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CEO Li, to be frank with you, I really do not need money nowadays.
The money I can make from selling my company will allow me to live for several centuries.
Therefore, money is not an issue. I only want to do something good.
Look, how about we sell our game to your company for five years?
In the five years, you can do what you want.
Free to play? Fine.
Only giving out one knife every 888th rank? Fine as well.
What happens next?
Ten thousand more levels await them.
For level three thousand and higher, to level up once, you have to spend hundreds...
I can continue the contract but I do not want to talk about money.
We need to sign an addendum contract.
In the entire video game, the player no longer needs to
spend money to buy equipment, skins, or anything else.
Or else the discussion is over.
The four of you sold this video game.
Can you make decisions for the rest?
In addition, Huang Jialun and Gu Xingwei already died.
You need to give money to compensate their family members.
I will take care of their family members. I don't need you to worry about this.
Don't try to target me.
Do you see the two security guards behind me?
National Martial Arts Champions.
I can also tell you that I've written up my will.
If I die during this contract renewal period, regardless of how normal I die,
the most likely suspect is you.
Let me report to the Chairman first.
All right, CEO Lee, you make the phone call. I will use the bathroom.
You stay outside and wait for me.
It's taking so long.
Let's go inside for a look.
CEO He.
Call the police immediately.
♫ 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 15]
Supervisor Lu.
Who are these two people?
They are He Yunfei's bodyguards.
The one on the left is actually a National Martial Arts Champion.
Your two were standing outside unknowingly while your boss died inside the bathroom.
He said he didn't need us while he was using the bathroom.
Where is Old Shi?
He is examining inside.
Martial Arts Champion?
It's troublesome now that your boss died.
I think your company would need to compensate for this.
Roughly estimated at about ¥2,000,000?
But we haven't been paid yet.
Didn't he pay you a salary?
We only worked for fifteen days. Not a month yet.
That's troublesome.
There's a guy named Sun in their company.
This lawyer will definitely give you two a hard time.
He will sue you and ask for compensation.
If that happens, you should come to me. I will help you to handle the matter.
He is a useless scum.
Thank you.
Champion.
Can we open the investigation now? Is this murder?
The knife wound depth is about 20 centimeters.
23 centimeters. It's a normal knife.
The knife penetrated 23 centimeters into the heart. Pierced the left atrium.
Rupturing the pulmonary artery resulting in death by exsanguination.
How was the knife plunged in?
The killer stabbed downwards from above.
- How tall is the killer? - Hard for me to determine.
- Because he was stabbed from above, I can tell you that the killer used their right hand.. - Male or female?
I don't know that. Women can enter the men's bathroom too, no?
I can only confirm that the victim didn't expect a knife and was not on guard.
Not on guard? So they knew each other.
I just told you already.
It was a sudden attack. The victim was taken by surprise.
Is Huang Jialun's body still around?
Now that you just reminded me.
The body has been at the examiner's for several days now. I don't even know what to do with it.
There's no need to ask. He is related to Huang Jialun.
They were roommates in college.
How can that be a coincidence?
Therefore, I am seriously suspecting that Huang Jialun was also murdered. Do you believe me?
There is still the possibility that it's due to an asthma attack.
Bring that stretcher in there.
Let me analyze the case.
Huang Jialun and the others: a total of four people created a video game.
Then they sold this game to Xunda Corporation.
Five years of copyrights to them.
This year is the fifth year. The contract is due to expire.
If they wish to continue to use this game.
Lee Jinxian needs to spend more money.
There's another company called Yulong Corporation.
There is a man called Shen Cheng who also wants this video game.
Therefore, these two companies are competing.
If now, that Youlong company was able to offer a higher price and buy out the game,
maybe the contract wouldn't be renewed, and Li Jinxiang started to get worried. Do you get it?
- Do you understand now? Should we arrest him? - I need to see what kind of person he is first.
Regardless, you need to open the investigation for this case and also Huang Jialun's case.
Huang Jialun died by an asthma attack.
It's already this obvious. Aren't they clearly connected?
Hey!
The company spent ten million to market the game He Yunfei sold to us.
You just said that you don't play video games.
But there are still other people playing.
Young people especially like it.
Even many people older than you.
Video games are similar to drugs.
Once you start playing, all your troubles disappear.
But once you get out of the game,
you will find out that reality is still waiting for you to handle.
And maybe even more matters will require your attention.
Let's talk about the question of copyright authorization.
You have the right for five years. It will expire at the end of the month.
I thought you were going to ask me about what happened to He Yunfei in the bathroom.
This year is the contract renewal year.
Yes, contract renewal year.
Normally speaking for a five year contract, the last year is the most turbulent.
Either renew or terminate the contract.
Or he can sell it to my competitor. Those are all possible.
When all four were alive, I only needed to get four signatures.
When one died, I need three. When two died,
I only need the remaining two's authorization.
What if they all died?
Just like the situation we have now.
Automatic renewal.
We'll gain the rights to the game, after paying some fees to the game copyright associations,
and divide some cut to the families, on their behalf.
If all four were still alive, even if one refused to sign.
it's true that you could not get the copyright?
The supervisor truly deserves to be the supervisor. You understand right away.
Office Chi, please have tea.
Officer Zhen, you too.
Have some tea.
Last week, you let a murderer go free.
Serial.
Serial? A serial one!
My patrol men really didn't know there was someone on the balcony.
That's true. If you knew that a murderer was at the balcony,
would he still have forced us to the ground?
Would he still have twisted your arm?
Would he still have kept us locked up for an entire night?
Then that would be...
- Accessory to the crime. - Accessory.
Sorry, sorry.
Such a big misunderstanding. They were too hasty.
It's here.
Director, the information you requested is ready.
The person who called the police that day was a man.
His phone number is 180-114-7457.
Don't just give me the number.
Also, check for his identity.
Check it.
Brother Zheng, what kind of mentality does a policeman like us have?
Conscience.
That is the awe we have for every life.
For example, now that there's a murder case, they treat us in such a way.
But when there isn't a murder case, they treat us in that other way.
If we were able to capture the murderer that day,
then He Yunfei wouldn't have had to die.
Pour more tea.
I got it.
Liu Jinxiang.
You have sufficient motive for the murderer.
Even if there's a motive,
you still need to show evidence.
Are you here to take me without any evidence?
I am the last person to see He Yunfei.
But he died only after I left the bathroom.
This matter has nothing to do with me.
You need to come up with something new if you want to capture me.
I will tell you something new.
Let me ask you. Where were you on the day Huang Jilun was murdered?
I will tell you. You were on the subway, very close by Huang Jialun.
You watched him suffering from an asthmatic attack and die.
Then immediately went back to his apartment.
Picked his lock to get in, and looked for what you wanted.
What were you looking for?
You wanted to find this.
This is a set of authorization codes.
There are a total of four sets. Each victim had one.
You never expected that I would treat this matter
as a murder case and investigate it. That day, I also showed up at Huang Jialun's home.
When you heard the two of us entering the apartment,
you were trapped there, unable to escape. You could only call the police.
Then you ran to the balcony outside of the bedroom to hide.
Huang Jialun came to us to report a crime, saying that there was a stranger stalking him.
Originally, I thought this reason was ridiculous;
claiming someone was exchanging the figurines' positions.
Later, after I went to his home and saw how a homebody lived,
I was able to confirm that a stranger indeed had gone inside his home.
That stranger is you!
Huang Jialun died because someone messed with his asthma medication.
He Yunfei was killed in the bathroom. Gu Xingwei killed himself for love.
Even though I don't know what you did to him, but just based on trespassing a private residence,
we have the authority to hold you for forty-eight hours.
Brother Chi, Brother Zhen. He refuses to answer all the questions.
- He wouldn't be able to answer anyway. - He didn't kill He Yunfei.
He didn't kill him? What should we do now?
We have to release him after forty-eight hours.
Let's go to the examiner's room and ask Old Shi.
Is there any new discovery to Huang Jialun's death?
There is.
He really did die from asthma.
The murderer switched out his medication
and replaced it with the exact same bottle,
but filled with dust.
When his asthma attack started,
the dust discharged into his cavities guaranteeing a death sentence for him.
Last time... I was being excessive.
I was out of my mind.
Old Shi, life is life and work is work.
You should keep it separate.
I'm going now.
Don't blame me for gabbing. Your daughter...
My daughter is going to get married right away.
That's a good thing.
Senior, why are you asking me to interrogate?
You will get more clues out of him if you interrogate.
I want to see if you can ask something different.
Didn't you already say that he was not the killer.
What other new material could there be?
Regardless if it was Huang Jialun or He Yunfei, Lee Jinxiang has been watching them for a long time.
Maybe he knows who the killer is.
Give me the address for East Island University.
What for?
East Island University is the college those four went to.
[East Island Univeristy]
It's right ahead.
They lived in this dorm room back then.
It used to be even messier than this.
What is the matter?
I am asking you a question. What is the matter?
I got into a fight. I messed around with someone else's girlfriend.
Let me tell you. It's your problem who you hook up with.
But someone hurting you, that's our problem!
Where is the guy?
Let's go.
They refused to leave after they graduated.
They hung around her for an extra year.
The school tried to kick them out several times.
But they said they couldn't find jobs and didn't have money to rent another place.
It felt like kicking your own child out on the streets.
So I defended them every time.
Let me take you over there to have a look.
Were all four of them unemployed?
One had a job. It was Liu Hao.
His salary was low. I remember that it was about ¥2,000 a month.
The other three had their eyes too high.
They refused to take entry-level jobs.
And upper-level positions wouldn't take them.
These four kids didn't drink or smoke.
They felt they could survive on instant noodles with ¥50 a day.
So with that, they got by with only ¥2,000 a month.
What did they do through the year then?
Nothing much.
Huang Jialun liked to play video games, so he was in front of the computer all day.
He had a serious asthma issue, so it was safest for him in the dorm.
Gu Xinwei flirted around with girls.
He didn't have money but the female students still liked him.
He Yunfei liked sports, basketball, and soccer.
He took gym classes with the younger college students.
They were so full of energy.
But just refused to focus on serious matters.
They all relied on Liu Hao for support.
I will take you to that side.
Aunt Cui.
How did the video game come about?
From their playing.
Isn't that funny?
The four of them didn't engage in honest work.
They made money through playing around.
First, it was Huang Jialun.
He played all the video games more than once and then he was bored with them.
He said they had too many bugs.
So he started the concept of a new game.
The other three got interested.
So for one month, day and night,
they helped him to complete the video game and launched it online.
He Yunfei was brilliant.
He came up with the decision.
In order to attract users, he was willing to offer it for free.
When they had one million users,
he then sold the game to a gaming company for a high price.
It takes money to develop a game.
So the four of them all went out to work.
Two worked on day shifts and the other two on night shifts.
So there would always be two people on the server.
Finally, a company was willing to work with them.
Guess how much money they offered these four kids?
¥10,000,000 .
The four of you will each get ¥2,500,000.
If that number doesn't sound good, don't worry.
I will add an additional ¥ 20,000 as a red bonus.
2.7 million is enough, isn't it? Ten million's close enough...
I will speak then.
Ten million is fine.
But that is ten million for each person.
In addition, that's only for five years.
I am only willing to spend ten million on this game.
If I don't offer the money, you need to pay me for this game.
CEO Lee is so considerate of us.
We are so honored.
Let me consider Xunda Company then.
The four of us college students...
can get one million users.
But with your esteemed company's platform,
it can easily reach ten million.
Or fifty million.
Base on fifty million, your annual profit will be at minimum five billion.
You only spend forty million for the next five years.
To get twenty five billion worth of profit.
Go tell this situation to the Chairperson.
You should go home.
It's a bust?
Let's go then, Brothers.
Forty million, five year contract.
The lawyer will send you the contract.
Ask for one more dollar, and the deal is off.
Lets go.
They came back to visit me one time.
Every one of them received money.
They were grateful that I kept them here for an additional year.
They took me out for a big meal.
They also gave me a handcrafted art.
Everyone lived as they had wanted to.
Huang Jialun stayed at home.
Gu Xingwei traveled around the world.
He Yunfei started his own company.
He did well with it.
Liu Hao went to work.
Later, he got cancer.
Liu Hao died.
Other people also died one by one.
Can I take a look at the handcrafted art that they gave you?
It's this one.
- May I touch it? - Feel free.
Thanks.
Did they come back around '15 ?
It was 2014.
The second year after, they sold the video game.
Even though I am only their residence hall director,
I always advised them.
They were wasting their time on video games.
The pursuit of petty pleasures thwarted aspirations.
There weren't such good things in life.
There was always a trade-off between gain and loss.
[Police, Hua City Police Station.]
You said she's a model, right? But she hasn't been on any runways.
As an actress, she didn't really perform any significant role.
She participated in some variety shows and had some walk-on roles.
I only know about her from the news reports.
That's when I found out her name was Lin Wenxin, and that she was an entertainer.
She was involved with this Gu Xingwei.
Some rumor relating to money.
You should really say something here.
You don't really believe that I was the one who told Director Dong about Wang Ke, do you?
Look carefully and stop talking so much.
- Can't be? - It is.
This item is rather useful. I use it sometimes, too.
[Dong Linchi, Deputy Director]
What should we do then?
Should I wear these sunglasses or not?
Wear them.
Remember to take them off when you are looking at something important. Don't mess up your eyes.
Why aren't you talking anymore?
I don't know what to say anymore.
My husband died on top of that table.
Next to him, there was half a bottle of red wine and a wine glass.
It looked like he was only drunk.
Putting his head on the table sleeping.
Hubby.
Hubby, are you drunk again?
No one would've thought that
he swallowed an entire bottle of sleeping pills.
When did you come back that night?
That day I finished recording a show.
It was really a boring show. Answering questions.
If I answered wrong, I had to be hit with a plastic hammer.
The director had me memorize all the answers.
Let's focus on the main point. When did you come back that night?
At midnight.
That hammer is air inflated,
so getting hit doesn't hurt at all.
But I need to pretend it hurts.
If I didn't get it right, I had to re-act the scene.
When you returned home, you saw your husband on the table?
Yes.
When I came back, my phone was out of power.
I saw him bent over the table.
I thought that he was drunk.
So I went to charge my phone, take a shower and remove my makeup.
When I came back out and turned on the phone,
my phone was exploding.
My friends were calling and texting.
Why did your husband commit suicide?
I told them, "No, he is fine... lying there..."
Then my friend said maybe she made a mistake.
After I hung up the phone, I went to check him.
He really had died.
How did your friend find out that your husband committed suicide?
Weibo. [Social media in China. ]
Correct, it was Weibo.
That night around 11:00 p.m.,
my husband sent out a post saying
he wanted to kill himself.
He was blaming me for scamming him for money by marrying him.
I don't know what he was thinking.
I wanted to marry him very much.
When my wish finally came true.
he actually blamed me for faking our marriage.
If I tell you that I still love him,
you would probably think I am very pretentious.
I believe that you do love him.
But I do not believe that Weibo post.
The most likely possibility is that this was not suicide.
It is murder.
The killer took the phone,
pretending to make this Weibo post to create the illusion that it was a suicide.
I didn't do it. I really didn't do it.
Ms. Lin, please calm down. We didn't say that you did it.
If your husband knows that you still love him,
he will go very peacefully.
Excuse me.
It's good for her to cry now.
Tell us about your marriage ceremony.
Where was it located at?
May, at Feiya Grand Hotel.
Which friends came to the wedding?
My family, owner of my managing agency,
also, colleague's from the entertainment industry.
Did they go?
Gu Xingwei is my husband, of course, he came.
How can I get married without my husband there?
No, besides your husband, did the other three go?
They all came. I am familiar with Old He.
I've had meals with him several times with my husband.
Who is Old He?
- He Yunfei? - Yes.
This person is strange.
He often goes outside.
I thought he smoked.
It turns out, he goes out for fresh air.
- He is Liu Hao, correct? - Yes.
Yes, he is the dorm monitor.
He was very sick.
Late stage kidney cancer. His face was jaundiced.
His hair all fell off.
My husband said for the wedding,
the four of them must all be present.
Especially since it was Gu Xingwei,
who'd actually managed to get married.
Later when all the guests left,
only the four were left.
They were drinking and singing on the stage.
Liu Hao couldn't sing.
Also couldn't drink.
He was just drinking water.
He was happy watching the other three.
Gu Xingwei and I
were in love. Love is a grand thing. Right?
But the brotherly love that they shared...
wasn't any weaker than our love at all.
The four of them experienced so much together.
The major upheaval of fortune and destitution.
When they finally parted ways for good,
all of them held back their tears,
and even joked with one another.
Liu Hao didn't have much time left.
The doctor said
he had at most ten days or half a month.
He didn't spend his ten million.
He didn't get married or have kids.
He said he wanted to leave the money to the other three brothers.
Each one getting three million.
He Yunfei said no to that.
He told him to go to Macau,
to gamble all of it away.
My husband laughed at him then.
You've lived so securely for the last twenty years,
You shouldn't take ten million with you when you die.
Lose all of it; one million a day.
Have a blast and then die.
Right. Gamble all your money away.
Don't worry, I will take care of your parents for you.
Are you tying to show off?
Are you treating Yunfei and myself as nothing?
Hao, don't worry about your parents.
Have a great time.
Be well.
Don't cry.
I am not crying. Only the loser is crying.
Remember to call us every day.
When you run out of energy,
Just text one word: "Good."
The phone calls lasted twelve days.
In the beginning, Liu Hao still talked a lot.
Later, there was only a breathing sound over the phone.
And then the phone calls ended.
Then they flew to Macao
to claim his ashes.
They spread them in the ocean following his last wish.
Wait a minute. They only claimed his ashes.
Therefore, they didn't see his body.
Due to the four owners
accidentally dying because of various different reasons,
The Ice & Fire Royal Throne
will automatically be renewed for Xunda Corporation.
Also, we will initiate the next cycle of development.
We will follow the contract
and continue to pay the deceased family ¥40,000,000.
Manager Shen,
the Q&A session of today's conference is already over.
As Yulong Corporation's representative,
you should already know this.
Are you sure all the copyright owners are dead?
There is one more alive.
One hour ago, he just contacted me.
Sir, the car we prepared for you is almost here. Please wait for a few minutes.
Thank you.
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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? ♫