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Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace

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Episode 73

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Your Majesty. Your Majesty.

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Your Majesty.

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Your Majesty.

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Your Majesty.

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Your Majesty is wearing Han tribe's apparel.

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Your Majesty. Your Majesty.

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Your Majesty.

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Why is His Majesty dressed like that?

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I am here.

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I came.

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Look how His Majesty cherishes Han tribe.

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He's changed into Han apparel.

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Yes.

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That's our clothing.

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Xiangjian.

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Greetings to Your Majesty.

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Get on up.

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Xiangjian, are you happy to see your tribesmen?

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Why are you dressed like our Han tribe?

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Since you aren't willing to become my woman first and unwilling to change your look.

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I will become a Han tribesman for you.

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I will promote your Princess Xiangjian.

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As Noble Lady Rong, residing at Treasured Moon Pavilion.

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Your Majesty to ten thousand long life.

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Noble Lady Rong is blissful.

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I asked you all to come to tell you this.

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Everyone in the palace must make allowance for Noble Lady Rong and get along with her.

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Don't create some fuss like seeking an audience with me again.

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I know.

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I congratulate Your Majesty. Noble Lady Rong.

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I hope Noble Lady Rong and Your Majesty can cherish each other with true love until old age.

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Your Majesty, Noble Lady Rong has already seen her tribesmen.

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Why not allow them to return?

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Fine then.

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Jin Zhong, reward the Han tribesmen well.

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Escort them out well.

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I obey.

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Princess Xiangjian, seeing how great the emperor of Great Qing treats you,

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how great he treats us Han.

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We are at ease.

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We are at ease.

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We are at ease.

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We are at ease.

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Good. Good.

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Xiangjian. Look.

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No one I brought in is strong.

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It's because the young and strong ones are left at Han to cultivate the homeland.

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But these elderly and weak cannot withstand the chill.

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They need care.

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So I will bring them all into the capital to be taken care of.

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Maybe you cherish me truly.

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But you are also threatening me.

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I can never delude myself about escaping here.

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Not even in death.

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Right?

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Your Majesty, we all got to see the view of Treasured Moon Pavilion.

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I take my leave.

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Your Majesty, we all shall leave too.

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We take our leave.

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Your Majesty, I can help you change.

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Li Yu.

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I am here.

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Fine then.

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Xiangjian, you're tired.

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You go downstairs and wait for me.

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Rest up.

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Xiangjian stayed alive and she's finally willing to stay.

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Ruyi. I want to thank you.

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Your Majesty got what you wanted.

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I congratulate you.

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May you change.

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I don't feel wearing this Han apparel is improper.

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I am the emperor of the world.

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It's fitting for me to wear whichever tribe's clothing since it's all mine.

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Go now.

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Yes.

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Empress, sit.

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Your Majesty, Manchu and Mongolia are closely intertwined through marriages and alliances.

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I've never seen any dynasty's emperor wearing Mongolian attire either.

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Your doing now might upset the Mongolian tribes.

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Empress. You should think about how happy I am first.

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You should be happy for me.

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Your Majesty and I are husband and wife, of one body and mind.

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I should be happy along.

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But I already confessed to you then.

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I agreed to your request due to my dutybound as empress.

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As your wife, I do not understand your doing.

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I don't know how to be happy for you.

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Empress.

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I ache for Noble Lady Rong.

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Ache for her?

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I already gave her a proper title.

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And I will cherish her.

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I will be nice to her tribesmen.

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Empress, you just need to be an example of the harem and be kind to her.

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The days are still long ahead.

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I believe one day she will understand my feeling.

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She sought death from her torment.

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Her sorrow as a woman.

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I hope one day you can understand how she feels.

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Ruyi. What you're saying, I also understand.

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I had thought of letting her come to the palace to accept Han's token of good measure.

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And to let all the border tribes get along.

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I thought after she's in the palace, I could just treat her cold.

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But at first sight of her, I knew I couldn't help myself.

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Ruyi. I really like her truly.

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I know I can't win her heart. But I'm fine with her body.

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I really hope she can stay.

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I really hope she can be happy.

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Ruyi. Do you understand me?

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Your Majesty's one-sided love. It reminds of Caozhi's foolish devotion to Ruoshen.

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Your Majesty is only painting yourself a portrait of Ruoshen.

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Even though you switched into Caozhi's clothing,

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Ruoshen still won't be enthusiastic towards him.

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You are mocking me?

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Ruyi. I thought I could tell you and you'd understand.

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Your Majesty. I have accompanied you for years.

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I thought we had kindred hearts.

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But since Xiangjian came into the palace and you fell into madness,

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I really cannot comprehend.

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Your Majesty, just regard me as someone dimwitted.

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And let my words flow into vain.

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I take my leave.

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Ruyi. Ruyi.

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Slowly, Your Highness.

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Empress.

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Empress, greetings.

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Get on up.

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Sir Lang, what are you doing here?

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His Majesty ordered me to paint His Majesty and Noble Lady Rong together.

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I see.

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Sir Ling, escort Empress.

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Empress Dowager, do you know who is serving His Majesty in bed tonight?

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What else is new?

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It's Noble Lady Rong. Han clanswoman.

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His Majesty finally gave her a title.

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Just Noble Ladyship. Not an imperial concubine or consort.

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It's giving respect to the other harem mistresses.

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What respect?

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The emperor is just getting more stubborn.

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No one can change him.

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Now even Noble Lady Rong is serving him in bed.

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Once she is pregnant and gives birth, the entire harem will be upside down.

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Xiangjian, don't be scared.

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Don't worry.

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From now on, I will treat you and your tribe well.

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Mistress, His Majesty is finally smiling in your picture.

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I've never seen him looking so happy.

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Only to acquire Noble Lady Rong.

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His Majesty is happy indeed, but what about others?

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What about you? Are you happy?

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Whether I am happy or not. Who would care?

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Yikun Palace

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Sister, why do you look thinner again?

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You ought to eat more.

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Look.

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Sister, look.

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Why is she --

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Why is she here?

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She's different.

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Empress is up.

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May everyone come in.

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Careful.

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Since this is where we are, disregard what happened before.

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Let us all be in harmony since we are all harem women.

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Noble Lady Rong is from the border.

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Their rules are different from our Manchurian and Mongolian ones.

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Let us take extra care.

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We understand.

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Noble Lady Rong. Imperial Noble Consort Chun is deceased.

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If there's anything you don't understand in the harem, you can easily ask Consort Yu.

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She's the most veteran among the harem.

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Yes.

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There are a few words I wish to speak to Empress privately.

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You all leave.

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We take our leave.

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She knows to flatter Empress.

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Seeing how you're dressed, you do have the air of a harem woman.

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Thank you, Empress.

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Since you're serving His Majesty in bed now.

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You may need to make exchanges with those in the harem.

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If you dislike them, just ignore them.

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I will abide by your rules strictly.

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It's because you taught me a lot.

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Only you would say those words to me.

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Just that I don't understand.

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Why did you persuade a woman,

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who's taken your husband away?

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Wouldn't it be better to wish me dead or leave the palace?

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I am the empress of Great Qing.

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Empress is not just a wife.

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It's more so a duty and responsibility.

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What you said to me before. Your lover of youth days.

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Is that His Majesty?

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Of course he is.

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Compared to me, at least your youth lover is alive.

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When a person is alive, there is possibility of change.

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Unlike me and Hanqi.

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Forever separated.

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I will never find him.

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Though you can never find your Hanqi.

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But he will always be his best image in your heart.

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My youth lover.

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We won't talk of that.

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You wanted to talk to me in private.

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Empress.

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There is something I must plan.

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What is it?

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How can I avoid pregnancy while serving in bed?

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Your Majesty, you are looking so jolly.

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Stop the flattering.

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How is Noble Lady Rong?

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Noble Lady Rong is quite well.

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Not only is she changed into palace attire, she's gone to Empress to bid greetings.

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Great.

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Get my sedan. I will go visit Noble Lady Rong in Treasured Moon Pavilion.

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Yes.

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His Majesty, lately, either discusses affairs with the ministers,

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or he's staying at Treasured Moon Pavilion without leaving.

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His Majesty pampers Noble Lady Rong so much.

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I wonder if she has some secret ways.

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You mean His Majesty has fallen by some secret ways?

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Empress, I don't mean it like that.

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Just that I find it since Noble Lady Rong came in,

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the palace is getting quite unruly.

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How is it unruly?

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Which palace rule states His Majesty can't just flip one woman's tag only?

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But His Majesty should be cautious of his body.

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If we should persuade, it is for His Majesty's royal health.

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But now, who can persuade him?

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If it's concern for His Majesty, who can compare to Empress Dowager?

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This matter, even Empress Dowager hasn't spoken of it.

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We should stay quiet.

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This pair of white porcelain vases are great.

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Remember to take them to Treasured Moon Pavilion.

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Yes.

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It's about to get chilly.

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Noble Lady Rong isn't used to the weather of the capital.

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Remember to send some red charcoal there soon.

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I will remember.

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Your Majesty, jujube flower.

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Great.

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Noble Lady Rong loves the scent of jujube flower.

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She can't part from it even for a day.

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Hasn't His Majesty already instructed for jujube flower to be brought in daily at Yangxin Hall?

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His Majesty planted so many jujube trees by Treasured Moon.

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It's for Noble Lady Rong to be happy.

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As long as she's happy, all this is nothing much.

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Wan Ying, are you walking around a lot lately?

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Before I had Sister Chun as my chat mate.

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But now, she's gone.

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The entire Zhongcui Palace is so empty.

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So lonesome.

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I feel comforted to come talking to you.

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Your Highness.

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I remember this year in the early spring,

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His Majesty somehow suddenly remembered me.

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And he flipped my tag.

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That time, I was so startled I couldn't talk.

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I didn't know where to place my hands and feet.

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I calculated and it had been six years, four months and three days that I hadn't attended to his bed.

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If you're a harem woman, you will have that day coming.

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This is depressing to talk about in this autumn.

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The lady lover is not yet old but the love is done. Only sitting in the tilted chair until sun rise. We all can't escape it.

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Can't be that we will until we're 70 or 80 with all our teeth out,

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to still hope His Majesty would flip your tag and write poetry together?

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Just a dream.

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Treasured Moon Pavilion.

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Mistress, His Majesty sent someone to deliver you and his portrait.

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Put it away. Hide it in the back.

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You're never allowed to bring it out.

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Yes.

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Greetings to Royal Mother.

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You're pruning jujube flowers?

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This flower isn't suitable for raising in the palace so I am fixing it up a bit.

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Before, I had only heard of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang sending lychees over a thousand miles for Noble Consort Yang.

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And the journey killed off so many horses.

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Now it's our emperor's turn.

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Just to court a smile from the lady,

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getting this jujube flower that no one knows.

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It's quite a strange story.

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I am incompetent.

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Emperor is delusional.

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Mesmerized by Han woman.

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I cannot stop her from coming into the palace.

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And I cannot stop her from serving him in bed.

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At first seeing how she rejected him.

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I thought the emperor would know it's hard and forget it.

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But now the Han woman has already been in bed with him.

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Have you thought? He's so spell-bound into this already.

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If the Han woman has a child, what will he be like?

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I know Han woman was willing to live because the emperor told you to go persuade her.

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And I know Han's heart

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always stayed with her dead fiance.

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So anything is possible.

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I will persuade her more.

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You can persuade Han woman but can you persuade the emperor?

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Sit.

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Emperor is so infatuated with the Han woman.

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In the future, if he's completely mad,

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and commits something even more outlandish.

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What will we do then?

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I can't just sit around forever and do nothing.

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Then you mean?

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Fujia.

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Here.

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Empress Dowager, it's all prepared.

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You have Han woman drink this.

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So she can end her life for good.

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I know you're doing this for His Majesty's reputation sake.

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Just that to ask for her life like this so suddenly.

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It would harm His Majesty's feelings.

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I know his heart aches for her.

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I don't wish her life either.

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I just want her to tidy up the servicing so she doesn't excite him to be even more stubborn.

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Royal Mother. You know to ask me to do this,

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His Majesty would hate me.

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That day you persuaded Han to preserve her life on emperor's request.

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He forced you do so with your duty as empress as the pretext.

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Today I force you just the same.

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Just because you're the master of the harem and it's your responsibility to ease the harem.

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So this matter is my intention.

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But only you can carry it out in person to have her drink it.

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If Han drinks this soup,

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it will appease you.

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But it would be a grand defying of His Majesty.

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I must listen to His Majesty and I cannot ignore you.

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I am only in a difficult position both ways.

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You are the central palace. You just need to do what you need to do and listen to what you need to listen to.

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Cining Palace

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You don't want Noble Lady Rong to drink this?

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Your Highness, Noble Lady Rong begged you before saying she didn't want kids.

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Now Empress Dowager has this intention and it serves to Noble Lady Rong's wish.

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Please sit, Empress.

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Empress, these are food our Han tribe loves.

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Try it.

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This I brought to you by the order of Empress Dowager.

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It's the medicinal broth you wanted.

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Whether you drink it or not is up to you.

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Of course I drink it. It's a good thing that grants my wish.

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But think through it.

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If you drink this, you will have no place to regret.

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There's nothing to regret.

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I know your palace is fighting to have children.

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But a child should be shared with the person you love.

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Not a tool to fight favor or preserve your life.

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And the child should not be forced to come into the world.

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Hali, get physician Jiang.

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Noble Lady Rong will suffer.

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Yes.

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The royal physician and the nannies have been in there so long.

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This Noble Lady Rong has no sound.

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She is not making a noise despite the suffering. She is so willful.

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Your Highness. You should think of what to say to His Majesty now that things are like this.

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Slow.

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Stop.

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Your Majesty, it seems Concubine Ling is about to go in labor.

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Will you go look?

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This isn't Concubine Ling's first labor. Have the midwives there.

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Yes.

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Greetings to Your Majesty.

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How is Xiangjian?

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Noble Lady Rong is fine.

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Just that she is infertile now.

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Who did this? Who?

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Your Majesty, it as my doing.

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Your Majesty, please dissipate your anger.

- Emperor.

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What brings you here, Royal Mother?

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You're the king and you lay a hand on your own empress?

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Emperor, I think you've gone mad.

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Empress, get on up.

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Royal Mother. I shouldn't.

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But Noble Lady Rong is innocent.

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Emperor, what you wanted was Han woman.

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Now you got your wish.

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But Han woman has someone else in her heart. What can others do?

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Emperor, sometimes, too much love is damaging.

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If you weren't so overly zealous,

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no one would care much about Noble Lady Rong.

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You pamper her too much.

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So you've forced her to be in this plight.

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Royal Mother. I do pamper her but it's not too much.

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You should not listen to others.

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I need to hear about it?

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What all did you do for her? You think I can't see?

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Also, it was her idea to get this medicine.

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If you wish to blame, you can only blame yourself.

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Royal Mother is here. May you persuade His Majesty.

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I wil take my leave.

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Empress, you were compromised.

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Go now.

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Your Majesty, the mistress is awake.

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Royal Mother, then I shall go in and look.

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Empe--

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Xiangjian, you're awake.

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I can't have kids.

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Is that right?

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You're just --

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You just can't have kids.

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But don't be scared. I will still treat you well.

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That bowl of medicine.

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I wanted to drink it myself.

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Having children or not.

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I decide.

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How are you so foolish?

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I shouldn't have come to this palace in the first place.

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And I shouldn't have received your pampering.

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I will just regard it as I'm unlucky.

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I cannot bear.

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My future child.

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And I cannot bear.

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You want me to serve you.

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Then I can just serve you forever quietly.

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Your intention.

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Royal Mother's intention. I understand it all.

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Your Majesty. Your Majesty.

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Your Majesty. Concubine Ling birthed a prince.

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It's your 15th prince.

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Good. Good.

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Jin Zhong, send my word.

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Noble Lady Rong pleases me and she's to be promoted as Concubine Rong.

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Concubine Ling gave births in succession and she's gentle.

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She will be promoted as Consort Ling.

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Tell Consort Ling she can keep 15th prince by her side to raise.

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She doesn't need to send him to Shuokang Palace.

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Also,

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Empress failed to manage the harem well.

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The harem business is to be managed by Consort Ling for now.

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Yes.

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Go.

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His Majesty isn't coming lately and you're having solace.

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It would've been nice if it were like this sooner.

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Solace for each.

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Actually, you can't have children.

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His Majesty is heart broken by it.

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He'll be fine afterwards.

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He's got many to birth children for him.

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He won't miss me.

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Just that,

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this has affected Empress.

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I owe her.

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So cute.

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Today, 15th prince is full-month. So lively.

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Consort Ling managing the harem. It's different from the time of Empress.

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Don't say that.

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Empress is being treated cold by His Majesty and you're adding salt to her wound.

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I'm just happy for you.

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Happy for what?

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You just talk nonsense.

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I am happy that you can keep 15th prince to raise him.

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Thank you for your kind words.

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This is the first child I get to keep by me.

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If I could bring all the others back, that's finally a complete reunion.

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Sister, don't worry, you surely will.

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Chunchan, why is His Majesty still not here?

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I was told 12th prince is talking to him at Yangxin Hall.

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Concentrate the vigor.

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Your Highness. Consort Yu and Consort Ying are here.

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Greetings to Empress.

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Get on up.

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Sit.

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It's so snowy and windy out. Your health isn't well but you came out?

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I insisted on coming so others don't think something happened to Yikun Palace.

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You are already a mother but still so stubborn.

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When I first came to the palace, I didn't know the worldly ways and didn't know to be scared.

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Now I know and I am scared.

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I know that it's Mongolia holding my position up for me.

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Though there's a dependence now,

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I still won't wish to put on fake happiness to the petty.

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Your wrap is quite playful.

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Is it very warm?

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This wrap was sent to me by Consort Ling.

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I didn't want to wear it.

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But I didn't think His Majesty would find out.

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And he even asked me why I don't wear it.

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I have no other way.

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See how I wore it to day to show off everywhere.

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So I can grant Consort Ling her virtue.

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This wrap has such a big cat on it.

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Consort Ling said it was a tribute from Persia.

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If she doesn't wear it out, who will see it?

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Consort Ling also gifted me a bracelet and it's very delicate.

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But I told someone to return it to her.

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Now Consort Ling is restored to her rank and she's managing the harem.

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She's very good at playing politics.

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Consort Ling endured many years to get to her position today.

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Of course she is more detailed than before.

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But she's someone without a bottom.

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Someone like her, I hope she doesn't lose her mind over her jolly.

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Let's not talk of her.

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My palace made some new dishes, all to warm and restore the body.

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Perfect food for winter.

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Let me dine with you both.

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Alright.

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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 of

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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. ♫