# Season 2
# 1 - The Respond - Part 1
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So hungry.
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Does this road really lead to the capital?
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We're not lost, are we?
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Who's lost?
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As long as we keep walking north,
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we'll get there.
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You're pointing to the south.
**[00:36] ---**
Really?
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Why didn't you tell me earlier?
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Hmph.
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Didn't you say the path of
Buddhism relies on fate,
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and where we end up is Buddha's plan?
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Ugh.
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If not for you obstructing my
plans the farther you walk,
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I wouldn't interfere with this fate of yours.
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And you!
**[00:58] ---**
You can't even tell directions at your age.
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I said it was the wrong direction,
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but you completely ignored me!
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Alright.
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I'm lost.
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Admitting defeat so quickly?
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That's rare.
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Shall we go back the way we came?
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What's that?
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I'm sorry!
**[01:35] ---**
There's usually no one
out in this wilderness,
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so I was hunting freely.
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But running into you, miss,
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is entirely my fault.
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Please forgive me.
**[01:46] ---**
Hmph.
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Enough.
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Tell me.
**[01:48] ---**
How'll you pay?
**[01:49] ---**
Ah, um…
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I'll take you to the doctor.
**[01:53] ---**
No.
**[01:53] ---**
The injury to my stomach far
exceeds the one on my flesh.
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Buddy,
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she's saying she's hungry.
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What's your name?
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Do you live nearby?
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M-My name is He Shan.
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The Crow's Head Village is nearby.
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That's where I live.
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So your name is He Shan.
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Don't worry.
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This girl has thick skin.
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She won't die.
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But since you did hit her,
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would it be alright for us
to have a meal at your house?
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My home is simple and not
suitable for receiving guests.
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Why don't I
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treat you to a meal in the village?
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Hey.
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How much longer until we're there?
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We're close.
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It's past the river
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that's up ahead.
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Fair warning!
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Don't think a few bowls of noodles
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or a roast chicken
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is enough!
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My damages are very high!
**[02:58] ---**
Of course.
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But my household isn't very rich,
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so please have mercy on me, miss.
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He Shan,
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what do you do for a living?
**[03:06] ---**
I work at an ironshop
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and sometimes hunt animals.
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But spring is a season of new beginnings.
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If you kill this bird,
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the nestlings won't be able to survive.
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I don't want to take lives,
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but a loved one is sick.
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The medicine is costly.
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What illness?
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We might be able to…
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You talk too much.
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It's not life-threatening.
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She just needs
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to stay indoors.
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That's all.
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Oh no!
**[03:36] ---**
Someone's in the water!
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Oh gosh, he went in.
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Be careful.
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Hey.
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Move aside!
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Who is this?
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A girl? What a shame.
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Whose family is she from?
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Anyone know her?
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I don't.
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Excuse me.
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Lady Ma!
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Lady Ma!
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Kid, you know her?
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She's Lord Ma's wife, from our village.
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Let me thank you on behalf of the Ma family.
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It's fine.
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It's good that she's safe.
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Let's go.
**[04:23] ---**
Lady Ma.
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It's me, He Shan!
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What's wrong?
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Hey! You still owe us a meal!
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I'm a useless person.
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Let me die.
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What happened?
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If the water drowns me,
and the fish eat me…
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I'll be cleaner when I'm dead.
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So it was suicide.
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He Shan,
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who is this lady to you?
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She…
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When I was feeling down,
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she made me a meal out of kindness.
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And now,
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I can't leave her like this.
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Then what about our bird-related grudge?
**[05:49] ---**
After she's settled,
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I'll rush back.
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Save it.
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If she really wants to die,
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you might not be able to save her next time.
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I'm a useless person.
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I'll be cleaner when I'm dead.
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But…
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Lady Ma doesn't
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seem like someone who'd kill herself.
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Shh. Listen carefully.
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Let the fish eat you.
**[06:14] ---**
The fish ate me.
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The water drowned you, drowned me.
**[06:22] ---**
What is this?
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Who's speaking?
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Not humans.
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Something parasitic is in her belly,
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constantly repeating
words that hurt her most.
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Gradually,
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it'll turn into a curse for the heart,
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and destroy her mind.
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Right now, we can only
use a potion to calm her,
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and chant sutras.
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Moya, the sutras.
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Ah? Oh!
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Namo Amitabha…
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Miss, are you…?
**[07:01] ---**
I'm just a normal doctor.
**[07:07] ---**
Hm?
**[07:08] ---**
Then Lady Ma's illness...
**[07:12] ---**
Of course I can cure it.
**[07:13] ---**
But my services
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can't be paid for with a meal.
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Don't worry. I know to return gratitude.
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Please save her, no matter the cost.
**[07:21] ---**
Okay.
**[07:22] ---**
This illness is strange.
**[07:23] ---**
If it breaks out, it'll affect others.
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Are there similar patients nearby?
**[07:29] ---**
I don't know.
**[07:31] ---**
I see.
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Then we can only send her back first,
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ask around,
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see if she's eaten anything special recently,
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and see where she's been.
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Only after we know these two things
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will I be able to find a cure.
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Okay. I understand.
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Tao Yao,
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I thought you didn't treat humans.
**[08:03] ---**
She's been unprincipled for a while now.
**[08:05] ---**
This time,
**[08:06] ---**
she probably has her eye on
the thing in the lady's belly.
**[08:08] ---**
Hey, not bad.
**[08:10] ---**
You've finally improved
**[08:11] ---**
after being with me for so long.
**[08:15] ---**
Hmph.
**[08:16] ---**
What improvement?
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It's obviously because your
nature doesn't change.
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What'd you say?
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If you didn't happen upon rare things,
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would you be so kindhearted?
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You dropped it!
**[08:30] ---**
It's all your fault!
**[08:32] ---**
So what exactly is in Lady Ma's belly?
**[08:38] ---**
Doctor Tao, I'm back!
**[08:42] ---**
You sent her back?
**[08:43] ---**
Ah, I didn't.
**[08:44] ---**
I just found out
**[08:46] ---**
that she's divorced.
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What?
**[08:50] ---**
Lord Ma said she cut all ties with him.
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And that he doesn't care if she dies.
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Hmph.
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Spouses yesterday,
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strangers today.
**[08:59] ---**
Humans are so cold.
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Aren't they?
**[09:02] ---**
Lady Ma is so gentle
**[09:04] ---**
and not lacking in virtue,
**[09:06] ---**
but she still ended up like this.
**[09:07] ---**
What's the use in being gentle?
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A woman must marry
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someone of matching status.
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They were fine when they were betrothed,
**[09:13] ---**
but after they married,
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her family declined.
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Lord Ma changed his mind
**[09:18] ---**
faster than I can turn a page.
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Hmph.
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Not only that.
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A couple years ago,
**[09:23] ---**
Lord Ma brought a concubine home.
**[09:25] ---**
She died of sickness shortly after.
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He took out all his anger on Lady Ma,
**[09:29] ---**
and kept blaming her stars,
**[09:30] ---**
saying they clashed.
**[09:31] ---**
Yeah. He also thought she was
ugly, and he yelled at her
**[09:33] ---**
for not bearing kids.
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Every day, he'd call her useless.
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I'd want to die, too.
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Waiter, our dishes.
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Slacking off?
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Coming, coming!
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She suffered so much.
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I should have helped her sooner.
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How could you help?
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She chose to bear it herself.
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Others can't be blamed.
**[10:16] ---**
What about the things I had you ask about?
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Oh,
**[10:19] ---**
afterwards, a nostalgic maid
**[10:20] ---**
took in Lady Ma.
**[10:22] ---**
I took the chance to ask her.
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There was nothing special about what she ate,
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and the places she frequented
**[10:27] ---**
were to pray for blessings
**[10:29] ---**
and make the lord happy.
**[10:30] ---**
Burning incense or divining
sticks, worshipping Guanyin,
**[10:33] ---**
wishing at the well,
**[10:34] ---**
worshipping ancestors,
**[10:36] ---**
buying clay dolls,
**[10:37] ---**
picking orchids,
**[10:38] ---**
going to the pharmacy,
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buying joyful incense,
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knotting red strings…
**[10:42] ---**
Buying limited dishes,
**[10:43] ---**
or confronting the Silk Village…
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Wait.
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Why does it feel like she was full of energy?
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Was she actually abandoned?
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It was desperation, caused by crisis.
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Any rumor she heard,
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she was willing to try.
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This is troublesome.
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Are there really
**[11:01] ---**
no similar patients around here?
**[11:04] ---**
W-What's wrong?
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Lady Ma went to too many places.
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When we're done looking,
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she'll already be dead.
**[11:10] ---**
Remember the echoes in her belly?
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With this illness,
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the thing in her belly will grow larger,
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and she'll either die from being tortured,
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or the curse will come true.
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If there are other patients,
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we can find where they all went,
**[11:29] ---**
and narrow down the search.
**[11:31] ---**
What a shame.
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If there aren't any,
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I'm powerless.
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My apologies.
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Wait!
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I know
**[11:48] ---**
one more patient.
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It's okay.
**[12:10] ---**
It's okay.
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They're doctors I invited.
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Sorry about that.
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She's my sister.
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So the sick loved one you mentioned
**[12:33] ---**
was her?
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Speak. What happened?
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My sister was always chubby,
**[12:43] ---**
and people would laugh at her.
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But she's sincere
**[12:46] ---**
and never fights them.
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Even when they mocked her,
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she just laughed along.
**[12:50] ---**
I asked her why she didn't get mad,
**[12:52] ---**
and she said she was afraid
of not having friends.
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Then can friends be kept by being servile?
**[13:00] ---**
Half a month ago, it was her 15th birthday.
**[13:03] ---**
She made herself pretty in the morning,
**[13:05] ---**
but returned shortly, looking untidy.
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Her face was bruised and
her hairpin was broken.
**[13:10] ---**
She said they'd called her a pig.
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I'd never seen her cry like that before.
**[13:17] ---**
And then?
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And then…
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she had a high fever at night.
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After the fever left,
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there was an echo in her belly.
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Afterwards,
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her hands slowly became pig feet.
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And…
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And three days ago,
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she grew a pig's tail, too.
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Why didn't you tell us earlier?
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A girl getting such a strange illness
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isn't something to spread.
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Yes.
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She refused to see a doctor.
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I had no choice.
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I could only get detoxifying
medicine for her.
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And in the beginning,
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I wasn't sure if you guys could cure her.
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So you used Lady Ma to test us,
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when you truly wanted to save your sister.
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I really do want to save Lady Ma!
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Relax.
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Since I can cure Lady Ma,
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I can save your sister, too.
**[14:02] ---**
On her birthday,
**[14:03] ---**
what did your sister eat,
**[14:05] ---**
and where'd she go?
**[14:07] ---**
She ate normal noodles and dishes,
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and went to a food stall in the village.
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And the garden!
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Only mention the places Lady Ma has been!
**[14:21] ---**
Bamboo forest!
**[14:22] ---**
On auspicious days,
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if you tie a red string to green bamboo
**[14:25] ---**
and write your birth info,
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the wind is said to send
your wish to the Heavens.
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Looks like that's it.
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And I think…
**[14:35] ---**
she may have gone to the Wealth God's temple.
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Wealth God's temple?
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It's just a guess,
**[14:40] ---**
as she wouldn't tell me,
**[14:42] ---**
but I saw some locust flowers
that'd landed on her hair.
**[14:45] ---**
There's a crooked locust tree at the temple.
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The well below the tree is said
to contain the world's essence.
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If you make a wish there under the moonlight,
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it'll come true.
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Many people have gone.
**[14:54] ---**
Lady Ma also went to that old well
**[14:57] ---**
to make a wish.
**[14:59] ---**
It sounds pretty interesting.
**[15:01] ---**
How's the incense at the temple?
**[15:03] ---**
It's suffocating.
**[15:05] ---**
Then that's the place!
**[15:10] ---**
Ow!
**[15:12] ---**
Following the herd?
**[15:13] ---**
You think it's that easy to find the truth?
**[15:16] ---**
Then what do you think?
**[15:19] ---**
Only two places left.
**[15:21] ---**
Let's go one by one.
**[15:22] ---**
So the bamboo forest and the old well.
**[15:23] ---**
Which one should we go to first?
**[15:27] ---**
The moon is bright tonight.
**[15:28] ---**
Why don't we go to the
old well to make a wish?
**[15:37] ---**
The temple is two hundred steps to the north.
**[15:39] ---**
Under the locust tree is an old well.
**[15:45] ---**
North!
**[15:49] ---**
You're pointing south again.
**[15:52] ---**
Tsk.
**[15:53] ---**
Of course I knew that.
**[15:54] ---**
I just wanted to see if you
would blindly follow me.
**[15:59] ---**
Look, the locust tree is right over there!
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Dear customer, please be seated.
**[16:26] ---**
Amitabha.
**[16:28] ---**
Smells so good!
**[16:49] ---**
What tasty things do you have?
**[16:50] ---**
Tonight, we have vegetable
porridge with minced meat.
**[16:53] ---**
Sit.
**[16:54] ---**
The porridge will be ready soon.
**[16:56] ---**
Is there vegetarian porridge?
**[16:57] ---**
Yes. We have everything.
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It's so late.
**[17:05] ---**
Why are you working alone?
**[17:08] ---**
I'm just an ordinary woman.
**[17:10] ---**
I can't get business during the day,
**[17:11] ---**
so I come out at night.
**[17:13] ---**
Although it's a remote place,
**[17:15] ---**
young ladies and lords
**[17:16] ---**
often come to make wishes at that well.
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They say it's more effective
when there's moonlight.
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It's cold at night, and after making a wish,
**[17:24] ---**
it's good to come and drink a
bowl of porridge for warmth,
**[17:27] ---**
right?
**[17:32] ---**
Does it smell nice?
**[17:35] ---**
So nice!
**[17:37] ---**
Auntie Yun's skills are pretty good, right?
**[17:40] ---**
Let's get everyone a bowl.
**[17:42] ---**
Alright.
**[17:56] ---**
This little dog is half white, half black.
**[17:58] ---**
How interesting!
**[18:00] ---**
I have some leftover bones.
**[18:02] ---**
Would he eat them?
**[18:08] ---**
He would.
**[18:09] ---**
My little dog
**[18:10] ---**
eats anything.
**[18:24] ---**
They really aren't picky at all.
**[18:31] ---**
Eat as much as you like.
**[18:32] ---**
Auntie Yun has more.
**[18:37] ---**
Auntie Yun.
**[18:39] ---**
Where are you from?
**[18:40] ---**
How long have you had this stall?
**[18:42] ---**
I'm from the north,
**[18:44] ---**
I came to this village with my husband.
**[18:46] ---**
I've had my stall here for almost a year now.
**[18:49] ---**
You're working so hard,
**[18:50] ---**
yet your husband doesn't help?
**[18:56] ---**
He…
**[18:57] ---**
He's very busy.
**[19:00] ---**
Miss, my porridge has to be eaten warm.
**[19:02] ---**
It's not good if it's cold.
**[19:06] ---**
That's right. Hurry and eat.
**[19:08] ---**
Don't let it get cold!
**[19:09] ---**
Eat it warm. It's good.
**[19:12] ---**
It's delicious!
**[19:15] ---**
Miss, don't worry.
**[19:18] ---**
People who've eaten this porridge
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have all said it's good.
**[19:23] ---**
People who've eaten this porridge?
**[19:31] ---**
Relax. It's tasty.
**[19:35] ---**
It's tasty!
**[19:36] ---**
Nobody says it's bad.
**[19:38] ---**
Hurry and eat.
**[19:41] ---**
Hmph.
**[19:52] ---**
[Episode 13: Answer Bug (1)]
[Lower, a little lower.]
**[19:56] ---**
♪ The wind slows ♪
**[19:58] ---**
♪ Music trickles through the windows ♪
**[20:02] ---**
♪ Who are these idle memories for? ♪
**[20:09] ---**
♪ The dust floats in the air ♪
**[20:12] ---**
♪ The water ripples like blossoms ♪
**[20:15] ---**
♪ Sighs of hindsight ♪
**[20:18] ---**
♪ No sign of stopping ♪
**[20:22] ---**
♪ Thoughts are always unfinished ♪
**[20:29] ---**
♪ Joy is often cut short ♪
**[20:31] ---**
♪ It's hard to wake up from
a long night's dream ♪
**[20:36] ---**
♪ Evidence without reason ♪
**[20:39] ---**
♪ A farewell to love and hate ♪
**[20:43] ---**
♪ Searching in the haystack ♪
**[20:45] ---**
♪ Thousands of times ♪
**[20:53] ---**
♪ Starlight rains down the southern sky ♪
**[20:56] ---**
♪ My heart is layered with expired love ♪
**[21:00] ---**
♪ A journey across mountains
for one promise ♪
**[21:07] ---**
♪ No shadows, no fate ♪
**[21:10] ---**
♪ Where there's love, there's promise ♪
**[21:14] ---**
♪ A dream comes to life ♪
**[21:21] ---**
♪ Stars disappear upon rainfall ♪
# 2 - The Respond - Part 2
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/G1XHJV2DX/fairies-album)
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**[00:13] ---**
Oh, I know.
**[00:15] ---**
The porridge must be too bland, miss.
**[00:20] ---**
Some more soy sauce will make it better.
**[00:22] ---**
More soy sauce.
**[00:23] ---**
More soy sauce.
**[00:40] ---**
Auntie Yun, your palm features are nice.
**[00:43] ---**
You're blessed.
**[00:46] ---**
Miss, you know how to read palms?
**[00:48] ---**
Come, sit.
**[00:50] ---**
My father tells fortunes,
**[00:52] ---**
so he influenced me.
**[00:53] ---**
I know a little about reading palms.
**[00:57] ---**
That's great.
**[00:58] ---**
Then, I'll trouble you to take a look.
**[01:02] ---**
What would you like to know?
**[01:04] ---**
Wealth?
**[01:05] ---**
Marriage?
**[01:10] ---**
Then… marriage.
**[01:14] ---**
Okay.
**[01:18] ---**
Auntie Yun,
**[01:19] ---**
looks like you've had a rough life.
**[01:21] ---**
I'm afraid your death looks grim.
**[01:23] ---**
As for marriage,
**[01:24] ---**
it dissipated long ago.
**[01:28] ---**
Miss, what nonsense is that?
**[01:30] ---**
My husband and I
**[01:31] ---**
are harmonious!
**[01:32] ---**
You're trying to curse me
**[01:33] ---**
by saying that!
**[01:35] ---**
Nonsense!
**[01:36] ---**
Nonsense!
**[01:37] ---**
You're cursing her.
**[01:38] ---**
Cursing her.
**[01:43] ---**
You ask for what you don't have.
**[01:46] ---**
Your husband is there,
**[01:47] ---**
but you're not anymore.
**[01:56] ---**
Miss, you're so strange.
**[01:58] ---**
You keep saying…
**[02:07] ---**
I-I won't argue with you today.
**[02:10] ---**
Leave, quickly.
**[02:11] ---**
Leave!
**[02:22] ---**
You deserved it, Mother Bug,
**[02:25] ---**
so you guys can only shut up.
**[02:35] ---**
Why does it hurt and itch so much?!
**[02:37] ---**
W-What did you to do me?
**[02:46] ---**
I just used some pesticide.
**[02:51] ---**
Your food stall
**[02:52] ---**
needs to be cleaned thoroughly.
**[03:19] ---**
Stupid girl,
**[03:20] ---**
why were you the only one who didn’t eat?
**[03:32] ---**
Ah.
**[03:33] ---**
Is this how you do business?
**[03:35] ---**
A graceful me
**[03:36] ---**
never fights with others.
**[03:41] ---**
Because before they can make a move on me,
**[03:44] ---**
the opponent is already dead.
**[04:24] ---**
Wishing under the moonlight? Pfft.
**[04:26] ---**
More like an evil aura under the moonlight.
**[04:38] ---**
I finally got it!
**[04:42] ---**
What is that?
**[04:43] ---**
Answer.
**[04:45] ---**
It's the Answer Bug you mentioned before.
**[04:51] ---**
Yes.
**[04:52] ---**
Let's say an extremely humble person dies.
**[04:54] ---**
If their bones are buried under a sacred tree
**[04:57] ---**
while soaked in groundwater,
**[04:58] ---**
Answer Bugs will breed.
**[05:00] ---**
This bug will do anything to multiply.
**[05:03] ---**
Its victims must follow the Mother Bug
**[05:06] ---**
and echo its words.
**[05:09] ---**
Wait!
**[05:10] ---**
So you're saying
**[05:11] ---**
we all ate its eggs?
**[05:13] ---**
No.
**[05:14] ---**
It's larvae.
**[05:21] ---**
Auntie Yun was obviously a decayed corpse,
**[05:24] ---**
But you treated her as an living woman.
**[05:27] ---**
She served bad soup,
**[05:29] ---**
yet you all ate it with relish.
**[05:31] ---**
Even when she said Rolly was a dog,
**[05:33] ---**
none of you corrected her.
**[05:36] ---**
This bug's toxicity
**[05:38] ---**
isn't normal.
**[05:40] ---**
If you knew that,
**[05:41] ---**
then why did you let us?
**[05:42] ---**
If I didn't,
**[05:43] ---**
I was afraid she'd be alerted.
**[05:45] ---**
You…!
**[05:46] ---**
Only her unawareness
**[05:47] ---**
allowed me to sprinkle the pesticide.
**[05:51] ---**
You…!
**[05:52] ---**
You…!
**[05:53] ---**
Anyways, didn't you enjoy it?
**[06:00] ---**
Tao Yao, that's too much.
**[06:03] ---**
What will we do in the future?
**[06:05] ---**
Don't worry.
**[06:06] ---**
The larvae are wasted once the Mother dies,
**[06:09] ---**
and only some will suffer from its toxins.
**[06:11] ---**
The toxins would only activate for those
**[06:13] ---**
who were already humble.
**[06:15] ---**
They'll turn into
**[06:16] ---**
whatever others say they are.
**[06:30] ---**
Since it's so disgusting,
**[06:32] ---**
why are you taking it?
**[06:33] ---**
Disgusting?
**[06:35] ---**
This is an extremely rare ingredient.
**[06:37] ---**
It's too hard to find a sacred tree.
**[06:39] ---**
No wonder you decided to save humans.
**[06:41] ---**
So it was just for that!
**[06:42] ---**
Of course.
**[06:43] ---**
When I use it on the Thunder God one day,
**[06:46] ---**
we'll be harmonious for 100 years!
**[06:53] ---**
She's crazy.
**[06:55] ---**
Keep your distance!
**[06:59] ---**
Wait, look!
**[07:05] ---**
That's…
**[07:06] ---**
a UFO?
**[07:08] ---**
Amitabha.
**[07:10] ---**
I humbly apologize.
**[07:11] ---**
The spirit is the culprit,
**[07:12] ---**
and Auntie Yun is unrelated.
**[07:14] ---**
Tao Yao, let's save her.
**[07:16] ---**
Did you just meet me?
**[07:18] ---**
I've only saved spirits, not humans.
**[07:21] ---**
But if her resentment remains,
**[07:22] ---**
and becomes a UFO,
**[07:23] ---**
reincarnation won't happen!
**[07:28] ---**
Scram, scram.
**[07:29] ---**
How am I tied to this?
**[07:30] ---**
You…
**[07:31] ---**
If you ask me,
**[07:32] ---**
it's better to clean it up thoroughly.
**[07:38] ---**
There's
**[07:39] ---**
a sacred tree right here.
**[07:42] ---**
If we leave the UFO alone,
**[07:44] ---**
something harmful might still happen.
**[07:46] ---**
Hmph.
**[07:47] ---**
What's more,
**[07:48] ---**
if the Thunder God was going to marry you,
**[07:51] ---**
and the corpse you abandoned became a spirit,
**[07:53] ---**
wouldn't he strike both you
and the spirit with thunder?
**[08:02] ---**
Rolly,
**[08:03] ---**
look at the UFO.
**[08:05] ---**
Do you want to eat it?
**[08:29] ---**
Then… marriage.
**[08:32] ---**
So that's why you're shackled.
**[08:36] ---**
I'll save her.
**[08:37] ---**
I'll start chanting sutras.
**[08:40] ---**
Go, go.
**[08:40] ---**
Don't interfere.
**[08:46] ---**
With a lingering regret
comes a thousand knots.
**[09:00] ---**
Tell me your story.
**[09:02] ---**
Why are you trapped?
**[09:06] ---**
I'm waiting.
**[09:10] ---**
A phoenix's body, without its wings,
**[09:13] ---**
our hearts are linked as one.
**[09:19] ---**
The family is wealthy,
**[09:20] ---**
and his uncle manages stonewares.
**[09:22] ---**
This beautiful marriage
**[09:23] ---**
isn't something anyone can get!
**[09:25] ---**
Yes, yes.
**[09:26] ---**
Thank you, Madam Wang.
**[09:28] ---**
Yun, what do you think?
**[09:30] ---**
Yun?
**[09:33] ---**
Say something.
**[09:34] ---**
Father, I have someone in my heart already.
**[09:37] ---**
I won't marry anyone else.
**[09:40] ---**
How disgraceful!
**[09:41] ---**
Hey, landlord Xu,
**[09:42] ---**
this time, it's not that I didn't help.
**[09:45] ---**
She's a girl,
**[09:46] ---**
you need to control her!
**[09:47] ---**
Hey, don't leave!
**[09:49] ---**
Madam Wang…
**[09:50] ---**
Madam Wang!
**[09:52] ---**
That merchant family's young lord…
**[09:53] ---**
I…!
**[09:58] ---**
He's
**[10:00] ---**
the only one I trust in this life.
**[10:02] ---**
I willingly gave him everything.
**[10:31] ---**
I'm glad it's you.
**[10:33] ---**
If the men Father hired came first,
**[10:35] ---**
then I couldn't leave with you.
**[10:37] ---**
Feiyun,
**[10:38] ---**
are you really willing to home for me?
**[10:42] ---**
When I become successful,
**[10:44] ---**
I'll definitely marry you lavishly.
**[10:46] ---**
Okay.
**[10:58] ---**
The spring flowers and
autumn moon enter a poem.
**[11:01] ---**
During daytime, night is a free immortal…
**[11:04] ---**
Ow.
**[11:10] ---**
What's wrong?
**[11:11] ---**
How'd it get like this?
**[11:12] ---**
It's fine, just a small injury.
**[11:15] ---**
Back then, the servants at
home would do this instead.
**[11:17] ---**
I've troubled you.
**[11:19] ---**
Why don't we go out and eat?
**[11:21] ---**
We can't eat out for every meal.
**[11:23] ---**
The silver we brought is almost used up.
**[11:26] ---**
Alright.
**[11:27] ---**
Focus on your studies.
**[11:28] ---**
Leave everything at home to me.
**[11:39] ---**
Where does the butterfly land?
**[11:42] ---**
Upon pavilions or the blooming flowers?
**[11:47] ---**
Butterflies usually fly alone,
**[11:50] ---**
so it is rare to see them together.
**[11:54] ---**
The butterflies must fear the sparrow,
**[11:58] ---**
but the bees they pay no heed.
**[12:01] ---**
For where there is the
sweet smell of flowers,
**[12:04] ---**
in that direction they will go.
**[12:08] ---**
Though beautiful, their nature is cold,
**[12:11] ---**
but their beauty is heightened
by flower's scent.
**[12:15] ---**
They fly clearly amidst the flora,
**[12:18] ---**
but they never rest upon any flower for long.
**[12:22] ---**
Though darkness falls, they continue to fly,
**[12:25] ---**
and though spring is ending,
they flutter still.
**[12:29] ---**
The fall wind blows, but the hibiscus remain,
**[12:33] ---**
and as winter draws nears,
they fly with vigor yet.
**[13:01] ---**
Feiyun, why are you sighing?
**[13:05] ---**
It's nothing.
**[13:06] ---**
No need to worry.
**[13:08] ---**
Hmph.
**[13:42] ---**
You visited Landlord Liu two days ago.
**[13:44] ---**
Did it go well?
**[13:45] ---**
Hmph.
**[13:47] ---**
I wish you didn't mention it.
**[13:48] ---**
The two sons of the Liu family
**[13:50] ---**
don't even deserve to study with me!
**[13:52] ---**
Yet they want me to be a book boy?
**[13:54] ---**
But you finally found something to do.
**[13:56] ---**
They say Landlord Liu pays generously.
**[13:58] ---**
Shut up!
**[13:58] ---**
What does a mere woman know?
**[14:00] ---**
I have proper talent,
**[14:02] ---**
so why would I bow for buckets of rice?
**[14:04] ---**
The shop won't sell us
rice on credit anymore.
**[14:06] ---**
Tsk.
**[14:07] ---**
Deal with these trivial matters yourself.
**[14:09] ---**
You're always annoying me.
**[14:11] ---**
How will I ever excel?
**[14:13] ---**
Don't you still have a gold hairpin?
**[14:15] ---**
Pawn it!
**[14:19] ---**
N-No.
**[14:20] ---**
My mother left this behind.
**[14:22] ---**
Didn't you cut ties with your family already?
**[14:25] ---**
Have they even cared
about us all these years?
**[14:27] ---**
That year, my father was just angry.
**[14:29] ---**
Now, he says if you have status,
**[14:31] ---**
then maybe he'll acknowledge us.
**[14:40] ---**
Status?
**[14:41] ---**
Status again?
**[14:42] ---**
Are you trying to force me to death?
**[14:44] ---**
It doesn't have to be a big deal.
**[14:46] ---**
Even if it's just a written
marriage contract…
**[14:49] ---**
I still value my pride, even if you don't.
**[14:51] ---**
How can marrying a wife
be done so carelessly?
**[14:54] ---**
At least wait until I get results.
**[15:22] ---**
Okay.
**[15:24] ---**
I'll wait.
**[15:37] ---**
Hmph.
**[15:43] ---**
Showing yourself in public? How disgraceful!
**[15:48] ---**
Hmph.
**[15:50] ---**
Prepare a decent gift
**[15:51] ---**
on the third of next month.
**[15:53] ---**
If I win that person's favor this time,
**[15:55] ---**
maybe I can get an official title.
**[15:59] ---**
Finally… I've waited for so long!
**[16:29] ---**
Would the wait be worth it?
**[16:31] ---**
Of course.
**[16:34] ---**
I've even prepared the gift.
**[16:36] ---**
Will you get what you want?
**[16:39] ---**
I can.
**[16:40] ---**
I…
**[16:45] ---**
Will you
**[16:46] ---**
get what you want?
**[16:49] ---**
Aren't…
**[16:50] ---**
Aren't I…
**[16:52] ---**
still waiting?
**[17:12] ---**
So destitute.
**[17:14] ---**
Sir, you've been through a lot.
**[17:17] ---**
There's no joy in a life of studying.
**[17:19] ---**
Don't worry. Now, it'll be different.
**[17:21] ---**
Father has visited the
Minister of Appointments,
**[17:23] ---**
so if anything is missing…
**[17:28] ---**
W-Why are you here?
**[17:39] ---**
She's my maid who cleans and cooks.
**[17:41] ---**
Usually, she doesn't come at this time.
**[17:43] ---**
Auntie Yun, are you not
opening the stall today?
**[17:46] ---**
"Yun"…
**[17:47] ---**
Oh, right.
**[17:48] ---**
This is my fiancee.
**[17:53] ---**
No!
**[18:05] ---**
Turns out
**[18:07] ---**
he wasn't going to come.
**[18:12] ---**
But you're still waiting.
**[18:18] ---**
I thought
**[18:20] ---**
he would turn around to look at me once more.
**[20:05] ---**
The Book of Life and Death says
**[20:07] ---**
her name is Xu Feiyun,
**[20:09] ---**
from Luoyang.
**[20:10] ---**
30 years ago, she eloped with a talented man.
**[20:13] ---**
That scholar memorized a bunch of holy books,
**[20:16] ---**
but he deceived her of
**[20:17] ---**
both her money and body.
**[20:19] ---**
Upon her suicide,
**[20:20] ---**
he already left to take office.
**[20:22] ---**
Even her corpse was buried
hastily by passing villagers.
**[20:26] ---**
What happened after?
**[20:27] ---**
Amitabha.
**[20:29] ---**
That man surely received retribution.
**[20:31] ---**
Retribution?
**[20:31] ---**
Hmph.
**[20:32] ---**
You're too naive.
**[20:33] ---**
He's doing well now.
**[20:35] ---**
How's that possible?
**[20:36] ---**
Did your Underworld friends
**[20:37] ---**
get the wrong person?
**[20:39] ---**
No way.
**[20:40] ---**
The info was correct.
**[20:42] ---**
There's even a portrait!
**[20:45] ---**
After abandoning her,
**[20:46] ---**
he married into a rich family
**[20:47] ---**
and became a high-ranking official.
**[20:49] ---**
Now, he's so well off
that he looks like this!
**[20:58] ---**
Give it!
**[20:59] ---**
Ugh.
**[21:01] ---**
Eloping with a beautiful man
**[21:03] ---**
is something I get,
**[21:04] ---**
but after wandering for so many years,
**[21:06] ---**
you were waiting for a pig's glance back?
**[21:09] ---**
Tao Yao, Auntie Yun has been
through so much already.
**[21:12] ---**
Stop scolding her!
**[21:13] ---**
But no one else will!
**[21:15] ---**
If being an Answer Bug
**[21:17] ---**
means you can keep what you want,
**[21:20] ---**
then it's too easy
**[21:22] ---**
to continue living.
**[21:34] ---**
Thank you for saving her, Doctor Tao.
**[21:36] ---**
You're welcome.
**[21:37] ---**
Has your sister recovered?
**[21:39] ---**
Yes.
**[21:40] ---**
That's not all,
**[21:41] ---**
she even lost over ten pounds.
**[21:42] ---**
She's feasting for three days to celebrate.
**[21:48] ---**
Careful that she doesn't gain 20 pounds back.
**[21:57] ---**
She also said that
**[21:58] ---**
she wants to find an ideal husband
like Mr. Liu in the future.
**[22:01] ---**
Hmph.
**[22:02] ---**
Someone like me,
**[22:03] ---**
who's even more omnipotent than a god,
**[22:05] ---**
doesn't exist among mortals.
**[22:09] ---**
This…
**[22:17] ---**
Ignore him.
**[22:18] ---**
Oh, right.
**[22:19] ---**
How's Lady Ma doing?
**[22:21] ---**
She…
**[22:23] ---**
is much better now.
**[22:27] ---**
Although she's still depressed,
**[22:29] ---**
she's not going to kill herself.
**[22:31] ---**
We'll give this some time first
before deciding what to do.
**[22:35] ---**
I told the boatman already
**[22:37] ---**
to take you to the road leading to Bianjing!
**[22:39] ---**
This time, don't get lost!
**[22:44] ---**
Tao Yao,
**[22:45] ---**
what did Benefactor He Shan
say to you in the end?
**[22:49] ---**
Hmm…
**[22:54] ---**
He was worried
**[22:56] ---**
and asked me what to do if
his sister gets sick again.
**[22:59] ---**
So I gave him an everlasting prescription.
**[23:06] ---**
What kind of prescription?
**[23:09] ---**
Stop talking.
**[23:10] ---**
This delay took too long.
**[23:12] ---**
Let's start heading north.
**[23:13] ---**
To Bianjing!
**[23:14] ---**
That's south.
**[23:17] ---**
I'm just seeing if you'd blindly follow me.
**[23:20] ---**
Very good.
**[23:21] ---**
The Answer Bugs in your stomachs are dead.
**[23:23] ---**
Congratulations!
**[23:25] ---**
Keep bragging.
**[23:31] ---**
[Why are you so humble?]
**[23:37] ---**
[Episode 14: Answer Bug (2)]
[Why be so humble?]
**[23:41] ---**
♪ The wind slows ♪
**[23:43] ---**
♪ Music trickles through the windows ♪
**[23:47] ---**
♪ Who are these idle memories for? ♪
**[23:54] ---**
♪ The dust floats in the air ♪
**[23:57] ---**
♪ The water ripples like blossoms ♪
**[24:00] ---**
♪ Sighs of hindsight ♪
**[24:03] ---**
♪ No sign of stopping ♪
**[24:07] ---**
♪ Thoughts are always unfinished ♪
**[24:14] ---**
♪ Joy is often cut short ♪
**[24:16] ---**
♪ It's hard to wake up from
a long night's dream ♪
**[24:21] ---**
♪ Evidence without reason ♪
**[24:24] ---**
♪ A farewell to love and hate ♪
**[24:28] ---**
♪ Searching in the haystack ♪
**[24:30] ---**
♪ Thousands of times ♪
**[24:38] ---**
♪ Starlight rains down the southern sky ♪
**[24:41] ---**
♪ My heart is layered with expired love ♪
**[24:45] ---**
♪ A journey across mountains
for one promise ♪
**[24:52] ---**
♪ No shadows, no fate ♪
**[24:55] ---**
♪ Where there's love, there's promise ♪
**[24:59] ---**
♪ A dream comes to life ♪
**[25:06] ---**
♪ Stars disappear upon rainfall ♪
# 3 - Morphed Snake - Part 1
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**[00:28] ---**
The evil spirit is in this well.
**[00:33] ---**
How can that be?
**[00:35] ---**
The temple is a sacred place!
**[00:37] ---**
Master, the reason you called us all here
**[00:40] ---**
is not to jest, surely?
**[00:42] ---**
If you don't believe me, Master Abbot,
**[00:44] ---**
then I shall show you.
**[01:12] ---**
That's…!
**[01:16] ---**
Beware.
**[01:33] ---**
I-It's an evil spirit!
**[01:35] ---**
He wasn't lying!
**[01:36] ---**
Master!
**[01:36] ---**
Please save us!
**[01:45] ---**
[Episode 15: Morphed Snake (1)]
**[02:12] ---**
Yo, how much longer until
we reach Mount Deergate?
**[02:15] ---**
Miss, I've said this so many times already.
**[02:17] ---**
I can't take you there.
**[02:18] ---**
I'll only do Snakehead Shoal.
**[02:20] ---**
Okay, okay.
**[02:21] ---**
I heard you the first time.
**[02:22] ---**
Young man,
**[02:24] ---**
why won't you take us there?
**[02:25] ---**
Not even for money.
**[02:27] ---**
Ha…
**[02:28] ---**
An evil spirit runs amok there.
**[02:31] ---**
An evil spirit? What kind?
**[02:33] ---**
One that can control water.
**[02:35] ---**
It's always storming on that mountain.
**[02:37] ---**
Who would dare to go?
**[02:38] ---**
Even the mountainside temple
there was almost flooded.
**[02:41] ---**
How do you know it's an evil spirit's doing?
**[02:43] ---**
What if it isn't?
**[02:45] ---**
Old Zhang from our village
saw it with his own eyes!
**[02:48] ---**
A few days ago, the temple
invited him to be a witness.
**[02:57] ---**
He was scared sick.
**[02:59] ---**
He said that, inside Deergate Temple's well,
**[03:01] ---**
hides a giant snake spirit.
**[03:04] ---**
How did he return alive from that?
**[03:07] ---**
It was all thanks to Master Kongming.
**[03:09] ---**
Master Kongming?
**[03:12] ---**
He's famously known as
Deergate Temple's living god.
**[03:14] ---**
He regularly refines pills
**[03:16] ---**
and casts rain spells.
**[03:17] ---**
It's all very effective.
**[03:19] ---**
As a child, I was once saved by him too.
**[03:21] ---**
If we didn't have him,
**[03:23] ---**
everyone in these parts would be suffering.
**[03:25] ---**
Alas,
**[03:27] ---**
Master Kongming has grown old.
**[03:29] ---**
Speaking of,
**[03:30] ---**
snake spirits are so ugly and terrifying.
**[03:32] ---**
Why must they exist?
**[03:34] ---**
There are charming snakes too!
**[03:36] ---**
You just haven't met one!
**[03:37] ---**
By the way…
**[03:38] ---**
Miss,
**[03:39] ---**
why do you guys want to go to Mount Deergate?
**[03:42] ---**
To pray at the temple.
**[03:43] ---**
If that's the case, you should turn back.
**[03:46] ---**
The weather's terrible,
**[03:47] ---**
and there's an evil spirit.
**[03:48] ---**
If it continues to be plagued like this,
**[03:50] ---**
that famed mountain will wither away.
**[03:58] ---**
To end that "plague,"
**[03:59] ---**
you'll need a doctor.
**[04:18] ---**
It's raining way too hard here!
**[04:22] ---**
My shoes are drenched!
**[04:26] ---**
Oh, how pitiful.
**[04:27] ---**
To think you could be reduced to this state.
**[04:30] ---**
Heh.
**[04:31] ---**
Heh.
**[04:32] ---**
You've got nerve!
**[04:33] ---**
If you hadn't used a spell,
you'd be drenched too!
**[04:36] ---**
A fine snake spirit such as myself
**[04:38] ---**
cannot be dirtied.
**[04:39] ---**
Unlike a certain someone.
**[04:46] ---**
But why do I smell
**[04:47] ---**
something really foul?
**[04:55] ---**
Don't tell me…
**[04:56] ---**
You didn't wash yourself?
**[05:04] ---**
It's not coming from me!
**[05:05] ---**
Just admit it!
**[05:07] ---**
Tao Yao,
**[05:08] ---**
are we here to treat a spirit?
**[05:20] ---**
Senior Juehui!
**[05:22] ---**
A female visitor wishes to see you!
**[05:38] ---**
Long time no see, Tao Yao.
**[05:42] ---**
You know him?
**[05:45] ---**
I guess.
**[05:53] ---**
Senior Juehui asked to be
alone with the female visitor,
**[05:56] ---**
so we must ask you both to wait here.
**[06:08] ---**
Weird.
**[06:09] ---**
I didn't know Tao Yao was
acquainted with someone here.
**[06:17] ---**
What?
**[06:18] ---**
Are you curious?
**[06:19] ---**
I remember her clamoring
about going to Bianjing.
**[06:22] ---**
But now we're here at Mount
Deergate for a crippled monk.
**[06:25] ---**
Aren't you curious?
**[06:27] ---**
Hm…
**[06:28] ---**
You were Tao Yao's neighbor for many years.
**[06:30] ---**
Do you know that monk?
**[06:31] ---**
When I lived in Tao City, I was
busy writing poems and cooking.
**[06:34] ---**
So how would I?
**[06:37] ---**
Oh…
**[06:40] ---**
Ah!
**[06:41] ---**
Done.
**[06:42] ---**
Perfect!
**[06:47] ---**
Deergate rains all day,
**[06:49] ---**
makes things rot away.
**[06:51] ---**
Tao Yao meets an old friend,
**[06:54] ---**
whose legs had met an end.
**[07:13] ---**
I haven't seen rain this heavy in years.
**[07:16] ---**
If the rain continues,
**[07:18] ---**
it will deluge the mountain.
**[07:20] ---**
Everything will die.
**[07:31] ---**
Whether or not everything dies
**[07:32] ---**
has nothing to do with me.
**[07:39] ---**
So many years have passed,
**[07:40] ---**
but you're still the same.
**[07:42] ---**
I can't say the same for you.
**[07:44] ---**
You're a crippled monk now.
**[07:47] ---**
Humans are always changing.
**[07:48] ---**
Just like this weather,
**[07:50] ---**
once so sunny.
**[07:52] ---**
But before we knew it,
there was torrential rain.
**[07:54] ---**
What a pity.
**[07:55] ---**
I deal with spirits, not weather.
**[07:57] ---**
Tao Yao…
**[07:59] ---**
Do you know where this rain came from?
**[08:06] ---**
The rain is only getting heavier.
**[08:08] ---**
Time is running out.
**[08:10] ---**
Master Kongming,
**[08:11] ---**
seven days have passed.
**[08:13] ---**
Have you found a way to
eradicate the snake spirit?
**[08:19] ---**
Rest assured.
**[08:21] ---**
I have scoured many ancient texts
**[08:23] ---**
and divined that in three days, at dawn,
**[08:25] ---**
the spirit will be at its weakest state.
**[08:27] ---**
That's wonderful!
**[08:29] ---**
The rainfall on Mount Deergate
will soon come to an end!
**[08:31] ---**
Anything you require, Master,
**[08:33] ---**
we can give it to you,
**[08:34] ---**
so long as the snake spirit is eradicated!
**[08:37] ---**
Your kindness is already enough.
**[08:41] ---**
That's…
**[08:42] ---**
20 years ago,
**[08:44] ---**
I suppressed the snake spirit
with only a peach-wood sword.
**[08:47] ---**
The sword is still with me.
**[08:49] ---**
Thus…
**[08:50] ---**
You're telling me…
**[08:52] ---**
This has happened before, 20 years ago?
**[08:54] ---**
Yes.
**[08:55] ---**
That year, it was Master
Kongming who stopped the rain.
**[08:58] ---**
In that case,
**[08:59] ---**
he can do it again.
**[09:01] ---**
If that's all,
**[09:02] ---**
I'm leaving.
**[09:04] ---**
No!
**[09:05] ---**
Only you can stop this rain.
**[09:08] ---**
I told you,
**[09:10] ---**
I only deal with spirits, not weather.
**[09:16] ---**
Then…
**[09:18] ---**
Would you save a spirit?
**[09:24] ---**
In three days,
**[09:25] ---**
I shall approach the well
**[09:27] ---**
and eradicate the snake spirit.
**[09:34] ---**
Master Abbot.
**[09:36] ---**
Ah.
**[09:38] ---**
Could I ask you to recite a
prayer during the eradication?
**[09:43] ---**
The white snake is also a living being.
**[09:45] ---**
You are kind, Master.
**[09:46] ---**
Naturally, I will do all I can.
**[09:49] ---**
Many thanks.
**[10:24] ---**
You're…
**[10:28] ---**
Oh?
**[10:29] ---**
The master's back?
**[10:38] ---**
Wow!
**[10:39] ---**
This roast chicken smells great!
**[10:41] ---**
It's fresh from the market.
**[10:43] ---**
Are you here for treatment, miss?
**[10:44] ---**
I apologize,
**[10:46] ---**
but I am busy today.
**[10:47] ---**
You'll have to wait.
**[10:49] ---**
No! Fluffy is sick!
**[10:51] ---**
It can't be delayed!
**[10:55] ---**
Fluffy?
**[10:56] ---**
Yeah! He's my pet goose!
**[11:04] ---**
I grew up orphaned and wretched,
**[11:06] ---**
disdained by everyone.
**[11:08] ---**
In all these years,
**[11:09] ---**
Fluffy remained by my side as my only friend.
**[11:12] ---**
He can understand human speech.
**[11:14] ---**
He would do whatever I told him to.
**[11:22] ---**
During my darkest hours,
**[11:24] ---**
only Fluffy was there for me.
**[11:27] ---**
He's my companion
**[11:29] ---**
and my family.
**[11:30] ---**
I can't lose him!
**[11:33] ---**
Right now, he's on the verge of death!
**[11:36] ---**
Please save him, Master!
**[11:39] ---**
In this world…
**[11:40] ---**
There isn't a goose who could replace him!
**[11:43] ---**
That's…
**[11:44] ---**
Where is Fluffy right now?
**[11:47] ---**
Long River Town!
**[11:49] ---**
If we leave now,
**[11:50] ---**
we'll be back by tomorrow!
**[11:53] ---**
Tomorrow…
**[11:56] ---**
Rest assured.
**[11:57] ---**
I have scoured many ancient texts
**[12:00] ---**
and divined that in three days, at dawn,
**[12:01] ---**
the spirit will be at its weakest state.
**[12:04] ---**
Hmph.
**[12:05] ---**
Foolish girl!
**[12:06] ---**
The eradication of an evil spirit
**[12:08] ---**
cannot be deferred for the sake of a goose!
**[12:35] ---**
Alright, as you wish.
**[12:36] ---**
But…
**[12:38] ---**
Don't regret it.
**[13:28] ---**
Let us begin.
**[13:54] ---**
The evil spirit!
**[13:57] ---**
Evil spirit!
**[14:36] ---**
Amitabha…
**[14:54] ---**
That's…
**[14:55] ---**
That's not a snake spirit!
**[15:05] ---**
It's a morphed snake.
**[15:07] ---**
A tailless one now.
**[15:09] ---**
A morphed snake?
**[15:11] ---**
I read about one in an ancient text.
**[15:12] ---**
Human's face, jackal's body, snake's tail,
**[15:14] ---**
and its wings can summon floods.
**[15:16] ---**
To think I would see one myself
**[15:18] ---**
in this life.
**[15:25] ---**
Master!
**[15:26] ---**
Your arm!
**[15:27] ---**
Don't mind me.
**[15:28] ---**
They're stubborn creatures.
**[15:30] ---**
They often transform into normal
snakes to deceive others.
**[15:33] ---**
When they lose control of themselves,
**[15:35] ---**
a flood is inevitable.
**[15:45] ---**
This one's cultivation was weak,
**[15:46] ---**
so it was only able to affect this mountain.
**[15:49] ---**
It was unfortunate
**[15:50] ---**
to have encountered me here.
**[15:54] ---**
You risked your own life
**[15:55] ---**
to eradicate an evil for the people.
**[15:57] ---**
On behalf of everyone who resides here,
**[16:00] ---**
I thank you, Master.
**[16:02] ---**
There is no need.
**[16:04] ---**
However…
**[16:06] ---**
I have a request.
**[16:22] ---**
My robe?
**[16:23] ---**
May I ask for what reason?
**[16:25] ---**
It has a purpose.
**[16:29] ---**
I have another request.
**[16:30] ---**
If you would,
**[16:31] ---**
please leave the morphed snake's body to me.
**[16:43] ---**
I'll leave you here.
**[16:44] ---**
You'll be able to see your temple.
**[17:07] ---**
Ugh…
**[17:10] ---**
My arm? Where's my arm?!
**[17:14] ---**
You're awake? Don't bother.
**[17:16] ---**
You won't be able to move.
**[17:18] ---**
Who are you?
**[17:19] ---**
Why are you inside my body?
**[17:32] ---**
Who are you?
**[17:33] ---**
Are you an evil spirit or a ghost?
**[17:37] ---**
Don't look so disgusted!
**[17:39] ---**
You think I wanted to be in there?
**[17:41] ---**
It was so stinky and uncomfortable.
**[17:43] ---**
Just who are you?!
**[17:45] ---**
That's not important.
**[17:46] ---**
What's important is…
**[17:48] ---**
who you are.
**[17:50] ---**
Master Kongming?
**[17:52] ---**
Or…
**[17:53] ---**
Zhang
**[17:54] ---**
Er
**[17:55] ---**
Gou?
**[18:10] ---**
[Just… Who are you?]
**[18:12] ---**
♪ The wind slows ♪
**[18:14] ---**
♪ Music trickles through the windows ♪
**[18:18] ---**
♪ Who are these idle memories for? ♪
**[18:25] ---**
♪ The dust floats in the air ♪
**[18:28] ---**
♪ The water ripples like blossoms ♪
**[18:32] ---**
♪ Sighs of hindsight ♪
**[18:34] ---**
♪ No sign of stopping ♪
**[18:38] ---**
♪ Thoughts are always unfinished ♪
**[18:45] ---**
♪ Joy is often cut short ♪
**[18:47] ---**
♪ It's hard to wake up from
a long night's dream ♪
**[18:52] ---**
♪ Evidence without reason ♪
**[18:55] ---**
♪ A farewell to love and hate ♪
**[18:59] ---**
♪ Searching in the haystack ♪
**[19:01] ---**
♪ Thousands of times ♪
**[19:09] ---**
♪ Starlight rains down the southern sky ♪
**[19:12] ---**
♪ My heart is layered with expired love ♪
**[19:16] ---**
♪ A journey across mountains
for one promise ♪
**[19:23] ---**
♪ No shadows, no fate ♪
**[19:26] ---**
♪ Where there's love, there's promise ♪
**[19:30] ---**
♪ A dream comes to life ♪
**[19:37] ---**
♪ Stars disappear upon rainfall ♪
# 4 - Morphed Snake - Part 2
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**[00:02] ---**
Master Kongming has come!
**[00:04] ---**
The honorable and benevolent Master Kongming!
**[00:08] ---**
May the heavens bless you!
**[00:10] ---**
Please give us some more pills!
**[00:16] ---**
Thank you so much.
**[00:19] ---**
I remember when you had nothing to your name.
**[00:21] ---**
To think you'd become
**[00:22] ---**
the illustrious Master
Kongming we know today!
**[00:29] ---**
[Episode 16: Morphed Snake (2)]
**[00:32] ---**
What's important is…
**[00:34] ---**
who you are.
**[00:36] ---**
Master Kongming?
**[00:38] ---**
Or…
**[00:39] ---**
Zhang
**[00:40] ---**
Er
**[00:41] ---**
Gou?
**[00:44] ---**
I don't know what you're talking about!
**[00:47] ---**
You're the girl who came this
morning about your goose.
**[00:50] ---**
Are you bearing a grudge?
**[00:51] ---**
Is that why you came?
**[00:53] ---**
Wait until I've recovered…
**[00:54] ---**
No thanks.
**[00:55] ---**
I told you,
**[00:57] ---**
Fluffy's unique.
**[00:58] ---**
He's gone now
**[00:59] ---**
and can't be replaced.
**[01:01] ---**
Unlike humans
**[01:02] ---**
and their many faces.
**[01:03] ---**
A dignified savior one day,
**[01:06] ---**
and a swindling entertainer the next.
**[01:09] ---**
Swindling?!
**[01:10] ---**
In these past 20 years,
**[01:11] ---**
I helped the villagers earnestly,
**[01:13] ---**
with no regard for wealth!
**[01:15] ---**
Yet you call me a swindler?!
**[01:18] ---**
I didn't call you a moneygrubber,
**[01:20] ---**
but a swindling entertainer.
**[01:22] ---**
Because Kongming isn't your real name.
**[01:25] ---**
Zhang…
**[01:26] ---**
Er…
**[01:28] ---**
Shut up!
**[01:29] ---**
Don't say that name!
**[01:30] ---**
Don't! Don't!
**[01:32] ---**
Oh, yeah?
**[01:33] ---**
Now that you're "Master Kongming,"
**[01:36] ---**
you want to bury your past as "Zhang Ergou"?
**[01:43] ---**
What would a little girl like you know?
**[01:45] ---**
Everything I've done… is
because I had no choice!
**[01:49] ---**
Everything…
**[01:51] ---**
is for…
**[01:52] ---**
How dare you do this on my territory!
**[02:01] ---**
This world…
**[02:02] ---**
is most cruel to those who entertain to live.
**[02:06] ---**
Because of my lowly birth,
**[02:07] ---**
anyone could trample over me.
**[02:14] ---**
Damn you!
**[02:34] ---**
Go on, bark like the dog you are!
**[02:41] ---**
Even…
**[02:43] ---**
the most important thing to me was taken…
**[02:50] ---**
Woof, woof, woof!
**[02:53] ---**
Woof!
**[02:57] ---**
Shut the hell up!
**[03:05] ---**
Goldy!
**[03:06] ---**
Goldy!
**[03:09] ---**
No…!
**[03:19] ---**
Look at him, so wretched!
**[03:21] ---**
He looks worse than a dog!
**[03:34] ---**
Get lost!
**[03:36] ---**
How dare you try to hit us!
**[03:37] ---**
Beat him!
**[04:17] ---**
Goldy…
**[04:19] ---**
Goldy…
**[04:22] ---**
I'm sorry…
**[04:24] ---**
Goldy…
**[04:26] ---**
Right when I wanted nothing
more than to die…
**[04:30] ---**
It appeared.
**[04:50] ---**
A s-snake spirit!
**[05:10] ---**
Thank you for saving me.
**[05:11] ---**
C-Can I call you Snowy?
**[05:19] ---**
I was saving that for Goldy.
**[05:21] ---**
Since you ate it,
**[05:21] ---**
you should stay.
**[05:23] ---**
I might be a useless man, but
l promise I'll treat you well.
**[05:27] ---**
I won't…
**[05:28] ---**
let you end up like Goldy.
**[05:38] ---**
Snowy…
**[05:39] ---**
Snowy…
**[05:41] ---**
From now on,
**[05:42] ---**
you're my only family.
**[05:44] ---**
I promise…
**[05:45] ---**
to stick together through thick and thin
**[05:48] ---**
and never leave your side.
**[06:06] ---**
Gather around! A good show is about to start!
**[06:14] ---**
It's a snake!
**[06:17] ---**
Come!
**[06:43] ---**
Amazing!
**[06:48] ---**
Wow!
**[06:50] ---**
That was amazing!
**[06:51] ---**
Good show!
**[06:55] ---**
How wonderful!
**[06:57] ---**
Amazing!
**[06:58] ---**
Thank you, thank you!
**[07:00] ---**
Please be generous!
**[07:01] ---**
Thank you for your support!
**[07:13] ---**
You didn't die last time?
**[07:15] ---**
And you even came back?
**[07:16] ---**
You wanna get pissed on again?
**[07:22] ---**
Go, Snowy!
**[07:35] ---**
I-It's a snake spirit!
**[07:37] ---**
How's that?
**[07:38] ---**
Still looking down on me?
**[07:39] ---**
Run!
**[07:41] ---**
Run away!
**[07:44] ---**
Don't you dare bully me again...
**[07:47] ---**
Unbelievable!
**[07:48] ---**
You colluded with a monster!
**[07:51] ---**
Despicable lowlife!
**[07:53] ---**
Get out of Xiangyang City!
**[07:56] ---**
If you come back, we'll get
an exorcist to deal with you!
**[07:58] ---**
Scram!
**[08:00] ---**
Get lost!
**[08:02] ---**
Scram!
**[08:03] ---**
Scram!
**[08:04] ---**
Get out!
**[08:05] ---**
Scram!
**[08:08] ---**
I thought that, with Snowy,
**[08:10] ---**
things would change.
**[08:12] ---**
But I was wrong.
**[08:13] ---**
A street entertainer…
**[08:15] ---**
can never become something more.
**[08:29] ---**
I'm sorry,
**[08:30] ---**
Snowy.
**[08:33] ---**
I wanted to live like a real human.
**[08:35] ---**
I wanted you to live a good life with me.
**[08:39] ---**
But…
**[08:40] ---**
It's too late.
**[08:59] ---**
It's an immortal master!
**[09:01] ---**
Master…
**[09:03] ---**
Please save our village, immortal master!
**[09:06] ---**
Master…
**[09:08] ---**
Who…
**[09:11] ---**
Master…
**[09:12] ---**
Please, help us!
**[09:14] ---**
Our fields haven't seen a single
drop of rain in ten months!
**[09:17] ---**
Our crops withered,
**[09:19] ---**
and our village is dying of starvation!
**[09:36] ---**
Could it be…
**[09:37] ---**
Snowy?
**[09:39] ---**
Snowy has the ability to control rain!
**[09:43] ---**
If it really is you…
**[09:45] ---**
Snowy…
**[09:49] ---**
Please show me a miracle!
**[10:08] ---**
We cannot thank you enough
for your great kindness!
**[10:11] ---**
Sir!
**[10:12] ---**
Please, don't kneel!
**[10:14] ---**
May I ask your name, great immortal master?
**[10:17] ---**
Zhang…
**[10:17] ---**
Ah, no!
**[10:19] ---**
I am…
**[10:21] ---**
Kongming!
**[10:24] ---**
On that day,
**[10:25] ---**
Master Kongming was born.
**[10:30] ---**
I traveled around with Snowy,
**[10:32] ---**
summoning clouds and rain
**[10:34] ---**
to save lives.
**[11:35] ---**
Despite my past grievances,
**[11:37] ---**
I decided to repay evil with good
**[11:40] ---**
and use selfless kindness
**[11:41] ---**
to gain people's respect.
**[11:51] ---**
Master Kongming?
**[11:56] ---**
Nice to meet you.
**[11:58] ---**
I've heard of your renowned
name, Master Kongming.
**[12:01] ---**
However,
**[12:01] ---**
we are protected by the
monks of Mount Deergate
**[12:04] ---**
and have no lack of rainfall.
**[12:06] ---**
Perhaps the neighboring county…
**[12:14] ---**
It is unfortunate, but I must leave.
**[12:16] ---**
I apologize.
**[12:17] ---**
Send him off.
**[12:19] ---**
Is someone ill?
**[12:24] ---**
It's my daughter.
**[12:25] ---**
A mere scrape
**[12:26] ---**
somehow became a festering abscess.
**[12:28] ---**
She has a fever,
**[12:29] ---**
and her spirits…
**[12:31] ---**
Would you happen to know a cure, Master?
**[12:48] ---**
I may know a way.
**[12:56] ---**
If we cure the daughter of the Liu family,
**[12:58] ---**
we'll get a foothold in Mount Deergate!
**[13:03] ---**
I just need some of your saliva!
**[13:05] ---**
Isn't it a cure-all?
**[13:06] ---**
Like last time, you licked me,
**[13:08] ---**
and then…
**[13:12] ---**
You get it?
**[13:19] ---**
You've always been so empathetic!
**[13:21] ---**
Why don't you get it?
**[13:47] ---**
I see.
**[13:48] ---**
These pills can cure anything…
**[13:53] ---**
You're my treasure, Snowy!
**[13:56] ---**
You had to hurt yourself.
I'll make it up to you!
**[13:59] ---**
I'll go buy you a roast chicken!
**[14:01] ---**
Ah, no! How about roast pig?
**[14:09] ---**
Thank you for your benevolence, Master!
**[14:13] ---**
Come, please have a seat!
**[14:26] ---**
Master,
**[14:27] ---**
this is a token of my gratitude.
**[14:31] ---**
No need.
**[14:32] ---**
I did not extend my hand
**[14:34] ---**
with such intentions.
**[14:36] ---**
How noble you are, Master!
**[14:38] ---**
I am in awe!
**[14:41] ---**
Truth be told,
**[14:42] ---**
this foul disease
**[14:44] ---**
is one that a dozen doctors
**[14:46] ---**
and even the monks of Deergate couldn't cure.
**[14:49] ---**
May I ask where you hail from, Master?
**[14:51] ---**
To think you could refine
such a miraculous pill!
**[14:55] ---**
I traveled the land in
search of enlightenment.
**[14:58] ---**
Naturally, I have knowledge
that the monks may not.
**[15:02] ---**
Mount Deergate is fortunate!
**[15:04] ---**
To have not only the monks
**[15:05] ---**
but also you protecting us!
**[15:07] ---**
What a blessed land!
**[15:14] ---**
Right now?
**[15:15] ---**
No!
**[15:17] ---**
What?
**[15:18] ---**
The abbot, too?
**[15:19] ---**
That's…
**[15:20] ---**
It seems you have matters to
attend to. I shall take my leave.
**[15:23] ---**
I apologize, truly.
**[15:25] ---**
It's about the gates.
**[15:26] ---**
The other squires requested
a meeting right away.
**[15:28] ---**
That aside,
**[15:29] ---**
if my token of gratitude is too much,
**[15:31] ---**
I shall take responsibility
**[15:33] ---**
for all your expenses.
**[15:35] ---**
Many thanks, Minister Liu.
**[15:39] ---**
Renovate? Of course!
**[15:41] ---**
Deergate Temple is of utmost importance!
**[15:43] ---**
It can't look shabby!
**[15:45] ---**
Deergate Temple again?
**[16:01] ---**
What is going on?
**[16:03] ---**
We have never had such heavy rainfall before!
**[16:06] ---**
Could it be a heavenly punishment?
**[16:09] ---**
Amitabha.
**[16:12] ---**
Bad news, bad news!
**[16:13] ---**
Master!
**[16:14] ---**
The newly repaired gates!
**[16:16] ---**
They're about to collapse!
**[16:25] ---**
So what?
**[16:27] ---**
Even if it collapses, it can
be rebuilt with new donations.
**[16:30] ---**
Isn't that so?
**[16:56] ---**
Alright.
**[16:57] ---**
Now, it's my turn.
**[17:07] ---**
This rain was caused by an evil spirit!
**[17:09] ---**
It is extremely dangerous!
**[17:11] ---**
Please make way!
**[17:47] ---**
This is all…
**[17:52] ---**
for honor!
**[17:55] ---**
Seal!
**[18:01] ---**
[The past that must be buried.]
**[18:04] ---**
♪ The wind slows ♪
**[18:07] ---**
♪ Music trickles through the windows ♪
**[18:10] ---**
♪ Who are these idle memories for? ♪
**[18:17] ---**
♪ The dust floats in the air ♪
**[18:20] ---**
♪ The water ripples like blossoms ♪
**[18:24] ---**
♪ Sighs of hindsight ♪
**[18:26] ---**
♪ No sign of stopping ♪
**[18:30] ---**
♪ Thoughts are always unfinished ♪
**[18:37] ---**
♪ Joy is often cut short ♪
**[18:39] ---**
♪ It's hard to wake up from
a long night's dream ♪
**[18:44] ---**
♪ Evidence without reason ♪
**[18:47] ---**
♪ A farewell to love and hate ♪
**[18:51] ---**
♪ Searching in the haystack ♪
**[18:53] ---**
♪ Thousands of times ♪
**[19:01] ---**
♪ Starlight rains down the southern sky ♪
**[19:04] ---**
♪ My heart is layered with expired love ♪
**[19:08] ---**
♪ A journey across mountains
for one promise ♪
**[19:15] ---**
♪ No shadows, no fate ♪
**[19:18] ---**
♪ Where there's love, there's promise ♪
**[19:22] ---**
♪ A dream comes to life ♪
**[19:29] ---**
♪ Stars disappear upon rainfall ♪
# 5 - Morphed Snake - Part 3
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**[00:33] ---**
[Episode 17: Morphed Snake (3)]
**[00:42] ---**
This is all…
**[00:47] ---**
for honor!
**[00:49] ---**
Seal!
**[01:04] ---**
Amitabha…
**[01:13] ---**
It's a miracle!
**[01:14] ---**
Your heroic deed has saved us all, Master!
**[01:16] ---**
Please accept our gratitude!
**[01:19] ---**
You saved Mount Deergate!
**[01:21] ---**
Yes, indeed!
**[01:22] ---**
You are a living god, Master!
**[01:25] ---**
Amitabha.
**[01:27] ---**
Master, your powers are astounding,
**[01:28] ---**
and your kindness knows no bounds.
**[01:30] ---**
Your powers are astounding,
**[01:32] ---**
and your kindness knows no bounds!
**[01:38] ---**
Respected by the monks,
**[01:39] ---**
worshipped by the squires…
**[01:41] ---**
That's the kind of life I yearn for!
**[01:48] ---**
I was no longer Zhang Ergou.
**[01:50] ---**
Instead, I was the esteemed…
**[01:52] ---**
Master Kongming!
**[01:58] ---**
[20 years later]
**[02:00] ---**
I've always dreamed
**[02:02] ---**
of living like a great master,
secluded in the mountains.
**[02:05] ---**
Where outside…
**[02:06] ---**
my worshipers awaited.
**[02:09] ---**
You are now cured.
**[02:10] ---**
Take care to recuperate.
**[02:13] ---**
There's no need, ma'am!
**[02:16] ---**
Please accept it!
**[02:17] ---**
It's a small gift of gratitude
for all you've done.
**[02:20] ---**
You're too kind!
**[02:22] ---**
Take care!
**[02:24] ---**
Thank you very much.
**[02:27] ---**
I remember when you had nothing to your name.
**[02:30] ---**
To think you'd become
**[02:31] ---**
the illustrious Master
Kongming we know today!
**[02:47] ---**
But I understood
**[02:49] ---**
I wasn't truly the great master
everyone thought I was.
**[02:52] ---**
Because of that,
**[02:54] ---**
I was plagued by nightmares.
**[03:02] ---**
I had to remain vigilant at all times.
**[03:14] ---**
Snowy?
**[03:18] ---**
Snowy!
**[03:38] ---**
I knew you would be here.
**[03:39] ---**
In just a few days,
**[03:41] ---**
you've grown so much!
**[03:55] ---**
He's growing at a frightening rate.
**[03:57] ---**
What is going on?
**[04:03] ---**
What are you doing?
**[04:11] ---**
It's alright.
**[04:12] ---**
Your powers are growing.
**[04:13] ---**
That's wonderful, of course.
**[04:26] ---**
Not long ago,
**[04:27] ---**
plague and drought swept through
the Mount Deergate area.
**[04:31] ---**
It should've been another chance
for me to spread my name.
**[04:35] ---**
However…
**[04:37] ---**
Have you heard?
**[04:38] ---**
Deergate Temple is open!
**[04:39] ---**
They're distributing porridge and herbs!
**[04:41] ---**
It's small amounts, but it's a
blessing in this time of disaster!
**[04:45] ---**
The monks sure are compassionate!
**[04:48] ---**
Let's hurry!
**[04:48] ---**
We're going to miss it!
**[04:50] ---**
So what if they have herbs?
**[04:51] ---**
I have my snake pills!
**[05:14] ---**
Master Kongming has come!
**[05:16] ---**
The honorable and benevolent Master Kongming!
**[05:20] ---**
May the heavens bless you!
**[05:22] ---**
Please give us some more pills!
**[05:24] ---**
That's mine!
**[05:26] ---**
Give me one!
**[05:28] ---**
I didn't get any, Master!
**[05:31] ---**
That's right!
**[05:32] ---**
Please give us some more!
**[05:37] ---**
Snowy!
**[05:39] ---**
I know you're tired,
**[05:40] ---**
but I just need 50…
**[05:42] ---**
No, 40! 40 more!
**[05:44] ---**
Can't you?
**[05:52] ---**
Get back here!
**[05:53] ---**
Snowy!
**[05:54] ---**
How dare you defy me!
**[06:05] ---**
What?
**[06:06] ---**
I raised you all these years,
**[06:07] ---**
and this is how you repay me?!
**[06:09] ---**
I'll be condemned by those
who didn't get a pill!
**[06:11] ---**
Understand?!
**[06:36] ---**
Normally,
**[06:37] ---**
Snowy would never defy my orders.
**[06:39] ---**
But because of the recent demand,
**[06:41] ---**
his body had grown weak,
**[06:43] ---**
and he was often absentminded.
**[06:46] ---**
He stopped listening to me like he used to.
**[06:48] ---**
Snowy!
**[06:49] ---**
Snowy!
**[06:51] ---**
We're leaving to summon rain in two hours!
**[06:53] ---**
Do you hear me?
**[07:00] ---**
Snowy?
**[07:00] ---**
Snowy!
**[07:01] ---**
Stop!
**[07:03] ---**
What's wrong with you?!
**[07:08] ---**
I said to summon a bit
of rain for the drought,
**[07:10] ---**
not to flood the entire mountain!
**[07:22] ---**
What happened?
**[07:24] ---**
Mount Deergate was suddenly flooded!
**[07:26] ---**
Master Kongming!
**[07:27] ---**
It was him!
**[07:28] ---**
He's getting too old and
lost control of his powers!
**[07:31] ---**
That's right!
**[07:32] ---**
We all saw it!
**[07:33] ---**
We were all there!
**[07:34] ---**
I've always been suspicous of him!
**[07:35] ---**
He's a priest of unknown origin!
**[07:37] ---**
Who knows?
**[07:38] ---**
Maybe he's a swindler!
**[07:39] ---**
Or an evil spirit in disguise!
**[07:40] ---**
Humans can't summon rain!
**[07:41] ---**
You're right!
**[07:42] ---**
His pills are also strange!
**[07:44] ---**
I get nightmares from them!
**[07:46] ---**
You shameless people!
**[07:48] ---**
For so many years,
**[07:49] ---**
I did everything you asked
of me, all for free!
**[07:52] ---**
Yet you forsake me as soon
as something goes awry!
**[07:55] ---**
I'm not getting old,
**[07:56] ---**
and I'm not a swindler!
**[07:58] ---**
I just don't want to be Zhang Ergou!
**[08:00] ---**
I want to live as Master Kongming
for the rest of my life!
**[08:04] ---**
I'll do anything…
**[08:06] ---**
to regain my honor!
**[08:10] ---**
The evil spirit is in this well.
**[08:21] ---**
That's…!
**[08:33] ---**
An evil spirit!
**[08:34] ---**
He wasn't lying!
**[08:35] ---**
Master! Please save us!
**[08:49] ---**
And so,
**[08:50] ---**
you thought up a plan to kill
Snowy, who lives in that well,
**[08:53] ---**
all in order to prove yourself.
**[08:56] ---**
Although my memory is hazy,
**[08:58] ---**
it's evident that I succeeded.
**[09:02] ---**
For the sake of your petty "honor,"
**[09:04] ---**
you lost sight of what's most important.
**[09:06] ---**
Haven't you realized?
**[09:07] ---**
There's nothing more important than my honor!
**[09:10] ---**
I am Master Kongming!
**[09:11] ---**
I can't be associated with a snake spirit!
**[09:14] ---**
I had to kill him
**[09:15] ---**
to prove my innocence!
**[09:17] ---**
What innocence?
**[09:18] ---**
Snowy might be a spirit,
**[09:20] ---**
but he's never done evil
**[09:21] ---**
and always listened to you.
**[09:23] ---**
Who was it that told him to summon rain?
**[09:25] ---**
Who pretends to be someone he's not?
**[09:27] ---**
So what if I'm pretending?
**[09:28] ---**
I still saved countless people!
**[09:30] ---**
Even the abbot acknowledged my merits!
**[09:33] ---**
Zhang Ergou,
**[09:34] ---**
you did nothing.
**[09:36] ---**
What can you do? Summon rain? Refine pills?
**[09:38] ---**
All you did was use Snowy's
powers to deceive others.
**[09:41] ---**
Do you think…
**[09:43] ---**
the god who calculates karma is blind?
**[09:45] ---**
No…
**[09:46] ---**
No!
**[09:47] ---**
It can't be!
**[09:48] ---**
I killed an evil spirit!
**[09:49] ---**
That has to count!
**[09:51] ---**
Killed an evil spirit?
**[09:53] ---**
The reason Snowy fell into madness…
**[09:56] ---**
You know it better than anyone else,
**[09:58] ---**
Zhang Ergou.
**[09:59] ---**
Nonsense!
**[10:00] ---**
How would I…
**[10:04] ---**
Snowy?
**[10:05] ---**
Snowy!
**[10:06] ---**
I knew you would be here.
**[10:07] ---**
In just a few days,
**[10:09] ---**
you've grown so much!
**[10:10] ---**
He's growing at a frightening rate…
**[10:12] ---**
What is going on?
**[10:13] ---**
What are you doing?
**[10:15] ---**
What?
**[10:16] ---**
I raised you all these years,
**[10:17] ---**
and this is how you repay me?!
**[10:19] ---**
Back then,
**[10:21] ---**
he must've been trying to tell me
**[10:22] ---**
that there's something in the well.
**[10:25] ---**
Yet, I…
**[10:26] ---**
I thought he was acting up
**[10:27] ---**
and wanted to hurt me.
**[10:30] ---**
He sacrificed his body for my sake,
**[10:32] ---**
to the point of losing his own mind.
**[10:34] ---**
Because he didn't want to forget me…
**[10:36] ---**
That's why he tried to refuse!
**[10:38] ---**
Yet, I…
**[10:48] ---**
You got what you wanted, didn't you?
**[10:51] ---**
Why are you crying?
**[11:05] ---**
Because…
**[11:07] ---**
Just like the past… Again…
**[11:10] ---**
I'm all alone…
**[11:19] ---**
You've finally realized it.
**[11:21] ---**
What's most important to
you is actually Snowy.
**[11:25] ---**
Zhang Ergou was kind and
humble, but unfortunately…
**[11:28] ---**
when he became the great Master Kongming,
**[11:30] ---**
he lost that kind, humble heart.
**[11:42] ---**
Snowy!
**[11:43] ---**
Snowy!
**[11:44] ---**
You didn't die!
**[11:46] ---**
I'm so glad…
**[11:47] ---**
This was all just a dream…
**[11:50] ---**
I'm sorry.
**[11:51] ---**
I almost forgot our promise!
**[11:53] ---**
To never leave each other…!
**[11:55] ---**
I'm glad it was just a dream.
**[11:57] ---**
I'm so glad…
**[11:58] ---**
Let's go, Snowy!
**[12:00] ---**
Just like before!
**[12:01] ---**
Together, through thick and thin!
**[12:06] ---**
What's wrong?
**[12:07] ---**
Snowy?
**[12:08] ---**
Can you no longer understand me?
**[12:11] ---**
What about this?
**[12:19] ---**
I've wiped this white snake's memories.
**[12:21] ---**
He's forgotten you.
**[12:23] ---**
Your fate with him… ends here.
**[12:27] ---**
No! That's impossible!
**[12:30] ---**
Come here!
**[12:31] ---**
Let's go eat roast chicken! Your favorite!
**[12:33] ---**
Snowy?
**[12:38] ---**
Come to me, Snowy!
**[12:43] ---**
Be good!
**[12:44] ---**
Come to me!
**[12:47] ---**
I'm going to be angry!
**[12:55] ---**
Snowy!
**[12:58] ---**
You should go.
**[12:59] ---**
This land is vast. Your future is limitless.
**[13:01] ---**
But remember, don't carelessly summon rain!
**[13:04] ---**
I won't spare you if you do!
**[13:07] ---**
Snowy…
**[13:13] ---**
Snowy!
**[13:14] ---**
Come back, Snowy!
**[13:16] ---**
Don't leave me!
**[13:18] ---**
I want to live as Master Kongming
for the rest of my life!
**[13:21] ---**
We promised…
**[13:22] ---**
to never leave each other!
**[13:24] ---**
I'll do anything…
**[13:25] ---**
Snowy…
**[13:27] ---**
to regain my honor!
**[13:39] ---**
Snowy…
**[13:41] ---**
Snowy…
**[13:50] ---**
In this world...
**[13:52] ---**
There is only one Snowy.
**[13:58] ---**
Wait…
**[13:59] ---**
If Snowy is still alive,
**[14:01] ---**
then who was killed earlier?
**[14:22] ---**
Master! Bad news!
**[14:24] ---**
Senior Juehui is…!
**[14:26] ---**
He…
**[14:28] ---**
What?
**[14:42] ---**
You want me to kill you?
**[14:47] ---**
Yes.
**[14:49] ---**
On the day of the exorcism,
**[14:51] ---**
I wish to take Snowy's place.
**[14:56] ---**
[In this world, there is only one Snowy.]
**[14:59] ---**
♪ The wind slows ♪
**[15:01] ---**
♪ Music trickles through the windows ♪
**[15:05] ---**
♪ Who are these idle memories for? ♪
**[15:12] ---**
♪ The dust floats in the air ♪
**[15:15] ---**
♪ The water ripples like blossoms ♪
**[15:18] ---**
♪ Sighs of hindsight ♪
**[15:21] ---**
♪ No sign of stopping ♪
**[15:25] ---**
♪ Thoughts are always unfinished ♪
**[15:32] ---**
♪ Joy is often cut short ♪
**[15:34] ---**
♪ It's hard to wake up from
a long night's dream ♪
**[15:39] ---**
♪ Evidence without reason ♪
**[15:42] ---**
♪ A farewell to love and hate ♪
**[15:46] ---**
♪ Searching in the haystack ♪
**[15:48] ---**
♪ Thousands of times ♪
**[15:56] ---**
♪ Starlight rains down the southern sky ♪
**[15:59] ---**
♪ My heart is layered with expired love ♪
**[16:03] ---**
♪ A journey across mountains
for one promise ♪
**[16:10] ---**
♪ No shadows, no fate ♪
**[16:13] ---**
♪ Where there's love, there's promise ♪
**[16:17] ---**
♪ A dream comes to life ♪
**[16:24] ---**
♪ Stars disappear upon rainfall ♪
# 6 - Morphed Snake - Part 4
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**[00:04] ---**
You want me to kill you?
**[00:08] ---**
Yes.
**[00:10] ---**
On the day of the exorcism…
**[00:12] ---**
I wish to take Snowy's place.
**[00:16] ---**
That snake spirit bears no relation to you.
**[00:19] ---**
It's my fault he ended up this way.
**[00:22] ---**
If it weren't for my severed
tail, left behind in that well…
**[00:25] ---**
Snowy wouldn't have lost himself.
**[00:29] ---**
The intermingling of our auras…
**[00:32] ---**
is the reason for Mount Deergate's disaster.
**[00:41] ---**
This has been my home for
the past thousand years,
**[00:43] ---**
and I am a senior monk here.
**[00:45] ---**
I can't possibly ignore this.
**[00:47] ---**
To end a disaster caused by the
intermingling of two auras,
**[00:50] ---**
only one needs to be destroyed.
**[00:51] ---**
If you kill Snowy,
**[00:53] ---**
Mount Deergate will return to normal.
**[00:55] ---**
But I don't wish to take an innocent life.
**[00:58] ---**
Oh?
**[00:59] ---**
When'd you become this soft?
**[01:05] ---**
Well…
**[01:06] ---**
Much has happened over the years.
**[01:12] ---**
Morphed snakes like me
**[01:14] ---**
have always been regarded as ominous.
**[01:26] ---**
We are at the world's mercy.
**[01:28] ---**
I hated my fate,
**[01:29] ---**
but I was helpless to change it.
**[01:41] ---**
Just when I thought I would die there…
**[01:46] ---**
Someone…
**[01:47] ---**
appeared by my side.
**[01:55] ---**
Her name was Bai Suyi.
**[01:57] ---**
She was a white snake who had
just attained a human form.
**[02:00] ---**
Why…
**[02:01] ---**
did you save me?
**[02:04] ---**
You're also injured…
**[02:17] ---**
If I didn't,
**[02:18] ---**
I'd be ridden with guilt.
**[02:25] ---**
But…
**[02:26] ---**
I'm a morphed snake.
**[02:28] ---**
Aren't you afraid
**[02:30] ---**
of the consequences…?
**[02:31] ---**
If you become strong enough,
**[02:33] ---**
you won't have to fear them.
**[02:37] ---**
She was right.
**[02:38] ---**
Only by becoming stronger
**[02:40] ---**
could I have a foothold in this world.
**[02:46] ---**
I followed her,
**[02:47] ---**
and we cultivated together.
**[02:52] ---**
After I attained a human form,
**[02:54] ---**
my powers grew stronger than ever before.
**[03:01] ---**
So strong
**[03:03] ---**
that they surpassed hers.
**[03:19] ---**
It's you…!
**[03:25] ---**
Wait!
**[03:38] ---**
I should've known it was you.
**[03:40] ---**
Why did you kill so many innocents?!
**[03:44] ---**
Speak!
**[03:47] ---**
Survival of the fittest.
**[03:50] ---**
If I didn't kill your kind,
**[03:51] ---**
I wouldn't have a foothold in this world…
**[04:04] ---**
Must I kill…
**[04:06] ---**
to have a foothold in this world?
**[04:10] ---**
Don't listen to him!
**[04:12] ---**
Your strength…
**[04:13] ---**
should be used for good…
**[04:16] ---**
not for killing people!
**[04:33] ---**
Charge!
**[04:50] ---**
That man was dead,
**[04:53] ---**
but what he said continued to plague me.
**[04:57] ---**
Over time,
**[04:58] ---**
it became my greatest inner demon.
**[05:08] ---**
You want me to stop?
**[05:10] ---**
You…!
**[05:10] ---**
Please stop!
**[05:11] ---**
You didn't cultivate so
you could kill people!
**[05:17] ---**
You hold no regard for others,
**[05:18] ---**
so you can never truly become "strong."
**[05:23] ---**
If you keep doing this,
**[05:24] ---**
you'll be the same as those who hurt you!
**[05:27] ---**
Tch!
**[05:41] ---**
Kill!
**[05:43] ---**
Kill!
**[05:44] ---**
Charge!
**[06:01] ---**
Run!
**[06:12] ---**
He commanded an entire city
**[06:13] ---**
and even the skies.
**[06:15] ---**
But his mistakes…
**[06:17] ---**
caused the people to revolt
and cost him his territory.
**[06:20] ---**
His lover
**[06:21] ---**
also died in that battle.
**[06:23] ---**
Although he survived,
**[06:25] ---**
he lost himself in his fury.
**[06:27] ---**
In the end,
**[06:28] ---**
it caused a great flood,
**[06:30] ---**
and the city was destroyed.
**[06:32] ---**
Just like that, he lost everything.
**[06:35] ---**
I thought…
**[06:36] ---**
with greater strength
**[06:38] ---**
comes greater privileges.
**[06:40] ---**
But
**[06:41] ---**
I was wrong.
**[06:44] ---**
Spirit Doctor Tao Yao!
**[06:45] ---**
Tao City sent you here
**[06:47] ---**
not to save me, but to kill me, right?
**[06:52] ---**
Heh!
**[07:14] ---**
I want to try living a
life without my powers!
**[07:19] ---**
I left.
**[07:20] ---**
I didn't take his life with me.
**[07:24] ---**
When I saw him again,
**[07:26] ---**
his appearance was that of a legless monk.
**[07:31] ---**
For a thousand years,
**[07:32] ---**
he lived at Deergate Temple as a monk,
**[07:35] ---**
secluded from the world.
**[07:36] ---**
As years passed, he aged and "died,"
**[07:38] ---**
returning each time with
a different appearance.
**[07:42] ---**
His Buddhist name
**[07:43] ---**
always contained "Hui," for regret.
**[07:47] ---**
He severed his tail and hid it in the well,
**[07:50] ---**
giving up the powers that
had taken countless lives.
**[07:54] ---**
Even so…
**[08:08] ---**
Juehui…
**[08:10] ---**
You've been here for nearly a year now.
**[08:12] ---**
Have you found any insight?
**[08:15] ---**
You hold no regard for others,
**[08:17] ---**
so you can never truly become "strong."
**[08:20] ---**
If you keep doing this,
**[08:21] ---**
you'll be the same as those who hurt you!
**[08:25] ---**
Master…
**[08:25] ---**
Do your regrets continue to plague you?
**[08:29] ---**
I feel like I'm still missing something.
**[08:32] ---**
Amitabha.
**[08:34] ---**
Don't dwell on it too much.
**[08:35] ---**
It will come to you naturally.
**[08:39] ---**
Master!
**[08:39] ---**
Master, the rain stopped!
**[08:41] ---**
Can I go play outside?
**[08:42] ---**
Wunian,
**[08:43] ---**
please quiet down.
**[08:44] ---**
Don't disturb your senior brother.
**[08:48] ---**
Juehui.
**[08:49] ---**
You need not stay inside all the time.
**[08:52] ---**
In the world outside,
**[08:54] ---**
you may find something new.
**[09:05] ---**
Master's words came true.
**[09:07] ---**
But I didn't realize
**[09:09] ---**
the thing I was looking
for… had already come.
**[09:16] ---**
It was a weak snake spirit.
**[09:18] ---**
I believe it only came to the temple
**[09:20] ---**
because it was attracted by my tail.
**[09:29] ---**
Nonetheless,
**[09:30] ---**
I knew the intermingling of our
auras would lead to disaster.
**[09:35] ---**
Thus,
**[09:36] ---**
I had no choice but to kill it.
**[10:01] ---**
Snowy!
**[10:04] ---**
I've failed this time,
**[10:05] ---**
but I can just try again.
**[10:25] ---**
Afterward,
**[10:27] ---**
I often went to observe them,
**[10:28] ---**
looking for an opportunity.
**[11:10] ---**
Must I kill…
**[11:12] ---**
to have a foothold in this world?
**[11:14] ---**
Don't listen to him!
**[11:16] ---**
Your strength…
**[11:17] ---**
should be used for good…
**[11:20] ---**
not for killing people!
**[11:22] ---**
Please stop!
**[11:23] ---**
You didn't cultivate…
**[11:24] ---**
so you could kill people!
**[11:27] ---**
I suddenly realized…
**[11:28] ---**
They were right.
**[11:35] ---**
Oh, thank you!
**[11:47] ---**
I don't think I've seen that
monk in the wheelchair before.
**[11:50] ---**
From what I've heard,
**[11:52] ---**
he sponsored all this!
**[11:53] ---**
Ah,
**[11:54] ---**
what a generous man.
**[12:17] ---**
S-Senior Juehui!
**[12:18] ---**
You're amazing!
**[12:20] ---**
No. It's a trifling matter.
**[12:23] ---**
No way! You've saved countless people!
**[12:25] ---**
That's what the strong do!
**[12:26] ---**
Wunian!
**[12:27] ---**
I'm coming!
**[12:35] ---**
It turns out…
**[12:36] ---**
I don't need to wield a sword
**[12:38] ---**
nor don armor
**[12:39] ---**
to be "strong."
**[12:47] ---**
It looks like…
**[12:48] ---**
You've found your way?
**[12:51] ---**
Thanks to your guidance,
**[12:53] ---**
I was enlightened, Master.
**[12:55] ---**
Oh?
**[12:56] ---**
Strength is not about how much power one has,
**[12:59] ---**
but what they do with it.
**[13:00] ---**
As long as I am open-minded
and compassionate,
**[13:03] ---**
I will have a place in this world.
**[13:06] ---**
Well said.
**[13:08] ---**
But with this rain, many are suffering.
**[13:11] ---**
It seems there is little we can do.
**[13:13] ---**
We are quite helpless.
**[13:15] ---**
You need not worry about that.
**[13:17] ---**
As Master Kongming said,
**[13:19] ---**
all of this was caused by the
snake spirit inside the well.
**[13:24] ---**
He will exorcise the evil spirit
and save Mount Deergate.
**[13:28] ---**
What?
**[13:29] ---**
Amitabha.
**[13:31] ---**
At last…
**[13:33] ---**
This rain will end.
**[13:45] ---**
I've lived for countless years already,
**[13:49] ---**
but Snowy's life has just begun.
**[13:51] ---**
If I don't save him,
**[13:53] ---**
I'll be ridden with guilt.
**[13:55] ---**
But you don't need to go that far.
**[13:58] ---**
If you live another thousand years,
**[13:59] ---**
you can save more people.
**[14:01] ---**
No.
**[14:02] ---**
My tail will remain
**[14:04] ---**
for as long as I am alive.
**[14:06] ---**
It's just Snowy this time,
**[14:07] ---**
but my tail will continue to attract others.
**[14:10] ---**
There's no telling
**[14:12] ---**
what might happen then.
**[14:16] ---**
Please fulfill my wish, Lady Tao Yao.
**[14:22] ---**
You should know
**[14:24] ---**
what my rules are.
**[14:26] ---**
But my body would no longer be usable…
**[14:28] ---**
Yes, it's a bad deal for me.
**[14:33] ---**
But even so, you agree.
**[14:34] ---**
Am I right?
**[14:37] ---**
You've really changed
**[14:39] ---**
over the past thousand years.
**[14:41] ---**
Change is inevitable.
**[14:48] ---**
And…
**[14:50] ---**
I have another small request.
**[15:24] ---**
Seeing that Master Kongming once saved Snowy,
**[15:26] ---**
please don't kill him.
**[15:28] ---**
And as for Snowy…
**[15:30] ---**
Please let him forget everything.
**[17:09] ---**
Many thanks.
**[17:16] ---**
This is my first time seeing a
spirit buried in a monk's robe.
**[17:20] ---**
Amitabha.
**[17:22] ---**
I hope he wasn't in too
much pain when he died.
**[17:25] ---**
It didn't hurt.
**[17:26] ---**
I cast a spell on the sword.
**[17:27] ---**
Oh?
**[17:28] ---**
That's thoughtful of you.
**[17:31] ---**
I see.
**[17:32] ---**
By the way,
**[17:33] ---**
what happened to Snowy?
**[17:37] ---**
The day before,
**[17:38] ---**
Snowy was completely ignorant to his plight.
**[17:41] ---**
He obediently stayed in the well,
**[17:43] ---**
trusting his companion's lies.
**[17:45] ---**
Snowy.
**[17:46] ---**
When you see my sword,
**[17:47] ---**
don't dodge!
**[17:49] ---**
I won't actually stab you,
**[17:50] ---**
okay?
**[17:52] ---**
Perhaps…
**[17:53] ---**
his ignorance was for the best.
**[18:02] ---**
Snake spirit!
**[18:03] ---**
Someone asked me to give you a name.
**[18:06] ---**
It'll help you attain a human form quicker,
**[18:09] ---**
so you better be grateful.
**[18:11] ---**
Don't make it random.
**[18:12] ---**
It should fit his looks.
**[18:13] ---**
You should keep it plain too.
**[18:16] ---**
How about…
**[18:17] ---**
Daisy?
**[18:18] ---**
How does that suit him at all?
**[18:20] ---**
Then… Stormy?
**[18:22] ---**
I said plain…
**[18:24] ---**
Why don't you name him, then?
**[18:26] ---**
I got it!
**[18:30] ---**
Your name will be…
**[18:35] ---**
What kind of name is that?
**[18:37] ---**
Shut up.
**[18:38] ---**
I think it's pretty good.
**[18:39] ---**
Right, Bai Su…
**[18:47] ---**
He's gone.
**[18:51] ---**
Oh, well.
**[18:52] ---**
Let's head to Bianjing.
**[18:53] ---**
You didn't forget about that?
**[18:55] ---**
Of course not.
**[18:56] ---**
This place was just on the way.
**[18:58] ---**
Hmph!
**[18:58] ---**
Says the one who has no sense of direction!
**[19:02] ---**
Okay, okay!
**[19:03] ---**
Don't fight!
**[19:04] ---**
I have the final say, not you!
**[19:05] ---**
But I'm the one who pays for our meals!
**[19:09] ---**
[Episode 18: Morphed Snake (4)]
**[19:12] ---**
♪ The wind slows ♪
**[19:15] ---**
♪ Music trickles through the windows ♪
**[19:18] ---**
♪ Who are these idle memories for? ♪
**[19:26] ---**
♪ The dust floats in the air ♪
**[19:29] ---**
♪ The water ripples like blossoms ♪
**[19:32] ---**
♪ Sighs of hindsight ♪
**[19:34] ---**
♪ No sign of stopping ♪
**[19:39] ---**
♪ Thoughts are always unfinished ♪
**[19:45] ---**
♪ Joy is often cut short ♪
**[19:48] ---**
♪ It's hard to wake up from
a long night's dream ♪
**[19:52] ---**
♪ Evidence without reason ♪
**[19:56] ---**
♪ A farewell to love and hate ♪
**[19:59] ---**
♪ Searching in the haystack ♪
**[20:01] ---**
♪ Thousands of times ♪
**[20:10] ---**
♪ Starlight rains down the southern sky ♪
**[20:13] ---**
♪ My heart is layered with expired love ♪
**[20:16] ---**
♪ A journey across mountains
for one promise ♪
**[20:23] ---**
♪ No shadows, no fate ♪
**[20:27] ---**
♪ Where there's love, there's promise ♪
**[20:31] ---**
♪ A dream comes to life ♪
**[20:38] ---**
♪ Stars disappear upon rainfall ♪
**[21:00] ---**
Namo Amitabha, Namo Amitabha…
**[21:04] ---**
So annoying.
**[21:06] ---**
We're still far from Bianjing.
**[21:08] ---**
Can't you stop for a bit?
**[21:09] ---**
I'm saying a prayer for Senior Juehui.
**[21:12] ---**
Ack!
**[21:14] ---**
Did you sprain it?
**[21:16] ---**
Tch.
**[21:17] ---**
Praying for others?
**[21:18] ---**
Worry about yourself instead.
**[21:20] ---**
Just look at you.
**[21:22] ---**
Your sprain may only be the
start of your bad luck.
**[21:25] ---**
Tao Yao!
**[21:27] ---**
Moya,
**[21:28] ---**
can you walk?
**[21:29] ---**
I can carry you.
**[21:31] ---**
Lord Liu, you're the best.
**[21:33] ---**
Tch.
**[22:22] ---**
Sir.
**[22:23] ---**
Judging by your clothes,
**[22:24] ---**
you aren't bandits.
**[22:25] ---**
We're only passing through here.
**[22:28] ---**
You have the wrong people.
**[22:30] ---**
Y-yeah!
**[22:30] ---**
Sir, look closely at us.
**[22:32] ---**
We don't know you.
**[22:47] ---**
How could you hit him?!
**[22:49] ---**
Be careful.
**[22:50] ---**
I want them alive.
**[22:52] ---**
Sir,
**[22:53] ---**
that's my monk and my fox.
**[22:55] ---**
You can't just take them, you know?
**[23:02] ---**
If this is trapped,
**[23:04] ---**
you're dead meat.
**[23:05] ---**
I'm not looking to take any lives today.
**[23:10] ---**
These are…
**[23:15] ---**
Luminous Pearls!
**[23:17] ---**
Where'd you get such treasure?
**[23:19] ---**
Two pearls…
**[23:21] ---**
for the monk
**[23:22] ---**
and the fox.
**[23:25] ---**
Sure, sure.
**[23:26] ---**
Take them both!
**[23:28] ---**
Tao Yao!
**[23:29] ---**
Hey!
**[23:30] ---**
He wants Moya for the pearls!
**[23:31] ---**
And Rolly, too!
**[23:34] ---**
Yeah,
**[23:35] ---**
I know.
**[23:36] ---**
Wha…
**[23:37] ---**
For Moya!
**[23:38] ---**
Moya!
**[23:39] ---**
It's worth.
**[23:41] ---**
You're…
**[23:42] ---**
You're really going to sell me?
**[23:47] ---**
One pearl is enough to
cover 20 years of expenses.
**[23:49] ---**
Now I have two.
**[23:51] ---**
Am I dreaming?
**[23:53] ---**
The deal…
**[23:54] ---**
is done.
**[23:56] ---**
Help!
**[23:57] ---**
Save me!
**[23:58] ---**
Tao Yao!
**[23:59] ---**
Lord Liu!
**[24:01] ---**
Save me!
**[24:03] ---**
Tao Yao,
**[24:03] ---**
are you serious?
**[24:05] ---**
What?
**[24:06] ---**
They took Moya away!
**[24:07] ---**
I know.
**[24:09] ---**
Like I said, bad luck.
**[24:11] ---**
Alright,
**[24:11] ---**
let's go.
**[24:14] ---**
You can go on your own.
**[24:16] ---**
I'm saving Moya.
**[24:18] ---**
Please take your time.
**[24:20] ---**
I could use some peace and quiet.
# 7 - The Sickness
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**[00:00] ---**
[Episode 19: Sickness Demon]
**[00:03] ---**
You haven't paid yet!
**[00:04] ---**
Stop!
**[00:23] ---**
Get down here!
**[00:24] ---**
I'll count to three.
**[00:26] ---**
Get down, or I'll blow this tree up!
**[00:29] ---**
Hey, your porridge is pretty good.
**[00:33] ---**
Sir, have mercy!
**[00:34] ---**
I don't know what grudge you have with her,
**[00:36] ---**
but...
**[00:36] ---**
I'm just a porridge seller.
**[00:38] ---**
This grudge has nothing to do with me!
**[00:42] ---**
Scram!
**[00:46] ---**
Wait.
**[00:48] ---**
I'll cover the damages.
**[00:51] ---**
Tell no one
**[00:52] ---**
what you saw today.
**[00:55] ---**
R-right!
**[01:00] ---**
A secret stash of money?
**[01:01] ---**
A good amount, too.
**[01:03] ---**
One!
**[01:04] ---**
Wait.
**[01:06] ---**
Two!
**[01:09] ---**
Let's talk this out.
**[01:11] ---**
Three!
**[01:20] ---**
I'm just a doctor.
**[01:22] ---**
And you...
**[01:23] ---**
What?
**[01:24] ---**
If even a peerless being like
you is unable to do anything,
**[01:28] ---**
what can I possibly do?
**[01:31] ---**
Moya, Tao Yao!
**[01:33] ---**
Moya, whom you raised!
**[01:35] ---**
You sold him for a pair of pearls!
**[01:37] ---**
You can get some, too,
**[01:38] ---**
and make me happy.
**[01:39] ---**
His life is in danger,
**[01:41] ---**
and you're thinking about that?!
**[01:43] ---**
What danger?!
**[01:44] ---**
It's just a marriage.
**[01:46] ---**
A monk, getting married?
**[01:50] ---**
What's so bad about that?
**[01:52] ---**
Hide your fangs.
**[01:53] ---**
Be civilized.
**[01:56] ---**
If I hadn't come for you,
**[01:57] ---**
you really would've left?
**[01:59] ---**
Yeah?
**[02:00] ---**
You're the one who wants to eat him.
**[02:01] ---**
Why would I worry?
**[02:03] ---**
To honor your contract!
**[02:06] ---**
I am honoring a contract.
**[02:08] ---**
I accepted their pearls.
**[02:10] ---**
I don't care!
**[02:11] ---**
If something happens to him,
**[02:12] ---**
I won't forgive you!
**[02:14] ---**
Tch.
**[02:15] ---**
Won't forgive me?
**[02:18] ---**
Look what you did.
**[02:20] ---**
Tao Yao,
**[02:21] ---**
if our friend in Tao City
finds out about this...
**[02:24] ---**
It'll be fine.
**[02:25] ---**
Moya survived the Golden Buddha Temple,
**[02:27] ---**
so this is nothing.
**[02:28] ---**
Hard to say.
**[02:29] ---**
Even I can't get close to that place.
**[02:31] ---**
I'm afraid Moya...
**[02:32] ---**
Wait.
**[02:33] ---**
You're a snake spirit who
can travel between realms.
**[02:36] ---**
Yet there's a place in the
human world you can't enter?
**[02:40] ---**
That place...
**[02:41] ---**
Is it because you're hungry?
**[02:42] ---**
Want some porridge?
**[02:44] ---**
That place smells strange.
**[02:45] ---**
I got nauseous.
**[02:47] ---**
Nauseous?
**[02:48] ---**
Did you throw up so much...
that you couldn't get close?
**[02:55] ---**
There's something more disgusting
**[02:56] ---**
than the poems you write
and the food you cook?
**[03:06] ---**
You...you dare hit me?!
**[03:08] ---**
Hmph.
**[03:09] ---**
And so what?
**[03:11] ---**
You...!
**[03:15] ---**
Come on,
**[03:16] ---**
How could you hit me?
**[03:18] ---**
It hurt~
**[03:19] ---**
You're so fat.
**[03:20] ---**
It can't have hurt!
**[03:21] ---**
Anyways!
**[03:22] ---**
Let's go!
**[03:23] ---**
Wait,
**[03:24] ---**
I want some more porridge!
**[03:35] ---**
How old is he?
**[03:38] ---**
He'll be five next month.
**[03:40] ---**
But I fear...
**[03:41] ---**
Enough.
**[03:46] ---**
This...
**[03:47] ---**
What, is it too little?
**[03:50] ---**
No, no.
**[03:52] ---**
Besides us,
**[03:53] ---**
who else would take this sickly child?
**[03:57] ---**
True, true...
**[03:59] ---**
Please let him enjoy a few good days...
**[04:03] ---**
so as his father, I can rest easy.
**[04:15] ---**
Dad...
**[04:32] ---**
Come with me.
**[04:35] ---**
Have a look!
**[04:37] ---**
Have a look!
**[04:53] ---**
Look at this!
**[04:57] ---**
On sale!
**[05:04] ---**
Just look at you.
**[05:05] ---**
Are you pregnant?
**[05:06] ---**
Shut up.
**[05:06] ---**
Do you not smell it?
**[05:14] ---**
Calamus. Bamboo tip. Borneol.
**[05:18] ---**
But since when could snakes smell?
**[05:20] ---**
Something as simple as a sense of smell
**[05:22] ---**
is easy to cultivate.
**[05:23] ---**
Then why can't you smell the realgar?
**[05:25] ---**
Realgar?
**[05:26] ---**
Impossible.
**[05:27] ---**
You don't believe me?
**[05:28] ---**
I'm the spirit doctor of Tao City.
**[05:30] ---**
I don't believe you.
**[05:32] ---**
This incense was made by experts.
**[05:34] ---**
It's layered,
**[05:36] ---**
and the realgar is concealed.
**[05:38] ---**
But it can't get past my nose.
**[05:41] ---**
With my current cultivation...
**[05:42] ---**
even if I ate realgar,
**[05:44] ---**
I wouldn't be harmed at all.
**[05:46] ---**
Something was added to this realgar,
**[05:48] ---**
so it's stronger.
**[05:50] ---**
Makes sense.
**[05:51] ---**
What a pure place this is.
**[05:55] ---**
Pure place...?
**[06:02] ---**
Sir!
**[06:03] ---**
One skewer, please!
**[06:04] ---**
If it's pure,
**[06:06] ---**
why'd they kidnap a monk?
**[06:08] ---**
I'm not talking about that.
**[06:09] ---**
This aroma
**[06:10] ---**
is worth the world!
**[06:12] ---**
Spirits stay away,
**[06:13] ---**
so that's why this place is pure.
**[06:16] ---**
Good thing you're you.
**[06:18] ---**
If you were a weaker spirit,
**[06:19] ---**
you'd already be dead!
**[06:21] ---**
Open your mouth!
**[06:24] ---**
What?
**[06:29] ---**
What is this?!
**[06:30] ---**
A homemade traveling
essential, anti-nausea pill!
**[06:33] ---**
Anti-nausea, anti-bad breath!
**[06:35] ---**
I don't have bad breath!
**[06:36] ---**
Judging by your vigor,
**[06:38] ---**
nausea's gone, right?
**[06:46] ---**
Well?
**[06:47] ---**
Let's go save Moya!
**[06:49] ---**
Where is he?
**[06:50] ---**
Just up ahead.
**[06:51] ---**
The Wen residence.
**[06:52] ---**
Up ahead?
**[06:53] ---**
All I see is empty land.
**[06:55] ---**
It's strange.
**[06:57] ---**
The Wen family is wealthy,
**[06:58] ---**
but they settled on barren land.
**[07:00] ---**
The vicinity
**[07:01] ---**
is devoid of life.
**[07:05] ---**
Interesting.
**[07:06] ---**
Who leads the family? Do you know?
**[07:09] ---**
Supposedly, the widowed Madame Wen.
**[07:12] ---**
She came here over ten years ago.
**[07:15] ---**
Wait.
**[07:16] ---**
Moya isn't getting married
to Madame Wen, is he?
**[07:19] ---**
Her age...
**[07:20] ---**
What are you talking about?
**[07:21] ---**
There's a girl named Wen Shanhai.
**[07:23] ---**
She's 17 years old.
**[07:25] ---**
Madame Wen wants a husband for her daughter.
**[07:27] ---**
Wow.
**[07:28] ---**
Moya's marrying into a rich family, huh?
**[07:31] ---**
As his "relatives,"
**[07:33] ---**
we can ask for a dowry, right?
**[07:37] ---**
Okay, I'll shut up.
**[07:55] ---**
I'm hungry.
**[07:56] ---**
How about we eat first?
**[07:58] ---**
You've eaten enough already!
**[07:59] ---**
Then I'm not saving Moya.
**[08:02] ---**
What do you want to eat?
**[08:04] ---**
Let's eat here!
**[08:09] ---**
Hurry up, waiter.
**[08:10] ---**
Coming!
**[08:11] ---**
Steamed pork!
**[08:14] ---**
Braised chicken, please!
**[08:16] ---**
Okay!
**[08:21] ---**
Another one.
**[08:26] ---**
That's enough.
**[08:27] ---**
Dear guests, please come inside!
**[08:35] ---**
Come, come.
**[08:36] ---**
Please sit.
**[08:40] ---**
I haven't seen you two before.
**[08:42] ---**
Are you visiting relatives or passing by?
**[08:44] ---**
Passing by.
**[08:45] ---**
Two chef's specials.
**[08:46] ---**
We're in a rush.
**[08:47] ---**
Yes, yes.
**[08:48] ---**
Our little restaurant is
famous in these parts!
**[08:51] ---**
Don't worry.
**[08:52] ---**
Hurry and tell the kitchen!
**[08:54] ---**
Hey, manager.
**[08:55] ---**
Is anyone here seriously ill?
**[09:02] ---**
What makes you ask that, miss?
**[09:03] ---**
The restaurant is in good condition.
**[09:06] ---**
That's good.
**[09:07] ---**
This guy is a clean freak,
**[09:09] ---**
and he hates being near sick people.
**[09:12] ---**
I can't speak for our customers,
**[09:13] ---**
but the staff are all healthy.
**[09:16] ---**
Please don't worry.
**[09:17] ---**
That's enough. You may go.
**[09:19] ---**
Alright.
**[09:23] ---**
The aura here
**[09:24] ---**
is familiar.
**[09:26] ---**
What do you mean?
**[09:28] ---**
When I chased the Wen family's riders,
**[09:30] ---**
I thought it would end quickly.
**[09:33] ---**
But for some reason,
**[09:34] ---**
I just couldn't catch up.
**[09:38] ---**
I could only watch as they
brought Moya into the residence.
**[09:44] ---**
You should really keep some
anti-nausea pills on you.
**[09:46] ---**
The aura there was different from the town's.
**[09:49] ---**
I repeatedly tried to enter.
**[09:51] ---**
This restaurant...
**[09:52] ---**
smells the same as that residence.
**[09:55] ---**
There's more to it.
**[09:59] ---**
What...?
**[10:01] ---**
This is why
**[10:02] ---**
I asked the owner if anyone was ill.
**[10:05] ---**
It's a Sickness Demon.
**[10:06] ---**
Incurable illnesses are how they come to be.
**[10:09] ---**
The fiercer the demon,
**[10:11] ---**
the worse the illness.
**[10:12] ---**
Why is there a Sickness Demon here?
**[10:15] ---**
I don't know.
**[10:16] ---**
There has to be more than one sick person
**[10:18] ---**
for it to be born.
**[10:19] ---**
But this demon is still small.
**[10:21] ---**
It means the sick are dying.
**[10:24] ---**
A Sickness Demon... and the
same aura as the Wen family.
**[10:28] ---**
This restaurant
**[10:29] ---**
is related to the Wen family?
**[10:31] ---**
Did you think I'd choose a random restaurant?
**[10:33] ---**
That sick child outside.
**[10:35] ---**
Remember him?
**[10:39] ---**
This isn't just a regular restaurant.
**[10:42] ---**
However...
**[10:44] ---**
Manager, we're hungry!
**[10:45] ---**
Our food, please!
**[10:47] ---**
Coming, coming.
**[10:51] ---**
It's strange.
**[10:52] ---**
What?
**[10:53] ---**
That young lady and young man...
**[10:55] ---**
are very odd.
**[10:57] ---**
The two in the corner?
**[10:58] ---**
The lady asked me
**[11:00] ---**
if anyone here was seriously ill.
**[11:04] ---**
Why did she ask that?
**[11:06] ---**
Yeah.
**[11:06] ---**
A normal customer
**[11:08] ---**
wouldn't worry about that.
**[11:09] ---**
Even a clean freak
**[11:11] ---**
would only care about his vicinity.
**[11:13] ---**
But she asked about it right away.
**[11:17] ---**
Was she... sent by the authorities?
**[11:20] ---**
Not likely.
**[11:21] ---**
But I doubt they're good news.
**[11:23] ---**
I just sent a letter.
**[11:24] ---**
The delivery's at dawn.
**[11:26] ---**
We can't let things be ruined now.
**[11:29] ---**
Why don't we…
**[11:30] ---**
Yes.
**[11:33] ---**
Yes.
**[11:43] ---**
So good.
**[11:45] ---**
More.
**[11:46] ---**
One more plate.
**[12:02] ---**
She's pretty heavy.
**[12:04] ---**
I checked the man.
**[12:05] ---**
He has nothing special on him.
**[12:07] ---**
What about her?
**[12:10] ---**
I didn't notice anything.
**[12:18] ---**
Don't…
**[12:20] ---**
Don't take my food!
**[12:23] ---**
W-what?
**[12:24] ---**
Meat… my meat…
**[12:28] ---**
This girl! She scared me!
**[12:30] ---**
I thought she woke up!
**[12:32] ---**
Impossible.
**[12:33] ---**
The drug will keep them
sleeping until tomorrow!
**[12:36] ---**
What's on her waist?
**[12:43] ---**
We've searched where we can.
**[12:44] ---**
There's nothing.
**[12:46] ---**
But if they're passing by,
**[12:47] ---**
why don't they have any luggage?
**[12:49] ---**
You're overthinking it.
**[12:51] ---**
Fine.
**[12:52] ---**
Anyhow, these goods will
be delivered at dawn.
**[12:54] ---**
After that, we can sit back and relax.
**[12:56] ---**
Wait.
**[13:01] ---**
What are you doing?
**[13:06] ---**
Huh?
**[13:06] ---**
What's happening?
**[13:08] ---**
I-it's this...!
**[13:12] ---**
There's itching powder
**[13:14] ---**
in the bag!
**[13:19] ---**
So itchy!
**[13:23] ---**
Didn't you drug our food?
**[13:25] ---**
This is payback.
**[13:26] ---**
Who... who are you?
**[13:28] ---**
People you can't afford to cross.
**[13:30] ---**
Tell us.
**[13:32] ---**
What shady business are you running?
**[13:34] ---**
Thieves! We'll never tell you!
**[13:36] ---**
This thief's powder...
**[13:38] ---**
will slowly,
**[13:39] ---**
slowly get beneath your skin.
**[13:42] ---**
And before you know it,
**[13:44] ---**
your bodies will start to decay,
**[13:46] ---**
and your organs will crumble.
**[13:47] ---**
If you still won't talk,
**[13:48] ---**
you're dead for sure.
**[13:49] ---**
If you want money, take it!
**[13:51] ---**
If you want our lives,
**[13:52] ---**
just kill us!
**[13:54] ---**
We're not like you two,
**[13:55] ---**
willing to do anything for money.
**[13:58] ---**
You're a restaurant owner,
**[14:00] ---**
but instead of poultry,
**[14:01] ---**
you cage the severely ill?
**[14:03] ---**
It's counterintuitive, isn't it?
**[14:06] ---**
If I talk, will you give us the antidote?
**[14:08] ---**
You can't!
**[14:09] ---**
Those people will kill us!
**[14:11] ---**
But at least we won't die like this!
**[14:13] ---**
Right?
**[14:15] ---**
Just a tiny bit
**[14:16] ---**
can give you immediate relief.
**[14:21] ---**
Your wounds
**[14:22] ---**
are almost bleeding.
**[14:25] ---**
Madame Wen wanted these sick people!
**[14:28] ---**
Hmph.
**[14:28] ---**
The rich Madame Wen?
**[14:31] ---**
You collect the severely
ill and sell them to her?
**[14:34] ---**
Yes, yes.
**[14:35] ---**
Antidote!
**[14:36] ---**
Hurry and give me the antidote!
**[14:46] ---**
Normally,
**[14:47] ---**
traffickers prefer to go
after the young and strong.
**[14:51] ---**
Why do you only sell the old or sick?
**[14:53] ---**
W-we only act according
to the Wen family's needs.
**[14:58] ---**
Do you want some more itching powder?
**[15:01] ---**
We really don't know!
**[15:02] ---**
The Wen family only wants the severely ill,
**[15:04] ---**
so we provide them!
**[15:05] ---**
We don't dare ask more!
**[15:08] ---**
This Madame Wen
**[15:09] ---**
is quite a unique human trafficker.
**[15:11] ---**
We once asked the person
who picks up the goods,
**[15:14] ---**
but we were told to not be curious,
**[15:16] ---**
and to just take the money.
**[15:17] ---**
Otherwise, our days would be numbered!
**[15:20] ---**
Then why you two?
**[15:22] ---**
Um…
**[15:24] ---**
Not gonna talk?
**[15:25] ---**
D-don't!
**[15:26] ---**
We'll talk.
**[15:27] ---**
Please don't tell anyone else.
**[15:31] ---**
Okay.
**[15:33] ---**
We're not from Tianshui Town,
**[15:35] ---**
and we trafficked people
when we were younger.
**[15:38] ---**
We separated families,
**[15:40] ---**
and we were never able to have children.
**[15:43] ---**
It was probably karma.
**[15:45] ---**
If you regretted it,
**[15:46] ---**
why return to this?
**[15:48] ---**
Some things are just out of our control.
**[15:51] ---**
20 years ago,
**[15:52] ---**
we stopped living as outlaws,
**[15:54] ---**
and we came to Tianshui Town
to open this restaurant.
**[15:57] ---**
We were living well,
**[15:59] ---**
until one day…
**[16:05] ---**
I want to see the owner.
**[16:08] ---**
My apologies, sir.
**[16:09] ---**
We're already closed.
**[16:11] ---**
I want to see the owner.
**[16:14] ---**
I'm sorry. Please come tomorrow morning.
**[16:18] ---**
Call the owner.
**[16:21] ---**
What's going on?
**[16:24] ---**
You're the owner?
**[16:26] ---**
I am.
**[16:26] ---**
You…
**[16:29] ---**
W-what are you doing?
**[16:32] ---**
I know you have ways.
**[16:34] ---**
What are you talking about?
**[16:36] ---**
My mistress intends to buy
severely ill individuals,
**[16:38] ---**
and she'll pay well.
**[16:39] ---**
She'll take all ages.
**[16:41] ---**
This is just a deposit.
**[16:44] ---**
If you accept the work,
**[16:46] ---**
you can have as much of this as you want.
**[16:51] ---**
Are you still open?
**[16:55] ---**
I'm sorry,
**[16:56] ---**
we're closed.
**[16:57] ---**
Please come tomorrow!
**[16:59] ---**
This place is really good.
**[17:01] ---**
Let's just come tomorrow, then.
**[17:07] ---**
As you can see,
**[17:08] ---**
we're proper business people.
**[17:10] ---**
I don't know what you mean.
**[17:16] ---**
You, Sun Er, and your wife, surnamed Huang,
**[17:19] ---**
are from Huayang.
**[17:21] ---**
You used to traffic people in
Zhongli, Jingzhou, and Xiayang.
**[17:25] ---**
You are wanted by the local governments.
**[17:31] ---**
Even if you've come to Tianshui Town,
**[17:33] ---**
starting anew
**[17:35] ---**
is not that easy.
**[17:37] ---**
Please, have mercy!
**[17:38] ---**
We just want to live a peaceful life!
**[17:40] ---**
Please let us go!
**[17:41] ---**
I won't force you if you aren't willing.
**[17:43] ---**
However...
**[17:47] ---**
Your peaceful life ends here.
**[17:50] ---**
For if you're arrested,
**[17:52] ---**
death would be certain.
**[17:54] ---**
Isn't this forcing us?!
**[17:56] ---**
What do you want us to do?
**[17:58] ---**
It's simple.
**[18:00] ---**
I need you to find your old channels
**[18:01] ---**
and spread news
**[18:02] ---**
that you're looking to buy
severely ill individuals.
**[18:06] ---**
That's it?
**[18:07] ---**
That's all you need from us?
**[18:09] ---**
Yes.
**[18:18] ---**
They're seriously ill to begin with,
**[18:20] ---**
and were already distant with family.
**[18:22] ---**
They may as well be sold
to help their loved ones.
**[18:25] ---**
How's business?
**[18:27] ---**
Better during disasters, worse during peace.
**[18:29] ---**
Whenever we have ten,
**[18:30] ---**
the Wen family comes to pick them up.
**[18:32] ---**
Your pay?
**[18:33] ---**
The Wen family is generous,
**[18:35] ---**
and we earn a lot.
**[18:37] ---**
They're humans, not livestock.
**[18:39] ---**
Does the money not burn your hands?
**[18:41] ---**
We only buy the willing.
**[18:42] ---**
We never force anyone.
**[18:44] ---**
Many of them are sold by their
immediate family members.
**[18:47] ---**
They all say they're too poor
**[18:49] ---**
and can't support them,
**[18:50] ---**
so selling is the best option.
**[18:51] ---**
This is a good thing for everyone!
**[18:55] ---**
I thought you actually felt regret.
**[18:57] ---**
Looks like you weren't being serious.
**[19:01] ---**
We've already said what we can.
**[19:04] ---**
And we're not the ones who gave up the sick.
**[19:06] ---**
Please spare our lives!
**[19:09] ---**
How?
**[19:11] ---**
We swore on our lives to the man in black
**[19:13] ---**
that we'd never expose this.
**[19:15] ---**
If you can eliminate the Wen family,
**[19:17] ---**
that would save us from being killed.
**[19:21] ---**
You've calculated it well, huh?
**[19:23] ---**
You talk about killing like it's nothing.
**[19:26] ---**
No, no!
**[19:27] ---**
We're willing to donate our wealth
**[19:29] ---**
to pay for our sins!
**[19:30] ---**
Please, help us!
**[19:33] ---**
Thoughts?
**[19:34] ---**
Up to you.
**[19:36] ---**
If you want to live, help me with something.
**[19:38] ---**
Just tell us what you need.
**[19:40] ---**
When will the Wen family come?
**[19:42] ---**
They'll come at dawn.
**[19:46] ---**
[How much is a human life worth?]
**[19:50] ---**
♪ The wind slows ♪
**[19:52] ---**
♪ Music trickles through the windows ♪
**[19:56] ---**
♪ Who are these idle memories for? ♪
**[20:03] ---**
♪ The dust floats in the air ♪
**[20:06] ---**
♪ The water ripples like blossoms ♪
**[20:09] ---**
♪ Sighs of hindsight ♪
**[20:16] ---**
♪ No sign of stopping ♪
**[20:20] ---**
♪ Thoughts are always unfinished ♪
**[20:23] ---**
♪ Joy is often cut short ♪
**[20:25] ---**
♪ It's hard to wake up from
a long night's dream ♪
**[20:30] ---**
♪ Evidence without reason ♪
**[20:33] ---**
♪ A farewell to love and hate ♪
**[20:37] ---**
♪ Searching in the haystack ♪
**[20:39] ---**
♪ Thousands of times ♪
**[20:47] ---**
♪ Starlight rains down the southern sky ♪
**[20:50] ---**
♪ My heart is layered with expired love ♪
**[20:54] ---**
♪ A journey across mountains
for one promise ♪
**[21:01] ---**
♪ No shadows, no fate ♪
**[21:04] ---**
♪ Where there's love, there's promise ♪
**[21:08] ---**
♪ A dream comes to life ♪
**[21:16] ---**
♪ Stars disappear upon rainfall ♪
# 8 - Lady Fate - Part 1
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[Episode 20: Lady Fate (1)]
**[00:05] ---**
Eaten…
**[00:07] ---**
They were all eaten…
**[00:15] ---**
I'll also…
**[00:49] ---**
Eleven?
**[00:52] ---**
There were originally nine,
**[00:53] ---**
but we had some good luck,
**[00:55] ---**
and we obtained two more.
**[01:10] ---**
Safe travels.
**[01:37] ---**
We're not there yet.
**[01:38] ---**
Sleep some more.
**[01:45] ---**
It's kind of dark.
**[01:46] ---**
You're afraid of the dark?
**[01:49] ---**
These people
**[01:50] ---**
didn't object when they were drugged.
**[01:53] ---**
They're sick.
**[01:54] ---**
They have no energy.
**[01:57] ---**
Sickness isn't what saps away their energy.
**[01:59] ---**
Despair is.
**[02:01] ---**
Sent to cages by their loved ones
**[02:03] ---**
and locked up like livestock.
**[02:06] ---**
Wait.
**[02:07] ---**
This isn't like you.
**[02:14] ---**
Ah, right.
**[02:15] ---**
Don't use your powers.
**[02:16] ---**
Just pretend to be sick.
**[02:18] ---**
Why?
**[02:19] ---**
The closer we get to the scent's source,
**[02:21] ---**
the stronger its effect against spirits.
**[02:23] ---**
If you act impulsively,
**[02:24] ---**
even anti-nausea pills won't save you.
**[02:30] ---**
What is this incense?
**[02:31] ---**
You wouldn't understand.
**[02:32] ---**
Just rest.
**[02:34] ---**
In a bit,
**[02:35] ---**
we can meet Moya's mother-in-law.
**[03:28] ---**
Madame, I've returned.
**[03:46] ---**
The goods are ready.
**[03:49] ---**
Thank you, Steward Qin.
**[03:50] ---**
I'll take a look now.
**[03:52] ---**
Madame.
**[03:53] ---**
How is Miss Shanhai?
**[03:54] ---**
Same as usual.
**[03:55] ---**
Then the little monk…
**[03:56] ---**
Steward Qin,
**[03:59] ---**
you should rest.
**[04:26] ---**
Greetings, Madame.
**[04:27] ---**
They're all inside?
**[04:29] ---**
Eleven, waiting for your inspection.
**[04:48] ---**
[99 Days]
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Number one's no good.
**[04:57] ---**
Three's no good.
**[04:58] ---**
Four's no good.
**[05:11] ---**
Why can't I see anything?
**[05:17] ---**
Can't see how long 'til I kick the bucket?
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Madame!
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Hmph.
**[05:25] ---**
The Hundred Spirit Record says
**[05:27] ---**
Fates eat the dead
**[05:29] ---**
and can see when people die.
**[05:31] ---**
Those with human forms
appear as beautiful women
**[05:33] ---**
and are called Lady Fates.
**[05:37] ---**
Who are you?!
**[05:51] ---**
I'm from Tao City.
**[05:54] ---**
Where the golden bell goes,
**[05:55] ---**
nothing will remain.
**[06:00] ---**
Madame Wen,
**[06:02] ---**
the business with the little monk…
**[06:04] ---**
Let's discuss it.
**[06:06] ---**
Never!
**[06:07] ---**
That isn't up to you.
**[06:09] ---**
Let go of her!
**[06:31] ---**
Where… am I?
**[06:38] ---**
Is it a wedding chamber?
**[06:42] ---**
Amitabha, amitabha, amitabha!
**[06:54] ---**
Benefactress, wake up.
**[06:57] ---**
Benefactress?
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There's no use.
**[07:07] ---**
I waited so long for you.
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What?
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I'm leaving everything to you.
**[07:16] ---**
To me?
**[07:18] ---**
Do you want me to chant sutras
for the newlywed couple?
**[07:23] ---**
Or do you want me to be a servant?
**[07:28] ---**
Or are you…
**[07:29] ---**
using me as a wedding sacrifice?
**[07:35] ---**
What a good joke, son-in-law.
**[07:38] ---**
Son-in-law?
**[07:42] ---**
Miss Shanhai's happiness
**[07:45] ---**
is up to you now.
**[07:48] ---**
Shanhai?
**[07:50] ---**
Are you satisfied with this bride?
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Amitabha, amitabha.
**[07:57] ---**
Benefactor, don't joke about that.
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There must be a mistake!
**[08:00] ---**
There isn't, there isn't.
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Uncle,
**[08:04] ---**
My family's madame
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is definitely looking for you!
**[08:09] ---**
No, no!
**[08:10] ---**
I'm a monk!
**[08:11] ---**
How can I be someone's husband?
**[08:13] ---**
Uncle,
**[08:14] ---**
stop resisting.
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H-help!
**[08:20] ---**
Let go of me!
**[08:21] ---**
Help…
**[08:28] ---**
Help…
**[08:31] ---**
me…
**[08:52] ---**
You came pretty quickly.
**[08:54] ---**
It was a willing exchange.
**[08:56] ---**
But now you're backing out?
**[08:57] ---**
An honorable person wouldn't do that.
**[08:59] ---**
Hmph.
**[09:00] ---**
I'm not an honorable person.
**[09:02] ---**
What's more, I sold the little monk to you,
**[09:04] ---**
not to her.
**[09:05] ---**
The deal doesn't hold water.
**[09:08] ---**
What do you want?
**[09:10] ---**
Why don't we renegotiate?
**[09:13] ---**
Hmph.
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Such a scoundrel
**[09:14] ---**
at such a young age.
**[09:16] ---**
If you continue to threaten her,
**[09:17] ---**
don't blame me for what comes next!
**[09:20] ---**
I usually try to avoid fighting.
**[09:22] ---**
Do you know why?
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Before I make my first move,
**[09:29] ---**
my opponent dies.
**[09:33] ---**
Hmph.
**[09:34] ---**
You're bluffing.
**[09:36] ---**
All this time, at least,
**[09:37] ---**
you've shown no intention of killing.
**[09:41] ---**
I was in a rush earlier,
**[09:43] ---**
and I didn't realize who you were.
**[09:44] ---**
That was my mistake.
**[09:47] ---**
If I didn't want you to recognize me,
**[09:50] ---**
you'd never be able to.
**[09:54] ---**
But scrambling here so quickly
**[09:56] ---**
at just a whiff of trouble…
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Madame Wen, your bodyguard
**[09:59] ---**
is so dedicated.
**[10:04] ---**
I'm no match for you.
**[10:06] ---**
Please, just don't harm her.
**[10:11] ---**
Steward Qin…
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Give me the monk.
**[10:17] ---**
We'll discuss everything else later.
**[10:20] ---**
No!
**[10:21] ---**
I won't tell you where he is!
**[10:23] ---**
Is this how you beg for mercy?
**[10:26] ---**
Kill me, then!
**[10:27] ---**
No, Madame!
**[10:28] ---**
Oh?
**[10:29] ---**
Shameless, are we?
**[10:31] ---**
You know what'll happen
**[10:32] ---**
if you make me unhappy.
**[10:34] ---**
Madame.
**[10:36] ---**
Steward Qin.
**[10:37] ---**
You've been with me for years
**[10:38] ---**
and know what I deeply desire.
**[10:40] ---**
Tao Yao can easily kill spirits.
**[10:41] ---**
She'll really take your life!
**[10:43] ---**
Shut up!
**[10:45] ---**
Lady Fate.
**[10:46] ---**
You're so stubborn.
**[10:51] ---**
No!
**[11:17] ---**
Stop!
**[11:25] ---**
Why do you look like you're giving birth?
**[11:28] ---**
Your medicine was weak!
**[11:30] ---**
I told you to stay calm and not move around.
**[11:33] ---**
Why are you blaming the medicine?
**[11:36] ---**
I found the little monk.
**[11:38] ---**
Who are you?!
**[11:40] ---**
Madame Wen was so engrossed in our discussion
**[11:43] ---**
that she didn't notice
**[11:44] ---**
one of the beds was empty.
**[11:46] ---**
Since when do those from Tao
City collude with spirits?
**[11:53] ---**
Didn't you find Moya?
**[11:55] ---**
Where is he?
**[11:56] ---**
An underground wedding chamber.
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I can't get him out.
**[12:06] ---**
Where's the entrance?
**[12:08] ---**
The east wall of the next room.
**[12:10] ---**
Then lead the way, Madame Wen.
**[12:13] ---**
You too, steward.
**[12:14] ---**
Lest I accidentally
**[12:16] ---**
wipe flesh-eating medicine on someone.
**[12:20] ---**
You…!
**[12:26] ---**
Need a hand?
**[12:29] ---**
Just shut up!
**[12:33] ---**
If you'll please.
**[13:21] ---**
What's your name?
**[13:28] ---**
My… my name is Moya.
**[13:35] ---**
Moya?
**[13:37] ---**
What an interesting name.
**[13:44] ---**
Nice to meet you. My name is…
**[13:46] ---**
My name is…
**[13:48] ---**
Strange. What's my name?
**[13:52] ---**
Um…
**[13:54] ---**
Benefactress,
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I heard someone call you Shanhai just now.
**[13:59] ---**
Shanhai?
**[14:02] ---**
Right! I'm Shanhai!
**[14:03] ---**
Wen Shanhai.
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Miss Shanhai,
**[14:07] ---**
nice to meet you.
**[14:10] ---**
Amitabha.
**[14:12] ---**
You're afraid of me?
**[14:14] ---**
I'm afraid of the wedding attire.
**[14:17] ---**
The clothes won't eat you.
**[14:20] ---**
I'm a real monk!
**[14:22] ---**
No women or wine!
**[14:24] ---**
I can't become your husband!
**[14:26] ---**
Please, on Buddha's account,
**[14:28] ---**
let me go!
**[14:30] ---**
Don't bow to me.
**[14:32] ---**
I'm not a bodhisattva.
**[14:34] ---**
I don't even know how
long I've been here for.
**[14:36] ---**
I want to get out, too.
**[14:39] ---**
What is this place?
**[14:41] ---**
I only know
**[14:43] ---**
that I've seen a lot of
little monks your age.
**[14:47] ---**
I'm not the first one?
**[14:48] ---**
No.
**[14:50] ---**
They all came to get married to you?
**[14:54] ---**
Yes.
**[14:55] ---**
That's absurd! Monks can't marry!
**[15:02] ---**
Amitabha.
**[15:03] ---**
My apologies.
**[15:06] ---**
Wait.
**[15:07] ---**
Then your previous…
**[15:09] ---**
husbands…
**[15:10] ---**
Where are they now?
**[15:12] ---**
They were eaten.
**[15:14] ---**
What?!
**[15:16] ---**
Eaten?!
**[15:20] ---**
You think I ate them?
**[15:31] ---**
What's that?
**[15:36] ---**
Just don't get near the window!
**[15:38] ---**
Hide here!
**[15:53] ---**
No, I can't stay here.
**[16:12] ---**
Moya!
**[16:17] ---**
I'm a monk.
**[16:18] ---**
I won't wear these things! I won't!
**[16:31] ---**
This…
**[16:45] ---**
Don't waste your energy.
**[16:47] ---**
You can't take off the wedding attire.
**[16:53] ---**
What's going on?!
**[16:55] ---**
Why won't you let me go?
**[16:59] ---**
It's not that I won't let you go.
**[17:00] ---**
I can't even save myself.
**[17:06] ---**
See no evil, see no evil.
**[17:07] ---**
Miss, don't try to tease me.
**[17:09] ---**
Please respect yourself!
**[17:10] ---**
Moya.
**[17:11] ---**
I'm not teasing you.
**[17:13] ---**
Turn your head and look.
**[17:23] ---**
W-why is your body...
**[17:27] ---**
For every husband that comes,
**[17:29] ---**
I lose a part of my body.
**[17:34] ---**
This time,
**[17:35] ---**
I'm afraid it'll be my head.
**[17:56] ---**
It's leaving.
**[17:58] ---**
I hope I covered your breath in time.
**[18:02] ---**
Your face is so red.
**[18:04] ---**
Was I smothering you?
**[18:06] ---**
N-no.
**[18:08] ---**
Thank you, Miss Shanhai.
**[18:11] ---**
Just call me Shanhai.
**[18:13] ---**
Or big sister Shanhai.
**[18:15] ---**
Call you big sister?
**[18:17] ---**
You're seven or eight at most, right?
**[18:19] ---**
Why can't you call me big sister?
**[18:22] ---**
Forget it. I'll just call you Shanhai.
**[18:27] ---**
Listen to me.
**[18:28] ---**
I was kidnapped on the road.
**[18:30] ---**
If I can find my companions,
**[18:31] ---**
no matter what you need,
**[18:33] ---**
they'll find a way to help you!
**[18:35] ---**
We have to leave this place.
**[18:37] ---**
But you'll be eaten if you leave.
**[18:40] ---**
That monster always eats the monks first,
**[18:43] ---**
then comes to bite me.
**[18:46] ---**
Shanhai.
**[18:48] ---**
You've also helped other
monks this way, right?
**[18:50] ---**
I think so.
**[18:52] ---**
But they were still eaten.
**[18:54] ---**
That's why we need to get out
**[18:55] ---**
and find a bigger space
**[18:56] ---**
for better chances of survival!
**[18:58] ---**
But…
**[18:59] ---**
Come with me!
**[19:01] ---**
Monks don't speak falsehoods.
**[19:08] ---**
Moya, you don't seem like a child.
**[19:12] ---**
Ah…
**[19:13] ---**
I'll try the window again.
**[19:15] ---**
Help me out.
**[19:39] ---**
I'll go out first.
**[19:40] ---**
If it's safe, you should follow!
**[19:47] ---**
[Guilt begets helplessness.]
**[19:49] ---**
♪ The wind slows ♪
**[19:52] ---**
♪ Music trickles through the windows ♪
**[19:56] ---**
♪ Who are these idle memories for? ♪
**[20:03] ---**
♪ The dust floats in the air ♪
**[20:06] ---**
♪ The water ripples like blossoms ♪
**[20:09] ---**
♪ Sighs of hindsight ♪
**[20:16] ---**
♪ No sign of stopping ♪
**[20:19] ---**
♪ Thoughts are always unfinished ♪
**[20:23] ---**
♪ Joy is often cut short ♪
**[20:25] ---**
♪ It's hard to wake up from
a long night's dream. ♪
**[20:30] ---**
♪ Evidence without reason ♪
**[20:33] ---**
♪ A farewell to love and hate ♪
**[20:37] ---**
♪ Searching in the haystack ♪
**[20:39] ---**
♪ Thousands of times ♪
**[20:47] ---**
♪ Starlight rains down
on the southern sky ♪
**[20:50] ---**
♪ My heart is layered with expired love ♪
**[20:54] ---**
♪ A journey across mountains
for one promise ♪
**[21:01] ---**
♪ No shadows, no fate ♪
**[21:04] ---**
♪ When there's love, there's promise ♪
**[21:08] ---**
♪ A dream comes to life ♪
**[21:15] ---**
♪ Stars disappear upon rainfall ♪
# 9 - Lady Fate - Part 2
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[Episode 22: Lady Fate (2)]
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Moya!
**[00:15] ---**
I'm coming out!
**[00:17] ---**
Wait!
**[00:20] ---**
Augh!
**[00:23] ---**
Sorry.
**[00:35] ---**
Where are we?
**[00:38] ---**
The building we were in is gone!
**[00:40] ---**
Is this…
**[00:41] ---**
Tianshui Town's market?
**[00:44] ---**
Market?
**[00:50] ---**
The Zhang family's fabric shop…
**[00:53] ---**
The Wang family's paintings…
**[01:04] ---**
Right…
**[01:05] ---**
This is the figurine stall.
**[01:07] ---**
Then up ahead is…
**[01:13] ---**
But… but there's no one here.
**[01:16] ---**
Ruo Lin…
**[01:18] ---**
Wait, Shanhai!
**[01:20] ---**
Where are you going?
**[01:23] ---**
Shanhai!
**[01:24] ---**
We have to leave as soon as possible!
**[01:41] ---**
[Blue Mist Academy]
**[01:43] ---**
This is…?
**[01:45] ---**
This is where Ruo Lin and I studied.
**[01:49] ---**
Ruo Lin?
**[01:51] ---**
He has to be here.
**[01:55] ---**
Wait!
**[02:18] ---**
What are you doing?
**[02:19] ---**
If we don't leave,
**[02:20] ---**
the monster will get us!
**[02:23] ---**
Ruo Lin! Where are you?!
**[02:25] ---**
It's Shanhai!
**[02:27] ---**
Shanhai!
**[02:28] ---**
Shanhai, do you not want to leave anymore?
**[02:32] ---**
I won't leave…
**[02:33] ---**
until I find Ruo Lin!
**[02:46] ---**
Moya?
**[02:59] ---**
Are you alright?
**[03:00] ---**
Why did you fall?
**[03:14] ---**
Ruo Lin?
**[03:16] ---**
Is he the person
**[03:17] ---**
you're looking for?
**[03:19] ---**
Yes.
**[03:20] ---**
Ruo Lin painted this.
**[03:23] ---**
Who is he to you?
**[03:25] ---**
He's…
**[03:27] ---**
the person I like.
**[03:31] ---**
Ruo Lin and I studied at this academy.
**[03:36] ---**
He wasn't good at reciting poems,
**[03:38] ---**
but his painting and guqin skills
**[03:41] ---**
were incomparable.
**[03:47] ---**
When we struggled to write poems,
**[03:49] ---**
we'd sit under the willow tree near the lake.
**[03:55] ---**
We rarely spoke…
**[04:08] ---**
But with just one look,
**[04:10] ---**
we could understood each other.
**[04:14] ---**
I can't believe you!
**[04:16] ---**
You got betrothed without my blessing?!
**[04:41] ---**
My only wish is to spend my life with you,
**[04:44] ---**
to give you the very best version of myself.
**[04:53] ---**
If you're willing,
**[04:54] ---**
and if you can…
**[04:56] ---**
then tomorrow at midnight,
**[04:58] ---**
bring this case of rouge
**[04:59] ---**
and wait at the willow tree.
**[05:01] ---**
We'll leave this place
**[05:03] ---**
and wander the world together.
**[05:08] ---**
Okay.
**[05:12] ---**
My heart was full of delight
**[05:14] ---**
because I could finally start
a new life with Ruo Lin.
**[05:20] ---**
But I was found out.
**[05:27] ---**
My mother didn't get angry that time.
**[05:30] ---**
Instead, she told me many things
**[05:32] ---**
that I was not aware of.
**[05:39] ---**
Now…
**[05:41] ---**
Do you still think you have
the right to be with him?
**[05:49] ---**
In the end,
**[05:50] ---**
I broke my promise
**[05:52] ---**
and chose to give up.
**[05:59] ---**
After that,
**[06:01] ---**
I never saw him again.
**[06:03] ---**
But I've always regretted my decision.
**[06:07] ---**
If I'd been braver,
**[06:09] ---**
even just a little,
**[06:11] ---**
I wouldn't have lost him.
**[06:14] ---**
If I was given another chance,
**[06:17] ---**
I definitely,
**[06:18] ---**
definitely wouldn't give up!
**[06:20] ---**
I wouldn't have heeded what my mother said!
**[06:23] ---**
Back then,
**[06:24] ---**
what exactly did your mother tell you?
**[06:31] ---**
I…
**[06:33] ---**
I can't remember.
**[06:37] ---**
What?
**[06:38] ---**
What did she say?
**[06:40] ---**
Why can't I remember anything?
**[06:43] ---**
Okay, okay.
**[06:43] ---**
We'll find Ruo Lin together
**[06:45] ---**
and bring him with us.
**[06:48] ---**
Okay.
**[06:59] ---**
You hit him?
**[07:01] ---**
Yeah.
**[07:03] ---**
Were you trying to kill him?
**[07:04] ---**
But he still wouldn't wake up.
**[07:06] ---**
Look at his hand.
**[07:30] ---**
Something felt off,
**[07:32] ---**
so I tied up that crone.
**[07:43] ---**
A marrying technique.
**[07:45] ---**
Since you know what it is,
**[07:47] ---**
you should also know
**[07:49] ---**
that if something happens to me,
**[07:51] ---**
they'll be in for it, too.
**[07:54] ---**
Untie me!
**[07:56] ---**
Madame Wen.
**[07:57] ---**
This is what you want for your daughter?
**[08:00] ---**
It's the only way for Shanhai to be happy.
**[08:03] ---**
Happy?
**[08:05] ---**
A normal girl,
**[08:06] ---**
locked underground,
**[08:08] ---**
wasting away in complete darkness.
**[08:10] ---**
Is she really happy?
**[08:12] ---**
Hmph.
**[08:20] ---**
Those from Tao City
**[08:22] ---**
have never tasted the pain of
being hunted and toyed with.
**[08:25] ---**
Needing to hide,
**[08:26] ---**
utter helplessness,
**[08:28] ---**
and constant terror.
**[08:29] ---**
Such things
**[08:31] ---**
have never had anything to do with you.
**[08:34] ---**
I gave my daughter a path
that's far from sorrow.
**[08:37] ---**
What's wrong with that?
**[08:38] ---**
Such a kind and gentle child
**[08:41] ---**
should have an identity that suits her.
**[08:48] ---**
Ruo Lin! Where are you?!
**[08:57] ---**
It's too cruel…
**[08:59] ---**
that she's the daughter of a Lady Fate.
**[09:05] ---**
I want her to become a real human,
**[09:11] ---**
with flesh and blood,
**[09:13] ---**
eating grains,
**[09:16] ---**
and experiencing the seasons.
**[09:30] ---**
She'll see fresh flowers
and the one she loves,
**[09:34] ---**
not the cold date of his death.
**[09:42] ---**
She can't end up the same as me.
**[09:45] ---**
She can't!
**[09:53] ---**
Shanhai? Shanhai, what's wrong?
**[09:56] ---**
I remember.
**[09:58] ---**
Ruo Lin has already
**[10:00] ---**
passed away.
**[10:02] ---**
What?!
**[10:04] ---**
Back then,
**[10:05] ---**
I probably saw that he only
had half a year of life left.
**[10:09] ---**
But I couldn't save him,
**[10:11] ---**
and I could only watch
as he neared his death.
**[10:15] ---**
How did you know his lifespan?
**[10:17] ---**
I'm not a human.
**[10:19] ---**
I'm a Lady Fate.
**[10:26] ---**
Our power
**[10:27] ---**
shows us the time of someone's death.
**[10:30] ---**
So that I wouldn't be in pain,
**[10:32] ---**
my mother locked me up
**[10:35] ---**
until Ruo Lin left this world.
**[10:39] ---**
What a good mother.
**[10:42] ---**
A parent's love is so touching.
**[10:45] ---**
Miss,
**[10:46] ---**
you should try to empathize with Madame Wen.
**[10:49] ---**
If something goes wrong with
the marriage technique,
**[10:52] ---**
the consequences will be
beyond your imagination.
**[10:58] ---**
What will it take for you to let us go?
**[11:01] ---**
Gold, silk, and satin…
**[11:03] ---**
I'll give you as much as you want!
**[11:05] ---**
I just want my daughter to be happy.
**[11:07] ---**
Hmph.
**[11:08] ---**
You think being human means being happy
**[11:10] ---**
and not having to suffer anymore?
**[11:12] ---**
At least she can be with the person she likes
**[11:15] ---**
and won't find herself abandoned.
**[11:20] ---**
My mother said that,
**[11:21] ---**
even if Ruo Lin had more
than half a year left,
**[11:24] ---**
even if he could live to a hundred,
**[11:26] ---**
he would still end up abandoning
me because I'm a spirit.
**[11:29] ---**
If that happened, I'd only
be in even more pain.
**[11:37] ---**
But nobody can be certain
**[11:39] ---**
about something like that.
**[11:42] ---**
Didn't you ask me
**[11:43] ---**
what my mother told me that night?
**[11:47] ---**
What was it?
**[11:48] ---**
She said
**[11:50] ---**
my father was human, too.
**[11:51] ---**
Human?
**[11:54] ---**
Look.
**[12:00] ---**
That's Cloudsea Temple.
**[12:02] ---**
My father was a monk there.
**[12:05] ---**
Not long after I was born,
**[12:06] ---**
my father left us.
**[12:09] ---**
My mother wanted to find out why,
**[12:12] ---**
but she couldn't get through
the temple's barrier.
**[12:15] ---**
So she held me close
**[12:17] ---**
and waited outside the temple for seven days.
**[12:20] ---**
In the end, she only
received a piece of paper.
**[12:24] ---**
It said…
**[12:26] ---**
"Humans and spirits walk different
paths. Our bond ends here.'
**[12:32] ---**
My mother believed
**[12:33] ---**
my father left her
**[12:35] ---**
only because she's a spirit.
**[12:37] ---**
So…
**[12:38] ---**
she wants me to turn into
a human no matter what.
**[12:41] ---**
Only then
**[12:42] ---**
will she not repeat my mistake
**[12:45] ---**
and have the right to spend her
life with the one she loves.
**[12:48] ---**
This is all for Shanhai's good.
**[12:50] ---**
Why can't you understand that?!
**[12:54] ---**
Don't worry, Madame. You can rest assured.
**[12:57] ---**
If I agree to something,
**[12:59] ---**
it will be done.
**[13:01] ---**
When the marriage is complete,
**[13:03] ---**
Miss Shanhai will no longer be a spirit.
**[13:06] ---**
Shut up!
**[13:08] ---**
Where'd you find this crone?
**[13:10] ---**
She's a famous miracle doctor.
**[13:12] ---**
She can cure
**[13:13] ---**
both humans and spirits.
**[13:15] ---**
Finding her was very difficult.
**[13:18] ---**
She's in the same field as me, huh?
**[13:21] ---**
She understands Madame's feelings,
**[13:22] ---**
asks no reward,
**[13:24] ---**
and she is willing to help
Miss Shanhai become human.
**[13:26] ---**
We're at the most critical
moment of cleansing her soul.
**[13:31] ---**
But I've been rendered immobile
**[13:32] ---**
and my meridians are blocked.
**[13:34] ---**
I'm afraid it will all be for naught.
**[13:37] ---**
Hurry and let her go!
**[13:43] ---**
Madame, calm down.
**[13:45] ---**
She's connected to Shanhai's lifeblood!
**[13:47] ---**
She can't stand such torment!
**[13:49] ---**
My apologies, Madame.
**[13:51] ---**
I'm afraid I have to break my promise.
**[13:55] ---**
Ma'am!
**[14:00] ---**
Don't you have a sword?
**[14:01] ---**
Cut the ropes!
**[14:02] ---**
Madame, we can't.
**[14:03] ---**
Do you not hear me?!
**[14:04] ---**
Do something!
**[14:12] ---**
Let go of me! Let go of me!
**[14:14] ---**
Shanhai must become human!
**[14:16] ---**
Madame Wen. You're a spirit, too.
**[14:19] ---**
Don't you know that spirits
can only cultivate human forms
**[14:21] ---**
and can't actually become humans?
**[14:25] ---**
I…
**[14:26] ---**
If there's external help,
**[14:29] ---**
it's not impossible.
**[14:32] ---**
A pure soul,
**[14:34] ---**
together with my crimson string…
**[14:39] ---**
means that Miss Shanhai's
human transformation
**[14:41] ---**
is just around the corner.
**[14:44] ---**
A pure soul?
**[14:46] ---**
The little monk?
**[14:48] ---**
That's right.
**[14:49] ---**
Child monks
**[14:51] ---**
are clear of sin.
**[14:53] ---**
When his pulse is linked with hers,
**[14:55] ---**
her spirit soul can be cleansed.
**[14:58] ---**
Of course, one little monk is not enough.
**[15:02] ---**
It is thanks to Steward Qin's search
**[15:05] ---**
that we've managed to come so far.
**[15:11] ---**
Then you've been through much trouble.
**[15:16] ---**
But there's one thing
**[15:18] ---**
you miscalculated.
**[15:20] ---**
Miscalculated?
**[15:22] ---**
Moya isn't a normal little monk.
**[15:26] ---**
That said, Moya…
**[15:28] ---**
He's a troublesome glutton.
**[15:29] ---**
It's nice and quiet without him.
**[15:31] ---**
It's only because you're also a doctor,
**[15:33] ---**
and how your bluffing and lies
**[15:34] ---**
hurts our credibility,
**[15:36] ---**
that I can't just stand by and watch.
**[15:38] ---**
No,
**[15:39] ---**
she isn't lying!
**[15:40] ---**
Shanhai's spirit aura
**[15:42] ---**
really has been weakening!
**[15:43] ---**
Yes, her spirit aura has gotten weaker.
**[15:45] ---**
But that doesn't mean she's becoming human.
**[15:49] ---**
What did you say?
**[15:53] ---**
This is bad!
**[15:53] ---**
He's struggling to breathe!
**[16:06] ---**
I'm saying…
**[16:16] ---**
It hurts!
**[16:18] ---**
Shanhai, what's wrong?
**[16:21] ---**
This isn't Tianshui Town.
**[16:24] ---**
This place…
**[16:33] ---**
I know it.
**[16:35] ---**
But I can't remember.
**[16:38] ---**
Calm down. Take it slow.
**[16:40] ---**
No!
**[16:41] ---**
I know it.
**[16:45] ---**
You people want me to disappear.
**[16:47] ---**
Someone came in.
**[16:49] ---**
There's a monster!
**[16:50] ---**
You people
**[16:51] ---**
want me to disappear!
**[17:01] ---**
Shanhai, wake up!
**[17:03] ---**
Don't think like that!
**[17:08] ---**
I'll disappear.
**[17:11] ---**
Disappear!
**[17:13] ---**
It'll be over when I'm dead!
**[17:21] ---**
You won't disappear.
**[17:23] ---**
You'll get better!
**[17:24] ---**
We can both safely leave this place!
**[17:39] ---**
Miss Shanhai
**[17:41] ---**
is almost dead.
**[17:51] ---**
[A mistaken obsession.]
**[17:54] ---**
♪ The wind slows ♪
**[17:57] ---**
♪ Music trickles through the windows ♪
**[18:00] ---**
♪ Who are these idle memories for? ♪
**[18:07] ---**
♪ The dust floats in the air ♪
**[18:10] ---**
♪ The water ripples like blossoms ♪
**[18:14] ---**
♪ Sighs of hindsight ♪
**[18:20] ---**
♪ No sign of stopping ♪
**[18:24] ---**
♪ Thoughts are always unfinished ♪
**[18:27] ---**
♪ Joy is often cut short ♪
**[18:30] ---**
♪ It's hard to wake up from
a long night's dream ♪
**[18:34] ---**
♪ Evidence without reason ♪
**[18:37] ---**
♪ A farewell to love and hate ♪
**[18:41] ---**
♪ Searching in the haystack ♪
**[18:43] ---**
♪ Thousands of times ♪
**[18:51] ---**
♪ Starlight rains down the southern sky ♪
**[18:54] ---**
♪ My heart is layered with expired love ♪
**[18:58] ---**
♪ A journey across mountains
for one promise ♪
**[19:05] ---**
♪ No shadows, no fate ♪
**[19:08] ---**
♪ Where there's love, there's promise ♪
**[19:12] ---**
♪ A dream comes to life ♪
**[19:19] ---**
♪ Stars disappear upon rainfall ♪
# 10 - Lady Fate - Part 3
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**[00:00] ---**
[Episode 22: Lady Fate (3)]
**[00:04] ---**
That temple…
**[00:06] ---**
looks just like the Golden Buddha Temple.
**[00:09] ---**
Golden Buddha Temple?
**[00:12] ---**
It's where I grew up.
**[00:14] ---**
I don't have parents,
**[00:16] ---**
so the Golden Buddha Temple raised me.
**[00:18] ---**
It sounds like
**[00:19] ---**
you were happy there.
**[00:30] ---**
The abbot taught me how to read and meditate.
**[00:34] ---**
Master gave me tasty food.
**[00:37] ---**
Senior brother took me out
to explore the mountains.
**[00:41] ---**
And I washed clothes with
my fellow disciples.
**[00:45] ---**
Are you still with the Golden Buddha Temple?
**[00:49] ---**
The Golden Buddha Temple
**[00:52] ---**
doesn't exist anymore.
**[00:57] ---**
When I woke up that day,
**[00:59] ---**
for some reason,
**[01:01] ---**
everyone was dead.
**[01:05] ---**
Tao Yao saved me
**[01:07] ---**
and took me to Tao City.
**[01:10] ---**
Tao City?
**[01:11] ---**
Every spirit
**[01:12] ---**
is governed by Tao City.
**[01:14] ---**
After I left the temple,
**[01:15] ---**
Tao Yao and I lived there together.
**[01:17] ---**
The companion you mentioned earlier…
**[01:19] ---**
is Tao Yao?
**[01:21] ---**
Yes.
**[01:24] ---**
But she always bullies me,
**[01:25] ---**
calling me useless.
**[01:27] ---**
You're still friends
**[01:28] ---**
even though she does that?
**[01:31] ---**
She…
**[01:33] ---**
has a sharp mouth and a soft heart.
**[01:35] ---**
She acts like she doesn't care,
**[01:37] ---**
but she's actually very
afraid of being alone.
**[01:42] ---**
If I left,
**[01:44] ---**
I'm sure she'd be sad.
**[01:54] ---**
It hurts!
**[01:56] ---**
Shanhai, what's wrong?
**[01:59] ---**
This place…
**[02:58] ---**
Oh, no…
**[03:10] ---**
Shanhai, get up!
**[03:14] ---**
No…
**[03:15] ---**
No…
**[03:17] ---**
I don't want to be human.
**[03:18] ---**
I'm the only one here.
**[03:21] ---**
Don't overthink!
**[03:22] ---**
The monster gets stronger if you do!
**[03:47] ---**
Shanhai!
**[03:48] ---**
Wake up!
**[03:50] ---**
I'll disappear…
**[03:52] ---**
I'll disappear…
**[03:54] ---**
Disappear…
**[03:57] ---**
Amitabha…
**[04:34] ---**
S-Shanhai!
**[05:03] ---**
Wake up, Shanhai!
**[05:33] ---**
Shanhai!
**[05:34] ---**
If the monster bites you again,
**[05:36] ---**
you'll cease to exist!
**[05:39] ---**
Wake up!
**[05:41] ---**
Think about your mother!
**[05:42] ---**
Your father!
**[05:42] ---**
Ruo Lin!
**[05:43] ---**
And the other little monks!
**[05:51] ---**
Amitabha…
**[05:52] ---**
It's over…
**[06:14] ---**
Shanhai!
**[06:16] ---**
Moya!
**[07:03] ---**
Shanhai!
**[07:12] ---**
Why are you screaming?
**[07:22] ---**
Y-you guys…
**[07:23] ---**
Am I seeing things?
**[07:27] ---**
Amitabha!
**[07:29] ---**
You guys finally came!
**[07:31] ---**
You didn't sell me…
**[07:34] ---**
I did sell you.
**[07:35] ---**
But this guy wanted you back
by any means necessary.
**[07:40] ---**
I just don't want others touching my food!
**[07:43] ---**
Also, don't wipe your snot on me!
**[07:55] ---**
Ma'am!
**[07:56] ---**
Ma'am, what's wrong?
**[08:05] ---**
Madame…
**[08:07] ---**
Ma'am!
**[08:08] ---**
Ma'am, wake up!
**[08:09] ---**
I know she can make Shanhai human.
**[08:11] ---**
She promised me!
**[08:18] ---**
Right, Shanhai!
**[08:22] ---**
Shanhai.
**[08:23] ---**
Wake up!
**[08:24] ---**
It's fine now.
**[08:25] ---**
Tao Yao,
**[08:26] ---**
look.
**[08:37] ---**
Shanhai, wake up.
**[08:39] ---**
Stop calling for her. She's dead.
**[08:42] ---**
Fortunately, she has human blood,
**[08:44] ---**
or even her body would be doomed.
**[08:47] ---**
That's…
**[08:50] ---**
Steward Qin, what did she say?
**[08:53] ---**
She said Miss Shanhai
**[08:55] ---**
is dead.
**[08:57] ---**
Impossible.
**[09:00] ---**
Impossible!
**[09:05] ---**
Impossible!
**[09:07] ---**
Shanhai!
**[09:09] ---**
Shanhai!
**[09:09] ---**
Open your eyes.
**[09:11] ---**
You wouldn't leave your mother, right?
**[09:14] ---**
I promise! As long as you open your eyes,
**[09:16] ---**
everything will be fine!
**[09:18] ---**
Wake up, Shanhai!
**[09:21] ---**
Madame.
**[09:22] ---**
Miss Shanhai
**[09:24] ---**
is already gone.
**[09:26] ---**
Nonsense!
**[09:27] ---**
Get away from me!
**[09:31] ---**
Madame.
**[09:32] ---**
Not even I can turn spirits into humans.
**[09:35] ---**
You were too reckless.
**[09:40] ---**
Look over there!
**[09:49] ---**
Hmph.
**[09:51] ---**
Crimson string, eh?
**[09:52] ---**
It's actually an instrument of evil.
**[09:55] ---**
That's…
**[09:57] ---**
This is a Venom worm.
**[09:58] ---**
It grew out of this crone's body
**[10:00] ---**
and eats souls.
**[10:02] ---**
What marriage technique?
**[10:04] ---**
From the beginning, this crone
**[10:06] ---**
had her eyes on Shanhai's body.
**[10:08] ---**
Half-spirit and half-human.
**[10:09] ---**
Shanhai's unaging body fit
the crone's requirements.
**[10:12] ---**
If she fiddled a little,
**[10:14] ---**
she could easily steal her body
**[10:15] ---**
and leave aging and death behind.
**[10:18] ---**
Why wouldn't she do it?
**[10:20] ---**
She wasn't trying to cleanse
Miss Shanhai's soul?
**[10:22] ---**
She's not a dirty cloth for you to "cleanse"!
**[10:32] ---**
Souls may seem weak,
**[10:34] ---**
but they're very tough.
**[10:35] ---**
This crone needed to devour Shanhai's soul
**[10:39] ---**
before she could take her
body without damaging it.
**[10:44] ---**
But she found that
**[10:45] ---**
it was too difficult to devour outright.
**[10:49] ---**
So,
**[10:49] ---**
she faked her identity
**[10:51] ---**
and used her marriage technique
**[10:53] ---**
as an excuse to make you kidnap little monks.
**[10:59] ---**
Once she'd linked the soul of
a little monk with Shanhai's,
**[11:02] ---**
she'd use the monk's pure soul
**[11:04] ---**
to whittle away at the spirit soul's power
**[11:06] ---**
and prompt a Venom worm
to enter Shanhai's body.
**[11:28] ---**
The Venom worm would first devour the monk,
**[11:32] ---**
and after gaining strength,
**[11:34] ---**
it would slowly weaken and swallow
pieces of Shanhai's soul.
**[11:51] ---**
Several little monks had to be sacrified
**[11:53] ---**
before Shanhai's body was at her fingertips.
**[11:58] ---**
Once Shanhai's soul was completely eaten up,
**[12:01] ---**
this crone could take over.
**[12:07] ---**
She even called it a marriage
technique as cover.
**[12:10] ---**
But only spirits that
are tactless and foolish
**[12:12] ---**
would fall for such a lie.
**[12:15] ---**
No wonder…
**[12:24] ---**
Madame trusted her so much.
**[12:26] ---**
How could she do such a thing?
**[12:29] ---**
Then how did we escape?
**[12:32] ---**
I was with Shanhai the whole time!
**[12:36] ---**
Madame!
**[12:37] ---**
Madame, what's wrong? Madame Wen!
**[12:44] ---**
Oh, no!
**[12:45] ---**
Her pulse is weakening.
**[12:46] ---**
Oh?
**[12:47] ---**
Looks like she's vomiting blood
**[12:49] ---**
from shock.
**[12:50] ---**
I'm afraid she's on the brink of death.
**[12:53] ---**
You're a spirit doctor
**[12:55] ---**
from Tao City.
**[12:56] ---**
Whatever you ask,
**[12:57] ---**
I beg of you,
**[12:58] ---**
save Madame and Miss Shanhai!
**[13:00] ---**
Yeah, Tao Yao,
**[13:01] ---**
save Shanhai!
**[13:05] ---**
I can't.
**[13:06] ---**
Why?
**[13:08] ---**
Wen Shanhai is already dead.
**[13:10] ---**
I can't resurrect the dead.
**[13:12] ---**
Unless time turns back.
**[13:17] ---**
How could that be?
**[13:19] ---**
Shanhai had so many things
she wanted to do…
**[13:24] ---**
As for Madame Wen…
**[13:27] ---**
My apologies. She made me unhappy just now.
**[13:29] ---**
Are you…
**[13:30] ---**
just going to watch her die?
**[13:32] ---**
Let's go.
**[13:42] ---**
Save her,
**[13:43] ---**
or no one's leaving alive!
**[13:45] ---**
You're threatening me?
**[13:49] ---**
I hate being threatened.
**[13:57] ---**
We came here
**[13:58] ---**
to save Moya.
**[13:59] ---**
As for other matters,
**[14:01] ---**
only your Madame is to blame.
**[14:05] ---**
Wait.
**[14:06] ---**
As long as you save her,
**[14:07] ---**
all the treasure in the Wen residence
**[14:09] ---**
will belong to you.
**[14:14] ---**
It's enough to buy all of Tianshui Town.
**[14:36] ---**
With a lingering regret
comes a thousand knots.
**[14:58] ---**
Tell me why you're trapped.
**[15:09] ---**
Stop.
**[15:13] ---**
This Lady Fate is mine.
**[15:19] ---**
This man…
**[15:21] ---**
is my savior,
**[15:24] ---**
my beloved husband.
**[15:27] ---**
But he's also…
**[15:28] ---**
the man who pushed me into hell.
**[15:31] ---**
♪ The wind slows ♪
**[15:34] ---**
♪ Music trickles through the windows ♪
**[15:38] ---**
♪ Who are these idle memories for? ♪
**[15:45] ---**
♪ The dust floats in the air ♪
**[15:48] ---**
♪ The water ripples like blossoms ♪
**[15:51] ---**
♪ Sighs of hindsight ♪
**[15:58] ---**
♪ No sign of stopping ♪
**[16:01] ---**
♪ Thoughts are always unfinished ♪
**[16:05] ---**
♪ Joy is often cut short ♪
**[16:07] ---**
♪ It's hard to wake up from
a long night's dream ♪
**[16:12] ---**
♪ Evidence without reason ♪
**[16:15] ---**
♪ A farewell to love and hate ♪
**[16:19] ---**
♪ Searching in the haystack ♪
**[16:21] ---**
♪ Thousands of times ♪
**[16:28] ---**
♪ Starlight rains down the southern sky ♪
**[16:32] ---**
♪ My heart is layered with expired love ♪
**[16:36] ---**
♪ A journey across mountains
for one promise ♪
**[16:43] ---**
♪ No shadows, no fate ♪
**[16:46] ---**
♪ Where there's love, there's promise ♪
**[16:50] ---**
♪ A dream comes to life ♪
**[16:57] ---**
♪ Stars disappear upon rainfall ♪
# 11 - Zhao Hai - Part 1
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[Episode 23: Zhao Hai (1)]
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I'm a Lady Fate.
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I can eat the dead
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and foretell death.
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From the day I was born,
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I was isolated from the world
**[00:13] ---**
and lived here peacefully.
**[00:17] ---**
But who knew…
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Lady Fate! Lady Fate!
**[00:21] ---**
Lady Fate!
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Move out already!
**[00:24] ---**
Are you just waiting to die?
**[00:25] ---**
But…
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But where can I go?
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Come on!
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Anywhere is better than
next door to the magician!
**[00:31] ---**
Hurry, hurry!
**[00:38] ---**
Suit yourself! I may never see you again!
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His name is Jing Zhe.
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He's said to be the strongest
magician in Xingyang City.
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He kills spirits easily,
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and other magicians fear him.
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Why would such a person
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come live near the burial mounds?
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He's definitely here to kill spirits!
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I-I should run!
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Do you drink wine?
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I've suddenly realized
**[01:25] ---**
the osmanthus flowers smell so sweet tonight,
**[01:27] ---**
and the moon is so big…
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I asked you a question!
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Do you drink or not?
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Ahh!
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A spirit's aura…
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Please, don't kill me!
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I'm just a Lady Fate.
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I don't eat people or do evil,
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I can't fly or fight,
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and I'm afraid of pain!
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If you don't want me here,
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I…
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I'll move away immediately!
**[02:00] ---**
I only asked you if you drink or not.
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It's alright if you don't.
**[02:07] ---**
There's always a first time.
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Is it good?
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It burns!
**[02:45] ---**
It tastes so bad.
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But you're the only person
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who's willing to drink with me.
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Do your friends not drink?
**[02:54] ---**
This is my only friend,
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but he has no mouth.
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What a shame,
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Zhao Hai.
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You're lying.
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How can a human not have friends?
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Tsk.
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What's so scary about a stupid drunkard?
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I'm not moving!
**[03:47] ---**
This neighbor
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stayed for ten years.
**[03:51] ---**
Jing Zhe would occasionally
go out on short trips.
**[03:57] ---**
When he returned, he either drank, slept…
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or stared at the sky in a daze.
**[04:06] ---**
And me?
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I learned to drink
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and dared to mess around with him sometimes.
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Although things were stagnant,
**[04:16] ---**
it was a peaceful life.
**[04:23] ---**
But it was only peaceful
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under his care.
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A spirit! Catch the spirit!
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D-don't hurt him!
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They say that Lady Fates feed on the dead,
**[04:58] ---**
but actually,
**[04:59] ---**
we only consume humans' last breaths.
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My eyes can see the date of someone's death,
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so when the time comes,
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I conceal myself and take
in their last breath.
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But this time…
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Father! Father!
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Spirit!
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Catch the spirit!
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Laugh at me, then!
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I lost my food because my concealing
abilities are too poor,
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and I even scared them.
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It's really not his fault.
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I didn't think you'd be so kind.
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But a kind person is easily bullied,
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and you're even a spirit, too.
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But I…
**[06:00] ---**
have always lived this way.
**[06:04] ---**
Have you ever considered
**[06:06] ---**
that maybe your concealing
abilities are fine,
**[06:08] ---**
and it's because your jar smells of alcohol?
**[06:12] ---**
R-really?!
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Why don't I help you find a new one?
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No can do!
**[06:16] ---**
This one's from my mother!
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In the blink of an eye, ten years passed.
**[06:20] ---**
I thought Jing Zhe and I
**[06:22] ---**
would always just be happy neighbors.
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I never imagined…
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Stop.
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This Lady Fate is mine.
**[06:34] ---**
What do you mean?
**[06:36] ---**
We caught her.
**[06:37] ---**
I know you're having a
spirit killing contest.
**[06:42] ---**
But hunt them somewhere else.
**[06:44] ---**
This one isn't participating.
**[06:46] ---**
Why?
**[06:52] ---**
Because you can't beat me.
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Bye.
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If you dare save this spirit,
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you'll become enemies with
all of Xingyang City!
**[07:03] ---**
It's that serious?
**[07:04] ---**
Jing Zhe!
**[07:05] ---**
Killing spirits is a magician's job.
**[07:07] ---**
Why are you sparing her?
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Why?
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What if I told you… she's my wife?
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Anyone who dares to touch my wife…
**[07:22] ---**
will have me to answer to!
**[07:26] ---**
He's gone insane!
**[07:27] ---**
Let's report to Master!
**[07:28] ---**
We'll show this guy what for!
**[07:31] ---**
You're leaving?
**[07:32] ---**
Remember to bring wedding gifts!
**[07:36] ---**
Wife…
**[07:38] ---**
How can a spirit
**[07:39] ---**
be a human's wife?
**[07:43] ---**
If I hadn't come back today,
**[07:45] ---**
what would you have done?
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I don't have friends because I'm too strong.
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You don't because you're too weak!
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Forget it. There's no use scolding you.
**[07:55] ---**
Drink!
**[07:58] ---**
Why are you angry?
**[08:03] ---**
Calling me your wife was
just an offhand lie, right?
**[08:07] ---**
Thank you, Jing Zhe.
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If not for you,
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I'd probably be long dead.
**[08:12] ---**
Do you hear yourself?
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So if I died,
**[08:16] ---**
what would you do?
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What? All humans die.
**[08:23] ---**
That's right.
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How could I forget that?
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He's human
**[08:27] ---**
and can live for a hundred years at most.
**[08:31] ---**
Aren't you able to see the
date of someone's death?
**[08:34] ---**
What's mine?
**[08:36] ---**
No!
**[08:37] ---**
Why?
**[08:38] ---**
No, no!
**[08:39] ---**
I definitely won't look!
**[08:40] ---**
Come on, don't hold back!
**[08:42] ---**
A magician's last breath
**[08:44] ---**
should be very nutritious, no?
**[08:48] ---**
I don't want to eat yours!
**[08:49] ---**
Stop talking nonsense!
**[08:53] ---**
Since when could you handle that much wine?
**[08:56] ---**
Tomorrow,
**[08:57] ---**
come home with me and meet my parents.
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After all, you're my future wife.
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Wife?
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Wasn't that a joke?
**[09:06] ---**
Wasn't that a joke?!
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I've been away for a while,
**[09:13] ---**
and it'll be messy,
**[09:14] ---**
but don't mind it.
**[09:16] ---**
Wait!
**[09:17] ---**
I'm not ready yet.
**[09:18] ---**
I don't even have a gift!
**[09:20] ---**
I should at least change my clothes!
**[09:40] ---**
Father. Mother.
**[09:42] ---**
Your son is back to see you.
**[09:46] ---**
When I was born,
**[09:47] ---**
a monk came to tell my fortune.
**[09:49] ---**
He said that I was fated
for violence and conflict,
**[09:51] ---**
so I couldn't stay with my parents.
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I had to leave as soon as I could,
**[09:54] ---**
or I'd bring disaster.
**[09:56] ---**
But my parents wanted me to stay.
**[09:58] ---**
And in the end…
**[09:59] ---**
The monk's words came true.
**[10:01] ---**
Ten years ago,
**[10:03] ---**
a fellow magician poisoned our well.
**[10:05] ---**
He wanted to get rid of me,
**[10:07] ---**
but my parents died instead.
**[10:09] ---**
After I killed him,
**[10:11] ---**
I planned to turn myself in,
**[10:13] ---**
but prison is uncomfortable.
**[10:14] ---**
so I went to the burial mounds instead.
**[10:18] ---**
In so many years,
**[10:19] ---**
no one's dared to look for me.
**[10:20] ---**
I didn't fear my own death,
**[10:23] ---**
but who knew…
**[10:25] ---**
I still shouldn't have…
**[10:27] ---**
denied my fate.
**[10:29] ---**
A human did it,
**[10:30] ---**
so don't blame fate.
**[10:32] ---**
The way I see it,
**[10:33] ---**
the worse they say your life will be,
**[10:35] ---**
the better you should live.
**[10:36] ---**
Live every day happily,
**[10:38] ---**
wonderfully,
**[10:39] ---**
and make them mad.
**[10:42] ---**
You little spirit.
**[10:43] ---**
You couldn't even beat a fox,
**[10:44] ---**
yet you want me to defy Heaven's will?
**[10:46] ---**
Is Heaven's will always correct?
**[10:53] ---**
You're right!
**[10:55] ---**
I want every day from now on
**[10:56] ---**
to be a happy day.
**[10:58] ---**
Will you be my wife?
**[10:59] ---**
Wife?
**[11:00] ---**
Again?
**[11:04] ---**
With the world as my witness,
and my parents above,
**[11:06] ---**
I, Jing Zhe, am willing to take
this Lady Fate as my wife.
**[11:10] ---**
To protect her, in life or death.
**[11:13] ---**
What about you? Are you willing?
**[11:15] ---**
What kind of joke is this?!
**[11:16] ---**
I'm a spirit!
**[11:18] ---**
How can a magician
**[11:19] ---**
marry me?
**[11:20] ---**
But I only know you well.
**[11:22] ---**
Don't lie to me!
**[11:24] ---**
You're joking, aren't you?
**[11:26] ---**
You're so silly.
**[11:26] ---**
So it is a joke!
**[11:28] ---**
Of course not!
**[11:31] ---**
Ridiculous, isn't it?
**[11:33] ---**
Someone who's supposed to hunt spirits
**[11:35] ---**
took a spirit as his wife, just like that.
**[11:38] ---**
Our days were peaceful
under the chimney smoke.
**[11:42] ---**
We were as happy as any newlywed couple.
**[11:52] ---**
The second year,
**[11:53] ---**
Shanhai was born.
**[11:55] ---**
Turns out humans and spirits
can have children together.
**[11:58] ---**
It was like a dream.
**[12:00] ---**
Shanhai,
**[12:01] ---**
look here.
**[12:06] ---**
Why did you give her that name?
**[12:07] ---**
It's like a boy's name.
**[12:09] ---**
Its meaning invokes hope and perseverance.
**[12:11] ---**
That's why.
**[12:14] ---**
Very impressive!
**[12:15] ---**
Right,
**[12:16] ---**
little Shanhai?
**[12:18] ---**
Alright, alright.
**[12:19] ---**
Since you like it,
**[12:20] ---**
Shanhai it'll be.
**[12:22] ---**
With her name's meaning in mind,
**[12:24] ---**
I embroidered something.
**[12:25] ---**
Um…
**[12:26] ---**
Come on!
**[12:28] ---**
I know how to embroider, okay?
**[12:39] ---**
Do you like it, little Shanhai?
**[12:42] ---**
What are you doing?
**[12:43] ---**
That's almost too much affection.
**[12:47] ---**
If my life can keep being this happy,
**[12:49] ---**
even the worst pains will be as nothing.
**[12:52] ---**
If only we'd gotten married
soon after we met.
**[12:55] ---**
We could've been a married
couple for an extra ten years.
**[13:00] ---**
I never would have thought
**[13:03] ---**
that that early winter's afternoon
**[13:05] ---**
would be one of our last moments as a family.
**[13:09] ---**
Why?! Why?!
**[13:11] ---**
What did I do wrong?!
**[13:12] ---**
Tell me!
**[13:14] ---**
You wanted to marry me back then,
**[13:16] ---**
and you said it wasn't a joke.
**[13:19] ---**
How can humans be so deceiving?
**[13:21] ---**
You left, just like that.
**[13:22] ---**
What will Shanhai and I do?!
**[13:25] ---**
Why?! Why?!
**[13:27] ---**
Come out and tell me!
**[13:29] ---**
Jing Zhe!
**[13:39] ---**
Please head home, Benefactress.
**[13:41] ---**
He's made up his mind.
**[13:44] ---**
Impossible.
**[13:45] ---**
Our daughter is still so young.
**[13:46] ---**
How can he leave everything behind like this?
**[13:49] ---**
I need to see him.
**[13:50] ---**
I want to ask him in person!
**[13:52] ---**
I don't believe it!
**[14:03] ---**
Jing Zhe!
**[14:08] ---**
It's already been seven days and nights.
**[14:10] ---**
She won't leave,
**[14:12] ---**
and she wanted me to give you this.
**[14:47] ---**
[Humans and spirits walk different
paths. Our bond ends here.]
**[14:52] ---**
What does this mean?
**[14:54] ---**
What does he mean?
**[15:01] ---**
I understand.
**[15:02] ---**
His heart must have softened.
**[15:04] ---**
He can't bear to return Shanhai's blanket.
**[15:06] ---**
I just want to say something to him
**[15:08] ---**
and see him one more time…
**[15:10] ---**
He said…
**[15:11] ---**
He said the blanket has
traces of a spirit's aura.
**[15:14] ---**
To keep the temple pure,
**[15:16] ---**
he already burned it.
**[15:37] ---**
Humans and spirits…
**[15:38] ---**
walk different paths?
**[15:41] ---**
Such disdain, even for Shanhai's things…
**[15:48] ---**
I understand.
**[15:49] ---**
I fully understand.
**[15:52] ---**
Don't worry.
**[15:54] ---**
Your daughter
**[15:56] ---**
won't be a spirit any longer!
**[16:06] ---**
He used to be so affectionate,
**[16:07] ---**
but he suddently became a stranger.
**[16:10] ---**
How interesting.
**[16:13] ---**
You saw it all.
**[16:14] ---**
Ever since,
**[16:16] ---**
Madame's been searching
**[16:17] ---**
for a way to remove spirit blood.
**[16:20] ---**
And made her daughter end up like this?
**[16:23] ---**
Yes.
**[16:24] ---**
At this point,
**[16:26] ---**
I'm afraid the knot in Madame's heart
**[16:27] ---**
will eventually become a noose.
**[16:29] ---**
So please, Miss Tao Yao.
**[16:30] ---**
What knot in her heart?
**[16:32] ---**
Didn't she make up her mind already?
**[16:34] ---**
What?
**[16:34] ---**
She remarried while she was still young
**[16:36] ---**
and enjoyed a life of luxury.
**[16:38] ---**
This gave her money to
spend on her daughter, too.
**[16:41] ---**
So this decision
**[16:42] ---**
was smart and thought-out.
**[16:43] ---**
No!
**[16:44] ---**
That's not it! She…
**[16:45] ---**
You don't understand.
**[16:46] ---**
That Jing Zhe was crafty, too.
**[16:48] ---**
First, he led a carefree life.
**[16:50] ---**
Then, he enjoyed romance.
**[16:51] ---**
When a child came along,
**[16:52] ---**
he became a monk.
**[16:54] ---**
Love and cultvation don't go together, huh?
**[16:56] ---**
Don't slander them!
**[16:57] ---**
They're not that heartless or callous!
**[16:59] ---**
Not heartless?
**[17:00] ---**
Then why did he abandon his wife?
**[17:02] ---**
He…
**[17:03] ---**
Not callous?
**[17:04] ---**
Why did she remarry?
**[17:06] ---**
She…
**[17:07] ---**
Splitting up
**[17:08] ---**
and going their own ways.
**[17:09] ---**
Didn't they live quite well afterward?
**[17:11] ---**
You keep yapping about a broken heart,
**[17:14] ---**
but it's mostly your heart that's broken, no?
**[17:15] ---**
Shut up. Shut up!
**[17:17] ---**
Is this necessary, Steward Qin?
**[17:19] ---**
She's not your wife,
**[17:21] ---**
so why are you so invested?
**[17:23] ---**
What's more,
**[17:24] ---**
you have no evidence.
**[17:25] ---**
How can you refute me?
**[17:27] ---**
I've been a steward here
**[17:29] ---**
for only a few years.
**[17:31] ---**
But a long time ago,
**[17:33] ---**
I'd already met Madame.
**[17:35] ---**
And even longer ago,
**[17:36] ---**
I was Jing Zhe's close companion.
**[17:39] ---**
That's why
**[17:40] ---**
no one understands them more than I do.
**[17:43] ---**
Actually,
**[17:44] ---**
you already know who I am, right?
**[17:48] ---**
You're…
**[17:50] ---**
Zhao Hai.
**[17:52] ---**
I personally witnessed
**[17:54] ---**
everything they experienced.
**[17:56] ---**
I swear on my life
**[17:58] ---**
that Jing Zhe…
**[17:59] ---**
no, that Master…
**[18:02] ---**
until the day he died,
**[18:03] ---**
loved his Lady Fate.
**[18:18] ---**
[Mistakes and foolishness.]
**[18:21] ---**
♪ The wind slows ♪
**[18:23] ---**
♪ Music trickles through the windows ♪
**[18:27] ---**
♪ Who are these idle memories for? ♪
**[18:34] ---**
♪ The dust floats in the air ♪
**[18:37] ---**
♪ The water ripples like blossoms ♪
**[18:40] ---**
♪ Sighs of hindsight ♪
**[18:42] ---**
♪ No sign of stopping ♪
**[18:47] ---**
♪ Thoughts are always unfinished ♪
**[18:54] ---**
♪ Joy is often cut short ♪
**[18:56] ---**
♪ It's hard to wake up from
a long night's dream ♪
**[19:01] ---**
♪ Evidence without reason ♪
**[19:04] ---**
♪ A farewell to love and hate ♪
**[19:08] ---**
♪ Searching in the haystack ♪
**[19:10] ---**
♪ Thousands of times ♪
**[19:18] ---**
♪ Starlight rains down the southern sky ♪
**[19:21] ---**
♪ My heart is layered with expired love ♪
**[19:25] ---**
♪ A journey across mountains
for one promise ♪
**[19:32] ---**
♪ No shadows, no fate ♪
**[19:35] ---**
♪ Where there's love, there's promise ♪
**[19:39] ---**
♪ A dream comes to life ♪
**[19:46] ---**
♪ Stars disappear upon rainfall ♪
# 12 - Zhao Hai - Part 2
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[Episode 24: Zhao Hai (2)]
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Sir.
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If I had come here earlier,
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would the people beside me
**[00:10] ---**
have lived better lives?
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Fate is fixed.
**[00:14] ---**
But you knew you would
only live for 30 years.
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Why get involved with that Lady Fate?
**[00:27] ---**
Amitabha.
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Master.
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She left with Shanhai.
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Do you want me to go?
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Zhao Hai.
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You've been with me for 20 years, right?
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22 years.
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You saved me from a clam
spirit when you were eight.
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You once said
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you can provide a path to life.
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One life,
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one person,
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one path.
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Alright.
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That's enough.
**[01:03] ---**
Master, what are you doing?
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From now on,
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you'll look after them for me.
**[01:10] ---**
But…
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If I had more energy,
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I could make you look better.
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Master!
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Hide the news of my death
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for as long as you can.
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Why?
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She's too weak.
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I fear that knowledge of
my death would make her…
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But hatred,
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intense hatred,
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will let her carry on with our daughter.
**[01:57] ---**
But she'll know eventually.
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That's alright.
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You'll be there.
**[02:05] ---**
Also…
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Master!
**[02:29] ---**
It's so lively! Let's watch!
**[02:44] ---**
It's a joyous day for Boss Wen!
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He's giving out money!
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As expected of the richest man here!
**[02:50] ---**
I hear the bride is gorgeous!
**[02:52] ---**
No wonder Boss Wen was
willing to spend this much!
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But I heard she has a daughter
from a past marriage.
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Taking off my veil now
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isn't very polite, is it?
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I just couldn't resist coming to see you.
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You agreed to wait.
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100 days.
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Why wait?
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After the ceremony,
**[03:29] ---**
you'll belong to me!
**[03:30] ---**
But you already promised.
**[03:33] ---**
Are you not afraid
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of divine punishment?
**[03:37] ---**
Um…
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Does that mean
**[03:39] ---**
she married him because…
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Don't worry.
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Once 100 days have passed,
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[98 days]
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I'll know what I should do.
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Fine!
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100 days it is!
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Mother!
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What's wrong, Shanhai?
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They said
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you won't want me anymore
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after you marry him.
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Silly goose.
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I would never abandon you.
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Really?
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When have I ever lied?
**[04:30] ---**
But you lied to him.
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Who?
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Lord Wen.
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He won't be able to wait 100 days.
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You looked again?
**[04:40] ---**
Did you look again?
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Didn't I tell you to not to do that anymore?
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It… it wasn't on purpose.
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You're human, Shanhai.
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Remember. You're human!
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With blood and flesh,
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eating grains
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and experiencing the seasons.
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And you'll one day be a
lady of the Wen family!
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Never use your powers again.
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Promise me!
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Okay.
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I'll definitely think of a way
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for you to leave your life as a spirit.
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I promise. I promise.
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She hasn't changed.
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She…
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hasn't changed at all.
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A Lady Fate's eyes are never wrong.
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Three months later,
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Boss Wen died in an accident,
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leaving behind a widow
who inherited his riches.
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Don't run!
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I'll kill you!
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This is it, Madame!
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There are too many bandits!
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We can't get away!
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Let's beg for mercy!
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Little lady,
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there's no road ahead!
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Just stop!
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These criminals are ruthless!
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They won't show mercy.
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Throw everything off!
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Okay!
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Come play with us, little girl!
**[06:00] ---**
Stop running!
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Damn!
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Mother, you're bleeding.
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Shh, don't make any noise.
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Turn invisible right now.
**[06:35] ---**
But Mother, didn't you say…
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Remember.
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No matter what happens,
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don't make a sound.
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They may not look like monsters,
**[06:50] ---**
but human hearts are sinister.
**[06:56] ---**
Look! The Wen family's beauty.
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Wow,
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she does look like a treat.
**[07:03] ---**
Boss Wen sure knew how to live well.
**[07:05] ---**
This is a fantastic haul.
**[07:06] ---**
Wealth and pleasure both!
**[07:08] ---**
Wait.
**[07:09] ---**
She's supposed to have a daughter.
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Search!
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Don't let the girl get away and report us!
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Tell us where she is!
**[07:27] ---**
Mother!
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Shanhai!
**[07:36] ---**
It's… a spirit!
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Hmph.
**[07:44] ---**
She's a spirit, huh?
**[07:46] ---**
Then this woman must be as well!
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Kill them!
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[Death]
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What was that?
**[08:01] ---**
Come on, kill them!
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Mother!
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We can't stay here.
**[08:29] ---**
Do you know how to ride?
**[08:30] ---**
You…
**[08:32] ---**
won't ask about our identities?
**[08:37] ---**
Whatever you are,
**[08:39] ---**
it doesn't matter to me.
**[08:40] ---**
Be careful from now on.
**[08:43] ---**
Otherwise,
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someone will worry.
**[08:48] ---**
And who would that be?
**[08:52] ---**
Savior,
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we came here unaccompanied
**[08:56] ---**
and want to live near Xiangyang City.
**[08:58] ---**
I'm in need of a careful, faithful steward.
**[09:02] ---**
Would you
**[09:03] ---**
be interested?
**[09:10] ---**
I finally got a chance to stay by their side.
**[09:14] ---**
Madame Wen soon sold her property
**[09:17] ---**
and brought Shanhai to live in Tianshui Town.
**[09:21] ---**
It's Xiangyang City!
**[09:27] ---**
Hey, Steward Qin,
**[09:29] ---**
you should talk Madame Wen out of this.
**[09:32] ---**
Why would anyone build a residence here?
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It's bad luck.
**[09:35] ---**
She doesn't care about such things.
**[09:39] ---**
Luck, wealth, and what others think
**[09:42] ---**
are all unimportant.
**[09:44] ---**
She moved to Tianshui Town
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to avoid Xiangyang City itself
**[09:49] ---**
but still be close to Cloudsea Temple.
**[09:52] ---**
Master!
**[09:54] ---**
Zhao Hai…
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Bring my soul incense to her.
**[10:00] ---**
No!
**[10:00] ---**
When the incense burns out,
your soul will be destroyed,
**[10:03] ---**
never to exist again!
**[10:07] ---**
And so what?
**[10:10] ---**
As long as I can stay with
her for a little longer,
**[10:12] ---**
I can be satisfied with living just one life.
**[10:17] ---**
No!
**[10:20] ---**
Master!
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In the days that followed,
**[10:28] ---**
I heeded my master's wishes
**[10:30] ---**
and protected the two of them.
**[10:57] ---**
I hid master's incense
**[10:58] ---**
deep within the residence.
**[11:00] ---**
That way, other spirits kept their distance,
**[11:03] ---**
and the remnants of Master's soul
**[11:05] ---**
could stay for a long time
with the one he loved.
**[11:11] ---**
I couldn't bear to shatter her dream.
**[11:14] ---**
Until…
**[11:15] ---**
Cleansing her blood…
**[11:20] ---**
I have a way.
**[11:23] ---**
That stupid incense
**[11:24] ---**
stopped even me!
**[11:26] ---**
Soul incense can ward off evil,
**[11:28] ---**
but it only works on spirits.
**[11:30] ---**
That crone is a human,
**[11:31] ---**
so she wasn't affected.
**[11:33] ---**
Soul incense?
**[11:34] ---**
Those with superior skills
**[11:36] ---**
can sacrifice themselves
**[11:38] ---**
by burning their bodies
**[11:39] ---**
to create soul incense,
**[11:41] ---**
also called life incense.
**[11:43] ---**
They burn their souls
while they're still alive?
**[11:45] ---**
Yes,
**[11:46] ---**
so such incense is very rare.
**[11:48] ---**
Too few are willing to sacrifice
themselves for others.
**[11:52] ---**
But in the end,
**[11:53] ---**
our Lady Fate didn't know
that the man she hated
**[11:55] ---**
actually never left.
**[11:57] ---**
Jing Zhe also wouldn't know
**[11:59] ---**
that the one he loves, because
of his last decision,
**[12:02] ---**
would end up like this.
**[12:04] ---**
She didn't change.
**[12:05] ---**
She used money to buy lives.
**[12:07] ---**
How is that similar to the
kind spirit she once was?
**[12:10] ---**
Kindness doesn't put food on the table.
**[12:12] ---**
But Madame would never hurt
**[12:13] ---**
those who had long lives left.
**[12:15] ---**
She would even find treatment for them.
**[12:17] ---**
If even that is wrong,
**[12:18] ---**
then what about the sellers?
**[12:21] ---**
At the very least,
**[12:22] ---**
Madame worked hard for Shanhai
**[12:24] ---**
to change her fate as a spirit.
**[12:26] ---**
But…
**[12:28] ---**
But she never asked Shanhai
if she was willing.
**[12:32] ---**
So what if she's a spirit?
**[12:34] ---**
Who says you must be human to be happy?!
**[12:37] ---**
She said she doesn't think
it's shameful to be a spirit,
**[12:40] ---**
and foreseeing death
**[12:41] ---**
only makes her treasure life more!
**[12:44] ---**
But because Madame Wen's
feelings ended in failure,
**[12:46] ---**
she forcibly distorted Shanhai's life!
**[12:50] ---**
Shanhai's father also wronged her.
**[12:52] ---**
If he loved them,
**[12:53] ---**
why did he use such a cruel
method to make them strong?
**[12:56] ---**
Couldn't he have just spent
his last days with them?
**[13:00] ---**
You might think he was being merciful,
**[13:02] ---**
but actually,
**[13:04] ---**
he was just a selfish bastard!
**[13:10] ---**
Shanhai had so many things she wanted to do,
**[13:14] ---**
places to go,
**[13:15] ---**
and people to see.
**[13:18] ---**
But you made her lose everything.
**[13:28] ---**
I'm a Zhao Hai.
**[13:30] ---**
I know.
**[13:31] ---**
Born in the deep sea and able to grant life.
**[13:34] ---**
By shattering and consuming
you, even death can be reset.
**[13:37] ---**
You're a rare spirit.
**[13:39] ---**
So…
**[13:40] ---**
Are you willing to help me save Shanhai?
**[13:44] ---**
The final use of a Zhao Hai
**[13:46] ---**
is to give life to someone else.
**[13:48] ---**
But only one person in one life.
**[13:51] ---**
If it's for Shanhai,
**[13:53] ---**
I'm willing.
**[13:55] ---**
But I'm not willing.
**[13:57] ---**
You're so rare that even
I can't bear to use you.
**[13:59] ---**
Though you want to sacrifice yourself.
**[14:02] ---**
I won't do it.
**[14:13] ---**
You love her?
**[14:16] ---**
I love all three of them.
**[14:19] ---**
Jing Zhe is my master,
**[14:21] ---**
Shanhai is like my daughter,
**[14:23] ---**
and Madame Wen…
**[14:26] ---**
Lady Fate…
**[14:31] ---**
Why kick us out?
**[14:32] ---**
What are you doing?
**[14:32] ---**
Little monk,
What are you doing?
**[14:33] ---**
Don't worry.
**[14:34] ---**
Go save Rolly.
**[14:38] ---**
But…
**[14:39] ---**
Let's go.
**[14:40] ---**
Rolly's definitely hurting.
**[14:41] ---**
You're his owner, but you
don't seem worried at all.
**[14:44] ---**
That's not true!
**[14:45] ---**
Of course I'm worried!
**[14:46] ---**
It's just…
**[14:47] ---**
Come on.
**[14:56] ---**
I'm sorry, Shanhai.
**[14:59] ---**
I'm sorry.
**[15:01] ---**
It's all my fault.
**[15:02] ---**
This is… Shanhai?
**[15:05] ---**
May I hold her?
**[15:10] ---**
Shanhai,
**[15:12] ---**
you'll grow up again soon.
**[15:14] ---**
Make sure you become a happy girl.
**[15:15] ---**
Who cares if you're a spirit or a human?
**[15:18] ---**
Don't worry.
**[15:19] ---**
This time,
**[15:20] ---**
I won't make such a mess again.
**[15:22] ---**
Otherwise, I would disappoint Zhao Hai.
**[15:26] ---**
Also,
**[15:27] ---**
about taking care of them…
**[15:29] ---**
Enough.
**[15:29] ---**
If after all this,
**[15:31] ---**
they still don't know how to live on,
**[15:33] ---**
nobody can help them.
**[15:35] ---**
Alright.
**[15:36] ---**
Then that's that.
**[15:42] ---**
Going back in time
**[15:43] ---**
to the beginning.
**[15:44] ---**
Steward Qin said he's caged in the bedroom.
**[15:45] ---**
Not everyone has such good fortune.
Steward Qin said he's caged in the bedroom.
**[15:47] ---**
Steward Qin said he's caged in the bedroom.
**[15:47] ---**
Live well.
**[15:49] ---**
Thank you, Miss Tao Yao.
**[15:51] ---**
How can I repay you?
**[15:55] ---**
I heard you donated your
wealth to a hospital.
**[15:58] ---**
Most of it.
**[16:00] ---**
But please,
**[16:01] ---**
help yourself to the rest.
**[16:02] ---**
It's fine.
**[16:04] ---**
Raising a child is hard. Keep
it and buy good food for her.
**[16:08] ---**
But…
**[16:09] ---**
Alternatively,
**[16:10] ---**
just treat it as an early
betrothal gift from Moya.
**[16:15] ---**
Let's go.
**[16:16] ---**
You'll have to wait a bunch
of years before you can marry.
**[16:20] ---**
So why dawdle right now?
**[16:22] ---**
Tao Yao, watch what you say!
**[16:25] ---**
What is this?
**[16:28] ---**
This is…
**[16:53] ---**
I don't understand part of it.
**[16:55] ---**
Which part?
**[16:57] ---**
That crone's spells were perfectly cast.
**[16:59] ---**
How did Moya get out?
**[17:01] ---**
Fortune favors fools.
**[17:04] ---**
I'm being serious.
**[17:06] ---**
The caster was connected to both worlds.
**[17:09] ---**
If she died,
**[17:11] ---**
Moya's soul could've gotten stuck forever,
**[17:14] ---**
so I couldn't dare make a move
**[17:15] ---**
until she undid the spell on her own.
**[17:18] ---**
But there was a second approach,
**[17:20] ---**
creating backlash from the inside.
**[17:22] ---**
As long as the caster's world
is destroyed in one go,
**[17:26] ---**
the source of the backlash
can be forcibly expelled.
**[17:28] ---**
Understand?
**[17:29] ---**
So you mean…
**[17:31] ---**
Moya was the source of the backlash?
**[17:33] ---**
He has that ability?
**[17:34] ---**
Moya has nine lives' worth of blessings.
**[17:36] ---**
That's nothing to sneeze at.
**[17:38] ---**
Otherwise, you wouldn't
be so intent on eating him
**[17:40] ---**
to improve your cultivation,
**[17:41] ---**
right?
**[17:43] ---**
What a joke.
**[17:44] ---**
He's been a monk in nine lives, that's all.
**[17:47] ---**
If not for his purity,
**[17:48] ---**
what use would he be?
**[17:50] ---**
Have you ever wondered
**[17:51] ---**
why Moya has always looked like a child?
**[17:54] ---**
That person once said
**[17:56] ---**
that beneath Moya's nine lives as a monk,
**[17:59] ---**
something else may be hidden.
**[18:01] ---**
But all this is just conjecture.
**[18:03] ---**
If the backlash had failed…
**[18:05] ---**
Then I'd be left on my lonesome.
**[18:07] ---**
Tao Yao!
**[18:08] ---**
This boatman says he can give us a free trip!
**[18:17] ---**
Don't just go talking to strangers!
**[18:19] ---**
Have you already forgotten
about getting kidnapped?
**[18:32] ---**
What's wrong?
**[18:32] ---**
The Hundred Spirit Record's aura
**[18:34] ---**
has never been so strong.
**[18:36] ---**
What?
**[18:37] ---**
It's close by?
**[18:38] ---**
No.
**[18:39] ---**
In that direction.
**[18:40] ---**
Five hundred miles or so.
**[18:43] ---**
Isn't that Bianjing?
**[18:45] ---**
Sir, sir!
**[18:46] ---**
Can you take us to Bianjing for free, too?
**[18:50] ---**
We have to pay?
**[18:51] ---**
That much?!
**[18:52] ---**
Wasn't it free just now?
**[18:54] ---**
Sir, don't leave!
**[18:56] ---**
20! Is 20 okay?
**[18:58] ---**
30, then!
**[18:59] ---**
50, 50!
**[19:00] ---**
50, deal!
**[19:01] ---**
Come on, we're already friends!
**[19:03] ---**
Let's do 50, okay?
**[19:06] ---**
Rolly, let's go.
**[19:07] ---**
Forget her.
**[19:08] ---**
[Please cherish life this time.]
**[19:21] ---**
♪ The wind slows ♪
**[19:23] ---**
♪ Music trickles through the windows ♪
**[19:27] ---**
♪ Who are these idle memories for? ♪
**[19:34] ---**
♪ The dust floats in the air ♪
**[19:37] ---**
♪ The water ripples like blossoms ♪
**[19:41] ---**
♪ Sighs of hindsight ♪
**[19:47] ---**
♪ No sign of stopping ♪
**[19:51] ---**
♪ Thoughts are always unfinished ♪
**[19:54] ---**
♪ Joy is often cut short ♪
**[19:56] ---**
♪ It's hard to wake up from
a long night's dream ♪
**[20:01] ---**
♪ Evidence without reason ♪
**[20:04] ---**
♪ A farewell to love and hate ♪
**[20:08] ---**
♪ Searching in the haystack ♪
**[20:10] ---**
♪ Thousands of times ♪
**[20:21] ---**
♪ Starlight rains down the southern sky ♪
**[20:26] ---**
♪ My heart is layered with expired love ♪
**[20:33] ---**
♪ A journey across mountains
for one promise ♪
**[20:45] ---**
♪ No shadows, no fate ♪
**[20:50] ---**
♪ Where there's love, there's promise ♪
**[20:58] ---**
♪ A dream comes to life ♪
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♪ Stars disappear upon rainfall ♪