"Stop! Let go of that girl!"
Xia Xu had just steadied Tang Youxin in her dinosaur costume when an angry shout came from the street-facing shop behind him.
As the saying went, when you saw injustice, you raised your voice. That shout positively rang with righteousness and moral conviction.
"Let him go, or I'll call the police."
A boy who looked about seventeen or eighteen rushed out, closely followed by a rather masculine-looking girl with short hair.
"Pfft..."
Faced with this strangely familiar scene, Xia Xu couldn't help laughing.
"No, no, he's..."
After her initial fright, Tang Youxin had recovered her senses. She slipped out of Xia Xu's arms and steadied herself, hurriedly trying to explain, but paused slightly when it came to describing his relationship to her.
"Her boyfriend."
Xia Xu supplied the answer firmly.
"D-don't say things like that."
Tang Youxin stammered out a protest, but her soft, sweet voice had absolutely no force behind it. It didn't sound like a denial, either, but rather a shy, coquettish complaint.
Crack!
At that moment, there almost seemed to be the sound of a heart breaking.
Of course, that was only an illusion.
But the boy who had rushed out first stood frozen with his mouth open.
Seeing the obvious intimacy between the two, he heard his own heart break, too.
"Youxin, are these your coworkers?"
Finding this rather amusing, Xia Xu casually rested his hand on the costume's shoulder again and looked at the boy and girl with a teasing, slightly bitchy expression.
"Yes. This is Ya Nan, and this is her friend."
Tang Youxin struggled to remove the dinosaur head, revealing her little face, flushed from the stuffiness inside. Without even stopping to catch her breath, she hurriedly introduced them to Xia Xu.
However, after introducing the rather