Original subtitles

♫ Wait a millennium for a return ♫

♫ Wait a millennium for a return ♫

♫ Who was it who whispered in my ear ♫

♫ Just for that one sentence ♫

♫ I would not bemoan even if I become heartbroken ♫

♫ The rain is heartbroken and the wind is crying ♫

♫ With lingering dreams of a love faraway ♫

♫ Wait a millennium for a return ♫

♫ Wait a millennium for a return ♫

The Legend of White Snake

Episode 13

Several decades.

Even to mortals, that's not considered very long.

For demons, that's as short as a flash of lightning.

But...

I'm willing to give up on my cultivation of longevity,

so as to enjoy a brief moment of beauty with you.

Hanwen, I've stored up the moonlight.

When the weather gets better,

we'll go together to admire the full moon. All right?

♫ If we would be blessed with good fortune in a millennium ♫

♫ Growing old together with one heart would be in sight ♫

♫ If we would be blessed with good fortune in a millennium ♫

♫ Growing old together with one heart would be in sight ♫

Suzhen.

I'm dreaming again, right?

I can only see you in my dreams now.

I regret it.

I shouldn't have pushed you away.

I miss you so much.

Even if I die,

I will not let you leave me again.

I want to be with you forever, for all eternity.

♫ The spring showers taste like wine and the willows look like mist! ♫

You let go of me first.

I can't. The last time I let you go,

I already made a grave mistake.

I can't make the same mistake again.

In this lifetime, I'll hold your hand.

I must grow old with you.

You drove me away the last time. I haven't forgiven you yet.

Are you all right?

Medicine... Medicine over there.

I'll go get it.

Didn't you ask me to get the medicine? Where is it?

Lovesickness is a severe and lingering illness. Only the person in this painting is my medicine.

Suzhen, the road to Shu is far and dangerous. Why not live permanently in Lin'an?

Suzhen, do you know,

as I lay dying, what I saw in my dream?

We got married in my dream.

And we grew old together.

If this beautiful dream came true,

I'd have no regret even if I died.

Hanwen.

Suzhen, I don't know if I'll be fortunate enough in this lifetime

to be able to call you "wife"

and to take care of you for the rest of your life.

Not just this lifetime, but for eternity.

No matter how short life is,

we'll promise to meet in our future lives.

Suzhen, you said it.

After marrying into the Xu family, you'll be mine for eternity.

Yes.

Husband.

Husband.

I thought reading a huaben (book of Chinese short folktales) before going to sleep

could help me dream of romance.

But why do I see that ugly face in my dream?

I've been staying out here for two days.

Brother Hanwen is still not here to look for me.

Maybe I'm hiding myself too well.

Hanwen, it's cool outside. Why don't you go back in?

You just recovered from a major illness. You absolutely can't catch a cold now.

I can't accompany you back to the Bai Manor, at least let me see you off outside the yard.

It's getting late.

In a little while, Older Sister Xu will be up.

Suzhen, today I'll ask Older Sister to bring up the marriage proposal.

Hanwen, you're able to get up!

- Older Sister. - Hanwen, you're well now.

That's good!

That... Bai...

- Miss Bai. - Older Sister Xu.

It's early in the morning, who are you talking to... It's Hanwen.

Miss Bai?

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No. As it says in the huaben (book of Chinese short folktales),

don't forgive a man so easily.

I have to think of a way. I'll pretend that I'm just casually strolling by.

Let him see me and joyfully run after me and beg me.

Are you all right now?

I'm fine, Older Sister.

When the Demon Conquering Sword encounters demonic aura, it will light up to warn its owner.

Miss Bai, thank you.

Thank you for curing Hanwen's illness overnight.

But there's something I don't understand.

All the physicians here in Lin'an City couldn't do anything to cure Hanwen's illness.

Miss Bai, where did your magical medicine come from?

Actually, Hanwen didn't get sick. He was poisoned.

My ancestors on my mother's side were all physicians. My deceased mother used to say that

my maternal uncle had invented an antidote for all kinds of poisons. I just wanted to try it out.

- Unexpectedly, it really worked. - It really worked.

Your maternal uncle?

I remember you told us that you have no relatives here in Lin'an City. Not even one family member is here.

But now, where does a maternal uncle pop up from?

- Suzhen, she- - Shut up!

No... Hanwen, you're not well. Get more rest. Listen to me.

- Miss Bai. - It's all right.

Let's talk about your maternal uncle.

In the past, I couldn't find my uncle's whereabouts in Lin'an City.

I was thinking I would go stay in my uncle's ancestral home first, then keep looking for him later.

And later I found out that he moved to Suzhou.

His neighbors passed along the news that I was looking for him and he came here to look for me.

As soon as I got the medicine, I brought it here without delay.

I'm sorry I disturbed you late at night.

In the past,

no matter how you tried to find your relative, you couldn't.

The moment Hanwen got sick, your uncle appeared on his own with the medicine.

Miss Bai, what you did here,

- it's even more coincidental than what's written in stories. - Older Sister.

What is it?

This is because Hanwen has luck with his life. The heavens protected him.

That's right. The heavens protected me.

It led me to meet Suzhen who's such a good lady and she even cured my illness.

Yes... She cured your illness. You just barely recovered. Sit down. Listen to me.

Come... sit.

Miss Bai, you even delivered the medicine in the night. I'm very grateful to you.

But when did you come last night?

Why didn't my wife and I hear any sounds?

Moreover, with Hanwen's condition yesterday, he could not have opened the door for you.

Miss Bai, how did you enter?

Brother-in-law, blame me instead.

I don't blame you. I blame you instead.

- Why are you blaming me? - You forgot to lock the door last night.

Impossible!

Miss Bai, you are very caring. Thank you

for coming in quietly to avoid disturbing our sleep.

- Let's go. - No, I have a matter to deal with.

What matter would you have? Hanwen, thank Miss Bai now.

- No, you are clueless. - Keep quiet.

Hanwen, what are you doing?

Older Sister, Brother-in-law, I have a request.

Whatever it is, stand up and speak.

[Forever Honest and Upright]

There's clearly someone in there. Why aren't they coming out?

I have been pacing up and down so many times.

What?

You want to marry Miss Bai?

I had fallen for Suzhen a long time ago.

Because I was gravely sick, I didn't dare to say it.

After this experience of life and death, I realized money is easy to get but a confidant is hard to find.

I don't have any other requests except to be with Miss Bai till we grow old.

Older Sister. Brother-in-Law. Please grant my request.

Miss Bai is beautiful and talented. If she can become my sister-in-law, I'll be more than happy.

It's just that, Hanwen, your action is too sudden for Miss Bai.

Older Sister, I know that I'm wrong.

Older Sister Xu, it's my fault. Please don't blame Hanwen.

Hanwen, you were rude to Miss Bai this time.

In the future, don't disappoint her again.

Suzhen, will you marry me

and let me take care of you for life?

- Gongfu, our Hanwen has finally grown up. - Yes...

Our parents in Heaven must be feeling comforted.

I know. But, My Lady,

Hanwen just recovered from a grave illness

and to set a marriage date so soon, isn't it too rushed?

It's not. They have mutual affections for each other.

He's no longer a kid. He should have settled down long ago.

Marriage is a big event and it needs to go through the parents and a matchmaker.

You are being too hasty in doing this.

What do you mean?

My parents are no longer here. Of course, as his older sister, I should make the decision.

What's wrong with you today? You keep opposing me.

No, I'm not doing that.

My Lady, this is not what I meant.

What I mean is that since we have found the elder from the Bai family,

we can't bypass him. Isn't that so?

Hanwen, let's find a date to go to Suzhou to propose the marriage. What do you think?

You're right. I was able to recover this time due to Maternal Uncle's medicine.

I should thank him personally. Brother-in-law, you are right.

- We will find a date to go to Suzhou. - That's right.

Hanwen, Suzhou is far away and you have just recovered. The journey will be exhausting and I fear you won't be able to take it.

Uncle happens to be visiting me in Lin'an right now. He's staying at the residence.

This is great!

Why don't we visit him tomorrow?

- Tomorrow? - That's right, Miss Bai.

Is it inconvenient tomorrow?

It's not inconvenient.

It's just that important guests will be visiting. I need to report to it to him first.

I'll take my leave now.

Hanwen, see her out.

I will see Suzhen out.

Doesn't Older Sister Xu come out at this time to buy groceries every day?

I have walked past so many times.

Why isn't she out yet?

I'm so tired.

Before you even left, I was already starting to miss you.

Fortunately,

Older Sister has agreed to our marriage.

Now that everything is decided, there won't be any gossip when you visit me at my house in the future.

I heard there's a rule in Lin'an that a man and a woman can't meet after getting engaged.

Shouldn't we avoid each other then?

I haven't gone to your residence to propose the marriage yet.

This doesn't count. You must still continue seeing me.

You said it's confirmed and now you're saying that it's not confirmed.

So is it confirmed or not?

You learned to poke fun at me.

This date is not bad,

but is it a bit late?

Gongfu.

Gongfu, stop standing there. Come and help me pick.

Which date is good?

Enough... stop choosing...

We are confirming Hanwen's marriage just like this?

Didn't we just discuss this?

What's wrong?

You don't like Miss Bai?

It doesn't matter if I like her or not.

Hanwen's marriage is an important event.

No matter what, we should find someone we know really well, isn't that so?

Look at Miss Bai. She's not from Lin'an.

Moreover, what she said today is all one-sided. Can we believe her?

I was wondering why there's something weird about the way you talked today.

So, this is what you think.

You got your job back, so you're dizzy with success?

- What are you saying? - Today, you look down on Miss Bai because she has no family; tomorrow, are you going to look down on me, too?

My Lady...

- All right... don't be angry. You're the last person I'll look down on, My Lady. - Don't touch me.

I'm telling you. I have already asked my men to go to Qingbo Gate to check.

That place has been deserted for years. No one lives there. Understand?

Moreover, Miss Bai is all by herself. She's a girl but her whereabouts are always changing.

And she's even extremely resourceful. So many famous physicians from Lin'an City couldn't cure Hanwen's illness.

The moment she came, she cured him.

She's not an evil spirit, is she?

Evil spirit?

When I told you earlier that there were evil spirits in this world, you said I was an ignorant woman.

Now that you caught a fox spirit, you think anyone is an evil spirit.

Let me ask you. Have you ever seen an evil spirit who saves people and never harms anyone?

If Miss Bai is not a human, then she has to be a fairy;

an otherworldly immortal banished to earth.

Yes...

- You have nothing more to say, right? - No...

I'm telling you! When we go to the Bai Manor tomorrow, you have to be careful.

Don't behave like you're interrogating a criminal.

If anything goes wrong with Hanwen's marriage, I won't let you off.

Check the date...

This day, this day. Look at this day.

This day.

My Lady, I'm going out to do some tasks. I will be back soon.

You run away the moment I talk serious matters with you.

Hanwen getting married is a good thing. But why do I feel so uneasy?

I'm going to Jinshan Temple to find that monk.

[Lin'an Inn]

A man deeply in love?

A woman deeply in love?

An idiot waiting for love.

In the end, he's still marrying someone else!

Someone else! Someone else!

Lies, lies! These are all lies!

In this world, no one stays together until death. Everyone is fickle!

Older Brother Hanwen?

What are you here for now?

Leave.

I will never forgive you for the rest of my life.

What are you doing?

Young lady, you should be the one leaving instead.

You can't just enter a guest's room regardless.

Young Lady, my inn doesn't allow delayed payments.

Since you don't have money now, you're not a guest either.

It's just about money, right? I will give it to you.

Young lady, this is the bill for your meals for the past few days.

Every day, you wanted the best foods from Lin'an.

Today, you wanted to eat glutinous rice balls from East Street.

Tomorrow, you want to drink grape wine from West Street.

We sent people to buy them and spent a lot of money in the process.

I'm not asking for a free ride.

I will give you the money.

Here.

There's more. This is for when you just came.

You said our bedding was stiff, so we replaced a whole new set for you.

Then you said our tea didn't taste nice, so we changed it to Longjing that was harvested before Qingming Festival.

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After all the talk, isn't it still about money?

Hold on. I will give it to you.

What are you doing? Stop snatching my money...

This little bit of money is not even enough to pay for the things you broke here.

I have seen many people like you.

Throw her out!

No, what're you doing? No, don't touch me!

Master!

Master! Master, wait!

Master...

I finally caught up with you. Please wait.

Amitabha.

Benefactor, we meet again.

- Yes... - Such a coincidence.

Master, it's not a coincidence this time. I came especially to find you.

I heard from my brothers at the city gate that

you are leaving Lin'an city?

The evil demon has been eliminated. I have stayed in Lin'an for many days.

- I should be going back to Jinshan Temple. - Yes...

Why you are looking for me?

Master, I have a request.

It's like this. Can I borrow your Demon Slaying Sword again?

But the fox demon has been eliminated. Why do you still need the Demon Slaying Sword?

I won't hide this from you, Master.

I suspect that my wife's younger brother is involved with a demon.

Wife's younger brother?

Is it Physician Xu from Jishi Hall?

Yes... he's my brother-in-law.

When you told me before that he was involved with a demon, I didn't believe it.

But recently, he met a young lady of unknown origin.

They are now at the stage of discussing marriage.

But every time she meets this Demon Slaying Sword, it lights up.

- Hence, I think this young lady is... - Young lady?

Benefactor, the young lady you are referring to, is she Bai Suzhen?

You are indeed a great master. It is Bai Suzhen.

Xu Xian wants to marry Bai Suzhen?

How can he marry her?

Benefactor, take me to see him quickly.

All right, Master. After you.

Master, please have some tea.

Have some tea, Master.

Jiarong...

What are you doing? What?

Why did you bring this strange monk into our home again?

What strange monk?

He's an eminent monk from Jinshan Temple. It was all thanks to him that we captured the fox demon.

I invited him to our house to help us check

which area in this house is not right.

In this house, you're the only one that is not right. Acting all weird.

Look. Just look at him staring straight at Hanwen.

He has bad intentions.

No such thing.

- Look! He's looking at me, too. - It's okay...

It's okay. You guys talk. Continue talking.

Everything's fine.

I heard that when the fox demon was causing trouble, it was you that saved my brother-in-law.

Thank you, Master.

It's my job. You don't need to thank me.

I heard that you are getting married.

You are still young. Is there a need to rush into it?

The fated one for me is here, so let nature take its course.

You don't need to cling onto this fated one at present.

If you rush into it, it will cause a disaster in the future.

Why are you scaremongering?

I'm not a monk.

My only wish is to live as a married couple with her.

Why are you not coming to your senses after I have said so much?

Why are you insisting on marrying Bai Suzhen?

Benefactor, a few days ago,

were you gravely ill?

Thank you, Master, for your concern. There's no problem with my health now.

Normally, you would have already been dead.

- What nonsense is he spouting? Isn't he cursing Hanwen? - No...

- Just look at him. Kick him out now. - There must be a misunderstanding.

You have a demonic aura on your body.

In fact, it's a thousand-year spirit core.

You have cultivated into a spirit?

I respectfully called you "Master," but it's not to let you spout nonsense here.

I have matters to attend to in my house today, so I won't hold you back here.

Please leave.

Did the Snake Demon give Xu Xian her spirit core to suppress the poison in his body?

No, this is not possible.

Sorry to offend you, but let me examine your body.

- Master...! What are you doing, Master? - What are you doing?

What are you doing?

Benefactor, his body has a thick demonic aura. I'm examining him.

Don't explain! You obviously have bad intentions.

That's not true.

Master, you have looked at me for a while now. Did you see anything?

As a mere mortal, you managed to survive a fatal demonic poison.

You have a demonic aura now, but yet you're not a demon.

I've never seen this in my life.

- Brother-in-law. - Yes?

He has looked at me for a while now and says I seem like a demon but I am not a demon.

No, Hanwen... Come here.

What's this, Master?

I let you... I let you come to my home,

not for you to check if Hanwen was a demon.

What I wanted you to check was whether Miss Bai is a demon or not.

Bai Suzhen?

Yes or no?

That's true.

If she no longer has her spirit core, is she still considered a spirit?

Is Bai Suzhen still considered a spirit?

Who are you asking, Master? Wasn't I asking you instead?

She is, but she's also not.

She's not, but yet she is.

No, Master, what do you mean she is, but she's not? So is she or not?

Gongfu, can you stop going on and on with him? Kick him out now.

Master... why don't we end it here for now?

- Come, I will see you off. - Wait. Let me check his spirit core again.

Wait! Master, come... It's cooler outside. Let me keep you company for a while.

There's something strange here. Probably, only Master would have the answer.

Maybe I should just disappear with the wind.

Brother Hanwen might cry a little for me.

No...

I'm so beautiful. If I jump down,

my body will be badly battered. Older Brother Hanwen won't be able to recognize me.

Why don't I hang myself instead?

No, if the tongue hangs out, it will be an ugly sight.

I'll swallow gold.

I'm broke now. What's there for me to swallow?

Miss, don't do anything foolish!

[Bai Residence]

The area outside Qinqbo Gate is indeed desolate.

See? Even I, the Chief Constable of Lin'an City,

didn't know there was a Bai Manor here.

We bought this property a long time ago.

After we moved to Suzhou, this place became desolate.

Indeed...

I was thinking that for Suzhen, as a young woman,

it was not convenient for her to live here.

We persuaded her to go back to Suzhou with us,

but she refused.

I was wondering what the reason could be.

So, it's because of Mister Xu.

This is because there's fate between them.

I heard that your family used to be in the medicine business, too.

I wonder what the name of your business is?

We might have heard of it before.

That's right.

Madam Li, you may not know this.

My uncle's family doesn't run a clinic but instead sells medicine.

This place at Qingbo Gate was used to store medicine in the past.

That's why not many people know about this place.

Our uncle's business is based all over the country, not just at Lin'an.

That's right.

No wonder Suzhen is so familiar with herbs and medicines.

Thank you for making the antidote pill and saving Hanwen's life.

Uncle, I have a question. They all say to apply medicine according to symptoms.

If this antidote pill can neutralize hundreds of poisons,

what kind of herbs was it concocted from?

This... how would I know this?

What did you say?

I said... This is the Bai family's secret formula.

If you want to know, when you and Suzhen become a family,

I will let Suzhen tell you personally. Wouldn't that be great?

Uncle, are you saying that

you have consented to my marriage with Suzhen?

We also hope that Suzhen will have a good husband.

You seem like a good person.

You must not let Suzhen down in the future.

Thank you, Uncle and Aunt, for granting my request. I will definitely not let Suzhen down.

We will be family in the future then.

I also brought the Geng Tie (a card to be exchanged on engagement which states the couple's names, and place, time and date of birth, etc) and selected a couple of auspicious dates.

Why don't we choose a suitable date?

- Come... Take a look. - All right...

Here.

What are you doing here?

If I didn't come, there's no saying what other crazy things you would do.

I already told you not to bother about my affairs.

Let me go! Where are you taking me?

What is the meaning of this?

Why are you lying to yourself?

You still don't understand my intentions?

If you do anything reckless again, I will hate you.

You are already going to marry Xu Xian. Why would I care if you hate me or not?

Bai Suzhen, if you go back with me to Mount Emei,

I may let Xu Xian live.

No, I won't leave.

If you continue to stop me, don't blame me for what happens next.

Are you going to fight me again?

Suzhen, you don't have much experience in the mortal world.

You don't realize that mortals and spirits have very different paths.

Getting married to a mortal has no benefit to your cultivation. Instead, it will bring about Heaven's wrath and the resentment of humans.

I fear that you will regret it deeply in the future.

I will never regret it.

Absurd. You are already obsessed!

Fine. If you are unwilling to leave,

I'll go kill Xu Xian now.

You!

Snakes are the natural enemies of rats. Why did you lose to me so fast?

Where is your spirit core?

You gave your spirit core to Xu Xian?

That's how Xu Xian neutralized the demonic poison?

Do you know that without the spirit core-

I know. Without my spirit core,

my cultivation will be halted.

But I don't regret it. As long as I can be with him, everything's worth it.

In this lifetime, I only want to be with him till we grow old together.

Be with him till you grow old together.

With a mortal like him,

his human body will grow old and wither in just a few decades.

When that time comes, what's left between you two will be a bowl of Meng Po soup to end your destiny. (in Chinese legends, the souls of dead people drink this soup to forget everything in this life before they go on to be reincarnated)

This is the future you want?

You want to exchange your future and your thousands of years of cultivation for such a fleeting moment?

Yes. This is what I want.

The time I've been with him

already beats the thousand years I lived in Mount Emei.

I am very thankful for your protection for the past one thousand years.

But I have made up my mind. I won't leave with you.

Jing Song, I don't have my spirit core now and I can't defeat you.

But if you want to harm Xu Xian,

just kill me first.

Good.

Very good.

You know just how to threaten me.

Because of him, you don't even care about your life.

Excellent.

It's only a hundred years.

I, Jing Song, can wait.

How did it go? Did you find her?

Let me tell you. I searched everywhere in Lin'an City,

but I couldn't find her.

What should we do?

Because Hanwen was sick earlier and after that there was the matter of his marriage.

- We forgot all about Ruyi! - Okay...

Ruyi doesn't have any family members in Lin'an now. We...

I get it. Are you saying that Ruyi is still interested in Hanwen?

Isn't that so?

Brother-in-law, did you find her?

I didn't.

Ruyi, we will be living here in the future?

This house is too big.

Of course. Jishi Hall is a famous medical hall in Lin'an city.

You are a country bumpkin. Of course, you haven't seen this.

If it wasn't because you saved my life,

and that you said you have a medicine passed down by your ancestors,

I wouldn't let you stay here to work.

- It should be enough if we add two more tables. - You can't be deceiving me, right?

Why would I deceive you? Ruyi, weren't you sick before this?

Didn't you recover immediately after taking my medicine?

I'll believe you this once. If your medical skills aren't good,

I won't let you stay.

Wow...

This is the guest list for our Bai family. It's all here.

Thank you, Miss Xiao Qing.

What's wrong with all of you? What's with the sullen faces?

Ruyi is missing. We are looking for her right now.

Isn't she at the Jin's residence? She even brought a man back.

- A man? - A man?

- Who is it? - How would I know?

In front of her, that person was so timid that he didn't even dare to lift his head.

If Jin Ruyi says to go west, he won't go east. If Jin Ruyi says to go east, he definitely won't go west.

I wonder what that man is up to.

Could it be that Ruyi was unable to accept the truth

and randomly found a man in the street and brought him home?

- Nonsense... - I have to go see her.

[Jin Residence]

Ruyi!

Ruyi!

- Who are you? - Who are you? - I'm the-

- Ruyi. - Brother Hanwen!

What did you come here for?

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♫ Ah... ah... ah... ah... ♫

♫ What beautiful scenery the West Lake is on a day in March! ♫

♫ The spring showers taste like wine and the willows look like mist! ♫

♫ If we would be blessed with good fortune in a millennium ♫

♫ Growing old together with one heart would be in sight ♫

♫ If we would be blessed with good fortune in a millennium ♫

♫ Growing old together with one heart would be in sight ♫