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MY ROOMMATE IS A DETECTIVE

♔ Follow @skysoultan on Instagram ♔ Episode 15

This is trace left by a fishing thread.

So it was not an accident that

Luo Shanni fell down the stairs.

After it fell on the ground,

the candle had gone out.

And this curtain

was not burnt from the bottom to top.

It was ignited by something on fire nearby

after the fire started.

So this candlestick

was not the cause of the fire.

This is not ash from burning.

It's mud.

Mud?

Take this from me!

Are you alright?

Yes.

This is not the first time you've seen someone fight, right?

Of course not!

Then why are you scared like this?

You were dying!

Why? You worried about me?

Of course! After you were killed

he might come to kill me next!

Aren't you supposed to be a martial arts master?

He

is also a good fighter.

His form was fierce and solid.

Your intuition is right.

This fire is not just an accident.

What is the smell?

Oh damn.

Gasoline. Let's go!

This man was ruthless.

He intended to kill us both.

He's from Green Dragon Gang.

How do you know?

Not many people could overpower me

in such a short time even in the whole Shanghai.

We were trained after joining the gang.

That person was trained with the same kung fu like me.

Are you sure?

I am sure.

But I don't understand.

Uncle Tan was so nice to people when he was alive.

Why would someone in the same gang kill him

after he retired from the old business?

For money, of course.

Then do you think I will

kill Mr. Bai for money?

How would I know?

No, no, you won't.

Since he didn't plan to let us leave here alive,

he must have a backup plan.

I still have something that puzzles me.

There is still a missing piece in the puzzle.

What do you need me to do?

The priority is to make good on your promise.

Accompany me to the autopsy.

I've always been curious.

Why don't you want to work in the police station?

Isn't it good to get a serious job?

If I come to work in the police station,

I have to work according to office hours.

And I have to take orders from you.

You already take orders from me now.

That's different.

Now if I don't want to investigate a case,

I can choose not to.

The choice is mine, not yours.

What are you doing?

I can do it alone.

What should I do then?

You

go to pay Luo Shanni a visit now.

You mean right now?

Yes.

Maybe she still hasn't gone to bed at this hour.

I go to the hotel to visit a woman in the middle of the night?

Not to mention she is the widow of my senior.

If people find out, I will be damned.

OK, I'll go visit her.

You can do the autopsy, right?

Fine.

Hello?

Youning, it's me.

Go to your father's house now

and ask him something.

Of course it's about the case!

Coming!

Inspector Qiao, why are you here so late at night?

I need to check with you about some details.

You pick your time of visit wisely.

Come on in.

Whiskey?

No, thanks. I'll leave after I ask the questions.

Didn't you say that the case will be closed within three days?

I did.

That means

I will get my share of money soon?

As required by law,

Jincheng Bank will send you the gold bars directly.

Thank God.

I finally see light of hope.

This afternoon I

booked a flight to Hong Kong on credit.

When I get the money

I will immediately leave this damn place.

I didn't expect there is a chance

for me to start all over again

when I am already 28.

Uncle Tan just died.

You're a little too eager to enjoy new life.

What's wrong with that?

We were together when I was only eighteen.

It's been ten years.

I really liked him.

He might be old

but he knew very well

who really cared about him.

So he already wrote a will

and left all the money to me.

And Mr. He

had followed him for many years through many crises

and he had been loyal to Master.

So it's reasonable to give him ten gold bars.

As for the prodigal son Tan Xing,

he doesn't deserve a penny.

Butler He used to follow Uncle Tan through crises?

Yes.

Before Master gave up his business in the gang,

Mr. He was his best martial arts master.

He was his lieutenant.

He only became

a butler in Tan Mansion when he got older.

Had they ever had a fight?

I don't think so.

You detectives and police,

don't keep suspecting us.

If you ask me,

I'll say he fell into the pond and drowned.

Even if,

I mean even if,

someone killed him,

how many people had he offended in the past years?

I can't count them even with ten hands.

Just look at how tragic his two sons died.

They still haven't found the murderer.

Do you think Uncle Tan was killed?

I told you,

half past five that morning,

I saw with my own eyes that

he was standing by the pond.

Did you see clearly?

Are you sure that person was Uncle Tan?

I certainly...

Actually I didn't see his face.

Because he was standing by the pond

with his back to the window of my room.

It was such a cold winter morning.

He was wearing a fur coat

and a hat.

I shouted his name.

But probably he didn't hear me from far away.

But even if he heard me,

he wouldn't have given any response.

Every time he stood by that pond

he looked so deep in his thought.

It seemed as if his soul had been taken by someone.

Mr. Bai.

Let me get your coat.

Mr. Lu.

I heard Chusheng say you wanted to close the case ahead of schedule

and you wanted me to come and be a witness.

I am privileged that

you can come during your busy schedule.

They always tell me

what a great detective you are.

Today I want to see for myself.

Please take a seat.

OK.

Since everyone is here,

I'll make the long story short.

Yesterday I went to the Tan Mansion with Lu Yao again

trying to find some new evidence.

But we were attacked

and someone set a fire again

trying to kill us both.

This person

is an agile martial arts master.

He received systematic training.

As far as I know

Butler He used to be a member of Green Dragon Gang.

He had his fair share of training.

Mr. Lu,

if you suspect him

of murdering Tan,

I can tell you

this is impossible.

Although I don't have much personal contact with him,

I know how loyal he was to Tan.

He once took a bullet for Tan.

Last night when Inspector Qiao

had a fight with that person,

I hurt the man's left arm with a broken piece of porcelain.

I respect Mr. Bai's opinion

about Mr. He.

But to assure everyone,

Mr. He, can you prove your own innocence?

Fine.

I got this burn during the fire.

If you don't believe me,

you can ask

that patrol officer at the scene.

Sorry, but I don't remember.

It was chaotic yesterday.

I can't even remember who died and who lived.

Mr. He, you are a tough guy.

You knew we might check your wound

so you burnt yourself first.

Mr. Lu.

You are a detective.

You are a very famous detective.

But if you accuse someone of murder,

you have to come up with evidence, right?

You want evidence?

Your left arm is the evidence.

Lu Yao hurt that attacker's left arm

and where you got burned

is exactly the same place.

What are the odds of that?

I insist on what I said.

Evidence.

OK, fortunately I have a Plan B.

The arsonist last night

left several fingerprints on the gas drum.

We just need to compare them with yours,

and we'll soon find out if it was you.

Can't you spare us the extra work?

Fine.

Last night,

it was me.

Tan treated you well.

Why did you do that to him?

Now you know who did it and that's all you need.

As for motive,

I do not want to say.

You don't want to say?

It's alright.

I have a lot of ways to get you start to talk.

Take him to custody.

Wait.

Since the case is closed,

let's talk about

the heritage, too.

I'd like that.

He is the murderer

but he is also one of the beneficiaries mentioned in the will.

I heard something new about the heritage in which

I think everyone will be very interested.

Last night I asked Miss Bai

to go home and ask her father something.

In what status are you

to ask me this question?

I am here as a reporter of Xinyue Daily.

Please leave.

Lu Yao asked me to ask you.

It is about the case.

So please do tell me the truth.

Tan had been one of my division leaders

for so many years.

Do you really think

his life savings are just a few gold bars?

A box of gold bars is no small money.

The real valuable things are his land title deeds and stock shares.

He owned 10% of

Huacheng Trading and Lei's Herbal Medicine Store each

and 15% of Jincheng Bank's stock.

He owned four land in downtown Shanghai

which are all rented out to shops.

But none of these things

was mentioned in the will.

Tan gave me another will

asking me to keep it for him.

So these things are left to his son?

Tan was ill-fated.

The eldest son and the second son both died young.

Now he only had one son.

Of course he left them to him.

But Tan told me specifically

that I shouldn't give the heritage to

Tan Xing until he could act

like a responsible adult.

Otherwise the money will only impair him.

Young Master Tan, you must also know,

your dad's real possessions

are far more than what was mentioned in the first will.

Master Tan had only two close friends.

One is Mr. He, the butler.

The other is Mr. Bai.

He must entrusted such an important task

to one of them.

Young Master Tan,

you must be very happy when you found out the second will.

Of course I am happy!

I am the only son of the Tan family.

My dad's stock shares and title deeds

should be mine.

Yes, you are the young master of Tan family.

It's nothing wrong you want the heritage.

But you are wrong when

you killed your father for money.

What kind of bullshit are you talking about?

Mr. Lu, you have to have evidence to accuse him that.

You can't wrong an innocent young man.

First of all, I want to apologize to Mr. Bai

because I did an autopsy on the deceased

against his order.

Luckily it was you.

If it were someone else...

Just say the autopsy result!

There is a lot of water in his lungs,

which means he died from drowning.

But his nasal cavity is clean,

which means that he drowned in clean water,

not in a filthy pond.

Inspector Qiao and I went to Tan Mansion last night to examine the field

and I found on the floor next to the second floor's bathtub,

there was traces of mud.

Normally people

wear slippers to walk into the bathroom.

So why would the mud be brought into the bathroom?

That can only means there was someone

who walked into the bathroom without the time to change his shoes.

And it was this person

who drowned Tan in the bathtub.

That night, Young Master Tan squandered all his money

in the opium den.

So he went home trying to get some money.

Sometime between 9:15 and 9:30,

he returned home.

The victim was bathing in the bathroom.

Young Master Tan was in a hurry

so he walked into the bathroom still wearing his leather shoes.

Then he asked the victim for money.

The two had a quarrel.

You stay in opium dens every day. You have disgraced me!

I would rather I never have a filial son like you!

Miser!

Are you going to bring your money into the coffin with you?

Since you said so,

I'll change my will right now!

I'd rather bring all the title deeds and stock shares

into the coffin with me

than leave them to you!

At this moment, when you thought about after your father's death,

his huge amount of property would be left to you,

you made up your mind to commit patricide.

Die!

This is Young Master Tan's motivation for murder.

You beast!

Go away!

Uncle Bai, I treated you as my family.

I never thought my father believed in the wrong person.

Those heritages are a lot of money for everyone.

I can understand that you want to take everything.

But do you really need to ask your minions in the police station

to frame me

and want me dead?

I'll tear your mouth if you keep talking crap!

Let him speak.

Yes, I did fight with my dad a lot.

But isn't it normal

between father and son?

The only time I left the opium den last night

was just an hour.

If you don't believe me, ask the owner.

One single trip from there to my house on a rickshaw

takes 25 minutes.

If you think I could

kill my dad

and stage the scene like a suicide in just 10 minutes,

then you're giving me too much credit.

Time of death does prove him innocent.

Luo Shanni said at five o'clock yesterday

she still saw Uncle Tan standing beside the pond.

Yes.

Ten minutes is not enough

to set up these deceptive tricks.

But the one who staged the scene

was not Young Master Tan.

It was

Mr. He.

Master!

Master!

Master!

Did you kill him?

Where were you before coming home?

The opium den.

Go back!

I told you to go back there!

Now!

The body was dragged

into the snow right after he died,

so the environment like a refrigerator delayed the corpse's changes

which misguided the coroner

to give a wrong time of death.

The refrigerated body

together with Luo Shanni's testimony

were enough to give a wrong time of death.

So that gave

Young Master Tan a perfect alibi.

Next you put the disguised corpse

into the pond

to create the illusion of suicide.

But when we arrived at the scene,

we didn't find Mr. He's footprints

or any trace of him dragging the body on the snow.

That's because he changed the shoes of the deceased.

It was clever,

but also easy to sell you out.

Although Mr. Tan was a large-size man,

the footprints he left cannot be this deep.

Only two people's weight together

could leave such deep footprints on the snow.

It wasn't until then that

I realized it was a murder.

Son, you really are good at this.

We dissected the body,

and examined his stomach content,

which helped me determine the real time of death

was two to three hours after dinner.

We ate dinner at seven!

We eat every day at that time.

Indeed.

Tan Xing went home

between 9:15 to 9:30.

The time fits.

These are just your speculations.

Give me your hand.

Give me your hand!

I'm not going to ask you again. Give me your hand!

See that?

From this we know

how much pain

Mr. Tan must be suffering before he died.

At that time

if I could go in there a few minutes earlier...

Even for a few minutes,

nothing would have happened...

This is Mr. Ma, the owner of Tongbao Pawnshop.

How are you?

Good afternoon, everyone.

Sir.

Yesterday this young man

came to my pawnshop and pawned three rings.

These are all Master's rings!

Do you remember when he went to your shop last night?

A few minutes to ten.

He came when I was about to close.

I killed him!

So what?

He should have died long ago.

He looked down on my mother because she was a peasant woman.

He refused to acknowledge us.

He remembered the existence of his bastard

only after his other two sons died.

But I never wanted to be accepted into the Tan family,

and I never want to be some bullshit Young Master Tan.

Just when he took me in,

my mother went missing.

She just disappeared into thin air.

I asked our old neighbors.

I even hired private detectives to find her.

But I couldn't find her anywhere.

It was Tan Yixiong who asked you to kill her,

am I right?

Four years ago,

for the murder of the two young masters of the Tan family,

the murderer

was your mother.

That's not true!

In the name of

a Tan Family's bastard, aka you,

she invited the two young masters to meet and talk.

I don't know how she did it.

But then she pretended to be a cleaner

and used a garbage truck to transport the bodies into Tan's Mansion

and dumped the bodies in the pond.

I caught her in the act

before she could leave the house.

That's impossible!

She hated Master

much more than you do.

She wanted to ruin the Tan family.

But as a mother,

what she also wanted

was you being recognized and

inheriting the family heritage.

She wanted you to become

the only heir

of the Tan Family.

You're insulting her!

I am just the butler of the Tan family.

I would do everything Master asked me to do.

I tried to get you out of murder

because Master knew your nature too well.

No matter what you did,

I know he would want me to get you off the hook

so that we could save

the only offspring of the Tan family.

But I failed it.

But I failed it.

Green Dragon Gang owes you a favor.

This is nothing.

No need to thank me.

What? Are you still leaving?

What do you expect?

After such a big case,

I wouldn't have a happy life again

even if I stay in Shanghai.

Why not find a place to start all over again?

You have people who can take care of you in Shanghai.

You don't know anybody in Hong Kong.

Nobody will be there for you if someone tries to look for trouble.

Inspector Qiao, do you not want me to leave?

Don't get above yourself.

I came here to help you with the funeral

under Mr. Bai's order.

People in the mafia really value loyalty.

I really appreciate your kindness.

But

I don't want to have anything

to do with gangsters anymore.

Why not?

Once you enter that world, there are lots of things beyond your control.

Look at you guys all dressed up living a good life.

But you can't decide your own fate.

Mr. He had followed Master

and been through hell his life time.

But look at how things ended for him.

I suggest

you think about what's in your best interests.

Don't be still alone

when you grow old.

Don't you worry about me.

I'm curious about one thing though.

You have enough experience and abilities now.

Why not start your own business?

Why do you still have to sell your soul to Mr. Bai?

In your opinion it's selling my soul.

In my opinion

I am paying back what I owed him.

If I were Mr. Bai,

I would marry my daughter to you.

Youning?

She has a better man now.

What's going on?

It's been three days.

Why hasn't the case been reported yet?

I didn't write it.

Why not?

My dad said

Uncle Tan had lived a life of hero,

but he died such a tragic death.

He would become a joke in the underworld.

You just followed his order?

Since when you became a daddy's good girl?

I won't be provoked by you.

When I was a kid, my dad often didn't come home at night for his social engagements.

He also never attended school parent meetings.

Uncle Tan went on behalf of him.

In my heart

Uncle Tan was a father figure.

My dad never attended my parents' meeting either.

For children

money is not so important.

The care and company of parents are what they want.

What a simple truth,

but some people

just don't understand it.

Master, I am back.

Young Master is doing OK in Shanghai.

He has a place to live and income.

Income?

From what?

He's now working with the Concession Police Station.

The police?

Yes.

He is a detective consultant in the Concession Police Station.

He has solved a lot of big cases.

It's just that some people around him are not so decent.

Who?

Inspector Qiao Chusheng in the Police Station

was one of the eight Martial Arts Masters of the Shanghai underworld.

Young Master is now living with

the only daughter of Bai Qili, Green Dragon Gang's leader.

And he also went to dinner at Bai's house.

Mr. Bai liked Young Master a lot.

I'm afraid after some time

Young Master will become Mr. Bai's son-in-law.

We worked hard the past few days. Let's celebrate.

What are you up to exactly?

You solved Uncle Tan's case.

So I think you deserve a treat.

Here.

In a restaurant full of couples?

I asked some foreigners.

They said this place makes delicious steak.

But don't you think it's very awkward?

Taste it.

That's not bad.

Aged

Qingdao calf.

Good choice.

Here is a little something for you.

What's this?

No, no, no.

Stop, stop!

No, no, no.

Why? You don't like it?

I went through a lot of troubles to get in the waiting list and it finally arrived.

You...

Take it back for now.

Give it to me when we go home.

Don't be so polite. It's yours now.

Here, let me put it on for you.

So many people are watching! It's not appropriate!

Give me your hand.

Silly Lu?

Qian?

Long time no see.

Long time no see.

Why are you here?

When did you return to China?

Last year.

Didn't you go to Germany?

German food is disgusting.

I couldn't stand it, so I came back.

I heard you worked at Bank of Sassoon.

I also made a special trip to see you.

But they told me you left long time ago.

Yes.

Um...

This is Inspector Qiao from the Concession Police Station.

This is my classmate Qian Rui from Cambridge.

Our families also have known each other for years.

I heard so much about you.

Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you. This is my business card.

[Qian Rui Assistant to President, St George's University]

Assistant to President of St. George University.

When did you start working in education?

My father is a member of school board.

He made me work there.

If you're free tomorrow, let's have coffee together.

Now I will leave you two alone.

I thought you don't want it.

Who said I don't want it?

Your office is extravagant.

This is my father's office.

Cigar?

Save them to yourself.

This university looks good.

Still can't compared with Cambridge, though.

Those who have received scholarships in our university

can be excused from an entrance examination

if they want to go to Harvard, Yale, or Columbia University

after they graduate from here.

Really?

Just these three universities.

I can't guarantee any other university.

What are you up to recently?

Just muddling along.

You were a talented student at Trinity College of Cambridge.

You were a favorite student of Hardy and Russell!

It was just some past glory.

By the way, are you still in touch

with your former roommate back in university, that Westerner?

The one who didn't like bathing.

Oh, him. Why are you looking for him?

I'm in urgent need of teachers here.

I heard he went back to Vienna to teach.

What about Xu?

Went back to Peking University to teach.

Why don't you come to be a teacher here?

You achieved academic success in both math and medicine.

How boring is it to be a teacher!

Don't you look down on the job of teacher.

With your education background, you can get one hundred and fifty per month just in probation period.

If you are promoted to be a full professor,

you get eight hundred to one thousand silver dollars, which is more than enough to spend.

Forget it. I can't get up in the morning.

I can transfer your classes to the afternoon.

Silly Lu.

I know you hate red tape more than anything.

But now there's a lot of work to be done to rebuild China which is full of scars.

Education is the cornerstone of a country.

You and I might not be called backbone of the country,

but we did receive our fair share of higher education.

An intellectual needs to consider not only his own interests but

the wellbeing of his country.

Let me think about it.

Let me give you a tour to the classrooms

to feel the teaching atmosphere.

Do you have a medical department?

Of course!

They are taking an anatomy class now.

Do you know who their lecturer is?

Who?

Liu Mo.

That Liu Mo who couldn't hold the scalpel stably

and vomited when he smelled formalin?

That good-for-nothing?

He can be a lecturer?

Let's go to see how he gives a lesson!

Let's go.

[Autopsy Classroom]

The one on the podium.

He drinks in class?

He will get nervous if he's sober. So we just let him.

Anatomy is the cornerstone of medicine

as well as the cornerstone of art...

Isn't this from the handout we got at our first semester?

He didn't even change a word.

So...

He forgot what's next.

Who is it?

Where was I?

So...

Yes, so...

What did I say after "so"?

Michelangelo.

That's right. this person

was amazing.

Of the three great masters of the Italian Renaissance,

he is my favorite.

I must saw an illusion.

Sir, what happened?

The body comes back to life!

Oh my God!

Hurry up, let's go!

Go, go!

What's the matter?

No, this is not the previous human specimen.

This is Guan!

Call someone!

Qian, don't worry.

I'll investigate this case for you.

You? This is a murder case.

I forgot to tell you

for the past nearly six months,

I have been a detective consultant in the Concession Police Station.

I helped them solve many major cases.

This is great!

When this case is solved,

let's go to Paris for a drink. My treat!

Okay, got it. You are not needed here anymore.

Go do your thing.

OK.

Liu Mo, think about it very carefully.

When did this body

appear in the tank?

I don't know.

I can't remember.

This is very important.

Think really hard right now.

No, wait. Who are you to question me?

You don't recognize me?

How much wine did you drink?

Silly Lu, you could bully me at Cambridge

because you were an overachiever.

But

I have graduated now.

I am a lecturer in St. George University!

You are nothing to me now!

You pig brain.

When I ask you nicely, you just won't answer?

Do you want to give me the attitude?

When the police officers are coming,

they might teach you a lesson.

Who dares to beat me?

Bring it on!

Come on, who dares?

Is there a problem?

Wat's the situation here

During the anatomy class

I found a body in the tank.

Since the liquid is strongly corrosive...

So terrifying.

His mouth and eyes were bubbling constantly

with the bubbles getting denser and bigger.

I watched his face rotten.

Do you know who the victim is?

He knows.

His name is Guan Dailiang.

He is a Doctor of Medicine.

I'll take you to his medical laboratory.

Now you cooperate.

Why were you so stubborn to me?

You just can't stop talking.

nothing good happened wherever you are.

Come back!

Watch your attitude.

Were you there when they found the body?

I was just passing by.

You are a jinx who brings bad luck.

But a jinx often only brings bad luck to their loved one.

Now you brought bad luck to a stranger just passing by.

I'm impressed.

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