The child ran out of her room.
The lights outside were blazing bright. When her father saw his child hurrying toward him, a smile appeared on his face.
He opened his arms.
He caught the child as she flung herself at him.
This was the result of all his efforts over such a long time.
The child was finally willing to grow close to him.
"Little Man Tian Xing."
But...
The child was wrong.
After that time, Pangpang never appeared again.
Because of her father's transformation, the child and her father grew closer day by day.
Her grandparents treated her better, too.
Her mother...
She also treated her better than before.
The child was happy.
She was happy every day.
So much so that, every now in a while, she would remember and wonder whether Pangpang had been gone for a long time...
But the doubt lasted only for an instant before she quickly forgot about it.
Until one day, a classmate came to school with red-rimmed eyes.
The teacher and the other students were all concerned about her and asked what had happened.
She said that the cat she had raised for three years had disappeared the night before.
She and her parents had searched for a long time...
If her parents had not insisted that she go to bed and rest, she would have kept searching even longer.
When she woke up, the cat still had not returned.
She felt terribly wronged.
And terribly sad.
She was angry that her parents had lied to her.
The day before, her parents had said that the cat might have gone out to play on its own and would come back by itself the next day. They told her to go to sleep first...
But it had