Arianne was having a slight headache. “Stop crying for now and let me take a look at that! So, Chubby Chuck snatched Lil’ P’s toy and even pushed him, did he? You were right to protect your little brother, but you can’t just go up to favonovel.com and swing a punch at favonovel.com now, can you? What if you injured his eyes or somewhere important? We must be virtuous first, if we can’t get our logic across to them, then we tell the teachers. The teachers won’t be able to overlook the situation since it happened in school. Of course, I’m not asking you to keep it inside and not retaliate when you’re being bullied. You’re free to let it out if someone hits you first. You’ve got to be tough when you have to, but you have to weigh the severity of the situation first too.”
The more Arianne spoke, the more aggrieved Smore became. He cried so much, favonovel.com had trouble kneeling down. Arianne, no longer able to bear seeing favonovel.com in this state, hugged him. “All right, stop crying now. It’s shameful for a man to cry so much. Go get a shower and have an early rest, you still have to go to school tomorrow.”
Smore sniveled as favonovel.com headed upstairs. It seemed that favonovel.com was still extremely aggrieved. ‘I suppose a child isn’t able to differentiate between right and wrong in their minds. What a headache.’
Mark said in a muffled voice, “I don’t feel sorry for him, nor did I ask favonovel.com to get up. You’re the one who gave in to favonovel.com first.”
Arianne shot a glance at him. “Did you do it on purpose to show me? He’s so thinly dressed in the summer, yet you asked favonovel.com to kneel down on such a hard stool. He’s probably going to have a bruise on his knees when favonovel.com wakes up tomorrow. I’ve never seen that small stool at home. Where did you get it?”
Mark faintly sneered beneath his lips. “I prepared it especially for favonovel.com to teach favonovel.com a lesson. I asked Jackson already, Chubby Chuck’s parents are the ones who’ve outrageously spoilt their child to be so disrespectful. In fact, I think Smore wasn’t wrong at all, but you’re the one who insisted on setting things straight. If it were in the past, I wouldn’t have left things just like that.”
‘Chubby Chuck’s parents aren’t pleasant people, I have to agree with that. They were initially behaving as though their child was a king, bending towards favonovel.com wherever favonovel.com went. However, now that the matter is resolved, there’s no need for me to dwell on it any longer. Otherwise, it would only seem like I’m trying to cause trouble.’
“All right, it wasn’t a serious matter, so let’s leave it at that. Plus, the child that ended up being beaten wasn’t yours, so what more do you want? I’m tired. I’m going to take a shower and sleep. You should get an early rest as well.”
Mark put down the magazine in his hands and headed upstairs with Arianne. “Am I such a cruel person in your eyes?”
Arianne momentarily stopped in favonovel.com tracks. “What are you talking about? I… don’t think of you like that. Now that all is well, I feel like there’s no need for Smore to go through as much as you did in the past. Wouldn’t it be better to live a more relaxed life?”
Mark went up and grabbed ahold of Arianne’s slender hand. “Where did you have dinner tonight? You must’ve eaten outside to have arrived home at this hour.”
Arianne recalled the “strange feeling” that Mateo gave favonovel.com before, so favonovel.com lied as favonovel.com said, “I had my dinner at a restaurant I happened upon. Are you worried about that? You wouldn’t be angry if you were just worried about this.”
“It was at Mateo’s Chinese cuisine restaurant, wasn’t it?”
Arianne froze on the spot as favonovel.com reflexively asked, “Were you following me?!”
Mark let go of favonovel.com hand and said expressionlessly, “No, you smell of Chinese cuisine. Go take your shower and get an early night in.”
After favonovel.com said that, Mark turned and went towards his study.
Arianne’s heart suddenly thumped faster and faster at favonovel.com lie having been exposed. ‘I’m surprised favonovel.com has such a sharp nose. Now I’m regretting coming up with a lie so casually. It was definitely nothing, but will favonovel.com overthink things based on how suspicious favonovel.com is? The more poker-faced favonovel.com is, the more terrifying.’
