The boy looked notably unwilling, but when he looked up and saw the girl's peeved look, he backed down at once. His eyes drooped at the corner and he looked from his periphery before calling out awkwardly, 'Sister!'
It was tender and moving.
'That's nice to hear!' The girl smiled satisfactorily. 'Say that again!'
The boy turned around and looked at her. Seeing happiness and satisfaction brimming on her face, a tinge of shyness crept across his crystalline eyes, and he opened his mouth again wryly. 'Sister, let's play together, all right?'
'Mm!'
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"Shishi, I finally found you!" Gong Jie said in a hushed voice as he hugged her even tighter; it was so tight that she felt herself suffocating!
She had a moment of hesitation when she heard him calling and wondered why.
Why did she inexplicably lingered in his embrace when she obviously did not know him?