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Alas, you

Every emperor in history

has many concubines

You've been on the throne for some time

After finishing those important affairs

It's time to think about marrying new concubines

Mother

I think

Father just passed away not long ago

The empress has just become pregnant

At this time

to marry concubines

Isn't it

a little not proper?

You've just taken over the throne

with shallow foundation

You need noble families to help you

to restore the royal base

Marriage is the best way

As for the empress

she should be the model for women in the country

The state affairs are to top priority of the country

If she doesn't know this

she shouldn't live in the central palace

Welcome back, Your Highness

Please invite Lord Yuzhang into the mansion

Please

Is brother in the mansion?

The princess was called into the palace by the empress dowager early in the morning

He hasn't come back

Go and report

I will show your Lord around the mansion first

Okay

The luxury of the prime minister's mansion

is not inferior to the palace

For years, the noble classes

are almost like this

Marrying me

is an ill treat to you

Though I was born in a noble class

I never care about luxury

The days with you

You know how safe I feel in my heart?

This is my room

When I was a child, when summer came,

Brother

Me

Jiner

It's my favorite place to play here

I made the whole garden filled with water

Father

often blamed and punished us

Who is making mess there?

Sister Awu

Brother-in-law, you are so serious

You are?

Qian'er?

I am

Salute Lord Yuzhang and Your Highness

Salute Lord Yuzhang and Your Highness

Aunt

Home is not the court

There is no need for such a rite

Thank you, Your Highness

Qian'er

I always remember how shy you were when you were a child

Can't think of this

What a beauty you are now

I can hardly recognize you

And thanks for sister Awu' s praise

We lived secluded in the mountains

I hasn't taught her much

Just now Qian 'er was rude

She made be rude to Princess and Lord Yuzhang

Please forgive me

for our rudeness

It's fine

By the way

Come on

These are gifts from the members of Langya family for you

Take it

Take them

Thank you, my aunt

By the way

Pei'er gave this to you

Do you still remember Pei'er?

Her mother died early

I brought her up since she was a kid

Previously, she was entitled as Princess Xuanning

She married Grand Master of the Palace with silver seal and blue ribbon Wu Jun

The marriage was good

But Pei'er was really unlucky

After she married

She soon became pregnant

But she lost her baby less than three months

Less than a year

It happened again

Aunt

There are important things in court waiting for Lord

Please let him go first

The day is cold today

You just got recovered

Keep yourself warm

Awu

You really married a good husband

The empress dowager has a good insight

Aunt

Please say it, Lord

Lord Hulan

What is he planning?

Do you remember when I released a tiger in the forest

You mean Helan Zhen?

These days

There was much less trouble from the north

That means it's starting to work

Unfortunately,

His ambition to invade south

we cannot take it lightly

He calls at this time

I'm afraid,

It's just a temporary plan

You see, Helan Zhen

How many times has he fought with us?

Did he win?

But he does not change

He is the guest from a far place

Serving good food and drink is the manner of a big country

Lord, when will we return to Ningshuo?

Go back to Ningshuo?

That place in the capital

You've got tired with it?

No

I just think that

if we don't go into the battle field

I don't even know

how to use the sword then

I'm also afraid

I am afraid of the soldiers

enjoy in affluence

and lose their spirit when stay in the city

We stay here

in the land of the heart

can ordinary people

live a peaceful life

In a few days

You need to go to palace with me together

Why?

Aunt and Qian'er get into the capital

It's also a big deal for the Wang family

The empress dowager declared edict

to hold a family dinner in Yongan Palace

hoping we can get together

Of course I know you still hate her

But she is the empress dowager anyway

She and Wang family are both in the same league

This time the empress dowager summoned them to palace

For the sake of

Reviving Wang Family

For an early preparation

All right, go quickly

I had to deal with these troubles

Your Majesty

What are you doing?

I have heard my mother said

when she carried me

I made a lot of noise

She suffered a lot

Now, I am going to

tell our baby

Kid, listen to me

Don't fiddle in your mother's belly

Be obedient

Did you hear that?

Your Majesty

You're so nice to Wanru.

Your Majesty

Wanru has something to say to Your Majesty

Your Majesty

Did you hear anything?

The courtiers make a splash

to beg Your Majesty

to marry new concubines

If I say I don't know it

isn't that

too hypocritical?

But

how can you...?

Your Majesty

If I speak from my heart

I am

so unwilling

Not willing to share Your Majesty with other women

But

I am

Your Majesty's empress

Should be the model of other women in the world

I should be

like an empress

Therefore,

I totally understand

As the Lord of the middle palace

I should fully

do my best and consider well for Your Majesty

Wanru

No matter in the future

who will enter into the palace

The empress's position in my heart

can never be replaced by anyone

I have the word from your majesty

I am

more relieved

You still need comforting for taking medicine?

Come on

Drink it

I won't

Drink it

No

Don't drink?

You can drink it

Fine

You are shameless

If you don't drink medicine

I would be more shameless

How long have I been taking this medicine?

Never let me stop

The imperial physician must have received your benefit

To bully me on purpose

Who would deliberately bully you?

The last sip

In previous life

I must be in your debt

Maybe I owe you

Mother

Mother

Do you like this set?

My girl is in full bloom

You are beautiful whatever you dress

Qian'er won't eat

Mother coaxed me again

When in Langya,

everyone said that Qian'er is unparalleled in the world

But today when I saw sister Awu

She was even more beautiful than me

Even though Awu is pretty,

she is the same with Pei'er

You can go down

She is the same with Pei'er

who has bad luck

Why did mother say that?

I sent servant

to give some extra gratuity

and snooped in the mansion to found that

Awu had lost her baby few months ago

She hardly escaped from death

She is weak in health

In the future,

I'm afraid she barely can have a baby

She is really the same with Pei'er

If she has no children,

even Lord Yuzhang loves her in every way,

it will just be passing clouds

You know the Empress Dowager sent people

to take us from Langya to the capital

What is her purpose?

She wants me to enter the palace

So, you must seize this opportunity

Thanks Empress Dowager for the reward

Qian'er really likes it

I'm glad Qian'er likes it

Our Langya really produced outstanding people

and raised such a beautiful girl

Thanks the Empress Dowager for the praise

Mother

Aunt Empress Dowager is very kind to Qian 'er

Just like my own aunt

The Empress Dowager is your own aunt

Aunt Empress Dowager

Qian'er had the wrong word

Qian'er means...

Qian'er likes aunt Empress Dowager

This girl

Your Highness, Princess Yuzhang is coming

Wang Xuan greets to the Empress Dowager

Stand up

Thank you, the Empress Dowager.

Your Highness

Sister Awu came.

Aunt

Qian'er

You all sit down

Aunt, please sit down

Awu

For the family dinner of today,

Qian'er and her mother came from afar just in time

We Wang's family can have a good time together

Aunt has also prepared

sweet ferment rice from Langya hometown

I remember it was your favorite food when you were a kid

Thank you, the Empress Dowager

Aunt Empress Dowager had partiality

Qian'er

Never mind

I like the way Qian'er is

Later at the feast,

there will be something you like to eat

Thank you, the Empress Dowager

Is there anything I like to eat?

Your majesty

Your majesty! You may rise

Since it is a family dinner today,

Awu, you don't have to be constrained

Thank you, Your Majesty

After I became the emperor

I become estranged from my sister

You Majesty is the Emperor

Wang Xuan needs to respect you

Really?

I clearly remember that

when you got along with the late emperor,

you never follow any rules

My son

Greets the Empress Mother

My son

Come and meet you aunt and cousin.

Greetings, your Majesty

This young sister

Mother

We-daughter of Langya Wang

Sure enough, everyone is like Awu

A born beauty

Thank you, Your Majesty

How can Qianer be as beautiful as sister?

Oh, yes

Close enough

Step back

The Empress Dowager found a girl who looked like Wang Xuan

And set up a family dinner at Yongan palace?

But I felt that

It shouldn't be that simple

Of course

If it wasn't for the lack of time

The Empress Dowager should have be against with me already

Now the emperor has ascended the throne

How can she allow her power to fall?

Your Highness means

The Empress Dowager wants to take the opportunity of selecting a concubine

to call her enter the palace?

No wonder

Officials remonstrated to the emperor to take new imperial concubines

Because she knows

The emperor was fond of Wang Xuan

So find someone similar to her

It saves a lot of effort

If the Empress Dowager really thinks so

Isn't

she coming for my

Empress position

Awu

Wait

Your Majesty,

I have a few words to tell you

Don't follow us

Okay

Awu

There are no outsiders now

Just like before

Call me brother Zilong

Okay?

Langya's residence is far away

I haven't been back for years

I really miss it

Today you two come to the palace

It also satisfied my homesickness

You seldom enter the palace

Mammy Gui

Yes

Show them around the palace

Walk around the Imperial Garden

Okay

Thank you, Empress Dowager

Then we won't disturb you

I am going to leave, Your Majesty

Qian'er is going to leave, Your Majesty

Qian'er is an unsophisticated girl

I absolutely can't choose the wrong one

Go take Prime Minister Wen here

Okay

Awu

Come here, come here, hurry up

Do you remember in childhood

Every summer

we hid under that bridge and caught fish

Just over there

You always call me brother Zi Long

You're afraid that I would not play with you

Time flies

The things are still there, but people are no more the same ones

Over these years

Mother...

I have become the emperor now

But my loved ones

my old friends

they either left or died

Awu

So many things have happened

I assume that you are the one who suffered the most

Tell me

Do you hate me?

Who should I hate?

I should thank you

What do you thank me for?

I am grateful that you gave my father a way out to live

There is no need to thank me

If you want to

you need to thank your husband

My husband?

Since your father

wanted to coerce me at the price of my life

Naturally, the kinship between him and me was cut off

I wasn't going to show any mercy

But I didn't expect that

Lord Yuzhang

knelt down outside the imperial study room for the whole night

He said

you have lost your mother and kid

At the moment, you can't afford to lose your father anymore

I reluctantly agreed

when he said so

Didn't he tell you?

Awu

There's one thing I've always wanted to ask you

That day, mother and you

Does the demise of my father

involved my mother?

No

It doesn't, right?

It's good that it is not related to her

It's good

Mother

I think the Palace isn't

as good as I imagined

Although Langya isn't as good as here

Wang's mansion isn't inferior to

the Imperial Palace

Lower your voice

She is right

About the delicacy and elegance

Wang's Palace is not inferior to

the Imperial Palace

Greetings, Your Royal Majesty

Xue from Wang's family

Wang Qian from Wang's family

kowtow to Empress, Your Royal Majesty

My daughter is ill-mannered

She didn't know your arrival

and made impertinent remarks, Your Royal Majesty

Please taking into consideration that it's her first time to come to the Royal Palace

and she is young

Please don't blame her

Your Majesty

They are the clan relatives of the Empress Dowager

Qian'er is the cousin of the Emperor

Get up

Thank your, Your Majesty

As I expected

It's said that today

a fairy-like girl came to the Royal Palace

and she looks like Princess Yuzhang

Now when I look at you

Sure enough, it's not a lie

Although Qian'er lives far from here in Langya

I have heard Empress's unparalleled talent and virtue

Today I saw Empress in real life

then I realized the hearsay among folks is inaccurate

Your Majesty is not only with unparalleled talent and virtue

but also has stunning appearance and boundless merits

Your Majesty is the paragon for the women across the country

Qian'er is almost stunned

It seems your mouth

is covered with honey

It's a bit of hastily, I didn't have enough time to prepare

Here is a gift on our first meet, for you

Come on

Thanks, Your Majesty

Qian'er likes it very much

Sister, if you come to the Imperial Palace in the future

you can visit me in Zhaoyang Palace at any time

Great, great

In the future, Qian'er will also have a sister in the palace

Prime Minister Wen, please

Please

Wen Zongshen

kowtow to the Empress Dowager

Come on

Stand up

There is no need to be too polite between you and me

I am wondering what kind of important thing

Empress Dowager is going to talk to me here

I want to talk to you about the emperor

Have a seat

Thank you, the Empress Dowager

I heard you have a prejudice

against the emperor's selection of concubines

If it's for this case

I really disagree with it

Imperial Palace is closely tied with Imperial Harem

Wen, you have been serving for many years

You must know the connections between them

Now, you insist on objecting it

Are you against Zilong?

You don't want to help him sincerely

Empress Dowager

I am always loyal to the Emperor

and has no any selfish ideas and personal considerations

I am against the plan that Emperor selects concubines now

it's simply because the late emperor just demised

It's inappropriate to do it now

Inappropriate?

If you really take Emperor and the state into consideration

you shouldn't cling to the old custom

Now, the political situation has just settled down

There are domestic and foreign issues

The foundation of the emperor is not stable yet

We especially need the support from all the noble families

Uniting by marriage is the best policy

Your Majesty, since you have decided

why did you ask me to come here?

Do you still remember

what you said before?

Empress Dowager

When brother wanted to set you up

I'd rather turn hostile to him just for protecting you

It's all because

the affection between you and me

I still remember that you said

you will protect me from age to age

Don't you want to help me, do you?

Wen

Empress Dowager

Empress Dowager

Don't worry, Your Majesty

I'll do my best

to guard Emperor

and you

Weeds

Hemp ropes

Wood dregs

Anyway, there is no cotton

They want us to get through winter with these things

The weather is getting colder and colder

All Soldiers are waiting for it

In the end, not only the quantity isn't enough

But the winter clothes are crudely made

I. I...

Since the incident of King Jianning

It has long been rumored that

the soldiers from Jiangnan

feel themsevles inferior to Ningshuo Army

Is it true?

You even heard this

I also heard that

the mutiny had already occurred among the Soldiers in various towns across Jiangnan

They

have always been afraid of being implicated by King Jianning

Now they make trouble with the excuse of the winter clothes

It's not a surprise

Go to check

how much extra money is there in our Ningshuo Army?

Use all of it

Produce a batch of winter clothes for emergency

Lord, why do we spend the money of Ningshuo Army?

Ningshuo Army and the soldiers of the towns in Jiangnan

are all the soldiers of Cheng

What's the difference?

Okay

I will give you another errand

Go to investigate

Where did the material of this batch of clothes come from?

And where was this batch of winter clothes made?

How much did every ready-made clothes cost?

Whose hands did the money pass through?

Mother

Look

This is the bracelet of Empress

It must be priceless

There is also the award from the Emperor and aunt

This visit to the palace is really fruitful

They just gave you a few things

so that you are content

At least, you are the daughter of the Langya Wang's Family

Why do you have such a short vision?

Langya Wang Family, Langya Wang Family

Mother, don't mention it

I thought Langya is affluent

But comparing to the capital

I became a Miss from the rural household

Except anything else, just talk about what happened today

No matter who sees me

they all say Awu, Awu, they say I resemble her

Why don't they say she resembles me?

In Langya

there is no one who doesn't flatter me

But in capital

I became someone's foil

Wang Xuan is the legitimate daughter of the Wang family

Certainly, she is unusual

Legitimacy

Yes, she is extraordinary

Uncle was exiled. His life and death are still uncertain

Even though her mother was the former aunt princess

she died anyway

Stop it

It's not a big deal to say it in private

But in palace

you can't say whatever you want

You also know that you are in the capital now

It's different from Langya

When we are in Langya, the emperor is far away from us

Even if you are just a side branch of Wang family

you are still free and willful

But here in the capital city,

the situation is more complicated

If you don't behave yourself well,

you may be eaten out of bones in the future

I'm under the protection of aunt Empress Dowager

Who dares to do anything to me?

You don't know who you are

when she just complimented you a bit

Don't forget,

You are the same as Kai'er

You are just a chess piece

for her plan in the palace

That year,

She disregarded my entreaties

and sent your brother, my only son

to the army for training

He died before he could return to the capital city

We didn't even see each other

for the last time.

But Wang Su,

Just because he was the eldest son of the family,

he could do whatever he wanted in the capital,

and in the same year, he was honored the glorious title

This must be done well

Wang Su

Just go get it done

Brother Su is back

He hasn't heard, has he?

Hurry up

Su-er

Aunt

Su-er

I have something to tell you

Aunt, please

Qian'er and I came from Langya

A widowed mother and her daughter,

It may not be good for us to live all the time in your residence

I've sent someone to look for a house in the capital

As long as a suitable house is found,

Qian'er and I will move there

I apologize if I didn't take good care of you

Su-er, you worry too much

Mother

I don't want to leave here

Such a big residence of Wang family

am I not allowed to stay?

What do you know?

Now your brother Su has been married

and will be honored his lord title

If we live here for a long time,

we may make some troubles for him

But Qian'er is right

How couldn't both of you stay

in such a big residence?

Besides

And this is the residence of our Wang family in the capital

Even if father has gone

Yes, Yes

Mother, we should not make brother Su sad by mentioned this.

Please just listen to Qian'er and me

Besides, being so smart and lively,

Qian'er looks quite like the unmarried Awu

Each time I see her,

I would remember something that happened in the past

This can be regarded as a kind of comfort

Under such circumstances

we are family, no need to stand on ceremony

That stated, Qian'er and I will keep bothering you by staying here

Okay

Your Majesty

Xie Shouzheng from the Ministry of Revenue requests to meet you

Let him come over

Salutations, Your Majesty

By seniority in the family, I should call you uncle

Get up

Thank you, Your Majesty

Governor Xie

What is this for?

This is a jade kylin

I heard that Your Majesty is expecting

So I asked the best craftsman in the capital

to carve this kylin

Congratulations, Your Majesty

Wish you good health and longevity

Take it

Okay

It must have cost you a fortune

Never mind, Your Majesty

What I have today

is because of you, Your Majesty

Don't mention it

You are now working in the Revenue Department

You should know

my intention to recommend you to the emperor

I understand

I'm ready to sacrifice everything for Your Majesty

and risk any danger to do my duty

You are in the critical position now

Stay alert and be careful anytime and anywhere

Don't have your weakness held by those who envy you

Okay

Well, I'm getting tired

You can step down now

Alright. Stop splashing

How about this?

Stop running

Come on, stop it

Miss A'yue

Miss A'yue

General Song

What are you doing here?

I bring Miss Yuxiu some medicine

Please help me to pass it on to her

Thank you, General Song

If Yuxiu knows about this

She must be very happy

The flower, please also

Please also help me

Is the flower also for sister Yuxiu?

I never expected General Song

to send flowers to girls

I'll give them to her right away

Miss

Thank you

Never mind, General Song

Miss, the flowers were taken from the imperial mausoleum

Remember to put them under the sunlight

and water them

I see