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[Episode 7]

I've practiced pipa for an hour

It's more tired than examining a corpse all day

Xiaoqin

Help me get some dried fruits?

Yes

Grand Minister

What are you doing here?

This is the Shen's Mansion

It's normal for me

to be anywhere

But you,

You really think of yourself as the lady

You order servants in my family at night,

eat dried fruits in the kitchen,

And even disturb the peace with your unpleasant music

Sorry

The dried fruit...

I bought it myself from West Street

Next time, I'll get it myself

I won't trouble any of you

As for the music you call unpleasant,

To make it not unpleasant sooner,

I can only practice all night,

to make it sound better

Please bear with me

Singing and dancing require talent

Last-minute efforts

will only be laughed at

I advise you to give up

your thoughts of being an artist soon

So what if I succeed?

You won't solve the case, anyway

Don't forget

The killer is targeting a man and a woman

Relying on you alone is not enough

You also need a real man

entangled with the artist

As for that,

I already have someone in mind

Grand Minister

Please bring him over

I...

Master Wu

Today, I'll trouble you

to accompany Mrs. Shen

to the Kaiyang event

The lady specifically requested you

No one but you will do

Grand Minister, you misunderstood

I'm innocent

If you don't believe me

Go to Ministry of Justice and inquire

I never said I'm the lady's lover

We usually can't stand each other

We are incompatible

-I... -Don't be nervous

Today,

The lady just wants to pretend

to be your beautiful mistress

Grand Minister

Look at you...

Why?

Grand Minister

Let me go, Grand Minister

Grand Minister

Why me?

Because Master Wu's mistress

is also beautiful

who's renowned in the noble circles of the imperial city

You...

Let go

Grand Minister

The lady rarely dresses up like this

She's quite charming

Rather than flatter here,

Why not do something practical?

Yes

Come with me

Good

Good

Kaiyang Day

The Empress Dowager will parade

I need to accompany the imperial carriage

You must keep a close eye on Madam

If there are any suspicious movements,

arrest immediately

If something unexpected happens to her,

you are the one to ask

Long live His Majesty

Long live Empress Dowager

Good

How wonderful

I wonder

which talent

will be willing to perform on stage

Everyone,

my beloved concubine

wishes to present a

pipa piece

Good

Wu Taiming

actually brought his mistress

out publicly

An unmarried musician

dare call herself a concubine

How can Madam Wu bear this?

Long live His Majesty

Long live Empress Dowager

Pay respects to Your Majesty

Pay respects to Empress Dowager

The Empress Dowager and Your Majesty

are present at the West Street

for the parade and blessings

May auspicious signs appear from heaven

to signify the prosperity of Cang Kingdom

Smooth winds and timely rain,

national peace and well-being

Good

Really good

Look, it's the colorful phoenix bird

The colorful phoenix bird

It's truly beautiful, the divine bird

Good

It's the will of heaven

Auspicious signs from heaven,

bestowing blessings upon the Cang

What is this fragrance?

It's so peculiar

A thousand butterflies dance, sleeves flutter,

Nine branches perform a night song

Perfect

Madam

Madam

Jing Lin

Grand Minister

Wu Taiming and Madam are missing

Get up

Speak

Who is the mastermind behind the murder case?

Murder?

What murder?

Where's Madam?

Please spare me

Grand Minister, spare their lives

This is the scandal of my household

My brother-in-law came out to meet another woman

I gave him a lesson

Is that also a crime?

Those paired corpses,

most were acquainted in life

They often seen together

There are two pairs

without any known connections

Oh no...

I'm Shen Du

Are you alright?

Brother Shen Du

Brother Shen Du, do you still recognize me?

Of course, I recognize you

Yan Xing

I'll never forget you

None of this is real

Do I need to know you?

Don't daydream about becoming

the true Mrs. Shen

I, Shen Du,

did not willingly marry you

Don't think you can live here

Where is this?

You don't need to know

Why did you kill so many people?

You don't need to know

Why so much nonsense?

It seems...

I can't escape today

Why not take off the veil

and let me see your true face?

Everyone knows you, Yan Xing,

are exceptionally intelligent

If you really

see my appearance,

And then...

When you die and become a ghost,

you may tell your husband in dreams

What am I to do then?

You've killed so many people

Their grudges

have long turned into vengeful spirits

surrounding you,

keeping you company day and night

Can't you see them?

What are they?

They're all deserving of death

Even as ghosts,

they dare not appear before me

Otherwise,

I'll make them die again

Am I also deserving of death?

The people you've mentioned,

all share common traits,

You believe they deserve to die

Do you see me in the same light?

Do you think I deserve to die?

You ask so many questions,

but you'll die nonetheless

It's just that

I need to wait a little longer

to act

What are you waiting for?

I'm waiting

for the blood in your body to clot

so that when I extract your heart,

there will be no bleeding

I'm the Lady of the Grand Minister

if you dare kill me,

once they find you,

they will surely flay you alive

Even if I spare you,

Shen Du will not spare me either

when he catches me

In the end, it's all death

I might as well

use Mrs. Shen as a shield

I can plead for mercy for you

So that he can leave you intact

We're quite close

It's well-known throughout Xiang'an City

He will listen to me

He will listen to me

He will listen to me

He will listen to me

Shut up

Shut up

You shameless whore

He won't listen to you

He's mine

He's mine

Stop

Let me go

Yan Xing

Are you okay?

Yan Xing

Thank you for arriving in time

Luckily, you sprinkled

bean powder on your clothes

The bulldog found its way here as the scent

How do you feel?

I'm fine

It's just...

Has the culprit been caught?

It's just...

I had a dream

Jing Lin

Take off her face mask

It's you

Yan Xing

Take her to the Internal Affairs Office

Yes

Take her away

Yes

Yan Xing

You're awake

Chuichui

How long was I asleep?

Where's Lady Tang?

Has she been interrogated?

You only slept for an hour

Why are you awake now

and asking these questions?

No wonder Shen Du told me

to watch you closely

How did it go?

She stubbornly refused to admit it

But...

The Empress Dowager personally came to the Internal Affairs Office

She wants to interrogate her in person

See if she will submit this time

I'll go now

Stop

The effects of the medicine haven't worn off yet

I've investigated this for a long time

I know how to make her talk

No

You almost lost your life today

The sky won't fall if you're absent

Moreover,

Shen Du asked me to watch you closely

Are you my friend or his?

Chuichui

You understand me

No one can stop me

I've made up my mind

But there is one thing right now

that needs your help

I never would have imagined

that the person behind the crime

would be a loyal minister

the widow of Tang Chengyi

Why did you do this?

I remember

that you were quite close

with Lady Tang

Now,

she's a prime suspect in this murder case

Prince Ying

Do you know any details about this?

Mother, you have keen insight

I'm close with Lady Tang

But I know nothing

about her murder

If I know

that she is the murderer

I won't even get close to her

I would like to ask you

Why did you kill

so many innocent people?

I did not kill innocent people

There are laws in our country

Whether they're innocent or not

Is it up to you to define?

Yan Xing, a scribe of the Ministry of Justice

I act rashly in urgency

Please forgive me, Empress Dowager

I didn't manage my family well

Disturbing the Empress Dowager

Please punish me

It doesn't matter

It is said that Mrs. Shen is good at

solving cases through reasoning

Now, Meng Ceran

refuses to confess

What are your insights?

Report to the Empress Dowager

The men she killed

all had engagements

But they loved to linger in the brothels

and were infatuated with courtesans

As for the women

They all had similar appearances

with hair styled in fairy buns

And

They were all skilled pipa players

Shut up

Who would believe

this nonsense?

Empress Dowager

All the bodies discovered

were treated with cinnabar

to delay decomposition

So the forensic examination of death time

was inaccurate

Later, we deduced

the correct date of death

They were actually

all during the Kaiyang Day

that determined by the Astronomical Bureau

Lady Tang

Is all this you did

just for instant gratification?

At first

I guessed you committed the crimes

based on common facial features

Later, I found out

It is more about identity

with a deep fixation

I guess

The women you killed

are most likely had some connection

with someone very close to you

Shut up

Have you experienced any trauma

Or...

Is there any some emotional entanglement

related to other men in the brothel?

And it happened on the Kaiyang Day

Nonsense

He who has a mind to beat his dog

will easily find his stick

Right

A few days ago

my husband caught a cold at night

The weather has turned cold recently

You should take care of yourself

I'm much better now

If you can

pay more attention to me usually,

I won't catch a cold in the future

It's you

You just got a fright

Why don't you rest properly?

I'm worried about you, anyway

Grand Minister Shen

You really treat the Internal Affairs Office as home

Mrs. Shen treats this place

as her own bedroom

Seeing your loving relationship

I'm really pleased

But Mrs. Shen

The current case is important

You must investigate it carefully

Yes, sorry about it

Lord Xu Xiangren requests an audience

Lord Xu Xiangren

See the Empress Dowager

Yan Xing

I may take leave

Actually,

at the residence of Yi Liangren,

a pair of male and female corpses were unearthed

This is the reconstructed

facial image of the deceased male

And I made into a portrait

Give it to me

Give it to me

Hand him over to me

Indeed

In your heart,

You're the victim

You know nothing

This is not my fault

They wronged me first

It's them

It's all their fault

I treated him so well

Why did he betray me?

The "he" you mentioned,

He's the one in the portrait, right?

Your first husband

It's him

When I was young,

my sister was abducted

When we met,

she had become

an entertainer playing the pipa

At that time,

I was already married

But I didn't expect that

that on the day of Kaiyang,

I discovered on the day of Kaiyang

that she had an affair with my husband

The two people I loved the most

The two people I trusted the most

Both betrayed me together

To save face,

I gave her a cup of poison

But I didn't expect

My husband

actually drank that cup of poison

No...

After my husband left,

my sister also disappeared

I searched for her for a long time

Finally,

I found her in the tomb

The two of them,

The two of them

were tightly embracing each other

No

That's not true

It's not like that

It's not like that

It's not like that

That vile woman

She is not my sister at all

She just...

She seduced my husband

An entertainer

She deserves to die

Not being a good person

but seducing

another woman's husband

She should be torn to pieces

She should be skinned alive

She should be humiliated by the world

and mocked by all

So you've killed those women

who resemble your sister

Is it beautiful?

Beautiful

They deserve to die

along with those dirty men

Why do they cling

to entertainers?

In this world

not everyone

has the right to choose their own life

Many of them

are born in the pleasure district

forced to serve with their bodies

They didn't have other choice at all

Moreover,

it is not your right

to take others' lives

Actually, at first

I blamed myself too

If it weren't for me

my sister would not have died

My husband wouldn't have died either

If it weren't for

my mistake

I wouldn't have

lost both my loved ones

So you regret it

You arranged those bodies

to be in an embrace

for the sake of...

Mrs. Shen

You're indeed clever

You just hit the nail on the head

But do you think

just with your intelligence and wit

you can

always gain a man's heart?

Do you think he will

keep protecting you like this forever?

He says he loves you

but he loves himself

He will deceive you

He will deceive you

until you're torn apart

Better dead than alive

What's wrong with loving ourselves?

Before loving others

everyone should love themselves first

Between husband and wife

it should not be

one-sided demands

nor one-sided protection

The couple

should face challenges together

weathering the storms together

That's what a family

should be like

Empress Dowager

The truth has come to light

The real culprit has confessed and been punished

As for how to deal with Lady Tang

please let the Empress Dowager decide

Empress Dowager

In my opinion

The killer is already mad

Empress Dowager

Please don't be swayed by old emotions

and quickly close the case

She's the widow of a loyal minister

Let her have a proper burial

Yes

Like a moth to a flame

Born in the morning, dead by evening

Neither entering nor leaving the cycle of life and death

Neither living nor dying in the cycle of life and death

Jing Lin

Extinguish the fire

Yes

Isn't this what Chen Huo'e,

who was executed five years ago,

said before she died?

Take her away

Yes

Are you naturally inclined

to meddle in other people's business?

This concerns life and death

How could it be considered meddling?

I know

you specifically instructed Chuichui

to keep an eye on me

But if I hadn't come,

how could it be so easy

to deal with Lady Tang's case?

Today, you...

Very good

You...

Are you scolding me?

The so-called discovery of the corpses of a man and a woman

That's something you made up, right?

I only had Brother Xu help me

retrieve the portrait of

Lady Tang's first husband

Just to provoke her to speak the truth

The truth is now revealed

But...

We seem to have overlooked something

in this case

What's it?

Their hearts

Lady Tang has killed so many people

and the victims' hearts were all removed

So where are these hearts placed?

Lady Tang

I have something important to ask you

Killing is simple

Moving bodies

Digging graves

Reburying

But these are not something

a woman can easily accomplish

You must have assistance

Why go to such lengths?

Like a moth to a flame

Like a moth to a flame

She's gone mad

She's the most important witness

How can she just be crazy?

I'll never die

I'll transform into a moth

and live forever

It's flown away

It's flown away

You've killed so many people

Where have you placed their hearts?

It's flown away

-Meng Ceren -It's flown away

Please, burn me quickly

Please

I wanna be reborn in the flames

I wanna be reborn in the flames

Please

No need to ask

For a madwoman,

whatever she says

is not believable

Please burn me

She will be executed soon

Burn me, quickly

Burn me, quickly

What are you thinking?

I'm thinking about Lady Tang's case

She turned love into hatred

being obsessed

But she's hard to let go

because of love and hate

Quite sorrowful

Being fully immersed in

a love affair

It's a behavior of fools

And in this world,

Fools often do evil

What's there to lament about?

Indeed

It sounds like the thoughts of

someone as clever as you

Grand Minister

I'm tired

I'll take a break

Prince Xian has successfully completed

the disaster relief efforts

She'll arrive safely

in Xiang'an soon

Good news

In the future,

no need to linger at the pigeon house

I don't know who gave you false information,

but the secret messages from Internal Affairs Office

don't need carrier pigeons

I know

Those caged pigeons have soft feathers

and can't fly long distances at all

But from time to time, I must

wander around the mansion

You have your duties to attend to

and I have mine

We have to keep up appearances, after all

But I won't take real action

Rest assured

Now you can trust

that a tiger does not eat its cubs

Let alone the strongest tiger

in the world

That's enough

I don't wanna hear it

I won't listen to what I shouldn't

to avoid trouble

Oh, right

There's something else

I forgot to tell you

The Ministry of Justice and the Yi Liangren

are hosting a celebration banquet

They've sent an invitation

inviting both you and me to attend

I know. I...

I know you won't go

I just wanted to inform you

Jing Lin

Yes, Grand Minister

Tell Uncle Zhong

to make another set of blackout curtains

like last time

Yes, Grand Minister

What a lovely flower bud

What a pity

Your Highness

Teacher

Your Highness's relief efforts

have been commendable

I heard that the Empress Dowager

is highly pleased with your journey

How's the way back?

Rest assured, Teacher

I've got escorted throughout

Very considerate

This time,

I even brought back some local specialties

Prepare one for the teacher

Prepare another one

to be sent to the sister

Just tell her

It's a gift from the younger brother

Yes

Your Highness, you're kind

and deep affected

I'm truly touched

But recently, the Prince Ying

has been implicated in the case of Lady Tang

These days might be difficult

I also heard about this

on my way back

Sister has always

been close with Lady Tang

They both support the commoners

But at this time, public opinion

is not favorable to them

Indeed

This case involving Lady Tang

Unexpectedly,

Miss Yan from Yan's family

gained merits this time

This seemingly insignificant illegitimate daughter

who usually hesitates,

But at this critical moment,

she really has something

Prince Xian

Do you think Miss Yan from the Yan family

can be...

The one teacher values

won't be wrong

We might even...

depend on her

to beak the deadlock

This flower needs fertilizing

Your Highness

This flower banquet

seems to have many noblewomen

are claiming illness and not coming

Got it

Those who don't wanna come

can also refrain from coming later

People who cannot be used by me