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[Butterflied Lover]

[Eight: What Will We Be]

There are some days when I can't tell

when it's real

and when it's fake.

At this moment,

it feels like a lifetime ago.

As if I had had

a very long dream.

So much has happened

between us.

Changfeng, I'm sorry.

I never dared to tell you

my true identity.

From the moment you put those shoes on me,

I knew people and beasts are different.

People wear shoes.

It was you

who taught me how to be a normal person.

Sir, if you agree,

I'll leave now.

Stop!

Who told you to leave?

Sir,

if you don't want to let me go,

take action.

I'll let you decide my fate.

Let me decide your fate?

You said

I've taught you to be a normal person all these years.

What you taught me was

a taste of life I have never before experienced

and how to live

as a person.

Tang Qianyue,

you are my wife.

But I am also a Butterfly Slave.

A Butterfly Slave who almost harmed the princess.

If the city wants to deal with the Butterfly Slaves,

what situation will that put you in?

Changfeng,

if you don't want to hurt me,

let me go.

Let me return to where I should be.

♫ How lonely the fireworks over the sea are ♫

♫ They fall with a short sigh in the night sky ♫

♫ I look up and count with you ♫

♫ Counting down to the pending end ♫

♫ We stand face to face. Between us, there seems to be an entire universe ♫

♫ I don't want to ask you ♫

♫ About the reason why you no longer love me ♫

♫ The breezes water my eyes ♫

No one can take you away from me,

including yourself.

♫ From now on ♫

♫ What will we be ♫

♫ Look, the fireworks are flashing ♫

♫ And their joy is so at loss ♫

♫ The memories are simmering ♫

♫ Haunting me and swarming at me ♫

♫ Engulfing me while whispering to me ♫

♫ How could love be wrong ♫

♫ When fireworks burn everything to ashes ♫

♫ And the wind blows them away ♫

♫ In this moment, I look back ♫

♫ Only to see the crossroad where you came from ♫

♫ It takes just a minute to end ♫

♫ But leaves the longest lasting pain ♫

I'm sorry.

Qianyue,

no matter what you were like in the past

or how the world sees you,

I want to be with you.

Anyone can leave me,

except you.

You can't.

I don't allow it.

Changfeng,

although you don't care that I'm a Butterfly Slave

and only see me as your wife,

I still might hurt you.

I will find a way to turn you back into a normal person.

Turn me back into a normal person?

Since planting the butterfly poison turns one into a Butterfly Slave,

finding a way to dissolve the poison

will turn one back into a normal person.

I've tried it already.

What's wrong?

Changfeng,

I never understood.

I was a Butterfly Slave before,

but I was never attracted by blood.

Why was it that the princess just had a nosebleed this time,

and I couldn't control myself?

Perhaps it's because

I saved you with the unicorn's blood

when you were in danger.

Unicorn's blood?

I've heard

that the unicorn's blood can nourish the butterfly poison,

and the butterfly poison

is only attracted to the unicorn's blood.

Could it be...

that Baozhu is...

Cousin Changfeng, I just had a nosebleed.

You don't need to come to the palace to see me personally.

I'm glad you're alright.

My precious Pearl Princess,

you've had more than just a nosebleed recently.

A month ago, your hand was accidentally cut

by that little eunuch called He Ying,

and you bled quite a bit.

He Xi,

it's just a mall cut.

It's no big deal.

What about before that?

Did the princess get hurt before?

For example, five or six years ago?

Five or six years ago...

There was one time.

I was young back then.

One night I was sleeping soundly

when my father suddenly came and cut my palm with a dagger.

It scared me to death.

So

the unicorn's blood I got for my elder sister from the emperor five years ago

came from Baozhu.

Baozhu has the unicorn's blood...

Cousin Changfeng?

Cousin Changfeng?

Princess, you must be careful in the future.

Don't get hurt again.

Cousin Changfeng, you're overthinking it.

I'm not that easily hurt.

By the way,

Qianyue has caught a cold recently.

You've been frail since you were young.

It's better for you to stay away from her for now.

Don't go looking for her.

Alright, I understand.

I'll take my leave then.

Take care, Cousin Changfeng.

Sir, Lord Wu'an has sent people here several times

saying he wants to burn the Butterfly Slaves.

I remembered your instructions

not to act rashly against them.

I really had no choice but to call you over.

Jin Ming,

you take care of these Butterfly Slaves.

I'll figure out the rest.

Okay.

Sir, Lord Wu'an is here.

He came personally?

Yes.

My lord.

Why the sudden formality?

I'll get straight to the point.

The identities of the Butterfly Slaves in the dungeon are unclear.

They cannot be killed for now.

You're still as softhearted as ever.

Butterfly Slaves are Butterfly Slaves.

What other identities could there be?

They must be remnants of Yilan,

taking advantage of New Year's Eve to take revenge on our city.

They deserve to die.

Let me show you something.

This is the record of a bandit suppression from five years ago.

Five years ago, Dongqian Village was slaughtered by bandits,

and numerous villagers were killed or injured.

While cleaning up the battlefield

and investigating household registration, the Census Department

discovered that forty-eight people on the register had vanished into thin air.

I think

they should be used by the Yilan clan,

just like our elder sister.

The most important thing now

is to find the leader of the remnants of the Yilan clan who used them.

Alright.

I can spare the Butterfly Slaves in the prison.

But Changfeng, you must remember.

Back then, our elder sister was sent to the Yilan clan for marriage,

and those Yilan scoundrels turned her into a Butterfly Slave.

This hatred is irreconcilable.

If it turns out these Butterfly Slaves are not our people

but remnants of the Yilan clan,

I will kill all of them.

If my father or my brother

finds out about Qianyue's situation,

the consequences will be unthinkable.

I need to find a way to help Qianyue

become a normal person as soon as possible.

So this is the Yilan butterfly poison.

Ling Changjin,

kill me as you wish.

Stop putting on airs in front of me.

You are the young master of the Yilan clan.

You had been scheming and hiding in our city for years

before planning this New Year's Eve incident.

You are truly sinister and insidious.

Killing you like this

would be too easy, wouldn't it?

What do you want, then?

Young master, if you tell me

where you got the unicorn's blood,

I will give you a chance

and let you go now.

And we'll meet on the battlefield in five years.

How about that?

Ling Changjin, your princess

is truly naive and kind-hearted.

A little eunuch injured her,

and she didn't blame him.

Getting her blood

was much easier than I thought.

Pearl Princess?

Let him go.

Just wait.

I can't wait for five years.

Butterfly poison...

And unicorn's blood...

My lord, Sir Ling has arrived.

Brother.

What brings you here?

Could you give me

the Complete Collection of Verminous Insects you seized

when you annihilated the Yilan clan back then?

Sir, why have you come to the department?

I'm no longer in office,

so I can't come to the department?

No.

Sir, you'll always be our commander.

What brings you here, sir?

You go and call a few literate guards

to help me look through the "Complete Collection of Verminous Insects".

Such a small book.

I can finish it for you in 15 minutes.

Look through it word by word for me.

Call me when you find the word "butterfly".

How is it?

My lord,

Her Ladyship is just as before.

No abnormalities.

Sister,

I've come to see you.

Sister,

I'm sorry.

When the late emperor ordered you to marry into the Yilan clan,

I should have resisted that order with my life.

So that you don't have to

become what you are now.

But, sister,

I've found the unicorn's blood.

With it,

I can feed the butterfly poison in your body

and be able to save you.

But my lord, Baozhu is a princess after all.

So what?

Back then,

it was because of her unicorn's blood

that the Yilan clan wanted her for marriage.

And then,

just because her life was precious,

the late emperor let my sister

go instead of her.

This is the debt she should pay.

She can't escape it.

Sister,

from now on, her blood

is yours.

Sister, I'm tired.

I don't want to write anymore.

If you don't want to write,

I'll have Lord Wu'an come and supervise your writing.

Sister, don't.

I'll write.

Ziyan, be good.

When you finish these,

I will get you milk cakes to eat.

Your Highness, do you still treat His Majesty

as an ordinary five-year-old child?

What brings you to the palace at this time?

I've come to ask His Majesty to draft an imperial edict.

Sister, I'm scared.

It's okay. I am here.

What edict do you want to request?

His Majesty can't read much yet.

I'll write it for His Majesty.

Alright.

Then please, Your Highness,

draft an imperial edict for His Majesty.

Please say it.

The late emperor once promised me

that if one day the Yilan clan was destroyed,

I would get a reward.

After thinking it over, I only want to ask for one thing.

I want to ask His Majesty

to grant Pearl Princess's hand in marriage to me

and set a date for the wedding.

Your Highness,

write it.

Your Majesty, thank you for your graciousness.

♫ To find the traces of your reincarnation ♫

♫ I'm willing to exhaust the luck of my lifetime ♫

♫ To gaze at your silhouette for the rest of my life ♫

♫ Until the passage of time makes us age ♫

♫ With dreams lifting the long night, the moon is bright and stars are scarce ♫

♫ I wonder when we'll meet in the next life ♫

♫ The Milky Way stirs, and fate keeps on turning ♫

♫ If I could, this time I would protect you ♫

♫ What triggers love? Every obsession is a trial ♫

♫ The endless night ends, and the moon shines bright ♫

♫ The geese fly in the rain, and we'll never leave each other♫

♫ Snow of a thousand years falls in your palm ♫

♫ What extinguishes love? Every thought is a reflection of the past ♫

♫ Lovesickness turns into illness, and frost whitens clothes ♫

♫ Clouds spread across the sky, and all the past is about you ♫

♫ Joys and sorrows of life condense into our ♫

♫ Chess game of love ♫

My precious Pearl Princess,

I heard that Lord Wu'an wants His Majesty

to grant your hand in marriage to him.

Is it true or false?

It's true.

Your Highness,

don't force a smile.

If you want to cry, just cry.

♫ To find the traces of your reincarnation ♫

♫ I'm willing to exhaust the luck of my lifetime ♫

♫ To gaze at your silhouette for the rest of my life ♫

♫ Until the passage of time makes us age ♫

♫ With dreams lifting the long night, the moon is bright and stars are scarce ♫

♫ I wonder when we'll meet in the next life ♫

♫ The Milky Way stirs, and fate keeps on turning ♫

♫ If I could, this time I would protect you ♫

♫ What triggers love? Every obsession is a trial ♫

♫ The endless night ends, and the moon shines bright ♫

♫ The geese fly in the rain, and we'll never leave each other♫

♫ Snow of a thousand years falls in your palm ♫

♫ What triggers love? Every obsession is a trial ♫

♫ The endless night ends, and the moon shines bright ♫

♫ The geese fly in the rain, and we'll never leave each other♫

♫ Snow of a thousand years falls in your palm ♫

♫ What triggers love? Every obsession is a trial ♫