Genius Club

Chapter 841

Chapter 841: Chapter 22 Missing You (Added for the alliance leader’s third bomb!)_6 Chapter 841: Chapter 22 Missing You (Added for the alliance leader’s third bomb!)_6 Yan Qiaoqiao was interested in everything.

Even those balloon castles meant for little kids a few years old, she wanted to join in the chaos.

“Forget it, just look at how little the other kids are.”

Zhao Yingjun held her back:

“No way, just go play in the arcade over there for a bit, there should be something suitable for you.”

Arriving at the arcade, all kinds of music buzzed and clamored.

Zhao Yingjun couldn’t help but frown.

She had never been to a place where the music was so blasting, and seeing those patient parents playing with their children in the arcade, she genuinely admired them...

Just being in such a place was already enough to be irritating, yet they seemed to be having so much fun with their kids.

Yan Qiaoqiao held a pile of Game Coins, feeding them into the claw machine.

...

Clawed at one, the claw loosened;

Clawed at another, the claw loosened again.

She turned her head to look at Zhao Yingjun:

“I can’t grab any.”

Zhao Yingjun smiled helplessly:

“There’s nothing we can do if you can’t grab one, I can’t do it either, and I don’t think these things are meant to be grabbed...

After all, the claws loosen just as they reach the highest point, it’s obvious it’s just a scam.”

Ding-ling-ling ding-ling-ling ding-ling-ling—

It was only during the moment when the music in the arcade switched that she finally heard her cellphone ringing.

Pulling it out, she saw several missed calls, all from a Vice President.

Could it be...

Had there been a problem with the plan they discussed in the afternoon?

She pressed the answer button and walked quickly out of the noisy arcade, turning back to Yan Qiaoqiao:

“Qiaoqiao, you keep playing here, I need to take a call.”

Having said that.

She walked outside the arcade and engaged in a phone conversation with the Vice President.

Yan Qiaoqiao failed to grab a doll again.

She took out another Game Coin and continued to feed it into the coin slot, only for it to slip away—

Gurgle gurgle roll...

The Game Coin fell to the ground and then rolled away down the sloped floor, picking up speed as it went.

Just as Yan Qiaoqiao bent down to pick it up, the Game Coin had already rolled far and fast.

She quickly chased after it.

Running all the way.

“I don’t have a mom.”

It was like a sharp knife thrust into the male university student’s heart!

His expression instantly contorted, as if the knife hadn’t been pulled out, but was instead continually being twisted and turned inside.

The clarity in his eyes disappeared, replaced by guilt and regret.

Damn it.

Why did he say those things?

Why say such heart-wrenching words to this little girl without a mom?

“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to.”

The male university student hastily apologized.

Then he looked at the carnation in his hand.

He felt that even if he gave it to the little girl for free...

she didn’t have a mom to give it to, who else could she give it to?

She had no mom to give it to!

Otherwise, he truly would have given this carnation to the lovely little girl for free.

But he realized.

It was better not to give it to her.

That would only hurt her more.

So, he hurriedly threw the carnation in the trash next to him and swiftly packed up, guiltily fleeing.

Yan Qiaoqiao cocked her head.

Watching the back of the male university student as he fled.

Then she looked at the carnation in the trash bin, turned upside down with the flowers pointing down and the stems up.

Then...

She took it out.

...

Meanwhile.

At the entrance of the arcade in the mall, Zhao Yingjun finished her phone call and returned to the music-blaring arcade.

“Qiaoqiao?”

She looked at the empty claw machine area, then searched around.

Gone!

There was no sign of Qiaoqiao anywhere!

In an instant, Zhao Yingjun panicked.

Oh no.

She hadn’t lost the child, had she?

Although this teenager likely wouldn’t encounter child traffickers.