Dating in the Kitchen (2020) s01e13 Episode Script
Episode 13
1
Looking into your eyes ♪
I see myself holding close to you ♪
Wherever I go ♪
I will never find someone like you ♪
So much in love tonight ♪
I know that it feels so right ♪
So special you and I ♪
You make my world go round and round ♪
Falling to you ♪
I’m falling to you ♪
All I ever want is to be with you ♪
Love is for you ♪
My love is for you ♪
You are my everything in my life ♪
Falling to you ♪
You’re the only one ♪
My love is for you ♪
= Dating in the Kitchen =
= Episode 13 =
= Yanqiao Farmers Market =
How much are the duck eggs?
Shengnan,
I’m surprised to see you here.
Who is this handsome man?
Boyfriend?
Look,
he has the disposition of a rich man,
he must be generous.
Buying duck eggs?
Bring us the most expensive
duck eggs of yours.
Thanks.
OK.
Why are you sitting down, Shengnan?
Which bastard sold you at a high price?
I’ll avenge you.
Sold me at a high price?
Sorry, sold to you. My mistake.
How much
is this?
5 per egg.
Make it cheaper.
You’re the only buyer.
I’ll offer you my buying price.
4.8.
I only make 20 cents per egg.
Look.
Authentic Gaoyou Salted Duck Egg.
Very greasy.
Shengnan,
what’s this?
Honesty Detector.
This is a bit excessive, isn’t it?
It’s unnecessary.
Let’s have a test.
See if you’re honest.
I’m very honest.
What’s this?
Facts speak louder than words.
How much is your buying price?
4.8.
4.5.
All from Gaoyou?
Sure.
All greasy?
Sure.
Shengnan,
this is
not Gaoyou Salted Duck Egg.
I bought it from the suburbs.
The villagers salted the eggs.
Your lowest price?
3.5.
I’ll take 6.
So much extra effort.
I told you
honesty matters the most.
Thanks.
How much is this piece of tofu?
Don’t worry, I’ll make up
the price discrepancy.
Be honest from now on.
You’re nice, senior.
Senior?
Senior.
Alright, alright.
You pay however much you like.
2…
Keep the change.
Tutu, collar, collar!
Sorry.
Where is the needle?
Sorry, Boss.
I forgot. I’ll pluck it the next time.
The next time? What about this time?
Tutu, do you know why
I haven’t fired you?
Because you’re mercy.
Because labor law is protecting you.
You silly!
Gabriel, Gabriel.
I didn’t expect
you to be a true man.
Richard, Richard,
perfect timing.
So
you can help me teach her
how to act like you.
One look from Mr. Lu
can make you get Pavlovian Conditioning.
Pav…
Go look it up.
P-Pavlovian.
Get down to business.
I’m here today to fulfill my promise.
We had a deal.
You’ll be the supplier of the uniforms
for our New Year Celebration this year.
Meng Xinjie,
you’ve been unlucky in relationships.
I thought you’d forgotten about it.
I didn’t expect that
you’re actually here
to fulfill your promise.
It looks like
Xu Zhaodi didn’t hurt you that much
after all.
I was worried about you for several days.
OK, OK, let’s talk business.
And keep private stuff private.
Speak.
So, uh, you don’t get the order for free.
There are two things that may trouble you.
How troublesome would they be?
The first thing is,
why is Miss Gu unhappy today?
Shouldn’t your boss worry about it?
True, but I’m just doing my job.
Well,
this is simple.
Next.
Next thing is,
has Xu Zhaodi hooked up
with another man?
A man? Is he handsome?
A mixblood.
Jeez, a mixblood?
Where did she meet him?
In a nightclub or something.
He drives a Porsche.
No, no.
It doesn’t matter.
Must be the one that we often go to.
Does he drink?
It’s Friday or…
Must be Saturday.
No, no, no. Wait, wait.
Are you asking me
or I’m asking you?
Richard, don’t worry.
I’ll handle Zhaodi for you.
You need to help me confirm
which the club it is.
He’s Asian-European
or African-European?
Jeans?
Richard,
come on!
If you see him again,
send me the address.
I’m here.
Yes.
Oh, your vegetables.
It’s OK now.
The light is fixed?
You installed it?
Good. Good boy.
Handsome boy.
I love my country ♪
I can never part with it ♪
So, uh…
Good night.
Good night.
Your vegetables.
Good night.
What the heck?
Fussy Lu,
do you…
like me?
Fussy Lu,
do you like me or not?
= Gu =
I like you.
Fussy Lu,
do you like me?
I won’t ever let you go
cuz you’re the one ♪
I like you.
Fussy Lu,
do you like me or not?
Every night and day ♪
Tell me that you love me say you do
I love you ♪
I like you.
Fussy Lu,
do you like me?
I like you.
Louder.
I like you.
The evening when I waited for you ♪
The right moment I can hold you ♪
I fall in love in love
in love with you ♪
I can’t stop thinking about you
cuz you got me baby ♪
I miss you more and more
Can’t get enough of you ♪
Baby You’re the only one I love Baby ♪
Please don’t be shy Trust me ♪
Don’t leave me hanging ♪
Mr. Cheng.
Is Ms. Zheng happy with the dishes
that we prepared for her?
Don’t know.
Until now,
if there’s no bad news
it’s good news, right?
Call me if necessary.
Fried codfish with tomato basil sauce.
Lu Jin,
why are you here?
I’m in charge of the Bauhinia project.
I can’t miss this important part.
Right, mom?
Sit.
The fish is good.
It had its own world.
It got a bright future
but was seduced by the cheap bait.
Its greed was sated
at the cost of its life.
Foolish.
A lowly dish.
Carry on.
Why are you in a rush?
I heard Ms. Zheng said that…
Well, she said
the soup was lowly.
And the fish was
greedy and foolish.
Anyway, the dish wasn’t high-end enough.
Forget it, next dish.
Trumpet, serve.
OK.
Where is the cart?
It was right here.
I…
There! You two dummies.
Ms. Zheng,
Mr. Lu, Miss Li.
The next dish
is today’s final dish.
Also, a dish specially cooked by our chef
Gu Shengnan.
She’ll introduce it.
Ms. Zheng, we got the expensive ingredient
just for you.
Red wine
What-what’s this?
What?
You didn’t cook this?
No, I didn’t.
I cooked truffled mushroom ragout.
Sorry,
I didn’t cook this.
Since Chef Gu didn’t cook this,
Manager Shen, take it away.
OK.
It is truffle.
One of the three most expensive
ingredients in the world.
But
it seems the truffle
hasn’t been processed.
Raw truffle
smells bad.
It must be a misunderstanding, right?
Manager Shen.
No.
Li Man, please explain
to us if there’s a deeper meaning.
It simulates truffle’s
growing environment.
The garnish is rotten leaves.
The rest
might sound inappropriate
Then just stop.
Say it.
Truffle doesn’t carry out
photosynthesis on its own.
So it needs a host with enough nutrition.
For example, oak.
It absorbs the nutrition in an oak’s roots
to create an ideal growing environment
for itself.
Truffle
also kills the plants around the oak.
It makes them decay and rot.
Truffle sure is callous.
Mom, it’s a misunderstanding.
Manager Shen, it’s not
a misunderstanding.
I think she did it on purpose.
Are you trying to say that
the acquisition
is like the truffle,
which killed others to benefit itself?
No, Ms. Zheng.
I am unhappy with the acquisition,
but I’m not that stupid to
take it out on the dish.
I didn’t cook the dish, Manager Shen.
All right, enough.
I’ve seen what Bauhinia is capable of.
Let’s go.
Uh…
Ms… Ms. Zheng, uh…
What are you doing here?
Go back to the kitchen.
S-Sorry, sorry, Mr. Lu.
Gu Shengnan,
about what happened,
don’t you think you owe me an explanation?
What explanation?
I didn’t cook the dish.
She didn’t.
I helped her all the way.
She did use truffle,
but not like this.
Who cooked it then?
Manager,
did someone serve the wrong dish?
Someone?
Who?
Are you talking about me?
No, no, no.
I served the dish.
I know it was you.
My meaning is,
who passed the dish to you?
Me.
Are you talking about me?
I passed the dish to her.
I didn’t mean that.
All right.
It’s not that hard
to figure out
what the hell happened.
The person had a problem
with Zhenghong Group.
No one here
is that important
to have anything to do
with those big bosses, right?
I seem to remember that
Customer 1123 fooled
the kitchen around.
I believe everybody should know
that who had a problem
with him.
Just admit it.
Don’t get us
hardworking employees involved.
We’ve been working here for so long
and we are treated as suspects.
This is very disappointing.
Very cold-hearted.
What do you mean?
Yes,
1123 and I did have a history,
but I don’t have a problem with him.
What is it then?
Anyway,
it’s not related to this matter.
See?
She’s hiding something.
How come it isn’t related?
I think it’s definitely
related to this.
And
in an unusual way.
Think about it,
we’ve been working in Bauhinia for so long
and we haven’t got promoted.
A young girl like her
made her way up to chef in a few days.
And here she claims
she got the promotion fair and square?
Mr. Lu, how come…
How come you’re here in the kitchen?
Come with me.
I have something to ask you in private.
Do you trust me?
Of course.
Who else would I trust?
I knew you would.
It’s been a tiring day,
go home and get some rest.
Leave it to me, okay?
Go home.
You’re Gu Shengnan’s sidekick.
Can I call you that?
Mr. Lu,
how polite of you.
Shengnan is my chief.
Mr. Lu, tell you what,
Shengnan mustn’t have done it.
When she cooked,
I had been helping her.
I can vouch for her.
She definitely cooked
truffled mushroom ragout.
Someone must have swapped the dish.
Who would it be?
Well,
that’d be my presumption.
Out with it.
I order you to tell me.
Could be Mr. Yu, could be Mr. Wang.
They think they have worked
for the longest time
in Bauhinia Hotel,
so they always take advantage
of their seniority.
In the chef competition,
they lost to my chief.
So they must have held a grudge.
They framed my chief up.
I…
Oh,
check the camera.
See who exactly
swapped the dish.
That’ll do, right?
Sorry to disappoint you
but the camera got nothing.
I have no idea then.
We didn’t do it.
Come in.
Mr. Lu, Yu Zhikun is here.
Sit.
You are Yu Zhikun?
Yes.
Back in the kitchen, I
I’m Lu Jin.
Mr. Lu,
hi.
How long have you worked in Bauhinia?
13 years.
In Bauhinia
Do you know why I called
you here?
No.
Did you swap Gu Shengnan’s dish?
No.
How was it possible for me to do it?
We only had a brief talk,
you can’t presume that I did it.
The hotel has a strict rule
that if expensive ingredients
like black truffle are used,
the employees must keep a record.
According to the record
in the prepping room,
you took some black truffle
at around 9:15.
Is that correct?
Correct.
Yes.
I did take some.
I cooked with it.
What did you cook?
Fried scallop meat with black truffle.
You cooked it last night?
No, this morning.
Where is the dish?
Uh, I did a terrible job.
Then I trashed it.
Where?
Where?
It must be in the trash bin.
Which trash bin?
Which trash bin?
So many bins.
I must have
trashed it in a random bin.
Was it the bin for
kitchen garbage downstairs?
Yes, yes.
That bin.
Well, that’s odd.
The garbage collector
comes to collect the garbage once a day.
Everything from last night until now
is still in the bin.
I sent someone to
rummage through it,
but your fried scallop meat
with black truffle
wasn’t found.
Instead,
Gu Shengnan’s dish, which was supposed
to be served,
was in the bin.
What did you do with your black truffle?
Or did you mix the black truffle
with a bunch of rotten leaves
and serve the dish?
No, no, no.
This is slander.
This is but your guess.
You have no evidence.
Right?
Have you heard
Locard’s Exchange Principle?
What?
When someone commits a crime,
it’s a progress
of exchange of items.
The criminal
is an item.
Let’s say you,
during the crime,
you would make contact and
exchange with all kinds of items
and it doesn’t subject to man’s will.
No matter how hard you try to hide,
everything that you did would leave
traces.
You’ve been working
in Bauhinia for 13 years,
you know everything about this place.
Since you do,
you know that the security camera
in the kitchen has a blind spot,
so you could avoid it.
The camera wouldn’t catch
any part of you swapping the dish.
But the deed was only half done.
If you were to keep it from everyone,
you must secretly
get rid of Gu Shengnan’s dish.
The trash bin for the kitchen garbage
would be your only option.
And there was only one way
to get to the trash bin.
Because you had to avoid the
cameras in the elevator,
you’d have to walk downstairs.
There was no security camera
in the staircase,
as well as at the exit of it.
No camera could have caught that spot.
But what the camera could film
was the wall opposite to the exit
of the staircase.
Did you notice that
there was a painting on the wall?
A painting?
What painting?
An Italian artist Tiziano’s work,
the Repentant Magdalen.
The camera can catch the full painting
and the reflection of the person
who walks past it on the glass frame.
All you did was
meant to frame Gu Shengnan up,
but do you know
that during the dish-tasting,
the vice president of Zhenghong Group
had gastrointestinal bleeding
because of the dish you made?
Now, she’s still in the emergency room.
Your action has
endangered a person’s life.
I must call the police.
Whether it’s a crime or not,
you’ll have to explain
to the police later.
No, it’s
No. How… How could it be?
It shouldn’t be like this
I just
Why did you do it?
Because the young girl Gu Shengnan
gets to be the chef
whereas you got demoted to
a sous chef
after working in Bauhinia for 13 years.
You think it’s unfair,
so you came up with a nasty idea
to fame her.
Yes.
I admit it.
I swapped the dish.
I couldn’t let her become the chef
so easily.
It’s unfair.
I’ve worked in this hotel for so long.
Why does a little girl get to become
the chef so quickly?
Sit down, you. Sit down.
It’s not that complicated. Sit down.
I’ll help you sort it out.
You’re fired.
You go to HR and resign.
Simple, right?
What about the police?
I didn’t expect any of this.
No. There’s no cop.
No one would eat that dish.
And there was no painting.
But we got this.
What?
Yes.
I admit it.
I swapped the dish.
I couldn’t let her become the chef
so easily.
It’s unfair.
I’ve worked in this hotel for so long.
= Voice memo =
Why does a little girl get to become
the chef so quickly?
I see.
You set me up.
You didn’t get any evidence.
You’re with Gu Shengnan.
You’ve
worked together to set me up.
And Gu Shengnan isn’t
sleeping with anyone?
Are you saying Gu Shengnan is
sleeping with me
or with him?
Make yourself clear.
With you!
Go out.
How did you know I was coming?
Meng Xinjie told me on the phone.
He-he-he said,
Zhaodi and my uncle went to your house
to settle the score with Li Man.
My house?
Because I just called them
Slow down.
I called them
and said some stuff on the phone.
And then they
They just went.
Quickly, quickly.
= Matsuhashi No.1 =
Li Man,
come out.
Come out!
Li Man!
You are a coward.
Right. Come out!
Such a coward!
Coming, coming.
Who
are you two?
Shouting and yelling
in front of other’s house
is inappropriate, isn’t it?
You’re Li Man, right?
You don’t need to know who we are.
You
have a pretty face
but do sneaky stuff.
Speak.
Did you do it?
Miss,
please watch your language.
What are you talking about?
You old vixen,
don’t act innocent.
I read right through you.
Miss Li,
I’d like you to know that
although my nephew Gu Shengnan
is a bit goofy,
but we got her back.
I advise you not to play dirty.
You’re Gu Shengnan’s relatives, huh?
There’s a misunderstanding
between us, I think.
First of all, I don’t know her well.
You go talk to whoever is responsible
for what happened today.
You just speak with Lu Jin.
What?
Are you upset
because he’s into someone else?
If Lu Jin liked you,
you would have been together.
You can’t blame your own failure
on Gu Shengnan.
The more you bully her,
the more Lu Jin cares about her.
Don’t try to read other’s mind.
Or you’ll be trapped
in your own thoughts.
Lu Jin is my son.
You don’t get to take a wild guess
of what he likes.
You’re Lu Jin’s mom, right?
Hi, Lu Jin’s mom,
we’re here to tell you that
Gu Shengnan would never do
shit like that.
Someone must be jealous of her
and tried to frame her up.
You two
came here to speak for the girl chef?
I have a few words for her.
I hope, in the future,
if she has any problems,
she has to report to her boss,
the manager of F & B.
Please don’t send a bunch of her friends
to speak up for her
in the middle of the night
in front of the chairman’s house.
She’s better off spending the time
improving her culinary skills
instead of trying to be a smart ass.
Especially truffle recipes.
Ms. Zheng,
you sound quite harsh.
Who are you?
I’m a tailor.
My name doesn’t matter.
We weren’t
very much educated.
Sorry for disturbing you.
It’s our fault.
But
everything happens for a reason.
Our chef friend
was framed up
but she didn’t make a scene,
instead, she asked us not to disturb you.
In comparison,
you’re a woman of high status,
but you’re mean
and just jumped into conclusion
without evidence.
Ms. Zheng, we
So you’re too petty
with us, whose names aren’t even worthy
remembering.
Oh,
you just said,
Mr. Lu is your son
and others can’t read his mind.
I’d like to ask you,
do you know your son?
Do you know what’s the relationship
between Mr. Lu
and our chef friend?
Of course you don’t.
You care more about
the shares of the company.
You don’t care about true feelings
of human beings.
Enough.
Enough.
Mom.
Sorry, Ms. Zheng.
I’m so sorry.
I’ve found out who cooked the dish.
Everything is on me.
They
are her friends.
Go.
Please.
Lu Jin,
she wears a terrible look on her face.
Will she be hard on you?
No, no.
I’ll take care of it.
You head back now, OK?
Mom.
Lu Jin,
you’ve become more and more different.
I’m still your son.
Going out to confront them
wasn’t your thing.
People change.
Yes. And quite a lot.
Your name is more important
in this thing.
So I must find out who did it.
And it wasn’t Gu Shengnan.
You’re better than this.
Just forgive them.
You care more about
Gu Shengnan’s feelings, right?
You and she are both important to me.
Since you’ve said it,
it would be uncool of me
to keep giving a young girl a hard time.
Now that it has been confirmed that
Gu Shengnan didn’t do it,
I’ll buy
her a meal, then.
No, mom.
She hasn’t really
taken it to heart.
So
you don’t need to buy her a meal.
But I have.
If I don’t clear the air,
people would think I’m
bullying a girl.
Mom.
Mr. Lu,
just let them dine together.
It might be a good chance for them
to clear the air and
get to know each other.
I’m worried that my mom
Don’t worry about me.
Does
Miss Gu have concerns?
Just you, me, and her?
The three of us have a quick meal,
right?
Just a quick one.
Table 6, lime juice marinated scallop,
applewood smoked New Zealand salmon.
Table 11, raw steak tartare,
slow-cooked Iberian Matsusaka pork.
Table 15, fried sea bass,
foie gras parfait.
Table 18, orange flower bitters
sponge cake,
with saffron mousse, almond, orange on it.
Keep it up, guys.
We got many customers today. Come on!
You hear it?
Yes.
Then get to work.
I got table 11.
I got table 6.
Prepare the ingredients.
Chef Gu,
I’ll take care of the rest.
Come on, come on, come on.
Help me wash two carrots.
Chef Gu, you’ve finally
got everyone’s respect,
my life will be so much easier.
It’s impossible.
I plan to train you.
I’ll watch you closely every day.
No problem.
Mr. Cheng helped you find out the truth
and fired Mr. Yu.
How will you thank him?
How?
It’s your job.
You’re good at ass-kissing.
I only kiss your ass, Miss Gu.
Young man,
you need to focus on your job.
Don’t put your mind on
meaningless stuff,
got it?
Got it.
So go prepare the ingredients.
OK.
Miss Gu.
See you around.
Hurry up.
How did it go?
Did your mom give you a hard time
after you went home?
No, she didn’t.
Why would she?
I have great news for you.
My mom wants to make peace with you.
She’d like to buy you a meal.
Just the three of us.
It is good news,
but no.
The moment
I think of how I cook for her,
I feel, I feel terrible.
No.
You won’t be the cook.
We’ll dine in a hotel.
But I respect your decision.
Let me think about it.
I’ll get back to you later.
OK.
Think about it.
How about you think about it now?
I’m busy.
I’m the chef.
Yeah.
I’ll tell you later.
OK.
I’m off.
Think about it.
OK.
See you around.
See you.
You
I’m tired. I’m tired.
You wanted to come,
I barely hang out in places like this.
Celine,
the drink from Mr. Wang.
What a coincidence.
An old client of mine.
= Zhaodi =
You call me at this hour,
do you want to drink or cry?
Help me out,
your bestie met a mixblood.
Don’t be fooled by the driver.
I won’t fall into the same trap twice.
It’s rush hour.
The price is one and a half times
higher than usual.
I’ll double it.
Dress like a macho.
Don’t be caught.
Like a macho?
More outfit fee, then.
Fine, I’ll cover all.
I’ve sent you the address. Be quick.
I’m on my way.
You had a couple of drinks tonight,
don’t drive me home.
I won’t,
I’ll get us a designated driver.
No.
I have a friend nearby.
He’ll be here soon.
Zhaodi, here I am.
I can’t tell if this is real love ♪
But I know how I feel ♪
To be very honest with you love ♪
I wanna get close to you ♪
I don’t know how you gonna take it ♪
But I keep on thinking about you ♪
You’ve been on my mind ever ♪
Since I saw you smiling at me ♪
Your smile ♪
Baby I’m just falling to you ♪
You don’t need to say anything special ♪
Cause I’m pretty sure ♪
You’re the morning dew
that has fallen soft ♪
During the night on me ♪
So naturally ♪
Like we’re meant to be together ♪
That’s how I see it ♪
Though it seems illusive ♪
Can you tell how much my love is pure ♪
You can’t buy it or sell ♪
To be very honest with you love ♪
I wanna get close to you ♪
I don’t know how you gonna take it ♪
But I keep on thinking about you ♪
You’ve been on my mind ever ♪
Since I saw you smiling at me ♪
Your smile ♪
Baby I’m just falling to you ♪
Looking into your eyes ♪
I see myself holding close to you ♪
Wherever I go ♪
I will never find someone like you ♪
So much in love tonight ♪
I know that it feels so right ♪
So special you and I ♪
You make my world go round and round ♪
Falling to you ♪
I’m falling to you ♪
All I ever want is to be with you ♪
Love is for you ♪
My love is for you ♪
You are my everything in my life ♪
Falling to you ♪
You’re the only one ♪
My love is for you ♪
= Dating in the Kitchen =
= Episode 13 =
= Yanqiao Farmers Market =
How much are the duck eggs?
Shengnan,
I’m surprised to see you here.
Who is this handsome man?
Boyfriend?
Look,
he has the disposition of a rich man,
he must be generous.
Buying duck eggs?
Bring us the most expensive
duck eggs of yours.
Thanks.
OK.
Why are you sitting down, Shengnan?
Which bastard sold you at a high price?
I’ll avenge you.
Sold me at a high price?
Sorry, sold to you. My mistake.
How much
is this?
5 per egg.
Make it cheaper.
You’re the only buyer.
I’ll offer you my buying price.
4.8.
I only make 20 cents per egg.
Look.
Authentic Gaoyou Salted Duck Egg.
Very greasy.
Shengnan,
what’s this?
Honesty Detector.
This is a bit excessive, isn’t it?
It’s unnecessary.
Let’s have a test.
See if you’re honest.
I’m very honest.
What’s this?
Facts speak louder than words.
How much is your buying price?
4.8.
4.5.
All from Gaoyou?
Sure.
All greasy?
Sure.
Shengnan,
this is
not Gaoyou Salted Duck Egg.
I bought it from the suburbs.
The villagers salted the eggs.
Your lowest price?
3.5.
I’ll take 6.
So much extra effort.
I told you
honesty matters the most.
Thanks.
How much is this piece of tofu?
Don’t worry, I’ll make up
the price discrepancy.
Be honest from now on.
You’re nice, senior.
Senior?
Senior.
Alright, alright.
You pay however much you like.
2…
Keep the change.
Tutu, collar, collar!
Sorry.
Where is the needle?
Sorry, Boss.
I forgot. I’ll pluck it the next time.
The next time? What about this time?
Tutu, do you know why
I haven’t fired you?
Because you’re mercy.
Because labor law is protecting you.
You silly!
Gabriel, Gabriel.
I didn’t expect
you to be a true man.
Richard, Richard,
perfect timing.
So
you can help me teach her
how to act like you.
One look from Mr. Lu
can make you get Pavlovian Conditioning.
Pav…
Go look it up.
P-Pavlovian.
Get down to business.
I’m here today to fulfill my promise.
We had a deal.
You’ll be the supplier of the uniforms
for our New Year Celebration this year.
Meng Xinjie,
you’ve been unlucky in relationships.
I thought you’d forgotten about it.
I didn’t expect that
you’re actually here
to fulfill your promise.
It looks like
Xu Zhaodi didn’t hurt you that much
after all.
I was worried about you for several days.
OK, OK, let’s talk business.
And keep private stuff private.
Speak.
So, uh, you don’t get the order for free.
There are two things that may trouble you.
How troublesome would they be?
The first thing is,
why is Miss Gu unhappy today?
Shouldn’t your boss worry about it?
True, but I’m just doing my job.
Well,
this is simple.
Next.
Next thing is,
has Xu Zhaodi hooked up
with another man?
A man? Is he handsome?
A mixblood.
Jeez, a mixblood?
Where did she meet him?
In a nightclub or something.
He drives a Porsche.
No, no.
It doesn’t matter.
Must be the one that we often go to.
Does he drink?
It’s Friday or…
Must be Saturday.
No, no, no. Wait, wait.
Are you asking me
or I’m asking you?
Richard, don’t worry.
I’ll handle Zhaodi for you.
You need to help me confirm
which the club it is.
He’s Asian-European
or African-European?
Jeans?
Richard,
come on!
If you see him again,
send me the address.
I’m here.
Yes.
Oh, your vegetables.
It’s OK now.
The light is fixed?
You installed it?
Good. Good boy.
Handsome boy.
I love my country ♪
I can never part with it ♪
So, uh…
Good night.
Good night.
Your vegetables.
Good night.
What the heck?
Fussy Lu,
do you…
like me?
Fussy Lu,
do you like me or not?
= Gu =
I like you.
Fussy Lu,
do you like me?
I won’t ever let you go
cuz you’re the one ♪
I like you.
Fussy Lu,
do you like me or not?
Every night and day ♪
Tell me that you love me say you do
I love you ♪
I like you.
Fussy Lu,
do you like me?
I like you.
Louder.
I like you.
The evening when I waited for you ♪
The right moment I can hold you ♪
I fall in love in love
in love with you ♪
I can’t stop thinking about you
cuz you got me baby ♪
I miss you more and more
Can’t get enough of you ♪
Baby You’re the only one I love Baby ♪
Please don’t be shy Trust me ♪
Don’t leave me hanging ♪
Mr. Cheng.
Is Ms. Zheng happy with the dishes
that we prepared for her?
Don’t know.
Until now,
if there’s no bad news
it’s good news, right?
Call me if necessary.
Fried codfish with tomato basil sauce.
Lu Jin,
why are you here?
I’m in charge of the Bauhinia project.
I can’t miss this important part.
Right, mom?
Sit.
The fish is good.
It had its own world.
It got a bright future
but was seduced by the cheap bait.
Its greed was sated
at the cost of its life.
Foolish.
A lowly dish.
Carry on.
Why are you in a rush?
I heard Ms. Zheng said that…
Well, she said
the soup was lowly.
And the fish was
greedy and foolish.
Anyway, the dish wasn’t high-end enough.
Forget it, next dish.
Trumpet, serve.
OK.
Where is the cart?
It was right here.
I…
There! You two dummies.
Ms. Zheng,
Mr. Lu, Miss Li.
The next dish
is today’s final dish.
Also, a dish specially cooked by our chef
Gu Shengnan.
She’ll introduce it.
Ms. Zheng, we got the expensive ingredient
just for you.
Red wine
What-what’s this?
What?
You didn’t cook this?
No, I didn’t.
I cooked truffled mushroom ragout.
Sorry,
I didn’t cook this.
Since Chef Gu didn’t cook this,
Manager Shen, take it away.
OK.
It is truffle.
One of the three most expensive
ingredients in the world.
But
it seems the truffle
hasn’t been processed.
Raw truffle
smells bad.
It must be a misunderstanding, right?
Manager Shen.
No.
Li Man, please explain
to us if there’s a deeper meaning.
It simulates truffle’s
growing environment.
The garnish is rotten leaves.
The rest
might sound inappropriate
Then just stop.
Say it.
Truffle doesn’t carry out
photosynthesis on its own.
So it needs a host with enough nutrition.
For example, oak.
It absorbs the nutrition in an oak’s roots
to create an ideal growing environment
for itself.
Truffle
also kills the plants around the oak.
It makes them decay and rot.
Truffle sure is callous.
Mom, it’s a misunderstanding.
Manager Shen, it’s not
a misunderstanding.
I think she did it on purpose.
Are you trying to say that
the acquisition
is like the truffle,
which killed others to benefit itself?
No, Ms. Zheng.
I am unhappy with the acquisition,
but I’m not that stupid to
take it out on the dish.
I didn’t cook the dish, Manager Shen.
All right, enough.
I’ve seen what Bauhinia is capable of.
Let’s go.
Uh…
Ms… Ms. Zheng, uh…
What are you doing here?
Go back to the kitchen.
S-Sorry, sorry, Mr. Lu.
Gu Shengnan,
about what happened,
don’t you think you owe me an explanation?
What explanation?
I didn’t cook the dish.
She didn’t.
I helped her all the way.
She did use truffle,
but not like this.
Who cooked it then?
Manager,
did someone serve the wrong dish?
Someone?
Who?
Are you talking about me?
No, no, no.
I served the dish.
I know it was you.
My meaning is,
who passed the dish to you?
Me.
Are you talking about me?
I passed the dish to her.
I didn’t mean that.
All right.
It’s not that hard
to figure out
what the hell happened.
The person had a problem
with Zhenghong Group.
No one here
is that important
to have anything to do
with those big bosses, right?
I seem to remember that
Customer 1123 fooled
the kitchen around.
I believe everybody should know
that who had a problem
with him.
Just admit it.
Don’t get us
hardworking employees involved.
We’ve been working here for so long
and we are treated as suspects.
This is very disappointing.
Very cold-hearted.
What do you mean?
Yes,
1123 and I did have a history,
but I don’t have a problem with him.
What is it then?
Anyway,
it’s not related to this matter.
See?
She’s hiding something.
How come it isn’t related?
I think it’s definitely
related to this.
And
in an unusual way.
Think about it,
we’ve been working in Bauhinia for so long
and we haven’t got promoted.
A young girl like her
made her way up to chef in a few days.
And here she claims
she got the promotion fair and square?
Mr. Lu, how come…
How come you’re here in the kitchen?
Come with me.
I have something to ask you in private.
Do you trust me?
Of course.
Who else would I trust?
I knew you would.
It’s been a tiring day,
go home and get some rest.
Leave it to me, okay?
Go home.
You’re Gu Shengnan’s sidekick.
Can I call you that?
Mr. Lu,
how polite of you.
Shengnan is my chief.
Mr. Lu, tell you what,
Shengnan mustn’t have done it.
When she cooked,
I had been helping her.
I can vouch for her.
She definitely cooked
truffled mushroom ragout.
Someone must have swapped the dish.
Who would it be?
Well,
that’d be my presumption.
Out with it.
I order you to tell me.
Could be Mr. Yu, could be Mr. Wang.
They think they have worked
for the longest time
in Bauhinia Hotel,
so they always take advantage
of their seniority.
In the chef competition,
they lost to my chief.
So they must have held a grudge.
They framed my chief up.
I…
Oh,
check the camera.
See who exactly
swapped the dish.
That’ll do, right?
Sorry to disappoint you
but the camera got nothing.
I have no idea then.
We didn’t do it.
Come in.
Mr. Lu, Yu Zhikun is here.
Sit.
You are Yu Zhikun?
Yes.
Back in the kitchen, I
I’m Lu Jin.
Mr. Lu,
hi.
How long have you worked in Bauhinia?
13 years.
In Bauhinia
Do you know why I called
you here?
No.
Did you swap Gu Shengnan’s dish?
No.
How was it possible for me to do it?
We only had a brief talk,
you can’t presume that I did it.
The hotel has a strict rule
that if expensive ingredients
like black truffle are used,
the employees must keep a record.
According to the record
in the prepping room,
you took some black truffle
at around 9:15.
Is that correct?
Correct.
Yes.
I did take some.
I cooked with it.
What did you cook?
Fried scallop meat with black truffle.
You cooked it last night?
No, this morning.
Where is the dish?
Uh, I did a terrible job.
Then I trashed it.
Where?
Where?
It must be in the trash bin.
Which trash bin?
Which trash bin?
So many bins.
I must have
trashed it in a random bin.
Was it the bin for
kitchen garbage downstairs?
Yes, yes.
That bin.
Well, that’s odd.
The garbage collector
comes to collect the garbage once a day.
Everything from last night until now
is still in the bin.
I sent someone to
rummage through it,
but your fried scallop meat
with black truffle
wasn’t found.
Instead,
Gu Shengnan’s dish, which was supposed
to be served,
was in the bin.
What did you do with your black truffle?
Or did you mix the black truffle
with a bunch of rotten leaves
and serve the dish?
No, no, no.
This is slander.
This is but your guess.
You have no evidence.
Right?
Have you heard
Locard’s Exchange Principle?
What?
When someone commits a crime,
it’s a progress
of exchange of items.
The criminal
is an item.
Let’s say you,
during the crime,
you would make contact and
exchange with all kinds of items
and it doesn’t subject to man’s will.
No matter how hard you try to hide,
everything that you did would leave
traces.
You’ve been working
in Bauhinia for 13 years,
you know everything about this place.
Since you do,
you know that the security camera
in the kitchen has a blind spot,
so you could avoid it.
The camera wouldn’t catch
any part of you swapping the dish.
But the deed was only half done.
If you were to keep it from everyone,
you must secretly
get rid of Gu Shengnan’s dish.
The trash bin for the kitchen garbage
would be your only option.
And there was only one way
to get to the trash bin.
Because you had to avoid the
cameras in the elevator,
you’d have to walk downstairs.
There was no security camera
in the staircase,
as well as at the exit of it.
No camera could have caught that spot.
But what the camera could film
was the wall opposite to the exit
of the staircase.
Did you notice that
there was a painting on the wall?
A painting?
What painting?
An Italian artist Tiziano’s work,
the Repentant Magdalen.
The camera can catch the full painting
and the reflection of the person
who walks past it on the glass frame.
All you did was
meant to frame Gu Shengnan up,
but do you know
that during the dish-tasting,
the vice president of Zhenghong Group
had gastrointestinal bleeding
because of the dish you made?
Now, she’s still in the emergency room.
Your action has
endangered a person’s life.
I must call the police.
Whether it’s a crime or not,
you’ll have to explain
to the police later.
No, it’s
No. How… How could it be?
It shouldn’t be like this
I just
Why did you do it?
Because the young girl Gu Shengnan
gets to be the chef
whereas you got demoted to
a sous chef
after working in Bauhinia for 13 years.
You think it’s unfair,
so you came up with a nasty idea
to fame her.
Yes.
I admit it.
I swapped the dish.
I couldn’t let her become the chef
so easily.
It’s unfair.
I’ve worked in this hotel for so long.
Why does a little girl get to become
the chef so quickly?
Sit down, you. Sit down.
It’s not that complicated. Sit down.
I’ll help you sort it out.
You’re fired.
You go to HR and resign.
Simple, right?
What about the police?
I didn’t expect any of this.
No. There’s no cop.
No one would eat that dish.
And there was no painting.
But we got this.
What?
Yes.
I admit it.
I swapped the dish.
I couldn’t let her become the chef
so easily.
It’s unfair.
I’ve worked in this hotel for so long.
= Voice memo =
Why does a little girl get to become
the chef so quickly?
I see.
You set me up.
You didn’t get any evidence.
You’re with Gu Shengnan.
You’ve
worked together to set me up.
And Gu Shengnan isn’t
sleeping with anyone?
Are you saying Gu Shengnan is
sleeping with me
or with him?
Make yourself clear.
With you!
Go out.
How did you know I was coming?
Meng Xinjie told me on the phone.
He-he-he said,
Zhaodi and my uncle went to your house
to settle the score with Li Man.
My house?
Because I just called them
Slow down.
I called them
and said some stuff on the phone.
And then they
They just went.
Quickly, quickly.
= Matsuhashi No.1 =
Li Man,
come out.
Come out!
Li Man!
You are a coward.
Right. Come out!
Such a coward!
Coming, coming.
Who
are you two?
Shouting and yelling
in front of other’s house
is inappropriate, isn’t it?
You’re Li Man, right?
You don’t need to know who we are.
You
have a pretty face
but do sneaky stuff.
Speak.
Did you do it?
Miss,
please watch your language.
What are you talking about?
You old vixen,
don’t act innocent.
I read right through you.
Miss Li,
I’d like you to know that
although my nephew Gu Shengnan
is a bit goofy,
but we got her back.
I advise you not to play dirty.
You’re Gu Shengnan’s relatives, huh?
There’s a misunderstanding
between us, I think.
First of all, I don’t know her well.
You go talk to whoever is responsible
for what happened today.
You just speak with Lu Jin.
What?
Are you upset
because he’s into someone else?
If Lu Jin liked you,
you would have been together.
You can’t blame your own failure
on Gu Shengnan.
The more you bully her,
the more Lu Jin cares about her.
Don’t try to read other’s mind.
Or you’ll be trapped
in your own thoughts.
Lu Jin is my son.
You don’t get to take a wild guess
of what he likes.
You’re Lu Jin’s mom, right?
Hi, Lu Jin’s mom,
we’re here to tell you that
Gu Shengnan would never do
shit like that.
Someone must be jealous of her
and tried to frame her up.
You two
came here to speak for the girl chef?
I have a few words for her.
I hope, in the future,
if she has any problems,
she has to report to her boss,
the manager of F & B.
Please don’t send a bunch of her friends
to speak up for her
in the middle of the night
in front of the chairman’s house.
She’s better off spending the time
improving her culinary skills
instead of trying to be a smart ass.
Especially truffle recipes.
Ms. Zheng,
you sound quite harsh.
Who are you?
I’m a tailor.
My name doesn’t matter.
We weren’t
very much educated.
Sorry for disturbing you.
It’s our fault.
But
everything happens for a reason.
Our chef friend
was framed up
but she didn’t make a scene,
instead, she asked us not to disturb you.
In comparison,
you’re a woman of high status,
but you’re mean
and just jumped into conclusion
without evidence.
Ms. Zheng, we
So you’re too petty
with us, whose names aren’t even worthy
remembering.
Oh,
you just said,
Mr. Lu is your son
and others can’t read his mind.
I’d like to ask you,
do you know your son?
Do you know what’s the relationship
between Mr. Lu
and our chef friend?
Of course you don’t.
You care more about
the shares of the company.
You don’t care about true feelings
of human beings.
Enough.
Enough.
Mom.
Sorry, Ms. Zheng.
I’m so sorry.
I’ve found out who cooked the dish.
Everything is on me.
They
are her friends.
Go.
Please.
Lu Jin,
she wears a terrible look on her face.
Will she be hard on you?
No, no.
I’ll take care of it.
You head back now, OK?
Mom.
Lu Jin,
you’ve become more and more different.
I’m still your son.
Going out to confront them
wasn’t your thing.
People change.
Yes. And quite a lot.
Your name is more important
in this thing.
So I must find out who did it.
And it wasn’t Gu Shengnan.
You’re better than this.
Just forgive them.
You care more about
Gu Shengnan’s feelings, right?
You and she are both important to me.
Since you’ve said it,
it would be uncool of me
to keep giving a young girl a hard time.
Now that it has been confirmed that
Gu Shengnan didn’t do it,
I’ll buy
her a meal, then.
No, mom.
She hasn’t really
taken it to heart.
So
you don’t need to buy her a meal.
But I have.
If I don’t clear the air,
people would think I’m
bullying a girl.
Mom.
Mr. Lu,
just let them dine together.
It might be a good chance for them
to clear the air and
get to know each other.
I’m worried that my mom
Don’t worry about me.
Does
Miss Gu have concerns?
Just you, me, and her?
The three of us have a quick meal,
right?
Just a quick one.
Table 6, lime juice marinated scallop,
applewood smoked New Zealand salmon.
Table 11, raw steak tartare,
slow-cooked Iberian Matsusaka pork.
Table 15, fried sea bass,
foie gras parfait.
Table 18, orange flower bitters
sponge cake,
with saffron mousse, almond, orange on it.
Keep it up, guys.
We got many customers today. Come on!
You hear it?
Yes.
Then get to work.
I got table 11.
I got table 6.
Prepare the ingredients.
Chef Gu,
I’ll take care of the rest.
Come on, come on, come on.
Help me wash two carrots.
Chef Gu, you’ve finally
got everyone’s respect,
my life will be so much easier.
It’s impossible.
I plan to train you.
I’ll watch you closely every day.
No problem.
Mr. Cheng helped you find out the truth
and fired Mr. Yu.
How will you thank him?
How?
It’s your job.
You’re good at ass-kissing.
I only kiss your ass, Miss Gu.
Young man,
you need to focus on your job.
Don’t put your mind on
meaningless stuff,
got it?
Got it.
So go prepare the ingredients.
OK.
Miss Gu.
See you around.
Hurry up.
How did it go?
Did your mom give you a hard time
after you went home?
No, she didn’t.
Why would she?
I have great news for you.
My mom wants to make peace with you.
She’d like to buy you a meal.
Just the three of us.
It is good news,
but no.
The moment
I think of how I cook for her,
I feel, I feel terrible.
No.
You won’t be the cook.
We’ll dine in a hotel.
But I respect your decision.
Let me think about it.
I’ll get back to you later.
OK.
Think about it.
How about you think about it now?
I’m busy.
I’m the chef.
Yeah.
I’ll tell you later.
OK.
I’m off.
Think about it.
OK.
See you around.
See you.
You
I’m tired. I’m tired.
You wanted to come,
I barely hang out in places like this.
Celine,
the drink from Mr. Wang.
What a coincidence.
An old client of mine.
= Zhaodi =
You call me at this hour,
do you want to drink or cry?
Help me out,
your bestie met a mixblood.
Don’t be fooled by the driver.
I won’t fall into the same trap twice.
It’s rush hour.
The price is one and a half times
higher than usual.
I’ll double it.
Dress like a macho.
Don’t be caught.
Like a macho?
More outfit fee, then.
Fine, I’ll cover all.
I’ve sent you the address. Be quick.
I’m on my way.
You had a couple of drinks tonight,
don’t drive me home.
I won’t,
I’ll get us a designated driver.
No.
I have a friend nearby.
He’ll be here soon.
Zhaodi, here I am.
I can’t tell if this is real love ♪
But I know how I feel ♪
To be very honest with you love ♪
I wanna get close to you ♪
I don’t know how you gonna take it ♪
But I keep on thinking about you ♪
You’ve been on my mind ever ♪
Since I saw you smiling at me ♪
Your smile ♪
Baby I’m just falling to you ♪
You don’t need to say anything special ♪
Cause I’m pretty sure ♪
You’re the morning dew
that has fallen soft ♪
During the night on me ♪
So naturally ♪
Like we’re meant to be together ♪
That’s how I see it ♪
Though it seems illusive ♪
Can you tell how much my love is pure ♪
You can’t buy it or sell ♪
To be very honest with you love ♪
I wanna get close to you ♪
I don’t know how you gonna take it ♪
But I keep on thinking about you ♪
You’ve been on my mind ever ♪
Since I saw you smiling at me ♪
Your smile ♪
Baby I’m just falling to you ♪