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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 21 -

This has nothing to do with Qin Hao. It was all my fault.

Wu Julan, the person you want to kill is me. Just vent it out on me.

- Qin Hao.- You two are really so in love with each other.

Although we were unable to finish the marriage ceremonies, I have long considered myself part of the Qin family already.

Even if you kill us, you won't be able to separate our hearts.

Fine.

Then I'll just let you you two be separated by yin and yang, never seeing each other again.

Don't kill him!

Ah Li...

- Move aside.- Ah Li...

If you are going to kill him, then kill me first.

Ah Li, let go. Ah Li!

Don't think that I won't dare to kill you.

Let go. Let go.

Let go, Ah Li!

Ah Li...

Wu Julan, I beg you.

I can do whatever you say. Just let Qin Hao go.

The more you love and protect him,

the more I hate him.

What really must I do before you will let him go?

Unless he dies.

Wu Julan, I am willing to do anything for you.

I only beg you to let Qin Hao go.

Bitch!

What kind of person are you treating me as?!

You abducted me on my wedding day, brought me here to Blue Cave, and keep torturing Qin Hao.

Isn't it because I am still in your heart?

Is that why you are grasping my weakness,

planning to use your tricks on me again, and planning to fool me again?!

I am unable to fool you anymore.

I only wanted to use the remaining obsession your heart had towards me to make a deal with you.

What deal? A flesh deal?

As long as it can save Qin Hao, I am willing to do anything.

So in saving Qin Hao, you are willing to forsake even your virginity?!

Just to take revenge for my family's grudge, I was willing to endure pain and yield to my enemy. What does virginity amount to then?

I had almost forgotten.

You were a ruthless, heartless, and shameless person to begin with.

How come I fell for you?

Good thing now, I have no interest in you at all.

This is a valuable treasure that our merfolk royal family have been passing down for generations.

My mother died early. This hair pin

got passed into my hands early on.

I am giving it to you now as a token of my love.

♫ 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 ♫

♫ I used to be silent and and speechless and used to be full of joy ♫

♫ I used to love you without any expectations ♫

Wu Julan, in this lifetime, I, Lu Li, am only willing to marry you.

I, Wu Julan, will only want you. This will never change in this lifetime.

Lu Li, were you ever sincere with me?

No, I have never loved you.

Wu Julan, starting from now, I only hope that you die!

Lord Lu, having troubles again?

These words are quite harsh to hear.

We have long boarded the same boat. My troubles are also your troubles.

We must eliminate one person.

If you have something to do, you then won't keep thinking about taking revenge.

I want to be able to see you every day.

Unlike now, where I don't know when you will appear

and don't know when you will disappear.

You used to kill people like scything flax. It is only one person this time.

You actually hesitate?

I must remind you that if this person doesn't die,

our grand ambition to kill the merpeople might capsize anytime.

I understand.

Tonight at hai time (9 to 11 pm), this person will be coming from my manor.

While the night is dark and the wind is high, it is a good time to make your move.

Ming Zhu!

Ah Hen, you're back.

I heard that the puppet show by this Western Region circus troupe is really good.

Let's hurry and leave already. Let's not be late.

Sorry, Ming Zhu.

I suddenly have something to do tonight. I can't accompany you to watch the show anymore.

What has happened?

Nothing. A friend from afar

just happened to pass by Chang Le. He insisted that I drink with him and reminisce.

Ah Hen...

Sorry, I disappointed you.

Just think about how you want to punish me later.

Once I return, I will apologize to you and let you vent your anger on me.

Lord's earnest teachings are like thunder from a clear sky and like anointing myself with the purest cream (enlightening me).

Letting me stop while there is still time on this erroneous path of mine.

The Cangming that has already been half-constructed will be destroyed tomorrow morning in the shipyard.

May Lord come then to personally witness it.

I surely will come on time tomorrow morning.

After destroying the Cangming tomorrow morning, I will directly go to your manor to ask for my punishment.

With you having such realizations, I feel very comforted.

This way, it will be easier for me to ask for leniency from the Provincial Governor.

Hope he can be lenient with you and give you a chance to change your mistakes.

Thank you, Lord.

Lu Xiao, you are a very intelligent person. It's natural for you to be arrogant because of your talent.

Let me remind you of one more thing.

Knowing what should be done and doing it is being smart.

Knowing what should not be done but still doing it is being stupid.

There is a saying that states, 'a clever person may become the victim of his own ingenuity'.

If you keep being calculating, you will eventually bring trouble to yourself.

I will surely remember all that Lord said and draw a lesson from this.

No gentleman has a petty mind and no true man is without venom.

Lord Qin, just tell your great principles to the god of death instead.

Who are you guys? You dare ambush the Prefectural Governor of Chang Le at night?

Hurry.

Here.

Lord.

You... are... Did Lu Xiao send you here?

Looks like you are not really muddled.

Too bad, you knew it too late.

Ah Hen...

Ah Hen...

Hurry! After him!

Lord!

Lord, the plan failed.

Prefectural Governor Qin has already been rescued.

What? There were so many of you, yet you were still unable to kill an old guy?

You actually let him escape?

He will surely not let this pass. He'll surely mobilize his troops and come to make me pay.

Lord, don't get agitated. Although the plan failed, Prefectural Governor Qin might be unable to harm you anymore.

News from the Qin Manor states that Prefectural Governor Qin was gravely injured and might be unable to wake up already.

Where did it go wrong?

Mo Hen actually could have easily killed him,

but I don't know from where a woman suddenly appeared and disturbed his focus.

This allowed the people from Qin Manor to have a chance to rescue Prefectural Governor Qin.

Woman?

Min Zhu, sorry.

I didn't mean to hide this from you.

Ah Hen, your uncle is already dead.

Your clan members also suffered great casualties. You still won't let them go?

Must you wait for them to come back and take your life before you will stop?

Some people are blind but their hearts can see very clearly.

Some people instead can see but their hearts are blinded.

Ming Zhu,

I was wrong this time.

I am apologizing for it.

Ah Hen, my eyes are not good.

I can't really see this world that well.

If you keep lying to me and hurting my heart, what else holds the meaning of my life?

Ah Hen, promise me.

Don't ever lie to me again, all right?

I promise you. I won't lie to you again in this lifetime.

[Penglai Abode]

I want to ask you two one thing. Lu Xiao did all that he could before they were able to capture me.

But how come you two were able to easily rescue me?

- Isn't it because I was intelligent? If not because of me-- - It was Lu Li!

What Lu Li? You said it wrong.

What about Lu Li? Hurry and say it.

It was Lu Li who used her marriage in exchange for your safety.

Why is your mouth that fast?

Didn't Zixuan say that we are not allowed to say the truth? Why then did you tell him?

I deliberately said it for His Majesty to hear.

His Majesty has abducted Lu Li. If we still don't say the truth, she might die.

You now know how much Lu Li has given up for you.

And look at how you have treated her.

Brother Julan...

With Julan being like that, is he all right or not?

Your Majesty, where did you go earlier?

I wasn't able to find you so I got worried if something bad had happened to you.

Set Qin Hao free.

The grudge between humans and merpeople is irreconcilable. Why then is Your Majesty letting Qin Hao go?

Don't ask why.

Just do as I say.

I will abide. I believe Your Majesty.

Your Majesty's words and actions will surely not disappoint the merpeople.

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Do you still remember this place? This is the place where you pushed me. Today,

I will also let you experience this taste.

Why did I fall for you?

Good thing now, I am not interested in you at all.

Ah Li.

Qin Hao has already gone back to Chang Le.

So he wasn't the person that I should hate.

Ah Li...

I know everything now.

♫ 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 ♫

Why must you lie to me?

Everything I did was to let you give me up, to forget me.

Why?

Do you not still understand?

The relationship of humans and merpeople are like fire and water.

The merfolk are the killers of my parents.

Ah Li, do you also hate me?

Just to save me, you'd rather sacrifice the rest of your life.

Even during your wedding, you still brought with you the love token I gave you.

You are lying. I have always been in your heart.

Even if I have you in my heart, so what?

You have me in your heart, yet you repeatedly lied to me.

Letting me misunderstand that you were involved in the killing of the merpeople.

Letting me misunderstand that you loved Qin Hao.

Ah Li, do you know how painful my heart is because you did this?

A shorter pain is a lot better than a longer one. If I didn't make you hate me so much,

how could you forget me?

In my heart, I have never forgotten about you.

I didn't in the past. I never will in the future.

You said that I went against my heart and hurt you.

What about you? Aren't you also hurting me against what your heart really wants?

Ah Li...

Sorry.

You don't need to apologize. You didn't do anything wrong.

The merpeople are the enemies of the Lu family.

My older brother is the mastermind behind your father's death.

I cannot love my enemy.

You also cannot be with the little sister of your enemy.

Why?

I only want to stay with you until we die, but how come it must be this difficult?

If we two insist on staying together, we will only be forsaken by our loved ones and will hurt more people.

I am going to betray the older brother that endured hardships to raise me,

while you, as the king of your clan, are going to abandon your clan people.

Wu Julan, the two of us,

are destined to be enemies in this lifetime.

♫ Or else why would tears be so clear? ♫

Your Majesty.

High Priest, do you know that

Ah Li told me so many cruel words before

while I also repeatedly hurt her?

From torturing her skin and flesh to whipping her heart and soul.

But in her eyes, I never saw any hatred

only suffering.

How are you different?

I have wanted numerous times to protect her,

to treat her well, to tell her how much I love her.

But I am unable to do so.

She is a human while I am a merman.

Her older brother Lu Xiao is our enemy.

Could it be that in this lifetime...

I can only see her as a stranger passing by?

In this lifetime, I have solved so many mysterious and hard problems.

But only Your Majesty's difficult problem is something that I can't solve.

I think that this problem of Your Majesty's has no right or wrong answer.

No matter what decision you make,

you must bear the pain that this decision will bring with it.

That is why, Your Majesty, you should just listen to the guidance of your heart.

Just do as your heart says.

Your Majesty, a person's fate is like the ridges in his palm.

No matter how curved or rough they are,

they forever remain held within your hand.

"Last night, a merman attempted to assassinate the Prefectural Governor.

Good thing the Lord is out of danger. I am now giving out this order.

All citizens of this prefecture have the duty to help in the capture. Please remember this."

They even dared to kill the Prefectural Governor.

They are really too bold!

These merpeople are disregarding the laws and morality!

Your skills have diminished significantly.

The matter last night was my negligence.

That was not just a moment of negligence.

Earlier, didn't you almost get hit by me, too?

What really do you want to say?

When the murderous intent of a person is diminished,

his weakness will naturally increase.

Since you are so dissatisfied with me, just right,

I am also fed up working with you.

Looks like you don't want to take revenge anymore.

People like us who bear very deep grudges,

have long placed ourselves within Hell.

We don't have any more sentimental attachments to this secular world.

Your developing the thoughts of withdrawing now,

could it be that you have met someone who has fluttered your heart?

- Or maybe-- - Stop blindly guessing.

I have other plans regarding my revenge.

From now on, the two of us should just return to our own bridge or road. Well water shouldn't enter the territory of a river.

As the ancient saying goes, a sinking boat can be repaired but spilled water cannot be recovered.

You want to leave now?

How could it be that easy?

This is my matter. It has nothing to do with you.

You will surely regret it. I guarantee that.

Ming Zhu!

Ah Hen, you're here.

Hurry and drink some tea to warm your body.

Ah Hen,

what is your decision about the matter I told you last time?

Do you want to stay and keep me company?

I travel throughout the jianghu and take pleasure in repaying debts of kindness and hatred.

How could I be locked up by you in this small tea house?

- Ah Hen... - Stop daydreaming already.

I was only acting with you.

Were all the words you told me before, lies?

It was because I saw that you were quite pretty so I played with you.

But I never thought that you'd be so naive and gullible.

I am a jianghu person and treat the world as my home.

Of course, I also have romantic relationships all over.

Honestly,

although your beauty can be considered of the top level,

compared to those brothel prostitutes, you are still so far away.

If not because you don't ask for my money, I wouldn't really have the interest to play with you.

Ah Hen, that is not how you think deep inside. Am I right?

You are lying to me, right?

Yes, I have always been lying to you.

Only today are my words true.

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Lord, I have already taken care of the matter regarding the Prefectural Governor as you have instructed.

After eliminating this obstacle,

we can then continue constructing the Cangming without any restraints.

Ah Li has been kidnapped and taken to the Blue Cave for several days already.

We must hurry and build the Cangming to kill the merpeople and save Ah Li.

There is actually one problem right now.

We don't have enough congealed merpeople fat that we must apply over the boat exterior.

In our hands, we only have those soldiers we arrested after the fight on the beach.

Since they won't come up on land,

let us go down to the seas to catch them.

I heard that on Chisha Island not far from here, there are a lot of merpeople that appear there.

I understand. I will take some men right now to go to Chisha Island.

Young Master! Young Master!

Young Master, what happened?

- Young Master... - Hurry and assist Young Master.

Young Master is back!

Madam!

Madam, slowly.

- Young Master is back. - Hao'er.

Hao'er.

Hao'er.

Thanks to the gods that they have blessed you.

I even thought that you wouldn't be able to return anymore.

Didn't I already return? Mother, don't be sad anymore.

Young Master...

There is something that you don't know. Master, he...

What's wrong with my father?

Your father...

Although the Master was able to survive,

the doctor said that he is unable to do anything anymore.

The Master might not be able to wake up anymore forever.

Hao'er, your father was hurt by a merman.

You must take revenge for your father.

The grudge of hurting my father, the hatred for stealing my wife,

if I am unable to seek vengeance for these,

then I swear that I won't be able to continue being human.

Your Majesty, we just received news earlier

that on Chisha Island not far from Chang Le, several merpeople have gone missing. Everyone is suspecting

maybe this matter was done by the humans.

Your Majesty, my little brother went missing on Chisha Island.

This must be the doing of the humans.

I beg Your Majesty to punish the humans and rescue my little brother.

Jin Ling, immediately take some men to Chisha Island and investigate this matter.

I will abide.

General, this is blood from a merperson.

General, there are traces here, too!

On Chisha Island, there was indeed a fierce battle that happened due to the hunting of merpeople.

When we arrived, the blood had not yet completely clotted.

But we were unable to find any traces of merpeople. I fear that they most likely are in an ominous situation.

Your Majesty, if this can be endured, what else can't?

Your Majesty, the humans have repeatedly humiliated us. We must not just keep sitting and do nothing.

We must make the humans aware of our power!

Your Majesty, why not let General Jin Ling lead an army and make a sneak attack on a fishing village during the night and kill some humans, too.

Isn't just killing a few humans letting them off easily?

I think that we should immediately declare war against the humans.

May Your Majesty declare war on the humans!

I naturally understand what you all want.

But the merpeople just suffered a blow. If we start war now, we have no sure chance of winning.

Your Majesty, if we still don't deploy the army now to make known the might of our merpeople,

I fear that humans will become more unrestrained and will just worsen their attacks on us.

If we recklessly sent out the army now and they return in low spirits due to defeat,

I fear that it will only increase the arrogance of the humans.

It will only cause the lives of our clan members to be sacrificed in vain.

If not because Your Majesty has plans to appease the humans,

this tragedy today would also not have happened.

Chi Die! Are you questioning me?

I dare not.

Your Majesty doesn't want to deploy the army. So are we just going to let this bloody debt go unpaid?

Of course not.

We are just concealing our strength and biding our time to plot how to make our counterattack.

Heng Bo, inform all our clan members to stay away from the territorial waters of Chang Le and to be on guard.

Jin Lin, train the soldiers day and night.

Prepare them for an all out fight with the humans.

We will abide!

Your Majesty, if we still don't deploy the army now to make known the might of our merpeople,

I fear that humans will become more unrestrained and will just worsen their attacks on us.

If not because Your Majesty has plans to appease the humans,

this tragedy today would also not have happened.

Since you don't want to continue working with me,

I can only use such a method to ask you to come here.

You really think I am a person that fears death that easily?

I have already died once. I have already placed death outside any of my considerations.

It's easy to say such words,

but to do them...

is quite hard.

Seeking revenge will never really make a person happy.

As long as you stop the horse before it falls off the cliff,

everything is not too late.

You really don't dislike me?

You gave up on your grudge just for me.

I should instead be happy about it.

I walk through the jianghu and only remember my own grudges and have no time to care about that of others.

I have always traveled and worked alone.

I don't need anyone to help or favor me.

I also cannot endure working under anyone.

In this world, there is still no one who can order me around.

Fine then.

I will see then, if it is your mouth that's tough or if my method is tougher.

Mo Hen, I am asking you one last time.

Are you willing to work with me?

You want me to be your lackey? Just keep on dreaming.

Lu Li!

Don't you look when you walk? You have hurt me.

You even broke the flower vase that the former king loved the most.

Your Lady Highness Shanggong, how do you think she should be punished?

You even act as if you are suffering.

Humans are really the most vicious and crafty animals on this world.

Just like you, who only knows to pretend to be pitiful and win over the compassion of His Majesty.

But deep inside, don't know how evil you are.

I really want to see

how you can still keep acting pitiful after I destroy your face.

Do you know that in this Blue Cave, everyone wants to kill you and take pleasure from it.

Jing Yu.

Aren't you still going to leave?

Your Majesty, it was Lu Li who broke the flower vase of the former king first.

Leave!

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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? ♫