xu zishui has bearly three weeks to deliver the distillery project. his trials into robotics have been financilly crippling and if his present project goes wrong, it could mean the end of the business. in beijing, tiesen continues to meet with potential investors. the $300,000 he received from an angel investor a year ago is almost gone. without another source of funding, they'll struggle to keep going. tiesen makes one final stop, beijing's start—up street in zhongguancun, where all dot companies aspire to be. for tiesen, that dream seems out of reach. spirits are low, the only person tiesen can turn to is his girlfriend and colleague, ying menghua. always in search of ideas and inspiration, xu jishui and a colleague go shanghai to attend an international robotics exhibition. tiesen is also in shanghai. he's come to give his angel investor, mrwan, an update on his company. but mrwan is becoming impatient. mrwan is unimpressed. tiesen comes under renewed pressure to deliver. xu has returned to wuhan and is visiting his father, a retired mechanical e