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serenityreviewHere's the second part of the radio drama translated by me. This part makes me cry.
Narrator: *Announces title of the radio drama and the team behind it*
*Zhou Zirong is thrown out of the casino*
Zhou Zirong: *thinks* These people are not messing around.
Zhou Zirong: Just wait until I get rich! I’ll make all of them pay!
*Wen Zheng is pushed out of the casino*
Wen Zheng: Wait! Wait! I’m going to win the next one! Please! I promise I’ll pay my debts tomorrow! Let me play some more!
Casino Staff: These are our rules. Pay your debts first!
Wen Zheng: I’ll pay you back tomorrow! I promise!
Zhou Zirong: You owe some much debts, yet you don’t seem to be worried about it.
Wen Zheng: Why should I worry? My daughter will pay it off for me. Too bad I can’t continue today.
Zhou Zirong: From the way they acted, you must owe them a lot. Your daughter must have a rich husband, to pay it off for you.
Wen Zheng: What rich husband? She’s got no such luck. She’s just pretty enough to be a dancer at Balemen. Plenty of men like her, but that girl… our family is a scholarly family but being a concubine is better than having no status.
Zhou Zirong: Really? Balemen? She must make a lot of money.
*Interrogation room*
Zhou Zirong: That’s all. All I wanted was to borrow some money from her. All women like handsome men who know how to sweet talk them. So I pretended to be from a rich family and went to Balemen to dance with her. When most of her money was gone, I stopped going. Then that woman found me! She saw me like that, so I made up a lie about being from out of town. That my family has fallen on hard times and I took the last of the family fortune with me to start a business with friends, then said friends cheated me out of money and left me destitute. And she believed me!
*flashback: Zhou Zirong knocking on door*
Wen Ting: I haven’t seen you in a few days. I thought you’ve gone somewhere else.
Zhou Zirong: I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have lied to you. But I couldn’t help myself after seeing you that day. Those days I spent with you, made me penniless.
Wen Ting: Then you -
Zhou Zirong: It’s fine, I can do work on the docks. You needn’t worry.
Wen Ting: You shouldn’t be doing that! You’re smart! You should be doing business.
Zhou Zirong: I want to do business, but…
Wen Ting: I can help you!
*flashback ends*
Zhou Zirong: There’s no way I could’ve let that go! Inspector, even though I lied to her, it's not a crime!
Lu Yao: And afterwards?
Zhou Zirong: Afterwards?
Qiao Chusheng: I suggest you tell the truth, otherwise I have ways to make you talk.
Zhou Zirong: Okay! I’ll talk! I’ll talk! I didn’t say I wouldn’t talk! Afterwards, I leeched off of her for a few days, she didn’t have much money. She’s so stupid, all her hard earned money goes towards her father’s debts. She’s also a strange one. She’s a dancer but she refuses to sleep with guests. Think of all the money she missed out on!
Qiao Chusheng: Don’t talk like that!
Lu Yao: Calm down, calm down. Anger is bad for your health.
Zhou Zirong: So I said I needed the money to do business but in reality I spent it all. Then I asked her for more money, but she didn’t have any more money to give.
*flashback: In his apartment, Zhou Zirong is smashing things angrily*
Zhou Zirong: You said it yourself! You said you’ll take care of the money situation! Now I need more money! Where’s the money?
Wen Ting: Please give me a few more days! I’ll get the money for you!
Zhou Zirong: With your paycheck? You can dance on stage for half a month and not make up the difference!
Wen Ting: I’ll think of something.
Zhou Zirong: What can you possibly come up with? Forget it! And remember don’t get close to those other men. I don’t like that!
Wen Ting: Okay. It’s so late, where are you going?
Zhou Zirong: Business meeting!
*flashback ends*
Zhou Zirong: That’s all. I broke it off with her, since she had no money.
Lu Yao: So that person on the phone, have a similar relationship with you?
Zhou Zirong: Er… yes.
Qiao Chusheng: How many women have you conned like this?
Zhou Zirong: It’s not my fault! I just found a trick that works.
Qiao Chusheng: Are you proud of yourself? Tell me about your last meeting with Wen Ting.
Zhou Zirong: Yesterday.
Qiao Chusheng: What did you speak about?
Zhou Zirong: Nothing. She was the one talking, I didn’t respond.
Qiao Chusheng: So you killed her? To stop her from bothering you?
Zhou Zirong: No! I didn’t kill her! Inspector! Please believe me! I didn’t kill her!
Lu Yao: No, you didn’t kill her. But you manipulated her, used her, and forced her towards death.
Zhou Zirong: No! I didn’t! Don’t slander me!
Lu Yao: Are you sure I’m slandering you? You pretend to a rich man to attract her attention, when she comes to find you, you admit you were lying to her, told her you fell on hard times, lied to her about being cheated by friends, making her sympathetic towards you, and then you put up a facade of being a cultured man, made her rely on you, made her comprise for you, but the only reason you got with her was for her money. You never liked her, just like you don’t that woman on the phone. When they need your help, you come up with excuses, you tell them that they are annoying, hurting their feelings, when they are no longer of use to you, you abandon them. I ask you, who could possibly withstand being psychologically tortured like that?
Zhou Zirong: I, I didn’t kill her!
Qiao Chusheng: You!
Lu Yao: Do you dare to swear that you’ve never said a word that pushed her towards death?
Zhou Zirong: I -
*flashback: Zhou Zirong is packing his things*
Wen Ting: Zirong! Please don’t leave me!
Zhou Zirong: I’ve been thinking about our relationship, I’ve been trying really hard to make a better future for us, but you’ve hurt me, for money you…
Wen Ting: Zirong! It’s my fault!
Zhou Zirong: Then can you prove your love for me?
Wen Ting: I can prove it!
Zhou Zirong: Then leave a mark of me on your body, how about on your wrist?
Wen Ting: I…
Zhou Zirong: You won’t even do a simple thing like this? And you say you love me. *Zhou Zirong passes her a knife*
Wen Ting: I really do love you. *cuts self with knife*
*flashback ends*
Qiao Chusheng: You bastard!
Zhou Zirong: I told her to die and she did. She’s the fool! I satisfied her fantasies, she satisfied my greed. Everyone gets what they want! How is it my fault!
Qiao Chusheng: *holds Zhou Zirong by his collar* Bastard! You ruined her life! She wanted a happy family! If you can’t give that to her, then you should’ve stayed away from her!
Zhou Zirong: I’m not afraid of you! I didn’t kill her! You can’t arrest me!
Lu Yao: Qiao Chusheng! Stop!
*Qiao Chusheng punches Zhou Zirong, Zhou Zirong collapses and faints, there’s foam coming from his mouth, Lu Yao goes to inspect him*
Lu Yao: He’s dead.
Qiao Chusheng: What? From my punch?
Lu Yao: No.
Qiao Chusheng: Don’t lie to me.
Lu Yao: No, there’s white foam coming from his mouth, he died from poison. This smell? *takes out hair conditioner* I know!
Qiao Chusheng: What?
Lu Yao: Can you get Salim to bring a person here?
Lu Yao: Lily, you don’t seem to be surprised.
Lily: What’s there to be surprised about? I saw you guys take him away. By my calculations, he should be dead by now.
Lu Yao: That person on the phone was you, right? *takes out the bottle of hair conditioner* You prepared this for Zhou Zhirong, right? That day, you were insistent on leaving because of this.
Lily: Yes.
Lu Yao: You are being very honest.
Lily: If this was before, I wouldn’t admit anything, but now -
Lu Yao: But now Wen Ting is dead. Everything you did is meaningless.
Lily: Yes, there’s nothing left…
Lu Yao: You were very good friends with Wen Ting, right?
Lily: There won’t be another person in the world that’s as kind as Wen Ting.
*flashback: Lily is on the street begging*
Lily: Please spare me some food, I haven’t eaten in three days.
Passerby: I don’t have any.
*Wen Ting and a fellow student passes by*
Student: Wen Ting, did you organize your English notes? Can I borrow it?
Wen Ting: I’m almost done with it, you can borrow it later.
Lily: Please spare me some food, I haven’t eaten in three days.
Student: I don’t have any. *he pushes Lily aside and she falls over*
Wen Ting: She fainted!
Lily: *wakes up in bed* Where am I?
Wen Ting: You fainted from hunger, here, have some warm sugar water. There’s porridge in the kitchen, don’t forget to eat it. I have to go back to class.
*flashback ends*
Lily: My parents died during a firefight. I came to Shanghai by myself. When I was on the verge of starving to death, Wen Ting gave me food. She’s so dumb, her father’s debts already made it hard for her, but she still spared some food for a stranger. She taught me to dance, got me a job at Balemen.
*flashback*
Wen Ting: One, two, three, four, slow quick quick, slow quick quick, it’s important to learn the steps. Just count the rhythm, when you count to three, you twist like this.
Lily: Oh. Okay.
*Wen Ting is reading a collection of Hans Christian Anderson fairy tales*
Lily: Wen TIng, what are you reading? *flips the page* English? I don’t understand. Can you tell me?
Wen Ting: These are fairy tales written by a Danish man called Anderson.
Lily: *find an illustration of the little mermaid* What about this one?
Wen Ting: It’s a mermaid.
Lily: What’s that? Can you tell me the story?
Wen Ting: This is the story of the Little Mermaid - deep in the ocean there’s a kingdom, the king of the sea has 6 beautiful daughters, the youngest one is considered the prettiest and she has a beautiful voice. When the mermaids turned fifteen they would swim to the ocean surface and spend a day there. On the Little Mermaid’s fifteen’s birthday, she swam to the surface and saved a prince and fell in love with him at first sight.
Lily: And then?
Wen Ting: And then the Little Mermaid’s wish came true, the sea gods turned her tail into legs, she turned into a human.
Lily: So they lived happily ever after?
Wen Ting: The Little Mermaid and the prince lived happily ever after.
*flashback ends*
Lily: Can you believe such a person exists in this world? Isn’t she laughable? She gave all of her love to others, but no one returned any love to her. Later, I learned from one of my customers that the prince married someone else, and the Little Mermaid turned into seafoam. Wen Ting lied to me! The Little Mermaid didn’t have a happy ending! I hate that man, every night he comes home drunk, Wen Ting thinks that he’s going to business dinners, that he’s working for their future, but he’s not, and he has got several other women hooked the same way. He thinks Wen Ting is out of money, but Wen Ting actually saved enough money for him to start a new business. That foolish woman didn’t know the man she loved so much was scum. For him she abandoned her principles, she prostituted herself.
Lu Yao: So you did her make up.
Lily: She was the best, she should leave behind a beautiful corpse. Do you know why she had so much soap in her room?
Qiao Chusheng: Why?
Lily: She regrets giving up herself for someone who’s not worth it! She wanted to live cleanly but in the end, she can only leave this world like this. I hate myself! I should’ve killed him sooner!
Qiao Chusheng: No matter your reasons, you killed someone.
Lily: I have no regrets, he deserved it.
Qiao Chusheng: Adou, take her away.
*Lily is taken away. Lu Yao and Qiao Chusheng sit in silence.*
Qiao Chusheng: I lost. I’ll contact Youning -
Lu Yao: I’m the one who lost. It didn’t have to end this way for them.
Qiao Chusheng: Okay, I’ll tell Youning to sell the stuff she got at the auction.
Lu Yao: Wait! She already got them! Why don’t you just give the stuff to me?
Qiao Chusheng: Too late.
Lu Yao: Inspector Qiao, let’s talk this through.
Qiao Chusheng: No way.
Lu Yao: Qiao Chusheng!
The End
*Zhou Zirong is thrown out of the casino*
Zhou Zirong: *thinks* These people are not messing around.
Zhou Zirong: Just wait until I get rich! I’ll make all of them pay!
*Wen Zheng is pushed out of the casino*
Wen Zheng: Wait! Wait! I’m going to win the next one! Please! I promise I’ll pay my debts tomorrow! Let me play some more!
Casino Staff: These are our rules. Pay your debts first!
Wen Zheng: I’ll pay you back tomorrow! I promise!
Zhou Zirong: You owe some much debts, yet you don’t seem to be worried about it.
Wen Zheng: Why should I worry? My daughter will pay it off for me. Too bad I can’t continue today.
Zhou Zirong: From the way they acted, you must owe them a lot. Your daughter must have a rich husband, to pay it off for you.
Wen Zheng: What rich husband? She’s got no such luck. She’s just pretty enough to be a dancer at Balemen. Plenty of men like her, but that girl… our family is a scholarly family but being a concubine is better than having no status.
Zhou Zirong: Really? Balemen? She must make a lot of money.
*Interrogation room*
Zhou Zirong: That’s all. All I wanted was to borrow some money from her. All women like handsome men who know how to sweet talk them. So I pretended to be from a rich family and went to Balemen to dance with her. When most of her money was gone, I stopped going. Then that woman found me! She saw me like that, so I made up a lie about being from out of town. That my family has fallen on hard times and I took the last of the family fortune with me to start a business with friends, then said friends cheated me out of money and left me destitute. And she believed me!
*flashback: Zhou Zirong knocking on door*
Wen Ting: I haven’t seen you in a few days. I thought you’ve gone somewhere else.
Zhou Zirong: I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have lied to you. But I couldn’t help myself after seeing you that day. Those days I spent with you, made me penniless.
Wen Ting: Then you -
Zhou Zirong: It’s fine, I can do work on the docks. You needn’t worry.
Wen Ting: You shouldn’t be doing that! You’re smart! You should be doing business.
Zhou Zirong: I want to do business, but…
Wen Ting: I can help you!
*flashback ends*
Zhou Zirong: There’s no way I could’ve let that go! Inspector, even though I lied to her, it's not a crime!
Lu Yao: And afterwards?
Zhou Zirong: Afterwards?
Qiao Chusheng: I suggest you tell the truth, otherwise I have ways to make you talk.
Zhou Zirong: Okay! I’ll talk! I’ll talk! I didn’t say I wouldn’t talk! Afterwards, I leeched off of her for a few days, she didn’t have much money. She’s so stupid, all her hard earned money goes towards her father’s debts. She’s also a strange one. She’s a dancer but she refuses to sleep with guests. Think of all the money she missed out on!
Qiao Chusheng: Don’t talk like that!
Lu Yao: Calm down, calm down. Anger is bad for your health.
Zhou Zirong: So I said I needed the money to do business but in reality I spent it all. Then I asked her for more money, but she didn’t have any more money to give.
*flashback: In his apartment, Zhou Zirong is smashing things angrily*
Zhou Zirong: You said it yourself! You said you’ll take care of the money situation! Now I need more money! Where’s the money?
Wen Ting: Please give me a few more days! I’ll get the money for you!
Zhou Zirong: With your paycheck? You can dance on stage for half a month and not make up the difference!
Wen Ting: I’ll think of something.
Zhou Zirong: What can you possibly come up with? Forget it! And remember don’t get close to those other men. I don’t like that!
Wen Ting: Okay. It’s so late, where are you going?
Zhou Zirong: Business meeting!
*flashback ends*
Zhou Zirong: That’s all. I broke it off with her, since she had no money.
Lu Yao: So that person on the phone, have a similar relationship with you?
Zhou Zirong: Er… yes.
Qiao Chusheng: How many women have you conned like this?
Zhou Zirong: It’s not my fault! I just found a trick that works.
Qiao Chusheng: Are you proud of yourself? Tell me about your last meeting with Wen Ting.
Zhou Zirong: Yesterday.
Qiao Chusheng: What did you speak about?
Zhou Zirong: Nothing. She was the one talking, I didn’t respond.
Qiao Chusheng: So you killed her? To stop her from bothering you?
Zhou Zirong: No! I didn’t kill her! Inspector! Please believe me! I didn’t kill her!
Lu Yao: No, you didn’t kill her. But you manipulated her, used her, and forced her towards death.
Zhou Zirong: No! I didn’t! Don’t slander me!
Lu Yao: Are you sure I’m slandering you? You pretend to a rich man to attract her attention, when she comes to find you, you admit you were lying to her, told her you fell on hard times, lied to her about being cheated by friends, making her sympathetic towards you, and then you put up a facade of being a cultured man, made her rely on you, made her comprise for you, but the only reason you got with her was for her money. You never liked her, just like you don’t that woman on the phone. When they need your help, you come up with excuses, you tell them that they are annoying, hurting their feelings, when they are no longer of use to you, you abandon them. I ask you, who could possibly withstand being psychologically tortured like that?
Zhou Zirong: I, I didn’t kill her!
Qiao Chusheng: You!
Lu Yao: Do you dare to swear that you’ve never said a word that pushed her towards death?
Zhou Zirong: I -
*flashback: Zhou Zirong is packing his things*
Wen Ting: Zirong! Please don’t leave me!
Zhou Zirong: I’ve been thinking about our relationship, I’ve been trying really hard to make a better future for us, but you’ve hurt me, for money you…
Wen Ting: Zirong! It’s my fault!
Zhou Zirong: Then can you prove your love for me?
Wen Ting: I can prove it!
Zhou Zirong: Then leave a mark of me on your body, how about on your wrist?
Wen Ting: I…
Zhou Zirong: You won’t even do a simple thing like this? And you say you love me. *Zhou Zirong passes her a knife*
Wen Ting: I really do love you. *cuts self with knife*
*flashback ends*
Qiao Chusheng: You bastard!
Zhou Zirong: I told her to die and she did. She’s the fool! I satisfied her fantasies, she satisfied my greed. Everyone gets what they want! How is it my fault!
Qiao Chusheng: *holds Zhou Zirong by his collar* Bastard! You ruined her life! She wanted a happy family! If you can’t give that to her, then you should’ve stayed away from her!
Zhou Zirong: I’m not afraid of you! I didn’t kill her! You can’t arrest me!
Lu Yao: Qiao Chusheng! Stop!
*Qiao Chusheng punches Zhou Zirong, Zhou Zirong collapses and faints, there’s foam coming from his mouth, Lu Yao goes to inspect him*
Lu Yao: He’s dead.
Qiao Chusheng: What? From my punch?
Lu Yao: No.
Qiao Chusheng: Don’t lie to me.
Lu Yao: No, there’s white foam coming from his mouth, he died from poison. This smell? *takes out hair conditioner* I know!
Qiao Chusheng: What?
Lu Yao: Can you get Salim to bring a person here?
Lu Yao: Lily, you don’t seem to be surprised.
Lily: What’s there to be surprised about? I saw you guys take him away. By my calculations, he should be dead by now.
Lu Yao: That person on the phone was you, right? *takes out the bottle of hair conditioner* You prepared this for Zhou Zhirong, right? That day, you were insistent on leaving because of this.
Lily: Yes.
Lu Yao: You are being very honest.
Lily: If this was before, I wouldn’t admit anything, but now -
Lu Yao: But now Wen Ting is dead. Everything you did is meaningless.
Lily: Yes, there’s nothing left…
Lu Yao: You were very good friends with Wen Ting, right?
Lily: There won’t be another person in the world that’s as kind as Wen Ting.
*flashback: Lily is on the street begging*
Lily: Please spare me some food, I haven’t eaten in three days.
Passerby: I don’t have any.
*Wen Ting and a fellow student passes by*
Student: Wen Ting, did you organize your English notes? Can I borrow it?
Wen Ting: I’m almost done with it, you can borrow it later.
Lily: Please spare me some food, I haven’t eaten in three days.
Student: I don’t have any. *he pushes Lily aside and she falls over*
Wen Ting: She fainted!
Lily: *wakes up in bed* Where am I?
Wen Ting: You fainted from hunger, here, have some warm sugar water. There’s porridge in the kitchen, don’t forget to eat it. I have to go back to class.
*flashback ends*
Lily: My parents died during a firefight. I came to Shanghai by myself. When I was on the verge of starving to death, Wen Ting gave me food. She’s so dumb, her father’s debts already made it hard for her, but she still spared some food for a stranger. She taught me to dance, got me a job at Balemen.
*flashback*
Wen Ting: One, two, three, four, slow quick quick, slow quick quick, it’s important to learn the steps. Just count the rhythm, when you count to three, you twist like this.
Lily: Oh. Okay.
*Wen Ting is reading a collection of Hans Christian Anderson fairy tales*
Lily: Wen TIng, what are you reading? *flips the page* English? I don’t understand. Can you tell me?
Wen Ting: These are fairy tales written by a Danish man called Anderson.
Lily: *find an illustration of the little mermaid* What about this one?
Wen Ting: It’s a mermaid.
Lily: What’s that? Can you tell me the story?
Wen Ting: This is the story of the Little Mermaid - deep in the ocean there’s a kingdom, the king of the sea has 6 beautiful daughters, the youngest one is considered the prettiest and she has a beautiful voice. When the mermaids turned fifteen they would swim to the ocean surface and spend a day there. On the Little Mermaid’s fifteen’s birthday, she swam to the surface and saved a prince and fell in love with him at first sight.
Lily: And then?
Wen Ting: And then the Little Mermaid’s wish came true, the sea gods turned her tail into legs, she turned into a human.
Lily: So they lived happily ever after?
Wen Ting: The Little Mermaid and the prince lived happily ever after.
*flashback ends*
Lily: Can you believe such a person exists in this world? Isn’t she laughable? She gave all of her love to others, but no one returned any love to her. Later, I learned from one of my customers that the prince married someone else, and the Little Mermaid turned into seafoam. Wen Ting lied to me! The Little Mermaid didn’t have a happy ending! I hate that man, every night he comes home drunk, Wen Ting thinks that he’s going to business dinners, that he’s working for their future, but he’s not, and he has got several other women hooked the same way. He thinks Wen Ting is out of money, but Wen Ting actually saved enough money for him to start a new business. That foolish woman didn’t know the man she loved so much was scum. For him she abandoned her principles, she prostituted herself.
Lu Yao: So you did her make up.
Lily: She was the best, she should leave behind a beautiful corpse. Do you know why she had so much soap in her room?
Qiao Chusheng: Why?
Lily: She regrets giving up herself for someone who’s not worth it! She wanted to live cleanly but in the end, she can only leave this world like this. I hate myself! I should’ve killed him sooner!
Qiao Chusheng: No matter your reasons, you killed someone.
Lily: I have no regrets, he deserved it.
Qiao Chusheng: Adou, take her away.
*Lily is taken away. Lu Yao and Qiao Chusheng sit in silence.*
Qiao Chusheng: I lost. I’ll contact Youning -
Lu Yao: I’m the one who lost. It didn’t have to end this way for them.
Qiao Chusheng: Okay, I’ll tell Youning to sell the stuff she got at the auction.
Lu Yao: Wait! She already got them! Why don’t you just give the stuff to me?
Qiao Chusheng: Too late.
Lu Yao: Inspector Qiao, let’s talk this through.
Qiao Chusheng: No way.
Lu Yao: Qiao Chusheng!
The End
