At this moment, a tall, fair-skinned, bespectacled boy with a refined demeanor appeared beside Niuniu. He asked with concern, "Niuniu, what's wrong? Did something happen?"
Niuniu stood there dumbfounded for a moment, then snapped out of it and hastily said, "Oh, I'm fine. Um, um, right, I'm heading out for a bit. Watch over things here, okay?"
Without waiting for the boy's puzzled expression or questions, she turned and dashed out, leaving him standing there with a furrowed brow while calling after her, "Take it easy, take it easy…"
...
Niuniu hurried to the school gate, running all the way and sweating buckets, then began searching around. But where could Tangtang be?
She frowned involuntarily—could that darn girl have been messing with her? With a sigh, she thought to herself, it's definitely that rotten girl pulling one of her pranks again. She had loved mischief since childhood.
