The actors were waiting in the lobby for the car carrying their luggage to arrive.
When he saw Jiang Xia and the others, the male lead playing "Napoleon" walked over and struck up a friendly conversation. "I heard you're planning to return to Japan tomorrow too?"
Jiang Xia came back to himself and nodded. "We booked tickets back to Tokyo."
The male lead laughed. "Then you might have to change them. We're heading to Hokkaido next—Kid hasn't made a move on the gem yet. If you want to continue the commission, I'm afraid you'll have to come with us."
As the two chatted casually.
A short distance away.
Maki Juri leaned against a corridor pillar, silently watching the scene. Remembering how she had asked her assistant to invite Jiang Xia over earlier, only for the young man to ignore her, she could not help frowning.
Seeing her expression, the assistant quickly guessed what the bad-tempered famous actress was thinking.
Afraid of becoming the target of her anger, she softly persuaded her, "It isn't that Jiang Xia didn't want to follow your instructions. A child went missing, and they had to find him first. When I went to invite him just now, I found that they were all anxiously preparing to look for the child, so they didn't have time to think about the commission."
She felt a little guilty about the latter half of that explanation. In her eyes, although Jiang Xia really had been looking for the child, he had not seemed particularly anxious, and neither had his companions. Perhaps that child got lost every day, and they had all grown used to it. Even now, there was no sign of the child anywhere.
Although Maki Juri could read a little microexpression, she had no interest in speculating about