In the Wood Shed, Xiao Mo played Tic-Tac-Toe with Tushan Jingci.
Although Tushan Jingci had quickly learned how to play Tic-Tac-Toe, she was only a five-year-old girl, after all. How could she possibly beat Xiao Mo?
After losing more than a dozen games in a row, Tushan Jingci's ears and tail drooped listlessly. A thin mist of tears veiled her eyes, as though she might burst into tears at any moment.
Xiao Mo scratched his head. Feeling that winning against her all the time wasn't very nice, he went easy on her and let her win a game.
"I won! I won!"
After finally beating Xiao Mo, Tushan Jingci clapped her soft, fair little hands in delight. Her happy expression was utterly adorable.
"You really are improving quickly, Miss," Xiao Mo said with a smile. "Would you like to keep playing?"
"Yes! Of course~ Let's keep playing~" Tushan Jingci nodded happily, kneeling on the floor as she continued playing with Xiao Mo, brimming with confidence.
After that, Xiao Mo won more than he lost, occasionally letting her win a game or two and keeping the fox-eared little girl giggling with delight.
Standing outside the Wood Shed, Yueshi watched the interactions between her young mistress and the human boy through the window.
Yueshi didn't know how her young mistress had met him. She kept worrying that this filthy human might accidentally touch her young mistress.
But seeing how happy her young mistress was, Yueshi couldn't bear to force her to come back.
Besides, this human boy seemed to know his boundaries. He followed the manor's rules carefully and deliberately kept a certain distance from her young mistress.
Before they knew it, the two had played until midnight.
Xiao Mo glanced at the sky through the window, then smiled at the little