"You thief!"
The next second, the girl with the bun turned deathly pale.
She unconsciously stepped backward.
If the boy with the straight fringe hadn't supported her, her legs might have given out and she would have collapsed to the ground.
Xiao Xiao lowered his eyes and smiled.
At some point, the Little White Fox, which had been pretending to sleep, opened its eyes.
Its narrow, knife-sharp eyes gleamed coldly.
The Little White Fox glared at the girl with the bun.
Being mistaken for some ordinary fox had already annoyed it.
It hadn't expected the girl to be so brazen as to accuse Lord Xiao Xiao of being...
The Little White Fox curled its lips.
Sharp teeth glinted faintly.
The Little Fox's smile, so humanlike and carrying a hint of innocent cruelty, startled the girl with the bun again.
A short, hoarse scream involuntarily escaped her throat.
"A Jiu is my fox."
Xiao Xiao stated it as clearly as could be.
"Not the fox you lost."
"You'd better go back and ask the colleagues who've seen the missing fox what it looks like, and get a few pictures of it."
"That way, you won't mistake another fox for it."
Xiao Xiao's lips curved slightly.
The commotion attracted more and more visitors, who stopped to watch.
Xiao Xiao found it a little amusing.
This was the second time...
He hadn't spent long wandering around the zoo, and already he'd been surrounded by onlookers twice.
"What's going on?"
"What happened?"
A buzz of conversation rose from the crowd.
They looked curiously at Xiao Xiao and the man and woman opposite him, who were clearly zoo employees.
"It seems those two employees suspect that the young man—"
The explanation abruptly stopped.
The others looked puzzled.
"Suspect what?"
"Why'd