Resumen del episodio 14 de Light to the Night
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In 2002, He Yuanhang prepared for his discharge from the hospital. His apprentice, Ran Fangxu, arrived early to help him pack. While tidying up, He Yuanhang noticed a paper titled "Paradox Thinking in Criminal Investigations" written by Ran. Although Ran dismissed it as naive "armchair theorizing" from two years prior, He Yuanhang praised its practicality and constructive insights. When asked about his future, He Yuanhang expressed his desire to remain with the criminal department despite his injuries.
Ran assured him that a position would be kept for him. However, He Yuanhang remained unsettled by the resolution of the Xu Meng case. He found it suspicious that a five-year-old mystery was wrapped up in less than three days. He suggested the possibility that Xu Meng might have escaped from Wu Shanlong long ago and that Wu had simply kept her shoes as trophies. During their talk, Ran revealed that Captain Feng had retired the previous week.
Realizing his apprentice had been promoted to Captain, He Yuanhang was genuinely happy for him and urged him to get back to his new responsibilities. Four months later, the police department focused on a theft ring hiding in an urban village. The group had stolen 1. 5 million yuan in cash from the Railway Administration. During a briefing, Director Zou caught Ran Fangxu dozing off after an all-nighter and sent him outside to wake up.
The operation’s main difficulty was the northeast corner of the village, which was filled with hidden paths and escape routes. Ran stepped up and volunteered to secure the area, a task so difficult that his colleagues joked he was staking his life on it. The operation was a success. Ran coordinated with a public security team to box in the suspect, Luandongzi.
Trapped in his car, Luandongzi immediately tried to bargain for leniency by reporting the property manager of Yuanlongli, Qian Dajun, claiming he was "bad news." Back at the station, Luandongzi tried to protect his accomplices by claiming he stole the money alone during a heavy rainstorm. Ran was skeptical. He calculated that 1. 5 million yuan weighed nearly forty pounds and that the escape route was 1,400 meters long.
To test the story, Ran forced Luandongzi to carry a thirty-pound bag of rice and run laps around a field, timing him to see if he could truly outrun security. Luandongzi collapsed in less than two minutes and confessed there were actually four of them. He also revealed that Manager Qian had a stash of valuables hidden in an underground garage at Yuanlongli.
Ran went to investigate the garage and caught Manager Qian rejecting a bribe in an attempt to look honest in front of the police. Ran noticed a locked box among some junk. Although Qian claimed it only contained discarded office consumables and that he had forgotten the passcode, he "remembered" it once Ran threatened to take him and the box to the station. Ran discovered evidence that Qian was embezzling property supplies to sell for profit.
Before leaving, Ran warned the manager that greed leads to ruin. Once Ran was gone, a relieved Qian secretly retrieved a human arm bone he had been hiding. Meanwhile, He Yuanhang continued his private investigation into Xu Meng’s past. He tracked down a relative who revealed that Xu Meng once had a boyfriend named Wan Qiming. Her father had disapproved of the relationship and forced them apart.
He Yuanhang recalled a description of a suspicious, well-mannered man with glasses who fit Wan's profile. He later visited a magazine studio owned by Wan, only to find the owner was away for field research. The assistant mentioned that Wan had previously worked in Guangdong and had a peculiar interest in collecting antique knives and making biological specimens. On the home front, tensions between He Yuanhang and his daughter, He Xiaohe, reached a breaking point.
Now in her rebellious phase, Xiaohe showed up with green hair and a punk aesthetic, which her father dismissed as a "rock nerve" phase rather than "rock spirit." He was further enraged to learn from her teacher that she had been skipping school and had a total score of only 95 on her mock exams—contradicting Ran's attempt to claim she scored 95 in every subject. Ran acted as a peacemaker, driving Xiaohe to her music club.
On the way, Xiaohe noticed Ran blushing while texting and advised him to buy flowers for Qiao Suqing. Ran followed the advice and met Qiao Suqing for a date, bringing a cake and flowers. During their conversation, Qiao Suqing opened up about her traumatic years working for an abusive, light-sensitive old man at Yuanlongli. She had endured his physical and verbal abuse only because she needed the high pay to settle her late mother's debts.
She admitted she had stayed in that miserable apartment even after the old man died, hoping she might run into Ran again. Ran offered to let her stay in an apartment assigned to him by his unit, but she politely declined, feeling she didn't deserve such kindness. Elsewhere, Xiaohe fled a rehearsal after a friend’s father discovered them and chased them out. While wandering, she met a young man playing a guitar.
Fascinated, she asked him to teach her, but he told her he was leaving for another city the next day. He encouraged her to go to Beijing if she truly wanted to pursue the origins of Chinese rock. As Ran was driving back later that evening, he encountered a massive fire at a roadside house. He rushed to the scene just as an ambulance arrived, hearing from the crowd that a child had tragically been unable to escape the smoke. Xiaohe, who had just left her friend's house, narrowly avoided the disaster.
