Second Time is a Charm
Episode 42
I happen to have my clothes custom-tailored here.
I know you're nearby,
so I asked you to have a meal with me.
Are you convenient, Lei Yuhao?
Ms. Qiu, don't regard me as an outsider.
I am convenient.
By the way, you must ask us here
for something important.
What's the important event you're going to attend?
Every time you come to Shanghai for something important,
you have your clothes custom-tailored in this shop.
Surely there is an important event.
I'll attend your marriage ceremony.
It's not fun for you to keep saying this.
What's fun?
Is it fun to say according to your idea?
Stop.
I don't have any time to quarrel with you.
Let me tell you.
I'll stay in Shanghai for three months.
Three months is neither long nor short.
It's proper to hold a wedding.
I think you can hold your wedding ceremony when I am in Shanghai.
Lei Yuhao and I told you
we hadn't prepared well.
You also promised
we could delay marrying.
You delayed.
I also gave you time to consider.
Why are you pushing me so hard?
You don't act like this in other matters.
You're of freedom and democracy.
Ms. Qiu, I think
we may not be suitable to marry now.
Importantly, we've known for a short time,
so I think we still need time
to know each other.
Listen.
He hasn't fully enjoyed his single life.
Do you think it's practical
for me to marry such a person in three months?
Impractical. I think it's so impractical.
Ms. Qiu,
you may be too optimistic
about our relationship.
Qiu Tian is still at a stage
where he doesn't trust me very much,
let alone marrying me.
Yes,
he's right.
For a woman,
it is worth pondering deeply
whether she can trust
and rely on a man.
After she gets hurt and sorts out her feelings,
it'll be too late to win her love.
It's the same case with a man.
A man is also sentimental.
Some women
like to keep away from their boyfriends in love
to find a sense of security.
But such love must be fruitless
in the end.
Our sense of security,
in the final analysis, comes from ourselves.
If you're not confident,
others can't give you sense of security.
Ms. Qiu, will you go and have a look?
No, let's go on.
I knew they would bicker
the moment I mentioned wedding to them.
Let them think about it.
Qiu Tian.
Where are you going?
Let me go.
Qiu Tian, what did I say wrong?
The truth is hurtful.
Is it wrong for me to tell the truth?
Let me ask you. You don't plan to marry me
at all, right?
Yes.
Very good. So do I.
Tacit agreement.
But my reasons are different from yours.
Then let me guess.
You should be busy, right?
A man is just beginning the life
in your age.
You still need to deal with Susan,
Vivian and Little Linda.
Qiu Tian, stop that.
Don't you know my love for you?
Why are you always jealous of them?
Due to you?
So what?
Qiu Tian, listen.
I've given you
all my time.
Besides work,
I just have time to eat, sleep and go to the toilet.
Do you know?
Well, you asked me
not to hold your hand.
OK, I can do that.
You asked me to get your approval before kissing you.
I said OK and no problem.
I really understand your concerns.
Are you afraid you won't get anything
when you come to the end with me?
You just want to secure yourself.
You're afraid of being hurt.
I really understand,
but please give me a chance,
OK?
Try to trust me
and let me take care of you.
Don't keep leaving me alone to try.
Don't hide there and be lazy, OK?
What do you expect?
Do you expect a particularly bad thing
to happen in our relationship,
or I do something
amazing to make you
believe how much I love you? Right?
Qiu Tian, let me tell you.
If you don't believe me truly
in your mind,
it's useless whatever I do.
We are one.
We ain't two.
What's the very thing in my life,
babe, now I know.
Sorry.
I have a temper, too.
Think about it again.
How I suppose to survive without you?
We are one.
We ain't two.
What's the very thing in my life,
babe, now I know.
Babe, it's you.
Don't touch me.
What do you want to do?
Who? Don't touch me.
I didn't see you for several years.
You're still so stubborn.
Well, Lei.
I did a good job, right?
I don't let anyone find.
But I can't pretend I don't know you
next time.
Is this my girlfriend Lei?
You've changed greatly.
You're getting prettier.
Your classmate said
you were a famous author
and also visited Canada.
I didn't even believe it at first.
It seems
it's all true.
My girl is so awesome.
Listen, Zhong Linsu.
Show due respect to me.
Now this is Shanghai
not your small town.
Look at you.
You should have dressed yourself before going out.
My small town?
Wang Lei, don't forget.
You're also from that small town.
And for whom did I
go to jail those years?
You.
I owe a lot of money.
Do your new colleagues and new friends
know this?
And does Mr. Yu you've been loving secretly
know this?
OK, I see.
The money in this card
is enough for you to spend for some time.
The password is my birth date.
Wang Lei,
don't you know me?
Do you think I come to you
for the money?
If so, I can earn myself.
Then what do you want?
I want you.
I want you to come back to me, Lei.
I want us to go back to the way we used to be.
I want you to sit in the back seat of my motorcycle.
Let's be together.
Do you think it's possible?
Why is it impossible?
I hurt that bastard
and went to jail for seven years for you.
Do you know what I experienced in the jail?
Can't these prove
my love for you?
I'm going to stay in Shanghai for a long time.
Let's start over, OK?
Do you refuse me
due to Mr. Yu?
Here comes the soup. Here comes the soup.
The chicken tastes good today.
Mom. Uncle Yu...
OK.
Uncle Yu, I bring you the contract you wanted.
Read.
Feifan becomes more and more unreasonable.
Why did the author
of his studio plagiarize?
You're in poor health.
Leave Feifan
and the contract of your company alone.
Well, have some soup.
No.
Yongjun,
how's your relationship with Feifan?
Will his studio be affected?
Don't care about these.
First drink...
No.
Uncle Yu, let my brother handle his studio himself.
Don't worry.
He has experience.
He doesn't have any experience.
He doesn't know anything about business.
He is unlike you.
Well, keep an eye on him for me sometimes.
I will.
Uncle Yu, I think you care about him.
Why don't you just tell him?
Or maybe you can have a talk to...
I talk with him?
We'll quarrel the moment I talk with him.
We can't talk calmly.
Well, Uncle Yu.
My brother has his difficulties.
What difficulties does he have?
Don't I give him enough?
He wants his own world.
You young people
always stress this.
Anyhow, I think you...
Stop, Yongjun.
OK, I know his meaning.
Desheng, Yongjun doesn't have other meaning.
He just doesn't want you
to quarrel with Feifan often...
Well,
I know his meaning.
He doesn't want me to force Feifan to do something
he doesn't want to do.
Well, I just worry
about him blindly.
Desheng.
Desheng, what's wrong with you?
Uncle Yu. Uncle Yu.
Desheng.
Don't scare me. Call 120 now.
Mr. Yu, here comes Dawang.
Have a seat.
I know you invite me
to terminate the agreement with me.
Extraordinary Studio.
No, you can't accept
such authors who started by plagiarism.
Dawang,
you're not right.
You should know what I really think.
I should show fairness
to other authors of "Extraordinary Comics".
Yes.
I knew you'd say that.
But have you ever thought that
the fairness you pursue
actually doesn't exist?
I did start by plagiarism.
But I'm not proud of it.
On the contrary, I blame myself and regret it.
But no matter what I do,
I can't change
what I did.
To make up for my mistake,
I stick to the original.
The results are obvious to all.
I am an old author
who has contributed to "Extraordinary Comics".
The fairness you've been pursuing
is just adding misfortune to me
in my eyes.
Do you really think
I know you plagiarized to make
your first work famous now?
To tell you the truth, Dawang,
I've known it
since the first day of your signing with "Extraordinary Comics".
I was ambivalent.
When everyone congratulated me on signing with you,
a money tree, successfully,
I faced two possibilities.
First, you entered
a better platform,
and you could plagiarize decently from that time on
and didn't need to make a small effort.
Second, from that time on,
you insisted on the original and became an excellent original author.
And over the years, I've seen
what you've done for it.
That's why I didn't say anything
about what you did.
But the thing I'm not willing to see most
still happened.
You and I knew about this before.
Now you know I've known it,
so I can't help you, either.
It turns out you've known
I plagiarized to make my first work famous.
If I had known that,
why should I have done so many things against my will?
Mr. Yu, you're so smart.
No wonder
you're the boss.
But smart as you are,
you can't see through someone beside you.
Yu Feifan,
do you want to know
how things can come to this situation
step by step?
Aren't you curious why the fact that
I had plagiarized to make my first work famous
was exposed by the people of Original Vanguard
before the exhibition of the opening ceremony
of the CNF,
such a critical time?
It seems you have an idea of it.
I just don't want to guess.
You just don't want your guess to be confirmed.
Since you don't want to listen to it,
I won't say.
I wish you all the best in the future.
I wish "Extraordinary Comics" all the best in the future.
Mr. Yu, you're a nice man.
You're kind,
but that's not enough.
Mr. Yu, do you really terminate the agreement with Dawang?
"Extraordinary Comics" lost a powerful author again.
We've been in bad luck
in recent time.
Shut up.
Then I'll leave.
Your dad is in hospital for first aid. Come as soon as possible.
How is he, doctor?
He's temporarily out of danger,
but he has to be observed in the ICU
for some time.
Go with me.
How's my dad?
The enlargement of the myocardium is irreversible.
Especially for old people like your dad,
it's just a matter of time.
Doctor Zhou,
I hope your hospital can keep my dad's illness
a secret for the time being.
After all, his physical condition
will directly affect the Board of Directors of Yu's Group.
Don't worry. We won't tell it to others.
But you and your family
have to be prepared.
Thank you.
Brother, I know the director of cardiac surgery
at the Affiliated Hospital of Fudan University.
Would you like me to invite him here?
If necessary,
I'll go and invite him in person.
I thought.
We'd have a break
after terminating the agreement with Extraordinary Studio.
As a result, Daxi sent a contract.
Different from you, I need to buy milk powder
and pay tuitions for my daughter.
What's wrong with me?
You're
a happy single.
Wait.
Am I so thoughtless in your mind?
Otherwise?
Well, I have trouble, do you know?
You idiot.
At such a young age,
how can you have the nerve to talk about trouble?
Don't adopt
a sentimental pose.
Come on, give yourself some real trouble.
My trouble is you. Don't you know?
Huang?
Aren't you on leave?
Why did you come back early?
I can't stay home any longer.
I'm a father now.
I need to come back to make money for milk powder.
Do you hear?
Poor parental love.
In fact, it's mainly because
I heard boss took Daxi's case.
I guessed the law firm must be short of hands,
so I came back to help.
Well, Daxi
has attached great importance to legal matters.
All law firms are fighting for it.
Unexpectedly, we took it.
Let me tell you.
He took the case secretly
without telling me before.
I think this is a good thing.
Since Daxi's upper leadership
was changed,
it is on the rise.
It's said it will probably
replace "Extraordinary Comics" in the future.
In addition, "Extraordinary Comics"
doesn't go well this year.
Since Bai Jinyu's
affair happened,
it has gone downhill.
Now it has even
lost its important partner Dawang.
To be honest,
Dawang's matter is quite strange,
and it just happened before CNF Carnival.
So you mean
someone is harming Dawang
and "Extraordinary Comics" behind?
We're all lawyers.
Any judgment should be based on evidence.
It's just my conjecture.
Besides, I never believe in coincidences.
There must be a reason behind everything.
What you said
reminds me of something.
It happened very long ago.
I was still in Xin Cheng.
Yu Feifan's assistant
asked me about Dawang's matter.
I do want to consult Lawyer Xu
about some legal matters,
but he seems to be very busy.
He doesn't have time.
He doesn't have time, but I do.
Then I'll consult you
about it.
Okay.
Wang Lei?
Hearing what you said, I seem to remember it.
If the past works of authors signed by "Extraordinary Comics"
are suspected of plagiarism,
will it affect "Extraordinary Comics"
or Extraordinary Studio?
Can we sue her?
Wait a second, Miss Wang.
She went to find me,
but I didn't tell her.
I wanted to make up to Yu Feifan back then.
I really wanted to take his big case,
so I helped Wang Lei.
I made a complete collection of
the case whether Dawang plagiarized
Master Qingshan's early unwell-known works
in her work by which she became famous.
No wonder the evidence and screenshots
written in the article on Original Vanguard
look so familiar to me.
I didn't see it at first.
Now I realize
they are all given by me to Wang Lei.
She just reedited them a little bit.
No, no.
She doesn't have the reason to do this.
If I'm not wrong,
Wang Lei is Yu Feifan's student
and an author signed by "Extraordinary Comics."
Is that right?
Why would she frame up
the company where she works?
CNF.
CNF?
CNF is the biggest benefit.
Lawyer Lei...
Hello, bosses.
Lawyer Lei,
I have a question to ask you.
- I... - What question?
This.
I really can't figure this out.
Well, it's a bit hot. It's a bit hot.
Do you feel hot, Lawyer Huang?
Is the company's air conditioning broken?
Stop it.
Linda,
I have something to talk with Lawyer Lei.
Let Lawyer Huang help you
with this document.
Lei,
let's talk about your annoyance somewhere cool.
Huang,
help her.
Wait...
Linda, I don't feel hot. I'll help you with it.
What is your question?
I don't have a question now.
Hello. Are you Miss An An?
Yes, I am.
Follow me, please.
This way, please.
Foster mom?
It's you.
Sit down.
Now let me introduce officially.
I'm not your foster mom today.
I am the person in charge of
the organizer of CNF.
Foster mom.
Okay.
Ms. Qiu.
Well, show me your work.
This is my work.
"Pet Lovers"?
Yes.
It has been among top ten
popular works on Daxi Comics APP.
Stop.
I know all these.
You don't need to tell me about
the data that can be found on the Internet.
You've been following my work?
I'm following not only your comics,
but also the extensions of the work.
I'm an exhibition planner
and an art buyer.
I pay attention to every author's
space for rising, potential
and degree of concern.
Miss An An.
Thank you.
My pleasure.
You're the most disappointing author
I have ever seen.
Your works like "Pet Lovers"
and "The Daily Life of Wang Xiaobai"
are the same in design as those you had
in your best part of life
before you graduated from university.
There's no change at all.
You really let me down.
Do you know?
You were born to be more creative
than other authors.
But you
have been living in the past halo
without making any progress.
In this case, you'll lose your halo.
Ms. Qiu, it's unfair of you to say so.
I haven't created works seriously in six years.
It can be said to be my beginning now.
So you mean
we fashion buyers
should listen to every author's miserable story?
No, I don't mean that.
I mean that
if I'm given the same time,
I can also make breakthroughs.
Is your time
different from other people's time?
Do you want other people's time to stop
to wait for you?
Do not complain.
It's better to find a way than a reason.
I think you should know this.
Do you know why I meet you?
I just hope you will
create new works,
but you don't change
a little bit.
I value not only
the author's present,
but also his future
and his potential.
Tell me.
Do you have any plan for the rest of the day?
No.
I have spared the whole day for you.
Okay. Go to a place with me.
Where to?
Don't ask. You'll know after you are there.
I want to go home.
You can't leave hospital now.
No one can stop me.
Yes, no one can stop you.
You may try to walk to the door by yourself.
Tell me honestly.
How's my condition?
The doctor said it's not so good.
I see.
Only at such time,
you are willing to see me.
Do you really care so much
whether I come to see you or not?
You still hate me.
Exactly because of your personality,
you can't do anything big all your life.
Don't say such words at this moment.
It doesn't matter
you hate me.
I'm not even afraid of death now.
I'm just afraid no one
will clean up the mess of Yu's Group.
Is Yu's Group
more important than your life in your heart?
Yes.
Yes,
it's indeed more important than your life.
Otherwise, my mom wouldn't
be unable to see you one last time
before death because you had
a so-called important meeting.
Do you think you're different from me?
We're the same.
We both think the family members
and family affairs
can be put aside
and we don't need to care about them.
Thus, I lost you,
and you
lost your family.
I admit that
I really regret my divorce with An An,
but I'm trying to make her up now.
What about you?
Even now, you don't think you were wrong.
Regret?
There's no use to regret.
Just let go
the matter that can't be saved.
You should hold what you can master
in the palm of your hand.
What can I master?
Is it Yu's Group?
Yes.
You should hold Yu's Group firm
in the palm of your hand.
What about next?
Who will you entrust Yu's Group to?
Doudou?
He's so little.
Are you going to entrust it to me?
I can tell you now.
I won't do anything
for Yu's Group in the future.
You have to do it.
This is your responsibility.
This is your responsibility!
Feifan,
your dad is seriously ill now.
Why did you still irritate him?
You don't need to persuade me.
You're not me,
so you don't understand my feeling.
He is so anxious
as he worries he has no one
to entrust his Yu's Group to after death.
You've been with him for so many years.
Do you think he believes you?
I can tell you now.
He has never believed you.
Desheng.
You're coughing again.
Well. Have some water. Drink.
Uncle Yu.
I don't want it.
Don't always move your hand.
Why did you do that?
You shouldn't sulk with Feifan.
His temper is like yours.
Yeah.
He won't change his mind for anyone.
But he has to take over Yu's Group.
He has grown up.
He has his own life attitude.
Desheng,
as Feifan is so strongly
opposed to this matter,
you may put it off
and let Yongjun help you.
Mom.
Well, he did very well
in hotel management
and private house acquisition some time ago.
In addition,
we have so many trusted seniors
in Yu's Group.
They all may help.
There won't be any problem.
It is not up to you.
Yu's Group
will eventually be passed down to Feifan.
Whether he's willing to take it or not,
that's his responsibility.
He has to take it.
I understand. I know what you mean.
Seeing that you force your son,
I...
I feel distressed for you.
I don't have any big dream
in my life.
I just want to protect the family property
for you together with Yongjun.
Desheng, I also hope
you can take us
as a real part of the family.
What are you talking about?
This is business.
It's not the time to talk about affection.
If I don't entrust Yu's Group to Yongjun,
does it mean I don't take you as family?
I don't mean that.
- Mom. - I...
Uncle Yu is tired. He needs to have a rest.
Desheng, I...
Mom,
Uncle Yu has just had an operation.
It's not good to talk so much at a time.
Let's go back first.
Okay.
Uncle Yu, we're leaving.
Drink water.
Stop.
What are you doing?
Give your camera to me.
Are you insane?
Give it to me.
What are you doing?
Give it to me.
Go away.
What's this?
Calm down, Mr. Yu.
Original Vanguard
has the right to restore the truth to the readers.
Truth?
You sell other people's privacy
for your own benefit. Is it the truth?
What are you doing?
Get lost!
I'm telling you!
Original Vanguard has the right to
reserve the right to sue you.
Mom, I think what my brother said makes sense.
What makes sense?
This is the way Mr. Yu is.
From beginning to end,
he has been alone.
It's not my brother left him,
but he left everyone,
so it's no use persuading him.
Well,
son, what do you mean?
We have been in this family
for so many years.
Why don't we...
Mom,
it has nothing to do with time.
I'll tell you the truth.
I'm not attached to anything here.
I don't want anything.
It's time to let go.
In this case, you'll be truly happy.
But you dare not
and are reluctant to do it now.
Mom, let's go back.
We'll come to see Mr. Yu another day.
I think we should let him
stay alone these days
to let him think
what the most important thing is.
You and I
have stayed here for too long.
We all need a second chance.
Mom,
your son has grown up
and is capable now.
I will take good care of you.
Trust me.
No.
Yongjun, well, you go back first.
I'm going inside to accompany him.
To be honest,
I shouldn't bring you here.
But you have brought me here.
Three reasons.
First, I'm the person chiefly in charge
of the organizer this time.
At this moment, I'm your foster mom.
You're too self-willed.
If your friend
believes he
has the ability to do things well
as I do,
he can also be self-willed.
What's the second reason?
I trust you.
Third,
I'm as unruly as you are.
Some paintings are hung already.
Yeah.
These works are from authors
who I have followed for long.
They have no idea that
their comic images,
their works
and the things they treasure
will bring them great honor in the future.
Look.
You should know this work.
Of course I know.
"Pomelo" by Zhaijibian,
who is a master figure born in the 1970s.
Do you know how many times he has attended the exhibition?
No, I don't.
I remember that
he attended the first CNF exhibition.
It was hung on the wall,
but no designer picked it.
I thought he was a little interesting.
Later, he attended the second exhibition.
His work was still hung on the wall,
and its style had changed greatly.
But still, no designer picked his work.
He came again for the third exhibition,
but still no designer picked his work.
This is the fourth time.
Full 16 years.
Why does it take so long?
I am buying a cake
to seek my girlfriend's forgiveness.
How can he get his ex-girlfriend back by a cake?
These spoony men
actually believe such stupid words.
She's actually a distinguished VIP.
I became a VIP by my capacity for eating.
Please.
But sometimes,
not everything is just fine as you're a VIP.
You must also have
the power equivalent to your identity.