"Magic Girl" Liu Shiling

Around 4 PM, at a private kindergarten in Star City.

When Shiling's Mother came to pick her up, she saw Liu Shiling slowly walking out, playing with Coin in one hand. Other children waiting for their parents or already picked up by them greeted her warmly.

Goodbye, Liu Shiling!

If it were the old Liu Shiling, she would definitely respond with double the enthusiasm, shouting loudly, "Goodbye, xxx!!"

But the Little Chubby Girl simply nodded to them, then shook her right hand twice with the one not holding the Coin, displaying a very calm and bossy demeanor. It seemed so natural, even the kindergarten teachers and other parents found it perfectly normal, as if she had already gotten used to it?

When picking up Liu Shiling in October, after learning about the incident of snatching Coin, telling the teacher, and calling the police to scare other children, Shiling's Mother was actually a little worried, fearing that Liu Shiling, as a "newcomer," might be ostracized because of it.

After all, based on her understanding and childhood memories, it seems that other children don't like friends who are always tattling to the teacher.

Surprisingly, judging from her daily chats with the teacher after picking her daughter up from school, the other children in the class not only didn't ostracize her, but actually liked to be around her even more. Even Wang Ke, who had been frightened to tears by her daughter, brought her treats every day to try and win her over so she could play with him...

After a period of daily exploration and practice, Liu Shiling can now flip a one-yuan Coin with the back of her fingers using only one hand.

Although her hands are much smaller than an adult's, she actually only relied on gravity to flip the coin once between her fingers, from between her index and middle fingers directly to between her little and ring fingers, and then turned her hand to the side and relied on gravity to flip the Coin back.

Because Liu Shiling had practiced quite skillfully, although the Coin didn't roll very fast, it was very smooth and could continuously "circulate" on the back of her hand. Anyone who saw it for the first time would be quite surprised.

When picking up Liu Shiling before, Shiling's Mother was asked many times by other parents who came to pick up their children whether she taught her, and whether there were any techniques or not.

Shiling's Mother could only manage a wry smile. She couldn't possibly teach her daughter. After seeing her daughter trying to flip Coin, she tried it herself for a while, even finding videos online, but she just couldn't get it right. She ultimately attributed it to her own small hands. However, when her daughter, whose hands were even smaller than hers, created a simplified method and mastered it, she was speechless.

She never imagined that her daughter, who used to be a bit clumsy, could actually master the skill of flipping Coin with her chubby little fingers.

In addition to Coin, since her chance encounter with her former neighbor Mr. Xiang on the street, where she was given a piece of paper and tricked into saying a few words, the future "magical girl" Liu Shiling has gained another toy besides Coin —origami.

However, unlike with Coin, she didn't keep playing with the Xiang Kun gave her, which was full of creases and had a "six" written on it. Instead, after folding some shapes with that A4 paper, she practiced with other papers.

Other children fold origami mainly for the fun of it, but Liu Shiling is different; she seems to enjoy the process of folding origami more.

It's like using that A4 sheet of paper as an example, and then using other sheets of paper as practice, constantly finding ways to fold the image you want to fold even better.

She folded all sorts of shapes and sizes, from frogs and paper cranes to turtles, jellyfish, giraffes, and Shar-Pei dogs, some easy and some difficult. After she finished folding them, if other children in the class wanted them, she would just give them to them, since she didn't play with them herself.

Her favorite thing to fold is paper airplanes. Using the same material, her airplanes can fly higher, farther, and more steadily. Moreover, she can throw the same paper airplane better than others, and she can even predict where it will land.

As a result, Liu Shiling has even earned the title of "Origami Queen" among the kindergarten children. Even though she remains aloof and doesn't pay much attention to others, the other children still want to play with her and receive origami from her.

Although the kindergarten tuition is not low, and most of the children come from well-off families with various expensive toys to play with, they still take pride in receiving origami from the "Origami King" at the kindergarten.

There was a story about a child who received an origami gift, which was accidentally thrown away by his parents. The child reportedly cried so much at home that his voice became hoarse. The parents' promises of buying him toys, taking him to an amusement park, and buying him food were all ineffective. In the end, the parents drove all the way to Liu Shiling's house to ask Liu Shiling to make an exact replica of the origami before the child finally calmed down.

Seeing her daughter being treated like a "king of the kids" at kindergarten, Shiling's Mother had mixed feelings.

Because she has been behaving this way since she first arrived here, neither the teachers nor the parents of the other children think anything is wrong. On the contrary, they think that Liu Shiling is just like this naturally.

But Shiling's Mother had watched her daughter grow up since she was a child, and she knew very well that before coming to Star City, the chubby Little Chubby Girl who had no opinions of her own and followed everyone around was often ostracized and bullied and would cry, but she could also make up quickly and happily go to play with others.

Looking at her now, with that aloof attitude of "I'm busy, don't come near me unless it's important," and that incredibly skillful Coin flipping technique, Shiling's Mother felt something was off.

When Shiling's Mother returned home with her daughter, she saw the Little Chubby Girl holding a spoon in one hand and flipping Coin with the other while eating. She couldn't help but say, "Eat your food properly, and play after you finish eating."

"Oh." To her surprise, her daughter responded very obediently and put the Coin away, leaving her unable to continue her series of words.

So after holding back for a while, Liu Shiling finished her meal and started playing with the Coin again. Shiling's Mother said, "Shiling, now that you've mastered Uncle Baldy's Coin -flipping trick, why don't you stop playing? From now on, after meals, Mom will allow you to play on the iPad for one hour, okay?"

Liu Shiling shook her head. "No."

Shiling's Mother suddenly felt like she was one of Liu Shiling's classmates in kindergarten...

"But you've been playing with this Coin for too long."

Liu Shiling glanced at her mother with a puzzled look, silently put away the Coin, and said, "Then I'll go play with origami!"

"Wait a minute..." Shiling's Mother decided to continue "struggling" a little longer. "How about you play a game with Mommy? Didn't you say you have that 'magic' of guessing Coin like Uncle Baldy? Let's play. If you guess correctly which hand Mommy puts the Coin in, Mommy will let you play for a week. Otherwise, Mommy will keep the Coin for you, okay?"

Liu Shiling thought for a moment, nodded, and handed the Coin to her mother.

Shiling's Mother put the Coin behind her back, switched Coin between her two hands, and asked, "Okay, guess which hand the Coin is in?"

Without the slightest hesitation, Liu Shiling replied, "My right hand."

Shiling's Mother was taken aback. She instinctively reached for the Coin in her right hand to transfer it to her left, but then remembered what had happened to Wang Ke at kindergarten. After a moment's hesitation, she held out her right hand and said, "You guessed right! But it's best two out of three, so there are two more rounds!"

Liu Shiling had an "whatever you say" expression, showing no sign of disagreement.

Looking at her daughter's calm demeanor, Shiling's Mother suddenly felt something was off, so she whispered, "Turn your back."

The Little Chubby Girl sighed and turned her back as instructed.

Then Shiling's Mother hid her hand behind her back, passed it from side to side, and still kept the Coin in her right hand. Now, with her body in between and Liu Shiling's back turned, she felt that her daughter definitely couldn't see it through the action or any other detail.

"Alright, whose turn is it now?"

Without any hesitation, Liu Shiling immediately replied, "Right hand."

"I'll give you one more chance..."

"My right hand!" the Little Chubby Girl said firmly.

"Okay, you win, but how about we play two more rounds?" Shiling's Mother was a little skeptical.

But to her surprise, Liu Shiling guessed correctly in the next ten rounds without any hesitation.

The calm and decisive voice of her daughter made Shiling's Mother feel a chill run down her spine and her scalp tingle.

When she wanted to play the eleventh round, Liu Shiling reached out to her and said, "Mom, I'm a little tired, I don't want to play anymore, give me back my Coin."

Watching Liu Shiling put away the Coin and play with origami on the side, Shiling's Mother felt increasingly uneasy.

"Shiling, how did you know which hand the Coin was in?" Shiling's Mother asked cautiously, increasingly understanding the children in her daughter's kindergarten...

"I just knew it." Liu Shiling was folding a strangely shaped airplane using the A4 paper that Xiang Kun had given her. She was folding it very slowly and carefully.

"What kind of 'knowing' method is this? "Shiling's Mother felt inexplicably irritated.

After her daughter fell asleep that night, she carefully took the one-yuan Coin from under her daughter's pillow and replaced it with another one-yuan Coin.

She glanced again at the A4 paper her daughter had also placed under her pillow, thought for a moment, and ultimately didn't dare to replace it. After all, the A4 paper not only had a strange "six" written on it, but it was also covered with various creases, making it too difficult to "imitate".

However, the next day, when Shiling's Mother woke up, she found a one-yuan Coin on her dining table. She was stunned for a moment, then quickly looked for the handbag where she had kept Liu Shiling's Coin, only to find that the Coin was indeed gone!

This Coin can actually "move" by itself!?

Shiling's Mother felt a chill rise from the soles of her feet.

After brushing her teeth and washing her face, Liu Shiling sat down at the dining table to eat. Seeing her mother staring blankly at a Coin, she said, "Mom, you lost again."

"Huh?" Shiling's Mother was still in shock, looking at her daughter with some confusion.

Then she saw her daughter skillfully twirling the Coin in her left hand and said to her with a hint of smugness, "Mom secretly swapped my 'magic Coin's yesterday, didn't she?"

Shiling's Mother asked in surprise, "How did you know? Did you put this Coin on the table?"

"Yes, Mom, the Coin you switched was from 2016, but the 'magic Coin's that Baldy Uncle gave me was from 2006. You should look for the 2006 coin next time," Liu Shiling said earnestly.

Shiling's Mother looked down and saw that the Coin in her hand was indeed from 2016, but she was still puzzled. "How did you know where I put that Coin?"

"I just knew it." Liu Shiling's tone still carried a hint of smugness.

Shiling's Mother felt the coldness under her feet again.

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