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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 52

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[ Read and Hear Poetry Art ]

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Empress, you're here.

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Have a seat please.

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This phoenix lute.

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It was granted to me by His Majesty long ago.

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I love it the most. I remember when I first met him.

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It was as though he would notice any fine error in tune.

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Now with the many years gone by.

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In the end I just played a wrong tune.

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You were fine but why did you do that to Concubine Qing?

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Empress, you must not know.

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I and Concubine Qing and Consort Shu.

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We are all from Empress Dowager.

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This Empress Dowager, the highest seat of all women,

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still has to secretly plant her own people around the emperor.

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To eavesdrop. To put in good words. To seduce.

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Isn't it so laughable?

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There's reason for everything.

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Since you are both from the same origin, why did you harm her?

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You guess. Who taught me to do this?

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To let Empress Dowager suffer a loss yet she can't complain.

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She can only resent herself for choosing a wrong person to be by the emperor.

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This kind of plotting.

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Tell me, isn't our emperor so scary?

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Emperor hates people calculating him.

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But it was us who did it knowing it and we end up like this.

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Just that, my whole life.

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The only thing I cared.

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My only regret.

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It's my ill-fated child.

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I finally avenge for him.

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But this mother of his.

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I never even got to see him.

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I don't even know what he looked like.

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You said it avenged for your child. How?

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It wasn't only you who's seen Moxin.

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She couldn't have you but she had me.

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That's how I found out the truth behind my child's death.

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I knew who my enemy was and how to avenge.

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How do you know for sure it was Empress Xiaoxian who harmed your child?

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If it wasn't her, who else could it be?

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Moxin confessed in death. Would she have framed her?

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I know you pain for your child.

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But this incident doesn't add up.

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That year, Empress Xiaoxian wielded control of central palace and her legitimate heir was there already.

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You and Consort Yi's child. How would they threaten her?

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You said you made Empress Xiaoxian and 7th Prince die.

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It was your own doing but I don't believe it.

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Jiang Yubin already found out someone poisoned your rice.

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And not a common poison at all.

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Noble Consort Jia. Why does she want to kill you?

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She wants me dead.

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I don't care anymore.

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I know for sure Empress Xiaoxian wasn't innocent.

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If it wasn't just Empress Xiaoxian that killed your child,

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or even, it wasn't Empress Xiaoxian.

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If someone seemed like they are helping you,

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but in reality they are using you to gain another.

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After they use you they will kill you to shut the truth?

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Em --

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Empress.

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You let me believe.

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I hated the wrong person. I avenged wrong.

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Empress.

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Can you understand it?

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Each day I live. I long for my child.

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My bitter-fated child.

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Just that, after I go to the underworld,

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how do I reunite with him?

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I fear.

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I fear I won't get to meet him and I fear more that I won't recognize him.

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I already settled a place for you two.

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When you are gone, I will hold a ceremony for you.

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I hope you two can reunite well in the underworld.

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Thank you, Empress.

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For doing these for me and my son.

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Empress. Tell me.

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How does His Majesty plan to grant me death?

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I want to go and meet my child properly and proudly.

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I don't want to scare him.

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Sanbao.

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I'm here.

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Empress. My attire. Do I look pretty?

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Pretty.

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My child. Your mother's coming.

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I don't care how others see you.

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Your mother cherishes you. Your mother loves you.

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You are always the best child to me.

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Concubine Mei has left?

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She's finally able to reunite with her own child.

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So pitiful too. She just wanted to avenge for her child.

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But the avenge was taken unclear and not thoroughly.

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Just who exactly harmed her child. She may not know.

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You are still suspicious it was Jin Yuyan's doing?

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Jin Yuyan poisoning Concubine Mei is alarming indeed.

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Just that Jin Yuyan is a complex person.

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Even if we tell His Majesty after having Physician Jiang finding proof,

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she will still have something to say to get out of it for sure.

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Jin Yuyan is a noble woman from Yu clan.

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Unless it has to be done, His Majesty won't punish her severely.

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But we need to find out whether she really was the mastermind behind Concubine Mei.

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So many things, whether she did those or not.

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Even if we can't punish her now, we will find some way somehow.

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Yonghe Palace news.

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Concubine Mei contracted dry cholera and died suddenly.

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His Majesty spared her reputation after all.

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No title conferred. No funeral ceremony.

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And no burial in the consort mausoleum either.

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Just a white cloth over her and she was taken to cremation.

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We needn't miss those who are gone.

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I just hope now that Consort Shu's child

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can come to my side sooner.

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Your Highness, please endure it.

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Push, Your Highness.

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Come, push.

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Endure it.

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Come, bring it.

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Your Majesty.

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Your Majesty, congratulations, and congratulations, Empress.

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Consort Shu birthed a prince.

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A prince?

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Li Yu, go by the rules and send the rewards.

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And tell Concubine Shu to nourish well.

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I will go visit her with Empress in our spare time.

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Yes.

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It's a prince indeed.

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Your Majesty. You're worried about the words of astrology office.

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That the father and son clash?

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Consort Shu has yearned for this child for so many years.

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But I really don't know.

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Whether to be happy or not.

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Empress Dowager, have a look. 10th Prince is so handsome.

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Look at how red his little mouth is.

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Sister Shu is pretty and 10th Prince is handsome too.

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He just looks blessed.

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He does look handsome.

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Consort Shu, this child of yours. You've suffered.

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Gratefully you and child are both safe.

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I am so happy for you.

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As you said, as long as the child is well.

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I see that your body is weak after labor and needs a good restoration.

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Fujia.

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This thousand year purple ginseng is hard to find. I gift to you.

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Empress Dowager, I am young.

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I won't need such a precious thing.

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Consort Shu, you birthed a royal prince and that's a joy.

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I will cherish you.

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I cherish the little royal grandson more.

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Fujia, reward those midwives well.

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Yes.

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Who is Aunt Tian that helped deliver the prince?

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I'm here.

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Last night Consort Shu met danger in labor.

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Thanks to your experience, Aunt Tian,

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you allowed Consort Shu to be spared of tragedy.

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Empress Dowager said to reward the birth tending aunts and the royal physicians each 30 silvers taels.

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Aunt Tian, 100 taels.

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Thank you, Empress Dowager for the royal grace.

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This Consort Shu is truly a beauty.

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Though she had spots during pregnancy,

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after putting on makeup after labor you can't see anything.

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She can't put on thick makeup for bed service.

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She won't be afraid that His Majesty sees it and gets tired of it?

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Consort Shu will lose favor sooner than later.

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Mistress, Aunt Tian is here.

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Greetings to Mistress Ling.

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Sit and talk.

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Thank you.

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Mistress, your frozen bean drink is ready.

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Please have some.

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Give some for Aunt Tian too.

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It's hot lately.

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It's nice to drink some cooling and refreshing things.

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Aunt Tian.

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This --

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Drink it. Don't feel tethered.

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Thank you, Mistress Ling.

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How did it go?

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Replying to Mistress Ling, if I couldn't get it done well,

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how would I dare to come see you?

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How would dare to take your silvers?

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Jin Zhong found you because he knows you're lacking silvers.

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I also know you're desperate for medical help.

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But I also know silver is a small thing.

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What you lack is the skill to continue a life.

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You have a daughter in the countryside being raised by others.

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Even your deceased husband didn't know, right?

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I did indeed marry someone before.

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I did birth a daughter.

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I have a bitter life.

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I first husband's family all contracted a strange disease.

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They all look healthy and strong.

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But they all don't live past age 30.

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Such a pity.

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This prescription, I got through Physician Bao.

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You should trust a royal physician's skill.

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Of course I trust.

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My daughter's life all depends on your pity.

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Since Jin Zhong and I know of your difficulty.

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We will help you get rid of your trouble for sure.

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Of course,

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my trouble is for you to rid of.

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Please be assured.

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What I did this time, not even a ghost or saint can tell.

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- Really?

- Yes.

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A woman birthing a child.

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It's like making a round by the death gate.

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They can't tell when their body is harmed.

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But Consort Shu is still lucky.

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This 10th Prince is still birthed safe and sound.

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Mistress Shu, when she was pregnant she already had kidney problems.

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If she had given birth to a princess, it's better.

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But a prince,

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that's hard to raise till adulthood.

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Really?

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Ten thousand sure.

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I helped with so many deliveries so this I know.

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Say what you need to say.

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10th Prince is having night sweats nightly, losing vital energy.

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He will start to get hot around dusk.

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This is all symptoms of qi and blood loss.

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Since 10th Prince is full-month now, the symptoms are clearer.

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I've seen 10th Prince. He looks good. How is this so?

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This is an ailment from fetal state.

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Consort Shu has weak kidney symptom.

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The pregnancy exhausted her more and so 10th Prince.

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Such a small child and so pitiful.

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Astrology office said 10th prince and I have father and son clash.

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Then am I truly the one that is cursing him?

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Your Majesty, the astrologist's words can't all be trusted.

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10th Prince does have sickness.

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But the royal physician's are devoted to his treatment and he will be alright.

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Your Majesty, are you suffering from headache again? Teacher.

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His Majesty has been in fatigue often lately.

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He's had a hard time falling asleep. It's quite peculiar.

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He's never had this before.

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His Majesty is busy and weary over state affairs and tired.

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Yes.

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- Jiang Yubin.

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You must help His Majesty recover and preserve his royal health.

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Yes. I shall take His Majesty's pulse now.

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- Greetings to Your Majesty.

- What are you doing here so late.?

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I heard you were feeling ill so I came to see you.

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It's nothing. I'm on my way to see Consort Shu and 10th Prince.

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You ache for 10th Prince.

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But I remember the astrologist's words and I keep feeling uneasy.

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Uneasy how? He's still my son so I should take a look.

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If she had birthed a princess, it's fine but she birthed a prince.

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I am really scared.

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Maybe --

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Maybe what?

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Empress Dowager's high princess Ruo Shu was raised at Duke Xianqing's house before, right?

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I also heard Empress Dowager wants to raise Sister Shu's child.

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If the child's raised by the Empress Dowager and accustomed to obeying Empress Dowager.

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It would be a testimony to prove astrologist's words and you and the son have no fate.

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Emperor, you want to send 10th Prince

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to Duke Xianqing's manor to be raised?

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Yes.

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Your Majesty, you can't.

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10th Prince is only a month old and very weak.

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I can't spare it.

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It's because he's weak and he needs full care.

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That I can't let you watch him daily and worry.

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Empress Dowager.

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Emperor. 10th Prince is weak.

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I can put in extra care.

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If you raise him, and you toil, it's one thing.

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But if the child is suffering from headache and fever.

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Consort Shu will worry and you will be upset.

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If we have Consort Shu raise him,

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I fear you will be anxious day and night.

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You won't even recover properly yourself.

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I bid your understanding.

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But if we send out a royal heir to be raised,

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it's still not proper.

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There was a prior example in the previous reign. A royal heir was weak.

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He was sent out to be raised in hopes of becoming healthier.

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Duke and Duchess Xianqing are virtuous and reputable.

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They raised Sister Hengti for Royal Mother before too, so I don't worry about them at all.

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But Your Majesty.

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Consort Shu. 10th Prince is yours and mine.

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How do I not worry about him?

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Just that, the astrology office stated 10th Prince and I are not fated.

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I worry it's because of this that he's weak.

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If I can send him farther out, it might be better.

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Let's do this. I'll let Duke Xianqing,

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take 10th Prince as his foster child and name him Nafu.

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When he's older, bring him back.

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To lessen the astrological omen.

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Since Emperor made such arrangement for 10th Prince,

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then let's send him out.

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Yes.

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What's wrong, Emperor?

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I'm fine. I just stood up too fast.

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I felt dizzy but I just need a bit of rest.

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Consort Shu, hurry and help the emperor go rest.

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Yes.

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- I take my leave.

- Your son takes his leave.

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Empress Dowager, the emperor trusts the words of the astrology.

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He seems unwilling to keep 10th Prince here.

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I never thought 10th Prince was so weak.

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If I keep him by me,

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what if something happens? Consort Shu will resent me forever.

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Your Majesty, it's autumn and dry.

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Consort Shu especially boiled snow pear soup for you.

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Your Majesty, since July until now, you've not rested well.

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You are reading the rolls day and night. You must be cautious of your royal health.

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The 13 forts of Henan. Yellow River breaching.

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The river water ruined countless good farm fields.

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You go deliver my word. Have Gao Bin be restored.

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Go and settle the Yellow River and Helong matters.

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Yes.

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Since it's been over 100 days since I delivered,

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I should be able to attend to bed.

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Why won't His Majesty see me?

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Is he weary that my spots haven't disappeared?

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Or some other reason, that has him shunning me?

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You've been alone too long and you can easily over think.

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The yellow river breached and ruined good fields.

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His Majesty is busy trying to keep water under control.

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Yes.

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10th Prince has been sent out the palace for two months too.

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I am going mad missing him.

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Empress. Can you arrange it?

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To let me see 10th Prince once?

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His Majesty ordered that only on holidays,

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that Duchess of Xianqing is allowed to bring 10th Prince in palace.

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I am not at position to defy the royal order.

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Then I --

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can only spend my days reading His Majesty's poetry?

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Consort Shu is so devoted to His Majesty.

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But why isn't His Majesty summoning her?

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His Majesty knows 10th Prince is weak due to congenital ailment.

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But Consort Shu is weak.

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Because of all the conception potions.

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His Majesty feels guilty and add to that the words of astrology office.

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It's better not to see her for him.

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This is karma.

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You're having a nightmare again?

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I saw Royal Father.

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I saw him sitting by the table, signing the scrolls nice and fine.

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Suddenly he passed out.

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I wanted to raise him but I couldn't.

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The late emperor did die suddenly and it was hard for you.

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It's alright. I just feel suffocating in the chest.

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Ruyi. Tell me, one day, will I also?

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Your Majesty, you're too exhausted.

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Since July and until now,

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you've not slept one night well.

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Before, no matter how busy I was,

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I never felt this exhausted.

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Is it because --

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Is it because of the words of the astrologist of me and 10th Prince clashing?

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So 10th Prince is so weak at birth.

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And I feel tired without reason and unwell.

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Your Majesty, the 10th Prince has already been sent out.

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And being raised at Duke Xianqing's manor.

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You shouldn't over think. You're adding to your fatigue.

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Ruyi.

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Have I gotten old?

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Your Majesty, everyone will get old.

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You will get old. I will get old too.

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Then will you be with me forever?

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I will. I will accompany you all along.

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Sleep.

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Don't over think.

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You're most familiar with His Majesty's daily life.

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How's His Majesty's health lately?

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His Majesty gets his pulse checked by royal physician daily and all is well.

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And His Majesty will do a round of Five Animal Stroke (martial arts) daily to loosen the tendons and bones.

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What about this eating?

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He eats a bowl of tremella porridge daily for breakfast and usually a cup of citrus black bean tea after nap.

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After the evening, he will chew on ginseng slices for restoration.

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Before he sleeps, he drinks bird's nest for calm.

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Sometimes he will drink some wine but not much.

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At most some pine wine brewed together by imperial kitchen and imperial medical house.

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By the way, His Majesty has an affinity for venison lately and there's nothing else.

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Venison restores yang energy.

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Yes. His Majesty is tired and weak lately.

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So he had the imperial kitchen prepare venison.

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Your Highness, let's go back to the palace. The mistresses should be arriving to seek your wellness.

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Continue to serve him well.

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I send off Empress with honor.

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What's wrong, Your Highness?

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Nothing.

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Ten thousand peace to Empress.

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Get on up.

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Thank you, Empress.

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In a few days, it will be the lunar new year. We will be praying at Anhua Hall.

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Don't miss the auspicious time.

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We will honor your order.

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Sit.

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I heard His Majesty's been tired lately.

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We need to pray diligently for His Majesty's royal health.

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His Majesty is unstable health-wise and 10th Prince is also unstable.

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This time we do need to pray properly.

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After Concubine Mei died, we did not have a proper funeral.

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I want to have a ritual for her too so let's do it at the same time.

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But that cunning woman.

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Why does she need to transfer to the next world?

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Concubine Qing, when she was alive, she owed you indeed.

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But what she did may not have been her true intention.

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And she was also punished.

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So now she's done and the fire is out. To let her go in ease.

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It's a token of our attachment together as people who serve His Majesty together in the palace.

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Empress, your words.

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Concubine Mei ruined Concubine Qing so she can't have kids.

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Everyone in the palace knows.

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She also acknowledged it.

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How is it that you're saying it's not her intention now?

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I heard when she died, it was you who sent her off.

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I wonder if she said something to you, Empress.

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To cause you to have a tenderness for her.

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Concubine Mei did say many truths to me.

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I do feel she was pitiful indeed.

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Such a venomous person. What truth is there?

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What true words is there to speak of?

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Concubine Mei said she did ruin Concubine Qing and it was her truth.

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She also told me it was due to her pain of losing a child that she lost her sense of awareness.

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That's a truth.

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Concubine Mei also said the kids in the palace are pitiful.

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From her child to Concubine Yi's child, to Empress Xiaoxian's 7th Prince.

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We don't know who put a hand in it to have them die unfairly.

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That's the bigger truth.

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Concubine Mei and Concubine Yi's children were foul play involved.

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But 7th Prince was born weak so he contracted the pox.

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Yes. 7th Prince had his nurse maid develop pox.

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So he contracted it and died early. The whole palace knows it.

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What's unjust about that?

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I was thinking that it was true that the pox was going around in the palace.

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But Changchun Palace was undisturbed.

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7th Prince was weak since birth.

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Everyone who served him was always cautious.

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The nursemaid never left Changchun Palace either.

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How is it that she of all people got the pox?

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Getting the pox isn't something anyone can predict.

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It's true.

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Concubine Mei told me before her death,

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that she once met Imperial Noble Consort Huixian's maid, Moxin.

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Later Moxin got the pox and died and Concubine Mei was fine.

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But instead it was the nursemaid and 7th Prince that got the pox.

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This is indeed unpredictable.

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What's there to speak of?

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Can't be that Moxin went to see the nursemaid and got her pox.

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Pox, if you must blame,

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we can only blame on her being unlucky.

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Noble Consort Jia, you mean,

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it was 7th prince who deserved to die?

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If it wasn't for 7th Prince dying early, Empress Xiaoxian would not have died out of sorrow.

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You mean, 7th prince and Empress Xiaoxian,

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are just unlucky?

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I never meant that.

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Why must you rile on, Consort Ling?

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Noble Consort Jia, you yourself said that. Who riled you?

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Noble Consort Jia, what you said earlier.

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They were very contemptful towards Empress Xiaoxian and 7th prince.

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You're targeting me on purpose now?

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A person should despise himself before others.

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Can you blame others, Noble Consort Jia?

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Empress, Noble Consort Jia speaks so disrespectfully.

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I deem it a matter that cannot be ignored.

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We ask Empress cast disciplinary action on Noble Consort Jia.

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To right the palace rules.

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Get on up.

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Noble Consort Jia, you spoke improperly.

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And dishonored Empress Xiaoxian and 7th Prince to the glare of the six palaces.

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I will punish you to paint one hundred sutra flags

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for Empress Xiaoxian and 7th Prince and deliver them to Shenshui Imperial Burial to repent.

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Before that, you are banned from exiting Qixiang Palace.

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Empress, you pick on me on purpose.

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I will go plead my case with His Majesty.

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The harem matter is in Empress's control.

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Noble Consort Jia, you committed a wrong and you want to bother His Majesty?

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Noble Consort Jia, Empress is already being very generous with you.

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Noble Consort Jia, don't worry. I will brief your action today to His Majesty.

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And I'll see how His Majesty will handle it.

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Noble Consort Jia, this way, please.

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Noble Consort Jia is so pompous. She should have been punished long ago.

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You all go back to your own palace.

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Bidding farewell.

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Ruyi, Noble Consort Jia spoke improperly.

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You disciplined her and it's only natural.

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To have her pay tribute to Empress Xiaoxian and Yongcong is understandable too.

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But Noble Consort Jia and Empress Xiaoxian were close.

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It was after Empress Xiaoxian passed away that Noble Consort Jia started to harbor greed for harem power.

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But it doesn't mean she brought harm to Empress Xiaoxian and her son.

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You still believe Empress Xiaoxian's death and 7th Prince's early death,

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Noble Consort Jia was innocent from those?

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According to your words, the words of Concubine Mei before her death,

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actually she only confessed she did it.

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She didn't say it was Noble Consort Jia and you didn't tell me until a few days later too.

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I fear you had some reservation too.

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Even so, before Yonghuang died, he mentioned Noble Consort Jia.

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Concubine Mei's parrot was poisoned to death by Noble Consort Jia too.

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I can't help but be suspicious.

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Ruyi, only suspicion but no evidence.

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I can't touch her with that.

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It's because of the Yu clan?

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You can't talk to me like that.

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I knew you'd say that to me.

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Your Majesty, if one day Noble Consort Jia is truly proven to have committed such heinous crimes,

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you won't still indulge her, right?

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If that day truly comes, I have my measure.

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After she paints the sutra streamers, I will have her pray with blood pokes too.

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To show her repent and earnestness.

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Yes.

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Mistress, you must endure it.

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Since Empress said we should remember Empress Xiaoxian.

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We should just remember. Don't anger your health away.

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This time, she --

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She was easily calculated by me when she was alive.

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She's useless in death too.

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Let's see, Empress.

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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. ♫

520

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

521

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

522

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

523

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

524

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

525

♫ filling time between acts perhaps? ♫

526

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

527

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

528

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

529

♫ This lifetime has been so dismally overcast. ♫

530

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

531

♫ without clouds. ♫