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♫ One flower, one world; One leaf, one enlightenment ♫

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♫ The raindrops pattering against the banana leaves last night awoke me gently and gracefully. ♫

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♫ Continuously and closely, continuously and closely, intoxicated within the aromatic air ♫

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♫ Closely touching you, closely touching you. ♫

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♫ So many poetic lines were left behind inside of dreams ♫

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♫ The raindrops in front of the house drenched the spring clothing ♫

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♫ Pitter-pattering raindrops, pitter-pattering raindrops, sprinkling and trickling over the memories ♫

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♫ Entirely about you. Entirely about you. ♫

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♫ I desire to ride a fair wind to separate, but my heart can't escape ♫

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♫ Wanted us to be intertwined trees growing as one, wanted to enjoy the world together ♫

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♫ I'm having fun in the mortal world, a cherry blossom free against the sky horizon ♫

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♫ Playing you as a flute song, holding you prisoner within my embrace ♫

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Untouchable Lovers

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Episode 34

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What are you all doing here? What are you all doing here!

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I'm here to search!

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Who are you people? You dare to use violence right under the feet of the Emperor? (T/N in the capital city)

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If you say one more word,

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I'll treat you as a Liu Song spy and capture you.

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Seal the front and back sides of the house. Don't let even a bug escape.

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- Get up! Hurry up!

- What are you doing? Who are you people?

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- What right do you have to arrest us?

- That's right...

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- Move! Get out!

- Let go!

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We are merchants!

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- Nonsense! Move!

- We are merchants!

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- Hurry up!

- What really do you want?

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Hurry up! Hurry up!

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- Move!

- What are you all doing?

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- Why did they arrest you?

- What are you doing? This...

- Move faster!

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Is everyone here already?

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There were a total of twenty-three people who checked in today.

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At the moment, we were able to find only twenty people.

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The other three are currently being searched for.

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What really do you want from us?

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We all are Qiang Tribe merchants.

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Qiang Tribe? I think that's wrong.

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You are Liu Song spies.

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What Liu Song? We really are from the Qiang Tribe.

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We're here to do business. What right do you have to arrest us?

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- That's right. We are all Qiang Tribe people. Is there still any laws here?

- Stop right there!

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Immediately surround and arrest them. If anyone dares to resist,

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kill them.

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Stop!

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Did you all of you see that? Any spy who dares to resist...

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will end up like that.

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Your Majesty, you just finished handling state affairs?

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What time is it already?

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I immediately came back after handling state affairs.

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Did I made you wait anxiously?

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State affairs are more important. It's fine with me to wait, no matter how long.

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Hongxiu, do you know why I had you enter the palace?

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Your Majesty...

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You are very beautiful and very smart.

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You left a deep impression on me.

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But more importantly...

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it's this yearning bead on your hand.

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With Your Majesty saying that, I'm a bit more confused.

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When I was young, I had a very close playmate.

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She was the granddaughter of the Grand Tutor of that time.

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When we were touring around the lake one time, she accidentally fell into the water.

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In the end, even her corpse wasn't found.

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You look a bit like her.

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She also liked wearing yearning beads on her wrist.

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With them against her white, fair skin, it was really such a beautiful sight.

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Because her nickname was "Xiangsi." (T/N "yearning")

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That's why when I saw you, I decided to keep you by my side.

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Although I didn't have the fate to meet Xiangsi,

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I am very grateful to her.

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Why?

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Because maybe it was her spirit who helped me

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meet you.

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Your Highness Prince Kang.

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Eunuch Pan, I have very important matters to see His Majesty about.

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But His Majesty is already sleeping. If there is really any matter, just wait for tomorrow's morning court to say it.

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This matter is very important. You must inform His Majesty.

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Your Highness, if you have anything important, you have to let me know first.

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Or else, if I just rashly enter

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and that angers His Majesty, I can't bear the consequences.

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Just go and inform His Majesty. If anything happens, I will bear the responsibility.

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Go!

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Yes.

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Your Majesty, Prince Kang has important matters, and is requesting an audience with you.

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Your Majesty.

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What is it?

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Guiren Feng, Prince Kang has important matters and is requesting an audience.

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His Majesty is soundly asleep. Who would dare disturb him?

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Hurry and leave.

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Eunuch Pan, is His Majesty willing to see me now?

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His Majesty is already asleep. I also tried my best.

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Eunuch Pan, I already told you the urgency of this matter.

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If you don't let me in, I can only charge in.

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Your Highness Prince Kang, if you are planning to forcefully enter, then don't blame me for being disrespectful.

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Men!

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What are you two being noisy here about?

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Imperial Consort Dowager Qi.

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Royal Mother.

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Go and inform His Majesty that I want to see him now.

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But His Majesty is really resting.

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If you two have any urgent matter, why don't you go back first

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and I'll immediately inform him first thing tomorrow.

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Damn you! You dare block my path?

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Are you getting muddled?

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Today, I just insist on seeing His Majesty. Let's see who will dare block me.

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Your Highness the Imperial Consort Dowager...

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Damn you!

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Your Highness the Imperial Consort Dowager...

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Your Highness Imperial Consort Dowager, don't know what important matters you have to enter the palace this late at night.

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Guiren Feng, with your tiny status,

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you dare to block me?

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I dare not.

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It's just that His Majesty wasn't feeling well today, so he went to sleep early.

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He even instructed that no one is allowed to disturb him.

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Since it's His Majesty's request, then it's an Imperial decree.

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Your Highness the Imperial Consort Dowager, to put it lightly, you barging into his chambers this late at night is disturbing his sleep.

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But on a more serious note, that's resisting an Imperial decree.

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Who do you think you are?

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You think that after getting a few days of tender attention,

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you can already use the Imperial decree to scare me?

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For so many years,

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how many beautiful women have been here in this palace?

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All of them have behaved properly.

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Who dared to be unruly in front of me!

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I know that my status is lowly.

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I dare not be reckless in front of Your Highness the Imperial Consort Dowager.

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It's just that His Majesty has been toiling day and night. He's already in an irritable mood.

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We had to light some fragrant incense and fan him, before he finally was able to sleep.

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Your Highness the Imperial Consort Dowager, with you shouting and making a scene here,

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if...

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if His Majesty gets awakened by it, and it causes him to be very mad,

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then...who will bear the responsibility for that?

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What if I force my way in?

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Looks like the wind here is quite strong. It has caused Your Highness to become muddled.

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I also won't mind giving you a reminder.

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- Eunuch Pan.

- Yes.

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Ask the Longling Army to come and protect His Majesty.

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How dare you!

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Guiren Feng, I will remember everything that you did today.

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Your Highness the Imperial Consort Dowager and Your Highness take care then. I won't walk you out anymore.

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Royal Mother, let's go.

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Are we really going to wait until tomorrow's morning court?

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This is already the safest method.

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With such an urgent matter,

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if any changes suddenly happen, we will lose this good opportunity.

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Royal Mother, before we inform His Majesty, we must not make rash moves.

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Didn't the person you ask to wait for the contact already successfully capture him?

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The captured person already killed himself by biting his tongue. I wasn't able to get anything from him.

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That was a loyal until death subordinate. Of course, he wouldn't surrender without a fight.

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No, if we miss such a good opportunity,

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where else can we find it again?

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Could it be you want to keep seeing that bitch riding above me?

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Yun'er, you must be resolute. If you miss out on this,

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there won't be any chance for redemption.

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Royal Mother, I still have some important details to confirm.

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What is it?

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There was a name on the list of someone that I would have never expected.

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Who?

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Your Highness, a message from outside the palace.

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Qin Yuan has already betrayed us. He's meeting Rong Zhi in the Fengya (Elegance) Court tonight.

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Your Highness, I've delivered the message.

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But, will he come?

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Fengya Court

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Lord.

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Your Highness, why did you come?

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What? Is the person you're waiting for not I?

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I was just preparing to go to Prince Kang's Manor.

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Today, you've been doing unrestrained searches all over Pingcheng

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causing people to feel uneasy. Why is this so?

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Pingcheng is under my jurisdiction after all.

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Regardless of the reasons, you shouldn't do private searches.

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At the very least, you should have informed me first.

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With you doing it like this, how can I explain it to His Majesty?

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If I tell you about it, won't you have the chance to leak the news?

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Leak the news?

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Your Highness, what do you mean?

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Qin Yuan, I've always thought that we have an agreement.

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Although you are a ungrateful vile person in front of better profits,

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you surely know that

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a subject should be serving two masters at the same time.

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Hence, you wouldn't betray me that easily.

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I really have put too much confidence on you.

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The Prince Regent just threw you a few dog bones,

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yet you already hastily pounced on them.

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Your Highness, what are you saying? I can't understand this at all.

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But I must urge you

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that while His Majesty hasn't sensed anything yet, you should stop it now.

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If you wait until tomorrow, everything will be too late.

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I heard that your Chief Clerk Wen

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has a very pretty concubine.

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Lord Qin likes her a lot.

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You have repeatedly asked Chief Clerk Wen for her,

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but he keeps refusing.

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In the end, what choice did you make? Do you still remember?

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Why are you suddenly mentioning this?

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Men!

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I remember that Lord Qin fabricated a crime of rebellion for Chief Clerk Wen.

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You then just took his concubine away.

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While he was in prison, you have them prepare a huge cooking pan

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and then just cooked him alive.

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In the end, you got a admission testimony.

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That's why, a lot of people say that any criminals sent to you will not end well.

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You...

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Your Highness, what are you doing?

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Your Highness.

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You're the first person who dared to abandon me and

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ally with the Prince Regent, standing on two boats at the same time.

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But, you will also be the last one.

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Your Highness, I didn't.

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Someone must be framing me. Someone has to be framing me!

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Your Highness, you must not fall into a vile person's trick of sowing dissension.

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Right. The Prince Regent indeed asked me to meet with him today.

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But I definitely didn't have any intentions of betraying you.

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I didn't. I didn't.

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None...

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I initially was also suspecting if this is just a false accusation.

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But after seeing you here, my suspicions were all gone.

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No.

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Tuoba Yun, you can't kill me.

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I'm a high official of the government. If you kill me,

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you won't be able to explain it to His Majesty.

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Don't you still understand it, Lord Qin?

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Actually, you were killed by

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the fugitive older brother of Chief Clerk Wen.

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He exactly used the torture method that you used against Chief Clerk Wen.

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No...

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Later, when the Prince Regent arrives, he will only think

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that you died out of revenge and has nothing to do with me.

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Your Highness. No!

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Your Highness! Your Highness!

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General, you're still not going to the morning court?

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My health hasn't fully recovered.

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The Imperial Physician said that you've long recovered. Stop making gags here.

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Those rows of ministers are like carrots in a field.

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With or without me, there's not much difference. Why then must I go?

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If you continue like this, you'd get complained against by the Imperial Censor.

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Haven't I had a good number of their complaints already? When you have a lot of lice, it doesn't itch anymore.

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- General, you have a guest.

- Who is it?

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An envoy from the Qiang Tribe.

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Feifeng General, since you're able to come to court, I believe that your injuries are all healed.

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Thank you to Your Majesty's blessings, I'm already fine.

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Your Majesty, I have one item to submit to you.

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Oh?

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Your Majesty.

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List of Purported "Liu Song Spy" Names taken from the Daughter Festival Lantern

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Copy of the Pingcheng City Defense Map

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May I ask Your Majesty what are those items?

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How come Your Majesty became unhappy after looking at them?

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Yesterday was the Daughter's Festival.

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The ladies of Pingcheng love to release lanterns in the river to celebrate it.

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The Prince Regent's Consort made use of this chance

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to make contact with the Liu Song spy

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within Pingcheng via river lanterns.

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Liu Song spy?

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Chuyu has suffered enough suspicions and has been exhausted both in body and heart.

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But even now, you all still won't let her off.

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Was it us who were able to catch her little weakness,

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or was it she who committed a grave crime,

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all this will be decided by His Majesty.

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Prince Regent, why must you be this angry?

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Unless you also have close communications with Liu Song,

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- and are worried that you'll get affected by this?

- You!

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Let's not talk about the previous matters first.

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This time, there are evidences.

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The Prince Regent's Consort used the act of releasing river lanterns

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to secretly inform the spies within PIngcheng.

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Their names and hidden locations are all written there.

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The letter also mentioned some recent major events in Pingcheng.

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It even had Pingcheng's defense map.

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From what I know, only the Prince Regent has a copy of this defense map.

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Either the Prince Regent's Consort secretly stole it,

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or the Prince Regent personally gave it to her. There's no other possibility.

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- Is that true?

- I'm sure of it.

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Your Majesty, Chuyu has previously been falsely accused.

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Are we going to repeat this again?

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That's right. Last time, the Prince Regent's Consort got publicly humiliated.

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It can't be helped that she'll bear grudges against it.

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So for her to instigate the Prince Regent to do some things

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is also understandable.

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Tuoba Yun, stop your slanderous accusations!

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Your Highness Prince Kang, is the truth really as you said?

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Of course.

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So, the reason that you were doing unrestrained searche all over Pingcheng yesterday was to catch Liu Song spies?

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Yes. I've already imprisoned all of them to be tortured and interrogated—

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Your Majesty, please immediately call in a guest that has traveled far.

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He has been waiting for quite a long time.

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Let him in!

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Lord Envoy, please come in!

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Greetings to Your Majesty.

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Your Majesty, as the envoy of the Qiang Tribe,

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I initially came here for the friendship of our two states.

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Who knew that the merchants of my tribe

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would just be arrested and killed without reasons.

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I ask Your Majesty to give us justice.

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What's going on here! Huo Xuan!

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Your Majesty, Prince Kang last night suddenly ordered his men to do unrestrained searches.

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He arrested all the foreign merchants inside the Yuelai Inn,

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- screening for Liu Song spies among them.

- Impossible.

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During the arrests, a Qiang Tribe merchant was killed on site.

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Impossible. The dead person was clearly from Liu Song.

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Nonsense! Last night, you killed one

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and took away thirteen more for no reasons at all. All of them were from my tribe!

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What are their connections with Liu Song?

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Your Majesty, the tip I got was very accurate.

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I've already verified them. I surely will not make such a mistake.

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Now that things have come to this, Prince Kang is still being argumentative.

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Our Wei and the Qiang Tribe have frequent dealings.

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It's fine if you mistakenly killed one of them, but you even accused them as being Liu Song spies.

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Isn't that so laughable?

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Are your men too stupid to differentiate between the clothes of people from Qiang Tribe and Liu Song?

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All of them have border passes with them.

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If you'd just verified these details, how could you make a mistake?

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You clearly killed the wrong person

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and still refusing to repent for it.

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Even if I killed the wrong person, how will you explain the defense map?

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Your Majesty, can you allow me to look at it?

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Your Highness the Prince Regent.

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Prince Kang, this defense map is clearly fake!

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Someone has set Prince Kang up. Stole the river lantern of the Prince Regent's Consort midway

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and then used a fake one, to lure him into the trap.

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And he indeed took the bait.

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After falling into their evil plot, he killed an innocent Qiang Tribe merchant,

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and falsely accused the Liu Song princess.

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With the completion of this scheme, Wei not only offended the Qiang Tribe,

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we will also create a grudge with Liu Song.

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Two birds with one stone. Such a sinister plot.

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You... It was clearly you!

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Prince Kang, what have you done!

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Your Majesty, I was supposed to submit to you a trading agreement.

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But it looks like Wei doesn't have any intentions to maintain a good relationship with us.

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Since that's the case, I'll now take my leave.

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Wait!

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Your Majesty, do you still have anything to say?

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For this matter, I will give the Jiang Tribe a reasonable explanation.

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May envoy stay here in Pingcheng for now and wait for the result of our investigation.

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What's going on? How come the Liu Song spies that Prince Kang arrested

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became Jiang Tribe merchants?

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Not only arrested, he even killed one.

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- Your Majesty. The matter wasn't like that.

- You're still not kneeling?!

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You have committed an irreparable mistake, yet you still don't know to repent?

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The Jiang Tribe is harboring evil intentions to begin and you have just given them an excuse to attack us.

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Your Majesty, I—

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Your Majesty, the Rourans have always tried to get the Jiang Tribe to their side.

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And the Jiang Tribe has been using this to get benefits from us.

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With Prince Kang's rash actions, I fear that it will incite future trouble. We must make preparations in advance.

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I know that very clearly.

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But since the matter has come to this, how should we resolve it?

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Your Majesty, Jiang Tribe this time

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came to our Wei to discuss a trade agreement.

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Now that we're the one who is at fault, what if they ask for excessive conditions,

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we'll then be left with a dilemma.

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I understand. Prince Regent.

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I am here. I initially planned to give this to Prince Kang.

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But now that he completely offended the Jiang Tribe envoy,

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I fear that he won't be able to bear this important responsibility anymore. You handle it.

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- I will abide.

- As for Prince Kang,

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starting today, just stay in your Prince Kang Manor,

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shut the doors and reflect on your actions.

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Your Majesty. Your Majesty!

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Your Lady Highness Imperial Consort Dowager!

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Your Lady Highness Imperial Consort Dowager, you can't enter!

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Your Lady Highness Imperial Consort Dowager! Guiren Feng!

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Your Lady Highness Imperial Consort Dowager.

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Your Lady Highness Imperial Consort Dowager, why did you suddenly come to my place?

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You didn't even inform me beforehand, so I could have gone out to welcome you.

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It's you.

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Me? What about me?

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Last night, Prince Kang hesitated. Just to be sure,

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he especially came late last night to request for an audience. You all have it well-calculated.

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You deliberately blocked him outside the room.

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Your Lady Highness Imperial Consort Dowager, you have quite

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an imagination.

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Imagination? This is not an imagination.

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From the start,

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you are a seductress sent into the palace my Rong Zhi.

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Wasn't that beautiful woman also a gift by Prince Kang to His Majesty?

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What? He can give a gift like that,

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but Prince Regent can't?

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You...

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- Your Lady Highness.

- Get lost.

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Let me tell you that this matter won't end so easily.

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One day,

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I will expose you in front of His Majesty,

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the real appearance of a seductress like you.

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I'll be waiting for you then!

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Take care, Your Lady Highness Imperial Consort Dowager!

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Guiren, are you alright?

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I'm fine.

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Imperial Consort Dowager Qi and His Majesty's birth mother were very close.

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His Majesty has always been excessively respectful to her.

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Even Empress Dowager must give her some respect.

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You just entered the palace and you still haven't established a strong foundation.

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Even if you have plans, you should prepare them well first.

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How could you immediately let your pin go against her awn?

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What are you laughing at?

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I'm laughing at how a little girl like you

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has such little guts.

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If I'm afraid, I wouldn't have entered the Palace.

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But I really want to see

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if Prince Kang is unable to make a comeback,

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how far can this Her Lady Highness Imperial Consort Dowager go?

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Lanruo...

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Princess Consort, you two have scared me!

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- Lanruo, we're just doing an experiment. How can there be ghosts in this world?

- Indeed.

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My heart is still beating wildly up to now.

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Look. Look. Lanruo is already this scared. We surely can scare Rong Zhi.

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- We surely can give it a try.

- Right. Right.

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What? What? You two are planning to scare Prince Regent?

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Right. Who told him to stand me up and even scowl at me?

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You must not...

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Qingyue, why don't we just draw a ghost face?

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Princess Consort, you're already at this age. How come you're still doing such a childish act?

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I don't believe that a Rong Zhi who isn't afraid of anything is also not afraid of ghosts.

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That's true. Come.

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What do you want to ask?

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What really is the truth behind what happened last night?

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You clearly was the one who ruthlessly made a complaint about Prince Kang in front of His Majesty.

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And now, you're here to ask me?

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I previously had dealings with Jiang Tribe people.

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With such a huge matter happening, the envoy naturally will come see me first.

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But after carefully thinking about it, I kept feeling that there is something wrong with this matter.

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Tuoba Yun is a very careful person. How could he mistakenly killed a Jiang Tribe merchant?

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- You really want to know?

- Yes, I want to know.

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Yesterday, Chuyu wanted to join the Daughter's Festival and even personally created a lantern to release in the river.

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She already knew that Prince Kang will send people to follow her.

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That's why, he placed itchy powder on the lantern to trick them.

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You exchanged the lanterns?

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Yes. I exchanged the lanterns. Itchy powder

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is a prank for little girls. In dealing with a person like Prince Kang, that's too light.

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That's why, I prepared a secret letter written in Song language.

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I then asked a young beggar to get the lantern to induce the suspicion of Prince Kang.

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He indeed caught this little beggar and found the secret behind the wordless letter inside lantern.

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The letter had the list of names of spies that the Liu Song princess is contacting

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and the location where they will meet plus the city defense map.

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With Prince Kang's meticulous personality,

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he surely will suspect this letter to be fake.

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That's why, I still need two conditions.

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What conditions?

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First, I have guessed that Prince Kang will surely enter the palace to request an audience.

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That's why, I asked Guiren Feng to block him, so he'll return unsuccessful.

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Never thought that Guiren Feng not only hindered him from seeing His Majesty,

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she even fiercely humiliated Imperial Consort Dowager Qi.

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With Imperial Consort Dowager's arrogant character, she surely will get very angry

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- and force Prince Kang to hurry and act.

- What's the second condition?

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Even by that, I'm still not sure if Prince Kang will take the bait.

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That's why, I especially mentioned the name of a person on the letter.

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Who?

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Capital Magistrate Qin Yuan.

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I told the contact person that Capital Magistrate Qin Yuan

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is currently drawing closer to Prince Regent.

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Qin Yuan was clearly Prince Kang's man.

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That's right. Prince Kang is a very suspicious person.

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He never trusted anyone.

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Moreover, Qin Yuan is also a fence-sitter.

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With me and Prince Kang fighting so intensely,

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he surely would want to leave himself a plan B.

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That's why, I asked him to meet up.

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This way, Prince Kang will catch him red-handed.

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He surely will believe the contents of the letter.

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You tied Princess Consort, Liu Song, and you in one boat

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to lure Tuoba Yun to take the bait. You are indeed ruthless.

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Rong Zhi, you said that you're going to release river lanterns with me.

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But all these were part of you scheme, is that it?

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Exchange my lantern and make it a stepping stone for your evil plot, am I right?

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So what if it's true?

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So what?

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You let a little beggar lure Tuoba Yun to take the bait

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and used the innocent lives of those merchants as a stake.

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All these just to let Tuoba Yun commit a grave mistake and make His Majesty detest him.

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But do you know that in this process,

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how many innocent lives were sacrificed?

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They have nothing to do with your wild ambition!

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In this world, if you want to obtain the things that you want,

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there must be sacrifices.

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It's their honor to die

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for my grand ambition.

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You are really so outstanding.

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Sorry. I won't play this game with you.

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Chuyu! Chuyu!

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Why?

482

I already said it earlier.

483

It's for my wild ambition and grand dream.

484

Your battle with Tuoba Yun has always been a life or death struggle.

485

If you don't resolve it earlier, there will just be more people getting sacrificed.

486

Even in the battlefield,

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I will frequently use the lives of a small portion of my army in exchange for the greatest possible victory.

488

That's why, I totally agree with your method.

489

Even if it was me, I will also do the same.

490

But Chuyu is completely different.

491

She might be a little smart, but she surely won't get associated with cruelty.

492

You clearly could have told it to her in a more acceptable manner.

493

It's better for her to clearly see how cruel the world is sooner.

494

Princess, you're back! Did it work?

495

Princess Consort!

496

- Princess!

- Princess Consort!

497

Princess Consort, you have misunderstood His Highness.

498

Misunderstand? I personally heard it so how could it have been a misunderstanding?

499

The fight between His Highness and Prince Kang has long been irreconcilable.

500

In doing great things, there will always be sacrifices.

501

Whether it's the little beggar, the contact person,

502

or even the Jiang Tribe envoy, all these were prepared beforehand.

503

You're saying that the Jiang Tribe already knew it?

504

If they didn't cooperate, how could we have easily succeeded?

505

A deal where everyone knew it beforehand, stop getting mad about it.

506

Fine. Even if it's like what you said,

507

what about me? I don't like him hiding things from me.

508

He made me look like an idiot.

509

I know. I'm not that smart and not heartless enough.

510

But it doesn't mean I can't understand the current situation

511

nor that I will create troubles without cause.

512

Maybe, I will get angry at him for hurting innocent people,

513

but I definitely won't blame him for fighting to survive.

514

But he hid things from me, lied to me.

515

I hate this feeling of helplessness.

516

Princess!

517

What did she discover?

518

So, this is what Princess Consort thinks.

519

I thought of her as being too simple.

520

But how come she just couldn't understand that

521

His Highness is doing this just to protect her?

522

Protect?

523

Of course.

524

What he did was lying. Lying is not trusting. Not trusting is not protecting.

525

Qingyue, you don't know anything.

526

If knowing everything means evil plots and traps,

527

I'd rather not know them then.

528

Qingyue! Qingyue!

529

It's you.

530

I'm just asking for directions. Why are you being so fierce?

531

I have something to do! Don't block me!

532

You little brat.

533

Don't you know proper courtesy? We have at least seen each other once. Why are you being this fierce towards me?

534

Deputy General Wang! Deputy General Wang!

535

Did that frighten you? Sorry.

536

I did come from the battlefield. A little brat like that won't be enough to scare me.

537

Oh, right. His Highness is currently talking with General inside his study. Please come with me.

538

Let's go.

539

Princess Consort, you're back.

540

Look. This morning, His Highness asked people to deliver this for you. I just got it.

541

Look at it. Let's open and look.

542

Look.

543

I don't want it. Who would want that?

544

What are you doing?

545

If he likes it, he'll amuse me a little. If he's unhappy, he'll drive me away.

546

Am I a dog? Just following his beck and call?

547

This is you.

548

I told that I don't want it.

549

Looking at you during usual times, you're quite sensible.

550

But how come when it comes to His Highness, you act like a child?

551

Lanruo, who side are you really in?

552

I don't know what Prince Regent told you today,

553

but I know that he giving you a gift like this

554

means he cares a lot about you.

555

You two clearly have each other in your hearts,

556

but how come you both can't just sit down and chat about it?

557

Chat?

558

How are we going to chat? He has always treated me as an idiot.

559

He won't discuss anything with me. Just like this time...

560

What about this time?

561

Okay already.

562

I won't disturb you anymore. Rest early.

563

I'll get going now.

564

Your Highness.

565

Your Highness!

566

Move aside! Move aside! His Majesty has orders to seal the Prince Kang Manor. All miscellaneous people should leave.

567

[Prince Kang Manor]

568

The rest of you go

569

- and lock the back door.

- Yes!

570

- Your Highness, these people are—

- Leave!

571

Your Highness,they are...

572

Leave. Leave!

573

Leave first.

574

Your Highness, what happened?

575

It's the second time.

576

What second time?

577

I successively fell into their trap twice.

578

Rong Zhi must be celebrating right now.

579

But I guarantee that there won't be a third time.

580

Definitely none...

581

Definitely none!

582

There won't be a next time anymore...

583

I believe you.

584

Today, Princess Consort had a big fight with His Highness in his study.

585

Why?

586

I also don't know. But Feifeng General was also inside the study that time.

587

The servants cleaning outside heard that

588

Princess Consort was complaining about His Highness not trusting her.

589

So stupid.

590

She's easily giving other people a chance.

591

His Highness will understand sooner or later

592

that he and Liu Chuyu are not compatible.

593

Look. Isn't he starting to understand it now?

594

Mistress, don't be like this. I'm getting scared.

595

Scared? You're scared about what?

596

Could it be that you also think that I'm crazy?

597

Let me tell you that my mind is very clear.

598

In this life, I have never been this clearly awake.

599

Your Lady Highness, Prince Kang wants you to ask His Majesty for leniency.

600

He said that you go to His Majesty and cry, make a scene, or threaten to commit suicide.

601

What if...I anger His Majesty?

602

Don't worry. Just be at ease and disturb him. His Majesty surely will agree with your request.

603

His Highness also said that His Majesty will surely want to maintain the balance of power.

604

For the remainder of his message, I also don't understand it anymore.

605

Mistress, Master is here to visit you.

606

Xueyun.

607

Xueyun, what are you looking at?

608

Still angry at me?

609

Stop it already.

610

Xueyun, you're my only daughter. Since you were little,

611

when have I really refused what you want?

612

Enough, I promise you.

613

One day, I surely will get rid of Liu Chuyu.

614

But it's not now.

615

Now, you must act for the good of the general situation.

616

- We—

- Father,

617

just go get busy for your grand ambition.

618

Doing that for me is not worth it.

619

Xueyun...

620

Stop showing false affection.

621

I as your daughter can never compare to the the word 'power'.

622

The way you meticulously trained me since I was little

623

was just to make me become a more precious pawn.

624

But at the bottom of it all, a pawn is a pawn.

625

It can never be a live person!

626

Xueyun, did I spoil you too much?!

627

You just have to anger me, is that it?!

628

Just leave. Stay far away from me.

629

Master, don't be mad with Mistress. She's just...

630

She's crazy! She has completely gone insane!

631

Mistress, why must you do this?

632

Father.

633

I will make you regret it.

634

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635

I will make you regret it.

636

♫ If life is like first meetings ♫

637

♫ It would be better to yearn more than meet ♫

638

♫ The misty rain of Jiangnan is so short-lived (idiomatic phrase, literally "night-blooming cactus blooms once")

639

♫Even while it's raining, it drizzles continuously ♫

640

♫ If we will see each other often in life ♫

641

♫ What must we do so we won't get fed-up with looking at each other? ♫

642

♫ At this day last year, It's the same sky ♫

643

♫ But the faces are different ♫

644

♫ I'd really like to see you again ♫

645

♫ Confess to you all my regrets in parting with you ♫

646

♫ Drawing a circle in the air ♫

647

♫ Praying that love will never change ♫

648

♫ I so want to rub my face against yours ♫

649

♫ Being greedy about your every moment ♫

650

♫ Don't ask how many years was I in pain ♫

651

♫ Turning back, it's all my tears...from my eyes ♫

652

♫ Don't ask how many years was I in pain ♫

653

♫ Turning back, it's all my tears...from my eyes ♫