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[Weaving a Tale of Love]

[Episode 28]

[Hall of Immortal Nectar]

Your Majesty, are you having headaches again?

How about-

(chanting)

(chanting)

With the success of Great Tang.

to sincerely pray to Supreme Deity

to be told Great Tang's future fortune

and hope Supreme Deity will share the wisdom.

What does God say?

God has already said his words, please have a look, Your Majesty.

After three generations of Tang,

Female ruler, Wu.

After three generations of Tang,

Female ruler, Wu.

Your Majesty, I protect Great Tang.

I am not afraid to reveal God's plans.

It is Your Majesty's heart as well as Great Tang's heart.

Do you have a consort in the royal harem with the surname Wu?

If you do, I am afraid you have to be prepared.

It is better to be prepared.

Your Majesty. Your Majesty.

Your Majesty.

[After 3 generations of Tang, Female ruler Wu.]

I am tired.

Please take me back to rest.

Yes.

Consort Yang, I have already gotten a hold of the news.

There is no problem. Everything was a success.

Ming'Er finally has done something successfully.

Even if Talented Lady Wu is Zhuge (historical figure of wisdom) reincarnated,

she probably won't be able to live.

I especially send people to find mints from the damp wilderness.

Please bring it back for me, Eunuch Gao.

Mints? Isn't this a medicinal herb?

This is the first time I have seen one fresh.

Please have a smell, Eunuch Gao.

The smell is fresh, the smell is cool,

it makes people awake and full of energy.

This is really wonderful.

Most people dry the mints to make medicine.

Yet they don't know that fresh ones also has many benefits.

The most interesting way is to put it on the desk.

It can help you relax and be awake.

Today, His Majesty is not well.

He often sleeps and not awakes easily.

I especially found this.

Please bring it back, Euncuh Gao. Then, put it by His Majesty's side.

I hope it will help His Majesty's health.

Talented Lady Wu, why don't you wait til tomorrow?

You can bring it to His Majesty yourself.

It is can also let His Majesty know of your sincerity.

Bringing it to him a day earlier will benefit His Majesty's health a day earlier.

As for who sends it, there is no difference.

Talented Lady Wu, you think of His Majesty in everything.

Yet you never fight with sisters in the palace. I am touched.

Talented Lady Wu, let's have a talk privately.

I have a n urgent matter to inform you.

-This is- -It must be Prince of Cao and his mother's doing.

After 3 generations of Tang, female ruler Wu.

This is too absurd.

Since history, there has never been a female ruler.

His Majesty is wise, he obviously won't believe it.

Crown Prince, you are missing something.

This involves the country.

Also, this message was shown to His Majesty when he was ill.

His Majesty for sure will believe

to take precautions.

Talented Lady Wu, your concerns are with reason.

Although it is a scheme, but the danger in this

is that it is only words and cannot be proven.

You have to be careful because the meaning cannot be erased.

Compared to the country and the capital's safety, the royal harem's

women seem to be weak.

Even if this woman

is liked by His Majesty.

This is what I am also concerned about.

I think His Majesty has already come to a decision.

His Majesty's death day,

will be my death time.

Whether it is a white collar or a cup of poison,

His Majesty will for sure kill me before he dies.

In order to rest in peace.

His Majesty won't be this confused.

Today, His Majesty has gifted me many things.

I think he feels guilty towards me.

Before he kills me, he wants to

comfort me.

As long as he wants me dead, I have to die.

Maybe this is my fate.

No.

I have to find His Majesty to clear it up. I have to expose this absurd saying.

Your Highness. Your Highness!

-Your Highness. -Your Highness.

His Majesty has not yet said anything and has not passed any orders.

What do you want to say?

I have a plan we can try.

After His Majesty was ill, the person in the royal harem

who was the most hard-working was Talented Lady Wu.

His Majesty's rewards today

mean that he feels guilty towards you and doesn't dare to touch you.

Even if he has made a choice,

but as long as his health is well and is not at risk,

he won't hurry to kill you.

The interpreter said

after 3 generations of Tang, female ruler Wu.

His Majesty is Tang's second ruler.

As long as His Majesty's health is well,

then I can live for a few more days perhaps.

So, what we have to make His Majesty believe first is that his health is well,

and he won't be in a hurry to kill you.

This way, we can only have time to plan for the second move.

-Then what about the second move? -The second move

sorry, Talented Lady Wu.

In the time of death, if I can live,

I can suffer.

The second competition.

Is to make a dress.

To match the red shrug made previously.

The pattern cannot be repeated.

As long as it is what the consorts wear daily, it will be okay.

This problem seems to be simple,

but it makes people nervous and not know where to start.

-Qiniang. -Yes?

What type of dress do you think Xiao Douzi will make?

Should I make the same as her,

or should I avoid her?

You ask like this, I also don't know what to answer.

Useless!

You don't know anything I ask!

I ask you to do stuff and you don't do any of it well!

I asked you to spy on Xiao-

I asked you to spy on Xiao Douzi's actions.

She used grape as dye, such a big matter, you also didn't know!

It caused me to be careless and lose the competition!

Usually you are protective of her!

Say! Are you helping the outsiders?!

I-

Teacher, please reconsider I have am not insincere!

Leave!

Useless thing! I don't need you to serve me in the future!

-I- -Leave!

Such temper!

Hurry up and leave!

Let's go back.

Your Majesty.

Your Majesty.

Eunuch Gao, His Majesty has awoken.

I have been sleeping a lot lately.

Why have I slept so long again?

Your Majesty, you are associated with work and too tired,

so you would become so tired.

Your Majesty, from a skilled person,

I have asked for miraculous medicine.

Your Majesty, as long as you eat it for 7 days, you will be cured.

If you eat it everyday, you can also become more young.

Your Majesty.

I have already asked Imperial Academy of Medicine to check it.

This elixir is refined from several dozens of precious ingredients.

It can help your health a lot, please feel safe to take it.

Thank you, Talented Lady.

What happened to your arm, Talented Lady?

There is nothing.

You have already been injured this much, and you call it nothing?

Say, what happened?

A few days ago, I got injured accidentally.

There is nothing big, you don't need to worry, Your Majesty.

Tell me the truth.

To find the skilled person,

I begged him to give medicine.

He said this medicine is not ordinary.

This is because it needs a young, rich girl

to use their own blood as medicine.

They also have to pray in front of buddha, and promise

then they can only use it as medicine.

You are saying the miraculous medicine I just had

was made with your fresh blood?

If my sincerity

can exchange your health's well being,

this is nothing.

Talented Lady, you are so nice to me.

But I...

I have made you suffer.

Your Majesty, what are you saying?

You have cared for me much, Your Majesty.

A few days ago, you have rewarded me much, there isn't any suffering.

A'Bi must have been ordered by Teacher.

They want to find clues about Xiao Douzi's sewing.

It looks like, Teacher is suspicious of me.

Who is it?

Attire Expert Zhuo, it is me, A'Bi.

Say.

Reply to Attire Expert Zhuo, the place where Xiao Douzi hides things, I have already searched.

I didn't find anything.

These few days, her actions have been mysterious.

She also hasn't been making clothes in the main room.

I don't know what the dress she made looks like.

I have watched carefully these days.

Xiao Douzi leaves early and comes back late, her eyes are already red.

She also carries a bag with her always.

It never leaves her side.

I think, inside it must be the dress.

Leaves early and comes back late?

Eyes red?

This Xiao Douzi's sews fast.

Yet she rushes to sew day and night,

it must be a complicated and delicate dress.

But...when the consorts gave out the problem, didn't they say

that this dress doesn't need to be so complicated.

Matching the shrug jacket made before

it will be well if you match the clothes the consorts usually wear.

What do you understand?

Xiao Douzi must have thought that I would make a simple dress

so she used a lot of strength.

She wanted to use this chance to make my skills less superior than hers.

The consorts, although they say it like so,

but once they see a beautiful dress,

they will like it.

You are right Attire Expert Zhuo. I have spoke too lightly.

A'Bi. Help me well.

Don't be like Qiniang.

Qiniang is not talented and does things too slowly.

She is indicisve and can't be trusted with important tasks.

As long as you are loyal to me,

I will use you a lot and help you.

I won't let you down.

I will do my best to help you.

Okay. Leave.

It looks like my dress...

It is sewn too simple still.

Xiao Douzi.

Qiniang, you shouldn't find me in the future.

Or else you will get scolded by Zhuo Jinniang again.

Teacher has already started to be suspicious of me.

Even the person who serves by her side has changed to A'Bi.

Teacher kept from me that she asked A'Bi to investigate your sewing.

You have to be careful.

Since you know that Zhuo Jinniang has become suspicious of you,

why do you still come here?

If she knows that you are still protecting me,

you will have to be scolded again.

Xiao Douzi, you're not angry at me anymore?

You didn't know how important this Golden Needle was to me.

So you listened to Pei Xingjian.

If you want to blame, then blame Pei Xingjian.

You wanted good for me. You wanted me to be out of danger.

Qiniang.

In the future, you should look after yourself first in the future. Don't mind me.

For the competition, I have my own sense.

Xiao Douzi, these days you weren't in the sewing room,

where are you hiding to sew?

I know Zhuo Jinniang is trying to find me.

She wants to know what type of dress I am making.

I'm hiding in the Courtyard of Misfortune. I want to make her super worried.

Attire Expert Zhuo is working all day on the dress in the small sewing room. She doesn't even leave the room.

She is determined to defeat you.

This is the dress you are making?

In order for her not to do something, I bring it everyday, wherever I go.

Even when eating, washing and sleeping, I have it by my side.

Let's see what way she has.

Now that you say, I am even more curious.

What dress can make you go out early and come back late, and not being able to see you for several days?

Can...I have a look?

No, no. Wait 2 more days.

Then when it is the competition, I will show it. It will surprise you for sure.

It looks like not only are you taking caution against others, but also me.

If I knew, I shouldn't have asked.

I'm just asking for a rebuff.

Don't get angry, if you really want to know,

I won't hide it.

But, the dress I am making is the most simple white dress.

There is nothing special.

Are you lying to me?

Why would you make it so simple?

It is not that I am simple, it is to match.

This time's dress is used to match the red shrug jacket.

The red shrug jacket is already elegant and unordinary.

If I use another elegant, unordinary dress to match it,

It will overwhelm the primary theme. It violates a major rule in dressmaking.

You Xiao Douzi! Not only is your sewing skills good,

your thoughts are strong and you have great dare, I am jealous of you.

If you say it like so, your dress should have already been finished,

why are you so busy?

How am I busy? I am not busy one bit.

I only pretended in order to scare Zhuo Jinniang.

Zhuo Jinniang also knows overwhelming the primary theme violates a major dressmaking rule.

But the more busy I am, the more nervous she gets.

She will think all she can to make the most elegant, unordinary dress.

Yet she doesn't know, the more effort she puts,

the higher the chance of her losing.

His Majesty, today you look

better than yesterday.

Talented Lady's miraculous medicine really is useful.

I only ate it 2 days and I already feel much better.

I also don't know where Talented Lady found this skilled person.

Where's Talented Lady?

Ask to see Talented Lady.

A'Juan, you go yourself.

Select a few high-quality tribute jades, also ten bolts of silk fabrics,

ten hanging pearls, ten strands of agate.

I will go now.

Talented Lady, Eunuch Gao is waiting outside.

You are just sitting here, and not letting me to help you get ready.

What happened?

Talented Lady, how about I put up your hair for you?

Sister Yu Liu, Eunuch Gao is rushing again.

He asks if Talented Lady has finished getting ready.

Talented Lady.

Bring the scissors.

Scissors? Why do you want scissors?

You cannot!

If you don't want to see me wrongfully die,

then bring me the scissors.

Your Majesty, Talented Lady Wu has arrived.

Talented Lady, have a seat, wait for me to finish this order.

Your Majesty, I came to ask for forgiveness.

I used your miraculous medicine for a few days and feel much better.

You have credit, what crime do you have?

I have committed a wrong of lying to the emperor.

Please punish me hardly, Your Majesty.

Lying to the emperor?

Where is your silky hair?

Who dares to take your hair?

I haven't told you the complete truth of the miraculous medicine.

Please punish me.

Unless, becoming bald is related to the miraculous medicine?

What else have you hidden from me?

The condition for refining that elixir is very harsh.

Other than using my blood as medicine,

you also have to promise in front of buddha severely,

if the illness is cured, you have to become someone who follows buddha for the rest of your life.

Shave off my hair to become a female monk and stay by Buddha's side.

Your Majesty, your illness has gotten better.

I don't dare to go against the promise. I am afraid the medicine will no longer be effective.

For Your Majesty's safety and to have a long life,

I am willing to go bald as a promise.

Please agree, Your Majesty.

How can you do this at your most beautiful time?

Why didn't you tell me earlier?

Your Majesty is a virtuous and kind emperor, and you have shown me great affection.

If I tell you,

how would you be willing for me to lose everything.

To become bald?

I don't want you to feel bad, so I went ahead and did it.

I only wish your health is well.

If I can fulfill this wish, even if I die,

There is no harm.

I really owe you too much.

The more good you are to me, in my heart

I am more not at ease.

Crown Prince, Talented Lady Wu has already slept.

It's not convenient to see visitors.

She said thank you for visiting.

She also said

that she hopes Your Highness and Imperial Guard Leader will each take good care.

The kindness you guys have given her, she will remember forever.

If she cannot repay this life, then she will next life.

I know Talented Lady Wu has not slept. Go inside and report again!

Your Highness, let's head back first.

Talented Lady Wu now,

has too much wrong and suffers.

Rather than telling her comforting words which will make her sad,

let's let her calm down alone.

Talented Lady Wu, don't despair. Everything can be resolve in time.

I hope you know.

♫ How many loves, regrets, entanglements, separations, reunions must we go through together ♫

♫ Uncover the vicious cycle of the past ♫

Look after your madam well.

If there is anything, come anytime to report at East Palace.

Yes. ♫ I've spent this life with brush and ink in hand ♫

♫ Writing about what love is ♫

♫ Borrow from the relentless of the night ♫

♫ To exchange for the certainty of a promise ♫

♫ There are too many bumpy roads along the way ♫

♫ The more twists, the deeper it is ♫

♫ After the fire, there was only one thing left ♫

♫ A bright moon that makes one's heart tingle ♫

Talented Lady, you are alright?

Yu Liu...do you still remember...

what I used to fear the most...

was being sent together with those consorts

who had no male offsprings to Ganye Temple,

after his Majesty's death.

to get old by accompanying Buddha.

I have not thought...

that today I would be using up all of my tries.

I have racked my brains.

Only by shaving my head and becoming a nun,

I can protect my life.

Talented Lady, don't be scared!

I will stay by your side!

Together from birth to death.

How is Xiao Douzi doing?

I went to watch him. He has already fallen asleep.

He has most probably already finished embroidering.

Zhuo Attire Expert, you have already embroidered many auspicious flowers and plants on the muslin skirt.

If you are to add more,

the design would go over the top, right?

What do you even know?

Xiao Douzi has been conducting some furtive actions. He would go out in the morning and return back late at night.

He for sure,

is doing everything to defeat me in one strike tomorrow.

Therefore, I must exhibit all my sewing skills

through this muslin skirt.

A'Bi! Come!

Take a look! The embroidery method

of each plant and flower is unique.

Isn't it so beautiful? Very vibrant!

What you are saying is right!

Right! Right! You are just as Qiniang! You can only say right!

I am asking you. Did you even hear me?

I asked whether these flowers I embroidered

are beautiful or not,

Zhuo Attire Expert's skills and techniques are unrivalled in the entire state!

Extremely splendid and magnificent.

You will most probably win tomorrow's competition.

You are saying well.

Such a splendid and magnificent muslin skirt!

How could I even lose?

Mother, your daughter has for sure to claim back your golden needle tomorrow.

As well as the Number One Needle title of the state.

For Mother's sake, I'm going to punish

that vicious Zhuo Jinniang who has cheated and eliminated her teacher.

Mother...wait patiently this night.

Wait for your daughter's good news.

[Bureau of Imperial Attire]

Attire Expert Zhuo, it's daybreak, hurry and wake up.

Hurry and wake up, Attire Expert Zhuo.

Attire Expert Zhuo.

Oh no, we're late, we're late. Are we late?

There is still time.

Hurry, iron my dress to get it ready for the competition.

- Yes. - Hurry up!

Xiao Douzi is indeed smart.

This dress really fulfills the topic's requirement from the grand consorts.

It looks like

Attire Expert Zhuo will lose again today.

Good brother, wait for me for a moment here.

Yes.

Liuli.

What are you doing here?

I am ordered by the crown prince to leave the palace on a mission.

So I came here to say farewell to you in advance.

The second round of the competition is about to start.

How are you? Do you feel confident?

As long as you don't interfere into my affair,

I have 100% confidence to win the golden needle back.

Of course I also wish that you will get the golden needle back soon.

But I worry more about your safety.

While I'm away from your side these days,

you must be extra careful and not be headstrong.

If you run into any difficulty,

don't be reckless, tolerate and hold back first.

Wait until I get back.

Imperial Guard Leader is being so nagging.

Are you deliberately delaying me from the competition?

I won't bother you then.

I wish you good luck today.

Oh yes, there is one more thing.

Talented Lady Wu may be leaving the palace soon.

Talented Lady Wu is leaving?

- Where is she going? - Xuan Ling greets Your Majesty.

May Your Majesty live ten thousand years and many more.

Sir, please rise.

If Meiniang hadn't offered the elixir refind by your,

I wouldn't have know about such a master as you

who can refine an elixir to revive someone back from the brink of death.

Your Highness, His Majesty is meeting guests.

He is not available. Please come back later, Your Highness.

Your Majesty is overpraising me.

Xuan Ling has read a hexagram for Your Majesty.

Your Majesty's fortune is as high as the sky.

As long as you can get through the current trial,

you will still have several dozens of years in this world.

Are you sure?

Who is so bold

as to wear a cape in front of His Majesty?

That person is Talented Lady Wu.

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♫ Watching the flowers bloom and fall in the courtyard ♫

♫ How many loves, regrets, entanglements, separations, reunions must we go through together ♫

♫ Uncover the vicious cycle of the past ♫

♫ Fate has its uncertainties ♫

♫ I've spent this life with brush and ink in hand ♫

♫ Writing about what love is ♫

♫ Borrow from the relenting of the night ♫

♫ To exchange for the certainty of a promise ♫

♫ There are too many bumpy roads along the way ♫

♫ The more twists, the deeper it is ♫

♫ Breaking up and making up is like an illusion ♫

♫ Resembles a traveler traveling through this life ♫

♫ Time ignores everything including obsession ♫

♫ With the candlelight flickering indefinitely ♫

♫ With the candlelight flickering indefinitely ♫

♫ A bright moon that makes one's heart tingle ♫

♫ After the fire, there was only one thing left ♫

♫ A bright moon that makes one's heart tingle ♫