But it wasn't chocolate-flavored.
It was vanilla.
The two of them walked out of the corner shop, eating their ice cream.
"It'd be funny if Grandpa Man and the others called right now."
Li Yan said casually.
Before he could finish...
Li Yan hurriedly reached out to catch his ice cream.
It was an instinctive reaction.
He'd already braced himself for the ice cream to hit the ground.
He hadn't expected...
Huh?
Li Yan was a little dazed.
What had just happened?
Master Xiao was holding the ice cream cup that had been in his hand...
It seemed to have happened in the blink of an eye.
Everything was back where it belonged.
Li Yan looked down.
He couldn't find any ice cream on the ground.
Which meant...
The ice cream hadn't fallen?
Just now...
What had happened?
Li Yan, the person it had happened to, was surprised to realize that he was completely baffled.
"...Master Xiao."
Li Yan asked uncertainly, "What did you just do?"
It had been Master Xiao, right?
It could only have been Master Xiao.
Xiao Xiao smiled.
"I just saved your ice cream."
Just as he'd thought.
He hadn't understood what had happened at all, but he'd vaguely sensed that Master Xiao had done something.
"Thank you."
In any case, just as Master Xiao had said, Master Xiao had saved his ice cream.
"You're welcome."
Xiao Xiao's eyes crinkled with a smile.
Xiao Xiao and Li Yan strolled around, eating as they went, and before they knew it, quite a bit of time had passed.
"Ah."
Li Yan looked at the caller ID on his phone, his face lighting up with delight. "Grandma Luo's calling!"
She'd finally called.
Li Yan turned on speakerphone so