# E11 - A Sad Parting Under Moonlight
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**[00:00] (Flashback) Kids**
Hurry up!
**[00:02] (Flashback) Kids**
Wait!
**[00:05] (Flashback) Kids**
Wait, I said!
**[00:35] (Flashback) Carriage**
Come on, go.
**[01:17] (Flashback) Man**
Sire, will you remove the mask?
**[01:23] (Flashback) Q**
I never saw his face in life.
**[01:26] (Flashback) Q**
I don't need to see it in death.
**[01:30] (Flashback) Q**
Seal it.
**[01:52] (Flashback) Xie Lian**
Who's there?
**[01:55] (Flashback) Xie Lian**
Who's...
***SIGN*** HEAVEN OFFICIAL'S BLESSING
***SIGN*** Episode 11
***SIGN*** A Sad Parting Under Moonlight
**[04:21] Xie Lian**
I'm sorry, Sanlang.
**[04:24] Xie Lian**
I'm sorry, I don't know what came over me...
**[04:27] Xie Lian**
I'm sorry...
**[04:32] Hua Cheng**
No, it's my fault.
**[04:34] Xie Lian**
No, this is my problem!
**[04:37] Xie Lian**
I've humiliated myself!
**[04:39] Hua Cheng**
You did nothing wrong.
**[04:41] Hua Cheng**
You killed the king of Yong An
and protected the Xianle people.
**[04:44] Hua Cheng**
You killed Anle and prevented
a war between both peoples.
**[04:49] Hua Cheng**
And in the end...
**[04:50] Hua Cheng**
the killer was executed
at Lang Qianqiu's hands.
**[04:54] Hua Cheng**
Peace was gained at the cost of three lives.
**[04:57] Hua Cheng**
I would do the same.
**[05:00] Hua Cheng**
You've done nothing wrong.
**[05:03] Hua Cheng**
Nobody could do a better job than you did.
**[05:07] Xie Lian**
I just can't accept it...
**[05:11] Xie Lian**
Someone who extended a hand in
good faith should be rewarded...
**[05:17] Xie Lian**
Even if it's a lie... I wanted
Qianqiu to believe that.
**[05:22] Xie Lian**
To believe that, if you did the right thing without
hesitation, everything would work out fine...
**[05:28] Xie Lian**
But now look at me.
**[05:30] Xie Lian**
It's all turned to lies,
**[05:32] Xie Lian**
turned to hypocrisy,
**[05:34] Xie Lian**
turned to ridiculous nonsense...
**[05:37] Xie Lian**
I'm sorry.
**[05:44] Xie Lian**
Even I'm sick of it.
**[05:47] Xie Lian**
I didn't want anyone to suffer like this.
**[05:52] Xie Lian**
But look at how the world works.
**[05:57] Xie Lian**
The previous Yong An royals were never
punished for the awful things they did.
**[06:03] Xie Lian**
But Lang Qianqiu's parents tried to
**[06:06] Xie Lian**
make the world a better place out
of the goodness of their hearts,
**[06:09] Xie Lian**
and met such an awful end.
**[06:14] Xie Lian**
I can't forget it...
**[06:15] Xie Lian**
that moment when I killed him.
**[06:26] Hua Cheng**
It's Anle and Qi Rong's fault.
**[06:34] Xie Lian**
Everything was going fine.
**[06:36] Xie Lian**
When Lang Qianqiu's father took the throne,
**[06:38] Xie Lian**
he changed the way the Xianle
people were treated.
**[06:41] Xie Lian**
The people of both kingdoms were
gradually coming to accept each other.
**[06:47] Xie Lian**
Things were finally about to change!
**[06:50] Xie Lian**
So why?!
**[07:00] (Flashback) Xie Lian**
Anle!
**[07:01] (Flashback) Xie Lian**
Do you understand the mistake you've made?
**[07:02] (Flashback) Anle**
So you were the Imperial Preceptor!
**[07:05] (Flashback) Anle**
You had them all fooled!
**[07:07] (Flashback) Anle**
I'm so glad... Now we can work
together to achieve something great!
**[07:12] (Flashback) Anle**
Now that the Golden Feast is over,
it's time to kill Lang Qianqiu!
**[07:16] (Flashback) Anle**
Yong An will fall into chaos, and
then the real nightmare begins!
**[07:22] Xie Lian**
But still... I killed him.
**[07:26] Xie Lian**
No matter the circumstances
or what reasons I had,
**[07:30] Xie Lian**
that fact won't change.
**[07:32] Xie Lian**
Qi Rong was right about one thing:
**[07:36] Xie Lian**
I'm a failure.
**[07:38] Hua Cheng**
Don't believe a word that loser says.
**[07:41] Hua Cheng**
He's just hard to kill and quick to run away.
**[07:43] Hua Cheng**
Even after 800 years he
failed to become Supreme.
**[07:46] Hua Cheng**
Punching him would just dirty your hand.
**[07:51] Xie Lian**
I'm no different...
**[07:55] Xie Lian**
When I reunited with Lang Qianqiu, he had
the same honesty and kindness as before.
**[08:00] Xie Lian**
I felt so much better.
**[08:04] Xie Lian**
But how will this change him?
**[08:09] Xie Lian**
How will he settle things with
me after he finds Qi Rong?
**[08:36] Xie Lian**
There may still be surviving
people in the caves.
**[08:39] Xie Lian**
Let's save them.
**[08:45] Hua Cheng**
All right.
**[08:53] Ghosts**
Right this way!
**[08:58] Ghosts**
Please, come this way!
**[09:00] Ghosts**
The last group is here.
**[09:02] Hua Cheng**
Let them go!
**[09:04] Ghosts**
Right away!
**[09:08] Men**
Don't hurt me!
**[09:09] Men**
Let me out! Let me out!
**[09:14] Men**
They came to set us free!
**[09:17] Men**
We're free to go?
**[09:18] Ghosts**
Go.
**[09:19] Men**
Really?
**[09:20] Ghosts**
Get going.
**[09:27] Xie Lian**
By the way, Sanlang.
**[09:29] Xie Lian**
I was so sure the Golden Feast
massacre was Anle's doing alone.
**[09:33] Xie Lian**
I had no idea Qi Rong was behind it.
**[09:37] Xie Lian**
How did you know?
**[09:39] Xie Lian**
And how did you find out so quickly?
**[09:42] Hua Cheng**
No, it wasn't quick.
**[09:45] Hua Cheng**
I've fought him a few times.
**[09:47] Hua Cheng**
I know how he thinks.
**[09:50] Hua Cheng**
There've been other times in the past
where the Yong An royals were attacked,
**[09:53] Hua Cheng**
and he was behind them, too.
**[09:55] Hua Cheng**
He just never let himself get caught.
**[09:59] Xie Lian**
So he's done it before?
**[10:01] Xie Lian**
If the Heavenly Court found out he was
causing trouble in the human world,
**[10:05] Xie Lian**
they wouldn't be happy.
**[10:07] Hua Cheng**
And the Golden Feast massacre
matched his methods perfectly.
**[10:12] Hua Cheng**
That's why I was sure Imperial
Preceptor Fangxin was his pawn.
**[10:19] Hua Cheng**
But...
**[10:21] Hua Cheng**
When Lang Qianqiu said that you
were the Imperial Preceptor,
**[10:25] Hua Cheng**
I realized that the Imperial Preceptor
couldn't be working with Qi Rong.
**[10:29] Xie Lian**
* Sanlang seems to know all about the*
* history between me and Qi Rong,*
**[10:34] Xie Lian**
*and the struggles we've had.*
**[10:35] Hua Cheng**
That only made me more certain
Qi Rong was behind it.
**[10:39] Hua Cheng**
At least, he was the instigator, I'm sure.
**[10:43] Hua Cheng**
Xianle and Yong An share the same origin.
**[10:46] Hua Cheng**
Once their position became better,
**[10:47] Hua Cheng**
the people of Xianle would stop caring about
revenge or rebuilding their lost nation.
**[10:52] Hua Cheng**
So there was only one man
for Qi Rong to manipulate...
**[10:56] Hua Cheng**
the sole heir to the Xianle
Royal Family, King Anle.
**[11:02] Hua Cheng**
Shortly after the Golden Feast,
though, he died of an illness.
**[11:06] Hua Cheng**
There had to be a reason for that.
**[11:10] Hua Cheng**
My first suspicion was the people of Xianle.
**[11:13] Hua Cheng**
But then it didn't make sense
that the people of Xianle
**[11:18] Hua Cheng**
didn't become a target for revenge.
**[11:20] Hua Cheng**
I started eliminating possibilities,
until this was the only one left.
**[11:25] Xie Lian**
You got so much right with so few clues.
**[11:30] Hua Cheng**
I just understood well...
**[11:34] Xie Lian**
*Yes, he understood well.*
**[11:40] Xie Lian**
But there's one thing you just had to assume.
**[11:43] Xie Lian**
Why were you so sure that
Qi Rong was the instigator?
**[11:49] Hua Cheng**
I didn't believe he did it.
**[11:52] Hua Cheng**
I was simply sure that you didn't.
**[11:58] Xie Lian**
Why?
**[12:00] Hua Cheng**
You said the Golden Feast
massacre was your doing, right?
**[12:03] Hua Cheng**
The King of Yong An was
trusted by his people,
**[12:07] Hua Cheng**
but you claimed you couldn't bear
to see him sitting on the throne:
**[12:12] Hua Cheng**
exactly what you would
expect an assassin to say.
**[12:16] Hua Cheng**
But in your case, you just
bore the burden of that sin.
**[12:20] Xie Lian**
Burden?
**[12:23] Xie Lian**
And what if I really did think I couldn't
bear to see him on the throne?
**[12:27] Hua Cheng**
Even if you did, you wouldn't do anything.
**[12:31] Xie Lian**
Sanlang, I'm not who you think I am.
**[12:36] Xie Lian**
So...
**[12:37] Hua Cheng**
Don't worry. Go ahead.
**[12:41] Xie Lian**
Don't try to understand me too much.
**[12:45] Xie Lian**
It's okay to watch someone from afar...
**[12:49] Men**
Curse you, Prince of Xianle!
**[12:49] Xie Lian**
But once you get close and
know who someone really is...
**[12:53] Xie Lian**
Your fantasy that that person
is perfect will fall apart.
**[12:59] Xie Lian**
And in the end, you'll be disappointed.
**[13:01] Hua Cheng**
I don't know about that.
**[13:03] Hua Cheng**
It doesn't matter who they disappointed,
**[13:07] Hua Cheng**
because to someone in the world,
that person's very existence was hope.
**[13:15] Xie Lian**
Sanlang, who are you here?
**[13:19] Xie Lian**
You seem to know exactly who
Qi Rong is, and who I am.
**[13:26] Hua Cheng**
Haven't I always known a lot?
**[13:29] Xie Lian**
No, that's not what I'm asking.
**[13:33] Xie Lian**
I've always had this feeling
I've met you in the past.
**[13:37] Xie Lian**
Did I meet you during my first ascension?
**[13:41] Xie Lian**
No... even before that.
**[13:44] Xie Lian**
Sanlang, who are you?
**[13:49] Xie Lian**
Have I met you before?
**[14:01] Xie Lian**
*No...*
**[14:03] Xie Lian**
*A ghost always keeps their true name secret.*
**[14:04] Xie Lian**
*He wouldn't tell me.*
**[14:07] Xie Lian**
Sorry, don't worry about it.
**[14:09] Xie Lian**
I was just curious.
**[14:10] Xie Lian**
It doesn't matter who you are.
**[14:14] Shi Qingxuan**
I told you. You're more powerful and luckier
in female form, but you refuse to do it.
**[14:21] Shi Qingxuan**
Well? You saw, right?
**[14:22] Shi Qingxuan**
This time, the right number came up.
**[14:25] Xie Lian**
Wind Master!
**[14:28] Shi Qingxuan**
Is that you, Prince?
**[14:31] Shi Qingxuan**
Oh my, and Crimson Rain Sought Flower, too.
**[14:44] Feng Xin**
Did you find them? Well?
**[14:47] Xie Lian**
Feng Xin?!
**[14:56] Xie Lian**
Come here, Prince!
**[15:01] Xie Lian**
Calm down.
**[15:02] Xie Lian**
Put down your weapons...
**[15:13] Shi Qingxuan**
Hua Cheng! Crimson Rain Sought Flower!
**[15:15] Shi Qingxuan**
Don't get so mad, okay?
**[15:17] Shi Qingxuan**
The burning of Paradise
Manor was an accident!
**[15:20] Shi Qingxuan**
If you're upset, we'll pay for it.
**[15:23] Shi Qingxuan**
His Majesty has the money.
**[15:25] Shi Qingxuan**
So let the prince go, and we can all go home.
**[15:27] Xie Lian**
Wind Master, you seem to misunderstand.
**[15:30] Xie Lian**
I'm not...
**[15:36] Xie Lian**
What are you doing?
**[15:38] Shi Qingxuan**
We still haven't dealt with the
matter of the spies you sent.
**[15:42] Shi Qingxuan**
Do you think you have the
right to negotiate with me?
**[15:48] Xie Lian**
You can knock the act off, guys.
**[15:50] Xie Lian**
Sanlang came to help me out
of the goodness of his heart.
**[15:53] Xie Lian**
There's no need to hide that.
**[15:56] Shi Qingxuan**
All right. We'll call off the act.
**[15:58] Shi Qingxuan**
I already sent that conversation
to the spirit communication array.
**[16:01] Shi Qingxuan**
My prince, if your good intentions were
going to be interpreted as evil intentions,
**[16:06] Shi Qingxuan**
you should've just started
with evil intentions!
**[16:08] Shi Qingxuan**
They wouldn't have suspected you then!
**[16:10] Hua Cheng**
What you say makes sense.
**[16:12] Shi Qingxuan**
Of course it does.
**[16:14] Shi Qingxuan**
Do you think I could survive in
the Heavenly Court otherwise?
**[16:18] Shi Qingxuan**
General Nan Yang, put down your bow.
**[16:22] Shi Qingxuan**
Put down the bow.
**[16:23] Shi Qingxuan**
They're both good friends.
**[16:25] Shi Qingxuan**
There's no evil intentions there.
**[16:26] Feng**
Prince, come here!
**[16:28] Feng**
He's a Supreme!
**[16:29] Shi Qingxuan**
Stop it!
**[16:29] Shi Qingxuan**
Nobody's listening to a word I say...
**[16:31] Shi Qingxuan**
Put down your bow.
**[16:33] Feng**
Damn it! Get your hands off me!
**[16:36] Shi Qingxuan**
And what are you trying to do?
**[16:37] Feng**
Get your breasts away from me!
**[16:39] Shi Qingxuan**
Crimson Rain Sought Flower
went to save the prince.
**[16:42] Shi Qingxuan**
And you pointed a bow at him?
**[16:43] Shi Qingxuan**
Do you want a fight that badly?
**[16:43] Feng**
Stop! What are you doing?
**[16:45] Shi Qingxuan**
I'm not getting involved.
**[16:48] Feng**
Never do that again!
**[16:50] Feng**
Never again!
**[16:51] Feng**
Got it?
**[16:52] Shi Qingxuan**
Hey, don't you think you're overreacting?
**[16:55] Feng**
Stay away! Stay back!
**[16:58] Feng**
Get away from me!
**[16:59] Shi Qingxuan**
Fine.
**[17:00] Feng**
Go back to normal!
**[17:02] Shi Qingxuan**
How rude.
**[17:02] Feng**
Can't you hear me?
**[17:04] Shi Qingxuan**
It's not hurting you, is it?
**[17:13] Shi Qingxuan**
Huh? Where's Qianqiu?
**[17:16] Xie Lian**
He's not in the spirit communication array?
**[17:18] Shi Qingxuan**
He's not.
**[17:18] Shi Qingxuan**
I kept reaching out to him,
but he never responded.
**[17:23] Shi Qingxuan**
Normally he responds immediately,
even to a minor priest.
**[17:27] Shi Qingxuan**
He's acting really odd.
**[17:31] Xie Lian**
He went to chase after Qi Rong.
**[17:34] Xie Lian**
This is Qi Rong's lair.
**[17:36] Feng**
Wait. Why?
**[17:38] Hua Cheng**
What do you mean?
**[17:40] Hua Cheng**
He's simply gone after the true mastermind
behind the Golden Feast massacre.
**[17:43] Feng**
The true mastermind? Really?
**[17:46] Xie Lian**
It's a little complicated.
I'll tell you later.
**[17:50] Shi Qingxuan**
So it was a misunderstanding!
**[17:52] Shi Qingxuan**
I was absolutely right!
**[17:54] Shi Qingxuan**
You won't be punished even if you go back.
**[17:57] Feng**
I see.
**[17:58] Xie Lian**
Feng Xin.
**[17:59] Xie Lian**
By Qi Rong, I mean *that* Qi Rong.
**[18:03] Feng**
Which Qi Rong?
**[18:05] Feng**
Don't tell me... the Qi Rong we know?
**[18:10] Feng**
Why would a ghost share their
true name with everyone?
**[18:15] Feng**
It's insane!
**[18:22] Shi Qingxuan**
You know the Green Immortal?
**[18:25] Xie Lian**
He's my younger cousin.
**[18:27] Shi Qingxuan**
Wow!
**[18:30] Xie Lian**
Yes, he is amazing, but...
**[18:32] Shi Qingxuan**
No, I mean you're amazing!
**[18:36] Shi Qingxuan**
Right?
**[18:37] Shi Qingxuan**
The Martial Gods of the Southeast and
Southwest are your old acquaintances.
**[18:41] Shi Qingxuan**
The Martial God of the East is your student.
**[18:43] Shi Qingxuan**
The Green Immortal Qi Rong is your cousin.
**[18:46] Shi Qingxuan**
And Crimson Rain Sought Flower, the ruler
of the Ghost City, is your sworn brother.
**[18:50] Shi Qingxuan**
And I, the Wind Master, am your friend!
**[18:52] Shi Qingxuan**
That's plenty amazing!
**[18:56] Xie Lian**
*He truly is the master of the wind.*
**[18:58] Xie Lian**
* A strong wind that passes*
* through, blowing away the gloom.*
**[19:08] Feng**
If there's nothing else to do here,
**[19:09] Feng**
I'd like to get back to the
Heavenly Capital and explain
**[19:12] Feng**
what's going on to the Emperor.
**[19:15] Hua Cheng**
I thought you were the straightforward type,
**[19:17] Hua Cheng**
but I guess you like to
beat around the bush, too.
**[19:21] Hua Cheng**
You don't want your prince hanging
out with a monster like me, right?
**[19:25] Hua Cheng**
What's wrong? Why don't you
just come out and say so?
**[19:28] Hua Cheng**
'cause you're in no position to do so?
**[19:30] Feng**
He shouldn't be here with you.
**[19:33] Xie Lian**
Sanlang...
**[19:36] Xie Lian**
Of course I'll explain,
**[19:38] Xie Lian**
but there's something I need to do here.
**[19:41] Xie Lian**
Thanks to Sanlang, I was able
to save the people trapped here.
**[19:46] Xie Lian**
I'll deal with the remaining
ghosts here before heading back.
**[19:51] Feng**
You don't need to stay here.
**[19:52] Feng**
Go back, and leave this to me.
**[19:56] Hua Cheng**
At the rate the Heavenly Court works,
it'll be a month until you finish it all.
**[20:01] Feng**
And of course, you could do it in an instant?
**[20:04] Shi Qingxuan**
What's going on?
**[20:06] Shi Qingxuan**
Do you two hate each other?
**[20:16] Xie Lian**
Sanlang, why are you holding your umbrella?
**[20:19] Hua Cheng**
Just wait.
**[20:21] Hua Cheng**
Even as we speak... a storm is approaching.
**[20:36] Shi Qingxuan**
Where's this rain coming from?
**[20:40] Shi Qingxuan**
It stopped...
**[20:42] Xie Lian**
What's this?
**[20:51] Shi Qingxuan**
General Nan Yang, are you okay?
**[20:53] Shi Qingxuan**
You just stood there while the rain fell...
**[20:59] Xie Lian**
Feng Xin, you okay?
**[21:01] Shi Qingxuan**
Let's wipe you clean a little more.
**[21:02] Xie Lian**
It got all over your face.
**[21:05] Hua Cheng**
See? It only took an instant.
**[21:08] Hua Cheng**
Well?
**[21:10] Feng**
Enough. Your feather duster is
smearing it all over my face.
**[21:18] Xie Lian**
Sanlang!
**[21:20] Xie Lian**
Are you going back to the City of Ghosts?
**[21:23] Hua Cheng**
Are you going to the Heavenly Capital?
**[21:27] Hua Cheng**
But if you want to come to the City
of Ghosts with me, I'll welcome you.
**[21:32] Xie Lian**
I'll go another time!
**[21:34] Xie Lian**
When you rebuild Paradise
Manor, I'll help carry bricks!
**[21:41] Hua Cheng**
There's no need for that.
**[21:43] Hua Cheng**
You can just sit and watch.
**[21:46] Xie Lian**
Either way, I'm grateful
for your help with Qianqiu.
**[21:53] Xie Lian**
I don't know what's right here,
**[21:56] Xie Lian**
but this isn't so bad.
**[21:59] Hua Cheng**
You're thinking too much.
**[22:02] Hua Cheng**
Do as you like.