"Really."
Xiao Xiao's gaze shifted slightly. "Otherwise, why would Strawberry have come back?"
"Because it heard you calling it."
The girl turned to look at Strawberry on the windowsill.
A smile slowly spread across her face.
It grew wider and brighter by the second.
She had really made a sound.
She could speak again!
"Straw...berry."
The girl carefully sounded out the word, nervous.
Her voice was very soft and hoarse.
But there was no doubt about it—she had made a sound.
The girl was so happy she didn't know what to do with herself.
"Strawberry. Strawberry, Strawberry..."
The girl called out again and again, each time more fluently than before.
In just a short while, she could already pronounce both syllables of "Strawberry" quite clearly.
"Caw~ Caw..."
At first, Yanli patiently answered the girl each time.
Though it was rather displeased with the name.
But as it watched the girl gaze at it with sparkling eyes, calling it by the name she had given it again and again... By the time it realized what it was doing, it had already answered her.
It: ...
It had already answered once.
It didn't mind answering a few more times.
But this was too much!
Would this little girl ever stop?
Did she really have to say such a ridiculous name so many times?
Yanli glared at the girl.
If it weren't for the fact that she was still young and probably couldn't come up with any impressive names, it would definitely have a word with this human pup.
At the very least, she shouldn't expect it to answer whenever she called it that.
Who was Strawberry?
It didn't know.
But now...
Strawberry it was.
At least it was something it liked to eat.
Yanli reluctantly consoled itself.
Even though Strawberry had