"Are you all right?"
"Oh my gosh."
"You were fine just a moment ago. How did you fall?"
"You scared us to death."
Yu Yuer and Yang Jialing arrived right behind them, chattering anxiously, their faces still shaken.
"...I-I'm fine."
Lu Xiaoxiao was momentarily overwhelmed by her friends' concern, as if it had "crashed" down on her.
"Was..."
Lu Xiaoxiao looked up in an instant.
Through the gap between her friends, she looked at the person opposite her.
"It was the shopkeeper who saved me."
Lu Xiaoxiao finally came to her senses.
Just now...
At that critical moment, the shopkeeper had braced her shoulder with his cane.
That had given her time to recover her balance.
And allowed Ye Zi, who had rushed over, to pull her to her feet.
"Thank you, Shopkeeper."
Huh?
Shopkeeper?
Ye Zimeng and the others immediately looked up or turned around.
The next second, they all froze a little.
The shopkeeper looked as if he had stepped out of a fairy tale.
Against the bookstore's fairy-tale-like decor, he gave them the strange impression that they had somehow traveled to another world.
After a moment, Ye Zimeng and the others came back to their senses one after another.
They remembered...
Little Deer had told them about this shopkeeper.
They were surprised to discover
that the shopkeeper before them really was exactly as Little Deer had described.
Their gazes couldn't help settling on the hat atop his head.
It really had rabbit ears!
Wow~
How fun.
Ye Zimeng and the others' eyes all lit up a little.
"You're welcome."
The shopkeeper took off his hat and bowed. "It's my pleasure to help."
"You..."
There seemed to be something complicated in the shopkeeper's gaze as he looked at Lu Xiaoxiao.
Lu Xiaoxiao's heart