Watching the child's smile, Zhen gave a slight nod.
Everything it had done was because it wanted to...
It had nothing to do with anyone else.
But positive feedback was always better than negative feedback.
The child skipped away with his grandparents.
A few seconds later, Zhen turned and left too.
It just hadn't expected...
First, it ran into the human who had seen it pop the child's balloon—
It didn't want to argue with him.
So it chose to leave again.
Then it ran into the human it was rather wary of.
Zhen felt that lately, it really had been running into humans far too often.
"I see."
Xiao Xiao nodded.
A hint of amusement flickered in his eyes. "So the child saw it himself..."
The child had happened to witness the boy with black-rimmed glasses arguing with the girl.
Then he'd learned the whole story from someone else.
He'd seen that the child who had taken his balloon no longer had one...
And he'd learned that the balloon had popped...
"What a coincidence."
Xiao Xiao sighed.
Zhen nodded.
It really was quite a coincidence.
When it saw the child, it had been stunned for a few seconds.
It hadn't understood why he was there.
The corners of Xiao Xiao's mouth lifted.
Now, there really wasn't a problem anymore.
"Do you like candy?"
Xiao Xiao asked.
Huh?
Zhen froze.
What?
Candy?
"This kind."
Xiao Xiao opened his palm, revealing the colorful candies inside.
They shimmered and gleamed in the sunlight.
Little patches of light reflected from the candy wrappers danced in Zhen's eyes.
"Here."
Xiao Xiao held out his hand a little farther.
"Have you ever had candy before?"
"Try one."
"If you like it, you can