"A Soap Opera"
"Li Mingtai!"
The tall boy interrupted the boy with black-rimmed glasses.
The boy with black-rimmed glasses looked at the tall boy in confusion.
But soon, he seemed to understand and curled his lip.
The tall boy stepped in front of the boy with black-rimmed glasses.
He smiled at the girl.
"My friend can be a little stubborn."
"But he didn't mean any harm."
"Let me apologize to you on his behalf."
"I'm sorry."
"He frightened you just now."
No one could stay angry at someone who greeted them with a smile.
The tall boy's good attitude softened the girl's expression a little.
But she wasn't that easy to appease.
She'd been scolded for no reason.
And she'd wasted so much time...
The girl wasn't satisfied with this apology.
"You're not the one who did anything wrong."
The girl's anger hadn't faded, and her voice was rather stiff.
"He is."
"What gives you the right to apologize for him?"
"I want him to apologize to me."
The girl made her demand perfectly clear.
If this boy didn't apologize to her today...
She wouldn't be able to get over what had happened.
The tall boy was briefly taken aback.
All right.
He couldn't say he didn't understand how the girl felt.
He turned to the boy with black-rimmed glasses and said quietly, "Apologize to her."
"I didn't—"
"Li Mingtai."
The tall boy cut the boy with black-rimmed glasses off.
"Whatever you meant when you said those things..."
"The fact is..."
"You made this girl misunderstand."
"Isn't that right?"
It didn't matter what the boy with black-rimmed glasses had intended.
His actions had made the girl misunderstand.
So...
The boy with black-rimmed glasses should apologize.
"...You still don't get it?"
The tall boy rolled