Time to feature another beautiful fan music video devoted to this pair ♥ This time it’s Ronald Cheng’s “Promise Not To Love You” 答應不愛你 which shows the ending scenes of Xu Changqing and Zixuan’s story.

This scene is my absolute favourite in the drama.. what better way to end the story with something so bittersweet, touching and with a twist? You can find screen captures of these two scenes here and here.

Enjoy!

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‘They’re in love with each other. Why couldn’t Changqing and Zixuan stay together in the end?”

This question constantly comes up during the final heartbreaking scene where the couple “forget each other”. Their love spanned for over 200 years in three-life times, aren’t they fated to be together? Why, after everything they’ve been through, does Zixuan force him to ‘let go’? Isn’t it somewhat selfish on Zixuan’s part for insisting to be involved in his life (when Changqing resisted) and when he finally admits how much he loves her, she makes him just “forget everything”. Shouldn’t he have the right to choose his own happiness, and make decisions for himself?

It’s not all as simple as that. Zixuan was mistaken in the beginning of their third lifetime together. At first, she was given false hope because she realized that Changqing still remembers some of their memories together (during that scene when she finds him unconscious leaning on a tree in the forest). So because she thought that he’d be lonely without her (and because she always wants the best for him), she was mistaken in believing that the best thing to do is to get back with him, because at that time she thought that if Changqing still remembers her, those remaining memories and her love for him was enough for her to pursue him again. She thought that somewhere deep in his heart, he must have some kind of yearning for her if he was still able to remember her even after his memories were sealed, and this is why it made her want to be with him again and believed that her fate was to be together with Changqing one last time.
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Written by lovelikethis

Zixuan finally learns to love selflessly in the end. It’s very interesting how Zixuan learns and grows as the three lifetimes go along.

It was in Zixuan and Changqing/Liufang’s first lifetime that Zixuan learned what love was and how to love for the very first time. In the beginning she loved selfishly, but I think that’s natural when you finally find someone you love and want to be with for the rest of your life. Doesn’t everyone start out loving selfishly anyway? It was the first stage of love for her, and in their first lifetime Zixuan was the sweet, innocent and naive girl who only wanted to be a matchmaker and be Liufang’s bride. She hadn’t gone through the kind of pain and heartbreak that love can cause until she meets Liufang. After spending time together, Liufang tells Zixuan that if she still loved him after three years, he’ll marry her, and being the cute and naive girl who still retained her innocence, Zixuan smiles happily and agrees, thinking that nothing could ever go wrong. Three years later they both meet each other at the lake again, Zixuan sees him, gets mad so she runs off, Liufang runs after her and she slaps him. But then a moment later they reconcile and he leans in to kiss her; and it’s so bitter-sweet because I think that what Liufang did here was actually the very thing that made Zixuan fall even harder for him. I mean, if you think about yourself in her shoes, the guy who told you to wait three years didn’t keep his promise but then you learn that it was actually a misunderstanding on his part, and then he leans in to kiss you (just seconds after you were mad at him): I would think that this made Zixuan hold on even tighter to her love for him, because now she gets it that he really truly does love her the way she loves him. I think it was their first kiss (who Liufang initiated) that actually made her believe and grip tighter onto their love, hence one of the reasons why she appears to him in the second lifetime after they both willingly jumped off the cliff with each other.

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For those looking to watch Chinese Paladin 3 with English subtitles, a complete fansub is now available for download courtesy of Jiang Hu. Click here for Chinese Paladin 3 direct download.

The files are hardsubbed and the English translations and video quality is very good  :) I’m posting this here in hopes it would encourage any one curious about this drama to give it a go! If you do end up checking it out and find yourself loving the Changqing & Zixuan couple..remember to come back and join the fanlisting!

If you’re like me and prefer to own a copy of the DVD, it is available for purchase through Yesasia.

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I’ve got some exciting news to share :)
Today I finally purchased a Chinese Paladin domain name to host our site: chinesepaladin.org!

As a result, our web address is now: http://undyinglove.chinesepaladin.org
Please update your links and bookmarks to point to this new location.

Chinesepaladin.org is now the official home of our sister site [Fairy and Swordsman] which is my fansite I built for Zhao Ling’er and Li Xiaoyao (played by Liu Yifei and Hu Ge in Chinese Paladin)

Our forum- Xian Jian Fan Club is now at: http://chinesepaladin.org/phpBB
Please feel free to join in the Chinese Paladin 3 topics and discussions! There’s some really good posts on Changqing and Zi Xuan you’ll definitely want to check out!

Last but not least, please join the Changqing and Zixuan fanlisting! We currently have 14 members but I’m sure we can do a lot better than that :)
More site updates coming soon.