Secret Love Nest

Revenge Movie Date

Revenge is sweet. And for me revenge was served with popcorn, cold beer and a box of tissue.

Yup, we are watching a movie, and it's a love story. A story of a forbidden love between a princess and a soldier in Ming Dynasty.

The movie is getting closer to the end and here I am, sitting on the edge of the sofa with a popcorn bowl on my lap and tissues on my nose. The princess is dying while her lover is still trying to get to her. Sometimes, life is really unfair! They just want to be together!

Qing: (sounding bored out of his mind) Should I tell you how it will end?

Me: Shhhh! Shhhh! (sniff sniff)

Qing: (sounding disgusted) Are you really crying?

Me: (doesn't care) Yes! (sniff some more) It's a sad scene! Is your heart made of stone? Why are you not affected?

Qing: Because it's a stupid story. The idiotic princess stabbed herself with a poisoned dagger, why would she do that?

Me: (snappish) Because they are threatening her lover!

Qing: Then why kill youself? She should have killed those who threatened her lover! That's what I would do.

I can't take it anymore. I swiped the remote and hit pause then turn to glare at Qing. He sat up straighter when he saw the look on my eyes.

Me: Will you stop it? You have been at it from the start of the movie. Commenting and complaining on every scenes. Nothing will please you, right?

Qing: It's not...we should have chosen a different movie to watch. Not this one...

Me: You mean I should have chosen a different movie. But I like this one. It's wuxia, it has great actors in it and the story plot is interesting...

Qing: (snorting) Interesting? Maybe you mean "nothing new". Movies like this are all the same. Forbidden love, lovers on the run, someone will die...

He stopped when I gave him another squinty look. Qing put his arms in the air.

Qing: (surrendering) Hit play again.

Me: (shoving the popcorn bowl at him instead) Here, eat so your mouth will be busy.

I hit play and the movie started again. The Princess, in her death bed, asking for her lover. Begging the Emperor to give her this last glimpse of happiness. Then the soldier suddenly appear, kicking the door of her room open. Tears and anguished in his eyes.

(Oh my God, this is so sad!)

Qing: (suddenly laughing) Unbelievable. Did he really get inside the palace and run around it to get to the princess without an army chasing him? Are you kidding me?

Me: (wanting to pour beer on his head) That happened already! In the last sequences, they showed him fighting the palace's guards.

Qing: Oh really? And he won? How many guards are there? One?

Me: (snapping again) There are many guards!

Qing: Like how many?

Me: (did he really asked me that?!) Is this really important?

Qing: (nodding) Yes

Me: Hundreds! There are hundreds of guards in the palace.

Qing: (eating a popcorn) And he passed them all? Wow! Is he even human?