Chapter 41 Do you think this is romantic? …
The summer vacation is a period of peak movie releases, and as it happens to be a weekend, there is not a single empty seat in the cinema hall, and even the air is filled with the sweet smell of popcorn.
Yue Qianling came out of the elevator and was a little confused when she saw this scene.
She glanced at Gu Xun beside her and saw him walking towards the counter without changing his expression. She couldn't help but twitch the corners of her mouth.
Is this what he meant by there being empty spaces in front, behind, left and right?
He talks so much that he doesn't even need to write a draft.
There was a long line of people buying drinks and popcorn. After Gu Xun got his ticket, he glanced over there and asked Yue Qianling sideways, "What do you want to drink?"
Yue Qianling didn't say anything. She crossed her arms, pursed her lips, gave him a cold look, and then looked around.
The children were running around happily, the adults were chatting animatedly while holding cold drinks, and some girls were taking selfies with their phones. It was a lively scene.
Perhaps he was infected by this atmosphere. Yue Qianling is also a Chinese with excellent traditional culture - since he is here anyway.
So she put down her hands, put them behind her back, and raised her chin towards Gu Xun.
"I want a Coke."
"Okay, wait for me."
After saying that, Gu Xun turned and walked towards the counter, with an unconscious smile on his face.
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Gu Xun said that there were still about ten minutes before the movie started, and Yue Qianling looked at the huge advertisement posted in the hall and suddenly remembered that she had not asked Gu Xun which show he bought.
She walked to the neatly arranged roll-up banners and fixed her eyes directly on the action film in the middle.
This is a very popular series of gun battle movies. Yue Qianling and Yin Xue have watched the first two parts and liked them very much. They had originally planned to watch the third part together.
But she has been too busy recently and has forgotten about it.
As a boy, Gu Xun must have come here for this movie.
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Ten minutes later, the two sat in the cinema. The big screen started playing advertisements. Yue Qianling took out his cell phone and sent a message to Yin Xue.
[Glutinous Rice Mahua]: Generally speaking, movies in a series will have a bad ending after the third film, so I’ll try it out first.
[Yin Xue]:?
[Yin Xue]: You didn’t wait for me. Is there a dog outside?
[Yin Xue]: Is this the boy who delivered medicine to you last time?
[Yin Xue]: If it is him, I will temporarily agree to this marriage.
Yue Qianling glanced at Gu Xun out of the corner of her eye, did not reply, and calmly put away the phone.
After a while, the advertisement ended and the main film began.
The moment the exquisitely made-up figure appeared, Yue Qianling narrowed her eyes in confusion.
——There’s something wrong with this fresh and simple painting style.
She subconsciously turned her head to look at Gu Xun, and seeing that he looked normal, she didn't say anything.
After a seemingly plausible plot, the title of the film finally appeared on the big screen - "How Much I Like You"
Yue Qianling: “?”
Isn't this a gunfight movie?
She couldn't even chew popcorn and looked at Gu Xun in confusion.
But he still just drank his Coke and stared at the screen, without a trace of surprise in his eyes.
I didn't expect that he actually likes to watch this kind of movie.
Okay.
Yue Qianling could only continue watching with the mentality of “I’m here anyway”.
But this movie is too boring.
The performance lasted nearly half an hour, but there was not much of a story. It only explained in fragments how good the relationship between the male and female protagonists, who were childhood sweethearts, was from childhood to adulthood.
Yue Qianling resisted the urge to yawn and took out her phone to look at the plot summary.
“This film tells the story of the pure and innocent love between childhood sweethearts who grew up together.”
“…”
What the fuck is this.
"you--"
Yue Qianling couldn't help it and poked Gu Xun's shoulder, "Do you like watching this kind of movie?"
Under the dim lights of the cinema, Gu Xun turned his head, his outline hidden in the shadows, not very clear, but his burning gaze fell directly on Yue Qianling's face.
He was about to say something, but when he saw Yue Qianling's eyes, he paused and changed the subject.
"yes."
“…”
Seeing that Yue Qianling didn't say anything, Gu Xun slowly withdrew his gaze and looked at the big screen again.
The corners of his mouth curled up unconsciously, and he said lightly, "You can't remember the first time we watched a movie with all the gunfights. At least keep some romantic memories."
Although the movie music was very loud at that time, Yue Qianling still heard Gu Xun's words clearly.
She took a sip of Coke and said nothing.
Nearly another half an hour passed, and Yue Qianling's eyelids began to droop. He had to rest his elbows on the armrests to support his head to prevent himself from falling asleep.
However, her movement was a little too big and she bumped into Gu Xun.
He turned around and asked, "Are you sleepy?"
Yue Qianling looked at him with half-closed eyes, with three words clearly written on her face.
What do you think?
Gu Xun was about to open his mouth to say something when a line of dialogue suddenly came from the surround sound system.
"I like you, I've always liked you, you know?"
Both of them stared at each other for a moment, and after two seconds, they slowly turned their heads to look at the screen at the same time.
The heroine was wearing a white dress, holding a bunch of lavender, standing in front of the hero, looking at him with starry eyes.
"When I was twelve years old and you took me to the lavender fields on your bicycle, I knew I fell in love with you."
The male protagonist was stunned for a long while, as if he had heard something out of the ordinary.
"I, I've always treated you as my sister and never had that kind of intention towards you."
It was as if a nerve in Yue Qianling's brain was pricked, and his body stiffened, his eyes no longer moving.
Gu Xun, who was standing by and holding a Coke, also stopped in mid-air.
After a long while, until the heroine left crying sadly, Gu Xun turned his head.
The movements are slightly stiff.
"Aren't you sleepy? How about we go back early?"
Yue Qianling blinked, and after a moment, slowly sat up straight.
She straightened her clothes, put her hands on her knees, and looked at the screen intermittently.
"Don't you like this movie?"
“…”
In the next ten minutes, the pace of the movie suddenly became very fast.
The director uses montage techniques to show the protagonist's life in the six months since the heroine left sadly, from partying every night at the beginning to drinking to drown his sorrows later.
Then, on a moonlit night, the male protagonist wandered around the beach for an hour, smoked two packs of cigarettes, and then repented.
——Ah, it turns out I can’t live without her.
——Ah, it turns out that I love her very much.
When the male protagonist said this line affectionately, the cinema burst into laughter.
Even the audience was amused by the plot.
But Yue Qianling's eyes were fixed, and he suddenly crushed a piece of popcorn with his fingers.
When Gu Xun turned his head to look over, he happened to see this scene.
He saw the flattened popcorn and slowly raised his eyes. The moment his eyes met Yue Qianling's, his gaze froze.
The picture on the screen was still on the seaside late at night, making the already dim environment in the theater almost pitch dark.
When Yue Qianling felt that Gu Xun was looking at her, her eyebrows twitched, then she turned her face away, raised her chin and looked at the screen, pretending nothing had happened.
After a while.
Gu Xun: "How about we go see something else?"
“No need.”
Yue Qianling took a sip of Coke and said, "Isn't this plot quite interesting?"
“…”
The scene changed and the heroine came back.
She shed her youthfulness and appeared in front of the male protagonist wearing sexy and mature clothes.
For the next half hour, the movie sticks to one theme.
Watching the heroine constantly changing boyfriends, the hero felt heartbroken every night.
Although the plot is a bit melodramatic, it is obvious that there are fewer people looking at their phones in the theater.
Yue Qianling didn't eat much popcorn and just stared at the screen intently.
I didn't notice that the person next to me was feeling a little uncomfortable.
After finally making it to the end, Gu Xun looked at the time and saw that there were still twenty minutes left in the movie.
The heroine is still flirting with the second male lead, completely ignoring the hero.
The hero went to the heroine's house with a bunch of lavender.
When the heroine refused to see him, he shouted downstairs: "I was wrong! I know I was wrong! I thought I treated you as my sister, but I didn't! I have always liked you!"
The heroine hid behind the curtains, crying like rain.
The plot reached its climax at this point, and the theater was even quieter than before.
At this time, a female audience member in the front row was probably mesmerized by the scene and couldn't help but say, "Men are just cheap. BE. I think it's better not to have this man."
“…”
Gu Xun's right eyelid twitched, and he turned to look at Yue Qianling calmly.
She stared at the screen intently, with no particular expression.
Gu Xun suddenly felt very irritated.
What a crap movie this is.
The sad BGM sounded, but the theater was inexplicably filled with a joyful atmosphere.
Gu Xun didn’t understand why so many audience members were laughing when the plot was so tragic.
After staring at Yue Qianling for a while, Gu Xun frowned, looked at the big screen again, stretched his legs and leaned back on the chair.
All right.
He wanted to see how the male protagonist ended up.
Five minutes later, the scene shifts to night.
The second male lead took the female lead on a date, and it started to rain heavily, so the two went into a small pavilion on the side of the road to shelter from the rain.
At this time, the second male lead took out the ring, knelt on one knee and proposed to the female lead, who was shocked.
The male protagonist appears at this time.
He ran out into the rain, yelling "No!"
When the heroine saw him, she raised her hand and prepared to accept the proposal of the second male lead.
At this moment, the male protagonist fell to his knees with a plop.
“…”
“…”
Yue Qianling was stunned.
However, Gu Xun felt his scalp tingling and his temples throbbing.
Then, before the audience could react, a huge truck rushed towards the hero.
As the heroine screamed, the screen suddenly went black.
Yue Qianling couldn't hold it back and burst out laughing.
Gu Xun suddenly straightened up, half opened his mouth, looked at the screen in disbelief, and blurted out "Oh fuck!"
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The ending of the movie is just as the audience expected.
After a black screen, the male protagonist, who was wrapped like a mummy, slowly woke up in the hospital, and the female protagonist was crying like a tearful person beside him.
After the two of them expressed their true feelings to each other, the male protagonist struggled to raise his hand and touched the female protagonist's hair.
The scene changes again and it is already half a year later.
The heroine pushed the hero's wheelchair and took a happy walk in the morning light.
Then, the ending theme started playing.
The moment the wheelchair appeared, Yue Qianling couldn't help laughing out loud.
Perhaps the ending was too shocking, Yue Qianling almost forgot what happened before and laughed so hard that her stomach hurt.
She rubbed her belly and wiped her eyes twice.
"Hello."
She nudged Gu Xun with her elbow, "Do you think this is romantic?"
“…”
Gu Xun looked at her inexplicably, frowned, and suddenly took her hand and stood up.
"I'm going home."
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Gu Xun didn't say much along the way.
He kept wondering why he had to choose such a crappy movie just for the sake of having a festive name.
Why don’t you listen to Xiaomai and go watch a gun battle movie?
Could Yue Qianling be the woman immersed in a romance movie?
She is not.
She is a woman who likes to carry a sniper rifle and chase people across three streets.
It was not until he walked out of the mall and saw people standing under the eaves that he realized it had started raining heavily without him noticing.
It's always like this in midsummer, so it's not surprising.
The two of them had walked here for convenience, and if they wanted to take a taxi back now, they would probably have to wait for a long time.
The rain was so heavy that it splashed everywhere on the ground. Yue Qianling felt some water on her shoes and subconsciously squeezed it in.
When her shoulder touched Gu Xun's arm, Gu Xun suddenly stepped forward and blocked Yue Qianling behind him.
The strong wind and rain kept blowing towards Gu Xun's back.
He lowered his head and looked at Yue Qianling, his eyes flickering suddenly.
"Qian Ling."
Suddenly, he spoke in a deep voice, his tone revealing a sense of frustration that he himself was not aware of.
“It’s raining really hard.”
——Why don’t we watch another movie before going home.
But before he could utter this sentence, he heard Yue Qianling say.
"Yeah, it's about the same size as when the hero was knocked away."
“…”
Although he was not directly exposed to the rain, he felt like a drowned rat.
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