"Pfft-"
"What happened? What happened?"
"Who? Who did what?!"
Everyone at the table jumped at the sudden disturbance and turned in unison. Once they saw what was happening across from them, they all breathed a sigh of relief.
The brats at the opposite table seemed to have been startled by that bellow too. They all shrank back and lowered their heads, not daring to look up again, no matter how closely the men scrutinized them.
That was the familiar, timid look they knew.
"Jiang San, you little... are you trying to scare us to death?!"
"Exactly. I nearly choked."
"Making a fuss over nothing... eat, eat!"
The men turned back, displeasure on their faces as they reached their chopsticks toward the dishes on the table again.
Jiang San flushed under their complaints and muttered, "There really was something suspicious about that brat's eyes just now-"
That look had been nervous yet expectant, something he had never seen in those brats before.
The man beside him heard that and glanced back across the room again.
Jiang Yingcheng, who had been carefully watching their reactions all along, sucked in another breath at the sight. Her heart almost leaped out of her throat!
Still looking?!
Why was he still looking?!
At the round table opposite them, Kui Wen and the other older boys could still calmly play their parts, but the children only a little older than her had already begun trembling nonstop. They looked guilty as anything.
Jiang Yingcheng even suspected that if these bad men stared at them a little longer, that boy would burst into tears!
Although that would still fit the roles they were playing, their plan was at its most critical point right now. Two bad men at the table still hadn't eaten any cakes. She couldn't let