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♪ Always, always ♪

♪ That day, that day ♪

♪ You came into my sight ♪

♪ The moment we met ♪

♪ My whole world lit up ♪

♪ Every moment with you is special ♪

♪ Yeah ♪

♪ Come closer, closer ♪

♪ You take my breath away ♪

♪ Let me hear, let me see ♪

♪ We're destined to be together ♪

♪ I knew it when our eyes met ♪

♪ Always in love ♪

♪ You are the answer I've been waiting for ♪

♪ Oh my beautiful, beautiful ♪

♪ Beautiful, beautiful love ♪

♪ My heart ♪

♪ Always in love ♪

♪ Yes you are my shining star ♪

♪ I'll light up your sky every summer night ♪

♪ You can trust me ♪

= No Secrets =

= Episode 20 =

What?

How could I possibly kill Ms. Zhao?

To my knowledge, 10 years ago,

the victim's daughter proved your crime of

attempted murder at a court trial.

And you happened

to work for the victim.

Don't tell me this is just coincidence.

I just wanted to repay them.

Is this a confession of your crime?

No, it's a misunderstanding!

I have been wronged!

Wronged?

Do you think I'll believe you?

Look Miss,

there must be some misunderstanding.

That year I had the accident,

yes,

I was too tired to drive.

But that was an accident!

She misunderstood what happened.

How could I possibly murder someone?

In that case,

you were stuck in jail for years because of her.

You must really hate her.

No, I don't.

I only feel guilty.

My mistake

caused the death of their loved ones.

I blame myself.

I wish for nothing but their forgiveness.

I hope they feel my sincerity.

I don't think the victim's daughter

believes you, right?

Right.

And I understand why.

But even so I'd never...

Ms. Zhao was really nice to me.

She knew I had been in prison,

but she still employed me,

so that I could make a living.

On my birthday,

she even

made dumplings for me.

It's been many years

since someone treated me so nicely.

Sounds like you are really innocent.

I really am innocent!

I'm begging you. Help me out, please.

Clear my name.

Persuade Misss Lin.

For 10 years,

I was labeled a murderer.

That was punishment enough.

Was it enough?

Li Junwei,

if you really wanted to clear your name,

Lin Xingran wouldn't be in so much pain right now!

The 10 years in prison taught you nothing.

You are still just as shameless

and vicious

as you were 10 years ago.

Just who are you?

At the scene of the accident 10 years ago,

there was another witness

besides Lin Xingran. Remember?

I know you're here somewhere.

I know you can hear me.

Listen carefully.

That's right. Hide yourselves.

Hide forever!

If you dare tell anybody what happened tonight,

I'll find you and make you pay!

If you dare turn me in,

I swear

I'll kill the both of you!

Do you hear me?

I heard Xingran hasn't been eating

since her mother's death.

I'll try my best to take care of her.

You helped her with her mother's funeral,

and many other difficult matters.

You've been very helpful.

But still she doesn't want to talk to me.

She doesn't want to talk to anybody.

Xiaoyang,

you've done all that you can.

Don't feel bad.

But seeing how she looks now,

makes me so worried.

"Mom, I wish you

good health, happiness

and well-being.

When I'm rich,

I'll buy you a big house!"

Xingran,

a person's life is very fleeting.

Spend your limited time on this earth

with the ones you love.

Don't squander it

on the ones you hate.

Understand?

♪ Come back to me baby ♪

♪ When you need me ♪

♪ I will be right here waiting for you ♪

♪ Don't let me wait for you love anymore ♪

♪ I'm here to stay ♪

I know you don't want to see me now.

That's why I'm just writing to you.

♪ I want to see your face ♪

♪ And when that day is here ♪

♪ I'll keep you here by my side ♪

♪ I swear ♪

I'm so sorry I caused you

so much pain.

But please don't blame yourself for this.

Your courage is no joke.

You gave me a reason

to keep living 10 years ago.

Lin Xingran, please hang in there.

♪ I will be right here waiting for you ♪

♪ Don't let me wait for your love anymore ♪

Those you love haven't stopped existing.

They just exist in a different form now.

♪ I want to hear your voice ♪

♪ I want to see your face ♪

♪ And when that day is here ♪

♪ I'll keep you here by my side ♪

♪ I see the question ♪

I'll be right by your side

whenever you need me.

♪ I swear by the moon, the stars in the sky ♪

♪ I'll give you everything, oh ♪

♪ Tell me why do I love you without your command ♪

♪ Maybe there is no way to make you understand ♪

♪ I swear I'll be your shadow and stay by your side ♪

Please let me stay.

♪ Come back to me baby ♪

♪ When you need me ♪

♪ I will be right here waiting for you ♪

♪ Don't make me wait for your love anymore ♪

♪ I'm here to stay ♪

Miss Lin,

keep it up!

I will always be by your side.

♪ I want to see your face ♪

♪ And when that day is here ♪

♪ I'll keep you here by my side ♪

♪ Always ♪

♪ I swear ♪

Please let me stay.

Li Junwei,

your case will be heard in court next week.

You are entitled to appoint a lawyer

to defend your case.

I want to appoint a lawyer.

= Lin Xingran = = I want to see you =

I just got a call from the prosecutor's office.

Li Junwei has asked for you to defend him.

Why me?

He's up to something.

Don't worry about that right now.

It's your decision.

I know how you feel about Lin Xingran,

so I understand you might have misgivings.

But according to the law,

we cannot say a defendant is guilty

until he is formally charged.

But Li Junwei is different!

He was put in jail 10 years ago

because of Lin Xingran.

He must still be holding a grudge.

As lawyers,

we can't be driven by our emotions.

If we let our subjective emotions prevail,

we betray our professional ethnics.

We don't know for sure that Li Junwei is guilty.

Even if he is,

you need to keep in mind

that you are a lawyer.

Your clients might be thieves,

robbers or even merciless murderers.

Does that mean, as a lawyer,

you shouldn't defend them?

I've got a point, right?

Sleep on it.

Where are you going?

To work.

Why don't you just stay home and rest?

Otherwise, I'll worry.

I need some fresh air.

What's more,

the firm will lose cases

without me there.

I have to be strong for the company,

for you,

and more importantly, for my mom.

Don't worry.

How could he do this?

He's trying to divide us!

You're right!

There are plenty of lawyers are out there,

but he specifically asked for Mr. Zhang.

Obviously, he's trying to make things worse.

He wants to hurt Xingran even more!

What are you doing here?

Shouldn't you be on vacation?

What you said is true?

Yes.

No, no.

Mr. Zhang has not decided yet.

I just heard.

I'm going to refuse.

Why?

My mom

was the only family I had in the world.

That man...

should die a million times.

But this matter is complicated.

Other defense lawyers

may not believe me.

But you are different.

You believe me, right?

You are on my side, right?

Don't worry.

I will discover the truth.

I trust you.

Xingran.

Thank you.

Hello?

Sorry, Mr. Zhang. Something happened.

I'm afraid you can't meet Li Junwei today.

What happened?

He tried to commit suicide just now.

He is in the hospital.

10 years ago, because of my mistake,

little Jiang Xia lost his father forever.

I've been blaming myself for that this whole time.

I longed to make up for my mistake one day.

So, after being released,

I found Jiang Xia and Lin Xingran

and asked for their forgiveness,

hoping that they would not fear me anymore.

But I didn't expect that

they still misunderstood what had happened.

They remained terrified and hostile towards me.

But despite that,

I wanted to show my sincerity.

So I turned to Miss Lin's mother.

I wanted to do something to help them

so they would know I was sincere.

Luckily,

Ms. Zhao believed in me.

She genuinely cared about me.

To her, I was a normal person.

But I failed to keep her safe.

This mistake made me look like a murderer again.

If I had found there was a gas leak a bit earlier,

and if I had repaired the circuit breaker,

or if I had gotten her

out of there sooner,

then perhaps,

this would not have happened.

I'm guilty of that.

So I want to take my own life to atone for that,

and to clear up the accusation

of murder against me.

I want my soul to be free

and not be tied down by regret.

Mr. Zhang Xiaoyang...

I don't believe this suicide note.

It's just a trick.

If you really wanted to take your life,

you would have done it during the night,

not during the day.

I just wanted to die.

I didn't think about that.

If you want to die,

why ask me to defend you?

I want to

prove my innocence and clear my name

before I die.

You know Miss Lin is my friend.

Why do you think I would help you?

Because

you, Mr. Zhang,

are a rational and thorough lawyer.

If you can see things from my perspective

and defend my case,

Miss Lin will finally believe me.

An upstanding lawyer like herself

must also want to know

the truth.

Right?

As lawyers,

we cannot be driven by our emotions.

If we let our subjective emotions prevail,

we betray our professional ethnics.

We don't know for sure that Li Junwei is guilty.

Even if he is,

you need to keep in mind

that you are a lawyer.

Your clients might be thieves,

robbers, or even merciless murderers.

Does that mean, as a lawyer,

you shouldn't defend them?

How was Li Junwei's relationship with Zhao Lanying?

They got along well with each other.

You know,

Li was diligent and hardworking.

He always volunteered to do the heavy work.

If he was there, he'd let Lanying rest.

In return,

she was nice to him.

She even made him dumplings.

We all saw

what happened that night.

Yes, yes, we did. We saw it.

Li risked his own life trying

to rush into the restaurant to save her.

Sir,

you must help him.

Sir,

Li is innocent, I'm sure.

Help him out, please.

Yes, please.

When he was a volunteer here,

he did a really good job.

He was always ready to help

both the patients and the staff.

Once, he even gave his own money

to help a patient who had financial problems.

That's true.

Li was always frank and honest.

He would never kill anyone.

He always talked about doing more good things

to make up for his previous mistakes.

To tell you the truth, a few of our volunteers

were also in prison before.

But now they are all good people.

Can't they try to start over with a clean slate?

Sir,

please help prove

his innocence.

Good evening, everyone. -Please!

I'm currently reporting from Zhenhua Road.

-Hey, look at this. -What is it?

-Did you hear about this? -No, what is it?

Mr. Zhang Xiaoyang has taken on this case.

As defense counsel?

That's right.

They work at the same firm, don't they?

Indeed.

He's that magnanimous?

What is he thinking?

Look at this. See this?

Let's talk.

About what?

I don't need your condolences.

Since you're being so hostile,

I guess you don't need my condolences.

So you really planned to console me?

I don't care about things like that.

I just don't want to see Li Junwei

get off scot-free.

Mr. Zhang has agreed to defend him.

He won't let that murderer go free.

Then you know nothing about Mr. Zhang.

He believes me.

Lin Xingran,

how can you still be so simple-minded?

The world is not that simple.

I don't need to listen to this.

The prosecutor is a friend of my father's.

An upstanding man.

I have just talked to him.

He said that there are many uncertainties

that he may not be convicted.

This will be much tougher than you think.

Still preparing for the hearing?

I've been thinking about our talk.

Maybe I was too harsh.

No human being can be totally indifferent.

If I were you,

I may not be able to make up my mind.

If you have any misgivings,

please ignore my previous words.

I've made up my mind.

I'll do what I was trained to as a lawyer.

= The 1st People's Court of Wanjiang =

What brings you here?

I came to learn

from the amazing Mr. Zhang.

Don't joke with me.

I'm not in the mood right now.

I meant it.

I would love to see

how you defend him.

This is just another case to me. It's not special.

Nothing's different about it.

You're still the Zhang Xiaoyang I knew.

Still as indifferent

and rational as before.

Yet since this involves Lin Xingran, I wonder

what you will do?

10 years ago,

I walked through this same door.

But this time,

I'm fighting for my own justice and truth.

I'm here with you.

The hearing will now begin.

10 years ago, Li Junwei, the defendant,

was found guilty of attempted murder due to

the testimony

of the victim's daughter.

He held a grudge against her and

purposely befriended the victim after his release.

He faked his identity

and planned his revenge.

At 8:40 pm

on April 25th,

the defendant broke the food court's

central circuit breaker,

causing a power outage.

He then returned to the victim's restaurant,

knocked the victim out with a blunt object,

and turned on the gas

to fake an accident.

The defendant's revenge is premeditated,

which is a violation of

the PRC Criminal Law,

article 232: Intentional Homicide.

Defense counsel, will your

client confess his crime as stated above?

Defense counsel?

Defense counsel?

What's going on?

My client denies the accusation.

My client, Li Junwei,

is not guilty.

How could you do this to me?

Xingran, please stay calm.

How can I stay calm?

He plotted to kill my mom.

His motive is obvious enough.

Getting close to your mother

does not constitute a motive for murder.

And it is possible that he wanted your forgiveness,

but turned to your mother instead

since you two were hostile towards him.

He wanted to atone for his crime.

Atone?

By killing another person?

Perhaps it really was an accident.

Zhang Xiaoyang!

Do you really believe that?

Seriously, an accident?

We have evidence from the crime scene

that proves that Li Junwei was there that day.

But it's not strange to find the fingerprints

and footprints of an employee there.

Besides,

the blunt object

he supposedly used has not been found yet.

The investigation also showed that

the explosion may have been caused by a gas leak.

What about

the circuit breaker?

It was broken intentionally.

How do you explain that?

We don't know how it was broken.

There was a power outage.

Maybe Ms. Zhao stepped on a chair

to fix the electricity in her restaurant.

But then she fell off and hit her head.

It was Li Junwei who hit Ms. Zhao,

leaked the gas,

and then faked his innocence.

What tool did he use to hit her?

What about the severe injury he got

trying saving her?

He could've hidden the tool.

Trying to save her?

He only did that to gain sympathy

and cover his tracks.

Do you have evidence?

Jiang Xia,

this is just speculation, right?

Based on what you've just said,

you also can't conclude

that Li Junwei did it, can you?

Don't do this.

Please,

please believe me.

Li Junwei did it.

He killed my mom.

I know he did. I know.

Please believe me.

Please!

Please...

Xingran,

if it's possible they are not guilty,

then as a lawyer,

we should spare no effort

to defend our clients.

This is the law.

Why are you fighting against me?

Xingran,

I know it's been hard since your mom died.

But don't forget that

we are lawyers.

We can't let our emotions control us.

Ms. Zhao was always nice to me.

I know that

she was a kind and upstanding woman.

The last thing she would want to see

is an innocent man being wronged.

Nor would she want to see you suffering alone

and filled with hatred.

Say no more.

If you still want to uphold justice,

calmly think about this.

A single wrong decision

may ruin the life of an innocent man.

I said that's enough!

Do you care about her feelings at all?

= Justice = = For the People =

My client frequently volunteered

and helped various charities.

He was trying to atone for his mistake

10 years ago.

He then went to work at the victim's restaurant.

According to the testimony

of the victim's neighbors,

my client worked hard all day long,

and never complained.

He also got along well with the victim.

This explains why he

tried to save the victim

despite endangering himself.

In my opinion,

the motive is open to question,

there is insufficient evidence,

and the facts of the crime are unclear.

Thus, the defendant, should be found not guilty.

Prosecuting defense,

do you have anything to add?

Your Honor,

just because we haven't found

evidence or a witness to confirm his crime,

it's too soon to say the defendant is not guilty.

We believe this case has many suspicious aspects.

Thus, we request a continuance

to keep investigating.

All rise.

The prosecution believes

this case requires further investigation

and has asked for a continuance.

We grant this motion,

and will hold a retrial for this case

within one month.

Dismissed.

A continuance is pointless.

After 10 years,

I'll still get the idiots here to believe me.

There's no way you will win.

Mr. Zhang.

Thank you.

Since the prosecution asked for an extension,

we still have a chance.

Don't give up hope.

I will never give up on this.

Li Junwei killed my mom on purpose.

I will find evidence to prove that.

Zhang Xiaoyang.

I was right about you.

You're still so heartless.

What's your point?

I just mean

you always put justice first.

You can't even make

an exception for Lin Xingran.

Someone else would represent Mr. Li

if I didn't.

The outcome wouldn't be different.

But you are the one who's defending him now.

Falling into an abyss isn't the worst thing.

Being pushed into the abyss from someone

you care about is.

Although we don't know for sure

who was it that killed her mother,

you are the one who has already killed

Xingran's hope!

Please,

please believe me.

Li Junwei did it.

If it's possible they are not guilty,

then as a lawyer,

we should spare no effort

to defend our clients.

This is the law.

What is the possibility of

finding new evidence?

The crime scene was destroyed,

so there's barely any evidence.

Based on the current situation,

I'm not optimistic.

But...

there were surveillance cameras,

around the restaurant, right?

Have they all been checked?

Every single one of them?

The police thoroughly checked those

before sending them to the procuratorate.

Several of the monitors were broken.

Li Junwei wasn't seen in any

of the footage we have.

Maybe he broke those monitors.

We also thought about that,

but have no evidence

to prove that Li Junwei broke them.

To make things worse,

he has an alibi.

One of the neighbors said

Li Junwei was with him

when the explosion took place.

He then saw Li try to run back in there

to save you mother.

Trust me!

Li Junwei did it. It's him!

He's got a motive. He hates me.

10 years ago, it was my very testimony

that sent him to prison.

Yes, I know that.

But we cannot

sentence him purely on motive.

You are a lawyer yourself.

You know better than I do.

No matter how much evidence we find,

unless it's damning evidence,

he will never be sentenced.

This is how the law works.

But what else can we do?

All we can do is look for new evidence,

such as the murder weapon

or a witness who can

prove he's lying.

Is it possible to

find new evidence?

Is it?

It seems unlikely.

But since the case is still open,

we will try our best.

You seem happy.

Look, in today's writing test,

I scored one point higher than Lin Xingran.

"My Father".

It's just one more point, no big deal.

It's not about the score.

It's about me defeating Lin Xingran.

Does winning mean that much to you?

My dad told me

there are only two kinds of people,

those on the top and everyone else.

You have to be number one to be remembered.

So I must beat her.

But you are both wrong.

Once you grow up you'll discover that

winning doesn't really matter.

And losing is not the end of the world.

You know what really matters?

Staying true to yourself.

I see.

What about you? Are you true to yourself now?

I am.

Because I met a charming man in a suit.

Thanks to him, I dared to be myself.

Is he cute?

Yes, very cute.

I would like to meet

a charming man in a suit, too.

♪ If our past no longer exists ♪

♪ I'll create a future with you ♪

♪ Searching in the deep, dark ocean ♪

♪ The seawater is salty like tears ♪

♪ I swim past shipwrecks and glaciers ♪

♪ I've found you ♪

♪ Come back to me, wherever you are ♪

♪ I will be right here waiting for you ♪

♪ Whatever the future holds ♪

♪ I'm not scared ♪

♪ I'll find you again ♪

♪ Stars reflected in the deep ocean ♪

♪ I'm a whale chasing the light ♪

♪ My voice sounds so lonely ♪

♪ I'm calling your name ♪

♪ I swear ♪

♪ In the dark forest under the sea ♪

♪ When lights are all gone, I can feel you ♪

♪ Searching in the deep, dark ocean ♪

♪ The seawater is salty like tears ♪

♪ I swim past shipwrecks and glaciers ♪

♪ I've found you ♪

♪ Come back to me, wherever you are ♪

♪ You are my star in the dark in my dream ♪

♪ The tide may wash us apart ♪

♪ But I'll find you ♪

♪ You are my destiny ♪

♪ I'll always protect you ♪

♪ Hug you from behind ♪

♪ Fish don't cry ♪

♪ I'll never regret loving you ♪

♪ I swear ♪