"If not, I'll go back and give him an earful."
The young man was perfectly serious.
"And I still get points?"
"Clearly, I just lost points."
The young woman and young man walked away, chatting and laughing.
"Phew..."
Chi Xiuke let out a small breath.
They hadn't known whether to leave or stay.
In the end, they could only remain where they were.
Fortunately, the others hadn't kept them waiting long.
The young man had apologized readily afterward.
The guy in the baseball cap had been very magnanimous, too.
He'd been pretty sharp-tongued earlier.
Clearly, he'd been really angry.
But after the young man and woman apologized, he hadn't given them a hard time.
He'd simply accepted their apology.
Then he'd left.
"Xiao—"
Chi Xiuke swallowed the rest of her words.
The growing din drew closer to where they stood.
A movie in another theater had just ended.
The audience streamed out.
In an instant, the quiet hallway grew lively.
Chi Xiuke blinked.
She was just about to continue what she'd been saying to Master Xiao—
When she heard a few young men talking.
"Hey, what happened to you? Where'd you go?"
"Yeah, we turned around and you were gone."
"Forget it, don't ask."
"You guys had already left, and just as I was about to get up, I forgot the drink on the armrest and nearly knocked it over."
"Luckily, I'd almost finished it."
"There was only a little left at the bottom of the cup."
"So it didn't spill."
"But it really scared me."
"I scrambled to catch the cup."
"I thought I'd gotten off pretty lightly."
"It was just a false alarm, after all."
"If I'd spilled the drink on myself, that would've been awful."
"But guess what happened next?"
"What?"
"Did