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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 52

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You're awake.

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I'll go call the doctor.

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Don't go.

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You still won't forgive me until now?

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Sorry. I can't.

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You could have abandoned me, yet you still brought me back here.

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You clearly can't bear to part with me and still love me!

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I indeed still love you.

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I just don't want to get hurt and be lied at again!

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- Chuyu.

- Your Highness.

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Empress Dowager has issued a decree asking you to immediately withdraw your army.

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His Majesty was afraid that you will achieve unrivaled merit, that's why, he is doing his utmost to stop you.

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Your Highness, need not mind it. Once we conquer Jiankang, His Majesty sure won't have anything to say anymore.

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Listen to my order. Immediately mobilize the troops to return to our empire.

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- Your Highness!

- Immediately do it!

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Chuyu, no matter how much you hate me,

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you are still my Princess Consort.

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You must go back with me.

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I already said it, I'm not hungry.

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Princess!

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Qingyue!

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I miss you so much.

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Oh, right, has your injuries healed?

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I'm fine, Princess.

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Do you know that I've asked Shen Yu about you, but he wouldn't tell me.

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Don't say it anymore. That very bad person Shen Yu

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said that His Highness wanted to give you a surprise, hence, wouldn't let me tell you. He only let me go now.

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Qingyue, you worked hard.

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Princess, I'm fine.

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Shen Yu knew that you are the person in His Highness' heart. He wouldn't dare to treat me badly.

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Princess, did I say something wrong?

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Nothing.

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Greetings, Prince Regent.

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His Majesty has set up a welcoming feast for Prince Regent in the northern suburbs of the city.

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His Highness is hurt.

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- Northern suburbs?

- Yes. His Highness has been reviewing the troops in the northern suburbs lately.

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When he heard that Prince Regent is coming back, he was too happy. He wanted to set up

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a victory party for you at the northern border.

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All the high ministers have arrived. Even Her Highness the Empress Dowager is already there.

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Change our route.

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Change the route to the northern suburbs!

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Greetings, Your Majesty.

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Uncle, you have worked hard in your long travel.

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Your Majesty, you have praised me hard. The ones who have worked hard isn't me, but our soldiers.

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Look at you two.

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You just haven't seen each other for a short time. How come you two are being strangers to each other?

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Rong Zhi, come.

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You two have the ruler-subject relationship,

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but also are related by blood. What words can't be frankly said?

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What mistakes can't be revealed and forgiven?

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Rong Zhi, about you leaving Pingcheng without permission,

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His Majesty isn't going after it anymore. You must serve His Majesty well from now on

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in establishing the grand dream of the empire.

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Yes.

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- Senior Maid Qin.

- Yes.

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Rong Zhi, make a toast to His Majesty.

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Starting today, the past grievances between you have melted like ice.

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Yes.

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Your Majesty.

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Uncle, I'll drink it all first to show my respect.

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Uncle, what's wrong?

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Your Majesty, I haven't fully recovered, hence, not suitable to drink any wine.

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May Your Majesty forgive me.

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That is just a small thing. Uncle need not feel bad about it.

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Aren't you going to hurry and change it to warm water?

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Today, I even especially prepared some song and dance performances. I want to enjoy them with Uncle.

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- Please sit.

- Yes.

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Your Majesty.

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Your Majesty!

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Rong Zhi, you dare to put poison on the cup?

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Prince Regent is rebelling! Aren't you going to hurry and arrest him?!

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So, today isn't a victory party, but a Hongmen Banquet!

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Older Sister, you're helping him, is that it?

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Rong Zhi, you are my younger brother.

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How could I bear to?

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But Hong'er is also my son.

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It was you who has a disloyal heart to your ruler.

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Sorry. Your older sister can only uphold justice even if it conflicts with the interest of our family.

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Rong Zhi, you brought this all to yourself. You can't blame anyone.

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What a good 'upholding justice regardless of any family ties'.

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Starting today, Wei doesn't need any Prince Regent.

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In the battle with Song, we could have established an immortalized feat.

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But because of Your Majesty's paranoia, it failed due to lack of persistence.

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A Prince Regent like me isn't worthy to be allowed to linger.

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Okay. I promise

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to hand over the tiger's seal and military power.

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Can I leave now?

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If I let you just leave like this,

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how could I be at ease?

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Princess!

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Rong Zhi, I taught you before.

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You must always leave yourself a back up path.

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Look. I told you not to bring me back.

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A person like you don't need a wife. I will just be your burden.

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I've already handed over the tiger's seal. What else do you want me to do?

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If you want to save Princess Consort, there's just one way.

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Senior Maid Qin.

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After you take this pill, I'll let her go.

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Empress Dowager, you are indeed the most ruthless person in this world.

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Rong Zhi, you mustn't blame me.

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Everything that I'm doing is for Wei.

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For Wei? It's for yourself.

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Rong Zhi, don't believe her words!

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No, Rong Zhi!

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Let her go.

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Let her go.

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Princess.

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Are you fine?

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The Rong Zhi that could calculate every possibilities,

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you must have never thought that you will have a day like this, right?

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What are you laughing at?

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I'm laughing at how naive you are.

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You actually lured the wolf into your lair and persuaded a tiger to give off its skin.

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What nonsense are you saying now?

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Your Majesty, your name is Tuoba Hong, right?

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You should ask Empress Dowager what her real son's name is.

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Rong Zhi, now that things have come to this,

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you still aren't giving up in sowing dissension between us mother and son?

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The scheming heart of Prince Regent is indeed so deep.

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Imperial Mother, you even said that you'll let him leave as long as he takes the drug.

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In my opinion, that is being too soft-hearted like a woman.

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Only by killing him will we be sure that there's no more future trouble.

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- Tuoba Hong, you're breaking your promise!

- Princess.

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We only said earlier that we'll let you go if he takes the pill,

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but I never said that I'm going to let you two come and go here freely.

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Despicable.

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Make your move!

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Who dares to make any move?!

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Rong Zhi, you indeed have evil intentions.

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You actually have set up your own men within Pingcheng?

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If you are able to guard against me, couldn't I also do means to defend myself? Isn't that just fair?

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You...!

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Your Majesty, if you dare hurt Prince Regent even just a bit today,

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We all will assassinate the imperial clan of Wei and will not stop until we die.

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Your Majesty, being able to train such kind of team within PIngcheng

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and not being found out, he indeed is an extraordinary person.

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Let him go.

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Imperial Mother!

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Not that I'm being soft-hearted,

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Prince Regent has a huge number of escorts.

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If he really dies here today.

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there will surely be unending assassins that will try to assassinate our Wei's imperial clan.

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What's the point of two sides getting badly battered?

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Hope that after I left, Empress Dowager won't make things hard on others.

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How am I without any tolerance?

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All of you, withdraw!

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- Let's go.

- Wait.

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Princess, take me with you, okay?

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Silly girl.

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Take care.

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No...

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Princess...

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Princess!

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Princess Consort, don't worry. I surely will take good care of Qingyue.

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It's fine now.

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Chuyu, you still hate me, right?

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You said it right. You are indeed just a burden for me!

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If there's no you, I wouldn't have been set up.

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Leave.

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But earlier, you...

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I will just lose my martial arts skills. It's very easy to

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make a comeback! I don't need you to meddle with it.

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Leave!

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I don't want to see your face again. Hurry and leave!

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What's wrong with you?

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Rong Zhi...

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Rong Zhi...

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It was just merely like that...

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What 'merely like that'?

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There was once a person...

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who wanted me to use your blood to change fate.

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A baleful individual against another one, to block off the inauspicious fate.

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And with it, I could go against the heaven's mandate and change my destiny,

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be a sovereign that descends on this world.

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Such a laughable fate.

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This is your fragrant scent.

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Chuyu...

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I never believed in destiny.

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Don't believe it too. Hold your fate

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in your own hands.

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I'll go look for Empress Dowager. I'll go beg her.

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Rong Zhi! Rong Zhi...

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Rong Zhi, don't scare me. Aren't you very smart?

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Rong Zhi, hurry and think of a way! There must be a way, Rong Zhi!

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What way can there be?

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No matter how smart I am,

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I can't go against destiny. Sorry.

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I initially wanted the empire.

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But since you came to my side,

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I slowly started to not want it.

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I have never did any unreasonable acts. I saved you this time

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because I feel that you're better than the empire.

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I am a bad person that always weigh things for my self-benefit.

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Don't remember me.

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Anyone can die.

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Only you won't.

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How it is possible that you would die?

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You were very bad.

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Rong Zhi...

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Rong Zhi! Rong Zhi, don't be like this!

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Rong Zhi! Rong Zhi!

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Rong Zhi...

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Rong Zhi, don't be like this! Rong Zhi!

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Rong Zhi... Don't scare me.

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Rong Zhi, don't be like this.

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Rong Zhi...

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Rong Zhi...

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Rong Zhi...

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I beg you to not be like this.

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This kind of suffering...

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should have ended long ago.

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Rong Zhi...

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Rong Zhi...

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Don't scare me, Rong Zhi.

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You must be fooling me, right?

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Hurry and get up. I won't fall for your trick again.

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Hurry and get up.

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Rong Zhi...

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Your Majesty, I've already brought the corpse of Prince Regent.

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Good. I'm going to break his corpse into pieces.

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No, you can't. Prince Regent has achieve great merits and his military achievements are well-known.

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Your Majesty, if you do that, you will disappoint the heart of government officials.

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Everyone saw how he poisoned me.

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Those matters were just to shut off the gossiping mouth of the public.

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How many smart person can that fooled?

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What does Imperial Mother suggest?

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Spread my decree. Give him a proper burial.

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Yes.

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Imperial Mother, the effect of that drug seems to be too strong.

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I've taken an antidote beforehand, yet I still feel my chest being tight and breathless.

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Too bad, he refused to drink the poisoned wine.

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All my efforts almost went in vain.

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You really are a stupid kid.

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Didn't I already tell you to

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leave all these to me. Why must you still draw a snake with feet on it? (ruining the effect by adding superfluous)

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Rong Zhi is too cunning.

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To get his trust is too hard.

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Congratulations, Your Highness the Empress Dowager and Your Majesty!

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Imperial Consort Hui has given birth to a healthy prince.

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Let me see!

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Let me see.

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So adorable.

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Your Majesty, this child looks exactly like you when you were little.

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What name should we give him?

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I'll leave that to Imperial Mother to decide.

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Let's call him Tuoba Hong then.

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Hong for great undertaking.

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I hope that he'll become a person with a broad chest (broad-minded).

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Hong'er, what do you think?

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Okay.

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Hong'er.

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Hong'er. So adorable.

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Here.

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Spread my decree. Immediately execute Imperial Consort Hui.

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Her posthumous name will be Furen Si (think/yearn).

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Yes.

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Imperial Mother, why must you immediately execute Hongxiu?

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Your Majesty, have you forgotten the ancestral rule of Wei?

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Although Wei has an ancestral rule that

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once a prince becomes the Crown Prince, his birth mother must be executed,

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he still is this small.

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Isn't conferring him to be the Crown Prince now too rushed?

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Senior Maid Qin, bring Hong'er away first.

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Your Majesty, you have said it wrongly.

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How am I wrong?

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This child isn't being conferred to be the Crown Prince,

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but will become the emperor.

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What did you say?

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I said that from now on, Hong'er is We's son of heaven.

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What about me?

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Of course, you're the Taishang Emperor (Retired Emperor).

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You...

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Your Majesty, your name is Tuoba Hong, right?

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You should ask Empress Dowager what her son's real name is.

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My dead second imperial brother...

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Your real son...what really is...

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He? His name is Tuoba Hong.

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Because when he was born, his cry was like a flood.

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It was very loud.

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The past emperor liked it very much

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and especially gave him that name.

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Tuoba Hong?

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Hong'er...

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You were actually not calling my name. You were...

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What did Your Majesty remember? How come you look very frightened?

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It was you. You assisted me to ascend to the throne.

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Now that I'm grown up and won't listen to your words,

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you are now going to assist a baby to get the throne.

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No matter if it's me or this child,

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are all your son's substitute. Your puppet!

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Your Majesty has finally regained full awareness.

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No wonder Rong Zhi said that I persuaded the tiger to give up its skin.

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With your personality, how could you let mute servant stay alive?

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So, it was just pushing the boat along the current to avoid the sharp points of your enemies.

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Once we all have ended up badly hurt from our fighting, you will then step up and rebuild the empire.

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No, Second Imperial Brother then was clearly very healthy.

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Everything about him was well.

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Until the news about the past emperor planning to make him a Crown Prince came out,

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he then suddenly died!

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It was you...

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You killed Second Imperial Brother.

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You killed your own son!

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You are so scary!

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Men, protect me! Protect your emperor!

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You rebels...

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All of you got bribed by Feng Ting and are assisting a child to ascend to the throne!

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Are you all just going to watch as the empire of the Tuoba clan got taken away?!

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We can only blame Your Majesty for being too narrow-minded.

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Just to defeat Rong Zhi, you lost your rationality and acted recklessly.

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You have always been acting.

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Acting to be a benevolent mother.

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Acting as a sister who loves her little brother.

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You used the matter about Prince Kang to sow dissension. You used my hand to eliminate Rong Zhi.

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Now...you still want to take away my empire?

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Your Majesty, have you forgotten?

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It was me who assisted you to your throne.

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It was me who sat on the imperial court with you and assisted you in governing.

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It was me who had Chancellor Yihun killed.

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Without me, how could you have your majestic empire?

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Without my Imperial Father, you would have been just a palace servant!

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If he really loves me, he should have changed a rule like that.

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Letting me raise the children of other people,

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should I be thankful for that?!

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What a joke.

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Hong'er, you should thank Wei

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for the rule of the mother dying once the son gets favored.

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If not because the birth mother must be executed

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once the prince get conferred as the Crown Prince,

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the current emperor might not even be you.

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You are usurping the throne. The Heaven surely will punish you.

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You'll die without a full corpse. Thousands of arrows piercing through your heart!

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You are really a silly child.

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I don't believe in heaven nor Buddha...

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because I'm the ruler of Wei!

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I'm going to kill you...

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Look at that. All of you, look at that.

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His Majesty is really very sick that he's becoming delirious.

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Aren't you all going to assist His Majesty back to his bed to rest?

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Hurry.

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Your Majesty.

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Get lost! Don't touch me!

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Your Majesty, this way please.

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Get lost! Don't touch me!

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Prince Regent! Prince Regent!

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Save me! Save me!

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- So pitiful.

- Prince Regent!

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Didn't your Prince Regent just die in your hands?

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Even if I've returned to Song now,

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what meaning is still there to all of it?

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Who is it?

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Isn't the food for today already delivered?

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Rong Zhi...

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Chuyu!

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Chuyu...is it you?

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Chuyu...

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Chuyu, is it you?

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Rong Zhi...

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Sorry. I've fooled you again.

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Sorry.

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How come things are like this? How come things have become like this?

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Tell me. How come you've become like this?

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The heart devouring poison didn't kill me.

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My eyes...

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My eyes have become blind and my legs can't move anymore.

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Sorry. I fooled you.

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But this time, it was different.

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This time, it wasn't for power. It was for you.

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You can't see anything now?

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- How come you... How come you can't see anymore?

- I'm fine.

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- Everything's fine.

- Tell me, how come things have become like this?

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Sorry.

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Why must you lie to me?!

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I hate you so much, do you know that?!

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I thought you're dead,

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but you suddenly appeared here.

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Do you know that I've cried my heart our for you?!

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Sorry.

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Chuyu.

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Did it frighten you?

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This is because when the heart devouring poison acts up,

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it's like thousands of blade cutting through you.

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What's to be scared about this?

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No matter what happens,

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you are my Rong Zhi.

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How come Empress Dowager Feng eventually let you off?

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If His Majesty is able to make a deal with Empress Dowager,

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I also can make a deal with my older sister.

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I'll hand her my power,

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and help her lure out the power that His Majesty have nurtured, she will then completely return my freedom.

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That is very fair.

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Greetings, Your Highness the Empress Dowager!

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But in the end, you still took in the drug.

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I've only taken half of the drug amount.

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This is the price I have to pay for my freedom.

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Empress Dowager can't be at ease for Rong Zhi to make a comeback, but she wouldn't make a fuss with a useless person

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who is blind and unable to walk.

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You bastard.

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You caused me to be sad for such a long time for nothing.

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Sorry.

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You lied to me. I really am very angry.

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But you're still alive.

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This is really great.

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Hong'er, look here.

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Look. Is this rattling drum pretty?

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- So adorable.

- Your Highness the Empress Dowager.

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What is it?

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His Majesty kept saying crazy words.

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He said...that you were the one who killed Second Prince.

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What do you think?

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An tiger might be evil but he won't eat his children. Your Highness isn't that kind of person.

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Hong'er, give me one more smile.

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One more smile.

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Good.

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On the 6th year of Yanxing, Emperor Xianwen died.

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Empress Dowager Feng temporarily headed the government

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and respectfully called the Grand Empress Dowager.

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Hong'er.

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Come.

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Greetings, Grand Empress Dowager.

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Greetings, Your Majesty.

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Rong Zhi! Rong Zhi, I caught a fish! Rong Zhi!

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Quickly come over here, Rong Zhi! Rong Zhi!

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Rong Zhi, hurry and come.

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Wow! Such a big fish.

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You liar. You kept fooling me that you were blind.

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Saying something about your eyes cannot see and that it's inconvenient for you to move around.

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In the end, what? You recovered in less than a year.

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Big liar.

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If Empress Dowager was able to bribe Eunuch Wang, can't I get Senior Maid Gu to be on my side?

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Why didn't you tell me beforehand?

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Empress Dowager has too much spies. I must act cautiously.

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Only once she completely gave up can I regain my health.

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I think you were just afraid for me to know that you're alright

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for I might just turn around and leave.

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That's why, you were just pretending to be pitiful to get my charity.

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Fine. Rong Zhi is indeed the number one calculative person in this world, not missing out on anything.

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But let me ask you, how many fishes have you caught?

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Not even one.

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Rong Zhi, Empress Dowager promulgated a new Farmland Law,

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where the barren lands without any owner were given to farmers. This was your suggestion before.

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But now, everyone are singing her praises for it.

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Really?

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You don't regret it?

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Regret what?

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A great and majestic empire. If you didn't give up everything,

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you have now commanded your army south and seized control of the whole Central Plains.

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If you're around, I then have no regrets.

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For the Mighty Mei Daxia:

Delayed was this drama from fans eager for reception

From the start, a hotbed of intrigue and deception

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Two empires embroiled, in secret intrigue

The plot took us from high emotion and joy, to exhausted fatigue

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From a manor with many fabulous Menke, nearly three score

To a cruel boy Emperor, both hated and adored.

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Four translators of renown, star-like in their ways

Brought us word of plans and cruelty, on their own free days,

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SkyBlueBluie, Kym_Ryume, Gin and Shaldane,

Etched forever for this project, in glory shall remain.

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Segmenters, swift makers of timing and of spaces,

Bjohnsonwong, the Chief, guided the willing and able aces,

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As we transitioned from the Liu Song world into Northern Wei,

Sabrina, Lucky, Xomachi, Yellowheart, showed us the Prince Regent held at bay

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Courtly scenes, angry generals, evil consorts, dowagers mighty,

Serenite78, Sheli and Primulad, helped us tell us of their traits, room for words not used lightly.

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A Chinese drama indeed, with history, great deeds and danger,

The death toll quite heavy, but in the final role...

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This project brought to you by Team Mei Daxia, the Beautiful Swordsmen in control!

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♫ If life is like first meetings ♫

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♫ It would be better to yearn more than meet ♫

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

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

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♫ If we will see each other often in life ♫

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

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

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♫ But the faces are different ♫

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♫ I'd really like to see you again ♫

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

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♫ Drawing a circle in the air ♫

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♫ Praying that love will never change ♫

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♫ I so want to rub my face against yours ♫

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♫ Being greedy about your every moment ♫

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

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

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

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