Chapter 9: Fishy’s iPad (1/2)

“What are you doing? Hurry up and apologize to the customer!” The store manager walked over hurriedly and pushed the young lady away.

As if woken up from her dreams, the young lady shuddered as she apologized, “Sorry, I, I…”

Yan Jin waved his hand as he stood up and walked towards the manager, taking Xiao Yu’s carrier from her hands.

“How is it? Are there any problems?” Xiao Yu wasn’t sure if he was hallucinating, but he felt a tinge of nervousness when Yan Jin asked that.

SQUEAK—

He’s strong enough to whack a bear to death!

The manager showed respect for Xiao Yu as she praised him: “There’s no problem with him. Your pet is very healthy and very intelligent.”

“Thank you.”

That was the last sentence Yan Jin said in that clinic.

When Xiao Yu was brought back to the Lamborghini, he was locked inside the carrier.

He scratched the edge of the carrier while he squeaked in various high pitches to express his displeasure.

SQUEAKKKK—

Soon, Yan Jin was at wit’s end with the protesting Xiao Yu. He sternly tapped against Xiao Yu’s carrier and said, “Can you promise that you won’t move around this time?”

Xiao Yu nodded his head continuously.

Yan Jin clicked his tongue and let Xiao Yu out from the carrier.

Xiao Yu was ecstatic that Yan Jin was easy to talk with, while Chairman Yan was befuddled at how this hamster acted like a spirit had possessed it, criticizing himself for not having a bottom line.

The round hamster rolled onto the seat, jumped backward, and then leaned his face on the surface as he stopped all movement.

The returning journey remained at a slow speed, the car ride experience was extremely horrible. Xiao Yu could only make up for it by rubbing himself on the seat or rolling himself around.

After a daunting experience and returning home without any mishap, it was close to meal time. Yan Jin placed Xiao Yu on the coffee table and gave him a few rubs.

“I’m going to cook something. You stay here, don’t run around.”

Squeak.

Yes, boss. No problem, boss.

The shocking fact that Yan Jin was able to cook a meal had been established earlier that morning; unfamiliar at first, but easy to get used to soon enough. Plus, that tomato-stewed fish was quite delicious. That made Xiao Yu look forward to lunch. Most importantly, Yan Jin was willing to cook human food for him.

Xiao Yu noticed that there was an iPad on the coffee table. Puzzled, because he did not see any iPad there that morning. Did someone leave it there when they had gone out?

He walked around the iPad – there was no name written on the casing, and it was not like it belonged to an elementary school kid.

Xiao Yu used to have an iPad but he mostly just played games on it. Since it didn’t have any important things inside, he did not set any password for it. He looked at that iPad, thought for a moment, and then pressed the home button.

Fortunately, it was not locked.

This first thing that Xiao Yu did was tap on the calendar and verified the date –

July 2025. The summer from one year ago.

Time had really turned back to eight months ago.

Xiao Yu tapped open Baidu and searched for the few major events that he knew would happen soon. However, there were no records of them at all. Yet, when he searched the things that happened a year before, the results were no different from the ones in his memories.

Did that mean that he could foresee the future in the next eight months? Goddammit! Becoming rich overnight wasn’t just a dream anymore!

Wait, he had no use for money, he was not even human!

Could it be that there was no meaning in this foretelling of one year ahead? No, there had to be a reason. Xiao Yu thought of Yan Jin. He could help Yan Jin make YL into S City’s number one jewelry group.

Wait, YL was already currently S City’s number one jewelry group.

Or more specifically, they were not at this stage yet. Because at this point in time, YL was still competing with SI as the top jewelry group on equal standing. However, in just eight months, YL would steadily become S City’s number one jewelry group.

Then… how about pulling Yan Jin off the throne and help his previous company, SI, take the lead? That idea was great, and the thought of having Yan Jin underneath him was truly gratifying.

But before that, Xiao Yu had a huge problem – how would he use this hamster’s body to operate?

If his performance was too outstanding, would he be sent to labs as a research subject?

Xiao Yu shuddered. He sighed as he continued searching online.

Using the hamster’s short paws to type words was extremely inconvenient — Xiao Yu could barely operate it after he changed the typing format to the dialer keypad. He inputted his own name into the search bar. At least he was quite well-known in the fashion industry, should a well-known designer pass away in a car accident, there would surely be some reports on it.

Unsure if it was fortunate or unfortunate, Xiao Yu did not see any related news about the car accident. Instead, he saw the news on Weibo that he’d be attending a dinner party in three days.

Xiao Yu still remembered that dinner party. It was an event where the industry’s big brothers gathered to discuss collaborations and stuff like that. After that event, there would be the crucial Autumn Season Jewelry Conference. That was why that dinner party was considered to be an event for exchanging important information.

Xiao Yu did not have much impression on what happened after the dinner party, but the ‘him’ in this event remembered.

Which mean to say that ‘Xiao Yu’ was indeed still alive. Or more accurately, the human Xiao Yu was alive.

Xiao Yu recalled all the movies he watched for the past twenty some years that was related to time travel. He remembered the theory that the same person could not appear together in the same world. Or maybe now that he had become a hamster, his form had changed, and therefore it would not be considered as the same person?