她跪下了，他却没有赢

Huo Minxian was missing for one night, and Qingyi became the most likely suspect in the Murong family.

The day before, he had openly threatened her in the ancestral hall, and had detained the Huo family's steward Li.

More damning still, Huo Minxian's wedding dress — the only one of its kind in all of Nancheng — was found, the blood on it already dry.

The servant who found the dress had seen you before.

Your people move fast.

You had her bring out the bloody dress, then made everyone recall what I said yesterday.

The words were yours. I didn't force you.

But this outcome was your doing. Where is Huo Minxian?

Alive. When it's time for her to appear, she'll naturally appear.

And the blood?

The blood is real, the person alive. With the blood, they can think whatever they like.

You're using her disappearance to frame me.

You first brought steward Li to Nancheng, wanting to use him to identify Ren Susu. I only made a little trouble for you.

I already sent him back to Feng'an.

Too late. He can never identify anyone for anybody again.

You killed steward Li?

How many dirty deeds he did for Huo Mingxi, you know better than I. If he lived, more people would only die.

Is that your explanation, or your confession?

Take it however you like. You can even go tell the Huo family right now that Fang Mulan is Ren Susu.

You think I don't dare expose you?

You just threatened Huo Minxian, and she vanished with a bloody wedding dress.

When you then claim you've found Ren Susu, will the Huo family believe you uncovered the truth, or believe you're desperate to find a scapegoat?

You're using this to shut my mouth.

You treat steward Li as my rope, so I treat Huo Minxian as yours.

Whoever pulls first is the first to be strangled.

Three years ago, the things you said to me — was a single word of any of it true?

When you held a witness you didn't ask what was true; now that you've lost him, you want to ask about feelings.

Qingyi, you're always a step too late.

The Huo family's supplier suddenly ended the deal.

The planes still haven't been unloaded from the ship. School opens tomorrow, and we can't get a single one.

Partners for years, and they turn on us the day before the opening. Someone has interfered.

Without planes, opening ceremony or not, it's the same. People will only remember we had nothing ready.

The ship and planes belong to an old friend of mine. Back then I saved his life, and he was already planning to hand the planes to me.

You can get them back?

Those planes — I bought them as your opening gift in the first place.

Don't trade your marriage to Huo Minxian for the flight school again.

The marriage is my private affair; the flight school concerns future flying and safety.

These two things should never have been tied together.

Mulan finished listening outside the door and immediately pressed about where the planes were.

The more anxious she grew, the more certain Qingyi was that he'd seized her lifeline.

The five planes must reach the flight school before tomorrow.

Qingyu isn't as anxious as you. At the opening ceremony, besides the students and the planes, who else will be there?

I'm his fiancée. If he does well, I do well; if he falls flat, it looks bad for me.

That's half the reason. The other half is that Sun Rongci of the Renxing orphanage will appear tomorrow.

You dug up his name?

Huo Minxian is fine, steward Li is gone. You want the marriage, and you want the opening. I see it all now.

You mean to use the planes to stop me?

You taught me: to control someone, you have to hold their lifeline in your hand.

Name your condition.

Come aboard the ship. Since it's a deal, you should let me see how much you're willing to pay.

Five planes. I'll buy them all at above the market price.

Not for sale.

You didn't have me chase you here just to talk price. What do you really want?

Kneel, and beg me.

All right.

For Murong Qingyu, you'd set aside even your dignity?

Qingyu was wounded and risked his life for this flight school.

I'm his fiancée. If he loses, I suffer too.

Never mind kneeling — I'll even kowtow.

How heartfelt. You're always sincere when you use me, but you never leave any room when you harm me.

When you used Huo Minxian to threaten me, you never imagined you'd one day need me. We're even.

I waited three years just to see you concede, to see you admit you were wrong back then.

Now that you really are willing to kneel, why do I feel no satisfaction at all?

Because what you want isn't my knees.

Then what do I want?

You want to know why I left without a word three years ago, and you want to know the truth about Huo Mingxi's death.

You'll finally tell me?

Give the planes to Qingyu, and I'll tell you everything that happened three years ago.

You treat the truth as your final bargaining chip.

And you use the gift meant for him to take revenge on me. We're both making deals — why act so innocent?

Those planes were always going to belong to Qingyu.

I called you here only to see how low you'd stoop for your own plan.

Now I've seen. Satisfied?

Not satisfied. The moment you bent down, all I wanted was to pull you back up.

So you don't hate me as much as you thought.

What I hate is that you'll only ever give conditional answers.

You said you loved me, and said you used me; you saved me, then pushed the murder suspicion onto me.

Which one is the truth?

They're all true. Love and use, protection and revenge, can be one and the same.

That's not an answer.

It's the answer you're least willing to accept.

Get out. The planes aren't for sale, and I won't buy the truth either.

Five, not one short. Qingyi, you did it.

The five planes circled once above the flight school and landed steadily on the runway.

Qingyi didn't agree to Mulan's terms, but he still gave the planes to his brother.

Mulan chased you onto the ship and begged you?

She was willing to kneel, and willing to trade the truth of three years ago.

You finally saw her concede. Why are you still like this?

She wasn't conceding to me. She only set aside her dignity for a time, for a bigger plan.

But these planes belonged to the flight school anyway. You made her beg only to prove she'd still bow her head for someone else.

I thought if she bowed her head, I could win back what I lost three years ago.

Instead, when she really bent down, I realized what I wanted was for her to come back and tell me the truth without being forced.

Then why did you drive her away?

Because I don't want to buy her answers anymore. Next time, she has to speak on her own.

The two of you clearly care, yet you insist on scaring each other. Neither will back down.

The flight school has opened, but our account isn't settled yet.

On the other side, the planes arrived and Sun Rongci came too. Someone wanted to move against the Huo family and was stopped by Mulan.

Tomorrow's target is Sun Rongci alone.

Before all the evidence is found, no one may alarm the Huo family, and no one may act on their own.

The five planes gave the flight school its start, and delivered Sun Rongci into Mulan's plan.

Qingyi made her bow her head but won no victory; Mulan saved the ceremony but pushed the truth of three years ago to their next confrontation.