When xiaoshi sees the half-open flower, he throws the ring and catches the lantern. He asks where he's going to take him, and yuelao tells him that it's a chinese Valentine's Day and that his master has allowed him to visit the human world. Worried that xiaishi wants to do something that's forbidden by the ban, he asks what's up. . He tells xiashi that he needs to trust him because he said so, and that he'll get to know him better by then. He says that as long as he and xia yuan fall in love, their love string will turn red, but that the string between them will not turn red until he accepts xia's confession of love. Now that he realizes that he was wrong, . he asks . what should he do to make the red string turn red? . It can't turn fully red, he says, because his response will only determine which one of them will live or die. He hopes that . will stay alive long enough to meet .