Vocabulary
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| 戴罪立功 戴罪立功 | to redeem oneself by good deeds while bearing guilt (idiom); to atone for a crime through meritorious service | |
| 恩宠 恩寵 | special favor from a ruler; Emperor's generosity towards a favorite | |
| 碎尸万段 碎屍萬段 | (idiom) to cut up sb's body into thousands of pieces (a hyperbolic threat) | |
| 活命 活命 | life; to survive; to save a life; to scrape a living | |
| 不可告人 不可告人 | to be kept secret; not to be divulged | |
| 搅局 攪局 | to upset the apple cart; to disrupt things | |
| 荒郊 荒郊 | desolate area outside a town | |
| 野岭 野嶺 | wild ridges; desolate mountain ridges | |
| 霸业 霸業 | the task of establishing and maintaining hegemony | |
| 心腹大患 心腹大患 | lit. trouble in the heart and belly (idiom); a serious hidden danger; a grave threat from within | |
| 行踪 行蹤 | whereabouts; (lose) track (of) | |
| 胆小怕事 膽小怕事 | timid and afraid of getting involved (idiom); cowardly and shrinking from trouble | |
| 觉察 覺察 | to sense; to perceive; to come to realize; to be aware | |
| 拿捏 拿捏 | (lit. and fig.) to grasp; to control; (dialect) affecting shyness; coy; (dialect) to deliberately create difficulties; to threaten | |
| 偏爱 偏愛 | to be partial towards sth; to favor; to prefer; preference; favorite | |
| 顾念 顧念 | to care for; to worry about | |
| 除掉 除掉 | to eliminate | |
| 圣上 聖上 | Your Majesty | |
| 故土 故土 | native country; one's homeland | |
| 射箭 射箭 | archery; to shoot an arrow | |
| 私吞 私吞 | to misappropriate (public funds etc); to embezzle | |
| 杀人灭口 殺人滅口 | (idiom) to kill sb to prevent them from revealing sth | |
| 眼睁睁 眼睜睜 | to stare blankly; to look on helplessly; to look on unfeelingly | |
| 定夺 定奪 | to make a decision; to determine | |
| 有胆有识 有膽有識 | to have both courage and insight; bold and perceptive (idiom) | |
| 天地良心 天地良心 | in all honesty; truth to tell | |
| 凡事 凡事 | everything | |
| 精于 精於 | skillful in; proficient in; adept at | |
| 坦荡 坦蕩 | magnanimous; broad and level | |
| 招降 招降 | to ask for sb's surrender | |
| 卑劣 卑劣 | base; mean; despicable | |
| 宗室 宗室 | imperial clan; member of the imperial clan; clansman; ancestral shrine | |
| 招惹 招惹 | to court (trouble); to attract (attention); to provoke (sb) | |
| 大祸 大禍 | disaster; calamity | |
| 狡辩 狡辯 | to deflect blame from oneself with a dishonest story; to make excuses | |
| 陋习 陋習 | corrupt practice; bad habits; malpractice | |
| 咽下 嚥下 | to swallow | |
| 撒野 撒野 | to display shockingly bad behavior; to behave atrociously | |
| 之恩 之恩 | kindness; favor; grace (of one's benefactor), as in "the kindness of ..." | |
| 岁数 歲數 | age (number of years old) | |
| 祖母 祖母 | father's mother; paternal grandmother | |
| 此处 此處 | this place; here (literary) | |
| 特地 特地 | specially; for a special purpose | |
| 便是 便是 | (emphasizes that sth is precisely or exactly as stated); precisely; exactly; even; if; just like; in the same way as | |
| 开关 開關 | power switch; gas valve; to open the city (or frontier) gate; to open and close; to switch on and off | |
| 一贯 一貫 | consistent; constant; from start to finish; all along; persistent | |
| 有事 有事 | to be occupied with sth; to have sth on one's mind; there is something the matter | |
| 粥 粥 | used in 荤粥 | |
| 矿 礦 | mineral deposit; ore deposit; ore; a mine | |
| 番 番 | foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian; classifier for occurrences (of an event, action or speech utterance); classifier for iterations: times, -fold (as in twofold etc); classifier for situations: kind, sort |