Original subtitles

[Live Forever]

[Episode 1]

[Year 2000]

The heavens stretch beyond sight.

The earth lies deep in shadow.

Let the Eight Winds show the way.

Let the Lord of Fate descend.

Incense smoke rises in seal-script patterns.

The ritual drum calls to the spirits.

This disciple humbly beseeches you.

Let all things reveal their true forms.

Cursed bonds.

Countless cursed bonds

have been reborn through you.

Again and again,

with no end in sight.

The cursed bond that has endured

through countless lives

has turned into resentment.

Now that this resentment clings to you,

you cannot escape your doom.

Will I die?

Of course.

Scared now?

I can perform rituals to drive out evil spirits.

I charge this much.

Are you talking about me?

Supreme Lord Lao, heed my command!

Begone! Disperse!

Don't come any closer.

Don't come any closer!

Don't come any closer!

Let go of me!

Supreme Lord Lao, save me!

Let go of me! Let go!

Go away! Don't touch me!

You little fraud.

Your acting is terrible.

And you're a coward too.

You tricked me!

You'll pay for this someday.

Pay for it?

Only those who will be reincarnated have to fear retribution.

Where's Chen Xiugu?

Tell her to come out.

My grandma?

She's not here.

Who are you?

Song Yiqiu.

I've come to collect what I asked her to find.

Come with me.

You...

You...

The person in the photo

standing beside my grandma...

It's you.

But that photo

was taken when my grandma was young.

That was over 70 years ago.

Could it be that the person I just saw

was you from the same lifetime?

How can you possibly not have aged?

You...

Are you human or a ghost?

Don't make such a fuss.

You're so young.

Cut back on those smoke cakes.

They're bad for your health.

Take this money.

And don't trick people again.

Tell Xiugu

I got what I came for.

I'll come by for tea another day.

I don't think I was mistaken.

Your face bears the mark of death.

The face of someone who is destined to die.

Thank you for your concern.

I truly don't want to live anymore.

But I can't die yet.

If I die, I'll have to see him.

Some people

are better left unseen.

[72 years ago]

Here.

Try it.

[Chen Xiugu]

It's fresh tea.

It is said that during the reign of Southern Qin,

an ancient tree attained spiritual consciousness.

Its tree core

was said to possess the power to grant immortality.

And then?

There was a couple deeply in love.

By a twist of fate,

they formed a pact with that tree spirit.

The tree spirit sealed their years

within a sacred map.

And the two became immortal.

Xiugu,

help me find a way to end this immortality.

All right.

For Miss Yiqiu.

To break free from the bonds of immortality,

you must find the map of the pact.

Yet the osmanthus tree has a spirit of its own.

Only when the two who made the pact are connected in heart and soul

and return to where it all began

will the map reveal itself.

Where it all began.

Xiugu.

That person and I

are the two people in this world

least likely to ever return to where we began.

Welcome to FM 23.3,

City Life Radio.

No need to pick me up.

Tonight, we are about to witness a rare blood moon.

It happens to coincide with the city's grand fireworks show.

Let's witness this moment together.

Ten.

Nine.

Eight.

Seven.

Six.

Five.

Four.

Three.

Two.

One.

Hello, is this 120?

There's been a traffic accident

at this intersection downtown.

Someone's been injured.

And there's a pregnant woman who looks like she's about to give birth.

That little fraud.

She's got some tricks up her sleeve.

Make way.

Quick!

Prepare the trauma room.

Severe traffic accident.

Female patient is unconscious.

Multiple fractures,

with internal bleeding.

Get OB-GYN down here for an emergency consult.

Full-term patient with premature rupture of membranes.

Transfer her to the delivery room immediately.

This way.

Don't stop. Keep doing chest compressions.

Patient has severe trauma and hemorrhagic shock.

Move faster.

We still can't get a blood pressure reading.

The monitor.

Vital signs are gone.

Her heart rate is back.

Spontaneous cardiac rhythm.

How is that possible?

Her wounds...

They're healing on their own.

H-How is that possible?

How could this happen?

She's alive!

A monster.

What a nuisance.

♪ Because I look up to the sky, thinking about you ♪

♪ Hoping to start anew, and journey through with you ♪

♪ If we're destined to fall ♪

Just ahead.

Okay.

♪ I'll be there beside you ♪

♪ Because I look up to the sky, thinking about you ♪

♪ Hoping to start anew, and journey through with you ♪

♪ If we're destined to fall ♪

Wait.

As long as they're safe.

Long time no see,

Song Yiqiu.

Is it?

Has it really been that long?

Seventy-two years and thirty-seven days.

For an ordinary person, 72 years

is a lifetime.

But for you and me, after living 3,000 years,

it's nothing but a fleeting moment.

What?

Miss me already?

I'm just marveling.

You managed to stay alive for that long without dying.

I suppose the world has been too good.

So you've encountered too few misfortunes.

Miss Meddler.

You just died once.

Whenever one of us dies,

we appear by the other's side.

Could it be

that I've simply grown tired

of looking at the same face you've had for 3,000 years?

Song Yiqiu.

Ning Changyue.

Long time no see.

Do you dare to experience the feeling of falling

with me one more time?

Someone's holding a wedding here today.

It's a joyous occasion.

Don't die on someone else's doorstep.

Three thousand years have passed.

Every story has reached its ending.

Except ours.

We became prisoners forgotten by time.

Long, long ago,

I thought immortality was a blessing.

But after countless encounters with desolate graves,

heart-wrenching farewells,

and the agony of dying only to be reborn,

I finally understood

immortality

is a curse with no escape.

Granny Xiugu.

[Three months later]

Why is she wearing red?

It's you.

I never thought

we'd meet again under these circumstances.

Xiugu.

I still remember you telling me when you were little

that you loved this robe of mine more than anything.

Too bad you became a fortune-teller.

You were never meant to wear red in this life.

Xiugu.

This robe is yours now.

In your next life,

wear whatever color you like.

Granny Xiugu, may you go peacefully.

Three thousand years,

and you've witnessed so many births, deaths, and separations.

And yet you can still feel sorrow.

I'm not like you.

After all, your heart holds only yourself.

You have never cared about anyone else.

To you, all living things are no more than ants.

Whether they live or die makes no difference.

There isn't much that I can fit

in my heart.

Not like you.

Your country, your people, the whole world,

every common soul under heaven,

even every stray cat and dog by the roadside...

Is there anything you could ever let go of?

Sometimes I truly can't understand

how I ever ended up jumping off that cliff with you.

Yeah.

Why

was it me of all people?

The princess has fled with her guard.

The emperor has ordered her capture.

[3,000 years ago]

Dead or alive.

After them!

Watch out!

Quick, there!

That's a cliff. They can't escape now.

Let's go!

Hurry!

Are you afraid?

As long as I'm by your side,

I have nothing left to wish for.

Song Yiqiu,

from this day forward,

from the heavens above to the depths below,

may it always be you and me,

never to part.

We

will never part.

♪ I'd forsake immortality to share your joys and sorrows ♪

♪ Who cares how absurd eternity may be ♪

♪ I'd trade this life for eternity ♪

♪ Then we'd be complete ♪

Song Yiqiu.

Let's

be together again.

Now we know that the tree spirit belongs to the Osmanthus Clan.

We have to find the map of our pact

and return to where it all began.

Only then can we end our immortality.

So?

We are where it all began.

Song Yiqiu.

We began this immortal life together.

Then let's

end it together.