Episode 20
Mr. Zhang, you're here to check up on our work again?
I just want to know if the first of next month is available now?
The news reached you fast. I was just notified. Why, you need it on the first?
Not that. I'm interning at JM now
and I want to get it for JM on the first.
Also, we have a budget. I'm not using it for free.
In terms of the price, give me a friendly discount.
For anyone else it's a friendly discount. For you, it's a princely discount. No one else will get this price.
Great. This is my colleage Song Nuan. Go and finish the paperwork with her.
Alright.
Why aren't you doing the paperwork?
Just do what I say, go.
Here. This is the payment schedule.
Take a look. If you don't have any questions, sign here.
Alright.
The contract will be effect as soon as we receive the deposit.
No problem.
Great, sign here.
Once we receive the deposit, your date will be blocked off.
- Then I'm signing. - Sign, sign.
Here.
Why didn't you sign it just now? It's the same either way.
Since it's the all the same, why wouldn't I let you take the credit?
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You guys got Feng Hua Meeting Hall?
Song Nuan already signed the contract, they're just waiting for the deposit now.
That's great. Thank you, Zhang Sheng.
I have a list of potential attendants.
You two go and confirm with each of them.
Make sure they're available on that date.
These are all big shots in the industry.
Trust Zhang Sheng to have good taste.
Oh right, all the interns have to be transferred over to help us.
You two are the ringleaders.
Alright, then I'll be going back to work. It's up to you guys now.
Alright.
Are the people on here famous?
Let me give you an example.
If these people were all on the same plane
and we lost contact with it for some reason,
China's communications industry would go back to pre-liberation times. [T/N: Before 1949.]
That extreme?
Are we able to invite people this powerful?
You have to try everything. Our company's abilities aren't bad either.
Start calling.
Director Li! Hello, Director Li. I'm Song Nuan, from the administration department at JM Company.
- This is my business card. - I'm sorry.
Our company is having a news conference very soon,
if you can attend
if you could attend.
Director Li, this is our letter of invitation. Please accept it. Director Li.
This- Brother.
- Let us out! - Let us out! Let us out!
You don't have the right to detain us, we're here for work.
Under the administrative penalties of the People's Republic of China,
the act of restricting someone's freedom can only be done by the public security bureau.
No one else has this power.
- Let us out! - What's this noise?
I've been in this company for so long, it's the first time I've seen such a high IQ crime. Forging ID cards,
and unsuccessful attempting to enter our company as an employee. Detaining you was letting you off easy.
Brother, we had no other choice.
Your Director Hou is a rare talent in the industry.
We really hope he can attend our JM's new conference,
but if we went by the proper procedures, we'd always get redirected and never get to see him.
All of that means nothing to me. I'm taking care of crime when I see it.
No, that- Brother, what crime? It's not like we stole-
Stop explaining. Since you didn't tell any lies,
today you can leave. But I'm warning you,
if you use this dishonest method again, I'll catch you without a second thought.
You, go open the door.
Thank you. Thank you brother.
Excuse me.
I've waited here for the entire morning. To be precise, 3 hours and 23 minutes.
I just want to know, is Director Lu coming to the office today? Can you give me a straight answer?
Our policy says any visitors without appointments must wait.
If you're unhappy, you can leave. No one's stopping you.
Mom, mom. Why are you here?
I'm missed you, so I'm here to see you. Hungry?
What did you bring for me?
It's my favourite.
Slow down.
This is so tasty, mom.
Then eat lots, slowly.
Are all white-collars this busy?
You normally eat lunch like this too?
Not really. It's because the company is planning a meeting lately
so it's busier.
Working while you eat isn't good for the stomach.
Mom, I'm gonna take this.
Hello?
Really?
That's- that's great. Thank you, thank you.
This is Secretary Xu's number? Let me write it down.
Hold on.
Alright, thank you! Thanks.
Who are these people?
These are all industry big-shots.
The company are relying on kids like us to invite them.
This is a task that's impossible to complete.
Mom, do you know how hard this is for us?
Ask your dad.
Ask your dad for help.
Ask my dad?
You dad is now a vice-president, he has some power.
Tell him to step up and ask for you, it's better than you guys alone.
Mom, it's really okay.
We can do it ourself, don't trouble my dad.
This is nothing.
I... I need to make another call.
Mom, help me hold this.
1311 - Hui Tong Investment Limited Company
Song Nuan is always needlessly formal.
Why can't she use her own dad?
Hello.
Who are you looking for?
I'm looking for VP Song.
Do you have an appointment?
No. I'm his wife.
Oh, you're his wife? Alright, I'll let him know now.
Okay, thank you.
VP Song, your wife is here.
Lisa, this isn't my wife.
You're not my husband either. My wife is VP Song.
Song Guang Ming, your company's vice-president.
Madame, my last name is Song, and I'm an executive of this company.
Are you sure you're in the right place?
1311, that's right.
Hui Tong Investment Group's Shanghai branch.
We're not the company you're talking about.
You seem to be talking about the previous company that rented this place.
Lisa, you take care of this. I'm going back in.
Miss,
the previous company? That's not right.
I just called my husband, and he said he was in the office.
I heard a while ago that the company you're talking about went bankrupt.
Bankrupt?
Are you okay?
I'm fine, I'm fine.
Ai Li.
What's wrong? You didn't make dinner?
I'm tired from working all day, and there's no dinner?
What's wrong?
Wife, not feeling well?
Ai Li.
If you're not feeling well, I'll cook.
Tell me what you want to eat.
Ai Li.
Say something.
We'll talk when Song Nuan gets back.
Alright.
I just remembered,
I talked with a large client today.
I think... I think we have to do this order.
And we will.
At... At Hui Tong,
this company...
this company will rely on me
to keep it up.
Mom, what did you need me home so urgently for?
The company wants me to go back and work overtime.
Don't tell me your work is fake too?
Song Guang Ming.
You dare lie to me?
Did you think it was fun?
You think I'm dumb, I'm stupid.
How long did you plan on lying to me?
Talk! Aren't you very good at talking?
Didn't you see a big client today?
Yeah right, you saw them.
Yes, yes, yes.
Mom. Mom, don't be mad.
Do you have some kind of misunderstanding?
Misunderstand? Do you think I'm an idiot?
I went to your office today.
The people there said your office has long gong bankrupt.
Bankrupt! Do you hear? Did you hear clearly?
- Mom. - You come home and put on an act everyday.
Do you think I'm an idiot?
Mom. Don't be mad.
Song Nuan, you knew about this, right?
You and your dad lied to me together.
Your daughter didn't lie to you, don't yell at her.
Shut up! You don't have the right to talk.
Can you calm down a little?
Calm down?
How can I calm down?
We turned our backs on Fuzhou to come to Shanghai, do you know that?
Tell me. Was coming to Shanghai
a scam from the start?
No. It's all true.
It's just that your husband has bad luck.
The company went bankrupt on my first day of work.
Then where did your salary come from?
I'll tell you the truth.
It's the last of my secret stash.
So you're telling me you haven't earned a single penny in Shanghai?
I have.
I made 60 dollars.
Money from washing someone's feet.
Dad.
You washed someone's feet?
Mom, mom. Mom.
Let's go.
- We're going.
Mom.
We're selling the house. We're going back to Fuzhou.
- Mom. - Wife, you-
Calm down a little.
After being with you for this many years, have you ever washed my feet?
- Mom. - Wife, don't talk to me like this, alright?
- Mom! - Tonight I'll give you 60 dollars to wash my feet.
I don't want to live anymore.
- Mom. - Wife, I'm working for work everyday.
I've become so exhausted.
I even... even...
I even looked to be a nanny?
Mom.
A teacher like you
came to Shanghai to be someone's nanny?
To help them pee and poo, and wash their feet?
They don't even want me to help them pee and poo.
Get out. Get out now. I don't want to see you, get out.
Mom, mom.
Get out! How many other things have you kept from me?
Don't shout and scream like this, okay?
You want me to go, go where?
- Dad, don't- - Say one more word. Get out! If you don't go, I'll...
I'll jump off and die.
- Mom, mom! - I'm going!
Mom! Mom, calm down.
Mom, don't be so mad. Dad.
I didn't tell your mom because I was afraid she'd be like this.
My mom's just in a temper right now, she'll cool down tomorrow.
Dad, you really went for nanny, agent, and foot washer?
I never thought looking for a job would be this hard.
Originally I was full of confidence,
thinking that I should find an administrative management job.
Now I'm running to bars,
running to delivery services.
No one considers me.
I'll just have to swallow my pride
and do a labour job. It's all the same.
Since I'm old, they don't need me.
Dad. Ever since I was little,
I've thought that you were like a mountain
that could protect our family.
Even now, I still think so.
You're our family's support.
I'm not, I'm not.
Dad, mom should have cooled down now. Should we go back and see?
It's okay. You go first, I'll wait a bit.
What if she gets too depressed by herself?
Hurry, hurry!
Come dad, quick.
Mom. Mom-
Looks like your mom is kicking me out.
Wait here.
Mom.
- Mom. - Isn't your dad very capable?
If he's so capable then he doesn't need to come back home.
Mom.
My dad and I know we were wrong.
Don't be mad anymore, mom.
Cool down.
Mom, open the door.
You guys leave! Go!
Dad, what do we do?
Dad, why don't we do this?
My mom's in a temper right now, why don't you go to our place for a few days?
Stop joking.
I'm a teacher.
How... How can I live with you girls?
Dad, think about this.
My mom's emotion are very unstable right now. You insist on living with her now,
but what if you do something to upset her? It's not safe.
Song Nuan, listen closely. There's no way I'm living at your place.
Song Nuan, look at this. I said I'm not coming but you force me to come.
Now you've made it... It's awkward now.
The place Ge Ge rented is pretty big.
That's right, Uncle. It's spacious enough when four of us are living here.
Four of you?
What's going on?
I'm the one that wanted us all to live together.
This- Song Nuan, explain this to me.
What's going one? How can four... girls and boys mixed together?
This mess won't do.
I'm a teacher, how am I supposed to educated now-
No, dad.
Us four live together to take care of each other.
It's not like what you're thinking.
Okay, okay. I have nothing to say. Is this place rented by Ge Ge, or by all of you?
It's co-rented. Co-rented.
You have too much money, don't you?
No. Uncle, she's living here for free.
Who said it's free? I paid 2000 dollars.
What... What are you doing?
Uncle, it's late.
If you had a place to stay, you wouldn't have come here
with your luggage, right?
Song Nuan, do I put this in your room?
No, no, no. Uncle can live with me.
This, what's this? I haven't agreed to live here yet.
Uncle, I have to work tomorrow.
Why don't you just bear with it for tonight and stay here?
- That's right, just bear with it. - Bear with it.
Working is very hard, I know. Alright.
- Then just one night. - Just one night
This place is really nice, Uncle. See?
Here, here.
Our rule is that men and women live separately.
It's not like what you're thinking.
Alright, fine. Only one night.
This bed, let me see.
I'm telling you, this bed is too soft. It's not good for your spine.
Uncle, just bear with it.
Also, I have a bad habit.
When I change rooms, I have a hard time falling asleep.
Then sorry for the inconvenience. Just one night.
I'm making this clear to your, it's not that I have to live here.
Yes. We're the ones who forced you to live here.
It really does feel like that.
Alright, then you clean up. I'll get you a glass of water.
Alright, don't make the water too hot.
Okay.
Alright.
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Doesn't he sleep poorly?
Help wanted.
Shun Shi Delivery Company
DId my dad bother you last night with his snoring?
- He didn't. - He didn't?
He didn't.
I know my dad too well.
Even my mom sleeps with earplugs.
He wakes me up when I'm in the next room.
Nothing like that, I sleep like the dead. No one can wake me.
Oh right, the interns are meeting in a bit.
I might go out for a while, so you lead it.
Can you do that?
- I... - You can.
How do I lead it?
What the progress of the media team? How many have you contacted so far?
We've pretty much contacted all the media on the list,
but no one gave a definite answer.
They wouldn't fool us because we're interns, right?
I don't think so.
How is it everyone?
I'm here to hear good news.
Song Nuan, are you leading here?
Alright, give me a report.
This...
Just briefly tell me.
Which media outlets have you contacted?
What kind of people did you contact?
You're shaking your head because you don't know?
It's that...
There's none.
You mean not even one?
You- You can't even finish a sentence in front of me.
You're cowering and have nothing to bring to the table.
How can you convince anyone else?
Song Nuan has not receive sales training, I get it.
Then where are the people from my department?
You, you, you.
What happened to everything you were taught?
You all look like abacus beads.
Do you know what that means?
Not moving when you're left alone, and only moving a little when you're provoked.
You haven't been in the workplace that long,
and you've picked up a list of lazy and sly habits.
I mean-
Can you do this or not? When?
Can you do it or not? If you can't, speak up and leave.
- We can, we can. - We'll do our best.
- We'll definitely do our best. - We were wrong.
- We'll do our best.
Then just keep contacting them
- Keep calling. - They're really hard to find. - This company is tormenting us too much.
- They're crazy. - How's it going with you? Will it work or not?
We have to increase our volume.
- Director Li. -Who is it? Don't you seen I'm having a meeting?
But there's a Mr. Zhang...
You're here? I was wondering why my left eye was twitching.
Wait, does the left mean good fortune or the right?
Both my eyes are twitching.
Turns our it's our company's royalty.
You guys, get up. Get up. Let me introduce to everyone.
This is our company's God of Wealth. Zhang Sheng of Feng Hua Group.
You know me?
You're kidding. CEO Jin Yan Ru. Son Zhang Sheng.
Influential figures of any business magazine.
I would have have dreamed that such an influential figure
would come to to my small delivery company today.
Do you know that a third of Feng Hua's business
supports our lives, and allows everyone to live. Applause!
Alright, alright. I have something to talk to you about.
Let's speak privately.
Alright, you're all dismissed.
I want to ask one thing of you.
Don't say ask, ask is too formal.
There's no asking between us two. Asking back and forth
hurts the relationship.
Alright, let's talk business. Do you remember a man called Song Guang Ming?
Song Guang Ming?
An executive at Feng Hua Group?
A big client of yours?
I understand. You want to introduce us to some business.
You thought too far. He came to apply for a job.
A job?
I want you to give him a job.
Also, the position can't be lower than yours.
Hello?
Hello? Is this Song Guang Ming?
I am, and you are?
I'm from Shun Shi Delivery Company.
You applied for a job here, remember?
What do you need?
First, let us express our sincere apologies.
Since we haven't contacted you in so long,
you must have lost hope.
Not necessarily, I've applied to a lot of jobs.
I understand the rules of society.
Then you're wrong.
I'm representing Shun Shui Company to tell you
that you've been hired!
Hired?
That's right. Are you free today?
I'm free, I'm free.
If you're free then come to work today.
Alright, alright. Thank you, thank you.
Letter of appointment.
Here, Wang. Take a picture for us.
Welcome, warmly welcome.
From now on,
you're the CEO of Shun Shui Company.
- CEO? - That's right.
See, doesn't it say on the contract?
CEO.
Rea-Really?
I'm really sorry for making you wait.
We've actually been discussing
what kind of position we should give
to such a rare talent like yourself
which magnifies your outstanding abilities. The conclusion: CEO.
Then, you are?
I'm Li San, the Vice President of this company.
I'm your underling.
Then our boss is...?
We were funded by venture capitalist. There is not boss.
We can talk details later.
Then- then this means
I'm your superior?
Of course. Then I have the final say in everything?
Of course you're in charge.
Then I'm just asking, how's your company's business doing?
We're an express delivery business, it's a sunrise industry.
The demand for every company is exploding.
You won't go bankrupt, right?
We're about to open a subsidiary.
- Really? - CEO Song, listen to me.
To express our heartfelt happiness,
we're prepare a simple welcome ceremony. Please accept.
Ready.
Start.
- We hear Shun Shui Company's coming, sing! We hear Song Shui Company's coming.
It's spring for all four seasons here.
The new leader is warm like the spring air.
The chests of employees are bursting with happiness.
March is here, the salary is high.
May is here, the bonus is high.
August brings many clients.
October brings our dividends.
Distribute it, distribute it, distribute it!
Distribute, distribute, distribute!
Distribute, distribute.
Distribute.
Thank you CEO Song!
I'm so touched after hearing you sing this song.
I don't know what to say.
But this is the first day of work for me and taking on thsi task.
I want to say some words from my heart.
The welcome ceremony will end here! Everyone, back to work!
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- Hello? - Mr. Zhang.
Did I do well?
You promised me.
Don't worry, I'll transfer the money soon.
You also promised me not to blow my cover.
I understand. Our entire company is putting on a show for him.
I promise he'll be more like a CEO than a real CEO.