[The Way We Were]
[Episode 27]
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?
I'm sorry, Miao Ying.
Every time I see you now...
I can't separate you from your dad.
As long as I'm with you, I can't rid myself of him.
He's like a malignant tumor. The only way to get rid of it
is to cut it off completely. Including...
including everything it's tarnished.
From now on...
I don't want to be connected to your family in any way.
So...
So we're done. It's completely over.
Since I can't change them and I can't change this world...
at the very least, I can make sure I'm not changed by them or the world.
I won't recognize him as my dad anymore.
Okay?
I'm going to head out for a bit.
I hope that when I'm back...
all your things are gone.
Now?
Hey, Shu Che. What's up?
Miao Ying and I have broken up for good.
If she hasn't gone home in an hour...
please find her.
Also, she might be emotionally unstable during this time period.
Take care of her.
Hello? H--
Sorry, the phone you are calling is powered off.
- Please... - Shit, no way. Shu Che!
[Cheng Ran]
- Hello? - Hey, man. There's trouble!
My sister suddenly broke up with Shu Che!
Broke up?
But... where is she now?
I don't know! It's been two hours!
I sent all my friends out looking for her but no one has found her!
You're my last resort.
Why didn't you call me earlier?
Forget blaming me! Do you have any clues?
Hold on, let me think.
I thought of something. I thought of a place she might be.
Listen. Come and pick me up immediately.
Okay, I'll be right over.
What are we doing here?
This is where Shu Che proposed to your sister.
I think it's now a place of heartbreak for her.
Hurry, come on.
You know this too?
Sis, you broke up with Shu Che again?
This time it's for real?
But why?
Say something!
Come home with us.
Let's go home first.
Miao Ying.
Losing him isn't losing everything.
Sis, is there no way you and Shu Che can fix things?
Okay. I'm going to go kick his ass.
Cheng Ran!
Let go of me! What's up with him? Breaking up and making up at will!
Why?
Cheng Ran, just don't add to the mess.
You don't know anything.
I don't know anything. All right, then tell me!
Why are you and Shu Che like this?
I really envy your ignorance.
I want you to stay like this, doing whatever you want all the time.
Not like me.
Carrying this family's name everywhere I go like a branding.
Carrying the burden of being Weiye's successor.
I don't even have the freedom to decide what I study, my own path.
And now... even who I love, whether I'm allowed to love them...
whether I can marry them...
whether we can be together in the end, none of it is up to me.
Then you and Shu Che breaking up has to do with our family? With Dad?
I'm seriously so tired.
I don't want to think about anything, I just want to be able to sleep.
I just want to sleep and not think of anything.
What are you doing?
Drink it.
Stop thinking. Get some sleep.
After you fall asleep, today will be over.
What about tomorrow?
You can deal with tomorrow, tomorrow.
Ning Ming.
Thanks.
You're always with me when I'm at my worst.
Sleep.
Don't catch a cold.
She's asleep?
Yeah.
Keep watch over her. You probably won't get any sleep tonight.
Keep your ears open.
- Definitely. - Then I'm heading out.
Call me if anything comes up and I'll come right away.
Yeah. Thanks man.
Hello, Miao Ying? You finally picked up!
It's me, Cheng Ran.
Cheng Ran?
Where's your sister?
She hasn't been picking up all day.
I was trying to find Shu Che through her. He hasn't been picking up either.
He's needed in the office but no one can reach him.
First he wasn't picking up, then he just turned off his phone.
Shu Che and my sister broke up.
What happened?
I don't know either, but I think it's serious this time.
She came home last night, drank nearly a bottle of whiskey
and she's been sleeping until now.
Should I go see her?
It's fine. Let her sleep.
Then you keep watch over her. Let's stay in touch.
- Yeah. - Bye.
Shu Che!
Shu Che, I know you're in there.
I heard about what happened between you and Miao Ying.
I may not know any details, but I know you must be worried about her.
I just came to tell you that Cheng Ran got her home.
She has people keeping her company.
Don't worry.
But we're all worried about you.
Do you feel like talking to me?
If you think being alone is better than talking right now...
then I'll stop bothering you.
Bye.
I thought it was all over.
Haven't you guys been happy these past few months?
How come you suddenly...
Everyone thought things were all good.
Including me.
But actually...
things keep getting worse.
Have we... met somewhere before?
What are you doing here?
Didn't you leave half a year ago? Unless you just never left.
That's right.
I got to the airport and then turned around.
Good thing I didn't leave.
If I had, I wouldn't have known how awful things would get for Miao Ying
and what a piece of shit you'd be!
- What are you doing? - Get out of the way.
Let me tell you.
Let me tell you why I'm kicking your ass.
Because you couldn't spare a bit of sympathy for Miao Ying.
The person who ended up hurting her the most turned out to be you?
Other people screw their fathers over.
You know more than anyone else that her own father screwed her over!
Say something. Say something!
What are you doing!
Go screw with the people you can't stand.
Instead, you let all your anger out on the girlfriend who loves you the most.
You call yourself a man?
At least by breaking up with her
she no longer has to do those things she doesn't want to do.
She doesn't need to be caught between her dad and me
yanked from one side to another.
She no longer has to suffer the torment of doing wrong no matter what she does.
If being with me just brings endless pain...
worry... even fear...
I'd rather...
I'd rather end things than prolong the agony.
Is there really no going back?
If...
If even your dad's mistress was handed to him by her dad...
do you think these two people can still be together?
I knew it was really over between Shu Che and Miao Ying
when he asked me that question.
Even if they were still in love.
I felt sorrow, for Miao Ying's suffering, and for Shu Che's pain.
They say there's no right or wrong in love.
Many people believe that and their love represents it.
But Shu Che isn't like that.
And me? If it were me, what would I have done?
Shu Che!
Open the door!
What happened to you?
Who did you fight with?
What's going on here?
You've been sleeping on the couch?
Who did you get in a fight with?
Why did you suddenly stop contacting everyone?
Why did you suddenly break up with Miao Ying?
I met Liu Cai Qi.
- She came to find you? - I went to find her.
I wanted to know the truth.
Now I know.
Dad is the father of Liu Cai Qi's child.
What does this woman want?
Is she not happy about silently disappearing from our lives?
Her goal is just to use this child to coerce your dad and me!
Coerce us into accepting her longterm presence in our lives!
That greedy bitch, doing everything for personal gains!
I also know that the only reason she even met Dad is because of Cheng Wei.
He arranged for her to be his PR person in front of Dad.
Cheng Wei set up every kind of trap possible for Dad.
Power, money, sex.
Shu Che.
How can you talk about your dad like that?
So you knew about all this?
Your father didn't accept Cheng Wei's money for himself.
He did it for you!
Who did he indulge in the woman Cheng Wei prepared for?
I won't allow you to speak of your father like that!
Mom.
If bribery can be justified in the name of family
and adultery can be justified as human instinct...
then what other corruption can't be justified?
I can fix Cheng Wei and Dad's partnership up real nice in my head.
I can say they're likeminded and doing this for the nation and their families.
You can say Dad had an affair because of love...
But what would the people say?
I can forgive Dad because he did it all for me.
You can forgive him because you're married and can keep your eyes shut.
But what about other people?
Why should he be forgiven?
Mom.
Your troubles are far from over.
Liu Cai Qi's situation is already a mess.
How will Dad face it? How will you deal with it?
I'm sorry, I can't help at all.
You couldn't even prevent the start, how can I go about ending it?
I have one last request. I'm begging you guys.
Stop forcing me to accept values I don't agree with
and telling me it's for my sake.
Leave me alone.
Leave me to study and to live my own life.
Shu Wang, I spoke with Shu Che.
Liu Cai Qi told him everything.
What is she after?
- How did Shu Che react? - He broke up with Miao Ying.
What is he doing?
He would rather sacrifice he and Miao Ying's relationship
so that he can draw clear boundaries between him and Cheng Wei.
Is he also trying to draw boundaries with me?
He's bunched me with you as well. He kicked me out of his house just now.
Our son is getting more and more troublesome.
Shu Wang.
Our problem doesn't lie with our son.
No matter how much he refuses to accept what's already happened...
and how much he can't accept your values, he'd never hurt you.
Liu Cai Qi is different. She's our real problem.
She's going to be a troublemaker.
I got it.
Cheng Wei is arriving in America soon.
Let him handle everything, including the aftermath.
Do you think he's a reliable option?
He's in the same boat as us right now.
We float together, we sink together.
Things will get messy for him as well if he doesn't deal with Liu Cai Qi.
What if he can't handle her either?
Rest assured.
He knows more than we do what he needs to do.
Yu Wen.
Are you filled in on the situation?
I never would've thought... why did Shu Che go looking for Liu Cai Qi?
Considering how arrogant that woman is, even if Shu Che didn't go find her...
she'd have found a way to turn up in front of him.
I just don't understand why she'd do this.
Why would she tell Shu Che?
Can't you tell she's not done being a sore in our lives?
Did you think that just sending her out of the country would end things?
She never planned on letting go of this relationship.
Why would she keep her pregnancy secret and be determined to keep the child?
She just wants to force Shu Wang and even me to acknowledge
and accept her presence.
She'd rather be a hidden mistress than let Shu Wang go.
She probably thinks of herself as a victim fighting for her rights.
I really didn't know she was so ambitious.
When you sent her out here and left Rooney to watch her...
you really didn't know she was pregnant at the time?
If I had known, none of this would have happened.
Now this woman and her child are like a gun barrel pointed at our heads.
She must be seven or eight months along. Rooney must have known.
- Why didn't he tell you? - How am I supposed to know?
That's why I'm going to talk to Rooney later.
Now Rooney is the one getting blamed!
Isn't it obvious?
Don't you know what Liu Cai Qi is like?
Isn't that the reason you sent her to Shu Wang?
Yu Wen, I never purposely told her to--
Enough, stop acting innocent in front of me.
Men are all like this.
First, Liu Cai Qi seduces you. Then she seduces Shu Wang.
Now she's got Rooney wrapped around her finger.
Cheng Wei, is your brain dead? You sent her to San Francisco?
You didn't think she'd run into Shu Che or Miao Ying?
That was an oversight on my part.
But what I was thinking at the time was getting her set up with a life over here
while remaining under my watch.
I had to make sure she didn't go back to China.
The person keeping her under watch had to be someone I trusted.
It had to be someone benefiting from this, so I chose Rooney.
As for me and Shu Wang, plus Shu Che and Miao Ying's relationship...
I've never mentioned a word of any of that to him.
All he knows is Liu Cai Qi is not a normal woman.
He doesn't know where she came from or what she's done.
Who knew she'd run into Shu Che and Miao Ying in such a big city?
And I would never have thought she'd be such a scheming woman.
I'm sure Shu Wang has told you. I want to repeat his words to you.
I don't care what method you use.
This child absolutely cannot be born.