"Yaya isn't like that uncle."
"Yaya isn't that uncle."
"Right?"
The child stared blankly at her mother.
"Yaya."
The woman reached out and gently ran a finger over the child's nose.
"You won't turn into that uncle."
"You won't make your friends afraid."
"You..."
"Won't see the big leopard again."
"Right?"
"Mm!"
The child nodded emphatically.
She wouldn't see it again!
After seeing Nini's attitude this time, the child finally understood why her parents had gone to such lengths to make her keep it a secret.
She didn't want her friends looking at her strangely anymore.
Compared to her friends and the big leopard...
The child chose her friends.
"Good girl."
The woman smiled.
In a way, this misfortune had turned out to be a blessing.
Her friend's attitude had made the child understand once and for all that seeing the big leopard was a bad thing, something she mustn't tell anyone outside the family.
The child wouldn't waver anymore.
However...
A cold glint appeared in the woman's eyes.
She still had to be on guard around Chen Jing.
Who knew what that woman might try to brainwash the child with?
The child was still young, after all.
She couldn't match an adult's cunning.
"Mom."
The child moved closer to the woman. "Nini..."
"She really won't stop being friends with me over this, will she?"
"She didn't stop being friends with you just now."
The woman tapped the child on the forehead.
She found the child's anxious worry a little amusing.
The child tilted her head.
She pressed her lips together unhappily.
"...Nini didn't talk to me on the way back."
The ponytailed girl had talked to the short-haired girl the whole time.
She'd smiled as she spoke.
Her gaze had skimmed lightly