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Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace

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Episode 72

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If you were sincere, you'd be kneeling at Yangxin Dian.

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You are afraid to anger His Highness. You won't be able to face the consequences,

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and thus implicating your families.

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Empress, I can't bare to think that Imperial Noble Consort Chun has been wronged like this.

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I also don't understand His Highness' behaviour after Consort Rong has entered the palace.

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That's why I'm kneeling here, Empress please uphold the justice.

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I understand what you are saying.

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I tried to convince His Highness.

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To uphold the peace in the harem, don't dote on Consort Rong too much.

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But to have His Empress to send her away, it can't be done.

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If you continue to make a fuss and force His Highness to send her away.

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I'm afraid that he will blame you in the future.

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Noble Lady Qing, by His Highness' words.

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If you understand how to advance and retreat, you'll be immediately restored to Imperial concubine.

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Praise His Highness' wisdom, I thank his grace.

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I will immediately return to my palace and reflect on my actions.

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You can all get up now, I'll go visit Imperial Noble Consort.

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Lüyun

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His Highness is letting go of Yongzhang's matter.

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He has promised for you to become Imperial Noble Consort.

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The ceremony has been set on the 18th of April.

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The Imperial Household Department is already preparing the proper garment .

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Imperial Noble Consort?

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His Highness must know that my days are numbered.

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When Imperial Noble Consort Huixian died,

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His Highness also conferred her the title of Imperial Noble Consort.

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Hailan, Baiyin, I have some things to say to the Empress.

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You can step out for a bit.

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Yes.

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Empress,

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I know that,

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I don't have much time left.

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I...

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I have sinned too much.

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I have thus implicated my child.

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That year, I shouldn't have held such greedy ambition.

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Wanting to use Yongzhang to snatch the empress seat, and ruining him.

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It caused His Majesty to tire of him.

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I am terrified.

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I regret it very much.

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I have banned meat in my meals and reciting Buddhist verses.

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I've been praying for Buddha's forgiveness.

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And spare me the retribution.

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Retribution...

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Retribution...

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Retribution has arrived eventually.

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Hush now, please take care of yourself first.

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Take care of your body.

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Think about your children, about the future.

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It's fine.

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If I die,

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I can repay all my sins.

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It will be an exchange for His Highness' forgiveness for Yongzhang.

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I'd be most willing to.

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It's good to speak out loudly.

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Take care of your body, we can talk about everything else late.

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Yongzhang...

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Xiangjian will remain an outsider in the palace due to her character.

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Now that the concubines have caused a fuss,

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Xiangjian will most likely be wronged in the future.

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I have been keeping an eye on this location for a while now, you must hurry up the renovation.

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Yes, I'm already on it. Rest assured, Your Highness.

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I want to give her the best.

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Yes, I'll be off now.

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Your Highness, Princess Hejing is seeking attendance.

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- Let her in.

- Yes.

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Greetings to Royal Father.

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You are here.

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Such a big event took place in the palace.

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I can't stay put in my palace.

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Are you blaming me, too?

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That's not it.

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I'm not worried about anyone else, only you.

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What's to worry?

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Royal Father, how dare the concubines to force your hand like this?

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They are truly arrogant.

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A concubine's virtue lies in her gentleness.

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Have they forgot?

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Only you care about me.

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If only the current Empress has mother's abilities,

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to rule the harem like she did back then.

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The women wouldn't have been allowed to make such drama.

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Consort Ling was someone you nurtured for years.

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So she knows to stay put in a time like this instead of jumping on the fire.

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That's enough. You can go first.

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I want to be alone.

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I take my leave.

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Your Majesty, you hadn't flipped any tags for days.

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I will go to Consort Ling's.

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Your Majesty, Consort Ling's recently become pregnant.

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She is not suitable for bed service yet.

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I am only going to visit her. So?

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Yes. Yes.

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Mistress. The medicine is done.

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Please get up and drink some.

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I won't drink.

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You help me up to the window.

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I want to see.

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Towards Xiefang Hall's direction.

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To see if I can see Yongzhang.

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Slower, Mistress.

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Mistress. You can't see Xiefang Hall like this.

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I can't see it.

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But I still need to look.

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My son is my life.

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Now even if I want to go to Xiefang Hall,

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I don't have the energy.

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Yongzhang.

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Your mom.

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Can't protect you anymore.

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Mistress. Mistress, what's wrong?

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Don't scare me.

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Come. Come.

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Mistress.

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Sister.

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Why can't you escape this?

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If you leave, in this palace,

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I have no one I can talk to.

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Go report to Empress.

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Yes.

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Empress. Our mistress.

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Our mistress has passed away.

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Noble Consort.

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Your court attire is here.

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Later, dress Luyun into it.

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Yes.

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[ Qianlong 25th year in reign. Noble Consort Chun dies. 3 months later, 3rd Prince Yongzhang dies. Posthumously, Prince Xun. ]

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Your Majesty, drinking in frustration harms the body. Perhaps you should drink less.

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Less than three months after Noble Consort Chun died, Yongzhang followed suit and died too.

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Though I've posthumously titled him Prince Xun.

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It won't make amend.

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I understand Your Majesty is tormented over the funerals in succession in the palace.

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Your Majesty even stopped this year's Mulan Autumn Hunt.

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I don't understand.

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I told Li Yu to look into Hanqi's background.

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He's just a mere ordinary Han tribesman.

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Why is Xiangjian's yearning for him so strong?

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From what I see,

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this Hanqi was just a follow tribesman.

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He met her sooner. Forgive me for being bold.

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Mistress Han never saw any extraordinary men either.

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Hanqi just got the priority.

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Your Majesty, the palace attire you told the interior bureau to create has been sent here.

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Do you wish to look over it?

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This palace attire is so pretty.

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Your Majesty, I think Mistress Han would look quite spectacular.

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Where are you --

- Li Yu.

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Take this palace attire to Chengqian Palace.

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Yes.

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Mistress? His Majesty is here.

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You all leave.

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Xiangjian. You're looking at the western clock I gifted you?

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Great. You know.

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Whatever you like, I will gift it to you.

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Tonight, I want to gift you another. Li Yu.

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I'm here.

- I had the interior bureau make this especially for you.

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I thought you'd look great in it.

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You will look so graceful and alluring. Put it on.

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I'm in mourning. I will not wear your clothes.

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Mistress Han, this is a token of His Majesty's care.

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Xiangjian, there's got to be a limit to your stubborn behavior.

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Since you came to the palace, look at all the fuss you made.

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I protected you in all. What more do you want? I know you miss Hanqi.

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So I found his body and sent it to Han tribe for good burial. What more do you want?

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I know you are in mourning for him and I approved of you wearing all white.

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I am Hanqi's widow. In life and death, I am his.

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So your days are no relations to me.

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I don't want to see you. And I don't wish to hear you talk.

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Open your eyes and see. You're already in my harem.

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I didn't want to come here.

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Xiangjian. Do you know how I feel?

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I will be good to you. We will grow old together.

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Don't say anymore. I will not forget Hanqi.

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Xiangjian, calm down.

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Xiangjian, are you alright?

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Your Majesty, I did indeed

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take away all possible weapons from Chengqian Palace.

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This, I don't know where it came from.

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Your Majesty. Forgive me for being bold.

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This matter isn't all Eunuch Li's to blame.

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I already looked into it and the weapon Mistress Han just used.

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It's the hand from his clock.

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Forget it. Get on up.

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Thank you, Your Majesty.

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Greetings to Your Majesty.

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How is she?

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Your Majesty, I already cleaned Mistress Han's wound.

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Thankfully the wound is shallow and it's not difficult to heal.

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But I'm not competent enough to see that it doesn't scar.

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Just that.

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Mistress Han was agitated.

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She won't allow the treatment nor the tonic.

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I can only leave the ointment to her attendant.

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To let them put it on her when she's less agitated.

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Your Majesty, please be at ease.

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Your Majesty, it's getting late. You should go back and rest.

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So Mistress Han can be settled. We can come another time.

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Tonight's incident. Tell no one.

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If someone asks, say Xiangjian accidentally scratched her face.

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Yes.

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Let's go.

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Mistress, your wound on your face. I will put medicine on it.

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Mistress. Your food is here.

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Go out.

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Yes.

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Hanqi.

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I can come see you soon.

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Fool. You only come tell me this big incident now?

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His Majesty said to hide it.

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But Mistress Han isn't eating and won't take the medication and His Majesty can only ask me to come to you.

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Does Empress Dowager know?

- Not yet.

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Empress, you please go to Yangxin Hall first.

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You practice writing well.

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Your Majesty, Empress is here.

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Your Majesty.

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Ruyi, sit.

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Li Yu told you?

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Ruyi, I have no other way.

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I was drunk that day and startled Xiangjian.

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I only wanted her to change into the palace attire but I didn't imagine her to be so stubborn.

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She won't eat and she won't take medicine.

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She's refusing to eat?

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I'm out of idea so I asked you to come help me.

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Ruyi. Are you very disappointed in me?

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To me, you

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You were never like this.

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I thought over it too.

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I am an emperor, above all humans.

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I don't dare to give my heart away easily.

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But once my heart is moved, I am in disarray.

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So I try to control myself always.

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But this time, I can't control myself.

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When I saw Xiangjian, I realized what falling in love on first sight meant.

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Your Majesty, what are you saying?

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Ruyi, I mean --

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You and I were childhood sweethearts with kindred minds.

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But Xiangjian and I are lovers in the adult age, with passion that is uncontrolled.

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I never had someone I couldn't have. She's the only one.

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I don't want to have regret so I asked you to come help.

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Your Majesty has been stubborn and it's forced Han woman to seek death.

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But you wish to continue this torment?

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Ruyi. My entire life, I never was stubborn with love.

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Indulge me once. Just once.

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I've prepared a gift. It will be done soon.

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I believe Xiangjian will have a change of heart. Just persuade her for me.

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Persuade her to live and to be willing to stay by my side. Alright?

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Han's feelings isn't something I can control.

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Ruyi. You're my wife. And you're my empress.

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You have the duty of beholding the central palace. You must figure this out for me.

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Your Majesty, your request, I cannot defy as your empress.

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Just that what I can do,

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is merely what an empress must do.

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I take my leave.

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Mother. How is my writing?

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Mother?

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Mother. Look at my writing. Is it good?

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You wrote it better than last time by a lot.

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Royal Father hasn't had time in a long time.

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Lately it's 5th brother who teaches me writing.

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5th brother's writing is excellent. It's great that he's teaching you.

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I will work hard. I will be like my 5th brother.

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You will.

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Sister.

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Sister, you wanted to see me?

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Yongji. Go find your Yongqi brother to play.

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It's a coincidence. Yongqi made two bows. Go play with him.

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Alright.

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Let's go to the warm hall.

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I never thought His Majesty would be so disillusioned.

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To use the duty of an empress to force you to persuade Han to live?

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His Majesty is passionate about Han.

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I've never seen him like this in all my years with him.

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I always thought he could easily control his feelings to put state affairs as priority.

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I never thought he would be like this.

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When I see how His Majesty is to her.

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I think, what exactly was what I had with him?

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Sister, will you really go persuade Han?

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I don't want to go and I am not content to do so.

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But as an empress of Great Qing, I must go.

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Isn't the duty of an empress to assist the emperor achieve happiness and peace?

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I heard that when someone's about to die, they will meet who they most wish to see.

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You're waiting for this?

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I am very curious about Hanqi too. Just what kind of a person was he?

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To let you unable to forget him like this.

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You and that emperor won't understand.

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We met in youth as soulmates.

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To accompany in body and heart.

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I do understand what you're saying.

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I once had my soulmate in my youth too.

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Really?

- Really.

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Just that now I worry, if you die,

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in this world, there is no one left to remember the greatness of Hanqi.

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Buddha above. I come to you sincere.

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To pray for Great Qing's prosperity.

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Also, in life,

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I met the person

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Xiangjian that I want to give my all.

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May the heavens pity me.

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To allow her to be by me and never to part.

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When I liked Hanqi, I was 16.

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He was 18.

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His eyes were especially bright.

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Brighter than the stars in the sky.

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He would take me horse-back riding, grazing,

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and take me to go see the most beautiful jujube flower.

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He would play the chord to accompany my dance.

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Those were our happiness times.

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Do you know, we wanted each other sincerely?

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We promised together we would be loyal to each other.

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We only wanted to live happily in the prairie.

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Our Han tribesmen, once you make a promise,

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you can never take it back.

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So great.

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Regrettably.

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We can never go back to the good times.

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If it weren't for me,

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he wouldn't have met the avalanche.

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He wouldn't have --

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No one knew that would happen to Hanqi.

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Hanqi was your fiance. You're heartbroken over him.

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And seeking death for him are all understandable.

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Just that, you're in self-guilt.

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If Hanqi knew, it would ache his heart.

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If you refuse to eat and die for him. Will he rest in peace?

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I think Hanqi's love for you,

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would mean that he would want you to live on well.

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And you have your father and your tribe as well.

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You should know, you are the hope for their future.

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Since Hanqi died,

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my heart became cold and despairing, with no hope.

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How can I be someone else's hope?

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We cannot chase after the deceased.

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If you cherish your father and your tribe, you must live on.

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Even if to protect them from afar and to see that their lives are improving.

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Unless they are nothing to you.

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How are they nothing to me?

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Just that.

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I fear I can't.

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As long as you abandon the thought of dying, you can do it.

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Have a spoonful of ginseng broth.

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So you can have energy.

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For your father and your tribe. And for Hanqi.

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Drink one spoonful.

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Another spoonful.

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Your Highness. You've been distracted since you left Chengqian Palace.

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What are you thinking of?

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When Xiangjian told me about her feelings for Hanqi.

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I realized finally in this palace,

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there's someone who felt the same as what I felt.

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What do you mean?

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They were young lovers.

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So much like His Majesty and me back then.

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Your Highness, you were touched by Mistress Han.

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Xiangjian's despair and ache from losing Hanqi.

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It made me startled.

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Maybe I also lost my lover of the youth I couldn't part from.

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I greet Your Majesty.

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How is Xiangjian?

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I went to see her. She's returned to eating.

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Though she is taciturn, she is looking much better.

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Empress did great. I am consoled. What about Xiangjian's wound on the face?

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It's almost healed. Not much a problem.

- Great.

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Buddhist relics. Colors are not different. Colors are empty.

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Your Highness.

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Empress, Eunuch Li is here.

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Greetings to Empress, to Consort Ying.

- What is it?

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This afternoon, His Majesty has asked the palaces to come to the Treasured Moon Pavilion to spectate the view.

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Will Empress Dowager go?

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Empress Dowager is devoted to Buddha. She is not fond of ascending.

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I understand.

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I take my leave.

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His Majesty's very temperamental lately.

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Perhaps we shouldn't ruin his mood?

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So elegant.

- When was this built?

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How did this get built out of the blue?

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This Treasured Moon Pavilion is beautiful and grand.

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His Majesty asked us to enjoy the view.

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I don't know where he intends to take us.

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Treasured Moon Pavilion

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Empess is here.

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From afar.

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Greetings to Empress.

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Get on up.

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Empress, Mistresses, this way.

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His Majesty is inside?

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His Majesty isn't here yet.

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We should go up first.

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This treasured moon pavilion is full of Han relics.

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Can't be that this is a gift from His Majesty to Han?

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Doesn't she already have Chengqian Palace?

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Why does she need this Treasured Moon Pavilion?

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His Majesty is so generous to her.

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Greetings to Empress, to Mistresses.

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Aunt Yuhu. His Majesty told us to come here to spectate autumn.

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But where is he?

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His Majesty has urgent matter to tend to.

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This building was built for Mistress Han by His Majesty.

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He's asked you all to come and look around.

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Other than the pavilion, His Majesty also,

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built the Qifu Temple facing this palace outside.

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His Majesty is so indulgent of Han.

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Mistresses, please follow me.

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Treasured Moon Pavilion

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Mistresses, look. That's Qifu Temple.

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Mistress Han, this Qifu Temple was built by His Majesty according to your tribe's liking.

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Do you like it?

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Han tribe is located in a remote area.

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His Majesty already ordered for the elderly and young from your tribe to come and live here.

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Opposite of Qifu Temple.

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Today, he's brought them into the palace. Do you wish to see them?

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What?

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Great, Aunt Yuhu.

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Hurry and let Sister's tribesman come. She must miss them.

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Yes.

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Jin Zhong, send in Han's tribesmen.

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Everyone, this way.

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Xiangjian.

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Princess.

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Princess. We miss you.

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Princess.

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Princess.

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Princess.

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Princess, we miss you.

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Why?

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Why did you all come here?

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So many elderly and youth. What is this plight?

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Why did His Majesty treat Han so well to let so many in?

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Princess Xiangjian, His Majesty is very good to us.

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He built us Qifu Temple and built us pretty houses.

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To settle the elderly.

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And gave us medical treatment too.

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Yes. Yes.

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Yes, Princess.

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His Majesty, does he treat all his people like this?

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Or is it just for me?

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Your Majesty.

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Your Majesty.

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Your Majesty.

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Your Majesty.

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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. ♫