Zhang Bo immediately scrambled to his feet.
He pretended nothing had happened.
He had fallen so suddenly, and gotten back up so quickly,
that hardly anyone noticed.
Uh...
Zhang Bo suddenly realized he seemed to understand how the girl felt.
Back then... when his classmates asked if he was okay after seeing him fall, he had smiled awkwardly.
Then he had eagerly brushed the question aside.
He knew they had only been asking out of concern.
It was just... in that moment, he hadn't really felt anything.
The fall had probably happened too suddenly.
If he had just been left alone to process it, that would have been that.
It was only a small accident.
But...
As soon as someone showed him serious concern over it, he had belatedly started to feel embarrassed and awkward.
Sha Sha was probably feeling much the same way he had back then.
But...
Even if he understood how the girl felt, he still had to do what needed to be done.
She was still little.
As her guardian, he naturally had to find out what had happened.
What if something was wrong with her later?
She was too young to handle this kind of thing on her own.
"Sha Sha."
Zhang Bo lowered his voice.
"Does the spot where you fell still hurt?"
Seeing that Zhang Bo wasn't raising his voice anymore, the girl's expression finally returned to normal.
That's more like it.
Falling was embarrassing enough already.
And then Brother Zhang Bo had asked her about it so loudly.
Her face had instantly started burning.
The girl pressed her hands to her cheeks.
Her slightly cool fingertips rested against her warm face, and she narrowed her eyes a little.
Zhang Bo suddenly felt somewhat relieved.
His sluggish