Episode 19 recap: Liuyueqing investigates the food supply.
The commander at the border was delighted, believing that Pei Xun had been confined due to the issue of food supply at the border. They thought that with their push, Pei Xun would surely be finished. A masked figure dressed in black was also present, cautioning the commander not to let their guard down. General Wang arrived and stated that he had been sent by the Emperor to investigate the food supply matter.
Liuyueqing and Han Zhen arrived at a village where a man noticed them and questioned their purpose, noting that they didn't seem like locals. Liuyueqing claimed that they were looking for relatives but hadn't found them yet. Liuyueqing wanted to stay in the area for the night, and after some hesitation, the man decided they didn't seem like bad people and allowed them in.
In the evening, a military officer arrived to collect food, claiming to be a personal guard of the Crown Prince and that he had been sent by the Crown Prince himself to collect provisions. A woman explained that their family had no food left and that they had an eighty-year-old mother and two children who needed to eat. The officer callously remarked that at eighty years old, what use did they have for food, considering it a waste of provisions.
Liuyueqing and Han Zhen couldn't bear to watch and intervened, stopping the officer. Liuyueqing asked who had sent him, and the officer insisted that they were the Crown Prince's personal guards and that it was indeed the Crown Prince who had sent them. Han Zhen instructed Liuyueqing to take the villagers away while he fought with the officer and apprehended him.
What's touching is that Qing Qing chooses Pei Xun in every lifetime, while Pei Xun, without memories, falls in love with the same person in every lifetime. Whether it's a time of peace or chaos, you are always my first choice. No matter if I am "greedy for life" or "afraid of death," in the end, I will be by your side, just like the lyrics say, "Your tenderness, the constant companion behind me, becomes the firm reason for me to strive towards you.
After their first kiss, Yue Qing said some inexplicable things in her sleep and kept calling his name. Coupled with the fact that they both had the same dream, curiosity arose in his heart, so he cautiously probed.
She felt flustered in her heart and probed cautiously as well, wondering if Pei Xun felt the same way.
I think there are several possible endings. First, the male lead dies in the third life, and then the female lead chooses to die with him, leading them to the fourth life. In the fourth life, the male lead doesn't contend for the throne and instead gives it to his second brother.
He then becomes a teacher.
Second, all the previous three lives were just part of the fourth life, and they were all stories within the book the male lead was writing. The male and female leads were essentially experiencing three rounds of storytelling.
Third, in the fourth life, everyone retains the memories from their previous lives. So, the male lead's subordinates, realizing that he is no longer the Crown Prince in the fourth life, become storytellers and narrate the events of the previous lives as stories.