The backstage staff asked each contestant participating in the fashion show to line up according to the number on their brooch.
Lu Xiaoyou glanced at the person beside her.
The contestant with number 17 was absent, and standing next to her was someone wearing the number 18 brooch. She recalled the girl who'd bumped into her earlier—she seemed to be wearing a black dress, about five centimeters shorter than herself, with chestnut-colored hair, nearly matching the girl beside her.
"Excuse me, did you bump into someone earlier and drop your brooch on the ground?"
Lu Xiaoyou spoke up, and the girl beside her was startled. She looked at Lu Xiaoyou in surprise, "You are...?"
Lu Xiaoyou removed her own brooch, "It seems we've taken each other's brooches by mistake."
The girl looked at the brooch in Lu Xiaoyou's hand. She wore a mask, so Lu Xiaoyou couldn't see her current expression, but she could feel an awkwardness permeating the air between them.
