Mayuko Togaki heard the lead actor's invitation and repeatedly waved her hands in refusal, her face flushing red with embarrassment.
The director tried to smooth things over. "That won't do. Didn't I tell you? She's about to marry this kid." He patted the assistant director beside him on the shoulder.
The assistant director's face reddened as well.
Pink bubbles seemed to fill the air as the couple gazed lovingly at each other, while the handsome actor who had been rejected turned livid.
But just then, someone else suddenly intruded on the stable triangle.
The prop master let out a few sinister chuckles. "Marriage? That really is good news. But heh heh, whether you two can actually make it happen is another matter."
The assistant director had finally gotten to the point of marriage with his assistant, only for this guy to pour cold water on it again. He snapped, "Say that again?!"
The prop master gave an infuriating grin. "I mean that it's easy for joy to turn into sorrow in any situation. I wasn't talking only about you two. Why are you getting so worked up?"
As he spoke, a burst of sharp, mocking laughter suddenly rang out from his body.
Following the sound, Jiang Xia saw that the prop master was wearing a strange Wristwatch. Its face bore the image of a skeleton; hours and minutes showed in its two pitch-black eye sockets. The sound it made was just like a skeleton letting out a cackling sneer.
The prop master felt that he and his Wristwatch had coordinated perfectly this time.
He waited smugly until it finished ringing, then, beneath the assistant director's murderous glare, leisurely fiddled with the watch cover. "So? Interesting ring tone, right? I bought it when I went to the United States."
Then he