When last we left our useless rich guy and tall caretaker, they met three times by accident.
But the fourth meeting is on purpose
Shao Peng closes the door on Zi Xiang and Feng Jie. But he meets with them in a coffee shop and refuses to be Zi Xiang’s caretaker. Even when Zi Xiang offers a fat salary, room, board, and help getting a job where he most wants to work, Shao Peng says no. He really doesn’t want to work with Zi Xiang.
At home, Shao Peng stealthily uses his phone’s voice-to-text feature to eavesdrop on his mom’s conversation with his dad. She knows he’s not getting hired because he’s deaf.
Shao Peng goes to Zi Xiang’s with one question: Are they gangsters? Zi Xiang continues to be an obnoxious brat so Feng Jie reassures him they are businessmen. To get his dream job later, Shao Peng agrees to be Zi Xiang’s caretaker now.
Zi Xiang demands food! Immediately!
Suddenly we’re in a JBL territory, with Zi Xiang happily eating Shao Peng’s food. Feng Jie gives Shao Peng a house tour and asks him to keep an eye on Zi Xiang when he’s away. Zi Xiang is not the boss, he’s a child being babysat.
Next, it’s Beauty and the Beast territory, as Zi Xiang gives Shao Peng orders never to enter his room. Shao Peng picks food off Zi Xiang’s face, but we’re not at the eating-it stage of the relationship. He smiles at Zi Xiang, who looks stunned because yeah, Shao Peng has the best smile.
That night Zi Xiang overhears Shao Peng video chatting with his parents. They’re worried about him and want him to know he can return home anytime.
Zi Xiang remembers how his father forced him to go to Taiwan. Listening to good parenting makes him sad.
The next morning, Zi Xiang poisons himself a little
By drinking Feng Jie’s juice and causing an allergic reaction. Shao Peng stays calm, assesses him, and calls an ambulance.
While he’s recovering at home Feng Jie agrees to pretend to be him and go on a business trip. After, Shao Peng privately confronts Zi Xiang about why he deliberately caused the allergic reaction. He’s told to take his salary and not worry about other things.
As soon as Feng Jie is gone, Zi Xiang reveals his foot is fine and he’s ready to escape. He tries to leave multiple times while Shao Peng’s back is turned. He finally succeeds at night, only to nearly get run over by a random van and fall into a ditch. He’s hurt, and his phone is out of reach.
Shao Peng ignored the “stay out of my room” order, discovered Zi Xiang missing, and looks for him. Zi Xiang sees him, but Shao Peng can’t hear him calling for help.
Zi Xiang recognizes he tried to use Shao Peng’s deafness to his advantage and this situation is his fault. His whole life, people only reached out to him for what they wanted because of his wealth and position. Once they had what they wanted they left, and showed no interest in being close to him.
Feeling sad and lying in a ditch, he wishes for just one person to care about him.
With perfect dramatic timing, Shao Peng spots Zi Xiang
Zi Xiang finishes his wish with a promise that in return, he’d believe in that person and reciprocate their care.
Shao Peng checks him over and they share a long drama stare. He gives Zi Xiang his sweater and a piggyback. From his back, Zi Xiang thanks Shao Peng, who can’t see it. He asks the deaf man why he can’t hear, touches his ear, and nearly kisses his temple when Shao Peng turns his head.
Rain starts pouring and Zi Xiang pulls the sweater up to cover them both.
Back home, Shao Peng pushes into Zi Xiang’s room with a first aid kit. Zi Xiang stops arguing that he’s fine and writes on Shao Peng’s hand to demand “cool” band-aids. Shao Peng ignores him. Then he writes that he’s impressed Shao Peng found him, and thanks him.
Feng Jie has an adventure
Some guy orders another guy to find Zi Xiang, “take care of things”, and destroy the business deal. A new guy, Xin Jia, eavesdrops and decides to prove himself by killing Zi Xiang. He’s never killed anyone before.
Thinking Feng Jie is Zi Xiang, like most people have, he follows him to a bar. To get his courage up Xin Jia drinks. Too much. He drunkenly shoves away one of the many men hitting on Feng Jie and talks about how he wants to… kill him.
That last part maybe gets lost, because next morning Xin Jia wakes up in bed snuggled with Feng Jie. Feng Jie makes suggestive statements about their night before leaving bed to shower. Xin Jia rushes out, leaving his knife behind. Feng Jie sees it later.
Shao Peng figures out he’s been used
In the morning he goes into Zi Xiang’s room and finds him sleeping in the wardrobe. He checks his temperature and pulls up the blanket, but looks bothered.
Once Zi Xiang is up and eating breakfast Shao Peng confronts him via text. Zi Xiang tries to deny it, but it’s too late. He tries to block Shao Peng from angrily walking away, but can’t.
Feng Jie gets home and updates Zi Xiang on the guy with the knife. He suggests that Zi Xiang’s brother might be behind these attacks. Zi Xiang aggressively denies it, startling Feng Jie. He calms down and says not to ruin their relationship, his brother is nice to him.
Zi Xiang is resting in the sun outside when Shao Peng brings him a resignation letter.
It’s getting good
I think that’s a random van that nearly kills Zi Xiang, unrelated to the men trying to kill him. Crazy coincidence. Although, the English subtitles don’t use the word “kill” when the bad guys talk about dealing with Zi Xiang. Does someone really want to kill him? Or just hurt the business?
We’re getting more glimpses of the Zi Xiang under his spoiled brat show. First when he overheard Shao Peng’s parents and later when he defended his brother to Feng Jie. His thoughts while he lies in the ditch show he understands the problems with himself and his situation. He needs better solutions than poisoning himself and falling into a ditch.
And he shows he can be more than a thoughtless brat when he writes on Shao Peng’s palm to thank him. This is more effort to communicate than we’ve seen from anyone else outside of Shao Peng’s family.
I feel for Shao Peng. Even being hard of hearing, not deaf, I can be slow to catch what’s going on around me. A lot of information is conveyed with sound and completely missed if you can’t hear it. How upsetting to have to realize you’ve been used after the fact.
But Shao Peng has loving, supportive parents. I’m too practical to break into “all you need is love”, but I think a stable loving support system is one of the most important things when dealing with what life throws at you.
Shao Peng has already proven himself more capable than Zi Xiang, but we’re leading our poor rich guy towards some important growth.
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