After you left…

I slowly became like you, whispering sweet nothings to different people.

But... those were all said to you...

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Shen Fuyao agreed to her request.

The basketball court was bustling with activity that day, and even someone of my size seemed incredibly small.

A deafening cheer erupted; they were all shouting your name!

Manman… I admit I’m a little jealous…

...

"No, aren't we going too far by doing this?"

"Excessive? Have you forgotten how she kicked me back then? I've never been treated like this before!"

A boy stared menacingly at the giraffe-like girl running back and forth on the basketball court.

"Besides, I just wanted to teach her a lesson, not kill her. This medicine will only make her hoarse for a few days, it's fine."

"But...can she drink our water?"

"I've thought it through. After observing for so long, I see that the giraffe and the chubby girl are getting very close."

"She even came to our class's basketball game today; she must be here to give the giraffes water!"

"When the time comes, you guys will push her over, and I'll take the opportunity to change the water. No one will know it was us who did it..."

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As the first half of the game was about to end and Manman was about to rest, Shen Fuyao began to push her way to the front.

But at that moment, someone pushed her, and Fuyao fell to the ground without warning!

"Little rocking horse!"

Manman, who had just finished playing, happened to see this and immediately ran over to help her up.

Are you alright? Are you hurt anywhere?

She asked nervously.

Looking at her sweaty face, Shen Fuyao really wanted to wipe her sweat, but the strange looks around her stopped her.

"fine……"

Fuyao nodded, then shook her head, realizing what she was doing. In the end, not knowing what to do, she fell silent again.

Seeing her adorable appearance, the giraffe girl gently flicked her nose.

"Little rocking horse, where's my water? The child is dying of thirst!"

"oh!"

After this reminder, Shen Fuyao seemed to remember what she had come here for!

I looked around and spotted the bottle of water not far away...

"for you…"

Fuyao picked up the water, wiped it with her clothes, and handed it to Manman.

Her cheeks were a little red...

How come I can't even do this simple thing right...?

"Little rocking horse is so nice~"

The giraffe girl naturally wouldn't mind such a small thing as spilling water on the ground; she simply unscrewed the cap and drank it all in one gulp!

"The water from the shaker is definitely the sweetest!"

"You're so...unserious...Alright, the competition's about to start, you should go now..."

"Okay..."

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Since meeting Manman was a beautiful dream.

There will always be a day when the dream ends...

But I didn't expect it to come so quickly!

Three days later, I learned that she had been hospitalized after vomiting blood...

Shen Fuyao rushed to the hospital, but overheard Chu Moyan's conversation with her teacher.

"Teacher, what's wrong with my friend? She started with just a slight cough, but now she's vomiting blood."

Fu Wanchen frowned as he looked at the test results: "Your friend... seems to have been poisoned?"

What did she eat or drink three days ago?

"Huh? Poisoning? She's been with me the whole time... wait, three days ago at the basketball game, she was in contact with a chubby girl from our school? And she drank the water the girl gave her?"

"Is that bottle still there?" Wan Chen asked.

"Yes! Manman has kept that bottle. I'll go back to school and look for it; it should still be there!"

"Okay, go quickly and get it to me as soon as possible. Your friend's condition is not optimistic. This poison is slowly damaging her voice."

"The hospital can only temporarily suppress the symptoms. If we don't quickly understand the ingredients and develop a treatment, your friend will probably die..."

Such blunt words stunned both Chu Moyan and Shen Fuyao, who was eavesdropping in the corner!

"Manman...will she die?"

"Is it because of the water I brought?"

Shen Fuyao couldn't believe her ears. How could this be? She had bought that water at the supermarket, and she had been carrying it with her the whole time...

No! It wasn't in my hands for a moment!

She suddenly recalled the scene from that day, and an incredibly terrifying thought surfaced in her mind!

Someone is trying to harm Manman! The water has been switched!

"Impossible! How could someone as optimistic as Manman have made enemies! There must be some mistake!"

...

That's what I was thinking at the time, until the police came looking for me...

According to them, Manman was poisoned because of that bottle of water!

Moreover, only the fingerprints of Shen Fuyao, Manman, and Chu Moyan were extracted from the bottle...

To be honest, I was really dumbfounded!

The police told me to tell the truth, otherwise they wouldn't let me go.

But even after I told them... they still didn't let me go...

Because I'm too much of a suspect... I can't leave until the case is fully investigated...

During that time, I repeatedly begged the person guarding me to take me to see Manman...

But they rejected me…

They said Manman's condition was very serious and she had difficulty contacting the outside world; we couldn't even get in to talk to her and get information.

Moreover, even the slightest leak of this information could easily cause public panic, and even your case is being investigated in secrecy…

that's all…

I spent a year in that dark, sunless place, a place that could even be called a prison…

I'm about to break down!

I really want to see Manman! I really want to go home with her! I really want to take a picture with her!

But all of this is just wishful thinking on my part...

Perhaps it was longing that made me sick... but the fat I couldn't lose finally disappeared...

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