Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace (Legend of Ruyi / Hou Gong Ruyi Zhuan / 如懿传)

Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace

Episode 26

Greetings to Your Majesty and Royal Mother.

Greetings to Your Majesty and Empress Dowager.

Everyone rise.

Thank you, Empress Dowager, Emperor.

Today we Sister Hengti has come in the palace, and Royal Mother must be elated.

Usually she is nurtured by the duchess in Duke Xianqing's manor.

And I hardly get to see Hengti.

Now I see you up close.

I can see that the duchess has fostered you thoughtfully.

Your royal health is well so today I'll accompany you to hike up to Mount Wanshou.

Royal Mother doesn't look one bit tired.

I can see it's because she's elated upon seeing Sister Hengti.

Duchess Xianqing treats me very well.

Just that your daughter rarely gets to see you.

So I miss you always.

I miss you too. Come.

Accompany me to sit.

Alright.

Royal Mother, this is floral cakes Empress led the consorts to make.

Please have a try.

They already look delicious.

Mother, you try one first.

Royal Mother loves to eat soft things.

These floral cakes were made to the size of coins.

It will be soft and buttery to the bite.

You are thoughtful.

I am your daughter-in-law. I only want to know what sits on your mind.

So I can help make things more inclining to you.

Other than that, I have no other intention.

Empress, you are filial and devoted without any reservation.

How could I dislike you?

We are mother and daughter-in-law in an imperial family.

Hence we can't be like a small family of a small clan.

A family scheming against one another behind their backs.

Turning a good family into disharmony.

Your words, the empress has heard them all.

Royal Mother, let us raise the dogwood,

and drink some chrysanthemum wine to toast to Double Ninth Festival.

Great.

Empress Dowager, Your Majesty, Empress prepared a special music and dance today.

Let us watch and drink at the same time.

Alright. Everyone sit.

Thank you, Your Majesty.

Royal Mother, I toast to you.

I bid Empress Dowager, Emperor, Empress health and wellness and prosperity in long life.

Alright.

Bidding Empress Dowager, Emperor, Empress a blissful Double Ninth.

Bidding Empress Dowager, Emperor, Empress

- health and peace. - Bidding Empress Dowager, Emperor, Empress health and peace.

Emperor, we are already in Autumn.

Dancing to Peach Ode seems too unfitting.

Let us switch to a different tune and dance.

I will introduce to you a new person.

I heed by your recommendation.

Fujia.

His Majesty loves poetry the most. This maiden stands out.

How does she stand out?

The song doesn't sound like a song or a poem. What is it?

This is Li Qingzhao's "Drunken Flower".

Rippling small steps, tredding on song and sing out the poem.

It is refreshing and extraordinary. A standout conception.

You're done with singing and dancing, so you should come closer.

Greetings to Empress Dowager, Emperor and Empress.

Great. Tonight's performance was just great.

Why do you only recite poem?

I do not like dance tunes that are overly bustling.

Instead I find the poems of the people of the past more intriguing.

One must carefully savor the words before one can fully grasp it.

I heard your Majesty is very well-learned.

I'm sure that your Majesty can fully appreciate the tune.

The one selected bu the Royal Mother is indeed elegant, her thoughts are also absent of worldliness.

Li Qingzhao's "Drunken Flower" describing her missing her husband during the Double Ninth Festival is also fitting for this time of the year.

Whether fitting or not, it's not for me to decide.

Only you, your Majesty, can make this decision.

Your Majesty, This Gege is Shilang* Yongshou's daughter.

She is of the Bordered Yellow Banner from Machu.

You are born to a rather noble linage, what's your name.

Yihuan, means joyous fulfillment of one's wish.

Yihuan, in the past when a man and a women like each other.

The woman would call her lover 'Huan'.

You name is very romantic.

Indeed, your Majesty is very knowledgeable.

I like the words from Xiangjianhuan* the most.

It's indeed a joyous encounter between us. What's your last name?

Yehe-Nara

Yehe-Nara?

You Majesty, although

But I heard that the Yehe-Nara's were destroyed by our Qing-dynasty's founding Emperor Nurhaci.

Yehe-Nara's head of the clan, Jintaiji

Was filled with grief and angry before he died, he vowed that

even Yehe-Nara has only one woman left,

she will destroy the Aisin-Gioro's. Could this be true?

Imperial concubine Jia is well-informed. It is true, indeed.

They are only rumors, Yehe-clan has already offered their service a long time ago.

Yihuan's father has become his Majesty's Shilang.

I don't believe a girl

will be able to transcendent into something supernatural*.

Your Majesty, what say you?

I recall that one of founding Emperor's wives is a Yehe-Nara.

She even gave birth to Emperor Hong Taiji for him.

Her contribution will be remembered for generations.

Yihuan, what are you waiting for. Thank his Majesty's grace.

Thank you for your praise, your Majesty.

I'm not praising you, Yehe-Nara's are of a noble linage.

To be able to recite the poem so mildly and pleasantly, it's rare indeed.

I think the ones who know the Han's poem,

except for the Noble Consort, there is...

Now, this Yihuan-meimei*

is like Ruyi-jiejie* ,

adept in poetry and literature.

Your Majesty is proficient in the Manchu, Mongolian and Han languages and their poetry and history.

I dare not to be an ignorant person before your Majesty.

Never mind, It must have been fate.

You can be a Noble lady and stay by my side.

Thank you, your Majesty.

I toast to your Majesty, congratulations on winning a beauty.

Congratulations, your Majesty.

Your Majesty, the new one danced and sung.

We had enough earthly fun.

My father brought some fireworks.

Why don't we watch them for some fun in the sky?

Okay, it's indeed fitting.

Look!

Your Majesty, look!

This one is the 'Heavenly maids scattering blossoms'

That yellow one there, is the 'Golden monkey presenting the fruit'.

There's also 'Eight Immortals crossing the sea', ‘The Iron tree blossoming’...

That exceptional one over there, is called 'Noble consort Yang viewing the peonies'.

This is really beautiful.

Don't you like fireworks?

It's not bad and is lively, too.

But if being a human-being is like being these fireworks,

only to return to the loneliness in the end.

It's better to be the stars in the sky.

The light shines dimly but it's everlasting.

The one taught by the Royal Mother is exceptional indeed.

When you talk, you soothe my mood greatly. So I shall title you "Shu (soothing)".

You are to reside in the Chuxiu Palace

Thank you, Your Majesty.

Your Majesty, bad news!

Cold Palace is on fire.

- How did it catch fire? - I don't know either.

Let's go.

How did it catch fire?

Help!

Ling Yunche!

Is anyone there?

Help!

Ling Yunche!

Anyone there?

You.

Get up now.

Anyone there?

Mistress!

Anyone there?

Ling Yunche!

Anyone there?

Don't watch anymore. Go back.

Go.

Are you nuts? The fire's raging and whoever inside is long dead.

I haven't seen them.

But you still can't go in.

- Ling Yunche! - Suoxin!

- Ling Yunche! - Suoxin!

Ling Yunche.

Move aside.

Be careful.

Hurry.

Get water.

Hurry up!

Quick!

Coming.

Mistress.

Your Majesty.

Your Majesty, Cold Palace is a forbidden place. Someone as mighty as you shouldn't step here easily.

We should go back. Your Majesty!

Mistress.

Mistress.

Mistress. Breathe.

Are you okay?

Ling Yunche, thank you for saving us.

Thank you, Ling Yunche.

It's good that you are okay. Take a rest first.