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What urgent business do you have to seek an audience with me?

Your Majesty do you remember that you once promised you would give me a reward?

I do remember, you have?something you want now?

I would like you to witness my wedding with Ran Mei Yu.

According to your instructions,

none of the wardens have informed Examiner Ran of your upcoming nuptials.

when you came to the Xiao manor to look for Song'er,

although on the surface he humiliated you,

but in truth he noticed you were worn out searching for your cousin,

and purposefully tricked you to go there

adding a sedative into your wine so you can sleep.

He was so foolish that when you were resting

he went to save your cousin.

Who saved you?

the authorities who saved me.

In order to protect you,

Song’er was whipped.

His entire back y^as covered with whip lashes.

But he grit his teeth and enduredllifk

Only....to ensure His Majesty would let you go.

But Lord Sun would not let it go, and managed to convince His Majesty.

That was why His Majesty ordered for him to cane you personally and forced you to divorce.

In order to save you Song'er, he had no choice but to cane you so badly.

But I know

it was struck on your body but the pain was in his heart.

Xiao fish...

I miss you.

Fox....

I want you to come home with me so much.

Xiao fish!

Why are you here?

I got special permission from His Majesty to see you.

You begged His Majesty?

Yes I begged him.

I didn’t expect you to show such a conscience.

My fox lair...

you didn't discard it right?

It turns out you were the most well hidden enemy of mine.

You've always been deceiving me!

Mistress Gao, District Governor Li and Guo Fu were your underlings.

You completely deceived me!

You actually believe it was me?

It was you who jumped into my bath and seduced me.

And it was you who volunteered to examine the body, attracting my attention

All of that was arranged by you!

You made me your pawn!

Making me go wherever you want!

I thought you would believe me.

Because I believed you that's why you managed to steal the Marquis of Sui's pearl from me!

Marquis of Sui's pearl? I...

You still don't believe me?

I originally thought

you stole the pearl because you still like Su Fu.

But I never expected

you were the Crown Prince's most important pawn in Suzhou!

Helping him commit murder, help him steal the pearl, and assist him in seizing the empire!

I didn’t!

You didn’t?

If you didn’t then why did you help him win that jade contest?

If you didn't why did the Crown Prince send congratulatory gifts

for our wedding?

I want to hear the truth from you!

If you despise me then why did you lie to Princess Ba Ling to protect me?

Why did you trick me to the Xiao Manor and put me to sleep?

And why did you secretly assist me and save my cousin?

I once thought...

that you still had feelings for Su Fu

that was why you betrayed me.

And I once fantasized

if you were ever willing to come back to me,

I would forgive your betrayal...

forgive your betrayal and be with you.

I suddenly find that I'm so pitiful.

I loved you so much!

Yet you treated me like a pawn!

But now I finally realize who you really are.

It's time for me to turn around.

Listen

Starting from now on,

I cut all ties with you and let's never see each other again!

Do you hear me?

I do.

Tomorrow at noon,

Ran Mei Yu and I will be holding our wedding in the palace.

All the nobles and aristocrats will attend the ceremony

and most of the guards will be at the palace.

Use that chance...

to take Ran Yan...away with you.

Why did you ask me?

Because...

apart from me,

only you

truly love her

in this world.

I will always protect her...

until I...

My Lord it's almost time.

My Lord if you do not change into your clothes it will be too late.

Get out!

Yes.

My fox lair...

you didn't discard it right?

You made me your pawn!

Making me go wherever you want!

I thought you would believe me.

Because I believed you that's why you managed to steal the Marquis ofSui's pearl from me!

Marquis' Sui's pearl? I...

Fox seemed so look as if she suffered a great injustice.

Could she have...

Where is the pearl?!

Why are you beating me?!

She left this when she left, I've been keeping it for you ever since.

Fox....

I was wrong about you.

It turns out you never betrayed me.

Bai Yi!

My Lord.

Before my wedding, you must do everything you can to find Wu Xiu He.

Don't worry My Lord I will not disappoint you.

You are dismissed.

Help me get dressed!

-Your's. -Alright.

This is your’s take it.

Alright.

Keep it safe, this is your's.

Alright. Let’s go.

Xiao Fish...why

did he say that to me?

Why was he acting strangely?

What are you doing?!

You go first, leave this place to me.

These are the documents for your new identity.

As soon as you leave the city head straight to Lake Qu, there'll be a boat there.

I'm not going, I will bring trouble to you.

You will only cause me trouble by not going.

Uncle Wu.

Where are you?

Could the red on this branch be blood?

Blood?!

His Lordship once said,

the plant close to Uncle Wu's location of disappearance was missing a branch.

This branch may have been left by Uncle Wu.

Could Uncle Wu have..

Uncle Wu! Uncle Wu!

I heard His Majesty will witness a wedding between one of his officials today.

Then what is the identity of this minister?

I heard this minister is upright, great at solving cases, quick to come up with solutions

what’s important he is handsome and talented.

Yes I heard his name is called the sorrow of the ghosts of Chang'an.

He is His Majesty’s right hand man.

But I do not know why he is marrying a woman no-one has ever heard of.

That woman seemed to be called...

Ran Mei Yu!

That's right, she’s called Ran Mei Yu.

Minister Xiao Song,

this civilian Ran Mei Yu

pays his respects to His Majesty.

My dear minister please rise.

Thank you Your Majesty.

You are an important minister of my kingdom,

that is why I have announced to the world that I am witnessing

Deputy Minister Xiao’s wedding.

Thank you Your Majesty!

I oppose the match!

This civilian Ran Yan greets Your Majesty.

How dare you storm into the palace without permission Ran Yan?!

Your Majesty, I risked my life to seek an audience with you in order to challenge a fickle man!

As you risked your life to come to my hall,

then I would like to hear you out, come closer.

Thank you Your Majesty!

The man I intend to challenge does not speak what is on his mind.

This man was willing to be caned on the behalf of a woman,

and would often assist her

helping her when she was in trouble.

This man speaks about parting ways with this woman,

but for her,

he is willing to marry a woman he does not love.

He did this so that he can find evidence,

find proof that this woman is innocent!

I am the one Lord Xiao loves.

And the person he wishes to marry is me,

You keep obstructing me from marrying him,

you're always targeting me!

Xiao Song will not marry you.

Do you think he will not marry me because you say so?

But Lord Xiao says he wants to marry me,

he wants to spend the rest of his life to love me

Lord Xiao...

why don’t you...tell her yourself.

I announce in front of His Majesty today

I,

Ran Yan..

whether it is in this life time,

or the next lifetime

or every lifetime afterwards, I will still be your wife!

I forbid you from marrying anyone else!

And I forbid you from taking a concubine!

Before I die,

you cannot marry anyone else.

If I die,

you must wait for me so we can encounter each other in the next life.

Fox, you are so foolish!

You could have escaped but you had to come and break up this wedding!

Wherever you are...

I will be there too.

Good.

If you do not wish to escape, then let's die together!

Xiao Song!

Are you not afraid?

She is not afraid, why would I be afraid?

Why should he be afraid?

That's a dead body!

Why is there a body?

How dare you! How could you carry a body and show it to His Majesty?

Your Majesty.

This is my Master, he was murdered.

And the killer of my master

was the one who used musk to lure the Monarch blossom butterfly and killed Consort Yang!

Then do you know who it is?

You will know in a moment who that person is.

Why do you say that?

When my Master passed away, he left some evidence for me.

Where is the evidence?

My Master’s hand is clutching the stomach area of his clothes.

Which means...

the evidence is in his stomach.

Do you intend to dissect the body?

Our parents bestowed our body to us,

how can you dissect it?

It goes against morality!

Your Majesty.

Ran Yan had dissected a body when we were in Suzhou

and assisted me in solving the crime and arresting the killer.

Although our parents bestowed our body to us

But in this world is there not a parent of a victim

who does not want their children to find a lead to help them locate their killer?

I have to find who killed my Consort Yang no matter what method I must use!

Do you dare to make a vow on your life?

If you find evidence and discover the true killer

I determine that you are innocent and let you off.

But if you cannot find it, I will give you a heavy sentence!

Your Majesty!

I, Xiao Song am willing to make the pledge

on behalf of Ran Yan!

I allow it!

Thank you Your Majesty!

He really made it?

Even if I am murdered, I will leave you a lead to the killer.

Old man you cannot speak nonsense.

You have to life for a long time

otherwise who can I bully?

Girl.

everyone will die one day. Separation is inevitable.

Life and death is simply a norm of the world.

You do not need to be sad,

I have led a carefree life throughout these years

the thing I hate the most are tears.

♪ My eyes silently fill with tears ♪

♪ It's a shame you're not in my heart ♪

♪ One tear per step, One shower of rain for an encounter ♪

♪ When you say farewell, ♪

Next enjoy how my girl will extract this bone from the screen!

♪ your back(s) starts to overlap in my eyes * ♪

Master,

I know

you are the person who treats me the best.

Your Majesty.

When we were 16, my Father ordered 2 pairs of exact earrings.

One pair was made of gold, one pair was made of red jade.

I was given the gold pair,

the red jade pair was Ran Mei Yu's.

There should be Mei Yu engraved on the earrings,

please inspect it.

That is true.

Ran Mei Yu...

what do you have to say?

Your Majesty, Ji Yuan did it.

I was forced!

A while ago, I dropped off a cliff

Ji Yuan saved me!

I thought he saved me out of kindness

who knew that after he found out I was Ran Yan's biological sister,

he used me to set Ran Yan up!

It was he who forced me to secretly steal into the clinic

and swapped the ointment out of the clinic.

Do you know palace attendant Deng Rong?!

How can I know anyone within the palace?

It was Ji Yuan! He colluded with Deng Rong killed Consort Yang

then set the Qingzhu clinic up!

I do not know who Ji Yuan is at all,

there is no point in him setting me up.

He did it for you, that’s why he set me up,

and murdered my Master!

Your Majesty!

Ran Mei Yu had confessed to me before

that she used Ji Yuan's resources to frame Ran Yan and the Crown Prince,

because I had no evidence and Wu Xiu He was in her hands

so after she threatened me, I had no choice to marry her.

Ran Mei Yu!

For your selfish motives, you and Ji Yuan not only framed the Crown Prince

and also dared to kill my Consort Yang!

How dare you?!

Your Majesty, with Ran Mei Yu's ability,

I fear it is hard for her to control the happenings within the palace, I fear someone is behind her.

Speak! Who else is behind you?!

I do not have anyone else.

If you do not inform me,

then I will have to torture you.

What wrong did I commit?

It was you!

It was because of you my Mother died, because of you I can’t marry Xiao Song

It was you who made everyone call me the daughter of a spy!

All of you had to make an enemy out of me!

I will not let you off like this!

Unfortunately we are the ones you cannot let go of,

it's you.

If there is another lifetime,

I do not wish to compete with you.

Not do I wish to hate you anymore.

What I wish for the most is to not be your sister.

I must find a man who dotes on me,

who loves me,

and lead a happy life.

Remove her.

What is that?

[Ah Cong]

This...

What does it mean?

What’s wrong with the characters Ah Cong?

Why is everything is so anxious?

Ah Cong was the nickname of the Emperor Yang of Sui.

[Ah Cong]

Li Shi Ming I'm going to kill you!

Protect His Majesty!

This...This...

Why did they commit suicide?

Xiao Song!

The Ministry of Justice plans to assassinate His Majesty during your wedding

Guards! Arrest him!

Your Majesty Xiao Song has always been devoted his post, there is no doubt about his loyalty.

Xiao Song will not do anything that will harm you!

And the re-appearance of the Monarch Blossom butterflies revealed the nickname of Emperor Yang of Sui

it is very suspicious!

Besides look at these guards, they look as if they are in a daze, as if under a spell,

please investigate thoroughly!

We have witnesses and evidence!

It proves that Xiao Song wanted to overthrow His Majesty long ago!

Xiao Song!

Why do you not speak up for yourself?!

If Your Majesty believes me, I do not need to explain anything.

Throw Xiao Song in prison!

Your Majesty!

Would you like to know how Ah Cong appeared on the drum?

You know?

The Monarch Blossom butterflies like to consume the buds of jasmines,

someone has mixed the juices of a jasmine bud with poison and wrote

the characters Ah Cong using blood onto the drum and covered it with the poison

which lured those butterflies here.

After the consumed the poisonous layer covering the blood characters

they fall to the ground and die, and Ah Cong will appear on the drum.

Just like what we all saw.

Please allow me to examine those bodies.

Although you are a woman,

but you are very knowledgeable,

and achieved many great things, you truly are an extraordinary woman.

I allow it.

Thank you Your Majesty!

The butterflies! They have been revived!

Hurry and go! Go!

Hurry and go!

Stop supporting me, Hurry find someone to put out the fire!

-Alright! -Yes!

Examiner Ran!

Examiner Ran!

Examiner Ran!

Examiner Ran!

-What's going on? -Lord Su!

Examiner Ran is still there! Hurry and save her!

Hurry! Hurry!

-Hurry put out the fire! -Wheres the water?

-Water! Over there! -Over there!

-My Lord. -My Lord.

Who was guarding the autopsy room?

My Lord it was us.

Did you see anyone come and go?

My Lord we did not see anyone.

Old man.

How could you do this?

You’ve left me alone.

Wan Lv.

Burn all these clothes.

Miss are we burning everything?

You're not leaving any behind?

Burn them all.

Yan'er.

Don't be so upset.

Cousin,

it's growing late,

hurry and go back.

If you need my company, I can stay here.

I am not a child.

Miss Ran buried Uncle Wu under a tree.

Did she cry?

No.

When you back back tell Mistress Shu and the others

to investigate Ran Mei Yu's interpersonal relationships.

You suspect she has accomplices?

With her capabilities she cannot arrange it.

A mastermind must have assisted her.

Also after you go back,

find and bring a record of the details of the 10 ten dead here.

Yes I will do that right away.

It's me.

I knew it was you when I saw the fireworks.

I'm here to keep you company.

Do you think prison can contain me?

You instructed your people to set these fireworks off?

I know you miss your Master,

just cry if you want.

The sound of the fireworks

will hide the sound of your cries.

That old man has gone!

He left me all alone!

In the future, no-one will let me bully them again.

Master!

Master!

Master!

Alright everything's fine.

You have me.

In the future I will only let you bully me.

Right?

The wine from that tavern last time,

was so good!

Let's go!

♪ It's another night when my brush tip holds my longing for you ♪

♪ Sketched a few strokes but I erased them again and again ♪

♪ The flashbacks of the past weakly floats up my memory ♪

♪ As I watch my tears burn through my palm one by one ♪

♪ My fault for leaving you this lifetime of loneliness ♪

I want you to kidnap the Shu son of the Su family, Su Fu.

Because he's a Shu son?

I have not even seen his face before.

So I am not prejudiced against him.

♪ Fear that our love will be even further than separation from you Jl ♪

We are very alike!

♪ My fault for committing this lifetime long sin J3 ♪

♪ Desperately try to be freed from these torturous chains in vain ♪

♪ It's a destiny that can never be satisfied ♪

Let's start afresh.

How did you know I like osmanthus cake?

♪ Forgot to tell you ♪

Don't touch me!