Episode 19 recap: The illusionist gambles with human lives.
Pan Yong guarded Yu Ba, and after Yu Ba woke up, he leisurely interrogated him, blaming him for keeping Yu Ba in the dark along with Jiang Yueling. Yu Ba didn't understand what Pan Yong was saying; he only cared about Jiang Yueling's safety. It was then that Pan Yong told Yu Ba that the illusionist was Sun Ruichen and that he couldn't bear to kill Jiang Yueling. Just as Pan Yong was feeling relieved, he learned that Sun Ruichen had taken Jiang Yueling to the casino, intending to use the unexploded explosives there to gamble with the lives of everyone on the ship.
Upon learning that there were still unexploded explosives, Pan Yong hurriedly rushed to the casino to see what Sun Ruichen was up to. While Jiang Yueling and Sun Ruichen were gambling, they discussed Sun Ruichen's plan, and he confessed everything he had done. Sun Ruichen wanted Jiang Yueling to fulfill his request, to let him go safely to Xiangjiang and kill Xie Chengqi, ending it all. However, Jiang Yueling refused to agree.
Sun Ruichen originally used Luo Zhongming's dissatisfaction with Pan Yong to hide on the Jilehao and target the people he wanted revenge on with Luo Zhongming's help. When he was dismantling Luo Zhongming's bomb, he had already made his final preparations. Sun Ruichen had planned to lure Luo Zhongming out while dismantling the bomb and stage his own death with Luo Zhongming's help.
Luo Zhongming thought he had killed Sun Ruichen and planned to escape using Sun Ruichen's appearance, but he didn't expect to be killed by Sun Ruichen instead. When Luo Zhongming realized that he had been deceived by Sun Ruichen, he destroyed the film to prevent Sun Ruichen from achieving his goal. It was because of this that Jiang Yueling began to suspect Sun Ruichen. Sun Ruichen confessed everything, but he didn't intend to spare Xie Chengqi or anyone else on the ship, so in the end, he used an illusion to deceive Jiang Yueling.
Jiang Yueling lost the gamble, and she could only plead with Sun Ruichen to spare the people on the ship. She reminded him that if he killed innocent people on the ship, he would be no different from Xie Chengqi. Sun Ruichen refused to be compared to Xie Chengqi and refused to spare anyone. Jiang Yueling could only use the treasure to beg Sun Ruichen to change his mind and at the same time reveal that she was Xie Chengqi's daughter.
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