Vocabulary
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| 活得不耐烦 活得不耐煩 | to be tired of living; (coll.) to be asking for trouble | Xiehouyu |
| 高手 高手 | expert; past master; dab hand | Xiehouyu |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 有没有 有沒有 | (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? | |
| 殿下 殿下 | Your Highness | |
| 圣上 聖上 | Your Majesty | |
| 娘娘 娘娘 | queen; empress; imperial concubine; Goddess, esp. Xi Wangmu 王母娘娘 or 西王母, Queen Mother of the West; mother; aunt | |
| 奴婢 奴婢 | slave servant | |
| 陛下 陛下 | Your Majesty | |
| 进宫 進宮 | to enter the emperor's palace; (slang) to go to jail | |
| 真凶 真兇 | culprit | |
| 南征 南征 | punitive expedition to the south | |
| 陪嫁 陪嫁 | dowry | |
| 清白 清白 | pure; innocent | |
| 拓本 拓本 | rubbing of inscription | |
| 岂不 豈不 | how couldn't...?; wouldn't it...? | |
| 主使 主使 | to mastermind; to orchestrate; to instigate; mastermind; instigator | |
| 抚琴 撫琴 | to play the zither; classical variant of | |
| 宫女 宮女 | palace maid | |
| 夫君 夫君 | my husband | |
| 狐狸精 狐狸精 | fox-spirit; vixen; witch; enchantress | |
| 如愿 如願 | to have one's wishes fulfilled | |
| 低贱 低賤 | lowly; humble; cheap; inexpensive | |
| 真命 真命 | to receive heaven's command (of Daoist immortals etc); ordained by heaven | |
| 痊愈 痊癒 | to recover completely (from illness or injury) | |
| 父王 父王 | Father (royal address) | |
| 平素 平素 | usually; habitually; ordinarily; normally | |
| 生母 生母 | natural mother; birth mother | |
| 帝位 帝位 | imperial throne | |
| 损兵折将 損兵折將 | 损: diminish; impair; injure · 兵: soldier, troops · 折: break off, snap; bend · 将: will, going to, future; general | |
| 兵权 兵權 | military leadership; military power | |
| 胜仗 勝仗 | victory; victorious battle | |
| 分忧 分憂 | to share tribulations; to help sb with worries and difficulties | |
| 出征 出征 | to go into battle; to campaign (military) | |
| 征战 征戰 | campaign; expedition | |
| 唯命是从 唯命是從 | to follow obediently | |
| 颇为 頗為 | rather; quite | |
| 无端端 無端端 | for no reason | |
| 事到如今 事到如今 | as matters stand; things having reached this stage | |
| 除掉 除掉 | to eliminate | |
| 罪孽 罪孽 | sin; crime; wrongdoing | |
| 刁蛮 刁蠻 | crafty and unruly | |
| 狠毒 狠毒 | vicious; malicious; savage | |
| 环环相扣 環環相扣 | closely linked with one another; interlocked; to interrelate | |
| 合谋 合謀 | to conspire; to plot together | |
| 姨娘 姨娘 | maternal aunt; father's concubine (old) | |
| 调制 調制 | to modulate; modulation | |
| 惦念 惦念 | to constantly have (sb or sth) on one's mind | |
| 打探 打探 | to make discreet inquiries; to scout out |