Episode 17
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You guys, leave them here.
Greeting to Your Lady Highness.
Eunuch Qiang, what do you mean by doing this?
Put me out and change another queen?
My Lady, the Emperor concerns about your vomiting during pregnancy.
Thus he want to move here and accompany
you. Here are his belongings
What? Qi Sheng is going to move here?
No, no, no.
I'm strongly resisting!
I got it.
What did you get, My Lady?
When you were eating, I could tell that your mind is not here.
I have an idea to stop Qi Sheng from annoying me.
My Lady, I really don't understand.
The Emperor wants to treat you well. Why are you resisting?
Don't you know me? How could I sleep with another man?
But husband and wife have always been sleeping together.
This is natural.
Who told you that husband and wife must sleep together?
If I were to sleep with you, I will be willing to.
Him? Don't even think!
Then, My Lady, what solution do you have
to stop His Majesty from looking for you?
Don't be afraid.
I specially got these durians from Malaya.
It's so smelly.
We'd better just eat our melon seeds, instead.
You guys maybe have discussed about that privately.
The Emperor indeed has decided to move into my palace
and live for a long time.
But!!! A country has its laws and a family has its rules.
As an Empress, I'm the lord of inner palaces.
I shouldn't solely occupy the Emperor.
Thus, I have rejected his favor.
Your Lady Highness, what are you saying?
You are pregnant now. His Majesty should spend more time with you.
That's right.
Even stay together, His Majesty won't spend much time with you.
Shut up. Who is jealous like you?
That's right.
I can understand your bad mood in this period.
Thus I'd like to set about the reorganization
of the inner palaces. I made a plan.
Sisters, I need you to give advice together.
My Lady, tell us.
This plan named Sleep with Emperor by Turns
Sleep with Emperor by Turns
which means to the Emperor has to follow a schedule
to have each of you to take turns to sleep with him
Doesn't that allow us to have a share in your blessings?
But My Lady, I really don't understand
why you are doing this,
Are you asking why My Lady is so generous that she's
willing to share's the Emperor's attention with you?
Should what if she give it to me?
I agree.
Both of you, stop fighting. Listen to My Lady.
Whether you can really get a share would depend on your own ability.
But...this is just what I wanted.
I don't know if His Highness will listen to me.
Sisters, do you have any ability to get his highness' favor?
What should we do?
Currently we are at war in Yun Xi
Our country is not really very rich. The
Emperor has been worrying about this daily.
If you can make His Highness happy and forget about his problems,
then he would be more at peace to call you to accompany him at night.
But My Lady, we don't know how to fight battles.
That's right. We don't know know to.
But you must make His Highness happy.
In this world, there are many things that money can't buy
but if money can buy them,
why don't you hand out your "money" then?
"Mama"?
Money.
Right now the situation is urgent We're only missing military funds
You just need to help the Emperor go through this
hard times. Once he is happy, he'll do anything
to satisfy you.
My Lady, this hair piece serves as my donation.
I still have a lot of jewelries at my hall.
I'm going to get it now.
Your Lady Highness, I'll go back to my Hall to get mine.
I will order someone to make the
preparations too. I'm going to get it now.
Stop! I'm not done talking yet.
Come back. Stand properly.
Attention.
I am announcing that the first ever Inner Palace meeting
has ended successfully.
My Lady, I really don't understand.
If you want to take turns to sleep with Your Majesty, then
take turns sleeping. Why do you need them to donate this? OH!
If His Highness were to find out, will he be mad?
I'm afraid that he will be mad. That's why I planned this.
I don't understand again. His Highness
He doesn't need these gold and jewelry
It's not the value of the gift. The point is if Your
Majesty received these gifts from the other ladies
then I'm sure that he'll have to repay their kindness.
By doing this, it's to make him impossible to decline this.
Making it hard for him to get off from
riding a tiger. (Hard to decline.)
Come, watch this.
Careful there's stairs. Careful...
Peng Peng is here to see His Highness.
Come, put it down. Open it.
Okay, you can leave now.
This is...
Now that we're kind of tight on budget due to the war with Yun Xi,
The court ladies in the inner palace knows that
you have been bothered by problems every night.
They donated 2 box full of these jewelries and
money as donation to the military budget.
It's not that much. Your Majesty, it's
just our little means of helping.
Thank them on my behalf.
Will just a word of thanks be enough?
If not then?
It's not like you don't know what those concubines want.
Your Highness. They have just a small wish.
Are you not going to make them happy?
If that's the case, Why don't you return this to them instead?
These can't be returned. I already agreed with them.
So I'm here to discuss with you about taking turns of sleeping with you.
Taking turns sleeping?
Your Highness, I know that you are a man with lots of self control.
But in this inner palace, there's only
a few who really have the status.
Let's just arrange them such that each one can serve you
at Da Ming Gong for a day. Then let's have some rest days.
Let's make this thing a type of system.
Who allowed you to do this?
Isn't it because I understand your needs,
hence, I thought of this wonderful plan.
You are concerned about me?
I think you have sold out on me.
I'm just doing this out of good intentions.
Few days ago, you almost committed the
forbidden act of caring for only one person.
Now,
we can both remedy that situation and also
solve the problem with the military budget.
Any man will have laughed hard (due to happiness) with this plan.
Zhang Peng Peng. Whatever you do, there must be a limit.
Be careful of not being able to handle the situation anymore.
If Your Majesty will not agree, then the situation
will indeed become difficult to handle.
There's a saying that eating using someone's mouth is softer, getting something with
someone's hand is shorter. (When you owe someone, you have to agree to their request)
You!
Your Highness. I feel that those concubines
are also in a sad state. They kept on going
to my Palace for some measly things.
I'm pregnant. How could I take it?
A knot need to be untied by the one who did it.
Just agree with me.
Seeing that you are pregnant,
I won't argue with you. I will listen to you.
This is great. I'm going to tell them.
Your Majesty, according to the schedule given by the Empress,
Tonight it's Lady Huang's turn.
I get it.
My Lady, I've gotten it for you.
This is the sleeping decking schedule
Baby, good job.
Had to let you use seduction tactics against Eunuch Qiang again.
(Night Duty Decking Schedule)
A spring's rain is really more expensive
than oil. (Sexual activity = Spring's rain)
Even though the days he goes to the inner palace is still quite less,
but at least he went. I finally
can sleep soundly.
Today, I bumped into a servant from Lady Huang's
Hall. She didn't even bowed to me anymore!
It's also due to this Sleep Decking.
My Lady, why are you making yourself suffer?
Baby, being impatient can ruin the big plan.
Go and send some supplements to Da Ming Palace.
Also express my gratitude to Your Majesty for supporting my work.
I really don't understand you.
What are you doing?
Your Majesty, I'm really sleepy.
Can I lie down here and sleep for a while?
No way. Night duty is your responsibility.
You cannot be lazy.
Your Majesty, these past few days I've been on night duty almost daily.
I really can't take it any longer.
What nonsense! Being able to stay the night at Da Ming Hall
is an extreme blessing in the eyes of an outsider.
Is Your Highness sick?
Do your Majesty feels short of energy these past few days?
Have Your Majesty heard of this medicine?
I heard that
this small box contains a drug that's said to be a man's blessing.
Men should always have this wonder drug readily available. It's
already known throughout the palace. This famous Viagra...
How dare you? Do you know what you are saying?
Your Highness. As a man, it's something that need not be shy about.
An inner palace this big, how can Your
Majesty not have times of weakness.
This is something I spent a lot of to show my respect to Your Majesty.
Shut up. Don't say anymore.
Your Highness. It has been a long time since you came to my place.
I just want to use this drug to better serve your Majesty.
Okay, don't say anymore. Don't come here again in the future.
Your Highness, what are you saying?
Your Highness.
Enough, Concubine Hwang. Your luck ends here today. Leave now.
Yes.
Why are you here?
I haven't asked you yet.
Is there someone wrong with you?
I think you are the one who is ill instead.
I'm asking you if you are really ill.
Royal Physician Zhang has a drug that can cure any illness.
Do you know what you are saying?
I have a belly. It's not convenient.
You are not ill, I'm. Bye, don't need to see me off.
Lady Huang, the foundation you gave me last time was very good.
What's the brand?
What's wrong with you? Why are you crying so early in the morning?
We want Your Lady Highness to pity us
and let us just be nuns to pray for Your Lady Highness,
Your Majesty, and Your Highness Empress Dowager.
This early in the morning and you guys are ganging
up to go be nuns? What scene are we on today?
The sleeping decking schedule that Your
Lady Highness devised was for our sake.
It's just that we just don't have the luck to make use of it well.
What should come has finally come. Looks like these girls
cannot endure it anymore.
We thought that since we cannot get Your Majesty to be happy
why don't we just give up our position and let
that girl from You Lan Hall, the one who makes Your Majesty
happy, get to officially enter the palace and serve Your Majesty.
That's right, My Lady.
Enough, stop crying. Sit down.
Let's talk about this.
What you want to tell me,
I already know. But you are able to see His Highness every day,
isn't this better than better?
My Lady, it's good to be able to see His Highness
but now we are poor in both person and treasures.
It's really fine to be poor, but the worst
thing is we are not able to sleep at night.
How do you expect us to live?
That's right.
The situation is really getting hard.
Shit! The problems that Qi Sheng leave
behind, why should I take care of them?!
Enough, go back first.
Let me think about it.
Your Lady Highness, if you won't give us a solution today,
then our decision to be nuns is final.
Hoping Your Lady Highness will let us be.
It looks like they really don't want to be nuns.
They are threatening me with this. Okay then.
Solution? I can't give it.
I only want to say this. His Highness is busy.
He might have overlooked everyone's needs.
But if you guys really wanted to be a nun,
I won't stop you too.
Lu Li!
- My Lady. - What do we do?
Let someone go to the outskirt and look for a good temple.
It's best to have one with good scenery
and quiet and not much people will be there.
When?
Now, immediately.
I will go now.
My servant Lu Li really works fast.
I guarantee you can move there in two weeks.
We were only emotional earlier. Thinking about it now,
it's really a rash decision for us to wanting to be a nun.
Right... In honesty, this idea is quite childish.
Hoping Your Lady Highness can allow us to go
back first to think about it more carefully.
Right. Sorry to have bother you, Your Lady
Highness. We didn't considered the whole picture.
Fine. Go back and take a rest first.
Once you have thought it over carefully,
let's discuss how we should settle this.
I will take my leave first.
Let's go now.
My Lady. His Highness didn't sleep with them
because he is loyal to you. Those ladies
deserved ending up looking like pandas.
Lu Li, you really believe that an Emperor will be affectionate?
My Lady, can't you trust His Highness one more time?
Baby, Qi Sheng is not affectionate.
Even if in the past he was affectionate
to someone, that someone wasn't me.
It wasn't in the past and it won't be in the future.
My Lady, don't be angry. I won't talk about this again.
How can I not be angry? He always destroys
my plan in the most important moment.
and even wants me to wipe his butt.
I must investigate the truth regarding this matter,
But who should I look for?
It's Prince Zhao. Our relationship
is so intertwined and so messed up.
Thus, I called you here today
because I have something very important to ask you.
I already told you that you should still ask me about important matters.
Stop feeling important. I just want to ask
if Your Majesty was traumatized in the past?
Like maybe...due to a woman?
My Lady, what do you mean by this?
Your younger brother is someone who can have all the women he wants.
Why must he live like a monk and do not
like to taste some dew? (Dew = Woman)
Really?
Of course! I checked it myself.
Your Majesty has always been a loyal lover.
Although that's not something new. Men in
our family have always been like that.
Respects abstinence, emotional, and affectionate.
For example, the person who is sitting across you. Me.
Yuan Da Tou, I've seen him.
But for a big head like you who is so greatly wronged, it's my first time to see one. (This is
another way of saying looks can be deceiving since he doesn't look like an affectionate person.)
Your Lady Highness. Did Prince Zhao
gave you any useful information today?
Useful information...not even one bit. He
instead said good things about Qi Sheng.
What did he say?
He said that Qi Sheng is a very loyal lover.
I was really wondering then. He (the Emperor) already stole your wife.
How can you (Prince Zhao) still help him (the Emperor) count money?
But talking about this,
for the past few days, you have also seen that
Your Majesty not only follows your every wish.
He doesn't even look at the concubines that you sent to him.
I think that the person that Your Majesty is being loyal to
is you.
Damn.
What you said is logical.
- That's right. - Who said so?
Does women's brain really don't hold grudge?
He just gives you 2 pieces of candy
and you forget about everything? When we were at Norther Jiang,
Qi Sheng almost had me killed. I'm telling you.
Even if he treats me like his real dad, it
won't change my determination to destroy him.
Put out the lights and go to sleep!
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♫ Watching you too long can always cause me confused ♫
♫ If I can't see you ♫
♫ I feel like losing my soul ♫
♫ My principles are blurred ♫
♫ What's clear is your silhouette ♫
♫ Time has not yet been sharpened but has been peeled off by you ♫
♫ Getting near your body's warmth, my heart's beating energetically ♫
♫ Wait until you're asleep, I'm still worried about that ♫
♫ what if in your dreams, ♫
♫ I was never there ♫
♫ Repeatedly hinted by fate that ♫
♫ l cannot get away from it ♫
♫ Even my happiness and sadness follows yours up and down ♫
♫ When your waves ♫
♫ starts to swirl again ♫
♫ Makes me ♫
♫ so helpless ♫
♫ Makes me ♫
♫ fearful and weak ♫