Autumn's Concerto - Episode 2 [Recap]

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Recap for episode 2. I think I'll be behind for a bit with the recaps, since I started doing it so late. But once I catch up, I hope to do recaps before the airing of the next episode. We'll see how that goes.

Summary for episode 2:
We hear about Sheng De University's financial trouble
We meet He YiQian, rich daughter of Director He.
We see GuangXi's conscience appear.
We hear about GuangXi's past, the loss of his father as an 8 year old boy.
YiQian and GuangXi agree to go out.
MuCheng is kidnapped by Zhang Ai Li
GuangXi and TuoYe saves MuCheng.

New people we meet:
He YiQian - daughter of Director He


The 2nd episode begins with a conversation between Hua Tuo Ye and MuCheng. It's VERY obvious that he cares about her a LOT!
Later we learn that Sheng De University is in a financial crisis. They seem to be owing money to Director He from a company named Huan Ye. President Fang (GuangXi's mother) is quite desperate to come up with a solution. Director He suggest that President Fang mortgage Sheng De Tang (an abandoned assembly hall at Sheng De University) so Huan Ye company can tear it down and use the land for a new project. Apparently President Fang has bad memories of the assembly hall - it seems that GuangXi's father did something at the place.. Problem is GuangXi is very attached to the place, because there's a piano where he used to play with his artistic father.


We then meet He YiQian. - Rich daughter of Director He of course. (I knew some rich girl would come in..!) But sadly, I can't hate this one, she's polite, beautiful, smart, and very helpful even. YiQian sneaks her way into the hockey rink while GuangXi is playing with his team, he then tells her that the rink is a dangerous place and she shouldn't just come in whenever she likes. YiQian however, also seems to have a flair for hockey and manages to score a goal, although much to GuangXi's disapproval cause he doesn't like strangers on the ice rink. YiQian gets of the rink since GuangXi is in other words, asking her to get out since she's not a student at the school.
She meets her dad and he asks her what she thinks of the school - apparently YiQian is checking it out and is considering transferring to Sheng De... GuangXi's lack of manners has apparently managed to leave a deep impression on her.

After hockey GuangXi's mother approaches GuangXi and tells him the girl he just met was the daughter of Director He. Funny thing is, GuangXi immediately replies "I'm not interested" - as if he already knows what she is planning to say. GuangXi's mother threatens to tear down Sheng De Tang and GuangXi is not the least surprised, he obviously believes his mother drove his father to death, so he thinks she must feel guilty when seeing Sheng De Tang. If GuangXi doesn't want to lose Sheng De Tang he has make sure He YiQian "successfully transfer to Sheng De University", she's obviously implying GuangXi making sure she's happy. - In other words, President Fang is practically telling her son to be a gigolo to solve the school's financial crisis, some mother she is! No wonder GuangXi calls her the "Old Hag". A cold "Old Hag" just replies that if he does well, they'll get to keep Sheng De Tang. - Is the woman completely freed from human emotions?

TuoYe walks MuCheng home where he is being scolded by Xiao Ah Yi for having hit GuangXi. Xiao Ah Yi calls addresses TuoYe by his nickname, the "Gardener" because his family manages a flower village (as far as I understood it, and besides he's good with flowers, which is kinda cute..) Anyways, she obviously disapproves of him, she cares more about Ren GuangXi because he's the son of President Fang. Seems like Xiao Ah Yi and President Fang have a lot in common, they both like to sell their children for money. Tsk.. Both are totally shameless. However, none of them are as disgusting as Uncle Cai (or depending on how you look at it, perhaps they are just as disgusting?), when he hears that MuCheng and GuangXi definitely didn't hit it off well, he laughs. He of course has a filthy mind and wants to keep MuCheng for himself. - Disgusting pervert!

Xiao Ah Yi wants MuCheng to apologise to GuangXi tomorrow and even adds, that if the President's son (GuangXi) asks MuCheng to sleep with him, she even has to reply, thanks. - In other words, thanking him for being so "kind" to sleep with her. Xiao Ah Yi says that she has raised her for so long now, if she tells her (MuCheng) to sell her body, she should do it. This is beyond ridiculous, I know!



A furious and devastated MuCheng runs off. - Sadly Uncle Cai follows her. She ends up at Sheng De Tang where she sees a piano. She feels drawn to it and starts playing on it. She's interrupted by GuangXi (who is often in Sheng De Tang because it makes him feel close to his father), he tells her her hands are too filthy to play the piano. MuCheng tries to excuse herself for just walking in and touching the piano, but GuangXi who is already pissed off by his Old Hag of a mother doesn't let her go that easily. He indirectly calls her cheap for selling herself out for money. (He still thinks she really betted with the students at school). He says they've kissed, now they should have sex right? It's quite obvious he's back to his self-centred jerk personality who thinks women should undress when he tells them to. He shows no respect for MuCheng before she starts shedding tears. This is the first time he has seen a woman show true feelings by crying and he asks her not to undress. MuCheng managed to touch his deeply burried, cold heart with her tears and GuangXi's conscience suddenly appears. It was probably MuCheng's words that finally got to him, she told him to tell her how much fun he was having while sitting there watching her humiliate herself in front of him.



GuangXi is used to the women around him being cold, distant and only with him to get benefits. He realises that MuCheng is different. - Yay ! :D Unfortunately, perverted Uncle Cai has been peaking inside from the window and he thinks MuCheng and GuangXi have sex. He's furious because he got her first, and he "raised" her and all. - Perverted, despicable man! (The man is unbelievable and I wish I could somehow appear on the screen and strangle him..)
MuCheng mentions that all men are the same, they all think it's fun to humiliate and bully a person like that. GuangXi is taken aback by the "all men" and suddenly feels the need to protect her. Ironic and very double-standards from GuangXi's side as he almost did the same to her. At least he knows himself and asks "who else has treated her that way".

Uncle Cai's "live show" is interrupted when a guard asks him what he's doing on school property. GuangXi and MuCheng has to hide otherwise she will be in trouble for trespassing. They end up finding a bird that's wounded. MuCheng decides to save it. GuangXi tells MuCheng about a legend about a little 8 year old boy who died in Sheng De Tang. It's obviously GuangXi's own story, but he talks about the little boy in 3rd person. The father let go of the little boy's hands when he "committed suicide" (he doesn't directly say it, but implies it). GuangXi then says the boy died after having to endure the pain and suffering of being abandoned. MuCheng being her optimistic self, talks about her own story with her father whom she also lost at a young age. She tries to convince him to be more optimistic. A memorable quote is

"The father hoped that his son would understand that when he falls he should learn how to stand back up by himself instead of whining and blaming others on the floor".

GuangXi admits that MuCheng doesn't seem like a regular bento girl (her family sells bentos), he says he could hear from her piano play that there seemed to be a special feeling behind it. - Well of course there is, it's also a memory of MuCheng's father.
We see the first genuine smile from GuangXi and it's very cute :)

MuCheng and GuangXi end up falling asleep in Sheng De Tang, actually MuCheng thinks she was stranded in there, but GuangXi secretly had a key. He just enjoyed her company too much to let her go ;)



Later GuangXi and Uncle Cai has a confrontation. GuangXi gives MuCheng his cellphone and tells her to call the police if Uncle Cai tries to do anything. Unfortunately, he forgot that was the same phone he took the picture of them kissing on. So when his friends ask him whether he won this bet or not, he has to admit that this time he lost. This time he met an honest girl who would actually cry. GuangXi is punished by having to run several laps around the school wearing Zhang Ai Li's (GuangXi's previous victim from ep. 1) shoes. GuangXi falls to the ground and almost faints. YiQian walks by and helps GuangXi get up.
Turns out YiQian is a med-student, cliché much? She's rich, she's smart and she's going be a doctor?
GuangXi notices how concerned YiQian is and directly asks her if she's interested in him. He bluntly tells her that President Fang wishes for them to date, that way her father would give them money. While a normal girl would be put off and insulted by this ridiculous idea of President Fang's, YiQian just smiles appreciates and admires his honesty. The two agree on going out the following afternoon.

MuCheng accompanies Uncle Cai to a market where he buys a water turtle. Apparently they are good nutrition for men, and it's apparently also a part of his plan to rape MuCheng. - Did I mention the man was beyond despicable? Uncle Cai is almost trying to pick up the woman selling him the turtle, even though she's married ! Uncle Cai talks about how he raised "something/someone" for so long, she can't escape from him. MuCheng knows exactly what he means and runs away. MuCheng breaks down in tears, she is tempted to call GuangXi but decides to wipe her tears away and be strong. Meanwhile GuangXi is waiting for her in Sheng De Tang - he demanded that she would come every night and play the piano for him.
MuCheng arrives too late and plays some rubbish that doesn't please GuangXi's ears.
GuangXi asks her what happened to her. GuangXi talks about the bird they both saved and MuCheng replies,
"Just because you saved it, doesn't mean you have the right to interfere with its everything!" - She's obviously referring to her perverted uncle who did save her, but that does not mean he has the right to sexually abuse or harass her.



Zhang Ai Li is still pissed with GuangXi so she decides to kidnap MuCheng in order to teach GuangXi a lesson. Zhang Ai Li has discovered that MuCheng actually matters to GuangXi. Even though GuangXi pretends to not care, he quickly runs to the ice rink where Ai Li has captured MuCheng. GuangXi arrives, much to MuCheng's surprise. She had no idea she held such an important position in GuangXi's heart <3>
Hua TuoYe arrives, fights the bad guys while asking GuangXi to leave with MuCheng. GuangXi reach out to take MuCheng's hand in other words, asks her to trust him, she does and they run off.


-End-

My apologises for writing such a long recap again. It's really not my intention to write an essay for each episode, but there's just so much happening in one episode, and so many important details. I just can't seem to write short and precise.
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