The Way We Were
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The Way We Were
Episode 27
Your father...
used condemnation to pull my father down with him.
So filthy that it has reached the limit that I can't endure.
You think the love between us
hasn't been 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?
Sorry, Miao Ying.
Every time I see you now,
I have no way of separating you from your father.
If I continue to be with you,
I won't be able to avoid or throw him away.
He is like a cancer in my body.
The only way to cure it is to completely eliminate it,
including...
including the parts that got tainted.
Starting today...
I don't want to have any connection
with your family.
So...
So, let us end this. We're completely finished.
Since...
I can neither change them nor this world,
at the very least...
I can opt not to be changed by them or by this world.
Can I just not acknowledge him
as my father?
Can I?
I'll leave for a while.
I hope that when I come back,
you will have moved all your things out of here.
At this time...
Hello, Brother, what is it?
Miao Ying and I have officially broken up.
If she hasn't come home within an hour, please go look for her.
Meanwhile, her emotions might become unstable too. Take good care of her.
Hello?
Sorry, the phone you are calling is powered off.
- Please— - No way! Shu Che, you can't be serious.
[Chen Ran]
- Hello. - Hello, Bro.
Big trouble! My sister and Shu Che suddenly broke up.
Broke up? Where is she now?
I don't know. It's been two hours and I still haven't heard from her.
I've already sent all my friends out looking for my sister, but they still haven't found her.
I've run out of ideas, so I could only call you.
Why didn't you call me earlier?
Don't blame me first. Can you first give me some useful information?
Let me think.
Oh, I remember. She might have gone to one place.
How about this? Immediately drive your car here to get me.
Okay. Okay. I'll be there right away.
Why did we come here?
This is where Shu Che proposed to your sister.
It might have become her sorrowful place.
Let's move faster.
You even know this?
Sister, you and Shu Che have broken up?
This time, is it for real?
Why?
Say something.
Come home with us.
Let's go back first.
Miao Ying.
Losing him doesn't mean you've lost everything.
Sister, is there really no chance for you and Shu Che to get back together?
Fine. I'll go beat him up.
Don't!
- Don't pull on me. What are you doing? ! - Calm down.
He just reconciles and breaks up just like that! Why?!
Chen Ran, stop being meddlesome.
You don't know anything.
I don't know anything?
Fine. Tell me then. Why must you and Shu Che be like this?
I really envy that you don't know anything.
I hope that you can continue to be like how you are now and just do whatever you like.
And not be like me.
Always getting branded by this family's imprint
and must still carry the heavy burden of being the successor of Weiye.
Even what courses I must study
or what life path I must walk, I have no right to decide.
Now... even what kind of person to love...
can I love him or not, can I marry him or not,
can we be together in the end or not... I have no command over any of it.
Does your break-up with Shu Che
have something to do with our family and our father?
I am really so tired.
I don't want to think about this anymore and just want to have a good sleep.
Let me sleep and not think of anything.
What are you doing?
Let her drink.
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Don't think about anything and just have a good sleep.
Once you get to sleep, all the messed up things today will have already passed.
What about tomorrow?
Just face tomorrow's bullshit tomorrow.
Ning MIng...
Thanks.
During my most terrible times, you are always by my side.
Hurry and go to sleep.
Don't catch a cold.
Is my sister at ease and sleeping?
She has fallen asleep. Guard your sister well.
Tonight, don't sleep so soundly.
Listen carefully to her movements.
I will.
I'll be leaving then. Just call me if there are any problems. I'll come right away.
Sure. Thanks, Bro.
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Hello, Miao Ying. You finally answered your phone.
It's me, Chen Ran.
Chen Ran? Where is your sister?
I've been calling her all day, but she didn't pick up.
Also, Shu Che. I wanted to find Shu Che through her.
The company is looking for him for some matters, but we couldn't contact him all day.
First, he didn't answer his phone. Next, he just powered it off.
My sister and Shu Che have broken up.
What's going on?
I also don't know. But this time, it seems for real.
Last night, when she came back, she drank a lot of whiskey.
Afterward, she's asleep for now.
I'll come visit her then.
No need. Just let her sleep for a while more.
Watch over your sister first then. Let's keep in touch.
Okay.
Bye-bye.
Shu Che!
I know that you're inside.
I heard about what happened between you and Miao Ying.
Although I don't know the details,
I know that you are still very worried about her.
I came to tell you that
Chen Ran has already brought Miao Ying home.
There will be someone always by her side.
So, don't worry.
But we all are very worried about you too.
Do you want to talk with me?
If you feel that it's better to be alone than to talk with me,
I won't disturb you anymore then.
Bye-bye.
Didn't things already pass?
Weren't you two doing great this past six months? How come you just suddenly...
Everyone around us thought that we were fine. Me too.
In reality,
it got worse.
H-Haven't we seen each other before?
Why did you come?
Didn't you leave six months ago? Or have you never left at all?
That's right.
I returned after I arrived at the airport.
Good thing, I didn't leave then.
If I had, I wouldn't know how pitiful Miao Ying is right now.
Damn you! You're an asshole!
What are you doing?!
Get lost!
Let me tell you this.
Let me tell you why I punched you.
You wouldn't even give Miao Ying a bit of understanding.
You've let her suffer so many grievances.
In the end, the person who brought her the greatest pain is actually you!
Others are usually swindling their own father.
But she instead got tricked by her own father! You know that very well, right?!
Talk. Talk!
What are you doing?!
If you hate someone, go and deal with him!
But you instead chose to vent your anger on a girlfriend who loves you the most.
Damn you! Are you still a man?!
I broke up with her...
so that at the very least, she can stop doing all those things she's unwilling to do.
She won't need to be struggling in between her dad and me...
Torn apart by two parties.
She won't have to endure those kind of
rules, that no matter what she does, she is always wrong.
But if she stays with me,
there's going to be endless blame,
worries, even fear.
I'd rather
put a quick end to it.
Are you sure it's hopeless?
If...
the mistress of your dad
was introduced by her dad,
do you think we can still be together?
After hearing this question,
I knew he and Miao Ying were officially over,
even though they are still in love.
My sadness came not only from how they wronged Miao Ying,
but also for how heartbroken Shu Che is.
There is no right or wrong in relationships.
A lot of people think that and also maintain it,
but not Shu Che.
What about me then?
What would I do?
Shu Che, open the door.
What happened?
Who'd you fight with?
What the hell happened in here?
Have you been sleeping on the couch lately?
Who on earth did you fight with？
Why did you cut contact with everyone?
Why did you break up with Miao Ying all of a sudden?
I have met Liu Cai Qi.
Did she come to you?
No, I went to see her.
Because I wanted to know the truth.
And now I know, she is carrying my dad's child.
What the heck is she up to?
Can't she just be satisfied to disappear from our lives?
Her purpose is to threaten your dad with that child.
Threaten me!
Threaten us to accept her in our house!
She wants everything!
Asking for her own interests shamelessly,
I also learned the reason why Liu Cai Qi knew my dad was through a plan by Chen Wei.
She was working for Chen Wei.
Chen Wei and my dad were the
power, money and lust.
Shu Che.
How could you say that about your own father?
These things... you've always known, right?
Your father accepted Chen Wei's money, not for himself.
It was for you.
Kindly accepting a woman arranged by Cheng Wei, for whose purpose was that then?!
I won't allow you to insult your father like that!
Mom, if money can be made noble
just because of family ties, if seducing women
can be rationalized in the name of human feelings,
then every rotten act of bribery can be cleared of being a crime.
I can then embellish my father and Cheng Wei's partnership
as being so wonderful.
Saying that their talent for understanding each other's burden is just doing all of it for the country and their family.
As for you, you can then treat my father's infidelity
as an impulse born out of love.
But what will the public say?
I can forgive my father because of the benefits I got from this.
You can opt to turn a blind eye and forgive my father
because you don't want your marriage to break apart.
But what about others? Why must they forgive him?
Mom, your troubles haven't ended.
Just with Liu Cai Qi and the child in her womb,
that's enough for you all to be busy for a while.
How will my father face it? How will you deal with it?
I'm sorry. I can't be any help at all.
If you couldn't stop him from starting, there is no way I can put an end to it.
So I have one last request.
I'm begging you not to use the excuse of doing it for my good
and force me to accept the values and a life I can't accept.
Leave me alone.
Let me study in peace and live my own life.
Ai-yo.
Shu Wang. I talked to Shu Che.
It was Liu Cai Qi. She told our son everything.
What does she want exactly?
What was Shu Che's reaction?
He broke up with Miao Ying.
What does that mean?
He is willing to give up the love he has for Miao Ying
to keep himself far away from Chen Wei.
Does he want to keep his distance from me as well?
He put me on your side now.
He just kicked me out of the house.
Our son is becoming more of a problem.
Shu Wang. Your trouble, our trouble,
is not about our son.
No matter how much he doesn't want to accept what happened,
how much he doesn't accept your values, he wouldn't do anything to hurt you.
Liu Cai Qi is different. She is our trouble.
She is a ticking bomb.
I know that. Chen Wei will return to the US soon.
Let him take care of everything, including the aftermath.
Do you trust him enough to let him do this?
He is in the same boat with us right now.
We float together and sink together.
If he doesn't take care of Liu Cai Qi, he will be in trouble too.
What if he can't solve the problem?
Relax. He knows what to do more than we do.
[San Francisco International Airport]
Sister.
You know the situation?
I didn't expect Shu Che...
Why would he go to Liu Cai Qi?
Your woman is getting too arrogant. Even if Shu Che hadn't gone to her,
she would have jumped out in front of Shu Che sooner or later.
I don't understand why she would do this.
Why would she tell Shu Che?
Can't you see she is still not over him?
You thought sending her overseas would solve your problem?
She never wanted to give up on their relationship, not even for a minute.
Why would she get pregnant in secret and insist on keeping the baby?
What she wants is to force Shu Wang and me...
to admit and accept her haunting existence!
She would rather be an underground mistress living overseas!
She will never let go of Shu Wang!
Maybe she still thinks she's sacrificing herself.
I really didn't see this kind of ambition from this woman.
You sent her overseas and let Rooney keep an eye on her.
Did you really not know she was pregnant back then?
If I had known, none of this would have happened today.
Now, this woman and her baby...
are a bomb hanging over our heads.
Her belly looks like she has been pregnant for seven to eight months.
There's no way Rooney wouldn't know. Why didn't he tell you?
How would I know? That's why I am going to talk with that Rooney later.
You're so dumb to the point of asking Rooney?
Isn't it obvious?
Don't you know Liu Cai Qi's ways?
I thought you presented her to Shu Wang because you knew her ways.
Hey, sister. I have never—
Okay, okay. Knock it off. Don't play innocent with me.
Do I need to talk about your men's business?
Liu Cai Qi took care of you first.
Then she took care of Shu Wang. Now, she's being taken care of by Rooney.
What was wrong with your brain, Chen Wei?
You brought Liu Cai Qi to San Francisco.
Weren't you afraid she might come in contact with Shu Che and Miao Ying?
Sis, this is my fault.
But the first thing I thought about back then...
was to put Liu Cai Qi in America.
She would be under my constant surveillance.
She wouldn't be allowed to go back to China.
The one who was in charge of monitoring her had to be someone I could trust.
It had to be someone I had close financial ties with. So I chose Rooney.
As for Shu Wang and I, and the relationship between Shu Che and Miao Ying,
I haven't told Rooney anything.
He only knows that Liu Cai Qi is no ordinary woman.
As for where she was from and what she did before, Rooney has no idea.
Who could've thought of this? San Francisco is so big.
Who knew she would meet Shu Che and Miao Ying?
I didn't expect this woman to have so many schemes.
Shu Wang must have told you before,
and I want to stress this again,
no matter what methods you use,
you have to make sure this baby doesn't come into this world.
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♫ The brink of love and hate ♫
♫ The departure and getting together ♫
♫ I'm asking why you will care ♫
♫ I'm still thinking about it now ♫
♫ When I came back, you're still here ♫
♫ I'm counting on you ♫
♫ Our bodies parted but my heart is back ♫
♫ Remember this love, we know ♫
♫ This is love ♫
♫ Every time I feel I was hurt ♫
♫ Going afar without saying goodbye ♫
♫ How far should I go, how long should I go to heal the wounds ♫
♫ It's better to go back to the place where we had love ♫
♫ Leaving silently, without a goodbye ♫
♫ The room is cold and there's no sunshine ♫
♫ I long to keep the time we have for each other ♫
♫ I can't forget about you. I'm waiting for the echo of love ♫
♫ The brink of love and hate ♫
♫ The departure and being together ♫
♫ I'm asking why you will care ♫
♫ I'm still thinking about it now ♫
♫ When I got back, you're still here ♫
♫ I'm counting on you ♫
♫ Our bodies parted but my heart is back ♫
♫ Remember this love, our love ♫
♫ This is love ♫