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Mo Sheng has a cold.  Yi Chen makes medicine for her and brings it into the room.
Yi Chen: Look at you.  Here.  Take the medicine.
Mo Sheng: You brought that too?
Yi Chen: Mm.
Mo Sheng: Did you not check the almanac before we left? How come I’m so unlucky? First, I take a fall and now I have a cold. So miserable.
Yi Chen: I’m the one who’s on the losing end.
Mo Sheng: What have you lost? You didn’t catch a cold… (sees Yi Chen’s expression) Here, for you to drink.
Yi Chen: You’ve ruined all my plans. Finish drinking it.
Mo Sheng: What plan did you have?
Yi Chen: You’ve finished your medicine, now have a good sleep.
Mo Sheng: I can’t sleep if you don’t tell me.
Yi Chen: (leans in) To hurry up and make this a “real” marriage.
(Mo Sheng looks away and points at some random thing on the ceiling to try to distract him but Yi Chen pulls her face back towards him.)
Mo Sheng: (eyes closed in embarrassment) I have a cold!
Yi Chen: Now that you’ve taken your medicine, you’ll get better very quickly.
Mo Sheng: (slides under covers) I’m sleeping.  I’m sleeping!
(Yi Chen tucks her into the covers and walks away while she peeps at him.)
Yi Chen stands at the door and looks back on her.  “You’ve committed bigamy, did you know?” he asks in his mind.  (Watch Wallace’s expression change from a sweet, contented look to a serious, concerned one when he thinks that. I enjoy watching his acting, how his emotions can play across his face.)



Linda receives a call for Ying Hui from his ex-girlfriend, Tong Xin Ying but tells her that he is in a meeting. In reality, he is sitting right beside her. He motions to give him the phone, so pretending that he just stepped out of the meeting, Linda hands the phone to him. Tong Xin Ying invites him out to eat fish with her at a restaurant they had discovered together way back in their first year of uni.  Ying Hui is putting on his in love act and tells her how happy he is that she still remembers that restaurant, to which she replies, “Me too.” They hang up after arranging to meet at 9:00 the following morning, but when Linda reminds Ying Hui that he has a meeting at that time, he tells her, he is not going to go. Did I catch a relieved, almost happy smile flash across Linda’s face? Linda comments that he has not seemed very happy lately, but he merely agrees and says he will pay more attention to it.
(The whole game between Ying Hui and Tong Xin Ying gives me the creepy crawlies. One is leading the woman on out of… revenge?  The other is a married woman who is trying her best to hook up with another man. If it’s out of true feelings, well, get a divorce first.  If it’s out of gold digging, well, still get a divorce first.  Ugh.)
Yuan Feng goes to find Xiao Xiao, demanding to know who that man is that Yi Mei loves and why he hasn’t let go of her if he doesn’t even like her. Xiao Xiao snaps back, “Who is the one unwilling to let go? It’s He Yi Mei herself!… What would you do if someone you don’t like has been sticking herself to you for ten plus years?” Xiao Xiao hangs out with him, saying she wants to enjoy the pain of a loser. (They still manage to do a product placement in this scene with Xiao Xiao handing him a can and stating, “Red Bull”.  The product advertising is even more blatant in this drama than in Boss and Me.) After mocking him for a bit, she tells him seriously that the problem lies with Yi Mei, not him. When he says that he just doesn’t understand what about him isn’t as good as “that man”, Xiao Xiao scoffs and replies, everything — looks, bearing, abilities, income. She laughs at him that he is acting like a sissy over a break-up, and he retorts, he’s not like her, breaking hearts with her good looks.  Does she even know what it feels like to have someone break-up with you?
Finally, we get Xiao Xiao’s story, when she was still the simple Shao Mei.  Her eyes are red as she retorts, does he really think the strong woman front just came about in a day? The boy she liked had just been playing around with her, and she locked herself at home, not eating or speaking with anyone for two days.  But in those two days, her grandmother, who was the one who raised her, became extremely sick and no one could find her to tell her. By the time she rushed back to see her grandmother, she had already died. She loathes herself every time she thinks about the fact that she did not get to see her grandmother one last time.
They go off together to a bar to drown their sorrows in Rio. Xiao Xiao brings a very intoxicated Yuan Feng back to his own home, but he won’t let her leave.  And so they down more bottles of, can you guess?  Rio! Of course, the story uses one of the most over-used plot devices and, when Yuan Feng wakes up the next morning, he discovers Xiao Xiao in the same bed as him, much to his panic! Xiao Xiao tells him, no big deal, they just drank a bit much.  Follow the rules of the game of grown adults. Yuan Feng stutters, it was his first time!  But she just tells him, she is not going to bear the resp