Resumen del episodio 14 de Fate Chooses You
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The time for Lu Qianqiao’s bone renewal has arrived in the Jiujue Cave. Su Taiyi prepares the "Dragon Burning Sand," a process that will take at least three shichen (six hours) to dissolve Lu’s bones. He warns his disciples, Xu Changshou and Fang Liang, that as the stone marrow in Lu’s War Demon bones—which normally suppresses pain—dissolves, Lu will feel every bit of the agonizing process.
Su Taiyi orders a leather strap to be used as a gag to prevent Lu from biting off his own tongue. Due to their blood pact, Xin Mei feels a sharp pain in her chest, though her suffering is less prolonged than Lu’s. Meanwhile, Lv Yunsu prepares to leave the valley now that her illness has been managed by Zhu Yu’s prescriptions. Before departing, she uses sign language to communicate with Xin Mei.
While she claims the gestures mean "thank you," Su Taiyi later reveals to a shocked Xin Mei that the signs actually meant "sorry." Realizing something is wrong, Xin Mei rushes back and stops Lv Yunsu from assassinating Su Taiyi to avenge Li Si. Although Su Taiyi had hidden guards who wounded her with a silver needle, he orders them to spare her life.
Lv Yunsu confesses her true identity as Ah Xing, one half of the fourth-ranked "Star-and-Thunder Twin Swords" alongside Li Si. She reveals that she did not come for the Immortality Pills, but to stop Su Taiyi. She recounts her childhood during a plague where her mother and brother starved to death because officials seized their grain for the "Immortality Tax."
She views the pursuit of eternal life by the Imperial Family and the immortal sects as a curse that bleeds the common people dry. Despite her mission, she gives her only genuine Gongshan Jade Tablet to Xin Mei, trusting her kindness. Xin Mei’s perspective shifts after hearing Ah Xing’s story.
She offers to return all her jade tablets to Su Taiyi, but he declines, telling her that only when she holds them will she truly be able to judge if immortality is good or bad. Inspired by the philosophy of Xin Mei’s father, Xin Xiong—"Everything has an end; as I walk down the mountain, others will rise to climb it"—Su Taiyi makes a radical decision.
Realizing that animal bones are inferior, he decides to sacrifice his own bones to renew Lu Qianqiao’s body. As Xin Mei prepares to leave the valley, Huai Qing accompanies her and they discover the ferryman Zhang Dahu dead by the lake. Although Zhang Dahu was a skilled swimmer, Xin Mei suspects that his attempt to pass off a fake jade tablet invited a fatal confrontation with someone desperate for the prize.
At the Pill-Tasting Conference in Longevity Hall, the atmosphere is tense. Lin Muhan and the Tianyuan Sect are humiliated when they can only produce seven of the twenty tablets they previously boasted about. Mr. Bai Yun of the Lingxu Sect is also exposed for carrying three fake tablets, which he claims he bought out of pity for a scammer. Xin Mei enters the hall carrying a large number of genuine Gongshan Jade Tablets.
She declares that she no longer wants them and will give them to anyone who can answer her questions. She asks Mr. Bai Yun to calculate how long it would take an ordinary farming family to buy a hundred-tael house while paying the summer and winter Immortality Taxes. The answer—1,380 years—shocks the room. Xin Mei describes the desolation of the once-prosperous Xudu, where people now commit suicide or flee as refugees to avoid the tax. She challenges the gathered masters, asking if the immortal sects only remember their shared roots with the common people when the human race faces total extinction.
