"Sorry, I can only come out for a little while."
At the bookstore, Fu Qian sat in a rocking chair, flipping through gossip literature. After a while, Wen Li's voice sounded from in front of him.
When Fu Qian looked up, he saw her gazing at him with an apologetic expression.
"My father and the others are all a bit worked up. I did my best to calm them down before coming out, and I can't stay away for too long."
"Are you sure it's all right?"
Fu Qian blinked.
"Um... It's fine."
Wen Li smiled sheepishly and pointed to herself.
"On the one hand, I tried to calm them down. On the other, given what you did, they're a little worried about how I'll react. They even ended up comforting me instead."
"That's only natural. After all, from their perspective, you should be absolutely furious right now, vowing to avenge this terrible humiliation. Maybe you'd even have someone burn my shop down."
"I don't think they'd go that far."
Wen Li smiled sweetly.
"After all the trouble I've caused you, I wouldn't have any grounds to complain, even if they did say something like that."
"So it really is serious? Can you tell where the problem lies?"
As she spoke, she naturally took a seat in front of Fu Qian, her expression turning grave.
"Why do you ask?"
"You're not that petty. You must have been trying to see how my father and the others reacted to the stimulus. Since you've tested them more than once, I have a bad feeling about this."
"Of course, it'd be even better if you told me they really just had anxiety, and I was worrying over nothing."
Wen Li laid out her thoughts in all seriousness.
She really knew how to read