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[The Way We Were]
[Episode 34]
You and I both know that they're both really great.
They're always together, drawn towards each other.
And now they've ended up together.
Isn't that a wonderful thing?
Aren't you jealous? Or upset?
Do I even have the right to be?
So you're transferring to avoid it all?
I'm leaving... to give everyone a fresh start.
And for myself.
I'm not as nice as you are. I'm going to LA to find them right now.
They went to Los Angeles?
Yes. Xiao Qing's roommate told me.
It's none of my business where they go.
I don't want to know either.
Sis, you're honestly... I mean, I personally can't stand it.
I want to criticize them directly in their faces.
What right do you have to do that?
I don't. But if you come with me, I will.
Cheng Ran.
When I saw Shu Che kiss Xiao Qing, I thought to myself...
screw all reason and dignity!
I wanted to charge up to them to scream and yell!
- Then you should have! - And then what?
Regardless of whether they end up together or not...
Shu Che and my relationship would forever be tarnished by such an act.
When I think back on our past in the future...
something like that would ruin all the good we once shared.
I don't want that to happen.
Everything that Shu Che and I shared are my most precious memories.
I don't want to ruin them.
That day...
there was this person who helped me understand something.
Loving someone doesn't necessarily mean they have to be yours.
It doesn't matter whether your love is good for the other person.
It doesn't matter whether they love you back or not.
If your love for someone can make them feel warm and make you a better person
then it's a good love.
Even if in the end, that person will never love you.
You get the chance to truly love someone one time.
I remember something he said to me once.
It's enough that it gives me pleasure.
It doesn't matter whether it's hopeless or not.
Because...
- All love... - All love...
is an act of self-realization.
We're finally in Los Angeles!
Look over there.
So pretty!
It's the perfect place for a love confession.
If you like someone, bring them here to confess your feelings.
The person I like is right here.
Could I confess to him?
If he isn't here, make a wish, and it will come true.
God, can you hear my wish?
Don't let him know I like him.
These lamps are basically the symbol of LACMA.
- Its name is "Urban Light." - So like, a city of lights?
Yes! Here.
- Here, let me take a photo of you. - It's so pretty!
You should take a photo of the lights first.
Let's get a photo of the lights, come on. Get ready!
Start walking! Start!
Is that good?
Night.
Was there anything else?
No.
- Goodnight. - Goodnight.
Goodnight.
You see, this is your issue.
Shu Che is too awesome, so you don't dare believe he could like you.
But you started liking him a long time ago, right?
[Shu Che]
Xiao Qing.
The tour bus is here. I left my keys at the front desk.
Go get them after you wake up.
Text me when you decide where you're going today.
Also, don't forget that breakfast only goes until 10 a.m.
See you tonight! Shu Che.
Front desk.
102. Very well, thank you.
About five minutes.
- Hi! - Hi!
I want to check out.
Oh, you're leaving?
Yes, I'm going back to San Francisco right now.
Okay.
Your friend left this key for you.
I don't need it anymore.
Please give the key back to him when he comes back here tonight.
- Okay. - Thank you, bye.
I'm sorry, Shu Che. The law firm suddenly asked me to go to work.
I can't stay in Los Angeles.
Thanks for arranging this trip, even though I only experienced one day.
Have a safe trip.
Didn't you say you were going for four days? Why are you back already?
- Something came up suddenly. - Came up suddenly?
Something came up all right.
Let me ask you, what happened last night?
Nothing happened.
Did you jump him, or did he jump you?
Neither. We jumped into our own beds.
Yeah, right.
When a single guy and a single girl go on a trip together...
even the air changes chemically between them.
Friendship changes.
Did you run away at the last minute because you felt it?
Felt what? I'm something that doesn't change.
I'm off to shower.
Let's see how long you remain in denial!
Here's your dessert. Anything else I can help you with?
- No, thank you. Bye bye. - Bye.
What a coincidence!
Oh right, I texted your sister. Why hasn't she responded yet?
Did you need her for something?
Not really. What's she been up to though?
- Transfer applications. - Transfer?
- Where is she transferring to? - The east.
- Why? - You really don't know?
No. Why is she transferring?
I think you should just ask her yourself.
Miao Ying, you're here too?
I ran into Cheng Ran a few days ago and he said you were transferring east.
Yeah.
How come you never brought up such huge news?
I didn't tell anyone.
To get away from Shu Che?
Yes.
How are you guys?
Us?
Aren't you guys together every day?
We haven't really hung out besides during class.
Aren't you guys already together?
And you went on a road trip together during break.
We didn't plan to go on a trip.
I got him a job as a study abroad tour guide.
He let me hitch a ride with him to LA to thank me.
But a day after I arrived, my law firm wanted me to start working.
I came back the second day.
You've really got the wrong idea.
He kissed you. Did I misunderstand that too?
What?
Do you really not know, or are you pretending?
The night we were to meet to talk about Shu Che's job...
you told me you had to pick a friend up from the airport
and the flight got delayed so you had to push our meeting back.
But you didn't tell me the person you were picking up was Shu Che.
I waited outside his house for the whole night
and you ended up returning with him.
He kissed you in the car.
- Miao Ying, I really didn't know. - What don't you know?
That he kissed you, or that you guys spend every day together?
Xiao Qing.
If you like Shu Che, just tell me. I can handle it.
I just can't handle the lying and the backstabbing.
If you like Shu Che, just tell me. I can handle it.
I just can't handle the lying and the backstabbing.
It's hard to believe that Miao Ying thinks I'm a lying, two-faced person.
What do you mean, a lying, two-faced person?
Xiao Qing, it's a misunderstanding. It's not your fault, don't blame yourself.
Also, they broke up. They both have the right to date other people.
But it shouldn't have been me.
If...
If I really like Shu Che, it would hurt Miao Ying.
If I have to give up my friendship for the sake of love...
I'd rather be without that love.
If we could control who we loved and could just turn it on and off...
people wouldn't say things like, "I couldn't help it" about love.
They broke up.
Shu Che didn't marry Miao Ying, and you aren't married to anyone.
You guys are allowed to date.
Miao Ying isn't your problem. Your problem is yourself.
- I don't agree. - What are you going to do then?
Don't tell me you're going to end it with Shu Che!
You already know that what I want from you
in regards to the upcoming investigation...
is to help deepen my understanding of Chinese companies.
Chinese people, how they think, even their unspoken rules.
Professor Anderson says that you come from Yanzhou, China. Is that correct?
Yeah.
That's also a part of the reason why I decided to hire you.
I don't understand. Is that important?
Recently, I was contacted by a well-known enterprise
that asked me to lead an internal investigation into a department
that they suspect may be in violation of FCPA.
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
The headquarters of the particular department is located in Yanzhou, China.
So, your familiarity with Yanzhou is of great value to me.
That's why I've asked you to assist me in this case.
However...
if our investigation should include a relative or even a close friend of yours
you would be required to maintain absolute secrecy about your work.
Even if your best friend were involved as a target of this investigation...
you wouldn't be allowed to breathe a single word of your work to anyone.
You wouldn't be allowed to bring a single thread of your personal feelings
into this investigation.
Just tell me directly. I can have you transferred to another department.
- Do you understand? - Yes.
I promise I will always be professional and ethical.
Then welcome to MTA.
I hope you show your personal strengths and values to us.
Thank you so much.
Hi.
Am I imagining it, or have you been avoiding me?
I have.
Why?
Because... I don't want us to keep acting inappropriately.
Have we?
I really want to know what you're referring to.
I like you.
But it's wrong. I despise myself like this.
You like me? Since when?
That's not important. What's important is I want it to end.
That's not fair, is it? I don't even when you started liking me and now it's over?
What do you mean by that anyways? That we never interact again?
For what reason?
Miao Ying.
So... let's just drop it.
Do you not want to know what I think at all?
Let me ask you...
That night I picked you up from the airport...
Did you... kiss me?
Miao Ying saw.
She's trying to transfer to the East to get out of here.
She doesn't want to face you or me.
Even so, she didn't say a single word against us.
Yet I kept lying to her face about us being together all the time.
I think this is really bad, so I don't want it to continue.
Goodbye.
Miao Ying.
Harvard hasn't gotten back to you after you submitted your apps?
Not yet.
There wasn't much hope to begin with.
Harvard Grad School basically doesn't accept transfer students.
Then if you pass the interview for Columbia Business School
you'll end up in New York?
Yeah.
Basically, you don't care where you go as long as it's not here.
You don't have to walk me in, I'll go in by myself.
Bye.
Miao Ying!
I hope you fail your interview and don't pass!
Asshole!
Have a safe trip.
I'm going.
- Bye! - Bye.
New York is way too pricey.
Apartments are hard to find and jobs are hard to find.
What?
Get in the car!
Sit wherever.
Sit!
- Which one do you want? - Either is fine. I'll take this one.
Why do you keep looking at me like that?
Have you figured out where you're going?
Not yet.
I know where you're going.
I don't even know, how would you know?
You're following my sister wherever she goes.
What kind of logic is that?
You were saying at the airport that New York is pricey
and that apartments and jobs are both hard to find.
Yeah. I mean... it's the truth.
None of those are things my sister has to worry about.
They're what you have to worry about.
You're wondering, "How am I supposed to live after I get to New York?"
I've been wondering this whole time whether you came here for my sister.
Which turned out to be true.
But you're crazier than I thought
because you want to follow her to New York.
Actually, before I met you and ended up getting taken care of by you...
I experienced starvation, homelessness, nearly getting shot at...
The whole nine lives, man.
Really, I'm not exaggerating.
So I have to thank you.
You've pulled me down a shady road, but at least I have everything I need.
There's been so many times...
There's been so many times where I was so bereft and had nothing.
I didn't even have the money to buy a ticket home.
There's been so many times where I stubbornly chose to stay here.
My existence means nothing to her.
But just at this time, she and Shu Che started having problems.
You thought you had a chance, so you decided to stay again?
No. I never thought I had a chance.
When did you start liking my sister?
Shu Che asked me that too.
He knows?
When... your sister was getting married, I came here without telling anyone.
And... the first person who found out was Shu Che.
He knows you've had a crush on her since Tsinghua?
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