Legend of Zhen Huan recap episode 9 甄嬛传 甄環傳 第9集
Shen replies and tries a dig at Huafei, "Niang niang wants me to copy Nu Lun Yu is to tell the harem, how can I not know that jealousy and resentment is the anthesis of virtuous behavour? Even thou I am not talented and am stupid, I do not dare to be lacking in this aspect of behavior."
Huafei ignores the sally and drives on to continue to drive a wedge, "Even if your behavior is good, it's hard to gurantee that others are well behaved too. I have been in the palace for a long time. Things like people turning on each other and flip flopping are common. "
Zhen holds the line without deviating or being tricked to show chinks in her friendship with Shen, "Thank you niang niang for the reminder. Now that niang niang asked jie jie to copy Nu Lun Yu to remind everyone. it is to prevent the harem from indulging in snatching for favour and making trouble. We understand Niang niang's intentions and we will follow them diligently."
Huafei has planted the thoughts she wanted and decides to go. "Wan Guiren's words are pleasant to hear indeed. Looks like Shen Guiren has also learnt a lot of eloquence from Wan Guiren from your close association. You are not to be taken lightly indeed. I woke up so early to pay respects and I am tired from talking for so long. Let's go. "
Huafei and her entourage leaves.
Shen sighs and says, "You have finally seen for yourself how it is."
Shen replies and tries a dig at Huafei, "Niang niang wants me to copy Nu Lun Yu is to tell the harem, how can I not know that jealousy and resentment is the anthesis of virtuous behavour? Even thou I am not talented and am stupid, I do not dare to be lacking in this aspect of behavior."
Huafei ignores the sally and drives on to continue to drive a wedge, "Even if your behavior is good, it's hard to gurantee that others are well behaved too. I have been in the palace for a long time. Things like people turning on each other and flip flopping are common. "
Zhen holds the line without deviating or being tricked to show chinks in her friendship with Shen, "Thank you niang niang for the reminder. Now that niang niang asked jie jie to copy Nu Lun Yu to remind everyone. it is to prevent the harem from indulging in snatching for favour and making trouble. We understand Niang niang's intentions and we will follow them diligently."
Huafei has planted the thoughts she wanted and decides to go. "Wan Guiren's words are pleasant to hear indeed. Looks like Shen Guiren has also learnt a lot of eloquence from Wan Guiren from your close association. You are not to be taken lightly indeed. I woke up so early to pay respects and I am tired from talking for so long. Let's go. "
Huafei and her entourage leaves.
Shen sighs and says, "You have finally seen for yourself how it is."
Zhen, "Ignore her. Jie jie, do you blame me? "
Shen takes her hand and walks slowly, "If it is not you, there will be other people anyway. If there has to be others, I'd rather it be you. Pardon me for saying something selfish. If it is another person who gains favour, I'm afraid they will harm me eventually. Huan-er, you won't. "
"There are so many people in the palace. You are the only one I can trust. Even thou Lingrong is on good terms with us, ultimately she did not grow up together with us. If even the two of us do not help each other, then how are we going to live out the next few decades of our life?"
Zhen "Jie jie, even thou some stuffs are within my expectations, I am unable to avoid it too. But whether I gain favor or not, my relationship with jiejie is the same as before. Do not break our relationship because of favor."
Shen "With our talents, it is expected that we will gain favour. Rather than having continous favor or not, we should strive to survive in order not to drag our families down."
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Zhen is with YZ sleeping and is awakened by thunder. Zhen is worried and mentions that a person who is taking all favor will also get all the resentment.
YZ asks if anyone is giving her a hard time. She denies it and then asks YZ to distribute favor to everyone and not just her. YZ is reluctant.
She says the harem is getting resentful as it's already 7 nights that she had the sole attention of the emperor. It has never happened that one concubine has the attention of the emperor solely. Giving favor towards only 1 concubine will also affect politics as both harem and court are linked closely. He will get negative gossip also that he is a person who only likes the new and discards the old. YZ agrees with her gruffly. Zhen is sad to have to push her husband to another woman.
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YZ pays respects to the Dowager. They talk about Zhen. The dowager takes the chance to hint to him about distributing favor.
"It's important for you to have an attentive person that pleases you to serve you. For 17th, he has not settled down and married yet. He has not come to visit me, I don't know what he's doing recently.
"17th is fillal. But when I see him, I can't help remembering when the previous emperor was around, his mother Shufei was the sole favored concubine. Everyone felt resentful then, and I still feel unhappy now thinking of it. Well, I'm getting old and has lots of free time and think more, undeniably my tongue chatters more. "
YZ agrees with her lesson and asks if he can bring Zhen to come to pay her respects to the Dowager.
"The women in the harem are more than flowers. A Guiren rank is just like an ordinary flower, plentiful anywhere. I will only be bothered to see her if she makes it to the Pin rank. "
YZ leaves and asks the dowager's maid, Sun gugu, if any concubines have seen dowager recently, especially Huafei. Sun gugu says Huafei is not free to come as she has to run the harem, the empress came to serve the dowager to eat her medicine and left, but Li Pin came yesterday and chatted for a while.
The next scene, YZ is choosing the nametag. He stares at Li Pin's name tag. Su Peisheng makes an excuse to remove her tag and remove her name from being chosen. Su knows that YZ is very annoyed with Li Pin for complaining to the dowager about him spending time with Zhen. YZ caresses Zhen's nametag.
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Qifei is informed by Xiaoxiazi that she is chosen for tonight. She is so excited and in such a tizzy that she almost fell. Amidst the preperations, she changed into a light pink gown and almost summons the 3rd prince. Xiaoxiazi advises her to spend some quality time with the emperor without a kid around.
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Huafei is looking at the accounts books. She is puzzled that YZ goes to Qifei. She asks for Shen to attend her on the pretext of teaching her the accounts. She starts her "torture".
"The candlelight is too bright on the eyes. Blow two out."
Shen is made to read and write in dim conditions.
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Zhen is informed YZ is going to Qifei. She is resigned but unhappy.
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Shen is made to copy the accounts under the dim environment until her eyes are tearing from the strain. Huafei criticises her for her shaky handwriting. Shen says it's too dim.
"You have just looked at the accounts, so you know how big the expenses are. As the leader of the concubines, I have to set a good example to be thrifty. I have heard that if a person really has good handwriting, the handwriting will be good even when it's totally dark. Isn't Guiren's excuse a bit too flimsy?"
Shen does not argue offers to copy it again.
Huafei "You go ahead. I will take a nap. Songzhi, the environment is too bright. Close 2 more lamps."
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Qifei is awkwardly standing beside YZ. She gives off a nervous vibe. She keeps offering him different beverages. She tells him that 3rd prince has grown taller.
It's obvious YZ is putting up with these talk, "Hasn't he stopped growing? He is an adult already."
QiFei is oblivious and tries hard in her way to say some nice things to please him. "Oh yes, I mean, he is sturdier. He is obedient and listens to you, and practices everyday. He studies until late and wakes before dawn to practice archery and riding. Everytime I see him, I will say, "Hongshi, you must listen to your imperial father. You are the eldest son of your imperial father, you must excel so that you can help your imperial father with the burdens of the state in future. It will depend on you. "
YZ is starting to be turned off, "You repeat the same thing everytime. Hongshi's ears are growing barnacles, so am I. Don't you have anything new to teach your son? Your gown is not nice, don't wear it in future. "
Qifei, "Your majesty, I remember, you liked me to wear pink."
YZ is slightly irritated, "Pink is a pastel colour, how old are you now?"
"Your majesty is saying I am old." Qifei gives a resentful look.
YZ is exasperated and finally has enough. He is not nasty but says matter-of-factly, "I'm just stating the facts. You can wear blue or emerald colours, it will suit your status. Have an early night. I'll go back to Yang xin dian."
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Huanbi is undressing Zhen and preparing for bed. Zhen is thinking of YZ with Qifei and not happy.
Zhen goes to her zither and plays the tune "Shufei's resentment". Huanbi asks her not to play it as it's inauspicious.
YZ is on his way back to Yang xin dian when he hears the zither sound. He is touched by the sentiment of the tune and goes to her instead. (Consort Xiao Shufei was a favorite concubine of Tang Gaozong, but lost his love to Wu Zetian when she came in as a love rival. She was deposed and died horribly.)
He prepares to spend the night with Zhen. Zhen is concerned that he left Qifei and come to her instead. This is actually a big insult to Qifei.
"Let me be a muddled emperor tonight. I will be a wise emperor tomorrow."
"Then I will be a virtuous concubine only tomorrow. I will seek Qifei's forgiveness tomorrow."
Zhen will play the zither and asks him what he wants to hear and calls him "Si lang". It is an endearment which means 4th beloved brother. He is a little taken aback, but in turn calls her "Wan wan".
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Shen has done copying the accounts. She has done 2 copies. Huafei tells her to leave.
Shen is aching all over and her eyes are red. Caiyue asks if she will tell YZ that Huafei is deliberately making things difficult for her.
"What can I do? She is Huafei. She's using his majesty's instructions to teach me accounts. Even if I tell him, and even if he helps me, how can I continue learning management in future? Since there is no benefit in complaining, I will not do so."
Shen then goes to the thousand mile pond to see some fish. She sends her eunuch to get some fish food. Caiyue is asked by Songzhi to get some ink that Huafei wants to gift Shen. Shen is left alone, and cue ominous music. She is pushed into the pond by a limping eunuch.
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Zhen and YZ rushes to see Shen, who is unconcious lying on the bed and being attended to by doctors. Jing Pin is there too. Shen is weakened and in shock but not in danger.
The servants are questioned to no avail as there are no witnesses.
Huafei comes and pretends to be very concerned as the emperor is there. She wants Caiyue to be punished and sent to dept of punishments. Caiyue asks to take care of Shen and go after she wakes up and feels better.
Huafei "Hmph, servants are so cheap. You want to stay here and let your master interceed for you when she wakes up."
Zhen intervenes and makes Huafei back off on punishing Shen's trusted servants. If Huafei manages to get rid of Shen's trusted servants, she can have better chances of harming Shen later. Huafei can also put servants loyal to her at Shen's. YZ takes Zhen's side. She takes the oppourtunity to suggest changing the guards at Huafei's Gong.
Huafei invites YZ back to stay the night with her, citing ready made soup. YZ asks Zhen to go along and Huafei shoots a death glare at Zhen. She quickly covers up with a smile when YZ says her food is the best in the palace. She pretends to be gracious and invites Zhen. Zhen declines and stays to watch over Shen.
Jing Pin goes to her quarters. She analyses Huafei has come prepared and everything was planned. She knows that everybody knows that it is done by her. She is made up perfectly and is so tidy, not like someone in a rush at all. There are so many loopholes pointing to her.
"If you want to be a fox, you have to hide your tail well. Once you are too happy when you get what you want, your tail will come out."
She chooses to remain quiet about this issue and not tattle to YZ about her suspicion. Otherwise Huafei will make trouble for her.
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Caiyue tells Zhen in confidence that she sees an eunuch near the pond when she goes back. Zhen tells her to keep it to herself.
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Huafei is with her minions again in her residence. She is furious that Zhen managed to change her guards, making her movements in the palace inconvenient.
Huafei fumes, "She dares to step on my head."
Huafei asks about Yu's latest movements. Yu is now in very bad temper and no one is serving her as she has beaten up and chased away her maid. She asks Li Pin about Kang Luhai's disciple, the one that followed him from Zhen to Li Pin. She instructs Li Pin to send him to serve Yu.
Jianqiu and the empress are looking at a slab of ink given as a tribute. YZ has given it to her. She comments that no matter how good the ink is, it still can't be put to as good a use as Huafei's.
Jianqiu, "Huafei's ink is used to lure the tiger away and get people's life, even thou it is useful, but all it does is evil."
The empress smiles and tells her not to put it so bluntly. She has accessed the situation and decided not to pursue the incident. Huafei was arrogant when she paid her respects earlier to her, signifying that the emperor had already closed the case. She can't interfere now. The emperor only wants peace, even if such cases are inconclusive, it does not matter in the big picture. She sends Shen some medicine.
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Shen wakes up from a nightmare. She is very agitated.
"There is only one person vicious enough to want my life. Why did she do it in her own vincinity? Why is she so indiscreet?"
Zhen "I think she deliberately does not want to be discreet. She came here with thick makeup, being arrogant in your Gong, almost got Caiyue in trouble, got his majesty to stay the night with her. You stepped out of Yikun Gong and went down in the pond just a hundred steps away. In this palace, who would dare to do such a thing in her territory? Only herself! Such a dangerous move, others also won't think she will do it to herself."
Shen "She sees you favored and does not want me to double team with you and we'll be out of her control later. So she is eliminating one first to reduce our power so we can't fight with her. "
Shen is upset at her helplessness, "Since the beginning, she has viewed me as a bone stuck in her throat. She did not have a chance to get me because of the emperor's favor towards me and my submissive and avoidance attitude towards her. What can I do? I have no evidence and she has been the emperor's love for so many years. I will tell the emperor, it was me who was careless. "
"I am unable to do anything to her now. It doesn't mean I will be helpless forever. I will survive and count the scores with her slowly. "
end of episode 9.
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Shen takes her hand and walks slowly, "If it is not you, there will be other people anyway. If there has to be others, I'd rather it be you. Pardon me for saying something selfish. If it is another person who gains favour, I'm afraid they will harm me eventually. Huan-er, you won't. "
"There are so many people in the palace. You are the only one I can trust. Even thou Lingrong is on good terms with us, ultimately she did not grow up together with us. If even the two of us do not help each other, then how are we going to live out the next few decades of our life?"
Zhen "Jie jie, even thou some stuffs are within my expectations, I am unable to avoid it too. But whether I gain favor or not, my relationship with jiejie is the same as before. Do not break our relationship because of favor."
Shen "With our talents, it is expected that we will gain favour. Rather than having continous favor or not, we should strive to survive in order not to drag our families down."
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Zhen is with YZ sleeping and is awakened by thunder. Zhen is worried and mentions that a person who is taking all favor will also get all the resentment.
YZ asks if anyone is giving her a hard time. She denies it and then asks YZ to distribute favor to everyone and not just her. YZ is reluctant.
She says the harem is getting resentful as it's already 7 nights that she had the sole attention of the emperor. It has never happened that one concubine has the attention of the emperor solely. Giving favor towards only 1 concubine will also affect politics as both harem and court are linked closely. He will get negative gossip also that he is a person who only likes the new and discards the old. YZ agrees with her gruffly. Zhen is sad to have to push her husband to another woman.
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YZ pays respects to the Dowager. They talk about Zhen. The dowager takes the chance to hint to him about distributing favor.
"It's important for you to have an attentive person that pleases you to serve you. For 17th, he has not settled down and married yet. He has not come to visit me, I don't know what he's doing recently.
"17th is fillal. But when I see him, I can't help remembering when the previous emperor was around, his mother Shufei was the sole favored concubine. Everyone felt resentful then, and I still feel unhappy now thinking of it. Well, I'm getting old and has lots of free time and think more, undeniably my tongue chatters more. "
YZ agrees with her lesson and asks if he can bring Zhen to come to pay her respects to the Dowager.
"The women in the harem are more than flowers. A Guiren rank is just like an ordinary flower, plentiful anywhere. I will only be bothered to see her if she makes it to the Pin rank. "
YZ leaves and asks the dowager's maid, Sun gugu, if any concubines have seen dowager recently, especially Huafei. Sun gugu says Huafei is not free to come as she has to run the harem, the empress came to serve the dowager to eat her medicine and left, but Li Pin came yesterday and chatted for a while.
The next scene, YZ is choosing the nametag. He stares at Li Pin's name tag. Su Peisheng makes an excuse to remove her tag and remove her name from being chosen. Su knows that YZ is very annoyed with Li Pin for complaining to the dowager about him spending time with Zhen. YZ caresses Zhen's nametag.
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Qifei is informed by Xiaoxiazi that she is chosen for tonight. She is so excited and in such a tizzy that she almost fell. Amidst the preperations, she changed into a light pink gown and almost summons the 3rd prince. Xiaoxiazi advises her to spend some quality time with the emperor without a kid around.
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Huafei is looking at the accounts books. She is puzzled that YZ goes to Qifei. She asks for Shen to attend her on the pretext of teaching her the accounts. She starts her "torture".
"The candlelight is too bright on the eyes. Blow two out."
Shen is made to read and write in dim conditions.
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Zhen is informed YZ is going to Qifei. She is resigned but unhappy.
-------------
Shen is made to copy the accounts under the dim environment until her eyes are tearing from the strain. Huafei criticises her for her shaky handwriting. Shen says it's too dim.
"You have just looked at the accounts, so you know how big the expenses are. As the leader of the concubines, I have to set a good example to be thrifty. I have heard that if a person really has good handwriting, the handwriting will be good even when it's totally dark. Isn't Guiren's excuse a bit too flimsy?"
Shen does not argue offers to copy it again.
Huafei "You go ahead. I will take a nap. Songzhi, the environment is too bright. Close 2 more lamps."
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Qifei is awkwardly standing beside YZ. She gives off a nervous vibe. She keeps offering him different beverages. She tells him that 3rd prince has grown taller.
It's obvious YZ is putting up with these talk, "Hasn't he stopped growing? He is an adult already."
QiFei is oblivious and tries hard in her way to say some nice things to please him. "Oh yes, I mean, he is sturdier. He is obedient and listens to you, and practices everyday. He studies until late and wakes before dawn to practice archery and riding. Everytime I see him, I will say, "Hongshi, you must listen to your imperial father. You are the eldest son of your imperial father, you must excel so that you can help your imperial father with the burdens of the state in future. It will depend on you. "
YZ is starting to be turned off, "You repeat the same thing everytime. Hongshi's ears are growing barnacles, so am I. Don't you have anything new to teach your son? Your gown is not nice, don't wear it in future. "
Qifei, "Your majesty, I remember, you liked me to wear pink."
YZ is slightly irritated, "Pink is a pastel colour, how old are you now?"
"Your majesty is saying I am old." Qifei gives a resentful look.
YZ is exasperated and finally has enough. He is not nasty but says matter-of-factly, "I'm just stating the facts. You can wear blue or emerald colours, it will suit your status. Have an early night. I'll go back to Yang xin dian."
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Huanbi is undressing Zhen and preparing for bed. Zhen is thinking of YZ with Qifei and not happy.
Zhen goes to her zither and plays the tune "Shufei's resentment". Huanbi asks her not to play it as it's inauspicious.
YZ is on his way back to Yang xin dian when he hears the zither sound. He is touched by the sentiment of the tune and goes to her instead. (Consort Xiao Shufei was a favorite concubine of Tang Gaozong, but lost his love to Wu Zetian when she came in as a love rival. She was deposed and died horribly.)
He prepares to spend the night with Zhen. Zhen is concerned that he left Qifei and come to her instead. This is actually a big insult to Qifei.
"Let me be a muddled emperor tonight. I will be a wise emperor tomorrow."
"Then I will be a virtuous concubine only tomorrow. I will seek Qifei's forgiveness tomorrow."
Zhen will play the zither and asks him what he wants to hear and calls him "Si lang". It is an endearment which means 4th beloved brother. He is a little taken aback, but in turn calls her "Wan wan".
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Shen has done copying the accounts. She has done 2 copies. Huafei tells her to leave.
Shen is aching all over and her eyes are red. Caiyue asks if she will tell YZ that Huafei is deliberately making things difficult for her.
"What can I do? She is Huafei. She's using his majesty's instructions to teach me accounts. Even if I tell him, and even if he helps me, how can I continue learning management in future? Since there is no benefit in complaining, I will not do so."
Shen then goes to the thousand mile pond to see some fish. She sends her eunuch to get some fish food. Caiyue is asked by Songzhi to get some ink that Huafei wants to gift Shen. Shen is left alone, and cue ominous music. She is pushed into the pond by a limping eunuch.
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Zhen and YZ rushes to see Shen, who is unconcious lying on the bed and being attended to by doctors. Jing Pin is there too. Shen is weakened and in shock but not in danger.
The servants are questioned to no avail as there are no witnesses.
Huafei comes and pretends to be very concerned as the emperor is there. She wants Caiyue to be punished and sent to dept of punishments. Caiyue asks to take care of Shen and go after she wakes up and feels better.
Huafei "Hmph, servants are so cheap. You want to stay here and let your master interceed for you when she wakes up."
Zhen intervenes and makes Huafei back off on punishing Shen's trusted servants. If Huafei manages to get rid of Shen's trusted servants, she can have better chances of harming Shen later. Huafei can also put servants loyal to her at Shen's. YZ takes Zhen's side. She takes the oppourtunity to suggest changing the guards at Huafei's Gong.
Huafei invites YZ back to stay the night with her, citing ready made soup. YZ asks Zhen to go along and Huafei shoots a death glare at Zhen. She quickly covers up with a smile when YZ says her food is the best in the palace. She pretends to be gracious and invites Zhen. Zhen declines and stays to watch over Shen.
Jing Pin goes to her quarters. She analyses Huafei has come prepared and everything was planned. She knows that everybody knows that it is done by her. She is made up perfectly and is so tidy, not like someone in a rush at all. There are so many loopholes pointing to her.
"If you want to be a fox, you have to hide your tail well. Once you are too happy when you get what you want, your tail will come out."
She chooses to remain quiet about this issue and not tattle to YZ about her suspicion. Otherwise Huafei will make trouble for her.
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Caiyue tells Zhen in confidence that she sees an eunuch near the pond when she goes back. Zhen tells her to keep it to herself.
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Huafei is with her minions again in her residence. She is furious that Zhen managed to change her guards, making her movements in the palace inconvenient.
Huafei fumes, "She dares to step on my head."
Huafei asks about Yu's latest movements. Yu is now in very bad temper and no one is serving her as she has beaten up and chased away her maid. She asks Li Pin about Kang Luhai's disciple, the one that followed him from Zhen to Li Pin. She instructs Li Pin to send him to serve Yu.
Jianqiu and the empress are looking at a slab of ink given as a tribute. YZ has given it to her. She comments that no matter how good the ink is, it still can't be put to as good a use as Huafei's.
Jianqiu, "Huafei's ink is used to lure the tiger away and get people's life, even thou it is useful, but all it does is evil."
The empress smiles and tells her not to put it so bluntly. She has accessed the situation and decided not to pursue the incident. Huafei was arrogant when she paid her respects earlier to her, signifying that the emperor had already closed the case. She can't interfere now. The emperor only wants peace, even if such cases are inconclusive, it does not matter in the big picture. She sends Shen some medicine.
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Shen wakes up from a nightmare. She is very agitated.
"There is only one person vicious enough to want my life. Why did she do it in her own vincinity? Why is she so indiscreet?"
Zhen "I think she deliberately does not want to be discreet. She came here with thick makeup, being arrogant in your Gong, almost got Caiyue in trouble, got his majesty to stay the night with her. You stepped out of Yikun Gong and went down in the pond just a hundred steps away. In this palace, who would dare to do such a thing in her territory? Only herself! Such a dangerous move, others also won't think she will do it to herself."
Shen "She sees you favored and does not want me to double team with you and we'll be out of her control later. So she is eliminating one first to reduce our power so we can't fight with her. "
Shen is upset at her helplessness, "Since the beginning, she has viewed me as a bone stuck in her throat. She did not have a chance to get me because of the emperor's favor towards me and my submissive and avoidance attitude towards her. What can I do? I have no evidence and she has been the emperor's love for so many years. I will tell the emperor, it was me who was careless. "
"I am unable to do anything to her now. It doesn't mean I will be helpless forever. I will survive and count the scores with her slowly. "
end of episode 9.
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