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♫ Because love is the most fragile line of defense ♫
♫ In the end, hate became the last outcome ♫
♫ I defenselessly melted into love ♫
♫ I became the amber of tears, hanging on your necklace ♫
♫ Selfish love is too sweet that it becomes salty ♫
♫ Uneasy hate is thrown out of my dictionary ♫
♫ I am helplessly frozen into love ♫
♫ I became the crystal of ice, piercing your eyes ♫
♫ We are both lost on the edges of the world ♫
♫ A consensus is like positively and negatively charged electricity ♫
♫ If tightly connected, it can brighten the loneliness of night ♫
♫ The flames of a broken wire can momentarily be destroyed ♫
♫ We are both lost on the edges of the world ♫
♫ Chasing after each other is like the black and white keys of a piano ♫
♫ If closely dependent on each other, it can produce the theme of love ♫
♫ How can parted strings perform the sound of joy and sorrow? ♫
Heirs
- Episode 40 -
I know you're doing this for my own good.
But I can't and I am not unwilling, for my...
...for my selfish Father to give up your parents, to give up your happiness.
You are my happiness.
If recognising my bloodline is for
the Tang family's wealth and property,
then? We'll have to fight with your dad in court again.
I would rather give up.
I don't agree.
Mom.
I got it.
Come in.
Older Cousin, Xia Yun has returned to Shanghai.
I know. Dai Bo told me.
This is weird. How did she know?
Exactly. Once she got off the plane,
she immediately went to Zheng Hao's office.
She met with Zheng Hao?
She went to meet with Zheng Hao
Then it's very possible that they went to do...
...a parent-child identification test?
Why do you have to oppose?
Answer me first. Are you really my son?
Since Tang Ning is Zhong Ke Ming's daughter,
then you must be my son.
About this, I really do not know.
Then do a parent-child identification test with me. Won't everything be clear?
How did you know about Tang Ning's issue?
Someone called me.
- Who? - I don't know.
The caller ID didn't show.
Was it male or female?
It was a young female's voice.
What did she say?
She said, Tang Ning has found her biological parents.
It's Zhong Ke Ming and He Ya Yin. Then their son...
wouldn't he be my son?
Have you thought about,
if this was true,
then what about you and Tang Li Qun's lawsuit?
Will you admit to defeat?
No way. Zhong Ke Ming would never agree to that.
Why do you have to listen to Zhong Ke Ming no matter what?
Isn't he also a defendant?
Older Cousin, I feel this is a bit odd.
After Zheng Hao sent Xia Yun home today,
he went straight back to Ning Ning Office again.
They didn't go to the DNA examination centre.
What is odd about that? Xia Yun is a person with a weakness after all.
She has considered the consequences.
About this, we still need to go from the dead infant.
Understood.
Parent-child identification test?
- You agreed? - Yeah.
But now, your mom...
Xia Yun is hesitating now.
Why?
Because I told her to be prepared.
If I am really her son when the results come out,
then she will completely lose in hers and Zhong Ke Ming's case.
Why is this related?
Unless...
Unless she and Zhong Ke Ming has a secret transaction.
Uncle, my Mom has waited for you for half a day.
Mom, Uncle Xue is here.
Sister-in-law.
In your current condition, you really should stay in the hospital.
I can discuss the case with you at the hospital.
It's not for you.
I haven't gone home in many months.
I really missed this house.
In this house,
I have lived here for tens of years.
My Mother, my Older Brother,
they all passed away in this house.
I think,
if I don't come back to take a look,
I'm afraid I won't be able to see it anymore.
Mom.
Mom, don't speak anymore. Uncle, take a seat.
Director Xue.
Have you talked to Zheng Hao?
We have.
Did he agree?
He didn't agree but he didn't reject either.
Zheng Hao didn't directly reject me.
He said, he wants to think through it well.
But I don't have anymore time to wait.
According to what Zheng Hao told me,
the initiative power is not on his side.
Xia Yun's side is also hesitating.
Xia Yun came back?
She has come back. The two of them has also begun discussion.
But they still haven't decided to do the parent-child identification test yet.
I understand.
Xia Yun is afraid of Zhong Ke Ming.
Xia Yun is afraid of doing the parent-child identification test.
Is she unafraid of me? I can ruin her name and her.
That's right...that's right, now...I will go find her now!
Mom! Mom. Mom!
- Sister-in-law. - Mom!
Mom! Mom, what's wrong?!
- Sister-in-law! - Mother!
Zheng Hao.
You should do the maternity test.
I don't want to see you and your mother separated.
Actually, I think... Is it really important to do the maternity test?
I think that if we all believe Xia Yun is my mother,
then from today onward, I'll act like she is my birth mother
and treat her as such.
Isn't that enough?
There's one thing I just can't understand.
The night that we were born, who was it
whose goal was to switch us.
I've also thought about this question.
First off, it definitely was not Tang Li Qun.
At that time, she wanted me dead. Why would she be motivated to switch us?
It's also not Zhong Ke Ming. If he knew he had a child like this,
and he switched them so that this child was the Tang family's heir — But
he didn't know that my mother,
He Ya Yin, had a child.
Plus, if it was him, after he switched you, how could he
try every possible way to kick you out of the Tang family, up until today?
But there's one thing for sure. This person understands He Ya Yin very well...
And knows the Tang family's secrets.
Actually, I've been suspicious of one person.
Who?
Jing... Xiao Jing...
Mom?
- Jing... - Here, I'm here.
Bring me water. Water... Water!
Mom.
Mom, drink water.
Slowly.
Mom! Mother! Mother! Mom, are you okay? Mom!
Doctor! Doctor!
Xiao Jing, stop yelling. I'm alright. Xiao Jing, quickly
bring Zheng Hao and Xiao Ning here. Hurry. Hurry!
- Hello? - Hello?
Zheng Hao! My mom wants you and Xiao Ning to get here quickly! She's really not well.
- Huh? - Hurry!
Okay, okay. We'll be there soon! Don't worry, don't worry.
- What's wrong? - Something happened to Tang Li Qun. Let's go.
Your mother's situation is very bad. Don't upset her.
Xiao Jing, what's wrong with Aunt Tang?
Why are you here, you ungrateful person?
My mom treated you well, and you completely betrayed her!
I didn't.
You didn't?
You betrayed her because of Tang Ning, and now you're selling her out to my father!
Xiao Jing, I know I let Aunt Tang down,
but I never forgot the kindness she showed me, and I never thought
to harm Aunt Tang. Please believe me.
Believe you?
Right now you're my father's lawyer. How can I believe you?
Jing... Xiao Jing! Hurry. Let Dai Bo come in.
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Xiao Bo... I know about your worries.
I can understand... why you're helping Zhong Ke Ming.
You have a goal. Right?
Aunt Tang, what kind of goal could I have?
VP Zhou is my boss and my client. I can't —
Don't pretend in front of me, okay?
Xiao Bo, I watched you grow up.
Before, for a woman,
you betrayed me. I can forgive you.
But for him?
Before, I didn't understand and couldn't figure out why.
Why would you abandon me, abandon Tang Ning,
to relay on Zhong Ke Ming?
Aunt Tang, I am also just a person.
Since
Tang Ning doesn't like me, isn't it better for me to just leave her?
But you have a lot of choices.
Why did you choose Zhong Ke Ming of all people? Why?
Then, Xiao Jing told me something. I...
I suddenly understood. So many people
called Xia Yun, but couldn't get to her.
Only you have her new phone number
and you called her to have her come back.
Right?
Your goal for having her come back
is to have her and Zheng Hao go and do
a maternity test, right?
Don't lie in front of someone who's about to die!
Cousin, I've already checked with Lu Jing Ming.
Xia Yun got a new cell phone number herself.
Only four people know this number.
You, me, Lu Jing Ming, and Dai Bo.
Dai Bo asked Lu Jing Ming for this number a few days ago.
This Dai Bo, ever since he came back to Hai Ming Law Firm,
I have been suspicious of him.
Actually, Cousin. You're also suspicious of him.
That's why you've had Lu Jing Ming watch him.
Enough. Don't say anymore.
Dai Bo must be helping Tang Li Qun again...
Since she's the Aunt Tang who's taken care of him for so many years.
- VP Zhong! - Speak.
City People's Hospital's Department Head Wu called
and said President Tang's situation isn't very good.
Aunt.
Aunt?
Xiao Ning.
Don't call me "aunt".
I'm not your aunt.
You... You should all leave.
I want to speak to Hao Hao.
Leave.
We'll leave.
Hao Hao, please sit. Sit.
Okay.
You should be called Tang Hao.
You are my older brother's child.
I am your blood-related aunt.
Can you call me "aunt"?
Can you?
If you call me "aunt"...
Aunt.
I can...tell you the secret.
What secret?
Hao Hao.
You...you are...
...our...Tang family's...
...heir. Only you are...
...my Older Brother's real son.
Aunt.
Aunt will definitely tell you
the secret that even they don't know.
No matter what Dai Bo's intentions are for telling Xia Yun to come back,
think of a way to hide her. Don't let her attend court, understand?
I don't want new problems to spring up unexpectedly.
I understand, Older Cousin. This time,
I will definitely do everything properly.
Why can't you let them be in here?
This...has no relations with them.
It's only related to you.
Think about it, Tang Ning is now Zhong Ke Ming's daughter.
Dai Bo is also Zhong Ke Ming's lawyer.
They...can't listen.
What is it really?
Hao Hao.
Do you know...you and Tang Ning...
...why you two were swapped?
You know why?
I think...I know.
Say it, who did it?
Zheng Yi Jian.
It was your...fake father.
Why would he have to do that?
He...he hates Zhong Ke Ming. He hates...
...he...
Aunt, let's not talk about this for now.
- You need to rest. - No...
Aunt.
Let me...finish what I need to say.
Don't say any more.
You need to know...who the insider is.
You need to find him quickly. His name is...
...his name is Xue...Xue...Xue Han Zhi. Quickly.
- Xue Han Zhi? - Hao Hao.
Quickly find him. Quickly, quickly.
Yes. Doctor! Doctor!
Doctor!
Older Brother, I've...
...I've found your child for you.
Zhong Ke Ming, just you wait,
our Hao Hao will fight you until the end.
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♫ Because love is the most fragile line of defense ♫
Mom!
♫ In the end, hate became the last outcome ♫
♫ I defenselessly melted into love ♫
♫ I became the amber of tears, hanging on your necklace ♫ Mom!
♫ Selfish love is too sweet that it becomes salty ♫
♫ Uneasy hate is thrown out of my dictionary ♫
♫ I am helplessly frozen into love ♫
♫ I became the crystal of ice, piercing your eyes ♫
♫ We are both lost on the edges of the world ♫
♫ A consensus is like positively and negatively charged electricity ♫
♫ If tightly connected, it can brighten the loneliness of night ♫
♫ The flames of a broken wire can momentarily be destroyed ♫
♫ We are both lost on the edges of the world ♫
♫ Chasing after each other is like the black and white keys of a piano ♫
♫ If closely dependent on each other, it can produce the theme of love ♫
♫ How can parted strings perform the sound of joy and sorrow? ♫
♫ Selfish love is too sweet that it becomes salty ♫
♫ Uneasy hate is thrown out of my dictionary ♫
♫ I am helplessly frozen into love ♫
♫ I became the crystal of ice, piercing your eyes ♫
If I didn't receive that weird letter...
♫...piercing your eyes ♫
If I didn't come back...
♫ We are both lost on the edges of the world ♫
If I didn't go after the inheritance...
Aunt and Uncle...
...wouldn't have gone against each other and became enemies.
♫ If tightly connected, it can brighten the loneliness of night ♫
This family wouldn't have become torn apart either.
♫ We are both lost on the edges of the world ♫ Aunt...Aunt wouldn't have left so early either.
♫ Chasing after each other is like the black and white keys of a piano ♫
Have I done something wrong?
♫ How can parted strings perform the sound of joy and sorrow? ♫
This wasn't your fault. In this world,
a lot of things had their original causes and consequences. He Ya Yin,
Zhong Ke Ming are your parents.
You being swapped and being sent to the Tang family,
these can't be blamed on to you.
Then who should be blamed?
Blame your fathers, Zhong Ke Ming.
♫ Chasing after each other is like the black and white keys of a piano ♫
If my Mom was still alive, she could continue to sue my Dad in court.
But...she has already left. What should I do?
Should I sue my Dad alone?
No, no. Let me tell you.
You won't be able to win the lawsuit. You have no way to win.
Tang Ye Corporation's shares are the married couple's shared property.
Why can't I win?
My Mom has left a will. All of Tang Ye Corporation's shares belong to me.
If Zheng Hao is the legal inheritor,
then the will and the shares your mom left...
...will need to be returned to Zheng Hao.
Where's Zheng Hao?
Since my Mom's memorial service yesterday, I have not seen him.
Tang Ning.
Have you contacted Zheng Hao?
Zheng Hao, do you still remember,
the Yu Fen Li's relocation case that I mentioned?
I remember, you were the judge for that case.
That case was related to my Dad, Zheng Yi Jian...
...and Zhong Ke Ming.
Right. Look, this place was the original Yu Fen Li.
After the relocation, this place became
the biggest and grandest hotel in Shanghai at the time.
But at the time, demolition had no demolition fee.
If Yu Fen Li wanted to demolish, according to regulations,
they should relocate their people first before demolishing.
Was it Tang Ye New Town?
20 years ago, those were new houses.
But because of them cutting corners with materials and poor labor, in Gang Jun Gong's Tang Ye New Town,
foundation subsidies, walls cracking,
slanting and all kinds of serious quality problems happened.
That's not it, it's even more serious now.
That's why, the civilians wanted to sue them.
They hired Lawyer Zheng Yi Jian and his two disciples,
Zhong Ke Ming and Xue Han Zhi.
What happened next?
Then, I was the judge in this case.
No, I can't say it was just this one case, I should say,
judging all 108 cases together.
Honestly,
I really sympathise with the civilians who relocated.
The most who took the worst of it was still your father. He was arrested.
They said he committed an assault crime. In the end,
he didn't get sentenced but his lawyer license was still withdrawn.
What happened that year? How did something like this happen?
I heard someone betrayed him.
Who was it?
About this...I can't be certain either.
There were a lot of rumours at the time. Some say it was Xue Han Zhi,
others also said it was Zhong Ke Ming.
Zheng Hao, listen to me,
if you want to find out what happened that year,
you must think of a way to get Zhong Ke Ming's diary.
Zhong Ke Ming's diary?
That's right.
An insider told me,
Zhong Ke Ming has a habit of writing in a diary.
No wonder I couldn't find you, it was because so much has happened.
Tang Li Qun said, we got swapped when we were born
because of Zheng Yi Jian's doing. What do you think?
Do you believe her words? What was Zheng Yi Jian's incentive?
His incentive was...
...he hated Zhong Ke Ming.
He hated Zhong Ke Ming.
Was it because of the case Li Zhi Qiang told you about?
I think it's not quite logical.
If it really was Zhong Ke Ming,
who betrayed Zheng Yi Jian, making him lose his lawyer license,
leading him to be unable to be a lawyer. Is that not enough?
It's enough. It's entirely enough.
But Lu Zhi Qiang isn't certain that these were Zhong Ke Ming's doing either.
Contrarily, people are saying that Xue Han Zhi was the betrayer.
Let's take a step back, Zheng Yi Jian is a smart person,
he should have put me...
...put me, Zhong Ke Ming's daughter, in to the depths of the mountains after he took me from the hospital.
So that Zhong Ke Ming could never find me.
Why would he have put me into the Tang family, so that I could become Tang Ji Ye's daughter
to enjoy the grand and wealthy life? Also staying by Zhong Ke Ming's side.
Do you think this is logical?
If Zheng Ji Yan didn't do it...
...then who could it be?
Lu Zhi Qiang also told me something.
He said, Zhong Ke Ming has a habit of writing in a diary.
If we can find Zhong Ke Ming's diary from that year, we can possibly know...
...what happened that year.
How do we look for it? Are you going to steal his diary?
Don't even mention stealing his diary, just looking at his diary without permission is illegal.
I know.
What way is there to make Zhong Ke Ming hand over his diary?
Oh, Zheng Hao. Sit down.
I came because of an issue.
It's the Tang family's inheritance case, right?
No, I am not interested in that.
What did you say?
Tang Ye Corporation is a company worth billions, you're saying you're not interested?
Right now, I only want to know,
who was it and why did they swap Tang Ning and me?
For you to ask me this...you think I know what happened?
Tang Li Qun told me to come find you before she died.
Tang Li Qun said that to you before she died?
Yes.
Zheng Hao, let me tell you, if I knew what happened, I would have confessed it all to Zhong Ke Ming long ago.
I don't want to mention the old wound from those days.
I think Zhong Ke Ming has done some bad things, but I've never had evidence.
What history do you have with Zhong Ke Ming?
Is it related to Tang Ye New Town's relocation in that year?
What was with the assault case? Why did my Dad become crippled from being beaten?
Why did my Dad become imprisoned?
Why did my Dad lose his lawyer license? Why?
You're asking me? You think I know?
Let me tell you, I don't know! I am unable to answer you!
Alright then.
After the loss in the relocation case, the Xie brothers relocation team
and the local civilians became conflicted, right?
My Dad, Zheng Yi Jian,
was beaten into a cripple by someone with a metal pole during that dispute.
Is that right? You were there at the scene.
You know what happened, is that right?
Zheng Hao.
It's not that I don't want to tell you,
it's that Zheng Yi Jian repeatedly remind me,
he didn't want you to know about what happened that year.
Why?
Tang Ning.
Tang Ning?
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Why are you hiding there?
If I weren't born, this world would have been quiet.
I was the one who broke the peace.
Zheng Hao, that's all I can tell you.
So the culprit who injured my Dad was never found.
Who told you all this?
You don't need to mind that.
In the end, why were you and Zhong Ke Ming able to be released,
but my Dad's lawyer license was withdrawn?
Zheng Hao, if you really want to know the truth,
you'll need to find a very crucial piece of evidence.
- What evidence? - Diary.
Whose diary?
Zhong Ke Ming's diary.
if you want to find out what happened that year,
you must think of a way to get Zhong Ke Ming's diary.
Zhong Ke Ming's diary?
That's right.
Zhong Ke Ming really has a diary from that year? You're sure?
I'm sure. Tang Li Qun told me.
♫ The difference between red and black is only one thin line ♫
♫ Blazing regret is better than freezing perfection ♫
♫ I take one step forward and stand on the periphery of blackness ♫
♫ A pile of gray stained the edges of my shoes ♫
♫ The difference between love and hate is only one thin line ♫
♫ A clear end is worse than false lies ♫
♫ I take one step backward and say my farewells to hate ♫
♫ The sound of the word “forever” stabbed my heart ♫
♫ Never believe anybody when they say “forever” ♫
♫ It is just a notion to fool people ♫
♫ Who can promise that they’ve never used this word before? ♫
♫ In the end, they blame the long night for never seeing the next day ♫
♫ Never believe anybody when they say “forever” ♫
♫ It is just an alluring mask ♫
♫ Who can promise that they’ve never heard this word before? ♫
♫ That is only a story found in legends ♫
♫ The world is constantly changing, as are the winds and clouds ♫
♫ I clearly know the danger, yet I’ve fallen for it once again ♫
♫ Never say “forever” ♫