[The Way We Were]
[Episode 26]
It's all my fault.
You have no idea.
Monica suffered a lot after coming to America with me.
I just wanted... to make it up to her.
I know. And Monica does too.
Auntie.
All right, let's not talk about this anymore.
I'll come visit again in the coming months.
I will definitely be here when she gives birth.
Don't worry, Auntie. She has me too.
Xiao Qing.
You have no idea how grateful I am towards you from the bottom of my heart.
Really.
You don't need to be so formal.
So much liquor...
What are you doing in America?
Why can't I be here?
Who is the father of your child?
You come charging over like a military tank
and ask who the father of my child is without even greeting me?
Is this the way a mayor's wife is supposed to carry herself?
Especially in front of her son.
Hello, Shu Che.
You know her?
How? When? Where?
- Who introduced you? - Why are you so nervous?
- I just met him once, after all. - You shut your mouth.
She's a colleague of Miao Ying's friend. We met at a shopping mall once.
Let me ask you again. Who is the father of your child?
Don't you find that question entirely pointless?
I'm not obligated to tell you.
I'm warning you, if you keep disrupting my life...
I have the ability to make you disappear.
The mayor's wife reveals her true face! So scary!
Don't ever let me see you again.
I can't guarantee that.
I remember you said the same thing last time, yet here we are.
Let's go.
Mom.
She's the woman, right?
I swore that I'd let this sit within me and that I wouldn't tell anyone.
Including you, my son.
I completely lost control just now.
But last time you came back, didn't you say it was over between her and Dad?
That's what your dad ensured me and what I believed.
Then is she here because Dad arranged it?
I have no idea.
Is it completely over between them?
I don't know.
I need to ask your father whose child that is.
[Yanzhou]
- Who's speaking? - It's me.
Yu Wen?
Hello?
Yu Wen?
Yu Wen, why aren't you speaking?
Are you calling me on your cellphone?
- Shu Wang. - What's wrong, Yu Wen?
I saw her.
Who?
Liu Cai Qi.
Tell me, what is she doing in America? Why is she in San Francisco?
- I don't know. - How can you not know?
All I did was arrange for her prompt departure from China.
I didn't ask for any details.
- You really don't know where she went? - No.
She's pregnant, did you know that?
Who?
- What? - Her, Liu Cai Qi.
She was pregnant when I saw her.
She must be eight or nine months alone.
I don't know about that.
Shu Wang.
If this baby is yours, if you're still lying and hiding things from me...
Then I'm warning you.
The moment this child is born, your reputation is going to hell.
This is a child!
You can't hide it the way you can hide a mistress.
It's a time bomb that can explode at any moment!
Calm down. Yu Wen, you need to calm down.
Was Shu Che with you when you saw her?
Yes.
Is he with you right now?
Yes.
Then he knows about this as well?
I couldn't control myself.
You're acting unwise.
Don't you know that if Shu Che finds out, it will spark a chain of actions?
He's your son!
No matter what he does, he's not going to ruin you!
You're so intent on guarding yourself from your own son.
Why don't you guard yourself against that bitch
who's capable of destroying your reputation and your family?
Enough.
Yu Wen, I swear to you that it's over between me and her.
Furthermore, I already assured you that I wouldn't make a similar mistake.
We can't make any more mistakes.
Here, do this. Leave Shu Che.
Go to your room.
He mustn't hear our conversation.
Hurry.
I'm in the bedroom. You have to explain things to me.
What's going on with this child? Is it yours?
I have no clue. I really don't know.
- You don't know? - Believe me, Yu Wen.
What is she gives birth to the child and then uses it to blackmail you?
Say something.
I'll have him take a trip over.
I'll have him deal with everything. Don't worry.
Tell him that I don't care what method he uses.
This child absolutely cannot be born...
if it turns out to be yours.
I know. Don't do anything before he arrived in America.
I know.
As for Shu Che...
you can't let him know too much. His emotions have to be in check.
Yu Wen.
I'm sorry that you've had to live in constant fear because of my mistake.
Shu Wang.
If you weren't who you were, I wouldn't have to keep everything inside
to the point of not even being able to fight with your mistress.
I can't do anything for the sake of your reputation, your career.
The only thing I can do is swallow everything and stay silent.
I promise you once again... this will never happen again.
Yu Wen.
I know now...
being chosen for this kind of position means living a life
of extreme scrutiny and held to extraordinary standards.
I've lost the freedom of a normal person
and the right to make the kinds of mistakes that other men make.
I also know that the two of us are tied together forever.
No one can break us apart.
What did Dad say?
I made a mistake.
That woman's child has nothing to do with him at all.
Your dad wasn't lying.
He ended with her a long time ago.
Now he has nothing to do with that woman whatsoever.
Is that true?
Yes.
I just jumped to conclusions during a moment of irrationality.
Don't let my emotions affect you.
The good thing is that whole mess is behind us.
I know someone whose surname is Shu as well.
Ms. Liu Cai Qi. She works for me.
Miao Ying?
Hello, Shu Che?
You went out? When are you coming back?
I came home to get some stuff.
You hadn't returned, so I thought you were spending the night with your mom.
I'll be back first thing tomorrow morning.
Okay. Go on and stay at your place tonight.
Okay. Then I'm hanging up.
Hello?
Do you have a way to contact the Rooney we met at the mall?
No. Why do you want to see him?
Nothing. I'll tell you tomorrow.
Okay. Get some rest! I'm hanging up now.
- Bye. - Bye bye.
Morning!
The morning traffic was horrible. Have you had breakfast yet?
Want coffee?
Have a seat first.
Why are you acting so serious?
Why did you ask me for Rooney's phone number last night?
Do you really not know Liu Cai Qi?
Why are you suddenly asking me that?
Answer me.
Think about it.
Is there anything you've forgotten to tell me?
If I had stopped the conversation there, maybe we'd have a few more good days.
Maybe we'd have gotten through this suffering.
But there are no maybes.
I thought of my promise to Shu Che then.
And thus, I decided to tell him the last thing I kept from him.
Shu Che... I admit to keeping this from you.
I know Liu Cai Qi.
Three years ago, she was my dad's assistant.
Why?
We said we wouldn't keep things from each other.
You promised me.
I asked you if there was anything else you were hiding and you said no.
What happened?
My mom and I ran into her at the supermarket.
And?
And then my mom told me...
Liu Cai Qi was the woman my dad had an affair with.
Shocked?
You didn't know?
I swear, I had no idea.
Three years ago, she was your dad's assistant.
Then she ended up with my dad and became his mistress.
Now she suddenly shows up in America working for your dad's business partner.
What a coincidence.
Miao Ying.
How many more secrets are you hiding from me?
That's it.
You responded so fast that I have a hard time believing it.
That's really it.
That's it?
- What are you doing? - To see Liu Cai Qi.
Why are you going to see her?
I want to know everything.
- Give me my keys. - No, you can't go.
You can't go! Shu Che, you can't!
Shu Che!
Do you have to know everything? Why can't we just live our own lives?
Am I supposed to be like you?
Turn myself into a blind, deaf, idiot in the face of everything?
But at least we can be together!
Miao Ying.
I'm incapable of turning myself into an ostrich with my head in the sand
even for the sake of love.
I gave you a chance.
Hello, this sir would like to see Mr. Strong.
- Do you have an appointment? - No. Please tell him it's Shu Che.
Okay, please wait a moment. He's replying to urgent emails...
so it may take some time before he can answer.
Okay, no problem.
Barbara, could you please prepare a cup of coffee for Mr. Shu Che?
Yes, sure.
- Thank you. - You're welcome.
- I will inform Mr. Strong. - Okay.
[CE Employee Contact Sheet]
[Liu Cai Qi]
- Where is he? - He was just here.
That's weird. Okay.
How did you find this place?
I never would've expected this.
Come in.
Can I get you anything to drink?
I'm fine. I'll leave after I ask you some questions.
Sit anywhere you like.
The thing between you and my dad...
You wanted to tell me when you first met me.
Forgive me. I'm a woman who's been meticulously concealed for a long time.
I can never resist the desire to prove that I exist.
I always want the world to know that I existed once.
That my relationship existed once, even if it wasn't moral.
Okay.
Now I've found you.
I'm sure I can find lots of answers here
that my parents would rather die than tell me.
What do you want to know? Go ahead and ask.
- Your child is... - Your dad's.
I apologize for my bluntness, but I'm 100 percent sure
that this is your half-brother.
Does my dad know?
- He doesn't. - He doesn't?
I never told him.
If your mother hadn't discovered me in the store that day...
I wouldn't tell him until after I had the baby.
Why?
Because if he knew... he would never let me keep it.
Is it... over between you guys?
What does your father say?
Does he say it's completely over and that we're just strangers now?
Of course, that's the most beneficial answer for him.
It's the smartest decision.
But we're still connected by this child.
You can end relationships just like that, but can you stop your feelings like that?
You should ask him.
What do you want?
What do I want?
They know.
- Who are you asking for? - Myself.
I can accept a life of concealment like the one I live now.
But I want to be acknowledged.
I want his feelings for me to be acknowledged.
I want my existence to be acknowledged.
I don't want to be written off like I never existed and we never happened.
Do you think this child can permanently connect you to him?
At least now, it's our only link.
My dad arranged for you to come to America?
Of course.
After your mom found out about us, Shu Wang demanded that I leave.
Because he's a public official.
The public holds government officials up to
strict standards of morality and ethics.
If our relationship became publicized, it would destroy his entire career.
I'm well aware of this.
That's why I went along with his arrangement and came here.
I also assured him that I would temporarily not return to China.
Why would you end up at CE working for Rooney Strong?
Was this Cheng Wei's arrangement?
Of course.
Your dad couldn't very well have arranged this himself.
So Cheng Wei arranged everything for you in America?
- It was him from the beginning. - Including...
you meeting my dad?
Yes.
After he struck up a relationship with your dad...
it's not as if they were going to be communicating in person.
I became their messenger so they wouldn't arouse any suspicions.
I have one last question.
Did Cheng Wei have this all schemed in advance?
What do you mean?
Him getting close to your dad, or me getting close to your dad?
Both.
Can you scheme things like feelings in advance?
I don't know. You and Miao Ying, me and Shu Wang.
Anyways, when I was his assistant...
he got me to handle things with your dad for the sake of PR.
You and Miao Ying paved the way for their partnership in the beginning.
Later on, it was me.
So then... do you think Cheng Wei schemed this all in advance?
You're not angry about the things I said about your dad and my relationship?
You aren't going to yell at me for the sake of your mother?
Does my anger...
serve any purpose?
- You and Shu Wang are similar. - We're different.
Shu Che!
No matter what...
I must apologize to you and your mother.
I've wronged you both.
Liu Cai Qi admitted that everything began with your dad.
I didn't even know about her affair with your dad.
I didn't purposely hide it from you.
Honestly, whether you knew and whether you hid it or not...
doesn't matter to me anymore.
You're still mad?
You didn't blame me at all after we got back together...
but you already began bearing a grudge inside.
Right?
Miao Ying.
I can sympathize with the fact that you're trapped between me and your dad.
I can understand all of your struggles and conflicts.
I don't blame you for any of it.
But hiding things from me wasn't your only option.
You had other options.
You could have stood by my side and faced it with me.
If you had done that, at least I would've felt...
that I was facing all of them with the person I love the most.
But you chose to stay silent and go along.
To cooperate with them.
Choosing to stay silent in the face of right and wrong...
does nothing but help those who do wrong.
You're right. I admit it.
I don't have courage and I'm not brave.
I don't have the courage to say no to my dad.
And I'm not brave enough to fight them with you.
I don't have the right to demand you to be brave.
But Miao Ying...
the two of us are not the same kind of people.
My love differentiates between right and wrong.
I'm incapable of just being in love and not questioning anything...
not doing anything.
Your dad is dragging my dad down with money and lust.
His unscrupulousness has hit my bottom line.
Do you think our love hasn't been stained, that it's still pure?
Do you think it's still possible for us to be together?
Give me one more chance. Will you?