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00:00MAUMAU
00:11Could you deliver some medicine to the Verdigris house for me?
00:17Sure, Dad. I'll get right on it.
00:20Try to be careful out there.
00:23They're saying abductions are on the rise.
00:25I know, I know. I'll stop by the herb plot, too.
00:28Thank you. Don't be long.
00:31I won't.
00:56Is that all you got?
00:57Please, in the evening's hall, I'm asking.
01:03I'm running a business here, sir, not a charity.
01:07Wasn't that Hydeen, one of the famous three princesses of the Verdigris house?
01:11No gawking before paying!
01:13It's taking too long to heal. Recipe's not right.
01:25Oh, MAUMAU!
01:26What? Have you been wounding yourself again?
01:31Well, yeah. I needed something to experiment on.
01:35You're so thin. Are you eating?
01:37Feels to me like you're well-nourished enough for the both of us.
01:40MAUMAU!
01:41Now, if I find you playing around with the combustibles near the good mahogany again,
01:45I'll box your ears.
01:48Or maybe we find another way to have you pay us back.
01:53There are medicines there on the counter, Granny!
01:55Say hello to you old man for me.
01:57Or not.
01:58What's that MAUMAU's voice I just heard?
02:00So is she here, or...?
02:01She just took off.
02:03Greedy old hag.
02:05Always trying to turn me into a lousy courtesan.
02:23You have got to be kidding me.
02:28Ah, damn. Dad is going to be pretty worried when I don't come back.
02:51It's a healthy baby boy. This is a proud day indeed, Lady Li Hua.
02:58Thankfully, the prince was born without issue.
03:06I see.
03:07Wonderful.
03:07Wonderful.
03:07What I wouldn't give for some good meat skewers right now.
03:25Hopefully, Dad's still eating properly without me around.
03:29I'm not sure if I was sold off or ransomed, but either way, the result was the same.
03:33I've been stuck here three months now.
03:36Turns out, palaces and brothels aren't that different.
03:40Given the choice, I'd take Verdigree's house over the rear palace any day.
03:45Well, lingering on it isn't going to do any good.
03:48Wife, one minute you're an apothecary, then next a servant.
03:52The rear palace is a garden of women cultivated to grow the emperor's seed.
03:58Men are strictly forbidden from entering.
04:01The only people permitted access to this inner sanctum are the emperor, his kin, and, of course, eunuchs.
04:07Males who've lost a pretty important part of their anatomy and trusted to keep the peace.
04:11Overall, there are 2,000 concubines and servants, and 1,000 eunuchs set to protect them.
04:18Sadly, unlike the high, mid, or low-ranking concubines, we serving girls are considered expendable and can lose our lives for the most trivial of infractions.
04:28We're valued less than even the low-ranking shut-ins.
04:31But, at least they deign to pay us, I suppose.
04:35Mau Mau, you've gotta help me!
04:37Do you know what room this is supposed to be?
04:39Oh. That'd be the token for Wisteria 9. Over there.
04:44Right! Thank you!
04:46Illiteracy's not all that uncommon among the servants.
04:49In order to work in the rear palace, they're taught the bare essentials of etiquette.
04:54Reading and writing's a whole other story.
04:57The raise I'd get for being literate would just line the purses of my kidnappers.
05:01So I'm happy to keep that skill in my own back pocket.
05:05The job isn't without prospects.
05:06You could well become a concubine, if you have...
05:10...assets.
05:14Freckles.
05:15Flat chest.
05:17Unfortunately, there's not a great demand for the skin and bones look.
05:19Standing out around here can be its own brand of dangerous.
05:29Better to keep my head down.
05:32If I work hard, I'll be home free in two years.
05:35I really need a drink.
05:41Hey, did you hear?
05:43Huh?
05:43They say a beautiful new eunuch's been posted to the central courtyard.
05:47It's practically all anyone in the rear palace has been talking about.
05:51Oh?
05:52I mean, nothing wrong with the little looky look to check the goods.
05:55Am I right, Mau Mau?
05:56A handsome eunuch, huh?
05:59A handsome eunuch, huh?
05:59The stress is taking a toll on her body.
06:16I don't care.
06:20I don't care.
06:21The stress is taking a toll on her health.
06:30Yes.
06:31Huh?
06:37Poor Shaolin.
06:38My sincerest apologies.
06:41It won't be long now.
06:42The physician is just seeing to the young prince.
06:46I see.
06:47They're only three months and six months old, right?
06:52Yes, Princess Lingle and the prince aren't even out of swaddling clothes yet.
06:56You don't think this cursed stuff is real, do you?
06:59What are you talking about?
07:01Don't you hear anything, Mau Mau?
07:02The entire palace is buzzing with rumors of hexes and dark sorceries.
07:07Because of all the heirs that have been dying in the rear palace.
07:11Each one of the emperor's previous three children grew frail and died not long after they were born.
07:16Doesn't that seem a little weird?
07:18All three?
07:19Yeah, and it looks like it's happening again.
07:22The newborns are unwell?
07:23That's right.
07:24With the prince and princess both ill, the royal physician's been running back and forth between Lady Kyokyo and Lady Liwa.
07:31Huh.
07:31If I'm not mistaken, since the emperor didn't yet have one, that makes Lady Liwa mother of the air, empress consort!
07:38Well, yeah.
07:39That's only logical.
07:40Since there's no pre-established empress consort and concubine Liwa gave birth to a prince, her position is assured.
07:47Maybe so.
07:48But rumor has it that the emperor's favor lies firmly with Lady Kyokyo, which allegedly is somehow connected to all of this curse business.
07:56A hierarchical power struggle, huh?
07:58Lady Liwa must be suffering the worst of the afflictions.
08:02The court physician seems to be attending her the most.
08:05Lady Liwa's sick also?
08:07Yeah, mother and child both had the same thing.
08:09Stomach and headaches, apparently with pretty bad nausea in the mix as well.
08:12Stomachache, headache, and nausea.
08:17I'm telling you, this curse is gonna doom us all!
08:21The only thing that'll doom us is gullibility.
08:25Whaa?
08:30So, headache, stomachache, and nausea.
08:33Poison would fit with the whole power struggle thing.
08:36Although if it's political, why would they bother going after the princess, too?
08:40Her getting ill only serves to raise suspicion.
08:43Perhaps a straightforward malady, then.
08:47Could it be something hereditary?
08:51Get it together.
08:52You're taking these rumors way too seriously.
08:55It's just a bunch of overexcited conjecture from bored-serving girls.
08:59But that said...
09:02It wouldn't hurt to take a little bitty peek, would it?
09:04Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh.
09:09Talk about opulence.
09:10Ladies of high ranking like their pillars smeared redder than rad,
09:14and their roof tiles yellowed enough to make the sun jealous.
09:19You're the cause of this!
09:21Lady Kyu-kyu!
09:22You have cursed my son, and for what?
09:25Because you could only give birth to a daughter?
09:27That is preposterous!
09:28Do you really think I would do that?
09:30My sweet child is suffering from this as well, you know?
09:33I've never seen Lady Lihua so furious.
09:36But to take it out on Lady Kyu-kyu...
09:39Master Jin-shi.
09:42If you don't believe me, you're welcome to examine my daughter yourself!
09:46I'm not sure that would... well, uh...
09:49That bumbling old eunuch in the middle is the palace physician?
09:52That quack's a bill short of a duck.
09:54He seriously still hasn't noticed?
09:56After all the time he spent with the concubines?
09:59Or could it be that he just plain doesn't know?
10:03Infant mortality preceded by headaches, stomach aches, and nausea.
10:08As well as the exhaustion Lady Lihua's exhibiting.
10:11The cause is obvious, and it sure as hell isn't a curse.
10:15But how do I clue them in?
10:18If only I could find something to write with.
10:21No.
10:23No.
10:25I don't know.
10:55It was barely a month before the sorry news spread around the palace.
11:08The infant prince had finally succumbed.
11:14Odd as the say is. I'm sure you have questions.
11:17Just one.
11:19The day I visited the Crystal Pavilion and ran afoul of Lady Lihua's understandable grief,
11:24I returned to find that note on my windowsill. It was tied to this flower.
11:30Rhododendrons infer warning.
11:33The child is in danger. The white face powder is poison. Ignorance is truly a sin.
11:40The palace physician would not employ quite so indirect an approach to alert you.
11:45Agreed. And his treatment of the prince belies any actual awareness.
11:49Then if not him, who was it that sent this?
11:53I'd like for you to uncover that very thing.
11:59Thinking back, I do recall...
12:03If only I could find something to write with.
12:05I'd be happy to.
12:12Until then, would you mind if I hung on to this?
12:14I heard the emperor's been visiting Lady Gyokyo a lot recently,
12:24as a way of showing his love for the surviving princess.
12:27And how's Lady Lihua doing?
12:29What makes you think I'd know anything about that?
12:31Your trivia's oddly selective.
12:34Finally, there you are.
12:36You need to report in with the matron of the serving women.
12:39Immediately.
12:40Huh?
12:40She's being summoned?
12:42What do you think that's about?
12:44All right.
12:45Now that everyone's here, if you could all please head inside, we can get this underway.
12:50Serving girls getting summoned by high officials is never good.
12:53Could this be punitive?
12:55Or just a new work detail?
12:57I would like to thank you all for coming on some short notice.
13:17And who's the arrogant-looking woman supposed to be?
13:19I am Jinshi, the manager of the Rear Palace.
13:29Wait.
13:30That's a man?
13:32Oh, yeah.
13:33Shaolin was going on about a beautiful-looking eunuch a while back.
13:36I guess that must be him.
13:37Yeesh.
13:38What a waste.
13:39Grade A quality jeans and no way of proliferating them.
13:45Huh?
13:46You with the freckles stay here?
13:48Oh, crap!
13:52Thank you all so much for your time.
13:54You may return to your rooms.
13:56What was that about?
13:58Why me?
13:59Did I step out of line somehow or...
14:02Wait.
14:02Is this because of the warning?
14:05Of course!
14:06I'm the only one of the serving girls here who can actually read!
14:09That message was a trap designed to single me out!
14:11I've really gotta go-
14:13Now, now, miss.
14:16Didn't you read?
14:17I told you to stay.
14:19Keep quiet and follow me.
14:20It was a trap.
14:28I must admit, this is perplexing.
14:30When I had looked up your record, it claimed you were illiterate.
14:35Yes, well, I am but of lowly birth.
14:38It must be some kind of mistake.
14:40Good luck getting me to confess!
14:42Fainting ignorance keeps things uncomplicated just the way I like it.
14:45Speaking of complications, how did this guy even find me out?
14:50I made absolutely certain nobody saw me leave those notes.
14:56Doesn't he have anything better to do than this?
14:59I mean, it's not like he has a palace to run!
15:03Please, this way.
15:05I wonder what my punishment will be.
15:08I hope I at least make it out of here alive.
15:10I've brought her, as requested.
15:17Come in.
15:23Sorry to drag you all the way up here.
15:30That's good.
15:32So it was you.
15:34For saving the life of my precious Ling Li, I am in your debt.
15:38Please, my lady.
15:39I fear your gratitude is far too generously given.
15:43I won't hear of it.
15:44Who could be more deserving than my child savior?
15:47I can never thank you enough for what you've done for us.
15:51Forgive my impudence, but maybe you have the wrong person?
15:54Perhaps there's been a misunderstanding.
15:56I don't want to get beheaded for lying,
15:57but I don't want to get wrapped up in all this crazy court stuff either.
16:04Concubine Gyokyo was kind enough to let me hold on to the note she found.
16:07Are you aware that this particular fabric is used in the serving girl's clothing?
16:15Well, I suppose it does look familiar.
16:17Yes, I am quite certain any of the palace girls would recognize it.
16:21Especially one like yourself who works amongst the laundry.
16:25Tell me, True.
16:26Did you tear apart a skirt for want of good paper?
16:31I can't believe you reasoned that out already.
16:34Now that we've established it was you,
16:36would you care to explain why you put that flower on the window?
16:39I placed it there that day because I deduced the cause of the illness.
16:54It was the white makeup powder.
16:57In the brothels I grew up around,
16:59there were many courtesans who used the same high-end powder to lighten their skin.
17:02It poisoned them slowly,
17:05draining away all of their vital spark little by little,
17:08until there was nothing left.
17:12They traded the fullness of their lives for a fleeting moment of beauty,
17:16and lost everything in the bargain.
17:17Before this,
17:27I was an apothecary.
17:29I am familiar with poisons.
17:31Then that's the powder.
17:41It was used by the baby's nurse as daily ritual.
17:44She claimed it had a better whitening effect compared to similar popular cosmetics.
17:49She fell ill not long after Lingli,
17:51so I permitted her some time to rest.
17:53All fully compensated, of course.
17:56Kind of you.
17:57Ignorance is truly a sin.
18:00As a mother, I should have paid more attention to what my child was eating.
18:05That sin is mine, too.
18:06Had I only been more aware of the things around me,
18:09a needless loss of life could have been avoided.
18:12The poor prince.
18:14After I saw the message,
18:16I went to tell concubine Lihua of its troubling contents.
18:19But it seemed like everything I said
18:25only served to make her believe me less.
18:29So then...
18:30Now that you know the truth,
18:33what do you intend to do with me?
18:42Well, starting today,
18:43you're going to be my new lady-in-waiting.
18:46Huh?
18:47There are some qualities Mau Mau just can't mute.
18:52Curiosity.
18:54A thirst for knowledge.
18:55And a sometimes troublesome need to right that which is wrong.
19:00Not good, not good, not good, not good, not good, not good, not good, not good, not good, not good, not good.
19:07There you are!
19:08Welcome back to Mau Mau!
19:09I've got the camera profile now!
19:10So, you're going to tell me what happened?
19:12And so, Mau Mau became a lady-in-waiting of concubine Gyokyo,
19:17the emperor's most cherished love.
19:19An unprecedented elevation in rank for one so young.
19:31Hey!
19:31Ah!
19:34Poison!
19:34Poison!
19:35I don't know.
20:05I don't know.
20:35I don't know.
21:05I don't know.
21:35I don't know.
21:37I don't know.
21:39I don't know.
21:41Try to be careful out there.
21:44They're saying abductions are on the rise.
21:46I know, I know.
21:47I'll stop by the herb plot, too.
21:50Don't be long.
21:52I won't.
22:11Ah, is that all you've got?
22:18Please, an evening to all, I'm asking.
22:24I'm running a business here, sir, not a charity.
22:28Wasn't that Piding?
22:29One of the famous three princesses of the Verdigris house?
22:32No gawking before paying!
22:34Hmm, it's taking too long to heal.
22:45Recipe's not right.
22:46Oh, Mau Mau.
22:48Hmm?
22:50Hey, Piding.
22:50Have you been wounding yourself again?
22:52Well, yeah.
22:53I needed something to experiment on.
22:56You're so thin.
22:57Are you eating?
22:58Feels to me like you're well-nourished enough for the both of us.
23:01Mau Mau!
23:02If I find you playing around with the combustibles near the good mahogany again, I'll box your ears.
23:07Or maybe we find another way to have you pay us back.
23:13Your medicine's there on the counter, Granny!
23:16Say hello to your old man for me.
23:18Or not.
23:19What's that Mau Mau's voice I just heard?
23:21So is she here, or...?
23:22She just took off.
23:24Greedy old hag.
23:26Always trying to turn me into a lousy courtesan.
23:28You have got to be kidding me.
23:50Damn.
23:52Dad is gonna be pretty worried when I don't come back.
23:58It's a healthy baby boy.
24:14This is a proud day indeed, Lady Li Hua.
24:24Thankfully, the prince was born without issue.
24:26I see.
24:27Wonderful.
24:41What I wouldn't give for some good meat skewers right now.
24:46Hopefully dad's still eating properly without me around.
24:50I'm not sure if I was sold off or ransomed, but either way the result was the same.
24:54I've been stuck here three months now.
24:57Turns out, palaces and brothels aren't that different.
25:01Given the choice, I'd take Verdigris' house over the rear palace any day.
25:06Well, lingering on it isn't gonna do any good.
25:09Wife.
25:10One minute you're an apothecary, the next a servant.
25:13The rear palace is a garden of women cultivated to grow the emperor's seed.
25:18Men are strictly forbidden from entering.
25:21The only people permitted access to this inner sanctum are the emperor, his kin, and of course, eunuchs.
25:28Males who've lost a pretty important part of their anatomy and trusted to keep the peace.
25:33Overall, there are 2,000 concubines and servants, and 1,000 eunuchs set to protect them.
25:38Sadly, unlike the high, mid, or low-ranking concubines, we serving girls are considered expendable, and can lose our lives for the most trivial of infractions.
25:49We're valued less than even the low-ranking shut-ins.
25:52But, at least they deign to pay us, I suppose.
25:55Mal-Mal, you've gotta help me!
25:58Do you know what room this is supposed to be?
26:01Well, that'd be the token for Wisteria 9.
26:04Over there.
26:05Right! Thank you!
26:07The literacy's not all that uncommon among the servants.
26:10In order to work in the rear palace, they're taught the bare essentials of etiquette.
26:15Reading and writing's a whole other story.
26:18The raise I'd get for being literate would just line the purses of my kidnappers.
26:22So I'm happy to keep that skill in my own back pocket.
26:25The job isn't without prospects.
26:28You could well become a concubine.
26:29If you have...
26:31Assets.
26:35Freckles.
26:36Flat chest.
26:37Unfortunately, there's not a great demand for the skin and bones look.
26:46Standing out around here can be its own brand of dangerous.
26:50Better to keep my head down.
26:51If I work hard, I'll be home free in two years.
26:57I really need a drink.
27:02Hey, did you hear?
27:04Huh?
27:04They say a beautiful new eunuch's been posted to the central courtyard.
27:08It's practically all anyone in the rear palace has been talking about.
27:12Oh?
27:13I mean, nothing wrong with a little looky look to check the goods.
27:16Am I right, Mau Mau?
27:18A handsome eunuch, huh?
27:20A handsome eunuch's been posted to the house.
27:28Love you, Hero2.
27:32The stress is taking a toll on her health.
27:50Yes.
27:52Huh?
27:58Poor Shaolin.
27:59My sincerest apologies.
28:01It won't be long now.
28:03The physician is just seeing to the young prince.
28:07I see.
28:10They're only three months and six months old, right?
28:13Yes.
28:13Princess Lingle and the prince aren't even out of swaddling clothes yet.
28:17You don't think this pair stuff is real, do you?
28:20What are you talking about?
28:21Don't you hear anything, Mau Mau?
28:23The entire palace is buzzing with rumors of hexes and dark sorceries.
28:27Because of all the heirs that have been dying in the rear palace.
28:31Each one of the emperor's previous three children grew frail and died not long after they were born.
28:37Doesn't that seem a little weird?
28:39All three?
28:40Yeah.
28:41And it looks like it's happening again.
28:43The newborns are unwell?
28:44That's right.
28:45With the prince and princess both ill, the royal physician's been running back and forth between Lady Gyo-kyo and Lady Lihua.
28:51Hmm.
28:52If I'm not mistaken, since the emperor didn't yet have one, that makes Lady Lihua mother of the air, Empress Consort!
28:58Well, yeah. That's only logical.
29:01Since there's no pre-established emperor's consort and concubine Lihua gave birth to a prince, her position is assured.
29:08Maybe so.
29:09But rumor has it that the emperor's favor lies firmly with Lady Gyo-kyo,
29:13which allegedly is somehow connected to all of this curse business.
29:16A hierarchical power struggle, huh?
29:19Lady Lihua must be suffering the worst of the afflictions.
29:23The court physician seems to be attending her the most.
29:25Lady Lihua's sick also?
29:27Lady Lihua. Yeah, mother and child both had the same thing.
29:30Stomach and headaches, apparently with pretty bad nausea in the mix as well.
29:34Stomachache, headache, and nausea.
29:38I'm telling you, this curse is gonna doom us all!
29:42The only thing that'll doom us is gullibility.
29:45Whaa?
29:51So, headache, stomachache, and nausea.
29:54Poison would fit with the whole power struggle thing.
29:57Although if it's political, why would they bother going after the princess, too?
30:01Her getting ill only serves to raise suspicion.
30:04Perhaps a straightforward malady, then.
30:07Could it be something hereditary?
30:09Get it together.
30:13You're taking these rumors way too seriously.
30:16It's just a bunch of overexcited conjecture from bored-serving girls.
30:20But that said...
30:22It wouldn't hurt to take a little bitty peek, would it?
30:25Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh.
30:30Talk about opulence.
30:31Ladies of high ranking like their pillars smeared redder than red,
30:35and their roof tiles yellowed enough to make the sun jealous.
30:37You're the cause of this?
30:42Lady Gyokyo!
30:43You have cursed my son, and for what?
30:46Because you could only give birth to a daughter?
30:48That is preposterous!
30:49Do you really think I would do that?
30:51My sweet Shaolin is suffering from this as well, you know?
30:54I've never seen Lady Lihua so furious.
30:57But to take it out on Lady Gyokyo...
31:00Master Jin-shi.
31:03If you don't believe me, you're welcome to examine my daughter yourself!
31:07I'm not sure that would... well...
31:09That bumbling old eunuch in the middle is the palace physician?
31:13That quack's a bill short of a duck.
31:15He seriously still hasn't noticed?
31:17After all the time he spent with the concubines?
31:20Or could it be that he just plain doesn't know?
31:24Infant mortality preceded by headaches, stomach aches, and nausea.
31:28As well as the exhaustion Lady Lihua's exhibiting.
31:32The cause is obvious, and it sure as hell isn't a curse.
31:36But how do I clue them in?
31:39If only I could find something to write with.
31:43No.
31:54What the fuck do you mean?
32:04Tell them to stop?
32:16Oh, my God.
32:18Oh, my God.
32:19It was barely a month before the sorry news spread around the palace.
32:28The infant prince had finally succumbed.
32:35Odd as this is. I'm sure you have questions.
32:38Just one.
32:39The day I visited the Crystal Pavilion and ran afoul of Lady Li Hua's understandable grief,
32:45I returned to find that note on my windowsill.
32:48It was tied to this flower.
32:51Rhododendrons infer warning.
32:54The child is in danger. The white face powder is poison.
32:59Ignorance is truly a sin.
33:01The palace physician would not employ quite so indirect an approach to alert you.
33:06Agreed. And his treatment of the prince belies any actual awareness.
33:10Then if not him, who was it that sent this?
33:14I'd like for you to uncover that very thing.
33:18Thinking back, I do recall.
33:24If only I could find something to write with.
33:31I'd be happy to.
33:32Until then, would you mind if I hung on to this?
33:40Would you mind if I hung on to this?
33:42I heard the emperor's been visiting Lady Gyo-kyo a lot recently, as a way of showing his love for the surviving princess.
33:55And how's Lady Li Hua doing?
33:57What makes you think I'd know anything about that?
33:59Your trivia's oddly selective.
34:01Finally, there you are. You need to report in with the matron of the serving women. Immediately.
34:08Huh?
34:08She's being summoned?
34:10What do you think that's about?
34:12All right. Now that everyone's here, if you could all please head inside, we can get this underway.
34:16Serving girls getting summoned by high officials is never good. Could this be punitive? Or just a new work detail?
34:25I would like to thank you all for coming on some short notice.
34:44And who's the arrogant-looking woman supposed to be?
34:47I am Jin Shi, the manager of the Rear Palace.
34:57Wait. That's a man?
35:00Oh, yeah. Shaolin was going on about a beautiful-looking eunuch a while back. I guess that must be him.
35:05Yeesh. What a waste.
35:07Grade A-quality jeans and no way of proliferating them.
35:13Huh? You with the freckles stay here?
35:16Oh, crap!
35:20Thank you all so much for your time. You may return to your rooms.
35:24What was that about?
35:26Why me? Did I step out of line somehow? Or-
35:29Wait. Is this because of the warning?
35:32Of course!
35:34I'm the only one of the serving girls here who can actually read!
35:37That message was a trap designed to single me out!
35:39I've really gotta go-
35:41Now, now, miss. Didn't you read? I told you to stay. Keep quiet and follow me.
35:48It was a trap.
35:56I must admit, this is perplexing. When I had looked up your record, it claimed you were illiterate.
36:01Yes, well, I am but of lowly birth. It must be some kind of mistake.
36:07Good luck getting me to confess. Feigning ignorance keeps things uncomplicated just the way I like it.
36:14Speaking of complications, how did this guy even find me out?
36:18I made absolutely certain nobody saw me leave those notes.
36:20Doesn't he have anything better to do than this? I mean, it's not like he has a palace to run.
36:30Please, this way.
36:33I wonder what my punishment will be. I hope I at least make it out of here alive.
36:42I've brought her, as requested.
36:45Come in.
36:50I'm sorry to drag you all the way up here.
36:53Huh?
36:57That's good.
37:00So it was you.
37:02For saving the life of my precious Ling Li. I am in your debt.
37:06Please, my lady. I fear your gratitude is far too generously given.
37:11I won't hear of it. Who could be more deserving than my child savior?
37:15I can never thank you enough for what you've done for us.
37:18Forgive my impudence, but maybe you have the wrong person? Perhaps there's been a misunderstanding.
37:24I don't want to get beheaded for lying, but I don't want to get wrapped up in all this crazy court stuff, either.
37:30Ahem.
37:32Concubine Gyokyo was kind enough to let me hold on to the note she found.
37:35Are you aware that this particular fabric is used in the serving girl's clothing?
37:43Well, I suppose it does look familiar.
37:45Yes, I am quite certain any of the palace girls would recognize it.
37:49Especially one like yourself who works amongst the laundry.
37:53Tell me, True. Did you tear apart a skirt for want of good paper?
37:56I can't believe he reasoned that out already.
38:02Now that we've established it was you, would you care to explain why you put that flower on the window?
38:07I placed it there that day because I deduced the cause of the illness.
38:21It was the white makeup powder.
38:24In the brothels I grew up around, there were many courtesans who used the same high-end powder to lighten their skin.
38:31It poisoned them slowly, draining away all of their vital spark little by little, until there was nothing left.
38:40They traded the fullness of their lives for a fleeting moment of beauty and lost everything in the bargain.
38:45Before this, I was an apothecary.
38:57I am familiar with poisons.
39:07Then that's the powder?
39:09It was used by the baby's nurse as daily ritual.
39:12She claimed it had a better whitening effect compared to similar popular cosmetics.
39:17She fell ill not long after Lingli, so I permitted her some time to rest.
39:21All fully compensated, of course.
39:24Kind of you.
39:26Ignorance is truly a sin.
39:28As a mother, I should have paid more attention to what my child was eating.
39:33That sin is mine, too.
39:34Had I only been more aware of the things around me, a needless loss of life could have been avoided.
39:40The poor prince.
39:42After I saw the message, I went to tell concubine Lihua of its troubling contents.
39:50But it seemed like everything I said only served to make her believe me less.
39:56So then...
39:57Now that you know the truth, what do you intend to do with me?
40:02Well, starting today, you're going to be my new lady-in-waiting.
40:14Huh?
40:15There are some qualities Mau Mau just can't mute.
40:20Curiosity.
40:21A thirst for knowledge.
40:23And a sometimes troublesome need to right that which is wrong.
40:26Not good, not good, not good, not good, not good, not good, not good, not good, not good, not good, not good, not good.
40:35There you are!
40:36Welcome back to Mau Mau!
40:37I feel the kingdom profile now!
40:38So, you're going to tell me what happened?
40:40And so, Mau Mau became a lady-in-waiting of concubine Gyokyo, the emperor's most cherished love.
40:47An unprecedented elevation in rank for one so young.
40:51Poison!
41:02Poison!
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