Rising With The Wind Episode 3 Recap
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Jiang Hu sharply turns the steering wheel, narrowly avoiding a large truck. Concerned for her safety, Xu Si follows her in his car. The next day, he returns the mud-splattered car to his colleague. Meanwhile, Xiang Chaoyang seeks a meeting with Ms. Tang to discuss her future at the company. However, due to an incident where Chaoyang promoted a rival product during a live stream, Ms. Tang's attitude has soured.
Ms. Tang reminds Chaoyang of her modest academic background and how she had personally championed her hiring based on potential. While reviewing Chaoyang's design work, Ms. Tang tells her to make adjustments and wait for a call. With the collapse of its parent company Free Unicorn, the Teng Yue factory also goes under. Owed money, many small suppliers gather to demand payment. Jiang Hu drives back to Teng Yue and is immediately surrounded by angry creditors.
Her temper flares, leading to a confrontation where she is pelted with eggs. Her uncle, Pei Zhiyuan, arrives to help, revealing he was also hit with eggs. He urges her to speak calmly to the creditors and suggests she go abroad to escape the turmoil, having already booked her a flight. Jiang Hu angrily rejects his advice, asking if he thinks he is her mother, and they part ways after he tells her to leave once the crowd disperses.
Shortly after, Yang Jian arrives with his friends, whose businesses are also owed hundreds of thousands of yuan for raw materials by Teng Yue. Yang Jian confronts Jiang Hu, noting her attempt to "use the back door" to avoid them. Jiang Hu acknowledges their purpose and states they must follow procedures. When Yang Jian suggests she sell her car for the money, she pretends to agree and makes a phone call.
Instead, she quickly gets into her car, locks the doors, and speeds away, leaving Yang Jian to curse in frustration while his friend remarks that she cannot hide forever. Seeking a solution, Jiang Hu consults Zhang Wenshan, a longtime family associate and distributor for Free Unicorn. He proposes a deceptive plan: she must renounce her inheritance rights, allowing the group's 65% equity stake to be publicly auctioned.
He claims his family only has enough funds to acquire the core brand and office building. This strategy, he argues, will allow them to buy Free Unicorn without its massive debts and continue their families' decades-long partnership, honoring her father's legacy. When Jiang Hu expresses concern that she cannot afford to buy the company back from him soon, he reassures her that they have plenty of time.
Trusting him, Jiang Hu thanks him, lamenting the betrayals she has faced since her father's death. The auction proceeds, and Zhang Wenshan's family wins the 65% equity of Free Unicorn with a bid of 226 million yuan. Afterward, he callously tells Jiang Hu that he kept his word, as Free Unicorn will continue to operate under his family's ownership, and suggests she leave the country to avoid painful memories.
Jiang Hu realizes she has been manipulated into giving up her inheritance so he could acquire her family's company debt-free. She accuses him of lying and never taking her seriously, calling him despicable. Zhang Wenshan dismisses her, telling others she is merely in a bad mood. Meanwhile, Xu Si discusses business with his boss at Baoxing group, who congratulates him on his recent performance.
His boss outlines future acquisitions, including Aneda shoes and the Teng Yue land, emphasizing that the Aneda project is crucial. He promises Xu Si an investment management partner position within two years if he succeeds, which would make him the youngest in the industry, and reminds him to focus on securing the Teng Yue land.
Shortly after the auction, Jiang Hu receives a frantic call from her assistant, Yue Shan, urging her to return to her villa, where creditors are emptying the house. Yue Shan reports that the police are on the scene, but little can be saved. Jiang Hu, in denial, insists on finding Gao Yi for help. Yue Shan then reveals a devastating truth: Gao Yi, while working at Lidu Tianyi's investment department, introduced the fraudulent Peace Loan to Jiang Hu's father.
Crucially, Lidu Tianyi withdrew all its funds from Peace Loan just before its owner was arrested, indicating that Gao Yi knew of the impending collapse and not only failed to warn her father but likely profited from his downfall. Refusing to believe it, Jiang Hu storms into Lidu Tianyi to confront Gao Yi. He admits that Lidu Tianyi invested in and withdrew its funds from Peace Loan, and that he deliberately withheld this information from her father.
Utterly betrayed by the man she trusted like a brother, Jiang Hu slaps him and leaves in a rage. Overwhelmed, she goes to the rooftop of the Teng Yue building, intending to jump. Xu Si finds her and pulls her back from the edge. She struggles, accusing him of only caring about the Teng Yue land and calling him a despicable opportunist. Xu Si calmly counters that her suicide on the property would only drive its value down further.
He then tells her a story of a laid-off technician from a state-owned factory in the 1990s who, facing ruin, spent a night on the factory roof. Instead of jumping, he saw the sunrise and found a new path, eventually solving his problems by selling off surplus inventory abroad.
As a memory of her father's voice echoes, stating that Teng Yue was his starting point and that there is always hope as long as one is alive, Xu Si tells Jiang Hu that she too can find a way forward. He decides to stay on the rooftop with her until dawn to see "which direction the wind blows." Elsewhere, Xiang Chaoyang is fired by Ms. Tang.
The company's senior executives made the decision because Chaoyang's promotion of a rival product caused their brand, Aneda, to be negatively associated with Free Unicorn's marketing scandal, a serious breach of professional ethics. Ms. Tang expresses her regret and hopes Chaoyang learns from the mistake. Chaoyang returns home to find her mother, Zhou Suqing, putting on a dramatic act about no longer being a burden.
When confronted, her mother first denies buying stocks, then admits she was persuaded by a man named Thompson to borrow money and invest in Peace Loan, lured by a promised 25% interest rate. She defends herself, claiming it seemed safer than stocks and blaming the fund's collapse for her losses, just like what happened to Jiang Hu's company. Xiang Chaoyang, exasperated, cuts through the excuses and asks directly how much debt her mother has incurred this time.
