I’ve Gone Viral Because of a Money-Saving Variety Show

“From dismemberment cases to horror films, you have quite a unique taste,” Zhou Jinyuan commented.
“Watching movies in the cinema is supposed to be exciting like this,” Chen Xixi thought and felt her blood boiling.
Watching horror films was her only way to relieve the bore of daily life, and the only kind of entertainment she could afford in this flashy world.
Suddenly she thought of something and asked Zhou Jinyuan, “If you are scared… or don’t like it, we can switch to something else.”
Originally, she wanted to say, if he was scared, they could watch something else.
But questioning a man’s courage in front of the whole internet would probably be a huge blow to his ego, so she thought for a bit and changed her wording.
Zhou Jinyuan put away his phone, clipped the picture, and sent it to the show’s team, saying calmly, “I can watch anything. It mainly depends on who I’m watching it with.”
Chen Xixi nodded slowly and lifted the corners of her mouth to a standard smile, “Then I’m very honored.”
Zhou Jinyuan had gradually gotten used to Chen Xixi blowing smoke and mindlessly flattering him from time to time.
He glanced at the fake smile on her face and couldn’t help but curl his lips too, imitating her, “Next time you praise me, add a bit of sincerity.”
“Okay, I’ll add it now,” Chen Xixi continued, “I truly feel very honored.”
“…”
[Hahaha! Who told you to add sincerity verbally! That’s not what President Zhou meant!]
[Chen Xixi! Have you been secretly practicing some heart-hardening technique behind our backs?]
After saying this, Chen Xixi leaned closer and whispered to Zhou Jinyuan, “But I still think you might have mistaken me for someone else.”
Zhou Jinyuan cooking for her and willing to watch a movie with her, in her opinion, was simply because he believed she was his childhood friend; that’s why he treated her so nicely.
However, she really didn’t think her family ever had enough money to be neighbors with an aristocratic family like Zhou Jinyuan’s.
She had searched online for Zhongjing Group before, and although the information was limited, it wasn’t hard to deduce from the brief lines that the Zhongjing Group was a vast family business.
It must have been rich for several generations.
As for her family, her grandparents were ordinary workers at a local factory when they were young. It was only during her parents’ time that they started some business when she was a child, but later on, the business struggled, and they moved to the countryside.
Even if her parents had had a good opportunity to catch up with the new business boom, they couldn’t possibly compare with Zhou Jinyuan’s well-established and wealthy family within just a few short years.
Put simply, they were not from the same circle.
Chen Xixi continued to analyze, “So many years have passed, and appearances must have changed a lot since childhood, so I think you should go back and check properly.”
Zhou Jinyuan’s thin lips pursed, his gaze at Chen Xixi was meaningful and deep. After a moment of silence, he spoke, “It doesn’t matter if you can’t remember, we can start getting to know each other from now.”
Confusion in her eyes, she asked, “How can you be so sure it’s me?”
“I have my ways of finding out.”
“What ways?”
Zhou Jinyuan paused for two seconds: “I can’t tell you now.”
Chen Xixi became even more curious, “Why?”
Zhou Jinyuan looked at her with interest, a trace of an intriguing expression in his deep eyes, “You want to know that badly?”
“Yeah,” Chen Xixi spoke with unusual sincerity, “If you don’t tell me, I’ll lie awake all night, pondering this.”
Zhou Jinyuan smiled casually, “That’s good.”
“What’s good about it?”
“Thinking of me before bed every day will imprint a deep memory; it’ll be hard to forget.” After saying that, Zhou Jinyuan walked ahead with long strides.
“…”” He is punishing her for completely forgetting what happened when they were kids, isn’t he?
Chen Xixi saw him leaving and quickly followed, asking, “Where are you going?”
“Watching a movie, the one at three o’clock, it starts in an hour.”
Chen Xixi and Zhou Jinyuan took the car provided by the program crew and, with the movie tickets bought by the crew, went to the cinema.
The arrangement by the program crew was very thoughtful; not only did they buy the tickets, but they also got couple seats and included a portion of popcorn and two sodas.
Then, the seats were also designated for passionately in-love couples, located at the very back row.
Chen Xixi somewhat felt like the chief director of the program crew was giving her a mischievous smile as if to say ‘You’ve got the perfect opportunity, seize it, conquer President Zhou, and reach the pinnacle of your life’.
The couple seats are extremely comfortable double sofas, without the usual armrest that should be between two seats, which brought them just a few centimeters apart, extremely close to each other.
Shortly after, the lights in the auditorium dimmed, Chen Xixi caught a glimpse from the corner of her eye that a couple was making a late entrance next to her.
Before the movie started, she idled away the time and noticed that they were acquaintances.
Hu Yun had found out about the movie tickets Chen Xixi had booked through the staff and followed her.
She looked at Chen Xixi with a friendly smile on her face: “Xixi, what a coincidence, you are also watching this movie.”
Chen Xixi got goosebumps; she remembered the last time she felt this way was when Zheng He wanted to follow her into a hotel to stay and then begged pathetically, calling her Xixi.
No good deed goes unpunished; if not a villain, then a cheap person!
Her defensive signals and combat readiness were immediately at full throttle!
Chen Xixi gave a slight smile, then turned her head away, ignoring Hu Yun.
But after the movie started, Hu Yun kept leaning over to her side to talk, mentioning things like how scary it was.
Chen Xixi glanced at her and said indifferently, “Your partner is over there.”
Hu Yun looked at her with a pitiful expression, “He’s a guy, I’m too shy…”
“If you’re afraid of men… how about we talk?” Chen Xixi watched Hu Yun speechlessly, feeling that Hu Yun just didn’t want her to enjoy the movie, hence kept disturbing her constantly.
But the thing is, every time Hu Yun got scared, she would grab her hand and arm, and even kept mumbling about being frightened, making Chen Xixi almost feel like she was the one on a date with Hu Yun…
“???” Hu Yun was shocked for a good few seconds.
What was Chen Xixi talking about?!
She hurriedly retreated back to her original seat, her heart pounding fiercely.
Was she just hit on by a woman?
Zheng He next to her couldn’t take it anymore; seeing Hu Yun constantly moving towards Chen Xixi, he couldn’t help but frown and speak up: “Why do you keep crowding in front of her? Anyone who doesn’t know might think you two came out on a date.”
Zheng He had his hand waiting beside her for so long, and yet Hu Yun didn’t touch it at all, but kept seeing Hu Yun clutching Chen Xixi’s hand nonstop, and he was nearly dead with jealousy.
Such a great atmosphere and an opportunity to show off his manly charm, he didn’t expect Chen Xixi to take it!
He even started to suspect that Chen Xixi was deliberately opposing him, trying to steal his thunder!
Zhou Jinyuan who was sitting on the other side also felt annoyed, he stood up and asked to switch places with Chen Xixi.
After switching positions, Hu Yun finally quieted down.
Zhou Jinyuan turned his head to look at Chen Xixi, who was intently focused on the screen, very engrossed and without a trace of fear on her face.
But the next second, the movie scene switched abruptly, a sinister and bloody severed head suddenly appeared in Chen Xixi’s view, causing her to involuntarily hold her breath and her heart to skip a beat.
Startled.
Then, she felt her hand being held by someone.