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(Phantom Love)

(Episode 1)

(In the year of Fengwu,)

(demons kept popping up.)

(People lived in fear every single day.)

(Demon hunters were everywhere.)

(To stay alive, demons)

(often possessed humans to hide their real form.)

(Only the Dream-Eater had no physical form to reveal.)

(It used a glass dream lamp to slip into people's dreams.)

Don't assume your evil deeds go unseen.

In the end, good and evil always get what they deserve.

There's nowhere to hide from fate.

(Those whose dreams were invaded)

(ended up taking their own lives.)

(It survived by devouring the nightmares of the wicked.)

(To keep the world safe,)

(Prince of Xian, Shen Que,)

(led Qingdu Temple disciples to hunt down every demon.)

(Murders kept happening.)

(Locals brought in a famous Nuo opera troupe to perform rituals.)

(Ruan Wei, Deputy Minister of Revenue's son, went missing.)

(Word is)

(it's tied to that Nuo opera troupe too.)

There's a demon!

Run!

Someone's been killed!

(Dao Zhi.)

(Shen Dao Zhi.)

(I've never experienced any of this.)

(Why do these images)

(keep flashing before my eyes?)

(Shen Dao Zhi.)

(It's been a hundred years.)

(Old grudges and new scores.)

(All get settled today.)

What kind of demon are you?

How dare you act up right in front of me?

I...

I'm not a demon.

Your Highness.

Ruan Wei, missing for days, has been found dead.

His body was found in the troupe's backyard.

(He died exactly like my brother did years ago.)

You harmed innocent people.

The evidence is clear.

Demon!

Show yourself now.

I didn't kill him.

Please judge fairly, Your Highness.

This body you possess

is actually pretty good-looking.

That's why you're attached to it.

Is this really how Your Highness treats innocent people?

Senior Mu.

Can you use that technique you mentioned earlier?

The Five Elements Annihilation Array.

Show it to me.

This array is extremely brutal.

No matter if you're human or demon, you'll feel pain down to your bones.

If this woman isn't a demon,

she probably can't survive such a purifying ritual.

Set up the array.

Yes.

Set up the array.

Five elements. Life and death. Begin and seal.

Ignite!

Your Highness, no demon appeared in the array.

This woman isn't a demon.

Take her away.

Lock her in the dungeon.

Yes.

You want to force a confession out of me.

No one will know the truth.

(It looks like you really are as ruthless as the rumors say.)

(If that's how it is,)

(then today, I'll let him feel what it's like)

(to be stabbed in the heart.)

Your Highness.

Your Highness.

Shen Que.

Your Highness.

It's like what you said.

I really am a demon.

Your Highness.

You really are quite good-looking.

What kind of demon are you?

Don't rush.

You'll remember soon enough.

(That woman has to be a demon.)

Bai.

Is this Shen Que

the reincarnation of Shen Dao Zhi, who stole your spiritual root?

Did you find the spiritual root in his dream?

He's extremely guarded.

In his outer dream,

there's only his memory of this life.

I still haven't found the secret door to his inner dream.

I need to make him fall for me as soon as possible.

Only then

can I enter his inner dream.

Li, you can't fall for him again in this life.

It's absolutely impossible.

(In our past life, he took advantage of my naivete.)

(He used sweet words)

(to win my true heart.)

(When I let my guard down,)

(he brought disaster and nearly ended my life.)

(If he hadn't stolen my spiritual root back then,)

(I wouldn't have slept for a hundred years.)

(The demon clan wouldn't have been hunted to extinction by demon hunters.)

(We wouldn't be forced to hide in the demon village, barely surviving.)

(If I still had my spiritual root,)

(I'd have enough power to protect my clan.)

Once I get my spiritual root back,

and restore my demon power, I'll make him

and all those demon hunters who hurt my people

pay

with blood.

Your Highness.