Yin Luo
If your elbow is continuously shaking,
how can you write well?
When I lift my hand with the pen
my elbow starts shaking unconsciously
Perhaps I can practice with my elbow on the desk This way seems....
No
You must overcome this elbow issue in order to practice calligraphy
If you can't get over this
How can you improve?
Continue
Yes
Ying Luo, what are you doing?
Someone, help!
Hurry!
Ying Luo, whatever it is you can't get over
So serious that you have to hang yourself?
What's going on Ying Luo?
Ying Luo, are you crazy?
Committing suicide in the palace is a big crime.
Don't implicate us if you don't want to live
When have you see a person trying to hang herself
Using a hanging loop at such low height
What are you doing then?
The Empress is teaching me to write...
and I need to conquer the difficulty of while keeping my elbow lifted
But my hand starts trembling once it leaves the table.
After some thought, I figured to let my elbow hang from this loop
And use the strength of the loop to anchor my hand
Then when I'm used to it..
I can leave the loop and write on my own.
My goodness
You must have toiled hours to write so many words
Diligence can make up dumbness
I'm a bit dumb, and getting a slow start
So I can only cut corners
Pearl, next time you should look more carefully
You scared us Isn't it so?
That scream earlier...
My heart almost jumped out
Are you finished watching yet?
You guys aren't like someone here...
Favored by the master, personally taught calligraphy
Hurry back to work
Let's go
Ying Luo, how many pages are there here?
About 150 pages
-Ying Luo -Pearl, are you deaf?
Wei Ying Luo, don't think you're above us because you are favored
Beware climbing too high and falling to your death
Enjoying the scenery at the top for a while
is better than failing to climb with all resorts
You!
But you must hope that I climb even higher
and never fall down
Otherwise the first to be crushed will be you down below
All right, so what you're good with words and I can't beat you there
Let's see how long you can be cocky
I sprayed it so finely
Mine's sprayed finely
Right, elder sister?
Ying Luo!
Ying Luo, you're back.
Ying Luo?
Ying Luo!
What's wrong with her?
Er Qing!
The master thinks so highly of Wei Ying Luo
She doesn't see her for a bit then hurries back to look for her
I said she's very manipulative, you didn't believe me
Now, not just me...
even you won't be around much longer
That's enough now
Ming Yu
It seems Ying Luo has something on her mind
(I discovered the real reason Ying Ning died)
(I'll wait for you tonight 11 pm at Yu Hua garden/Royal Garden)
(Be there or be square)
What's wrong Fu Heng?
Lord Yi Qin and Qing Xi have been quite close lately
Qing Xi has been eagerly waiting since the morning
What's wrong with seeking connections with Lord Yi Qin?
It's not strange that Qing Xi wants to move up
What's odd is...
why is Lord Yi Qing stooping down?
Ying Luo
Something on your mind?
No
No?
Looking at your word for "Zhou" (day)
It's missing a stroke in the middle
Niang Niang (Empress)
Your servant (I)...
If you're tired, go back early to rest
You can't practice well if your heart isn't in it
There's nothing on my mind
-Then keep practicing -Yes
Empress
There is something
I'd like to ask for a leave of absence
Take leave?
Wei Ying Luo
Let go
Someone help!
Thief!
Stand there! Don't run!
Hurry, someone help!
Beat him, that's him!
-Beat him! -Stop it!
That's him!
Stop it!
I'm a palace guard
What do you think you're doing!
This is the inner palace
Not standing guard where you should be
What are you doing here in the garden?
This is a big crime
Beat him viciously!
Beat him!
-Stop -Stop it!
Keep beating him!
Stop it!
Are you blind?!
I'm standing right here
Stand up
What's going on here?
It's her, Wei Ying Luo
Secretly asked to meet me at Yu Hua Garden
She's trying to seduce me!
Seduce you?
I've been indifferent to you, and since you could not seduce me...
you've become enraged
You should look into the mirror, who would want you
Gather such a crowd to beat one person
My Lord
I've reported to you in advance about her trying to meet me in secret
Please help prove me right
Severely punish this dishonest palace maid
You all heard right?
Take her away
I am the favored palace maid of the Empress
Without her approval
Who dares to act?
You can't even repent despite facing the facts
If you weren't trying to secretly meet
Then how did you end up here?
Middle of the night...
You can't be telling me, you're here for the scenery
Give it to me
Look carefully
The weather is getting warmer
My master isn't used to the smell of rose geranium
I came here to pick some Chinese Violets (a type of flower)
and happened to see this leech
Who else am I to beat other than him?
If I actually wanted to meet him in secret, why would I bring all these people?
Waiting to put on a show?
I don't want to hear your excuses
Anything you have to say
Can be said at the crime office
Take her away
What's all the ruckus in the middle of the night?
Fu Cha Fu Heng
Tonight isn't your shift
What are you doing here?
The emperor just finished some important military affairs
And was enjoying a stroll in the Yu Hua Garden
And asked me to play a hand (of chess)
Do we need your permission?
Didn't think that it wasn't long
before getting interrupted
The emperor is here...
It's like this..
There's a palace maid, trying to meet a guard in secret
I caught her red handed and handing her over to the crime department
So I won't ruin his mood
Take her away
Wait
The emperor is at the pavilion up ahead
Anything you have to say
Then let us have him decide
A rare chance I get to sit down and play chess
and it is all screwed by you
Is here the Royal Garden or the bazar
What are you yelling about?
You again?
Your servant (I) doesn't want to interrupt you
Fuheng insisted us to come here
and make you fairly judge such a small affair
I will deal with it
Your majesty, if it is about the palace
it should be judged by the Empress
But this incident today, is about the royal guard
please make a judgement Your majesty
I'm not deaf yet
If you have some solution
will you be here?
What's the matter? Talk
Your majesty
This maid is seducing me
and was refused multiple times, but didn't give up
Today while I'm on duty
she asked me to the Royal Garden at midnight
I've already known
maid and guard are not allowed to have an affair
So I reported it to Prince Yi
Prince Yi was furious
He said this harms the greater atmosphere and cann't be forgiven
So I was ordered to wait here
to catch Wei Ying Ruo
and purify the greater atmosphere
She asked you out?
Your majesty, the guards in Forbidden City
are mostly noble born and have promising future
This leads to some sluts to appear
I have a strict administration and give orders frequently
to forbid such thing The guards are all aware and obeying
But Wei Ying Ruo, a maid from Changchun Palace
she is not ashamed and violates the rule constantly
Qing Xi has rejected her for multiple times
but she is not giving up
I well knew the guards cannot AWOL
To prevent this from happening any more
I had to take the chance to trap her
The wrong-doing maid should be sentenced by the imperial harem
when did you start to sweat it?
Once the word is spread, doesn't it seem ridiculous?
We're the guards at Qianqing Gate who is responsible for all safety
Plus the investigation in Forbidden City
Your majesty, the affects Qing Xi
it can not be ignored
You can tell the Crime Department to take care of it
Wei Ying Ruo is an intimate maid of the Empress
Should the Empress made mind to protect her
who would say another word
Your majesty
I already said
I was pick follower for the Empress for making incent pouch
Empress was kind enough
to send an few eunuchs along to Royal Garden
If I'm here for a date
why bringing all these people
That..that's because I rejected you
you asked me to Royal Garden to ambush me
and wanna beat me up as a thief
You are revenging me as being rejected
Guard Qi Jia
How come you are full of lies
Do you know how to spell 'shameless'
Enough
It's your word against his
I don't want to hear any more debate
Any evidence?
Your majesty, I do have an evidence
Your majesty
These are letters sent from her
please review them
Take a look yourself
Take her down
Your majesty
This letter
is not from me
I hear that
you're learning writing from Empress
But your writing is quite ridiculous
Who are you fooling?
I have an evidence too
What is this?
Your majesty
Empress is so kind
that she teaches writing herself
Although I'm slow, I do have self-awareness
I can't let her down
Since last month, I kept practice and never being lazy
I tried different methods to practice writing
To examine and check my progress
I numbered my works of calligraphy
It is right at this afternoon
I found that Page 28 is missing
These are prior to Page 28
and these are after Page 29
The only one missing is Page 28
It means someone stole my calligraphy
and planted it on me
You say it is lost
Prince Yi
What kind paper material is this letter?
It is just an ordinary paper for practice
Your majesty
My salary is limited. I won't waste on proper papers
I only used scrap paper instead
which is “stencil tissue paper”
However, this letter
it is not
Your majesty
the letter given by Qing Xi
it is white and dense with fine texture
It is produced in Jing County, Anhui Province
and among the top grade
Maid Wei's paper
is for making toilet paper in the Palace
If you don't believe me
you can search the West Chamber of Changchun Palace
and see if you can find a top-grade paper from Anhui
So someone must steal my writing
mimiced my calligraphy
and planted it on me
while not noticing the difference of the paper material
That could be you were misleading us
How is it possible that in the whole Changchun Palace
there is not a single sheet of top-grade paper I am not be bold
According to Empress
I'm improving everyday as these 150 papers show
To prevent me from noticing,
you took one from the middle
However the 28th page is exactly one month ago
When comparing to the recent writing
one could tell the difference
You bastard, who got you to frame her?
your majesty, it seems Qing Xi is lying
It must be Qi Xing, he wanna...
Prince Yi, are you saying
Qi Jia Qing Xi, he failed on seducing me
and then framed me?
Guard Qi Jia
I hear that yourself? He failed the framing and is about to cut you off
If you don't spit the truth this moment
no one can save you then
Your majesty
Prince Yi forced me to frame Maid Ying Luo
I don't know why he would do this
But he is behind all this
I can swear to god
Hong Xiao
You, a noble prince
doing such a shameful thing?
Do you need your decency?
Your majesty, Your majesty, please cease your anger
You must not believe any word coming out of his dirty mouth
He is failing on getting Wei Ying Luo and dragging me down on this Your majesty
As soon as I knew my calligraphy was missing
I reported it to Empress
With her permission, I took a few people to investigate the man behind this
To my surprise
it is related to Prince Yi
I am just deep in the imperial harem
and never made his acquaintance, not to mention a feud
Prince Yi
Why would you frame me?
I said it is his behavior
I was blinded by him, don't make false accusation
I reckon
Prince Yi is not targeting me alone
perhaps
You are aiming at the whole Changchun Palace
The empress is in charge of whole set of harem and occupies noble position
of course someone is jealous and wants to impute her
What can be worse than her maid fornicating with a male
With this crime you can doubt her ability of administration
and even deprive her power based on this
I said this is just a misunderstanding
How can it be as terrible as you described
What's terrible is not my description
it is who are behind all this
They want to punish me,
smear Changchun Palace and innocent Empress
even disturb the order of entire imperial harem
Your majesty
don't listen to her nonsense
I was just taking Qing Xi's word
I don't have any feud with Empress and I always admire her
How would you dare to harm her reputation. Please reconsider
Your majesty, I am wronged
Empress is wronged
The whole Changchun Palace is wronged
All silence
Qing Xi
purposely framed maid from Changchun Palace
and indeed doesn't deserve the position of Royal Guard
He should be beaten by 100 times and get his position deprived
Your majesty, I'm wronged
It is all Prince Yi, he forced me on this, your majesty
I'm wronged, Your majesty, Your majesty, Your majesty
I'm wronged, Your majesty
Your majesty, Your majesty
And you
you dare to call this crap "calligraphy"?
And you are improving everyday?
I feel sorry for Empress
How many efforts should she make
to make you a rock nod?
You go back immediately
copy 100 times
No rest until all completed
Your majesty
Dismiss
Just go
Our Emperor is so insightful and impartial
I believe our Emperor has a fair judgement definitely
You dare to threat me?
Your majesty, Wei Ying Ruo is just wronged
She is anger and doesn't know what she is talking about
Please cease your temper
Get lost
Yes
Hong Xiao
Your majesty
I'm indeed wronged, indeed
Wronged?
Do you know where does your cap (crown) come from?
It is from 13th Royal Uncle,
his endless efforts for Great Qing Dynasty
his life-long devotion to my Father as an exchange
You, as his first descendent
should be responsible and devoted
But you
keep on blaming others all day
blaming me for not giving you a chace
Why don't you think what you have done
A maid and a guard,
fornication?
What do you treat Forbidden City as?
Treat yourself as?
This ridiculous and naive case? And make me to judge it? Why?
Because it is disgraceful
Disgraceful! Disgraceful! Do you know?
Disgraceful to 13th Royal Uncle
Disgraceful to our Aisin Gioro Family. Your majesty! Your majesty!
I know I'm wrong, I know I'm wrong
Your majesty! Your majesty! Your majesty! Please relax
Prince Yi was just fooled for once. For the sake of Former Prince
please forgive him this time
tell me
Who is in on this with you?
If not, I'm gonna punish you heavily
Your majesty
I saw Prince Yi, with my own eyes
meeting Noble Lady Jia's maid from Chuxiu Palace
Hong Xiao
Your majesty
Minister of Rites, Jin Jian
is a good friend of mine
Noble Lady Jia was demoted from Dame
because of Maid Ying Ruo. So they want revenge secretly
I thought Ying Ruo was just a maid
It should be effortles and I agreed
I was just out of my mind for a moment. I admit my mistake.
Your majesty!
Li Yu
Here
Go pass my word to Chuxiu Palace!
Don't take my kid
Don't
Don't take my kid
Noble Lady Jia, this is the order from Emperor
Just don't make us difficult Pass me the kid
No!
Yong Cheng is my son
Mom
How can the Emperor take him away?
How can the Emperor treat me like this?
I have to see the Emperor
I have to see the Emperor now
Noble Lady! Others might not know what's going on
Don't you know it yourself?
What did I do wrong?
A Shuang, she has confessed all Anything better you wanna do?
Why would you coerce Prince Yi to make such a mess
Once revealed?
Wouldn't you be in pickle yourself? Just a maid
what's gonna happen even if I took her life
Mom
I endured the pregnancy for 10 (lunar) months
with all my efforts giving the Emperor
this little Royal Prince's birth
I gave hard work, if not making any contribution
The emperor, the emperor is treating me in such way?
Noble Lady
You are pretending to be dumb when you are all clear
You are just framing Wei Ying Ruo?
You are framing Empress' maid for violating the rule
This is charging Empress publicly
Not to mention Changchun Palace
the emperor will never forgive you
It is not like this
I...
I had no choice Gong Gong Li (Eunuch Li)
Mom
Noble Lady Jia, who was forcing you?
My respect to Noble Consort
Li Yu
I am the real master of Chuxiu Palace
Noble Lady Jia is deprived the custody of 4th Prince due to her mistake
He should be sent to me
How can you send him to Consort Xian
With my respect to Noble Consort
This is Emperor's order
Emperor said
Noble Lady Jia lives in Chuxiu Palace
4th Prince might get bad influence
so he should be stay away
Mom Mom
Come on
Let me check
Come on
Niang Niang (Noble Consort)
Let me have a look
Don't cry
Even I feel sorry
How big can the Forbidden City be?
Even if Chengqian Palace, I can always reach out
Come on Go
Niang Niang (Noble Consort)
Yong Cheng! Yong Cheng!
Excuse me please
Yong Cheng!!
Yong Cheng! My child!
Shut it
Yong Cheng! Yong Cheng!
Yong Cheng!
Useless
Just making me upset
The Emperor was just giving you a warning
and sent 4th Prince to Chengqian Palace
He didn't forbid you from visiting
Noble Consort
If you have time to be sad
Might as well
take some time to get your son back
Noble Consort
Do you intend to Adopt 4th Prince?
I can have my own kid if I want
why would I raise a dumb kid?
So you are...
All these years
Noble Lady Jia has done quite a few things for me
and she knows to much
But with the 4th Prince
she can not play any tricks
How brilliant
Then this time, 4th Prince was taken
Can he be back later?
That would be on her own
My Empress! My Empress!
Pardon me please
Take him away
My Empress!
Please pardon my life!
My Empress!
What a surprise
Among us, Changchun Palace
there's a mole
Since last incident of Lychee vandalization
I felt that there's a mole in Changchun Palace
And expect they to make another move
Who knows they didn't wait long enough
again took such a bold action
Poor 4th Prince
at such a young age
left his mother
It is Noble Lady Jia herself to blame
If she doesn't have evil intentions of revenge
how could she end up with her child getting sent away?
No matter what
Emperor doing this
it is giving you the decency
Emperpr never had a thought of be impartial
What are you taling about
For Noble Lady Jia
Emperor is just mad that
she used a despicable trick
which almost tampered the reputation of Changchun Palace
At the same time, he didn't want
4th Prince being aside of a narrow-minded and mean mother
From the very beginning
my injustice or justice
was never taken into his consideration
Ying Luo
If the emperor really wanted to be fair
Why did he make such a small punishment
by taking 4th Prince away
Noble Lady Jia is 4th Prince's birth mother after all
By doing this, the Emperor saved decency for the Prince
Even if so
what about Prince Yi?
Prince Yi is Emperor's first consin
How would the Emperor...
Niang Niang
You clearly know don't you?
I am just a lowly maid
Not to mention being wronged
even if get myself killed the Emperor would not lay one more eye on me
The reason why he was furious
is because Prince Yi evolving the mess of inner court
and getting owned
losing the decency of royal family
So Noble Lady was punished
meanwhile Prince Yi was cut loose
After all, Prince Yi is the son of the 13th Royal Uncle
the noble Iron-Cap (Heritable Title) King of Great Qing Dynasty
The Emperor is not quite able to criticize him harshly
If one day
he made a unforgiving mistake
Maid Ying Ruo Stop
Isn't this Maid Ying Ruo Where are you heading
Empress asked to send something to Yonghe Palace
Manger Wu
This is?
Day and night rituals at Kunning Palace Plus a grand ritual every three months
Tomorrow will be the grand one
The Emperor is going to reward the Royal Guards
and the ministers by sharing the meat and fortune?
Sharing the meat and fortune?
And old tradition, you'll see yourself tomorrow
Manger Wu is teasing me
I'm always staying at Changchun Palace
and rarely get a change to go out
I don't even know such a big event like this
Before, the Empress' condition wasn't quite good
Emperor pardoned Empress for taking the meat
Now that Empress is getting much better
how can she be absent for joining the grand ritual and taking the meat
Not only Empress
all other concubines will be distributed
Enough chatting, I have to go
send my greetings to the Empress
Sister Er-Qing
Ying Ruo, you are back within such short time
Empress is expecting your reply in there
Sister Er-Qing, I'd like to ask you something
What
I hear that Empress is going to attend the ritual at Kunning Palace
Is that so?
I'm worrying about it
The holy meat, sounds fancy
is cooked by water, without any taste
Sometimes
mostly raw meat
Empress was not a fan ever since
Once she had diarrhea
Then if she doesn't like it
can't she just skip it?
No way
It is an honor
Who refuses it
is disrespectful to the ancestors and gods
Once
a minister threw up
and was beaten 80 times
So serious?
Sister Er-Qing
can I tag along?
I've never wittness
the ritual at Kunning Palace
That is not a pleasant show though
Are you sure you wanna go?
Yes, take me please
What's wrong with your eye?
A pretty palace maid has coming for you.
Look
See that?
Isn't it because of her? You were keeping an eye on Prince Yi
Now she comes to thank you in person I'll be back in a moment.
Why are you here?
I have a question.
You want to know why I was in Royal Gardens that night?
I realised that Prince Yi and Qing Xi (the guard) were too close
So I started to follow them
I found Qi Xi was spying on Changchun Palace
I got suspicious
Later than, Qing Xi adjusted his shift
I guess they were making a move
So
you lured the Emperor there
It seems it is the destiny of us
Otherwise, how could the god,
while I deeply need help,
send you to me?
Young Master, thank you
You are welcome
Wei Ying Ruo
I am noble Iron-Cap (Heritable Title) King of Great Qing
You are only a lowly maid
What can you do even if you complained to Emperor
What can you doing with me?
Why are you giving me that look?
I am so afraid
What can you do even you know Fuheng?
Low-class people are low-class people
who can't transcend to higher class
Sooner or later
I will rip your head off
I will tell you
what's called hierarchy
Young Master
you go ahead
why are you here
I am waiting for you
What's up
This is?
Pepper and salt?
I heard the meat is not well cooked and tasteless
People are getting punished all the time for throwing up
I prepared the seasoning
While no one is watching
you just put some on
It will be edible
Ying Ruo
This is not right
Just hide in your sleeve
With so many people presenting
who would notice that
I take that as a yes
Empress is expecting me now
I got to go
Serve the meat!