她自己上了那架飞机

Today is the opening day of Qingyu's school.

A lot of people came in from the city, and five new planes are parked on the grass.

People say the planes were secured by his wife, Mulan, for Qingyu.

Big sister-in-law has done quite a lot for my brother.

I only wanted to help him.

Then I should thank you properly.

The second young master has a sweet mouth today.

What's so good about the planes? I'm only looking at you.

Those planes are much better looking than I am.

Where are you going today?

I'm not going anywhere.

Fine. Then I'll be right behind you.

Don't follow me.

Who's following you? The road is wide. We each walk our own way.

Behind the school, the orphanage children are waiting to perform.

They stand very straight and don't say a word.

The woman in charge of them is called Nanny Sun.

So many children, and not a sound. They don't seem alive.

Miss Fang, the rules in the home are strict. The children don't dare upset the guests.

Strict enough that you don't even feed them?

They can't eat before a performance.

Then feed them now. If anyone upstairs asks, I'll answer for it.

Yes, yes. ...Miss Fang, haven't we met somewhere before?

I don't come here often. Nanny, go on to the front, they're waiting for you.

Nanny Sun left. When Mulan turned around, she saw Qingyi standing in the doorway.

You're following me.

I thought these children were strange, so I came to have a look.

Strange how?

The pastries have gone cold and nobody dares touch them. Is this raising children, or locking up prisoners?

Since when is the second young master so good at reading people?

Since three years ago.

Everything's ready. The moment she goes out, follow her.

Understood. Nothing goes wrong out front.

Miss Fang, where are you going?

I'm stepping out.

I've ordered an opera for you. A woman who died three years ago comes back today.

I don't have time for an opera.

Tell me — can the dead come back to life?

In an opera they can.

The day you left, three years ago, why didn't you leave one word?

With all these people here, you still want to ask?

I only want you to sit down and watch this opera to the end.

One opera, and you think you can hold me here all afternoon.

Then go.

Mulan didn't go. She listened to the singing on the stage, and what she was counting was how much time she had left.

Something's happened. Someone put a bomb on the old master Huo's plane.

Who told her to do it?

She did it herself. She couldn't wait any longer.

Today I do one thing only.

The old man deserves to die too.

If he dies now, we'll never find the people from back then.

Then what do we do?

Go out front, and stay close to the old man. Anyone who tries to board that plane, you stop them.

The plane was a gift from my own family. I'm not allowed to sit in it?

Sir, this plane is new, and the instructor doesn't know it yet. The old one beside it is better.

Miss Fang thinks too much. This one.

Then I'll fly it.

Can you even fly a plane? Don't make trouble here.

You taught me. Is the headmaster afraid of his own student?

Nobody knows this new plane. If something goes wrong, it costs lives.

Miss Fang is right. So the old man doesn't go up, and the instructor doesn't go up. Mulan, come up with me once.

You're threatening me.

Qingyi, come down.

If she won't, then my brother comes with me. The two of us go down together, and we'll see who can carry that.

Mulan looked at Qingyu, then at the plane.

She had one sentence that could stop him, and that sentence she could not say.

I'll go.

The plane climbed. The people on the ground disappeared. Now no one can stop them.

Why did you have to fly this plane? And why did I have to come up?

You said you'd tell me about three years ago. Now there's only the two of us.

For that one sentence, you took my whole day.

Did I force you?

I'm not telling you.

Then we stay up here and keep flying.

Three years ago, I was looking for Xiaolan.

Who is Xiaolan?

When I was small, she was the one who raised me.

She was in Beicheng?

In one of the Huo family's courtyards.

I got in three times, and all three times they beat me out.

The last time, a comrade dragged me away.

But back then, your letters kept coming to me, one after another.

The letters weren't a lie. I went to Beicheng only to find Xiaolan.

And then?

And then I ran into you in the street. The person from the letters was standing right in front of me. Those days, I was happy.

That sentence — am I allowed to believe it?

Hear me out. That winter, the Huo family was giving a banquet, and you asked me whether I wanted to go.

You agreed very quickly.

Because that was my only chance to get inside the Huo house.

When the day came, I said I wanted to walk in the garden, and you walked away.

You walked away so I could go to her.

There was one door between us. That was the closest I ever came to Xiaolan in Beicheng.

And then?

I never saw her again.

The plane is still in the sky.

The people below have their heads up, waiting for it to come down.

The bomb is still on the plane too, and no one has taken it off.

Qingyi doesn't know.