"Mm."
Yang Jialing nodded.
Ye Zimeng:...
"...Watermelon?"
"You brought it?"
She hadn't even noticed.
"No."
Yu Yuer shook her head.
"You didn't notice?"
Yu Yuer patted the watermelon in her hands.
It made a crisp sound.
"It was in one of the fruit baskets Qiqi and the others brought yesterday."
"You two..."
Yu Yuer shook her head.
"You're just like Lingling."
"So careless."
"This watermelon is so obvious."
"How did neither of you notice it?"
"Qiqi and the others brought it?"
Ye Zimeng was surprised.
"Yeah."
Yu Yuer nodded.
"I wonder what they were thinking."
"They actually brought you a watermelon."
"Maybe it's because it's watermelon season."
Ye Zimeng smiled.
"I like watermelon."
"Mm."
Yu Yuer nodded.
"We all like watermelon."
"Hardly anyone dislikes it, right?"
At any rate, she didn't think she'd ever met anyone who didn't like watermelon.
"All right."
Yu Yuer snapped her fingers.
"Then we're having watermelon."
"Come on, let's cut it."
Yu Yuer took out a fruit knife.
"Hey."
Ye Zimeng leaned forward without meaning to.
"Are we eating it now?"
"Shouldn't we wait for Little Deer to come back and eat it together?"
"Hmph."
"Who told her to run off on her own?"
Yu Yuer pretended to be angry.
"Serves her right if she doesn't get any watermelon."
Ye Zimeng laughed.
"All right, all right."
"Let's cut her some slack, seeing as Little Deer has had such bad luck lately."
Little Deer was already having a rough time.
If they gave her a hard time too, wouldn't that make things even worse for her?
And she said I was like a mother hen protecting her chicks...
Yu Yuer pursed her lips.
Ye Zimeng was even more like one.
She lifted the watermelon in her