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♪No one left to lean on♪

♪No way out, no place to run♪

♪Tears held back inside my eyes♪

♪I run against the wind and time♪

♪Loved and lost, regrets remain♪

♪But tears fall down like gentle rain♪

♪I look up strong, I grow with pride♪

♪Living life with heart untied♪

♪Holding tight♪

♪The burning faith you gave♪

♪Healing wounds that fate engraved♪

♪That light inside my restless soul♪

♪One life to live, one final goal♪

♪I'll love with courage, wild and free♪

♪Break through the noise, let them hear me♪

♪Holding tight♪

♪The burning faith you gave♪

♪Healing wounds that fate engraved♪

♪That light inside my restless soul♪

♪One life to live, one final goal♪

♪I'll love with courage, wild and free♪

♪Break through the noise, let them hear me♪

=Dragon King's Decree=

=Episode 24=

When I count to three,

I'll make my move.

Three...

You really are calculating

and good at biding your time.

Your first attempt with the Yang poison failed.

The second time,

you used my bond with Chu Moshang

to lure him back to me from the sanctuary,

even after he lost his dragon pearl.

You think you can lecture me like a sister-in-law.

Even your tone

sounds like Moshang now.

You went to all this trouble

just to use this chance to get rid of me,

didn't you?

Yes.

As long as you're alive,

I'll always be Father's second choice.

As for her,

she can't live either.

She actually carries the bloodline of the Dragons.

Looks like I have another mess to clean up.

Take the heart-guard scale to the Chu residence.

I'll come for you.

Be careful.

Promise me you'll come back to me.

Chu Moshang,

I think love has made you lose your mind.

You actually risked your life pulling out your heart-guard scale.

You're dead today.

Why are you standing out here?

You're pregnant.

Come on.

Let's go inside.

I had someone

bring these pastries back from Wujing.

Have something sweet.

It'll take the bitterness away.

It really is sweet.

Ever since I met you,

you've always been a handful.

You find trouble everywhere.

You're stubborn, and you rub people the wrong way.

Don't blame Father.

He really had no choice.

Marrying someone like me

has been such a burden on you.

I made you suffer at home.

I'm sorry.

At least I helped you find your spiritual root

so you can cultivate.

You're intelligent.

You hate following the rules.

You learn the hard way.

You've become more composed

when handling things.

Chu Moshang,

I know something happened to you.

But,

don't leave me behind, okay?

We...

We and the child still have a future,

right?

When this is all over,

Father will understand

why I chose to marry you.

As for our child,

if he's like you,

I'll have nothing to worry about.

We'll just have to teach him

not to be as uptight as me.

That's exhausting.

Chu Moshang,

I don't like what you're saying.

Tell me.

Did you already get rid of Nie Rongzhi?

I know.

I'm still dreaming right now.

Chu Moshang,

if you lose the dragon pearl,

you'll be at Nie Rongzhi's mercy.

Once he becomes the Dragon King,

he'll never let you survive.

If that's how it ends,

it means I wasn't strong enough.

It has nothing to do with you.

Zhilou,

our duty

was never to become Dragon King and Queen.

We have something more important to do.

I know.

We've always understood each other.

Before I came here,

I told Hunbao the same thing.

You want to protect your family

and Feng Manor,

but you don't have to become the Wujing Saintess.

I want to protect the sanctuary,

but I don't have to be Dragon King.

I'm a Dragon God with thousands of years' lifespan.

I feel deeply for every part of this world

and every living being in it.

Protecting everything I cherish

is what I've been doing all along.

But I'll

make your path

harder than it should be.

Zhilou,

you saved my life.

Without you,

the Yang poison would have killed me.

I wouldn't have survived.

But marrying you

was never about repayment.

It was duty.

It was love that found me before I noticed.

It was instinct.

It was a natural pull toward you.

How is Zhilou doing?

Hunbao, come with me right now.

Something happened to Prince Shang and Feng Zhilou.

Let's go.

I'm sorry.

You'll have to go on alone,

but my heart-guard scale

will always protect you.

No.

I don't want to be alone.

Miss Zhilou.

Miss Zhilou.

Miss Zhilou, please wake up.

Miss Zhilou.

Miss Zhilou.

What happened?

What's wrong with me?

Where's Chu Moshang?

You passed out at the main gate.

We brought you here.

Miss Zhilou,

what you're holding

is Prince Shang's heart-guard scale.

Chu Moshang.

Chu Moshang, wake up.

We've only kept Prince Shang alive for now,

but his injuries are too severe.

His organs are all damaged.

He's lost consciousness.

Without the dragon pearl to heal him,

he won't last long.

We've done everything we can.

He may be beyond saving.

What do you mean beyond saving?

That only means your skills are lacking.

How is that possible?

He's the Dragon Prince.

How could he possibly die?

We failed to protect Prince Shang.

We failed you.

Why am I just a bird?

What exactly happened?

Your Highness!

Let's go back to the Chu residence.

Prince Shang might have foreseen his own end.

He pulled out his one and only

heart-guard scale for you in advance

and used an illusion to keep you from the truth.

For thousands of years,

Prince Shang has carried the weight of the Dragons.

He was always alone,

traveling everywhere to stop disasters and slay demons.

He never complained.

To keep himself out of danger,

Prince Shang turned his reverse scale

into the sigil.

It holds part of his Dragon God power.

Yet somehow, you ended up with it.

You must have felt it.

Whenever you were in danger,

Prince Shang's power would protect you.

If the dragon pearl were still with him,

it might help him heal slowly.

But

His Majesty took his dragon pearl

to force him to leave you

and marry Liluo.

Without his reverse scale and heart-guard scale,

and after battling Nie Rongzhi, he used up the last shred of his power.

His soul has shattered.

Now,

even if the dragon pearl returned to his body,

it may not wake him.

He's nothing but an empty shell.

Are you alright?

I don't matter.

What matters is that

Prince Shang is critically injured

If Nie Rongzhi becomes Dragon King,

what will happen to the sanctuary and the mortal realm?

Chu Moshang,

I never knew

the sigil you gave me,

the Fire Phoenix pendant,

and the heart-guard scale

were all so precious.

♪Like petals fall, gone with the clouds♪

It turns out

♪Like stars fade fast in open skies♪

they're all pieces of your life.

♪Like snowflakes melting softly in the evening haze♪

I don't care.

I don't care when you might fade away.

I don't care how great the cost is.

I'll gather every piece back.

I'll make sure you are fully restored.

♪Like fireflies flicker through wild grass, fleeting light♪

It's Prince Shang's soul.

His soul is inside the heart-guard scale.

No wonder.

Just now,

I had a very long dream.

I dreamed that he

was standing in front of me safe and sound.

That wasn't entirely a dream.

It was his soul

staying with me the whole time.

The Dragons only give

the heart-guard scale to their beloved.

Because beneath the heart-guard scale lies the dragon pearl.

Protecting the dragon pearl

means protecting their own life.

Prince Shang gave you his heart-guard scale

was his choice.

He must believe

that you're more important than his own life.

I think Prince Shang

has no regrets.

Even if you return the heart-guard scale, without the dragon pearl to guard him

and restore his Dragon God power,

his injuries are still beyond saving.

The dragon pearl can save him? You must go back to the sanctuary now.

Absolutely not.

Prince Shang was willing to give up the dragon pearl and the throne

just to come to your side.

Fei Yuan.

Bai Lu.

I, Feng Zhilou,

beg you both.

Go back to the sanctuary now

and tell the Dragon King

that Chu Moshang

insisted on staying with me

because I'm pregnant.

If I were just a human girl,

three years from now

when I give birth to the dragon child,

I wouldn't survive.

Whether they believe it or not,

I carry the Wujing Saintess' bloodline.

A dragon child?

This...

This is a blessing.

Even unions between the Dragons

rarely produce offsprings now.

I'll go through fire and water

to get it done!

Hunbao's set up

an invisibility barrier for you.

If you need to go out,

please be careful.

Go and come back quickly.

I'll wait for you here.

We'll bring back

the dragon pearl.

Chu Moshang,

do you think the sanctuary

will believe us?

♪Like petals fall, gone with the clouds♪

♪Like stars fade fast in open skies♪

♪Like snowflakes melting softly in the evening haze♪

♪Like your fleeting glance that gave me one brief dream's grace♪

♪Like fireflies flicker through wild grass, fleeting light♪

♪Like evening breeze that stirs soft hair in twilight♪

♪Like fleeting thoughts that surge and then unwind♪

♪Chance meetings fade, just empty rooms left behind♪

♪You brought a wave that stirred a wild, restless sea♪

♪Light as a feather, yet it sank an island deep in me♪

♪In that one moment, life's grip I couldn't break or sway♪

♪Leaving me lost in memories, small and fading away♪