[The Way We Were]
Timing and Subtitles Brought to you by the Can We Go Back?
[The Way We Were]
[Episode 40]
♫ Whenever I felt hurt ♫
♫ I would leave without saying anything and escape far away ♫
♫ How long and how far does it take to heal? ♫
♫ Why not just return to the place you fell in love? ♫
♫ Did not say goodbye and silently left ♫
♫ The room is cold and no longer has the warm sun ♫
♫ How much I want to keep the time of you and me ♫
♫ Never forgetting and longing for the love to come back ♫
That's why, after you're done with your app,
we just need to attract a huge investor...
Anyway, for matters like that,
I still haven't thought until that point. I'm thinking...
Xiao Qing.
I actually had some words that I want to tell you all this time.
You mustn't feel apologetic and guilty
for something that you haven't done wrong.
Miaoying!
No matter how you look at me,
I don't want to lose a friend like you.
We will forever be friends.
Thank you! Thank you!
Please allow me, on behalf of the American company Young,
to express my sincere thanks and respect for Ning Ming,
the inventor of the 'Guardian Grandpa Monitor'.
Thank you for trusting Young.
Than you for allowing us to manufacture and promote
this loving and caring patented invention.
On behalf of Young,
I promise Ning Ming and Miaoying
that in 2 years, we will equip thousands of elders
in the nursing homes in America
with the application that Ning Ming invented.
Guardian Grandpa is a proud symbol
of Ning Ming and Young.
Please welcome, Ning Ming!
I'm grateful to Young
and their teams for fulfilling my dreams.
The idea of Guardian Grandpa
originated from a year ago when my grandpa has left home
because of his Alzheimer's.
It's an invention of family bond.
It's also an invention of love.
I hope that loved ones can always be together.
Lastly, I want to say that we also guard grandmas.
Miss Miao, please join us!
- Congratulations! - Thanks!
Thanks...
Wait. Shouldn't he drink more?
Say, which side are you with?
Your hard times are over and the good times are beginning.
- Drinking more is a must. Okay? - Okay already.
- Come. Come. Thank you everyone. - Congratulations.
Cheers.
Ha? Why are you all not drinking?
We are women.
Too bad. It would be better if Chen Ran and Shu Che are here.
So sorry. I didn't intend to make anyone cry. I'll punish myself with one glass.
Come. Let's continue drinking.
This one...
...let's wish that they both will be back soon.
Come... Have a taste of the top grade tea that my father brought from China.
- Is it red or green tea? - This is a red tea.
I have red, green, black, and white teas. You can drink whatever you want.
Thanks.
You all just drink.
So fragrant.
You won't be able to sleep after drinking this.
You won't.
Really?
Why are you alone in here?
I need to quiet down by myself for a while to confirm things.
Confirm what?
Come.
Confirm...that my life now
is true and not a dream.
Why do you feel that it's a dream?
Because the life for this past year
is totally like a miracle.
Every day, I actually
would repeatedly confirm that it's true.
But for me, it still has a bit of dreamy feelings.
You only used a year
to fulfill a 4-year plan.
You now have the ability to make the person you love blissful.
You have no more excuse to ask me to abandon you.
Okay.
Miao Ying, do you know that a year ago,
I thought that success for me is too impossible?
Even if I was able to get your love by relying on
persistently sticking and pestering you,
there was never a minute that I believed that I am capable
of shortening the distance between us.
But you were able to do it.
Because I never believed that I will succeed,
hence, I never focused on going after success.
What I've been trying hard to chase has always been love.
After chasing it, success just came by itself.
I want to interview you then.
Boy wonder Mr. Ning Ming,
may I ask what's your secret trick for success?
Because of you. Because of love.
For this chicken soup answer, I'm giving you a perfect score.
Now, you have $3 million.
How do you plan to spend it?
I plan to invest all of them
to Shu Che's Field Technology Ltd.
Restart the market promotions of his DNS and its continued development.
[Field Technology Ltd.]
I'm not your investor.
I'm just Shu Che's friend.
I hope that I can continue the thing that he likes to do.
Let us Chinese have our own DNS too.
Not getting restricted by other people.
You all know too
that Shu Che was forced to stop the business of Field Technology Ltd.
He has never thought of abandoning this team.
It's just that...
...he puts more importance in his personal values.
Hence, even though he's not here now,
let us continue helping him fulfill the venture that he has wanted.
Let us wait for his return.
[Anti-Corruption and Bribery Bureau]
Xiao Qing, I asked my immigration friends
to investigate Shu Che's entry and exit records in our country.
Is there?
There indeed is.
He indeed left the country.
Which country?
After the trial, he traveled to a lot of countries.
His last stop was Cambodia.
Cambodia?
That's right. Afterwards,
he has one record of returning to Beijing.
And then, he requested for a work visa from the Cambodian embassy.
He then returned there.
Work visa?
What is he doing in Cambodia?
I also requested my friend to ask the nearby embassy.
They only told me that they've confirmed that Shu Che entered Cambodia twice
and didn't leave since.
As where he is now, they also have no way of finding it out.
How can I find him then?
My friend over there promised me that he will help me to continue find him.
Once he has news, he will immediately inform me.
At the very least, we now know his whereabouts.
In the summer of 2017, I from the law school of Stender University,
Miaoying from the College of Business,
Ning Ming from the College of Internet Programming of Francisco University,
all graduated that same year and obtained our master's degree.
Our foreign student life has ended.
Whether to stay or to go back
became a choice that we all must face.
The Silicon Valley
giant tech companies like Facebook, Google, and Apple
usually contact me at this time of the year and ask me about my recommendation on outstanding graduates.
If you decide to stay,
they can promise to get you an H1 passport by May of next year.
Getting into these giant tech companies
means that you'll be in the middle class.
You'll earn up to $80,000 a year.
Be part of the American mainstream.
Not only that, these
internet tech companies have very stable growth.
You'll have a stable income and a safe, shadowless life path ahead of you.
Why are you still hesitating, Ning Ming?
I know that if I choose to say, it means
I can get into the safe box and live a worry-less life.
I would have safety and stability.
I know what your family is like.
And I know your personal life experience quite well.
What you have here is a small miracle that you've achieved with your dedication and using your intelligence.
It's a dream for you've come from a working family that you couldn't even afford to study abroad.
It's a dream that's only achievable in America.
If you gob back to China,
will you have a stable in come and a safe and free market?
Please reconsider carefully.
[MTA Law]
[Reisgnation Letter]
You're giving your dream of becoming an American attorney
and an official post at MTA,
so that you can join a 6-month internship with United Nations, where you have to pay for your own ticket and accommodations.
Also, that you can look for somebody in Cambodia.
I just really don't understand.
- Are you sure that you want to do this? - Yes.
Well...I hope you find him.
Professor Eric is genuinely thinking of you.
You should stay here.
The United States is a country that encourages self-determination.
You depend on self-determination. You've earned such a great career opportunity.
In the future, you can rely on the industrial and geographical advantage of Silicon Valley
to develop and grow Field Technologies.
Whether it's for you, your company, or your team, staying in the US
signifies superiority, stability, and progress.
Stability is the most important.
Didn't you always want to make your dad and mom's lives a little better?
This will safeguard their lives when they get older.
This is what you've been striving for?
But I want to be with you.
But our careers aren't the same.
But the roads people take aren't necessarily the same.
Besides, going back was already decided before I came here to study.
Now, what happened to my dad makes that more necessary.
This past year, Wei Ye was punished.
We don't have the right to be part of the subway car project.
Our stock has plummeted.
We still owe a huge amount of money to the bank.
At this point, company operations are basically at a standstill.
The banks are pressing us to re-pay; we haven't paid salaries.
One disaster after another.
When I go back, I will be facing this mess.
A company in imminent danger of collapse.
I don't know . . . if I even have the ability to bring it back to life.
That's why at this time I want even more to be by your side.
And your current career, your life
Everything you fought so hard to realize,
can you really just give them up?
If you come back with me,
the industry's competition there is intense.
Your career is full of uncertainty.
Moreover, the progress of your technology company will lose the advantage that is Silicon Valley.
I don't think this a sensible decision.
And if we're together and both of us don't succeed
or, because I don't do well, I become a burden to you,
What's the point of us staying bound together?
This time you're really leaving?
This time, you won't come back, right?
I'm sorry, Monica.
Actually, I've always kept a secret in my heart.
I never dared to let you know.
Because I was afraid, if I told you, you'd run away.
You've often told me
I should find someone who could be bring me happiness.
I never had the courage to tell you that I'd already found that person.
She was always at my side.
If I could protect her, just see her,
I would be happy.
I was afraid if I told you that person was you,
I would scare you into running away.
I never thought that even though I endured it for so long,
you're still leaving.
Miao Ying, let me go with you.
You've been my everything. In the future, you'll be my everything.
As long as you're there, I can start over again.
Marry me.
I'm sorry. I can't accept.
Why?
In order to save me, you decided to go back with me, right?
You don't need to sacrifice yourself like a tragic hero.
Sacrificing your own future
won't be of any help to everything that I'm about to face when I go back. This is completely meaningless.
You're afraid you'll drag me down, so you're pushing me away, right?
Trust me! Right now, you need me, Miao Ying.
Right now, I don't need anyone's help.
Don't worry about us - go on.
Don't cry...
Don't cry... Okay...
Have a safe trip.
You too - a safe trip.
When you get back, you must take good care of yourself.
In Cambodia, you also need to take good care of yourself.
Okay, Bye-bye. Bye.
What are you doing?
What a coincidence. We're on the same flight home.
How can you be so hard to shake off?
My love completely depended on sticking. My success totally depended on pestering.
Miao Ying,
I've finally come to understand one thing.
It's not that you need me.
It's that I need you.
♫ I am here ♫
♫ always been here ♫
♫ Here, waiting for you ♫
♫ With you forever among the stars ♫
♫ There's not enough time to say I love you. ♫
♫ I want to be with you forever. ♫
[San Francisco to Phnom Penh, Cambodia]
[UNESCO in Phnom Penh, Cambodia]
Xiao Qing.
Looking at your expression, you have some news.
It's like this. I have a buddy who is also working in Cambodia.
He works at Youlian Real Estate Company, China's largest real estate investment company here.
Their company is really doing great.
It has successively developed several projects in Kohkong Province.
He told me, 2 years ago, there was a Chinese guy called Shu Che arrived at Bo Dong Sha Gu National Park.
This guy, Shu Che, was an odd guy.
During the 2 years he's been in Cambodia,
his identity, background, profession -
he never brings it up.
He's always with the local fishermen, deep in the rainforest.
He's helping the locals improve their living conditions and education.
Last year, Youlian Real Estate company funded the building of a school.
Shu Che brought this about.
It was because of this project,
they found out Shu Che has an MBA from Stender.
You Lian offered him a high salary to enter their company.
Shu Che wouldn't do it.
He would rather stay with the fishermen and be their teacher.
Do you have a way he can be contacted or the address where he's living?
I don't.
He doesn't use a cell phone - there's no way to contact him.
Address? You Lian's people aren't certain of that.
We really don't have any way to contact him. He didn't give us anything.
It seems like he doesn't want to be found.
He is indeed like that.
Brother, there's has to be some way.
We really have to find him.
Try going to the local fishing village; maybe you'll find some clues there.
Or you could go to the school we donated. He sometimes goes there to teach classes.
Okay, let's go then. Okay.
Thank you for your giving us ideas.
You're welcome.
I'm sorry. We know very little; we couldn't help much.
What you've told us invaluable.
Let's go. Hey. . .
Are you going to the rainforest? Yes.
I'm familiar with the local people. I can speak a little Khmer. I'll go with you.
That would be great!
Oh, thank you.
No problem. Let's go.
Brother, is all of this You Lian's?
Yes. This whole part.
all of this
Have you seen this person?
Do you know him?
Have you seen this person?
It's very important to find him. Have you seen this man?
Have you seen him?
Please look carefully. Have you seen him?
Have you seen him?
Thank you everyone.
Anything?
Not a single person knows where Shu Che is.
Timing and Subtitles Brought to you by the Can We Go Back?
♫ Love and hate's margin ♫
♫ Gathering and dispersing ♫
♫ Asking why do you care ♫
♫ Until now, I'm still longing ♫
♫ And I'll still go back to you ♫
♫ I rely on you ♫
♫ Separated but the heart comes back ♫
♫ Remember this love, we understand ♫
♫ That this is just love ♫
♫ Whenever I feel hurt ♫
♫ Do not leave and go far away ♫
♫ How long and how far does it take to heal? ♫
♫ Why don't you just return to the place you fell in love? ♫
♫ Did not say goodbye and silently left ♫
♫ The room is cold and no longer has the warm sun ♫
♫ How much I want to keep the time of you and me ♫
♫ Never forgetting and longing for the love to come back ♫
♫ Love and hate's margin ♫
♫ Gathering and dispersing ♫
♫ Asking why do you care ♫
♫ Until now, I'm still longing ♫
♫ And I'll still go back to you ♫
♫ I rely on you ♫
♫ Separated but the heart comes back ♫
♫ Remember this love, we understand ♫
♫ That this is just love ♫