"But, I didn't see the little demon either. Do I have to apologize too?"
Xiao Xiao looked at the child quite innocently, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised, but there was no hint of joking in his eyes.
He is serious.
"Ah, but the little demon is here!"
The child exclaimed and glanced at the little demon aside.
"Philip is here too."
Xiao Xiao did not refute or deny the child's knowledge, but simply stated a fact.
Philippi is indeed here.
"You can't see it."
Xiao Xiao paused for a while and stated a fact again.
The child was a little choked. He opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't know how to form a sentence.
Is there any relationship between the two?
However, at this time, the brain was like a child's mess, and he could only think along Xiao Xiao's meaning in a daze, without or could not care to carefully study the meaning of Xiao Xiao's words.
"Well-"
The child uttered indistinct monosyllables from his throat.
…
"Hey, Xiaoyuan."
"Let me tell you something."
Xiao Xiao's tone was a bit mysterious, causing the child to raise his head and lower his head, with a little curiosity in his eyes.
"I just lied to you."
Lie to him? The child frowned in confusion, and then suddenly realized, his face quickly lit up. Brother Xiao Xiao was just lying to him that he couldn't see the little demon, right?
Seemingly sensing the child's thoughts, Xiao Xiao smiled and shook his head.
"no."
"I just lied when I said I wanted to introduce a friend to you."
"There is no Philip."
The child couldn't help but open his mouth, and looked at Xiao Xiao intently for a while, confusion and confusion intertwined on his face. After a while, the child seemed to understand the meaning of Xiao Xiao's words, and his eyes widened with excitement.
Out of the fire, "You lied to me!"
"Why?"
The child doesn't understand why this big brother, whom he likes so much, lies to him?
What he hates most is being treated like a child and being perfunctory and deceived.
He has grown up.
He doesn't need white lies.
He wants to be treated equally and seriously.
Xiao Xiao clearly gave him what he wanted, why did he now say that he lied to him?
Even though the child's wide-open eyes were extremely red, he still stared at Xiao Xiao stubbornly.
...
"Didn't you lie to me?"
Xiao Xiao is still calm and calm.
But the child panicked for a moment and subconsciously shouted: "No!"
"What did I lie to you? How could I lie to you? Why should I lie to you?"
The child kept asking questions, and the more he asked, the more confident he became.
"Did you really not lie to me?"
Xiao Xiao seemed to be just asking the question nonchalantly, but his understatement inexplicably made the child's heart skip a beat.
Things that should have been extremely certain seem to have become uncertain because of this.
The child shook his head, "No."
There was a strong tone in the voice, which brought out a bit of hesitation.
"Does your so-called friend, the little demon, really exist?"
Xiao Xiao didn't pay attention to the child's "baring his teeth and claws", his expression was calm, and his gentle words contained a powerful force that made people believe what he said.
"Of course, it's right next to me!"
The child hurriedly explained.
He didn't know how many times he had made this explanation?
However, there is no one who truly believes it!
Even though his parents, as well as his brother, seemed to believe him, the child was sensitive to something different.
He originally thought that brother Xiao Xiao really believed in him, but he didn't expect that he actually said that he lied to him in the end?
You actually question the existence of the little demon?!
The child's initial softness and admiration towards Xiao Xiao turned back to his initial defensiveness. His pursed lips, twitching nose, and narrowed breathing revealed the child's angry mood.
…
Xiao Xiao didn't panic at all, his eyes were clear and even cold, and he just asked again, "Xiao Yuan, are you really sure that the little demon is real?"
"certainly."
It was obviously supposed to be like this, but when facing Xiao Xiao's gaze that seemed to be pointed directly at people's hearts, the clear and cold gaze seemed to extinguish the anger in his heart.
It also made him inexplicably suspicious.
Is he really sure?
Do little monsters really exist?
The child covered his head and suddenly felt a headache.
He tilted his head and stared at the little demon intently. Look, isn't the little demon right there?
…
Xiao Xiao reached out and stroked the child's head, with a sigh in his expression, "Wake up, Xiaoyuan."
"Your parents, mother, and brother are very worried about you."
"Your friends are waiting for you too."
"Can you bear to make them sad?"
…
In the child's fixed field of vision, the figure of the little demon seemed to become increasingly blurred, looming between the light and shadow.
He couldn't help but blink, and then looked at it carefully. The little demon was like a fleeting image, and finally shattered into pieces in his eyes.
Finally dissipated in the air.
The child blinked again, but there was nothing in his field of vision. The figure before seemed to be just his own imagination.
He couldn't help but look at Xiao Xiao with some confusion.
What's going on here?
what happened to him?
…
"It's okay, Xiaoyuan just wants to make friends."
Xiao Xiao patted the child's soft hair soothingly.
"I have many friends."
The child puffed up his cheeks and said dissatisfied.
When had he ever lacked friends?
"Well, Xiaoyuan is very powerful."
Xiao Xiao agreed with a smile.
"snort!"
The child tilted his head a little arrogantly, but accidentally exposed the red tips of his ears.
"hehe."
Xiao Xiao couldn't help but chuckle.
…
"Okay, let's go back to the house."
The snow was still falling, and the cold air made the child's cheeks turn white even though he was wrapped like a polar bear.
The long eyelashes are covered with a layer of snow particles.
"Um."
The child stretched out his hand to hold the hand that Xiao Xiao held out to him, and the warm temperature was transmitted through the gloves, making his whole body feel a little warm.
"Brother Xiao Xiao."
The child couldn't help but call out to the person next to him, and grasped the young man's slender fingers with his little hand.
"Um?"
Xiao Xiao looked down at the child with some doubts, and saw his red nose and red eyes. He was really pitiful and cute.
"fine."
The child smiled sheepishly.
Well, Xiao Xiao shook his head helplessly.
…
"Wow~"
Xiao Xiao opened the glass door on the balcony, then opened the curtains and pulled the child into the room.
…
The sudden sound of the glass door being opened startled Wen Shaoyang and Chi Xiuchuan, who had been uneasy.
The eyes of the two of them, which were already focused on the curtains, suddenly brightened.
They knew that Master Xiao and Xiaoyuan were coming out.
…
Wen Shaoyang became inexplicably nervous, and a thin layer of sweat oozed from his palms.
Realizing the expectation in his heart, he poured a bucket of cold water on himself.
Rather than hoping now and being disappointed later, it is better not to have high hopes in the first place.
This way the loss will be less severe when the time comes.