In A Good Way (Wo Men De Zi You Nian Dai / 我的自由年代)

Episode 1

Uncle! -Jia En.

Why are you riding so fast?

Uncle, have you seen Ren Wei?

Ren Wei...isn't he always with you?

Thanks!

What is it?

Exam grades!

Ride slowly!

Grandpa! -Jian En.

This year's singing competition's ranking...

Ren Wei!

Jia En!

It really is you!

Where did you get the new ride?

It's even a famous brand.

This brand model 100 is a gift from my dad to celebrate finishing the exam.

Cool, right?

Your dad's so good to you.

Hey, hey, don't knock on it.

It's new.

Hey, you're going to break it, Lin Jia En!

So stingy!

It's really cool.

It's cool.

Do I look like a college student?

I can already imagine what it would be like when my girlfriend sits in the back seat.

The reason why I wanted to find you was because of this.

Our grades are here.

They're here?

How's my grade?

This is mine.

Then where's mine?

It's at home.

Lin Jia En.

It's just that when I got in, your mom immediately took it. I was in a hurry to find you, so I forgot it.

I'm sorry.

How can you be so good at school work while your brain is so clumsy?

Forget it. Get on the bike. Let's go home and look at it.

What about my bike?

Leave it here and come back later to get it.

I'm letting you ride the new bike.

Okay!

Also, because you're my childhood buddy,

I'm letting you be the first girl to ride my bike.

You should feel honored.

Okay, I'm honored, I'm honored!

Let's go!

Hey, don't jump, it's a new bike.

It feels different. -The suspension will break.

Hold your grades.

Ren Wei, you look really cool riding this bike.

Of course. A college student has to have a sweet ride.

Such a nice breeze!

Jia En!

Do you feel like we're riding on a road of freedom?

Road of freedom?

What are we doing on the road of freedom?

No, what I'm saying is

do you feel like we're on the path to freedom?

See what?

After we get into college,

we won't be pressured with other entrance exams.

No one is going to force us to study, and no one will be in charge of what we do.

College life is the life of freedom!

College, here I come!

So there won't be freedom without going to college?

I think what we have now is nice.

I knew you wouldn't understand.

I have spent enough time staring at cows at the village in Ping Tung.

My dream is to be in a big city.

To live in a skyscraper building and live a city life.

To go to college and leave this place.

Have you decided which college you're going to?

No matter what college, it has to be in Taipei.

Why?

Taipei is the capital!

Do you know 'Live A Go Go'?

What about 'The Gate' then?

I'm telling you, those are the places singers regularly appear at to perform.

Singers like Wu Bai (Taiwanese rock singer) often perform there.

How cool would it be to live in Taipei and listen to Wu Bai singing live?

Hey, Zheng Ren Wei, you know so much about Taipei.

Unlike me, who only knows about the National Chiang Ka-shek Memorial Hall.

or the Office of the President.

That's it.

Wu Bai recently released a new song. Have you heard it yet?

Wu Bai has a new song? How come I don't know it? What song?

I forgot the name. I'll just sing it for you.

"I want you, freedom."

"Like a bird."

Cut, cut, cut, cut.

Wu Bai is so different from Chen Sheng (Taiwanese singer). You can't tell the difference between them.

Also, that song already existed 800 years ago.

It's Chen Sheng's 'Nevertheless'.

The point is you didn't pass on Chen Sheng's tone.

I'll teach you. He sings it like this:

'I'll wait for you in a far away place.'

'Until you're no longer sad.'

'I want you freedom '

'like a bird.'

Ren Wei, you sound just like him.

'Yet you'll never know'

When I sang about freedom back then,

I didn't know what freedom was.

Now that I think about it, those days were

my age of freedom.

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Lego Li as Liu Chuan (Liu Shan Feng)

Kirsten Ren as Jia En (Lin Jia En)

Smile Weng as Bai Xue (Bai Xue Fen)

Jay Shi as Ren Wei (Zheng Ren Wei)

Episode 1

I'm back!

I'm back!

You're back? Hurry and come eat.

Mom! Where are my grades?

You dad was just looking at it, how am I supposed to know? Why don't you just go ask him?

What did I get?

I looked at it but forgot. Probably around 300 or 400.

You don't even care about your son's entrance exam grades.

How can you misplace such an important item like the report card?

Where is it? What kind of parents are you guys?

Hey, don't push it.

It's just a college entrance exam. How important can it be?

Look at the first place trophies I have.

Even if I just go fish some fish from the fish pond out there,

it's worth more than you struggling

for five years post graduation. Now that we mention career,

the fish pond out there, right now, is what I have for you.

When we mention family, look at Jia En.

She's so obedient and so understanding, a perfect wife.

You've got family and career.

Why go to college?

Dad, I'm sorry.

I want to go to Taipei.

I want to go to college

because this is my own life!

Besides, did Jia En even agree to be your daughter-in-law?

Ridiculous.

Hey!

Hey! Aren't you going to eat? Why are you going upstairs?

Go, go to Taipei.

I'll see what you do in Taipei.

All you do is waste time listening to your music.

If you can get into a college in Taipei

your mother and I will accompany you and be your reading servants.

Uncle, don't say that about Ren Wei.

He's actually very determined and creative. It's great.

Jia En, don't you see that all he does is fight and talk back to me every day?

What's so great about that?

Ok, that's enough. Why do you nag so much?

Oh yeah, Jia En, how did you do?

It should be good enough for National University.

That's great!

Your parents left you in our hands. At least we didn't let them down.

They work so hard in Taipei. They'll definitely be happy when they see you've done well.

Auntie, thanks for taking care of me all these years.

Thank you, Uncle.

I found the report card!

The grade's pretty high.

That's considered high?

With those grades,

what college can he apply to?

National University should work.

He can decide on whatever major he wants.

He's got some talents.

He's got some pretty good grades.

You're screwed.

Yous aid we'd be his reading servant in Taipei if he gets in.

Did those words count?

That depends on his fate.

He has to get into the University of Taipei. I think you should go pray to the gods in the temple.

Ok, go eat. Get your son and tell him to come eat.

Me, call my son to eat?

Just think of it as congratulating him and asking him to see his grades.

Just go, you don't have to be that kind of dad.

Jia En, you must be so happy to go back and see your parents.

Remember to think it through on what college you're going to apply to.

Okay.

Are you guys done? Get down here to eat.

Did you peek at mine?

No.

Yeah, right. Fill out your own.

You're still peeking!

You're only applying to colleges in Taipei?

Yet, you still say you didn't peek?

Aren't you afraid of being far away from home

and being alone when something happens?

This is what I want!

It's independence. The further away from home, the better.

I'm not like you. I don't know as much as you do.

But that's okay. I can go to the same university as you.

We can go to Taipei together. We can learn about this world together. We can listen to Wu Bai and live together! Yay!

Why are you following me?