Not long after the two women left, they ran into a group of people who were just about to head out.
The timelines of the two dreams had caught up with each other.
Miss Sakai and Mrs. Yoshinaga had accompanied Mrs. Shimada and the others to find the director. It seemed Nanten had been in the director's room at the time, so he had come out with them.
The two groups greeted each other and exchanged a few words about what they had seen.
I wanted to get closer to Nanten, but as soon as our eyes met, he looked away and stepped beside the male lead, Furukawa Kazuma.
When I tried to approach him again, I couldn't get any closer.
The narrow inn corridor and the crowd kept Han Ji too far away from Nanten.
The whole group was preparing to head together to the back gate Mrs. Shimada had mentioned. The father and son from the Shimada family were among them, speaking quietly with Mrs. Shimada.
Han Ji couldn't understand them and didn't ask any questions. I could only float along with the crowd, helplessly.
Nanten seemed unable to see me, though he could sense that I was there. He deliberately avoided me, and he couldn't hear my voice, so all I could do was stare.
Han Ji and Bian Sijun lagged behind at the end of the crowd, while Nanten squeezed in beside the director.
They reached the back gate, but from where Han Ji stood, she couldn't see much.
I flew a little higher and looked down at the gate.
From above, I could see the fence that encircled the entire hot spring resort. It wasn't a sturdy security measure; it looked more like a way of staking out territory, merely marking the boundary. The fence