Original subtitles

(Supported by NRTA's Online Audiovisual Quality Creation & Distribution Project)

♪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 23=

Shiqi.

Master.

Have you seen Chu Li these past days?

Miss Chu Li hasn't come by for days.

Where could she have gone?

Well,

go look for her.

Master,

isn't it better

that she's not coming to you now?

I said go find her.

Enough with the nonsense.

Just go.

Understood.

Xiuxiu?

Where are you taking me?

Chu Li!

What happened, Chu Li?

Am I dreaming?

What happened?

There's a clay sculptor

using dark arts to swap souls.

I have to stop him.

Why didn't you tell me?

Let's go. Come on.

My chest hurts so much.

Are you all right?

♪I grind ink as the night deepens, my brush hangs heavy as lead♪

Grand Shaman,

I want to marry Diviner Song.

You've left the Shaman Clan.

No need to tell me.

I'm not here as a member of the Shaman Clan.

I'm here

as your daughter.

As you wish.

But you must leave the Shaman Clan,

and Jinan City, too.

(So)

(Mother had already foreseen the disaster)

(that would befall Jinan City.)

(That's why she kept driving me away.)

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

♪Ask not what kind of love this is♪

♪It's heartbreak, obsession, and madness♪

(I once thought)

(these were things that would happen in the future.)

(It turns out)

(they were memories of my past.)

(Chu State)

Everyone in the Shaman Clan is dead.

Only I remain.

Li,

leave Jinan City.

You still have a chance.

My mother

and my clansmen died protecting Jinan City.

How could I run away?

I want them back.

Li,

what are you going to do?

The Shaman Clan's forbidden art, the Chu Phoenix Call,

can reverse time

and make everything start over.

If you summon the Chu Phoenix Call,

what will happen to you?

I can make time in Jinan City

cycle ten times.

Each cycle lasts only 49 days.

As long as everyone leaves Jinan City,

they won't be trapped in the cycle again.

Ziyuan,

I'm sorry.

I'll use your three souls and seven spirits as the price

to preserve your memories through these ten lifetimes.

After ten times,

there will be no more chances.

You must take everyone,

including me,

♪Obsession meets spring once more♪

out of Jinan City.

No.

♪You are like the bright moon at the edge of the sky♪

Li...

♪Your light spills everywhere, yet I cannot cup it in my hands♪

Don't do this.

If sacrificing only me

♪Heaven decrees our love runs deep, yet we're not meant to be♪

can save everyone,

♪I trap myself inside a cocoon♪

then it's a gift from heaven.

♪Clinging to a hopeless, silent longing♪

Don't do this, Li!

♪Your name echoes in the morning and evening bells♪

Li!

♪Ask not what my heart feels♪

♪My heart is a lonely fortress, locking love's vines inside♪

Li!

♪Locking away a lifetime♪

♪Ask not whether love is madness or bone-deep pain♪

♪Your smile reflected in another's cup♪

♪Another's cup♪

♪Half a farewell song, sung to the wind♪

Li!

(Chu State)

You actually brought her back?

Master,

didn't you tell me to bring her back

no matter what?

She knows shamanic arts.

I was afraid I couldn't beat her.

Go, now.

Understood.

Li.

Who are you? Why did you tie me up?

Are you insane?

Li,

it's me.

This may sound absurd to you,

but you must believe that everything I say is true.

We were husband and wife in our previous life.

We've been caught in a time loop.

More precisely,

everyone in Jinan City

has been caught in it.

Li,

everything I'm telling you is true.

We've been given another life

to save Jinan City from disaster.

Why do I get the feeling

you're up to no good?

Of course not.

You and I were husband and wife.

I know you don't believe me now,

but I can prove it.

How will you prove it?

I know

you can't read.

So what?

I know even more of your secrets.

Are you brave enough to hear them?

How could I possibly like you?

A frail scholar like you...

How could I like a man like you?

Still think I'm frail?

(Chu State)

Why?

Why, even in another life,

can't we change the ending?

It's all right.

We still have eight more chances.

If we fail again in the next life,

you must leave before the city falls.

I can't leave.

As long as the 300,000 people of Jinan City stay,

I stay.

(Third Life)

(Your Majesty,)

(the Qin Army will breach the city any day.)

(I beg Your Majesty to move the capital)

(to save Jinan City)

(and its 300,000 people.)

(Song Ziyuan,)

(you're spreading lies to mislead the people.)

(Strip him of his office)

(and execute him at once.)

(Fifth Life) Everyone, run!

Hurry and leave Jinan City!

The Qin Army is about to slaughter everyone in the city!

Run, now!

Run!

(Fifth Life)

(I tried every possible way)

(to persuade the people to leave.)

(Still, I failed.)

(Sixth Life)

Li?

Li!

It's already the sixth life.

I still failed.

Ziyuan,

don't cry.

We still have four more chances.

We'll meet again.

Li?

Li!

(Eighth Life) Grand Shaman,

it's already the eighth life.

If I still can't save everyone,

then the Chu Phoenix Call...

The Chu Phoenix Call requires Li's body

and soul as payment.

Li was born

to save Jinan City.

Why?

Why must Li

bear such a fate?

Li has already sacrificed her body to the Phoenix.

Remember, never let her

summon the Chu Phoenix Call again.

Otherwise,

Li's soul will also be sacrificed to the Phoenix,

and she may never enter the cycle again.

Grand Shaman...

If I still can't save everyone,

I'm willing to share Jinan City's fate.

But...

I want Li to live.

In the next life,

I'll pretend I don't know her.

I'll keep her far from Jinan City,

far from all of this.

(I'm sorry.)

(Ninth Life)

(I deliberately pretended not to know Li)

(to keep her away from Jinan City.)

(But I never expected that after she heard the news,)

(she came back anyway.)

(To stop Li from summoning the Chu Phoenix Call again,)

(I had no choice but to kill her with my own hands.)

♪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♪

♪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♪

♪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♪