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♫ You are the one I am thinking of. You are the one that I am missing. The stars and seas are all you. ♫

♫ The first tear that fell down is still you ♫

♫ In this vast sea of people, I only become sad and happy for you ♫

♫ Blocking the sharpness of the human world for you ♫

♫ Even if I am hurt, I still want to meet you ♫

♫ How I hope that I can put you down ♫

♫ The one in my dreams and heart are both not you ♫

♫ The moonlight is not embracing you anymore. Time has destroyed you. ♫

♫ But I love you so much ♫

♫ Even if both of my eyes have been extinguished, I still want to look at you ♫

♫ Even if both of my ears have been submerged, I still want to hear you ♫

♫ A broken tail hurts like a broken pair of legs, I still want to swim towards you ♫

♫ Even if both of my hands are tied, I still want to embrace you ♫

♫ Among the stars, inside the ocean, I am a withered fish ♫

♫ The first tear that I cried was separation ♫

♫ In this vast sea of people, I only become sad and happy for you ♫

♫ Blocking the sharpness of the human world for you ♫

♫ Even if I am hurt, I still want to meet you ♫

[The Starry Night, The Starry Sea: 2]

- Episode 18 -

You still have the nerve to come out?!

Lu Li, you repeatedly sowed dissension in the relationship of humans and merpeople.

That is being not benevolent.

You showed false affection to harm Wu Julan that loved you so much.

That is being disloyal!

Li Gengzhi, what nonsense are you saying?!

My Lady is not that kind of person!

She was like this all because--

Zixuan.

Because of what? Say it. Why are you not saying it anymore?!

I think that you don't really have enough reasons so you don't have nothing to say!

Enough already. There are so many people. At least leave her some dignity.

What dignity? I just want everyone to know!

She, Lu Li, is an ungrateful

and evil woman!

A woman like you who is heartless and disloyal will surely suffer retribution!

Li Gengzhi! Stop making up things! Everyone!

This person beside me is called Lu Li. She is my fiancée.

I can guarantee to everyone

that the words from this person are all made up things and a bunch of nonsense!

I think that you all are just raccoons from the same hill! What right do you have to make guarantees?

Okay. Let us change the approach.

Lu Li is my person. If you are dissatisfied with her, then that's being dissatisfied with me.

If there is any problem, face me.

Even if you win this argument, there really is no point with it.

Forget it already! Everyone, it is just a misunderstanding!

- Why are you pulling me away?!- So sorry.

- I still haven't finished talking.- Just lessen your words. Let's go.

Don't put the words of Li Gengzhi earlier to heart.

What Li Gengzhi said was so right. I am indeed a heartless and disloyal lowly person.

I am not allowing you to say such things.

Just let bygones be bygones.

From now on, let us start our new life.

I promise you that I surely will make you forget your unhappy past.

Lady, Young Lord Qin today was really very impressive.

Although he indeed was quite cruel in arguing with Brother Gengzhi,

his appearance earlier when he was protecting you

can really cause all the women in Chang Le City to fall head over heels over him.

Lady, maybe you marrying Young Lord Qin is also not a bad thing.

Stop talking already.

General!

Did anyone try to disobey orders and attempt to leave?

Replying to General, no one went against the command.

Remember, without His Majesty's seal pass, no matter who it is, he or she cannot leave Blue Cave.

Yes!

Why are you stopping me?

What? You two don't even recognize the seal pass of His Majesty now?

Having crossed the vast oceans, I can no longer take a river seriously.

If it's not on Mount Wushan, it's not a cloud.

Sometimes, everlasting love actually has a time limit.

- Let us go take a look.- Let's go.

Yet this hatred doesn't ever stop.

Yo, Ma Dachun, didn't you say that no one can resist your charm?

How come you have this bitter wife look now?

Could you have been dumped by a woman?

I already told you before that he was just bragging.

With this appearance of his, which woman would fall for him?

This you don't understand anymore. Dachun's type is very unique.

He likes old women.

And also, the older the woman is, the more he can't control his feelings.

Stop making up things!

It was the lady living beside your house that personally told me these things.

- Can it even be fake?- That's right.

My conscience is clear. I am to lazy to even explain it to you all.

Don't go.

- What are you all doing?!- Don't go. Just sit down and chat with us.

Move aside. I finally found you.

Say, I was even thinking why you were gone so early in the morning. So you were just here hanging around.

Why did you come?

If I didn't come, you might have already ran away with some vixen.

Me? Vixen?

This miss, what is your relationship with Ma Dachun?

Me? Of course, I am a person in his home (wife).

- Dachun's wife?- When did you become this popular?

- What wife?- Bro, drink some wine...

You lad really are something.

Didn't you already return to Blue Cave? Why did you come back here?

Did you not know that Lu Xiao already gave an order to slaughter the merpeople?

I know. The most dangerous place is the safest place.

Since there is already an order to put us down, then no one will believe that merfolk would still come on land.

Don't worry. No one will suspect me.

Do you recognize this?

You have read it already?

What? Are you not going to give me any explanation for this?

Nothing to explain. It was already well written in the letter.

Ma Dachun, I don't believe it! I didn't believe that this was what you were really feeling.

You must clearly explain this thing to me today!

No matter if you believe it or not, my feelings will not change.

Hurry and just return to Blue Cave. Stop pestering me.

Ah Li, let us leave this place.

Leave Chang Le?

Right.

Once we get married, let's move to Chang-an. Okay?

Qin Hao, Chang Le is your home.

Why do you suddenly want to leave this place, leave your parents?

Because if we continue to stay here,

you will never be happy.

Our relationship with the merfolk is very tense. War can break out any minute.

If we stay in Chang Le, there will come a day that we will be fighting against Wu Julan.

Ah Li, I really don't want to see you sad.

Wu Julan and I already have no relation to each other.

You can fool others but not me.

I know that he is still in your heart.

- Qin Hao--- But it's fine.

I have a lifetime to wait for you to forget him.

I'll wait until you will allow me to enter your heart.

Ah Li, leave with me.

Let us look for a place far from the merpeople,

far from quarrels, and start all over. Okay?

Say, what do you think Lady and Young Lord Qin are really talking about?

You want to know?

If you want to know, then beg me.

- Beg you?- Beg.

Are you saying or not?!

Sister Zixuan, I was wrong. Is that not enough?

My Young Master has already decided to leave Chang Le with Lady Lu.

He even said that he would take us two with them.

Leave Chang Le?

Don't worry, Zixuan. No matter where we go,

I will take good care of you.

How were you able to enter?

Still trying to escape?

Ma Dachun, don't force me to use force on you.

If you don't tell the truth today, don't think of going anywhere!

How many times do you still want me to say it?

What I wrote in the letter is all true.

I have never liked you.

Say that again!

I'll say it then. Stop wasting your time!

Even if all the women in this world have all died,

I would still not like you!

Ma Dachun...

is it really that hard to admit that you like me?

Fine, I will give you one more night to think about it.

Tomorrow at noon time on the little bridge,

let us meet there.

Zixuan, what is wrong with you today?

Lady, I heard from Erliang that Young Lord Qin is planning to leave Chang Le.

Is that true?

It is true.

Then... did you agree with him already?

What Qin Hao said is right.

Only by leaving Chang Le can I forget Wu Julan.

Then what about my Brother Gengzhi?

I don't want to forget him.

Zixuan, you have followed me for so many years. Although by name we are master and servant,

in my heart, I have always treated you as my little sister.

If you are not willing to leave Chang Le,

I will tell older brother to let you stay here in the manor.

Lady...

Lady has treated me with extreme kindness. I have already decided

to serve Lady for a lifetime.

Wherever Lady goes, I will go.

I definitely will not leave your side.

Zixuan...

Be careful.

There is a tree here.

It is at least 20 feet high, standing upright in a perfectly straight line.

It looks like a man with indomitable spirit.

Come, let us go there.

In front of you is a plum flower. The flower has already blossomed.

Come, smell it a bit.

As gentle as a jade and has a hidden sweet fragrance and sparse branch lines.

It really looks like a refined and nice lady.

Ah Hen, you said it in a very lifelike manner.

I feel like I can really see it.

In the future, whatever you want to see, just tell me.

I will be your eyes.

I got this eye disease when I was five.

I had no money then for treatment so I became like this.

But now, I am finally able to see again.

From now on, I will tell you everything that I can see.

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Wu Julan, I want you to remember this.

No matter how intelligent and how outstanding you are,

in this world, there is someone who wants to protect you.

She loves you dearly.

She carries all the burden by herself.

She can't bear to see you get hurt even for a bit.

She is willing to be brave for you. She also wants to disregard her own safety and--

♫ Looking at the moth fly into the fire, loving in such scorching hot manner ♫

♫ Living in the face of death ♫

This is an item passed on by the queen in our merpeople clan from generation to generation.

My royal mother died early. This hairpin

was passed on to me very early on.

I am going to give it to you as a token of my love.

Wu Julan!

You know that I haven't had any parents ever since I was little.

But do you know how my parents died?

They were killed by your merfolk clan!

You caused me to be bullied since I was little and to lose a place to live in.

Wu Julan, tell me.

Do you think I would be able to fall in love with my enemy; fall in love with you?!

From the start until now, I only hoped that you would die!

Sister, your merfolk silk was really made well.

Can you teach me?

Greetings, Your Majesty.

Sister, don't you feel that His Majesty is so cold?

He is becoming more and more inhumane.

Don't randomly say things.

Officer-in-charge Li...

Brother Gengzhi!

Zixuan, why did you come here?

- Come.- Why are you pulling me?

Brother Gengzhi, Lady... she...

If you are here to defend Lu Li,

no need. Leave now.

It's not like that.

Lady and Young Lord Qin are leaving Chang Le.

How about you?

I am the personal attendant of Lady.

Of course, I must go with Lady.

Li Gengzhi, don't you have any words to tell me?

A lady like you going to a foreign place,

you must take good care of your health and safety more.

Big woodhead! (idiot)

Your Majesty.

Jin Ling, it's good that you are here.

Heng Bo and High Priest are just about to report something to me.

Listen to it, too.

Your Majesty, the priest disciple Yin Hu stole the royal seal pass and went to land without permission.

She should be punished for the crime of betrayal.

Your Majesty, it is my fault for not watching over the pass.

Hope Your Majesty can give considerations for Yin Hu

as being still young and ignorant so please spare her.

Jin Ling, what do you think?

Your Majesty, Yin Hu has always been loyal to our merfollk clan.

She probably just had a moment of confusion this time. May Your Majesty investigate it clearly.

If it is just a moment of confusion, she should have already returned and asked for her punishment.

I don't think that is the case.

- Heng Bo, you...- Enough.

Heng Bo.

I am here.

I am ordering you to immediately go to the surface and arrest Yin Hu.

- If you meet any resistance, kill without mercy.- Yes.

Your Majesty, allow me to accompany Heng Bo to go up to the surface and arrest the traitor Yin Hu.

Okay, just do as you say.

Hurry!

Brother, where are they going?

Where can they still go? They surely are going to catch some merpeople.

Sir! Sir!

I beg you to let her go!

I can guarantee to you all that she has never done any atrocities that offended the heavens.

Isn't this Ma Dachun?

What is your relationship with the criminal? Why are you vouching for her?

I... she...

Since you cannot say it, then don't hinder us. Leave. Leave.

She is my fiancée!

We are already engaged! I will not marry anyone but her!

Do you know what crime this lady has committed?

I know.

Since you know, you are still going to marry no one but her?

That's right.

It was all because of a moment of weakness of mine that is why she had to take a risk out of desperation

and let you all catch her.

Only at this moment did I realize

that I cannot live without her anymore.

If you want to catch anyone, then just catch me.

Okay, Ma Dachun, I respect you as being a real brave man.

Come. Come. All of you move aside.

So affectionate and loyal.

Brother Ma, don't worry.

Peeping while a man is taking a bath is not really a major crime.

At most, just going to be locked up for several nights and she would have already been released.

In the future, you must treat her well.

Don't go!

I heard it all. You said that you would not marry anyone but me in front of so many people.

You can't deny it this time already, right?!

Yin Hu, don't worry. I won't run away from it anymore.

Ma Dachun...

Do you still have some words that you must tell me that you haven't said yet?

What "must said" words?

Those words that two people who love each other should say to each other.

Yin Hu...

I...

love...

How dare you, Yin Hu! You dared to steal the seal pass and secretly come up to the surface. Aren't you still going to surrender?

As long as you obediently come with us back to Blue Cave, I will beg His Majesty to spare your life.

Hey, Jin Ling, Yin Hu and I have already privately pledged marriage to each other. She will not leave with you.

Stop your nonsense. Arrest her!

Stop!

I already thought about it. I am leaving the merfolk clan.

Yin Hu, stop making mistakes.

Since His Majesty and the merpeople clan are not allowing me to be with Dachun, then I have no other choice.

Based on ancestral laws, a traitor must suffer three floggings with the fish skin whip.

Are you sure you will not regret it?!

I will not regret it!

Wait a minute.

Three floggings?

I'll bear it. Hit me. Hit me. Come. Come. Hit me. Let me. Hit me here.

Ma Dachun, don't be stupid!

It's fine. I can endure only three floggings of a fish skin whip.

It is still not too late for you to regret this.

Come!

Dachun...

Dachun...

And I even thought that the weapon of merpeople would be something very powerful.

From the looks of it, it is just so-so.

You still dare to talk tough?

Dachun...

I beg you all... let him have some mercy.

Don't let them hit him anymore!

Ma Dachun overestimated his own capabilities.

Even if he dies, it is something he brought unto himself.

Dachun...

If you die, what about me?

Who will I marry?

With such a good future wife, how can I bear to die?

What a great pair of tragic lovers.

A traitor of the clan not only must endure three floggings of the fish skin whip,

he still has to be exposed to the sun by the reef for three days.

If you two can survive, then Yin Hu will be freed.

How come you are going back on your words? I already endured the three whips.

Why didn't you say so earlier?

Don't worry.

If you two die, maybe I will be kind enough to bury you two together.

- Take them away!- Yes!

- Yin Hu...- Dachun.

- Dachun!- Yin Hu!- Move! Move!

Dachun,

are you in severe pain?

Not painful. Not painful.

It is not painful at all. Really.

It was me who dragged you into this trouble.

Don't say such kinds of words.

If not because I am so handsome and have boundless charms, you would not like me.

Ultimately, it is my fault.

I really deserved these three whips.

What time is it already and you are still saying these things.

I never thought that the one that Yin Hu fell in love with was a human.

High Priest, don't be too worried.

Yin Hu is just confused for a moment. The pain of the fish skin whip

and the hardship of getting basked under the sun is not something that usual beings can endure.

I believe that very soon, she will know to withdraw after seeing the difficulties.

This disciple of mine has always been very stubborn.

Whenever she sets her mind on something, she will never waver.

General, I fear that it will be hard for Yin Hu this time to turn back.

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Dachun...

Dachun, wake up. Dachun.

Help! Help!

Hurry and come help us!

Help! Dachun...

General, I beg you. I beg you to save Dachun.

I can save him but you must come back with me to Blue Cave

and swear that you will not step on Chang Le again in this lifetime.

Okay, I accept your condition.

Dachun...

Yin Hu...

You must not give up.

If I don't give up... you will die!

Yin Hu...

Haven't you always wanted to hear me say those words?

Yin Hu, I love you.

I love Yin Hu.

I want to marry Yin Hu to be my wife.

I want to live with Yin Hu for a lifetime.

Yin Hu...

I am not allowing you to give up.

Dachun, I won't give up.

If you die, I will die with you!

Your Majesty, may you consider that Yin Hu was previously very loyal to us

and forgive her of her crimes. I am willing to suffer the punishment for a traitor in her behalf.

Even if you know that Yin Hu loves another man, you are still willing to endure the punishment for her?

Yin Hu would rather die with Ma Dachun than turn back.

While I, since I already have decided to love Yin Hu, then no matter where her heart is,

I will still protect her for a lifetime.

[Cold Wood Spring Blossom]

Yin Hu!

Yin Hu!

Dachun, you're awake.

- How are you? Are you all right? Are you okay?- I am fine.

Why are you here again?! I already told you that she is not coming back with you to Blue Cave!

Dachun, listen to me.

Dachun, I won't leave you again.

General told me that His Majesty has already allowed me to leave the merfolk clan.

- Really?- Yes.

So great!

This is really great, Yin Hu!

Just send me off until here.

Yin Hu, from now on, you have no more connections with the merfolk.

Even if one day, your identity gets discovered and they will go after you to kill you,

no merpeople will come to save you.

I hope you can be careful from now on.

I understand.

General! I know that

you bore the punishment on my behalf,

that is why His Majesty showed mercy and let me and Dachun go.

I will never forget this great kindness.

I don't need you to remember that I endured these three lashes for you.

I didn't do it to save you and Ma Dachun.

I did it to let myself completely put you down.

I hope we won't see each other again.

It seems that tonight is the annual fireworks festival of Chang Le.

That's right. If not because humans wanted to kill us,

maybe we can even go to land and watch the fireworks.

Forget it. Don't bother thinking about it anymore.

Ah Li,

I miss you so much.

Wu Julan, I also miss you

very, very much.

Qin Hao, let us just go back.

Ah Li, once we leave Chang Le,

you will not be able to see the fireworks festival here anymore.

Just accompany me to see it one last time.

Once we go to Chang'an,

we can at least have some memories.

♫ One heart separated by mountains, hindered by seas, and need years long of revolution, ♫

♫ waiting for you to walk towards me ♫

Ah Li.

♫ Two people traveled for thousands of miles, charged into a sea of people, tread for thousands of years, ♫

♫ but does not dare to talk about the future ♫

♫ If this ocean will disappear in this world ♫

♫ If you are not stunned by my accident ♫

♫ Maybe we will be lucky that we will be alright ♫

♫ If one does not love, one will not get hurt ♫

♫ The snow will liquify, the candle will melt, the road will end, the flower will wither ♫

♫ Yet I dare not relax my yearning ♫

♫ There is time to gather and time to separate; a wound will hurt but it will eventually heal ♫

Wait!

♫ As long as you are still around ♫

♫ Crossed over mountains, flattened the seas, and worn out the roads, ♫

♫ Walking towards you ♫

♫ Two hearts traveled for thousands of miles, charged into a sea of people, tread for thousands of years, ♫

♫ why be afraid of having no future? ♫

♫ If this ocean will disappear in this world ♫

♫ How can I be fortunate to learn to love? ♫

♫ Tears within laughs, granules with tears, all will get dispersed ♫

♫ Accompanying you to watch the flowers bloom ♫

Ah Li!

Ah Li, what's wrong?

Are you all right?

I'm fine.

[Chang Le Lu Manor]

Zixuan.

Why did you come here to look for me?

I...

Extend your hand. I have something to give you.

This... are all my valuables.

Zixuan, I will buy your freedom.

Once I buy you, you will not be a servant of the Lu family anymore.

This way, you don't need to leave Chang Le anymore.

Are you really willing to use the money that you saved from working so hard

to buy my freedom?

Yes.

Zixuan, as long as you don't want to leave, no one can force you.

Brother Gengzhi.

Don't just stand there. Hurry and let them bring out your slave contract.

Brother Gengzhi,

I cannot accept your money.

For the past years, Lady has treated me like a real sister.

I can't bear to let her go to such a faraway place by herself.

That's why...

Thank you, Brother Gengzhi.

I will always remember your intentions.

Then... will you still return?

Zixuan, even if you don't come back,

I still will go visit you.

Really?

Yes. When did I lie to you?

Then... it is a promise.

Yes, a promise.

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♫ Previously heard the sadness of the vast seas ♫

♫ Previously saw the fireworks in the desert ♫

♫ Before I understood that all things that glitter will fall down ♫

♫ Or else, on what basis does destiny become magnificent? ♫

♫ Birds would fly by and fishes would swim by the coldest lake ♫

♫ The flowing water is heartless, the flowing years is speckled, leaving a legend behind ♫

♫ Your suddenness, my waning, the lanterns on a long road ♫

♫ You are in the vast seas while I was in the galaxy when we met our karma ♫

♫ Previously saw the vastness of the seas ♫

♫ Previously saw the clouds at Mount Wu ♫

♫ Previously saw the outline of your expression ♫

♫ At the deepest part of the ocean, at the deepest part of the dream, there are sparks ♫

♫ A book having no words, the paper is too short to describe one's feelings, it's hard to narrate one's yearning ♫

♫ Book lamp, teacup, common folk simple happiness, it is so common that is why one is sad ♫

♫ Your suddenness, my waning, the lanterns on a long road ♫

♫ You are in the vast seas while I was in the galaxy when we met our karma ♫

♫ Looking at the moth fly into the fire ♫

♫ Loving in such scorching hot manner ♫

♫ Living in the face of death ♫

♫ The moth flies into the seas, throwing itself into limitless vastness ♫

♫ Love and hate both sink. Love lives in the face of death. ♫

♫ Previously heard the sadness of the vast seas ♫

♫ Previously loved the fireworks in the desert ♫

♫ Before I understood that everyone that loves will suffer ♫

♫ Or else why would tears be so clear? ♫