(Eternal Love of Dream)
(Episode 42)
How come I'm lying in it?
Is it the real me?
Your Majesty?
Your Majesty.
Xiaobai,
you're back.
It's great.
Be careful, Your Majesty.
Hide yourself.
What's on earth going on here?
Is that banshee
the one who fought with His Majesty
in the Fanyin Valley earlier?
Your Majesty.
It's fine, Nuo.
Everything's fine.
Shen Ye has finally saved you.
Mother, did you go beg him to save me?
Your father once saved him when he was alive,
which can be regarded as a great favor for him and his mother.
That he saved your life this time
can be counted as a reward from him.
But I feel sorry to
get Shen Ye involved.
I know what you're thinking.
You always have a thing for Shen Ye,
and there's an engagement between you.
But
his feeling for you is always ambiguous.
You made the mistake,
since you weren't willing accept the way he treated you.
You made the mistake in a moment of weakness.
If there should be someone to take the responsibility,
Shen Ye should take it.
I'm not a filial daughter.
I let you down, mother.
Don't worry, Nuo.
Xiangli Que has promised me
that you can live in the imperial palace for more days.
Feel free to live here
and nurse your health.
Later,
I'll make good preparations
for your leaving in person.
Remember,
I will choose the proper timing
to make you return to the imperial palace.
What a strong smell of blood!
Your Majesty.
Xiaobai,
you finally wake up.
Your Majesty,
you...
♪ Falling flowers have a soft voice. ♪
♪ The wind talks to the Bodhi tree. ♪
♪ Bright-eyed, she's giving a little smile. ♪
♪ When it comes to destiny, ♪
♪ she couldn't help missing him. ♪
♪ The rain only adds the sorrow. ♪
♪ Acacia sees time flying ♪
♪ and the yearning between lovers. ♪
♪ She gets lovesick when failing to see him. ♪
Xiaobai.
Don't push me away.
I feel dizzy.
♪ She reads with her heart. ♪
♪ The words uttered in her sleep are penetrating. ♪
How come you're bleeding so heavily?
Stay still.
Let me lean against you for a while.
You... You can't just lean against me.
You have to lie down
to let me check where you're injured.
♪ The pain of separation makes my eyes blurred. ♪
When I was about to bandage the wound,
you were coming.
But I didn't ask you to push me to the stone.
I didn't feel the pain when I pushed you, so I did it.
Don't make me talk to you.
I can feel the pain when I talk to you.
I'm going to take some firewood.
You come here.
♪ Acacia sees time flying ♪
♪ and the yearning between lovers. ♪
Come here.
♪ She gets lovesick ♪
♪ when failing to see him. ♪
Come here.
♪ Life is like a wordless book. ♪
Wait here for me.
♪ The words uttered in her sleep are penetrating. ♪
♪ What scares her most is to realize it by herself. ♪
What's wrong with His Majesty?
♪ They remember each other. ♪
What's wrong with me?
I seem to have remembered everything.
Why do I start to feel dizzy again
after His Majesty kissed me?
♪ Life is like a wordless book. ♪
♪ She hopes destiny will bring them together. ♪
Anyway,
I'd better ask His Majesty directly.
Sit here. I bandage the wound for you.
I can't move.
Why not?
Your feet aren't hurt.
Say it out, if it hurts.
Ouch!
Do you think you can subdue me
the same as you did in the Fanyin Valley that year?
Only a shape can hurt you.
Dong Hua.
Wait and see.
Don't you feel painful?
Can you talk to me for a while?
Of course.
I'm afraid I can only shout
due to the distance between us.
Why do you come here, Your Majesty?
Because you're here.
I come here for you.
For me?
Why do you come to me
rather than staying with your Ji Heng?
My Ji Heng?
Why do you think so?
Because I have remembered everything.
I've remembered
how hard
I tried to find pimpon fruit earlier.
You gave it to her
as soon as she asked.
If you hadn't fallen for Ji Heng and wanted to flatter her,
why would you have given it to her so easily?
I'm sorry for the pimpon fruit thing.
I didn't intend to give it to you at the first place.
Ji Heng came to me later,
and she said pimpon fruit could detoxify her Qiushui Cold Toxin.
The fruit was useless to me,
so I gave it to her without a hitch.
So it means
that Ji Heng got pimpon fruit
wasn't well planned by you at the first place.
It's because you never intended to give to me,
and you gave it to her without a hitch.
Why didn't you intend to give it to me?
Because
I thought you would make a cake
with pimpon fruit for Yan Chiwu.
I was jealous of him.
You were jealous?
That you were jealous of Yan wasn't because of Ji Heng?
Xiaobai,
why do you always mention those who don't matter?
Are you still mad at me?
What can I do
to make you believe that I like you, Xiaobai?
What do you want me to do?
Will giving my heart to you work?
If I hadn't liked you,
why should I have stepped into the Dream of Aranya?
Your Majesty.
I've already known
what you've done for me, Xiaobai.
You're bleeding again.
It doesn't matter.
When the banshee attacked you,
why didn't you dodge?
And you made yourself hurt.
What are you saying?
I can't hear you.
You can hear me clearly.
Are you sure
that you want to ask me these
instead of others?
You could have used your magic arts.
Why not use them?
Maybe
I want to show off my superb kung fu.
Xiaobai,
that you don't talk to me
is because I didn't kiss you well just now,
or I didn't flatter you?
Please excuse me.
I don't have much experience in this aspect,
and I'll learn from you in the future.
Learn from me?
You're as bold as brass.
I think you're supposed to prefer some pure and naive immortal nymph.
It all depends.
It all depends?
It depends on you, Xiaobai.
You don't intend to respond me, do you?
Respond you?
Who knows you're telling the truth or just kidding me this time?
There's
something that I can almost recall,
but I don't seem to recall it clearly.
There may be something wrong.
Your Majesty,
do you really come here for me?
I'm used to being alone.
But if you cheat on me over and over,
even I can't stand it.
Xiaobai,
there's too much misunderstanding between us.
Dream of Aranya is bizarre and motley.
And your primordial spirit just came back to your own body.
Your primordial spirit wasn't peaceful,
and now there's other spiritual one mixed in,
which will lead to more odds.
We shouldn't talk here for too long.
When we leave the Dream of Aranya,
I'll tell you the truth to clear up all the misunderstanding on your mind.
Xiaobai,
you have no idea why you're here.
It's because you were hurt heavily.
I nursed your health with my blood for a long time.
To make you recover soon,
I led you to the Dream of Aranya for recuperation.
I didn't lie to you.
I came here for you.
In the Dream of Aranya, I'm Xi Ze,
and you're Aranya.
We're supposed to be a couple.
I'll definitely protect you.
When everything comes to an end,
I'll tell you the truth in person.
You're Xi Ze,
and we are married.
You took me to see Yueling flowers,
and sang a song for me.
I remembered. I remembered it all.
Then sing one more for me.
Why should I?
I feel too painful to fall asleep.
If such a brave person says it hurts,
he must be badly hurt.
Come here.
Sing it.
Yueling flowers, the snow in the sky.
They start to wither when they just bloom.
Once exuberant, once withered.
They wither when the moon comes out.
They bloom when the moon disappears.
Yueling flowers don't know
they never meet the moon.
They bloom in an instant.
They wither in an instant.
The instants witness their blooming and withering.
They wither when the moon comes out.
They bloom when the moon disappears.
Xiaobai,
I won't hurt your feelings anymore.
You still remember what I said that night.
More than what you said that night.
I also heard a song when I was a child,
which was different from what you sang.
Let me sing it for you.
You can also sing?
When a full moon night comes,
Moonlight shines on the mountain.
Down the mountain stands a short fence.
A girl sows a pile of green beans.
Green vines twine the fence.
On the green vines bloom green flowers.
Pick a green flower to make the nectar.
Pick a green flower to make sweets.
I also heard the song,
but the last lyric
should be "pick a green flower as a dowry."
On the green vines bloom green flowers.
Pick a green flower as a dowry.
The lyric should be like this,
but you change the last one.
You like to have sweets?
Your Majesty,
if you like to have sweets,
don't be too embarrassed to acknowledge it.
There's nothing embarrassing
that a man likes to have sweets.
If I had sweets,
I should like them.
I've never seen my parents,
and I haven't had sweets since I was a child.
When I see someone have sweets,
I may feel envious.
Will you make sweets for me?
I'll make sweets for you.
I'm an expert at making sweets.
When we come out,
I'll take you home.
I didn't feel homesick,
since I forgot everything.
But now I've been
in the Dream of Aranya for a while.
It has been long since I left Qingqiu.
I feel homesick.
Then we'll go back to Qingqiu first after we leave here.
Well,
Moye said
if I want to leave the Dream of Aranya,
I should go through Aranya's life
as same as she did.
It's fine that you do what he said.
I'll take care of the rest.
I know you prefer a quiet place,
so I especially arrange the secluded Mengchun Courtyard for you.
If you're not satisfied,
there are other courtyards that can be arranged in the mansion.
If you need anything,
just instruct me.
Hard to divert myself from troubles.
Why so urgent?
Life has diversity.
Fate is sealed.
Worry and horror
will always come to an end.
Her Highness usually likes to practice calligraphy.
She always writes some inscriptions.
It's the one Her Highness wrote in person.
I know.
I can recognize her handwriting.
Let's go.
Yes, Your Excellency.
It's been two hundred years.
We finally reach the last step
after countless repetitions.
Xiaobai looks almost the same as Aranya.
Now Xiaobai's primordial spirit comes to her own body spontaneously,
which is really uncanny.
Aranya's body is still in the Water Moon Pond.
Xiaobai's primordial spirit comes to her own body
while Aranya's body disappears.
Does it mean Xiaobai replace Aranya?
Aranya was born hundreds of years ago,
when Xiaobai should be cultivated in Qingqiu.
The only time that she was away from Qingqiu for a long time
was when she went to the mortal realm to experience misfortune for me.
It means
when Aranya was born,
it's impossible for Xiaobai to be in the Fanyin Valley.
But there must be some connections between them.
If I have Miaohua Mirror
to help discover the past and present life of Aranya,
I'll figure out everything.
You wake up?
Get up, if you wake up.
I don't seem to have a good sleep last night.
How come I feel sore all over my body?
Are you sure that the one who didn't have a good sleep
is you instead of me?
I have to go back to the Qi Nan Palace.
You have a good rest here.
You can go to the Qi Nan Palace, if you need me.
You have to be Aranya here
while I have to be Lord Xi Ze.
To avoid troubles,
I've wiped off the phoenix feather flower on your forehead,
and cast the Correction Magic on everyone here.
They will confirmedly believe
that you're Aranya.
Xiaobai,
there won't be any danger for you.
Well,
you exactly remind me.
Shall I make a cut
on my hand?
Otherwise they may not regard me as Aranya.
Aren't you afraid of pain?
Forget it. I'm afraid of pain. Let's not do it.
I'm done.
You get smarter.
Is it like the paw you bandaged
for the little fox in the Ten-evil Lotus Land?
At that time, you were so stupid
to get your hand hurt
by the fireball you spat out yourself.
I'm not stupid. I don't act like that normally.
I'm only away for a few days.
You go back first.
You should take good care of your wound.
Behave yourself.
Your Highness, you wake up.
Do you feel well?
Do you feel uncomfortable?
Does your wound hurt?
Chacha,
you've asked so many questions,
which one shall I answer first?
Yesterday Mr. Su said you were badly hurt and fainted away.
I didn't know what was going on
after Lord Xi Ze took you away.
I was so worried about you.
See,
I'm fine.
But why is your hand bandaged like this, Your Highness?
It may be painful for a while.
It's just a small wound. It doesn't matter.
It'll be fine in a few days.
Well, Your Highness,
His Excellency Shen Ye moved to the mansion yesterday.
The elder steward has arranged him in the Mengchun Courtyard.
Is he satisfied?
I heard from the elder steward that
His Excellency Shen Ye seemed to know well
of the environment in the mansion after he came here.
He even didn't need the elder steward to lead the way for him.
But I remember
His Excellency Shen Ye has never been to our mansion.
Is it true?
He's a guest anyway.
You take good care of him.
Yes, Your Highness.
Send him
whatever he wants.
What a good day today!
Chacha,
brew a pot of good tea and send it to the courtyard.
Yes. I'm on my way.
There're so many troubles in the Dream of Aranya,
but His Majesty and I
can live a peaceful life happily for a while
in the name of
Aranya and Lord Xi Ze's conjugal relation,
which can be counted as a hard-won blessing.
Your Highness,
how is
your wound?
Moye,
do you still think you don't cheat me?
See.
I am almost killed
by that white-fronted tiger.
I'll definitely report to uncle
about everything you've done to me when I leave here.
I didn't expect that sacrificing your blood to the sword
would make you hurt so heavily.
Your Highness, I'm so sorry.
I'm kidding.
I'm lucky to have His Majesty by my side.
He has healed me in time.
I'm almost healed now.
You get your memory back?
That I am badly hurt this time can be regarded as a blessing in disguise.
Not only I get my memory back,
but my primordial spirit also comes back to my body.
What?
This...
this is your own body?
Exactly.
Now
I'm the original Bai Fengjiu of Qingqiu.
Aranya and you resemble each other too much.
I can see no difference.
Come here.
Let me tell you the difference.
See.
There's no cut on your hand.
Now do you believe me?
Well,
then
where did you go yesterday?
I didn't see you go back to Aranya's mansion,
and I worried so much about your wound.
I even went to the Qi Nan Palace,
but I didn't find you there.
It's a long story.
When I woke up yesterday,
I found myself lying at the side of Water Moon Pond.
There's a freezing coffin right at the side of the pond.
My original body was preserved in the freezing coffin.
Once I touched my original body,
my primordial spirit returned
to my own body.
And I got my memory back at the same time.
What about Aranya's body?
That's the strangest part
that Aranya's body disappeared.
Disappeared?
How could it happen?
I don't know.
Well,
Moye,
you have asked me
to invite Lord Shen Ye to the mansion, haven't you?
Now he is in the mansion.
What shall we do next?
Aranya's body disappeared.
How could it happen?
Moye.
What's wrong with you?
Well,
when Shen Ye lived in the mansion that year,
he never stepped out of the side chamber
because of his bad mood.
Aranya wrote to him from time to time
and talked with him,
when she noticed it.
Now I have to ask you
to write some letters to Shen Ye
in Aranya's handwriting.
Are these letters the ones you showed me,
when I just arrived here?
Not exactly.
Those letters are ones she wrote to me sometimes.
These are ones she especially wrote to Shen Ye.
But my handwriting isn't that good.
If compared with Aranya's,
mine will be far worse than Aranya's.
You'll have to give me more time to practice my handwriting.
Forget it. Forget it.
You take good care of yourself first.
I'll deal with the letter thing.
Your Highness,
do you think
the Dream of Aranya is too bizarre?
Even I'm too bewitched to
distinguish whether my feelings at the moment
belong to the me in the dream world
or the original me in the real world,
when I stay here for long.
Your Highness, there's an ambiguous connection
between Aranya and you.
I'm afraid what's happening now is tricky.
You'd better be careful.
Moye,
that you feel bewitched may be
because the dream world
is essentially a part of your life.
It's sure that an insider will feel more bewitched.
You look romantic and unruly,
but deep in your heart,
you always care for Aranya.
Perhaps you feel like this
because of the devil inside.
I don't feel the same as you,
since this is not my life.
All that I care about is His Majesty.
As long as His Majesty is here,
I'll have nothing to worry about.
I'm bewitched.
Thank you for enlightening me, Your Highness.
Not at all. Not at all.
Moye, let's hasten
to go through the whole life of Aranya.
You can get the answer you want
while we can go back
to our real world.
As long as the Miaohua Mirror is made,
I'll get to know the connection between Xiaobai and Aranya.
With you,
I can start to run the furnace and make the mirror.