"Ashes of Love"
"Episode 29"
I gave birth to Run Yu in secret...
but truth eventually comes to light. - Father.
My father recognised his identity at the moment he saw him.
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.
- Father! - Evil.
From today onwards,
you are no longer the princess of dragonfish tribe.
Shameless.
He cared only about his own happiness and his amorous lifestyle,
but he left you to suffer alone.
I brought this on myself.
I would rather bear the consequences alone.
My father thought he was at fault...
after what had happened.
He offered to terminate my engagement with prince of Immortal Qian Lake.
He apologised and offered gifts to them.
But Immortal Qian Lake was raging and unforgiving.
Not long after, he brought my father to trial...
in Heaven Realm for breaking our engagement.
The Heavenly Emperor punished us.
Thirty-six miles of our marshland in Tai Lake...
were all assigned to the bird tribe.
Well, he most probably took Tai Lake from us...
because he wanted to earn the favour of Heavenly Empress.
You are still young, Yan You.
I was young too.
I never associated anyone with evil.
But thereafter,
when my child and I were barely struggling to stay alive,
he had not done so much as lending a hand.
He disappeared without saying anything at all.
Only then I realised that,
at the beginning itself,
I'd fallen into a trap that was cleverly laid out.
At last,
Tai Lake and Qian Lake had grown hostility towards each other,
the southeast water tribes fell apart.
Through the bird tribe, Heavenly Emperor gained control of...
the richest Tai Lake which stretched across 800 miles.
And the one who helped Heavenly Emperor to ascend the throne,
Water Immortal, the most superior immortal in Heaven Realm...
was found to have his power weakened and controlled.
He had killed three birds with one stone.
The work was meticulous, cunning and cleverly hidden.
Truly unprecedented.
Under the orders of the Heavenly Empress,
the birds circled above Tai Lake all the time...
to watch our movements under the water.
The Heavenly Empress still had not realised that...
I had already given birth to Run Yu in secret.
In order to conceal my child's identity,
escape from the wrath of Heavenly Empress...
and hope that my people would treat Run Yu equally,
I named him Li Er.
He disguised as a carp and hid deeply in Li Marsh.
We were alone and lived our lives in disgrace and hardships.
Li Er.
But I didn't expect that...
Li Er's identity would eventually be revealed.
Li Er!
- Mother! - Li...
- Mother! - Li Er!
Mother! Mother!
Mother!
- Mother! - Li Er!
- Get Out! - Yes!
- Mother! - Li Er!
- Li Er, Li Er! - Mother!
Li Er! Li Er!
Li Er!
Who is this?
He is my son with Heavenly Emperor.
Retreat!
Immortal, Master Yin Que wants us to check...
whether there is anything extraordinary beneath the water.
If we return now,
we might not be able to give an explanation.
Since when my Luo Xiang Mansion needs to answer to the bird tribe?
The bird tribe's territory is that of above Tai Lake.
Beneath the water, there is no place for the chirping birds.
You are right, Immortal.
I have checked in detail just now,
the ripples on the waters...
show nothing extraordinary.
Its movement is a normal sign of tides...
as it's close to full moon.
If the Heavenly Emperor asks, give him this answer.
Yes.
Take good care of the child.
If the Heavenly Empress finds out,
she will not let him go easily.
Nothing must happen to Tai Lake.
Mother, no! No, mother!
- Who taught you Water Gush spell? - I am sorry!
Tell me, who taught you this?
What Water Gush Spell?
They hit me too hard, so I screamed out loud.
Promise me, son.
Don't scream like that next time.
Promise me, quick, promise me, promise me!
Why do they always make fun of me? They bullied and insulted me!
Must I not defend myself nor scream even when I am beaten to death?
Do you wish me dead, mother?
Li Er!
Li Er,
I am so sorry.
I cut your dragon thorns,
I shaved your dragon scales,
hoping that you will be a normal fish.
Koi, Arowana, anything.
You cannot take on the fate of a dragon.
Neither do your mother, uncle, and all souls in Li Marsh,
could take on this fate.
When I gave birth before my marriage,
I was labelled as my family's shame.
I was isolated and cornered,
and I had to remain alert for Heavenly Empress' spies who'd harm my son,
I directed my anger towards Li Er...
for his father's betrayal.
My love and hatred for Li Er intertwined.
I was delirious all the time,
I couldn't wait to die to bring an end to all these.
The hardships and tortures you faced were daunting.
- You have suffered much, mother. - No.
It was Li Er who suffered the most.
He healed very quickly.
It didn't take him long...
to grow new dragon horns and scales.
I had to torture him, again and again.
The cycles repeated itself.
He was better off dead.
At last,
Li Er even did that to himself.
That was terrible.
Everyday,
I wanted to kill myself...
After I grew up,
I could take a human form.
Hence, I rarely reveal my true form before others.
The scars beneath my scales,
the ugliness,
the shame,
they are all too horrible.
Thank you.
Later,
I learned, by accident, from an old green fish that...
fishes will die without living in water.
That night,
I was determined...
and I jumped out of the water.
All fishes on the shores could fly.
So many night pearls are hanging on the night sky,
it's so beautiful.
I have no regrets.
Fairy?
Am I dead?
Are you here to lead me to the heaven?
Do you really want to go to the heaven?
Staying in the lake was so torturing.
I am willing to go anywhere except for the lake.
But if you leave,
what will happen to your mother?
Poor child,
will you follow me to the heaven?
If I leave,
will my mother stop crying and feeling sad?
As long as you obey my orders and follow me,
then you will never need to suffer anymore.
What about my mother?
Your mother will also be relieved.
Come, give me your hand.
Now I know that, she never abandoned me.
It was me.
It was me who left her.
What happened later was a popular knowledge.
The Heavenly Emperor refused to give up Flora Immortal.
He kidnapped her to the Heaven Realm by force,
and held her captive in Qi Wu Palace.
In the Heaven Realm, rumour had it that...
Flora Immortal would take the place of the Heavenly Empress.
In attempt to strengthen her position...
Heavenly Empress went to Tai Lake herself,
burned Li Marsh down...
and took my Li Er away.
Zhen Ze!
Heavenly Empress!
There are no disagreements nor grudges between you and me,
why are you doing this to us?
You killed my son and exterminated my tribe!
You failed to educate your daughter, her promiscuous behaviour...
has put a shame on the heavenly family's bloodline!
I will not tolerate your tribe.
You are a despicable foe!
I swear today...
that even if my tribe has left nothing but one man standing,
we will exterminate the bird tribe!
Father!
Father.
Father!
Go, go quickly!
Father, I will not go!
I, I...
for... forgive you.
You must stay...
alive.
Father!
You murdered my family and took my son away,
I'm going down with you!
You overestimated yourself, you witch!
Destroy this place!
Spare no one!
Yes!
Where am I?
My face,
what happened to my face?
You are awake.
Immortal,
what is this place?
This is Yun Meng Marsh in Dong Ting Lake.
Why am I here?
Shouldn't I be at Li Marsh?
As I rushed there,
everything has turned into a ruin.
Father,
Li Er, you are all gone!
Why did you leave me in this world alone?
Don't stop me, Great Immortal.
My family has fallen apart, I don't wish to live anymore.
I only want to reunite with them in the afterlife.
Please fulfils my wish, Great Immortal.
Do you wish to abandon your son?
Li Er.
Where is Li Er?
He is still alive.
The Heavenly Empress brought him to the Heaven Realm.
- What are they going to do to him? - Calm down.
He is still the eldest son of the Heavenly Emperor after all.
The Heavenly Empress has no child too.
So, no matter what, they will take good care of him.
He is your own flesh and bones.
No one in this world could do you part.
As long as you are alive.
Eventually,
you will reunite with him.
Can I wait till then?
There are always hope as long as you are alive.
It is better than to live without a single spark of hope.
You are not in my place, Great Immortal.
You don't understand the sadness within me.
What if I insist to die?
We will all die someday.
Most importantly, we must not put shame on our ancestor.
Secondly, we must not put shame on our own body.
This is Dragon's Blood Regeneration Ointment of Flora Realm.
It can turn rotten flesh into fresh skin.
Dragon Fish Tribe is always highly respectable.
If you wish to ask for death,
you should be buried honourably.
I don't need that,
I don't need that!
It is this face of mine which caused me to lose my family!
I am the culprit!
That's what I am!
I am the culprit!
I am!
Without you,
he would still find a way...
to banish your dragonfish tribe from Tai Lake.
Great Immortal, why do you say so?
This is the Heavenly Emperor's tactics,
you will understand it in the future.
The God has spared your life,
now the news about your death has spread across the Heaven Realm,
why do you need to die again?
Be strong and don't give up your life.
You will reunite with your son again someday.
Dong Ting is under my control,
so the Heavenly Empress would not be able to reach her fingers to you.
Stay here and recuperate.
Water Immortal was also being watched by Heavenly Emperor.
I am afraid that he could not save his own skin.
Despite the pressure,
he was willing to offer a refuge to you.
He is a truly respectable man.
A friend is best found in adversity.
At that time,
I was drowning in my hatred.
I didn't even remember that...
when Heavenly Emperor imprisoned Flora Immortal...
and forced her to break up with Water Immortal,
the hatred and rage felt by the Water Immortal...
was nothing less compared to mine.
He is a true man.
Since the Water Immortal had lent his hand to you,
why did you still take advantage of Jin Mi then?
Unintentionally, I flipped through...
your indecent collection of the beauties in the six realms.
I found that Jin Mi bears a resemblance to the Flora Immortal.
I guessed that she would be Heavenly Emperor's daughter.
I planned to reveal it to all the immortals...
on Heavenly Empress' birthday banquet...
I was sure that Tu Yao would not give in so easily,
there would be a grudge between Tai Wei and her.
Maybe by then,
my tribe could rise from the ashes.
So that was what happened.
But Jin Mi is the daughter of Water Immortal.
I only learned of this later...
from the Rat Immortal.
I'd nearly committed a grave mistake against Water Immortal.
Jin Mi and I are close friend,
I will explain this to her in the future.
She is someone who is compassionate and loyal.
She will definitely understand you.
At this point in time,
I have no other choice.
Everyone thought that I died in Li Marsh,
in fact I have been in hiding here for a few thousand years.
My only purpose was to fulfils my father's death wish.
Even if dragonfish tribe has left only a lone man standing,
he shall take upon himself the obligation to avenge our tribe.
As the last princess of the dragonfish tribe,
it is an inevitable obligation.
In those years,
I was exposed to a myriad of spells and classics at the Shen Jing Court.
For my revenge,
I practised diligently.
It doesn't matter whether the spell is evil or not,
as long as it could increase my powers,
I would learn it.
I located the old forces and brought in new blood.
I rebuilt the Yun Meng Marsh to resemble the Li Marsh back then...
to ease my sadness. I've sworn to take revenge.
From now on, we, the warriors of the dragonfish tribe...
- shall be at Your Highness's disposal! - At the disposal of Your Highness!
No wonder that even if the prince has never set foot on the Yun Meng Marsh,
he seemed to know about all the turns and corners as if it's his home...
and he found his own path here.
Oh, right.
Mother, you were only in the Shen Jing Court for a month.
How did you remember such a great number of spells?
What do you think the Rat Immortal was doing at the Heaven Realm?
Playing chess?
The pain of losing my son...
and the hatred for exterminating my tribe...
are firmly embedded in me.
I was pondering all these years,
the most complete revenge...
is to let Run Yu take over the Heavenly Emperor's place...
and take control over the Heaven Realm.
But the road to taking the throne is risky and dangerous,
it's too unpredictable,
taking a single step wrong will cost us everything.
Before a victory is guaranteed,
he must never be involved.
A parent's love towards his child has no boundaries,
the prince is indeed your flesh and bones.
Yan You, you are a good child,
you will help your godmother, right?
To her, I am never her own flesh and bones.
Cheers!
Jin Mi.
Qiang Huo, cheers! Cheers!
Since we are close to King Yi,
maybe we should restrain ourselves.
How could there be?
Today is the day when aunt brought us back to the Holy Healers Tribe.
It has become our birthdays since then.
Each year, we will drink till we are too drunk to continue.
Why should we break our tradition this year?
Fill it up!
Come on, cheers!
Drink it!
Qiang Huo,
this year,
I prepared you a birthday present.
Hold on.
Didn't we agree that we will not give birthday presents to each other?
Let's make an exception this year.
I will just give you a present this time.
Do you like it?
We might not have this chance anymore.
It is lovely.
I don't know why,
but I think...
it looks like you.
So adorable.
Jin Mi,
you're so nice to me.
Unfortunately I could never marry.
So, I could only love you more.
Come, let's go on with our drinking!
Cheers!
Why does this place look so familiar?
I feel as if I've been here before.
Frost Flower,
I thought we will never see each other again.
But you have appeared in my dream again.
This is not a dream.
Jin Mi, only you can help me to get out of here.
I want to tell that person that I love him.
Love?
What actually is love?
Love.
Love means that you want to be with someone all the time.
When he laughs, you feel happy too.
When he cries, it saddens you too.
Even if you are chained,
you'll break the chains no matter what it takes to stay by his side.
I seem to feel the same way towards the king.
That means you love him.
I...
love him?
Jin Mi, Jin Mi.
Jin Mi, wake up.
Qiang Huo.
Let's call it a day.
You are drunk.
I will get you some tea in a moment.
What if King Yi summons you later?
What should we do if he found you drunk like this?
I am not drunk.
I am not drunk at all.
King Yi will not summon us at this time.
Impossible.
- Come, let's drink. - No...
Saintess, the King has summoned you.
It is so late at night. What's the matter?
You will know when you're there.
The show is starting, be seated quickly!
I am King Yi of Huai Wu.
In these few days, I was free and I went to hunt in the mountains.
I hunted down 200 of the Liang Guo's soldiers.
I am the Saintess of the Holy Healers Tribe.
In these few days, I was free and I went to collect herbs in the mountain.
I have found the King of Huai Wu.
Great!
You've got a lot of nerves! Who sent you to harass me?
You took off my clothes,
touched my breast and my back.
Tell me, was it Lord Nanping?
No, no.
The king was deaf and mute at that moment.
He couldn't hear anything. Why would he even talk?
This is not right!
Well, that's what King Yi thought.
A bandit you are!
I was kind enough to save you.
I helped you to change and heal you,
but this is the way you repay me.
You look like...
You look like a crow with your feathers exploded!
Then I will call you Crow.
Why did you cover yourself with a veil, healer?
My Lord,
I am ugly.
It's all right,
I am blind.
Then it seems that,
you and I are truly compatible then, like a centipede and scorpion,
a gutta and achyranthes,
we are a match made in heaven.
Little tortoise?
Do you think he looks like you?
Yeah, it does.
You didn't give me the dragon scale,
but I've given you a tortoise instead.
You should at least give me something.
Then what do you want, My Lord?
You think properly.
Think properly?
Since I acted deaf and mute before you,
I am fine with being a blind man this time.
Well, you said it.
My Lord, I hope you would not be terrified.
Were you drinking?
Just a little.
But drunk nonetheless.
Did I look ugly just now?
Did I scare you?
It was too fast,
I didn't manage to see clearly.
So, what can we do?
As the moonlight...
has linked our feelings.
Write a love letter that begins with our first encounter.
One paragraph for every 10,000 years.
One line for every 1,000 years.
A thousand years, ten thousand years.
We will never forget each other,
despite how frantic the world becomes.
Don't you afraid of death?
I am afraid to die,
but I like you more.
What did you say?
I like you.
Say it again?
I thought you are only acting blind,
but now you are acting deaf.
I want to know,
are you drunk,
or am I dreaming?
How about this?
It seems like it is not me who is dreaming,
but it is the Saintess who is drunk.
I am not drunk.
I only want you to remember what I said.
Listen carefully.
I like you.
I like you, I like you, I like you, I like you, I like you!
I will marry you.
In the love letter, I found the place...
where we meet in every life.
There I'll sing in the moonlight.
In the love letter, I found the place...
where we love in every life.
My Lord!
An urgent news from the front line.
Then...
Then I will leave now.
Your Highness, you feel that,
the reason Lord Dong Ting is angry because...
you left her at that time?
That's why she refuses to reunite with you?
I don't remember what had happened then.
But, I left with the Heavenly Empress without any sign on that night.
For mother,
it must've been extremely heartbreaking and shattering.
All mothers in the world...
wanted their child to be happy.
Lord Dong Ting should have known better about the kind of life...
that you were going through at that time.
I think,
she would understand the choice you made.
My godmother is stubborn, I hope you could tolerate it.
It is all right.
The few sentences...
won't make any differences if we say it here.
I had said something bad to mother yesterday.
I feel uneasy about it.
I recalled my past after I left.
Only then I realised that,
I have blamed you wrongly.
Actually,
you have never abandoned me,
but it was me who abandoned you.
I was young and ignorant...
and must have broken your heart.
I am filled with regrets.
Finally we have reunited after so long.
Seeing that you're healthy and well,
moreover, having two outstanding god brothers in your companion...
and look after you in my place.
I am really glad.
I feel remorseful too.
I am not asking for your forgiveness today.
But pray that you will forgive me at last.
I believe,
that there'll be one day when both of us are reunited,
and enjoy the warmth of our familial love.
Li Er!
Li Er, Li Er!
Li Er.
I am not angry at you.
I cared nothing about life or death.
The purpose of me staying alive until today in secret...
is to avenge for my kins and kill my foes with my own hands.
Please forgive my cruelty.
I have tortured you when you were so young...
and caused you to suffer much.
Since you have an opportunity to rule over all the realms,
I don't have the heart to drag you into the hell again.
I am only hoping that you will be safe and sound,
carefree and unaffected.
I could not reunite with my mother today,
but finding out that I now have 2 brothers...
is a really pleasant surprise.
There will be many more days to come.
Faith will move mountains.
As for my mother,
I would need to rely on you, Yan You.
Your Highness, don't worry.
I'll do my best to make it happen.
Mother is not stubborn,
but that there are things which are best remain unknown for now.
Please be patient, Your Highness.
Fortunately, you were there to take care of mother in all these years...
which should have been my obligation.
I am thankful with all my heart.
From now on, we will call each other as brothers.
Are you really my big brother then?
"Northern Garden Villa"
Immortal Run Yu.
Miss Jin Mi.
I came here without any invitation.
I must've caused you inconvenience.
No worries.
I planned to invite you over a few days later.
Didn't we agree to admire night-blooming cereus together?
But I didn't know why I fell asleep that night.
I am really sorry, Immortal Run Yu.