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Hidden Dragon, Gentle Dad
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00:02Respectful welcome, Boss Long.
00:04We beg Boss Long to return and take charge.
00:10From this day forward, Boss Long no longer exists.
00:19Fifteen years ago, with just me and my blade, I dyed half the river red.
00:27The world honored me as Boss Long.
00:30Until she came to visit me in prison, heavily pregnant, and told me I was going to be a father.
00:37For my daughter, I willingly sheathed my fangs and became an ordinary man.
00:48Yo, Nora, isn't that your dad? The one who just got out of prison?
00:58OMG! It totally is! He looks like a total bum! What a freak!
01:10Can you stop embarrassing me? Do you have any idea how much face you're making me lose in front of
01:15my friends?
01:15Nora, your mom said you complained that the cafeteria owners in Taubel and often meet. This is all your favorite
01:20food. Clean and safe.
01:21Get lost!
01:24You went to jail for such a whippy reason and made me suffer as a kid with no dad!
01:29I finally got my own crew, and you just had to show up and ruin everything!
01:33Have you ever considered appealing?
01:35My godbrother broke someone's leg and only got three years.
01:37I heard you stole some scrap metal back then, but ended up digging up a power cable and got sentenced
01:41to 15 years?
01:42How can you be so unlucky and such a wimp? That's hilarious.
01:45I can never tell my child my real crime. She can never know she is the daughter of Boss Long
01:50or it will invite countless enemies.
01:52This humiliation. I have to swallow it.
01:58Going to prison is nothing to be proud of. You kids should focus on studying. Here, take it. Don't starve.
02:06Having a loser like you for a dad is the least proud thing in the world!
02:18You son of a bitch trying to steal my business? Didn't I tell you, if you dare sell food here
02:23again, I'll kill you!
02:26Nora, look! Your dad is getting beaten up!
02:36Fight back. Just fight back like a man once, and I'd actually respect you.
02:40I'm sorry. I'm leaving. I'm leaving right now.
02:43Did I not tell you for the second time?
02:55Boss, I'm not cheaper than you. We both sell meal sets for 15 bucks.
02:58So how is this stealing your business?
03:01The kids...
03:03The kids just want something good to eat.
03:07So you're saying my cafeteria food sucks?
03:09I'd love to see just how good your food is!
03:19You bastard! Do you have any idea how many dangerous people I know on the streets?
03:23Over a dozen parents reported me, and nobody could touch me, and now you want to take me down?
03:29Boss, if you don't like my cart being here, I'll move further away, okay?
03:35Coward! You're such a wimp!
03:45You think it's that easy to just walk away?
03:47Let's talk about compensation first.
03:49I heard you sell 300 meal sets a day.
03:51That means you're costing me 300 customers a day.
03:54My price is 15 bucks. That's 4,500 a day.
03:57You've been here for 10 days, so that's 45 grand total.
04:00Pay up! Now!
04:04Boss, if you're pushing me around, don't be like this!
04:06He cost me money, and now he refuses to pay up. What should we do about it?
04:14Whoa, more meat than sauce. Doing business like this, aren't you of karma coming back to bite you?
04:20He rips people off, but gets mad when others try to sell.
04:23But this vendor is such a wimp. If someone did this to me, I'd have fought back ages ago.
04:29People who are weak just get pushed around.
04:33So now when people beat you, you just won't fight back? Is that it?
04:37You brat! What the hell is this to you?
04:40Say one more word, and I'll make sure you get expelled!
04:43No, boss. I give up, okay? I'm leaving right now.
04:46I can't pay the full amount. How about you tell me your profit margin?
04:49And I'll compensate you for the profit.
04:50You think I'm an idiot? Tell you my profits? So you can run me out of town?
04:58How long are you going to keep humiliating yourself? Just fight back!
05:03Go on! Drag that uneducated little wild girl over here!
05:17Kisti Gerba. Isn't that the tattoo Boss Long has?
05:22This better not be a temporary tattoo sticker.
05:25You a street vendor selling box lunches? You dare to get the same tattoo as Boss Long?!
05:30Boss could actually be Boss Long. I heard he just got out of prison recently.
05:34The chairman's seat at the Aegis Group has been kept vacant for Boss Long all this time.
05:40Do you really think a guy like that would give up being the chairman just to come here and sell
05:44box lunches?
05:47Besides...
05:49Besides...
05:50You really have the guts to ink that!
05:52Back in the day, Boss Long fought a thousand men alone with just a blade!
05:56And you? You're nothing but a death-seeking piece of trash!
06:04I'm sending your pic to my friends at the Aegis Group.
06:07They'll be here any minute, and then there's absolutely no way you're flying out of this one.
06:11What on earth did you get tattooed?
06:14Nora, go home first.
06:16You steal scrap metal, why would you get a Kashita Garba tattoo?!
06:20Don't you know that tons of people have pretended to be Boss Long to scam others over the years?!
06:25And they all got care of by the Aegis Group?!
06:27Run! Just run!
06:29Is she... worried about me?
06:32Even though she despises me for being a wimp father, she'd still want anything to happen to me.
06:36How can I ever repay this guilt?
06:38Don't even think about running!
06:39I just wanted to teach you a lesson, but it looks like you have a death wish!
06:43You!
06:47Yo, bro!
06:48Ha ha ha!
06:49Yeah, this slob right here, I'm the one who beat him up.
06:51You coming over?
06:52Wait a minute, what did you say?
06:55The Aegis Group Board of Directors is coming.
07:00You know those guys?
07:01How could I possibly know them?!
07:03Those are absolute big shots!
07:05But they just called, and they said they're on their way!
07:09They're mobilizing the whole crew just because someone impersonated their boss?
07:13Loyalty!
07:14I think it's because the reputation of Boss Long can't tolerate just any random stray dog barking at it.
07:20You son of a bitch, you're about to find out exactly how miserable your end is gonna be.
07:28Just go!
07:29You've already wasted 15 years of her life, and you still wanna leave her all alone?
07:33Go!
07:34It's all my fault.
07:36I'm a bastard for letting them suffer for 15 years.
07:40Please don't call anyone, okay?
07:42He's just a scrap metal thief.
07:44He doesn't even know who Boss Long is.
07:47He was stupid 15 years ago, cut a power cable, and went to drail.
07:52He went in, he'd even heard the story of that big shot!
07:56It's not intentional imitation, it's just a coincidence!
08:01A scrap metal thief?
08:03I'm literally dying!
08:04Went to jail for stealing scrap metal?!
08:06Is there anything more pathetic than that?!
08:14You think you can just walk away?
08:16It's not that easy.
08:18The Aegis Group has already put the word out.
08:21Anyone who dares to get the Kistigabra tattoo is openly declaring war on them.
08:26I told you, he got it over a decade ago!
08:31I don't care if this son of a bitch is innocent or not.
08:34If you die today, remember not to steal someone else's business in your next life.
08:41Aren't you guys gonna help?!
08:43Are we even that close?
08:45We're best friends!
08:46If you really considered us sisters, you'd keep us out of this.
08:50Getting yourself in this deep and trying to sink us with you?
08:53You?
08:53You're not one of us!
08:55Yeah.
08:56You want us to die with you and you still have the nerve to call us best friends?
09:00Messing around is one thing, but who's actually gonna die for you?!
09:03I can't fight the Aegis Group!
09:05I'm not asking you to fight the Aegis Group!
09:08I'm just begging you to help us get away, okay?!
09:14Fifteen years in prison.
09:16How much did she have to suffer to be this desperate seeking warmth in a fake sisterhood like this?
09:25Little bitch, can't you just keep your mouth shut?!
09:29What?!
09:30You dare to fight back?!
09:33I don't fight anymore.
09:35Then let go!
09:36You can beat me all you want, I don't care.
09:39But if you touch my daughter, I will kill you.
09:44A stinking dinner vendor dares to threaten me?
09:47Fine.
09:48You don't want me to hit this L bitch?
09:49I'll do it just to spike you!
10:00I'll cripple you!
10:02Right!
10:02Now!
10:03I'll break your arms and legs!
10:04And then hand you over to the Aegis Group!
10:09Ran!
10:12Do you really admire Boss Long that much?
10:14Huh?
10:15Then I'll show you how it's done.
10:21Are you telling me a whole crew can't take down a dinner vendor?!
10:26Get him!
10:27The Aegis Group will be here any second!
10:30Let's go!
10:30If we run, they'll keep coming after us.
10:33It's better to settle this once and for all.
10:36Quit acting!
10:37You should be worrying about yourself!
10:39I'm not acting.
10:44You think you're tough?
10:46I'm telling you!
10:47You're finished!
10:48The Aegis Group is here!
10:50Today is the last day of your life!
10:56Mom raised me all alone, waiting for you for 15 years.
11:00She always told me not to hate you, saying you were actually a reliable man.
11:04But how are you reliable when you've gotten yourself into such a massive mess?!
11:08I'm sorry.
11:13Bosses!
11:13Right here!
11:14It's this son of a bitch who's been impersoning Boss Long!
11:17When I heard about it, I thought, how dare he?!
11:19So I want to teach him a lesson on behalf of the Aegis Group!
11:22Who knew he doesn't even respect the Aegis Group and even tried to run away?!
11:26It really is the Aegis Group!
11:28This guy is dead meat!
11:30You never see these bigjods on a normal day, and today they're all gathered in one place!
11:34I just risked my life beating him up to vent anger for the Aegis Group!
11:39Just look at him!
11:40That's all my handiwork!
11:42Bosses, please listen to me!
11:44This is my dad!
11:45He went to prison many years ago, and he got this tattoo many years ago, too!
11:49After he came back, I hated him because his being in prison had left Mom waiting for him for so
11:54many years!
11:55So I didn't want to get close to him!
11:58That's why this is the first time I've seen his tattoo!
12:01If I had known about it earlier, I would have warned him properly!
12:06He has no intention of provoking the Aegis Group, and he has no intention of imperson Long Boss!
12:14Please! I beg you, let him go!
12:16I'm begging you on my knees!
12:17But I'm confused! Do you think you're somebody? How much are your knees even worth?
12:30Boss Long! Young Lady!
12:37Bosses, did you make a mistake? He's just a dinner vendor!
12:44Today is the last day of your life!
12:46It's a Minder standing! It's all a Minder standing!
12:52I am Boss Long's daughter.
12:55Nora, I'm sorry for hiding it from you for so long.
12:58Is it true, the legend from 15 years ago, that you fought a thousand men alone with just a single
13:04blade and the river ran red with blood?
13:07How can one man possibly stand against a thousand?
13:10It's true.
13:12But let me deal with this piece of shit first, then I'll tell you.
13:15Help! Somebody help me!
13:24Them too. Bring them over.
13:29Boss, I swear I wasn't trying to mock you.
13:31I was just messing around.
13:32Nora, come on, say something. Back me up here.
13:35We're tight, aren't we?
13:36Since when?
13:37Just now I was begging you to do me one tiny favor, and you ripped into me without a second
13:42thought.
13:42Now all of a sudden we're tight?
13:44I see right through you!
13:46All of you!
13:47Boss Long, what do you want done with these scumbags?
13:50Boss Long! No!
13:52President Long!
13:53Chairman Long!
13:53I had no clue who you were!
13:55If I'd known, you could have handed me a hundred lives and I still wouldn't have come at you!
14:00Our dinners were the same price.
14:02If they bought from you, all they had to do was sit in the cafeteria and take their time eating.
14:08But if they bought from me, they had to walk all the way off campus and squat on the curb
14:12just to eat.
14:14So tell me, why did they still pick me?
14:17Because I'm a greedy, rotten, piece of trash!
14:20I was wrong! I swear, I know I was wrong!
14:23You don't know a damn thing.
14:25You just figured out you messed with the wrong guy.
14:28You're only running your mouth about being sorry so you can squirm your way out of this.
14:31Boss Long sells 300 meals a day, no sweat.
14:34So how about it? Did you trash all this or did you pay for it?
14:38I paid for it! When I saw how hard Boss Long was grinding, I bought it all on purpose!
14:43So, do I owe you anything for it?
14:45Of course not! Please, you're a big man. Let it slide, just this once.
14:50Oh, well, since you bought it...
14:53Eat up.
14:54Eat? What's the matter? Boss Long's cooking ain't good enough for you?
14:57I'll eat it! I'll eat it!
15:02How's it taste?
15:03Amazing. Way better than anything I ever made.
15:06Then go on. Finish every last bite.
15:09Huh? 300 meals worth of food? How the hell am I supposed to finish all that?
15:15If you can't finish it, let us help you out.
15:18You're not gonna help him eat?
15:22Eat up.
15:24A full belly for the road ahead.
15:26Sir, what road? What do you mean, the road ahead?
15:29We own mines over Sears.
15:32But that place, between the fighting and the malaria, a whole lot of people don't come back.
15:37If you're lucky, you'll lose an arm or a leg, but you can come back after 10 years of labor.
15:41If luck isn't on your side, at the very least, we'll send your ashes home.
15:45Please, isn't there any way I don't have to go?
15:48You don't have to.
15:49But the Agus group will make you beg to go.
15:54Boss Long!
15:55I was wrong!
15:56I swear I was wrong, please!
15:58Don't let them send me overseas!
16:00I've heard about the group's mines abroad.
16:03The laborers there either get half their bodies blown apart by bombs,
16:07or have their hands and feet hacked off by local millifants.
16:11They said they'd only hire local workers there.
16:14How could you send me instead?
16:15I'm human, too!
16:18I only messed up once!
16:19This punishment's way too cruel, isn't it?
16:22I hear the principal is your cousin.
16:25Word is, people have reported you more than once.
16:27And every time, nothing stuck.
16:30And those people were just standing up for what's right.
16:32And because they reported you, their own kids got kicked out of school.
16:36That ring a bell?
16:38That's on them for having kids with bad grades.
16:41They couldn't get into public school and still thought they could make a fuss.
16:46Oh, so in your book, the strong get to walk all over the weak.
16:50So tell me, does that mean I get to walk all over you?
16:54Boss Long, I...
16:56Kids are still growing.
16:57I get that you run a business to make profits,
17:00but at the very least show some decency towards the children.
17:02You want me to treat you well, yet have you ever cared about these kids?
17:06No one would skip school and eat dinner on the side of the road if they weren't left with no
17:10other option.
17:11I was wrong. I...
17:17Boss, we'll never make fun of you again, we swear.
17:23I was never going to do anything to you.
17:24Kid, focus on your studies.
17:26Strutting around school, acting hard, and you think you're hot shit,
17:29but once you're out in the real world, those habits will runk you.
17:31Don't worship crap like this.
17:35Next time you come by to hang out with my daughter, dye your hair back first, alright?
17:45Why is everyone so scared of us? Makes Eggis look like some kind of gang.
17:49No clue, boss. Maybe because we're just way too damn rich.
17:54Oh.
18:03What a shame.
18:05I fixed dinner for you at first, and even carefully arranged the food into a heart shape.
18:09We thought we were done for.
18:11You should have told me right away that you were boss long.
18:14You were scared.
18:15So why did you still step in front of me?
18:17No matter how much I've hated you for being gone all those fifteen years,
18:20you're still my dad.
18:22You're still the man my mom waited for, day and night.
18:29Sorry for failing you.
18:31I'm never leaving you again.
18:40That thing about you fighting a thousand men alone back then? What really happened?
18:46It's not exactly a glorious story.
18:48Fifteen years ago, my brothers and I founded the Aegis Group.
18:51We just wanted to run an honest business.
18:54But the local gangs kept using violence to muscle in.
18:57The guys were ready to throw down.
18:59But I told them, you all have families.
19:02Fighting them will only destroy your lives.
19:05It's better to just go straight for the head of the snake.
19:08I know. I've heard the stories.
19:11You guys got pushed around, beaten down.
19:14And in the end, you drew life or death lots to fight back.
19:17And you, you drew the short one.
19:19Yeah, that was the lot.
19:21I was scared that if I died, my soul wouldn't find peace.
19:24So I tattooed Shisti Garba on my body.
19:26Just begging for the Buddha's mercy.
19:29Hoping I could at least come back as a human in the next life.
19:33Back then, I strapped layers of metal sheets to my body.
19:37Couldn't move for shit like that.
19:39So I chose to bury myself beneath the sand pit at my enemy's sight.
19:43When he showed up, he was standing right over.
19:45I drove a blade straight into his hatch.
19:48After that, it was just me, one man alone, taking on the entire yard.
20:06One.
20:08One.
20:40He's got iron blades strapped to his body!
20:43I don't remember how many times I got hit.
20:45Just grateful I wrapped myself in all that metal.
20:48Blades can't cut through!
20:49Get the bulldozer! Run him over!
20:52Get the bulldozer!
20:53Get the bulldozer!
21:07Get the bulldozer!
21:12Get the bulldozer!
21:15Get the bulldozer!
21:17The cops arrived.
21:20I survived.
21:22The price was 20 years in prison.
21:29To become a father worth a damn,
21:32I threw myself into rehabilitation.
21:34Got out five years early.
21:36Just so I wouldn't miss the day you grew up.
21:39Why did mom never tell me any of this all those years?
21:43They were a criminal outfitch.
21:45You think we could talk about it?
21:46We were terrified they'd come after us.
21:48For years, I couldn't even let the brothers send money to your mother.
21:51Couldn't let anyone know who you were.
21:53Then you're back now. Why didn't you tell me?
21:55You know why?
21:57After 15 years, everyone still insists on calling me chairman.
22:00Back then, every one of us had a family to look after.
22:04It wasn't until he went to prison that we found out he rigged the lot.
22:08He was the one who proposed drawing straws.
22:11But from the very start, he'd already made up his mind to throw everything away for us.
22:15I didn't know you existed back then.
22:19I even wrote your mother a letter, told her to find another man.
22:22If I'd known she was pregnant with you, I never would have played the hero.
22:26That year, I chose to abandon your mother.
22:28And that's exactly why I didn't have the face to tell you.
22:33All right, all of you, go on.
22:35Stop following me around.
22:36People are going to think I'm some kind of gangster.
22:39Young lady, the only reason Boss Long won't come back to Aegis is because he values loyalty above everything.
22:45He says the friendship of a gentleman is as plain as water, that he don't want any money in return.
22:51Fifteen years ago, we were weak.
22:53We let others walk all over us, and all we could do was let him shield us.
22:57Things are different now.
22:58It's our turn to repay that debt.
23:00Please, talk some sense into him.
23:02Get him to come back to Aegis.
23:04All of you, just go.
23:06I didn't do it back then, expecting anything in return.
23:09In the future, just swing by my stall and buy a meal.
23:13That'll be enough to honor our brotherhood.
23:16But I want to be a rich kid!
23:19I learned something in prison.
23:21A man should keep his feet on the ground and build his fortune with the sweat of his own two
23:25hands.
23:26Oh, really?
23:28So fifteen years ago, when you fought back with a blade, you weren't using your hands, you were using your
23:32feet?
23:34You're playing word games.
23:35I want to be a rich kid!
23:38You made me and Mom suffer for fifteen years!
23:41Now people are lining up to repay you, and what?
23:43You won't even let me be a rich kid?
23:45You won't let Mom be a rich wife?
23:48This is a matter of a man's pride.
23:50Helping your brothers out?
23:52How can you take money as a reward for that?
23:55I don't care if you're boss long or not!
23:57If you keep saying no, I will hate you forever for letting your pride ruin me and Mom for the
24:05rest of our lives!
24:15If you truly want to repay me,
24:18could you buy the school cafeteria and give it to me?
24:24Boss Long, one school cafeteria is nowhere near enough.
24:27How about this?
24:28Agus Group has twenty thousand employees and twenty-five cafeteries.
24:31Why don't we contract them all out to you?
24:33We'll sign the papers, you take them over and run them first, and pay the group rent next year.
24:37How does that work?
24:38Isn't that just taking them for free?
24:42Boss Long, we're brothers.
24:44Who's keeping score?
24:56So you've really made up your mind?
24:59The chairman's seat at Agus Group, people would kill each other just to get a shot at it.
25:03And you're really just going to hand it over?
25:05A cushy shareholder pulling in a couple million a month doing nothing, and I'd trade that to sit in that
25:10seat and grind myself down?
25:12I'm not stupid.
25:18Pride, status, those are all just empty things.
25:21The fact that you're standing here safe and sound and that our whole family can share a meal together every
25:26single day means everything.
25:29Darling, you're right. Taking care of our own little family is what matters most.
25:34As for a man's ego, I can without it.
25:36It's so shiny.
25:38This is a work of art.
25:40Dad, from now on, this car stays right here in the courtyard as my personal sculpture.
25:45Nobody's allowed to touch it.
25:48Once you get into college, I'll get you a real Ferrari, one you can actually take out on the road.
25:53But first, you've got to pull up those failing grades of yours.
25:56You got a deal? This young lady is going to go do some practice problems right now.
26:01One day, the Agus Group family business is going to need me, a future master of food and beverage management,
26:06to run the whole thing!
26:10She used to be so wild, running around with those street punks every day.
26:14This past month, she's done a complete 180.
26:17Even asked to buy books on food and beverage management to read.
26:20She's finally on the right track. Let's go inside.
26:23Tonight, I'm taking over the kitchen.
26:28I hate the name Boss Long.
26:29I used to think it was so cool, some guy with a crew of minions at his beck and call.
26:33Then I found out the truth.
26:35Turns out it just means my dad was a total moron.
26:39A giant moron who went to prison just to play hero for other people.
26:42Dad says I'm stupid for not getting my act together.
26:45But honestly, I think people from his generation are the real idiots.
26:48How does anyone end up dumb enough to go to jail for someone else?
26:51And someone that's stupid actually has the nerve to lecture me about how to be a decent person?
26:58But now he's crazy rich.
27:00I mean, he turned down the chairman seat, but he's still loaded.
27:04Making a few million a month, and he doesn't even have to carry the weight of running Aglis Group.
27:09And now, he's got all the time in the world for us.
27:12I really love him now.
27:14He even said he'd get me a Ferrari when I turned 18.
27:16I love him so much.
27:18That's good.
27:19So stop calling him a moron.
27:21He'd be heartbroken if he heard you.
27:25I lost 15 years of having a father.
27:29Good things got more than enough money to make it up to us.
27:33I'm going to hit the books hard and lock this family fortune down tight.
27:38Well, I hope you pull it off.
27:40There's one more thing that drives me crazy.
27:43My dad is so dumb.
27:45Every time some down-on-his-loke buddy or relative shows up at the door,
27:49he lends them a couple hundred grand,
27:50and not a single one of them ever pays him back.
27:54He's too stupid.
27:55He says you can't ask a brother for the money back,
27:58or you lose your honor.
27:59This whole code of honor thing he's got going, it's not a good thing.
28:03One of these days, he's going to drain the whole family fortune over it.
28:06Then you really need to talk some sense into him.
28:08You didn't fight this hard just to lose the life you finally have.
28:11Yeah.
28:12Anyway, I gotta go.
28:13I've got homework to do.
28:18Nora, you still up?
28:19I warmed up some milk for you.
28:24Dad.
28:25Don't push yourself too hard.
28:27You can't expect your grades to catch up right away.
28:30Just take it one step at a time.
28:32I'm not going to put any pressure on you.
28:34No way.
28:35I need to get into college.
28:36You promised me a Ferrari when I turn 18.
28:39If I don't get in, are you going to weasel out of it?
28:41When have I ever lied to you?
28:43As long as you study hard, forget the Ferrari.
28:46This whole family fortune is yours one day.
28:48Dad.
28:49On my way back today, I think I saw that Uncle Jesse guy hanging around our neighborhood gate
28:53again.
28:54Was he here to borrow more money from you?
28:56He won't be coming around anymore.
28:58Why?
28:59You didn't give it to him?
29:00I thought honor and brotherhood meant everything to you?
29:03Because my daughter thinks I'm a moron.
29:07Dad.
29:08You heard all that?
29:10I didn't mean to eavesdrop on your chat.
29:12I just want you to know, the old boss Long who fought for others is dead and gone.
29:16The man sitting here now is just a father who's desperate to make up for lost time with
29:21his daughter.
29:22Dad, you're not a moron.
29:23You are the smartest dad in the whole world.
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