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Your identity is no longer hidden.
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What do you mean to do with
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those two disciples of yours?
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The fact that we are still alive
is nothing but fortune.
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I trust you will not betray us.
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And that is because your children
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rest in the heavens,
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watching over you.
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Someone kind crossed paths with you.
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They even set polished rice
before an unclaimed memorial tablet.
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Chang'an
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is indeed a place of deep prosperity.
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We have reached the final brink.
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Soon, my children,
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our answer will come soon.
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Thirty years have passed.
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When Chang'an falls,
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even in the winter,
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the people of Tiemo will have more grain
than they could ever finish.
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If only you had been born in such times,
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how good that would have been.
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These past few days
I have felt something is wrong.
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Huai'an has not returned.
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Around the clinic,
there have been many unfamiliar faces.
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All of this was arranged by you.
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Why?
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Master.
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If you mean to kill me,
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at least let me die knowing why.
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It is a simple truth.
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The people of Tiemo have entered the city.
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I am Tiemo as well.
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Every Tiemo shadow guard in the city
is searching for Xie Huai'an.
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He is capable,
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and he vanished without a trace.
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Fortunately I have you two.
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He has very few friends.
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For your sake,
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he would do anything foolish.
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Xiaoqing's life is hanging by a thread.
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Do not resist.
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Take her away quickly,
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and treat her wounds.
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Master.
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Xiaoqing.
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Master.
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Xiaoqing.
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- What happened to you?
- It hurts.
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Do not be afraid.
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I am here.
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You can only return to the clinic.
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There are many of our people
on Xiaocaomen Street.
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They will look after you both.
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Master.
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Must it truly be this way?
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For the great cause of Tiemo,
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the lives of a child or two taken in
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are not worth much.
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Xiaoqing.
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Let us go home.
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Xiaoqing.
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Hold on. We are almost at the clinic.
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Do not worry.
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I will heal you, I promise.
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The wounds can be mended.
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But what of the heart?
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I will kill them for you.
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And Master?
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Will you kill him too?
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UMBRELLAS
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You collapsed before Gu Yu's grave.
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Our people carried you back.
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How many days has it been?
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Four days.
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The physician examined you.
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He said you did not faint from injury
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but fell asleep.
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Four days.
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News of Gu Yu's death
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must have reached the north by now.
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The death of a general
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can shake an army's resolve.
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The Baiwenhu Army
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may not hold.
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Now that the Tiemo forces march south,
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what of Chang'an
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as it stands today?
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Yesterday,
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Tiemo troops breached the North Office.
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The North Office
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is only 1300 li from Chang'an.
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The Huben Army excels
at gathering intelligence.
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Nothing that happens in Chang'an
escapes your eyes.
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Tell me,
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my friends…
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Are they all dead?
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I fear
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they may wish they were.
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Good.
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If so,
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then they are still alive.
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And if they live, there is hope.
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My pageboy…
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Where is he now?
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You are…
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Have we met before?
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The last time we met was 15 years ago.
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Back then, you were
a young prince of Chang'an,
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studying at the Grand Academy.
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To shirk your lessons,
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you often claimed to be ill.
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You are…
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After all these years,
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there is something I have always wondered.
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The gift I gave you…
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Did you ever use it?
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I have a gift for you.
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Mentor.
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Wu Zhongheng?
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It is me.
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Who are you, truly?
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Xie Huai'an did not have time
to tell you, I suppose.
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I am Tiemo.
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All of Chang'an speaks of Gu Yu's death.
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Yes.
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I was the one who killed him.
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Do not be alarmed.
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I will not kill you.
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Sit. Let us speak of old times.
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Come. Sit.
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How long have you been hiding?
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More than 20 years.
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I traveled across your entire land,
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then spent a few more years
building a reputation,
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befriending the powerful.
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Liu Ziwen, Yan Fengshan,
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Grand Preceptor Cen Weizong,
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even your father
were all good friends of mine.
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During my years at the Grand Academy,
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I saw for myself
the brightest talents of Chang'an.
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Xie Huai'an, Gu Yu,
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and your elder brother,
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Xiao Wuyang.
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And you
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were the most timid of them all.
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You are not the first
to say that about me.
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Once,
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Yan Fengshan said the same thing.
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Do not pity yourself.
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Because it is precisely your timidity
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that makes you
the ideal candidate for the throne.
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Many who hold power think so.
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And so do
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the faraway people of Tiemo,
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those who serve at the altar
on Mount Shiluoman.
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You see,
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timidity can sometimes be
a means of survival.
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It allows you to live
far longer than most.
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Take Gu Yu,
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a man who always charged to the front.
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Men like him only die first.
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By the way,
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was it
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Xie Huai'an's idea to send you away?
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You were born into the imperial line,
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yet you scare so easily.
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Yan Fengshan kept you
under his thumb for years.
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The throne slipped
from your grasp long ago.
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But in the great city of Chang'an,
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he is hardly the only one
who wants to become another Yan Fengshan.
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Whoever grows powerful
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will try to control you.
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And this truth
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is something
Xie Huai'an certainly understands.
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He should have killed
you the moment he had you
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under control.
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If peace is what he wanted,
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your death would have settled everything.
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He is more human
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than you or Yan Fengshan ever were.
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Indeed.
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You threw snakes at him back then,
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yet he can still call you friend.
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He truly has a kindness
that serves him little.
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When I entered Chang'an,
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my first move against the Huben Army
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was to give him a new face
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and a forged identity,
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fooling everyone.
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Even Yan Fengshan
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might never have guessed it.
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What I did not expect
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was that this plan
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would be uncovered by the King of Tiemo.
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Zhu Zhilong is Tiemo as well.
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It turns out
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they had infiltrated us
long before we knew it.
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My poor friends, both of them.
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I want to go out.
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Do you know where you are?
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Of course I do.
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This was once my sister's home.
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The pear tree in the courtyard
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was planted by her own hand.
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To me,
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this is where the general lived
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and where he died.
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Perhaps people like us
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are fated
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to choose in the midst of chaos
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between vengeance
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and duty to the realm.
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You do not need to choose.
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I have already given you my word.
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When the Tiemo are defeated,
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you may come to settle your debt
with me at any time.
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And in doing so,
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you will honor the Huben Army
and General Fengshan.
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With the general gone,
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the Huben I can command is limited.
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But if you fight the Tiemo,
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I will help you.
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For now,
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I need time to think.
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I said
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I want to go out for a walk.
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Before he died, Yan Fengshan said
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that the streets of Chang'an
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might offer a different view.
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Then tomorrow,
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walk around Chang'an.
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Chang'an
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can be beautiful at times.
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I will leave this for you.
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Let us look over there.
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Steamed buns.
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{\an8}FFENG'S CURED HAM SHOP,
EIGHT-DIRECTIONS GOODS SHOP
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Huai'an.
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An army may fall to the last man.
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But Chang'an
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must not fall.
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This is Gu Yu's
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battle report that he hid inside his body.
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Once you read it,
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you will know where you must go.
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Right now my friends' fate is unknown
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and I have no one else to trust,
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so I can only leave it in your hands.
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But if you have other plans,
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you are free to choose another path.
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But I fear that Chang'an
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can no longer be held.
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I will deliver this to where it must go.
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Thank you.
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Is there any news of Xiao Wuyang?
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There has been no word at all.
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What are you planning to do?
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You mean to head north.
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Gu Yu is dead.
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I have no allies left to rely on.
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The deposed emperor and Ye Zheng
are both in their hands.
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The Tiemo are waiting for me.
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This is the only road left to me.
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I will go to the Tiemo,
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and help them kill Xiao Wuyang.
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In the imperial court,
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the ones the Tiemo fear most
are Yan Fengshan and Xiao Wuyang.
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Now that Yan Fengshan is dead,
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our only chance
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lies with Xiao Wuyang.
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You should go.
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And you
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had better not die.
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You owe no debt of life to the Tiemo.
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You owe it to General Fengshan.
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I owe him nothing.
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Go.
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Take care.
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Father.
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I failed to protect my sister.
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No one walks away
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unscathed
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after facing Yan Fengshan.
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You guarded her all these years
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and did everything you could.
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In the end,
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you even avenged her.
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Do not be so hard on yourself.
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Seeing my son so weak and worn
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breaks my heart.
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A father
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always aches for his child.
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Since you came to Chang'an,
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you have already lost too much.
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Then take the red ribbon down.
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Father.
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Though our family's vengeance is repaid,
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Chang'an
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is far from peaceful.
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I waited all night.
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I only wished to tell
you one thing, Father.
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The King of Tiemo has arrived in Chang'an.
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Then take the red ribbon down.
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Very well.
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I didn't dare come
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until everything was settled.
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Xie Huai'an's friends
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can no longer escape.
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We need only wait for him to show.
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White Hair entered
Yan Fengshan's courtyard.
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I cannot tell whether he won or lost,
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so I sent you in.
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00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:51,200
For that,
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you had to kill
the master you served for years.
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Do you regret it?
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No.
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I have only ever
served one master with my life.
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Yan Fengshan is dead.
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The Huben Army is no longer a threat.
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Gu Yu is dead as well.
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Our forces
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can march straight
into the heart of their empire.
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Only one danger remains.
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Xiao Wuyang.
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If he dies,
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Chang'an will fall.
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Xiao Wuyang stands alone now.
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This time, if our plan is thorough,
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he will not survive.
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I saw something like this once,
a man on the edge of death,
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hanging high on a platform.
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He was an ordinary man,
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yet he lived for seven days and nights.
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If someone ordinary
can fight so hard to survive,
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what about the King of Death, Xiao Wuyang?
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Yes.
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The noodles are here.
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Chili oil noodles.
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Scallions dipped in vinegar.
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It has been more than ten years.
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Sha,
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you still remember my favorite bite.
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Of course I do.
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Had I forgotten,
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I would have lost my head.
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Sha,
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Cen Pickles came by, didn't he?
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00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:47,040
No.
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After the Liu clan was wiped out,
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Yan Fengshan purged Liu's faction,
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and he never showed himself again.
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Does he still need to hide
from Yan Fengshan's blade?
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Don't you also…
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Don't you also hide from him?
Unbelievable.
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00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:19,600
Sha,
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00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:23,000
that you've survived this long
with that temperament
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00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:25,040
feels like a miracle to me.
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Eat while it's hot.
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Sha,
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in this world,
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I have patience for very few people.
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00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:38,280
You are one of them.
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Cen Pickles is the other.
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If he came to you,
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and you don't wish to tell me,
or he forbade you to say,
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it doesn't matter.
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00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:50,640
Just pass on a message for me.
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Tell him I have arrived in Chang'an.
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And tell him I hope
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we are still friends.
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Cen Pickles,
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who is he?
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A man surnamed Cen.
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Twenty years ago,
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everyone knew his name.
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00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:56,400
The Grand Preceptor, Cen Weizong?
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He was a friend of His Majesty?
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The founding emperor,
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Liu Ziwen,
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the Grand Preceptor Cen Weizong,
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and the man just now,
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00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,600
when they were young, often gathered here.
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Yan Fengshan
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would sometimes come along too.
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00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,400
He was younger than the rest of them.
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And in their eyes,
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00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:29,960
the so-called General Fengshan
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00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:33,040
was just an inexperienced young man.
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00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:39,480
An inexperienced young man?
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00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:52,800
Later,
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00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,200
didn't he rule the empire
for over ten years?
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In your eyes,
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I am also an inexperienced young man,
aren't I?
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00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:13,080
You…
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00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:20,280
You are not human.
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00:38:26,240 --> 00:38:28,440
When I had nowhere left to go,
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the boss took me in.
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00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:34,800
Later,
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00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:38,600
I went outside the city
to collect his body.
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00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:46,720
He was crushed to death.
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00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:03,680
Not even beasts would do such a thing.
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00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:24,160
I remember the boss's kindness.
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00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:31,720
But I was born a Tiemo man.
404
00:39:34,240 --> 00:39:36,080
My life was not his to give.
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00:39:57,760 --> 00:39:59,440
Can I have a bowl of noodles?
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00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:08,040
Get out.
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00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:49,640
After more than ten years apart,
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00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:52,400
I meet you again.
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00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:00,080
This is Yang Chuhao's courtyard.
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00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:04,360
Why did you suddenly
decide to sun his books?
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00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:12,680
In his study,
there truly are many fine volumes.
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00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:16,200
I even found a travelogue
written by a friend
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00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:17,880
from my youth.
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00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:19,720
Reading it
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00:41:20,240 --> 00:41:22,040
was like meeting an old friend again.
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00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:27,400
An old friend?
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00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:30,480
Then I am also one of your old friends.
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00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:32,360
Of course.
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00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:38,920
At the Grand Academy, I once asked you,
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when you grew up,
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00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:43,480
what kind of achievement you wished for.
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00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:45,520
Do you remember?
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00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:49,520
Of course I do.
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00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:53,200
I asked you, when you grew up,
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00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:55,720
what kind of career you wished to build?
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00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:58,560
In times of peace, to aid a wise ruler.
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00:41:59,240 --> 00:42:01,000
And in times of chaos?
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In times of chaos,
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00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:03,840
to kill every enemy.
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00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:10,640
White Hair,
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00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:14,560
have you come to kill me?
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00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:23,760
Mentor,
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these hands of a scholar
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00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:28,680
now hold no iron, no blade.
435
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:31,840
How could they possibly
kill the King of Tiemo?
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00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:33,760
I came
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00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:37,240
to trade for my friend's life.
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00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:39,880
You say you came to save a friend,
439
00:42:41,240 --> 00:42:44,080
but I do not believe
you would bow your head so readily.
440
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:46,120
It has been over ten years,
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00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:49,920
and your intellect alone
is enough to chill one's bones.
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00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:52,600
You killed Yan Fengshan with strategy,
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00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:55,800
because you understood him.
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00:42:57,320 --> 00:42:58,520
White Hair,
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00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:02,880
as for me,
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00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:06,120
how well do you understand me?