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[Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty III:
To Chang'an]
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[Episode 21]
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I admit it.
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That Perfect Purple is mine.
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Two months ago,
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in the herb garden
of the Imperial Academy of Medicine…
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You don't need to buy
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these herbs elsewhere.
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I'll have an herbalist prepare them
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for you later.
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That's too much trouble.
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Don't mention it.
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We were classmates after all.
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This is the least I can do.
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Mr. Yan!
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Mr. Yan!
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Bad news.
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That…
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That snake got loose!
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Snake?
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Which snake?
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The purple one
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sent by the Palace Secretariat.
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I remember now.
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It's quite scary.
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Let it be.
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It ran off on its own.
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Not our fault.
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Just make a record
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to avoid trouble later.
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Yes, got it.
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The moment I heard "a purple snake,"
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I knew it was a Perfect Purple.
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The herb garden borders the Qu River.
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I figured that snake
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must've slipped out of the herb garden.
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So at night,
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I took mugwort and smoked it out.
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It took me
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three or four nights,
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and I finally smoked it out.
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However,
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its tongue was still red,
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meaning it wasn't 60 years old yet.
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I couldn't take its gallbladder.
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So I thought,
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before I could get
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its extremely precious gallbladder,
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I'd have to raise it
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for a very long time.
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I never expected
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that a few days ago,
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it actually changed.
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Its tongue turned purple.
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A pharmacy owner heard about it
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and offered 30,000 coins for it.
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I just haven't delivered it yet.
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It's the Kangzai Pharmacy
in the West Market?
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How do you know that?
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Nothing stays secret
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unless you never do it.
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Official Lu already looked into it
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and drew a portrait
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of you dressed as a woodcutter.
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Where's Yan Junxian?
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Mr. Yan went to Mount Zhongnan for herbs.
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He said he'd stay there for a few days.
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Mount Zhongnan?
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Are the herbs here not enough?
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We find it strange too,
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but that's what he told us.
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Who went with him?
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His servant Ming Shi was
driving the carriage.
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There should have been no one else.
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What do you mean, "should have"?
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Mr. Yan was inside the carriage
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and didn't say a word.
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And it was Ming Shi
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who told us about the trip.
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I'll go after them right now.
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But…
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we don't know
which gate they left through.
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If they were going to Mount Zhongnan,
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they should've taken…
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No.
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The trip is probably just an excuse.
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What should we do now?
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I can sketch Ming Shi's portrait.
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Do it fast.
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If I'm right,
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you hid the snake in the wardrobe first,
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deliberately got the senior clerk drunk,
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and then rushed back home,
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planning
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to use the snake on Yan Junxian, right?
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Yes.
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Hongyao
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was once abandoned by Yan Junxian.
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And she tried
to kill herself because of him.
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Even though she married me later,
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once Yan Junxian
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came back to Chang'an,
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he started seducing her.
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How could I tolerate that?
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Then how did you know
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Yan Junxian would
go to your house that night?
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I'm observant.
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Hongyao and I
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have been married for 7 years after all.
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When she was cheating on me,
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I'd notice.
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I just didn't expect
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that the one hiding
in the wardrobe that day
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would be Zhang San.
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Since things have come to this,
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you should tell me everything you know
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without holding anything back.
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I've told you everything.
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Then…
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then where did I slip up
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that led you to investigate
the Perfect Purple?
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Your strange tales
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are quite well written.
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You didn't only record
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the origin of the Perfect Purple
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but also described
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how it strangled people to death.
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Of course, in your writing,
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the Perfect Purple becomes
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a beautiful woman dressed in purple.
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So you read
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my strange tales.
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Thanks for liking my writing.
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Then did you also notice
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that in my book,
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I also wrote about
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an extremely wicked servant?
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I mean that so-called servant
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named Ming Shi, who's always
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around Yan Junxian.
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He's the truly vicious one.
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I just don't know
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whether Official Lu
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can still find Hongyao.
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If he's too late,
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Hongyao
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will die by Ming Shi's hand.
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If my instincts are right,
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you're still hiding something.
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What exactly are you hiding?
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I've told you everything.
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[Jinguang Gate]
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Official investigation.
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Have you seen this man?
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Official investigation.
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Did you see this man
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leave the city with a carriage?
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Has this man left the city?
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Have you seen him?
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No.
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[Chunming Gate]
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Yes.
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This man was driving a carriage
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and left through
the east gate an hour ago.
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Are you sure?
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Positive.
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Sure enough,
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he wasn't going to Mount Zhongnan.
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Fortunately,
you drew the portrait quickly.
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Thank you, Xijun.
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♪ Autumn geese return in spring ♪
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♪ When will the exiled come home? ♪
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♪ Tears shed as I leave my homeland ♪
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♪ Soak the clothes of those returning ♪
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Ming, you sing beautifully.
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Are you tired?
Let me take the reins for a bit.
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You can drive a carriage?
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I'm from Youzhou in the north.
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Not only can I drive,
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but I can ride too.
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Alright.
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Then you take over.
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Go on.
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Here. Be careful.
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You seem in good spirits.
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Don't you miss Chang'an at all?
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Will you blame me someday
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for keeping you from being
the secret county sheriff?
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Who doesn't like power?
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Shame, though,
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Yan Junxian was far too careless.
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He provoked Lu Lingfeng and Su Wuming.
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Those two
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are hard to deal with.
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Given time,
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my manipulation of Moorhen
from behind the scenes
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would eventually be exposed.
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Then I'd suffer a huge loss.
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Rather than living in anxiety,
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taking risks,
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and waiting for some
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uncertain future that may never work out,
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it's obviously better
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to go home with my pretty girl
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and be a rich, happy merchant.
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It's just that nowadays,
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people look down on merchants
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from the bottom of their hearts.
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But I believe
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one day
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people will look up to them.
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Last night,
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you said you'd tell me
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who you used to be.
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You want to hear it?
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Of course I do.
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I've been dying to know.
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Ever heard of the top assassin
in the martial world,
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the one called Beacon Fire?
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That was you?
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I was born into a merchant family,
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but I loved martial arts.
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So I trained under a master and completed
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my training after 12 years.
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Back then,
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the biggest assassin organization
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was Blood Drop.
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I'd been in it for less than three years
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and became famous across the land.
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So you really were Beacon Fire.
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I heard that name
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when I was little.
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Over those ten years,
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I killed too many people to count.
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But the killing became too much,
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and I grew tired of it.
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So I took my fortune
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and returned home.
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But when I returned to Lingnan,
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I found my family in decline.
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So I took over the business.
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In five years, I rebuilt our wealth,
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becoming one of the richest around.
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But
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being a merchant
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was never my true ambition.
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What I really wanted
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was to earn an official rank.
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I was excellent at studying
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with a photographic memory.
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But I was registered as a merchant,
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and the exam vetting was very strict.
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There was no way to slip through.
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So,
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I came up with
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a brilliant plan
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and began to groom Moorhen.
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Master,
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you mean you want me
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to take the exams for you?
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You are my servant,
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but you're not a slave
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or from a merchant family.
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So from today on,
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you'll focus only on studying
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and follow all my instructions.
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Master,
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do you truly trust me that much?
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I've watched you quietly
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for a long time.
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Study with undivided attention
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and try to become
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a Metropolitan Graduate in three years.
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But you can't be called Moorhen anymore.
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From now on,
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you'll take the surname Yan.
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I'll give you a name too.
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Yan Junxian.
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Moorhen
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truly has a talent for studying.
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A cowherd
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passed the exams in three years.
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This shows
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we southerners,
especially those from Lingnan,
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are no worse
than those from the Central Plains.
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We absolutely
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don't lack the talent for studying.
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Why didn't he
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prepare more mint leaves for me?
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Useless!
291
00:12:02,550 --> 00:12:03,920
Lingnan is so far away.
292
00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:05,290
How long will it take
293
00:12:05,790 --> 00:12:07,030
to reach your home?
294
00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:09,260
With you beside me,
295
00:12:09,910 --> 00:12:12,110
why worry about the long journey ahead?
296
00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:15,270
But on this journey,
297
00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:16,870
we aren't alone.
298
00:12:17,270 --> 00:12:18,930
It ruins the mood, doesn't it?
299
00:12:19,030 --> 00:12:19,910
Don't tell me
300
00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:21,180
you'll still need
301
00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:22,080
this former official
302
00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:23,680
by your side back in Lingnan.
303
00:12:24,510 --> 00:12:25,270
Not at all.
304
00:12:25,750 --> 00:12:27,210
I have plenty of servants.
305
00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:28,910
I didn't leave him in Chang'an
306
00:12:28,910 --> 00:12:30,970
because someone might find his body.
307
00:12:31,390 --> 00:12:33,790
Then we wouldn't be able to travel freely.
308
00:12:34,750 --> 00:12:36,200
So now…
309
00:12:40,790 --> 00:12:41,790
Stop for a moment.
310
00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:57,510
Let's leave him
311
00:12:58,630 --> 00:13:00,000
right here.
312
00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:13,620
Ming, are you thirsty?
313
00:13:13,870 --> 00:13:14,440
Yeah.
314
00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:17,040
If only I had some mint leaves
315
00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:17,710
to chew.
316
00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:18,790
I just saw some wild mint
317
00:13:18,790 --> 00:13:19,630
over there.
318
00:13:19,870 --> 00:13:21,270
I'll go pick some for you.
319
00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:30,550
Ming.
320
00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:33,080
Look.
321
00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:34,680
I picked this for you.
322
00:13:35,270 --> 00:13:35,670
This…
323
00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:39,970
Where did you get it?
324
00:13:41,390 --> 00:13:42,650
I didn't see any mint.
325
00:13:43,150 --> 00:13:44,810
That's why I've got good eyes.
326
00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:46,660
I fell for you at first glance.
327
00:13:53,390 --> 00:13:54,730
No wonder Moorhen was
328
00:13:54,790 --> 00:13:56,650
so infatuated with you back then.
329
00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:57,670
You are
330
00:13:58,670 --> 00:14:02,670
a born temptress.
331
00:14:08,030 --> 00:14:09,490
"Life feels like a dream."
332
00:14:10,390 --> 00:14:11,190
That phrase
333
00:14:11,750 --> 00:14:14,000
is exactly how I feel right now.
334
00:14:25,830 --> 00:14:27,070
Business first.
335
00:14:42,900 --> 00:14:44,760
He seems to have something to say.
336
00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:48,660
Master.
337
00:14:48,870 --> 00:14:49,900
Master, spare me.
338
00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:51,150
I'll go back to Lingnan
339
00:14:51,150 --> 00:14:52,810
and keep serving you, Master.
340
00:14:53,030 --> 00:14:53,630
Gorgeous,
341
00:14:55,480 --> 00:14:56,480
what do you think?
342
00:14:58,000 --> 00:14:58,960
It's between you
343
00:14:59,010 --> 00:15:00,010
and your servant.
344
00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:01,510
I won't interfere.
345
00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:02,530
Hongyao,
346
00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:04,180
plead for me, please!
347
00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:05,630
Everything I've done to get here—
348
00:15:05,630 --> 00:15:07,160
it was all for you, Hongyao!
349
00:15:09,510 --> 00:15:11,110
You're totally delusional!
350
00:15:11,910 --> 00:15:14,170
You were nothing more than a fling to her!
351
00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:16,190
Seven years ago,
352
00:15:17,030 --> 00:15:18,890
the one she fell for at first sight
353
00:15:20,390 --> 00:15:21,600
was me.
354
00:15:24,910 --> 00:15:25,750
Impossible.
355
00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:27,870
Back then, I was the master,
and you were the servant.
356
00:15:27,870 --> 00:15:28,720
How could she ever…
357
00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:29,450
Yan Junxian!
358
00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:31,200
Ming was just praising you
359
00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:32,130
for being smart,
360
00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:34,050
yet now you're being so stupid.
361
00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:35,080
If I were Ming,
362
00:15:35,670 --> 00:15:36,730
I'd bury you alive!
363
00:15:37,150 --> 00:15:37,870
Exactly.
364
00:15:38,190 --> 00:15:39,590
If I weren't burying him,
365
00:15:39,660 --> 00:15:42,270
why would I have dug such a big pit?
366
00:15:52,030 --> 00:15:52,490
Master,
367
00:15:52,750 --> 00:15:53,720
don't bury me!
368
00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:56,480
Master, please! Don't!
369
00:15:57,840 --> 00:15:58,370
Hongyao,
370
00:15:58,440 --> 00:15:59,630
plead for me!
371
00:15:59,670 --> 00:16:00,150
Hongyao!
372
00:16:00,150 --> 00:16:00,650
Master,
373
00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:01,910
for all the years
374
00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:02,900
I've served you,
375
00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:04,300
spare me, please!
376
00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:05,510
I was wrong, Master.
377
00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:06,960
Maybe…
378
00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:08,000
you should spare him?
379
00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:08,460
Master.
380
00:16:13,270 --> 00:16:14,590
It's too late for that.
381
00:16:15,150 --> 00:16:16,120
After all this,
382
00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:17,840
if I keep him by my side,
383
00:16:18,870 --> 00:16:20,200
what if he finds a chance
384
00:16:20,870 --> 00:16:21,790
to poison the mint leaves
385
00:16:21,790 --> 00:16:23,160
that I eat every day?
386
00:16:23,550 --> 00:16:24,360
Wouldn't I
387
00:16:24,390 --> 00:16:25,600
die an ugly death?
388
00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:28,320
Moorhen,
389
00:16:28,670 --> 00:16:30,690
you didn't even have a surname.
390
00:16:31,550 --> 00:16:33,080
I gave you the name
391
00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:34,510
Yan Junxian.
392
00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:36,000
But you didn't behave
393
00:16:36,510 --> 00:16:37,910
and even tried to kill me.
394
00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:40,600
Once I'm back in Lingnan,
395
00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:41,940
I'll build you
396
00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:43,570
a proper cenotaph.
397
00:16:44,030 --> 00:16:45,750
After all, back in the county,
398
00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:47,480
you let me be the real county sheriff
399
00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:48,820
behind the scenes.
400
00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:50,730
I thoroughly enjoyed it.
401
00:16:51,420 --> 00:16:51,960
Oh right,
402
00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:53,410
on the cenotaph,
403
00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:55,390
I'll carve the name
404
00:16:56,390 --> 00:16:58,700
Yan Moorhen.
405
00:16:59,080 --> 00:16:59,870
How's that?
406
00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:02,560
Isn't that a homophone for a dish?
407
00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:04,839
What a pity.
408
00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:06,589
He didn't live up to expectations
409
00:17:06,589 --> 00:17:08,880
and ended up as a dish.
410
00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:16,640
Master!
411
00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:20,589
Don't bury me, Master!
412
00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:22,640
Hongyao!
413
00:17:23,109 --> 00:17:25,030
Beg him for me, please!
414
00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:27,310
Master!
415
00:17:27,829 --> 00:17:29,230
Please spare me, Master!
416
00:17:30,590 --> 00:17:31,980
I'm begging you!
417
00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:30,400
Why do you keep staring at me?
418
00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:31,890
Do you want me
419
00:18:32,430 --> 00:18:34,360
to stare at this dying man instead?
420
00:18:37,270 --> 00:18:38,240
You said
421
00:18:38,790 --> 00:18:39,990
you're from Youzhou?
422
00:18:40,070 --> 00:18:40,590
Yes.
423
00:18:40,810 --> 00:18:41,870
Northern Youzhou.
424
00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:44,180
Have you been there, Ming?
425
00:18:44,270 --> 00:18:45,240
I went there once
426
00:18:45,450 --> 00:18:46,310
many years ago.
427
00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:47,590
Hongyao—
428
00:18:48,510 --> 00:18:49,830
your name rings a bell.
429
00:18:50,930 --> 00:18:52,260
Hong means red flowers.
430
00:18:53,310 --> 00:18:54,480
Yao means peonies.
431
00:18:56,610 --> 00:18:57,440
No.
432
00:18:58,790 --> 00:19:00,250
Hong means crimson blood.
433
00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:01,680
Yao means fatal.
434
00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:14,590
You're really funny.
435
00:19:28,830 --> 00:19:30,090
That look in your eyes—
436
00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:33,200
I've seen it before.
437
00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:34,990
19 years ago,
438
00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:36,550
at that time,
439
00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:38,750
I was seven.
440
00:19:48,710 --> 00:19:52,780
[Hongyao's Old Home in Youzhou]
441
00:19:52,110 --> 00:19:53,640
I bear you no grudge.
442
00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:55,890
Why kill me?
443
00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:56,960
I'm an assassin.
444
00:19:57,680 --> 00:19:59,070
I kill for whoever pays.
445
00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:00,770
The one who hired you
446
00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:03,050
is definitely a Yan.
447
00:20:04,890 --> 00:20:06,880
I only have one enemy.
448
00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:09,490
Back then,
449
00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:11,850
I served as an official in Gaotang.
450
00:20:12,710 --> 00:20:14,710
That Yan scoundrel was my superior.
451
00:20:15,310 --> 00:20:17,450
That year, the river flooded,
452
00:20:17,510 --> 00:20:19,030
and people were starving to death.
453
00:20:19,030 --> 00:20:20,510
That scoundrel embezzled
454
00:20:20,550 --> 00:20:22,720
the relief funds
and supplies from the court.
455
00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:25,120
I couldn't stand seeing civilians starve,
456
00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:26,910
so I reported him.
457
00:20:27,310 --> 00:20:28,970
I just take the money and kill.
458
00:20:29,660 --> 00:20:30,520
I don't ask why.
459
00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:33,350
Save your breath.
460
00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:35,830
Do you dare leave your name?
461
00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:37,400
Assassins don't leave names.
462
00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:38,310
But my title
463
00:20:38,590 --> 00:20:40,440
is known throughout the martial world—
464
00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:41,750
Beacon Fire.
465
00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:46,030
The top assassin in the martial world.
466
00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:48,910
After you die, you can haunt me.
467
00:20:49,790 --> 00:20:50,850
But I'm not afraid.
468
00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:54,320
Because I kill ghosts too.
469
00:20:56,010 --> 00:20:57,480
Sir,
470
00:20:57,790 --> 00:21:01,640
please don't kill my father!
471
00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:02,530
Hongyao,
472
00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:03,400
stay back!
473
00:21:03,510 --> 00:21:04,340
Run!
474
00:21:06,750 --> 00:21:07,550
No need.
475
00:21:08,070 --> 00:21:10,200
The employer didn't pay me to kill you.
476
00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:18,350
Father!
477
00:21:20,830 --> 00:21:22,790
Father!
478
00:21:23,750 --> 00:21:26,030
Father!
479
00:21:31,350 --> 00:21:32,690
Beacon Fire.
480
00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:41,390
Someday I'll kill you
481
00:21:41,470 --> 00:21:43,130
to avenge my father!
482
00:21:49,230 --> 00:21:50,410
You're Hongyao.
483
00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:54,880
You're that Hongyao.
484
00:21:56,920 --> 00:21:59,450
The Hongyao
from that snowy night in Youzhou.
485
00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:01,550
Back then,
486
00:22:03,070 --> 00:22:05,330
I was just an insignificant little girl.
487
00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:08,720
You, the top assassin,
488
00:22:09,270 --> 00:22:11,200
truly didn't remember my name.
489
00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:20,640
S-So you're my enemy.
490
00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:23,790
So you…
491
00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:26,480
you schemed so hard
492
00:22:27,770 --> 00:22:28,830
to be with him,
493
00:22:29,510 --> 00:22:30,400
to marry Meng Buyi—
494
00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:31,510
everything you did
495
00:22:32,030 --> 00:22:33,680
was just to get close to me
496
00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:36,830
and take revenge?
497
00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:39,980
I know no martial arts.
498
00:22:40,310 --> 00:22:41,400
This was the only way.
499
00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:44,000
Then why confess now?
500
00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:45,890
Don't tell me
501
00:22:47,030 --> 00:22:48,890
you want to die together with him!
502
00:22:52,290 --> 00:22:54,120
The one who will die is you!
503
00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:56,070
Well?
504
00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,060
My acting was convincing, wasn't it?
505
00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:00,960
I gave Hongyao
506
00:23:01,590 --> 00:23:03,750
the deadliest poison in the world!
507
00:23:10,030 --> 00:23:10,960
I just saw some wild mint
508
00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:11,640
over there.
509
00:23:11,750 --> 00:23:13,150
I'll go pick some for you.
510
00:23:32,550 --> 00:23:33,480
Business first.
511
00:23:44,510 --> 00:23:46,240
You're always too suspicious.
512
00:23:47,090 --> 00:23:49,150
Even the mint leaves I washed for you—
513
00:23:49,270 --> 00:23:50,000
you would
514
00:23:50,030 --> 00:23:51,490
wash them again yourself.
515
00:23:51,750 --> 00:23:52,610
If not for this,
516
00:23:53,210 --> 00:23:55,740
we'd never have gotten
the chance to kill you.
517
00:24:02,340 --> 00:24:02,960
Hongyao,
518
00:24:03,350 --> 00:24:05,340
I've been so good to you…
519
00:24:08,010 --> 00:24:10,230
Hongyao, now, get me out.
520
00:24:30,590 --> 00:24:32,380
You want to poison me?
521
00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:37,140
Then both of you
522
00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:39,510
have to die with me!
523
00:26:14,790 --> 00:26:15,240
Hand…
524
00:26:15,310 --> 00:26:17,110
His hand! Deal with it!
525
00:26:28,350 --> 00:26:29,080
You bastard!
526
00:26:29,330 --> 00:26:31,360
You've been lording over me for years.
527
00:26:31,360 --> 00:26:33,150
Now I finally get to bury you.
528
00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:41,640
Hongyao,
529
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:44,360
how should you thank me?
530
00:26:44,930 --> 00:26:46,060
That day at my house,
531
00:26:47,270 --> 00:26:49,220
if you hadn't confessed early,
532
00:26:50,510 --> 00:26:51,850
the one who died
wouldn't have been Zhang San.
533
00:26:51,850 --> 00:26:53,050
It would've been you.
534
00:26:53,430 --> 00:26:54,070
Hongyao,
535
00:26:54,790 --> 00:26:56,050
let's leave Chang'an.
536
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:58,920
I'll go back to your hometown with you.
537
00:26:58,920 --> 00:26:59,850
Youzhou, right?
538
00:27:00,570 --> 00:27:02,400
I don't care
if it's a cold and tough place.
539
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:03,930
You're giving up your post?
540
00:27:04,950 --> 00:27:05,640
Yes.
541
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:08,010
It was never my post anyway.
542
00:27:08,830 --> 00:27:10,360
What do you mean by that?
543
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:12,020
Do you remember
544
00:27:13,190 --> 00:27:14,310
that servant of mine,
545
00:27:14,310 --> 00:27:15,030
Ming Shi?
546
00:27:20,790 --> 00:27:21,720
All these years,
547
00:27:22,250 --> 00:27:23,540
I've been his puppet,
548
00:27:24,290 --> 00:27:25,220
his marionette,
549
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:27,810
controlled by him at every moment.
550
00:27:28,590 --> 00:27:30,550
Rather than serving as an official,
551
00:27:30,550 --> 00:27:31,750
I've been suffering.
552
00:27:32,830 --> 00:27:34,690
My life has been worse than death.
553
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:38,300
Isn't Meng Buyi on night duty?
554
00:27:46,250 --> 00:27:46,980
Get in here.
555
00:27:47,090 --> 00:27:48,660
Hurry, get in.
556
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:54,250
It doesn't matter anymore.
557
00:27:56,230 --> 00:27:57,030
It's all over.
558
00:27:58,030 --> 00:27:59,490
I'm going back to Chang'an
559
00:28:01,180 --> 00:28:04,110
to resume being
the deputy chief imperial physician.
560
00:28:04,110 --> 00:28:05,490
That light red robe
561
00:28:06,830 --> 00:28:08,160
will become crimson
562
00:28:09,070 --> 00:28:10,400
and then become purple.
563
00:28:10,830 --> 00:28:11,720
I, Moorhen,
564
00:28:12,830 --> 00:28:14,310
will one day become
565
00:28:14,350 --> 00:28:16,280
the Chancellor of the Tang Empire!
566
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,020
I'll be a man of high status
who's controlled
567
00:28:19,020 --> 00:28:19,640
by no one
568
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:21,230
and bows to no one!
569
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:24,110
Back in that tiny county,
570
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:26,760
I was only an eighth-rank county sheriff.
571
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:27,760
But in the unseen,
572
00:28:28,550 --> 00:28:29,470
the door of fate
573
00:28:29,750 --> 00:28:31,480
has always been waiting for me,
574
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:33,770
waiting for me to open it bit by bit.
575
00:28:35,750 --> 00:28:36,720
That feeling
576
00:28:38,650 --> 00:28:39,750
is intoxicating.
577
00:28:42,030 --> 00:28:42,830
What about me?
578
00:28:43,590 --> 00:28:44,310
Why did you
579
00:28:44,310 --> 00:28:45,770
marry Meng Buyi back then?
580
00:28:46,530 --> 00:28:47,590
If I hadn't married him,
581
00:28:47,590 --> 00:28:48,880
how would I have waited for your return?
582
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:49,720
If you hadn't married him,
583
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:50,720
when I came to Chang'an this time,
584
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:51,310
I would've taken you
585
00:28:51,310 --> 00:28:52,770
out of Pingkang District!
586
00:28:53,030 --> 00:28:53,970
A perfect couple
587
00:28:54,270 --> 00:28:56,400
being together again—
how wonderful!
588
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:00,100
What is the use of saying that now?
589
00:29:00,790 --> 00:29:01,650
I'm asking you—
590
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:04,080
how will you treat me now?
591
00:29:29,580 --> 00:29:30,880
All I can say is I'm sorry,
592
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:31,440
Hongyao.
593
00:29:33,030 --> 00:29:34,030
You must die here.
594
00:29:34,590 --> 00:29:35,310
Otherwise, sooner or later,
595
00:29:35,310 --> 00:29:36,770
you'll expose everything I've done.
596
00:29:36,770 --> 00:29:38,230
That would ruin my career,
597
00:29:38,990 --> 00:29:40,060
my future,
598
00:29:40,270 --> 00:29:42,440
and my chance to bring honor to my family!
599
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:43,650
You're going to kill me?
600
00:29:43,650 --> 00:29:45,110
Of course I won't admit it.
601
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:48,040
This is Ming Shi's sword. No.
602
00:29:49,050 --> 00:29:50,550
It's the sword of the top assassin,
603
00:29:50,550 --> 00:29:51,920
Beacon Fire.
604
00:29:52,350 --> 00:29:53,540
You poisoned him.
605
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:55,620
He killed you with one stroke.
606
00:29:55,740 --> 00:29:57,200
The two of you would be
buried together here.
607
00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:58,260
Perfect, isn't it?
608
00:29:58,280 --> 00:29:59,610
You're so evil.
609
00:30:00,010 --> 00:30:01,790
How are you any different from Ming Shi?
610
00:30:01,790 --> 00:30:03,920
I can endure better than he ever could!
611
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:09,270
I was born low.
612
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:11,070
If I hadn't endured,
613
00:30:11,070 --> 00:30:12,470
I wouldn't be here today.
614
00:30:14,130 --> 00:30:14,750
Hongyao,
615
00:30:15,830 --> 00:30:17,160
you think I'd give up
616
00:30:17,790 --> 00:30:19,650
my promising future just for you?
617
00:30:20,310 --> 00:30:21,370
Truth is, with you,
618
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:22,930
I was merely playing along.
619
00:30:23,270 --> 00:30:23,880
Back then,
620
00:30:24,590 --> 00:30:27,110
if I hadn't pretended
to be intimate with you,
621
00:30:27,110 --> 00:30:28,030
he would've already
622
00:30:28,030 --> 00:30:29,490
seen through my ambition.
623
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:30,310
Then how would I
624
00:30:30,310 --> 00:30:31,710
have survived until now?
625
00:30:32,030 --> 00:30:34,140
How would I have waited for him
626
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:35,960
to pay my way up the ladder?
627
00:30:39,620 --> 00:30:40,950
I refuse to accept this!
628
00:30:41,180 --> 00:30:42,880
I… I don't want to die.
629
00:30:43,030 --> 00:30:43,900
It's too late.
630
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:45,880
Everything's far too late.
631
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:47,270
I don't want this either,
632
00:30:47,270 --> 00:30:48,030
but…
633
00:30:50,110 --> 00:30:50,790
Don't…
634
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:52,920
I have no choice!
635
00:31:10,790 --> 00:31:12,030
If he were a trained fighter,
636
00:31:12,030 --> 00:31:13,240
even if he couldn't dodge,
637
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:14,750
he'd still flinch a little,
638
00:31:14,750 --> 00:31:16,440
so it wouldn't have hit so precisely.
639
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:17,030
My bad.
640
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:19,270
I forgot he couldn't fight at all.
641
00:31:19,270 --> 00:31:21,260
The best secret agent in Chang'an
642
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:23,590
is none other than Madam Yingtao.
643
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:25,030
Me?
644
00:31:25,590 --> 00:31:26,360
Remember—
645
00:31:26,550 --> 00:31:28,100
follow him all the way
646
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:30,270
until the crucial moment
647
00:31:30,590 --> 00:31:32,190
before revealing yourself.
648
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:38,450
[Imperial Academy of Medicine]
649
00:31:55,330 --> 00:31:56,560
May I know your name?
650
00:31:57,550 --> 00:31:58,960
I once shared your fate,
651
00:31:59,270 --> 00:32:00,830
but now I have a different identity.
652
00:32:00,830 --> 00:32:03,690
I must take you back
to Yongzhou Prefecture Office.
653
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:15,400
Yan Junxian?
654
00:32:19,030 --> 00:32:19,960
What's going on?
655
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:21,630
Official Lu,
656
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:22,790
I was ordered by Su Wuming
657
00:32:22,790 --> 00:32:23,920
to follow Meng Buyi.
658
00:32:24,110 --> 00:32:25,840
Then I found Yan Junxian
659
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:26,940
quite suspicious.
660
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:28,220
So I followed him next.
661
00:32:28,550 --> 00:32:30,550
Then I found his servant Ming Shi
662
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:32,780
abducted Meng Buyi's wife, Hongyao.
663
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:38,640
Where is Ming Shi?
664
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:40,330
In the pit.
665
00:32:40,550 --> 00:32:41,680
Yan Junxian poisoned him
666
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:43,070
and stabbed him to death.
667
00:32:43,070 --> 00:32:44,960
We can dig him up
and take him back for an autopsy.
668
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:46,550
Ming Shi had another identity.
669
00:32:46,550 --> 00:32:47,160
He was known as
670
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:48,350
the top assassin,
671
00:32:48,550 --> 00:32:49,350
Beacon Fire.
672
00:32:51,030 --> 00:32:51,750
And this guy…
673
00:32:51,750 --> 00:32:53,410
Yan Junxian was vicious.
674
00:32:53,830 --> 00:32:55,160
After burying Ming Shi,
675
00:32:55,270 --> 00:32:57,470
he tried to kill Hongyao to silence her.
676
00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:59,110
Following Su Wuming's instructions,
677
00:32:59,110 --> 00:33:00,110
I didn't show myself
678
00:33:00,110 --> 00:33:01,310
until the final critical moment.
679
00:33:01,310 --> 00:33:02,310
But when he was about to kill
680
00:33:02,310 --> 00:33:03,680
an unarmed woman,
681
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:05,960
I had no choice but to intervene.
682
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:06,930
Unfortunately,
683
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:08,200
my sleeve arrow was too accurate
684
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:09,440
and killed him on the spot.
685
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:10,790
But I've been there for quite a while.
686
00:33:10,790 --> 00:33:11,920
Through Yan Junxian
687
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:13,000
and Ming Shi's conversation,
688
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:14,720
it's clear that the master and servant,
689
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:16,550
or rather the servant and master,
690
00:33:16,550 --> 00:33:17,640
were both wicked men.
691
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:18,510
Especially Ming Shi,
692
00:33:18,510 --> 00:33:21,270
who killed countless people
and committed hideous crimes.
693
00:33:21,270 --> 00:33:22,000
Hongyao
694
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:23,940
is an innocent victim.
695
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:28,830
Escort her back
to Yongzhou Prefecture Office first.
696
00:33:28,830 --> 00:33:30,790
We'll question her
before making a final judgment.
697
00:33:30,790 --> 00:33:31,200
Yes.
698
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:34,930
Secretary Meng.
699
00:33:35,310 --> 00:33:36,240
Secretary Meng.
700
00:33:36,590 --> 00:33:38,090
I saw your wife.
701
00:33:38,350 --> 00:33:38,830
Where?
702
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:40,240
She was being escorted by two people
703
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:42,770
heading toward Yongzhou Prefecture Office.
704
00:33:44,650 --> 00:33:47,030
[Yongzhou Prefecture Office]
705
00:33:46,350 --> 00:33:48,070
I kept vigil for my father for three years
706
00:33:48,070 --> 00:33:49,480
and studied the pipa for three years.
707
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:51,640
At 13, I wandered the martial world,
708
00:33:52,510 --> 00:33:54,440
searching for news of Beacon Fire.
709
00:33:55,030 --> 00:33:56,000
Later, I learned
710
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:58,460
that he served Blood Drop,
711
00:33:58,790 --> 00:33:59,350
a notorious
712
00:33:59,350 --> 00:34:00,920
assassin organization
713
00:34:01,590 --> 00:34:03,320
hidden right inside Chang'an.
714
00:34:03,750 --> 00:34:04,720
So I came here.
715
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:07,640
To make a living,
716
00:34:09,150 --> 00:34:11,080
I had to work in Pingkang District.
717
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:12,960
Then I heard
718
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:15,800
Beacon Fire had long
left the martial world
719
00:34:16,190 --> 00:34:17,590
and was no longer an assassin.
720
00:34:17,590 --> 00:34:18,400
I thought
721
00:34:19,510 --> 00:34:21,510
I'd never have a chance for revenge.
722
00:34:23,670 --> 00:34:24,230
Until…
723
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:31,850
Meng, let's go check it out.
724
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:39,550
Come on.
725
00:34:39,620 --> 00:34:40,400
I'm going with you.
726
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:40,840
Come on.
727
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:41,639
I'm not going.
728
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:53,920
At that time, I couldn't be sure
729
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:54,920
it was really him.
730
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:56,630
After all, he had been an assassin,
731
00:34:56,630 --> 00:34:58,090
and I was seeing a servant.
732
00:34:58,630 --> 00:34:59,320
So,
733
00:35:00,110 --> 00:35:00,590
I began
734
00:35:00,630 --> 00:35:02,630
looking for every possible chance.
735
00:35:02,630 --> 00:35:04,690
To uncover Ming Shi's true identity,
736
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:06,520
you got close to Yan Junxian?
737
00:35:06,710 --> 00:35:07,280
Exactly.
738
00:35:07,670 --> 00:35:09,530
Ming Shi was extremely cautious.
739
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:11,320
After months,
740
00:35:11,550 --> 00:35:13,070
I still couldn't get near him.
741
00:35:13,070 --> 00:35:14,960
Yan Junxian was tight-lipped too.
742
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:16,070
Even drunk,
743
00:35:17,670 --> 00:35:18,550
he wouldn't reveal
744
00:35:18,550 --> 00:35:19,880
who Ming Shi really was.
745
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:22,860
Maybe he didn't know at all
746
00:35:23,030 --> 00:35:25,170
that his servant, or rather
747
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:28,110
his master, used to be an assassin.
748
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:30,280
Later,
749
00:35:32,190 --> 00:35:34,520
Yan Junxian left without saying goodbye.
750
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:37,610
I fell into despair.
751
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:43,100
Thinking I could never avenge my father…
752
00:35:46,340 --> 00:35:47,800
I wanted to end my life.
753
00:35:49,510 --> 00:35:50,360
Father.
754
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:57,230
I failed to avenge you.
755
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:02,440
I'm too ashamed to live in this world.
756
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:07,370
Hongyao!
757
00:36:11,710 --> 00:36:12,400
Don't do it.
758
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:14,110
Don't do it.
759
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:15,840
I think
760
00:36:16,590 --> 00:36:18,250
maybe it was divine guidance.
761
00:36:19,230 --> 00:36:20,490
They were classmates.
762
00:36:21,510 --> 00:36:22,910
So if I married Meng Buyi,
763
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:24,390
then one day,
764
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:26,440
when Yan Junxian returned to Chang'an,
765
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:27,770
I'd get another chance.
766
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:29,100
And indeed,
767
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:32,460
seven years later,
768
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:34,800
they returned.
769
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:39,880
Why stop?
770
00:36:40,580 --> 00:36:42,040
Continue your statement.
771
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:44,440
There's nothing more to say.
772
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:46,070
You already know
773
00:36:46,710 --> 00:36:48,070
everything after that.
774
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:50,820
While Meng Buyi was on night duty,
775
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,110
you invited Yan Junxian to your home,
776
00:36:53,150 --> 00:36:54,350
intending to kill him
777
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:56,250
and draw out Ming Shi, right?
778
00:36:58,960 --> 00:36:59,760
You admit it?
779
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:01,670
Then Meng Buyi
780
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:03,090
must be your accomplice
781
00:37:03,110 --> 00:37:03,710
because that
782
00:37:03,710 --> 00:37:05,000
deadly Perfect Purple
783
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:07,360
was hidden in the cabinet by him.
784
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:09,630
I know nothing about the Perfect Purple.
785
00:37:09,630 --> 00:37:10,400
Meng Buyi doesn't know
786
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:11,330
what I have done.
787
00:37:12,230 --> 00:37:13,670
Everything I said earlier
788
00:37:13,670 --> 00:37:15,110
was planned solely by me.
789
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:16,440
So Zhang San
790
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:18,480
was part of your scheme too?
791
00:37:21,030 --> 00:37:21,630
Yes.
792
00:37:22,190 --> 00:37:23,650
I had grudges against him,
793
00:37:23,670 --> 00:37:24,730
so I killed him too.
794
00:37:26,590 --> 00:37:27,510
I plead guilty.
795
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:29,700
I've taken my revenge.
796
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:31,720
I can die without regret.
797
00:37:34,630 --> 00:37:35,960
Who's beating the drum?
798
00:37:37,030 --> 00:37:38,290
Captain Xue, go check.
799
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:38,710
Yes.
800
00:37:42,590 --> 00:37:43,380
Meng Buyi!
801
00:37:44,630 --> 00:37:46,230
Why are you beating the drum?
802
00:37:46,230 --> 00:37:46,840
Arrest me.
803
00:37:47,590 --> 00:37:48,590
I'm the murderer.
804
00:37:50,190 --> 00:37:52,050
The drum beater Meng Buyi is here.
805
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:08,590
Meng Buyi.
806
00:38:09,710 --> 00:38:11,280
In less than 24 hours,
807
00:38:11,630 --> 00:38:12,800
you've already struck
808
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:14,110
the grievance drum three times.
809
00:38:14,110 --> 00:38:14,710
This time,
810
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:16,060
what's the reason?
811
00:38:16,510 --> 00:38:18,040
I've come to turn myself in.
812
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:22,710
I, Meng Buyi,
Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue,
813
00:38:22,710 --> 00:38:24,240
killed the bully Zhang San.
814
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:25,620
I'm turning myself in.
815
00:38:26,150 --> 00:38:27,510
You killed Zhang San?
816
00:38:27,670 --> 00:38:28,110
Yes.
817
00:38:28,590 --> 00:38:29,650
I killed Zhang San.
818
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:32,400
Recently, I've often been in a daze.
819
00:38:32,710 --> 00:38:33,280
I'm not sure
820
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:34,320
if it's because I write strange tales
821
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:35,220
or because
822
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:38,040
I suffer from insomnia and nightmares.
823
00:38:38,190 --> 00:38:38,850
I suspected
824
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:42,360
that Hongyao and Yan Junxian
825
00:38:42,510 --> 00:38:43,770
were having an affair!
826
00:38:44,190 --> 00:38:45,250
That night on duty,
827
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:46,970
my eyelids kept twitching.
828
00:38:47,230 --> 00:38:48,490
Something felt wrong,
829
00:38:49,030 --> 00:38:50,550
so I went back home.
830
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:52,840
I didn't catch them in the act,
831
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:54,550
but I found a pair of men's boots
832
00:38:54,550 --> 00:38:56,130
hidden under my bed.
833
00:38:56,590 --> 00:38:57,710
Out of pride,
834
00:38:57,960 --> 00:38:59,400
I didn't expose her on the spot.
835
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,030
After I left with my scrolls,
836
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:03,660
I became angrier and angrier.
837
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:04,480
So
838
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:06,070
I went back again.
839
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:19,030
What I didn't expect
840
00:39:20,070 --> 00:39:23,000
was that the adulterer was Zhang San,
the mutton-soup seller.
841
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:23,960
In a rage,
842
00:39:24,110 --> 00:39:25,440
I grabbed the scissors.
843
00:39:36,550 --> 00:39:37,710
I'm a Metropolitan Graduate
844
00:39:37,710 --> 00:39:39,440
and serve in the Ministry of Revenue,
845
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:41,440
yet I killed a man out of resentment.
846
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:43,710
I deserve to be punished severely!
847
00:39:43,710 --> 00:39:45,280
But someone saw
848
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:48,520
Hongyao committing the murder
with scissors.
849
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:50,400
Who?
850
00:39:51,030 --> 00:39:53,290
That white-haired little thief, Jiang?
851
00:39:53,670 --> 00:39:56,190
That despicable house-squatter?
852
00:39:57,550 --> 00:39:58,320
If his words
853
00:39:58,510 --> 00:40:00,240
can count as evidence in court,
854
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:02,960
it'd be a disgrace to Yongzhou Prefecture
855
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:04,230
and to the Tang Empire!
856
00:40:05,110 --> 00:40:05,840
Lu Lingfeng,
857
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:07,860
you've solved many strange cases
858
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:09,590
and gained quite a reputation.
859
00:40:09,590 --> 00:40:10,150
What?
860
00:40:10,710 --> 00:40:12,310
I'm turning myself in today,
861
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:13,480
and you're afraid
862
00:40:13,550 --> 00:40:15,030
I'll steal your thunder?
863
00:40:15,550 --> 00:40:16,410
I plead guilty.
864
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:18,070
I accept my punishment.
865
00:40:18,070 --> 00:40:20,130
The case should be closed instantly.
866
00:40:23,590 --> 00:40:25,150
It's good
867
00:40:25,190 --> 00:40:26,760
that you pleaded guilty.
868
00:40:27,070 --> 00:40:29,920
But the evidence must be solid,
869
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:31,710
and every detail
870
00:40:31,830 --> 00:40:33,790
has to line up perfectly.
871
00:40:34,070 --> 00:40:35,030
Only then
872
00:40:35,550 --> 00:40:38,070
can Official Lu close the case.
873
00:40:40,140 --> 00:40:41,480
What evidence do you want?
874
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:42,920
The murder weapon.
875
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:46,000
Where are those scissors now?
876
00:40:48,630 --> 00:40:49,630
I threw them away.
877
00:40:51,710 --> 00:40:52,840
Where?
878
00:40:55,070 --> 00:40:56,070
Into the Qu River.
879
00:40:56,590 --> 00:40:58,670
The Qu River is vast.
880
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,000
Where exactly did you throw them away?
881
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:02,460
How much force did you use?
882
00:41:02,670 --> 00:41:04,150
How far did they fly?
883
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:08,030
I… I…
884
00:41:08,870 --> 00:41:09,930
It was pitch black.
885
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:11,960
Who could remember that?
886
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:15,020
In the herb garden
of the Imperial Academy of Medicine,
887
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:17,530
under a very tall Gastrodia stalk.
888
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:19,080
I buried them myself.
889
00:41:19,230 --> 00:41:19,880
Hongyao!
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