Yaya...
Wasn't she the child that this woman had tutored before...
Wasn't she the protagonist in the story he'd heard last time...
Wasn't she the target this woman had chosen, the one she was "persecuting"?
This woman...
Chen Jing.
The boy remembered her name, too.
Had she really still not given up on Yaya?!
Had she even found Yaya's school?!
The boy was truly shocked.
He hadn't expected...
That story to have a continuation?!
And he'd run into it...
Seeing that the child was about to be successfully talked around by the woman, the boy spoke up.
This woman...
Really was good at talking.
And...
Shameless.
To try to manipulate a child like this...
No wonder the child's parents had repeatedly warned her.
Not to talk to the woman.
If the child faced the woman alone...
It would be far too easy for her to be led astray.
As payment for hearing the story, the boy stepped forward.
The conversation might have sounded perfectly harmless to anyone else, but to the boy, who knew what was going on...
The woman's behavior hardly seemed innocent.
The boy told the child to leave.
The woman left soon afterward, too.
He had nothing to discuss with her.
After all, he and the woman were practically strangers.
They had no connection whatsoever.
The people who ought to have a serious talk with the woman...
Were the child's parents.
"Yaya!"
The ponytailed girl emerged from the bushes and called out to the child, who was hurrying along with her head down.
The ponytailed girl held her breath and hurried forward a few steps,
With the short-haired girl right behind her.
The ponytailed girl stood in front of the child.
The child had no choice but to