"Now that I think about it, I probably looked at the presents exactly the same way back then, didn't I?"
Cao Xuan shrugged.
Seeing the faint smiles on the girls' faces, he raised an eyebrow. "I was a kid."
"Getting excited and looking forward to Christmas presents and all that... isn't that perfectly normal?"
"Yeah."
The girls nodded, seeming to agree with Cao Xuan, but the way their smiles kept growing said it all.
They knew the boy in front of them was right.
But the image that had come to mind was still making it hard for them to hold back their laughter.
"What was that animal that looked like a reindeer?"
One of the girls asked curiously.
"It was perched on the windowsill? Just imagining that is so cute."
A girl's eyes lit up.
"Wait, what floor do you live on?"
One of the girls spotted a problem. "If it looked like a reindeer, it shouldn't have wings, right? So how did it get up there? Did it jump?"
"Was it an animal that escaped from the zoo?"
The girls chattered away, and the atmosphere quickly became lively.
Cao Xuan waved his hand slightly, signaling for the girls to quiet down for a moment.
The girls wrapped up their discussion, their eager gazes all turning to Cao Xuan.
"I live on the sixth floor."
"The sixth floor?!"
A girl exclaimed. "What was that animal?"
"How did it get up to the sixth floor and perch on your windowsill?"
"I still don't know what that animal was."
Cao Xuan spread his hands. "I looked through lots of encyclopedias about animals, but I couldn't find anything similar."
"That only made me believe what my parents told me even more."
"What they told you?"
Several girls asked in