"He's very worried about you."
"He thought your disappearance meant you were dead."
"Don't you want to tell him something?"
Lu Huan instinctively looked up. Master Xiao was... talking to whom?
He followed Master Xiao's gaze to the girl sitting across from them.
Yingying?
What did that mean? What did those words mean?
What did he mean, "He thought your disappearance meant you were dead"?
The girl set down the silver spoon she'd been using to stir her coffee. She'd just added a lot of sugar cubes.
She lifted her coffee cup and took a sip, then stuck out her tongue in distaste. "It tastes awful."
"I really don't understand why humans like drinking this bitter stuff so much."
"It's still so bitter even after adding this much sugar."
The girl's childlike complaints were adorable too, but Lu Huan didn't blush and feel his heart race like he usually did. Instead, he stared at her in a daze. "Yingying?"
"What did Master Xiao mean?"
"You disappeared... so weren't you... dead?"
"No."
The girl plucked a sugar cube from the sugar bowl and popped it into her mouth. The sweetness made her narrow her eyes in delight.
Watching from the side, Xiao Xiao's eye twitched.
Were all monsters really such sweet-tooths?
Wouldn't eating sugar like that give her cavities?
"No, you weren't?"
Lu Huan was shaken to the core. "Then why didn't you tell me?!"
The girl tapped her chin as if thinking, then blinked in confusion. "You never asked."
"I—"
Lu Huan was at a loss for words.
How was he supposed to ask that?
Wasn't it obvious?
If someone disappeared, would they still exist?
Who would think to ask someone, "When you disappeared, did that mean you died?"
So... had he just been making a fool