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Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace

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Episode 64

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Fine then. Keep Song as a noble lady.

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Have her live in Yuanming Garden. Not in the palace.

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Yes.

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Your Majesty, the lord of Yu had a secret report to you too.

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You may go.

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Ruyi, you take a look.

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This Yu clan lord said so. Jin Yuyan wasn't birthed by her mother.

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She's a bastard child from unknown origin.

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They can't even tell if she's really a Yu clanswoman.

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This Yu clan cares about blood the most.

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A matter of this kind can't be so confusing.

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They think I am so foolish to believe them?

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Yu clan's lord is only trying to find an excuse to clear himself.

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Just that this clearing is happening so soon.

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Now what he says isn't the important matter.

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It's important how you treat it.

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Jin clan?

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She only got her own retribution. Let her live or die on her own.

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Ruyi. In three months, you will deliver.

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As astrologist said, your fetus is an auspicious fetus.

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You needn't trouble your mind with the likes of Jin.

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I just want you to be stable and nurture the baby.

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So you can deliver our child safe and sound.

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Yes.

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Your tongue is so mighty.

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Your words made His Majesty so gleeful.

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All waiting in eager anticipation for the birth of Empress's auspicious baby.

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I told you not to worry, didn't I?

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We just depend on this to eat.

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Yes.

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But you know this auspicious child. Can it be born safely?

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Of course it can.

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Auspicious fetus will be born smoothly.

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I mean, what if something happens.

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You know.

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There's no accident.

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If really there is,

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then our astrology office will still have its own story.

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I am from Tian clan. Greetings to Consort Ling.

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Nanny Tian?

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Empress is already 7th month pregnant.

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You should be coming to the palace to serve her soon.

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Yes. But --

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This time I came to beg you.

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Mistress Ling, I beg you to save my daughter.

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What's wrong? Physician Bao's medicine isn't working?

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Physician Bao's medicine has been fine.

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But it's losing its potency this last six months.

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My daughter's suffering in pain nearly dying every time the symptoms appear.

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But I can't see Physician Bao.

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So I beg you, Mistress Ling.

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I beg you to ask Physician Bao to prescribe a new medicine.

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Nanny Tian, I want to save your daughter too.

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We've been close so many years.

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Just that now, I have a trouble at hand.

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I really can't seem to focus.

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Mistress Ling, please, I beg you to save my daughter.

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She's only 16. Please, Mistress Ling.

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Actually this is quite the coincidence. My trouble, you see.

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It's only you who can solve it. No one else.

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If you can help me resolve this trouble,

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then I will naturally save your daughter all the way.

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I will do anything you instruct without hesitation.

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I shall get it done.

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There's no need to cross the river or escape from fire.

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It's just your skillful pair of hands that we need.

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I really hope your baby

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can be born soon.

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I hear from astrology office this is an auspicious fetus, so it must be a prince.

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Astrology office. His Majesty seems to trust them.

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But as for me, I think we can just hear it but not regard it true.

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Back then the child of Consort Su's was predicted by the astrology office.

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So His Majesty is so trusting of them.

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Heeding to Physician Jiang is better than heeding to astrology office.

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Empress, your fetus is all well.

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Just that, your belly is getting bigger so you must be cautious sitting and standing.

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This child might go into labor early.

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How early?

- I fear soon.

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But this child, as long as it fulfills 8th month fully,

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and the labor goes smoothly, it shouldn't be much trouble.

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You better be careful no matter what.

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Alright. Suoxin is always asking about you at home too.

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I trouble Suoxin to be concerned about me.

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She's already a mother of two children but she still thinks of me.

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Suoxin's leg is inconvenient for her to come greet you.

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But she made some small clothes at home.

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She hopes to gift to your little prince in your womb.

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Little prince? You say a little prince too?

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The other physicians say it's a prince too. Is it accurate?

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Accurate or not, should be at least half half?

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Then we don't need you to come tell me that.

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I think you must be carrying a prince since you are full of blessing.

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You are a blessed person too.

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Soon, you will be pregnant too.

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Empress is right. I do believe in blessing.

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And I believe in retribution too.

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I hear Jin's illness has gone to the bones already.

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His Majesty never went to visit her.

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The one in Qixiang Palace, no one cares now.

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But I hear the one in Yongshuo Palace.

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She's been diagnosed with pregnancy.

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Chunchan, I'm really pregnant?

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The physician can't be wrong, right?

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Physician Bao took your pulse personally. He can't be wrong.

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But I can't see I'm pregnant at all.

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Congratulations, Mistress. Your sweet dream is finally achieved.

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Come up.

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Go and send someone to tell my mother and come with me to Anhua Hall to pray.

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Yes.

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Consort Ling is often favored so pregnancy is expected.

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Consort Ling used to be bullied by Jin all the time.

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Now Jin has befallen and Ling's wish is coming true.

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The world is ever changing.

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Physician Jiang.

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Your Highness.

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Jin Yuyan won't fare?

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Replying to Your Highness. I've seen Jin's pulse.

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The oil's dried up and I fear she won't live long.

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She won't live long.

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Then some things I must ask her clearly.

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She was once at least a favored noble consort.

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Now, such haggardness.

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I don't see any palace servants.

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Anyone?

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I'm here.

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This yard is so messy. Why isn't anyone cleaning?

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Since my mistress became ill, she disallowed us

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to clean the courtyard.

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Wait outside.

- Yes.

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Oh? It's Empress.

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Aren't you almost in labor?

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But you brought your pointy belly to come laugh at me?

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I have some things I'd like to ask you.

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You knew I'm almost done.

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So you hurried to come ask me?

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But I just won't tell you.

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So many things. There are no answer to them. You can suspect all you want.

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You feel agony, right?

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That makes me so happy.

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You're not happy. You're most unhappy.

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So you don't eat medicine and you don't get treatment. You let yourself go.

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I tried to endure all my life. I tried to act mighty all my life.

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In the end, not only has my dignity been lost.

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Even my own sons can't hold up their heads with dignity.

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Shamed my maiden clan.

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Disappointed His Lordship's aspiration for me.

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I don't know what reason I am living on for.

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For Yu clan, you did all you can.

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But you still don't know that Yu's lord has abandoned you?

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You thought you could make me talk if you mentioned him?

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His Lordship abandoned me?

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You can think of that?

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Yu clan's lord sent a secret letter to His Majesty.

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Saying you weren't even born into nobility.

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That you were an abandoned child from unknown origin.

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Even that he's not sure if you're a Yu clanswoman.

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Shut your mouth.

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With earnest mind to Your Majesty.

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The palace maid that was once tributed from Jin clan.

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Yuyan was not birthed by her mother.

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Can't be.

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Can't be.

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Yu lord's handwriting. You would recognize it.

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For such a flippant man. You devoted your life. It's not worthwhile.

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My entire life.

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It was all for a smile from His Lordship.

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But in the end I don't even know who I am?

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So laughable.

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So laughable.

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I came hoping to hear a truth from you.

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Jingsi, did you kill her?

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Not me.

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I didn't kill Jingsi.

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I didn't kill Concubine Ying's child either.

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I still don't know.

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Why Fugui'er ran out.

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Why Fugui'er killed Jingsi.

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At the time, all my heart was spent on Yongxuan's leg.

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You don't believe me, is that right?

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You're empress.

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You're the enemy of the entire harem.

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Others only have a chance after they pull you down.

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Some calculation is nothing in the palace.

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For their gain, they can do anything.

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You want to know what else?

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Ask me. I will tell you. Ask.

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Empress Xiaoxian.

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It was me. It was me who borrowed Concubine Mei's hand.

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To let her fall into the water.

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Concubine Mei and Concubine Yi's children?

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It was me.

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It was me who couldn't stand them and arranged it all.

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And I had Imperial Noble Consort Huixian commit the deed.

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It was me.

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And Concubine Yi. The snakes in the palace.

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It was me who sent someone to do it too.

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in this entire palace,

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everyone's got their motives. If you don't use them, they will use you.

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They just died in my stead.

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And Yonghuang?

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It was me also.

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It was me who told him that his mother, Imperial Noble Consort Zhe --

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That she was killed by Empress Xiaoxian.

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So he lost his mind before Empress Xiaoxian's tablet.

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And His Majesty got furious at him.

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What else do you want to know?

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Right. Hailan. It was me on Hailan too.

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Let me think.

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A'Rou. You remember A'Rou?

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I saved her when she was kneeling by the cricket gate.

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It was me who brought her to Empress to betray you.

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Look at how she hated you.

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I didn't say much but she already betrayed you.

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What more do you want to know?

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Concubine Shu.

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It wasn't me.

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When she was pregnant with 10th prince, my place and my son's place were already secure.

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I had no reason to harm her.

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You already found the answers now.

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You lied to me, right?

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You wanted me to say these.

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Say these answers you wanted to hear so you lied to me, right?

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I am Jin Yuyan, right? Don't go.

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Tell me that you lied to me.

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Come back.

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Come back.

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Don't go.

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Come back.

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Who's listening to opera?

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Consort Ling is pregnant and Empress Dowager is happy and summoned the opera troupe.

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It's always bustling when someone in the harem is pregnant.

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[ Qixiang Palace ]

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May you preserve me, Buddha.

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Allow me to birth a prince smoothly.

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To let me achieve glory and honor.

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Mistress. Mistress.

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Your nephew, Master Zhaqi is here.

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He's begging to see you in the back room.

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For what else?

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Send him away.

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Yes.

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I was waiting for over half an hour but she's still not here. Did my aunt really say that?

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What's this noise?

- I'm telling you, if I don't see her today --

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I won't go.

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It seems to be Consort Yu's nephew Zhaqi.

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He's throwing a tantrum since he couldn't get silvers.

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Is that so?

- The servants will take care of these cheap relatives.

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Mistress, don't harm your fetus.

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Go now and get some silvers to send Zhaqi away nicely.

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Consort Yu isn't willing to be a good person.

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But I will be virtuous for my unborn child.

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Yes.

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Your Majesty. I went to see Jin.

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Ruyi. You're pregnant with an auspicious child.

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Jiang Yubin said you might go into labor early.

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Those filthy places. Don't go again.

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Yes.

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Just that she's about to die and I must go and ask some things clearly.

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Or else I can't be at ease.

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Did she say?

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She acknowledged she killed Empress Xiaoxian and 7th prince.

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And killed Concubine Yi and Mei's fetuses.

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And killed Yonghuang and Imperial Noble Consort Huixian.

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And it was she who caused Hailan to have a difficult labor.

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Just that she didn't acknowledge she harmed Concubine Shu and the son.

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Or 6th princess or Jingsi.

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That evil woman. She acknowledged?

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Just that what she didn't acknowledge, did she think I'd believe her?

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When Empress Xiaoxian passed away,

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her maid Sulian's death was peculiar too.

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She had a bead flower of Noble Consort Chun's in her hand.

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Noble Consort Chun's bead flower? What bead flower?

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That's the hydrangea bead flower I gifted Noble Consort Chun.

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Since Jin acknowledged she harmed Empress Xiaoxian to die,

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then her deeds could possibly be linked to Noble Consort Chun.

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Your Majesty, I don't believe Noble Consort Chun,

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would collude with Jin to kill Empress Xiaoxian.

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Jin acknowledged she killed Empress Xiaoxian, but if Sulian is also linked to it,

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then the bead flower might be Jin's doing to frame Noble Consort Chun.

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Forget it. I don't want to hear such filthy things anymore.

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No matter what, you asked Jin.

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And now you can be at peace. What's in the past,

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do not think anymore.

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Yes.

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Ruyi. Seeing how your body,

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looks to be heavier, should you be asking your mother to come and accompany you in the palace?

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Mother's health hasn't been well lately.

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I don't dare to trouble her.

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It's already my third labor. I am not scared.

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Good then. Then I won't worry.

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I have to approve some scrolls so I will go to Yangxin Hall now. You should get some rest.

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Don't get up.

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Mother. Is that hand wrap for me?

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It's for your royal mother.

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Royal Mother contracted frostbite before while in the cold palace so it's best to keep warm.

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Mother you are so good to Royal Mother.

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Sometimes better than how you treat me.

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Silly child with silly thoughts.

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Have you seen your 4th brother lately?

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My 4th brother seems gloomy all the time even after marriage.

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Mother. I hear Mother Jia is not faring well.

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It's a matter of time.

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Now, everyone will ignore 4th brother. But Yongqi.

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If you see him, you have to respect him especially and be courteous to him. Understand?

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Your teaching, I shall remember.

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Let me. You can go.

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Yes.

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So uninteresting.

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If I knew this would be the ending.

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Why bother fighting with them in the palace?

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Exhaust my mind and exhaust my calculations.

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In the end I just get an emptiness.

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If only I can start over.

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If there's truly a reincarnation.

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You must never live this kind of life again.

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Remember.

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You must never live like this again.

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Mistress.

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[ Qianlong 20th year in reign. Jin clanswoman dies. ]

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[ Posthumously titled Imperial Noble Consort Shujia. ]

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After dinner, my mistress started to brush and wash up herself.

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She wouldn't let us serve her.

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I thought she was heeding by Empress's advice.

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And finally thought through.

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But who'd know, at night, when I went in to deliver water,

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I discovered she was already out of breath.

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When she left, was she quiet?

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Very quiet. She even had a smile on her face.

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You go report it to His Majesty.

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That Jin left in peace and bliss.

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Yes.

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The day started so gloomy.

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I fear the heavens and I are the same, lamenting Jin's departure.

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I hear Jin's coffin has been set to rest at Jinan Manor.

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Jin's funeral must be carried out with good sight.

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She did indeed birth three princes.

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I plan to posthumously title her as an imperial noble consort.

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Your Majesty, Jin was already demoted to commoner.

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But this imperial noble consort title is done for others to see.

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Yu's lord kept trying to deny her birth.

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It was to preserve himself.

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If I bury her as a commoner.

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It will rile unyielding commotions in the court.

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And it will defame the honor of the imperial family.

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I thought it through.

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I will promote her emblem as Shu. As Imperial Noble Consort Shujia.

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In her life, Imperial Noble Consort Shujia cared the most about the royal princes.

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Yongcheng has been cast outside of the royal heirdom and both Yongxuan and Yongxin are still young.

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They are all good kids.

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They shouldn't be incited anymore.

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Yongcheng is a duke already.

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Yongxuan and Yongxin, I will give them titles of dukes.

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I will have the dowagers watch over them so all should be settled.

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Your Majesty has considered thoroughly.

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I'm a bit tired.

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I will go back to Yangxin Hall to rest.

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Sending Your Majesty away with respect.

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Yongxuan.

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4th brother.

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[ Xiefang Hall ]

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Do you miss me?

[ 11th prince - Yongxin ]

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Nanny said the two of us should bow to mother.

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11th brother and I will then be looked after by the dowagers.

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Yes. So I came to escort you.

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Don't cry. Come.

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It's alright.

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You will depend on me from now on.

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I will take care of you.

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[ Xiefang Hall ]

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With death looming, Jin Yuyan still didn't acknowledge she harmed Concubine Yu.

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She also didn't acknowledge she harmed Jingsi and 6th princess.

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At any rate, Fugui'er was raised by her.

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Fugui'er was indeed her dog.

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But this can't prove it was done by her.

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After Jingsi left, I kept thinking.

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If this matter, we thought wrong,

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if someone was behind this,

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starting from Yongxuan falling off the horse,

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calculating Jin Yuyan, Concubine Ying, you and me.

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We all got calculated into it. None of us spared.

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Then this person's motives are not simple indeed.

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Jin Yuyan schemed and calculated all her life.

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She committed all the evil deeds there can be. It must be her.

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However, what you said has logic as well.

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Yongxuan falling off the horse. It couldn't have been done by Jin Yuyan alone.

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Someone else must be behind it.

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Sister. You are about to deliver.

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It's best you worry about your own health first.

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As for these tiring things. Don't think about them for now.

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Can I not think of them? Incident after incident in the palace.

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How many steps did we take?

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I was just following your thought and forgot to count.

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But Physician Jiang did say walking a lot is good.

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If you're not tired, let's walk a few more rounds.

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Alright. Let's go a few more circles.

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You whore. Are you trying to scald me?

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I know my wrong. I will be careful next time.

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Mistress, Eunuch Jin Zhong is here.

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Greetings to Mistress Ling.

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You leave.

- Yes.

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Newly stewed red dates bird's nest soup.

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I serve you, Mistress Ling.

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Come.

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His Majesty didn't visit you lately and you're mad?

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What is there to be mad about?

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It's my first child but it can't compare to Empress's auspicious fetus.

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His Majesty can't spare thought on me and that's a given.

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Astrological omen of being auspicious.

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His Majesty is so happy and that's a good thing.

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Of course it's good.

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Come.

- I won't drink it.

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I beg you then. For your royal fetus, drink a bit.

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You just need to watch your health and the baby's.

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I will feed you a couple bites and I will need to go back to serve His Majesty.

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I hear Empress is likely to deliver early.

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His Majesty is so worried.

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Is that so?

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It seems the auspicious fetus is getting delivered sooner.

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They need the midwives to come in early.

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I will go and serve His Majesty.

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I take my leave.

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Chunchan. Bring Nanny Tian here.

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I am pregnant and I want to hear about labor.

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Yes.

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Slowly.

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You're so pregnant but you still greet Empress Dowager daily.

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Empress Dowager will remember your devotion.

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Walking more in advanced pregnancy is good too.

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Greetings to Empress.

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Get on up, Nanny Tian.

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Thank you, Empress.

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I'll have to trouble you all again.

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Last time it was during the time Concubine Shu having just passed away and I bore a princess.

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I didn't reward you well.

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This time I will make up for it.

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Thank you, Empress for your grace.

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Empress, His Majesty said,

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he will send the astrologist and the royal physician to be on guard together.

- So formal?

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Of course. Empress is pregnant with the auspicious fetus, so naturally it is special.

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Come with me.

- Yes.

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Is there anything wrong with my fetus?

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Replying to Your Highness, the royal heir has turned in your womb.

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I fear you will suffer in your labor so I am massaging you.

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Turned?

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Yes.

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How do you massage?

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I just massage your belly lightly.

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To let the fetus turn back following the lead.

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Also, you can't walk anymore.

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That might cause the fetus to turn back again.

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If you wait till the fetus has its head upward and legs downward,

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then it will be difficult to labor.

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Just that royal physician Jiang said, when he checked my pulse,

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he didn't say there was anything wrong with the fetus.

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Replying to Your Highness. The physician is a man.

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He can only check your pulse. He can't touch your belly.

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So he wouldn't know if it's turned a bit.

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Empress, in the palace,

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Nanny Tian is the only one who can massage the belly to turn the fetus.

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You may be assured, Your Highness.

- Twice a day.

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I will come and massage the fetus back.

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I've troubled you.

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Yes.

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It's been over ten days. Has the fetus turned?

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Empress, not yet. The fetus is too big.

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But don't worry, I will do my best.

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Lately I feel like my back is sore.

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The child is moving a lot in my belly.

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Your Highness, your pulse is rushing.

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I fear you are about to deliver.

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It's only been 7 some month. It's too early.

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It can't be helped. Your pulse is very fierce.

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Even with fetus stable medicine, it is too late.

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I estimate it's going to be within the day or two.

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How can that be. The fetus is not yet properly aligned.

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Is the fetus very turned?

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About a shoulder width.

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I just fear when she's giving birth, it won't be smooth.

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Your Majesty, I fear you are rushed to deliver.

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I must go to the interior bureau to prepare.

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Alright, have Jin Zhong go help you.

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Yes.

- Yes.

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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. ♫