Chapter 1026

"Yes, I'm certain!" Sonia nodded with a very serious expression, indicating that she had indeed learned enough, and she really didn't need him anymore.

At the sight of her confidence, Toby shook his head with a laugh. "All right. I'll leave it to you, then. Show me what you've learned."

He wanted to see if she really didn't need him anymore.

"Don't worry, I won't let you down." She smiled at him, then turned around and began to carve the rest of the pumpkin.

Seeing that she was no longer paying attention to him, Toby patted her head lightly, then walked away with his arms crossed and leaned against the wall.

Sonia turned and glowered at him. "What are you doing?"

"Nothing. I'm just teaching an ungrateful person a lesson," he replied with a shrug.

She shot him a glare. "Hey, who are you calling ungrateful?"

"I'm not wrong." Toby unfolded his arms and spread them outward. "I just finished teaching you, and you pushed me aside now that you don't have a use for me. If that isn't being ungrateful, what is it? Not only that, but you don't have a conscience either."

"You..." Sonia was rendered speechless by him as his words seemed to make sense.

It was true that she pushed him aside after she felt that she had learned enough, and it was ungrateful of her to do so. All of a sudden, Sonia felt so embarrassed that her face turned red.

tease her anymore. He stepped forward and gently caressed her hair, messing up her hair that she had painstakingly tidied earlier once more.

away from her head huffily. "Go

He narrowed his

want

Toby nodded. "A little."

for me to finish carving it so that we can eat." Sonia waved

laughed under his breath. "All right, I won't

impatient, Toby retreated again and gave her space. After she watched him leave obediently, Sonia turned her wrist before she continued to carve the pumpkin with her head lowered. However, she had thought that it would be an easy process as she had learned how to do it,

but now that she was doing it alone, she clearly had to put in the effort to be able to cut the pumpkin off. In less than two minutes, she felt that her arm was turning sore, just like how she had felt when she was carving before Toby came back. What's going on? Sonia's hands stopped in

backward, the man leaning against the wall saw that she had suddenly gone motionless, and a glint flashed past his eyes as he asked

lips gaped. A moment later, she said sheepishly,

did you stop?" The smile on Toby's

as she fell silent. Why did she stop? Of course it was because

stepped forward with a smile and took the carving

up like this a long time ago, right? That's why you asked me if I was

Even if you have learned a little bit of the basics, you're still unclear on the amount of strength or the skills you need to carve something. That's why I was sure it won't take long for your arms to be sore, because

pouted unhappily, her gaze falling on his

could carve through the pumpkin easily when I first started, but how come it didn't

at her. "Obviously, it's because I was guiding you in the beginning while holding your hand. Rather than you, it was me who was putting in the strength to carve the pumpkin, which was why you felt very relaxed,

facing any troubles. It was all because he was exerting his strength behind her back. To put it bluntly, he had been doing all the work from beginning to end, and what she thought she had learned

"You must've been laughing at me

Toby chuckled. "I wasn't."

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