The first time you appeared in front of my eyes,
Like this keychain,
Hurrying here and there, I just hope that this
To walk slowly, to let her see me.
Maybe one day
my world will revolve around me.
The pumpkin carriage
didn't disappear
If you wish for my appearance,
I will never disappear.
When you come,
♫ My love for you deepens with every day ♫
♫ Even if the end result will devastate my entire being ♫
♫ My burning heart, that water can’t extinguish and wind can’t blow cold ♫
♫ I only wish to spend all my life with you ♫
♫ This person that I live is a little naive ♫
♫ She’s a little clumsy and has no natural talent with love ♫
♫ The expression in the eyes that says I love you, love’s innocence ♫
♫ Your firmly closed lips ♫
♫ only make me long for your kiss ♫
Hey, Fen Jie, I
have a package.
Xiao Tuoluo (literally, little spinning top, like the charm given to her earlier)
Do you have someone named that in your company?
Xiao Tuoluo
Thank you, bye! - Bye!
Xiao Tuoluo, who is that?
Look who is most like a spinning top (xiao tuoluo) now?
That should be mine. - Where's that name from?
Then I'm guessing this Benjamin person is Mr. Lun.
You're now... - No, it's not like that.
Don't guess, it's not like that.
Hey Bei Bei, Marriage candidate, how is the next one?
At the moment, there is a doctor in economics,
and a shoe factory administrator.
And there's one with a long introduction and a strange name,
Sun Guo Fu
Civil servant, won't it be boring?
Foolish woman. A civil servant with such good credential, a steady income,
and he's looking for marriage. This person must have a lot of stories.
Right, right. We have to be like this person,
using reasoning and a sense of imagination with these marriage suitors.
Exactly! Like the most ordinary person always turn out to be the murderer.
Because...
The true one, there's only one.
Which one is it?
If you guys don't have anything to talk about then we'll do our own stuff.
Yeah.
The theme for the cover page of the performance magazine has arrived.
They want you to interview a German Pianist, Lena.
That's good. Just invite them.
Shao Wei's book store has closed down. I'll collect our books from them within these two days.
Next, I will accept marriage meetings.
And then I will decide whether or not to meet .
Okay.
Be careful.
Thank you.
Chief Editor didn't mention her progress with Mr. Lun at all this morning.
They must have something going on.
Their special relationship,
The special relationship between a man and a woman usually starts from an exclusive petname
The Treasury of Love says that
Then what does your husband call you?
Little Peach.
Big Papaya.
None of you business. Then what would you call it?
My girlfriend? Nothing at all.
Oh.
But my first love did give me a pet name.
Only girls knows it.
What? What? What?
Secret.
Have you received the handbag? Like it?
Mr. Right Wanted♫ If you don’t have a token for love, love, love, then don’t come messing, messing, messing around. ♫
♫ If you love me, don’t sigh, sigh, sigh, and complain that it’s annoying, annoying, annoying. ♫
♫ Love is a disgusting cycle, separating then reuniting, and sorrow then happiness.♫
♫ To be out of love isn’t failure. Failure is when you lose the ability to love. ♫
♫ This him? Let’s wait a little more. That him? Let me look around. ♫
♫ My heart turns sour whenever I think about the disaster with the last him. ♫
♫ It’s really simple, but also complicated. Build up the courage to ask myself. ♫
♫ Just one word. Do I like you or not? ♫
♫ Willing to love, willing to tolerate, the radio broadcasts even the slightest failure. ♫
♫ I don’t expect a life with a golden belt. I just want to enjoy a simple life. ♫
♫ If after failing once then twice and I still can’t understand, I’m an idiot. ♫
♫ Youth is like an inescapable boxing match! ♫
♫ If you don’t have a token for love, love, love, then don’t come messing, messing, messing around. ♫
♫ If you love me, don’t sigh, sigh, sigh, and complain that it’s annoying, annoying, annoying. ♫
♫ Love is a disgusting cycle, yet I still anticipate it. ♫
♫ I’m more of a failure than being out of love.It’s a quickened heart rate. It’s not fluttering. ♫
♫ My heart is more sorrowful than when it was shattered.It’s that my heart has died. It won’t resurrect. ♫
♫ You’re more a bastard than the other bastards out there.It’s that I can only wallow in self-pity all my life. ♫
While we are choosing a spouse, we have to rely on a whole replacement theory [No. 30, prospective marriage partner, PhD in economics, Sun Lianpeng]
Episode 7
A whole replacement?
This line is choosing which one.
This line is choosing the hot American style
From an economics perspective, when a consumer chooses A and B without speaking
Which is also when the values of the two products are evenly matched
It (one product) can be a whole replacement
So what you're saying is, whoever you marry, you don't care.
How can it be anything?
I will only marry girls who are size 7 in shoe size.
I have to wear size 7.5. This size 7, I can't wear it. Please don't squeeze anymore.
Men will take marriage seriously
Every man's heart have this special kind of woman who is hard to marry.
It is A. As time goes by, it's becoming unimportant.
B comes and propose to A.
Only when these two things are almost equal in one's heart,
Men will choose B and take it home.
Professor, don't be...
Don't use stocks to look at a woman.
Move the idea of value off to one side and be a little more human
As far as I'm concerned, economics is more human than philosophy and also more real
My ex-girlfriend wears a sie 7.
So this is a necessity.
Ok, okay.
I really recommend that you go to sales counters dedicated to shoes and other places to look
Wait for it, see if you can actually find your soulmate.
[Sun Guofu]
[I'm a civil servant, 45 years old, unmarried]
My life is very ordinary.
I thought of this really carefully, only two things...
I like eating on roof of the office building,
to see pigeons under the sunlight.
To feel the nature's calmness.
I also like to collect the supermarket points that my coworkers don't want.
In the afternoon, I would like to share it with everyone.
I'll take the liberty to ask, do you like The Great Gatsby?
What kind of person do you think Mr. Gatsby is?
A man that reads classical literature is too rare
[Haining:Your life, as far as I'm concerned, is very meaningful, even if it is ordinary. As for Mr. Gatsby, do we want to meet and talk about it?]
People looking for partners all wait in front of their computers all day
Hello. I'm really looking forward to meeting you.
But I just caught a cold...If I transmitted it to you, I would blame myself. Why don't we first chat online?
Come in.
Chief Editor, the invitation letter to the press conference of that German pianist has arrived in the mail
Come.
It's very beautiful.
She's 28 years old. In recent years, she's been performing in Europe.
I already searched online, I heard she can already touch piano key board before she can even walk.
Also, after she grew up, she's been using an extremely sexy technique to become famous
I just looked at her photographs
They're scorching (sexy)
- Sally Jewelry - Mr. Lun's company
How about bringing a translator...
also... who are we finding for photography?
Zhong Wen. - okay.
I'll go contact him
Citizen, here for pickup.
Oh, ok.
These over here are your books.
Please sign.
Ok.
What the...our Fang Cheng Hao's 'Essentials of Love'
entire set only sold two books?
Why are sales so bad?
Thank you.
- Over here? - Yes.
Xie Jin Fa?
Gatsby?
♫ Having been in love for a period ♫
♫ I can’t measure its depth ♫
♫ I only feel giddy ♫
♫ Before, not too long ago ♫
Hi.
Long time no see.
When watching a movie, you should focus your energy on your eyes and ears.
Don't divert any to the mouth and intestines.
I've already seen it. I'm going to buy dinner.
Did you know pregnant women should increase supplements of iron and protein?
I have to accommodate you eating grass.
Iron. Protein.
Thank you both of you for keeping me company while I review my lessons.
This marriage candidate is quite bold, daring to give you homework.
The Great Gatsby, Before Sunrise
If I had known earlier, I would have lined up two or three books on quantum physics for you. Then we wouldn't be like this, having nothing to talk about.
Can't do anything about it. He's the founder of a nation. (Guo Fu, play on names)
I am the universe. (Yu Zhou, play on names)
But I think today I've completed prenatal education.
Prenatal education? This?
Isn't your baby too early to mature?
No. Have him take a look at Vienna, hot men,
and beautiful women.
That's great. He saw the pure side of things.
Same as me twenty-something years ago.
The first time I saw this film, I was so naive that I thought the male and female main characters didn't actually have sex.
I rewatched it today and realized I must have been blind. This is basically the opening act to a one night stand.
If at that time the Internet and smartphones existed,
then they wouldn't have had the chance to reunite in Paris.
Perhaps while on the road, this man's actual girlfriend would have snatched him away.
Actual girlfriend?
I also think so.
When did you two get along so well?
Don't fall in love with me. I absolutely won't have feelings for you.
You are just as tacky as Hai Ning. How is that possible?
Actually, I wanted to call you abroad many times. But the call fees were too expensive.
Yes. It wasn't as convenient as it is now.
Want to hear the voice? There's free calling. Want to see each other? There's free video calling.
Want to write a love letter? You can even write an email.
It's just that...after everything is free,
it seems like we don't care so much about them anymore.
I once had a moment of impulsiveness
and wanted to fly to Germany to find you.
Just kidding. How is that possible?
Actually, I've already been back for five years.
Then why didn't you contact me sooner?
I'm really stubborn, probably.
Do you remember what you said to me before I left for Germany?
You said you wouldn't mind being a replacement.
And then you also said it doesn't matter,
after I breakup, I can go find you at any time.
I think it might be because of these words
that I didn't dare to find you.
What replacement?
If you came back to find me earlier, then I...
Then what?
Then...I would pursue you again.
The way you're saying it implies that you cannot pursue me right now.
Are you married?
No, who is?
Oh.
It's just that
I have a girlfriend right now.
I can't be your replacement.
I never would've thought that right now when I am unemployed
and considering whether to return to Germany,
I would actually meet you again. It's really wonderful.
That man quite possibly had a fight with his girlfriend so he went on vacation by himself.
Or possibly because they both went on vacation together
and then had a fight in the middle. The man boarded the train on impulse
and saw a hot woman and thought why not take a chance. If they get along well, perhaps she could be a replacement.
Don't tell me that only I think that the two of them
are super well-matched, like they can have a lifetime of endless conversations?
Look at Ethan Hawke's face.
It feels like he could eat up the woman at any time. Super perverted, okay?
But if he asked me out, I think based on my speed,
I guarantee that before I get off the train, I can trick him into the bathroom and shake up the car once.
Then the movie would only be ten minutes long. What about the remaining one hundred minutes?
The remaining one hundred minutes... would play out the ten months of her pregnancy.
Hm!
- Very good. - Really hard to watch.
Are you good today? My cold is still not good yet, I'm so sorry.
Can you share with me your knowledge gained in reading books and watching movies?
[Hai Ning: Of course!]
As expected, writing is my forte.
I conversed with Mr. Guo Fu on The Great Gatsby to Ethan Hawke
and Julie Delphy's three movies.
When we got to talking about the trilogy we saw last year,
I realized even though he claims to be unmarried,
he is very familiar with the married life.
After a long night of conversation,
I suddenly really wanted to see him in person.
[Okay!]
Sigh..
Excuse me, I didn't sleep well last night.
You came back from Germany
and then you were at several bookstores, going here and there?
Did you not consider other areas of work?
I quite like the feeling of being surrounded by books
although the pay isn't much. But sometimes I would receive the occasional interview job.
I'm by myself. I can still get by.
Oh, you have interview experience?
Mm.
I originally wanted to hire you as a translator.
If you have interviewing experience, then I can actually let you directly interview.
Oh. Okay.
Ah Fa
Is this right of you? You brought your first love to the office to become your coworker. Then what about your current girlfriend?
She isn't my first girlfriend. We were never actually together.
Hm?
A good friend, okay?
Have you read the book, The Great Gatsby?
Uh...I have.
That book was gifted to me by Ah Fa.
I didn't expect Ah Fa to be so romantic.
Then what do you think
a man who likes this type of novel is like?
It's true. It was just that in the past she would come talk to me about all sorts of happy and unhappy things.
It was just like that.
Just like that?
Or what?
She fancies me?
If you put the two of us together, does that look good?
Brother Fa, you sound like a spare.
He is probably a very infatuated and very romantic man.
I feel that all of his money is for the sake of wanting to make himself worthy of Daisy.
He just wants to invite her to drink a cup of tea.
Very foolish and also very naive.
Oh, but, I'm not saying Ah Fa is infatuated. I made myself sound so good..
I didn't mean that.
Don't be nervous. This is a work-related question. I just wanted to hear your opinion.
I'm really looking forward to working with you.
Furthermore, this way, in the future we can send you to go to the Frankfurt book exhibits to choose books.
If there is an editor who knows a foreign language, maybe Citizen Publishing can even develop a series of translated books.
So, Editor, do you mean to say that
when I am an editor, I can go overseas to choose books to work on?
That's correct.
Look at them. It's because they extremely enjoy their work.
Furthermore, they are very respectful of every different category of projects.
When we first met, every person had books that they wanted to work on.
I was the same.
But,
yes,
popular fiction series cannot replace the classics.
But popular fiction also has its irreplaceable necessity.
Nowadays, running a publishing house is sometimes even more difficult than running a bookstore.
So what I can do is, first fill up their stomachs, and then discuss ideals.
I understand. Then, Editor, you can get back to work. It's about time for me to return to the bookstore.
Then we'll meet again before the interview.
Okay, thank you, Editor.
[Sun Guo Fu: I've already arrived, wearing blue clothes, brown hat]
[Marriage Candidate #32, Civil Service Employee, Sun Guo Fu ?]
Your rose tea.
Thank you.
Please enjoy. Thank you.
He was my first boyfriend.
Then how come you are here by yourself?
He...did something happen to him? Or...?
Oh, no.
He is fine.
The Sun Guo Fu I told you about what I know about him.
And also the words he's said to me before and his view of things.
...but why?
I have to do this.
I have to help him let go.
We were dating in college.
Then because I had to go overseas for school, I suggested we break up.
He also calmly accepted.
When I arrived overseas, I met my husband.
Not long after we returned, we got married.
It was at our 20th wedding anniversary,
when our whole family went to Bali Island for vacation,
we met a team of civil servants from Taiwan who were attending self-improvement events.
Later, a big group of girls gathered around looking at me,
chattering continuously. I was also very curious.
Later, one person came over to me and said
their section chief had placed, all over his desk
and inside his drawers, pictures of me when I was young.
That section chief is Sun Guo Fu?
After I returned, I gave him a call
and told him not to be so foolish.
He should use his time well
to pursue his own happiness.
But he replied,
"I didn't disturb your marriage.
Don't tell me that I can't even wait quietly?"
I had nothing more to say.
But, in a flash,
another ten-something years passed by.
He is still waiting.
Even to the extent of saying that if he can drink a cup of tea with me,
he would be perfectly satisfied.
Just like Gatsby.
So, I want to help him find
a woman like me who can get along well with him.
Seeing you today,
I feel your temperament is very compatible with him.
Are you...looking for your own replacement?
Don't think like that. He is just as I described.
He is a very good person.
He's just a little too stubborn when it comes to love.
I've been married for so long.
- He's still waiting. -Madam. -What is it?
I cannot be your ideal replacement.
If love can be so easily replaced,
wouldn't you find its value suspect?
I'm sorry. I can't be of help on this matter with Mr. Sun.
But, don't we get along well?
Yes, but it's us who get along.
Not that I get along with Mr. Sun Guo Fu.
I'm sorry.
Miss Li.
What blue clothes and brown cap?
Caused me to devoted so much time and effort talking to him.
Miss Li!
Miss Li.
I couldn't apologize to you in time just now.
Actually, I feel very uneasy about doing this.
I kept feeling that I was being dishonest with you.
Will you please forget Sun Guo Fu, and accept my sincere apologies?
I truly understand what you were trying to say just now.
It's just that I was unwilling to face up to them.
To be honest, when we were chatting on the Internet
I was a little envious of you.
Envious? Why?
I was actually a little worried
that there really exists a woman in this world
who is more compatible with Guo Fu than me.
Whoever he loves is the winner.
Isn't love this way?
I believe in Mr. Sun's eyes, you're the only one
Instead of saying that I was finding my replacement
I should instead say I was looking for a rival.
I was looking for someone who would make me accept
who would make me convinced that I have lost.
If one day, Mr. Sun were to say
that he has found someone to replace you,
that is the real endgame.
You're right. Then, I would have truly lost.
To lose to my own replacement,
that is the biggest tragedy.
That is like the branch store doing better in business than the main store.
How can we allow that?
You're quite humorous, aren't you?
I actually think it's like having the pirated goods sell better than the original version.
That's right. But there will always only be one original.
Right! Mr. Sun probably feels this way.
Isn't it fine to let him continue being stubborn?
Maybe he'd rather be alone.
Unless you prefer to see him be with someone he doesn't love,
or someone he doesn't love so much for the rest of his life.
I remember that an Economics professor once told me
that every man has an irreplaceable woman in his heart.
But as time goes by, this woman will still get replaced by another woman.
But the idea of perfect replacement
doesn't seem to work on Mr. Sun.
Mrs. Sun.
I apologize. I forgot to ask your name.
It's okay. You can call me that.
Mrs. Sun.
I don't know if I've guessed right.
But seeing how you
are so worried and concerned about him,
you still have feelings for him, right?
Chief Editor, I'm getting the car! Wait out there for me.
Okay! I'll be right there!
Why are you so anxious?
No, I'm just not used to it. I've never relied on this for money.
Don't be afraid. This is our project. It's easy.
Just make the hot babe look beautiful, and it'll be fine.
Danke schoen.
Thank you.
You pronounce it pretty well.
Let's try something harder.
Wie geht es ihnen?
Wie Geht es ih...
es ihnen
How are you doing?
I'm not well. I can't quite remember it.
Hey, Ya Zhu.
The postcard that you sent me the last time
had a line of German.
What did that mean? I forgot it.
It's nothing. It just meant "forget me".
How do you say that?
Bitte vergiss mich.
I'm sorry.
What did you just say?
Scheisse.
What does that mean?
Hi.
Thank you for the bag.
It suits you.
Hello, I'm Li Hai Ning.
Hello.
You speak Mandarin?
She only knows simple greetings.
Let me introduce you.
They keep saying 'diene Freundin'. What does this mean?
It means "girlfriend".
You're really very pretty.
Thank you. What did she say?
She said your bag is the same one that he gave her.
Oh right, this is Ya Zhu, a new editor. She just got back from Germany.
Her German is excellent.
Hello.
Why did you want to come to Asia to start a music performance tour?
Your boyfriend?
My boyfriend, yes. Benjamin is my boyfriend.
Oh.
Benjamin...
Freund?
Editor,
she just said that she chose to start her music performance tour in Asia because she hasn't seen her boyfriend in a long time.
And she can use this tour to visit more places before she gets married so she is very happy about it.
Thank you for accepting the gift.
I just
haven't found my old bag's replacement yet.
Lena is someone I met when I was working as a sommelier in a restaurant in France.
At that time, she was still just a music student for a fixed performance.
And we have kept a long distance relationship all along.
Instead of lovers, I think we are actually more like family.
I still think of her as a little girl.
You have a girlfriend...
Why did you still ask me if I would be willing to date you?
Because I was indeed attracted to you.
If you are willing, I would of course break up with her.
If I am not willing, you would not tell her, would you?
I've always wanted to ask you
why so many things in your house have two sets.
The wines, books,
and those cups.
Probably because I've seen so many business transactions,
I always feel like having a spare beside me ready to use at any time.
It's just that simple.
Even for people, do you also think this way?
So you thought of me as
a spare?
I didn't.
I have never thought that.
Or, is Lena that spare?
I've finished taking photos. Can we leave yet?
Yes, let me finish the wine.
It's finished. So let's go.
Please
forget me.
Also, never call me spinning top again.
F*ck.
Here.
Help me send this back to the place we had the press conference last time.
Are you good?
Very good.
Really?
Will this be hard for you to hold since you're biking? It's a bit big.
It's not a problem.
It will be sent back absolutely unscathed.
Bye.
So you're actually a messenger?
Oh, wait a second.
Help me send something.
Do you want to wait inside?
No need.
Oh..
What's this for?
Mr. Lun sent these to you in return. 1980 Lafite.
And also this.
I'm leaving now. Bye.
[Hai Ning, I don't have anymore spares for this year. Du fehlst mir so sehr.]
Du...
fehlst..?
Hello?
Oh..
Ok.
d-u.. du
f-e-h-l-s-t
fehlst m-i-r
mir
du fehlst mir
[Du fehlst mir.]
Editor, where did you see this phrase?
Nothing...this phrase means
I miss you so much.
[Ah Fa, everything is fine over here, come find me when you have time! Du fehlst mir. Ya Zhu]
For somebody like you who always has a backup,
it must be very hard for you to understand what it feels like to lose something.
It is only when things and people are the one and only,
that one properly remembers what he once possessed.
Isn't it like that for wine?
Let alone for people!
In the end, that Director Lun didn't come to see his girlfriend perform.
Next time you're going to listen to this type of music, find somebody else. Those chairs are really hard to sleep in.
Thank you.
I'll treat you to dinner later.
If he really came, what would you have done?
Our case..is considered closed.
If we meet again, then I'd probably nod and say hello.
So our case isn't considered closed yet?
You're so troublesome.
Thank you for taking me to listen to a music performance.
Just a bit more and I would have seen Mr. Sun Guo Fu's face.
Later, she wrote a letter to me,
saying that in the first half of her lifetime, she had compromised her own happiness.
On the day of her 60th birthday, she divorced her husband,
and against her children's objections, married Mr. Sun Guo Fu.
Marriage Candidate #32, Mrs. Sun Guo Fu, said,
"Losing to a replacement is the biggest tragedy."
I choose not to be a replacement, so there is no win or lose.
You are getting married to continue your family line, aren't you?
Marriage isn't only for love.
You're not looking for a partner, you're looking to plant your seed.
Since you've made this decision, you should take responsibility for your decision.
I have good feelings for you.
You're studying boxing, so you should always know which direction your opponent is in, right?
I cannot just disrupt my normal pace of life only because you suddenly appear.
I don't wish to disrupt you, I just want to grasp you.
If you can hit me, then I will go with you.
I haven't had time to repair my bag.
You don't have a spare bag?
Women usually have a lot of bags, don't they?
I normally only use one bag. I only change it when it breaks.
Each one is one in ten thousand?
Yes.
Moreover, because of my work, I have a lot of things. So if I change bags often, then I might lose things here and there.
Looks like you especially like this bag. It's so treasured.
Mhm.
So before I have found a better one, I won't change it.
You can come to my office for an interview.
We're interviewing for editors. I remember your writing is not bad, isn't it?
But I don't have experience.
You're so smart, and I'm here, so if you have questions, just ask me.
But, at the office,
don't call me Gatsby.
Why?
Because I'm shy.
What are you laughing at?