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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 33

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Not even a person here. So empty.

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Your Majesty.

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How is it you?

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Greetings to Noble Consort.

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Why are you sitting on the ground? Won't it chill you?

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My mistress is watching the dragon chair daily.

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Waiting for His Majesty.

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This path.

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I wanted wholly to go over you.

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I never though I'd befall to this today.

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And allow you to come and laugh at me.

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We are all pitiful people of the palace.

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Who can laugh at whose what?

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Since you're here.

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Come sit.

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What do you want to say? Go ahead.

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Xiyue, we've been in this palace.

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For nearly half our lives.

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But we remain living in other's calculations.

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What do you mean?

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I got sent to Cold Palace by your calculations.

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Fortunately I am out now.

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And you're like this today.

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Do you know why?

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Other than you calculating me.

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Who else can it be?

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His Majesty had Qi Ru treat your illness.

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But your body is getting worse and worse.

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Is that something I can calculate?

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What do you wish to say?

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The medicine you're drinking now.

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It has a few more ingredients added to it than the prescription by Qi Ru.

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Adding these few medicines,

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by symptoms, you may seen better a bit.

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But in actuality, it harms your core energy.

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Why would Qi Ru harm me?

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Or someone put him to it.

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Is it His Majesty? Empress Dowager?

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On this matter, this is all I can know.

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But there's another matter.

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Perhaps you didn't think of it even more so.

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Say what you want to say.

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Give me your bracelet.

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Why do you want the bracelet?

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We've tended His Majesty many years and all along we have no children.

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It's all thanks to this bracelet.

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In this bracelet, hides something that harms the blood and qi.

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Basil seeds making women infertile.

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Basil seeds?

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What basil seeds?

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You'd knew but why do you keep on wearing it?

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I was a bit luckier than you.

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Once I dropped and broke the bracelet.

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So the filthy things inside dropped out and I found out about the trap.

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Naturally the bracelet I wear now has the basil seeds pulled out.

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But I still haven't gotten pregnant.

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I don't know if it's because it's already ruined my foundation.

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Why would she harm me like this?

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You are loyal to Empress.

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But she treated you as someone she could use.

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And she and I.

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I was an eyesore to her since the day of wife selection.

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She needed to make preemptive strike.

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She gave us these bracelets with the resolve set.

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Not allowing us to be mothers.

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No wonder we drank bowl after bowl of conception medicine.

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But to no result.

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Why would she treat me like that?

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I was so devoted to her.

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Never holding any thought of disloyalty.

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I did whatever she said.

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I did everything before her.

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I just wanted a child.

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Why would she cut off this wish of mine?

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Why?

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You came today to tell me these.

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Is it because you want to know what we did to you?

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There is no lack of support from Empress behind them.

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I will tell you today.

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If you really wish to say.

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Then tell the person who should know it the most.

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Wait. Wait.

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Ruyi. I beg you.

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Let me see His Majesty. Let me see His Majesty once.

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Ruyi. Ruyi, I beg you.

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Let me see His Majesty once.

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- Mistress. I'll get you up.

- Ruyi!

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- Let me see His Majesty.

- Mistress.

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Ruyi, let me see His Majesty once.

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I want to see His Majesty.

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Ruyi!

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What's on your mind, Your Majesty?

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Thinking about when Xiyue first came into the old manor.

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She was shy and cute.

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You should go see her.

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I won't go.

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Even you came to persuade me.

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Earlier Gao Bin sent in a letter.

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Saying he is worried about Noble Consort.

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Noble Consort, I fear, won't fare.

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Once she leaves, and Gao Bin asks about her last days,

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Your Majesty needs words to say.

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You always cared about Noble Consort's reputation.

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So you did not announce to the outside her evil deeds.

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Now she wishes to meet you once.

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You should comply with her.

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Why hasn't His Majesty come still?

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You asked many times already.

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Earlier Eunuch Li sent word.

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His Majesty will come for sure.

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Mistress, His Majesty has come.

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I greet Your Majesty.

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Still sick.

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Then don't toil.

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Get on up.

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Your Majesty, please sit as well.

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Moxin, you go first.

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I will stay alone with His Majesty a bit.

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Yes.

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Your Majesty.

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Since the family banquet,

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we've not seen each other for 3 years and 10 months.

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My beauty has gone haggard.

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I know very well it's disrespectful to ask for meeting with this.

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But I also know that my life won't be long.

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But I wanted to see you one last time still.

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You're so sick like this.

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Yet you put so much effort in dressing.

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This look is the look I had on when I was promoted to Noble Consort.

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I wore this.

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To remember how you used to love me.

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I wanted to wear this to talk to you.

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I want to tell you some things first actually.

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A child should be filial to his father. A wife should be obedient to her husband.

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A subject should honor his lord.

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A servant should be loyal to his master.

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Ask yourself honestly. Have you done all these?

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Honor, filial, obedient and loyal. Behind my back.

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What all did you really commit?

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His Majesty really went to see Noble Consort?

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I hear Noble Consort is on her last straw.

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For the sake of past fondness, His Majesty sent to see once.

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It's only a given too.

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But what if she talks nonsense?

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She wouldn't.

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If she dares to divulge you, then she's divulging herself.

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The honor and glory of Gao Clan. She wants to toss it?

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Even if she were to bite recklessly,

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His Majesty surely wouldn't believe her crazy words.

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I know my sins are grave.

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I don't dare to beg your forgiveness.

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Some things -- I was going to take to my grave.

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But I must tell you now.

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As long as you're telling the truth.

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Then, I won't blame your maiden clan over your words and deeds.

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In order to spy on you,

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Empress had Lianxin marry Wang Qin.

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A'Rou got Empress's guidance too.

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So she could dare to betray Consort Xian. After Crown Prince Danhui passed away,

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Empress thought it was Consort Xian who cursed him and she was filled with anger and blame.

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In order to pacify her,

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I ordered Shaungxi take the poisonous snakes.

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And release them in Cold Palace to harm Consort Xian.

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Double Ninth Festival.

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Empress also instructed me to burn Consort Xian to death.

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Letting Consort Xian contracting rheumatism.

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It was Concubine Jia's medicine that caused it.

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But actually, the matter was instructed to me by Empress.

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That's it?

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Do you remember this gold and jade bracelet?

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You and Consort Xian, when you married me,

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Empress gifted these to you personally.

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Why is it broken?

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Such a nice thing.

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Empress doesn't wear it herself.

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But she granted it to me and Consort Xian.

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I was so grateful.

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I never thought.

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She hid such great basil seeds in there.

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Wearing it for a long time,

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and it causes infertility.

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Consort Xian and I wore it for over a decade.

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I didn't even know why I couldn't get pregnant.

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Empress comes from a prominent family.

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How will she know such lowly hand?

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She doesn't know medicine functions either.

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Your Majesty. If a person wants to commit evil,

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there's nothing they can't understand or learn.

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Noble Consort.

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Empress is the master of the central palace.

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Do you know what the crime of slandering Empress is?

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I know that in your heart,

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Empress is someone most suitable to be empress.

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Are you afraid?

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That she is the one who truly disappointed you?

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Whether she disappointed me is a different matter.

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It's you. You really disappointed me.

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I know my crimes are unforgiveable.

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But just how I came to this step by step --

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Was there no half a dot of you being the reason in here?

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There's something.

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I must ask clearly.

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Or else I can't rest in peace.

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Ask.

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I am getting treated by Royal Physician Qi.

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But why is my illness getting worse and worse?

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Lack of energy and blood stasis both getting worse.

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To the point of core energy gravely harmed.

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Even without the basil seeds, it would be hard to conceive.

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I knew,

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that you were born with energy deficiency and blood stasis.

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So I had Qi Ru treat you and I didn't push for your conception.

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I didn't think you'd ask me like this today.

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Is it you who won't push for it?

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Or you don't want to have a child with me altogether?

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Back at the old manor, on wife selection.

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Among the three of us, it was only me that you didn't select.

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If it weren't for Late Emperor and Empress Dowager,

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you wouldn't have picked me to a Gege either.

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Later on you favored me for many years.

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And you had Qi Ru treat my health.

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I thought you truly liked me.

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But I was wrong.

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You already said it earlier.

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I favored you for many years.

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Since I favored you,

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why would I do that to you?

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Are your words really true?

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True?

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What is truth?

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Xiyue, do you still remember how you looked then?

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I still remember the first time I met you,

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you were so delicate.

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But now.

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How did you become a venomous woman who even dares to murder royal heirs?

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Forget it.

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Your body isn't well. You should rest.

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One day if you leave,

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I will grant you a posthumous title.

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And give you a good ending.

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On the account you tended to me for so many years.

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Your Majesty thought of my posthumous title already?

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Then allow me to say something.

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My life has been a foolish dream.

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It's too late to regret.

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I just wish in the next life,

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I can marry into an ordinary family.

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Live with my husband and teach my children.

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And be a virtuous and good person.

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That's your final request.

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I will not disallow it.

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I will then grant you the word "xian (virtuous)" as your title.

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To let that be the aspiration for your next life as well.

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Your Majesty.

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Though you don't admit you calculated me using Qi Ru,

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but who else could it be besides you?

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Let me bow to you once then.

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If it was you, God will reap it from you.

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If it wasn't you, then be ill,

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and suffer a bit and regard me as owing you.

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Mistress, let me help you get up.

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- Mistress.

- Moxin.

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Go burn the cushion His Majesty sat on.

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I'll go now.

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Mistress.

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You must burn it clean.

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It's got filthy locus on it. Can't keep it.

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Don't leave any trace.

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I got it.

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Mistress.

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Come. Come!

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Your Majesty, we are going to?

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Yikun Palace.

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Yes.

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Mistress, His Majesty is here.

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Greetings to Your Majesty.

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Get on up.

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You're coming so late.

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Your place is calming. I wanted to sit here.

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- Have a seat.

- Ruyi.

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Come.

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This bracelet of yours looks old. Don't wear it anymore.

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Tomorrow I'll have the interior bureau send the best jade bracelet here.

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And have royal physician send some good tonics to restore your body.

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Li Yu. Take it and throw it away.

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Yes.

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Thank you, Your Majesty. Please sit.

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Your Majesty went to see Noble Consort?

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She said many things to me.

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Ruyi.

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Will you calculate others?

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I don't know what you mean by calculating.

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But if someone harms me and bullies me, then naturally I won't just sit there. I will preserve myself too.

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So if you mean calculating by that, then yes.

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Then will you calculate me?

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I wish you and I will never intimidate each other.

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Come.

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Ruyi. Don't blame me asking you these.

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Just that the words of Noble Consort today leave me no choice but to be startled.

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I am not unkind to them and they all seem to treat me genuinely.

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But today. I suddenly find them such strangers.

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Real and fake.

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Behind my back.

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I don't know what all they did that I don't know.

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Their honest treatment of me. How much was there?

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I understand your worry.

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Ruyi. I know Noble Consort won't last long.

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No matter what all she did in her life, I want to give her some dignity on the outside.

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I understand. You are sage.

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Li Yu.

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- Present.

- Send my decree.

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Noble Consort is to be promoted as Imperial Noble Consort.

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Consort Xian and Consort Chun are to be promoted as Noble Consorts.

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Concubine Yu as Consort Yu.

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Yes.

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I thank Your Majesty's grace.

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Get on up.

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Ruyi, it's compromising you to have you and Consort Chun both occupy the title of Noble Consorts.

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It's just that Consort Chun gave birth to two royal princes.

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And she's raised Yonghuang, so I must be inclined to her.

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It's my incompetence that I can't add royal heirs for you.

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No matter we have kids or not together, I will not make thin our relationship.

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Don't worry.

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Mistress, you're awake.

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You're looking much better today.

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I haven't sleep so honestly for so long.

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I just had a dream too.

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I saw father and mother and they told me they miss me.

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They said after I'm recovered I should hurry and go home.

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Congratulations, Mistress. His Majesty promoted you to Imperial Noble Consort.

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Moxin.

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At the antique house, I arranged a work position there for you.

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Interior bureau will send someone to collect you.

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I won't leave you.

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You must remember who harmed me.

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I will remember for sure.

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Is it snowing outside?

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Yes, Mistress.

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I want to go to the yard.

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Mistress. Mistress!

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Mistress!

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Mistress!

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I will avenge for you for sure.

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Mistress.

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Mistress.

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Look at that snow.

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It's incessant.

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His Majesty was very fond of Imperial Noble Consort Huixian.

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He laments so achingly.

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Even the Gods are crying with him.

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One love.

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His Majesty's formidable mourning attire consoled Gao Bin.

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I heard Gao Bin is so grateful to His Majesty.

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The pain of losing a kin. I've tasted it.

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It's time Gao Bin had a taste too.

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These years, Qi Ru has done his work well.

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Qi Ru has done his chore well, indeed.

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But Gao herself did many evil deeds.

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She deserved what she got too. She sowed it.

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This snow is getting bigger and bigger.

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Yes.

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Your Majesty is very fond of Imperial Noble Consort.

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I heard before she passed away,

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she begged you for the word 'xian (virtuous)' and you approved.

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I hope in the future, you can give me the word 'xian (virtuous)' too.

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Then I would die without regret.

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You're in your prime. Why do you speak so lamentably?

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Our dynasty empresses usually use the word 'xiao (filial)'.

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In the future if you could grant me 'xian (virtuous)'.

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I would honor it completely.

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Since Imperial Noble Consort passed away,

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Your Majesty's been in deep mourning.

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You've not come to my Changchun Palace anymore.

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I don't know if you blame me.

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That I failed to look after Imperial Noble Consort well.

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I just thought you and Imperial Noble Consort were close partners for so many years.

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I didn't want to be reminded of the sentiments.

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Before she passed away, she told me many honest things.

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Each time I think about it, I feel despair.

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Your Majesty is very affectionate.

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His Majesty will go to Xianfu Palace personally.

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He will have a conversation looking at her portrait.

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I believe the words she couldn't finish before her death.

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She will tell him in his dream very clearly.

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Imperial Noble Consort died at a young age. Her biggest concern.

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That would be her father and brother. I beg you.

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If you worry about Imperial Noble Consort,

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please worry about her family.

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Empress. About her father and brother, they are court matters.

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Nothing to do with the harem so you needn't be wordy.

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I should not involve myself in royal court.

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I know my wrong.

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His Majesty is clear about the division of harem and court.

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He's never managed court matters with personal feelings.

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Empress, you've accompanied His Majesty so many years.

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You should be very clear on that.

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Consort Xian, you're right.

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Consort Xian, the jade and gold bracelet I gifted you.

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Why aren't you wearing it anymore?

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That bracelet is a match with the one with Imperial Noble Consort.

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Since she's gone now,

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I told her to take it off, in order to evade feelings hurt.

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Another thing. Yonghuang's birth mother, Concubine Zhe died pitifully.

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I will send decree to promote her posthumously as Imperial Noble Consort Zhe.

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Your Highness, what's wrong?

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Your Majesty. You've never spoke to her like that.

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Gao's death. In my heart, I have an ending.

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Under her beauty,

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she hid a very poisonous heart.

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But under Empress's virtue and uprightness, what will be there?

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I -- I really can't see clearly.

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Your Highness.

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Linxin, wait outside.

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Yes.

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Your Highness, what's wrong?

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His Majesty suddenly had Consort Xian take off that bracelet.

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Did they find out something?

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Can't be.

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That pair of bracelets. Imperial Noble Consort and Consort Xian haven't found anything wrong with them all along.

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Why would they now?

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His Majesty also said he didn't want to bring up sad sentiments seeing the item.

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So don't worry so much.

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What about Zhuying?

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Why did he suddenly promote her as Imperial Noble Consort?

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She had a hard labor and died with her daughter. Why would he bring up such old matter?

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And saying she was pitiful.

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There's something in what he said.

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Does he mean to say covertly that he blames me?

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His Majesty must feel

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that she passed away at such a young age.

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He probably didn't mean anything else.

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But I don't feel easy.

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Since Gao died,

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His Majesty seem to distance himself from me.

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Today Consort Xian also said.

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That before Gao died,

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she had words she didn't finish saying.

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Sulian. Did she say something before her death?

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So His Majesty suspects me.

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Your Highness, it's not.

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Consort Xian is just going along His Majesty.

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Imperial Noble Consort wouldn't betray you either.

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If she really said something about you,

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the it's like betraying herself.

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Look at how he laments her.

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That deep fondness.

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If he really knew something,

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why would he?

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I heard those in the imperial chamber that His Majesty is ill.

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For many days, he's not come to the harem.

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Even Consort Xian is not well and she's staying at Yangxin Hall too.

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How is he ill? Did he send for Qi Ru?

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I don't know either.

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I can't see His Majesty.

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You go find out more.

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No. You come with me to Cining Palace.

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I will ask Royal Mother.

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Yes.

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Empress Dowager, Empress, His Majesty's illness is contagious.

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So I dare to stop you for your health.

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I greet Empress Dowager and Empress.

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Is His Majesty alright? What is the illness?

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His Majsty contracted scabies.

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This was originally spreading through Xianfu Palace.

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Eunuch Li also said before Imperial Noble Consort Huixian's death, His Majesty went there.

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I don't know if it was then that he contracted it.

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Get on up.

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Is it severe or not?

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His Majesty seems to have contracted it a while ago.

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The boils have pus coming out.

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Plus with His Majesty's forbearance on it before,

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this illness has gotten rather serious.

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What are we to do?

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Royal Mother, let me go tend to him personally.

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These days, who's been tending to his bedside? Send me the house logs.

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I already checked. Other than Noble Consort Chun and Concubine Shu,

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they each serviced him once and the rest was done by Noble Consort Xian.

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Noble Consort Chun is pregnant again.

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She should be nourishing her body.

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Noble Consort Xian toiled in bed-attending and later on she contracted the same disease as His Majesty.

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She's recovering in the side hall.

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Empress, let us go see His Majesty first.

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Empress Dowager, Empress, your royal bodies can't enter there recklessly.

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This illness is contagious. You must be cautious.

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Let us go to the warm hall first to make preparations first.

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Alright.

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Empress Dowager and Empress, follow me please.

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Remember, don't touch anything His Majesty has touched.

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Let me do the moves.

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Empress Dowager, His Majesty just took the medicine and he's asleep.

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Let me see.

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Emperor.

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- Emperor.

- Itchy.

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Qi Ru, what are you using on Emperor and Noble Consort Xian. Any signs of recovery?

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Replying to Empress Dowager,

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His Majesty is using tumeric detoxifying decoction.

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In addition, we are using ointment of thistle and purslane to wipe on the body.

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Noble Consort Xian contacted the illness a bit later.

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Though her symptoms are strong her illness is not as severe.

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She's already showing signs of recovery.

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You treat him well. You must watch the decoction boil personally.

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Yes.

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Itchy.

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

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

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♫ Black silken hair reflecting the frosty moonlight, ♫

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

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

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♫ Yearning now turns into confusion. ♫

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♫ Glistening teardrops cover the pledge, ♫

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

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

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

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

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

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♫ Twilight is tardy, spring is late. ♫

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

547

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

548

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