A Love Never Lost Episode 3 Recap
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Sulfuric acid was running low, so Wu Tianbai went to the British Pharmacy in the foreign concession to purchase more. He disguised himself as a Japanese man and invited Xie Shuhong to wear a kimono and accompany him, thinking it would make them more convincing. Li Renjun also had Japanese yen on hand—Liang Xiang guessed it was given to him by Meng Fuchao.
Li Renjun told him to stop staring at him; among the three of them, Yang Kaizhi was the richest. Yesterday, Li Renjun saw him bring back a stack of yen—at least 2,000. While waiting for the ship to arrive, Liang Xiang and the others had to study basic Japanese. He discovered a pattern: Japanese often lacks full sentence structure, but by simply adding "I want to" to the front, one could piece together a complete phrase in almost any situation.
Wu Tianbai successfully bought 2,000 milliliters of sulfuric acid. Since Xie Shuhong couldn’t speak Japanese, Wu Tianbai had to shield her from being found out. A Japanese woman asked Xie Shuhong something, but she couldn’t understand and stayed silent, letting Wu Tianbai handle it. Xie Shuhong greatly admired Wu Tianbai for his fluency in both Japanese and English and learned a phrase in Japanese from him.
There were now three officially enrolled female students at the girls’ school, and they shared a dormitory with Xie Shuhong. Yang Yifan asked Xie Shuhong to look after them and to go to General Manager Xu if she needed anything. But Xie Shuhong was clearly distracted, and Yang Yifan looked at her with deep concern in his eyes. Liang Xiang was tasked with passing on a message to Prince Chun, asking him to attend a banquet hosted by Song Baoquan.
Unable to decline, Liang Xiang agreed. Prince Chun did meet with him, but when he learned Liang Xiang was there for the banquet, he interrupted before Liang Xiang could speak, telling him not to mention that wretched banquet again. Prince Chun had never left his residence since childhood. Ever since his elder brother became Emperor Guangxu, he had lived with extreme caution. On this trip to Germany, people flattered him endlessly simply because of his identity as Prince Chun.
But Zai Feng said he was himself, and Emperor Guangxu was Emperor Guangxu. He would never attend the lavish and wasteful banquet hosted by Song Baoquan. He warned Liang Xiang not to tell Song Baoquan that he wouldn’t be coming—he’d rather watch Song Baoquan drain his own silver reserves throwing that extravagant banquet.
When Song Baoquan heard that Prince Chun would be attending, he was so pleased that he immediately had Da Ren from the Chamber of Commerce start making arrangements—the more extravagant, the better. Wu Tianbai had finished preparing the explosives. He planned to sneak into the banquet held by the Shanghai circuit official at Yipinxiang for Prince Chun, then detonate the bomb and assassinate the visiting prince. He needed an accomplice.
Upon hearing that Wu Tianbai intended to recruit Xie Shuhong, Yang Yifan was the first to object. Wu Tianbai was unfazed and suggested that Yang Yifan ask Xie Shuhong for her own opinion. Yang Yifan went to question Xie Shuhong. From her reaction, he could tell she was already involved with Wu Tianbai. Furious, Yang Yifan, knowing full well that Wu Tianbai was a reckless man, immediately told Xie Shuhong to buy a ticket and return to Anqing, Anhui.
Before leaving, Xie Shuhong went to Cheng Zhaofang’s place to get some books, but Cheng Zhaofang wasn’t there—Wu Tianbai was. He stopped her and began a persuasive ideological pitch, convincing her to stay and join them. Naive and blinded by love, Xie Shuhong foolishly agreed. Yang Yifan later learned from General Manager Xu that Wu Tianbai had booked two ship tickets to Tokyo, Japan. Possibly fearing the consequences would implicate the school, he planned to escape.
But one ticket would’ve been enough—why two? Yang Yifan assumed Xie Shuhong had already left Shanghai, so he didn’t think much of it. Even though Prince Chun would not attend the banquet, the show had to go on. Wu Tianbai mistakenly believed Prince Chun would be present and showed up with Xie Shuhong as planned. At the banquet, Xie Shuhong saw Song Baoquan’s concubine. The two recognized each other, and Song’s concubine looked at her with a puzzled expression.
