(Naihe Bridge is bridge in Hell, where all souls have to cross in order to pass onto next life.)
(Video Starts: war sounds, fighting, stabbing, someone gets injured with arrow, finally dies)
2:35
(Hell sounds, souls in the underworld passing through to get judged, lots of spirits with unfulfilled wishes)
3:05
Resentful Spirit 1: “Ying-er, where areeee youuu?”
Resentful Spirit 2: “I studied diligently and arduously for 13 years to take the Imperial Exams so that I could take care of my parents [as a magistrate], who would have thought…”
(Ambiguous Hell sounds/dialogue of restless spirits)
[First meeting on the bridge.]
3:42
“Waiting for someone?”
“Mm.”
“Who knows whoever started this trend. Humans have their entire lifespan, what matter cannot be settled while they’re alive? Yet, even as ghosts they still have issues that need to be settled, what an extremely ludicrous practice!”
“True.”
4:20
Ghost Worker: “Reincarnation has risks! After rebirth take care! Being a ghostly usher isn’t a bad job!”
“Eh, eh, come, brother, please move aside, let this bro of yours squeeze onto this tight [bridge] space, there’s too many people passing to and fro.”
Ghost Worker: “Eh this fellow, in such a rush! Be wary you don’t accidentally get reborn as a pig!”
“I’m being squeezed uncomfortably.”
Fellow ghost on Naihe Bridge: “What are you squeezing for?! Even if you make it to the front don’t you still have to wait to be reincarnated!”
4:49
“Come, take my hand.”
“Ah! Thank you! Thank you!”
“No worries.”
“Who are you waiting for?”
“……that…”
“Hey, it’s no problem if you don’t say. I just want to find someone to talk to for a bit. I too am looking for someone. On the topic of myself, I have a very mournful story. I have an older brother. As good to me as if he and I were the same person. Ah. We both became soldiers. And in a war there will naturally be casualties. Life and death brethren we were. He risked his life to save mine in his grace. But why did he have to continue professing his love for me. And even insisted for me to wait for him on this Naihe Bridge, that if he didn’t see me he would never leave. I used everything in my being to save his life but as soon as I turned my head I got killed. Ah, it was such a frightful experience. It made my legs and feet numb. Hence why I’m here squatting now.”
“………”
“Eh, why are you looking at me this way? I don’t return his feelings in that way! I did it because he is still my brother, I can’t let him wait here stupidly. After he arrives, I’ll let him know to go our separate ways.”
“I…”
“Ah! I can see him now. I’ll leave now!”
“Mmm. Okay.”
(MC leaves.)
“Stupid.”
6:35
[The second time: Light Car, Familiar Road*]
Nameless Female Ghost: “It clearly wasn’t me who killed….wasn’t me who killed….why was it me?! WHY WAS IT ME?! Die with me! ALL OF YOU DIE WITH ME!”
Nameless Male Ghost: “Mother I’ve come to find you! Mother, where are you?”
(Whip sounds)
Female Ghost Worker: “Keep walking! What are you looking at?! If you delay our schedule, the magistrate will send all of you to the animal reincarnation path!”
Meng Pao*****: “Drink all of this Meng Pao Soup, drinking all of this old lady’s soup will melt away (make you forget) all of your past life’s romantic and vengeful thoughts!”
(Bell sounds, ambiguous Hell sounds)
8:41
“Don’t push! Don’t push!”
“Over here. There’s a spot for you here.”
“Eh? Brother, how come you are still here?”
“Long time no see.”
“Aiyo. Who exactly are you waiting for? Even a tortoise** should have reached the end of his life by now!”
“…..”
“Oh sorry, sorry! My mouth was thoughtless, something that I’ve grown used to this past life. Come, you’ll have to once again lend me some space to stand.”
“Mmmh.”
“Ugh. There sure are a lot of ghosts here, thankfully I made it on time! Any less luck and I’d have to wait for the next round (of reincarnation). Since we have nothing else to do, how about we chat once again?”
“Please speak freely.”
“Last time I spoke about a brotherly issue, didn’t I? This most recent life I must have subconsciously remembered that dilemma and so I didn’t dare have any close brotherly relationship this time with anyone. Originally, I thought I could be leader to a group of thieves and just plainly live my life to the end. Who’d have thought I’d provoke a rival leader. Spending everyday trying to vie for my turf. In this world of 9 states and 4 seas, it’s not like there’s no other space for him? But he knew that in my nest of thieves, I had the young and old to care for, and could any of them really suffer such constant attacks?”
9:52
“Brother…since you had a wife and children, you should not have engaged in fights with another.”
“Hmph, you think I wanted to fight with him? And besides, the family wasn’t mine. By ‘the young’ I meant my subordinates! On this topic, I’m actually quite pissed. Last lifetime, I died young but this lifetime I lived up to nearly 30 and never even married a wife! I blame that ancestor (that rival)!”
“…….”
“Hey. Even now I have to wait for this guy to return to the karmic cycle. During my first 7 days after death, I felt worried and went back to my home to get a peek at them. I found this guy squatting in front of my grave, drinking, saying that if I don’t wait for him on the Naihe Bridge, then he’d go demolish my parent’s house and upturn my ancestor’s graves. I say, anyone that makes it to the Naihe Bridge is naturally a dead person. How could he demolish or upturn anything? Originally I intended to just ignore him but then that jerk actually started outright crying. The fuck. As a man, how could he just outright start to cry? Watching him gave me the heebie jeebies. My heart couldn’t help softening at the sight. What are you looking at me like that for? I’m really not that sentimental of a person, what matters of love and relationships and friendship, too clichéd and boring! When he comes, I’ll have a good fight with him and then we’ll part ways. In any case, I won’t let him carry any regrets into the next life. How absolutely irritating!”
“……mmmh.”
11:23
“Speaking of this, i’s weird because no matter what, I just can’t stand the prospect of owing a debt to anyone. Just at the thought of ignoring him –if he, just speaking on the possibility, that he turns into your case, and just waits here foolishly continuously without stop, that’s not something any person should do. No matter good or bad, people should straightforwardly confront each other right?”
“That is logical.”
“Ah! I’m not insulting the person you’re waiting for- but that person really is inconsiderate! Ugh! So aggravating even to me!”
“No worries.”
“Haha, you actually know how to smile, you look much better this way. Ah. You’ve turned expressionless again.”
12:13
“I’m guessing the wait this time is going to be for a while, but luckily you can keep good company for me. I hope you don’t find me too talkative? Me squatting here, doesn’t interfere with anything right?”
“Please go ahead.”
[They pass time together on Naihe Bridge.]
“Ah, finally after waiting for these three years he’s shown up! Brother I’m going now!”
“Please go well my brother.”
“Eh, how about you stop waiting too, why don’t we go and reincarnate together into the same family? That way we can look out for each other? How long have you been waiting in total now? If that bastard was going to show up he’d have long since shown up by now. Maybe he cultivated into something spiritual or immortal. You should stop waiting!”
13:03
“Please save some kindness in your speech. I can still wait for him one more life time for him one more lifetime without complaints.”
“You….fine, I can’t control you! I’m going now!”
“…stupid.”
Hell’s Magistrate’s Grandson: “Hey grandpa look, in the Book of Life and Death, these two people’s life and death dates…” *points to oddity in dates*
Hell’s Magistrate: “If one person passes three lifetimes ending all mortal entanglements then they will be clear of all mortal debt.”
Hell’s Magistrate’s Grandson: “Grandpa you know these two personally?”
Magistrate: “Look, isn’t one of them standing right there on the Naihe Bridge?”
Grandson: “Hey, grandpa, tell me their story.”
Magistrate: “You little rascal, come here.” (Hugs him)
Grandson: “Mmm.”
Magistrate: “It’s said 300 years ago there was a famous cultivating war general with his most trusted confidante best friend…”
[Third Encounter: The Old Horse Knows The Way]
“Hey! Move aside move aside move aside!”
“Long time no see.”
“You’re not going to ask me what I’m doing here?”
“Once more waiting for someone?”
“Waiting for no one, finally no attachments!”
“Then why-”
“I say, how much longer do you intend to wait here for that person?”
“……..”
“To be frank, just seeing you standing here is quite an eyesore! Originally, I decided to just go around you but just thinking that you’re fixed here like some pole in the ground is quite aggravating. Let me tell you, today you can either decide to follow me or, if you refuse, I will forcibly carry you to reincarnation. You cannot wait here any longer!”
“Let go.”
“No! Because I ended subconsciously thinking about how you are still foolishly waiting here, I never spent any good times during this most recent life. What good is that person you’re waiting for? What about him can you not forget? What about these love entanglements can you not forget? Didn’t he end up abandoning you in the end! Come with me, I will take you to drink fine wine and eat good meat!”
“I can’t let him go!”
“You…I really will carry you!”
“Do you want to know the story behind my wait here?”
“Speak! I’d like to know just exactly what kind of stuff that guy is made of!”
[On Naihe Bridge, Speaking of the past]
“When I first met him, I was no longer a young lad. Unlike me, who was completely alone, he had a family of brothers and friends he had to commit to. Though our feelings were reciprocal, his loyalties to others separated us and eventually we died separately. He told me to wait for him to finish and sever his familial worldly debts, and then he’d go with me to spend every lifetime together. I agreed. Waiting for him to finish his grievances and debts, while I stayed here with my love for him.”
“Then did he show up? Did he? Hasn’t it just been you alone waiting here like an idiot!”
“He showed up.”
“Ah?”
“Every time he reincarnated he would show up to meet me, and so in that way I was never lonely.”
“How come you never spoke of this?”
17:12
“In his first life, he resolved his family-brotherly ties. In his second life, he resolved his grievances with non-family. In his third life, he made a wish for the next life and now all of his merits have been fulfilled.”
“….how come I feel this story sounds so familiar?…..*dense thinking* No matter! In any case, today you are coming with me!”
“How did I not notice before that you were this stupid?”
“What…huh…what did you say?”
“You really just want to drink wine and eat good meat with me?”
“I, I- I….” *nervous shy laugh*
“If that’s the case, then so be it! Since you say love is not worth anything. Let’s go.”
“Hey! Hey hey! Don’t be in such a rush to reincarnate! I only said that because I thought you were pining about someone else? Wait for me!!!!”
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*Light Car, Familiar Road is an idiom for tasks that are familiar and effortlessly accomplished.
**the term he used here is 王八 which can mean tortoise (who have long life spans) or bastard or pimp or cuckold,
*****Meng Pao = famous figure in Chinese legend, old lady that brews a soup for every dying soul to drink before reincarnation that will make them forget everything of the past life so they can start afresh in new life.
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