Translation and Timing by the Joy of Life Team @ Viki.com
♫ Have you ever heard of ♫
♫ the snow mountain’s cliff ♫
♫ once left people with lingering enchantments ♫
♫ Legend has it ♫
♫ that there are treasures on it ♫
♫ But there is also an hidden abyss ♫
♫ The smart, foolish ♫
♫ and kind people ♫
♫ are all people you’re familiar with ♫
♫ On the mountain slope, on the cliff ♫
♫ on the cloud peak ♫
♫ on this secular world ♫
♫ Let the snowflakes swirl and flutter ♫
Joy of Life
Episode 41
So withdrawing the black knights and placing Fan Xian in danger
were all Your Majesty’s orders?
If Your Majesty wants to kill Fan Xian, just issue the decree directly and kill him.
Was there a need to mobilize people and even send him to Northern Qi?
No matter what, he's just a subject.
His life and death is controlled by Your Majesty.
His Majesty casted out Fan Xian to fish out Xiao En’s secret.
What has this to do with Fan Xian?
All these years, he had never released anything. Would he tell Fan Xian?
I think he will.
The blood has stopped bleeding.
Haven't you laughed enough?
The miracles of destiny really are intriguing.
You saved me just for that secret.
I don't count on that anymore. I saved you because of Shang Biaohu.
I've deceived him once. If I want him to listen to my commands again,
I need to use you as the bargaining chip.
That’s logical. You have schemes and are vicious.
Although you are young but your prospect is limitless.
A pity that it's useless.
Even I can’t save you from Lang Tao’s slash. You are indeed about to die.
Since this is the case, I will tell you the secret.
Tell me?
- It's said to be a secret. Frankly, it's very simple. - Wait.
What's wrong? You don't want to hear it?
There's no reason for you to tell me.
I'm going to die. Perhaps, I don't want to take this secret
into the grave with me.
If life and death makes you waver, being in Investigation and Control Bureau for many years, you would have said this earlier.
perhaps, it's fate that you escorted me back.
Or perhaps, I'm touched that you saved me.
Life and death won't make you waver. Especially, when it's the first time.
Moreover, I did it to save you. You are not this kind of person.
How do you know I'm not that kind of person?
I'm sure because we are of the same kind.
Realistic, ruthless, vicious.
Well said. Well said.
We are the same kind of people. The same kind.
Hence, there's no reason for you to entrust the secret to me.
- You grew up in Danzhou? - Yes.
You entered Jingdu only for a short period.
That's right.
You advanced to the Investigation Bureau’s Extraction Officer at such a fast pace?
Rightly so.
Who's your father?
My father is Fan Jian.
Fan Jian? What is his profession?
Minister of Revenue.
I remember this.
He's close to Chen Pingping.
So what?
Since Fan Jian is in Jingdu, why did he leave you in Danzhou?
What has this to do with you?
Because I'm an illegitimate child?
Who's your mother?
She died when I was born.
So, you have never met her.
What are you trying to say?
Do you know someone caused your mother to die?
Of course, Father knows.
Fan Jian is not your biological father.
Your real father died a long time ago.
What did you say?
Child, my son is your father.
You are my grandson.
What the heck is this?
This bloodline of mine is almost severed.
Calling me a lone soul or wild ghost would not be an exaggeration.
What has Shen Zhong done to you?!
I know you don't believe some of this.
What do you mean “some”? This is complete nonsense.
Xiao En's grandson? Chen Pingping, you are confused.
In that battle where Xiao En was captured,
His son and daughter-in-law both died on the battlefield. Where did a grandson come from?
Before Xiao En got married, he had another woman.
- What woman? - A prostitute.
She was bought by Xiao En, hidden in a house and gave birth.
This was discovered by Xiao En. Xiao En’s upbringing is extremely strict.
He ordered his son to break ties with this woman
and found a same social rank woman to marry him.
Logically speaking, this kind of woman should be killed to prevent future disasters.
But after all, she was pregnant so I hid her outside.
I thought to wait till the child was born
before deciding to kill or keep it.
She was your mother.
When she was young, she was sold to the brothel. She didn't know what her name was.
She only has a name from the brothel, called...
Yu Xiang.
Your mother is Yu Xiang. Your whole family is Yuxiang, shredded pork too. (TN: Yuxiang shredded pork is a Sichuan dish.)
When I was captured, I suffered torments every day.
The only thing that made me hang in there,
was this bloodline.
But ultimately, Chen Pingping still found out.
- He didn't kill the entire family? - If you had died, I would have cut all thoughts of living.
During that period of time, he kept using bits of information
to test and threaten me.
But you still didn't say anything.
If I spoke, I would have died.
If I keep quiet, you will be safe.
At that time, I thought of using that child
to threaten Xiao En to reveal the secret.
In the end,
What's most tormenting to a person, it's not threat but hope.
His Majesty has great foresight, unattainable by normal people.
If it relied on threats,
Xiao En would have refused to give in.
Finally, I told him based on His Majesty's decree.
I must raise this child as someone from Southern Qing
as one who hates Northern Qi to the bones. When he has grown up,
I want him to personally destroy Xiao En's hopes.
How vicious. It's definitely your style.
That's why he believed it.
All these years, bit by bit,
I would tell him details about this child.
Did you tell him that child was raised in Danzhou?
I wouldn't say that.
He didn’t say where you were raised,
but he didn't know that, in order to resist Qing State,
I learned quite a lot about all of Southern Qing.
So, from the little bits and pieces of information gathered over the years
about the street layout,
I could ascertain that you were in Danzhou.
Did you guess on your own?
All the little pieces of information pieced together to form a place
and find out the answers. It definitely can't be wrong.
Xiao En is naturally suspicious.
If I talk about Danzhou, he won't believe it.
We must let him guess the answer himself to ensure no suspicion.
If he can't guess correctly?
He's a smart person.
The biggest characteristic of a smart person
is that they’re egotistical.
Although I already guessed you were in Danzhou, I’ve never left any traces.
Danzhou is so big. What makes you think it was me?
The age fits.
There are many with the same age as me.
You sent me back to Great Qi.
So?
If Chen Pingping wanted to train you, why did he dismiss the Black Knights?
Why couldn't the Investigation and Control guess that Hu'er will save me?
He dismissed the guards to let you face this alone.
After all this, he wants to make use of me to kill you.
He’s Fan Xian, the Investigation Bureau’s Extraction Officer. He’ll send you.
Hello, Senior Xiao.
- You are escorting me? - Yes.
Who is he to you?
Old Fei is my teacher. The Head is my senior. He treats me like family.
Take a good look at this kid. You won't be able to see him again in the future.
This doesn’t make sense.
Let me guess. He wants you to kill me during this diplomatic mission, right?
Don't you find it conflicting? He wants you to kill me and doesn't care about your safety?
So, who exactly does he want to die?
Anyone will do. You can kill me or I can kill you.
He wants to see
me killing you first and tell me the truth later.
He wants me to realize that I severed my own bloodline. In this world,
is there a crueler form of torture than this?
These are all just guesses.
But these are all logical. Everything can be explained this way.
All these years,
completely ignoring you in Danzhou
then suddenly transferring you to Jingdu and promoting you at such a fast pace
was all to create the chance for us kindred to kill each other.
Also, why didn’t they cripple my power when they returned me to my country?
It’s also to let me kill you with my barehands and create regret.
Do you have any specific evidence,
for example a jade or birthmark, to prove my identity?
No.
Why didn’t you prepare some more realistic evidence?!
Be quieter! You’re scaring all the fish away!
The most exquisite part of His Majesty’s plan is that there isn’t any realistic evidence.
The more realistic evidence, the more suspicious he’ll be.
The more contradictions I create,
the more he’ll believe in Fan Xian’s identity.
Such a good trick.
Using the human heart as a battlefield
is the most heart shocking and spirit shaking way.
But this is the truth.
With your intelligence you should know that what I said is credible.
The one thing Chen Pingping calculated wrongly
is that he didn't know I had already guessed you grew up in Danzhou.
In the end, just this one little flaw let me see the whole picture
and unravelled the truth.
So we could avoid a battle between the same bloodlines.
So at that time you didn't let Shang Shanhu kill me.
Yes.
But then later on you did not say anything for the entire journey.
If I suddenly brought it up would you believe it?
But you're still saying it now.
Because I am dying. Whether you believe it or not it doesn't matter.
I eventually have to tell you the truth.
There is something odd.
Why would Chen Pingping put in so much effort to torture you?
Because that year I broke both his legs.
He hates me to his bones.
For someone like Chen Pingping, once he harbours hate in his heart,
even if it is ten years or a hundred, he would not let it go.
No matter how much time has passed, he will take revenge.
Xiao En can be said to understand me.
He knows that once I harbour hate,
I will never forget. But there is one thing he guessed wrong.
I do not hate him.
I captured him and killed his whole family, he broke my legs. This is very fair.
I have no reason to hate him.
If I didn't hear wrongly, not long after you caught him
you already started spinning lies. -Yes.
For so many years you never stopped.
As time passes, then it becomes more realistic.
Since his birth, you treated him as a chess piece.
You must know, to lie to a smart person
it is easier to do so after a lot of time has passed.
Then have you all thought about what if
the Black Knights leave?
What if Xiao En is not smart enough? What if he did not get tricked?
What if he really kills Fan Xian? What do we do then!
If we don't ask the Black Knights to retreat Xiao En would not believe.
So this is a risk you took with Fan Xian's life.
Are you done yet?
That is Ye Qingmei's son.
Do you know
what is the secret that Xiao En has kept hidden?
The secret I speak of is a place and also a person.
Have you heard of the God Temple?
All the world’s offerings are for the God Temple.
It’s where Heaven and Earth originally separated and where monsters run rampant.
The people of the God Temple carry prestige and virtue into the world.
They taught humans literature and etiquette and assisted in moving the mountains and seas.
They definitely are the foundation of the human race.
How can you not know?
God Temple?
The one said to be an illusion, the God Temple that no one has been to before?
But I've seen it personally.
Where?
The North, the extreme North.
The North?
Did you know that I had an older brother?
Zhuang Mohuan?
So you already know.
According to seniority he is your senior grandpa, you could call him Elder Grandfather.
At Qinian Hall I angered him until he vomited blood.
I heard.
We are all a family it doesn't matter. He gained fame at a young age,
he is a great literary scholar, while my reputation was not outstanding.
Although I became the head of the cavalries,
but many people still felt that
I dirtied his glamour, so I was unhappy.
So I followed my mother's surname instead.
She is also your Great Grandmother.
Alright, stop talking about relatives first.
In such a short time my seniority is all gone.
Alright, let's continue. I changed my surname,
wholeheartedly wanting to do something great.
At that time, the previous emperor constant chased after an immortal medicine.
He used the strength of the whole country to find a clue.
He said the God Temple is in the north.
The previous emperor sent an army of a thousand Young Xiao En
towards the north.
To look for the location of the God Temple.
The one leading the army was Ku He and I.
Young Ku He
Ku He? He also sent a grandmaster?
At that time, Ku He was not a grandmaster yet.
The emperor let him go because he cared greatly about heavenly teachings.
He has always been eager to find the God Temple.
Also, he has the blood of the royal family.
You could say he was the supervising general.
Ku He is a descendant of the royal family?
In terms of seniority,
the previous emperor was his older brother.
No wonder the little emperor and empress dowager trust him so much.
Then in that case, Ku He also has the rights to take the throne?
Ku He this person, although he pretends to be kind and loyal,
but he truly does not care for political affairs.
As for the throne, he has no interest at all.
Please continue. So you all just headed north and found the God Temple?
How could it be so simple?
We kept going north, past the northern barrier
and entered untouched land.
The north is wild with snow falling year-round.
All we saw was snow day and night.
Slowly, people on the team were becoming blind.
There were people who fell heavily sick.
The number of people on our team decreased.
The snow fields are dangerous, accidents were frequent.
There were more and more people who lost their way, ran away and died.
A team that started off with a thousand became one with only a hundred.
Later still, the baggage carts were lost and supplies were severed, even the horses were eaten.
At that time, we couldn't turn back.
Because we all knew we wouldn't be able to make it back.
Do you know the taste of hunger?
There were no hunting prey and no vegetation. It was all snow.
You'd go crazy due to hunger,
like something in your heart awakened,
and strips your humanity, manners, morals
little by little. And then,
humans become monsters.
Have you ever been hopeless?
Very good.
I hope you'll never have this kind of experience in your life.
In the end, only Ku He and I were left.
Logically, there was only one possible ending for us.
Slaughter one another.
But at that time,
we saw the Skywrath.
Perhaps the God Temple knew that mortals were trying to find them and so were angered.
Or perhaps, they are punishing us for our sins.
The further we go north, the longer the nights will be.
There will come a day
when heaven turns into total darkness.
That's known as the Polar Night.
Why is it called that? Who made up that name?
I just thought of it randomly.
Continue talking. What happened after you encountered the Polar Night?
Gu He prayed towards the direction of the Heaven. I did the same as him.
Later on, we found green algae underneath the snow. It was really bitter,
but at least it wasn't poisonous.
Just like that, we suffered in the dark everyday for who knows how long.
The end of our lives was right in front of our eyes.
When we almost couldn't endure it any further,
the sky finally turned bright.
It was hope bestowed upon us by God,
so that we could persist and continue living on.
You guys had pretty good luck.
You could even endure several nights of the Polar Nights.
And then, we found the temple.
Where?
I don't know where it was built.
Didn't you guys find it?
It wasn't there originally.
But it appeared just in the blink of an eye.
Till now, I still don't understand how it appeared.
Nor do I know
what exactly the temple is.
Grey walls and a brown door?
When I worshiped at the temple in Great Qi, it was built in this color.
It's different from Southern Qing.
That's also to say, Qing State built it wrongly.
Northern Qi is the correct one.
No. He said what we see
is what we believe in our hearts.
He? Ku He said that?
Not Ku He.
Didn't you just say only you two survived from your team of a thousand?
Be patient. Let me finish.
Okay, you continue. You found the temple, and what did you see when you went in?
Go in? You can't go in.
Didn't you say there was a brown door?
There's a door, but...you can't touch it.
What do you mean can't touch it?
You mean...the door automatically retreats?
It's not retreating...How do I describe this?
It's just like the Fan Door was there.
When I stretched my hand, it will be at another place.
No matter how I go forward,
I’m always just a little bit short. Just a little bit,
yet also a world away, never able to touch it.
Space distortion?
Gu He said my heart was not sincere enough. He then prayed sincerely
and stretched his hand to touch it again.
It's feasible.
He still couldn't touched it.
It couldn't be touched.
But it was different to my encounter.
A hologram?
What?
It's a kind of optical illusion.
It looks real but it actually doesn't exist.
No.
It wasn't an illusion.
This is not an illusion.
How could it be like this?
We thought of several solutions.
We just couldn't feel the door.
I touched it but couldn't feel it.
When he touched it, the God Temple vanished.
What about climbing over the wall?
It's the same too. We couldn't feel the wall.
Gu He said we were not fated.
What happened after that? You went back?
What's so great at keeping this secret?
The door opened later.
I thought you couldn't touched the door.
I couldn't touched it.
How did you push it open?
It opened from inside.
Someone in there opened the door?
That's why I said, my secret is a place.
It's also a person.
This place is the God Temple and this person,
is a female immortal from the God Temple.
It was a woman?
Subsequently, she came into the mortal world too. Her name is
Ye Qingmei.
I wonder whether you heard of it.
I...
Her name is Ye Qingmei.
Ye Qingmei?
Qingmei who's looking down at the kingdom?
No rules in the world can stop her.
She always does things that no one can think of.
Do you know who lived here?
I don't.
An old friend lived here.
That year, when she was standing here, I asked her
what flowers we should plant at the Investigation and Control Bureau.
Whatever she said,
even if it's the most expensive flowers, I would still find them.
Your mother was definitely second to none.
What magic power did my mother had?
She was a guide and also a traitor.
Sky Goddess of Nuwa and the cause of all every phenomenons on earth.
The final stage of the end.
Hello, son. You didn't see wrongly.
This letter was written to you.
Of course, I heard about it.
Not only this, I heard she was my mother too.
That was the first time I met her.
[Ye Qingmei] Someone's here? How are you?
The weather is nice today.
Is something wrong?
I have already changed into the clothes of the customs here.
May I ask, are you both idiots?
A great way to ask.
We took a while to respond.
A female immortal really appeared in the God Temple.
Ku He knelt down.
But I still hesitated.
What's good about kneeling?
If not, would he have become a Grandmaster?
It was my mother...
it was related to her?
What's your family name? We don't know each other.
Why are you bowing?
This place is dangerous. Let's leave first and talk later.
Come.
If you keep bowing, you will have a concussion.
I think your physique probably fits. Wait for a moment.
Here.
I have already changed to your style of writing now.
A secret book?
In a way, it probably is.
You can take a look too
but it's more appropriate for him than you.
Okay.
I'm leaving now. They will pursue me again.
Danger?
What kind of danger?
She said that something didn't allow her to leave
and that there was someone inside blocking the pursuers.
Hence, she wanted us to take her away from the snow mountain as soon as possible.
Where did you go? Did you bring her back to Northern Qi?
Yes.
What about that secret book?
Ku He and I reviewed it.
Just like what she said, no matter how I trained,
I couldn't upgrade myself as fast as Ku He.
Everyone went back to Northern Qi?
No.
She asked a lot of questions along the way.
When we almost reached the northern barrier,
she separated from us.
Separated? Why?
I want to play.
You want to play?
Here.
You can leave first.
What about you?
Something is following my friend. I'm going to help him.
I'm willing to help you.
No, with your current conditions, your chances of survival are less than 10%.
Basically, you’ll die for sure.
Don't worry. Leave first. I will be fine.
Ku He treated her words like an Imperial decree.
No, he revered them more than an Imperial decree.
Hence, he obeyed her and left.
What about you?
I thought about the secret book and left with it.
Moreover, those people in the God Temple are afraid of troubles.
I could understand the situation.
I didn't date to interfere.
This story is very legendary
but I still don't understand. Why must it be kept a secret?
It was her request.
I would like request a favor from you.
Get up now. It's not that extreme.
It's just that I hope you can kept this a secret.
Don't tell anyone the address of the God Temple and that you have met me too.
In any case, everything regarding the God Temple,
- hide this in your heart. Don't spread this out. - Yes.
Why?
Do you know what the God Temple looks like?
I saw it in the past. Black wall with gray eaves.
Frankly, no. It's just what you thought.
It's all in your mind how his appearance is.
Some people think the God Temple should be bright and shiny.
Then what they’d see should be a big golden mansion.
Can the God Temple change according to people’s wishes?
You can say that.
It definitely can read one's mind.
Based on what you said, this God Temple seems to be alive.
You can say that too.
It's really alive?
But it's not entirely.
Based on what you understood, there's something bad locked under the God Temple.
The more the people who find it,
the opportunity for it to escape will be greater.
Once it escapes, this world will end.
Hence, for the people in this world,
I'm begging you to keep this a secret.
I'll use my life to protect this experience.
I'll seal off the temple with my greatest efforts.
Thank you.
I'm going to help my friend now.
You can't keep this secret book to yourself.
Lord Xiao, please keep the matter regarding the God Temple in your heart.
If I find out that you reveal this, I will kill you.
From then on,
I never saw Ye Qingmei again.
Your mother was indeed from the God Temple.
Her friend is probably Uncle Wu Zhu.
But whoever was pursuing her, or perhaps to say, what it was,
what's the secret of the God Temple?
Change the look with your heart? Is it mind reading?
What are you thinking of?
Nothing. I'm just shocked.
Hence, you have always kept this secret?
I rarely break my promises.
But you still told me.
Because I feel, with regards to the God Temple and Ye Qing Mei,
Chen Ping Ping seemed too enthusiastic.
Telling you this secret,
will help you save your life and maybe even control Chen Pingping.
This is the reason why Ku He wants to kill you.
He knows I have been locked up for many years.
Now that I have escaped, perhaps, I would use this secret
as a bargaining chip to rise again.
After all, it's God Temple.
Every religions in the world would gather at this sacred ground.
Would you?
Who knows?
What about later? How did Ku He become a Grandmaster?
That was about two to three years later.
He quickly threw me behind.
It's because of the secret book of the God Temple.
What about Ye Qingmei? Where did she go after that?
I heard she travelled around and had a blind servant with her.
They went to Dongyi City to meet Si Gu Jian and went to Southern Qing later.
Ye Liuyun also communicated with her.
She saw three of the four Grandmasters.
About ten years later, she remained in Southern Qing.
She set up a shop and created many miraculous items.
Even the richest people
The world was stunned.
I wasn't surprised at all.
Since she came from the God Temple, no matter what kind of mysterious things she does,
It's also normal.
Yes, her life was legendary.
It's just that I didn't imagine, a female immortal like her,
would touched the heart of a mortal and married into the royal family of the Southern Qing.
The destiny of the Southern Qing was incredible.
A pity my Great Qi didn't had this blessing.
What did you say?
- Are you saying she...br>- What's wrong?
You said that Ye Qingmei married into the royal family?
Yes.
Did you make a mistake?
Very little people in this world knows about this
But I led the cavalries,
and eventually, it couldn't hide from me.
Who did she marry?
The prince at that time, he's now the Emperor of Southern Qing.
She married the Emperor of Qing?
That's right.
Although they didn't officially get married, they did do what a married couple does.
Ye Qingmei even bore a child for the Emperor of Qing.
I found out about this later.
and took me to Southern Qing.
I don’t know of Ye Qingmei’s matters after I was locked up in the Investigation Bureau.
It's been said that she died already.
That child...
was the child of the Emperor of Qing?
Yes. He's of the same age as you.
I was locked up for too long. I didn't know about the situation of the royal family.
That child,
which prince is he now? Does he have any extraordinary aspects?
Jingdu is not a good place. The late Emperor died there.
Your mother died in Jingdu.
If you remain in Danzhou, you will live longer.
Translation and Timing by the Joy of Life Team @ Viki.com
♫ Life goes round and round ♫
♫ In the long river of time ♫
♫ Layers of memories, of many lives over ♫
♫ Get stacked up ♫
♫ In an intoxicating river of stars ♫
♫ Before you know it, spring is over and it's almost fall again ♫
♫ The swallows are gone to their wintering grounds ♫
♫ Who can give up the chance ♫
♫ To spend this life with you? ♫
♫ You have been walking around in your dream for so long ♫
♫ The flowers fall from the boughs quietly ♫
♫ Year in and year out, we are on the road ♫
♫ Counting the remaining days of the year ♫
♫ Even if we will never meet again ♫
♫ Even if the bond is broken ♫
♫ No complaints ♫
♫ It's a cold world and I still think of you as I did before ♫
♫ The moon is sleepless ♫
♫ Leave a warm heart ♫
♫ To look after the rest of the year ♫
♫ Even if I have to cross a thousand mountains ♫
♫ Through the fire of war ♫
♫ You are always there for me ♫
♫ The flowers leave the boughs, quietly ♫
♫ Year in and year out, we are on the road ♫
♫ Counting the remaining days of the year ♫
♫ Even if we will never meet again ♫
♫ Even if the bond is broken ♫
♫ No complaints ♫
♫ It's a cold world and I think of you as I did before ♫
♫ The moon is sleepless ♫
♫ Leave a warm heart ♫
♫ Even if I have to cross a thousand mountains and through the fire of war ♫
♫ You are always there for me ♫