58 And in the moonlight, Yun Xing Tong catches a glimpse of her features . YUN XING TONG You are not quite Chinese, are you? HUA ZHONG AI No, I am not . Father himself is slightly Kazakh, and mother is Uighur . And I have lineage that goes all the way back to the border, where they are not above inviting guests to interbreed with their wives, meant of course, to prevent incest . Hua Zhong Ai giggles at this point . YUN XING TONG I knew it, I realized your features weren’t very conventional . HUA ZHONG AI I am not too sure what kind of blood flows in me . YUN XING TONG It doesn’t matter either . I am a Manchu noble by birth, my ancestors claimed this land as their own . And yet now they read the Confucian classics, in the Central Empire, we all drift and change . Yawn . I’m tired, and I think you are too . Let’s all go to sleep . Yun Xing Tong retires to his quarters . DISSOLVE TO: EXT . YUN ESTATE DAY Yun Xing Tong is practicing swordplay on his own in the courtyard . Nearby he sees a servant, carrying the water he needs to wash himself up every now and then . YUN XING TONG Excuse me, servant, it’s been two days since dad and the teacher both went away … where did they go? SERVANT I have no idea, young Master, your father went to visit a friend, that was all that he told me … YUN XING TONG Sigh … hope he comes back soon enough … he’s never been away for so long before . It is at this moment that Shui Liu Can rushes in and joins Yun Xing Tong .