The light in Xue Jiamin's eyes suddenly went out.
The stark change in his expression made it obvious how his emotions had shifted.
Xie Chuchu pressed her lips together.
"Xue Jiamin..."
She felt a little anxious.
"Really not?"
A complicated expression of unwillingness and hope mingled across Xue Jiamin's face.
The child's round, distinctive eyes seemed almost able to speak.
Xie Chuchu:...
She had discovered that the naughty children from before had been difficult to deal with.
Children like this were difficult to handle too.
No.
They were even harder.
With the naughty children from before, she had no psychological burden no matter what she did.
She had only been focused on getting angry.
What burden could there have been?
But now, she felt a little guilty and uneasy.
She had disappointed this child.
"...No."
Xie Chuchu shook her head with difficulty.
"I looked everywhere."
"I didn't find anything."
"Did you really look carefully?"
Xue Jiamin was still unwilling to give up.
"Mm."
Xie Chuchu found herself becoming more and more patient with this child.
"I looked very carefully."
"Besides, if a leopard had really appeared in the concert hall, I wouldn't have needed to look carefully. Someone would have screamed."
Xue Jiamin's gaze fell to the floor.
Indeed.
If a leopard had really appeared in the concert hall, wouldn't the place have descended into chaos?
He had been so focused on the leopard...
that he hadn't even thought of something so simple.
Actually...
it wasn't that he really hadn't thought of it...
It was just that before hearing it directly from his sister, he still held onto hope.
Hope...that his sister had discovered something...
As expected...
he had been thinking too optimistically...
Seeing the disappointed expression on the child's face, just