Xiaolan's legs were still trembling.

Although she was just queuing up on stage in her wedding dress, the dazzling spotlights on the stage and the flashes from the numerous media cameras below the stage still left afterimages in her eyes, still flickering.

"It's great that Shinichi can come."

He and Xiaolan returned to the garden under the stage, held Xiaolan's hand tightly, and smiled happily.

"kindness."

Xiaolan couldn't help but nodded.

"However, Miss Hualian is still unscathed so far. It seems it must have been just a prank."

Yuanzi said with a sigh of relief.

"yes."

Xiaolan also agreed with Yuanzi's idea.

"In that case, let Xinyi appreciate your beauty as much as possible, Xiaolan. In this case, his bad habit of running around will definitely be cured, and he will always stay by your side from now on!"

Yuanzi said with a smile.

"can you?"

Xiaolan said somewhat unconfidently.

"Yes! You have to have confidence! Xiaolan, you are really beautiful."

Yuanzi put her face in front of Xiaolan, with a serious expression on her face and helped her to muster up courage.

Seeing Yuanzi being so gentle, Xiaolan couldn't help but smile happily and nod her head. Even her trembling feet stopped unconsciously.

…

At the same time, Shinichi was walking on the road leading from the back of the hotel to the lounge.

When I was about to see the door to the lounge, I saw the on-site director scolding the art director in front of the door:

"Asshole! There are only two minutes left! This is a live broadcast, please work harder!"

"yes!"

After being scolded, the art director could only lower his head and responded like this.

Beside him, many staff in charge of props were constantly moving a lot of stage equipment backstage, as busy as if they were on a battlefield. Therefore, the door at the entrance was kept wide open.

Shinichi picked up a large cardboard box placed next to the corridor with both hands, covered his upper body with the cardboard box, and just like that, he blended in among the staff and walked in.

After separating from other staff backstage, Shinichi walked deeper into the corridor.

As we went deeper, we looked at the various rooms in the corridor, and there was a door with a note saying "Judges' Room" on it.

Just when Shinichi was about to put the cardboard box he was holding on the ground, he heard a rapid knock on the door at the far end of the corridor.

Xinyi, who was a little concerned about this, couldn't help but walk over there, and saw Hualian's sister, Meimei, knocking on the door.

"What's wrong?"

There were angry shouts in the room, and then the organizer of the competition, Miura Daigo, opened the door and stuck his head out.

"Hua Lian is in there, right?"

Meimei stared at Miura and asked eagerly.

"Are you kidding? The review of the wedding dress has just ended, and I still have to do the scoring. Don't bother me at this time!"

Miura said unhappily and was about to close the door, but Meimei said reluctantly:

"Don't act stupid, someone saw my sister go inside!"

Meimei said, pointing to Kagami Kawada and Sumika Abe who were standing in the corner. They were the two people who had been scolded by Hua Lian just now.

"Did you see it?"

Miura stared at Kagami and Sumika in surprise and couldn't help but ask.

"Yes, I can see it clearly. The same goes for Mr. Miura, and so does Hua Lian. They brazenly say they want to use their strength to win the throne of the queen, but secretly they try to use their beauty to win. It's so abominable!"

The two of them seemed to be unwilling to accept it, and they accused with tears in their eyes.

"This, this is a misunderstanding. Hua Lian did come here just now, but she just said, 'Please take care of me', and then left. It's true, please believe me."

Miura hurriedly defended.

"Liar! You lie!"

Meimei didn't believe the other party's excuse at all and shouted loudly.

"I'm not lying to you. Didn't I, like you and your mother, ask Mr. Maori to be her bodyguard because I was worried about Hua Lian's safety?"

Miura said urgently.

"Those are two different things. Don't think that I don't know that you have always had evil intentions towards Hualian!"

"this……"

Faced with Meimei's pointed accusation, Sanpu was speechless for a moment.

"Did something happen?"

Faced with the situation in front of him, Shinichi stepped forward decisively and asked.

"who are you?"

Seeing Shinichi suddenly appear, Miura felt a little confused.

Meimei also looked at him doubtfully after seeing Shinichi.

"He's a detective."

At this moment, before Shinichi could answer, such a voice came from behind him.

Shinichi looked back and saw Xiaolan, still wearing a wedding dress, standing there.

"Such a young detective?"

Miura mocked without thinking.

"I am Kogoro Mori's assistant."

Shinichi said and blinked at Xiaolan, who immediately understood and answered:

"Well, well...yes, he is my father's assistant."

"What? That Mouri Kogoro's..."

After listening to Xiaolan's words, Miura changed his expression instantly and became serious.

"That's right. So, what do you want to ask me?"

Miura was a little helpless and could only say this.

"Is Miss Hualian missing?"

Shinichi asked again.

"seems like it."

Miura turned his face sideways and replied coldly.

"It's time for my sister's self-introduction and talent show soon, but she can't be found."

Meimei said, she was so anxious that she almost cried.

"Xinyi, I'm sorry. Miss Hualien said she wanted to take a shower before changing into another dress, so I could avoid it. But then, I never saw her again..."

Xiaolan said with some guilt.

"This man must have brought Hua Lian into his room. He once told Hua Lian that if you want to win, you have to listen to him. But my sister is very reluctant."

Meimei glared at Miura Road with hatred.

"I've told you, I don't know anything. If you really doubt me, you can only ask this detective to clear my name!"

After Miura finished speaking angrily, he immediately pushed open the door of his room with a bang.

Shinichi looked inside and saw that it was empty. There were only simple tables and lockers neatly arranged in the room. There was no place where an adult woman could hide.

But for the sake of caution, Shinichi still entered the room and carefully searched under the table and in the locker, but did not see Hua Lian at all.

"Indeed it's not here."

Shinichi shook his head and said.

"Yes, yes...where is it?"

Meimei said, her expression became more anxious.

"I told you it's not in it, right?"

Miura said again very dissatisfied.
To be continued...