Summary
of MG2 Episode 10:
Scene opens with Dao Ming Si’s teacher, Ah Liang (the one that poured soda on Dao Ming Si in Meteor Garden) having a tire problem with his car in the streets. He’s trying to change the flat tire when he gets up suddenly and collided with Dao Ming Si’s on coming bicycle. When he took a closer look, he noticed that it was Dao Ming Si, so he got nervous and scared.
Ah Liang (stuttering): “Master Dao… Dao Ming Si.”
Dao Ming Si (looking at him): “You know me?”
Ah Liang: “How can I not know you? I’m your teacher.”
Dao Ming Si: “Teacher?”
Ah Liang nods his head and fixes his tie. Dao Ming Si looks at the spare tire on the ground.
Dao Ming Si: “What’s wrong with your car?”
Ah Liang (stammering): “Flat… flat tire.”
Dao Ming Si helps him change the tire while Ah Liang is kneeling beside Dao Ming Si the whole time shocked.
Ah Liang (nervous): “Master Dao Ming Si, I think this low class work should be done by myself. Don’t need to bother you.”
Dao Ming Si: “It’s not a bother. Student should help the teacher to change a tire.”
Ah Liang (has a really scared face on): “No, no… shouldn’t. It’s really not necessary.”
Dao Ming Si: “Teacher, why are you so scared of me?”
Ah Liang (denying while looking more and more nervous): “Not scared… I’m not scared.” (nervous laugh)
Ah Liang starts twisting his tie around and around in his hands, a sure sign of nervousness.
Dao Ming Si (looking at him twisting his tie): “Then why are you so nervous that you are doing that.”
Ah Liang (looks down and quickly unwinds his hand from the tie): “I’m not nervous. (mumbling to the side) I’m afraid that when the day you get your memory back, you’ll remember that you’ve helped me change a tire, then I’m really going to be dead.”
Dao Ming Si: “What?”
Ah Liang: “Huh? No, nothing! Nothing, nothing.”
Dao Ming Si pulls the flat tire out and stands up carrying it. Ah Liang quickly helps him to carry it.
Dao Ming Si (stopping all of a sudden, still holding onto the tire): “Eh, you’re stepping on me.”
Ah Liang (his hands on the tire, looking like he was going to have a heart attack): “I’m stepping on you? Oh, I’m sorry. Don’t move… don’t move.”
Ah Liang quickly drops to his knees and cleans the shoe that he stepped on with his tie.
Dao Ming Si (looking down at him, shocked): “Teacher, what are you doing?”
Ah Liang: “I’m cleaning your shoe for you.”
Dao Ming Si (reaches down to pull him up): “Why are you cleaning my shoe for?”
Ah Liang (getting up): “I’m helping you clean your shoe, clean your shoe.”
Dao Ming Si: “You don’t have to help me clean my shoe.”
Ah Liang: “Nothing. It’s really nothing. It’s always been like this. This has been an agreement that’s between you and I. Ha, ha. Agreement.”
Dao Ming Si: “Agreement? I use to ask you to clean my shoes all the time? I was really that demanding/forceful?”
Ah Liang (not sure how to answer the question, stammering): “No… not demanding/forceful. Not demanding at all. (shaking head) Not demanding.”
Dao Ming Si: “Speak the truth ok?”
Dao Ming Si and Ah Liang both sit by the roadside next to the car each with a soda.
Ah Liang: “Master Dao Ming Si. You really can’t remember even a little?”
Dao Ming Si: “Ah Liang Teacher.”
Ah Liang: “Oh, don’t dare, don’t dare.”
Dao Ming Si (smiling): “You don’t have to keep on saying don’t dare, don’t dare ok?”
Ah Liang: “Oh, ok, no problem, no problem.”
Dao Ming Si: “In the past could I have been… actually… I have a question that I want to ask you.”
Ah Liang: “Don’t dare, don’t… (seeing his mistake and catching himself) If you’re not in a hurry then ask away. Ask.”
Dao Ming Si: “The old me and the new me, which do you feel is better?”
Ah Liang: “Of course, it’s… it’s… do I have to answer?”
Dao Ming Si: “Of course or else why would I ask you?”
Ah Liang: “Oh, answer. How do I say this? The new you… the new you is more cordial, warm, social able. It’s like you’ve taken off the ‘demanding cloak’ that you use to wear. Something like that.”
Dao Ming Si (thinking and smiling): “Oh, I understand. Thank you teacher.”
Ah Liang: “No, no. Don’t say that Master Dao Ming Si. Don’t have to thank me.”
Dao Ming Si: “Can I ask you for your help again?”
Ah Liang: “Yes, yes. Just tell me and I will take care of it.”
Dao Ming Si: “Can you stop calling me master?”
Ah Liang (shocked): “Huh? Don’t call master? Ok, ok. (laughing)
Dao Ming Si: “What are you laughing at?”
Ah Liang: “Nothing. It’s like this, I’ve never thought that I would one day sit with Master Dao Ming Si on the street and talk.” (laughing)
Dao Ming Si: “Oh right, where is teacher going later?”
Ah Liang: “Oh, I’m driving to a dinner. That’s why I’m all dressed up today.”
Dao Ming Si: “Really?”
Ah Liang: “A good friend is getting married. Where… where are you going?”
Dao Ming Si: “I was going to buy groceries.”
Ah Liang: “Buy groceries?”
Dao Ming Si and Ah Liang continue sitting on the street drinking and talking.
San Cai is just waking up from her sleep and was lying on the bed when her cell phone rang. It was Lei calling.
San Cai (picking the cell phone): “Hello?”
Lei: “How was your sleep last night?”
San Cai: “With you guys’ good wishes, of course I had a good sleep. (pause) Hey, why are you awake so early?”
Lei: “Because all of a sudden I miss Ying De.”
San Cai’s mom and dad is outside in the living room. Dad is eating and mom is counting money.
Dad (pointing to the money): “Almost?”
Mom: “What almost? There’s still not enough!”
Dad: “How can that be?”
Mom (wishful face): “If Dao Ming Si master is here then that’s good.”
Dad: “You’re right. (pause) No, wife… it’s no problem. Today when the car is sold, I’ll have the bonus money.”
Mom: “But what if…”
Dad: “No, no what ifs. This time it will be successful.”
Mom: “Right. For San Cai’s tuition, it have to be successful.”
Dad nods his head.
Mom / Dad (together): “That is a definite!”
Then they hear San Cai coming into the living and both quickly sat back down and pretended to be doing something.
San Cai (coming into the living room): “Pa, ma, I’m meeting Hua Ze Lei, so I’m going out now.”
Dad: “Ok, ok.”
Mom (after San Cai walks away, starts talking slowly to dad): “Dad, did you hear who is San Cai going to meet?”
Dad (talking slowly): “Should be Hua Ze master.”
Mom (pronouncing each word slowly): “Hua Ze master?”
Dad: “Yes Hua Ze master.”
Mom: “You are saying that in our San Cai’s life, even though there’s no Dao Ming Si master, but there’s still a…”
Dad (excited): “Handsome and good looking, lovable and caring, very generous…”
Mom / Dad (together, loudly): “HUA ZE MASTER!”
Both are very happy and grabbed onto each other’s hands.
Mom (happy): “Dad, this is very good. Do you feel that this room has suddenly became very bright?”
Dad (happy): “We don’t even need to use light from now on! Because there’s a million watt light that is shining on us!”
Mom (very excited): “Didn’t know that our good daughter San Cai’s future is so bright! (rapidly blinking her eyes) I can’t open up my eyes now!”
Dad (rapidly blinking his eyes also): “Me too. It’s hurting my eyes too.”
Mom: “Too bright!”
Dad: “Too wonderful!”
Both laughs crazily and hugs each other.
Lei & San Cai is sitting on the ledge at the rooftop of Ying De University, the place that they use to go to in MG1.
San Cai (looking up at the sky): “Didn’t know that after you guys graduated, the sky is still so blue.”
Lei (also looking up): “Yes. Feel so unsatisfied. Thought that Ying De’s sky would be less blue.”
San Cai (smiling): “Strange. In the past, you guys are always bullying me and now I’m cherishing the memory of those days when we were in school.”
Lei: “From your words, I feel it too.”
San Cai (looks at Lei): “Then you’ll have to come back to visit often. We can look at the sky together.”
Lei (solemnly): “San Cai, I’m taking an afternoon flight to Japan later.”
San Cai (turns back to look at Lei, with a sad expression): “How long will you be gone?”
Lei: “Don’t know. (pause) Don’t worry about me. (pause) Didn’t you just promised me?”
San Cai (trying to act brave): “I’m ok. Just that I suddenly feel so lonely. Don’t know where Dao Ming Si is now and you have to leave. So graduating is graduating. We can’t all be like we use to be.”
Lei gets off the ledge to stand in front of San Cai and pinches her cheek.
San Cai (holding her cheek): “What are you doing?”
Lei: “Did you notice that your expressions are less now? You use to have a lot of different expressions. When you are happy, you would of course laugh. When you are angry, you yell. (remembering) When we first met up here on the rooftop, weren’t you also standing up here yelling at us, F4?”
San Cai (smiling): “You still remember?”
Lei: “Do you want to yell again?”
San Cai: “Now? I’m not angry so why would I yell at you guys?”
Lei: “We should be yelled at. If we didn’t come into your life, you should now be a very hard working, very happy studying, weed San Cai. (pause) I really miss the San Cai that use to yell at people.”
San Cai: “I use to really love yelling at people. I forgot how I was yelling at you guys then.”
Lei (smiling): “You wish that we spend so much money that we would go bankrupt. High cholesterol so that we get so fat we die from it. And then to go to hell after dying. Also you called us F4, pig head four.”
San Cai (yelling): “Pig head four! (she runs over to the opposite ledge and shouts out all the while starting to cry) You stupid fools! I curse you all! Wish that every day you are so happy that the bloods runs up to your brains and the blood vessels break, especially big pig head, Dao Ming Si! I curse you to get tripped over by eggs and get hit by the meteor star until you get your memory back! I want you to run, crawl, back to me now! Also Hua Ze Lei. I curse you that you sleep so much every day that your arms and legs don’t have strength! Everyday have a nightmare and dream that I’m yelling at you!”
Lei (coming up behind San Cai): “Yelling what?”
San Cai (turning around to look at Lei): “Yell at you. Yell at you that if you don’t hurry up and come back to Taipei, then I will fly over to Japan and shave your head for you until you are bald.”
Lei (smiling): “Remember. It doesn’t matter what problems you face in the future, you have to take out that brave yelling expression to face the problem. That’s the San Cai I know. (pause) I didn’t hear.”
San Cai (confused): “Hear what?”
Lei: “Hear your promise to me.”
San Cai (smiling, then turned to yell at the sky): “God, please take notice, San Cai promises from now on not to make Hua Ze Lei worry again!”
They continue standing there staring at the scenery.
San Cai is riding on a bus. When the bus stops to pick up more passengers, Ye Sha gets on. There was a guy on the bus that was standing a couple of feet away from San Cai. San Cai witnesses the guy putting his hand out and touching the behind of a girl standing next to him. The girl then moves away from the guy to stand in front of where Ye Sha is sitting, but he follows her to stand next to her. As he puts out his hand to rub her behind again, Ye Sha also witnesses his actions. Ye Sha gives him a nasty look while a couple of feet away, San Cai is also giving him dirty looks. As San Cai makes a move to go over to the guy, Ye Sha suddenly punches him on the chin.
Ye Sha: “What are you doing?”
Guy (falling back): “Why are you hitting people?”
At that moment San Cai comes up to him and gives him another punch. Ye Sha stands up from her seat and pushes the guy away in disgust.
Guy: “Why are you hitting people? I’m calling the police!”
San Cai then looks at Ye Sha and smiles. Ye Sha also smiles back.
San Cai and Ye Sha are together at a fast food restaurant.
San Cai (finishes giving her order to the guy behind the counter): “Ok, that’s it. Thank you.”
Ye Sha and San Cai then stood there waiting for a table to clear.
Ye Sha: “San Cai is a type of vegetable that we often eat?”
San Cai: “Oh, no that’s not it.
Actually, San Cai is like a type of weed, like the type that no matter how hard
people step on it, when spring comes, it will grow again.”
Ye Sha: “Wow, a name that’s full of life! I’m called Ye Sha.”
San Cai: “Your last name is Ye?”
Ye Sha: “No, Ye Sha means Elsa.”
San Cai: “Oh, Ye Sha.”
The table in front of them cleared and they both go over and sits down.
San Cai: “A name that sounds very nice. Is there any special meaning to it?”
Ye Sha: “Well in the Si Bo La language, Elsa means ‘An agreement with God.’”
San Cai: “That’s so special. (smiling) An agreement with God. Then what’s the agreement on?”
Ye Sha: “That’s a secret.”
San Cai nods her head.
Ye Sha (laughing): “I’m so happy I met you, San Cai.”
San Cai: “I’m also happy to have met you, Ye Sha.”
The waiter comes by with 2 fruit slushies.
Waiter: “2 fruit slushies. Please pay first.”
Ye Sha / San Cai: “Ok.”
Both girls reach for their money.
San Cai (stopping Ye Sha): “Hey, let me pay for it. Treat it as a present to welcome you to Taiwan.”
Ye Sha: “Ok. Thank you.”
San Cai (hands the money to the waiter): “Thank you.”
They both pick up the spoon and start eating.
Ye Sha: “San Cai, let me ask you a question. Does your hand hurt?”
San Cai (putting the spoon down and shakes out her hand, laughing): “Hurts. Hurts very much.”
Ye Sha (laughing): “Mine’s too! Can’t believe that I would meet a girl that would use a fist like me. But then your boyfriend must really respect you.”
San Cai grows silent, stopped eating and puts her spoon down. She gets up out of her seat and goes to get some napkins.
Ye Sha (noticing something wrong): “I’m sorry. I said the wrong thing.”
San Cai (sitting back down): “Eh, no. (she hands Ye Sha a napkin) Here, for you.”
Ye Sha (taking the napkin): “Thank you.”
San Cai: “Well, what about you? Your boyfriend must really respect you, right?”
Ye Sha: “I don’t have a boyfriend. I’ll tell you secretly, I’ve never been in love.”
San Cai (surprise): “You’re lying. You’re so pretty and your character is so cute, I don’t believe that no one has every asked you out.”
Ye Sha (laughing): “It’s the truth.”
San Cai: “I don’t believe you.”
Ye Sha: “What kind of feeling is it to love a person?”
San Cai (smiling): “To love a person… when you fall in love with a person, no matter what happens, the first thing you would think about is him. When you think about him, your heart would beat faster. (pauses, the smile gone from her face) When you lose him, your heart feels like there’s a hole in it. Doesn’t matter where you are, what you’re doing, there will always be a wound that you can’t see or touch, that would silently hurt.”
Ye Sha (seeing San Cai’s sad face): “So, you’ve been in love before?”
San Cai doesn’t answer and just smiles. At this moment, the waiter comes back with the change.
San Cai (to waiter, picking up change): “Thank you.”
San Cai (putting her change away): “Hey, I forgot that I have to go to work.”
Ye Sha: “Where are you going to work?”
San Cai: “I work in a pastry shop.”
Ye Sha (looking at her): “Pastry shop?”
San Cai starts eating really fast.
Ye Sha (looking at her): “Are you in a hurry?”
San Cai nods her head because her mouth is full.
Ye Sha: “May I go with you?”
San Cai mumbles an agreement and Ye Sha mumbles back, both eating very fast.
At the pastry shop, Ye Sha is looking all around.
San Cai: “How is it?”
Ye Sha: “It’s a very cute shop.”
San Cai (pouring a glass of water and handing it to Ye Sha): “Here.”
Ye Sha (taking it): “Thank you. (looks at San Cai’s uniform up and down) “Even the uniform is so cute. It must be really lucky to be working here.”
San Cai (moping the floor): “Right. I also feel that way. But the other workers don’t think this way, so our shop constantly doesn’t have enough help.”
Ye Sha (thinking): “Not enough help? Well, then may I work here?”
San Cai (pausing from her moping): “You really want to work here?”
Ye Sha: “Yes.”
San Cai: “Then I’ll speak to Lao Ban Niang about it.”
Ye Sha (happy): “Ok. That’s great. I have to rush home and tell Ah Sing about it.”
San Cai (looks up from her moping again): “Ah Sing? The first thing you think about is to tell Ah Sing. Who’s Ah Sing?”
Ye Sha: “Eh, it’s a wandering dog.”
San Cai: “A wandering dog?”
Ye Sha: “He’s lost so the only thing I can do is look after him. One day, I’ll bring him to see you.”
San Cai: “Ok, ok. (thinking that it really was a dog) Well, then is it a male or female?”
Ye Sha (smiling slightly): “Male.”
San Cai: “Is he violent?”
Ye Sha: “Sometimes.”
Ye Sha is back at the apartment telling Dao Ming Si about the job offer through the bathroom door.
Ye Sha: “$80 an hour and this pastry shop is really cute. My new friend is also very cute. Hey, you should come and take a look. I’ll introduce the two of you.”
Dao Ming Si (walking out of the bathroom, with a towel around his neck): “Ok.”
Ye Sha: “Come tomorrow.”
Dao Ming Si: “What’s the rush?”
Ye Sha: “San Cai is really very good. I have a feeling that you will definitely like her.”
Dao Ming Si: “San Cai? (pauses thinking) What a weird name.”
Ye Sha (defending San Cai): “Well, then to be called Dao Ming Si is not weird?”
Dao Ming Si: “Ok, ok. I’ll pick you up from work tomorrow ok?”
Ye Sha: “You said it. Don’t lie to me.”
Dao Ming Si: “Ok, already. Don’t you have to go to work early tomorrow? Hurry up and go to sleep.”
Ye Sha: “I don’t want to.”
Dao Ming Si: “Hurry up and go.”
Ye Sha: “No.”
Dao Ming Si: “If you still don’t go, I’ll beat you.”
Ye Sha gets up and goes over to the bed, but then jumps back up and walks over to the calendar and writes, “Meet San Cai.” on the calendar for that day. Then she gets into bed.
Dao Ming Si (walks over): “Have to cover with a blanket or will catch a cold. Little kid.”
He helps her with the blanket then sits down on the foot of the bed. Suddenly, Ye Sha sits up, clutching her stomach, groaning in pain and grabbing Dao Ming Si’s arm. Dao Ming Si thought she was still fooling around.
Dao Ming Si (brushes her hand away, with back to Ye Sha): “Stop playing ok? Go to sleep. (pauses, looking at Ye Sha) Ye Sha. (sees her groaning in pain) Ye Sha!”
He grabs her by the shoulders.
Dao Ming Si: “Are you in pain again? (he quickly runs to get her bag and brings it back to the bed) Where did you put the medicine? Is it inside your bag? Where inside your bag?”
Dao Ming Si frantically searches inside the bag, then turns it upside down on the bed and shakes everything out.
Dao Ming Si (frantic): “Where’s your medicine?”
Ye Sha can’t answer him because she was in too much pain.
Dao Ming Si (grabbing her shoulders again): “Ye Sha! Does it hurt very much? Wait a minute, wait a minute…”
Dao Ming Si runs away quickly. Ye Sha tries to stop him and falls off the bed and fainted. Dao Ming Si ran outside to a store.
Dao Ming Si (hitting against the pulled down gate and shouted): “Hey open up! I have to buy medicine! Hey!”
Voice from inside: “It’s so late, stop your shouting.”
Dao Ming Si: “My sister is in pain and I need to buy some pain killers!”
Voice: “What time is it already. Who’s going to sell medicine? Send her to the emergency room.”
Dao Ming Si (angry): “Who cares about the time! Where’s the emergency room?”
Voice: “Stupid, at the hospital.”
Dao Ming Si quickly runs back home. When he gets home, he finds Ye Sha and Grandma sitting by the table talking.
Dao Ming Si (running up the stairs): “Ye Sha! Ye Sha! I’ll bring you to…” (he stops when he sees Ye Sha all better and Grandma there.)
Ye Sha (talking happily to Grandma): “Let’s all go to Kan Ting ok? Let’s find a day, Grandma, me and Ah Sing, and go to Kan Ting. To look at the sea, look at the sky full of stars. How about it Grandma?”
Grandma: “Say it again? Don’t talk to me about any promises and all.”
Ye Sha: “I want to talk about promises and stuff.”
Grandma (getting up): “What are you saying? You foreigners don’t make any sense.”
Ye Sha (smiling): “It’s a deal. We’ll find a time to go to Kan Ting.”
Dao Ming Si (walks into the room): “Go to the hospital with me.”
Ye Sha (looking up at Dao Ming Si): “I took the pain killers from Grandma and it’s not hurting now.”
Grandma: “Pain killers are only for a short term and not for a long term.” (then she walks out)
Dao Ming Si: “Did you hear? Go with me to the hospital and get it checked out.”
Ye Sha: “Are you nuts? Didn’t I tell you I’m fine now? It doesn’t hurt anymore.”
Dao Ming Si: “You were in such pain before and now you say it doesn’t hurt. Last time at the winery it was the same thing.”
Ye Sha: “Girls having pains once in a while is very normal, ok?”
Dao Ming Si: “Not ok.”
Ye Sha: “If it’s not ok, then forget it. (turning away from Dao Ming Si) I hate going to the hospital.”
Dao Ming Si (quietly): “I’m really going to get mad.”
Ye Sha (looking back at him): “You’re really going to get mad? (pause) Really. I understand my body very well. It wants to hurt a little but it’s ok. It’s not a big deal. Don’t be mad.”
Dao Ming Si doesn’t answer and looks away. Ye Sha reaches over the table and grabs a hold of a coconut lantern.
Ye Sha (talking to the coconut): “Rotten egg, what to do? Ah Sing is mad. Ah Sing’s face when he’s mad is very scary. I’m really scared.”
Then she looks down and sees that Dao Ming Si didn’t have any shoes on.
Ye Sha: “Your feet. (pause) You ran out without putting your shoes on? (putting down the coconut) Don’t move. (she picks up her drawing pad) Don’t move. Let me borrow your feet.”
Dao Ming Si: “What are you doing?”
Ye Sha (pointing to her drawing pad): “Step here. (Dao Ming Si follows) Thank you.”
She makes him imprint a picture of his foot on the pad. Then she writes on the drawing pad next to the imprint: “The foot of Ah Sing’s, who, because of helping Ye Sha to buy medicine and forgot to wear shoes.”
Ye Sha (getting up to stand in front of Dao Ming Si): “Please don’t be mad. I promise you. If I hurt next time, I’ll go to the hospital to check it out. Don’t be mad.”
Dao Ming Si: “Do you know why I’m mad? (he holds onto her hand) Because you scared me before. I’m really afraid to lose you do you know? Doesn’t matter who I am now, but I want you to know something. (pause, voice filled with emotion) I care about you. (he pulls her to him and hugs her tightly) I will take really good care of you. I want to be with you forever.”
They continue standing there hugging each other.
Next morning, San Cai wakes up and sits there staring at the lights again. She then packs up her things to go out. San Cai’s mom is helping dad with practicing how to sell cars in the living room. Dad is dressed up with a tie and mom walks through the door in a dress holding a purse.
Dad: “Welcome. Mrs. Do you want to buy a car?”
Mom hits him over the head with her hand and dad cries out, “Ow.”
Mom: “Call me Miss. If you want to do well with female customers, then you have to remember that they are pretty and young. Now if you want to do well with male customers, then you have to say that they are handsome and rich. Understand?”
Dad: “Ok. I understand. Now mom, let’s try again.”
Mom: “No wonder you couldn’t sell any cars.”
Dad: “Oh, give me another chance.”
Mom: “Miss.”
The phone rings at that minute and mom picks up.
Mom (sweet soft voice): “This is sweet San Cai’s home. Oh, hi, Lao Ban Niang. Yes, she’s here. Just a minute. (turns and yells very loudly) San Cai, phone! (turns back to speak softly on the phone again) Lao Ban Niang, thank you for watching San Cai all the time. Please come to visit when you have time, ok?” (mom hands the phone to San Cai)
San Cai: “Hello, Lao Ban Niang. Yes, I’m coming now. Buy oranges. How many should I buy? Ok, no problem. Bye, bye.”
San Cai hangs up and walks over to mom who is looking at a toy car.
San Cai: “Ma, ma.”
Mom (looking at the car): “San Cai, look, do you think this car is suitable for me to drive? (pointing) This one?”
Dad: “Of course, it’s suitable. I said Mrs… (Mom corrects him, “Miss) Miss this is our newest model of car. The style of the car is very nice and also is the most popular color this year, silver. The car looks very good with the two of you, very high class, very beautiful. The two of you looks so much like two beautiful sisters. Like SOS from television. This car is most suitable for you to buy. There’s no one else that is more suitable than you two.”
San Cai: “What are you two doing?”
Mom / Dad (together): “We are practicing.”
San Cai: “Practicing?”
Mom: “It’s all because your dad’s experience with selling cars is so little. So being the mom, I have to help him practice or else how can he sell cars?”
Dad: “But San Cai. What did you think about dad’s performance before?”
San Cai: “Pa, you are so hard working. I believe that this month’s bonus would be very good.”
Dad: “Yeh! Mom did you hear? With San Cai’s words, I feel that I’m filled with confidence. I believe that this month’s bonus would be a new level!”
San Cai: “But Pa, I believe that selling cars, you have to be a little more mature. Please don’t say anything like very high class, very beautiful, those touchy words in order to get to the customer.”
Dad: “Is it really dramatic? San Cai, do you feel that saying that is too dramatic? But at your mom’s age, she still wants me to call her Miss that I feel was too dramatic. (mom makes some noise in the background and dad quickly changes the subject) San Cai, do you have an suggestions about selling cars?”
San Cai: “Eh, actually I don’t really know much about it.”
Dad: “Oh.”
San Cai: “But from my experience with selling cakes, the first thing we ask is the reason why the customer wants to buy the cake. Do they want to give it as a gift or eat it themselves or is it for a party or a birthday? This way it’s easier to suggest a flavor to them. So dad, you can ask the customers why they want to buy the car. Find out about the customers’ needs, then it would be easier to convince them.”
Dad: “Yes, San Cai is right.”
Mom: “San Cai, you are very smart. That’s my good girl.”
Dad: “Right. San Cai is the smartest. Mama, we’ll follow San Cai’s suggestion and try again.”
San Cai: “Dad then you jiao you. I’m off to work now. Bye.”
San Cai leaves and her parents continue with their practicing.
Back at the Orange Café, Yi Ling is once again looking into a mirror. Da Xin is listening to his discman and moving to the music. Dao Ming Si is getting ready to leave when Da Xin grabbed his arm and handed him an earphone.
Da Xin: “Listen to it.”
Dao Ming Si listens to it for a few seconds then hands it back to Da Xin.
Da Xin: “How is it?”
Dao Ming Si: “Not bad.” (he tries to walk away again)
Da Xin: “Wait… wait… this part is the best.” (he hands the earphone back to Dao Ming Si)
Dao Ming Si puts it in his ear and listens again, then gives it back to Da Xin.
DMX: “Not bad.”
Da Xin: “Hey, what’s the hurry?”
Ah Lun (overhearing): “Hey, what business is yours?”
Da Xin: “I’m just concerned about him.”
Yi Ling (calling out): “He told Ye Sha that he would pick her up from the pastry shop.”
Da Xin (understanding): “Oh… (hands Dao Ming Si the discman) Take it with you to listen.”
Dao Ming Si had no choice but to take it.
Da Xin (calling after Dao Ming Si): “Hey remember to report back to me! (talking to himself) I should hurry up and find a girlfriend. If I act more serious then I could be like him. (sighs) And also can get off work early too. That’s so good.”
Ah Lun (walks up to Da Xin): “You dare?”
Da Xin: “Hey, you are so unfair.”
Ah Lun: “Hey, I care about you. (pause) Because you are my best friend.”
Da Xin (hitting himself on his chest): “I’ll listen to you.”
Ah Lun: “Really?”
Da Xin: “I promise.”
Ah Lun: “Go wash the dishes.”
Da Xin: “Huh?”
Ah Lun (reminding Da Xin): “We are friends. Good friends.”
Da Xin: “You are so unfair.”
Da Xin walks away toward the back and Ah Lun starts laughing.
Ah Lun (pulling Yi Ling next to him): “Wife… look at how beautiful the sunset is.”
He starts laughing loudly while Yi Ling stands with her arms crossed.
Yi Ling: “It’s only mid afternoon, so where’s the sunset?”
San Cai is slowly walking back to the pastry shop with the bag of oranges. Dao Ming Si is standing about a block away from her, staring at some pictures on a billboard, with the earphone on. San Cai looks up and sees the back of Dao Ming Si and stood there staring at him. Dao Ming Si slowly walks to the left side and San Cai follows, slowly walking to her left too but not moving forward. She stands there for a few seconds more, staring, then starts to slowly walk forward toward Dao Ming Si as if afraid the image in front of her would fade away. Dao Ming Si on the other hand, sees the bus and starts running. San Cai seeing him running, she started to run too. As Dao Ming Si runs toward the bus, San Cai is running after him in the back. Once Dao Ming Si got on the bus, he was standing, facing the right side of the bus. San Cai finally catching up, didn’t get on the bus, but walked to the side of the bus and looked in. She peers at Dao Ming Si through the windows and finally seeing his whole face, she was shocked.
San Cai (finally waking up from her shock, cries out softly): “Dao Ming Si. (more loudly) Dao Ming Si!”
Dao Ming Si didn’t hear her calling because he was listening to the discman that Da Xin lend him early. He found a seat and sat down. San Cai runs up to the side of the bus where Dao Ming Si is sitting and knocks on the side of the bus. However, the bus starts moving.
San Cai (yelling): “Dao Ming Si. Dao Ming Si.”
The bus is moving faster and San Cai started chasing the bus all the while calling out Dao Ming Si’s name. The bag of oranges started falling out of the bag and eventually San Cai let go of the bag to run faster after the bus. San Cai couldn’t catch up and dropped down in the middle of the road on her knees and started crying uncontrollably.
Later, San Cai is riding on the bus and remembering the time when Dao Ming Si ran after the bus to try to get to her.
San Cai (thinking): “It feels like it was only yesterday that Dao Ming Si was running after the bus that was carrying me. Running for such a long road. From Taipei to Barcelona. No matter how bitter, no matter how tired. He finally made me get off the bus. I only just realize how strong his body is. This time, it’s me chasing after Dao Ming Si, no matter from Taipei to wherever, I have to chase him back.”
Dao Ming Si arrives at the shop to pick Ye Sha up.
Ye Sha (coming out from the back of the shop and calling out): “Lao Ban Niang, goodbye.”
Dao Ming Si (seeing Ye Sha): “Hey hurry up.”
Ye Sha: “What’s the hurry?”
Dao Ming Si: “Aiyo.”
Ye Sha (walking around the cake display case): “Hey, why is San Cai not here yet? I’ve been waiting for her.”
Dao Ming Si (putting his arms around her shoulders): “We’ll find another day to meet, there’s plenty of time. Hurry.”
Dao Ming Si & YS returns back to the first house they stayed in.
Ye Sha (following Dao Ming Si up the stairs): “Why are we coming back here for?”
Dao Ming Si (stopped and turned around to face her): “Come back to get your drawing stuff.”
Ye Sha: “Why?”
Dao Ming Si: “You… every time you draw something, you throw the crayons and pencils aside. There should be a lot of crayons and pencils here.”
Ye Sha: “Right.”
Dao Ming Si (continuing up the stairs): “Lately the drawings don’t have much color in it.”
They walk through the door and finds stuff all over the floor.
Dao Ming Si (kneeling down): “Look, you forget to put things away every time. I have to put it away for you.”
Dao Ming Si is picking stuff up from the floor and Ye Sha is staring off to the opposite wall.
Dao Ming Si gets up and sees Ye Sha standing there.
Dao Ming Si: “Hey, I was talking to you. Did you hear? (he takes her hand and puts her crayons in it) Your crayons. (noticing that Ye Sha wasn’t moving) What are you staring…”
Dao Ming Si turns his head, his voice trailing off and notices the writings on the wall.
Ye Sha: “There’s someone that’s waiting for you. Someone that seems to love… no, should say, it’s definite that this person loves you very much.”
Dao Ming Si just continues staring at the wall.
Ye Sha: “You are not the only one that is wandering - the love that she has for you is also wandering.”
Dao Ming Si still stares at the wall, then turns to look at Ye Sha, but finds her gone. He stood there and seem to see San Cai writing on the wall and hear her voice calling out his name. He started hitting his head as though in pain. Then he slowly walks over to the wall and leans on it.
