Scene 81 Time/Day Setting / Taitung Christian Hospital
Characters / Chen Zhenxing, Li Wanhua, Chen Zhijia, Volunteer at Service Desk

△ The Chen family of three arrives at the Christian Hospital and inquires at the service desk about their daughter’s medical records.
Volunteer A: This file contains the records of major trauma patients admitted to this hospital within the past month. If your daughter is not on this list, you may need to check the branch of Veterans General Hospital and Tzu Chi Hospital.
Chen Zhijia: We have just come from the branch of Veterans General Hospital.

△ Chen Zhenxing removes his reading glasses and hands them to his wife, concentrating on searching through the register.
Chen Zhenxing: No, there is no Mengru in the register.

△ Li Wanhua takes the register and carefully checks it once more.
Li Wanhua: Truly, Ah-Ru’s name is not there.

Volunteer B: That means your daughter has definitely not been sent here.
Chen Zhenxing: (disappointed) Shall we go back then?

Chen Zhijia: Dad, should we notify Michael in Italy?
Chen Zhenxing: Yes. When we return, we will notify him.

Li Wanhua: Shouldn’t we place an advertisement in the newspaper? Xingzi.
Chen Zhenxing: Place it. There is no better option at the moment.

Scene 82 Time/Day Setting / Taoyuan Airport Arrival Hall
Characters / Michael, Chen Zhijia, passengers

△ Michael, carrying a simple backpack, appears in the arrival hall. Chen Zhijia waves and calls out to him.
Chen Zhijia: Michael, I’m here.

△ Michael sees Zhijia, and both move toward each other.
Michael: A-Jia, I have not received your sister’s e-mails for the past month. I am very worried that she may have had an accident.

Chen Zhijia: Our whole family went to Taitung to look for her, and we also placed missing-person advertisements in the newspaper, but there has still been no news of my sister.

Michael: I have a strong intuition that Mengru is still alive, A-Jia.
Chen Zhijia: I think so too.
Michael: Let’s go back to your home first, and plan together.
Chen Zhijia: Take my car, my newly purchased second-hand car.

△ Chen Zhijia leads Michael out of the hall.

Scene 83 Time/Day Setting / Sun Moon Lake Chen Family Living Room
Characters / Michael, Chen Zhenxing, Li Wanhua (Chen mother), Chen Zhijia

△ Inside the Chen family living room at Sun Moon Lake, the Chen family and Michael discuss together.
Michael: Mengru must still be alive. It is possible that for some reason, she cannot contact us.

Chen Zhijia: My sister should not have been kidnapped by criminals. If she were, there would already have been ransom calls to the house.
Michael: Yeah, A-Jia makes sense.

Chen Zhenxing: If Mengru were taken by bad people, unless she has already been killed, after a month she should still have had a chance to call back.

Chen Zhijia: We have already reported to the police, but after twenty days, the police still have not given us any news.

Michael: Uncle Chen, I want to search thoroughly across Taiwan, using my own method.

Chen Zhenxing: What method will you use to search for her?
Michael: I will set up sketch stalls in every township. I will place Mengru’s portrait in front of the stall. That way, anyone who has seen Mengru may tell me information about her.

Chen Zhenxing: (moved) It is rare for a foreigner like you to have such sincerity. I will lend you my Wild Wolf motorcycle. If you have any news, contact me at any time.

Michael: Thank you, Uncle Chen. I will also contact several classmates in Taiwan to help.

Chen Zhenxing: If you bring Ah-Ru back, then I will let my daughter marry you, and I will not take any bride price.

Michael: (raises fist) Uncle Chen, I will do my best!

Chen Zhenxing: I know you will try your best.

Scene 84 Time/Dusk Setting / Wu Benyun Tamsui Studio
Characters / Michael, Wu Benyun, Tang Huai-min, Wen Meihua

△ Inside Wu Benyun’s Tamsui studio, the four sit around a square table discussing.
Wu Benyun: Based on this judgment, Mengru should be missing.

Tang Huai-min: Michael, how do you plan to search?
Michael: I will go to crowded places and set up sketch stalls, so more people can help me.

Tang Huai-min: That works. With so many people and eyes around, someone may have seen Mengru.

Wen Meihua: Ah-Tang, let’s help Michael search for Mengru together.
Tang Huai-min: Of course. Mengru helped us greatly before.

Scene 85 Time/Day Setting / Kaohsiung Cianjhen Fisherman’s Wharf
Characters / Michael, Tang Huai-min, Wen Meihua, Chen Zhijia, locals, tourists

△ Michael and two others set up a portrait sketch stall at Kaohsiung Cianjhen Fisherman’s Wharf. On both sides of the stall are two large portraits of Chen Mengru—one side profile bust, one full-body frontal image. Below them are missing-person notices in both Chinese and English: “Searching for fiancée Chen Mengru.”

△ Tang Huai-min plays guitar and sings to liven the atmosphere, attracting curious tourists.

△ After learning about Michael’s transcontinental search, many tourists cheer him on and ask to take photos with him.
Tourist A: Foreigner, you must keep going! God will help you.
Tourist B: Foreigner, don’t give up, keep fighting!

Scene 86 Time/Day Setting / TV Station Newsroom, Facebook on Screen
Characters / Reporter, Chief Editor

△ In the TV station newsroom, a reporter sees a post on Facebook.
Reporter: Chief Editor, please come and take a look. This Facebook post is very touching.

△ The chief editor walks over and browses it.
Reporter: Chief Editor, I would like to go and interview this news story.

Chief Editor: Then take a cameraman with you. This story has news value.

Scene 87 Time/Day Setting / Cianjhen Fisherman’s Wharf, Hospital Ward Recreation Room
Characters / Michael, Tang Huai-min, Wen Meihua, Reporter, Cameraman, tourists, Lin Fengmian

△ The reporter and cameraman find Michael’s portrait sketch stall at the wharf area.
△ Michael accepts the interview, attracting curious tourists who gather around.

△ After the interview, the reporter turns his back to the sketch stall and faces the camera to deliver a conclusion.
This young painter from Venice, Italy, came to Taiwan as an exchange student. He met Chen Mengru, and the two developed mutual affection, forming a cross-border romance. Not long ago, the female protagonist disappeared for unknown reasons. Michael traveled across continents to Taiwan to search for his girlfriend. He believes she is still alive, and has sworn to search every inch of Taiwan’s land to find her. This deep and sincere devotion is deeply moving. The reporter asks viewers across the nation to cheer for him and also help find his beloved girlfriend Chen Mengru. This concludes the exclusive report by reporter of □□ News Channel, broadcasting from Sun Moon Lake for the audience.

▲ Camera shift

△ In the hospital ward recreation room, Lin Fengmian is eating a lunch box while watching the news.
△ On the television screen, the report about street portrait painter Michael is being broadcast.

Lin Fengmian: (to himself) Chen Mengru actually has a fiancé? And he even came across the ocean to find her! No! I cannot let them meet. I must keep Chen Mengru by my side and let her remain forever my beloved Qiu Haiyun…

Scene 88 Time/Day Setting / Hospital Ward
Characters / Qiu Haiyun, Lin Fengmian, Plastic Surgeon, Nurse

△ In the hospital ward, the plastic surgeon is removing the bandages from Qiu Haiyun’s face.
Doctor: Perfect! The surgery was very successful.

△ The nurse brings a mirror and lets Qiu Haiyun look at herself.
Lin Fengmian: Haiyun, the doctor has restored your beauty.

△ Qiu Haiyun smiles, tears shimmering in her eyes.

Lin Fengmian: I will take you home later. Haiyun, your parents cannot wait to see you.

Scene 89 Time/Day Setting / Qiu Family Entrance, Living Room
Characters / Qiu Haiyun, Lin Fengmian, Qiu Shuishuan, Zhou Yumei

△ Lin Fengmian brings Qiu Haiyun back to the Qiu residence. The elderly couple of the Qiu family greets them at the door.

Zhou Yumei: (hugging, crying) Yun’er! Where have you been all these years? Mother missed you so much.

Qiu Shuishuan: (firm handshake) Fengmian, thank you for helping us find our daughter.

Lin Fengmian: Uncle Qiu, this is what I should do!

Qiu Shuishuan: After receiving your call, your Aunt Qiu and I were so happy we couldn’t sleep all night. Come in, come in.

△ The four enter the living room, which is warmly and festively decorated.

Qiu Shuishuan: These past years it was only the two of us old companions relying on each other. The house was always cold and empty. Now that Haiyun has been found, the whole home feels alive again.

△ Mother Qiu brings a tea tray and hands two cups of tea to her husband and Fengmian.

Lin Fengmian: Uncle Qiu, Haiyun lost her memory due to injury and still needs some time to recover.

Qiu Shuishuan: We will take good care of Haiyun. We will not make her angry again, and we will not let her run away from home anymore.

Lin Fengmian: Let her rest for a while. I plan to arrange for Haiyun to join the modeling company where I work.

Qiu Shuishuan: That’s very good! With you taking care of her, we are of course reassured.

Qiu Haiyun: (OS) Am I really Qiu Haiyun? Why does everything here feel so unfamiliar?

Scene 90 Time/Day Setting / General Manager’s Office
Characters / Qiu Haiyun, Lin Fengmian, Shao Yuting, Zhao Jiamai

Narration:
△ Lin Fengmian introduces Qiu Haiyun to the modeling company “Pretty Lady”, with which he has long-term cooperation. With her refined appearance and artistic temperament, Qiu Haiyun quickly becomes a key talent that the company focuses on cultivating.

△ Inside the general manager’s office, Shao Yuting is speaking on the phone with a client. Zhao Jiamai (Creative Director) stands beside her. Lin Fengmian walks in.

Shao Yuting: Alright, no problem. For this endorsement of your fashion brand, I will have Qiu Haiyun lead the team. The company’s elite models will all be deployed. Chairman Zhou can rest assured!

△ Shao Yuting hangs up the phone, smiling broadly.

Shao Yuting: Young Master Feng, thanks to you bringing your girlfriend Qiu Haiyun here. In terms of appearance and temperament, she was born for this industry.

Lin Fengmian: That is also thanks to Big Sister giving her this opportunity.

Shao Yuting: Don’t be formal. Over the years, without you, a professional photographer, producing refined packaging and promotion for my models, how could my company have gained such a position in the industry so quickly? I know what it means to repay kindness.

Lin Fengmian: Tomorrow’s outdoor shoot at Tamsui Fisherman’s Wharf, I will ask my junior, Luo Gang, to assist. I will focus on filming, and leave photography to him.

Shao Yuting: Mm! Then I will let the models rest early tonight and recharge. Jiamai, you will supervise tomorrow’s Tamsui shoot.

Zhao Jiamai: Yes! General Manager.

Lin Fengmian: I will return to my workstation first.

Shao Yuting: Go ahead and get busy.

△ Lin Fengmian turns and leaves. The two women watch his departing figure.

Shao Yuting: Ever since Fengmian brought Qiu Haiyun into the company, he seems to be full of energy every day. He works with exceptional drive. This must be the power of love.

Zhao Jiamai: (sadly) Fengmian’s thoughts are all on his girlfriend. I feel like a fool sewing a wedding dress for someone else…

Shao Yuting: Look at it from a better perspective. Matters of the heart are not something where you give actively and the other person must return it in full. Fengmian does not accept your feelings because his heart cannot hold two women.