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❝ The Old Man of Jiangnan ❞ by Lu Hu - Singers: Lu Hu and Liu Xijun

♫ Apricot blossoms fall on the lake surface ♫

♫ The misty rain dissolves away the longing ♫

♫ The face under the oil-paper umbrella ♫

♫ Hasn’t yet lost the youthfulness ♫

♫ Your face in my dreams ♫

♫ Emerged intermittently ♫

♫ I wish I could return to the past ♫

♫ Lying down drunkenly by the river bank ♫

♫ How attached we were when we met ♫

♫ How inseparable we were when we were together ♫

♫ Mandarin ducks and butterflies couldn't see ♫

♫ The great beauty of this world ♫

♫ I’d like to be carried by the wind to Nirvana ♫

♫ But nothing is comparable to you ♫

♫ If the heart never changed ♫

♫ I would have no regrets on the day I died ♫

♫ I would have no regrets on the day I died ♫

[Episode 9]

You forced me to fulfill my filial duty towards her

fundamentally to torture me.
[T/N: die a death by a thousand cuts]

I do not intend to force you

but to advise you.

You were established as mother and son.

For your entire life, you should be deferential towards Madam Wei.

Your achievement is attributed to her.

I know

you feel terrible.

From now on,

you should let go of the injudstice in your heart

As men in the world, who does not experience difficult situations?

Who does not experience hardships in order to become very capable?

You are a person of great talent. You must not allow these household issues

to impact your honor

and jeopardize your reputation in Shilin.

Absurd.

It is too absurd.

As this is so,

then I will not participate in the imperial examinations,

not become an official,

and not do anything.

Junior brother should not act willfully.

Junior brother.

If you want to remain alive in this world,

you must not deviate from all the traditional values of this world.

Public opinion is powerful enough to melt metal. Enough slander can accumulate to melt bone.

Miss. Someone lying on the road.

Stop the carriage. Let's take a look

Yes.

♫ Gently falling into my palms ♫

♫ Quietly freezing into the palms ♫

Miss. Is he dead?

He is still alive. Ruyi, help me to get him up.

Master. Master.

Master.

Sister

Are you a fairy?

♫ Obviously, the words are chilling ♫

Am I dead?

You are not. You are still alive.

What is your name? Where do you live?

Home.

I have no home.

Master. Master.

Miss, why did you bring him back?

We don't know where he is from or what his background is. What if he is a bad person?

Then would we not be out of luck?

He is not a bad person. Did you not already see his deed?

He is a scholar.

A scholar can also be a bad person.

Saving a life is more meritorious than building a seven-floor pagoda.

I will just consider this accumulating some good fortune for Xiushan.

You are awake.

Fairy Sister.

You are speaking nonsense again.

If you were not so young, I would report you to the authorities and have you arrested like Dengtu Zi.
[T/N: a famous lecher]

I...am not dead.

This person is so strange. Why does he seem so disappointed?

Sister should not have saved me. I am a person seeking death.

- Go pour him a cup of hot water.
- Yes.

I...have entered prison before

and been a member of a brothel.

Right now, I am separated from my biological son.

But I am still living well.

You are so young. Do not always speak of death.

Here.

Drink some hot water.

The doctor said the cold had entered your body and harmed your lungs.

You have to convalesce for a while.

If you don't disdain me, you can stay here to recuperate.

That wouldn't work, it would damage your reputation.

I am just someone seeking death. I must not harm you.

I already don't have any reputation to speak of.

Don't worry. Just stay here put your mind at ease and recuperate.

Miss, do you recognize that Master inside?

He's called Wei Lianggong. I've heard of him.

He's like me someone who cannot be tolerated in this world.

Young Master Lianggong has awakened.

Just call me LIanggong.

This is your breakfast.

Older Sister?

Someone invited my Mistress to hang a drawing. Right now she's busy in the studio.

She can mount drawings?

Yes.

My Mistress's skill in mounting drawings is very famous in the city.

Hurry and eat.

Then I'll withdraw.

Brother Li, even though the Zeng clan's reputation isn't very good,

but nothing can be said against their art in mounting paper.

I have to thank you, Brother Li.

She, after all, is the Magistrate's woman.

Even if she degenerated into poverty, she wouldn't change her elegant taste.

Naturally she's not the same as those other artisans.

I heard that she was rescued from a brothel by Ren Xuetang.

She also bore a posthumous child to Ren Xuetang, and has never consented to entering the family.

Instead she sold of her own biological son.

It's seems like this did happen.

However, Ren Family's Eldest Mistress isn't that easy to get along with.

Something must've happened in the middle of all of that.

I only know that Su Biao from the Zeng clan is the most outstanding in the city.

What I like is her craftsmanship.

That gossip has nothing to do with me.

You're right.

Don't take the gossip to heart.

You're not that kind of person.

We've known each other for only a few days.

Do you know what kind of person I am?

Your handwriting is balanced

neutral and steady.

I believe your personality is just like your handwriting.

Thank you.

Here.

Forget about the gossip.

I don't care about it at all.

No matter what, you were left with no choice but to do it.

Now that you can let it go, it's truly admirable.

Wei Lianggong is said to be a bit crazy,

which turns out to be true.

You know me?

Wei Lianggong, a well-known child prodigy in Jiangnan,

studied at 6 and wrote articles at 9.

You're well versed in music, chess, calligraphy and painting.

It's a shame that you're so uninhibited you've strayed from the traditional path

and are renowned for your enthusiasm for theater plays.

In Jiangnan, whoever is literate

has heard of your name.

Also,

I heard that you've been trying to find out your mother's whereabouts over the years.

At the beginning of this spring, I finally learned about my mother's whereabouts.

Is she in Suzhou?

The year I turned 8,

my father's wife Pan sold my mother to a brothel in Suzhou.

Later on, she heard that I'd become a Provincial Graduate

and killed herself at the brothel.

My father's wife destroyed my mother.

But everyone expects me to treat my father's wife with filial piety.

How ridiculous.

I don't know what the point is of following this rule.

I also don't know

what the point is

of me living in this world.

When I got out of the prison

and kneeled at the brothel,

I felt like I'd reached a dead end as well.

But I didn't want to die.

I didn't want to accept my misfortune.

I just wanted to see if I could survive.

Lianggong,

life is hard,

but this is not

the reason why we should end our lives.

On the contrary, we should do our best to live well

and survive

our struggles.

If my mother had thought of it like you do,

stayed alive and waited for me,

how great it would've been.

Actually I was very frustrated.

I missed Xiushan day and night but never saw him.

But after hearing about what happened to you just now,

I suddenly realized I should live well all the more

because my son hopes I'll stay alive.

Right? As long as I stay alive,

even if it takes 10, 20 or 30 years,

one day I'll be able to be reunited

with my son. Right?

You surely will.

You need to stay alive.

Both of us need to stay alive.

Why was my junior, Wei Lianggong,

saved by Baoqin?

I'd say

both of them are in the same boat.

In the same boat?

Quite interesting.

I heard that Master Wei lives on Shantang Street.

He no longer gets in touch with scholars.

Instead, he often goes to a theatrical troupe to learn about drama

like an unrestrained hermit.

It sounds like something he would do.

Men have burning ambitions, but my junior is unique.

He wants to hide himself while he's young.

Well, pay him a visit on behalf of me,

give him some money

- and ask around more.
- Yes.

Young Lady, you haven't eaten all day.

Why don't we eat something?

- Young Lady.
- Don't bother me.

Look.

Sister, let me sing an opera song for you.

Sure.

♫ Smiling flowers at the empty corners are ♫

♫ without roots ♫

♫ Dreams bring weariness to people ♫

♫ Long dreams don't last long ♫

♫ Short dreams are not inscribed on tablets ♫

♫ People under the big tree in the south in the kingdom are ants ♫

Sister, did I sing well?

Sister.

You sang well.

Ruyi,

if Adviser Liu looks for me again,

tell him I'm not here.

Okay.

What happened?

When Adviser Liu came today, what did you talk about?

Nothing really.

He just came to talk me into taking the imperial exam in the capital.

I rejected him.

Why?

You know, I only like singing.

I don't want to deal with other officials in the future.

Why should I do it and tie myself to fame and fortune?

Being tied to fame and fortune...

I wish my father had thought of it this way back then.

Did I... say something wrong?

No.

Sister.

You think you've forgotten some things,

but you actually remember every bit very well.

Back then my father

became an official with an ambition to save and govern the country.

But he ended up being convicted of corruption

and making his family suffer.

Do you find it ironic?

Spring water is clean in the mountains but gets dirty flowing out of the mountains.

Politics is unexpected. Your father had no free will.

Don't blame him.

I still remember what he said before he passed away.

He said,

"I want to take you and the yellow dog

to the east gate of Shangcai again to chase after rabbits,

but I can't anymore."

These are Li Si's last words.

Your father regretted taking the imperial exam.

Maybe.

Baoqin,

from now on,

just show all sides of you

to me only.

Young Lady, are you tired?

I'm fine.

Ruyi,

hand me

the Mandarin Ducks Playing In The Water.

Okay.

What's wrong, Young Lady?

Take a seat.

Zeng Baoqin,

Why did you send a painting to me?

You said that I act impetuously.

You are right.

When I love or care for someone,

my intelligence, agility

and thoughtfulness are all gone.

When a disaster was approaching,

I was totally unaware of it. When my family was plotting against Xuetang,

I was also in the dark.

What you said is right.

I'm muddle-headed about everything but romantic relationships.

Giving you this painting because I want to ask

if you can weave it.

Any women in Suzhou can weave

the scene of mandarin ducks playing in the water.

The more usual it looks, the harder to weave it well.

Look carefully again.

This painting is only half-done.

This painting......

took me a long time. I drew it slowly.

Whenever I blame

and hate Xuetang, I put the painting away

because I'm afraid I won't like what I paint.

Only when I miss

and think about him will I do the painting.

Look.

Look at the Mandarin Duck's eyes.

They look happy and gentle.

Do they look like Xuetang's eyes?

What exactly do you want to say?

I want to know what you live for

as Eldest Mistress of the Ren family. Is it for the peace in the family?

Do you stay with a man who doesn't love you

and tolerate the pain all your life

just to be called a virtuous wife who helps your husband dodge disasters?

Look at this painting

of Mandarin ducks playing in the water, butterflies having fun,

fishing hiding underwater,

orange day-lilies on the shore and lotus flowers in the water.

They are all loved and taken care of by someone.

How great. I've been confused indeed.

I've made mistakes indeed.

But whenever I calm down and look at this painting,

I think about Xuetang.

I feel happy.

Shen Cuixi, you're highly skilled, but so what?

You can't even weave the simplest painting,

Mandarin Ducks Playing In The Water.

Look at my lotus roots!

We lost this deal before we knew it.

Hurry up and catch up with our brother.
[Ren Residence]

Innate morals are nature. Acting according to nature is Tao.

Following Tao is cultivation.

Innate morals are nature.

Acting according to nature is–

Tao.

Following Tao is cultivation.

Tao can't leave anytime.

If it can, it's not Tao.

Tao can't leave

anytime.

If it can, it's not Tao.

Wenmo,

what's going on?

Teacher, he did the homework Eldest Mistress gave him last night.

He used an abacus until midnight. Shu Fang woke him up at the crack of dawn

so he could review yesterday's homework in the study room.

Does it mean he slept for only 4 or 6 hours last night?

He's always like this.

Also, he's hungry and suffering even more.

Eldest Mistress doesn't let Xiushan eat.

Go ahead and have fun.

Eldest Mistress.

Teacher Wei.

Eldest Mistress,

I would like to ask you something.

Eldest Mistress, this way please.

Teacher Wei.

Eldest Mistress, Xiushan is growing.

May I ask why you told those in the kitchen

to cook him two meals instead of three and even leave out meat and vegetables with a strong smell?

A few days ago Xiushan suffered from indigestion and a fever.

The doctor said kids should avoid medicine if possible

and he would recover naturally after starving for two days, so I–

I see. I almost misunderstood you.

Misunderstood me?

Why?

He was under the impression that you mistreated little master by making him starve.

Ridiculous! What kind of person does he think you are?

Rumors have been going around in Suzhou lately

and this is probably why.

Alright, Xiao Lan. You'd better keep quiet.

Eldest Mistress, Teacher Wei is virtuous.

Taught by Teacher Wei,

Master Xiushan is already disciplined and well behaved at a young age.

Who in Suzhou doesn't praise you for teaching your son well?

Don't take the gossip to heart.

Now you have the audacity

to please me with pleasant words only.

Eldest Mistress, I never dare to.

Come on. Tell me

about all the gossip and rumors going around out there.

Eldest Mistress, they say

you hope that little master will achieve something great in the future

and treat you with filial piety so you can enjoy your life.

Little master isn't your real son, so you don't care about him.

You make him study day and night. When he got sick after a while,

you didn't take care of him.

When I took Xiushan home, someone told me

it's not easy to raise a kid that's not your own. You can't do anything.

If you're close with your kid, someone will call you hypocritical. If not,

someone will say he's not your own after all.

Xiushan's mother is Zeng Baoqin.

Zeng Baoqin and I never get along well, which everyone knows.

I'm afraid even Xiushan is aware of it.

You see how he looks at me.

He's always courteous, respectful and polite.

Eldest Mistress.

I took Xiushan home

for the sake of Eldest Master and the Ren family.

I didn't do it for myself.

Also,

he calls me mother and I should nurture him.

Why should I care about how Xiushan will treat me in the future

and what people think of me?

I have benevolence and a clear conscience.

Benevolence

and a clear conscience.

[Ren's Ancestral Shrine]

Here. Take your time.

Shen,

this is the seventh year.

It's time to find out about Xuetang's whereabouts.

It can't remain a mystery.

It's not a mystery.

If we can't find Xuetang's dead body, that means he's alive.

Didn't you hear about the gossip out there?

They say you, Shen Cuixi,

found Ren Xuetang's dead body a long time ago

but deceives everyone for the sake of your power

and fame.

Three elders,

why don't you be more thoughtful and realistic?

If I didn't deceive everyone,

if everyone in Suzhou didn't assume Xuetang would come back one day

and take over the Ren family's business as a Provincial Graduate,

Li Zhao and Cao Wenbin wouldn't be courteous

and the Ren family wouldn't have fame and fortune today.

You want both riches and face and to take advantage of everything in the world.

I only have one thing to say today.

You've gone too far.

Xuetang is still alive.

Please go back.

This...

Let's go.

[Memorial Tablets of Ren Clan]

Eldest Mistress.

I want to take a walk by myself.

- Eldest Mistress.
- I'm fine.

The entire Ren family is waiting for me.

I wouldn't dare let anything happen to me.

♫ Apricot blossoms fall on the lake surface ♫

♫ The misty rain dissolves away the longing ♫

♫ The face under the oil-paper umbrella ♫

♫ Hasn’t yet lost the youthfulness ♫

♫ Your face in my dreams ♫

♫ Emerged intermittently ♫

♫ I wish I could return to the past ♫

♫ Lying down drunkenly by the river bank ♫

Eldest Mistress.

♫ How inseparable we were when we were together ♫

Teacher Wei?

Are you alright?

Teacher Wei, you've read many books and understand a lot.

Can you tell me, why is it so difficult to be a human?

♫ If the heart never changed ♫

Being a human has always been the most difficult in this world.

You also think it's difficult?

Yes. It's difficult, very difficult.

There's no solution then.

Perhaps...

Perhaps there is a way

to make the days not so difficult.

Eldest Mistress, please come with me.

♫ I was in love once ♫

♫ Let me sing about it for everyone ♫

♫ All the masters here ♫

♫ please stay calm ♫

♫ Let me sing about the Qinghuai River view ♫

♫ Let me sing about the Qinghuai River view ♫

♫ Gently, as I ♫

♫ sing for all the masters here ♫

Sisters, yesterday

I saw Teacher Wei again.

Such a handsome man.

I wonder who will have the luck to marry him.

When he comes tomorrow, you can pretend that you twisted your ankle.

Threw yourself into his lap. He'll get embarrassed.

- You'll succeed.
- So silly!

Too bad such a man is working as a teacher in the Ren family.

Eldest Mistress Ren is so ferocious.

I wonder if Teacher Wei has suffered under her treatment.

Who doesn't know that Master Ren is already dead.

She is holding on to the family's assets and won't let go.

I heard that her young maid

has to knead her legs for six hours every day.
- Six hours?

Not only that, she keeps a long face all day long.

If the young maid wants to steal a lazy nap,

her hand would be stabbed with a hairpin.

- That's so scary.
- That's right.

Who are you talking about?

- Eldest Mistress Ren?
- How do you know everything so well?

Did you lean on my window, or did you hide under my bed?

Eldest Mistress.

- What's so great about her?
- Really.

It's getting harder and harder to run our small business.

Eldest Mistress, it's time to go back.

Yes. I should go back.

Thank you, Teacher Wei.

I hope we'll have another chance

to listen to gossips with you.

[Ren Residence]

Eldest Mistress, there will be other chances.

[Qingyue Workshop]

- Look, it's so pretty.
- It is good.

Look at the craftsmanship.

Have you heard? The little young master of the Ren family is sick.

The wealthy families take really good care to raise the children.

An occasional cold is commonplace.

The younger cousin of my neighbor Auntie Wang's niece works at Qingyu Workshop.

She told me herself. Eldest Mistress Ren is mean to the child.

If he doesn't study well, then he doesn't get to eat.

- That child is sick out of hunger.
- He is not her biological child after all.

She just wants the child to help her prestige.

Why would she care about the child's life?
- That's right.

If this is spread out, she actually thinks she is disciplining the child well.

If she really cared about the child, would she treat him like this?

Don't you think Mistress Zeng is disappointing?

Her child is mistreated like this, but she is still quiet.

Isn't that right.

- Older Sister.
- Lianggong, how is Xiushan?

Don't worry. Xiaushan is fine.

- He is fine.
- Don't deceive me.

I've heard it all. She forced the child to study.

If the child doesn't study well, she doesn't let him eat.

I'm not lying.

Actually...

So that's how it is.

Eldest Mistress Ren is cherishing Xiushan like her own.

If she is stern to Xiushan, she is behaving as a kind monther.

Older Sister, don't listen to the wind and think it's raining

and misunderstand Eldest Mistress.

Older Sister.

Lianggong, you've changed.

I... how have I changed?

When you first entered the Ren residence,

you didn't like Shen Cuixi at all.

But because you are a gentleman, you didn't judge people to be right or wrong.

But now, you are actually speaking up for her.

You are even faintly blaming me for listening to rumors.

How could I blame Older Sister?

I know that Older Sister can't enter the Ren residence,

can't see Xiushan, so you are feeling anxious.

Eldest Mistress has the heart of a kind mother.

You also have the heart of a kind mother.

Between birth and nourishment, it's difficult to say which grace is more important.

I definitely will not be biased between the two of you.

Difficult to say which grace is more important?

Xiushan is the flesh that came out of my body.

I carried him in my womb for ten months.

Shen Cuixi was the one who snatched him out of my hands.

And now she is just as important as I am?

Lianggong, you are my younger brother.

You also understand the sorrow of seprating a monther and her child.

If you still think of me as your older sister,

you shouldn't have said such words.

Older Sister.

Customer, the wine is here.

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❝ Passionate yet Ruthless ❞ by Lu Hu - Singers: Lu Hu

♫ One who appears affectionate may be the one with a stony heart ♫

♫ One who appears heartless may be the one with real affection ♫

♫ The one invested in love ends up with a broken heart ♫

♫ The one by the cold pond, leaves a lonely silhouette ♫

♫ Uniting with a seemingly affectionate one ♫

♫ Leaves one tearfully gazing at the predestined love ♫

♫ There is nothing to fear about the preordained death ♫

♫ It’s rather the foredoomed life that one can only accept ♫

♫ The beautiful scene of this moment ♫

♫ Is like a dream, like a fantasy, like an illusion ♫

♫ If love is put to an end, my heart will stop with it ♫

♫ Where can I go to await the duckweed? ♫

♫ The falling blossoms deliberately follow the wind ♫

♫ The coldhearted rain drizzles until dawn ♫

♫ The dream that came after a heady good wine is hard to wake up from ♫

♫ I’m lost in a hopeless search for you in this hazy world ♫