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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 31

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If doing it like this would make everyone in the palace imitate it,

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that then is a truly good thing.

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When the Empress was in charge,

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she mainly focused on

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controlling the outflow (expenses).

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This induced a lot of criticisms from personnel in the palace.

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Now, you're the one in charge of the palace affairs.

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You are very meticulous and thorough.

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You are being respected by people in the palace.

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Just be bold and go with your plan.

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With Your Highness' trust, I surely will do my best.

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One more thing, because Shandong and the nearby areas suffered flooding,

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there are a lot of refugees migrating into the capital.

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I am requesting to set up porridge kitchens outside the Tiananmen. (T/N Gate of Heavenly Peace)

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First, it can provide disaster relief.

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Second, it can serve as praying for blessings for the Empress.

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It's a good thing to set up a porridge kitchen for disaster relief.

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But the food and money would be a problem.

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We then would be touching the silver vault of the Imperial Household Department.

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But the days here in the palace are already quite hard.

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Everyone is worried and looking bleak.

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Isn't Consort Xian making it more difficult for everyone by doing that?

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Noble Consort, don't worry. Based on usual practices, we can mobilize donations from gentry merchants.

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May the Empress Dowager make a decree on how happy it is to do good deeds.

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People within the city will surely rally together in response to it.

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By then, without touching the silver inside the Imperial Household Department vault,

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this problem can already be solved.

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It's still Consort Xian who makes thorough considerations.

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This way, we can first accumulate good karma for the Empress,

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and second, comfort the refugees.

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It's hitting two birds with one stone.

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Just boldly do it. I will fully support you.

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Thank you for your grace, Empress Dowager.

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Consort Xian is currently highly-favored by the Empress Dowager.

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You are like a wanton breeze that has obtained its desire. (T/N idiom - flushed with success)

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I am giving my best and all my heart in working for the Empress Dowager and Her Highness the Empress.

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I dare not bear the words "wanton breeze that has obtained its desire".

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You broaden the sources and reduce the expenditures. You do disaster relief and set up porridge kitchens.

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You are in such a rush to win everyone's hearts.

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Do you want to become the Empress?

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Although Her Highness the Empress may be sick,

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with miracle Physician Ye treating her, I believe she will recover soon.

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I'm just managing the matters in the palace.

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I haven't done anything that's beyond my duty. My heart and affection

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can be proven by the heavens.

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Your performance is not bad

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but I'm a professional performer.

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I can't stand this kind of amateur.

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Zhilan, let's go.

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She's jealous, that's why she's making slanderous remarks.

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Your Highness, what should we do?

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We will do what we should do.

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Your Highness the Noble Consort, your skin is really like snow.

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It's smooth and glistening. I envy you a lot.

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If you also moisture yourself with milk every day

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and soak in balsam, you will be like this too.

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Noble Consort, you are a natural beauty and the top beauty in the six palaces.

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How could I dare to be compared with you?

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Stop being a glib talker.

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I spent a lot of effort and ideas

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before I was able to eliminate that eyesore of an Empress.

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Who expected that Consort Xian

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would rescue the Empress Dowager at the Double Ninth Festival

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and became famous overnight?

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As for my strenuous fruits of labor,

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she has beaten me to it.

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Noble Consort, Consort Xian has obtained the favor of the Empress Dowager.

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If Your Highness doesn't take action first,

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she will become political and harder to go against in the future.

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She will be at Tiananmen tomorrow to help in the disaster relief.

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Do you know what you should do?

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Your Highness, don't worry. I understand.

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We are distributing porridge tomorrow outside Tiananmen for the disaster relief.

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Everyone must go and help out.

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Momo Liu, we have piles of work on our hands.

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If we go to Tiananmen tomorrow, how will we finish our work?

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Consort Xian has given the instructions.

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Those servants from Workhouse that will help outside the Tiananmen

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will be rewarded with one tael of silver and given a day off.

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That much?

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That's right.

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Consort Xian is really great.

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I have never received such rewards before.

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That's right. Only Consort Xian would remember slaves like us at the bottom rung.

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- We are even given a day off.

- Enough, stop being long-winded.

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Go back and rest now. Be at Tiananmen tomorrow at san geng hour. (T/N between 11 pm- 1 am)

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Yes.

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Her Highness Consort Xian said that

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those in the six palaces who fall sick will be treated by a physician and given a day off.

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Consider yourself lucky. Remain here tomorrow.

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Everyone is dismissed.

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So great.

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Consort Xian is really great.

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How wonderful.

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Consort Xian is really great.

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She is calm and collected, and has won everyone's hearts.

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Yingluo, your Empress, compared to her,

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there's a great difference.

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Did I say anything wrong?

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Are you crazy? Your fever is very high. Why are you doing out here?

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Go back and rest.

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What are you doing?

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I'm telling you, put me down!

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Stop talking. I'm your older brother.

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Put me down!

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You are making preparations to keep vigil at Imperial Concubine Dowager Yu's tomb?

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Yes.

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How long will you be gone?

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Three years.

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You are a very filial son.

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I'm touched by your filial piety.

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I have always been absurd,

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repeatedly created troubles and caused Mother to worry

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and have sleepless nights.

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For all these years, I have wronged Mother.

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Being able to keep vigil at her tomb for three years

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is the only thing an unfilial son

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can do.

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An unfilial son?

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Yes.

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You are definitely an unfilial son.

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You are the biological son of Imperial Concubine Dowager Yu

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but you are also a brilliant royal son!

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You are my biological brother,

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a prince of the Great Qing Dynasty!

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All these years,

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you have been listening to a woman.

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As a prince who loafed about, you have committed many wrongdoings.

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You wasted a lot of time.

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As of now, you are still impenetrably thick-headed and don't know where your fault lies!

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Why are you looking at me?

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Could it be, in your eyes,

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I'm one who would kill ruthlessly?

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An Emperor who is intolerant and not magnanimous?

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Imperial Concubine Dowager Yu was born in the harem.

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She had limited vision.

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She only knew that

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she can't repeat the event where the sons of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty competed for the throne.

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But she almost caused you to lose your life!

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If you are what she told us,

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you will always be a useless person!

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You might as well hang yourself now,

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lest you tarnish the reputation of the Aisin-Gioro family!

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Your Majesty.

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Hongzhou.

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I have always given you chances.

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I have always hoped you would open your heart to me.

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But I waited for ten years

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and you are still so absurd.

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You are still so dim-witted.

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Get lost. Go and keep vigil at your mother's tomb.

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Don't ever return to the Forbidden City!

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Royal Brother, I'm dim-witted.

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I was wrong.

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Your Majesty, please don't be angry.

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May Your Majesty please forgive me.

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Hongzhou.

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You are a descendant of the Aisin-Gioro clan.

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The distinguished Prince He of the First Rank.

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If just to avoid political strife

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you have hidden your aspirations and dreams

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under the pretense of absurdity,

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will you be able to face Royal Father in the future?

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Will you be able to face the ancestors of the Qing Empire?

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I...will end my words here.

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If you still have ambitions, then think about clearly

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what you can possibly do for the common citizens

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and the nation.

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[ Yangxin Palace ]

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Your Highness, you must be careful.

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This...what's wrong with him?

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Stop!

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Prince He of the First Rank.

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Your Highness Consort Xian, are you here to look for His Majesty?

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The palace is having a porridge kitchen to provide disaster relief. I need to report some layouts to His Majesty.

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I still have to do something. I won't disturb you anymore.

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Prince He of the First Rank.

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Your Highness Consort Xian, do you still have any instructions?

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Prince He of the First Rank, why are you crying?

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Sorry. I was disrespectful.

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If you go out of the palace like this, the whole Forbidden City will be in a midst of a scandal again,

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saying that you two brothers are fighting.

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Thank you for reminding me, Your Highness.

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I just suddenly remembered my mother.

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The sudden burst of sorrowful emotions probably made my eyes turn red.

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Prince He of the First Rank is so filial to your mother. It's really touching.

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But remorse and grief are useless.

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Why not do something more meaningful?

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Didn't we already say earlier

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that Her Highness Consort Xian would be distributing porridge outside the Tiananmen tomorrow for disaster relief.

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This is a good matter that will benefit the citizens.

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If you have the time to cry, why don't you just come and help out?

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It's also accumulating some good karma for Imperial Consort Dowager Yu.

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Zhen'er, don't talk nonsense.

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But if an absurd person like me

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appears at Tiananmen, I fear that it will invite ridicule.

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If Your Highness wants to do a serious matter that will make others look at you in a different way,

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the Tiananmen disaster relief is a good first step.

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How did you know?

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Your thoughts are all written on your face.

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Your Highness! Your Highness!

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I just went to gossip with some eunuchs.

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When I returned, you're gone.

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Why didn't you call me?

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Are you serving me or the other way around?

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Is there anything on my face?

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Your Highness, what am I looking for?

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Are there anything written on it?

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Nothing. There's not one word.

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Not all can be worthy of being described as having a pure heart and spirit.

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Jinxiu, where are you going?

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I forgot something and am going back to get it.

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You all leave first.

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Fall in line! Be orderly!

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Everyone, don't rush! Each will get their share!

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- First come, first serve! Fall in line properly! Don't push!

- Thanks!

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-Don't push forward!

- Thanks!

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- Don't push!

- Thanks!

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- Thanks!

- Fall in line!

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Fall in line properly!

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Everyone, don't rush! Each will get their share!

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Thanks.

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- Thanks.

- Fall in line properly!

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Don't push forward!

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Thanks.

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Thanks.

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- Fall in line properly!

- Thanks.

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Fall in line properly!

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- Let us pass! We also want to eat!

- Don't push!

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Don't push! Go to the back of the line!

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Don't push! There are too many people in front already!

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Step back! First come first serve!

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Don't push! Go fall in line!

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I'm talking to you! You're still pushing?

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Go fall in line! Fall in line!

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Fall in line!

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Step back!

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Let me tell you that if you all don't go fall in line, we won't distribute the buns anymore!

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- Don't push!

- What right do you have to not give us any?

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Everyone, don't push!

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Stop pushing forward!

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Go to the back!

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Chief Steward Wu, how come it's so chaotic?

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Your Highness Consort Xian, don't know from where this sudden influx of refugees come from.

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The whole place is in disarray.

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Have a look. Should we stop it for a while?

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What is this?

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Weren't the Imperial consorts from the inner palace showing charity here and distributing some porridge? What is this?

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This clearly is water.

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Look. You can even see your reflection in it!

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Look! Look at this bun!

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Not only is it made of coarse grains, there is even sand inside!

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Can this be eaten? Look at how my teeth got damaged!

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Indeed! Are these for people to eat?

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Your Highness, they are wholly speaking rubbish!

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How is there any sand in our buns?

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We traveled thousand of li to come below the feet of the emperor. (T/N to the capital)

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We thought that we'd have something to eat and clothes to wear.

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But in the end, we keep being driven away by officers!

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Women won't spare us any alms at all.

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Our clothes are tattered, our stomachs empty.

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We can only sell our children.

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Didn't the palace say that they are conferring benefit and giving out food?

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All just lies!

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They are liars! Liars!

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They are liars!

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Liars! Liars!

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Why still fall in line? Let's just go grab them!

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Later, there won't be any more buns!

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Take them! Quickly pick them up!

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Didn't you say that you're giving out porridge?

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This food are totally not enough!

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What do you mean by giving out porridge? This is entirely some trickery!

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Let the person in charge face us! Release the food!

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Release the food!

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Release the food!

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Everyone, calm down!

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Listen to me talk! Listen to me talk!

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There will be a new batch of food coming, okay?

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- What are you doing! Move back!

- What are you doing!

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Hurry! Hurry and call for more men!

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Your Highness, let's quickly return to the palace.

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It's her! The food is not enough! Why do such fake act of charity?

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- She's a big liar! Catch her!

- What are you doing? Move back!

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Capture her! Liar!

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Move back! Move back!

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He killed him! He killed him!

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He's not a refugee!

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What refugee?

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A real refugee would come from Tianjin or Shandong.

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What they are wearing are grass shoes. Its sole has long been tattered from the travel.

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Look at him. What he's wearing is cloth shoes.

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He's not a refugee. He's a bandit with evil intentions who mingled among the refugees!

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Nonsense! You all are together!

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- After killing someone, you still are falsely accusing us? Kill him! Kill him!

- Indeed!

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Anyone who moves forward, will end up like him.

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Move aside! Move aside!

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Move aside!

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Greetings to Your Highness Prince He of the First Rank.

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Your Highness Consort Xian, are you alright?

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I'm fine.

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Your Highness Consort Xian, there are a total of eight people who started this ruckus.

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Other than that person I killed, there are still seven of them.

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There's still him, him, and him!

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And those two over there. And those other two at the southeastern corner.

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A total of eight people.

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How did you know who among them are fake?

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Replying to Your Highness' question, when they arrived, I've already closely monitored them.

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They merged with the refugees and were even deliberately pushing and dividing the people.

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If Your Highness doesn't believe me, just arrest them and interrogate. You'll know the truth.

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Capture all of them!

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Come over here! Don't move! Move!

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On what basis are you arresting me!

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Everyone, fall in line! Wait for the resumption of the food distribution!

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Prince He of the First Rank, thank you.

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I reported to His Majesty in advance. That's how I could dispatch the soldiers here.

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But there is only that much food and that many people.

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I fear it's inadequate.

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Prince He, Consort Xian. You can see who the real refugees are.

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They are drifters who have traveled along dusty roads and gone through hardships.

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They are emancipated with shallow complexions, and have weak constitutions.

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As for those crafty scoundrels, they have good vitality and plump cheeks.

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They are deliberately here to commit fraud.

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Who would commit fraud for food relief?

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The rogues of the capital, hooligans, vagabonds

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or to put it simply, they were deliberately hired by someone.

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Why would they do that?

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Because of their frauds, the real refugees won't be able to get the food rations.

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After a period of time, they will naturally complain.

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It may even create a major disorder.

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This is very evil.

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Did you see it? Hit it that way.

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Here, hold this properly.

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Come, strike.

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This is not the right way. Watch this.

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You little rug rat!

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Stop hitting him. I'm begging you.

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Can't we do it again?

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Her Highness the Noble Consort has ordered that you only have a month.

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If you don't train well, you will lose your lives.

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Half of the performers have already died.

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They were totally disobedient.

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This is a lesson from your failed predecessors.

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Continue to train!

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Come, put it down.

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Son, let me tell you.

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You are now training with sand.

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When you perform, you will be using hot melted iron.

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If you are not careful, you will lose your life.

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The chassis must be stable.

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When you strike, it must be in a circular motion.

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You must not move your hands.

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Grandfather, I don't want to train.

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I want to go home. I want to go home.

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Foolish child, we can't go home anymore.

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Who says you can't go home?

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I have something to say to your grandfather.

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Go and train over there. Okay?

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Go now.

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Miss. In order to pass down these skills of thousands of stunts,

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Lord Gao forced all the blacksmiths in the city to train for this.

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We need to perform at His Majesty and Her Highness the Empress' birthdays.

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Even if we fight for our lives, we can't escape.

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What solution do you have?

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A blaze of colors is make the people happy.

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But once they enter the palace, it becomes a powerful game for the consorts.

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They are forced to become tributes.

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Suffering unbearable pain for generations.

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I have a solution now to help you escape from this wretched plight.

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The porridge we have isn't enough to supply the large number of refugees.

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Other than children below ten years old

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and elders who are above sixty years old,

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the rest must build porridge racks.

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Why? We refuse to work.

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We refuse to work. We want to eat and have buns.

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We refuse to work. We want to eat.

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Zhili, Shandong and other places have been flooded.

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Countless of people have flooded into the capital.

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The Forbidden City and the wealthy families have donated grains for porridge out of kindness.

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But this kindness should be given to those who really need help.

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Consort Xian, this may not be a good idea.

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Every bowl of porridge and every piece of bun here

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are from the hard work of the people

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who toiled night and day to produce this.

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Every single grain didn't fall from thin air.

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Others gave these to you as gifts.

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If they didn't donate, you shouldn't take it for granted. Thus, you don't have the rights to question this.

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You also don't have the right to demand it.

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Only by working hard to get food

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will it truly become yours. No one can take it away.

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Now, the children, old, sick, or weak people

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will be given food without any payment.

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As for others, all must go work!

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We don't have any strength to work!

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Shut up!

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Everyone, listen!

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We have to build eight porridge stalls in Tiananmen Square.

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Outside the city, we also must build a refugee camp.

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If you're willing to come work, come here to register.

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We will distribute the food based on the number of people.

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After eating, hence, regaining strength,

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use your own labor to exchange for your food the next day.

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Those who want to obtain food without working for it,

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won't receive any grain of rice at all!

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Who are you fooling?

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- What right do you have to do this?

- Indeed!

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Consort Xian, a move like that has never been done before.

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Prince He of the First Rank, they are indeed refugees.

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But this was a natural disaster. Nobody owes them.

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Now, all of these people seeking disaster relief

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are displaying an attitude of seeking debts.

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Which means if this charity movement won't ask for payment at all,

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no one will cherish it then.

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Enough! Stop wasting energy with them!

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We won't work! Let's go!

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Prince He, observe.

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Why would we go to work? Le'ts go.

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Did you see it? If this charity is completely free,

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there will be a lot of people pretending to be refugees to get food.

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When I asked them to work, those who don't truly need food

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won't return anymore.

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You're forcing those faking to get food to leave.

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If one isn't desperately hungry,

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who would be willing to use hard labor in exchange for food?

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Zhen'er, arrange for those old people and children

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to fall into line and continue distributing the porridge.

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Fall into line!

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Don't push...

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Fall in line! Everyone will get their share!

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It's starting...

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- Come, everyone will get one!

- Thanks. Thanks.

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- One by one!

- Thanks.

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Consort Xian, you indeed are full of ideas.

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Giving food during times of war will invite gratitude. Giving food during peaceful times will invite grudge once you suddenly stop giving.

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Incessant help will make people lazy

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and destroy their temperament. I want them to know

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that if they want to be helped, they must help themselves first.

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As for the food, it should be left to the ones who really need it.

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But the refugees have traveled far, and most of them are sick and weak.

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They need the Imperial physicians to examine them. We must arrange for that.

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Don't worry. I'll make the arrangements.

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From which palace are you from?

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Replying to Your Highness, he's just a lowest-rank eunuch who scrubs commodes.

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Replying to Your Highness Consort Xian, I came from the Workhouse.

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You never ask the background of a hero.

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The Workhouse now is missing a supervisor.

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You fill that position then.

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I thank Your Highness Consort Xian for your graces!

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I will accept your command.

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Imperial Guard Fuca.

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The Empress isn't awake yet?

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Thanks. I still have to go on duty.

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I'll just visit the Empress next time.

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Imperial Guard Fuca!

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Do you still need anything?

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I...

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I heard from my grandfather

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that His Majesty has intentions of bestowing us marriage.

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I want to marry the lady I love.

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The order of one's parents, the advice of a matchmaker.

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Moreover, this is a decree from the Emperor.

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Can you go against it?

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Erqing,

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before meeting her, I might have accepted this kind of marriage.

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But now I clearly have someone I love,

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yet I still will marry you. That's truly delaying your future.

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Even if Yingluo was that heartless,

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you still won't change your initial heart?

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Erqing, you will meet someone better.

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A person who truly cherishes you.

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But that person isn't me. Sorry.

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Erqing, is the medicated pillow I made for Her Highness the Empress still around?

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Erqing.

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Sister Erqing.

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Her Highness Consort Chun is calling you.

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Your Highness Consort Chun.

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How come you're in a daze?

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What has happened?

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Nothing. Your Highness, what are your instructions?

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Is the medicated pillow I made for Her Highness the Empress still around?

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Those drugs I used are for nerve-calming.

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Now, we must change them to medicines that can clear the mind and stimulate the spirit.

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It's still around. I've put it inside a chest. I'll go look for it now.

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Erqing, what's wrong with you today?

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In the past, you have always done things properly.

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Isn't it all because that Imperial Guard Fuca keeps thinking about that Wei Yingluo?

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He actually dared to refuse the bestowed marriage of His Majesty.

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Hupo.

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- Your Highness, be careful.

- Your Highness Consort Chun, be careful!

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What? His Majesty

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wants to bestow marriage to you and Imperial Guard Fuca?

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Your Highness, don't listen to the nonsense of Hupo.

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- Your Highness.

- The floor is full of shattered pieces of ceramic.

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Be careful of hurting your hand.

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I will be careful.

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Before, Her Highness the Empress said

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that she'll find an appropriate marriage

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for you and and Mingyu.

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Never thought that His Majesty now

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is more impatient than Her Highness the Empress.

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Isn't it all the fault of that Wei Yingluo?

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If not because she bewitched Imperial Guard Fuca to fall madly in love with her,

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this would have been a good marriage.

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Enough, Hupo. Stop talking nonsense.

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Imperial Guard Fuca likes Yingluo.

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Everyone knows that.

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I dare not make extravagant hopes.

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It's just too bad.

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Why are you glaring at me? What happened?

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Nothing...

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Your Highness, someone sent a secret complaint letter.

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Since I handled palace affairs,

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I will receive a lot of complaint letters.

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Is there anything strange about that?

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Your Highness, this time, it's different.

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Really?

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Your Highness, someone is scheming to offend a superior.

524

Should we immediately...

525

No.

526

Your Highness.

527

No rush.

528

The mantis preys on the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. (T/N from self-titled "Zhuangzi", a Taoist classic)

529

Just patiently wait.

530

It's enough for that Consort Xian to put on an act inside the Forbidden City.

531

Now the whole capital is praising her!

532

Saying that she has awe-inspiring demeanor, able to make the masses submit to her.

533

When have I not opened up soup kitchens

534

outside the city during winter?

535

Those bastards, they've all forgotten about it.

536

In their eyes now, there's only Consort Xian.

537

All my hard work was fed to the dogs!

538

Your Highness, calm down.

539

If you do good things every year, others won't find it novel anymore.

540

Consort Xian usually are so quiet.

541

Now that she's able to do some great deed,

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it naturally will invite attention.

543

But Your Highness, if we're able to organize the birthday party of Empress Dowager appropriately,

544

are you still afraid of not taking the center of attention?

545

For the birthday banquet this year,

546

I must get my dignity back.

547

Zhilan, how is the preparation for the birthday present of Empress Dowager?

548

Your Highness Noble Consort, the training for the 'Thousand Purple and Red' is done. You can go check it anytime.

549

Tell them to prepare for tonight.

550

I'll personally check it.

551

Yes.

552

But...

553

But what?

554

Four blacksmiths attempted to escape and were killed on site.

555

Four of them?

556

Even if it's forty or four hundred,

557

I don't care.

558

What I want are results.

559

Yes.

560

I heard that you lost your temper

561

outside Tiananmen.

562

You shocked Prince He of the First Rank.

563

Is it true?

564

Your Majesty, stop laughing at me.

565

If not because Prince He of the First Rank came with soldiers today,

566

I would have been eaten alive by those refugees.

567

It's easy for a person in extreme hunger to lose rationality.

568

Just to restore order immediately,

569

I had no choice but to employ some little tricks.

570

It's not really worthy to be mentioned.

571

Not only did Prince He of the First Rank praise you,

572

even Liu Tongxun, who's tasked to supervise the building of the refugee camp,

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only has praises for you.

574

He said that you're resolute in handling matters

575

and have the proper degree of awe-inspiring presence.

576

To get a praise from the old stubborn man

577

is harder than going up the sky.

578

Consort Xian, you made me look at you in a brand new light.

579

I'm just a woman from the inner palace.

580

What I can do is really limited.

581

The one who's trying to control the flooding and help the refugees is Lord Gao Bin.

582

What he's doing is the one act that will benefit the nation and would be remembered forever.

583

Consort Xian, you clearly knew that it was Noble Consort Gao

584

who deliberately hired those troublemakers.

585

You still praised her father?

586

She and I indeed have a little misunderstanding.

587

But how could we let trifling matters here in the inner palace affect state affairs?

588

Although Noble Consort Gao is a bit willful,

589

she's loyal to Empress Dowager and to you.

590

I know that because for the birthday of Empress Dowager,

591

she especially invited blacksmith slaves

592

to perform the unique stunt, 'Thousand Purple and Red'.

593

Thousand purple and red?

594

What I know isn't that accurate. I just know that it's a rare sight.

595

Your Majesty, Noble Consort is asking the performers to do a dry-run tonight. Why don't you go look at it?

596

Let me have a chance to see it too.

597

- Li Yu.

- I am here.

598

Go ask around where Noble Consort will be holding the practice performance.

599

Yes.

600

His Majesty is here.

601

Your Majesty?

602

Why did you come?

603

You didn't even inform me beforehand,

604

so I could have prepared.

605

Haven't your people been practicing for a long time?

606

Tonight, I especially came here

607

to enjoy a feast for the eyes.

608

Your Majesty, you must be joking.

609

Your Majesty, you're clearly doubting me.

610

You must be worried that I'll cause a huge joke during the birthday banquet of Empress Dowager.

611

Your Majesty, you're wrong this time.

612

I believe that Empress Dowager will surely like this gift.

613

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♫Softly falling into the hollow of my palm,♫

615

♫Resting frozen in the center of my palm.♫

616

♫Our meeting across past incarnations was inevitable,♫

617

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

618

♫Though plainly given words of discouragement,♫

619

♫Pretending to hear nothing but exhortation.♫

620

♫ Endless tears, believing it cannot be true,♫

621

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

622

♫ I hear the sound of the snow slowly falling♫

623

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

624

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

625

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

626

♫ I hear the sound of the snow slowly falling♫

627

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

628

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

629

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