:24:14
I never realized my name
looks like "sword".
:24:17
You write gracefully. Calligraphy
is so similar to fencing.
:24:22
Maybe it is. I wouldn't know.
:24:25
Please.
:24:30
Thank you for seeing me.
I hear your wedding day is near.
:24:34
You must be overwhelmed
by the preparations.
:24:36
I'm hardly doing a thing.
The less I think of it the better.
:24:40
My parents
are arranging everything.
:24:45
The Gous are a very powerful family.
:24:49
My marrying one will be good
for my father's career.
:24:53
You are fortunate
to marry into such a noble family.
:24:57
Am I?
:24:58
I wish I were like the heroes
in the books I read.
:25:01
Like you and Li Mu Bai.
:25:04
I guess I'm happy to be marrying.
:25:07
But to be free
to live my own life,
:25:10
to choose whom I love...
:25:13
That is true happiness.
:25:17
Do you think so?
Let me tell you a story...
:25:19
About you and Li Mu Bai?
:25:21
Yes.
:25:22
Did you know I was once engaged
to be married?
:25:26
No, really?
:25:27
His name was Meng Si Zhao.
:25:29
He was a brother to Li Mu Bai
by oath.
:25:32
One day, while in battle,
:25:34
he was killed by the sword
of Li Mu Bai's enemy.
:25:38
After, Li Mu Bai and I
went through a lot together.
:25:42
Our feelings for each other
grew stronger.
:25:44
But how could we dishonor
:25:46
Meng's memory?
:25:48
So the freedom
you talk about, I too desire it.
:25:51
But I have never tasted it.
:25:53
Too bad for Meng, but it's not
your fault, or Li Mu Bai's.