Origin Mall.
The shop door was closed, and a faint layer of white frost covered the flagstones before it and the Gatekeeping Stone beside it.
Knock, knock, knock...
Someone knocked on the shop door.
"Stop knocking, stop knocking. I'm coming."
A response came from behind the door, accompanied by the faint sound of a yawn.
Then the shop door opened, revealing the scene behind it. The girl looked bleary-eyed, as though she had only just gotten up, and her fine purple hair was slightly disheveled.
Yao Ziyue truly had not woken up yet.
More precisely, she had read novels in the shop until the early hours last night, and it had been less than two hours since she fell asleep.
Of course, whether she slept or not did not really have any substantial effect on Yao Ziyue. It was merely a matter of habit.
There were three familiar faces outside.
Shinkai Seiko, Gu Yunxi, and Jiang Wanshang.
The moment the shop door opened, Gu Yunxi could not wait to walk inside, while the other two followed at an unhurried pace.
"Yawn~" Yao Ziyue rubbed her eyes. "You're here so early... Say, don't you still have a movie to film? That... what was it called again?"
"Your Name," Jiang Wanshang answered.
"Oh, right, Your Name." Yao Ziyue nodded repeatedly. "You're not filming anymore? Didn't you just take a break a couple of days ago?"
She had visited Shinkai Seiko's film set before. Everything there was orderly, and everyone had clear, precise assignments.
It stood in stark contrast to when a certain boss filmed movies.
"What could be more important than a newly released game?" Gu Yunxi retorted casually.
"But hadn't you already gone to the boss's Hearthstone Tavern?" Yao Ziyue felt that Gu Yunxi's reasoning did not hold water.
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