"Hello."
It was an unfamiliar voice.
Xu Zizhen regretted answering the call.
He even felt like hanging up immediately.
"I'm Yaya's mom."
Xu Zizhen's finger froze just as he was about to end the call.
Yaya's mom?
"Big brother."
The familiar, soft voice of a child came through.
Xu Zizhen pulled back his finger.
"Yaya."
He called the child's name.
"Mm."
The child nodded obediently.
"It's me."
"This is..."
Xu Zizhen was a little confused about why the child's mom had called him.
But he quickly figured it out.
"You told your mom about our promise, didn't you?"
The child fidgeted with her fingers.
She instinctively felt a little guilty and uneasy.
"We asked her about it."
The child's mom spoke up to help her out.
The child was so young.
And she'd always been obedient and well-behaved.
She simply couldn't keep things bottled up.
Everything showed on her face.
At first, the child's parents thought she looked so troubled because of Chen Jing and her hallucinations.
They felt sorry that she had to deal with such complicated problems at such a young age.
They also found the little girl's behavior endearingly pitiful, and a little funny.
The child's parents had planned to let her work things out and move on by herself.
But after a week...
The child's "symptoms" had grown worse and worse.
The child's parents decided to step in.
They wanted to have a proper talk with her.
They hadn't expected...
That this conversation...
Would lead them to learn something they hadn't seen coming.
They'd guessed wrong.
The child wasn't worried solely because of Chen Jing and the hallucinations.
She was worried because of a promise...
A promise she'd made to a big