Scene 71 Time/Day Location / Chen Mengru’s Home at Sun Moon Lake

Characters / Chen Mengru, Tang Huaimin, Wen Zhijian, Wen Huyan, Jiang Yang, Wen Meihua, Wen Aihua

△ The living room of Chen Mengru’s home at Sun Moon Lake is filled with visitors, each with a serious expression.

Wen Zhijian: Aihua, speak plainly in front of your parents—do you want to stay, or return to Shanghai with us?

△ Wen Aihua first looks at her parents, then turns to look at Tang Huaimin.

Wen Huyan: Daughter! Come back with Mom, okay?

Wen Aihua: (slowly) I—want—to—stay—in—Taiwan.

△ The faces of the Wen parents and Jiang Yang immediately change drastically.

Wen Zhijian: (heavily) Since you have made your choice, I will fulfill it for you.

Wen Zhijian: (pointing) Young man, in the future please treat my daughter well, do not let her suffer grievances.

Jiang Yang: (painfully and angrily) Uncle Wen, this is too, too unfair to me!

Wen Zhijian: I’m sorry, Jiang Yang. I know you have suffered great grievance.

△ Wen Meihua and Chen Mengru step closer, each on one side, holding Aihua.

△ Tang Huaimin’s eyes are filled with tears.

Scene 72 Time/Day Location / Sun Moon Lake

Characters / Chen Mengru, Chen Zhijia, Tang Huaimin, Wen Meihua, Wen Aihua

△ On the deck of a sightseeing ferry, Tang Huaimin holds Wen Aihua’s shoulder and speaks softly.

△ Wen Meihua follows Chen Zhijia’s guiding hand gestures, looking left and right from time to time.

△ Mengru looks at Huaimin and Aihua, silently blessing this couple in her heart.

Chen Mengru: (OS) After suffering hardship comes sweetness—wishing you both grow old together in happiness…

Scene 73 Time/Day Location / Cliff on a Coast Somewhere in Taitung

Characters / Chen Mengru, Lin Fengmian

△ On a seaside cliff in Taitung, Chen Mengru sets up her easel to paint. Suddenly a strong wind blows the easel over, and the frame falls toward the edge of the cliff.

△ In order to retrieve the frame, Chen Mengru slips and rolls down the cliff.

△ A young photographer, Lin Fengmian, passes by the beach below the cliff and discovers Chen Mengru lying on the sand. He lifts her up and sees her face covered in blood, with large abrasions on her hands and legs, but she is still breathing.

Lin Fengmian: (to himself) This girl is still alive!

△ Lin Fengmian quickly carries her up and also picks up the backpack beside her.

Scene 74 Time/Day Location / Hospital Bed

Characters / Chen Mengru, Lin Fengmian, Surgeon, Nurse

△ On the hospital bed, Chen Mengru’s head, face, arms, and calves are all wrapped in bandages, she is on an IV drip, and still unconscious.

△ Lin Fengmian, holding a woman’s wallet, is looking at Chen Mengru’s ID card.

Lin Fengmian: (OS) This girl is called Chen Mengru. Her facial features resemble Haiyun somewhat. Haiyun has been missing for many years; I don’t know whether she is alive or dead. Sigh…

△ The on-duty doctor and nurse enter.

Doctor: Are you the family member of this injured patient?

Lin Fengmian: I, I am her boyfriend.

Doctor: Can you contact her family members?

Lin Fengmian: Her family members? Oh, may I act as her family representative? Her family is currently not in the country.

Doctor: Very well. The patient has just undergone intracranial debridement surgery to remove blood clots. After she regains consciousness, she must be hospitalized for treatment and observation for a period. Once it is confirmed there is no postoperative infection, then reconstructive plastic surgery can be performed.

Lin Fengmian: Plastic surgery?

Doctor: The patient’s nasal bridge and facial structure have been deformed due to severe impact. Performing reconstructive plastic surgery is a necessary procedure.

Lin Fengmian: I understand. Thank you, doctor.

Scene 75 Time/Day Location / Hospital Bed

Characters / Chen Mengru, Lin Fengmian, Surgeon, Nurse

△ Chen Mengru slowly wakes up on the hospital bed.

Chen Mengru: Where is this? How did I end up here?

Lin Fengmian: This is a hospital. You fell from a building and were injured. I brought you here.

Chen Mengru: I fell from a building and was injured? Then who are you?

Lin Fengmian: You argued with me, and in a fit of anger you jumped off the building. I didn’t have time to pull you back. I am your boyfriend Lin Fengmian—don’t you recognize me?

Chen Mengru: Is that so? (holding her head, frustrated tone) Why don’t I remember any of this?

Lin Fengmian: You really don’t remember the past?

Chen Mengru: I don’t remember, I don’t remember—my mind is completely blank.

Lin Fengmian: Don’t panic. Rest a little more. When the doctor comes on rounds, I will ask him. Is that okay?

Lin Fengmian: (OS) I must first confirm whether this girl truly has amnesia. If so, I might as well take this opportunity to turn her into Qiu Haiyun. I saved her—she should repay me.

▲ Scene shifts

△ The on-duty doctor and nurse arrive on rounds. Lin Fengmian stands up and walks toward the doctor.

Lin Fengmian: Doctor, my girlfriend just woke up, but she seems to have no memory of the past.

Doctor: This kind of retrograde amnesia is exactly the sequel I was worried about.

Lin Fengmian: Retrograde amnesia?

Doctor: If the temporal lobe of the patient is damaged, this kind of retrograde amnesia may occur—just like data disappearing from a computer’s memory that cannot be retrieved.

Lin Fengmian: Then… is there any possibility of recovery of memory?

Doctor: Yes. If the injury is not too severe, and with some effective stimulation, she can gradually recover her memory.

Lin Fengmian: Thank you for your explanation, doctor.

Doctor: I have already contacted the plastic surgery department. Once the patient’s brain injury stabilizes to a certain degree, reconstructive surgery will follow.

Scene 76 Time/Day Location / Hospital Bed

Characters / Qiu Haiyun, Lin Fengmian, Plastic Surgeon

△ Inside the hospital room, Lin Fengmian is feeding Qiu Haiyun pork rib porridge.

△ A plastic surgeon enters the ward with a nurse.

Doctor: I am here to check the patient’s recovery condition.

△ Lin Fengmian stops his action and moves the bowl of porridge away.

△ The nurse removes the gauze bandages from Chen Mengru’s head. The nurse’s expression shows a slight shock. Chen Mengru’s facial features are distorted—not only ugly but also somewhat grotesque and sinister.

Doctor: The surgical sutures on the patient’s head are healing very well. Next will be local skin grafting and reconstructive plastic surgery.

Qiu Haiyun: Doctor, why do I need plastic surgery? Have I become very ugly?

Doctor: You do not need to worry. I am confident I can restore your original appearance.

Lin Fengmian: Haiyun, since the doctor has said so, you do not need to worry.

Qiu Haiyun: You… you cannot lie to me, okay?

Scene 77 Time/Day Location / Sun Moon Lake Chen Family Living Room

Characters / Chen Zhijia, Li Wanhua, Chen Zhijia (son), Homestay Owner

△ In the Chen family living room at Sun Moon Lake, Chen Zhijia is on the phone.

Chen Zhijia: My sister still has not returned?

Owner: Yes. Fortunately you called, otherwise I was still troubled over how to deal with the luggage she left behind.

Chen Zhijia: Sir, please give me your address. Tomorrow my parents and I will go there.

Owner: Alright, my place is in Taimali Township…

Chen Zhijia: Thank you. We will go there tomorrow.

△ Chen Zhijia hangs up the phone.

Chen Zhijia: Tomorrow we will make a special trip to Taitung. If we still cannot find her, we will report to the police for assistance in locating her.

Li Wanhua: Mengru must have encountered some accident, otherwise she would not have been out of contact for several consecutive days.

Chen Zhijia: If she were kidnapped by bad people, there should also have been a ransom call.

Li Wanhua: If I had known this would happen, I should not have agreed to let her go traveling.

Chen Zhijia: What is the use of saying this now? First clarify her possible whereabouts, then make plans.

Scene 78 Time/Day Location / Operating Room Entrance, Pretty Lady Model Company CEO Office

Characters / Qiu Haiyun, Lin Fengmian, Nurse, Shao Yuting (CEO), Zhao Jiamai (Creative Director)

△ The nurse pushes Qiu Haiyun to the entrance of the plastic surgery operating room. Lin Fengmian holds Haiyun’s hand.

Lin Fengmian: Haiyun, you have always been very strong. Do not worry.

△ Qiu Haiyun nods.

△ The nurse pushes Qiu Haiyun into the operating room.

△ Lin Fengmian sits blankly in the corridor. His phone rings.

Shao Yuting: Young Master Feng, where are you now?

Lin Fengmian: I am at Taitung Christian Hospital.

Shao Yuting: Weren’t you out scouting locations? How did you end up in a hospital?

Lin Fengmian: My girlfriend fell off a cliff and suffered serious injuries, so I brought her here for emergency treatment nearby.

Shao Yuting: Your girlfriend? Really or not? I never heard you mention this before.

Lin Fengmian: I just recently found her again and reconciled with her.

△ Zhao Jiamai nearby hears the mention of “girlfriend” and becomes suspicious.

Zhao Jiamai: (OS) “Girlfriend”? Could it be that the missing Qiu Haiyun has been found by Fengmian…

Shao Yuting: Meiren Fashion Company recently signed a contract with me, asking me to organize a fashion show for them. When can you come back?

Lin Fengmian: I probably cannot return recently. I must stay with my girlfriend; she has just entered the operating room.

Shao Yuting: Then what about the company side?

Lin Fengmian: Anyway, I will not return to Taipei anytime soon. You can look for my junior brother Luo Gang—he can handle it.

Shao Yuting: That will not do! This is a fifty-million-dollar project. We cannot afford mistakes. I will postpone the schedule and wait for you for one month.

Lin Fengmian: Let’s see.

△ Lin Fengmian hangs up the phone and turns toward the window, resting his chin in his hand, staring blankly.

△ Cut to Pretty Lady Model Company CEO office.

Zhao Jiamai: Sister Ting, Fengmian said he found the missing Qiu Haiyun, right?

Shao Yuting: Yes. It seems Fengmian’s focus in the future will shift entirely to his girlfriend.

Zhao Jiamai: (expression sorrowful, tears welling) Then what should I do, Sister Ting?

Shao Yuting: Sigh… I know these years you have been deeply in love with Fengmian. I can only advise you to let it go.

△ Zhao Jiamai turns away and wipes the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief.

Scene 79 Time/Day Location / Taimali Seaside Homestay

Characters / Chen Zhijia, Li Wanhua, Chen Zhijia (son), Homestay Owner

△ The Chen family arrives at the homestay where Mengru last stayed before disappearing. The owner brings out Mengru’s luggage and belongings.

Owner: These are the luggage and items left by Miss Chen. Please check them.

△ Chen Zhijia and his father take the items.

Chen Zhijia: Sir, in the one or two days before my sister disappeared, was there anything unusual in her speech or behavior?

Owner: (thinking) No. She was the same as the day before, smiling. Before she left, she even asked me to help her buy a basket of sugar apples, saying she wanted to send them home.

Chen Zhijia: Before she left, did anyone come looking for her, or call your place asking for her?

Owner: I am certain there was none. You might want to ask the local police station; they might have clues.

△ Chen Zhijia’s parents look at each other and nod in agreement.

Li Wanhua: Thank you for the reminder. If my daughter returns here, please remind her to contact her family immediately.

Owner: If Miss Chen returns, I will remind her to call you and report that she is safe.

Scene 80 Time/Day Location / Taimali Police Station

Characters / Chen Zhijia, Li Wanhua, Chen Zhijia (son), Duty Officer, Station Chief

△ The Chen family enters the police station and explains their purpose to the duty officer.

Chen Zhijia: We are here to find a missing family member… please help us investigate.

Officer: (recalling) A few days ago, someone seemed to have found an easel and a broken red mobile phone.

Chen Zhijia: That should be it!

Officer: Please wait a moment. I will ask the chief inside.

△ The Chen family looks at each other.

Chen Zhijia: There are leads!

△ The officer goes inside and soon returns with a middle-aged police chief. The officer holds a broken easel and a red mobile phone.

Chief: Please take a look. Are these two items yours?

△ Chen Zhijia takes the phone.

Chen Zhijia: Yes! This is my sister’s phone. The easel should also be hers.

Li Wanhua: This phone was a birthday gift I bought for her. I recognize it.

Chief: The easel was found on a cliff. This phone was found on the beach by a group of children. Judging from the damage on the phone surface, it likely fell from a height.

Chen Zhijia: Chief, do you mean…

Chief: Your daughter may have been painting on the cliff and, for some unknown reason, fell down. But this is only my personal judgment. Since we have not found your daughter, I cannot say for certain.

Chen Zhijia: Thank you for your explanation.

Chief: Do you want to check several large hospitals in the city?

Chen Zhijia: We will. Thank you for the reminder.

△ The Chen family leaves the police station and returns to their car.

Li Wanhua: Xingzi, are you really going to the hospitals to search?

Chen Zhijia: Of course. Since we came all the way to Taitung, we must check every possible lead.

Li Wanhua: I am just afraid that what we find might not be a living person…

Chen Zhijia: We must see the person alive, or see the body if dead. We raised our daughter ourselves—we cannot let her just disappear.

Li Wanhua: Alright… I will follow your decision.