Standing in the Time Episode 34
I gathered all of you here
is to ask you
whether you would let Zimo
quit this show.
I think you can participate in the show.
In next episode, in the part where
the tutor meets the family,
you can go on stage
and tell Zimo what you've been wanting to say,
face to face.
I believe that
Mr. Yunzhi doesn't want to hurt Zhou Zimo.
You think I'm hurting Zhou Zimo?
The next time Zimo is in a show,
I would like to participate.
let's welcome
our special guest
with a round of applause!
I admit that in the beginning,
I held some unreasonable prejudice
against your profession.
However,
when I see
the confidence and charm
you show, up here on the stage,
when I see how your friends
support you with all their hearts,
when I see how the audience
appreciates and likes you so…
It helped me,
over time,
To gradually understand your choice.
Zimo,
I'm grateful to your mother.
I thank her, truly,
for every one of her good points
is now so fully reflected
in you, her son.
We are so proud of you.
Everyone is proud of you.
I am
proud of you,
as a father.
Son,
I wish,
I wish you could find it
in your heart to forgive me.
Is that possible?
Zimo,
my son…
Zimo
Zimo!
Zhou Zimo, please calm down.
The recording is not finished yet.
Did you arrange all this?
It was you who told me
that you wanted to win, right?
Zimo.
You also knew about this?
Please calm down first.
Your dad poured out his heart just now.
He could finally apologize to you
as sincerely as you deserved.
Don't you see that?
Zimo…
Li Xiao,
You also kept this from me?
I…
I really don't want you
to get first place.
You all knew about this,
all of you!
And you all kept it a secret…
left me standing on stage like a fool…
now, are you all satisfied? Are you satisfied?!
Zimo, Zimo!
3 yuan, please.
Oh I'm sorry,
I forgot to bring my wallet.
I'll have to give you back this bottle of water.
Oh it's fine, you can take it.
You are that…
model, Zimo, right?
My sister is a big fan of yours.
Can you sign this for me?
She watches your show
every day.
When will you record the next episode?
It's finished.
Has she read my book?
You also write books?
I really have no idea whether she has or not.
Are you all hungry?
Let me make you something.
No thanks, I'm afraid no one has any appetite now.
Mr. Yunzhi,
I thought
I would have a big fight with you
at the studio today.
But it turned out
that your touching words
reached all of our hearts.
I think Zimo
will gradually come around.
Yeah. Mr. Yunzhi,
Zimo is just too young.
We just need to
give him more time.
Am I right?
Li Xiao, Wu Yu,
Thank you.
Please don't
blame Xia Fan.
It was me who asked her
to allow me on stage.
I should thank her, really.
If
the hate inside Zimo
can help wake him up
it will have been worth it.
Even if he lives with this hate
for ten years, twenty years…
one day he'll understand
that I'm doing this all for him.
What about you?
What are you going to do?
I've lived long enough
that I have nothing to fear, or to lose.
Even if
I can't see the day that he forgives me
please pass on my sincerity,
from a father, to him for me.
Alright then,
it's getting late.
I guess you two need some rest too.
I'll see you later.
Mr. Yunzhi…
Hey, come over here!
Look!
Zhou Zimo's drama with his dad's
is all over Weibo right now
Xia Fan
you've really helped make
a legendary reality TV moment this time!
Why isn't she responding to me?
Who knows
Probably just basking in her success.
Xia Fan.
Xia Fan!
My office, now.
I feel like ever since
Mo quit his job,
Xia Fan has become
really bad tempered.
Amanda
Although Zhou Zimo
didn't make it to the top 3 this time,
he is popular on Weibo.
Only this morning
there were more than 20 offers,
different parties contacting me,
and they were all for him.
Amanda…
I think the show
hit too close to home for him.
It was more than Zhou Zimo could take.
I feel like maybe
we went too far this time.
Not at all.
On the contrary, it was a good thing.
There's something within
him, Zhou Zimo has these forces
inside, always at war within himself.
Afterall, he's a writer.
He's going be proud,
and a bit full of himself.
That's why we should
be there for him, now more than ever.
After we're done talking,
you go give him a call,
and comfort him.
So that
when it comes to future work,
he can work with you
without this hanging over him.
But I feel like this time…
Do your best.
Hello,
the number you dialed is busy.
I'm here to see Zhou Zimo.
He's not around.
I said, I want to see Zhou Zimo.
And I've told you,
that he's not around.
Zhou Zimo,
can we talk?
He's not here.
Zimo
I hope you know I didn't mean to hurt you.
Don't you know
why I did this?
I did this because I really thought
if you wanted to succeed…
Zimo, listen to me.
There is no success in the world
that doesn't require effort,
persistence and a huge personal cost.
I know that you want to achieve something, Zimo.
Can we at least talk?
Zimo.
Enough already.
He's not here.
Why are you doing this?
Oh, you think I'm lying to you?
Zhou Zimo,
now you are facing
an incomparable opportunity.
You know what,
RESA just got
dozens of offers today,
and they are all for you.
If you don't seize this opportunity,
Everything you did before will have been in vain.
Zimo,
please don't let emotion blind you.
Please come out
and talk this through.
Zimo,
I'm sorry
You refuse to believe in anyone
but yourself now,
Right? Xia Fan!
How long have we known each other?
Have I ever lied to you?
And what about your part in this?
Do you think maybe your actions lately
have been going a bit too far?
I've been doing a lot of thinking,
are you still
the Xia Fan I knew?
I'm not doing this for me.
I'm doing this for Zhou Zimo.
You didn't do anything wrong,
but there's just one problem:
What on earth
was your motive here?
Were you just thinking of the show,
or about RESA,
or did you really want to help this poor father and son
from the bottom of your heart?
What do you think?
I think,
no matter what,
putting people's private matters in the public eye,
this kind of behavior itself
is really, truly
heartless.
As long as you try to think from other people's perspective,
you'll know
that anyone, no matter who it is,
won't be able to accept this.
But you
put others' family lives
out under the spot light,
tore it apart in front of everyone.
The Xia Fan who did this
feels like a complete stranger to me.
I even started to wonder
whether I was wrong to see you as a nice person before.
Wu Yu,
You don't have to guilt trip me right now.
Do you have any idea of how much pressure I'm facing?
Zhou Zimo lost control of himself,
and fell out with the program crew.
If I don't try to solve it,
he won't be in the top 3.
If he doesn't get into the top 3,
then what kind of dilemma
would RESA and I be facing?
Do you have any idea whatsoever?
I'm not only being responsible to Zhou Zimo,
I also need to be responsible to
RESA, my job and myself.
So this is how you think
you should go about it?
What's wrong with ‘this way'?
Did I do something immoral?
Did I coerce
Mr. Yunzhi into going onto the show?
What I did was simply
offering a platform.
As for whether he wanted to come or not,
that was up to him.
You all knew about this,
and not one of you stood up against this back then.
And now here you are,
interrogating me like you're all so innocent.
Why didn't you stop me then?
Let me put it this way.
Even if you tried to stop me at the time,
did you have a better solution?
You say that like your way wasn't
Pure, cold-hearted pragmatism.
Do you disagree?
My solution was earnest,
nothing more.
I didn't lie to Mr. Yunzhi,
nor to you,
nor to Li Xiao.
I'm not the one to blame
if it turned out this way.
Zhou Zimo is the one to blame.
Why do I have to
be responsible for him?
Why do I have to
pay for his immaturity and impulsiveness
over and over again?
I think I'm the real victim here.
I have never defined myself as a person
who seeks short-term benefit and success.
That's why I'm not that pragmatic
when I do most of these things.
So who can claim to understand me?
Who can understand the pressure I'm facing?
No one.
Including you, Wu Yu.
I start to wonder,
do you really know me?
Did you ever?
Anyway,
It doesn't matter.
But I have to make it clear
to Zhou Zimo.
You can explain it this way Xia Fan,
but I can't guarantee Zhou Zimo
will understand it your way.
I think it's you who doesn't see it this way,
because you are disappointed in me.
You know what,
I could say the same about you.
When I was young,
I didn't eat properly.
That's why now my body isn't quite right.
If other people get hungry,
they'll have a stomachache.
When I'm hungry,
I get a headache.
And once my head aches,
it puts me in a bad mood.
Luckily I opened this noodle restaurant,
because ever since then,
I've never gone hungry again.
So now I'm always in a good mood.
What I'm trying to say is,
One's mood is still not the most vital thing,
One should always feed their belly first.
Thank you.
I'm back.
Xiao, you're back.
Editor Wu has been waiting on you.
I'll make you some noodles too.
I got hungry so I swung by to eat,
and wanted talk to you too.
I've been calling Zimo the whole day,
but his phone is off.
I don't know what to do now.
I just don't get it.
I always say,
people, things
neither of them is ever black or white.
According to this way of thinking,
what Xia Fan did
is not wrong.
I don't think so.
Right is right, wrong is wrong.
It's all because of that reality show.
It all started with that blasted show.
If it were not for the show,
how could we have ended up
in this situation?
Then whose fault is it
that we ended up like this?
I haven't figured that out.
I saw Xia Fan today.
She had a lot to say.
I think what she said
actually makes a lot of sense.
She didn't do anything wrong.
You are not wrong either, Li Xiao.
Nor is Zimo.
However…
you think no one is wrong here
because you think any way is fine.
It's not that you don't know who is wrong here,
rather, you've lost the standard
needed to judge right from wrong.
Without a standard,
how could one judge right and wrong?
Let's put such standards
aside for now.
Now things are already
like this,
So how can we solve it? How can we make up for it?
If that father and son pair
can't get over their history,
this situation cannot be resolved.
That's why I said
what Xia Fan did is not wrong.
She was right.
Do you remember when she
invited Mr. Yunzhi to the show
in the beginning,
we all tried to stop her
and failed.
But now looking back,
don't you think it was a good thing?
Li Xiao,
it was Xia Fan who helped us
to pull the arrow from this wound.
And only after you pull it out can you start to feel better.
Only after removing the arrow,
Can the wound start to heal.
So by saying solving it
and making up for it,
you actually mean to heal those wounds in Zhou Zimo and his dad's hearts,
don't you?
I feel like
instead of waiting and doing nothing,
we should all get together
and talk everything out,
and solve it in an open way.
Alright, let's do it!
Wait,
I'm worried that even if we plan it well,
when those two meet each other,
there will be drama again.
If they keep arguing and it gets ugly,
we won't be able to deal with that.
Can you please not
keep being so hesitant?
If they want it to get ugly, let it get ugly.
It doesn't matter if they have a big fight.
Do you really think
it can get any worse than it is now?
Probably not…
I guess it's already hit rock bottom.
That's right.
I'll make sure that Mr. Yunzhi will come to the meet-up.
As for Xia Fan…
can you ask her to come?
You two…
That's right.
We'll solve this thing
between the two of us.
Because you are right,
it can't get any worse than it is now.
Yeah…
we have to make sure that the products that
RESA recommends to readers
are genuine and effective.
According to
the latest feedback
presented by the market research team,
the deep sea moisturizing cream series
by Ribecs
is popular among our readers.
We hope you can all
put Ribec's moisturizing cream
into your columns.
The meeting today
is to get caught up
with everyone's work so far.
As we all know
new media is now basically
mature, and has grown to a healthy size.
Therefore our work
will gradually rely on new media.
Paper magazines are on the way out,
if not tomorrow then someday soon.
This is a fact that we may not like
but have to accept.
Now when picking topics
every editor should take notice of
which topics are not only good for our monthly magazine,
but are also suitable
for our new media platform.
This is the first point.
Second,
although we are changing our monthly magazine to quarterly,
due to some personnel flow
in the fashion team,
plus the new media platform's
need for more short and easy-to-read
content and information,
as a matter of fact
our tasks and amount of work
will only increase.
Xia Fan,
from now on you'll be in charge of
the work of the fashion team.
When there's something that you can't figure out,
you can talk to me.
Ever since Mo left,
there haven't been enough people in the fashion team.
In addition, since we now have a new media version,
the workload is going to get heavier.
So I'm thinking
whether we should get a new editor
to fill the job vacancy.
Your alumni once did
an internship here with us.
Her name was Li Xiao, if I remember correctly?
Actually I had a quite
good impression
of her at that time.
But Lu recommended
Mo first,
that's why I couldn't let
Li Xiao stay.
However, if she's willing to work for us again,
she's definitely welcome here.
Amanda,
Li Xiao is working at the Proofreading Section now.
Proofreading Section?
Our columnists
always proofread and edit by themselves,
but since they are so busy at the moment,
you can ask her,
whether she'd be willing to come over and help
edit this coming issue.
I can give it a go.
Perfect. Thanks.
Xia Fan.
Thank you Meimei.
Li Xiao,
do you have a minute?
Eat without me.
Sure.
What is it? Shoot.
Amanda wants to ask you
whether you want to come join our team
and edit this coming issue of RESA?
She can't really ask you directly
but she thinks
you'd really be a great fit for this job.
So she's wondering…
Last time
It was Mo who was stirring the pot.
Mo strongly recommended Lu,
So thanks to office politics, you know,
she took precedence then.
I wanted to speak out,
but I didn't have enough power then.
Do you have to be this pretentious, Xia Fan?
You came here with an excuse like this?
Why didn't you bring up then
that it was Mo behind it all?
See I think, now that Mo is gone,
it's just easy to use her as an excuse.
Can you just
be honest when it's only us?
Sure, let's be frank.
This is what Amanda
asked me to tell you.
If I were you,
I would think it was an opportunity,
an opportunity to go back to RESA.
Don't be such a
stick in the mud.
This is RESA's last issue
as a monthly magazine.
RESA is getting a revamp.
It's changing from monthly to quarterly,
and it will focus on new media.
This is the last monthly issue.
So please get down off your high horse.
Think of it as Amanda
offering you an olive branch.
Think it as your months with the Proofreading Section
being a kind of transitional phase
before taking up a full-time position at RESA
How about that? No, I'm not going, no way.
We don't have enough people in the Proofreading Section,
and we've got a massive amount to do.
If I leave,
they won't be able to finish that much work.
What on earth are you talking about?
If you are rejecting this offer
because of your wounded pride,
I can understand that.
But don't you think this excuse
is completely contrived?
I told you, I'm not going!
I don't care what you think, Xia Fan.
Explain it however you like,
but I'm not going.
I've said what I came to say.
the rest is up to you.
Give Amanda an answer within the day.
When we get off work,
this evening, let's
go have dinner at Wu Yu's.
Let's make it clear
for the sake of Zhou Zimo and Mr. Yunzhi.
It's also
for the sake of all of us.
I've talked to Wu Yu,
and also informed Mr. Yunzhi.
but I didn't tell Zhou Zimo.
You get that?
So you are asking me to go over
and admit my mistake in front of everyone.
to say I'm sorry and denounce myself?
Wouldn't that be wonderful?
If my embarrassment
and my awkwardness
can put an end
to this drama,
then I'll go.
I want to go.
Let's go together after work.
You've been doing proofreading and editing
for quite a few months.
One very important thing is that
when you are checking
what's right and wrong,
remember not to let your emotions
blind your judgment.
Don't let your emotions trap you.
Moreover,
this is a world of human beings.
There isn't just right and wrong,
there's also people's feelings.
If you use pure, cold morality
to judge without regard for feelings,
then this world
will become pale,
and boring.
Li Xiao.
Just now I got a call
from HR.
They asked me to inform you officially
that RESA magazine
asked us, the Proofreading Section
to temporarily transfer
Li Xiao
to the magazine office
in order to edit the RESA monthly issue,
which will be their last monthly issue.
The president, the human resources
department, and I
have come to the same decision.
We agreed to temporarily transfer you.
The transfer letter will be here soon.
Pay attention,
this is an administrative transfer.
Oh my! You are all embarrassing me!
I didn't get to have my lunch yet!
A feast like this, is this your version of the Last Supper?
Last Supper?!
How evil do you think we can be, Zimo?
Ok tell me then,
who's Jesus, who's Judas tonight?
Alright,
if you are Jesus
and your dad is Judas
then what am I?
Mary Magdalene?
Come on, Zimo,
Your dad is not here to sell you to the Romans.
Your dad is here to apologize.
This is my family issue,
what does it have to do with any of you?