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The rain is bound to fall.

I'm bound to be wed.

Trees are ready to bloom.

I'm ready to be married.

Flowers long to bear fruit.

TALES OF A MORTAL DREAM

I long to be married.

SU JIAN

Is this the Little Pomegranate from the painting?

So we are in…

I was just thinking.

This painting must carry the artist's memories and emotions.

Maybe I could try the spell Master left me,

like entering the Star Stone illusion.

I didn't expect it to actually work.

Cui Jun is good-looking.

We've known each other since childhood and have been betrothed before birth.

Cui Jun…

The painter is Cui… Cui Jun?

The one who painted this. But I've always treated him

like a younger brother.

How can anyone marry their own brother?

Does that make any sense? Is that even reasonable?

A forced melon is never sweet.

Better let it rot

on the vine.

When will I ever have

a love like in the stories?

He chases, I run.

I tease, he laughs.

I faint, and he kisses me.

How beautiful that must be.

Oh, tree.

Will there be an attractive, interesting man

who falls in love with me?

If the answer is yes, stay silent

and don't move, alright?

Handsome,

who are you?

You could get arrested

for breaking into someone's home.

I'm kind.

I won't make a fuss over this.

You should leave now.

If fate allows,

we may meet again someday.

Go on.

Hurry and leave.

Don't get too mesmerized by my beauty, alright?

Not leaving?

So you want to stay and have a chat?

Sir,

sneaking up behind a lady

and eavesdropping on her

is a no-no.

A little naughty.

Tell me.

From which line did you start listening?

Was it "He chases, I run,"

or "I faint, and he kisses me?"

The way you greet people is rather unique.

You've definitely caught my attention.

I'm Su Jian.

What's your name?

Where do you live?

How old are you?

Are you married?

Have you picked names for our children yet?

You're tired?

The sky is still bright.

No rush.

How do I undo this?

How… Help me.

Sir.

Why won't you speak?

I often come to this weaving house,

but I've never seen you before.

Where are you going?

It's raining outside.

For a handsome man like you,

if your clothes get soaked,

you should take them off immediately

and dry them

or you'll fall ill.

So it's true.

Han Ba can't speak.

Wangyan.

Wangyan.

Jian.

Si Feng once told me

I had carried out a mission alone involving Han Ba.

Could this be that mission?

Mission?

Disguising yourself as Su Jian's sister?

Looks like you've cast the Word Magic

over the entire Su family.

Su Jian really believes you're her sister.

Wangyan, you made iced treats again?

How can you make ice treats in any season?

Do you know magic?

You must be the fairy from the stories.

Is it good?

I remember you once said

you liked making iced treats for Lu Wuyi.

It seems

you've brought your real habits into the mission.

Aren't you afraid of exposing yourself?

You must've known I was troubled,

so you made these iced treats to comfort me.

What are you talking about?

Lotus seeds.

I'm as pitiful as these lotus seeds.

My heart is like these iced lotus seeds.

Col' an' bitter…

Are you speaking in tongues?

Cold

and bitter.

I know what you mean.

It's been a whole month,

and you're still not over that mute man?

What? Mute?

Wangyan, you're so ugly, but why do you speak so…

I mean, you're so pretty, but why do you speak harshly?

He's just steady and quiet.

He complements me.

Is he good-looking?

Of course.

Indeed, you complement each other.

That's an insult.

You really deserve a scolding.

Do you remember

you're supposed to marry Jun in three months?

Jun?

Who is that?

Chenjun?

Cui Jun.

I don't want to marry him anymore.

Cold and bitter.

You're here brooding over it,

while he can't even

be bothered with you.

They say in stories

that when a woman pursues a man, it's like a thin veil between them.

I've even gone as far as the barn next door.

I refuse to believe

I can't tear through this thin veil.

Wangyan,

just watch me.

Wangyan.

I choked myself.

If you still won't speak,

I'll show you what a fierce woman is like.

Fine. I'll smash my head right here and die.

Let's see if you'll call a physician for me then.

This is a gift for you.

You've barely passed 20.

It's the perfect age to carry an old man's fan.

Honestly, I was worried you're too handsome,

and other girls might start eyeing you.

This old man's fan will do just the trick.

It'll make your lofty, noble charm a little questionable

and make you less appealing to other women.

I've given you a gift.

Won't you at least say thank you?

My name is Su Jian.

What's yours?

You won't even tell me your name?

If I don't know your name,

how am I supposed to match our birth charts

and figure out when we'll get married?

Do I look pretty today?

What a delicate flower.

If you don't pick it now,

it might belong

to another man tomorrow.

I…

You always manage to find me.

You always hide in the dark.

Of course, no one else can see you.

But I can.

But I can.

My heart.

My heart.

Can feel you are here.

I remember everything now.

But in my memory,

I was saying that to someone else.

Wangyan,

thank you.

You're the only one who can see me.

You always hide in the dark.

Of course no one else can see you,

but I can.

My heart

can feel you're here.

Is it Lu Wuyi?

There's no moon tonight.

The moon is always there.

It's just being mischievous tonight.

It's hiding.

The moon is meant to shine,

to be admired, to be written into poems,

to carry people's longing and praise.

But tonight, no one can see it.

Will it feel sad?

Dear,

are you talking about yourself?

I am sad.

Wangyan,

you were right.

It's always just been me.

He's never responded to me.

He wouldn't even tell me his name.

He doesn't love you.

But Cui Jun does. And I love you too.

To me,

you're the most important person.

I'll stay with you forever.

Jian,

sleep.

Have a good dream.

When the dream ends,

I'll wake you.

And if I don't,

don't ever wake up.

Han Ba still refuses to speak.

Jian,

I'm sorry to put you through this.

Wait.

Are you the quiet man my sister likes?

She suddenly fell ill and has been unconscious.

The physician said it's a matter of the heart.

Only the voice of the one she loves can bring her back.

I don't have a human name.

I only have a demon name.

I'm Han Ba.

And

the moment I speak,

drought will fall upon the world.

I've lived inside a tree.

Day after day,

I was so bored.

No one ever spoke to me

until I met you.

Oh, tree.

Will there be an attractive, interesting man

who falls in love with me? If the answer is yes,

stay silent

and don't move, alright?

Meeting you

was like a flame melting ice.

This world that was once indifferent to me

suddenly came alive.

Even if I couldn't speak,

just watching you talk

made me happy.

I wanted to answer you.

I wanted to tell you

everything I felt.

But

if I ever responded to your love,

everyone you cherish in this world

would be destroyed by me.

You like stories, don't you?

Stop sleeping.

I'll tell you a story.

Wake up,

alright?

It works.

Jian,

did you hear the voice of the man you love?

The dream is over.

Wake up now.

As expected.

Only the one she loves could wake her.

This is bad!

-This is bad! -Quiet.

Something's happened!

Su Jian, why are you still here? You should go take a look.

Your mother fought someone over water and was beaten to death.

What was my mission

back then?

Wu Wangyan's mission

was to capture the water demons hiding in the underground waterways

of Luo'an.

But what does that have to do

with making you speak?

Aren't you supposed to be smart?

Can't you figure that out?

Of course I can.

I just want to hear you say it.

If she wanted to flush out the water demons,

she had to make Han Ba speak, which would trigger a drought,

dry up water sources, and force the water demons

out of the tangled underground waterways.

There's no way

I would've agreed to cause such devastation.

That's why Jiu Ying erased my memory.

Drought brings conflict and unrest.

As fear and hatred multiply,

Jiu Ying feeds on them

and becomes stronger.

I didn't understand back then.

Now I do.

That was Jiu Ying's true intention.

If I didn't speak,

I couldn't save her.

But if I did,

I harmed her

and the entire mortal world.

I don't have a mother anymore.

I know my sins run deep,

but I never dared tell her the truth.

Not until

the double-flower hunter came to bring me to justice.

Han Ba,

you've acted recklessly and brought drought upon the land,

turning Luo'an into scorched earth,

leaving countless lives in ruin.

By the order of Master Chi Wen,

we're here to take you back to the Shilin Sect to face judgment.

You'd better not try something silly.

My martial senior is very powerful.

He's getting away.

-I shouldn't have changed my mind -Si Feng!

and brought a reckless fool like you along.

-Wait outside. -Si Feng!

Si Feng! Si Feng!

Wait for me.

I'll soon become a powerful double-flower hunter.

Si Feng, I finally found you.

Careful!

Careful of what?

-I don't want to hurt you. -Stand aside.

I wanted to.

You!

Si Feng, he's got backup.

Anyway, two against two. It's even.

Can you even beat her?

She's a thousand-year-old nine-tailed fox from the Formless Moon Sect.

She's a fox demon?

The double-flower hunter from the Shilin Sect is quite heartless.

How can you bring yourself

to tear apart a couple in love?

How amusing.

A fox demon from the Formless Moon Sect

lecturing me on human sentiment?

What are you doing here?

I'm here to rid the world of water demons.

Whether your sect creates evil or destroys it,

can you really tell the difference?

No matter what,

I won't let you take Han Ba away.

The fault isn't his.

He's innocent.

Of course it isn't his fault.

It's yours.

You're the one who made him speak. You wretched fox.

Don't think you can hide what you did.

I've never sparred with a fox from the Formless Moon Sect.

Today is the perfect chance.

I've never fought alongside you, Si Feng.

Time to show what I can do.

Wait.

The drought was indeed caused by me.

I'll return to the Shilin Sect with you.

But

let me see her one last time

and bid farewell to her.

Please.

So you are a demon.

Why did you cause the drought?

The drought killed my mother.

I'll explain everything to Su Jian.

It's not what she thinks.

-It was me. -No need.

I've hurt her enough.

I can't let her know

that the sister she loves was using her all along.

Does the Formless Moon Sect have Word Magic that can alter memories?

Can you make her forget me?

Fairy, aren't your spells powerful?

Can you make me forget him?

Please.

What?

Can't bring yourself to do it?

It's just

their love is rare,

like a precious treasure.

I can't bear to destroy it.

If you can't, use this.

You've got the softest heart

of any fox I've met.

You left a hope

for Su Jian and Han Ba.

After Su Jian forgot me,

I was ready to return to the Shilin Sect to accept punishment and end the drought.

But I never expected

Su Jian

to seek revenge on the man who killed her mother.

She was gravely wounded

and fading fast.

Your spiritual veins will shatter,

and the backlash will destroy you after pouring your demon power into her.

I only want her

to stay alive

and be happy.

I grew up with Jian.

Marrying her

has always been my greatest wish.

I'll take care of her

for life,

never leave her,

never fail her.

Don't worry.

So Su Jian's fiancé knew everything all along.

Did Su Jian tell him?

When you truly love someone,

how can any secret stay hidden?

Everything we saw

was Jun's memory.

FIFTY YEARS LATER

I already know who the person in black is.

Iced treats.

Opening up to each other.

-I will always be by your side. -Promising to stay together forever.

Those were your memories with Lu Wuyi.

But now they're happening between you and Su Jian.

Maybe the memories in that painting

are fake.

True or false,

we'll find out once we ask Han Ba.

But I'd rather believe

your story with Lu Wuyi

was fabricated by Jiu Ying.

Not just the memories,

even Lu Wuyi herself

may have been made up.

She stole the manuscript

because she didn't want you to find out the truth.

But Ji Ling said they were together.

Ji Ling is defending her.

Wu, I know it's you.

The only one who could withstand Wu Shiguang and Han Ba's power

is you.

But they never attacked you before.

When did you absorb their power?

Wuyi.

Wuyi.

Ji, help me.

I'm begging you.

I didn't give you away to Wu Wangyan.

So, will you tell me

what's really going on?

Wu.

Wu.

Tell me the truth.

Backlash…

Your Word Magic

is stronger than Xiaowei's?

Wu,

what happened to you?

Why did you use Word Magic on Mu Long?

Why did you take those manuscript pages?

If you won't speak,

I'll ask Wu Wangyan.

Don't!

Those pages

contain a secret

I never wanted Wangyan to know.

I would lose her.

What secret?

I'm not a fox from the Formless Moon Sect.

I'm not even

a demon.

I'm a monster.

I'm a piece of trash

stitched together by Jiu Ying.

I learned that all my memories

are fake from Mu Long's story.

So,

I went to confront Jiu Ying.

Jiu Ying, come out.

Why

do my memories with Wangyan

appear in Mu Long's story?

Why

are Little Pomegranate and Wangyan's stories

exactly the same as mine?

Just why?

What did you do

to my memories?

When the Formless Moon Sect attacked the flood dragons,

they fell into the trap of Xie Lingxi and were completely wiped out.

Before they were reborn,

Jiu Ying took a part

from each of their bodies,

flesh, veins, spirit, or qi,

and stitched them together

to create me.

And what she took from Wangyan

was her heart.

What about you?

Where is your heart?

That explains

why Wu Wangyan dotes on you so much.

That's because

you are her heart.

But Jiu Ying placed a spirit fragment in her heart.

The last fragment you've been searching for

is with me.

I knew it all along.

I just

didn't understand

why you stayed by my side,

yet I couldn't sense that last fragment.

Turns out

it was hidden in Wangyan's heart.

Her heart

has always been protecting you.

Wangyan's heart…

When our hearts come into this world,

one way or another,

they are bound to be marked by love.

Love

is the oldest

and the most powerful spell of all.

Before any of us were revived, Jiu Ying

altered our memories.

Wangyan.

Wangyan, you made iced treats again.

Wangyan.

Let's go.

You always manage to find me.

You always hide in the dark.

Of course no one else can see you.

But I can.

My heart

can feel you're here.

Xie Lingxi killed all of you.

But he didn't know

the Power of the Moon

is eternal.

When everyone was reborn,

they took those altered memories as truth.

They believed they had a younger sister like me.

I used to think I was the new moon,

one of the moon phases.

But in the end,

I was never real.

I'm nothing but a shameless thief.

I stole their memories

to piece together a life of my own.

Full moon,

waning gibbous,

last-quarter,

waxing gibbous,

first-quarter,

waning crescent,

and waxing crescent.

In the sky,

there was never a place for me.

Your place

was never in the sky.

It's in my heart.

Nothing between us

is fake.

From the day we met,

every moment this world has witnessed

belongs only to us.

But how did Wuyi come to know all this?

She arrived at the inn at the same time as us.

How did you learn

the truth?

Maybe

Lu Wuyi went through something we don't know about.

Wu,

tell me.

No matter what happens,

I'll face it with you.

This isn't the first time I've been through this.

The Chatter Inn.

This drought.

It's not the first time,

not the tenth,

but countless times.

From the moment we entered the inn,

at the Zi hour that night,

I've been trapped in a loop,

reliving it over and over again.

FIRST REWIND

Big drumstick…

Miss Mu.

-Miss Mu. -What are you trying to do?

You… You've stained my manuscript.

I've relived everything again and again.

I've endured countless attacks from Han Ba,

Wu Shiguang,

and Li Jie.

That's why none of their spells can harm me.

And my Word Magic

has surpassed yours.

Time reversal?

How could Jiu Ying possess such power?

I don't know.

Time reversal

damages the body, doesn't it?

Yes.

And the toll only gets worse each time.

So Ji, help me.

I'm afraid.

I'm afraid that once Wangyan finds out the truth,

she'll hate me.

I don't want to lose her.

Don't be afraid.

You stole the manuscript

and used Word Magic on Mu Long.

Wangyan will never find out what happened.

No.

There's another way.

All the truth and memories

are stored inside Mu Long's horn pendant.

Every time time reverses,

I can't stop Wangyan from discovering what's inside.

Maybe

that's why I'm trapped here.

My fear of losing her

has bound me to this place.

But this time,

I know the truth.

Maybe this is fate.

It's giving me a chance to change everything for you.

You're willing to help me?

I would do anything for you.

Take that pendant back for me.

Help me.