Summary of MG2 Episode 19: 

It is late at night and San Cai is dragging herself into her room looking very tired. She plops herself down on the bed with a big sigh of relieve. As she is laying there resting, her cell phone starts ringing. She reaches for her bag and taking her cell phone out, answers it. 

San Cai (with a very tired voice): “Hello?” 

Mimi: “San Cai Senior. I am your schoolmate at Ying De, Mimi.” 

With her eyes half closed, San Cai asks confusedly, “Mimi?” 

Mimi: “Senior, please agree to let me interview you.” 

San Cai: “What interview?” 

Mimi: “Senior, I am already in front of your house now. Is now a good time?” 

San Cai: “Huh? Now?” 

 

In San Cai's room, sitting on San Cai’s bed, Mimi takes out her pen and a tape recorder. San Cai brings in a glass of water for her to drink.

San Cai (setting the glass down on the table): “Here.”

Mimi: “Senior, let’s get started now.”

San Cai slowly sits down on the bed next to Mimi.

San Cai: “Wait a minute, Mimi. Exactly why are you interviewing me?” 

Mimi: “San Cai Senior. Qing He Senior is someone that I really, really like. So, I am very enthusiastic in trying hard to make him like me. San Cai Senior and Qing He Senior are the best of friends. (San Cai starts rubbing her neck because she is so tired.) So I wish that Senior can guide and tell me all about Senior’s hobbies and habits.” 

San Cai takes off her hair band to let down her hair and smiles at Mimi. 

San Cai: “Mimi, you are so straight forward.” 

Mimi: “Qing He Senior doesn't like straight forward girls?” 

San Cai: “No. No. What I meant is that I like your straight forward personality.” 

Mimi looks up the ceiling and speaking almost only to herself, “If San Cai Senior likes it, then Qing He Senior will definitely like it too. This way, I am even more confident. Because in Qing He Senior’s heart, San Cai Senior is the most perfect. (San Cai takes her tucked shirt out of the waist band of her skirt.) So, Senior, please agree to let me use you as a model for me to mimic.”

San Cai: “Mimic? Mimi, each person has their own good points, you don't have to mimic someone else. There’s no meaning this way.” 

Mimi (looking up toward the ceiling again): “Of course there will be meaning. Senior, to be honest, this is my first time to take the initiative to like a guy. (San Cai is listening with her eyes close.) This feeling is very good. Just as long as I can see Qing He Senior at school every day, then that is the luckiest/happiest moment for me.” 

San Cai smiles tiredly at her.

Mimi: “Even though Senior, doesn't like me now. (San Cai starts to slowly lie down on the bed.) But as long as I can be beside him, then I will have a chance to show Senior my feelings. So, from now on, each day of my life is full of meaning.” 

Mimi lies down on her side next to San Cai on the bed. San Cai smiles and flips over on her back. 

San Cai: “Mimi, won't you feel tired?” 

Mimi: “No. Not one bit. (She moves over on her back too.) I have been putting all my feelings of love in my heart very seriously. Everything I am doing now, Senior will definitely be touched one day.” 

San Cai (eyes closed): “Yes… Definitely. One day, he will definitely be touched by you.”

San Cai turns her face to the other side. 

Mimi (looks over at San Cai, smiles and then closes her eyes): “Senior, my dad said, a girl like you who is willing to help out a friend of the same gender, then she must be a good hearted girl. So, you would definitely get happiness.” 

Mimi turns her face to the other side and they both fell asleep. 

 

Next morning Mimi wakes up in San Cai’s bed, confused. 

Mimi (looks around the room with eyes half open): “Huh? What is this place?” 

She looks around some more and remembers. 

Mimi: “Oh...” 

Mimi (she sits to the side of the bed): “Eh… where is San Cai Senior?” 

 

At the entrance of the office, San Cai is scanning her work id on the scanner. There are lots of other people coming into work too. 

San Cai (rushing): “Almost late. If I knew this would be the case, then I wouldn’t have talked with Mimi last night.” 

Then San Cai hurriedly runs up the stairs. 

 

When lunch time comes, San Cai is at the fast food restaurant, Subway. She carries her tray of food and sits down at a table next to the window. As she was unwrapping the sandwich, Dao Ming Si is outside the window looking in, but doesn’t see San Cai. San Cai looks up and sees him looking in and then walking away. San Cai, seeing him walk away, just goes back to eating her lunch. As she was eating her sandwich, a guy comes up to her from behind.

Guy: “Sorry. Is there someone sitting here?”

San Cai (chewing, shakes her head): “No.” 

San Cai looks up and sees that it is Dao Ming Si. Dao Ming Si sees her, sits down in the seat across from San Cai and smiles. 

Dao Ming Si: “What a coincident.” 

San Cai: “Right. What a coincident.” 

Dao Ming Si starts to unwrap his sandwich and San Cai looks over at him.

San Cai: “I never thought that you would eat this too.” 

Dao Ming Si (looks around): “Isn't everybody else here eating the same thing?” 

San Cai looks around, smiles and takes a bite out of her sandwich. 

Dao Ming Si looks over at San Cai and smiles. 

Dao Ming Si (smiling): “Your mouth…” 

San Cai wipes the corner of her mouth with her finger and then quickly grabs a napkin to wipe her mouth. 

Dao Ming Si (staring at the mustard bottle): “Adding this tastes better?” 

San Cai: “Mustard?” 

Dao Ming Si (still staring): “Yeah.” 

San Cai: “Yes. Before you eat a sub, you have to add mustard.”

Dao Ming Si: “Oh. (He picks the bottle of mustard up and looks at it.) Really?” 

San Cai nods her head.

Dao Ming Si squeezes some mustard on his sub and San Cai is watching him. 

San Cai: “That's not enough.” 

Dao Ming Si: “Huh?”

San Cai: “Add some more.” 

Dao Ming Si squeezes some more with San Cai still watching him. Then she takes the bottle from his hands and helps Dao Ming Si put more on. 

Dao Ming Si (looking at the amount of mustard she is putting on his sub): “Add this much?” 

San Cai (taking the bottle away): “It tastes very good. Try it and see.” 

Dao Ming Si takes a bite and chews while San Cai waits for his reaction. 

Dao Ming Si (nods his head): “It’s true.” 

San Cai (smiles): “See, I didn't lie to you.” 

San Cai takes another bite of her sub.

Dao Ming Si (takes a sip of his soda): “Work is going well?” 

San Cai: “Ok. Except that I am a little dumb. I have to work really late every day in order to finish the job.” 

Dao Ming Si: “It is better when you have something to do. (He takes a bite of his sub.) Not like me. I go to the office every day and don’t know what to do. If it’s not looking at presentations then it’s continuously signing names. So, sometimes, when I really can’t stand to sit anymore, I would go to the roof top and take some fresh air.”

Dao Ming Si takes another bite of his sub.

San Cai: “You really feel that to have work to do is better? (Dao Ming Si nods his head with his mouth full.) If it was the past, you would...”

Dao Ming Si stops chewing and San Cai stops her sentence. She looks away and there was silence at the table. Then San Cai continues.

San Cai: “Because you are a manager, so of course, you would do work related with decision making. Like me, I would always only be in zhong gong chu’s warehouse, checking inventory. I have been checking a whole morning and I still haven't went through 1/5 of it. My neck is going to break soon.” 

Dao Ming Si (smiles): “Then you rest and continue doing it tomorrow.”

He takes a sip of his soda. 

San Cai (shakes her head): “I can't. I have to finish checking today. And show it to the Manager early tomorrow morning.”

Dao Ming Si: “There’s no one helping you?” 

San Cai taking a sip of soda, shakes her head. 

San Cai: “Everybody is busy with their own work.” 

Dao Ming Si takes a bite of his sub, chewing slowly, and thinking.

Dao Ming Si: “I’ll help you.” 

San Cai (startled, but happy): “You’re helping me?” 

Dao Ming Si chewing, nods his head happily. 

San Cai (smiling): “Thanks.”

Dao Ming Si just smiles and grabs the bottle of mustard to add more to his sub. San Cai is sipping her soda with a smile on her face the whole time. 

 

After lunch, Dao Ming Si and San Cai walks into the storage room area. Dao Ming Si is looking at all the files while unbuttoning his cuff buttons.

San Cai (pointing to the end of the room): “We’ll start from that side.”

Dao Ming Si walks over to the files, pulling up his sleeves on both arms. San Cai stood there staring at him with a happy smile on her face. Then she slowly walks over to him, unbuttoning her cuff buttons also.

Dao Ming Si (points to a box up top): “That one?”

San Cai nods her head. He brings it down and they look through it. 

Next, Dao Ming Si is standing on a climb ladder and reading numbers on the files while San Cai takes note of them on the paper on her clip board. An English song is being played as the next couple of scenes are shown. One scene shows Dao Ming Si carrying three small boxes in his arms and then sneezes, causing a cloud of dust to fly off from the top box that he is carrying. San Cai sees him and hands him a tissue for him to wipe his nose. Dao Ming Si takes the tissue from her hands and San Cai looks away smiling shyly. She then walks away with Dao Ming Si staring at her back. Another scene shows San Cai standing on the ladder looking at the boxes up on top, then when she’s done, she slowly climbs back down. Dao Ming Si sees that she is having trouble so he holds out his hand to her for her to hold onto. San Cai stares at his hand for a few seconds, then smiles and takes it to step down from the ladder. Then working in different aisles in the storage area, Dao Ming Si looks at San Cai through the little gap between the files. And when Dao Ming Si is not looking, San Cai turns around to sneak a peak at him too.  

 

Meanwhile, Ye Sha is walking on the street all by herself and a man in a suit is following her with a newspaper in his hand and wearing sunglasses. As Ye Sha is walking, she feels that someone is following her. So continuing to walk, she stops to one side and pretends to look at something. Then she quickly turns around to look at the man. The man, being caught off guard, quickly turns around with his back to Ye Sha. Then he turns to his side and opens up the newspaper and pretends to be reading. At that time, Ye Sha starts to walk off slowly and then breaks into a run. The man turns back to find her missing so he quickly walks after her. Just when the man is frantically searching for Ye Sha, she steps out from behind him. He sees her standing there and knew that he had failed his job. 

Ye Sha: “Let’s make a deal, ok?”

The guy nods his head at her.

Ye Sha: “I promise that I will not escape. When the time is right, then I’ll go back to the cold palace. And I won’t tell her (referring to Dao Ming Feng) the secret that’s between us. So, starting from today, you can live your life and I can walk my streets. Can you stop following me, ok?” 

The man looks at her and then shakes his head. Ye Sha looks a little annoyed. 

Ye Sha: “You’re not treating me as friend?” 

Man: “I’m sorry, Miss Ye Sha. This is my responsibility.”

Ye Sha takes a deep breath and gives him a big smile. 

Ye Sha: “I understand. You are a good person who takes his job seriously. Ok then, when you get tired, tell me, and we can go back to the cold palace, Ok?”

Ye Sha didn’t wait for him to answer and turned to continue walking. All of a sudden she turns around to face the man. 

Ye Sha (holding up a cracker wrapper): “First, can you throw this away for me?” 

The man takes it and looks around for a garbage can. At this moment, Ye Sha quickly runs as fast as she can to get away from the man. The man sees her running away and runs after her while calling out, “Miss Ye Sha! Miss Ye Sha!”

After running for quite a bit with the guy following her, Ye Sha bumps into Da Xin on a bike and almost collided with him. Da Xin stops his bike in time to avoid running her down and sees that it is Ye Sha.

Ye Sha / Da Xin (points to each other): “Aren’t you…” 

Ye Sha (rushing): “Hurry, hurry up. He’s chasing me.”

Da Xin quickly gets off the bike and turns it around while Ye Sha hops after him frantically.

Da Xin: “Who is he?” 

Da Xin quickly gets on his bike and calls out to Ye Sha.

Da Xin: “Get on first. Hurry up and get on.”

Ye Sha jumps on to the back of Da Xin’s bike and Da Xin quickly peddles off, while the man is still running after them yelling, “Miss Ye Sha! Miss Ye Sha!”

The man chases them around a corner and thinks he has lost them, when all of a sudden, Da Xin charges up from the right side with his bike yelling, “AHHHHHH!”

The man seeing Da Xin coming after him with the bike also started yelling, “AHHHHHH!”

But Da Xin just stops in front of him and raises his leg to kick the man to the ground. The guy went flying backwards with arms flapping.

Da Xin (yelling out): “YE SHA!”

Ye Sha runs out from behind and quickly gets on Da Xin's bike again and he starts peddling very fast again. The guy gets up from the ground and starts chasing behind them again. 

Man (yelling): “MISS YE SHA! MISS YE SHA!” 

Ye Sha (calling out from the bike): “I will go back to the cold palace by myself!” 

 

Da Xin brings Ye Sha to the Orange café. Ye Sha is sitting at a table sipping a drink when Da Xin brings her a sandwich on a plate and places it on the table in front of her and then sits down.

Da Xin: “Then you’re saying that the guy isn't here to kidnap you but to protect you? (Ye Sha doesn’t answer and just takes a bite of her sandwich.) And we just treated him like that, don't you think that’s a little cruel?” 

Ye Sha: “Why do I need someone to protect me? Think about it. No matter where you go, there is always someone following you, watching you, don’t you feel that it’s very annoying?” 

Da Xin: “If it is a beautiful girl… then I don’t think I will.” 

Yi Ling (smiles): “It’s true. When we saw the news about you guys’ engagement, we had quite a shock. Who would known that Ah Xing is such a big shot! No wonder he can't even fry an egg.”

Ye Sha: “It was a good thing that you guys were good people. Or else who would have hired someone that can't even fry an egg? (pause) Hey, are you guys short on workers here recently? Anyway, I don’t have anything to do everyday. I can come work here!” 

Everybody was silent and looking very solemn. Ah Lun, who was standing up and wiping the dishes, suddenly pulls up a chair and sits down.

Ah Lun: “We are… only working until the end of this month.” 

Ye Sha: “Why? Isn't your business doing very good?” 

Yi Ling: “It’s because the business is doing too good, that is why the owner of the property decides to take it back and run the business himself.” 

Ye Sha: “Oh. Then where will you guys move to?” 

Da Xin: “Well, I was just out before looking for a place. But then I ran into you. At first, we thought that we could set out within these 2 years. Who would have known that something like this would happen.”

Da Xin sighs loudly as he continues to fix the bubble tea straws. 

Yi Ling: “Anyway, since we can’t get enough now, then it doesn’t matter. We will first go to travel around the island. Things will all work out in the end, right?”

Da Xin: “Right. Hey, before our travel around the world, we can have a travel around the island and take a look around Taiwan. That’s not bad right?”

Ah Lun: “Right.” 

 

Back in the storage room area, Dao Ming Si and San Cai are still working. Dao Ming Si is standing on a ladder looking at the files on the top shelf. San Cai checks her watch and notices that it was 5:00 p.m. already.

San Cai (looking up at Dao Ming Si): “It is 5 p.m. already. Dao Ming Si, you have to get off from work.” 

Dao Ming Si (looking down): “Huh? That quick? Then what are going to do all by yourself?” 

San Cai: “Doesn't matter, there only a little more left.”

Dao Ming Si: “Are you sure you’re ok?” 

San Cai nods her head at him. So Dao Ming Si puts the file that he was holding in his hand back. Just as Dao Ming Si is getting reading to climb down the ladder, he suddenly experiences pain in his head. He loses his balance and falls back off the ladder to the floor.

San Cai (calling out): “Dao Ming Si!”

But as he was falling he pulled the ladder with him and got it out of balance too. It just so happens that the ladder falls on San Cai's back and knocks San Cai to the floor. Dao Ming Si is sitting on the ground and saw the ladder falling on San Cai. His face was in complete shock. He gets up, still kneeling on the floor. San Cai pushes the ladder away from her and tried to get up.

San Cai (face in pain, but still concerned about Dao Ming Si, calls out): “Dao Ming Si.”

At this moment, Dao Ming Si has a flashback of the scene from MG1 when San Cai was kidnapped. He saw the scene where she ran up to shield him from the chair that was about to be bashed on him. Dao Ming Si falls back to the ground, his face in pain and his left hand shielding his head. San Cai stood up and tries to run over to him.

San Cai: “Dao Ming Si.”

Dao Ming Si (shouts in pain): “Don’t come over!”

He puts his head down on his arm and hides his face. San Cai stops in her tracks and kneels down on the floor.

San Cai (with a worried look): “Ok. Ok. I won't go over. Just relax. I’m not going over.”

San Cai starts backing away and then stops, watching Dao Ming Si and rubbing her left arm where the ladder fell on her. Dao Ming Si is sitting in the corner, his face filled with pain and both his hands are holding his head. San Cai looks over worriedly at him while her own arm is hurting her.  

After who knows how long have passed, Dao Ming Si doesn’t seem to be in pain anymore. But he is still sitting bunched up in the corner, with San Cai sitting a few feet away. Dao Ming Si looks up calmly and looks over at San Cai.

Dao Ming Si: “Just before… Sorry.” 

San Cai: “No problem. (pause) Can I ask you what happened?” 

Dao Ming Si: “It’s only... it's only a headache. (pause) It’s probably the side affect of the car crash.” 

San Cai: “Does it always hurt like that often?” 

Dao Ming Si (hesitantly): “It’s ok. Just that sometimes… in my head… (pause) there would be some weird… scenes… and then my head would suddenly start hurting.”  

San Cai: “Sorry. It must be that you worked too much today.” 

Dao Ming Si: “No. (pause) San Cai.”

San Cai (looks up): “Hm?”

Dao Ming Si (slowly): “Did you ever… (long pause) save me?” 

San Cai (face lights up with happiness): “You remember?” 

Dao Ming Si: “No. It is just that before...” 

Dao Ming Si pauses and thinks of the things he sees in his mind. 

Dao Ming Si: “The feeling before was very familiar. (San Cai’s smile is gone from her face.) When you were held down under by the ladder... that… that picture… (pause) it seems like I have seen it before... It was like a... (pause, looking at San Cai) a chair.” 

San Cai (excited): “Right! Right! Right! Because at that time I was kidnapped. They wanted to use me to blackmail you. At this time we were at a very, very old warehouse. They were hitting you and tormenting you right in front of me. You were injured very badly then, but you didn't resist at all. Because… you were afraid that they would hurt me. (Dao Ming Si starts to look like he is in pain again.) But because you didn’t struggle or resist, they got even more angry. In the end, they picked up a chair and...” 

Dao Ming Si (interrupting, in pain again): “Stop talking!” 

San Cai: “You remember! Did you remember?” 

Dao Ming Si (shakes his head): “No, no, no.” 

San Cai: “Just think carefully. I beg you, Dao Ming Si.” 

Dao Ming Si just sits at his corner and thinks. He looks up and he gets frustrated and angry. He quickly gets up on his feet using the side of the drawers for help.

Dao Ming Si (looking at San Cai): “San Cai, I... sorry.” 

Dao Ming Si then quickly walks past San Cai, towards the door. San Cai kneels there not moving until after Dao Ming Si walks by her. Then she stands up and calls out to his back.

San Cai: “You don’t have to say sorry to me.”

Dao Ming Si stops walking and stood there listening to her.

San Cai: “Tell me that there is actually a spot somewhere in your heart that have been yearning for the past, right?”

Dao Ming Si doesn’t answer.

San Cai: “Right, Dao Ming Si?”

He frowns and then shakes his head. 

Dao Ming Si: “I really don't know. (pause) Losing this past, I have already become another person. (pause) Even if I find this past, then what kind of person will I become? And how will I go about adapting to this new me? (pause) Which one of you can tell me?” 

There is silence for a few seconds. San Cai doesn’t answer. She just lowers her head and looks down at the floor, while Dao Ming Si is waiting. 

Dao Ming Si (smiled bitterly): “Even you don't know, right? (pause) This is my own problem, none of you can help me.” 

Then Dao Ming Si opens the door and walks out. San Cai just stood there and looks at DM as he leaves. San Cai (thinking to herself): “Dao Ming Si has such great pressure. He actually is very frightened in his heart. Why am I so selfish? Only wanting him to remember something and never considered his feelings. Even if Dao Ming Si can not remember anything, he is still Dao Ming Si. So, from now on, the one I should face is the present Dao Ming Si.” 

 

That night, in the front door of Dao Ming Si's mansion, Dao Ming Feng is standing there with her arms crossed. The man that was following Ye Sha is standing in front of her with his head bowed down. Yu Tian walks quickly up to Dao Ming Feng from behind.

Yu Tian: “Madam.” 

Dao Ming Feng: “Is there any news?” 

Yu Tian: “Still not.” 

Dao Ming Feng doesn't saying anything and angrily walks away while Yu Tian and the man follows behind her. 

 

At the long drive way, full of trees on both sides, to the Dao Ming mansion, Ye Sha is slowly walking back by herself. Suddenly Dao Ming Si walks out from behind some trees and stood there facing Ye Sha with both his hands inside his pant pockets. Ye Sha stops and looks at him.  

Ye Sha: “What are you standing here for?” 

Dao Ming Si: “What do you think?” 

Ye Sha looks annoyed.

Ye Sha: “I hate people who interferes with me. Minding me going east, going west. Scolding at me early this, late that, etc.” 

Dao Ming Si: “I didn’t say anything. (pause) I am only waiting for you.” 

Ye Sha: “Then why can’t you wait in the house? It’s raining.” 

Dao Ming Si: “Then how much longer are you going to stand here?” 

Ye Sha takes a deep breath, smiles at him and then walks over to where he is standing.

Ye Sha (looking at Dao Ming Si’s smiling face): “Let’s go.”

He turns around to walk back and Ye Sha follows behind him. They walked for a few steps, before Ye Sha started running and then Dao Ming Si runs after her. They run into the house with Ye Sha giggling and Dao Ming Si smiling.  

Dao Ming Feng and Yu Tian are standing aside waiting for them. When Ye Sha sees her, she stops giggling. Dao Ming Feng: “Why didn't you call someone and have them pick you up? Look at you all wet. Yu Tian.”

Yu Tian: “Yes.”

Dao Ming Feng: “Tell the servant to prepare some hot water for Ye Sha and Master to take a hot bath.” 

Yu Tian: “Yes, Madam.” 

Yu Tian leaves to do as he was told. Ye Sha slowly walks over to Dao Ming Feng.

Ye Sha: “Thanks for your good intention for having someone to always following me. But I am born liking freedom. You can stop the trouble of all the arrangements.” 

Ye Sha (walking behind Dao Ming Feng): “Or else... Ah Si knows my temper." 

Behind Dao Ming Feng, Ye Sha smiles at Dao Ming Si and then walks away. Dao Ming Feng just stood there after Ye Sha left. Dao Ming Si slowly walks over to her.

Dao Ming Si: “Why are you telling someone to follow Ye Sha for?” 

Dao Ming Feng: “I am only concerned for her safety. She is after all a princess. Having a bodyguard with her when she is outside in case of what ifs, is there something wrong with that?”

Dao Ming Si: “Maybe you are right, but please don't do this in the future again. Unless you want to make Ye Sha go away.” 

Dao Ming Si walks away, leaving Dao Ming Feng standing there. 

 

In Ye Sha's room, Ye Sha comes out of the bathroom toweling her hair. She walks over to the dresser and sees a pair of coconut lanterns there. She looks at it and giggles. Just then her cell phone rings, but instead of a music ring tone, the ring tone that came out of the cell phone is the voice of Dao Ming Si calling out, “Brave Ye Sha, brave Ye Sha." Realizing that it was her cell phone that was making that noise, she looks at it and starts laughing.

Ye Sha: “Hello?”

Dao Ming Si (in his room): “Hello? Do you like your new bodyguard?” 

Ye Sha (smiling): “This is way cuter!” 

Dao Ming Si: “What fun place did you go to today?” 

Ye Sha: “What about you?” 

Dao Ming Si: “Hey, I asked you first.” 

Ye Sha: “If you don't say it, then I won't say it either.” 

Dao Ming Si: “You... why are you so hateful? (pause) I was very busy today. I was helping San Cai in the warehouse all day today.” 

Ye Sha's smile fades away. 

Ye Sha: “O... my friend is really nice, right?” 

Dao Ming Si: “She? She is way cuter than you.” 

Ye Sha: “Your friend is quite good also.” 

Dao Ming Si: “Huh? My friend?” 

Ye Sha: “Da Xin them. I ran into Da Xin today on the street today. He’s the one that helped me get free from the person that your mom sent.”

Dao Ming Si (smiles): “O...... You saw them? Well, did they treat you to lunch?” 

 

Dao Ming Si and Ye Sha are in there bathrobes eating together in the dinning room. 

Dao Ming Si: “The breakfast cafe is closing?”

Ye Sha nods her head.

Dao Ming Si: “Then what is Da Xin and them going to do?” 

Ye Sha: “I don't know. I also want to help them. But... How do you think we should help?” 

Dao Ming Si (chewing and thinking): “Why don't we buy that place for them?” 

Ye Sha: “Good is good, but they really love traveling. I have an idea.”  

Dao Ming Si: “What kind of bad idea?” 

Ye Sha: “What bad idea? It's a good idea. I feel that we should give them a breakfast van.”

Dao Ming Si (picking up a some food with his chopstick): “Breakfast van?” 

Ye Sha (nods her head): “Then they can make their money doing business while they travel around.”

Dao Ming Si thinks for a few seconds. 

Dao Ming Si: “It sounds like a good idea.” 

Ye Sha: “Yes. Oh, you still haven't told me what fun stuff you and San Cai have played today.” 

Dao Ming Si: “Nothing. What’s so fun about fixing up a warehouse?” 

Ye Sha: “San Cai is such a fun person. Doing whatever with her would be fun.”

Dao Ming Si is quiet for a few seconds and looks around. He looks over at Ye Sha and Ye Sha is quiet and looks away.

Dao Ming Si (still looking at her): “Ye Sha. (pause) Did San Cai say anything to you?” 

Ye Sha: “What? (pause) What is she suppose to tell me?” 

Dao Ming Si (looks away): “Nothing. I am just saying… ever since I met San Cai, why did you go away?” 

Ye Sha: “That's a coincident. My dad just found out about my whereabouts.”

Dao Ming Si (thinks for a few seconds, then nods his head): “Oh.” 

Ye Sha (looking at him): “Why are you a little weird? Are you hiding some secrets?” 

Dao Ming Si: “Me? No.”

He looks away and picks up some food with his chopstick.

Dao Ming Si (putting the food in his mouth): “Are you crazy? (he chews) Hey, this tastes very good. Really.”

He gets some more with his chopsticks.

Ye Sha: “I think you should be around San Cai more often.” 

Dao Ming Si (looks over at her): “Why?” 

Ye Sha: “Being with old friends that you use to know, what’s wrong with that?”

Dao Ming Si: “Eh, then I think you should also meet my old friends too. Like Mei Zuo, Lei. (puts his chopsticks down) Eh, tomorrow this Xi Men has a celebration party for his project's success. I’ll bring you to introduce them to you, ok?”

Ye Sha picks up some food with her chopstick and asks, “What’s this?”

Dao Ming Si picks up his chopsticks again and looks at what Ye Sha is holding with her chopsticks.

Dao Ming Si: “That’s taro. It’s very good.”

Dao Ming Si (picking food with his chopsticks and eating): “Hey, you still haven't answer. How about it?” 

Ye Sha just smiles at him. 

Dao Ming Si: “What?”

Ye Sha: “What what?”

Dao Ming Si (stares at her): “You didn't say yes.” 

Ye Sha (smiling): “Yes. (whisper) How ferocious.” 

 

San Cai is walking home on the streets. She is holding many files in her hands and as she was walking, some of them fall to the ground, so she bends down to pick them up. After she picks them up, her cell phone starts ringing.  

San Cai: “Hello? Xi Men? (pause) Yup, I just finished work. (pause) Celebration party? (pause) Are you saying tomorrow night? (pause) Ok, ok. Where is it? Ok. (pause) Ok. Bye bye.”

San Cai hangs up and continues walking home. 

 

Dao Ming Si is in his room on his bed holding his cell phone and staring at it. He is thinking of something and it seems like he wanted to call someone but not sure if he should. 

 

In Ye Sha’s room, she is lying on her bed also thinking of something when her cell phone rings. She picks it up and looks at the caller ID. After seeing who the caller was, Ye Sha is annoyed and sucks her teeth. Then she puts the phone on the bed and picks up a pillow to cover her head. 

 

Next morning, Ye Sha is sitting on the sofa staring out at nothing. Two servants came in, each holding a box with their hands. 

Servants: “Good morning, Miss Ye Sha.” 

Ye Sha turns around and looks at them. 

Ye Sha: “What are those for?” 

Servant: “These are the clothes and shoes that Madam told us to give to you.” 

The two servants left the boxes on the coffee table, bows and then walks away.

Ye Sha turns back with an annoyed face and goes back to her staring. At this moment, Dao Ming Feng walks into the room.

Dao Ming Feng: “Ye Sha.”

Ye Sha slowly turns her head to look at Dao Ming Feng who has walked over to stand near the sofa that she was sitting on.

Dao Ming Feng: “This afternoon, the driver will come to pick you up to meet with us. (Ye Sha turns away from Dao Ming Feng to stare out again.) Tonight is Ah Si’s good friend, Xi Men’s celebration party.” 

Ye Sha (staring out): “Do I have to go?” 

Dao Ming Feng: “Xi Men and Ah Si are very good friends that have grew up together. He just started working and has already shown this much success. You are Ah Si's fiancé, I think, showing up together is a must.”

Ye Sha: “The one that must show up is Ah Si. (looks over at Dao Ming Feng) Xi Men is his friend.”

Dao Ming Feng: “You’re right. But I am just worried that people will ask about Ah Si’s fiancé. Couples that just got engaged, shouldn’t they be inseparable?” 

Just when Ye Sha turns to face Dao Ming Feng and is about to speak back, Dao Ming Feng interrupts her.

Dao Ming Feng: “Especially at congratulation fuctions. This should be manners.” 

Ye Sha (turns away and faces outside again): “I will wait for the driver at home.” 

Dao Ming Feng: “Very good. (pause) I heard that San Cai's is doing very well in the office.” 

Ye Sha turns at Dao Ming Feng’s words and looks over at her. Dao Ming Feng smiles at her and then walks out of the room.

Ye Sha (turns to face outside, sighing): “A scary old witch.” 

 

Later that afternoon, Dao Ming Si and Ye Sha is at Dao Ming Corporation. They are walking together down the hall while San Cai is pushing a cart and walking toward them from the opposite end. Ye Sha is wearing a formal dress while Dao Ming Si is dressed up in a suit. Dao Ming Si and Ye Sha seems to be arguing about something.

Ye Sha: “There’s no reason why. I just don’t want to go.”

Dao Ming Si: “Are you not feeling well?”

Ye Sha: “No.”

San Cai seems them walking together from far away and stops her cart.

Dao Ming Si: “Or is it that my mother has made you not happy again?” 

Ye Sha: “No.” 

Dao Ming Si (getting loud): “Then you...” 

Ye Sha (angry and interrupts him): “I just don't want to go, don't need to go, don’t like to go."

Ye Sha and Dao Ming Si has stopped walking and is standing there facing each other and continuing with their argument. 

Dao Ming Si: “Then don’t you even want to meet my new friends?” 

Ye Sha: “They are your friends. Why should I meet them?” 

Dao Ming Si: “Ye Sha. (Ye Sha looks away from him.) Are you really Ye Sha? Why do I feel that I don't know you at all?” 

San Cai is standing there watching and listening to them. 

Ye Sha: “Then why don't you learn better now?! (pause) I am Ye Sha. Stuck up, selfish, and don't like to be restrained/bind. Moreover, a Bu Dan Kingdom’s princess that is changing every second.” 

Dao Ming Si (upset): “You are not! The Ye Sha that I know is not like this.” 

Ye Sha (looking into Dao Ming Si eyes): “Wake up, Dao Ming Si. The truth is in front of your eyes.” 

Ye Sha looks at him for a few seconds, then turns away. 

Dao Ming Si: “If you don't like to be restrained/binded, then why did you get engaged with me?” 

Ye Sha turns around to face Dao Ming Si again and looks straight into his eyes with a smile.

Ye Sha: “Because you love me. What I need is a guy that would love me and listen to me 100%.” 

After saying that, Ye Sha walks away from Dao Ming Si and toward the direction of San Cai. Dao Ming Si just stood there, not moving at all. As Ye Sha gets closer to San Cai, San Cai calls out to her. 

San Cai: “Ye Sha.” 

Ye Sha (looking at her): “San Cai.”

They both look over at Dao Ming Si and Dao Ming Si looks over at them.

Ye Sha (looking back at San Cai): “We are good friends, right? (no answer) Then do me a favor, let me be alone by myself.” 

Ye Sha walks off again and San Cai looks at her back. Then San Cai looks over at Dao Ming Si who is still standing at the same spot that he was before, looking over at her. He then looks away and San Cai starts pushing the cart forward and walks pass Dao Ming Si. 

 

San Cai is shredding papers with a machine while replaying the words that Ye Sha and Dao Ming Si were saying before. 

San Cai (thinking to herself): “Ye Sha really doesn't love Dao Ming Si. This marriage is really just a business deal. All of this, only Dao Ming Si is the one that is still in the dark. Should I tell Dao Ming Si? (pause) I can't, he wouldn't be able to stand the truth. But he...” 

San Cai stood there thinking for a couple of seconds, then she suddenly drops what she was doing and runs off to find Dao Ming Si. She went to his office and ask his assistant.

San Cai (walks up to the assistant sitting behind the desk): “Is the manager here?”

Assistant (looked over to Dao Ming Si’s office): “He was just here before, but don’t know where he went now.”

San Cai: “Oh, thank you.”

Then she left his office and was walking around. Suddenly, she remembered that Dao Ming Si once said when he has nothing to do, he would go to the rooftop to get some fresh air. So, She runs up the stairs and really finds Dao Ming Si standing at the rooftop by himself. San Cai opens the door to the balcony where Dao Ming Si is standing, looking out. 

San Cai: “What a coincident. You are here too.” 

Dao Ming Si did not answer and San Cai stands next to him looking out too. 

San Cai: “Actually, it’s not coincident. I was looking all over for you.” 

Dao Ming Si (still staring out): “Was there something?” 

San Cai (looking over at Dao Ming Si): “Nothing. I was just… worried that something was wrong with you. (pause) When a person has a lot of things weighing on his heart, he would need a listener. (pause, looking outside to the scenery) If you are willing, I can be your listener.”

Dao Ming Si was silent for a couple of seconds. 

Dao Ming Si: “Thanks. I don’t need.” 

San Cai: “Orh… Then… if there’s no need then I will not bother you.”  

San Cai turns around and slowly walks toward the door but then suddenly turns around again and walks back to Dao Ming Si. 

San Cai (looking at Dao Ming Si): “There are some things if you hold back in your heart, then it won't help at all. If you don't want me to bother you, you can face the air and yell out or call out or open your mouth and scold loudly. This way, it is better than wasting time and effort tying to solve an insoluble problem. (pause) Really. In the past, when I was being bullied by you in school, I would run up to the rooftop and yell at you. You can give it a try and see.” 

After saying this, San Cai turns towards the door to leave when calls Dao Ming Si calls out to her. 

Dao Ming Si (finally turning his head): “San Cai.” 

San Cai stops and turns around. 

Dao Ming Si: “Did Ye Sha ever say anything about having any mission of some sort to you?” 

San Cai: “Mission? (she walks back over to Dao Ming Si) I never heard of her saying anything.” 

They stood there for a couple of seconds, before Dao Ming Si starts talking.

Dao Ming Si: “Ye Sha has changed. (San Cai slowly looks over at him.) She really changed. (pause) I don't know what to do. Asking you this question is maybe very selfish but I...” 

San Cai (interrupting): “You don't have to say that. I am very happy to be able to share your unhappiness. (she turns to face out to the scenery) You really want to hear my advice? (pause) Dao Ming Si, I think you should believe in yourself.” 

Dao Ming Si: “Believe in myself? It’s because I believe in myself, that is why I feel that Ye Sha doesn’t love me anymore.” 

San Cai (looking at Dao Ming Si): “It’s not like this. You should believe that you are worthy of Ye Sha's love. (pause) You love Ye Sha... that is already a fact. Even if Ye Sha doesn't love you - you don't try hard to make her love you and only stand here keep on asking why she doesn't love you, don't you think that is very stupid?”  

Dao Ming Si is silent for a couple of seconds, thinking about what San Cai just said.

Dao Ming Si: “Who taught you this reasoning?” 

San Cai (turning to him): “You. (pause) The past me is very annoying. I knew that you have done many things for me, but I still purposely twist the meaning of your efforts. (pause) Each time I would think that this time you would definitely give up, but you in the end you didn't. Each time I would make you almost go insane, but you have never gave up. (pause) You even said, “No matter where I go, you would follow. Even if it is to hell, you would still catch me.”” 

Dao Ming Si looks over at San Cai. She notices his stare and quickly apologizes. 

San Cai: “Sorry, I should not always talk about things from the past.”

Dao Ming Si looks away and takes a deep breath. 

Dao Ming Si: “I have hurt you. I let you bear all the things from the past all by yourself.” 

San Cai slowly looks over at Dao Ming Si while Dao Ming Si is looking at the view in front of him. 

Dao Ming Si (turning his head to her): “Why do you have to be so nice?” 

San Cai (turns away from him): “Because... I want you to be happy.” 

Dao Ming Si slowly looks over at San Cai again and then he suddenly takes his hands out of his pocket and wraps his arms around her in a hug. San Cai has a startled look on her face.

Dao Ming Si: “I will probably never know how many times I have made you cry. (San Cai closes her eyes and just tries to feel the way that Dao Ming Si is holding her now.) But, I can only say, Thanks, San Cai. Thank you for accepting this new me.” 

San Cai (smiles): “Don’t… don’t mention it.”

San Cai is trying not to cry as she is being held in Dao Ming Si’s arms. 

Inside the door, in a corner, Yu Tian is silently standing there watching the whole scene unfold in front of him. Then he walks off, leaving Dao Ming Si and San Cai still hugging each other. 

The end. 

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