I Lost!

Ye Weiming comforted himself inwardly.

The movie was over an hour long, and only five minutes had passed.

The beginning was exciting, but the end might not be.

As the ambulance's siren wailed, the protagonist was brought back to life. He found a disheveled Suit Uncle sitting beside him.

The Suit Uncle was arrogantly smoking a cigarette.

The protagonist pursed his lips but said nothing.

Unexpectedly, the Nurse seemed not to see the Suit Uncle and angrily reprimanded the protagonist:

"Sir, this is a hospital. For your health and the health of others, please do not smoke."

The protagonist looked at the Suit Uncle, only to find that the cigarette had somehow ended up in his own hand.

Next, the protagonist successively encountered a Perverted Grandpa.

This old man wore a red shirt and had a very lewd gaze.

He squatted by the nurse's station, blew off a page of a document, and lured the Nurse to bend over to pick it up.

The Perverted Grandpa squatted by the nurse's station, staring at the Nurse's ample backside.

Ye Weiming sternly condemned such hooligan behavior.

But he had to admit, the Nurse's backside was quite nice to look at.

Besides the Smoker Uncle and the Perverted Grandpa, the protagonist also saw a delicate-looking Crying Aunt.

As he saw more and more "strange people."

The protagonist repeatedly told the doctor that he could see things others couldn't.

But in the doctor's eyes, this was a sign that the patient's mind had been traumatized and he should be sent to a mental hospital.

He was finally discharged from the hospital.

From the mouth of a "Master," the male lead learned that because he had attempted suicide, a door had been opened in his body.

He could see Ghosts, and Ghosts could possess him and control his physical body.

Next came the interesting interactions between the male lead and these four Ghosts.

The male lead was possessed by the Perverted Grandpa and teased the Aunt next door who was drying her quilt.

Possessed by the Crying Aunt, he cried his eyes out during a resident meeting.

Possessed by the Smoker Uncle, the male lead's home looked like it had been hit by a smoke bomb.

Possessed by a Child, he ate cake crazily.

In the screening room, the audience's laughter never stopped.

Ye Weiming also let go of his reservations and laughed heartily with the audience.

Attempting suicide and then discovering one can see Ghosts was a classic Hong Kong film trope.

But as he laughed, Ye Weiming felt a pang of bitterness.

They were both borrowing from a classic Hong Kong film trope, yet why did it feel like his film was better than his own?

What Ye Weiming didn't realize was that.

Unconsciously, he had placed Lin Chuan on an equal footing with himself, or even higher.

The plot entered its next phase.

To get rid of these Ghosts, the male lead had to fulfill their wishes.

The first wish was to help the Perverted Grandpa find his camera.

After some twists and turns, the camera was finally found.

It turned out the camera belonged to a lonely old man living in the hospice ward, who was also the Perverted Grandpa's childhood friend.

The two old friends were reunited across time and shared drinks.

Just then, a beautiful Nurse stepped forward to intervene:

"Haven't I told you many times? Your body cannot handle alcohol!"

Seeing the old man so happy, the Nurse didn't disturb them further and left after a brief reminder.

And in the male lead's eyes, only the Nurse's figure remained.

After this, the male lead also complained to the Perverted Grandpa, asking why he hadn't told him where the camera was.

The Perverted Grandpa told him it was a rule among Ghosts.

Only when a living person recalled some memories could a Ghost tell him.

The Smoker Uncle's wish was to own a car.

The male protagonist didn't know where to find a car for him, so he had to steal one in the middle of the night.

The car's owner was a Little Boss, who mistook the male protagonist for an adulterer having an affair with his wife.

He wanted to run the male protagonist over with his car but didn't dare, so he just chased after the male protagonist.

The male protagonist, out of breath, finally couldn't run anymore.

He begged the Little Boss, saying he had psychic abilities.

The Smoker Uncle was also very helpful, blowing cold air at the car with all his might, chilling the Little Boss inside to the bone.

The Little Boss turned on the air conditioning, and the temperature inside the car finally returned to normal.

At the male protagonist's pleading, the Little Boss reluctantly agreed to his request.

Thus, the male protagonist embarked on a path of no return, following her.

The male protagonist's tracking was clumsy but unexpectedly effective.

The Little Boss's Wife thought the male protagonist was a lunatic, so she didn't pay him any mind.

The male protagonist followed the Little Boss's Wife to the hospital and discovered the truth.

It turned out the Little Boss's Wife wasn't having an affair but was sick, with lung cancer.

Because she didn't want to affect the child in her womb, she chose to forgo treatment.

The male protagonist told the Little Boss the truth.

The Little Boss eventually went to talk to his wife, trying to win her back:

"Why didn't you tell me? You need to get treatment~"

Wife: "I believe it's more important for our child to survive than for me to live.

Although we will grow old... our child will grow up..."

After the wife finished speaking, the Little Boss was already in tears, crying like a helpless child.

In the screening room, many people quietly took out tissues.

At this point in the movie, it had completely shifted from its early comedic humor, gradually moving into tear-jerking and heartwarming scenes.

Many viewers shed tears.

After the male protagonist obtained the car, he went swimming at the beach with the Smoker Uncle.

This was the Smoker Uncle's second wish.

The mood of many viewers was also healed by the blue sea.

During this time, the distance between the male protagonist and the Nurse was also steadily closing.

The male protagonist wanted to go shopping to buy a gift for the Nurse.

But due to various twists of fate, he ended up being sent to the detention center.

Since the male protagonist knew no one, he had to ask the Nurse to bail him out.

The Nurse arrived and rescued the male protagonist like a goddess.

It was also the first time the male protagonist confessed his feelings to the Nurse.

He was an orphan.

On the way home, the Nurse placed her ear against the male protagonist's chest, and after a long while, she looked up and met his gaze:

"Your parents gave you a very strong heart!"

The male protagonist's heart pounded wildly. He got off the bus, and on his way home, he was still grinning foolishly.

It was only when the Smoker Uncle reminded him that the male protagonist remembered he had bought a gift for the Nurse, and it was because of this gift that he had ended up in the detention center.

He gave the Nurse a large box of gifts.

Inside this box were movie videotapes that the male protagonist loved to watch.

The Nurse accepted the heavy gift, and with an awkward yet polite demeanor, thanked the male protagonist.

The male protagonist stood there, waving goodbye to the Nurse, completely oblivious to how heavy her footsteps had become.

The Smoker Uncle reminded the male protagonist:

"Go help her carry it!"

The male protagonist suddenly realized and caught up to the Nurse.

He walked the Nurse to the bus stop.

This time, without the Smoker Uncle reminding him, he got on the bus with the Nurse.

On the bus, the male lead recalled the moment the Nurse listened to his heartbeat.

He wasn't to be outdone and wanted to hear the Nurse's heartbeat too.

The Nurse did not refuse...

After getting off the bus, the male lead saw the Smoker Uncle sitting under the bus stop sign.

The male lead sat next to the Smoker Uncle, and the Smoker Uncle also pressed his chest against him to listen to his heartbeat.

This embarrassed the male lead immensely.

Unknowingly, the distance between the male lead and the ghosts was also constantly shrinking.

In the cinema, many people showed an aunt-like smile.

Although the male lead was decadent and dispirited, the audience could feel that he was a good young man.

As for the Nurse, she was gentle and delicate. Their interactions were strange but very interesting.

It reminded many couples of the details of how they met.

Some bold couples had already started kissing.

The wishes of the four ghosts were fulfilled one by one.

The Child's wish was to watch a movie with a very chuunibyo name, Peach Blossom Hero vs. Chrysanthemum Monster.

Soon, it was the Crying Aunt's turn.

Her wish was surprisingly to go grocery shopping with the male lead.

At the market, the Crying Aunt held the male lead's arm, her face beaming.

She looked at one vegetable, then another.

The Crying Aunt was actually a young woman in her early thirties, and she looked quite pleasing to the eye as she shopped for groceries.

However, in the eyes of the Vegetable Vendor Uncle, it was a different scene.

He saw a grown man with effeminate gestures, speaking in a theatrical tone.

The Vegetable Vendor Uncle's fists clenched.

In the end, the Crying Aunt was laden with purchases. She specifically used water celery to make seaweed rice balls for the male lead.

Soon, the plot reached a turning point.

The Nurse's father was about to pass away, but the Nurse insisted on not visiting him.

The male lead, who had never had a family, longed for contact with his family, even if it was just to see them one last time.

He didn't want the Nurse to lose this opportunity.

The Nurse refused, and they had their first conflict.

It turned out that when the Nurse was very young, her Mother was seriously ill, and she would listen to her Mother's heartbeat every day.

As her Mother's heartbeat gradually weakened.

She became increasingly afraid to stay alone with her Mother.

Afraid her Mother would suddenly pass away.

But her Father left them with nothing but endless waiting.

Later, the male lead visited the Nurse's father and brought her his dying words.

The male lead told the Nurse that he had four ghosts with him, and he could talk to them.

The male lead said, "He is very fortunate to have been with you before he died, and he is also very grateful to you."

"Your father said there's something he absolutely had to give you. He left it where you often meet."

The Nurse looked at the male lead with a cold face, thinking he was talking nonsense.

After being misunderstood by the Nurse, the male lead became very dejected.

He lost his temper with the four ghosts who came to comfort him.

He angrily demanded why they were still bothering him.

Afterward, the male lead chose to commit suicide again.

The next day, the Nurse, lost in thought on the rooftop, saw the bedding in the corner.

Her father used to scold her here often; this was their old spot.

In the corner, the Nurse found a shoebox – a gift from her father.

Suddenly, her father's voice echoed in her ears.

"You dressed so beautifully for our date, how could you not have a pair of nice shoes?"

The nurse was in tears.

Knowing she had misunderstood the male lead, the nurse took the initiative to talk to him and apologize.

The male lead accepted the nurse's apology somewhat awkwardly.

And he told the nurse that now, he could no longer see those ghosts.

Those ghosts had left him.

The male lead said that every time he tried to commit suicide before, he always felt someone waking him up.

After waking up, he would be angry that he hadn't died.

But this time, he woke up on his own.

This time, he had completely changed and wanted to live on with the nurse.

After speaking, the male lead seemed a little shy. Their eyes met in the air, and both became flustered.

They wanted to look away but couldn't help but glance at each other.

In the awkward yet intimate atmosphere, the male lead spoke first:

"Your shoes are very pretty!"

The awkward atmosphere was broken. The nurse blinked her beautiful big eyes and said seriously:

"The videotape you gave me has adult movies on it."

"So you like watching that kind of thing?"

The male lead was instantly mortified, his mouth stammering:

"Th-that wasn't me who picked it..."

The nurse generously took a bite of the rice ball the male lead had made.

Her cheeks puffed out, making her look very cute.

Seeing the nurse eat one, the male lead also ate one. Realizing the rice ball was delicious, the male lead ate another.

The nurse, with her cheeks still puffed out, asked:

"Actually, I was very curious yesterday. Usually, don't they put spinach in seaweed rice balls?

But why did you put water celery in it?"

The male lead replied: "Oh, that's because my Mother often says that water celery is good for a person's blood, so I put water celery in it~"

At this point, the male lead suddenly froze.

In his mind, images flashed by.

When he was little, Crying Aunt feeding him rice balls.

So, Crying Aunt had another identity: his Mother~

He remembered when he was young, his Mother took him to the market, stroking his head.

She wanted to take him, now grown, to the market to buy groceries together.

He remembered when he and his Brother were beaten up by other children.

His Brother always protected him, and in the end, they stood proudly in front of the cinema.

His Brother told him that he would definitely treat him to a movie in the future.

He remembered when his Father bought a new car and excitedly took the whole family for a drive, saying he would teach him to swim by the sea.

He remembered his Grandfather borrowing a camera from the neighbor to take commemorative photos.

The male lead also remembered the day of the car accident.

Only he survived, and he lost his previous memories.

The male lead rushed home.

Looking at the empty room, tears flowed uncontrollably:

"How can you come and go as you please, only doing what you want and then leaving..."

"Why do you always leave without asking my opinion?"

"You're not allowed to leave..."

"Don't leave!"

"Don't go~"

The male lead's voice gradually weakened.

From questioning, to sobbing, it finally turned into pleading.

Just then, the figure of a Child Ghost appeared in front of the male lead.

The male protagonist, tears turned to a smile.

The child grinned, "If you cry and laugh at the same time, your butt will grow hair!"

The child pointed to the toy soldier by the wall:

"I'll give that to you. That thing is too childish, I don't like it."

Several family members also appeared beside the male protagonist one after another.

Perverted Grandpa continued to wear his floral shirt:

"Nothing can move a woman except sincerity!"

Smoker Uncle gestured to the male protagonist and himself, comparing their heights:

"You've grown so tall~ my son!"

The last person the male protagonist saw was Crying Aunt. This time, she finally managed to stop crying.

The male protagonist walked to Crying Aunt's side:

"Mom~ Can't I go with you?"

Crying Aunt shook her head happily, tears in her eyes, her voice stern yet gentle, "No~"

"I'm sorry, Mom, for leaving you alone and going first~"

"Mom is truly sorry to you~"

"You might feel like you are alone."

"But Mom, Grandpa, Dad, and Brother will be by your side."

"You must live on!"

"That girl is pretty good. Does she like the seaweed rice rolls I made?"

The male protagonist nodded vigorously.

"Mhm~"

Receiving the male protagonist's reply, Mom could no longer control herself and hugged him:

"I was worried my son wouldn't recognize me before I left~"

"Thank you for recognizing your useless mother."

"Thank you for growing up so well."

The plot ended with the embrace between mother and son.

Rice Fragrance began to play.

"Remember you said home is the only castle, running gently with the rice fragrance river~"

"Smile, I know the dreams of childhood~"

"Don't cry, let the fireflies take you away, the country songs are an eternal reliance~"

As the soothing song began, many people's moods seemed to be healed.

However, the emotion brought by the movie would not disappear.

In the cinema, many people's eyes turned red.

Happy Family, from the initial laughter and joy, brought waves of laughter to the cinema.

By the middle, there were occasional touching scenes, as well as moments that brought knowing smiles.

It was laugh-out-loud funny.

And by the end, the sudden twist left people bewildered.

But upon careful consideration, it was entirely logical.

The bullet named kinship shot through the audience's hearts.

Many people, because of this movie, felt the urge to go home and visit.

Ye Weiming was the last to leave the cinema.

At this moment, his mind was filled with a thousand thoughts, and his overwhelming emotions finally turned into one sentence:

"I lost!"

"I lost willingly!"