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Watching the person in the mirror's countenance pale and grow haggard,

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Examining love together with regret, both new and old.

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Keeping watch still by a lantern though it is daybreak, drenched with tears,

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Watching others meet as promised, as twilight falls.

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Story of Yanxi Palace

Episode 15

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It's really different to be an Imperial relative.

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After committing a mistake, he still was allowed to attend the offering ceremony.

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Hailancha.

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Going back to it. You're also a legitimate Imperial relative,

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but you don't have those stinky traits of Hongxiao.

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It shows that the noble position "Prince Yi of the First Rank"

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isn't anything special.

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During leisure chats, let's not talk about matters like that.

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What happened?

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He was in such a rush.

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Your Majesty...

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- Investigate it.

- Yes.

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What's going on? Why are there so many people?

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There must be something going on.

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Your Majesty, we found it.

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Hongxiao. Why does the Qing dynasty share the blessing by eating meat?

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Do you still remember?

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I remember. Emperor Taizu before had to be separated from his family at a young age.

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He brought his brother into the mountain to gather ginseng and to hunt.

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They survived by cooking meat in boiling water.

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Afterwards, we maintained such a tradition. After the Qing dynasty entered the great walls,

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Kunning Palace does two offering ceremonies, day and night,

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and one major offering ceremony every month. This is to make the Qing descendants

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remember the hardships of our ancestors in establishing a great undertaking.

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It was hard to establish this great Qing empire.

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Since you know all of it,

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why then did you add salt on the meat?

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Add salt? I didn't.

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Taste it yourself.

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Our ancestors were able to endure it,

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while you couldn't.

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Adding salt to the offered meat is clearly looking down on our ancestors and the gods.

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You are too bold!

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Men! Prince Yi of the First Rank disrespected the ancestors and tainted the offering meat!

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His position as an Imperial Guard of the Gate of Heavenly Purity is revoked.

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Let the Imperial Clan Court handle him!

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Your Majesty! Your Majesty, I truly didn't!

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I really didn't bring any salt into the palace! I'm innocent!

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Your Majesty! Your Majesty! I'm innocent!

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Doing offering ceremonies day and night, sharing the offering meat,

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these are blessings from our ancestors,

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the protection of the gods.

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But the originally valiant and skillful in warfare

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descendants of the Eight Banners which Prince Yi of the First Rank leads,

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have now become insects that rely on their ancestors' merits,

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would just play with birds or walk dogs,

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and be derelict in their duty.

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Not only in going to battle and killing our enemies,

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even just eating an offering meat is already a hard task for them.

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I have to warn all of you.

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The establishment of the Qing Dynasty hasn't been easy.

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I will never allow this great empire

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to just get destroyed in the hands of a group of prodigal sons

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who only know how to seek pleasure and enjoyment, and are disrespectful to our ancestors!

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Investigate!

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Investigate the guards outside too!

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I want to look closely who else

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- dares to do such a thing!

- Yes.

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Check them!

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What's going on? When is it the place of servants like you to search us?

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Hailancha.

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All of you honorable lords, sorry to offend you.

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Check it!

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Lord Fuheng, please.

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Have you caught any?

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The Imperial Bodyguards and Imperial Guards of the Gate of Heavenly Purity have all been checked.

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There is no second person who dared to tamper with the meat.

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Finally, there are people who are sensible.

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Continue with eating the meat.

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Yes.

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May all of the honorable lords continue eating the meat!

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How come Fuheng didn't get caught?

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Young Master, are you alright?

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I was so scared earlier.

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Prince Yi of the First Rank got demoted and sent for investigation

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just for hiding some salt. He even got sent to the Imperial Clan Court.

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If I've known earlier, I shouldn't have told you to bring that spiced salt.

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Good thing, you didn't bring it today.

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So, you noticed it beforehand.

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You're the one who reported Prince Yi of the First Rank.

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Yes.

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You...

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What about me? Are you going to tell me that I shouldn't have reported him

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because he's the "iron cap" Prince of the First Rank of the Qing Dynasty,

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a descendant of the royal family, a royal grandchild and is of noble status?

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Hence, when he told me to kneel, I must kneel.

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When he cursed me as being a lowly person, I just have to accept all that. Is that it?

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Let me tell you that I indeed came from a lowly family,

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but I won't let anyone bully me.

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He is still a Prince of the First Rank.

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Seas change into mulberry fields. Things in this world change.

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What was once peaking mountain ridges might become a boundless plain in the future.

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Change is the only constant thing in this world.

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Not only do you seek vengeance for the smallest grudge,

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you are even extremely audacious.

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I just wanted to give him a lesson.

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I'm telling him that even an ant can shake an elephant. Any bully...

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will eventually get bullied in the future.

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What about me?

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You were able to escape this time

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because you already developed suspicion?

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No. I just don't want to disobey the teachings of my ancestors...

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so I threw away the spiced salt.

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On the outside,

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you are indeed a gentleman.

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But could there be a gentleman in this world that destroys the chastity of others?

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You repeatedly schemed against me because of A'Man. Am I right?

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Yes.

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If I tell you that I didn't do it, will you believe me?

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You think I will?

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I can swear by the heavens that this matter has nothing to do with me.

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If you don't believe me,

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you can kill me now.

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- You think I wouldn't dare!

- You would dare to.

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Is there anything in this world that you won't dare do?

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But no is no. I didn't hurt your sister.

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I didn't hurt A'Man. If you don't believe me,

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you can use this dagger now to stab my chest.

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Yingluo, I'm saying it again.

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I would never do anything offensive to god and reason.

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I never have.

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Elder Sister.

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Sorry. I wasn't able to kill him.

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But this is the Imperial palace.

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If I really kill anyone, what about Father?

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Even so, I've already committed a grave mistake.

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I can't continue staying here in Changchun Palace.

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Her Highness the Empress wants to see you.

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I knew it. You will eventually fall and get smashed into pieces.

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Wei Yingluo, do you admit your mistake?

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Yingluo, Her Highness rarely gets angry.

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Quickly tell her the truth.

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It's already too late to admit it.

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After committing such a grave mistake, just wait to get beheaded!

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For this mistake, it was my own doing

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and doesn't involve anyone else.

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I earnestly ask Your Highness the Empress to just punish me.

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You, you!

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Did you eat some bear liver or phoenix gall bladder?

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How come you don't seem to be afraid at all?

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What are you laughing about?

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Your Highness still can't bear for Yingluo to suffer.

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She exposed the wrongdoings of Prince Yi of First Rank, but you can't bear to punish her.

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Regarding Prince Yi of the First Rank framing Yingluo last time,

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it's also slapping the face of our Changchun Palace. Of course, I'm also unhappy with him.

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I also hoped that he can be punished.

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But he's after all the biological cousin of His Majesty.

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If His Majesty doesn't allow it, I also can't castigate him.

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But this person is too bold!

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You even dared to touch an iron-cap prince!

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Your Highness the Empress is scolding me

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just for this matter?

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Is there anything else?

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Did Fuheng not tell the Empress anything?

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How is this possible?

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You're really something, Wei Yingluo.

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What else did you do? Quickly tell me,

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so that I won't get shocked again!

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How did you know about this?

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How did I know?

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Fuheng wrote me a letter saying that you were extremely audacious

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and asked me to discipline you.

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Isn't he doing this for your own good?

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Or else, don't know what other troubles you would start.

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Imperial Guard Fuca didn't say anything else?

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Who is Imperial Guard Fuca? How could he have the time to wrangle with you?

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His Majesty might be very happy if there is indeed such a happening.

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What do you mean?

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High officials disliking the taste of the offering meat and employing tricks to eat it

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hasn't been happening for just one or two times.

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His Majesty used the incident of punishing Prince Yi of the First Rank

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to warn others from following suit.

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Or else, he could have just denounced him.

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Why must he still send him to the Imperial Clan Court?

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Wei Yingluo!

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Even if what you said is true,

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if you are too particular with every detail in everything that you do,

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you won't be able to live happily.

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For everything, just take a step back and you'll be able to appreciate how vast the world is.

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I'm punishing you to go back and write the word "forgiveness" one hundred times!

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Your Highness, with her being this audacious,

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you're just going to let her off the hook lightly?

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I taught her earlier to take a step back.

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Now, if I punish her harshly,

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isn't that going against what I said?

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You keep being biased with her, harboring her!

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Mingyu.

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Everything that happened here today

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is known by only the four of us.

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No one must leak it.

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Remember. It must not be publicized.

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Or else, I will never easily forgive you.

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- Yes.

- Yes.

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- Go now.

- Yes.

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Wait.

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May Your Highness the Empress give your order.

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Fuheng was injured when he was training. I'm very worried.

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Help me deliver some ginseng soup to him.

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Her Highness the Empress, let me do it.

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You'll go? If you go, you won't be back for two hours.

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You're just embarrassing yourself.

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Yingluo, you go. Return quickly.

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Yes.

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You said that you got hurt on the practice field?

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How come I didn't know that?

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I was just accidentally hurt during a dueling practice.

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You've been nagging for so long. Aren't you tired?

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Can't be right. Among the Imperial Bodyguards

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and Imperial Guards of the Gate of Heavenly Purity, there's still someone who can hurt you?

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Unless he used a sinister move?

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Tell me who is it. I'll handle him for you.

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If you're willing to bet, then you must be willing to accept defeat. This is my matter. No need for you to meddle.

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You don't know how to appreciate other people's concerns.

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Miss Yingluo.

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Why are you here?

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Her Highness the Empress ordered me to deliver you some ginseng soup

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Since I've delivered it, I'll take my leave.

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Hey, Miss Yingluo!

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Didn't Her Highness the Empress instruct you to do other things?

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What?

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Of course, it's to express sympathy to the injured Imperial Guard Fuca.

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I'll leave you two alone...

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Why didn't you tell Her Highness the Empress

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that I'm the one who hurt you?

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I didn't hurt A'Man.

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Since my conscience is clear, the truth will come out sooner or later.

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You think that small favors

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can win the hearts of people?

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Let me tell you, I'm a stone-hearted person.

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I will never believe just because of a few words from you.

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Yingluo, let me say it to you again.

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I never harmed your sister. Even more so, I don't want to...

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I don't want to hurt you.

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When I asked you the first time

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if you know A'Man, why did you pretend to not know her?

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A'Man's case caused a great scandal here in the Forbidden City.

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Even until she left the palace, the rumors didn't easily die down.

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I heard about this matter, but I have never seen her.

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Of course, I would say that I don't know her.

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How come your jade pendant was with her?

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I indeed lost that jade pendant.

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But why it ended up with her, I also don't know.

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Has every word you have said

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come from your sincere heart, not one is false?

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There's no need for me to deceive you.

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If I'm really the murderer, I can just tell the Empress.

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You think you'd still have the chance to seek vengeance against me?

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Okay. I'll temporarily believe you.

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If one day, I learn that you're lying,

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even if I turn into an evil ghost, I'll still make you pay with your life.

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Wait!

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What else do you need?

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Before, when you were seeking vengeance on me, you were courteous although not sincere, always smiling when welcoming me.

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Now that you feel that I'm useless, you immediately disdain to care about me.

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Yingluo, do you know how to change your face?

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Since the first time you attempted to harm me, I've suspected you.

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After that, I saw your kindness towards Xueqiu.

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I then fooled myself again.

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Yingluo, it has never been you who has deceived me.

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It was I who have been deceiving myself.

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Young Master.

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Sorry to have hurt you.

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I don't accept apologies.

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I only accept real action.

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Didn't Her Highness order you to deliver me soup?

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I'm hurt.

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- What's wrong?

- My chest is hurt.

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The Imperial Physician said that I must lie in bed to recuperate.

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I can't even lift my arm.

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My I ask Miss Yingluo to lower yourself to take care of me.

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You want me to feed you?

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That is the right attitude in taking care of a patient.

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That is also the right attitude in apologizing for one's mistake.

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It's hot.

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Yingluo, actually, every word that you told me,

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every smile you showed me,

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I've been repeating them in my mind.

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Even though I know that you're just lying to me,

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I still refuse to believe it.

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Tell me,

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only a tenth of the dagger entered my chest.

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Was it because you were worried of being in trouble if you kill me,

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or you also have a bit of sincere feeling towards me?

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Young Master, your current action...

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is a bit inappropriate.

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Intimate lovers. Being sweet with each other.

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You two got caught by me.

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There are a lot of things to do in Changchun Palace. I'll get going now.

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Don't go! I'm just joking!

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Sorry, Brother.

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Who knew that she can't be teased?

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Let me feed you. It's fine. You have me. Open your mouth.

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I'll do it on my own.

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It's hot.

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Hey...it's painful.

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Enough...

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Let go!

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Fuca Fuheng, can I trust you?

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Fourth Prince, stop messing around. Be good and take your medicine.

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Fourth Prince!

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- Fourth Prince.

- What's wrong with Yongcheng?

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Your Highness Consort Xian.

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Your Highness Consort Xian, Fourth Prince developed a cold,

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but he refused to take in any of the medicine prescribed by the Imperial physician.

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With such a small child like that, of course he won't like taking medicines.

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Ask the Imperial physician if he can increase the dose of licorice,

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so that it will be more convenient for Fourth Prince to take it in.

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Quickly go.

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Yes.

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Yongcheng, what's wrong?

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I don't want you, bad woman! I want Mother!

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- I want Mother!

- Your Highness Consort Xian, please forgive him.

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Fourth Prince is still very small and insensible.

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If he offended you, I'm apologizing on his behalf.

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The Prince is small, but you are not.

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What "bad woman"? Who taught him that word?

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Forget it, Zhen'er.

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It's just normal for a child this small to miss his mother.

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Don't make a fuss with a child.

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- Your Highness!

- Yongcheng! Yongcheng!

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Yongcheng! Yongcheng! I'm here!

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Yongcheng...

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Yongcheng, look at me.

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My god, we just haven't seen each other for two days.

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How come you've gotten thinner.

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How did you take care of him? A prince has a very precious body.

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How could you be allowed to spoil it?

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Noble Lady, I dare not.

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I've been meticulously taking care of the Fourth Prince and never slacked off.

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Meticulously taking care? Tell me then,

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how come the Prince has become like this? It must be because you didn't take care of him properly.

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Noble Lady Jia, what are you saying?

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Her Highness has been anxious and worried for Fourth Prince.

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We've successively invited Imperial physicians to check him. What do you mean by not taking care of him properly?

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Yongcheng, don't worry. I'm here.

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With me here, no one would dare bully you anymore.

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You scared me.

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Since Noble Lady Jia is here to visit Fourth Prince,

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let's go out first.

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Let me look at you properly.

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Your Highness, Noble Lady Jia has left.

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She clearly was crying for you to see.

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- Zhen'er.

- I didn't say anything wrong.

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Fourth Prince has just been here for half a month.

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She comes here every two to three days to cause a ruckus and always making such huge movements.

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It's causing people outside to gossip that you're mistreating Fourth Prince.

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Noble Lady Jia loves her son dearly and is just showing excessive concern.

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There's nothing strange about that.

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Fourth Prince getting cared for here in Chengqian Palace is the decision of His Majesty to begin with.

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If she's so capable, she should go disturb His Majesty.

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Why must she keep making things hard on you?

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Isn't it because she knows that you're kind and easy to bully?

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I don't care what Noble Lady Jia thinks.

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Anyway, the child is innocent. Since he's staying here,

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we then must take good care of him.

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Yes... Your Highness has always been this kindhearted.

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I am the one who is petty.

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Yongcheng, come.

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Okay. We're not eating.

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Where's the light congee that I asked them to send here?

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Fourth Prince doesn't like to eat congee. I then ordered the kitchen to make some soup.

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Don't worry. The soup was made from rice soup and some meat.

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The Fourth Prince wouldn't take in even a mouthful of porridge.

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I also was just afraid that he'll lack energy.

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Let me do it.

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Yongcheng, be good and drink your soup.

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Yongcheng, if you'll be good and take in your food,

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I'll let your mother visit you everyday. Okay?

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Fourth Prince, you must be like that.

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Not only your mother, even your Royal Father.

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As long as you be obedient, I'll ask him to come visit you.

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Your Highness, are you using this hairpin?

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Fourth Prince is still sick.

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I'm not in the mood to doll up. You decide.

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Your Highness, you are being too kind.

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You clearly are treating Fourth Prince so well, but others are misunderstanding it. I feel wronged on your behalf.

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Enough.

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Later, go to the Imperial Medical Academy.

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- Ask Medical Investigator Zhang to come over and check his pulse. He specializes in pediatrics. It would be more appropriate.

- Yes.

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Your Highness! Your Highness! Fourth Prince, he...

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Quickly go look.

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Consort Xian, my child is this sick.

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You treat it as if there's nothing wrong.

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Return me my healthy son!

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Noble Lady Jia, what are you doing?

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Everyone here in the palace says

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that you are kind, virtuous, and with noble and unsullied conduct.

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But how were you taking care of him? You look at him yourself!

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Your Highness Consort Xian, the Fourth Prince keeps having a fever. It's so scary.

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Yongcheng is having fever again? Let me see.

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Don't touch my son!

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What are you shouting about?

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Respectfully greeting Your Majesty.

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Your Majesty, quickly look.

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Go and ask for Medical Investigator Zhang.

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Yes.

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Your Majesty, it's all because I wasn't able to take care of him properly,

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so the Fourth Prince got sick. I'm guilty. May Your Majesty forgive me.

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Your Highness, you guarded by Fourth Prince's side last night until near dawn.

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Fourth Prince was still well then.

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No one could have predicted that he'll have fever again. How come it became your mistake?

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Zhen'er, shut up.

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Your Majesty, I committed a mistake.

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I shouldn't beg for your forgiveness.

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Even when you asked me to give Yongcheng up,

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I could only accept your decree.

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But Her Highness Consort Xian isn't the real mother of Yongcheng.

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She doesn't have any experience in taking care of a child.

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Yongcheng has just been here for half a month and already got sick twice.

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I visited him early today and discovered that he has been having persistent fever.

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He kept mumbling "mother"

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Mother...

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Mother.

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Your Majesty, my heart is shattering just hearing it.

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Even if I've made so many mistakes,

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Your Majesty, you can just scold or punish me.

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But the child is innocent.

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How old is he just now?

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How could he be away from his real mother?

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Your Highness Consort Xian...

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I saw that Yongcheng was having high fever earlier,

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and thus lost it for a moment and disrespected you. Please understand

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the heart of a mother. Seeing one's child suffering,

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as his mother, you would want to be in his place instead.

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Consort Xian, I beg you...

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Help me beg for leniency from His Majesty.

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Let me take Yongcheng back.

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- I beg you, Your Highness.

- Noble Lady Jia, get up first.

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I can't bear to accept your bow. Get up.

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Consort Xian, everyone knows that you're kind,

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but how could you just watch as she got separated from her son?

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Your Majesty,

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Noble Lady Jia indeed committed a mistake.

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I also don't plan to beg for leniency for her sake.

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But people are not sages. Who doesn't make a mistake?

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You are blessed with the nation and are broad-minded.

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Even just for the sake of Yongcheng,

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can't you give Noble Lady Jia one more chance?

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Even if you don't want Noble Lady Jia to raise Yongcheng,

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then, there's still me.

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I can guarantee that when I take Yongcheng back to Chuxiu Palace,

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I surely will educate him well.

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This way, with his birth mother Noble Lady Jia around,

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she can assist in his upbringing. It won't lead to mother and child getting separated,

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- and leading to a psychological illness.

- Your Majesty, have mercy.

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Let me take Fourth Prince back.

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Why is Noble Lady Jia rushing to take Fourth Prince away?

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Respectfully greeting Your Majesty.

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Greetings to Your Majesty.

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No need for formalities. Medical Investigator Zhang,

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immediately check on Fourth Prince.

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- Your Majesty.

- Yes.

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It's just normal for Fourth Prince to feel uncomfortable in an unfamiliar place like Chengqian Palace.

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Let me take Fourth Prince back to Chuxiu Palace first

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before letting Medical Investigator Zhang check him.

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It's just letting Medical Investigator Zhang examine him.

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How long can that take?

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Noble Lady Jia, aren't you being too anxious?

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Other than fever, did Fourth Prince show any other symptoms?

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This...

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Fourth Prince kept saying that he feels pain everywhere,

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but couldn't properly point out where the pain is.

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Hence, I also couldn't understand.

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The Fourth Prince's tongue-coating is pale and his forehead is extremely hot.

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For the pulse, the one at the left inch and bar region is restless and mitigated, (T/N TCM pulse-checking method divides the pulse area into "inch" - nearest the wrist, "bar", and "cubit")

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while the one at the right inch is smooth.

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He most likely got afflicted with cold air.

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Once you let him drink the medicine that I'll prescribe,

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i believe that he'll immediately get better.

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Thank you, Medical Investigator Zhang.

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Your Majesty, let me take Fourth Prince back to Chuxiu Palace.

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Your Majesty, look. Fourth Prince is in so much suffering.

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My heart...I really can't endure it.

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Consort Xian, what do you think?

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I wasn't able to take good care of Fourth Prince.

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I feel so guilty. As long as the Fourth Prince can recover,

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I won't have anything else to say.

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Sister Consort Xian, you're too easy to convince.

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Do you know that Noble Lady Jia has been crying all the way here?

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Now the whole palace is gossiping that you've been harsh on the Fourth Brother.

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If you allow her to successfully take the child away,

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won't that prove the gossip?

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Consort Chun, I know that you're worried about me.

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But gossip won't work on the smart one.

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It's enough that my conscience is clear.

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Your conscience is indeed clear,

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but you're going to push the Fourth Prince into the fiery pit.

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Your Highness Consort Chun, what do you mean by that?

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Will I harm my own son?

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Consort Chun, if you're going to make baseless remarks, you should choose a better time.

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The Fourth Prince now is sick.

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What is your purpose

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for speaking such harsh words?

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Medical Investigator Zhang said earlier

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that Fourth Prince got sick because of cold winds.

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But look, what season is it already?

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This room has all its windows tightly shut.

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He even has a blanket over him.

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May I ask, where did the cold wind come from?

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Replying to Your Highness Chun, there's a saying among the commoners

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that if you want a child to get sick, just let him starve or get cold a bit.

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If one wears too much clothing or get covered with too many blankets, he would perspire a lot

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and lead to a lot of illness.

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Then it means that the more we cover him,

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the more easily he gets sick?

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I've been taking care of Fourth Prince like that ever since,

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but he never got sick.

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What about the food that he takes?

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Last night, I saw his nurse maid feeding him chicken soup.

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Fourth Prince has a weak body and is unable to sleep soundly at night.

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He should drink a lightly-flavored porridge instead.

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Chicken meat is a stimulating food and very nutritious.

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The child would surely feel more unwell the more he eats them.

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I've instructed the kitchen to deliver some light porridge,

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but the Fourth Prince wouldn't eat it.

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For the past few days, the light porridge that the kitchen has delivered,

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the Fourth Prince refused to eat.

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Nurse maid even wanted to feed him fish soup.

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While Her Highness Consort Xian was not around, I secretly fed it to him.

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That's acting so recklessly.

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The child is sick, so his body is weak. His stomach and intestines are not in harmony.

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You even fed him fish soup? He surely will have diarrhea.

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That's right. Fourth Prince earlier kept having diarrhea.

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He even kept saying that his stomach is painful.

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Now, you tell us that Fourth Prince was complaining of abdominal pain.

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Why didn't you say so earlier?

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Take her away and interrogate her.

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I want to know why the Prince got sick.

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- Take her away!

- Your Majesty, have mercy!

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Your Majesty, have mercy! It was Noble Lady Jia!

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It was Noble Lady Jia who ordered me to cover him like that.

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Forcefully cover him until he has perspired a lot, gets cold, and develops a fever.

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I was left with no choice, so I could only obey.

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You're full of lies!

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Tell us, was it Consort Xian...

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who ordered you to do this!

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Noble Lady Jia, how could you deny our agreement?

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It was clearly you who said

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that this is the only way to make Fourth Prince return to Chuxiu Palace.

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No, Your Majesty, it's not like that. Your Majesty!

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I'm the birth mother of the Fourth Prince.

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How could I harm my own son, Your Majesty?

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Noble Lady Jia, Fourth Prince is just two years old.

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How could you do such a thing?

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He was so reliant on you. You could even dare

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harm your own son?

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Of course, Noble Lady Jia didn't intend to harm Fourth Prince.

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She just wants to take back her son from Consort Xian.

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Too bad, in her eyes,

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Fourth Prince doesn't count as a real son.

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He's more like a chip,

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used to exchange for power, wealth—

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No! It's not like that...

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Your Majesty...

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Your Majesty, I really didn't...

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Everything is just a false charge by Consort Xian.

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Wrong. Also Consort Chun!

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You...also are involved in this!

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I've been living all this time in Chuxiu Palace. How could I extend my hand that far?

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It must be...Consort Xian.

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Yongcheng has always shunned Consort Xian.

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By doing this, it will make Yongcheng

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hate me, his birth mother, forever.

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By doing this, she can completely have Yongcheng to herself.

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Her Highness Consort Xian has no children.

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Of course, she doesn't know how to prepare the food of a child.

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Nurse maid is the person who knows the Fourth Prince best.

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You're using this point in falsely-accusing Consort Xian.

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You are so shameless.

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No... Your Majesty...

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The matter has already come to this, you still don't know to mend your ways.

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I think the greatest misfortune of Yongcheng

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is having a mother like you.

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Men, Noble Lady Jia is not virtuous

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and benevolent. She's not worthy to be anyone's mother.

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Starting today, her title is removed, (T/N "Jia" is her title, she is returned to her clan affiliation as her "name")

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demoted down to Second Class Attendant Jin,

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and is to transfer residence to Beisansuo. (T/N an area north of the Forbidden City, used as a "Cold Palace")

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Your Majesty, I didn't. I really didn't.

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- Men, take the two of them away.

- Your Majesty, I don't want to go.

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- Your Majesty, have mercy!

- Your Majesty!

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Your Highness Noble Consort...

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Your Highness Noble Consort, save me...

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Really good, Noble Lady Jia..

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You actually are ruthless to the point of harming your own son.

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You have disappointed me so much.

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Now, you even want me to beg for leniency for you?

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I mustn't do that.

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Your Highness Noble Consort, you...

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But in consideration for our past affection,

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I will take good care of the Fourth Prince on your behalf.

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Just go.

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Your Majesty...

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Your Majesty! Your Majesty!

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Yongcheng! Yongcheng, my son!

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Yongcheng!

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Your Majesty, life is really unpredictable and human hearts are so vicious.

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I never would have guessed

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that Noble Lady Jia would use my kindness

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to scheme in framing Consort Xian.

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A woman like that is indeed unworthy to be the mother of Yongcheng.

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But Yongcheng has been living in Chuxiu Palace.

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For him to suddenly leave, he surely would feel very uncomfortable.

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In my opinion,

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why not let me

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take Yongcheng back to Chuxiu Palace and I'll take good care of him.

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Or else, Consort Xian doesn't know how to raise a child.

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It almost led to trouble.

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Your Majesty, what do you think?

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Your Highness Noble Consort, Consort Xian indeed doesn't know to take care of children,

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but practice makes perfect.

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Her absolute sincerity towards the child is something that his own mother couldn't even possess.

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Yongcheng will stay here in Chengqian Palace.

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I believe that Consort Xian will take good care of him.

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Thank you, Your Majesty.

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I've heard that Consort Chun is very knowledgeable and well-versed in medicines.

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Today, I've really learned a lot.

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Your Highness Noble Consort, thank you for your praises.

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I'm ashamed and dare not accept such honor.

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♫The Forbidden Palace's walls surround them, feeling like a good place to reside.♫

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♫As the walls sever the setting sun's rays, they lose their past dreams as it grows cold.♫

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♫Decaying leaves cover the neglected shuttered window, that remembers the cold winds of twenty harvests.♫

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♫ Knowing only how to go with the flow and pass the years.♫

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♫Unmarried and hopeful, the heavy, dark gates are locked, ♫

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♫Cultivated and proud, gem-like beauties, and yet somehow♫

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♫Flowers who stay may endure breakage, causing them ask to change their karma♫

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♫Can not an empty branch give them a carefree place to rest upon?♫

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♫Longing to be together with him, separated as the illumination in the western window declines,♫

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♫At leisure to be melancholy, also perplexed and worried about it all.♫

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♫Who will pity her, and record her lifetime full of misery?♫

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♫A pretentious, showy vision on a stage.♫

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♫Longing to be together with him, separated as the illumination in the western window declines,♫

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♫At leisure to be melancholy, also perplexed and worried about it all.♫

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♫Who will pity her, and record her lifetime full of misery?♫

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♫A pretentious, showy vision on a stage.♫

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♫A pretentious, showy vision on a stage.♫