March Drabble Challenge: 19 - Rip-off

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Lan Qiren took the small chocolate egg from the hand of his toddler grand-nephew. A-Yuan asked him to buy it for him and then had a hard time peeling off the packaging material. So, the nice uncle Lan Qiren offered his help.

Now, he was struggling with the task. Who had even ever thought of chocolate eggs! It was dangerous to give them to children, they could swallow harmful parts.

With a sigh, Lan Qiren finished inspecting the egg for any more aluminium pieces and gave it to the toddler. A-Yuan started eagerly eating. At least he was enjoying his sweet even though it would probably get his teeth rotten the next second.

One more reason why no one should be selling these, Lan Qiren lamented internally. Now he would have to go buy some tissues to be able to help A-Yuan clean himself.

Suddenly, he saw that the chocolate piece broke in the toddler's hand. The whole egg was actually completely hollow! This angered him immensely. After everything, they did not even get the full egg of chocolate. What a rip-off. The thing was not cheap either. Lan Qiren was not going to ever buy one of these again.

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