Lu Jiaoyue hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
Bai Xinyan looked at her skeptically. "...Are you sure?"
With everyone staring at her in doubt, Lu Jiaoyue grew a little nervous.
But no... she couldn't show any fear!
Remembering her sister's instructions, Lu Jiaoyue nodded firmly this time. To make her testimony more convincing, she described the details more thoroughly:
"I saw it in the grass beside a tree. At first... at first, I just wanted to find some perilla leaves for seasoning, but then I suddenly spotted this strange thing. It even had the production team's logo on it, so I brought it back!"
Before today, Lu Jiaoyue had never told such a smooth lie. Lu Xiaoxiao had certainly brought out her hidden potential.
When everyone stayed silent, she tentatively raised the scroll in her hand a little higher and asked, "Um... I opened it and took a look. It seems to be an incomplete map. Does anyone want to keep it safe?"
Worried that her question sounded too deliberate, Lu Jiaoyue studied her teammates' expressions before adding, "It's not that I don't want to keep it, but I... I'm a little careless sometimes! This should be pretty important, right? I'm afraid I might accidentally lose it, and that wouldn't be good!"
While Lu Jiaoyue stole glances at everyone's faces, Lu Shiyan was observing her from beside her.
He noticed that as Lu Jiaoyue explained, her eyes would occasionally drift toward the upper right without her realizing it-in psychology, looking toward the upper right generally indicated that a person was constructing an imagined scene. It was a common microexpression associated with lying.
Lu Shiyan wasn't surprised at all. He could even guess that Lu Xiaoxiao had spoken to Lu Jiaoyue in private. After all, she was the one who had