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{\an8}ADAPTED FROM A SHUQI.COM NOVEL
ORIGINAL AUTHOR: SENLIN LU
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- What's this?
- A brand.
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Same as the one behind Hanxiao's ear.
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DU'S MANSION
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Old man, find anything yet?
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What poison is it, exactly?
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This is my homemade wine.
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Xiao,
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you'll appreciate its delicate nature.
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I named this wine Amber Glow.
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Look. That color.
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Now smell it. That aroma.
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Fine craftsmanship, Mr. Du.
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I bought the best grapes
from Persian merchants.
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Only made this one small barrel.
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Come on. First cup from the new jar.
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It's for you to taste.
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- You're not talking, huh?
- Please.
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Put the barrel down.
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- This wine is precious!
- Talk or not?
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Put it down and I'll talk.
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- Three…
- I'll talk!
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Okay… I'll talk.
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Bird-poison. Aconite.
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Killer's got a lot of hate,
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but not much experience.
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They threw in the most lethal stuff
they could think of.
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There's one more plant.
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But what exactly it is,
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I couldn't tell.
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When can you tell?
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I can't.
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Herbs are like snake venom.
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There are thousands.
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Unless the poisoner admits it themselves,
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- otherwise, it's hard to tell.
- Really?
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Really. I already told you.
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Now give me the wine.
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What an old man.
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You get more long-winded with age.
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Bet you're bored at home.
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Bored?
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I've retired.
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The one thing I should do is… rest.
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Come on. Let's drink.
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Someone's been poisoned
and might not be dead yet.
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We can't save them.
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This poison's vicious.
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Even if an immortal shows up,
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there's still no way. Come on.
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Just as I thought.
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Even the Imperial Medical Office said
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there's no saving them.
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Yeah.
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The medical officers checked.
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All said they won't make it.
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What do they know?
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Treating illness, sure.
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Detox? That's my job.
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That person's life
can still be held on a bit.
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As long as, before they die,
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we find the last poison,
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get the antidote, and add my prescription.
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Old man, that's you alright!
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Inspector Du,
you're well-read and worldly.
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This is nothing yet.
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Just wait.
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I'll get you two something good!
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The artist drew these sketches
based on their bone structures.
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Their bodies were badly swollen.
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So it's only an approximation.
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Except for Birou,
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the other six girls are all here.
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These days, Mr. Gu
has visited their hometowns.
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No one's seen them return.
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Besides these six girls,
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those who got killed
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were mostly former clients
of Xiuhong House.
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Why would the killer
want to wipe them all out?
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Mr. Xiao,
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you said you'd seen Birou before. Where?
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How long have you been back here?
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I just got back.
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Or did you never leave at all?
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Your Ladyship,
I didn't mean to hide it from you.
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I'm sick like this.
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Even if I went back home,
I couldn't make a living.
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So… I stayed here instead.
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What do you do for a living?
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Smells so good.
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I blend essential oils and hair oil.
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They nourish the hair
and help condition the body too.
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If Your Ladyship likes it,
take a few jars back with you.
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If you don't like it too strong,
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I can make a lighter scent as well.
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Stop picking at it.
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You're making it bleed.
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I'll be fine with some honey balm.
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Are you still in touch
with Ruyi and the others?
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I wasn't that close with them.
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And I didn't leave
Western Capital with them.
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Did something happen to them?
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If you hear anything about them,
please tell me.
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ZHUQUE GATE
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Wuren.
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Mr. Gu.
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Are you looking for an official
who's been on leave?
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You have a lead on him?
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I know someone.
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The day after Prince of Heng died,
he suddenly took leave
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and said he had to rush home.
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But these past few days,
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he summoned
all the famous physicians to his house.
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Though… Maybe I'm overthinking it.
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Who is it?
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Chief Justice, Wu Yuekun.
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WU'S MANSION
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Sirs, my master has gone out.
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Waiting here is pointless.
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Tell your lady
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your master's poison
can only be cured by me.
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What medicines have you used?
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We found the best physicians
in Western Capital.
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They prescribed antidotes.
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But they said the poison is strange.
It can't be fully neutralized.
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It's only barely keeping him alive.
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We don't even know
how long he can hold on.
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Your Ladyship,
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can my husband still be saved?
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Catch the killer sooner,
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and we save him sooner.
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It depends on whether you cooperate.
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I'm just a woman.
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How am I supposed to catch a killer?
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Just answer our questions.
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Five days ago,
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did Wu Yuekun go
to Vice Minister Yang's home?
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Was he poisoned the same night?
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Do you have anyone else to rely on?
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If Wu Yuekun truly dies,
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how will you live from then on?
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Why should I believe
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you can save my husband?
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You're desperate and grasping at straws.
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If not us, who else can you trust?
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If I say the wrong thing,
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he'll beat me to death!
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Fine. When he dies,
no one will hit you again.
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I'll talk.
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I'll talk.
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Five days ago,
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my husband went out to entertain guests.
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He came back early, all of a sudden.
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Then he kept coughing blood.
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He warned me
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not to let anyone know.
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Then he passed out.
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Our driver was afraid
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he'd be dragged into a murder case.
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He told me my husband
had gone to Vice Minister Yang's house.
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After that, he resigned
and wouldn't stay a single extra day.
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He must've stepped in something big.
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But…
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I'm just a woman.
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What could I do?
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That's all I know. Your Ladyship…
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Your Ladyship!
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Please save my husband!
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Go tell the physicians you hired
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there's no Gelsemium in this poison.
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It's aconite. Your prescription is off.
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He'd be better off
just drinking warm water.
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Alright.
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I'll go now.
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Stop staring.
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You should thank your lady.
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She just saved your life.
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That pill I gave you just now
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will buy you four hours at most.
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Tell the truth
and help us catch the killer fast,
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or keep stalling and die for it.
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You choose.
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The real owner of Xiuhong House
is you, isn't it?
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You pretended to let Prosecutor Cheng
investigate closely,
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so you could track every step of the case
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and line up scapegoats in advance.
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You played it safe at every turn.
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You finally got away clean.
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So why risk it now?
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Are you that stupid,
or do you think we are?
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Xiao Huaijin…
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You're so young,
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yet just like your father,
always lecturing.
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Say whatever you want.
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Spin it however you like.
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I was only poisoned by accident
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in my own house.
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As for the rest,
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I know nothing.
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You schemed it this long,
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and all you've got is deny?
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Just like Lu Zhenglian.
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So you deny going
to Vice Minister Yang's house
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and having anything
to do with those girls?
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I've kept my name clean my whole life.
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Don't you slander me!
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Fine.
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Since you want to play the good official,
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I'll tell you a story.
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Deputy Director Xiao,
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what story could possibly
suit the Chief Justice?
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Of course,
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the story of hating evil
and upholding justice
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at all cost.
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Go on, please.
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In the Xiuhong House case,
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though Sun Zhiwang
and Lu Zhenglian have met justice,
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everyone knows
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the real masterminds,
those nobles who abused palace maids,
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are still at large.
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Chief Justice Wu Yuekun
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was heartsick to see the law trampled,
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his men set up, and even more heartsick
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that justice couldn't be served.
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But he also knew
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all witnesses and evidence were gone.
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By normal means,
he could never get true justice.
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So,
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he chose the dangerous path
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to make them pay in his own way.
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But how would he make them pay?
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After hearing Lou Chuo's confession,
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he tracked down Prince of Heng,
the one with scars on his inner wrist.
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He pretended to win Prince of Heng's trust
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and little by little,
dug up that whole group's secrets.
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Five days ago,
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he and Prince of Heng met in secret
at Vice Minister Yang's home.
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He used the chance
to scatter homemade poison
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into the pond.
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To avoid suspicion,
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he'd rather enter
the poisoned pond himself
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and go down with them.
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Thankfully, Heaven was watching.
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He took the antidote in time
and kept his life.
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What a heroic and epic story,
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a touching one.
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His Majesty will surely show mercy
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and praise your noble heart,
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even if
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- you poisoned His Majesty's own son.
- You…
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You think I've got no proof,
just making things up?
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You…
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Of course I have proof.
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Your personal token,
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an imperial gift.
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What are you doing?
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What are you doing?
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Looking for evidence, of course.
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After I drained the poison water
from Vice Minister Yang's pond,
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I found this at the bottom.
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This bottle of poison
was mixed just for you.
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It's almost like what was in the pond.
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Once it's diluted in water,
it's a perfect match.
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Little vials like this,
I hid five or six in your residence.
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Don't rush.
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When the Palace Investigation Bureau
searches your home,
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you'll see where I hid them.
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What we lack now is a witness.
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Your lady won't admit it, of course.
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And your driver has long fled.
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But that's fine.
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The gatekeeper
at Vice Minister Yang's house
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saw you that night.
274
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He can testify.
275
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He's lying. He's lying!
276
00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:51,000
Yeah, he is lying.
277
00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:54,520
But this remains a secret
known only to us.
278
00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:01,400
You're best at erasing evidence.
279
00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:04,200
Then let me show you
the art of fabricating it.
280
00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:07,560
You can lie through your teeth,
and I can twist the truth too.
281
00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:09,840
Thanks to you, you "elders,"
282
00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:12,320
I've learned quite a few
new ways to crack a case.
283
00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:14,360
Since you like to play,
284
00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:16,120
I'll play to the end.
285
00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:20,400
I'd rather die than let you have your way!
286
00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:29,560
You'd better keep your word.
287
00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:31,600
But don't think dying ends this.
288
00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:33,120
If you dare kill yourself,
289
00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:35,280
I'll make this story stick anyway
290
00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:36,640
and wipe out your whole clan,
291
00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:38,600
no heirs left.
292
00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:45,640
I have no parents. A cursed lone star.
293
00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:47,200
I don't fear living,
and I sure don't fear dying.
294
00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:03,000
But Wu Yuekun…
295
00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:05,200
do you fear?
296
00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:23,240
It's all those girls' fault!
297
00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:26,520
I was ready to quit for good.
298
00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:30,000
But they came begging me,
299
00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:32,960
saying once they left Xiuhong House,
300
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they had no way to live.
301
00:17:34,840 --> 00:17:36,760
They asked me to help them.
302
00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:41,320
They even hatched the plan themselves.
303
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To go to the ministers' mansions.
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Safer and more fun that way.
305
00:17:48,360 --> 00:17:50,560
I went soft
306
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and agreed.
307
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They got me killed.
308
00:17:55,880 --> 00:17:58,160
They got me killed!
309
00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:02,360
You're beyond saving.
310
00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:05,440
If you want to save
your wife and children,
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00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:09,080
write your crimes down, every last one.
312
00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:10,600
In two hours,
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00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:13,840
whether you walk back to the living
or walk towards the underworld
314
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is up to you.
315
00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:43,480
This is where Wu Yuekun kept those girls.
316
00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:45,640
This room's too neat.
317
00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:46,920
Doesn't look like anyone lived here.
318
00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:51,280
Would women use the exact same balm?
319
00:18:51,360 --> 00:18:52,880
Especially women living together.
320
00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:54,160
Usually not.
321
00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:56,520
Especially those who live by their looks.
322
00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:59,720
They need something
clients will remember at once.
323
00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:07,720
Sun, moon, and stars are alike in form,
jewel-like in glow.
324
00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:08,800
Sustained by essence,
325
00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:11,000
each keeps its role
and shines its radiance.
326
00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:12,400
Though stars are all spheres,
327
00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:13,920
their sizes, colors,
328
00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:15,640
and speeds all differ.
329
00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:16,920
People are no different,
330
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each with their own tastes and habits.
331
00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:22,080
And those habits leave traces
332
00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:24,560
in what they use and where they live.
333
00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:31,800
But all six arranged
their space identically,
334
00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:34,280
even using the same items.
335
00:19:34,360 --> 00:19:37,680
And there's nothing here
that matches who they were.
336
00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:40,160
In this room,
337
00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:43,280
I can't read any clues, any preferences.
338
00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:46,000
Women should at least have
some personal items.
339
00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:47,360
A handkerchief,
340
00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:48,720
a sachet,
341
00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:50,720
or jewelry with their name on it.
342
00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:52,920
None here.
343
00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:54,720
Not on their bodies either.
344
00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:56,880
Two possibilities.
345
00:19:57,400 --> 00:19:59,760
First, someone cleaned this place.
346
00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:01,120
Second,
347
00:20:02,360 --> 00:20:03,520
they knew they were going to die.
348
00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:34,680
Where is Vice Minister Yang's body?
349
00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:35,760
Over there.
350
00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:56,680
So that's how the poison was brought in.
351
00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:19,320
{\an8}DISCIPLINE AND PRUDENCE
352
00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:20,240
Come on.
353
00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:23,680
- Have a sip.
- Much obliged.
354
00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:31,080
- Well?
- That's fine wine.
355
00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:35,400
Xiao,
356
00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:37,080
come by often.
357
00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:39,520
If you get my wine, you get me.
358
00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:45,120
That wild girl…
She finally let you rest today?
359
00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:47,680
She was going
to the Court of Judicial Review,
360
00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:48,600
so she told me to wait here.
361
00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:53,080
She… She's coming here again?
362
00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:55,600
Old man!
363
00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:56,880
Save me!
364
00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:03,040
What happened?
365
00:22:03,120 --> 00:22:05,400
How is it? Same as the poison
Prince of Heng took?
366
00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:08,600
Same.
367
00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:13,880
You poisoned yourself on purpose
just to trick me into tasting it?
368
00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:16,440
Just a sip. It won't kill you.
369
00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:20,000
Besides, with your miracle antidote,
370
00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:21,160
we're safe.
371
00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:29,160
You found how they poisoned them?
372
00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:31,240
I did.
373
00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:32,960
But we still need one person.
374
00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:35,080
The one who supplied them the poison.
375
00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:38,880
Did anyone go in?
376
00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:40,800
No. Only one servant
delivered the medicine,
377
00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:42,200
and I carried it in.
378
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:52,640
No way.
379
00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:55,440
That servant
took a sip right in front of me.
380
00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:14,600
Beeswax. Clove. Sweet reseda.
381
00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:19,000
That person never planned to live.
382
00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:21,680
That person…
383
00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:23,800
You will have to see them yourself.
384
00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:43,600
Have I caused you trouble again?
385
00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:47,080
For people like that,
386
00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:50,480
to throw away your life, is it worth it?
387
00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:55,400
For people like us,
388
00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:58,360
dying is easier than living.
389
00:23:59,360 --> 00:24:00,640
If we die
390
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,160
and drag those beasts down with us,
391
00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:06,120
then it's not a bad trade.
392
00:24:09,360 --> 00:24:10,240
Your Ladyship, please sit.
393
00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:22,680
That day, after Mr. Xiao
394
00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:24,720
sent us away from Western Capital,
395
00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:27,880
I fought with Ruyi in the carriage.
396
00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:31,000
Back then, if she hadn't
gone back on her word,
397
00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:33,120
she clearly remembered that client's face,
398
00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:34,560
then suddenly changed her story,
399
00:24:35,360 --> 00:24:37,920
you would've caught all those monsters.
400
00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:40,880
You wouldn't have
been framed and jailed either.
401
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:43,480
You did so much for us,
402
00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:44,920
and it all went to waste.
403
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:47,000
Hanxiao,
404
00:24:48,120 --> 00:24:48,960
Taozhi.
405
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:51,440
They died for nothing too.
406
00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:56,840
I was furious.
I didn't want to travel with them,
407
00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:58,320
so I got off the carriage.
408
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:06,080
That day, I didn't have a single coin.
409
00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:10,760
To get my purse back,
410
00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:13,520
I ran after the carriage.
411
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:16,160
But I never thought
412
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:18,640
I'd actually catch up.
413
00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:22,440
What happened?
414
00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:26,120
Ruyi? Cuizhu?
415
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:28,640
Where are you?
416
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:33,160
Sir,
417
00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:35,520
what happened? Where are they?
418
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:38,680
Wu Yue…
419
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:39,960
Say it.
420
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:40,880
…Kun!
421
00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:45,240
With every last ounce of strength,
422
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:48,360
that man said one name.
423
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:52,240
Wu Yuekun.
424
00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:54,440
I don't know if Ruyi and the others
425
00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:56,520
are dead or alive.
426
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:00,880
Not until I reached
the Court of Judicial Review gate
427
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:02,280
did I see his face.
428
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:04,440
Even without a mask,
429
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:05,880
I'd still recognize him.
430
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,240
He's the real owner of Xiuhong House.
431
00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:09,960
I saw him there.
432
00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:13,120
Before the banquet began that day,
433
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:15,240
Zhenniang had us change clothes.
434
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:17,920
Then, like we were merchandise,
435
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:20,440
she presented us to him.
436
00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:24,120
His eyes were like a hawk's.
437
00:26:25,360 --> 00:26:26,800
Even through the mask,
438
00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:28,880
he sized us up.
439
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:33,280
And with his own hands,
440
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:35,680
he pushed us into an endless nightmare.
441
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,520
Yet he didn't even remember who I was.
442
00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:46,680
He even asked what grievance I had.
443
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:50,880
That's when I finally understood
444
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:52,960
why Ruyi kept changing her words.
445
00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:56,520
And I understood why you and Mr. Xiao
446
00:26:57,400 --> 00:26:59,880
couldn't save her,
no matter how hard you tried.
447
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:05,080
Because the one investigating the case
was the mastermind.
448
00:27:06,360 --> 00:27:07,760
So you decided to take revenge.
449
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,000
But at the time, I didn't know how.
450
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,080
I feared Ruyi and the others
were already dead,
451
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:20,440
but I prayed they were still alive.
452
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:23,320
So…
453
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:27,320
every day, I followed Wu Yuekun.
454
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:28,960
I wanted to find them,
455
00:27:30,360 --> 00:27:31,840
but he was cautious.
456
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:34,480
That house gate was always guarded.
457
00:27:35,120 --> 00:27:37,920
Later, I don't know what Ruyi did,
458
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:39,600
but she earned Wu Yuekun's trust.
459
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:44,200
He even let her go out
460
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:45,960
to buy makeup and powder.
461
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:50,240
I seized the chance to meet her.
462
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:00,080
Why are you here?
463
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:01,720
Why are you here too?
464
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:06,600
Western Capital isn't a place for you.
465
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,160
- Leave, now.
- Come with me.
466
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:13,440
I know a back road.
467
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:14,440
Within two hours,
468
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:16,760
I can get you on a southbound boat.
469
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:17,960
As for the other girls,
470
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:19,360
I'll find a way to save them.
471
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:21,400
I won't let him drag you back again.
472
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:25,120
He didn't take them.
473
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:27,640
I brought them back.
474
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,840
- You…
- Since he won't let us go,
475
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:33,600
then…
476
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:35,560
I won't let him go either.
477
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:40,040
With this token,
478
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:42,000
at the next relay station,
479
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:45,760
they'll send men
to escort you the rest of the way.
480
00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:53,720
I'm going to kill Wu Yuekun
481
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:56,360
and avenge everyone.
482
00:28:57,800 --> 00:28:59,160
We'll kill him together.
483
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:02,760
Do you really want to kill him?
484
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:05,120
Not just him.
485
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:08,680
I want to kill myself too.
486
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:13,640
I thought leaving Xiuhong House
487
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:16,440
would end the nightmare.
488
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,320
But… ever since that day,
489
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:24,000
not one night have I slept in peace.
490
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:26,640
The moment I think
491
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:28,480
of those men with their blades,
492
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:29,880
cutting into us
493
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:31,920
one slice after another,
494
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:35,240
still able to live at ease,
safe and sound,
495
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,040
I… I don't even dare to die.
496
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:41,120
I'm so scared.
497
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,040
I'm scared that if I die,
498
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:47,480
no one will ever know what they did.
499
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:52,840
Ruyi told me
500
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,320
that to stay alive,
501
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:57,480
they pretended
502
00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:00,560
they wanted to stick with Wu Yuekun
and make a living.
503
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,840
They even came up with a plan
he couldn't refuse.
504
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:07,440
They'd build him a "moving" Xiuhong House.
505
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:10,160
Wu Yuekun was wary and suspicious.
506
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,120
No matter how perfect the plan was,
he wouldn't agree easily.
507
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:18,840
To win Wu Yuekun's trust,
508
00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:20,840
Ruyi did a lot of talking.
509
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:23,720
She even told him,
510
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:27,640
if not for Hanxiao and Taozhi
511
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:29,200
making such a big fuss,
512
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:31,720
she never would've wanted
to leave Xiuhong House.
513
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:35,320
Ruyi also discovered
514
00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:37,600
that though Wu Yuekun was cautious,
515
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:41,440
his superiors seemed to be pressuring him
to reopen Xiuhong House.
516
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:43,800
So she played to his tastes
517
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:46,480
and proposed a traveling pleasure den.
518
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:51,040
Only then did Wu Yuekun say
he'd keep working with them.
519
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:54,920
But targeting noble households
wasn't easy.
520
00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:00,320
Every time they entered,
they were searched top to bottom.
521
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:03,560
And for a long time,
they couldn't find a chance to act.
522
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:08,000
Until I came up with a way.
523
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:11,280
You must've
524
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:13,520
pieced together the rest.
525
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:18,080
I thought my vengeance was done
526
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:21,080
and wanted to follow them in death.
527
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:25,280
But I found Wu Yuekun wasn't dead.
528
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:30,760
I couldn't understand
529
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:34,560
why that day, I was the only lucky one
530
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:37,040
jumping off the carriage and escaping it.
531
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:38,920
Not until that moment
532
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:42,680
did I understand Heaven had its plan.
533
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:47,000
It was so that when that beast Wu Yuekun
534
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:48,800
was barely clinging to life,
535
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,320
I could hand him one more bowl of poison.
536
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:06,920
- This place is so beautiful.
- Careful!
537
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:11,080
- That's so fun!
- Come!
538
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:12,160
Look!
539
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:17,360
It's warmed up.
540
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:22,520
The flowers back home are about to bloom.
541
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,680
Your Ladyship, do you know?
542
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:38,840
That Hundred Charms flower
on the palace wall
543
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:41,040
has another name.
544
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:45,800
It's called Hanxiao.
545
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:05,960
Madam,
546
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:08,679
is this where palace maids are buried?
547
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:10,800
Your elder sister
was a former palace maid.
548
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:12,040
She shouldn't have been buried here.
549
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:14,960
But His Majesty showed mercy
and granted her a resting place.
550
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,960
TOMB OF LOU CHUO, TOMB OF HANXIAO
551
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:25,400
This tomb is huge.
552
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:27,800
Who's buried inside?
553
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:30,560
Your sister's close friends in the palace
554
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,840
and the seven bravest women
in all of Western Capital.
555
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:39,520
TOMB OF THE SEVEN PALACE MAIDS
556
00:34:49,679 --> 00:34:52,159
TOMB OF HANXIAO
557
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:53,360
Hanxiao…
558
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:57,840
I folded these
559
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:00,040
for you myself.
560
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:03,000
Down there,
561
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:06,680
use them freely.
562
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:19,200
His Majesty has issued an edict
563
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:21,400
to reform the palace maids' discharge.
564
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,720
Maids who leave the palace
will be settled more properly.
565
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:28,480
The families of the slain maids
will receive compensation.
566
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:31,440
{\an8}Prince of Heng's title has been stripped.
567
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:32,920
{\an8}As for Wu Yuekun, Vice Minister Yang…
568
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,560
Their families have all been exiled.
Mr. Gu has been reinstated.
569
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:39,800
All of this cost nine lives.
570
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:42,520
I solved the case,
571
00:35:43,720 --> 00:35:45,360
but I didn't save anything.
572
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:55,480
TO THE LATE SISTER GU TAOZHI
573
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:25,600
It's all over.
574
00:36:26,240 --> 00:36:29,440
My sister will be grateful
to you all from heaven.
575
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,440
Before she passed,
Birou asked me to bring you this.
576
00:36:39,720 --> 00:36:40,880
Birou told me,
577
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:43,640
that day, Taozhi heard
they were going out to work,
578
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:45,720
but they couldn't say what job
579
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:47,040
or where they were going.
580
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:48,400
She couldn't rest easy.
581
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:51,320
She didn't even have time to tell you
and got on the carriage with them.
582
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:54,880
Birou always felt she got Taozhi killed.
583
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:57,320
She wanted to apologize to you in person,
584
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,160
but she never had the courage.
585
00:37:01,720 --> 00:37:02,840
Taozhi was always like that,
586
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:05,720
upright, warm-hearted.
587
00:37:06,720 --> 00:37:08,080
That's my sister.
588
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:12,840
It's only our fault we got there too late.
589
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:14,880
Don't say that.
590
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:16,800
If not for you giving it your all,
591
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:18,960
there might've been more girls harmed.
592
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:21,200
Even if she'd known the ending,
593
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:23,040
that day,
594
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:25,440
she still would've
gotten on that carriage.
595
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:30,560
I learned from my family's letter
596
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:32,600
that Mr. Xiao had secured
597
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:35,520
a fine burial plot
for my sister back home,
598
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:36,920
so she may rest in peace.
599
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:40,680
Thank you, Mr. Xiao.
600
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:44,600
It's all I could do.
601
00:37:50,720 --> 00:37:53,000
That day in prison, I was too rash.
602
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:56,920
Sorry for my offense.
603
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:00,720
I…
604
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:03,480
Take care, Mr. Gu.
605
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:05,120
We'll be waiting for your return.
606
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:06,680
Take care.
607
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:18,840
SWALLOW HOUSE
608
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:20,520
At the second ke of Shen Hour,
609
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,320
Pang Erlang presents Liu Ying'er
with a winning prize,
610
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:25,080
Peerless Beauty!
611
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:28,240
- Bravo!
- Bravo!
612
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:30,240
You once said
613
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:32,040
the Astronomical Bureau sends apprentices
614
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:34,520
to check the water clocks
in the palace and royal mansions.
615
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:37,280
Would the bureau keep records
of those apprentices?
616
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:39,800
It would.
617
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:42,280
Then 15 years ago,
618
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:45,240
who was sent
to the Prince of Duan's mansion?
619
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:46,240
Can we find out?
620
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:50,440
Not sure. It's been so long.
621
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:51,920
No telling if the record survived.
622
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:57,640
If we don't know, then it might.
623
00:38:58,240 --> 00:38:59,400
Please help me check.
624
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:09,800
TWO APPRENTICES
FROM THE PRINCE OF YAN'S MANSION
625
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:43,200
ZI, CHOU, YIN, MAO, CHEN, SI
626
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:45,080
CHEN, SI
627
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:47,600
BY IMPERIAL COMMAND
628
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:54,440
GENTLE RAINS, PROPITIOUS BREEZES
629
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:01,240
How is it?
630
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:04,080
It's been too long.
631
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:05,240
There's no record left.
632
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:09,200
Figures. Too much time has passed.
633
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:11,680
Thank you.
634
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:23,360
In 15 years,
635
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:25,800
this is the first time
you asked to see me.
636
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:28,120
That night at Prince of Duan's mansion,
637
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:29,960
who was the water-clock apprentice?
638
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:35,080
Calibrating the clock
is the Astronomical Bureau's duty.
639
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:36,520
But that page of records was destroyed.
640
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:40,280
And clearly, someone did it long ago.
641
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:44,080
She asked you about this?
642
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:50,040
If there's no trail, then drop it.
643
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:51,960
That apprentice must know something.
644
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:56,800
If you don't want her to remember,
645
00:40:57,400 --> 00:40:59,080
why cling to it?
646
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:04,360
She might forget.
647
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:07,200
But some things…
648
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:09,680
I still remember.
649
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:20,480
HANLIANG HALL
650
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:43,880
FANGSHENG, PALACE MAID
651
00:42:57,440 --> 00:42:59,920
Ruisheng!
Can't she shut the door properly?
652
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:06,320
Mother.
653
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:18,240
Ruisheng even forgot to change the candle.
654
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:20,720
- Honestly…
- Mother.
655
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:33,880
Mother.