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Stop it.

Hey, what are you doing?

I told you many times

you should knock before coming in.

What are you doing?

There is mud inside.

I want to clear it.

Why can't you clear it with such a thin bamboo slip?

How would I know?

Give it to me.

I didn't.

I have a good idea.

What are you doing?

Don't move.

What are you doing?

Things expand with heat and contract with cold.

Won't your hands expand?

Our body temperatures are the same.

So my hands won't expand.

But the flute is cold.

So it will expand with the heat.

I feel cold on my back.

Let me turn it over.

Changhao.

Lanting.

Lanting.

Why did all of you hurt me?

Why didn't you reply?

What is it?

I have many suspicions with the Liang's Case.

I'm afraid the culprit is not them but someone else.

This note is left by my elder brother.

It looks like

he had long found the Liang's Case was suspicious.

Yes.

I know.

After Mr. Liang was arrested,

the Censorate didn't find any relief fund he embezzled.

Therefore,

the Supreme Court have those

small officials executed.

At that time,

the Censorate suddenly announced they found

three million taels of silver the Liangs embezzled.

All the case records about the case were taken away.

Even the records about my elder brother were falsified.

All the records in Supreme Court were taken away as well,

leaving nothing behind.

What happened exactly?

So it means

the Liang's Mansion was falsely accused in the case.

And your brother was killed probably because of that.

These three million taels of silver

were collected from

these small officials.

They placed false blame on the Liang's Mansion.

Why did they frame up the Liang's Mansion?

Because they wanted to keep the embezzled money for themselves?

Because Mr. Liang

was in charge of the matter related the relief fund.

His position was not high.

But he was solely in charge of the matter.

So targeting him would be very useful.

What is the Censorate in charge of?

All the officials.

What about Supreme Court?

All the legal cases.

What about the Ministry of Penalty?

Catch criminals.

I see.

So Changxian found that

someone falsely accused of the Liang's Mansion

embezzling relief fund,

which were actually three million taels of silver

collected from these small officials.

As a result, the whole Liang family was beheaded.

My brother had the same doubt.

So he wanted to reverse the verdict.

But he didn't find any useful evidence.

So...

Mr. Zhang

drugged your brother with the pollen of datura

just to make your brother tell him

what he had seen.

He caused the fire accident and killed your brother.

So Mr. Zhang

was the Censorate's accomplice.

Yes.

That's right.

But Mr. Zhang didn't know

how much proof my brother had.

So he didn't take any action in the past five years.

Is the matter so complicated?

There is one thing I'm sure about.

The Censorate absolutely fabricated the Liang's case.

That's why when you reported to the Censorate

that Mr. Zhang died in the Ministry of Penalty,

the Censorate didn't take any action.

It proved what we said before.

I've written the second letter

to tell Mr. Wang of the Censorate that

we have learned some important information

from Mr. Zhang.

I asked him for instructions.

I wanted to see if the Censorate would take action or not，

what they wanted to do,

and who they wanted to harm.

So far,

they didn't take actions against the higher-ups.

So they are going to target us.

Mr. Zhang told us the truth

only after he breathed in

the pollen of datura.

However, after he was put into prison in Ministry of Penalty,

he was murdered before he could sign his testimony.

How can you prove that

Mr. Zhang murdered Changxian?

He admitted it.

He was murdered,

which shows that there was bigger conspiracy behind it.

Yes.

I see.

If you want to

bring these criminals to justice once and for all,

you must have a complete chain of evidence.

Keep going.

What do you want to do?

What are talking about?

It's time to show you real technology.

Changhao.

Though you are a smart man,

the technology in this world

is backward.

Today, I will teach you some new methods

in handling cases.

That is to take fingerprints.

Take fingerprints?

Yes, fingerprints.

I thought you would tell us something else.

It's common for civilians

to sign with their fingerprints

for they can't read and write.

No, no, no.

We are not talking about the same thing.

A fingerprint

is the pattern of curved lines

on the end of a human's finger or thumb.

It is different in every person.

So there aren't

two exactly same fingerprints in the world.

We just need to prove that

there are Mr. Zhang's fingerprints

on Changxian's private belongings.

It will prove that Mr. Zhang murdered Changxian.

That medicine jar is my brother's private belonging.

Yes, medicine jar.

Bring it over.

Don't

touch it with your hands.

Okay.

Jiang Lanting,

bring me a piece of coal.

Coal?

Okay.

Go.

Jiang Lanting,

Have you finished it?

Is it fine enough?

Give me some of it.

Raise that up.

Raise it.

Come on.

Turn it over.

Hey.

The two of you.

Where is honey?

Don't shake.

Ruofei, what you...

Make the fingerprint visible.

What does she mean?

I don't know.

But it looks like very brilliant.

Yes, it does.

It's not brilliant at all.

I'm sorry.

This coal powder is too fine.

I can't help it.

Shall we do it again?

Again?

You need to grind the coal.

No, you...

How about this?

I'll help you with it.

Lanting.

No, I've ground it for the whole afternoon.

You stay out of it.

I didn't mean to. I will help you grind it.

I didn't mean to doubt you.

But you can't go back on your words.

Please.

I'm a prince.

Yet I helped you grind coal for the whole afternoon.

I didn't mean to doubt you.

I just thought you were good at it.

Please help me grind it again.

No need.

Is it finished?

Let me check.

Great.

We got it.

This snuff bottle was your brother's private belonging.

Just like a brush.

He wouldn't lend it to anyone else.

So.

If we can prove that

this fingerprint is Mr. Zhang's,

it will show that

Mr. Zhang touched this bottle

before the fire accident.

And he was the last person who touched it.

So.

Though this thumb fingerprint

is visible,

but it will take some more days for it

to be presented as evidence.

I see.

Chun Ying.

Miss, what's the matter?

Bring me

the magnifying glass I made for Hengyu.

After that, go to the Ministry of Penalty

and tell Songquan to get a copy of Mr. Zhang's fingerprint.

Keep it a secret.

Okay.

According to Ruofei's method,

these two fingerprints are almost the same.

So the fingerprint on the bottle

was Mr. Zhang's.

Keep these well stored.

Put the evidence in the storage.

Learn this investigation method.

Okay.

Wake up.

Are you done?

Changhao.

Mochou.

Mochou.

You are here, too, Your Highness.

Why are you looking for me?

Recently,

the Supreme Court suddenly started checking the records in the storage.

This newly appointed head is determined to do something big.

I have no objections about that.

But I found that the person checking the records

was not the person in charge of the records.

The who is it?

I don't know him.

Besides, the person in charge of the records was asked to wait outside the room.

They are checking the records inside.

Checking the records?

Why aren't you there?

It's not under my charge.

Ning Ji is the vice minister of Supreme Court.

How did he react to it?

I didn't see him today.

As soon as these people left,

I rushed here.

It seems they have started taking action.

Miss.

Mr. Xun just left in a hurry.

Where was he going?

Don't mention it.

How could they do that to me?

Casting me aside after I made my contribution?

They were taking me as a pawn.

Ruofei.

How much did you drink?

Chun Ying.

Just go to do your own business.

Okay.

What happened?

That day, you told me that Jiang Lanting fell for me.

So I found him and made it clear to him.

I told him to give up.

I told you that you fell for him, didn't I?

But after I made it clear to him,

he cried hard.

And I feel sad about it.

So you are sad.

Do you regret it now?

I just feel that

I hurt a man who loves me.

Do you feel like

you will lose him?

Do you feel hollow inside

at the thought that

you may lose him?

No.

Well, yes.

Even Ye Xiachen can't make you feel better,

right?

I'm Ye Xiachen's woman.

I'm Heroine Ye Shangpiao.

How can I

fall in love with two men at a time?

I'm not that despicable.

Xun Changle.

Finally, you admitted you loved both of them.

you admitted you loved Jiang Lanting.

No, no, no.

I grew up with Jiang Lanting.

We've known each other for so long.

Thus, I feel very upset at the thought that

he won't be by my side any more.

Yeah, yeah.

Just deny it.

Let's see when you will admit it.

Does Changle

love Jiang Lanting

or Ye Xiachen?

Ye Xiachen is her idol.

Jiang Lanting is always by her side.

What are you murmuring about?

Changle's happiness.

Changle?

What happened to her?

She always claims that

she is Ye Xiachen's woman,

Ye Shangpiao.

But I don't know who Ye Xiachen is.

This is so ridiculous.

Yes.

Besides,

Ye Xiachen always wears a mask.

What if he is an ugly man?

No.

I think

you should persuade her.

You are her elder brother.

So your words matter to her.

No.

She doesn't listen to me now.

I'll talk about it with Mother.

I'm going right now.

Mother.

Recently,

Changle has become increasingly crazy.

She kept an intimate relationship with Ye Xiachen.

She even wanted to be engaged to him.

But we even don't know

who Ye Xiachen is or

where he comes from.

A man of unknown roots is not a good choice for Changle.

This girl

has become more and more unbridled.

As her elder brother,

I failed to discipline her.

Please find a good husband for her,

Mother.

I've been waiting for you to say that for a long time.

You always defended her in the past.

So I didn't intervene in it.

Now, you finally thought it through.

By the way.

Do you have any good man to recommend?

No, I don't.

However,

even though we want to discipline her,

we can't make her suffer grievance.

It should be a man equally matched.

So he should be from a family of fourth-rank official.

That's right.

I will go to talk about it with matchmakers.

Changhao.

Come over here.

Lanting.

I sneaked into

the mansion of Mr. Wang from the Censorate.

But I didn't find anything suspicious.

It's just that the place was more heavily guarded.

The Censorate is much more powerful

than those small officials who delivered challenge letters.

Please be careful.

Don't worry.

Though my martial art skills are not as good as yours,

I'm much more flexible than you.

I have better taste than you.

What are these?

These are the recommendations from matchmakers.

I've asked my mother to do matchmaking for her.

Matchmaking?

For Changle?

I can't let her be so obsessed with Ye Xiachen.

No, no, no.

I mean,

who are you going to marry her to?

Any official above the fourth rank.

No, that's not a good idea.

These officials above the fourth rank

have eighteen sons in total.

Only four of them are still single.

But they are all very stupid.

I know them.

How could they all be stupid?

They are.

Trust me.

Think about it.

Changle isn't a smart girl.

If you marry her to a stupid man,

what will their lives be like?

No matter what,

I must find her a husband as soon as possible.

Changhao.

Give the matter further thought.

Changhao.

My chest hurts.

Changhao, wait a moment.