Xing Ren and Zi Qi join Cheng Feng for coffee. Xing Ren is all fangirl while Zi Qi is kind of surly. This causes her to drag Zi Qi outside and order him to stay out. Sit, boy, sit. While he's out on the sidewalk, Zi Qi sees Dad's car and goes to see his old man. Dad asks how he's been doing on the poor side of life. Oddly, when Zi Qi asks his dad if he's been in touch with Mom, Dad becomes very uncomfortable. Wonder what the story is there.
Xing Ren again tries to give Cheng Feng her business proposal but he turns her down and (IMO rudely) tells her she can leave. When she leaves the restaurant she happens to see Zi Qi getting out of Dad's car. She asks Zi Qi what he was doing in the CEO's car and Zi Qi asks her to promise not to tell anyone what he's about to reveal to her: he's the son of the CEO. Xing Ren laughs at him. (Well, actually she karate chops him in the neck.) Did he really think she would believe such a story? Everyone knows that the CEO's son was involved in a car accident in America last year and now he's paralyzed. What?!? What's with this story?
Manager Shi Te Long, after putting down his Godzilla toy, rips Xing Ren a new one for not landing the famous designer as he ordered her to. She fights back tears and Zi Qi feels bad for her.
Back at his apartment building, a delivery girl asks Zi Qi if he'll accept a parcel that is for the woman upstairs. This is when he learns Xing Ren is his neighbor. Also, can he pay for the parcel and just get the money back from her? Later that night Zi Qi brings the box up to the rooftop apartment (sorry, there's no time traveling prince) and asks to be reimbursed. Xing Ren's roommate and co-worker, Le Le, demands to check the contents first. They find the box is full of empty jars instead of the cosmetics Xing Ren had ordered. She's fallen for an internet scam!
Zi Qi continues to demand his money. The girls argue that they didn't ask him to sign and pay for the parcel. Why didn't he check the box first? That is totally not a valid reason not to pay the man. If the XE converter is correct, Zi Qi paid nearly $500 for the delivery. I be damned if I left that apartment without my five hundred dollars!
Zi Qi is scraping by now. He's forced to dine on a cheap rice ball from a convenience store (witnessed by Xing Ren in the background.) As he sits outside and chokes the rice down, the world's cutest most adorable puppy begs him for a bite. Naturally who can resist the world's cutest most adorable puppy? Once more Xing Ren is witness to Zi Qi's kind heart. Now pay the man his $500!
Feeling sorry for the starving man (because it's all her fault if you think about it), the next evening Xing Ren invites him upstairs to share her dinner. She'll keep a tab of how much he eats and he can pay her back later. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr, I say. After bickering over the food (he doesn't eat broccoli), they move on to bickering over what to do about Yu Cheng Feng. This is when Le Le sees a picture of the designer in a magazine. In the background is the man's assistant. Le Le doesn't care about Cheng Feng, she wants to know who the hottie is, which gives our duo an idea.
The next day Xing Ren, Zi Qi and Le Le go to Cheng Feng's offices. His assistant, Michael, says his boss isn't in. Le Le does some awkward flirting that would never work in the real world but does on TV, and Michael begins to thaw a bit. He offers to pass on Xing Ren's new proposal to Cheng Feng. Just then Michael gets a phone call from his boss. He writes down an address on a notepad and tears the paper off. He apologizes but he has to leave. After he's gone, Zi Qi gets the notepad and runs a pencil over the paper to reveal the impression of the address Michael wrote down. Now they know where their target is.
Xing Ren sends Zi Qi forward, ordering him to keep Cheng Feng there until she retrieves something. Cheng Feng is at a shooting range and judging from those bare arms he's been taking care of himself. (Cue LMFAO: I work out!) To keep the designer busy, Zi Qi challenges him to a shoot-off. (I don't know what it's called. They're shooting at clay pigeons. Whatever.) Zi Qi makes the interesting statement that he's heard Wei Mena's dad is the real boss of the outfit and that's why Cheng Feng can't commit to anything because he has no real power. This rattles Cheng Feng a bit and he starts to leave.
Just then Xing Ren comes racing up on her scooter and blocks his path. She pulls out a white dress and holds it up to him. Does he remember this dress?
Flashback
A young Xing Ren (who looks the same as the old Xing Ren) is graduating high school. All the girls have planned to wear the prettiest dresses they can buy for the graduation party, but our girl is too poor. She's in a boutique store dreamily looking at a dress when a young and unknown Yu Cheng Feng comes up to her and asks if she would like to try it on. She admits that she would love to buy it but she hasn't much money. Cheng Feng agrees to sell her the dress for the amount she has on her. (It is an ugly dress. It's white with big pockets on the chest and a big black zipper up the back. Blech!)
Back to the present. Xing Ren promises Cheng Feng that if he sells his line in their department store she'll put him right out front where everyone can see his designs, even people who can't afford his clothes. Cheng Feng sadly shakes his head and says something but by this time the sound of the insects drown out his voice. Soundman! Hey, soundman! Wake up!
A dejected Xing Ren and Zi Qi are sitting in the food court eating leftovers from last night. He still doesn't want to eat broccoli. Nearby, Assistant Manager Zheng Kai Er is watching. Plotting music plays. Her gold digger radar is honing in on Zi Qi as she picks up more clues that he's more than just a lowly assistant.
Later, Zi Qi runs into Kai Er and begs her to transfer him out of the sales department and into her merchandise department. Kai Er acts like she's considering this and invites him to join her for a meeting. Said meeting involving eating at an uber-swank restaurant, the kind of place Zi Qi is more used to. When he goes to the mens room, Kai Er gets his wallet out of his jacket and finds some kind of ID card (I don't know what it is) that includes the name of Zi Qi's dad, which Kai Er recognizes as the store's CEO.
Sitting next to the river of ponderance (just like everyone in kdramas go down to the Han River), Cheng Feng has a flashback to his past. We see Xing Ren's flashback from his perspective. As I said, he was young and unknown and we hear that nothing of his was selling at this boutique. The owner was asking him to pack his stuff up and move it out of the way when Xing Ren came in. Since he had nothing left to lose, that's why Cheng Feng decided to sell the dress (his first sale) so cheaply. Feeling nostalgic, Cheng Feng calls Michael and orders a plane ticket to Paris.
A tipsy Zi Qi stumbles home to find a note on his door from Xing Ren ordering him to come up for dinner. Her apartment door is WIDE OPEN!!!!! and he stumbles in, calling for her. Xing Ren is in the shower (with her front door wide open!!!) and doesn't hear him. Drunk, confused and stinky, he decides he could use a shower. He starts to strip and stumbles into the bathroom. Xing Ren is singing a song and drunk boy begins to sing along with her. Xing Ren screams. (Well, what did you expect? You left the freakin' front door open! Who does that?)
Xing Ren (after getting dressed) throws him out and warns him he had better never tell anyone about this or he's dead meat. In the morning at the office things are strained between them. The manager again is harping on Xing Ren about her mission when she gets a phone call. It's Yu Cheng Feng. He's agreed to sell his clothes in her department store.
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