Ashes of Time Page #4

there's no rule about that.

Having a wife doesn't stop me

from my martial adventures.

Right?

Go!

At last I can see why the woman

loves Hong Qi.

It may be because Hong's a simple man.

I couldn't help feeling jealous,

as I saw them off.

Once I could have been like Hong Qi,

but I failed to grasp at the chance.

The day they left, a westerly

was blowing.

They chose to walk in the

opposite direction.

It was the middle of the month.

The almanac has this to say: "The Chamber

Star presides. Extremely favourable for the north"

Hong Qi joined the Clan of Beggars

three years later and soon...

became the Head of the Clan,

and was known as the Northern Beggar.

He duelled with Ouyang Feng on Snow

Mountain in the last year of his life.

Both died in the duel.

Ever since Hong Qi left,

it has been raining.

Every time it rains, I think of her.

She once loved me very much.

One thing always bewilders me.

Every time I left for my adventures,

it would rain.

She said it's because she was unhappy.

She later married my elder brother.

On her wedding day,

I left White Camel Mountain.

My answer will always be the same:

I won't go with you.

There're some words that I'll

never say after tonight.

Will you come with me?

You will regret it too.

I won't go with you. Remember!

Listen, I'll be your brother's

wife from today.

There's only one person who can hold me.

And that's your elder brother.

No one else can do that.

Why are you staring at my scarf?

It belongs to my husband.

Why is it with you?

Is he dead?

Having missed peach blossoms

for a long time...

I visited the blind swordsman's

hometown the following spring.

I didn't find any peach blossoms there.

This scarf has no use for me now.

It was only when I left that

I found out

that this place never had any

peach blossoms.

Peach blossoms turns out

to be a woman's name.

As I was leaving, I seemed

to hear her weep.

I suddenly understood why Huang

visited me every year.

Strange kid, isn't he?

He never speaks...

nor smiles.

Stares at you if you don't

talk to him.

Wonder what's on his mind?

He would never tell you the truth,

even if he desires something.

You'll have to offer it to him.

At first I'd just let him have

his way,

but gradually I've learnt I

mustn't allow this.

I never told her that I love her.

Because I know the untasted fruit

is the sweetest.

She seems to care a lot for the kid.

But I knew she was thinking of

someone else.

Ouyang Feng, you've made me very jealous.

How I've longed to be loved.

Yet all I do is hurt other people.

I had thought that you two

would be together.

Why didn't you marry him?

Because he never said he loved me.

There are things you don't need to say.

But it's what I needed to hear.

He was too sure of himself.

He thought he was the only

person I'd marry.

He'd never imagined I'd marry

his brother.

He asked me to elope with him

on my wedding night.

I turned him down.

It was too late for him to win

back my love.

I had decided, that I'd never give in again.

Love is like a contest.

I can't say if she's the winner...

but I know very well,

that I've been a loser from the start.

I like peach blossoms only because

of this woman.

I saw her every year at the peach

blossom season,

after my visit to Ouyang Feng.

But that's because she'd want to learn

the latest news of Ouyang Feng from me.

Thanks to Ouyang,

I had the excuse to see her every year!

Do you know what the most important

thing is in my life?

Your son?

I thought so too.

But as he grows up,

I know he'll be leaving me one day.

Nothing is important to me now.

I thought the words "I love you"

really mattered.

I thought they meant a lifetime

commitment.

But looking back nothing matters,

because everything changes.

I thought I was the winner,

until one day I looked into the mirror

and saw the face of a loser.

I failed to have the person I loved

most to be with me in my best years.

How wonderful if we could go

back to the past.

You're his close friend.

I thought you'd have told

him I'm here.

I had promised you.

So I didn't say anything in the end.

You're so honest...

She died soon afterwards.

Before she died, she gave me

a pot of wine to take to him.

She hoped Ouyang would forger her.

It's said that memory is the

fount of worry.

Ever since that year, I started to

erase a lot of thing from my memory.

All I can remember is my fondness

for peach blossoms.

Huang Yaoshi led a hermit's life in

Peach Blossom Island six years later,

and call himself Master of

Peach Blossom Island -

also known as the Evil East.

Insects awaken soon after the

first day of spring.

Every year around this time a

friend would come to see me.

But he didn't turn up this year.

Soon afterwards I received a letter

from "White Camel Mountain"

It said my brother's wife had died

from illness two years ago.

I know Huang won't come again.

But I still waited.

I sat at the doors for two days

watching the changing clouds.

I suddenly realised although I've

been here for several years.

I've never really looked at the desert.

A long time ago seeing a mountain,

I'd always wonder what lay behind it.

I don't want to know now.

It was predicted that I'd be an orphan.

So my parents died when I was young.

My elder brother brought me up.

Being an orphan, I learnt to protect

myself from an early age.

I learnt the best way to avoid

rejection is to reject others first.

For this same reason,

I never returned to "White Camel Mountain."

I had such happy times then!

But I can no longer return to

my old days!

The Book of Fortune predicts that

I'll never get married.

I never did marry her.

How true is the book!

I suddenly wanted to have

a drink that night.

I drank the remaining magic wine.

I carry on with my business as usual.

Buddy, you must be around forty.

In forty years you must have come

to hate someone?

Someone who'd wronged you?

someone you wanted... to kill.

Yet didn't dare?

Well, murder can be very simple.

I have this friend who's skilled

in martial arts.

He's been a little low on money lately.

Pay a reasonable fee and he'll

kill for you.

Think about it. But be quick.

Otherwise...

When I'm free I'll look at the

direction of "White Camel Mountain"

I remember very well a woman's

waiting for me back there.

That magic wine was just a joke

she played on me.

The harder you try to forget something,

the more it'll stick in your memory.

Once I heard people say...

"If you have to lose something,

the best way to keep it...

is to keep it in your memory."

For inexplicable reasons,

I always had the same dream

that following spring.

Soon afterwards I left the desert.

The day I left, it is written

in the almanac

"The Fire forces the Gold to move.

Extremely favourable for going west"

Ouyang Feng returned to "White

Camel Mountain" the following year

and became Lord of the region.

Springbay thanks to him,Islord ,

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