You're the legendary Death?
I'm just the guardian of this bridge.
Only when you can't cross it
would I then become Death.
Flowers bloom on the wild decadent unhesitating area
You say it does not matter if we no longer continue breathing
In the end after the sunrise, she breaks down into foam
At the end of the whirlpool, there is neither you nor me
We reminisce about whether we had a brief encounter
In the end after the sunrise, she breaks down into foam
At the end of the whirlpool, there is neither you nor me
We reminisce about whether we had a brief encounter
What are you doing?
You want to die?
Hello, Panther.
You brought a new friend with you.
What new friend?
He's Cai Ge.
Cai Ge, she is Huang Huang.
The one who people are calling Young Betel Nut Beauty.
Huang Huang.
Hello Cai Ge.
Cai Ge, would you like some betel nuts?
Sure.
I would like two.
Then...is it the two in the fridge,
or the two on me?
Yours look pretty tasty.
Cai Ge, the boss is looking.
Are you here to apply for a job?
One bottle of mineral water please.
Being out this late to get a bottle of water?
Don't be shy.
It's not bad here.
Lots of money, minimal trouble, close to home.
How about it?
To be honest,
we are currently short on school girls.
Think about it.
Xiao Lin,
let me tell you something.
If they've done something bad to you,
then you should abandon them first.
Could Nicole be right about this?
Who is it?
You scared me!
That's very scary.
You are the one that's scary, okay?
Throwing things at the river in the middle of the night.
Oh please.
I'm just throwing my things.
It's you who suddenly appeared from the bottom of the river.
Then what were you throwing a moment ago?
Just a piece of rock.
A black rock.
You also have a black rock?
What is it?
I have one too.
Yours is just an ordinary one.
How can it compare to mine?
It's not ordinary.
I'm telling you,
my rock is a top of the class ink rock in the world.
Forget it...
You won't understand even if I tell you.
I understand.
It’s the kind for writing calligraphy, isn't it?
Correct.
The world’s most expensive ink stick was made from my rock.
Don't ever undermine it.
It's worth hundreds of thousands.
Liar.
Would you throw it into the river if it's worth hundreds of thousands?
Yes.
Moreover, I feel good about getting rid of it.
Crazy.
So you came out in the middle of the night to throw away hundreds of thousands?
That's not really the case.
I'm here to spray paint.
What you're doing is vandalizing.
Oh please, this is art.
What does this "Jie" mean?
That's my name.
My name is Jin Jie Shu.
My friends call me Ah Jie.
How about you?
Xiao Lin.
My name is Ye Xiao Lin.
Xiao Lin.
Nice to meet you.
What is this skeleton head biting on?
It's biting on calligraphy.
So it means one's detest for calligraphy.
Not really.
It's just that my dad is a famous calligrapher.
Then...you must have stolen that piece of ink rock, right?
What stealing?
Please speak with a bit of respect.
He gave it to me.
Moreover, he wants me to finish using that piece of ink rock before I finish university.
How is that possible?
It s such a big piece.
I'd probably need to write for 100 years.
And I really hate doing calligraphy.
That piece of ink rock should have dissolved by now.
And there'll be no evidence.
It's a good thing that there was a thief at my house a few days ago.
I can even lie to my dad saying,
Dad, it was stolen by the thief.
How can you lie to your dad like this?
He wouldn't know anyway.
Unless...
Unless you let out this secret.
You just need to deny it.
Didn't you say there's no evidence?
This won't do.
I think you need to tell me one of your secrets in return.
The fridge door isn't closed properly.
You're saying that
it's a piece of rock from the Bridge of Helplessness?
Sometimes it would beat like a heart.
Tell it to beat then.
It only does it sometimes.
Like when I'm angry or when I especially miss my mom and dad.
Your parents are not around?
They have fallen ill.
Look.
It s been a long time since I've seen them.
I really miss them.
I know.
You must be having hallucinations.
You miss your parents too much.
That's not the case.
I've really seen the Death Girl.
What Death Girl?
She is the guardian of the Bridge of Helplessness.
She said if I can't make it across the river,
I will turn into this.
A piece of rock.
Like this.
Only if I can't make it across,
so I have to be more optimistic.
I believe my mom and dad will come pick me up.
I think you are quite imaginative.
You are just laughing at me.
Okay...
Why be like this?
Why don't you tell me what the Death Girl looks like then?
What are you trying to do?
Try to draw her,
okay?
The sun will come out in an hour.
How come graffiti has to be done at night time?
It can't be drawn in daytime?
Of course not.
Why not?
Because my dad jogs on this path every morning.
I can't let him see me drawing this stuff.
Then why are you still doing it here for him to see?
You know things like graffiti is not the right way.
If he finds out,
he'll kick me out of the house for sure.
But I think you are very good at it.
Really?
I think you are an artist.
It's almost done...
What is it?
Who let you guys spray graffiti here?
It’s almost done...
What is it?
Who let you guys spray graffiti here?
What do you want?
We're here to let you guys know whom this area belongs to.
This place, isn't it the park management office?
Park management office?
You want to pretend you don’t know?!
Panther, splash the drawings.
Or else they won't understand.
Please no.
Please no what? School girl.
Please don't splash over his drawings.
You guys seem to have a good relationship,
coming out in the middle of the night.
On a date?
We re not dating.
Shut up
You want to see me splash your drawing?!
How can you guys be like this?
School girl,
didn't your teacher teach you that it's very dangerous to come out late at night?
Therefore...
You should bring along a protection fee,
or else how can you be dating here?
Understand?
All of my money is here.
I'll give them to you guys.
You think you don't have to pay for spraying graffiti?
This is all the change I have.
No way!
You don't bring money on a date?
I'm out here to draw graffiti,
so I didn't bring money.
Coining out to draw graffiti?
Damn it.
He really doesn't have money.
What else can you say?
just splash it.
No!
You can’t!
Make sure you bring money tomorrow night
or else these drawings are gone.
You got it:*
Let's go.
You dropped it earlier.
I won't be able to draw here from now on.
Are they really going to destroy the drawings?
Probably.
Very easily.
It's a good thing that the Death Girl wasn't splashed over.
Unfortunately,
it might get destroyed at night.
At least when your dad jogs this morning,
he will be able to see it.
I think he is not looking at all.
How can that be?
You draw so well.
It's not possible that he doesn't notice.
Even if he notices,
he wouldn't say anything.
That's because
he doesn't know who they were drawn by,
so he can only admire them in silence.
Why would he admire in silence?
He would.
I think your drawings can attract a lot of people.
Really?
If he admires in silence,
then I'm satisfied already.
Xiao Lin.
Give me your hand.
Call me when you have time.
Bye bye.
That drawing is not bad.
Du.
Ah Jie is an artist, don't you agree?
I guess.
I think
his dad will admire him for sure.
Really?
He draws so well.
There's no reason for his dad not to accept him.
It appears that you have become optimistic.
I'm only thinking that
his dad will definitely understand him.
And you?
Did you try to let your parents understand you?
Understand what?
Understand that you love them, and need them.
It's impossible for them not to understand.
They are the people that I love the most.
What if they don't love you at all?
Impossible.
It's not possible that they don't love me.,
They wouldn't leave me by myself.
Jie - Jin Jie Shu"
She's very good.
Raising a rat to bite a hole in a bag.
She is stealing my things only after one day.
If I don't give her a good punishment, then what will happen in the future?
Are you done counting?
How much is missing?
Not that much.
Just a thousand dollars (30 USD).
Is one thousand not money?
She stole a bike at her school before, and got expelled.
Then she stole money on her first day back.
What is it? What?
Is she going straight to stealing from now on?
Don't get impulsive.
Let's ask her first.
Ask what?
The video makes it clear, so what else needs to be asked?
You look after the store.
I'm going upstairs to see if she hid anything there.
Don't be like this.
Xiao Lin, where did you go last night?
I was hungry and went out to get something to eat.
Who told you to take money out of the cashier by yourself?
What allows you to slap me?
I can't slap you?
You thief.
How much more money do I have to wait till you steal before I can teach you a lesson?
Why didn't you guys give me dinner?
Do I owe you?
I have to serve you?
Xiao Lin,
stealing money is wrong.
Don't talk back.
You want me to starve to death, don't you?
You won't starve to death.
If I have to raise someone like you,
I might as well raise a dog.
I want to talk to my dad.
Go talk to him.
Go tell him, don't keep leaving you with me.
Lying, stealing things.
No wonder your parents don't want you.
They didn't give me up.
They don't want you.
If they did, why else would they leave you here?
I'm telling you that you are now a burden.
I'm telling seriously,
no one would take you.
Xiao Lin.
What is it?
Let's go back.
Call the Environmental Office.
Don't let these dirty things appear in front of eyes again.
Yes,'General.
Yes.
I know.
Okay...
Okay, bye bye.
Hello.
Hello, Dad?
Hello?
It's not your ex-wife,
it's your daughter.
Hello?
Dad, where are you?
Dad is in Hong Kong.
What's going on?
When are you coming back?
I want to go home.
But, aren't you living at school already?
Living at school is fine,
but during the holidays,
I need a home to go back to.
Like when everyone goes home during the New Year holidays,
I have nowhere to go.
Didn't your aunt take you home?
I don't want to stay at her place.
But it will be half a month before Dad returns to Taiwan.
Dad.
It has already been...
It has already been 3 months since I've seen you.
Be good, Xiao Lin.
How about this,
you give your Mom a call first.
For this holiday,
go stay with your Mom first.
By the time New Year comes around,
Dad will come pick you up at school, okay?
I don't want this.
Can’t you come back earlier?
I said I don't want to live at her place.
Hurry and come back.
Alright...
Let's leave it at this.
Okay...
Bye bye.
She's not even answering the phone.
Hello?
Hello, Grandma?
Is my mom there?
Xiao Lin,
your mom was out late at night getting herself drunk.
She's not even awake yet.
I want to speak to her.
Can you please ask her to come to the phone.
Okay...
Ah fen.
It's Xiao Lin.
Hello, who's this?
Hello, Mom?
It's Xiao Lin.
Xiao Lin.
Can you come pick me up?
Didn't your Dad arrange to
have you go to school in Taichung?
I don't want to live there.
I want to live with you.
What about your Dad?
He's in Hong Kong.
He told me to call you.
Did he go to that woman again?
They are together again, right?
I don’t know.
How can he live so happily and
find another woman
leaving the child for me to raise?
You go tell your Dad,
wishful thinking!
Dream on!
Mom.
I don't want to live at Aunt's place.
Can you come pick me up?
Go And your Dad.
See if he dares to be with that woman in front of you.
That shameless man.
He's being too unfair to me
Hello?..
Xiao Lin?
Your mom is throwing drunken tantrums again.
Yes.
Why did you have to tell your Mom
the things about your Dad and that woman?
Okay...
Let's leave it at this.
Bye bye.
Mom...
This is unfortunate to the family!
There are so many great things that you're not doing.
But rather, you go and draw those
unpresentable things at the side of the road.
And even shamelessly put your name on it.
Did you want me to die from angriness?
Answer it!
Hello?
Hello, Ah Jie?
It's Xiao Lin.
Are you coming to the riverside tonight?
No.
You don't want to finish drawing the Death Girl?
I don t.
Why?
Your dad will definitely recognize your talent.
Was it you that wrote my name there?
I just wanted your Dad to acknowledge...
Graffiti
it’s short term.
It's just for fun.
It's not art.
I'm telling you,
the things that can disappear anytime is not what I want.
You understand?
Ah Jie.
Why are you saying that?
I don't want to draw graffiti anymore.
I don't want to see you either!
Xiao Lin,
are you not taking gym class today?
Your period came?
Your classmates are all saying that you haven't been talking much lately.
What's going on?
If you don't say anything,
how can your Teacher help you?
Are you still having trouble letting things go?
You are getting thinner and thinner.
It doesn t matter.
When my parents come pick me up,
we can have a big meal then.
How long do you have to wait?
It's almost the Chinese New Year.
Chinese New Year?
They would at least pick me up for the Chinese New Year.
What if they don't pick you up?
Impossible.
She's talking to herself again.
So autistic.
Yes.
Classmate, please hold this for me.
Shen Qi, what are you doing?
Don't talk to her.
You can see me?
I can.
Moreover on that day,
I saw.you up there.
That was when Huang He turned into a rock.
A rock?
What rock?
My bridge is about to collapse,
so I need some rocks to support it.
Xiao Lin, don't talk to her again.
What if she turns you into a rock?
What s wrong with turning into a rock?
Those two actually have something to talk about.
Shen Qi has always been a little weird.
You devil,
are you taking her away?
What devil?
My name is Du.
How about you?
My name is Shen Qi.
So what?
Very Interesting.
You are the only one who doesn't need the black rock in order to see me.
Hopefully one day
you can turn into my rock as well.
Xiao Lin?
Xiao Lin.
Aren't you going home during the Chinese New Year holiday?
I am.
I'm waiting for my Dad to pick me up.
He is coming back from Hong Kong.
Why aren't you packing up your things then
I'll wait till he gets off the plane.
Xiao Lin, would you like to come home with me for the holidays?
Your home?
Yes,
because you haven’t gone home for the entire semester.
Your parents didn't come visit you either.
I'm worried that there will be no one at the dorm over the holidays.
What if your Dad can't...
My Dad promised to come pick me up,
so he will come pick me up.
You need not to worry.
Xiao Lin.
Auntie.
Everyone has gone home.
I originally planned to stay at the dorm, but my son has suddenly come back from America.
He wants to take me and his family on a vacation.
I can call your family for you, alright?
Let's go.
Hello, how are you
I am Ye Xiao Lin's dorm supervisor.
Tomorrow will be Chinese New Year's Eve.
There won't be anyone here at the dorm,
please come take her home, okay?
Okay...
Is that so?
Alright...
Okay, thank you.
Thank you.
Xiao Lin,
your Aunt said that
your Dad just came back from Hong Kong yesterday.
Therefore, the latest he'll come to pick you up will be tomorrow night.
I saved these food from before.
Take it.
Endure for two more meals
and your Dad will be here to pick you up.
I don't have to worry then.
Thank you, Auntie.
Okay...
Hello Dad, are you here yet?
Dad?
You're looking for your dad?
He's fighting with your Mom right now.
I want to talk to my Dad.
Tell him to come to the phone.
Get him to come to the phone.
Get him now!
I don't want to talk to you!
Tell him to come to the phone
I want to talk to my Dad.
Tell him to come to the phone.
Get him to come to the phone.
Get him now!
I don't want to talk to you!
Tell him to come to the phone!
Over the past ten years,
who's been the one taking care of our daughter?
The outcome I get for being responsible for our daughter
is you having an affair with another woman.
I've had enough!
Have I not been responsible as a father by sending you money to take care of the family?
You drink all day and night.
Is that how you be responsible as a mother?
You like freedom and like to cheat.
What about me?
Now you want to push our daughter to me
while you continue to be free?
What right do you have to bully me like this?
How can you bully me like this?
Are you going to go pick up our daughter or not?
I won't let you have everything your way.
Don't even think about it!
I'm leaving the country tomorrow.
Do you want our daughter to stay in school by herself?
Don't push your guilt onto me.
You should be the one feeling guilt.
Not me.
I'm telling you to go pick up Xiao Lin.
Do you hear me
On what basis?
What right do you have to bully me?
That's enough
Jie Shu
Come, let s eat our Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.
Okay.
Mom, Dad, happy Chinese New Year.
Happy Chinese New Year.
Sit.
Jie Shu
you'll be graduating this year.
You will need to become more mature.
Thanks, Dad.
Let's eat.
Let me take care of the dishes.
Go do your own things.
Alright
(Ink sticks)
Since you guys are not coming to pick me up...
I won't eat then.
I'll keep waiting.
I'll wait until I die.
It's already the third day after the New Year.
It's very lively outside.
Are you still unable to let things go?
Why aren't you asking others for help?
I don't want to.
I really don't want a stubborn rock like you.
Help me.
I beg you.
Help me.
How do you want me to help you i
I want...
I want my Mom and Dad.
Go sleep.
They'll be with you shortly.
Look at those fireworks.
They're beautiful!
Yeah...
Congratulations...
Xiao Lin!
Get up, Xiao Lin.
(Cause of death: starvation)
Dear Nicole, all the things in my dorm room are for you because I've reunited with my mom and dad.
Mom, Dad, I'm Xiao Lin. We can finally be together forever..
Xiao Lin in heaven, have you reunited with your family?..are you happy?"
But I want to separate. Only when I part, I would feel happy.
At night,
what are you trying to do?
What has that got to do with you?
I care about you.
Come.
to the shop.
Don't take my money.
You want to kill your Dad??
I'm not living any happier right now.
If you really can't live through it,
I can help you.