Xie Zhiwen and Wu Guilan were getting on in years, so they went to bed promptly at nine.
Mu Xingfeng and Xie Yunshu also returned to their room to rest, leaving the younger ones in the living room to watch a movie.
A foreign horror movie had recently come out. Word was that it had been well received and could scare people to tears, so, with nothing else to do, they decided to see whether that was true.
Mo Chengzhou simply wanted to spend a little longer with Yan Wen. With his old-fashioned sleep schedule, he should have been in bed by now.
Mu Xu Xi thoughtfully brought over several blankets and prepared drinks and snacks. Everything was ready; all that remained was to start the movie.
They moved the sofas into a row. Yan Wen and Tang Yun sat in the middle, Mu Xu Ci and Mo Chengzhou sat at either end, and Mu Xu Xi sat beside Tang Yun.
Tang Yun pulled the blanket covering him and Yan Wen a little higher. "Let's start."
Yan Wen nodded solemnly and pressed play on the remote.
The movie opened on an abandoned house. A disheveled woman held an axe drenched in blood, screaming in terror and despair. The camera cut away to reveal five or six bodies strewn across the floor, their deaths gruesome and horrifying.
Then the movie began in earnest.
Seeing the main characters' family move into the old-looking house in such a remote area, Yan Wen couldn't help asking, "Was there no room for them in the city? Why would they live somewhere like this? If they got a fever, they wouldn't even need a cremation furnace by the time they reached the hospital."
Tang Yun shook his head. "That's how foreign horror movies work. The more