it was impossible to go back.
Have you ever heard about that
the cliff of a snow mountain
once fascinated numerous people?
Legend has it that,
there were treasures at the peak
but also there was a bottomless chasm hidden over there.
The smart, the fool
and the kind people,
all are familiar to you.
On the mountainside, on the cliff,
on the cloud,
and in the human world,
snowflakes are drifting profusely and disorderly.
Joy of Life Season 1
Episode 41
So, black knights were withdrawn
so that Fan Xian got into trouble
because you gave the order, Your Majesty.
If you want to kill Fan Xian,
you just need to issue an imperial edict.
It's unnecessary to drag in so many people
and even send him to Beiqi.
In the final analysis,
he's just a common official.
His life is up to you.
His Majesty sent Fan Xian there
to get the secret out of Xiao En.
How is it related to Fan Xian?
Xiao En has said nothing over the years.
Will he tell Fan Xian about it?
I think so.
You're not bleeding.
Haven't you laughed enough?
Life is full of mysteries and surprises.
Did you save me to get that secret?
I've given up on it.
I saved you for Shangshan Hu.
I fooled him once,
so I have to save you
if I want him to listen to me again.
It makes sense.
You're decisive and cruel.
You're young,
but you'll have a promising future.
But it's of no use.
The wound left by Langtao is so deadly that
even I can't save you.
It's true you're dying.
In this case,
I'll tell you
the secret.
Tell me?
It's a secret,
but actually, it's something simple.
Wait!
What?
I'm going to tell you about it.
Don't you want to listen?
You have no reason to do that.
I'm dying.
Maybe I don't want the secret
to be buried with me.
If that were
what worries you,
you must've told
the Investigator's Office about it.
Maybe it's because of destiny
since it was you that took me back to Beiqi.
And, maybe it's because
I'm moved because you saved me.
You didn't give in even if they threatened to kill you.
How could you change your mind because of a little favor?
Besides, I aimed to take advantage of you.
You're not that kind of person.
How did you know
I'm not that kind of person?
I'm sure about it
because we're the same kind of person.
We're pragmatic, cruel and heartless.
Well said.
We're the same kind of person.
The same kind.
So, you have no reason
to tell me the top secret.
Were you brought up in Danzhou?
Yes.
So, it's not been a long time since you went to the capital city.
That's right.
Were you promoted to be Director-General
of the Investigator's Office in a short time?
Exactly.
Who's your father?
He's called Fan Jian.
Fan Jian.
What does he do?
He serves as Assistant Minister of Ministry of Revenue.
I remember.
Chen Pingping and he know each other well.
So what?
Now that Fan Jian has been staying in the capital city,
why were you left in Danzhou?
Is it related to you?
Because I'm a bastard.
Who is your mother?
She's dead when I was born.
So you've never seen her.
What on earth do you want to say?
Do you know
your mother was murdered?
Of course I do.
Fan Jian is not your biological father.
Your real father
died long ago.
What?
Kid,
my son is your father.
You're my grandson.
What the heck?
I might be the last of my family line.
You can say that
I'm dying sonless.
What did Shen Zhong do to you?
I know.
You may have doubts more or less.
Come on.
It's sheer nonsense.
Xiao En's grandson?
Chen Pingping, are you muddleheaded?
When Xiao En was caught,
both his son and his daughter-in-law
died on the spot.
How could he have a grandson?
Before getting married,
Xiao En's son
stayed with another woman.
Who was she?
She was a prostitute.
Xiao En's son bought back her freedom
and hid her in a private house. Then she got pregnant.
When Xiao En found it out,
he ordered his son to break up with her
because he was strict with his son.
Then he asked his son
to marry a girl
from a family of equal status.
By rights, such a woman
should be killed to avoid trouble later on.
But she was pregnant, anyway.
So I hid her somewhere,
I wanted to decide whether to kill her or not
after she gave birth.
She's your mother.
She was sold into a brothel when she was very young
and she didn't know her real name.
When she was in the whorehouse,
she was called Yuxiang.
It became her name.
Yuxiang? Come on.
What the heck are you talking about?
Since I was arrested,
I'd been cruelly tortured.
The only thing that made me want to live
is that kid.
But in the end,
Chen Pingping found it out.
Didn't they kill him?
If you die,
I'd find no point
in living anymore.
During that period,
he kept
telling me something about you
to sound me out and threaten me.
But you said nothing.
If I had, both of us would've died.
Only by keeping silent
would you be safe.
At that time,
I wanted to push Xiao En
to tell us the secret
by threatening to kill that kid.
And then?
What tortures a person most is not threats,
but hope.
His Majesty is far-sighted.
No one else can match him.
It's true that
Xiao En wouldn't give in
to threats.
Finally,
as His Majesty suggested,
I told Xiao En I'd make the kid
become one of Nanqing people
and a solider
that hates Beiqi.
I said I'd let the kid
ruin all his hopes
when the kid grows up.
That's malicious.
It's your style.
That's why he believed.
Over the years,
I told him
all little things
about the kid.
Did you tell him
the kid was brought up in Danzhou?
No, I didn't.
He didn't say where you were living,
but he didn't know
I'm familiar with
many cities of Nanqing
to better fight against them.
So,
according to all the details
and the layout of streets
he revealed by accident,
I'm sure you were in Danzhou.
You guessed?
I put all the fragmented information together
and then found the answer.
I couldn't get it wrong.
Xiao En is suspicious and confident by nature.
If I told him it's Danzhou,
he couldn't believe it.
I have to let him guess the answer.
Then he'd have no doubts.
What if he failed to guess it?
He's smart.
A smart person
considers himself always right.
I guessed you were in Danzhou,
but I'd never showed any signs.
Danzhou is a big place.
Why is it me?
You're at the right age.
There are lots of guys at my age.
It's you that took me back to Beiqi.
So what?
If Chen Pingping
wanted to advance your career,
he couldn't have withdrawn black knights.
The Investigator's Office is powerful.
They must've guessed
Hu'er would come to save me.
He withdrew black knights
to let you deal with that all alone
just because
he wanted to see me kill you.
He is Fan Xian, Director-General of the Investigator's Office.
He'll escort you.
Nice to see you, Senior Xiao.
Are you going to escort me?
Yup!
Who are these people to you?
Master Fei is my teacher.
The Head is my senior friend.
They all treat me like families.
Take a good look at this kid.
This will be your last chance.
It doesn't make sense.
Let me guess.
They asked you to kill me
on the way here, right?
Don't you think they're contradictory?
They wanted you to kill me
but they didn't care about your safety.
So, who on earth did he want to kill?
Either.
You kill me
or I kill you.
He'd be glad to see either of us die.
If I kill you,
he'll tell me the truth
and let me realize
I've killed my only grandson.
There is nothing
crueler than that.
It's just a guess.
But it makes sense.
In this case,
everything makes sense.
Over the years,
they left you alone in Danzhou, showing no interest at all.
But suddenly, you were transferred to the capital city
and promoted quickly.
They just wanted to create an opportunity
so that we hurt each other.
Besides,
why didn't they disable me before I left
so that I can't use my martial arts?
Because they want to see me kill you
and regret it.
Do you have any concrete evidence?
Such as a jade pendant or a birthmark
that can prove my identity.
No.
Why didn't you prepare
some concrete evidence?
Keep your voice down.
You scared the fish away.
It's His Majesty's idea.
What's most amazing about it
is that no concrete evidence is prepared.
The more concrete evidence there is, the more suspicious he'd be.
The more contradictions I created,
the more convinced he'd be of Fan Xian's identity.
What a good plan!
A battlefield of human feelings
is most breathtaking.
But this is how things are.
You're intelligent.
You must understand
what I said is true.
The only thing Chen Pingping got wrong
is that he didn't expect
I've guessed
you were in Danzhou.
In the end, the only loophole
made me
find out the truth
and stop us from fighting against each other.
That's why
you stopped Shangshan Hu killing me at that time?
Yes.
But you said nothing later
on the way.
Would you believe it if I had told you suddenly?
But you're telling me about it now.
Because I'm dying.
No matter if you believe it or not,
I have to tell you the truth.
There is something weird.
Why did Chen Pingping do so much
to torture you?
Because it was me
that broke his legs that year.
He hates me like poison.
When a person like Chen Pingping
holds a grudge against someone,
he wouldn't let it go
even if 10 or 100 years have passed.
He'd take revenge no matter how long he has to wait.
Xiao En knows me well.
He knows that once I hate someone,
I'd never forget about it.
But there is one thing he got wrong.
I don't hate him.
I caught him and killed his family,
so he broke my legs.
It's fair.
I have no reason to hate him.
If I didn't mishear it,
you began to make up lies
soon after you caught him.
Yes.
You've never stopped doing that over the years.
They became more convincing as time went by.
You used Fan Xian as a pawn
while he was just a baby.
You know, it's not easy
to deceive a smart person.
It takes a long time.
Have you ever thought about the risks?
What if black knight were withdrawn
and Xiao En was not that smart?
What if he didn't get fooled
and really killed Fan Xian?
What would you do?
Xiao En wouldn't believe it
unless black knights were withdrawn.
So, you're
risking Fan Xian's life?
Are you done yet?
He's Ye Qingmei's son.
Do you know
what on earth
Xiao En's secret is about?
The secret I mentioned
is about a place
and a person.
Have you heard of the divine temple?
Any temple for worshipping is a divine temple.
When heaven was separated from earth, giant monsters ran wild.
Master from the divine temple came to earth with dignity and virtue,
teaching mankind characters and etiquette
and helping mankind cut mountains and make seas,
thus laying foundation for the human race.
How could you not know that?
The divine temple?
Isn't it imaginary
and nobody has ever been there?
I saw it.
Where?
In the north. The farthest north.
The north?
Do you know I have an elder brother?
Zhuang Mohan?
It turns out you knew it.
He's my brother,
so he's your granduncle
or great-uncle.
He spit blood because of me
in the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest.
I've heard of it.
We're a family. It doesn't matter.
Rising to fame at a young age,
he's a famous literator.
I didn't accomplish incredible things at that time.
I served as Head of Embroidered Uniform Guards,
but many people thought
I profited from association with him.
I was not convinced,
so I took my mother's surname.
That is, your great grandma's surname.
Enough. Stop talking about the relatives.
I've got so many elders
in a short time.
Fine. Let's get to the point.
I got a new surname
and decided to do something big.
At that time,
the late emperor focused on
immortality.
He spent lots of time and money on it
and finally got some clues
which indicated that
the divine temple is in the north.
The late emperor sent a group of over 1,000 people
=Young Xiao En= to the north
for the divine temple.
It was me and Ku He that led the group.
=Young Ku He=
Ku He?
Even a Great Master was sent there.
At that time,
Ku He wasn't a Great Master yet.
The late emperor let him do it
because he's keen on the harmony between nature and mankind,
and yearned to go to the divine temple.
Besides,
he's a member of the royal family, anyway.
So, he could serve as a supervisor.
Is Ku He a member of the royal family?
Speaking of that,
the late emperor is his elder brother.
No wonder the current little emperor
and the Empress Dowager
trust him so much.
In this case,
Ku He is also qualified for the throne.
Well, Ku He
is hypocritical,
but he's indifferent to politics.
He's not interested
in the throne.
Please go ahead.
Did you keep going north
and then find the divine temple?
It wasn't that easy.
We kept going north
and went by Beilao Pass,
arriving somewhere no one has ever been.
The wild north snowed all year round.
What we saw every day and night
was snow-covered landscape.
Gradually, some people went blind
and some suffered from serious diseases.
Fewer and fewer people were left.
Accidents frequently happened on the dangerous snow land.
More and more of us fell behind,
ran away or just died.
Only a few hundred people left.
Still later,
we lost supplies and provisions.
Even horses were eaten.
At that time, we couldn't turn back.
We knew
it was impossible to go back.
Do you know what it feels like to be truly hungry?
No animals. No plants.
Everywhere was covered with snow.
You'd go crazy because of hunger.
Something was aroused deep in your heart
and it swallowed all your humanity,
etiquette and morality
little by little.
Then,
you became a beast.
Have you ever been in despair?
Good.
I hope you'd never
have a chance to experience that.
Finally, only Ku He and I
survived.
Actually, our stories
almost had a different ending.
Killing each other.
But at that time,
we found Heaven was angry.
Maybe the divine temple was enraged
after knowing that we common people
tried to find it.
Maybe
it was a punishment
for what we had done.
The farther north we went, the longer the night was.
Then one day,
endless darkness
arrived.
It's called polar night.
Why?
Who named it?
I'm just saying.
Go on.
What happened when the polar night appeared?
Ku He prayed to Heaven,
so did I.
Later, we found green alga
under the snow.
It's bitter,
but it's non-poisonous.
We suffered all kinds of torments
in the darkness every day.
We didn't know how long had passed,
but we knew our lives would come to an end.
Just when we thought
we were dying,
the day
finally broke.
It was hope that Heaven gave us.
It made us hang in there
and survive.
You had lots of luck.
You even survived the polar night
that usually lasts several months.
Then,
we found the divine temple.
Where is it?
I don't know.
Didn't you find it?
It wasn't there at the beginning,
but it appeared suddenly.
I still don't understand
how it appeared.
I also don't know
what on earth the divine temple is.
Grey walls and a brown gate?
The temple in Beiqi
is the same color.
But the one in Nanqing is different.
Do you mean
Nanqing got it wrong as for colors
and Beiqi is correct?
No.
He said what we saw
was what we thought it was.
He? Do you mean Ku He?
No.
You just said
Ku He and you were the only survivors.
So, who is he?
No hurry. Let me explain.
Okay. Go ahead.
You found the divine temple.
What did you see after you went in?
Went in?
We failed to go in.
But you just said
there was a brown gate.
There was a gate,
but
it's untouchable.
What do you mean by "untouchable"?
Do you mean the gate drew back automatically?
Not exactly.
Let me put it this way.
It's like the gate was there,
but it moved to another place
automatically
when I reached out my hand.
No matter how hard I forged ahead,
it always kept a short distance from me.
Only a very short distance,
but it's like a whole world.
I could never touch it.
Spatial warping?
Ku He said
it was because I was not sincere enough.
Then he prayed sincerely
before he reached out his hand.
Did it work?
He couldn't touch it either?
That's right,
but it was a different case
for him.
A hologram?
What?
A kind of optical and shadow illusion.
It looks real,
but it doesn't exist.
No.
It was not an illusion.
How could it be like this?
We tried a lot of ways,
but we just couldn't touch the gate.
When I tried, it was untouchable.
When he tried, the divine temple disappeared.
How about climbing walls?
It was the same case.
The walls were untouchable too.
Ku He said
it was our destiny.
And then? Did you go back?
What's the point of keeping it a secret?
Then the gate opened.
Wasn't it untouchable?
Yes, it was.
How did you push it open?
It was opened from the inside.
Someone opened it from the inside?
That's why I said
my secret is about a place
and a person.
The place is the divine temple.
And the person
is the fairy from the temple.
A woman.
Later, she came to the human world.
Her name is
Ye Qingmei.
I wonder if you've heard of it.
I…
Her name is Ye Qingmei.
Ye Qingmei?
It means "looking down upon all men".
She was bound to no rules of the world.
She could always
make unexpected moves.
Do you know who once lived in this yard?
I've no idea.
It was an old friend of mine.
At that time, she just stood there.
I asked her
what flowers she wanted to plant
when the Investigator's Office was just set up.
I'd find them no matter how precious they are
as long as she told me.
Your mother actually was
unparalleled in the world.
What's so magical about my mom?
She's the guider
and the betrayer.
She's like Nuwa who repaired the heaven.
She's the cause of every phenomenon on earth.
She's the end of finality.
Hi, my son.
You didn't misread it.
This letter is for you.
Of course I've heard of it.
What's more,
she's my mom.
That was the first time I met her.
=Ye Qingmei= Hi people, nice to meet you.
It's a nice day.
Anything wrong?
I've got changed
and dressed up
as people in this era do.
Can you tell me
if you're stupid?
She was straightforward.
It also took us some time
to respond.
Seeing a fairy come out of
the divine temple,
Ku He knelt and kowtowed at once.
But I hesitated.
What's the point of kneeling?
That's how he became
a Grand Master.
It's my mom…
Are the two things related?
May I have your name?
We don't know each other.
Why are you kowtowing to me?
It's dangerous here.
Let's get out of here.
Come on.
If you keep doing it,
you'd suffer from cerebral concussion.
I think your physique is suitable for it.
Hold on.
Here you are.
I've made it
written in a way
you're used to.
Just read and follow it.
Secret techniques?
In a sense,
it is.
You can read it too.
But he's more suitable.
Alright.
I must go.
Or they'll catch up with me.
Dangerous?
What's dangerous?
She said there was something
that didn't want her to leave.
Someone was stopping it
from pursuing her inside.
So, she asked us to
take her out of the snow land ASAP.
Where did you go?
Did you take her to Beiqi?
Yeah.
How about that book?
I studied it with Ku He.
As she predicted,
Ku He made faster progress than me
no matter how hard I practiced.
Did you go straight back to Beiqi?
No.
She asked us a lot on the way.
When we were about to arrive at Beilao Pass,
she parted with us.
Parted? Why?
I want to play too.
You want to play?
Here you are.
You'd better go back.
How about you?
Something is chasing my friend.
I have to help him.
I'm willing to give a hand.
No way.
Based on your current capacities,
the survival rate is less than 10%.
It means you'll die.
Don't worry.
Just go back.
I'll be fine.
Ku He treated her words
like an imperial edict.
No.
He showed more respect to her words.
So, he listened to her and left.
How about you?
I was interested in that book,
so I followed him.
Besides,
people from the divine temple don't like to be bothered.
I have the wisdom to know myself.
I didn't dare to step in.
That's an interesting story,
but I still don't understand
why you have to keep it a secret.
She asked us to do that.
I hope you can do me a favor.
Please stand up.
It's too much for me.
Got it.
It's just
I hope you can keep it a secret.
Don't tell anyone where the divine temple is
and don't tell anyone you met me there.
Please keep everything about the divine temple
to yourself.
Don't let anyone else know about it.
Got it.
Why?
Do you know
what the divine temple looks like?
I saw it.
It has black walls and grey eaves.
Actually it doesn't.
That's what you think it is.
What you saw
was what you thought it was.
Some people think
the divine temple should be glittering.
So, they'll see
a golden house.
Does the divine temple change
as people wish?
You can say that.
It's true that
it can read what's on people's mind.
In this case,
the divine temple is a living being.
You can also say that.
Is it really a living being?
Very close, but not exactly.
Let me put it this way.
Something bad is imprisoned
under the divine temple.
The more people find it,
the more likely it is
to get out.
Once it runs away,
it'll be the end of the world.
So, for the sake of all living creatures,
I hope
you can keep it a secret.
I'd do that
even if I have to die.
I'll do all I can
to stop anyone else from finding the divine temple.
Thank you.
I'm leaving for my friend.
As for that book,
you can't take it
without sharing with me.
Your Excellency,
please keep everything about the divine temple to yourself.
If I find out
you spill the beans,
I'll kill you.
Since then,
I've never seen Ye Qingmei again.
As expected,
mom came from the divine temple.
Her friend
must be Uncle Wuzhu.
But who was chasing them?
Or what was chasing them?
What secret on earth was it
under the divine temple?
It can change its appearance as people wish.
Is it mind reading?
What's on your mind?
Nothing.
I'm quite shocked.
So, you've been keeping it
to yourself?
I promised.
I seldom broke my promise.
But you told me.
Because I think
Chen Pingping is overenthusiastic
about the divine temple
and Ye Qingmei.
Now that you know the secret,
Chen Pingping wouldn't kill you
and you may even take control of him.
It's also why
Ku He wants to kill you.
After being imprisoned for years,
I was finally set free.
He thinks that I may stage a comeback
by use of the secret.
It's about the divine temple anyway.
All beliefs in the world
are about the holy place.
Will you do that?
Who knows?
What happened later?
When did Ku He
become a Grand Master?
Maybe two or three years later after that.
He left me in dust
before long
just because of the book
he got at the divine temple.
How about Ye Qingmei?
Where did she go?
I heard she traveled around the world,
with a blind servant.
She went to Dongyi Town
and met Si Gujian.
Then she went to Nanqing
and met Ye Liuyun.
She met three of the Four Great Masters.
During the ten years,
she stayed in Nanqing,
establishing firms
and making lots of amazing stuff.
She even became the richest person in the world.
Everyone was shocked,
but I was not surprised at all.
She came from the divine temple.
It's normal no matter how unbelievable
things were.
Yeah.
She was just a legend.
But I didn't expect
such a fairy
would fall in love with a mortal
and finally marry into the royal family of Nanqing.
Nanqing is astonishingly lucky.
It's a pity that Beiqi has no luck.
What did you say?
Do you mean…
What's up?
Do you mean Ye Qingmei
married into the royal family of Nanqing?
Yeah.
Did you get it wrong?
Few guys
know about it in the world.
But I was Head of Embroidered Uniform Guards.
They couldn't hide it from me.
Who did she marry?
He was a prince at that time.
Now,
he's the emperor of Nanqing.
Did she marry Emperor Qing?
Exactly.
They didn't hold a wedding ceremony,
but they were actually a couple.
Ye Qingmei was also pregnant
with his baby.
That's the last thing
I knew about her.
After that,
Chen Pingping traveled thousands of miles
to catch me and take me to Nanqing.
After being imprisoned in the Investigator's Office,
I knew nothing more about her.
I heard she died.
Her kid's father
is Emperor Qing?
That's right.
I think he's at your age.
I'd been imprisoned for so long,
so I don't know too much about the royal family of Nanqing.
I'm not sure
which prince is that kid
or if there is something special about him.
The capital city is not a good place.
The late emperor died there.
Your mom died there.
You can live longer if you stay in Danzhou.
In the river of history,
time goes round and round.
Memories about the former and present lives
join each other in an endless way.
In the long drunken Milky Way,
one season follows another in a flash,
and the wild geese are flying south.
I just can't give up
to be with you for my whole life.
I have been hovering in the dreams for hundreds and thousands of times.
I can't even say a word when I watch the flowers falling.
Year after year in the wandering,
I count the remaining years.
Even though we can't meet each other anymore,
even though we have ended up the destiny,
I never feel regretful.
In such a chaotic world,
I still miss you as ever.
I can't fall asleep under the moon.
With a gentle heart,
I cherish our remaining years.
Even though we have to go through
all the hardships along the journey,
you always stay by my side,
watching the falling flowers, speechlessly.
Year after year in the wandering,
I count the remaining years.
Even though we can't meet each other anymore,
even though we end up the destiny,
I never feel regretful.
In such a chaotic world,
I still miss you as ever.
I can't fall asleep under the moon.
With a gentle heart,
I cherish our remaining years.
Even though we have to go through
all the hardships along the journey,
you always stay by my side...