Chapter Thirty-One: The Goal was the Autumn Release Conference (2/2)

[Grey-white SS]: All thanks to you for your assistance, otherwise we wouldn’t have the confidence in fighting this battle.

[Grey-white SS]: I would like to discuss the follow-up from this point onwards. Are you really not able to sign the contract?

Today was a Saturday. Yan Jin was at home and would probably be in the living room. Xiao Yu thought for a moment and finally decided that it would be better if he waited till Yan Jin was at work on Monday to further discuss the Autumn Release Conference.

[Fish and Hamster – You Can’t Have Both]: I have something to do this weekend. We’ll discuss further on Monday. I definitely won’t be able to sign the contract, but I am indeed prepared to continue to work with your company from here on out.

With that, Xiao Yu closed his iPad. He knew that Yan Jin would be at home on the weekends. He should be more careful and stop himself from getting caught red-handed.

The moment Xiao Yu closed his iPad, Yan Jin suddenly pushed open the doors and came into the room, giving Xiao Yu a big shock.

“Fishy, do you feel better?” Yan Jin acted like he was treating a patient and placed his hand on Xiao Yu’s little stomach: “Is it still painful here?”

Xiao Yu shook his head and extended his tongue to lick Yan Jin’s finger. Yan Jin smiled at the act and held Xiao Yu in his palm. The hamster cooperatively exposed his white tummy in return.

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The human and hamster played for a while more before Yan Jin brought Xiao Yu to the second level.

Every weekend, Yan Jin would bring Xiao Yu to the mini town to play the entire afternoon. Xiao Yu liked playing in there too, which was why he was reluctant to be taken away from it every single time.

However, taking into consideration that Xiao Yu had just recovered from his upset stomach last night, Yan Jin did not dare let him move about too much. So, he took out another interesting little plaything.

Xiao Yu only realized that there was another small table beside his mini town when he got to the second level. It was about the same height as the mini town, but the size was a lot smaller. On top of that table was a rectangular maze that was about twenty centimeters in height and one-meter long.

“We’ll play this today. I’ll tie a string around you. If you really can’t find your way, then just pull the string, okay?”

Yan Jin then proceeded to tie the red string around Xiao Yu’s stomach as he reminded him once again as if Xiao Yu could really understand his words.

Xiao Yu was eager to try it out. When he was a human, he had never played in a maze before. Never had he expected that he would have such an entertaining activity to do now.

Suddenly, he didn’t feel like becoming a human anymore.

Yan Jin was acting out of character as he nagged like an old lady, informing this and cautioning that. Xiao Yu quickly nodded his head to show that he already understood and then squeaked in annoyance before Yan Jin finally put him at the entrance.

Xiao Yu held his head high and chest out when he entered the maze.

Previously, he heard before that when walking through a maze, it was best to walk with one hand touching the wall, which would make it easier to find a way out. But he did not do that. Even if he did not make his way out, there wouldn’t be a problem. After all –

The moment he looked up, he could see Yan Jin’s gigantic, anxious face.

Xiao Yu lowered his head again and ran forward cheerfully.

“Fishy, slow down, don’t run.”

“Fishy, it’s a dead end up ahead.”

“Fishy, don’t climb over the walls. Do that again and I’ll take you out.”

“Fishy, ……”

“SQUEAKKKKKKK!” You’re so annoying! Shut up, shut up, shut up!

Yan Jin really stopped talking as he resentfully kept his lips together.

In fact, ever he was young, Yan Jin was very sensitive to animals’ emotions. It was like an unexplainable superpower, and that made him really happy. He initially thought that he would end up keeping a whole mansion full of pets, but regretfully, his “abilities” were also applicable to humans.

Which was why he emerged quickly from the pool of inheritance candidates and became the only child in the Yan family.

Even Chu Ge was not aware of that.

He did not tell anyone about it as it was the deepest, darkest part of his life that he had buried deep in his heart like a sealed room that no light could penetrate.

Yet at this moment, the small black room was finally breaking apart with a tiny, unnoticeable crack.

A small, foolish, and weird little thing had fallen in.

Xiao Yu spent the entire two hours and finally walked to the center of the maze.

He did not have the energy to walk out again as he was completely burnt out. Although Xiao Yu did not want to admit defeat, his stamina was indeed falling apart.

Xiao Yu sat on the floor, sprawled out.

“Squeakkk.” Too tired, I’m dead, I can’t walk anymore.

The maze was exquisitely done. No doubt about it — it had to be another custom-made item by Yan Jin. The wall was printed with different drawings. Every area would have a different series of drawings. From Xiao Yu’s initial investigation, it was probably divided into the four seasons for each area. The area that he just left was summer and most of it consisted of oil paintings. Now that he was in the central area, it was a mix of autumn and winter also covered with oil paintings.

The central area had a bigger platform. Xiao Yu sat on it and stopped moving after that.

Then, he realized that the maze underneath him was starting to move.

“SQUEAKK!!”