The Way We Were
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The Way We Were
Episode 22
Among the bidders, is there a Weiye Group?
The Weiye owned by Miao Ying's father, Cheng Wei.
What they are bidding for is the subway car manufacturing.
Have you heard of an American company called CE?
I do.
Weiye and CE now
have reached an agreement regarding subway car manufacturing
and plan to bid together. Is that what's going on?
In reality, it's still less than a year before the bidding.
Each bidding company hasn't submitted any formal bidding report.
But from what I know, Weiye will surely join the bidding.
Since it's Weiye's first time to enter this field,
hence, they will look for
foreign enterprise that's in control of the most internationally advanced technology to be their partner in the bidding.
This is also a kind of strategy.
As for what company it will be,
only when Weiye submits their official report will the city government and the outside world know about it.
Have you had any exchanges with Uncle Cheng in the past?
Even if we aren't future in-laws and just have work-related relationship,
Do you find it strange if I had communications with him?
Did Uncle Cheng made use of my relationship with Miao Ying
to ask for some convenience or help from you?
Both our families keep a private and low profile.
The government and the outsiders don't know that you are in a relationship with their daughter.
Thus, they will not think that we have any special connections with them.
In reality, is there or none?
Weiye is just one of the many bidding companies.
In my job, I treat everyone equally.
I will look for that enterprise who is the strongest and most qualified.
I will be direct with you.
I suspect that Uncle Cheng is trying to bribe you through me.
You suspect?
Based on what?
Uncle Cheng recommended a project to me.
My initial quote for this project was US$1,5 million
but the other party amended the contract and increased it to US$3 million.
It's ridiculous that it was increased by US$1,5 million.
Of course, others will see it as
This is a care that a future father-in-law is giving his future son-in-law.
It seems like it's acceptable.
At that time, because of Miao Ying, I didn't think much about it.
Subsequently, I met someone called Rooney Strong.
He is the President of CE Asia.
I know that Weiye and CE has already started collaborating.
When I later thought about the increase in US$1,5 million, I found it very strange.
It seems like it's not something that simple as Uncle Cheng taking care of me.
I think he's aiming at you.
I also suspect that
that investor is connected to him.
What is your conclusion then?
I think that Uncle Cheng is trying to bribe through me.
His ulterior motive is to get the rights on the subway car manufacturing.
But Dad, what I want to tell you, it's that,
don't just because of my relationship with Miao Ying,
do anything unethical with him.
Are you done talking?
You are not surprised at all after I'm done talking.
Sit.
Sit down.
Shu Che, erase whatever you have said today
from your memories.
Go back to the States and study.
Use your degree and continue to set up your company.
You are thinking too much into this.
Dad...
Are you saying that you know everything that happened beforehand?
Then you and Uncle Cheng
indeed have a special relationship. Is that right?
If he continues, in the form of disguise,
to give me money,
what should I do?
As long as it's an allowed legal deal by both Chinese and US laws,
as long as all the contract
is transparent and legal, why would you reject it?
Dad, what are you doing?
This is bribery.
I know what I'm doing.
You don't need to tell me. I know better than anyone what I should do.
You are committing a crime!
Look.
Every time you come home, you just have to start an argument.
Proclaiming that stand of yours of placing power inside its restricting cage.
Just through humane conscience, one can't really avoid the lure of money.
One must strive to maintain honesty and integrity, both individually and in the government.
One must not just rely on humane bounds,
and must rely on balancing power and supervision through regulations.
Do you think this is right?
And that you've won.
Dad. Do you know,
all these years, I have always been afraid.
What are you afraid of?
Since before I left for overseas to study,
you let Xiao Cheng Shu take the rap for me.
This helped me escape my crime of causing serious injury because of reckless driving.
There was never a day when I was not afraid.
I was afraid that I will be used to relying on you.
I was afraid that I will use your power as my protection umbrella.
I will treat it as my gate pass.
I will use your status like a bank account that I can withdraw from anytime.
Converting them into different kinds of convenience or benefits.
I was afraid that it will become a habit, something inevitable,
till one day when I can't get what I want,
I would transform my stretching out my hands to robbery.
Dad, I'm really scared.
I was scared that in the end, you won't be able to maintain...
In the end, you'll step over this line not because of you,
but because of me!
I am very fortunate that you didn't become a son like that.
But... how did you change into this kind of father?
What kind of father did I change into?
Shu Che, I can tell you this.
If I want to cross that line, I don't need another one's help.
As long as I want a car with a trunk full of money every day,
any kind of stimulation will come to seduce me mentally.
But I am guaranteeing to you that I've preserve the discipline that a government official should have.
I persisted on the principles that communist party member should have.
I've long been indifferent to all those material things that common people have.
You are doing this for me?
Yes, I'm doing this for you.
But you didn't push me into doing this.
As a father, I was willing to do it.
I don't want this.
Can't you just let me obtain it by myself?
Living what kind of life...
...is my personal matter.
Shu Che, open the door.
I want to see you.
I want to be alone for a while.
Okay then.
Sleep early then.
[Air China: From Beijing to San Francisco]
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[Username: shuche1987]
[2013-12-29, Beijing to San Francison, CA985]
Where is Shu Che?
I'll call him to come down.
Xiao Che. Sit here.
The 3 of us haven't eaten breakfast like this for a long time.
I'll come home early tonight.
Let's have dinner together.
That's rare. Shu Che, it's because you're home.
It's so rare for your father to eat dinner at home within a month.
I've booked a flight back to the US for this afternoon.
This afternoon?
You just come home and leave when you like to.
Hotels even have a check-in and check-out time.
Shu Che, did you come back this time to deliberately make me and your father unhappy?
What time is your flight?
3 pm.
I'll take you to the airport.
Eat.
Every father who has went through battles, suffered setbacks,
experienced hardships, and suffered exhaustion,
will naively wish that his child
can be exempted from the tribulations of life.
Live his life with no worries.
Not breaking his back just to fight for food. Not being servile to others just for money.
My fights are so that you can be blissful.
I work hard because I wish that you can live a more comfortable life.
What are parents?
One's child obviously won't eat or drink for he thinks that being thin is beautiful.
Wearing so thin during winter just to get on with the trend.
But he will only worry that his child might lack clothing or food.
One's child clearly
keeps pushing you way to pursue freedom.
Yet he will just feel that his child is...
...alone, no one to rely on, is destitute and homeless.
Wishful thinking.
There's a kind of coldness...
...called 'your parents think that you're cold'.
There's a kind of need...
...called 'your parents think that you need it'.
It's like that.
- I'm going now. - No, I'll walk you in.
- No need. - Wait for me in the parking lot.
Vice Mayor, hello.
Do you have any plans of going abroad?
I didn't receive any notice.
I'm just sending my son off. No need to disturb anyone.
Okay. I won't disturb you two then.
I'm going to check-in now. Just go back. No need to accompany me.
Go then.
Okay. Please show me your passport. Thanks.
- Please hold your ticket well. - Thanks.
I'm going now, dad.
Wait a minute.
Regarding your Uncle Cheng Wei...
I still hope that I can reiterate this to you.
In my opinion, Cheng Wei
is a businessman with grand and mighty ambitions.
He is creating domains for the country, for the local enterprises,
and fighting that we can occupy the top spot internationally.
Hence, even if I don't know him,
I would still hope to entrust an important project like that to a person like him
who has ambitions and a sense of responsibility.
Moreover, he is the father of that woman that you love.
What I want to know is...
...did Miao Ying refuse to marry me because she knew about all these?
What's tying our two families together isn't interest.
It's because we care about each other.
Hiding everything from you isn't lying to you, it's because of love.
Do you know why I gave you your name?
It's because I hoped that you can live a life with a clear heart.
Look how troublesome it is for us two to just say our goodbyes.
Dad... I'm going now.
Have a safe trip.
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[Flight Departure]
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[Can you pick me up at the airport?]
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[Miao Ying : 30 voice messages]
[Powering off]
God.
Dang it, dude! I just...
I just hit her car. I don't know.
Yes.
I'm sorry. I wasn't paying attention. Are you alright?
Should I take you to the hospital?
I think I'm okay.
Give me your information and I will contact the insurance
company later on. Okay?
Okay, no problem. I will go get it.
[San Francisco International Airport]
[I'm here. Where are you?]
[The same place where I picked you up from when you first arrived in the States]
This is the first time I have seen Shu Che being so helpless.
It's as if he just came back from traveling a far away and deep desert.
Exhausted. Dispirited.
He wants to separate himself from the rest of the world.
A child hiding in the corner of all the bustle, thinking of his own problem.
At this time, I still didn't know that I'm walking towards
the most real him
who even Miao Ying couldn't approach but he is willing to open it to me.
Shu Che.
Thank you for coming to pick me up.
Let's go.
I will take you home.
I'm not going home.
I don't know how I should face her.
Where would you like to go?
If you have the time,
could you go to a place with me?
Okay.
Why did you bring me here?
This is where I proposed to Miao Ying.
Do you know why I went home?
I wanted to ask my father something.
Ask him what?
I wanted to ask him why Miao Ying's father
gave me money in the form of disguise.
Isn't that because you are his future son-in-law?
Not only that.
Miao Ying's father wants to expand a big undertaking.
He wants to obtain the creme of the crop among the Yanzhou bidding projects, which is
the manufacturing rights for the subway cars.
Why did you ask your father about this?
What has this to do with your father?
My father...is the overall person in-charge of the city subway bidding project.
He is the deputy mayor in charge of the city construction.
Vice Mayor?
You said that your father is the Vice Mayor of Yanzhou?
I have never heard you talked about this.
There is nothing to talk about this. He is him and I'm me.
My father has always been very careful about this matter.
Since he took office, he always told be to keep a low profile.
Hence, I have never let anyone know about this.
So, you are suspecting that Miao Ying's father and your father are currently...
Starting when I got sued for those 4 minor crimes,
Miao Ying's father came to the US and gave me all those care including
bribing you for you to change your testimony in court.
The Hua Long OA system upgrade that came afterwards,
such a huge present, was just given to me like that.
I'm currently starting to suspect
that the funding background of that investment venture company
might be connected to Miao Ying's father.
Did he impersonate as an investor
and using me to circle around my father.
You went home to ask him about this?
What did he say?
Before I went home,
I kept hoping that my father didn't know anything about this.
But he knew everything.
I finally realized
I was the last person to know about this,.
You didn't want to face Miao Ying because
you think she has already known about this earlier.
Before she ran away from the marriage,
she probably already knew.
You're saying that she agreeing to your marriage proposal and then suddenly rejecting it
is because of this?
Thus, looking at this now,
when her father and my mother came to the States to stop our marriage,
it's because they were afraid that the connections between the two families will be publicly exposed.
Miao Ying knew everything
but she didn't tell me anything at all till now.
I was thinking that she didn't tell me,
is equal to agreeing to letting her father control me.
Cheng Wei is currently playing a chess game.
He wanted his biological daughter, the one whom I love the most,
willingly become his pawn.
While on the plane here, I kept reminiscing.
We were together since middle school
from 1st year of the middle school to high school, childhood friends.
When she reported on her first day as a first year middle schooler, the third year me fell in love with her at first sight.
That time, my father is already starting to have a rapid rise in his political career.
Was it at that moment
that Miao Ying's father started to plan everything?
Or to say, the day my father became the Vice Mayor,
he already had this plan ready.
When did Miao Ying
know about her father's secret and plan?
Or start the start, Miao Ying already knew everything. And everything that she did,
it was in cahoots with her father.
Shu Che, you are thinking too much into this.
Miao Ying is probably not like this.
Isn't she?
I... I'm not saying that the love between the both of us
has been controlled by her father,
but at least, our love has been made used of.
Her father made use of our relationship, advancing gradually and entrenching himself,
to approach my father. He thought of things thoroughly and methodically to set up everything to what it is today.
As for Miao Ying, she knew everything
but she didn't tell me anything at all. For her father's benefits,
she choose to be a run-away bride on the day of our marriage.
Why?
This is the state of our love now.
Sometimes,
I can even stand in Cheng Wei's point of view to understand his logic.
As a businessman, just to look for power to rent,
to look for all possible ways and opportunities,
being unscrupulous in making everyone become
a pawn that he can use.
But I... I really can't accept that
her, who I love the most, is getting used and manipulated by others.
Becoming her dad's
public relations door knocker,
also becoming his cover up wall.
I really couldn't accept that Miao Ying got involved in this, while I...
...was kept in the dark.
♫ 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 ♫
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♫ 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 ♫