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(Phantom Love)

(Episode 3)

(Jingui Bank)

Are you looking for anyone?

We have a distinguished guest. Apologies for the poor reception.

And you are?

I'm Bai Wei Ran.

I run this humble bank.

Your Highness, what brings you

here today?

Judging from your place,

it's not just a simple bank, is it?

After Meng Li came here, no one has entered or left it.

Now she's vanished.

Something's definitely off.

It looks like

your bank is hiding a lot, huh?

Your Highness.

Every deal here is kept under wraps.

So, what do you want to know?

I want to see her, dead or alive.

She disappeared without a trace.

If she's not a demon, what is she?

If I don't see her today,

you

and this bank

will never hear the end of me.

Mr. Bai.

I've sorted out the ledgers.

Your Highness.

Your Highness, why are you here?

Shouldn't I be asking you that?

Why are you here?

In a few days,

it'll be one week since my master's and senior's passing.

I don't have any money.

So I borrowed some silver taels from Mr. Bai.

To show my gratitude,

I helped him organize the warehouse.

Miss Meng, hold onto these silver taels for now.

No rush to pay me back.

Thank you, Mr. Bai.

Shopkeeper Bai.

You're really generous.

You're not even her family.

Yet you're willing to lend so much.

The more good you do, the more fortune comes your way.

If one keeps hurting innocent people,

one will receive retribution in the end.

(Oh, no. The pin that masks demon energy.)

So you really are a demon.

I...

There's a demon here.

If Your Highness

believes I'm a demon,

there's nothing much I can say.

But what you believe in

is not the truth.

Miss Meng, His Highness is fair and strict.

He'd never kill the innocent.

Your Highness, a demon did pass through here just now.

The demon hunter went to deal with it.

Shopkeeper Bai.

Sorry for all the trouble.

Meng Li.

Come back to the manor with me.

(He's way too distrustful.)

(If I stay by his side, I'll get exposed sooner or later.)

(I need to make him fall for me in his dream, and fast.)

(So he'll be totally hooked on me.)

(Why isn't he back in his room resting?

(I can't enter his dream if he's awake.)

(At this point,)

(I'll have to use a little trick.)

You finally couldn't hold back, huh?

Your Highness.

It's cold and dark.

I just wanted to ask you to go back and rest.

Ask me to go back and rest?

But you were holding a sharp hairpin.

Only you know

what you were really up to.

If Your Highness never trusts me,

why not just kill me?

You think I wouldn't dare?

Your Highness.

- Speak. - Senior Mu found traces of a demon at Youming Mountain.

She's already set up the array, pending your command.

Gather the team.

Set out immediately.

Yes.

(This isn't good. It's an illusion.)

Drop dead!

Now,

Your Highness, do you trust me?

How did you end up here?

After Your Highness left the manor,

I followed you the whole way.

I told you before.

I want revenge for my master and seniors too.

Gather the team.

We leave now.

Yes.

Your Highness.

Can I come with you?

I want to avenge my master and seniors too.

But Your Highness

thinks I can't do it.

I'll prove it

with my actions.

He's true form is gone now.

Although she's using Yue Shu's body,

soon, her soul will scatter.

She already took the Soul Borrowing Pearl.

Her demon power will surge right before she dies.

When she dies, she'll turn back into a fox.

She's helping you put on this demon-slaying show.

Demon hunters know demons can't kill their own kind.

That way, Shen Que won't suspect you anymore.

It's the only way.

(If it weren't desperate times, I'd never let He risk her life.)

(But the whole demon clan is at stake.)

(This is our only option.)

(The demon clan's iron rule)

(is that they can never kill their own kind.)

(It looks like)

(I misunderstood her.)

It's getting late.

The fog is thick out here.

Let's rest in that cabin ahead for the night.

When the fog clears tomorrow,

we'll head back to the manor.

(He, just you watch.)

(I'll make these cruel, deceitful mortals pay for what they've done.)

(Your sacrifice won't be for nothing.)

We're in the mountains.

It's cold and damp out here.

Your Highness, warm your clothes by the fire.

Don't catch a cold.

(He cares so much about this thing.)

(It looks like these beads mean a lot to him.)

(He treasures it so much.)

(That gives me a perfect opening.)

Your Highness.

Let me help you.

All picked up.

I'll help Your Highness

wipe the beads clean.

This item...

Your Highness treasures it so much.

Was it a gift from someone you love?

It's from my brother.

It's the only keepsake he left me.

Your Highness's brother

must've been really good to you.

My mother died when I was young.

My father was always busy with court affairs.

He never had time for me.

Among my brothers,

only my brother looked after me.

He taught me mounted archery and literature.

He showed me how to deal with people.

What happened after that?

After that...

When something bad happened to him,

I wasn't in the palace at the time.

He was killed by a demon.

He died horribly.