"Dad, Mom, big brother, third brother, it really is you!"
Xu Chao's surprised, delighted voice rang out over the bar.
The three Mr. Xus and one Ms. Lin all looked awkward and flustered to varying degrees.
His eldest brother, Xu Dongsen, frowned and loosened his tie. After years apart, he seemed to have been mistaken for a thief the first time he saw his youngest brother again. What should he do? Waiting for answers online. Urgent!
His third brother, Xu Chuan, urgently put his eyebrows, eyes, and lips to work, trying to squeeze out a smile that was awkward yet still handsome.
In the end, their experienced father, Xu Ruhan, who remained calm in a crisis, shouldered it all.
"We told Chen Chong before we came. Didn't he let you know beforehand?" With one mild question, Xu Ruhan tossed the problem straight to Xu Chao's manager.
Without thinking much of it, Xu Chao replied, "No. We've been filming on this deserted island these past two days, and the production team confiscated our phones. Even if that dog-uh... Chong called me, I couldn't have answered."
Xu Ruhan nodded calmly. "That was an oversight on my part. Next time we visit you on set, I'll contact the director directly."
The director, who had watched the Xu family get off the plane and land on the deserted island last night, silently pressed his lips together. Heh. Keep pretending. Let's see you keep this up.
But Xu Chao's eyes lit up the moment he heard "visit you on set."
Back in his original world, when he used to spend time on film sets, the leads always had lots of relatives and friends visiting them. Xu Chao had always envied them, because no one had ever visited him on set. He had always been all