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Good afternoon

Good afternoon

Hello

I want to ask

Does Chen Jingdian work here

Chen Jingdian

Jingdian

He's here

Are you looking for him for something?

He went to go deliver luggage

And will be back soon

Delivering luggage?

He and us

are all doormen

Y'all wait a moment

What did you say

Chen Jingdian works here as a doorman?

Luck isn't bad

That Japanese guest gave 1000 yen-

Jingdian, you

How have you two come

Didn't I tell you two not to come?

Am I not suited to come see you

Do you know what your surname is

Uncle, Auntie

I didn't know you all would be coming

I didn't prepare in advance

I casually made some dishes

I don't know if it suits your tastes

Pretty good

Thank you

Auntie, you're being so polite

Y'all eat

There's still some matters at the hotel

I'll be leaving now

Sit and eat together

I've eaten already

You accompany Uncle and Auntie in eating

Dad, Mom, eat first

Eat first

You're not returning home because of her

No

We've been together

for not very long

It has nothing to do with her

You've grown to be this big of a person

You're not motivated in learning

And also not putting heart into finding a job

But for these things, you sure are skilled

I'm in my 20's

It's normal to have a girlfriend

That's nothing to make a big fuss about

Okay

Then you say

How long have you been a doorman?

2 years

The first time I took the postgrad exams

I thought it would be more convenient to study if I stayed in Beijing

I looked for work everywhere

Only this hotel wanted me

And it covers food and living

So I came here to work

Jingdian

If you lack money, you could tell home

Your dad and I thought

You were doing well in Beijing

So we didn't care to control you

If we had known early on you were here being a doorman

Then why not go home

Find a good job

It doesn't matter how much money you'd make

But it's at least better than staying here wasting away the days

How is this called wasting away the days?

Being a doorman is also a job

Do I have to be like my dad

Writing manuscripts no one will read

That's the only thing that's promising?

You think you should be pretty proud of yourself huh

If you think it's something to be proud of

Why did you lie to us saying

You were working at a joint venture

What work

This work?

All day, you're like a telephone pole

standing in front of the hotel entrance

lowering your head and waist

Holding bags and carrying luggage for people

Revolutionary work is not separated based on value or status

I'm relying on my own efforts to earn money and eat

Why can't I be proud?

Besides

My hotel is a joint venture

This point is true *Literal: If it is a fake (bag), it will be replaced for you.

I never lied to you

Not relying on your family like this

you think you have dignity?

You're ruining your own future

Our family supported you to be a college student

for you to be a doorman?

Every day mingling with these kinds of people

Living in a beat-up place like this

A group of people like what

How many words have you exchanged with them

And you know what kind of people they are?

No need to speak and I know it all

A group of unpromising people

Since you were little, I repeatedly

told you

Attend a good school

Make friends with exceptional people

Only this way you can improve

And you can become better and better

Chen Jingdian

Think about it

Do you really want to be with this kind of woman

Be with a woman who makes beds for a lifetime?

Dad

She tiredlessly

Made you a whole table's worth of food

And you speak about her like this

Am I lacking this one meal

If I don't eat this meal, will I starve to death

Where is she from

What education level

Are you looking for a girlfriend

Or a maid

You're a college graduate

Finding a person like this

You're not disgusted to show it?

Who are you saying can't be shown

Your work

Your friends

Your girlfriend

Everything about you

is all too embarrassing to show

Do you still remember

What you said when you were young

You want to test into Qinghua University, you want to test into Beijing University

You want to attend China's best college

You want to help our Chen family

earn a breath (gain face)

To think I was proud

I said my son had ambition

But the result?

In a turn of the body

You've become like this

Muddling along

Eating whatever and waiting for death

Dad

Are you here to see me

or to insult me

What

What are you standing up for

Do you want to fight?

Okay

Come

I want to see

How far can you fall

Then I'll show you

To what degree I've fallen

You wait, I'll show you

Jingdian

Old Chen, look at what you're saying

It's not right to speak about your own child like this

Don't you want to know how disappointing I am

Come look

Look

These pile of books I've read for 3 years

They've almost rotted from all the flipping

This is the first year's postgrad exam score

I was off by 3 points

This is the 2nd year's, I was off by 13 points

This is the 3rd year's

I told you I was off by 2 points

Actually that was a lie

My math and English were the worst

My specialized courses were also not good

I was off by about 80 points

The more I test, the worse I do

If you say I can still pass the post grad exam

I won't believe it myself

Right

I did lie to you all previously

I said my work was good

My salary was high

Actually there wasn't such a thing

Also

Those

photos of attending meetings I sent

Actually those were all photos I took at the hotel

I just wanted to

not have you all nag me

Don't you all look down on

being a doorman

Sorry

I actually really like this profession

I think it's really fitting

Dad

Mom

I previously said some

words that were out of bounds

And made you misunderstand

It's good to get everything out of the way today

To save you all from having more fantasies

I'm really not an outstanding youth

Me being a doorman is just to pass/survive the days

There's definitely no future

Before, you all thought too highly of me

I also thought too highly of myself

But from today

I hope you all can remember

I, Chen Jingdian

just am a doorman

I took leave to come back here

I still need to go back to work

Y'all keep eating

When you leave, remember to shut the door

Jingdian

You go slowly

Shifu

What do you say Jingdian will do

Do I need to say

Resign

Return to his hometown

No way

Is that necessary

Why is it not possible

How is it not necessary

Hi parents' aura, the way they're dressed up

With one look, you know they're educated people

How can they take their son doing this

Good evening

Thank you

Then that celebratory feast

has now become a farewell toast

Then do you think he will still take the postgrad exam this year

You kid

Is that related to this

Testing or not

This job, even if they have to push his head down

They'll make him resign

Makes sense

Jingdian's pride

Has been turned upside down by his dad

No matter what's said, he can't keep working

Do you still remember when Jingdian first came

He thought he was super special *Literal: cow

He wouldn't talk to anyone

Right

If you didn't mention it, I would've forgotten

Good evening

Good evening

Till now, I remember that guy

When he received a tip for the first time

the expression he had at the time

was like if he had gotten a scolding from someone

His face was a classic

But I still don't understand

You say 2-3 years

How did he hide it from his family

I heard him mention it once

His relationship with his family is average

Especially with his dad

The two are like enemies

Normally, they don't say much

With his mom

It's just a routine report that he's safe and well

These years he always says he's studying

I think he went back only twice

This kid

is just living a lavish life(?)

Going back home twice in 3 years

If it were me

I couldn't wait that long

Shifu

Shifu

Don't

Don't

I'm not that weak

No I mean

These years I'm used to it now

It's not bad either

I don't need to do year-end shopping

Right

I also don't need to rush to make it for New Year's Eve Dinner

If I want to work overtime, I just get triple the wages

If I don't want to work

Then I'll just stroll all around the city *Beijing is called the "four nine cities", referring to the four gates of the imperial city and the nine gates of the inner city

I'm telling you

Beijing is only called Beijing during the Spring Festival (Chinese New Year)

There's so little people

Not many cars

The sky is high and the earth is wide

Wherever you want to go, go there

There's no traffic anywhere

If you don't want to go home this year

Let's go ride bikes

I'll take you for a stroll along the 2nd Ring

Let's discuss more when the time comes

Don't wait to discuss more

Well, maybe

I'll celebrate New Year's at Youen's house

I'm discovering that you

you're ungrateful *Literal: wolf heart, dog lung

No, Shifu

Jason, Phillip

Thomas wants you all to return a phone call

Respond when you've received the message

Stop drinking, Jingdian

It's okay, there's no problems with this much alcohol

Where did I just get to

Middle School

Right

In middle school

(I was) smart

Extremely smart

I could recite thousands of digits of pi

Listen

3.1415926

537

No wait

It's 5357

9

I've forgotten

I've forgotten

Not bad

Better than me

And then it was high school

I tested into

the best high school in the province

They say as long as you get into that high school

You will have had one foot in 985 and 211 *Project 211 members are regarded as tier 1 universities in China, Project 985 has similar goals

I didn't have poor grades in the class

And I've gotten the top exam score in the class

I won a prize in a physics competition

But in the end, I messed up on the College Entrance Exam *Literal: One foot stepped on air

I feel in a pit

I only attended a Tier 3 College(?) *Independent colleges founded by ordinary universities and enterprises?

Frustration?

There was that

But honestly, it wasn't too much

I just thought I was unlucky

That time, I told my parents

It's okay

Your son is experiencing setbacks first before praise

I'll do well on the postgrad exams when that time comes

Later

Later you all know

How high (fun)

I feel like my life has already reached peaks

How fun

I feel like my life has already reached the end

Aren't you still studying though

That tutoring class

Aren't you still attending it

Zhengzheng bro

Other people don't know what I'm like

But don't y'all know?

What studying

What postgrad exam class

I do so terribly on the mock exam already

Why should I still take it?

Wait

That mock exam score

Isn't it not out yet

He's had too much to drink

Drink alcohol

Right

It's just like you think

I didn't lie only to myself

I lied to my parents

and I also lied to you

In reality, the score came out long ago

I didn't tell you

I'm more than 100 points away from the passing line

What's going on

Waiter, 5 more

Coming

No, no

Niulang

We're not drinking more

It's a joke

Niulang, you sit down

We don't want it okay

Sit down / We don't want it

Put it back, right

You sit down

Ladies and gentlemen

In this breezy and sunny day

I want to announce something

From today

I

Chen Jingdian

Officially put an end to fantasies

I give up on the postgrad exam

I want to get by

And eat whatever while awaiting death

I will be a monk for a day and hit a clock for a day *Metaphor for doing things perfunctory and negativity, messing up day by day, without the spirit of initiative.

I want to take the initiative and give up

And take the initiative to tangping *Lying flat, a Lifestyle and social protest movement in China. A rejection of societal pressures to overwork.

Take all the untimely things

and strangle them all in the cradle

Applause

Dad, Mom

I've let down your hopes

I wasn't able to use success

to return your favor of raising me

I'm sorry

Chen Jingdian, are you done

Are you worthy of yourself

When you were sick

And Manager Sun scolded you

What did you tell me upon returning

Did you forget?

When Zhengzheng bro was celebrating his birthday

What did you say then, have you also forgotten?

Right

I said it

After the birthday celebrations

It was I who came back and told Douzi

and let her support you in taking the postgrad exam

Because in my heart, you're really outstanding

I don't want you to be like us

Living in confusion

Being only a doorman standing at an entrance ever day

What are you doing

On what basis

Did you mention my taking postgrad exams to Douzi?

Don't go crazy

What right do you have to try and manage me

Don't go crazy

Whether I'm a doorman or whether I jump from a building

What does it have to do with you

Have you had too much to drink

What does it have to do with you

Are you crazy

How much do you love being someone's dad?

Why do you love being someone's dad?

Let go

Let go

Are you so bored

Chen Jingdian

I'll let you go crazy

Come

Let go of him

Let him get sober

Wang Niulang, let go of me

You let go / You let him come

Don't mess around

All of you, don't mess around

Shut up, listen to me

Chen Jingdian

You listen to me

You let go

You listen to me

In the future, what you do

What path you walk, how you walk

It's all your own business

No one can help you

But being a person, you need to know what's good and what's bad

A person who doesn't know what's good and what's bad

doesn't have friends

doesn't have brothers

No one will love you, do you understand?

Do you understand or not

Speak!

Brother

I'm sorry to everyone

I know you're all doing things for my best interest

You brothers substituted me

standing in so many night shifts

Douzi brought her long saved money

out to sign me up for classes

She made me food

I know all of this

But I don't have a solution

I really

am not outstanding like you all think I am

I

I can't do it

I just can't do it

How fun

I feel like my life has already reached it's peak

How fun

I think my life has has already reached a high tide

Zhengzheng bro

How fun

Shifu, come

Help me hold him

How fun

Douzi

How about I send him upstairs first

Or in a bit he might catch a wind (cold)

Sounds good, thank you brother Wang

Stand well

What's wrong

There's a sister who has something to take care of at home

I'm taking the night shift for her

I need to get back

I'll have to trouble you guys to take care of him

Then you go

Old Wang

I didn't drink too much

Let me walk myself

I've drank too much

Come, sleep

But

But

What

What's this crap

Residence to generations of people who read books?

Okay, come

Sleep

Jingdian, you come here

Old Wang

Don't

But you

Don't move me

Okay

Yours

Yours

The leftovers here

are all Douzi's

Where's Douzi

Sleep, sleep okay

Douzi will be here in a bit

Go

Go, enter you room

What are you-

I'll sleep

What are you doing

I'll sleep

That's little Zhengzheng's bed

What are you looking for?

I'll help you look

Mine

Mine

You

Just let him sleep here

Mine

Thank you for giving me something to look forward to

When I'm depressed and think of you

My heart feels pretty warm

You're like a superhero

You make me feel like this world

isn't that bad

Is today feel good/emotional day Literal: chicken soup day

No

I just encountered some stuff

And wanted to send some little emotions

You be busy

Have you met a superhero who

pours hundreds of cups of coffee for people

There's only 1 hour between flight transfers

It's only enough to eat a simple meal

What kind of superhero do I count as?

I'm more like a black bear *also metaphor for cowardly and useless people who dare not compete

There's not black bear that's skinny like you

Passengers are about to board the plane, I'll make the long story short

You don't need to thank me

I didn't give you something to look forward to

What you look forward to is something you earn yourself

No one can hope for

receiving something to look forward to from other people

What are you doing

I can't sleep

I got up to organize

What are you doing here

Big cleaning

Move over a bit

Shifu

Shifu

Wake up

You wake up

Coming

Are you the one selling tattered stuff

Yes

Here, this way

It's all here, you weigh it first

There's still a bit more in the room

If you can't take it all in one go

Come another time

Just this much?

Are there any of those cans

glass bottles and stuff

Nope

This is all just useless paper and old books

This is not worth money

It can't sell for much

1 buck for 1 catty

Got it

Don't get anxious

The car will be here right away

Leave slowly

Take it slow

So much stuff, let me help you

It's not needed

I can do this much work myself

Jason, Phillip

Go to the big meeting room to help out

Jason received, I'll be here soon

Received

Y'all don't go, I'll go

Whoever the walkie talkie calls goes

Why are you fighting over it

Let's go, Phillip

I'm telling you

What Jingdian's doing is called being busy with useless things

He's trying to transfer his attention elsewhere

Don't fight over stuff to do with him

But it's been so many days

Him keeping being like this

isn't a plan

Then what can we do

Are you going to fight with him again?

Last time I said it pretty clearly

He has to rely on himself to adjust for these matters

Ever since his mom and dad went back

There's no communication from either party

Even on WeChat, they won't talk to each other

It's like they cut off father-son ties

You're listening to his bullshit?

Little kid

You've seen too many dramas

Cutting off father-son ties

Can these relations be cut just like that?

Family arguments

At most last 1 year and a half

When there's a holiday

Extend greetings to each other, and it's over

Then what

Then will Jingdian return to his hometown

Or keep staying in Beijing

being a doorman

That depends on himself

I'm not saying this because I'm angry

and it's not like I don't want to care about him

After all, Jingdian is still my younger brother

The worry and anxiousness I should have

isn't less than you

But

For some things, it's useless if other people worry

You know that right

Ultimately, it's his life to live

I'm most worried about my sister Dou

Douzi?

Douzi is probably fine right

I think she's been pretty normal lately

Normal

Is normal normal?

Normal is abnormal

Is anyone there?

Is anyone there?

Is there a doctor?

Someone come and help

Auntie

What's wrong

Auntie, what's happened

My granddaughter is choking on a grape

Help her, save her

Okay

Auntie, you go back first

I will call someone immediately

Thank you

2201 needs first aid

There's a child who's choking

Grandma will help you dig it out

Where's people

Where's the doctor

Ask people to come, hurry!

Help

Child

Don't worry, don't be scared

We got the first aid kit

We're coming up immediately

Call someone

Hurry

I've learned first aid

Give the kid to me

We're coming soon

What's the situation over there with you

Please respond

What's the situation over there with you

Hurry

This way, 2201

Okay

It's alright now

It's alright now

What's the situation with the kid now

The thing that was stuck has been thrown up

Let me see

Kid is so obedient

Come, open your mouth

Open your mouth

Come

So obedient, open a little wider

So obedient

Okay

There shouldn't be any big problems left

But I recommend

It's best to go to the hospital for an examination

See if the throat and windpipe

were hurt

Okay

There's a car waiting below

I'll go with you

Thank you

Come

Here

Was it you who did the first aid just now?

Yes

Okay, I got it

Are you silly

You already called someone in the walkie talkie

Just wait for us to come

You don't understand first aid

In Shining Moment

there was a first aid class

I learned

Shine-

You only listened to one class

and you dare try yourself?

The teacher said

In this situation, the most important thing is

taking those 4 golden minutes

If you miss the best time

It harms kids' brains

irreversibly

If it's serious, there it could be cerebral palsy

You were lucky and saved her successfully

What if something bad happened

It was just you with no one watching

There wasn't even someone who could testify

I

I didn't think too much

You're so silly

Taking such a big risk

and not getting any benefit

Look at Catfish Fiend

He didn't even say thank you

The kid's hospital examination results

we don't even know what it will be like

That's a human life

If you try to look ahead and think about the end result for every thing

Do you still want to live or not

That's not what I mean

You go work

I still need to work

Mom, I want to drink water

If you want to drink, can't you pour it yourself

It's not like you don't have hands or feet

Young lady

When mom buys something back

You casually just throw it away

But for yourself

Look

Once you get back, you pile up all this random stuff

Are you trying to set up a stall

It's all yours

Sort it our yourself

What is all this

I was in duty free shops

It's the chocolate I bought for you

They're from Switzerland

It uses sugar substitutes

It's really fitted for the middle-aged and elderly to eat

If you eat it, your blood sugar won't rise

What do you mean *Shanghainese

You think your mom is too old?

What I mean is

You can give some to those

square dancing aunties to eat

Replenish energy after dancing

Share with them

That's wishful thinking

If you're going to dance with other people

Shouldn't you make good relations

If using hard tactics doesn't work, then use soft ones

You really understand things non huh

There's still more in the luggage

Pick yourself

What is there to pick

Aren't they all mine

All yours, all yours

Keeping them for yourself, or gifting them to people

You make that decision yourself

Young lady

Teaching mom how to do things huh

This box of biscuits

I can give it to Xiao Zhang to eat

Not okay

What's wrong

Are you two's relationship bad again

What kind of relationship can I have with him

What did he say to you

He didn't say anything

Him as a person

His thoughts are all alive/flexible (?)

But they're not used on dance

Other people's thoughts

Originally weren't used on dance

It's nothing

It's just that day

Didn't we argue

The second day

You left a note and flew away

When it came time to dance

Xiao Zhang noticed I was unhappy

And asked me why

I said, why else

I argued with you

Xiao Zhang said

In the hotel

He met a lot of unruly customers

A lot more fierce than you

There's even people who hit others with ashtrays

He says the service sector is hard to work in

When you get back, you need to a way to let off steam

If you need somewhere to let off steam

He says for you to go find him

Don't find me to let off steam

I find him to let off steam?

Then I need to prepare some ashtrays

Xiao Zhang said

Next time something happens

He said for me to call him

He will support me

I said that's not necessary

My own daughter

am I not able to treat her?

If not, then I'm not a

qualified mother

Okay

He's biological

I was picked up, okay

You can give him that box of biscuits

That won't do

I can't give him this

It's too expensive

That won't work *Shanghainese

Good morning

Xiao Liu's here

Morning

Hello, hello

Come

I've brought something yummy for everyone

What yummy thing

Auntie Liu

What yummy thing

My daughter flew abroad

and brought back chocolates

It's sugarless

Even people with diabetes

can eat it

Come, take it

Thank you, Meili

Thank me for what

Come

Thank you

Here, take

Thank you

Take

Thank you Meili, thank you

It's still what Meili brings that's most yummy

Not sweet and not sick from it

The important thing is, it doesn't stick to teeth when eating it

That's right

Look at how pretty the packaging is

It's definitely not cheap

It's all chocolate when putting it into your mouth

How can it be made of gold

But my daughter said

For chocolate

it's best to buy it from the source of origin

Especially for black chocolate

It lowers blood pressure

Protects the heart

Like us

people who exercise out every day

It's best to always eat it

Take more

Do you hear

Thank you

Take another one

I want 2

You take one too

Oh you want 2

You take one too

That's enough

Do you have high blood pressure

or heart disease

I have them all

I have them all

Especially when I can't see Youen