Original subtitles

[Forever and Ever]

[Episode 4]

Sis, you can’t fall asleep?

I can’t.

But I can’t stay awake either.

I get it.

You’re meeting his parents tomorrow.

I’m sure you can’t sleep.

Keep your voice down.

When I think about the fact that

I’m going to meet my future cousin-in-law,

I can’t sleep either.

I told you to keep your voice down!

I’m sorry. I’m sorry.

I think

older people are so old-fashioned.

You just met him and then got engaged.

How romantic is that!

Are there still such men nowadays?

Don’t generalize them.

There are still good men out there.

Yeah, my future cousin-in-law.

You haven’t even met him.

And you think he’s good?

It’s my intuition, my sixth sense.

You’re still awake?

I bought a new phone.

You do need a phone.

Otherwise

she’ll feel insecure

if she can’t get a hold of you.

This is the only impulsive thing

I’ve ever done.

I’m really scared it won’t end well

and somehow ruin her chances at meeting someone better.

I think

getting married needs impulsiveness

and a lot of it.

I also saw a girl

in Xi’an.

Even though I only saw her for a few seconds,

her face

had left a deep impression

in my mind.

I can’t forget her.

If I could see her again,

I would probably propose to her immediately

as you did.

I hope you can meet her again.

How is that even possible?

If it’s fate, you’ll meet her again.

A scientist that has fallen love

is starting to believe in these

mysterious things now.

Sis.

Tell me,

what’s it like to be in love?

You’ve asked

the wrong person.

[Zhousheng Chen]

I’m Zhousheng Chen.

This is my cell phone number.

There are still people using SMS nowadays?

The text messages I receive are all verification codes.

[Zhousheng Chen]

See you tomorrow morning at 10.

What?

You want to send “Kiss, baby”,

“Good night, baby”,

but you’re afraid I’ll see that?

You little brat.

All you think about is this stuff, huh?

I was thinking

if I should tell him to bring gifts

in case he forgets.

Do you think he is stupid?

Even I know

you have to bring gifts when meeting someone’s parents.

He doesn’t think like us.

He lives a simple

and boring life.

All he does is work in his lab

and go to meetings.

He could even watch a TV series

for more than 70 times.

Oh, he does sound a bit weird now.

But giving him a reminder

would seem like I’m asking for gifts.

It seems like a bad idea.

It’s okay.

Your parents are very forgiving.

They won’t mind this.

Let’s hope that’s the case.

I’m sleeping.

Sleep now.

Sis.

What time is your husband coming?

Don’t call him that.

10 am.

10 am?

It’s already 9:58.

He won’t be late, will he?

I’ll go down and check.

You’re so punctual.

Yeah.

I forgot to ask before.

Are you nearsighted?

A little farsighted.

Farsighted?

Isn’t that presbyopia?

You brought so many people.

They’ll help me

bring the things upstairs later

and leave.

Your colleagues?

My family members.

Nice to meet you all.

Hello, cousin-in-law!

My cousin.

I’m Shi Yuanyuan.

Hi.

What are you waiting for?

Invite him in.

Come on in!

Please come in.

Come on in.

Chen, we’ll wait for you downstairs.

This is Zhousheng Chen.

These are my parents.

My uncle and auntie.

Uncle, Auntie.

Uncle, Auntie.

Take a seat.

Yes, have a seat.

Sit, sit, sit.

My mother is not able to come

because of her health.

But she asked me

to bring these as a token of appreciation.

You’re too generous.

Bringing all these expensive gifts for us.

It’s all my mother’s intention.

Sis, these look so pretty.

They don’t look fake.

I didn’t know

what girls like.

So I prepared this in advance.

Hope you will like it.

There is even something for me?

Thank you, cousin-in-law.

It looks so good!

I forgot to make some tea.

I’ll go get some tea.

Go, go.

Go, go.

Chen.

I heard from Shi Yi that

you’ve just finished

your exchange in Xi’an.

That’s right.

I got back not long ago.

I’ve been going back and forth

between Zhenjiang and Shanghai recently.

You came to Zhenjiang

for ancestor worship, right?

That was one of the reasons.

The other is about the investment meeting.

The research you’re working on

has something to do with this?

My family is the organizer

of this investment meeting.

That’s right.

This invitation has the character Zhou printed on it.

I didn’t expect it to be your family.

Yes.

Great.

Great news!

It will benefit the people here

to attract investment.

It’s a great thing!

I need to have a good talk with you today.

All right, stop it.

He came all the way here today to visit

Shi Yi’s parents.

Talk about your business later.

Right.

This is not the business today.

Today it’s for something else.

But I really didn’t expect

the organizer and us

to be one family.

Yes, we’ll be one family.

Here.

Have some tea.

Thank you, Uncle.

They have prepared such generous gifts.

I feel like it would look bad on us

to have lunch at home.

What does he like to eat?

I’ll order some food.

We won’t be eating at home.

His mother wants to invite me to lunch.

I see.

It’s rare for you to come to Zhenjiang.

It’s good to visit his home.

Am I right?

Let’s go then.

I’m really sorry

for not being able to stay

for lunch today.

Look at you.

You’ve said you’re sorry

for a dozen times.

My family

is quite casual about these things.

It’s okay.

Shi Yi

rarely comes to Zhenjiang.

So it would be good for her to visit your mother.

How about this?

When you’re in Shanghai,

come to our home for a meal, okay?

Okay.

You two can go then.

Wait for me.

I’ll change into something formal.

Come with me.

Looks like Shi Yi really likes him.

It seems they have a good relationship.

I think so too.

What do you your mother usually prefer

girls to wear?

You can wear anything.

No need to be so deliberate.

I can’t be casual.

I have to respect her on our first meeting.

You’ve dressed yourself up

to meet my parents.

How can I not do the same for your mother?

Last night I had someone

prepare a few Qipao dresses for you.

They’re all the styles

my family would usually wear.

If you don’t mind,

I can ask the tailors to come upstairs.

They’re downstairs.

Okay.

There was very little time

so we haven’t had time to iron the dresses.

What if there’s no time constraint?

Sewing accounts for 30% while ironing accounts for 70%.

Old people stress this,

especially his mother.

She’s very particular about this.

Miss Shi Yi.

Look at these jewels.

Which one do you prefer?

Okay, the Qipao is ready.

What’s the problem?

You have to go out.

I need to get changed.

Sorry.

Chen.

Actually, I’m also a businessman.

But

the economy in the past two years

hasn’t been very good.

Oh my.

She looks so different

wearing a Qipao.

Yeah.

Miss Shi Yi, would you like some water?

No, I’m not thirsty.

Uncle Lin, you don’t have to be so polite.

I should be.

When you came to work in Zhenjiang,

I thought Uncle Lin

was your temporary driver.

For you.

What is it?

Open it.

Isn’t this for children?

My family

prepared this.

They asked me to give it to

my future wife.

It’s engraved with my birth date.

[Xinmo Gengzi Jisi Gengwu]

The birth date of Zhousheng Chen.

That’s precious.

I have one too.

I’ll ask my mother to find it.

But the one I have is only for collecting.

It can’t be worn.

Miss Shi Yi.

Even if your hundred-year-old lock can be worn,

It doesn’t seem right

to let a man who’s almost 30 years old

to wear it.

I didn’t mean for him to wear it.

I just want to give it to him as a souvenir.

Uncle Lin is joking with you.

It didn’t sound like a joke.

He didn’t even smile.

He’s like this sometimes.

Let’s chat a little.

Okay.

What does your family do?

Well.

It’s complicated.

Our family was in manufacturing in the beginning.

Now we mainly focus on investments.

The invitation letters for the investment meeting

only had the character Zhou on it.

Why is it not Zhousheng?

There is a tradition in our family.

Only the eldest son’s last name is Zhousheng.

What about the others?

The others’ last name is Zhou.

In other words,

you are the only one in your family whose last name is Zhousheng

while all your younger brothers have the last name Zhou?

That’s about right.

Why is that?

There are exceptions.

You will find out

when you meet my family.

Okay.

So are we going to start living together

after we meet your mother?

I don’t think so.

I’m not asking this

because I want to live with you.

I’ve never gotten engaged.

So I’m not sure

about what you have in mind.

I think...

I think

we don’t have to

change or disrupt

anything else in our lives

except for the engagement.

It’s just like my research.

We’ll decide on a research topic

before conducting experiments.

By doing so,

it would be a reasonable

and scientific

approach.

Well, research topic.

You don’t have to

be stressed out about this.

I should warn you

about my mother.

She may treat you

coldly.

It’s not because of you.

It’s because of me.

You two had a fight?

Sort of.

Is there anything I should avoid?

Or is there anything

to watch out for?

Nothing.

Okay.

I have one more question.

You have my family information?

Yes, I do.

Why do you have that?

My family wanted to know about you.

Because

our encounter was rather special.

Were they afraid that I’d be a bad person?

But

I was really surprised at myself

that day for stopping you.

Hello, Miss Shi.

My name is Lin Fei.

Hello.

Do all the people around you all have the last name Lin?

He’s my nephew.

No wonder.

Where are they?

In the Rain Shelter Hall.

Let’s go in.

Go on!

Look at them.

You should hurry!

You’ve lived here since you were a kid?

Only for a few years.

Not for long.

[Cultivating Virtue and Establishing Foundation]

Careful.

[Lotus Pavilion]

♫ With mild wind and bright sunlight, the flowers look beautiful ♫

Mother.

This lady is...?

This is Shi Yi.

Hello, Auntie.

Hello, Miss Shi.

Have you had lunch yet?

I haven’t.

It’s the Qingming Festival these days

and typically cold foods are served.

Cooking with fire is forbidden during this period.

So I won’t keep you for lunch.

I’ll let my son take you

to a nice place in Zhenjiang

and treat you, okay?

Okay. Thank you, Auntie.

There’s no need to go out.

I’ll ask the kitchen

to prepare some snacks.

How can we let our guest

have snacks

at lunch time?

Treat her well for mom.

I’m sorry, Miss Shi.

It’s okay, Auntie.

After you send our guest home,

come and talk to me tonight.

I’m probably

not coming back tonight.

If not tonight,

then come tomorrow morning.

Uncle Lin.

You’re familiar with this area.

Find a nice restaurant.

Okay.

Does the ring fit?

It’s a little loose.

But it won’t fall off.

What’s wrong?

Nothing.

I think I know your size now.

Next time

when I order your engagement ring,

I won’t make it wrong.

What kind of ring do you like?

I don’t have any experience with this.

Do I look like I have experience?

Or,

do you have something in mind?

Who would think about these things?

I’ll do some research on my own then.

I thought

you wouldn’t be this sad

if I told you in advance

about my mother’s attitude.

I thought

you wouldn’t be

in a bad mood like now.

I didn’t expect

your mother to reject me like that.

She takes this matter very seriously.

She’s been preparing

for my marriage

ever since I became an adult.

It’s only natural for her to be disappointed

when all the preparations she had done these ten years

were all pointless

in the end.

No wonder.

No wonder what?

The way she looked at me

made me think I had said something

or did something rude.

That I had let her down.

The girls she introduced you to,

what were they like?

You’re curious about them?

A little.

If it can

cheer you up,

I might consider

letting you take a look.

Uncle Lin.

Inside this

are the pictures of

all the girls

my mother has arranged for me.

That many.

You really

want to take a look?

Why not?

Is your ex in there too?

What do you think?

Not bad.

I think she’s a good match for you.

[Bird’s Nest Turtle]

Why don’t you try to go out with her?

What if you guys are a good match?

That was a long time ago.

I’ve totally forgotten about her.

Yeah, keep up your act.

Chen.

Why did you guys come out?

We’ve only had cold dishes

these days at home.

I don’t feel like eating that anymore.

So we came out for something nice.

Miss Shi Yi, would you mind us joining?

Not at all.

This is my cousin, Zhousheng Ren.

They are...

You don’t know them.

I’ll do the introduction.

Miss Shi.

This is your future brother’s wife.

Tang Xiaofu.

That’s your future cousin.

Zhou Wenfang.

Hello.

Hello.

Why don’t we

go to a bigger table?

Miss Shi Yi.

Can you stay for several more days this time?

If you’re here,

we can have a reason to come out

for something nice.

I’m not staying for long this time.

Maybe next time.

I’ve been scared to sleep these two days.

Miss Shi Yi.

Would you be afraid

to stay at an old house?

I think I’ll be fine.

If I were you,

I’d get out of that place

with your pregnancy as an excuse.

I already didn’t go to ancestor worship rituals

because of that.

I’m afraid I’ll get a lecture from my parents

if I don’t live there.

Good thing it’s only once every four years.

Otherwise, if I had to live in that place all the time,

I’d go crazy.

By the way,

where would you

be stationed this time?

Xi’an?

I haven’t decided yet.

If you’re working here,

are you going to move your house

here?

Shi Yi works in Shanghai.

It’s not convenient for her to go to Xi’an with me.

Maybe

I’ll end up going back and forth

between the two places.

Living apart affects your relationship.

You need to hold him tight and not let him go.

Couples need to live under the same roof

to be considered a couple.

Yes.

If you had a child later on,

would you leave Shi Yi with the responsibility of taking care of the child?

Even if someone else can help with it,

dads can’t be absent.

We haven’t thought that far.

People in the honeymoon phase

are blind to reality.

Chen.

You are a man.

You have to think about these things.

I know.

Someone sounds perfunctory.

I’m not being perfunctory.

I’m already thinking about it.

Do you come here often?

Not very often.

But my uncle

gets along the best with my father.

I see.

What?

I understand

what relationship they have now.

When are you leaving Zhenjiang?

The day after tomorrow.

I’ll be gone for half a month after this.

When I return,

I’ll go to your house to discuss the details of our engagement.

Don’t you need to consider

your mother’s opinion?

In this case,

only one woman’s opinion

is worth taking into account.

And that’s you.

But I’ll have to face her later on.

It’ll be fine.

There’s one thing I want to ask you.

After I start working,

I might not

be able to answer all your calls.

So I’d like to

set a fixed time

when we can talk on the phone every day.

Every day?

All right, I can do that.

I’m relatively free

after I wake up,

before lunch and before I go to bed.

Okay.

Then let’s call each other during these times.

Do you have any suggestions

on the specific time?

7 am, 11 am,

and 11:30 pm.

Okay.

7 am, 11 am,

and 11:30 pm.

I’m going in then.

Be careful on your way back.

Except for being made out of pure gold,

does it have other meanings?

It doesn’t look like an antique.

I don’t think it’s anything special.

I think it’s similar to the ones we had when we were kids.

This is much worse than the gifts

his mother gave us.

Is it possible that his mother is in charge of the finance

in their family

while he has no real power at all?

You sure are concerned.

A gold lock is simple.

I like it.

I’ll give you mine if you like it.

I have a lot of them.

I got a dozen of them

when my relatives came to celebrate my one month after birth.

They’re all in a drawer in my parents’ bedroom.

I’ll give them all to you.

Keep them for yourself.

[Xinmo Gengzi Jisi Gengwu]

Your family is hosting the investment meeting,

but you had me give the speech.

I was so nervous.

If this is my profession,

I would have no problems.

But I still think you are right for

this kind of

business meeting.

Your speech just now

was pretty good.

Thanks, I guess, for the opportunity.

Did you contact Shi Yi?

Yes.

I made a phone call this morning

to say good morning.

And you’ll call her again at night

to say good night.

There is one more at 11 am.

What’s wrong?

Nothing.

As long as

your fiancee’s fine with it,

I have no say in this.

I think I’m doing good.

She sounded like she was in a nice mood

on the phone.

She laughed twice.

Not bad.

Zhousheng Chen

came all the way here to see us off.

That’s very thoughtful.

This kid does things by the book.

He doesn’t seem arrogant or easily irritated.

He’s definitely a researcher.

Let me ask you.

Don’t you

guys get bored when you two are together?

Not at all.

Wouldn’t it be too rigid to

have specific times to call each other?

On the contrary, I think

he’s very serious about me.

Everything is nice as long as you like him, huh?

Uncle, auntie.

When I get back from my business trip,

I’ll go to your home first

to pay you a formal visit.

Okay.

Work should still be your priority.

We are in Shanghai all the time.

You can come anytime.

Okay.

We’re leaving then.

Okay.

Have a safe trip.

Okay. Goodbye.

I’ll go then.

Remember to wear your seat belt,

even in the back seat.

Okay.

Bye, bye.

Bye.

What are you looking at?

They’re already so far away.

Let’s go.

The car is over there.

I’ve been back for an hour.

You didn’t talk to me once.

You’ve been busy packing your things

and taking a shower.

You just got everything done, didn’t you?

I want to talk to you about something.

What?

In Zhenjiang, me and Zhousheng Chen...

You met each other?

I knew the two of you

would meet up.

We did see each other.

Your relationship with him is developing well I see!

He asked you out or you asked him out?

He asked me out.

He got the hang of things now.

He’s on the ball now.

Back in Xi’an,

he was still a naive boy.

See you later.

Am I right?

Go on.

What did you do on the date?

Watched a movie, had dinner?

You can’t say?

Could it be that

you guys had hugged?

No.

I knew things wouldn’t go so fast.

Although I’ve only met Zhousheng Chen

a few times,

I can see that

he’s a conservative person.

He proposed to me.

What did you say?

Say it again.

He proposed to me.

Why?

What do you mean why?

He wants to get married, of course.

You said yes?

I never thought

the only person around me

who would do a flash marriage is you.

I didn’t expect myself to agree to it either.

But

it feels good.

I can tell.

You’re glowing now.

Yeah right!

But

isn’t he working in Germany?

What are you going to do

after you two get married?

Long-distance?

He had planned to come back long ago.

He went to Xi’an

because he had to help set up

the new lab.

He handed in his resignation letter a few days ago.

I think it will be a few more months

before he can come back.

This is so much information.

Let me process it first.

[Recording Studio]

Mother, I know

you wanted to give your life

in exchange for my life.

But I can’t escape.

I can’t let you die for me.

And I can’t involve

the thousands of people in Qinghe.

Ever since I entered the royal mansion,

Master has taught me many things

and my peers loved me.

I’ve never been able to return the favor.

Today, Master died of injustice.

My peers were cruelly slaughtered.

My enemies are close to me

yet I can’t kill them.

It’s already a great pain.

There is no way I would marry him.

I’m sorry for letting you down, Mother.

Thank you for raising me.

Mother, please allow me to

renounce my last name

and to be removed from the family book.

From now on,

there won’t be an unfilial daughter in the Cui family.

Shiyi

is just the Eleven in the Nanchen Royal Mansion.

Thank you.

There are too many crying scenes in this drama.

Miss Shi.

A person who claimed to be your family

has ordered dinner for the whole crew.

I didn’t know he ordered food for us.

Now that it’s arrived, let’s eat together.

Thank you, Miss Shi.

Thank you, Miss Shi.

Thank you.

Shi Yi.

This was specially ordered, right?

It’s all restaurant food.

And by the looks of it,

it’s not from some nearby restaurant.

I know

all the restaurants around here

by heart.

Thank you, Shi Yi’s family.

Thank you, Shi Yi.

Thank you, Shi Yi’s family.

Don’t mention it. Enjoy it.

It’s an honor.

Come on, eat.

Shi Yi.

you never mentioned

you had a boyfriend.

Do we know him?

He’s not someone in the industry.

Giving us food but not showing up?

Yeah.

Now that he’s dating

our famous Miss Shi,

he should come here

so that we can review him.

He’s out of Shanghai on a business trip.

I’ll get you guys something to drink.

Okay, thanks.

[Shi Yi]

I recognize the boxes.

It’s the same restaurant from last time.

Seems you like it.

[Zhousheng Chen]

I’m not familiar with Shanghai.

Don’t know many restaurants.

I saw that you

enjoyed the food there last time.

So I figured you liked the food there.