Go Go Squid 2 Dt.Appledog's Time Episode 2 Recap
> Go Go Squid 2 Dt.Appledog's Time Recap
After receiving the tickets he had reserved for a Hu Xia concert, Wu Bai was excited at the thought of attending with Ai Qing. At a restaurant, Wu Bai’s teammate jokingly accused him of spending the night away, but Wu Bai clarified that he had simply returned late and left early while his teammate was asleep. While Ai Qing was getting food, Slide told her that Solo was in Singapore recruiting for Team SP, China's top team.
He noted that if Wu Bai won the championship, he would be highly sought after. Ai Qing praised Wu Bai as a genius with flawless awareness, positioning, and tactics, whose team also showed excellent coordination. She added that if she were to sign with a team, it would be a Chinese club. Just then, Solo approached their table, and upon seeing him, Wu Bai lost his appetite.
Solo invited Ai Qing for a private talk, asking her to join Team SP and suggesting they put the past behind them to team up again. Ai Qing firmly rejected the offer, stating that everything was in the past. When Solo suggested she call him when she returned to Shanghai, mentioning a Hunan restaurant, Ai Qing cut him off, saying she no longer had his number before abruptly leaving.
As she walked away, Solo recalled an old conversation where they concluded that since love requires two people, he, "Solo," was unsuited for it. He then realized that the woman Ai Qing had become no longer needed him. The championship final began with an intense battle between China's Team DT and Singapore's Team AEO. Wu Bai's robot, Nobody, quickly gained the upper hand, knocking the opponent's robot over twice.
However, as the Singaporean robot was stuck in an obstacle, Wu Bai's vision blurred, causing him to make a critical error that left Nobody trapped by a ground drill. Although the rules stipulated a maximum three-second trap, the referee failed to intervene even after the opponent's robot broke free. Despite protests from the audience, the match continued.
In a critical moment, Wu Bai recalled one of Ai Qing's tactics and executed a precise counterattack, knocking out his opponent to win the championship for Team DT. His teammates cheered, and Wu Bai looked toward Ai Qing, who gave him an enthusiastic thumbs-up. During the award ceremony, a teammate noted that Ai Qing wasn't wearing her racing medal, but she admitted she had forgotten it. Wu Bai then took his own championship medal and placed it around her neck.
Ai Qing playfully told Wu Bai he owed her tuition for stealing her move, and he agreed to owe her for now. Later, 97 gave Ai Qing tickets to the Hu Xia concert, smiling mysteriously when she asked how he knew she wanted to go. Meanwhile, Wu Bai bought two hazelnut ice creams and headed to the concert venue. He saw Ai Qing waiting, but as he approached, his vision blurred completely.
He thought to himself that he had fallen in love with her at an age when he didn't even know what love was. Not wanting her to see him in that state, he sadly turned and left as the ice cream melted in his hands, feeling as though he had sunk into darkness. Ai Qing, holding two drinks, was seen looking around for someone.
Upon returning to Shanghai, Wu Bai went straight to the hospital, where his brother, Han Shangyan, was waiting. Wu Bai insisted on having surgery immediately and was wheeled into the operating room. Meanwhile, 97 returned a remote control to Ai Qing, explaining that Wu Bai had found it in the drain after the competition, fixed it, and modified it.
97 also revealed that during that crucial match, when Ai Qing's main remote failed and her backup was lost, it was Wu Bai who had found a compatible receiver and configured it for her, perfectly matching her unique control style. Learning this, Ai Qing felt a profound sense of loss over their connection, which had seemed to be growing closer before it suddenly stopped. After the surgery, Wu Bai woke up with his eyes bandaged.
Han Shangyan confirmed the operation had temporarily failed and that they would discuss the next plan with the doctor in a week. When Wu Bai worried about another failure, Han Shangyan dismissed his fears, promising to take care of him for life if he went blind, though Wu Bai quipped that he couldn't trust someone too lazy to peel an apple for him.
To lift his spirits, Han Shangyan proposed they open a club once Wu Bai recovered, offering him the naming rights. Recalling a conversation where Ai Qing wanted to be a "king" in robot combat and he had replied that two kings could coexist, Wu Bai named the club K&K. That evening, Ai Qing saw two cats on the street, which reminded her of her time with Wu Bai.
Her sister joined her, teasing that Ai Qing's heart was finally open to loving someone new. As they walked home, her sister complained about their building's flickering lights and broken stairs. Inside, they found their father asleep on the sofa, where he had slept for over a decade. Seeing this, Ai Qing gave her sister a bank card with all her untouched prize money, telling her to use it for a down payment on a small two-bedroom apartment.
She would handle the mortgage after finding a formal job. When her sister asked if she would regret retiring, Ai Qing said it was too soon to know. Han Shangyan informed Wu Bai that he had arranged a second surgery for him in Norway. The good news was he could escape his young hospital roommate, Luo Hui; the bad news was their grandfather planned to go to Norway to care for him personally.
Later, the doctor removed Wu Bai’s bandages, but his vision was unstable. The doctor then delivered a heavy blow, warning that a second surgery was far riskier and could result in permanent blindness, leaving both brothers deeply concerned. That night, Wu Bai secretly went to Ai Qing's apartment building. He watched as she arrived in high heels and nearly tripped on the broken stairs because the streetlight was out. After she went inside, Wu Bai fixed the light.
He then spent the rest of the night creating a large drawing on the wall of her building, hoping it could serve as a source of support for her in his absence. As he left at dawn, Ai Qing's voiceover reflected that music is a powerful carrier of memory, and a particular song always brought her back to that time. She described her feeling as a profound sense of loss, stemming from a connection that, born from mutual attraction, had been abruptly and forcibly cut short.
