Chapter 56

"Why hasn't he come yet..."

Su Mu felt slightly impatient.

Deciding not to wait any longer,

"Let the show start first."

"I'll try calling Lu Shu."

She had the production crew turn on the live stream first,

and Su Mu picked up the phone on her end.

She dialed Lu Shu's number.

"Mumu! The broadcast time is a bit late today."

"Huh? Where's classmate Lu Shu?"

"Why isn't the protagonist here! Haha!"

"He must still be sleeping in; didn't you see Mumu is on the phone?"

"Even Teacher Lu sleeps in... I somehow don't think that sounds like him."

The netizens who had been waiting early in the live stream,

seeing no sign of Lu Shu at all,

couldn't help but feel somewhat puzzled.

But everyone knew 【Inspiring Youth】 was a real follow-record program,

so small accidents happening temporarily were possible.

Such small accidents were themselves one of the points of fun.

So they quietly lurked in the live stream.

Meanwhile,

Su Mu frowned at her phone,

"Unable to connect?"

She dialed several more times in succession,

and the echo coming from the phone was still,

"The number you dialed is temporarily unreachable. Please try again later..."

"What's going on... no one is answering the phone?"

After hesitating for a moment,

Su Mu turned and said to the production crew,

"Let's go directly to his house."

No longer waiting,

the group walked into the residential compound,

and went straight to Lu Shu's door.

Knock, knock!

Su Mu reached out and gently knocked on the door,

but there was no response...

So she called out again,

"Lu Shu?"

"Are you home?"

No one answered...

After knocking for a while,

there was still no reaction from inside the house.

"Is no one home?"

Could he have already gone to school?

That guy,

went to school early without even notifying her!

Feeling slightly annoyed,

Su Mu could only lead the production crew back down,

and when passing the compound guard post,

she happened to ask,

"Uncle, did you see Lu Shu go out this morning?"

"Lu Shu? Who are you asking about? I just got here, I don't know him..."

An old man's smiling face poked out from the guard room,

his smile very kind,

but Su Mu still froze for a moment upon seeing him.

It wasn't the same guard uncle from last time.

Remembering what Lu Shu had said that day,

her heart inexplicably gave a jolt,

and she forced a smile, saying,

"It's nothing, Uncle. You carry on."

Then she turned to the production team and said,

"Let's go to the school."

As they walked toward the school,

the netizens in the live stream started joking.

"Haha, what a mess! The protagonist is missing!"

"Could it be that student Lu Shu doesn't want to film and has gone on strike?"

"Did you pay the performance fee?"

"Teacher Lu didn't run away with the donation money, did he! Hahaha!"

"I declare today's program theme: 'Searching for Lu Shu'!"

Amidst the jokes,

Su Mu and the production team finally arrived at the gate of Dadexiao Sect.

But after getting out of the car,

seeing the empty and quiet school before them,

and then seeing the tightly locked school gate,

Su Mu was stunned.

She turned her head blankly to look at the production team staff,

"Today..."

"What day is it?"

The production team members replied somewhat strangely,

"Today is the first day of the Qingming Festival holiday."

"What? Sister Su, you didn't know..."

The first day of the Qingming Festival holiday?

Hearing this answer,

Su Mu slapped her own forehead with her palm.

She... had completely forgotten!

Ever since hosting the program,

people like them never took holidays off,

plus she had suffered from insomnia last night...

"I'm really... going to cry from my own stupidity!"

Su Mu was on the verge of tears but had none to shed,