Seeing the girl's smiling face, Lu Huan smiled too. The next second, his gaze froze. "Yingying?"
There was no sign of the girl in the seat across from him.
"Oh dear, I really can't keep this up."
In the blink of an eye, the girl appeared in Lu Huan's sight, looking troubled as she slumped over the table.
"Yingying!"
Lu Huan's fingers twitched slightly.
He wanted to touch the girl, just to make sure she was real.
"Let's go."
Xiao Xiao stood up.
If the girl disappeared here, they would have a hard time explaining it to the staff.
"Jingle~"
"Please take care, and we hope to see you again."
Xiao Xiao and the others turned into a narrow alley.
"Ying—"
Lu Huan turned to look at the girl beside him, but his voice abruptly cut off, a trace of surprise in his tone.
The girl who should have been standing beside him had vanished.
He paused, then a faint, gentle smile appeared on his face. "Yingying, you don't have to show yourself."
"You can hear me, right?"
He turned to Xiao Xiao and asked.
He couldn't hear the girl's voice, but could she hear his?
"She can hear you."
Xiao Xiao nodded.
He walked a few steps to the side, leaving the two of them some space.
Then, after glancing at Lu Huan, Xiao Xiao started walking again, heading toward the mouth of the alley.
He stopped beside the wall and looked up at the sky.
Not a cloud marred the vast, clear blue sky, which stretched far into the distance.
Its pure color lifted the spirits.
Just like the sunlight at that moment.
"Master Xiao."
The girl—that is, the fox demon Hu Yingying—stopped beside Xiao Xiao.
She opened the white lace parasol