Underworld Player Chapter 119 - The Necklace

"Excellent, Phase 1 completed."

Moments after Bai Zhi and Lin XiaoYi walked into the auditorium, a furtive-looking Xia Wen peeked her head out of the nearby stairwell, one hand on her earpiece.

"XiaoYi, once you're in, get into position. Rendezvous in two minutes."

Xia Wen, professional wingman, may have never been on a date herself, but she knew the theory intimately. If all the world were a game, then she was a most competent dating sim player.

This "dating" thing was just like capturing a target in-game, and the way to unlock the achievement was clearly to fill the relationship meter by saying and doing things that pleased the target in real life!

She had arrived thirty minutes ahead of time to scope out the theater. The auditorium was on the third floor, so Xia Wen had taken up a position in the stairwell, from where she had an unobstructed view of the entire place.

There, she had lain in wait until Bai Zhi walked up the front steps. On her signal, Lin XiaoYi had executed the first phase of their plan, which capitalized on his loathing for sweet foods to orchestrate a perfect encounter at the vending machine.

Xia Wen was confident that the brief interaction had surely increased Bai Zhi's affection for Lin XiaoYi by at least five points—a good start.

She didn't even need her Plan B, which she had prepared because, frankly speaking, Xia Wen had feared that Bai Zhi would flake on them at the last minute, as he had a reputation for doing. Oh, the lengths she went to for her dear bestie.

I wonder if that lady I bumped into came from the previous screening...?

Xia Wen frowned as she looked toward the restrooms.

It had been half an hour since the middle-aged lady had rushed inside.

Perhaps she was overthinking it, or perhaps it was some sort of instinct, but she could not shake the feeling that the lady gave her the creeps. To use a more visceral description, it felt like she'd seen a cockroach run across her path. It simply left her with an inexplicably unsettling gut feeling.

I hope it's just my imagination. Nobody

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