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Watching the person in the mirror's countenance grow pale and 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 30

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Can you all hear that sound?

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Sound?

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Empress Dowager! Be careful!

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Empress Dowager! Your Highness!

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Get away!

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Your Highness...

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Your Highness! Your Highness!

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Your Highness the Empress!

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Your Highness!

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Quickly go call the Imperial guards!

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Protect Her Highness.

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Whoever dares to run around and shout will be dealt with according to palace rules!

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My arm!

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Help! Help!

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The Empress has fallen off the building!

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Your Highness!

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Your Highness! Your Highness!

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Help! Quickly save Her Highness!

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Your Highness... Quickly save Her Highness!

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Hurry!

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Hurry!

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Your Highness, quickly wake up.

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Your Majesty, you've been sitting for the whole night.

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Shouldn't you go back first and rest?

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Your Majesty, your health is more important.

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I will be stay here to guard her.

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If there are any news, I surely will report it to Yangxin Palace immediately.

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Your Majesty, how about I ask them to make some snacks

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and deliver it here to Changchun Palace?

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Enough. Stop crying.

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Quickly go out.

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No. I'm going nowhere.

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I'm going to guard Her Highness.

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If not because of your negligence, how could Her Highness suffer like this?

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Stop crying here. If His Majesty hears it,

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you'll get caned.

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Quickly go out.

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You hear me?

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Let's go.

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[ Shoukang Palace ]

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Is there any news from Changchun Palace?

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Empress Dowager, it's already midnight. Sleep for a while.

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If there is any news, I will report it to you.

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It's all your fault for stopping me.

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Or else, I would be in Changchun Palace now waiting for news.

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It's way better than staying here and worrying.

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Fuheng!

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Mingyu! How is sister?

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Her Highness the Empress is still unconscious.

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The Imperial physicians only said that the child can't be preserved anymore.

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They still don't know about the other things.

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What do you mean by "they still don't know"?

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Fuheng, where are you going?

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I'll look for Doctor Ye!

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Miss Mingyu, stop crying.

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It's all my fault.

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It's because I had a moment of carelessness.

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If I had tightly held onto Her Highness the Empress,

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this matter today wouldn't have happened.

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There were so many people in Yujing Pavilion that time.

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Everyone got shocked because of the bats.

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All were running wildly and bumping into each other.

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Would you be able to pull Her Highness the Empress up by yourself?

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You don't know. You don't know anyting.

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Yingluo told me that no matter where I go, I mustn't care about anything else.

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I just have to tightly guard Her Highness.

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It was I who didn't listen to her.

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It's my fault.

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I should have protected Her Highness the Empress.

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That way, she wouldn't have slipped and fallen off Yujing Pavilion.

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It's all my fault.

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The mistakes have been made. Things have become like this.

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Can crying resolve anything?

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Her Highness the Empress is already unconscious.

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Everything is in disarray.

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If you keep crying here in such grief,

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other than adding to trouble, it won't benefit anyone at all.

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Why not think about what to do?

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Find her. I'll go find her.

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- Miss Mingyu!

- Let go of me!

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How come both of them are like that?

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Have they been possessed?

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Empress Dowager, stop worrying.

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The Empress is a blessed person. She surely will be alright.

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His Majesty is still in Changchun Palace.

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If you go there, His Majesty must worry about you and the Empress at the same time.

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I'm sure that there will be news sent here very soon.

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Usually, you are quite quiet.

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But during critical times,

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all the other Imperial consorts are in disarray.

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Even the Empress has fainted.

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Only you were calm and able to stabilize the situation.

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Indeed...

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That group of bats covered the whole sky. It really scared me so much.

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Good thing, Her Highness Consort Xian was quick in reacting and very resolute.

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She was able to protect the Empress Dowager.

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During that situation, I was also afraid.

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It's just that the Empress Dowager was still around. I dared not show any fear.

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I could only put on a bold face and do it.

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Or else, if anything bad happened to Your Highness, I wouldn't be able to deny my responsibility for it even if I died.

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Now, the Empress is sick.

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Noble Consort Gao also got hurt.

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But the order in the palace must be maintained.

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Please exert more effort.

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I don't know much.

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Good thing Consort Chun is very quick-witted.

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I will assist her in managing the palace affairs

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and will try my best not to commit any mistakes.

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That time, Consort Chun was just by my side.

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When she saw the bats coming, she got so terrified as if she had lost her soul.

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For a weak lady like that,

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I can't put my hopes on her.

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But you, you don't have the delicateness of a lady.

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You are courageous and unswerving like a man.

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If I entrust everything to you, I'll be at ease.

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Empress Dowager, don't worry.

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I will surely do my best.

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How come a good Double Yang Festival

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would end up like this?

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Mingyu!

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Yingluo!

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What has happened?

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Empress Dowager organized a Double Yang Festival celebration in Yujing Pavilion.

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But don't know why, a group of bats suddenly got lured towards there.

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The place was in chaos. Her Highness the Empress...

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The Empress accidentally fell off the stone steps!

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How is she now?

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The whole Imperial Medical Academy is treating Her Highness.

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But Her Highness is still unconscious.

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Didn't I already tell you! No matter what, you must—

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I didn't mean to. That time, there were so many people.

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I didn't know who pushed me and then I suddenly fell.

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Who is the first one that discovered Her Highness the Empress had fallen off the stony steps?

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Men! The Empress fell off of the building!

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It's Noble Consort Gao. She's the first one to shout it.

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I just knew that it's her.

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You suspect Noble Consort Gao?

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No... Impossible.

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Noble Consort Gao tried holding onto Her Highness the Empress.

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Her arm even got dislocated because of it.

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If she intended to harm her, why then did she save her?

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Was she able to save her?

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If she wasn't able to save her, then it means her actions were just to cover up the truth.

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Let's go to Changchun Palace.

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How do you cure people? Can't you see that Her Highness is in so much pain?

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Your Highness the Noble Consort, how could joint reduction not be painful?

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You must endure for a while. This will be over soon.

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- You're still going to massage it?

- Enough!

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You useless thing. How come it took you so long to reduce my shoulder?

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- I will take my leave.

- I'm already having cold sweats.

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Your Highness, why must you hurt yourself?

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My heart aches just by watching you.

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That's right, Your Highness. You usually feel upset just by losing a hair strand.

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Not to mention if it's a shoulder dislocation?

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What do you all know?

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I was so near the Empress.

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If I just watched her and did nothing,

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won't all the blame fall on me?

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Now, I got hurt because of her.

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Although I wasn't able to save her, I did give my best.

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Even His Majesty won't be able to say anything harsh.

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Lighter!

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- Yes.

- Your Highness has given it thorough thought.

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I'm impressed with your ruthlessness.

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Although inflicting pain on oneself to earn the pity of others is quite a rotten trick,

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it's very useful.

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Let's hurry.

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Let's quickly go in too.

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Why are you not moving forward anymore? Her Highness the Empress is still waiting for us.

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I'm not going anymore.

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Why are you not going in anymore?

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Her Highness the Empress kicked me out of her palace.

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I'm already not a member of Changchun Palace.

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Why would I go in?

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Wei Yingluo, say that again.

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I'm not a member of Changchun Palace anymore.

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Her Highness the Empress still being unconscious has nothing to do with me anymore.

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Her Highness the Empress was so good to you.

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Now she's unconscious and you still dare to say such words?

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Do you still have a conscience?

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Indeed. We've served Her Highness the Empress for so many years.

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Who hasn't been here longer than you?

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But Her Highness just likes you the most, even Erqing can't compare.

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Saying such cruel words now, aren't you wronging Her Highness?

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What's wrong with going in and looking at her? Would you lose any flesh?

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You after all still came from Changchun Palace.

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Have you forgotten your previous master-servant relationship?

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When Her Highness the Empress expelled me, no one begged for leniency.

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I ended up being a servant in the Workhouse and have suffered enough laborious work.

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Now, everyone are spouting righteous words. Everyone is saying that I'm heartless.

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On what basis? If I enter and look at Her Highness the Empress, will she wake up?

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- You...

- If I have such time to do that, it's better to just do more work.

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Or else, the one starving will be me, and not you people.

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- You're totally evil!

- Are you all done?

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I really have a lot of work to do.

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I'm not all of you, high-ranking palace maids that are so pampered.

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You just need to open your mouth and you'll have good clothing and food.

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Get lost! Immediately leave! You're not welcome here!

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Now that Her Highness the Empress has fallen,

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Changchun Palace won't also be favored palace anymore.

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Even if you all kneel and beg me, I don't care.

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Get lost! Immediately leave!

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Evil woman! She's really an evil woman!

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Forget it, Mingyu. Stop being mad.

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The health of Her Highness the Empress is more important.

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- As for others—

- Imperial Guard Fuca, why are you still chasing after her?

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Just let him be.

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What are you doing?

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Imperial Guard Fuca, do you still have questions to ask?

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Yingluo, why did you do that?

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You touched my hand earlier.

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Why didn't you look at it closely?

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Did you see it clearly now?

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These were originally the hands of an embroidery maid.

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There was not one scar nor callus.

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Only hands like that have the right to touch the softest fabric.

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But now, these hands are full of wounds and blood.

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Even if they heal,

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I won't be able to hold a needle with thread anymore.

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Who should I thank for this?

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- Your sister.

- Yingluo.

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A few days ago, I was removing grass.

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Because I looked upward for the Empress to notice me, I got whipped a few times by Momo Liu.

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If not because she missed a bit, my face would have been damaged!

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But from start to end, the Empress didn't look at me one bit.

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In her eyes, I'm no different from the dirty mud on the Imperial lane.

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For a cold mistress like that, why must I worry about her?

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Yingluo, although the Empress expelled you from Changchun Palace,

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she still taught you to study and to identify words.

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You can choose not to treat her as your mistress,

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but she's still your teacher.

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She's now unconscious. Is it that hard for you to visit her?

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How come you all like to do useless things?

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If I go visit her, will she get better?

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I'm not an Imperial physician nor a deity.

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My tears are not some miracle medicine.

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If I stay too long here, I'll get beaten and punished when I get back.

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Would any of you people standing on high places and blaming me be willing to suffer the punishment on my behalf?

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Do you know how painful a whip is?

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- Yingluo.

- Enough!

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From the moment that Empress drove me out of Changchun Palace,

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our master-servant relationship and teacher-student relationship have been severed.

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Fuheng, you and your sister are the same.

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Both are pampered and of high status.

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People like you won't be able to understand my pain and grievances.

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If you keep pestering me, I will just hate you so much more.

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I heard that you lost your temper in Changchun Palace last night.

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Don't know what you're thinking right now.

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Aren't you the bug in my stomach?

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Guess it.

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I'm guessing that you're coming up with a scheme right now. Am I right?

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You're wrong.

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I'm just a lowly slave of the Workhouse.

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How could I have the right to get involved in palace fights?

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This time, I don't want to care.

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I'm unable to care.

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Just want to scrub my commodes well in exchange for mantous that can fill my stomach.

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That's what I should do.

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I've grown sick of hearing those words from the Imperial physicians.

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I want to know if there is any way to make the Empress wake up.

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I did some acupuncture treatment on Her Highness the Empress. Her life is temporarily safe, but...

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when will she wake up, I also have no confidence to say.

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Even you are out of methods?

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The brain of Her Highness got injured. There's a huge internal hematoma.

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Now, she's unconscious and her pulse is deep and slippery.

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Her illness is too grave and her health is too weak.

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We can only do our best and listen to the will of the heavens.

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Hope that Her Highness is worthy for heaven's help,

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that she will be blessed to wake up sooner.

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Your Highness Consort Chun.

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- You...

- What did Doctor Ye say? When will the Empress wake up?

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Doctor Ye also is not sure when.

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He can only do his best and leave the rest to the heavens.

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Fuheng!

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Sister, why are you here?

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Why are you teary-eyed? Is the condition of Her Highness the Empress not good?

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Her Highness is still unconscious.

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I was just too anxious, hence, I lost myself.

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Little Sister, no need to worry. I understand your thoughts well.

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Let's go in, and I'll accompany you to visit Her Highness the Empress.

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Are there still bats at the back?

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Quick!

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How is the investigation?

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Empress Dowager pays a lot of attention on taking care of health. The Imperial Kitchen prepared some deer blood as cubes.

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The Empress couldn't tolerate the raw meat's smell. It was immediately asked to be removed after just getting served.

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The palace maid carelessly spilled the blood all over the floor. The deer blood's scent was too strong.

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It lured all the bats from the deep forest outside the palace into here.

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We indeed discover a lot of bat lairs. The palace maids here also said

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that they usually see bats gathering in this place.

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Usually, there will only be at most ten or so bats.

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But that night, there were thousands. I don't think this matter is that simple.

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What you mean is this was a set-up?

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Where's the palace maid that spilled the meat?

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That palace maid was careless.

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She fell off from the railings of the Yujing Pavilion and died right there and then.

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So now we don't have any witness. What did all the other people on the scene say?

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I've already sent men to interrogate all the palace servants that were at the scene.

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Everyone is saying that the bats knocked off the lamps.

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It was chaotic everywhere. No one really saw who pushed the Empress.

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What about Chuxiu Palace?

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You suspect Noble Consort Gao?

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Whoever was closest to the Empress that day would be the prime suspect.

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But just trying save the Empress, Noble Consort Gao's left shoulder got dislocated.

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After having the joint was returned into place by the Imperial physician, she's currently recuperating.

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From the looks of it now, we don't have much evidence.

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The best way is to wait for the Empress to wake up.

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Have you heard it?

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The Empress has been unconscious for more than ten days. She's still hasn't woken up yet.

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Duixiu Mountain is so high, and the steps going up are so steep.

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It's already fortunate for the Empress to still be alive.

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But with her collapsing like that, what about the palace?

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If you ask me, Consort Xian is more magnanimous than the Empress.

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When Empress was handling the inner palace, she kept asking people to stop being extravagant and wasteful.

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She ordered the inner palace to decrease its expenditures.

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Now that Consort Xian is in charge, there is meat on the dining tables here in the Workhouse.

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That Empress was still once your mistress.

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So ruthless and heartless.

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No wonder people are saying that you're a heartless monster.

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Since you're afraid, why do you still keep provoking me? I really don't know what you're thinking.

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If it's just to vent some useless anger, you had better just save your strength.

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Go back and work.

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Jinxiu, are you so idle again?

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Hurry and deliver the cow's milk to Chuxiu Palace.

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Momo, how come it's always me?

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The cow's milk is so heavy, and I must deliver it three times.

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I don't want to go anymore.

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If you don't go, who will go? If you keep complaining, be careful of getting flogged.

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Let her go.

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Hasn't it always been the new person delivering the cow's milk to Chuxiu Palace every year?

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Momo, that was a rule that you personally set before.

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Sure. I'll go then.

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Okay already. Don't be idle too. Squat in the three palaces to remove the grasses.

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Yes!

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You think delivering cow's milk is easier than cleaning commodes?

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Let me tell you

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that when you arrive in Chuxiu Palace, you will have enough torment to take.

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You move so slowly! Do you want to be caned again?

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Oh, an old acquaintance.

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Sister Zhilan, I'm here to deliver the cow's milk.

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Her Highness the Noble Consort is waiting for it. Quickly go in.

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Yes.

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Wei Yingluo?

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How come you ended up in such dire straits after leaving Changchun Palace?

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You were once so full of life before.

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Now, you're being blown by the wind and exposed to sunlight.

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Do you want me to help you?

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Your Highness the Noble Consort,

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I've delivered the cow's milk. I'll take my leave.

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Your Highness bestowed you some cow's milk. That's a great grace. You still haven't thanked her, so where are you going?

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What else do you still want to do?

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Look at this pair of nimble hands.

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They have now become coarse and horrible-looking.

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Why don't I just remove it for you, so they'll stop being an eyesore.

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Don't worry. I'll tell the craftsmen to make you wooden hands.

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I guarantee that they'll be more powerful than this.

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What? You're still glaring at me like that?

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Don't you want your eyes either?

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Greetings to Your Majesty.

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- Where's Noble Consort Gao?

- I...

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Noble Consort... Her Highness the Noble Consort...

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Your Highness the Noble Consort, His Majesty is here!

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Wei Yingluo, if you know what's good for you, then shut your mouth. Or else, don't think of leaving this palace alive.

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Your Majesty!

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Rise.

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Didn't your arm got dislocated? Why are you not lying on your bed?

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The Imperial physician has already reduced my shoulder joint. I feel much better.

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I was just ordering people to carry water for my bath, when I bumped into this servant maid.

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So clumsy. She spilled the cow's milk.

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Look. My dress is already wet.

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So dumb and clumsy. Quickly leave.

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Yes.

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Your Majesty, why didn't you inform me beforehand that you're coming?

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I could have made some preparations. Look at all the spills inside this room.

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It's so inconvenient.

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I heard that you're sick, so I came to check on you.

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Since you're fine, I'll return to Yangxin Palace then.

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Li Yu, place the gifts over there. Nurse your health well.

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Your Majesty! Your Majesty!

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Your Majesty, it's raining so hard. What are you searching for?

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Your Majesty! Your Majesty!

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Your Majesty! Your Majesty!

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Your Majesty, isn't that...

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Stop acting so pitiful in front of me.

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What I hate the most is a pretentious woman like you!

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Go someplace where I can't see you!

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Your... Quick! Your Majesty! Your Majesty!

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Your Majesty, even if you gave Miss Yingluo that umbrella,

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she wouldn't dare to use it. It's an umbrella for the Emperor.

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If she uses it and takes it back with her, don't know how big of a problem it might cause.

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She's a natural-born rebel. She's just reaping what she sowed.

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Li Yu, when did it become a trend to bathe in cow's milk here in the palace?

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Your Majesty, this...

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Noble Consort Gao preserving her skin is also just to make you happy. It's understandable.

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The cow's milk is supplied to the Imperial Kitchen for cooking purposes. No one is allowed to waste it!

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Starting today, send an order to the Imperial Household Department.

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The amount of cow's milk supplied for each palace will be according to their ranking.

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A wasteful action like this is strictly prohibited.

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- Can't you understand?

- Yes.

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Your Majesty! Your Majesty!

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Stop!

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Your Highness, it seems that a weeding palace maid of the Workhouse has fainted.

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Ask for an Imperial physician to examine her.

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Let's go.

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You're so fortunate to bump into the sedan of Her Highness Consort Xian.

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If this is another person, who would care about the life of a servant?

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That's right. Among the masters here in the whole Forbidden City,

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only Her Highness Consort Xian has such benevolent heart.

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When you burn incense and pray to Buddha next time, you must remember this grace of Her Highness.

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Where am I?

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Momo Liu saw that you're sick, so she moved you into the stockroom. Come.

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Get up. Since you're sick, so stop hiding it already.

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You... If not because people found you,

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you might have died midway.

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Here. Drink your medicine.

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It's not grave.

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I just got soaked in the rain and developed a cold.

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Continue acting tough. You clearly had a conflict with Chuxiu Palace.

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You still volunteered to go there.

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Are you crazy?

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If I'm able to hide from it now, will I be able to avoid it next time?

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I can't avoid them forever.

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Drink this first.

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You can fool others, but not me.

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Honestly tell me, why did you deliberately anger Noble Consort Gao?

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Say it.

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I feel a bit dizzy.

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I'll sleep for a while longer.

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Throwing eggs onto a rock.

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Overestimating one's strength. Look at yourself now.

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I'm really mad now.

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Let me tell you that other than me, no one else will care for you.

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You're not allowed to go out and risk danger again. You hear me?

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Remember.

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Lord Fuheng, why are you here?

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Just casually walking around.

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I personally saw you ordering that eunuch to bribe the supervisor of the Workhouse.

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You saw it wrongly.

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Don't you usually hate such action?

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How come just for Wei Yingluo, you can forego even your principles?

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Shut up!

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Don't think that I don't know that you're asking her to take good care of her.

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Hey! Where are you going? Wait for me!

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How is your arm?

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Empress Dowager, my arm is better. Thank you for worrying.

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Too bad, I was too incompetent.

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In the end, I still wasn't able to save the Empress.

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You've tried your best.

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It's just that misfortunes are following the Empress,

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hence, an accident like that happened.

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These past days, not only Empress Dowager was worrying,

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even His Majesty rarely smiled.

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In a few days, it will be your birthday.

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I am thinking of organizing it.

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There's still six months before my birthday.

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You're too rushing.

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Now, Changchun Palace

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is covered by gathering clouds and rolling mists.

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How can I be in the mood to celebrate?

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Empress Dowager, it's exactly for that reason that

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I invited an acrobatic troupe from the commoners

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to perform for you and His Majesty, so as to make the atmosphere lively.

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It would also be able to drive away the gloomy atmosphere here in the palace,

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so people will stop having knitted eyebrows and feeling frightened.

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Empress Dowager, Her Highness Consort Xian is here.

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Quickly let her in.

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Respectfully greeting the Empress Dowager.

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You came just in time.

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I've read the account books you've submitted yesterday,

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Are you confident that you'll be able to handle the opening of the moat well?

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Open the moat? What do you mean?

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Since the sixteenth year of Emperor Kangxi's reign,

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the area encompassed by the moat had lotuses and chestnuts planted on it.

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But we only use a third of these ingredients as food.

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The rest are just wasted.

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Hence, I suggested to Empress Dowager

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to sell the lotuses and chestnuts.

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Also, breed some fishes and waterfowls within the moat.

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All the money that we'll earn would be noted in the books.

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How much can we get from that and we still will have to exert a lot of efforts?

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A fox fur coat isn't made from just one fox skin.

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It was made from several fox skins merged together. Just like accumulating sand to make a tower.

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The most simple method is to rent out the lotus flower garden out. I've calculated it.

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We can collect one hundred twenty-five taels and nine coins of rent every year.

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It's still an income.

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Consort Xian, you've just started handling the affairs of the palace and you're already touching an old rule of the palace. Isn't that inappropriate?

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Old rules may not be always good.

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Just like how the Imperial Household Department used to manage twenty-six pawnshops.

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His Majesty has closed fifteen of them this year.

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He loaned the money to the businessmen.

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The interest earned was higher than the profits obtained from the pawnshops.

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There are also old rules that couldn't be managed anymore.

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During the time of Emperor Kangxi, there are only fifty-seven households working for the Imperial Household Department.

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Now, it has doubled.

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If we keep following the old rules, how are we going to clearly manage them?

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In managing finances, it's not about earning more money,

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but to let the people in the palace see

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it is completely different from the extravagant Ming Dynasty.

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The food, clothing, and usage of resources is ten to twenty percent less than theirs.

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Even opening up new fund sources and decreasing the expenses have all been implemented.

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If by doing this, everyone in the palace will follow,

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it then will truly become a good thing.

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♫Softly falling into the hollow of my palm,♫

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♫Resting frozen in the center of my palm.♫

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♫Our meeting across past incarnations was inevitable,♫

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♫Joined together, deeply experiencing and holding onto the end of happiness.♫

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♫Though plainly given words of discouragement,♫

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♫Pretending to hear nothing but exhortation.♫

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♫ Endless tears, believing it cannot be true,♫

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♫ In this life, being born under an unlucky star.♫

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♫ I hear the sound of the snow slowly falling♫

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♫ Though I close my eyes, it's impossible to stop the vision.♫

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♫ Nothing you can do about being approached, not being inconsistent in love,♫

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♫ Though merely holding onto it from the outside, prone to this sort of circumstance.♫

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♫ I hear the sound of the snow slowly falling♫

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♫ As though you are holding me closely, and speaking sweetly.♫

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♫ Opening your eyes to a sky filled with merciless snow falling,♫

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♫ Who, after suffering this loss for a lifetime, is fond of this scene?♫

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