A few weeks later…still in April though, our two leads are on a boat now.
Distracted, Zhi Wei looks around the boat trying to figure out why she keeps feeling like someone is watching her. But if someone is really planning an ambush, going by Ning Yi and her own ability to fight there is no possibility they would not have sensed them by now so maybe she is just being overly sensitive. (In the novel, both of our leads are really good at fighting. The epilog doesn’t explain who is spying on Zhi Wei but it was clear that it wasn’t someone that meant them harm. I am guessing it might Gu Nan Yi.)
Silently drinking by himself, Ning Yi remembers back to the time years ago when he was blind and had to leave a still severely injured Zhi Wei behind to go to the battlefield. He had sat on a boat at that time, wishing she was with him to look up at the stars. He had imagined how the wind would blow her hair into him and how he would be able to smell her unique fragrance. After so many years, his wish has finally come true. His heart suddenly filled with gratitude– after suffering so much, after crossing all those impossible chasms between them, surviving all those countless seemingly hopeless moments believing that perhaps they would never be together even in death…but finally, one day…they have traviled across life and death until there is finally light ahead.
Ning Yi is suddenly overwhelmed with the desire to hold Zhi Wei’s hand just as she unexpectedly reaches for his hand at the same time. Sharing a heartful smile and glance as their fingers touch, no words are needed between them.
After a long moment of comfortable silence, Ning Yi asks “What happened to the coral I gave you all those years ago? Did you throw it away?”
Giving Ning Yi a smile, Zhi Wei reaches into her sleeve and pulls out a necklace like a magician. A fine silver chain holds a coral in the shape of peony flower. “I made it into a necklace with the silver chain! Do you think it’s pretty?” Taking the red coral necklace that looks so vibrant against Zhi Wei’s pale delicate hand, Ning Yi smiles and says “I will put it on you.”
Zhi Wei unhooks the first button on her robe as Ning Yi gently helps her move her hair out of the way. His eyes darkening as he stares at the fiery red coral resting against the snowy pale ravine, Ning Yi stops Zhi Wei as she reaches up to shorten the chain so it wouldn’t lay too low. With a laugh, Ning Yi says “Don’t. It’s not at the most ideal position yet.” Puzzled at first what Ning Yi meant, Zhi Wei soon yelps with alarm when Ning Yi begins to unhook the next two buttons on her robe. “Scoundrel! We are on the deck!”
His eyes unable to move away from the coral chain that is swaying back and forth, Ning Yi picks up Zhi Wei with one swoop and laughs “Not appropriate on the deck? Then let’s go in the cabin then!”
Horrified, Zhi Wei stutters “But last night…you just…” Red with embarrassment, Zhi Wei silently complains that Ning Yi seems to be extra “hard working” ever since they “ran away”.
With a low chuckle, Ning Yi whisper by Zhi Wei’s ears “If I don’t work harder then how is our little 5th going to beat up our eldest.” What 5th? What eldest? After a moment, Zhi Wei realized that a certain someone is suggesting that he is planning to have five kids! Her expression darkening a bit, Zhi Wei thought about how her belly seems eerily silent after being married for a year. Perhaps her body was too damaged from before? Or because of all the medicine she had to take to combat the poisons? She is not young anymore. Some girls are even grandmothers by this age. If her belly really remains silent then all hope will have to rest on 10th to help spread the Ning family line. Feeling bad, Zhi Wei’s swallows back the words of rejection and just hopes that massaging her aching muscles will help the next morning.
Skipping over a few sentences here….I am REALLY bad at translating passionate scenes so I am just going to let you guys imagine the rest.
Putting his hand around Zhi Wei’s waist Ning Yi twirls her around and chuckles when she yelps in surprise. Leaning close to Zhi Wei’s ear, Ning Yi whispers “Do you want to try something different tonight?” Her face flashing bright red as Ning Yi whispers a few more words, Zhi Wei starts to struggle to get off but in her struggle, her hand somehow ends up touching a scar on Ning Yi’s body. The scar is uneven without a discernible shape but Zhi Wei knows that it was originally a word…a word that seared into the skin with a hot iron. The word was treated with medicine to burn it away but it was not successful so a knife was used to scrape the skin off which then left the grisly scar. As a prince, Ning Yi has both power and wealth so of course there should’ve never been a reason for something like this to happen to him unless there was an extraordinary circumstance. How the scar came about was something Zhi Wei knows well but it is also something she never discussed with Ning Yi…except whenever she touches to scar by accident, her heart still aches and she is filled with unease. Her heart weakening at the sight of the scar, Zhi Wei’s body softens and allows herself to fall on top of Ning Yi.
Ning Yi hides a small smile– usually, he is unwilling to let Zhi Wei see the scar but it is unusually useful when certain situations arise. “Come on, let’s try…” Giving Zhi Wei a smile like a wolf would give when it wants to seduce a little rabbit, Ning Yi pulls Zhi Wei towards him…
Drifting in and out of consciousness, Zhi Wei seems to hear a certain someone whispering “That year I got fooled and end up losing my virginity to you…now it’s payback time.” This is referring to a part in the book when our heroine jumped our hero…on a boat before she left him.
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Thank you so much! I’ve been waiting for Monday to come quickly!
Based on your translations, the book seem to have so many sweet scenes compare to the drama. Anyways, I love reading your translations.
I am so enjoying these translations. I did enjoy the television series and I had an inkling that these two would not have a happy ending. I am so glad that I can read an alternate ending and get lost in that universe. Thank you!
Amazing!!! Thank you thank you….
Thank you so much..!! It was rewarding to see these two so happy and ‘normal’ after so many trials and tribulations.
Thank you so much for the translation. This last paragraph seems to imply, they were lovers before her jump off the cliff. In the TV series, they did not become intimate until the last episode. In fact, she did not become intimate with Helian Zheng either even though they were married for quite a while.
Yap, they were intimate way before the cliff scene. In fact, our heroine was the one that had her way with our hero…which explains his little hang up to “prove” himself.
Is it before or after she was imprisoned and about to be executed for impersonating a man? She refused his offer to impregnated her. Also surprisingly that he was a virgin, since he hang out at the brothel. His brothers were warning him about STD in one of the episodes.
What is the reason she want to have “her way with him”?
When watching the series I just assumed a lot of the intimacy between Ning Yi and Feng Zhiwei happened off screen because the show was very PG when it came to anything related to sex. I assumed that Ning Yi and Feng Zhiwei were intimate while in Minhai. I mean they got extremely close when hiding out from Zhongi’s men. By the time they reached Minhai they were pretty much acting like a couple and of course we’re planning to marry before disaster struck tearing them apart.
I also assumed she slept with Helian at some point since they were married and that Ning Yi though seeming to have no interest in marriage unless it was to Feng Zhiwei wasn’t completely celibate.
But I digress, lol. Thank you Ninja for these wonderful translations from the novel. I loved the series until the last 20 episodes when the story seemed to lose focus. Though overall I thought the series was excellent, I was disappointed with the ending. I’m very happy to read that in the end Ning Yi and Feng Zhiwei got their HEA together.
Since Helian was the perfect male second lead (actually, he was more like the third male second lead) in the novel, his marriage with Zhi Wei was in name only. It would also make sense that Ning Yi wouldn’t try to have his way with Zhi Wei for a couple reason 1. Ning Yi would never force Zhi Wei. Plus it is consider a sign of respect to wait until marriage. 2. Ning Yi knew deep in his heart that his chance of having a happy ending with Zhi Wei is actually quite slim so before she really became his wife, he would not have touched her because to do so would be risking that she will never be able to have a happy family with another man. (Any of our other male leads would not have cared at all of course but considering the culture, it would only make sense if Ning Yi really loved Zhi Wei he would have controlled himself.)
In the book, weren’t Ning Yi and Feng Zhiwei intimate before marriage though?
I don’t think Ning Yi would’ve ever forced sex upon Feng Zhiwei that’s why I thought his behavior in the last episode was so OOC when he pretty much ordered her to his bed chambers that night.
I think if they were intimate in Minhai it was due to circumstance, which were very intense do in part to his near death, and how unfettered they were by the obstacles that were their families and the craziness in the Capital. In Minhai there was a freedom to their interactions that hadn’t been there before. They seemed to allow themselves to be completely uninhibited with each other. Therefore, I could easily see sex just happening between them. However, I do get your point that the beliefs of their culture may have stopped them, specifically Ning Yi from acting on his desires.
So, their time in the mountain was quite different in the novel. In the drama, that period of time was when they finally admitted their feelings to each other but in the novel, they were just barely moving pass the “I really should kill him/her” stage at that point. However, the cave scene is actually quite steamy in the novel so that will be a fun one to translate once we get there on the novel translation.
One more thing to understand about our heroine is that she is quite formidable in the novel. You would never want to cross Ning Yi but crossing Zhiwei could be just as deadly. So while there are actually at least four men that could’ve become intimate with Zhiwei in the novel, none of them tried anything funny with her unless she allowed it. Later in the novel when Zhiwei got in a really dicey situation, one of her friends asked her if she is not afraid that the man holding her hostage would force himself on her. Zhiwei’s answer was “No, any man who knows me would not dare to do so. I would have more to worry if I was in a situation when I am a complete stranger to the man.”
With that in mind, that’s why in the novel our heroine is the one who had her way with Ning Yi after getting him drunk…then ditching him before he woke up. And yes, that was before they were married.
Please keep publishing. Thanks a lot to translate such a beautiful novel. It is wonderful to know our heroes had a different end after all. Could you tell us if this novel is based on real historical facts? There was really a Ning Yi emperor? Thanks!
Not based on history at all. This is completely fiction, in fact, if you have watched Legend of Fuya, this world is the same as that one. (Fuya is written by the same author as well.)
I just finished the series on Netflix and was completely heartbroken. These little scenes make me so happy ! Thank you so much for the translations! I hope there’s more to come.
Thank you so much for translating!!! If possible please continue to translate more highlighted scenes of Ning Yi and Feng Zhiwei. We really appreciate your effort and time!
I am planning on translating some more scenes so look for them on Monday posts.
This is wonderful news! Thank you.
Thank you! I’ll be looking forward to Monday (even though I don’t usually look forward to Monday) XD
Thank you for your work on this! I’m so grateful for any translations of this novel and hope you can continue giving us snippets throughout the book of their interactions together. I so appreciate all that you’ve translated so far.
Oh my gosh! You’re translations are giving me life right now! I’m still watching the drama but thing I wished they had more of was the romance between Ning Yi and Zhi Wei… there definitely aren’t enough… and so far the ones they’ve had are just so sweet but soooo short. It kills me to know this drama didn’t have a happy ending, because I would so love to see these two actors have some more romantic scenes between them.
So THANK YOU very much! I feel much better knowing that through all their trials and tribulations, they end up together. I looked forward to any more translations you can give us with these two!
Have you read my first part of the novel translation with the two leads’ first meeting? I am super curious of what fans of the drama think of our two leads in the novel because they are pretty different there.
Thank you so much for the translations. I have been sad for the past Month and a half after finishing with the show series. Your translations give me a happier feeling. I wished they had followed the book. Would you know by any chance if there will ever be an English Version of the books? I would love to read the entire series. It sounds wonderful. Thank you again so much for your time-consuming efforts of translating for us. I APPRECIATE IT SO MUCH! It has certainly made my day reading them today.
This drama is my favorite of all times, but I am curious in the book does it mention Ning Yi relationship with his mother. In the drama, it broke my heart to see how she died. The scene between them is so touching. In fact, all scenes between the brothers and their mothers are interesting. I would really like to read the book in its entirety and I am hoping that it will have an English translation.