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The underworld.

Science.

Punch and kick.

The truth.

A great swimmer.

Forensics.

Sorceress.

Reporter.

Weak body.

Special detective.

Mother.

Secretary of municipal government.

An individual with unsurpassed and exceptional abilities.

Young Master.

Belongs to the Great God.

The heiress.

Neither a smoker nor a drunkard.

What is the use of having power and money?

Can't stand the sight of you.

Not bad. Reasonable and fair.

Take a bath.

Are you kidding me?

Not finicky.

There are clues.

Germany.

Spirit channeling.

Big news.

Chamber of Commerce for Water Transportation.

Master.

De-you!

Father.

Not messing things up.

Not afraid of things.

Inference.

Evidence.

Childhood sweetheart.

The people of Tientsin.

Mao Ding.

De-you Guo.

-River God. -River God.

-River God. -River God.

EPISODE 7

Look at the jasmine

It blooms in the moonlight

Is that Jasmine?

It is the only flower to be remembered

If you're blessed

I first met Zi-xian here,

although the date was arranged by our families.

This is also the place where I first heard this song.

I thought of this place when you mentioned "Jasmine."

I'm sorry

for reminding you of your pain.

It's not exactly a painful memory.

It's just something that bothers me, that's all.

I get all fidgety inside whenever this engagement is mentioned.

When I think about it,

I think I can understand.

You used to live abroad on your own. You were free and unrestrained.

How can you understand?

I forced my dad

to send me abroad.

At that time, I thought I'd be free to live life as I wanted.

But I returned to this place eventually.

After all, I'm the only son of our family.

In retrospect,

I seemed to live the previous years

for the sake of others.

I guess we are kindred spirits

who sympathize with each other and save each other from the same fret.

That must be the case

since you put it that way.

Just like the lyrics from an opera.

"Mountains are in the west and seas are in the east.

Mountains and rivers are connected.

People are all friends.

In a small world, people can meet everywhere."

Cheers.

Come in, please.

This way, please.

Look at the jasmine

It blooms in the moonlight

Amid a dazzling cluster of flowers

It is the only flower to be remembered

If you're blessed

Can I take your order?

Water, please. And a pot of hot tea.

I'm sorry, sir. We don't serve hot beverages.

No hot beverages?

What do you have then?

We have wine, juice and sparkling water.

Sparkling water?

It sounds crispy, right?

Let me try that.

And two of your signature dishes, please.

-Please wait a moment. -All right.

Look at the jasmine It blooms in the moonlight

De-you.

It's only a dinner.

You don't have to be so extravagant.

You take me to such a beautiful place,

and there's even a live band here.

Do you have anything to tell me?

Go ahead.

I'm all ears.

What kind of music is this?

It's coy and tacky.

I've never heard of it before.

But it's quite nice.

Here's your order, sir.

What is she singing on the stage?

The title of the song is "Jasmine".

Inspired by "Flower Tune" where Zhang-sheng teased Ying-ying,

in the story Romance of the West Chamber.

Due to its romantic lyrics, the ladies are always brought here to enjoy it.

So is this song about jasmine flower?

Not really, ma'am. Only in name.

We believe, this ardently subtle song connotes the love between lovebirds.

That's enough. You're free to go.

All right, sir. Please enjoy your dinner.

What's with the trouble?

It's enough as long as you keep me in your heart.

You don't have to go to this extent.

Why is this water so pungent?

What a strange sharp taste.

It's obvious

that De-you is the most carefree one.

Nothing worries him.

He only has to take care of himself.

Everyone has their own life to care about.

I guess it's best to focus on what's happening to you.

With the death of the president,

the only person left to be accountable for his duties is you.

What you've achieved is impressive enough.

If I were you,

I'd probably screw it all up.

Mr. Ding.

Yes?

Why do you want to find "Jasmine"?

Apart from dining and listening to songs,

is there anything else you can do in this restaurant?

My mom said a girl of class must be more dignified.

She doesn't allow me to follow you so often.

But I love to be around you.

I feel safe every time I see you.

If I go on like this,

will I be bothering you?

-Of course. -Come on, just be honest.

If I'm really bothering you,

you wouldn't have taken me to such a fancy place.

Do you have any money?

-What? -Look at all these people around you.

They are either toffs with deep pockets like Mao,

or fair ladies from rich families and scions of officials like Lan-lan.

Without money, one can't sit in such grand place.

You...

Didn't you bring money?

I brought you.

Listen.

As long as I'm with you, bread and water will be good enough.

Shall we go?

The dishes are not served yet.

Let's eat Go Believe buns.

The dishes are not served, but you've already drunk the water.

And it's imported water.

Is it expensive?

It's pumped from a foreign well

and specially carried here.

Go figure.

One must pay for whatever one had in a restaurant.

But if the restaurant isn't clean, and if diners find fault in the servings,

one can have the meal for free,

let alone the water.

What do you mean, De-you?

Ying.

Yes?

Hold on to your seat.

The thing that will happen soon

may be beyond your expectation.

But in case of any trouble,

you'll have to bear it with me.

Trouble?

Mouse!

A big mouse!

Waiter, there's a mouse!

Come over here! There's a mouse!

Don't step on it!

Over there!

It's over there!

It's running over there!

It's right there!

Goodness, it's back here again.

Right there!

The mouse is right over there!

A mouse!

It's not here.

It's running over there.

Be careful. There it is!

De-you?

Go to the back.

De-you!

They went straight to the back without dining.

There's also a guard. There's something fishy going on.

What are you going to do?

Don't ask too much. I have no time to explain.

Just wing it.

What time is it?

Well, I believe

it's around 4:00 p.m. or 5:00 p.m.

Calculated by the altitude and angle of the sun,

it's past 5:00 p.m., not 6:00 p.m. yet.

Please go back, guys.

Will you only listen

-When I call for help? -What are you doing?

What are you waiting for? Let's go!

Sorry.

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen.

Would you like a private room or the hall?

A private room, please.

Very well. Follow me.

Let's go, De-you.

This way, please.

Please come in.

Feel free to take a seat.

Hey!

What would you like to have today?

We'll have the most expensive one.

This young master knows how to enjoy life.

I'll be right back.

De-you.

Are you okay?

I'm all right.

Tientsin has been banning opium for so many years.

Anti-opium movement

is just all bark and no bite.

Ying Gu.

Ying Gu.

De-you, what happened to you?

De-you, are you all right?

De-you!

Hey!

Pretend to be asleep.

Hey, stop right there.

What time is it?

Okay, you can go.

Now I know why they asked us about the time just now.

Turns out pocket watch is their secret pass.

De-you.

De-you!

Mao, something is wrong with De-you.

De-you!

De-you!

-I brought your opium paste. -Okay.

Shall I serve right now?

Well, let us go to the bathroom first.

That's right.

-We need to use the bathroom. -All of you?

All of us need to use it.

Hey!

What time is it?

Run!

Don't move!

-Be quick! -Stop right there!

Hurry up!

Go!

Mao!

De-you!

Let's go!

De-you!

De-you, where are you going?

De-you, the exit is here!

De-you!

De-you!

De-you.

De-you.

How do you know about this secret chamber?

It's a rarity in the north.

What is it?

This is a loquat, a seedling of loquat.

Hey!

Stop chatting. Let's find a way to get out.

De-you can't stand smoke, let alone the opium.

De-you.

De-you.

Look, I've found a way out.

Hurry. We should go.

Hey!

Stop!

Hurry up!

Get out of the way. Give some room!

This is a police matter. Get out of the way!

Come on! Just get out of the way!

Let the police handle this.

It caused quite a stir.

It's rather important.

-Dizzy Head. -Yes, sir.

Get me their details and ask them how long they've been smoking opium.

Okay.

Go.

Move it.

Be quick! Go!

Go.

-Go. -Wait a minute.

Who's in charge

of this place?

Ms. Wang.

I see.

Where is she?

I don't know. I've never seen her.

-Is that right? -Yes.

Go ahead and be quick.

Come on. Keep up.

De-you, have some water.

Be quick!

Be quick, will you?

Be quick.

Line up!

Line up!

Staff and opium smokers must stand separately. Stand apart!

Hurry up!

Mr. Ding.

-Captain Fu, you must've worked hard. -Don't say that.

This is a massive slap in my face.

Within just one day,

you found out such a big opium house.

Our department will get a full mark for our yearly performance evaluation.

The credit goes to you.

We can have a rest for the latter half of the year.

-Captain Fu, I'll be frank with you. -Okay.

We are at the crime scene,

so let's just talk about the case, all right?

Of course.

Go ahead.

Whose opium house is this? Do you have any clue?

I've asked around.

They said Ms. Wang is in charge, but nobody has ever seen him before.

Are you sure?

If there's no manager on site for such a big opium house,

how is it running?

The staff said that

their manager had never been directly involved in the business.

I guess he has either run away in chaos,

or didn't turn up at all.

Have you searched their office?

Did you search the notes inside, the people they were in contact with,

or if they've had any visit from any big shot?

What?

I have no idea.

This is a big hotel.

With such a large stock,

how can there be no trace at all?

Do you think that makes any sense?

If you think it doesn't make sense, then it really doesn't.

Well,

let's take them to the police station and have them interrogated individually.

When can I finish interrogating all of them?

It's up to you.

I'm a man of my words.

You'll have full authority over the opium case.

As a special detective, this is part of your job.

All right.

I've got a rough picture of the situation here.

There are a handful of difficult cases at the police station

which I must investigate myself.

I can't spare my time to help you.

I'll leave few officers to guard the entrance for you.

I excuse myself now.

Let's go.

What are you doing?

Are you learning fortune-telling from the Little Sorceress?

Ms. Wang.

You must be very tired.

You've got the wrong person.

What's with the prepared opium paste on your fingers?

When scraping a living in such a place,

It's only natural for me to fumble

and rub off on some dirty stuff.

How can I know where I got it from?

How do you explain the smell on your body?

You can't be serious, sir.

I'm working at an opium house. Surely you can smell it on my clothes.

Others have a very obvious smell of opium over them.

Not on you.

Not only is there a faint smell of opium, but there's also a vague

and indistinct scent on you.

Do I? What kind of scent?

Come here and help me.

You're an expert at this. Tell me what fragrance it is.

Get out of the way!

The powder and rouge are common ones.

But the soap

is peculiar.

Tell me more.

Canaan agarwood, Songpan musk, pearls, jade splinters and roses.

Those are expensive!

I can't stand the smell of smoke since I was a child.

My master has tried every possible way of masking the smell of smoke.

Soaps made of these spices with an ancient craft can dispel smoke,

retain fragrance and calm the mind with its elegant yet subtle fragrance.

You know a thing or two, sir.

I'm the same as you.

I hate the smell of smoke.

It makes me nauseated.

So I use the soap every day.

Every day?

A soap made of such expensive spices is not affordable to ordinary people.

As a woman,

I don't mind spending on these even if I need to starve myself.

Especially when I'm working here.

I saw your ledger account in the opium house.

Guess what I smelt on it?

Canaan agarwood, Songpan musk,

pearls, jade splinters and roses.

Of all the people here, only you have this kind of smell.

Ledger account is a classified material

which ordinary staff can't get their hands on.

Will you still insist you aren't Ms. Wang?

So what?

The soap is expensive,

but it is not a rarity.

What you said can only prove that we are using the same kind of soap.

It can't prove I entered that secret chamber

and touched the ledger account.

The secret chamber?

Did I mention it just now?

I caught sight of the ledger account by chance

when Mr. Ding was confiscating it.

I didn't even know

that there is a secret chamber.

Guards.

Take her away.

President.

Everything is all right.

Young Master has been safe and sound

without a mishap or trouble.

This is a blessing for our Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Ding, please rest assured.

-Mr. Hu. -Yes?

Why are you still here at this hour?

Back then at this hour of the night,

your dad was always suffering a relapse and coughing.

I can't hear it now.

And I'm not used to it.

They are fresh loquat from Dongting Lake.

Good for your lung. Have one.

Your dad can't eat it now.

My dad had a bronchial problem.

Loquats couldn't heal that illness.

This was his favorite.

It's sour and cool.

It soothed his throat.

Does it bear fruit easily?

Why do you ask?

I think loquat has a strong vitality.

Spit the pip into a flower pot when you finish it,

and it can grow into a seedling.

Well...

Mr. Hu.

Are you still keeping something from me?

How can I?

Shipping record of opium trafficking.

How did you get this?

In Juhua Grand Hotel,

there is a big secret opium house.

There's a secret chamber there too.

Inside the drawer of a chiffonier in the secret chamber,

we found this record.

Do you recognize the signature on the record?

There was a pot of orchid in the corner

with some seedlings in it.

Loquat seedlings.

This is loquat!

I wonder

if our organization does this business.

Impossible.

In order to make you take over the Chamber of Commerce without a hitch,

the goods we've been selling these years were hand-picked by Mr. Ding.

We totally avoid illegal businesses.

Deities above my head can be my witness.

I don't know why it has your dad's signature here.

Since you don't know the fact either,

I'll have to dig into it myself.

Mr. Ding.

Opium trafficking is a felony.

Before things are sorted out,

please do keep this a secret.

The president is dead

and nothing is certain right now.

I'm afraid if you continue to pursue this case,

it'll harm both our Chamber of Commerce and you. What can I do then?

The president lived his life with dignity.

We can't destroy his reputation!

Even if you don't want to tell me,

I can discover it myself.

Ms. Wang.

You and I are both wise enough

to speak directly to each other.

Tientsin has been banning opium for years.

You can't have such a big deal

and such a large stock

without alarming top government's leadership.

I just want to know

which ways you've used

to keep this opium house out of trouble.

Mr. Ding, I'm flattered.

I feel like a shield that takes bullet for others.

I wasn't involved in all aspects of relationship maintenance with clients.

The real owner of this opium house is Zi-xian Qian.

He hires me

just to manage the subordinates.

Ms. Wang, do you stay at the opium house every day?

I have to keep myself busy as long as there is a patron.

Do you remember

the last time

when Mr. Qian came?

He's a busy man.

He doesn't come often.

I can't remember clearly.

Several days ago, it was Ms. Xiao's engagement party.

As her fiancé, Mr. Qian didn't turn up.

If so,

it has already been half a month or so.

I've looked at your ledger.

Mr. Qian likes opium very much.

He visits the place in every couple of days.

As a manager of the opium house,

he hasn't come for over half a month.

Are you not curious?

The boss has the authority to urge his subordinates to work.

And I have none.

I can only assume that he was busy with important matters and was unable to come.

Ms. Wang, do you remember

the Yaowa Pier floating corpse case?

I've heard about it.

It has a death toll of over 100.

Our police station has never disclosed the specific death toll to the public.

You are very well informed.

I heard about it from my neighbors.

I don't know the facts.

What a coincidence.

The death toll is indeed over 100.

Besides that,

they were all opium smokers when they were alive.

They died at different times, but were soaked in the same place.

One night,

they all popped up.

They scattered all over the river.

Whom can these 100 human lives

turn to for all their grievances?

I believe every injustice has its perpetrator.

Anyway, it's none of my business.

I got paid for doing what I was told to.

Mr. Ding, please do dig it up.

We've already dug it up.

Don't wait for us to disclose it all.

You are a lady,

so I've been polite to you.

If you were a male criminal,

I wouldn't put on

such a nice look on my face.

Mr. Ding.

-Do you believe in Buddhism? -I only believe in science.

By practicing Buddhism, one practices for the afterlife.

The thing one pursues in one's lifetime

will only come in their next life.

But retribution

can't wait for a whole life.

What are you trying to say?

Mr. Qian managed to get a batch of new stuff out of nowhere.

He said its taste was pure and strong.

But it had a very spotty quality

which made people die occasionally.

I tried to persuade him.

It was already immoral of us to sell opium.

It was all right to be after the money, but not so to kill people.

We could cover up once or twice,

but if one more were to die,

nobody would be able to cover it up anymore.

But Mr. Qian said

that he would soon become the son-in-law of Secretary-General Xiao.

If anything went wrong, Xiao's family would be there for him.

But I was forced to dispose

the bodies of those dead smokers.

Otherwise, he would make me a criminal.

I couldn't afford that.

So I gathered several waiters

and found an abandoned well in the north of the city.

When nobody was around at night, we dumped all the bodies into it.

One day,

Mr. Qian got very drunk

before he came to the opium house.

He insisted on smoking his stuff.

We didn't dare to stop him.

This is called retribution in the current life.

Those dead smokers

came back to haunt him.

What did you do with Mr. Qian's body?

Like other dead bodies,

it was thrown into that abandoned well.

That's not an abandoned well.

It is a drainage pipe

excavated by an abandoned paper mill on the sly.

It's connected to Yaowa Pier.

This is the retribution.

Have you seen this before?

"A batch of new stuff"? Don't try to fool me.

Those people died from cyanide poisoning.

Do you want me to plod along with you until dawn?

Mr. Ding.

No.

Mr. Ding.

Are you sure you want to know?

I must know.

Before we were selling that batch of new stuff,

the opium house's supply all came

from your Chamber of Commerce.

Furthermore,

our first point of contact was the president, Yi-qiu Ding.

The retribution in current life

is inescapable.

Water is on top of fire.

On the ninth day, move forward like a cart being held back,

like a fox crossing the river with a dampened tail to avoid trouble.

It's not an ominous prediction.

But this type of result is prone to changes.

This is an ominous sign.

You understand hexagram reading better than I do.

But where there's a will, there's a way.

You simply need to keep an eye on your daughter.

You don't have to worry about anything else.

You're well aware of the things that have happened lately.

I'm not afraid of anything except Ancient Evil Gang.

Don't mention them.

Chun Guo.

I'm telling you.

If anything happens,

De-you and Ying will definitely be affected.

You know very well what their backgrounds are.

Listen, you'd better keep De-you on a leash.

Don't let him wander around.

We must be careful.

It's been 20 years.

Why can't I let it go?

Has it been 20 years?

Those two kids have all grown up.

Subtitle translation by Judy Lu