Second Time is a Charm
Episode 31
To be honest,
at first, your parents thought
you and Yu Feifan were a perfect couple and they were confident about your marriage.
I also thought you...
Ms. Qiu,
let's not talk about this, OK?
But I can see that
you still have a feeling for each other.
Yes, we do,
but there is family love
rather than the love of man and woman between us.
Silly girl.
Listen. When a couple stays together for a long time,
family love is more important to them than the love of man and woman.
And you still have Doudou.
I think both family love and the love of man and woman are important.
We can't compare them.
Anyhow, no one should yield to
or sacrifice for the other.
Maybe we're
a little more conservative than you.
OK. Let me think from your point of view.
If I were you,
what would I want most now?
But you're not me after all.
I have to strive for the things
I want.
Well. Have you
considered what
Doudou wants?
OK.
Let's change the angle.
If you were Xu Lang,
what would you think?
You're his client's ex-wife.
What does he think of your identity?
If I were Xu Lang,
as long as I find
I'm the only obstacle
to the reunion of a family,
I'll withdraw.
Ms. Qiu,
Xu Lang is not an obstacle between me and Yu.
Then why don't you try?
In fact, my idea is so simple.
Yu Feifan is the first choice for your life,
so you should
be responsible for your choice.
You need to try your best to prove that
this choice is correct.
I've tried.
It's not enough at all.
Your first choice hasn't ended.
I don't think
you have any reason
to choose for the second time.
An An,
if you don't
take your first choice seriously
and end it carelessly,
your second choice won't be fruitful, either.
In fact, to be honest,
there are many choices in life.
Let me give you an example.
If you start a new relationship
and you find the man,
Xu Lang,
please allow me to say so,
isn't as nice as you imagine,
what do you want to do?
You blame him
or his difference from the perfect object in your imagination.
And then?
And then,
you have to accept the fact and decide to give up
as you did for the first time,
right?
An An,
these behaviors are completely so childish.
Ms. Qiu, I am not a kid.
I don't change my choice
due to you,
Yu
And even Doudou.
I must think over
before making a choice.
But I'll think over
what you talked to me today
as I am already not that girl
who was with Yu.
I'll go to find them.
What are you playing with?
Football.
Which team are you in?
I'm the blue team.
Then let's play together.
OK.
Fight with your dad.
You broke the rules.
Be careful. Don't stop.
Defend now. Defend.
Doudou.
Where?
Here.
Exactly.
Go.
He seems to suffer from social phobia.
Be careful what you say. Don't scare him.
I know that as I am good at dealing with public relations.
Don't worry.
Mr. Tang.
Mr. Tang, hello.
I am An An's friend.
My name is Qiu Tian.
Mr. Tang.
This is my business card.
Mr. Tang.
Well...
I, I read,
but I,
I have no idea.
I, I can't say that.
But,
but it's not right.
I think...
I think
it's,
it's wrong somewhere.
Mr. Tang.
Can you give us some advice
so that we can know how to improve?
No.
Well...
Mr. Tang,
what's actually the problem?
Can you tell me
why you are dissatisfied?
No.
In, in fact, it's not your problem.
It...
I also don't know what I want,
but that I read
isn't what I want.
Sorry.
Time is up.
I need to pick up my wife.
Sorry.
I feel as if there were such a heavy punch on my big chest
that I were rebounded and couldn't exert myself.
Since he doesn't like my comic, I have no way.
Aren't you trying anymore?
Since he doesn't like it,
it means he is uninterested in it at first sight.
Even if I try hard, he won't accept it.
And I promised Mr. Tang
if he didn't like my comic this time,
I wouldn't disturb him again.
Did he perform Daoist magic
or design beautification art?
I feel when I talked with him,
he was placing his mind elsewhere.
His body sat opposite,
but his soul went elsewhere.
I can't talk about such a business.
He knows the internal green light meeting
of the new products of the Eraser is coming.
In the second week of September each year,
a proposal should be put forward
even if Mr. Tang has no idea all the time, right?
Does he take to the comic of other author?
I feel he is anxious,
extremely anxious.
Different from us in character,
he doesn't want to show his anxiety.
He showed his anxiety obviously.
He tore up the paper.
Do you also grow succulent plants?
My son likes them.
My wife also likes them.
He said he came to pick up his wife after she finished class today.
Right?
Yes.
He said he grew succulent plants
as his wife liked them.
And the love lunch in his hands
must have been made by his wife.
He loves and respects his wife so much.
There're many photos of his wife on his Moments.
He celebrates all anniversaries of important events,
whether important or trivial, personally.
His Moments?
You should have told me
such important information early.
I tried hard to get it
before I came.
He doesn't accept the request of any friend,
except for his close friends
in work.
He may accept their requests.
My friend has worked on brand promotion
in the Eraser for many years.
She lent her work WeChat number to me,
so I saw his Moments.
Show it to me.
Wait a moment.
Indeed.
Though his wife isn't strikingly pretty,
her beauty is pleasing to the eyes.
God is still fair to everyone.
Although Mr. Tang
has sensitive and fragile social nerves,
he has
such a happy family.
Cherish his wife
like a treasure.
I could only read about such a man in sweet love novels
when I was at school.
Ms. Qiu,
as you expected,
Extraordinary Studio
does ignore the non-signed authors.
Is it a little tricky right now?
It doesn't matter.
Let's wait and see.
For the time being,
I have no reason
to refuse to cooperate with Extraordinary Studio
as a lot of phenomenon-grade quadratic element goods
are either made or hatched by them.
It makes sense.
Yu Feifan
only inherited my sister's talent,
not vision.
He always thinks he is holding golden eggs,
but he doesn't know
he has a phoenix laying golden eggs.
What a pity.
It seems
I need to make a business and let them remarry
by my return this time.
Go on with your work.
OK, I'll pour another cup of coffee for you.
Kid, hello.
Hello.
May I have your name?
Yu Doudou.
Can you speak louder? I have poor hearing.
What's wrong with your ears?
I am Yu Doudou.
Yu Doudou,
can you speak English?
A little bit.
Then please introduce yourself in English.
My name is David.
My mom is Anna.
We like pizzas and bananas best.
Some time ago, my mom took me to Disney.
I like Woody of "Toy Story"
in it most.
Is this OK?
You really beat me. I managed to ask my friend
to take out the questions
of their interview question bank.
But you actually don't take them seriously.
What's up?
I think Doudou's answer is good.
Is it good?
He just spoke some words
and his pronunciation was not accurate.
It isn't practical
to let a five-year-old kid
to speak complete sentences in English.
Although Doudou studies at a bilingual kindergarten
and has a good English teacher,
he just plays games and learns words
in the kindergarten.
But their questions are so difficult.
If you want to play games there,
you have to answer these questions first.
Really?
Let me see.
Please move three matchsticks
to make this lobster head down.
Mom, let me see.
Is this a lobster?
Are, are you sure these questions
are for five-year-old kids?
Yes.
Yu Doudou,
I'll ask you one last time.
Is this really what you want?
Are you sure?
Guo, Guoguo also wants to enter this primary school.
We agreed to be admitted by the same primary school.
I am so moved.
Go for it.
I will support you.
We went to a primary school near our homes
when we were kids.
Parents led us there
and we didn't need to interview.
Now the process of going to a primary school from a kindergarten is so complicated.
Kids have to prepare for it so long in advance.
Return my son a happy childhood.
Please work hard, OK?
Your son
wants to enter the Elite No. 1 Primary School
with his goddess.
What kind of primary school is that?
It's a national demonstration key primary school.
Those who line up to sign up have to wait until 2020.
If I hadn't tried hard,
you wouldn't have this chance to interview.
Well, OK.
We were very confident.
After hearing what you said,
I think Doudou is hopeless.
It's good for you to have some pressure.
I really feel like
I'm living in a realistic urban drama.
Well,
what does
parents' interview mean?
Parents also need to interview.
What's wrong with her?
She's particularly afraid of the interview.
An An.
Does she cry in horror?
Maybe.
It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.
Let's do something else.
Doudou,
let's have something good.
Come on, Doudou.
Let's go.
Be careful.
I'm coming out.
Don't laugh at me.
Your coat is so big for you.
Sure. This is the coat of your aunt Qiu Tian.
Surely it's big.
Do I look ugly in it?
Well,
don't say anything.
Let's get started.
Miss,
what is your educational philosophy?
Mom,
what's educational philosophy?
It means
what kind of kid
I hope you to become in the future.
Let me check the standard answer
your aunt Qiu Tian gave me.
There's no standard answer.
Then what can I do?
Just tell the truth.
But if so, I may fail.
Then what can we do?
Next.
Why do you choose our school?
Why?
I can't say I choose your school
to realize my son's wish as a man.
Next.
What is your education plan for your kid?
What do you think?
I don't know as I am only five years old.
Pass.
Does your family think bilingual teaching
is a burden? Why?
Why?
So many questions.
I don't know why.
So hard.
How do Guoguo and her dad prepare for it?
Almost the same as us.
My favorite food is pizza
because I can...
I...
I can enjoy it...
I can enjoy it with my friends.
OK.
My favorite colors are yellow and red.
My favorite animal is kitty.
That's all. Thank you.
Great.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Rest for a while.
Grandma. Thank you, grandma.
Rest for a while, too.
Guoguo.
Take the fruit and eat it over there.
After a break, we'll continue later.
OK.
Mom,
I am busy with the work in my law firm
during this period,
so I may not have much time to accompany Guoguo.
She needs to prepare for the interview.
So if you have time...
I can come often.
Sorry to bother you.
Guoguo's going to the primary school is important.
We've prepared for it for a long time.
There won't be any problem with you, Guoguo, right?
Dad,
what if I fail?
No.
You should be confident of yourself.
OK?
I tried hard to obtain
the interview chance of the Elite No. 1 Primary School.
Guoguo and I have prepared for it
for more than half a year.
These are all the preparatory materials
for logic, Chinese, English and mathematics.
They're all here.
If I am out,
please spend at least an hour
on simulating the interview with Guoguo every day.
Do you know how to simulate?
Yes.
Guoguo is so excellent.
So I should
give her the best.
I see.
Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you.
Remember all the materials in mathematics
on this sheet.
Begin from the first question.
It's number recognition after seeing the pictures.
Then they're the simplest addition and subtraction questions within ten.
Aunt An An.
I heard your grandma's voice.
Why hasn't she left?
My dad has been so busy lately,
so she comes often.
Sometimes she lives in our home.
Where is Doudou?
He is playing a game.
Do I call him out?
No.
I have to go back and review later.
Hasn't Doudou reviewed the interview questions?
He just reviewed them.
One can't always study,
or his brain may shut down.
Shut down?
It means he may be worn out.
Then does my brain shut down?
What's wrong with you?
Dad is so strict
that I do questions every day.
So you've well prepared, right?
No.
Guoguo,
did you hear about the question
of moving matchsticks to form a lobster head?
That question is so famous.
Really?
Then you must know the answer.
Do you know how I can make the lobster head down
by moving three matchsticks?
Move the rightmost matchstick,
the one above it
and the one below it
to the left side.
Really.
You're indeed the daughter of a curve wrecker.
Awesome.
But Aunt An An,
what if I fail?
No, you're excellent.
My dad also said so.
If...
I mean if
you really fail,
it doesn't matter.
You're still your dad's pride.
Guoguo.
Grandma.
Guoguo, bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
Mr. Bai,
the data about the several comic images you asked me to follow up last time
have been submitted by the consulting company.
Among them, the image of Wang Xiaobai
is the most popular.
I guessed it.
What about the IP of this image?
The original work "The Daily Life of Wang Xiaobai"
is published in the zone of vertical comics of "Extraordinary Comics".
Vertical comics?
Yes.
She is a non-signed author.
Ask the staff of the Development Department to have a meeting at once.
And inform
the boss.
Yes.
Hello, Mr. Yu.
I think it's time to invite you
to my company.
Don't say that.
I need your help.
Yes.
I can't change
the idea of my boss alone.
OK.
See you later.
Mr. Tang,
if you have any suggestions, you can put forward them.
We'll all discuss them together.
That's no problem.
No.
I just don't
like it.
Mr. Tang,
do you know when
the proposal meeting will be held?
I know.
After 8 days
and 13 hours and 24 minutes.
Mr. Yu,
let me take you to visit
us Eraser
and have a cup of coffee in the rest area.
No need.
Mr. Tang,
aren't you anxious?
If you can't put forward a proposal at the proposal meeting,
how can you explain to the shareholders?
Do you feel embarrassed
as we haven't submitted the budget and financial statements
until now?
It's useless even if you force me
I can't design it.
It took us over 40 people
in three units of the Project Development Department a year
to design "Pocket Love",
plan to work with the most popular animation image
and create the mass mobile game IP.
You agreed with it, right?
Yes.
Then why don't you
adopt the image of Wang Xiaobai?
Didn't you check the data?
Its download amount has exceeded
that of the previous Warm Bear.
But I know comics better than you.
So...
Why?
Let me ask you.
Have you read the comic?
I guess you haven't.
Anyhow, you don't have time.
As a businessman,
I only need to know
how much I pay for an item,
how much I can earn by selling it
and how many risks I have to take in this process.
OK.
So you don't know
the comic is about
a couple, a dog and a cat.
Anyhow, I can't adopt it.
My wife doesn't like it.
This company is not for your wife.
Why not?
I design games
because my wife
likes to play them.
I also run Eraser
for this reason.
I don't play games myself.
Now I run my company.
We...
What are you doing?
What do you want?
You feel uncomfortable, right?
Such a distance makes you, a person with social contact cleanliness,
so uncomfortable, right?
Listen.
I feel so every day
when working under you.
Tang Xiaoquan,
you should know
the ownership structure of the company now, right?
All you know is figures.
Do you know the public feeling?
Now many people want you to leave
besides me.
Please don't torture me, OK?
Put forward a proposal at the proposal meeting,
or I will let you lose
the president's position.
By then,
you can't design mobile games
for your wife
or design a new game and give it to your wife as a gift
every year.
Don't talk nonsense.
You don't have such power.
You can't make it.
Why can't I?
You aren't that important.
You're usually idle.
Right? You're the least important in the company.
If we Eraser lose you,
many programmers can replace you.
We can
have another president.
Xu Lang.
Come over.
Why did you throw your shoe at my door?
Come over now.
Close the door. Close the door.
What's up?
What do you want to do?
Let me ask you.
How's the preparation for the primary school interview of Guoguo?
How do you know?
Doudou told me.
He wants to enter the same primary school with Guoguo.
Good.
Hurry to prepare carefully.
There's not much time.
Well,
what kind of kid
are you going to cultivate Guoguo into?
Why do you ask me so?
Let's exchange our ideas.
You're trying to steal information from me
about the parents' interview, right?
Those questions are too difficult.
Have you thought how to answer them?
Yes.
I've thought that
since that day when I became Guoguo's dad.
So early.
Haven't you thought that?
You don't have any plan for Doudou.
Well, it's his life.
I can't plan it for him.
But as parents,
we have the responsibility and duty to guide our kids
before they grow up,
right?
I guide him.
I guide him every day.
You don't.
Why don't I?
Every day, I teach him how to play,
how to stay away from vapidity,
how to love and protect himself,
and how to spend every day during the legal age scope of the International Children's Day
happily, safely
and healthily?
Am I wrong?
I think my world outlook, views on life and values are correct.
OK.
What are you laughing at?
Is my answer funny?
I don't think it matters whether it's funny.
Importantly, do the examiners
like your answer?
Do, do they like my answer?
I am not an examiner.
Then why do you ask me so much?
Let's exchange our ideas.
Then, then tell me
what your plan is.
No.
Why? I told you mine.
Surely I can't tell you.
Guoguo and Doudou are competitors.
They compete for the only few places.
Am I that stupid?
Are you serious?
Don't I look serious?
I am kidding you.
Relax. Relax. Relax.
What a cold joke.
I can't relax.
I've been afraid of interviews since I was a kid.
I am nervous at the sight of a teacher.
Don't be nervous.
Relax yourself.
In fact, whichever school Doudou wants to enter,
I'll support him.
Since he put it forward this time,
I'll try my best to help him strive for it.
As an adult,
you need to figure out what you want first.
In the process of raising kids,
we and our kids need to judge each other, compromise with each other,
seek common ground while reserving differences
and finally achieve the same result.
OK?
It's hard to understand.
In other words,
to give a kid absolute freedom equals no freedom.
Understand?
It sounds so advanced,
but I don't understand.
Well, forget it.
Luckily,
your son Doudou is so sensible.
Remember my sentence.
Relax and be yourself, OK?
That's easier said than done.
Relax and be myself.
You're a successful man yourself.
What if I try to be myself,
but the examiners are scared?
Mom.
I told you to relax.
Annoying.
Relax.
Xu Lang.
My shoe.
The non-signed authors are
much more than we expected.
Yes.
It's even harder.
You need to work harder these days.
Cherry, lead others
to count the work numbers
of the non-signed authors of Extraordinary Comics.
Remember to detail the classification.
Well, boss.
We can't do it.
We were just talking about this.
Do you know how many non-signed authors
Extraordinary Comics has?
Do you know how many works each of them has?
I don't know,
so I need you to count them in detail.
Work harder these days.
If we are short of hands
and degree of professionalism,
we can invite an outside professional consulting company.
Let the Finance Department report a budget to me.
In any case,
I need to get detailed and accurate data
as soon as possible.
Got it?
Yes.
Boss,
you've been too concerned about
non-signed authors lately.
Everyone is equal in the aspect of copyright
whether he is a signing author
or not.
As the legal advisors of Extraordinary Comics
didn't pay much attention to it,
we have to remedy such a loophole.
Work.
Well...
Great.
Our company will suffer a loss.
Stop saying in that way.
Talk to him now.
You saw his attitude.
I have no way.
Go to talk with him.
Terrible. There will be something wrong.
What's wrong with you?
Nothing.
Stop pretending before me, OK?
We're close
and know each other well.
Every time you're nervous and anxious,
you like to work, right?
You acted so when you were at university.
Did I?
Do you lose your memories?
Well, let me remind you.
At university,
you bet with Shen Yilin once.
You signed up for winter long-distance running
you were not good at. Do you remember?
You were so nervous before the match
that you locked yourself in the dorm
and finished all the exercises
of the thick book
"History of the Rule of Law in China".
Common students needed to finish them in a term.
I happened to have time.
So stubborn.
Xu Lang,
you've stayed in this room
for 24 hours.
Do you know?
You only took two mouthfuls of water
and went to the bathroom thrice. What do you want to do?
So what do you mean?
You think I work so attentively
or you are easily distracted?
Go on with your work, OK?
Go out and deal with your work.
I'm not trying to criticize you.
I'm trying to help you, right?
If you have any difficulty, tell me.
We can find a way together.
Tell me.
I have a particularly bad hunch.
I don't know myself.
What hunch?
The sixth sense.
Now even you believe the sixth sense.
Terrible. Terrible. Terrible.
The world is over.
Really.
Can you go out? Please go out.
Forget what I said.
Go, go out.
Xu Lang, I warn you.
You have to relax now.
Go to the kendo club
to relax tonight.
Or I'll cut off
the power of your room.
Anyhow, I mean so.
Think about it yourself, OK?
Have a rest.
So unreasonable.
Do you know why I didn't contact you
after you went to the UK?
It's unimportant. Forget it.
The most important thing for us lawyers is to communicate with people.
But even if
we treat others rationally,
it has to depend on fate at last.
If it's not fated,
we don't need to stoop to conciliate.
You know I didn't drink that much due to work.
Then it's even unworthy.
Let me help you.
Well, no, thanks.
I can do it myself.
I felt that my physical strength was totally out of line with
my consciousness.
If Lawyer Shen didn't exercise with me,
I wouldn't exercise at all.
I feel like I'm about to enter middle age.
I need to pick up the thermos cup to soak ginseng and wolfberries.
Don't say that in front of a thirty-something
like me.
Just be nice.
Even if you stare at the sky,
a rainbow will not appear.
What do you mean by that?
I think you need to
pay a little attention to eye management.
Is it so obvious?
It is good that it is obvious.
Lawyer Shen is so excellent.
I think she's a good match for Lawyer Xu.
I think you're excellent, too.
You are the business president of
the five-star hotel of Yu's Group.
You're her boss.
Moreover,
you have one big advantage.
You're younger than her.
My God.
Even if I've been through a lot of risks in the past,
the bottom line is that
my major never disappoints me.
But today,
someone told me I was incompetent here.
Although I'm angry,
I can't meet his requirement
at the moment.
But today,
I swear to the trash can
and the cleaning aunt that
I will never concede defeat.
I will try my best.
I'll make myself stronger.
I'm sure I'll be back.