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[First Choice] [EP16]

[You're up?]

[Oh, no.]

[Last night...]

Last

night, we...

What?

Since it's already happened,

deal with it.

Can I at least be your

boyfriend?

And hey,

if you wanna upgrade me to

husband status, I'm all for it.

We're grown-ups,

[what's the big deal if we]

get a little physical?

Where are you going?

[Gonna see if Zhao's up.]

How was your day yesterday?

The hot springs were cool, huh?

Wanna hit it up again sometime?

Forgot something in my room,

gotta check with the front desk.

You mean this?

This...

Why'd you draw me?

When you ditched me,

I flipped and burned all your pics.

I knew you wouldn't be happy

if I secretly took your picture,

so I sketched you instead.

I can stare at it whenever I miss you.

Here.

Give me your phone.

Your phone.

Zhao.

Zhao, eyes on camera.

Yep.

Give me your phone.

Your phone.

Zhao.

Cheese.

Cheese.

Easy.

New screensaver.

Let's go.

Let's go.

Careful.

[Call Mr Lin and]

[tell him to come to]

my office at 3:30 pm.

[Dad.]

Why are you here?

I wanna talk to you.

Leave us alone.

Dad.

How could you force Ling

to resign at the meeting?

How am I supposed to face him?

You've been into that jerk for years,

helping him out,

and he just

dumps you

for someone else.

I get that you're trying to protect me,

but honestly, it doesn't matter

who he picks.

As long as I'm

special to him,

that's all that counts.

I believe Ling will come

back to me someday.

But with what you did,

all the work I put in was for nothing.

Don't you see?

I'm only doing this

to clean up your mess!

[First, I throw away ten million]

[on Bai Luo'an like it's nothing.]

And now, at my age

and with my position,

I'm being threatened by

that boy.

Huo Wei?

If I don't

stand up to Huo Ling,

Huo Wei's gonna expose

what you did to the Healing Center.

[It'll be a PR nightmare for you,]

[you get that?]

Huo Wei used me.

But all of this was his plan, he did it.

Alright.

That's it,

end of story.

Don't bring it up again.

Dad.

Dad.

Hello?

What?

You're saying Huo Wei

and Bai were from the same orphanage,

and they were close?

Send me the files,

thanks.

[After all these years, why would]

[Bai choose such a crucial time]

[to approach Ling?]

[And Huo Wei's using]

[long-time members against Ling.]

[They've been plotting together?]

Zhang.

Is Auntie back?

She's probably out buying flowers.

Miss Shen.

Why don't you come back later?

Hey.

As soon as she gets back,

could you please give this

to her right away?

It's really crucial.

Okay.

[Auntie will figure out her dirty tricks]

[as long as she checks out that USB.]

Okay.

Belt up.

What's up?

[Mr Huo, emergency.]

[Mrs Huo took a tumble]

[down the stairs this morning,]

[and she's unconscious in the hospital.]

What?

Brother.

Thank goodness you're here.

Doc says Mom's stable, but

no one knows when she'll open her eyes.

What happened?

Wei.

Huo Wei.

Zhang was at home.

She said from where Mother fell,

it looked like she missed a stair.

Mom's been a mess worrying about Ling.

It's all just adding up.

[Mom's always careful.]

[It just doesn't make sense.]

You're here?

Auntie loves flowers,

so I've

brought some over.

Might cheer her up

and help her wake up sooner.

I've never known my mother.

Auntie has been

like a mother to me.

I wanna see her happy and healthy.

Min Yan told me

you haven't eaten anything.

Wanna grab a bite?

Don't worry too much,

everything will be alright.

Sorry for that.

It's okay.

An.

You okay?

Thanks.

Come to see Auntie, huh?

I came for you.

Me?

What...

You've been here a lot.

What's up?

Trying to patch things up with my bro?

You're

not rooting for us to reconcile?

And if I say I'm not?

My brother's

childish and selfish.

He was even jealous of a ghost,

and clueless about your baby.

If it were me, I'd never

let you down like that.

Is that

you wanna say to me?

Why?

An.

I was just messing with you.

You didn't take it seriously, did you?

Nah, nah.

You're quite

different from your brother.

How did you get that scar?

Back in the orphanage,

I got this scar trying to protect a kid.

How's he doing?

He should

be around your age now,

but he

got adopted

and I haven't seen him since.

He's probably forgotten about me.

How could he?

Actually...

Hold on.

Hello?

Yes.

[I am.]

[Yeah.]

Uncle Gong.

Getting

soft in your

old age, huh?

That old lady's still alive.

If I really killed her,

Huo Ling

would have our heads on a pike.

He's nothing to me.

Did you find that person?

Should we

keep pushing this?

Uncle Gong.

After all this, now you're

chickening out?

I just think that

you've got

Junyue in the bag,

no need to destroy their family.

No need?

The Huos took my mom,

made me a nobody

in an orphanage.

If it weren't for all this,

Luo'an wouldn't be with Huo Ling.

Listen up,

anyone

stands in my way,

they'll pay like

the Huos did.

Understood?

Yes.

I understand.