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The Ideal City

This is a work of fiction

Ep2

Mr. Huang.

Su Xiao, Cost Manager of ZJ Construction

I have nothing against you.

I'm just being responsible for Bill of Quantities.

On the first day of class in university,

the professor told us

that the responsibility of a cost engineer

is to make sure Bill of Quantities is clean.

If a Bill of Quantities is clean,

the project is clean.

What's wrong?

It's okay.

Your employer Miss. Su is giving me a lesson.

She wants me to be clean.

Miss. Su,

go to the kitchen

and tell the chef

Yu Chao, Business Manager of ZJ Construction

to work overtime a bit

and make more food for around ten people.

Okay.

Hold your tongue later on.

Guys,

Xia Ming, Chief Financial Manager of TK Construction

There's nothing wrong with the main works,

but we were careless with temporary structures.

Indeed,

we are responsible for this.

I have asked you to provide

a lot of inspection test reports.

Did you give them to me?

When the materials arrived

and my employees went to inspect them,

were you present?

What about the material review report?

Do you have it?

I have so many workers.

Even if the work is held up,

I still have to pay them.

Who will be responsible for that?

Well said.

My machines are running

and over 100 workers are waiting.

These are expenditures.

Where do I get that money?

I have sent you

the windows and the doors.

After the shutdown,

how can I afford

to pay the manufacturers?

Manufacturers from the previous two phases of the construction

are still waiting to be paid outside my door.

I can't even go back home.

This project is

a Public Housing Project.

We must not delay the duration.

Pan Jianhua, General Manager of ZJ Construction

If hundreds of people have nowhere to live,

we will let the people down,

won't we?

The inspection test report is out.

Huang Lilin, General Manager of TK Construction

Have you seen it?

Is there anything wrong with the main works?

No.

We are in the same industry.

Nowadays, how much profit

can you get from construction projects?

Who doesn't save as much money as possible?

It's just

that a temporary wall fell over.

No wall is allowed to collapse.

When a wall collapses, it hits people.

Not to mention

that in this case, it hit officials.

Yes, of course.

Everything you said is right.

When an accident happens,

can I shoulder the responsibility?

Even if you put me in a prison,

would it help?

Of course, you can't shoulder the responsibility.

But Yinghai Group can.

From what I know

about your president,

he takes the reputation of the company

very seriously.

He has a much bigger influence than you.

Your words

make great sense, Manager Yu.

Indeed, this has

a great impact on my group.

But if we have to hold someone accountable,

who is the first one to blame?

We've been arguing for a long while.

As a representative of Yinghai,

I would like to say something.

Honestly, the cause of this accident

Wang Mingyu, First Deputy General Manager of Yinghai Group and General Manager of EPC company

is very clear.

The division of responsibilities is also very clear.

I don't think there's a need

to waste time on this matter.

We should focus on the penalties.

From what I've learnt through many years of work,

there is only one way

to successfully solve this problem.

We have to change our attitudes and be practical and realistic.

Let me help you.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

On the first day of class in university,

my professor also told me

that sentence.

The responsibility of a cost engineer

is to make sure Bill of Quantities is clean.

But when I did the Master's degree,

my tutor said that there's actually

another half of this sentence.

All Bills of Quantities

reflect networking.

But to me,

A Bill of Quantities is just a Bill of Quantities.

Come on.

Have some box meals.

Mr. Wang.

We only have working meals, please don't mind.

You're too kind, Mr. Pan.

This is nice.

Give me one.

No.

You have it.

OK. Thanks.

Here're your chopsticks.

Miss. Su,

you've worked hard.

Go back and get some rest.

OK. Thank you.

Thanks.

SkyTech's bricklayers operated against the rules

and are persons directly responsible.

SkyTech neglected management

and is mainly responsible.

SkyTech's manager failed to implement

the responsibility system for production safety

and is mainly responsible

for the accident as a supervisor.

CT Consultant Company

failed to perform our duties in safety control.

We take major management responsibility

for this accident.

ZJ Construction

failed to perform our duties in EPC Safety control.

We will bear joint responsibility.

As the project director

of this

Public Housing Project...

The project manager

failed to perform his duty in safety control.

...failed to perform my duty

in safety control...

... be held accountable as a supervisor...

...I should be held accountable as a supervisor.

The cost manager made a mistake

and failed to audit in time.

She shall bear joint liability.

What a day.

It's so dramatic.

It's like riding a roller coaster.

My heart only returns

to its place right now.

Luckily, you're clever.

You involved Wang Mingyu and

ZJ Construction in this.

When they shoulder the responsibilities with us,

I feel so much more at ease.

It's not because I'm clever.

They can't get away

with this anyway.

Even if I don't involve them in it,

they eventually have to take responsibility.

Don't be happy too soon.

When this is settled,

Wang Mingyu and the president

will surely punish us.

♫ Draw swords within one step and two moves ♫

♫ Living in a small room but dreaming about the big world ♫

♫ The justice is burning ♫

♫ I'm happy about it and don't have any worries ♫

♫ I travel around the world but hide my weapons ♫

♫ Carefree people have all options in life ♫

♫ Honesty feels so good ♫

♫ I have vigor and vitality until the end ♫

Too loud!

♫ I'll hold your hand and travel around ♫

Dance, dance, dance.

♫ Our cheeks will be red and the days will be good ♫

Dance.

Dancing day and night.

♫ Let's drink and sing when we still can♫

You're so loud every day.

What if a couple is

wanting to have sex?

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♫ I want to be with you until the end of my life ♫

Come in, please.

Hello, Manager Yu.

Come here.

What's the matter?

Come here. Sit down.

Sit.

Here, drink some water.

Thank you, Manager Yu.

Do you remember, Miss Su?

Before this,

I was your interviewer

at the on-campus job fair.

I was satisfied with you

at first sight.

I got you a post

based in Shanghai.

Over these years,

I have done a lot

to help your career.

I also have high expectations of you.

I know.

I've always been thankful to you, Manager Yu.

Don't thank me.

I just hope that you won't hate me.

I don't have other options.

I can only do as instructed

by my superiors.

I arranged for you to join

this Public Housing Project.

I hoped

that it would make your resume

look even better.

But I didn't expect that it would go wrong.

You have great talents

and you work very hard.

You could have gone very far

and take my place.

Manager Yu,

what do you mean by this?

You understand

that Public Housing Projects are for public welfare.

After this accident,

My superiors take it very seriously.

Yesterday, they held a meeting until midnight.

All responsible personnel

have been punished.

You are also included.

They think

that you didn't perform

your duty in follow-up auditing.

I explained to them.

But they still think

that you failed your duty

and caused a great loss

to the group and made a bad impact.

Therefore,

they fired you

as a punishment.

Why?

What do you mean?

All safety incidents

happen because of

poor site management.

Yes.

We have a Safety Manager,

a Safety Supervisor and a Project Manager on site.

How is it possible

that I'm responsible for it?

They have been punished, too.

I understand that you don't think

this decision is convincing.

I don't, either.

I didn't sleep for the whole night

thinking about this.

I called my supervisors

for over an hour.

I said everything I could,

but they thought I was trying to cover up for you.

I'm sorry, Miss. Su.

I really can't manage to keep your job.

You know how much I value you.

I guess I feel more heartbroken

about this result than you.

Also, I won't keep it from you.

I am punished too.

I'm sorry.

Hello, Director Li. Welcome.

OK. I'll go there right now.

I'll be there in no time.

Yinghai Group has strict control over the construction quality

and seeks to secure the safety of the people with perfectionism.

Last afternoon,

an incident of collapse

happened on the site of a Public Housing Project

and five people were slightly injured.

Preliminary investigation

shows that the incident was caused

by constructors who operated against the rules.

Currently, SkyTech has

set up an emergency team

and has stopped work for rectification

under the guidance of relevant departments.

I'm not at work.

I'm with my superior in the hospital.

Send me the location of the hospital.

I will go to you.

What's the matter?

Don't you have to work?

Something happened.

I want to talk to you in person.

But the thing is

I'm in the hospital with my superior now.

It's really inconvenient.

If you need me,

I'll come to you right after work.

Okay?

Send me the address.

Xiao,

it's really inconvenient for me.

Okay? Please be considerate.

Why are you here?

I've finished the meeting.

I'm here to report my work to the supervisor.

There're so many people inside.

Really?

Come on. Let's go there.

Hello.

Can I ask where's the in-patient department?

Turn left after you walk past that door.

Thank you.

No worries.

I have to work overtime tonight

and I can't be with you.

Go and celebrate with Hongmei.

I've been working around the clock recently.

Maybe I can't go back for a whole week.

I'm in the hospital with my superior now.

It's really inconvenient for me.

Xiao.

What's the matter?

What's wrong?

Why did they suddenly fire you?

Why?

I don't know, either.

I'm sorry.

I...

I was busy keeping my superior company.

I really can't find time for you.

Don't be too sad.

At that time, I was sad indeed.

All I wanted was to lean on you

even just for one second.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

So I went to look for you.

I located your phone

from your cloud account.

I went to the hospital.

Why do you have to be so stubborn?

I know you too well.

I know what you would think.

Therefore, I don't want

you to see a lot of things.

I want to protect you.

Protect me?

It isn't always

like what you see.

Your view

of this society

and this world

is so pure.

There're many things

I can't explain to you

in full detail.

Just know that I haven't stopped loving you.

From beginning to end,

you are the only person that I love.

I don't understand what you said.

You haven't stopped loving me,

but then you hold your superior in your arms.

This is why I said

that you only look at

superficial things.

You don't care about internal reasons.

We have been together

for so long.

Don't you know

that I treat you well?

Do you really think that I would

like Li Xue?

Then why did you do it?

Can you stop asking why

about every single thing?

I told you not to go to the hospital

again and again but you were so determined.

You're so stubborn.

Because of you, neither of us

has a way out now.

How come that I am the one at fault?

Xiao, have you thought about it?

If no one

does the heavy lifting for you,

can you stay pure like this?

I want to have a family with you.

I want to give you

a perfect wedding.

But I'm really tired.

Tired?

I care

if our relationship is pure.

That's all I care about.

I have no other requirements.

Also, I think that we are still young.

We will have everything we deserve.

So I don't care if we marry

in a rented flat at all.

But I do. I care.

I care, okay?

When I was a kid,

I was the cleverest kid

with the best grades

in the staff residence

I lived in.

Every adult said that this kid

will do big things in the future

when they saw me.

But look at me now.

Look at me.

What have I become?

I want to

marry the girl I love.

But I can't

even afford to put down

enough money for a flat.

I really feel

that I can't breathe.

Do you understand?

I do not wish to live

a life in humility anymore.

Is it why you betray yourself?

I choose a better life.

What's wrong with that?

Everyone gets to and off work

just to sell our time in exchange

for money, right?

Who doesn't need to build good relations

with superiors and inferiors at work?

Even if it's

co-workers who aren't

as capable as you,

you just have to work with them.

Even if one day

you become a boss,

you still have to betray yourself

and please the clients.

I don't think that you can

only get the life

you want through betraying yourself.

Even if you get it in that way,

it wouldn't be the life we want.

We promised to fight together.

We are still young.

I'm not afraid of hardships.

We just started.

Xiao.

Ideals are luxuries

that only work for students.

We have graduated and entered the workforce.

Our ideals

should be realistic.

Xiao.

Because I love you,

I can't drag you down and ask you

to live a poor life with me anymore.

You deserve a better life.

That's your interpretation of a better life.

In my mind, a better life

is created through working hard.

I would enjoy the result

and I wouldn't have to betray myself during the process.

If you have to betray yourself to pursuit an ideal,

it's no longer perusing an ideal

but satisfying your desires.

Here. Put it over here.

Alright.

Thank you.

It's okay.

Let me tell you.

Our daughter told us

that she will come back recently.

Maybe one day

she will come back with Zhou Jun all of a sudden.

We can't

be unprepared for that.

Yes, you're right.

Our daughter doesn't like to tell us in advance.

She loves surprise attacks.

Where does she get it from? You.

You're like this.

Look, Zhou Jun's mother.

What's wrong?

Why does it look like

that she is deliberately avoiding us?

Really?

I think maybe she didn't see us.

But she is so close.

It's impossible.

There're so many people.

It's normal if she didn't see us.

But look at her.

She runs away in such haste.

What is she doing?

I see sales over there.

Where?

Over there.

I'll have a look.

Stay here and wait for me.

Wait for me and don't move.

Okay.

Get ten for the price of six.

It's a rare chance.

First come, first served.

Don't miss the chance.

Get three for the price of two.

Get ten for the price of six.

It's a rare chance.

Don't miss the chance.

Xiao

Get three for the price of two.

Get ten for the price of six.

Sorry,

the number you have dialed

is not in service at this time.

Don't miss the chance.

Get three for the price of two.

Get ten for the price of six.

Zhou Jun

It's a rare chance.

Don't miss the chance.

Get three for the price of two.

Get ten for the price of six.

Su. Excuse me.

Su. Come here. Take the cart.

Come here.

Be quick.

Put them down.

Why did you get so many?

The price is so good. You can get three for the price of two

and ten for the price of six.

They don't go off.

We'll keep them and slowly use them.

Were you making a call?

Who was it?

The company.

I may go on a business trip to Shanghai.

Where?

Shanghai.

Shanghai?

That's great.

Then I have to buy more stuff.

Take them to our daughter.

Let's be quick. I'll have a look.

They made a scapegoat of you.

Those superiors only know

how to criticize us.

When accidents happen, they don't know what to do

and start to pass the buck.

Then they blame

everything on someone

without networking like you.

I told you

not to be so serious.

Everyone fools around.

You don't want to do that and you take it too seriously.

It's to be expected

that they made a scapegoat of you.

Learn from it in the future.

Hongmei.

I want to be left alone.

Xiao, I made some dumplings.

Let me bring them to you.

Don't bring them, Hongmei.

I want to be left alone for a while.

Alright, then.

Be good when you're alone.

I'll visit you another time.

I'll hang up.

I'm not

giving you a lesson.

At our age,

it's all about what we drink.

They go directly into our veins.

Gao Jin, Chief Accountant of Yinghai Group Xu Zhiping, Chief Financial Manager of Yinghai Group

Our blood is thicker now

but we eat fewer vegetables.

Have you changed to another new cup?

It's so much better to make tea in

a cup lined with clay than this one with ceramic.

But the media exposed it not long ago.

Why are you still buying it?

You need to get it through proper channels.

Don't just randomly buy things on the market.

Why are you back?

The president has

gotten off an international flight.

As the Vice President,

of course, I have to come back.

Lin Xiaoming, Deputy General Manager of Yinghai Group and General Manager of Real Estate Company

What are you doing?

Mourning?

You have never

said anything auspicious.

I just want you to be

more at ease.

Don't be dead.

Our group

has gone through ups and downs.

- President. - President.

Today, this meeting is held

to inform you

of the results

of the safety incident.

Hu is on-site in Binhai and can't come back.

This time, we reacted in time and did well in

self-examination and self-correction.

We are highly recognized by our superiors.

We can still afford

the results, right?

However,

we still suffered a great loss.

Our financial loss

is as high as 23 million RMB.

We can't even measure the goodwill Impairments.

The greatest luck is that

a disaster didn't happen.

Zhao Xiankun, Chariman of Yinghai Group

I hope that you can think of

this incident as a warning.

All this time,

I've stressed over and over again

that these construction works

are related to national welfare and the people’s livelihood.

We can't be negligent in any case.

If anything goes wrong, we will harm both ourselves and others.

But apparently,

some people took my words

as unheeded advice.

I'm sorry, president.

Lilin, we're not here today

to hear you apologize.

Tell us why it happened?

But we've talked about it before.

Say it from the beginning

when the migrant workers

besieged ZJ Construction for salary.

But this has been solved.

I haven't heard about it.

I would like to know why.

We were short of money

and didn't pay them

in time.

They ended up making trouble

at ZJ Construction.

If you were short of money,

why didn't you ask the group for help?

To tell you the truth, president.

My first thought was the group

when I came across things like this before.

I also brought it up with Mr. Wang.

But what did he say?

He said that TK Corporation is self-financed.

It's a subsidiary of a separate legal entity

and should rely on itself.

Don't come to the group

and whine whenever

you come across a problem.

If you want to survive and develop,

you have to learn to rely on yourself.

The purpose

of the group setting up subsidiaries

is to make everyone

step outside the comfort zone

and learn more survival skills.

If you count on the group

every time a small problem occurs,

you will be out of the market.

Well said, Mingyu.

Only by stepping outside the comfort zone

can we become more competitive.

The reason

our group becomes top

in the industry

is that

we always keep fighting as a group.

If the subsidiaries are competitive, the parent company will be competitive.

Only when everyone carefully does

what they're supposed to do,

can our group move ahead full sail.

That's how we work miracles.

If you clench five fingers,

you will have a strong fist.

But when problems occur,

the group is still a team.

We are brother companies.

No company is closer to the group.

The benefit to one means benefit to all, whereas harm to one means harm to all.

President.

I've always had one question.

Is it true that

our group is a team?

Is it true that no company

is more favored by the group?

I see that you disagree.

Say it, then.

TK Corporation is a subsidiary of the group.

According to the agreements,

all bulk goods

are procured by the group.

In theory,

we should buy them at the company price

if we get them from the group.

But it's in fact just the opposite.

The prices of all materials

are higher than the average price.

Take cement for example.

It's eight percent more expensive than the average price.

Why?

Eight percent more expensive

than the average price.

Where did you

get the statistics?

There're many

cement brands on the market.

Their prices are very different.

Yes. You're right, Mr. Wang.

Therefore, I found a company

to make a survey.

This is a report on cement.

I also have reports on other materials.

If you are interested, I will

bring them to you tomorrow, Mr. Wang.

If the price of the material

is higher than the average price,

it means that

our cost will be higher

than other companies' costs.

Externally, we can't save

a cent on public relations.

Internally, we're ripped off by the group.

You can imagine what

TK Construction is facing.

Don't talk about development.

We can't even survive.

Under these circumstances,

what else can we do?

What do you mean?

You say it as if

the group is persecuting you.

Mr. Wang.

Of course, I don't mean that.

But right now, we're trying

to figure it out, right?

Therefore, president.

I'll say it again.

Are you sure that no subsidiary

is more favored by the group than others?

I'm sure.

Thanks, president.

Next, let's talk about

the group's decision about this incident...

Wait a moment.

Just now,

Director Xia mentioned

an eight percent.

What's the matter with

this eight percent?

Shouldn't we

make it clear first?

The cause of the incident

is too much sand in the cement.

As TK Construction's

General Manager, Huang Lilin

can't escape the responsibility.

What does it have to do

with that eight percent?

Also, we don't know if

the eight percent is true or false.

Then look into it.

If you look into it,

you'll know if it's real or not.

What do you think, president?

That's all for today's meeting.

Luckily, you made preparations.

Otherwise,

Wang Mingyu would blame it on me.

It turns out

that the president

still supports Wang Mingyu.

Of course.

You can't trust

his false promises.

He doesn't treat us the same way.

He takes the EPC company

more seriously than any subsidiaries.

Wang Mingyu rips subsidiaries off

to make the EPC company's performance look better.

It's the same for the president.

Also, Wang Mingyu

has worked for him for so many years.

He is diligent and conscientious.

The president must favor him.

It's okay.

The president said that he treats all subsidiaries as equals

in front of so many people.

He can't take that back.

What else can we do?

The president has

said it so loudly and clearly.

Should we also inform

the General Manager of TK Construction

about this?

You cunning kid.

Have you read it, sir?

This report

was made a month ago.

Xia Ming plans it so deliberately.

When I see him,

I remember

the days when we were young.

Give me a fulcrum,

and I shall move the world.

I can't do anything if he

wants to move the world.

But right now,

he wants to influence the group.

The group has the right to

procure materials for TK Construction.

We agreed on it when the subsidiaries

were set up

to help them

lower the cost.

I didn't expect that they would

make false countercharges.

What's with

that eight percent?

That's completely made up.

Although the group

procures bulk goods

at a much lower price compared with the market price,

we still have to

pay for storage costs

and interests.

Huang Lilin has been

in this business for so many years.

Also, he used to work in our group.

He must know it, right?

It's the same with Xia Ming.

He comes from a big group.

How is it possible that he doesn't know it?

It's so obvious that they want to

take this chance to mislead us

and ask the group not to punish them

for the collapsing incident

in the Public Housing Project.

President,

we can't wait anymore.

Huang Lilin will become

a big tumor in the group.

Let's not hurry.

Since he has been

planing it for so long,

let him finish his performance.

I wonder

what they want to do.

Who is it?