Maybe they should never have told that lie in the first place.
Otherwise, they would not have ended up in such an awkward situation.
Grandfather Yu furrowed his brows tightly.
After a long while, he said, "...Let nature take its course."
Grandma Yu opened and closed her mouth.
Let nature take its course?
How were they supposed to let nature take its course?
But aside from letting nature take its course...
What else could they do?
Grandma Yu smiled bitterly.
Then let nature take its course.
When the child asked...
They would tell him.
If the child did not ask...
Could that really happen?
But what Grandma Yu thought impossible actually happened...
After they finished eating, the child surprisingly did not ask about his parents...
What was going on?
The two old people were filled with confusion.
There was no denying that they felt a trace of relief.
So even though they were still baffled...
They exchanged glances many times.
They were restless.
Yet they still did not take the initiative to ask the child.
After the child returned to his room...
The two old people stared at each other.
"...What's going on?"
Grandma Yu even felt that this was somewhat... surreal.
The child cared so much about his parents. From the moment he woke up, he had wanted to see them. On the way back, he had looked forward to seeing them too...
The first thing he did after returning home was look for his parents...
A child like that...
How could he go through an entire dinner without mentioning his parents even once?
Especially since they had told him, to comfort him, that his parents were at work...
By rights, his parents should have returned by dinnertime.
In the child's