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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 24=

Ziyuan.

Li...

I can't hold on much longer.

I can't save you.

I can't save Jinan City either.

So...

You've lived through nine lifetimes.

No wonder there's only a wisp of your soul left.

Ziyuan...

I'm sorry.

You must be exhausted after all these years.

Li,

what am I supposed to do

to save you?

I remember now.

I remember everything.

I won't let you bear

this endless pain of loss alone anymore.

This time,

let's face it together,

alright?

Alright.

Alright.

(Let this be the final exchange.)

Li.

Your eyes are swollen from crying.

These 49 bamboo slips

mark the 49-day countdown

and hold memories of our ten lives.

Why didn't you tell me?

You kept all those secrets to yourself.

That must've hurt so much.

If I'd told you,

you wouldn't have left.

If I couldn't save everyone,

at least I could save you.

But this time,

I still failed.

Do you really believe

I could survive?

That sword...

it hurt, didn't it?

If we fail again

this time,

you'll never have another chance to be reborn.

I know.

I failed again.

Am I really that useless?

Then this time,

let's face it together.

And if we fail...

We die together.

Judging by the timing of past cycles,

the sacrificial ceremony should be today.

The day the city falls is also today.

Why is it so quiet today?

The Shaman Clan is due east.

Huancai Pavilion is due south.

Zhong Jiang's brick kiln

is due west.

The moonflower and the locust tree

are due north.

These four bamboo slips combined

form the Four Directions Soul-Severing Formation.

You figured it out only now?

How disappointing.

Fusheng?

And me.

Lanruo?

You're not dead?

How could I die?

- We two are one and the same. - We two are one and the same.

- How could we die so easily? - How could we die so easily?

They say the Qin State

has a shaman with one soul in two bodies.

Today,

I've seen it for myself.

Chu Li,

your Chu Phoenix Call has caused me no end of trouble.

Fortunately, I sensed something was wrong in my previous life.

That's how I discovered...

You had reset

time for all of us.

Luckily, I kept my memories from the previous life.

This time around,

I'm going to rewrite the ending.

I set up the Four Directions Soul-Severing Formation.

I've used people's desires to feed its core.

The moonflower's obsession, Zhong Jiang's delusion,

Ning Ji's wrath, Yaohua's fixation...

Yaohua's fixation

completed the final link of the Four Directions Soul-Severing Formation.

From now on,

the Qin Army can't get in.

And none of you

can get out of Jinan City.

I'll sever Jinan City from the world's cycle of rebirth

and make it my own empire.

What right do these commoners have

to rule over us shamans?

Chu Li,

only you

deserve to

rule this world with me.

Ziyuan spent ten lives

trying to save all this.

I will never let you succeed!

Song Ziyuan,

once you're dead,

Chu Li will still be mine.

Ziyuan!

Chu Li,

I was kind enough to spare your life,

but you don't know what's good for you.

Then you and Song Ziyuan

will have your souls torn apart!

It's too late.

Once the Four Directions Soul-Severing Formation is broken,

the Qin Army will storm into Jinan City.

You

and all of Jinan City

will go down with me!

Li...

I'm sorry.

I still couldn't save you.

Ziyuan...

You will live.

What are you going to do?

Didn't Mother say

I still have one chance to summon the Chu Phoenix Call?

But

I can only go through one more cycle.

Actually, while you were unconscious,

I already summoned the Chu Phoenix Call

and offered my soul in exchange.

Tomorrow, the Qin Army will take another route into Jinan City

and slaughter its people.

The King's personal guards will witness it all

and send word to the King.

The King will order the capital moved.

By then,

you and the 300,000 people of Jinan City

will all survive.

Li...

My fate

was decided the day I was born.

♪Don't stand alone in the moonlit tower♪

Reversing time,

cycling through ten lives,

all to save Jinan City

and its 300,000 people.

But in the fate already written for me,

I met you.

In this life,

I have no regrets.

Li...

♪Ask not what kind of love this is♪

I have to go.

Li,

don't do this.

Ziyuan...

♪Don't stand alone in the moonlit tower♪

In that life, what were the last words

you said to me?

(Forget me.)

♪Ask not what my heart feels♪

Then remember this, too...

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

Forget me.

♪Locking away a lifetime♪

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

♪Your smile reflected in another's cup♪

♪Another's cup♪

(Song Ziyuan, what are you doing?)

(Why are you doing this?)

(Song Ziyuan!)

(Song Ziyuan, no!)

No!

No!

No!

No!

No!

No!

(278 BC: Bai Qi's Capture of Ying)

(Jinan City fell to Qin general Bai Qi and was abandoned.)

(Forewarned of the attack, the Chu King) (A day later,)

(led his people to a new capital, Chen.) (the Qin Army entered the city.)

(Though Chu State was gravely weakened,)

(its people survived.) (By then,)

(the Chu royal family had led 300,000 people)

(out of Jinan City.)

(He gave up ever being reborn)

(so I could have a new life.)

(My soul took residence in his body.)

(From then on,)

(the wind I touch,)

(the light I feel...)

(he shares them all.)

(My smiles and my tears)

(wear his face.)

(Fifty Years Later)

Shiqi,

help me write something.

Yes, Master.

What shall I write?

The story is called

"Seeing Jinan City

Again."

♪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♪

♪No mountain or sea can bar the way♪

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

Come on, everyone, follow me.

Watch your step.

Today I'll be showing you

the exhibition of Chu State's historical relics.

This is the most iconic

musical instrument of the Chu State,

the Tiger-Seat Bird-Frame Bronze Drum.

Everyone, follow me and look this way.

Come on.

These are bamboo slips unearthed

from the Jinan City ruins in Jingzhou, Hubei.

According to archaeological research,

they record an ancient

and legendary love story.

Everyone, follow me this way.

(Introduction: Exhibition of Chu State's 800-Year Civilization)

♪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,♪ (800 Years of Chu Civilization Exhibit)

♪love remains hard to sever♪ (800 Years of Chu Civilization Exhibit)

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

♪That year,♪ (Intro: Phoenix Dances on Mount Jing)

♪pear blossoms, verse, and laughter♪ (Intro: Phoenix Dances on Mount Jing)

♪One night, snow fell in wild flurries♪

♪All perfection in this world♪

♪hides regret♪ (The End)

♪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♪

♪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♪