The boy's eyes were also red and teary. He seemed a little embarrassed at having cried in public.
Everyone who saw the movie emerged from the cinema hall with red, puffy eyes. Ticket sales for the first day had been lukewarm at best, but on the second day, most of the showings were full. The cinemas had started out by showing the movie only once or twice a day, but it soon became apparent that there was massive demand for tickets for this specific movie, and the cinema had responded by increasing the showings to four a day, and then to six. By the third day, it was clear that the low budget Divorced was the dark horse among all the movies that had debuted on New Year's Day: it was such a hit now that every showing was sold out. The box office earnings had increased from the paltry hundreds of thousands yuan on the first day to a shocking 100 million on the third day.
