[Ever Night]
[Episode 13]
Light won't be extinguished. Heaven is eternal.
I greet Grand Priest of Light.
Hierarch let Light Priests be killed
yet didn't step in till the fallout.
Punishment was too light.
This is unjust.
I'll try to save you
or this world will lose Light.
Futile attempt.
I'm useless, with limited cultivation.
I ask you to accept me as a disciple.
I'll serve the Light with all my heart.
You think you'd really become a disciple of Light if people call you that?
If emotions imprison you, you can't take on great duties.
Thank you for your advice.
Sang Sang.
Young Master got drunk and won't be home.
Remember to eat chicken soup.
Ning Que.
You sobered up.
We're waiting. Hurry up.
[Young Master got drunk and won't be home. Remember to eat chicken soup]
Ning Que's here.
Jian Dajia.
Where are my classmates?
They're gone. Only you stayed.
Be more mature.
The Academy is a good place.
Take advantage of your study opportunity.
- Xiao Cao, make him hangover tea. - Yes.
The Academy is a place where miracles are created.
If you feel miracles can't happen,
then no-one can help you.
I dare to ask, why do you treat me so well?
Do you feel, as strangers,
I'm too familiar with you?
No, no. Not so.
Seeing you, I feel we're close,
like immediate kin.
Don't compare yourself with rich young Chu Youxian.
You can't match Chu Zhongtian, Situ Yilan, and the Prince.
You've no right to play around, understand?
I get it.
I know they get close to me because they think it's fun.
They currently retain a level of curiosity.
This curiosity mightn't be evil.
But it's not respect.
Seems you're not stupid.
To really be friends with them,
you must have
ability and bearing worth respect.
This is Orchid Soup.
Nourish your body; and wake up.
Thanks, Jian Dajia.
In future, coming here to relax is fine,
but not often, nor over-drinking.
Despite its elegance, this is a bordello.
Houses of courtesans are lowest of low amongst Scholars.
If you frequent streets of 'flowers',
even if you're intelligent,
people will look down on you.
I don't look down on others.
I don't care how others see me.
If I really rise like the sun,
I'll come here every day,
because, when I was a nobody,
Jian Dajian took time to teach me.
My old friend was like you.
He said he'd come every day.
He even said he'd treat here like his own home.
What a pity.
In the end, even the Academy couldn't keep him.
Your friend was an Academy scholar?
He was not just a scholar,
but in Academy history,
other than Fu Zi, he's the most legendary.
Enough of that talk.
Tang loves scholars. Intelligence is useful.
Whether you're high or low,
inside or outside,
a border youth or a city aristocrat,
the nation won't bury your talents.
- Xiao Cao, is the carriage ready? - Jian Dajia, it is.
- Ask the driver to take him home. - Yes.
I'll say bye to Sister Shui Zhu.
Shui Zhu has an important guest.
Today is inconvenient. Come another day.
Go home and rest. Tomorrow you have class.
Thanks, Madam Jian.
Master Ning, let's go.
- I'll drink with you. - I prefer to drink alone.
Then why ask me along?
This is seeking seduction as a meal.
With a beauty like you,
I won't need food with the wine.
Stop.
Don't move.
- What are you doing? - Slowly, slowly lift it.
[Young Master got drunk...]
Hey.
Hurry.
Don't delay. Prepare ink.
Hurry...
Young Master, the water's ready. Come and bathe.
Coming.
Sang Sang, you're a big girl now.
Don't wash me from now on.
Then you wash.
Young Master, I found that Lakeside Cottage.
You're the best. I'll go tomorrow. I've waited for this day.
Young Master, I'll rub your back.
It's fine. No need.
I can do it.
All these years, I washed his back.
Why'd he suddenly not let me?
Does Young Master dislike me now?
(cursive/grass script)
Hey, look.
Well? Does it look similar?
You've asked me this all night.
100%. 100% similar.
I've never seen such calligraphy before.
Really.
But whoever wrote this
lacks bodily nascent Qi flow.
Yet it's strong, especially in "chicken soup".
This is godly calligraphy.
I heard from Jian Dajia you're a high Daoist of South Gate.
She said it won't be surprising if you know everyone's name.
I beg you, let me get some sleep.
Okay, okay, okay.
Us Divine Talisman Masters
start brush strokes like gales and end like startling demons.
I came to the capital and stayed in Tang for decades.
I can't recall which path I took.
Then I'll speak fairly. You follow your heart.
Whenever you visit me, you pay me yet do nothing untoward.
If you really return to Xiling,
you'd be fair competition to its leader.
Your words are too sweet.
After you touched his Note all night,
why's the room smell like chicken soup?
Your words are no longer sweet.
And you said what I'm thinking. What good chicken soup.
Call this "Chicken Soup Note".
A man toils outside, but won't forget to remind his wife to eat chicken soup?
Such a couple must love each other deeply.
Sang Sang isn't Ning Que's wife.
She's just Ning Que's little maid.
What's his name?
Ning Que. As in "prefer nothing to something shoddy" Ning Que.
Aiya, that's it.
It's a meaningful name.
Ning Que.
Who else was involved?
Yan Suqing! He cut off a finger from General Lin
to stamp a fingerprint on a fake missive.
Customer, what tea would you like?
Kuding tea.
Grand Master Yan Se.
Uncle. I asked the Academy.
That student, Ning Que, really can't cultivate.
What a pity that is!
To act against one's abilities is perilous.
Your body is unable to cultivate.
Your astonishing perseverance even found you a way
but you won't get in the door.
I've watched you a long time.
You're the first student to walk downstairs, not on a stretcher.
But...just give up.
Thanks for your advice. Let me think of a way.
What other way is there?
I know in your eyes, I'm a flute that can't make a sound.
But I want to keep trying.
'Wu Shanyang's Treatise on Haoran Sword'.
Haoran Sword?
Pen and ink pierce my heart.
I feel a silent mountain in my body.
Today, I chanced on 'Wu Shanyang's Treatise on Haoran Sword'.
Someone actually used vast primordial Breath
for such high cultivation.
As for me, Qihai Xueshan is blocked.
It's genetic.
God is really unfair.
God really is unfair.
In this world, where can you find anything fair?
God is like sun rays on snow mountains-
protecting the lotus through clouds,
but not seeing the grass among rocks.
I, unmatched genius in the world,
am like the lotus.
Your closed acupoints
make you pitiful grass unable to cultivate.
So you, the grass, can only accept this, not doubt it.
Using 'eternity' character to read was stupid.
Reading Haoran Sword Treatise injured your heart and lungs.
I ask you,
how is your wound to be cured?
Milk vetch is too strong.
I only ask you, how to boil mugwort, how often?
Are angelica and ginkgo fruit
powdered or in pieces?
Mix how much brown sugar with red ginger?
How is olive made into a tonic?
Answer me immediately.
Making it hard for me? Then I'll set you a question.
Great genius, God's brilliance
spilled all over the world, like an oxherd
caring for all lives.
If you're really smart, try to calculate
the number in God's oxen herd. How about it?
Oxen herd?
Oxen are herded in Wei City market in northern Tang.
The oxen go in 4 groups through the city gate to grasslands.
The first herd is milk white.
The second herd is lustrous black.
The third herd is tan; the fourth is mixed colour.
Each herd has bulls and cows in random numbers.
Bull proportions in each herd are one-third
of white oxen; and one-half of tan oxen plus black oxen.
Also, black oxen are one-fourth of fancy plus one-fifth of tan oxen.
Tan bulls with fancy bulls
form a triangle no other oxen dare to enter.
Triangle?
Please tell me the oxen numbers immediately.
And I must add, I really
calculated the numbers before.
Calculated before?
Bulls. Cows. Fancy oxen.
Tan oxen. One-third. One-half.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Triangle.
Bulls. Cows. Fancy oxen. No more.
One-half. One-third. One-quarter.
How can there be a triangle?
If he can calculate it, I can too.
Did God have so many oxen?
All Tang couldn't contain them.
What is this!?
When did God turn to herding oxen?
This question is really too hard.
I tried solving it all day
Where'd that weirdo come from?
He unexpectedly set a lousy question
that stumped this genius for a whole day.
Sang Sang.
I've recently met an Academy fellow who's great fun.
Young Master, how's it "great fun"?
Is he your classmate? Boy or girl?
I've never seen him, but I guessed he's a guy.
No, no, no. I'm sure he's a guy.
And he's a pitiful
and wretched guy who's had little luck with girls.
Pitiful and wretched?
Then I know who it is!
- Who? - It's you. - Come here!
Press my legs.
Spend more time on studies.
'Pitiful' is an experience. 'Wretched' is the outcome.
- So he's ugly? - I said I hadn't seen him.
Oh right.
Get these herbs tomorrow.
Let no-one see them. I'll decoct them.
Why can't others see?
He'd be a 2nd Level student.
And this must be a refined prescription from 2nd Level.
So we made a big gain here. Let no-one know.
Does this prescription strengthen the body?
- I think so. - Then I needn't press your legs in future?
You hope. Keep pressing. Hurry.
Okay. This genius admits inability to solve your lousy question.
I don't believe you can solve it either.
That makes you shameless.
Want to know the answer?
I can't answer your herbal question
so we're even in this contest.
If you're unconvinced, we can continue.
Nameless Brother, is there a way
to enable Vast Sword Intent method to be milder.
Loser. How'd Sword Intent be milder?
Tell me the oxen herd answer. It's driving me crazy.
At least 5 trillion, 918 billion,
37,170 million,
5,686 oxen.
Is there really no other way to gain understanding?
I still don't believe God can be unfair to my talent.
But I heard Demon Sect uses a completely different method.
- Demon Sect? - They don't seek resonance with Breath of Qi
but forcibly absorb Qi. If that needs no channels,
can I do that to be able to cultivate?
You dare talk about Demon Sect.
Fine. I admit you're a bit better in maths than this genius.
But I must warn you about Demon Sect talk.
It's okay in the Academy. Outside,
never mention those two words.
Otherwise men on the correct path
will hunt you down and kill you cruelly.
But I say smiling, even if Demon Sect
absorb Qi by force, channels must be open.
Only then, Breath of Qi can permeate the body.
That's so unlucky. I thought there'd be a way.
Your calligraphy 'eternity' way
shows you're unconventional.
I truly worry you may cultivate evilly.
Instead of regretfulness, rejoice.
If you really fall into evil ways,
I may have to slice you in three. 3-3-3!
Your words are reasonable. But I'm disappointed.
Say, we two can be considered pen pals.
Why'd you never ask who I am?
Aren't you a bit curious about me? Don't you feel
it's a great opportunity knowing me.
I've never been very curious about others.
And you didn't ask who I am.
Okay. Who are you? Where from?
Which House in the Academy? Any pretty sisters at home?
I'm Ning Que from Wei City.
I'm in Third House. At home is only a little coal-like maid.
Little coal-like maid.
You're who? From where?
Any fierce wife or concubines at home?
Fierce wife or concubines.
Is that why you hate women?
I'm Chen Pipi from Xiling.
And then...nothing more.
I heard a Xiling exam candidate topped 6 subjects 5 years ago.
All the Academy teachers came out to look.
It was best marks in 100 years.
That was you, right?
Yours truly, the genius. Well?
Is your reverence for me
rising in you now?
I topped three subjects, 4th last in two, abandoned one.
This may be a singular Academy result in 100 years.
So why'd I revere you?
You've got guts. I admit you and
this genius are even.
You're from Xiling. Why come so far to study in Tang?
I'm from a big Xiling clan.
You can't imagine its vast numbers and enterprises.
A genius like me was fated to inherit its fortune.
But I didn't want to, so I ran away secretly.
So it's a runaway case. Didn't your family Elder seek you?
Family Elder? He guessed I was here
but due to certain reasons couldn't come to the Academy.
[Lakeside Cottage]
Drink tea. Drink tea.
Don't fear. It's just an animal.
Customer, please sit.
The tea ceremony
A sense of dignity emerges.
Many people may think
enjoying tea
will bring self-immersion.
Offer it to Heaven for moments.
Then rinse the cup a few times.
Silently turn it again.
It's not so.
What I like most in life
is to hold the kettle and drink tea from it.
I got this habit while in the military.
15 years ago, I was
Army Copy Clerk Appraiser.
Those hands of yours hold swords often.
If I guess correctly,
it's a simple, single edged sword.
Before the Academy exam,
I was at Wei City
with my sword.
At dawn, bring it and see me.
You're serious?
Zhang Yiqi dropped dead on the street.
East Town blacksmith suicided.
Others might not see it- I know the meaning behind it.
From the moment you came in,
I already knew.
Looks like your intuition is quite good.
I...not only have good intuition
but also am straightforward,
unlike others who are evasive.
I tell you straight,
as Copy Clerk Appraiser,
I'm good at evaluation
and even better at inspecting seal emblems.
The 3 letters proving General Lin's treason
were made by myself.
These are 3 secret letters from Yan King to you.
This is evidence.
Grand Prince, please investigate this evidence.
But, I didn't even receive a promotion.
I finally had to resign my official post.
Then I opened this teahouse in East Town.
Why tell me all this?
Whether poor or rich,
a person needs to eat.
In broad day,
if you die here,
how could I open for business?
Besides, you're an Academy student.
But some things eventually must end.
Between 5-7 pm, come back and find me.
Goodbye.
Money for the tea.
Pay for it when the time comes.
The moment I entered this teahouse,
an intense power pressed me.
He'd be a top Cultivator.
Yan Suqing
will likely be difficult to deal with.
~Where is absolute Light~
~Light is in my dark eyes~
~Wind wrapped, rope twisted~
Little brother, hurry and run!
- Big brother! - Run!
Crown Prince has become a hostage.
It shows Yan seeks peace.
Imperial Father, I want to save big bro.
~I don't have anyone to defeat~
~Peach blossoms open~
Go to Xiling.
Afterwards, go to Tang Empire.
Take the Academy exam and become Fu Zi's top student.
Put your heart into studying.
Get close to them.
Then destroy them all.
~let the heart absorb this fear~
Only you can do this for Yan.
You're my only hope.
I understand.
Why aren't you at Xiling?
How come you dropped in?
Greetings, Imperial Father.
Rise.
Let me take a good look at you.
Father, how's your health now?
I'm old.
You came to tell me something.
I've seen Grand Priest at Xiling.
I expressed my interest but Grand Priest
turned me down.
I still need to process his words.
Don't mull over it.
He didn't necessarily refuse due to your ability.
Don't doubt yourself.
In Peach Mountain, Grand Priest of Light
remains in name only.
Wei Guangming has been in jail for 15 years.
Still, Light Hall's heir
needs Elder Priests' approval.
Maybe he didn't choose you so he won't lose his title.
If he isn't Light's Grand Priest,
he's just an oldie.
No. He'd never be just an old man.
At Xiling, he's brightest.
Even Shrine Hierarch tolerates him.
Even with no Xiling rival,
he isn't world's strongest.
You mean...
Fu Zi.
The Academy.
Correct.
The Academy is Tang's biggest support.
Whether it's for Yan or you, become Fu Zi's student.
Now the Academy Second Floor entry exam is near,
I want to bring back your older brother
by sending you to Tang.
Go and be Fu Zi's top disciple.
Yes, Father.
[Ever Night]
~Hey, I can only say sorry~
~You, who've forgotten time, look a bit lost~
~You seem faraway, in front of me; time winks by~
~Take it easy, life is still the same~
~Hey, let me change the ending~
~Yet I can cover it up only a short while~
~Don't obsess or say sorry; winner just treats loser~
~Better not meet rather than cry on parting~
~Night is long and dark; don't leave regrets~
~I've seen right, wrong, gratitude, grudges, words, acts~
~I risk danger, desperate for you~
~Umbrella in old Chang'an; night is nearing, talismans burn~
~Fight till all is gone in chaos and darkness~
~See us blaze through darkness, changing Heaven and Earth~
~Spur the horses forward~
~Geese fly south before snow; get drunk at a warm coast~
~Under slashes of the sword, we love each other still~