Thousand Years For You Episode 29 Recap
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Lu Yan and Yu Dengdeng found themselves in agreement regarding their suspicions about their current situation. To avoid eavesdropping, they wrote their thoughts on each other's hands, discovering they had reached the same conclusions. Lu Yan instructed Yu Dengdeng to verify their findings the following day and then leave the city. He urged her to find a safe place to use the Dust-proof Bead to remove the spirit worm from her body, emphasizing that her safety was his primary concern.
Though worried for him, Yu Dengdeng agreed, trusting his capabilities. Meanwhile, Gu Beixi and his men arrived in Baile Village, near Lingdong. Upon entering, they observed the villagers performing a ritual, all with blank expressions, making the entire village seem eerie. Gu Beixi's men reported that the villagers refused to house outsiders and would not speak further. They decided to find an empty house for the night and seek Yu Dengdeng the next day.
Fortunately, they encountered Scholar Sun, who confirmed Yu Dengdeng’s group had gone into the mountains in search of the Dust-proof Bead. Sun shared that Mei, the missing wife of the Zhang family, had been helpful to him and asked Gu Beixi to rescue her. Gu Beixi agreed, acknowledging that Mei and the others were important to him, and arranged for his men to search for Yu Dengdeng’s whereabouts.
Early the next morning, Paralyzed Yu confronted Yu Dengdeng, having heard from Dahai that she and Lu Yan had seemingly spent the night together. Yu Dengdeng quickly reassured her father that their interaction was a mere pretense to deceive Wei Du. Lv Er arrived, interrupting their argument and inviting them to breakfast. Yu Dengdeng immediately stopped them, suspecting the food was tainted.
She then revealed her and Lu Yan’s plan, instructing everyone to split up and gather evidence to confirm their theory. Dahai approached a group of soldiers he had previously played dice with, but they showed no recollection of their past game or even their shared experience in the underground palace. He also noticed that a leg injury one of the soldiers had sustained previously was now completely gone.
Separately, Xin visited a weapons workshop, seeking a specific green sword that Yu Dengdeng had supposedly purchased earlier. The shopkeeper, however, declared it a priceless treasure, not for sale, implying he had no memory of the previous transaction. Dahai later passed a family celebrating a baby's one-month birthday. He found it peculiar, as he recalled them holding the same celebration for a baby also named Liu Jin just recently.
This confirmed his suspicions about the repetitive nature of life in the city. Yu Dengdeng’s own investigations around the city corroborated their shared hypothesis. The people of the Ancient Shu City performed the same actions daily, forgetting everything from the previous day – their sold goods, their injuries, even the names they gave their grandchildren. She pondered whether the food and people were mere illusions, yet she had experienced them as living beings.
Yu Dengdeng managed to relay her findings to Lu Yan using a hairpin. Soon after, Wei Du presented the Dust-proof Bead to Lu Yan, asking him to infuse it with energy. Wei Du expressed concern that the bead might lack sufficient energy for the upcoming Enthronement Ceremony, which could lead to aging, illness, and ultimately chaos among the city’s inhabitants. Lu Yan silently infused the bead with energy.
He then requested that Wei Du remove all guards around Yu Dengdeng, claiming he wished to take her on a tour of the city before his enthronement, as he feared he would be too busy afterward. This was a strategic move to facilitate her escape. Lu Yan then used his energy to open a passage out of Ancient Shu City. Simultaneously, outside the city, Gu Beixi and his team were dynamiting the mountain, hearing voices from within.
Yu Dengdeng recognized Gu Beixi's voice, and with his assistance, the mountain gate was breached, allowing Yu Dengdeng and her companions to escape the city's confines. Back inside Ancient Shu City, Lu Yan wandered through the streets. He encountered Zhao Xu, a one-armed blacksmith whom both he and Wei Du had known 3,000 years prior. Zhao Xu, however, showed no recognition of Lu Yan, and his appearance remained unchanged.
Lu Yan also recalled that the impetuous horse he had ordered killed the previous day was still alive and well. Upon learning that Yu Dengdeng and the others had vanished, Wei Du frantically pursued Lu Yan, fearing he had also left. Relieved to find Lu Yan still in the city, Wei Du nevertheless proposed eliminating Yu Dengdeng to prevent her from revealing Shu’s secrets, suggesting her potential capture by Zhu Rong could pose a grave threat.
Lu Yan grew visibly displeased, pointing out that Wei Du’s current ruthlessness was a stark contrast to his past self, who would not even harm captured women and children. Wei Du apologized, attributing his hardened heart to the passage of 3,000 years. Lu Yan then asked about Zhu Rong’s whereabouts, suspecting he might be hiding in the underground palace. He decided to investigate himself, doubting Wei Du's complete loyalty due to the previous incident in Baile Village.
Outside the city, in a small courtyard, Paralyzed Yu successfully extracted the spirit worm from Yu Dengdeng using the Dust-proof Bead, though the worm quickly vanished. Yu Dengdeng remained unconscious, her energy and essence severely depleted, but she continued to call out Lu Yan's name in her delirium. Mei, also rescued from the underground palace, was disoriented and spoke nonsensical words, repeatedly mentioning a "man-eating big tree" that had terrified her in the palace.
The Enthronement Ceremony commenced as planned in Ancient Shu City. Following a brief ritual, Wei Du presented the Dust-proof Bead to Lu Yan. To Wei Du's shock, Lu Yan crushed the bead, revealing it to be a fake. He informed Wei Du that he had entrusted the real Dust-proof Bead to Yu Dengdeng. Lu Yan then exposed the city's grim truth: for 3,000 years, nothing in Ancient Shu City had truly changed.
The inhabitants, like the blacksmith Zhao Xu and even the horse Lu Yan had ordered killed, were not truly alive but merely repeating the same day, over and over again, in an endless loop. He declared that apart from himself and Wei Du, there were no other living souls in Ancient Shu City. Overwhelmed by this revelation, Wei Du clutched his head in pain, begging Lu Yan to stop speaking.
