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♫ In this elaborately written letter, ♫

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♫ all the words of love are filled with you. ♫

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♫ The flowers within ten miles blossom elegantly for you. ♫

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♫ I perform the zither, ♫

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♫ as if you are standing behind me. ♫

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♫ The rain falls while I foolishly wait for you. ♫

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♫ Use these deep, shallow, near, and far distances ♫

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♫ to add a touch of poetry to our regrets and entanglements. ♫

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♫ This bitter, sweet, dream-like, and fantasy-like origin of our intertwined fates ♫

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♫ is so that we can pleasantly drink this alcohol under the threat of swords and knives. ♫

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♫ Use this lifetime, these moments of encounters ♫

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♫ to trade for just one short instant when you can be with me. ♫

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♫ These words, sentences, sentiments, and intentions contain hopes ♫

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♫ that you and I can listen to the rain as we stand under the eave. ♫

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[Bloody Romance]

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Today, Jigu Pavilion sent last year's Guihua wine.

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I'm thinking that since it is the crisp autumn weather with the fragrance of the orange osmanthus drifting in the air now,

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I have invited all the sisters to share with me the fine wine in a moment of enthusiasm.

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Everyone should just think of it as a family gathering, so there's no need to be as formal as usual.

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Come! Fill the cups of each girl.

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City Master, Wan Mei has a presumptuous request.

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Torture Chamber Master, don't you think Wan Mei

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has become more lively and talkative since becoming a Heavenly Assassin?

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Right?

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It's as City Master says. The current Guihua City

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still exists because of all of the sisters sitting here.

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But, as Wan Mei sees it, in the past hundred years,

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there have been numerous sisters who have done everything

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died under tragic curcumstances. So Wan Mei hopes to use this occasion

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and, offer this cup of wine

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as tribute to every sister whose red umbrella hangs in Bi'an Chamber

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Hope City Master will permit it.

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- Alright you

- Wan Mei always thinks of others,

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making me as the Supreme Assassin look stingy.

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Since this wine is dedicated to our predecessors, drinking it doesn't seem right.

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Let's pour it on the ground to express our intentions.

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Now I suddenly remember

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that we recently lost many of our Earthly Assassins.

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It's time for us to recruit some new members.

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City Master is right.

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Liu Guang,

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you should make sure to put a lot of thought into it this time

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and recruit some who are like Wan Mei,

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clever and quick-witted, as well as astute.

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Why don't we look in Wan Mei's hometown?

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I am sure there are all kinds of treasures there, a land that reflects the glory of its illustrious hero.

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Wan Mei, where is your hometown?

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Replying to City Master, it's Jiang City.

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Jiang City?

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Then there's no need to go.

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The last few days, news came that

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Jiang City flooded

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and the water covered thousands of miles in one day. There's nothing there anymore.

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Do you have anyone else in your family?

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Do you want me to give you a few days off so that you can go back and see what happened?

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But, even if you go back, it's no use.

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That place is already a vast ocean

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so there really isn't much to see.

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Did-

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Could it be that they are all dead?

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Yes. They're all dead.

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But I heard that they weren't very good to you.

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If they're dead, then whatever. Or I should say

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this is karma. They died well.

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Seeing you be so generous

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puts me at ease.

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Xiao Ba, when older sister gets money for this medicine, I'll buy something delicious for you, ok?

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Ok. Sister, I'll wait for you to come back to have porridge.

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I'll wait for you to come back to have porridge!

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That place is already a vast ocean. They're all dead.

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Wan Mei. You're awake.

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Jiang City's flood is real.

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However, there could still be hope for your family.

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It's not important. City Master is right.

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They didn't treat me well.

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You're not her. You shouldn't think like that.

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You can become Guihua City's City Master,

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- but you can't become the second Cha Luo.

- Wan Mei!

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I want to practice with my sword.

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Your current condition is not suited to practicing with your sword!

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Even if it's not suitable, I still need to practice!

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I've already delayed for a long time.

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If it continues like this,

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when will I be able to master the thirteenth style of the Hidden Spirit Sword Method, Tian Guang Jin (aka Depletion of the Daylight)?

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Tian Guang Jin (aka Depletion of the Daylight) is a sword method that attacks the heart. It's emphasis is not on the manoeuvre,

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but is about whether the user feels completely desperate.

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Your heart is filled with hatred right now.

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Even if you practice for 14 or 16 hours, there's no way you can succeed.

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Wan Mei! Cha Luo only told you

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to provoke you on purpose. She wanted to get some fun out of it.

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Why do you let her get her way? You can't get something quickly simply by always being in a hurry.

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Wan Mei,

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just listen to me this time. Just rest well tonight,

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ok?

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Chang An, do you regret coming back with me to Guihua City?

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I am

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wherever you are.

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How long will you stay with me?

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I will stay

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for as long as I can protect you.

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Promise.

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Promise.

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If we could be like this our entire lives,

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how nice would that be?

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[Jia Ming Dian]

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What? He hasn't left yet?

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Replying to the king, he's still there.

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He still has hope then.

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I guess so.

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Allow him to come in.

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I, Yue Qingya-

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No need.

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Give the Grand Tutor the decree I personally wrote.

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Your majesty,

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this is...

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A decree to get rid of the Blood Lotus Sect.

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Your majesty, the Blood Lotus religion

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is the official religion!

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This sect assassinated swordsmen of the Central Plains. It created great bloodbaths in the Wu Lin realm.

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It brought disasters upon the country and the people. Its crimes cannot be forgiven.

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Official religion?

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Is it worthy of that?

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Your Majesty. All these are false accusations.

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Your Majesty. I beg Your Majesty earnestly.

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Please give me a decree. I can definitely bring an end to the chaos and set everything right again.

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Let the Blood Lotus Sect be exonerated.

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It's really a pity. I no longer need this kind of innocence.

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Your Majesty.

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I showed this decree to you because I trusted you, Grand Tutor Yue.

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But then,

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I can also believe in the Blood Lotus Sect.

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But rumors are to be feared.

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If I were to admit that it is the national religion again,

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then I will be disregarding all the lives under the Heaven, and going against them.

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I am unable to bear such a great criminal accusation, Grand Tutor.

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Your Majesty.

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When I leave the Imperial Court, I am then the Leader of the Blood Lotus Sect.

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The Blood Lotus Sect is left with nothing but its name.

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I beg Your Majesty earnestly.

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Please leave an official position to the Blood Lotus Sect.

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Okay.

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Now is not the time for you, Yue Qingya, to be emotional about things. You should understand this.

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The Blood Lotus Sect is out to disparage everything now. It can no longer help me.

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It will only become my stumbling block. I must get rid of.

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Eunuch Yu. Bring the decree back. Promulgate the degree.

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Okay.

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This is the way of the King.

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The way of the sovereign. This is excellent.

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Your Majesty is wise.

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You can extract the best out of everything (lit extract gold from sand). You can distinguish the good and the bad. But I

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can't do it.

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Preposterous.

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Bearers.

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Yue Qingya.

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Your Majesty.

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It's okay if the Blood Lotus Sect is not the national religion.

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But I must

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give a good explanation to all the remaining members of the Blood Lotus Sect.

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Are you trying to rebel?

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If Your Majesty is unwilling to believe me,

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I can prove my sincerity by dying.

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I disallow the incumbent Grand Tutor to leave the Capital City.

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As to what shall be done to the Sect Leader of the Blood Lotus Sect,

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you should make the decision yourself.

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Commoner Yue Qingya

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give his thanks to Your Majesty.

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I will give you six hours.

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After these six hours, the affection between us

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will be written off with one stroke.

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Grand Tutor. You must behave well henceforth.

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[Tingzhu Courtyard]

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Since you are already here, come in for a cup of tea.

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Gong Zi.

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Liu Guang is here today because she has something to tell Gong Zi.

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Please speak.

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Even if the City Master has committed wrong doing so many times,

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Liu Guang can only stand on the City Master's side.

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I have something to ask Miss Liu Guang too.

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If I did not remember wrongly, when you came to the Guihua City that year,

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you were carrying out duties in Cha Ru's room?

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It was Cha Ru who took a liking to you and taught you the martial arts skills.

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That's how you came to be where you are today.

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Those are already things from many years ago. Why is Gong Zi talking about them again.

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Since it is so,

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then why does Miss Liu Guang want to pay your respects to here year after year?

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Actually I know that you have deep feelings for Cha Ru.

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Your greatly respected teacher,

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she is not dead.

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She is imprisoned in the secret room of the Torture Chamber.

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She is being used as the receptacle for Cha Luo to incubate her gu insects.

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No matter how close you are to Cha Luo, you have to be careful that the way your Master is today

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will become what you are in the future.

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Prince Ning has appeased all under the Heaven. He brought peace to the Great Tang. The common people are harmonious and happy.

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However, the Blood Lotus Sect assassinated the swordsmen of the Central Plain.

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Caused great blood baths in the Wu Lin realm. Brought disasters upon the country and the people. Betrayed the King's favor and kindness.

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That is to say, Yue Qingya still managed to escape.

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Yes.

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But those that I sent out reported that during their pursuit, they met someone who wants to meet Wan Mei.

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Who?

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The Young Miss of the Xie family, Xie Ying.

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Miss Yue Ying.

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Gong Zi has issued an order for Wan Mei to go out of the City.

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He's specially asked me to come and inform you about it.

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Master Mei has a mission again.

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She is ordered to go and meet Ruan Niang.

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I believe that Young Miss Xie must have many things to say.

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Please have a sip of tea first, to moisten your throat.

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There is no need. I only have one thing to say.

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I hope that you will leave Xie Huan immediately.

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- This is impossible.

- Miss Wan Mei. I appreciate you.

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I also know that your life has been full of hardships. I know all about the rules and regulations of the Guihua City.

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But now the world is in chaos. There are many people in a worse state than you.

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You can't hold on to Xie Huan and not let him go just based on this reason.

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I will not leave him.

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Not because my life experience is filled with hardships. But because I love him.

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Love? This is but an illusion.

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In the moment of your greatest despair, he is the only life-saving straw that appeared.

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That is the reason why you hold on so tightly and will not let him go. It would not have mattered who appeared at that moment.

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So what if it is?

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Even if what you said is right, that it did not mattered who appeared,

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but now this person is Xue Huan. It is only when I see him

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that I can feel that my heart is beating. That I can feel that I am alive.

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I believe in him. I think of him. I want to depend on him forever.

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He is the one that I love.

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He is my hope for my entire life.

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So I want to hold on to him tightly and not let go.

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So what can be done about it?

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Xie Huan and you are destined not to be on the same path.

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He is the descendant of Princess Tai Ping.

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There are a thousand difficulties and ten thousand dangers on the road ahead. You will only be harmed if he brings you along.

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And you insist on following him. This will only cause harm to him too.

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- It is not like this.

- It doesn't matter whether you admit it with your words,

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but this is the truth. If you do not let go,

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Xie Huan will be the lowliest of all the shadows in the Guihua City.

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Have you counted the number of wounds on his body? You know that he is poisoned by the Heart Devouring gu.

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Yet he has to force himself to smile. How great is the affliction that he has to bear.

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I earnestly beg Miss Wan Mei

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to take a step back for the sake of Xie Huan.

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You are back.

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Yue Ying said that Gong Zi has sent you out of the City.

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You don't look well at all. Has something happened?

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It's alright.

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Maybe it's just a little tiredness.

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Chan An. Please go and cook a bowl of noodles for me.

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Okay. I'll go now.

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If you do not let go, Xie Huan will be the lowliest of all the shadows in the Guihua City.

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Have you counted the number of wounds on his body?

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You know that he is poisoned by the Heart Devouring gu, yet he has to force himself to smile.

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How great is the affliction that he has to bear.

♫ I perform the zither, as if you are standing behind me. ♫

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♫ I perform the zither, as if you are standing behind me. ♫

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Miss Wan Mei. Xie Huan does not live for just you alone.

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I earnestly beg Miss Wan Mei

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to take a step back for the sake of Xie Huan.

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♫ to trade for just one short instant when you can be with me. ♫

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♫ These words, sentences, sentiments, and intentions contain hopes ♫

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♫ that you and I can listen to the rain ♫

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♫ as we stand under the eave. ♫

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♫ In this elaborately written letter, all the words of love are filled with you. ♫

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♫ In this elaborately written letter, all the words of love are filled with you. ♫

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♫ The flowers within ten miles blossom elegantly for you. ♫

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Reporting to the Tingzhu Courtyard on completion of mission.

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♫ I perform the zither, as if you are standing behind me. ♫

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♫ The rain falls while I foolishly wait for you. ♫

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Gong Zi.

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Have you met Xie Ying?

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Yes.

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What are your plans?

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I will not let go.

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Being stubborn again.

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I do not want him to leave.

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Yet I do not want him to suffer the aggrievances like this. He is obviously of noble birth

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but was dragged through the mud by me.

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Living a life of silent suffering.

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In certain times, when there is an ending,

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only then will there be a beginning.

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If I severe all ties with him

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and go our separate ways,

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it's hard to say whether we will ever meet again. Where will there be a beginning?

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When you lost your appetite and couldn't eat at all when you were in the Jiang City,

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did you ever think that you might want to be the City Master of the Guihua City one day?

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When we experience more things in life,

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our horizon will widen more.

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Yesterday, you could not think of what it would be like today. Just like today,

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you will not know where your path will lead to in the future.

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Thank you for teaching me, Gong Zi.

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Wan Mei knows what to do now.

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Go and do it quickly if you have thought through and understood it.

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I have to bring you out on an urgent matter. It can't wait too long.

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Where are we going to?

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Nan Jiang.

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Master is back.

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The noodles is cold. I will go and cook another bowl.

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There is no need.

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I don't want to eat anymore.

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Then I will dispose of it, and wash the bowls and utensils.

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Chang An.

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Gong Zi has summoned me out of the City today.

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It was to go and meet Xie Ying.

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She wants me to tell you that in three days' time

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if you do not leave the Guihua City, she will charge into the Guihua City

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and die before your very eyes.

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I will go and look for her tomorrow. I will be able to convince her.

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Chang An.

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Actually, the both of us know that

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if we carry on like this everyday,

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there will not be a way out.

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There is one more place that I want to visit.

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Please accompany me there.

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Remember when I first came to the Guihua City,

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I didn't know anything at all.

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I offended the City Master on many occasions.

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My share of the rice and coal was also stopped.

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Then you brought me here,

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to harvest wild fruits and hunt wild animals.

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That was

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the most beautiful memory that I had during that period of time.

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Looks like

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you have forgotten about it completely.

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How could I have forgotten it?

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On the day before we came to the rear mountain,

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I was poisoned by the Seven Assassins Poison, on the verge of death.

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It was you who knelt in the great storm through the night in Tingzhu Courtyard.

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Only then did Gong Zi agree to exchange your life for mine.

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At that time, Yue Ying came to my room to save me.

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She told me that if you could come back alive,

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then I have to remember that I owed you one life.

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The Seven Assassins Poison.

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You took it because you wanted to help me to complete my mission.

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It is only right that I do everything that I can to save you.

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You are the second master that I had. If you failed,

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I would have died the most terrible death with not even a place for my body to be buried.

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So when I took the poison,

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I did it for myself, and not because you.

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You would have tricked me then by these words that you just said.

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But now you can't.

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You are the descendant of Princess Tai Ping.

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The blood in the vessels of your body is that of the Imperial Family.

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The sword that you carry with you is the Soul Cleaving Sword.

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Let's not talk about this tiny little Guihua City.

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Even if it is the great palace,

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as long as you want to leave, you have all the freedom to come and go as you wish.

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But I

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am just the poor, lowly and ordinary Su Qixue.

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I rack my brains thinking about it.

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I can only think of becoming the City Master of this Guihua City.

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To punish evil doing and uphold virtue,

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and not to let all the sisters in the Guihua City feel alarmed and fearful, that's all.

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Did you say this

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because you wanted to say that the two of us are not suitable for each other.

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It is not so.

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But you have your mission.

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You can make use of the Wordless Decree

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to summon all the court officials of the former dynasty. Raise the army

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and defeat the Great Liang. Return peace to this chaotic world. This way,

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there will not be a second Su Qixue again.

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A second Fang Yingying.

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And all those pitiful people in the world whose lives are destined by their fate.

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Chang An.

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I don't want to miss all the wonderful things in my life because of you.

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I also don't want you to blunder your future because of me.

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We...

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let us end it here.

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♫ In this elaborately written letter, ♫

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♫ all the words of love are filled with you. ♫

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♫ The flowers within ten miles blossom elegantly for you. ♫

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♫ I perform the zither, ♫

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Leave!

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♫ The rain falls while I foolishly wait for you. ♫

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Wan Mei.

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♫ to add a touch of poetry to our regrets and entanglements. ♫

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In future I will not be there to protect you.

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You must control your temper a little.

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Take care of your health.

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If Cha Luo makes trouble for you again, you must never stoicly bear it all by yourself.

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Go and look for Gong Zi.

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He will help you.

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Then,

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Chang An takes his leave.

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♫ In this elaborately written letter, ♫

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♫ all the words of love are filled with you. ♫

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♫ The flowers within ten miles blossom elegantly for you. ♫

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♫ I perform the zither, ♫

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♫ as if you are standing behind me. ♫

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♫ The rain falls while I foolishly wait for you. ♫

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Are you not going to bid your farewell before you leave?

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There is no need.

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I forgot to tell you just now.

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He said that he will light the fireworks on the other side,

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and wait for you to go and look at it.

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♫ Look at my lonely form with a solitary shadow ♫

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- Wan Mei.

- Let her go.

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Indecisive. Capricious.

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♫ Swaying in the breeze in thousands of thousands of ways ♫

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♫ One beach blossom umbrella ♫

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When you do not know what you really wanted, you will be forever wasting other people's time.

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♫ I will make one wish at this very moment ♫

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♫To keep my entire life as longing ♫

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♫ One song to shock the Heaven and the people ♫

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♫ One zither one person ♫

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♫ One dance that penetrates the sorrow ♫

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♫ One word that contains innocence ♫

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♫ One single thought one rebuke ♫

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♫ The pledge to marry made with one look ♫

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♫One stroke to break the bottle in the clouds ♫

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♫ One person one god ♫

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♫ One brushstroke to severe the scar ♫

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♫ One dream to intoxicate the Heaven and the earth ♫

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♫ One toast one cup filled ♫

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♫ One awakening three springs have passed again ♫

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♫It doesn't count when I habitually dreamed of you coming here ♫

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♫ Look at my lonely form with a solitary shadow ♫

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♫ When will we be able to meet again ♫

♫ Carving one dream into two swords ♫

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♫ Swaying in the breeze in thousands of thousands of ways ♫

♫ One beach blossom umbrella ♫

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♫ When I have walked to the ends of the earth ♫

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♫ At this very moment ♫

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♫ I will make one wish ♫

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♫ To keep my entire life as longing ♫

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It is right that I should congratulate you.

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You have finally comprehended the despair of such a level,

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and mastered the skill of Tian Guang Jin (aka Depletion of the Daylight).

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♫ One word that contains innocence ♫

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♫ One single thought one rebuke ♫

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♫ The pledge to marry made with one look ♫

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♫One stroke to break the bottle in the clouds ♫

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♫ One person one god ♫

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♫ One brushstroke to severe the scar ♫

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♫ One dream to intoxicate the Heaven and the earth ♫

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♫ One toast one cup filled ♫

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♫ One awakening three springs have passed again ♫

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♫ One awakening three springs have passed again ♫

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♫ I’ve never acted with proud indulgence. ♫

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♫ See how the fallen flowers look so ignorant. ♫

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♫ Your words “I will wait” prompt the racing of my heart. ♫

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♫ I will wait for the wind and rain to brew this fragrant wine into a gentle drift. ♫

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♫ I’ve never inexplicably fallen into disgrace. ♫

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♫ I sigh that time is an elegant swan goose in flight. ♫

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♫ I will use my lifetime of pain and loneliness to welcome the simultaneous ring from the zithers into the night. ♫

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♫ Who worsens the ache in my heart? ♫

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♫ My heart’s warmth will make these autumn leaves concentrated. ♫

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♫ When will you grow drunk in the autumn wind with me, ♫

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♫ so that I will be able to walk out of my dreams? ♫

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♫ The zither music evokes feelings of desolation and cheerlessness. ♫

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♫ Of a lifetime, the moon is always high, the dew is always heavy. ♫

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♫ Alone, I foolishly sit among the blue ocean waters, ♫

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♫ while the conifer plants grow in exuberance. ♫

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♫ Who worsens the ache in my heart? ♫

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♫ My heart’s warmth will make these autumn leaves concentrated. ♫

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♫ When will you grow drunk in the autumn wind with me, ♫

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♫ So that I will be able to walk out of my dreams. ♫

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♫ Who worsens the ache in my heart? ♫

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♫ My heart’s warmth will make these autumn leaves concentrated. ♫

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♫ When will you grow drunk in the autumn wind with me, ♫

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♫ so that I will be able to walk out of my dreams? ♫

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♫ So that I will be able to walk out of my dreams. ♫