I Am Nobody Episode 10 Recap
> I Am Nobody Recap
Someone reveals to Zhang Chulan that his grandfather's murderer has been near him all along, helping him extract a memory from his grandfather's last moments. Zhang Chulan dismisses this, laughing and calling the memory fake. He argues that when his grandfather died, Feng Baobao was only eight or nine years old, while the Feng Baobao depicted in the memory appears to be over twenty. He tells the person their lie is too ridiculous and they should try harder next time.
The person challenges him to verify the truth himself before leaving. As the person departs, Zhang Chulan is overcome by a sudden memory of seeing a family member fall into blood when he was very young. Disturbed, he rushes forward. Meanwhile, Mr. Xu and others confront a person they believe might have information about Sinister Pleasure. Mr. Xu pressures the person, demanding to know what Sinister Pleasure wants and accusing them of making a deal with Shen Chong.
He warns them that Shen Chong's clients lose their humanity and eventually kill their loved ones, including their own siblings, as their qi is drained. Mr. Xu directly accuses the person of killing their brother, Hu Sheng. The person becomes distressed, denying they killed anyone and insisting they "are" Hu Sheng. However, they then seem to struggle with their identity, mentioning 'Hu Jie' and lamenting their brother. Suddenly, they shift, declaring 'I am Hu Jie. I killed my brother. .
. No! Sinister Pleasure did!' As they repeat 'Sinister Pleasure' incoherently, Mr. Xu observes that it is 'time to collect what is due' and Shen Chong is draining the person's qi remotely. The person is declared lost. It is revealed that this person was actually Hu Jie, whose face had been disguised as Hu Sheng by Yu Huadu. It is concluded that Gao Ning and Shen Chong are responsible for their deaths.
Mr. Xu instructs Xu Si to issue an arrest warrant and tells Xu San to summon Zhang Chulan immediately. Feng Baobao is discovered to be missing from the scene. Mr. Xu is found severely injured, having lost a significant amount of blood. Despite his critical condition, he refuses to go to the hospital, stating he knows his body and has important information to share. Xu Xiang and others are shown caring for him.
Xu San is tasked by Mr. Xu with finding Zhang Chulan. When Zhang Chulan arrives to see Mr. Xu, there is a sudden, confusing incident involving two individuals appearing as Zhang Chulan. After this confusion, Xu San speaks to Zhang Chulan about Feng Baobao's true nature.
Xu San explains that in his past travels to perfect a technique called Flowing Rainbow by analyzing various people's qi, he visited a nation where convicted criminals had their brain white matter completely destroyed, causing them to lose their memories and sense of self. This procedure turned their qi colorless. Xu San states that Feng Baobao's qi is also colorless, indicating that her 'primordial spirit' has been reset, leaving her without the qualities that make her fully human.
He questions if Zhang Chulan truly understands who she is. Zhang Chulan immediately confronts Feng Baobao, directly asking if she killed his grandfather. Someone present questions why Baobao would do such a thing, but Zhang Chulan insists he is asking only her. He repeats his question. Feng Baobao calmly replies, "Your grandfather. . . Yes, I killed him." Someone urges Zhang Chulan to calm down. Zhang Chulan then asks Mr. Xu if he was present when his grandfather was killed.
Mr. Xu, still injured, tells Zhang Chulan to sit, stating he will share what he knows about 'Wu,' explaining that 'Wu is Baobao' and he has used that name for many years. He assures Zhang Chulan that he is safe and the people present are capable of harming him if that were their intention. Mr. Xu begins recounting events from the Year of Jiashen. He describes a time when his family lived in the mountains.
His family, including his parents and his younger self (known then as Xiang), discovered a young woman alone and silent, who didn't appear to be local. Villagers harassed her, but young Xiang defended her. His family took her in, offering food and shelter. As she didn't speak and seemed to have lost her memory, they called her 'Wu.'
After some time, while being taught to speak, read, and write by Xiang's mother (Zhao), Wu wrote 'Feng Baobao,' saying it was the only name she remembered and she thought it was hers. One day, while thinking about her past, Wu had a strange physical reaction. Xiang's mother sought help from the elder Mr. Xu, a former physician, who observed Wu in a specific meditative posture.
He suspected she was cultivating qi, explaining it was a practice of mystics, something he had attempted unsuccessfully in his youth. He felt a strange, comforting breeze around her. The elder Mr. Xu warned them not to speak of Wu to others, sensing a complex background that might cause trouble. Wu explained that her head felt like it would burst, and the posture relieved the pain by making something inside her flow smoothly, feeling comfortable afterward.
She didn't know who taught her but thought she knew it from the past. She sensed a similar 'thing' inside young Xiang and tried to teach him how to gather and settle it by calming his mind, as 'distractions' would scatter it like water. This was young Xiang's first encounter with qi. He secretly practiced cultivating qi under Wu's guidance daily, feeling himself become stronger.
He later realized how difficult and dangerous the initial step of gaining 'qi sense' was without Wu's help. Over the next five years, Wu became an integral part of the family. They lived a simple life, teaching her, taking photos (including a "family photo"), and finding joy in everyday moments, like Zhao singing the 'Huangyang shoulder pole' song. Young Xiang cherished this period as the happiest of his life.
During this time, a relative, Second Aunt, proposed that Wu marry her son, but the family refused, debating Wu's future and acknowledging that she couldn't stay forever without finding her own family. Young Xiang's deep affection for Wu became apparent as he suggested they officially adopt her if her family couldn't be found. His mother expressed reservations, finding Wu somewhat emotionally distant and questioning if she truly felt like family.
When asked if she liked them or Xiang, Wu struggled to define 'like' but affirmed that she did, repeating the word while trying to understand the feeling. Five years after her arrival, they decided to celebrate that day as her birthday, solidifying her place in the family. However, their happiness was shattered by a bandit attack. The bandits stole their possessions, injured young Xiang, and planned to burn the villagers.
Zhao desperately pleaded with the bandits to spare Wu, whom she referred to as her daughter. Witnessing Zhao's grief and tears, Wu felt a physical pain in her chest for the first time and realized this feeling was 'like' – she liked them and didn't want to see them hurt. Promising Zhao she would make the bandits pay with their lives, Wu unleashed incredible strength, brutally killing all the attackers.
Young Xiang, who was present, later reflected that while his mother feared he would be traumatized by the bloodshed, his perspective as someone already entering the world of 'outsiders' led him to see the event not as shocking violence, but as something profoundly weird and mysterious.
