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[OVERDO]

[Episode 19]

How is it?

We need to take the bus?

Where to?

Home.

Before the orphanage,

didn't you always live on the wharf?

My family,

like most families on wharves,

made a living from water transport.

My father worked on boats all year round,

and my mother did odd jobs to help out.

We weren't rich,

but it was stable

and peaceful.

Every time my father came back from a trip,

he'd bring me little trinkets.

My mother was a great cook.

Every spring,

she'd make me pork soup with bamboo shoots,

Yanduxian.

Even after all these years,

when I barely remember what she looked like,

I still remember

the taste of that soup.

Papa!

Papa, Mama wants you back for dinner!

Papa, Papa! Mama wants you back for dinner!

Set sail!

Go, go!

Sail!

-Sail! -Go!

Go!

Go to Chonghai County!

What do you mean Chonghai County?

My baby's boat is

going to Spain

and America!

Papa,

when I grow up,

I want to be a captain,

traveling the world!

Travel the world!

What's wrong,

Sweetie?

But the captains

on your wharf always

leave for months at a time.

I want to be with you and Mama forever.

Don't worry.

When the time comes,

our whole family

will be on your ship.

I'll be your first mate,

and Mama your second mate.

Our family

will never ever be apart,

okay?

Okay!

Good girl.

If you two

really care about me,

hurry home and eat now.

You'll be good and eat your food,

and Papa will wash the dishes.

Then you can go back to your world-traveling

daydreams, okay?

Okay!

Your Mama's right.

How can you be the greatest captain

if you don't eat well?

Be a great captain!

Our baby will succeed!

I'm glad you

opened up to me about this.

I just suddenly got reminded of it.

And then?

What happened after?

Later, due to an accident,

I lost my family.

And then,

I became Fang Mulan.

But the person I knew

has always been Ren Susu.

But you've never known the real Ren Susu...

The Ren Susu who

grew up carefree

by her parents' side 12 years ago.

After entering the orphanage,

She was shattered

and ruined

by those demons.

Ever since then,

my heart's been consumed by revenge.

For revenge,

I turned into a person full of lies,

with blood on my hands.

I really don't know what

my parents would think

if they saw who I am now.

Are you trying to say

that the innocent,

brave, wise,

and kind

Ren Susu I know

isn't the real you?

Then tell me,

what's the real you

actually like?

What I'm actually like...

I've long forgotten.

Anyway...

Do you feel that

you've forgotten your past self

and gotten used to this current self

who doesn't deserve to be loved?

Haven't I also once...

felt that I don't deserve to be loved?

Mother,

Qingyi's also a biological son of the Murong family.

Why can't he stay at home?

He caused your father's death.

Keeping him here

will only bring misfortune to our family.

Are you going to send him back to the Li family?

Do you think they still want him?

Fine.

If no one wants him,

I'll take this little brother.

You won't have to worry about him.

You and I have

always been cut from the same cloth...

Unwanted

and unvalued.

How could I not understand?

Don't speak of yourself like this in front of me again.

It just feels like you're indirectly insulting me.

From now on,

Ren Susu's past is known

not only to you

but also to me.

So she still exists within you.

When the Huos are dealt with,

I want to be Ren Susu again...

and do what she truly wants to do.

What does Ren Susu truly want to do?

I guess

it must be about me.

Don't flatter yourself.

When you left me to confront the Huos,

I knew you

couldn't bear to lose me.

It's you dying I can't bear,

not losing you.

♪ Running toward you ♪

♪ From the day I thought ♪

♪ I succeeded in forgetting you ♪

♪ Facing the past ♪

♪ With you inside ♪

♪ My resolve crumbles ♪

♪ Immediately ♪

Isn't me dying and you losing me

♪ You're becoming clear ♪

the same thing?

♪ So far yet so clear ♪

Can't you say something nice to me

♪ Ever since forgetting you ♪

for a change?

♪ Became second nature ♪

What does it

matter to you?

Of course it matters.

♪ I still can't erase ♪

If you say nice things,

♪ Completely erase ♪

I'll be very happy.

♪ The certainty of my hand in yours ♪

♪ You are so clear ♪

♪ So close and so clear ♪

Can you give me a little more time?

♪ If you possibly still have the courage ♪

Let me find the Ren Susu in me back.

Of course.

♪ Then take me away from here ♪

♪ Having loved you deeply ♪

♪ Was the best decision I've made ♪

I had Lieutenant Wei

release Laiyi.

It was so dangerous today.

Why'd you have to get involved?

For her, of course.

You have absolutely no reservations now, huh?

Qingyu,

the dust has settled.

It's time

for you to let go.

The engagement is still on.

I've talked it over with Mother.

Tomorrow,

I'll take her to try on wedding dresses.

You stay home and recover.

When you're recovered,

I'll send you abroad.

The engagement is still on?

Qingyu,

you already know she's Ren Susu.

Why do you still insist on marrying her?

For three years, she acted recklessly

in her bid to take on the Huos.

If I don't keep her by my side,

how many more lives do you have to give her?

Her moving back into our home

is to prepare for the wedding.

Who she marries

isn't up to you.

It's up to her!

Murong Qingyi,

even if you want to throw yourself at her,

what else can you do for her right now

besides taking a bullet?

The downfall of the Huos today

wasn't because of your few punches

but the influence and prestige of our Murong family.

I don't have to force her.

She knows what to choose.

Miss Fang,

there's a call for you.

Notify Yinwei

to find him.

Principal,

Inspector Li sent word.

Master Huo's broken out of prison.

Seal off the wharves

and block off all intersections.

None may exit the Huo residence after entry.

Yes.

Stop right there.

With me around,

it'll never be your turn to play the hero.

Wow, aren't you a mastermind?

You make it seem like

I'm absolute trash without the Murong title.

I'll prove to you that

even without the Murongs' backing,

I can still help her fulfill her wish.

What are you going to do?

What am I going to do?

You'll never get it, Qingyu.

You and I...

have never been cut from the same cloth.

To abandon the love of my life

for the sake of my family would be to

destroy my soul.

What are you trying to say?

Qingyu,

I don't know what you're thinking,

but I know

Ms. Ye must be...

very sad.

Where's Qingyi?

I need to talk to you.

Congrats, Young Master.

You're becoming more and more like your mother.

You know how much he looks up to you,

yet time and again,

you crush and interfere with his choices.

Is he really your brother,

or just a tool you use

to spruce up the Murongs' image?

Who are you to

judge my relationship with Qingyi?

He can like any woman,

but absolutely not someone as dangerous as you.

Do you think that now that you've had your revenge,

you can pick up where you left off with Qingyi

and rekindle your old romance?

So, in your eyes,

women like us spend our lives

seeking for

nothing but to date

noble heirs, huh?

You're spitting on everything

we've been through all these years.

For someone like you,

justice is just a concept you learned.

But for people like us,

justice is a luxury we fight for with blood and tears.

You'll never understand this.

But Qingyi does.

I want to go back to being myself.

Fang Mulan,

in your dreams.

I'm Ren Susu.

I'm done being Fang Mulan.

Precisely because you're Ren Susu,

you must

stay by my side.

The engagement isn't yours to decide.

Master Fang's also in Nancheng.

I'll get him to come talk to you tomorrow.

Twelve years ago,

in a big fire at Wucongkou Wharf,

Ren Changhe...

Papa! Mama! Papa! Mama!

Papa! Mama!

Young Master Qingyi,

please spare me.

Spare you?

If you tell the truth later,

I might consider it.

But if

Master Huo manages to escape,

you'll bear the consequences alone.

Qingyi.

Okay,

I'll tell you everything I know.

He wants to flee abroad.

But all the wharfs in Nancheng

have been sealed off by you.

He's heading to Hangcheng

with his men.

He plans to flee

by boat from there.

Qingyi!

[Murong Residence]

Fuzi.

Young Master.

Where's Miss Fang?

She went out earlier.

Qingyi, if we don't

leave now,

we won't get to Hangcheng before dark.

It's important.

Get a pen and paper.

Okay.

If I startled you,

please accept the enclosed leaf of Beicheng's autumn

as a token of my apology.

[Murong Residence]

Miss Fang, you're finally back.

Young Master Qingyi told me to give this to you before he left.

Before he left?

Huo Shaoxiong's escaped.

I'm going to put an end to this.

Don't worry.

I'll be back before the first snow.

P.S.

contact me if you need anything.

P.P.S.

contact me even just to say hi.

Ren Changhe

made a living from water transport at the wharves.

Twelve years ago,

in a big fire at Wucongkou Wharf,

over 30 people died in the fire.

This included Ren Changhe

and his wife Shao Huilan.

After the fire,

their only daughter, Ren Susu,

was taken into Renxin Orphanage.

Stop talking.

I already...

know all this.

There's more you don't know.

What's this?

[Current Affairs Daily]

[Bloodshed at Railway Celebration: Marshal Murong Meets With Misfortune]

After the Wucongkou Wharf fire,

there was an explosion at the inauguration ceremony of the North-South Railway.

My father

died on the spot.

It must be related to this case.

Afterwards,

the mastermind behind it wasn't found.

Only one thing was found out:

the explosive was RDX.

It's a new type of explosive from abroad.

But the key is that

this batch of explosives was

handled at Wucongkou Wharf.

Are you saying

my parents' death

wasn't an accident?

No one's ever connected

the Wucongkou Wharf fire

and the railway explosion

together before.

But now it seems that

perhaps the Wucongkou Wharf fire

was to preemptively destroy

crucial evidence of the railway explosion.

Someone wanted to silence them?

But my parents were just ordinary folk.

How could they be involved in this?

[Marshal Murong, clad in ceremonial garb, was about to cut the ribbon and speak]

Who benefits from...

Marshal Murong's death?

Li Rongzhang.

[P.S. contact me if you need anything.]

[P.P.S. contact me even just to say hi.]

Qingyi, what should I do?

Master, careful.

Hurry.

Why so slow? Faster!

Hurry!

[Hangcheng Wharf]

Master, be careful.

Come on.

Here.

Hoist the sails.

Set sail!

Master,

good thing you were prepared,

so we could save our assets.

Once we get through this,

our Huo family

will prevail, powerful as ever.

Why's it so light?

Master,

this is...

Master, the money...

has all turned into joss paper.

Where's my money? Where is it!

Master Huo.

Setting sail so late at night,

where are you going?

It's you, you bastard!

In such a hurry, you might've

not prepared your own joss paper,

so I brought some gifts for you.

Do you like them?

Three years ago, you ruined my left hand.

Over the years...

the spasms, the tremors,

and the piercing pain

have tortured me nonstop.

Master Huo...

now,

your left hand

can feel my pain too, right?

What black magic

did you use on me?

Not me

but her.

Knowing Master Huo,

he won't surrender easily.

Even if he finds a chance to escape,

we can't let him off.

This hallucinatory drug

magnifies pain and injury,

until he dies of terror.

You two animals!

Over a decade ago,

when you spilled your first drop of blood,

you should've expected this day.

I won't...

let you two go.

Trying to provoke me

so I'd shoot you for a quick death?

That'd be letting you off too easy.

[Zhenhua No. 1 Aviation School]

I've had people look into it.

The Huo family

has always held the outside shares for Baohua Firm,

where your father worked.

With the fall of the Huos,

some news

finally came to light.

We also found letters

between the Huos and various parties,

and discovered that before the explosion,

they were in close contact with Li Rongzhang.

I didn't expect it either.

Back then, although the Lis and our family

were fighting for control of the railway,

after the explosion,

Li Rongzhang was also implicated.

He almost

lost command of the army.

In that case,

why'd he hurt others

when he gets nothing out of it?

We kept investigating along this line

and found that the explosives

were indeed supplied by Li Rongzhang's partner,

an overseas arms supplier.

Since the explosives were transported

through Wucongkou Wharf

and Baohua Firm was also involved,

Li Rongzhang had every reason to silence them,

killing dozens of innocent people,

including the Ren family.

-That means... -That means that

if you want revenge,

you have to kill Qingyi's adoptive father,

that is Boze's biological father.

What,

want revenge?

I'll offer you a choice.

Our wedding will be

your best chance to assassinate Li Rongzhang.

Even if I succeed,

I can't escape the Lis' retaliation.

I'll most likely die on the spot.

You want revenge

but you're afraid of death?

Ren Susu,

you're unlike your old self.

I see.

This matter is deeply interconnected

and full of perils.

You don't want a ticking time bomb like me

staying by Qingyi's side.

Will you only join forces with me

if I leave Qingyi?

Or would you

rather I fight Li Rongzhang to the death,

since my death...

would be best for Qingyi?

I don't need your help,

and I'm not leaving Qingyi.

As for my parents' revenge,

I will bide my time.

Who will let you bide your time?

The Fang family

or Qingyi?

If you're not Fang Mulan,

why involve the Fang family in something so dangerous

like Li Rongzhang's assassination?

Well,

if you can't seek help

from the Fangs, then Qingyi?

Do I need to remind you?

Li Rongzhang doesn't treat Qingyi well,

but he's still his adoptive father.

What gives you the right to make Qingyi

commit patricide for you?

Without the Fang family,

without Qingyi,

what do you, the orphan Ren Susu, have?

Your life's all you have, isn't it?

At the wedding, even if I succeed in

assassinating Li Rongzhang and die,

you can't escape involvement.

What do you want out of this?

Now that the Huos are destroyed,

the power in Nancheng will be reshuffled.

If you assassinate Li Rongzhang,

the power of both the Huos and the Lis

will fall into my hands.

Do you really think I believe that

you're this power-hungry?

Believe it or not,

now, you just need to choose

if you'll shoulder

the Rens' grudge or not.

Principal,

assassinating Li Rongzhang is immensely dangerous,

and Miss Fang's just a weak woman...

So what?

Regardless of her doubts, this is

an inevitable path she has to take.

Even if we don't consider Miss Fang's life,

it isn't do or die

between us and Li Rongzhang yet.

Killing him now for past events...

Principal,

you're not a rash person.

There's a reason he must die.

But he's still Young Master Qingyi's adoptive father

and Young Master Boze's biological father.

If one day they find out

it was you who ordered

Miss Fang to assassinate Li Rongzhang,

your brotherhood

will most likely be ruined.

When the edifice is collapsing,

I can only prioritize the bigger picture.