Chapter One: Three Million for a Fake Romance

"I know," Xu Zhi replied. "Your lips didn't move." "It wasn't a recording either." "Then you thought it." He was silent, and the silence answered for him. She should have been frightened. Instead, one word caught her. "Again." "Have we met before?" "No." He answered too quickly. A commotion rose outside. The lounge television switched itself to a news station. The anchor reported that the same Chinese male voice had been heard across multiple countries, translated automatically into local languages. Social platforms had crashed within three minutes, while At Last, Holding Her Again topped every regional trend. Voice analysts already said it closely matched Gu Yanchen's public interviews.