Timing and subtitles by The Very Berry Team 🌸@Viki
[My Huckleberry Friends]
You are... showing that you like me a little?
About that, you can just directly ask me.
How come you are so...
Then, Zhouzhou,
do you like me?
Yep.
[Episode 29: The olden times that will eventually pass]
Wife, the food will be done soon. I played until very late last night.
No need. I'll just eat something during lunch.
It will be done soon...
No need. No need. I really am late.
Let me take you to work.
No need. Aren't you going to fetch Lin Yang today?
Then, come home early! Tonight, I have some...
serious business.
Oh my, how come you are in the mood to eat junk food with me this lunchtime?
Where is your love lunch box?
That damn, Jiang Chuan. He played games until morning. So energetic. But when he's supposed to make my food, he fell asleep.
Jeez, you better be contented.
You have a boyfriend making you breakfast everyday.
Hey, do you still have someone like him around you? Leave one for me, too.
I usually just like to stay at home and not attend gatherings.
The number of men I know can be counted with just one hand. You still are putting your hopes on me?
- Oh, he's here.- Who's here?
The most handsome and stylish man in our work district.
Let me tell you. He buys food here every lunchtime.
You come here everyday to look at him?
Not only to look at him, today, I'm talking to him.
Sorry.
How come it's you?
Chu Tiankuo?
You two know each other?
Long time no see.
You are still the same as before. Totally didn't change.
You also didn't change.
Working here?
Yes, upstairs.
I work at the building in front. I will always eat here after work.
But it's quite weird. How come I've never seen you before?
Jiang Chuan said that eating fast food is not nutritious.
Jiang Chuan?
You two are still together?
Married?
Not yet.
- Then, it's preparing to get married soon?- Yes.
After graduation, I never saw you again.
You also never attend Zhen Hua class reunions.
I actually went once. That time, you were not around. Our classmates said that you and Jiang Chuan went out of the country to travel.
Afterwards, I never went anymore.
I'm going back to work now.
In the future, if you need any help, call me.
Sure.
[Cartoon Venture Capital Investment Project Department]
[Tiansheng Investments: Chu Tiankuo, Project Manager]
Yo... Dusk clouds fill the southern Chu sky, so vast and boundless.[T/N: The poem line where Chu Tiankuo's name came from]
Even his name is so unique.
Hey, wait.
Who was the one who said earlier that "the guys around me can be counted by just one hand?" Eating your own words now?
Tell me honestly. What is your relationship?
Why are you being such a gossip?
Ex-boyfriend?
First love?
I really got it right?
You can say so.
This is a huge scoop. I must dig a little further. Did you two...
It's not like you think.
Did you two kiss?
- Made long-lasting promises? - None.- Nothing at all?
That time, sand entered my eye. He helped me remove it, but our faculty supervisor saw us.
He told our supervisor that I was the one chasing him.
This guy even slandered you?
That time, I almost ran away from home.
Forgive me for being direct, what kind of first love is that?
I used to frequently think
that we never held hands nor made any promises,
but at the very least, he would admit the relationship in front of our supervisor.
Even if it was just slander, it's still good.
First love. It's really not some special moment.
It just makes you remember it for a long time.
With your first love...
It's quite bitter and agonizing.
Qian Qian, let's have lunch together.
I know a good Japanese restaurant nearby. While eating, let me tell you our department's plans.
About "My Huckleberry Friends" press conference or the meet and greet between the lead stars and their fans, things like that.
Manager Li, Xiao Ye and I have eaten lunch.
Oh, you had lunch already.
Investment company?
Not that I want to lecture you, Qian Qian. There are a lot of swindlers now. Don't accept calling cards that casually.
Manager Li, you're thinking too much. He actually-
Don't say it. I understand. In our department, only you and Xiao Ye are unmarried.
But you shouldn't fall for just random guys outside.
I feel that people around you are more reliable.
He's my high school classmate.
Oh, high school classmate.
Then your high school classmate doesn't seem to have a good life.
Project manager and department manager are still very different.
Manager Li, you still need anything?
Nothing... Just be busy with your stuff. Let us have lunch together tomorrow if you're free.
I have been staying at home waiting for a job for three months. Qian Qian is not saying anything.
It's fine. Just a few more days will not make a difference. Why?
How about you resign, too, come home, and waste your time away? What?
Zhouzhou is back?
Let me tell you, Lin Yang. You must be manly this time.
Be a bit unyielding. Okay?
I won't say anything anymore. I'm hanging up.
Wife, you didn't go hungry today, right?
No. I ate downstairs.
With your colleague?
Hey, was it Lin Yang on the phone earlier?
Yes. I was wondering why he's back from the U.S.
So, it's because Yu Zhouzhou is back.
Zhouzhou is back?
Yes, such happy news.
Wife, didn't you want to watch a movie yesterday?
Come, what do you want to watch? I'll reserve us tickets.
Which movie do you want to see?
Me? Of course, I want to watch a science-fiction film.
But my wife likes something cultured.
Then, let us watch "Puppy Love."
I heard that the director is not bad.
Let us watch what you like.
Wife, what's wrong with you?
What about me?
The manner you talk is a bit different than usual.
You usually... How come you are so obedient today?
Wife. Wife!
I have some good and bad news. What do you want to hear?
Bad news.
Bad news. The bad news is I didn't go for my job interview.
Don't you like that company?
Not that. The inner wall was breached in my gaming. In order to guard the tower, I didn't go.
But the good news is I was able to guard my tower.
It's fine that you didn't go. Just wait for the next opportunity.
That's not right. Something must be wrong with you.
The usual you would've made a big deal out of it and said something like how I am always staying at home and that I am as childish as Lin Yang.
And you would say I am not being considerate towards you. How come you're not saying anything today?
Jiang Chuan, can you stop being like this?
Then what do you want me to be like, Wife? What do you want me to be like? Tell me.
- Just tell me. - Stop bothering me, Jiang Chuan.
Whenever I don't talk, you think I am upset; when I space out a bit, you think there's something wrong with me.
There's nothing wrong with me.
I just feel suffocated, as though I can't even take a breath.
Can you just leave me alone for a bit?
I am just concerned about you.
If you don't want to watch a movie, why don't we just go take a walk and get some fresh air?
Jiang Chuan, darn you!
Were you actually listening when I told you all that?
I was.
I didn't say much just now.
Thanks.
I had a meeting this morning, so I came down late.
It's fine. I'm also about to finish eating.
You did overtime last night?
Is it that obvious? Do I have some dark eye circles?
No. It's just that you yawned a few times. It seems you're very tired.
I wasn't able to sleep well last night.
Wait a minute.
I came to look for this book.
We just have to look at this camera. And then, after 3, 2, 1, it will start. Okay?
In my heart, you are a little princess, smart, pretty, and outstanding.
Vast seas, high skies, nothing can stop me.
Then, are you accepting the gift by this idiot?
Can I borrow some power from the gloriously radiant classmate Chu Tiankuo?
I actually wanted to let you rest this afternoon, but I instead made it unbearable for you. So sorry.
It's fine.
During our meeting this morning, I lost a project.
What happened?
I have been preparing for that project for 2 months.
Instead it got taken away by my colleague who clinched a deal with a larger company.
It will get better.
Sometimes, I would recall our high school days.
Although the details were not clear, I could sense this vague feeling.
What feeling?
I felt happier then than now.
That time, so many people felt that we had a boundless future. That there were limitless possibilities.
Right now, I finally know that no matter how many choices you have, you can only choose one.
No matter how much we were admired before, we are still just commoners now.
Is it bad to be ordinary?
Always doing ordinary trivial matters, eating food from a 24-hour convenience store, and then doing overtime in the office until everyone has left.
The next day, you have to repeat those ordinary trivial matters from yesterday. Are you really content with just that?
I, too, thought that being ordinary was easy.
But afterwards, I realized that to be an ordinary person, you also have to put in a lot of effort.
Enter an ordinary college, look for an ordinary job, create an ordinary family.
All these require hard work, too.
I just want things to be like how they were before.
I like that feeling of being able to see the fruit of your labor immediately
and not to compete with people who have unending supplementary conditions. No chance of winning against them.
How you are now is already very good.
Do you still remember that "Edison inventing the light bulb" example that Teacher Zhang Feng liked to say?
Edison failed one thousand times before finding the right material for his light bulb.
That time, I felt how important hard work was.
A thousand times hard work finally bore fruit.
That time, we were too naive.
We thought that after choosing one goal then trying hard for a thousand times, we would succeed. Only now did I realize
that success is trying hard to make one right choice. From the looks of it,
isn't choosing way more important than trying hard?
Your colleague?
My boss' daughter. Can be considered half a colleague.
Girlfriend.
You can say so.
Tiankuo!
- I'll get going then.- Hope to see you again.
Jiang Chuan.
Jiang Chuan!
Hello, Lin Yang.
Zhouzhou? Is Jiang Chuan with you guys?
Nothing. He's not at home and his phone is off. I'm just worried about him.
No. There's nothing. We're quite fine. We didn't fight.
You're back? Why did you not tell me?
I thought you would keep staying in the U.S.
Oh, no need to call Lin Yang. I'll ask his other friends.
Let's have a meal together in a few days. Okay, bye-bye.
Wife! Wife! I'm back!
Where did you go?
Job interview. There was a great company that looked for me today and said that they were interested in me.
- Why did you turn your phone off?- I was in a job interview.
They asked me to test an app for them. While playing it, my battery got drained.
Did the job interview go smoothly?
Of course. Who am I?
I'll start work there tomorrow. They want me to be a project manager.
- Is that true?!- It's true. To celebrate that I will stop staying at home,
I especially bought your favorite Japanese food.
Hey, right, hurry and let me borrow your phone for a while. I'll send Lin Yang a WeChat message that I've already reached home.
You go text it yourself.
- I have something to tell you.- I have something to tell you.
- Let me say it first.- It's better that I talk first.
- I will just say one sentence.- I also will just say one sentence.
- I know what you want to say.- You don't know.
- It's better to let me talk first. Qian Qian--- I don't want to listen.
Look at your text message.
I'm telling you to read your text message first!
Look at the sushi I bought you. These are you favorites. Also, I asked for extra wasabi.
Jiang Chuan...
You've been calling me wife for so many years.
Do you seriously think that we will get married?
Of course!
But I'm losing confidence.
I don't know why...
When every time I mention marriage to you,
you keep avoiding me.
If you agree to break up today,
I have no objection.
Qian Qian, today...
today is the last day...
that you'll be my girlfriend. After eating this sushi,
our dating relationship
ends here.
Did you bite it?
Jiang Chuan, damn you! Who puts a ring inside sushi?
I just thought you like to eat sushi. I'll take a guess and say you didn't know what I was going to say.
Was it exciting? Was it surprising?
Ling Xiangqian,
marry me.
Qianqian, can you help me tie this?
I really don't want to start school.
If it was like this break forever, then it'd be great.
Please support Class 3's goddess Ling Xiangqian. She's beautiful, she can sing and dance, and she's kind. Please support her.
Jiang Chuan, damn you.
- You can recognize me even though I'm disguised like this? - Are you disappointed?
-The person looking for you isn't Chu Tiankuo, and not Lin Yang. - Get lost.
See? I know you better than they do.
- Jiang Chuan, you old man. - I see you running around all day long,
Do you not know how to think for your future?
I'm already fighting for my future.
- What is your future? - Ling Xiangqian!
What I just said, that's my future.
Jiang Chuan, you won't leave me, too. Will you?
Of course not.
Because I think, in this world,
you're the best girl.
Do you agree or not?
- Your acting's pretty real. - Promise me first.
- Why didn't you look at WeChat? - I know what you are texting me.
What I sent was "Jiang Chuan, let's break up."
What you sent was "Jiang Chuan, let's break up" comma. There's still the second half.
We've been together for 25 years, I don't believe that
you'd send me off with just seven words.
Jiang Chuan, you old man.
Wife, don't regret it. Let me put it on for you.
Hey, no. No. This- There's still wasabi on it.
- Wife, wife. Put it on. Put it on. - Don't. No.
[Wife: Jiang Chuan, let's break up, if you're still not going to propose to me tonight.]
Actually, I've eaten.
With the woman that was with you last time?
We're high school classmates. She also works around here.
It isn't your ex-girlfriend, is it?
Sure enough, I was right.
No. You're thinking too much. Our relationship is just normal classmates.
No way. I saw the way she was looking at you last time.
There's a problem with that look. You guys definitely have a relationship.
I already said we don't have a relationship. How else do you want me to explain it to you?
You're being mean to me.
Sorry. That's not what I meant.
I don't care. Tell me about you guys in the past.
When we were in high school, we were both running for student council president.
We took part in the selection for the school image ambassador.
Tell me the main point.
One time, we were asked by the Faculty Supervisor to invite our parents.
We were forced to be punished.
You were punished, and you still won't admit she's your first girlfriend?
She didn't admit it.
We have said a lot things. We have done a lot of things.
I can't remember it anymore.
But only one phrase, "yes or no"
I can remember it for a long time.
I wasn't acknowledged. This issue, we can't change it in this life.
Hey, look, look. The restaurant has new dishes.
This sea urchin, I want three portions.
The first one, combined with rice balls to make sea urchin sushi.
The second one, steamed with eggs to make sea urchin steamed eggs.
Then, we can get another order of sea urchin fried rice.
Oh, right. Where did you leave off (of the story) just now?
It's nothing. Hurry and order. I still have to go back to the company to work overtime after we're done eating.
I'm going to call my dad right now. Why does he always make you work overtime?
Your time is used for being with me.
It's fine.
I'm not managing the project from last time anymore, so I won't be this busy anymore.
What's going on? You aren't managing the project from last time anymore? Didn't you already prepare for it for two months?
You don't have to worry about work-related things. Your dad knows how to handle things best.
No. I'm going to call right now and ask for a clear answer.
Isn't this bullying you? Bullying you means he's bullying me.
I'm going to call my dad right now.
Once you are out working this world, you can't get by without drinking alcohol.
If you lift the glass, the policy can be made flexible. If you finish this glass,
I will sell you this year's batch of wood blocks for the lowest price.
CEO Fang has already showed his sincerity, whether this deal can be made will be dependent on you.
- Finish this bowl of alcohol. - Drink it! - Come on!
All right.
- Chug it! - Amazing!
Awesome!
- Have another round! - I admit defeat.
Not just this year.
- Next year, and the year after that, I will be the one to get them all. - You deserve it.
It's a deal!
Here, another round!
Boss Fang, we have a deal, then.
You just have to tell me, and I will have everything settled for you.
With those words, I can finally take the weight off my shoulders.
Here, be careful as you get on the car.
Boss Fang.
Rest well.
Boss Fang, go home and rest well.
When you have time, come to our office and I will treat you to tea.
- No problem. - No problem!
You can call me anytime. I am available for you anytime.
Okay, okay. The lowest price, okay? Bye!
[Wedding Invitation]
[Wedding Invitation] [Jiang Chuan & Ling Xiangqian]
[Wedding Story: For several years, I've been searching for the ideal love. Now I found the love of my life. The world is so vast and I finally met you. I believe everything is destined.]
What's with the building management? Why did the power go out again?
You already owe six months of property charges. There is nothing we can do.
Come pick me up at the Internet cafe on Guancheng Road this morning at 9:30.
Actually, make it 8:30. 8:30 sharp.
Xin Rui. Xin Rui!
- It really is you. What a coincidence! - Why are you here?
This is my base!
You still like staying in an Internet cafe all day and playing games?
Besides going into military and going on the Internet, I have never done anything else.
After I got discharged from the military, Electronic Sports was trending. I formed my own team and manage it as if I am still in military.
Right now, I am a manager of a well-known national team.
After that, I bought this internet cafe, and use it as a training camp.
What do you think? It's not bad, right?
- It's pretty good. - How have you been lately?
Me? I'm pretty good, too.
- You are already leaving? - Yes, I am busy.
You don't have my number, right?
Here. Call me anytime, contact me anytime.
- I will treat you to a meal another time. - Hey, Xin Rui.
I have been trying to reach you all these years.
All these years, no one from our class contacted me.
Ever since you changed your number during first year of college, I haven't been able to contact you.
I wrote you letters but I never got any response and I tried to find you on *Renren, but it seems like that you... (T/N: Chinese version of Facebook)
I remember now. I was cleaning up during Chinese New Year,
and I saw your letters. Do you have anything else that you want to say to me?
That's it. I am just glad to see that you are still Xin Rui, and not someone else.
- I will come here often. - You must keep your word!
I am the least experienced person here, so I will drink it first to show my respect.
Okay. Finish it.
Nice to have met you all.
The wooden construction material we use are all of top quality.
- Great tolerance! Great tolerance!- - Let's eat.
[Send the reports to Boss Fang]
- What are you doing? - I'm taking you home.
I can walk myself.
- What exactly do you want? - Xin Rui,
my conditions are different than before so there's something I want to try.
What do you want to try?
Something I was afraid to do before.
There's something that Xu Zhiqiang doesn't dare to do? My eyes are almost blinded by you.
Let me go. You, let me go.
If you're blind, then I'll take care of you forever.
[Shanhai City Receiver: Xin Rui]
Today is 2008, October 10. The day is clear.
Today, I've officially been awarded the rank of a corporal.
I haven't heard from you in a long time.
I called your house, your mom told me to not call again.
She said
you're getting married soon.
Congratulations! I hope he's someone brave,
has a good sense of responsibility, is gentle with you, likes you, protects you
and not someone that bullies you.
Today is your 22nd birthday. Happy birthday!
Oh, right. Our army team is learning English.
I'll change a few lyrics from the song we learned before.
Take it as me making a wish on your behalf.
♫ Happy birthday to you ♫
♫ When the world turns back on you ♫
♫ Don't turn your back on the world ♫
- Count off. - One. - Two. - Three. - Four. - Five.
Ground Beetle team.
A person's willpower determines what kind of person he'll be.
Back in the days when I played CS (Counter-Strike), with one drop of blood
I could defeat five alone. Look at your cowardly looks. Where's your spirit?
Big Boss, that's completely outdated.
The gaming systems now, it isn't the same as when you played CS and demons.
Remember this, okay? Competitions
only have categories. There is no difference in new or old.
The China Division's right to higher competition is nearing.
Today, you five are the best male lions out there.
Give your best, and tear them apart. Do you hear me?
Yes, sir!
Why are you still standing there? Go!
How come you're here?
- I have something to tell you. - Tell me.
Xu Zhiqiang, do you remember throwing paper balls at me when we were in high school?
You drew me into a pig and had everyone raise my hand and
told everyone it was a pig trotter, making everyone laugh at me.
- I was young back then, I was immature. - You even forced me to get cigarettes and snacks from home for you.
I remember it all. Even until now, I still feel pretty guilty.
Compensate me.
What?
I said, compensate me.
My mom lied to you about everything.
I didn't get married. I also don't have a boyfriend.
I have a small renovation company with a few employees.
The wallpapers are peeling off but I'm reluctant to refurbish it. Right now, it's the offseason for renovation.
Every day, I'm worried whether I'll be starving to death next month.
Then I'll put my network managers and all my workers in your company to keep up appearances.
My mom is a very troublesome person.
Perhaps, she'll be better when she gets older.
But while selling her daughter, she might make extremely unreasonable demands. (T/N: Refers to asking for a big sum of dowry)
No problem. Anyway, I've learned the craft of making pancakes from my mom.
No big deal. I can just open a pancake stall in my internet cafe. I'll redeem you no matter what.
No. Not redeem. Not redeem. It's save. That's also not right. No.
- It's– - You must save me.
You must save me from my previous life.
You don't want to be someone that's high above?
The cruelest thing on the earth
isn't that you can't become someone else no matter how hard you tried.
Rather, it's when you want to save yourself,
you realize you're unrecognizable.
It's fine. The Xin Rui I want has always been inside my heart.
Hello, Zhouzhou.
You're back? Okay. I'll come pick you up.
Timing and subtitles by The Very Berry Team 🌸@Viki
♫ I wrote a distant song for the distant you ♫
♫ Your laugh and mine weave together ♫
♫ This is my fondest memory of the past ♫
♫ Crying, laughing, aching, acting wildly ♫ ♫ as I bid farewell to the past ♫
♫ That old string melody sings our story ♫
♫ The story starts with your bashful smile ♫
♫ The light breeze in my face is like the way you talk ♫
♫ Without a hint or sign, the story abruptly comes to an end ♫
♫ There are always regrets in life ♫ ♫ Just let it be ♫
♫ The brief sunlight warms my heart all the same ♫
♫ There are always moments worth yearning for ♫ ♫ that we can't go back to ♫
♫ The memories of you ♫ ♫ that I can't return to or throw away ♫
♫ There are always regrets in life ♫ ♫ Just let it be ♫
♫ The brief sunlight warms my heart all the same ♫
♫ There are always moments worth yearning for ♫ ♫ that we can't go back to ♫
♫ The memories of you ♫ ♫ that I can't return to or throw away ♫
♫ The things I can't return to or throw away ♫ ♫ are collected at the bottom of my heart ♫