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[Under the Skin Ⅱ]

[Episode 7]

[Public Security]

[Beijiang City Public Security Bureau, Beijiang Branch]

What does this picture mean?

I want to tell you a story.

In Greek mythology,

there is a legend

that the gods in heaven were in discord

and the world was on the brink of disaster.

At this critical moment,

a goddess in a white robe and golden crown

suddenly stepped forward.

She took on the responsibility of mediation

and judgment.

In one hand, she held a scale.

In the other, a sword.

Her eyes were blindfolded.

The scale represented choice.

The sword represented judgment.

The blindfold symbolized justice.

After that, she was revered

the Goddess of Justice,

Themis.

The silhouette of you holding others up

is very similar to this

blindfolded goddess.

The cliff is your sword.

[This path is safe to see the Auroral Mist]

The signpost symbolizes the scale of choice.

Back then,

out of a sense of justice in your heart,

you chose to save someone.

But because of that,

your sister fell off the cliff.

This is

what motivated you to become

a so-called judge in the first place.

Officer Shen,

as police officers,

you should understand better than I do

that in this world,

people suddenly leave every day,

without reason.

When answers can't be found,

people around me all tell me

it's the will of heaven.

It's fate.

Juan's fate

might have been destined to end

at eight years old.

Without the mountaineering team,

she might have left

due to something else.

I choose

not to pursue this matter.

Is that wrong?

This isn't some divine will.

It's because back then,

those climbers' stubbornness

led to these consequences.

And not one of them

was willing to go with you to search for your sister.

You hate them

because your sister's death

has become an eternal knot

in your heart that you can't untie.

So you started to turn yourself

into a judge.

You want to punish those

who only care about their own lives

and disregard others.

You meticulously set up

this mechanism for choosing.

You want those selfish people

to accompany Juan in death.

I often feel dazed afterwards,

wondering if I had saved my sister

and it was me who fell down the mountain.

I was the one who died,

which is why I'm like

a wandering ghost on the path to the underworld,

constantly circling in the mountains.

I hate those selfish people.

Come.

Come.

Let me.

Let me.

Ma!

Ma!

Ma!

Help!

Ma!

Professor Ma,

come quickly and give me a hand.

I can't hold on much longer.

Why?

[Welcome the Spring]

Your phone.

Phone.

Give it to me.

Just a moment, right away.

Hello?

Is this 120?

Someone here has fallen and is injured.

It's a serious fall.

The address?

The address is...

Fengdu Village, Mt. Fengdu.

Yes.

When you arrive,

I'll come out to meet you right away.

Okay, okay.

About what just happened,

you saw it all too.

Anyway, there's nothing I care about

in this world now.

Whether I go to prison or get shot,

it's all the same to me.

Hello,

I'm calling to report a crime.

Hello?

Hello,

I want to report a crime.

Today,

I went mountain-climbing

with my husband at Mt. Fengdu.

While climbing,

I... I fell from the mountain.

I...

My husband, he...

He's missing.

Yes,

I...

I called 120.

Thank you.

You...

What are you...

You're a kind person.

You saved my life.

His death

has nothing to do

with you or me.

When that man let go of my hand

and even forced you

to let go of my hand as well,

he already made his choice.

He wanted to kill me

but failed,

and ended up

losing his own life.

This is

karma.

Remember.

Karma.

Afterwards,

I threw Ma Huainan's body

into the sinkhole.

So you admit

that you killed Ma Huainan?

It was his own choice.

It's karma.

Captain Cheng.

[Beijiang Criminal Investigation Team]

This was found at Chang Feng's house.

It wasn't in the suitcase with the deceaseds' belongings.

[Name: Zhang Sijing]

Zhang Sijing.

Zhang Sijing?

Her phone is inside,

along with a suicide note.

It says

that, at 30 years old,

[Beijiang City Public Security Bureau, Beijiang Branch Criminal Investigation Team]

she was unable to bear the pressure from her family to get married,

so she decided to commit suicide.

Decrypt the information on the phone as soon as possible.

Yes.

Have you seen this person?

Her name is Jing, full name Zhang Sijing.

I've never seen her.

We found

Zhang Sijing's ID card at your house.

[Name: Zhang Sijing]

I asked you before

if you had seen her,

and you said no.

Where is she?

She's dead.

How did she die?

I killed her.

How did you kill her?

This girl

came alone to me.

She asked me to take her to Mist Cliff.

But because of her fear of heights,

she only made it halfway.

You're afraid of heights?

This is too high.

You knew you were afraid of heights,

yet you still came to climb the mountain.

Let's go back down.

No,

I won't go back.

I want to reach the top of Mist Cliff.

At your current pace,

by the time you reach the top,

the Auroral Mist will have long dispersed.

I still want to go up.

I can do it.

Please lead the way.

Let's go.

Why did you come alone

to this place?

I found it online.

They say the scenery here is beautiful.

Resting here eternally

should be nice.

You're so young.

Stop thinking about dying.

Do you think death can solve all problems?

Death indeed can't solve problems,

but death can

solve the person with problems.

I am that problem.

Haven't you thought about your parents?

It's precisely because I thought about them

that I made this decision.

Did you have a disagreement with your family?

You should talk it out

and it'll be fine.

Not everyone

and everything

can be resolved through talking.

Sometimes communicating with parents

is even more difficult than with strangers.

We all have our own lives.

I don't want to disappoint my parents either,

so I decided

to come here and die.

If I really die,

I hope they

can come to terms with it.

I don't want them to feel it's their fault.

From what you're saying,

you've already written a suicide note?

It's in my bag.

It's a pity though.

I didn't expect even dying to be this difficult.

I'm afraid of heights too.

Do you have any

other methods

that are quick and clean?

No.

How can that be?

Isn't this Suicide Valley?

Please.

Can you

help me?

You really want to die?

I have a cleaver.

It's freshly sharpened.

You could try that.

That won't do.

That cleaver is yours.

I can't cause you trouble.

Then why don't you jump into the lake?

That's a good idea.

So I helped her

fulfill this wish.

After all, I've already

killed one person.

One more didn't matter.

From Chang Feng's selection criteria,

we can see that

he's not someone who

kills indiscriminately.

[Beijiang Public Security Bureau]

He admitted to

killing Jing so quickly.

There's no explanation.

Jiang Feng,

notify the salvage team

to expand the search area

in the area Chang Feng indicated.

Okay.

Why would he do this?

Captain Cheng.

Zhang Sijing's phone data

has been recovered.

The last call

was made to a girl named

Liu Xinyao.

I checked

their social media accounts.

They both posted photos with each other.

They should be friends.

This Liu Xinyao

runs a coffee shop

right here in the city.

[Say hello to yourself every day]

Thank you.

Thanks.

Has Jing been found?

Not yet,

but we discovered that before she disappeared,

she received a call.

It was from you.

So we wanted to ask you

about the situation.

That day, her parents came to see me,

asking if I knew where she was.

They seemed quite anxious.

I called her several times,

but her phone was off.

I thought she was grounded again.

Jing often argued with her parents

and got grounded?

Her parents are very strict,

controlling what she eats,

what she wears,

what job she takes,

and who she befriends.

Well,

do you know if

she had any recent conflicts

with her parents?

Recently, her parents have been

asking people everywhere

to set her up on blind dates.

Every time they arranged one,

it would lead to a big argument

and Jing could only escape to my place.

Her parents even filed a missing person report,

saying she had disappeared.

Jing came to my shop that day

and cried for over two hours.

In the end, she still went back home.

Officer,

we're all grown adults now.

To still be controlled by parents like this,

don't you think it's terrifying?

What exactly happened to Jing?

We haven't found her whereabouts yet.

Actually, Jing has been a bit depressed.

If only I had

tried to persuade her more,

she wouldn't have...

I'm sorry.

Is this you?

Yes.

My friend and I.

White sofa, white carpet.

Probably a clean freak.

Hello.

Are you here with

good news or...

We're still investigating.

We'd like to learn more

about Jing from you two.

Please, come in.

Come in.

Zhang,

come down.

The police are here.

Coming.

-Come in. -Have a seat.

Alright.

Your home's interior design

is quite unique.

Yes, my wife

runs a design company.

So

when it comes to the room's furnishings,

she might be obsessive

to a certain degree.

That's not obsession.

Ignoring

achievable perfection

is shameful.

-Have some water. -Thank you.

What about Jing's personal space?

Is it the same?

Well,

Jing

is completely different from us.

Her room

is always a mess.

Her mother and I

often help her tidy up.

But whenever we do,

she gets angry.

Yes,

she gets angry whenever we clean it.

Can I take a look at her room?

Sure.

It's the room upstairs.

Okay.

[Self-Healing]

[For the Light of Others]

[The Moon and Sixpence]

The main reason we're here

is to understand

the specific reasons

for Jing's running away from home.

Well, specifically...

We learned from

one of her friends

that Jing's relationship with you two

isn't very good.

Jing's friend?

Must be that Liu Xinyao.

Exactly.

That kid is also a weirdo.

Leaving behind

a perfectly good factory job at home,

she insists on running some coffee shop.

One day, I passed by

that coffee shop

and saw her smoking at the entrance.

What decent girl smokes?

Exactly.

Our Jing

must have been led astray by her.

How do you know

that Jing smokes?

I found a lighter

and cigarettes in her bag.

This child is really out of line.

I know she's grown up now

and it's not appropriate for me to go through her bag,

but tell me,

how could I not check?

You have no idea

how terrifying this child's thoughts are.

I told her,

"Jing,

while you're still young,

hurry up and find someone,

get married and have children.

When you reach menopause

and want children but can't have them,

it'll be too late."

Guess what she said?

"I can have kids

without getting married.

In the future,

I'll just go to a sperm bank

and find some excellent genes

to have a test-tube baby."

Isn't that crazy?

These kids nowadays,

why are

their thoughts so abnormal?

We've got a basic understanding of the situation.

If there's any news,

we'll notify you

immediately.

Let's go.

Hello, Xiaowu.

Hello.

Turn off the music.

The music has been turned off.

What are you thinking about?

I saw a

very worn copy of

"The Moon and Sixpence"

on Jing's bedside table.

It must be a book she loves to read.

I've read that too.

The book is about

the protagonist giving up

his original life,

abandoning his family and career.

For the pursuit of art,

he runs off to a primitive island

to paint alone.

Not bad.

Then, do you know

who the protagonist

in this book is based on?

Gauguin?

Your interpretation is spot on.

Do you know that

there are only two paintings

hung up in Liu Xinyao's coffee shop

and both are by Gauguin?

One is called

"Where Do We Come From?

What Are We?

Where Are We Going?"

The other is called

"Spirit of the Dead Watching."

This painting symbolizes

people's inner struggles and fears.

Not just the fear of death,

but more so the fear of the unknown,

just like how Gauguin wanted to

escape his own life,

attempting to find

release in a

completely new environment.

And these two paintings

form a kind of dialogue,

hinting at the complexity of Jing's inner world.

On one hand,

it's her questioning the meaning of life.

On the other hand,

it's her facing fear

and wanting to escape.

Therefore,

I believe Jing

didn't really want to seek death.

She just wanted to try

a completely new way of living.

So,

what else do you know

about Gauguin's story?

Gauguin?

He must be very tall, right?

Yeah.

Just like you.

It's right down there.

When we pulled it up just now,

it was tangled in tree branches.

Jing!

Jing!

Get out of the way!

That's my child!

Move aside!

Move!

-Jing. -Jing.

Speak.

Captain Cheng,

we pulled up a scarecrow.

What do you mean?

A scarecrow?

Yes.

We've already had Jing's parents

confirm it.

The clothes on the scarecrow,

the sneakers,

and the backpack all belong to Jing.

Do you think

we should continue searching?

Continue.

Li Han.

Captain Cheng.

Take some people and go back

to do a thorough search of the villages

near Chang Feng's house.

See if anyone

has seen Zhang Sijing.

Yes.

Sir,

could you please take a look

and tell me if you've seen

this girl recently?

Oh, this girl?

Yeah, a while back,

she took a ride in my car.

She rode in your car?

Yes.

This girl was quite strange.

She said she was tired of walking

and wanted to ride in my car.

She didn't care where we went.

You know, I'm just trying to do business,

so I didn't really want to take her.

But then she pulled out

200 yuan in cash for me.

Nowadays, what kind of young person

uses cash anymore?

Could you take us

to where she got off?

We found a village market

downstream.

We saw Zhang Sijing in the surveillance footage.

This is her.

But there aren't many cameras in the market.

[Market 02]

Jing walked out of frame

and disappeared.

We've checked the market

and nearby bus routes,

[Beijiang Criminal Investigation Team]

but no one has seen her.

What about other surveillance footage?

This is the only camera

that captured her.

Bring up the last frame

where she appears.

[Market 02]

Rewind.

[Market 02]

Stop.

She's wearing a baseball cap.

Her face is unclear.

That's enough.

[Basic information] [Name: Zhang Sijing]

[Basic information] [Name: Zhang Sijing]

[Information Search] [Information Check] [Photos]

[Market 02]

The face's mental tubercle,

lower jaw,

and the mastoid process of the temporal bone.

These bone landmarks

all match.

[Beijiang Criminal Investigation Team]

Then I'll continue searching

based on this new profile.

I think

we've already found her.

[Beijiang Criminal Investigation Team]

Liu Xinyao's friend?

Check Liu Xinyao's

movements on that day.

There's so much.

Come on.

Jing.

Take this bucket

and go over there, okay?

Bring some more sand.

You've got the wrong person.

Don't worry.

We're the police.

We're not here to persuade you to go back.

Then why are you here?

I have nothing to say.

The old Jing is dead.

So now you're the new and improved Jing?

That joke is really lame.

Knowing you're okay,

we can rest easy.

But your parents

are very worried about you.

I don't want to see them.

I understand you.

Living with misunderstanding and prejudice

is quite painful,

especially when it's from your closest family.

Right?

Take it slow.

After what's happened,

I think they will change.

Give them some time

and give yourself a chance too.

Also,

why don't you

go tell Chang Feng

that everything's okay?

Chang Feng?

How is he?

He's been arrested.

He didn't do anything.

He just helped me

throw away a scarecrow.

You've already died once.

From now on,

you can have a new life.

But I...

don't know where to go.

Go wherever you want.

Go to a place where

no one knows you.

The villagers know

I asked you to be my guide.

If I just disappear like this

and go missing,

it will cause trouble for you.

Let me exchange a secret with you.

I've been keeping this to myself

for a long time.

I want to tell someone about it.

Go ahead.

I've killed someone before.

So I don't mind adding you to the list.

If the police come looking for you,

all the answers

will be found with me.

Suicide is very painful

for family members.

Without any hope,

your family

won't blame themselves for it.

Otherwise, they'll live

with guilt forever.

It's too painful.

Will I

be able to see you again in the future?

Not necessarily.

Anyway, I don't have

much to live for anymore.

Just live well for me.

He gave me a second life.

Can I

do something for him?

You've already helped him.

You saved him.

He...

He's the one who saved me.

You lied.

You didn't kill Zhang Sijing.

She looks good

with short hair too.

After she left you,

she hitchhiked to the market

and cut it herself.

I can't believe you actually found her.

She doesn't want to go home.

You're not going to send her back, are you?

Please don't.

Whether she goes home or not

isn't up to anyone else.

The decision is hers alone.

After this incident,

I believe her parents will change as well.

That's good.

That's good.

Oh, right.

Jing told me

to thank you for saving her.

I saved the mountaineering team.

The price was losing my sister.

I changed their fate,

and they changed mine.

If I hadn't saved them back then,

there wouldn't have been so many lives

lost.

Fighting evil with evil,

only to find out in the end

that you're punishing yourself.

But it's good that your heart

hasn't been completely consumed by evil.

In the end, your soul

can still be redeemed.

Redeemed?

[Reject] [Answer]

[Director Zhang from Art Gallery]

Hello?

Hello.

Mr. Shen,

your painting has been sold.

Someone actually bought that painting?

Who was it?

It was a Mr. Fang.

He made a good offer.

And he said he's a fan of yours.

I'm sorry,

I was actually

planning to take that painting back.

So, then...

No, it's fine.

Here.

Could you give me

the buyer's information?

Hello.

It's you?

You're the one who bought my painting.

Have a seat,

Mr. Shen.

"Restless Still Life."

I bought it.

Why?

When we talked last time,

this painting

didn't seem like

something you would like.

Because I don't want

anyone else to see it.

Alright,

then I'll take it back.

I'll refund your money.

It's not about the money.

This painting

shouldn't exist.

You've seen my dream.

This is also my dream.