"What did you exchange again?"
Inside Teldrassil, in a luxurious dormitory at Starry Sky Academy, Ni Lan stared speechlessly at the little chubby girl before her.
In just a few days, the little one's weight had shot up another notch. She had clearly been secretly exchanging for high-calorie snacks behind Ni Lan's back. The academy had a special shop for exchanging such things, yet Ni Lan's repeated prohibitions had never worked!
"Hehe, I only bought things that are easy to digest." Little Cabbage guiltily put everything back into her Space Pack, looking as though she feared Ni Lan would confiscate it. She even put on a pitiful expression. "Isn't school starting tomorrow? I thought I wouldn't be able to eat these things for a long time, so I couldn't hold back."
Seeing that adorable act, Ni Lan's eyelids twitched. The imposing anger she had arrived with inexplicably dissipated by more than half!
After noticing the change in her emotions, Ni Lan became even more speechless.
There were plenty of cute Star Elf children who knew how to act adorable. She had been born a noble and saw them often. Children with better bloodlines tended to look better, and if they also knew how to act cute, many elders would indulge them. But Ni Lan normally did not do so. One reason was mainly that she had yet to place herself in the position of an elder.
The second reason might have been her mother's favoritism throughout her childhood, which left her with little fondness for juniors who deliberately tried to please their elders.
But after encountering this little one, the situation was different.
There was no denying that being acted cute around felt quite good, especially when the other party was genuinely treating you as an affectionate elder and trying