The Villainous Celebrity Wife of the CEO - Chapter 135.2

When all was said and done, everything returned to the most basic question —— When exactly could they return home?

The airport on Sulawesi had been closed for several days because of the volcanic ash spread. According to the information available at present, the airport could finally reopen tomorrow afternoon.

Sulawesi was a bizarre K-shaped island, with a small international airport in the north, center and south, allowing travelers to fly to the neighboring countries of Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei, and then travel back to China from there. The problem was that tickets to the three countries of Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei were now selling at sky-high prices. Moreover, there was no lack of market, but it was simply impossible to purchase one.

When they were discussing the flight issue, the group did not shy away from the artists and even took the initiative to ask them if they had any personal connections to get a ticket back to China.

Everyone looked at each other and shook their heads. If they had connections, would they still be stuck here?

Xiao Xia folded her hands and prayed silently, hoping that a plane would descend from the sky to take them back to the distant embrace of the great rooster[1] with a whoosh.

“—— Why don’t you fly to Australia?”

Suddenly, a clear voice came from behind the crowd.

Everyone subconsciously looked behind them, only to see Su Jishi sitting at the edge of the crowd with one hand on her cheek while the other was playing with a randomly picked stone. The stone was irregular in shape and dark all over, but its darkness was transparent and clear. Suddenly, it looked like a piece of glass0 If there were experts present, they would have discovered that the stone was not as ordinary as it looked. In fact, it was a piece of volcanic glass —— In short, a vitreous rock formed by rapid cooling and contraction after magma was ejected..

The girl’s long, white and slender fingers fiddled with the piece of vitreous rock and spoke languidly.

“If we talk about straight-line distance alone, Indonesia is closer to Australia. It takes a full ten hours to fly back home from here, counting transit time, but it only takes two hours to fly to the Northern Territory, the northernmost point of Australia,” she chuckled, “Once we get to Australia, will you still be afraid of not being able to buy tickets back home?”

Indeed, ah!

Her words woke everyone up.

Since Indonesia was an Asian country, everyone subconsciously thought that flying north from Indonesia was the only way to get back home. But in fact, Indonesia was located at the equator, and it was much closer to Australia in the southern hemisphere! It was a slight detour, but it was safer and simpler.

A screenwriter immediately got up: “Well then, I’ll immediately contact the airline and buy tickets to Australia!”

“—— There’s no need to go to all that trouble.”

Another unexpected male voice rang out. Mu Xiulun appeared, wearing an ironed suit and walking in with a modest gait, and pushed his way in from outside the conference room. He was tall and long-legged, with an overwhelming aura, bearing semblance to a long sharp knife, drawing apart the black curtain that was pressing down on their heads.

He stopped beside Su Jishi, one hand happened to land on the back of the chair behind her. His action appeared casual, but in the eyes of the spectators, the two people were extraordinarily close, as if the man had sheltered the girl under his arms.

“Don’t bother,” he repeated casually, as if he was talking about the weather, “I happen to be flying to Australia the day after tomorrow, and I can give you a ride on my private jet.”

Su Jishi raised her eyes to look at him, smiling but not smiling: “Oh? It just so happens?”

Mu Xiulun stated firmly, “It is such a coincidence.”

Everyone: ……

Alright, it really seemed to be quite a coincidence.

Faced with the probing eyes of the people in the room, Mu Xiulun did not panic at all and acted very calmly. If someone wanted to know what his business in Australia fwas, he could contrive a story on the spot.

For example, although Indonesia’s nickel production ranked first in the world, Australia’s nickel reserves were actually the highest; for example, Australia’s largest mining company BHP Billiton decided to build a large nickel mining base in the Northern Territory; and then again, for example, he was invited to visit the Australian nickel mines to learn from their advanced procedures and also to try to negotiate orders…

Su Jishi needed only to ask, and he could come up with a million reasons for ‘coincidentally’ traveling to Australia.

But Su Jishi did not ask.

Nor did the others.

So in this way, everyone set up the itinerary for the morning after tomorrow, and began to pack their bags back home.

The private jet had limited seats and could only carry twelve more passengers in addition to President Mu and his escorts. The program group discussed internally and gave the twelve spots to the five artists and their assistants. The Chief Director and the maind PD followed along on the plane.

The moment the plane took off, a brief feeling of weightlessness greeted them. Su Jishi leaned on the window, overlooking the island beneath her feet. Her eyes were brimming with scrutiny, regret, and attachment. This K-shaped island with unique geological structure was shrouded with a layer of light gray in the highest mountain area in the middle, while its western coastal area was full of scars beaten by waves.

The power of nature was extremely terrifying and magnificent.

The other passengers on the plane were looking fearfully at the wreckage. They did not have a geologist’s eyes like Su Jishi’s, and all they could ‘see’ was the raging waves and wreckage everywhere.

Xiao Xia sat beside Su Jishi. She didn’t dare to look out the window at the land, and only stared at the private plane.

This private jet was Mu Xiulun’s private property. During the years when Mu Xiulun ‘kept’ Su Jin, he generously lent the aircraft to her many times. When Fang Xie and Ashan kidnapped Su Jishi, she opened her eyes and found herself lying in the bedroom of this plane.

As her assistant, Xiao Xia had naturally boarded the private plane a few times and was familiar with everything inside. When the plane was flying smoothly, Xiao Xia unbuckled her seat belt and happily went to the back pantry to get a drink.

The sun was shining brightly outside the porthole, and Su Jishi felt it blinding, so she pulled down the shade.

All of a sudden, her peripheral vision dimmed, and a figure sat beside her.

Su Jishi looked sideways —— As expected, it was Mu Xiulun.