Standing in the Time Episode 12
I don't want to be a model anymore.
the career that you just said
you don't care about,
is really charming
and worthwhile.
You're suing me.
Is this a criminal case
or a civil case?
You must be the one
who let it slip,
which let the guy get a hold of me.
Ms. Xia,
get out the contract for publishing rights.
I don't believe he won't sign it.
Can I change it again?
I've suddenly noticed
a couple problems.
Change it.
Mr. Chen Ji,
change it as much as you please.
We will wait for you.
Director,
sorry about this.
What are you apologizing for?
As long as the final product is good,
this is exactly the right attitude to have,
nothing to apologize for.
Everyone,
hurry up. Let's get going.
I have some snacks to keep the brain going.
Director,
what's going on?
I just went to buy some food
and remembered that there was something wrong with the computer format,
so I asked Wei Ke to come.
What are you up to?
You're still waiting here?
I have to.
I have something important
that I need to talk to her about.
What is so important?
Can't you talk about it another day?
It'll be too late by then.
Too late?
Thank you.
Fine.
Then I'm going upstairs.
You can wait here by yourself.
OK.
Don't catch a cold.
Thanks.
Have you written anything new
Recently?
Do,
do you still want to take a look?
If you want to get rid of the 13th page,
it shouldn't take that much work.
The butterfly shook itself,
happily spread its colorful wings
and flew off.
It saw blooming flowers,
the trees and rivers.
Everything was so beautiful.
It slowly came to rest besides a river.
A little beetle came over.
In wonder, it exclaimed:
You're so beautiful!
I've never seen
such a beautiful butterfly before.
The butterfly looked out over the small river
and in front of its eyes appeared
a butterfly
with beautiful wings.
The butterfly smiled
opened its wings
and flew around in the sunshine.
The feeling of the sun's rays drying the butterfly's wings
was of the greatest comfort to the caterpillar.
Kid.
You've slept here all night?
Is she back yet?
No.
Are you cold?
I'm fine.
Why don't I make you something to eat?
Thanks.
I'm back.
Xiao,
you're back so late.
We worked through the night.
Did you wait for me here all night?
I called you, but you never picked up.
I was busy working.
I didn't hear it.
Are you tired?
I'm OK.
Well...
I've already signed it.
Signed what?
To become a model.
Signed for RESA.
Really?
You're not angry, are you?
No.
Why would I be angry?
I think
I can give being a model a try.
Great.
Take a seat.
Oldest Nephew.
How is breakfast going?
I'm making wonton.
Go and get yourself cleaned up.
Got it.
Morning.
Did everyone see that photo in reception
of Wu Yu grinning like an idiot?
What are you looking at?
He's on the front cover too?
The senior editor at our publishing house,
against all the odds, used a new author's novel
the night before last
and was still in constant discussions with said author over the story
until daybreak.
What do you think of this interview?
Director, what's going on?
Who proofread it?
This is miles away from the truth.
Liang Yujie!
What?
It's the truth.
Keep your cool. Keep your cool.
Director!
Director,
that night,
our section was pretty much all at work
going through the processes
in order to save that stupid Cuttlefish
and stop it from being a total disaster.
If anyone should win an award,
it should be the entire team.
Right?
But we're always
the ones who stand silently behind the author
and the piece of work.
Aren't we?
But we don’t stand behind
the editor.
Alright. Alright.
Calm down.
It's fine. It's fine.
I mean. Look at this.
Good morning, everyone.
Morning, Editor Wu.
Congratulations. Congratulations.
Thanks.
Then I'll carry on with my work.
Get back to what you were doing.
Carry on.
I'm just...
Forget it.
Calm down.
You're here too.
What are you doing?
Director, Director,
look at her.
Editor Wu,
You look good.
Exactly like you do on the front cover.
You flatter me. Flatter me.
How much is the bonus?
What?
I asked you how much bonus you got?
What bonus?
Miss,
why do you think about money all day long?
This is a matter of honor.
It has nothing to do with money. Understand?
I understand honor.
That honor was everyone's.
We all stayed over here that night,
doing one proof after the other.
After you had finished editing it,
who was left behind here
carrying on working until daybreak?
And who was it that got Wei Ke here
to do the printing?
And...
Editor Wu,
after all this time,
you’re still wearing that outfit.
How come you're not wearing
that badge today? -Enough!
That's enough, Li Xiao.
Director,
I'm here with a manuscript.
Please.
OK.
We will do our best.
There's no need to say that.
I can always depend on you.
Honestly.
I can always depend on you.
Well...
I,
I have something to do, I'd better be going.
OK.
OK. Take care.
Liang,
aren't you usually
very enthusiastic?
Why don't you take care of this one?
Sure, Director.
Xiao.
Morning, Xia Fan.
What are you doing?
Being creative.
James has always
performed very well.
With regards to his background story,
is there anything
that we can use to make him stand out?
James hasn't always
wanted to be a model.
He is really interested in cars and mechanics.
He used to work in a garage
refitting cars and motorcycles.
So he has
that cool aura.
Excellent.
Then what about Zhou Zimo?
What special traits
does he have?
He's an author.
An author?
Online novels?
He's won awards.
That's excellent.
No wonder he has a really unique temperament.
That's a really good background to give him too.
But he's always written under a pen name.
I don't know if he will agree.
Why does he write under a pen name?
Doesn't he dare
use his real name?
He's always used a pen name.
His true identity is his own personal privacy.
That's your problem to deal with.
But, Amanda...
Zhou Zimo was selected
primarily because
he was popular with the brand.
As for his professional ability,
you should know as well as anyone
what kind of model
really requires a good background story and promotion.
You should know where the line is.
You don't need me to remind you.
Li Xiao,
I've finished the images and text.
Give it a second proof.
I'll do the second proof.
What's this?
That's a partial cover.
Lots of books have them now.
This is not just
a child rearing classic that has withstood all tests,
it also depicts a new mother’s
experience as the child grows.
And was five years in the making.
Isn't it just an advert?
These are used
for promoting the book.
This is
an incredibly popular blogger who writes about raising children.
She often shares
different methods for bringing up kids,
instilling healthy common sense
and recommending products.
She's really popular.
Recommending products.
I should look into this.
Where are my shoes?
What is it?
These shoes are a little small.
Just try them.
Put up with it for today.
I'll get you different ones later.
OK.
There's a manuscript.
What is it?
You want me to edit it?
Editor Xia,
I'm much better
at this than I am
at being a model.
Leave it up to me.
This was Amanda's idea.
This can add
to your image as a model
and bring publicity to your books.
Why wouldn't you want that?
No.
Think about it.
Do the shoot first.
Xia Fan!
This is crossing the line.
There's no way I can accept
this character image.
Not a chance.
Let's do the shoot.
Haochen,
I'm going out for a bit.
What's up?
I want to go and see
that blogger.
Why are you anxious to see me?
Do you miss me?
Stop being so smug.
Thanks.
Tell me. What is it?
Our Editor-in-Chief hopes that Zhou Zimo
can reveal his identity as writer.
Did he agree?
He'd rather die.
That's right.
To tell you the truth,
when Zhou Zimo
signed the contract with us,
he made it clear
that he would only write under a pen name.
Moreover, that he would not participate
in any promotional events
even if it affected his sales.
And that
not one single picture of him
should appear in any of his books.
Can't you help out?
There really
isn't anything I can do about this.
I like your outfit today.
Mine?
I didn't
put any special effort in today.
I just threw any old thing on.
What's the only thing wrong with it?
Something's wrong with it?
Great fashion editor,
why don't you tell me what's wrong with it?
To be honest,
I've been trying
these thin ties recently.
I'm not sure if they really fit.
The thing wrong is your panda eyes.
Panda eyes?
What kind of a joke is that?
Don't go wandering off during office hours.
The most interesting thing
on the honor's list
are your panda's eyes.
So ugly.
Coming. Coming.
Who are you?
Hello.
I am Li Xiao from the Publishing Press.
I'm proofing your new book
and wanted to come and see you.
Hello. Please come in.
OK. Thanks.
Please. Please.
No need to take your shoes off.
Come. This way.
I'm sorry.
Qiqi, we have a guest.
Make yourself at home.
Qiqi, say hello to this nice lady.
Hello.
Take a seat.
I’ll put some coffee on.
Do you take sugar or milk?
Milk, please.
OK.
Make yourself at home.
OK.
My name's Qiqi.
How old are you?
Qiqi, the lady asked you a question.
I'm five.
Five?
What are you watching?
Qiqi,
haven't I told you
not to play with that tablet?
I haven't finished watching this bit yet.
Put the tablet down
and go to your room.
I have already told you once.
Do I really have to
tell you a second time?
Qiqi!
Apologies.
I didn't know you were coming,
so it's a bit of a mess.
Not at all. It's fine.
Do you have something
specific to see me about?
I came because I wanted to ask you
some things about your new book.
While I was proofing it,
I found some areas that I didn't really understand.
Right, you’re Qiqi's mom, right?
Did you draw
this picture of the author yourself?
Yes.
Editor Wu
wanted me to provide him
with a photograph,
but I felt pretty embarrassed about it
and
decided to draw myself instead.
What is it?
Aren't they any good?
Not at all. They're really good.
Did you study art?
No.
When I was at school,
I used to draw for the blackboard newspaper.
I studied finance
like my husband at university.
Back then my husband and I
both used to
draw the posters at university.
That's how we met.
That's so romantic!
Actually, I think
that you can draw
the cover yourself.
Really?
Of course.
Wouldn't it be great
if the author drew the cover
herself
and then
with a picture of the whole happy family
on it?
If that's what you want to do,
just leave it to me.
I will go and have a word with Editor Wu.
I'm sure he will help you
to make it happen.
That would be great.
Here, your coffee.
Thanks.
Mom! Mom!
The dress
on the doll that Daddy gave me is ripped.
I am busy right now.
Later, I will buy
a new one for you, OK?
I don't want a new one!
I want this one!
Behave yourself.
We have a guest here.
Daddy bought it for me!
You have so many other dolls
that you can play with.
Don't make me tell you
a second time.
Go to your room.
Did you hear me?
I told you to go back to your room.
Qiqi.
Here, let me have a look.
It's ripped here.
I know.
We can
sew a pretty button over it
and it will be like brand new.
What do you say?
Do you
have any spare buttons?
Yes. I'll go and get one.
OK.
Did your dad buy this for you?
Does he buy you
lots of presents?
Have a look at these.
OK.
Qiqi,
pick one you like best.
This one?
Does it look good?
Then this one it is.
Qiqi has such a good relationship with her father.
Where is he?
He's not in Shanghai.
When I was pregnant,
he was headhunted
and went to work in Beijing.
It must be hard work
bringing up a child on your own.
It's not bad.
The hardest times
have already passed.
By the way,
what was it you wanted to ask me?
I wanted to ask you
about how to make
those pure cotton diapers.
Because you used pictures
from old blogs
and some of the steps
I can't really make out
properly.
Do you still have them?
I think so.
I'll go and have a look.
Wait a second.
OK.
This button is hard to sew on.
It's been so long.
These weren't easy to find.
They look so new.
After I made them,
I just put them away.
So you've never used them?
Actually, it's more convenient to use disposable diapers.
Also,
you said that if a child
has a bad cough,
you should prick one of their fingers
and squeeze out a few drops of blood.
Should you do it on the right or left hand?
What?
Because in TCM
the acupoints on the left and right hands
are different,
so I thought
I'd better be more precise.
I don't really remember.
Haven't you done it before?
I couldn't bring myself to.
But it was
a really famous doctor of TCM
that told me about it.
It should be very effective.
What is it?
Why are you so upset?
There's something wrong with this author.
What?
A lot of the things she's written about
are fake.
She hasn't even tried them herself.
There's nothing so unusual about that.
Do you mean
that the model you created before was all for nothing?
Li Xiao,
don't get ahead yourself.
Bringing up children
is something that none of us have a clue about.
It's best not to voice your opinions too readily.
But I can learn.
Learn what?
Learn how to be a mom?
Li Xiao.
What do you want?
It was you that recommended
that the author draw the cover herself.
Yes. And?
Nothing.
Don't you think it will be a lot of work?
I just thought
that the author has that right?
Yes.
I came here
to commend you.
I think it's a good idea.
Feel free to commend me as much as you want.
But, that's not the most important thing.
What do you mean?
I think there's something wrong with this author.
What?
A lot of the things she's written about
she hasn't even tried herself.
What does that matter?
A lot of things are common knowledge
and you don't need to try them to know how they work.
Have you seen
her micro-blog?
Do you know how many times
a single one of her posts gets shared?
What I mean
is that if there were any problems,
someone would have discovered them long ago.
Why would you find anything different?
Moreover, how much of the content in this book
do you understand?
Have you been married? Have you had a child?
Have you been a mother?
What?
Am I wrong?
Remember what you said.
You just wait and see.
Insoluble?
First the milk powder and then the water.
Wrong.
150 millimeters.
Leaked.
Li Xiao.
Zimo, what are you doing here?
Why aren't you answering your phone?
You've been calling me?
I think I left it on my desk.
Wait up.
So many calls.
Hang on,
I'll be finished soon.
What do you think?
This is the Proofreading Section.
Does it feel really shabby?
No.
I think it's pretty decent.
Are you being serious?
Honestly.
Liar.
Make yourself comfortable.
I'll be done soon.
I won't be long.
What are you...
I'm checking
the authenticity of a book's content.
It's on tips of how to bring up children
written by a blogger who's a mother.
But she
doesn’t understand
most of the tips herself.
I'm worried that she just made most of it up.
And these products that she recommends,
the different methods
and all the steps
are wrong.
I suspect that it's just
false advertising.
So I'm writing
all of the results down
so I can tell her.
Li Xiao,
I've done
false advertising before too.
You...
I did it to get by.
Back then,
I wrote a recommendation on my official account
about filial piety and healthy common knowledge.
It was completely fake.
It was a complete scheme.
Look who posted this.
Mom?
Filial piety and healthy common knowledge.
I was reported for it eventually.
But,
the person who reported me had problems.
She looked up every sentence,
went through every single word.
It was really backing up with evidence a healthy
and true sense of filial piety.
Absolutely ripped me apart.
Ripped you apart.
Ripped me apart with no mercy.
Ripped you apart with no mercy.
Ripped me apart with no mercy.
Li Xiao.
Li Xiao!
Zhou Zimo, destiny really has
put us together.
Back then,
it was me that proofed that
post about healthy knowledge or whatever,
filial piety or something.
I went through it once, twice, three times
and went through all the errors
from start to finish
and finally got him to take down the post.
What do you think?
Does that sound familiar to you?
The butterfly shook itself,
happily spread its colorful wings
and flew off.
It slowly came to rest besides a river.
The butterfly looked out over the small river
and in front of its eyes appeared
a butterfly
with graceful and beautiful wings.
Graceful and beautiful wings.
Right. Really beautiful.
The feeling of the sun's rays drying the butterfly's wings
was the greatest reward for the caterpillar.
Alright. That's the end of the story.
Another one. Another one.
Qiqi, it's time to go to sleep.
OK.
Mom,
are you drawing?
I saw a drawing on the table.
Yes.
I'm going to publish a book.
Are you drawing a family portrait?
What is a family portrait?
Darling,
it's time to go to sleep.
OK.
Come, I'll help you get your pillow right.
Here, get wrapped up well.
There, there.
Goodnight.
OK. Understood.
Then I'll see you this afternoon.
OK. Goodbye.
What's all this?
Are you entering a quiz?
If they were just unpractical,
I wouldn't care.
But these are just plain made up.
I mean, what am I supposed to say?
Say what?
Expose it.
I'm busy at the moment.
We'll talk about it after work.
After work,
you'll be out drinking and entertaining clients.
If we talk about it now, at least you'll be sober.
What is it?
Why are you in such a bad mood?
Can you come home for a visit?
I'm going to publish a book
and need a family portrait.
I'm really busy at the moment.
If that's all it is, can't you just...
All it is?
What exactly
do you find important?
Making money, right?
How much do you make?
Let me tell you.
I make more than you do now.
Do you know how many
followers I get each day,
how much I make from endorsements?
Have you ever seen my blog?
Have you ever cared about me?
Come on.
How can you talk to me like this?
Talk to you like this?
How should I speak to you?
The company won't die
if you're not there for a day.
It's been four years
and you haven't been here.
Do you treat us
like a hotel?
Should I
start charging you rent?
Is it really that difficult for you to come home
for a family portrait?
Don't you want to come back?
I can't.
Fine. Then don't bother ever coming back.
Coming.
You're still going to have to pay for maintenance
after we're divorced.
Hang on.
Apologies.
I still haven't finished
that cover and the family portrait.
That's fine.
I'm here today because I wanted
to verify some of the content with you.
The content.
First of all,
is about weaning children of breast feeding.
I've looked through a lot of information
and eight months to one year
you can gradually start weaning them off,
but you said that
for the baby's development
you should continue breast feeding until they are a year and a half.
Correct?
Actually,
each baby differs.
After they're one year old
you can introduce solid foods
and reduce breast feeding.
But you didn't make that clear
in your book.
And then there are
your product recommendations.
Most of the products
come from abroad and they are expensive.
I would like to ask
whether you have tried each of them out.
Of course I have.
I mean
used them on your child.
What do you mean?
These for example.
Has Qiqi used them all?
And this part.
This part about everyday life.
In one chapter, you wrote
that on her first day of kindergarten,
Qiqi struggled to free herself
from your hands,
and without even looking back
ran straight into the classroom,
while you happily watched her from behind
and waved her goodbye.
And?
Seeing your child enter kindergarten,
weren't you the slightest bit reluctant to let her go?
Why should I be?
I've always put a lot of emphasis
on developing my daughter's sense of independence.
It would only damage the child.
I understand.
It's just
that when I first went to kindergarten,
I was just like Qiqi.
But my mom
was in a flood of tears
after she took me there.
So...
What are you getting at?
You think
that all the mothers in the world
should be the same as your mother?
Are these
what you should take care of
as a proofreader?
Are you doing this on purpose?