Teacher Lin tried to soften her tone.
"That child just happened to overhear..."
He hadn't done it on purpose.
Teacher Lin believed Wang Zhe hadn't done it on purpose.
Unless the little boy liked the little girl...
Hmm.
Or disliked her?
In any case, he must have felt something strongly.
Otherwise, the little boy wouldn't have gone out of his way to get close and... eavesdrop on their conversation while the little girl's parents were right beside her.
There was clearly no such complicated relationship between Wang Zhe and Song Nana.
They really...
If this hadn't happened, she could hardly remember seeing the two children interact at all...
Child's Mom was about to say something else.
Out of the corner of his eye, Child's Dad noticed something.
"Anna?"
Child's Dad spoke softly.
He thought he saw the child in the hospital bed move her eyelids.
Child's Mom and Teacher Lin immediately looked toward the child in the bed.
The little girl with the mushroom haircut slowly opened her eyes.
The blurry view before her gradually came into focus.
"...Dad?"
"Mom?"
The little girl with the mushroom haircut saw familiar faces.
"Anna."
Child's Mom sat beside the child's hospital bed.
She reached out and gently stroked the child's face.
"You're awake?"
"Did we wake you?"
She thought about her argument with Teacher Lin just now.
Though both she and Teacher Lin had tried to keep their voices down,
there was no telling if a few words had gotten louder without them noticing.
The little girl with the mushroom haircut looked a little dazed.
Wake her up?
She tilted her head.
No, she didn't think so.
She didn't seem to have heard anything.
That was good.
The child's expression said it all.
At least she