Tokyo, Roppongi.
As Ji Minghuan approached the phone booth, he asked Ke Qirui, "So how did you two end up in Tokyo?"
Ke Qirui smiled at him. "I happened to have work in Tokyo, so I brought Mai Mai along."
As she explained, she extended her right hand and lightly tapped on the glass door of the phone booth.
Hearing the knock, Su Zimai, who had been hiding inside, turned around nervously. Seeing that only Gu Wenyu remained outside the booth, she breathed a sigh of relief, slowly lowered the red phone from her ear, and walked out with feigned composure.
She gave Ji Minghuan an expressionless look and fell silent for two seconds. "Thanks."
"And what's my reward for getting you out of that?" Ji Minghuan asked bluntly, both hands in his pockets.
"I'll treat you to an all-you-can-eat sushi meal. My group and I..." Su Zimai paused halfway through.
"Your group?"
"My teacher," Su Zimai corrected herself. "My teacher and I were just about to go eat sushi. Come with us. She's paying."
"Don't make me sound like some rich woman keeping underage girls." Ke Qirui took a pipe from her pocket and put it between her lips, defending herself nonchalantly. "I'm only a lovely nineteen-year-old girl myself. I'm not much older than you two."
"A pipe?" Ji Minghuan raised an eyebrow. "Oh... that's pretty rare. Especially for a lovely nineteen-year-old woman to be carrying one."
Ke Qirui didn't know how to respond for a moment, so she put on the innocent expression of a child caught hiding a toy from an adult and said, "Oh my... I let it slip."
She turned to Su Zimai. "What should we do, Mai Mai? Your brother isn't going to lecture me for being a smoker, then act first and ask