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[Falling Before Fireworks]

[Episode 11]

[Jingyu Hall]

Yun Pian...

Senior, I didn't find

a studio

that meets your requirements.

Let's go somewhere else.

Senior,

I want to give him another surprise

next week during the School Anniversary.

Good luck to you.

So the three of you are alumni.

Yes.

My first love rejected me because he got married.

She is your first love.

Something came up. I have to go back to work.

I give you a maximum of ten minutes.

I'll give you a ride back to town

in ten minutes.

Ten minutes is sufficient.

You're much more generous than I expected.

I'll wait for you at the door.

Okay.

What are you doing here?

Didn't I tell you that we have to

work overtime at the bank?

Right.

I'll keep this for you.

Have fun.

Let's talk inside.

What's wrong with you?

Even your wife is more magnanimous than you.

What's the matter?

I want to tell you

my decision.

[Jing Garden]

Something's wrong with her.

What do you mean?

She knows that Brother Chen is already married.

What else can she do?

All she can do

is bluff.

You don't need to wear perfume to bluff.

Isn't that normal?

When you girls meet your exes,

you get fully decorated

with no thread of hair left unattended.

Mentor, I think you're overly sensitive.

But the perfume she's wearing

is called the morning after sex.

Their slogan is

when the dawn breaks after we made out.

She came here to declare war on me.

No.

On the wife of Jing Chen.

I was going to give up yesterday.

But your wife reminds me

that love and marriage

are different.

So I stayed up all night pondering about this.

I've changed my mind.

That's what she told you.

We talked

more than this.

I should have slapped myself to death last night.

Why did I tell her something like that?

I'm with you as long as you don't slap senior.

I even pretended to be elegant

and gave her ten minutes.

[Jing Garden]

You can do lots of things in ten minutes.

You're exaggerating.

What can you do in ten minutes?

It's not even enough to finish a round of the game.

The marriage between you and her

is just

a legal contract.

Besides,

the contract

is expiring.

Jing Chen.

You and I

don't believe in marriage.

Why are you hurting innocent people?

Yes, I have to calm down.

She hasn't played her trump card.

Chi Zhongyu,

tell me everything you know.

Only when you know your enemy well

you can win every battle.

Mentor, there is no need to overthink this.

Senior holds the non-marriage doctrine.

I don't need marriage.

All I want is love.

Of course,

the bottom line is

that I'm not a mistress.

During the cooling-off period,

I won't do anything to jeopardize your marriage.

I can wait

until you divorce Siqing.

Yun Pian,

you've always been confident.

That's a good thing.

But it doesn't work for me.

You don’t know me,

not to mention my marriage.

Does Siqing know

your obsession with traditional craftsmanship,

aversion to coffee,

and impeccable sense of morality?

Does she know that?

And

you two aren't even wearing wedding rings.

She only needs to know what she wants to know.

She doesn't have to do this for me.

Really?

Do you want to bet

that you'll divorce?

Ten minutes is up.

Do you not care

or not have the guts?

No, that'll be unnecessary.

Six years ago,

I've already won what I want the most.

They started the relationship

just after a life drawing.

That's even a love story of a cradle snatcher.

There is only a film

preventing them from becoming a couple.

You mean a film made of steel.

She tried to be with him for three years.

Her persistence even moved a bystander like me.

Then why did they break up?

Who is the one that got dumped?

I don't know the specific reason.

But judging from her going abroad,

Brother Chen should be the one who got dumped.

Why did you steal my credit?

Get prepared

for the upcoming battle.

You forgot the safety belt.

President,

the 50,000 RMB for the loan

has been transferred to

the hospital's payment account.

We can't get the money back.

He is a freelance carpenter,

working at home.

He's a craftsman.

Okay, I see.

[To My Ex]

♫Don't feel guilty about the past♫

♫You're just lonely♫

♫Don't think about looking back now♫

[To My Ex]

♫I have someone to be with♫

♫It's better to stop self-indulgence and sentiment♫

I almost believed

♫Why don't we stop here?♫

that you don't care at all.

[To My Ex]

It depends on

what you mean by care.

If you mean the care for the ex,

I do not care.

Everyone has a history.

If his history

involves an excellent independent woman like you,

it only gives me a sense of superiority.

I don't need

to worry about Jing Chen.

We now share the same household register

and he sleeps beside me.

Is that true that he sleeps beside you?

I recall last night that your friend told me

that you're having a platonic marriage.

With regard to this,

I have to thank you for your lecture.

Men are creatures

typically vulnerable to seduction.

I could even seduce him under the law.

We don't even think about stopping.

We even know how to spice it up.

Siqing,

I feel sorry for you.

You derive a sense of fulfillment

from such triviality.

Sex

is the most primitive

and fundamental communication

of spirit between men and women.

Sex is the channel leading to the core

which is the highest level of romance.

What I want

is his love

and his mind.

Sorry.

I forgot

that you know nothing about art.

When you two are at home,

Chen talks about Auguste Rodin,

and you Adam Smith.

You don't have the connection.

You can't relate to

the highest level of connection I'm talking about.

No.

The topic for us at home

is the marital law

and one hundred ways of death for a cheater.

So that's what you're worried about.

Let me make it clear to you

that I'll abide by the marital law

and won't do anything against the rule

until the end of

your two-month cooling-off period.

I won't even meet with Jing Chen

personally.

What do you want?

Have you ever heard of the expression

unrequited love?

That means

I like Jing Chen

and don't require him to love me back.

So as to your question,

I can't answer it

because I don't want anything.

Be it the future

or the past.

Jing Chen,

[Seven years ago]

your work

has always been

perfect.

The technique,

meaning,

and details

are impeccable.

But it lacks

the element of emotion.

Your work

is the reflection of yourself,

self-controlling, reserving,

and emotionally unavailable.

That's fatal

for an artist.

Nothing in my life

makes me upset

or happy.

It doesn't need to be something.

It could be a person.

Or,

you should try to fall in love.

Do you have the nerve

to accept the pain and joy that I'll bring to you?

We fall in love just like that.

He never has been an emotionally available person.

I don't want him to pay me back.

So I always believe

that we're the perfect fit for each other.

Then why did you break up?

Did you dump him

because he responded

to your unrequited love?

Have you seen

the deep scar on his wrist?

Both of you are sick.

Siqing,

we both long for love.

But the difference is,

you want him to love you back.

I don't care whether he loves me or not.

I love him

is what matters.

Unfortunately, I missed my chance.

Now,

you're the lucky one.

[Nancheng Commercial Bank]

Good luck doesn't come to weak people.

I have other plans.

Go get yourself a taxi.

Okay.

Nothing happened between you two

didn’t it?

My period comes late this month.

Really?

I see.

You're having a platonic marriage.

Master Teng.

Manager Si.

I'm sorry.

I had no choice

but to lie to you.

My mom was hospitalized.

I lied to you to get a loan.

Let's go to the office first.

Okay.

[Jing Garden]

[Jian Yue]

[Album] [Camera] [Video Call]

[Video call]

[Voice call]

[Cancel]

[Jian Yue]

[Mic on] [End]

[Jian Yue]

Send me your net disk passwords.

I want to learn your major,

everything about it.

[Jian Yue]

[Jing Garden]

[Jing Garden]

[Jing Garden]

[Jing Garden Parking Area]

[Jing Garden]

[Jing Garden]

Why aren't you going home?

I’ve never seen you jogging at night before.

I used to jog in the morning.

You have to get up early to notice that.

I thought

that you jog to let out the energy

building up when you chat with your first love.

Listen to me.

Yu Pian and I dated in college

for half a year.

Because of the conflict of mentality,

we broke up.

We both accepted that peacefully.

Yes.

I didn’t contact her anymore after graduation.

Didn't you two artists

have the face-to-face nostalgic talk

at the alumni reunion yesterday?

That's all about academics.

And I promise

that our wedding rings are the only thing I drew.

Then,

how about

[Jing Garden]

some non-academic communication between us?

What do you think of this clothing?

[Switching] [Background Blur] [Voice Call]

[End]

It's pretty but not slut.

It suits you,

a horny newlywed.

Could you show some respect?

We fell in love after getting married.

It's actually a category in novel websites.

[Switching] [Background Blur] [Voice Call]

[End]

Marriage before relationship.

You got married. Where is the love?

I'm trying to get it.

[Switching] [Background Blur] [Voice Call]

[End]

Sister,

what's wrong with you?

The desire of a woman to win.

I'm hanging up.

I'm going to speed up my relationship manually.

What's wrong?

It's not energy efficient for a couple to use two bedrooms,

with the electricity wasted on

lighting and air-conditioning.

I forgot to tell you something.

What is it?

I don't have air conditioning in the house.

Your husband should

do this for you.

I'm not cold

now.

Wait.

Put this on.

Are you sure?

Do I have to wear it now?

That's a catalyst for our communication.

Wait.

Wait.

[Jian Yue]