The moment Wen Li saw the news, he felt a little overwhelmed.

So when Zhou Ying asked her if she wanted to rush to the school to watch a movie, she said without thinking, "Go."

But when she really squeezed into a university auditorium with a group of students to watch an old movie with blurry pictures and noisy sound projected by a projector, she felt like a fool.

She couldn't understand why she would spend ten dollars to go to such a noisy place to watch an old movie that was released twelve years ago. Even if it was the box office champion that year, it was not worth her money and time to watch it.

Zhou Ying handed her some popcorn and consoled her, "Think positively, and consider this as making up for your regrets. Didn't you say that when this movie was released in China, you had already gone abroad, and it was taken off the screen overseas, so you missed out?"

Wen Li was still very depressed and said, "But I have already watched it online. I have watched it three times. Do you want to hear my spoilers?"

Zhou Ying rejected her mercilessly, "No, I haven't heard it yet. I haven't seen it yet."

The school showed movies on weekends, and each movie ticket was only five yuan. There were two movies, and all the seats were reserved for you. This meant that the auditorium was packed with students who came for dates. When Wen Li arrived, the first movie was halfway through, and she and Zhou Ying sat in the last row.

There were crowds of people in front of him, and he couldn't see where Huo Yuanchen and An Wen were at all.

Wen Li wants to leave.

Zhou Ying held her back and said rudely, "You've seen it all, so go buy me a bottle of water. I came here in a hurry and haven't even had dinner yet. I'm very thirsty now."

When Wen Li and she were roommates abroad, they often squeezed on the sofa together with a small tablet to watch downloaded movies, and they knew each other's movie-watching habits very well.

Wen Li went to buy two flavors of soda, orange and apple. On her way back, a student stopped her and called her, "Teacher's wife?"

Wen Li was startled. Before he could react, he was pulled forward by the students. They walked to the very front and pointed inside and said, "Are you here to look for Professor Huo? I just saw him, with An Wen. Look, they are in this row.

Wen Li didn't want to look for Huo Yuanchen. But he was too tall, and even when he was sitting, he was quite eye-catching. He was the tallest one in the row, and he couldn't be ignored.

The student even shouted inside, "Professor Huo."

Wen Li quickly pulled him back and said, "Don't shout. It will disturb other people's movie watching. I can go there by myself."

The student looked inside and said in embarrassment, "But the seats next to Professor Huo are all occupied. Where are you going to sit, Madam?"

Wen Li said, "I'm just going to talk to Professor Huo and leave. I'm not going to watch the movie. Go back and watch your movie. This suspense film has a lot of twists and turns. If you miss too much of the plot, you won't understand it."

The student nodded and left.

Wen Li looked around and chose an empty seat two rows behind Huo Yuanchen. On both sides were couples on a date, leaving the middle seat empty. He didn't know if the people who had sat here before couldn't stand the constant dog food and left early.

After Wen Li sat down, he sent a message to Zhou Ying, telling her his location and asking if she wanted to come over and get a drink.

Zhou Ying said, "Forget it. Walking around now will disturb other people's watching of the movie. I will come to find you after this movie is over."

Wen Li looked at the front row. Huo Yuanchen and An Wen had the same internet-famous milk tea in their hands, which cost about 40 yuan per cup.

In comparison, the three-dollar bottle of carbonated soda in her hand looked much more shabby.

She unscrewed a bottle and took a big gulp. She felt her entire mouth filled with the stimulation of carbonic acid. Her tongue was burning with pain, and she was choking to the point of tears.

She swallowed the soda in her mouth hard, and now her throat hurt and her nose felt sore and uncomfortable.

She sent a message to Zhou Ying, saying, "The soda at your school tastes terrible."

Zhou Ying pointed out mercilessly, "Don't blame the soda for your bad mood. Soda tastes the same all over the world. If you really drink spoiled soda, you can claim tens of thousands of dollars in compensation."

Wen Li ignored her and looked up to watch his movie.

It's just that she was clearly staring at the big screen without blinking, watching it very intently, but she had no idea what was on the screen.

All that filled his mind was the image of the front row that he had just glanced at. Huo Yuanchen sat next to An Wen, his posture extremely relaxed, completely different from when he watched a movie with her in the afternoon. He wasn't looking at his phone, nor was he distracted, he was watching very attentively.

Occasionally, he would turn his head and talk to An Wen. Judging from his expression, he seemed to be explaining the content of the movie to An Wen. He had a smile on his face while talking and didn't look impatient at all.

Wen Li thought of the time when she was in school, when she also went to Huo's house with her textbook to ask him questions. He had no patience at that time, and after explaining two questions, he drove her away and told her to go back home to read.

She thought, maybe he always likes girls who are good at studying and smart. No wonder he dislikes girls like her who have big breasts and no brains.

Wen Li was dazed, trying to get rid of the messy thoughts in her mind, and saw Huo Yuanchen turned his head and saw her while talking to An Wen.

The faint smile on his face disappeared instantly, and he looked at her deeply for a moment.

Wen Li mechanically curled the corners of his mouth, trying to make his expression not look too ugly.

But before she could smile, Huo Yuanchen turned his head back, showing no emotion at all, as if he hadn't seen her at all. And until the end of the movie, he didn't look back again.

Wen Li felt ridiculous. What was this? She came all the way here, as if to catch someone cheating, but the other person didn't care about her at all.

She could even imagine that if she really rushed to Huo Yuanchen and asked him in front of so many people why he went out to watch a movie with another girl without telling her, he would definitely look at her with a very cold and distant look and calmly deny any relationship with her.

This is definitely something Huo Yuanchen can do.

The result of that would be that she would be the only one making a fool of herself, like a clown, and An Wen would probably laugh at her for being so self-indulgent.

Why bother?

Wen Li found the movie quite boring and left without waiting for it to end.

Not long after she walked out of the auditorium, she heard someone calling her name.

She turned around and saw Zhou Ying panting and catching up with her. She took a bottle of soda from her hand, unscrewed it, gulped down half of it, and then panted and said, "Why did you leave without saying hello to me?"

Wen Li explained a little embarrassedly, "You said you haven't seen the movie. It's almost over, and I want you to finish watching it so you can know who the murderer is."

Zhou Ying rolled her eyes at her and said, "I don't need to finish watching the movie to know this. I can check it online."

She took Wen Li's hand and said, "Come on, go have a barbecue with me. I'm starving."

As soon as they sat down at the barbecue stall, Zhou Ying's phone rang. She glanced at it, turned the screen to Wen Li, and said, "Do you want him to come?"