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The Story of Ming Lan

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Episode 73 - FINAL EPISODE

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Quickly, shot that side!

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Quickly attack! Hurry!

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The front gates can't be blocked any longer.

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Hurry, Second Tu, take Madam to withdraw from the back gates! I'll take care of your rear! Hurry!

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Madam, quickly leave!

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Madam, quickly leave!

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Why did you come so late?!

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You...why did you come so late?!

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I've let you suffer.

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Why did you come so late?

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Making such a huge scene...

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Is it fun?

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You...

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Fun your ass!

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Yes, I came late.

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I've caused you to suffer.

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Marquis Gu is back!

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Marquis Gu is back!

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Marquis Gu isn't dead! Marquis Gu is back!

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You... If you dare lie to me again,

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I'll then...write you a divorce letter.

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I dare not. I dare not.

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I dare not lie to you even by a word again.

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You even say that I'm a fox. You're the ancestor of the fox!

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I am. I am indeed your ancestor.

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Your ancestor!

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Your fox ancestor can't stay here any longer.

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I must go to the palace to save the emperor.

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I'll wait for your return.

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I'll wait for your return.

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Jingli!

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Guard the courtyard well! Ensure my wife's safety!

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Yes, Marquis, don't worry.

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Take good care of her.

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Back!

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Storm!

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Back!

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Empress Dowager isn't coming anymore?

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Empress Dowager told me to relay this message as she said it.

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She said that you can decide on your own.

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An old widow like her will agree to any of it.

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Okay. Okay. It means that Empress Dowager

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is letting you handle the empire. This is a good thing.

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We have a problem!

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Sir!

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- Sir!

- What is it?

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Gu...Gu Tingye is charging towards here!

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Who?!

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Gu Tingye has resurrected!

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Charge!

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Hurry.

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Shitou!

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Marquis is back!

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Marquis is back!

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- Marquis is back?!

- Rong'er, come quickly!

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Marquis is back!

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- It's a reunion! Quickly go! Hurry!

- It's a reunion!

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Get out. Be careful. Nanny.

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Your Majesty.

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Royal Father.

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Arrest him!

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You...

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You...

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You all...

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You are the trusted aide of the former emperor.

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I initially hoped that you would treat me like how you served the former emperor.

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You disappointed me.

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You're not the former emperor.

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The former emperor is so pitiful.

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How come he didn't have any children of his own

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- to inherit this empire?

- What's going on?

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Weren't you supposed to be dead within those pile of sand?!

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You wish.

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Empress Dowager... She said that...

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- She said that—

- Empress Dowager said

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that I am immoral and incapable. I should be deposed and replaced.

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The one replacing me is your son, Zhao Yong.

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Yong'er...he is also your son.

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Did Empress Dowager say even a word of those to you?

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She said so!

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She said that you broke faith and abandon the right! That you disobeyed the former emperor!

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Since it was Empress Dowager who instigated you,

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let's go ask her then.

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If she didn't say it, my Noble Consort,

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this is a crime worthy of clan execution.

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Empress Dowager said it. She said it!

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She indeed said it!

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- She said it! I dare not lie!

- Your Highness!

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Empress Dowager indeed said so!

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Your Highness!

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I won't meddle in your family matters anymore.

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- My courtyard suffered a lot of damages. I must go handle it now.

- Your Highness, save me!

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Go.

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Get me my Drunk Immortal wine.

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Quickly go.

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Your Highness,

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even if he holds a knife on your neck,

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there's still a chance to survive.

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Moreover, it still hasn't reached that last moment.

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To have the power to rule the world,

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you must have an army and money.

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I don't have both.

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I was stupid to think

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that just by sending away the trusted aides and fighting generals of the emperor,

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and then winning over some old supporters of the former emperor to my side,

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and putting the brother-in-law of Noble Consort Liu

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as leader of the Jin Imperial Army, I then can put my everything to fight them.

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Now, I've fallen into their trap.

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They all have set up everything beforehand.

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How can I still have a chance to survive?

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Your Highness.

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Your Highness, as the empress dowager, you naturally have the power to depose and install a new emperor.

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Emperor, he...dare not hurt you.

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Did you not prepare the Drunk Immortal for me?

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Your Highness has never predicted things wrongly.

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Why would you need to use the Drunk Immortal?

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I know that you care for me.

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But without such a good poison,

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I fear that I won't be able to preserve a whole corpse.

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Your Highness Empress Dowager, you're wrong.

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Your Highness, do you hate His Majesty that much,

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that you must have him killed?

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Yes.

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He was adopted by the former emperor

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for him to be qualified to inherit the throne.

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But after ascending to the throne, he called his birth father as Royal Father.

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Despicable and shameless.

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Let me ask you, is there any son in this world who has two fathers?

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In what position have you put the former emperor by doing that?!

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The former emperor has a very benevolent and generous character.

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He maintained the empire's peace for more than 30 years.

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Upon ascending to the throne, you immediately disobeyed his will.

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You recruited soldiers and horses. Intending to

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provoke our borders.

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I was married with the former emperor for more than 50 years!

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The former emperor has just died in less than a year!

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I had to watch as you

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destroy the situation he established into broken bits.

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Can't I hate him then?!

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Hence,

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Empress Dowager, you want to depose me?

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Have I said those words?

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I've never heard of it. But I did tell Noble Consort Liu

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to be careful of what's under her feet.

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Then it means, the one who wants to depose the emperor

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is Noble Consort Liu.

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I indeed is preparing to fight a war.

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It's just that right now, there are now battle in our borders.

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What?

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What you saw is just part of a scheme.

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Eunuch Li has stayed by my side

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and would tell you everything that's happening.

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You refused to withdraw from power.

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You even controlled the jade seal.

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I attended morning courts like a three year-old child, unable to entertain my grand ambitions.

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From the start...

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From the very start, Marquis Gu

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pretended to be be overbearing.

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You also pretended to doubt him.

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Marquis Gu was in straitened circumstances, yet he was able to survive it, why is that?

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Because he might look very rough and careless, but in reality, is the most meticulous person I know.

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As for Prince Huan, for such an ambitious good child,

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I am very satisfied with him.

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You let Eunuch Li and Noble Consort Liu

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exchange fake information in between.

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Confusing my sight and hearing.

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You made me falsely believe that you were doubting your eldest son and valiant general.

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So, you also don't have a headache?

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That is to make you and Noble Consort Liu think that I won't be living long.

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That Prince Huan would soon be inheriting the throne, hence, you all must make a move quickly.

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The government has so many problems right now.

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I really don't have the time to continue this act for 7 to 8 more years.

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The prey has already reached the side of the trap.

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You just need to push it a little, and it will fall into your net.

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Hence, there wasn't also any fighting happening in the borders.

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I dispatched my elite forces

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and had Marquis Gu and General Shen lead them to lie in wait outside the city.

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Just to fool your eyes and ears,

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Duke Ying of the State indeed went to the borders.

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After setting up camp in the borders,

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I waited after your spies sent out its last message,

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and then captured all of them.

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I've always thought that you're not qualified to be an emperor.

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But today, you actually planned it in such meticulous manner.

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You impressed me a lot.

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I weaved a web.

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But if you didn't bump into it,

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this act would have been useless.

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However, in the end, you still collided into it.

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I...

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I feel so sad about it.

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Your Majesty had a resounding victory.

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Why bother being pretentious.

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Whether it's through poisoned wine,

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or a white cloth for hanging,

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just choose one.

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Empress Dowager,

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we became mother and son at such late age.

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We surely wouldn't have the relationship of a real mother-and-child.

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You couldn't be at ease with me, I also worry about you.

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We are like mutually fumbling each other in the dark.

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Doubting each other.

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We both committed a mistake.

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So it means,

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I should be thanking you

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and should be writing a confession decree then.

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Your Majesty, just hopes that Your Highness

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can move outside the palace to live.

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You...

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...are not executing me?

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I wanted to unify my power,

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not really to fight with you.

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It's just that the children have long made calculations

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for this undertaking of our ancestors, for the whole empire.

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You... You entered my palace wearing an armor.

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Did you come to kill me?

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Grandmother, the government now is flourishing and we're receiving abundant revenues.

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All of these the achievements of the former emperor's 30 years of doing every effort to make the country prosperous.

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That's why, we're able to use a mutual trading market to control our borders.

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But people can never have good days forever. A flower can never be red forever.

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If the government show any decline, the people at our borders will immediately attack.

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If at that time, the 16 regions of Yanyun are still in their hands,

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our empire will then just be at their mercy.

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Hence, I want to use this great opportunity to take back our lost cities.

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Recreate the defense of our borders and give our empire a place to raise horses,

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a place where we can guard our cities.

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After seeing him,

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I finally felt how old I really am.

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It is indeed time to go out the city to retire.

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Be careful.

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- Have you added water in the jars above?

- We did. We did.

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How come the activities outside

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is diminishing?

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Maybe, Empress Dowager has stabilized the situation.

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The activities then won't be as huge as earlier anymore.

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That team who went to the adjacent courtyard

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to capture the family of an official

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is also not making anymore noises.

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Then, it must be after capturing that concubine daughter,

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they've already returned to the palace to report the completion of their mission.

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They didn't really capture our people.

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Why then would they give us any feedback?

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Yes.

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- Mother! Mother!

- Right.

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- Mother!

- Third Young Master.

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Second Brother isn't dead. He's not dead!

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What?

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I went out to help put out the fire earlier. I heard people saying that they saw him and State Uncle Shen

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going into the palace to put out the fire and pacify the rebellion.

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Big Madam.

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There are no war in the borders.

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They didn't go far.

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- Right.

- There really wasn't any revolt in the borders!

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- Mo-mother.

- Grand Madam.

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Mother, you...

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No, mother.

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Big Madam.

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You scoundrel!

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You're not good in either literary or fighting skills.

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I tried planning your entire future,

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yet you're a person that can never be successful!

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There House of Bai,

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a lowly family like that,

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was able to produce a son like Gu Tingye.

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My House of Dongchuang, which was an illustrious and aristocratic family,

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instead give birth to someone like you.

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You're my son! My son!

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I spent all my blood and sweat for your sake!

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Son!

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Grand Madam! Grand Madam!

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Mother, mother, I also told you that Second Brother is a great man.

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It wasn't me who told you to go against him.

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Moreover, I didn't ask you to plan anything for me.

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Third Young Master, talk less.

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Servant!

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Tie up this rotten mud

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that won't stick on the wall! (inept person)

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- Grand Madam.

- Mother, you're really going to cane me?

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Servant! Tie him up!

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- Grand Madam, you mustn't do so! Grand Madam!

- Mother!

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I'll...

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I'll throw him into this well!

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Right! You go reflect.

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Go reflect on how stupid you are!

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- Grand Madam!

- Mother!

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Servants!

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Tie him up!

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- You mustn't!

- Mother, are you crazy?

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You...are going to push me down the well? Are you trying to kill me, mother?

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- Throw him down!

- You dare?!

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Although that's a dried up well, it's quite deep.

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Third Young Master might get gravely injured from the fall.

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He's a person of the House of Gu.

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Whether he gets badly injured from the fall has nothing to do with me.

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Mother! Mother!

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Nanny Xiang! Nanny Xiang!

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- Big Madam!

- His surname is Gu!

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But...he's your real born, Grand Madam!

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This mustn't be done! You mustn't do this! Third Young Master!

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Third Young Master!

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Luscious branches of the same roots.

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Affection like that of real brothers.

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Filial piety and fraternal duty. Be loyal and contribute achievements to the world and the palace.

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Maintain the clan shade forever!

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Here. It's originally a dried up well that we were just too lazy to seal.

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I'm unable to move this rock.

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- Shitou!

- Yes.

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Come.

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Third Young Master!

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Second Brother, save me and get me out of here!

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Third Young Master! Third Young Master!

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- Third Young Master!

- Tingwei.

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Second Brother, I thought I would never see you again.

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Are you alright?

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- Does it hurt?

- It's so painful!

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So useless.

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Second Young Master.

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That ancestral hall...

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Shitou, weren't all the enemies already been cleared? How come there's still fire over there?

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Grand Madam... She went towards the direction of the ancestral hall!

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Mother...

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Second Young Master.

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Third Young Master.

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- Slow down. Slow down. Third Young Master.

- Mother!

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Mother!

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- Mother! Mother!

- You...

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Mother, come out here!

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- Tingwei!

- Shitou! Get back! Get back!

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I told you to reflect on your actions! Why did you come out on your own?!

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Gu Tingye!

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You're still alive.

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You're the one who should be going to the southern opera to perform!

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This marquis manor is a blood sucking nest of devils!

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My older sister was a very kind person!

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Mother!

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Second Brother has allowed me to inherit the marquis title tomorrow!

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Just for self preservation,

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they married a lady from the House of Bai!

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Even bearing a child with him!

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Just pushing her back to the back of his mind!

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You destroyed the House of Bai, destroyed my older sister,

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and now want to destroy me!

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I'll inherit the marquis title tomorrow! Come out!

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I acted all my life in this huge mansion.

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I'm like a maggot in a sewer!

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I didn't live like myself for just a day...

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Mother-in-law! Mother-in-law, don't be narrow minded! Come out here!

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- Come back here, Third Young Master!

- Mother! Mother!

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It would have been more satisfying to have just lived in a brothel!

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Miss!

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At this moment, I'm going to return to being me.

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Miss!

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[ Gu Family Ancestral Hall ]

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- Kill them!

- Father!

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- Kill them!

- Father!

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Father! Father!

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Kill him! Kill him! Kill them!

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- Father!

- Kill them!

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Beat him to death!

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Busy in harvesting grains,

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and planting the seedlings.

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After all, there are less years of good harvest, and more years of bad ones.

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The hardships of a farmer is unavoidable.

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Your Majesty.

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You're here.

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Extend your hands.

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Look. Here.

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Your Majesty, think about it. You're granting me such a little bit only

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and already driving me away. Aren't you being too petty?

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You macaque is being too mischievous.

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This can feed everyone a full meal.

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It's the world's greatest treasure.

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Yes.

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Come. Come. Let me taste it.

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A treasure!

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Little Yong'er, come.

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Let us play with this. Come here.

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Look at what this is.

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Come to grandmother. Here, for you.

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That... Don't touch that. Quickly come over here.

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Your Highness, His Majesty sent you some newly harvested wheat.

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It's already the season to harvest wheat?

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Yes.

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It's the season to harvest wheat.

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Your Highness, His Majesty asked me

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if your health has been good lately.

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He asked if you're eating properly.

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He heard that you want to eat some iced curdled milk,

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so he especially had some sent here. I've already ordered the kitchen to prepare them.

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He's really considerate.

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Sweet.

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The wheat this year is larger than last year.

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It's also sweeter than last year.

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It's getting better every year.

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We should just follow the mandate of the heaven.

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Your Highness, I wish you great health!

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Yong'er, come! Come to my side! Come!

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Come here to play!

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Quickly throw him here.

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Come.

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You're very good.

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I'm not.

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I'm not good at all.

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Since I was little,

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my family has hoped that I'll achieve something.

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My parents

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doted me so much.

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They exerted all efforts and exhausted all intellect for my sake.

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Hence, even though I admire Second Brother a lot,

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but...

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I...can't really go all out like him,

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even to the point of putting my family on the line.

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If you don't want to talk, then let's not talk.

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Thank you.

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Thank you for trusting me. Trusting that I don't have any ill-intention.

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I believe you are an honest man.

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Just a few nonsensical words and deceived over.

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And acting like nothing's happened.

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That's not something you've ever done.

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What's happened?

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That day when I went to go rescue the fire, under the blaze,

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I saw Second Uncle and Sixth Sister.

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So loving and I suddenly understood.

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Understand what?

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I understood why Second Uncle said,

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that I will have a different world.

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And you are that world.

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Let us live our lives well from now on.

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What I owe you before.

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I will amend them all.

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But you're wrong.

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You never owed me.

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No matter the ups and downs of the capital.

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Let us live well.

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So you mean, you knew about this all along from the start?

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How can they let me know it all? They fooled me from the start.

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Just that later, when I fainted at the grievance drum,

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the empress was worried that I really suffered too much heartache after giving birth,

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so she escorted me into the palace to tell me the truth.

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If you want your beloved husband to be promoted and conferred nobility title.

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You must let him accompany His Majesty,

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to finish this play.

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Play?

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Doesn't Gu Marquis often, be it at home or outside,

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speak some wild words without restraint?

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In the palace, we've heard each of those words.

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My husband is an unabashed coarse man.

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The words he spoke while going about on horse and shooting arrows.

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They were all foolish and clumsy words.

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May you never take them seriously.

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Your husband nearly placed first on the imperial exam.

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In battlefields, he is most thorough.

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How is he foolish and clumsy?

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Each word he spoke,

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was already, in advance, with His Majesty,

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agreed upon in the palace.

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Younger Qin brought in and instigated Kang-Wang's killing of me.

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And she urged Old Madam Wang to beg Empress Dowager.

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Wanting to cut off His Majesty's right and left arms.

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His Majesty took the opportunity to go along to lure the snake out of the hole.

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So all those wild talks to you spoke on Imperial Road.

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Such as exhausting the bird . . .

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That was all acting?

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If I am not sad and I'm not in pain,

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and I don't let the entire Bianjing population to know that I've gone mad from my sorrow,

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then Young Qin and Grand Highness wouldn't believe my marquis

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is really hopeless.

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Gu Marquis, that rascal, is really too outrageous.

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Such a big matter and he didn't even tell his pillow mate.

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He made you suffer this huge turmoil right after giving birth.

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If you end up with some ailment later on,

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it's all to blame on that scoundrel.

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He apologized to me for a long time too.

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But matters of the royal court are matters of the world.

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He kept it from me but I can understand it.

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Fine then.

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In the future, we only have good days to come.

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Don't worry, Father.

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After passing this calamity,

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our whole family can be safe and sound,

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and we'll wait for Big Madam to be escorted back from the old home in Youyang.

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And our family will be united again.

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Do you want the little tiger?

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I don't want it.

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How about this? The little tiger?

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No.

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Raise that board higher.

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Yes, higher.

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Gu Clan Family Shrine

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Fourth Miss!

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Big Madam knew you came so she sent me to welcome you.

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I didn't think your big madam would invite me too.

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You are from her maiden home so of course you need to come.

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Please come in.

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Big Madam, Fourth Miss is here.

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Almost time to eat.

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Is it straight?

- It's straight.

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Look inside, is if it's tight.

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Left side. It's sticking up a bit.

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Dad.

- Slower.

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Big Madam.

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Don't let it hit you. How is it?

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Big Madam, Fourth Miss is here.

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Fourth Sister is here. If you come late, the fried squid would be gone.

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Yes. I can smell the fragrance of food.

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Fourth Girl is here too?

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Greetings to Grandmother.

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Did you also hear

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that I cooked personally today?

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So you came to try my cooking too?

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The banquet's set up in the flower hall.

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Everyone, please come to the flower hall to dine.

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Alright.

- Master Tuan.

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Grandmother, I'll escort you there.

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Oh my, this little Tuan.

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Little Tuan.

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Slower.

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Wife!

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Slower.

- You slower.

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Let me tell you. Release Xiaotao so she can rest up.

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Or this Shitou, everyday,

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he's so careful like he's lost his soul.

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This way. Slower, my Little Shitou.

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Look! Look at him. He doesn't even know which door to go.

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Don't let me rest anymore, Marquis. I've gone mad from boredom at home.

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I just want to spend the days with Big Madam joking and talking.

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Go eat.

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Not everyone cares about your care.

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As long as you care about my care.

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The young duke. He's not even back yet.

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But the report on Xinan tea tax is already here.

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Prime Minister Han is looking around everywhere lately to ask about the details.

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What do you think, Father?

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Just rest for a day and nothing will happen to the royal court.

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It's true. You haven't had enough of inquisition from Lord Han?

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Not just that. Prime Minister Han asked me to come lately

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and he asked me personally about raising horses.

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Your brother didn't go to the ranch anymore?

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Our sixth brother-in-law. He took out all His Majesty's badges forbidding miscellaneous personnel from entrance to palace.

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His brother can still dare to go?

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Such ruckus in the shrine.

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Quite disrespectful.

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It's true. This is life.

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I just love this kind of easy quiet life.

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It's best if nothing happens at all.

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Don't worry, Wife.

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I will stand guard outside holding a sword.

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Even if the sky collapses, I will have you eat a meal safe and quietly.

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Fine. Let's eat.

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Wife.

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Careful of the steps.

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T/N In the following song, "Don't You Know, Don't You Know?", Lines 5 to the end are the poem by Li Qingzhao, a famous female poet of the Song Dynasty, the poem is titled "Spring Ends".

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♫One morning, a flower opened and approached a willow tree,

beautifully fragrant and mistaking him for her lord♫

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♫Even if drinking in water in the morning, red clouds have half a day of sunshine,

the wind and rain do not affect them completely♫

560

♫In the palace, you are constantly brave and growing thin,

from on high, your cold tears of distress flow♫

561

♫Brocade letters delivered to me dismiss me, only suddenly to recall me,

not for many years can I see you other than stealthily♫

562

♫Last night, gusty winds and rain

during my deep slumber did not spoil the wine's lingering effect♫

563

♫When I asked someone, they rolled the blind up

and told me that all the crab-apple trees are as before.♫

564

♫Don't you know, don't you know,

there must be flourishing leaves and fallen flowers?♫

565

♫Last night, gusty winds and rain

during my deep slumber did not spoil the wine's lingering effect♫

566

♫When I asked someone, they rolled the blind up

and told me that all the crab-apple trees are as before.♫

567

♫Don't you know, don't you know,

there must be flourishing leaves and fallen flowers?♫

568

♫Don't you know, don't you know,

there must be flourishing leaves and fallen flowers?♫