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[Ancient Detective]

[Episode 3]

This morning,

you felt that you're at a disadvantage.

You wanted to get away from being a suspect.

So, you attacked Zhan Shi Qi together with the others,

even though you've never suspected her.

It's not that I have a choice.

My master cared a lot about Hanyue Villa's reputation.

He was like a father to me.

The thing that he concerned the most...

is also what bothers me the most.

I see.

Jian Bu Zhi,

since you've noticed something,

why didn't you mention anything when we were at the ancestral hall?

Because I have a doubt.

Only you and Second Master Li know the martial arts of the broadsword.

However, isn't it too obvious to kill people using this martial arts?

I doubt it's not that simple.

Someone is trying to imitate you and frame you for this offense.

That's why you've been protecting Zhan Shi Qi,

and hid the truth about the sword wound.

You're a real detective.

Mr. Jian,

thank you for keeping it a secret.

Please accept my bow.

Master Hua that's what I should do it.

Master Hua, I kept my mouth shut to avoid unnecessary disturbance.

A sword wound isn't enough to solve the case.

As a detective, before finding out the truth,

I can't jump to the conclusion.

Please rise.

Thank you.

Let me be alone.

Zhao, let's go.

Jian, do you think that probably...

Hua Yuan and his master wanted to avenge for the late Eldest Master Li,

and that's why they killed Ah Jie?

If that's the case,

the best option for Hua Yuan was to kill both of us for a cover-up.

I don't know martial arts and you have no weapon.

Why does he want to wait?

Don't you think so?

You're right.

Zhao,

out of so many good weapons,

why are you carrying a big sickle like a farmer every day?

I don't know what is on your mind.

I like it heavy.

I feel better when I brandish it.

It's the best choice for me after much consideration.

So, I just use it.

Zhao, it looks like someone was here.

There's no one here. You must be mistaken.

No. I saw someone just now.

Let me ask you something.

You really don't know martial arts?

This...

I really don't know.

My father told me when I was young.

There are all kinds of experts in this martial world.

They are good at swords, daggers or batons.

None of them are as good as your father's Acupoint Technique.

I was wondering if you know it.

To be honest, the Acupoint Technique of Shenji Valley,

I've practised a little.

Really? Please teach me.

Zhao. Zhao.

Jian, are you joking?

Can you stop joking with me?

I haven't practiced it for a long time.

So, my skill has turned a bit rusty.

Regarding the specific reason,

I'll tell you tonight.

I think you really don't know about it.

I don't have to fight any more.

I'll make some good wine and food tonight.

Let's talk while we drink.

Okay.

Jian. It looks like your Acupoint Technique is working.

Jian, come back to save me.

- Jian.- Enough, stop pretending.

Miss Zhan, what brings you here?

I didn't say anything during the day.

Are you here to kill me?

I came to tell you something.

I've figured it out.

Someone was trying to kill me, right?

You're right.

It's not hard to guess.

We have a murder case here.

My job is to find out the murderer.

He won't let go of me.

My father wrote these in his notes before.

The closer the truth is,

the closer to the death too.

Hence,

he told me that a detective must learn martial arts.

How's your practice going?

I don't know martial arts,

but I won't die.

There's always someone who wants to know the truth more than I do.

They'll do everything they can to keep me alive.

I'm not interested in the truth.

Then, what are you doing here?

I'll leave after asking you a question.

Please ask.

Why did you save me today?

I'm just doing what I want to do.

Now, I'm going to do what I have to do.

Miss, what are you doing?

He is here.

Who is it?

The one who wants to kill you.

The murderous aura has vanished. He must have gone far away.

Miss Zhan, you're injured.

Take a seat.

Let me get you some medicine.

Did you see him?

No.

He didn't want to kill you. He came here to kill me.

And he was using a sword.

Right, he has great swordsmanship.

Who knows how to use a sword in here?

He keeps quite a low profile.

Forget about him. It's more important to treat your injury.

What are you doing?

I'm burning my wound to disinfect and stop the bleeding.

I have a better idea.

Sorry, I'm sorry. I didn't do it on purpose.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry.

The bleeding has stopped.

I can't believe you know this.

I don't know martial arts,

but to survive in this martial world,

I have to be good at some other skills.

Speaking of which,

how did you know that someone wanted to kill me?

As an assassin, I'm sensitive to murderous aura.

This morning, at the ancestral hall...and Ah Jie's room,

I felt some strong murderous aura.

It was coming for you.

You lured them away from Ah Jie's room...

because you wanted to protect me, right?

As a detective,

if you know the truth, you must reveal the truth, right?

You've been following me all day, haven't you?

What happened to your shoulder?

It's fine. It's an old wound.

Let me see.

This is a serious injury.

When did you get it?

Before I came here.

As an assassin,I've got used to it.

This is not a big deal.

Your wound is infected.

You might feel a little more painful than just now.

Bear with it.

Does it hurt?

My name is Zhan Shi Qi.

I'm an assassin.

I've been trained with assassination skill at Ten Killing Gate since young.

I was no different with other assassins.

I've forgotten who I killed for the first time.

But I remember my first slaughter.

The moment I accurately stabbed the sword to my target,

I realised that...

when human blood splattered on your arms,

it was as hot as boiling water.

Eventually, I realised,

I'm different from them.

I don't like to wear black.

I don't like hiding in the dark.

I used the money that I earned from killing...

to buy colorful clothes and beautiful accessories.

They filled up in my room.

I just don't have the chance to wear them.

What I fancy and what I hate,

made me hard to blend in with anyone else.

Anyway, after one of the operation,

I ran away.

No matter how painful it hurts,

I won't shout. That's the life of an assassin.

Even though, I've always thought...

it would be nice to have fair and smooth skin.

Zhan Shi Qi, you've to spend your whole life on the run.

What's the point?

You don't understand.

I don't know how long I can hide in this villa.

I don't know how long they can live in this martial world.

All I know is, I'm Zhan Shi Qi,

and I want to be a woman.

Why are you here in Hanyue Villa?

I heard that there is a competition here.

Everyone knows that...

there's Yan Mountain at the north and Hanyue at the south.

No one dares to simply trespass.

I took the opportunity to participate in the competition...

so that I could hide here and wait for my recovery.

But you are hurt more than before.

It's almost done.

Jian, look!

Zhao, why are you here?

Why is there no one in this room?

Jian, I've got something to ask you.

Tell me the truth.

Please ask.

Do you like Zhan Shi Qi?

I...

- What's wrong with you?- You're done!

You hesitated. I was right.

Zhao, you have misunderstood.

There's nothing between us.

Just now, someone wanted to kill me, that's why she came to my room

You didn't get it?

The way she looked at you wasn't right.

She looked at me in that way because I know she is an assassin.

She was afraid that I'd expose her identity.

No, the way she looked at you, it was definitely something.

Then...

I got it!

Because she is an assassin,

it's normal for her to have sharp eyes.

She has sharp eyes? Nonsense!

The way she looked at us was sharp.

The way she looked at you,

that was soft and gentle.

It was like she wanted to throw herself at you.

What? Throwing herself at me?

I don't know martial arts.

Why would she want to do so?

Jian, that was a scary idea.

Do you know how handsome you are?

Don't blame me for not reminding you.

This female assassin is not easy to deal with.

Zhao, she saved me.

I should repay her kindness.

It's good that you are grateful,

but this is a dangerous martial world.

If you're not careful enough,

your chastity would be gone.

What chastity?

You don't know?

Jian, let's do this.

I'll sleep with you from now on.

I'd guarantee your safety.

Okay.

You sleep with me then.

But you have to promise me one condition.

On what condition?

Don't say anything about Miss Zhan any more.

The chicken is cooked. Let's eat the chicken.

Zhao, I'm serious!

The chicken smells so good.

Jian, let's eat the chicken.

- The chicken smells so good.- Zhao, you...

- It smells good.- Zhao.

What's wrong?

Let's eat, it's done.

Jian, please sit.

Come on. We have wine and meat.

Jian, you've promised to tell me a story tonight.

Please tell.

It's a long story.

Everything should begin from eight years ago,

the tragedy of Shenji Valley.

The tragedy eight years ago that you mention...

is the Battle of Shenji Valley?

You know it too?

Of course I do.

That was the biggest mystery in the martial world.

Zhao, give me a bowl of wine.

Come on.

Nonetheless,

I just heard that...

a devil came from the Other World back then.

He was called Ban Jiang Ku Ye, Wang Hua.

He had wiped out the whole martial world.

In order to defeat him,

famous heroes from all around the martial world had joined forces.

But none of them made it back.

In the end, the owner of the valley, Jian Jin Huan,

was dead with this devil.

Were you in that battle?

I was there,

but I couldn't remember anything.

It was irony.

I experienced that myself,

but I don't know much more than you guys.

Why?

On the day of the incident,

I hurt my head and I've lost all my memories.

What happened that day?

Why did Wang Hua want to wipe out Zhongyuan?

How did my father and those martial arts experts fight him?

Why can't I fight?

Why was I the only one who survived?

I know nothing about these.

You came here to see Second Master Li...

because he can help you to regain your memory?

He can't help me regain my memory. I came for him...

because he fought in that battle as well.

All the martial arts experts whom my father had invited,

most of them had died in Shenji Valley.

Rumour has it that only four people survived.

Second Master Li of Hanyue Villa was one of them.

Another one is Master Bai Cao Zhe from Yanzhou,

Handy Tang from Changle Casino,

and Chief Wang from Santong Security.

Four of them are still alive.

I came here for Second Master Li to ask him about the tragedy.

He told me that, after the competition,

he'll tell me everything.

Where did you learn the detective skills?

It's a long story.

Jian, don't beat around the bush.

This good wine and food are served to you for your long story.

- Come on.- Come on, sister.

Come on.

- Come on.- Come on, Jian.

Bottoms up!

Tell us.

All my memories started under that big tree.

Eight years ago, when I woke up,

I realized that I couldn't remember anything.

My whole body was injured.

My head hurt.

I was very scared.

I didn't know why I was lying there.

I wasn't sure if someone was going to kill me at any time.

Suddenly, I found that...

I was holding a piece of jade with the word, Jian, engraved on it.

I started walking aimlessly with it.

Then, I passed by a village.

I heard the villagers...were talking about Jian Jin Huan of the Shenji Valley,

and how he fought Wang Hua till his death.

I was too hungry.

I ran into the kitchen.

Once I filled my stomach,

I had the energy to face things that happened after that.

Then?

I found Wang Hua's body in the kitchen.

He looked weird.

His hair was red and he didn't look like someone from Zhongyuan.

It was him...

who killed my father.

He killed so many heroes in the martial world.

When I saw his dead body,

I wasn't so scared any more.

I was filled with anger.

I wanted him to die one more time.

So, I picked up a wooden bucket and hit him hard.

That's when I realized that I don't know martial arts.

What did you do to him after that?

I beat up his dead body...

until I was exhausted.

Then, I disposed it at the forest to feed the wolves.

Did you get to know your family background from the villagers?

I found a notebook in my father's study.

There was an Acupoint Technique martial art books as well.

I learned the investigation skills from my father's writing.

Your father was good in both literature and martial arts.

Luckily, all those were still there.

As long as I've learned all those skills,

I will be able to continue to look for the truth.

What about the Acupoint Technique?

It was your father's specialty.

I don't master it.

Why?

I tried to learn it according to what my father wrote.

But my brain hurt like it was fried.

It has always been like this for the past four years.

In the end, I thought, possibly my brain was seriously injured.

So, I can't practice martial arts anymore.

It isn't a big deal.

But at the fourth year,

from my father's letter,

I suddenly realized that I've made a huge mistake.

A bigger secret was hidden.

It was also because of this mistake,

I've decided to leave the valley...

to seek the truth about the past.

Was there something wrong with your father's death?

It was the opposite.

There was something fishy about the death of Wang Hua.

Do you remember the strange red-haired corpse which I mentioned just now?

The Devil Wang Hua?

No, he wasn't.

He was the Western Region Master who's invited by my father.

His name was Nuo Xie.

He was a good man.

After this incident,

I searched through my father's letter again.

I checked all the bones.

But I still haven't found the owner of the Black Sword,

which is the real body of Wang Hua.

You mean, Wang Hua is not dead yet?

I'm not sure.

But it is also what I suspect.

Because I think what had happened back then,

wasn't that simple.

That's why I came to ask Second Master Li about the details.

With enough evidence,

I'd be able to continue my investigation.

It's good to forget.

It gives you a chance to choose again.

You're right.

When all these are done,

I should think about my future.

All right. You two shall stop talking about this now.

Jian, you're a detective,

I'm sure you'll get to the bottom of this.

Let's drink.

Come on.

I just want to have a drink.

What's going on?

It's about to rain.

Let's go back to our room.

Okay.

Let's move.

It's a real bummer.

My chicken!

Are you satisfied?

What are you doing?

You only know about eating.

Let's go!

Bad news!

Senior Brother is dead!

Bad news!

Bad news! Senior Brother is dead!

Bad news! Senior Brother is dead!

Senior Brother is dead!

Bad news! Senior Brother is dead!

Bad news! Senior Brother is dead!

Is there anyone?

Hurry up! Senior Brother is dead!

Over there!

Drop the axe.

Why do you let him go there?

Mind your own business.

Fall down.

Fall down.

Fall down.

That's all right.

This...

It was here this morning.

Why did you make such a joke early in the morning?

No, he was here this morning.

I was fixing the fence here this morning.

When I was fixing the second stick, I saw Senior Brother was lying there.

He was covered in blood, I saw it clearly.

There was a broadsword stabbed to his waist.

Where is his body?

Could it be that someone moved his body?

Where could it be moved to?

I know it.

After Hua Yuan killed himself,

he knew we would be here to take a look.

He was ashamed to face us.

So, the corpse came back to life and ran away?

How could a corpse run?

The corpse couldn't run?

What about that zombie? It even came with a horse carriage.

They're not the same.

The corpse came back to life.

What's the difference? They're all corpses.

Hua Yuan wouldn't commit suicide.

And his corpse wouldn't come back to life.

Even if he was murdered,

then he should be appeared at...

Something is up! Come with me.

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