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Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace

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Episode 78

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Yongji. What's wrong? You're not happy?

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I can't be happy.

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5th brother, you come to the harem more and more infrequently.

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I don't get to see you at all.

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I have work I need to tend to.

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But look how I came to escort you from school when I finished.

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It used to be Guard Ling who did that.

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You're a child. You already know to sigh?

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5th brother. Everyone says Guard Ling and my mother had an affair.

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But why did Royal Father still let Guard Ling stay at the palace as an eunuch?

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There are lots of idle talk in the palace and you shouldn't listen to them, Yongji.

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5th brother, do you believe them?

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I never do. Royal Mother isn't someone who would.

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5th brother, then you come play with me often.

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Alright.

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It's a trouble to you, Eunuch Qing.

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To have you come send monthly silvers yourself.

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I should go claim it at the interior bureau actually.

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I heard Aunt Rongpei isn't well health-wise.

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So I came and it's not a big deal.

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Plus His Majesty is coming by Yikun Palace often now.

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I fear if we're late with your stipend, and you might run out of things.

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Look at you. You're so thoughtful.

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Isn't that Sir Ling?

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Wait. Eunuch Xiao Lingzi.

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Long time no see.

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Eunuch Qing.

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Here I thought a half-way eunuch would be different.

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Not really different.

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All the same servant look.

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This flower is fresh enough.

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You picked them fresh from Imperial Garden?

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Eunuch Qing, my leg was lame today.

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I had Xiao Lingzi go for me.

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To pick some flowers for the palace.

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Great task.

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I see that Xiao Lingzi is making a smooth transition to Yikun Palace.

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Look at that face. Looks like a flower.

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Xiao Lingzi, you're done picking the flowers.

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Go and send them to Aunt Rong.

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Eunuch Qing.

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Eunuch Jin Zhong.

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Eunuch Jin Zhong.

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What's wrong, Xiao Lingzi. What's the rush turning as soon as you see me?

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Eunuch Jin Zhong. His Majesty has any instructions?

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Eunuch Qing, what were you saying just now?

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Nothing much.

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We were just saying Xiao Lingzi, since he came to Yikun Palace,

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he's enjoying a smooth and content situation.

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He's in Yikun Palace though. He got to see the one he wants to see and he feels at ease.

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Of course he's content.

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I am foolish. I don't know what you mean.

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What else can we mean?

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Just that we're keeping an eye on you, so you can serve Her Highness well.

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Get Empress comfortable.

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If this is His Majesty's intention.

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Then I trouble you to come to Yikun Palace.

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Say it to Empress.

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Yourself, just exactly as His Majesty states.

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If this is your own intention though.

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Eunuch Jin Zhong. You serve His Majesty.

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You should know the rules of the palace.

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To falsely send His Majesty's words. That is not petty crime.

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Your mouth is sharp enough.

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Your Highness. Ling Yunche.

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He asked me for a favor.

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He asked me not to send him to work inside the hall.

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Ling Yunche is keeping distance.

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It's to protect you.

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I know his intention.

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Rongpei.

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Do you think this matter is finally ended?

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He's already --

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He's like this already.

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It's still not the end?

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His Majesty is easily suspicious.

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I really don't know.

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Take these chrysanthemum.

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Add white angelica and magnolia. Tartary buckwheat.

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Make him a pillow.

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Yes. Guard Ling endured such shame.

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It is indeed so harmful to his body.

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Don't worry. Each needle and thread.

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I shall tend to it myself.

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Slower, Mistress. Hurry.

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What are you doing there standing? Get water for Mistress.

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It should be smooth since you've birthed many times.

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When I think about how Ling Yunche is by Empress.

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I feel more gross.

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As long as he can leave Yikun Palace,

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I would feel better.

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Mistress. You still care about him.

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All my life, there aren't many I can care about left.

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Here, Mistress.

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How will we deal with this?

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I met your father earlier and I fear nothing.

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His Majesty ordered this Head over Wall today.

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It's not to enjoy a show with you.

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It's to have Xiao Lingzi there.

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Watch you two watch a show.

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Empress. There's a matter I should tell you.

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Someone in your palace isn't clean-handed. You should look into it in detail.

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What do you mean?

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Ling Yunche stole one of my treasures in your Yikun Palace.

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Jin Zhong.

- I'm here.

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Starting now, send Xiao Lingzi to do sweeping.

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Have him be the lowest ranked sweeping eunuch.

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Yes.

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So calm.

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You're not going to make a plea?

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Is it useful if I did?

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You're using this to switch Ling Yunche out.

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It's because you lost interest in this show?

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You think I love watching this show?

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I see that you're about to suffocate to death lately.

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I did this out of good intention.

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I thank you for your good intention.

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Don't stand there. Go do work.

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Your Highness. Try this chestnut and potato stew we just made.

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I have no appetite.

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Your Highness. Lately, the interior bureau took away many of the servants here.

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Saying they are incompetent in serving you and without saying when they will be sent back.

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Interior bureau wouldn't dare to do so.

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It's likely His Majesty's intention.

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Let him be.

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Your Highness. Consort Yu is here.

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Sister. Yongqi and his wife.

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They brought some snacks made in their manor.

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They are more unique than the palace ones.

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And not so sweet. So I brought them to try with you.

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Yongqi is thoughtful.

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I can't eat. Just leave them there for now.

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Sister. I heard Ling Yunche got transferred out.

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Yes. His Majesty found some pretext to switch him out.

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Giving him some thieving offense as the pretext.

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What I worry.

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His Majesty's suspicion won't dissipate.

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And this matter will not really end.

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Then how do you plan?

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Now His Majesty wants to see him suffer to dissipate his own frustration.

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What can I plan?

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In a year or so.

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I will find him a traveling palace far away.

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Let him out of His Majesty's sight.

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It can subsist his life.

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If that's the case, that wil be good.

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Yes.

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Sister.

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Are you done sweeping Imperial Gardden?

- Done.

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Then sweep here and sweet Cining Palace garden.

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Sir.

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Is it time for meal?

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You eat after you're done sweeping. After.

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This pillow, I've made it for some time already.

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I never got a chance to bring it to you.

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Every needle and thread is done by me.

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Thank you for your care.

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This weather, with the nonstop raining, it's easy to catch a chill.

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May Empress be cautious of her health.

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Thank you for your thought.

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This chrysanthemum pillow was made by me.

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But the chrysanthemum inside were picked out by Empress personally.

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We know you're suffering here.

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I am only suffering in physical labor.

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Empress is suffering in the heart.

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After I left, was His Majesty treating Empress better?

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It's pasable.

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It's all my fault.

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Empress never thought so.

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I take my leave.

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Thank you.

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This weather is just suddenly getting hot.

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After some time, we will need to go Yuanming Garden to escape the heat.

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We can stay there longer.

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Greetings to Beile Prince.

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Watch your eyes.

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Don't take an extra gaze.

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So Royal Mother and you can be safe.

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I understand.

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You are already lucky to be alive.

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You can't know if a knife will come back to you some day.

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You are right.

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Though I pity you, I cannot help you.

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I thank you.

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Empress Dowager, a report from Yongshuo Palace.

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Consort Ling safely birthed 16th prince.

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His Majesty named him Yongquan.

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Consort Ling is good at births.

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Reward as rules state.

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Yes.

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16th prince.

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Send him to Shuokang Palace to be raised by Dowagers, as usual.

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Consort Ling is favored and His Majesty may not be willing.

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15th prince, he let her keep by her.

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15th prince was kept at Yongshuo Palace because she was lucky.

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16th prince, just go with the old rules.

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Or else Consort Ling would be too haughty.

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Yes. I shall go and take care of it now.

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Consort Ling is giving births in succession.

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She's exceeding Imperial Noble Consort Chun already.

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You only have one son under you.

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It's too lonely perhaps.

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I get to transcribe sutra with you and pay to Buddha. It's not lonely.

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When it came to your turn to be empress, you sure are pitiful.

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But since the old times, which empress didn't bear through?

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It was only Empress Xiaoxian who was lucky to die early.

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To let Emperor miss her for so long.

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Yes. Life and death. I don't know which is better fortune.

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Let's just bear more. Emperor's temper.

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Royal Mother, since Consort Ling birthed 16th prince,

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in a few days, it will be Laba Festival.

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I was thinking of sharing some laba congee to the servants as token of grace.

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The congee makers outside the palace should make some givings to the people for good fortune.

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We have always had rules about giving laba congee in palace.

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But those servants that are too lowly.

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They don't get to get some because they are pushed out.

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Since we are doing it, we must do so generously.

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So everyone in the palace can receive the grace.

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I understand.

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Mistress. 16th prince has been taken to Shoukang Palace.

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Don't be sad.

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Yongyuan was allowed to stay.

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Why couldn't Yongquan be?

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I thought after Empress lost favor.

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I could keep my own children by me.

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I didn't think.

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I still can't.

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No matter how unfavored, she is still the empress.

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It's because my days are too content.

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I forgot that Empress could still mess with me.

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Even if she can't, she can still motivate Empress Dowager to.

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Can't be.

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I must take my own child back.

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Mistress, don't rush. Sooner or later, they will all come back.

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His Majesty is kind. Today is Laba Festival.

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Today's laba congee is full of all the good ingredients.

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It's not more coarse than the ones served to the mistresses.

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Lucky us.

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Thank you.

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Let's go.

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Thank you, Your Majesty.

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Did you go ride the horse?

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I went hunting with my brothers.

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I hunted a red fox. I will leave it for you to make mittens.

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Princess consort and second princess consort don't have any but only me?

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Isn't that too biased?

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You're the sweetest.

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You're all sweaty in the middle of winter.

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I've got your water ready. Wash up and rest.

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You're sweet.

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Why is the water --

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Since last time after Mulan ranch, your leg's been acting up a lot.

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You can't wash in cold water anymore.

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It's alright. I got used to washing in cold.

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I don't feel comfortable with hot water. Change it to cold.

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You are always disregarding it and it makes me so sad.

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What's wrong? It's hurting again?

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Have Physician Jiang come take a look maybe.

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It's alright.

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I'm fine. Don't worry.

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Yunjiao is able to live until now.

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Thanks to you.

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I owe you. I didn't watch over you well.

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Yunjiao. What are you talking about?

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These years, you served me the best.

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Just that you don't have a child.

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And that's the one regret.

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I always think, if we can have a child,

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then it'd be so great.

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Yes.

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If we have a child, that will be the best.

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What's wrong?

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These years, I always see that sometimes you're not well.

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It's nothing.

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Just some womenly things. Not worthwhile for you to ask.

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I will go switch out the water.

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His Majesty is regarding 5th prince even more importantly.

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Not long ago, he promoted him as Prince Rongjun.

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His Majesty dos value 5th prince.

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But we've got a Yunjiao so it's not scary.

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Just that, Mistress, think it through.

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If something happens to 5th prince, Empress still has her own 12th prince.

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If there is really no one to select, His Majesty will first regard 12th prince.

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It's already tiresome to deal with just the 5th prince.

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I'm supposed to deal with 12th prince too without getting caught?

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I ask myself and I don't have that skill.

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A mother goes up in ranking by her son. A son goes up in ranking by his mother.

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When Empress falls, 12th prince won't be able to become crown prince.

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It's best.

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If the real child can get the mother kiled.

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That's the way to appease my hate.

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Mistress Ling.

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We've already brought Ling Yunche into the water and we couldn't bring Empress to death.

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If His Majesty should restore his feelings for Empress one day,

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and Empress is rstored, then all your bitter work is ruined.

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And you and your princes and princesses' lives can't be vouched either.

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What do you wish to say?

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If Ling Yunche continues to be the biggest obstacle in His Majesty's trust of Empress,

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why don't we use him to push His Majesty once more.

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Let Empress lose His Majesty's empathy completely.

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What do you mean?

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Ling Yunche can't be preserved.

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Ling Yunche can't just die.

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I just say that and you can't spare him, then forget it.

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There's nothing I can't spare about him.

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Just that,

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if he must die,

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he must die in a more beneficial way to us.

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I mean precisely that.

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It's getting late. I'll go first.

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Where is Chunchan? I don't see her in the palace serving you.

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Chunchan's aunt died. I let her leave to hold a funeral.

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I take my leave first.

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Mistress.

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You're back?

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Greetings to Mistress.

- Get on up.

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Was the funeral carried out?

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Don't be sad. She's gone.

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After I went back, I found out,

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it was because Aunt ate some poisonous wild mushroom that she died.

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Where did it come from, since we're already in winter.

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This wild mushroom came from the south.

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The scent is great but shouldn't be consummed in large amount.

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But aunt was greedy for it and ate too much and started to hallucinate.

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Unluckily she fell into the lake and drowned.

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Such a strange event.

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This thing killed a person. Did the peddler go to prison?

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Of course.

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He even said he was innocent and that he didn't know they were poisonous.

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To peddle such harmful things. He and the merchandize are all in the prison.

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Let's do this, Chunchan.

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You make another trip and say you want to keep an evidence that killed your aunt.

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Go.

- Yes.

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12th prince, eat more.

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After you eat lunch, you have to write for an hour still.

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Before I can take you back to the palace.

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I remember mother often goes to Imperial Garden to look at flowers at this hour.

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How about we make a detour so I can see mother.

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To look at flowers for a bit.

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I know you worry about Empress.

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It's all that Xiao Lingzi's fault.

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If it weren't for him, Empress wouldn't have gotten implicated.

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Keeping you from your mother.

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Don't mention Xiao Lingzi. I dislike him.

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Yes. I know my wrong.

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I heard the rumors are getting more and more ugly.

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Someone even says, Empress and Xiao Lingzi are privately --

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Stop the nonsense. I don't believe it.

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You are not allowed to talk wildly.

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I over spoke. I know my wrong.

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12th prince. Is today's food suiting to you?

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You eat more of this. This is mushroom and meat, especially made for you.

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It's fresh tasting, the kind you like.

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How is it?

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It's pretty good, right?

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In this season, it's hard to find fragrant mushrooms.

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It is rare item from the south.

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Though it was dried, once rehydrated and fried, the taste is still so great.

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You eat more.

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More.

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It's windy lately and there are more fallen leaves in the imperial garden.

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After you wipe the door, go clean up.

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So they don't dirty the mistress's soles.

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By the way, keep under the plum tree especially clean.

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Plum blossoms will bloom soon and the mistresses will go see.

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In the past, it was always someone else picking plum blossoms you love for you.

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Delivering them to your palace.

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Since last winter, you actually prefer to come yourself to this imperial garden.

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And pick up plum blossoms for tribute.

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Taking a stroll out here is soothing.

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You love plum blossoms the most.

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Coming out here to watch plum trees is nice too.

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Better than suffocating in the palace.

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Yes. Instead of getting annoyed by the rumors,

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it's better to accompany the quietness between sky and land.

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There's some saying that plum is the spring of the land.

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Your Highness, everything will get better.

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We're almost by the imperial garden.

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At this time, Empress must be there.

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I will go find her myself. You wait out here till I come out.

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Yes.

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But 12th prince, I hear Xiao Lingzi cleans the imperial garden since his punishment.

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Why are you mentioning him again? Didn't I say I dislike that?

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Yes, but I mean, if you see him or hear some rumors, just ignore.

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I got it.

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Your Highness, careful of your feet.

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Seeing how these plum blossoms bloom year after year,

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I realize how fast the days go by.

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Ling Yunche.

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Ling Yunche?

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Your servant greets Empress.

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Get on up.

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Yes.

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How are you in all?

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Thank you for your care.

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I'm well. It's all well.

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That day, I was transferred out of Yikun Palace in a rush.

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I did not have time to bow to you to bid my farewell.

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Now I got to see that you are well, Your Highness.

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I am assured.

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Ling Yunche. I have always wanted to tell you this.

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It's all my fault. I implicated you to suffer this bitterness.

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It's not suffering. I'm not suffering.

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I just hope that your days in the future.

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They will be smooth and well.

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Only if we are both well.

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Yes.

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It was always me.

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Picking plum blossoms for you for tribute.

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Today, will you allow me.

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To let you pick another plum blossom stick?

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Alright.

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Thank you, Empress.

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I heard those rumors are getting uglier.

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Those rumors.

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I heard. Those rumors.

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Those rumors are getting uglier.

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I heard.

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Your Highness.

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I take my leave.

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You take care.

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Your Majesty, I will accompany you to Yanxi Palace.

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To see if Sister Yu is lacking anything as well.

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Since 12th prince lives there too.

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You're thoughtful.

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Sister Yu is easy.

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Yongji.

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Why are you running wildly in the palace? Where is your decorum?

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12th prince, please don't run.

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12th prince seems startled. His eyes are lost.

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Greetings to Your Maesty. To Consort Ling.

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Xiao Lizi, you serve 12th prince. What happened?

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I don't know either.

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12th prince was going to go to the imperial garden to pick the early plum blossoms.

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But as soon as he entered, he screamed.

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Saying Empress and Xiao Lingzi were embracing each other.

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And he started to run like he was mad.

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Pompous. What is this nonsense?

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I don't dare.

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Yongji. What did you see?

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Can't be.

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12th prince. Think clearly first.

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Mother. Mother. Xiao Lingzi. They won't.

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Prince.

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Your Majesty, should we summon Empress to ask?

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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. ♫