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Beggars can’t be choosers and roommates from hell

BeiChuan has a very good friend in Yan Jun. he has offered him a job and paid off the 60k he owed. Jun is in the high end dog business. He basically offered BeiChuan partnership to be a dog groomer, locator and advertiser. BeiChuan feels this is beneath him and a silly means of business. He is bossy and mocks his friend’s offer and steals his food. There is no doubt that ID theft ruined his current employment status, but I find his treatment of friend not too far above the one that stole from him. He’s a bit of a jerk and something about his features reminds me way too much of Yang.😝XiNing is packing her stuff up from work. Her desk mate offered some friendly advice and she returned it in like fashion.😂 While there, she hears a contract in negotiations with a big company for 5k pairs of jeans. Her ‘friend’ didn’t want to be bothered by the details in the contract and tossed it in ‘the get around to it’ pile. XiNing and BeiChaun find themselves at the same job fair. XiNing runs into a college friend who offers her a job. XiNing declines because it’s to be secretary to big shots who will treat her like an escort instead of capable employee. She finds herself at Yan Jun’s stand. He offers her a secretary position but his job description didn’t seem enough different from her friend’s job offer.😝She politely declines. Manager Li finds XiNing and persuades her to work for him. She mentions the contract and he tells her they have the right machinery and expertise to pull off the large order. She boldly goes to the company’s manager and tells him they have German looms and Japanese sewing machines able to accommodate the order. He is at least considering it. BeiChuan has swallowed his pride and accepted his friend’s offer. He finds out they are a company of two.🤣 That whole barbershop room gig was a good prank back for being such an ass earlier. He has to make due with a storage room. But it’s clean, a good size, and very close to work. XiNing finds herself in Yi’s old room. There are two beds and the older lady tells her she can choose but then wants it. XiNing tells her that’s where her friend slept that stole funds and caused the company to collapse. This lets her get her way with the bed, but her roomy is an avid tv watcher and loudly interacts with the programming. When XiNing asked her to tone it down a little, she swaps to Cantonese opera and starts singing. She wants to know if XiNing likes it better.😝 She leaves the room for some quiet and finds BeiChuan down the hall. She immediately steals half his noodles and shamelessly makes herself at home. She has them toast to better days coming. She then tells him a story which may or may not be true about his unsafe burner. After swearing it can burn down the house he complies. His friend wants to make XiNing’s acquaintance, but it looks like he is the one stuck with her. 😂 last arc getting started now with a new group.

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Time with gma

Zhao was placed in a communist brig of some sort. Wen had made half the money and still coming up with the rest. I guess he did hear Fang or didn’t want to burden Yi, but he made a huge mistake not enlightening. Zhao gave his friend his watch to repair and they parted. Shortly after, Zhao committed suicide. Wen was devastated by the news. While he was processing the information in his study, Yi came over with window dressings for the house to lighten things up. She kept referring to Zhao helping her get Wen to appreciate finer things. At this point Wen burst out of the study, ripped the curtains down yelled about not needing or wanting those types of things and told her to get lost. She was desperate enough to ask directer Fang what was wrong and Fang told her about Zhao and that Wen had collapsed from an old war injury. She said he must not have trusted her like his first wife or she would have known these things. She left and her husband said Yi could not visit him in hospital that he needed his rest. Yi gave him six months of rest while she toured the north west getting more inspiration for her designs. She asked Qing to return his pen and camera right after she left. I have no pity for Wen here. His stance on strict oversight of himself for every possession, is as obsessive as Yang thinking he has the power and authority to do as he saw fit. Yang has been moved to a first floor quarters. I think this is so they can monitor him easier. It is obvious he is mentally unwell. Qing brought him some food and meds making it clear she was visiting for the committee and not herself. He tried to play up his loneliness and she took the liquor bottle out with her and said he should stay away from it and left. I am so glad she wasn’t even tempted with his routine. Her alone time with Yi has helped her become the sister she was always supposed to be. This time, you can see how fragile Yang is because he sits on his bed going how did I get here? This is one thing I think he and Zhao felt similarly. Their vices took them from the things truly important and ultimately broke their spirits. When Yi came back from her adventures, she was happily greeted by Qing and head seamstress. Her designs did well in the contest, so she was happy with the news. Qing told her she got into school and wanted to show Yi her class. She took her where she could see Wen teaching and mentioned that he had started teaching classes because somebody had told him the story of Marpessa. While Yi is staring at Wen, Qing screams for him and runs away. 😂 I was not sure if I would ever like that young lady but I find that I do. She will find her own way just like Yi did. Wen saw her and left his class to give her a hug. She already figured out while she was gone why he didn’t tell her the sad things. She told him she didn’t need his protection of the bad stuff. They needed to face it together. His class runs out to spy on them and he hugs her tighter.🥰 I do not know how much time has passed, but Wen’s son has gone from an angry adolescent to an angry man. He has cut ties with his father and Yi is trying to negotiate. He is not having his daughter share his name and if they write to her, the letters will be sent to his workplace and he will choose if to read them to her. It is not said why he left, but I am guessing between Wen not helping the family that raised him and Zhao taking his life that he felt his dad was both responsible and could have prevented it. He is right, but life is complicated. As he grows older and his daughter grows up he might come to understand his father better. In 1984 Wen passed away and left all his savings to his granddaughter. It is not said if the family reconciled, but at least she and Yi seem close. The 50’s arc ends with no further comment about Qing or Wen’s daughter. I found this arc as interesting as the first, but the transition to start and end it did not flow so well. We are now in the 90’s and back to the wedding Ye Xi Ning was visiting. She is meeting the brother of the groom and they commiserate how they were used for cash and life had greatly changed because of what the couple did. We are not told why they stole, just that they used those closest to them to get the cash and then disappeared leaving a wake of financial ruin for the unsuspecting victims. XiNing had saved herself by pawning Cheng’s watch. Seems it was worth the 50k to counter the theft. The young man she was meeting, was not as fortunate. The groom stole his US Visa and stole 60k from the faculty using his name. The college gave him two months to repay and suspended his classes. This also caused his trip abroad to never happen. His drinking celebration over his US Visa with friends gave the groom the opportunity for the identity theft. Why they did what they did is still the biggest mystery.

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