The First Half of My Life (我的前半生)

The First Half of My Life

Episode 14

Your food has gone cold.

Take a look at this.

Hi, Miss. Someone has already paid for you meal.

Someone paid? Who?

This man did.

I gave Ya Qin a call because I wanted to take our kid out for a meal.

Ya Qin said that you guys were here.

Was it delicious?

No. It wasn't as delicious as before.

Then should we go to a different place?

I told him we were here eating pizza to let him know we wouldn't be home for the evening.

Okay. How much was it? I'll pay you back.

That won't be necessary. It's just one meal for our kid.

Okay. Thanks.

Let's go home.

- I'll drive you. - No thank you.

It's hard to hail a cab right now.

Mommy, we can take dad's car and then pay him for the ride.

Ping'er.

Let's go walk around. We should be able to get a cab.

Zijun, just let me give you guys a ride.

I also bought Ping'er a new bike, and it's in my car.

Just let him give us a ride. That way, we can get home quicker, and Ping'er can shower and go to bed earlier.

Regardless, we're still one family because of the child.

- Come, Ping'er. Let's go. - Car is out front.

Let's go.

Be careful, Sir.

Okay. Dad will leave this here. You can ride it after school tomorrow.

Can I play with this first?

Ping'er, you can only play for thirty minutes.

You need to wash up and go to bed soon.

Dad will open this for you.

Mom said you can only play for half an hour.

Have you had a lot of supplementary reading before going to bed these days?

You can play, but it can't interfere with your studies.

Can I have a word with you?

Let's talk outside.

I just want to a brief chat, and then I'll leave.

The court's decision to give you the child and the house

was right. After all, I'm the one in the wrong.

How about this?

Ling Ling's house was taken by her ex-husband. Right now, we are renting a place.

Once I move in with her, there will be two adults and one child.

And once my parents grow old,

I will need to have them move in with me, which means there will be five people living together.

But that house now only is 60-70 square meters, obviously not enough.

Why are you telling me all this?

It's because

for you, there will only be three people living together: you, Ya Qin, and Ping'er.

Can I just buy you a smaller place

and move into this larger house?

But I will definitely pay you the difference in price for the two houses.

I will put your name when I buy this mortgaged house. It's your call on what to do with it in the future.

Chen Junsheng, how come you have the nerve to mention this to me?

I really was out of ideas.

You know that I so want to use everything that I have to make it up to you and Ping'er.

But you know how much I earn.

Before, I indeed earned a lot, but our family was also spending quite a lot.

I did work hard to support our family in the past.

Towards myself, I won't say it anymore. But towards you and Ping'er,

in terms of money, I never owed you two.

I was just thinking if you can more or less consider our past affection.

Consider an old affection?

When you divorced me, did you consider our old affection?

It's not like I didn't beg you.

I begged you to consider old affection and don't abandon me and Ping'er.

What did you do? What did you say?

Then...

Then just treat it like I didn't say anything. I'll just think of another way.

Really never thought that so many problems will come up so suddenly.

But I really hope that you and our child will get better and better.

At least, live better than me.

About the house,

I will think about it.

Thank you.

I really wasn't taking advantage. Just asking that we compromise.

Leave.

Thank you.

I don't know why I suddenly got soft.

Looking at a man who previously gave me support and who I admired greatly before

suddenly becoming like a coward and helpless child,

I indeed considered our past affection like what he said.

But the component of this old affection

doesn't have feelings of unwillingness to part but is mostly out of pity.

How come you're here?

Why did you suddenly give me a way (to get the contract) ?

Don't pretend like this was no big deal for you.

Everyone knows how important this was for you to get a foothold at Chen Xing.

To make you believe that you're still in my heart.

And that in my heart you're still extremely important to me.

To make you believe that I'm not the selfish person you think I am.

That I'm cold, ruthless and only after my own interests.

And, I can't stand to see the kind of person like Luo Ping drooling over this opportunity.

Who did you get to slip those papers into my office?

My assistant, someone in the legal department, or someone else?

Someone who is your spy inside B&T.

I've said many times

I spent many years at B&T,

and did pretty well there. To me, this sort of thing isn't anything difficult at all.

Why didn't you just send me an email?

Or use a simpler way to tell me?

You didn't even go through me to prevent the contract with Adam.

In reality I have no way of stopping him.

For you this was a test between teacher and disciple.

To him this was a test of friendship.

So your spy in B&T already told you

after I saw those papers

how I reacted, what I did?

You reacted very well. Almost full marks.

After reading the contents, you immediately decided to go to stop Adam.

Whenever you hesitate, whether it's to consult with me first

out of fear of hurting my feelings,

or you hesitate questioning whether the contents are true

or if someone wants to frame me, you lose that opportunity.

Two minutes later, Adam would have already appeared in my office at Chen Xing.

I'm sorry.

I really thought then

there wasn't even time to think it over.

I-I should have called you first.

You absolutely didn't do anything wrong.

And I hope you keep it up

This way my way of showing you to disregard our relationship.

To achieve your goals don't ask anyone. You had already subconsciously done it.

So now you've already become B&T's second He Han.

Because you did this, it will be difficult for anyone to become your competitor, including me.

As for Adam, he not only resisted my test,

but showed how deep our friendship is to him.

Then you...

Me?

How will Chen Xing handle this?

Don't worry for me.

You know I always have a way.

I'm here to take him to school.

Go with dad.

What about you, mom?

I'm going to work.

Why don't we go together? I'll drop you off after.

No thanks, I can't accept.

I still want to talk to you about the house.

Go on in. Bye-bye.

- Good bye mom and dad! - Bye.

Don't you have something to talk to me about?

Let's talk in the car.

What do you think of the public housing apartment?

It's a little smaller than your place before.

But it's a good area, the surroundings have good services.

You only talked to me about this yesterday,

but this morning you've already seen the place?

No, before I looked at some pictures on the LianJia app (housing website).

After seeing it in person I think it's pretty good.

You can move in any time. There are people who deal with the formalities.

So you've already decided for me to buy this house

and for me to move out?

That's not it.

I'm thinking, if you aren't willing to move,

Ling Ling and I will live there.

Take this card. It has 200,000 yuan (~$30,000).

Consider it compensation.

This is really all I can give away out of all of my money, I don't have any more.

If you don't think it's enough, I can pay you in installments.

Every month I will give you money for you and our son. The mortgage will also be through me.

Do you have any other requests?

Okay, I will move out. But I have a condition.

In the future, give us 2000 yuan ($300) every month for living expenses.

It doesn't matter if the house is smaller,

but 2000 yuan will have a direct affect on Ping 'er and my quality of living.

What, you can't accept it?

Not that,

I just suddenly thought that it's like you're a different person.

What would you have me do?

Still listen to every word you say?

Then when you get extremely angry, I should just cry my heart out, so sad that I want to die?

In the end, harm myself for your guys' happiness, right?

What do you want me to do?

I've truly given you everything I have to give. I have nothing else.

If you don't agree I'll ask for 3000.

Zijun, you-

Remember. You forced me to.

Coming.

- Hello. - Hello.

- Is this Luo Zijun's house? - Yes.

This is an express delivery.

- What is this? - Boxes. Here's the receipt.

- Sign here. - Boxes...

For Luo Zijun, correct?

Yes.

Is this for moving?

- Moving? - Right.

No one's moving.

Because these boxes are specifically for moving.

I'll help you bring them in.

- Careful. - Ok.

- Put them on that side. - Ok.

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