"Right."
Zhuge Yun gave Xiao Xiao a thumbs-up.
Then he glanced at Zhao Luzheng. "That was such an easy one, and you still couldn't guess it."
Zhao Luzheng: ...
"What happened to the paper cranes?"
Zhao Luzheng looked curious.
"Just thinking about it makes me mad."
Zhuge Yun sounded rather indignant. "On Thursday, I came home from school."
"Those days, the first thing I did when I got home was go to my room and check on my paper cranes."
"That day was no different."
"But..."
Zhuge Yun took a sip of tea. "Someone had taken apart all my paper cranes!"
"What?"
Zhao Luzheng was astonished. "Who would do something so pointless?"
"Exactly. Who would do something so pointless?"
Zhuge Yun gritted his teeth. "When I saw all those scraps of paper covering the table, it felt like a bolt of lightning had struck me."
"I'd spent a whole week making those paper cranes."
"I was supposed to take them to school the next day..."
"They were all ruined..."
"At the time, I just—"
"Ahem~"
Zhuge Yun's voice cut off abruptly.
What came next was a little embarrassing. He'd just been about to skip that part—
"You started crying?"
Xiao Xiao smoothly finished for him.
"How did you know?"
Zhuge Yun was shocked.
Then his face fell with chagrin.
Hadn't he just given himself away?
"It's okay, Second Brother."
Zhao Luzheng consoled Zhuge Yun. "You were a kid."
"Third Brother and I understand."
Zhuge Yun: ...
Fine.
Since he'd already told them the most embarrassing part, there was no point hiding anything else.
"My tears just came pouring out."
"I cried like the world was ending."
"Everyone in the family was startled."
"Later, my grandma remembered that the neighbor had come over that afternoon with her little