Resumen del episodio 12 de Fate Chooses You
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Following the trail of the paper charm she had placed on the masked man, Xin Mei arrives at a room only to find the man already murdered. Lin Muhan and Xu Feng follow her into the residence, finding the body cold. Lin Muhan is frustrated, noting that he rushed toward the Nine Absolutes Cave as soon as he received word, yet arrived only after the fighting had ceased.
He questions how Li Si truly died and whether the missing Gongshan Jade Tablet has been recovered, but Xin Mei remains silent as she leaves the scene. Meanwhile, Lu Qianqiao and Chu Ying are intercepted by pursuers from Xutuo City. Though they dispatch the attackers with ease, Lu Qianqiao begins to suffer from the side effects of his medicine, leaving him unsteady and forced to find a place to rest.
They are taken in by a kind Beixiang family, where Lu Qianqiao remains unconscious for a full day. Upon waking, he expresses his gratitude by gifting the family silver and giving a small dagger to their young son. The boy, who admires the heroes of the Central Plains, speaks of his dream to one day travel there and learn the way of the sword.
As Lu Qianqiao and Chu Ying prepare to depart, they notice a group of immortal sect disciples entering the house for tea, followed shortly by another group. Sensing danger, they turn back only to find the household slaughtered. The innocent family, including the boy, was murdered by disciples fighting over Gongshan Jade Tablets. Enraged by the senseless violence, Lu Qianqiao kills the two remaining disciples and retrieves three jade tablets.
He stands amidst the carnage, reflecting on how many lives are being sacrificed for the sake of immortality. Back at Chongling Valley, Xin Mei visits the grieving Lv Yunsu, who is struggling to reconcile the loss of Li Si. Lv Yunsu shows Xin Mei a poem Li Si wrote—a piece filled with themes of national peril and noble sacrifice.
She wonders aloud if a man capable of such verses could truly be a villain driven by a selfish desire for longevity. Xin Mei finds no answer. Later, she encounters Zhang Dahu at Li Si’s grave. To help him make a living, she gives him her hairpin in exchange for him reciting "auspicious words" to guide Li Si’s soul toward a peaceful afterlife.
Bai Zongying attempts to gain Xin Mei’s trust by bringing her lychee pastries from her hometown, claiming a friend brought them while traveling along the Yangtze River. He reminisces about the shared origins of the Tianyuan Sect and Xin Xie Manor, lamenting how the two sects grew distant after her master, Xin Xiong, departed. During their conversation, Bai Zongying probes for information about Lu Qianqiao.
Xin Mei, unsuspecting, describes Lu Qianqiao as a brilliant man who saved her from her speech curse and treated her with great kindness. Su Taiyi interrupts the meeting and dismissively sends Bai Zongying away, harboring a grudge because Bai had Li Si killed without his permission. Once alone, Su Taiyi asks Xin Mei about her true purpose in the valley. She confesses she came secretly to save her master, Xin Xiong.
Since the destruction of the heavenly ladder, the Great Completion Realm cultivator has lost his sense of purpose, leading to stagnated cultivation. With his life nearing its end, Xin Mei hopes to use a jade tablet to obtain an elixir to extend his lifespan. Su Taiyi, however, questions if her master actually desires such a thing, recalling Xin Xiong as an upright man who once nearly smashed a jade tablet Su Taiyi tried to give him.
In a nearby town, Sheng is enraged to find a couple using their daughter to scam travelers for high-grade Ghost Needle Lotus. She realizes the parents poisoned the child themselves to evoke sympathy. Jin Lun stops her from lashing out, explaining that the tragedy is rooted in the "Immortality Tax." Because the local water is poor, the farmers cannot grow herbs that meet the strict standards required for refining immortality pills.
Facing collective punishment and hard labor for their failure, the desperate farmers resort to poisoning their children to obtain the necessary herbs from sympathetic travelers. Sheng accuses Jin Lun and his sect of hypocrisy for observing human suffering from a distance without attempting to change the system. Zhang Dahu later approaches Xin Mei, attempting to sell her a small, low-quality jade tablet he fashioned from scraps for a hundred taels.
He suggests she use the fake to protect her real one. Concerned for his safety, Xin Mei buys the piece but warns him that a mortal possessing such a treasure—even a fake—will only attract greedy killers. Bai Zongying confronts Xin Mei again, showing her his Sun Splendor artifact and asking if her master passed down the Moon Splendor to her.
He mentions a female cultivator surnamed Xin who recently killed several court officials in the capital to avenge her husband, noting she used a moonlight-based weapon remarkably similar to Xin Mei's. Xin Mei denies the accusation, claiming she has never been to the capital and was in Wei County handling her aunt's funeral during that time. Before they part, she gives him a fragrance pendant she made from ebony. Finally, Lu Qianqiao returns to Chongling Valley in a fury.
He finds Su Taiyi and strikes him, rebuking him for allowing his quest for immortality to claim innocent lives. Lu Qianqiao reminds him that he originally taught him medicine to save people, not to provide excuses for atrocities. He demands to know why common people must die so that "higher" cultivators can pursue their narrow path to longevity.
