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<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nLin Hao:<\/p>\n
\u201cHello, everyone, I\u2019m Lin Hao. From today, I will take up the company CEO position.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
That\u2019s right! Lin Hao is their new CEO. The sloppy, stingy old man who doesn\u2019t look or act like he could be the chairman\u2019s son is actually the chairman\u2019s son. He\u2019s looking important and quite the part now, though: gone are the t-shirts and shorts and his unkempt perm. Replacing that is a smart pinstripe suit and tie, and a cleaned-up perm. He\u2019s also got a small contingent of his people (his subordinates) by his side.<\/p>\n
Lin Hao\u2019s looking pretty nervous standing in front of his surprised and confused former colleagues. His eyes aren\u2019t able to meet anyone\u2019s and he\u2019s taking a few deep breaths whilst the Editor in Chief introduces him. When time to give his address, he seems to have found becoming their CEO a little strange and a bit funny: he had let out a chuckle when he finally looked at his former team members.<\/p>\n
It seems to be the same for them, too. After their initial surprised and confused reactions, grins replaced them as they listened to Lin Hao take his position as their new, very important boss. Lulu and Zhu Ying had let our silent chuckles, which is what caused Lin Hao to chuckle himself.<\/p>\n
(Note: Lin Hao\u2019s new appointment is \u2018z\u01d2ngj\u012bngl\u01d0\u2019 which can mean CEO or General Manager. We\u2019ve just gone with CEO. He could very well be taking the General Manager position, too.)<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nImmortal\u2019s affairs are then handed over to Lin Hao to manage and oversee. He gets some friendly teasing from Zhu Ying for hiding his identity:<\/p>\n
Zhu Ying:<\/p>\n
\u201cQuestion! Best Actor Manager, how does it feel being the best actor?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Lin Hao smugly answers that it feels pretty good before reintroducing himself as their CEO Lin Hao. Lin Hao\u2019s nonchalant, unaffected response has the team disappointed.<\/p>\n
Lin Hu Sheng asks why Li Hao couldn\u2019t just come out and tell them about who he was. This has Lin Hao respond that Lin Hu Sheng (and probably the others, too) wouldn\u2019t have hung out with him.
\nLin Hao goes on to express his surprise at how they couldn\u2019t sense the rich air around him, which ends up causing Han Xue to reveal her relationship with Lin Hu Sheng to the whole team:<\/p>\n
Lin Hao:<\/p>\n
\u201cI sat and worked right under your nose for so many years. Didn’t an ounce of wealthy air about me come out?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nWith Zhu Ying remarking how no one could detect such an air when the only air they were familiar with his creepy old man one, Lin Hao points out Han Xue as being someone who could:<\/p>\n
Lin Hao:<\/p>\n
\u201cHan Xue saw it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
He moves onto asking whether Han Xue had feelings for him this whole time:<\/p>\n
Lin Hao:<\/p>\n
\u201cI’ve become the CEO today, so I’m not afraid of asking. I’m going to ask once and for all. Do you like me?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Because she had bought coffee for him in the past, treated him food and helped him with tasks, he thinks it\u2019s because she likes him.<\/p>\n
Emphatically, Han Xue denies it:<\/p>\n
Han Xue:<\/p>\n
\u201cI don’t! I really don’t!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
To back herself up, she reveals she likes Lin Hu Sheng:<\/p>\n
Han Xue:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe one I like is Hu Sheng!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Lin Hu Sheng comes in at this point and reveals to everyone that they\u2019re dating, probably not so much shattering Lin Hao\u2019s heart but his ego.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nTwo secrets revealed (one major, one minor), a third major secret and another minor one is on the verge of being revealed over on Bai Hao Yu\u2019s side. Following the text he received from Diviner, Bai Hao Yu\u2019s on his way to keep the appointment he made with the graphic novelist.<\/p>\n
Eric:<\/p>\n
\u201cI am his agent. Under our company isn’t there a Bloomsbury Street magazine? Not long after you returned to the country, I was sent over to handle Diviner-related matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Arriving at the meeting place, Bai Hao Yu is greeted by Diviner\u2019s manager first. To his surprise, Diviner\u2019s manager turns out to be his friend, Eric.<\/p>\n
Being Diviner\u2019s manager wasn\u2019t intentionally kept a secret from Bai Hao Yu. Eric explains to Bai Hao Yu later in the meeting with Diviner that he only found out recently that Diviner worked at Bai Hao Yu\u2019s Editing Department. By the sounds of things Eric knew little about who Diviner actually was before then, as their means if communication was through email only.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nHeading into the room to meet Diviner, Bai Hao Yu introduces himself to Diviner only to realise introductions aren\u2019t needed. Standing before him is none other than Lin Yi Mu.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lin Yi Mu:<\/p>\n
\u201cI know you must have a lot of questions right now. But don’t worry. Everything you want to know, it’ll all be answered: who I am, how I grew up. why I chose this life of anonymity. Remember to help me write an exclusive after you’re done listening.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Bai Hao Yu and Lin Yi Mu a.k.a Diviner sit down where every piece of information about Diviner Bai Hao Yu needs is all prepared and recorded for Bai Hao Yu to use. Lin Yi Mu even supplies a camera and invites Bai Hao Yu to use it to take photos to support the authenticity of the article.<\/p>\n
So, as it turns out, Diviner is the reason printing was halted. The person to asked the printing to be halted was not the Editor in Chief (as we had thought), but Lin Yi Mu himself. It has Bai Hao Yu ask why Lin Yi Mu why he\u2019s doing this. Lin Yi Mu brings up Li Hui Zhen and wanting to save her job, causing a bit of tension in the air, but then Lin Yi Mu expands, telling him that it\u2019s not just for Li Hui Zhen, it\u2019s for all of his colleagues and he even lists Bai Hao Yu as a reason he\u2019s doing this. (So magnanimous!)<\/p>\n
Lin Yi Mu:<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Immortal really can’t continue on, they’ll have the title of having obtained the only exclusive interview with Diviner in the whole universe. I believe they won’t be harrassed about it when they go back out to look for jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Lin Yi Mu\u2019s willingness to sacrifice his secret identity to save the magazine really is an all-bases covered solution to the Immortal crisis. Should his first-ever interview save Immortal from shutting down, his colleagues and friends would enjoy being number one in sales rank and keep their jobs. Should his interview not be enough, it should save his colleagues and friends from being cast out of the industry because of Immortal\u2019s failure. As Lin Yi Mu suggests, it\u2019s an exclusive interview which no media has ever managed to get. For Immortal to get an interview with Diviner is in itself a huge feat and proof of the Editorial Team\u2019s abilities: it should help them find and land jobs after Immortal\u2019s closure if it were to shut down.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nBai Hao Yu:<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. I don’t agree to this. You don’t need to sacrifice yourself like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Bai Hao Yu can\u2019t sacrifice Lin Yi Mu\u2019s privacy to save Immortal, his job and everyone else\u2019s job. Even with Lin Yi Mu\u2019s encouragement to freely use him to get Immortal to number one, Bai Hao Yu decides against using this kind of method to do it. Following the meeting with Lin Yi Mu, he calls the printers to advise there was nothing to add and resume printing.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nImmortal\u2019s latest issue is published with Bai Hao Yu expecting to see it sans the Diviner issue. To Bai Hao Yu\u2019s shock (and to the shock of everyone at Immortal), Diviner\u2019s story is in there and his identity of being Lin Yi Mu is revealed for the world to see.<\/p>\n
Bai Hao Yu rushes to the hotel where Lin Yi Mu resides to (we\u2019re guessing) find out what the situation is, only to find out he\u2019s checked out already, leaving Bai Hao Yu no idea where Lin Yi Mu is.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A text comes through not long after Bai Hao Yu is told by hotel staff of Lin Yi Mu\u2019s departure:<\/p>\n
Lin Yi Mu:<\/p>\n
\u201cMy dear Deputy Editor in Chief. You did exactly as I expected and took out the article. Don’t tell me you’re at the hotel looking for me as expected. I didn’t think that it’d be me who knows you best. Two single men, that’s too sad. So, let’s not continue deepening our relationship. I’ve already left.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Lin Yi Mu\u2019s the one who had his story published. It seems Lin Yi Mu knew Bai Hao Yu couldn\u2019t do it. What would it say about Bai Hao Yu if he went through with it? Revealing and sacrificing Lin Yi Mu as Diviner really had to be done by Lin Yi Mu himself for it to be right.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nLin Hu Sheng:<\/p>\n
\u201cOur Editing Department really has been hiding some talented people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Li Hui Zhen:<\/p>\n
\u201cDiviner is Lin Yi Mu? Oh my god, how can that be?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Over at Immortal, shock echoes through the whole team as they flip through the pages to see one of their own revealed to be the famous Diviner they all have said to be his fan.<\/p>\n
Lulu:<\/p>\n
\u201cWith Lin Yi Mu revealing himself like this, can he still come back?\u201d<\/p>\n
Meili:<\/p>\n
\u201cHow can he? He’s so famous, it’d be strange for him to work here.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Talk about Lin Yi Mu\u2019s fame and not being able to return again has Li Hui Zhen running off to find him after not getting through on the phone. She seems to want to see him to talk about the situation, perhaps to stop him going through with this like Bai Hao Yu. (She seems to not know the magazines are already on the shelves.)<\/p>\n
Side note: Lin Yi Mu had intended to go to Li Hui Zhen with his story so she could be the one to reveal his identity to the world. He had recorded it all with her being the listener in mind. Thinking twice about it, though, he decided against it: he envisioned that Li Hui Zhen would never allow him to go through with saving Immortal this way. She\u2019d be against it then cry. He couldn\u2019t handle her crying, which is how he ended up contacting Bai Hao Yu and giving him the recording.<\/p>\n
On her way out, Li Hui Zhen runs into Bai Hao Yu who informs her that it\u2019s no use trying to find him. He\u2019s already tried himself. Lin Yi Mu\u2019s left and he won\u2019t return. He hands Li Hui Zhen the recording to listen to back at her desk.\u00a0<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nIn the recording, Lin Yi Mu reveals his secret identity to her, his family background and how he became Diviner. He was an adopted child of loving Western parents. Other than being known as Lin Yi Mu, he is also known Aiden James, his English name, and has a pen name Diviner.<\/p>\n
Lin Yi Mu:<\/p>\n
\u201cBy chance, I submitted my first graphic novel and by chance, I got a great response. I thought that things would move and develop towards a good direction. I didn’t think it would be completely different to what I expected. A lot of people just wanted to uncover my past. It posed a great threat to my parents’ daily life.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The pen name was created to protect his parents way of life, which the popularity of his first ever graphic novel threatened. The graphic novel had received great response when he released it to the world and it had caused unwanted attention as a lot of people wanted to find out about his past.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He had hesitated on whether to continue and use a pen name whom no one knew anything about. To his surprise, deciding that he would, it got him an even better response, allowing him to truly do whatever he liked. He was able to reach his dreams without any hindrances.<\/p>\n
It was after all this, he entered Immortal. He tells Li Hui Zhen that although he wasn\u2019t able to let his team know about his secret life, he really did treat them all as family. To him, Immortal was his second home.<\/p>\n
And this is basically Lin Yi Mu\/Diviner\u2019s story. He leaves Li Hui Zhen with wanting her to use it to write an exclusive on Diviner before joking around and farewelling her for the very last time.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nLin Hu Sheng:<\/p>\n
\u201cHow can Yi Mu-ge be like that, leaving without saying goodbye?\u201d<\/p>\n
Lin Yi Mu:<\/p>\n
\u201cWho touched my computer? Let me guess. Lin Hu Sheng, was it you? Did you touch my computer?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Lin Yi Mu\u2019s sudden departure has Lin Hu Sheng disappointed. It looks like Lin Yi Mu had left without saying goodbye to them, but he hasn\u2019t. He\u2019s recorded them each a short message on his laptop which he had fed to a screen in their office. Interestingly, in this recording, he mentions everyone. Zhu Ying, Ya Ling, Lin Hao, Han Xue, Lin Hu Sheng, Meili, Anna, Lulu, Bai Hao Yu and the Editor in Chief were personally addressed. Li Hui Zhen didn\u2019t get a single mention, which Lin Hu Sheng notices.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nLi Hui Zhen:<\/p>\n
\u201cThat petty man. You said it to everyone. Only to me you didn’t. And he says meeting me was great? You say you’re my big brother? Lin Yi Mu! You told everyone but me!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Li Hui Zhen is pretty annoyed with Lin Yi Mu for not saying goodbye to her. (We guess that outing last episode doesn\u2019t count and neither does the exclusive interview which had him say his good bye to her.) The feeling persists right into the evening where Xia Qiao tells Li Hui Zhen about her friendship with Lin Yi Mu and how they actually knew each other. Xia Qiao thinks Li Hui Zhen\u2019s angry at her for keeping this fact from her, but she wasn\u2019t bothered by it at all. What bothered her the most is that Lin Yi Mu had considered her as close as his sister, yet he didn\u2019t say anything to her.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nEnding the episode, Li Hui Zhen is offered a permanent position at Immortal after Zhu Ying had put in a request to turn her from an intern to an official employee. She\u2019s not rushing to accept this offer though, as she suddenly realise that she isn\u2019t so sure what her goals and dreams are.<\/p>\n
In the beginning, she had planned to return to the Logistic Department and become an official employee, but the sudden offer of becoming an official employee at the Editorial Department has her thinking what she really wants to do with her future.<\/p>\n
Bai Hao Yu is praised by Headquarters for a well-fought battle following rankings which place Immortal at number one. Bai Hao Yu\u2019s offered the opportunity to further his studies abroad and a reward\u2014which Bai Hao Yu predicts will be a promotion. He doesn\u2019t intend to take this promotion though as he believes it\u2019s not his to take since the success is the result of everyone\u2019s hard work. He can\u2019t take the reward alone. What\u2019s more, he thinks that had it not been for Lin Yi Mu\u2019s sacrifice, it would have been difficult for Immortal to reach number one.<\/p>\n
He will take up going abroad to further his studies and asks Li Hui Zhen to go with him. He figures that since she was so unsure of what she wants to do with her future, why not join him in the States? Choose him. Li Hui Zhen does. She tells him she will go to the States with him.<\/p>\n