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[Previously on "Dear Diary"]

Today, I will return to my homeland and regain the throne.

Murong.

I'm ready.

I met my destined prince.

My life has been

worth it.

Once the whole altar is covered in her blood,

I will witness the glory of my homeland again.

Keane.

Go ahead.

What are you doing?

I've completed my mission.

Before protecting a nation,

I shall protect a person first.

I'll never get to say

"I do" again.

So I can only say

I'm sorry.

Her fate had already been decided

the moment she wrote that diary.

I won't allow any harm to come to her.

I would rather perish than comply.

I never knew

that a woman's tears

would make me want to give up everything.

Allow me to write the ending

of our story.

The prince

is destined to vanish from Chen Mei Ru's life.

Goodbye, Chen Mei Ru.

I love you.

Mei Ru.

You must forget about me.

Your birthday's coming up again.

Do you know what I've prepared for you this time?

This trip to France.

is the trip of letting go of the past.

(Hasn't my heart)

(died a year ago?)

(Even the writing in the diary)

(has disappeared along with them.)

(It was as if everything)

(was just a dream.)

(What good can it do even if I don't want to let go?)

I'm marrying you.

We'll be in a monogamous relationship and I'll never leave you.

[Dear Diary]

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the world-renowned Code of Hammurabi.

It was promulgated by the sixth king of Babylon.

It took thousands of years and went through a lot of obstacles before it reached the Louvre.

It's a miracle that it's still intact today.

However, there is a line in the code

that was later erased by the Elamites.

After years of restoration, it has finally been translated.

The translation shocked all of the experts.

Because it is unlike anything else in the code.

Instead, it's more like a vow.

I'm marrying you.

We'll be in a monogamous relationship and I'll never leave you.

I'm marrying you.

We'll be in a monogamous relationship and I'll never leave you.

[This story is purely fictitious.]

[Episode 24]

Are you enjoying France, Chen Mei Ru?

Mm. It's a nice place.

Is the Louvre really as amazing as they say?

You'll have to be my tour guide when I go to Paris for a performance.

I want to feel and embrace the historical atmosphere

and see those Babylon artifacts with my own eyes.

-You must have seen a lot of things today. -Mm.

Zhen, there's something I...

Go on.

I know him.

Hammurabi.

Of course.

I know him too.

It's right there on the description of his statue, isn't it?

No.

Hammurabi

is Murong Jie Lun.

Murong Jie Lun

is Hammurabi.

In recent years, a line from the Code of Hammurabi

was restored and translated.

"I'm marrying you.

We'll be in a monogamous relationship and I'll never leave you."

You know that line.

I told you about it many times.

It was the promise Murong Jie Lun gave me.

It's a love letter he wrote for me

across thousands of years.

Murong Jie Lun

is still alive.

Even if he were alive,

he is dead now.

Do you understand, Chen Mei Ru?

This isn't a couple of years.

We're talking about thousands of years.

He is no longer your "Murong Jie Lun".

He is a historical character.

Must you keep fooling yourself like this?

But I saw him again today.

Before the Code of Hammurabi,

he repeated those words.

The words that only Murong Jie Lun would say.

You must have been mistaken.

Murong Jie Lun is gone.

We're not 12 years old anymore.

You have to know

that some love stories are destined to be tragedies.

(The number you dialed cannot be reached at the moment.)

(Please try again later.)

(Some people disappear)

(and never come back.)

(But the ones alive have to go on,)

(don't they?)

I'm marrying you.

We'll be in a monogamous relationship and I'll never leave you.

[Grandmother's Sichuan wonton]

Sir, two bowls of noodles, please.

Oh, it's you again, the customer with the big appetite.

Only two bowls this time?

Must I always order 20 bowls from you?

You!

Give me another 19 bowls of this!

Oh, my.

You're a customer with a big appetite!

Do you have some water to cleanse one's mouth?

20 bowls?

Could it be... Murong?

Murong!

(Chen Mei Ru.)

(I am your prince.)

(You must accept my love and my protection!)

(You are the best in the world, Chen Mei Ru.)

Miss?

Miss?

Have you been stunned by my good looks?

I know

this uniform is very attractive,

but girls should be a bit more modest.

Murong, it's me.

Miss, thank you for appreciating my looks.

But you aren't my type.

Don't waste your time.

Sorry.

Boss, forget about the order.

I won't be having them today.

Hey.

This notebook.

Keep it.

Did you write

this line in it?

Answer me!

Oh, you.

You wouldn't leave after you came back this time.

You caught me by surprise.

Isn't this what you have been

hoping for

all these years?

I didn't hope for this at all. Do what you want.

I've been doing well on my own.

[No price specified, pay as you please] I had an easy time living

and managing the house on my own.

You've given me nothing but trouble after you came back.

Goods for sale. Take a look around.

Antiques and used goods for sale. Valuable goods.

Those parents

said they wanted to give me an award banner and a plaque or something.

But I refused all of them.

I have to maintain my image as a celebrity homeroom teacher,

you know?

I...

Hey.

Don't get distracted by these antiques now.

You've come home.

Just stay at home and be good.

Don't get any strange ideas again.

I won't leave again.

I've done everything I wanted

to do in my life.

But...

It's not over

for some things

and some people yet.

It's an obsession.

But it's also fate.

Pay for it!

A souvenir that's thousands of years old! It will surely cost quite a bit!

Mr. Li.

Make sure to bring a big truck to help us move our stuff tomorrow.

You're trying to get rid of that? Miss Zhen will kill you if you do.

Miss Zhen is like an old granny. She won't let us get rid of anything.

When did you get back?

Yesterday.

You should have told me. I would have sent someone to pick you up.

Well, a famous Sichuan opera actress certainly talks differently.

Did you not get me a souvenir from France?

You only brought such a small bag with you. Did you put any thought into the gift for me?

Who said I didn't?

I was digging for it.

Give it here.

What is this?

Macarons.

Chen Mei Ru.

I'll listen to the story you can come up with for this.

I bought it from a specialty store in the Louvre.

There is a cafe 700 meters out the door from here.

They sell these things too.

I was originally going

to get you something from the duty-free store after I got off the plane.

Go on. I'll see what else you can come up with.

I ran into him again.

So I couldn't be bothered about anything else.

And I forgot about your gift.

Who?

A pilot that looked exactly like Murong.

Chen Mei Ru, I...

I know, I know. Don't lecture me.

I've already confirmed it.

He isn't Murong Jie Lun.

No matter how much he looks like him.

Whether he said those words

or wrote that line or not,

he...

isn't my Murong Jie Lun.

You're right.

I can't keep going on like this.

It's enough to have a miracle happen once in my life.

If our encounter was destined to be a tragedy,

tiny beings like us

are powerless to change it.

We just have to accept fate.

I know.

That's why we have to move on.

Mm.

Even our troupe

is going to be moving soon.

I'm going to miss this place.

Look forward.

Let's embrace the future together.

Once we leave,

they'll tear this place apart.

We'll really have to part with those memories.

We'll have to start anew.

Mm. Everything will be fine.

Oh, my.

Sorry for ruining the moment.

Shut your dirty mouth.

I was just kidding.

Here's a parcel for you.

We're going to move soon. Who would send me a parcel at a time like this?

That's rather imperceptive of them.

It's not recent. It has been around for a while now.

I only found it when I was sorting through the stuff.

You've been so busy dating that you neglected everything else, huh?

What if it was something important?

You can't get me now!

My girlfriend kicks much faster than you.

He finally got a girlfriend so he has been going on about it every day.

Hu Zhan Qi?

I don't know a "Hu Zhan Qi".

This isn't a scam or something, is it?

Hu Zhan Qi is my second uncle.

Second uncle?

What is it?

Why would my second uncle send you something but not me?

This mask...

He must have gotten it from the market.

It's so ugly.

Look at that cluster of stars.

Doesn't it look like a strange mask?

Big eyes.

Big ears.

And a big mouth.

The stars are about to shine.

Keep your eyes on them.

I wish

everything would just stop

at this moment.

All the bad things would go away,

and you would be able to stay.

And we'll be able to stay just like this forever.

But just like those stars,

I'll watch over you forever.

If one day...

If I'm still alive,

I hope they'll guide me

to you again.

Regardless of the methods

and the price I'll have to pay,

I would trade the rest of my life

for the opportunity

to meet you again.

Mei Ru.

Come with me to a place.

Ouyang Wen Shan!

It's you,

isn't it?

It's you...

Zhen.

What's the matter?

Mei Ru.

I wouldn't let you bring up Murong

because I couldn't stand to be reminded of Wen Shan.

On the day he left,

I said all those

awful things.

I never even got a chance to make up for them.

No.

He is smart. I'm sure he understood.

For the past year,

you gave your all to complete the performance.

You did all of that

for his sake, didn't you?

Look.

Ouyang Wen Shan

left you this memento

across thousands of years.

Just like how Murong Jie Lun

left me those words.

They are with us no matter where we are.

I'm sure he knows your feelings.

We'll meet again somehow someday.

It's an obsession.

But it's also fate.

We must believe that.

(A new day. A new start.)

(I'm writing in my diary again.)

(I'm no longer the Chen Mei Ru of the past.)

(The Chen Mei Ru right now)

(believes more than ever)

(that there are miracles in this world.)

(We were in love once.)

(The ones we loved)

(may have disappeared along with those words,)

(but I firmly believe)

(that they are still alive. That they are having a legendary journey.)

(Something that could not have been made up by words.)

This is Babylon.

We actually came back.

In this world,

there will be a girl

who will love you in my place.

Someone who will understand your kindness.

-And you will come to love her. -"You will come to love her".

-Just like the mark on your heart, -"Just like the mark on your heart,

-you will forget all the pain, -you will forget all the pain,

-and have new memories. -and have new memories."

You are truly a person

of great love and divinity.

It was your sincere and devout prayer that made a miracle happen.

That I was able to meet her in another dimension

and learned how to love.

I will give you a proper burial.

I will remember and honor you for a lifetime in gratitude.

She willingly sacrificed herself for you.

Just like how you sacrificed yourself for Mei Ru

and created a miracle.

That is why we were able to come back.

A new king has replaced the old.

Sin may be dead. He may be gone for good.

He will never lay harm to this place ever again.

Sin's era

has ended.

And I will ensure that the empire stays in peace for a long time to come.

A new king has been born.

I shall grant you a new name.

No.

I will never again rely on false gods and deities as my father did.

So I will give myself

a new name.

Hammurabi.

The healer of my father.

That shall be my name.

You will be a great and wise king.

You will become someone very different from your father.

Mei Ru,

did you hear that?

I will become King Hammurabi.

I vow to you

that I, Hammurabi,

will heal all the scars and pains in this kingdom.

I will uphold justice

and vanquish evil.

I will protect the weak

and ensure that the light shines across the land.

I will imprint love, justice, and fairness into our laws.

I will ensure that my people will never live in fear.

I'm glad that we still remember the language of that nation.

I wonder how they are faring right now.

Perhaps they think

that we are gone for good.

Without Murong Jie Lun,

there will be no Hammurabi of today.

But I will never get to see Chen Mei Ru again.

The best Chen Mei Ru in the world.

And Jiang Hui Zhen.

-And her. -And her.

Leave this place

and live the rest of your life in peace.

I no longer have a reason to live.

Why bother about me?

At least don't die in a place you hated the most.

Everything that we have been through

will not be in vain

for each one of us.

You mustn't let down those who loved you and what they entrusted you with.

There must be some meaning in that.

Everything has been settled.

Your kins will be freed.

You can take them with you and leave this place.

To continue to pursue your stars.

I have decided

to fulfill my promise.

I will stay of my own will and assist the new king.

But before this, there is something I have to do.

I want to send Zhen a memento.

(Zhen, I have returned.)

(I know you don't exist at this moment.)

(But if possible,)

(in the future,)

(even if it is a one in a million chance that you will receive my message.)

(Forget about me.)

(But please don't hate me.)

(I miss you,)

(Zhen.)

(I miss you so much.)

[One year later, 1791 B.C. Babylonian City]

(If you show up in fall,)

(I'll gently dust off summer)

(as I do to a fly.)

(If you show up a year from now,)

(I'll roll every month into balls of yarn)

(and put them in separate drawers)

(so I don't get the dates mixed up.)

(If there are a few centuries standing between us,)

(I'll count the days with my fingers,)

(until all of them fall off)

(in this barren land.)

(If it is certain)

(that we can only meet again in the afterlife,)

(I'll throw away my life)

(like the peels of fruits)

(so that I may savor the sweetness of eternity.)

Dragon.

Dragon.

Dragon!

Duan Shui Liu...

It's me, Duan Shui Liu. Look at me.

Dragon.

Duan Shui Liu...

I don't want to wake up.

If I do, you'll disappear.

What? Disappear?

I won't disappear.

I don't even know how I got here.

But I'm fine.

I'm not dead. I'm alive and well.

My guess is...

My guess is...

Maybe this thing worked.

Maybe some force of the universe sent me here.

Easy there. Easy there.

You're really Duan Shui Liu?

You found me at last.

I...

I told you.

As long as you were still alive,

we will meet again.

I would never lie to you.

Here. Have some water first.

Slowly now.

Duan Shui Liu.

You know Hittite

is known for their iron smelting skills, right?

No.

Could it be

that iron is more valuable than gold here?

Do you know what they need to prepare

for an iron smelting ritual?

I don't know.

Before the ritual,

they'll catch skinny men,

wrap a headscarf on them,

put rags on them,

and tie them to a cow

and exile them to a barren land.

What do you mean?

The man and the cow

have to keep walking without rest for seven days and seven nights.

When the sun on the eighth day rises,

if the man and the cow are still alive,

then it is a good omen.

They will both be freed.

But if they aren't,

your body and the cow's corpse

will be left in the wilderness.

Why would it be me?

I'm a good omen.

I've been out here for more than seven days and seven nights.

You're so skinny right now.

You're in a dangerous state by our people's standards.

What should we do then?

It's too late for me to put on weight right now.

We'll go wherever we can

and muddle along, I guess.

T... That won't do.

I finally found you.

I want to spend the rest of our lives together.

How about this?

Let's not go back to Hittite.

You don't like that place anyway.

Then, you'll listen to me from now on.

We'll go wherever I want.

I'm on your territory. Of course, I'll do as you say.

Let's go.

We'll go wherever the wind takes us.

Hey,

did you trick me just now?

Was it because I said those things back then?

About the mark of the poor? The slave cars?

And the city dragon?

Were you getting back at me just now?

There was no ritual, was there?

It had nothing to do with a cow

or how skinny I was.

Didn't it?

Didn't it? Hm?

I found you at last!

(My story, the story of Chen Mei Ru, has come to an end.)

(But I'm sure that there are many other Chen Mei Rus out there.)

(If they have written about love with the same devotion as I have,)

(or if they have believed in those passionate and exciting love stories as I have,)

(miracles will definitely happen in their lives.)

(I wonder)

(what it would be like)

(if Murong Jie Lun, Hammurabi,)

(told his story himself?)

(The most distinguished king of Babylon.)

(During his reign, he united the two rivers.)

(He expanded the territory of Babylon.)

(He protected his people)

(as he protected Chen Mei Ru back then.)

(In the end, he was never able to spend the rest of his life with Chen Mei Ru.)

(But he ensured that the practice of monogamy was engraved on the code)

(and passed down through the generations.)

(The following are the contents of King Hammurabi's code.)

Those who gouge out the eyes of others shall also have their eyes gouged out.

Those who break the bones of others shall also have their bones broken.

If a man takes a wife and has children with her,

the man shall not be allowed to wed another.

(He, who was once a bastard prince, became a wise king)

(and fulfilled all of his promises.)

(It was my greatest honor to be able to assist and serve him.)

(But it was my greatest regret not to be able to see Zhen again.)

(I'm sure His Majesty feels the same.)

(Chen Mei Ru will be with Hammurabi)

(for every second of his life.)

(Mei Ru, did you know?)

(You gave me the faith to love.)

(A faith that will transcend time and space)

(and never cease.)

(I will protect you from harm, always.)

(Even if you don't fit in this world, it's fine.)

(I will smile for you, I will live for you, and I will love this world for you.)

(I will do all of those things.)

(With your love, I will return to you someday.)

(But I may do that through another existence.)

(By then, you will have seen a wider world,)

(a brighter night sky,)

(and embrace a wind that is freer than ever.)

(Go.)

(Do all the things that we didn't get to do.)

(When I come to you again,)

(you will know that it is me.)

(You will.)

[Mei Ru, I'm marrying you.]

[We'll be in a monogamous relationship]

[and I'll never leave you.]

♪The cold first quarter moon illuminates that page of the diary♪

♪Looking forward to a bright story♪

♪I'm always thinking of you, and it's what fills my heart♪

♪Imagination runs wild, and the fantasy moment appears at the best time♪

♪You've come to me♪

♪The moment the dream comes true seems to be an illusion♪

♪It connects the two worlds, and my mind is sleepless♪

♪The starlight is greeting, and my tomorrow is for you♪

♪We didn't stand back at each uneasy junction♪

♪The most eternal reason at the end of time♪

♪Is the love that can save our future♪

♪I can feel the same way when I dedicate myself to you♪

♪I'm eagerly waiting in the same universe♪

♪The miracle is around♪

♪I can feel the same way more when I dedicate myself to you♪

♪The encounter makes us appreciate each other's tenderness♪

♪We have each other at this moment, don't let go of our hands♪

♪Imagination runs wild, and the fantasy moment appears at the best time♪

♪You've come to me♪

♪The moment the dream comes true seems to be an illusion♪

♪It connects the two worlds, and my mind is sleepless♪

♪The starlight is greeting, and my tomorrow is for you♪

♪We didn't stand back at each uneasy junction♪

♪The most eternal reason at the end of time♪

♪Is the love that can save our future♪

♪I can feel the same way when I dedicate myself to you♪

♪I'm eagerly waiting in the same universe♪

♪The miracle is around♪

♪I can feel the same way more when I dedicate myself to you♪

♪The encounter makes us appreciate each other's tenderness♪

♪We have each other at this moment, don't let go of our hands♪

♪The starlight is greeting, and my tomorrow is for you♪

♪We didn't stand back at each uneasy junction♪

♪The most eternal reason at the end of time♪

♪Is the love that can save our future♪

♪I can feel the same way when I dedicate myself to you♪

♪I'm eagerly waiting in the same universe♪

♪The miracle is around♪

♪I can feel the same way more when I dedicate myself to you♪

♪The encounter makes us appreciate each other's tenderness♪

♪We have each other at this moment, don't let go of our hands♪