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The Lucky Princess Once upon a time, there lived an emperor of a land far away in the east.
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The emperor was rich, grand, and arrogant.
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One day, when he was enjoying a royal feast with his family, he told his three daughters, Enjoy, my dears.
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Regale in life, for you are my daughters.
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Luck has indeed favored you by making you my daughters, and fortune has been good to you because you are my daughters.
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Indeed, Father.
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We are lucky only because we are your daughters.
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Father, surely our fortune is good because we are your daughters.
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Nanko'um, won't you say anything?
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Indeed, father.
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We are lucky, even blessed to be your daughters. But... But...
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I believe that each human is born with his or her own luck, and our luck depends on our own efforts.
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Luck is lucky, only when met with effort.
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Your own efforts.
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So being my daughters doesn't matter at all.
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Father, I didn't mean...
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Enough.
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Your luck depends on your efforts, right?
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Bring my amut here to me.
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My daughter here thinks that her luck will come from her own efforts and has nothing to do with me.
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Father.
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Find the poorest, I mean the poorest, as poor as poor can get.
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Poorest man in the entire kingdom for me.
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I shall get this daughter of mine married to him.
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Let me see what luck her own efforts bring her then.
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So the messengers went looking in the entire kingdom and finally found a man they thought was the poorest of them all.
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In which city of my empire do you stay?
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I cannot afford to stay in a city, your highness.
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I have a hut in the forest.
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How many fields do you have?
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None, your majesty.
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Horses?
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None.
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Cattle?
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None.
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Clothes other than that you are wearing?
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None.
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Well, you have to be the poorest man there ever was.
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Fine.
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I shall get my daughter married to you.
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Let's see what effort brings what kind of luck to her.
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Heh!
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So Princess Nanyang was married to Ai.
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I had to obey the king's orders.
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This is all I have.
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Sorry.
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We will make our effort.
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I am sure luck will then favor us.
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Well, well, I guess I should get going for some wood.
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It will be cold at night and I don't have a blanket
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and I couldn't go to the market to sell wood so there's nothing to eat.
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This is a forest and I am sure to find some delicious wild fruit.
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This fruit broth is delicious, Prin- Princess.
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Call me Nankam Un.
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Tell me, Ai, how do you make a living?
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I...
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I just gather up wood from around the forest.
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I.. it doesn't fetch much.
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When I went to gather wood, I couldn't help but notice a fragrance in the air.
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There.. is a valley of millions of flowers up north from here.
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Why don't we make some perfume from those flowers and sell it?
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Surely it will fetch you a lot more money.
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I...
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I don't know how to make perfume and plus the mountain is dangerous, so my mother used to say.
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I will strike a deal with a perfume maker I know.
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Plus, I am a princess.
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I can handle a dangerous mountain.
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Let's go tomorrow, shall we?
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So Princess Nankam Un and I trekked up the treacherous mountain to finally reach the Valley of Flowers.
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But suddenly, the princess's attention was caught by something else.
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What is gleaming there?
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Oh, these are magic stones.
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My mother used to tell me stories about those.
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Just stories, of course.
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These stones are rubies.
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The best and the biggest I've ever seen.
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We are going to be rich, but we will keep only a few rubies to help us start our perfume business.
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And the rest we shall send to the Emperor.
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The rubies were sold.
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The perfume business started.
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And soon, Princess Nankam Un and I were some of the richest people in town.
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The Emperor was very unhappy to hear that.
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What?
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I had asked you to bring me the poorest man in the kingdom.
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How did he become so rich?
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I...
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I don't know, sir.
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He was poor till the princess married him.
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I buried him.
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Get out!
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Dear, why do you look so sad?
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I miss my father.
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I wish he weren't so angry at me.
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He doesn't even want to see us.
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Don't worry.
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Luck will favor us soon.
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And Luck did favor them.
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For one day, a cruel spirit, called Hypeia, took the form of a deer and ruined the Emperor's favorite garden.
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Let every able man in the kingdom join me and my army on a grand hunt to find and catch that deer.
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Deer, maybe this hunt will be an opportunity to win the heart of your father.
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Luck is lucky, only if met with effort.
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Even I shall join in the hunt in the garb of a man.
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The entire gathering of 1,000 men was divided into four parts.
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to go in all four directions.
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Nankam Un and I stayed with the king.
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No one else could match their speed of riding, and hence were left far behind.
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In order to tease the king, the Hapia, who had taken the form of the deer, kept just ahead of the king,
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disappearing just as the king were about to catch him, and appearing again a little distance away away.
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Finally, the king was exhausted and collapsed.
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I...
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I can't.. can't.. write any.. more...
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He is sleeping under the banyan tree, the home of the Hypeias.
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The ruling Hypeia of this tree is sure to harm him in the morning.
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Let us pretend to sleep but stay awake and listen.
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Hippias have a habit of talking to themselves and we forest dwellers know their language.
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And sure enough, in the middle of the night, I heard...
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Ah, sleeping under my tree is it?
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In the morning when the sun rises and I can see better, I shall lift the topmost branch of the tree onto a king.
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And if he is safe from there, I shall break the bridge he writes on.
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If that doesn't work, I shall make the arch of his own palace fall over.
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And if that does not work, I shall turn his water to a poison.
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And even if that does not work, I shall go into his room myself and steal his spirit.
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Ah!
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The Hapiya did not know that I and Nanyang had heard all this, and in the morning they were ready.
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Your Highness, maybe your horse needs water.
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Shall I take him for a drink?
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Hmm, take him!
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In the meanwhile, Nankam Un jumped on her father's horse.
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The Hapiya thought it was the king and made the topmost branch fall.
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But suddenly, the princess turned the horse
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and the branch fell without causing a scratch on either the horse or on Nankam Un.
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Your Highness, hop on.
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Let's get out of here.
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NOOOOO!
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You won't get away when I break the bridge you have to cross!
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Then I found another narrow crossing for the river, such that they did not have to cross the bridge.
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Nankam Un threw a stone on the bridge, and the Hapia thought that it was the king's horse galloping, and cut the bridge.
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But when he still heard the horses running far away, he knew he had failed yet again.
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I shall kiss you the next time, but love the arch of your palace.
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When they reached the arch of the palace, all of them really slowed down, and then, just as they reached the arch,
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they galloped so fast that the hapia was late yet again, and the arch missed the king, I, and Nan Kam Yung.
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I will turn his water to poison.
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Help me water.
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I am dying of thirst.
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Sorry sire, but...
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Now I will have to go alone tomorrow morning and steal his spirit.
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Even for this, Nan Kam Yung and I were ready.
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They knew that hapias can't see very well.
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So the moment the hapia came into the king's room, they put a black cloth around him, and the hapia was blinded.
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They caught him and imprisoned him forever.
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You!
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Both of you have been taking care of me since yesterday.
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You saved my life so many times.
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Who are you?
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We are just you people longing for your affection.
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Father!
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Nan Kang-Un, my princess!
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I am so, so, so sorry.
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Indeed, you have proven that luck is lucky only when it is met with effort.
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Aye!
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Thank you, son.
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And I declare that after I am gone, these two will rule my kingdom.
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Even today, people say, may your luck be like Nan Kam Yung, because luck is lucky only when met with effort.
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Thank you.
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