A writer has arrived in the Chinese entertainment industry.

Reba discovered some clues.

Su Liu, such an eccentric person, sometimes actually listens to Mao Xiaotong's every word.

During the preview screening, their interaction was so natural. Mao Xiaotong put her hand on his shoulder, helped him straighten his clothes, and casually ruffled his hair, her movements so practiced that it seemed she didn't even need to think.

And at the end, getting rid of Li Xian... all of this pieced together a truth in Dilraba's mind.

"No way, Xiaotong has a boyfriend."

She sat up abruptly in bed, got dressed, hesitated for a moment with her phone in her hand before leaving the house, and finally put it back in her pocket.

The company rented apartments for Dilraba and Mao Xiaotong in Huashan Garden, an old residential complex with five high-rise towers. This is only their temporary residence; they will definitely need to move again once the movie is released.

The entire community has an enclosed layout with a rectangular garden in the middle. Dilraba and Mao Xiaotong's apartment buildings are located at opposite ends of the diagonal.

In the stillness of the night, if someone were to glance out the window, they would spot a grayish shadow darting swiftly through the darkness, disappearing into the shadows in a flash.

When Dilraba arrived at the building where Mao Xiaotong lived, she suddenly stopped.

This sudden, abrupt arrival seemed rather odd. What should I say if Sister Xiaotong asked me why I was here so late?

You can't just say directly, "I want to see if Teacher Su is here."

She remembered there was a noodle shop near the entrance of her apartment complex that stayed open late, so she went and got two bowls of noodles to go, intending to deliver them under the guise of a late-night snack.

When she stood at Mao Xiaotong's door, she suddenly had a strong sense of déjà vu. Why did it feel like something like this had happened before?

It was too late to just knock on the door. She took out her phone and made a call.

"Hey? Dilraba, why are you calling me so late?"

A lazy voice came from the phone.

"Sister Xiaotong, let's grab some late-night snacks together."

"Late-night snack? Now? But I've already showered and am in bed."

"It's okay, I brought it up for you!" Dilraba tried her best to keep her voice from fluctuating too much.

"Did you bring it up?" A rustling sound came from the phone. "Are you at the door?"

"yes."

A moment later, the door clicked open, and Mao Xiaotong pulled it open. Looking at Dilraba, who was smiling sweetly at the door, she gave a helpless expression.

"What time is it? Are you an owl?" she said, but shifted her body to the side.

Reba smiled sheepishly, and after entering the house, she placed two bowls of noodles on the coffee table in the living room, but her eyes kept glancing towards the bedroom.

"What did you buy?" Mao Xiaotong walked over.

"I bought you he luo noodles, and I added a lot of chili peppers." Reba said as she lifted the lid, and steam immediately billowed out.

"Yo—" Mao Xiaotong drawled out, sounding both lazy and affectionate, "Baba is so thoughtful."

The two sat cross-legged on the carpet, sitting by the small tea table, each holding a bowl.

Mao Xiaotong took the disposable chopsticks handed to her by Dilraba, broke them apart, and slurped up the noodles with gusto.

"Sister Xiaotong," Reba suddenly blurted out, "Do you know—what Teacher Su does at night?"

Mao Xiaotong remained calm, not even faltering in her slurping of noodles. "How would I know?"

"Hmm—that's strange."

"What's wrong?"

"But Sister Xiaotong, you seem to know him very well lately. You can always guess what he's doing and what he's thinking."

"Yeah?"

"Yes, you went to pick up Teacher Su the day he came back from Chongqing, right?"

That's right.

"But I don't know when he'll be back."

"It's just a coincidence. If you ask him, he'll tell you."

"You asked him?"

Mao Xiaotong was naturally focused on the situation between Su Liu and her sister the whole time; there shouldn't be any flaws in that, right? Why does Dilraba seem to be trying to confirm something through this question?

Is this girl now launching a full-scale attack? But thinking about Su Liu's expression...

Mao Xiaotong didn't respond to that question, but instead asked, "Dilraba, why did you sign with Fuxing Culture in the first place?"

Dilraba was taken aback. "Teacher Su just threw a movie in front of me. Who could resist signing it?"

"Me too!"

The two looked at each other, held their breath for a couple of seconds, and then suddenly burst into laughter around the coffee table.

"You were scared by Sister Liu back then, weren't you?"

"Yes, who would have thought that she's so petite, yet she has such a commanding presence when she puts on a serious face."

"Sister Liu is usually very cute."

As they talked, they finished their noodles.

Dilraba grabbed a tissue to wipe her mouth, rubbed her bulging belly, and slumped to the ground. "Sister Xiaotong, can I sleep with you tonight? I'm too lazy to walk back."

Mao Xiaotong revealed a knowing smile, her eyes seeming to say, "I knew you little devil had something up your sleeve."

"Sure, if you don't mind the crowd."

"Of course I don't mind, Sister Xiaotong smells wonderful."

As soon as Reba finished speaking, she quickly got up, went into the bedroom, and scanned the room, which was about ten square meters in size.

"Dilraba, aren't you going to wash your face? I have some mouthwash here, do you want some?"

"Oh, here it comes."

Mao Xiaotong shook her head slightly, thinking to herself, "Reba, you're late."

Earlier, Su Liu had been lying on this bed when he answered Chen Duling's call in front of her, which led to Mao Xiaotong kicking him out of the house.

Dilraba missed her chance.

The next day, many first-person perspective videos of Su Liu's speech at the preview screenings were leaked online.

Chen Si scrolled through the comments and said to Su Liu, "The effect is not bad."

These videos were all pre-arranged by staff, deliberately using tricky angles and shaky footage to distinguish them from marketing videos and make people believe that they were created by the audience's own word.

"Sister Chen, the passage you arranged was quite good too," Su Liu said with a smile. "I'm just not good at writing these kinds of things."

That's right, even the clichéd lines he used to answer audience questions were written in advance by Chen Si.

It's predictable that a suspenseful mystery film released during the Spring Festival will encounter controversy.

Prior to this, some comments had already appeared online such as, "Who wants to watch a murder during the Lunar New Year?"

"Help! I'm dealing with my boss at work and my relatives at home, my brain is completely fried. During the Lunar New Year, all I want to do is watch a movie that doesn't require me to think."

"It's not that I'm superstitious, but on the first day of the Lunar New Year, with both a murder case and a plot twist, aren't you afraid that watching it will ruin your luck for the whole year?"

"Besides, suspense films are only suitable for watching alone. If the whole family watches them together, my mom will ask me, 'Who killed this person?' and my dad will ask, 'Why did he do it?' It's too suffocating."

These comments have already generated considerable buzz online. That's why Chen Si arranged this play.

That's right, even the person who asked the question was a shill.