Resumo do episódio 24 de The Company
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Bi Zhi, sensing that Su Beilu’s volleyball match would be a significant event, decided to attend and support him. On the court, Bi Zhi utilized his extraordinary abilities to quietly assist, ensuring Su Beilu’s team remained dominant. During a halftime break, Su Beilu suggested that Bi Zhi take advantage of his height to handle spikes and blocking. The strategy was overwhelmingly successful, leading the red team to a decisive victory.
This win served as Bi Zhi’s parting gift to Su Beilu, who finally realized that the shopkeeper had been masking a formidable level of strength all along. As a reward for their performance, the group earned a stay at a forest guesthouse owned by an artist named Madam Lin. That evening, the group gathered at Madam Lin’s courtyard for a picnic.
While Chun Ge grilled chicken wings and Madam Lin served red wine, Bi Zhi stood by the shore, captivated by the shimmering sea. Su Beilu joined him and reflected on his childhood. Despite growing up near the coast, he never learned to swim because his parents were always working and his grandma was constantly preoccupied with her shop. He recalled how his grandma always promised to take him to the sea during the holidays but was always too busy.
By the time he was old enough to take her himself, the opportunity had passed. Su Beilu shared a poignant memory of a bubble machine he had loved as a child. He remembered a day when his grandma scolded him for taking items from the shop and playing with a dog named Xiao Huang instead of washing his hands. When he asked for watercolor pens for school, she insisted he use the crayons from her store to save money.
This led to a humiliating moment in art class where a classmate named Xiao Long mocked his drawing, claiming the colors of his grandma’s clothes looked like "stir-fried eggplant with scallions." Resentful of the outdated shop, young Su Beilu had locked himself in his room, longing for his parents. Now, however, he deeply regretted his past selfishness and the times he had upset his grandma. Listening to these stories, Bi Zhi asked Su Beilu about his wishes.
Su Beilu admitted his greatest regret was not cherishing his time with his grandma, though he felt her spirit was still protecting him. When he turned the question back to Bi Zhi, the shopkeeper stated his primary goal was recovering lost artifacts. However, after further prompting, Bi Zhi confessed he had thought of a personal wish but refused to share it, claiming that revealing it would break the spell.
The next morning, as they prepared to leave, Madam Lin presented them with a painting she had made of their gathering as a souvenir. Upon returning to Yashe, Su Beilu looked around the shop with a sense of finality. Having guessed that Bi Zhi’s mission was nearing its end, Su Beilu had meticulously cleaned the entire shop before their trip.
He considered the team-building excursion his own gift to Bi Zhi, hoping the memories of the twenty-first century would bring the shopkeeper joy in his own time. Bi Zhi solemnly thanked Su Beilu, acknowledging that he couldn't have collected the artifacts so quickly without his help. Before they parted, Bi Zhi handed Su Beilu a letter, insisting he only read it after returning home. As Su Beilu walked away, he felt an overwhelming urge to return.
However, when he arrived back at Yashe, he found the shop transformed into a desolate, abandoned space. With trembling hands, he opened the letter. In it, Bi Zhi apologized for a tragic connection to Su Beilu’s past. He revealed that in 2005, while in Huayang to recover the Dushan jade after a private auction, an artifact was stolen. Bi Zhi had pursued the thieves' vehicle in a high-speed chase.
He recently discovered that the car he was chasing was the very one that struck and killed Su Beilu’s parents. Bi Zhi was consumed by guilt, fearing the accident might never have happened if he hadn't been in pursuit. He informed Su Beilu that he was sealing Yashe forever and would never travel through time again.
Half a month later, Su Beilu’s former landlord, Jenny, reached out and allowed him to move back into his old apartment at the same rent, even permitting him to keep Tuanzi, as the place had remained vacant. Meanwhile, the pet hospital was overwhelmed during the spring season. Su Beilu arrived at the hospital with bowls of Luosifen for his former colleagues.
He told Dr. Tang and Xiaomin that Bi Zhi had "returned to his hometown" and that he had moved out of the large house. Encouraged by Dr. Tang to follow his heart, Su Beilu approached the manager, Da Zhuang, and offered a sincere apology for his previous behavior. Recognizing Su Beilu’s genuine passion and new sense of responsibility, the manager agreed to rehire him as an assistant on a three-month probation period at eighty percent salary.
