Wife, please behave yourself.

Chapter 141 Differential Treatment
This was the first time Liu Changcun had ever gone to a movie theater since he came into this world.

He had initially thought that domestic horror films would be like those in his previous life, composed of various coincidences and conspiracies, but he never expected that the overall quality of this film would far exceed his initial expectations.

It's not that this movie is particularly good.

However, as the plot progresses, he still hasn't realized that the series of supernatural events experienced by the female protagonist are actually hallucinations fabricated by other characters.

In my previous life, I watched too many domestically produced horror films featuring mental illness, hallucinations, and other delusions.

This is the first time he's seen a film this realistically.

Liu Changcun found it novel and quickly became engrossed in it after the film started.

It wasn't until An Zhaoran rushed over that he was pulled back to reality from his immersion in the movie.

He looked to the side in surprise and saw a figure leaning against him, his left arm around his, his face turned to the side and resting on his shoulder.

The moment she was touched, her whole body tensed up instinctively, but when she saw that it was An Zhaoran approaching her, that instinctive wariness quickly disappeared.

Liu Changcun's attention had shifted from the big screen to the person beside him.

Seeing An Zhaoran's eyes tightly closed, and feeling Du Fei gripping her arm harder and harder, she realized that Du Fei was giving her a different feeling.

In the dimly lit theater, only the light projected from the screen illuminated the man's smiling face.

"Afraid?"

Lowering his voice, Liu Changcun asked the other person in a low voice.

Considering that there were several other moviegoers in the theater besides the three of them.

In order not to disturb others, Liu Changcun could only get closer to An Zhaoran.

An Zhaoran, who was already resting her face on Liu Changcun's shoulder, clearly felt the hot breath coming from his mouth as he got closer. She was too frightened by the video to open her eyes.

Her eyelashes trembled slightly, and it took her a while to slowly open them.

She looked up timidly at the man beside her.

Although she wanted to be as stubborn as usual, her body wouldn't lie.

The terrifying scene that suddenly flashed on the big screen really frightened An Zhaoran, so much so that she couldn't open her eyes again for quite a while.

"Um……"

Amidst the background music of the movie that filled the theater, An Zhaoran's response reached Liu Changcun's ears.

"It's even scarier than I thought... I can't bear to look..."

"Then close your eyes."

"I can hear the sound even with my eyes closed..."

Even without looking at the screen, the sound effects alone were enough for An Zhaoran to imagine even more terrifying scenes.

An Zhaoran tightened her grip on the other person's arm and hid herself by turning her face to the side.

However, this awkward sitting posture seemed to make Liu Changcun feel uncomfortable.

With her eyes closed, An Zhaoran noticed Liu Changcun pulling his arm away. Before she could reach out to pull him back, she felt a warm, large hand protecting her ear.

An Zhaoran suddenly felt that the world had become quiet.

Although the movie's sound effects could still be faintly heard, they had been greatly reduced compared to before.

Eyes that had been too afraid to open slowly opened after their ears were covered.

She blinked several times, facing the man's location.

Her eyes met Liu Changcun's gaze, and their profiles flickered in and out of focus under the screen's light.

Is this better?

"..."

Perhaps because her ears were covered, An Zhaoran did not hear Liu Changcun's words clearly.

You can only see the other person's mouth open and say something, but you can't read their words just by looking at their lip movements.

Seeing that An Zhaoran was staring at him without reacting, Liu Changcun quickly realized this as well.

The hands covering the other person's ears were about to be temporarily removed.

He moved away for a moment, but was quickly pulled back by the woman beside him.

Liu Changcun covered An Zhaoran's ears with both hands.

An Zhaoran placed her hands on the back of Liu Changcun's hands and pressed down hard.

There was absolutely no intention to make him let go.

He stared at An Zhaoran in front of him. Because they were close enough that even though the theater was dark, he could see what the other looked like by the light from the screen.

Liu Changcun was slightly taken aback.

After a long while, he finally came to his senses and smiled.

She looked away from the other person, continuing to awkwardly cover her ears, letting the other person lean against her.

The movie was still going on, and Wen Yunwei next to me was watching it intently.

She rarely goes to the cinema to watch movies, but she has a great interest in all types of films.

She even enjoys watching horror movies.

From the moment the movie started, Wen Yunwei's gaze remained fixed on the screen.

From beginning to end, they never intended to leave.

These are the seats in the theater.

Apart from the three people, there were no other moviegoers present.

Immersed in the movie's plot, Wen Yunwei failed to notice the two people standing close to her.

Compared to the person nestled beside her, she seemed like a stranger who had come to the movie theater alone.

Just watching the movie on the screen.

Because of the plot, we missed something more important.

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After the nearly two-hour movie ended, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening.

The three dined at a nearby restaurant, where they went into a relatively quiet private room.

What did you think of the movie?

Unwrap the plastic film covering the tableware in front of you, pour hot water into the bowls and plates, rinse and scald them, and then dump them into the trash can.

Liu Changcun faced Wen Yunwei and asked her a question, but handed the cleaned tableware to An Zhaoran.

An Zhaoran, who was feeling down after watching a horror movie, was overjoyed when Liu Changcun handed her some tableware.

Witnessing this, Wen Yunwei followed Liu Changcun's steps in making the soup bowl, not to be outdone. In response, she handed him the scalded tableware.

"I think it's not bad. I thought it would be really scary, but after watching it, I felt it was okay."

"..."

An Zhaoran, who had been smiling, immediately stopped smiling.

She was terrified, but Wen Yunwei felt it was just okay.

After thanking the other party and accepting the tableware, Liu Changcun looked at Wen Yunwei, who was rinsing her own tableware with hot water.

As if out of curiosity, he asked with a puzzled expression.

"I never expected that you would invite me to the movies. When my child first told me, I thought I was hallucinating."

"..."

Wen Yunwei poured the hot water from the bowl into the bucket, and upon hearing her junior's words, she also showed a puzzled expression.

"I'm inviting you to a movie? Didn't you invite me first?"

As Wen Yunwei's words echoed in the private room, the three people at the table immediately stopped what they were doing.

Liu Changcun frowned immediately, and after a moment of reaction, he smiled helplessly.

He thought about some of his son's unusual behavior in the past few days.

When Liu Songyan was at home, he would often bring up Wen Yunwei, and he would curiously ask about the scenes of how the two of them met.

At first, Liu Changcun didn't think anything was wrong. He just assumed that his son wanted to get along with Wen Yunwei's daughter and therefore wanted to learn more about the one-sided information from the classmate's parents.

But as Liu Songyan mentioned it more and more frequently, and even praised Wen Yunwei's good personality and beautiful appearance from time to time...

He then realized something was amiss and began asking his son what he wanted to know.

However, Liu Songyan was not a child who could talk to his parents about everything.

When pressed by his father, he simply brushed it off with curiosity.

In addition, Liu Changcun was busy with the planning of the new program with An Zhaoran those days, so he didn't pay much attention to this.

It wasn't until he spoke with Wen Yunwei that he suddenly realized what was going on.

Her own son wanted to match her up with Wen Yunwei.

Realizing this, Liu Changcun felt helpless. First, his daughters Liu Wanqiu and Cheng Zhiyan had arranged a blind date for him with a huge age gap.

Now the son has set his sights on his classmate's mother.

The children meant well, but they never considered Liu Changcun's feelings.

Having figured out the whole story, Liu Changcun also understood why he had come to see this movie today.

Seeing Wen Yunwei's still bewildered look, and realizing that explaining would be too troublesome, he chose to evade the question after a long silence.

"I invited you to the movie. I just misspoke."

"All right……"

"The menu is here. You can order a few more dishes if you feel it's not enough."

Liu Changcun is no longer short of money.

Compared to when he invited An Zhaoran to dinner, he now has the confidence to let Wen Yunwei add dishes at will.

However, Wen Yunwei was flattered by these words and hurriedly said that she had already ordered enough dishes and there was no need to order more.

An Zhaoran, who had been observing the entire conversation between the two, overheard it.

His gaze swept back and forth between Liu Changcun and Wen Yunwei.

Hearing Liu Changcun say that it was actually he who had invited Wen Yunwei to the movie, he immediately felt very uncomfortable.

His right hand, which had been resting on the dining table, slowly retracted under the table.

He leaned toward Liu Changcun, who was sitting to his right.

"hiss!"

"what happened?"

Liu Changcun, who was about to speak while talking to Wen Yunwei, suddenly gasped.

This prompted Wen Yunwei, who was standing to the side, to ask him a question with slight concern.

With her attention completely focused on her junior, she didn't notice An Zhaoran on the other side at all.

Hearing his senior's question, Liu Changcun, who was in some pain, quickly said that he was fine.

She remained calm, but squeezed her legs together tightly.

This caused An Zhaoran, who was secretly punishing someone, to change his expression and violently pull his arm under the table.

However, there was a significant difference in strength between the two, and no matter how hard An Zhaoran tried, she was unable to pull her hand away.

From small movements at the beginning to increasingly greater force.

It wasn't until An Zhaoran tried to pull her arm back that Wen Yunwei noticed her constantly twitching shoulder.

Surprised, she curiously bent down to look under the table.

"..."

Everything under the table was normal except for Liu Changcun and An Zhaoran's legs.

Having seen nothing, Wen Yunwei raised her face again, straightened her back, and sat back down in her seat, looking at the two people in front of her.

Looking at Liu Changcun's expressionless face.

Watching An Zhaoran constantly rubbing her right wrist.

Just as I was about to ask a question, the sudden opening of the private room door forced me to stop.

The waiters brought the dishes to the table one by one.

The three people in the private room remained silent.

However, Wen Yunwei focused all her attention on An Zhaoran.

Looking at the other person's inexplicably flushed face, Wen Yunwei had a premonition that something strange had just happened between the two of them under the table.

It was very strong, but no substantial evidence could be found.

The silence wasn't broken until the waiter left.

He invited the two people beside him to eat.

It's like... shifting the focus.

(End of this chapter)