"Y-you..."
The girl raised her head, her eyes wide. Her initial daze and surprise gave way to intense fluster and shyness. "How did you..."
"Hello, I'm your new neighbor. I just moved in next door."
Xia Xu winked at her and held out his hand as though offering a handshake.
As for the girl in the white dress, there was naturally only one person Xia Xu would treat with such affectionate familiarity: Little White Flower.
"N-neighbor?"
Tang Youxin's little head seemed not to have processed the sheer amount of information yet-or rather, she had yet to recover from the complicated surge of emotions and thoughts.
"That's right. So, as your neighbor, can I buy those two special buns?"
With a teasing smile, Xia Xu pointed at the two oddly shaped buns.
He visited the Consulting Company less often on weekends, but whenever he did, Little White Flower always produced two strange-looking buns, so there was clearly no need to ask who they were meant for.
"No. Those are my breakfast."
Tang Youxin turned her head away shyly.
"What do you mean, no? You can't pick and choose when you're selling things to customers."
Perhaps having heard the commotion and assumed an argument had broken out, the middle-aged man in the back of the shop limped over.
"Dad, it's not... I was just..."
Tang Youxin hurried to support the limping middle-aged man before trying to stammer out an explanation.
"Sorry, uncle. I was just joking around. I just moved in next door. I look forward to being neighbors."
Xia Xu gave an easy, unhurried chuckle, incidentally getting Little White Flower out of her predicament.
"Hahaha, no problem. No need to be so formal. We're neighbors now. I'm counting on you to give my business plenty of support, young man."
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