Original subtitles

Sore wa tashika ni koko ni atta mono

What was certainly here

Koko wa tashika ni kimi to deatta basho

This is undeniably the place where I met you

Ai to iu ni wa kantansugite

To call it love is too simple

Kotoba ushinau

I lose my words

Mou nidoto

Never again

Tsukamenai mizukagami ni

In the elusive water's mirror

Kieteiku kimi o

You fade away

Akiramenaiyo

I won't give up

Tada issho ni itaikara

Because I just want to be with you

Dore dake sabishikute

No matter how lonely

Dore dake kimi o omoi

No matter how much I think of you

Kodokude toki o tsunagi

In solitude, connecting moments

Ima mata kasaneta

Now, once again, we pile them up

Unmei o hanashi wa shinai

I won't let go of fate

Unmei o hanashi wa shinai

I won't let go of fate

Episode 12 (35) Return to Seclusion

Lan Zhan. Lan Zhan. We're here.

Back then,

I was a frequent visitor around here.

You were punished to kneel here.

Mm.

To be honest,

I've yet to meet a woman

with a temper as bad or worse than Madam Yu's.

She would punish me and have me kneel here over every little thing.

(Jiang Fengmian and Yu Ziyuan's memorial tablets)

But when I think back about it,

Madam Yu never actually did anything that would harm me.

Uncle Jiang, Madam Yu,

I've come to disturb both of you again.

But this time,

I brought Lan Zhan along with me.

You should kneel before them properly.

For having dirtied their eyes

and disturbed their peace.

I only came to pay my respects

to Uncle Jiang and Madam Yu.

I'll leave right away.

Pay your respects?

Wei Wuxian.

You really don't take yourself as an outsider, do you?

Bringing whomever you want to my parents and having him pay his respects to them.

Who are you calling "whomever"?

You have a poor memory indeed.

It was because you tried to play a hero

and saved Second Young Master Lan over there

that my parents and people of Jiang Clan all died!

You were falsely accused.

You were wronged.

And what about my sister?

If you hadn't practiced demonic cultivation

and tried to play the hero and saved the Wens,

my sister and the others wouldn't have died.

Clan Leader Jiang.

Mind your words.

I think both of you should be the ones to mind your actions,

Second Young Master Lan.

Barging into someone else's ancestral hall.

Are those the pristine manners of the Lan Clan of Gusu?

If you have any shame at all...

That's enough!

Jiang Cheng.

You are still a clan leader.

But listen to what you're saying.

What? You want to fight?

Come on. You think I'm afraid of both of you?

(Jiang Fengmian and Yu Ziyuan's memorial tablets)

Wei Ying.

Your old injury is acting up.

Lan Zhan.

Let's go.

All right.

Stop right there.

Wen Ning.

Young Master Wei!

Wei Ying.

Who let you in?

Pull it out.

Get out of here!

Pull it out.

You...

I...

Why was I...

I...

Because the sword has recognized you

as Young Master Wei.

Because the Golden Core inside your body

is his!

Lies... You're lying!

It was...

It was Wanderer Baoshan who restored my Golden Core!

That day, you went up the mountain.

Your eyes were covered by a white cloth.

You held a branch in your hands.

You wandered in the mountains for a long while.

A woman stopped you from going any further.

She asked who you were

and how did you get there.

You replied...

Shut up!

You said

you were Wei Ying, the son of Wanderer Cangse.

You said your Golden Core was crushed by Wen Zhuliu.

Stop talking...

Shut up!

Did you really think it was a secluded area where Wanderer Baoshan lived?

It was just a barren mountain in Yiling.

You thought your Golden Core was restored.

But that was just the Golden Core

my sister took from Young Master Wei

and gave it to you.

Clan Leader Jiang,

why do you think Young Master Wei has never used a sword ever since?

Why did he have to practice demonic cultivation?

Because he could never wield a sword again!

He could never cultivate as the others do ever again.

Clan Leader Jiang.

Did you know

what the chances were back then?

Not even a fifty percent chance of success.

But just for that slim chance,

for two days and two nights,

Young Master Wei had to stay awake and endure extreme pain.

Clan Leader Jiang.

You've always been a prideful person.

You spent your entire life competing against others.

But did you know

that you would have never been able to surpass him?

Young Master Wei...

He told me

to take him away from here.

Wei Ying.

Wei Ying.

Lan Zhan.

Wen Ning.

You...

I'm sorry, Young Master Wei.

You told me

not to tell him.

Wei Wuxian.

How selfless of you.

How magnanimous of you.

Should I kneel before you

and thank you?

That's enough, Jiang Cheng.

(Jiang)

What do you mean by "that's enough"?

My father said you were the one who truly understood the teachings of the Jiang Clan.

Then what does that make me?

I was the successor of the Jiang Clan of Yunmeng.

What gives you the right?

Jiang Wanyin.

Don't say things you will regret.

Who was the one that went back on his words first?

Who was the one that betrayed the Jiang Clan?

Tell me!

Every single time, you sided with those outsiders!

What did you take us for?

How much do you owe the Jiang Clan?

The Jiang Clan raised you. The Jiangs even gave their lives for you.

My father, my mother, my sister,

and Jin Zixuan.

Should I not hate you?

Why is it that now, it appears as if

I'm the one who owes you?

Why should I have lived like a fool for all these years?

That I deserve to live in your shadows,

blinded by your light?

What gives...

What gives you the right not to tell me all of those things?

You said

you would be my subordinate

when I became the clan leader.

You said you would support me for your entire life.

You said you would never betray me.

You said you would never betray the Jiang Clan.

You said so yourself...

Stay here. I'll get us something to eat.

Don't be reckless.

Wei Wuxian.

(Jiang)

I'm sorry, Young Master.

Wen Ning.

I gave you "Whatever"

for you to get rid of those chains.

You can't wear them forever.

As for the Golden Core,

well, I can't hide it from Jiang Cheng forever.

Don't mention him.

All right.

Let the past

stay in the past.

Lan Zhan.

Have you ever had lotus seeds with wine?

Here, try it.

Lotus seeds with lotus flower wine.

It's sweet.

Not bad.

You drink as boldly as I did back then.

You're still recovering. Don't drink too much.

All right.

Now that I think about it,

back then, I used to sneak out here with my other martial brothers a lot.

We would pick lotus seeds and have them with wine.

After we had our fill, we would sleep on the boats

and let ourselves be carried away by the water.

When we got back,

we would get a chicken

and red dates.

Grill them over a fire and enjoy them.

We had the time of our lives.

Lan Zhan.

Where are we going?

You're not going to do everything I did

when I was in my teens, right?

Mm.

Lan Wangji was here.

Who would have thought

that Hanguang-jun would have

such a childish side to him when he is drunk?

What do you think? It's beautiful, isn't it?

I used to love gazing at the moon all on my own here.

Whenever it was late and I hadn't returned,

Yanli would come and pick me up with a lantern in her hands.

Lan Zhan.

I saw what happened

at the pier.

What did you say your name was?

My name is Lan Yuan.

Then... "Sizhui"...

Sizhui is my courtesy name. Hanguang-jun gave me that name.

[*Note: Longing, to remember]

"Sizhui".

Did you go to the Burial Mounds to find me 13 years ago?

And little Sizhui, he...

Lan Zhan.

Get some sleep.

I have something I need to do.

Clan Leader Lan.

Young Master Wei.

Young Master Wei.

Before you leave,

would you like to know how Wangji got those discipline whip scars

and branding on him?

It was because of me?

Back then, in Nevernight City,

you were controlled by the Stygian Tiger Amulet

and lost all sanity.

Wangji was heavily injured.

But he still did everything he could to try to get you to safety.

When we finally found both of you,

Wangji kept speaking to you in a soft voice.

Yet, through it all,

you kept repeating the same line

to him.

Go away!

To protect you,

he was forced to attack the elders in our clan.

(Ancestral Hall)

A single strike of the Lan Clan's discipline whip

is enough to cause extreme pain.

Wangji harmed 33 elders

and suffered 33 strikes.

After learning of your death,

he insisted on seeing your corpse

(Jing Room)

with his very own eyes

and dragged his heavily injured body to the Burial Mounds.

The night he came back...

Lan Zhan...

Lan Zhan.

I know you did a lot for me.

But I never knew

you did so much for me.

Clan Leader Lan must have told me all of this

because he is worried I won't return.

But...

There is one thing

I wasn't able to finish 13 years ago.

Now,

I must put an end to it with my own hands.

After that, I'll...

Lan Zhan.

(Several days later)

What?

Jin Guangyao is dead?

It's karma, after all.

Justice will prevail, and evil will be punished.

It's over for the Jin Clan of Lanling.

Everything is going to change for them.

Young Master Jin.

(For Jin Ling, Full Moon Gift)

Of course.

What can a little boy

like Jin Ling do?

And that Clan Leader Jiang too.

He seemed to have taken a terrible blow or something

and went into seclusion.

It looks like Zewu-jun

will need some time to recover as well.

That "Head-Shaker", Nie Huaisang, on the other hand,

handled the coffin sealing ceremony

rather well.

His change is impressive indeed.

The resentful energy is so strong in that area.

Will they really be able to keep them sealed for a hundred years?

A hundred years?

A bunch of powerful corpses have yet to be found.

And the Stygian Tiger Amulet is still missing.

We'll be lucky to have three to five years of peace.

I wonder

where are the Yiling Patriarch and Hanguang-jun right now?

Come on, Lan Zhan. Trust me.

I'll come back to you after I destroy the Stygian Tiger Amulet.

I know what to do now.

It won't be like what happened 13 years ago.

What are you laughing about?

Lan Zhan.

Hold the rope.

Why?

Come on. Just hold the rope.

All right.

All we're missing is a little one.

What?

I said, "All we're missing is a little one".

Hanguang-jun!

Senior Wei!

Oh, here comes a "little one".

Sizhui. You...

I finally found you guys...

You remembered everything?

Senior Wei's spicy radish soup.

The sweet porridge Hanguang-jun bought for me.

And the doll Grandmother gave me.

I remembered all of them.

I remembered everything.

All right. Why are you crying?

I just feel so sad all of a sudden.

But...

I feel so happy too.

This kid's arms are so strong.

He's your disciple, all right, Hanguang-jun.

You taught him too.

Well, it's no wonder he turned out so handsome and capable.

Senior Wei sure taught me a lot when I was a kid.

He buried me in the radish field and watered me.

He said he would grow a few other kids to play with me.

And he also taught me how to disguise

erotic art as an ordinary book.

Nonsense!

How could I possibly teach a kid all of those things?

Uncle Ning can attest to that.

He was there when you taught me all of those things.

Young Master Wei, Yuan and I have decided.

We'll be going to Qishan

and bury the ashes of our clan members.

Qishan? Then, I'll...

That's all right, Young Master Wei.

You've done enough.

I'll walk the rest of my path

on my own.

Mm.

All right. It's just us now.

Where to, Lan Zhan?

Let's go home.

All right.

Lan Zhan.

Back then, inside the Xuanwu Cave,

did you create

that song you played?

Why do you ask?

Just tell me.

Did you create that song?

Mm.

And you've never let others hear it?

Never.

No wonder you knew it was me the moment I played it

on Dafan Mountain.

So what's the name

of the song?

Wangxian.

"Wangxian"?

Wangxian.

A good name.

I like it.

(We part ways with a song, but no matter how far apart we are, we will meet again someday)