The first time I met you,
seems like you can see my soul through.
For every trivial detail,
why can you see it?
Before I met you,
I've never thought about what love is.
Wondering if you feel the same?
You come to me like wind,
taking me away from the crowds
to touch the blue sky.
If you're tender wind,
please take me to the sky,
hand in hand, till we see all the scenery again.
Till we see all the scenery.
Someday, maybe the wind stops.
If possible,
I hope we can meet
in the same place.
Regardless of the weather,
cloudy, rainy or sunny,
we breathe the same air.
Do you also
keep the original intention
and still like staring at stars?
If you're tender wind,
take me as your wind chimes,
everyday, ringing happily.
My Mowgli Boy
Episode 42
You're crazy.
You kicked me.
Everyone, stop.
Tonight,
you're all invited to my house to eat.
Is your house
here, or there?
Cheers!
Actually, the Feng Shui here
isn't that bad.
With everyone coming and going,
the number of people living here
keeps increasing.
I think we're still missing two people.
Ziyue and Zheng Li,
you two should buy two more rooms
in this building,
and then it will be like
a school dorm.
-I can't afford it. -I can't afford it.
Moving in here from outside,
and then from here to the room opposite,
has been quite strange.
What's so strange about that?
I moved from this place to that place,
and then moved back here from that place.
That's strange.
I think what's most important
is that this place likes me.
It 100% likes me.
It's fate.
Yeah, you're fated to live here,
and I'm only fated to live in a tent.
Thanks everyone for helping us move today.
All I can do is treat you all to some hot pot.
In the future, we might only have hot pot.
I hope you don't mind.
How could we?
Hot pot is our favorite.
Although things have been lost,
our new life
has just started.
Right, guys?
Here's to tomorrow!
-Cheers! -Cheers!
Mr. Ling,
actually,
I've always wanted to say sorry
for disappointing you.
What are you saying?
What happened with your dad
isn't for you to apologize for.
I'm his son.
I didn't find out soon enough to stop him.
I have total responsibility.
I don't blame you.
You shouldn't blame yourself.
Whatever you say,
what he did was wrong.
There's no way I could agree to it.
The only thing I can do now is
take your side and support you.
No matter what happens in the future,
I'll never take his side again.
It's good enough that you feel this way.
The business is about to come to an end.
Have you got anything planned?
I should take a break.
In the future,
I should continue trying to start my own business.
Zheng Li,
since you plan to start a business,
my dad and I have prepared a gift for you.
I haven't resigned yet.
I don't need a severance package.
Take it.
This is the compensation I'm giving to the company's employees.
Consider it as a start-up fund
from predecessor to successor.
Take it.
To prevent you from feeling betrayed,
I'm giving it to you with my own two hands
so as to express innocence.
Take it.
I can't hold onto it any longer.
I guess I'll take it, then.
You're even making a joke out of this!
All is fair in war. It's glued to his hands!
Are you OK?
Really!
Such happiness.
I mean, them.
Being with them,
talking and laughing,
life doesn't feel lonely or boring.
Although I'm a bit older than them,
so long as I'm with them,
I feel spirited.
What?
You're so young.
Don't talk like that.
Yeah.
Seeing the kids so happy
is the best.
Once you reach my age,
nothing will make you happier
than seeing your kids happy.
I see.
One leaves and another arrives.
But, it's better this way.
It's quiet,
and we can collect rent.
Are you that much in need of money?
Who doesn't need money? Tell me,
and I'll go be their cat's paw right now.
I guess that makes you my cat's paw, then.
So much money!
Where'd you get it?
From teaching, last month.
I also accepted two other cases.
I've received the payment for them.
It's all for you.
Why are you so great?
I really, really like you.
Honey,
Ling Xi,
what do you two want for breakfast?
Porridge will be fine.
Can you two make a bit less noise?
Ling Xi,
you must want to eat something.
What do you want for breakfast?
I'm fine.
Thank you.
Alright.
Then, I'll just give your clothes a clean.
Look at all these.
Mrs. Wen!
No,
Ling Xi, don't mind me.
I'm just doing some cleaning.
Look at your bed.
It does look clean enough.
There's dust
on the side and edge of the bed.
This dust is bad for your health.
Mrs. Wen,
you don't need to go to so much effort.
But, it's already half-past-eleven.
Are you really not hungry?
I don't want to eat anything.
OK, OK, OK.
I'll clean up quietly.
You've finally made it, haven't you?
Being clothed and fed,
having your parents around is great, isn't it?
It isn't great at all.
Why?
I haven't lived with my parents
since high school.
Let me tell you,
I constantly feel tense now.
If you're not using a computer
or TV,
you have to cover it with a cloth,
in case it gets dust on it.
Even the TV remote
needs a plastic cover.
Everything might get dirty.
Wherever you go, they'll follow you
turning the power off on everything
so as not to waste electricity.
Everything you use,
all of it,
needs to be put back in its place when you're finished using it,
in case they can't find it.
Let me tell you,
you'll really
never hear the end of it if you make one false move.
Compared to what life was like before,
it's very, very different.
So, there are no upsides, then?
There are.
Everything in life is perfectly clean.
I don't have to think about anything.
I think, after living life like this
for a long time,
I wouldn't want to leave them.
But, after living separately from them for a long time,
I don't want to stay with them.
It's quite a contradiction.
When you put it like that,
I wish I had your problems.
What about you?
Isn't living with those two women
a fate worse than death?
What are you saying?
You make it sound like
you weren't living with them before.
It's just that Chu Shi doesn't come back often.
Tang Cheng and Lu Ziyue
have made the living room the venue for their date.
Zheng Li and Bai Yiling
are packing.
I'm like a giant
third wheel.
Even I feel like I'm superfluous.
What are you thinking?
Now,
I'm thinking about turning into a snack superhero
to punish evil and mete out justice,
and get rid of all the bad people.
That sounds alright.
But it seems
you've got evil thoughts on your mind.
Do you have something
up your sleeve?
Actually, being out of a job
isn't important to me and my dad.
At the very least,
a person needs basic ethics and camaraderie.
I need teach those people these principles.
And, having lost his best friend
is definitely hard on my dad.
I can sense it.
Then, what's your plan?
A very serious problem
has suddenly occurred to me, Mowgli.
Starting today,
our relationship is going to be a long-distance one.
Yeah.
We were 4 meters about,
and now we're 8 meters apart.
We were still so close, yesterday.
Now, we're separated.
Mowgli,
I order you
to stay with me
here
until dawn.
OK.
Let me tell you,
this is the trouble with long distance relationships.
I want to go to sleep,
but I can't bear to part from you.
No, you can't.
I need you to stay with me.
You're not allowed to go anywhere.
But, you really need to go to sleep sooner today,
otherwise you'll stall your big plan for tomorrow.
Do you see the sunset?
The sun's setting over there!
Very handsome.
Let's go.
I'm very sorry
for not properly running the company.
I've disappointed you all.
Please, take this.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you.
Mr. Ling, I don't need this.
Please, take it.
Sir,
I really hope that if you next start a business
you can recruit us again.
I will,
certainly.
Sir,
the Wharf signboard can be taken down, right?
Yes.
Let's go.
I just wanted to change the way
Wharf went forward.
Dad, let's go.
Why are you leaving just as I arrive?
Won't you stay for a while?
Sir,
is this where you want the signboard?
Put it a bit higher.
Hang it from the top.
Hanging it directly from the ceiling is a bit much.
Ling Yu,
you're the one who stands opposed to me?
Ling Yu,
what have you been doing the last couple days?
I couldn't reach you.
Why are you opposing your dad?
So what if I am?
It's for my own benefit.
Weren't you already planning
to hand the company over to me?
Now's the perfect time.
I've taken your position.
You should feel relieved.
How could you say that?
Mom,
why don't you move out to live with me?
I didn't expect him to go so far as to sell his home
to pay his debts.
Mom,
move out.
It'll be just like before.
We don't have to rely on other people to survive anymore.
Yu,
what is going on in your head?
Mom, what are you thinking?
Fine.
I won't force you now.
I'll be back to collect my things in a couple days.
You can consider what I've said.
Yu, come with me, please.
Come home with me.
Stop doing this.
Come home with me.
Mom!
You still can't tell?
The person standing opposed to him
is me.
Mom,
what are you doing?
He's an outsider.
You'd hit me over an outsider?
I'm your own flesh and blood.
Yu,
you can't take back your words
after they've hurt people.
Everything I've said is sincere.
Since the first day I joined the Ling family,
I've never been myself.
I had to spend all day groveling
just for him to look at me.
In the end...
Mom,
I don't want you to
tiptoe through life anymore.
I just want to
rescue you from this hell.
Don't you know that?
I'm not in hell.
Have you...
Have you been
corrupted or poisoned by someone?
You're the one who's poisoned by him.
Ling Yu,
don't talk to your mother like that.
You don't tell me what to do!
Ling Yu!
Ling Yu, don't do this.
Is what you say sacred?
All I did was use
some of the company's money.
You acted like you were throwing out the garbage.
You discarded me.
What's more, I even returned it.
I amassed debts by taking out high interest loans all the time.
Did I ever say a word to you about it?
I didn't.
Ask yourself,
did you ever really care about me?
Ling Yu,
I don't want you to go down the wrong path.
What?
Get off your high horse.
It's not important.
What's important
is that you drove me away with nothing.
I made it back
relying on my own abilities.
And I wiped you out with my own two hands.
I'm very happy.
If I could choose again,
I would rather my mother and I
never joined your family.
Ling Yu,
over the years,
have you taken me to be your father?
Never.
My dad
is long dead.
You can't say that about my dad.
You know better than anyone else
how my dad has treated you over the years.
He treated you even better
than he treated me.
You don't have a dad.
Well, I don't have a mom.
Over the years,
the only relative I have
has always looked after you.
Do you know
how very, very jealous that made me?
Don't blame him.
What would he do at that summer camp?
If he signs up for summer school
to take extra classes, it'll be more or less the same.
Then...
Then, what about Ling Xi?
You go with her.
It's the perfect chance for you and her to have some fun abroad.
You have to manage the business
and now you have to help him with his studies.
Isn't that too much?
Why don't I stay and help him with his studies?
No, I'll do it.
He's scared of me.
OK, that's what we'll do.
It'll be better this way.
I've found a good middle school for him.
He can't fall behind at such a crucial time.
But, will he understand you?
He'll understand in future.
But this isn't my home,
and my name isn't Ling Yu.
My surname is Ding.
My name's Ding Yu.
Yu!
Now you're happy.
I have to tell you,
from now on,
he's your big brother.
I refuse.
You can't refuse.
You have to accept it.
Do you understand?
If he and I fell into a river,
who would you save first?
Your brother can swim.
Then, when he and I want to have a family meeting,
who will you listen to first?
Why are you being like this?
Let me tell you,
he doesn't have a father.
You have to learn how to share. Understood?
There is only one dad.
You're not like a watermelon, where everyone can take a piece.
I hate you.
This is my house.
You stole my room,
stole my dad,
and now you're stealing my birthday cake.
Get lost!
Ling Xi!
Ling Xi, how can you be so stubborn?
Ling Xi!
I'm sorry.
What's wrong with you?
Your sister is younger than you.
You have to let her have her way.
I have to let her have her way.
Got it.
Look,
your dad bought you a gift too.
Guess what it is?!
I don't want it anymore.
Can you believe him?
You queued for so long
to buy these.
He's too stubborn.
He's rarely like that.
You give them to him.
Tell him you bought them.
OK.
Even if you can't be grateful to my dad,
you didn't have to become so twisted.
Did my dad force you to take out high-interest loans?
Did he force you to get married?
Did my dad force you to provoke Chu Shi
after you got married?
Even crows know not to bite the hand that feeds them.
You're worse than a crow.
Acting aggressive towards your own parents.
who do you think you are?
I'm telling you,
you apologize to my dad, right now.
Get away from me!
Ling Yu,
I know this is a family matter.
There's nothing I can say to stop you,
but I still want to tell you something.
Animals can proclaim themselves kings,
and they can rule.
But without the support of followers,
no one can last.
Last?
Tell me,
what is it to last?
Right now,
I've already won.
Don't celebrate too soon.
Just wait.
Sooner or later,
I will put Wharf's signboard back up there
on my dad's behalf.
Let's go.
Hang the sign higher.
They even sold their home.
Their old reserves are gone.
Who does she think she's kidding,
acting like she can come after me?
Yu,
a cornered animal is a dangerous enemy.
You can't leave yourself
no room to maneuver.
Mr. Zheng,
you really are charitable.
So much so
that I'd rather be your enemy.
Yu,
I paid back
your high-interest loans for you.
You wanted to sit in that chair.
Now you're sitting there.
So?
Can you consider giving me back
what's mine?
OK.
We'll schedule an equity alteration
so that you can give me 60% of the company.
Then,
I'll give you what's yours.
Alright.
You set the time.
Mr. Zheng,
you've always been a role model
in my mind.
But, now,
there's something I don't understand.
Don't you think it's a pity
to get your hands dirty?
I do.
So,
I've learned something from it..
If you're going to do something,
you have to do it completely.
You really have done it completely.
You were more ruthless than I imagined.
So, I should learn by example,
and go to extremes.
I want that project.
The Senmu project?
That's just an advertisement.
If you want it to create more value,
you'll have to invest in it.
I happen to agree.
Ling Zhenghao
always worried about the risks in multi-industry projects.
What did he say? If you want to be in advertising,
you should avoid other industries.
But, now,
we're the ones who decide.
Your phone's ringing.
Hello?
Yu,
the house has been turned upside down.
It doesn't look like the work of a thief.
It has to be someone Zheng Weijue sent.
OK. Understood.
What is it?
Nothing.
The place you rented for my dad
was robbed.
Is everything OK?
Nothing's missing.
There was nothing valuable there.
There's just some cash missing.
It's fine.
OK, that's good.
Keep a close eye on these two.
If you see the camera,
get it back no matter what.
Mowgli,
what should I do?
I was just at their door,
overhearing them.
They just keep sighing and groaning.
You know, with the company gone,
it could be retrieved.
But, what can they do with their son gone?
Maybe...
Ask me.
I can offer myself,
but I won't change my name.
Please, you wish.
What I wanted to say was,
maybe they should get a dog
to replace their son.
If I told you Ling Yu
could hear you,
would you believe me?
I want to give him a beating.
What you said to him today
was serious.
Do you believe
that you can get Wharf back for your dad?
Actually,
I've learned that
there are some loopholes
in Zheng Weijue's new projects.
But, this
is about my dad.
For my dad,
I have to get it back,
whether I believe I can or not.
Then,
all I can do is support you.
Get some sleep.
It'll be another awkward day tomorrow.
I don't know how I'm going to get through it.
Come over early tomorrow.
Good night.
Living together is great.
There's a good breakfast to be eaten.
Yeah.
What a sumptuous breakfast!
Living together is great.
It makes me want to go looking for my mother.
Here.
Thank you.
I'm starving. I'll tuck right into this.
Go ahead.
See how the tofu tastes.
Dad, someone your age
shouldn't, shouldn't eat this.
Have some milk.
You, you, you need the calcium.
Milk?
Of course.
I forgot the milk.
My blood sugar.
Why does Mrs. Wen
seem so preoccupied?
Maybe we should have a talk with her?
No, don't act rashly.
Let her process it.
Milk.
If we eat this,
I don't think we'll be able to process it.
I grabbed the wrong thing.
It's fine, it's fine.
We, we, we can still eat this.
Alright.
You can all drop the act.
It'll be good for us to clear the air.
Ling Yu
can be difficult.
It's my fault.
I was too strict on him.
He's rebelled against me.
It's fine.
I think, after a couple of days,
he'll get over it
and then he'll be back.
-Eat! -Mrs. Wen,
if that's what you really think,
then we don't need to worry.
Actually, we've kept wanting to say the same thing
but didn't want to make you uncomfortable.
In this case,
we can focus on eating
breakfast.
Yeah.
This, this, this is delicious.
It's not sweet at all.
Eat up!
-Get the door. -I'll get it.
Don't, don't bother.
You guys eat. I'll get it.
This is so sweet.
Eat!
Honey,
look who's here!
Yu's back.
Yu,
if you haven't had breakfast yet,
come and eat with us.
No need.
Mom,
it seems you've made up your mind.
Yu!
Where are my things?
Yu!
I wasn't a good mother.
I always put pressure on you, demanded things from you.
I was obsessed with making you excel.
I was wrong.
Come back, Yu.
It's not too late for you to come back.
Is it really not too late?
I remember
our first year out of the village.
We lived in a basement.
You were a nurse in the hospital.
I would run up and down
the corridors of the hospital,
waiting for you to finish work.
Although we didn't have any money,
I was happy. I was free.
Is it possible
to go back to that time?
After that,
I just wanted my mother and father to comfort me,
to hug me,
when there was thunder outside.
But that didn't happen.
I've long since had no home to go back to.
Yu!
Yu,
if you
step out that door,
you're no longer my son.
Don't go.
Let her calm down.
Why?
She needs a distraction.
Alright, alright.
Don't just stand around.
Let's go outside and unwind.
Now?
Now, this minute, at once. Now.
Ling Xi,
you guys go.
I'll stay here.
Mrs. Wen,
I know that you're upset right now,
but where there's a will, there's a way.
We might get the company back,
and Ling Yu might come around.
But, it takes time, right?
Right now, we shouldn't be anxious.
We should cheer up a bit, right?
If you ask me,
we should go outside and soak up the sun.
It'll replenish us, and we'll feel much better.
Life will always challenge us.
We have to better than others
in facing those challenges. Am I right?
You, tidy up here.
We're going out now.
As you command!
Come on, let's get changed.
-We're going out for some fun. -Go, go, go.
-Alright. -I'm going. I'm going.
Chop-chop!
OK.
Look at my knife, what is this knife?
Mowgli will act out eating a biscuit for you.
Here, Mowgli.
Are you eating it or not?
Be patient.
Let's keep looking.
For what?
We've turned the place upside down several times.
Where could it be?
I'm just saying. We can't put it in the Ling family.
It shouldn't have gone missing.
Why are you so stupid?
What?
Stupid!
You've been his scapegoat
for all those years,
and now you've lost
the only thing that could help you.
What are you good for,
except rotting in prison?
You'll always be a doormat for other people to step on.
You need to clam down.
OK. Understood.
Carefully look over the material I've given you.
Don't miss a word.
I have to go.
Try this.
I expect it tastes good.
Here,
try it. Try it.
Well, how does it taste?
Do you get the sense that
your dad has gone from
cold and passionless to warm and affectionate?
Cold?
I could use some cold food.
Why is food always on your mind?
Look at your waist,
it's nothing but fat.
My waist?
I have the waste of a supermodel, OK?!
Mowgli!
When we came here in the past...
It's so beautiful here.
...the area here was smaller.
It was just part of the mountain.
-It's so pleasant here. -Now, it's all covered byâ€¦
Isn't it pleasant, Mrs. Wen?
Yes.
Snake!
This isn't a snake.
I'll kill you!
-Unbelievable! -It's not a snake.
Look at this.
Look,
this
is all you've been able to cut down
in an afternoon.
Let me tell you,
if that's all you can cut down,
we'll have nothing to eat tonight.
I've cut down a lot, OK?
Why do we have to cut this stuff down?
Didn't you hear what they said?
These reeds might contribute
to the overall pollution of the water,
and they could impact the growth
of next year's reeds.
Mr. Niu also said that
if we cut down these reeds and bring them home,
they can be used to make straw mats
or brooms.
Also, the roots of these reeds
can be used in medicine.
You're like the Hermes of the straw world.
Don't you have anything more to say?
Well?
Go on,
Hermes of the straw world.
And, for my next act:
Ling Xi Goes to Work.
Watch.
This bundle has just been tied up by me.
One, two, three, go!
Alright, stop going to work.
If you do it again,
it'll get dark.
OK.
You're still not helping me,
and you're still recording.
This must be fun for you, right?
OK, OK. I'm coming, I'm coming.
Hurry up!
Where are you?
I got a little bit impatient just now.
I'm willing to be a doormat for you,
because I'm your father.
Right now,
you're the only person I have.
Let's eat.
Yu, look.
Thanks to your efforts,
Mrs. Wen was happy today.
Actually, what I want to see most
is you not hiding your feelings anymore.
I want to see you being truly happy.
When I was a little girl,
I would always hide behind them.
They looked after me.
But, I'm a grown-up now.
I have to become a shoulder
for their burdens.
If I'm not full of laughs,
the outside burdens
will fall onto their shoulders.
Then, aren't you scared that
Ling Yu might be irreconcilable
and that you might not get Wharf back?
Are you really not scared
that you might not be able to bear that burden?
If you have got smallpox vaccination,
you won't have smallpox.
Once you go through a type of suffering,
you're immune
to the same kind of suffering.
Look at me.
I've lost my job,
I've lost family,
but aren't things fine, now?
Not to mention,
I have you fighting by my side, now.
Right?
You really are full of confidence, aren't you?
Let me tell you,
I'm a hot item.
You should be feeling more of a sense of crisis.
Is this little wolf so in-demand?
Yeah!
Why do I feel like
you're in my control?
You?
Because you're beautiful.
Really?
Of course our daughter is beautiful.
Dad! Mrs. Wen!
The, the frequency of your walks
is quite high.
Not high enough!
Happy?
From now on, when you aren't happy,
I'll spend time with you just like this.
OK?
You're so busy,
you shouldn't spend so much time on me.
How could it be a waste of time?
So long as you're happy,
then I am too.
Really?
When I was a little girl,
I used to love sleeping in my mom's bed with her.
When I slept with her back then,
she said I was always a rough sleeper.
But,
once I smelled her,
I slept peacefully
and soundly.
I've missed that time
ever since then.
A mother's smell
is the best.
Mrs. Wen,
from now on, think of me as your daughter.
I will be good to you.
OK?
At twenty to nineteen,
you stand across the road
in grey hooded coat reaching below the knees.
You come up to me,
with your head down and eyes narrowed.
With the sun behind you, you smile not saying a word.
The cool wind, the subtle night;
the tipsy street, the smiling eyes;
You tenderly hold my hands and look at me, blanking out.
At twenty to nineteen,
you stand across the road
in grey hooded coat reaching below the knees.
You come up to me,
with your head down and eyes narrowed.
With the sun behind you, you smile not saying a word.
The cool wind, the subtle night;
the tipsy street, the smiling eyes;
I slightly turn my head and look at you, blanking out.
The warm hands, the glimmering moon,
the dim light, and the tiny face.
You tenderly hold my hands and look at me, blanking out.