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♪The white sail came too late♪

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♪Where did he go?♪

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♪Snow veils the mountains♪

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♪Love endures beyond life and death♪

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♪A black chess piece♪

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♪Whose game did he stumble into?♪

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♪All his life, there's no escape♪

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♪In ten thousand years, what will still remain?♪

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♪Will anyone still love with an unchanging heart?♪

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♪I will remember♪

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♪Those days long past♪

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♪As the wind drifts with the white sail♪

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♪Ten thousand years ago♪

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♪Did you once walk this shore?♪

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♪Why can't our bond be severed in this life?♪

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♪I am lost yet willing♪

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♪Still I love you with a steadfast heart♪

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♪Until all things fade away♪

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♪The stars will remember us♪

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[Love & Crown]

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[Adapted from the novel "My Queen" by Xie Lounan]

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[Episode 23]

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Madam.

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You cannot hold your drink.

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Do not drink any more.

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Yet he said

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she was the finest blessing he ever gained.

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So this is it.

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I was never anything at all.

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Madam,

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you are truly drunk.

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Let me take you back to rest.

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Madam.

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When I was a child,

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there were days so bitter I could hardly breathe,

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moments when I thought I could not go on.

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So I found a place

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and hid myself away.

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I hid for a long time,

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until

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he appeared.

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He took my hand

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and told me not to fear.

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You have been the light of my life.

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I have lived my whole life for you.

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Once, I wished to ask you:

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back then, did you truly mean to save me,

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or was I merely a piece on your board?

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Did you want me to believe

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that I owed you my life?

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But tell me,

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do I truly owe you anything?

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Do I truly owe you anything?

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Xiao Huan, do I truly owe you anything?

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Madam.

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Madam,

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you are truly drunk.

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Madam.

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I no longer care.

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Because

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the man who defiled my mother

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held an identity so exalted

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she could never speak it aloud.

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They all said my mother was wanton,

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that she betrayed the late Emperor's trust.

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They tied her to a stake

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and burned her alive.

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But whom did she truly betray?

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[Let me bear the heir of His Majesty]

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My mother wrote a letter in her own blood.

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By then, the late Emperor was gone.

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Everyone wanted her dead.

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So she wrote this blood letter

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to prove who I was,

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hoping I might live to grow up safely.

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But she never knew

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that my identity would be concealed.

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It was you all

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who ruined my mother,

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ruined me,

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and left us unable to speak a word.

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What a fine imperial family.

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Such overwhelming majesty you wield.

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Madam,

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you must not say another word.

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Then tell me,

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what right do you have to pretend to be the righteous one?

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Why did you deceive me for more than ten years,

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and make me give everything,

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pouring my whole life into repaying you?

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I am a princess as well.

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What you are entitled to,

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I am entitled to as well.

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Speak.

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Xiao Huan,

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say something.

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Can you not rise and say at least one word?

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Madam,

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what is it you want me to say?

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You are right.

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No matter what you say,

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there is no path back for us.

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Aside from hating you,

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I have no other road left to walk.

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Xiao Huan,

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for my mother's death,

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I will have your Xiao clan repay it.

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[Yaoqing Hall]

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Your Majesty, Your Majesty the Empress,

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Vice Commander Lu

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has safely escorted the Imperial Father-in-law to Fayun Temple

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and settled him at Deer Courtyard.

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Good.

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See to his daily needs with utmost care,

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and let no one else disturb him.

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Yes.

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My thanks, Your Majesty.

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I only hope my father,

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while living in seclusion,

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may come to understand things clearly.

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In due time,

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when all has settled,

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you may still visit him.

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Deer Courtyard is not far.

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What do you mean?

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Yesterday I overheard something I should not have heard.

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But rest assured, Madam.

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I have already checked the area.

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There were no other palace servants present.

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You are to keep my secret forever,

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and yet why

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did you not kill yourself?

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Wait!

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Though there may be some measure of performance to it,

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I am quite fond of this way

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of showing loyalty.

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Death will not be needed.

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I called you here,

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and drank myself senseless before you,

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because I had already decided.

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You are someone I can trust.

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I have studied the art of reading hearts with His Majesty for years.

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A person's eyes

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never lie.

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Your eyes tell me

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you would live for me,

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and die for me.

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But what of it?

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In the end, you will never obtain

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my heart.

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To die for the Imperial Preceptor

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would be my greatest honor.

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I do not want you dead.

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I want you

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to live well for my sake.

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Your Majesty,

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Your Majesty the Empress,

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the Imperial Preceptor seeks audience.

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See to your duties first.

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I shall take my leave.

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[Wuying Hall]
Your Majesty, blessings upon you.

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Are you bringing medicine for His Majesty?

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Indeed.

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His Majesty's foundation was gravely injured before,

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and requires careful nurturing.

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It has been some time.

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You have grown much thinner.

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Your Highness is radiant,

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your elegance outshining pearls and jade.

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I can only feel ashamed in your presence.

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His Majesty awaits inside the hall.

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Please proceed.

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I respectfully see Your Highness off.

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[Pure and Spotless]

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Imperial Preceptor Du,

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it has been quite some time.

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Indeed.

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I have not stepped into Wuying Hall

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for one hundred and seventeen days.

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Why do you come personally today to deliver the medicine?

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I have come first to deliver the medicine,

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and second to report to Your Majesty

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that I have thought things through.

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Thought through what?

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I acknowledge my faults.

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What fault do you speak of?

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My fault

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lies in overstepping,

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in lacking restraint,

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and knowing no limits.

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Matters between Your Majesty and Her Majesty

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are, in the end, your household affairs.

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Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven.

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Though Your Majesty bears the world in your heart,

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you are still flesh and blood.

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As for the Jiangzhou matter,

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it was my narrow-mindedness.

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You overstate it.

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I should not have failed Your Majesty's earnest expectations,

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nor betrayed Your Majesty's trust.

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Henceforth,

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I shall abide strictly by my station,

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and never again presume to judge Your Majesty's family affairs.

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In my eyes,

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your sincerity matters more than your remorse.

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If it is sincerity His Majesty desires,

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I have brought it.

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Attend me.

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Present it.

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[Great Qi Waterworks Map]

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A waterworks map.

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You are indeed talented.

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Late summer and early autumn in our dynasty

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often bring heavy floods.

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Even this year's locust plague is tied to the flooding.

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I specially drafted this waterworks map

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for the Ministry of Works to examine.

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You even recorded the tides of each passing year.

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You have been most diligent.

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Such matters should be addressed sooner rather than later.

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Tell me, what do this year's celestial signs reveal?

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Can we begin the works?

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I thank Your Majesty for granting me another chance.

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I shall not disappoint Your Majesty.

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In my heart,

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Du Tingxin will always be Du Tingxin,

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meticulous in all you do.

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Your Majesty speaks truly.

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Whatever I set my mind to

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is always done with utmost precision.

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[Great Qi Waterworks Map]

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[Shutong Hall]

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Ying, look.

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I have prepared something for you.

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Your favorite dish.

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Come.

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Do not just stand there.

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Eat while it is warm.

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Qianqing,

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tell me, are women with child

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often without appetite,

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unable to stomach food or tea,

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and sleepless night after night?

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It is possible.

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Ying,

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why do you ask such a thing?

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Qianqing,

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I am with child.

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What... What did you say?

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Whose is it?

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Your Highness, you must not enter.

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Your Highness!

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Your Highness.

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You beast!

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I will kill you!

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Stop!

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You storm Wuying Hall without cause.

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Xiao Qianqing.

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You had best give me one reason not to punish you.

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Feng Wufu,

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step out first.

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Close the doors.

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Go on.

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Yes.

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Ying is innocent of the world.

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This scoundrel dares bully her,

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making her...

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Making her with child.

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Impossible!

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I have remained pure with the Princess.

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How could she be with child?

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You dare deny it?

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She told me herself.

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If not you, then who else?

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- You must have taken advantage while... - Enough.

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Li Hongqing is not such a man.

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Ying spoke it herself.

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She is simple and honest by nature.

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She would not lie.

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If such a thing is true,

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I am willing to offer my head.

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[Shutong Hall]

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Ying.

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Ying.

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How is it?

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The Imperial Physician said

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I am not with child.

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But Her Majesty said

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that I have love-sickness.

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Love-sickness?

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Ying,

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go on.

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Li Hongqing,

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I have not seen you for seven days and ten hours.

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You have been on my mind ever since.

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I cannot eat or drink at all.

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Li Hongqing,

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I like you.

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I want to know,

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do you like me?

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What a pity.

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My straightforward and adorable sister

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ended up falling for that blockhead Li Hongqing.

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I am terrified.

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I am unworthy of the Princess's regard.

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Terrified,

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and you still dare say you are terrified?

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Qianqing,

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he is the one I like.

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I forbid you to bully him.

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It came too suddenly.

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Hongqing,

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go back and think it over first.

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There is no need to answer in haste.

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Yes.

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It is all right if you do not like me now.

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After all,

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you will like me sooner or later.

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If there is nothing else, Princess,

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please allow me to withdraw.

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Today,

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Ying did very well.

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You were very brave.

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Ying,

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come.

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Let us go in and eat something.

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He actually dared refuse my sister.

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Your Majesty, will you not intervene?

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So the Prince of Yuzhang means

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you wish me to grant a marriage on the spot?

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Why not?

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Is my sister unworthy of that fool?

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A marriage must be of mutual affection.

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You and I cannot force others simply by status.

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A forced match yields no joy.

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Take care of yourself.

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Yet what was once a forced match between you and the Empress

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now seems quite sweet.

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Zhong Lin?

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Zhong Lin.

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Zhong Lin.

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Zhong Lin,

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it really is you.

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I could not find you for days.

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So you were hiding here.

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Why did you come?

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You still dare ask?

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You shared my bed, and now you start avoiding me.

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If I hadn't come looking for you,

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would you really never have come to me, even till death?

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What nonsense is that?

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Who shared a bed with you?

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I was drunk.

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I remember nothing.

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Fine.

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So now you pretend ignorance, do you?

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Stand still.

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This is abandoning me after leading me astray.

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There was never a beginning. How could I abandon anything?

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Never a beginning?

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Then all that happened between us...

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none

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of it counts?

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Zhong Lin.

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Zhong Lin,

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help me.

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It hurts.

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Stop acting.

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I will not fall for it.

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It truly hurts.

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What is it?

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What is it?

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It bit me.

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This is bad. You have been bitten by a venomous scorpion.

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It is the Nanyi venom-scorpion.

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Fortunately, its venom is not fatal.

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But its venom will cause hallucinations.

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- Hallucinations? - Enough.

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I will take you to sit up ahead.

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Come.

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You are unharmed.

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I...

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I was never bitten at all.

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You...

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But everything I said just now was true.

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Are you mad?

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Zhong Lin,

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I am not mad.

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I like you. I wish to marry you.

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You admitted it just now.

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You like me too.

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You cannot deny it.

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Do you know what kind of person I am?

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Of course I know.

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You saw it.

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I have survived

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only by these crooked tricks.

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Because I am of the Lingbi Sect.

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So, Your Highness,

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please do not make such senseless jokes again.

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I do not like it.

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I was not jesting.

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I was sincere.

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You have already feigned death

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and escaped the Lingbi Sect.

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You are now under my protection.

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It is useless.

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From the day I joined the Lingbi Sect,

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I was afflicted with Heartbane.

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This poison has fused with my blood.

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As long as the Heartbane Bell rings,

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the poison will erupt.

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I have tried hundreds

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of antidotes.

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But this poison has no cure at all.

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So, Xiao Qianqing,

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I will live my entire life in fear.

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Startled at the slightest sound,

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haunted by shadows,

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even the sound of a copper bell terrifies me,

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for fear the Heartbane may erupt.

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This is the kind of person I am.

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Someone like me,

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would you still marry?

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Do you truly feel nothing

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for Princess Ying?

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I am terrified.

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I would never be presumptuous.

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Set aside your terror.

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Set aside her rank as Princess.

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You,

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Li Hongqing,

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toward Xiao Ying,

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do you truly feel not even the slightest affection?

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It seems even you are not entirely certain.

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My sister

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has a willful temper.

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She loves and hates with extremity.

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If you are uncertain,

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you must not provoke her.

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But if you are certain,

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I have no objection.

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I understand.

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For now,

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I will not see Princess Ying.

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Not until I am certain of myself.

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Good.

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Mother,

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I wish to marry Zhong Lin.

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I hope Mother will grant her blessing.

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On ordinary days you may fool around all you like,

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but you must never marry Zhong Lin.

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What if I insist?

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Release me.

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The Empress Dowager has heard that Miss Zhong excels in calligraphy.

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She has summoned you into the palace

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to witness your skill.

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Summoning me into the palace?

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It is clearly a scheme.

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My thanks for Her Majesty's favor.

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However,

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I was brought here too hastily.

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I did not bring my beloved Sanhua Purple-Haired Brush.

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I shall return to retrieve it.

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Sanhua Purple-Haired?

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There is one here as well.

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I have another quirk.

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Before I put brush to paper,

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I must drink two cups of the Sangluo Wine I brew myself.

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Unless Miss Zhong finishes copying these scriptures,

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this servant cannot allow you to leave.

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Good aunt,

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if the Prince of Yuzhang learns that I have gone missing,

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he will certainly come seeking me.

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Can you bear the consequence?

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The Prince of Yuzhang

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is taking supper with the Empress Dowager.

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He may remain in the palace tonight.

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I fear

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he will not be thinking of you.

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Please proceed.

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[Writing]

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Such petty tricks,

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and you think you can deal with me?

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Your Majesty.

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Your Majesty,

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please spare me.

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It was this woman.

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She seduced me!

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She is mine.

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You dare touch her?

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Qing,

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this vile woman

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conducted indecent acts

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in my own chambers,

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yet you defend her?

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Mother,

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these palace ploys...

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Are you certain you wish to use them

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on your own son?

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[Wuying Hall]

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I seek to marry Zhong Lin

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and beg Your Majesty to grant the marriage.

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[Pure and Spotless]

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Xiao Qianqing,

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have you gone mad?

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A woman of unknown origin,

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with her virtue

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in doubt.

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You would make her your princess?

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Mother speaks ill of Zhong Lin,

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yet do you know

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that in the many times I was trapped,

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my life hanging by a thread,

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it was she who risked everything

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again and again to save me.

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There are countless fine women in this world,

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but in my heart,

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none compare to Zhong Lin's courage and loyalty.

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Her devotion runs true.

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In this lifetime,

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I will marry no one but her.

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I will never allow you to wed

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a lowborn girl of the martial world.

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Especially one

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versed in crooked and unorthodox ways.

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She is not a maiden of proper lineage.

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Put this thought out of your mind.

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The Empress Dowager speaks truly.

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According to the rites of Great Qi,

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Zhong Lin's status

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indeed forbids her from becoming Princess of Yuzhang.

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But Zhong Lin's heart is upright,

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and she journeyed a thousand li to resolve Xuzhou's plight.

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She also retrieved Frost Blossom with the Prince of Yuzhang,

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which counts as service in protecting the throne.

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She deserves a reward.

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Therefore,

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today I decree

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that Zhong Lin be granted the title Princess of Ding'an,

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and this shall be proclaimed to all.

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Zhong Lin,

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from this day on,

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His Majesty and I are your family.

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If anyone dares wrong you again,

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causing you grievance,

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we shall uphold justice for you.

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I, Zhong Lin,

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thank Your Majesty

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and Her Majesty the Empress.

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Rise.

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Zhong Lin,

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as for you and the Prince of Yuzhang,

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you need only follow your true heart.

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I ask you,

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are you willing to marry the Prince of Yuzhang?

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Your Majesty,

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I am willing.

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♪Her hairpin sways...♪

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Thank

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Your Majesty for this marriage decree.

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♪The warmth of your touch♪

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♪Turns time into a gentle circle♪

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♪Pear blossoms dream beneath the snow♪

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♪Years turn and fade♪

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♪Wax and wane♪

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♪Fate etched deep in every line of my hand♪

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♪Your eyes hold our garden of bloom♪

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♪Then sudden rain pours down♪

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♪Washing the sweetness from the pear petals♪

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♪Softly, slowly, round and clear, faint yet near♪

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♪A hairpin carved with a pure white vow♪

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♪Drifting, falling, endless and tender♪

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♪Through every season, every year, every day♪

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♪The scent of pear blossoms fills the garden again...♪

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What is it?

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Zhong Lin.

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The marriage bestowed by His Majesty and Her Majesty,

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you agreed to it yourself.

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You are not allowed to go back on it.

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♪The evening breeze drifts softly♪

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♪Candle tears tremble lightly♪

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♪Falling upon the rouge upon my dressing table…♪

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Xiao Qianqing.

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Are you serious about me?

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Of course.

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You are not teasing you?

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Then is it because you pity me?

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Otherwise I truly cannot understand.

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You are the Prince of Yuzhang,

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noble in status,

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lacking in nothing.

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How could you possibly like someone like me?

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What's wrong with liking you?

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Zhong Lin.

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I know.

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You and I have both wandered without rest.

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But now that we have each other,

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our hearts can finally find peace for the future.

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♪Fills the garden again♪

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Zhong Lin.

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There is something I have long wanted to ask you.

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Why do you treat Ling Cangcang

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differently from others?

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Perhaps because

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from childhood until now,

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she was the only one who ever wished to protect me.

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Where are you taking me?

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Today is your birthday.

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I prepared a surprise for you.

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Is it beautiful?

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They say a mountain spirit dwells within this wishing tree.

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As long as you make a wish,

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it will come true.

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Zhong Lin,

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hurry and make a wish.

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I know I was wrong.

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Do not hit me.

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Do not hit me.

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Zhong Lin.

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I only wanted to give you a surprise.

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Forgive me, Zhong Lin.

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No, Cangcang.

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I should be the one thanking you.

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Cangcang.

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I want to make a wish.

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All right.

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What is it?

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I want to be your friend for life,

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to treat each other sincerely,

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never to part.

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It is a promise.

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Then today let us swear sisterhood.

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Let this tree bear witness.

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Very well.

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Let the wishing tree bear witness.

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Today,

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- Ling Cangcang, - Zhong Lin,

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form a bond of sisterhood.

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From this day on,

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we shall share blessings and hardships alike,

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travel the ends of the earth together,

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and never betray each other.

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From then on,

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we became sworn sisters,

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inseparable ever since.

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So she cut down all those bells for you,

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without question.

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Touched, aren't you?

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I understand.

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Commander Li.

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Commander Li.

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I saw the dark circles under your eyes lately

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and worried you were not sleeping well.

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So I made this calming sachet for you.

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It is a small token of my regard.

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Commander Li,

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please accept it.

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Do not accept it!

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Your Highness.

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Your Highness!

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Is it because of her that you do not like me?

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♪Who walks lone through storm and snow♪

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♪Reading every warmth and chill♪

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♪Of the heart?♪

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♪Who stands proud against a thousand weights♪

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♪Grace only a mask he wears?♪

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♪My blade sweeps the heavens♪

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♪Blood once drenched♪

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♪My armor and charging steed♪

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♪I know what it means to let go♪

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♪When to step in, when to hold back♪

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♪A broken blade cuts through♪

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♪Years of winter and summer♪

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♪Enemy flags burn to ash like gauze♪

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♪Yet my heart still bears the scars of rise and fall♪

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♪I'm willing to wield my sword with you and burn the waning moon♪

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♪I'm willing to brave all storms with you, boiling with passion♪

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♪I'm willing to break my wings and become the blade in your hand♪

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♪I'm willing to write with you this torn, enduring page of history♪

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♪I'm willing to travel thousands of miles, seeking your ambition♪

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♪I'm willing to give my life to keep you safe for a lifetime♪

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♪I'm willing to sing through every farewell and wait for you another thousand years♪