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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 59

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Chen Mixia before also offered a batch of Western guns as tribute.

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They are very inferior to the guns you confiscated from the battlefield.

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The guns you gathered can hit further and more accurately.

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I've instructed the Imperial Armory and the Imperial Workshop to imitate them.

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Your Majesty, Zhang Tingyu has succumbed from illness.

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His son is earnestly asking permission to bring his soul back to their hometown.

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In his last years, he was muddled and did a lot of wrong things.

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But he is, after all, an old subject who brought merits to the Qing Empire.

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Spread my decree.

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Follow the last decree of the late Emperor and allow him to enjoy a spot in the Imperial ancestral temple.

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I thank you on behalf of Lord Zhang.

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Rise.

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I know that

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since my fourteenth year in reign,

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I'd been demoting and reprimanding him a lot.

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Haven't you all been discussing this behind my back too, saying that I'm too heartless?

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But whenever I remember the hardships of Liu Tongxun,

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I got more irritated about how old and muddled Zhang Tingyu was.

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Both are the stabilizing pillars of the Qing government. One has become ill from toiling too much to the point of vomiting blood,

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while the other one only cared about glory in his afterlife.

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I understand.

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He and I

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have been fighting for so many years. Now that he's suddenly gone,

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I feel lonely and ashamed.

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Your Majesty, to share an ancestral temple spot with

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you is the best honor that a subject can have.

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Lord Zhang's soul in heaven will surely feel very grateful for it.

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He surely will curse me for frightening him before.

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I heard that you went to Yuanming Garden to visit and pay respects to the Empress Dowager.

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I went to visit Empress Dowager there,

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but regrettably she was praying to Buddha then and I wasn't able to see her.

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I instead saw Her Highness Consort Ling.

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I told her that Lord Aibida brought back a world-renowned beauty and offered her to you as a tribute.

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In less than three days, she packed up her bags and returned to the palace.

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Really?

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Your Majesty, there is still a pile of memorials in the Council of State office.

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I must immediately go back. I'll just return later to inform Your Majesty of the important details.

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I'll take my leave.

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Fuheng, stop right there!

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Your Majesty, do you still have any other instructions?

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You usually are busy with official work.

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Let Fuca An'er enter the palace to study with the princes.

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Thank you for your grace, Your Majesty.

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Rise.

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How is the condition of Consort Ling?

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Replying to Your Majesty, other than being unable to sleep at night,

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Her Highness Consort Ling also shows signs of disharmony between her liver and stomach.

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I've prescribed some fragrant thyme and stomach-soothing soup to slowly nurse Her Highness' health.

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Disharmony between the liver and stomach?

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Because of irregular meals, her stomach would ache.

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How were you attending to her? How come she's having irregular meals?

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Your Majesty, Her Highness Consort Ling used her own blood to copy the Avatamsaka Sutra.

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She continued to do so even when we were in Yuanming Garden. As days passed by,

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she suffered a lot of blood and energy loss, and developed loss of appetite. Hence, the problem with her stomach.

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Mingyu, organize the twenty pages

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and tell someone to deliver them to Yuanming Garden.

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Your Majesty?

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Why did you come?

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No need.

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You're now sick, so stop acting tough.

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Thank you for understanding, Your Majesty.

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What's wrong with your hand?

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It's nothing. Just a small wound from bleeding myself.

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I order you to stop writing!

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- Your Majesty, please forgive me but I can't obey you.

- You...

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Since I've promised the Empress Dowager that I'll complete the eighty volumes,

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I can't stop midway.

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I...

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really want to just let you emerge from this and perish on your own.

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But giving consideration to how you meticulously cared for the Empress Dowager,

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that's why I gave you such order. However, if you insist to not listen,

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you must bear all the consequences.

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If the Empress Dowager asks about it in the future, no one should be implicated.

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I understand.

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Does Your Majesty still remember your promise?

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Your Majesty said that you wouldn't let anyone bully me.

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Tonight, Your Majesty came to my Yanxi Palace. Everyone in the inner palace has already seen it.

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If you just leave now, how can I make a foothold here in the Imperial harem?

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I fear that I won't be able to stay any longer here in the Forbidden City.

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Tonight, I'll stay here at Yanxi Palace

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just to preserve your honor. About the others, don't even think about them.

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Li Yu.

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I'm here.

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Go and clean up the side room.

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Tonight, I'll sleep here.

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This...

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Yes.

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Get out!

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Your Majesty.

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There's a rat in my sleeping chamber. I'm afraid.

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If there's a rat, go look for someone to catch it for you.

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I'm not leaving!

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Your Majesty! Your Majesty! I didn't wear any shoes.

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If I go out like this, my feet will get cold.

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Your Majesty!

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Wei Yingluo, I haven't forgiven you. Immediately get out!

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- I'm not coming down.

- Get down!

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You...

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Your Majesty, I take contraceptive medicine because I'm afraid.

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What are you afraid of?

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I'm afraid of dying.

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I don't understand.

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When a woman gives birth,

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one of her feet steps into the gates of hell.

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I'm selfish. I'm afraid of dying.

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I don't want to be like my mother...

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dying in bed because of a difficult labor. I'm so afraid.

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So very afraid...

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And so...

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I asked Ye Tianshi for contraceptive medicine.

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Your Majesty, I don't have the courage to get pregnant and have children.

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I'm not yet ready to be a mother.

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Why didn't you tell me about this in the past?

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When my mother passed away,

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everyone said that she was great

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for continuing the descendants of the Wei family.

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But does a woman live just to give birth to children?

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Don't tell me there's no other meaning for them!

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Your Majesty.

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Now that I have told you this,

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do you think that I'm a heretic?

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I understand.

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If you are not willing, no one will force you.

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Your Majesty, are you still angry with me?

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You distinctly know that

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I'm angry with you not only because of this matter.

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Regardless of what the reason is,

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it's already in the past.

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Your Majesty, don't be angry with me anymore.

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Come here.

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Yingluo, you knew what I wanted to ask.

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Why did you avoid answering me?

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- What are you laughing at?

- It's rare to see the failure of your strategy.

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His Majesty left in the morning. He didn't even pass on his greetings.

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You are still happy?

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- Whose side are you on?

- Enough, don't be angry.

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If it doesn't work this time, try again next time.

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With your ability, are you still afraid that you can't hold on to His Majesty?

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I fear it won't be that easy this time.

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Come in.

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Your Highness, His Majesty has gone to Lijing Pavilion to have breakfast with Imperial Concubine Shun.

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Greetings, Your Highness the Empress.

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- You can forego the formality.

- Thank you, Your Highness.

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Our sister Consort Ling stayed for a long time at Yuanming Garden. Now that she's back,

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does everyone not recognize her?

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Consort Ling is proud and arrogant.

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She actually showed up here today?

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Did she lose her position to Imperial Concubine Shun

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and remembered us thereafter?

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Consort Jia, the grudge between you and Consort Ling is already in the past.

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You have been pardoned, had the Eleventh Prince and been promoted.

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What else are you still humiliated about?

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That's right. Whether we were friends or enemies in the past,

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we have a common enemy now.

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Why can't we get along?

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Sister Consort Ling, I have offended you many times in the past. Please forgive me.

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Consort Shu is now a fourth-ranked consort, unlike the past.

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There's no need to be so formal.

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Enough. Since you are here,

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take a seat then.

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In treating Imperial Concubine Shun,

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His Majesty will hold her so carefully in his hands, afraid of her getting broken...

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holds her so carefully in his mouth, afraid of her getting dissolved.

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If we talk about the divine grace,

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even Sister Consort Ling at that time can't be compared to her.

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She's just a woman from the wild mountain.

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Does she still think she's a fairy?

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Your Highness, we are just like headless flies.

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After encountering this, we still need to make your decision?

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There are many consorts and concubines in the harem. I have never been jealous and fought for favors.

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I have never asked who His Majesty favors.

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Imperial Concubine Shun is behaving improperly now.

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She doesn't stop singing and dancing daily at Lijing Pavilion,

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drawing His Majesty to indulge in sensual pleasures, causing the Imperial court to debate on this.

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Your Highness, what should we do?

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I have a proposal on how to deal with Imperial Concubine Shun.

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When that time comes, I will need the cooperation of the three of you.

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You only need to exert half the effort, but the result will be doubled.

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Yingluo, I feel uneasy about your gathering just now.

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Doesn't it seem like the gathering of bad women?

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I want to see what they will do

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to ascertain the realities and falsehoods of Imperial Concubine Shun.

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But I'm afraid you will be misguided by Her Highness the Empress and will find it hard to get out.

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You will never be able to go back again.

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Whatever I want, His Majesty will give it to me.

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But I still want to go out of the palace.

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The green tiles on the red wall in the Forbidden City

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makes one feel suffocated.

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When I'm feeling bored,

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I will ride my pony

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and circle Lijing Pavilion

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again and again.

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This way, it will seem like I have gone back to the past.

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Imperial Concubine Shun, the bottom must be stable.

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That's right. Look ahead and continue to maintain this.

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Yingluo, tell me. After time has passed,

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if I tell His Majesty that I would like to leave the palace for a walk,

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will he agree?

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Yingluo...Yingluo!

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- Your Highness!

- Your Highness!

- Are you okay?

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Yingluo, are you okay?

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Yingluo, are you okay?

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I'm sorry. I'm still not used

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to these "flower pot" soled shoes.

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Are you really fine?

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Imperial Concubine Shun, you are not carefull and dropped this.

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Show it to me.

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His Majesty personally engraved this and gifted it to my mistress.

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"The calm moon shadow is reflected in the bottom of the water, like a piece of jade that sinks". I don't quite understand this poem.

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I wonder what it means.

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His Majesty is praising you.

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That you're like a jade within the water, so perfect and flawless.

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I'm tired today. Learn again tomorrow.

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- But I still...

- Escort the guest out.

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Yingluo, why are you suddenly angry?

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Is it because of this jade?

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Can't you tell that I didn't like you from the start?

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Based on your personality, if you really hated me,

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you would have kicked me out earlier.

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You heard me babbling. This proves that you don't hate me, right?

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Are you two deaf?

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See the guest out.

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It wasn't his intention for me to approach you.

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It's just that...

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It's just that it's too lonely.

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I merely wanted to find someone to talk to.

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I brought this jade here without any other intentions.

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Xiao Quanzi.

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Imperial Concubine Shun, why don't you leave first for today?

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Yizhu, why did you talk so much today?

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Mistress, this was a gift from His Majesty.

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I didn't say anything wrong.

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But by saying this, Consort Ling thinks that I'm deliberating showing off.

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Consort Ling is not sincere with you.

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She wasn't even serious in teaching you the rules.

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Because I like it.

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I don't understand. She doesn't give you any face.

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What do you like about her?

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A person who has a cold smile on her face

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is far better than those women with sinister smiles.

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I don't understand what you are talking about.

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You will never understand what I meant.

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Mistress, why haven't you changed at all?

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If outsiders were to see this, they will say you don't have any deportment again.

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Chief Steward Yuan, for the requirements in the death anniversary celebration of Princess He'an,

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Imperial Concubine Qing is currently preparing them and will deliver the list to the Imperial Household Department later.

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For the meals, pastries, milk teas, wines,

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and fresh fruits, just prepare them according to the list.

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As for the praying lama...

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Yingluo, only in the ceremony for Emperors and Empresses may there be a lama praying.

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As for ranks from the Imperial Noble Consort downward, there isn't such a tradition.

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Even if the Imperial Household Department agrees to it, those censors will not.

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They won't dare complain about the Empress Dowager, thus they will surely vent their anger on you.

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Yuan Chunwang, are you muddled?

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You dared to directly call me by my name.

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Yuan Chunwang, starting on the day that you betrayed me,

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you're no longer my sworn brother.

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You're just a servant. Please remember your status.

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Yes.

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It's indeed not appropriate to have a lama praying,

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but we can allow it in consideration for the love of Empress Dowager to her daughter.

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In my opinion, just set the praying lamas in front of the tomb of Princess He'an.

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Invite a female shaman into the palace instead.

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Just for a minor thing, you have angered Consort Ling. Leave us now.

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Yes.

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Your Highness the Empress, I wasn't able to welcome you appropriately.

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May Your Highness please forgive me.

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Empress Dowager personally chose you to organize the ceremony.

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It's really going to be tiring for you.

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I've checked it earlier. Everything is in order.

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It's all thanks to you knowing the likes of Empress Dowager so well that everything has been done so smoothly.

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Thank you for your praises, Empress.

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I'm just doing my best to organize it.

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Don't know if Empress Dowager will be satisfied with it.

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Since you're here, can Your Highness give me some guidance?

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Not much should be changed.

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It's just that regarding the little Buddhist flower,

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if you burn it in front of the offering table, Empress Dowager might become happier.

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Little Buddhist flower?

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Every death anniversary offering ceremony or during the year-end ceremony, they will use a little Buddhist flower.

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Seeing how His Majesty puts great importance to the death anniversary of Princess He'an,

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Empress Dowager and His Majesty will surely reconcile back to like how they used to be.

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Thank you for your advice, Your Highness the Empress. I will remember it.

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Empress Dowager hasn't seen Imperial Concubine Shun yet.

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During that day, may Consort Ling please personally introduce her.

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Yingluo, what's wrong?

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Empress is making her move.

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Making her move?

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Great trouble will soon befall on Imperial Concubine Shun.

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Empress Dowager, Consort Ling is currently in the Imperial Household Department verifying the items needed for the offering ceremony.

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She ordered me to let you see the list again and see if there's still anything missing,

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so she can immediately have them done.

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After now seeing you for three years,

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you've become more prudent.

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Consort Ling said

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that you exerted a lot of effort for this offering ceremony.

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It is my honor to do something for Princess He'an.

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Empress Dowager, you have journeyed for quite a long time to come here.

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You haven't yet noticed that Lijing Pavilion has been renovated, right?

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Lijing Pavilion?

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Last night, I heard that songs and dances were playing there all night.

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It seems like Imperial Concubine Shun has choreographed a new dance

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which was absolutely fabulous. Even His Majesty can't stop praising it.

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If given a chance, I also want to see it.

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I fear that you won't dare to watch it.

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Why won't I?

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I heard that in that beautiful dance, one must remove one piece of clothing every time you finish dancing a part.

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Once you're done dancing, your whole body would have to be naked!

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Would you dare watch?

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Empress, I wasn't here in the Forbidden City for a long time.

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You didn't even try to meddle when such a person has entered the palace?

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May Empress Dowager forgive me. I once warned His Majesty

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that he's favoring Imperial Concubine Shun too much.

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If I excessively advise him, I fear that it might lead to an opposite effect.

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I can only slowly plan it.

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For just a woman, the Emperor is making such grand acts.

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This is so unimaginable.

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As the Empress, you have the power to manage the Imperial harem.

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Now that such a bewitching woman has appeared in the palace,

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you instead are passing the blame. This is so outrageous.

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Empress Dowager is right for lecturing me.

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I have a gentle temperament, and wouldn't dare meddle too much in His Majesty's personal matters.

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I'm afraid of having a reputation as a jealous Empress.

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Now that you're back in the palace, I now have a backer.

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I will do everything according to your instructions.

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Good.

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So, you're attending to me like Bodhisattva

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just to hug onto my feet

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not long after. (T/N a play on the idiom of "hugging Buddha's feet" in time of trouble)

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Empress, you're the master of the six palaces.

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You decide what to do.

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Respectfully sending off Empress Dowager.

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Your Highness the Empress, the preparations for the offering ceremony still hasn't been completed.

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I will take my leave now.

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Before, she got promoted because of Consort Ling.

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Now that there is trouble, she's still weak and inept.

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Your Highness the Empress, Empress Dowager doesn't seem interested in meddling in this matter.

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What should we do?

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That's right, Your Highness the Empress. If Empress Dowager won't intervene,

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will we just allow Imperial Concubine Shun to continue with her arrogance?

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After going through so many things, when will you two change your attitude?

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Who said that the Empress Dowager isn't meddling?

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Is the offering ceremony all set up?

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Everything has been arranged appropriately. May Your Highness not worry.

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What about the female shaman?

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I've made the arrangements with them.

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I've always been at ease when you do things.

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You can leave.

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Yes.

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Yingluo, His Majesty keeps favoring Imperial Concubine Shun.

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I fear that he won't easily look back.

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If the plan of the Empress is successful,

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that's removing an eyesore for you.

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In my opinion, just treat it like you don't know anything. Okay?

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Don't help any of them. Just let Imperial Concubine Shun's fate

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decide the outcome.

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I completely don't have any other motive in approaching you. I'm just too lonely,

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hence, I want to find someone to talk to. In this whole Forbidden City,

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we all live under a pretentious mask.

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Being able to be oneself in front of each other

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is such a good thing.

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This is the first time that Empress Dowager has invited me over to Shoukang Palace.

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I should be wearing my banner clothes to show respect.

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You couldn't even wear these shoes well. If you slip and fall, won't that be too embarrassing?

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It's all Consort Ling's fault for not being serious in teaching you.

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It's not her fault. I'm the one to blame.

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You are not allowed to say bad things about her again.

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- Yingluo.

- Your Highness Consort Ling, what are you doing?

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- Yingluo! Yingluo! What are you doing?

- Mistress! Mistress!

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- Saving your life.

- Where are you going? Mistress!

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The shaman is here!

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This is so weird.

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On the death anniversary of a princess, they have to gather all of us here to pray Buddhist scriptures.

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Isn't this too inappropriate?

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I have only heard of praying to the heavens, to the earth, to the ancestors.

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I've never heard of doing any death anniversary ceremony for a dead princess.

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His Majesty is famous for being filial.

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As long as it can make Empress Dowager happy, he's willing to be follow her every whim.

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If not because today is a major court meeting day,

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His Majesty would even personally come here.

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You're unhappy? Then go tell Empress Dowager that.

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Have you memorized "The Sutra of the Fundamental Vows of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva"? (T/N 13 chapter long sutra about Buddha's conversation with the Bodhisattva, likely Chinese in origin and translated into Sanskrit in the Tang Dynasty)

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Don't let Empress Dowager hear you reciting it wrong.

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- Not only were you unable to fawn on her, you'll even get scolded.

- You...!

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Please stop talking. Being able to copy sutras for the Princess

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is also accumulating good karma for oneself. What's bad about it?

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[ Death Anniversary Offering Ceremony for Princess He'An ]

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Greetings, Empress Dowager.

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This is the "Sutra of the Fundamental Vows of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva" that I've copied for the Princess.

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Hope the Princess can go to the paradise in the west.

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Fire! Fire!

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Quickly put out the fire!

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- He'an! He'an!

- Fire! Fire!

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- He'an!

- Quickly put out the fire!

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Hurry! He'an!

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- He'an!

- Quickly come and put out the fire!

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My He'an...

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Your Highness, be careful. Quickly splash the water!

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- Hurry!

- Hurry!

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My He'an...

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For so many years, I've been organizing a death anniversary ceremony for He'an.

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This matter has never happened before.

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What's going on today?

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It's just an accident.

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- Don't worry.

- Grand Shaman,

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with the offering ceremony becoming like this,

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will that affect my He'an? Will it?

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Informing Empress Dowager, Princess He'an has died at a young age.

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Her lifespan has ended, still hasn't reincarnated, and has no chance of going to the west.

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It was because Empress Dowager wanted the Princess to go to the paradise in the west,

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so you keep doing kind and charitable deeds all your life.

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Actually, you'll be attain your wish in just two more years. But what a pity that today,

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it got destroyed by this evil witch!

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What evil witch?

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When she appeared, the Buddhist flower and offering items all got destroyed.

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- You're making up nonsense!

- Imperial Concubine Shun, don't be unruly.

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Grand Shaman, are you speaking the truth?

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You all dare to doubt me?

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I didn't do anything.

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Your Highness the Empress, I know that you've always been benevolent.

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But this Imperial Concubine was born with such an excessively pretty face,

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and her actions are bewitching the Emperor.

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Perhaps she's really an inauspicious person?

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The Grand Shaman is an envoy who bridges the communication with the ghosts and deities.

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How could we doubt her words?

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Consort Ling, why are you not speaking?

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Empress Dowager, I don't know much about ghosts and deities.

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I dare not make any rash conclusion.

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Consort Ling, you clearly are defending that inauspicious woman.

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Empress Dowager, allow me to say a few words.

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Your thirty years of effort all got destroyed today.

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Princess He'an got dragged down by this inauspicious woman.

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The dream of her going to the paradise in the west has become burst bubbles. If you still tolerate her,

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don't know how many of us will also be affected by her?

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Empress Dowager!

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- Arrest her!

- Empress Dowager.

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Hurry up!

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Empress Dowager, this person is slandering me.

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I really don't know what has happened.

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- You're saying that you were slandered?

- It is slander.

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There must be someone who bribed the Grand Shaman

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and tinkered with the offering stage!

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Now that everything has been burned into ashes, I'm unable to show you any evidence.

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But as long as you interrogate the Grand Shaman,

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- you will know the truth?

- Who is the Grand Shaman?

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Even Empress Dowager must show her some respect.

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How can you be allowed to destroy her reputation here?

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Even if His Majesty was here, he wouldn't be able to save you.

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But I can swear by the heavens that I really don't know what has happened!

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I'm not an inauspicious person!

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Quickly take her away.

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Let go! Let go!

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Empress Dowager! Empress Dowager!

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Please look at me carefully.

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I'm a person with blood and flesh, a living human being!

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Take her away!

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- Don't!

- Wait!

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You...

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Come with me.

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What's going on?

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The Grand Shaman said that she's an inauspicious being.

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Why then did Empress Dowager easily let her off?

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Your Highness the Empress, this..!

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Respectfully sending off Your Highness the Empress.

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When were you born?

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Reply to my question.

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Zi hour (11 pm to 1 am) of the fifteenth day of the ninth month.

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Why do you ask me this, Empress Dowager?

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Fifteenth day of the ninth month...

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You're...

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Take her away first.

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Gugu Liu, what are we doing?

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Please wait here for a while.

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When it's time to release you, you'll get released.

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- Empress Dowager.

- Sit.

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Your Highness initially trusted the words of the Grand Shaman.

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Why did you suddenly change your mind?

485

Do you still remember that I once told you

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that when He'an was gravely sick,

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I went to beg for mercy to all temples,

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kept kowtowing and burning incense to Buddha everywhere,

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hoping that he'd just take away ten years of my life

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in exchange for He'an's life?

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That time, there was a high monk who told me

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that I could leave a mark on the child.

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Even if I'm unable to make her stay in this life,

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I would still get a chance to reunite with her in her next life.

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Hence, I hardened my heart and placed two holes...

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at the bottom part of her lips, around this area.

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But earlier, when Imperial Concubine Shun threw herself at me,

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I discovered that she...

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Talk of reincarnation is too absurd.

500

You shouldn't believe such things.

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But her birth

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was also during zi time of the fifteenth day of the ninth month.

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The same birth time and date. The same mark.

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Are all these just coincidences?

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Quickly! Quickly!

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Move more quickly!

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Your son respectfully greets Royal Mother.

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Greetings, Your Majesty.

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Royal Mother, where is Imperial Concubine Shun?

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Royal Mother, you mustn't believe the words of the shaman.

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Chenbi surely isn't some inauspicious being.

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Emperor, you gave the Grand Shaman a title of worship,

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but you're asking me to not believe her. Isn't that contradictory?

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Royal Mother, I gave the Grand Shaman a title and position

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so she can do her duty during the day and night offering ceremonies.

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It is to continue the old customs of our old ancestors,

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so as to urge everyone to not forget how hard this empire was obtained.

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Not to let her dominate your thoughts and dictate your decision.

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Please believe me that Chenbi is just an ordinary woman.

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She surely isn't some inauspicious being.

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Your Majesty, don't worry. Imperial Concubine Shun is currently very safe.

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I left you by the side of Empress Dowager

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not to sow discord or eliminate your competition.

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I have never said anything bad against Imperial Concubine Shun.

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You've misunderstood Yingluo. She's not that kind of person.

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Royal Mother, you are too biased with this woman.

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Maybe...she's not as kind as you think.

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Chenbi, come over here.

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Okay already, Emperor. We'll turn this leaf over.

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Don't make things too difficult on the Grand Shaman either.

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Take your beloved Imperial consort away with you then.

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Quickly thank the Empress Dowager for her grace.

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Thank you for your grace, Empress Dowager.

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Let's go.

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Wait!

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Forgetting Each Other

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

552

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

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

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

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

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♫All the memories completely vanish.♫