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Subtitles and Timings By The Qing Hair and Those Who Dare Team @ Viki.com

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Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace

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Episode 48

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Your Majesty, the dragon horn lift. It's time to lift the veil.

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Sit to receive blessings.

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Drink the nuptial wine.

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Your Majesty, Your Highness, please drink the nuptial wine.

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[Wife of Prince Shen]

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[Wife of Prince Cheng]

- Wishing Emperor and Empress to be harmonious for a hundred years.

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and have many children and grandchildren.

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May Your Majesty and Your Highness have many children.

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It is raw?

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That is exactly what we want. Thousands of gold will not be able to compare with those words from you.

['sheng' means raw and also to give birth]

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If Empress say that it is raw, then it is raw.

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The ceremony is over.

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Congratulations, Your Majesty and Your Highness on your happy occasion.

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If I had known earlier, I would have relaxed.

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Your Majesty, I'm exhausted from today.

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That's right. My face is stiff from smiling.

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I know you are exhausted from the etiquette for today's ceremony.

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My back is going to break soon.

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Is that so? Let me knead it for you.

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How do you feel? Is my strength okay?

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Yes. Your Majesty, you have great strength.

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Ruyi. Do you know?

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My heart is really at peace now.

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Not only have you become the Empress,

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you can finally be with me now.

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I know that you have suffered a lot.

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But you are my legal wife now.

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We can be emotionally connected and be together forever.

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Your Majesty, I hope that we can be together forever. Not deceiving or disappointing each other.

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Okay, let's grow old together

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Not deceiving or disappointing each other.

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My words are to be taken seriously. I'm not only the Emperor of the kingdom,

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I'm also your pillow.

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Why don't we go to bed then? I can't open my eyes anymore.

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Look at how tired you are.

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Okay then. Attendants, change our clothes.

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The conferment ceremony was very beautiful.

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His Majesty treats Her Highness very well.

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Her Highness is very beautiful.

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What are you talking about?

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His Majesty is resting and you are still talking.

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Go and pack up now.

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Yes.

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Master Ling, you have worked hard.

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Eunuch Li, this is His Majesty's happy occasion. I can't leave you.

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Today is a happy occasion. I'm still happy no matter how busy I am.

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That's right.

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I'm going to check over there.

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Eunuch Li, you have worked hard.

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Mistress, you should change your clothes and go to sleep.

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This is the first time I witnessed the conferment.

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It's really very lively and grand.

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No wonder, everyone wants to climb to this position.

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Mistress, you have a long path ahead.

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In the future, you will have a rapid rise in your position too.

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Rapid rise in position?

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I fear that I will never become the Empress in this lifetime.

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If I can become the Royal Consort, I will be fully contented.

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This way, my mother will not look down on me again.

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Mistress, why don't I help you to go in and rest?

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You drank a lot and you are still drinking. Aren't you torturing yourself?

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I'm really very happy today.

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Being that His Majesty has married, you want to have a wife too?

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This is what you said. Don't stop me.

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I really have a woman now who makes me keep thinking of her every day.

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She's Lancui from Imperial Concubine Ling's palace.

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She is that person with Imperial Concubine Ling.

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Dream on.

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What's wrong? Are you worried about Imperial Concubine Ling again?

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His Majesty has enthroned his Empress. Are you afraid that she will be given the cold shoulder?

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Who says that whoever sits in the Empress place, she will be happy and full from worries?

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Buddy, you must not spout nonsense regarding this.

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I feel that,

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there may be more pain and heartbreak.

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Who's making you worried? Why is your heart feeling bad?

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You are already an adult. Why don't you have a family instead of being alone?

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I don't know why I'm alone every day too.

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I also don't know when she started leaving an impression in my heart and I keep thinking of her.

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I can only keep a distance and don't go near her.

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I can only see her from afar.

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But I know when she's happy or sad. I know everything.

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Now that she's doing well,

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naturally, I should be happy. I'm extremely happy.

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But other than being happy, I'm still worried.

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I wonder how much pain and tribulations she will go through in the future.

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Look at you. You are still thinking of Mistress Ling, right?

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Come, I will drink with you.

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Qingying.

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Qingying, you have finally become the empress.

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You are indeed a woman from the Ula-Nala Clan.

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[Yikun Palace]

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Her Highness Empress is here.

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Greetings, Your Highness Empress!

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Get up.

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Thank you, Your Highness Empress.

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Sit down.

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Noble Consort Chun, I have here a coral brush rack and one Huzhou brush.

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Yongrong is currently practicing how to write. Take it back with you later.

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I am grateful for the care of Your Highness Empress.

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Imperial Concubine Jia has really dolled yourself up in a very bright and beautiful manner

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just to celebrate the coronation of Her Highness Empress.

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In serving Her Highness Empress,

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no matter how good we all wear, we just want to earn a smile from her.

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Today, Imperial Concubine Jia is wearing just brightly colored clothes.

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Could it be just to make Her Highness Empress happy?

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Imperial Concubine Ling is just focused on making Empress happy,

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but in my heart, I only remember that His Majesty said

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that he likes me wearing red.

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Your Highness Empress will not blame me for that, right?

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I and His Majesty are of one body and heart.

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If Imperial Concubine Jia thinks of His Majesty, then you are also thinking of me.

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Your Highness Empress is a new empress,

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but this Yikun Palace is your old palace.

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Yi means to assist. It is a palace that was meant to assist the Middle Palace (Palace of the Empress).

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Now that you are the head of the Middle Palace,

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how come you are still living in an assist palace?

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Although you only are of Imperial Concubine rank, you are so concerned about the six palaces.

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Empress is empress.

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She is the official head of the six palaces.

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No matter where she lives, she is the official wife of His Majesty.

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Although all are official wives,

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the succeeding ones are still different from the first married wife.

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Oh, right, Noble Consort Chun, you are from the Han Banner.

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You surely remember that there is this saying among the commoners.

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Is it proper to call it 'xu xian' or 'tian fang'? (both refers to a wife married after the previous one died; xu xian - continue the string, tian fang - filling up the room)

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Your words are too harsh.

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Harsh is harsh, but what I said is true.

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What Imperial Concubine Jia said is true. I am just a second empress.

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It is just Imperial Concubine Jia, you should understand

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that whether it is 'xu xian' or 'tian fang',

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what is important is who is sitting on the empress throne now.

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You have never sat on the empress throne,

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hence, you surely will not fully understand.

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How about this?

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Yesterday was my coronation celebration.

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Today, I am happy too.

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Since Imperial Concubine Jia put so much importance on status,

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I will then reinstate you as Noble Consort.

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It is not the idea of His Majesty?

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I am the one in-charge of the matters in the imperial harem.

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Noble Consort Jia, are you still not going to quickly rise and thank the graces of Her Highness Empress?

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Thank you, Empress.

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Noble Consort Chun, you are the most experienced among the imperial harem.

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From now on, you must help me restrain everyone to strictly follow the palace rules.

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I will remember the teachings of Your Highness Empress.

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Get up.

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- Rongpei.

- Here.

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Go and get me the earrings that I have prepared to be gifted to Noble Consort Chun and Noble Consort Jia.

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Yes.

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The left one is for Noble Consort Chun. The right one is for Jin Yuyan.

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Okay.

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Her Highness Empress made you stay, so you can watch everything closely.

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Noble Consort Chun is of higher standing, so I will start with you.

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This one is Her Highness Empress gift to you.

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These agate beaded earrings are so precious.

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Thank you for you graces, Your Highness Empress.

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This one is a gift of Her Highness Empress to Noble Consort Jia.

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These are carnelian earrings.

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What? Noble Consort Jia does not want to accept the gift of Her Highness Empress?

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I will immediately wear the earrings that Your Highness Empress gave to show my loyalty.

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Thank you, Your Highness Empress.

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I will wear it upon returning to my palace.

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Imperial Concubine Jia, if you are sincere, just wear it now.

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Do not forget. Your Noble Consort position was given to you by Her Highness Empress.

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When Empress Xiaoxian was alive, she hates extravagance the most.

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I really could not dare wear such luxurious earrings.

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Carnelian is not as precious as agate.

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That is because Noble Consort Chun is very experienced and has both sons and daughters.

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It is just proper that her position is above that of Noble Consort Jia.

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This is also my fault.

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I thought that everyone in this palace knows about it.

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Hence, I did not immediately tell Noble Consort Jia the difference of agate and carnelian.

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It is also just Noble Consort Jia who would think that carnelian is a precious gem,

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and one can use it to reach the sky in a single bound.

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Women like us from the Mongolian Man tribe surely know to differentiate between agate and carnelian.

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Even those from the low classes know about it.

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I know how to differentiate the two.

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No need for you to teach me.

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I understand the purpose of Your Highness Empress.

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Do you?

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Do you understand what is right and wrong? Yes and no? Remaining in one's proper place?

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I am giving you these carnelian earrings

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to always remind you not to cause trouble

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and disappoint my deep meaning.

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The hook of this earring

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is twice as wide than usual.

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My earring holes are too fine.

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It won't pierce through.

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In wearing the earrings, no need to trouble Noble Consort Jia for that.

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Whether it will get worn or not is my ability,

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but whether you are willing to let me wear it on you is your decision.

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Regaining your noble consort status is not easy.

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Little Sister, do not lose it again.

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Take note of your claws. Be careful of harming me.

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Noble Consort Jia, please endure it a little.

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Just to remember the lesson, one must suffer a bit.

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It really hurts!

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What's wrong with your finger nail covers?

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Finger nail covers?

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You first sent this to the Office of Careful Punishment. I didn't do anything.

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But aren't those attendants from there your "claws"?

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Whether your claws will follow your order, I do not know.

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But now, I don't listen to your orders anymore

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and you insist that I drill your ears. Tell me what I should do?

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Your Highness, look at how your attendant is bullying her.

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Imperial Concubine Jia, you are an imperial concubine.

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As the empress, Her Highness can only teach and not punish.

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How then are you being bullied and humiliated?

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Your Highness, Suoxin's have been ruined.,

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The Office of Careful Punishment has punished her too harshly.

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His Majesty has also punished me.

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His Majesty doesn't fuss about me anymore.

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Are you still blaming me?

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His Majesty and I are of the same mind.

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This is a reward and not a punishment.

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You are using reward as a personal issue to take revenge.

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Imperial Concubine Jia, don't make any more mistakes.

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- I'm not happy.

- I'm the Empress.

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I'm sitting on the phoenix seat where you most desired.

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Thus, I can reward or punish you.

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Just like how His Majesty punished that Wang person who forced his wife to die.

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Even though Master Wang committed a mistake, His Majesty has already punished him.

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It's not for the women in the harem to discriminate.

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Her Highness is open minded and generous.

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As an imperial concubine, you speak without respect.

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You even wore bright red and clashes with the middle palace.

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Imperial Concubine Jia, no matter how honorable you are and how far you have come,

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you are just like us, a concubine.

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I once heard that the Yu Clan follows Confucian laws.

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A concubine will always be a servant of the main wife.

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A concubine's child will be the servant of the child of the main wife.

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How could your deceased mother not know this difference?

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I want to remind you,

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all your mistakes have already affected your two princes.

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You should carefully think about this now.

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Imperial Concubine Jia, stop struggling and moving around.

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Or else, you will be careless and harm your own ears.

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Moreover, if you will just behave a little,

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I will be able to put them on faster and you will suffer less.

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Does everyone thinks that it looks nice?

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Yes.

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I think so too

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but does it hurt?

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It's good that Your Highness knows that it hurts.

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It's good that it hurts.

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If it hurts, you will remember your lesson.

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Lixin, you should go back and teach your Imperial Concubine Jia well.

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Don't be like Uncle Shu who was careless and kicked out.

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Uncle Shu has his mother to go back to. You don't have anyone.

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Yes.

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Imperial Concubine Jia, your tears are too precious.

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If you want to cry, don't cry in front of me.

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In my eyes, your tears are no different from the dirty water dripping from the eaves.

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But if you want to show your tears in front of His Majesty,

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I would clarify this in front of everyone then.

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Her Highness gave this to you as a reward and I was the one who put it on for you.

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If I have hurt you, just come at me.

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I have nothing to say.

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If you want to pour dirty water on Her Highness,

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you can just forget about it.

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Everyone here already saw that

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you were willing to accept this.

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You should accept this for what you have done without any conscience. You deserved it.

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I saw with my eyes and heard with my ears.

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Your Highness is not responsible for this.

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Rongpei, go and bring the rewards for everyone.

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Yes.

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Mistress, bear with it. I will remove it for you.

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Stop removing it.

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Mistress, you have suffered a lot today.

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Everyone was laughing at you.

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Let me help you to remove them.

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The winner is the king and the loser is derogated.

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Be done with it if she humiliated me.

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She actually had to mention about Duke out of nowhere.

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Is she qualified to mention him?!

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This won't do.

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I'm going to wear these to see His Majesty.

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I will not allow her saying bad things about Duke in front of His Majesty.

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Mistress, Her Highness merely guided you today.

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Rongpei was the one who took actions.

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If His Majesty wants to blame anyone, he won't blame it on Her Highness.

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I can't swallow this.

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Mistress.

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Your Highness, you didn't need to punish Imperial Concubine Jia for me in front of her.

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Ever since you came out from the Office of Careful Punishments covered in blood,

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I told you that I will not let you suffer in vain.

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It's just that no matter how I punish Imperial Concubine Jia,

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you won't be able to replace your legs.

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I have been doing well. It's true.

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You don't need to worry about me.

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It wasn't easy for you to be in this position.

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I only hope that you will be safe and well.

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Not be in any trouble just because of me.

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It wasn't easy for Older Sister to slowly get to where she is now.

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She also needs to be strict and harsh to check and balance.

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Today, Older Sister appeased Imperial Concubine Chun and also applied pressure on Imperial Concubine Jia.

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She wanted them to differentiate between rewards and punishments, rights and wrongs.

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Also, Sister now is the Empress.

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Towards the imperial wives, as long as there is enough evidence, it is not excessive to teach them a lesson.

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Even if Imperial Concubine Jia reports to His Majesty,

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he wouldn't say anything too.

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Hence, Suoxin, you don't need to be worried.

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I know when to be harsh and strict.

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Greetings to Your Majesty.

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Ruyi, you came just in time. I was about to go see you.

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Come, sit.

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Then you and I had a heart connection.

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Of course. Your Highness, you came just in time.

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His Majesty listened so long to Noble Consort Jia and he's tired.

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Luckily I made some lily porridge for you to try.

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Lily is great.

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Lily signifies harmony for a hundred years. A good omen.

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You try some too.

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Is it good?

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Flavor is good.

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Ruyi, earlier Noble Consort Jia came to Yangxin Hall to see me.

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She was teary and said you injured her earlobe.

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Since you know it, I won't need to speak much.

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Noble Consort Jia has never been humble to you.

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Now you've just become the empress, and if you don't put more pressure on her,

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I fear she will be hard to manage later on.

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Your Majesty, I not only wish to remind Noble Consort Jia,

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what I want to do is manage the custom of relying on one's maiden clan in the harem.

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Because of the Yu clan, you have always been merciful with Noble Consort Jia.

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She not only shows gratitude for your grace, she also tries to rely on her maiden clan to do as she pleases.

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That Noble Consort Jia cares more about the Yu clan than me.

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Before it was also because she lamented in full sob over the matter of the Yu clan king,

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that she ended up having trouble in labor and the 9th prince died.

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Now, she is speaking out in disrespect.

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I already punished her to go to Fengxian Hall to repent before the ancestors.

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Your Majesty is sage.

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Forget it. Let's not talk about that.

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Ruyi, come.

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In a few days, it will be my birthday celebration.

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I thought of preparing a gift for you.

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It's your birthday celebration so I should prepare a congratulatory gift for you.

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Why are you doing the reverse?

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Ruyi. You stayed in the cold palace for so many years and the toil you suffered is unspeakable.

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And in the cold palace, most of them are abandoned concubines of the late emperor.

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I've already sent my decree, to relocate them to Rehe Palace to live out their old age in wellness.

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Let them not to suffer such bitter days anymore.

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You mean --

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I mean from now on there's no more cold palace.

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The wives and the king of the palace are one. There's no such thing as abandonment upon end of fondness.

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Your Majesty is a man of devotion and love. The six palaces are in your grace.

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Ruyi.

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Not only for the six palaces. But more so for you.

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Today you are the empress.

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I will promote your late father Narbu as first class Duke of Chengen.

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And your mother as Duchess of Chengen.

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In a few days, I will arrange for your mother to enter the palace to visit you.

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You two mother and daughter should catch up.

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I thank Your Majesty for thinking thoroughly for me.

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Ruyi, you are finally my empress.

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We can finally be in the same portrait.

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I already told Lang Shining to prepare.

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We can be in the same portrait and we can rely on each other until old age.

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After some time, I want to take you

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to burn incense at Mount Wutai, and to the ancestral mausoleum.

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I want to go and report to the ancestors.

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And report to the world. We have so many places to go together.

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Your Majesty.

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The mist dragging the good air from the mountain ridges and the sun coughs out from the clouds the purple smoke.

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Ruyi, it's just the two of us between the heaven and sky.

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It's like we are free and roam as clouds do. Such leisure.

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Your Majesty, you only brought me out alone and that seems to be against the rules.

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I only want to be alone with you for some time.

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It's not biased favoring then.

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This is the world's emperor and you are my proper empress.

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I bring you out to see some pretty scenery. What's not right?

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Come. Promise me.

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That you will accompany and walk like this forever.

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Mistress. Since you were shamed by Empress with earring,

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His Majesty not only did not find justice for you,

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he even has you coming to Fengxian Hall to kneel as punishment daily.

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To pray for 9th Prince's transferring to next world.

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Now he went to the ancestral mausoleum and His Majesty didn't even take you with him.

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Emperor and Empress are having their newlywed period.

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If a third person goes that will just make an extra.

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I don't need to bother with that trouble.

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This Fengxian Hall is pretty nice.

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I can see the images of the ancestors and it seems hopeful.

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What do you mean?

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The portraits hung here are all the Qing emperors.

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I hope one day my son can be like them too.

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To become a reigning king of Great Qing.

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Duchess Chengen.

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His Majesty gave us special instruction since you're elderly in age,

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you will always enter the palace in a carriage.

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Thanks to His Majesty for his care.

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We are almost at Yikun Palace. Empress must be so anxious.

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Mother. Please accept my bow.

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Empress, please get on up. I can't accept it.

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Please take my bow as your daughter and then treat me as empress.

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Empress.

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Let me carry out my national bow.

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I greet Empress ten thousand peace.

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Hurry and get up, Mother.

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Hurry.

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Empress.

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His Majesty treats you well?

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You accompanied His Majesty to the mausoleum and traveled to high mountain and low river.

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Has it been difficult on you?

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I am with His Majesty so it's not difficult.

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As long as you live well, I am at ease.

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Come, sit, Mother.

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Sit here.

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You sit too.

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Madam, Her Highness has been instructing us since early morning.

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These are all the snacks you love to eat.

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Good. Good.

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Empress is sincere and filial.

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Since you became Empress, the House of Ula-Nara has reclaimed the glory of the old days.

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Your father and aunt, in the next world,

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can finally rest in peace.

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How difficult this road has for you. I saw and I ached.

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Being Empress has its share of difficulty.

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Thinking of the final years of your aunt,

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I am really so fearful.

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Mother. I will be cautious.

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His Majesty will treat me well.

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His Majesty treasures you and that's the most important.

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You became Empress and those who come to our home seeking marriage with your sister.

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They are about to break the door frame.

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All are of nobility and high power.

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Mother. A woman is best if she can marry someone who treasures her.

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It doesn't need to be a great and mighty family.

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You are very right. I also consent to it.

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So we can evade getting tainted by richness or power.

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And His Majesty might find us greedy.

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I'm glad you understand where I come from.

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My brother as well. Just a nobility title is enough. Do not let him get a court title.

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I will do as you say.

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Mother have some snacks.

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- Your hand is cold?

- No.

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Your Majesty, you and Empress

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holding hands is very nice posture.

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Alright, then you paint it.

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Watch us hold hands and look at each other without tiring.

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Yes.

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Your Majesty, this is against the rules.

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It is against the rules.

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But it agrees with how I feel.

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♫ Being your favorite and being forgotten both are argued in my heart, at a loss to arrive at an explanation. ♫

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♫ You bear witness to constant changes in my well-being, my sorrows and my joys, the path of my dreams forever cut off. ♫

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♫ You draw my hand to embroider all alone in my loneliness, silken clothes pile up under the moonlight. ♫

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♫ Telling myself they might be used for warmth, but who would dare? ♫

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♫ Whose life after life is filled with paired images of love and resentment? ♫

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♫ One side is beautiful, the other expressionless and silent. ♫

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♫ From a distance, visits come around without word of your approach, ♫

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♫ filling time between acts perhaps? ♫

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♫ Feelings fracture, forgive and wistfully anticipate, forgetting they’re part of the paired image, ♫

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♫ One day in cold indifference, the next in warm recollection. ♫

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♫ If only we might perpetually walk in the brilliant sunlight ♫

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♫ This lifetime has been so dismally overcast. ♫

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♫ From now on, this lifetime will be... ♫

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♫ without clouds. ♫