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♫The sounds from the sheng and xiao die away in the distance, in the sparse, declining light ♫

(T/N reed instrument made of vertical pipes; end-blown flute)

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♫ Memories of my past, my companions in youth. ♫

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♫ Over boundless years, old affairs have become difficult to recall. ♫

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♫ I’ve used a lifetime of truth to put up a pretense. ♫

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♫ Parting without opening these cupped hands full of tears. ♫

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♫ Clears my vision and permits me to resist ♫

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♫ Perhaps when targeted by love it is not wise to separate ♫

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♫ The morning wind can not dispel the aftermath. ♫

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♫ Whose hidden tears made the blooming flowers blush, ♫

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♫ And in the desolate and dreary torrential storms to painfully droop low, ♫

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♫ Unwilling to blossom again alone? ♫

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♫ The coming day belongs to the young. ♫

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♫ As the glimmer of dawn becomes again the setting sun. ♫

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♫ Who is this person who does not sleep soundly in the middle of the night? ♫

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♫Sitting and watching the autumn wind puff out and penetrate the palace curtains. ♫

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♫One strand held in remembrance, shackling sentiment and concern. ♫

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♫ Always submerged in the fragrant incense of fleeting time ♫

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Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace

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Episode 29

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Since you left Cold Palace, Mistress Yi, your mind's been at ease and your liver's despondence has dissipated.

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- Your rheumatism seems much better as well.

- That's good.

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Suoxin, the bracelet.

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Jiang Yubin, can you find someone trustworthy outside the palace,

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and clear away all the basil seeds inside.

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So I can wear it afterwards and I can spare Empress's suspicion.

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Yes.

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Mistress, Aunt Yuhu is here.

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Invite her in.

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Servant Yuhu begs your wellness, Mistress Xian.

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Mistress Xian, I come today,

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over the matter of Cold Palace guardsman Ling Yunche's transfer.

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Kunning Palace and Yuanming Garden are both needing a guard.

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What is your opinion on it?

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Kunning Palace is where newly wed emperor and empress live.

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It's been a place of worship of shaman since the reign of Emperor Shunzi.

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It's a peaceful and nice place to be.

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Then I will make the arrangements.

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However, even without your plea to find favor for Ling Yunche,

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His Majesty will reward him still.

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Why?

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Because when you went into Cold Palace, His Majesty instructed me back then,

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to find Ling Yunche and Zhao Jiuxia, in charge of protecting your life.

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So naturally Ling Yunche and Zhao Jiuxiao,

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are both with merits, especially Ling Yunche.

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He saved your life multiple times during unexpected events.

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I am very grateful of it as well.

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His Majesty has been concerned about you all along.

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Or else Noble Lady Hai sneaking in Royal Physician Jiang in wouldn't be so easily done or unnoticed.

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It's because His Majesty, through Qi Ru, made arrangements secretly.

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It seems then His Majesty cared about you all along.

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This painting was left in Lang Shining's care for long.

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Now I finally got it back.

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I heard Noble Lady didn't like this painting.

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So you ended up losing it.

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Though I lost the painting,

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I didn't lose the person. Still in my heart.

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I keep thinking of that Qingying of then.

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Qingying used to live more freely back then.

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While Ruyi toiled her days in Cold Palace.

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Doing woman's work.

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Making 362 knots.

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Embroidered 112 handkerchiefs.

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I already knew when I was in Cold Palace that you wouldn't forget me.

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But I didn't know you knew these things too.

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To know them in such detail.

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Those knots and handkerchiefs you personally made.

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Each and every one of them went through my eyes before sent out of palace for sale.

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I saw them and I knew you could bear through.

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I knew you didn't despair.

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Those trumpet vines.

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Can they blossom in Cold Palace?

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Did they soothe you a bit?

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They bloomed every year and bloomed grandly.

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Your Majesty, you arranged people to protect my life.

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Yuhu told you?

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Trump vines are hardy and they can treat wounds.

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I know.

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You suffered in Cold Palace.

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So I hoped you could be like trumpet vines and survive.

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And I knew you liked green plum blossoms.

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So I gifted you green plum powder.

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I used it today.

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This light scent of green plum is most suitable to you.

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You once told me no matter how expensive it's still just material external to our body.

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And nothing can compare to those hands that hold yours and won't let go.

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From now on, I will hold your hand forever.

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You just need to lean on me.

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You're all new so I'll explain the rules.

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Kunning's work aren't really big.

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But they aren't really small either.

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This is where generations of our emperors marry upon their ascension.

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It's an honorable place where yin and yang meet.

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But since the time of Emperor Shunzi,

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this place became a place to worship God.

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Every now and then Empress will bring the various mistresses of the harem,

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and come pray to God here.

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The work here is pretty idle.

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But you have to be on alert.

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No languish is allowed.

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- Did you all hear?

- Heard.

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Good then. Time for rotation.

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You go to the rooms and rest.

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I told you go snap some loose twigs for new year's prayer at Kunning Palace.

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But you dare to be so lazy and only got these few?

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Aunt, the branches are too high and I can't even reach then.

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So I could only get a few. It really wasn't me being lazy.

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You dare to talk back?

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Since you got into the floral room, always so unfocused.

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What? You thought you were the mistress here?

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Look at you, Whore.

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I don't dare anymore.

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If you don't get enough branches today,

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don't even eat dinner.

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Wipe it. Don't cry anymore.

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Brother Yunche.

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I don't have the face to see you.

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I am working at the floral house.

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Everyone bullies me.

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Let's do this.

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Those branches, I'll help you pick them.

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You heard everything?

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Brother Yunche.

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You're not at Cold Palace anymore?

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Since Consort Xian came out of Cold Palace, she gave me a hand.

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Now, I work at Kunning Palace.

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Really? That's so great.

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Your hand.

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Who even regards my hands as hands?

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Brother Yunche, I was wrong. I was bad.

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No one is good to me. Only you are sincere to me.

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Let's go.

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When others look for plum blossoms through the snow, they look for red plum blossoms.

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But Mistress insists on white plum blossoms.

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White plum blossoms are among white snow. Where's the beauty in that?

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White snow and red plum blossoms have their simple but passionate beauty.

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But white plum blossoms hiding among snow and deciphered only by the floral scent.

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I find that such a worldly beauty.

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Only through careful inspection, you can see how rare.

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Consort Xian's words touch my heart.

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Concubine Shu.

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If you don't mind, you can call my by my real name, Yihuan.

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And I can call you Sister too.

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And not so distant like noble this and concubine that like others.

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Yihuan is honest and blunt. Where do you come from, Sister?

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I just had meal with His Majesty.

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His Majesty loves plum blossom broth with his meals.

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I hadn't thought I would come into the imperial garden,

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and such coincidence you are here to enjoy the plum blossoms.

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In the middle of cold winter, only plum blossoms bloom so it's easy coincidence.

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That's true too. I have an easy conversation with you in today's chance meeting.

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If one day there's time, may you come visit in Chuxiu Palace.

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Alright.

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Bye, Sister.

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Yihuan seems cold but she's someone with artistic flair.

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So fragrant.

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Weren't you supposed to be at Kunning Palace? What are you doing here?

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Greetings to Consort Xian.

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Kunning Palace has annual offering and everyday we use pine branch and plum blossoms as bouquets in vase.

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So I came to pick these red plum blossoms.

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I heard your voice earlier.

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So I decided to wait here to greet you.

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You waited here on purpose.

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I don't think it's as simple as a greeting.

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Well that, you saw through again.

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Go ahead and tell me.

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There's a palace maid in the floral room named Wei Yanwan.

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She came to see me.

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You've just got a bit of prospect and someone came looking for you?

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No, no. I didn't mean that.

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She's that person who had you so drunk and down, right?

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You're very right.

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Though Yanwan abandoned me then to seek her own path.

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Later, I don't know why, some things didn't fare,

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she got demoted to the floral room and that work is hard.

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I ran into her by accident and found out then she's been suffering.

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She whined her suffering and you forgot all about how she abandoned you?

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I am not weak-hearted.

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I'm just pitying her seeing her like that.

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When I ran into her that day she kept crying.

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She also said she knew she wronged.

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So she didn't have the face to come find me.

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She didn't have the face but still found you anyway.

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And told you so many things to make your heart ache.

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So you agreed something to her and you came to beg me?

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May you transfer her out of the floral room.

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Find some other chore. I don't wish lofty things.

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Just that she's not suffering too much or get bullied.

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But right now,

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the floral house needs to send flowers to all the palaces and they need people.

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Maybe in the spring I can think of something.

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To help her transfer to a better place.

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Thank you for your grace.

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Brother Yunche, come.

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- What's this?

- Red potato.

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I already made a request to Concubine Ruyi. She said that she will find a new assignment for you in early spring.

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- Really?

- Would it untrue?

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This is great.

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You better go back now. I'm working.

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I'm leaving then.

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Go now.

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Take care.

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It's just after the new year. How did Gui Duo die?

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According to Gao Bin, it was during reinforcing the forest for flood prevention that Gui Duo died.

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He was smashed by a rolling boulder from the mountain. It's was pitiful.

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Fortunately, he left behind a book about the water control.

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It's a pity for such a talent to pass away.

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By the way, get Li Yu to prepare one thousand and two silvers

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for his family as funeral expenses.

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Yes.

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How's the investigation regarding the injustice done to Concubine Ruyi?

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There will be results soon.

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When you are done with the investigation, certain people

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can be punished too.

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Your Majesty, today is the banquet for spring.

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Royal Mother gifted me a carved jade of a boy.

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Royal Mother is painstakingly wishing for you and I to have a legitimate child soon.

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Today, I have prepared a box of pearls from East China sea for you.

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I look forward to the radiance of these pearls

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to shine in the palace.

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Pearls are precious, especially since it's an entire box.

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When I think about the toil those who harvested them went through, I don't dare to indulge.

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I know that you don't like luxurious things

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but no matter how expensive the pearls are, they can't be compared to my gesture.

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Thank you, Your Majesty.

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Li Yu, give these Welcoming-of-spring gifts to the concubines.

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Yes.

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Thank you, Your Majesty.

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Everyone, sit.

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Your Majesty, you are biased. You gave Her Highness a box of them

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whereas, we only get one pearl.

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He cherishes Empress indeed.

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All of us received the East China pearl.

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Concubine Shen, what's the red item in your box?

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Concubine Shen, do you recognize my gift?

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Your Majesty, this is cinnabar.

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Your Majesty, cinnabar is poisonous.

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Why did you give this to me?

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Did you make a mistake?

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Cinnabar is poisonous. It will turn into mercury when in contact with hot water.

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This is the most appropriate for you.

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Yuhu, tell everyone about this.

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Yes.

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Based on His Majesty's order

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I investigated the events where the babies of Concubine Yi and Concubine Mei were harmed.

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Xiao Luzi who testified it was Consort Xian back then has already died.

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Xiao Luzi's brother, Xiao Fuzi, who used to serve Consort Xian.

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He cuts grass on Mount Weng.

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Xiao Anzi's been allocated to the imperial tomb, doing harsh work.

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I sent people to his hometown to investigate.

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They saw Xiao Fuzi and Xiao Anzi living a luxurious life.

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When they were interrogated, it was found that the money came from Concubine Shen.

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Your Majesty, I didn't do anything like that.

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I didn't have any contacts and dealings with Xiao Fuzi and Xiao Anzi.

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I didn't know anything about their families.

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When I asked Xiao Anzi,

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I found out that Concubine Ruyi and him discussed about the cinnabar.

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He was also instructed by Concubine Shen to do that.

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Your Majesty, I'm being falsely accused.

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I had long heard that Xiao Anzi became a mute while getting interrogated in the punishment burea.

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and couldn't speak again.

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How could he have said that I directed him?

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A'Ruo, I sent someone to check the records at the Criminal Department.

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There were no records of you and your attendants entering or leaving the department.

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You just said that you had no contacts and dealings with Xiao Anzi.

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How did you know that he couldn't speak anymore?

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Your Majesty, I...

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I merely heard about it.

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Who did you hear it from? Tell us.

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I merely heard about it. As to who said that,

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I have forgotten a long time ago.

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I'm not as good in remembering the details, when compared to Concubine Ruyi.

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You can take out the records from the Criminal Department to check it.

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Of course, I will investigate.

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One who has been falsely accused, will definitely want to prove her innocence.

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Concubine Shen, since you personally witnessed

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how Concubine Ruyi harm Concubine Yi and Concubine Mei,

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you would naturally remember everything clearly and wouldn't have forgotten.

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I want to you to repeat

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what happened that year. You must not miss a single word.

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That year...

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That year...

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Your Majesty, it was too scary what happened then.

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I dare not think about it and dare not remember it.

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I only remember that Concubine Ruyi added cinnabar

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to the charcoal pot and fish. As it was insignificant,

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I have already forgotten the details.

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Lies!

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That year, you told me the details on how Concubine Ruyi harmed Concubine Yi and my babies.

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Insignificant? Unclear?

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Why can't you describe the details today?

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Your Majesty, she's full of lies.

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There is definitely a problem with her.

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Your Majesty, you must not pardon her.

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I'm investigating this today so that she can explain.

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Your Majesty, when Sulian brought people to check Yanxi Palace,

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it was A'ruo who stopped them for searching.

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Which led to suspicion. Later on, under Consort Xian's drawers in her chamber,

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they discovered cinnabar stained with water.

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As proof of Consort Xian's crime.

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I have been thinking.

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If Concubine Ruyi did that,

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why would she placed the cinnabar in such an obvious place?

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Concubine Ruyi wasn't aware of this.

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Just exactly who can so easily come into Consort Xian's chamber?

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and left the cinnabar there for such a long time?

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That Consort Xian didn't even discover it despite being wet.

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It can only be Concubine Ruyi's maids.

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Other than Concubine Shen, no one else could have done it.

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That year, she was absolutely sure and now, she's nervous.

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Your Majesty, Concubine Shen is rather suspicious.

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Could it be possible that when Concubine Ruyi was in the Cold Palace and kept being harmed,

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it was also because Concubine Shen wanted to kill her to shut her up?

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Concubine Jia, you...

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Your Majesty, it wasn't me.

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It wasn't me. I'm being falsely accused, Your Majesty.

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Concubine Shen, you reported

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about my two children during that year.

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You are now suspected of trying to harm Concubine Ruyi at the Cold Palace.

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If you don't explain clearly today,

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I will let you try the taste of cinnabar.

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Think carefully.

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Your Majesty, I'm being falsely accused. Please spare my life.

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Let me think again.

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Your Majesty, I'm being framed.

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Your Majesty, A'Ruo is not that capable

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of getting that much cinnabar,

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and bribing so many people to set up a trap to harm me.

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What I would like to find out, it's who the mastermind is?

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Look at what you did.

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I didn't expect you to be so malicious.

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You didn't even take your family's safety into consideration

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and did so many major crimes. You really deserve to die.

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I really didn't imagine that...

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it's you who harmed by child.

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- Despicable woman...

- Enough.

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Take Concubine Shen to the Hall of Mental Cultivation. Keep watch on her. Don't let her die.

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Yes.

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Let me go. Your Majesty, I'm being framed.

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Your Majesty. Let me go.

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I'm really falsely accused.

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Your Majesty.

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Your Majesty, I'm being falsely accused.

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I shouldn't have talked about this at today's banquet for spring.

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When I saw the Empress Dowager yearning for a son to succeed me,

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I thought about unknown deaths of the child of Concubine Yi and Concubine Mei.

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I needed to interrogate.

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Your Majesty and I are parents.

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How could you not be sad?

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This must be thoroughly investigated.

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It's just that, it's getting late. If there are any other matters,

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Your Majesty, please wait till tomorrow to investigate again.

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I'm going back to the Hall of Mental Cultivation now.

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Take care, Your Majesty.

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Such a major ruckus happened today.

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It seems His Majesty already had suspicions.

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A lot of people won't be able to sleep well tonight.

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It has been many years since the incident.

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It's time to have a conclusion.

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Your Highness, Noble Consort is here.

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- Let her in.

- Yes.

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- Your Highness.

- It's late. Why are you here?

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I'm scared.

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What if A'Ruo confesses that we...

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Confesses to what?

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She is obviously the one who was malicious

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and harmed the children of the Emperor and Concubine Ruyi,

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together with others.

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Yes, that's right. That's what happened.

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But, Your Highness, what if A'Ruo reveals about us

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scheming to harm Concubine Ruyi at the Cold Palace?

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Of course, we shouldn't let her implicate us

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Concubine Shen's mother has passed away

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but she still have two brothers.

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Guo De is dead. I've already told my father.

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To keep A'Rou's two brothers as hostages.

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You did well. About the incident at the Cold Palace,

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if A'Ruo wants to admit it, she has to do it on her own.

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Of course. It's A'Ruo who hates Concubine Ruyi the most.

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Other than her, no one else would have a hand in that.

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What are you still worried about then?

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Your Highness...

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Enough, it's late.

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Go back and rest early.

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Yes.

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Sulian, see her out.

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Yes.

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Change into these clothes.

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A maid who's guilty of crimes is not fit to wear this.

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No, this is not my clothes.

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Eunuch Li Yu, I want to see His Majesty

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to tell him that I'm being falsely accused.

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Mistress.

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Reflect carefully on

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what you did and who you did it to.

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When you see His Majesty, report to him on everything.

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Eunuch Li Yu.

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I'm being falsely accused. I want to see His Majesty.

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- Your Majesty.

- Mistress.

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Mistress, you must not be clueless again.

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Her Highness and the Noble Consort wanted me to tell you this.

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Both your younger brothers,

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Suochulun's only surviving male heirs,

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they will die under your hands.

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Noble Consort.

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Mistress. Now that everything is out,

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think about who you want to protect.

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[ Hall of Mental Cultivation ]

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Concubine Ruyi, His Majesty has been waiting for you in the morning.

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Greetings, Your Majesty.

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Take a seat.

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Thank you, Your Majesty.

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A'Ruo, I gave you face yesterday

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and let you stayed at the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

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Now that Concubine Ruyi and I are here, if you have anything to say, speak now.

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Your Majesty, please forgive me.

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It was I who framed Concubine Ruyi.

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I know about this.

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It was I who stole the cinnabar

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and harmed the children and Concubine Ruyi.

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I bribed the three junior eunuchs too.

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A'Ruo, what can you do alone?

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His Majesty and I have doubts about this.

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Certain things were not done by you.

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Who's the mastermind who instructed you?

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Fine then, if you don't want to talk.

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It's just that murdering royal heirs is a high crime punishable by nine generations.

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If you want to take responsibility for everything, I won't stop you.

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Concubine Ruyi asked you a question.

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Think carefully about whether you want to answer her or not.

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I'm going to ask you regarding another matter.

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When Concubine Ruyi was at the Cold Palace, who added the arsenic?

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Your Majesty, I didn't do that. It really wasn't me.

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Who was it then?

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Xinyan, speak.

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To reply Your Majesty,

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I serve her daily.

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I'm not aware of what she does

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but I know that Mistress hates Concubine Ruyi very much.

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Especially when she found out that your handkerchief

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was a gift from Concubine Ruyi.

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At that time, Mistress said that

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she wanted to get rid of Concubine Ruyi.

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Mistress, don't blame me.

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I can only tell the truth now.

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As this moment,

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you should admit to what you have done.

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You won't be able to escape.

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A'Ruo, your maid has already spoken.

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Are you still not going to confess about the incident involving Concubine Ruyi at the Cold Palace?

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In order to get rid of her,

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what else did you do?

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Yes, the fire at the Cold Palace

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and the snake incident, these were done by me.

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You sure confess easily.

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Do you really hate me that much?

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Concubine Ruyi, I really hate you very much.

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I am certainly smart and sharp and I do all for you.

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But you push me down in all matters.

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You clearly know that His Majesty likes me and you insisted on marrying me off.

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Isn't it good for you too that His Majesty doted on me? You will have additional help too.

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Why must you cut off my chance of success?

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I like you?

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All these years, how I treated you, you still didn't get it?

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Your Majesty used to like me in the past.

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That's why you looked up to me in Yanxi Palace

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and took me in as your concubine.

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A'Rou, you truly delude yourself too much.

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- Tell that to Concubine Ruyi.

- Your Majesty.

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You courted shame upon yourself after betraying your mistress for glory.

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All these years,

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Your Majesty has never been kind towards me.

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Every time,

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I am just kneeling on the ground on a thin sheet.

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Every night I serviced him in bed was like that.

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His Majesty has never touched me.

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Did you think you had a tough time in the Cold Palace?

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Did you think I had a good life out there?

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During the day, I'm a Mistress

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and received His Majesty's graces.

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But when I'm alone with His Majesty,

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I'm just a maid with a lowly status.

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Even so, to others,

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I received His Majesty's graces,

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So I had no choice but to endure their laughing and jealousy.

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Concubine Ruyi, this is all your fault as to how His Majesty treated me.

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How could I not hate you?

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If you are not happy today,

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let me tell you, you brought it upon yourself.

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Your Majesty, when I was at Yanxi Palace,

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you praised me for being intelligent.

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When I was released from the Criminal Department,

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you kept me by your side.

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But you kept treating me this way.

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It has been many years and I really don't get it.

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Since this is the case, why didn't you just kill me instead?

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If I didn't let you stay with me,

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for the past years, I wonder who would have killed you.

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And who would have confessed to framing Concubine Ruyi

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and returned her innocence.

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So, it was still because of Concubine Ruyi.

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Your Majesty, I had been sincere towards you.

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Sincere? You were such a schemer.

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How could I not treat you that way?

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Your Majesty, did you think that I schemed against you?

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Aren't those at the harem the same too?

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Why must I be humiliated by you instead?

509

I know that many of them are schemers.

510

But for someone like you who is so malicious and betrayed your Mistress for glory,

511

you are the first one I have seen.

512

I'm going to ask you again. Who instigated you and who else are there?

513

No one instigated me.

514

I did everything on my own.

515

Concubine Ruyi, wait for me at the study.

516

I will join you later. The rest of you, leave.

517

Yes.

518

A'Ruo.

519

Concubine Ruyi is not here now.

520

You can stay calm

521

and tell me who else is behind this.

522

Your Majesty.

523

I interrogated A'Ruo for a long time.

524

I feared that she wouldn't confess in front of you.

525

But she still said that she did everything alone.

526

I don't believe that she could do all that alone.

527

I know you wouldn't believe what she said. I don't believe it too.

528

But I can't suspect everyone in the harem and interrogate them individually.

529

If I do this, I will create an uproar in the harem.

530

Thus, I hope that you will understand,

531

A'Ruo has confessed. There is no one else.

532

Ruyi, I'm the Emperor of the dynasty at the fore front

533

and the Master of the harem after that. I hope you will understand.

534

I can understand your efforts and attentiveness.

535

You and I are so honest with each other without any barriers.

536

To be in this relationship with you, I feel at ease.

537

Ruyi, I really hope that,

538

starting from now, we won't be estranged again.

539

Your Majesty, Li Yu investigated that

540

the two younger brothers of A'Ruo are being detained by Lord Gao.

541

That day at the Welcoming Banquet for spring,

542

I said that the money for Xiao Fuzi and Xiao Anzi came from Concubine Shen.

543

Upon investigating further, the money came from Noble Consort.

544

It's just that it went through A'Ruo's hands.

545

For the past years, I have been seeing A'Ruo going in and coming out from the Empress' palace.

546

Noble Consort has always listened to the Empress too.

547

Whether there is Empress involved in this.

548

Your Majesty, even if you suspect Her Highness, you also shouldn't...

549

I know.

550

I know that she's my official wife

551

and she also gave birth to Yonglian and Jingse.

552

She is also a very smart woman. I hope that this has nothing to do with her.

553

Till now, A'Ruo still hasn't implicated Her Highness

554

but it's hard to predict later.

555

We need to shut her up forever then.

556

Turn her into a mute and punish her for what she did to Concubine Ruyi.

557

Yes. What about Noble Consort then?

558

It's not time to take actions on her yet.

559

You can leave.

560

Yes.

561

This bowl of soup is from His Majesty.

562

Once you are done drinking it, you won't be able to speak nonsense again.

563

You won't be able to implicate others too.

564

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565

♫Intoxicated by the falling flower petals in the plum garden♫

566

♫ as if this life were our first time we have met. ♫

567

♫ Black silken hair reflecting the frosty moonlight, ♫

568

♫ Hands joined together, for our innumerable mortal lives. ♫

569

♫ The burden of concern on my mind has paled rose-kissed cheeks, ♫

570

♫ Yearning now turns into confusion. ♫

571

♫ Glistening teardrops cover the pledge, ♫

572

♫ joining hands for a lifetime, when in the past did he change it? ♫

573

♫ Flowers start out blossoming in splendor, but are easily destroyed ♫

574

♫ Who is that plucking on qin (zither) strings? ♫

575

♫ When love becomes deep, people are prone to separate. ♫

576

♫ Alone, I sing the sad song of parting. ♫

577

♫ Twilight is tardy, spring is late. ♫

578

♫ With graceful reasoning, like it had been empty dream, with sighs. ♫

579

♫ Let it flow away with the river of time. ♫

580

♫ Vast years apart, with no clear date of return or hope, ♫

581

♫ Regretfully not admitting the care held deep within my heart. ♫

582

♫ Moonlight flows like water, washing away the pretentiousness of the past affairs. ♫

583

♫ Sincerity now is the only thing left to depend upon. ♫

584

♫ In the endless night, I cannot put down the gray hairs to pursue youth. ♫

585

♫ Nor dare to look at you quietly from afar. ♫

586

♫ If we can have another lifetime together, may we both be commoners. ♫

587

♫ Reunited, and again pledging faithfully to stand by each other. ♫