Episode 17
Shen Zhen lied to me.
Hello?
Ye Miao,
where are you?
What do you care?
Shen Zhen said you were playing basketball.
Are you nuts?
Or did Shen Zhen lie to me?
She wasn't lying.
I was playing basketball a while ago.
Now I've left.
What,
you worried about me?
Enough already,
where are you?
Sports section, building C.
What is it?
Wait for me.
Ye Miao.
You need to rest with your arm injuries,
why did you climb this high
and played basketball,
are you crazy?
Get down here, right now.
Will it get dark when the sun is setting
Will I find the starlight
When I'm lost, at the loneliest moment
Thanks to you for being there for me
When my sky turns dark
Looking for the starlight that's guarding me
When I turn around looking
For the most beautiful wish I had
Only to discover
Xia, Xia, Xia...
You, you, you...
Stop talking.
I love you like mountains and oceans
It's brighter than the stars in the sky
It's guiding the path for me
Will there be a storm on the way
I'm not afraid
Because you're here
Giving me the warmth and strength I need
Ye Miao.
Ye Miao, what's happening to you?
Chen Mo.
Bro, do you guys have...
Chen Mo.
Sorry to bother you.
It's dreamy.
Chen Mo.
So dreamy.
Tonight is the preview
before the official performance.
Municipal publicity department,
leaders of our institute,
our university,
and the chief director of the TV station will all be here.
So please, everyone,
look as sharp as you can possibly be.
I've seen the venue for our performance.
It's a huge outdoor stage
where they normally host concerts.
Therefore,
everyone who's not on the show,
you have a task as well.
Applause.
Right,
remember to take your seats dispersedly,
cover every corner.
You gotta lead all the audience at the scene,
giving rounds of big applause,
and make it look like they're spontaneous,
do you understand?
Besides, pay attention to
your facial expressions,
They need to be expressive.
You have to give them the impression that says,
Wow! What a great show!
Wow! Can't get enough of these events!
Do you understand?
Yes, yes.
Yes.
I know how to be a plant.
Xia Ruining.
Spit it out,
did something happen?
Director Li.
Exaggerated facial expressions.
Hello, director Li.
Hello everyone.
Xia Ruining.
Director Li.
The principal of central elementary school in Taoli Town
just called the university,
said thank you for donating
forty sets of costume for the show.
We commend such civic-minded energy,
keep up.
Director Li,
Ye Miao is the one paid for the costumes.
He should get the credit.
Your idea, his money,
why does it sound like a perfect match?
How marvelous!
Alright, alright.
This is not that big of a deal,
no need to be too modest about it.
Just keep up.
Keep practicing!
Break a leg in tonight's
performance!
OK! OK!
You ask her, you ask her.
Ruining,
I heard the both of you went to Taoli town.
Did you go together?
No, wait,
do you two have a secret
we don't know about?
No, we really don't.
Don't imagine things.
Alright.
Let's get ready.
Everyone on the show,
go to the dressing room.
OK.
OK, OK.
Let's go get ready.
Yeah, let's move.
Where's Ye Miao?
Go do our makeup.
I don't know.
I don't know where he went.
Xia Ruining,
don't you lie to me.
What stage are you two on right now?
Love confession?
Confession?
Not really.
But,
it kinda was.
Well, maybe.
This Ye Miao,
where did he go?
Speak up,
I wanna hear it!
What do you wanna hear?
Stop poking.
What about you?
How's it going with that dork Chen Mo?
Give him this for me.
What is it?
Tremella soup I made, in the dorm room.
I didn't know you could cook, Lu Huahua.
You made this,
why don't you give it to him yourself?
I'm a girl.
I can't be that forward.
This is the time when I need a wingman,
which is you.
Me?
You'll tell him properly,
and make it very clear that
how serious, how tired I was and how dangerous it was
to make soup in the dorm room.
You know the drill.
I can't say those things myself of course.
That's why,
Xia Ruining,
what are friends for?
You got this, friend!
Bah!
Lighting for you comes from here,
for Ye Lin, comes from there.
Then after, you...
Xia Ruining, come here.
What is it?
You are an audience,
don't make it a habit coming to the backstage.
Fang Yuan,
I'm just looking for someone here.
Since when did the backstage become a restricted area?
It's okay to come look for someone,
you're not dropping by the prop room,
are you?
What do you mean?
The investigation didn't come to a conclusion,
but we have to be ware of certain vile behaviors
such as hurting other students.
Fang Yuan,
I didn't do that.
How many times do I need to repeat myself?
You don't have to tell me.
I have no rights
nor obligations to listen.
Some important people are helping you alright.
You can even go to Taoli town to do a good deed
while you were in suspension.
It's so nice to have wealthy connections
supporting you.
You say the most curious thing.
It's only forty sets of costume,
I didn't need anyone's help with that.
But it's you.
It's perfectly normal
for you to over-think everything.
Xia Ruining, what do you mean?
I mean whatever you meant.
You didn't get it?
Shen Zhen,
you're good at studying,
do you wanna explain it for her?
Chen Mo!
Fang Yuan,
forty sets of costume might not be much
for some people.
They have a wealthy family, after all.
Right.
The Xia family is wealthy,
the Ye family is wealthy too.
But this is not exactly something to be proud of.
Xia Ruining,
it's your parents' money.
You haven't earned a penny yourself.
Spending your family's money to buy yourself goodwill
is not worth mentioning.
And you bought it with the money from other people's parents.
How gracious of you!
Fang Yuan,
how does forty sets of costume qualify as a huge sum?
What is this fuss you made about?
Not a huge sum?
Right,
for rich people,
it sure isn't.
No, wait,
for a spendthrift,
it isn't.
A spendthrift?
Obviously.
Fang Yuan,
what if I can earn enough money
for the forty sets of costume?
Ruinig,
don't start an argument you can't win.
Forty sets of costume,
I'm not sure about the exact amount of money,
but they at least would cost a thousand.
How hard it is for you
to earn yourself?
Right.
Zip it if you can't do it.
Everyone knows how to talk big.
This is big?
What if I do it,
what happens then?
If you make one thousand yourself,
remember the slap I gave you before?
You can slap me back.
It has been bothering you after all.
Sure.
But a wager goes both ways,
Xia Ruining.
What if you can't do it?
If I can't,
Shen Zhen,
you can slap me again.
Fine.
A deal is a deal.
Chen Mo,
Huahua asked me to give this to you.
She had never set foot in a kitchen before.
But she made this in the dorm room
risking her tools being confiscated.
Take this.
In order to make this soup,
she worked hard and tired.
But she felt happy.
You take this,
my job here is done.
A deal is a deal.
That's how it happened.
Besides, you gotta brace yourself.
Fang Yuan has already spread the word
about the wager.
And the story now have many different versions
throughout circulation.
For instance, version one says
if Xia Ruining makes ten thousand,
she could push Shen Zhen
off the roof.
Version two says,
if Xia Ruining makes fifty thousand,
Shen Zhen will jump off a roof herself.
In version three,
if Xia Ruining makes a hundred thousand,
Shen Zhen will stomp the prop ladder to pieces
in front our college president,
then jump off a roof.
Of course,
if she doesn't make that much money,
you can replace the victims in all three previous versions
with Xia Ruining.
Alright, I see.
Thanks.
Sir,
are you getting roses for your girlfriend?
What's the occasion?
Tell me,
maybe I can make a recommendation.
It's for...
confessing my feelings to her.
These will do.
This bouquet is in full bloom.
But is it a little too cheesy?
I often saw it on movies or TV,
everyone buys roses.
Here,
this one,
see?
How about balloon flower?
Balloon flower?
Does it have any implied meaning?
Yeah.
To love and protect,
eternally.
You know a lot.
No wonder you work here.
Not me,
a guest came this afternoon for this flower,
he told me.
OK,
I'll take these.
OK.
This is exquisite.
Yeah.
Ye Lin.
The materials are good too.
Yeah.
So firm.
The prop group sure did good.
You don't say.
Did you see ?
The decorative patterns on it...
Where did she go?
Ye Lin,
how would I know where she went?
Just so you know,
I didn't make her take the bet.
She did that willingly.
Or is it that you're afraid
she will lose?
You're afraid that I get to slap her again in public?
She won't lose.
Where are you?
Where should I go if you don't give me the specifics?
I'm at the gourmet street,
just go in for like three or five hundred meters.
Are you close, Ye Miao?
Hello?
Ye Miao?
You...
What...
What are you doing here?
Making lamb skewers.
Isn't this obvious?
There's no way you haven't heard about my wager with Shen Zhen.
Where did you get the oven?
I borrowed it, if you believe it.
No I don't.
I rented it.
The owner rented it to me.
But I haven't paid yet,
we agreed on sharing the profits.
How about it?
The oven,
the lamb,
and the condiments,