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My Roommate is a Detective

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Your sister told

us to leave Shanghai.

She will arrange everything no matter where we want to live.

You want to go with me,

as my…

What do you want to me to be?

My secretary,

assistant,

or the cleaning lady?

Your sister has agreed to give us her blessing!

So what she agreed?

I haven't agreed yet.

Why did you kiss me that night then?

When did I ever kiss you?

Silly Lu!

I kissed you

because it was very dangerous

and I thought I was going to die.

But then I thought,

I still had a lot on my bucket list that I hadn't done yet.

How could I die like this?

For example?

For example, for the ice cream machine bought in Switzerland,

I hadn't used it once.

A new club just opened on the Bund.

I hadn't been there once.

I never played polo.

I never tried Rolls Royce.

I never heard Mei Lanfang's live performance.

And I never wore a pair of crocodile leather shoes.

I didn't get to watch a movie

with the person I love without anyone dying.

I didn't get the chance to tell her.

I like to watch

her big bright smile.

I also like to provoke her

and then make her laugh again.

I like to secretly watch her every time I solve a case.

I like to see how she admires me

but pretends to be disdainful.

No one admires you!

When I got shot that day,

I thought I was dying.

You were the only one by my side,

so I tried to tell you I love you.

But I was so sleepy at that time

that I couldn't speak anything.

Are you still sleepy now?

For the first half of my life,

I have always lived without any aim.

For the second half of my life,

if you don't mind,

I will treat you like

a book of math problems that I will never finish.

Whether you're number theory or calculus,

I will spend

the rest of my life studying you.

Huang Heshang must be hiding something from me.

Usually if one of his henchmen committed a crime,

he would get him out no matter how much he has to spend.

And for an important person like Chen Youli,

it's weird he didn't want to save him.

Is your evidence conclusive?

We checked again and again.

Fingerprints matched perfectly.

He had enough time to kill him.

We have both eye witnesses and physical evidence.

Then why is he so calm?

This is beyond me.

Let me arrest him for interrogation first.

It's easy to arrest him.

But if you do find something during the interrogation,

it won't be so easy to release him.

Our relationship with the British

is so sour.

There are many eyes watching every move we make.

We can't do anything that they can use to go against us.

Mr. Bai.

The victim this time

was a famous puppeteer.

The newspapers have published several reports about it.

I am dealing with huge pressure from public opinion.

When did this happen?

Got it.

Don't act rashly.

Wait for my orders.

What's going on?

A batch of our arms was just confiscated by the Marine Police.

More than half of the escort team died in the crossfire.

Aren't the Marine Police all Mr. Huang's people?

They knew we have something as leverage on them.

Why did they make such a bold move?

They want to officially declare war against us?

Take some people

to arrest Chen Youli.

I'm going to see

what Huang Heshang is up to.

Youli, we have both the evidence and witness.

Maybe you should just plead guilty.

Why would I plead guilty

to a fabricated charge?

A button was found in the palm of the victim.

After some investigation

on the scene

we found that the button fell off your trench coat.

And your fingerprints were on the murder weapon.

You forged evidence?

I am in awe!

No wonder you had such a high detection rate.

Could you lose all the sarcasm and let's talk?

Qiao Chusheng.

Actually it's very easy

if you want to convict me.

Write a statement beforehand,

then forcibly press my thumb to sign it.

Then you claim that I attacked the police and refused to hand myself in.

I am killed on the spot, and dead men tell no tales.

In the British Concession,

I won't have the nuts to play it wild like you do.

Then how do you want to play this game?

How about this?

I will tell you what we thought happened.

I am all ears.

As stated by the theater owner Wu Peiyan,

you harassed him several times

trying to buy that shadow play theater.

At that time he offered a very high price.

Tao Yu was a little tempted by the money.

But I rejected him firmly.

Later, Chen Youli sent someone to stalk me

and also sent me a knife.

During the performance, he called some thugs to make trouble.

Tao Yu was scared by them.

He tried very hard to persuade me.

So I had no other option but

promise to meet Chen Youli for one last time.

But I didn't expect

Tao Yu had long colluded with them.

Before the shadow play that night,

I told him

over my dead body that they would get the theater.

But you didn't know this at the time.

You went to the appointment gladly on the night of the murder.

After the show,

Tao Yu asked you to meet in the storage room.

When you heard about the news of rejection, you were furious,

which led to a conflict.

Someone was killed! Hurry up.

What's going on?

What's going on? Why did this happen?

What's the matter?

Anyone got the key? Open the door.

Bravo!

Wonderful!

Qiao Chusheng, it's really a pity

that you don't write novels.

I have explained every detail.

You still won't plead guilty?

Then I will tell you my side of the story.

At the night of the murder,

I was indeed in that theater,

right next to the crime scene.

But from the beginning to the end,

I had never been to the crime scene.

Besides, if I really want to kill him,

you think I need to do it myself?

Just two humble puppeteers.

I could kill them

like crushing two ants.

Qiao Chusheng,

if I wasn't afraid of causing you trouble,

they would have died eight hundred times.

Youli, you have digressed from the subject.

How do you explain the fingerprints on the weapon?

Someone wanted to frame me.

Who?

You.

Your boss is having conflicts with the British people.

You couldn't hold on anymore,

so you just wanted to drag our gang into the battle.

Do you think these are some strategies during the Three Kingdoms period?

Are you trying to relieve the besieged by besieging the base of the besieger?

Or pretending to aim at one target while really shooting at another?

Our two gangs have our respective territories and

we have been going our own way without interfering with the other.

That's because the two bosses are close friends

so they have respect to each other.

But you,

you ditched gangs' moral code

just for your promotion?

After wearing the uniform for just a few days,

can you still remember your root?

So in a word, you don't plead guilty.

What?

You want to torture me for conviction?

You are my senior.

I shall do as you told me to.

What are you doing?

Mr. Chen, sorry.

Let go of me!

Son of a bitch!

Qiao Chusheng, are you crazy?

You want to attack the police?

This is what you taught me.

I admire your boldness.

I'll see how you're gonna explain yourself

when the Municipal Council comes to review the case.

Bao.

What were you trying to achieve?

I should be the one asking you.

You guys don't take my orders?

You only make things worse.

Go away!

Liuzi.

Qiao Chusheng is out of his mind.

He arrested Youli for no reason!

Didn't you tell me just do as the law requires?

You can do things as the law requires.

But I didn't say you can arrest him without a good reason!

Of course we would arrest him. He killed someone.

Or you want to put him in a shrine to worship him?

I asked Youli if he did it.

He said no.

Otherwise I wouldn't have been so sure.

So you just buy whatever he tells you?

What's the big deal of killing someone in our world?

He knew if he did do it,

I would deal with it for him.

He didn't need to lie to me.

Youli has been working for me for a long time.

He wouldn't make such a mistake no matter how stupid he might be.

Isn't your son-in-law a genius detective?

Let him look into the case.

That little punk Qiao Chusheng

only makes a mess.

Last night a boat was seized by the Marine Police.

What was going on?

They opened fire first.

The Marine Police were just self-defending.

Who shot first? I dare you to say it again.

Bao, this was not the first time you had smuggled stuff by waterway.

You know the rules.

If sometimes the Marine Police confiscates the goods and the men, pay to bail the men out.

It's just for the formality's sake.

But I don't know why your people just opened fire first like lunatics.

My people will never shoot at the police.

You mean I am a liar?

Heshang,

are you sure all the men on the Marine Police's boat are loyal to you?

I'll check it again later.

Why did the Marine Police appear there?

Originally I wanted to make a gesture

as a mere formality.

I didn't expect this to become so serious.

Make a gesture?

Who was your audience?

Bao, let me tell you the truth.

A British warship

will arrive at port in the middle of next month.

Two thousand Royal Marines,

with the best British equipment.

And they're coming for you.

They are not afraid of causing a diplomatic incident?

There is an official document.

The British is "assisting the suppressing of bandits".

If you play mafia with them,

they'll fight back playing politics.

If you got some balls, you finish what you have started!

Look.

Actually Paris is a good choice.

Delicious food, and many cultural monuments.

If you get bored with the urban life,

you can go to Bordeaux.

They have the top wineries.

But I don't speak French.

You can learn.

French is so much easier to learn

than German and whatnot.

Like bonjour, or merci.

If you don't understand what others say,

you just say to him,

C'est la vie!

What does it mean?

This is life.

But I still want to go to New York.

Wall Street Journal, New York Times.

So many famous newspapers are in New York.

So if we go to New York,

do you want to continue to be a reporter?

What else can I do?

I can't be a housewife, right?

You know me.

Once I have nothing better to do,

I will definitely pick on you every day.

Let's rock-paper-scissors.

If I win, we go to Paris.

If you win, we go to New York.

Two out of three.

Rock, paper, scissors.

Rock, paper, scissors.

Rock, paper…

I arrested Chen Youli.

And?

Mr. Bai said there is something that didn't add up.

He told us to check again.

I'm tired.

This time you'll be paid by the minute.

Hurry up.

Let's go.

Then let's make a deal.

I won't wear that body armor this time

or that big helmet.

They caught the murderer!

They caught the murderer!

Let me see!

Let me see! Let me see!

Should we go in from the back?

OK.

The Feng-Shui here is so awful.

Why do you think Mr. Huang has to buy this place?

All the places with good Feng-Shui in the British Concession

have long been carved up.

It stinks.

Will it kill them to occasionally take the trash out?

This is not trash's smell.

This is the smell coming from the sewer.

How do you know that?

All sewer system projects in this area

were supervised by me.

I was only seventeen at that time.

It was the first job Mr. Bai gave me.

I made a lot of money for that job.

When I worked in the Bank of Sassoon,

the toilets were clogged all the time.

They had to fix them several times a month.

It turned out to be your construction projects' fault.

With a quote that low,

if I didn't cut corners,

how could I make money?

Didn't you feel guilty

delivering such a poor quality?

Mr. Bai only told me to make money from it.

The rest has nothing to do with me.

What if he asks you to kill someone?

Depends on who is the target.

A war with the British people

is about to start soon.

Maybe I'll have to go back to my old business.

Do you have to?

Sometimes you can't make the choices you want.

But they are still made by myself.

So I have no regrets.

Paris, London, New York.

Which one do you like?

Don't think.

One, two, three, go.

Paris?

Two to one.

Paris it is.

Let's go together.

Mr. Lu.

These are Tao Yu's things, right?

I saw the autopsy report last night and found

there were injection marks on his arms,

a lot of them.

Do you know what those were about?

Morphine.

He was deep in the addiction.

It had completely ruined him.

For a while

I was so close to really killing him.

Please calm down.

The murderer has been arrested.

It's just that the evidence is not conclusive yet.

I came here to do a follow-up investigation.

Mr. Lu.

Did Mr. Huang

put pressure on you guys?

Don't worry.

If he really killed him,

I would never let him go unpunished.

Please, get up.

Please withstand the pressure

and punish Yu's murderer!

Mr. Wu.

There's something I don't understand.

Sure.

I know the shadow play's backstage

requires at least five people to work together to perform.

But in your troupe there were only you and Mr. Tao.

How did you two complete the division of labor?

I was responsible for manipulating puppets with sticks, singing and dialogues.

Yu was in charge of music and assisting me in singing, dialogues and

manipulating puppets.

When Yu was still alive,

the two of us often cooperated in pairs.

I didn't expect that night

was the last time we worked together.

"It feels like seeking my path in a black sea of coal;

there is no beacon to lead my way."

Mr. Wu is suspicious.

Why?

He has very ample motive to kill Tao Yu.

And there was also time for him to commit the murder independently.

But he also has an alibi.

After the murder, everyone saw him appear outside the door.

From the time the victim was killed until he appeared,

it was less than a minute in the middle.

No one could manage to do this.

I might really have brain damage.

When I think deeply, I have a headache and get dozy.

Then go take a nap.

We can discuss it when you wake up.

I am hungry.

Are you hungry or sleepy?

Both.

Lu Yao!

Silly Lu,

open the door.

I stayed up all night!

I just received a call.

They said Chen Youli is of the most heinous guilt

so he is sentenced an immediate execution.

What?

The order was signed by the Municipal Council.

Why would the British people want to get involved?

Ta Kung Pao published a news

saying it was confirmed that Chen Youli is the murderer.

After Tao Yu's fans got the news,

they organized a march and demanded to execute the murderer.

But you can't kill a suspect just like that!

But the thing is that the British House of Lords

just sent a delegation of inspection to Shanghai's Concession.

The Municipal Council decided to close the case expeditiously in order to save possible trouble.

So they signed the immediate execution order.

Chen Youli?

Why do you want to see him?

There are still a few doubts I can't figure out.

This case is closed.

The Municipal Council has signed the immediate execution order.

He is as good as dead now.

I have a feeling something is not right in recent days.

What do you mean?

Your gang's goods on the boat were confiscated.

How do you know that?

It's on the newspapers.

The newspaper said a smuggling ship full of fire arms

had a fierce fight with the Marine Police.

There is a mark on the side of the ship,

which is exactly like the tattoo on your leg.

Such a thing would never have

happened before.

When we just found a clue of this case,

the Marine Police confiscated your gang's goods

to force you to arrest Chen Youli.

On top of that,

the Municipal Council also issued an immediate execution order.

They were trying to force your gangs to turn against each other.

Don't you think everything cannot be just coincidence?

But we have solid evidence to prove that Chen Youli killed Tao Yu.

Not necessarily.

For starters, he is left-handed.

How do you know that?

I didn't realize it until I looked into the file last night.

The fingerprints on the button

are the index finger and thumb of a person's left hand.

And the fingerprints on the murder weapon on the scene

are from the right hand.

And also there was no bloodstain on the trench coat.

How did he do that?

He took it home and washed it.

The coat is a blend of polyester and silk.

If you can wash clean bloodstain on such a fabric,

I will give you a kowtow right now.

And there was no fingerprint on both the rope the victim was tied with

and the cloth gaged in his mouth.

Only the weapon has fingerprints.

Is this murderer a genius or an idiot?

This case

is definitely not as simple as it looks.

If we get an innocent person killed,

you can't afford the consequences.

Damn.

He has been transferred to Zhengyang Road Prison.

No matter what method you use,

I must see him now.

I can't do this, actually.

Come on.

There are things you can't do in Shanghai?

The warden's daughter and I…

We had a history.

Got it.

Let me figure it out myself.

I am a consultant of the Concession Police Station.

My name is Lu Yao.

Concession Police Station? What do you want?

I need to interrogate Chen Youli.

Chen Youli?

Is there an approval?

Sorry. I was in a hurry.

This is a case involving human life.

Please make an exception.

No approval?

I can't help you.

Sir.

I think you know who Mr. Chen is.

Mr. Huang will owe you a big favor.

Consider it a gift from a friend.

Let's stay in touch.

OK, I'll take you there.

Thank you.

You have ten minutes.

I am Lu Yao, the investigation consultant of the Police Station.

What?

You are here to laugh at me for Qiao Chusheng?

No.

I think you were framed.

The clock is ticking.

I have a few questions.

I hope you can answer me honestly.

Go ahead.

Recall it carefully.

On the day of the murder,

when was that button gone?

It was there before I entered the theater.

Are you sure?

Yes.

I have a habit.

So if any of my buttons is missing,

I will find out right away.

Then after you got off the car to the moment Tao Yu was killed,

who did you have contact with?

Only Wu Peiyan,

and of course, Tao Yu.

Do you usually watch shadow play?

I never watched

that kind of crap.

That night I went there for the negotiation.

I didn't expect it was

just a trap to frame me!

Think carefully again.

What did you do that night?

The more detailed, the better.

During the day, Tao Yu asked me to meet him.

Our original plan was I watched the show

and after the show,

he would introduce me to meet Wu Peiyan.

So ten minutes after the show started,

I arrived at the theater.

After that

my stomach started to get upset.

Maybe because of something I ate.

I went to the toilet several times that night.

The last time was when I was pooing…

Tao Yu was killed!

Tao Yu was killed!

I suddenly heard someone say

Tao Yu was killed.

I was afraid I might get into trouble,

so I found a place to hide.

During the performance,

had you ever eaten any food provided by the theater?

No.

But I drank a glass of water.

Then were there any eyewitnesses

that can testify you were in the toilet?

Everyone was either watching the show

or performing the show.

I was the only one in the toilet all along.

Someone stole your button before the show

and slipped laxative in your water during the show to make you have diarrhea.

So people would see you in the theater that night,

but when the case happened, you wouldn't have an alibi.

That's so sinister!

Did anything strange happen to you before the case?

Last week

when I just got out of the ballroom,

suddenly a masked man rushed out trying to rob me.

Punk! You dare to hit me?

Do you know who I am?

How thick and long is that club?

Probably this long,

and this thick.

What is the club made of?

I touched it.

It felt like elm.

That should be how they got your fingerprints on the murder weapon.

I thought

he was just a stupid robber that tried to rob without a knife.

I wouldn't never have thought…

The murderer already knew you would appear in the theater,

so he had prepared everything just

to kill Tao Yu

and frame you for it.

There was only one person

who had both the motive and the ability to do that.

I was ordered by the Municipal Council

to interrogate Chen Youli.

Again?

A moment ago the…

What?

Nothing.

I'll let someone bring Chen Youli over.

I'll go to see him.

I will take you there.

Be careful. Watch your steps.

But that Wu Peiyan has alibi.

Do you think he had an associate?

Sir, Chen Youli's cell is over here.

This way, please.

Before you're executed,

the Municipal Council sent someone here to review your case.

What should I say?

Don't say anything.

Don't say anything? Just wait for my death?

If you trust me, just keep your mouth shut.

Don't worry.

I won't let you die.

Mr. Chen.

Long time no see.

Anderson, what took you so long?

I almost thought I am going to die!

I'm here to see you off, for good.

[Inspector Office]

Really?

I believe Chen Youli didn't lie to me.

That is only because you don't know him yet.

The bastard

can be full of lies for the sake of his interests.

He can sell his father for money,

not to mention for the sake of saving his life.

He was arrested by you.

Now we know it is based on imperfect evidence.

If the verdict is reversed in the future,

you will be finished.

Who do you think is the murderer then?

The murderer must be someone inside the theater.

It's less than 24 hours before the execution.

Whether we continue to investigate it or not

is your call.

Let's go.

Not so fast.

You said

you were the supervisor of the sewer system in that area.

Yes.

Can you still find the construction drawing?

So many years have passed.

I'm not sure.

Why?

There must be a secret room.

And there must be an exit that we haven't found yet.

There is a small warehouse in Zhabei

where I use to store a lot of my old stuff.

But I can't guarantee if I can find it.

If we can't find it in half an hour,

then just forget it.

Found it.

West District Sewer Design Plan.

It's actually designed very scientifically.

We hired Germans to design it.

The problem was only in the poor construction.

Why does it look like a maze?

You don't know this?

The thin pipes are for sewage,

and the thick ones are for flood discharge,

Anyway, this time

even if we rescue Chen Youli,

he and I will still become enemies.

I don't care about how you guys will fight.

But I can't have any innocent people

being wronged in cases handled by me.

You are such a moral person.

I don't care if a scumbag like him dies or not.

I just have OCD.

The drawing is useless.

Why?

The sewer systems of tall buildings in this area

are all interconnected.

Yes, for flood discharge.

The theater has only one sewer

which is near the toilet.

But the toilet is too far from the scene of the murder.

Could they dig a tunnel by themselves?

Digging a tunnel means a lot of noises and actions.

They were not afraid someone might notice?

Let's go and find out!

Are the people in the Police Station coming?

No.

And they didn't go inside?

Not as I remember.

What took you so long?

What are you doing here?

I couldn't find you guys everywhere.

This is the most possible place left.

What happened?

I just received an insider's intel.

The Municipal Council is worried that Mr. Huang will try to rescue Chen Youli at the execution site,

so they have arranged the execution in the small hours tomorrow.

Wow!

So before midnight today,

you have to find out the real murderer.

Otherwise, my father and Uncle Huang

will become enemies forever.

I'll try my best.

What are you…

Rest assured.

We came here for construction project inspection this time.

Excuse me.

If we still can't find the secret tunnel…

Fine. I'll pay for the decoration!

That's what I have been waiting to hear.

What the hell are you doing?

Rest assured.

He will pay for anything they break.

You're purely bandits, robbers!

I'm going to sue you guys!

Smash it!

What are you doing? This is too much!

Stop, stop.

Mr. Wu.

We're here for the case. Be gentle.

This is not a robbery.

We have checked all the rooms and smashed all the walls.

Nothing.

Are you sure?

You can rest assured that none of them was missing.

All the rooms that should be smashed were smashed.

No secret tunnel is found.

What about that one?

I didn't want to be harsh. But look at you.

You muddle along every day.

You got so tired by taking a painting down?

Sir, you're right.

We will exercise tomorrow.

Why is it like this?

Maybe God wants him dead.

Where did the music come from?

Shengle Club, I guess.

Recently they have events.

Free of entry fees and free drinks.

So the club is full every night.

Isn't it disturbing the neighbors so late at night?

The club is rich.

They bought all the patrolmen and security guards nearby.

No one cares even if they raise the roof.

How do you know that?

Samba, rumba, and cha-cha in the middle of the night?

They are all fast dances.

What time is it now?

Ten thirty.

That is weird.

They should be playing slow dance songs now.

Why?

At this hour you already have enough booze,

and you have talked a lot.

It's time to have slow dance face-to-face

before you take the girl home.

Where is the phone?

Hurry, pick up!

Hello, who is it?

It's me, Silly Lu!

What's the matter?

Urgent matter.

Think,

has any ship from your company left port recently?

I think there is one.

Which one?

Istanbul.

Where to?

Hong Kong.

How many people are on board?

Hundreds of people.

How many hundreds?

Three or four hundred people.

Sailors, security personnel, or whatnot.

The administrative department is in charge.

I don't know the specific details.

When will it set off?

The twelfth.

Isn't that tomorrow?

Yeah. What's wrong?

What happened?

Hello?

It's done.

What is?

He definitely has figured it out.

Let's go.

What are you looking for?

Tire trace.

Why?

Free of entry fee and free drinks.

Mr. Sassoon has sold many of his properties recently.

Three or four hundred people.

They bought all the patrolmen and security guards nearby.

Used for flood discharge.

He wanted to evacuate Shanghai.

What's wrong?

I have a headache.

Anything, this is what happened.

Don't be afraid even if we make enemies.

At worst, let's go to war.

Where is Mr. Wu?

Youning is with him.

She said he was emotionally unstable.

Let's leave him alone.

I have to apologize to him.

Mr. Wu, sorry.

I was wrong about this case from the beginning.

I brought such a big trouble to you.

I am sorry.

It's OK.

As long as the murderer can be brought to justice,

I am okay with the inconvenience.

Hurry up and call everyone.

All of them.

And meet up at the gate of Bank of Sassoon right now.

Why?

Hurry, or it'll be too late!

Don't move!

Hands up!

Nobody move.

I told you don't move.

Stay still.

Maybe we can just go fifty-fifty on this.

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