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[Perfect Couple]
Episode Twenty-Five
Present.
- See Miss Qian Qian home. - Yes!
- Come home soon. - I will.
I'll get going now
This way, Miss Qian Qian.
- Guards! - Present!
- Get me a horse. - Yes!
Come on.
We're leaving now. Take care of yourself.
Go on and leave now. You've said that so many times.
It's fine. It is still early.
You can chat for a while.
After we've left
tell Yuan Bao about everything.
Even if he gets angry at you and blames you
you must bear with it.
After all, we lied to him in the first place.
Don't worry, I will yield to him.
All right, it's getting late.
You'd better leave now.
Take care.
You dare to leave?
Mother? What are you doing here?
What am I doing here?
If I don't show up I'm going to lose my son!
Look at you, do you still regard me as your mother?
How can you abandon your mother to leave with this shady unruly girl?
Mother, you are not to say that about Xue Er.
She is not some shady unruly girl.
Miss Xue Er, I respect you as our manor's guest.
But you? You came to my home to steal my son!
I'm already being polite by calling you a unruly girl.
If you provoke me any further I'll call you by even worse names!
Mother!
I'm not abandoning you.
I just want to move out.
Stop finding excuses.
You've been looking around for a house
and packing up your belongings for days.
Do you think that I haven't noticed?
Do you think that I'm dead?
Auntie Gu, Chang Feng just wants to open his own pharmacy.
Young Mistress, I am lecturing my son.
Don't blame me for cutting your sentence short.
Chang Feng is my son.
He wasn't sold to Jin Manor.
I am teaching my un-filial son a lesson now.
Young Mistress should stay out of it.
Miss Xue Er, do you have anything else to say?
Let me make myself clear.
Gu Chang Feng is my son.
No one is allowed to steal him away from me.
Mother!
You're bewitched. Fine, you can leave.
All right, just go ahead and run me over.
Mother!
What is this about?
Young Master... Chang Feng is seduced by that vixen.
He is going to abandon me and leave home with her.
Young Master grew up with Chang Feng and has always been close to him.
I wouldn't dare to speculate if you knew about this matter.
But I will say this again. Yes, you can leave
if you run me over right now!
Why are you leaving?
I want to open a pharmacy with Xue Er outside the manor.
I'm the one who wants to leave.
Chang Feng, you don't have to come with me.
You've been planning this with them in the manor for the past few days?
You, get inside.
- But... - But what?
You dare to abandon the mother who gave birth to you and raised you.
Even if I have to break your legs I won't let you leave with her.
And you, get inside as well.
I have something to say to you.
But... You can't do this to them.
Xiao Xuan, you'd better go inside with Yuan Bao.
- I... - Remember what I told you.
Go on.
Chang Feng, it's not worth doing this for her.
Young Master has already spoken.
What are you still doing there?
Miss Xue Er, you might be staying at Jin Manor temporarily
so you are free to go wherever you want.
I only have one thing to say to you.
If you have the guts to steal my son from me
do you have the guts to go inside with me
and get this matter all sorted out?
Why didn't you help them?
You instigated Gu Chang Feng leaving Jin Manor.
You instigated Gu Chang Feng leaving Jin Manor for your best friend, Xue Er
and abandon his mother.
What are you up to?
You're all being unreasonable.
Gu Chang Feng is just moving out.
He is still going to be in the Capital. It's not like you won't see him anymore.
How is that considered abandoning his mother?
Answer me. When Xi Er died
why did you pack up to leave Jin Manor?
I... Why are you suddenly asking me about this?
This isn't sudden.
You've never answered me.
Answer me. When Xi Er died
why did you pack up to leave Jin Manor?
You still can't answer me now?
Do you still suspect me?
If I still suspected you I wouldn't have cleared your name for you!
You still owe me an answer.
You were very close to Xi Er.
You had no reason to leave Jin Manor after she died.
Unless... you're hiding something
or you have a secret.
Answer me.
I've told you that I keep no secrets from you.
You know how I feel about you.
Why won't you answer me?
Do you think that I can't be trusted?
Or can you not be bothered to trust me?
Or do you not care about me at all?
Answer me.
You know what I'm like.
If you won't tell me
I won't eat or rest well.
I...
Back then... I...
I wasn't sure about your feelings for me.
I was afraid that you'd be mad at me if I told you.
All right, tell me now.
I promise not to be angry at you.
Because... Because you were too ill-tempered then.
You were so dominant and looked down on others.
So I couldn't stand you anymore.
How can you put up with me now?
I have no choice. Where the needle goes the thread follows.
I slowly got used to it.
All right.
It's good that you got used to it.
Just stay here
stay here in Jin Manor and be my Young Mistress.
You had the guts to run away from home but no guts to talk to your mother?
- Get down on your knees! - Mother!
I never said I was abandoning you.
I just wanted to open a pharmacy outside the manor.
Why didn't you tell me in advance?
You packed up in secret
while I watched you for days.
You had no intention in telling me about this matter at all!
I raised you for 20 years.
And you just leave as you wish?
You didn't even ask me for my permission?
Auntie, this is all because of me.
Please stop making things difficult for Chang Feng.
You think that I didn't want to tell you?
If I had told you, would you have agreed?
I don't want to always depend on Madam Jin and the Manor.
- I want to be independent! - Don't you even dare think about it!
I've served Madam Jin for 20 years.
We are forever indebted to her kindness.
She raised you as if you were her own son.
You have no conscience!
You want to leave Jin Manor?
You want to be independent?
Don't you dare even think about it!
What's wrong with being independent?
I'm not a slave to the Jin family. I share an equal status as them.
Why can't I move out?
I can still repay Madam Jin's kindness and be filial to you even if I move out.
Anyway, let me tell you
that I will be wherever the Jin family is.
And you will be wherever I am!
Any old vixen isn't allowed to seduce you away!
Auntie, I have acted inappropriately.
Please stop blaming Chang Feng. Just blame it all on me.
Allow me to be brazen and express my feelings here.
Chang Feng is the best person in my life.
I'm honored to be loved by him
and would never let him down lightly.
If you don't despise me
I'm willing to be Chang Feng's wife.
I despise you!
Mother!
Get up!
Mother, I will marry Xue Er regardless to what you say.
Or I will choose to stay single forever!
You won't accept me today but I am willing to wait until you do.
I will stay true to my words.
I will keep waiting.
I won't keep you from lecturing your son.
I will take my leave now.
Xue Er, where are you going?
Get back here!
Get down on your knees!
You want to be independent?
Marry her?
Listen up! Don't you dare think about doing either!
- Greetings, Mother. - Greetings, Mother.
Why are you home so soon?
You'd better not tell me you've come home
because you find it too hard at the Bureau.
How could that be?
Mother, I've already got the hang of the work at the Bureau of Weaponry.
The rest is just paperwork.
There's no point wasting my time there.
So I wanted to come home to keep you company.
Sure, come here and take a seat.
Join me for lunch.
Mother is going to have her meal.
As daughter-in-law, don't you have to stand up and serve her?
There are just three of us in the family.
Doesn't that feel too withdrawn?
There aren't any outsiders around.
Ceremonial manners can be overlooked.
Sit down, Xiao Xuan.
You're being filial by having meals with me.
This is so tasty.
I didn't know that Choy sum could be so tasty.
You don't speak while eating or sleeping.
This is the same manners that we all abide by everywhere in the nation.
Why are you the exception?
This Choy Sum dish might seem to be vegetarian
but there are actually three chickens used in the making of that dish.
It's made with the broth of chicken and the best dried ham
that has been braised for six hours.
That's why it is so tasty.
Have more of it if you find it tasty.
This...
This quail egg is so hard to pick up.
I can't seem to pick it up with my chopsticks.
Don't eat anything since you don't know how to eat well.
Look at the way you eat.
There's no class in your mannerisms.
It seems as if you were some boorish scamp wandering about.
A young mistress of Jin family like you
would be the laughing stock if you were to socialize with any guests.
My mother is the model of perfect etiquette among all noble women.
There are many who envy her.
I wouldn't dare expect you to become like her.
But when you can at least be one third of what she is...
that's when you get to eat at the table.
What do I eat before I learn the proper etiquette?
You're not allowed to eat anything.
Xiao Xuan, don't be blame me for siding with my son.
Indeed, you are the young mistress of Jin Manor.
Your every word and action will influence the reputation of Jin Manor.
I did turn a blind eye to your manners as you are still very young.
That is my negligence.
I think that Yuan Bao is right.
Why don't you start working on your etiquette from today?
Behavior, speech, appearance, needle-work, and cooking.
You shouldn't let anyone laugh at any of your weaknesses.
Why have you woken me up so early in the morning?
From now on, you must wake up and be finished grooming before seven o'clock.
Fifteen minutes past seven you will be tutored in
how to be the Young Mistress of Jin Manor.
What a nutcase.
From now on, I will teach you how to speak properly
how to smile and how to interact with other people.
There is to be a discipline in the way a respectable lady stands.
As the phrase 'gracefully poised' indicates
there is a rule in every gesture and mannerism.
Jin Yuan Bao, do you really think that I am not up to par?
To be the Young Mistress of Jin Manor
you are indeed not up to par.
Auntie, please.
When you're standing upright the distance between your chin
and your collarbone should be half an inch apart.
You mustn't lift your chin too high
to avoid looking too domineering.
But Jin Yuan Bao always had his chin high up in the air.
Young Mistress, we are talking about you right now.
Where should you look when you're talking to someone?
It is the eyes, of course!
That will show my sincerity.
Wrong.
Young Mistress, you're the Young Mistress of Jin Manor.
The people that you meet are all of great importance and status.
If you stare into their eyes
do you think you're watching a cock fight or a dog fight?
You must look at their chins.
But isn't that just chins all the time for the entire day?
Your eyes are opened too wide.
Is that wrong as well?
Of course.
You can't open your eyes too wide.
But you can't have them squinted into a line either.
Young Mistress, you must be well-poised when standing.
You can't slouch and keep your chest in.
That will make you look wretched.
Young Mistress, you always have the air of picking a fight about you.
Are you trying to destroy the reputation Madam built up?
This won't be too difficult. Since I was little, I have known
when standing up, it is chin up and stomach in.
Keep it in!
You can't push your chest and bottom out at will.
That will make you look like an indecent woman.
- I... - You're Young Mistress Jin.
You're not some girl in a brothel.
I didn't do it on purpose.
This is what my figure is like so I can't help it...
Keep it in!
You must always remember in 'behaviour, speech, appearance, needle-work and cookery'
appearance does not come first.
Yuan Bao, she hit me.
So what if she did?
I think that Auntie Gu isn't hitting hard enough.
It seems that Young Mistress has yet to master the standing pose.
I...
Are you still my husband?
I am training you because I am your husband.
Do you see how much I love you?
Cousin-in-law?
Cousin Yuan Bao, I'm here to see cousin-in-law learn etiquette.
You must feel bad for her that she has to learn it like this.
What's there to feel bad about?
Look at your cousin-in-law.
Her speech and mannerisms are all so vulgar.
She should be taught a lesson.
I've put up with it till now.
That's already quite a feat.
Who are you talking about?
I'm talking about you.
Cousin-in-law, this is your fault.
My cousin is doing this for your own good.
He's worried that you might be laughed at when he takes you out socializing.
Jin Yuan Bao, have I done something wrong?
You didn't do anything wrong.
Give this a thought. You want to be Young Mistress
and the Young Mistress gets to lead a good life.
If you want to lead a good life you have to pay the price. Do you understand?
Young Mistress. Next, I'll teach you
how to speak properly
and how to smile.
That smile is wrong.
Young Mistress is born talented.
But there's room for improvement in terms of speech and mannerisms.
Do you know the reason for that?
I know. It's because all of you prefer blockheads.
Young Mistress, there is no need to speak out of spite.
Give this a thought. No matter how good a personality you have
and how kind a heart you have
you need the right manners to match, am I right?
While you're out having a meal or a drink with someone
how would an outsider judge you?
Isn't it by your speech and mannerisms?
Here, hold this chopstick in your mouth.
Now smile.
What is a false smile? It's exactly the one you just had on your face.
Here, let's continue.
Continue.
Last time Madam went with Empress Dowager to meet the secret envoy
she kept her smile like that for four hours.
Smile.
Look how well you're smiling.
It's so hypocritical.
Just like a dog.
What now? You're not smiling anymore?
You can't keep pretending?
What you are doing now?
This is what I learned when I was eight years old.
You have to learn it from scratch after you're married?
Cousin Yuan Bao, you shouldn't have.
She's been so undisciplined all her life.
Can't you just let her carry on being sloppy?
Why bother dressing up a monkey in a hat?
You're not to be influenced by anyone's comments.
Should anyone comment on your speech or actions
are you to lose your temper like you are now?
Exactly.
I'm helping you with keeping your temper in.
Don't hold a grudge against me for that.
All right, Auntie Gu.
That's about it.
It's time to teach her how to serve tea to her husband.
Young Mistress, I have just told you
that every step you take must not be more than a half meter wide.
How wide is that step you just took?
Young Mistress, the step has to be small
but it must also be smooth.
Look at how much your hairpin
and the hem of your skirt are moving along with your step.
That won't do.
Where is my tea?
Are you trying to make me die of thirst?
Serve the tea right away.
Young Master has already read three pages of his book.
How long do you intend to keep him waiting?
Please have some tea, my husband.
I've been waiting for such a long time.
Then you serve me tea with such a sullen look.
You even spilled tea on me.
You were the one who spat it all over me!
If I say so, then it is so.
The way you walk is ugly and the way you serve tea is pretentious.
The look on your face is that of a scorned woman.
How dare you talk back to me?
Jiang Xiao Xuan, are you too comfortable at Jin Manor?
Go and get me another cup of tea!
I...
How would you dare to talk back to your husband?
Hurry up, now.
Yes.
Madam Jin is kindhearted.
Since Young Mistress has married into the family
you've not been told to abide by the family rules
or served your mother-in-law any meals yet?
Surely when you accompany Madam to any banquets in the future
you wouldn't sit at the same table
with Madam and just start helping yourself to food?
Therefore, you will have to be trained on
how to stand still without budging.
Auntie is right.
Serving parents-in-law should also be in the Jiang family's house rules?
But since your family is too lenient to have taught you that
we will do the honors then.
Auntie, get her to stand still.
Yes.
Auntie Gu, if you pity my cousin-in-law now then you'll get her into trouble.
In a huge household like ours
a crystal agate bowl would weigh at least five kilograms.
Hold on to it.
Here you go.
You just bowed your head down.
That isn't presentable.
When I learned from Auntie Gu
I had to walk with bowls of water to and fro for many times.
Give it a try, cousin-in-law.
Have you had enough?
This older cousin-in-law isn't loving to her younger cousin-in-law.
How should she be punished?
You're disgruntled about being disciplined and have no patience.
You raised your voice at your younger cousin-in-law in public.
How is that the right behavior of a young mistress of a huge manor?
What young mistress? I don't even get to have a meal!
Big deal! I'll just give up being a young mistress!
You can't give it up.
You were carried on a bridal chair through a huge parade when I married you.
The emperor and Crown Prince bestowed a jade book to you.
Can you just quit if you want to?
What do you take the Jin family for?
You think that you can come and leave at will?
Jin Yuan Bao!
What is the matter with you?
Nothing's wrong with me.
I've matured now that I'm married and have taken over the Bureau of Weaponry.
I'm now officially the master of Jin Manor.
Since I'm now the Master of the Manor I should act like one.
Since you've married me, you have to do the same as well. Understand?
The weather is just right so don't bother to get changed.
Get a few more bowls of water and start all over again.
I...
Hurry up! Go and fetch more water.
- Yes! - Yes!
Pour me some tea.
What? Have you already forgotten what you have just been taught?
I need snacks to go with my tea.
Pour me some tea.
Wait a minute.
It's gone cold. Get a hot pot of tea.
You're so difficult to wait on.
What? I'm your husband.
I want you to serve me a cup of hot tea.
Is that so difficult?
Forget it.
You've made me lose my appetite for it.
Fetch some water to wash my feet.
I want to wash my feet.
Seriously...
A respectable lady from a prestigious family like you
can't talk or walk properly
but you're quite good at massaging.
My mother is very tired from her chores every day.
When she gets home, I always soak her feet and give her a massage.
Your mother is the Mistress of Jiang Manor.
What chores does she have to do?
I meant... my wet nurse.
You treat your wet nurse a lot better than your own mother.
Whether it is my mother or my wet nurse
I'll be nice to whoever treats me well.
Use a bit more strength.
This feels great.
Fetch me a few more buckets of water later.
Add more essential oils to it.
Since you're so good at massaging
and you're even more skilled than some old ladies here in the manor
we'd better not let that skill go to waste.
Harder, that's right.
What are you doing, Jin Yuan Bao?
What have I done today that warrants being treated so weirdly by you?
Even if you're mad at me for helping Chang Feng move out
you could have said that to me!
You don't have to put on the airs of a husband and Young Master!
What are you trying to do?
I want you to get a cloth to dry the floor right now
because I don't like to see water stains on the floor.
Listen up! I'm putting up with you not because I'm scared of you.
- It's because... - Because of what?
You'd better hurry up.
I don't want to see the floor wet when I go to bed.
What are you doing?
I'm tired so I'm going to bed.
Who said you can sleep on the bed?
Sleep outside.
Sleep outside?
I just mopped the floor outside and it's still wet.
Just dry it again if it's still wet then you can sleep there.
I...
Wake up.
What time is it now?
Did you sleep well?
No, it was so cold.
I'm so hungry...
If you're hungry, wash up and get dressed right away.
We'll have breakfast.
Breakfast?
You're not angry at me anymore?
Hurry up if you want breakfast.
It's so tasty.
This is so tasty.
I'm starving.
Tasty?
it's just ordinary pork filling
with dried shrimps and bamboo shoots.
I was just saying that the cook has been a bit lazy these days.
Yet you find it tasty?
I think that this is already very good.
Jiang manor is in Nanjing.
The food in Huaiyang region is famous.
I also heard that Jiang Manor spends a lot on food.
You find such common food tasty?
I find it really tasty.
Let me ask you a question.
What do you think of this compared to breakfast in Jiang Manor?
Breakfast is also tasty in Jiang Manor
but there's always something amiss.
What are you doing, Jin Yuan Bao?
What have I done wrong now?
You haven't done anything wrong.
Since breakfast is so great at Jiang Manor
why don't you teach the cooks here at Jin Manor
how to make the best breakfast?
Let go of me!
What are you doing?
What are you doing, Jin Yuan Bao? Why have you gone insane so early in the morning?
I won't be kind to you if you keep this up!
What's the matter?
I'm taking you to the kitchen so why are you yelling so loudly?
I won't go there. Don't you dare think you can torture me today.
You must! You've married me so you have to do my bidding.
I'm married to you, not sold to you!
You're sold to me if you're married to me.
What are you doing?
What are you doing? Let me go!
What are you doing, Jin Yuan Bao?
- Give me the necklace back! - You're not fit to wear this.
Jin Yuan Bao, have you gone crazy?
As for the guests who are to appear at Yuan Bao's inauguration
we won't trouble Empress Dowager.
But there are a few families that we have to invite.
Although I have already sent sent messages out to them
you will still have to bring the official invitations over to them.
Yes, Madam.
That's not necessary. I'm not holding an inauguration ceremony.
What nonsense is this?
This is a huge event. How can we call it off just because you say so?
What is it? Just a few days of shouldering the responsibility
and you're already running out of patience?
I'll still be in charge of the Bureau of Weaponry.
But I just don't want any inauguration ceremony.
Young Master, Young Mistress has spent such a long time preparing for it.
What is the reason for calling it off?
What could she possibly have arranged with her shallow knowledge?
Am I to spend money on making myself a laughing stock?
We might as well call it off since she's in charge of it.
Insolent!
Spending money to make you into a laughing stock?
We will be demonstrating the power of our latest cannon General of Invincible Might.
It will bring you great honor and glory.
Xiao Xuan has made such huge efforts for your special day.
How can you dismiss it by saying that she is shallow?
I've always hated putting on a show for anyone
and deceiving others.
Anyway, this ceremony is unnecessary.
It doesn't matter who prepared for it. I don't care.
Young Master, Auntie knows that you aren't fond of such events.
But such a ceremony is only held once.
You had already agreed to it.
Now that is all arranged and invitations are handed out
how can we cancel it now?
You could hide out in the bureau and not be bothered about it.
But how do you expect Auntie to explain this situation to our acquaintances?
Why don't we do this instead?
I know that you've never liked overly elaborate red tape.
Why don't we simplify it?
We must hold the ceremony.
You must ignite General of Invincible Might in person.
If we cancel the ceremony now with such little notice
we would be mocked at by thousands of people
and it will be hard for Auntie to explain this to others.
We will heed your cousin's advice.
We may simplify the ceremony
but it must be held as planned.
You must still ignite General of Invincible Might on that day.
Yuan Bao, this is a new stage in your life.
It is of great significance to you.
Whether you are willing or not
I won't allow you to be willful.
Unless... Unless you intend to make me bear the burden again.
All right then.
I am willing to attend the ceremony for the sake of Mother.
Wen Zhao, what do you reckon is wrong with Yuan Bao?
Don't worry, Auntie.
Since he's already agreed to it
he won't go back on his word easily.
That's not what I am worried about.
I know Yuan Bao's temperament very well.
Don't you think that he seems troubled and anxious lately?
Now that you mention it
that does seem to be the case.
Has he argued with Xiao Xuan again?
I wonder what is troubling him.
He won't even tell me about it.
Auntie, we've all grown up now.
We can't make you worry about every little thing.
I think that it is just the heavy workload at the Bureau of Weaponry
that is making him a bit restless
or that he's squabbled a bit with Young Mistress
and he's in a bad mood, that's all.
It wouldn't be anything serious.
I wonder when I can stop worrying about this child.
Young Master will eventually be mature one day.
Furthermore, no matter how immature he is
you still have me by your side to share your burden.
Fortunately, your advice sounded logical and reasonable to him.
Otherwise, I was afraid that we would really have to cancel the ceremony.
Is everything all right now?
Now we just need to await the day of the ceremony.
Young Mistress! What are you doing?
Are you looking for something?
Get the servants to do it for you!
Leave me alone!
I have to find it!
What is it that is worth risking your health to find?
It's a necklace that Jin Yuan Bao gave to me.
- I must find it... - Just get him to buy another one.
Why are you doing this to yourself?
He would never get me another one.
He was the one who threw it away.
He said that I'm not fit to wear it.
Come up here to talk.
You're drenched. You'll get ill.
- Young Mistress! - Let me be!
Silly girl, he's not worth it!
Young Mistress...
Young Mistress!
Anyone there?
Jin Yuan Bao, she looked for the necklace that you threw away
for God knows how many hours under the scorching sun.
If I hadn't happened to pass by
she would have drowned in the pond!
Is that so? Thank you for passing by the pond.
Jin Yuan Bao, stop acting weird.
If you don't care about her and won't treat her nicely
there is someone in the manor who would treat her well.
You'd better keep that in mind!
Necklace...
It's always better to be pretty.
You just need to act pretentiously in the water
and you get someone to stand up for you.
Even a despicable villain like Liu Wen Zhao
couldn't help speaking up for you.
Are you proud of yourself?
Are you smug about it?
You tried all that you could to get close to me.
You lied to me but I'm still so in love with you.
You don't care about that at all.
But for a necklace, a dead object
you jumped into the water and fished for it for hours.
Jiang Xiao Xuan...
Who are you really?
I really can't tell.
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