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[Love Like the Galaxy]

[Love Like the Galaxy 2: Episode 23]

- Brothers, pull harder! - Pull!

- Pull! - Move aside. Are you all weak?

Let me!

Everyone, pull!

General Zuo, are you trying to kill Ling Buyi?

Who made you so bold as to hurt the person protected by His Majesty?

Take him!

What's the matter? Are you waiting for your contact?

Too bad that you'll never see them.

Lock him up in the imperial jail

to be harshly tortured, dead or alive.

- Yes. - Yes.

Go!

He has been saved. General Ling has been saved.

Loosen your hand.

General.

Why don't you loosen your hand?

General, be gentle.

Loosen your hand.

Loosen your hand, General.

General?

Try it again.

Be gentle. Loosen the hand.

A bunch of useless things.

- It's been such a long time. Why isn't he awake yet? - Loosen your hand.

Your Majesty.

General Ling has been holding on to the zither string on his wrist.

That string has already embedded into the flesh.

W-We want to untie it for the general, but he just won't let go of his hand.

If it isn't untied, we can't treat his wound.

What string?

It's the Shaoshang string. (7th string of the Chinese zither)

Even when he is unconscious, Zisheng won't let anyone touch it.

Shaoshang...

Where is Miss Cheng?

Didn't I tell you to ask her to come here?

Replying to Your Majesty, Miss Cheng is right outside.

Outside the hall? So why doesn't she come in?

Your Majesty, Miss Cheng said...

She said she and General Ling's fated relationship has ended. So it's better not to see him.

Ended how? Have I approved their fate to end?

- Tell her to come in. If she won't, tie her up and bring her in here. - Yes.

Your Majesty, General Ling is too severely wounded and he endured the cold.

Whether he can live... we'll have to see whether he can survive tonight.

But General Ling won't let anyone touch him right now.

We can't even feed him medicine.

I'll go and snatch Cheng Shaoshang in here.

General Ling,

does it hurt?

Go soon and return soon.

I'll wait for you in the capital city...

for you to return to marry me.

From now on, if you don't leave me,

I won't leave you, either.

You and I have sealed our oath with bitten arms.

This wound connects to the heart.

I'll ask you again, from the bottom of my heart.

Do you have something to tell me?

Who are you exactly?

Ling Buyi...

or Huo Wushang?

Ling Buyi,

if you dare to abandon me today,

I, Cheng Shaoshang, will swear to Heaven

that I will never forgive you for the rest of my life.

Even in all the future lifetimes, I still won't forgive you.

Ling Buyi!

Shaoshang.

Go away!

Later on, we can plant a sea of flowers in the courtyard.

You play the zither, I play the flute.

From now on, we'll grow old together

and die together.

It's loosened. The hand has loosened.

We can treat the wound now, Your Majesty.

Hurry and apply medication.

- Hurry. - Hurry up.

Yes, yes.

General Ling.

This is wonderful.

General Ling's fever has receded. He's fine now.

He just woke up,

and you've fallen ill.

I've made Empress worry.

If you know that I would be worried, then you should be taking better care of yourself.

Wouldn't Zisheng be worried when he wakes up and sees you like this?

He and I...

are no longer possible.

Do you resent him for not telling you about what happened in the lone city?

It's for the greater good of the nation. Lone city's soldiers...

and the commoners suffered injustices.

Compared to our relationship,

it's much heavier and grander.

If I had to make a choice,

I would also be like him.

I don't blame him.

It's best that you think this way.

Then, do you blame him for killing Ling Yi and not caring about his own safety?

I also don't know which of his actions are true and which are calculated.

I suspect that he took advantage of my anxiousness to save the crown prince to obtain the Tiger Tally.

In the end, it harmed the crown prince and implicated you.

I even defended his innocence in front of His Majesty.

I let you down.

When those men are outside making their decisions, women are not allowed to interfere.

How could I not understand your precarious position,

and why would I blame you?

Empress is benevolent. To other people and situations, you are patient and accommodating.

But, unfortunately, I am the opposite.

I simply cannot accept being treated like this.

If he wants to kill the enemy, he can easily tell me.

I am also willing to go with him.

Even if we may end up rising to the Nine Heavens or falling to the netherworld, I would still accompany him.

But I can never forgive him for abandoning me.

He even swore it was for my sake.

Ever since I was young, I was abandoned by my parents.

Now, even he is abandoning me.

Empress and His Majesty both taught me that

married couples should act as one. Isn't that right? (Lit. of one heart)

But how come I treat him wholeheartedly, yet he chooses to hide everything from me?

When has he...

ever been of one heart with me before?

Are you resolute in this?

I am.

Then, do you intend to investigate the truth regarding that matter of the past?

I do.

I want to know...

what exactly happened that year.

I also want to give up...

after figuring out the truth.

You want to find answers. Then go ahead and investigate.

No matter what you discover, I will support you...

in any choice you make.

Why does Empress treat me so well?

I can never return your grace in this life,

in the next life, or in the next life after that.

My life has not been easy.

So I hope that your life can be smoother than mine.

In my place, you must live well.

I should learn from you and be courageous and resolute for once. To find a clear answer.

Let me out!

Return!

I said you shouldn't come, but you were determined to come.

Let me out. Let me out.

Let me out.

Since that day when she witnessed Marquis Chengyang's manor turn into a river of blood,

Madam Chunyu became deranged.

When she meets people, she'll pounce and bite them.

We simply could not find any useful information from her.

She went crazy?

How would it be such a coincidence?

Today, I came to unravel the doubts gnawing at my heart.

I have watched Madam Chunyu and Ling Yi interact before.

They are not a loving couple.

If they're not in love, why would Ling Yi risk tarnish his reputation to marry Madam Chunyu?

So what you mean is Madam Chunyu blackmailed Ling Yi,

so Ling Yi had no choice but to marry her?

Madam Chunyu, Ling Yi is already dead.

If you are willing to divulge the truth,

His Majesty may be willing to give you a way out.

He's dead?

Dead?

He's really dead?

He's dead.

He was decapitated.

His Majesty ordered his corpse to be buried in a mass grave.

With no one able to pay their last respects.

What about you?

Do you want to live?

I–

I want to live! I want to live!

She's already gone crazy.

Open the door.

- She's already gone crazy. - I asked you to open the door.

- Open the door. - Yes.

Do you know why you had a miscarriage back in the day?

We asked the housekeeper of your manor.

He said that Ling Yi secretly added medicine to your meals year-round.

When the medicine was ingested for many years,

it caused you to be infertile for life.

Did you really believe that by concealing the evidence of him colluding with Peng Kun's deputy general,

you could rest easy as Marquise Chengyang?

How could someone as conniving and treacherous as Ling Yi

be resigned to suffer from your threats?

More than anyone,

he wished you to have no one to rely on for the rest of your life.

A life of solitude.

Because only in that way,

could he control you more easily. And you would be unable to continue to threaten him.

Forget it.

Since you have gone crazy,

saying anything more would be meaningless.

But being deranged is also good.

After you've discovered the truth,

you won't be in so much pain.

The two of you, father and son, can reunite then.

I will also...

find a way out for myself.

Deliver this statue of a deity

to Sancai Temple to give to Princess Consort Ruyang.

Tell her...

it's a deity statue that I personally made.

The marquis is about to celebrate his 50th birthday.

Ask Princess Consort Ruyang to worship the deity's statue for me

and pray for blessings for the marquis.

Goddess Nüwa in the Sancai Temple, (Goddess Nüwa created human beings from clay according to the ancient Chinese)

please bless me.

Please let me give birth to a son.

Don't let me stay alone and helpless again.

Goddess Nüwa of Sancai Temple.

Goddess Nüwa...

Do you think she is really crazy or faking it?

Whether it's true or faked, if she wants to live now,

she has to be crazy for real.

What Madam Huo suffered, she needs to suffer it too.

This is the eternal cycle of cause and effect.

It's retribution.

Then, we should...

Go to Sancai Temple now. Madam Chunyu's evidence should be hidden there.

She must have...

recently sent a gift to Princess Consort Ruyang.

General Ling is brewing medicine over a stove in Chongde Hall.

It's not appropriate, is it?

It's my idea. Let the medicine brew in Chongde Hall.

Do you disagree?

I don't dare.

All the officials are here today.

We just want to know...

what exactly happened in the lone city back then?

General Ling? General Ling?

My surname is Huo,

not Ling.

I still remember.

It was the time when the almond tree bore fruits.

I was always active when I was little, while A'Li's body was weak.

He loved to eat almonds,

so he asked me to pick them for him.

Be careful. Be careful.

Oh no! Mother just prepared this outfit for me this morning.

If she sees that I've ruined it in less than a day, she will punish me.

Let me see.

No problem. We can just exchange our clothes.

Just say it's my idea.

I'll wear your clothes to go to the martial training field and let Uncle see.

Let's see if he will recognize me by mistake.

When I get back, you can say I ruined the clothes.

Aunt won't bear to scold me.

My mother and father won't scold you,

but Aunt has a fiery temper. She won't let you off easily.

I get rashes when I eat almonds.

These aren't for you. They are for Uncle and Aunt.

When they receive my almonds, they'll compliment me to Mother.

Even if Mother wants to deal with me, they will stop her.

I put on A'Li's clothes

and quietly went into Father's quarters.

I was going to leave right after putting down the almonds.

All of you leave, the general and I have something important to discuss.

Unexpectedly,

I happened to see that scene.

[Huo Chong]

Wen's reinforcements still haven't arrived. I don't think they're coming.

Now that Emperor Li controls more than half the country,

Wen won't be able to last much longer.

It's unknown who will win the prize.

Is it really worth it for you and me to risk our lives for Wen?

Since Wen doesn't care if we live or die,

General, why do you defend the lone city at the risk of your life for him?

I heard that Emperor Li dispatched 200,000 reinforcement troops.

There's no way for us to resist.

Why don't we... retreat?

Considering you are my brother-in-law,

I'll pretend you never said that.

If you dare to mention abandoning the city, I'll kill you first.

Huo Chong, I don't want to kill you.

You are forcing me to.

You have indeed colluded with the enemy.

Why won't you abandon the city? Why won't you surrender?

You want to be the hero.

And you want us to be buried with you?

Emperor Li's 200,000 troops are at our city gate.

We will all die. There are no reinforcements coming.

Do you think the Xuan family will save you?

No. Will the Yue family come?

No.

None of them are coming.

There are no reinforcements. Not one.

I can't help but do this. It's for everyone's sake.

Don't blame me.

Bastard!

Ling Yi was always so cowardly and afraid of death.

Brother Huo allowed him to watch over the warehouse.

That's why he was waived from fighting on the battlefield.

If it weren't for Brother Huo, just by his own ability,

he couldn't have dreamed of entering the army.

Ling Yi had already colluded with someone,

but I didn't know who it was at that time.

It was only until recently when my investigation led me to Shouchun,

that I learned the person who helped him in the massacre of the lone city,

was Peng Kun.

Weren't you supposed to persuade him to surrender?

Why did you kill him?

Huo Chong was too stubborn and would never have surrendered.

If I hadn't killed him, he would have killed me later on.

Now that I've killed him,

will my family be allowed to stay alive?

Who said to let your family go?

Now that Huo Chong is dead, it's the best opportunity to attack.

The lone city cannot stay. Emperor Wen's defeat will be decided here.

You... come with me to escort our lord to enter the city.

You lied to me.

Didn't we agree that...

you'd let my family go?

I said you, not all of you.

If even one person stays alive in the Huo family,

someone will come to avenge Huo Chong in the future.

Those who achieve greatness

must be heartless and vicious.

In the future, when you are conferred to be a marquis or promoted to be a general,

will you be short of women?

I'm not telling you to do it with your own hands.

The soldiers who massacre the city will handle it for you.

Don't hesitate anymore. Go!

The lone city fell.

None of the women and children in the entire city escaped.

That bunch of bastards!

Since Ling Yi ushered in Emperor Li's troops to massacre the city,

how did you and Huo Junhua survive those years ago?

They lit up a fire to burn the house.

I passed out from the smoke.

Perhaps I wasn't destined to die.

There was a downpour of rain in the lone city that day.

By the time I woke up,

it was already getting late.

Dead bodies were eveywhere.

Aunt! Aunt!

Don't talk. Don't let anyone hear you.

They will come again.

They will come again.

A'Li and I exchanged clothes,

but he died in my stead.

Because we feared there were still rebel soldiers around,

we hid among the pile of corpses for two days and two nights,

without eating or drinking,

before we finally dared to escape from the city.

From then on...

Zisheng?

My aunt became deranged sometimes,

and silly at other times.

But she always called for A'Li...

Go back to the capital.

Go back to the capital.

Along that way, we became beggars,

drank waste water,

and almost died many times.

We endured for two years...

and finally returned to the capital.

We saw Your Majesty.

Child, tell me.

You are...

Aunt called me A'Li

in order to protect me from being killed by Ling Yi. Back then, we, aunt and nephew,

one was crazy and the other was young. How could we fight against him?

My name is...

Ling Buyi.

Your Majesty, this is all Ling Buyi's one-sided words to get acquitted of his crimes.

Don't talk. I want to hear him talk.

Even when I talk about these now,

who would believe me?

Not to mention I was just a young child those years ago.

Everyone would think it was because...

my aunt was displeased with Ling Yi's other marriage

and incited me to tell lies.

Therefore, for me to get revenge,

I had to exchange my identity with A'Li,

acknowledge the villain as my father,

conceal my real name,

so that one day I could kill the enemy with my own hands.

But I couldn't accept it.

I couldn't accept just killing Ling Yi.

I wanted to get revenge.

I wanted to get revenge for my father.

I wanted to get revenge for the entire Huo clan.

I wanted to get revenge for all the people in the lone city.

I wanted to make everyone who was connected to the lone city incident pay.

I almost did it.

When I returned to the capital,

I started to investigate secretly.

Ling Yi, on the other hand, withdrew his claws

and covered up loopholes.

But in the end,

I still lost.

He killed everyone who was connected,

including Peng Kun.

My aunt couldn't endure any longer.

With her grievance unavenged, she died of illness...

and discontent.

At that point,

there were no more witnesses and evidence, I lost all hope.

There was no clear way to bring the villainous Ling Yi to justice.

I had to do it myself,

to use violence to repay violence.

Child, I want you to personally tell me.

What is your name?

My name is...

Ling Buyi.

My name is...

Huo...

Wu...

Shang.

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