Once upon a time, there was a planet far away in outer space.
The environment there was almost the same as Earth's.
So, of course, there were aliens living on it.
After a long process of evolution, those aliens
established their own civilization.
One day, their scientists predicted that their galaxy was going to collapse.
To escape, they immigrated to other planets in the universe by spaceship.
And one group of them came to Earth.
They called themselves the Fox Clan.
Ancient men on Earth were shocked when they saw them.
An ancient book reads that a huge ship-like object flew above the western sea.
The people in it wore crowns, had white feathers all over their bodies, and flew high in the sky with no wings.
That is the first impression the Fox Clan made on humans.
To adapt to the environment on Earth, the Fox Clan never stopped evolving.
Finally, they began to look like humans and gradually fit in with them.
Since ancient times, the conflicts between humans and the Fox Clan never ended.
There was a government proofreading official named Dai Fu,
who was especially interested in the love between foxes and humans.
He believed love could overcome everything.
After Dai Fu died, his son collected all of the stories he had written.
He called it "Guang Yi Ji" and had it published. (The Great Book of Marvels)
It was quite popular among its readers.
After storytellers added more details, the stories spread even further.
But humans began to fear foxes, instead of just being curious.
Foxes noticed that humans were getting less and less friendly.
They had to hide their identity in this world.
[The Love Knot: His Excellency's First Love]
[Episode 25] [This story is purely fictional]
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If everyone thinks it is like Lord says it is
then I'm willing.
It's just that...
Please say it.
If Ah Xi finds out the truth then he will definitely feel upset.
I don't want him to feel sad.
I'm willing to do everything.
Lord... please don't let him come to find me.
I know.
Thank you, Lord.
I still remember what you said. That when you look at the moon for a long time you'll see your inner heart.
That's right.
I've really seen it.
By the way, my father said that this month
we can get married.
Finally, I waited for this day.
Once, didn't you tell me you didn't want to get married?
What I said when I was a child doesn't count.
In our clan, when our people get married,
the sun will come out at that time,
and the rain will fall at the same time. I heard there will even be a rainbow.
My father says at that time I will be able to see.
I will see how you look.
I said long ago
that I'm extremely ugly.
Stop lying to me.
On the day of our marriage, there will be a lot of colorful boats here.
All of our relatives and friends will come and give us their blessings.
I believe that the woman I love
is definitely the most beautiful in this world.
She will wear a vibrant wedding dress and be more beautiful than the rainbow.
At that time, we will both travel the world
and spend a lifetime together.
Promise me that we'll never separate.
All right.
I promise you.
Both of us will see the most beautiful things in this world
and never separate.
What's the situation with Lord Helan?
It was Zhao Song.
Yesterday, we should have gone to the police station first and rescued him.
It's all my fault.
The next Chief High Priest won't really be Zhao Song, right?
There's still one more necessary step.
The key.
If Zhao Song gets the key then Lord Helan won't be able to uphold his innocence.
Where is the key right now?
I also don't know. Lord Helan, didn't tell us.
Shouldn't we look for the key right now and place it in a safe place?
If that's the case, then we're basically going up against Zhao Song.
That's a very big risk.
Then, what should we do now?
Did you guys find the sacred wood?
Sacred wood? Let's go get the sacred wood right now and kill Zhao Song.
Before that, let's do something that's just as important.
What time is it right now? Important? Then tell me what's so important.
Xiuxian... it's time.
We need to give all our powers to Lord Helan.
If you do that, won't you both lose your powers and revert back to your original form?
Yes.
With our abilities, even though we can't recover all of Lord Helan's memories and power,
we'll have no problem saving him.
That means, even if he lives, he'll just be an ordinary person.
He won't have powers and won't have memories of us either.
His powers and memories will recover
but it requires time. A very long time.
Are you certain that you two want to do this?
Helan... became a fox.
He's so cute.
This tiny.
He's white and soft.
He's really soft...
I already heard what you all said.
What can I do?
Mrs. Guan, Helan already has none of his powers.
His body released the life energy that once belonged to you.
In the future, you will live a complete life.
What we were talking about just now were issues of concern to the Fox Clan.
For your safety, we hope you won't get involved in this.
This is also my matter.
He's my husband.
I have a plan.
Hey.
How did it go? Is Pipi out?
I called her and she didn't answer.
Don't worry, she's all right.
She's resting at home right now.
That's great.
But Lord Helan is in trouble.
Mr. Helan? What happened to him?
Zhao Song attacked him and he reverted back to his original state. We need to go right now or we'll be too late to save him.
Attacked and reverted back? How are you suppose to save him?
Can a hospital save him?
We plan to take him somewhere else and heal him there.
Come with us!
Let's go. Go change your clothes.
You...
What? You don't want her to be with us?
Let's go. We'll wait for you here.
I had calculated everything except for Qingmu.
Helan Jingting had rejected this key for centuries.
Who knew this time, he would agree... to be the successor.
Do you have to concern yourself with that key right now?
There are a lot of elders that support me inheriting the throne. Isn't that enough?
The purpose of the key is to convince all our people. Without it,
even if you take the throne by force, people will question your right to it.
But right now to find the key will be like searching for a needle in the ocean.
We also don't know just where he would hide the key.
In my speculation, the key should still be in Helan Jingting's house.
How certain are you?
Hello.
May I ask, is this Zhao Song?
May I ask, you are...
I'm Helan Jingting's wife. My name is Guan Pipi.
Mrs. Guan? I've long heard about you.
Helan has already reverted to his original state. I guess this means he doesn't have much time.
I can give you the key that you want,
but you have to agree to the requests I have.
You have to guarantee
safety for my family, friends, and myself.
You also have to guarantee that people from your Fox Clan won't come and disturb me in the future.
These are simple requests.
Yes, it is really simple.
How will I know I can trust you?
Don't worry. As the next Chief High Priest,
your family, friends, and you will be safe.
I have one more request.
I heard...
Helan's mother left an item behind for him.
I want that item as a keepsake.
No problem.
Then I'll see you at 8:00 p.m. tonight at No. 56 Xianting Street.
See you tonight then.
I was going to go there anyway. It will be nice to have a tour guide.
I'll ask you two a question.
If Helan saving Tao Jialin
made him lose all his powers;
then, what if you two save Helan? Will you guys die?
If it wasn't for Lord Helan, Xiuxian and I wouldn't be alive today.
From the day we followed Lord Helan, both of us swore
that in the future, if Lord Helan had an accident,
we would save him at any cost,
including losing our own lives.
He became like this because he lost all his powers. If we want to save him then
we have to also use up all our powers.
After that, we'll be in the state that he is in right now.
If we want to revert back to human form,
then it might take a few centuries more.
The bus is here.
Lord, in a short while, we're going to go down this river.
At the end, just follow Kuanyong and me closely.
Don't be afraid. Just stay with us
and then swim toward the deeper side. It will be really quick
and you'll revert back to human form very soon.
Kuanyong and I
won't revert that fast. And during the coming days, we won't be able to keep you company as we have.
So when that time comes, please take care of yourself.
Play a lot by yourself.
Say, in the future, will Lord Helan
be able to recognize us in the daylight?
I also don't know.
I think with our abilities
we can only restore Lord Helan to his human form.
I should prepare a pair of glasses for him then.
I believe that his eyes will also be cured after he reverts back to human form. Right, Lord Helan?
If it's like that then both of us can be at ease.
You can also walk, shop, and have fun in the daylight.
- You don't have to rely on us to buy clothing either. - Say, do you think Lord Helan can take care of himself?
Of course he can. He's so powerful. He saved both of our lives, didn't he?
- How would he not be able take care of himself? - Eat something now.
Aren't you going to eat your fair share?
But that one has meat.
You've already endured for nine hundred years. Don't you crave it?
Stop pretending. I already know you do.
Then, you eat some vegetables.
Aiyo, aiyo, aiyo. Are you crying? Then, what are you doing?
The wind is strong.
You're clearly crying. If not then what's in your eyes?
Sand.
All right. Come on.
No need to cry. I'll tell you a secret.
The people in our Fox Clan don't die. We'll only revert back to our original forms.
Liar.
I'm not. It's for real.
After a while, we'll revert back to human form again. Right?
Right. Even if Xiuxian and I revert back to our original forms,
both of us will still come back and keep you company.
Who wants you guys to keep me company?
Kuanyong and I will still come back and look for you very soon.
How long is "soon?"
800 years? 900 years?
Xiaoju, thank you.
Meeting you was the luckiest thing that happened to us in these past 900 years.
It was also our happiest time.
You're making it so mushy. Weren't we happy in the past? We were also happy in the past.
Right? But I did become much happier after meeting you.
What is this?
I just picked this up. Take it.
Count it as a blessing.
We'll miss you.
All right now. We're leaving.
Please take care of yourself.
Lord Helan, we're getting ready to leave.
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Mrs. Guan, this is our first time meeting. I'm Zhao Song.
The item inside this bag is...
It's nothing.
Hey! You...
I'll hold this bag for you.
Mrs. Guan, don't think that I don't know what you're thinking about.
Did you think that I'd really be afraid of that old sacred wood?
Look. Didn't we tell you already?
You just had to make this so awkward.
But don't worry, I am a man of my word.
You just have to give me the item that I want, then what you want,
I will give you. The Golden Flower Mirror.
Actually, I don't know where the key that you want is.
Moreover, even if I knew, I wouldn't give it to you because it's Helan's.
Then, I'll tell you where the key is. The key is inside this house.
You have to find it for us today.
What are you doing? Get your hand off me. Let go!
Mrs. Guan, for your family, stop messing around.
What do you want me to do?
Think about it. If you were him, where would you put the key?
Guo Zong!
He came home after he got the key from Qingmu that time.
On the second day, he went to get married to you.
If the key was on him, then the police would have kept it when he got arrested.
But there was no record of it at the police station,
which proves the key is still inside this house.
Look. It's really not here. Why don't you flip floor tiles and take a look?
Flip the floor tiles?
It's really not here.
Thanks.
Think about your family.
Say, Mrs. Guan,
you are really naive.
I already said I don't have it.
I already said that you're really naive.
You dare to look down on me.
Zhao Song!
Qianhua, get away!
Look closely! This is the person Helan Jingting really loves.
Not you!
If you stop now,
there's still time to go back.
I warned you before, that
if you leave me then I'd destroy Helan Jingting.
Don't force me to do this.
Are you crazy? I'm asking you, are you that crazy?
He's not worth it for you to do this.
He's not worth it. He's not worth it. He's not worth it!
He's really not worth it. Don't you understand?
Because of him?
It's not because of him at all.
It's because of you. Didn't you know that?
I don't want you to keep making mistake after mistake.
I like doing wrong things. What does that have to do with you?
Why wouldn't it have to do with me?
I've already fallen in love with you right now.
But I don't want myself to have fallen in love with a bastard.
It's that simple.
I don't believe you.
I did all of this...
because of you.
I know I did all the wrong things.
So,
while the wood is in your hands right now...
Set me aflame.
Qianhua!
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You got discharged today. How come Uncle and Auntie didn''t come to pick you up?
I didn't tell them.
That isn't like you.
I think it's time to learn how to take care of myself.
All along, I've relied on my parents,
relied on Pipi, and relied on you.
By the way, how did you know that I was getting discharged today?
Your body is completely healed?
Yes, almost.
Then, when do you plan to go back to America?
The end of next month at the earliest.
Why aren't you resting for a longer time then?
Why are you in a rush to go back?
What do you think?
How's your work? Are you used to it yet?
It's quite well and stable.
Then, that's good.
So, it's a long-term and stable job?
This is for you.
What is it?
Chili bean sauce.
I made it.
Then, do you still have plans to go abroad later?
What do you think?
[The Ring Served Here: The Vanilia Bakeshop]
Xiuxiu and Kuankuan, time to eat.
They went over there.
Thanks.
Xiuxiu. Xiuxiu.
Thank you.
- Number 22. - Over here.
This way.
Introduce yourself.
Hello, everyone. I'm Guan Pipi.
Ms. Guan,
among the 1,300 student reporters this year, you're the only junior college student
who passed the written exam with excellent marks.
Can you tell us in a simplistic way,
why you took the entrance exam?
Since I was young, I've always wanted to be a talented reporter.
Even though I am a reporter right now,
I feel that I'm not talented enough.
So I wanted to do further postgraduate study
and accomplish my dream.
Why do you think this will make you become a talented reporter?
I don't like to eat apples.
Since I was a child, I didn't like to eat apples.
So, when my dad and mom found out,
at first, they persuaded me to eat more of them.
Later, they didn't buy any more
because they knew that even if they bought them, I wouldn't eat them.
My friends also knew that I didn't like to eat apples.
So, every time when we went out to eat,
if there were apples on the table, they'd eat them for me.
As time went on,
apples began to disappear from my world,
until last summer.
I had suddenly taken ill.
I had a headache, nausea, and no medicine worked.
At that time, I met someone.
He thought of multiple ways to make me eat apples.
He told me,
as long as I ate apples my illness would be cured.
Why would I want to believe him?
He wasn't a doctor.
He also wasn't Snow White's stepmother.
What right did he have to force me to eat apples?
But when I thought about it later,
if Snow White hadn't ate the poison apple that her stepmother gave her,
then she wouldn't have been lying there and the prince wouldn't have met her.
At that time, I began thinking I should eat them.
Maybe If I ate the apples then I would also meet a prince.
Indeed, after I ate them, my body felt much better.
I left the room and under the moon
I saw him quietly laying there just like a prince.
He told me that he came from another planet.
His heart only beats three times a minute.
He likes the moonlight.
He thinks that the moon shows someone's inner heart
and his inner heart was as pure as the moon.
At the time, I realized that
perhaps the apple I ate opened a door for me.
A door to an unknown world.
Right then and there, I saw a different world.
I also saw... a different me.
I believe that news is the apple
and a reporter is the one that feeds others the apple.
As a talented reporter,
you should be brave and accept things beyond your normal understanding.
They have to be brave and be able to face an unknown world.
With this in mind, you can bring the person reading the news
to a new understanding and to know a whole new world,
that's who I am.
So I believe that I can become a talented reporter.
This is still in regards to Mr. Helan's inheritance agreement.
How come you're here again? I already said that I won't sign it.
It's like this. This will has met all the required conditions.
I hope you can cooperate with our work and sign it as soon as possible.
After all, this was the last task Mr. Helan gave me while he was alive.
While he was alive? Why do all of you think he died?
I already said this many times. He's just gone missing.
He will return.
Sorry. I used the wrong words. I understand how you feel.
But this agreement that Mr. Helan signed is a bit different from any other signed agreements.
It specifically states
if the client is missing for more than six months
he's to be considered dead. We're just acting according to what Mr. Helan wanted.
Lawyer Chen,
whether I sign this paper or not, I have the right to decide. Right?
Of course.
Then I'll tell you very explicitly
that I'm not signing it.
- Mrs. Guan— - Stop talking now.
I still have something to do. I won't be seeing you out.
Hello.
Pipi.
Sumei, how's your investigation going on there?
I'm still gathering news
but there's still no news of anyone seeing Lord Helan.
Pipi, don't be anxious. I believe that Lord Helan is definitely fine.
Also, Pipi, you know that Lord Helan has been cleared and that he's not guilty.
It's a good thing you protected the key back then. Lord Helan is still the successor of the Fox Clan.
I thank you on behalf of the Fox Clan.
You also have to continue to endure.
Pipi.
Mrs. Guan, this is the first time you've attended our animal release activity. Right?
Yes. Sorry, I've troubled you all.
You're being too courteous.
It's all about releasing the foxes so we have to come to the North.
A lot of people say that it's too far so they're not willing to come.
It being far isn't a problem. In the future, if there's a chance like this again, I still hope I can attend.
Really? Then, that would be great. We'll tell you when.
All right.
By the way, I'm going to the restaurant to get some water. Would you like something to drink?
No need. I still have some in my bag. You can go.
All right. Then, I'll go first.
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Passengers, the next stop is Shuhai Station.
Passengers who need to get off or transfer, please get ready.
The train will stop at Shuhai Station for five minutes. Please get ready.
Hey, Miss.
Sorry to interrupt. We're here.
Sorry.
Miss, your coffee.
Thanks.
You're welcome.
Can you give me a glass of water?
All right. Please wait.
- Your water. - Thanks.
Miss, did you need something else?
You look similar to someone I know,
so I was a bit surprised just then.
Oh. What a coincidence.
My surname is Guan. I'm Guan Pipi.
My name is Helan Xi.
Helan Xi?
What a special name.
Do you know which "Xi" character my "Xi" is?
I can try guessing.
No one has guessed it correctly before.
You're the first one to correctly guess how to write my "Xi"
I have a friend that told me before
"Xi" was a tool used to untie knots in rope during ancient times.
I have never forgotten it.
Then is your friend someone that is really important to you?
Yes, very.
But later, he had to leave.
Why did he leave?
I don't know.
Then, will he still come back?
He will.
I will wait for him until he comes back.
Then I shall keep you company while you wait.
[The End]
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♫ A relationship met by chance ♫
♫ Stumbling through separation and return ♫
♫ Everything on the mind hangs like a bright moon ♫
♫ Longing sleeps in the night sky ♫
♫ Perhaps as I hoped, it was just a fantasy ♫
♫ The past is flying by I can hear your heartbeat ♫
♫ Reincarnated love, it was just a daydream ♫
♫ Seeing each other again, time stops in place ♫
♫ A thousand love in a glance ♫
♫ A thousand year fate Spreading through time ♫
♫ Day and night It's you that loves my face ♫
♫ Let time keep your promise to me ♫
♫ A thousand year fate Spreading through time ♫
♫ Day and night It's you that loves my face ♫
♫ Let time keep your promise to me ♫
♫ A thousand love in a glance ♫