The girl's body stiffened, as if she was about to say something.
The man held her down.
"And then?"
"Then?"
The child repeated blankly.
"Yeah."
The man smiled faintly.
"You told your friends your secret."
"Why did you two argue afterward?"
"You argued afterward, right?"
It couldn't be that the child had told her friend her secret afterward just to "appease" her...
"We didn't argue."
The child murmured.
"Mm."
The man didn't argue with the child about it. "Then what happened?"
The child's behavior clearly showed that something had happened between her and her friend...
The child pressed her lips together.
"Nini..."
"I told them I saw a big leopard..."
"But Mom and Dad both said I hadn't seen one..."
"They said I was hallucinating."
"They told me..."
The child's voice fell quiet. "Not to tell anyone."
"...Nini also told us something she hadn't told us before."
The child said the whole sentence in one breath.
After a pause, she continued, "She..."
"Once saw someone who was hallucinating."
Huh?
The woman and the man froze.
What?
That girl with the ponytail had once seen someone who was hallucinating?
Really?
In all their lives, the only person the woman and the man had seen hallucinating...
Was their child.
They didn't know whether Chen Jing could see hallucinations...
Or if she was simply fixated on wanting to see them.
Before learning that their child was hallucinating, the woman and the man had always thought...
Hallucinations were just something that happened to characters in books and movies.
They'd never imagined that someone who was hallucinating could be close to them.
And that person...
Could be their child.
It all felt like some surreal reality they couldn't bear to face.
Now, they'd learned from their