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Do you like me?

I...

Speak

Tell the truth.

The emperor is someone that everyone looks up to. A servant would want to...

Do you want me to be my concubine?

that... i don't like stuttering

One line. Do you want or not?

I'm willing

Ok. From today onwards, you are Shuan Fu Palaces, Jade Lady.

Lian'er, do you know just how deeply you have hurt me?

Do you know how betrayal feels like?

I want you to taste

I want you to taste.

What are they doing?

Shi Fei Niang Niang

Yu shu, Please rise.

I want to tell you some good news, but after you hear it

but you must not blame me

What is this good news?

the Emperor choose me as Shuan Fu Palaces Jade lady.

What?

I didn't have a choice. As you know, he is the king.

What do you mean you didn't have a choice? You know you wanted this.

Niang Niang, how many times did I tell you that you needed to watch out for this person.

Yu Shu! Kneel!

You a mere servant, dare have the audacity to judge important people.

How should I punish you? Tell me.

How should I?!?!

Yu Shu!

I know, right now, whatever I say, you will not listen.

I am going to return to the palace.

No matter what happens. We are still good sisters.

It looks like His Majesty has really misunderstood me.

Su GongGong, let us go to the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Chi Fei Niang

I want to see the kingPlease tell him that.

I am very sorryThe king has ordered

that he refuses to see anyone.

Oh, is that so?

Niang Niang, How about we wait a few days, then come back?no

Niang Niang

greetings emperor

What are you here for?

Emperor, I heard that you haven't been eating these past couple of days

So I've brought this with me to get your appetite back.

what is that?

It is a small stove. On top you can grill meat and some vegetables.

Your Majesty, all you need to do is sit. I'll make you some to eat.

Emperor, this is just something from my heart. Just come sit a while.

Emperor, take a look. What kind of meat would you like to eat?

Many years ago a person cooked this way

I don't know how your cooking with turn out.

You will know after you have tasted it.

I am okay.

This... This...

Maybe it is Heaven's Will.

It really was an accident. Was this thing important to you?

It's okay

Congratulations, you finally got what you wanted.

It is I that should be thanking Official Li.

For me to be of service,

I will proudly do every thing in my power.

It sounds really nice the way you say it.

I know that you did it for this, right?

I am clear of everything.

What it is used for is not important, results are all the same, why must you be so petty about it?

I keep true to my word.

I will return this to you. Then from now on let's pretend that we never seen each other before.

We will be complete strangers.

Did you think the battle behind the palace walls is over?

Right now, you have won. But Xi Fei niang niang is still here.

You'll never know when the emperor is happy and decides to go back.

Even if he doesn't go back, there are hundreds of beautiful flowers.

There are so many new people coming into the palace. Are you not scared that Xi Fei niang niang's today,

will be your tomorrow?

If you always want to be the one winning,

you must link hands.

Li Wei needs your help in court and you need my advice behind the palace walls.

So why don't we work together and get what we both want?

If there is a need I'll come find you myself.

To think I trusted you so much yet you try to harm me!

What are you saying, I don't understand

Don't understand?

You'll see what I mean

Exactly what is this?

What's this? WHAT'S THIS?

I'm so curious, someone who is perfectly fine yet wants to switch rooms,

it was because you want to try to find out my secret and kill me!

I can't think of why you want to hate me so much.

The only reason is...

You are not you...but the person who should've died a long time ago.

Official Li, what's wrong with you today?

Why did you come to me to take out your anger?

I want to change my room, because Bai He said that her room was more peaceful

and to give her an opportunity to wait on you two.

Official Li...what secret? What person that should be dead?

Mu dan doesn't understand, and has no interest.

You're trying to make excuses, are you? -I'm not making excuses.

The innocent are innocent.

If I wanted to kill you, then why would I ask you to elope with me?

For these days, how well I treated you...you know, in your heart.

if you really want to kill me,

Then kill me, but don't regret it.

Is it really not you?

It's up to you to believe or not.

If you are not her then there is the only the crown prince himself.

It seems that he's been secretly investigating me for a long time.

Good Morning Everyone. Good Morning

Crown prince, morning.

Put away that face of yours.

If you do good things, you'll get good karma. If you do bad, you'll have bad karma. Don't do anything, time catches up.

I'm afraid soon that you wont even be able to smile.

My smile comes from when I was born from my mother, crown prince doesn't want me to smile...

It doesn't seem right.

But prince, whether you can smile in the future,

we still don't know. -What do you mean?

Hm!

Emperor is arriving!

Emperor, Long life, long, long life.

Rise. Thank you Emperor

What is going on today?

Your Majesty, there aren't any important matters, but there is one small thing.

Say it.

Reporting to the emperor, arranged marriages are all a big matter.

It prevents ending the bloodline.

But I heard that the crown prince wishes to marry a tea house girl as his wife.

Not only does it go against the traditional way and also will cause the royal family to lose face.

I beg that emperor does everything in his power to prevent it. And do things righteously.

I say...Li Wei...I didn't even say that you are a greedy official with dirty tricks.

Yet you try to bring me down! Let's see if I don't beat you up! Emperor, please look.

Impudence! Nineteen!

Emperor, look, even under your presence he dares to try to attack me.

What has our royal court come to?

Emperor, Li Wei has been greedy and doing very bad things. I have found him out.

And so he's trying to frame me.

Emperor, that's a misunderstanding! When you speak, you must have reasoning and evidence.

Evidence, I have already given to the Emperor.

I beg that the emperor examines it specifically.

Nineteen. I have never received your so called evidence.

How is that possible? It's a letter!

Crown prince, your meaning is that the emperor is covering for me?

SHUT UP!

Emperor, I don't mean it that way. It's best that you don't mean it that way.

But do you dare say that you didn't want to marry Miss Bai He as your wife?

Yes, I like her and I want to marry her but that's my business.

Emperor, now you see, the crown prince has a relationship with a tea house gir, I have found out about it. So he's upset

and wants to frame me with a buying and selling official status.

I'm not trying to cause problems or seem nosy, I just want to make sure that the royal blood line is clean and healthy.

I wish that the emperor makes the decision.

Choosing the bride and marrying which bride is all taken care of by me.

How can you just, marry whoever you want?

And especially a low class teahouse girl.

Honestly, you recently have been increasingly disobedient.

Our father may not be here, but as an older brother

I will serve in father's place to discipline you.

Come in, someone! Send the prince away to study his books!

Without my permission, don't allow him out.

Emperor, listen to your brother, It's not like that. Listen to me, It's not like that, Emperor!

Emperor, Listen to my explanation!

Emperor! EMPEROR!

Niang niang, it's time to eat.

I don't want to eat, tell them to take it away

Niang Niang, you still thinking about what happened?

this is too weird

Before, no one knew that I was going back to see my relatives.

But someone yet wrote a letter to Rong er telling me to go see the prince.

It clearly was set up.

But who was behind this?

Whoever that gets the benefit...that's who.

You're saying that it's, yu shu?

That's not possible. She said she was going to come send me quinine. It was emperor that caught her.

Niang Niang, you're too kind. You put the quinine in a box,

how can it be taken away?

Yu Shu wanted to get the attention of the emperor, so she set this up to ruin me.

And said that I had something up with the prince.

But she was in the palace...how did she get the letter out?

Niang Niang, did you forget? When I sent the quinine out, who was outside?

Li Wei was outside.

You mean that they helped one another?

No that can't be, yu shu isn't like this

Niang Niang, if you don't believe me, why don't we try them to see?

Try? How?

Li da ren, you're back

You came to greet me, what is it that you came here for?

Aiya, we're all friends. Come, sit!

For you, I made a new pot of long jing.

Here, try it out.

Look at this, look at this. I haven't slept well these days and my hand trembles!

Now I can't even take care of holding a cup

Are you alright? You didn't get burned? I'm fine.

Someone come in! Come, come! Take his clothes out to dry.

Yes!

Okay, okay.

Su Gong Gong, couldn't sleep lately...what for?

It's because of Xi Fei Niang Niang's situation.

I worked so hard every day...just for this day, you know?

And then I didn't even sit in my position long enough and

then the emperor's heart floated away. He floated away but what am I supposed to do with my life now?

I warned you before.

It's better to worry about more instead of only one. You didn't listen to me, now you're doomed.

Yeah, so I decided to invite you over so that I can apologize, right?

Official Li, I know that you have many ways to earn money.

Here...I'm a bit tight on hand.

How about you help me out?

Then I'll help you out. Help me out. Help me out.

Official Li, slow down.

Hey Official Li, slow down, slow down!

What is going on?

Isn't this Official Li. what is wrong with him?

I heard that he was drinking tea with Su Gong Gong when his old sickness took over.

He won't be able to live very long.

Heard he wants to met the king before he dies. Something about a very important secret...

that he wants to tell the king before his death, so that is why he in in the Qing gan palace

I want to go inside to light some incest.

Li wei.

Li Wei!

LI wei?

So it really is you.

You are also here?

Greetings Xi Fei Niang Niang.

When have I treated you wrong?

You haven't. You have always treated very well.

Why did you have to hurt me?

I didn't

Then where did your quinine come from?

The imperial hospital, the imperial hospital...

The imperial hospital doesn't even have it on their records!

I'll ask you again. You put the quinine in my box yet you sent it over with such a fake attitude.

Also, Li Wei's sick...why would you be here?

You can't speak now, can you?

I'll explain for you

You have always wanted to get close to the Emperor but you didn't have a chance.

You and Li Wei worked together but you were afraid Li Wei would betray you. So you came.

You should have some concious, yet in front of the ancestors, you dare say you never did it!

SAY IT!

That's right, I did all that, then what?

You thought you were so good to me. Didn't you just give me things after you used them?

I liked the Emperor; I wanted you to give me a chance.

And you, what did you do?

The palace isn't what you think it is.

I wanted you to marry well; asked the Emperor to give you a choice

You shouldn't have mentioned this. I'm even angrier now that you've mentioned this.

What right do you have? What right do you have to be with the emperor yet I have to be one of those minor people!

Think about it, and you'll understand. Maybe I'm more suitable to be in the palace than you.

Is that not so?

So that's what you thought...I didn't even see that.

I'm so stupid.

it's fine that you hurt me, but why did you have to hurt the prince?

Don't you know a life can be lost?

I can't worry about that much, Xi Fei Niang Niang.

I just wanted to get the Emperor's heart quickly.

What are you laughing at!

So many actions yet you don't take responsibility.

Thankfully, the emperor was behind this curtain and heard all of these words.

Otherwise, I'm not sure how I'll explain.

Emperor, Emperor, you must listen to my explanation.

You lied to me, you deliberately lied to me.

The tricks within the palace...it isn't that I don't know how to play. It's just that I don't want to!

If I really did call the emperor over, you won't even have the time to regret it.

You are very funny, I thought you were doing it for my benefit.

In reality, you didn't dare to ask the Emperor to come, right?

Because the feelings between you and the prince are real.

If it wasn't like that, even if I did so many evil things it wouldn't have caused a problem, would it?

Is that what you think?

Yes. That's exactly what I think.

Because the things you do, I can't help but think so.

From now on, we will each go on our own separate paths.

I want to see who laughs at the end.

Your guess was right. Everyone is on bad terms now.

We must all be cautious.

If you have the chance, warn the prince of Li Wei. I'm scared there wil be problems.

yes

How about we become sisters?

You do things more carefully than I do, if I mess up on anything, be sure to tell me.

If I have anything good, I'll be sure to think of you.

Is that good?

Greetings xi fei niang niang

Gu gu

you're still here?yeah

I've always been here. How great this place is...

to talk and chat, a day would be over so quickly.

Niang Niang

all of us in here want to go out

They don't know how cruel the outside is.

Friendship isn't as strong as you think.

Relatives, can't get in touch with them when you need them.

Love...filled with mistrust.

So living is painful,

we all think our positions are bad.

So we all work hard to chase after something different.

But once we chased it down, we find that it wasn't what we wanted.

Then what do we do?

Be satisfied and just stay happy.

Niang Niang, you say friendship is not strong.

Then I'll dare to say, Niang niang,

do you think that you treat your friends well?

Yes, very well. Then how does she treat you?

Not that well.

Niang niang, did you ever think that something you consider not so well,

for her, is already extremely good.

Everyone is different in portraying their emotions.

How people understand things is also different.

You can't use your standards to measure her's.

Actually, this is unfair for both of you.

You're right.

As for relatives and love, it's the same.

Ask your heart, are you willing to let go?

If you're not willing, then

why not change your perspective?

And change everything back to the way it was?

To listen to your words, is better than reading a thousand books.

I didn't come here for nothing tonight.

Gu gu, you stay in a place like this,

how do you have so many emotions?

This is my experience within the palace that brought me to this conclusion,

and also the reason why I continue to live with courage.

Niang Niang, actually you're luckier than me.

At least, you still have so many people who love you, hate you, and betray you.

Yet I...don't have any.

I don't have any.

These are brought in from Gao Li, ginseng cakes, not only does it taste amazing...but also strengthens the body.

When I first got it yesterday, I cherished it so that I didn't even eat it.

Today, I brought it out to share it with all of you officials.

If you like it, tell me at once.

Then I'll go grab some more.

Then thank you, Official Li.

Whenever you get good things, you think of us.

Official Li is the only person who is willing to share a lot of things.

Yes, yes, yes!

Willing to share, wiling to share, sharing can bring him good things too.

Official Zhang, you're amazing at jokes.

Even if I am willing to give away, am I not always under the watch of Official Li?

My eyes don't allow bits of sand.

However, to have these cakes, then I'll forget it.

Official Li is giving out food again?

But I never get a share.

It really makes one feel quite low.

Greetings prince!

Prince, your body has recovered completely?

Not completely.

I originally wanted to go into the palace to take care of some miscellaneous things.

But I smelled this fragrance and came.

Prince, you're of royalty. If you like these, then it's my honor!

Official Li, you're too polite.

Try it out.

Prince!

Prince! Prince!

Hurry and call for the doctor!

Li Wei, come out! Come out, Li Wei!

Come out, Li Wei!

Isn't this Guo Qing wang fu jin? (fu jin means wife of the prince) Greetings! Greetings!

Greetings my head! Look.

Look at what you've done to my prince!

Do you want us to live?

This is the prince's choice to eat the ginseng cake. I don't know how he became like this.

You don't know! You say it so easily!

Everyone that eats it is fine. But only my prince isn't?

I think you put poison in the cakes!

Fujin, you really mistaken me!

All those officials saw it, what misunderstanding?

I don't care. I am giving the care of Wang Ye over to you.

If anything happens to him before he gets better, you will be responsible for it.

If you want to prove your innocence, you had better take very good care of Wang Ye.

Let him come back healthy and strong.

Otherwise, you're under the crime of trying to assassinate a royal family member and you won't escape punishment.

I do dare to make a scene in front of the emperor and I'll make sure you're one of the sacrificial people of his death!

Fine, fine, fine, Bring him in, bring him in.

What is this?

This Guo Qing Wang fu jin is really smart.

You see, once she makes a scene, then Li Wei

wouldn't dare do anything to the prince.

And he'll have to take good care of him. If anything happens, he's in charge.

The day when we were chosen by talent,

I could tell that she wasn't an ordinary person.

For her to be able to be with the prince, was a fate arranged by the heavens.

I am at rest.

how is the emperor?

Like he's purposely doing it to show someone...

We should find a way to get rid of this bump in his heart.

I'm scared that he won't be able to open up as time passes.

niang niang, bad news

What is it? Reporting to niang niang, the Yun Ping Niang Niang who was injured committed suicide.

Did she die?

She was saved, but she is throwing a fit right now, and no one can talk to her.

don't be like thisniang niang, let me die, let go!yun ping niang niang

What is this for?

Better than death,

how about just continue living refusing to die.

But my face is ruined like this.

How do I live on?

How do I live on?

People living on this world don't need to make looks the reason for living.

A lot of times, it depends on our own capability.

Think about it, you didn't complete many things and you have many people that you want to see.

Want to see?

I...I want to ask her...

No one would believe me.

do you know

who i am?yun ping niang niang

if i told you, i wasn't

would you believe me?

you're not?

Long time ago,

there was a government official and a teahouse girl who fell in love.

They bore twin daughters.

But the wife of that official had a lot of capability,

she didn't allow them to make contact

and didn't let the official see his daughters.

After a long time, they both lost touch,

till one day,

Hai Tang, Mu Dan.

This is your father.

Father?

I lived with my mother for all these years, I never saw my father.

Now there he is...that's so strange, isn't it?

Mudan! We should be fillial for they may have had their own situations.

Listen to our mother talk.

This time you came to take them away?

Do you two want to come with me with the chance of becoming a phoenix?

I don't want to.

You two in terms of looks and talents...it's hard to tell the difference.

You're both my daughters and I don't want to favor any.

So let's just do it by chance.

Who ever picks the longer one will lead this life.

Come,

I'll go first, I'll go first.

I got it! I got it!

Mine is the long one! Mine is the long one!

Sister, Congratulations.

What are you trying to do?

They are trying to find someone new for the selection.

My wife doesn't want to send our daughter into the palace.

But our family is well-known and we must go,

so I thought of these two.

It'll count as me taking some responsibility as a father.

I thought that you finally got a conscience.

But now I see that you are without a conscience and you're pushing your daughter into a fire pit!

I won't let you take our daughter away.

What do you mean fire pit? It's the royal palace!

You'll get a lifetime of wealth and high status!

It's half good and half bad, if you're not cautious, your life would be gone!

You don't make your daughter go...

yet you come and try to take my daughter!

I won't agree to this.

That's not up to you to decide.

Let's go!

Hai Tang! Though I am a teahouse girl,

but throughout these years, I've been devoted to you and loved you.

They are still so young.

How can you have the heart to do this?

I would rather them stay in this tea house!

I don't want them to go to the palace!

I just want them to live peacefully,

I beg you!

Mother, don't beg him.

I won't say the final word. I won't say it.

Let them decide for themselves. If they want to come, then come...if they don't

then that's just life.

Hai Tang!

Mother, I want to gamble a bit.

I don't believe that Hai Tang, myself,

will have to live forever in this little courtyard.

Mother, for raising me and taking care of me,

I will repay you in the next life!

Hai Tang! Sister! Sister!

Just like this, my sister got into the palace.

I stayed in the tea house and became a tea house girl.

Later on, my mother passed away.

I was voted as the prettiest girl there.

I constantly thought,

when would my sister call me to the palace so that I could live a good life also.

Then on that day, she sent someone to send me a letter.

She asked me to come to the palace to save her.

So I went inside the palace and

yet I can only stay in the Cold Palace.

And be in the place of a dead ghost.

You're not Yun Ping niang niang.

Look, you don't believe it also, right?

It's alright.

I know no one would believe me.

I just want to ask my sister,

what happened?

Did she even care about me,

her little sister?

I believe you.

You believe me? I believe you.

Your eyes don't show Yun Ping's sharpness and her conflicts.

Your eyes are very soft,

like a pool of water,

like you don't care about the surroundings at all.

You just care about that little bit of emotion.

Then are you willing to help me?

Of course.

But right now, I...

have suffered a huge misunderstanding.

The emperor refuses to see me and

he refuses to listen to my explanation.

I'm scared that I have heart but no power.

Does the emperor love you?

He treated me very well, very well.

Our usual connection is like a normal husband and wife relationship.

As long as he loves you, then you can always turn his heart back.

You know what the biggest strength of a teahouse girl is?

It's to read the heart. Read the heart?

Yes, if you can guess what they are thinking then you can make a good judgement.

Wouldn't it be too fake?

If you have another goal in mind, then it's definitely fake.

But if it's for love,

then it's different.

The connection between man and woman is that both are clear-headed and understanding of one another.

Misunderstandings that produce conflicts, will ruin a beautiful relationship.

If you can guess what he feels and thinks, and follow on that,

then you're relationship will be strong and last long.

Makes sense!

Niang niang, I'll teach you to read the heart. You help me find my sister, okay?

The expressions of people can tell you a lot of what they think,

for normal people, when they are annoyed,

their lips are curled up, eyebrows down, and eyes are squinted.

If he sees you and has that expression, then that means

you don't have much hope. It'll be best to quickly leave.

So, if the situation is what you say it is,

then he would appear quite sad.

Greetings Your Majesty.