Chapter 6

• “Finish your greens, and you can watch Mulan for a little while.” Ling coaxed Yue at the dinner table, who was pushing her broccoli around her plate with dramatic sighing and doe eyeing her mother beside her. Hoping for a sympathy excusal. Meilei was too lost in her head to notice, and Suying frowned and batted Ling on the arm.
• “Mulan is the reason she keeps beating up her classmate.” She frowned at her friend.
• “I don’t like them…and don’t want to grow big and strong. I want to stay little forever.” Yue had heard every reason for eating her greens under the sun and didn’t care for any of them. She pouted out her bottom lip, fluttering her lashes in a sad show for her godmother, full stubborn on show, and they all knew they would never bend her will but still tried.