Xiao Xiao pushed the open pastry box between himself and Zhu Nü.
"Awwoo!"
Taotie's head had just appeared in front of Xiao Xiao—
"Aww~"
Xiao Xiao raised a hand and gave it a light flick.
He sent Taotie right back where it had come from.
"Awwoo!"
Taotie disgruntledly pawed at the human's hair a few times.
The eyes beneath its arms stared fixedly at Zhu Nü in the distance.
Zhu Nü: ...
Even if it was slow, it understood what the dark little monster meant.
Besides, it wasn't slow.
Zhu Nü felt rather ill at ease.
Its throat bobbed.
It nearly choked on its own breath.
It lowered its head to look at the pastry box in front of it.
Zhu Nü sniffed.
It caught the fresh fragrance of mung beans.
Mung bean cakes...?
Before this, Zhu Nü had never eaten mung bean cakes.
As for whether it had heard of them...
It had forgotten.
Maybe it had.
Maybe it hadn't.
That wasn't important.
What mattered was the present.
Zhu Nü was caught in a dilemma.
Should it eat one?
Or not?
The frightening-looking monster across from it kept staring.
Zhu Nü felt quite pressured.
It tried to ignore the other creature's intensely present, almost knife-like gaze.
From what it had just seen, it could tell...
The dark monster didn't seem to have a very good temper.
Yet it listened to this human.
As long as this human didn't mean it harm, the monsters around him weren't anything to fear.
Xiao Xiao reached out, took a mung bean cake, and bit into it.
Mmm.
Sweet but not cloying.
It melted in his mouth.
The fresh fragrance of mung beans filled his mouth.
"Very tasty."
Xiao Xiao smiled at Zhu