Original subtitles

"Don't Ask 莫问 (Mo Wen)" by Zhang Han 张翰

♫ Within a picture, the characters appear strong. ♫

♫ Withered flowers dance lightly stirring up the water of emotions silently. ♫

♫ Don't ask who weighs more in the heart. ♫

♫ Take up a pen and tell a thousand turbulent stories. ♫

♫ The rainbow streak across the horizon. ♫

♫ Does it know your whereabouts? ♫

♫ Pain spread throughout the land. ♫

♫ How long do we have to wait until it turns cold? ♫

♫ I wish. I hope. ♫

♫ Don't ask why I broke up the relationship in an instant. ♫

♫ I wish. I hope. ♫

♫ This hurdle is difficult for people to pass even in a thousand years. ♫

♫ I wish. I hope. ♫

♫ Don't ask for whom this lonely zither is playing for. ♫

♫ I wish. I hope. I sigh. ♫

♫ I wish. I hope. ♫

♫ Don't ask for whom this lonely zither is playing for. ♫

♫ I wish. I hope. I sigh. ♫

The Classic of Mountains and Seas - Legend of the Scarlet Shadow

Episode 2

The Mysterious Lady can wake up the four mythical beasts.

Attaining the Mysterious Lady is equivalent to gaining the world. If you are to work for a king,

the gained power of the mythical beast would, of course, be a good thing.

But if this power falls into the hands of evil people,

then would cost many lives.

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Do you see?

There are two Mysterious Ladies! They really exist!

It's the Vermilion Bird and Azure Dragon!

Am I very close with you?

I'm an idiot to talk with someone like you.

Be good and leave with us!

They're looking for you?

Big brothers, I don't have any relationship with this person.

If you have revenge to be wrought, don't harm the innocent.

Cold Face Ghost, I'm leaving first.

Hurry and run, idiot!

There are two Mysterious Ladies?

Who is the Azure Dragon and who is the Vermilion Bird?

That's right, how can we differentiate?

Everyone, please be calm.

Please calm down.

Once the entire ceremony is complete,

then we can differentiate.

What you said is correct!

Just now, the Azure Dragon appeared.

It dominates Dong Ling.

Then our future days will be bleak.

Thankfully there is still Jiu Li who can fight against Dong Ling.

Tribe Leader, where is our Xi Rong's protector? Why don't we have one?

This isn't something I can decide, because this is heaven's will.

Enough Tribe Leader, stop lying to us.

Could it be that Jiu Li and Dong Li have given you particular benefits?

I we can also give you some.

Let's not waste any more words with them. Brothers, let's go!

Grab them! Grab them! Grab them!

Quickly escape!

I would have never thought that today,

not only could I drink with Young Lord Jin,

I can also stand here and fight our enemies hand in hand.

In these circumstances, it is a miracle that we can even fight together.

It's okay now, it's safe here.

What problems did you cause for all of them to be chasing after you?

Why did you help me?

I don't know.

Me? I absolutely hate people ganging up and bullying others.

Aren't you afraid that I'm a ruthless and evil villain?

Just you? You think too highly of yourself.

You just look scary on the outside.

My father told me that you cannot look at things superficially.

Okay. I'll get going now.

Oh, right. This time, I'm the one who saved you again.

Murder!... Help me!...

Hey! That...

What happened?

There's blood everywhere. The outside tribes are here to catch people.

- Whoever blocks them, they'll kill him.- Then, where's my father, the tribe leader?

- I don't know...- Hey!...

It's dangerous there.

No. My parents are still in the temple.

You helped me. Let me protect you.

Help!...

Let's go down.

Brother Shangguan, have you seen my father, the tribe leader, and also Fu'er?

Miss Fu'er? We were separated by the swarm of people.

Miss Su, it's not safe here. Go find a place first to hide.

Let's go.

Save us!

Are you okay?

Dad! Mom!

- Su Mo!- Fu'er! Where's Dad and Mom?

I don't know. They wanted to kill me then we got separated.

Fu'er, it's alright. I'm here.

- Stop talking already. Let's go now.- Go.

I advise you guys to just give up and be caught.

So you'll still be able to leave as a complete corpse.

If you guys take one more step, I'll kill myself.

Why must you do that?

Look at them, each having good martial arts skills.

It's easy for them to catch us, but they keep having some reservations.

They continuously want to take us but won't dare to harm us.

What you guys want is a living person and not a dead person.

If we're dead, let's see how you'll report back to your superiors.

Let's go.

I'll go check first what type of people those really are.

Do you know how dangerous that was earlier? What if they didn't retreat?

Then what should have I done? Wait for them to catch us?

- General, this time...- Useless!

- Then I'll go at them again.- Enough already.

What use is it if you go there now?

Go and catch the other people first.

Those two women...

- leave them to me.- Yes.

Dad!

- Mom!- Dad!

- Mom!- Fu'er!

- Mom!- Fu'er!

You guys are alright. That's great!

Dad!

- You hit her right!...- Dad, what are you doing?

- You hit her right! - She deserves it!...

Mo'er, leave here first.

Let your dad cool down.

Such a great change happened within the tribe,

he's currently in great pain.

Mo'er, go now.

It's all because of her! Calamity star!Hurry and get lost! Calamity star!...

- Go now.- Stop it already! Stop it!

- It's all because of you!- Stop talking already!

Mo'er, hurry and go.

- Hurry and go!- It's all because of you! Calamity star!

- Hurry and go, Mo'er.- You guys shut up! Stop talking already!

Don't say it! Stop talking!

Fu'er.

- Su Mo!- Fu'er

Hit her! Calamity star!

Thank you Master for your protection. Please accept my bow.

I'm not worthy...

Tribe leader, you shouldn't give me such big respect.

I just did what I should do.

May I ask for hero's name?

I am Baili Han from Dong Ling.- Dong Ling?

What is it? Dong Lin's name seems to be not good here.

No...that's not what I mean.

It's okay. The fact will prove one's innocence.

Yes...

Who are these two misters?

- My name is Shangguan Jin. -Shangguan Jin?

The son of Jiu Li Superior General?

I am not worthy. But my dad is indeed Jiu Li's General

Shangguan Buo Yu.

Who are you, mister? I am just a nobody from the country.

Farewell!

I just met him as well,

so I do not know his name.

If my suspicion is correct, he is

one of the Seven Vermilion Bird Mansions.

During our fight, I saw

the mark of the Vermilion Bird on his body. It looks like the word, "Star".

He's a good man. He really is a good man.

- He's our savior. - Wu Yang!

Where's Wu Yang?

Tribe leader, Wu Yang is missing.

What's going on?

Who saw my daughter? My Lin Xue's missing, too.

My Lin Xue's missing.

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Why are you here?

I'm just checking if you've committed suicide already.

Killing myself just for this, then I would have died 100 times already.

That's right. A good person doesn't live long.

A bad person lives a thousand years.

It seems like I saved you once again.

I don't want to talk to you right now.

Why are you such a weird person?

When someone wants to talk to you, you're always so cold and pretend to be mute.

Now that I don't want to talk to you, you keep saying so much nonsense.

I'm just here to tell you

- not to believe too much of those two guys.- Who?

Baili Han...

and also Shangguan Jin.

Why must I listen to you?

I also don't know who you are.

Then why must I believe you

and not believe Lord Shangguan?

You don't need to know who I am.

You're really such a joke.

Why would I believe someone

who wouldn't even tell me his real identity?

Don't be someone who cannot recognize others' good intentions.

I'm really like this. No need for you to care.

Su Mo!

- Fu'er- Su Mo!

- Su Mo!- Fu'er.

Hey, why are you here?

Hey, what's your name?

Why did he leave?

Don't mind him. He's just a rogue, a rascal!

Don't say that. He was the one who saved me earlier.

Don't take Dad's word seriously.

He's just anxious with such a big event happening so suddenly.

And also Wu Yang and the others have not been found yet.

Dad was afraid that something might happen to you again so he sent me to look for you.

Dad still worries for me?

Of course.

Let's hurry and return now.

Go.

How come Wu Yang and the others disappeared?

Could they have been taken away by those people in black?

I don't know. Brother Shangguan and General Baili are all looking for them.

Oh right, who was that guy earlier?

What's his name? How did you two know each other?

I don't know his name. I met him yesterday while I went to look for herbs.

General Baili, what did you discover?

I'm looking at the tattoo on these black clad people.

Look at this tattoo.

Could it be the that the Xi Rong people

were the one who took Wu Yang and the others?

While at the temple, they were the ones who were shouting so fiercely!

They were asking, "Why hasn't there been a White Tiger Mysterious Lady to appear?"

Then where's my child?

Tribe leader, you guys hurry and think of a way.

I will think of a way.

It's all because of that Calamity Star!

Right. It's all due to that Calamity Star!

Enough already... Everyone stop causing a commotion...

Don't worry. I will definitely give everyone an explanation.

Lord Jin, General Baili,

there's one thing I want to ask your help with.

If it's really the doings of the people from Xi Rong,

those ladies, I fear, are in danger.

They were not able to call out their mythical beast.

That's why, they will also not let those ladies live.

This... what should we do?

Tribe leader, among those ladies, who really is the Azure Dragon Mysterious Lady?

I also don't know.

That time, the shaman hadn't finished the ceremony

when it was interrupted.

You, two Lords, are both people of high position.

I beg you two to please help save these ladies.

Tribe leader, don't you worry.

To save those ladies, I will definitely do my best.

That's right, tribe leader don't worry.

The Vermillion Mysterious Lady is also among them.

Lord Jin will definitely do his best to find them.

I am also assuring tribe leader

that I will also do my best

to help locate those ladies.

Okay...then thank you to you two Lordships.

If there's any news about the Mysterious Lady on your part, General,

please remember to inform me.

Of course.

If Lord Jin has any news,

then you must also ask someone to inform me.

Lord Jin, goodbye.

Goodbye.

Find someone to closely follow that Baili Han

and also that unknown man from yesterday.

- Go and investigate what his background is.- Yes.

Does Miss Su plan to continue following me?

Brother Shangguan,

I just want to ask you something.

Brother Shangguan,

will something happen to Wu Yang and the others?

I already sent men to look for them.

Is there really a Mysterious Lady? It's because they might be the Mysterious Lady,

so they were taken away. Who took them?

There were a lot of tribes that suddenly appeared.

Up to now, I still don't know

who were the ones who really took them.

It's all my fault.

Your fault?

Dad didn't allow me to go to the sacrificial stage,

but I secretly went there.

If anything happened to them, then it's definitely I who brought them harm.

Can they still come back?

I just want to help. I really want to find them.

Right now, all the tribes are fighting to find the Mysterious Lady.

Any girl from Peach Blossom Hollow... is not safe.

Everyone has a chance to be taken away.

Just leave the task of finding your friends to me.

The most important thing for you to do is to look for a place and hide first.

Take good care of ones self.

But I'm really worried about them.

I want to find them.

I know.

But actually, you won't provide any help either.

Do you get it?

Miss Su,

I want to ask you one question.

Among the ladies you know,

is there anyone with special power?

Special power?

Like water spiritual energy.

Okay, nothing more.

Brother Shangguan,

if you have any news about them, you must tell me.

I definitely will.

Brother Shangguan,

will we see each other again?

It's nothing. I'm just talking randomly.

I just hope that I can be of help.

Don't want to cause you troubles.

We will.

- We will?- We will see each other again.

Husband, don't take what they said seriously.

Maybe, I should have really listened to them years ago.

It might have been better if we didn't adopt Mo'er.

What stupid things are you saying?

If we didn't save Mo'er,

can we watch her get killed?

Although Mo'er is not our real born,

but with her at our side thru all these years,

how much happiness has she brought us?

Could it be that you also believe what they were saying

that Mo'er is a Calamity Star?

I didn't mean it like that?

What happened today is not all Mo'er's fault.

If there's someone to blame, then blame those greedy people.

They wanted to get hold of the power of the Mysterious Lady.

These things are indeed not Mo'er's fault.

I know.

But the tribe people have always considered her as a Calamity Star.

I'm afraid that they will forcefully put all the blame for all that happened on Mo'er.

As a tribe leader, I wasn't able to save my own tribe people.

My heart is...

How about this. Guard Mo'er closely. Don't let her go out

to prevent her from getting bullied again.

Hey, where are you going?

I'm going to the village and check house-to-house.

Where are you going?

Not so loud.

If Old Dad knows, then I'm done.

Where are you going?

Go find Wu Yang and the rest. If I can find them,

then Old Dad won't be mad at me.

I knew you were going to do that.

We go together!

No, it's too dangerous.

I heard that the Xi Rong people want to kidnap the girls of Peach Blossom Hollow.

Because it is dangerous that why I want to go with you.

If you and I don't tell, who would know that we are girls from Peach Blossom Hollow?

We are good sisters. We have to be together whether we live or die.

Beside, this time Old Dad got mad at you,

it was also because of me.

It would be good if I hadn't forced you to go with me.

That has nothing to do with you.

Besides, if you won't take me along, then I will tell Old Dad.

Then you won't get to go anywhere.

Go.

To where?

Let's throw shoes then.

Throw yours.

Throw mine then throw mine.

Let me go!

Let go of me!

Let go of me!

Let me go!

General!

Don't be afraid.

Lift your head and let me see your face.

So pitiful.

You don't want to die, right?

General Baili, please help me.

I don't want to die...

I know...

You're such a beauty.

How can I let you die?

But...

you're too weak.

In this world where the strong eats the weak,

how can you continue to survive?

Hence,

your living is a tragedy.

- Don't...- Come, let me help you be free from it.

Don't!

If you want to live,

then you must become stronger.

General, there's no real Mysterious Lady here.

If you guys come any closer, then I'll kill myself.

What you guys need is a live person, not a dead person.

If we die, let me see how you guys are going to report to your superiors.

I've already guessed it.

Shuang'er,

come here.

Do you know that

letting someone see hope,

then completely destroying that hope afterwards,

that painful expression

is the most beautiful.

General!

Let's go, Shuang'er.

I'm gonna give you a chance to redeem yourself.

Bring those two girls back here.

Yes.

Wait...you must not use force.

Those two girls are quite stubborn.

Lure them here. Don't ruin your chance again.

I understand.

Who could it be among them?

[Shangguan Residence]

Lord's guess was right.

The one who took those Peach Blossoms Hollow ladies

are indeed the men of Dong Ling's Baili Han.

It's just that after those ladies were taken into Dong Ling's ancestral temple,

their tracks suddenly disappeared.

- Tracks disappeared?- Yes.

Then was there any strange happenings in the Dong Ling Ancestral Temple?

There seems to be none.

Looks like Baili Han didn't also find the person he was looking for.

Will we then continue looking for those ladies from Peach Blossoms Hollow?

The thing I'm most worried about now are the ladies from Peach Blossoms Hollow.

Baili Han most likely will not leave anyone alive.

Even more so,

the Vermilion Mysterious Lady is likely among them.

You can leave first.

Tonight,

- I will personally go to Dong Ling's Ancestral Temple.- Yes.

And also, any news about that no-name guy?

We were able to get some info. We only know that he's from the Green Hill Country.

- Good. Continue investigating.- Yes.

Who could be the Vermilion Mysterious Lady?

Dad!

Hurry and get lost! Calamity Star!

- Go!- Don't say it anymore. Don't talk anymore.

Is it you?

Do actually know where you need to go?

I don't know.

You don't know?

If you don't know, way are you still charging forward mindlessly?

Then you tell me where we should go.

That's why, we can only follow the shoe. Just go where it takes us.

You...having no plan at all.

It's... It's not me who told you to come.

It was you who insisted on coming.

You treat a good man's kindness as donkey liver and lungs? ?

Ok then, you go alone. I'll go home now.

My good Fu'er, I'm wrong, alright? I'm wrong.

Actually, you accompanying me has made me extremely happy.

I'm just blaming myself. All of these are my fault.

Why must you be blamed? It's not your fault.

If I didn't go to the ceremony that day,

maybe it won't be like this now.

Don't say that. And I'm also not allowing you to think that way.

But tell me, they all say that I'm a Calamity Star.

- Do you think that's true?- Of course, it's not.

Look at me. I'm with you everyday.

But aren't I still okay now?

Don't listen to their nonsense.

Even if you weren't there that day,

those Xi Rong barbarians would have still taken people away.

If there's a mistake, the mistake is

that only two Mysterious Ladies appeared. If four appeared

or if there's none at all, then it would have been fine.

Hey, say, who do you think is the Vermilion Mysterious Lady?

Who will be the Azure Dragon?

Hey, do you think Wu Yang is the Azure Dragon Mysterious Lady?

You want to be the Vermilion Mysterious Lady, right?

Actually, being the Vermilion Mysterious Lady seems nice.

The Vermilion is Brother Shangguan tribe's Mythical Beast Guardian.

This way, one can continue seeing Brother Shangguan already.

No shame. You dare to say those kind of words out loud?

What is there to be ashamed about that?

Too bad.

Don't know if I'll have the chance to see Brother Shangguan again in this lifetime.

You can. You definitely can.

Say, if I become the Vermilion Mysterious Lady,

then I'll take you to Jiu Li with me.

This way, you can continue seeing Brother Shangguan already.

Okay then. Let's hurry and go.

Let's find Wu Yang and the others now,

then finish the prematurely terminated ceremony.

This way, I can see Brother Shangguan sooner

and you can become the Vermilion Mysterious Lady already.

Isn't it? Let's go then.

Go where?

- Go here.- Okay.

Mister,

we're so tired already. Can we ride your carriage?

Okay. Get on it then.

Thank you.

Giddy up...

If General Baili will still be willing to help me,

Mount Yao Guang will be Dong Ling's this time around.

Mount Yao Guang?

- That Mount Yao Guang that is full of jade stones and gold?- That's right.

General, what do you think?

Who is this person really...

causing you guys to risk everything in exchange for his life?

It's just some ordinary prisoner who escaped.

He committed a crime in our place.

Just an ordinary escaped prisoner?

Fine. Very much fine.

Then what General means is you've agreed already?

That's great! I'll go back now to report it.

Someone will send the contract soon after this.

Wait!

Not one of the men I sent to kill him before returned.

This debt...

This, we will surely compensate you for it, General.

You should know. I am

someone who hates people lying to me the most.

Doing business

must depend on trust.

Isn't it?

Of course...

What General said is right.

That's why...

How come his lordship is leaving so soon?

You are already here.

Why don't you come and sit down for a while and drink some wine?

I happen to have a good wine right now.

I was just worrying earlier about having no one to drink with me.

Really?

In this cold weather, drinking some wine seems like a good idea.

Good wine.

I've already finished my wine. I should go now.

Thank you for General Baili's good wine.

Wait a moment.

What else does General Baili want?

Chi Yu,

Lord Yu, don't you want to know

why I would kill the envoy from Green Hill?

Does General Baili feel that I should know?

Lord Yu's attitude is really compatible with mine.

I killed the envoy from Green Hill

because they are not honest in doing business.

He wants me to do a job for them but they didn't tell me the truth.

They want to kill Lord Yu but they didn't tell me

that Lord Yu is actually Green Hill Country's Prince.

I am a businessman. I am willing to bet.

I bet that Lord Yu will one day be

Green Hill's King.

By that time, won't I be able to get more?

Looks like you are going to lose in this business transaction.

Why is that?

Didn't the High Priest of Green Hill Country already foretell

that you will be the world's ruler?

World's ruler...

But there's still one thing...

- Have you forgotten?- He also foretold

that you will be your fathers's Calamity Star that will kill him.

But whether you're a Calamity Star depends on people.

For some it is a calamity, but for others it is luck.

It's the same with the relationship between the Mythical Beasts and Mysterious Lady.

And also, just like Lord Yu,

being the Vermilion Bird Star Mansion.

Looks like General Baili

has already investigated my background well.

I just want to make friends with Lord Yu.

But I don't want to be your friend.

How are you so sure that we won't become friends?

Green Hill Country's most noble blood Lord Yu

has ended up wandering the world for more than 10 years.

This sort of experience wasn't easy to take.

When the Ze Lou tribe was taken over by Dong Ling,

at that time, you should have been a teenager?

We are both wanderers of this world.

Do you not feel like this is the reason why we should be friends?

But what I want is too different from yours.

Is it?

A person in one's lifetime should be more practical.

Seeking fame and fortune.

Those who like to dream only talk about love and family.

No matter what it is, as long as you want something, we can be friends.

What I dislike seeing most are those who live their whole life,

yet don't know what they want.

You shouldn't be that type of person.

I know all too well what I want.

It's because I know too well,

so I actually like

to be friends with those who are more stupid.

More stupid?

But will the stupid people allow you to return to your parents?

Can being clear-headed bring back the Ze Lou Tribe?

Before you were ten, you were still your parents' favored child.

But the day of your tenth birthday,

because of a fortune teller's words, your father kicked you out of Qing Qiu.

From then on, flesh and blood were enemies.

In these recent years, your father continuously sent people to kill you.

This time, he wants to use this Mt. Yao Guang to exchange for your life.

Your mother is very ill.

Yet your father still won't let you go visit her.

You secretly entered Qing Qiu.

Yet you could only watch your own father

personally kill your mother.

This kind of pain and hate,

can you let it go?

Dong Ling clearly destroyed your Zu Lou tribe.

Yet you pretend as if nothing happened.

You grew up in Dong Ling, and took a Dong Ling man as your father.

You worked hard to fight on the battlefield for Dong Ling.

Such open-mindedness...

Are you not someone like me, trapped by family matters,

that you can compare to?

If you are not a constellation of the Vermilion Bird,

if your father didn't believe this fortune,

then you probably would have already become a grand general of Qing Qiu.

If it was like that,

the Qing Qiu state would be a hundred times stronger than it is now!

You overestimate me!

I would like to ask you.

If the Ze Lou tribe

hadn't been destroyed by Dong Ling,

would you care so much about reawakening the Azure Dragon?

But the Zi Luo tribe has already been destroyed.

As it's said, the Four Mythical Beasts can destroy everything,

they can also recreate everything.

A Dong Ling general who has Ze Lou Tribe's totem.

Do you think his heart is towards Dong Ling

or to the Tribe of Ze Lou?

-Actually we are the same type of people.-Same type of people?

Which type of people?

You will understand slowly.

This is all the heaven's will. It is fate.

You trust in fate?

Or perhaps, it's your fate!

But I don't trust in fate!

I don't care what your goal is.

But I'm telling you.

You won't reach your goal.

Goodbye!

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