
00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:20,680
You…
298
00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:22,320
You…
299
00:23:24,120 --> 00:23:26,120
Noble Lady Wu'an,
this has nothing to do with you.
300
00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:27,720
How could you admit it?
301
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:32,280
I've suffered injustices for 16 years.
302
00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:37,720
I walked a long, long way alone.
303
00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:41,920
I've suffered so much.
304
00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:45,560
I thought I finally found my mother,
305
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:48,760
and everything would start
to go well for me.
306
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:50,920
No one would ever bully me again.
307
00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:54,240
But my mother tried to kill me.
308
00:23:58,080 --> 00:23:59,440
Aren't you going to kill me?
309
00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:02,480
Do it now!
310
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:13,080
Do it, Lady Li.
311
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:15,920
I beg you to kill her.
312
00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:18,360
Do it, Lady Li!
313
00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:22,640
Hurry, Lady Li!
314
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:26,800
Let me do it! I'll kill you!
315
00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:28,400
- I'll kill you!
- Stop her!
316
00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:53,480
What are all of you doing?
317
00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:56,800
Don't you have a heart?
318
00:24:57,720 --> 00:24:59,680
Why didn't you kill her?
319
00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:02,120
Why didn't you kill her?
320
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,720
Kill her!
321
00:25:08,120 --> 00:25:09,200
Rao!
322
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:10,440
Rao!
323
00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:12,400
Rao!
324
00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:14,720
Rao!
325
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:15,960
This is…
326
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:19,320
How did this happen?
327
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:22,720
How did things come to this tragedy
where no one stands to win?
328
00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:26,520
All of you are muddled! Muddled!
329
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:28,200
Lady Li!
330
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:31,640
Are you going to
331
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:36,840
see Rao die such a tragic death
without avenging her?
332
00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:40,560
Are you not going to kill this woman?
333
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:47,480
What's going on?
334
00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:51,840
Lu Zhuo, what are you trying to do?
335
00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:55,000
This isn't the place to talk.
336
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:57,520
We'll speak in the hall.
337
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:03,960
Bring him here.
338
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:09,120
DEEP CLOUDS, TWILIGHT SEAS
339
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:15,920
Do you recognize him?
340
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:17,800
The bandits' vice leader
341
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:19,520
who ruled South Mountain for 20 years.
342
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:21,600
A ruthless killer who stops at nothing.
343
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:23,720
They rob traveling merchants,
344
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:26,440
yet the imperial court
fails to catch them.
345
00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,280
Their bounties have been posted
at the castle gates all year round.
346
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,720
That head just now
belonged to the leader, Fushan.
347
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:34,440
As for this…
348
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:36,320
Tuhu.
349
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:38,480
16 years ago,
350
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:40,200
you said a man
carried gold up the mountain
351
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:42,760
and hired you lot to kill someone.
352
00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:46,480
Every favored servant
of the Wei family is here.
353
00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:47,640
Who was the one…
354
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:51,800
who hired you to kill?
355
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:13,160
Him! I remember the man
has a mole near his chin.
356
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:15,080
It's him. I'm sure.
357
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:17,160
He paid us to kill a man and a woman.
358
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:27,000
Speak.
359
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:28,960
What do they look like?
360
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:31,640
Many years have passed.
361
00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:32,560
I don't remember.
362
00:27:34,120 --> 00:27:36,360
That man was limping.
363
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:37,600
I think he was a cripple.
364
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:40,680
As for the woman,
she was soft and delicate.
365
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:42,520
She also spoke with a Yingchuan accent.
366
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:45,280
Yingchuan accent?
367
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:51,200
Liu, Rao's wet nurse back then,
was from Yingchuan.
368
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:55,360
The guards lost Rao
and were flogged 40 times as punishment.
369
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:58,040
Hence, all of them had difficulty walking.
370
00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:00,520
Take him away.
371
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:10,320
Speak.
372
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,960
If you are not going to be honest,
your head will roll.
373
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:27,920
No matter how rich you are,
you won't be alive to enjoy your wealth.
374
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:30,280
It was Lady Heng'e.
375
00:28:30,360 --> 00:28:33,280
She forced me to hire them.
376
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:34,880
What nonsense?
377
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:36,640
Don't make things up!
378
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:37,680
I didn't do it!
379
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:39,520
It's not me!
380
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:42,000
I'm sure Lv Lun was bought off.
381
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:46,800
Lu Zhuo's pulling out everything
to save this killer.
382
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:47,760
How can it be me?
383
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:51,200
Lady Li. I didn't do it.
384
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:52,640
I didn't do it. Trust me.
385
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:55,040
You didn't?
386
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,320
I didn't. I dare not.
387
00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:58,680
- I dare not.
- You wretch!
388
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:01,240
Heng'e.
389
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:02,960
What did you do?
390
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:08,760
What did your brother do to offend you
391
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:11,880
that you threw away all conscience?
392
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:13,440
Speak!
393
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:17,840
Lv Lun.
394
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:20,600
When Wei Rao was kidnapped back then,
395
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:23,840
was Wei Heng'e really the mastermind?
396
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:26,680
It was Lady Heng'e
who bought the wet nurse off
397
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:28,360
and stole the child.
398
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,320
My wife found out about this.
399
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,400
She wanted to blackmail her
for some money,
400
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:36,640
but Lady Heng'e was more cunning.
401
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:39,720
She found that my wife
had once falsified fiscal accounts
402
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:42,000
and used it to blackmail us instead.
403
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:46,000
She forced us to get rid of Lady Rao.
404
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:48,320
How?
405
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:52,000
She wanted us
to drown her in quick lime water.
406
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:11,920
You can't bring yourself to do it?
407
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:13,520
I'll do it.
408
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:21,080
Give her to me!
409
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:28,520
How dare you!
410
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:32,920
Both of us were avaricious,
411
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:35,720
but we never intended to harm anyone.
412
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:42,360
Throwing a child into boiling limewater
is something even a beast can't do.
413
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:43,520
But if we did not do that,
414
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:45,360
we had no explanation for Lady Heng'e.
415
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,040
I had no choice but to be ruthless
and left the child
416
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:49,320
on the mountain at night.
417
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:50,960
Next, I went to an orphanage
418
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:53,000
to find the body of a child
who died of illness
419
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:55,160
- and report back to Lady Heng'e.
- Shut up!
420
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:58,800
So what if you didn't do it yourself?
421
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,160
If I hadn't gone
to the mountains that night,
422
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:04,360
the child would have been frozen to death.
423
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:08,640
Later,
424
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:12,120
Lady Heng'e brought a girl back
425
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:15,240
and said she was
Lady Rao of the Duke's Residence.
426
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:18,680
As for how she found the girl,
427
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:20,600
I really don't know.
428
00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:22,400
I really don't.
429
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:29,320
Everyone.
430
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:31,040
Is that so hard to figure out?
431
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:34,080
Wei Rao and Jundai
do look very much alike.
432
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:36,240
There can't be such a coincidence
in this world.
433
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:40,160
However, Wei Heng'e
treated Jundai like her own child
434
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:42,560
and didn't hesitate to kill
with a sword for Jundai's sake.
435
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:45,040
Who else, besides Jundai's own mother,
436
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:47,840
would do that?
437
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:54,240
Old Madam Wei.
438
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:57,000
Wei Heng'e is your daughter.
439
00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:00,240
You should know
Jundai's origin better than anyone else.
440
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:02,600
The child?
441
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:07,320
That illegitimate child?
442
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:12,400
You gave birth to the child?
443
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:16,920
Yes. I gave birth to her.
444
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:22,320
Blame yourself for being biased.
445
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:24,720
Brother fancied Zhou Fu,
446
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:26,360
and you allowed him to turn down
his original marriage to marry her.
447
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:30,560
However, I loved Sun
and agreed to marry him,
448
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:32,920
yet you said he was just a poor scholar.
449
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:37,360
You forced me to our ancestral home
on the outskirts to get an abortion.
450
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:38,960
I would never do that.
451
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:42,840
I did everything I could
to keep her alive.
452
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:47,600
Hard as it is, you chose this road.
453
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:50,000
Back then,
454
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:54,280
I did give a chance
to that unfaithful man,
455
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:58,840
but he said he would rather
take the money than you.
456
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:01,880
You.
457
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:05,640
You disgraceful and immoral wretch.
458
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,320
You actually dared
to bring this wretched child
459
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:10,440
back into the house.
460
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:14,040
Why shouldn't I do that? Why shouldn't I?
461
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:18,520
When Wei Rao was born,
the whole family celebrated.
462
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:19,640
What about my daughter?
463
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:21,680
A wretched child.
464
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:25,040
I hid away in the remote countryside.
465
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:27,400
I didn't even dare call a midwife.
466
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:33,200
When Jundai was born, I had
to bite off the umbilical cord myself.
467
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:35,920
It was so unfair to my child.
468
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:40,280
Tell me why! How could you be so unfair?
469
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:43,040
I won't accept this! I won't stand for it!
470
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:52,240
So, you took away Wei Rao
and even tried to kill her.
471
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:55,240
She is your niece.
472
00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:57,920
She is your brother's only child.
473
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:00,440
If you had even the slightest decency,
474
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:02,520
you wouldn't be so cruel.
475
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:05,480
Lord Lu.
476
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:07,720
You were born with a noble status.
477
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:10,000
You're virtuous and upright. Good for you.
478
00:34:10,679 --> 00:34:13,239
My Jundai isn't as fortunate as you.
479
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:15,480
She wasn't born
as the heiress of the Duke's Residence.
480
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:20,120
A cuckoo lays its eggs
481
00:34:20,199 --> 00:34:21,840
in another bird's nest
to ensure posterity.
482
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:24,320
If I hadn't done what I did,
483
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:27,480
Jundai would have
stayed in the rural area forever
484
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:31,360
and become a lowly illegitimate daughter.
485
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:35,840
Without the status of a noble
and protection from her family,
486
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:37,840
there wouldn't be a future for her.
487
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,320
For the sake of my own child,
488
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:42,120
I can't care about anything else.
489
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:45,040
Actually…
490
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:50,480
Actually, I never planned
to kill Rao initially.
491
00:34:51,639 --> 00:34:53,920
If anyone is to be blamed for all this,
492
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,320
then it's your fault, Zhou Fu.
493
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:00,120
My fault?
494
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:02,160
At first,
495
00:35:02,720 --> 00:35:05,040
I had intended to give Rao away
to be raised by others.
496
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,400
But you just wouldn't let her go.
497
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:10,240
You ordered the imperial army,
searched the city
498
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:12,720
and question everyone to find her.
499
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:14,720
If you hadn't pushed so hard,
500
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:16,280
the wet nurse wouldn't have panicked
501
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:18,480
and pleaded with me to send her back home.
502
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:22,120
I would never have been so ruthless
as to hire someone to kill Rao.
503
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:23,520
Wei Heng'e.
504
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:26,560
You are at fault for everything,
505
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:28,360
and you're still trying to blame someone?
506
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:30,920
- You animal!
- Oh my.
507
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:33,520
You're an animal!
508
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:36,880
What did I do to have
509
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:42,240
such a selfish
and heartless daughter like you?
510
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:46,320
I spared you in the beginning,
511
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:51,320
and that ended up harming
my granddaughter in the end.
512
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:57,000
Rao…
513
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:01,960
I've let you down.
514
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:04,600
I'm so ashamed.
515
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:08,360
Too ashamed to face you.
516
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:14,000
Mother. Calm down, Mother.
517
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:15,760
After all, Heng'e was the one
518
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:19,120
who was blinded by her selfish motives
and acted recklessly.
519
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:20,960
You're not to be blamed.
520
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:27,360
Her judgment was probably clouded
because she loves her daughter too much.
521
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:29,000
Mother.
522
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:32,560
Old Madam Wei, forgive me for being blunt.
523
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:35,200
If you really cared
about your granddaughter,
524
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:37,920
she would never be kidnapped.
525
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:40,440
You would never confuse her
with the fake Wei Rao.
526
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:43,880
After all, an impostor
can never be the real person.
527
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:47,280
Perhaps no one
in the Earl of Cheng'an's Residence
528
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:49,360
has truly cared for her.
529
00:36:50,720 --> 00:36:52,600
They are completely different.
530
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:54,560
Their personalities
are like night and day.
531
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:58,000
I've never gotten her wrong. Not once.
532
00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:00,400
You're her own flesh and blood.
533
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:03,160
How could you make such a huge mistake?
534
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:06,600
It's my mistake.
535
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:12,360
I was drowning
in the pain of losing my son
536
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:15,120
and neglected Rao.
537
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:19,920
Bitao.
538
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:22,200
The one who asked you
to swap the Lifelong Lock,
539
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:25,960
was it really Wei Heng'e?
540
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:29,080
What Lifelong Lock?
541
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,200
I've never swapped something
called Lifelong Lock.
542
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:36,000
All of you.
543
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:38,560
Don't celebrate too early.
544
00:37:40,240 --> 00:37:43,120
Back then, it was snowing.
545
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:46,920
The child was abandoned
on the desolate rear hill.
546
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:49,680
Perhaps she was already frozen to death.
547
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:51,520
Perhaps that child didn't survive.
548
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:54,160
Jundai is a fake.
549
00:37:54,240 --> 00:37:56,680
This woman might
not be the real thing either.
550
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:58,440
She didn't have any evidence.
551
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:00,840
She's just an impostor!
552
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:02,720
My Lord.
553
00:38:03,240 --> 00:38:06,400
We must never show mercy
to a vicious woman like her.
554
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:08,200
Don't worry.
555
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:10,640
I have my own ways
to make her speak the truth.
556
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:14,600
My Lord, if you punish her severely,
557
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:17,200
it would appear that
I am abusing my position.
558
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:19,080
You are my wife.
559
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:21,280
I'm willing to let you wield
my power and influence.
560
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:23,600
Let's see who dares defy me.
561
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:26,760
And who dares object to me?
562
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:32,320
I do have something to ask Aunt Yufeng.
563
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:37,600
Why did you ask Jundai to poison me?
564
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:43,320
And why did you kill Jundai in the end?
565
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:45,320
What did you say?
566
00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:00,040
I tried to kill Jundai with poison?
567
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:03,040
How did this come about?
568
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:04,760
Aunt Heng'e is a daughter married out.
569
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:07,160
She has no absolute power in Wei family.
570
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:09,560
Buying off a wet nurse
and a guard was easy,
571
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:11,480
but swap Jundai into the family
was rather difficult.
572
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:14,720
Grandmother could not make
a sound decision after losing her son.
573
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:17,160
She lay in her bed all day.
574
00:39:17,240 --> 00:39:21,040
All of Wei Residence
was under your control, Aunt Yufeng.
575
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:23,280
If she brought in an impostor,
576
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:25,800
how could it fool you,
the lady of Wei Residence?
577
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:33,240
You had many
close servants in your courtyard.
578
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:36,160
Were they all blind
and couldn't recognize anyone?
579
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:38,480
Unless…
580
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:41,960
Old Madam Wei, every servant
in Wei Rao's chamber was replaced
581
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:43,760
after the incident.
582
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:44,680
Am I right?
583
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:54,960
Lady Li,
584
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:59,040
Back then, His Majesty's love for you
made him furious.
585
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:01,200
He blamed our Wei family
for failing to look after the child.
586
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:03,680
We nearly lost our noble title.
587
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:06,800
So all the servants were scapegoats.
588
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:11,320
They were either sold to faraway places
or banished to the estate.
589
00:40:12,240 --> 00:40:13,720
When Jundai returned,
590
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:17,080
those who served her
were taught by the Old Madam
591
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:20,120
to prevent any mistakes
from happening again.
592
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:22,560
Or, we can't explain
to the imperial court.
593
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:25,280
Replacing all the previous servants
for no reason.
594
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:27,360
Obviously, you were up to something.
595
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:33,360
Aunt Heng'e.
596
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:35,920
Only Jundai and I were in the room.
597
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:37,760
Why would I do something
so foolish to poison her there?
598
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:39,520
Think carefully.
599
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:43,000
Who told Jundai to come to my room
with the poisonous wine?
600
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:47,120
Who, once again, would see Jundai and I
cut each other down?
601
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:51,720
On the surface, the person is helping
you and Jundai out of trouble
602
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:55,280
but really, he's leading you step by step
into the deep end.
603
00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:57,640
Guo Yufeng.
604
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:01,280
It was you?
605
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:05,960
You were the one who incited Jundai
to poison Wei Rao?
606
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:08,760
It was you who killed my daughter.
607
00:41:13,240 --> 00:41:14,600
I'm going to kill you!
608
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:16,600
I'm going to kill you, Guo Yufeng!
609
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:18,960
Give me back my daughter! Give her back!
610
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:21,000
Let me go!
611
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:23,880
- Give her back to me!
- Lady Guo.
612
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:28,560
What's in it for you
if Wei Rao and Jundai destroy each other?
613
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:33,520
What did Jundai do to you
that you wanted to kill her?
614
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:36,200
If Wei Rao had been poisoned to death,
615
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:38,320
when the truth is revealed,
616
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:42,000
and Lady Li comes to know the facts,
she will be beside herself with grief.
617
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:43,680
If Jundai was killed,
618
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:48,320
Wei Rao would die
by her own mother's hands.
619
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:51,040
Lady Li abandoned her own daughter
and then took her life.
620
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:53,720
by what right will she ever stand
in the world?
621
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:57,480
The moral conduct of an imperial consort
is there for everyone to see.
622
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:01,280
The position and power she possesses
will all go down the drain.
623
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:06,200
Kill the daughter first,
and then get rid of the mother.
624
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:09,080
I've seen many schemes on the battlefield,
625
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:13,960
but I've never seen
such a nefarious psychological ploy.
626
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:21,200
Guo Yufeng.
627
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:25,120
It is not Jundai you are after.
628
00:42:27,240 --> 00:42:28,800
Not even Wei Rao.
629
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:37,440
What you truly seek
is to destroy my very soul, isn't it?
630
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:00,200
How clever of you.
631
00:43:03,720 --> 00:43:05,240
Let me ask you then.
632
00:43:06,720 --> 00:43:10,720
How did you know
that I was trying to poison Jundai
633
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:12,600
instead of you?
634
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:14,920
Because you let Bitao to pour the wine.
635
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:17,440
She has been by my side every day.
636
00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:19,040
She might betray me,
637
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:23,800
but she is kind and
will never intend to kill me.
638
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:31,400
My Lady, I've let you down.
639
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:34,840
I swapped the Lifelong Lock.
640
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:38,320
I did it when you headed
to the Wei Residence.
641
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:45,960
The real Lifelong Lock
642
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:49,440
must be in the hands of Governess Zheng
in Lady Guo's chamber.
643
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:52,800
Search her chamber.
644
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:57,400
Guo Yufeng.
645
00:43:58,240 --> 00:44:00,680
You deserve to die a cruel death!
646
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:03,840
You've been using me all this while.
647
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:07,440
When I was blackmailing the Changs,
648
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:10,680
she purposely rushed in
and foiled my plan.
649
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:13,360
I was forced to kneel and beg her.
650
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:16,680
I had to give up many of my assets
651
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:20,600
so she promised to help me keep secrets.
652
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:25,480
So it was all a setup, all your game.
653
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:31,520
I, the poor Wei Rao, and Jundai
were all living inside your trap.
654
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:34,480
You and your daughter.
655
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:40,240
One is selfish and greedy,
while the other is arrogant and brazen.
656
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:43,240
Blame yourselves instead.
657
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:49,960
I actually envy you.
658
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:53,720
That daughter you've never
raised and educated
659
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:56,640
actually turns out to be so intelligent.
660
00:44:56,720 --> 00:45:00,600
She even found you a heroic son-in-law,
661
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:04,200
who will take the greatest risk
in the world for her.
662
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:07,760
Go against an imperial decree.
Refuse to meet His Majesty.
663
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:13,000
For her, he even wiped out
a whole bandit's hideout.
664
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:21,960
If he were late by just a little,
665
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:25,880
just a little bit,
666
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:29,000
given your vicious personality,
667
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:31,960
your daughter would
surely die in your hands.
668
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:33,560
What a pity.
669
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:36,760
What a huge pity.
670
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:41,320
I'll rip you apart!
671
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:50,720
Why do you hate her so much?
672
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:56,560
Why don't you ask your mother
what she did?
673
00:45:56,640 --> 00:45:57,680
Shut up.
674
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:00,920
Your ears mustn't be sullied
by the words of a crazy woman.
675
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:02,200
Seal her mouth shut.
676
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:04,120
- Stop her from spouting nonsense.
- What?
677
00:46:04,720 --> 00:46:05,480
Are you afraid?
678
00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:07,960
Afraid I'll expose your daughter
679
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:11,280
in front of everyone and shame her?
680
00:46:12,240 --> 00:46:15,560
A woman who abandoned
her husband and daughter.
681
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:17,760
Everyone in the world
knows what she's like.
682
00:46:18,720 --> 00:46:22,200
Wei Rao will see her true colors
sooner or later.
683
00:46:23,720 --> 00:46:27,240
- Shut up!
- She can't hide it from anyone else!
684
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:29,560
What can't I admit?
685
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:32,160
I have never feared the tongues of others.
686
00:46:32,720 --> 00:46:33,560
Guo Yufeng.
687
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:37,160
You hate me so much
and took revenge against me.
688
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:40,560
Isn't it because of
your marriage agreement with Wei Jin?
689
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:43,600
He willingly turned down
the agreement to marry me.
690
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:45,800
It's all the man's fault,
691
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:48,720
yet you took out your hatred on me.
692
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:52,160
It's all my fault.
693
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:56,120
I pitied you back then
694
00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:58,080
and allowed you to marry
into the Wei residence.
695
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:05,440
I thought I could save your life
and stop the others from badmouthing you,
696
00:47:06,240 --> 00:47:11,280
but I didn't expect
you to hold a grudge instead.
697
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:15,400
Save my life?
698
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:19,040
You ruined my whole life!
699
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:23,560
Do you think
everyone wanted to marry your banal,
700
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:25,680
perverted eldest son?
701
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:28,480
Taking another glance at him
makes me sick!
702
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:32,920
Don't forget. Your family was the one
703
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:35,560
that went back on your promise
and voided my marriage agreement.
704
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:38,240
It was your dotage and folly that
allowed Zhou Fu into this family.
705
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:40,680
That was the cause of everything
that happened today.
706
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:47,520
If you have a grudge, just come at me.
707
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:54,320
- Why would you hurt the innocent children?
- Zhou Fu,
708
00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:56,400
you are smart,
709
00:47:58,200 --> 00:47:59,240
cold,
710
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:02,480
and consumed by the desire for power.
711
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:08,440
You think you're above everyone
and invincible.
712
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:13,200
A woman's greatest weakness
is her children.
713
00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:14,880
You are a mother, after all.
714
00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:19,200
If your daughter dies, you will feel pain.
715
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:24,280
If you were a little more careless,
she would die by your hands.
716
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:28,520
That kind of pain is a pain
that tears at your heart and bones,
717
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:30,520
so unbearable that
you would rather be dead.
718
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:33,440
Every other form of revenge
pales in comparison.
719
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:36,760
I am above such petty retaliation.
720
00:48:41,240 --> 00:48:42,440
Guards!
721
00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:45,000
Take her away!
722
00:49:50,120 --> 00:49:51,760
Lady Li loves her daughter too much.
723
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:53,920
That's why she was misled.
724
00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:56,480
Even then,
725
00:49:57,400 --> 00:49:59,440
she never really had it in her to do it.
726
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:05,320
You have always been
the daughter she loves dearly.
727
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:07,840
Is that so?
728
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:21,440
Mingzhu.
729
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:23,440
No.
730
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:25,320
Rao.
731
00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:28,760
I am your mother.
732
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:29,760
Mother…
733
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:32,480
Mother.
734
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:37,520
Then how could a mother
not recognize her own child?
735
00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:40,880
If it were possible…
736
00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:45,200
I would rather you never gave birth to me.
737
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:50,960
Rao.
738
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:55,040
Rao!
739
00:50:55,720 --> 00:50:59,240
GUANYUN HALL
740
00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:00,840
Rao!
741
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:03,280
Rao!
742
00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:09,000
Rao!
743
00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:13,800
Rao!
744
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:19,720
Don't push her too far.
745
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:23,720
Get yourself together!
746
00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:25,240
Listen to Lu Zhuo.
747
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:27,520
All right.
748
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:29,880
I won't push her. I won't.
749
00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:31,360
Go with her quickly.
750
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:34,160
Bring her back safely. All right?
751
00:51:40,240 --> 00:51:43,560
Had you known how it'd end,
you wouldn't have done it.
752
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:12,520
Mother!
753
00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:13,680
- You useless thing!
- Stop it!
754
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:14,720
Get lost!
755
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:17,560
You sickly wretch!
756
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:19,320
Mother!
757
00:52:53,080 --> 00:52:53,920
Where are you going?
758
00:52:56,760 --> 00:52:57,600
What's scaring you?
759
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:00,400
Afraid I'll end it all?
760
00:53:03,720 --> 00:53:04,560
I won't.
761
00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:08,560
Even if everyone hates me and abandons me,
762
00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:11,120
I won't take my own life.
763
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:14,440
- Come back with me.
- No!
764
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:17,000
I'm not going back there.
765
00:53:17,600 --> 00:53:19,400
I want to be back to my own place.
766
00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:21,800
You don't even know where you are going.
767
00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:23,400
You won't arrive anywhere like this.
768
00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:26,720
- Let go of me. Let go!
- I'll take you there.
769
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:29,400
Let go of me!
770
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:31,920
Let go!
771
00:53:37,280 --> 00:53:38,640
Lord Lu!
772
00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:43,720
Why are you still so foolish?
773
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:46,120
I've never loved you.
774
00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:48,520
Not even a day, an hour, or a minute.
775
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:49,840
I've always been using you!
776
00:53:53,160 --> 00:53:55,440
You are just the same
as Han Liao and Qi Zhongkai.
777
00:53:56,160 --> 00:53:58,120
You are just a stepping stone for me.
778
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:00,080
You knew it exactly
779
00:54:00,680 --> 00:54:02,360
yet you still rushed headlong into it.
780
00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:04,400
Then you are a fool.
781
00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:07,360
If you have even a bit of dignity,
782
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:09,880
you should stop clinging to me.
783
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:34,800
What are you doing?
784
00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:37,800
I knew you were a cold woman.
785
00:54:38,320 --> 00:54:39,520
You can never drive me away.
786
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:44,000
No matter what you say,
I will take you back tonight.
787
00:54:44,720 --> 00:54:46,040
- We're going home.
- Let go of me!
788
00:54:47,120 --> 00:54:47,960
Let go!
789
00:56:58,640 --> 00:57:02,040
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