Original subtitles

(Fate of Southern Love)

(Episode 28)

(Jingdu City)

(Five Years Later)

Where did these hawthorn blossoms come from? And they're red, too.

Spring is here.

Who knows where they drifted in from?

(Jingdu City)

Your Highness, we're sneaking out to play again.

Won't that be a problem?

So what?

It's so boring to stay in Jingdu all day.

I'm a princess

who takes orders from no one.

Let's go.

Come take a look!

Don't miss out as you pass by!

Luo Luo's Generous Rouge Shop.

Come and see.

Miss, what can I get for you?

Miss Luo, these lip and cheek rouges

that you made are all so pretty.

Get me one. Price is not an issue.

These are only for VIP customers.

If you want to buy one, you need to spend a certain amount first.

- You have to buy other items too. - You really know how to do business.

Of course! My biggest wish

is to make money and become rich.

Lady Luo.

I'd like to invite you to tomorrow's poetry gathering.

I wonder if...

The wise don't fall in love.

Come spend in my stall.

Please, have a seat.

I've been sick for a long time.

But I always feel awkward seeing a physician.

Jingdu finally has a female physician.

It's nothing serious. Don't worry.

That's wonderful!

- Thank you, miss. - If my lady hadn't bought my freedom

and sent me here as an apprentice,

I wouldn't be here.

Your master is truly kind-hearted.

She is the best person in the world.

You can drop me off here.

Your Highness, you sure run fast.

You've been obsessed with cuju in the past two years.

Now you're leaving again.

I suppose there's no one left in the palace to take over now.

Nan Yan just plays polo and cuju every single day.

He doesn't care if he'll be the crown prince.

So I keep telling the emperor and empress to have another kid.

They're the only ones

who are still stuck in the palace drama anyway.

Jin Zhu...

You've smiled a lot these five years,

but you don't seem truly happy.

Why is that?

I don't know either.

I'm living the life I always wanted,

and I'm not trapped in the script anymore.

But I still feel a piece of me

is missing.

Anyway, it's getting dark.

You should hurry and go.

It's more dangerous after dark.

After all,

you don't have the plot armor anymore.

I want to visit the edge of the story

to see what it's really like.

The journey ahead will be long and winding.

Farewell.

Farewell.

Sir, please get up.

Are you all right?

Thank you, miss.

Oh, it's you.

You know me?

Come. Careful.

Sir, is this your home?

This is your house.

Mine is next door.

Come.

Here.

This is where you used to live with your husband.

Husband?

You're so young.

How can you be more forgetful than me now?

Wait here for a moment.

I'll get you a bowl of tea.

Have some tea before you go.

(Then why is it)

(so empty here?)

We can live here.

You said before that we'd live here.

That's me.

I think we're living inside a storybook world.

(Everything here)

(is fake.)

(Chancellor Lou, save me.)

(Lou Si Yi.)

(I want you)

(to marry me.)

(The only thing I need to figure out is,)

(among the sacrifices I must make for my grand ambitions,)

(will I have to include you too?)

(If this story wants me dead, )

(then my only option)

(is to leave the story.)

(If the story disappears, )

(would you still leave?)

(In this storybook world, )

(no one is truly free.)

(You and I are no exception.)

I bet your heart...

is more honest than your memory.

(We've awakened so many times.)

(Isn't it all for another chance at something different?)

(If loving each other)

(means one of us has to disappear,)

(I'm glad)

(that it's me.)

Is the eldest daughter of the general

secretly a crybaby?

Good thing I drew myself back then.

Otherwise,

you'd never see me again.

Do you know that...

Still, I want to say it out loud.

Jin Zhu.

I love you.

But because...

You're you.

Let's never be apart again.

Yes.

From now on,

we'll live right here.

I'm going to dig a well over there.

And then, over there,

I'll build a bamboo rack

for drying clothes.

Okay.

Okay.

Actually...

What?

Actually, I also want to plant a vegetable garden over there.

Where are you going?

To consummate our marriage.

Didn't we complete the wedding ritual already?

Does that really count?

Regretting it now?

It's too late.

(Seven Years Later)

Lou Nian.

Are you sure you're fully recovered?

Not really.

Then when you're fully recovered,

sleep in your own bed.

Stop hogging our bed all day.

But I want to sleep with Mother.

You're not a little kid anymore.

You'll be six after the New Year.

And you still want to sleep with your mother

every night.

But Father, you're not a kid either.

And you always want to sleep with Mother too.

She's my wife.

Of course she should sleep with me.

Why are you all arguing so late at night?

Mother!

I don't like Father anymore.

I like you and Uncle Zhou.

Who told you to call Zhou Nan Zhi Uncle Zhou?

Uncle Zhou always writes to me.

He's a general at the border.

He even sends me a general's sword.

What's the big deal?

I was a general long before he became one.

Lou Si Yi.

You're a grown man.

Stop arguing with a kid.

Nian just recovered from a cold.

Stop nagging him all the time.

Right?

Mother, can you take me to town for sweet rice cakes today?

I really want to eat sweet rice cakes.

Sure.

Let's go then.

It's fine.

You two go ahead.

Nian just got better.

We can't have you getting sick again.

Then you go by yourself.

Here, take some money.

Fine, Father.

I'm heading out.

Mom, wait for me to come back.

Be home soon.

Don't run too fast.

Be home soon.

Don't worry.

Feng Yan is with him.

For you, maybe.

His life has no set path.

He's meant to carve his own way.

There's nothing to worry about.

That's true.

While he's away,

let's move his stuff to the side chamber quickly.

So he won't keep clinging to us.

- Come. - Lou Si Yi!

He's just a kid.

I want a daughter. Let's have a daughter.

Wait, what are you doing?

Let's make a daughter. Come.

(The End)