"Cough, cough~"
The dining hall manager cleared his throat a few times.
"All right, let's leave it at that."
"Get back to work."
The manager patted the server on the arm.
"Mm."
The server nodded.
She felt a little down.
Good grief.
Honestly.
What a mess...
Why was she feeling a little guilty?
But that customer had been the one making unreasonable demands.
She hoped his supervisor wouldn't reprimand him too harshly.
The server silently wished the customer well.
She thought back to how she'd acted around Mr. Xiao just now.
Hmm.
Nothing wrong there.
Mr. Xiao didn't come often.
But whenever he did, he spent quite a lot.
She couldn't afford to drive away such a valuable customer.
Xiao Xiao ate at an unhurried pace.
He'd already forgotten about the little incident.
The "commotion" at the table was keeping him too occupied to spare any thought for the conversation he'd just had.
The little Taotie boldly lifted a soup bowl more than ten times its size—
"Glug, glug~"
A few seconds later, the bowl that had been full was empty.
Xiao Xiao's eye twitched slightly.
It was his first time seeing the little Taotie guzzle soup like this. He'd genuinely worried that it would spill everywhere.
The soup could have dripped all over the little Taotie.
After all, given its size, it could easily have taken a bath in the bowl.
But he soon realized he'd worried for nothing.
The little Taotie drank quickly and neatly.
Not a single drop splashed outside the bowl or onto its body.
Noticing Xiao Xiao watching, the little Taotie turned its head.
It looked wary.
"Awoo~"
What?
It had asked this human about the soup beforehand.
The human himself had said it could drink the whole