(Yamen) (Integrity, Caution, Diligence)
My Lord!
Help seek justice for me, My Lord!
My Lord!
Help seek justice for me.
You're a jinx!
You actually killed your uncle!
My uncle?
I beg the county magistrate to uphold justice for us.
How did the plaintiff die?
County Magistrate.
When I found Fan Daniu,
he was already dead.
He had multiple stab wounds.
He seemed to be hacked with a long blade.
My Lord, in my opinion,
the attacker is skilled with a blade.
It's her.
If not her,
who else is so skilled with a butcher's knife?
I'll kill you.
All for this house?
My Lord, I came to the yamen early in the morning.
The neighbors can testify.
Yes, we can testify.
We testify for Changyu.
Last night, Changyu was at home.
This morning,
- we came over with her. - County Magistrate.
She's innocent.
Silence!
I'm investigating the case.
My Lord.
Even if she didn't do it herself,
perhaps she hired someone.
Why not search her house first?
Yes.
Guards.
Detain Fan Changyu for further questioning.
- Yes. - I'll kill you.
- Changyu. - Changyu.
It wasn't me.
- Changyu! - Changyu!
Changyu, don't be afraid.
(Integrity, Caution, Diligence)
Where is Constable Wang?
County Magistrate.
Constable Wang has already gone to the Fan residence.
Search.
Changning.
Constable Wang,
no one is upstairs.
No one in the backyard.
Constable Wang, there's no one.
It seems someone sought revenge on the Fan family.
You two stay.
The rest, return with me to report.
- Yes. - Yes.
=Pursuit of Jade=
(Adapted from Tuanzi Laixi's novel, "Pursuit of Jade")
=Episode 7=
We can't blow it.
My sister said, I should blow the whistle if I meet bad people.
It's not time yet.
If you blow it now,
it will only bring more bad people.
Mister Wang.
I didn't kill Uncle Daniu.
I know.
Changyu,
something happened at your home.
When I arrived,
there were three bodies on the ground.
Where is Changning?
Don't panic.
Those bodies weren't your husband or Changning.
No one was inside,
but the house was ransacked.
Maybe they were taken away.
There are rumors of movement in the hills outside the city.
County Magistrate has sent men to search the hills.
I'll go find them.
You can't leave.
County Magistrate hasn't released you.
My parents are dead.
I only have this one sister left, Mister Wang.
I beg you.
Changyu.
Be careful.
Changning.
Count to ten.
Five.
Six.
Seven.
Eight.
Nine.
Put this on.
As long as you're alive,
your sister will come save you.
Yan Zheng.
Turn around. Don't look.
Let go of me!
(I killed someone...)
Changyu...
Go.
Don't worry about me.
Take Changning and leave!
Changyu, Yan Zheng is still there!
It's good that they left.
Now I'll deal with you trash.
How is it?
Didn't I tell you to leave?
Why are you back?
I had to send Changning away before coming back to save you.
Hang on.
The constables are coming.
Hang on!
Stay focused.
Who sent you?
What grudge do you have against the Fan family
that you'd try to kill us?
Yan Zheng!
Wake up.
Don't fall asleep.
We're almost home.
This is the second time
I've carried you out of the snow.
Other women find a man to support the household.
Yet, I found a man
to build my strength?
Don't sleep.
Hold on.
You must live.
If anything happens to you,
I can't repay this debt.
Get up. Don't sleep.
Thank you for saving Changning.
If she had died,
I wouldn't know
how to go on living.
You're my savior.
Yan Zheng...
Wake up.
Don't sleep.
Don't sleep, Yan Zheng.
Yan Zheng.
Don't sleep.
Changyu!
Changyu! Yan Zheng!
Wake up.
- Changyu! Yan Zheng! - Save my husband.
Go home.
Changyu! Changyu!
Changyu!
Someone!
(Zheng.)
(Your father was a great hero.)
(In the future,)
(you must become like your father.)
(Zheng, eat more.)
(Here, Father.)
(Eat more.)
(You'll need strength.)
(Zheng, eat well.)
(Grow up to be mighty like Father.)
(Xie Linshan.)
(Xie Linshan...)
Mother!
(Why didn't you keep your promise?)
(You said you'd come back to paint my brows.)
Mother!
(Zheng.)
(I made this osmanthus cake myself.)
(It's very sweet.)
(Take it outside to eat.)
(Alright.)
When you come back,
pick some more osmanthus for me.
I'll make more osmanthus cake for you.
Zheng, remember this.
I love osmanthus cake the most.
No. Don't.
Don't eat the osmanthus cake. Don't go!
Mother...
Mother.
Mother!
Mother.
Mother...
Zheng.
Don't fret about me.
I can't watch you grow up.
(Mother, don't leave me.)
I only wanted to feed you medicine.
Why are you acting like I'm killing you?
Sorry.
Here.
I'll do it myself.
Your hand
suffered two deep gashes from a sword.
The web between your thumb is split open.
The physician said
you can't use force with either hand.
No need. I don't like sweets.
Relax. It's not osmanthus.
I heard you shouting
not to eat osmanthus or something.
So I knew you don't like it.
This is tangerine peel candy.
The physician said,
you're badly hurt this time, too.
He repeatedly instructed you to rest well.
Anyway, you can't lift heavy things
before you recover.
Our house was sealed by the county office.
We can't go back for now.
We'll make do at Mister Zhao's place first.
Rest well in the attic.
Changyu, Yan Zheng, dinner's ready.
Alright.
I'll go downstairs first.
I'll bring you food later.
Thanks for protecting Changning.
Who sent you?
What grudge do you have against the Fans that you'd try to kill us?
(Mystic Iron Assassins.)
(The Wei family's henchmen have noticed this place,)
(but they aren't here for me.)
(Xigu Lane) The weather is dry.
Beware of fire.
Here, take the brazier.
Wait... Are you cold?
What's going on?
Why are your hands shaking so badly?
I... I don't know.
It started after we came back from the woods.
You...
I probably just caught a chill. It's nothing.
You're awake.
Go to sleep. I'll stay with you.
When you woke at noon, you were drenched in sweat.
Was it a nightmare from killing someone?
Yes.
It was my first time killing someone, too.
Are you scared?
Actually,
you're scared, too.
I'm not anymore.
My hands just shake a bit.
You don't have to be scared.
Do something else these few days.
Like slaughtering pigs.
You don't know how to slaughter pigs, do you?
I'll teach you.
That way,
you'll still have a way to make a living if you stop escort work.
Come sit here.
It's warmer.
The elders say
pig butchers carry a killing aura.
Even ghosts won't come near.
I'll stay here.
You won't have nightmares.
Thank you.
♪Lightly tinted♪
♪Like an outline reflected in a mirror♪
♪Perhaps my naive self♪
♪Quietly locked my heart♪
♪And hid you in my very soul♪
♪The moonlight is as quiet as me♪
♪Spreading glow♪
♪Reflecting the mottled shadows in my heart♪
♪The flame that seemed like love♪
♪Remained so little♪
♪Let me hide in your embrace♪
♪I pray our love♪
♪Will stay tight and never part♪
♪I'm willing to spend my whole life♪
♪Waiting faithfully♪
♪Clear as me, quiet as me♪
♪So what if we meet danger?♪
♪I pray love won't be like♪
♪Grains of sand falling into the sea♪
♪I'm willing to spend this life♪
♪Guarding love forever♪
♪Clear as me, quiet as me♪
♪Why seek cause or result?♪
Changning, fetch me some water.
Leave it here.
Mister Wang, has the case been ruled?
Constable Wang is here.
Constable Wang.
(Arrest Warrant)
By order of the County Magistrate,
Yan Zheng, husband of the Fan family,
is suspected of murder.
Arrest him and bring him back for trial.
(Qingping County Yamen)
Fan Changyu, the Fan Da case is not closed.
As a key suspect,
you should be awaiting trial in prison.
Yet, you escaped during the chaos.
I have not even pursued your crime,
yet you surrendered yourself.
Someone, arrest her as well.
My wife has witnesses.
She has nothing to do with Fan Da's case.
May I ask,
do you have proof
after your investigation?
Yan Zheng, a live-in husband of the Fan family.
You married into the Fan family,
yet did not report it to the county yamen.
Since you're from another place,
do you have a travel permit to prove your identity?
Yes.
Here it is.
(Integrity, Caution, Diligence)
(Applicant: Fan Changyu, Xigu Lane, Lin'an Town)
As expected.
(Travel Permit) You got this permit a few days ago,
right?
There's no original copy.
Is that correct?
I encountered bandits
and lost the original copy.
I already asked someone to go to my hometown and reissue it.
It'll be delivered later.
If that's the case,
your document isn't in accordance with regulations.
County Magistrate.
Yan Zheng has married into the Fan family,
so he already has a local guarantor.
According to Great Yin Law...
Constable Wang, shut up.
Bold commoner.
How dare you pretend to be a local resident?
I think you must be the bandit from Qingfeng Fort.
Collaborating inside and out to lure villains here,
and ruin the peace of Lin'an.
No. He's innocent, My Lord.
We're the real victims.
My sister and my husband were nearly killed.
How can you not distinguish right from wrong?
How bold.
You dare accuse our County Magistrate?
You claim you were almost killed.
Maybe it was just greed gone wrong,
and you fought among yourselves.
Wait a few more days.
Once the travel permit arrives,
there will be proof.
Why should I wait to judge your case?
Bold vagrant.
You're full of lies, deceiving me.
Come.
Give him 20 lashes.
Bring the letter of confession and make him sign it.
Stop!
As an official of the court,
you want to coerce a confession?
How dare you slander me?
Beat him.
Beat him hard.
My Lord, he's injured.
Beat me if you want, My Lord.
We must make him confess about the bandits.
Beat him.
My Lord!
Are you alright?
I'm fine.
Outrageous.
Do you treat the court as a playground?
County Magistrate.
This girl is innocent.
Have mercy on this orphan.
- Yes. - Have mercy on them.
You use your official position
to bully an orphan.
Exactly.
How can you be so cruel?
It's unjust, My Lord.
It's unjust.
I beg you.
County Magistrate.
Why not wait a few more days
to avoid a wrongful case?
My Lord, rumors are dangerous.
Don't incur public wrath.
Silence!
This case is a single matter.
Fan Changyu, as a suspect in Fan Da's case,
you shouldn't even be here.
Constable Wang, take her back to prison first.
Yes.
Changyu, come with me for now.
It's fine.
County Magistrate, we're only safe if she's imprisoned.
At least there's evidence.
I'll give you one last...
I'll give you one last chance.
Outrageous. Seize him!
I'm discussing the law with you,
yet you're set on framing me.
If that's the case,
we'll do it by my rules.
What are you going to do?
You're a mere commoner.
You wouldn't
dare lay a hand on our County Magistrate.
You're a mere county magistrate.
How dare you rebel?
You...
What are you saying?
Clearly, you're the one rebelling.
Hero, don't act rashly.
Yan Zheng.
County Magistrate.
The joke's gone too far.
Yan Zheng's travel permit is here.
(Travel Permit)
(He's injured internally?)
Do you miss me?
At this moment, do I seem extra pleasing?
If you come any later,
I'll smash this place.
Let me handle it. Less trouble is better.
County Magistrate.
Yan Zheng is from Luyuan Academy.
His travel permit and documents are all here.
May we speak privately?
Luyuan Academy?
Please.
(Yamen)
(Integrity, Caution, Diligence)
Please.
(Impartial Justice)
Everything's settled. Don't worry.
County Magistrate.
He's just a scholar.
Must you be this deferential?
What do you know?
Luyuan Academy is the top literary school in the land.
Those noble heirs
are not a mere county magistrate like me can offend.
Neither of us can reveal our identities.
Less trouble is better.
Does he even deserve to be an official?
He's a nobody.
You can do whatever later.
You're at a disadvantage now.
Get out first.
I've verified the facts.
All present, hear the judgment.
Summon the Fan family's eldest daughter-in-law, Mi.
Yan Zheng is a law-abiding citizen.
He was forced to kill the bandits to protect his family.
He has nothing to do with Qingfeng Fort.
Therefore, he is acquitted.
Great.
What about Fan Changyu?
Yes, what about Fan Changyu?
Currently, there's no evidence proving
that Fan Changyu is the real culprit.
Let them all go.
My Lord.
You must uphold justice for me.
Fan Da died wrongfully.
Silence!
It's all your fault! You meddlesome shrew.
You're making a scene.
What a disgrace.
I shall decide
the truth and justice.
If you continue to make a fuss,
you will all face severe punishment.
Court dismissed.
Yan Zheng.
Good thing I arrived early.
Otherwise, you'd really die here.
Yan Zheng.
Take care of Fan Changyu.
Of course.
Yan Zheng.
Who is Fan Changyu?
♪Hooves in a war-torn land♪
♪Who remains in wind and snow?♪
♪How many lives♪
♪Hang by a single thread♪
♪Smoke rises from our homeland♪
♪Who can stand apart from the world?♪
♪The sun sets, I say nothing♪
♪Autumn colors fall♪
♪Who steps lightly on maple leaves and leaves♪
♪Rain on parasol trees♪
♪Swallows carry mud beneath the eaves♪
♪The warmth of life in this ancient town♪
♪Who was I meant to meet♪
♪We vowed to stand through life and death♪
♪May our oath be fulfilled♪
♪I hold our fate with care♪
♪I will not let go♪
♪Yet war drums and pounding hooves♪
♪Shatter the ending♪
♪In this mortal world we come and go♪
♪You turn away, brows drawn♪
♪You leave with your sword♪
♪Taking every secret with you♪
♪I hold our fate with care♪
♪I will not let go♪
♪Yet we always meet♪
♪On battlefields in flames♪
♪In tangled destiny, the memories you gave♪
♪Are gentle as jade♪
♪After countless battles♪
♪May we return to where we first met♪