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<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nEpisode 17 left off with Bai Hao Yu and Li Hui Zhen switching on the TV to play a video game called Street Fighter which they both remember playing as children. It\u2019s Round Two now and Bai Hao Yu\u2019s making recommendations to Li Hui Zhen to surrender. He\u2019s won Round One, and since he\u2019s had a lot of experience playing this game\u2014he grew up playing this game in fact\u2014he seems to be predicting he\u2019s going to take it out.<\/p>\n
Li Hui Zhen:<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I was younger, I liked playing Tetris. But then, because of my friend, I started learning to play Street Fighter. He told me that as long as I learn to play Street Fighter and win at this game then can I rule the whole school.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
But Li Hui Zhen\u2019s had a bit of experience, too. She tells Bai Hao Yu that because of a childhood friend (i.e. Bai Hao Yu), she\u2019s been practicing the game since then. He had told her that she could only be considered the ruler of the whole school if she could play this game and win. So, there was no need for her to surrender to him just yet.<\/p>\n
Li Hui Zhen\u2019s slipped again in front of Bai Hao Yu, but she manages to have him let go of his question wanting her to repeat herself by pointing out to him that she was beating him in the game.<\/p>\n
But she\u2019s not so lucky with her second slip-up:<\/p>\n
Li Hui Zhen:<\/p>\n
\u201cYou really haven’t improved at all, Bai Pan Yu.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Bai Hao Yu\u2019s compliment of how Li Hui Zhen can really play the game has her unwittingly call him by his nickname. With her already having gotten his attention for the first slip-up, there was no mistaking it. He stops her from playing the game wanting an explanation. He tells her to turn to look at him and repeat the name she had used.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Li Hui Zhen\u2019s refusal to look at him and attempt to get him back to the game shows she\u2019s finally realised what she\u2019s done. She tries to explain away her mistake with not having pronounced his name clearly, saying that what she said was actually \u201cBai Hao Yu\u201d and apologises for doing so.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nBai Hao Yu isn’t fooled. He heard everything clearly and demands Li Hui Zhen answer his questions again. He gets up off his seat, grabs the controller from her grasp and repeats his questions:<\/p>\n
Bai Hao Yu:<\/p>\n
\u201cHow did you know about Bai Pan Yu? Who told you about that? What about ruling the whole school? And what about this habit of shaking your legs since you were little?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
With Bai Hao Yu standing overhead, his gaze squarely on her, there was no avoiding for Li Hui Zhen. Bai Hao Yu even caught her habit amidst his questioning. She tries to brush off this shaking of her legs as nothing but common habits and the part about ruling the whole school as something all boys say when they play games. She attempts to draw his attention back to the game, but Bai Hao Yu won’t hear any of it.<\/p>\n
Bai Hao Yu:<\/p>\n
\u201cAnswer me. Who are you really?\u201d<\/p>\n
Li Hui Zhen:<\/p>\n
\u201cI am Li Hui-Li Hui Zhen. Deputy Editor in Chief, I\u2019m intern Li Hui Zhen. What’s wrong?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Li Hui Zhen\u2019s become too suspicious. He pulls her up and demands she tell him her real identity\u2014a demand which is met with the only answer Li Hui Zhen is willing to give. She\u2019s intern Li Hui Zhen. She says this whilst staring directly into his eyes, in a tone which made it look like Bai Hao Yu was behaving like he was crazy.<\/p>\n
The hotel receptionist interrupts here, letting them know their two rooms were ready for them, allowing Li Hui Zhen to escape from Bai Hao Yu\u2019s interrogation.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nBai Hao Yu goes to his room and he is seen pacing before seating himself on his bed. He is heard asking himself what was wrong with him for acting the way he did with Li Hui Zhen earlier. If him questioning his behaviour is anything to go by, he seems to have realised he might\u2019ve been unnecessarily suspicious again.<\/p>\n
Xia Qiao\u2019s call which comes through amidst his thoughts\u2014a call which he cuts short\u2014might have gotten him to remember the evening before. He had seen the key evidence to prove Xia Qiao was Li Hui Zhen. Li Hui Zhen is just the intern Li Hui Zhen who reminds him a lot of her, but the real Li Hui Zhen is the one who works at the hotel. He had promised the one who worked at the hotel he wouldn’t doubt her identity or mistaken someone else for the real Li Hui Zhen anymore, too.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nLi Hui Zhen:<\/p>\n
\u201cI can’t keep lying to him like this. If he’s unwilling to accept it, or lets say he\u2019s unwilling to accept my apology, then I will continue apologising until he’s willing to accept it. If he wants to fire me, I think that sounds fair. Right. I committed the mistake first, so he should be angry and would want to fire me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Bai Hao Yu sets out to see Li Hui Zhen in her room to apologise, but not before Li Hui Zhen makes it to his with the intention of telling him the truth about herself.<\/p>\n
A call to Xia Qiao which started off as asking to borrow money (to pay off the debt to the restaurant and maybe meals during their return) finishes off with Xia Qiao reminding Li Hui Zhen not to let on about the lie they started. Li Hui Zhen promises she won’t let on anything before the calls ends, but the mention of it seems to have put Li Hui Zhen onto contemplating revealing the truth after it.<\/p>\n
As far as Li Hui Zhen is aware, the worse that can happen is he\u2019d get angry and fire her. With Xia Qiao having hid her involvement in the lie as going much deeper than just pretending to be Li Hui Zhen and disappearing overseas, Li Hui Zhen isn’t able to consider how much this will affect Xia Qiao. So, thinking the decision only affected herself, Li Hui Zhen decides she would tell Bai Hao Yu the truth about herself.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nLi Hui Zhen go to Bai Hao Yu\u2019s room where she runs into Bai Hao Yu just outside his hotel room. She had gone to tell him the truth, while he (as mentioned above) had wanted to go to her to apologise for his behaviour earlier. He tells her that she knows clearly she wasn’t his childhood friend, but she was just so similar to his childhood friend.<\/p>\n
Li Hui Zhen look to tell him the truth then, but she doesn’t manage to get it out because Lin Yi Mu\u2019s arrived. He arrives on the pretense of coming to their aid after hearing from Team Leader Zhu Ying that something happened to them so he drove all the way to them to see if he could help them (as opposed to the real reason of being there to get in between them).<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nLin Yi Mu:<\/p>\n
\u201cHere, let your brother open a can of alcohol for you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bai Hao Yu:<\/p>\n
\u201cBrother?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Lin Yi Mu suggests going out for some drinks which has Bai Hao Yu sit through a display of Lin Yi Mu\u2019s close relationship with Li Hui Zhen. There seems to be an attempt to make Bai Hao Yu see how well he and Li Hui Zhen gets along. Lin Yi Mu opens a can of beer for her, purposefully calling himself as her brother as he does so. He feeds her food, too. This has Bai Hao Yu\u2019s brows knit together as his gaze trains it on Lin Yi Mu before it goes over to Li Hui Zhen. It has him compare Li Hui Zhen to the Li Hui Zhen from his childhood:<\/p>\n
Bai Hao Yu:<\/p>\n
\u201cNo wonder you’re Li Hui Zhen. You can get along so well with anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Bai Hao Yu then take a drink of the alcohol he had previously said he doesn’t drink. It\u2019s not clear if jealousy\u2019s made another visit to Bai Hao Yu, but he doesn’t seem too happy about what he\u2019s seeing. Not only that, Bai Hao Yu seems to still see traits of Li Hui Zhen from his childhood in Li Hui Zhen.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nLin Yi Mu follows this display with a prank involving a cockroach on Li Hui Zhen\u2019s head, which has Li Hui Zhen take the cockroach (which she soon realises is fake) and throw it onto the floor near Bai Hao Yu. Li Hui Zhen follows that up with a high five with Lin Yi Mu.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re not too sure if it\u2019s because he hates seeing Lin Yi Mu pranking Li Hui Zhen or that he\u2019s viewing it as another example of how comfortable Lin Yi Mu and Li Hui Zhen are around each other or that he just hates pranksters, but the pranking upsets Bai Hao Yu. Bai Hao Yu gets up and smacks Lin Yi Mu across the back of the head a few times before clapping the air claiming mosquitoes were around. Bai Hao Yu loses consciousness soon after as the alcohol takes effect.<\/p>\n
The sequence of events in the next few scenes (minus a couple scene where Han Xue and Lin Hu Sheng is scene still traveling on the road, lost, which slots in between) plays out almost exactly the same as the opening set of scenes in Episode 14 next, with a tiny mixing and mashing of some of the memorable Bai Hao Yu-Li Hui Zhen moments that occurred between Episodes 10 and Episode 16.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nBai Hao Yu is brought back to his room by Lin Yi Mu with the help of Li Hui Zhen. (There\u2019s no need for an access card this time round.) There\u2019s a request from Lin Yi Mu for some water which Li Hui Zhen doesn’t get him this time round. She just leaves.<\/p>\n
Lin Yi Mu:<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you really planning on telling Deputy Editor in Chief your real identity?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Li Hui Zhen and Li Yi Mu head to Li Hui Zhen\u2019s room where Lin Yi Mu learns that Li Hui Zhen\u2019s made the decision to tell Bai Hao Yu about her real identity. She tells him that because of her lying she\u2019s been living in fear ever since they met again. She doesn’t want to continue this any longer as she worried she could ruin the view he has of her in his heart if she did.<\/p>\n
Li Hui Zhen:<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought Bai Hao Yu changed, but slowly, I realised that Bai Hao Yu is still that Bai Hao Yu. He’s kind and pure. When he works, he’s very earnest and accountable. Although his EQ is quite low, he’s a very fair-minded person\u2014although he can be overly righteous and a little foolish.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
This business trip seems to have helped Li Hui Zhen think things through. It helped her see that Bai Hao Yu, who she thought had changed, really hasn’t changed all that much. It was this belief that he had changed that had caused Li Hui Zhen to worry that maybe he wouldn’t be able to handle seeing how much she\u2019s changed. But, after being on this business trip, she sees that Bai Hao Yu\u2019s like the Bai Hao Yu she once knew. Getting into trouble at the restaurant, working together at the farm and playing games together, it had her feel like they were old friends who understood each other very well.<\/p>\n
Li Hui Zhen:<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were once such good friends. Even if we sat together and didn’t talk, we knew what the other was thinking. I can’t think he won’t accept me just because my outer appearance changed. Isn’t this underestimating our relationship?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Li Hui Zhen blames herself for being weak and a coward for hiding herself from him so he couldn’t find her. She was in effect underestimating Bai Hao Yu and the strength of their friendship. Having thought this all through, she lets Lin Yi Mu know she\u2019s going to tell Bai Hao Yu about everything. She would muster up the courage and go find Bai Hao Yu this time.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nLin Yi Mu:<\/p>\n
\u201cYou sure have a lot of thoughts inside your little head. That’s right! You must make yourself happy, okay?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Li Yi Mu is a pretty good friend. This whole time he sits listening to her, nodding and smiling. He even pushes her towards Bai Hao Yu by supporting her happiness\u2014even if that means going to Bai Hao Yu and not him. Her decision to go to Bai Hao Yu worries him, though, as his smiling expression straightens after expressing his support.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nLin Yi Mu leaves his phone in Li Hui Zhen’s room which has her going to look for him. However, upon seeing Bai Hao Yu’s door open, she stops by Bai Hao Yu\u2019s room instead to check up on him. In Episode 14, Lin Yi Mu had gone in Li Hui Zhen\u2019s place to check on Bai Hao Yu who was sick. This time, Li Hui Zhen checks up on him. She\u2019s the one who covers him with cushions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Seeing Bai Hao Yu lay there asleep, she goes to pinch his cheek before uttering a \u201cXiao Pan Yu\u201d. Lin Yi Mu walks in then, causing Li Hui Zhen to stutter as she tries to explain her reason for being in Bai Hao Yu\u2019s room when she was looking for Lin Yi Mu. She exits quickly after that which has Lin Yi Mu wonder to himself what was up between the two.<\/p>\n
Bai Hao Yu, who must have woken by the conversation between Li Hui Zhen and Lin Yi Mu, is seen smiling to himself after they all leave.<\/p>\n
This scene with Li Hui Zhen visiting Bai Hao Yu and covering him up with cushions also doubles up as the scene at the Immortal office where Bai Hao Yu covers Li Hui Zhen with a jacket when she was tired from her cold and took a nap (Episode 15).<\/p>\n
The night ends with Li Hui Zhen in bed, smiling happily to herself; Bai Hao Yu tossing and turning, in thought; and Xia Qiao in bed, holding her phone, clearly worried about what will become of her, of her and Bai Hao Yu and probably of her and Li Hui Zhen.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nLin Yi Mu:<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you two going to wear the same? That’s so embarrassing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bai Hao Yu:<\/p>\n
\u201cI don’t mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
In the morning, Li Hui Zhen and Bai Hao Yu shop for some clothes before getting on with their on-location survey. They try on some traditional clothes before eventually picking out a couple of T-shirts with a panda print on them. Essentially, what they\u2019ve picked out are couple tees. Lin Yi Mu comes in and asks whether it\u2019s a bit embarrassing that they’re wearing such similar designs. Bai Hao Yu doesn’t think so and is quick to let Lin Yi Mu know he doesn’t mind!<\/p>\n
Does Bai Hao Yu like the thought of the two being a couple? He (nor Li Hui Zhen) corrected the sales lady when she referred to them as a married couple for choosing the same style either.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nBai Hao Yu:<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember when I was younger, every P.E. class I’d be punished with running laps. I\u2019d then pretend to be sick and secretly go off to buy some. When no one was paying attention, I’d eat it all.\u201d<\/p>\n
Li Hui Zhen:<\/p>\n
\u201cHe’s finally telling the truth. Back then, he lied to me and said he didn’t eat them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
After Li Hui Zhen, Bai Hao Yu and Lin Yi Mu spend some time strolling the traditional-looking streets, they all take a break under a pavilion to have some popsicles together. Bai Hao Yu and Li Hui Zhen sit at the side licking popsicles with Bai Hao Yu sharing some memories about the younger days when he would sneak around eating popsicles and Li Hui Zhen grinning away as she listened to those memories\u2014some shared and some she didn’t know about.<\/p>\n
Bai Hao Yu:<\/p>\n
\u201cTruth is I rather go back to how things were when I was younger.\u201d<\/p>\n
Li Hui Zhen:<\/p>\n
\u201cRight. When I was younger, the littlest things could satisfy. Even eating a popsicle felt like I had the whole world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Bai Hao Yu expresses his preference to return to his younger days. Her response about about how easily satisfied they were, how it felt like a simple thing like a popsicle felt like the whole world was in their hands has him turn to look at her like she had completed his thoughts.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhile Bai Hao Yu and Li Hui Zhen reminisce about eating popsicles, Lin Yi Mu is playing hoops on the other side of the pavilion. The relationship between Bai Hao Yu and Li Hui Zhen is getting a lot more natural and a lot more comfortable and it troubles him. The girl he clearly has feelings for is getting closer to her childhood friend; and that childhood friend seems to be responding to her and opening up a lot more, too.<\/p>\n
Lin Yi Mu can only stand by and watch it seems. He did give her his support for doing whatever makes her happy after all. It looks like Lin Yi Mu will lose to Bai Hao Yu\u2014not only because Bai Hao Yu is the lead and this story is about him and Li Hui Zhen\u2014but when Li Hui Zhen picks out a toy for Lin Yi Mu to hoop, Lin Yi Mu misses. Bai Hao Yu hoops it on his first go.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nLi Hui Zhen:<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’d be great if there was a lamp and postcard here.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEven though you’re traveling alone, there has to be someone you’re thinking about. When you come across beautiful scenery, things and people, you’ll definitely want to share it with them. So, it’d be great to have postcards to post your longing anytime and anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Closing off the episode, Li Hui Zhen offers a great idea for the concept of the photoshoot Immortal\u2019s working on. She suggests a lamp and postcards as something they could include in their concept as the lonely traveller would probably be thinking about someone on their travels. Having a lamp and postcards would allow them to write about them on the postcards and send them to that person in their thoughts.<\/p>\n
Bai Hao Yu connects to Li Hui Zhen\u2019s idea. Having left to America, he felt quite alone, since no one befriended him whilst over there. He had a friend he would always look forward to receiving letters from. It gave him the power to keep on working hard\u2014so as to not disappoint her. But then she had stopped writing all of a sudden. He knew she had moved houses, but he still felt quite pained by it.<\/p>\n
Li Hui Zhen moves to try console him. She hints her previous family situation as having bankrupt as being behind why she stopped writing: she promises him that if she were to one day travel on her own, she\u2019d make sure she\u2019d keep her bank balance around \u00a5850. That way she\u2019d be able to transfer the money to him if he ever got himself into any problems needing her help.<\/p>\n
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