It Was Only an Illusion
Even though they'd asked to come over to his house to play,
Xu He hadn't dared to agree.
He was afraid his friends would find out...
Find out that his mother...
didn't love him as much as he'd thought.
Why?
He was her child, too.
Why couldn't his mother love him as much as she loved his older sister?
Whenever Xu He thought about it, he felt terribly sad.
Now his mother was outright denying that Little Joy existed...
Xu He felt so sad he could hardly breathe.
"Why..."
Tears pattered down Xu He's cheeks.
"Don't you like Little Joy?"
He suddenly felt glad that he'd never had the chance to tell his mother and sister about Little Joy...
"Little Joy is my friend..."
Xu He cried out,
looking utterly heartbroken.
"Xu He!"
But the woman seemed not to notice the child's grief at all.
Her words and expression were both utterly cold.
"There is no Little Joy!"
"Little Joy doesn't exist at all!"
"Your sister and I didn't see anything!"
"Neither did anyone else!"
"Only you..."
The woman took a small breath. "Only you say you saw it!"
"No!"
Xu He instinctively protested.
He didn't really understand what his mother meant...
Of course he was the only one who'd seen Little Joy appear in front of him.
But just now, Little Joy had been out on the street...
Xu He suddenly shuddered.
Wait...
Little Joy had been out on the street...
Xu He tried hard to remember what had happened.
But he'd been so focused on the way Little Joy walked, like Donald Duck, that he hadn't paid attention to anything else...
He didn't know if anyone else had seen Little Joy...
Of course someone must have.
Little Joy