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Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace

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Episode 77

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Your reprimand, I have no words to say.

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Of course you have no words to say.

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Zhao Jiuxiao asked you to report to me to come to Yangxin Hall to help your royal mother.

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But you decided to block him.

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If it weren't for Xiao Lezi telling me, I would be in the dark still.

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Today's situation was very dangerous. You really shouldn't have gone there.

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Because it is dangerous, even more reason I needed to go.

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Who am I to your royal mother?

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We are like sisters in the palace.

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How can I let her be alone there.

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My dear child I bore.

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To be so cold and disloyal.

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Your reprimand, I have no words to argue.

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Just that what happened today, whoever was there could not escape implication.

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This involved palace reputation.

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And it's linked to Royal Father and Royal Mother's honor.

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If you went there, you would've spoken on behalf of Royal Mother.

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But those words, would Royal Father listen?

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If you had the chance to figure things out, however while present there in person.

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Royal Father, under anger, he would not only not listen to you,

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but if he had gone in full fury, who could speak for you and royal mother?

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So you decided to make me watch and do nothing?

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It's not watching and doing nothing. It's to mobilize when opportunity comes.

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Mother, you told me to learn to preserve myself. You too.

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Zhao Jiuxiao told me this. What is Zhao Jiuxiao and Ling Yunche's relationship?

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If His Majesty looks into it, you would've been implicated.

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As someone connected to Ling Yunche's supposed affair.

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Then His Majesty, would he even listen to you?

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To evade this awkward situation will allow you to speak later.

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So this unfilial offense. I shall happily shoulder it.

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You get on up.

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May your anger dissipate.

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I just can't help your royal mother.

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In the agony she must feel.

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What's wrong? You don't seem too happy.

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I was thinking about today's incident and my mother blaming me isn't illogical.

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I did have some private motive, of not wanting my mother involved.

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So I kept the report from Zhao Jiuxiao.

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What happened today. I also heard some of it.

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But this incident, not just Consort Yu.

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Even you yourself should not get involved.

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A matter of this, of course Royal Father would like others not know about it and I shall feign ignorance.

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But Royal Mother's situation is just getting more dangerous.

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Since Empress is in dire situation and you are her foster son,

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you ought to evade any suspicion.

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Since you must preserve yourself in order to preserve others.

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Forget it. I won't think of it.

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Let's go and have some snack.

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Transparent and Just

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Your Majesty.

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There are some things you hate to hear but I must say.

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Don't rush and don't think negative only.

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Don't say anymore. I am already very anxious.

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Ling Yunche is someone I selected in the cold palace.

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I trust him.

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You found him but that was over a decade ago.

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All these years, how does a person change?

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Who is to know?

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You may go first. I want to be alone.

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Yes.

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As they say, truth comes out from drunken state and truth comes in sleep.

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You yearn for her so much you can't even forget her in dream.

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Always calling out Empress's name.

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Ruyi. Ruyi. What an auspicious name, unforgettable on first hearing.

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This ruyi cloud is secret hint for Empress's name and my husband's name.

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And sewn in such hidden place.

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Careful, Your Highness.

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Jin Zhong.

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I'm here.

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There's a matter I want you to handle.

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Mistress, Eunuch Jin Zhong, on how to deal with Ling Yunche.

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His Majesty said only he is to do it so don't ask about it.

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He is petty and he will irate you.

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I hate it when he threatens me.

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I understand.

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But Mistress, you have to be patient. As for Lancui,

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I will have someone return her to her hometown after the matter.

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This matter, you needn't worry about it. Wangchan will.

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Your Majesty. I am true to you.

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Your Majesty, hurry and release me.

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Come. Come.

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Your Majesty.

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Lancui. Lancui, you're here to save me, right?

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Lancui.

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Mistress Yu.

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What happened? What are you doing here too?

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I didn't do my work well and my mistress punished me by sending me in here.

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Why? Tell me.

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Wangchan, come.

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Where is Lancui? Did she do the task and sent off to hometown?

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Lancui, she --

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What's wrong?

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She died from intestinal burst.

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How?

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Mistress said.

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In order not to leave trouble for future, better to clean it now.

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Lancui and I served Mistress all these years.

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She is loyal to Mistress.

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She is not as good as you.

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Since she became close to Eunuch Jin Zhong,

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Mistress is getting more and more cruel.

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Chunchan, don't worry about others anymore.

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Maybe, one day --

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You and I will walk Lancui's path.

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Lancui. I didn't think you'd die.

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You died and I feel startled whenever I see Mistress and Jin Zhong.

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You go your way smoothly. I will burn more paper money for you.

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So it can be handy for you on your path.

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Still no news of Ling Yunche?

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No. Even Yongshuo Palace is secretly trying to find out too.

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But the man just disappeared into the blue.

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Empress, Ling Yunche has me.

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So be assured.

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Just that, you must take care of yourself too.

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You haven't seen His Majesty in two months.

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Yes. Blink of an eye and it's spring again.

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Spring poem

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Someone said Ling Yunche and Maoqian divorced.

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And it offended the heavens and he was chased out of palace.

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Someone also said, he stole a treasure from the palace.

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So he was exiled to the borders to be a slave to Jia tribe.

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Someone else said, he couldn't stand Maoqian's behavior,

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so he left to be a monk.

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All these rumors can't be trusted.

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Jin Zhong won't tell me and I can't ask much.

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I --

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What happened?

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Nothing.

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But I did see Jin Zhong take someone away one night.

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I couldn't see clearly so I wonder if it was Guard Ling.

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What?

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These are all tea sets that His Majesty used a lot. Put them away nicely.

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Yes, I will.

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What? That's --

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Teacher, what's wrong?

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Nothing.

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First, peach blossoms. Second, kerria flowers.

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Third, rambler rose. It's already almost the time of insect awakening.

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Yes.

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Your Highness. Jin Zhong is here.

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Tell him to come in.

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Yes.

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Greetings to Empress.

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Empress. Emperor asked me to bring some gifts for you.

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His Majesty grants you.

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Twelve pearl collars. Two pairs of white porcelain vases.

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A pair of red agate scepter. A pair of kindred knots.

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Your Highness, these are all top quality items in pairs.

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Trouble to you.

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Take them down.

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Yes.

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Come with me.

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Empress.

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Other than these items, His Majesty gifts you another gift.

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Come on in.

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His Majesty gifts you Ling Yunche.

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As Yikun Palace eunuch, serving you.

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May you accept with glee.

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Xiao Lingzi, greet your mistress.

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Your subject, greetings to Your Highness.

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What subject? You're not an imperial guard anymore.

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Now you call yourself a servant.

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Your servant, Ling Yunche, greeting Your Highness.

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Xiao Lingzi, you used to serve His Majesty.

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Now you serve Empress.

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His Majesty and Empress are one of the mind. Don't delay your service.

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You must serve her well as your duty as a servant.

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Yes.

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Empress.

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Xiao Lingzi doesn't know the rules. It will trouble you to nurture him.

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The eunuchs of the palace aren't as precious as palace maids. You can beat him to death and it will be fine.

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Jin Zhong.

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What you're saying is horrid.

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Don't forget you're also an eunuch.

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Nanny Rongpei teaches me well.

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Empress, His Majesty also said, he hasn't seen you in a while.

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He will come and dine with you tonight.

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May you prepare.

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Empress knows.

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Then I take my leave.

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Ling Yunche.

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Your Highness.

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Don't be sad for me.

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If this can dissipate His Majesty's fury of the mind.

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And preserve you whole. Then I do so contently.

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I also ask you not to trouble yourself.

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Just regard me a pillar in this palace.

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Just a piece of furniture. No need to regard or care.

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It's the only way to satisfy His Majesty.

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There is another wish of mine.

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It is that from now on you will not do anything for me.

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If I implicate you again.

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That is really something I can never be forgiven for.

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May you grant my wish.

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Mistress. Mistress.

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I saw Ling Yunche.

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He's changed into an eunuch.

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Mistress.

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I thought of all possibilities.

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I never thought it would be that kind of punishment.

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He's like this now. It's only shame.

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He's a man.

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Mistress. Ling Yunche is no longer considered a man.

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He lives like this shamefully.

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I'd rather that he is dead.

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Mistress. You made up your mind to sacrifice Ling Yunche.

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And Eunuch Jin Zhong said it was His Majesty's idea.

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You sent Ling Yunche to Empress and what kind of an expression did she sport?

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Your Majesty, I didn't dare to look at her.

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And she wouldn't show your feelings before me.

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You don't dare to look?

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Empress must not have looked well.

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Empress has been like that all along lately.

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And bringing a Ling Yunche who's changed into an eunuch suddenly.

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As for the future, Ling Yunche will have to serve Empress here and there.

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After some time, it will be clear.

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You're merciful indeed. You did not harvest his life.

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That is already generous to him.

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Ling Yunche and Empress.

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He should live that is worse than death.

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You seem to hate Ling Yunche more than me.

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I am loyal to you.

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Naturally I hate those who are not loyal to you.

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Let's go to Yikun Palace.

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Greetings to Your Majesty. Ten thousand peace to you.

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Get on up, Empress.

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Come.

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Someone sent some peach flower drawings by Yuan Dynasty's Wang Mian. They are at Ruyi Hall.

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In a few days, I will bring you to see them.

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I have a bit of a cold.

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When I'm better, we can talk about it then.

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Empress, you're ill?

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Then let that Xiao Lingzi outside come and serve you.

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Xiao Lingzi's only been here for one day. How's his service?

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Thank you, Your Majesty.

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Xiao Lingzi used to be in your service. I don't dare to nitpick.

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Then he's good.

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Your Majesty, Imperial Kitchen sent dinner here.

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Bring it up.

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Empress. I had the imperial kitchen cook what you normally love.

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Today, I'll stay to eat with you.

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Thank you.

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Your Highness.

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Your Majesty, Empress. The dinner prepared by Imperial Kitchen.

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Furnace-cooked pearl chicken. Longevity deer.

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Mushroom and crane. Breast meat with on asterids. Sliced duck.

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Shrimp and fish soup. Stuffed mushrooms.

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Pork belly with lychee.

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The last is a boiling pot of monkey head in squid broth.

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All are Empress's favorites. May you enjoy your dinner.

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You all can leave.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Why did His Majesty send these dishes today?

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They are all the ones Her Highness dislikes and saying she loves them too.

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Why won't you eat?

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Maybe you need someone to serve you?

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Xiao Lingzi. Come in.

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Greetings to Your Majesty. Ten thousand peace.

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Xiao Lingzi. Empress.

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She loves these dishes. You add them to her plate.

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Yes.

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Empress, don't you love these?

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Maybe the one serving you isn't doing a good job and it's ruined your jolly?

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Your Majesty, I am with offense.

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I don't know how to serve Empress.

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I've caused Empress's annoyance.

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May you grant me punishment.

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You are docile but your service is slow and awkward and it ruined Empress's appetite.

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You go out and seek some punishment.

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Yes.

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Empress. You don't need to be angry over a servant.

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Tonight I will spend the night with you.

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Yes.

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You're not happy?

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I'm so happy I don't know how to handle myself.

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Great then.

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Turn this way.

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Turn this way.

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I said turn to me.

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Yikun Palace

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So you will ruin my mood like this?

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You haven't come to Yikun Palace for one year, three months and 24 days.

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You came to Yikun Palace for this?

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I came to be good to you and you're not happy?

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Are you happy?

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Tell Li Yu to come.

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I will go to court.

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Sending off Your Majesty.

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Your Highness. Last night, you didn't sleep well?

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Your servant, greetings to Consort Ling.

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You call yourself a servant so smoothly.

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Your Highness, Consort Ling is here.

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Greetings --

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I already cancelled the rule of the harem paying me greeting. Why did you come?

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I was ordered to assist with managing of the harem.

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I hear Empress, you've got a new servant.

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I am worried so I came to see.

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You are so thoughtful.

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Empress. It's all your fault what happened to Ling Yunche.

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Why did you cause him to be like a monster?

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So you dare to say this to me?

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If it weren't for your pushing, would Consort Yu be so skilled?

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To go to His Majesty to defame me and Ling Yunche.

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Now you think you're so innocent and guiltfree to come here and blame ,e?

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If it weren't for me, seducing Ling Yunche to fall for you,

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he wouldn't have been like this.

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He wouldn't have courted His Majesty's fury to be like this.

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I see how he is now. I'd rather he is dead.

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Wei Yanwan. If you have any ounce of sweet fondness for him, do not defame him any longer.

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And do not use him to attack me either.

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Get out.

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Empress, how would I dare to attack you?

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The days are long still. I wish to serve you and His Majesty well.

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Consort Ling, please leave.

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Your servant, greetings to Consort Ling.

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You are staying at Yikun Palace like this? Do you gross yourself out?

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I got punished. Wasn't that to your content?

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May you be assured.

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No matter where I am. I will do my work well.

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Treasured Moon Pavilion

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This truly happened?

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So many saw it.

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The entire palace is talking about it.

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Then Empress is too pitiful.

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Who says she isn't.

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Empress and Ling Yunche's matter. I just don't believe it.

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His Majesty punished Ling Yunche.

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And sent him to serve Her Highness, at that.

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That is too unimageanable.

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Before I thought myself pitiful.

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But the people here are all so pitiful.

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I understand His Majesty's intention.

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But I don't understand.

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That he really did it.

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Ling Yunche. He cannot stay at your palace.

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The situation will just get worse.

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What will happen in the future?

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I don't even dare to think.

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Stop there.

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12th prince.

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Kneel.

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Yes.

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Why did you become an eunuch?

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You were a guard. You escorted from my studies.

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You escorted me to pick plum flowers and welcome spring.

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Why you?

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12th prince. It's all my fault.

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I heard. They all say you and my mother.

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If that's true, why are you still working in Yikun Palace?

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It's by His Majesty's order.

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why?

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Why did you all become images I dislike.

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You became an eunuch. His Majesty disregards Mother.

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Mother doesn't talk.

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Why?

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Why is it that everyone here is different from before.

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It's alright.

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No crying.

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It's alright.

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Xiangjian, I rarely see you coming to Yangxin Hall.

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Let me take a good look of you.

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Spare the cordials.

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You shouldn't treat Empress that way.

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You only came here over empress's matter?

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You shouldn't suspect her.

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You shouldn't punish Guard Ling so harshly without cause.

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And you shouldn't have sent the punished Guard Ling to Empress's palace for service.

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It's not your business to get involved in.

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Empress made you infertile.

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And you protect her?

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I am infertile because I wanted to be.

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You don't want to get mad at me so you got mad at Empress.

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Xiangjian, don't let your temperament

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speak such nonsense. If Empress knew her status, she would've killed Ling Yunche personally.

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To halt all rumors and reclaim her innocence.

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And then?

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Empress's innocence had to depend on the sacrifice of someone innocent.

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And then just happily accompany you and let one life just go?

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Empress is the national mother, the central palace.

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If her actions and words are not improper, it will sicken others.

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You're so angry over it.

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In the end, is it due to your caring of her, or because of your pride?

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You were on intimate terms with empress and you would not allow others to admire her.

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I have spent a lot of time with you and I have seen some.

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If you did not care about Empress, why would there be any aloofness?

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You care so you take issue with it.

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Xiangjian, stop talking.

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Even if I don't say it, you will know it.

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You are so infatuated with me, simply for a reason.

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That no matter how you cherish another, empress would never leave you.

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Empress once mentioned to me.

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That she once also had a youthful lover who was her soulmate and that was you.

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The great love of youth.

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How could you suspect her?

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No matter what, I did have a true Ruyi once.

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But now, Ruyi's heart, will it go towards a lowly man?

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You don't trust the empress before you now?

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I only trust one thing.

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Since I became emperor, everyone around me changed.

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The true heart of the past is no longer here?

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You sent Ling Yunche to Yikun Palace for what/

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What do you wish to see?

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The ones amidst it is deluded. You are confused.

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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. ♫