Chapter 17: Seemed like I fooled him (2/2)

After Chairman Yan finished his crazy antics, he held Xiao Yu on his palm and gave him an ultra-solid walnut.

Xiao Yu, who was still in a daze, accepted the walnut, still unsure what exactly Yan Jin was up to.

Whatever, I’ll calm myself down with a walnut.

Kakk –

What the-, this is murder!

Xiao Yu looked at the ‘walnut’ that almost broke his teeth. He instantly felt his heart beating a lot faster.

Technically, it was a walnut, but it was a golden walnut!

Or more accurately, it was a walnut made of gold. The exterior was carved beautifully with the insides emptied out. The design looked good and it was light, which was a very suitable gift for a powerless little creature.

Xiao Yu’s teeth left two light dents on this handcrafted “walnut”. It was not obvious, but Xiao Yu suspected if he had used more strength he might’ve lost his teeth.

He looked up and watched the creator of this evilness.

Xiao Yu’s gaze glowed dangerously with an ‘I don’t care what explanation you make, I’m going to bite you to death’ expression.

Chairman Yan did not sense Xiao Yu’s anger at all. He tapped on Xiao Yu’s little head and said: “I’m glad you’re still here.”

That random sentence instantly changed all of Xiao Yu’s frustration into doubt.

“Squeak?” What?

Looking at Xiao Yu’s confused and silly-looking face, Yan Jin happily gave the hamster a generous rubbing.

“Keep it well, that walnut is yours from now on.”

Xiao Yu looked at the slightly damaged golden walnut again, not knowing what else to say.

Although receiving presents was something to be happy about, what use could such ‘decorations’ do? (He seemed to have completely forgotten that just a while ago, he was tearing up while wanting to take that unnecessary ‘decorative’ tomato with him earlier.)

Yan Jin was in fact not a very stern nor difficult person to be with. Although he was indeed aloof and had a private Mr. Chairman personality in the eyes of the public, after getting closer to him, Xiao Yu could see the different unknown sides of Yan Jin. There were bad ones and good ones. And Yan Jin’s image in his heart had already become livelier.

So, Xiao Yu’s current confusion was, what exactly was Yan Jin happy about? “You’re still here, I’m glad.” What did that sentence mean?

Suddenly, Xiao Yu came up with a seemingly logical explanation.

Maybe, every month, for a few days, Yan Jin would always… go crazy?

Unsure if it was Yan Jin’s joyful influence, or if it was because of his wonderful imagination, Xiao Yu wasn’t as depressed as he was earlier. He stole a glance at Chairman Yan who had ‘happy’ written on his face. Xiao Yu felt relieved.

It looked like his identity had not been exposed.

Everything aside, at least he wouldn’t be chased out of the house.

After the crisis was over, Xiao Yu started to consider a question that he was wondering for quite some time – why was Yan Jin acting so differently these few days?

“DING-DONG- “

The doorbell rang.

Yan Jin held Xiao Yu on his palm as he walked to the living room to open the door. Normally, Xiao Yu would lay on his stomach when he was on Yan Jin’s palm. But Xiao Yu felt guilty this time. So, he put aside his walnut and flipped himself over, exposing his stomach with his limbs spread out.

The rare scene of ‘lying down on palm’ quickly caught Yan Jin’s attention. Chairman Yan stretched his index finger and poked Xiao Yu’s stomach that was covered with white fur.

Next, his finger was caught by Xiao Yu’s unusually coordinated limbs as the hamster hugged his finger like a ball.

Yan Jin watched with interest as he swirled his finger and scratched Xiao Yu’s little stomach. Xiao Yu felt ticklish and squeaked his protest, but he did not let go of the finger.

The human and hamster interacted for a while. When Yan Jin tried to pull his finger away, he did not expect Xiao Yu to have so much strength that he was unable to withdraw his finger.

Yan Jin tried a few more times but all his attempts failed.

“DINGDONGDINGDONGDINGDONG – “

The doorbell rang through the entire house, almost forming a rhythmic three short, one long staccato pattern.

Yan Jin reluctantly gave in: “Fishy, I can’t open the door if you act like this.”

Xiao Yu gripped on even tighter.

“Fishy, let go. Fishy?”

Even after calling the hamster out a few times, Xiao Yu refused to budge.

“Squeakkk.” There is a hamster pretending to be deaf, it needs a pricey bribe.

Yan Jin actually understood as he laughed,

“Look at what’s on the table. Wait until we get that uncle outside the door into our house, then we shall start eating, alright?”

Xiao Yu took a glance at the dining table. He couldn’t believe his eyes as he looked at what was present before him.

A huge cake and some…. Random, random things everywhere.

That was what Yan Jin was up to for so long?

Cake? Was it his birthday today?

Xiao Yu vaguely knew when Yan Jin’s birthday was. When he was still a human, he once attended Yan Jin’s birthday party, but he remembered that it was not during this season.

Regardless of whose birthday it was, Xiao Yu was still delighted to be able to share the glory and have some of the cake. He cooperated and let go of his hands and legs. He flipped over and obediently laid on his stomach.

Yan Jin smoothed the gray fur on Xiao Yu’s back as a reward and then made his way to open the door.

“PONGPONGPONG – “

The person who realized that doorbell wasn’t useful started banging on the door.