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♫ Unwilling to take part in something improper, how could I predict things would turn out against my wishes? ♫

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♫ The flower in center of my heart has withered, time cannot turn itself back. ♫

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♫ My memories are whirling and twirling, the pain is only in the depths of my heart. ♫

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♫ My only wish is to live without regrets, and fly far away with the flowers’ fragrance. ♫

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♫ A bottle of rice wine, a body covered in dust and ashes. ♫

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♫ Memories go back and forth, a life without regrets. ♫

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♫ From spring to autumn, life comes and goes. Is it right to be vain? ♫

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♫ I’m waiting for the flowers to return and bloom again, intoxicating me. ♫

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♫ Sincerely hoping that my lifespan is no longer withering away ♫

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♫ I’m waiting for the flowers to return and bloom again, intoxicating me. ♫

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♫ Sincerely hoping that my lifespan is no longer withering away ♫

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♫ I want to go back to savor the aftertaste of the wine again. ♫

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♫ In my memories, life comes and goes. I realize clearly in my heart. ♫

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♫ I want to go back to savor the aftertaste of the wine again. ♫

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Ashes of Love

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Episode 28

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Once we go to the bottom of this river, all the answers will be revealed.

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What did I do wrong?

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Is it when Your Majesty used alcohol to bolster your courage a few days ago?

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You originally planned to tell the truth after getting drunk, but ended up misspeaking.

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Tell me.

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If your wife was unhappy, how would you cheer her up?

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That depends on how unhappy my wife is.

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If it's an ordinary type of unhappiness, I'll buy her some new gifts.

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If she's especially unhappy...

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- What would you do?

- Then, I'd buy even more expensive gifts.

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Did you think the sacred healer is an ordinary woman?

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I don't dare.

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You may go now.

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I will leave now.

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Wait.

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Help me find and bring

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all those new and expensive gifts.

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Yes, Your Majesty.

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- Since that's the case, why do you have to be so heartless?

- Liu Ying.

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We are of different paths to begin with. Without me,

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you'll live a better life.

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[Liu Ying]

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He said he carved this stroke by stroke.

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He said he'll never forget about our memories together.

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All lies!

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[Liu Ying]

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Your Highness has come back?

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Kuang Lu,

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do you still remember your childhood?

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Of course.

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Even the upsetting things?

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There's nothing upsetting.

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Even if I felt upset back then, when I think about it now,

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it wasn't anything serious.

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As immortals, being carefree and happy are the most important.

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You should think about happier things.

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If I could be like you, that would be good.

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Did Your Highness remember something upsetting?

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Who can live truly without worries?

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Time is like prayer beads formed by one's worries. A person with a broad perspective

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can count through these prayer beads with a smile.

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Although there are setbacks, they can face it calmly.

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so that they can face tomorrow optimistically.

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Kuang Lu, are you willing to go with me

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to Dongting River?

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Dongting River?

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I'm willing to follow Your Highness everywhere, even through death.

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Such a beautiful place. Why did Your Highness think to come here?

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This place might contain the past that I want to face.

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You're not a red carp. You don't deserve to play with us.

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Hurry and leave.

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You monster with horns! Leave!

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Leave! Leave the carp river.

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Your Highness.

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Your Highness!

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Did you remember something?

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[Li Pond]

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Your Highness seems to be very familiar with Dongting River.

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Let's go.

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No! No, mother! No!

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- Li'er. Li'er.

- No!

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Once I cut off this horns, you'll be like them.

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No, mother! No!

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Mother!

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Mother, no! No!

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Your Highness, are you okay?

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- You must behave.

- Mother...

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No...

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Are you okay?

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I'm fine.

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Cloud Dream Pond?

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This is a pretty name.

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[Li Pond]

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Li'er.

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Go play with your friends. Tell them

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that you've always been a red carp. You're not a small dragon.

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Go, go!

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Your Highness!

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What's wrong?

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Cloud Dream Pond? Shouldn't it be Li Pond?

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Your First Highness, you're finally here.

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Please come in.

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Benefactor, Night Deity is requesting an audience.

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Lord Dongting above,

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I'm paying you my respect.

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Shangshen, why must you do such formal bowing?

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I don't deserve it.

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It's just right that I make that bow. You can bear to accept it.

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I had questions in my heart, and I especially came to ask you.

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I've been staying in this humble place for a long time and has been cut off from worldly affairs.

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I'm afraid Your Highness is asking the wrong person.

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Today, I was able to get hold of a painting.

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I've long heard that Lord Dongting is knowledgeable of both past and present matters.

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I especially came to ask Immortal to examine it with me.

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Mother?

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Can I be allowed to speak with Lord Dongting in private?

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I don't recognize that painting. Sorry to disappoint you.

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It's fine. Let me explain this painting to you then.

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That Spiritual Fire Bead on the wrist of the lady in this painting

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is an important treasure of the Heavenly Realm. There are only 2 of it in this world.

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The other one was given by Heavenly Emperor to Heavenly Empress during their wedding.

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It shows that the lady in this painting and the Heavenly Emperor

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has a deep relationship.

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Red Naga pearls are suddenly streaming down.

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After this chance encounter, not separating from now on.

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This hidden-end poem

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pledges of an undying love and you can feel the deep emotion associated with it.

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The two last words just happen to form the word 'Su Li'.

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The area were the painter's name was inscribed bore the seal of Lord Beichen.

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That was a pseudonym used by His Majesty Heavenly Emperor before.

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He only calls himself that in front of people he's very close with.

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There are only a few people who knows that.

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Who is this person that was able to obtain a portrait personally made by the Heavenly Emperor,

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which he signed using his pseudonym to show his deep affection?

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Moreover, when Rat Immortal was in trial,

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he repeatedly mentioned the name Su Li.

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The reactions of Heavenly Emperor and Heavenly Empress were very abnormal.

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Heavenly Empress easily gets jealous. What could be the relationship of this Immortal Su Li

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with Heavenly Emperor, I'm sure that I don't need to explain it already.

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I've been studying hard in Sacred Text Examining Pavilion since I was little.

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All the famous people in the six realms and anecdotes,

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I never forget them once I've read about them. Only the words 'Su Li'

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seems familiar to me, but I can't recall of any impression about it.

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Just like my childhood memories, no signs about them at all.

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Looks like this Immortal Su Li

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is an old acquaintance that has a deep relationship with me when I was little.

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Someone deliberately erased my memories as a child.

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Even this person, this name,

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I also forgot all about it.

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Shangshen is overthinking. Your ability to let your imagination roam

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can really make people gasp in amazement.

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Am I truly just overthinking and over-worrying?

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The Heavenly Emperor's dragon clan practices fire elemental magic.

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I am also of the dragon clan, yet I practice water elemental magic.

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Based on that, I can infer that my mother is surely from a water clan.

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The Immortal Su Li in this painting

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is stepping on the waves to catch the fish. She's most likely from the water clan.

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And the Naga pearls mentioned on the poem

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is created from the tears of a merman.

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Coincidentally, I also have a bracelet of them.

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I've worn these since I was little and they have never left me.

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Su Li has long been dead.

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Shangshen, why must you insist on getting entangled with a dead person?

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When Rat Immortal faced his death that day, it might looked as if he has planned it for a long time

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to seek revenge for the dead Immortal Su Li.

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On the outside, it also drove a wedge between the Emperor and Empress, created a huge blow to the Bird Tribe.

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But in my opinion, this move lacked some methods and foresight.

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In reality, it didn't really make any dent in the foundation of the Bird Tribe.

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It's more like a 'cicada casting off its skin' move by sacrificing Rat Immortal when Heavenly Empress launched her attack.

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Through thorough investigation, the only acceptable explanation is

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Su Li isn't dead. Not only is she not dead,

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she's hiding behind the curtain secretly growing her power.

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She has plotted one operation to another.

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Continuously waging war on the Heavenly Empress.

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My son has finally grown up.

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I've long heard that Night Deity is unrivaled in intelligence and strategies.

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After seeing you today, the rumors are indeed true.

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Just based on one painting, you're able to reel silk from cocoons

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and make so many deductions.

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Then, may I ask,

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is everything that I said true?

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Deductions are just deductions.

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Night Deity is a royal descendant and is naturally Heavenly Emperor and Heavenly Empress—

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Heavenly Empress is not my birth mother! It's only because I'm the eldest son of Heavenly Emperor,

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that's why, she did all means to tightly control me in the palm of her hands.

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These past thousands of years,

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I never stopped thinking about my mother in my heart.

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Shangshen, please just go back.

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Since that fire in Li Pond,

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your mother has already died.

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I initially thought that mother loves me.

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It's just that forced by the circumstances in the past, we got separated.

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I was able to guess the person in this painting,

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the meaning of the poem, but I wasn't able to guess

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that the birth mother I've yearned for day and night

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would retreat thirty miles from me just to maintain the peace.

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Treat me as some stranger.

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Is it really me who is being too sentimental

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or it's mother that's being too heartless?

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How can I not love you?

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But what I'm walking on is a no retreat path.

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When will conflicts end?

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Shangshen, why then must you obstinately persist with this?

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Mother now has a new child bringing you happiness.

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I don't intend to pester you. I just want to personally ask you this question.

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If I'm really a great embarrassment for you,

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why then must you insist on giving birth to me?

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If mother and Father Emperor love each other,

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why then must you torment me and abandon me?

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This was created by your Spiritual Fire Bead.

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This is the scar left by you removing my scales before.

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The scales on other parts of my body has regrown.

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Only this reversed scale skin

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is my lifetime wound,

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my eternal pain. Everyone knows

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that the reverse scales on a dragon mustn't be touched.

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What kind of grudge and hatred

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could have made mother do such ruthless thing to your own flesh and blood?

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Stop saying it. I beg you to stop saying it!

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Leave. Leave. Leave!

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The person who gave birth to me,

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the person who destroyed me, the person who abandoned me

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are all my mother. I'm traumatized both physically and mentally.

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Completely covered in wounds.

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All these are thanks to my mother.

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Today, I'll bow again

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to repay my birth mother for giving birth to me.

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I'm not your mother! You're not my son!

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I'm not your mother...

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Leave!

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Quickly leave!

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Li'er!

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Li'er!

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Li'er!

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Li'er!

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Li'er!

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Your Majesty doesn't like them?

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Your Majesty doesn't like these, either?

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Then, I will go find some more gifts.

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I'll take these away for now.

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Keep them here.

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Cowardly and timid.

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A turtle that likes to hide.

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- What is this?

- Your Majesty, this... This is a dragon scale.

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Dragon scale?

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This was given to me by an immortal who ranches deer.

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Deity?

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Male deity or female deity?

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Male deity.

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Dragons don't exist in this world. I think he tricked you.

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No way! I saw it personally many times. It's definitely true.

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- Saw it personally?

- Yes.

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How many times have you two met?

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Why is Your Majesty so nervous?

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I'm not nervous.

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Your Majesty, if you don't believe me,

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I can summon him.

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Not allowed! In the future, you can't do that.

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I've given my order already.

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All necromancers in the entire nation must be driven out. You can't break the national law.

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Yes, Your Majesty.

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The books say that only one scale underneath a dragon's throat is moon-shaped.

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But if anyone pulls off a dragon's scale,

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that person will die, and the dragon will get angry.

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Which dragon is stupid enough to let others touch it? And which person is bold enough to take it?

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This liar didn't put any effort into making this scale. I can't believe you fell for it.

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Yes, yes, yes! Since that's the case,

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please give this back to me.

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Since you say that this is a dragon's scale, I'll believe you.

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I think it suits me.

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How about you give it to me?

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No!

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My friend is a deity.

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He was kind enough to give it to me. If I were to give it to Your Majesty,

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that... That would be inappropriate.

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Have it back.

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Little turtle?

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You didn't give me the dragon scale, but I'm not as petty as you.

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This is for you.

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Thank you, Your Majesty.

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Don't you think it's similar to you?

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Yes! What?

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It's similar to me?

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Isn't it?

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- Yes.

- It is rude not to return a gift.

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You didn't give me the dragon scale, but I gave you a small turtle.

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Then, you should give me another gift.

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What would Your Majesty like?

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Actually, it's nothing much.

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There's only one thing that I want.

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What is it?

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Think carefully about it.

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You want me to think carefully about it?

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Only this skin under my scale

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is my lifetime of hurt and pain.

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Stop talking! Stop! You're not my son!

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Leave. Hurry and leave!

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Your Highness, don't hold it in.

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If you need somebody to keep you company, I will stay behind.

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If Your Highness wants to be alone, I will leave.

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I'm fine.

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I just remembered some things from my childhood.

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Your Highness remembered all of it?

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Only bits and pieces.

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They are all timeworn nightmares.

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I remember that when I was young,

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I lived with my mother in Lake Tai.

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I thought that I was a weird-looking carp,

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always bullied by the other kids of the water tribe.

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You weirdo with horns on your head!

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- Hurry and leave.

- You weird carp, leave Li Lake!

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My father is a dragon, and my mother is an arowana, so how could I be a carp?

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One day, I couldn't hold it back anymore.

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To my surprise, my revolt

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resulted in an endless, bitter consequence.

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Mother, no.

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Mother, no.

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No, mother. No!

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No, mother!

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Li'er, be good. Listen to me. It will be done soon.

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- It will be done soon. Behave.

- No!

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- Listen to me. It will be done soon!

- No!

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My clothes were stained red by my blood.

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Before the previous layer dried, another layer of blood would drip down.

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Since I was born,

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I was hidden by my mother in the darkest place of the lake.

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I lived without seeing the sun.

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Do you know what I feared the most back then?

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Pulling your scales and breaking your dragon horns?

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The darkness?

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The loneliness?

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It's the cold.

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The coldness after losing blood that penetrates you to the bone.

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It entered my organs and bone marrow bit by bit.

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Do you know how it feels to be cold to the max?

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My entire being was filled with sorrow.

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All my organs and bones

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felt like they were boiling,

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blazing,

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trying to burn away the last source of heat in my body

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and draining the last drop of hot blood in my heart.

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When I think back to it now, I would still tremor from the cold.

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Stop thinking about it, Your Highness.

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It's better to forget about

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this sad past.

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Kuang Lu, although you are my servant,

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you are the beloved daughter of Immortal Taisi.

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You grew up in love and adoration.

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I, on the other hand...

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Am an illegitimate child who was abandoned by his mother and can never be brought out into the open.

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Who told you to bring him here?!

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Godmother, I was wrong.

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I was just worried that you'll do things that you'll regret eventually.

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Tell me, are you of one heart with me?

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Say it!

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Say it! Say it!

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My life was saved by you. My magic was taught by you.

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Godmother raised and provided for me.

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Godmother, stop keeping your problems to yourself. Let me share your worries and solve your problems.

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Since you miss Eldest Highness day and night, why didn't you acknowledge him?

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It's a past that's unbearable to recall.

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Unbearable to recall.

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I was originally a princess of the Arowana clan.

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Although my clan belonged to the Heavenly Realm, we've resided in Taihu Lake for generations.

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You can say that we've lived an extravagant life, was respectable and morally lofty, and stayed safe and sound.

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Since little, I'm spoiled by my older brother and father.

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I was engaged to be married to the heir apparent of Qiantang River.

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During one of Heavenly Empress' birthday,

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I followed Royal Father to the Heavenly Realm to attend her birthday banquet

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and gifted her some sea pearls.

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That time, I was still very young and was lazy to socialize with others.

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The wonderful scenery of Heavenly Realm also captured my attention.

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I was reluctant to go back and forgot about the time.

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I got lost and accidentally entered the Sacred Text Examining Pavilion

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and had a chance encounter with an immortal.

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He called himself the Night Deity, with an alias of Lord Beichen.

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He keeps watch of Heavenly Emperor's Sacred Text Examining Pavilion.

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This person is an erudite and very refined.

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He and I got along very well.

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Afterwards, we agreed to meet at sunset every day.

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The times spent with him

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were always wonderful but short,

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flying by like flowing water.

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In a blink of an eye, we've interacted and responded on poems

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for more than 10 days already.

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To correct something, that thing must first be wrong.

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If you insist to turn it by force, you surely will break it.

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Calligraphy is like the principles of changes. It's full of reciprocity.

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You must pay attention in feeling it.

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This is really "Sufferings of the vast sea looks like tears under the moonlight;

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Fond memories are like evaporating smoke from blue field of jade being warmed by the sun.

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The whole six realm knew that Heavenly Emperor is pursuing the Flower Deity. Never thought that towards you...

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Flower Deity will forever be his love knot.

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When he was young, just for power,

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he abandoned Flower Deity to marry Heavenly Empress.

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How then could he bear to let it go?

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Many years after, I learned that he seduced me

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just because she and I look a bit similar.

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What he's looking for in me

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was just the shadow of Zi Fen.

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Chinese catalpa trees grow from Jiangnan,

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brilliantly producing fragrant flowers.

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I'm an Arowana and not some plant.

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Clever and mischievous.

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Red Naga pearls are suddenly streaming down.

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After this chance encounter, not separating from now on.

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Accompanying Royal Father, I stayed in Heavenly Realm for more than a month.

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After visiting the different immortals, it was time to return to Taihu.

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On the night before leaving, I went to look for me for I want to say farewell.

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But he just completed disappeared like a morning dew.

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After asking around, I learned that there isn't any Night Deity then

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in Heavenly Realm. And no Lord Beichen

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exists.

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Can't do anything for the time to return has come.

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I followed Royal Father to say our farewell to the Heavenly Empress.

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I never thought that

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the Spiritual Fire Bead that Heavenly Emperor gifted me

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will eventually lead to a great future disaster.

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Not long after I returned to Li Pond,

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I discovered that I'm pregnant with his child.

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I secretly gave birth to Run Yu,

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but paper won't be able to contain fire.

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Royal Father still found out about it.

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Be good...

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Royal Father.

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Royal Father!

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- Royal Father!

- Dragon?

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My father immediately recognized his birth father.

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Only then did I know the true identity of Lord Beichen.

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- I guaranteed my Royal Father that I surely will keep the true identity of the child a secret.

- Royal Father!

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- That I will never bring the tribe any disasters.

- Royal Father!

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Sinful being! Starting today,

- Royal Father!

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you are not the princess of the Arowana clan anymore!

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♫ My left hand holds the ground, my right hand holds the sky. ♫

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♫ Lightning bolts erupt out of my palm print and go in ten directions. ♫

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♫ I quickly turn time into years. ♫

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♫ In three thousand lifetimes, I’ve seen it all. ♫

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♫ My left hand picks flowers, my right hand wields a sword. ♫

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♫ Between my brows, an entire ten thousand years’ of snow has fallen. ♫

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♫ One teardrop. ♫

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♫ That is who I am. ♫

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♫ My left-hand’s finger touches the moon, my right hand is selecting Red Threads ♫

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♫ to bestow upon you and I our desired and predestined love. ♫

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♫ In the moonlight. ♫

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♫ You and I. ♫

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♫ My left hand transforms into feathers, my right hand becomes scales. ♫

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♫ Some of my lives are spent in the clouds, some are in the forests. ♫

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♫ I’m willing to follow you and become a speck of dust ♫

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♫ in order to emerge in this mortal life. ♫

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♫ My left hands picks you up, my right hand lets go of you. ♫

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♫ When I clasp my palms together, you are completely drawn back into my heart. ♫

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♫ In the time it takes for one incense stick to burn. ♫

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♫ You and I, we become inseparable. ♫