Moonlight Mystique Episode 5 Recap, Plot

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The scene outside the City Lord’s mansion was more chaotic than ever. Those shouting and cursing outside the gates were all the citizens whom City Lord Bai Xun had protected and cherished. When Bai Shuo woke up, she found herself in a carriage. She hurriedly shouted for the driver, Wang Bo, to stop. However, since this was the City Lord’s order, Wang Bo stubbornly refused to let Bai Shuo return to the city.

On the surface, Bai Shuo agreed to Wang Bo, but in truth, she knocked him unconscious when he wasn’t paying attention. With Fan Yue’s help, she quickly returned to Ning’an City, only to encounter the five top immortals of Lanling Sect and Zhong Zhao, who had come to provide support. Jin Yao wanted to take Bai Shuo away, but Fan Yue told her to leave first while he stayed behind to face Jin Yao and his group alone.

Zhong Zhao followed closely behind, trying to convince Bai Shuo to return to Lanling with him. Bai Shuo firmly refused, but fortunately, Tian Huo and Cang Shan arrived just in time to block Zhong Zhao’s way. Fu Ling deliberately set up a barrier along the road to the City Lord’s mansion, preventing Bai Shuo from getting closer, forcing her to watch as her father faced an angry mob of citizens alone.

These people began to doubt and curse Bai Xun, even hitting him on the forehead until it bled, showing no gratitude for the past kindness he had shown them. Under Fu Ling’s influence, Bai Xun began to lose his sanity. This caused the citizens to panic and, in the end, they shouted for his death and rushed to beat him.

Seeing this scene, Fu Ling couldn’t help but reflect on how Bai Xun’s beloved citizens had completely turned their backs on him, filled with hatred and a desire to kill. Fu Ling tried to persuade Bai Shuo to join the Demon Race and serve the Cold Spring Palace, claiming that Zhen Yu would surely appreciate her.

Bai Shuo was heartbroken and begged Fu Ling to cure the Nether Poison, but Fu Ling told her that the poison had no cure and that today, someone would have to die. Fu Ling once again invoked her demonic power, causing Bai Xun to go mad and try to kill. A little girl, tearfully pleading with him to stop hurting her father, managed to awaken his reason.

To protect the people of Ning’an City, Bai Xun kneeled and prayed to the gods, offering his life in exchange for the safety of the city. He then drew his sword and ended his life. Bai Shuo, who had witnessed everything, was devastated. When the barrier was lifted, she rushed to her father’s side, holding him tightly and filled with hatred for those around her. But in his final moments, Bai Xun reached out to his daughter.

His death triggered a surge of "good" thoughts, and the Desireless Stone absorbed this positive energy, releasing a divine light that enveloped Ning’an City, curing the citizens of the Nether Poison. Fan Yue rushed to Bai Shuo’s side and caught her as she floated in the air. Zhen Yu, wanting to harm Zhong Zhao, was stopped by Fu Ling once again, which displeased him.

The immortals led by Jin Yao arrived, and the citizens of the city, now cured, showed gratitude, ignoring the fact that the peace had been achieved thanks to the City Lord’s sacrifice. Originally, Fan Yue planned to take the unconscious Bai Shuo and leave, but Jin Yao reminded him to let Bai Shuo say her final goodbyes to her father, at least allowing her to send Bai Xun off on his last journey.

At this moment, Bai Shuo’s consciousness returned to the Moon Hidden Sea, where she met the "benefactor" she had been searching for. She begged this benefactor to bring her father back to life, but the benefactor told her that she was the one who could truly intervene in life and death. The benefactor reminded Bai Shuo that she needed to gather the desires again to restart the power of the Desireless Stone.

The benefactor’s existence wasn’t to repay anyone but to show her that she shouldn’t live for anyone else. The Desireless Stone entering her body was both an opportunity and a result of fate. Back in reality, Bai Shuo hurried to the mourning hall and cried bitterly beside her father’s coffin, personally sending him off. Outside the City Lord’s mansion, Ning’an City was gradually calming down after the chaos.

Jin Yao looked out from a high vantage point and sighed, lamenting that today’s events were a failure of the Eternal Race and the Bright Moon Palace. He hoped that Fan Yue would let Bai Shuo choose for herself, whether to join the Immortal Sect or the Demon Palace.

Zhen Yu took Fu Ling back to the Cold Spring Palace and gave her a harsh punishment for repeatedly showing “good intentions” in saving Zhong Zhao, which went against her usual style of behavior. Fu Ling denied any romantic interest in Zhong Zhao, explaining that she only wanted to recruit him into Cold Spring Palace. Zhen Yu ordered Fu Ling to make Zhong Zhao serve her within a month, or he would personally deal with him.

In the mourning hall, Bai Shuo finally understood the nature of both the Immortal and Demon races, realizing that she could never return to the past with Zhong Zhao. They would now become strangers. Due to Jin Yao’s use of immortal magic to erase the memories of the citizens, on the day of the funeral, the people mourned without remembering that they had once forced the City Lord to his death.

Only Bai Shuo, Fan Yue, and a few others retained the memory of that tragic event. After burying her father, Bai Shuo knelt at Bai Xun’s grave. From this experience, she realized that relying on others was futile and silently swore to become stronger and avenge her father by going to the Cold Spring Palace.

Just as Fan Yue appeared to take Bai Shuo away, she, filled with sorrow and anger, pulled out a hairpin and stabbed it toward his chest. At that moment, Zhong Zhao arrived to take Bai Shuo, but Bai Shuo ultimately chose to leave with Fan Yue. Though she refused Fan Yue’s help, he bluntly told her that, in his eyes, she was merely the vessel for the Desireless Stone.

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