[They're here! Su Ying and the others are here!]

Stop bragging! You three, get into position right now! Don't let Su Ying and Zhu Mingyue notice anything amiss!

[They probably won't notice, right? They're all so well disguised!]

[Wow, this is so exciting! Is this the same kind of hide-and-seek I played as a kid?]

[May God not find out! May Mingyue and Su Ying retreat, retreat, retreat!]

"!!!!"

Su Ying's voice was like an alarm bell, and the three people outside the eaves froze the moment it rang.

Three pairs of eyes stared wide-eyed in unison, none of them expecting Su Ying and Zhu Mingyue to arrive so quickly.

Zhu Mingyue hummed in agreement, her unhurried footsteps almost catching up with Xiao Li's tail.

"Little Fish, is your coffee good?"

Shi Jing was the first to come to her senses and asked Xiao Li in a fake female voice.

Xiao Li reacted quickly, replying almost immediately: "Mine was alright, just average, not as good as people say online."

"Oh..." Shi Jing nodded, then buried her head and pretended to look at her phone. "Luckily I didn't try it on my own, otherwise it would have been such a waste of money."

“Indeed.” Xiao Li leaned against the door, tilting her head and watching Zhu Jinzhao haphazardly type on the keyboard, and thoughtfully reminded her.

"Xiao Ai, have you finished editing your video? If you have, could you help me with that?"

Zhu Jinzhao, with a straw in his mouth and typing on the keyboard with only one hand, said indistinctly upon hearing this, "Okay, send me your video, I'll see how much I can help..."

While the three of them were rambling on and on, Zhu Mingyue and Su Ying finally came out of the living room.

Seeing staff members sitting on benches working, neither of them felt strange. Instead, they sensibly moved a few steps away to avoid being filmed by the cameras.

“It’s so open outside the eaves, I feel it would be difficult for someone to hide,” Su Ying said as she walked.

Zhu Mingyue replied in a nonchalant tone, "Maybe..."

The corridor outside the eaves wasn't very long, and Su Ying and Zhu Mingyue quickly reached its end, then turned left into the villa's backyard.

"call……"

The three men, who had been feigning madness, exhaled simultaneously. As their anxiety dissipated, an uncontrollable surge of elation welled up within them.

"I dodged it, I dodged it!"

Shi Jing gripped the coffee cup, squeezing the ice cubes so excitedly they made a "whooshing" sound.

Zhu Jinzhao grinned smugly, his hands trembling as he typed.

[Hahaha! They really didn't notice! Wishing you a fantastic day!]

[Awesome! This is what they call "the most dangerous place is the safest"! Ning Shi's play in the first round was too childish!]

【Yo yo yo, I have a feeling another group is going to forfeit!】

"Chao Chao, I think we're going to get first place again today!"

Shi Jing, carried away by his triumph, blurted out Zhu Jinzhao's name, but the next second, he heard Xiao Li cough very deliberately.

"Cough cough!"

In daily life, a sudden cough usually has many meanings—

Either the cough is genuinely due to a sore throat and is simply a physiological cough; or it's an attempt to express sarcasm or taunts; or it's a sign of approaching danger that's too inconvenient to speak, so the cough serves as a warning.

At this moment, Xiao Li's cough clearly falls into the last category.

Zhu Jinzhao and Shi Jing instantly understood and quickly opened their mouths to spout nonsense to cover up what they had just said.

"Xiaoyi, what do you think of this audio? Is it suitable?"

As he spoke, Zhu Jinzhao casually played a song on the computer.

Shi Jing didn't listen to the song at all; he just pretended to say, "I think it's not quite there yet. How about you change it to a different style?"

“Other styles…” Zhu Jinzhao searched earnestly while secretly glancing up and staring intently at Su Ying and Zhu Mingyue’s returning figures.

"Then what style of song should I look for..."

"Da, da, da..."

As the footsteps drew closer, Su Ying and Zhu Mingyue passed by the bench again.

Shi Jing tightened his voice, feigning distress, and said, "I'm not really sure either. I just felt that the song from earlier didn't quite match your video..."

Zhu Jinzhao: "Then I'll study the video a bit more."

Xiao Li nodded: "Yes, that's fine."

"There's no one outside the eaves. Let's search the room again."

Zhu Mingyue walked back to the living room, her cold and slightly hoarse voice finally returning inside the door.

Su Ying: "Okay, let's go look for it again then."

After saying that, she and Zhu Mingyue walked one after the other toward the spiral staircase, completely abandoning the "roof" area.

Xiao Li kept watching their backs out of the corner of his eye until he saw them walk up the stairs and head towards the third floor, then he felt relieved and looked away.

"They're gone, they're really gone now..."

[Phew...that scared me to death!! The production team has to pay compensation!]

[Hey, who gave you permission to make hide-and-seek so scary? It scared me so much I practically broke my poop into several pieces!]

[Oh my god, when Su Ying and Zhu Mingyue passed by for the second time, I was really afraid Zhu Jinzhao would be discovered! My heart was pounding.]

[Thanks to Xiao Li's quick reminder, otherwise Shi Jing would have called out "Chao Chao" again, and Zhu Mingyue and Su Ying would definitely have discovered them.]

I'm a dog rushing to take the imperial examination: [Damn it, I'm going to send Xiao Li a banner!]

Having narrowly escaped a search, the three cosplayers are now much more cautious.

Xiao Li glanced into the living room a few times and saw Zhu Mingyue and Su Ying enter Suite No. 2 together, so he quickly slipped into the temporary office.

"We can't keep being so carefree; we have to take this seriously!" Zhu Jinzhao said solemnly.

Shi Jing adjusted his glasses and asked in a low voice, "How do we put it on?"

Zhu Jinzhao thought for a moment and said, "In order to show how busy we are, we have to keep typing on the keyboard and whisper to each other to exchange opinions from time to time."

Shi Jing: "So..."

Zhu Jinzhao: "So the two of us can write novels on the computer! I'll write a paragraph, then you write another paragraph. This will not only make us look like we're working diligently, but also show that we're very busy and professional!"

“This…” Shi Jing blinked blankly. “The idea is good, but I’ve never written a novel before, and I don’t know how to write it.”

"If you don't know, just write something random. We're just putting on an act anyway."

As she spoke, Zhu Jinzhao put down her coffee, deleted the random text she had just typed on the screen, and then briefly began writing the novel for the two of them.

—On an ordinary morning, Xiao Jinzhao bought a lottery ticket and was astonished to find that she had won 500 million! Xiao Jinzhao became a rich woman!

After setting the stage, Zhu Jinzhao turned the computer towards the Time Mirror.

Shi Jing pondered for a moment and then added a paragraph below the beginning.

—The rich woman has a lot of money now, so she went to a high-end luxury store to buy clothes.

May this day continue.

—The wealthy woman walked into the store today and said to the clerk in a very extravagant manner, "You, help me take down all the clothes from the top row!"