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=Stray Birds=

=Episode 04=

It is simple.

I just don't like him!

I swear

I have nothing to do with him!

I'm telling you.

We are even now.

Wait,

do you know how to settle a score?

You said you owe me a favor back then

and suddenly we are even?

Fine,

then

how should I return this favor?

The time is not yet right.

I need to think about it.

What does she owe you?

How about we have lunch together?

As a man,

can you see the big picture?

Big picture, okay?

Country bumpkin.

Tian Tian!

Tian Tian!

Tian Tian!

Brother!

The food the boss gave isn't nice.

I am so hungry now.

This can't be right.

Senior, I am Xiao Man.

I have recently

gained interest in postgraduate studies,

so I thought I could ask you about

the research topics at

Carnegie Mellon University.

Brother,

what is this?

It is our food box.

Is there anything inside I can eat?

As long as we have it,

it can hold anything

you wish to eat.

I want to eat! I want to eat!

Brother, have some.

Put it away.

But

it's the age of individualism.

Do you think you will be needing this?

I...

Alright!

Today is everyone's first day of work.

Give yourselves

applause for encouragement.

The company's line of work

and departments

should be familiar to you by now.

After this,

the heads of different departments

will assign you

the tasks to accomplish.

Remember.

It doesn't matter whether you were a genius,

a star student,

or a fake genius.

At Brain Data,

you shall remove these labels,

work hard

and be diligent.

Come with me.

Me?

Attention, please.

A small issue has cropped up with a client.

We will go over there immediately.

You, you,

you, you

and you,

come with me.

Quickly!

Where is Lin Shao Ting?

Does he have anything to do with this?

Today we are

going to meet a big client

who bought our

Brain Data server.

Now,

this server

has a serious problem.

So

we have two jobs today.

First,

repair the server

as quickly as we can.

Second,

try your best

to pacify the client.

I will split the tasks.

Mei Tong and Xiao Ji

have gone ahead

to check the data.

Chai Qing, Wu Yue.

You two will follow me

and learn how to manage a client.

As for Zhang Jiang,

I know that you are smart.

So play by ear when we get there

and look for a breakthrough.

Wait,

isn't that Wu Yue's expertise?

I wanted to learn from him.

You have not completed probation

and you're already being picky?

Remember.

You are newcomers.

Watch and

learn.

If you cannot do a foolproof job,

don't ever speak without permission.

Hello?

We're just downstairs.

This way.

This is the legendary

heaven, right?

At this moment, it is hell.

This is the expensive

zero downtime machine you sold us?

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Why have you brought so many people?

Are you looking for a fight?

Let me tell you.

No number of people you bring today

can save you.

Please calm down.

These are newcomers.

I have brought them here to learn.

To learn?

Still haven't grasped the situation?

Call your

big boss over!

Speak louder!

When?

Help me delay him!

What?

He's at the door?

Here,

let me introduce you.

Come on.

This is

Ren Qian Qiu

from Brain Data.

I have told him

about the situation.

Mr. Ren,

apologies for troubling you

to make this trip yourself.

Rightfully so.

Mr. Liang,

I am Ren Qian Qiu.

Mr. Ren,

it is not that we don't understand you.

We've spent so much money

to build this database

and so much effort

to collect and protect it.

We just

cannot let it

be all in vain.

We sent engineers

immediately

to begin the repairs.

Moreover,

we have hired a

technical expert

who is flying here from the US now.

So

the data from

these hours

will just be lost?

The data is not lost.

Let's leave

the onsite situation to the engineers.

There's nothing we can do by being anxious,

am I right?

It's best if it can be resolved.

Otherwise,

our collaboration with Brain Data

will only be up to this point.

I promise

that situation

will never happen.

Boss,

what should we do now?

Just follow me.

Pay attention.

Report back to me if anything happens.

Senior?

It's really you!

Wu Yue?

You're working at Qian Da Group?

How are you doing?

Just going along.

Right,

why are you here?

Didn't you go to the US?

I...

I have come back to work.

I am

here with my boss

to accept criticism.

Listen.

The company is really frustrated this time!

It isn't the first time

a problem has occurred.

The senior management

has decided to bring in the media

and expose the situation.

The media?

Really?

Do you remember

Li Li?

My junior.

She later joined the television industry.

Since I know her,

so I called her over.

Mr. Ren.

I'll get working.

Sure.

There's no signal inside.

I came out to call you.

How is the data?

Think of a solution.

This is our company's responsibility!

We must be accountable.

That's all.

What's wrong?

Is there a problem?

No.

Xiao Man, we're going for lunch now.

Okay.

(Xinghe TV) (News Van)

Senior!

Wu Yue.

You also work here?

I am...

a newcomer.

Zheng Qi Ming asked me to wait here for you.

My apologies.

Today's interview

will have to be postponed.

They are rushing repair works.

It is a crucial time.

Not the right time for an interview.

Is it?

The signal here is not good.

He asked me to invite you

to the cafe there for a seat

and catch up.

I will go upstairs to have a look.

Senior,

the senior management

from both companies are now working on it.

Going up now may not

be appropriate, I'm afraid.

Then

let's wait.

Come on.

Sorry,

the number you have dialed

cannot be reached for now.

Please try again later.

A latte, please.

What is with Zheng Qi Ming?

He called all of us here

and now there's no news from him?

He is upstairs

and caught in the rush too.

If that is the case,

that means they have reached an agreement then.

The other company

has sent a technical expert,

flying from the US.

Very sincere!

Even if you have to report the news,

can you postpone it for a bit?

Sorry

for the inconvenience.

I have earned our company

over ten hours of time.

What have you done?

Have you finished?

It's my turn now.

Every company

has a department called the marketing department.

Matters relating to the media

are all handled by this department.

You

cannot represent the company!

They

are the only

spokesperson of the company.

Do you know

the serious consequences

of what you have done?

The loss of trust!

I understand.

But if they rushed into

the engine room,

the zero downtime reputation

painstakingly built by our company

will be gone.

Just leave.

If they see you,

I can't protect you.

Thank you, Mr. Ren.

But

I don't need protection.

Today, Mr. Liang got angry

just to

give you support and favor.

How else will the company understand

your importance?

Stop.

I don't need it.

For such a small matter,

is it necessary to alarm the media?

Of course!

Qian Da Group

is now a listed company.

Qian Da Financial

involves so many clients.

Our information must be transparent,

which is also an accountability

to our shareholders.

I've never seen you

make anything transparent before.

Don't be late for tonight's dinner gathering.

With whom?

Hats off to both you and your father.

Why am I passing messages for both of you?

(Temporarily closed.)

I am sorry.

The upper floor has been closed.

My apologies.

Mr. Ren.

Come on.

Come on.

Everyone, come in.

Take a seat.

Anywhere.

Come on.

Supervisor Chen, your seat.

Thank you.

Supervisor Chen,

I sent people to

buy all this food from a hotel personally.

Eat while it is hot!

What a banquet!

Thank you.

Mr. Ren,

I am really sorry.

I have never taken on

such a task.

I was ignorant.

My attitude this morning wasn't right.

I offer my apologies to you now.

It's alright.

You overstate the matter.

I also come from a technical background.

When I heard

your servers ran into a problem,

I was also very anxious.

Eat, eat.

Sure.

Zhang Jiang,

go buy

Supervisor Chen

some coffee.

Okay.

Come on, eat!

Have a talk with Supervisor Chen.

Xiao Ji,

come over and eat!

It's alright.

It is quieter here.

Supervisor Chen,

have more.

Sure, sure!

Have a prawn.

Thank you, Supervisor Chen.

You're welcome.

Supervisor Sun,

Mr. Ren is in the meeting room having lunch.

Aren't you going over?

Uh...

I still got some things to do.

I'll leave first.

Our old factories now

indeed have problems.

The equipment

is getting old

and may even require

a lot of additional investment.

I don't have money.

You can help me foot the bill.

Cheers.

Mr. Liang will have a solution.

Dad.

Hi, uncles.

My son, Shao Ting.

Have a seat.

Let me introduce them to you.

These are my old friends and business partners

I've been working with for a long time.

Like father, like son.

Look at Shao Ting.

He looks

just like Mr. Liang.

Handsome and courageous.

You flattered me.

Shao Ting,

I hear you've joined Brain Data.

Although

it is not the same industry as us,

it is a technology company after all.

It is good to learn IT.

Otherwise,

you will be like us.

We're old and about to

get eliminated.

That's right.

Shao Ting,

build experience at

Brain Data.

It will be easier when you take over

your father in the future.

Mr. Liang,

when that time comes,

don't be reluctant to let go.

I have long wanted to retire.

All depends on

when he wants to take over.

Oh, right.

Earlier

we were talking about the problems of

the old factory.

I still think it is

best to sell it.

The investments I gave to you

to clear up the mess last time.

You just sold half of it.

And now, you're already

making plans for the other half?

No.

We can't lose the commercial enterprise.

We can always outsource.

Maybe it will

lower the costs significantly.

Moreover, many businesses

are moving to this path now.

Businesses with heavy burdens like this

should be dropped when possible.

We should try to reduce our burdens,

right?

Then what will happen

to the old workers?

They have followed me

from the beginning.

Right now,

we can't consider

so much.

If it really matters,

we can sell them along with the factory.

That's right.

Right now,

the banks are cooperating well with us.

The state of our finances is not

to the extent of

selling our factories and people.

I feel

being prepared for crises

is always necessary.

You...

You see, we

can't wait for

the time when

the equipment is really old

and the costs are high then to think

about selling.

Will we then be able

able to sell for a good price?

What do you think?

Sell, sell sell.

You only have your eye on the old factory.

When you have sold away the hearts of the people,

I'll see what business you have left.

Come on.

Let's not just talk about work.

Come on.

Everyone, eat.

Have some food.

Okay.

Uncles,

you have serious business to talk about today.

I will not disturb you.

I'm meeting up with friends today.

I'll leave first.

Alright.

Sit down.

Listen carefully.

Everything we talk about now

will matter to you in the future.

I'm not going to be your successor.

I am doing well at Brain Data.

Young people

are ignorant.

What are you arrogant about?

I am arrogant.

I just don't want to be you.

Children...

You don't want to be me,

but which part of you

isn't like me?

Yes, yes, yes.

You look like me.

You act like me.

Even your luck with women

is similar to mine.

Come on.

Cheers.

I just hate myself,

I hate that I am so much like you.

Mr. Liang,

don't get angry with children.

When they grow up,

they will understand.

I'm doomed.

Looks like this time,

I will really be kicked out.

Let me.

Newcomer?

Intern.

I'll do it.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

(Editorial Room)

Uh...

Teacher,

the producer is looking for you.

What are you doing here?

Actually...

I am

an editing intern.

Give this to him.

Have him make a copy of

Qian Da's material.

I will need it.

Qian Da...

If people find us, we'll lose.

Both of us

cannot lose,

understand?

I miss Mom and Dad.

I want to find Mom and Dad.

Was the ice cream you won today nice?

It was strawberry flavored.

Very delicious.

Next time,

I want to win and try it too.

You can't win me

at games.

Quite confident!

Shall we compete?

Let's do it.

Tomorrow

we will do it another way

to get bigger prizes from

Uncle Edward.

How about that?

Big Su,

why is it so difficult

to ask you out for a meal?

I've called you,

messaged you.

Do you need me to kneel down and beg you?

Little Su,

don't use these punch lines anymore.

So embarrassing!

You don't know how busy I am.

I don't care you want to eat or not.

I could be playing the piano

if I wasn't busy with this meal.

I don't want to

ruin my piano hands

for the sake of

you two.

Little Su,

where did you get

your fierce wife?

Better check your order now

and see if there is

a refund policy within seven days of purchase.

Send her back!

That's enough, you two.

Didn't I

tell you to bring Xiao Jia back?

Why isn't he here?

He's overseas.

Overseas?

Even so, he should come back and visit.

I wanted to ask you.

This Xiao Jia.

Is he your colleague or classmate?

What year was he born in?

Where does his family live?

Which street?

Oh, right.

Most importantly,

what do his parents

do for a living?

What are you doing?

Okay,

I won't ask anymore.

Look at you.

I gave birth to you.

Can't I pay some attention

to you?

You even dislike me asking.

How is it like

coming back to work in China?

Don't you know

what your Big Su's got?

If you have any

inside information in the future,

come find this Brain Data person!

Ren Qian Qiu

didn't make things difficult for you, did he?

He doesn't have the energy to bother me.

Today, at Qian Da Group,

others made things so difficult for him and he almost cried.

Qian Da Group?

You mean your company

wants to continue doing

digital finance?

I don't think so.

I have not heard about it.

Moreover,

the company has been

working with Qian Da Group for so long.

Even if they do,

they should just be assisting them.

I don't think it's going to work out.

Both sides have messed up a pile of products.

(QIAN DA GROUP)

Wu Yue.

I have waited so long for you.

Wait, Senior,

what's going on?

Hurry.

Go on!

Come on.

Brain Data

specially hired an expert

from the US headquarters.

After more than ten hours

of urgent repairs,

the data on the servers

has been fully recovered,

giving maximum reduction to losses.

Goddess.

What's going on inside?

Nothing.

The female newscaster

didn't choose those who did the work or the worrying,

but picked the photogenic one

who has muscles.

That's not fair.

She should at least feature us,

the frontline fighters.

You?

Look into the mirror.

This person looks like a celebrity.

These eyebrows look like...

Sir,

please

lower the resolution

of your face, okay?

Zhang Jiang.

The efficacy of

your repairs is quite high.

Since when did we fix it?

Then the people

Supervisor Sun brought fixed it?

Supervisor Sun?

He didn't come.

Why?

Nothing. Just asking.

Okay.

It's killing me. I need to pee!

Playing with me?

Tell me.

How big is the difference between

interviewing yesterday

and interviewing today?

You owe me.

Remember that.

Of course.

What happened to the clients

these few days

have made me realize that

you have not fully

stepped into the role of an employee.

We are all

a part of the company.

None of us

can represent the company.

Only one department

can represent the company

and that is

the marketing department.

Later,

the marketing manager

will give all of you training.

But before this,

I want to announce

a bad piece of news.

I gave all of you

a role at the client's place.

However, not everyone

took the initiative

to find and play their role.

So amongst the six of you,

one will definitely be eliminated.

Ask yourself,

"will it be me"?

Don't you want to defend yourselves?

At the data center,

I had it figured out.

We couldn't solve the outage,

but

there's a group of like-minded friends

I could communicate with.

Actually, Supervisor Chen

is not that angry

with our company

and our losses

have been limited.

As small employees of the company,

our role was not to handle the outage

but to learn.

I feel

I have achieved that.

Everything I did

was to allow

the situation to take a turn for the better.

And in fact,

I have also done that.

Wu Yue

and Xiao Ji.

The two of you stay.

The rest

can take your black briefcase and leave.

What's going on?

Wu Yue is facing retrenchment.

This time it is probably hopeless.

Don't try to be heroic.

You don't know anything.

You'll be doing it for nothing.

I don't think it will be him.

I think it will be him!

That day, when Mr. Ren scolded him,

Mr. Ren was pulling a long face.

I could barely breathe.

Both of you

give me a reason

to keep you.

I saw

Wu Yue pry the media away without permission!

Actually,

I didn't set my mind on

firing you.

I think I have

said it very clearly.

I want each of you

to give me a reason

to keep you,

not a reason to fire the other.

You can't save yourself,

so you must bring the other person down?

You are the boss.

Of course everything you say is right!

Wu Yue made such an

obvious mistake this time.

Yet you still want to keep him

and fire me!

This is not fair!

Okay,

I will give you a reason then.

Listen carefully.

Wu Yue is wrong.

That is right.

He was wrong because

he obstructed the media interview

without permission

because he knows

the media interview

will negatively

affect Brain Data's reputation.

But you made no mistake.

I mean it.

It's been one day and one night.

You did not make a single mistake.

Why?

It's because you

can't even find an employee

of Qian Da Group to chat with!

Even if you wanted to, you had no chance to make a mistake!

♪I can't bear to see you look back♪

♪You have to learn to move forward♪

♪Suddenly understood that love isn't about possession♪

♪Thinking about your gentleness, hoping I could rewind time♪

♪If we were to start again, I'd still be willing to sacrifice everything I have♪

♪Maybe I was immature that you didn't feel secure♪

♪Setting you free is my last promise to you♪

♪I want to stay with you till the end♪

♪I don't want to let go of your hands♪

♪Don't lose our love to time♪

♪I hope yesterday would stop for me♪

♪I want to stay with you till the end♪

♪This is my most beautiful protection♪

♪I never thought two people in love♪

♪Would end up as ordinary friends♪

♪I want to stay with you till the end♪

♪I don't want to let go of your hands♪

♪Don't lose our love to time♪

♪I hope yesterday could last forever♪

♪I want to stay with you till the end♪

♪This is my most beautiful protection♪

♪I never thought two people in love♪

♪Would end up as ordinary friends♪

♪I never thought two people in love♪

♪Would end up as ordinary friends♪