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♫ Unwilling to take part in something improper, how could I predict things would turn out against my wishes? ♫
♫ The flower in center of my heart has withered, time cannot turn itself back. ♫
♫ My memories are whirling and twirling, the pain is only in the depths of my heart. ♫
♫ My only wish is to live without regrets, and fly far away with the flowers’ fragrance. ♫
♫ A bottle of rice wine, a body covered in dust and ashes. ♫
♫ Memories go back and forth, a life without regrets. ♫
♫ From spring to autumn, life comes and goes. Is it right to be vain? ♫
♫ I’m waiting for the flowers to return and bloom again, intoxicating me. ♫
♫ Sincerely hoping that my lifespan is no longer withering away ♫
♫ I want to go back to savor the aftertaste of the wine again. ♫
♫ In my memories, life comes and goes. I realize clearly in my heart. ♫
♫ I want to go back to savor the aftertaste of the wine again. ♫
♫ In my memories, life comes and goes. I realize clearly in my heart. ♫
♫ I want to go back to savor the aftertaste of the wine again. ♫
Ashes of Love
Episode 27
You...
Princess Sui He, I was ordered by Heavenly Empress
to especially come and open your memory. Forgive me if I am offendin you.
Jin Mi, even in this secular world,
you have to steal Xu Feng from me.
I was offensive earlier.
How come that bitch Jin Mi is still in this world?
I am incompetent. I lost the Soul-Destroying Arrow.
Even without it,
you must think of a way to kill her.
I must not let her be with Xu Feng. You hear me?
Yes.
About Dong Rui Xi, Marquis, don't worry.
He will never be a threat to Your Excellency again.
Was it done in a clean manner?
Although Prime Minister Fu has doubts,
he will never find any evidence.
He already closed the case with Dong Rui Xi committing suicide out of guilt.
Father! I have something to say to you.
- Leave first. - Yes.
Father, now that Xu Feng...
Cousin's health is fine, our wedding should be done sooner.
Sui He.
Father, I know what you want.
But after the previous Commanding Officer Assembly, to try to pull Cousin down will be harder.
But if you marry me off to him,
if I bear him any child in the future,
this child can then call you grandfather. You still will become a person below just one person and above the rest.
You'll be able to have unending power.
With Sui He being this persistent,
why don't I just go with her wish?
King Yi and I now are irreconcilable.
If she's really able to marry Xu Feng, I'll be able to still maintain my power.
It's not late to start an uprising if Xu Feng will insist in refusing to marry her.
Father!
I really am out of ideas when it comes to you.
Okay. These next few days, I'll look for people to submit memorials about it,
pressuring Xu Feng to complete your marriage agreement earlier,
fulfilling this sincere infatuation of yours.
It's still Father that treats me the best.
A few days ago, I locked you up in your room. You're not mad at me, right?
You mustn't lock me up again.
Okay, I won't...
[ Beiyuan Mountain Villa ]
Yesterday, they wanted to pull me down from my throne.
Today, each of them is submitting memorials
rushing me to complete my marriage with Sui He and have descendants as soon as possible.
That Marquis Nanping really has ways to make me mad.
But I think...
what the high officials are saying is right too.
You're not young anymore. You indeed should establish your family.
They don't understand my heart,
- you also don't? - But I heard from the elders
that if a man doesn't get near women for a long time, it's easy to...
Easy to what?
It's easy for them to get mad just like you do.
Qin Tong, you've been getting more meddlesome lately.
[ Memorial from the Saintess of the Sacred Healer Tribe ]
Your Majesty, Saintess submitted a memorial earlier.
[ Memorial from the Saintess of the Sacred Healer Tribe ]
Tell me, should I let her go?
That will depend on your heart.
This Soul-Destroying Arrow actually hasn't fallen yet?
- Xu Feng, looks like this is really heaven's will. - Go now.
What are you looking at?
Moon Immortal, why are you here too?
I was worried about Baby Phoenix and Little Jin Mi,
so I came here to look.
May I ask why you're here too?
Jin Mi and I are old friends. I especially came to check on her.
There's something that you don't know. Before Baby Phoenix left, I connected a string
tying him and Jin Mi together.
Don't know if they've now sleeping together.
How come Baby Phoenix has such a worried frown?
Do you know what's the reason for it?
The Marquis Nanping here in Huaiwu has a daughter called Sui He.
She and Xu Feng have a marriage agreement between them.
Now, the high officials of the court have successively submitted memorials
asking for the two of them to complete their marriage as soon as possible.
Sui He? Which Sui He?
Could it be that Bird Tribe princess?
No way! No way! I don't like her!
How is she qualified to be with my Baby Phoenix?
What should I do?
I have an idea that might help Xu Feng.
Hurry and tell me.
Okay... Let's do it that way.
Lord Yan You is indeed very creative.
Qin Tong, get me some osmanthus wine.
Why is Your Majesty suddenly in the mood for it?
Since coming back from the battlefield, I've never seen you drink any wine.
This battle is hard.
- I need something to boost my courage. - I'll go prepare the wine.
It's been days since I've submitted the memorial asking for permission to return to the Sacred Healer Tribe.
How come Crow hasn't replied yet?
If I continue to stay here,
how should I place these feelings?
Why not just leave this place?
Separating from each other from now on, and just yearn for a lifetime.
Your Majesty, are you drunk?
Today, Marquis Nanping connived with the other high ministers to submit memorials
pressuring me to complete my marriage with Sui He as soon as possible.
Your Majesty is good in both civil and military skills,
Lady is a person of noble birth.
A good match as if made in heaven, this is a good thing.
Good thing?
Your Majesty, have you seen my memorial requesting for permission to return to the Sacred Healer Tribe?
Your Majesty once promised me a wish.
I thought...what you would ask for is a pardon of not getting buried with me.
It's a tribe rule for hundreds of years. I dare not disobey it.
The first time I saw your eyes, I found it very familiar.
Afterwards, I was able to be with you every day.
Even when I'd fully recovered, I didn't want to leave.
Upon returning, I initially planned to stabilize the state's situation first before looking for you.
Who would have known that Marquis Nanping beat me to it, called for you to come here to Beiyuan Mountain Villa.
I was happy and afraid.
Happy because I can see you sooner.
Afraid...
that you might get in danger while here.
On the day I became a saintess, my fate couldn't be changed anymore.
While alive, I'm your person.
When I die, I'm your dead person.
This is a hundred-year-old rule of our Sacred Healer Tribe,
mutually entrusting our life and death with each other.
[ Refined room, harmonious people ]
What "mutually entrusting our life and death"?
I don't want you to get buried with me when I die.
I instead want you to continue living well.
I don't want you to be my living or dead person.
I just want you to be my person.
Of course, I don't want to get buried with you when you die.
But if I disobey the tribe rules, no need to wait to get buried with you.
I fear that I won't be able to live the next day.
If you're willing,
I have ways to make you leave your status as a saintess.
Die to escape.
You only need to pretend to be sick for a few days, and then die afterwards.
I'll then secretly hide you among the commoners.
After a few days, I'll then fetch you back to the palace as a daughter of some official.
No!
Even if you have thousands of ways to preserve my life,
the Sacred Healer Tribe will also have thousands of ways to kill me.
Must I then follow their whim?
The Sacred Healer Tribe wants you to accompany me when I get buried. I'll then let them accompany you when you get buried!
Your Majesty, you mustn't!
Since little, I've loved medical techniques and drug principles.
It's like that in the past, it will continue to be in the future!
Moreover, Your Majesty hasn't seen my real face.
Under this veil, my face is actually very coarse.
In your eyes, am I that superficial?
No, in my eyes, you're a wise king.
But Your Majesty has a life mandated by the heavens.
I have a duty mandated by the heavens.
King Yi and the Saintess being together is breaking the rule.
If anyone harboring evil intentions grabs hold of such a flaw
and it becomes something to blight your reputation, it will be not be good for you.
This love that I have for you...
in your eyes, is actually a "blight"?
Your Majesty shouldn't interpret my words out of context.
I just feel that you should prioritize the general situation.
Create a peaceful and flourishing era for the citizens of this world.
How is creating a peaceful and flourishing era for the citizens
and being together with you hand-in-hand be in conflict?
Could it be that in your heart, I'm that not worthy enough to be entrusted with your life?
Your memorial...
I will never approve of it.
Looks like you're very drunk.
I'll go make you a sobering-up soup.
No need for you to leave.
I'll be the one to go.
[ Memorial from the Saintess of the Sacred Healer Tribe ]
[ Willing to obtain a person with one heart as mine, not separating even if our hair turns white]
[ Signed...Xu Feng ]
Your Majesty, I think that the citizens are indeed not at ease for you not being married
and having no children.
You should marry as soon as possible, get some more concubines to fill up your harem,
and prioritize in having descendants.
An empty harem is not a move of wise king.
In my opinion, there's no rush to get concubines.
What's more important is setting who your Queen is.
Liangguo recently has been restless to create trouble.
They are bent on destroying our Huaiwu.
The Tu people of the south, the Huoluo people of the north,
have repeatedly encroached on our territory, provoking the limits of our patience.
[ Memorials from peace-keeping generals from the north and south ]
With such situations at hand, how can I be in the mood to think about marriage matters?
But Your Majesty—
While these enemies aren't eliminated, while the world hasn't been united,
I will then not marry.
Your Majesty and my daughter's marriage was set by the previous King.
Now that Your Majesty is healthy, you should make considerations for the sake of the kingdom
and complete your marriage as soon possible, then bear descendants.
It's late. Leave now.
I will take my leave.
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Saintess.
Today, I heard that Marquis Nanping and Prime Minister Fu were pressuring King Yi to get married,
but King Yi instead said that as long as those enemy nations haven't been conquered yet,
as long as the world isn't at peace, he then won't marry.
Never thought that King Yi has such firm and unyielding character.
Such firm, tenacious, and lofty character is worthy to be admired.
Be careful of the heat.
Has His Majesty approved the memorial you submitted?
How long do you still plan to stay here?
I also don't know.
His Majesty has so many major state affiars to worry about. He probably won't have time to mind me.
You say it in such a relaxed manner. Do you know...
Do you still want to return to Sacred Healer Tribe or not?
If I go back, will I still get the chance to see him again in this life?
There's nothing wrong in staying here for a few more days.
There's no harm.
Take care.
Lady, you actually can just instruct us to do these things.
Why must you personally come here?
Marrying Cousin has been a matter that I've looked forward to for a long time.
Now that the date of our marriage will soon be set,
of course, I hope to do everything by my own hand and make it perfect.
Lady has the sun and moon as witnesses on how sincere your love towards His Majesty.
In the future, His Majesty will surely dote on you well.
Although being a human in this mortal world is just a short one life,
it's still good to be able to marry Xu Feng even for once.
Yan You!
What are you planning?
Looks like your immortal memory has been activated.
Too bad.
I liked that silly and naive you a few days ago more.
Stop!
You...
Although you have the memories, you still only have a mortal body.
Princess Sui He, you surely didn't expect
that one day, you'd end up in my hands like this, right?
Yan You, what really are you planning?
I have a lot of things I want to do to you.
Where should I begin?
Once I return to the Heavenly Realm, I surely will make you "look good". (T/N put in a fix)
"Look good"?
I already look so good. Can't get better anymore.
I fear that the women in the heavens and earth can't bear it.
Shameless.
Shameless? I'm shameless?
In terms of being shameless, I'm not even a thousandth of you.
Thinking about what you've done to me in the Heavenly Realm before...
I remember them very well.
Today, let's calculate them very well.
Yan You!
What? Lady is missing?
Lady was initially chatting with me inside the carriage.
But don't know what happened, I just fainted.
When I woke up, Lady has gone missing.
- Qi Chong. - Here.
Immediately send people to search the whole city. You must find her!
Yes!
Hong Hong...
We clearly agreed to meet, but where is he now?
Lian Qiao! Lian Qiao! Come here...
Old Hu, what is it?
Do you know where Moon Immortal went?
He said that he's unable to wait for you, so he'll go to the mortal world to connect a red string
between Jin mi and his Second Nephew.
He told us to play by ourselves.
Let me tell you that old fox can really be impulsive.
Your Majesty, people from Marquis Nanping Manor came to report that Lady Sui He has gone missing.
Marquis Nanping hopes that you will also send men to search for Lady's whereabouts.
What act is it this time?
Fine. Sui He is different from her father.
Go send men to find her.
- No need to do that anymore. Lady is currently inside the mountain villa. - What?
She came here earlier with a lad named Puchi Jun.
They said that they have something that requires Your Majesty to approve.
Lady. Lady.
Lady.
Tell me, will Xu Feng approve to support a pair of mandarin ducks with a bitter romance like us?
Yan You, if you still don't let me go,
I'll let you pay me back a hundred to a thousand times more when we return to the Heavenly Realm.
Anyway, under your meticulous scheming, I'm already a criminal.
What's wrong with adding more crimes under my name?
Moreover, I really am very happy to be able to share a room with you here in the mortal world for just once.
Cousin, I...
Starting now, I can't let you talk anymore.
[ The river is clear and the sea is calm ]
Are you Puchi Jun?
I am Puchi. Greetings, Your Majesty.
What important matter do you have for requesting to see me?
I am a retainer guest at the Marquis Nanping manor.
Due to some fated occassion, Lady Sui He and I met.
Although our statuses are very different,
we found each other very familiar upon our first meeting, fell in love at first sight.
I know that Your Majesty and Lady are engaged to b e married.
I shouldn't develop any inordinate ambitions about her.
But when it comes to love, one can't be rational.
Now, Lady Sui He and I are sincerely in love.
Hope Your Majesty can give us support.
Sui He, do you also love this Puchi Jun?
[ The river is clear and the sea is calm ]
It's my turn.
Cousin, Puchi Jun and I are truly in love with each other.
Hope you can support us.
Yan You, you actually still have an accomplice?
He dared use the puppet magic on me?
Once I'm back in the Heavenly Realm,
I surely will grind the bones of you two and scatter the ashes.
My old waist...
Your Majesty, I've already made preparations for the worst outcome upon coming here.
If Your Majesty wants to give punishment,
just punish me. Don't harm Lady.
Isn't that Lady Sui He?
One doesn't know when love starts and you tend to fall madly in love.
Men only live for a short lifetime. Being able to meet a person who loves you too is a fortunate thing.
You mustn't give it up so easily.
Since you and Sui He are sincerely in love, I'll support it.
Today, I'm canceling my wedding agreement with Sui He and give her freedom back.
I'll let her personally choose the man to marry.
Your Majesty is wise. Thank you for supporting our love.
Get up.
From now on, I surely will be kind and continue to love my husband.
I won't disappoint Cousin's support.
Isn't that Lady Sui He always been infatuated with King Yi?
How come she suddenly are now in love with a retainer in their manor?
Also, this King Yi actually generously approves of their love.
This is really more interesting than opera scripts.
We're not listening to story-telling anymore?
We're able to see such a brilliant act already. Why still listen to some story-telling?
- Let's go. - Yes.
Get up.
This idea is indeed praiseworthy.
Let's go.
Your Highness.
I'm going to the mortal world for a while.
There might be someone who'll be able to give me answers about the Soul-Destroying Arrow and the Spiritual Fire Bead.
Who?
Kuang Luo, guard the Xuanji Palace well.
- I'll be back immediately. - Okay.
What kind of connection can the Soul-Destroying Arrow
and the Spiritual Fire Bead have?
Also, who is that great master that can give him the answers?
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Looks like this is heaven's desire.
What heaven's desire?
Nothing...
It's nothing.
You haven't returned to the Heavenly Palace?
That clever idea of yours really made me so happy.
I couldn't wait to tell it to you.
How did you come up with such a clever idea?
You tend to obtain true knowledge from experience.
Although I've been connecting red strings for humans for so many years,
my knowledge about love is still stuck in the theoretical aspects.
I rarely have the chance to further research about it.
It's indeed quite embarassing.
But looks like I should inquire more about this matter from you.
That's easy...
I heard that there is a winery in the city whose osmanthus wine is famous throughout for having such great taste.
Why don't we chat while drinking?
Sure! I think that we are really of the same wavelength.
Tonight, let's have an all-out chat tonight.
But...let me look at my Baby Phoenix first before we leave.
He...is currently busy with state affairs. There's nothing interesting about that.
Moreover, he's currently a mortal.
You can't really say anything to him. Why not just chat and drink to your heart's content with me?
In this mortal world, a moment of spring night is worth thousands of gold.
No... Lord Yan You, you said the wrong words.
The so-called "spring night is worth a thousand gold of humans"
is pertaining to doing the act of "mutual cultivation".
It's inappropriate to use it between us.
What we're about to do should be called...a beautiful night together.
Right...beautiful night...
Let's go.
[ Yunming Ze (Cloud Dream Pond) ]
Young Master.
You two are getting better.
Still so boring.
Who told you to be so disobedient?
So disobedient.
You...
Who told you to be disobedient!
Why? Why?
Who told you to be disobedient!
- Patron, what are you doing? - Why are you so disobedient!
Get up.
Li'er is still very young. Everything can be handled with proper communications.
You think I don't care about him?
I gave him good clothes, delicious food, let him become a decent fancy carp, but he just don't want to.
He just has to roll around the mud.
Why? Why!
Why! Why!
Why!
Go now.
Li'er...Li'er?
Li'er, promise me
that you won't play in the mud anymore, okay?
You mustn't lie to me.
If you lie to me, I surely won't forgive you that easily.
Understand?
Understand!
Patron, let Li'er leave first.
I still have important matters to report. Okay?
Leave.
Last time, you promised me that you'll steal the Soul-Destroying Arrow.
Were you able to do it?
I'm incompetent. I'm unable to get the Soul-Destroying Arrow.
What did you promise me!
You said that you will get it.
Why did you lie to me?
You know that I hate people lying to me the most!
I dare not. It's just that all this might be heaven's will.
Patron, Xu Feng is innocent.
Innocent? Innocent?
With a mother like that, he's destined to pay the price.
I'm going to let his mother taste how it feels to lose one's son.
Since you're unable to do it,
I'll personally do it then.
Tell me! Where is the Soul-Destroying Arrow?
I'm going to personally steal it and kill Xu Feng.
Has godmother lost it?
Speak! Where is the Soul-Destroying Arrow!
I admit my mistake.
I have a way to get it.
You're really going to kill Xu Feng for me?
Get up...
I'll believe you one more time.
If you disappoint me again,
I will not easily forgive you.
You must remember that starting from today, you are a red fancy carp,
not a green snake anymore. Got it, Li'er?
- Call me mother. - Mother.
So good.
My good Li'er, I surely will not let you suffer any grievances from now on. Okay?
Okay.
Good. My good Li'er.
I understand.
Li'er!
You are indeed my good Li'er.
I can't let godmother continue to be crazy like this.
[ Marquis Nanping Manor ]
Marquis.
What? Lady still didn't eat anything?
She didn't.
- Go now. - Yes.
My good daughter, at least eat something.
You being like this is making my heart ache.
Don't worry. There's already a city-wide manhunt for that Puchi.
Tell me, do you want me to have him hanged
or dismembered?
You won't be able to capture him.
Are you holding a grudge against me for being incompetent?
But I also never expected
that Puchi will be this cunning and shameless.
Maybe this was...an act that Puchi did
after getting bribed by King Yi?
What does this have to do with Xu Feng!
Okay... It's not related with him.
These mortals are really stupid.
Daughter, what do you want me to do
so that you'll be happy?
Now that I'm in the Mortal Realm, I can only rely on him.
Father, you surely understand what my only wish is.
I understand.
But I don't get it anymore.
Why did you and that Puchi go ask King Yi
to bestow marriage upon you two?
Now, King Yi has made a decree canceling your engagement with him.
This matter has become final.
What can I do?
I...
I'll think of a way. I'll think of a way, okay?
Eat something first, okay?
Be good.
Sit... Men, serve Lady's food!
I mustn't let Sui He continue to be this infatuated.
Qi Chong, immediately deliver this letter to Liangguo.
- The faster, the better. - Yes.
Since you're heartless, don't blame me for being disloyal.
You have hurt Sui He's heart so much.
How can I forgive you?
When Liangguo attacks this time,
the time the you personally set out for the expedition,
will be your day of death.
Your Majesty. Saintess is currently sleeping.
She's very tired lately. May Your Majesty just go back.
Eldest Highness, these phoenix lanterns
were personally made by Xu Feng for Jin Mi.
I have questions to ask you.
What a coincidence. I also need to see you for something.
For us to meet here means that we've thought of the same thing.
Let me ask you, why must you steal the Soul-Destroying Arrow?
And, although Rat Immortal has admitted that he was the one who used the Spiritual Fire Bead to hurt Xu Feng,
and he cleared his relationship with you, I fear that
he was just covering up for you.
What really is your motive?
Eldest Highness, can you ask your questions one by one?
With so many questions, my head is already expanding.
If you want to know all the answers,
please go to a place with me.
What? You fear that I'll swindle you?
Since you were able to connect me with the Spiritual Fire Bead, you then should know
that I won't harm you.
All the questions that you want to know are under this Dongting Lake.
Don't you remember this place?
Should I remember it?
Don't you find this place familiar?
There is indeed a sense of familiarity.
It's just that...
Why am I getting scared?
Looks like you still aren't prepared to unlock the secrets.
How come I'm getting panic-stricken when I got near this place?
It's fine. If you don't want to go down, I won't force you to.
But, although this matter isn't that urgent,
it's also not proper to continue dragging it.
If you're ready, we'll go under the lake.
All the answers will then be revealed.
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♫ My left hand holds the ground, my right hand holds the sky. ♫
♫ Lightning bolts erupt out of my palm print and go in ten directions. ♫
♫ I quickly turn time into years. ♫
♫ In three thousand lifetimes, I’ve seen it all. ♫
♫ My left hand picks flowers, my right hand wields a sword. ♫
♫ Between my brows, an entire ten thousand years’ of snow has fallen. ♫
♫ One teardrop. ♫
♫ That is who I am. ♫
♫ My left-hand’s finger touches the moon, my right hand is selecting Red Threads ♫
♫ to bestow upon you and I our desired and predestined love. ♫
♫ In the moonlight. ♫
♫ You and I. ♫
♫ My left hand transforms into feathers, my right hand becomes scales. ♫
♫ Some of my lives are spent in the clouds, some are in the forests. ♫
♫ I’m willing to follow you and become a speck of dust ♫
♫ in order to emerge in this mortal life. ♫
♫ My left hands picks you up, my right hand lets go of you. ♫
♫ When I clasp my palms together, you are completely drawn back into my heart. ♫
♫ In the time it takes for one incense stick to burn. ♫
♫ You and I, we become inseparable. ♫