After wandering around outside, though the intention was just to buy a small backpack for their daughter and grab a bite to eat, Ning Chu returned with bags full of items.
Exhausted, she collapsed onto the sofa, glanced at the time—almost 9 PM—and immediately got up to urge, “Shujun! Time for your bath and bed!”
She tried her best to keep their daughter’s habit of going to bed before 10 PM to avoid her being unable to get up once school started.
“Coming, coming!”
Their daughter, with her little legs, wobbled over. No matter how many times she fell, she never learned.
Just as she was about to lose her balance and fall, a long leg stepped forward, and she instinctively grabbed it, avoiding a fall.
“You really...”