Timing and Subtitles by The 1/2 Heart Team @ Viki
The First Half of My Life
Episode 31
Phil left?
I wasn't able to stop him.
We might be in big trouble in the future.
Where did you go? It's 9:30.
If I were him I'd also think you were playing me, that you didn't plan to discuss anything with me at all.
There was no confidentiality agreement signed?
We're at the same level, he didn't want to talk to me in the first place. He didn't have a reason to give me the data he had.
His phone's turned off. I've already called.
The subscriber you dialed has their phone turned off.
Even if you tie him up, you should have kept him here until I got back!
It's exactly here, inside this room, I said every fine word and every bad word for five or six hours.
I knew how grave the situation would be once he left. I thought you were as worried as I was.
I thought you would spare no effort to hurry back here but right now it's 9:30.
I don't know what you went to go do. And I don't know what you'll be able to do in the future.
I'm sorry. You worked hard.
It's so late, you should go home first. I'll stay and think of a solution.
Phil didn't answer his phone. I'd guess he's already acted.
Since we couldn't stop him just let him go. We'll just have to act according to the circumstances.
So many years have passed with so many obstructions between us, but it's not because you're too busy or I'm too busy
or some single doctrine or unmarried ideology
the most important reason is because... you just don't love me that much.
- You guys are finally back.- Director Su.
I'm so sorry, normally when you get back you should rest for a day.
But this afternoon we have a focus group, andwe're short of hands.
I'll leave it to you.
Me? There was a problem the last focus group I was in. I'm afraid there's still a lot of questions I don't understand.
- How about this, Miss Wu? You still arrange this time,and let her see another one.- Yes.
You'll be fine. If you have an problems come find me. I'll be in my office all day today.
Wherever you fall, that's where you learn to get back up again. You'll be fine.
It's nothing.
Then I'll go prepare.
[ Arrival Exit ]
Yes, just handle it as you see fit. It's okay, just go ahead and do it.
Yes, I'm at the airport picking someone up. That's all for now.
What's the matter? Don't recognize me anymore?
Welcome back.
Please claim your baggage at turntable 11. Thank you.
Look at all your luggage. You were only gone for a few days, but it feels as if you were gone for a whole year.
Yes, I thought I'd be gone for three to five years. I didn't think I'd be back so soon.
I even wasted the company's deposits for house and car rentals.
B&T has been treating you well, letting you do what you want without any sign of a temper.
That proves the company still needs me. It's just like how people are.
Before they've found a replacement, they'll stand by you no matter what you do. When they've found a replacement
they'll still kick you to the curb no matter how you beg and cry.
What plans do you have tonight? Do you want to call Luo Zijun and have a welcome back meal at Old Zhuo's?
Don't call Zijun.
I'll call her later and meet up with her tomorrow. Let's have dinner tonight, just the two of us.
What is it?
Nothing. We'll go with what you want.
[ Tang Jing ]
Hello, Tang Jing? Are you back? Did He Han pick you up?
Listen, I'm not off work until 6 p.m., so we...
You have something to discuss with He Han? You two can talk first then. We can meet tomorrow. I'm rather busy today anyway.
Okay? See you tomorrow then. Bye.
We'll have this one.
You're having surgery soon. Didn't the doctor tell you to avoid alcohol?
It's okay to drink a little when you're in a good mood.
In the past, Chicken Soup for the Soul always said to live each day like it's your last.
I didn't understand and thought it pretentious.
Now that I'm sick, I actually sort of understand.
Do what you want, say what you want. Why strive to be perfect at every moment?
When you become sick and die, who would remember your perfection?
I couldn't agree more.
♫ And I'm left here now wondering just how ♫
♫ How could this seem so real? ♫
Today's event ends here today. Thank you so much for your participation.
On your way out, don't forget to pick up a little gift we have for you.
Thank you...
Well done. Passed with full points.
Good job.
See? It's not that hard. You are capable of much more than what you think.
Thank you for your encouragement.
I just gave you a push. You're the one who opened up the parachute and landed with precision.
All right, I'm leaving now. I'm going home to sleep. You should too.
You came back from a business trip and went straight to overtime. If you don't go to sleep, you'll get a hemorrhage.
Good job.
Luo Zijun will follow me from now on. Tell that Han guy that he has a good eye.
Why are you in such a refined mood today and you even ordered such a good wine?
Because...
He Han, let's get married.
Ha?
Let's get married. I am proposing to you. Let me be married to you.
Why did you suddenly want to get married now?
Because I don't want to wait anymore.
Waiting until I am not busy at work anymore,
waiting until I want to settle down and have a stable family life,
waiting until you are already tired from circling around
and still felt in the end that we being together is what is most relaxing for you,
waiting when the mood is right,
the time is right, the weather is right, when everything are all right.
I really don't know up to when we are going to wait then.
I'm having my surgery tomorrow.
Although I know that it is just a very minor surgery, and the risk of danger is very low,
what if any mishaps happen?
Not only on the operating table but in life, mishaps can happen every minute, every second.
Then wouldn't I have really waited in vain for so many years?
Tang Jing, I won't accept it.
I'm saying that it shouldn't be you who does the proposal.
It should be me.
Let me ask you to marry me with a ring.
That's why, give me some time and let me prepare.
In a serious and grand manner, asking you to marry me.
He Han, let me tell you. I'm not praising Luo Zijun just because I'm speaking to you,
even Ms. Wu who usually does not praise anyone praised her today. It's really true that great teachers will develop great disciples.
Thank you. Please take more care of her.
Sorry. I'll just answer a call.
Hello.
Phil went to B&T as project manager.
He surely took things from us and made an exchange with them.
What I heard was he gave B&T all the data that's with him
and he took with him all the clients he had for the past three years. We suffered huge losses.
The board will send someone down here tomorrow.
I know already.
You're really something. When I was still in Hong Kong, I already heard from He Han that your improvement is quite shocking.
This is not just improvement, you totally surpassed your teacher.
It's forced by my life situation like how the people were forced to join the rebels in Liangshang mountain. It's all thanks to He Han for teaching me a lot.
Should we thank him for ridding the society of a grieving wife that only idles her time away
and instead replaced it with a shimmering hot single mother?
I should have asked you out for a meal today since I just returned but instead I went to He Han first.
Because I made a big decision. I came back to get married.
With He Han?
If not with him, with whom?
Right, of course, it is with him. How did you say it?
I just directly said it. I said, "I want to get married with you."
It's really no big deal. I can also work less.
It's as if I can't provide for myself. I also want to learn how it is to be a housewife.
You are going to be a housewife? How were you criticizing me before? You want to be a housewife?
It's not the same. I can be considered to be resolutely retiring during the peak of my career.
On my way up the mountain, I already saw all kinds of scenery. Now, I've decided to go down the mountain already.
What's wrong with you? Didn't you used to keep rushing me to get married before?
How come you are not overfilled with joy and wildly congratulating me and wishing me happiness?
Of course, I am congratulating you. I'm jubilantly happy in congratulating you.
Then He Han surely was so happy.
He didn't accept my wedding proposal.
Why?
Because he said...
he said that he should be the one to do the proposal.
I scared you.
What he said is so right.
Right now, I should start gaining some weight. You must be my maid of honor.
- I am going to be the maid of honor? What joke is that?- Yes, you can.
- I am a divorcee, so I can't be your maid of honor.- Yes, you can. I don't care what others say.
They all are twenty year old young ladies, so they get married just to make a show for everyone, so they are very picky with things.
What must I be afraid of? I'm already thirty plus years old, nearing my forties.
I am marrying for myself. I must let the person I like the most be my maid of honor.
What are you thinking?
I am thinking of how you'll like in your wedding. You surely will be very beautiful.
Sometimes, I really find it weird. Say, you are thirty plus years old already, got divorced,
and now you are rushing to walk the path I took when I was twenty years old.
While I, because I had some minor illness,
instead is going back to learn the first half of your life and be somebody else's wife.
Before, I kept saying that you are not trying to make progress. Now that you are becoming successful, I instead will be becoming you.
Really don't know what is right and what will last forever.
Who cares what is right or wrong, what can last forever? At least, the two of us is forever.
Project Manager Chen, please sign.
Nothing wrong will happen to He Han this time, right?
Don't know.
Wasn't it said that there is nothing he can't do?
Who can guarantee that one will never commit a mistake? Can you?
It is actually very normal for people to come and go.
When people goes and we suffer losses, that's also a very normal occurrence.
But the situation this time is very different.
Based on our understanding, Phil doesn't really want to leave.
He only threatened to leave as a protest for you favoring Chen Junsheng and giving him the cold shoulders.
But not only did you not tried to stop him, you made him wait the whole day.
That's why, he revengefully leaked our data.
It was my problem. I'll bear all the responsibility.
I already asked Chen Junsheng. That day, even he doesn't know where you went.
Tell me now, what did you do that day?
I don't believe that you deliberately hid from Phil. Give me a reasonable explanation now.
So that I can have something to say when I return to the board.
I just went to handle some private matters, just went to give a friend some help.
What friend? What kind of help? Was it that important?
So important that you neglected your career and future?
He Han, this is not how you usually do things.
How can you commit such low grade mistake for no reason at all?
You do have outstanding abilities.
But you are not irreplaceable.
Your attitude has already offended a lot of people.
Everyone tends to help push down a falling wall (pushing a man who is down). You must be careful.
A young man who progressed so fast
surely will have people waiting to replace you once you get into a problem.
Within three months, the board will send a new person to train here.
What happened?
Within 6 months, prepare a retreat path (backup plan) for yourself.
No retreat path.
I'll go where you go.
No matter how people talk about you,
whether you did this or that, I will still think that you are right.
After working for so many years, I never met a better leader and partner like you.
Maybe they all say that I am an emotional and irresolute person.
That's why, I admire your decisiveness and laid-back attitude.
You are giving me such huge pressure.
What if I disappoint your trust?
If you really treat me as your own, no need to talk about disappointing me.
Awake?
The surgery is done? I'm cured already?
Cure already. You're fine.
I have this feeling of being reborn.
What are you doing?
Tang Jing,
marry me.
It should be like this.
The prince and princess ending that everyone including me have anticipated for so long.
The wedding of my best friend. I should most sincerely wish them
happiness from the bottom of my heart.
I should be happy for Tang Jing.
I should be concerned about their wedding preparation and progress.
I should hope that their relationship will be stable form now on.
Not anymore encountering any changes.
You like it?
Hurry and get well soon.
Let us invite some friends and do the wedding.
Stupid girl, don't cry anymore.
Don't cry.
Congratulations.
A television show with innumerable twists and turns finally have a happy ending.
I just heard Tang Jing say about getting married yesterday. Never thought it will come this fast.
Congratulations.
Su Manshu called and say that in terms of sample survey,
you have successfully passed it.
Ms. Wu also called and gave you a high evaluation.
This means that from now on, you can already stand your ground.
So many good news.
It feels like suddenly getting enlightened about all the things that we are so at a loss at.
Okay already. Seeing that you are fine, I'm now at ease.
He Han is here accompanying you, so I'll get going now.
Hurry and go back then.
I can now have a good rest for a short while,
but you have to be busy everyday.
Today is Monday, right?
Are you going to fetch Ping'er?
That's why, I must hurry and leave now.
Rest well. I'm going now.
Help pour me some water. The glass is near the window.
Okay.
- Daddy! - Mommy!
Stop that already. Give me your bag.
Look at how sweaty you are.
It was Ping'er's birthday last Saturday.
But I had an urgent situation in the office, so I wasn't able to come.
But I remembered it, so I'm making it up to you today, okay?
Will mommy come?
Let us wait here for you mother to come fetch you and then let's go together.
Mommy already celebrated my birthday with me.
Let us then celebrate it one more time.
Then the next time I have my birthday, I also want two celebrations.
No problem.
Today, let's go to the Ping'er's most favorite restaurant.
And Jiaqing is also here to be with you. Happy? Fun right?
The birthday dinner party that Uncle He Han and mommy prepared for me was also very fun.
Uncle He Han?
He told me not to tell anyone.
Because he said that he skipped work to drive me to Hangzhou to celebrate my birthday with mommy.
Last Saturday, it was Uncle He Han who drove you and mommy to Hangzhou?
He brought me and grandma.
Mommy is at Hangzhou for a business trip.
I even thought that I wouldn't be able to celebrate my birthday that day.
Who would have known that Uncle He Han found me
a very, very, very beautiful house in Hangzhou to have my birthday celebration in.
There was a garden, and the garden was full of little orange lanterns.
Wow! Really?!
Then is it similar to that one in Harry Potter?
A little bit.
Then can we still go next time?
Jump one more time.
Ling Ling knows that you're here celebrating Ping'er's birthday, right?
She knows.
She even accompanied me to buy Ping'er a present. I'll give it to you later.
Thank her for me.
And also, thank her for taking care of Ping'er.
Ping'er said that she really treats him well.
Ping'er said that you gave him a birthday party last Saturday?
Right.
My mother was available that day too, so we had a meal together.
I actually wanted to call you, but I was afraid that you two will just fight when you see each other.
He Han is present too?
Right.
He Han coincidentally learned that day that Ping'er was waiting for me to come back and celebrate his birthday with him.
But that day, I got held up by my superior in Hangzhou and can't return
that's why he kindly brought my mother and Ping'er to Hangzhou for me.
All were actually just sudden arrangements,
and we had troubled He Han for almost the whole day.
Good thing that day, he said that he has nothing much to do in the office since it was Saturday.
What's wrong?
Are you sure that day is Saturday?
Of course. It's Ping'er's birthday so how could I have forgotten it?
Don't be unhappy. I already said it.
The reason I didn't call you was because--
Even if you did call me, I wouldn't have the time.
Because I have a very important situation then that I must deal with.
Or to say it in a better way, the company then has a very urgent situation waiting for He Han to handle it.
What do you mean?
For you guys, he went to Hangzhou and delayed his work.
Now, the company is facing the loss of important clients and talents.
He currently is receiving his punishment from the board of directors.
I don't know what the situation was that day.
What has happened, what coincidences occurred, I don't know.
But this isn't his usual style.
It's all my fault.
I...because that day, I suddenly learned that my mother left Ping'er alone in the hotel, so I panicked.
I then called He Han.
I initially just wanted him to go to the hotel and help me watch over the kid.
Why then didn't you call me first?
I called you, but you didn't answer.
Really didn't expect that I'll cause him this huge trouble.
Oh, right, Tang Jing is back.
He Han already asked her hand for marriage.
Tang Jing finally made a move.
What do you mean by make a move?
Tell me, who between them want to get married more?
It surely isn't He Han.
Actually, for a man, there's no such thing as wanting to get married now or not now. Those are just excuses.
There's only wanting to marry you and not wanting to marry you.
Then why did He Han proposed to Tang Jing?
Probably due to responsibility.
Don't look at He Han always acting aloof with the ways of the world.
He actually is more loyal and affectionate than most people.
It's not like that.
Tang Jing, He Han, a golden boy and jade girl.
No one in this world is more perfect together than them.
Where is Ping'er?
Hello, mom.
What's wrong with you? Why are you crying like that?
Your Uncle Cui isn't answering my calls.
I called him up this afternoon, and he didn't answer.
I called him tonight, but his phone is off.
Later on, I called up their house and his son answered it.
He said that his father has changed his phone.
and that his father doesn't want to see me again.
He told me not to look for his father again.
He said that his father doesn't want to see me again forever.
Don't get agitated first.
Junjun, what should I do? Tell me, what should I do?
Baojian surely will not refuse to see me.
It must be his son. He must have done something.
How about this? Don't cry anymore. Have a good sleep.
Tomorrow morning, I'll accompany you to Uncle Cui's house and look for him.
Right now, there's also no better way.
We don't know where he is, right?
Ping'er is here so I also can't leave.
Tomorrow morning, after I take him to school, I'll go to your place.
Or you can come to my house and stay here for a few days.
No. No. No. I can't leave...
What if your Uncle Cui come here to find me?
He won't be able to find me.
He surely won't be able to find me.
We made an agreement that we will be together.
When we agreed to be together, it means to be devoted to each other until the end of our lives.
Your Uncle Cui and I don't fight at all.
Because we can't be like you young people. You have time.
We don't have that anymore.
Each good day that we live is one less day in our life.
When we drink the Auntie Meng soup for the next life,
I fear that we won't even bump into each other on the streets, we won't recognize each other.
- Hello.- Hello, mister. Do you need to check into a room?
I'm looking for Xu Zhen Zhu of room 402.
I'll just call Ms. Xu and verify it.
Tell her that her son-in-law and grandson is here looking for her.
Okay. Then go there and wait for awhile.
Hello.
Son-in-law?
Won't see him.
What? Grandson?
How come he brought my grandson? That damned guy.
Okay. Okay. Wait a minute. Thank you.
What messed up thing is this?!
So many problems.
What's going on? Why are you here?
Where is Ziqun? How come the child is with you?
Ziqun said that she's leaving Shanghai for a few days and then she gave me the child and left.
Left already?
Go where?
How would I know? If I know, I would have already went to find her.
No, why did you come to look for me?
How did you know that I am here? Did Ziqun tell you that?
But the point is...No, there's no use for you to look for me.
She also won't answer my calls.
She said that if I have a problem, I just come here to look for you.
If you have a problem, come find me?
You...
If there's any problem, come find me. She's really something.
She left so many problems behind
and let an old woman like me handle them for her?
Our rental contract for our house has already ended.
The tenant wants to take the house back and doesn't want to rent it to us anymore.
Look for another house to rent. Move out.
Then... No...
You came to look for me...but I also don't have a house for you to live in.
I don't even have a house yet to live in. I'm just staying here.
I totally...hate you two!
Don't cry. I'll call your auntie.
[ Mom ]
Don't cry.
Calling your auntie, okay, Xiao Bao?
The number you're calling is not...
She's not answering.
Don't cry...
Hello, mom, why did you call me so many times? What has happened?
I called you so many times, and you didn't answer.
I have no choice but to call He Han.
What?! You called He Han...
Why must you call He Han?!
If you need something, call me. Why must you call He Han?!
This early in the morning, the sky isn't bright yet, so why must you call him?!
Can you be a bit reasonable?
When I called him, he immediately said he will be coming here.
He doesn't sound vexed at all.
Really, you... Jun, listen to me.
He Han likes you. I can see that.
Let's not talk about other things, just last time,
when Ping'er had his birthday, tell me, what does that got to do with him?
What does that got to do with him?
Yet he just actively and took the initiative to help out.
Listen to me, Junjun. He will help out in any
of your problems or anything related to you.
And also, he so want us to go look for his help.
Really. Believe me.
Listen well. Stop calling him already.
Don't look for him anymore!
Can't you just look for me if you have a problem?
If it's not possible, then take Bai Guang and Xiao Bao
and come to my house to look for me, okay?
Don't call him!
He has his own matters, and he will be getting married soon!
Can you be more reasonable?! Don't treat other people's courteousness as one's blessings!
Wait for me. I'm going there now!
"In The Pouring Rain" by Ye Linsheng
♫ In the torrential rain, ♫
♫ among the busy cars ♫
♫ Why is the image of your face still so clear? ♫
♫ I hold my breath, ♫
♫ watching you as you run towards me ♫
♫ Why do I feel my heart slightly wavering? ♫
♫ When did I start becoming used to ♫
♫ your presence? ♫
♫ Your calls always appear at the perfect time ♫
♫ My heart has sold me out ♫
♫ I still have a little hope ♫
♫ that you will come back, searching for me ♫
♫ In the torrential rain, ♫
♫ among the busy cars ♫
♫ Why is the image of your face still so clear? ♫
♫ I hold my breath, ♫
♫ watching you as you run towards me ♫
♫ My heart is ♫
♫ slightly wavering ♫