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♫Still waiting, for news to be picked up like flying sand,♫

Timing and Translation provided by the Tang Yamen Team at viki.com

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♫Flourishing and falling like a burden, from the other side of the world.♫

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♫Seeing your silhouette, suffering and drowning in the dark,♫

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♫Memories rise of mistakes, being unable to hold onto your hand.♫

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♫Still as many times as I try to separate, to not openly mistake,♫

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♫Being afraid I will entirely doubt myself.♫

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♫Don't tell me that feelings engraved in one's heart and carved in one's bones♫

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♫Are not real and true.♫

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♫Still how many words I've spoken haven't explained,♫

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♫I want to give you so many more experiences and things replaced.♫

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♫No matter how I act, no matter how many mistakes I make,♫

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♫All along, I have not departed and gone over,♫

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♫I'm truly waiting for you.♫

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♫Still as many times as I try to separate, to not openly mistake,♫

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♫Having never forgotten you, being dedicated to you.♫

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♫Possessing feelings engraved in one's heart and carved in one's bones♫

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♫All real and true.♫

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♫Still how many words I've spoken haven't explained,♫

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♫Many thoughts I should untie love with you, being truly desolate.♫

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♫Wanting to know why don't I break free, demanding I bravely, quickly overcome,♫

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An Oriental Odyssey

♫I am truly moved.♫

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Episode 35

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Your Highness, please forgive us.

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Your timing is perfect.

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I've made it very clear that

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it's either getting back the Divine Bead or losing your lives.

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But I have underestimated you,

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who maneged to talk the Emperor into asking a favor for you.

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Your Highness, if I had known beforehand that the Divine Bead was coveted,

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I would sacrifice everything, my own life included,

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to guard it for Your Highness.

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But this time, the loss of it

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really had nothing to do with us.

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Please do us justice, Your Highness.

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The Divine Bead is lost

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because of Zhao Lanzhi' s neglect of his duty.

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Since he is married to Minghui,

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you should all be held responsible.

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How dare you to insist that you're innocent?

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Your Highness, I am innocent.

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So is Minghui.

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Since they were married,

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they have been a nominal couple.

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In reality, they are estranged.

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Your Highness, please do justice for Minghui.

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I see.

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You have come here today

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to ask a favor for the Prince Yu' s Mansion.

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But that doesn't include Zhao Lanzhi.

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Rather, you intend to dissociate with him from now on.

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Am I right?

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Minghui, Her Highness is asking you. Why are you silent?

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Tell Her Highness in detail about Zhao Lanzhi' s cruel indifference to you.

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Say something.

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Minghui, is what your brother said true?

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Your Highness, what my brother said is indeed the truth.

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Since we were married, we've never performed any marital deeds,

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just like a couple of strangers.

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So you regret.

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Your were so determined back then,

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begging me to force Zhao Lanzhi away from Ye Yuan' an,

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so that you could marry him.

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But now you regret it,

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and you want to leave him, is this the case?

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Your Highness, I've realized that I made a mistake.

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I thought that as long as we were married,

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I would be happy.

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However, I was too naive.

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Your Highness, I was wrong.

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I should have followed your advice.

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That is rare.

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The proud Princess Minghui admits she has made a mistake.

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Fine. Prince Yu does have a point.

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If Zhao Lanzhi had not been forced into this marriage,

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you would have had nothing to do with the mess now.

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Now even the Emperor is asking a favor for you,

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I announce that the titles of Prince Yu' Mansion

and Princess Minghui are restored.

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Thank Your Highness.

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Your Highness, I don't want to reclaim my title.

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I want to ask a favor for Zhao Lanzhi.

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Minghui, are you insane?

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Her Highness is giving back our titles.

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You should accept it and be grateful.

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I'm perfectly sober.

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I don't want to reclaim my title,

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neither do I wish to be a Princess.

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All I ask is for Your Highness to let Zhao Lanzhi

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return to Court of Judicature and Revision.

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Your Highness, please!

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Minghui, are you sure about this?

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You insisted to marry Zhao Lanzhi against all odds.

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And despite what had happened,

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you are still willing to protect him at the cost of your title?

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It was my fault to force him to marry me.

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It is also my idea to ask a favor for him.

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He has nothing to do with this.

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What do you take the court for?

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A place for childish play?

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A place where you could get whatever you want?

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Fine.

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To give Zhan Lanzhi his job back

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is not impossible at all.

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But you have to stand in the Xuanwu Pond for six hours.

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Your Highness, please show some mercy.

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The water of Xuanwu Pond is freezing cold all year round.

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Being a fragile maiden,

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Minghui could never take it.

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I'll do it, your Highness.

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Take care of yourself.

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You can all leave now.

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Mei Niang,

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I know that I have agreed to put it into your full charge,

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but do you think that the punishment is too severe?

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Your Highness, I got the meaning of the painting you gave me.

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However, with the Divine Bead still missing,

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it is really hard for me to totally forgive them.

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What' s more, your Highness must have heard it just now.

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Minghui is really willing to do everything for Zhao Lanzhi.

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I really hope that the chilly water of Xuanwu Pond could cool her down.

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Zhao Lanzhi! Zhao Lanzhi!

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Prince.

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Now be honest with me.

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What spell on earth have you casted on my sister?

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Prince, you' re confusing me.

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We finally succeeded to talk the Emperor into asking a favor for us to the Empress.

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So she agreed to restore our titles.

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And Minghui admitted her mistake too.

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However, things took a sharp turn,

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Goodness, the water of Xuanwu Pond is drawn directly from the underground.

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It chills me even from such a distance.

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Has she lost her mind?

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You don't know yet?

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She is Princess Minghui.

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In order to ask a favor for Sir Zhao Lanzhi,

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she is willing to suffer this punishment.

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Her love for him is so touching.

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What?

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Sir Zhao.

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Princess, you're a smart maiden.

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Why are you being so stupid now?

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I'm not being stupid.

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It' hot. Her Highness asked me to cool myself down here

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for my sake.

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You don't have to do this for me.

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Zhao Lanzhi. You always think too much of yourself.

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I'm standing here because it's comfortable.

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- It's my business. Leave me alone.

- Let's go.

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Let go of me! This is Her Highness' order.

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Are you gonna disobey it?

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I'll take the blame of disobedience for you. Go!

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Let go of me! I said it's my business!

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You can disobey the royal order.

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But you can't take me and the whole Prince Yu' s Mansion with you.

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I can't afford to commit this clan-implicated crime.

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Let me go!

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I know you're doing this for me.

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But if getting back my job means you losing your health,

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I'd rather stay unemployed.

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Again, it's my choice.

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It has nothing to do with you.

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The Empress only punished you because the Divine Beads were stolen.

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How can it have nothing to do with me?

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Do you think that standing here would solve the problem?

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Of course not.

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I just decide that

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I would take any chance, however impossible they may appear.

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I don't want to see you blame yourself like that anymore.

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The Empress was right.

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I do need to cool down.

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The chill here might damp down my affection towards you.

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What are you doing?

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You're being punished because of me.

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Since I couldn't persuade you,

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I'll suffer it with you.

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Your Highness want to ask a favor for them again?

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Mei Niang,

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I feel that I'm getting older these days.

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The old memories keep coming back to me.

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Seeing them there,

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I couldn't help but think of us in the past.

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Do you still remember?

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Just in order to look at you from a distance,

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In a chilly February,

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I got all wet in a heavy rain.

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Because I had to keep our appointment.

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Only true love has such magic power.

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I appreciate Your Highness' kindness.

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I have told Minghui that

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lasting romance must result from equal affection.

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One can never force it upon another.

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She refused to listen and married the wrong guy,

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so it's good for her to learn a lesson like this.

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To suffer and learn a lesson,

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she doesn't need your help.

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Zhao Lanzhi alone is more than enough.

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It seems that Your Majesty is determined to help them.

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Mei Niang, you're so determined to get the Divine Beads back.

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Then you should be aware that fate and karma count a lot in this mission.

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Practice good deeds,

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and forgive those who conducted misdeeds,

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you may have it back.

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The Empress has ordered that you two go back home as soon as possible.

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The title of Princess Minghui is restored.

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Zhao can still work in the Court of Judicature and Revision,

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assisting the investigation

and his performance will be closely watched.

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Yes, Her Highness.

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Princess, Princess.

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Princess, Princess!

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Cold current has long stagnated inside Princess.

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Now it's getting worse because of the coldness.

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I have subscribed some medicines that help warm up the body.

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Please remind the Princess to take them on time.

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Thank you, doctor.

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This is pear cream, very sweet.

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Never heard of it.

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I was afraid of the bitterness of medicine,

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so my mom would feed me it when I was a kid.

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I appreciate your kind intention.

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But please don't do it ever again.

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I' m not worth it.

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That is not up to you.

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The Prince has talked with me.

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And what did he tell you?

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He said that you admitted your mistakes,

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but then things took a sharp turn.

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Would you tell me why you changed your mind so suddenly?

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It' s who I am,

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changing mind in a wink of the eye.

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I just do whatever pleases me.

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We've been married for a long time,

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but never had a sincere conversation.

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It's true. I didn't dare to disobey the Empress' order.

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But I also couldn't act like nothing has happened and accept it.

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But, I've been cold to you,

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why did you ask the favor for me

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at the cost of your life in front of the Empress?

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I know that I' m a bad woman in your mind.

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I know, I'm selfish and unscrupulous to get what I want.

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But at the same time, I'm also an ordinary girl.

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I care about some things and some people.

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I care about Prince Yu' s Mansion.

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And now, you too.

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I know that you care about Yuan' an,

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and that she' s loyal and of integrity.

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Indeed, Yuan' an has done much for you.

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But Zhao Lanzhi, I want you to know that

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I can do what she has done

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and I can do more and better.

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Do you believe me?

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I do.

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I know you have done much for me.

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But I don't like the way you did it.

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We were supposed to be good friends who share everything with each other.

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But so much has happened,

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and now there's a gap between us.

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Even though we're married,

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I can't convince myself that everything is fine now.

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Leave.

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The only man I desire to marry doesn' t love me.

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I have managed to be his wife, yet I couldn't get him to love me.

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Do you think I'm pathetic?

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I've given it some thought.

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Try as I may, I can never change your mind.

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So there's no point in keeping swallowing my pride to please you.

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You are free now.

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Just leave. I need to be alone now.

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My head hurts.

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♫ Beautiful but at a loss of mind,♫

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♫ I hope I can either forget or look back. ♫

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♫ Scooping the snows and lamenting the short romance. ♫

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♫ Love is melting sadness and everlasting beauty. ♫

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♫ The spring has gone and the winter comes. ♫

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♫ I hide my feeling from my face but cherish it in heart. ♫

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♫ We cannot escape the staring of reunion. ♫

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♫ I still stay true to my original aspiration after all the hardships. ♫

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♫ Your eyes are glowing like blooming flowers. ♫

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♫ Who is the poor one suffering from love-sickness? ♫

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This is the capital of our Suoluo Kingdom.

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The building there, surrounded by grapefruit and linden trees,

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surrounded by grapefruit and linden trees,

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is the Suoluo palace.

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How can we get pass the tight security?

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My Miss, do you forget that you're with me?

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As long as I'm here, you'll get into the palace without any effort.

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Then you'll see Prince Ying, who you miss so much.

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It is his life that I desire so much to take.

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Fine, you desire so much to kill him.

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Satisfied now?

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Mu Le, can you believe it?

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I really tracked you down here.

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Why do I always feel a pain here?

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How did I get the wound?

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Prince.

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Arise.

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I told you before,

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I can dress and undress perfectly by myself.

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Just leave. I can take care of it.

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It's our job to wait on you.

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If we leave you to dress yourself,

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then we'll be responsible for dereliction of duty.

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Behave yourselves!

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Mother.

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What on earth are you doing to Prince Ying?

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Your Highness, we're just helping the Prince get dressed and combed.

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Then you must have failed doing it properly. Leave now.

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Yes.

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It's surprising that the hero of our Suoluo Kingdom,

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who traced back the Kingdom's treasure,

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doesn't even know how to give orders to servants.

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It will give people a good laugh.

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Please excuse me.

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I'm just not comfortable with it.

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Then are you comfortable with me combing hair for you?

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Boy, you've gone for a long time.

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So many things and rules here have faded out of your memory.

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You see, on the street, there' re blacksmiths, butchers

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The same diversity exists in our palace, too.

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You are the master,

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who are destined to be waited on.

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That means you can have a lot done by others.

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For those servants,

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it's their job to serve you.

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If you're uncomfortable with it,

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then how could they make a living?

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Do you understand?

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Yes mother, I understand.

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Mother, I'd like to go for a horseback archery to practice my skills.

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Of course.

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Guards.

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Greetings. Queen and Prince.

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Go and get my horse ready.

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Yes.

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Zhenzhen.

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Your Highness.

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Those servants didn't know what they were doing.

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I want them all to get changed.

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Tell the man in charge to find Prince Ying some clever maidens.

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Yes.

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Ying has changed a lot since he came back.

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I wonder what had happened to him in the Kingdom of Tang

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that made him less and less like a prince.

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Your Highness, after we left Suoluo Kingdom,

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I was separated from Prince Ying for a while.

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And when we were united, I knew but little about his experience.

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What little do you know?

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I...

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All I know is that

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he was bought into an official' s mansion

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to be a servant, a horse boy.

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What? A horse boy?

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Whoever that was his master must have risked a lot.

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So about the favor I asked...

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Rest assured.

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She's the girl?

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You came to the right man.

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I won't let you down.

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See you.

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Take care.

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We've had a deal.

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Everything will go smoothly.

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Impressive. You've found a way in such a short time.

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The man who just left is an eunuch in the palace.

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He is in charge of recruiting new maidens and eunuchs.

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He owed me a big favor in the past.

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So whatever I ask of him, he'll help me.

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You're lucky that the palace is recruiting maidens now.

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We have decided that you will go as the daughter of Shiwag, Miss Nana, as soon as possible.

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Clear?

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Yes.

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From now on, you're no longer Miss Yuan' an of the Kingdom of Tang.

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You're now Shiwag Nana.

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Won't we be caught?

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Of course not.

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Mr. Shiwag doesn't want his daughter to be a palace maiden.

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So it's a win-win situation.

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Don't worry about it.

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Okay, I see!

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Thank you.

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With all due respect,

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I still have one concern.

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What is it?

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Miss Yuan' an, you're a miss who is used to being waited on back in Kingdom of Tang.

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Can you really become a serving maiden in the Suoluo palace?

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What's more,

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maidens in the palace are different from those ordinary servants.

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Apart from being well-trained and well-behaved,

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they also possess some unique talents.

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Are you sure you are qualified?

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If your manners give you away,

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you will be thrown out before meeting Prince Ying.

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Then all our efforts will go to waste.

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Fair point.

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So...now what?

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Can you help train me?

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I'm afraid there's no time for cram training.

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Okay, stop here.

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General manager, they are the newly recruited maidens.

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According to the royal request,

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they all come from good families with clean backgrounds.

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Besides, they are quite gorgeous.

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That's for sure.

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But since it's the royal family who they will be serving,

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they also have to be simple, kind, and with excellent skills.

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Of course, of course.

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I'll leave them to your examination.

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As for the appearance, quite pretty.

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Follow the tradition,

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and take them to embroidery workshop.

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Yes.

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Could you please help me with it?

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Thank you.

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Who...who took my embroidery?

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This is not mine.

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General manager, I didn't make this.

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I don't know why it has turned into a chick.

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Sir, it's she who embroidered the chick.

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Silence.

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Are you saying that the embroidery just grew wings and flew away?

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Go back to your seat.

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Mind you all, whoever doesn't behave herself

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will be asked to leave.

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You!

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Go back and finish your work.

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What are you looking at?

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Focus on your own embroidery!

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Nice.

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Which maiden made this?

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Sir,

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Miss Nana here made this.

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She's a Shiwage.

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Come over, please.

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The year you were born,

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you father set up a banquet to which I was invited.

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And I asked the Buddha to bless you and gave you his statue.

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I'm so grateful, Sir.

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How did you learn embroidery?

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I was determined to be a royal maiden since a little girl,

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so I learned and practiced really hard.

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I was practicing till last night.

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Good, good.

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Good girl.

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Such a good girl.

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I like her.

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A royal maiden should sing and dance well.

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You can dance, can't you?

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Come on.

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I can perform 36 martial arts,

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as well as 72 weapons.

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How can I don't know how to dance?

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Very good. I'm in for an eye treat today.

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Wait, wait.

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Miss Yuan' an, may I ask who taught you this dance?

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Several soldiers in the military.

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You two may stop there.

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Nana, come over.

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My girl, your dance is not as good as your embroidery.

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You can't be a royal maiden dancing like this.

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Sir, I'm aware of my bad dancing.

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But I have another talent.

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What is it?

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Show me.

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Yes.

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We don't have much time.

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So it would be unrealistic to teach you how to dance.

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Let's be creative and learn some tricks.

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Will it work?

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Of course it will.

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Tricks are most charming and adorable.

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Several girls have fallen for me because of my tricks.

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- Amazing.

- Indeed.

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Wonderful.

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How did she do that?

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That was impressive.

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Who did you learn it from?

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I'm aware that dancing is a compulsory course for a royal maiden.

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But I'm not interested in dancing since a little girl.

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However, among so many maidens who can dance really well,

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I'm the only one who can play tricks.

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Thus I may please my master in another way.

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That's true.

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My girl, you had it right.

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To us servants, it's all about pleasing the masters.

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Thank you, sir.

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After the selection, those who will stay in the palace are

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Mahana,

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Sala, Zhulama, Shinaka Jiwu,

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Liji, Xilami, Samila,

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Jihali,

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and Shiwag Nana.

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So Ling Xi is resourceful.

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Now mission one is finished.

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Mu Le, wait and see.

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Your master is coming for you.

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Those who were not called may be excused now.

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As for you, you are the perfect ones

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who have passed our examination.

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Behave yourselves in the palace.

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Keep your eyes and ears sharp.

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It's nothing to damage my reputation,

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but if you make a mistake and lose your lives,

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that would be terrible. Are we clear?

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Yes.

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It's her. The girl in Huodu Hill.

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No leaving, no returning. No giving, no getting.

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No withering, no flourishing.

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Madam Zhenzhen,

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these are the newly-selected maidens.

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Yes, there' re eight of them.

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Chief is training them now,

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then they'll be taken to the palace.

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Look up.

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What's your name?

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Madam Zhenzhen, she's the daughter of Mr. Shiwag,

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Miss Nana.

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She looks somewhat similar to a girl I used to know.

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Is she?

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You may go.

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- Yes.

- Follow me.

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Come over and listen to me.

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Stand at attention.

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I'm telling you. You...

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you are not cut out for a servant at all.

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To sneak you into the palace, I've been treading on thin ice.

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I will never forget your generous help.

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Good, I'm glad to know that you're a grateful girl.

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By the way, when do I get to see Prince Ying?

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You're still thinking about Prince Ying?

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Just hurry to Linen room and learn your laundry. Understood?

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I'll see you soon.

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Shouting at me and ordering me around.

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Just wait till I see Mu Le. Then you'll learn your lesson.

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♫Tired of strategizing from lights out until dawn, ♫

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♫ Longing for you but remaining silent♫

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♫ Constantly dreaming of exchanging knowing glances with you♫

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♫ Who does not wish for a full lifetime with someone entirely intimate,♫

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♫ Knowing what to expect when the Big Dipper has turned and the stars have moved. (time flown by) ♫

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♫ I'm stubborn and you bear grudges, ♫

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♫ I'm stubborn and you bear grudges, ♫

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♫ Who is shouting in the middle of time passing by unreconciled?♫

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♫ Once we drank and chatted merrily, what you said that night on the mountain. ♫

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♫That time has ended and gone by, only to leave regret. ♫

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♫Fluttering on the winds of this world, floating and drifting, ♫

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♫Following the footprints left by you, ♫

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♫Hoping to meet and be acknowledged again by you.♫

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♫Remembering and longing for the love and regret of the past, ♫

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♫Reuniting with you, and not finding this life so empty. ♫

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♫Once we drank and chatted merrily, what you said that night on the mountain ♫

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♫ That time has ended and gone by, only to leave regret. ♫

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♫Once we drank and chatted merrily, what you said that night on the mountain ♫

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♫That time has ended and gone by, only to leave regret. ♫