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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 39
Is he willing . . .
to be my son?
Your Majesty, you're drunk by alcohol today.
Perhaps you'd like to rest at Yangxin Hall first.
- Your Majesty. - I'm not going anywhere!
I am going to stay here to be with Empress. With Empress!
Li Yu.
It's late and it's chilly.
His Majesty just drank.
I'm worried he will get the chill.
Have him stay with me tonight then.
Yes.
Mingyu, invite His Majesty to rest at east side room.
I will escort Empress back.
So His Majesty felt the same as me.
He never forgot Yonglian.
Your Highness, don't think too much.
Rest well.
Yingluo.
Is the east room properly arranged?
Supervisor Li is on guard.
His Majesty isn't happy so I ordered them all to stay away.
So they don't court trouble onto themselves.
Ask Yonglian.
I was busy with state affairs before.
I never spent a day with him. I didn't even ever hold him.
Does he blame me? Is he willing,
to be my son?
To me, you can never be compared to Wei Yingluo.
Your evil and meanness completely disgust me.
What is this?
- Sobering tonic. - Sobering tonic?
Go on in.
Eunuch Li.
Who just entered?
Replying to Eunuch Li,
that was someone delivering sobering tonic just now.
Did you check?
I checked. I checked.
Your Majesty.
Your Majesty. - What's going on?
Some movement.
Some movement?
Whoever His Majesty favors is that person's blessing.
Careful of your head if you're going to listen and watch so much.
Yes, yes.
Hupo, did you deliver the sobering tonic?
It's already delivered.
Then you go and rest up.
Yes.
Greetings to Your Majesty.
Your Majesty.
Get lost.
Get lost!
Hupo.
Sister Mingyu.
What are you doing?
Last night, His Majesty was drunk and vomited everywhere.
Chief of supervisor ordered me to clean up.
But why are you so nervous?
I have lots of chores left.
I'll get going now.
- Wait. - Mingyu.
Erqing?
I'm leaving the palace today.
I came especially to say bye to you.
So suddenly?
Fuheng is back in the capital.
I shouldn't stay here longer.
Send a word to Fuca manor when Her Highness delivers.
I'll be going.
What's wrong?
Yesterday, His Majesty rested at east room.
I think he favored a palace maid.
This is Changchun Palace. If His Majesty is fond of a palace maid,
why wouldn't he let Empress know first?
Even if you're telling the truth,
that palace maid, after getting favored, shouldn't she ask for promotion today?
You're right.
But . . .
Never mind. Maybe I was seeing things.
Third Sister-in-law.
You needn't be so cordial.
I haven't seen you in a few days. Have you been well, 4th Brother-in-law?
Thank you for your care, Third Sister-in-law. I've been well.
It seems you are very happy.
Is something good about to happen?
Well, of course. I've endured and endured.
Finally I found the best way to vent my anger.
How can I not be happy?
I don't really understand.
What did you draw? Open and let me see.
It's nothing.
You painted me.
So it's up to me to decide if it should be destroyed.
Third Sister-in-law.
You painted pretty well.
Your Majesty, the entire royal physician's court is here.
Empress is blessed and she will surely birth smoothly.
Hurry. Water. More water.
Hard.
Your Highness.
Miss Mingyu, this isn't good.
Your Highness.
The baby's legs are facing downwards. It's a breech birth.
Your Highness, don't scare me.
I am so scared. You wished for this prince for so long.
Don't give up, Empress. Please.
Hurry and see.
Yes.
Hurry and think of a way. Think of a way.
If you can't save Empress, you can't end up well either.
The only way is to putting the hand into the birth canal to touch the prince's legs.
May the heavens watch over that the prince is smart to hold his own head so there's hope.
Hurry and try it then.
But this is only one out of ten chance. It's too . . .
But it's better than seeing Empress's life dangled over a thread.
Hurry and try it.
Yingluo, help me hold back Empress's torso.
Hurry.
Yingluo. Yingluo, what are you doing?
Miss Mingyu, do we try it?
Try it.
Your Highness.
- Your Highness.- Yingluo.
- Your Highness. - Is Yingluo here?
Your Highness, hold on.
Don't give up.
Your Highness, push.
Push, Your Highness.
Miss Yingluo, you're . . .
Something went wrong inside?
Push.
Sir Fuheng. Her Highness is in labor.
May you wait at the side hall.
Don't give up, Your Highness.
Almost. Push.
Your Highness. Your Highness.
Your Highness, push more.
Your Highness, more.
If you cover your ears, you can't hear.
Empress isn't your mother. She won't die.
She will endure through safely.
The tragedy will not repeat. Everything will be well.
Before, you were bullied.
You were shamed. And you were punished.
But you never cried.
And now you cry.
Is it really that scary?
Thank you, Sir Fuheng.
I must go back.
Yingluo.
Greetings to Your Majesty.
Empress birthed smoothly and His Majesty is elated.
He doesn't have the mindset to worry about you. Let's go see.
Congratulations, Your Majesty.
Mother and son are well. It's a prince.
My.
Your Majesty. You have been on standby the whole day.
Now it's already the hour of the rat (11pm-1am).
Since Empress and son are well, you should go and rest.
Li Yu, Empress Dowager's been waiting for news all along too.
She must be anxious. Hurry and go report.
Yes.
Your Majesty, 7th prince has a full appearance with perfect roundness and squareness.
He's got the great look of a rich man.
This child's looks. They take after me so much.
Such a look.
Not just rich.
His future blessings are boundless.
Right? Huh?
Everyone's smiling.
Why is it that you're the only who's crying?
Empress.
I never saw you so frightened.
And I never saw you run away.
I'm sorry.
I was . . .
Everyone's happy over 7th prince's birth.
Only you. Staying by my side.
Your thoughtfulness of me.
I understand. Thank you.
Earlier, Yingluo,
was really scared.
Yingluo lost her mother.
Lost her sister.
I'm the only one left.
Thank you for staying alive.
Empress. For this child,
I will name him Yongcong.
Do you like it?
I like it.
Yingluo, do you know?
What do you think His Majesty named 7th prince?
Yongcong. Do you know what cong is?
I don't know.
Big dummy. Cong means imperial clan's temple jade.
His Majesty intends or 7th prince to succeed . . .
Disaster comes out of the mouth.
But it's true. 6th prince's character rong is the sound of jade striking.
But our 7th prince, it's the jade of the imperial clan's temple house.
There's difference in gravity. All very obvious.
Yes.
I'm busy brewing medicine.
How are you not happy at all?
Empress birthed 7th prince.
She almost died bleeding out.
The royal physician also said she's lost a few years. How is that happy-worthy?
As an empress, she has to have an heir to stand firm.
Not just the harem consorts but it's the same for all women everywhere.
If you don't have your life, so what if you have striking power and wealth?
What use is that?
But Empress doesn't care about power or status.
She's just satisfied having 7th prince.
A woman is still a human.
No matter when, her own life is what's most important.
Empress is blessed and a noble life.
She endured.
But what if she couldn't endure?
What's left would be a motherless child, in the forbidden city.
Can he live out smoothly?
Those who disregard their lives in order to bear children.
They are all fools.
This one is here, is that alright?
Sister.
How is the chess still placed out there?
Because I haven't figured out a way to break through.
So I just kept it placed there.
Sit.
Empress is frail and 7th prince is a newborn.
His Majesty has already given out instructions for this year's New Year's Eve reunion meal.
We will hold it at Qianqing Palace and it's too end early.
To spare 7th prince from getting wind on and getting a chill.
I have never seen His Majesty,
cherishing any prince as much as this.
Yongcong is the legitimate son of the legitimate wife.
The day he was born, the heavens cast down nectar and eased the drought of Gansu.
It's not just the emperor. Even the empress dowager has stated this child is under a heavenly providence.
A very blessed child.
So everyone's talking.
That when 7th prince is grown,
he will be most suitable for succession.
Succession?
Didn't Late Emperor state clearly,
that it should be carried out in secrecy?
But that's just an official rule. You don't remember?
Though Late Emperor did not state clearly in the past, the imperial clan, the palace and the entire court of ministers.
Everyone knew His Majesty would be the future emperor.
Now His Majesty cherishes 7th prince so much.
The imperial clansman and the high ministers would surely have an understanding.
Even the foreign kings and the foreign ministers,
they have all sent in congratulatory gifts.
That's right.
Here. Again.
So His Majesty loves 7th prince so much.
In all generations of Great Qing emperors,
no legitimate heir has ever succeeded the throne.
Not even Emperor Kangxi.
For that, His Majesty regards it as his aspiration.
7th Prince isn't grown yet. Who knows how he will qualify.
How can he just inherit the throne?
Yuhu. Don't talk recklessly.
Here.
Having a legitimate son is having the hearts of everyone.
How about stacking it like this?
When 7th Prince is grown,
he would be most suitable to succeed.
Having a legitimate son is having the hearts of everyone.
All stacked up.
Don't cry. I'll stack them again for you.
Your Ladyship, what's wrong?
I'm sorry, Yongrong.
It's all my fault.
I vented my anger wrongly and startled you. I'm sorry.
I promise you.
I will give you
all the best of the best in the world.
Your Ladyship, how about engraving a lotus flower?
A lotus comes from silt but it is not soiled.
Clean as clear water and not bewitching.
Most suitable to your character.
Your Ladyship, have I said wrong?
Comes from silt but unsoiled.
Clean as clear water but not bewitching.
Clever. Very clever.
Her Ladyship agrees, so see to it.
Yes.
Your Ladyship, haven't you said to keep this scar,
to garner more pity from His Majesty?
After a long period of time, guilt and pity,
will become disgust.
I am not that dull.
Your Ladyship is wise.
Your Ladyship, do you really think Noble Consort Chun will mobilize?
Human greed is never ending.
In the beginning, you only want a child.
But once the child is born, you will want more.
I planted a thorn in her heart.
It will torment her day and night so that she is bleeding nonstop.
When she can no longer endure it,
it's time to make the move.
Who is it? Come out.
Your Ladyship, I was careless and left a needle earlier.
Hurry and take it and leave.
Yes.
A great intimate friend in the past.
For the sake of the crown, slaughtering each other.
I am so very looking forward to this show.
So great.
I don't know if it's a girl or a boy yet.
Mother. On what occasion have you summoned me so urgently?
Fuheng.
I'll tell you a great big news.
You will be so elated once you find out.
What great news is it?
Your wife. She's pregnant.
Empress is fully recovered.
And the 7th prince is beloved by His Majesty.
I don't worry about anything else, except you.
But now, I can be at ease.
- Erqing. - Mother. - You are truly a great blessing to our family.
Fuheng, you must care after her well.
Do not allow half a languish.
Yes.
Let go o me.
Whose child is it?
Guess.
I ask you again. Whose child is it?
Everyone says, Fuca Fuheng is immensely sharp.
A very shrewd.
So young and he's already in the military bureau.
A high officer most trusted by His Majesty.
With the future limitless.
But to me, that's all vain talk.
Your own wife is pregnant.
But you don't even know who did the deed?
So laughable.
What's wrong? You can favor a handmaid,
but I can't be held by another?
Generations of good reputation of the Fuca house.
And my mother's wish can't be destroyed by you.
I will not kill a woman. You do it yourself.
So no matter how lenient a man is,
he still can't make allowance for his own wife to grow her red apricot over the wall.
So regretful that you can't kill me.
And I won't kill myself either.
Because this child,
he's an Asin Gioro.
Did you hear that clearly?
I am pregnant with the royal heir. The blood of the emperor!
If you dare to touch a mere finger of mine,
the great disaster will beckon at you right away.
No. His Majesty couldn't commit such an act.
His Majesty couldn't but I could.
In order to find the best time,
I put in so much effort.
Why did you tend to His Majesty in bed?
Fuca Fuheng.
You are the magnificent young master in the hearts of the crowd.
All the women in the world wish to marry you.
Even that Wei Yingluo. She is so infatuated by you too.
But I just want to watch you cower and kneel, and bear the insult.
I just want to see you in pain.
Every time you kneel before the emperor, you will remember this.
Every time you bow, you will remember.
You traded your wife for the tail feather on your hat.
You hate me but you can't kill me.
You loathe this child.
But you have to raise him all your life.
I thought of this idea for so long.
Isn't it extremely amusing?
You are not only evil and mean,
you are also crazy!
I am crazy!
That's because you and Wei Yingluo forced me into madness.
This is the price you pay for insulting me.
Don't even think of ever getting rid of Hitara Erqing in your life.
Don't go. Don't go!
Come back to me! Come back to me!
Are you scared now?
Why are you scared of turning around?
Fuca Fuheng!
You're scared now.
He's scared.
You hurt him and you hurt yourself. Why do you?
In the palace,
the years I lived cowering and kneeling.
I endured for 6 years and waited for 6 years.
I finally married him.
I thought I got a gentle and warm man.
With a brilliant future waiting.
But in the end,
I still only salvaged loneliness of a cold pillow.
This pain.
Why should I be the only one to endure it?
Fuca Fuheng.
Your pain is only just starting.
- Young Master.- Starting today,
order someone to deliver 3 meals a day to her room.
Don't allow Young Madam to step out of her by a step.
Young Master, how can we do that?
What if old Madam asks about it?
Young Madam has a hereditary strange illness.
It got worse upon getting pregnant.
To prevent her from harming others and herself, even if Madam comes,
you must not allow her to see her.
Strange illness?
Just do as I said.
Yes.
[ On the 13 year reign of Qianlong ]
Look...
Yingluo. Have the new year's eve meal and money already been distributed?
When I asked, Noble Consort Xian has already made the arrangements.
This year, everyone in the palace gets a share.
Because the Imperial Household Department received a lot of tributes,
it's double that from last year,
everyone is so happy.
When Noble Consort Xian does things, it's really appropriate.
No wonder people keep praising her.
Why are you standing there?
Come here.
Stop minding her, Your Highness.
She's just petty.
Still hating Seventh Prince from almost harming you.
It's been so long, yet she still wouldn't even look at him.
Come. Let mother carry you.
Yingluo, come here.
Let me carry Yongcong.
Amuse him.
Your Highness!
Mingyu! How do I amuse him?
Amuse him.
You...smile a little.
How do I amuse him? Smile a little.
Carry him higher.
- Your Highness Empress.- Smile a little.
- Smile!- A news came from the Wei Manor. Yingluo's father is gravely injured from falling off a horse.
He asks that Your Highness be merciful and allow his daughter to go back home to visit him.
Don't cry...
Yingluo, take my badge
and go out of the palace.
No, I'm not going.
Just for a measly Imperial Household Department managerial position,
he even dared to use his own daughter
as a bargaining chip.
I don't need a father like that.
Yingluo, among the different kinds of kindness, filial piety comes first.
If you don't go today, in the future,
you surely will get criticized by others.
Your Highness.
The more grudges you have in your heart,
the more pain you will feel.
The more gratitude you have in your heart,
the more good fortune you will encounter.
This is a beaded bracelet that I've always carried with me.
Take it. It can bless your father to be safe.
I'll go now and be back right away.
If you come and go, the palace will surely be locked by then.
I'll return tomorrow.
Go now. I'll wait for your return.
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Your Highness, Wei Yingluo has left the palace.
Good baby, go sleep now.
The warm room is on fire! Men!
Your Highness!
Help! Help! It's on fire!
Fire!
Put out the fire! Quickly put out the fire!
Men! Quickly go! Go get some water!
Yes!
Hurry up!
How come it has frozen?!
Go to the fire room. You two go to the back yard.
- Get some well water!- Yes!
The fire is too big. We can't get in. What should we do?
What are you all doing? Hurry and look for people to put out the fire!
You two go to the backyard and get some well water!
- Your Highness! You can't go in!- Yongcong!
- Your Highness!- Let go of me!
- Your Highness!- Let go!
Your Highness! You can't go in!
Your Highness!
Help!
- Your Highness!- Help!
Your Highness!
Hurry!
Hailancha, Empress and Seventh Prince is inside the fire!
Quickly sray it with water!
Splash me with water!
Your Highness! Your Highness Empress!
Your Highness!
Be careful.
Your Highness! Be careful!
Your Highness!
Your Highness! Hurry up!
Your Highness, quickly come out.
- Your Highness.- Yongcong.
Seventh Prince.
Yongcong! Yongcong!
Your Majesty, the warm room of Changchun Palace
has a no fire escape below it.
The one started the fire is the charcoal brazier inside the warm room.
The brazier...
...has a netted cover.
Where then did the spark come from?
Although the chrysanthemum charcoal used in the brazier
easily burns, it also easily produces sparks.
I'm suspecting that a eunuch
might have not tightly closed the netted cover, hence, the spark got out.
The auspicious jar has metal inner lining,
so it can be sued to burn wood.
Why then did the water still froze?
Your Majesty, the eunuch of Burning Office
should have used black charcoal to warm the jar
before the water froze.
But...
...yesterday was new year's eve.
The eunuchs...
They were negligent in their work, am I right?
Your Majesty, there are a total of 12 eunuchs involved in this. May Your Majesty decide on what to do with them.
Your Majesty! I tightly sealed the brazier.
I really checked it beforehand.
Yes, Your Majesty. The auspicious jar uses 2 kilos of charcoal everyday.
Since the first day of the 11th month, it never stopped.
I really don't know why the water still froze.
I'm innocent!
Charcoal fire spreading out and the water in the jar freezing are all reality!
You all still dared to claim innocence?!
All the involved eunuchs
will be executed by hanging.
Your Majesty, have mercy!
I'm innocent, Your Majesty!
Your Majesty, have mercy!
Your Majesty!
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♫Softly falling into the hollow of my palm,♫
♫Resting frozen in the center of my palm.♫
♫Our meeting across past incarnations was inevitable,♫
♫Joined together, deeply experiencing and holding onto the end of happiness.♫
♫Though plainly given words of discouragement,♫
♫Pretending to hear nothing but exhortation.♫
♫ Endless tears, believing it cannot be true,♫
♫ In this life, being born under an unlucky star.♫
♫I hear the sound of the snow slowly falling♫
♫ Though I close my eyes, it's impossible to stop the vision.♫
♫ Nothing you can do about being approached, not being inconsistent in love,♫
♫ Though merely holding onto it from the outside, prone to this sort of circumstance.♫
♫ I hear the sound of the snow slowly falling♫
♫ As though you are holding me closely, and speaking sweetly.♫
♫ Opening your eyes to a sky filled with merciless snow falling,♫
♫ Who, after suffering this loss for a lifetime, is fond of this scene?♫