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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 22 -

The merpeople have already been repeatedly bullied by the humans.

His Majesty, instead, still kept defending that Lu Li.

In my opinion, His Majesty can't bear to kill that Lu Li.

I think that His Majesty still has feelings with that Lu Li.

Kidnapping her from Chang Le and doing everything possible to make her stay in his chambers.

I think it is just to give them convenience to see each other in private.

His Majesty indeed got bewitched by this human girl.

It was because we fell into the trap of the humans last time

that the former king got killed.

This time, they still keep adopting an appeasement strategy.

Just letting those humans bully and insult us.

If this continues, I fear that the merpeople clan will get annihilated.

How dare you all!

General.

His Majesty indeed fell in love with Lu Li before.

But after discovering the real face of humans, he already severed this love connection.

His Majesty now has no bit of sentimental attachment to Lu Li.

What he has for her is only the grudge for killing his father, the hatred for the massacre of his clan members.

If I hear you all again speaking at will and making up nonsense,

I will surely persecute you all with the crime of rebellion.

I will surely not be lenient!

The wound still has not yet fully healed.

But compared to before, it is way better.

Do you still feel unwell anywhere?

I am already fine.

Actually, even if you don't say it, I also know.

Based on the current situation, the conflict between humans and merpeople will just get worse.

I already heard about what happened in Chisha Island. Sorry.

This matter has nothing to do with you.

How could it not be related to me?

I am the only human here in Blue Cave and the little sister of Lu Xiao, the envoy to kill the merpeople.

Indeed. The hatred of the merpeople is hard to pacify. They surely will look for you to vent it.

I fear that your days from now on will not be that easy.

I deserve to die.

This is not your fault.

It was me who has many problems that I am not focused on my sword training.

I will be bold.

There are some offensive words to Your Majesty that I don't know if I should say or not.

Just say them.

Since Your Majesty brought Lu Li to Blue Cave,

rumors have been spreading among the merpeople.

And now, the matter about humans luring and capturing merfolk increased further the hostility of our ministers to humans.

The rumors spreading also have become more and more absurd.

If this continues, I fear that it might affect your rule.

I hope that Your Majesty can make careful considerations when it comes to Lu Li's matter and not let anyone say anything anymore.

I previously asked Your Majesty a question before.

If one day, you can only choose one between Lu Li and the merpeople,

how would you choose?

If one day, Lu Li violated the interest of the merfolk,

I would surely not let her go.

It's good that Your Majesty still remembers it. I can understand your pain.

Love is not an item that can come and go.

Forgetting is easy to say,

but so hard to do.

Ordinary people can be burdened by love.

But you are not an ordinary being. You are the king of the merpeople.

A king must pocket private interests for the greater good.

He must sacrifice personal feelings for his greater love of the country.

What you said is right.

Since I supported you from the day you ascended the throne, I have firmly believed

that Your Majesty will surely be the wisest,

most farsighted, and ablest king.

May Your Majesty rest early.

Tomorrow, go back to Chang Le.

What you said is right.

The two of us are destined to be enemies.

Since one is going to fall into thousands of feet deep ice cellar, why bother clinging onto previous warmth?

Ming Zhu, I am already a person that was supposed to die.

It was you who ignited my hope to live.

I am useless. I am unable to do anything for you.

But I will surely ensure your safety.

I will also never do anything that you hate again.

Ah Hen, those words that you said to me before were lies, right?

You must have your predicament, am I right?

Ah Hen, come back. I won't hate you.

Ah Hen...

Lord, I came late.

You have always been benevolent and honest and loved your citizens like they were your children.

Even towards the fierce and ruthless merpeople, you urged me to be lenient and treat them with respect.

I never thought that these merfolk

not only didn't repay your kindness, they even attempted to assassinate you.

Since I came to Chang Le, I have always been taken care of by you.

In my heart, I have long treated you as my real father.

I never thought that when I still hadn't gotten the chance to repay your kindness,

you had already suffered in the evil hands of the merpeople.

For Brother Lu to find time to visit my father,

our whole Qin family is really very grateful.

Little brother, you saying that is like being a stranger.

Lord Qin is not only my respected teacher,

he is also Ah Li's father-in-law, which makes him my uncle.

I never thought in just a short span of time, my Qin family would suffer successive disasters.

Little brother, we still haven't taken revenge.

It is still not the time to be sad.

The people who gave me life are my parents.

With my father meeting such a misfortune, currently pacing back and forth between life and death,

we still don't know how we will fare. If I don't take revenge for this, I am not a man.

Ah Li is my fiancée.

And now, she is deep within the enemy's camp and is suffering humiliation and bullying.

If I am unable to take revenge for that, I have no face to continue living ignobly in this world.

The merpeople live far inside the Blue Cave,

hiding in the vast ocean, and are very hard to find.

If we want to kill them all, we can only do so by doing our best to construct the Cangming.

Slashing through the waves and directly charging into the lair of the merfolk.

With it, we might be able to successfully defeat them in this war.

Cangming?

Cangming is a giant ship written in ancient texts.

Not only is this ship able to hold tens of thousands of people, it claims to last long and will never sink.

If we want to charge into Blue Cave, I fear that this is the only way.

I actually planned to request permission from Lord Qin to construct this ship.

I never thought that Lord Qin instead...

May Brother Lu just go ahead and construct this ship.

My father was hurt by the merpeople. This decision...

I am making it for him.

It's just that I fear that constructing such a boat will require great investments.

Money or resources,

as long as Brother Lu asks for it, our Qin family will surely do our best to support you.

Since Little Brother is already determined to do so, I will surely do my best to build Cangming.

The earlier Cangming is built,

that will be a day less of suffering for Ah Li inside that Blue Cave.

I will also be able to take revenge for my father earlier.

Qin Hao already got convinced by me.

He will officially support the construction of Cangming as a government official.

Right now, he will be hiring more ship laborers.

The construction of Cangming will be done very soon.

Congratulations, Lord.

But there is one thing I don't understand.

Since we already have Cangming and will be able to attack Blue Cave anytime,

why must we still rely on Mo Hen?

Mo Hen's identity is very special.

He is a merman and also a former royal.

That's why, Mo Hen knows a lot of secrets of the merpeople.

In attacking Blue Cave, I fear that we still will need him.

It's just that Mo Hen is already about to die, yet he still refuses to talk.

If this continues, I worry that we might kill him.

Of course, we can't kill him.

Since using force doesn't work,

I think we should try a softer method.

How is the matter of catching merpeople going?

I already followed Lord's orders and went to Chisha Island in the morning and was able to catch some merpeople.

But in the afternoon, the merfolk no longer took the bait.

Tomorrow morning, I will go again to Chisha Island to test my luck.

Beasts walk on heaven and earth naked,

roars within mountains and valleys.

They are barbaric and ignorant. Their only goal is to satisfy their hunger.

Humans, just to achieve their goals,

will repeatedly think about it,

will exhaust one's thoughts and ingenuity. How could beasts

fight with humans?

Qiu Feng,

tomorrow morning, bring all the injured merpeople

on the beach of Chang Le.

Yes, Lord.

You won't be able to catch me!

- Slower!- You just won't be able to catch me.

Unable to catch me...

I caught you!

There is someone there.

Qiu Feng?

Qiu Feng...

Hit them!

Hide.

Attack!

Catch them!

Take them all away.

It's really "a dashi/tasshi (respected teacher) is as straight as the bow string (upright), a villain is as curved as a hook."

This Lu Xiao can really refresh my definition for despicable.

How is he able to think of such an evil method? Really so want to...

lock him up in a cage and parade him around the streets.

No, I must return to Blue Cave. I must inform everyone!

You cannot go back to Blue Cave. You already had a fall out with them. If you go back now, we don't know how they will treat you.

The merpeople clan is now facing danger. Even if I have already been expelled from the clan, I still cannot just cross my arms and just watch.

Yin Hu...

Dachun, don't worry. Just for you, I will surely return safely.

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Stop!

Move aside! I have important matters to see His Majesty.

Yin Hu, you have already been expelled from the clan. What face do you have to still come back?

I really have very urgent matters to see His Majesty!

Stop!

They used the injured merpeople as bait

and then took the chance when they were saving their comrades to hunt them all down.

I saw it very clearly! That human that was leading the attack was Lu Xiao's man, Qiu Feng.

So it's Lu Xiao again.

I earnestly beg Your Majesty to harshly punish the humans and protect our clan people!

Your Majesty, we cannot just sit and not do anything anymore.

Since the luring and catching of merpeople is the doing of Lu Xiao,

then let us just kill his little sister Lu Li

and then gift the head of Lu Li to Lu Xiao to show the might of our merfolk.

That's right! Kill Lu Li! To show the might of the merpeople!

You all cannot do that!

Bring Lu Li over here!

Lu Li previously saved His Majesty. What does this got to do with her?

You traitor! Shut up!

What right do you have to interfere with the matters of the merpeople?

May Your Majesty personally kill Lu Li to take revenge for my deceased clan men.

Begging Your Majesty to personally kill Lu Li!

Begging Your Majesty to personally kill Lu Li!

Your Majesty...

Tomorrow at noontime,

I am going to do a grand ceremonial offering to the ocean...

and will personally kill Lu Li.

Men! Take Lu Li away.

Your Majesty... you cannot do that!

Lu Li. Lu Li!

Your Majesty is wise!

Everyone, can you see it clearly! It was her! This bitch!

Beat her to death!

Killing you is already letting you off easy!

So shameless! Beat her to death!

Beat her to death!

Shameless thing! Beat her up to death!

Stop hitting already!

Beat them both up to death! Beat them to death!

- You two can really understand each other's burden.- Stop hitting already!

Why not the both of you just be the offerings for tomorrow so you can at least be sisters in the path to the netherworld.

Yin Hu not only betrayed the clan, she even married a human.

Really a shameless person. Let us also hit her! Beat her up!

- Hit her!- Let's go.

Seducing our king! Beat them to death! Bitch!

Hit! Hit!

Is Your Majesty really doing that?

Lu Li is innocent.

How do I not know that Lu Li is innocent?

But the hatred of the citizens is hard to quell. Now that the matter has come to this, as the king,

what choice do I still have?

Can you stop pacing? You are already making me dizzy.

Yin Hu has gone to the Blue Cave to deliver a message since this morning, yet she is still not back.

Could something bad have happened already?

I think that you are just overly worrying.

I am overly worried? You haven't seen the merpeople in that Blue Cave.

Each one looking so strong and muscular. And they even have fierce looks towards Yin Hu.

Wrong!

I can see that Jin Lin doesn't look at her fiercely.

It was clearly like...

full of tender affection.

Jin Lin likes her so Yin Hu will surely be alright. Just be at ease.

You...

With you saying that, the more I am worried. Yin Hu and I are just newly married.

For her, I am taking medicines everyday, yet she went back to Blue Cave.

Maybe she is now together with that full of tender affection Jin Lin!

I didn't mean it that way. Listen to me.

How come I am this pathetic!

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Excuse me, are you here to drink tea?

I just happened to pass by. I came to rest for a while.

Mister, this way please.

I never thought that in this little tea house, there would be such exquisite tea art.

In cooking tea, what's important is a calm heart.

I had my eye illness since I was little and am unable to see ever since;

hence, I am not affected by the worries of the secular world. I then focus all my attention to my craft.

Mister, please taste how the flavor is.

It's good tea.

Mister, I fear that it is still early for you to say that it's good.

You need to taste this tea 3 times before you can appreciate its real taste.

The first cup is refreshing and sweet.

Just like when one is young, high spirited, and is pleased with oneself.

The second cup is bitter. Just like when one reaches his midlife,

experiencing the trials of this world and having tasted all the hardships and pains of this world.

The third cup is acerbic.

It is like a person entering its final years. There is happiness and sadness.

There is sweetness and bitterness.

Recalling how this life had winds and rains tossing about,

reminiscing them thousands of times in ones heart. How can it not taste acerbic then?

That was really excellent.

These 3 cups of tea

exactly hinted what Confucius said.

There are three things that a gentleman must not do.

When he is young, his spirits are still unstable.

He should avoid lust.

Afterwards, he becomes stronger. His spirit is young and vigorous. He then must avoid fighting.

When he grows old, his spirit declines so he should avoid being greedy.

Looks like other than having a good tea craft,

Miss also has a pure heart and spirit, and is very intelligent.

In such a young age, you were already able to understand the principles of life.

Mister, I embarrassed myself to you.

I have only relied on my craft and opened a little tea house.

I wanted to save money so I can cure my eye illness. I am not really as good as you are saying.

Are you the only one managing

this tea house?

Isn't there any male owner?

If I said something wrong, I hope you can forgive me.

I'll get going now, Miss. Here.

This is my payment for the tea.

So sorry. My money purse is broken.

Mister's money bag needs sewing already.

I have never married. I only have one naughty little sister at home;

hence, no one really does any sewing work. I have embarrassed myself to you.

I still have something to do today.

I will just come next time to taste your tea craft.

I will welcome you anytime.

Here.

Starting today,

you will be divided into to two shifts.

Rush the work from day to night.

Those that are lazy and delay the work will be heavily punished.

Those that are hardworking and very willing to work will be heavily rewarded.

Try hard to construct the Cangming as soon as possible!

Yes!

Ah Li, you must hold on.

Once I've built Cangming,

I can go save you already.

General! General!

General! I beg you to save Lu Li!

It was Lu Xiao who led those men to kill us. It has nothing to do with Lu Li!

Lu Li is different from her older brother.

And also, when His Majesty got imprisoned in Chang Le, it was even Lu Li who saved her.

Yin Hu, don't you understand?

This matter is very grave.

It is not the time to pay for debts of kindness, returning politeness with politeness.

- I only know returning an act of kindness with hatred is the doing of a villain!- Yin Hu!

Don't say such profane words!

Anyway, I have already been driven out of the clan!

I am not afraid of offending the king anymore!

It is just that the action of His Majesty today is really shameful!

You are saying that His Majesty is being ungrateful. I instead feel that His Majesty

did a wise and resolute decision.

Humans killed so many merpeople.

The anger of the merfolk must be vented somewhere. Rather than activating a war

and letting the innocent citizens die in vain, why not just sacrifice a measly Lu Li?

- You...- I understand your feelings.

But the matter has already come to this. I fear that Lu Li must die.

Even if I am unable to save Lu Li,

General, I beg you already. Take me to see her.

Lu Li.

Yin Hu, thank you that you are still willing to see me.

Zixuan slipped and told us the truth about you saving Wu Julan.

We all know about it now.

Before, we blamed you wrongly.

Lu Li, you really had it hard.

Wu Julan already knows that you did so much for him, yet he was still heartless and is going to do this cruel thing to you.

It's not his fault. He has his difficulties.

Then blame your good older brother.

He repeatedly keeps trying to annihilate us.

My older brother initially was also not a bad person.

He has only fallen too deeply into the tempest of seeking revenge;

unable to pull himself out.

The victims then have now become the murderers.

These matters...

when will they end?

Lu Li, you are so stupid.

Now that things have come to this, you don't even hate or bear grudges on anyone.

But don't worry, I will definitely not watch you die. I surely will think of a way to save you.

Your Majesty,

although the decision to kill Lu Li was made by you,

I am still holding on to a sliver of hope and came to beg you.

I beg that you consider the past relationship of you two and leave Lu Li a chance to live.

I don't really want to kill Lu Li.

But you already saw the situation in the Great Hall earlier.

If I don't kill her, how am I going to pacify the hatred of the merpeople?

But you have given the merfolk justification. Who then will give Lu Li justice?

When the former king died,

I previously made an oath that

I would never bear any pity towards the humans.

Jin Lin already told me these great principles. I only want to tell you that

Lu Li has always been sincere towards you.

She can sacrifice her own life just to save you.

But what about Your Majesty? Not only are you not saving her,

you even want to personally kill her. Are you treating Lu Li fairly by doing that? Can you even face the heart that loved her before?

I never wronged anyone!

It was the humans who ruthlessly harmed the merpeople.

As they say, pay a debt of blood with blood.

Lu Li must die for those merfolk that have died.

I have always thought that Your Majesty was an affectionate and faithful person.

I never thought that you were also a cold and heartless assassin.

I really feel unfair for Lu Li. She saved the wrong person.

And more importantly, loved the wrong person. If she knew that there would be a day like this,

why did she still risk her life before to save you?

Even if your words break the sky,

Lu Li still must die.

Fine then! If Your Majesty won't save her, I will think of a way by myself to save her!

[Tomb of the Past King]

[Tomb of the Past King]

I am making an oath here today.

That from now on,

that while I am around, the clan will prosper. If the clan dies, I will die.

I am going to live and die together with the merfolk.

For the benefits of the merfolk, even if I have to die,

even if I have to sacrifice the person that I love the most,

I will not refuse it.

If I break this oath,

I will get destroyed by the heavens and earth; being placed in eternal doom.

Master! You were always full of ideas!

Teach me what I should do to save Lu Li.

You are the only one left that can help me. Master!

The only person that can save Lu Li now

is His Majesty. Do you understand?

But I already went to beg him.

He really is cold-hearted. No matter what I say, he still refused to save Lu Li.

Tomorrow morning is already the sea offering ceremony.

What should we do?

Master, just think of another way. Okay?

Master...

Don't you hate me?

You are the king of the merpeople. There is nothing wrong with your decision.

The humans are being overbearing. For the merfolk to want me dead is something that can't be helped.

I just hope that after I die,

the conflict between humans and merpeople can be pacified and that no more innocent people should be sacrificed.

It will be the sea offering ceremony tomorrow.

Do you still have any unfulfilled wishes?

I only want to ask for one thing.

What?

The red coral hair pin that you gave me.

I want to take a remembrance on my way to the netherworld.

♫ 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 ♫

Wu Julan, I still remember that

you said...

you would love me from the fluttering of your heart until you are very old.

Too bad, I won't be able to wait for us to grow old anymore.

Sorry, I went against my words.

It's not your fault. Thinking about it now. That is really quite a difficult matter to do.

♫ 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. ♫

Ming Zhu.

Mister, it's you.

I happen to be free today so I came here to your place to bother you.

You are helping my business.

I should thank you instead, so why say that you are a bother?

Oh, wait a minute.

Last time, you said that no one at your house can sew.

In my free time, I made you a money bag.

I am blind so my sewing skills are naturally not that good. I hope you can forgive that.

It's really rare to have a miss this attentive to me.

I will surely take care of your business more often.

This way, I am able to pay you back for your affection.

I am treating mister as a friend, so no need to make it sound like we are strangers.

I am currently making huangya tea from Huo Mountain in Shouzhou. Just come and taste it.

Thank you, sir.

Today, do you have any problems?

Mister indeed is very attentive.

Since you treat me as your friend,

why not tell me the things that are bothering you?

Maybe I can help share your burden?

To tell you the truth, I have someone I love.

I don't know where he has gone to recently.

No news from him at all, so it makes me very worried.

Based on the way you speak, you love him very much.

If he is not someone that I want to entrust the rest of my life with, why must I care for him this much?

I don't know how much good karma he accumulated in his past life

that he can make you miss him this much. Listening to it makes me very envious.

Mister, you are mocking me.

Mister and me have really hit it off. Can you help me with a favor?

Please say it.

Based on your speech and movements, you must be a person with high status here in Chang Le.

I don't know if you can help me look for news about the whereabouts of Sir Mo?

Ming Zhu, can you tell it to me in a more detailed manner?

I will help you look for Sir Mo. But in terms of romantic relationships,

as an outsider, I also don't want to dare say some rubbish things to comfort your heart.

Is the tea almost done?

But I know that this tea is a matter with spirit that came from the heavens and earth.

Drinking a cup not only can open your sleeves and wash away the sluggishness, make you relaxed and be in harmony,

it can even wash away the dust in your heart and clean up the worries in this world.

Today, you are not an owner and I am not a customer. We are just friends who are talking about the problems in our hearts.

Can Miss drink a cup with me?

I am honored that Mister does not dislike me. I will then follow as you wish to show my utmost respect.

Lu Li! Lu Li...

Yin Hu, you...

Don't say anything anymore. Quickly come with me.

Hurry and go.

Stop wasting your energy already. Even if you are able to leave this place,

there are numerous soldiers guarding the Blue Cave in all corners. It is impossible for you to take Lu Li out of here.

It was my own decision to save Lu Li.

This has nothing to do with Lu Li.

For this matter, I will treat it that I didn't see it.

If you try to save her again, I will surely punish you severely.

If you don't want to join the ocean offering ceremony,

you can rest in your chambers. I will ask a few--

General, you knew that I wouldn't be able to save Lu Li.

Why must you still send people to follow me?!

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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? ♫