赢的人活，输的人死

The plane is still flying.

Mulan reached that doorway in her story, and stopped.

Qingyi didn't press her.

After a while, she went on by herself.

I pushed the door open. The room was full of candles, and the floor was covered with dolls.

Xiaolan wore a white dress, sitting right there in the pile of dolls.

Xiaolan, it's me. Susu.

Who... are you? I don't know you.

Who hit your face? One of the Huo men?

I'm sorry, I'll never run again. I'm good, I'll sing for you. I'm not a person. I'm a doll.

Xiaolan, I came too late. I'm taking you away.

Who are you? Little girl, walked right in on your own, did you.

You're not human.

You dare hit me? I'll beat you to death.

That night, she and her comrade killed the Huo man, and carried Xiaolan out on her back.

The doctor looked at her and just shook his head.

She's covered in wounds, and the bleeding won't stop.

Nobody has ever treated her.

How she's held on until today, I don't know.

Think of something else. There has to be a way.

You... how did you get out of the orphanage? Didn't the matron sell you?

We all escaped. Nobody can hurt us anymore.

That's good. It's so good to see you.

From now on, we don't get separated.

Susu, I'm not going to make it.

A Huo man died at your hands. The Huo family won't let you go.

Leave this place, quickly.

We won't leave you behind.

When I die, take my ashes back to Nanyang. Will you?

I was nine when they took me. Thirteen years. I can't even remember what my father looked like.

I want to go home.

All right. I'll take you home.

It hurts. Sing to me. Just that one song.

I'll sing. Sleep. Once you're asleep it won't hurt.

Xiaolan fell asleep in her arms and never woke again.

Search, all of you! Turn the station upside down if you have to, but find her!

The Huo men have never seen you. Take Xiaolan and go first.

And you?

I'll draw them off. Keep the gun. Be careful on the road.

She got on the train. She had meant to die on that train. But Qingyi caught up with her.

The day you left, the flowers had just opened. You said you'd invite me to see them.

Still don't understand? I was with you only to use you. Did you think I could really like you?

If that's the truth, then shoot.

Pretend you never knew me.

Up in the sky, Mulan paused.

I wanted the Huo men to watch you kill the murderer with your own hands.

Then you'd be safe, and neither of us would owe the other anything.

I never imagined the Huo family would treat you the way they did.

So from beginning to end, you were with me only to save someone.

Yes.

Then why didn't you explain on the train?

You weren't dead. Why didn't you come back?

Why become Fang Mulan, and marry my elder brother?

Too many questions. That's a separate account, with its own price.

What price?

I want you to kill someone for me. Will you do it?

Kill who?

Old Master Huo.

You're insane! It's all people down there!

Isn't it his death you want?

Pull up!

Someone tampered with this plane. Maybe you fooled the others. I saw through it long ago.

You knew all along?

You were in a hurry to hold this opening. Something was up.

At the banquet, you couldn't sit still.

Before takeoff, a foreign woman was circling this plane.

Tell me. What did she plant?

A bomb.

No wonder. You held my brother back, but not me.

How did I not stop you?

Where's the bomb?

I don't know. If we land now, there's still time.

You don't know?

Have you thought about what comes after?

Once we land, you listen to me: don't touch the Huo family again.

Stay with me. I'll protect you.

You're too naive.

Naive, am I? Fine.

What are you doing?

If you want to die, I'll die with you.

Better than watching you do what you did three years ago: fail to save anyone, throw yourself away, and hurt others too.

I don't need you with me. My business won't drag you in.

There's a parachute behind me. Put it on and jump.

You're insane.

Dying is easy. Living is the hard part. Ren Susu.

Is it? Did the dead tell you that?

Then let's play a game. There's only one parachute left. The winner lives. The loser dies.

Fine. What game?

Do you love me, or hate me?

Hate you. So much I could tear the bones out of you.

Correct.

Then my turn. Do you love me, or hate me?

Guess.

You hate me.

Good. You win.

She had won. By his rules the parachute was hers, and he was the one to die. She didn't move.

Susu!

Ren Susu, you've got nerve. And still you couldn't go through with it. So stop pretending to be ruthless.

Murong Qingyi, we should have said goodbye three years ago.

I'm the one who wronged you.

But you have a new life now.

Stay away from me, and live well.

Is that all you have to say?

Everything you wanted to know, I've told you.

Where I'm going, I'll get there even if I have to crawl.

That road isn't yours.

And one more thing: once we're off this mountain, you still have to call me sister-in-law.

Ren Susu. Every word out of your mouth is a lie.

Qingyi! Can you move?

I'll live.

Cordon off the plane and get it examined. Whatever you find, not a word to anyone. Report straight to me.

That old dog of the Huo family has to die. A chance like that, and you want me to watch it go by? I can't.

If we hurt the innocent too, how are we any different from the Huo family?

Why did you stop it? Let him die in the sky. How clean that would have been.

And the teacher flying the plane? Does her life not count? Is your hatred worth more than her life?

The moment I see him, every scar on my body feels like it's tearing open again.

I try to hold it in. I can't.

Until he's dead, I can't sleep a single night.

The moment you planted that bomb, I lost the whole day to that plane.

And Nanny Sun?

Went back to the orphanage without a scratch.

We put our lives on the line, and never touched a hair on her head.

Dying that easily would let him off too lightly. What he owes, I want him to pay back slowly. Nanny Sun first.

After what happened today, the Huo family will be guarding the old man and hunting whoever bombed the plane. They won't have time for the orphanage.

Let me go.

I'll go.

I left something there. I have to take it back.

Tasiya, I know how much you hate him.

But act on your own one more time, and the bond between us sisters ends there.

Understood.

What are you squatting there for?

Get up!

Tomorrow the gentlemen and ladies come. You hold that doll and you cry!

If your crying doesn't bring money, nobody eats!

Everyone, line up!

The children stood in the cold wind. No one made a sound. Susu was almost there.