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♪Black hair twines around bone♪

♪Night dew cold♪

♪Bronze mirror cracks through three lifetimes♪

♪Shines on the sleepless♪

♪Yunmeng Marsh ebbs and flows♪

♪Vows sink deep♪

♪White-hair curse turns to snow♪

♪Covering the realm♪

=Reunion Across Time=

=Episode 22=

Mother?

Mother!

Li.

Mother,

what on earth happened?

The day you were born,

I lost control and killed

twenty people in the village.

This inner demon has tormented me for twenty years.

I can no longer control it.

Li,

kill me.

No. No!

I don't want to harm anyone else.

Kill me!

No!

Mother!

No.

No, Mother!

The previous Grand Shaman told me

that your very existence

is the hope of everyone in Jinan City.

But I don't want...

I don't want my daughter

to carry such a crushing burden at such a young age.

I'm willing...

I'm willing to bear it all for you.

Forgive me.

Forgive me for always driving you away.

Deep down,

I could never bear to let you go.

♪My heart, a lonely fortress, locks its gates around love's vines for you♪

My child,

I'm sorry.

♪It's heartbreak, obsession, and madness♪

♪Don't stand alone in the moonlit tower♪

Mother!

♪I fear seeing your smile reflected in another's cup♪

Mother!

Mother!

♪Rain on the eaves chimes like jade, echoing your pendants' chime♪

Mother!

Grand Shaman!

Mother!

- Grand Shaman! - Mother!

Li.

Yun Hua.

♪Old verses lie half-written, for fear my words will run dry♪

This is what I can't let go of,

and it's also my inner demon.

I've been tormented

by this inner demon for twenty years.

I'm so tired.

I wanted to protect Jinan City,

but it's too late.

You must leave quickly.

And...

and stay alive.

Mother...

Grand Shaman...

Mother!

I...

can't stay with you anymore,

Li.

- Mother? Mother! - Grand Shaman!

Mother!

Mother!

Mother!

Mother!

She was the Grand Shaman of the Shaman Clan

and also my master.

I didn't want anyone to know

she was controlled by her inner demon.

In the end, I still couldn't save her.

Thank you

for staying with my mother all this time.

I found this in the Grand Shaman's room.

This bamboo slip

bears traces of a shaman's aura.

No wonder my mother's inner demon was driven out of control.

So

Lanruo used shamanic arts on her, too.

You should go.

I'm staying to protect Jinan City.

Even if it means death?

So what if I die?

As a member of the Shaman Clan,

I must fulfill my duty to the clan.

Chu Li,

you've been expelled from the Shaman Clan.

You needn't stay.

Listen to the Grand Shaman

and go.

I won't leave.

We have more power

than ordinary people,

so we bear a greater responsibility.

Very well.

When will he wake?

Song Ziyuan

was affected by the Grand Shaman's obsession

and fell prey to his own inner demon.

What exactly is his obsession?

If I can't find his obsession,

I can't send you

into his memories to wake him.

His obsession?

(Why are there two extra bamboo slips?)

That must be it.

Let me go get it.

Chu Li.

Stay safe.

(2 Days Before the City Falls)

(2 Days Before the City Falls) Chu Li!

(2 Days Before the City Falls)

Chu Li,

where did you go?

Fusheng.

Where's Shiqi?

Where is everyone else?

I don't know.

You suddenly ran out just now,

and Shiqi told me to wait in my room.

When I came out, everyone was gone.

Did something happen?

I'm so scared, Chu Li.

(Sister,)

(you'll regret this.)

Don't worry.

I'm here. Don't be afraid.

Let's talk inside.

All right.

Chu Li,

you're so cruel.

I stayed by your side all this time,

and this is how

you treat me?

Why did you lie to me?

What manner of demon are you?

Whatever I was before,

why don't we

rule this world together?

Rule this world together?

What exactly do you want?

Don't you understand, Chu Li?

I am

the Great Shaman of Qin State.

I never knew you summoned the Chu Phoenix Call

again and again to reverse time,

trapping us all in this time void.

Fortunately, I discovered it in my previous life.

Otherwise,

who knows

how many more lifetimes

I'd have been trapped in this time void?

Lifetime after lifetime?

I don't know what you're talking about.

Then go ask Song Ziyuan.

He should know.

Right.

You probably

won't get to see him one last time.

Chu Li,

Song Ziyuan may be devoted,

but he's a useless man with no shamanic powers.

The one best suited for you

is me.

You can't escape my grasp.

Who are you?

Yaohua is dead.

What manner of demon are you

to dare insult the Grand Shaman of our Shaman Clan?

Patience.

I'll send you to see your Grand Shaman right now.

How fun.

Well, you're here.

You can actually come back to life?

You can't kill me.

Yun Hua, are you all right?

Chu Li,

I'll send you into Song Ziyuan's memories to wake him.

I'll guard you.

No.

There's no time.

Right now, in all of Jinan City,

only I can help you.

Go into Song Ziyuan's memories and wake him.

Save the people of Jinan City.

Here are 49 bamboo slips.

The ninth life...

These are actually Song Ziyuan's

daily records from the ninth life.

So you and Song Ziyuan

have cycled through nine lives.

I'll take you into his memories

to see for yourself.

Song Ziyuan.

You've been expelled from the Shaman Clan.

Why should I help you return?

I didn't...

Diviner Song.

(First Life) Help me become Grand Shaman.

I promise,

I'll do anything you ask in return.

Diviner Song!

I beg you.

Let go.

You're a young lady. How can you...

So what if I'm a lady?

A lady can also stop at nothing to get what she wants.

Then let me see

just how far you'll go.

(These are Song Ziyuan's memories.)

(Let me see)

(what exactly we've been through all these lives.)

♪Moonlight spills over gray tiles and walls♪

♪Wind chimes sway, evoking old times♪

♪You come treading through snow♪

♪Twin butterfly shadows in my palm♪

♪Red threads wind through a few lines of the book of fate♪

♪Yet one passionate look undoes it all♪

Miss Chu Li,

you keep disturbing my master.

He's never once been annoyed by you.

But this time, he's already asleep, and you still won't stop.

I really can't stand it anymore.

No wonder no one ever stopped me.

So Song Ziyuan was fine with it all along.

♪Like vines, love♪

Thanks for the reminder.

♪Brews the years into moonlight in your eyes♪

♪Through three lifetimes, hand in hand, we walk into oblivion♪

♪Gray-haired, fingers entwined, we still gaze at each other♪

What are you doing?

You scared me.

You sneak into my room at night

and ask me what I'm doing?

Well... didn't you allow it?

Otherwise,

Shiqi would have stopped me long ago,

right?

Nonsense.

He just saw you posed no threat to me.

Don't flatter yourself.

Fine. Call it wishful thinking.

Why come see me so late?

I just learned a new trick.

It's only fun to watch at night.

Come with me.

♪No mountain or sea can bar the way♪

Come on.

♪I'd burn through every lifetime to be with you♪

♪Countless blades and a river of stars fall into your cool gaze♪

♪An echo of our first meeting at the edge of chaos♪

♪Like vines, love♪

♪Brews the years into moonlight in your eyes♪

♪Night rain falls in the courtyard, shining on mortal partings♪

♪Strangers meet again, past lives gleam in endless hues♪

♪A sharp arrow pierces memory♪

♪Longing spreads like dye♪

♪Beaded curtains keep love and hate apart♪

♪Through boundless grief, love remains hard to sever♪

♪A past bond, a parting dream; when cold ends, purest joy remains♪

♪That year, pear blossoms, verse, and laughter♪

♪One night, snow fell in wild flurries♪

♪All perfection in this world hides regret♪

♪A drop of heart's blood seals love♪

♪No more longing enters dreams♪

♪When all turns to mist, may you and I be safe forever♪

♪Through boundless grief, love remains hard to sever♪

♪A past bond, a parting dream; when cold ends, purest joy remains♪