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Shen Buyan, look at how many mushrooms I picked today!

We eat mushrooms every day. Can't you pick something else?

What's wrong?

Are you sick of home-cooked dishes, and want to enjoy palace cuisine?

But I still eat home-cooked dishes when I'm in the palace.

Stop boasting. When did you ever go to the palace?

The laughter and joy of thousands of years ago seemed to have returned to Nanmeng Lake.

But once I look back,

I see nothing but the setting sun of the present.

After thousands of years, the jade pendant came into my hands.

I personally gave it to Lu Yuan.

Was completing destiny's cycle

the significance of this journey?

Was the evening when Northern Lie invaded

and the night of the Yuanqi Coup our start and end?

Mr. Shen, do you really think so?

Are you not that elderly madam who sold the jade pendant to me?

What's going on?

The new government policy of Jiangzhou allows for stalls again, so I'm back.

I'm talking about the jade pendant.

Didn't I warn you that a complete piece of jade brings inner peace,

but a broken jade will disturb the mind?

But you don't seem bothered.

Where did you get that jade pendant?

It was passed down by my ancestors.

They said it should be handed over to someone named Shen Buyan.

For generations, no one managed to meet this person.

Unexpectedly, I found you.

Is Lu Yuan your ancestor?

Didn't she die in the Yuanqi Coup?

My ancestor isn't Lu Yuan.

However, she didn't die in the Yuanqi Coup either.

[History of the Southern Sheng Dynasty]

[The content of this book is based on historical data, but the historical data on record may not necessarily be true. Perhaps the day when the tomb of the Southern Sheng Dynasty is unearthed, we will be one step closer to the truth]

[An Ancient Love Song] [Episode 14]

General Yang, Her Majesty's life will be in danger if we stay out here. [East Gate]

I'm more anxious than you!

However, this is not the right time yet.

You're the cause of everything.

Back then, if it hadn't been for you, A'Yuan wouldn't have turned against me.

Now is the time. Get ready to act in concert with the prince.

- Charge! - Charge!

Imperial Mother!

Toss out the city defense map.

Imperial Mother!

Prime Minister, let's go. Hurry!

Great Sheng's city defense map was swapped out.

Lu Yuan was shot as part of the plan.

Lu Yuan.

Shen Buyan.

Ever since that rainy night when you suddenly disappeared,

I seemed to have sealed my heart.

I tried to be strong.

[Water Moon Pavilion]

But every one of my hopes

ended with disappointment.

I'm growing ever more convinced that everything is preordained and can never be changed.

You mentioned the night of the Yuanqi Coup.

Will I really lose my life in the hands of Li Yong?

When that day really came,

I looked at your face that remained out of reach.

I recalled the past once again.

You told me to fight if I were bullied.

You taught me to stand firm in the path I chose.

You've been the one constantly fighting against destiny

even when each glimmer of hope turned into disillusion and vanished.

It was only then

that I realized true strength

was not to seal my heart.

Perhaps, I never truly sealed it.

My Lady!

My Lady!

My Lady!

My Lady!

My Lady, are you all right?

Yi Hua, did we succeed?

My Lady, don't worry. We retrieved the city defense map.

General Yang.

Yes.

Prepare to face the enemy.

Yes.

Reporting!

Captain Yuwen, there's trouble.

Go on. Tell me.

The city defense map is fake.

We're retreating from an ambush by General Yang Chong, but we can't hold out for much longer.

What?

Preposterous!

Li Yong!

We trusted you so much, but you betrayed us.

That's impossible.

I saw Prime Minister Li retrieve the city defense map from the imperial study.

How could it be a fake?

If it's fake, why did the Empress of Great Sheng mobilize such a large force?

Zhao Qilong, you're an idiot!

Li Yong never planned to work with us.

It's all part of his plan.

Get out of the way.

That's not possible. Not possible!

Are you trying to betray our country now?

Li Yong, say something.

Li Yong.

You sincerely wished to join forces with us, right?

You didn't know about the fake city defense map, right? Tell us!

So, it's that child.

What did you say?

What child?

A'Yuan... A'Yuan, I lost.

But I didn't lose everything.

Traitor! Enough with your nonsense!

Soldiers! Take him away and interrogate him with torture.

Northern Lie savage!

I, Li Yong, ranked first in the imperial examination when I was 20.

I've been promoted many times and leaped the ranks rapidly.

I have rooted out pirates and bandits, and spared no efforts to stabilize the country.

Do you really think I'm someone who'd betray my country?

Listen up!

I'll live as a man of Sheng and die as a ghost of Sheng.

I'm Great Sheng's...

Greatest hero!

I won.

I won.

Disseminate my order. Hang Li Yong's corpse at the front lines as a warning.

Yes.

I didn't expect this to be the reason for Li Yong's reputation as a virtuous prime minister.

You understand now, don't you?

Everything you've read are mostly interpretations and may not be the truth.

But it's stated in the book that Lu Yuan died in the Yuanqi Coup.

Have another look.

It's been restored?

What is going on?

Don't forget who the author of this book is.

I wrote it.

Yes.

From beginning to end, it's all just your own thoughts and interpretations that have changed.

Now, do you understand?

It turns out that Lu Yuan's destiny has never been changed.

She did not die in the Yuanqi Coup.

She was still executed in her old age

by Emperor Shengwu, Chu Tongchang, as a Demon Queen.

Am I right?

Yes.

But Emperor Shengwu should know Lu Yuan well.

Why did he do that? [East Gate]

Emperor Shengwu was clear that the term "Demon Queen"

was just the world's prejudice against his mother.

You...

Why do you know so much?

My ancestor is Chu Tongchang.

The emperor who unified the Nine Kingdoms in a time of turmoil.

Why on earth did he...

Mr. Shen.

There are some matters that require you to seek the truth by yourself.

After all your experiences, do you still believe the words of others?

My Lady, why do you go to such lengths?

It's the Shangsi Festival today, and I know you must be missing him.

Will I meet him again?

You wait for him here on every Shangsi Festival.

But you've known the answer since that night in the 15th year of Yuanqi. Isn't that so?

But I still want to tell him that I'm alive.

Every day,

every hour,

and every moment,

I'm thinking of him.

Do you think...

He still has me in his heart?

My Lady, I believe that a sincere wish will come true.

[I want to meet Shen Buyan again]

Mr. Shen, are you sure you don't want to make a wish?

Five yuans for one wish.

In our latest news, an ancient tomb was unearthed in Jiangzhou's Nanmeng Lake. [Jiangzhou Express News]

According to experts, this tomb can be traced back to the Nine Kingdoms period.

Due to the lack of historical materials, the Nine Kingdoms period has always been a confusing and chaotic period.

This archaeological excavation may decipher long-sealed historical truths.

[Five yuans for one wish]

According to Lu Yuan's wishes, Chu Tongchang buried her at Nanmeng Lake.

In her tomb, there is also an edict to clear her name.

[Revision draft for History of the Southern Sheng Dynasty by Setting Sun]

[As the dust of time settles, how shall we relook at the Nine Kingdoms period...]

Now, I finally understand.

The last moment of your life

was in fact the first time I saw you.

Demon Queen! [Peace and Prosperity]

Demon Queen! [Peace and Prosperity]

Yet, you...

Demon Queen!

forgave my dispassionate gaze.

[Peace and Prosperity]

Imperial Mother, I can persuade the people and clear your name.

I can build a peaceful and prosperous nation even without your sacrifice.

Tongchang.

Somebody needs to take the fall for Great Sheng's frailty over the years.

Getting rid of the Demon Queen is what the people want.

In doing so, the people will trust in a bright future to come.

As for this light,

I...

believe you can deliver it.

But doing so would be...

Too unfair to you.

You've labored for Great Sheng all these years.

Tongchang.

Remember the meaning of your name.

Fear not the want of armor, for mine is also yours to wear.

You must always stand with the people.

Be an emperor who cares about the people's well-being.

As for my rights and wrongs, merits and demerits,

I'll leave future generations to judge them.

Lu Yuan.

I will spend my life studying these new historical materials.

I will reconstruct the most authentic Nine Kingdoms period for the people

and bring you justice.

[Revision draft for History of the Southern Sheng Dynasty by Setting Sun]

[As the dust of time settles, how shall we relook at the people of the Nine Kingdoms period...]

[Dream Back to the Nansheng Dynasty]

[Cultural Relics Exhibition of Nanmeng Lake during the Nine Kingdoms Period]

Take a photo here for me later.

Okay.

Isn't this about the Demon Queen Lu or something?

Has it not been proven that she is not a Demon Queen? [The konghou harp is an ancient Chinese traditional stringed instrument, also known as a plucked stringed instrument]

Don't you watch the news? [In ancient times, besides its use as palace music, it was also widely circulated among the people]

[Chinese ancient konghou harps consist of three types: horizontal harp, vertical harp, and phoenix-headed harp]

[The konghou harp unearthed in Nanmeng Lake is a phoenix-headed harp. It is beautiful in shape, exquisite in pattern, and has extremely high artistic value]

[When it was unearthed from the central location in the tomb, it was intact and well-preserved. Clearly the tomb owner’s most beloved item during her lifetime. A precious addition to the Nine Kingdoms History of Musical Instruments]

["Yearning" Music Score]

Why is the string broken?

According to experts, the string had been broken before it was buried.

Really?

That's so strange.

Which noble would even bury a konghou harp with them?

I heard a vlogger say an intact konghou harp is just an object, but a broken one tells a story.

It sounds quite romantic.

Your hidden message is too cryptic.

It's more cryptic than our secret code.

It's impossible for future generations to understand.

So what if it can't be understood?

As long as one person understands,

that's enough for me.

I don't understand either.

Why don't you explain it to me?

I...

Miss you.

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♫ Only a slight warmth remains after the spring chill ♫

Lu Yuan.

♫ It goes with the scent of dust kicked up by passing hooves ♫

♫ There is still one unspoken question left ♫

What did you call me?

Lu Yuan.

Aren't you Lu Yuan?

No.

I'm the Lu family's girl.

Lu family's girl?

♫ It is most difficult to leave this fleeting life of worldliness ♫

Do you have a younger brother called Lu Shi?

No, my brother is the Lu family's boy.

This is all your grandfather's idea, right?

How do you know?

That's because he wants you two to be the obscure wild children of Nanmeng Lake.

Neither enslaved, nor conscripted.

That's why he concealed your names.

Uncle, what are you wearing?

- Uncle? - Yes.

What's wrong?

You have gray hair already.

Don't tell me that you want me to call you Big Brother?

Really?

I'll pluck them out for you.

Look.

You don't have to envy me. I'll grow up in no time.

Grandfather said that when this sapling grows tall, I'll be an adult.

When I grow up, my father will come back home.

♫ The song sung in its entirety has long become soundless ♫

♫ Passionate love takes its toll and turns into hatred ♫

It's getting late.

You're done watering the plants.

Your home isn't far. Let me walk you back.

How do you know my home isn't far? Have you been there?

You're so young, so you can't possibly walk very far.

Okay, Grandfather is also waiting for me to eat dinner.

I can't make him worry. Let's go.

♫ In this lifetime, I live a splendorous and supercilious solitary life ♫

Uncle, have you ever been to Jiangdu?

Yes.

Have you ever been to the palace?

Yes.

Have you seen the emperor?

Of course.

But not the current emperor.

Can you ask the emperor when the war will stop?

If there is no war, my father can stay with us all the time.

I don't have to water the plants every day as well.

In the near future, the people of Great Sheng will live a peaceful life because of you.

Me? What should I do then?

♫ As if meeting for the first time under the eaves yesterday ♫

♫ Like a dream, each decade is intoxicating ♫

♫ If in the coming years I grow thinner due to your departure ♫

♫ Let alone with snow and wind adding its toll on me ♫

You don't need to listen to anyone.

Love the one you love. Do what you want to do.

One day, everything you want will come true.

Remember, the intrinsic meaning of "Yuan" pertains to eagles.

Really? I thought it was about kites.

Yes, it's true.

You don't need any thread to fly.

So, little girl,

you may have to walk back by yourself.

Will I see you again?

Of course.

It's a promise.

I promise.

Uncle!

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♫ As if meeting for the first time under the eaves yesterday ♫

♫ Like a dream, each decade is intoxicating ♫

♫ If in the coming years I grow thinner due to your departure ♫

♫ Let alone with snow and wind adding its toll on me ♫

♫ I question our years of love, as it is seemingly as flimsy as a veil ♫

♫ Though destined to meet, separation is inevitable ♫

♫ Nonetheless, why sink into oblivion? ♫

♫ Who is still sitting solitarily and silently holding a lamp? ♫

♫ To illuminate the route on a night as calm as water ♫

♫ The song sung in its entirety has long become soundless ♫

♫ Passionate love takes its toll and turns into hatred ♫

♫ Who is still trying to determine if the shade of ink is faded or dark? ♫

♫ The prosperity of the splendid world is now dust under the road ♫