Sword and Fairy 1 (2024) s01e02 Episode Script

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=Sword and Fairy 1=
=Episode 2=
Xiaoyao.
What tree is this?
Why does it bloom with blue flowers?
It's a blue jacaranda.
Blue jacaranda?
Xiaoyao,
it was you who brought me
under this tree years ago.
You said
when the blue jacaranda blooms and withers
for the tenth time,
you would return.
I'm not sure where it went wrong.
I've been desperately
trying to remember,
but beyond a name,
I have no memory of anything else.
Name?
Name…
In my haste, I forgot.
I remember you telling me,
if you were to forget me,
I should show you this.
This?
What is this?
It's engraved
with the wish you made back then.
You said
just by seeing the engraved words,
you would remember me.
Wife.
So,
the wish you made
was this.
(I,)
(Li Xiaoyao,)
(take Zhao Ling'er as my wife,)
(for life,)
(unwavering.)
This is indeed my handwriting.
But
Xiaoyao,
do you remember me now?
I
I
The person who returns
after ten years is Li Xiaoyao.
Ling'er.
(Unwavering)
If I don't remember you by then,
bring me here, and dig this up.
When the blue jacaranda
blooms and withers for the tenth time,
I will return.
Xiaoyao,
I am Ling'er, Zhao Ling'er.
(If not looking back,)
(why not forget?)
(If it's not destiny,)
(why make promises?)
(Today's matters,)
(like water, leave no trace.)
(Tomorrow, what of tomorrow?)
(You'll be a stranger on a different path.)
Xiaoyao.
Xiaoyao, what's wrong?
Ling'er,
the Xiaoyao you mentioned
seems truly to be me.
Xiaoyao,
you finally remembered me.
Not remembered.
I saw
our past and future.
Ling'er,
why does it feel like,
though we've just met,
it's like long-separated lovers reuniting?
Because,
if you like someone,
every encounter is a reunion
after a long separation.
(Happiness)
A good marriage will last forever.
The supreme good is like water.
♪Moistening my heart♪
♪Every nook and cranny♪
The newlyweds touched by dew,
born anew,
pure water flows,
blessing of the water moon.
Tied by the red string,
hearts connected.
♪How many lifetimes do we have♪
As what the heaven
and the earth wish.
First bow.
Second bow.
Drink the wedding wine together.
The husband and wife are in harmony,
never to part.
The ceremony is complete.
♪Guessing what's in your heart♪
♪So close yet worlds apart♪
♪Do you still remember me♪
♪Your smile is as warm as yesterday♪
♪Yet your eyes hide coldness♪
♪I smile like blooming peach blossoms,
with my heart torn apart♪
♪Fearing our paths might cross again♪
♪How many lifetimes do we have♪
♪How many chances to miss♪
♪Can we hold hands forever♪
♪Fighting against endless loneliness♪
♪How many lifetimes do we have♪
♪How could we bear
to miss each other again♪
♪Can we hold hands forever♪
♪Even if we're doomed to fall♪
♪Even if we're bound♪
♪To fall♪
Ling'er,
do you know what it means
to be a hair-tied couple?
It's a tradition in our Central Plains.
During marriage,
the couple take a strand of their hair
and tie them together,
so that they're a hair-tied couple.
So are we now.
Xiaoyao,
this is the Purple Gold Pill.
(Purple Gold Pill)
Ling'er,
once my aunt is cured,
I will bring her to the island,
and we'll never be apart again.
It's a deal then.
Xiaoyao,
I'll wait here for your return.
A promise is a promise.
Ling'er, watch out behind you!
Kill everyone on the island,
sparing no one.
Ling'er!
Grandma!
Ling'er!
Xiaoyao!
Xiaoyao!
Xiaoyao, wake up. Xiaoyao!
Xiaoyao.
Xiaoyao!
Come on, Xiaoyao, get up.
Come on.
Good, you're still alive.
Quickly, take me back to the Fairy Island.
What nonsense, Xiaoyao?
I'm here to take you back home.
Zhang Si,
I've found the magic pill.
Quickly give it to my aunt.
I'll go back to the Fairy Island now.
You You really found the magic pill?
Then why are you going back?
I need to save
Save whom?
- Xiaoyao?
- Save
Xiaoyao, what's wrong with you, Xiaoyao?
- Save
- Xiaoyao, Xiaoyao, Xiaoyao!
Xiaoyao, save whom, Xiaoyao?
Xiaoyao,
save whom?
Xiaoyao!
Buns! Freshly baked buns!
You're awake.
Li is truly filial.
He found the magic pill.
You rascal.
Stop gaping like that,
or a fly will fly right in.
Auntie, don't hit me, I'm awake.
What's wrong with you?
Why the panic?
How did I sleep till now?
Good that you're up.
Now rest well.
I lazed around till now,
but my aunt didn't beat me
and told me to rest well instead.
She
What's wrong with her?
I feel like I've forgotten
something very important.
Why can't I remember it?
Speaking of the ancient times,
there were the five great beasts of wind,
thunder, water, fire, and earth,
rampaging through the human world.
(Xiaoyao Inn)
(Spring Tea House)
Nuwa,
seeing the suffering
of all beings
Li, here you are to listen to the stories.
She gathered the earth's energy,
crafting five spiritual beads
to suppress the beasts.
Xiaoyao is here.
- Xiaoyao has arrived.
- Hey, Xiaoyao!
Li.
- Mr. Wang.
- Is your auntie better now?
When was my auntie sick?
Kid,
did the waves confuse you?
I heard you, like our Xiaohu,
went to the fairy island for medicine,
and cured your aunt.
- Exactly.
- I
When did I go to the fairy island?
Don't judge him by his usual behaviors.
He's really something when it matters.
- Right.
- I heard from Xiaohu
that all matchmakers in Yuhang
are after his aunt,
lining up good girls for him.
I'm already married.
- What?
- You're
Married already?
Yeah, why didn't we know?
- You're making things up again.
- Right.
When did you get married?
Right.
Why did I say I was married?
Okay, let's not talk about it.
We'll wait for your wedding banquet.
(Spring Tea House)
- So, we were discussing
- I remember now.
After the five beads were scattered,
the Water Demon Beast resurrected
upon touching the water.
That stinky Taoist was just lying to me.
Given his look, I doubt
he knows any martial arts.
And I believed his nonsense?
Who's accusing me of lying?
You truly know martial arts?
Doubting me?
No, no. I believe you.
Then, sir, please keep your word
and teach me martial arts.
Hold on there.
You're not bad, kid.
Thought you wouldn't come yesterday.
Surprised you waited another day.
I
Waited another day?
Yesterday,
I heard there was good wine
at Lin Fortress in Suzhou City.
So, I stole
took some to taste.
Take some?
Stealing wine in your mouth
sounds so elegant.
I admire you.
You're not a wine lover,
so you wouldn't understand.
But I am.
Lin Fortress has good wine,
but also a lady who knows nothing about it.
Wouldn't it be a waste
if I didn't drink it all?
Teach me martial arts, please.
Once you teach me,
I'll bring good wine to thank you.
Kid,
everything in this world is predestined.
You and I are meant to meet in this life.
I'll show you now.
Remember it.
What you learn depends on your fate.
- Okay.
- Watch closely.
My nature is much like
the nutcase of the Chu State.
I sing to advise Confucius
against taking office.
Holding in hand a cane
decorated with green jade,
I bid farewell
to Yellow Crane Tower early morning.
No distance is spared
to find immortals at Five Peaks.
In life, I have a penchant
to sightsee famous mountains.
Mount Lu stands majestically
beside the South Dipper.
Clouds cover screen-like mountain range
like blankets.
Reflections on limpid lake
show green-blackish colors.
The two peaks standing on each side
are high-reaching.
Silvery waterfall hangs down
from Three Rock Beam.
Incense Burner Waterfall
is facing it from the distance.
Layered mountains
with spiralling up paths are stately.
Dawn's sun with red glow
reflects off greenish water.
Birds cannot fly
past Wu State's sky-high mountains.
In climbing up,
world's spectacular scenes are in view.
Endlessly long river flows out
and will never return.
Wind carries vastly broad expanse
of gloomy clouds.
Branched out rivers surge forth
with snow-like froth.
A ballad is composed
for the sake of Mount Lu here.
The scenery of this mountain
puts me in a good mood.
At leisure, looking at the rock mirror
purifies my mind.
Moss has grown over the footprint tracks
of Master Xie.
Ingesting Taoist pellet early rids mind
of worldly thoughts.
In total serene mindset,
first stage of Taoism is achieved.
Supernatural is seen walking
among distant colorful clouds.
Holding lotus flowers,
he's heading to Heaven King's hill.
He's going to meet deities at ninth heaven.
We'd like to invite you to come along
and tour outer space.
Sir, what exquisite swordsmanship is this?
This is the Sword Control Technique
of our Shushan Sect.
If you master this technique
and keep improving,
you'll eventually master
the Art of Thousands of Swords.
Sir, please take me as your disciple.
I dare not.
I'm used
to wandering,
not suited to have disciples.
But if you master this technique,
it will benefit you for life.
I've only watched it once.
Not sure how much I can learn.
You're too modest.
You're gifted, kid.
Try it once, and let me see.
Seems what that person said years ago
wasn't wrong.
Years ago?
Who?
An old acquaintance,
a person of fate. Let's not mention it.
So, how do you think I did just now?
Not bad.
Still, you won't take me as a disciple?
My young friend,
everything in this world is fated.
We're not destined
to be master and disciple at this moment.
We meet today and part today.
We'll meet again if it's meant to be.
Sir.
Sir, may I know your name?
Riding the wind with my sword,
vanquishing demons between heaven and earth.
Joyous with wine, carefree.
Without wine, it drives me mad.
One drink empties rivers and seas,
another swallows the sun and moon.
Thousands of cups don't bring me down,
only I, the Drunken Sword Immortal.
Drunken Sword Immortal.
(Favorable Winds and Timely Rains)
Top-quality silk, come take a look.
Various ornaments and trinkets, come see.
(Xiaoyao Inn)
- Xiaoyao.
- Auntie.
Where were you last night?
Not back till this morning.
- Didn't lock the door.
- Auntie. Auntie.
Be gentle. It hurts. I can't feel my ear.
Auntie, listen,
I saw those merchants
only returned this morning too.
Weird.
- Li Xiaoyao.
- But
they carried a strange big sack,
covered in blood.
Do you think
they murdered for loot?
If the officials investigate,
won't we be harboring criminals?
I warn you
to stay away from them.
Don't provoke them.
But we can't just ignore this.
What can you do?
Don't get yourself killed
before doing anything. Do you hear me?
Also,
they took
your room.
Why so surprised?
They needed another room.
So, where do I sleep?
Just make do for now.
Go clean the guest rooms.
(Xiaoyao Inn)
Me, a disciple
of the Drunken Sword Immortal,
without a room,
doing chores.
Boring.
Young man, busy?
Sir, what do you need?
Where's my thing?
What thing?
Nothing, my mistake.
Also,
have you heard
of a fairy island nearby?
Fairy island?
Why's everyone asking about it?
Passers-by are talking about it.
So, it got me curious.
That's why I asked.
Forget it if you don't know.
Young man,
from now on,
without my order,
no one can get near this room.
Got it?
Yes.
- Go on.
- Sure.
They have their own rooms.
Why'd they need my room?
Could it be for a sack?
Must be that.
I know what to do.
Didn't expect
to use this secret passage so soon.
I seem to have seen her before.
Xiaoyao,
come back with me.
Grandma, she
Shh,
someone's outside.
Follow me.
Go down here.
Be careful.
Not good. Split up.
Hand over the girl!
Miss, get in. Don't come out.
(Didn't know that Taoist's sword skills
were so good.)
You're quite skilled.
I've got more tricks.
If this were a real sword,
your toes would be gone.
Cloud Piercing Palm.
- Run!
- See you next time.
Stop chasing.
Why stop? I'm not done fighting.
My Cloud Piercing Palm hit him.
He's half-dead if not fully.
Auntie,
since when can you fight?
I want to ask you the same.
Since when can you fight?
Just picked up a few moves from others.
How's that? Not bad, right?
Not really.
Just a beginner's luck.
Miss.
Xiaoyao.
Quick, let's go.
My grandma's hurt.
Miss. Miss!
Miss,
do we know each other?
Xiaoyao,
it's me, Ling'er.
Grandma's hurt.
We need to go back quickly.
Go back to save her.
Don't cry. Please don't cry.
I can help your grandma.
- Don't worry.
- Xiaoyao.
Is she the one you saved?
Auntie.
You know her?
No.
I don't know her.
Xiaoyao,
it's me, Ling'er.
What's wrong with you?
You said you don't know her,
but she calls you Xiaoyao.
Did you bully her?
Auntie,
I don't know what's happening.
I found her in a sack in my room.
Maybe she's scared silly.
Xiaoyao,
let's go back to the island.
Or I'm afraid it'll be too late
Island?
- What island?
- The Fairy Island.
Xiaoyao,
what's wrong with you?
Auntie, what do we do?
I'll go back by myself.
What to do?
Just go with her.
It's not safe for a girl to go alone.
Okay, okay.
This boy
Why is he more and more like
that man?
Guests of the inn
Grandma.
Grandma!
Grandma!
Grandma!
Grandma, wake up!
Grandma.
Grandma.
Grandma!
Ling'er
You're awake.
You're okay.
That's great.
Grandma,
I'll use the Resurrection Spell
to save you.
Don't bother.
You haven't grasped
the Resurrection Spell.
I can do it.
My time is up.
The spell
won't work.
It will.
It will, Grandma!
Miss.
- It will!
- Mr. Li.
I entrust Ling'er
to you.
Take care of her for me.
Madam, I
Ensure
that Ling'er
returns
safely
to Nanzhao.
Escort her
back to the Witch Moon Sect.
- Madam, I promise.
- Grandma
Madam
I won't go anywhere.
I won't go anywhere.
- Grandma.
- My child
Child
Madam.
Grandma.
Grandma.
Grandma, wake up!
Grandma!
(Xiaoyao Inn)
What are you doing?
Tell me everything about what's going on.
I'm also confused.
How about waiting for her to wake up,
so you can ask her?
Grandma.
Grandma.
Grandma.
Grandma.
Grandma.
Grandma.
Don't go.
Don't leave me.
Hold her hand.
Don't go, Grandma.
Grandma.
Grandma.
Don't go.
Miss,
don't be scared.
You're safe now.
Xiaoyao.
- Xiaoyao.
- Xiaoyao?
No, no.
Don't go.
Don't go.
Stay with her.
Why me?
She didn't say "Auntie, don't go."
I'm leaving.
Auntie! Auntie! Auntie!
- Xiaoyao.
- Auntie!
Xiaoyao.
Forget it.
I'll stay up all night if needed.
Chief,
as you ordered,
Li Xiaoyao was given the Worry-free Poison.
The Fairy Island is destroyed.
Except for the Princess,
no survivors.
Also,
(Chief of the Moon Worship Sect)
we've sent the Princess to Li Xiaoyao.
(Gui Ying)
But Chief,
is Xiaoyao, a mere waiter of an inn,
worth so many of our efforts?
Everything in the world
has its cause and effect.
Cause leads to effect,
and effect leads to cause.
♪Rare is the quiet in the years♪
♪Autumn winds tire of wandering♪
♪The setting sun lingers, unwilling to leave♪
♪Clinging to the wall,
reluctant to part from me♪
♪Words once whispered by the beloved♪
♪Now flow eastward with the tide♪
♪Looking back♪
♪Past events fall like maple leaves♪
♪Love has reached its end♪
♪Even hatred forsakes its promises♪
♪Fate thinks itself humorous♪
♪Too many thoughts beyond my control♪
♪What reward for lofty ambitions♪
♪Few friends stay in the end♪
♪Looking back♪
♪I hear laughter in drunken dreams♪
♪Laughing at my loss for words♪
♪Ancient folly and today's madness,
all turn into void♪
♪The blade dulls, and the edge wears thin♪
♪Bonds broken, dreams shattered♪
♪The road is desolate, laments left behind♪
♪Full of footsteps no one understands♪
♪Years of longing♪
♪Still unseen through the worldly dust♪
♪Mocking myself, trapped with no way out♪
♪A thousand feelings, a million grievances,
heroes grieve♪
♪As the song ends, the crowd disperses♪
♪Hair turns gray, beauty fades to dust♪
♪The candle dwindles, unnoticed♪
♪Competing with the sun
merely leads to wasting away♪
♪When tears dry and blood fills the eyes♪
♪Falling snow turns to red♪
♪Mocking myself, trapped with no way out♪
♪A thousand feelings, a million grievances,
heroes grieve♪
♪As the song ends, the crowd disperses♪
♪Hair turns gray, beauty fades to dust♪
♪The candle dwindles, unnoticed♪
♪Competing with the sun
merely leads to wasting away♪
♪When tears dry and blood fills the eyes♪
♪Falling snow turns to red♪