The lights on the ceiling of the theater came back on, and the people sitting below seemed to wake up from their daze.
Tiger blinked hard at his sore eyes, rubbed his trembling arms covered in goosebumps, and then let out a long breath.
I initially thought it was going to be a satisfying read, but it turned into a tragic love story. Then I thought it was a battle between good and evil with equal strength, but in the end, good triumphed over evil. But when the finale revealed the truth, I realized it was still a satisfying read after all.
Shu Yuxiu is a liar—the secretary had already warned him about it at the very beginning of the story.
"Be careful of Shu Yuxiu."
He's a liar, a liar who can manipulate everyone.
However, as the audience followed the investigation team to conduct an in-depth investigation, they gradually forgot this reminder, thinking that Shu Yuxiu had been arrested and victory was assured, and then they followed the investigation team's line of thought astray.
It wasn't until long after Shu Yuxiu's "death" that they, like Officer Zhang in the movie, suddenly realized the truth.
Everyone was deceived from the very beginning!
The people they were liaising with were fake from the very beginning!
Shu Yuxiu deceived both sides, bribing his secretary to liaise with the police on Qi Baishan's behalf, and then having the secretary use his position to introduce Qi Baishan to "Officer Zhang," who was posing as an investigator. The secretary would also keep Qi Baishan informed of fabricated police "investigation findings," thus inducing Qi Baishan to lose faith in the police and ultimately drive him to extremes, deciding to seek revenge in secret and commit murder to vent his anger.
Meanwhile, Officer Zhang, the real investigator, was constantly led astray by false intelligence from his secretary. He began investigating Shu Yuxiu's past, shifting the focus from Shu Yuxiu's murder of his wife to past events, digging deeper into the murders Shu Yuxiu was suspected of committing back then. This greatly increased the time Shu Yuxiu had to transfer his current assets and prepare to flee.
The most ridiculous thing is that in the end everyone really went astray, and no one cared about the truth of the wife-killing case at the beginning anymore—clearly this case was Shu Yuxiu's biggest flaw and the beginning of Qi Baishan's suspicion of Shu Yuxiu!
No one knows whether the past that Shu Yuxiu talks about is a lie he has carefully woven all along.
What is true and what is false in what he said in the interrogation room and what the audience saw on screen?
Or perhaps it was all a deliberate illusion created by Shu Yuxiu to mislead everyone, and everything we had encountered before was just a lie told by Shu Yuxiu?
Is the truth behind Officer Zhang's speculation about Shu Yuxiu's "crime" in the interrogation room actually true?
What is the connection between Zhu Zhipeng, his parents, and the people Shu Yuxiu came into contact with back then?
After so many years of "accidents," no matter how the investigation team investigated, they could not find any evidence of Shu Yuxiu's crime. Was it because Shu Yuxiu had cleaned up the mess too thoroughly, or did it all simply not exist, and an accident is just an accident?
After watching the shockingly unexpected ending, Tiger's mental string, just like Officer Zhang's, completely snapped!
For some reason, the man's reserved and arrogant face seemed to reappear before his eyes, smiling elegantly at the camera.
"I never lie."
"It's just that you all like to believe what you want to believe."
"For example, right now, would you believe what I'm saying?"
He sat in the chair for a long time, his face even bearing the same silly grin as Officer Zhang.
No bait, no bait, those who are willing will take the bait.
What Shu Yuxiu said in the interrogation room was nothing less than a form of psychological suggestion.
Even though there was no bait on the hook, no one believed it.
After all, how could there be no bait on the fishing hook?
How could what Shu Yuxiu said be true?
How could those people's deaths be unrelated to him?
—When everyone harbors doubts about Shu Yuxiu and tries to verify those past events one by one, they are already like foolish fish that have taken the bait.
But by the time they found out, it was too late.
Only the goosebumps trembling on his body silently revealed Tiger's inner horror and the storm raging in his mind.
This ending was far more divine than he had imagined!
There's no need to explain Shu Yuxiu's final whereabouts, no need to leave the protagonist's life or death in suspense, and no need to worry about whether the "villainous protagonist's" victory will pass censorship, because on the surface, Shu Yuxiu's death is a foregone conclusion!
Even if everyone who sees the end has already guessed the final answer, it's too late to verify the truth.
In the end, all that was left for everyone was a corpse that could not speak!
Is this Shu Yuxiu's true strength?
Does Shu Yuxiu really exist?
In this story, which cases are true and which are false?
Tiger had completely lost interest in watching the next few movies and opened the ticketing interface on his phone with trembling hands.
What he didn't notice was that even though the movie had ended and there were no post-credits scenes, many of the audience members around him were still sitting in their seats, lost in their own thoughts, unable to come back to their senses for a long time.
Tiger couldn't help but curse when he realized with despair that the cinema had sold out of tickets for today's screening of "No Bait".
"grass!"
Where are the tickets? There aren't a single one left.
I'm going to watch it again!
There are still many details inside that I haven't seen clearly yet!
Did Shu Yuxiu actually kill those people?
Hurry up! Give me a ticket for the next showing!
Tiger finally felt the torment. He was now truly restless and itchy, unable to fall asleep until he got an answer.
As Tiger spoke, curses from other spectators began to emanate from the surrounding area.
"Damn, where are the tickets? There aren't any left today!"
"Standing tickets! I strongly demand standing tickets! I'm not asking for much, I'd even be willing to squat on the steps to see the view!"
"I feel like I missed an important detail earlier on, I need to watch it again to make sure!"
"What should I do? I desperately need to watch it again!"
"No way, how come everyone's typing speed is so fast! Damn it!"
Tiger sat blankly in his chair, listening to the shouts and commotion of the others, feeling as if a part of his soul had been forever left in "No Bait".
Damn it, how is he supposed to deal with the next piece of shit movie now?!
Don't blame Tiger for being blunt, but based on his observations of the films released during the May Day holiday, the only one that's somewhat anticipated is "No Bait".
As for the quality of other movies... emmm, it's really a bit worrying.
According to Tiger's many years of movie-watching experience, the most exciting parts are usually in the trailers.
Now, he's eating gourmet food for his first movie in the morning, but what will he do when the "eating shit" part comes later?
Tiger clutched the stack of movie tickets in his hand, on the verge of tears.
Damn! I should have saved the best parts for last!
How is he going to survive today!
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Meanwhile, Xiao He was also in the theater, having watched the entire movie.
It's really funny, because of Ding Wanyu's matter, Xiao He missed the premiere of "No Bait", and he didn't find a chance to watch the subsequent audience screenings either, as he was busy with various activities and social events.
So it's only now that Xiao He has had time to finally finish reading his own work.
To be honest, Xiao He was quite shocked when he saw the plot.
Because of the plot twist at the end, Xiao He himself didn't know that this part wasn't in the script he received. Director Ning didn't use the four versions he knew, but a completely °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° new version that had been edited.
So it wasn't until this very last moment that he finally learned the complete plot of "No Bait".
Xiao He watched the rolling curtain call in the movie and felt both amused and exasperated.
So, was he not the one who sank to the bottom of the sea in the end?
Good grief, he played the "corpse," but ended up being the "stand-in."
This could be considered Director Ning's quirky sense of humor.
After going through so many twists and turns in the filming, even the lead actor himself didn't know the plot would turn out this way.
However... this plot is indeed more interesting than the four versions he knew.
Logically, a storyline that overturns all the previous plot points should easily provoke dissatisfaction, similar to creating suspense in the first part and then telling you it's all a dream. However, given the plot of "No Bait" and the character design of Seo Yoo-soo, the audience doesn't seem to mind.
Even seeing the final twist brings a sense of satisfaction.
It seems... that's how Shu Yuxiu was supposed to be.
