Her expression was somewhat stiff.
Child's Mom was furious.
All her heartache for her child had turned into a blazing anger.
But...
She also felt helpless.
About her child lying...
How should she explain it...
for the sake of her child?
It seemed that whether she admitted her child had lied...
or denied that her child had lied...
the next step would be difficult either way...
What should she do?
Child's Mom felt her head starting to ache, too.
What could she do...
to make everything go back to the way it was...
She couldn't think of anything...
It had come to this...
There seemed to be little chance of making things right...
How had things ended up like this...
Child's Mom felt a tightness in her chest.
"Anna's mom."
Teacher Lin hesitated.
But in the end, she decided to ask, "About the shadow Anna saw..."
"Was it real..."
"Or was it fake?"
She had originally thought it was just a child's imaginative chatter.
But seeing the unfriendly atmosphere that had formed among the students in her class because of this...
she was truly taken by surprise.
What was going on?
Wasn't this just the sort of thing children said while playing pretend?
Why...
did the children her age not seem to think so?
Was it because...
of Wang Zhe's eyewitness account?
Teacher Lin smiled bitterly.
Wang Zhe had declared that Anna was lying.
Compared with Song Nana, Wang Zhe, a mischievous troublemaker who knew how to work a crowd, was the class's ringleader.
He had more sway over the other children.
They had all chosen to believe Wang Zhe.
And when Wang Zhe first accused her, Song Nana hadn't managed to explain herself very well.
Song Nana had insisted that she wasn't lying.
The shadow