But what could he do...
When had this child ever listened to him?
Zhang Bo had been trying to persuade her for ages, but she just kept shaking her head like a rattle drum.
She simply refused to leave.
He gritted his teeth and decided to use brute force to "drag" the child away.
But she was clever.
The moment he reached out to touch her, she started screaming.
Her sharp, feminine voice had barely rung out before he hurriedly clamped a hand over her mouth.
"Don't scream."
This wasn't some secluded place like the one they'd just been at.
If Sha Sha screamed here, he could already imagine the chaos that would follow.
He didn't want to see that at all.
Persuading her... didn't work.
Using force... wouldn't work either.
The child looked ready to scream at any moment, on high alert.
He was "afraid of breaking the vase while trying to catch the rat," and didn't dare "act rashly."
For a moment, Zhang Bo was at a loss.
Just then, he heard a voice from heaven—
"What happened?"
What happened?
Zhang Bo spread his hands.
He sighed inwardly.
"As you can see."
"Sha Sha refuses to leave the Pumpkin Carriage."
"...No matter what I say, she won't leave the Pumpkin Carriage."
"I'm out of ideas."
Zhang Bo admitted he had no solution.
"Here, you try."
Zhang Bo tugged at Xiao Xiao's clothes and very readily made room beside the Pumpkin Carriage.
"I have a serious generation gap with this child."
"Weren't the two of you getting along just fine earlier?"
Xiao Xiao smiled.
"...I thought so too..."
Zhang Bo's lips twisted.
It was their earlier success that had given him the wrong idea.
He'd thought the child would at least take some