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♫Still waiting, for news to be picked up like flying sand,♫

Timing and Translation provided by the Tang Yamen Team at viki.com

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♫ The wind blows away the sand. ♫

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♫Flourishing and falling like a burden, from the other side of the world.♫

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♫Seeing your silhouette, suffering and drowning in the dark,♫

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♫Memories rise of mistakes, being unable to hold onto your hand.♫

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♫Still as many times as I try to separate, to not openly mistake,♫

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♫Being afraid I will entirely doubt myself.♫

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♫Don't tell me that feelings engraved in one's heart and carved in one's bones♫

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♫Are not real and true.♫

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♫Still how many words I've spoken haven't explained,♫

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♫I want to give you so many more experiences and things replaced.♫

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♫No matter how I act, no matter how many mistakes I make,♫

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♫All along, I have not departed and gone over,♫

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♫I'm truly waiting for you.♫

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♫Still as many times as I try to separate, to not openly mistake,♫

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♫Having never forgotten you, being dedicated to you.♫

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♫Possessing feelings engraved in one's heart and carved in one's bones♫

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♫All real and true.♫

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♫Still how many words I've spoken haven't explained,♫

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♫Many thoughts I should untie love with you, being truly desolate.♫

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♫Wanting to know why don't I break free, demanding I bravely, quickly overcome,♫

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An Oriental Odyssey

♫I am truly moved.♫

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Episode 43

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As a master, you made your apprentice a bait.

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You are a disgrace!

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Prince.

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Why did the blue bat obey your order?

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And this rain...Why are you capable of this superior magic?

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Don't be surprised.

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It's because I like reading eccentric books.

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This old man had always thought that I learned my magic from him,

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but actually I learned it from books.

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If not because I kept enduring it, I wouldn't have discovered his true color.

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You're right. Bro, we're the same kind.

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Can I learn magic with you from now on?

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Sure.

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Magic is just a skill, but real friendship is a destined fate.

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Thank you for saving me today, Heng.

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We're sworn brothers from now on. I'm willing to accompany you wherever you want to go.

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That would be so nice.

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You know what?

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I don't even have a friend to chat with in my family.

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Where do you live?

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I live in the palace.

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Palace?!

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Many magic arts has been recorded in these books, but they've been lost long ago.

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If master sees these, he surely will be very happy.

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I like magic arts since childhood,

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but my father believes it'd endanger the country and banned them.

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I can only secretly take a glimpse at them when I study in the Imperial Library.

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We have common interests.

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How about we study together?

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From being just an apprentice, I became a real master in magic arts,

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but it isn't the thing that made me happiest.

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The real thing I want to do is to help you, my friend, become the man you want.

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Don't worry.

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I will cure your eyes and make you see the world again.

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Killing Mu Le is really difficult.

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We had so many days together, but I missed the chance.

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Now, I won't have those kind of chances anymore.

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Killing him has become more difficult.

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I can't continue like this.

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I have to quickly figure out a way.

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♫ Mist worries along with the mortal world ♫

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♫ The sound of missing you is still so beautiful and quiet ♫

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♫ I follow you through ups and downs ♫

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♫ One love has persistently waited for several years ♫

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♫ I'm willing to get entangled and fight the whole world ♫

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♫ But I'm unable to resist your gaze when you look back ♫

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♫ Missing you, but also perplexed about this love ♫

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♫ How can I give up when I've fallen in love ♫

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♫ If I have to fall into this vast remainder of my life just for this love ♫

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What are you doing?

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What were you doing?

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Just eating walnuts in such leisure manner here.

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Anything in your mind? Tell me.

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Nothing.

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Prince, the Queen summons you.

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Okay. I know.

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♫ Just let the goodbye last forever ♫

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My greetings to you, Royal Mother.

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Stand up.

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Thank you, Royal Mother.

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Royal Mother, where's Royal Father?

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He seems not comfortable, so I served him to sleep early.

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I guess he's still worrying about brother.

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We have high expectations for both of you.

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Your brother met a bad friend and made a big mistake.

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He has been punished, but your Royal Father is upset.

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Royal Mother, brother has been reflecting on his mistakes every day ever since.

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I believe he can start with a clean slate.

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Please take it easy and take care of yourself.

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I hope so.

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Ying, I summon you today to discuss some things with you.

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This time, you killed the red dragon, saved your father, and saved the whole Suoluo.

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Just say what you want.

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I'll promise everything as long as we can afford it.

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Thank you, Royal Mother.

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I'm already contented for being cared by you and Royal Father.

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I don't need any rewards, but have only one wish.

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If you can help, I'd be very grateful.

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Let me hear it.

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Yes, Royal Mother.

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I met a girl named Nana when I went out of the palace last time.

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I have never known her, but she felt like an old friend.

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She's brave, courageous, and faithful to friends.

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I like her and want to marry her.

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I hope you can agree to my wish.

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Is Nana the girl who fought against the red dragon with you?

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Yes, it's her. Last time, she also risked her life just to save Xiao Nan together with me.

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Your Majesty, are you not feeling well?

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Just a minor cough.

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It's an old illness. I'm fine.

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Please don't catch a cold again.

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Since that's the case, I won't talk too much anymore. Please have a rest early.

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You must have your reason to be here at this late time.

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Please say it. Come here and sit down.

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Your Majesty, you started to cultivate Heng and Ying since they were little,

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because you wanted to find an outstanding successor among them.

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But after what happened to the red dragon offering ceremony,

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I'm sure that you're already set to make Prince Ying as the future king, am I right?

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But don't forget our tradition

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that a man aged 18 should get married.

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It's only a few days before Ying's 18th birthday.

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He's at the age of settling down.

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Do you mean you have a good choice for his wife?

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He met a girl Nana outside the palace.

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She's loyal to friends and very brave.

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She was together with Ying in saving the deer monster and killing the red dragon.

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Do Your Majesty have any concerns?

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Is it because she's an ordinary girl?

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Have you forgotten

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that the progenitor of Suoluo is also just a commoner blacksmith?

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What's most important in Ying's marriage is if he likes the girl,

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and whether she can assist Ying to become a wise king.

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What you said is very right. I was short sighted.

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How about this? Go and meet this lady.

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If she's suitable, let them marry each other as soon as possible.

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Is Your Majesty rushing to have them marry

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because of the rumors about Heng recently?

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Do you want to use this in distracting the people's attention from the scandal?

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You really know me well.

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Just do as I say.

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Yes, Your Majesty.

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Why does your mother want to see me?

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You'll know once you see her.

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I'm not going.

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If you don't go, that's disobeying a decree.

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Do you know you'll get beheaded for it?

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I...

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Fine, I'll go.

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You're so amazing now, is that it?

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You kept scaring me with execution out of nowhere.

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Who was the one before who kept following me every day?

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What did you say?

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Nothing.

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But I do have to dress up if I'm going, right?

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I don't have any beautiful dresses.

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Look.

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Put it down!

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Why?

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Is picking a flower in your kingdom also punishable by beheading?

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Do you know what flower this is, Nana?

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I don't know. If you want to kill me, just do it.

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So what?

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It's called crape myrtle, a common poisonous flower in Suoluo.

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If your skin gets exposed to its liquid,

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you can suffer as light as itching and swelling, to more severe like fester.

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I'm indeed itching now.

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You...

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Greetings, Your Highness. I'm Nana.

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Stand up.

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Thank you, Your Highness!

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You're Nana, Ying's friend?

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Why are you wearing a veil?

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Take it off and let me see you.

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Replying to Your Highness, I was naughty

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and picked a crape myrtle in the Imperial Garden this afternoon.

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Now, my face is a little red and swollen.

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I should have shoveled them away.

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I just really like the red color.

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Every time I see it, I'd feel that luck will come to Suoluo.

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Today, I also have something good to tell you.

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Something good?

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Nana, you helped Ying kill the evil dragon.

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It's great courage for a girl to risk her life to protect the people.

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Hence, I want to grant your marriage with Ying as a reward.

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Oh my god. This sucks.

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After going in circles, why must I marry him again?

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I supposedly came here to kill him.

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Nana, what are you doing? Her Highness is asking you a question.

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Your Highness, please don't make fun of me.

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Marriage is not something to be played with.

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Nana, do you dislike Ying?

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Prince Ying is smart, brave, and with outstanding virtues.

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Every girl would fall in love with him.

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But I'm too young to think of marriage.

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How dare you?

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I grant the marriage to you at the command of the King.

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How dare you put it off?

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Do you know how many people in this country want to marry him?

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Okay. I won't force you if you don't want to.

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Guards, drive her out of the palace.

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She isn't allowed to see Ying ever again.

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- No. If I can't see him, I won't get the Divine Beads.

- Yes!

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Queen! Your Highness Queen!

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Allow me to say some last words.

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I know I'm from humble origins and my parents died since I was young.

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I don't deserve Prince Ying.

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But wherever and whenever I am,

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I'd sincerely pray for him to be with his lover forever.

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Nana, do you know who he loves?

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I don't dare to think.

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If not because he begged us for this, why would we grant you this marriage?

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I ask you again.

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Do you like Prince Ying for real?

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Your Highness, I love him.

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No matter who he is,

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whether he's a prince or a servant,

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whether he's a hero or a thief,

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I don't care.

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Through all the ups and downs,

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I've realized that maybe everything is destined.

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Very good.

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It'll be the 18th birthday of Prince Ying a few days from now.

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Quickly make the preparations.

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Nana should be the most beautiful bride that night.

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Do you hear me?

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Yes.

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Thank you, Your Highness.

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Where are you going?

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I waited you for a while and wanted to go out to find you.

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You just can't wait for it, don't you?

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Yes, I can't wait.

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I can't wait to kill you.

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Let go of me!

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If you dare touch me, I'll kill you!

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Give it back.

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What's this?

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You carry a dagger with you even in our wedding night?

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If you don't like me, why did you marry me?

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Since things have come to this, fine, I'll tell you.

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Everything I did is to kill you,

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including agreeing to marry you.

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What on earth did I do that you have to kill me?

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You don't need to know what mistake you have done.

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What you need to know is that only if you die can we live.

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Hold it.

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I bet that you won't be able to do it.

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Do you know why I'm in such a hurry to marry you?

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Because I'm afraid.

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I'm afraid that just like last time...

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...you will suddenly leave.

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I'm afraid that you won't come back

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once you leave this time.

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I beg you...please stay.

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♫Seeing your silhouette, suffering and drowning in the dark,♫

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It's better for us...

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...to not to meet again.

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♫Still as many times as I try to separate, to not openly mistake,♫

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♫Having never forgotten you, being dedicated to you.♫

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♫Possessing feelings engraved in one's heart and carved in one's bones♫

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♫All real and true.♫

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♫Still how many words I've spoken haven't explained,♫

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♫Many thoughts I should untie love with you, being truly desolate.♫

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♫Wanting to know why don't I break free, demanding I bravely,♫

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You're so beautiful.

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♫I am truly moved.♫

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♫I am truly moved.♫

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I'll keep it as a remembrance. You can leave.

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♫Still as many times as I try to separate, to not openly mistake,♫

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♫Having never forgotten you, being dedicated to you.♫

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♫Possessing feelings engraved in one's heart and carved in one's bones,

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♫All real and true.♫

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♫Still how many words I've spoken haven't explained,♫

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♫Many thoughts I should untie love with you, being truly desolate.♫

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♫Wanting to know why don't I break free, demanding I bravely, quickly overcome,♫

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♫I am truly moved.♫

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Ye Yuan'an, Ye Yuan'an.

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Why did you give up?

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You almost have killed him.

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Zhao Lanzhi and Minghui were right.

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I cannot do it.

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Since that's the case, staying here is just a waste of time.

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It'd better to call Tianshu to transport me back and just think of another plan with them.

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Who's there?

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Come out.

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Show yourself.

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Don't try to scare me.

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Come out.

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I'll count to three.

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One.

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Two.

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Three.

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Why did you abduct me?

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I know

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that Ying and I have different characters since we were young.

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But I never thought of a day when our fate would be this widely divergent.

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I didn't expect that a day will really come.

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You and Ying were about to marry, while my friend...

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...was forced to gouge his own eyes.

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Why? Scared?

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Don't be afraid,

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because you'll immediately be the same as him.

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I'll transplant your eyes to him.

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Ying will surely regret opposing me.

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What's wrong with you? Why are you so down?

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If the chief steward sees you, you will be punished.

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Yingqin and I should be on night duty together yesterday,

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but she said she wanted to go to the toilet.

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She must have slept somewhere instead,

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that I had to be on duty alone for the whole night.

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I'm too tired.

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Does she have a boyfriend?

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How can I know that?

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Are you okay?

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Your Majesty, just this morning, the eyes of many servants in the palace have been gouged out.

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The murderer was very ferocious and left no clues.

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What? Murder cases?

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There are palace maids whose eyes have been gouged out?

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This is so audacious!

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Your Highness, allow me to report a matter. There is a rumor spreading in the marketplace now

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that is intensifying.

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- They're saying...

- What are they saying?

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They're saying that the King is forcing himself to cultivate into an immortal, hence, has gouged his own eyes,

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which brought disaster to the people.

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Totally nonsense!

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Anyone spreading such kind of rumor must be killed at once.

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The King has not recovered yet. Don't tell him this.

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Yes.

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Leave.

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Ying, come here.

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Royal Mother.

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That evil man who misled your brother has gouged his eyes out,

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thrown into the wilderness, and died from being basked under the sun.

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These two things are too strange and too coincidental.

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Go and check whether Heng has devoted himself to repentance.

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Brother.

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What brings you here?

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Brother, I come here to visit you on behalf of Royal Father and Royal Mother.

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Thank you, Ying.

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In the past, I taught you how to play chess on behalf of our Royal Father.

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Now, you check me on behalf of him

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if I've really repented my sins.

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Congratulations, brother.

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The world will be yours soon.

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At that time,

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I'm afraid I wouldn't just get restricted like this, but directly become your prisoner.

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Brother, it doesn't make any sense to say that.

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Royal Father's healthy now.

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We're both princes, and that's our good fortune.

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To be honest, I came here

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because there were strange murder cases in the city and palace.

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The eyes of palace maids and commoners have been gouged and they are killed.

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I want to know whether it's related to you.

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You must be kidding.

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So many people have been arranged by Royal Father

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to monitor his useless son.

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I am being confined in the palace everyday.

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He might even know better than me what I have done and said every day.

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How then could I have stirred up such a huge trouble?

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You better not be involved in this.

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Please behave yourself, brother.

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Stop making Royal Father worry about you.

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I can't commit the crime you mentioned,

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but...

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wizards who are capable of magic arts might have the ability to do that.

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It was really you!

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Royal Father forced my friend to gouge his eyes out on his own,

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but granted you a marriage.

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You must be very happy.

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What?

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After just getting married, you're inching to kill me now?

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Magic arts endanger the country.

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Your friend was punished because of practicing dark magic.

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Not only did you not take it as a lesson, you even continued to practice it. You...

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No. I have to tell Royal Father.

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Go tell him then!

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You'd better bring him here too.

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Oh, I almost forgot.

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I have a small gift for you.

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It's...

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What did you do to Nana?

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What did you do to her?

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Don't be nervous. She's in my hand.

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If you want to save her, come here tonight.

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Really?

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Royal Mother, older brother is...

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...is learning Buddhist doctrine earnestly and repenting.

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He asks to be given a chance to apologize to Royal Father face to face.

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He hopes Royal Father can give him another chance.

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I got it.

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I'll take my leave then.

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Can you see me?

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No.

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Don't worry. I will find your eyes back.

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Daydreaming.

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You're afraid of me. Or else, why did you avoid me?

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If you really want to kill me,

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you have done it already.

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Your life is worth more than your death.

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Take it easy. Ying will come save you.

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You want to lure him by using me?

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You are inferior to him in everything. If he really comes, you won't be able to see the sun tomorrow.

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Don't get cocky on me.

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I'm not gouging your eyes for now,

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because I want you to personally see how I kill Ying.

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Nana!

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What are you doing here?

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Leave now. Don't mind me.

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Don't be afraid. I'm going to save you.

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Finally, you're here.

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Brother, put her down now!

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My younger brother, you didn't ask Royal Father and Royal Mother for help

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and instead came here alone to save the woman you love.

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You're so brave.

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I'm enough to defeat you.

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Okay. Let's see who gets to kill the deer in the end.

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It hurts...it hurts!

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Release the rope.

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Release it! Leave!

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Heng, kill them now.

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This way, you can become the king.

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Mu Le. Mu Le.

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Are you okay? Are you fine?

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Okay already. Let me fulfill your wish to be together then.

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You unfilial son!

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What happened, Heng?

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Royal Father is here.

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Royal Father, I...

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You vicious idiot.

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You think I don't know the rumors at the court?

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Royal Father...

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Not only did you not repent on your sins, you went even further.

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You actually threatened Ying with a girl.

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Do you know that

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you're killing your own little brother?!

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Royal Father, there's only Ying in your heart!

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Fine. Anyway, I've committed a grave crime. Kill me then.

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You...

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And you evil man, you actually are still alive.

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You're still bringing disaster to my kingdom.

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Fine. Today,

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I'll solve all the problems completely!

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Royal Father!

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Nana!

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You treacherous villain!

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How dare you murder your own father?

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You...you...

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Ling Xi, it's me. Let's go. This way.

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This way.

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Heng, go now.

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Just patiently wait. Leave everything else to me.

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Don't intervene in this matter anymore.

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The red dragon.

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What Zhao Lanzhi told me is true.

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How are you now? Are you okay?

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I feel very furious and that I'm burning from head to foot.

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How come things became like this?

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Maybe because your blood merged with that of the red dragon's during the offering ceremony.

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Hence, the red dragon's blood is still in your body.

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Timing and Translation provided by the Tang Yamen Team at viki.com

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♫Tired of strategizing from lights out until dawn, ♫

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♫ Longing for you but remaining silent♫

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♫ Constantly dreaming of exchanging knowing glances with you♫

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♫ Who does not wish for a full lifetime with someone entirely intimate,♫

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♫ Knowing what to expect when the Big Dipper has turned and the stars have moved. (time flown by) ♫

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♫ I'm stubborn and you bear grudges, ♫

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♫ Extremely antagonistic love is so absurd. ♫

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♫ Who is shouting in the middle of time passing by unreconciled?♫

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♫ Once we drank and chatted merrily, what you said that night on the mountain. ♫

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♫That time has ended and gone by, only to leave regret. ♫

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♫Fluttering on the winds of this world, floating and drifting, ♫

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♫Following the footprints left by you, ♫

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♫Hoping to meet and be acknowledged again by you.♫

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♫Remembering and longing for the love and regret of the past, ♫

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♫Reuniting with you, and not finding this life so empty. ♫

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♫Once we drank and chatted merrily, what you said that night on the mountain ♫

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♫ That time has ended and gone by, only to leave regret. ♫

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♫Once we drank and chatted merrily, what you said that night on the mountain ♫

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♫That time has ended and gone by, only to leave regret. ♫