Since I'd said it...
Then I'd said it.
Nothing would happen.
The short-haired girl shook her head.
"All right."
"We can go now."
"Yaya probably doesn't need us to testify anymore."
"If we don't get back soon..."
"Yaya won't get scolded, but we will."
The girl with the ponytail's heart skipped a beat.
"Right, right."
"Let's hurry."
"If I get home late, my mom will get mad."
The two girls ran toward home.
The child held Dad's hand with her left and Mom's hand with her right. All the unease she'd felt during the day vanished.
A smile spread across her face.
Her steps were light.
Unlike the child, the man and woman were not at ease.
They were truly sick of Chen Jing.
Why was she like a piece of sticky plaster, clinging to them and refusing to let go?
Was it because she knew they couldn't do anything to her?
That...
Really made them furious.
And...
That woman had been lucky, too.
Who could have known that today, the child's friend would happen to come near the iron fence to retrieve a volleyball...
But...
Chen Jing knew the child's friend.
The child's parents' hearts sank a little.
When had they met?
Chen Jing hadn't been the child's tutor for long.
She'd only come to their home to teach the child.
She hadn't had any chance to meet the child's friends.
Which meant...
Chen Jing had met the child's friend later.
When, exactly?
She must have met the people around the child while following her and looking for a chance to talk to her during this period...
Chen Jing certainly hadn't anticipated what happened today.
Even if she had eyes and ears everywhere and knew the child's schedule, she couldn't have foreseen that