The Way We Were
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The Way We Were
Episode 26
It's all my fault, you know.
Monica suffered a lot since she came to America with me.
I've always been thinking...
that I would make it up to her.
I know, Monica knows it too.
Auntie, here.
Okay, let's not talk about this.
Over these next few months, when I have time, I will come back.
When Monica has the baby, I'll definitely come to be with her.
Don't worry, Auntie.
Monica has me here.
Xiao Qing, you know...
I am grateful to you from the bottom of my heart. Really.
You're exaggerating, Auntie.
So much alcohol.
What are you doing in the United States?
Why can't I be in the United States?
Whose baby is that?
Do you think you can descend on me like a tank and from a few meters away, suddenly,
without even a hello, ask who my baby's father is?
Do you think this is how a Deputy Mayor's wife should conduct herself?
Especially in the presence of the son of an important person.
Hello, Shu Che.
Do you know her?
How do you know each other?
When? Where? Who introduced you?
Why are you being so nervous?
I only met your son once. Must you act like this?
You be quiet!
She is a friend of one of Miao Qing's colleagues. We saw her once in a department store.
I'll ask you once again, whose baby is that?
Don't you think asking that question is quite meaningless?
I don't have any obligation to answer you.
I warn you!
If you disturb our lives,
I will do everything I can to make you disappear.
The arrogance and skills of the Deputy Mayor's wife are coming out. I'm so scared.
Don't let me ever see you again.
That might not be possible.
I remember you said that the last time.
But didn't we see each other quite soon?
Let's go back.
Mom.
That's the person, right?
I swore that I wouldn't tell anyone about this thing festering inside me.
Including you, my son.
What just happened, I couldn't control myself.
Last time you came to the United States, didn't you tell me
my dad had already cut off his ties with that person?
That's what your Dad guaranteed to me and I also believed him.
So, now that she has appeared in the United States,
did my dad arrange that?
That, I don't know.
They've completely cut ties?
I don't know.
I'm going to ask your dad, who's the father of that baby.
- Who is it? - It's me.
Yu Wen.
Hello?
Yu Wen?
Yu Wen, why aren't you saying anything?
Are you using your cell phone to get in touch with me?
Shu Wang.
What's up, Yu Wen?
I saw her.
Who?
Liu Cai Qi.
Let me ask you, why is she in the United States? Why in San Francisco?
I'm not sure.
How can you not be sure?
At that time, I just arranged for her to quickly leave here.
I didn't ask her about anything else.
You really didn't know where she went?
I didn't know.
Then, did you know about the illegitimate child?
Who? What child?
It's Liu Cai Qi's.
When I saw her earlier, she had a big belly. That baby is already about eight or nine months big.
I don't know.
Shu Wang, if that child is yours,
if you are still tricking me, hiding this from me,
let me tell you, this child will be born soon and you will lose your reputation.
This is a living child!
This isn't some lover that you can easily hide away.
This is something that could easily be a bomb that could explode.
Calm down, calm down, Yu Wen. You need to calm down.
When you saw her, was Shu Che with you?
He was.
Is Shu Che with you right now?
He is.
So, he knows about this matter?
I really couldn't control myself.
You are too unreasonable!
Don't you know that letting Shu Che know about this will have endless consequences!
He is your biological son!
No matter how nasty the consequences will be, he will never harm you!
You keep cautiously guarding against your own son!
Why don't you instead guard against that bitch who can destroy your career at anytime,
threaten your reputation, and destroy your family?!
All right.
Yu Wen, I swear to you.
I've already completely cut ties with her.
Moreover, I already promised you, I will never make that mistake again.
We cannot make any mistakes.
Right now, leave Shu Che and go to your own room.
You can't let him hear our conversation.
Hurry, go.
Okay.
I'm now inside my room.
Explain it to me clearly.
What's with this child? Is it yours?
I really don't know anything.
You don't know?
Believe me, Yu Wen.
What if she plans to give birth to the child, a rice grain is now cooked rice,
and when she comes to threaten you, what will you do?
Say something.
I'll arrange for him to go there
and let him take care of everything. Don't worry.
Tell him that regardless of the means,
he must make sure that this child doesn't get born,
if this child is yours.
I know. Since he still hasn't arrived in the US yet, don't do anything.
I got it.
Next, regarding Shu Che,
you can't let him know more. Control his emotions well.
Yu Wen, because of my one time of disloyalty,
I've caused you to be scared until now.
I'm sorry.
Shu Wang, if you weren't the current you,
I wouldn't be enduring to the point of
being unable to tell anyone about my suffering
or ferociously going after that mistress!
Just to keep your secret and preserve your reputation,
I can't do anything!
I can only swallow all the suffering
into my stomach forever!
I'm guaranteeing to you again,
that I won't do it again.
Yu Wen, I know now
that choosing to be placed at this position,
there will be people who'll use this, beyond normal rules and morals, to request things from me.
I've completely lost the freedom of an ordinary person.
The more I didn't have the right to commit the mistake that all men could commit at any second.
At the same time, I know very clearly
that we are forever bound as one.
No one can separate us.
What did my father say?
I misunderstood him.
That woman's child has nothing to do with him.
Your father didn't lie. He and she have long severed their ties.
Everything about that woman now has nothing to do with him.
Is that true?
It's true.
I was just being too sensitive and giving myself troubles.
Don't get affected by my mood.
It's a good thing that all this mess and unbearable matters have passed.
I know another guy with the surname Shu.
Miss Liu Cai Qi is currently working for our company.
Miao Ying!
Hello, Shu Che.
You went out? When will you come back?
I came home to get some stuff.
I saw that it's already late and you hadn't come home yet, so I thought that you'd be staying with your mom.
I'll just come back there early tomorrow.
Okay then. Just stay at your home for tonight.
Okay. If there is nothing else, I'll hang up now.
Wait!
Do you have the contact number of that Rooney guy who we bumped into a while back at the mall?
I don't have it. Why are you looking for him?
Nothing. I'll tell you once we meet tomorrow.
Okay. Rest early. I'll hang up now.
- Bye. -Bye-bye.
Good morning!
There's so much traffic!
Have you eaten breakfast?
Do you want a cup of coffee?
Sit down first.
Why are you being so serious?
Last night, why did you ask for Rooney's phone number?
Do you really not know Liu Cai Qi?
Why are you suddenly asking this?
Answer me.
Think about it well. Did you forget to tell me anything?
If my discussion with Shu Che ends here,
maybe, we will have some more good days.
Or maybe, we have survived the difficulties.
But there isn't any maybe.
Now, I remember my promise to Shu Che.
So, I've decided to tell the last secret I'm keeping from him.
Shu Che...
I admit that I indeed kept this matter from you.
I do know Liu Cai Qi.
Three years ago, she was my father's special assistant.
[ Economics Study Notes ]
Why? We agreed before now
we wouldn't keep any secrets from each other. You also agreed with it.
I even asked you if you were keeping anything from me, and you said there were none.
What really happened?
My mother and I went to the supermarket and bumped into Liu Cai Qi.
And then?
Afterward, my mother told me...
That Liu Cai Qi is my father's mistress.
Shocked?!
Didn't you know this?
I swear. I truly didn't know that.
Three years ago, she was your father's special assistant.
And then, she went to my father and became his mistress.
Now, she suddenly appears in the US
and is working in the company of your father's business partner.
What a coincidence.
Miao Ying...
How many secrets are you still hiding that I don't know of?
Nothing, no more.
You answered so quickly that I have no way of believing you.
There is really nothing else.
None?
What are you doing? What are you doing?
I'm going to look for Liu Cai Qi.
Why are you going to look for her?
I want to know everything. Give me the keys.
You can't go. You can't go!
Shu Che, you can't go!
Shu Che!
Must you know everything?!
We can't just live our own days, is that it?
You want me to be like you?
Turning yourself into a blind, mute, and deaf person?
But at the very least, we can be together.
Miao Ying, even if it's for love,
I have no way of turning myself into an ostrich that will just bury his head in the sand.
Give us a chance.
Ellen, this gentleman would like to see Mr. Strong.
Do you have an appointment?
No. Please, tell him that Shu Che is here.
Okay, please wait for a moment. He's replying to an urgent e-mail, so it might take some time before he can answer.
- Okay. No problem. - Thank you.
Barbara, could you please prepare a cup of coffee for Mr. Shu Che?
- Yes, sure. - Fine.
- Thank you. - You're welcome.
I will inform Mr. Strong.
Okay.
[Cai Qi Liu, 3471 Ironwood Drive]
Where is he?
He was just here.
Strange. Okay.
[EXIT]
How did you find this place? This is so unexpected.
Please, come in.
What do you want to drink?
No need. I'm leaving after asking a few questions.
Just sit anywhere.
Were you planning to tell me about your relationship with my father
during our first meeting?
Please, forgive a woman that's been deliberately kept hidden for a long time.
She can't always help trying to prove her existence.
Always wanting others to know
that there is a person like her,
that there is such a relationship,
even if it's immoral.
Fine. I was able to find you now. I believe that there are a lot of
things that my parents will never tell me,
but that I'll be able to get the answers from you.
What do you want to know? Ask away.
- Your child— - Your father's.
Sorry for being so straightforward, but I'm 100% sure
that he is your half-brother.
Does my father know this?
- He doesn't know. - He doesn't know?
Up to now, I still haven't told him.
If not for your mother discovering it during that chance encounter at the supermarket,
I would have waited for the child to be born before telling him.
Why?
Because if he knew,
he would never let me have this child.
Have you two... ended your relationship?
What did your father say? Did he say we're over?
That we've severed it completely and we're to be strangers from now on?
Of course. That is the most beneficial stance for him and the most rational choice.
But we are still connected by this child.
A relationship can be easily ended,
but can love be severed that easily?
That, you must ask him.
What do you want?
What do I want? They know.
- For whom are you asking that? - For myself.
I can choose to continue staying like this and accept my concealed underground status,
but I want to be acknowledged.
For him to acknowledge that he loves me.
For him to acknowledge my existence.
Not just getting written off like that,
as if we had never met or that nothing had happened.
You think this child can become an unbreakable connection between you two?
At least for now, it is the only connection between us.
Did my father arrange for you to come here to the US?
Of course. After your mother knew about my affair with your father,
Shu Wang requested that I temporarily leave.
Because he is a high official.
The public criticizes and requires a public official
to always maintain a lofty morality.
Once our affair gets exposed,
it will become a very heavy blow to his career and might even be a destructive one.
Of course, I understand all the pros and cons.
So, I listened to his plans and came to the US.
I also guaranteed that I would not return to the country in the meantime.
But how come you ended up in CE?
Also, working right under Rooney Strong.
Was this arranged by Chen Wei?
Of course. You think your father would personally arrange it?
Then, everything for you here in the US is being arranged by Cheng Wei?
Everything is by him.
Even including...
meeting my father?
Yes.
After he was able to make contact with your father,
they couldn't really continue to communicate between themselves, right?
Just to avoid suspicion, I became their middle person.
One last question.
Is all this...
part of Chen Wei's plan?
What are you talking about? Him approaching your father or me approaching your father?
Both.
Can you pre-plan love?
I don't know. Just like you and Miao Ying, me and Shu Wang.
Anyway, when I became Chen Wei's special assistant,
he only asked me to be the public relations officer in handling your father.
For their venture, it was you and Miao Ying who created that bridge.
I was the one that would pave the road afterward.
Tell me then. You think Chen Wei pre-planned all of this?
I told you about my affair with your father.
Aren't you mad?
You don't want to seek justice for your mother, even by just saying some harsh words to me?
My anger...
Is there any use to it?
You and Shu Wang are really alike.
We're not alike.
Shu Che!
No matter what,
I want to apologize to you and your mother.
I'm sorry.
Liu Cai Qi admitted
that everything started with your father.
I didn't know the matter about her and your father at all.
I didn't deliberately hide it from you.
Whether you knew or not,
whether you hid it from me or not,
it's meaningless to me now.
You are still bearing a grudge against me.
Since we reconciled last time,
although you never said anything that blamed me,
there was already a barrier in your heart.
Aren't I right?
Miao Ying...
I can understand your predicament in getting stuck between me and your father.
I can understand
all your helplessness and suffering.
I will never blame you for that.
But hiding things from me wasn't your only choice. You did have other choices.
You could have stood by my side and faced them with me.
If you had done that, I would at least feel
that I was fighting them, along with the person I love.
But you chose
to stay silent and just follow them.
Cooperating with everything that they wanted.
Between right and wrong,
silently agreement is also a form of aiding evil.
Yes, I admit.
I didn't have the courage and wasn't brave enough.
I didn't have the courage to reject my father.
I also wasn't brave enough to stand together with you in fighting against them.
I have no right and I'm not qualified to request you to be brave.
But Miao Ying... you and me...
are completely different people.
In my love, there is right and wrong.
I am unable to stay indifferent in the face of immorality
just because two people are in love.
Your father... used condemnation to pull my father down with him.
So dirty to the point
that it reached the limit that I can't endure.
You think that the love between us
didn't get tainted and it's still pure and perfect?
Do you think that the two of us
can still continue to be together?
Give me one last chance... okay?
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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 ♫
♫ 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 ♫