[Fogo Pálido] EP21 | Tender Light | O Encontro de Almas, a Redenção dos Pecados | Suspense | YOUKU
[Episode 21] Zhou Luo is an honest child who says what he sees. Nan Ya does have a bad reputation. However, we can’t just wrong her. Our family has no grievances with Xu Yi. But Xu Yi’s family is saying that we’re siding with Nan Ya. Luo? Zhou Luo? What’s in it for us if we’re siding with Nan Ya? That day, Xu Yi argued with her at my stall. He hit her at the dam. Everyone saw that. I didn’t see him at all. I didn’t see him for the entire night. I looked everywhere but couldn’t find him. He was sleeping at home. He came back after he woke up. It’s not a big deal whether he saw the fireworks or not. What are you doing? I’m carrying her back home for her to sleep. Luo! It’s too late. Just let her spend the night at our house tonight. It’s New Year. I think it’s better for her to spend the night with her mother. Be quick, then. I’ll go, then. Be careful. Xu Yi was inhuman when he got angry. I know that best. Zhou Luo was going to take the college entrance exam soon. He was terrified when he saw that! I was even going to demand compensation from them! [Tender Light] Zhang Huashan has gone too far. The way he treats us is like we’re the plague. He doesn’t even allow Qingli to talk to us. Yeah. Her father has really gone too far. Besides, Qingli’s grades have improved during this period. It’s good for her to stay away from me. Tell her this on my behalf. Tell her to stop fighting with her father. She’ll be free once she gets into a university. Mom. Luo. Mom, what’s wrong? Why didn’t you tell me anything? You never told me anything ever since you came back from school. You still didn’t tell me anything when you got yourself in such huge trouble. I’m your mother, you know? I’m not anyone else. Do you wish to drive me to death? That’s not it, Mom. That’s not what I meant. Or, was it because you think that I’m uneducated and that I couldn’t understand it even if you told me about it? How could that be? That’s not the case. Then why? Why exactly did you do so? Why did you get yourself into such a huge mess? I won’t do it again. Luo. Tell me. What exactly did you see that night? Mom, don’t… Don’t let your imagination run wild. It’s all my fault. It’s all my fault! Why did I have to make you send Wanwan home? Why did I have to make my son witness such things? I… I truly regret it so much! Mom. What I saw that night won’t affect my performance on the exam. Luo, you’re my pride. No one in Qingshui Town can compare to you. I often thought that your father and I were so lucky to have an outstanding son like you. Mom, what are you saying? I’m serious. I just want you to be successful. I don’t need you to support me after you become successful. I don’t need you to give me anything. I don’t want anything from you. I’m just worried that… That I couldn’t protect you or help you to be successful, you know? When I took you back from Shanghai, it was like there was a huge piece of rock laying on my chest. I couldn’t breathe. Did you know how happy I was when you brought Jinghua’s grade reduction notice back? Only then was I able to catch my breath again. But now, I… There was not a single night that I could sleep in peace. There’s a police living upstairs. He… At first, I thought he was only an ordinary tenant. However, the more I thought about it, the more it felt off. I thought something was off. Why is he keeping such a close eye on my son? Why? It’s because I’m the only witness in the case. He has to investigate the case thoroughly to prove Nan Ya’s innocence. If so, were you telling the truth? Mom, everything I said was true. Really? Yes. Let’s just put everything aside and get into a university, okay? Okay. Mom, I promise you. Let’s get into a good university, okay? Okay. Mom, you should go to sleep. Luo, you should sleep too. Have a good rest. I’ll close the door for you. Between my lover and me, 300 long nights will be erected like 300 high walls. And the sea will be a magic show between us. The cruel hand of time will tear apart the streets that pierce my chest like thorns. There will be nothing left but memories. The dusk is given by sadness. The night that longs for you. The decadent wilderness. The poor sky is humiliated in the bottom of the puddles… Are you having an affair with Zhou Luo? Zhou. Zhou? Zhou! We cannot let Zhou Luo attend Huashan Cram School anymore. Zhou Luo must leave this place and stay away from all these messes. Where can he go? Anywhere is fine as long as he leaves Qingshui Town. We can’t wait any longer. Therefore, BE is perpendicular to CF. Got it? Yes. Good. Alright. Class’s over. Luo. Sir. Nice to meet you. Mom? What are you doing here? Is class over? Was that the Math class? Let’s go. Don’t worry. Leave Zhou Luo to me. Why is my uncle here? Dad. Uncle. Open the door. Where… Where are we going? I’ve already packed your belongings. Your uncle will send you to Shanghai right now. Wait. Why so suddenly? I’m not going. Listen to me. Just tell me if you need anything, okay? I’ll mail them to you when you arrive in Shanghai. I’m not going to Shanghai! Luo, listen to me. Mom, school isn’t over yet! Zhou Luo! If you don’t go to Shanghai, I’ll take my life in front of you! Get in the car! Get in! Be a good boy! What are you up to? What are you doing? Let me out! Don’t move! Dad! Zhou Luo! Let me out! [Police] Zhou Luo. To detect Xu Yi’s murder case, now, we require your cooperation in our investigation. Come with us. Get out of the car. Come on, get out of the car. What’s going on? What are you doing? What are you doing? Guixang, please don’t obstruct us from fulfilling our public duties! What are you doing? Cooperate with our investigation. Don’t obstruct us from fulfilling public duties! What’s going on? He’s just going to assist us with our investigation. Come on. Over here. Zhou Luo is arrested! Look over there! Look! Let me in! Let go! Don’t obstruct us. Let go. Don’t worry. I’ll be fine. No! Get in the car. Let’s go! Zhang Qingli! Chen Jun! Zhang Qingli! Sir, sorry about this! Go! Luo! Luo, don’t go! Zhou Luo, get out of the car! We’re not going! Zhou Luo! Get out of the car! Zhou Luo! Zhou Luo! Zhou Luo! Zhou Luo! Zhou Luo! Zhou Luo! Zhou Luo! Zhou Luo! [Huashan Cram School] Zhou Luo! Get in the car. Zhou Luo! Get in the car. Get in the car. Where’s Zhou Luo? Zhou Luo! Zhou Luo! Zhou Luo! Zhou Luo! Zhou Luo! Zhou Luo! Open the gate! Zhou Luo! Open the gate! Zhou Luo! Zhou Luo! Don’t go inside with them! Zhou Luo! Zhou Luo! Dad! Why are you arresting Zhou Luo? Zhou Luo! Open the gate! Don’t go inside! What are you trying to do? Why are you arresting Zhou Luo? What do you know? Let’s go. Let me in! Open the gate! Can you please let Zhou Luo go? He didn’t do it! Will this really work? Now, it’ll be a psychological battle. No, absolutely not! This strategy is too risky. Lin Fanglu, you’ve always been prudent. Don’t tell me you were the one who came up with this strategy. That’s right. Chen, stop chewing sunflower seeds. Do you agree? Even if I disagree, there’s no other method we can employ. What do you mean by that? Trying to psych me into saying yes? You want me to release Nan Ya for no reason while arresting Zhou Luo when we don’t have any evidence? You’re just playing on the sidelines of the law. All of us will be penalized if something goes wrong, you know? Comrades, can we please think twice before we act upon this plan of yours? Okay? So what if we’ll be penalized? It’s not like there’s anything else we can do. Shouldn’t we stick together at moments like this? We’re at a crucial moment for the case. No one else but the chief can shoulder the blame right now. It’s not that I can’t shoulder the blame… Actually, it’s not like we’re breaking the rule. If something does go wrong, I’ll bear all of the responsibilities. If we release Nan Ya, she’ll be released on bail pending trial. She’s been locked up for some time as well. Besides, she turned herself in. It fits all of the criteria. As for Zhou Luo, he’s suspicious no matter what. We’re not crossing the line in requesting his cooperation. You have 24 hours. We have to break their mental defense within that period. If not, it’ll be hard to get something out of them after releasing them. Wait. That’s not enough time. That’s more than enough. Zhou Luo. You see, we cannot arrest you without any evidence. You should tell us the truth as soon as possible. Don’t make your mother worried. What evidence do you have? What evidence, huh? It’ll be too late for you to explain yourself when we bring it out. What evidence can you have of something that never happened? Are you sure there’s nothing between you and Nan Ya? She already told us everything she should. Now, it’s your turn. She told us of her own accord. She showed a good attitude too. That’s why we released her. I’ve already told you what I saw many times. His mentality is pretty strong. Even at critical moments, he knows to stay silent, control the pace, and calm himself down. Ordinary habitual offenders can never achieve those. Where did he learn all these from? Play the recording. Between my lover and me, 300 long nights will be erected like 300 high walls. Do you recognize this cassette tape? It must sound familiar to you. Were you reminded of anything? I did fancy Nan Ya before. However, it was a one-sided affair. She never accepted my feelings. To her, I’ll always be a kid. She would have never chosen me even if she had divorced Xu Yi. Therefore, in order to get her, you were willing to do anything for her. I did like Nan Ya. However, what I said was the truth. I didn’t lie. Nan Ya killed Xu Yi. And she did it out of self-defense under a risky situation where she had no other choices. Who said it was self-defense? Are you the judge here? Why would we waste our time interrogating you if there was nothing suspicious about the case? Liu. Are you having an affair with Zhou Luo? You’re not answering me, huh? I’ll take it as a yes, then. I’ll go and kill Zhou Luo right now! Xu Yi! Xu Yi, don’t do anything crazy! Xu Yi! This is the voice recording from that night. Everything you two did was recorded on this very tape. I think you didn’t expect Nan Ya to leave this tape inside the sewing machine, right? Zhou Luo. The house is full of your trails. Do you think it’s easy to forge a crime scene? Do you think you are more professional than the police? Let me show you something else. Here. Do you know this? Think about it. You touched this axe, right? I didn’t. You didn’t? Let me explain it to you. On this axe, there’s nothing else apart from Xu Yi’s fingerprints. Don’t you find it strange? An axe is a common tool. Since it’s always placed in the woodshed, there would be anyone’s fingerprints on it. Besides, look at the handle and blade of the axe, it’s probably been used for many years. However, the surface is clean. There are no other traces at all. Unless someone purposely cleaned it. Is it possible that Nan Ya is a clean freak and she has always wiped these things? Liu, assume this is the axe. What would happen if I chased you around and slashed at you around the house? You’d dodge, right? Naturally, I would slash the wall, the table, and many places. If I used strength, I could not avoid moving my hand’s position. How could there be only one trace? I don’t know the habits of Nan Ya’s family. So I have no idea, either. Why was your hair found on Xu Yi’s coat, then? After I came back from Jinghua’s interview, I took the same bus as Xu Yi. Anyone else? We’ll be departing soon! We’ll depart now, sir. We’ll depart now. Perhaps my hair was left on his coat back then. You took the same bus as him? If we weren’t on best terms, why would we sit in the same row? You can question my character but the law always depends on logic, no? If Nan Ya wanted to kill Xu Yi, she should drug him first. Otherwise, she would not be able to fight against a big man with her stature and weight. I’m sure you know about Xu Yi abusing Nan Ya. Even the Women’s Federation knew that. Nan Ya would get a divorce sooner or later. What motive did she have to kill Xu Yi at a time like this? It was obviously justifiable self-defense yet you are interrogating the only eyewitness. Shouldn’t the law protect a woman who suffered from domestic violence? Zhou Luo. You treat her so well. But how has she been treating you? That’s all my wishful thinking. Do you think it’s worth it? Even if it were someone else, I would testify for them. What a silly child. Do you know Hu Lifan? Nan Ya’s stepbrother. Do you know how he died? Xu Yi killed him because of Nan Ya. Both of them hid the body together inside the lake where Liu Changshui died. Did Nan Ya tell you about this? You are really willing to do anything for her, huh? You can even give up your parents and your future? What about her? She just turned around and left. Impossible. Impossible. Zhou Luo. Do you think I’m lying to you? I’m not the one who lied to you. It was Nan Ya who lied to you. Xu Yi did more than you did back then. He could do everything for Nan Ya. Do you want to end up like him? Impossible. A trial like this makes everyone anxious. Chen, I’ve been thinking. Why didn’t we play the recording to him and keep pressuring him? Perhaps he might fess up. Of course, we can’t do that. What happened on the night of the crime is all our assumption. We have no conclusion. Once there’s a mistake in our inference, Zhou Luo will soon realize with his wits that we don’t have any exact evidence. If we still want to break his mental defense, it will be even tougher. Whether or not we can solve this case depends on the testimony. Thus, we first showed our doubts about their relationship so he focused his attention on justifying their relationship. Next, we told him the flaws of the axe found at the crime scene. That was our first distraction. Yes. He was shocked at that point. However, the flaw was not enough to break him. So in the next step, we fed him the information of Xu Yi murdering Hu Lifan. Nan Ya would never tell Zhou Luo about this. So he would definitely be shocked. Why did we stop at that time? There’s no way this shock will make him admit to the murder. His first reaction is to be on the defense, so we must wait. We must give him enough time so he will become more and more suspicious. We’ve waited for half a day. What if he is immune to both soft and hard tactics? Enough. That’s enough for today. Go back to rest. Are we not interrogating him anymore, sir? If he doesn’t confess today, we’ll be under big pressure tomorrow. This is a psychological battle. It’s like playing chess blindfolded in the dark. We need to predict our situation with every step we take. Whoever loses his composure first will suffer a huge defeat. Right now, we’ve let Zhou Luo listen to the recording. Zhou Luo has obtained four pieces of information now. One. We now know his relationship with Nan Ya. Two. The flaw on the axe found at the crime scene. Three. Nan Ya might have taken advantage of his feelings. Four. The recording of the scene might expose everything. Think about it. What is Zhou Luo’s greatest weakness? Study. His future. Wrong. He has absolute confidence in his ability. He defended his decision and dropped out of university regardless. He then received his grade reduction notice for admission to Jinghua. Hasn’t he always been calm? It’s his feeling towards Nan Ya, then. The seeds of doubt were planted. Whether or not it can affect him depends on the relationship between the two of them. The thing is, the evidence at the scene can’t directly prove that Zhou Luo is the murderer. We can’t detain him for more than 24 hours. If he still doesn’t fess up tomorrow, the chief will be mad. Do you think letting Nan Ya go in front of him will affect him in any way? It’s not that effective. Are you kidding me? What are you trying to do? Are you letting the whole police force shoulder this blame? What do you think is Zhou Luo’s greatest weakness? Stop acting mysterious, all right? Isn’t it obvious? What? Guixiang. As expected from an experienced police. He’s being confined. It’s better to let his mother cry in front of him. I wasn’t letting Nan Ya go in front of Zhou Luo. I was arresting Zhou Luo in front of Nan Ya. The one being detained isn’t the key person. The one we want to deal with is the one we released. Zhou Luo’s weakness is Nan Ya’s as well. Scram! Guixiang. How dare you come here again! Guixiang. Do you even have a conscience? I treated you so well. But look what you did to me. You are not human! You are a demon! You are a demon! Demon! I’m going to kill you now! Don’t hit my mother! Madam Guixiang, don’t hit my mother! Guixiang. Guixiang, please let me bring my daughter home. I hate you! Let me bring my daughter home. I hate you! I’m going to kill you! Come out, Nan Ya! Come out! Nan Ya! Pay with your life! Come out! Nan Ya, come out! You can’t hide forever! I dare you to hide inside forever! Come out! What are you doing? Stop shouting! What are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing? Don’t move! Hurry! Stand still! Back off! That’s right. Walk while singing. When he reaches the snowing hill… Also, in order to avoid arousing suspicions, he has applied to not take charge of this case anymore. That still won’t do! Do you think the Xu family is a pushover? I’m telling you! I want to see who dares to call it justifiable self-defense. I’m warning you. Provoking trouble and hurting others are against the law. Whatever! Dad! Why are you here? I’ll say this. My son is dead. If Nan Ya is not sentenced, I will kill her to avenge my son! The judge decides whether she will be sentenced or not. If you are not convinced, you can make an appeal. Of course not! She killed my son with two stabs. And she just left him to die without calling an ambulance. It’s not long since his passing. Right now, you released the murderer because of so-called "justifiable self-defense". Ask everyone out there! Who will agree to it? Is there any justice left? Exactly! Quiet! Stand still! Don’t move! Sir. Let me ask you. When your son beat her badly, why didn’t you ask whether or not there was justice? When your son cut corners in the bridge case and caused two people dead, why didn’t you ask if there was justice? If he were still alive, he would be imprisoned. Right now, he has been murdered. That person must be sentenced! We can only decide after looking into the situation of the crime! It hasn’t been decided. Why are you making a fuss here? It’s still under investigation, no? Why has Nan Ya been released, then? Why? Do we need to ask for your approval in our investigation procedures? I… You… What? Are you trying to go against the police? You are anxious. What’s more interesting is that it’s ice-cold in Antarctica. The Antarctica research team members… Who is it? It’s me. Lin Fanglu. I bought you rice, vegetables, and meat. It’s enough for a few days. Xu Yi’s family is making a scene. You shouldn’t leave the house recently. Just stay at home. I’ll go now. Remember to lock the door. Nan Ya. If you need any help, you can call the police. ♪I rushed into the forest♪ ♪The forest is bushy♪ ♪I can’t find his whereabouts♪ ♪I only see trees shaken by wind♪ ♪I rushed into the forest♪ ♪The forest is bushy♪ ♪I can’t find his whereabouts♪ ♪I only hear the bell at Nanping hill♪ [The End of the Affair] [There are always some unstoppable forces in life.] [Like the dawn.] [Like the fading dusk.] [Like the fateful encounter.] [Like the predicted separation.] [Like the rotten love.] [Like life.] [Like death.] [The End of the Affair] ♪Hey, did you ask who you did it for?♪ ♪Kissing the sunset♪ ♪Whose fantasy is going to be broken?♪ ♪Hey, have you thought about who else there is?♪ ♪Hearing the baby cries♪ ♪The stormy night road, and the requiem to sleep♪ ♪Hey, have you thought about this?♪ ♪What happened last time?♪ ♪Rushing the draft and writing sloppily♪ ♪Hey, have you thought about this?♪ ♪Once you overcome the next second♪ ♪Everything will be better♪ ♪The frightened bird♪ ♪Exposes whose embarrassment?♪ ♪Smoke and ashes♪ ♪Covered whose exhaustion?♪ ♪Intense trauma♪ ♪Predicted whose collapse?♪ ♪It’s smoky♪ ♪A choice is never absolute♪ ♪Wait♪ ♪The only precious thing in this world♪ ♪There’s always one thing♪ ♪That makes your heart hurt♪ ♪Wait, this emptiness in one’s heart♪ ♪There’s always one moment♪ ♪That melts your heart and can’t be touched♪