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Watching the person in the mirror's countenance pale and grow haggard,
Examining love together with regret, both new and old.
Keeping watch still by a lantern though it is daybreak, drenched with tears,
Watching others meet as promised, as twilight falls.
Story of Yanxi Palace Episode 19
Your Majesty, don't leave tonight. Will you?
Your Majesty.
Alright.
His Majesty said he would come.
But it's getting so late and he's still not here.
- Your Highness. - Let's wait a bit more.
Your Highness, it's windy at night.
Your health isn't well and you can't get wind on you.
Why not wait inside the hall?
I want to be the first to welcome His Majesty.
Look. Is that His Majesty coming?
It's Eunuch Li.
Greetings to Your Highness the Empress.
Get on up.
Thank you, Your Highness the Empress.
His Majesty won't be coming tonight.
May you go and rest up.
Is something keeping His Majesty busy?
Something urgent to manage? I will wait more.
Well, in response to Empress.
His Majesty moved his stay to Chuxiu Palace.
Erqing. It's too windy here.
Escort Her Highness in to rest.
Your Highness. Your health is a priority.
Alright.
Bidding wellness to Your Highness the Empress.
What has this got to do with me?
Whoever did I offend?
So angry.
The plant is crimeless. How did it upset you?
You! Don't you talk to me.
I am mad if I see a man now.
I don't think I've offended you though.
You didn't offend me indeed.
But His Majesty offended Empress.
What are you talking about? I don't comprehend.
Concubine Yu and Fifth Prince put their lives on the line to knock Noble Consort Gao down.
It's not been long and she's back up again.
Sure. Her glamour stands out among the six palaces.
His Majesty forgot for a moment that Fifth Prince was almost buried alive.
That's understandable.
Since it's understandable, why are you clenching your teeth?
You.
Are you picking on me on purpose?
Don't you know?
Empress waited for His Majesty for two hours. What she got for waiting was news that he went to Chuxiu Palace.
Your Empress's brother. Shouldn't you express your feeling of unjust for her?
Yingluo, in your heart, is His Majesty a lecherous man?
- I don't know. - But you do think so.
But Yingluo, I must tell you.
His Majesty is the emperor of a nation and many things are not up to him.
Including ignoring Concubine Yu and Empress's heartbreak.
To pamper a tyranny noble consort?
Was the blood letter your framing on Noble Consort?
Of course not.
I'm glad it wasn't you. The matter was carried up in a haste.
It seemed overly intentional.
His Majesty is very clever and knew already someone framed her.
Noble Consort Gao is insolent in conduct.
She does need to learn a lesson.
However, Gao Bin has installed river outlets and dams to treat flooding.
His merit of aiding the peace and wellness of the people are insurmountable. Even if it's on his account only . . .
His Majesty must be lenient with Noble Consort Gao.
Do you understand?
Do you understand or not?
I won't talk about that anymore.
What about the matter I asked you to investigate for me?
There was no imperial relative that left the banquet at Qianging Palace that night.
That's impossible.
I have asked around from the head eunuch on duty at Qianqing Palace that night,
and he is very certain there's none.
You are not lying?
Fine. I trust you.
Since we can't find out from Qianqing Palace eunuch,
I'll make my move on His Majesty's close aids.
[ Memorial to the Throne ]
Your Majesty, it's getting late. You should rest.
Continue rubbing the ink.
Your Majesty.
Your Majesty, what's wrong?
I'll go and invite the royal physician right away.
Stop over fussing. I'm fine.
Your Majesty.
Your Majesty! Red hives.
Yangxin Hall
Furunculosis?
Furunculosis are rare in the forbidden city.
Has His Majesty been in contact with outsiders?
Empress, lately, His Majesty has been visited by many subjects from outside.
Maybe a subject from outside was ill and brought in the contagious illness.
Is this an urgent illness?
This illness incites a severe itch that is unbearable.
The worst is that he seems allergic to the mites and it's led to hives.
Then it's too difficult to withhold from scratching and the entire body can suffer injury.
It can lead to an infection that will be difficult to control.
Then, how do you treat this illness?
Externally, we need to apply sulphur ointment all over his body.
Internally, we use anti-inflammatory medicine to reduce the heat.
Additionally, His Majesty needs to put everything aside to rest quietly for 100 days.
These illnesses are very contagious.
You must not stay in the room too long.
I need to stay to look after His Majesty.
Your Highness, your own health isn't well.
You can't stay. What if . . .
I've made up my mind. Do not say more.
Your Highness, this matter, should we alert Empress Dowager?
Empress Dowager is praying to Buddha at Changchun Garden.
Don't tell Empress Dowager for now so she's not worried.
Examiner Zhang, is there a way to reduce His Majesty's pain?
This . . .
Yingluo.
You move to live at Yangxin Hall with Empress today.
Mingyu.
Her Highness has already given the instruction for me to stay at Changchun Palace.
While you go back to pack up and move to Yangxin Hall.
Why are you pushing your own chore on Yingluo?
Since we can't find out from Qianqing Palace eunuch,
I'll make my move on His Majesty's close aids.
Alright.
Yingluo. Furunculosis are very contagious.
Once you contract it, you won't be able to withhold from scratching, leaving scars from infections.
Empress and Mingyu can go, then I can go too.
Erqing, I'll go pack up now.
Yingluo. Yingluo.
Are you satisfied now?
She wanted to do it herself. Not like I forced her.
Mingyu. You always claim Empress doesn't care about you and ignores you.
But have you ever thought about your own actions?
When Her Highness wasn't in the forbidden city, you pushed Concubine Yu and Fifth Prince to bear the blame.
Now Her Highness needs you and told you to go to Yangxin Hall.
But you push it off again.
Her Highness is clear minded with clear vision.
Can't she see it?
Not just Her Highness. Even all the people in Changchun Palace.
You'll see who would still trust you in the future.
I . . .
Step by step, you personally
pushed out Her Highness's trust of you.
How can others even trust you in the future?
Greetings, Your Highness Empress.
Get up.
Li Yu.
Your Highness Empress, mistresses all insist to go in and visit His Majesty.
Your Highness Empress, I was so worried about His Majesty so I came very early this morning.
But this servant Li Yu refused to let me in.
His Majesty got infected with furunculosis and it's very contagious.
Hence, he made a decree abolishing the requirement of imperial consorts to attend to him when he's sick.
Everyone, please go back.
Your Highness, you are...
I want to move into Yangxin Palace.
Your Highness, since furunculosis is contagious, why must you risk your health?
If His Majesty really needs taking care of, I'll go to Yangxin Palace in your behalf.
What Consort Chun said is right.
Attending to His Majesty when he's sick is the duty of his imperial consorts.
How could we let Your Highness Empress toil, while we rest?
What sisters said are very right.
If this goes out, people will think that we're lazing around
and not doing our duties as imperial consorts.
The reason why I'm moving into Yangxin Palace is because I had furunculosis before.
Hence, of course, I know how to care for him.
Everyone, don't worry.
No one will also blame you for this.
So, Your Highness Empress, you once had such an illness?
I'm not worried then.
Right.
Since that's the case, Your Highness Noble Consort doesn't need to worry
for Empress monopolizing the limelight and can rest with ease.
Consort Chun, caring too much will cloud your judgment. Even if you said one or two harsh words,
I can tolerate it since I'm magnanimous. I won't bear any grudge.
Your Highness Empress, I'll take my leave then.
After getting restricted for half a month, Noble Consort has improved a lot.
Your Highness Empress, although you're not at risk for infection, you still have to take care of your health.
If you can't do it anymore, you can call me anytime to take your shift.
Since Her Highness Empress already said it like that, don't push it anymore.
Go back and rest.
No wonder there are rumors spreading in the palace.
Seeing how you're acting now, even I feel that you are especially nice to Empress.
Even you are making fun of me.
Okay. Before putting on the medicinal cream, he needs to clean his body with alum tea.
Yes.
Get out.
I told you to immediately go out.
Eunuch Li, why don't you do it instead?
Me?
So clumsy. Ask others to do it!
Yes.
Your Majesty, half of the servants of Yangxin Palace has been transferred.
The ones remaining are mostly eunuchs.
Her Highness Empress was worried that they would be clumsy
and hurt you, hence, she ordered me to come here.
If Your Majesty is going to ask for another person, he surely would be any better than Chief Steward.
And you're not clumsy?
I was an embroidery maid before.
The fabrics I worked on are high grade silk. To prevent damaging the fabric,
I've developed the habit of meticulously protecting my hands.
If Your Majesty won't let Chief Steward or me do it,
Her Highness Empress will personally come to put on the medication on you.
Yingluo, what's happening?
Your Highness, nothing!
Fine. You continue.
Yes.
What are you doing?
Your Majesty, Medical Investigator Zhang instructed
that the clothes and blankets you've used
must be soaked in medicated water.
I'm going to do that now.
Stop scratching.
Stop rubbing. You mustn't rub it.
Before, I heard from Her Highness Empress Dowager
that Your Majesty is like a child when you get sick.
I finally saw it today.
Your Majesty, if you really hate Yingluo that much,
let me apply the medicine on you next time.
No need.
I really don't know
why Your Majesty will hate so much
a person as considerate and capable as Yingluo?
It's all my fault!
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Your Highness.
It's daybreak soon.
Quickly go rest for a while.
His Majesty's body is hot and dry all over, hence, he feels so itchy.
I'll accompany him for a while more.
Desheng, hurry up.
How come you're so slow?
Miss Yingluo, you've worked hard these past days.
I'm just assisting Her Highness Empress.
It's Chief Steward Li who's been running around these past days. That's more toiling.
Miss Yingluo, you must have something to ask me.
I really couldn't hide anything from you.
I indeed have something to ask.
Desheng, that fire isn't strong enough. There must be a problem with the charcoal.
Quickly go replace it.
Yes.
Eunuch Li, on the 10th day of the 1st month, during the banquet for the imperial relatives in Qianqing Palace,
you were present, right?
Of course!
I picked up a jade pendant here in the palace.
It looks extraordinary.
Momo guessed that it must be owned by some imperial relative.
Hence, I'm asking around.
But even if it was an imperial relative, he should only be at Qianqing Palace that night.
How could he be loitering around in the inner palace?
That's also what I thought.
But, Eunuch Li,
if there's some imperial relative or Prince of the Third Rank that got drunk,
walked the wrong way, charged into the prohibited inner palace,
lost a valuable,
and then he dared not return to look for it,
that's possible too.
But that day, nobody left the banquet.
- Really? - Of course it's true.
His Majesty was toasting to each of them. Who would dare leave?
So that's what happened.
Miss Yingluo, did you bring the jade pendant?
Could you let me see it?
I left it in Changchun Palace.
But there was a symbol on it.
What symbol?
Like this.
Fuca!
Miss Yingluo, if that item isn't owned by Empress, it should belong to Imperial Guard Fuca.
After going around in circle, I just embarrassed myself.
Okay! Thank you, Chief Steward Li!
Once I go back to Changchun Palace, I surely will return the object to its owner.
Desheng.
Could it be it's not an imperial relative too?
Hateful. Who could it be?
Water.
Leave. I will do it.
It's very hot. How do you expect me to drink it?
This tea was tested.
Still arguing with me?
I deserve to die. Please forgive me.
Where is Wei Yingluo? Where did she go?
To reply Your Majesty,
Wei Yingluo was in the courtyard just now.
I don't know where she is now.
Get lost.
- Everyone, get lost. - Your Majesty, please don't be angry.
Miss Yingluo, His Majesty lost his temper when he couldn't find you. Go in now.
Your Majesty, what instructions do you have?
Where is the Empress?
Her Highness was keeping vigil the entire night.
I just persuaded her to go back to rest.
Where did you go then?
Your Majesty, I still have people to attend to in the house.
This itch is unbearable
and you let those clumsy people scratch me?
Your Majesty, please don't be angry.
I have a solution.
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Medical Investigator Zhang said that if one uses too much sulfur ointment,
the skin will be dry.
I just picked some fresh aloe vera.
Your Majesty.
Dab on the aloe vera juice.
Although the treatment is not fully curable
Your Majesty will feel much better.
You fawn on the Empress in this manner.
That's how you humor her till she dotes on you, right?
Her Highness treats me with sincerity.
Naturally, I would reciprocate.
I'm fierce with you.
Don't you hate me then?
Of course.
I wouldn't dare.
Your Majesty, I have something to say...
I wonder whether I should speak or not.
I hate hearing this the most.
If I tell you not to speak, would you do that then?
Your Majesty.
Her Highness kept fanning by the bedside last night.
When I told her to go back and rest,
she refused.
She couldn't move her wrists this morning.
I know
there are thousands of beautiful and charming women in Forbidden City
but only Her Highness Empress stayed to attend to you
even though she clearly knew she'll get infected by doing so.
Erqing told me that,
frankly, Her Highness never had furunculosis
But just to stayed behind, she didn't mind lying.
This kind of true love,
I have never seen it in this world.
Have you said enough?
Get lost.
It's my personal matters.
Since when can a slave get involved in it?
Get lost.
Your Highness.
You should deliver tea to His Majesty.
What?
If you want to shiver, you should show it to him.
Only by this way, you can show what you have done for His Majesty.
Or else, he would still think it's that easy to wait on a sick person.
When you are good to a person,
must we really let him know?
Of course.
I contributed thirty percent to let him see that it's fifty percent.,
If I contributed fifty percent, he should return a hundred percent.
It's only fair this way.
If you keep giving,
no one will cherish it.
Yingluo, in the huge Forbidden City,
he has countless consorts and concubines
but only me is his legitimate wife.
What others are not willing to do, I will do it.
Everything that I did for him was not because I hope that he will reciprocate them.
I only wish His Majesty to be safe and healthy.
Physician Ye.
What brings you here?
Miss Yingluo.
Fifth Prince's jaundice has subsided.
But, of course.
You instructed him to keep basking in the sun
Not only has his jaundice subsided, he's now chubby and cute.
That's good then.
Physician Ye, are you here to treat His Majesty?
Yes. His Majesty's furunculosis has been more than a month.
It dragged on for such a long time. I went to check his medical record.
I have some new ideas.
Physician Ye, are you saying...
His Majesty's furunculosis may not necessarily be due to infections from others.
But...
Miss Yingluo, come here.
Wei Yingluo, come here now!
Your Majesty, you must not scratch it.
Your Majesty, stop scratching.
If you keep doing so, crusts will form and they will crack.
Your Majesty.
I'm very itchy.
Yingluo, come here now. His Majesty itches all over.
Stop scratching.
Your Highness, aloe vera ointment can't treat this.
Medical Investigator Zhang said His Majesty must meditate to heal and shouldn't be impatient.
Tell him to come and try it!
Your Highness! Your Highness!
Your Highness.
Your Majesty, with you venting your anger at others like that, is that the proper action for a wise king?
What did you say?
The consorts and concubines in the palace know that you are sick and have been talking about this.
But their feet seem to be on fire. They walked faster than anyone else.
Her Highness is the only one who hasn't been changing her clothes and sleeping, to take care of you day and night.
But Your Majesty indiscriminately add pain to others.
Isn't this too overboard?
Empress.
This is your slave!
Yingluo, are you crazy?
How dare you speak to His Majesty this way? Retreat.
I didn't say anything wrong. Ever since Noble Consort Gao has been reinstated,
His Majesty's rewards have been flowing like water into Chuxiu Palace.
What about Changchun Palace? We didn't see anything at all. Why is this so?
Shut up!
Speak!
I want to hear her speak!
Everyone is saying that Your Majesty suddenly resolved the prohibition of Noble Consort Gao
was to give consideration to Governor Gao Bin of Zhili.
You really know a lot.
You know everything about the matters in the Imperial Court.
Wei Yingluo.
Since His Majesty wants to listen, naturally, I dare to speak.
Your Highness, Steward Li.
Because of a righteous deed of a subject, His Majesty thinks it's worthwhile
to do his best to pamper a noble consort.
As a king of a country,
he's careful in humoring a woman.
What's the difference for a woman from a brothel who humors a man then?
Forbidden Brothel has become a brothel for songs and dances.
Your Majesty has become the most popular woman there.
His Majesty has just placated Chuxiu Palace. What will be next?
Yonghe Palace?
Chengqian Palace?
Embroidery workshop?
- It's the Embroidery workshop. - Your Majesty. - Move aside.!
Your Majesty only knows how to pamper women.
Move aside!
- Your Majesty, you can't see how well Her Highness has treated you. - Your Majesty, please cool down.
Your Majesty is furious. It's because I'm right.
Forget it if you betrayed yourself to others. Why are you losing your temper at others?
If we talk grandly, it's for the country and people.
If we talk otherwise, it's just to benefit from others.
A distinguished emperor...
...has actually became a renowned beauty that can overturn a nation.
Your Majesty! Your Majesty!
Greetings, Your Majesty.
Congratulations, Your Majesty.
Your Majesty, you will recover from your illness now.
Your Majesty.
I spoke nonsense in an arrogant manner for the sake of healing Your Majesty's illness.
Your Majesty, Your Highness, please forgive me.
Yingluo, what's going on? Speak now.
Your Majesty, Your Highness. I flipped through His Majesty's medical record
and discovered his illness hasn't be healed for a long time.
His Majesty has been overworked. It's related to the blood in the phlegm.
Hence, I boldly asked Miss Yingluo for help
to deliberately infuriate Your Majesty to expel the blood in the phlegm which has existed for a long time.
Only by doing this, His Majesty will be free from worries and be cured of his illness and be healthy.
His Majesty will recover from his illness soon?
Of course.
This is great, Your Majesty.
Your Majesty, everything is fine now.
Your Highness, His Majesty just coughed out the blood in the phlegm.
His body is weak. Let His Majesty
calm his mind and recuperate.
Yes, Your Majesty, let's rest early.
Don't be angry. Keep calm.
Yingluo did this to cure your illness.
She didn't deliberately offended you.
Your Majesty.
I know you are furious when you see me now.
I won't dare to be any eyesore here. I will retreat immediately.
Your Majesty, you must recuperate and recover soon.
Stop there.
I feel very dizzy.
Yingluo!
Men, carry Yingluo out.
Physician Ye, take a look at her now.
Yes.
Your Majesty, please don't be angry.
Your Majesty, watch your health or you can't be cured.
Slowly.
Did His Majesty kill Miss Yingluo?
He didn't. She fainted.
I say, His Majesty was furious.
Did she faint from being scared to death?
How is His Majesty?
Your Majesty, how do you feel now?
Your Majesty.
Where is she?
[Origin, Progress, Interest, Chastity]
Where is that lowly slave?
Your Majesty.
Your Majesty, are you referring to Yingluo?
Find that lowly slave and bring her here.
I'm going to personally skin her alive.
Your Majesty. She did that to cure your illness.
Look at you now. The blood in your phlegm has been cleared and you are looking healthy.
It's also due to her merit.
You believe what she said?
What magic potion did she give you?
You even believed her.
If she didn't had these words in her,
would it be that easy for her to say all these?
She's using this opportunity to spite me when I'm sick.
What are you laughing at?
Your Majesty, even if you want to find her and settle score with her now,
I'm afraid you can't.
Why?
When she went back, she had high fever and developed rashes.
Physician Ye said when she was taking care of you, she was infected.
Thus, she has fallen ill.
Is this true?
It's true, Your Majesty.
Your Majesty, even if Yingluo has flaws,
but she put her heart and soul into taking care of you
and was infected too. Based on this,
you shouldn't blame her for speaking nonsense in an arrogant manner.
If not, in the future, who else will take so much efforts
to serve you till her dying days.
Fine.
I won't blame her. I won't blame her.
I will order them to take her back to treat her illness then.
Wait.
Let's go.
Miss Yingluo, what are you doing?
I thought palace maids who are sick will be removed from the palace.
I'm packing my stuff first as I don't want to trouble anyone.
No need. You were infected by His Majesty's illness when you were taking care of him.
The best physician is here today.
His Majesty has permitted you to remain in Hall of Mental Cultivation to recuperate.
He even asked Physician Ye to treat you.
- He allowed me to remain here to recuperate? - Yes.
Did I hear wrongly?
His Majesty personally said that? Who would dare to hear it wrongly?
Miss Yingluo, Physician Ye specially prescribed this medicine for you.
Drink it now.
What is this?
It's Coptis chinensis. [T/N : Chinese herb commonly known as Gold thread ]
Physician Ye didn't prescribe this to His Majesty when he was sick.
Of course, His Majesty didn't have this but the prescription that Physician gave you,
it definitely must have this.
Why?
It clears heatiness and eliminates dampness.
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♫The Forbidden Palace's walls surround them, feeling like a good place to reside.♫
♫As the walls sever the setting sun's rays, they lose their past dreams as it grows cold.♫
♫Decaying leaves cover the neglected shuttered window, that remembers the cold winds of twenty harvests.♫
♫ Knowing only how to go with the flow and pass the years.♫
♫Unmarried and hopeful, the heavy, dark gates are locked, ♫
♫Cultivated and proud, gem-like beauties, and yet somehow♫
♫Flowers who stay may endure breakage, causing them ask to change their karma♫
♫Can not an empty branch give them a carefree place to rest upon?♫
♫Longing to be together with him, separated as the illumination in the western window declines,♫
♫At leisure to be melancholy, also perplexed and worried about it all.♫
♫Who will pity her, and record her lifetime full of misery?♫
♫A pretentious, showy vision on a stage.♫
♫Longing to be together with him, separated as the illumination in the western window declines,♫
♫At leisure to be melancholy, also perplexed and worried about it all.♫
♫Who will pity her, and record her lifetime full of misery?♫
♫A pretentious, showy vision on a stage.♫