A Love Story of Oiled Paper Umbrella Episode 20 Recap
> A Love Story of Oiled Paper Umbrella Recap
Meng Xizhou wanted to uncover the truth about her father's death years ago, so she asked Tie Lao to help her enter the painting again. Inside, Meng Xizhou saw her father, Li Shiyi, talking to Bai Zegong, Nan Fengyi’s father. Bai Zegong proposed exchanging the Scroll of Mountains and Seas for the demon core inside Meng Xizhou, explaining that without a demon core to sustain him, his weak body wouldn’t last much longer.
Meng Xizhou tried to stop Li Shiyi from agreeing, but Li Shiyi said he didn’t want his daughter to become the Demon King. He wished for her to live an ordinary and happy life. Bai Zegong handed over the Scroll of Mountains and Seas, and Li Shiyi removed Meng Xizhou’s demon core to give it to Bai Zegong. Meng Xizhou watched as Bai Zegong placed her demon core into Nan Fengyi’s body.
Li Shiyi then hid the Scroll of Mountains and Seas inside a small umbrella, which Meng Xizhou recognized as the one she had been carrying all along. Li Shiyi also transferred all his accumulated magical power into Meng Xizhou, saying it would be enough to sustain her until the age of twenty. Meng Xizhou questioned why he would do such a thing, calling it irresponsible.
Li Shiyi admitted he regretted becoming a demon hunter and hoped Meng Xizhou could reclaim her demon core, become the Demon King, and fulfill her mother’s wish to save all demons. At that moment, as Meng Xizhou, in the form of Axin, Bai Zegong killed her. Li Shiyi accused Bai Zegong of being a deceitful scoundrel who would inevitably return to break his promises. However, he declared that Bai Zegong would never find the Scroll of Mountains and Seas.
Bai Zegong demanded the scroll in exchange for sparing Li Shiyi’s life, but Li Shiyi refused, telling him to take his life instead. Bai Zegong killed Li Shiyi and vowed to search for the scroll himself. Meng Xizhou emerged from the painting. Beigong Shuo asked if she had learned the truth about her father’s death. Meng Xizhou replied that she didn’t want to talk about it yet.
Beigong Shuo comforted her, saying that no matter what, she needed to move forward. Meng Xizhou despaired, saying that she had discovered she was the Demon King. Hearing this, Tie Lao quickly stood up, exclaiming that he never thought the Demon King’s power could be inherited. Tie Lao declared that all the demons were now in Meng Xizhou’s hands.
Beigong Shuo reassured her, saying that regardless of whether she was the Demon King, she was still the kind and righteous divine maiden he had always known. Beigong Shuo added that as the King of Humans and the Demon King, the two of them working together could achieve harmony between humans and demons. Meanwhile, Du Yuelian brought Nan Fengyi back and showed him the items her father had left behind regarding him.
Nan Fengyi realized that Meng Xizhou’s demon core resided in his body and also learned that his father, Bai Zegong, was the one who had killed Li Shiyi. Meng Xizhou, deeply pained and conflicted, recalled her mother’s last words. Meng Xizhou remembered her mother saying that her siblings trapped within the Scroll of Mountains and Seas were waiting for her to rescue them. She now knew she was the Demon King and that her grandmother was the ancient Demon King.
She also thought of Ren Guang’s warning: if she reclaimed her demon core, Nan Fengyi would die; if she didn’t, she would die, and all demons would perish with her. Meanwhile, Empress Miao Yun overheard Nan Fengyi and Du Yuelian’s conversation, learning that Nan Fengyi already knew the true whereabouts of the Scroll of Mountains and Seas. Nan Fengyi realized that the murderous aura Miao Yun had given him could also spy on his words.
Miao Yun ordered him to retrieve the scroll. Meng Xizhou, Beigong Shuo, General Sun, and the others returned to Changle City. Although Meng Xizhou had disguised herself, she was still captured by Nan Fengyi. He imprisoned her in a cage, binding her with heavy iron chains. They tortured Meng Xizhou, demanding she reveal the location of the Scroll of Mountains and Seas, but Meng Xizhou resolutely refused, declaring she would never speak.
She accused Nan Fengyi of finally showing his true colors, and he retorted that they were destined to walk different paths. Meng Xizhou called him and his father shameless scoundrels, to which Nan Fengyi replied that his father’s failure to reclaim the scroll would be a regret he would now rectify. Nan Fengyi prepared to take Meng Xizhou to see Empress Miao Yun. Meng Xizhou taunted him, asking if he truly believed he had found her. She revealed that she had come to find him first. As she spoke, she reverted to her original form and carried him away.
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