The Christmas atmosphere in City S is weak, perhaps because the weather is too warm, without snow and cold wind, even if the bells are hung on the trees, there is no festive atmosphere.

It was windy at night, the Mercedes closed the convertible, and moved slowly in the long queue of traffic.

Fortunately, the movie started at eight o'clock in the evening, so they still had a long time.

Just as Lin Shu had expected, "Bitter Life", as a niche documentary film, is destined to have very few film schedules, with only two shows in the morning and evening every day.

But the difference is that despite the small number of films, the box office and word-of-mouth of "Bitter Life" are good, and almost all the shows are sold out.

The Internet also commented that this movie is a tearjerker.

At the end of the movie, the theater was full of sobbing, and the audience who came out all had red eyes, crying eyeliner with makeup, and red noses without makeup.

Most of the theaters sold out early, only the most expensive theater in the city center had more.

A movie ticket with more than four digits, Lin Shu didn't care, and paid without blinking an eye, but Mi Cheng was embarrassed, and he was only willing to treat Lin Shu to dinner.

When young people eat, they always take pictures first, and post the exquisite plate as a souvenir, and then share it on social platforms.

The dishes are all served, several local dishes and round pig dim sum.

Mi Cheng took a good photo, one by one photo of light adjustment, in a good mood, humming a song and said: "Mr. Lin, how many more group photos shall we take?"

Lin Shu smiled lightly and nodded, Mi Cheng turned around and took several photos with the front camera.

Click——

The mobile phone made a false shutter sound, which almost captured Lin Shu's thoughts and locked him in his memories.

Fortunately, Mi Cheng finished taking pictures soon, and said with a smile: "Mr. Lin, I have already sent you the photos. You and I will send out the tickets together. There are too few things in your tickets."

The last time Lin Shu posted on Moments was when he was in Ko Samui Island, it was all photos taken by Qin Ximo.

"Okay, don't call me Mr. Lin, just call me by my name, or brother, whatever." Lin Shu saved the photo and sent it directly to Moments without looking at it carefully.

As soon as the photo was sent out, several people came to comment immediately.

"Qin Ximo: What a cute little brother (cross out) pig buns! I want to eat them!"

"Bian Xinglan: yoooooo~ you're still wearing a suit~"

"Gao Jingge: Not bad."

"Tao Xiaotian: Brother Lin is so handsome [heart] [wink]"

Young people are really energetic.

Lin Shu couldn't help smiling, but the phone vibrated again, and there was an extra comment under the photo.

"Qin Yuchi: The dishes look delicious, and so do you."

What does "the food is delicious and so are you" mean?

He is delicious?

Qin Yuchi's brains twitched, and he went crazy talking nasty?

Lin Shu was about to frown, but the comment disappeared by itself, probably deleted by Qin Yuchi himself.

A few seconds later, the phone vibrated again, and Qin Yuchi's comment reappeared under the photo.

"Qin Yuchi: The dishes look delicious, and you are also handsome."

Fool.

Lin Shu scolded in his heart, but his fingertips froze on the screen for a long time, holding on to the comment.

"Brother, what's the matter with you?" Seeing him stunned, Mi Cheng waved his hand and asked.

Lin Shu pursed his lips, raised his head and smiled consolingly at Mi Cheng, but quietly pressed the screenshot with his right hand, saved the screenshot of Qin Yuchi's comment, and quickly deleted that comment.

Self-deception.

He clearly knew that as long as he blocked Qin Yuchi, he would no longer receive comments, but he went around such a big circle, taking screenshots and deleting comments separately, which was false and hypocritical.

Lin Shu felt extremely awkward, like an indecisive coward.

He was divided into two halves, with rationality and emotion at one end. The rational end was written with distance, while the other end was written with love and closeness. The two pulled each other and turned him into a hypocritical softie.

After turning off the black screen, Lin Shu turned the phone to silent, put it upside down on the table, "It's nothing, let's eat."

There are many meat dishes on the table, including fish and meat.

Lin Shu picked up a small piece of steamed fish, unskillfully smashed open the fish meat, saw that there were no fish bones, and put it in his mouth.

But the fish not only had big thorns on the fish bones, but also very inconspicuous small thorns. Lin Shu bit unpreparedly, and the thorns stuck in the flesh.

The pain is not serious.

Lin Shu apologized to Mi Cheng, took out a piece of paper, spit out the fish and wrapped it up.

"Have you been stuck by a fishbone?" Mi Cheng hurriedly handed over the water, muttering, "Be careful, if you like fish, you should also pay attention to the thorns, if it gets stuck in your throat, it will be dangerous."

He likes to eat fish?

Lin Shu froze for a moment, picked up the water glass, took a sip of water to moisten his throat.

He didn't like to eat fish before, not because he hated the smell of fish, but because he hated the little thorns in the fish.

Then when did he start to love to eat?

It probably started when Qin Yuchi helped him pick out all the thorns.

I don't know how the man's eyes grow, they are so sharp that he can pick out every thorn. He eats the fish as soon as he picks it up, and he has never been pricked by a thorn.

He also likes to see the man's hands when peeling the crab shells. The nails are short and neat, and the knuckles are well defined. Even if they are stained with oil and juice, they can't touch the cleanness.

The man brought the crab meat to his mouth, and after eating the crab meat, he even bit Qin Yuchi's fingertips viciously, teasing him deliberately with the tip of his tongue, until Qin Yuchi looked away angrily, and suddenly withdrew his hand.

In fact, Bian Xinglan was right, he needed to be taken care of, and Qin Yuchi would indeed take care of others, at least in terms of life and sex.

Lin Shu has long been used to seeing things and thinking about things, the bitterness in his eyes disappeared when the water glass was put down, without leaving a trace.

The two continued to eat dinner, but Lin Shu didn't touch the steamed fish again.

Fifteen minutes before the movie started, they left the restaurant and headed for the cinema on the top floor.

The theater was already full, and there were only two corner seats left in the third row. Lin Shu and Mi Cheng bent over and stepped over from the front row to take their seats.

The lights dimmed, the crisp piano sounded, and "The Fountain of Esterton Manor" began to play, and the screen changed from dark to bright.

Lin Shu tilted his head back, leaned on his seat, and listened carefully to the sound of the audience eating popcorn.

Click, click.

The chewing sound seems to beat the rhythm, and it is the soundtrack to this romantic classical piece.

Lin Shu raised the corners of his mouth slightly, waiting for the chewing sounds around him to gradually diminish and become less, and then turned into low-pitched sobbing and the sound of blowing his nose.

Lin Shu was not watching a movie, but moved his eyes quietly, looking around quietly, watching the reactions of other audience members.

On the screen, the protagonist left the countryside and went to work in the city, but was kicked out of a rental house of a few square meters by the contractor who owed wages.

He was taken in by his fellow villagers again, tricked into joining a pyramid scheme, escaped home at night, walked hundreds of kilometers on foot, and finally died in the heavy snow.

The plot of the movie is very simple, it can be said to be ordinary, but Qin Yuchi's interpretation is extremely layered.

Just like Lin Shu's imagination, the clicking sound only lasted halfway. After the protagonist was kicked out of the house, the surroundings began to be silent, and sobs gradually appeared.

When the last long shot of Qin Yuchi and the pure but desperate eyes appeared, Mi Cheng suddenly blew his nose, the sound was so loud that people around him turned their heads to look.

The camera zoomed out, the snow rustled, the picture darkened, and the piano sounded again.

Different from the original version that Lin Shu watched, a small line of words appeared at the end of the release—"This film is adapted from real events"

When seeing this line of writing, Mi Cheng couldn't bear it anymore, and wept softly with the others.

Seeing Lin Shu's expressionless face, Mi Cheng cried and asked, "Whoa, Brother Shu, don't you like this kind of movie?"

Lin Shu really didn't like "Bitter Life". Not only did he not like it, but he also got angry after watching it, thinking that the protagonist is stupid.

Obviously he can make other choices to avoid the next misfortune and death, but the protagonist always makes wrong choices, as if deliberately annoying, which makes him aggrieved.

But Lin Shu understood now.

People will always make wrong choices, and no one will always go the right way.

Even if he stood at a high point that others could not reach, he would make wrong choices, and then fall heavily and fall into the abyss.

Lin Shu smiled, and Chao Mi Cheng replied, "I like it, I just cry a lot."

In fact he couldn't cry.

He has watched "Bitter Life" several times. From the aggrievedness of the previous life, to the touch of this life, to habit and numbness, the movie can no longer move him, but the audience's reaction will make him more excited.

He was relieved by those reactions.

Because every sob is a reminder that he did something wrong in his last life.

But at the same time, he was also reminded that he did the right thing in this life and made the most correct choice.

The smile on his face gradually grew stronger. This was the most sincere smile Lin Shu had ever seen since his rebirth. It came from the heart without any pretense.

Lin Shu raised his arms, stretched his waist and stretched his muscles and bones, and wanted to wait for Mi Cheng to finish crying and calm down before sending him home.

The lights in the theater were turned on one by one, illuminating the crying faces of the audience.

"Let us give warm applause to welcome Mr. Qin Yuchi, the lead actor of "Bitter Life", and Mr. Sun Yin, the director!"

The front door of the theater opened suddenly, and Qin Yuchi walked in wearing a suit, accompanied by the voice of the host coming from nowhere.

The crying all around stopped abruptly and turned into exclamation of excitement.

"Brother is really here?! I thought the marketing account sent fake news to deceive people!"

"Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow!"

"Qin Yuchi?! Hurry up, take a group photo for me, and I'll show it to my girlfriend later."

 …

Qin Yuchi was holding the microphone, and he still had that upright appearance, and he walked upright and gracefully, unlike the rickety peasants in the movies.

Lin Shu's gaze followed the man.

The noisy voice next to my ear seemed to be fogged and gradually became unclear.

Flashing light, shutter sound, mobile phone and camera appeared one by one, enveloping Qin Yuchi from all directions.

Lin Shu felt like he was watching a grand movie.

The protagonist of the movie is Qin Yuchi, the audience is a guest actor, and he is an outsider who will only be attracted by the leading role and admire him across dimensions.

Movie roadshows are actually boring.

It's nothing more than some introductions and filming experiences from the leading actors and creators, and then please everyone to give positive feedback online and answer questions from the audience.

No wonder the ticket price for this movie is four figures. It turns out that the lead actor and director are coming to the road show.

Lin Shu didn't hear anything, only his vision was still functioning, and he only saw that one person.

The audience next to him suddenly raised his hand, got his attention, stood up and asked, "Mr. Qin, what were you thinking during filming? Will it be affected by the character's emotions? Will you not be able to slow down after finishing filming?"

Hearing the sound, Qin Yuchi looked this way, Lin Shu immediately looked away, turned his face slightly, and looked at Mi Cheng with a smile on his face.

"Chengzi, can you look at me?" Lin Shu asked.

Mi Cheng turned her head and blinked her eyes suspiciously, "Huh? What's the matter?"

"It's okay, just keep it like this, I'll take you home later." Lin Shu said softly.

"No, no, no," Mi Cheng said shyly, "My mother's car has already arrived at the gate, it's too late, she doesn't worry about others taking me home."

Too.

Even if you are a blind date, you can't stick together at night.

Besides, Mi Cheng is innocent and young, and has never been in a relationship before. She must be a good baby in the family, and the parents naturally control her strictly.

Lin Shu nodded, leaned closer, and leaned into Mi Cheng's ear, "Then I'll take you out and watch you get in the car before leaving."

"I'm not a child..." Mi Cheng said awkwardly.

"I know, but I want to send you off."

Lin Shu refused to comment, so Mi Cheng had no choice but to agree, muttering in a low voice, "Okay, I'm afraid to trouble you, I'm already such a big man."

The road show lasted only 20 minutes and ended soon.

Lin Shu didn't know if Qin Yuchi had seen him, and immediately stood up after the lead actor finished, and pulled Mi Cheng away.

As soon as he walked out of the theater, the strength in his body seemed to be drained suddenly, and all the strength was released.

Feeling tired, Lin Shu walked more and more slowly, even slower than Mi Cheng.

"Brother, are you tired? Otherwise, I'll ask my mother to take you back, so stop driving, it's not safe." Mi Cheng said worriedly.

"It's okay, it's just driving, it's not a physical effort." Lin Shu said.

Mi Cheng's mother looks very similar to Mi Cheng, well-maintained, ageless, driving a Panamera, a standard upstart rich wife.

"Mr. Lin, thank you for taking my Cheng Zi out to play today, come to my house for dinner next time!" Mi Cheng's mother was very enthusiastic.

"Okay, see you next time." Lin Shu smiled, waved to the two of them, and watched the car gradually leave.

It was late at night, and the stars could not be seen in City S, and the light pollution was serious.

Lin Shu looked up at the lonely Yue, wanted to light a cigarette and smell it, but suddenly remembered that he was still outside.

Forget it, go back to the car and light a cigarette.

Heart tired panic.

But if he is going on a blind date, he has to get up early to dress himself up, drive around to the flower shop to get roses, and then take the family out on a date to eat and watch a movie.

It feels like have done a lot, but when think about it, feel that have not done anything serious.

Sure enough, it's better to be single.

Lin Shu let out a long sigh, and walked towards the parking lot with tired steps.

The car was parked on the bottom floor, and Lin Shu was going down the elevator, yawning from time to time.

Ding

The elevator door opened, and a fresh smell of iris and cedar entered the nostrils, refreshing.

The parking lot should be smelly, full of rubber tires and gasoline, how can there be an aroma?

It smells good.

Lin Shu sniffed greedily, then walked slowly towards his parking space.

Lin Shuben lowered his head, but the aroma became stronger and stronger. He wanted to look up, but a pair of handmade vegetable tanned leather shoes came into view first.

Lin Shu didn't need to look up, just by feeling, he knew that it was Qin Yuchi standing by the car door.

"Mr. Lin, long time no see." The pair of leather shoes moved, gradually approaching.

Not long, clearly only five days, Lin Shu said in his heart.

Qin Yuchi's voice was muffled, Lin Shu looked up and found that he was wearing a black mask, only revealing a pair of bright and beautiful eyes.

The scent of iris and cedar has become stronger, and it smells really good. Lin Shu sniffed it a few times calmly.

"What do you want?" Lin Shu asked coldly after sniffing enough.

Qin Yuchi stretched out his hands and opened his empty pockets, "Mr. Lin, I lost my mobile phone. Could you please take me back to the hotel?"

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