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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 52

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Why would I harm the Fifth Prince?

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At the time years ago, it was I who rescued this child.

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Because I am on good terms with Noble Consort Chun,

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so you deem with certainty that I betrayed the late Empress.

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You created all kinds of difficulties for me, but I endured it all.

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I thought on Yongqi's account,

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we could get along in harmony.

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But I didn't imagine you'd develop such a wicked heart!

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How old is Yongqi?

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He's utterly sincere with you and completely unguarded.

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But you actually put such a poisonous hand...

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Are you even human? Have you any humanity?

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Where did such medicine come from, into Yanxi Palace?

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Great question, Your Majesty.

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In the entire Forbidden City,

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other than Imperial Physician's Court, it's probably only Yanxi Palace that has it.

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Your Majesty, I hear Consort Ling was injured in the right arm upon falling off the horse.

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Senior Physician Ye prescribed a wolf's bane ointment

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to treat the pain of bone dislocation and bleeding from fracture.

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This ointment uses wolf's bane.

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So Yanxi Palace would have it naturally.

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Your Majesty. Consort Ling was granted royal grace but she does not repay it.

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Instead she is jealous of Consort Yu and tried to kill the Fifth Prince.

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A woman with such petty heart and venomous hand.

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She truly makes one's hair stand up in anger.

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I know that Your Majesty can't bear to punish Consort Ling.

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But if everyone follows suit, then the Forbidden City will be in such chaos.

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And just how chaotic would the Imperial harem become?

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I dare to beg Your Majesty to punish her severely,

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to serve as a stern warning to all

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so everyone knows that killing a royal heir is unforgivable.

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Yanxi Palace has wolf bane's ointment.

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Consort Ling is indeed unable to be spared of implication.

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However, we can't just be certain

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that she is the one who tried to kill the Fifth Prince.

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Your Majesty is right.

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Consort Ling has no children.

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To kill the Fifth Prince with poison, other than venting of anger, what would she stand to gain?

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Empress, the Fifth Prince and I,

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we have been cared after by Noble Consort Chun generously.

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Hence Consort Ling has insulted me many times.

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Saying I am a social climber who knows no shame.

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Even that Mingyu by Consort Ling's side.

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She even gives me attitude before the crowd.

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The Fifth Prince is young in age and couldn't stand his mother being harassed, so he spoke back a few words.

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I didn't imagine it would court such deep grudge from Yanxi Palace

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to result in a disaster of murder upon the Fifth Prince!

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Empress, you are merciful, so you wouldn't know that such women exist in the world!

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Your Majesty, if this incident is publicized, it will rile up a lot of gossip.

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It would be better to detain the Yanxi Palace personnel and interrogate each one slowly.

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Just the eunuchs and palace maids are detained?

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Consort Ling...how should she be handled?

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Consort Ling is a fourth-ranked Imperial concubine, so she is to reside in Yanxi Palace for the time being.

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After the interrogations results come, we can make arrangements then.

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Empress, Your Highness is delaying time for Consort Ling?

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Now we have evidence and witness,

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what is there to interrogate or left to ask?

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Then by your account, we don't ask about it and just go straight to punishment?

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Your Majesty. I know,

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you pamper Consort Ling.

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But the Fifth Prince, he's your own son.

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Can you bear to see him suffer such pain? Your Majesty.

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Your Majesty!

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Yongqi, your mother is useless.

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Your mother can't protect you,

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and I can't get justice for your grievance. I should die..!

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The truth is not revealed yet, but you're so anxious?

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Your Majesty, I have always been useless.

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I can only use this method to appeal for justice for Yongqi.

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If you insist on not punishing Consort Ling,

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I can only use my death to show my conviction.

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Your Majesty. You can see this yourself now.

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I told you before,

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that even if I don't cause trouble,

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as long as Your Majesty's favor exists by me, others won't leave me be.

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- Hurry.

- Slower.

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- What is it?

- Faster now.

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Consort Ling, you delude yourself thinking you can use your words to strip yourself of your crime.

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Look! The Fifth Prince remains unconscious.

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Consort Yu almost committed suicide. Haven't you sinned enough?

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In the end, having Yanxi Palace searched, your prestige will obliterate completely anyway.

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I urge you, instead of quibbling, you should acknowledge your wrongdoing sooner.

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Consort Ling.

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I want to know. Did you do it?

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Of course not.

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Your Majesty, my witness will soon arrive.

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What witness can you have?

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You're just delaying time.

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We're already here, so there's no urgency not to wait.

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Royal Physician Ye is here!

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I greet Your Majesty. Your Highness the Empress.

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- Rise.

- Thank you, Your Majesty.

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So Royal Physician Ye is your witness?

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Royal Physician Ye, it was you who prescribed wolf bane's ointment to Consort Ling?

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It was.

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Wolf's bane and fritillary bulb clash with each other.

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Yes.

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Consort Ling, what exactly did you want Royal Physician Ye to tell me?

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Royal Physician Ye, I don't know medicine.

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But if someone eats something wrong, what's the first thing that should happen?

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Eats something wrong?

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Yes. A slight dose of poison.

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Or eating foods that clash each other?

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That's easy. Vomit.

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Dare I ask Royal Physician Liu, did you get the Fifth Prince to vomit earlier?

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The Fifth Prince is weak and I don't dare to easily urge him to vomit.

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So I could only have him drink detoxing medicine.

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Has the Fifth Prince come out of the critical stage?

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I...I uh...

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Of course not.

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Don't you see that the Fifth Prince is still unconscious?

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Since the Fifth Prince isn't out of the critical stage yet,

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then it proves that detox medicine is useless.

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Why not try Physician Ye's method?

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Consort Ling! Haven't you harmed Yongqi enough?

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You want to torment him like this?

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Your Majesty. May you trust Physician Ye's medical skills.

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And may Your Majesty also trust that I have no intention to harm Yongqi.

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Ye Tianshi, do you have confidence?

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Be assured, Your Majesty. Allow me to check his pulse,

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and prescribe a warm vomit-inducer.

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Have the Fifth Prince take it and soon the poison will be got rid of.

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- Alright. You prescribe it immediately.

- Yes.

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- Your Majesty.

- I believe in Ye Tianshi's medical skills.

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Your Majesty, the Fifth Prince is so frail.

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How can he withstand such torment?

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If something happens to Yongqi...

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I couldn't live either.

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Consort Ling is a murderer. How can you listen to her?

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Escort Consort Yu to go rest.

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Your Majesty!

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- Your Majesty!

- Your Highness.

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Your Majesty!

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[ Yonghe Palace ]

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Reporting to Your Majesty.

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the Fifth Prince has already vomited all the food he took in today.

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Thank you, Your Majesty.

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There is no wolf's bane?

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Your Majesty, wolf's bane dissolved as soon as it enters the stomach.

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Even if he vomits, it's useless now.

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But the Fifth Prince also vomited lots of undigested ginseng slices.

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This, I find it very perplexing.

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The Fifth Prince has a coughing disease resulting from lung deficiency, hence the partaking of ginseng.

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Even if you're expecting to restore the Fifth Prince's energy,

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you can just use it for brewing ginseng tea. Why use so much?

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Reckless use of ginseng will cause harm to health.

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Furthermore, the Fifth Prince is young and healthy-bodied.

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Overuse of ginseng will instead cause energy obstruction.

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Trouble to circulation of the stomach and blood, and grave defect to the health.

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That's why he's unconscious!

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Physician Liu, aren't you versed in pediatric care?

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How did you commit such a grave mistake?

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You!

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Unless he was instructed by someone

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to frame Consort Ling on purpose?

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Your Majesty, spare my life. Your Majesty, spare my life!

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It...It was Consort Yu who insisted on using ginseng slices.

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I already dissuaded her, but she wouldn't listen!

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Now it was also Consort Yu

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who was certain that the Fifth Prince took in wolf's bane,

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and so I...and so I misread the pulse!

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Wolf's bane and fritillaria clash. You misused ginseng for restoration.

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How did you muddle them together?

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Eating wolf's bane and fritillaria together is fatal.

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Consort Yu couldn't bear for the Fifth Prince to lose his life.

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So she could only bribe this royal physician to collude together with her for framing me.

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Consort Yu.

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Your Majesty. I didn't know overuse of ginseng is troublesome.

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I was wrong. I am ignorant!

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Your Majesty, it's all my fault.

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I harmed the Fifth Prince for no reason

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and defamed Sister Ling too.

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You are with crime indeed.

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As the real mother,

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you actually allowed Yongqi to be harmed in order to frame Consort Ling.

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You are unworthy of being Yongqi's mother.

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Speak! Who gave you the nerve!

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Consort Yu, you had better confess the truth,

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or else you will be the culprit.

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It was Noble Consort Chun. It was all Noble Consort Chun's instructions!

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The idea was thought of by her and the ginseng was given by her.

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Your Majesty, Yongqi is my flesh and bone.

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If it hadn't been her forcing me, I wouldn't have acted!

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Your Majesty. It was Noble Consort Chun. It's all her doing!

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Consort Yu! Have you gone mad?

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I am very generous with you.

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You venting out your resentment of jealousy to Consort Ling is one thing.

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But I didn't imagine you'd pull me down to flee from your own crime!

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Even the fierce tiger won't eat its own cub.

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How can a mother like you exist in the world?

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Your Majesty! You must never listen to her.

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Everything I said is true.

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I can swear to Heaven.

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Yes.

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Internal Affairs Bureau's storage.

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They will have record of Zhongcui Palace taking ginseng.

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Mother. Royal Father.

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Come.

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Yongqi. Are you better?

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Royal Father. I feel bad all over and very dizzy.

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It'll be alright. You will be better very soon.

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Don't worry. Royal Father won't forgive lightly those who schemed after you.

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Attendants! Take Noble Consort Chun to be confined to Zhongcui Palace.

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The rest, into the Office of Careful Punishment.

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Before the sun sets today, I want the answer.

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Your Majesty, then Consort Yu?

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- Detained as well.

- Yes.

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Your Majesty.

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Your Majesty.

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Your Majesty!

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Don't take my mother.

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Don't take my mother!

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Mother. Don't go.

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Yongqi. Listen to Mother.

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Later, you have to listen to Consort Ling.

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Don't go. Mother.

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- Don't take my mother.

- Yongqi!

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Consort Ling, you were compromised today.

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Thank you, Empress, for easing my case.

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If you had done so, no one could save you.

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Since you didn't do it, the real culprit can't flee either.

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May Your Highness the Empress take charge.

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Your Highness, no matter how we interrogate, she won't confess.

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Your Highness the Empress, my mistress was framed.

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She really didn't frame Consort Ling and she also didn't--

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Yuhu. Consort Yu confessed and Noble Consort Chun can't be washed from implication either.

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As the close attendant, you should be punished first.

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Noble Consort Chun bore the Sixth Prince.

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No matter what grave crime she commits, His Majesty won't kill her.

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But you?

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Your Highness the Empress.

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I am willing to use my death to make amends.

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But Noble Consort Chun.

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She really is innocent.

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What loyalty!

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Regrettably, loyalty and filial piety can't both be devoted.

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You have your parents too.

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You should think it through for them.

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Your Majesty?

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Why did you startle me?

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I saw that you were in a daze alone so I didn't let them announce.

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What? You're allowed to startle me,

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but I can't startle you?

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Your Majesty said you'd protect me.

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But earlier when I was pressed by others,

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you didn't speak on my behalf.

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If I incline to you with everyone watching,

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then you'd really become the entire harem's target.

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So Your Majesty was supporting me?

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If I don't support you

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you wouldn't even have had the chance to quibble.

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Reporting to Your Majesty. Her Highness the Empress is here.

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Greetings to Your Majesty.

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Rise.

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Your Majesty, I have interrogated the palace maids and eunuchs of Zhongcui Palace severely.

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I discovered a thorny issue.

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Because it is linked to the Seventh Prince, I can't make the call.

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So I came to ask Your Majesty to decide.

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Bring her here.

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What you said to me earlier,

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repeat it to His Majesty!

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Your Majesty.

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Noble Consort Chun ordered me,

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to get close to the Heating Office's supervisor, Wang Zhong.

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To bribe him to work for us.

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That year on New Year's Eve,

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the late Empress was merciful.

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She ordered all the servants to go and rest early.

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Noble Consort bribed the junior eunuch of Changchun Palace to work for her,

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to switch to chrysanthemum charcoal that bursts easily.

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And arranged Wang Zhong to mess with the bottom of the auspicious barrel,

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causing the fire rescue with melting ice (instead of water) to die out halfway.

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This caused the Seventh Prince to die in the raging fire.

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Your Majesty, I had tried to interrogate the case of Consort Yu.

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I didn't imagine by asking this that the old incident would come up.

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The Seventh Prince had a divine disposition of Heaven and enjoyed the confidence of everyone.

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Your Majesty and the late Empress both adored him.

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I never imagined Noble Consort Chun would hold malice over it.

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If nothing had happened to the Seventh Prince,

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the late Empress also wouldn't have...

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It's a pity that everyone who served at Changchun Palace...

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Your Majesty. My attendant Mingyu

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once served at Zhongcui Palace.

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Mingyu.

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Your Majesty, I was at Zhongcui Palace for two years.

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Noble Consort Chun held a gentle attitude and was considerate.

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But who knew, that one day,

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I saw Wang Zhong and Yuhu together.

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Then Noble Consort Chun mistreated me

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and wanted to kill me to keep the secret!

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- Why didn't you speak back then?

- I...

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Your Majesty, Mingyu held it in for a long time

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because she had no evidence. With just her own words,

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to point out Noble Consort Chun was heavily favored at the time?

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It would be akin to knocking a stone with an egg.

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Your Majesty. Your Majesty!

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Your Majesty, palace maids have parents and relatives too.

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Even if she won't value her own life,

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she has to consider for her family still.

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Everything I said is true.

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I am willing to testify against my mistress and meet my death.

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Your Majesty, I beg you,

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spare my family on the account that I repaid some misgiving with my testimony.

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After Yuhu's confession, I summoned Wang Zhong and indeed it was true.

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What about Consort Ling's falling off the horse?

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Consort Ling used to be at Changchun Palace.

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She was devoted to the late Empress and she's garnered Your Majesty's pampering.

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Noble Consort Chun was worried the old incident would come to light.

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So she pushed Consort Yu to get rid of Consort Ling.

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Falling off the horse didn't work so a second method was used.

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Using the Fifth Prince's coughing disease,

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as a way to frame Consort Ling for self-preservation.

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Alright.

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Alright, that Noble Consort Chun!

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So sinister!

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Take her down.

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Your Majesty. Your Majesty, spare my entire family!

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Your Majesty. Your Majesty!

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Your Majesty.

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Noble Consort Chun killed the Seventh Prince.

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Her crime is not forgivable.

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Starting today, strip her title (of "Chun").

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Demoted to a Second Class Attendant! (T/N from 3rd rank to 8th below Empress)

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Confined to the Cold Palace!

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Your Majesty is sage.

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Consort Ling, this time I've helped you.

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Your Highness isn't helping me.

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- You're helping yourself.

- Huh?

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Noble Consort Chun is only second to Your Highness (in rank),

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and she bore the Sixth Prince.

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If she falls,

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the greatest one to gain is Your Highness the Empress.

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Consort Ling was loyal and devoted to the late Empress.

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How touching.

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Yingluo, Her Highness who is above,

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if she knew the killer of the Seventh Prince got punished,

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she would be so happy. Let's go prepare offering items

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to go and pray to the Empress at Changchun Palace,

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so she can be happy too. Alright?

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Hailancha.

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May Your Majesty instruct.

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Do all women have two faces?

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Well . . . I am not yet married.

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So I can't be clear.

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Before, when I saw Noble Consort Chun,

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I only thought she was gentle, likable and talented above others.

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I never imagined,

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under such gentle exterior skin,

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hides such heart of a poisonous snake.

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Yongcong was so little.

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But she could do that.

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All these years. To mention Yongcong,

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not a sign of guilt at all.

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A woman like her staying by my side all along.

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How scary is that?

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Your Majesty, no matter how beautiful the painted skin,

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the real face will show eventually.

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Noble Consort Chun is punished but she courted it upon herself.

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I keep thinking

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that Consort Ling has been guiding me all along

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to investigate the truth.

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To punish Noble Consort Chun.

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Your Majesty, Consort Ling is an old member of Changchun Palace.

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She is dispositioned to hate evil.

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If she did so, that's not strange at all.

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Late Empress was as gracious to her as the deep ocean.

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I am not surprised that she would return the grudge.

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But whether she...

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Your Majesty, what are you worried about?

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Nothing. You may go.

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Yes.

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Your Majesty, the Fifth Prince.

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He's kneeling outside the hall and unwilling to stand.

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Says he wants your leniency for Consort Yu.

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Tell him,

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Consort Yu is not worthy to be a mother.

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Go now.

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Yes.

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Yongqi, you are too stubborn.

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Consort Yu's sins are not forgivable.

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I won't plead her case.

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Mother may have ten thousand wrongs,

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but she's my mother who gave me life no matter what.

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Watching over me to grow. My every meal and drink,

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every word and conduct were all prepared by her meticulously.

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She has taught me earnestly. Even if the world scorns at her,

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only I, Yongqi, cannot.

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Empress Dowager has always adored her grandson.

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May you forgive my mother's life on my account.

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I beg you.

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I beg you, Royal Grandma.

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Royal Grandma, I beg you.

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Alright. Alright. Hurry up and rise.

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Royal Grandma, only you can save my mother now.

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I beg you.

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Allow me to think it about it some more.

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What's really wrong with you?

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I can't sleep.

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His Majesty summoned the military officers to discuss affairs.

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He says he won't come.

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I'm not talking about that.

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Then why can't you sleep?

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I just find that something's off.

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You are just too worried.

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Careful even if you're still young,

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your hair will grow white from worrying.

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Where are you going?

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Wait for me.

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Don't get chilled.

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[ Spring ]

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I had thought that the one who comes here tonight

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would be Wei Yingluo.

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I didn't think it would be you.

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Wei Yingluo?

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I finally fathom it.

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Wei Yingluo fought for favor with all her might.

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She didn't care if the harem hated her. What it was really for.

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Of course it was for

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you to grow jealous and grow anxious.

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No. And let you be frightened.

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Frightened that she would use royal pampering

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to discover what happened to the Seventh Prince back then.

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The more ostentatious Wei Yingluo became,

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the more you might act. As long as you act,

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there will be a loophole somewhere.

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She spread news of horseback riding on purpose

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and lured me to act. Actually, even if I didn't act,

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she would still create a situation,

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to plant suspicion in His Majesty.

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One step wrong and all steps wrong.

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She waited for this chance precisely.

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But Empress?

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You were in the middle.

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What role did you play?

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Me? Noble Consort Chun and Consort Ling begrudging?

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I am the Empress of Great Qing.

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Of course my role is to be just.

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I am such a fool.

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I have been your pawn all along!

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Late Empress's death.

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It is really not linked to you?

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- Of course.

- You're lying!

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You saw my affection for Fuca Fuheng.

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You planted a rift in my devotion to the late Empress. That was the first step!

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You told me the harem is lonely.

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You told me to have a child.

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You lured me to develop intention to fight for favor on purpose. That was the second step!

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After I had Yongrong, it was also you who told me....

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Later when the Seventh Prince is grown,

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he will be the most suitable to succeed the throne.

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How His Majesty adored Yongcong above all,

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that he would make him the heir for sure. That was the third step!

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These are just your suppositions. Have you any proof?

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I'm guessing...

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the Heating Office switching to the easily explosive chrysanthemum charcoal that year,

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it was your doing as well?

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Don't forget.

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The late Empress was in post-partum at the time. You managed the six palaces.

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The Heating Office's every move. Can it be unseen by you?

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It was you! You put the dagger in my hand.

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You made me your errand girl!

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No! Not just that!

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You knew the Seventh Prince was the late Empress' everything.

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If he died, the late Empress would be done with it all!

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You Nara woman!

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You entrenched yourself at every step.

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Step by step, you forced the Empress to die.

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And from the very beginning,

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you were waiting to remove and replace.

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Continue talking.

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You killed the Seventh Prince

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and forced the late Empress to kill herself.

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You lured Wei Yingluo and I to fight each other to the death

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and in the end, used her

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to force me into the abyss.

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As for your hands,

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they were clean from the beginning until now.

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What a joke.

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What a joke!

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What a joke.

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I...

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Who was I fighting for?

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Who was I working for?

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It was just a big, empty dream.

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I made his wedding clothes for him!

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You Nara woman, why are you so ruthless?

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- Why!

- Why?

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Because Fuca Rongyin was too hypocritical and hateful!

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As for you,

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I merely wanted serve and be by His Majesty's side,

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but you kept bribing, threatening

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and ordering me to be wedged between Mistress Fuca and Mistress Gao!

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I couldn't take it, until I couldn't breathe!

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Who was ever kind to me?

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My mother died.

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Every night, I would dream of her lying in bed,

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full of blood and interrogating me loudly!

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Who would know this kind of pain?

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It's obviously inhumane people like you who want me to be righteous.

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This is the greatest joke in the kingdom.

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Second Class Attendant Su. Your hatred for the Empress

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stemmed from your love for Fuheng.

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The deeper the love, the greater the hatred.

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You still say this was for the future of Yongrong?

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Don't make yourself sound so noble.

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You did it because of hatred and discontent!

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No, I did it for Yongrong.

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Everything I did, it was for him.

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Then...are you now...

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thinking of Yongrong...

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or Fuheng? Or perhaps what you did to Fuca Rongyin?

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She fell from the corner of the pavilion

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and was badly-mutilated.

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When you dreamed of her,

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does she ask you why you wanted to kill her son?

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Yes.

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I was discontented.

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I was very discontented.

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I did so much

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and in the end, I had nothing.

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I hated Fuheng.

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I hated the late Empress.

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I hated them

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for regarding me as nothing. Thus,

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I personally killed the Seventh Prince.

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I wanted them to regret.

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This was a sin.

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It was a lifetime sin.

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But fortunately,

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I will be seeing her soon.

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Tonight...

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aren't you seeing me off?

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It's good that you understand.

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Take action.

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[ Yonghe Gate ]

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Mother Ling.

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- Where did you go?

- I just came back from Shoukang Palace.

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Mother Ling, do you have something you need?

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Everything's fine.

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Yongqi.

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Your mother said some final words to you.

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Is that right?

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Yes.

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What did she say?

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Can you tell me?

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Your Majesty, it's daylight soon.

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No matter how important the affairs of the country are, you should still take care of your health.

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I know this very well in my heart.

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Your Majesty. Second Class Attendant Su...she...

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I heard the blood was all over the place.

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Her neck was broken.

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Broken?

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This is what I heard too,

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but I heard that the palace maid who was responsible for cleaning

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fainted from shock.

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What could it be that could break a person's neck?

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Your Majesty, this is a string from a kite.

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This case ends here.

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Forbid anyone in the Forbidden City to talk about this.

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If there's any violation, punish according to the palace's law.

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Yes.

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You may withdraw now.

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Yes.

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The string of the kite may seem like it's nothing

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but once it's tightened, it can break a person's neck.

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What's going on?

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This way,

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everyone will suspect that it's Yingluo who killed Noble Consort Chun.

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Yingluo.

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Why aren't you saying anything?

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Why? Could it be because...

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Mother said that I must listen to you in the future.

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Yingluo, where are you going?

581

Yingluo!

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Wait a moment.

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Consort Ling, the Empress Dowager has ordered me

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to see Consort Yu off to cultivate Buddhism.

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The Empress Dowager wants Consort Yu to leave and cultivate Buddhism?

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It's for mediation.

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Momo, I would like to talk to you for a while.

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Why?

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The spoils go to the victor.

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You won. You should be happy.

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Do you still need to get to the heart of matters?

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I can't figure it out.

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Consort Yu,

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you lost too quickly

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and easily.

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It's making me suspicious that you had already found out earlier.

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♫Softly falling into the hollow of my palm,♫

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♫Resting frozen in the center of my palm.♫

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♫Our meeting across past incarnations was inevitable,♫

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

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♫Though plainly given words of discouragement,♫

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♫Pretending to hear nothing but exhortation.♫

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♫ Endless tears, believing it cannot be true,♫

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

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♫I hear the sound of the snow slowly falling♫

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

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

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

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♫ I hear the sound of the snow slowly falling♫

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

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

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