"Ashes of Love"
"Episode 28"
We'll get to the bottom of the lake now.
All the answers will be revealed.
What did I do wrong?
Could it be that you got some courage a few days ago...
to tell the truth,
but ended up slipped off the tongue?
Why don't you tell me...
if your wife is unhappy,
what would you do to comfort her?
It depends on how unhappy she is.
If it's a general unhappiness,
I only have to buy something newfangled to comfort her.
If she is really unhappy...
what would you do?
Then I'll buy something more expensive.
Do you think Saintess is an ordinary woman?
I dare not.
You may retreat now.
I shall excuse myself.
Wait a moment.
Get those newfangled and expensive stuffs for me.
Roger.
If so,
why are you being so heartless?
Liu Ying, we belong to different worlds after all.
You will live a better life without me.
You said you engraved it by yourself.
You said memories will never be buried even after thousands of years.
You have been lying to me.
Your Highness.
You are back.
Kuang Lu.
Do you remember your childhood?
Of course, I do.
Do you remember the things that made you sad as well?
There is nothing to be sad about.
Even if I felt sad at the time,
when I look back now,
it is actually not a big deal.
As an immortal,
the most important thing is to live freely and easily.
You should think about the happy things.
If I could be like you,
it would be good.
Your Highness,
are you thinking about something sad?
No one is free from worries.
Time is like the rosary composed by the worries.
Those who are liberal...
will count the rosary with laughter.
Despite the obstacles today,
if you're able to remain calm and face it,
only then you can be liberal tomorrow.
Kuang Lu.
Can you come along with me to Dong Ting Lake?
Dong Ting Lake?
Wherever you go,
I swear to follow you even unto death.
What a beautiful place.
Why would you want to come here?
Perhaps...
there is a past that I want to confront.
You are not red carp, you can't play with us.
Go away! Go away!
A monster with horns on his head.
- Leave! - Leave!
Go away from Li Lake!
Your Highness.
Do you remember anything now?
You seem to be very familiar with Dong Ting Lake.
Let's go.
No! No, mother!
- No! - Li Er.
- No way, no! - Li Er.
Cut your horns...
and you will be like them.
No way, mother!
Don't, don't!
Mother!
No, mother!
No!
Your Highness.
Are you all right?
You have to be a good boy.
Don't, mother.
Are you all right?
I'm fine.
Yun Meng Lake.
This name is pretty nice.
"Li Lake"
Li Er.
Go to play with your friends.
Tell them...
you are actually a red carp.
You are not a little dragon.
Go ahead.
Go.
Your Highness.
What happened to you?
Yun Meng Lake.
Isn't it supposed to be Li Lake?
Your Highness.
Finally, you are here.
Please.
Master, Lord Night Immortal requests to see you.
Immortal Dong Ting,
Run Yu's paying respects to you.
Why would you give such a solemn salute?
I don't deserve it.
This is just the right thing to do. You deserve it, immortal.
I have some doubts.
I'm here to ask for your kind advice.
I've been living in a humble abode for a long time.
I'm isolated from the world.
I think you've got the wrong person, Supreme Immortal.
I've accidentally obtained a painting recently.
I've heard so much about Immortal Dong Ting's erudition.
Hence, I'm here to invite you to review it together.
Mother?
May I talk to Immortal Dong Ting in private?
I know nothing about painting.
I'm afraid that I have to let you down.
It's fine.
Then allow me to explain to you about this painting.
The Magical Flaming Pearl on the wrist of the woman in the painting...
is the treasure of Heaven Realm.
There are only 2 of them in the world.
Another one...
was presented by Heavenly Emperor to Heavenly Empress on their wedding.
It can be seen that the woman in the painting and Heavenly Emperor...
have a pretty close relationship.
Crimson dragon pearls fall all of a sudden.
Wish we will never be apart after meeting you today.
This acrostic poem which vows to each other is soulful.
The 2 words at the end of sentences formed "Su Li".
Stamp of Immortal Northern Star inscribed at the ending...
was the alias used by Heavenly Emperor in the early years.
He called himself that way when he was with someone close to him.
Very few people know about that.
Who can own a portrait that was painted by Heavenly Emperor...
and a poem gifted by his alias...
to express his affectionate?
Moreover,
when Rat Immortal was on trial,
he mentioned the name of Su Li repeatedly.
Heavenly Emperor and Heavenly Empress's reactions were very unusual.
Heavenly Empress was jealous.
The relationship between Fairy Su Li and Heavenly Emperor...
has speaks for themselves.
I've been studying hard in Sheng Jing Court since I was a child.
My memory retains all the characters and their stories in the six realms.
Except for the name of Su Li, I feel familiar,
but I don't have any impression of it.
Just like my childhood memories,
it vanished without a trace.
It seems that...
Fairy Su Li was an old friend...
who was close to me when I was a child.
Someone purposely erased my childhood memory...
that's why I had forgotten this person...
and also this name.
Supreme Immortal, you have been thinking too much.
Your imaginative capability...
is really impressive.
Am I really thinking too much?
The dragon tribe of Heavenly Emperor practises the fire spell.
I'm from dragon tribe too,
but I practice the water spell.
It can be inferred that...
my birth mother was from water tribe.
Fairy Su Li in this painting...
was catching fish while treading the water.
She is most probably from water tribe too.
And the dragon pearls mentioned in the poem...
were formed by a mermaid's tear.
It just so happened that...
I have a string of it too.
I carry it since I was a kid...
and never leave it behind.
Su Li was dead since a long time ago.
Why must Supreme Immortal...
entangle with a dead person?
The day when Rat Immortal died,
he seemed to have conspired for a long time...
to avenge Fairy Su Li's death.
Apparently, Heavenly Emperor was estranged from Heavenly Empress...
and the bird tribe was struck.
However, in my view,
this composition was lack of an orderly planning and foresight.
In fact, it hasn't really shaken up the basis of bird tribe.
It was more like an escape trick...
by sacrificing Rat Immortal when Heavenly Empress revolted.
If we get to the bottom of this matter,
the only explanation would be...
Su Li is not dead.
Not only that she's not dead,
but she is behind the scene...
and preparing in secret...
to plan the actions over and over again.
She declares wars against Heavenly Empress repeatedly.
My son has finally grown up.
I heard that Night Immortal has incomparable intelligence.
After meeting you today, I find that you really live up to your name.
Just by the painting alone,
you are able to investigate thoroughly...
and making various inferences.
I wonder...
if what I said is true.
An inference is an inference after all.
You're the offspring of the noble.
You have Heavenly Emperor and Empress...
Heavenly Empress isn't my birth mother.
Because I'm the eldest son of Heavenly Emperor,
thus she has been trying to take control of me.
Over these thousands of years,
I've been missing my birth mother all the time.
Please go back, Supreme Immortal.
That time when Li Lake caught on fire,
your mother no longer exists.
I thought...
my mother does love me.
I thought it was the situation back then...
which led to the family separation.
I guessed the person in the painting correctly...
and the hidden meaning of the poem.
The only thing I can't guess is that...
the birth mother whom I've been missing day and night...
is avoiding me...
as if I'm a stranger.
I wonder if it's just my wishful thinking...
or you're being too ruthless.
Why wouldn't I love you?
But I'm taking a path of no return.
Trouble never ends.
Why would you be so persistent, Supreme Immortal?
You have another child who brings delights to you now.
I don't mean to get entangled.
I just want to ask you a question.
If I was really a disgrace to you,
why did you insist on giving birth to me?
If mother and father were loving each other,
why did you torture me...
and abandon me?
This was scalded by your Magical Flaming Pearls.
This scar was left when you unscaled me back then.
The scales at other parts have already grown.
Except for the skin of reverse scales.
It is a wound and pain of my entire life.
Everyone knows...
the reverse scales of a dragon can't be touched.
I can't imagine...
what kind of enmity...
would make a mother hurt her own child.
Stop it.
Please don't say it anymore!
You may go now.
Just go.
Go!
The one who gave birth to me,
the one who destroyed me,
the one who abandoned me,
it's all by my mother.
Both my mind and body are hurt,
they are covered with countless wounds.
It's all caused by my birth mother.
Please accept my respects again today...
to repay my birth mother for raising me up.
I'm not your mother!
You're not my son!
I'm not your mother.
Go away!
Hurry up!
Li Er.
Li Er!
Li Er.
You don't like these?
You're not interested in these too?
Then I'll find other stuffs.
I'll take these away first.
Leave it.
Timid and coward,
like a tortoise retracts its head into its shell.
What is this?
My Lord, this...
This is a dragon scale.
A dragon scale?
It is a gift from an immortal who herds deer.
Immortal?
Is that a male immortal or female immortal?
Male immortal.
There is no dragon in this world.
I think you're cheated.
That's not possible.
I've seen it several times.
It is absolutely true.
You've seen it?
How many times have you met?
Why are you so nervous about it?
I'm not nervous.
My Lord, if you don't believe it,
I can summon him.
No way.
You are not allowed to do so in the future.
I have already decreed...
to drive out the alchemists of the nation.
Don't break the national law.
Sure.
According to the book,
a dragon's crescent-shaped reverse scale only grows below its throat.
However,
regarding the dragon's reverse scale,
whoever touches it will be angered, whoever plucks it will die.
No dragon allows people to touch it,
no one is brave enough to pluck it.
This cheater didn't even put his heart into making this dragon scale.
Only you will trust him.
Well, well, well.
In that case,
please return it to me, My Lord.
Since you said it's a dragon scale,
I'll take it as it is the real one.
I think it matches me quite well.
Why don't you give it to me?
No!
This friend of mine is an immortal.
It is a gift of his kindness.
It's inappropriate if I pass it on to you, My Lord.
Give it back to you.
Little tortoise?
You don't give me the dragon scale, but I'm not as selfish as you.
This is for you.
Thank you, My Lord.
Do you think that...
it is similar to you?
Yes, it is.
Similar to me?
Is it similar?
- It is. - Courtesy demands reciprocity.
You didn't give me the dragon scale,
but I have gifted you a little tortoise.
Then you should give me something else.
What do you want, My Lord?
In fact, nothing else.
There is only one thing...
that I want.
What is it?
Think about it.
He wants me to think about it?
Except for the skin of reverse scales.
This is the wound and pain for my entire life.
Please don't say it anymore! Stop it. You're not my son!
Go!
Go away!
You don't have to restrain yourself, Your Highness.
If you need a company,
I will stay.
If you want to be alone,
I will leave.
I'm fine.
I've just recalled something in my childhood.
Have you recalled everything, Your Highness?
Just a part of it.
They are all the long-lasting nightmares.
I remember...
I was living in Tai Lake with my mother when I was a kid.
I once thought I was an odd-looking carp.
I was always bullied by the other children of water tribe.
- Hurry up and leave. - A monster with horns on his head!
- Leave! - Leave! Bastard!
Leave Li Lake!
- Father is a dragon... - Leave!
While mother is a dragonfish.
Why would I be a carp?
Finally, there came a day...
when I couldn't bear it any longer.
I never thought that...
my resistance...
had brought me the consequence.
No, mother.
Mother.
No, mother.
Don't, mother.
Don't do this, mother!
No.
- Be good, Li Er. - No.
Be obedient, Li Er. Just a moment.
Just a moment. Be good.
- No, no way! - Be obedient.
- Don't, mother. - Just a moment.
Don't! Don't!
All my clothes...
were dyed in red by my own blood.
It stained my clothes, layer after layer.
Since I was born,
my mother had been hiding me in...
the deepest, darkest part at the bottom of the lake.
I live in complete darkness.
Do you know what was my biggest fear at that time?
Was it plucking the dragon scales...
and cutting off the dragon horns?
Darkness?
Loneliness?
It's cold.
The extreme chillness after the blood loss...
penetrated into my organs and marrow...
little by little.
Do you know how does it feel like when it's extremely cold?
My organs felt like they were on fire.
My whole body...
and bones...
seemed to be boiling and burning.
It couldn't wait to burn up the remaining temperature of my body...
and take away my last energy.
I still shiver from the cold when I think about it now.
Don't think about it anymore, Your Highness.
It's better to forget...
such a tragic past.
Kuang Lu.
Though you are my servant,
you are the precious daughter of Immortal Taisi.
You were showered with love since you were young.
And I...
I am a bastard...
who was abandoned by my birth mother.
Why did you bring him here?
Godmother.
It's all my fault.
I was just worried that you will do something...
that you will regret in the future.
Tell me.
Are we on the same boat?
Tell me!
You have saved my life, godmother.
You also taught me the spell.
You have raised me up.
You don't have to worry alone again.
Please allow me to share the burdens with you.
Since you've been missing His Highness day and night,
why don't you reunite with him?
It's unbearable.
I was the princess of dragonfish tribe.
Though our tribe belongs to Heaven Realm,
we've lived in Tai Lake for generations.
We were living an extravagant,
peaceful and honourable life.
I was pampered by father and brothers since I was a child.
I was engaged with the prince of Immortal Qian Lake.
One year, on the birthday of Heavenly Empress,
I went to Heaven Realm with my father to send birthday greetings...
and to present Night Pearl.
I was young and lazy to socialise at that time.
Moreover, I was attracted by the extraordinary views of Heaven Realm.
When I lingered around,
I was lost and walked into Sheng Jing Court.
I bumped into an immortal.
He claimed himself as Night Immortal...
with his alias Immortal Northern Star.
His duty was to keep watch over Sheng Jing Court of Heavenly Emperor.
He was a graceful man with a scholarly bearing.
Two of us hit it off right away.
After that, we dated every dusk.
Every moment spent with him...
was always glorious but short.
Time flies.
In the twinkling of an eye,
we had gotten along for more than 10 days.
You have to oppose in order to straighten it.
You have to bend in order to turn it away.
Calligraphy is just like philosophy of Yi.
It's full of variables.
You have to feel it with your heart.
This is so-called...
the sadness in the past has been left in nowhere.
A good wish is beyond the reach.
All the six realms know that...
Heavenly Emperor was entangled with Flora Immortal before.
I didn't expect that he was...
Flora Immortal will be his love trial forever.
When he was young, for the sake of power,
he abandoned Flora Immortal to marry Heavenly Empress.
How could he let go of her so easily?
After years, I realised that...
he tempted me from the beginning...
because my facial features look similar to Zi Fen.
He was just trying to look for...
Zi Fen's shadow through me.
Catalpa has grown well in Jiangnan,
beauty is incomparable in youth.
I'm a dragonfish, but not a plant.
What a mischievous person.
Crimson dragon pearls fall all of a sudden.
Wish we will never be apart after meeting you today.
I stayed in Heaven Realm with father for over a month.
We were getting back to Tai Lake after visiting all the immortals.
I looked for him the night before leaving...
to bid a farewell with him.
However, he disappeared without a trace like the morning dews.
After I inquired around, only then I knew that...
there was no Night Immortal in Heaven Realm at that time.
No one knows about Immortal Northern Star too.
However, the return date had arrived.
I followed father to bid a farewell with Heavenly Empress.
Unexpectedly,
the Magical Flaming Pearls which was gifted by Heavenly Emperor...
had become the hidden trouble in the future.
Soon after I went back to Li Lake,
I found that...
I was pregnant with his baby.
I gave birth to Run Yu in secret.
However, it was hard to keep a secret.
Father had discovered it.
Good boy.
Father.
Father!
Father.
Dragon.
My father knew his birth father at a glance.
Then only I knew the true identity of Immortal Northern Star at that moment.
I promised my father that...
I would hide the background of the baby well...
without holding our tribe back.
Evil.
From now on,
you are no longer the princess of dragonfish tribe.