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=To Kill a Songbird=
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(Adapted from Shen Xiaoguan's
Bird Kills Seven People)
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=Episode 18=
(Red Bridal Garb Becomes Mourning White)
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(The Bridal Procession)
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(Wedding)
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(Shanshui Residence)
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- How lively it is.
- So wonderful.
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Such a joyous occasion.
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Please assist the bride from the sedan.
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Bride, mind your step.
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She is gorgeous.
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A match made in heaven.
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Proceed.
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May you enter the Crimson Hall together,
pure, auspicious, and safe.
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May your years be long
and your days auspicious.
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Mount the saddle.
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One horse, one saddle.
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May the couple pass
evenly and in harmony.
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Bind the ceremonial cloth.
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May wealth and honor
endure for a hundred years.
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Take your seats
beneath the canopy.
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May husband and wife
remain united in harmony.
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Come, come, drink.
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Cheers.
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Wonderful!
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A toast. Another toast.
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(A Match Made in Heaven)
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This is my wedding gift
to the two of you.
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Congratulations.
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Official Liang,
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the wine of union?
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Why now?
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Cultivation may refine the body,
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yet if practiced improperly,
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it can harm the flesh,
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and trouble the mind.
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Miss Li may well have
suffered such an imbalance.
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Thus, on her wedding night,
she lost her senses,
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killed her newlywed husband,
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and then took her own life.
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Such a thing
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is not beyond reason.
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Official Liang.
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What you said just now was quite right.
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When it comes to cultivation
and arcane arts,
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you are indeed no match for me
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in terms of immobilizing a target.
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You came prepared.
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Li Fuyuan.
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No. Li Yuan'er.
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What are you planning to do?
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Everyone present today
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is to stay where they are.
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No one leaves.
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You will all remain to hear this case.
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Everyone,
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I ask you all to bear witness
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to what I am about to do next.
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I can finish it
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all by myself.
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That you would die with me
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is your devotion.
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But if I let you die,
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then I would no longer be Li Fuyuan,
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only my brother's shadow,
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a puppet of this broken world.
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- On the wedding night?
- Lady Lu...
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You wanted me to be silent.
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You wanted me dead.
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So be it.
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You branded me
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a demoness, a bandit, a traitor.
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So be it.
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I know my own innocence.
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I owe none of you absolution.
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Lady Lu.
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Miss Li.
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A commoner accusing
an official is already a grave crime.
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To set up a court like this
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is punishable by death.
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That no longer matters.
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Over these past days,
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you have surely already heard
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the truth of the Thrush Case.
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Here and now,
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we will lay the entire matter out
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without concealment.
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Thirteen years ago,
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the merchant Zhao Chengxi
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coveted the wife of the bird keeper
Shen Xiu, Shang Jin.
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He devised a plan of extreme cruelty,
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lured Shen Xiu
to the outskirts and murdered him.
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Fearing the truth would surface,
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he bribed the county magistrate
of the time, Zhai Lu,
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and forced through a false conviction.
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He framed my brother Li Ji as the killer.
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That is the truth you have all heard.
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But what I have just said
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is still not the whole truth.
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My brother, Li Ji
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did not die because of Shen Xiu.
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On the contrary,
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the bird keeper Shen Xiu
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died because of my brother Li Ji.
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- How could that be?
- Impossible!
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Yes, how could that possibly be?
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Miss Li,
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have you taken some sort of elixir?
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You seem rather unsteady of mind.
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First, you confined us here,
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and now you speak utter nonsense.
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Your brother was nothing more
than an ordinary licentiate,
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never an official.
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If you say he was
simply unlucky and framed,
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that at least makes sense.
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But to claim
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that someone murdered another man
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solely to bring him down,
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this…
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This is beyond belief.
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Unless the one framing him
held great power,
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and dared to do anything.
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The weather that year was damp,
with little sun.
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Bookworms infested
the archive buildings,
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and many records
and case files were damaged.
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(Because my brother Li Ji had
exceptionally fine handwriting,)
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(he was hired as a temporary
clerk for several months.)
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(It was during those months)
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(that he began to notice)
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(things others overlooked.)
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He was a mere scholar.
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What could he possibly see?
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From the second year of Yuanfu
to the second year of Chongning,
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(Huachang County recorded
sixty-seven major criminal cases.)
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(Not one was left unresolved.)
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(Of these, forty-two cases)
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(were closed within three days.)
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(For that reason,)
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(the magistrate
in office at the time, Official Liang,)
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earned the title "Justice Liang".
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(Yet among those forty-two cases,)
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(every single one
contained inconsistencies.)
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(Some lacked sufficient evidence,
others showed subtle contradictions.)
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(My brother did not dare suspect)
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(that Justice Liang's reputation)
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He had his doubts.
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Miss Li, are you suggesting
that all those cases
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were fabricated by Official Liang?
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That is exactly what I am saying.
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Impossible. That cannot be right.
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After discovering this,
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my brother did not try to expose him.
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(Instead,
he wrote a letter of remonstrance,)
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(hoping to warn his superior.)
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(And it was precisely that letter)
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that cost him his life.
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Liang Andao
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went to Zhao Chengxi.
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That was how Shen Xiu was killed,
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and how the Thrush Case began.
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Empty words.
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This all happened
more than ten years ago.
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For the moment,
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I cannot produce hard evidence.
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But My Lord,
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I know that by law and procedure,
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a mayfly like me cannot
shake a towering tree.
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But keep in mind that
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public opinion is a fearsome thing.
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There are guests, gentry, wealthy
figures, merchants, and soldiers alike.
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All walks of life are present.
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I have copied my brother's letter
of remonstrance countless times.
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There are mouths
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and eyes here.
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With my crime today
of holding a people's court,
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Official Liang,
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do you truly believe
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you can walk away unscathed?
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So,
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that is how you intend to do this.
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Very well.
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Very well indeed.
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The young are truly formidable.
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But...
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A weight has been lifted off my chest.
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♪A thrush's song
pierced the endless night♪
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♪Blood splattered on the bamboo cage,
reflecting the cool moonlight♪
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♪Thirteen years of frost and snow
sealed the old study window♪
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♪I twisted the needle,
prying open the past♪
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♪A cold stone marrow
presses against my palm♪
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♪My older brother lay buried afar♪
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♪Flames licked across that place♪
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♪A list of righteous hearts♪
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♪Who laughed in the dark at the panic?♪
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♪I'm the shadow caged within
as well as the flying light♪
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♪Only when hatred burns out did we know
how scorching our obsessions were♪
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♪You said you'd die if you hit a stone♪
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♪Yet you crashed into my fate's web♪
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♪Pear blossoms fell all over
the wound on your shoulder♪
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♪The wind in the bamboo forest
dispersed the hexagrams♪
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♪The thrush carried the past away♪
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♪I stood
at the end of the fireworks and gaze♪
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♪You lifted a lantern to illuminate♪
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♪That page♪
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