" How can we do that?"
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" I mean, I'm already grateful to you for agreeing to go out with me, despite how threatening and harsh I was with you. You don't need to do more for me than you've already done."
(Concubine Meng Xi and probably all the concubines of the palace have never experienced freedom, as their freedom had already been written for them. How sad? Is that what being part of the imperial family feels like?)
" I'm not doing any of this for you."
???
(The only way she'll agree to this is if I make it sound like it's for me and no one else's.)
" It's exactly as you've heard! Come on, it's such a beautiful day. We don't get days like this very often, so why should we waste it?"
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" Let's go and have fun, your grace! This is supposed to be a date, isn't it? How can we end it just like that?"
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