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Please.
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Thank you for seeing me.
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I hear your wedding day is near.
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you must be overwhelmed by the preparations.
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I'm hardly doing a thing.
The less I think of it the better.
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...
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My parents are arranging everything.
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The Gous are a very powerful family.
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...
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My marrying one will be
good for my father's career.
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you are fortunate to
marry into such a noble family.
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am I?
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I wish I were like the heroes in the books I read.
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Like you and Li Mubai.
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I guess I'm happy to be marrying.
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but to be free to live my own life...
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to choose whom I love...
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That is true happiness.
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Do you think so? Let me tell you a story
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about you and Li Mubai?
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yes.
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Did you know I was once engaged to be married?
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Really?
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His name was Meng Si Zhao.
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He was a brother to Li Mubai by oath.
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One day, while in battle...
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he was killed by the sword of Li Mubai's enemy.
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after, Li Mubai and I went through a lot together.
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Our feelings for each other grew stronger.
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but how could we dishonor... Meng's memory?
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So the freedom you talk about, I too desire it.
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but I have never tasted it.
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Too bad for Meng, but it's not
your fault, or Li Mubai's.
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...
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I am not an aristocrat, as you are...
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but I must still respect a woman's duties.
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Don't distance us.
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from now on, let's be like sisters.
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...
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Then as a sister, let me wish
you happiness in your marriage.