Chapter 174 Hotdog

"Boss, please give me three classic hot dogs."

Mingmei never expected Lillian to find her here.

Even though she had heard the name countless times from other people's mouths and had seen her once in Lu Xiaoyao's live broadcast, Mingmei couldn't help but show a hint of surprise on her face when she met Lillian face to face for the first time.

This didn't look like a casual visit at all.

"Okay, please wait a moment."

Suppressing her doubts, Mingmei responded with a smile.

As she wondered about the purpose of the other party's visit, she saw her looking at Yuan Fang, who was standing beside her.

"Oh my god, Mr. Jerry, what are you doing here? Ah! Your arm..."

As if startled, Lillian covered her mouth slightly with her hand, while Yuan Fang looked up at Lillian and appeared very calm.

"You are..."

"I'm Lillian, Mr. Jerry."

Hearing that it was Lillian, Yuan Fang thought to himself, "Just as I expected."

After all, Bai Xiao had already met her. Although Yuan Fang had not met her himself, he had heard Bai Xiao's description, and he had wondered if he would one day encounter a "familiar face" like Lillian on the road.

"Hello, long time no see. You're still as beautiful as ever."

Yuan Fang smiled calmly, seemingly without any intention of explaining his disability.

However, Yuan Fang saw from the other party's expression that she didn't seem to know how he had become disabled.

"By the way, Lillian, why are you here buying hot dogs?"

"Ah, last week Mona mentioned the hot dog her father bought when she came home, so I kept it in mind. Aren't Mona and the others coming back today? I'm here to pick her up and buy this hot dog to take back."

When she mentioned Mona and Zhen Hu, Lillian had a gentle, happy smile on her face, and Mingmei, who was processing the hot dogs in the back, glanced outside.

Eeee!

She didn't know if it was the angle she was standing at or the lighting, but Mingmei felt that Lillian's face looked very plastic.

That gentle face was like a plastic mask welded onto her face.

Her uncle wouldn't be so sloppy with the NPC characters in the game, would he? He wouldn't just randomly generate a face, would he?

"What are you doing here?"

Before Mingmei could get lost in her thoughts, another person stood at the door of her shop, someone Mingmei never expected.

It was Mona.

She was carrying a schoolbag and dragging a small suitcase, apparently having just finished school.

And her expression didn't look very good right now.

Was it because of Lillian's arrival?

Mingmei remembered her attitude towards Zhen Hu and didn't find anything wrong with the speculation that she might not like her mother.

However, when Mingmei brought out the packaged hot dogs and handed them to Lillian, Mingmei quickly noticed Mona's gaze towards her.

Her blue eyes were like a layer of ice, staring at her. Mingmei never thought that her second meeting with Mona would be like this.

This was clearly hostility, right?

【Did I offend her?】

Mingmei silently asked Guigui.

Guigui: 【I don't know~】

Guigui was also puzzled. The way she was looking at her host was really quite unkind!

"Oh, Mona, look, I bought you the hot dog you like~"

As if she hadn't seen Mona's ugly expression, Lillian placed the hot dog in front of Mona and said, "Look, I specifically asked your father. This is the hot dog from that place~"

"Last time… the hot dog Dad bought was from here?"

Mona didn't take the hot dog Lillian offered, but tilted her head and looked at Mingmei again.

This time, her gaze was even more terrifying.

"My dad bought hot dogs from you?"

"Yes."

However, Mingmei wasn't the type to cower when someone was aggressive towards her.

On the contrary, she imitated Mona and tilted her head as well. In the eyes of the other party, this behavior was no less than a provocation.

Everyone present with eyes could see that Mingmei and Mona suddenly didn't get along, but everyone was also puzzled as to what was going on between Mona and Mingmei.

"Let's go home."

After staring at Mingmei for nearly half a minute, Mona finally spoke, turned around and was about to leave. Lillian turned around and gave Mingmei and Yuan Fang an apologetic smile, then followed. As the two walked away, their voices could still be heard faintly.

"Daisy? Her dad came to pick her up…"

"I didn't have any conflict with her, don't guess if you don't know…"

It wasn't until the two people's conversation was too far to hear that Mingmei breathed a sigh of relief.

However, before she could finish breathing, she met Yuan Fang's probing gaze towards her.

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"I really don't know when I offended her." Mingmei immediately shook her head and explained, "Even when I went to school to save Lu Xiaoyao that time, I only saw her from afar in the crowd. Nothing happened. She didn't pay much attention to me at the time."

"Could it be that she discovered there's something wrong with you? After all, she's the Boss. She controls the will of this world. Maybe she really has that ability."

After Yuan Fang finished speaking, Mingmei also considered how likely that was.

But after thinking about it again, Mingmei felt that it was unlikely.

"If she really discovered something, she definitely would have discovered more than just me. But… you saw her attitude towards me."

Mingmei spread her hands, also speechless.

However, Mingmei wouldn't dwell on it. Instead, she looked at Yuan Fang and asked, "I saw that she seemed very surprised about your disability… It seems that your injury…"

Mingmei deliberately dragged out the last syllable and saw what she wanted to see.

The fleeting panic on his face proved that he did know what was going on with his disability.

…

"I saw Mona came out earlier than you today. Aren't you… usually inseparable?"

Julian came to pick Lu Xiaoyao home today. The two didn't go back immediately, but bought a bunch of food outside. Julian drove the car he got back and circled around their neighborhood.

Although it was a bit troublesome, Lu Xiaoyao also felt that it was safer to communicate like this now.

"Maybe because I messed with her?" Lu Xiaoyao opened a bag of potato chips, smelled the strong tomato flavor, and couldn't wait to try one.

Crunch.

"You?" Julian was a little incredulous, but without any ridicule, he couldn't help asking, "What happened?"

"Nothing, I just let her expectations fall flat twice." After saying that, Lu Xiaoyao sighed.

"Ah, I can probably see what Mona is trying to do now."

As she spoke, she took another bite of potato chips. Although she looked lazy, she tilted her head, looked at Julian, and her round cat eyes narrowed, adding a bit of indescribable danger.

"She just wants me to do bad things."

"Bad things?"

"Yeah, watching me get isolated, get bullied, and then I get blackened and kill those people…"

"You were bullied?" Julian immediately grasped the key point when he heard what Lu Xiaoyao said, "You were bullied at school?"

"Ah, it's just like that, it's not really bullying. It's just kids playing house. Anyway, it's a game… I don't mind." Lu Xiaoyao shook her head and stuck out her tongue, "Although I really wanted to kick those people into the toilet and make them drink sewage at the time."

"Is she targeting you like this because she discovered your true identity?"

Julian didn't think this had nothing to do with Mona at all. On the contrary, he felt that this was Mona's plan.

"No."

Lu Xiaoyao shook her head, thought for a while, and said slowly, "She should be looking for a sense of identification in me."

"A sense of… identification? Identification with what?"

When Julian heard Lu Xiaoyao's description, he couldn't help but slowly stop the car, waiting for her answer.

"Identification with what she used to do."