Episode Two
It's getting late.
You should go home for dinner.
I'll come see you more often.
- When will you come see me again? - When I have time.
- Promise? - I won't lie to you.
That kid won't be a great person in the future.
Master, why don't you kill him to avoid future trouble?
That is imprudent of you.
No, I just worry he may harm you.
Listen up.
I won't let anyone hurt him.
Grant him what he want as much as possible.
Yes, Master.
Mr. Liu, this isn't Chen Xiang's fault.
Doggy lied. Chen Xiang didn't get through the wall.
Nor did he hurt his head.
If you don't believe me, check out his brain and you'll know.
He's right! He's right!
- Liu Yan Chang! - Mom...
- Liu Yan Chang, get out here! - Mom, it's not his fault.
I fell by accident.
Liu Yan Chang, you're a scholar.
How do you discipline your son?
Chen Xiang is a few years older than Doggy.
Bullying the younger ones makes no great man.
Mom, it's not Chen Xiang's fault.
- I really fell by accident. - Why are you so afraid of him?
He'll always bully you if you fear him.
Look how badly Doggy's leg is hurt.
The doctor said it might break.
That woman is really wicked. She brought him to my house to complain.
- My father made me kneel for one hour! - One hour?
I almost couldn't stand after kneeling.
I'll have to think of a way to punish her.
Doggy's father, are you home?
God damn, Doggy. Why did you close the door?
Ghost!
Look, quickly. Chen Xiang, look quickly!
Look, she fainted. Look at that.
That kid seems to be looking at us.
Nonsense. How could he see us?
Fun... Very fun. So good at pretending.
- Who's home are you going to? - Do you know us?
You're the Black and White Envoys of Hades.
Everyone knows you.
- What's your last name? - Mine? My last name is Liu.
See? I told you.
Let's go.
Where are you going? Can I come tag along?
Sure. Come with us.
All right. Let's go. Let's go.
Your legs are very fast. We will arrive at the Liu's village soon.
Why don't you keep your parents company at home?
Why are you wandering around outside?
My parents told me to wait for you here.
Your parents are incredible. They even knew we'd leave the village.
Brother and Sister, I'm not going to go with you.
My father is waiting for me at home to have supper.
I'm not going. Take care, you two.
- You must go. - I'm really not going!
My father will worry if he can't find me.
I'm not going.
Father! Ghost... Ghost...
What's this about? A ghost again?
- You're all sweaty... - It's true! See... it's true.
Seeing ghosts everyday...
The two ghosts last night didn't seem bad.
That's right... The Black and White Envoys of Hades don't kill.
In theater, it's said that there is a book in Hades
where it is written how long someone will live and when they'll die.
If I'm not due to die they dare not do anything to me.
Why don't I ask the Black and White Envoys
to check how long my father and I will live.
Yeah... Maybe they can help me check
if my mother is still alive.
How can I find them?
Hurry. Hurry up!
Hurry up. Hurry.
The city gate is about to close. Hurry up.
- Hurry up. Hurry up. - Coming.
Follow me.
This is the Yama Hall.
The judge is sleeping inside. Be careful.
You can't escape if he's alerted.
Got it.
All the live spans are here. You may check yourself.
How?
- Where do you live? - In the Liu's village.
Then look in the Liu's village.
The Liu's village.
Liu Chen Xiang...
I can live until I'm 80-years-old!
- The next page should be about my Mother. - Right.
What's wrong?
This way. Quickly.
Earthquake!
An earthquake in Hades? Is this a joke?
- Can you not sneeze in my face? - I smell a mortal.
- Search with me. - I sneeze when I smell a mortal.
The mortal is right there!
What are you doing? Where are you going?
I tracked him down and caught him.
- Judge, please spare my life. - Have mercy.
The Black and White Envoys will no longer snatch souls.
They will guard the city gate.
- Bring them down. - Have mercy, Official Black!
You mortal kid, how dare you trespass into Hades?
Go send him to the 18th level of hell.
Don't! Don't! Let me go and I'll burn you some spirit money.
Let me go. Please...
- It is you. - Respect to the Immortal Fairy.
What has he done to be sent to the 18th level of hell?
How long is Liu Chen Xiang supposed to live?
80 years. He will die peacefully in bed.
Add 20 more years to him to make it 100-years-old.
- All right. - Yes, sir.
Great. Great, it was just a dream.
Liu Yan Chang and Chen Xiang are still alive.
I don't expect you to forgive me.
But I still don't want to see you suffer like this.
What have you done to them?
I did want to kill them back then, to avoid future troubles.
But... we're of the same kin.
Chen Xiang is our Yang family's offspring, after all.
Please, don't hurt them.
We expect the same thing from Chen Xiang.
We hoped he could live practically as a human
and enjoy the joys of the world.
Third sister, do not worry.
I asked your sister to prepare for the Peach Ceremony.
What is taking her so long to come here?
Your Highness, I went to Mount Hua, but she was not there.
Recently, I have been too busy to pay her a visit, so...
You do not take my demands seriously.
I dare not disobey.
I will go to Mount Hua to send your message soon.
There is one more thing.
In the existing heaven laws
punishment isn't severe enough to those who have love affairs.
From now on, add one more.
Not only will the offenders be punished, but also those who fail to report them.
I'm sure the trend will be exterminated.
What brings you here?
I want to see...
the Jade Tree.
Some mistakes are irreparable.
Father, I want to ask you something.
What is it?
My mother...
Right, your birthday is in two days.
Father, why isn't Mother's name in the book of life and death?
The book of life and death?
Father, what's this? I've never seen it before.
It is a lantern given to me by a friend.
- What, someone wants to buy lanterns? - No.
Father, don't put it away. Let me see it.
There's nothing special to see.
Let's go buy some food for dinner.
This is it.
What is it?
What a strange toy.
Where are you going?
Let's see where you can run to.
Chen Xiang... Chen Xiang!
Fourth Aunt...
Chen Xiang!
Chen Xiang, it's dangerous!
Cheng Xiang!
- Chen Xiang! - Fourth Aunt!
- I was so scared... - Are you okay, Cheng Xiang?
Here. Let's go home.
Have some water.
Chen Xiang, why are you staring at me like that?
Fourth Aunt, you are not a normal person.
I want to hear my mother's story. And about that lantern...
And also my supernatural powers.
Chen Xiang, look at what I brought you.
I'll tell you what. I have a brother
and he is just as naughty as you.
He insisted on coming to your birthday party
but my father wouldn't allow it and locked him up.
You weren't holding a basket a second ago.
You must be playing with magic again.
Who are you exactly?
Chen Xiang...
How can you talk to your aunt like this?
Father, is she really my aunt?
Why does she have supernatural powers?
And my mother... Why isn't she in the book of life and death?
Is she a fairy or a demon or something?
Today is your birthday. Let's stop this.
Come on, let me see how tall you've gotten.
When will you tell me?
I'm already 16 and I don't even know who my mother is.
You've been keeping this from me.
Do you know what I feel like right now?
I feel like a monster!
Chen Xiang! Chen Xiang!
Who am I exactly?
Why are you keeping secrets? Why do you lie to me?
What makes you so angry?
Immortal Fairy...
Do not address me like that.
How should I address you then?
Call me Uncle, if you must address me.
Uncle...
Today is your birthday.
So I came to see you.
It's gold!
Thank you, Uncle.
Let's go.
You even know my birthday, right?
You should tell me my mother's story today.
Maybe another day.
Why are you keeping it from me?
I've lived like a fool for 16 years. I don't even know who my mother is.
Not only that.
But one day, I suddenly discovered I have supernatural powers.
I can even get into Hades.
I know my mother isn't a normal human.
My Fourth Aunt, who comes for my birthday every year
can even ride on clouds!
- Fourth... Your Fourth Aunt came too? - You know my Fourth Aunt too?
You must be closely related to my family. Are you my kin uncle?
Uncle, my mother...
If you can promise me after you find out
you'll put this behind you and live a practical life
I will tell you.
All right. I promise you.
Today is your birthday. I don't want to ruin your mood.
All right, deal.
Tomorrow, at this time, we'll meet here.
Go home quickly.
Your father and aunt are waiting for you.
My most precious gift this year is that I have an uncle.
Master, are you really going to tell him?
We cannot cover it up anymore.
Even if I didn't tell him, Liu Yan Chang would.
- Fourth Aunt please have some tea. - All right.
Chen Xiang...
You're right.
You are already 16-years-old.
There is something we cannot hide anymore.
Do you know the real identity of your Fourth Aunt?
No.
She is the fourth princess of the East Ocean Palace.
A princess?
Your mother is Emperor Jade's niece.
18 years ago, I took the Central Examination, failed, and felt very depressed.
On my way home, when I passed Mount Hua...
San Sheng Mu!
So is my mother still alive?
Chen Xiang.
Have you already...
- Uncle, please release my mother. - Chen Xiang. Get up!
I am not getting up! Not until you promise me!
Your mother and I have been siblings for thousands of years.
She is my only relative.
I dote on her, I love her.
Do you think I wanted her to end up like this?
- Then why did you do this to her? - Chen Xiang...
There are so many things you do not understand.
You have lived a good life without your mother.
Before, I didn't have a mother, so I had no expectations.
But suddenly, I know I have a mother
and she is alive, suffering somewhere.
How can I live on peacefully?
I am glad you are devoted.
Come on. Get up, Chen Xiang.
I did it because I had no choice.
I hoped you would have a better life.
Living in the human world, whether it's wealth or prestige...
Whatever you want, I can help you get it.
I don't want anything.
I just want my mother to be freed.
I just want our family to reunite.
Your mother has broken the Heaven Laws.
She must be punished with no discretion.
Uncle, you are so cruel.
As the judiciary god, I cannot play favorites.
You cannot play favorites?
But in Hades, you casually added 20 years of life to me.
Isn't that practicing favoritism?
Chen Xiang, in handling this issue
I believe I haven't made any mistakes.
Uncle, seeing my mother and I in this situation
makes you feel uneasy, does it not?
Bring me to the heavens
to beg the heavenly court to release my mother.
It will be unrealistic for you to beg them.
You won't dare to let the heavenly court know.
You are afraid to get dragged into this.
I am afraid you will lose your life if you go.
You are afraid of facing the court, afraid you will lose your job.
- Quiet! - I will not be quiet.
You are no better than the corrupted officials on earth...
Just showing off to their inferiors, but not daring to oppose the superiors.
You know they are wrong, but you dare not resist them.
- You... - You are too selfish. I look down on you.
I must find a way to the heaven to beg them to release my mother.
Even if I am risking my life, I don't care!
Risking your life?
I can take your life right now.
Are you still bold enough to risk your life?
I will give you two choices.
First, be an ordinary human.
I can give you whatever life you want.
Second, do something you cannot possibly accomplish
and which will probably take your life.
Think it over.
Where is the fourth princess of East Ocean?
Er Lang Shen, what brings you here?
You can call me names behind my back
but if you dare bring Chen Xiang to heaven
I can assure you, I will kill him first.
And you...
Where did you imprison Sa Sheng Mu?
Liu Yan Chang!
Are you okay?
Second Master...
That is the cave.
It is said, after the earthquake 16 years ago
It has become a treasure cave.
But the door is guarded. What should we do?
Lao San, distract the guards. Us two will go in.
- Hurry up, run! - Who is that? Don't run.
I'm scared to death!
Ghost with a big mouth eats humans!
Aren't you afraid? I eat humans.
You know magic?
What's shining in your false eye? I'll take it out and see...
You look gentle but you're so rude.
Second Master, she's just a human girl.
A human girl can climb the mountain so easily?
How do you guard the mountain?
We are negligent. We are negligent.
Send her down the mountain.
If you come here again, I won't let you off so easily.
Who are you? What did you come here for?
I heard they were coming here for treasures
so I secretly followed them.
Are there really treasures in this cave?
Go home quickly. There are no treasures here.
Do you know a man called Liu Yan Chang?
Why do you want to know about him?
I want to talk to him for my father. He had a baby.
My father brought my brother up hill to celebrate.
But they never came back. It's been 16 years.
- Is your last name Ding? - How did you know?
It's already been 16 years with no trace of them.
Go home now.
I am not leaving unless you tell me.
Do you want to fly?
Fly?
So much fun!
I'm flying!
- Find her? - No.
Every corner of the Hua County has been searched, but still no trace.
Stupid. Stupid. You are only good at eating.
You eat but cannot work.
You cannot find the lost young lady.
I don't think the young lady can just fly away.
Young madam is back!
Oh, my old back.
Dozens of people are looking for you. Where did you come from?
Madam, the young lady dropped in from the sky.
From the sky?
It isn't just a magic show...
Did I come across a fairy?
It must have been a fairy.
A magician cannot do this.
If there really is a fairy in Mount Hua
are my father and brother still alive?
Who is the wife of Liu Yan Chang exactly?
No one has seen her.
Liu Yan Chang is mysterious.
Do you think he has a fairy wife?
Do not address him as Liu Yan Chang.
If he's still alive, you're suppose to address him as father-in-law.
Father-in-law?
Before you were born
your father and Liu Yan Chang became in-laws.
It was a marriage arranged before the babies were born.
If Madam Liu gave birth to a girl
you would become her sworn sister.
If it was a son, you would marry him.
Then if she gave birth to an ugly monster I would...
Not to mention an ugly monster. Even if he was crippled
you would have to marry him.
Parents arrange the marriage of the children.
I don't agree.
Why should I marry someone I have never met?
Even if you wanted to marry him now, where could you find him?
May God bless Mrs. Liu to give birth to a girl...
It's better if I don't see him.
God bless me. I do not want to see him.
Is that really impossible?
Not even the slightest chance?
Lotus Lantern, can you help me?
I miss my mother so much.
I know she is suffering somewhere.
But I cannot do anything.
Mother, I'm timid, a coward. I am useless.
Mother, I'm really scared.
Lotus Lantern, can you help me?
I beg you. Please...
I pay respect to Emperor and Your Highness.
Yang Jian, come on. Drink with us.
I dare not.
What is wrong? Talk with us.
I think...
Things are attracted to their opposite counterparts.
It is the origin of the propagation of things.
Falling in love with the opposite sex is natural.
Even the fairies cannot get rid of such emotions.
So I think the laws concerning love affairs...
Yang Jian, you did not fall in love, did you?
I dare not.
I just think...
to fairies who fall in love like Zhi Nu and the Seventh Fairy
the punishments are too severe.
- Actually, men and women... - You are wrong.
To Zhi Nu and the Seventh Fairy, the punishments are light, not heavy.
You are right. Fairies cannot get rid of emotions.
So the fairies who fall in love should be punished more severely.
How else would their worldly hearts be constrained?
Forgive my rudeness, but I believe the problem is not with the fairies
- but with the Heaven Laws. - How bold of you.
You mean to say the laws I set are wrong?
I did not mean that.
I just think...
Even the human world adjusts their laws.
But the Heaven Laws have never been changed.
I am worried...
Yang Jian, you do not have to worry about this.
The human world always amends their laws
because their laws are never perfect.
They are humans. They make mistakes.
How could you compare the Heaven Laws with the law of the human world?
Yang Jian...
You have been the judiciary god for a short time.
Are you tired of it? You had better stop being too talkative.
There are many fairies who want this post.
All right.
Yang Jian only meant to do the heaven good.
All right. You may leave.
I'll take my leave.
Second Brother, please...
Let me have a glance at them, will you?
You have lost your supernatural power.
Seeing them...
Do you know what that will mean to you?
Only if I could see them, I don't care if I die.
After all, they are my husband and son who I have not see for 16 years.
I will not let them discover my existence. I just want a glance at them.
All right. Drop it.
I can let Chen Xiang see you.
But you cannot see Liu Yan Chang.
Also...
You can only see Chen Xiang, you cannot touch each other.
What?
I'm afraid the love between mother and son
may trigger his ambition.
From then on, he will be unwilling to be a human.
It will not happen. I will convince him.
I am afraid you cannot.
Remember, if you touch each other's skin
if he does not leave within half an hour
your soul will disappear.
This is the only chance you and your son have to meet.
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Mother.
I finally go to meet you.
Chen Xiang.
Let me take a good look at you.
Yes, I want to take a good look at you too.
How have you been these past 16 years?
But since we had you
you've become everything to us.
Because our blood flows through your body.
What did you do to San Sheng Mu?
I don't understand what you're saying.
Why won't you let me go to Mount Hua?
Please accept me as your disciple.
Leave quickly.
If you don't accept me as your disciple then I won't leave.