Have you ever heard about that
the cliff of a snow mountain
once fascinated numerous people?
Legend has it that,
there were treasures at the peak
but also there was a bottomless chasm hidden over there.
The smart, the fool
and the kind people,
all are familiar to you.
On the mountainside, on the cliff,
on the cloud,
and in the human world,
snowflakes are drifting profusely and disorderly.
Joy of Life Season 1
Episode 17
What did you witness
on the boat on that day?
I didn't see anything.
You're lying.
You know that guy!
No!
No?
That means you did see someone.
Stop asking!
You're daughter of the Chief Guard of the capital city,
but you still dare not
say who it is.
It must be someone
with enormous power.
Fan Xian, stop investigating.
Who is he?
You're new to the capital city
and you don't know well of the situation.
If you don't stop,
your followers, and your family
will be in danger.
It's not that I'm not willing to tell you the truth.
Because I can't put
the whole Ye family at risk.
I understand.
All the clues couldn't be followed up and there is no way out.
This is the only way.
There's only one way out.
Your Excellency,
you'd already promised me to
move these vats away last time.
You always don't come in through the front door.
If I move them away,
how can I know you come in.
Why are you still carrying the case?
Didn't you go home?
I did.
I think I may use it
when I do something for you.
So I take it with me.
Put it down and sit.
Have more.
You prefer bank notes or silver cashes.
Bank notes. They're easy to hide.
The promised fifty taels of silver.
Your Excellency,
what about the ox, the land
and ten pigs
that you've promised to give me?
I have asked people to prepare them for you.
Your Excellency you're always trustworthy
and treat me as your child.
Wang Qinian,
it's a pity you don't do cross talk!
What is cross talk?
Linguistic art.
If it's what you wants me to do,
I can learn.
You don't need to learn it now.
If you're leisure,
have a chat with me.
About what?
Whatever.
Let it be.
Fine. You start it first, please.
How long have you been married?
Seven or eight years.
How old is your daughter?
Under the age of five.
When can I see her?
My little daughter is naughty.
She will scratch anyone she sees.
It's good to be lively as a child.
You're right, Your Excellency.
Where is Si Lili imprisoned?
The dungeon in the Investigator's Office.
Heavily fortified?
Heavily fortified.
You are good at drawing, right?
Yes.
About the entrance and exit to the dungeon in the Investigator's Office
and the guard there,
draw a copy for me.
Your Excellency, these stuffs are…
Leave them alone.
Draw a copy of the entrance and exit
to the dungeon
and the guard conditions.
Your Excellency,
no one can survive from
invading into the dungeon of the Investigator's Office down the ages.
Just draw it for me.
Brother, are you in there?
You mind your own business.
Can I have a minute?
What's up?
I went to meet the Crown Prince today.
I told him
I'm willing to look into
your words and deeds for him.
He wasn't opposed to my idea.
Why did you turn to him?
I want to help you.
In the assassination happened in the Niulan Street,
you almost lost your life.
Now you take the suspect of the assassination,
Si Lili
back to the capital city.
The one who wants to kill you
will take actions for sure.
Are you suspecting that the Crown Prince wants to kill me?
It's not long that you come to the capital city.
You haven't made enemies with the Crown Prince,
except that you beat Guo Baokun
who is one of His Highness's followers.
To kill me for Guo Baokun?
Lack of motivation.
Then he must aim at the financial power of the Neiku.
It's just your baseless conjecture. We are not sure about it.
So I went to meet him
to check whether
he has the absolute intention to kill you.
Can you confirm that?
I can't.
Rumor has it that
the Crown Prince is not as talented as the Second Prince and
he is weak.
As what I have seen today,
he didn't show how he feels on his face
and hid his thoughts deep.
He couldn't be ordinary.
It's too dangerous.
Don't take risks anymore.
Brother, when I went to him today,
he was drawing.
It seemed he was being trapped for love.
How could you say that?
Except what he drew today,
there were many portraits of a lady
without the five sense organs
in his study.
He buried his feelings so deep
that he didn't want anyone to know
who the lady is.
Have you ever heard which lady
the Crown Prince has feelings for?
I never heard
which lady he get close to.
Whoever he likes,
as the Crown Prince,
he isn't supposed to puzzle over that.
What if the lady is a courtesan?
It doesn't matter.
It's nothing but gaining
a dissolute reputation.
He doesn't have to hide.
What if he knows the courtesan
is a secret agent from Beiqi?
Si Lili?
Once someone finds that
the Crown Prince colludes with Beiqi secretly,
the host of the Eastern Palace will be replaced.
The Crown Prince doesn't want to expose
who Si Lili really is.
And he can't get close to her either.
What he can do is bury his feelings
in his drawings.
The story is too dramatic.
Is it a story?
What do you mean by that?
Forget it. Keep saying.
Later,
he heard you slept with
Si Lili for one night.
Your affections drove him crazy.
So he wants to kill you to give vent to his anger
and forces Si Lili to get involved in the case.
He makes you two enemies of life and death
to relieve his deep depression.
Just because of seeing the portraits of a lady,
you make up a complete story at the moment?
It might be the whole story.
Your Excellency.
I'm here.
Your Excellency.
I have finished the copy
and written down
where the guards
and invisible sentries may stay for you.
Lady Ruoruo, you're here.
What copy? What about invisible sentries?
Brother, what are you going to do?
You have known I'm going to take actions tonight?
I knew it when you asked me
to draw the copy this afternoon.
Why are you waiting for me here?
The rope of the hook
is made of hairs and spider web.
It can't be broken easily
and is excellent for climbing over the wall.
I can climb walls with my unique inner power.
I don't have to use it.
This is the dizzy incense
that is best for using in a small room.
I learned to poison from a child.
I can make it myself.
The shoe sole is made of cotton
that is best for walking on
roofs and tiles at night.
You are here for selling goods?
Not selling. I will give them to you.
It's not like you.
Your Excellency,
invading into the dungeon, you will be sentenced to death if you are caught.
I have a family.
Please forgive me for not going with you.
It will be good
if these things can help.
Pack them up.
No no no.
I have other things.
If I am arrested,
they can find you out
because of these things.
That makes sense.
Thanks.
Don't let anyone know you have seen me.
Now I probably know
why you want to
change the world.
A life was taken away,
but no one cares
just because he was a guard,
and he deserved the death.
We meet again.
Why are you here?
It's urgent. No more nonsense.
Tell me who on earth wants to kill me.
Take me out of here.
I will.
Tell me who he is,
I will save you.
You don't trust me?
Mr. Fan, why not turn your back to have a look first.
Si Lili is the secret agent from Beiqi
but colludes with the Capital Garrison.
The commander of the Capital Garrison died.
He was supposed to be killed.
We can know the person who demanded to kill
must be paramount and powerful.
Now Si Lili returns to the capital city.
You guess what's going on?
Kill her.
The Investigator's Office has already
set ambushes everywhere.
Fan Xian,
the moment you stepped on the Tianhe Street,
I had already got the report.
So, that you let me in is
to arrest me like catching a turtle in the jar…
Wait, allow me to change a word.
You want to arrest me like beating…
If you want to know the truth,
why don't you interrogate Si Lili by yourself?
You're the chief interrogator.
Me?
It's the key to her cell.
You'll take care of the case of Si Lili.
No matter what decision you will make,
the Investigator's Office
will support you to the end.
Why did you force me to leave at noon?
You hold no official position and is powerless.
The person involved dares to kill commander.
If he knows you are the chief interrogator of Si Lili,
it will do harm to you.
Keeping me out of the affair in public
is actually to protect me.
What if I didn't come tonight?
The Investigator's Office has nothing to do with you from now on.
Who on earth are you?
Why does the Investigator's Office value you so much?
What you should worry about now
is your own fate.
I don't understand
why you protect him to this extent.
It's what the Head asks me to do.
You have been communicating with the Head
through secret letters.
That's why the black knights
came so timely.
When will the Head return to the capital city?
Soon.
Why does the Head value
Fan Xian so much?
Why not ask him in person?
Yan Ruohai,
have you known some secrets?
I only do what I have been told.
Your Excellency,
a invisible sentry sent messages back,
saying someone is approaching secretly.
There's really someone who wants to kill her.
Have you heard it clearly?
Your fate will
be decided by me.
I get it.
Then tell me the whole story about
the assassination
in the Niulan Street.
I'm from Beiqi and ordered to lurk.
And I have the right to invoke fellows in the capital city.
I'm restricted to nothing
except for the royal orders.
So, you mean it's the Beiqi royal family
that wants to kill me.
Mr. Fan, although you are endowed with civil and martial virtues,
I'm afraid you don't have the status.
So,
what's the truth?
Someone found that
I am a secret agent.
Have you disclosed some clues?
Not exactly.
Chen Jushu, who lurked outside the capital city
was also caught by him
and sent to the capital city secretly.
But the traces of Cheng Jushu
were only available
to big shots in Beiqi.
Big shots of Beiqi were involved in the case?
Then who else could disclose
my identity?
And then?
Chen Jushu is obstinate and unruly,
so, the guy came to the Joy Tsin House
and forced me to hand out the token of a secret agent.
If I didn't obey what he said,
he would disclose my identity.
Would Cheng Jushu obey the order,
if he saw the token?
Exactly.
I didn't know the one he wanted to kill
was you the other day.
Later I heard the Niulan Street assassination,
I got to know that I wouldn't make it,
so I burned the boat and left the capital city.
And then
I got caught up by you.
There is one point that doesn't make sense.
Now that that guy could
catch Cheng Jushu, the Eighth Dan Martial Arts Master of Beiqi alive,
why did he make the unnecessary move?
Why not come to kill me in person?
I guess
they don't want to use their followers
to avoid releasing the clues.
When you met that guy,
was there anyone eavesdropping?
How do you know that?
There really was a lady
who made a noise outside the window at that time.
The two disciples of Si Gujian
forced one of her to fall into the Liujing River
with their swords.
I didn't know who the lady was,
because her face was covered with sleeves.
I couldn't see her trace after the salvage, either.
What matters the most is
who wants to kill me.
Let me leave the capital city,
and I'll tell you who he is.
I can't just let you go.
The most I can do is keep you alive.
I'd rather die than years be held in captivity.
Staying alive promises hope, right?
I don't want to stay alive in this way.
You won't tell me?
I won't.
Whatever moves you have,
then use them.
I won't torture you with cruel penalties.
You're soft-hearted?
Besides,
I will tell you
what I'm going to do.
Except putting me to torture,
what else can you do?
To be honest,
I have no idea
how many floors the dungeon has.
You can go ask first.
I will ask someone to dig
a small enough dark room
under the deepest floor
for you to live alone.
It doesn't sound horrible.
What do you think is better to be kept there?
In such a narrow
and retired place,
merely designed for reserving things.
There will be no light
and sound
but the endless darkness and silence.
Trust me,
no one can stay
in such a place like that.
I can choose to die.
At least, I can commit suicide.
Take one,
you will be poisoned to death immediately.
I have offered you the chance to choose.
Either
you spend the rest of your life in the place under the deep ground,
or
I don't mind you
poisoning yourself to death in front of me.
If I die,
you will never know
who the guy is.
Do as you wish.
Take it.
What are you hesitating for?
Isn't death what you want?
Take it.
Si Lili, you won't poison yourself.
If you want to die,
you'd have killed yourself
when black knights appeared outside the capital city.
When I went downstairs,
I saw you there alone,
locked in the cage
without messy hairs.
You should have tidied yourself up.
How can a person
who cares that much about her appearance
will be willing to die?
Si Lili, you're so young
that you have too many hopes.
You'll get to know one day,
hope
is the most horrible thing
in this world.
Fan Xian,
you're a monster.
You're wrong.
I never eat my words.
You tell me the name,
I will keep you alive.
If I tell you the name,
how would you know whether I'm telling the truth?
I can judge for myself.
Fine.
I tell you the name.
Don't send me to the Ministry of Penalty.
Don't let me suffer these tortures.
Don't let anyone else humiliate me.
I will keep my words.
Aren't you afraid of me lisping my tongue to death?
Do you dare?
It's you, again.
Your Excellency Zhu, Your Excellency Yan.
To tell you the truth,
I return to
take my stuff.
I haven't imagined that
our Investigator's Office is
fortified so heavily.
Good. It's great.
What do you want to take?
Your Excellency,
there are some bank notes
hidden in some of my office-copies
with postils
on the desk of my room.
Hide bank notes in the office-copies?
Your Excellency, you don't know the situation.
My wife always
frisks me
in an extremely thorough way.
So,
I can only choose some other ways to hide my stuffs.
Go search his room.
As you wish.
You see.
Fan Xian, don't investigate it anymore.
Don't tell anyone the truth
I investigate you for.
If someone else questions you,
you can say you're the secret agent of Beiqi.
Don't tell anyone
what the guy forces you into.
But if someone asks me
what you talked with me,
what should I answer?
There must be some other secret agents in the capital city.
Give him some names.
Choose those who don't get along well with you.
Tell him this is all that
I have found today.
You hide everything
to protect that guy?
I want you to trust me.
I am the only one
who is willing to keep you alive
in the capital city now.
Fine.
The bank note belongs to me.
Thank you, Your Excellency.
Wang Qinian.
How is the interrogation going?
She has admitted that
she is the secret agent from Beiqi.
We have already known it.
This is the list of names of those
Beiqi secret agents who are hiding in the capital city.
Anything else?
That's all.
You really got something.
Leave the rest to me.
Wait.
What's wrong?
I have promised to let her go.
You promised?
No killing, no interrogating.
No torturing.
Just lock her in the dungeon.
Fan Xian, do you think you have
the right to make the decision?
He does have.
It's what the Head asks him to do.
The follow-up to Si Lili's case
will be handed over to Fan Xian.
Interrogate harder and harder.
Interrogate harder.
We must be able to find out something.
It's the Head's decision.
My plan is really simple.
Lock her inside.
Don't let anyone bother her.
One more thing,
don't let anyone know
that I have already interrogated her.
Do as you wish.
Your Excellency, what do you think?
It's the Head's decision.
Can I take him away?
It's up to you.
Let's go, Wang.
You said you wouldn't come with me, didn't you?
I couldn't help
but come here to check it out.
Wang Qinian, you're a good man.
What are you laughing at?
I never thought I would be the one
to send you
the Good Man Card.
What is the Good Man Card?
Nothing.
Nothing will happen tonight. You can go home.
Your Excellency, have you found out any clues?
You guys.
Listen to me.
Keep what I say in mind.
Later when you go outside in the street,
use all your strength to
ring drums and gongs.
Use all your strength.
You who beat drums
don't stop
until you break your drums.
And you who beat small cymbals
should make it louder than big cymbals.
And you who beat big cymbals should make it louder than gongs.
Are you clear?
Fan Sizhe.
You're running wild again.
Sister, I'm not.
I'm intending to help Fan Xian.
Fan Xian says
he's going to meet my future sister-in-law.
He asks me to
make a greater show of power.
This is magnificent.
Turn around, you guys.
Brother.
I went to Wan'er's place yesterday
and was stopped by her second brother.
I guess it must be because of me sneaking
into Wan'er's room.
I pondered over it for the whole night
and finally figured it out.
I'd better go there in public
in this way and at an open and frank attitude.
I will please him
and transfer his anger to happiness.
Isn't it magnificent enough?
A wedding ceremony won't be better than this.
Not to mention him sneaking in,
now he goes so far as to
come here with ringing gangs and drums.
If I don't split him to death,
I will give up my fame.
The ones using long weapons guard outside.
Those who are good at hidden weapons burn his bridge.
Don't be flustered.
Kill him as soon as he steps into the courtyard.
I will face the music
after he dies.
Let him in
but give him little chance of going back.
Dismiss.
As you wish.
Fan Xian, from the Fans mansion,
goes specially to the imperial residence
to visit the Princess.
This a great story on everybody's lips.
Hope everyone can join us to celebrate for him.
Bravo.
Fan Sizhe is really gregarious.
Brother,
Mr. Lin is the second brother
of the sister-in-law after all.
I know it.
You went to her boudoir secretly.
It's natural that he got angry.
So I go there in public this time.
It's no better than sneaking.
Is it?
If you do it like this,
it seems like you show disrespect
to Mr. Lin.
Do you think so?
You didn't do this on purpose, did you?
On purpose for what?
You go there in public deliberately to
deceive the public
and relax their vigilance
by the farce with Mr. Lin.
Why would I do this?
Could it be that you've found clues
to the case happened in the Niulan Street?
Brilliant.
Is that so?
It's not proper to talk about this now I will tell you the details later.
Ruoruo,
you can't go any further.
Or…
I'll wait here for you.
Okay.
Second brother,
Second brother, why do you have to create tension?
This bastard Fan Xian, his motive is execrable.
Why does he come here
aggressively?
Because I don't let him see you.
Your identity can't be known by the public.
Now he makes
everyone know it deliberately.
He wants to force me to retreat
without interfering
in the name of the Prime Minister.
Fine.
I won't show up to stop him.
I'll let him in.
Once he comes in,
he won't have the chance to go back.
Second brother, why do you have to do this?
Second brother.
Her Highness is as gorgeous as a goddess.
I, Fan Xian, have been adoring her for long.
Since we have the marriage contract,
I should have the chance to meet her.
Am I right?
Let him in. Let him in. Let him in.
Let him in.
Let him in. Let him in. Let him in.
Let him in. They should meet each other.
Thank you for coming here.
Thanks.
Thank you.
Let him in.
Let him in. Let him in.
Let him in.
We make it.
You should leave!
The Second Young Master is going to kill you.
To think it over,
it's ridiculous to come here today in this way.
I'll see you again.
She's lying to me.
Second Young Master.
What's up?
As you have ordered,
we surrounded Fan Xian
as soon as he stepped into the courtyard.
We didn't imagine that
he is so crafty.
He climbed over the wall and ran away
after exchanging several blows with us.
We didn't chase him anymore.
Trash!
Back off!
As you wish.
Brat!
Is he a psycho?
He came here with great fanfare
but left without hesitation.
What on earth does he want?
He is not supposed to
go against you.
He has gone too far!
Second brother,
It's His Majesty
who ordered us to get engaged.
But you're a daughter
of the Prime Minister.
We don't have connections in public.
Wan'er.
You know the identity of our father.
He can't accept you in public.
And he has a guilty conscience.
I know it.
Though he doesn't speak it out loud,
you're still the daughter of the Lin family.
A man like Fan Xian doesn't
deserve you.
Second brother,
you have just met him for several times,
why do you make such a judgement?
This is what our father wants.
He has already prepared the office-copy well
and will choose a right time to report to His Majesty in person
and ask him to call off the marriage contract.
Whatever messes Fan Xian makes,
he won't be able to change the overall situation.
He won't get a chance to marry you.
I've just heard that you went to find Wan'er.
Why are you here?
The same question I asked you last time.
Who was the guy
staying with Si Lili
in the Joy Tsin House the other day?
No matter how many times you ask me, I won't say anything.
He is Lin Gong.
He is the second son of the Lin family.
Lin Gong.
I have known the answer
through your eyes.
It's him.
How could it be him?
How do you know that?
I didn't believe it
when I first heard
the name.
Since I don't have a feud with him,
so I roughly investigated
his background.
I drew a simple conclusion that
the Second Young Master of the Prime Minister Mansion
is one of the flat-out followers
of the Crown Prince.
And
this is the reason why
you don't dare to tell me the truth.
The Ye family has the support of the Great Master,
so the son of Prime Minister doesn't
mean anything to you.
But when it comes to the Crown Prince, the situation is different.
If you offend the Crown Prince,
the status of the Ye family in the Nanqing
will be at risk.
You know that
the Crown Prince is the future emperor of the Nanqing.
No matter who asks me about this question,
I won't admit that
the one I met the other day was Lin Gong.
I understand.
What I want is the truth.
I won't make you testify for me.
Fan Xian.
Just forget it.
You shouldn't go any further.
If no one died,
I would be willing to let it go.
Cheng Jushu was killed by you.
He is not the real murderer.
But the man died is just a guard.
Everyone says the same thing.
It really
makes me furious the most.
Have I said anything wrong?
Does the guard have another identity?
No, he doesn't. He is just a guard.
People in the whole world take him as nobody.
I don't agree with them.
What else can you do?
Thanks for telling me the truth.
Wan'er, take care of yourself
and don't be bothered by these things.
Since His Majesty ordered Fan Xian to leave Danzhou,
he must have made up his mind.
Father and I will take care of these.
His Majesty won't allow us to
call off the marriage contract,
even though father submits the memorials.
The result won't change.
There is always a way.
Don't worry.
I won't put you at risk.
But I'm willing to marry him.
You're deceived by
the sweet words of that brat.
He really has a glib tongue
and doesn't behave seriously sometimes,
but the expression in his eyes is really pure.
Second brother,
I don't know what has happened
between you two,
but he is definitely not a flibbertigibbet.
What kind of man he is
doesn't matter now.
Maybe he is a good man,
or maybe as you say,
he is sincere.
But he isn't supposed to come to the capital city.
Many people have been staring at him.
What do you mean?
In the river of history,
time goes round and round.
Memories about the former and present lives
join each other in an endless way.
In the long drunken Milky Way,
one season follows another in a flash,
and the wild geese are flying south.
I just can't give up
to be with you for my whole life.
I have been hovering in the dreams for hundreds and thousands of times.
I can't even say a word when I watch the flowers falling.
Year after year in the wandering,
I count the remaining years.
Even though we can't meet each other anymore,
even though we have ended up the destiny,
I never feel regretful.
In such a chaotic world,
I still miss you as ever.
I can't fall asleep under the moon.
With a gentle heart,
I cherish our remaining years.
Even though we have to go through
all the hardships along the journey,
you always stay by my side,
watching the falling flowers, speechlessly.
Year after year in the wandering,
I count the remaining years.
Even though we can't meet each other anymore,
even though we end up the destiny,
I never feel regretful.
In such a chaotic world,
I still miss you as ever.
I can't fall asleep under the moon.
With a gentle heart,
I cherish our remaining years.
Even though we have to go through
all the hardships along the journey,
you always stay by my side...