Episode 2
Excuse me, have you seen this girl before?
Have you seen this girl before?
No.
Sign: Music Club Practice Room
Well? Not bad, right?
All the equipment is installed.
No, this practice room is a death-trap.
I worked really hard for this.
We?re enduring, hardworking Chinese people.
This little blip won?t bother us.
I'm here to give you a demonstration.
See what the standard of the business is.
That is...
Everyone will study here based on this standard.
Come closer, I?ll demonstrate.
Watch closely.
Quiet, stop laughing.
What?re you laughing at?
What are you laughing at?
Who let you wear flower shorts?
Who let you wear flower shorts!?
Can you wear that to class?
What?s wrong about it?
What do you mean, what?s wrong?
Do you wear that to class?
They look nice.
Of course you don?t!
You can?t wear that to class, you know!
C-c-can you wear that to class?
You?re not serious at all.
We?ll talk again next time! Next time!
Who wears flower shorts?
That... professor...
Wearing flower shorts to class.
What... what wrong with what I'm wearing?
Professor Luo!
Wearing flower shorts.
Professor Luo!
Why is it always like this?
What should I do?
I know, right? What should we do?
You scared me!
Why do you always get so close?
Then why do you always talk to yourself?
What do you care? I?m venting.
Just go, leave, leave.
Of course I care.
It?s very important.
I want to ask you when we?re having that dinner party.
Dinner party? That?s all you think about.
Is that really important right now?
Yeah, it is.
It?s the only reason I joined the club.
If you don?t keep your promise, I?ll leave.
I know! I get it! Dinner, dinner, dinner!
Okay, remember!
We?ll go eat when I?m really starving, okay?
Okay! Okay! Okay!
You make me so angry, stupid Zhang You Tiao!
*Note: She's rhyming his name, Zhang Hao, with Zhang You Tiao, which would make his name literally mean "Zhang Donut"
We oughta go to Santorini, too.
Our destined love might be waiting for us there too.
Don?t randomly touch other people?s stuff.
I?m just helping him look.
If I look closely,
I might be able to have a chance encounter with her when I'm drinking soy milk or eating kabobs.
I?m off to class. You coming?
No class today, I?m gonna nap.
That Theory of International Economics is like walking the Long March.
*Long March - occurred from October 1934-October 1935 when the Communist Party's Red Army was retreating from the Chinese Nationalist Party. The distance covered by the Red Army during that year ranges from 3,700 miles - 8,000 miles.
I get hungry way earlier than usual.
Oh yeah,
I have to return some books or else I?ll get a fee.
Give them to me.
I'm passing by the library today.
I?ll return them for you.
Thanks. These three books.
Xiu Qi, have you seen Zhang Hao?s photo?
The one with him and that Santorini girl?
No, why?
Crap, crap, crap, I really lost it.
What?
After I finished looking at it, I couldn?t find it.
Have you looked everywhere for it?
Everywhere. I even went through Wang Min Qiang?s smelly desk
I looked between all the discs.
All of those discs are action films.
Be serious for a second.
How scary will it be
when that normally happy-go-lucky hippy dude gets angry?
With that build of his...
Do you know what constellation he is?
Scorpio!
He?ll kill me for sure if he finds out I lost his beloved picture.
What does that have to do with constellations?
Not good, not good. You have to help me.
You gotta help me.
Help me, or else I?m done for.
How can I help you?
Think of something.
Fine, just let go first.
No.
You?re hurting me, hey.
Zhang Hao, are you looking for this?
What is it doing here?
What happened to it?
It?s like that because?
Don?t you know how rude that is?
Even if we live in the same room,
you can?t go around touching other people?s things.
And why is the photo like this?
Zhang Hao, it?s not what you think.
I don?t want something like this to happen again, okay?
And you,
the student body president, oughta know how to respect other people, y?know.
Let?s talk again when you calm down.
Are you busy? I have to tell you something.
I?m not in the mood. How about later?
I?m the one who creased your photo.
I only wanted to take a look at it,
but I put it in a book.
Li Xiu Qi just got it back from the book at the library.
What?
A-actually, today when you guys fought,
I should?ve have explained this to you.
How about this? Hit me to clear your anger.
I can take it. Come on.
Don?t, don?t hit my face.
Where?s Xiu Qi now?
Xiu Qi? The library?s closed today.
He studying somewhere else.
No, don?t go.
You?re letting this chance slip.
You really... you aren?t going to hit me.
This is your last chance. I?m leaving.
Sign: Student Housing
Dashu! Hold on a second, please!
*Da Shu - same meaning as Shushu
You?re doing good work late at night.
Zhang Hao.
That?s a really new lock.
Can I look at it?
This, a new lock?
Wow, it looks so high-grade.
Is this how you use it?
Why won?t it unlock?
Hey! You kid.
You?ve thrown away the key so late at night.
I?m sorry.
How am I going to lock the door if I can?t find it?
Where?d you throw it? I can?t see anything.
Zhang Hao, Zhang Hao.
I found it!
You just about scared me to death. Go back to your dorm.
I?m sorry.
It?s fine.
Sorry. Good night!
You didn?t have to do that.
Still, thanks.
No need to thank me.
It?s me who should apologize to you.
Jun Cai told me.
I was too impulsive before, sorry.
You see,
I didn't think much beforehand.
I came here only thinking about finding her.
I don?t know where she lives.
I don?t know what she does.
All I have is that one photo.
Luo Man isn?t even her real name.
In this unfamiliar place, with nothing going right,
I feel a little confused and unsettled.
So, I?m sorry.
Alright, it?s fine, I understand.
Oh, by the way,
what is that?
I saw it downstairs too.
I don?t know what it means either.
But I thought it looked interesting,
so I copied it.
Did you make up?
No more fighting?
Still fighting?
Fighting?s bad, don?t hit him.
You, you hit him. Punch him.
How far is this going to go?
Nobody bring it up anymore.
Hey, anybody seen my socks?
Ma Jun Cai.
Ni, ni (you).
What we just?
Without realizing it, I?d gotten used to
life on a Chinese school campus.
Ni hao (hello).
*Note: They're repeating sounds/phrases to get the tones down.
Xing, xing (happy).
Fu, fu (blessed).
Xing Fu, xing fu (happiness).
But every time I remember my short time in Santorini,
I just can?t forget
her silhouette.
My nameless girl, where are you?
Zhang You Tiao, I have work for you.
I haven?t finished this yet.
Here. The boss is making you take this to the vegetable supplier.
I?m here to help you finish your work.
How nice.
Upperclassmen always take care of their underclassmen.
Okay, thanks.
Luo-shixiong, in a little while someone will come deliver beer.
Remember to put the cases in the stockroom, okay?
Beer?
Yeah.
A lot of it.
A week?s worth.
You don?t need my help?
Of course not.
What?s with that look?
Ah~
Did Ding Ling-jie really send you,
but when you saw how far it was and how hot it is,
you pushed it to me. Right?
Never thought you?d have to move beer cases.
What are you talking about? The boss wanted you to go.
I?ll help you take care of the beers.
Okay. Work hard.
Am I stupid?
Did you finish stacking them?
Tell me,
would it have been that bad to make Zhang Hao move the boxes and you go out?
You had to go and change it.
It?s a long story. This is just how it is.
You?re here.
Song: "Parisienne Walkways" by Blues Alive
?I remember Paris in '49.
?The Champs Elysee, Saint Michel, and old Beaujolais wine.
?And I recall that you were mine
?in those Parisienne days.
So familiar... where have I seen her before?
?Looking back at the photographs
?Those summer days spent outside corner cafés
?Oh, I could write you paragraphs
Hello? Zhang You Tiao? Hurry back.
What? You miss me?
I don?t have time to joke around with you.
Luo Man?s here.
I know Luo Man?s (you?re) there.
What about it?
Not the Luo Man who moved the beer cases,
the Luo Man you?ve been searching for.
The girl you took a photo with in Santorini.
What?
Thank you.
Hi, I?m Zhang Hao.
I?m Zhang Hao. I came to China for you.
That day... why weren?t you at the church that day?
What?s your real name?
Who... are you?
W... who am I?
W-what are you saying?
I think you have the wrong person. I don?t know you.
What? That girl is the person you?re searching for?
Right!
I met her in Santorini.
We both liked each other then.
But I don?t know why she suddenly disappeared.
I couldn?t find her at all when I got to China.
I never thought I?d meet her here again.
Goodness.
What a huge coincidence.
It?s definitely her.
I?m not mistaken.
Why is she pretending to not know me?
That really is strange.
Not good, I have to find her.
I need an answer.
Do you have a way to contact her?
I don?t.
Actually,
she never talks to anyone when she comes here.
She?s been coming for six months now.
All I do is greet her when I see her.
When will she come next?
I don?t know.
She?ll come every once in a while to sing a few songs.
There?s no fixed time.
Hey!
Where are you going, Zhang You Tiao?
The school?s this way.
The scenery?s different on a clear day.
No wonder everyone says
you need to come to Santorini.
I?ve wanted to come here for a very long time.
Luo Man.
Did you see?
He really...
What are you looking at?
Nothing.
Let?s go.
Zhang Hao,
where?d you go so late?
I just took a walk.
Luo Man told me.
That girl said she doesn?t know you.
You okay?
How could I be?
I really don?t understand.
But it?s fine.
I really am my mom?s son.
My mom?s a very optimistic person.
Even when she was in the hospital for chemotherapy,
she?d talk to me with a smile.
She fought so hard.
But do you know?
When she said she didn?t recognize me,
my mind went blank.
But then I began to think that
she must have some difficulties
that are making her pretend to not know me.
So
I?m definitely going to find her and ask her upfront.
You?re right.
I think she has some painful thing she can?t discuss as well.
She really is my destiny.
If she wasn?t, God wouldn?t let me see her one more time.
This must be what destiny is.
Alright, seeing that you?re full of energy, I?m relieved.
Let?s hurry back to the dorm.
Ding Ling-jie, here?s your coffee.
Thanks.
Jie!
My heart skipped a beat!
What are you doing here so early?
It?s not time for your shift yet.
I have a favor to ask.
Go ahead.
That...
That girl who performs here,
could you tell me right away if she comes again?
Sure!
Don?t worry, I?ll definitely let you know.
I?ll help you hold onto her.
Thanks, jie.
Whatever happens,
please tell me right away.
Don?t worry.
Thank you.
Phone: Shu Qing
These coffee beans from Lanshan are super delicious.
Do you want a cup?
No thanks.
I skipped class to come here, I gotta hurry back.
Are you using Makeup Forever?s lipstick today?
You have such good taste.
I?m off. Bye-bye.
Bye.
That kid
knows his stuff.
Your phone.
Shu Qing.
What?s up?
Hey, ayi.
*Ayi - literally "aunt," but also a polite way to call an older lady
Isn?t this stir fried pork with noodles?
Where?s the pork?
It?s healthier with more noodles.
Don?t complain.
Look at how many are in line.
Next.
It should just be called fried noodles then.
Vegetables are ¥1.50, meat adds ¥3.00.
More vegetables! More vegetables!
I just saw Song Qing.
Where?s she now?
She?s over there giving a lesson.
She lives so strenuously.
I think it?s good she does these things.
Society needs people like her to stand up.
You?re right,
Song Qing is doing the right thing.
Wen Ting Ting.
You?re personality is also very swift.
Whatever Li Xiu Qi says, you?ll always agree 100%.
You never accept when other people are right.
Oh yeah, where?s Zhang Hao?
He said he had something to do.
He even skipped his early class.
Here he is.
Were you talking about me?
Yesterday you looked half-dead,
now you?re all scatterbrained.
Yesterday?
Did I look like that?
What does ?scatterbrained? even mean?
?Scatterbrained? means,
?You?re awesome.?
I?m awesome?
Yup, yup.
Luo-shixiong, thanks.
You?re also scatterbrained.
You?re calling me Luo-shixiong, too?
Is that a problem?
No matter what I call you, you always freak out.
Luo-shixiong.
Everyone affectionately calls you ?Luo-shixiong?
because you?re obviously the model of a perfect woman.
Right, right.
Zhang Hao,
aren?t you taking Modern Chinese History?
I have notes for that class.
If they?ll help you, you can have them.
Awesome!
I was really worried about that class.
It?s a harder class than I imagined.
Thanks.
Zhang Hao, do you like eating meat fried in chili peppers?
I?m full, you can have mine.
Thanks.
Are you two being lovey-dovey in front of me?
What are you talking about?
Don?t touch me.
We?re good roommates and friends.
Xiu Qi,
do you want to play basketball after we?re finished?
With your good roommate and friend?
I haven?t had a good sweat in a while.
My body doesn?t feel right.
Of course.
Yeah!
Luo-shixiong!
Pass the ball back!
Move, move, move.
Luo Man, you get one in.
Good job, you really are Luo-shixiong.
Xiu Qi, come on, let?s continue.
What?s so great about basketball anyway?
What?
This time I?m meeting with
Chinese major hotties?
Sure thing, bro.
You pulled through this time.
I know, I know
how much energy you use to put these together.
Of course I?ll feed you.
That...
Okay, okay, okay.
I-I?ll be there soon.
Talk to you later.
It?s my friend.
Always happy,
never has any problems.
You?re too much.
Altering your picture
so you look like someone else.
I think that photo
r-really looks like me.
The most important part is
I?m a part of a music club now.
Do you want to see my fellow musicians?
Sorry, I need to use the restroom.
Pretty girl, the restroom?s over there.
Eat some pizza.
Get outta here.
What pizza?
It?s just a crusty pancake from Xinjiang.
It?s not the same thing!
T-then, I?ll feed you.
What?s different about it?
Try it, it?s delicious.
Hello. Your total is ¥103.
Let?s go, let?s go.
So full.
Hold on.
It won?t be good if my classmates see us together.
I?ll go this way, you go that way.
Okay?
Okay.
Hold on.
Here?s a kiss! Keep at it!
This kid.
Didn?t you just say you were afraid people?d see?
Alright, alright, bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
Luo-shixiong.
My missing friend, tell me,
how can you be with that bald professor?
That girl
is really oblivious.
Today I spent ¥103 on lunch,
spent ¥86 at the supermarket,
and last weeks books cost ¥290.
I spent way too much this month.
I need to keep hold of my income.
Do a good job.
Hi!
What were you talking to yourself about?
What are you doing, scaring me to death?
You tell me.
You?re working here, too?
Bingo!
Do you have a talking-to-yourself illness?
That?s the sign of a mental illness.
Take note.
Are we that close?
And from now on when we?re working, pretend you don?t know me.
Get it?
Okay.
I still want your advice on something.
You?ve been working at the library for such a long time.
You?re my senior and have more experience.
Of course I do.
So,
where does this book go?
Its title is ?Marketing.?
Let me see.
It goes over here.
Understand?
So amazing.
What about this book?
?Zhong Guo Ren Min Hen Xing?
*Note: he misreads the two last characters
It?s title is ?Zhong Guo Ren Min Yin Hang? (People's Bank of China).
Yin Hang (Bank).
You drank too much foreign water.
*Meaning, it's evident he's not a native.
Put it over here.
This is the finance section.
This one goes over here.
These too.
Put it over here.
Have you learnt the system?
Bonehead.
I?m ever so thankful.
You really helped me finish all of today?s work.
I?ll go now.
Zhang You Tiao! Come back here!
Li Xiu Qi! I?m about to lose it!
That Zhang You Tiao pisses me off!
He actually dared to order me around!
Calm down, calm down.
Sorry, sorry.
What are you apologizing for!?
Let?s go, let?s go.
From the first time I saw him,
the first time!
I had bad luck.
First he pushed me into the lake,
made me lose my bread.
Then he stole my job,
made my wages be split.
Now,
he?s actually ordering me around!
Tell me! What did I do to him!?
Why am I always running into him?
That stupid Zhang You Tiao.
Isn?t he just an exchange student?
What?s so great about that?
I?ve never hated someone this much before.
Never!
Stop hitting, stop hitting.
Your legs will bruise.
Here, here.
Have some water, calm down.
Li Xiu Qi,
you were my sixth-grade desk-mate,
and my neighbor for two more years.
I?m warning you now, don?t hang out with someone like that.
What kind of person is that?
He?s our friend.
Friend?
Who?s his friend?
Choose me or him!
Luo Man,
since he came from America, he?s already faced a lot of hardships.
His life isn?t easy.
Could you not be so immature?
Why are you forming cliques?
Immature? You?re really calling me immature?
You?ve changed, Li Xiu Qi.
You called me immature because of that stupid You Tiao!
I take it back, I take it back. Let it go.
Don?t you have to get to work?
That Zhang You Tiao even made me forget my shift.
I?m leaving now! Bye-bye.
Don?t be lazy.
Don?t nag!
Why is this grass so slippery?
Welcome.
Please take a look at the menu.
Qingdao, ¥35.
*Qingdao, aka Tsingtao, is a type of beer.
Baiwei, ¥45.
Corona, ¥50.
Which would you like?
Give me fried rice with egg.
My apologies, sir.
We don?t serve that here.
You don?t?
How could you not even have fried rice with egg?
You can do business like this?
We serve Western food here.
You?re so quick. No...
Just forget it.
This is a Western restaurant.
Such a big place can?t even serve fried rice with egg?
Is this really a Western restaurant?
Sir, this...
We do.
We have
fried rice with egg here.
Boss, we do?
Of course we do.
A-Qi, tell the kitchen to specially make this man one.
Okay.
Please, sit.
Your fried rice with eggs.
A-Qi.
I?ll go.
Sir.
Your total is ¥80.
*approx. $12
Huh?
¥80 for fried rice with egg?
Mm.
But I told you guys...
What?s wrong with you?
I got that candle stand from Austria!
That?s not... I...
This man, I swear.
I-isn?t the total ¥20?
*approx. $3
Why did you say it was ¥80?
Okay, I understand.
You want to cheat me, don?t you?
Y-you, this stupid porcelain.
It was ¥20, but now ¥80 won?t be enough.
Do you know how much that cost?
Money?s not even the important part.
Do you know what it took to get that here!?
Stop, stop.
I-I... I didn?t... I won?t keep talking with you.
I?ll pay you back.
¥20 for fried rice with egg, right?
¥5 dollars for this stupid glass stand.
Altogether, I?ll give you ¥25.
*approx. $4
What are you playing at?
You go around looking for fights, don?t you?
Look for fights?
I-I... I just had fried rice with egg.
Do I look like someone looking for a fight?
How could you not?
Look what you did!
Pay me back!
No.
You can?t say it?s ¥80.
It says right here ¥20.
That?s not the issue here.
Paying me back is the issue.
I paid you for the food and the thing.
Dad, Dad, what?s going on?
Hold on.
He?s your dad?
This person is your dad?
What?s that mean?
What kind of person am I?
You?re this kind of person.
Stop fighting.
That is... Ding Ling-jie,
take the cost of that thing out of my paycheck.
Your paycheck?
I?ll have to take from your paycheck into next year for all the cups and bowls you barely cleaned.
If I add in that,
you'll have to prepare yourself to work here until you retire.
Then...
Then what should I do?
What do you mean, what should you do? Y?
You!
Clean the bathrooms for eight months!
What proof do you have?
Show me the proof.
Where?s your proof?
Sign: Music Club Practice Room
How can you talk to Luo Man without proof?
Look, just look.
Goodness!
Is this proof enough?
Oh my God.
They?re being so lovey-dovey on the street.
Now that you mention it,
the one who made me take Professor Luo?s class was Luo Man.
And that class is so boring, I want to cry.
She defends him.
So that?s how it is.
Think about it,
Luo Man fought so hard to get the Music Club.
This explains why.
But I always thought
something wasn?t right.
It?s so hard to understand.
Unless... unless they?re related.
How about
when Luo Man comes,
we all ask her.
You can?t ask, though.
You with your dirty mouth.
I have no idea what you?ll say.
It?s better if Zhang Hao talks.
How about you ask?
Me?
Ask what?
Luo Man! You're done for.
Done for?
I?ll have you know,
you were with Professor Luo Hai Bin at a restaurant.
I photographed you together with him.
Tell me, is he your boyfriend?
No, no, no! You all have it wrong.
You?ve really misunderstood.
He?s just...
J-just... my professor.
Professor?
I have the proof right here, are you still going to deny?
No... I?m going crazy!
Crazy?
Crazy in love.
It?s fine, Luo Man, I understand.
No, no! It?s really not what you think.
I?ll have you all know!
Luo Man is my daughter.