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"Wu Kai didn't come?" Lou Yu was the one to break the awkward silence.
"I asked him, and he said he had arranged to play in a team match with a few old friends. He really wanted to come, but he had no choice..." Ji Yun explained.
There's an art to speaking.
Pure lies are easily detectable.
But every word Ji Yun said was true; he had merely jumbled the sequence, and the effect was indistinguishable from the truth.
"Oh, are you guys still playing that game?" Lou Yu asked.
"Yeah, we play when we're free. By the way, weren't you studying medicine? How come you suddenly made a movie?" Ji Yun redirected the conversation to Lou Yu.
Ji Yun was genuinely curious.
What Lou Yu had experienced abroad over the past decade.
"That's an interesting story. It's just a film club at my university. They often have internships in Hollywood. They needed an Eastern face for a movie, so they recommended me..." Lou Yu explained.
