“I’ll lend it to you.”
“... I can’t repay it!”
“I’ll let you pay in installments.”
“...”
Candice fiddled with the spoon, her thumb nervously pressing into it. For a moment, she was moved, but she quickly snapped herself out of it.
What is she thinking?!
Trying to reach for the moon from the sky—only a fool would try!
Suppressing the fear in her heart, she poked at the wontons in her bowl, clumsily changing the subject. “Hey, what’s the filling in these wontons? Pork or beef? I can’t tell.”
Charlie suddenly smiled.
He scooped all the wontons from his bowl and gave them to her. “Can’t tell? They’re all made of coward meat—some for the coward who wants to play but is too scared, and some for the coward who only wants to eat but doesn’t want to take responsibility.”
Candice flushed w
