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If a couple’s notion of Heaven,

Is like a heart-warming barrier

Imprisoning your dreams,

Is happiness akin to a metal-barred window?

The bird has lost its internal compass for the south.

If you aspire to travel into the sky,

And long for a pair of wings,

Releasing you to soar up high,

Roses should not accompany your feathered wings.

Obeying ageing properties of time

If romance has morphed into a leash,

I’m willing to choose to return to a life of solitude for your sake.

If lingering touches have morphed into chains,

It is time to discard the vows.

There is a kind of love called letting go,

Forsaking a long life of romance for love.

If us being together made you forsook everything,

Let true love spirit me away.

For your sake, I must lose you.

Cruelly putting on an act to hurt you.

Leaving you for your sake.

Leaving without ever letting go

There is a kind of love called letting go,

Forsaking a long life of romance for love.

If us being together made you forsook everything,

Let true love spirit me away.

There is a kind of love called letting go,

Let love end the dreams of a life-long romance.

If my departure lets you gain everything,

Let true love steer me away, and initiate break-up.

Love in the forlorn city

Episode 3

Bai Ge.

Do you need to go out?

I need to do something at the hospital.

(Her friend) She said you came by looking for me.

Is there something wrong?

Nothing much.

I wanted to see if you were at the dorm.

It's nothing.

I've something to do at the hospital, so I'll get going.

Bai Ge.

What's the matter?

Yu Qing, where did you go last night?

Last night, I got off work from the bar late.

It was really late when I went home.

I saw you together at the hospital with Yan Fei.

Yes.

I didn't feel well yesterday.

That's okay. You don't have to explain.

You don't need to explain to me.

I'm going to the hospital now.

Be careful riding your bike.

Bye.

Sir, here's your beer. Enjoy.

Give me half a dozen beers.

- What did you want? - Half a dozen beers.

- Do you want anything else? - No.

It'll be here soon.

Hello...

I didn't realize you can also say "Hello".

Didn't you say you're going to quit drinking beer?

Yeah.

I couldn't stand it any longer, so I came here.

Don't tell me you've developed an addiction to it.

I'm addicted

not to alcohol, but to you.

I'm only joking.

I was afraid you are still not well yet.

I couldn't bear that responsibility.

Thank you. Enjoy your beer. I need to go back to work.

OK. Continue your work.

Thank you.

Hey.

You're still not going home?

Did you drink too much and now is afraid

the cops would stop you to do a breathalyzer test?

Yeah.

I was waiting for the people to leave before I drove home.

This way no one would report me again.

I'm going to leave now, so you can relax.

Can I take you home?

Forget it.

When I see your car I get a bad feeling from it.

If it broke down while I was riding it,

you might want me to pay for it.

So I better not, I can just take the bus.

Don't take the bus.

You're already so sick.

Aren't you afraid you will contagious to other people.

Let me drive you, I don't mind.

I'm begging you.

Why did you bring me here?

I saw that it was still early,

so I decided to take you to the amusement park for some fun.

The pirate ship ride here is really intense.

You have cold (caught a chill).

After going on that scary ride you'll be sweating

and be all better.

What's the relationship between a cold and the pirate ride?

There is no connection between the two.

But you have to believe me.

Believing in me is like believing in science.

Really. Let's go.

It'll be fine.

Hey! Don't you need to discuss this with me?

What is there to discuss?

Do you guys think I'm like a playboy?

- Not like it. - Really?

You ARE a playboy.

You do nothing everyday

just hanging out with your friends eating and drinking.

- Isn't that it? - Yes.

Sometimes, I don't really like myself.

It's really nothing, I am just saying.

I don't mind. You didn't say anything that wasn't true.

Do you know what?

Today's actually my birthday.

Really?

The price of wealth is loneliness.

When I was young,

Mom and Dad were always working.

They didn't have time for me.

My present every year was

a money order that they mailed.

How should I say this?

Sometimes I wish their business would fail.

If that happened, they'd have more time for me.

Tuck me into bed.

Play with me or just anything as long as they accompany me.

When I was 8, I remember

them taking me to a boarding school in Hang Zhou.

I will always remember

my mother's promise to celebrate my birthday with me

and to take me home.

In the end, she never came.

I was really angry.

While crying, I ran away from the school to this ferris wheel.

I then shouted down from here

Happy birthday, Yan Fei!

From that time on, I never cried again.

Thank you.

Happy birthday.

Thank you.

Zhou Yu Qing.

What's that matter?

You don't recognize me?

Very clever.

You move fast.

School girls these days are so proactive.

Miss Wang, I don't understand what you mean.

What's the matter? Did I say something wrong?

I think you may be mistaken.

Yesterday morning,

I saw you leave his home with my own eyes.

Did you take the wrong road and enter the wrong house?

I'm really sorry. Yesterday I was sick.

Yan Fei saw it and gave me a ride.

I'm sorry that you're mistaken.

What a coincidence.

This tactic is pretty good.

Pretending to be pitiful to gain sympathy.

Miss Wang.

I really don't have anything to do with your boyfriend.

Believe me.

We weren't together back then nor are we now.

Since you know that he's my boyfriend.

I'm not going to beat around the bush. Tell me.

What do you want?

I don't want anything.

I've seen many people like you.

You've only studied a few more years.

Do you think you're so high and mighty?

You're only after Yan Fei's family's money.

Tell me. How much money do you want,

and I'll give it to you.

Miss Wang, I think you found the wrong person.

If there's nothing else, then I'm leaving.

Zhou Yu Qing.

I'm telling you that I love Yan Fei.

I really love him.

I'm not going to let you take him.

I know, Miss Wang.

Work ended? Are you tired?

- Get in. - That's OK.

I can go home by myself.

You can leave now.

Why do you have to go home by yourself,

I'm already here to take you home.

- Get in. - No, that's OK.

I still have other places I need to go.

OK, where do you need to go? I'll take you.

Yan Fei.

You've help me before and I'm really grateful,

but we are only friends.

For you to be always coming to pick me up

is not a good idea

because you have a girlfriend.

Then...

Mi Mi came looking for you today?

What did she say to you?

- Let me explain. - Yan Fei.

Truthfully,

I'm not interested knowing what's going on between the two of you.

I also don't wish... to get between you two.

It will be better if you never pick me up again.

(A hand's not a hand. It a tender universe.)

(I'm asking for your hands...)

Yan Fei, you're finally here.

Where have you been recently? Come sing.

(I'm crazy because of you.)

What's the matter with you?

Let go!

You're hurting my hand.

What did you say to Yu Qing?

I didn't say anything.

I'm asking you what you said to her.

Why do you have to be so fierce?

I just told her that I really love you.

I told her not to stick with you.

What's the matter? Did I say something wrong?

Yan Fei...

I'm wrong.

I shouldn't have done that.

But I really don't want to lose you.

I don't want to break up with you.

Please. Don't be angry.

Don't break up with me.

That Zhou Yu Qing said that

nothing would happen with you.

Mi Mi, I've already told you.

I'm breaking up with you not because of her.

Do you understand?

Then what's the reason?

I know that we were really happy in the past.

But I've been thinking lately.

I've been thinking about us.

What...

I don't know how to say it.

You don't love me?

Why...

Why...

Is she better than me?

Is she prettier than me?

She's only had several more years of schooling.

She knows how to act pitiful.

What are you saying?

I also don't understand

how we became like this.

I also want to know why I don't love you anymore.

Perhaps it's because...

Because you...

You've never caused my heart to ache for you.

Sorry.

Bai Ge.

Sorry, your call cannot be connected...

Hold on.

Scratching your car is my fault.

But I already apologized.

I hope that you can apologize to us,

because you almost ran into us this morning.

Please tell your girlfriend

that before she becomes the boss's wife,

she should first learn how to respect other people.

You and your girlfriend have already caused me to lose my job.

Your appearances has messed up my life.

I don't know what you guys want.

What else do you want?

Happy birthday.

How is your Mom now?

She should be okay.

She wrote me a letter.

Saying that she'd take medicine every day.

Don't be too worried.

According to my experience, it's just a normal sickness.

She should be fine

as long as she pays attention to her diet.

I came today...

to tell you goodbye.

I'm going to Beijing tomorrow.

I was hoping you'd tell me to stay.

If you tell me to stay,

I will give up this opportunity.

Bai Ge,

about our conversation the other day...

I thought about it seriously.

Do you remember when we were little?

You would always be saving your allowance

to buy me something good to eat.

Buying me soda.

At that time the two of us

would always be eating the same thing.

And there was our neighbor Xiao Xiao. Do you remember?

She would always pick on me.

And you'd always help me take revenge.

Her name was XiaoXiao (Little Bit), but she so big.

You'd beat her black and blue.

Do you know what?

Often when I'm sad

I would think about my childhood.

I don't know why,

but when I think back, it makes me very happy.

Sometimes,

I feel it is better to be a child than adult.

A lot of things have changed.

- Bai Ge. - Yu Qing.

Could you not say anything today?

My flight will leave tomorrow at 3:20.

If you show up,

then it would mean you want me to stay.

If you don't come,

then I will leave Hang Zhou.

Today's soda is your treat for me.

- Don't cry. - I'm not crying.

The little princess will not be pretty if she cries.

I've never thought of myself as a little princess.

I'm back.

What are you looking at?

Let me tell you.

I ran into Bai Ge in front of the school.

He's flying today.

Say something.

What's the matter?

Where are you going?

Passengers for flight CX 100,

please go to Gate 3.

(If a couple's notion of Heaven)

(Is like a heart-warming barrier)

(Imprisoning your dreams)

(Is happiness akin to a metal-barred window?)

(The bird has lost its internal compass for the south)

(If you aspire to travel into the sky)

(And long for a pair of wings)

(Releasing you to soar up high)

(Roses should not accompany your feathered wings)

(Obeying aging properties of time)

Hi!

Are you here to be a band-aid again?

Why? Is there a law

against someone being a band-aid?

Are you still in the mood to play around with words?

Yu Qing just went to the airport to find Bai Ge.

(There is a kind of love called letting go)

(Forsaking a long life of romance for love)

(If us being together made you forsook everything)

(Let true love spirit me away)

(There is a kind of love called letting go)

(Forsaking a long life of romance for love)

(If my departure lets you gain everything)

(Let true love steer me away, and initiate break-up)

(If a couple's notion of Heaven)

(Is like a heart-warming barrier)

(Imprisoning your dreams)

(Is happiness akin to a metal-barred window?)

(The bird has lost its internal compass for the south)

(If you aspire to travel into the sky)

(And long for a pair of wings)

(Releasing you to soar up high)

(Roses should not accompany your feathered wings)

(Obeying aging properties of time)

(If romance has morphed into a leash)

(I'm willing to choose to return to a life of solitude for your sake)

(If lingering touches have morphed into chains)

(It is time to discard the vows)

(There is a kind of love called letting go)

(Forsaking a long life of romance for love)

(If us being together made you forsook everything)

(Let true love spirit me away)

(There is a kind of love called letting go)

(Forsaking a long life of romance for love)

(If my departure lets you gain everything)

(Let true love spirit me away)

(For your sake, I must lose you)

(Cruelly putting on an act to hurt you)

(Leaving you for your sake)

(Leaving without ever letting go)

(There is a kind of love called letting go)

(Forsaking a long life of romance for love)

(If us being together made you forsook everything)

(Let true love spirit me away)

(There is a kind of love called letting go)

(Forsaking a long life of romance for love)

(If my departure lets you gain everything)

(Let true love steer me away, and initiate break-up)

Our families were neighbors since we were young.

After Dad passed away,

Bai Ge treated me very well.

He would take me to and from school on his bike everyday.

If someone bullied me, he would stand up for me.

One time, because he stood up for me

he ended up being punished, by the teacher.

In my heart,

he's like a real brother.

I know this feeling, is different from love.

But knowing that he's leaving today,

I don't know why, I feel really bad.

Do you know what?

You're a special girl.

I don't know why.

You're so different from the girls I used to know.

You care for your family, you're simple and kind.

Girls like you

are very rare. Really.

What does that mean?

No real meaning, I just wanted to praise you.

You saw that I'm feeling down today.

So you said that on purpose to make me feel better?

There's something I want to tell you.

Mimi and I have broken up.

There is nothing between us now.

Is my cap OK?

It's OK, it wouldn't fall.

It feels like it's going to fall.

Fix it.

What about me?

Let's fix that.

Students. Stand in place for the picture. Come on.

Here you stand in the front. Hey, the student over there.

Principle.

Get ready... 1...2...3

We've graduated!

Here, down this.

You drink it all.

I only want a little bit.

I cannot finish this.

I can't take it.

If I drink anymore, I'll jump from here.

Go ahead and jump down from here.

If you jump from here,

you'll make a big hole in the ground.

I'll go on a diet after I'm done drinking.

You're always saying diet, but you just get heavier.

Yu Qing, why is it that I didn't really like this place before?

Everything seemed wrong.

Now that I have to leave, I'm going to miss it.

I agree.

Tomorrow, we'll join the unemployed masses.

Dad wouldn't let me work at our store.

What about you? What are you planning to do?

Starting tomorrow,

I will continue with the interviews and try and find work.

We cannot be beer girls our whole life.

You don't have to worry.

Yan Fei's pursuing you very publicly.

It wouldn't be long

you'll be a lady in the Yan household.

Zhou Yu Qing, you sure are lucky.

Are you drunk?

What nonsense are you talking about.

I'm only telling the truth.

If you marry Yan Fei,

wouldn't you be a lady in the Yan household?

You shouldn't be embarrassed to admit it.

Let me tell you, if I were you,

I would hold on to him and not let go.

No, that's not it.

I'll hug him and not let go.

Then you just hug to your heart's content.

Hug that railing to sleep tonight.

Just keep on hugging it.

Yan Fei, tell me the truth.

Are you serious towards our Yu Qing?

I'm telling you, we'll only take the truth.

If I hit him, would your heart ache?

Of course my heart would ache.

It aches for the railing.

It didn't offend you yet it's going to get a beating from you.

I feel

a lot of people think you and Yan Fei are together

because he is rich.

I know (understand) you.

The Zhou Yu Qing I know is not that kind of person.

- I want to see your CV. - Here it is.

- What's your major? - Hotel management.

How years of work experience?

A year and a half.

That's it for today, we'll contact you.

- Thank you. - Good bye.

Can you please look for me?

I'm going to the restroom. I'll be right back.

- Sure. - Thank you.

Thank you.

Good bye.

Aren't you waiting for me downstairs?

Why are you up here?

I'm just walking around.

- Your friend? - You don't know him.

Don't you have an interview? You should go.

- OK. - I'll wait for you downstairs.

Do well!

Your grades aren't bad.

Appearances are fine.

I have a question for you.

Did you work for the Four Seasons in the past?

That's right.

Can you tell me

why they didn't hire you after the trial period?

Because of an issue with a customer.

But I want to explain that...

Miss Zhou, there is no need to explain.

Miss Zhou. Congratulations.

You have passed our interview.

You can report to work on Monday.

What's the matter? You look upset.

Did the interview not go well?

Don't bother me, OK?

What exactly happened?

Something must have happened.

Did they not hire you? If that's the case...

If that's the case then what?

You're going to find your friend to help me again?

Don't you think doing that was way out of line?

What do you mean out of line?

Zhou Yu Qing.

Why are you so angry? I was just trying to help.

I just wanted to help solve your problem.

That hotel does business with my dad.

- So I... - You call that helping me?

There are some many people out there that needs help.

Why don't you help them? What are you to me?

We are just normal friends.

I know that you can do many things that other people cannot.

I want to solve my own problems.

Are you pitying me?

Zhou Yu Qing. You are mistaken.

I didn't do it because I pity you.

It's true. I want to help you.

But do you know I want to help you?

It's because I love you.

Do you understand now?

Yu Qing. Come on in.

Thank you so much, Professor Cheng.

The slippers are in the shoe cabinet.

- Help yourself. - OK.

OK.

- Here right? - Yes.

Su Juan suddenly had to leave on a business trip.

She'll be back in a couple of days.

Before she left, she told me

I must take really good care of you.

If there is anything you're not satisfied with

she will probably blame me when she comes back.

Professor Cheng,

I'm sorry to disturb you both.

Once I find a place, I'll move right away.

There's no rush. Stay a couple more days.

See. No one is using this room anyways.

You can stay a few more days.

To tell you the truth,

when I heard you were staying here,

I was really happy.

I'm really sorry to be a bother to you.

- Let me. - That's alright.

You can go about your business. I got it.

Okay. You unpack first.

I'll run the water for you.

In a while you can have your bath.

Thank you, Professor Cheng.

These are your two room cards.

Thank you.

Thank you for staying at our hotel.

The elevator is over there.

What do you think? I'm right on time.

I already told you that you didn't have to pick me up.

Today is a special case.

I'm taking you to see someone.

Who?

You'll find out when you get there.

Get it.

Where are we going?

I have a reservation under Yan.

Yes, this way please.

Who do you want to introduce me to?

My mother, she just came back from over seas.

Why didn't you tell me earlier?

If I told you earlier, then you wouldn't have come.

Who said I wouldn't come? I would have prepared for it.

There no need to prepare.

Let's go.

Mom...

Ah, Yu Qing is here.

Auntie. Mommy.

This is the Yu Qing I mentioned to you.

Come and have a seat.

It's fine. Have a seat.

Yan Fei, sitting here are family members.

We are discussing a family matter.

I don't think it is appropriate for an outsider to be here.

Mom, she is not an outsider.

She is my current girlfriend.

You can discuss any family matter here.

So you're not listening to your mother?

What are you going to discuss that can be said in front of Mi Mi,

but not with of Yu Qing?

No one here considers her your girlfriend.

Right now she is my girlfriend.

- Yu Qing. We're leaving. - Yan Fei.

We are discussing Mimi's and your engagement,

so you must stay.

Everyone, please have your conversation.

I'm leaving now.

- Yu Qing, it's nothing. - You stay put!

I'll go see.

Zhou Yu Qing.

What's the matter? Cannot take it anymore?

Let me tell you.

We are not on the same level.

Yan Fei doesn't love you. He's just playing with you.

You just don't know Yan Fei at all.

It doesn't matter.

I have a lot to time to get to know him.

I'm warning you to stay away from him.

Otherwise you will regret it.

Whether or not I see Yan Fei is our business.