Chapter 18 - Invitation (1/2)

Not many people who had seen the movie went to the hotpot restaurant, so Su Min freely ate there without any disturbances. By the time he finished his meal, his whole body smelled like hotpot.

Back at school, Su Min’s entire group chat was @-ing him.

“I heard that the person who changed the plot in “University Thriller” is called Su Min. Is it our school’s Su Xueba2?”

“I went to see it, and it really is him–”

“Oh my god, does Su Min have super powers? I want to interview him about how he felt living in a horror movie.”

“Compare to that, I want to ask Su Min about how he felt sleeping with a ghost, @PolymerMaterialScienceAndEngineeringClass2SuMin.”

“I want to know what you’re doing sneaking around in the girl’s dormitory, @PolymerMaterialScienceAndEngineeringClass2SuMin.”

Su Min pretended he was dead and didn’t answer.

Although he didn’t reply, he still had to go to class, and as long as he went, they would know that it was him. After all, he couldn’t change his face.

For a while, Su Min was the most popular person on campus.

Every time he arrived to class early, his classmates would deliberately read comments on the internet aloud for him to hear, itching to get inside his head.

Even his professor had once piped in a sentence before starting class.

No matter how serious Su Min was, he couldn’t help but be embarrassed. From then on, he didn’t delay leaving right after lessons ended.

There weren’t many people majoring in Polymer Material Science and Engineering; in total, there were only two classes. However, as long as a person’s academic qualifications were high enough, the job they found in this field would provide very good pay. Because of this, Su Min was determined on continuing his studies.

Today, the two classes merged together to form one big class.

Instead of playing on his phone during lessons, Su Min concentrated on his books.

Just then, the phone in his pocket vibrated.

Li Wenxin touched his book, whispering, “Quickly look at WeChat, I sent you something.”

Su Min doubtfully took out his phone. “What did you send?”

Li Wenxin simply raised an eyebrow and, not giving anything away, laughed with no good intentions. “Open it and see for yourself.”

Su Min suddenly had a bad feeling.

He opened WeChat and saw that he was sent a link. Once he clicked on it, the link led him to a movie discussion forum.

He heard the name of this forum before.

The post Li Wenxin sent to him was about the new “University Thriller”. Looking at the title, Su Min felt a little uneasy.

He had a premonition he’d find something weird.

【Shock! Did everyone go see the recently very popular re-release of “University Thriller”? Do you have any words to say3?]

Landlord: I already watched it, hahahahahaha. While watching, I suddenly had a profound realization that love could come into being anyplace, anytime. There were good-looking people, and the ghosts even showed mercy. This horror movie is really good–the sugar is especially delicious.

1st Floor: I went to see it with my parents! My mom asked me why one schoolboy kept talking to the air. When I said that he was in the middle of a courtship, she thought I was lying…

2nd Floor: In order to prepare for this movie, I first went to watch the original “University Thriller”. Who wrote the script? Why did a horror movie turn into a romance movie? Spicy chicken movie–waste of my cinema ticket!

3rd Floor: Upstairs, don’t be so agitated. Think about it: you spent money on one movie but ended up watching two–a horror movie and a romance movie. Think about how much you’re saving.

4th Floor: Hahahahahahaha, you all don’t understand love! Jing Xian, hurry up and take your little lover away. Next time, can we see some PDA?

5th Floor: Why did the script arrange for me to play ‘Please, Bi Xian’? In the end, I died before even meeting Bi Xian… Does this movie only look at faces?

6th Floor: Nononono, it looks at IQ! Su Min is a high IQ, top student in Engineering. Doesn’t he sound quite powerful?

…

1314th Floor: Let me just grab this floor4. From today onwards, I am the CP powder of Jing Xian X Su Min. Those who want to eat sugar, hit me up and I’ll give it to you.

1315th Floor: Quickly, everyone go to this friend’s website. They already wrote a fic about these two, and the sugar is extremely delicious. 1235—

1316th Floor: Love is like a blue sky with white clouds. A sunlit and boundless sky, but suddenly storms come… Even ghosts can fall in love. What else is impossible?

…

Su Min saw that this post was blowing up.

Why are these people focusing on the wrong things? Are they properly watching the movie?

Couldn’t they just enjoy solving mysteries like him?

Reading their posts–especially the ones on the later floors writing yellow books6 about him–made him flush with anger. Were these people not afraid of getting banned…?

Li Wenxin asked, “Spill it, what were you doing together with Jing Xian in the movie?”

Su Min shook his head and said, “Nothing.”

Knowing that he just didn’t want to say it, Li Wenxin pouted before going back to enthusiastically read the forum.

The yellow books here were really well-written, ah.

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Two weeks quietly passed by.

The re-release of “University Thriller” finally stopped showing in theaters. A few days ago, Su Min received another text from the cinema.

Because he had played a part in the re-release, the cinema gave him a portion of the profits. Altogether, his earnings were quite high.

It’s no wonder so many people wanted to experience a movie; the promise of money after their success was enough to hook the audience.

Su Min’s own family circumstances were above average, so this factor didn’t matter much to him.

However, the director was very excited.

His new movie, “University Thriller”, finally broke away from the ranks of being ‘spat on in the streets’, and he had gotten rid of the fixed image created from his previous three movies.

As his ‘Great Hero’, Su Min had the ‘honor’ of appearing on his Weibo for one continuous week. No matter what, every one of the director’s posts would, in one way or another, include Su Min.

And whenever Su Min was mentioned, Jing Xian was brought up, too.

When the two movies stopped playing on the big screens and were replaced by new movies, the heat eventually died down.