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Your Imperial Highness.
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Meiren Ji.
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Your Highness is always by Fengqing’s side.
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Fengqing can always sleep so sweetly.
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Meiren Ji,
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why are the palace intermediaries
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all wanting to harm Fengqing?
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Because Fengqing’s mother
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is a person from a race of unidentified origin,
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and also because your mother, the Empress,
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was targeted by talk and persuaded she is an evildoer.
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I like Fengqing!
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Fengqing is not a monster!
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Though he’s younger in age,
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he still has outstanding intelligence!
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Together we’ve been able to figure out a lot of
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odd and yet amusing notions!
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As Crown Prince, Your Imperial Highness has been training your sword skills
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in order to project Fengqing?
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Yes, in addition to protecting the country.
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Great.
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But my physical health from an early age hasn’t been good.
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Commanding General Xue explained
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that it’s not my fault I’m not the best material to study martial arts,
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therefore
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I will have to work even harder in the future!
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My cut is gone!
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Even the best palace imperial physician
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is not as good as Meiren Ji!
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This drop of blood
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will make Your Imperial Highness stronger,
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to permit Your Highness to be able to
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protect Fengqing properly your entire life
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defend the country as well.
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Absolutely!
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Meiren Ji,
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this precious gem, would it be possible for you to give it to me?
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This stone has an innate spiritual nature.
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In the future, it will probably leave me to seek
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to become part of its true owner.
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Your Imperial Highness is very precious to the Emperor,
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and it is prudent Your HIghness remember this at all costs.
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Absolutely do not ask for something from the hand or body of another person,
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in order to show respect to other people.
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People are not really good or evil, merely caught in the moment of an ill-considered action.
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I, Fengming, will remember
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Meiren Ji’s instructions.
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People are not really good or evil, merely caught in the moment of an ill-considered action.
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What are you doing here?
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Today is Your Highness’ natural mothers’ death anniversary.
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I thought Your Highness
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might want a bit of warmth?
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Your HIghness, I like you--!
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Jieyu Bao,
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I do not need any warmth!
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I find it impossible to like you!
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In addition,I want you to conduct yourself with a bit more dignity.
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You are the Emperor’s woman!
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Your HIghness,
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I still am not the Emperor’s woman.
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I feel Your HIghness and I are people fated to be joined together!
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If Your Highness wishes it,
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the Emperor might possibly bestow my hand to you.
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Really? You’re really fond of me?
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I’ve liked Your Highness for a very long time already!
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So...
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if I should ask you do do something,
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you’ll be willing?
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Elder Sister, you’re seriously going over to the Jade Pavilion?
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Of course, the Empress Dowager detests
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Meiren Ji’s residence.
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In the future, Sister, you should be more careful!
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You think that if I follow the rules rigidly
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the Empress Dowager will be pleased with me?
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My existing here in the palace
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is to find out her secret,
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provided that’s at all possible.
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She’s itching to kill me to keep me silent!
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Sister,
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The King of Rui can’t be annoyed with you any more.
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You still need to go back and think
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about that missing crystal coffin matter!
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Meiren Ji is the King of Rui’s natural mother,
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as well as my own childhood
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life-saving benefactor.
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This matter,
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how can I possibly explain it if I set it aside?
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It’s just one night.
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Even if the Empress Dowager grows suspicious,
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misses me and wants to check it out,
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it’s also not possible to muster a large enough force.
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Still be in the palace vicinity,
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and moreover in a group of people.
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We’re going up into that palace
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as there may exist a secret room.
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Help me!
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Xia Lan,
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do you hear a voice crying for help?
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Help! Is there anybody?
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There seems to really be one!
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Let’s go. We’ll go out and take a look.
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Very well.
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Save me!
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I’m begging you, please save me!
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Help me!
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Let me down! Let me down!
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Respectfully greeting Your HIghness the Empress.
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You may all rise.
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Who is that hanging up there?
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Reporting to Your HIghness, it is not known.
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Then why are you not now hurrying to rescue this person?
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This insignificant one did not know
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if what is suspended up there is really a person or possibly a ghost!
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You’re talking nonsense!
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If it’s a ghost, how can it call for help!
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I, Wushuang, will take a look.
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Who’s that shouting up there?
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It’s me! It’s Jieyu Bao!
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Hurry up and get me down!
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Jieyu Bao?
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Why are you not hurrying
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to go help Jieyu Bao down from there!
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Yes.
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Slowly, slowly.
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In the middle of a chilly spring night,
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why are you being seen almost completely naked in this place,
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suspended up there by some person?
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This concubine does not know!
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This concubine was in the middle of my palace and had already gone to bed!
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Asleep until the middle of the night...
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when I suddenly felt an unexpected blast of cold
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and woke...woke to discover
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I had been suspended up here!
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This might have been a ghost...
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All of you talking about ghosts
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can see this with your own eyes!
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What’s more, the Imperial Palace has very positive yang energy,
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no ghost can therefore come in or move around.
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Your Highness the Empress perceives this clearly!
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Your subject really did...
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really did wake up
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to find myself suspended up here!
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I previously heard it’s possible for someone to sleepwalk
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but is it possible to do that this way?
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Matter of fact that’s simply insane!
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Nie Wushuang, you mustn’t slander me!
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Who was sleepwalking!
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You’re sleepwalking right now!
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Enough!
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It’s the middle of the night, not a one of you are asleep,
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and all of you are talking nonsense
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about the middle of our palace being haunted!
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Anyone following this is in opposition to me!
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All of you should go back now!
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The Emperor is still outside on tour reviewing the new army recruits.
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I am determined to investigate this matter thoroughly!
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Yes.
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Reporting to Your Majesty
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this is on behalf of Lan State with a marriage proposal,
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got here just in time.
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- They will arrive in three days from Lan State. - Explain!
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But...it’s a little unclear to your subject, not obvious...
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You’re not clear on a lot of matters!
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Speak!
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This marriage...
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why is it being provided to the Empress Dowager?
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Why should she not be the First Lady of Lan State?
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Lan State’s new army’s experience is still extremely shallow.
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The Empress Dowager’s hands could seize the military authority.
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Xiao Fengming has only half of the complete ruling authority.
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Essentially, it’s still in the hands of the Empress Dowager.
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The marriage sent to her will be
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used to gain more reverence in their hearts.
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Just for this, Imperial Mother will agree to this
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on behalf of her precious child, Xiao Fengming,
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she’s only using
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this marriage to appear virtuous and gain a sage name.
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Arriving tomorrow from Lan for the marriage matter?
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The Princess and those of Lan State along with others will be meeting about the marriage matter.
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it’s imperative to take action
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now that the Princess is being married off to Lan State
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Are you ready to follow her and join her in the palace for a good opportunity?
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General, rest assured.
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Long ago, I already received His Imperial Majesty’s decree.
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Carefully watch Xiao Fengqing
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he’s been hiding that priestess for many years.
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If her only son were to have an accident,
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then she might make an appearance.
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Shennaio ordered this meeting and as a result may appear.
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I, Jiao Tong, understand.
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In the Lan palace, the chess pieces were laid out long ago.
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Everything...
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inside it is entirely within our control.
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Your Highness, please rise.
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Hurry up and make yourself presentable.
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Zhaoyi Nie has come to see you.
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Your Highness...is something wrong?
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Is there something wrong with your eyes?
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I am head of the sect of Donglin Temple.
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I always intended to summon you
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to the Supreme Palace.
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You think you can escape this calamity?
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My instructions on this matter
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have not yet been carried out.
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Instead, Nie Wushang has established great merits.
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Do you think I should not punish you?
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I--. Rise.
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You have the necessary courage and insight.
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How will you achieve this great event?
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You really should take lessons from my younger sister, Concubine Yun.
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She’s comparable to you, but so much more decisive in the end!
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Take that tea to drink again later.
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Imperial Physician Du,
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are you looking into Her Highness Concubine Yu’s matter?
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How did I suddenly become so dizzy?
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Imperial Physician Du,
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Her Highness’ eyesight,
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if there’s no change, will she go blind?
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Her Highness Concubine Yu
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did you recently go somewhere
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and come into contact with something?
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Did you drink anything?
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Ever since returning from Donglin Temple to the palace,
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in addition to that event,
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the Empress Dowager summoned Her Highness
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to also visit the Supreme Palace.
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Her Highness has absolutely not
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otherwise left Ziwei Palace.
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What exactly is this drug, Imperial Physician Du?
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Replying to the Empress Dowager,
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This drug just arrived as a tribute from a foreign land,
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it is an extremely malevolent slow poison.
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After one dose of this drug,
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it will cause you to grow hoarse.
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After that, you will slowly over time go blind.
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and continue until you have lost your six senses.
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Ultimately, it will then cause the entire body’s
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muscles to atrophy and die.
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Death will become preferable.
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So that’s why this malevolent drug
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cannot be kept at your Imperial Medical Bureau.
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otherwise there will be no peace in the palace!
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Empress Dowager,
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why not take this drug
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and hand this humble servant over for punishment!
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Drug? What drug?
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I was never here,
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and you were never here either, Imperial Physician Du.
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Understood.
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Imperial Physician Du, Her Highness Concubine Yu’s illness,
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can you find a method to medically treat it?
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I’m really very sorry.
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Her Highness Concubine Yu’s strange illness
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this humble servant is helpless to cure it.
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Imperial Physician Du!
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Imperial Physician Du, bad news!
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The King of Rui’s wet nurse
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suddenly cried out and now is unable to speak!
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You’re being asked to return to the Imperial Medical Bureau
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right away!
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Brother Du, you’re quick to inform me
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that my wet nurse has been struck by something poisonous?
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Your wet nurse has indeed been struck down by poison.
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It’s from a foreign land, and it has been circulating here.
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Its toxicity is unusually potent.
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The first time you take this drug, it will start to make you hoarse.
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If you come into contact with it again,
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it will cause both your eyes to lose their sight.
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Most seriously,
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the body itself will atrophy and die.
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But luckily,
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my father previously
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did research into the antidote.
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Ruo’er! You mustn’t just say that without thinking!
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What’s this about an antidote?
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Inside this palace, how could there ever be such a thing?
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Father.
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Your Highness Concubine Yu,
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did the Empress Dowager poison you?
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Why would she poison you,
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is it because you know something?
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Your Highness Concubine Yu, don’t be afraid.
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Just tell me
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who targeted you with poison?
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Following soon after Mama Ling,,
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why would the Empress Dowager think it vital to injure you?
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You may be blunt with me.
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I may be able to get the Emperor to help you.
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I mustn’t allow the King of Rui to find out
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I have seen Meiren Ji
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in the Supreme Palace inside a hidden room.
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Only now the Empress Dowager’s poison is starting to silence me--
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You want to tell me something?
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I cannot tell you.
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I mustn’t tell you that the Empress Dowager
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holds a crystal coffin containing a woman
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inside her storehouse.
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Concubine Yu,
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would you really like to come see me again later?
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I can allow your mouth to open up to speak again,
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so you may be permitted again to serve your lord
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and take back
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a lifetime’s worth of dignity?
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My...
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My eyes
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are becoming more and more blurry.
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The Empress Dowager, she wants to exterminate me!
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Of course the Empress Dowager wants to kill you,
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you have failed to keep her trust.
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Why should I believe you?
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If you don’t believe me,
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there’s no reason to await my return.
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Oh by the way...
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has Xiao Fengqing made any movements lately?
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The Empress Dowager
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gave the King of Rui’s wet nurse
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a poisoned drink that was very close to the same as my own poisoning,
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it made the wet nurse unable to speak..
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Then Xiao Fengqing knows
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about your mishap,
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about the Empress Dowager’s treacherous assault?
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I didn’t dare tell him,
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nor dare send a message out to him.
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I didn’t realize then
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why the King of Rui was drawing me closer by taking my hand.
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At once, he knew my secret thoughts,
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he has can change himself and has the ability
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to directly hear my unspoken thoughts.
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You don’t need to know about those things,
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you only need to remember
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that the Empress Dowager has given you a calamity,
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and that I alone may allow you
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a way to survive this.
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Should I disappear,
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your voice will also disappear.
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Here. Drink this down.
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Your eyesight now probably will not be affected.
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I understand.
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Then it is important for me to know where to find you--
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Don’t worry.
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I’ll very soon
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be arriving inside the Lan State Palace,
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along with your voice.
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I’m glad I insisted on taking away from you,
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Fifth Brother,
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this Miao Minghu!
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He really is a remarkable military commander!
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Not only is training new recruits coming naturally,
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he’s as imposing as a rainbow!
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In short, inside this three month period,
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this unexpectedly allowed
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the new armies to change beyond recognition!
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I have decided to request a proper title as a reward for Miao Minghu,
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seize the day!
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We have a great many divisions
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who need to be brave and good fighting men in the new army.
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To go on a ninth expedition to support the Li State
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can be looked upon
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as a whetstone sharpening our new armies.
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I am convinced that it won’t take three years
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for our Lan State to possess sufficient support
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to be ever-victorious over mighty armies!
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The final wishes of the Late Emperor
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may well then quite rapidly be achieved.
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Fengqing
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Fengqing, when all is said and done, how is it?
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Congratulations, Your Majesty!
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Except how is this possible without the world’s best field commander?
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Isn’t he
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already within this palace’s walls,
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just waiting to emerge?
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Fengqing
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Third Brother.
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There is something I wish to ask of you.
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Please, you must tell me the truth.
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Is this a proper way to ask me?
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Ask.
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When has your Third Brother lied to you?
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Where is my mother?
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Fengqing
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Even though you know my mother is here,
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I still don’t blame you
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for not informing me all this time.
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Fifth Brother,
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before you search the Supreme Palace for her,
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I’m not to blame if you don’t find her.
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You mustn’t listen to idle chatter!
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You mustn’t ask about this matter again!
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There’s no point in increasing your sadness.
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I’ll keep asking everyone,
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even if everyone in the capital lies to me!
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Third Brother probably hasn’t lied to me.
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Informing Your Majesty,
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the Empress Dowager has requested
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that Your Majesty proceed toward the Supreme Palace.
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Is there some urgent matter to discuss with me?
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Li State’s requested credentials have just recently arrived.
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Chi State’s requested credentials?
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Why would they send that directly to the Empress Dowager?
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This..
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By your appearance,
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Grand Eunuch Li here
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has heard something over there, right?
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Speak!
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Your Majesty, please calm your anger.
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I’ve heard that this isn’t merely
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a simple request for getting credentials,
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but rather would join with Great Lan in a marriage alliance?.
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This is from Li State’s Emperor,
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who earlier presented me with personally-written credentials?
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Xue Jing, take a look.
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So, actually it turns out
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the Emperor wants to turn over his own younger sister, Gao Yan,
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giving her to be married off to HIs Majesty
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for reinforcements.
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High Minister Xue Jing, how do you see this matter?.
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Answering Your Highness the Empress Dowager,
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your subject believes this Li ruler sent this secret letter
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because our Great Lan
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has not recently dispatched any troops to assist him.
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Therefore, he’s somewhat worried,
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taking this opportunity to become related by marriage to show his sincerity,
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while simultaneously urging our Great Lan
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to rush with all speed to his rescue.
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As for being capable of convincing our Emperor,
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only you, Empress Dowager, may do this.
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Primarily, Li State’s ruler
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is very aware of my Great Lan’s military power.
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In addition,and in return,
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if Li State’s Princess ends up in my hands,
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then this chess piece may be well-used by me,
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so that is advantageous to me.
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If our Great Lan sends troops to support him,
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who will be the military commander,
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who truly can our Great Lan centrally depend upon?
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High Minister Xue, there’s no harm in being straightforward, tell me.
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If it were my decision for the army,
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it would have to be Miao Minghu centrally in command,
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to let everyone know in this world
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that this Lan State’s military is actually in the palm of the Empress Dowager,
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as well as the Emperor!
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I shall take appropriate action.
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Informing the Empress Dowager,
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His Majesty was inspecting the new army troops this morning and has returned,
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will bathe, change clothes,
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and stop by the Supreme Palace.
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You’re dismissed.
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Yes.
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My return letter to
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Li State, where it is?
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Already on its way, on the road to Li State.
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Imperial Mother already gave Li State an official reply letter?
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Your Majesty is not presently in charge of the dynasty.
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This correspondence involved both states,
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so it was proper for me to handle it myself.
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To ally both nations by marriage...is not a trifling matter!
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Imperial Mother, why did you insist
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in making this hasty decision
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and not meet with the state officials to discuss this?
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Your Majesty is dissatisfied
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with the arrangements I’ve made?
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Since I’ve decided that Miao Minghu
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will lead the new army,
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not following my instructions
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will leave little room for error.
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This subject wouldn’t dare.
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I also send a greeting
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to the Emperor of Li State
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to show my feelings, since the letter
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showed they were afraid to directly propose marriage to Your Majesty,
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that Your Majesty would reject it.
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I too found it difficult,
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but was concerned for the relationship between the two nations.
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To make matters worse,
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Your Majesty is my own flesh and blood,
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and the common folk of Great Lan
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and no I don’t really blame them,
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have been divided by this north and south rift for a long time,
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the common folk have suffered unspeakable misery.
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fearing the disaster of a war.
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Li State’s princess being married off here
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will provide the common people of both states
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with a period of peace.
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The great unwashed masses
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by the thousands will avoid a calamity.
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Located inside this palace,
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there already is an Empress.
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Anyone arriving now can only be below her, as a concubine.
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Was this not your plan all along, Imperial Mother,
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as you were the mastermind of this plan?
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Certainly.
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It would have also go against my wishes.
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Recently,
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Your Majesty conferred a title
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on that Zhaoyi Nie.
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If Your Majesty can show your top favor
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to some foreign dancing girl.
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Why can’t the next one
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for the balance of power between both states be the Li State Princess?
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To have this get around
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would bitterly disillusion the commoners!
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No, that would not appear
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to be the Li ruler’s marriage objective!
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It’s not that simple,
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I’ll be showing the wolf into the house (introducing trouble).
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It seems Your Majesty
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thinks she is the Li ruler’s chess piece?
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Then why
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00:27:08,630 --> 00:27:09,860
take hold of her and change her
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to make her our chess piece?
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Controlling this woman
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by meeting her in the capital and moving her emotions,
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if only Your Majesty would properly take care of her,
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even the most unyielding person
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who is duty-bound not to turn back and
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be steadfast until death.
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will abide by the rules and be at your side.
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Your Majesty’s marriage
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00:27:24,820 --> 00:27:26,560
with the Li State Princess, Gao Yan,
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is either fortune or calamity,
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all held within Your Majesty’s hands,
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00:27:30,940 --> 00:27:32,450
isn’t that so?
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00:27:32,450 --> 00:27:34,670
Mother and child not being of the same mind,
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is this not a disgrace to our national reputation?
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I also cannot force you into this,
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00:27:40,390 --> 00:27:43,220
but rely on Your Majesty’s capability to make a good decision.
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00:27:44,620 --> 00:27:48,420
Any state official could have negotiated this marriage,
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00:27:49,300 --> 00:27:50,300
but Imperial Mother is also
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capable of personally agreeing to answer this matter?
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I unexpectedly learned of the marriage negotiations.
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00:27:59,980 --> 00:28:01,980
Tell me your considions.
532
00:28:02,980 --> 00:28:04,730
Primarily,,
533
00:28:04,730 --> 00:28:06,510
this time helping Li
534
00:28:06,510 --> 00:28:09,343
is important to establish Miao Minghu as commander-in-chief.
535
00:28:09,343 --> 00:28:10,980
The Emperor may wish to say this,
536
00:28:10,980 --> 00:28:13,980
but I don’t think the old founding ministers
537
00:28:13,980 --> 00:28:16,590
will not believe His Majesty is accepting the new army’s
538
00:28:16,590 --> 00:28:18,500
success in their stead?
539
00:28:18,500 --> 00:28:21,890
This time, the northern expedition will indeed be hazardous.
540
00:28:21,890 --> 00:28:23,500
Manning this with Miao Minghu
541
00:28:23,500 --> 00:28:24,710
as he is well-acquainted with his homeland,
542
00:28:24,710 --> 00:28:26,110
I wouldn’t say I was planning this
543
00:28:26,110 --> 00:28:28,480
in a way to unexpectedly diminish the will of the troops.
544
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,210
By allowing us to send troops, it’s half the work and twice the reward.
545
00:28:31,210 --> 00:28:33,540
Then the second reason?
546
00:28:34,540 --> 00:28:36,120
Second,
547
00:28:36,120 --> 00:28:39,120
helping Li in their request for Great Lan’s help now, so in future
548
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:42,960
Imperial Mother will be capable of properly burying Meiren Ji.
549
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,180
This will allow Fengqing to untie his knot,
550
00:28:45,180 --> 00:28:47,820
as it really is a sore point for him.
551
00:28:48,230 --> 00:28:51,560
As a matter of fact, this equates to telling the realm
552
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:54,040
that the Late Emperor had not forgotten that evildoer,
553
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:55,420
and all along had this evildoer in their possession
554
00:28:55,420 --> 00:28:56,560
deep within a palace storehouse,
555
00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:58,200
forcing me to stand in guard over here coffin!
556
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:00,950
Your Majesty, do you think you can allow your Imperial Mother
557
00:29:00,950 --> 00:29:02,320
to keep some prestige?
558
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,420
Imperial Mother, please be at ease.
559
00:29:04,420 --> 00:29:07,060
I’m determined to seek out personally
560
00:29:07,060 --> 00:29:09,060
the single best way of doing this
561
00:29:09,060 --> 00:29:10,350
to protect you, Imperial Mother,
562
00:29:10,350 --> 00:29:12,880
while in the midst of proving the realm’s military prowess.
563
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:21,740
It seems I have no choice but to agree.
564
00:29:28,380 --> 00:29:30,740
Fengqing, I hope you’ll smile.
565
00:29:30,740 --> 00:29:32,190
I promised Meiren Ji,
566
00:29:32,190 --> 00:29:34,050
who asked that I forever protect you,
567
00:29:34,050 --> 00:29:35,740
as your Third Brother and Crown Prince,.
568
00:29:35,740 --> 00:29:36,740
and when grown up and becoming the ruler.
569
00:29:36,740 --> 00:29:38,910
to get ahold of your mother’s precious stone, search the capital to bring it back.
570
00:29:38,910 --> 00:29:40,820
Is this true?
571
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:42,820
Furthermore,
572
00:29:42,820 --> 00:29:44,820
you mustn’t consider yourself an orphan.
573
00:29:44,820 --> 00:29:48,020
Your Third Eldest Brother will forever be your closest relative.
574
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,820
What do you want by coming here?
575
00:30:03,220 --> 00:30:05,210
Yin Deshun told me
576
00:30:05,210 --> 00:30:07,520
the King of Rui’s mood wasn’t good.
577
00:30:09,220 --> 00:30:11,700
It’s not necessary for you to handle His Majesty’s affairs.
578
00:30:12,870 --> 00:30:14,470
In meeting His Majesty,
579
00:30:14,470 --> 00:30:16,180
has something happened?
580
00:30:18,350 --> 00:30:19,880
I don’t want my matters
581
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:20,780
to implicate you.
582
00:30:20,780 --> 00:30:22,780
What would implicate me?
583
00:30:22,780 --> 00:30:24,320
I only know that you have treated me with kindness,
584
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:25,720
you saved my elder brother.
585
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:26,680
allowing him to stay in Lan State
586
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:27,420
and start anew.
587
00:30:27,420 --> 00:30:28,640
You also rescued me!
588
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:30,080
Yes.
589
00:30:32,660 --> 00:30:34,070
You’re located at my Third Eldest Brother’s side,
590
00:30:34,070 --> 00:30:35,940
and getting a fresh start!
591
00:31:13,940 --> 00:31:15,540
Your Majesty.
592
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,380
Your Majesty, drink some tea.
593
00:31:25,780 --> 00:31:26,780
Your Majesty, is being in the middle
594
00:31:26,780 --> 00:31:29,560
of Li State’s marriage proposal vexing your mind?
595
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:32,230
Zitong, you’ll tell Imperial Mother,
596
00:31:32,230 --> 00:31:33,900
why in any case would I meet you to discuss
597
00:31:33,900 --> 00:31:36,210
anything instead of making my own decision?
598
00:31:36,210 --> 00:31:38,420
Your Majesty talks like this,
599
00:31:38,420 --> 00:31:40,860
your servant reveres Your Majesty.
600
00:31:40,860 --> 00:31:44,000
My being persuaded to rise and go to Your Majesty’s palace,
601
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,740
how is the Empress Dowager to blame for this?
602
00:31:46,740 --> 00:31:47,750
Zitong,
603
00:31:47,750 --> 00:31:50,060
you mustn’t by any means think this way.
604
00:31:50,060 --> 00:31:52,460
You’ve known me ten years,
605
00:31:52,460 --> 00:31:54,740
even if Imperial Mother had not added this additional layer of relationship.
606
00:31:54,740 --> 00:31:55,750
As Empress,
607
00:31:55,750 --> 00:31:57,900
you are entirely worthy of the title.
608
00:31:59,340 --> 00:32:00,720
What
609
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:02,030
part of your conduct as Empress
610
00:32:02,030 --> 00:32:04,990
is your being involved in discussions about a marriage alliance?
611
00:32:04,990 --> 00:32:06,980
In your humble servant’s opinion
612
00:32:06,980 --> 00:32:08,980
the Empress Dowager in this way insists
613
00:32:08,980 --> 00:32:11,980
on the marriage matter to restrict any freedom of action.
614
00:32:11,980 --> 00:32:13,710
But this matter for now appears
615
00:32:13,710 --> 00:32:15,900
that it will do more good than detriment to Lan State.
616
00:32:15,900 --> 00:32:17,910
Li State’s Princess would enter the inner court (harem)
617
00:32:17,910 --> 00:32:20,270
surpassed in rank only by myself, the Empress.
618
00:32:20,270 --> 00:32:21,910
I, your subject, would watch her closely
619
00:32:21,910 --> 00:32:24,620
to prevent Li State’s machinations from taking the opportunity.
620
00:32:25,630 --> 00:32:27,040
Li State’s Princess will need to be provided
621
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:28,660
with a title and living
622
00:32:28,660 --> 00:32:30,660
allowing her to join properly with Lan State
623
00:32:30,660 --> 00:32:32,230
with respect to her dignity,
624
00:32:32,230 --> 00:32:33,660
even if it’s an undeserved reputation,
625
00:32:33,660 --> 00:32:36,300
and thus showing understanding as Li State is powerless.
626
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:39,050
Zitong, you’re quite attentive.
627
00:32:39,050 --> 00:32:40,990
I will immediately confer her as “Imperial Concubine De”.
628
00:32:40,990 --> 00:32:42,860
the third-ranking concubine.
629
00:32:42,860 --> 00:32:45,310
This should be good enough to keep up
630
00:32:45,310 --> 00:32:47,560
Li State’s prestige.
631
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,000
Your Majesty is wise.
632
00:32:51,700 --> 00:32:54,420
Your Majesty, in addition..in short,
633
00:32:54,420 --> 00:32:56,500
not sure it’s appropriate for me to tell you?
634
00:32:56,685 --> 00:32:58,550
Empress, please tell me.
635
00:32:58,550 --> 00:33:00,680
Zhaoyi Nie’s peculiar status
636
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:01,520
as your subject, I’m afraid
637
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:03,200
that if Your Majesty continues to show her special favor,
638
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:05,150
by being pampered, she may grow arrogant.
639
00:33:05,150 --> 00:33:06,280
Just in case--
640
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:09,560
This one really has you, the Empress, that worried...
641
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,580
or is it that the rest of the concubines in the Imperial harem are worried?
642
00:33:12,580 --> 00:33:13,840
As your subject, I’m useless,
643
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:16,440
I shouldn’t bother Your Majesty with my own troubles.
644
00:33:18,140 --> 00:33:20,720
With regard to Zhaoyi Nie’s matter,
645
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:24,120
that’s my choice.
646
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:28,640
If she really is a danger to Lan State,
647
00:33:29,340 --> 00:33:31,940
I’ll dispatch her myself.
648
00:33:32,590 --> 00:33:34,360
The success or failure of the army
649
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:36,870
will play a critical role in Your Majesty’s imperial power.
650
00:33:36,870 --> 00:33:38,360
I understand
651
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:39,070
Zhaoyi Nie
652
00:33:39,070 --> 00:33:41,640
is being used to control Miao Minghu as a chess piece.
653
00:33:43,340 --> 00:33:45,340
I will control more than
654
00:33:45,340 --> 00:33:48,580
Miao Minghu with this person.
655
00:33:55,580 --> 00:33:56,820
Imperial Physician Chen,
656
00:33:56,820 --> 00:33:59,340
can you take a look at this prescription?
657
00:33:59,340 --> 00:34:01,110
This prescription...
658
00:34:01,110 --> 00:34:02,640
Ruo’er!
659
00:34:03,340 --> 00:34:05,240
Father, you’ve returned!
660
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:06,680
His Majesty ordered the Imperial Physician Bureau
661
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:07,560
to develop a treatment for the Mama Ling.
662
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:09,000
and an antidote for Her Highness Concubine Yu.
663
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:10,020
His Majesty is coming over.
664
00:34:10,020 --> 00:34:11,020
Yes, Zhaoyi Nie
665
00:34:11,020 --> 00:34:12,860
brought an oral order from HIs Majesty.
666
00:34:12,860 --> 00:34:14,200
You’d better examine this.
667
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:16,160
You take care of it!
668
00:34:18,030 --> 00:34:19,430
In that case, let’s rush over there!
669
00:34:19,430 --> 00:34:21,480
Okay, that’s fine..
670
00:34:26,180 --> 00:34:29,440
Father, what’s going on?
671
00:34:30,140 --> 00:34:34,140
Ruo’er, you’ve just entered the palace
672
00:34:34,140 --> 00:34:34,910
and still don’t understand
673
00:34:34,910 --> 00:34:37,170
the subtle relationships in the palace.
674
00:34:37,170 --> 00:34:38,540
Concubine Yu, along with Mama Ling,
675
00:34:38,540 --> 00:34:40,540
were poisoned and made speechless.
676
00:34:40,540 --> 00:34:41,540
Naturally, there is someone
677
00:34:41,540 --> 00:34:43,900
who unexpectedly does not want them to open their mouths to gossip.
678
00:34:43,900 --> 00:34:44,900
Even though His Majesty has acquiesced
679
00:34:44,900 --> 00:34:46,980
to Zhaoyi Nie’s assistance in manufacturing an antidote,
680
00:34:46,980 --> 00:34:48,450
behind his back,
681
00:34:48,450 --> 00:34:51,300
there was an order someone made to vent their anger at the Imperial Physician Bureau.
682
00:34:51,300 --> 00:34:52,980
The antidote manufacturing has been completed,
683
00:34:52,980 --> 00:34:55,640
so now they have been defeated.
684
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:57,240
Father,
685
00:34:57,240 --> 00:34:59,780
are you saying you really don’t know anything about it?
686
00:35:01,780 --> 00:35:03,790
Don’t ask me ever again.
687
00:35:03,790 --> 00:35:06,110
Concubine Yu had previously lost her influence.
688
00:35:06,110 --> 00:35:07,780
Mama Ling
689
00:35:07,780 --> 00:35:10,420
is only the King of Rui’s former wet nurse.
690
00:35:10,420 --> 00:35:12,940
We haven’t got the necessary influence to go in.
691
00:35:12,940 --> 00:35:14,270
Both of them
692
00:35:14,270 --> 00:35:16,570
are already considered taboo by the Empress Dowager.
693
00:35:16,570 --> 00:35:17,800
This one matter
694
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:20,210
can only cause them to grow weaker over time.
695
00:35:20,210 --> 00:35:21,420
As time progresses,
696
00:35:21,420 --> 00:35:24,480
Zhaoyi Nie will naturally find out what’s going on.
697
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:26,400
But Mama Ling...
698
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,380
how can she be to blame, as just the King of Rui’s wet nurse?
699
00:35:28,380 --> 00:35:31,030
The King of Rui is truly a thorn in Empress Dowager’s side.
700
00:35:31,030 --> 00:35:33,570
Why do you always seem to care about him?
701
00:35:35,550 --> 00:35:37,030
Um....
702
00:35:37,030 --> 00:35:38,910
The Imperial Physician Bureau is having some difficulty in requesting some medicinal ingredients,
703
00:35:38,910 --> 00:35:40,860
I’d better go check on that now.
704
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:29,660
Elder Sister, you’re awake!
705
00:36:30,660 --> 00:36:31,660
That Eunuch Li,
706
00:36:31,660 --> 00:36:33,230
why does he keep coming back here?
707
00:36:33,230 --> 00:36:34,670
I waited on Eunuch Li again,
708
00:36:34,670 --> 00:36:36,660
he requested that Elder Sister please make your way to the Supreme Palace tomorrow
709
00:36:36,660 --> 00:36:37,660
to take part in a Buddhist meeting.
710
00:36:37,660 --> 00:36:39,660
Up to now, there hasn’t been any unexpected news.
711
00:36:39,660 --> 00:36:40,760
It’s a Buddhist meeting?
712
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:41,300
Right! It’s the Empress Dowager’s,
713
00:36:41,300 --> 00:36:42,630
on behalf of Princess Yunle’s older brother.
714
00:36:42,630 --> 00:36:44,410
Everyone annually attends this Buddhist meeting,
715
00:36:44,410 --> 00:36:46,120
the entire city and the harem!
716
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:47,390
The masters of Donglin Temple
717
00:36:47,390 --> 00:36:48,700
are here and have already entered the palace!
718
00:36:48,700 --> 00:36:50,840
Is that so?
719
00:36:51,540 --> 00:36:53,480
Xia Lan...
720
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:54,700
in this harem...
721
00:36:54,700 --> 00:36:56,790
is there a place called the “Jing Pavilion”?
722
00:36:56,790 --> 00:36:58,670
There seems to be one next to the Supreme Palace.
723
00:36:58,670 --> 00:37:01,140
The Late Emperor put his scriptures there.
724
00:38:11,740 --> 00:38:14,210
This inner court of the concubines is really big!
725
00:38:14,210 --> 00:38:16,620
I should go back the direction I came from.
726
00:39:37,500 --> 00:39:39,500
Master Yun told me
727
00:39:39,500 --> 00:39:40,500
the Imperial Palace has a very large
728
00:39:40,500 --> 00:39:42,070
collection of sacred books.
729
00:39:42,070 --> 00:39:43,500
Some are handwritten copies
730
00:39:43,500 --> 00:39:45,870
that even Donglin Temple does not have!
731
00:39:45,870 --> 00:39:49,020
More than likely, that’s it here!
732
00:39:57,940 --> 00:39:59,980
Zhaoyi Nie!
733
00:40:01,380 --> 00:40:03,980
You’re Qingyuan, the young monk?
734
00:40:05,020 --> 00:40:08,020
You aren’t planning to go to the Buddhist meeting?
735
00:40:08,020 --> 00:40:10,020
Yes, maybe the Empress Dowager
736
00:40:10,020 --> 00:40:12,460
will unexpectedly miss me!
737
00:40:14,460 --> 00:40:17,760
Young Master, why is this record here?
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