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Watching the person in the mirror's countenance pale and grow haggard,
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Examining love together with regret, both new and old.
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Keeping watch still by a lantern though it is daybreak, drenched with tears,
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Watching others meet as promised, as twilight falls.
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Yanxi Palace Episode 42
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You can tell me the truth now, right?
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The silver needle in your body was Noble Consort Chun's doing?
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Is it?
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Yingluo. The two years I was in Zhongcui Palace.
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Noble Consort Chun was very good to me all along.
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Especially in His Majesty's presence.
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But three days ago,
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I discovered Wang Zhong who was the supervisor at fire house back then.
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With Yuhu.
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The oversight by the eunuch in the fire house
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caused the Lucky Urn to ice up.
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7th Prince died in the fire.
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Because Wang Zhong wasn't on shift that night,
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he luckily escaped the blame.
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But an eunuch and a palace maid smitten is a common happening in the palace.
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So I didn't think otherwise.
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But Yuhu felt guilty.
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And she reported the incident to Noble Consort Chun.
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From that day on they changed completely.
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Let go of me.
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They want to threaten me to keep my mouth shut.
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So I started to suspect,
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that 7th Prince's death.
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It's linked to Noble Consort Chun.
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You discovered them.
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But they didn't kill you immediately because there are lots of people and lots of talking mouths in the forbidden city.
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If you die suddenly,
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His Majesty would surely suspect.
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But they're still afraid you might show yourself.
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So this trip to Yuanming Garden.
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They never planned to let you go back alive.
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Mingyu.
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How are you so foolish? Why didn't you tell me sooner?
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I can't say it.
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Yingluo. I can't say it.
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Now Noble Consort Chun is the most favored consort in the forbidden city.
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His Majesty's favorite.
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I have no evidence against Noble Consort Chun.
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It's one thing if I lose my life.
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My family will be hit by it.
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You're right.
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If we don't have sure win, we can't act recklessly.
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Yingluo. Empress is gone now.
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If you commit a wrong again, who can protect you?
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Noble Consort Chun is high and mighty now. We can't be eggs throwing ourselves at rocks.
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Yes. No one will protect us.
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In order to avenge or Empress, we need to find a mountain to lean on first.
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Save the fire.
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I did not kill A'Man.
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If you don't believe me, you can use this dagger now.
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To stab into my heart.
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Yingluo, everything you said to me before.
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Every smile you blossomed at me.
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They encircle on my mind over and over.
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Even if I know clearly you are deceiving me.
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I don't want to believe it.
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When you can give up your grudge.
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And lay down your revenge. No matter how long it takes.
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Even if it's my entire life. I will wait for you.
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Hey.
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Your arm, lower.
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Look at the bow well. Your gaze should follow here and there.
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Here. Straight to the front.
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Try it.
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Guard Zoulun.
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Sir Hai, you have a sweetheart at Yuanming Garden too?
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I know! If Miss Mingyu finds out,
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she would be so sad.
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Yes, it's true.
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You're craving some floggings? Continue.
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Let's train.
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Guard Suolun.
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Miss Yingluo, you can just call me Hailan Cha.
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Actually I came today to see you,
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because I have a favor to ask of you.
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Alright.
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I haven't said it.
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Do you know what favor I might ask you that you just say yes?
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Before Fuheng left, he told me no matter what needs Miss Yingluo might have,
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I must help you no matter what. He's my best buddy.
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Someone he trusts, I trust too.
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Go ahead. What do you need help with?
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Brother. Time to eat.
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Yingluo,
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usually it's me delivering food to you.
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What's the change for today?
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You're delivering food to me?
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Tell me. Did you do something guilty?
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Brother.
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These two years, I've remembered how good you treat me.
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What's wrong? I suddenly become aware of my conscience and I'm good to you.
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I can't?
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Yingluo. You promised me.
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No matter what changes happen in the outside world,
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the two of us will always stay together at Yuanming Garden.
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You agreed we would never part. Don't go back on it now.
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The food's getting cold. Let's eat first.
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Why are you staring at me like that?
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Um, about my room. The roof's leaking a bit.
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I'm afraid a big rain will come one day.
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Brother. Tomorrow if you have time, can you mend it for me?
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No problem. I got it.
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Look, Sister. So beautiful over there.
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May Empress Dowager release.
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Alright. Good.
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Good.
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Namo Amitabha.
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Namo Amitabha.
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What is that?
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How is there a multicolored bird in Yuanming Garden?
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Sister Shu, look.
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Jaw of a swallow but beak of a chicken, and multicolored.
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- Can it be . . .- So strange.
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Who raises these birds?
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Empress Dowager is asking. Who is raising these birds?
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Greetings to Empress Dowager, to Your Majesty, to Empress and all mistresses.
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These birds, before their release,
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were all taken care of by me.
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Then tell me, that bird,
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what is its name?
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I've never seen it either.
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I dare to guess,
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that it's a phoenix.
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Utter nonsense.
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Yuanming Garden raises common birds, so where would a phoenix come from?
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On Empress Dowager's birthday. The tradition of releasing lives.
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Such mercy has attracted the king of all birds.
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This is the heavens showing Empress Dowager's merit.
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Hence the appearance of the auspicious sign.
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The world is full of rarities.
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But such an amusement is a first for me.
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Emperor, do you think she is right?
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Empress Dowager, once the sky showed the auspicious sign of five stars beaded together.
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Great Emperor Kangxi was a man of logic and would not believe.
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And he hated such hoaxing of auspicious signs.
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However, her diligent devotion is to court your merriment.
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Not rewarding and not punishing would do.
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Empress Dowager, His Majesty is right.
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It's surely that palace maid tinting the bird with multiple colors beforehand.
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Hiding it inside the bird cage to incite your merriment on purpose.
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She's anxious to seek a reward.
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Wei Yingluo, you sure are bold.
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This is a crime of deception to the emperor.
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She's just amusing a smile out of Empress Dowager.
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It's not as serious as all you sisters claim.
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Empress is merciful and lenient with everyone.
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However, this palace maid is showing off before the crowd.
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Trying to charm while everyone is watching.
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If everyone is like her, the palace . . .
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It will become such a chaos.
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Come. Take this palace maid down.
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Empress Dowager. I have a way to prove myself.
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How will you prove the auspicious sign from heaven?
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On your birthday, the phoenix presents itself.
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Is it really the auspicious sign from above or am I trying to hoax with charm.
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We can know if we try it again.
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Well, you are trying to find another fake fortune you prepared beforehand?
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Empress Dowager. Don't get tricked by her anymore.
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We are so many but getting tricked by a palace maid.
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What a mockery to the world.
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I say she should be dragged out.
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Give her 80 floggings and we'll see if she will speak honestly.
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Empress Dowager. This palace maid is trying to cheer you up.
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I dare to plead for leniency.
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Leniency? Then,
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every slave will copy her wily charms.
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And no one will do their chores diligently anymore.
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All you mistresses are over worried. Yuanming Garden has a goldfish pond.
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There are lots of koi. Why not try the heaven's will through them?
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Let's see if I am really lying or if it's the heaven's will.
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Emperor, a matter of heaven's auspicious sign.
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Though it's my first time hearing it,
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I really do want to see.
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Is it my kindness that's touched the Gods.
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Or this girl is deceiving wildly.
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Wei Yingluo, are you confident?
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Since the heavens are celebrating your birthday,
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auspicious signs won't present once only.
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Yingluo will wager her life to test the heaven's will.
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Let's see if the auspicious sign is really real or if it's fake.
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Empress Dowager, if you'd like to test it, then indulge in this amusement.
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But we can't let her pick out the koi.
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How about I bring someone to do the selecting?
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That way it's fair and square.
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Alright.
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Empress Dowager, did you see?
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That girl is obviously lying with her eyes wide open.
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The fish have swam away.
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And we still don't see half an auspicious sign.
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To think someone like her exists in the world!
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To taunt Empress Dowager in public like this.
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As if once wasn't enough, she did it twice.
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Her brazenness is unmatched.
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Your Majesty, I believe,
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she must be punished severely.
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We cannot allow a trend of seduction to start.
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Wei Yingluo, the koi have all swam away.
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It's clear your heaven's will is all rubbish.
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Now even I can't speak on your behalf.
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Hurry and drag her down.
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You all look!
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It's the character "long life".
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Shou
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Empress Dowager didn't see it wrong. It's shou indeed.
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On your long life celebration, you release lives, which touched the heaven.
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So such rare auspicious sign is appearing.
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Empress Dowager, may you be blessed with long and prosperous life.
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Auspicious sign from heaven. Congratulations, Empress Dowager.
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Good. Good.
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Auspicious sign from heaven.
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It means my years of devotion to Buddha wasn't cultivated in vain.
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Everyone, get on up.
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You're a good child.
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Tell me. What do you want as reward?
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Empress Dowager. I miss the forbidden city very much.
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I want to return to it.
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So simple?
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Empress Dowager's merit has touched the heaven above.
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I am brazen but wish to go and serve Empress Dowager.
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No.
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This child is clever and fine. I like her.
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What's wrong with her serving me at Shuokang Palace?
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Empress Dowager, that girl has a sharp and slippery tongue, very tricky.
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She's going to serve me, not to serve you.
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She is eloquent and knowledgeable. Perfect to make everyone happy.
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I was thinking my days were so boring actually.
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Yingluo thanks Empress Dowager for her grace.
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Empress Dowager, it's not that I don't want to.
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Just that . . . I was going to promote her as my bed attendant of second class.
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I won't let you get near Empress Dowager. Forget your vain dream.
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Second Class Attendant?
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Wei Yingluo is the daughter of an official.
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A former servant of interior bureau.
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To promote her as a second class attendant is indulgent to her.
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That child is clever and quick.
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She spent so much effort to cheer me on my birthday.
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And she's delicate in looks.
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I think a second class attendant is compromising her.
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Promote her as Noble Lady is more suitable.
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I thank Empress Dowager for the grace.
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Noble Lady Wei, hurry and rise.
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Yes.
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Hurry and come.
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Good girl. In the future, you will be blessed.
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Yingluo is bold. I have another request.
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Wei Yingluo, don't push your luck.
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Empress Dowager, have I stepped over my bound?
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Say it first.
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Noble Consort. Mingyu and I served together at Changchun Palace.
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We are very close and hard to separate.
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May you be merciful and allow Mingyu to accompany me.
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Noble Lady Wei, you just got promoted to Noble Lady.
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But you're asking a person from Noble Consort already. That seems defying the rules.
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I am only attached to an old mate.
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If Noble Consort can't spare, I will seek a different wish.
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Enough. Just a palace maid. If she wants her, give her.
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Yes.
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Your servant.
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No.
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Your concubine thanks Your Majesty for his grace.
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Empress Dowager, on the top of the mountain and long river,
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we've prepared a fire show. Let's go see the show.
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Alright.
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You come too.
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Yes.
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Yingluo, was it for my sake?
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Mingyu. In the past, I was a palace maid.
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Now, I am a noble lady.
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You can say I made it big and you should be happy for me.
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- But . . .- No more but's. Hurry and pack up.
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Wei Yingluo, I must talk to you.
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Yingluo, then I'll go out first.
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Why?
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- Why what? - You promised me.
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That you'd stay at Yuanming Palace with me forever.
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Why are you becoming Hongli's noble lady?
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Brother, weren't you always anxious to climb up high?
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In the future, we will never need to suffer hardship at Yuanming Garden again.
285
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Let's go back to the forbidden city and be above others. Isn't that good?
286
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Furthermore, I was only trying to garner Empress Dowager's pleasing.
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I didn't think I'd become a noble lady. This was unexpected.
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You can fool everyone but you can't fool me.
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Wei Yingluo, Hongli is very suspicious of you.
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He's long determined you had ulterior motive. He would allow you to stay by Empress Dowager?
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But you earned Empress Dowager's merriment so to him,
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the most proper and smooth way to deflect that is to keep you by his side.
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Yingluo. You already schemed all this.
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You already calculated and you were afraid I'd stop you.
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So you lured me away on purpose. Isn't it?
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Yes. I did do so on purpose.
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Because I don't wish to stay at Yuanming Garden anymore and I don't wish furthermore to be a palace maid forever.
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I don't allow you to go. I don't allow you.
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Brother.
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Yingluo, listen to me.
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It's not that I am opposed to you marrying another.
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It's fine whoever you marry.
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Not only will I not object, I will help you with your wedding and marrying you off with dowry.
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Just not Hongli. Only he can't be it.
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- Why not? - There's no why. Just not him.
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Brother. I becoming a noble lady only benefits you.
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Tell me. Why do you really object?
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Yingluo, let me beg you. I beg you.
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Can I defy the royal decree come now?
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There's no problem. There is fresh produce delivering in and out daily at Yuanming Garden.
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If we plan it early, we can escape this place for sure.
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Yingluo, I don't want anything else now. I seek nothing.
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I just seek for us to leave peacefully. Let's go together.
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Brother.
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You've gone mad.
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Wei Yingluo, think clearly.
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If you go to Hongli,
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then you are betraying your promise to me.
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As for a traitor, I, Yuan Chunwang, never forgives.
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You will really part ways from me?
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Brother.
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I'm sorry.
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Alright.
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Alright.
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Wei Yingluo, you remember this day.
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You betrayed our promise first.
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From now on, you walk on your bright and broad road.
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I will walk on my single-planked bridge.
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00:28:28,070 --> 00:28:32,160
The two of us have no more ties.
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Brother.
331
00:29:00,100 --> 00:29:02,010
Brother.
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00:29:03,620 --> 00:29:08,530
Why do you see His Majesty as such enemy?
333
00:29:14,940 --> 00:29:16,910
Why?
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00:29:16,910 --> 00:29:21,020
You were born with everything.
335
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:26,070
I was born with nothing.
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00:29:27,660 --> 00:29:30,340
You indulge in everything.
337
00:29:31,270 --> 00:29:35,500
And you must snatch the only thing I have.
338
00:29:38,690 --> 00:29:42,440
Heavens, you are so unfair.
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00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,660
Unfair!
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Wei Yingluo.
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Today you betrayed me.
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00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:15,000
Tomorrow,
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don't blame this brother of yours.
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From now on, you walk on your bright and broad road.
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00:30:33,150 --> 00:30:36,700
I will walk on my single-planked bridge.
346
00:30:46,110 --> 00:30:48,450
Supervisor Li, what brings you here?
347
00:30:48,450 --> 00:30:53,260
Noble Lady Wei. His Majesty summons your bed attendance tonight.
348
00:30:54,170 --> 00:30:55,390
Tonight?
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Noble Lady, this is a heavenly blessing.
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May you prepare thoroughly.
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00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:05,730
You two help dress the noble lady.
352
00:31:28,490 --> 00:31:33,250
Yingluo. You can't avoid tonight somehow?
353
00:31:34,250 --> 00:31:36,620
His Majesty summons the new noble lady for bed service.
354
00:31:36,620 --> 00:31:40,440
It's completely natural. How will I avoid it?
355
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:45,340
His Majesty really wants a bed service, he would arrange for Nine-State Qingyan Hall.
356
00:31:45,340 --> 00:31:48,280
That's where His Majesty resides at Yuanming Garden Palace.
357
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:50,520
Why would it be at Changchun Celestial Hall?
358
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:52,980
That's Late Empress's residence.
359
00:31:52,980 --> 00:31:56,810
His doing so is clearly holding an ulterior motive.
360
00:31:56,810 --> 00:32:00,930
Maybe he will pick on you.
361
00:32:02,610 --> 00:32:05,430
Even if I know clearly he's up to something,
362
00:32:05,430 --> 00:32:07,710
I must go still.
363
00:32:08,470 --> 00:32:11,020
Or else I am defying the royal decree.
364
00:32:12,420 --> 00:32:16,620
Yingluo, it's all m y fault.
365
00:32:16,620 --> 00:32:19,350
If I said nothing,
366
00:32:19,350 --> 00:32:23,250
then you'd be living in peace at Yuanming Garden.
367
00:32:23,250 --> 00:32:27,100
If nothing comes to me, I will not seek out trouble.
368
00:32:27,100 --> 00:32:31,860
But if something comes to me, I will not be afraid either.
369
00:32:31,860 --> 00:32:35,910
Managing life is all about finding appropriate way to fight troubles that come your way.
370
00:32:35,910 --> 00:32:39,190
If you're always worried and frightened,
371
00:32:39,190 --> 00:32:40,980
there's no fun in living.
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00:32:40,980 --> 00:32:44,330
Changchun Celestial Hall
373
00:33:10,340 --> 00:33:14,050
His Majesty is busy with state affair. May Noble Lady Wei wait momentarily.
374
00:33:14,050 --> 00:33:15,770
Fine.
375
00:34:03,100 --> 00:34:06,270
Your Majesty, Noble Lady Wei is in the cold.
376
00:34:06,270 --> 00:34:08,260
She's been waiting for over two hours.
377
00:34:08,260 --> 00:34:12,200
Is it time to summon her in first?
378
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:58,330
Noble Lady, what are you doing? It's too rude.
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00:35:03,770 --> 00:35:05,540
Mingyu.
380
00:35:06,530 --> 00:35:09,460
I think this snack is a bit tough.
381
00:35:09,460 --> 00:35:11,460
Did you not put enough water?
382
00:35:11,460 --> 00:35:13,860
Next time I'll be sure to remember it.
383
00:35:18,370 --> 00:35:19,970
Well . . .
384
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:30,060
Yingluo, can you really do this?
385
00:35:30,060 --> 00:35:33,660
His Majesty, will he get furious?
386
00:35:34,980 --> 00:35:37,220
Whether it will work?
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00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:39,860
We'll find out.
388
00:35:42,670 --> 00:35:44,760
- Tell her to roll in.- Yes.
389
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:55,400
Your concubine greets Your Majesty.
390
00:36:06,730 --> 00:36:11,220
Wei Yingluo, how dare of you!
391
00:36:11,220 --> 00:36:14,250
Your Majesty summoned me to attend to your bed tonight.
392
00:36:14,250 --> 00:36:16,770
I obeyed and came.
393
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:21,510
But I was waiting in the cold and it's easy to catch a disease.
394
00:36:21,510 --> 00:36:24,120
How can a sick person service you in bed?
395
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:28,040
I did so not only to protect myself.
396
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:30,510
I did so more so to protect you.
397
00:36:30,580 --> 00:36:34,290
So words don't get out that you're mean to your concubines.
398
00:36:34,290 --> 00:36:36,930
That will damage your good reputation.
399
00:36:45,310 --> 00:36:47,560
Do you know where this is?
400
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:50,580
This is Late Empress's residence at Yuanming Garden.
401
00:36:50,580 --> 00:36:52,390
Why do I summon you here?
402
00:36:52,390 --> 00:36:53,970
Your Majesty is shaming me.
403
00:36:53,970 --> 00:36:55,540
No.
404
00:36:56,280 --> 00:37:00,810
I want Late Empress to see.
405
00:37:00,810 --> 00:37:03,170
The person she pampered before.
406
00:37:03,170 --> 00:37:05,960
For the sake of wealth and status,
407
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,490
just how she betrayed her.
408
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:12,720
Since you have no intention for bed service,
409
00:37:12,720 --> 00:37:15,260
I shall take my leave.
410
00:37:17,730 --> 00:37:19,590
Stop there.
411
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:25,370
What other instructions do you have for me, Your Majesty?
412
00:37:25,370 --> 00:37:28,070
Isn't it your turn to service me in bed tonight?
413
00:37:28,070 --> 00:37:30,030
Where are you going?
414
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:33,400
Come.
415
00:37:58,580 --> 00:38:04,250
You're waiting for me to undress you personally?
416
00:38:34,580 --> 00:38:36,310
You!
417
00:38:37,270 --> 00:38:41,130
Your Majesty, to you,
418
00:38:41,130 --> 00:38:43,790
Late Empress is already a deceased person.
419
00:38:44,730 --> 00:38:49,760
But to me, Her Highness isn't just my master.
420
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:53,800
She is Yingluo's gracious teacher and older sister.
421
00:38:54,620 --> 00:39:00,490
Hence, I must devote mourning period of 27 months for her.
422
00:39:00,490 --> 00:39:03,720
My mourning period isn't filled yet. Even if it's Your Majesty's order.
423
00:39:03,720 --> 00:39:06,190
I would still not dare to tend to you in bed.
424
00:39:11,350 --> 00:39:14,500
Since you want to devote to mourning, why did you come?
425
00:39:14,500 --> 00:39:17,020
To your eyes,
426
00:39:17,020 --> 00:39:19,930
I am just a glutton for wealth and status.
427
00:39:19,930 --> 00:39:22,130
There's nothing to explain in that.
428
00:39:22,130 --> 00:39:26,880
When the days go by, you will realize what I am.
429
00:39:27,450 --> 00:39:29,690
But I know,
430
00:39:29,690 --> 00:39:33,490
defying the royal decree is punished by death.
431
00:39:33,490 --> 00:39:36,290
So I could only come to express my intention.
432
00:39:36,290 --> 00:39:38,450
If His Majesty insists on casting blame,
433
00:39:38,450 --> 00:39:41,950
I am willing to take on all punishments.
434
00:39:48,110 --> 00:39:49,690
Go now.
435
00:39:49,690 --> 00:39:52,170
Thank you for your grace, Your Majesty.
436
00:40:17,220 --> 00:40:19,190
Don't you think you were too bold?
437
00:40:19,190 --> 00:40:21,520
To treat His Majesty like that?
438
00:40:22,720 --> 00:40:26,290
But you wore the mourning clothing head to toe.
439
00:40:26,330 --> 00:40:28,590
And wagered death to go and bed service.
440
00:40:28,590 --> 00:40:31,830
It must be because you still miss Empress.
441
00:40:31,830 --> 00:40:34,360
You are so good to Empress.
442
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:36,570
You're such a dummy.
443
00:40:37,220 --> 00:40:39,060
Did I say wrong?
444
00:40:39,060 --> 00:40:41,130
To respect a person sincerely.
445
00:40:41,130 --> 00:40:43,660
It is to respect in the heart.
446
00:40:43,660 --> 00:40:45,620
It's not to put on a longing show.
447
00:40:45,620 --> 00:40:47,740
That's meaningless to the deceased.
448
00:40:47,740 --> 00:40:50,600
Since I am now a noble lady already,
449
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:53,330
if I insist on preserving my chastity,
450
00:40:53,330 --> 00:40:57,600
that's being hypocritical. But I had to do so today.
451
00:40:57,600 --> 00:40:59,540
If I really serviced in bed tonight,
452
00:40:59,540 --> 00:41:01,720
it would be equal to me telling His Majesty,
453
00:41:01,720 --> 00:41:04,730
that I am truly a woman who is an ingrate.
454
00:41:04,730 --> 00:41:08,400
Who can ignore the master's grace and at her own residence,
455
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:11,100
to climb up to the royal bed without any shame.
456
00:41:11,540 --> 00:41:15,820
Hence, even if I have to risk the danger of infuriating His Majesty,
457
00:41:15,820 --> 00:41:18,570
I can not service in bed tonight no matter what.
458
00:41:19,230 --> 00:41:20,080
Yingluo.
459
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:22,380
Now, I am a noble lady.
460
00:41:22,380 --> 00:41:24,850
But this is only the beginning.
461
00:41:25,340 --> 00:41:28,860
But Noble Consort Chun, in order to secure her current position,
462
00:41:28,860 --> 00:41:30,830
it took her many years.
463
00:41:31,540 --> 00:41:34,380
Then we'll wait slowly and see.
464
00:41:34,380 --> 00:41:37,560
You're in charge of security at Empress Lake.
465
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:41,230
If Wei Yingluo wanted to do a trick, it couldn't fool you.
466
00:41:41,230 --> 00:41:45,130
If you don't confess now, you should leave the forbidden city.
467
00:41:45,810 --> 00:41:50,030
Your Majesty, Miss Yingluo didn't want to keep you in the dark.
468
00:41:50,030 --> 00:41:52,730
She said Your Majesty had keen discernment,
469
00:41:52,730 --> 00:41:55,940
and sharp-witted so surely Your Majesty could investigate and find out the truth.
470
00:41:55,940 --> 00:41:58,660
She told me to report the truth to you.
471
00:42:01,250 --> 00:42:05,030
Don't put on such loftiness on me. Speak.
472
00:42:05,030 --> 00:42:07,360
You can fake the phoenix.
473
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:10,990
But what about the long-life character?
474
00:42:10,990 --> 00:42:13,330
Miss Yingluo sought my help.
475
00:42:13,330 --> 00:42:15,760
To find 80 cicada nets.
476
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:17,680
Mixing buns with fish baits.
477
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:19,990
Dispatching a few guards good at swimming,
478
00:42:19,990 --> 00:42:21,530
to submerge to the bottom of the lake,
479
00:42:21,530 --> 00:42:24,490
to stick poles deeply into the silt.
480
00:42:24,490 --> 00:42:28,550
The koi fish would be lured to try the food. 80 dots.
481
00:42:28,550 --> 00:42:32,180
Linked together, and the character shou for long-life is made.
482
00:42:35,100 --> 00:42:37,650
How tricky!
483
00:42:37,650 --> 00:42:43,940
Your Majesty, Miss Yingluo said Your Majesty toiled to prepare the birthday all to cheer the empress dowager.
484
00:42:43,940 --> 00:42:47,210
Her goal is the same. As long as Empress Dowager is happy,
485
00:42:47,210 --> 00:42:49,940
whatever she does, it's worthwhile.
486
00:42:57,380 --> 00:42:58,790
You go now.
487
00:42:58,790 --> 00:43:00,290
Yes.
488
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:06,380
From now on, mark these words.
489
00:43:06,380 --> 00:43:08,460
She is my Noble Lady Wei.
490
00:43:09,350 --> 00:43:11,360
Don't call her erroneously again.
491
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♫Softly falling into the hollow of my palm,♫
493
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:39,990
♫Resting frozen in the center of my palm.♫
494
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:51,260
♫Our meeting across past incarnations was inevitable,♫
495
00:43:52,930 --> 00:44:02,050
♫Joined together, deeply experiencing and holding onto the end of happiness.♫
496
00:44:03,930 --> 00:44:12,330
♫Though plainly given words of discouragement,♫
497
00:44:14,690 --> 00:44:23,120
♫Pretending to hear nothing but exhortation.♫
498
00:44:25,630 --> 00:44:36,680
♫ Endless tears, believing it cannot be true,♫
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00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:46,130
♫ In this life, being born under an unlucky star.♫
500
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♫I hear the sound of the snow slowly falling♫
501
00:44:53,330 --> 00:44:58,060
♫I hear the sound of the snow slowly falling♫
502
00:44:58,060 --> 00:45:04,510
♫ Nothing you can do about being approached, not being inconsistent in love,♫
503
00:45:04,510 --> 00:45:09,600
♫ Though merely holding onto it from the outside, prone to this sort of circumstance.♫
504
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:15,130
♫ I hear the sound of the snow slowly falling♫
505
00:45:15,130 --> 00:45:19,920
♫ As though you are holding me closely, and speaking sweetly.♫
506
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:27,700
♫ Opening your eyes to a sky filled with merciless snow falling,♫
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♫ Who, after suffering this loss for a lifetime, is fond of this scene?♫
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