That the Boss could influence some characters to act according to her wishes made Mingmei more wary.

In the past few days, she had been observing the players who came to her shop more carefully.

Although it wasn't obvious, some attentive people could still sense that Mingmei had been acting strangely lately.

For example, Yuan Fang.

"Ah, is it that obvious?"

Mingmei didn't seem to hide anything after Yuan Fang spoke.

She appeared open and honest, but little did people know that Mingmei had rehearsed what she said countless times in her mind.

"Yes, I feel like you've been looking at everyone with a bit of scrutiny lately."

Yuan Fang's suspicion lessened a bit when he saw how frank Mingmei was being.

Still, he remained suspicious.

"After all, we don't know the original story of this game, and we don't know what story we're following now.

Although everyone is playing different roles, I'm wondering if there might be some connection."

Mingmei shifted her suspicion to another area.

How much of a role did the characters everyone was playing have in the story?

"Maybe that way we can deduce what Mona is trying to do..." Mingmei said, looking at Yuan Fang with curiosity. "You and Bai Xiao... Since your character backgrounds mention the death of your daughter, that matter should be very important, right?"

At least, it was very important to the two of you.

Mingmei didn't say the last sentence directly, but she saw the fleeting panic in Yuan Fang's eyes when she mentioned it.

Sure enough, Yuan Fang and Bai Xiao had a story.

If she guessed correctly, the couple also played a significant role in Mona's script.

She should have paid attention when Bai Xiao was acting strangely.

Mingmei felt a little annoyed.

At the same time, the fire at Dongcheng Middle School flashed through her mind.

Could it be—Mingmei couldn't help but take another look at Yuan Fang.

"Our daughter is naturally important to us..." Yuan Fang said, his voice a little hoarse. "But it shouldn't be important to this world... Her existence is just one of the tragedies mentioned in the newspapers due to the neglect of students' mental health."

Yuan Fang smiled wryly and looked at Mingmei, asking, "Don't tell me you think Bai Xiao and I will do something insane later on?"

"No, I don't think you will."

But the roles you play are hard to say.

Mingmei denied the other party's suspicion, but as she looked away from Yuan Fang and turned to pour herself a glass of water, more doubts began to arise in her heart.

She and Mu Chen talked a lot when they were alone, and the pieced-together information vaguely led to some deductions about Mona.

However, Mingmei felt that her and Mu Chen's deductions would have to wait for one thing to happen before they could be completely confirmed—the parent-teacher conference.

Mingmei was very curious to see what Mona, who had specifically mentioned Zhen Hu to attend the parent-teacher conference and paid special attention to Lu Xiaoyao, would do this time.

Thinking of this, Mingmei looked up at the clock on the wall. It was 1:30 p.m., and there were still two hours until their parent-teacher conference...

"Daisy, is your dad coming to the parent-teacher conference today?"

Lu Xiaoyao noticed that Mona was particularly beautiful today. Although everyone was wearing school uniforms, Lu Xiaoyao still noticed Mona's careful dress-up at a glance.

She wore a butterfly knot that she didn't usually wear, and her low-tied twin ponytails made Mona, who usually wore high ponytails, less childish and cute, and more sweet and mature.

When Lu Xiaoyao got closer to her, she also smelled the perfume that she rarely sprayed.

"I don't know, I didn't ask."

Lu Xiaoyao didn't expect that her character's phone didn't even have Sheila's phone number, who was played by Hu Yue, which showed how tense their character relationship was!

And Lu Xiaoyao did have the phone number of Julian, who played her father, but Julian said a few days ago that he had to work overtime and couldn't come.

Therefore, even though she knew that Hu Yue would be attending the parent-teacher conference this time, Lu Xiaoyao still said that she didn't know.

But she felt blocked up.

Mona clearly saw the irritability on her face, but Mona still smiled and moved closer to Lu Xiaoyao, saying, "My dad promised me that he would come to the parent-teacher conference~ I just begged him hard to come over, you can try it next time."

"Is that so?"

Lu Xiaoyao didn't know what she was thinking, and her face turned yellow.

Damn it!

This crappy game, the character assignment is too unfriendly!

Lu Xiaoyao almost wanted to slap herself in the face because of her crooked thoughts.

Stop it!

This is a game, not reality!

Don't imagine some little lovers' tricks!

Looking at Lu Xiaoyao, whose ears were gradually turning red, Mona couldn't help but curl up the corners of her mouth where Lu Xiaoyao couldn't see...

In the hot dog shop.

"I said! You two fathers!"

Mingmei was stunned. These two had come to her shop on a whim before the parent-teacher conference and said they wanted to buy hot dogs to bring to their children.

"Which parent would take the initiative to give their children hot dogs? You should at least... buy small cakes?"

It wasn't that she didn't want to earn the money, but what kind of reason was that?

"How did you two suddenly come up with this idea?"

Even Yuan Fang couldn't stand it anymore, and asked with a sidelong glance, "It's not that you two want to eat it yourselves, right? And then you thought, since you're here, you might as well bring a copy to the children, right?"

"Ah! No wonder you each bought two!"

Mingmei realized what was going on and was speechless.

"We finally took time off to come to the parent-teacher conference, and we haven't had lunch yet. If we eat it, your hot dogs are delicious, but the smell is a bit strong, and we'll definitely be smelled later."

Zhen Hu explained, "What would others think if they knew we ate hot dogs before attending the parent-teacher conference?"

Mingmei: "So?"

"So we said the children like it, and we bought it for the children, and the smell was what we smelled in the shop at that time."

Julian was skilled at throwing the blame on his children, and Mingmei looked at him twice.

Was this—was he often blamed by his father at home?

Julian noticed the look in Mingmei's eyes that seemed to see through everything, and his eyes flickered evasively.

After all, every time his father was caught destroying his gentleman's image when he was a child, the blame was always placed on him.

For example, when his father and mother quarreled and his mother kicked his father out of the presidential residence, his father slept in the office for a month.

After it was exposed at the time, the blame was actually placed on him, saying that he was too young and too clingy, and that in order to exercise his independence, the president left home to help him become independent and self-reliant.

Oh, there were actually many people who believed this stupid reason after it was widely reported!

He had shattered his father's perfect filter because of these things, although he later pieced it back together.

However, Julian felt that it was a really good idea to personally apply what his father had done now!

So, after the two of them finished eating the hot dogs and packed them up to take away under the dead fish eyes of Mingmei and Yuan Fang, Mingmei immediately went to see Lu Xiaoyao's perspective the day after tomorrow.

She wanted to see what Lu Xiaoyao's reaction would be.