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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 56

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It hurts, right? Furious, right?

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Yes, this should be that way.

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I can understand how you feel.

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It's the same feeling as when you wanted to leave Yuanming Gardens to enter the palace as a consort.

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Wei Yingluo, you must get it straight. It was you who betrayed me.

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It wasn't I who betrayed you.

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You promised to be with me for the rest of our lives at Yuanming Gardens.

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Did you know how much I valued that promise?

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Hence, this is a betrayal. I will never forgive you.

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When did you join the Empress?

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From the first day when I was determined to enter the Forbidden City,

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I paid my respects to the Empress.

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I have always regarded you as my real older brother, and you stabbed me in the back.

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It's just like you.

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We are no better or worse than each other.

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Your Highness the Empress.

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What benefits did you give him?

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I admire your Chief Steward very much.

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Starting from today, he will replace Wu Shulai in his duties.

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Chief Steward Wu joined the palace thirty years ago

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before he climbed up to his current position.

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As for Yuan Chunwang, he doesn't have enough qualifications and experience.

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He did a great job completing errands at the Workhouse and Yuanming Gardens.

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To add further, Consort Ling, did you forget this?

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Wu Shulai exposed the secret of your avoidance of the soup.

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When His Majesty sees him, he will always be reminded of this.

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Do you think he can still be used?

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It's a lost cause for him. Naturally, I need someone to replace and assist me.

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Yuan Chunwang is the best choice.

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It's pity that I racked my brains and tried my best,

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but it was only to clear obstacles for the Empress.

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Consort Ling, you are tired.

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Go back and rest.

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No matter what Your Highness plans to do next,

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I have taken my revenge today.

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There are no regrets for seeking virtue and acquiring it.

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Starting from today, Empress, I wish Your Highness peace,

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good health and good fortune.

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Your Highness.

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I believe that in the near future, a prince from the legitimate line will be born in the Forbidden City again.

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Wei Yingluo, you are the most graceful loser

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I have ever seen in my life.

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You are also the most patient hunter I have ever seen.

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Full of regrets now?

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Servant Yuan Chunwang pledges his life to Her Highness.

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If I betray you, may heaven and earth combine to destroy me!

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Your Majesty, Her Highness the Empress went to visit Fourth Prince and is not back yet.

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It has been a long time since I received an embroidery piece personally embroidered by the Empress.

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Your Majesty, Her Highness has been embroidering every day.

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It's just that she won't be giving them out anymore.

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[ Three Hundred Tang Poems (T/N Anthology of Qing Dynasty scholar, Sun Zhu, title selected to echo Shijing ) ]

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[ Zhu Qingxuan's poem: "Palace within the Palace" ]

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[ Now that the palace gate has softly closed on its flowers, ]

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[ Beautiful women file out to their pavilions of jade, ]

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[ Full to the brim of the lips with Imperial gossip, ]

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[ But not daring to reveal them with a parrot among them... ]

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Your Majesty. Your Majesty. Your Majesty.

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Your Majesty. Your Majesty.

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How did you know that I'm the Emperor?

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What did your owner say to you?

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Your Majesty, what brings you here?

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How's the Fourth Prince?

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Yongcheng had a fever in the afternoon. The Imperial Physician saw him. It's not serious. Your Majesty, there's no need to worry.

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With your care I don't have to worry,

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but...what is it trying to tell me?

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Your Majesty, may you have an abundance of good fortunes.

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I taught it for a long time. It finally could say this.

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How long has you been teaching it?

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It wasn't that long.

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Empress, what you previously told me,

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I think it makes sense and is responsible.

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I realize now that even the calm water in the lake

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has deep hidden feelings.

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You are the only one who treats me well in the harem.

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Your Majesty, I'm not the most beautiful woman in the harem.

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I'm also not the most smartest,

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but I will manage the harem well to free you from any worries.

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If Your Majesty doesn't want to talk about children,

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I will never mention it again.

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As long as Your Majesty knows in your heart that everything that I did, it was all for you.

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With my love for you, I will become a better Empress for Great Qing.

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Shushen, thank you. Thank you.

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Hey, isn't this Mingyu from Yanxi Palace?

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Greetings to Imperial Concubine Shu, Noble Lady Qing.

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What are you holding in your hands?

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The curtains that I just received from the Internal Affairs Department.

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Everyone is using brocade.

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What's wrong? On the contrary, the Mistress of Yanxi Palace is using vines instead?

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There's not enough brocade. We will use this first.

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My Mistress is still waiting for me to go back.

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I'm taking my leave first.

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What are you doing?

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Sister Nalan, what are you doing?

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Release her now.

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Keep out of this.

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Go back and tell your Mistress.

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What I suffered in the past,

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from today, I...will get back everything.

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Tell her to do a good job of washing her neck and wait. (T/N for the sword to fall on it, like an execution)

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Mingyu.

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Your Highness the Imperial Concubine Shu.

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Imperial Guard Suolun. You are highly valued by His Majesty now. You have a promising future.

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Don't mix with such unlucky people.

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Didn't you see everyone in the six palaces avoiding Yanxi Palace now?

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Your Highness, don't trouble yourself with such worries.

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Sister Nalan, he's an Imperial Guard and His Majesty's trusted aide.

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Is there a need to be angry with him? Is this worthwhile?

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Sister, you are right.

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I'm busy. I don't have time to be angry with idle people.

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Miss Mingyu, His Majesty favors Sister Nalan.

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She still remembers the grudges in the past.

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Consort Ling and you should be extra careful. Go out less often.

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Mingyu, is your hand okay?

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Let me take a look.

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I'm fine.

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Do you feel better?

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I'm much better.

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- Your face...

- Is my face that serious?

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I must not let Yingluo see this. Tell me now.

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Is my face that serious? Will I be able to conceal it?

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Mingyu. For the past few days,

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has it been very difficult at Yanxi Palace? Tell me the truth.

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Frankly, there's nothing that's very difficult.

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Now that the gate is closed, Yingluo has been teaching me embroidery.

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She taught Zhenzhu and Xiao Quanzi how to read and write. On the contrary, we have time for leisure.

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Those people from the Internal Affairs Department,

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they discriminate so much. Consort Ling's just lost favor,

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and they slight you like this.

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It took some getting used to. But after a while,

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Consort Ling has no desire to return to favor so it's alright.

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Enough. I had better rush back.

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This must be steady.

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Xiao Quanzi, you must hold the brush in the middle.

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Zhenzhu, you are holding it wrong!

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Learn from Xiao Quanzi.

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It's time to eat.

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Mingyu, your face...

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Our small kitchen isn't running anymore, so I got these from the Royal Tea House.

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- Let's eat now.

- The both of you, leave first.

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The Royal Tea House prepared these according to quality under the rules and regulations.

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Looking at what you didn't want to eat,

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I randomly chose a few.

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The lotus roots are the freshest during this season. There's also "Longevity vegetable". (T/N Portulaca oleracea, the common purslane, aka "wuxing grass" in TCM)

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This millet cake is the most delicious. Try it later.

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Sit down and eat with me.

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Even though there are only the two of us today,

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I still can't break the rules.

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I'm going out to eat with them.

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She probably didn't see it just now.

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Your Highness, I have already checked.

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When Mingyu went out today, she was given a hard time by Imperial Concubine Shu.

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She struck her hand and also scratched her face viciously.

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If Officer Suolun wasn't there,

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I fear it would have been even worse.

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Your Highness, for the past two months,

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other than the Empress from Chengqian Palace,

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Imperial Concubine Shu is the most favored person.

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Let's avoid them in the future.

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I understand.

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Lord Fuheng and General Zhaohui burned

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the two military camps of the enemy.

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Huolan Camp dispatched men to negotiate for peace.

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What do they think?

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Lord Fuheng advised that unless Huolan Camp's commander

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comes into the capital first to pay respects to Your Majesty,

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it shouldn't otherwise be considered.

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It's just a stalling tactic. The battlefield is dynamic.

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Follow Zhaohui and Fuheng's decisions.

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Yes.

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Your Majesty.

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What else is there?

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Your Majesty. I witnessed the people from Yanxi Palace being insulted today.

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- I fear that...

- Your Majesty, please don't be angry.

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Hailancha...do you still want your head?

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I committed an offense. Your Majesty, please forgive me!

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Hailancha made a presumptuous comment regarding the harem. He is to be punished by forfeit of one year's salary!

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Retained for the time being as an Imperial guard, pending future observation.

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If he mentions the words "Yanxi Palace" again, he shall be punished severely and not be forgiven easily!

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Imperial Guard Suolun, you saw that too.

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His Majesty doesn't allow anyone to mention Yanxi Palace now.

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Stop talking about this from today forward, or you will get into trouble.

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I slaved for the master for thirty years

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before I became the Chief Steward of Internal Affairs Department.

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On normal days, I have suffered enough of that old man, Li Yu's temper!

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This is great now.

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Now a new man who's not even fully-trained

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climbed on top of my head and abuses his power in a tyrannical manner!

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I'm not happy.

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Teacher, stop drinking. You will regret it, be careful that you don't get drunk.

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I'm not happy.

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Teacher.

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Now I'm just holding up my head with two shoulders.

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I'm carefree now that I'm relieved of official duties. Who's afraid of that fart!

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Teacher, lower your voice.

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Teacher, don't you still have the Empress Dowager?

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You can go to Shoukang Palace to seek help.

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Empress Dowager?

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That's right.

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There's still the Empress Dowager to make the decisions.

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Let me tell you, I still have a trick.

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Empress Dowager will definitely help me.

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Yuan Chunwang, just wait and see.

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I'm going to skin you sooner or later...

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and turn your skin into my knee pads!

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When that time comes, I will reward you with a pair too.

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Who is it? Who tied

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me up?

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Release me now. Release me!

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It is I, Chief Steward Wu.

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Chunwang, let me go, okay? Let me go!

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Chunwang! Chunwang!

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I...Take my guaranteed life-saving trick

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in exchange for my life!

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I'm not interested in your trick.

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Don't! I have a written letter from Madam Wenshu!

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Mrs Wenshu?

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Madam Wenshu was His Majesty's wet-nurse!

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- You are lying to me!

- I wouldn't! I wouldn't dare!

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It's true. I'm not lying to you.

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Chunwang, I will tell you this biggest secret in the kingdom.

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Let me go, okay? Let me go.

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Let me go. I'm begging you.

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Empress Dowager, I personally copied this for you.

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It's the "Guanyin Bodhisattva" (T/N sutra to the Goddess of Mercy, likely the Lotus Sutra)

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to pray for the good health and fortune

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for the Empress Dowager.

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It must have been hard for you, Imperial Concubine Shu.

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You are very considerate.

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I also heard that the Empress Dowager lacks the "Avatamsaka Sutra". (T/N Flower Ornament Scripture)

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If the Empress Dowager does not dislike it,

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I'm willing to copy it for you.

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It's not necessary.

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Consort Ling is copying the "Avatamsaka Sutra" now.

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Consort Ling?

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Yingluo.

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Empress Dowager, I copied the "Avatamsaka Sutra" today.

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My comprehension is not good. The calligraphy is uneven and dull.

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Looks like I should study more of Master Cheng Guan's calligraphic script.

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[ Script from "Avatamsaka Sutra", describes a cosmos of realms upon realms ]

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This sutra is written in blood.

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You used fresh blood to copy the sutra?

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The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment states (T/N 14th century landmark lamrim (guiding scripture), "Lam rim chen mo" by Je Tsongkhapa, Tibetan Buddhist)

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that if you love Buddhist teaching, you must use your skin as the paper and your bone as the brush,

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with blood as ink, in order to

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show my sincerity.

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I have seen a sutra written in blood in the past.

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It's a pity that the blood turned black.

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But yours is a light color. How did you do that?

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Only the handwritten blood of an eminent monk

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can be pure.

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Consort Ling guessed that it's related to many years of being a vegetarian.

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Hence, she fasted for a few days.

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This child is very sincere.

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But there are eighty volumes of the "Avatamsaka Sutra" (likely the second Chinese translation, 7th century)

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and you used blood to copy them?

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Eighty volumes

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may require ten years to copy,

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but belief in Buddha's sincerity

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can be sustained for life. If we think of this,

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it's not that long.

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But this paper is so ordinary

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and you made a copy for the Empress Dowager?

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Is it done too half-heartedly?

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Imperial Concubine Shu used porcelain blue paper.

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It's dark blue and vibrant.

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Naturally, an ordinary paper can't be compared to that,

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especially when a piece of that paper costs a few silver.

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But an ordinary family, they can buy eight measures of rice with it

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or perhaps five catties of fresh fish. (T/N one catty = 1 jin = .5 kg or 1,1 lb US)

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Imperial Concubine Shu.

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Copying a sutra is a matter of self-cultivation.

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This kind of wasteful extravagance is not beautiful either.

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Starting from today, don't touch it again.

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Yes.

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You are very pious.

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Go with me to Huayan Temple tomorrow.

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Thank you, Empress Dowager, for your grace.

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Sister Nalan!

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Why must you do that?

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That Wei Yingluo!

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She can't count on His Majesty anymore,

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so she turns around and fawns her way in with the Empress Dowager!

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Did you hear her earlier?

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Empress Dowager wants her to accompany her daily to pray to Buddha.

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I exhausted myself,

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prepared porcelain blue paper and it's a mistake?

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Sister Nalan, Empress Dowager is a devout Buddhist.

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Other palace consorts try to earn her favor too.

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But have you seen anyone dare to transcribe the sutra with blood?

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That's not just a day or two, but eighty scrolls!

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That's going to take over a decade of transcribing .

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So resolute! Even ordinary monks can't compare.

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She revealed it to the Empress Dowager so she can never stop.

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She's not afraid she will die from bleeding out?

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"Die from bleeding out"?

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Your Highness Consort Ling.

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Imperial Concubine Shu.

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I seem to have heard you,

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curse me just now.

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Your Highness Consort Ling. This transcribing of a sutra with blood isn't temporary,

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the long years and months?

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I was just worried you would harm your own body.

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Everyone says when the tiger falls, the dog takes advantage.

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However, I think...

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if it's a truly fierce tiger,

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it won't be bullied by a crawling dog.

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Imperial Concubine Shu. The Forbidden City has the rules of the Forbidden City.

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No matter how I came to dire straits,

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my status is much higher than yours still.

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Next time if you dare to usurp again,

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then it's not as simple as one slap.

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Hurry and help me up!

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Sister Nalan.

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Are you alright?

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Get lost.

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All of you, get lost!

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Arrogant and rampant.

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Unforgivable!

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Even if she's lost favor,

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she's still has a fourth-ranked position and has earned Empress Dowager's delight.

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Sister Nalan, don't cause trouble now.

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I cannot control her...

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but someone else can!

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Empress Dowager, why do you want to support Consort Ling?

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Wu Shulai was raised up by me personally.

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The Empress rushed to switch him out.

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It's a sign of her greed.

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Now in Forbidden City, if it's not Consort Ling,

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then the world really belongs to the Empress alone?

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Your Highness, my status,

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isn't as high as hers.

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But I shouldn't be trashed by her like that.

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Your Highness, this time,

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you must speak up for me.

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Consort Ling doesn't step out of her palace, so how did she offend you?

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It must be because you bullied her and brought the humiliation upon yourself.

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Your Highness, you, how can you still speak on her behalf?

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Consort Ling has lost power but she knows to make Empress Dowager happy.

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If you have the time to give her trouble,

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you should go back and cultivate yourself to cause less trouble.

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If His Majesty finds out about today,

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it's hard to avoid him thinking you are the tormentor.

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At that time, whether your current grace..?

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Your Highness has taught me well.

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I forgot my poise. I wll go and close my doors to reflect.

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I won't dare to cause trouble again.

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May Your Highness forgive me.

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Go back.

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Mistress. Consort Ling's act today,

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it's just using her connections to intimidate.

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She borrowed Empress Dowager's prestige to attack Imperial Concubine Shu.

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This is to intimidate the harem.

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She's letting everyone know

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that starting today, no matter how the Yanxi Palace mistress has lost royal favor, she can't be bullied,

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because behind her stands the Empress Dowager.

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It seems the Empress Dowager is iron-bound

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to oppose me.

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Yuan Chunwang. How's the investigation

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brought on by Wu Shulai?

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Great!

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With the skin and bones gone, what would the fur adhere to?

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So clever.

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Mistress. Should I . . .

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No. This letter can't be delivered by you.

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I have someone better.

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Yingluo. You..?

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Don't let your tears drop into the blood.

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It will taint the blood and I'll have to bleed again.

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Others are all saying you're building power.

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But I know you are trying to vent for me.

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From now on if you're compromised, don't endure it.

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- Remember.

- You slash my finger instead!

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I'll take your place. Please?

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It's not respectful to Buddha.

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Then I will go to the Medicine Bureau to get some cinnabar so the blood doesn't congeal too fast.

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Royal Physician Ye is deposed and in custody.

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I've already implicated him. Let's not do anything more.

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Then you write. I'm here.

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I won't let the blood congeal.

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Empress.

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Empress Dowager is praying to Buddha. It is inconvenient for her to meet you.

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May Your Highness the Empress please go back now.

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Consort Ling can go in, but not the Empress?

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Zhen'er, you may not be rude.

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Consort Ling is accompanying Empress Dowager to pray to Buddha.

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If others can familiarize their hearts with Buddhist teachings,

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to discuss sutras and merits with the Empress Dowager,

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naturally they can enter too.

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Pardon me.

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Empress, that's too much.

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[ Shoukang Palace Gate ]

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Empress, are you here to pay a visit to the Empress Dowager?

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Consort Ling is praying to Buddha with the Empress Dowager so she has no time to meet with me.

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I am afraid you've traveled for naught too, Prince He.

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I wanted to pay my respects with a visit to the Empress Dowager since I came to the palace anyway.

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Since she's got accompaniment, I won't disturb her.

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Prince He must be here to pay homage to Imperial Consort Dowager Yu.

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You are so filial. Imperial Consort Dowager Yu's spirit in heaven

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must be so appeased.

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Then I won't disturb you.

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What are you doing?

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Replying to Your Highness. These are Imperial Consort Dowager Yu's old items.

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Interior Bureau assigned Jingan Hall to store them.

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Since they're old items, I will inform to His Majesty

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that I am taking them all to the Prince He Manor for remembrance.

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This . . .

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Have you any sense? His Highness has made his words known.

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Why aren't you putting down the items?

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Yes.

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Your Highness. Imperial Consort Dowager Yu's old items, should we take them all?

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In the past, I had no duty and just an easy existence.

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So I could come often to pay homage.

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But now, I am out of the capital to manage affairs often.

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Each trip takes months.

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I haven't had my mother's items by me,

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so let's take them all.

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Your Highness. What is this item?

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I didn't imagine

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that Mother was bullied by the Empress Dowager for years.

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She had a life-saving talisman to protect herself.

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"Life-saving talisman"?

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No. It may force the Empress Dowager to her death.

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Your Majesty, the Assistant Minister of Rites, Qian Zheng You'an, (T/N Qian Weicheng, art name "Zongpan")

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presents a "Spring Sunshine" painting for your viewing. (T/N One of Qianlong's favorites, 275 paintings)

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I don't need to see the report.

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I already know what he wants.

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I heard Assistant Minister Qian's mother has been a widow for forty years,

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serving her mother and father-in-law and raising the two sons.

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Due to the family's poverty, she would spin cotton always.

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Now she's already blind in both eyes.

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Your Majesty is sage. Old Madam Qian will celebrate her eightieth birthday this year.

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Assistant Minister Qian, as a famous painter, painted this "Spring Sunshine", hoping to present it to his mother,

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and he dares to beg Your Majesty to add words to the painting.

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"Who can speak of the heart of the spring's planting?

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It shall be compensated with the love of three springs' sunshine."

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This widow toiled through bitterness to raise her sons.

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She truly makes me admire her.

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I have composed these words for her as token of felicitations to her birthday.

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Your Majesty, Prince He of the First Rank is here.

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Have him come in.

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Your Majesty, I take my leave now.

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Respectful greetings to Your Majesty.

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Rise.

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What's the delay in speaking?

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I have a lot to do. I don't have time to guess your thoughts.

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Your Majesty, I tidied up Imperial Consort Dowager Yu's old items.

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I discovered a letter.

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What letter?

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A letter by Madam Wenshu before her death.

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Her personally-written letter.

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My wet nurse?

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Yes.

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Present it to me.

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Your Majesty.

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If this letter might affect you and Royal Mother's

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attachment as mother and son, would you still read it?

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Nothing is enough to repay the kindness given by Royal Mother.

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Nothing in the world,

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can affect the deep affection between the Empress Dowager and I.

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[ Madam Wenshu's Letter ]

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The Fourth Prince's birth mother is the Qian clanswoman of Jiaxing.

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That Niohuru clanswoman killed the mother to snatch the son.

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May you be careful, Prince.

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Madness!

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Your Majesty, per your order,

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I consulted the Imperial Jade Records.

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Speak.

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The Imperial Jade Record clearly states,

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Your Majesty was born during Emperor Kangxi's fiftieth year in reign, the year "Metal Rabbit". (T/N 60-year cycle)

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Thirteenth day, eighth (lunar) month of Bayue.

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Born to the current Empress Dowager of the Niohuru clan.

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Daughter of Lingzhu, at Yonghe Palace.

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Births of Imperial heirs are reported once every three months,

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with birth hour and birth mother recorded.

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Every ten years, a jade document is added to the manuscript.

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Your Majesty, even if it's edited every ten years,

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there is the original document.

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It can't prove if the jade document was edited by someone.

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What about the matter I asked of you, to investigate the late Emperor's diary records?

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Diary records and jade documents are in complete accordance.

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Ministry of Rites received a decree from the Empress Dowager at that time,

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to promote the Nian clanswoman to Noble Consort.

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Promote Li clanswoman as Consort Qi.

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Princess Consort, the Niohuru clanswoman as Consort Xi.

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The records can't be investigated.

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It appears that regarding Lady Wenshu's words, be they true or false,

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only one person can tell me.

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Your Majesty. You can't. You must not!

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Majesty . . .

497

If His Majesty goes there like this,

498

that's going to pierce a big hole in the sky!

499

Greetings to Your Majesty.

500

What's happened, Emperor? You look so pale.

501

I have urgent matter to discuss with Empress Dowager.

502

All of you, leave us.

503

- Go out.

- Yes.

504

Alright. They're all gone.

505

What's the matter? You can tell me, Your Majesty.

506

That year, before Lady Wenshu became ill,

507

she left a letter for me.

508

Royal Mother. I just want to ask you one thing.

509

My real mother. Is it you,

510

or is it that Qian clanswoman?

511

Emperor!

512

If my birth mother truly was a Han woman,

513

then you who reside in Shoukang Palace...

514

why have you posed yourself as my birth mother?

515

Emperor, do not listen to wild talk.

516

Can't be that Imperial Jade Records can be faked?

517

Imperial Jade Records. Decrees. They can be edited by people later.

518

No one knows what really happened.

519

So, I came personally to seek an answer.

520

May Empress Dowager answer honestly.

521

Emperor!

522

Empress Dowager.

523

Lady Wenshu was my wet nurse.

524

Her character, I am more aware of it than others.

525

If you won't tell me,

526

I can go investigate the old servants from Prince Yong's manor back then.

527

I will find each and every one of them.

528

At that point,

529

it won't be as you wish, Empress Dowager.

530

Enough, Emperor.

531

Emperor, your real mother was truly that Qian clanswoman of Jiaxing.

532

Then why for all these years

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has no one told me?

534

At the time, the late Emperor was Prince Yong of the First Rank.

535

The Qian clanswoman was just a maidservant of the Prince Yong Manor.

536

Once that Prince of First Rank contracted a contagious illness.

537

She served him with diligence throughout the day and night.

538

The Prince of First Rank was very touched and made exception to promote her as a prince's concubine.

539

What a pity.

540

What do you mean, "what a pity"?

541

It was a pity your fortune was too good.

542

I don't understand.

543

Metal rabbit. Fire rooster. (T/N she's talking about his ba zi, his four pillars...)

544

Metal horse. Fire rat.

545

Embracing the five fortunes.

546

Born to wealth and honor,

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with the ability to help His Highness ascend to the top.

548

Such a golden fate!

549

Destined to be extraordinary.

550

How can this person be raised by a common Han woman?

551

The fortune master said if you were to be raised by the Qian woman,

552

she would disturb your destiny.

553

So as soon as you were born, you were brought to me.

554

You became my son.

555

Then what about that Qian clanswoman?

556

In giving birth to you, her energy was harmed.

557

In two or three years' time,

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she ran out of oil and left the world.

559

When she was near death,

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she held my hand tight and would not close her eyes.

561

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Forgetting Each Other

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♫It's very likely that recalling vivid images will throw me into upheaval,♫

564

♫The past graceful, concerning passions have gone only into hibernation.♫

565

♫Along with my lord, my original aspirations are now distant, the promises and wishes to accompany each other♫

566

♫Are proof of yearning endured, trembling in the endless night.♫

567

♫How true our feelings were, even though our fate was shallow,♫

568

♫Hearts locked away in dark halls from the light, difficult to find and recover.♫

569

♫Other people envy my splendid, bright clothing, the warmth beside my pillow, (T/N the love of her lord)♫

570

♫Then turning round sigh admiringly, through wet tears in somber-colored robes.♫

571

♫Who clearly would cling to a moment of being in love and inseparable?♫

572

♫The end of passion becomes merely a sentimental entanglement.♫

573

♫If one uses separation to cut away the bindings,♫

574

♫Forgetting one another is also difficult in the depths of one's dreams.♫

575

♫Who clearly would still cling to these deep feelings and desire them again,♫

576

♫And give free rein to this state of mind over and over in their dreams?♫

577

♫Glory and splendor give shelter to appearing to forget the pain,♫

578

♫From dreams awakening after a time, with nothing new to worry about.♫

579

♫Treating them like smoke dissipating, ashes flying away, cold hoarfrost under the moonlight...♫

580

♫All the memories of love, memories of hate....♫

581

♫All the memories completely vanish.♫