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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 47

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Then why haven't you left?

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Your Highness!

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His Majesty granted me eighty strokes of flogging.

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I escaped death, but with nowhere to go.

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I betrayed you, offended Noble Consort Chun, and I even deserted the second Imperial Concubine Jia.

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Someone like me has no path to stay alive no matter where I go.

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Hence, even if Your Highness lives in the Cold Palace,

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I will serve you until the end now.

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You're a servant who speaks so bluntly.

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You've got nerves indeed.

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I am unworthy of Your Highness' compliments.

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Even if all the servants of the palace die off,

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my mistress still won't employ an ingrate like you.

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You pack up your belongings and get lost! (T/N lit. "get on your horse")

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Your Highness, I have indeed committed mistakes.

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But the Forbidden City is the Forbidden City.

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Climb up and trample those below, betrayals and downfalls are all common happenings.

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After these incidents, you hold my lifeline.

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I will never dare to betray you ever again.

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If Your Highness will employ me,

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you have found yourself a loyal dog!

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I am willing to watch your home and garden, loyalty guaranteed with my life!

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Your Highness.

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What a pity. Now my doors

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won't need a guard anymore.

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Your Highness, His Majesty is just thinking awry for the time being.

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One day he will think clearly through this.

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Your Highness still has the opportunity to stand erect again.

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You must not despair!

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That bunch of scum.

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How dare they disrespect you with this food!

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Stop there.

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Yingluo!

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By palace rules, every concubine's allotments are set.

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But did they follow accordingly?

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Lack of food and less clothing. Languishing in everything!

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Such obvious bullying is clearly trampling of you!

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Didn't Xiao Quanzi already say it?

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In the Forbidden City, climbing up and trampling those below,

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betrayals and downfalls are common happenings.

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Even he understands that, but you don't?

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I just feel it's so unjust!

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His Majesty clearly knew it was the little Imperial Concubine Jia that framed you,

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so why is he still treating you coldly?

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Because Fuheng and I had a past.

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In the past he was on the battlefield, but now he's back.

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Every time His Majesty sees him,

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he is reminded of it.

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It's a fish bone stuck in his throat, tormenting him.

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But you're innocent!

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His Majesty shoulders the world, rising early and sleeping late.

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He doesn't care what kind of a woman lies in his dragon bed. (T/N Animal affiliated with Emperor)

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As long as she's beautiful and gentle,

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someone who can ease the pressure of his work is enough.

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And so it is in this harem, with each and every stem of flower, (T/N flower here = woman)

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with glamour, or with elegance or nobility.

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Other than the ability to bring a different sentiment,

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after a long time, to His Majesty,

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they are just blurred and muddled, face after face.

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Since His Majesty is upset to see me,

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he won't see me again.

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At this rate, not to mention some revenge,

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you won't even get to preserve yourself.

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Yingluo, what are we to do?

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Your Highness, Noble Consort Chun is here to visit.

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Greetings to Your Highness the Noble Consort Chun.

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I haven't seen you in such a long time.

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You've become thinner.

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Thank you for Your Highness' concern, Noble Consort.

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I am quite well.

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That's good then.

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On my way walking in here,

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other than a palace maid by the gate,

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I didn't see anyone else.

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It's just too unruly.

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Imperial Concubine Ling, you ought to manage your servants better.

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Thank you for Your Highness' pointer, Noble Consort.

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However, everyone has their own ambition.

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Now that Yanxi Palace is a cold palace, (T/N though she's not locked in it, she has lost favor)

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they each want to aspire toward their opportunities upward.

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It's all understandable.

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That's true.

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Compared to that one in Chuxiu Palace throwing wild tantrums all day,

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that little Imperial Concubine Jia that's upsetting the heavens and upsetting people,

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Imperial Concubine Ling, you are truly more aware.

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At least you know your own actions,

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and you don't resent the heavens or others.

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Noble Consort, Your Highness' visit today,

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what is the main reason?

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Look at this. Everyone says you were originally an embroidery girl

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and that your embroidery is delicate and more clever than divine.

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I selected a piece of your embroidery work on purpose to present to Shoukang Palace.

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Empress Dowager saw it and was so delighted by it

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that she wants you to embroider a scroll portrait of a Buddhist Bodhisattva.

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Noble Consort Chun, my mistress had a hand injury some time ago so she can only do coarse work.

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A delicate portrait like the Bodhisattva--

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What are we to do then? I already recommended it to the Empress Dowager.

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Can't be that I run over there now to tell the Empress Dowager you can't do it?

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Noble Consort, how long do you have in order to present this portrait to the Empress Dowager?

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Not too long or too short a time. One month.

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May Your Highness the Noble Consort be appeased.

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I shall do my utmost.

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Imperial Consort Ling, then you'll be working hard. Rest up for now.

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Yingluo, she's rubbing your injury on purpose.

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How can you easily say yes?

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Noble Consort Chun made it clear.

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This embroidery portrait is for the Empress Dowager.

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If I say no, it's a grand disrespect to the Empress Dowager.

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She's waiting to get dirt on me.

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But your hand..?

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

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

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Xiao Quanzi.

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Sister Mingyu.

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Where did you get the new coal?

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I retrieved it from the Imperial Household Department.

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You're lying.

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I went to retrieve in the morning and they fobbed me off.

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I can't even get it, so not to mention you!

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The coal even had cypress scent added.

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Mistress was focused on embroidery, so she didn't notice.

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If you won't tell me still, I will go and tell our Mistress now!

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No, no.

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Don't tell her.

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It was from Guard Suolun.

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Why didn't you come inside to find me?

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Yanxi Palace is a cold palace now and everyone evades.

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It's best not to let others see you and I together.

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What a fool. What if you freeze waiting here?

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I just wanted to thank you.

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The coal with the cypress and the fire pot for the night.

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Mistress is coughing, and even loquat syrup was sent in.

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Even Xiao Quanzi is attentive in every way.

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Everything you did, we are really so grateful.

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Just that, we have enough coal now.

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We really can't accept more.

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You are talking about those things.

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I said I would help you and I am keeping my word.

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Thank you, Hailancha.

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I don't know how to repay you.

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It's too cold. Hurry back now.

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Go.

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Come out now.

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I did deliver the coals...

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but I didn't send any cypress scent,

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or the fire pot or the loquat syrup.

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Bribing Xiao Quanzi and stuff, of course it wasn't me.

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Tell me. You did so many things quietly for her,

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why won't you tell her though?

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Fuheng. Stuffing it all inside you.

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Is that how you are good to a person?

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We haven't sparred in so long. Let's go.

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Look at this Bodhisattva portrait.

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Bemoaning the universe and pitying mankind. Merciful and benevolent.

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That face is round and tenderly white.

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The folds are so alive.

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This time the Embroidery House has truly outdone themselves!

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Empress Dowager is complimentary. This embroidered portrait is a gift to you.

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How would they dare not to be diligent?

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I think Noble Consort Chun's originally painting was the fine example.

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So the embroidery girls were able to copy and create this outstanding work.

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In order to paint the Bodhisattva portrait, Noble Consort analyzed all the Bodhisattva portraits in Forbidden City.

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She painted for over a month and used countless sheets of paper.

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In the end, she finally picked one out that she was content with.

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To do my utmost for Empress Dowager is my fortune.

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Hang this portrait.

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Yes.

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Greetings to Royal Mother.

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Rise quickly.

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What are you looking at, Royal Mother. May I see also?

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Look at this Bodhisattva portrait.

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Splendid and magnificent. So lifelike.

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It's so rare to see a good artwork like this for the past years.

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The hair of this Bodhisattva is so vivid. It doesn't look like it's thread.

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Could it be...a real person's hair?

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The embroidery maid sewed in her own hair?

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Manchurians and Han people are different.

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For Manchurians, cutting off one's hair is disrespectful,

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while Han people sewing in their own hair

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would show more their sincere devotion.

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There has been this kind of practice ever since. It's called "hair embroidery".

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This spot is clearly a blood stain.

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Your Majesty, it might just be a coincidence.

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The embroidery maid was afraid that her blood has stained the work,

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so she embroidered it into a heart.

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This embroidery maid is so meticulous.

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I so want to meet her.

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Empress Dowager, this embroidered image wasn't done by just one person.

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It was done by all the most outstanding embroidery maidens of the Embroidery House.

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If Empress Dowager wants to meet them, I'll personally call for them.

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What Empress Dowager means is

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she greatly appreciates the skills and diligence of this embroidery maid.

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Just send the decree to reward her.

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Yes. There are so many highly-skilled embroidery maids

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here in the palace.

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But someone who is this meticulous

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is very rare. She indeed should be heavily-rewarded.

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Li Yu.

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I am here. Your Majesty, please give your instructions.

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The Embroidery House is so busy. They would usually just rush to finish a task.

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Who would be that meticulous to even use her own hair in the artwork?

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This...

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I remember...she's also an embroidery maid.

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She?

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Your Majesty, who is she?

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No one.

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Your Majesty, be careful!

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I alarmed Your Majesty! I deserve to die!

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Fuheng,

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it's been so long since I saw your swordmanship.

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Why don't I test how much it has improved?

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It's rare for His Majesty to be in such a mood. Don't interfere anymore.

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If you retreat without fighting, you'll be dealt with the crime of deceiving the emperor.

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- Your Majesty.

- Your Majesty!

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Why did you deliberately let me win?

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Your Majesty, what I learned on the battlefield are all killing skills.

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I feared that I might hurt you, and not really deliberately yielding.

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When Neqin was around,

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he would frequently personally see me to discuss matters.

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But when you arrived in the Council of State,

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you want all grand ministers of state to see me at the same time.

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Fuheng, aren't you being too cautious?

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Your Majesty, I committed a mistake in the past,

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which only led to successive mistakes.

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It's like that in my private affairs, so it will also be so in political affairs.

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Being more cautious and careful now is just trying to make up for my mistake.

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You're talking about...

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- Forget it.

- Why didn't you ask what mistake it was?

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If you agreed to my marriage request in the past,

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the current Imperial Concubine Ling...would have been my wife.

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Fuheng! Quickly shut up!

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Did I say anything wrong?

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Fuca Fuheng, you're being unruly!

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I indeed loved Wei Yingluo.

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Maybe for Your Majesty this is a blasphemy.

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But she has never agreed to marry me.

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Everything is unilateral.

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What else do you want to say?

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One shouldn't keep reminiscing about the past. Your Majesty has always been magnanimous.

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Imperial Consort Borgigit

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was a widow before she entered the palace, but got conferred as a Noble Lady upon entering the palace.

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Your Majesty didn't mind her being married before.

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How come when it comes to Wei Yingluo, Your Majesty is being so petty?

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Fuheng,

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you think I won't kill you.

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Because this woman is Wei Yingluo.

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You don't want to remember her past

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because you weren't involved in it, you didn't understand it.

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The more Your Majesty is angry now, the more you treat Imperial Concubine Ling coldly,

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the more it shows that Your Majesty is jealous and confused about what to do.

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Fuca Fuheng, I refused before because—

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Wasn't it because Your Majesty assumed that Wei Yingluo was greedy for wealth, splendor, and power?

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But you clearly know very well that if she's that kind of woman,

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she would have used the late Empress long ago to get into position. But Your Majesty still kept asserting it.

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Why is that?

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You suspect that I deliberately separated you two?

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Fuheng, how can you really say such absurd words?

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I dare not boldly guess your intentions. Maybe,

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Your Majesty also sometimes unconsciously acts according to your emotions.

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Your Majesty, don't you really have any personal reason

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for breaking this marriage?

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Maybe Your Majesty

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likes Wei Yingluo.

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You want her to be yours.

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Your Majesty,

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since you've obtained her, you should cherish her.

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Or else, you will only make me regret it more

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why I didn't persist to fight for her until the very end.

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I will take my leave.

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Respectfully greeting the Empress and wishing you health.

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Prince He of the First Rank, is being an official in the south going smoothly?

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Thank you for Your Highness' blessings.

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Everything is going smoothly.

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I heard from His Majesty

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that you went south to Jiangnan to investigate the corrupt practices and did a splendid job.

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His Majesty felt so comforted. He kept praising you for a long time.

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Being able to get some praises from His Majesty

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means that my work was not in vain.

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Are you here to pay your respect to Imperial Consort Dowager Yu?

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I just returned to the capital, passed by the Empress Dowager, and am not visiting my mother.

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Bailing who served by Imperial Consort Dowager Yu's side

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has gone crazy because of that matter.

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I've ordered the Imperial physician to treat her, but to no avail.

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If a palace maid like that is sent to Anle Hall, she'll only die.

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If you are compassionate, please just send her out of the palace.

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Even though Bailing has gone crazy,

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she keeps insisting that it was Wei Yingluo who harmed Mother.

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For this matter, I've always wanted to clarify it with her.

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Prince He of the First Rank, Wei Yingluo now is Imperial Concubine Ling.

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Without any evidences, you must be cautious with your words,

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so you won't invite trouble to yourself.

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Thank you for Your Highness the Empress' concerns.

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I will surely remember your care.

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Even just for Imperial Consort Dowager Yu, you should take good care of yourself.

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Don't be impulsive and cause trouble.

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Your Highness the Empress.

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Prince, what do you want to say?

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For so many years, you haven't changed.

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You are still that person that I remember.

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So gentle, kind, righteous, and virtuous.

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For Royal Brother to have a wife like you,

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I really envy it.

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Prince He of the First Rank, cherish the people in front of you.

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Cherish everything that's around you right now.

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Don't forget that Imperial Consort Dowager Yu just wants you to be safe and happy.

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I also have the same wish for you.

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It's not enough to finish embroidering the image of Bodhisattva. Now, you must embroider the Buddhist scripture.

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This is clearly giving you a hard time!

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Your hands got injured when you were in the Workhouse.

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Now, you're embroidering day and night.

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The scars on your hands have all opened up.

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Once you damage the silk fabric,

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you have to redo everything again.

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Today, if not because of Momo Zhang's help,

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we wouldn't be able to find new silk fabrics.

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If you have the time to complain,

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why not just think about how to not damage the fabric.

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Wei Yingluo, I'm going to make you repay blood with blood.

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Mingyu!

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Prince He of the First Rank! Your treating a woman like this

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is completely shameless and lowly!

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Your Highness, you mustn't be like this.

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This Imperial Concubine Ling has now lost the Emperor's favor.

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She's now just a wild dog getting trampled by everyone.

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What's there to fear about?

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Don't forget.

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A wild dog can bite people!

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You think I'm still that hedonistic prince from before?

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Fuheng?

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Are you crazy? You dare treat me like this?

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Considering that we grew up together, I'm already being courteous with you.

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You did so many good things and has finally changed the way His Majesty sees you.

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What? You want to return to before?

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Let go!

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Okay. Let me see

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how long you can still protect her!

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Yingluo, did you get hurt?

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Mingyu, let's go back.

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Wait!

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Hongzhou is bearing grudges against you. You must be careful.

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Also, I met with His Majesty.

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I hope that everything goes as you wish.

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Let's go.

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Sister Mingyu.

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This medicine was sent by Imperial Guard Suolun this morning.

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He said that this is the best hand cream.

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It's made of cardamon and white sandalwood.

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It will make your hands as shiny and clean as ever.

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Great. That's exactly what I need.

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Even someone so foolish as I am can tell.

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And you can't?

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"Adding flowers on a brocade is easy...

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but sending charcoal in the snow is difficult. (T/N sending help when truly needed is hard)

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I wish I had someone like him too, who knows my need for warmth and cold.

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So considerate and tender, always thinking of me.

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Isn't Guard Suolun that person for you?

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That block of wood?

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He's always thinking of going to the battlefield to set a merit.

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He doesn't comprehend sentiments of love.

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To throw a flirtatious glance at him, it's better to do that to a blind man!

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- Put it away for now.

- You won't use it now?

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Yes, I won't use it.

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And the charcoal basin. Put that away too.

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You don't want to remember her past.

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Because you weren't involved in it, you didn't understand it.

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The more Your Majesty is angry now,

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the more you treat Imperial Concubine Ling coldly,

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the more it shows that Your Majesty is jealous and confused about what to do.

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Your Majesty, since you've obtained her,

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you should cherish her.

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How is it that no one is here?

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These servants are too unruly.

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♫ This cup of lonely wine ♫

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♫ washing away the spring mood. (T/N thoughts of love, of lust) ♫

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♫ And the fleeting warmth ♫

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♫ keeping me company again ♫

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♫ Masking the worries piled up. > ♫

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♫ The years flowing and gone ♫

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♫ The reason for every night's pain ♫

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♫ And the weary once forgotten ♫

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Your Majesty.

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♫ This poem cruelly left ♫

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♫ Its pain piercing through the paper on the window (T/N windows have tough, oiled paper, not glass) ♫

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♫ Envisioning your image ♫

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♫ Wrapping around my thoughts ♫

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♫ All the emotions of the past ♫

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♫ Cannot be locked for a lifetime ♫

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♫ Now we are each alone ♫

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♫ Matters of the bygone past forgotten ♫

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Your Majesty, since you can't bear to part with Imperial Concubine Ling,

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why don't you go see her?

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Shut up.

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I deserve to die. I am talking too much!

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Me? That wasn't me caring about her.

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I just don't want anyone in the harem to be treated harshly.

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That band of scum in the Imperial Household Department!

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No matter how out of favor Imperial Concubine Ling is, it's never their turn to degrade her.

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Be appeased, Your Majesty. I shall see to their severe punishment.

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No need!

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Since she won't come begging, I'll just regard it as having never seen it!

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- Li Yu.

- Your Majesty.

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This is too hot. Send it to her.

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Remember. It wasn't I who wanted to deliver it to her.

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I understand. It's Imperial Household Department that it was inappropriate, so a new coal basin is delivered.

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That...

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Send her this glazed lantern too.

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I don't want blind people.

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Yes. Hurry up and follow!

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The lantern and the blankets.

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- What are you all doing?

- Miss Mingyu. Isn't it already winter?

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Yanxi Palace still isn't outfitted.

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Look at how many things are lacking.

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Here.

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You two, faster.

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Greetings to Your Highness the Imperial Concubine Ling.

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Your Highness was left to suffer.

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I just found out, and I brought them here immediately.

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May Your Highness be lenient.

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When I go back, I will skin them harshly!

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It's already a month into winter.

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Which palace is missing a coal basin or a lantern?

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Do you believe your own words, Supervisor Wu?

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I am wrong.

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It's all my neglect, may Your Highness Imperial Concubine Ling

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please have mercy on me!

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From now on, if you there's a need,

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just mention and I will see to it surely.

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If there's another time, I'll just pluck my own head off

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and let you use it as a stool!

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That's enough, Supervisor Wu. Imperial Concubine Ling doesn't want noise.

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You take the men and go now.

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I take my leave then.

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[ Bodhisattva Text ]

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In order to earn the Empress Dowager's joy, Imperial Concubine Ling

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actually really embroider the Buddhist text in half a month.

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The Empress Dowager still thinks

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it's the doing of embroidery maidens.

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This toiling of hers will just go in vain.

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Someone like her, the scariest thing about them,

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is no matter how low they fall,

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they will always find a way up no matter what.

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That day, when His Majesty discovered the hair of Bodhisattva was real hair,

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even I was so startled.

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If she wasn't so excellent at something, the late Empress wouldn't have pampered her so much.

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But after only a few days of favor, she's already a bygone cloud.

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His Majesty saw it, but he still didn't care.

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Yuhu. Imperial Concubine Ling did great embroidery work.

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We should make use of rubbish.

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Go. Send my embroidery screen to her too.

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Supervisor Li.

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Desheng, Imperial Concubine Ling still hasn't come to give thanks?

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Look at what you're saying. Those items were sent by the Imperial Household Department.

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Imperial Concubine Ling wouldn't know.

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You..! Do you think Imperial Concubine Ling is you?

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His Majesty is angry again. He acts up three times a day and no one can stand it anymore!

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Hurry and beg Imperial Concubine Ling. Hurry up!

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Miss Mingyu, I came to invite Imperial Concubine Ling ...

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Her Highness isn't in the hall.

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But it's so late. Where else would she be at if Imperial Concubine Ling isn't in Yanxi Palace?

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Take a guess.

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Supervisor Li, I went to Yanxi Palace

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but I didn't see her?

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- Inside.

- Inside?

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That Zhang Tingyu!

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He dares to ask to be placed in the Imperial Temple? (T/N for his plaque to be placed there)

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What a bastard!

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Get Zhang Tingyu to report to me right away.

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Yes.

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Wait.

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Zhang Tingyu is getting more muddled with age.

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A few words from the historian and he's all worked up.

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He's even forgotten what his own name is!

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Rotted out with age! Forget it. Forget it!

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The Guangdong grain transport.

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Ming Fu embezzled thirty thousand in silver.

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Guangdong Inspector General, Yue Jun covers up for many.

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Liu Tongxun traveled far to Guangdong to investigate.

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He was so tired he even coughed up blood.

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Amban Official and the City Commander were killed in succession.

501

And Zhedong is showing signs of heavy drought.

502

Zhang Tingyu, as the Grand Councilor,

503

instead of thinking of how he can serve the nation,

504

he only thinks about getting his plaque into the Imperial Temple after his death. How despicable!

505

How despicable!

506

Tell Zhang Tingyu to get lost.

507

Get lost up in the sky! (T/N a sort of "flying leap")

508

Water.

509

Water.

510

You're a messenger. Not a piece of wood.

511

I said to pour some water.

512

Yes.

513

Wei Yingluo!

514

Who allowed you in?

515

Li Yu. Li Yu!

516

Your Majesty, I missed you.

517

I haven't seen you in so long.

518

Your Majesty didn't miss me at all?

519

That dog Li Yu,

520

allowing you in so recklessly!

521

And...

522

what in the world are you wearing?

523

You're getting more and more bad in form!

524

Your Majesty really didn't miss me?

525

Then I will go.

526

I'm really leaving.

527

If I were to really seek to blame you,

528

who knows how many times your head would have dropped!

529

To put on such pretense with me still!

530

You were the one who was jealous.

531

Why are you blaming me?

532

Nonsense.

533

You and Fuheng were clearly...

534

Why is Your Majesty so petty?

535

You've been mad for so long, but you still begrudge?

536

Yes, the late Empress did have intention

537

to marry me off to Lord Fuheng.

538

You..!

539

But Your Majesty, didn't you already overrule that long ago?

540

That's because I was afraid you'd ruin Fuheng.

541

There wasn't any personal motive at all.

542

Your Majesty says there wasn't, then there wasn't.

543

His Majesty defintely never tried to ruin my engagement on purpose.

544

Your Majesty also definitely never tried to get jealous on purpose and treat me coldly.

545

Your Majesty is devoted to righteousness and inspires reverence with breadth of mind.

546

- Never any personal motive.

- Fake.

547

You are clearly mocking me with every word.

548

Then if my words sting Your Majesty, it means what I said is true!

549

Your Majesty.

550

Before is before. Now is now.

551

Since I became Your Majesty's woman,

552

I will never betray you.

553

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554

♫Softly falling into the hollow of my palm,♫

555

♫Resting frozen in the center of my palm.♫

556

♫Resting frozen in the center of my palm.♫

557

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

558

♫Though plainly given words of discouragement,♫

559

♫Pretending to hear nothing but exhortation.♫

560

♫ Endless tears, believing it cannot be true,♫

561

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

562

♫I hear the sound of the snow slowly falling♫

563

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

564

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

565

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

566

♫ I hear the sound of the snow slowly falling♫

567

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

568

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

569

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