[2011] [Seven years ago]
[Country of Lanya, Hua City Police Station]
Lu Li!
When you enter this door today, you've become a member of Crime Investigation Bureau.
You must be worthy of this police uniform and also of me.
Don't let me think I am mistaken about you.
As a cop, you must know the value of what's in here.
Come. Meet your colleagues.
There's your desk over there.
The curtain came down this afternoon in the People's Intermediate Tribunal Court on
the great trial of the century that had lasted a few months.
Music Department Professor Lu Ziming, also known as the East Island Pervert,
is accused of raping and killing six girls in 1992.
One by one, police showed pictures and information on the age and identity of the six victims,
as well as the time and location where the crimes were committed.
The court hearing lasted eight hours. Prosecution and defense lawyers went through five rounds of questioning
over the evidence presented and whether the accused is guilty.
Lu Li, is it?
I'm Chu Dao.
We'll be on the same team from now on.
In here, it's enough if you wore this uniform three times.
The first time is when you start work.
The second time is when you are promoted.
The third time depends on whether you can endure until your retirement.
If you can endure until then, you can wear it yourself.
If you can't, I'll wear it for you when the time comes.
Sit, sit.
Lu Ziming, of the serial murder case, is found guilty of his crimes.
He may not be paroled for any reason.
Hello, Mom?
How is it? Are your meals better lately?
Of course. Give them money and they will treat you better.
It's no big deal. Money isn't a problem.
My lawsuits are very expensive.
That's right. I'm working on big cases.
Don't you worry.
Mom, let me tell you some good news.
Lu Ziming has been sentenced. Life imprisonment.
He won't be able to get out for the rest of his life.
Bye-bye, Mom.
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♫ Between the city lights ♫
♫ The night is deeper than blood ♫
♫ Blurred years ♫
♫ Pretending to be pure ♫
♫ No hugging, no praying, no smiling ♫
♫ Did not grow up as self-pity ♫
♫ This night sky ♫
♫ Falling ♫
♫ This night sky ♫
♫ My choice is not worth who is sentimental ♫
[Original Sin]
[Episode 11]
Salutation!
Deputy Director Li, this way, please.
Attention!
Who's that? Why are they dressed like that?
Don't speak.
Deputy Director Li Lixing of the Royal Police Department.
Are you Lu Li?
In Long City, I heard that you were very capable.
Now that I meet you in person, I think that was a bit exaggerated.
Three people were killed in a row just by cyanide alone!
I really need to go back and have a good chat
with those people who said you were capable.
We have already searched everywhere. We really did not find any more cyanide.
Do you mean to say the murderer created it these last two days?
Or that you did not search thoroughly?
It was indeed somewhere. A person is dead now!
And... there's no need to report to me.
Go back and tell your Chief Dong!
Everyone is ordered to leave this place immediately.
From today onward, the Royal Police Department is taking over this place!
I'll just ask the criminals a few more questions then I'll take my leave.
Chief Dong, can't I command your people?
No, you can be in charge of whosoever you wish to take charge over.
Chi Zhen.
The reports.
You've been investigating this matter for the past three days and three victims have died.
Bring these reports back and read them like novels.
All of you leave immediately.
Deputy Director Li, thank you for your hard work.
Stop investigating? Are we really not investigating anymore?
Old Shi, get someone to transport the corpse back.
Why are you all still standing here? Go.
Eggy Boy, didn't you say you wanted to go for a holiday in Thailand?
Why aren't you going yet?
Supervisor Lu, you go home, too, and spend time with your daughter.
Where's Chi Zhen?
He has already left because he is in a bad mood after getting reprimanded.
So be it.
We're going back to the station now.
Why are you going back to the station? Go and do what you should be doing.
I have to make a trip to Long City... to clean up the mess you've made.
Senior, I'm really going to Thailand then.
No, Senior!
Deputy Director Li,
I found a button. There's cyanide inside it.
Where'd you find it?
I found it under the table.
Increase the alert level to Level 2 immediately!
Yes.
From now onward, the alert level of Xiangzi Temple International Youth Hostel
has been increased to Level 2.
All of you are no longer just confined for twenty-four
or forty-eight hours, but rather, indefinitely.
All your daily necessities will be issued by us.
And...
if you let anyone else die...
The Royal Police Department has taken away He Xingyu's body.
But we didn't give them the autopsy report.
Old Shi spent the entire night doing the autopsy.
This is the first time I saw
someone alive and well one moment
and he's dead the next. The frame is frozen right there.
You might've run into a lot of those people.
I haven't.
But I thought about Chu Dao.
He died before my eyes.
Did you kill him?
No.
What about your sister?
How did she pass away?
She was just like them. She was killed.
On average, Hua City has forty-eight cases every year.
If more, about fifty or so.
There are fifty cases in one year.
We catch about 50 criminals.
There are another 50 criminals in the second year.
This world didn't change for the better at all.
Once a case arrives, we don't eat, we don't drink, we don't sleep.
Finally, we catch criminals.
The second year, the fifty criminals are still there.
Sometimes I wonder,
what I'm really doing, being a police officer.
It's going to rain again.
It's always been like this.
Rain doesn't wait for people; people don't wait for rain.
I heard from my mom that when my sister was younger, she used to like Hua City's rain.
It rained periodically; almost daily.
When the rain would stop, everything became clean again.
Whether it was a good or a bad situation, it could be restarted.
There's no way to restart.
It's just rain.
There are some dirty things that are temporarily cleaned,
the next day it will be dirty again.
It is still better than not having any rain.
It is still stronger than not having any rain.
You said you didn't want to be a police officer anymore.
Correct. A few thousand years ago, when human beings began to populate the earth,
there were no cops.
The earth continued to rotate, the population increased.
Take me as an example.
The police arrested my sister's murderer.
We can put down our family's stone (burden).
The sense of guilt is lessened. The remorse is also lessened.
You said you can investigate fifty cases in a year.
Then fifty families, those fifty rocks, can be laid down.
The world is already a little more beautiful.
Isn't it so?
[Montessori Preschool since 1986]
[Lu Ziming, return my...]
Who are you?
I'm sorry.
Hurry! Hurry!
Get out here quickly!
I'm coming.
Get out here quickly!
There were people killed again?
Do you really want those people to die, huh?
No matter who did it,
don't attempt to sneak behind me to play your dirty tricks.
I'll give you all thirty minutes to clean up and eat breakfast.
We have to question you all one by one.
It's almost four thousand kilometers from the country of Sen to Hua City.
Did you come here to find your boyfriend?
Isn't it too much of a coincidence?
Dating is one of the things that matters to me the most.
Do you not believe the same thing?
There's something even more important, continue.
What I really want to do is to kill somebody,
but someone always beats me to it.
I want to kill right now,
but you people put all the equipment away.
Even the forks and knives are plastic at this point,
how do you want me to kill?
Don't talk about what you want to do,
talk about what you've already done.
Three people were killed; who exactly did you kill?
I had nothing to do with those three's death.
But I always suspect someone wants to kill me.
The biggest suspect is Wei Qiang.
On that day he clearly stated he wanted to kill me while we were in front of the others.
You've just stated it.
It doesn't matter who wants to kill you,
you better give it to me straight.
Who killed He Xingyu, Napa and Guan Zhiyuan?
Do you think that there's this kind of possibility where,
Guanzi Yuan killed Napa;
while Hexing Yu killed Guanzi Yuan?
Then what about Hexing Yu?
Did Napa's spirit return and kill him?
You're lying.
I'm just providing some examples of what I think happened.
What nonsense are you talking about?
It's true. I can really earn four thousand dollars a month.
My cousin told me himself.
This is not the nonsensical part.
You are not a builder at all!
Yes, I wasn't a builder in the past.
I was a bricklayer in my old village.
But I am really a builder now.
My cousin said I should not have any problems.
He said if the boss should ask anything,
just say that the Weizhao Building was built by our construction team.
You look very familiar to me.
You have already asked me once just now.
You've mistaken me for someone else.
Aren't you supposed to be resting? Why are you back here?
I'm not the only one back. Supervisor Lu, Chi Zhen,
and Eggy Boy, also, returned from Thailand.
Let's have a look.
What is he doing here?
Deputy Director Li questioned the suspects the whole day, but he didn't get anything.
Instead, he asked us for information.
Tell Lu Li that in the future, he need not be bothered with people from Headquarters;
ignore them regardless of what they might want.
If anything should happen, I'll answer for it.
Do all of you have a notebook and pen?
Since I did not gain any information from questioning all of you,
and none of you would tell me the truth, then, you will have to write.
Those who killed someone, write down the process of how you did it.
Those who didn't kill anyone, write down what you saw and heard these last few days.
Recall carefully.
Do not miss out any details.
Except for the murderer, none of you would probably want to become the next target.
Now, I'm giving you sufficient time.
Do your writing here.
This is not torturing for a confession.
This is helping you to recall.
As to how long it takes for you to write, it will depend on when
someone becomes conscientious and tells the truth.
Are we going to just stand here and write?
What am I going to write? I didn't do it. What can I write?
Just write whomever you suspect.
Builder...
are you going to write about me?
It depends. I have my own thoughts.
Aren't you on leave?
You can't bear to be away for even one day.
Why are you looking for me in such a hurry?
Are you asking me to watch a movie with you?
If not, we'll go for a picnic.
I'm thinking about why Li Lixing was brought here.
Who knows?
I don't know your rules. Isn't it that Royal Police can intervene if a certain number of people are killed?
That is not a problem.
But I'm thinking,
it's not normal for someone in such a high position such as the deputy director of a department
to intervene.
He could've controlled us like puppets.
Yet, he still turns up.
Correct. So, there's a problem here.
What is he doing here?
Let's go back to the station first.
- Old Gao, brought a present for you. - Thank you.
Senior, bought a book for you.
Brother Zhen.
So, I didn't take care of you in vain.
How is the progress with that pretty Thai girl you met on the internet?
Do you even need to ask? You'll know just by looking at the color of his shirt.
What is it? Didn't go smoothly?
You can tell us anything. We're all your brothers.
I'll tell you, but please don't tell the others.
Please don't say anything, Senior.
Previously, didn't I take a fancy to a girl from Thailand?
I met her on the internet. Her name is Lisa. All of you know about it.
So, I went to Bangkok this time to look for her.
Do you believe in love at first sight?
That feeling that it is fated in life?
When we were together, we talked and watched movies.
Everything went well.
When it was nighttime, she suddenly told me that...
suddenly told me that
she had just completed her change to a woman last month.
Then, is she the type who's suitable to be a wife?
I really did hesitate for a moment.
What did you hesitate about?
She looked so enchanting.
As I was looking at her,
I gritted my teeth,
but I really couldn't do it!
That's to say, during your trip to Thailand this time,
you broke up with this ladyboy?
Didn't we agree that you wouldn't laugh about it?
No, what are you laughing at?
It's very normal for young people to encounter setbacks.
It's normal. Anyone can end up in this situation.
No, aren't you all done yet?
Don't laugh. Don't laugh.
What happened after that? Your trip to Thailand was just like that?
What could I do?
She knew where I stayed and the room number, too. I didn't dare go back.
It's such a pity to leave Thailand when I had arrived only for a day.
So, I went to look for Napa's parents, to offer them my condolences.
So I went over. Her parents were very sad.
Then, they gave this photo to me and asked me to offer my condolences to her husband.
I had such a shock when I saw this photo.
He Xingyu?
I remember who he is now.
I finally remember who he is.
Generally, I will remember people I meet. Because I only saw his photo,
at that time, he asked me to handle a lawsuit for him.
It was in Long City.
When I read the case notes, I thought it was a dead case and there was no way to win it.
So, I turned him down with the excuse that Long City was too far away and traveling was not convenient.
Why was it a dead case? Why didn't you think you could win?
That year, a couple from Australia went to look for him for help in purchasing a house.
He was quite a good real estate agent.
They were interested in a house, of which all the conditions were quite good.
So, he suggested to them that they should pay for the house in full,
and not let the bank take any advantage of them.
The Australian couple trusted him very much.
As a result, on the day before the house was to be handed over,
he visited them in their home as usual. Then he started making inquiries about their well-being,
like how was the water and electrical supplies to their house.
But he brought a woman with him that day. It was probably Napa.
Right after they entered the house, they overtook the Australian couple and tied them to chairs.
They tortured them for the code to their safe box.
Because it contained the money for the transaction next day.
After two days, they still did not give up the code.
The old couple continued to hold out, so they kept tormenting them.
Finally, they tormented them to death.
Because they couldn't open the safe box, they flew into a rage.
They took away all the valuables from the house,
like all the plates and utensils made of silver,
and including wines that were in their collection, too.
They even took away the robot vacuum.
The irony of it all was that it was this robot vacuum which exposed their location in the end.
Apparently, there was a GPS inside the vacuum.
When they got to his house following the GPS,
only He Xinyu was alone at home.
Napa should have gone back to her country.
After he was arrested, He Xingyu wouldn't say a single word.
But there was a point that really shocked me.
When they were torturing the Australian couple,
he actually went back to his agency the next day
and pretended that this Australian couple was coming to pay the money very soon.
He waited for them there, until
the boss and all his staff thought that he was being stood up.
What I don't understand about this is:
it was obviously a dead case with both the witness and evidence present.
Why did the court find him not guilty and release him?
And besides, now he shows up in Hua City?
Let's go. Let's make a trip to Long City.
Let's go and meet the lawyer who was responsible for this case that year.
Is your sister's last name also Chi?
Why are you suddenly asking this?
Files will be archived at the end of the year.
Do you want me to check it?
My sister's last name was Lee, she was named after my mom.
It's already the fifth evening.
After killing Napa and He Xingyu, would the murderer kill anyone else?
Husband and wife. He Xingyu and Napa were husband and wife.
Why did they come to Hua City?
Why did they live in a youth hostel? Why did they pretend to not know each other?
Also, they arrived separately.
He Xingyu was the second to arrive. Next, is Cheng Fei then Feng Tingting.
After her, was Wei Qiang.
Napa is the sixth one.
I wasn't there the day she died. What was the condition then?
- What condition? - Napa was his wife.
He allowed Guan Ziyuan to grope her all over?
Did he look upset when she died?
Did he react at all?
He seems to be cold-blooded. Not much of a reaction.
Selfish.
He wanted to escape from the hostel.
So he pretended that he didn't know her.
He knew that day he was in a trap.
He was more desperate than us to find out who the killer was.
Later on, he figured it out.
But it was too late.
My older sister was killed by a teacher from her school.
Raped and killed.
Before all of that, she had wanted to study overseas. Also, she had a boyfriend.
If it wasn't for this incident,
she should've had a wonderful life.
She could've been happy.
I don't know who I need to seek for this revenge.
[Long City] - Officers, please this way.
Actually, I'm quite grateful to He Xingyu.
Not to him personally. As a person, he was scum.
But I'm grateful for his case.
Without that case of his,
today I wouldn't have so many people working with me.
Come this way, please.
Officers, here are the files from that case.
Thinking back on this case, it seems all a haze now.
At the time it was even muddier.
When I accepted this case, I thought no doubt we'd lose.
But on the day the trial began, we had a huge plot twist:
the witness didn't appear, the evidence became invalidated,
He Xingyu was released.
I won without knowing what was happening.
- I had not even started the defense. - Who was the witness?
This case had two key witnesses.
One was the manager of He Xingyu's real estate agency.
In the interval, He Xingyu had gone back to the agency
and that manager had seen blood stains on his shirt.
The other witness was the Australian couple's housekeeper, Zhang Lin.
Apparently, on that day, she'd opened the door and seen inside,
but she was scared so she only reported it after several days.
Why didn't they appear to testify?
Because they died.
Both of them.
The agency manager was walking outside of a building and got crushed by a falling air conditioner.
The housekeeper had a car accident on the day she was going to court;
she was run over.
Looks like they will die regardless.
You know, it's too much of a coincidence.
Are you suspecting that it was someone sent by He Xingyu?
The police aren't that stupid. They investigated for over two months.
There was no connection with him. It was just a regular accident.
Was the name of the officer in charge of this case at the time Li Lixing?
Ah, yes, yes, yes.
I heard that he was promoted up to Deputy Director.
So, you see,
this Li Lixing is not capable. You saw, the other day,
when he saw us, he made such a fuss about his authority.
It's clearly a murder
and he managed to investigate it into a hit-and-run.
And he still said my report was a novel.
I just have the surveillance video here.
That Deputy Director Li checked it frame by frame a lot of times.
He didn't find any lead.
Here.
Let me ask you.
In your law firm here, how much money can you make in one month?
For real?
Don't you feel a thread of shame in your heart?
Is it this one?
Oh, right. Look.
It's just this silver car.
I heard that this car was stolen. The thief hasn't been found yet.
They checked the car owner; he wasn't the one driving that day.
This is the whole unrolling of when Zhang Lin was run over.
How can this be an accident?
This is an obvious murder.
Barrister Wei, can I use your computer a moment?
Sure, please.
Look, this is him.
Through this video, the police looked for this man for a long time for over two months.
Nobody knew him.
- I know him. - The killer's next target is him.
Screw it! I shouldn't have come here at all.
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♫ Like not knowing what to do when faced with the vicissitude of being imprisoned ♫
♫ As if those yet-unknown possibilities had also already been discovered, ♫
♫ Hands in my pockets, I face the fierce winds, passing by the road you walked. ♫
♫ Not even this unbelievable cruelty can stop my steps. ♫
♫ Trying to hide my apathetic face, in this incomprehensible world ♫
♫ All my smiles have already been earnestly rehearsed, again and again ♫
♫ I went through innumerable justifications to try to package up my brokenness ♫
♫ And even actively admitted I’ll never be able to come to terms with my own cowardice ♫
♫ Putting on a show in some corner with no regard for my own safety, ♫
♫ Fresh blood ♫
♫ Is burning dry fallen leaves ♫
♫ Forgive me for not making the same mistakes ♫
♫ Illuminating these glittering lights ♫
♫ The road ahead will always be this winding ♫
♫ The instant that the flames consume us, just who will it be ♫
♫ That’s by my side? ♫
♫ Trying to hide my apathetic face, in this incomprehensible world ♫
♫ All my smiles have already been earnestly rehearsed, again and again ♫
♫ I went through innumerable justifications to try to package up my brokenness ♫
♫ And even actively admitted I’ll never be able to come to terms with my own cowardice ♫
♫ Putting on a show in some corner with no regard for my own safety, ♫
♫ Fresh blood ♫
♫ Is burning dry fallen leaves ♫
♫ Forgive me for not making the same mistakes ♫
♫ Illuminating these glittering lights ♫
♫ The road ahead will always be this winding ♫
♫ The instant that the flames consume us, just who will it be ♫
♫ That’s by my side? ♫