Ming Hai felt a hot and wet touch on his chest. He hesitated for a moment, but still whispered into her fair and lovely ear:
"Is it possible that the murderer was not fate, but the screenwriter and the villain? You blame the wrong people."
"..."
The shaking stopped and the tears stopped.
Toyokawa Shoko lay on his shoulder in silence for a while, then quietly stood up, her profile in the half-darkness and half-light in the theater facing him expressionlessly.
"Please don't destroy the worldview of this movie in my mind."
After saying this calmly and coldly, she turned her gaze back to the big screen and continued to watch the next plot attentively.
Ming Hai shrugged innocently. He just wanted to comfort the sentimental girl. What did he do wrong?
——And before you say this, please let go of the hand that is holding you!
The movie did not stop just because there was another pair of men and women successfully holding hands in the theater.
After the hero died, the heroine buried him quietly; because the hero had no parents, she only told the news of his death to his only friend.
After finishing all the things, she left a suicide note. Before committing suicide, the heroine played the song left by the hero for the first and last time, but accidentally deciphered a secret message from it that only the two of them knew.
"Whether I can be with you or not, I hope you can see the most beautiful sea of flowers, the most beautiful ocean... and witness the moment when the most beautiful life in my eyes withers away naturally."
It turns out that the hero had long known that his life might be in danger, and was afraid that the heroine would do something stupid because of this, so he hid the message that he hoped she could live well in the song - he believed that the heroine would definitely be able to hear the remnants of his life left at the end.
The heroine knelt in front of the piano and cried bitterly, holding the music score and constantly murmuring the hero's name.
"Kushu, Kushu..."
Ming Hai heard the sobbing coming from beside him again, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He changed his clenched hands into interlaced fingers, allowing the warmth of his palms to be transmitted tightly.
Then the sobbing gradually subsided, and the girl leaned her head over silently again, pressing her slightly heaving chest against his arm, and he seemed to be able to feel her slightly rapid heartbeat.
At this time, the heroine on the screen stopped crying.
After calming down, she raised her head, carefully smoothed out the wrinkles on the music score, and then looked towards the camera.
His eyes were dull and his face was expressionless like a machine, yet like broken glass, every angle showed sharp, cold despair and anger.
"What I want to see is not a sea of flowers or an ocean, but a future where those people are buried with you!"
So the plot took a sharp turn, the heroine started exercising, learning killing techniques, and recorded the hero's song into audio. She bought a lot of walkmans, which only played this song.
Then she put on a nightgown and sent them to hell one by one, starting with her father, who forced her to marry and opposed her marriage to the male protagonist.
His methods are very diverse. In the beginning, he used sneaky methods such as poisoning, assassination, and creating accidents. After he became proficient, he would just use a knife and a gun to become invincible, break into the male villain's house and kill everyone without leaving a single one alive, and then sneak away slowly.
At every crime scene, there is a Walkman that continuously plays sad but beautiful piano music...
At this point in the story, Toyokawa Shoko was already dumbfounded. She felt that the emotion and sadness she had just experienced were like sweet and sour bitter melon with chili sauce added. The taste was so complicated that she couldn't tell what it was. She couldn't help but ask:
"Is this still a romance movie?"
"I think so." Ming Hai watched with relish the scene where the heroine fought wits and courage with the detectives and policemen and escaped the crime gracefully, and answered casually, "For whom would you fight alone in the whole world? Don't you think this is the deepest and most passionate love?"
"She is a torch, fueled by love. She will illuminate this world without him until she turns into ashes, so that everyone can remember the light he left behind... Although the pace is a bit rushed, the plot effect is still quite good."
Although this involves spoilers, Miss Xiangzi obviously did not realize it. After a brief surprise, she nodded thoughtfully.
"Indeed. There are many ways to express love..."
After a pause, while the plot was entering the detective investigation stage, she turned to Ming Hai and asked: "Mr. Ming Hai, would you like this kind of 'love'?"
"Huh?" Ming Hai was stunned for a moment before he realized what she was asking. He quickly shook his head and denied it. "How is that possible? It's okay to watch a movie, but this kind of love that not only involves committing suicide for love, but also dragging others into it is too heavy. I can't bear it... Do you believe it? If the hero is still alive, as long as he dares to cheat, the heroine will dare to kill the person he cheated with first, and then lock him up in the basement forever?"
Toyokawa Shoko frowned slightly, objecting to his outrageous speculation.
"Not really? The heroine is only killing people for revenge. If the hero is just in love with someone else, he shouldn't go to that extent..."
Ming Hai was a little hesitant, but did not refute it.
Regardless of the logic of the characters' behavior in the plot, it is certainly better than anything else that Miss Xiangzi can still remain calm, innocent and kind-hearted after seeing such a crazy heroine.
He suddenly understood the feelings of those parents who were afraid that their children’s values would be influenced by bad TV dramas.
However, just as he was thinking this, he heard Toyokawa Shoko continue in a matter-of-fact tone:
"At most, they would lock the male protagonist in the basement for a week, take photos of the two of them being affectionate every day and send them to the person they cheated on, so that the other person would give up."
“…That’s all?”
Ming Hai uttered the words somewhat dryly.
Subconsciously, he wanted to loosen their hands, but found that her fingers were held tightly, leaving no room for escape.
"Yes, the bad guy who is unfaithful must be punished, but I can't bear to hurt anyone, so I have to do this." Toyokawa Shoko tilted her head slightly, her eyes clear and pure in the dim darkness, and looked at him with a little confusion, "Is it strange? If you really love him so deeply, it is reasonable to do that, right?"
"...Haha, that makes sense. Very reasonable."
Ming Hai no longer wanted to discuss the form of love with her, and forced his attention to the movie projection screen in front of him: "Look! It seems that the final battle is about to begin."
Through a series of coincidences, the detective learned that the song left at the crime scene was composed by a deceased genius composer.
But the ghost could not kill for revenge, so he followed a few clues and after questioning the hero's friends and visiting the hero's old house, he finally locked his target on the heroine. However, due to the lack of conclusive evidence, he was unable to arrest the heroine with a strong background.
At the same time, the heroine is also preparing to kill her last enemy - the hero's only friend.
On the surface, he was giving the hero a chance to escape from the villain and bring the last words and music score to his benefactor; but in fact, all of this was a tragedy directed by him who was secretly jealous of the hero.
Whether it was the hero's address or the fact that he and the heroine were secretly in love, they were all revealed to the villain and his family by this friend in private. While making money from it, he also set his sights on the heroine, wanting to snatch her away after her death as a benefactor and seize the family property behind her.
After knowing this, the heroine attacked her friend, wanting him to confess in front of the hero's piano, and then pay with her life.
However, before they could do anything, the detectives and the police broke into the hero's house, surrounded them, revealed all the truth of the matter, and persuaded the heroine to put down her hands and surrender.
The heroine, who is determined to die and has hostages in her hands, is of course not afraid of threats, but at the same time she also knows that her revenge seems to come to an end here.
So she decisively activated the mechanism she had prepared in advance, and a raging fire instantly broke out on the hero's piano, igniting her and the hero's friend, who were carrying flammable materials.
"You have nothing to do with him. There is no need to go down and apologize to him. Just leave quickly... This place will soon burn to ashes."
The heroine, whose eyes had been dyed red by revenge, drove away the police and detectives with clear eyes at this moment. The burning pain could no longer shake her numb and calm voice.
The hero's friend was thrown to the ground casually, and the heroine was holding the music score that was also on fire. There were some cheap flame special effects, gently surrounding her like water waves.
She just sat quietly in front of the piano, recalling the scenes she spent with the male protagonist in her mind.
"You made me understand how beautiful this world is..."
"You are the color in my life. Without you, the sea of flowers and the ocean would all become black and white sketches. How could they be beautiful?"
"I'm sorry, I have to break our agreement."
"You are in heaven, and I am in hell. Perhaps from now on, we will never meet again in any other life?"
"even so……"
"I won't regret falling in love with you."
The song composed by the male protagonist sounded again. In the emerald green garden that was like a dream, the male protagonist and the female protagonist sat in front of a pure white piano.
Two people were smiling, one playing and the other singing.
The flowers are dancing for them and the birds are accompanying them.
The cheerful melody passed through the crescent-shaped eyebrows, passed through the slight tremor when the fingertips touched, and also passed through the male protagonist who gradually turned into ashes.
Finally, the keys stopped moving, leaving the heroine sitting silently in front of the piano, humming intermittent remnants.
The picture was stained with an old yellow color, and became a photo engulfed by flames, flying into the darkness with no end in sight.
There is no extra epilogue, and the movie ends here with a lingering aftertaste.
It was not until the ending song and production credits appeared and the lights in the theater gradually came on that Toyokawa Shoko came out of her daze.
She blinked her moist eyes, but no tears shed. Instead, when her vision regained clarity, she looked at Ming Hai beside her.
"Mr. Ming Hai..."
"what happened?"
Without thinking, she asked subconsciously: "You don't know how to compose music, do you?"
Ming Hai: “…Ah?”
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Just like the previous chapter, it’s two-in-one.
Volume 76: Chapter Chapter I like it the most
It's obvious that she hasn't yet come out of the worldview of the movie.
Miss Xiangzi is an extremely emotional person. Even though there are many things in this movie that make people want to complain, she still immerses herself wholeheartedly in the heroine's mental journey and gets deeply involved in it.
After understanding this, Ming Hai couldn't help but look at her subtly.
"What if I tell her that I can compose music, and her sense of immersion will increase even more?"
The heroine in the later part of the movie is a lunatic. Her mind is twisted and it is not surprising that she does all kinds of inhumane things.
Ming Hai doesn't want Miss Xiangzi to be influenced by her and become evil, and she doesn't want to be locked up in the basement of Toyokawa's house before her soul returns to heaven.
"Everyone can compose music, right? A three-year-old can improvise a tune."
So he said a few words of comfort lightly: "Of course, I'm not like the male protagonist in the movie, who is born a brilliant composer... At most, I can follow the instructions on the Internet and use the arranger to write some simple melodies for fun."
This was also the most truthful thing he could tell without revealing the surprise.
As long as he doesn't lie, Miss Xiangzi won't find out. He will have room to defend himself after being exposed, and it will not prevent him from being an honest and reliable man.
Ming Hai also felt a little helpless - he was not such a fussy man, but this cute human lie detector in front of him forced him to become like this!
"That's it..."
As if brought back to reality by these words, Toyokawa Shoko quickly regained her composure and felt a little embarrassed for her childish and fragile question.
After wiping her eyes and calming down, she looked at the scrolling end credits again and couldn't help but sigh, "Isn't that what they call God's envy of talented people? Well, we are different from them after all. We won't fall into such a tragedy."
"Needless to say?" Ming Hai curled his lips, feeling inexplicably looked down upon, and immediately retorted, "I'm not that weak and frail male protagonist. Even if I really die one day, I will definitely not die in a group fight, okay?"
All tragedies stem from insufficient firepower, but after becoming more familiar with and developing the capabilities of the "Candy Factory", his fear of insufficient firepower has been cured without medication, and he is not afraid at all of the plots in the movie happening in reality.
I didn't plan to live too long + a time traveler who was helped by the will of the world + an orphan who would do anything to achieve his goal...
If someone really dares to mess with this pervert with a complete set of BUFFs, Ming Hai can only wish him a happy life in the next life.
"Don't say such unlucky words!"
Unfortunately, instead of being comforted, Toyokawa Shoko grabbed his arm tightly, pursed her lips and glared at him unhappily.
"I know you're very capable, but if you're really in danger, please run away and call the police immediately instead of going up and fighting alone!"
She was really afraid that after Ming Hai defeated a robber, he would encounter a kidnapper, a murderer or the like one day, and would become so arrogant that he would try to subdue the other person by himself.
This has nothing to do with strength, she just doesn't want him to encounter any danger - as long as he can stay with her safely, she would rather Ming Hai be weaker than the protagonist of the movie.
Ming Hai couldn't help but smile. He held her fingers that were white from exertion and did not reject the worry and seriousness in the girl's eyes that were as clear as a spring.
"Okay, I'll protect myself for you."
...Of course, if the time comes when I really have to die, I will still sacrifice myself without hesitation.
Completing the mission was also one of his ways to protect himself. After all, if the mission was not completed, he would not be eligible to live to the next year.
Not knowing his flexible bottom line, Toyokawa Shoko finally smiled after feeling the sincerity and determination in his words.
"Okay! Then I will also work hard for you to make the family accept your existence!"
"Hmm?" Ming Hai raised his eyebrows, a little surprised, "Are you going to tell them?"
"Not yet. I feel like now is not the right time." Toyokawa Shoko gently shook her head. Although she looked a little nervous, her eyes were full of eagerness to try. She said excitedly, "But after watching the movie, I suddenly had some new ideas... I want to find out the details with the head of the family, my grandmother. She is a cold but reasonable person. As long as I bypass my parents and find a way to gain her approval, no one else will come to obstruct us!"
When she said this, she showed a bright expression, saying, "Our future is really bright."
"Calm down, the villain hasn't even shown up yet, it's too early to make these plans now."
Feeling that the impact of the movie had not faded, Ming Hai hurriedly tried to persuade him, somewhat helplessly saying, "The current situation is in our favor. If we go to investigate now, it will make your grandmother notice our affairs, which will bring more troubles... Not to mention that we are only fifteen years old and have not known each other for a long time. Even if our relationship is deep, adults will definitely think that we are just playing house and will never agree with us, right?"
"Since you said she is reasonable, it would be better not to let her pay attention to our affairs until we can come up with facts and reasons that she can accept. Otherwise, the first villain who comes out to hinder us will most likely be this grandmother."
For Ming Hai, of course, trouble can be avoided and delayed as much as possible - after all, a year later, no matter whether the mission is completed or not, he will no longer have any connection with this world. Naturally, there is no need to consider whose approval he should win first if he marries Toyokawa Shoko in the future.
But if you really think from this careless perspective, it will be easy for the girl in front of you to notice that something is wrong.
