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She deliberately reinforced

Cao Xiaodong's subconscious desire

to replace his father and reclaim the family fortune.

But when this desire

reached its peak,

his male ego was completely destroyed.

And he learned that the mastermind behind this

was his mother, Liu Yao.

So the deep mother-son bond

turned into hatred and matricide.

But we didn't find

any evidence of Cao Xiaodong's murder at the scene.

The entire house

has been searched thoroughly.

What else are you trying to find?

Do you have a flashlight?

This painting

is a modern replica.

The paints used are standard commercially available ones.

But these paint fragments underneath

belong to another painting.

It's from the true Renaissance period,

called Tempera paint.

It's made from egg whites

and pigments.

The painting has been replaced,

and it happened not long ago.

I suspect that

the painting

that originally hung here

might have some clues on it.

During this time,

the entire house has been sealed off.

Something that big

couldn't have been taken out.

So that painting

must still be here.

Du Cheng.

The painting that was replaced

should be this one.

Why are you here?

I'm asking you to leave.

Otherwise, I'll call the police.

Security.

Escort him out.

You master's lackeys.

Take your money

and get out.

Cao Xiaodong, have you lost your mind?

Call the police.

You dare call the police?

Do you believe I'll kill her right now?

If you know what's good for you, get out.

Mr. Cao. Please don't make it difficult for me, Mr. Cao.

Get out!

Come back!

You too, come out!

Get out!

You bitch!

Find Cao Jian! Call the police!

You dare play me like this?

You think you've succeeded?

You all deceived me, huh?

You all betrayed me, huh?

I'm sorry.

Mr. Cao Jr.

I'm sorry.

Mr. Cao Jr.

I was wrong.

I was wrong.

Still trying to run?

Still trying to run, huh?

Still trying to run?

You lied to me.

No.

It wasn't me.

It was your mother.

You all dare to play me.

None of you will live.

Let Cao Jian's child go to hell!

Don't kill me.

The child, I...

I can do without.

I'm begging you.

I'm begging you.

-Stop! -Freeze!

Cao Xiaodong, stop!

-Stop! -Freeze!

Let go!

Hold him down!

Cuff him!

Don't move!

[Beijiang Branch, Beijiang City Public Security Bureau]

We found

Liu Yao's blood on this painting,

as well as your fingerprints.

Is Zhou Shanshan dead?

No.

What about the child?

Not either.

Cao Jian still succeeded.

Sphinx.

Why did you paint my mother as her?

You loved your mother very much,

but your mother betrayed you.

My family

is different from normal families.

Since I was little, my mother has always told me

that I must be excellent enough

to inherit the family business.

Otherwise,

what I deserve

will be taken away by others.

Mom.

Mom.

What's wrong?

That bastard Cao Jian

wants to blow you and me off

with this club.

As for all other businesses,

we're not allowed to touch at all.

Mom.

Cao Jian built his fortune on our family.

You can't tolerate this anymore.

I'm planning to divorce Cao Jian.

I've hired the best divorce lawyer.

According to his estimation,

our divorce case

will take at least three years.

Besides keeping a close eye on Cao Jian

to prevent him from transferring assets

during this period,

there's another way, that is

you have to have a child quickly.

As soon as possible.

This way, there will be one more person

to share Cao Jian's assets.

Mom.

But you know

I can't.

I know.

I know, Son.

I've already

found a girl

for you here.

Her name is Zhou Shanshan.

She's a graduate student,

very smart.

And I'll find a young man out there

who looks similar to you,

with good education

and personality.

Let's have Zhou Shanshan give birth as soon as possible.

We'll tell others that you got her pregnant

when you were drunk and fooling around.

This way,

no one will be able to find

any fault.

Hello, Mr. Cao Jr.

I'm Zhou Shanshan.

I will definitely complete the task well.

I won't say anything.

She just had a prenatal check-up.

It's almost 12 weeks now.

I rented a house for her

and hired a nanny.

From now on,

don't come here anymore.

Stay home and take good care of yourself.

Okay, Ms. Liu.

Go buy some nice clothes.

Dress up well when you go out.

Don't embarrass me.

Thank you.

Mr. Cao Jr.

Everything was planned out.

My mother and I

only needed to wait patiently

to settle accounts with Cao Jian.

But my mother started visiting

Zhou Shanshan more and more frequently.

I didn't expect that I underestimated human nature.

Have more fruit.

It's good for the baby.

It's sweet.

Try some too.

Okay.

Xiaodong.

What are you doing here?

You're so drunk.

What if the smell of alcohol affects Shanshan?

Get up.

Shanshan?

Mom.

When did you two

become so close?

Xiaodong.

Shanshan is now practically

part of the family.

Besides, taking good care of Shanshan

is also for the sake of

your child, isn't it?

Mr. Cao Jr.

Maybe you should go back to the club.

The food and drinks here

are too bland

for your taste.

Besides,

I need to go to bed soon.

Stop pretending in front of me!

Xiaodong, you...

You have to do exactly as I say.

Fine.

I don't want the child anymore.

Go abort it tomorrow.

Xiaodong!

What are you talking about?

Cao Xiaodong.

Get ahold of yourself.

You're the ones begging me.

Let's go.

Aunt Liu.

Take him away.

Okay.

Rest early.

Why are you pretending in front of me?

You eat my food, use my things, live in my place,

and you dare to talk to me like this?

Go rest.

I'll beat you to death!

Xiaodong!

What are you doing?

This plan...

Let's go.

Gradually got out of control.

I was also starting to lose sight of

my own place in all this.

My mother

seemed to no longer belong to me either.

The child is Cao Jian's?

Are you lying to me,

or is Zhou Shanshan lying to you?

I had everything arranged,

but I don't know

how Cao Jian found out about

our plan.

He must have had someone

do it secretly

when I wasn't paying attention.

It's only because

I've been nice to Zhou Shanshan

that she told me everything.

Otherwise, when this child is born,

there will be one more person

fighting with you for the inheritance.

This can't do.

This child must be aborted.

Talk to her

and give her some more money.

You think I haven't talked to her?

Zhou Shanshan is very clever.

She knows very well that

Cao Jian will give her more money than us.

Hitting Zhou Shanshan with a car,

you had someone do it, didn't you?

Xiaodong.

I can

understand how you feel.

But it's not a car

that you can simply discard.

It's a life we're talking about.

If you want to blame someone,

blame your father.

He's so despicable.

For money,

he's capable of anything.

But don't

give up at this point.

Accept this child first.

After all, to the outside world, you are the child's father.

Cao Jian won't abandon you.

In the future,

you'll have everything.

Have you considered

my dignity as a man?

Money is what gives you dignity.

Don't overthink things.

Stop drinking.

Try to relax a bit.

Get some good sleep,

okay?

Cao Xiaodong.

Get ahold of yourself.

You're the ones begging me.

You need to have a child as soon as possible

to take a bigger share of Cao Jian's property.

The child is Cao Jian's?

Are you lying to me,

or is Zhou Shanshan lying to you?

Accept this child first.

After all, to the outside world,

you are this child's father.

Have you considered

my dignity as a man?

Money is what gives you dignity.

If you want to blame someone,

blame your father for being so despicable.

For money,

he's capable of anything.

Didn't I tell you already?

Stop drinking.

Look at yourself. What a mess.

Look at yourself.

What a mess.

Look at yourself.

What a mess.

Look at yourself.

Look at yourself.

Look at yourself.

Look at yourself.

Look at yourself.

Xiaodong!

Xiaodong...

Mom, why is it you?

Mom!

Press on it.

I'll call an ambulance.

Xiaodong.

You knew everything, didn't you?

Mom, stop talking.

Zhou Shanshan...

Zhou Shanshan's child is our bargaining chip.

Mom.

What are you talking about?

The child must be

of the Cao family bloodline.

Only then can we achieve our plan.

But you can't have children.

I had no choice

but to do this.

Mom.

I thought

even if the whole world betrayed me,

you would still

be on my side.

It turns out

this was all calculated by you.

I'm the real fool here.

No.

We both love you very much.

Love you so much.

Take this.

Give the bracelet

to Zhou Shanshan.

Ask her to go to America

with you.

After all, her child

is your biological brother.

Live on.

Live on.

Mom.

Mom.

Mom.

Mom!

Mom!

You probably have known

what happened afterwards.

You found Ji Jun to take the fall.

Yes.

You drew it very much like my mother.

I thought I loved her very much.

But actually,

I hated her too.

I didn't even realize it myself,

yet you saw through it.

You inspired me.

The externalization of the subconscious.

It turns out that everything can be traced.

The father dislikes the son,

the son resents the father,

while the father and mother plot against each other.

What a messed up family relationship.

Disassemble complicated human nature

and categorize it.

That's why

I want to do Human Nature Atlas.

I want to apply

to visit some felons.

Why?

Because I need a lot of

samples of complexion.

Shen Yi.

You can do research,

but you can't act rashly.

Don't forget,

you just let go of your emotions about the Little Red Dress.

What brings you here, Shen Yi?

I came to talk to you about criminal genes.

Is this Cao Jian's?

How did you know?

I didn't label it.

I feel that for the one on the left,

its form itself

is in harmony with the surrounding ecology.

But the one on the right

has a visible,

uncontrollable

desire for expansion and aggression,

compressing the surrounding ecosystem

and disrupting its balance.

This is very similar

to the feeling I get from Cao Jian.

The one on the right is Cao Jian's

monoamine oxidase A gene.

The one on the left

is the unaltered

monoamine oxidase A gene.

Amazing.

Can you, like us

who work with genes,

see the seeds of evil in him?

I don't know.

Cao Xiaodong's genes are also of this kind.

Lombroso, hailed as

the father of criminology,

introduced natural sciences

into criminology research.

After observing hundreds

of criminals, he proposed that

the fundamental cause of crime

is determined by biological

and hereditary factors.

There's an old Chinese saying,

"Like father, like son."

In human genetics,

sons have a high probability

of inheriting

their father's genetic defects,

leading to the same tragedy

repeating across generations.

The relationship between adult fathers and sons

is more like that of competitors,

competing for

the society's disposable resources.

It's like

the succession of male lions

in a pride of lions.

Yes.

Male lions rarely hunt,

but they dominate

the breeding rights of the entire pride.

Lionesses depend on the family

and submit only to the strongest.

Apart from resisting external groups,

male lions only need to focus on

the threats posed by

young individuals within the pride.

All known organisms,

regardless of their reproductive mode,

have survival strategies determined

by their species' genetic inheritance.

Do you remember

that girl I told you about,

the one who gave me

a special feeling?

I saw in the news.

Being a police officer is a dangerous occupation.

You may risk your life anytime.

I still want to advise you

to reconsider your occupation.

But I did it.

This time,

I successfully predicted

her criminal personality.

So now,

I'm even more determined

to continue working on

the Criminal Human Nature Atlas.

Combining art and psychology,

I want to use painting

to summarize those criminal personalities

and patterns of human nature.

I believe

as long as I can predict

more potential crimes,

I can prevent more

tragedies from happening.

The evil seed

you just saw,

if it could be deleted with one click,

there would be no more source of evil.

I'm willing

to take a step forward

to break the boundaries.

Don't stop me!

I want to see Su Youliang.

I know they brought him

here to you.

Ma'am.

-Ma'am. Ma'am. -Ma'am, you can’t go in.

Don't stop me!

Please calm down. Take it easy.

Let's respect the deceased.

Please don't get agitated.

I'm his fiancée.

I dare you to cremate him.

Youliang was

killed by that old woman!

Where is he?

I need to see him.

Ma'am.

But this

won't solve the problem.

I need to see him.

This...

Ma'am.

This... This is really not appropriate. You...

Youliang.

Did it hurt?

The East Suburb Funeral Home reported

that a body of

a young male was brought in today.

Then a woman claiming to be

the deceased's fiancée came out

to prevent the cremation,

saying the death was unnatural.

The nails are clean,

no foreign objects.

My Youliang was so young,

and he'd always been in good health.

It's absolutely impossible that he died from illness.

All the paperwork is complete.

The hospital has issued a death certificate,

and the family has signed off on it.

Trust me.

Investigate thoroughly.

Let me tell you,

you don't know

how perverted that old woman is.

[Su Youliang]

Su Youliang,

the deceased, 25 years old,

graduate student of School of Pharmacy

at Beijiang University of Chinese Medicine.

[Lin Xiaoyin]

The woman who prevented the cremation

is named Lin Xiaoyin.

She claims to be

[Su Youliang] [Lin Xiaoyin]

Su Youliang's fiancée.

What's the cause

of Su Youliang's death?

[Su Youliang] [Lin Xiaoyin]

Sexual sudden death.

According to the Emergency Center,

when they arrived at the scene,

Su Youliang was already not breathing.

He was lying naked on the couch.

At the scene,

[Beijiang Criminal Investigation Team]

a large amount of aphrodisiacs were found.

It's suspected that before his death,

the deceased had engaged in multiple intense sexual activities.

Therefore, they deduced

that the cause of Su Youliang's death

was acute myocardial infarction

leading to sexual sudden death.

Who is that An Luran?

[An Luran]

She is Su Youliang's girlfriend.

It's verified that

the Emergency Center

received a call from An Luran

at five o'clock yesterday morning,

saying her boyfriend was in critical condition.

[Su Youliang] [Lin Xiaoyin]

What's the deal with this Su Youliang?

Lin Xiaoyin says

she's Su Youliang's fiancée,

while An Luran claims to be his girlfriend.

Why did Lin Xiaoyin prevent the cremation?

[Su Youliang] [Lin Xiaoyin]

She believes Su Youliang's death

was unnatural.

She suspects An Luran

of causing Su Youliang's death.

The autopsy results are in.

The cause of death is acute myocardial infarction.

It's a natural death.

[Beijiang Criminal Investigation Team]

So, can we

call it a day now?

But I found something

in his body.

Thallium?

During the autopsy,

I found that although the cause of death

was acute myocardial infarction,

his bodily functions were severely compromised.

All of his organs

were in a state of severe failure.

I also checked his medical history.

There were no underlying health issues.

So I conducted

further toxicology tests.

Where was it detected?

In his hair.

Although thallium poisoning can be fatal,

the amount in Su Youliang's body

was very small.

It's estimated that the poisoning occurred

only about half a year ago.

At this dosage,

it wouldn't directly cause death.

So I suspect that Su Youliang's

actual cause of death

was acute myocardial infarction

triggered by taking aphrodisiacs

and engaging in intense sexual activity

while suffering from

thallium poisoning.

So this has turned into a poisoning case.

But thallium is a

chemical substance under state control.

It's difficult to obtain

unless through specific

official channels.

Don't forget.

Su Youliang was a graduate student

[Su Youliang]

of School of Pharmacy at the University of Chinese Medicine.

He might have had access

to thallium in the laboratory.

[An Luran]

Where is An Luran?

She's gone abroad.

Gone abroad?

Yes.

She's the chairwoman

of Hua'an Medical Center.

She left on a business trip after filing the report.

When is she coming back?

Her flight is tomorrow.

I've already notified

the airport police station to assist.

Jiang Feng.

Go investigate Su Youliang's

living situation

and look into

his personal relationships.

Got it.

[Su Youliang]

Shen Yi.

Shen Yi!

Come with me tomorrow to meet with

Lin Xiaoyin and An Luran.

Okay.

[Analysis of Su Youliang's Case]