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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 23 -

Your Ladyship Shanggong.

Do you know what this is?

This is called a fish bone precious dagger.

This merman was killed by humans.

That is why this dagger naturally has in it a hatred towards humans.

Once it is moistened by human blood, its evil spirit will radiate all around and be incomparably sharp.

The blade will look for the throat of humans and their life channels.

It will only stop once all your life channels have been severed and you have completely bled out.

Aren't you afraid?

Whether I am afraid or not, I still won't escape death. Right?

If my life can really comfort

those grudging souls of the departed and eliminate the hatred of those living,

then I will be dying for something worthy. Thinking of it that way, why would I be afraid?

You arrogant and conceited lowly slave!

What right do you have to have a worthy death?

Let me tell you.

Even if you go to Hell after dying, the grudging souls of the dead merpeople will still keep pestering you!

You'll fully feel the pain of being crushed by boulders in a blood bath, going up a mountain of blades , to swim in a sea of fire.

The ocean offering ceremony later will be done on the Xinyue (new moon) Island in the west.

Take this lowly slave over there

and enter the ocean from the west.

Yes.

Your Majesty, the ocean offering ceremony will start soon.

Let me assist you in changing your clothes.

Go and call Yin Hu for me.

Yes.

Your Majesty, Yin Hu is here.

Your Majesty, have you finally thought about it clearly?

Come. Sit down.

Drink a few cups with me.

I thought you had already come around and planned to save Lu Li already.

I never thought that you'd just be here drinking alcohol alone.

Sit down!

What king? What man?

Aren't you just a coward?

What did you say?!

Did I say anything wrong?

Let me tell you.

Since I became the king of the merpeople,

I've only had one identity since then.

I have no right to follow what I desire.

I cannot be weak.

Cannot grieve.

Cannot even love the person that I love.

Your Majesty, drink less.

Lu Li is love. My clan is righteousness.

If I choose love, the world will say that I am muddled and an imbecile.

If I choose righteousness, the world will then curse me as being heartless.

So lamentable. So funny.

No matter what I do,

I will suffer the criticism of the world.

Your Majesty, drink less.

I dare not say these words on usual days.

After drinking a few cups,

only then can I dare to say this nonsense.

I also want to save Ah Li.

Ah Li is the person that I love the most.

Even if I have to give up my territories and throne for her, I am not afraid to do so.

I so love to watch all the prosperity in this world together with Ah Li.

I so want to protect her.

I so want to hold hands and grow old with her.

Your Majesty...

But I... even if I have already used up all my energy,

I sill have to disappoint her.

Your Majesty...

Yin Hu...

If I could love the person I love as I want to,

how good would that be?

There was a beauty that I can't forget after seeing her.

One day that I don't see her, I go wild like crazy.

I am like a high flying male phoenix searching everywhere for my female love.

But can't do anything for my love that is not within the eastern wall.

Your Majesty.

Your Majesty. Your Majesty.

Stop wasting your efforts. Even if you are able to leave this area,

there's a huge number of guards all over Blue Cave. It is impossible for you to rescue Lu Li.

As ordered by His Majesty, immediately bring Lu Li to ride the boat

toward the area of the ocean ceremony. I have already prepared the boat. Come with me.

The escorting of Lu Li is a matter headed by Her Ladyship Chi Die. Without her verbal decree--

His Majesty's royal seal is in my hand.

Could it be that in your eyes, His Majesty is inferior to her Ladyship Shanggong?

- I dare not. - But who are you?

Why are you not willing to show us your real face?

I am Cai Lan, a personal attendant of His Majesty.

When I was gathering honey yesterday, I accidentally got stung by bees,

that's why I have to do this to cover up the ugliness.

Whether you really got stung by bees or not, just one look and I will know.

You fellows are so bold! Once I tell His Majesty about this, just wait to be taught a lesson!

We are only following orders. Really so sorry for being rude.

- We were rude. - Aren't you two still moving?

Yes.

Wait.

Miss Cai Lan, her Ladyship Shanggong said earlier to enter the ocean from the west.

But the path you are leading us on is clearly southward toward the back mountain.

Really? Maybe I remembered it wrong.

How could you forget such an important matter?

Who are you really?!

Yin Hu, thank you.

Just thank me once we are able to get out of here.

Wait. There are two brothers of ours here.

- Brother, wake up. What happened? - Wake up, brother.

Lu Li and Yin Hu have escaped.

- Quickly inform the General! - Yes!

What?

Lu Li actually escaped?

Based on the sound of the horn, she most likely has not escaped out of Blue Cave yet.

Kill Lu Li to show my clan's might.

What is that sound?

This is the merpeople's security alarm. We have been discovered.

Hurry and go!

Catch the two of them!

Stop!

Catch them!

Catch her.

- I will kill this lowly slave! - Stop.

Move aside. I will kill her.

His Majesty has ordered that Lu Li be killed during the ocean offering ceremony.

Your Ladyship Shanggong, are you trying to do an illegal punishment?

I don't care if it's legal or not!

As long as this slave girl is alive, she will do anything to escape.

I want her dead right now!

Kill Lu Li!

Kill her! Kill Lu Li!

- Calm down! - Kill Lu Li!

- Silence! - Kill Lu Li!

- Everyone, calm down! Listen to me! - Kill Lu Li!

Kill her! Kill Lu Li!

Kill Lu Li!

Kill her! Kill Lu Li!

Kill Lu Li!

Kill her! Kill Lu Li!

Your Majesty!

- Your Majesty! - Lu Li!

♫ Holding hands coming and going, a lonely sky and earth ♫

♫ The first tear that fall is separation ♫

♫ Within destiny, within reincarnation, the stars and oceans are you ♫

♫ Blocking the sharpness of the human world for you ♫

♫ No matter how many wounds, I still want to see you again ♫

Wu Julan, why did you save me?

At the time, my sight was just locked on you.

I had no time to care about any other things.

If this dagger were a few inches deeper, it could have stabbed your heart.

My heart is already full of holes.

It won't really matter if it gets stabbed one more time.

Wu Julan, you are really stupid.

How are you going to explain this to your clan now?

I am not worthy for you to do this.

What about you?

For me,

you gave up on your lifetime of happiness.

How much smarter are you compared to me?

Your Majesty.

All of this must have been planned by you beforehand, am I right?

Your Majesty didn't want Lu Li to die from the start.

Do you know that...

Lu Li for me is like a chant.

As long as I see her or think of her,

I can't help protecting her and treating her well.

How then could I just watch and see her die?

But Lu Li is a human.

She is the biological little sister of Lu Xiao, the envoy to annihilate the merpeople.

Your Majesty and Lu Li

are destined to separate in this lifetime.

This doomed love is just a torment for you and Lu Li.

If you just allow your feelings to overflow, it will be hard to clean up the mess in the end.

I understand all the reasons.

But after pulling out my dagger and trying to cut off the water, the water just flowed more.

Then move a mountain to fill the ocean to stop the water from flowing.

Your Majesty clearly knows that you are in mud.

You must not keep sinking deeper.

His Majesty actually did such a move?

How could a king like that protect our clan and promote the awe-inspiring might of us merfolk?

That's right...

If the former king knew about this,

he would surely be lamenting and be very angry.

Everyone, be quiet!

I believe that His Majesty will surely have a fair judgment.

We already saw the fair judgment of His Majesty earlier.

Just to save a human slave girl, he was willing to lose his life.

This is his fair judgment.

That's right...

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Ah Li, I'll walk you up to here.

The conflict between humans and merpeople is like this ocean.

Although there are waves, it still hasn't reached a stage where it can't be resolved.

If the conflict gets deeper,

I fear to humans or merfolk,

it would be a catastrophe.

I will go back and urge my clan members

to put down their grudges and hatred.

If there is no wind, there will be no waves.

The person that blew and formed these angry waves is my older brother.

I will also go back to convince him to put down his grudge and hatred

and let all of this end here.

If the humans do not offend us, I will not attack them.

But if the humans keep forcing us,

we will also not show any weakness.

The two of us...

should just end here.

In this world, there is one thing

that we are unable to resist or change.

This is destiny.

Ah Li,

let us say goodbye here.

You must also forget me, Wu Julan.

From now on,

let us not see each other again forever.

Not thinking about each other forever.

Not loving each other forever.

Not delaying each other forever.

♫ 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. ♫

Our fate for this lifetime has ended. The desire must be stopped.

My lover is already a stranger. Why bother turning my head around?

Unending depression in my heart, a dark and gloomy autumn.

Unending sadness in my heart, as long as the road to the end of the sky.

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

♫ You are in the vast seas while I was in the galaxy turning into bubbles ♫

Really? You found Sir Mo already?

Yes.

He might be back already later.

I don't know how I will repay you.

Mister Lu, please accept my bow.

Ming Zhu, I am unable to accept that.

Mister Lu...

For a split second,

seeing you made me remember my little sister who has left home for quite some time.

When a loved one leaves, it can't be helped but to miss them.

How are my feelings for Sir Mo any different?

Stop using a whip already.

It is a bit slow.

Let him go.

- Leader Jiu? - This is the order of the Lord.

Yes.

What trick are you trying to use now?

If I tell you to leave, just leave. Why say so much nonsense?

Be careful that we might change our minds again later.

Mister Lu, take care.

Every time I finished drinking the tea you make,

I always feel refreshed and relaxed. It's as if I have been reborn.

If you feel that my skills are not bad, just come back often to visit.

Of course. I will take my leave.

Lu Xiao, what really are you planning?

I just went to the tea house to rest my legs and drink some tea. Is there anything wrong with that?

Let me tell you.

You better not plan on doing anything to Ming Zhu.

Could it be that this Ming Zhu and you have a special relationship?

Ah Hen!

This Sir Mo of yours is quite naughty.

He has just returned but already pulled me away to exchange some martial arts moves.

Since the two of you are loved ones reuniting, I won't disturb you anymore.

I will take my leave now.

Ming Zhu...

Sorry.

Ah Hen, those heartless words that you told me before

were just lies, right?

It was all my fault.

I wanted to protect you,

but despite doing my all, I still was not able to.

Ah Hen, I don't want to ask you about your quarrels.

I just want you to leave your jianghu and guard this little tea house with me.

The two of us singing about the wind during spring, drinking some wine during the summer night.

Get drunk under the moonlight during mid-autumn, and fishing in some snow during the cold winter.

Let us just live the rest of our lives like that, all right?

I am willing to use this lifetime of mine to guard only you.

Ming Zhu, you really are stupid.

I am really not worthy for you to entrust your life with.

But I am just that stupid, this wishful thinking.

Fine then.

Didn't you say that I must not lie to you from now on?

I am going to tell you my real identity today.

If you knew my real identity,

you would realize that I am not worthy for you to live the rest of your life with.

From the start, I already knew what kind of person you are.

Every time you kill someone, there would be a thick smell of blood on you.

Even if you know that I am a monster whose hands are drenched with blood,

you are still willing to devote your life to me?

I am willing.

In this unlucky life of mine,

meeting you is my greatest good luck.

How come His Majesty set Lu Li free?!

That's right! That was too much! How could he have set her free?

His Majesty has just ascended the throne so he should have been focused on governing us.

Yet he instead indulged a woman every day,

totally having no desire to govern the kingdom.

Based on your words, are you planning to revolt?

I dare not.

A third of a meter of ice didn't form with just a day of cold.

If not because His Majesty kept pushing for an appeasement strategy,

why would everyone be this dissatisfied?

That's right. It was His Majesty who clearly did

- the wrong thing. That's right... - His Majesty has arrived!

Greetings, Your Majesty!

Everyone, rise.

Your Majesty, you didn't mind how holy your body was and took that stab for that lowly slave.

I am slow-witted. I don't understand why you did that.

- It was just a moment of carelessness by His Majesty.- It was not carelessness.

It was me who saved Lu Li and the one who personally set her free.

What Your Majesty means is that he hopes that merpeople and humans can peacefully coexist.

Your Majesty,

Lu Li's life is a life.

Aren't the lives of our merpeople not lives, too?

In my opinion, the governance of Your Majesty is not that of a lazy and terrible kind

but it is tyrannical and disordered!

Isn't this act of helping the evil doers by Your Majesty just the same as you personally taking the lives of the merpeople?

The deities in the heavens are angry about it. Disaster is imminent.

You are not qualified to be a king!

Your Majesty!

Your Ladyship Shanggong!

I have my reasons for setting Lu Li free.

All of you displaying utter loyalty to your duty is within the scope of your responsibilities.

I will not blame you all.

Chi Die had a moment of rashness and accidentally hurt me.

I also won't go after that.

What's the use of you all killing Lu Li?

The dead merpeople won't be able to resurrect.

Doing it will only increase the hatred of Lu Xiao

and let him become crazier in seeking vengeance against us.

Based on what Your Majesty is saying, are we just going to do nothing and let them capture us?

Let them humiliate and bully us?!

It's not doing anything and letting them capture us.

It's turning swords into ploughs.

I already have an agreement with Lu Li. She promised she will convince her older brother, Lu Xiao, to stop killing merpeople.

I will also convince all our merfolk to stop seeking vengeance.

When will all the grudges and vengeance end? Rather than a tooth for a tooth, unwilling to let go of the bow string,

why not think of ways to resolve the grudges between us?

As they say, it is better to get rid of enmity than keep it alive.

If it really can be as Your Majesty says that the humans and merpeople can shake hands and settle this amicably,

that would be a great fortune for both clans.

Your Majesty is wise!

The agreement has been made. We all must take the lead in scrupulously abiding to it

and not expand the conflict anymore.

- We all will abide! - We all will abide!

Your Majesty, since the agreement has been made, I think that we should redo the ocean offering ceremony after 2 days.

We can comfort the dead souls and announce the agreement. What does Your Majesty think?

All right, then let's do as the High Priest says.

[Chang Le Lu Manor]

Lady, for you to be able to return is really great.

During these days that you were not around, we really were so worried.

Zixuan, go out first.

I have something to say to your Lady.

Yes.

Ah Li,

tell me. Did Wu Julan bully you when you were in the Blue Cave?

It was Wu Julan who saved my life.

Then it means someone wanted you dead?

That is all not important anymore.

Wu Julan and I have already straightened things out.

We won't see each other again in this lifetime.

That's great then.

Older brother,

I want to urge you to let go of the hatred in your heart.

Older brother led the government army and inflicted a great blow to the merpeople.

Even the King of the merfolk has already died.

Even if they previously killed our parents and did such grave sins,

you already did things up to this step

and can be considered to have sought vengeance already.

Are you here to be a negotiator for Wu Julan?

I am negotiating for myself.

Older brother, just stop already.

If you keep being preoccupied with these grudges and hatred,

the person who is hurting the most is you.

I doesn't want to see you getting controlled by your hatred,

your rationality getting destroyed, and losing your original kind temperament.

Becoming cold, selfish, and a stranger.

Older brother, hatred cannot resolve hatred.

Only forgiving and benevolence

can resolve hatred.

What do you want me to do then?

Before I left the Blue Cave,

I made a pact with Wu Julan.

Humans and merpeople should both put down these grudges and hatred

and quell this disaster.

What if I don't agree?

If older brother insists on taking revenge,

continuing to incite a great war between humans and merpeople,

then I will forever not stand on your side.

- What do you mean? - If you will not put down the obsession in your heart,

you will forever lose me.

All right, I promise you.

I will put down my hatred.

I will not be an enemy to merpeople from now on.

From now on, we siblings

will be like we used to be.

I will guard older brother

and brother will guard me.

The two of us will not separate from now on.

I didn't have the time to ask you this.

These past days, were you living well on land?

Thank you for the general's concerns. I am doing fine.

Then that Ma Dachun...

how is he treating you?

Dachun and I are already married.

He currently is being strictly watched by me.

Although sometimes he will complain,

he is still unable to win over me in arguments or fights.

How could he dare to treat me badly?

That's good then.

Lu Li has already safely returned to Chang Le. It's also time for me to go back.

Aren't you going to stay for a few more days?

I have already stayed for too long.

Dachun will be worried about me.

Fine then. Protect yourself well.

General, take care, too.

Goodbye, then.

General!

One day, you will also find someone you love.

The person I love, in the past, right now, and in the future,

will only be you.

Yin Hu!

Yin Hu!

Yin Hu!

My wife!

Yin Hu!

You group of stinky salty fishes!

Did you do anything bad to my wife already?!

If you are capable, face me!

How is it being capable to bully my wife?!

What happiness is there in living? What fear is there in dying?

Wife! If something bad really happened to you,

at least give me some sign to inform me about it!

Wife!

Yin Hu!

Yin Hu!

Yin...

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Are you a human or a ghost?

It really is my Yin Hu.

♫ 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? ♫