The mascot of the wishing shop is a cat.

Chapter 212 A New Story

"Excuse me, hello, may I ask your name?"

Lin Xiyue and the little girl sat facing each other. After they were speechless for a while, Lin Xiyue couldn't help but speak first.

"My name is Wenli."

After the little girl sat down, she seemed to have used up all her courage. She was no longer the assertive person she had been when she spoke to Lin Xiyue. She became weak and timid.

"Okay, can I call you Lily? How did you find my shop?"

As Lin Xiyue spoke, she took the tea that An Qing brought over and poured a cup for Wen Li.

"Well, yes."

Wenli nodded slightly, indicating her agreement with how Lin Xiyue addressed her.

Then, she gently reached out her hands and carefully took the delicate teacup from Lin Xiyue's hands.

The teacup was still slightly warm to the touch. Wenli held it steadily to her eyes, but her gaze was involuntarily drawn to the rising steam from within.

The wisps of steam rose and swirled upwards, like graceful dancers flitting through the air. They intertwined and merged, eventually disappearing without a trace.

Wenli stared blankly at this wondrous sight, as if the whole world had shrunk to just her and that cup of hot tea emitting a faint fragrance.

Time passed slowly, and she fell into deep thought, remaining silent for a long time.

Lin Xiyue sat quietly to the side, not making a sound to disturb Wenli, but simply waiting.

The room was quiet, broken only by the occasional soft breathing.

Finally, as the wisps of mist gradually thinned, Wenli slowly opened her lips, as if she wanted to say something.

"I saw it when I passed by your store a few months ago, on the sign at the entrance."

Wenli hesitated a bit at first, but once she started speaking, she spoke without further hesitation.

"I couldn't believe it at the time, but I really had a wish that I wanted to fulfill. So when I passed by your store for the second time, I tentatively asked the people around me, and I found that I was the only one who could see those words."

Wenli took a sip of tea and spoke slowly.

She didn't talk about her inner struggle during this period, but you could tell from the way her fingers were white from gripping the teacup so tightly that she was actually very nervous. Her eyes were full of a need for reassurance when she looked at Lin Xiyue.

"Yes, we are a wishing shop that only people with strong wishes can know about."

Lin Xiyue gave her an affirmative answer.

After receiving this affirmation, Wenli visibly relaxed.

"So, beautiful lady, what wish do you wish to have fulfilled?"

Lin Xiyue asked with a slight smile, while stroking Moros, who was lying on her knees, with one hand.

She now appears somewhat mysterious and unpredictable in Wenli's eyes.

"I want the person I love to love me too."

Under Lin Xiyue's gaze, Wenli expressed her wish.

"Oh dear, miss, your wish is too vague. Would you mind telling me about the actual situation?"

Lin Xiyue smiled helplessly and said.

"He's my neighbor!"

“When we first met, it was just the beginning of our time going to kindergarten together. I remember being a little scared and nervous on my first day of school, but when I saw his familiar face, I felt much more at ease.”

“From then on, we would walk hand in hand into that campus filled with laughter every day. He always took care of me like an older brother, making me feel incredibly warm in an unfamiliar environment.”

"As time goes by, we grow up day by day. But his kindness to me has never diminished in the slightest."

"Whenever I feel wronged and stand to the side with tears in my eyes, he always appears immediately and magically pulls out a colorful, beautifully wrapped candy and hands it to me. That candy seems to have magical power that can make all my unhappiness disappear in an instant."

"Not only that, he also often helped me with my studies. He would patiently explain things to me, over and over again, until I fully understood."

"Before each exam, he would help me review my lessons and organize the key knowledge points. It was because of his help that my grades were always very good."

"In short, he has been incredibly good to me since I was a child. Whenever I think of him, my heart feels warm as if it were being bathed in sunshine, and a happy smile involuntarily spreads across my face."

As Wenli said this, a happy smile did indeed appear on her face.

Lin Xiyue remained silent, listening quietly. She knew that this plot would inevitably end with a "but".

"But he's become very strange in recent years."

As Lin Xiyue expected, Wenli's "but" came. After saying this, the happy expression on Wenli's face disappeared, and she lowered her head sadly, gripping her teacup tightly.

"He started to distance himself from me and consciously avoided me. Even when I tried to stop him, he would remain silent and not speak to me. In the end, he even moved out of the house and started living at school to avoid me."

Wenli's voice was slightly choked, but she still lowered her head to hide herself, not wanting anyone to discover her sadness.

"And then? From what you've said, it's obvious he liked you a lot before too."

Lin Xiyue spoke up at the opportune moment to ask a question, which was quite strange.

"Because, a year ago, he clearly said he didn't like me, and then moved away without any warning. I... I asked everyone I knew, but I can't find him anymore. And, to avoid any further contact with me, he even entrusted his house to someone else, and that person is mute; he won't speak no matter what I ask. Waaah..."

At first, Wenli was able to suppress her emotions and slowly recount the heartbreaking things that had happened to her.

But as memories flooded back, her voice began to tremble, and in the end, she could no longer contain the overwhelming sorrow and pain in her words.

She lowered her head, so her face couldn't be seen, but her tears fell one after another, like pearls from a broken string.

And those scalding tears fell straight into the teacup she was holding tightly in her hand.

The moment tears meet tea is like a boulder being thrown into a calm lake, creating ripples that spread outwards.

The ripples continued to spread outwards, intertwining and colliding, forming a heartbreaking scene.

Through this cup of gently swirling tea, one can almost see Wenli's sorrowful heart and the shattered beauty of a young girl's love.

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