Kill My Sins Episode 22 Recap
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Ye Ping'an knew that Hai Yiping wanted to use her to kill Li Zongxu and then frame her for the crime of holding the Li family hostage, killing two birds with one stone. This would also allow the Censor's case to be conclusively settled because of him. Despite this, Lu Danxin didn’t understand why Ye Ping'an still came.
Ye Ping'an explained that tonight was the only opportunity to expose Hai Yiping’s true face and force the Empress to reopen the Censor’s case. Lu Danxin said she would join forces with her and not disappoint her. On the other side of the city gates, Yuan Shaocheng had already prepared the archers. As soon as the Empress arrived, Ye Ping'an began executing her plan. She publicly accused Li Zongxu of harming women in Tongquan County over a decade ago.
Lu Danxin stepped forward, using the Seven-leaf Epiphyllum seal to strengthen the accusation against Li Zongxu. Lu Danxin raised her knife to kill Li Zongxu, but he didn’t recognize her and didn’t understand why she was trying to kill him. Lu Danxin explained that Hai Yiping had ordered her to do so, which caused a stir among the commoners below.
To them, Hai Yiping was a righteous and caring official, so it was natural for them to believe that Lu Danxin had been deceived. In order to have Li Zongxu also point to Hai Yiping, Ye Ping'an deliberately made him look toward Yuan Shaocheng, who happened to shoot an arrow at that moment. The arrow missed, but with Ye Ping'an whispering in his ear, Li Zongxu became convinced that it was indeed Hai Yiping who had ordered his death.
He immediately accused Hai Yiping of being the mastermind behind the Censor’s case. Hai Yiping quickly realized that Lu Danxin had turned against him and immediately declared his innocence to the Empress. Ye Ping'an then brought in Sun Xizheng, who had been a mutual friend of Yu Qian and Hai Yiping. Sun Xizheng provided the testimony of Chang Qing, which completely confirmed Hai Yiping’s crimes.
After reading the testimony, the Empress suppressed her anger and ordered Guo Yi to arrest Hai Yiping and take him to the Court of Judicial Review for interrogation. As for Li Zongxu, the Empress instructed Guo Yi to escort him safely back to his residence. Seeing that both Lu Danxin and Ye Ping'an were being arrested while he was unharmed, Li Zongxu grew increasingly arrogant.
However, to his surprise, Lu Danxin broke free from the guards, took Li Zongxu hostage, stabbed him several times, and gritted her teeth, forcing him to apologize for the women he had harmed. Ye Ping'an had already anticipated that Hai Yiping must have done something to Lu Danxin, and Lu Danxin confirmed that Hai Yiping was cunning and didn’t trust people. He had forced her to take poison, ensuring that she wouldn’t survive the night.
Lu Danxin, determined to go all out, pushed Li Zongxu off the city tower, causing him to fall to his death. She then jumped off the tower herself, ending her life. The next day, the Empress issued a decree, instructing the Court of Judicial Review, the Censorate, and the Ministry of Justice to hold a joint inquiry and thoroughly investigate the Censor’s case from the Zhaofeng years.
Hai Yiping had been locked in the Court of Judicial Review overnight, and Guo Yi had interrogated him for an entire night, but Hai Yiping refused to admit his crimes. He was skilled at disguising himself, and now there were commoners outside shouting in his defense. If they couldn’t find any evidence, both Guo Yi and Yuan Shaocheng would be forced to remove their official robes.
Ye Ping'an and Yuan Shaocheng went to Lu Danxin’s home and found a letter hidden in her sachet. The letter recorded that Hai Yiping had Yu Qian’s handwritten letter, which could be used as circumstantial evidence to convict him in the joint inquiry. He Mo Shan, a bailiff from the Court of Judicial Review, had been instructed to mess up Lu Danxin’s room in advance and had overheard Ye Ping'an and Yuan Shaocheng’s conversation.
A masked person had also instructed He Mo Shan to cut off useless branches in time. Yuan Shaocheng’s men indeed found an iron box at Hai Yiping’s residence. However, the box had a mechanism that would automatically burn it upon being opened. Fortunately, Ye Ping'an happened to have a bowl of water in hand and extinguished the fire, preserving this crucial piece of evidence. Hai Yiping still insisted that there was insufficient evidence.
Ye Ping'an then produced a letter that had been left behind by Sun Xizheng, who had been the Ministry of Justice’s registrar at the time. The letter was meant to silence people and had been written by Yu Qian himself. However, it had been meticulously altered by Hai Yiping, who had cut and pasted it together, forging a letter that was not Yu Qian’s original intent.
At first glance, the letter seemed fine, but when exposed to sunlight, the adhesive marks were clearly visible. Hai Yiping attempted to argue that the two books Yu Qian had given him had already been stolen from his residence, but Ye Ping'an countered that Hai Yiping’s mother would know if there had ever been any theft at the residence. At middle age, Hai Yiping didn’t want his elderly mother to be dragged into court because of him.
In the end, he confessed, admitting that he had taken the wrong step. Ye Ping'an thanked Guo Yi for his help. It turned out that although the original handwritten letter from Yu Qian had been burned by a trap set by Hai Yiping, Lu Danxin had carefully memorized the contents of the letter word for word.
Yuan Shaocheng had then copied Yu Qian’s handwriting and forged the letter, and because Ye Ping'an had kept a distance from Hai Yiping, he completely believed in the authenticity of the letter. Thankfully, the plan had been executed flawlessly, and Hai Yiping finally confessed to his crimes.
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