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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 22

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Yingluo, my heart almost jumped out of my chest earlier.

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What's really going on here?

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These past days, it's a trend in the palace to do dress-up games.

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It has come to the point that everyone is doing it.

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Today, Your Highness accompanied the Empress Dowager to tour the garden and a matter like this just has to happen.

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Mingyu blocked Zhilan, so I was able to arrive before her.

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I discovered that this palace maid had already fallen and died.

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But her makeup was so flashy, and I heard the other two upstairs

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whispering about Her Highness the Empress.

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I then boldly guessed that this must be related to the dress-up games.

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More importantly, Zhilan was so proactive.

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I can't help but to suspect Noble Consort Gao is the one behind this.

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Hence, you beat her to it and dragged her down first?

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What's the story behind the greasepaint on the face of this palace maid then?

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It's not greasepaint.

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Just the juice of berries and garden balsamine. (T/N Himalayan balsam)

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Good thing that palace maid's face was full of blood after she fell.

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Others will also not look at it in detail. As long as we insist

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that she's playing an opera character, we can then bluff our way out of this.

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The dress-up trend here in the palace

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has led to the death of a palace maid today.

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The dress-up matter started with Changchun Palace.

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Empress Dowager will surely blame Her Highness the Empress for it.

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Wait. I'm a bit confused.

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How did Noble Consort Gao know that the palace maid will fall

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and especially lured Empress Dowager to look at it?

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No person in this world can predict things.

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Those three are sweepers of Yanhui Pavilion to begin with.

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They surely know about this area very well.

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How could one just fall so suddenly?

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Also, after it happened, they were dilly-dallying upstairs.

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It's the same when they came down. They didn't show any grief.

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Is that normal?

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So...they were not really playing around.

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They've planned this for a long time, and directly just pushed that person down.

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What you mean is Noble Consort Gao used the life of a person to frame Her Highness the Empress?

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Not only Noble Consort Gao,

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Noble Lady Shu is also involved.

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Yingluo, you finally did something right.

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If they had successfully framed Her Highness, our Changchun Palace would be in big trouble.

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Stop saying it.

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After such a huge thing happened,

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are you still harboring thoughts of getting by based on a fluke?

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Was I too tolerant with you two?

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Your Highness, slow down.

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What's wrong with Her Highness the Empress?

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We clearly have successfully got through it, but how come she's mad instead?

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Could I have done something wrong?

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Stop breaking it apart! What are you doing?

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Stop destroying it!

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Don't throw it!

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Your Highness! Your Highness!

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- They started demolishing it upon coming here. I couldn't stop them!

- Move quickly.

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- Don't demolish it! Don't demolish my opera stage!

- Your Highness, be careful.

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I'm ordering you to stop! Stop!

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How dare you, servants! Do you know what place this is? You dare to act atrociously here!

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May Your Highness the Noble Consort forgive us. This is the order of the Empress Dowager.

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Empress Dowager's decree?

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I'm ordering you to stop demolishing! You all stop! Stop, you hear me!

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- That one, demolish it all.

- Quickly stop!

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- Stop!

- And those, burn them all.

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Your Highness the Noble Consort.

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Your Highness, all those are your favorite opera costumes and opera scripts.

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Sorry. Empress Dowager gave orders

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that the inner palace consorts of Qing Empire should be reserved, prudent,

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able, and virtuous. Applying makeup all day to seduce the Emperor

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is really improper.

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Just to make Noble Consort Gao concentrate on more appropriate matters,

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all these opera costumes can't be allowed to stay. Burn them.

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Momo Liu, these opera dresses are the favorites of Her Highness.

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It's too pitiful to just burn them like this.

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Can't you ask for leniency from Empress Dowager?

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Your Highness the Noble Consort, don't blame me for not warning you.

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As a noble consort, you should obey the etiquette of the royal family.

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Become a model here in the palace.

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If anyone would be allowed to do just as she wishes, not knowing how to restrain oneself,

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ruining the tone here in the Forbidden Palace,

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Empress Dowager will not spare her.

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Gugu Liu!

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Continue burning!

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Your Highness! Your Highness!

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Your Highness the Noble Consort, what are you doing?

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Gugu Liu...

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That costume...

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is my absolute favorite.

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In the past, I didn't like the way it was sewed by the Embroidery House

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and even personally sewed it, stitch by stitch.

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I don't want those anymore.

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I don't want them all!

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Just leave this one behind, okay?

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I guarantee that I won't sing

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or dance.

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From now on, I will just put these clothes away.

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I won't bring them out anymore.

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Just let me keep them, okay?

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Gugu Liu.

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I will forever remember this favor from you.

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Your Highness the Noble Consort, don't. I can't bear such treatment.

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As a noble consort, you had to imitate those commoner opera performers.

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It caused the atmosphere in the palace to get corrupted

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and even caused the loss of one life. Empress Dowager almost got sick from anger.

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Tell me, can these dark and messy items be allowed to stay?

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Not only must they be disposed of, anyone who dares to dress up and play around from now on

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will be just like this opera costume,

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be careful of inviting fire and burning yourself.

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Her Highness still refuses to eat.

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What did we do wrong?

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It was clearly Noble Consort Gao who made a set-up to harm people.

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Now that we're able to turn the table around, why are we being blamed?

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You're still talking. Her Highness has such an amiable personality,

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but now, she's angry.

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Tell me then, why is she mad?

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Not only is she not minding us, she won't even eat.

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We must know why she's mad, so we can cure the problem.

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Look. You also don't know.

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You still have the nerve to come!

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What a rotten idea you suggested, causing Her Highness to suffer in your stead.

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Miss Zhilan, everything was my fault.

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Can you allow me to see Her Highness?

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Her Highness will never see you again. Just go back!

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Miss Zhilan! Miss Zhilan!

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[ Chuxiu Palace ]

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What is she doing?

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She seems to be praying to the gods.

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Wrong. She's paying respects to Her Highness the Empress.

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Your Highness the Empress is like the deities in heaven,

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beautiful, dignified, and kind.

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However, the deity is angry today.

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I then came to pray to her.

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May the deity guide mortals like me.

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Please tell us what we did that was wrong.

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Suck up.

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What do you mean, suck up?

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Even if we did do something wrong,

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may the deity be benevolent and magnanimous to forgive all of us.

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From now on, we surely will be careful with our words and actions, and will not make any more mistakes.

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I'm not Chang'eh, so why are you imitating Diandang?

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Your Highness the Empress, so you also know the story of Chang'eh from the book "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio"?

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Chang'eh imitated the four great beauties to have some fun.

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You learned that.

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Diandang was mischievous and caused troubles. She then burned incense to ask for forgiveness. You also copied that.

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I think you're about to become an immortal.

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Your Highness!

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Your Highness, you're not mad anymore?

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Tell them to come in too.

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Your Highness, you can be mad at us,

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but you mustn't skip your meal.

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If you harm your health, we will have committed a great sin.

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I'm not blaming you.

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I'm blaming myself.

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Aren't you all curious

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why after I got married,

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I became very traditional and very cautious?

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Because a woman must take up the duty of bearing children and educating them,

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attending to one's in-laws, and managing one's household.

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If you indulge in singing and dancing all day,

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enjoying the pleasures of life,

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that would bring disaster to your husband and to clan.

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In ancient times, you have Zhao Feiyan and Yang Yuhuai,

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who even though they have beauty that can turn a state upside down,

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because of acting frivolous

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and immoral, they keep being criticized by the succeeding generations.

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Without an outstanding beauty, would the empire really last forever?

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In my opinion,

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it is exactly because there are true beauties

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that fake heroes are exposed.

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Whenever an empire meets its downfall,

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they would either blame it on treacherous evil subjects or on seductive consorts bringing disasters to the nation.

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Why don't they say that the bed is too soft, the shoes are too bent,

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they were in a bad mood, so they lost the empire.

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You...

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Full of unreasonable logic and you still say it as if you're so right.

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I'm the Empress. I then must act in a dignified manner, be cautious with my words and actions.

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That way I can be an model for all of the six palaces.

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But I actually have forgotten proper decorum.

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I started to linger on the happiness and freedom I had before I was married.

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I put on the fairy dress of River Goddess Luo and started dancing an inappropriate dance.

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It caused the whole palace to start imitating me and destroyed the proper palace atmosphere.

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Hence, a huge disaster like this happened.

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Your Highness, this clearly was a mistake of Noble Consort Gao.

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No. It's my fault.

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It was I who committed a mistake first,

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and gave her an opportunity to use it.

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Tell me, is today just about the loss of one life?

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Did those two palace maids refuse to admit what they've done,

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and insist that it was an accident?

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Yes.

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Just to pacify the anger of Empress Dowager, the Office of Careful Punishment

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had them caned fifty times and then sent to the Xinzheku (Workhouse).

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Aren't all these matters a result

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of my portraying Goddess Luo?

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Your Highness.

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You really think Empress Dowager didn't see through it?

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She just didn't want to expose me

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and left me some dignity.

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If this matter would happen again,

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what face do I have to continue holding the position of Empress?

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But Your Highness the Empress was so happy when you dressed up as the goddess.

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- Are you willing—

- As a woman,

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we can't break new ground and defend our country.

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I can only manage well the six palaces.

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Free the Emperor from any unnecessary worries.

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This is the only thing that I can do

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for the country and the citizens.

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Doing my best to fulfill the duty of an empress

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is more important than winning the favor of His Majesty.

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Yingluo, thank you.

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But I'm the Empress of the Qing Dynasty.

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Don't ever forget that.

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Madam, the rules.

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Your Highness the Noble Consort!

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What's the use of kneeling?

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Even if you bleed from kneeling, I won't pity you.

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Whenever I see you, I will remember my lost treasures.

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Get lost. Stay as far away as possible.

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Your Highness the Noble Consort, I keep disappointing you and am indeed ashamed to return.

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But I've knelt here and reflected on my actions all night.

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After thinking about it, I'm to blame for belittling my enemies.

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An evil dog is an evil dog.

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But Your Highness, if a person would lower herself to the level of a dog, that's truly being silly.

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To deal with a dog, just one piece of meat is enough.

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I think you've become crazy from kneeling.

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You're starting to spout crazy words.

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Your Highness!

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Your Highness, every person has a weakness. As long as she desires something,

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let's not be afraid of not catching her weakness.

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Your Highness, by that time,

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won't she still end up being ordered around by you?

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What you mean is...

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to get that bad dog to work for me?

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Yes.

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What are you doing?

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Your Highness the Noble Consort.

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Your Highness the Noble Consort, may I know why you had me come here?

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Momo Zhang, I heard that Wei Yingluo is your disciple.

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Noble Lady Shu, you're joking.

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Wei Yingluo indeed stayed in the Embroidery House for some time.

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I'm the gugu who is directly in charge of the Embroidery House.

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Technically, we can be said to have a teacher-disciple relationship.

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But in reality, we don't have any direct relationship.

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Now, she already has made connections with the Changchun Palace.

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Even more so, she won't put any importance on me anymore.

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Momo Zhang, when you speak, you really don't leave anything out.

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Too bad, when a goose passes, it will always leave marks.

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If we didn't have any bit of evidence, we wouldn't have tracked you.

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Noble Lady Shu, what really do you want to say?

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I'm confused.

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Wei Yingluo was born among the Baoyi of the Plain Yellow Banner.

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She has a father and a sister.

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Her sister's original name was Wei Yingning.

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Since it's the same as the name of Noble Consort, it was you

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who personally changed her name to A'Man.

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A'Man got expelled out of Forbidden City for breaking palace rules.

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Afterwards, she hanged herself. In less than three months,

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Wei Yingluo entered the palace and became your favored disciple.

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Tell me, isn't that too coincidental?

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- Noble Lady Shu—

- You must know

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that since I'm able to investigate the background of Wei Yingluo,

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I then know about yours too.

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Noble Lady Shu, my parents are both dead.

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I'm the only one left in my family.

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All my life, I've served in the Forbidden City.

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There's nothing to investigate about.

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Momo, maybe because you're old, you tend to forget things.

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What? You even forgot your own older brother?

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You...

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That older brother of yours

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is currently living at...

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the main street outside Yongding Gates.

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Too bad, he left too early.

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He only left one descendant.

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And all your savings

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were being used to support that child.

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Your Highness the Noble Consort.

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Your Highness the Noble Consort, that child

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is only six years old. He doesn't know anything.

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I beg Your Highness the Noble Consort...

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I beg you to let him go.

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I beg you.

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You're an old servant of the palace.

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And you have been attentive to your duty.

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As long as you tell me everything you know,

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of course, I will not treat you badly.

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Sister Yingluo, what instructions do you have for me?

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This is the Empress' informal dress.

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The collar here needs adjustment.

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Don't worry, Sister. We will tend to it now and get it delivered to Changchun Palace by noon.

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Where's Supervisor Zhang?

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The Empress has more instructions.

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Supervisor Zhang never came to the embroidery house.

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She is always up at Tiger Hour (3-5am) and starts work at Rabbit Hour (5-7am).

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Even when she's sick she will exert herself to check the embroidery house.

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How can she be absent?

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Perhaps she's gravely ill?

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Let me go see.

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Sister Yingluo.

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Supervisor Zhang.

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Yingluo.

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What brings you here?

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Momo, are you alright?

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I thought you were sick. I was about to come see you.

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I did have a cold earlier but I'm well now.

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Really?

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Silly girl. Why would I lie to you?

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Look. I'm perfectly fine.

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Your cold is recovered.

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But your leg joint pain, you need to take care of it.

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Don't think it's now so it's nothing.

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When the winter comes, the pain will start again.

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Last time I made the knee pads for you, but they are too thick for use now.

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Tomorrow I will make another pair of thinner ones.

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Alright then. Yingluo, I've got work piled up.

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I need to go and busy myself. You go back first.

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Yingluo.

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You need to watch out at Changchun Palace too.

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Supervisor, you seem very strange today.

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Did something happen?

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I'm old, so I nag a lot. Hurry and go back too.

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Wei Yingluo.

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Do you want to know about A'man's death?

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Tonight at midnight, come to Chuxiu Palace alone. Remember.

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If the word gets out,

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you can count on never learning the truth.

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[ Chuxiu Gate ]

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Greetings to Your Highness the Noble Consort

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and Noble Lady Shu.

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Wei Yingluo.

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I was just making bets with Noble Lady Shu about whether you'd dare to come.

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Allow me to be bold and ask.

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Did you win, Noble Consort.

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Or did Noble Consort Shu win?

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I always hate a sharp tongue.

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Especially yours.

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You ruined so many of my great plans.

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But today you can come alone to Chuxiu Palace.

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I admire your guts too.

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I am easily scared.

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Before coming to Chuxiu Palace, I left a letter.

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If I am not back in two hours,

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then I asked the Empress to come fetch me.

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Stop your tongue-wagging here.

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I summoned you here today

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to have you meet someone.

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Come on in.

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Who is he?

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I am Xiao Zhangzi, a junior sweeping eunuch of Imperial Garden.

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Tell us what you saw the night of the first tenth day of the first month.

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That night, His Majesty was entertaining the royal clansmen at Qianqing Palace.

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Imperial Garden's supervisors were all loafing and went to play cards.

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Only I was on guard duty.

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Later, I heard a movement at the rock garden so I sneaked over.

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What did you see?

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I saw....I saw...

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Let go of me.

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Let me go.

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Save me. Let go.

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Let go of me.

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Why didn't you save her?

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I didn't dare.

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That person. Who was it?

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I don't dare to say.

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Say it.

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I will give you justice.

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It was Fuheng. It was Fuheng.

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You heard that clearly, right?

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The one that raped A'Man was Fuheng.

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Are you nuts? Is this funny?

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A great story you knotted.

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You mean, we are telling you a story to deceive you?

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My sister's incident. My goal of coming into the palace.

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Supervisor Zhang is most aware of it.

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She is always so assiduous, but she was missing in the morning.

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If she were sick and couldn't get out of bed, that's understandable.

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But her footsteps are light and no sign of illness.

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But her speech was evasive and concealing, and halting.

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Isn't that strange?

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Wei Yingluo, you are so suspicious.

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You admit it?

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The Noble Consort summoned Supervisor Zhang that day.

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It was only to ask a couple of questions.

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You found out from her my secret.

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So you want to use this to frame Fuca Fuheng.

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Force me to be a pawn of Chuxiu Palace.

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Wei Yingluo.

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You thought the evidence was just one jade pendant?

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What do you mean?

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Bring it out.

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Later, I picked up this.

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This court band.

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It was by the rock garden. He probably left in such a haste,

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that he didn't attend to it.

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Go on.

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Yes.

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Fuca Fuheng.

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If it's just a jade pendant,

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it could be just a coincidence.

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But even his court band is here.

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This is a personal item of a first-ranking guard.

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Can't be that this is also a coincidence?

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Fuheng ruined A'Man's chastity.

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And the upright and virtuous Empress.

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In order to protect her own brother's reputation,

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she chased that pitiful palace maid out of the palace.

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Even so, she still didn't feel at ease.

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If this palace maid went out and talked in an unruly fashion, it would affect the Fuca reputation.

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So for the guaranteed security, she--

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Enough!

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Look at you. I haven't said anything.

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You're already shaking in anger.

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But I do understand.

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You put in so much effort to enter the palace.

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It was all to find the enemy that murdered your sister.

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But in the end?

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You yourself became the best sword in your enemy's hand.

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Devoting yourself to her cause and putting yourself to shield danger from her.

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That pair of pretentious sister and brother,

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maybe they are laughing at you behind your back?

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Saying you're such a fool to acknowledge the criminal as your master.

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Noble Consort. You're telling me this secret.

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What exactly do you want me to do?

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The Empress is most versed in putting on a tranquil pose.

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She used her upright and virtuous-looking face,

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to deceive the entire world to ascend to the Empress seat.

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Now, the truth is out.

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I hope you can renounce the dark and join the light.

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Work for me.

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Work for you how?

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The Empress fooled and deceived you.

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Don't you want revenge?

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Just put this in the Empress' daily food and beverage.

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And you can kill her without even the ghosts being aware of it.

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You want to me kill the Empress with poison?

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What? You're scared now?

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Or maybe . . .

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You never wanted to seek revenge for your real sister A'Man.

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Of course I do.

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So then, Yingluo, this empress is Fuheng's biggest dependence.

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In order to cover up for her own brother, she didn't hesitate to kill A'Man.

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But poor A'Man. First she loses her virtue and is chased out of the palace.

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Then at last, she was strangled to death.

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All these misfortunes.

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All done by Empress and her brother.

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But you remain compassionate and soft like this?

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Take it.

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Wei Yingluo. This is the final chance I'll give you.

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I hope you don't disappoint me.

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For A'Man. And for yourself.

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Think about it clearly.

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Yingluo, I'll tell you once again.

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I, Fuheng, do not engage in harm and immorality. I never have.

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Guard Fuca.

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Yingluo.

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You're here, Young Master. I'll go report to the Empress.

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Hey. What's wrong?

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You're the first one to run up and greet him usually.

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He's not waiting to see me, so why should I go seek boredom?

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Didn't you see where his eyes were?

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- Zhenzhu.

- What are you doing here?

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I came to see how the tea preparation is going.

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It's almost done.

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Yesterday, the Empress ate an extra sachima. (T/N Manchu sweet, fluffy bands of dough bound with stiff syrup)

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She feels it was too much.

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Today, present pu'er tea. (T/N type of fermented tea from Yunnan province)

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Pu'er? Which pu'er?

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Yunnan's tribute. Jinghua tea. (T/N pressed into shape of a melon/pumpkin, best Yiwu Mountain leaves)

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As for Guard Fuca,

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he usually loves Tieguanyin from Anxi. (T/N "Iron Goddess of Mercy" - an oolong tea)

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The biluochun you prepared isn't his usual.

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How do you know?

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Not only do I know that Guard Fuca likes to drink tieguanyin tea from Anxi,

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I also know Consort Chun lates drinking milk tea.

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She likes jasmine tea from Suzhou.

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Consort Xian used to like enshiyulu, but now she likes biluochun. (T/N "white jade revealed", a rare steamed tea)

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What about His Majesty then?

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His Majesty?

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He won't let you decipher what he likes or dislikes.

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But from what I have seen,

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it seems the Longjing tea (dragon well) pleases the royal mind the most.

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Of course, it depends also on His Majesty's mood.

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If you find him unhappy today,

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forget the Longjing, even if you present a jewel nectar,

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you will be unlucky no matter what.

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Hurry and teach me how you figured.

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Every time a guest comes, look at the tea cup they used and you'll know.

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You should go and check on the snacks in the kitchen now.

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I'll wait for you and we'll prepare the tea together.

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Alright.

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Greetings to Consort Chun.

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You may rise.

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Are you here to see the Empress, Consort Chun? Her Highness is holding an audience with Guard Fuca.

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I will go and report it first.

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Since Guard Fuca is in the main hall, there's no need.

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I will return first and come back after noon.

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Yes.

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Didn't I tell you

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not to frequent Changchun Palace if nothing is the matter?

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His Majesty gave you a decree of mercy but that's not for you to waste recklessly.

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Don't worry, Sister. This time, it was Mother asking me to come.

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She prayed for a peace charm from Huguo Temple

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She asked me to bring it to you, no matter what.

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Yingluo. Help me fetch my fan.

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Yes.

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Mother is too much.

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From Longfu Temple to Guanghua Temple to Huguo Temple.

512

Is she bent on going to all the temples,

513

and praying for peace charms?

514

For your sake, even if Mother wears out her legs,

515

she does so willingly.

516

I think not just for me though.

517

Probably for you, for a match.

518

Matches are set by God. I believe...

519

maybe God has already delivered my fated match to me.

520

Consort Chun, what are you doing?

521

You should ask, Your Highness, what she is trying to do.

522

What do you mean by that, Consort Chun?

523

Noble Consort Gao, in order to win royal favor, she exhausts in seeking medicine to scent her body.

524

Everyday she takes a pill, not just to scent her body,

525

even the clothing she's worn and the room she's stayed in

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are all extremely fragrant.

527

In order to prevent others to snatch her favor, she bans the palace personnel from copying her.

528

Wei Yingluo,

529

why do you have this scent on you?

530

Consort Chun, maybe...

531

she got it on her unconsciously?

532

Your Highness, you and I see Noble Consort Gao daily.

533

But we never contracted the fragrance.

534

There's only one possibility.

535

You went to Chuxiu Palace

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and you stayed there for quite some time.

537

Because the incense burner in Chuxiu Palace fumigates the same fragrance

538

and it doesn't dissipate.

539

Now, Changchun Palace and Chuxiu Palace are in discord of water and fire.

540

Wei Yingluo, why did you go to Chuxiu Palace?

541

Yingluo. You should say something.

542

She has nothing to say. I smelled her scent earlier,

543

I wasn't sure,

544

so I had Yuhu go and search her room.

545

And I found this.

546

What is this?

547

The medicine pouch contained a strong poison. It's empty.

548

I am certain that the tea earlier, if you drank it,

549

you'd be dead immediately!

550

Yingluo.

551

I don't trust the words of others.

552

You tell me yourself. Do you wish to kill me?

553

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

555

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

556

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

557

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

558

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

559

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

560

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

561

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

562

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

563

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

564

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

565

♫A pretentious, showy vision on a stage.♫

566

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

567

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

568

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

569

♫A pretentious, showy vision on a stage.♫

570

♫A pretentious, showy vision on a stage.♫