One and Only Episode 24 (Ending) Recap
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Before Cui Sanniang left, she secretly gave a blood letter to Shiyi. This blood letter was personally written by Zhou Shengchen, and every word stated that in his life he had not failed the world, only failed Shiyi alone. Looking at this blood letter, Shiyi again wept bitterly, her heart aching unbearably. On the other side, Cui Feng prepared to raise troops to clear the name of the Nanchen Royal Mansion Army.
He abandoned the Cui surname and took the Junior Prince of Nanchen's surname, joining the Junior Prince of Nanchen's army and raising troops in Shouyang. Cui Sanniang learned of Cui Feng's choice and did not say much, only chose to support his decision. Shiyi stayed awake all night, refusing to eat or drink.
Liu Zixing mentioned that the Gao clan was exterminated because of one person and the Qi clan was ruined because of one person, hoping Shiyi would not let the Cui clan follow suit. Now Shiyi's emotions were extreme; she injured her own hand. Cui Sanniang mentioned the Yang clan and the Changsun clan, stating that if Liu Zixing still wanted the assistance of these two clans, he should no longer provoke Shiyi.
Liu Zixing was helpless and could only agree to Cui Sanniang's request, allowing Shiyi to move to a side hall to live, believing Shiyi would slowly come to her senses. Shiyi lived in the side hall. She stood on the rooftop watching the falling snow, no longer able to wait for Zhou Shengchen's figure. She did not understand why, even though the Royal Mansion Army had all returned, Zhou Shengchen insisted on staying in Pingyin.
He had no wife or children in his life; what was it all for? This world ultimately failed Zhou Shengchen. Shiyi returned to the side hall and burned all the victory reports Zhou Shengchen had sent her in the past. Finally, she also burned the blood letter Zhou Shengchen left for her, no longer leaving any memento for herself. Consort Jin came to see Shiyi.
She mentioned the news that the Wushui Room had quietly moved south and was trapped within the borders by her father's troops. No one knew about this matter except for her and Liu Zixing. Shiyi did not understand why Consort Jin wanted to tell her this news and also expressed her thanks to Consort Jin. The next day, Shiyi was about to undergo the enfeoffment ceremony to be conferred as Guipin. Cui Sanniang came to see Shiyi.
She admitted her mistake to Shiyi, only saying she had done wrong, and today she had also prepared an escape plan for Shiyi. Huan Yu was waiting for her in Nanxiao. Once she reached the south, Shiyi did not need to look back. Shiyi, tearfully, bid farewell to Cui Sanniang. She got into the carriage prepared by Liu Zixing and arrived at the palace. Yang Shao took this opportunity to come to Shiyi's side.
He told Shiyi that Prince Ping Qin was waiting behind the literati, telling Shiyi to just run along the small path, not needing to look back, and that he would surely carve out a path to survival for Shiyi today. Unexpectedly, Shiyi, however, did not want to implicate Prince Ping Qin and his group. She, dressed alone in a red wedding dress, ascended the palace gate. She knew that Cui Sanniang wanted to exchange her own life for hers.
She did not want to escape and even less did she want to implicate thousands of clan members. Amidst the falling snow, Shiyi ascended the palace gate step by step. Since entering the Nanchen Royal Mansion, she had received care from her master and protection from her senior brothers and sisters. But her master had died tragically at the hands of Liu Zixing. There was absolutely no possibility of her marrying her enemy.
Today she was no longer Cui Shiyi, daughter of the Cui clan; she was merely Eleven of the Nanchen Royal Mansion. She also believed that there would eventually be a day when the world would clear the name of her Nanchen Royal Mansion Army. Shiyi ascended the palace gate. She looked at the falling snow and only let out a light laugh, saying she had come to marry Zhou Shengchen.
If there was an afterlife, she only hoped that it would be Zhou Shengchen who came to marry her first. Dressed in red, she leapt down from the palace gate. Shiyi jumped from the palace gate and died. Liu Zixing desperately clung but could not hold onto Shiyi's clothes and only cried out loudly on the palace gate.
He had painstakingly schemed only to gain Shiyi but still lost everything, watching with his own eyes as Shiyi died because of him. Cui Sanniang learned of Shiyi's death; she wept sadly in the Cui mansion. Cui Feng also wept during his march. Xie Yun was far away in Luyuan and likewise collapsed in pain.
The following year, Liu Zixing used Consort Jin's child as a pretext to lure Jin Rong into the palace, set up an ambush, and killed him. Jin Rong ultimately died at the hands of Yang Shao. Liu Zixing's time was also short. When his end was near, only Xinghua had been taking care of him. To show goodwill to Nanxiao, Xinghua also volunteered to marry south.
Not long after, uprisings occurred in various places, Zhongzhou was isolated and without aid, and Liu Zixing also died of illness in Zhongzhou, leaving no heir. Three years later, Grand General Changsun Jie and Yang Shao negotiated peace, supported Liu Zizhen as emperor, and established the capital in Zhongzhou. Xizhou, Feng Qiao led the Nanchen Royal Mansion Army to send Xiao Yan off. Now Xiao Yan had put down his knot of anxiety and decided to return to Nanxiao.
Decades later, Xie Yun came to Qinglong Temple to offer incense. Now several of his senior brothers and sisters in Xizhou had left. Before he left, he also thought of coming to offer a stick of incense. Time flashed back to his youth. At that time, the Junior Prince of Nanchen brought several of his disciples to select a site for Qinglong Temple. But unexpectedly, now things were different and people were gone; a generation of heroes had left.
