Resumo do episódio 17 de Unveil: Jadewind
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Li Peiyi and Xiao Huaijin confront Xia Shisan, the butcher for the Imperial Food Service, presenting their theory that he murdered Supervisor Huang Futong. They suspect Xia used a cart to force Huang into a specific path, where he then triggered a heavy millstone to fall from a roof.
Though Xia remains composed and claims he only parked the cart to save labor, the investigators find him highly suspicious; despite his messy work with meat, his sleeves are spotless, and his knife skills are far too precise for a common servant. The investigation takes a gruesome turn when Huang Futong’s body is moved to the mortuary, only for workers to find it professionally disemboweled.
Li Peiyi and Xiao Huaijin note that the incisions are exceptionally neat, suggesting the work of a skilled medical practitioner. While Xiao orders extra guards, Li, weary of the desecration and the spreading epidemic, suggests the bodies be burned immediately. That night, Xiao comforts a restless Li by observing a Moon-Venus conjunction, viewing it as an omen of harmony.
To uncover the truth, Gu Lingzhou and Wu Ren travel to Wanzhou to visit Benevolence Hall, where the technician known as Pei Yu allegedly studied. The headmaster speaks of Pei Yu as their greatest success but reveals a shocking discrepancy: the portrait of Pei Yu is that of a boy, not the woman currently in the palace. The headmaster recalls that as a child, Pei Yu had brought a nameless orphan girl to the hall.
She was a strange child who collected animal carcasses to study their anatomy, eventually frightening the other students so much that she was moved to the back mountains. Pei Yu continued to care for her until he was recruited for the palace by Physician Song Huaiyou. While the girl vanished shortly after, the headmaster notes that "Pei Yu" only recently began writing letters back to Wanzhou.
Back in the capital, suspicion falls on the female technician, Ying, who has assumed Pei Yu's identity. Li Peiyi confronts her after more bodies are found mutilated in the mortuary. Ying maintains that she only seeks to save lives, though Li senses a coldness in her demeanor. The investigation shifts back to Xia Shisan when medical books and daggers matching the incisions on the corpses are found in his room.
However, before he can be apprehended, Xia is found dead at the Clothing Bureau. Li and Xiao discover Ying standing over his body, having disemboweled him as well. She uses his blood as ink to write a detailed medical record, begging Li to deliver it to the Medical Office to help cure the epidemic before she collapses from exhaustion.
Once in custody, Ying confesses to the murders of Song Huaiyou and Huang Futong, claiming she is a monster driven by slaughter. However, Xiao Huaijin’s forensic examination of the scene and the coroner’s report on Xia Shisan tell a different story. The fatal wound to Xia’s neck was made at an angle suggesting he committed suicide while kneeling.
Furthermore, blood splatter patterns reveal that Ying had stood directly in front of him to block the spray, explaining why she was covered in blood while the walls remained clean. The final layer of the mystery is revealed through the discovery of a medicine pouch among Xia’s things. Li Peiyi learns that Ying and Xia Shisan—the real Pei Yu—had been meeting secretly for years.
They used rainy days as a signal; whenever Ying delivered rheumatism medicine to Su Jieyu, Xia would swap shifts to meet her. As orphans, they were kindred spirits. When Physician Song Huaiyou was impressed by a formula Ying had written, the real Pei Yu forced her to take his identity to enter the palace for a better life. He eventually castrated himself to follow her as a eunuch, vowing to clear any obstacles from her path.
He had killed Consort Li after she tried to blackmail Ying into poisoning Consort Shu. Finally, knowing he was dying of the epidemic, he committed suicide in front of Ying so she could study his internal organs to find a cure, ensuring her talent and compassion would not be wasted.
