No girlfriend? No problem-we've still got Sadako (???ω???)

At the mouth of a metal-grate vent shaft beside a busy street, a flower was stubbornly pushing its way out of the sewer. It was only about the size of an adult's palm and twenty to thirty centimeters long, with tiny fuzzy thorns. Nobody knew what kind of plant it was. Yet there it was, breathing in the fresh, free air beside the traffic-filled street beneath the night sky, displaying extraordinary resilience!

It seemed to have only five thin, pale-yellow petals. Its parts included several crooked stamens, a split-open flower chamber, a sturdy stalk, and a thick receptacle. As cars roared past and pedestrians walked by, the turbulent air stirred it into a faint, unsteady sway...

There was no doubt about it: this was a "tough little flower"!

The fact that it had survived in this harsh environment—a dark, polluted sewer where sunlight never reached—and grown so strong that it had finally bloomed into a tiny pale-yellow flower was proof enough!

And yet, at that very moment,

A little girl in a black suit and sunglasses, wearing small black leather shoes that went "clack, clack" as she walked, appeared alone on the street at night, paying no attention to the startled looks of passersby. She walked all the way to the sewer and stopped beside the vent's metal grate, staring at the shivering little flower with her adorable head tilted to one side. Nobody could tell what she was planning.

"..."

(??????)??

"Hey!"

"Jia Fei! If you keep this up, you're really going to put me in a tough spot..."

╮(╯▽╰)╭

After watching for a while, the little girl crouched beside the shivering yellow flower and poked at it with her soft, pale fingers.

Unfortunately, the tough little flower was stubborn. She couldn't pull it out, and several passersby who