Chapter 87: Heart Lock (1/2)

Xiao Yu was very anxious.

He ran back and forth on the coffee table, hoping to quickly digest the walnuts in his stomach.

He understood very well that his actions were unlikely to deceive Yan Jin.

Even if he was able to digest the walnuts in his stomach, this did not change the fact that he finished a week’s worth of snacks in one day. Yan Jin was not stupid. He would be able to tell from the size of Xiao Yu’s tummy that Xiao Yu had been up to no good.

This logic was very clear, but Xiao Yu was unable to just sit there and do nothing.

Was there really no way to fool Yan Jin?

Xiao Yu continued to be mired in his anxiety.

Xiao Yu really didn’t know how time could pass by so quickly. It felt like only a second ago when he discovered he had brought disaster upon himself. One second later, he could hear the sound of the door lock being disengaged. Then, the door was opened.

Squeakkk——

The moment Yan Jin entered the doorway, he could hear a hamster’s miserable cry. He quickly put down what he had in his arms and rushed into the living room.

“Fishy? What is it?”

Xiao Yu breathlessly squeaked twice.

“Squeak squeak.” Nothing’s wrong.

Yan Jin observed the healthy Xiao Yu’s averted eyes. Then he asked as he let out a sigh of relief: “What did you do?”

Xiao Yu only managed to retreat a couple steps back before a hand reached out to grab him.

Yan Jin randomly pinched at him twice, and even before Yan Jin could feel that something wasn’t right, Xiao Yu couldn’t resist letting out a burp.

“Oh, did you eat too much again?”

“Squeak.” A little bit.

Yan Jin raised an eyebrow, then walked over to Xiao Yu’s snack bowl.

In the past, all of Xiao Yu’s food and snacks were kept in the food bowl on the second floor of his cage. A few changes were made since Xiao Yu’s identity was revealed. The hamster food still appeared in his cage, but he obtained two new snack bowls with nine partitions. One was on Yan Jin’s desk and the other was on the coffee table in the living room.

Each week, Yan Jin would fill those bowls up once. No matter how Xiao Yu decided to split his portions, that was the amount he had for the week. If he finished them too fast, then he could only be good and eat hamster food for the remaining days…… Perhaps this was Chairman Yan’s plot to get him to act cute in order to earn more snacks.

The conditions might not look too bad, but Xiao Yu, who had once been tricked, knew that it wasn’t that simple.

Since Xiao Yu ate so many snacks in one day, it was only a small consequence to not have any snacks for the remainder of the week. The big problem was that Yan Jin would use this as a reason to force him to run on the exercise wheel for a couple of hours. Saying that it was to help with digestion was a nice way of putting it, but the video recorder that was used to film this whole process completely destroyed the persuasiveness of his righteous statement.

“Squeakk!” Xiao Yu tried to break free from Yan Jin’s grasp. It was a pity that his strength felt more like an ant trying to shake a tree, so it was common sense for him to be unable to break free. The only way he could possible get away would be because Yan Jin couldn’t bear to crush him to death.

In the end, Xiao Yu successfully escaped.

Xiao Yu’s little body, which was no bigger than Yan Jin’s palm, was finally able to crawl out of his hand with much difficulty. His two hind legs wobbled as he stood on the webbing between Yan Jin’s thumb and index finger.

“Okay, stop.” Yan Jin switched to using two hands to hold Xiao Yu: “This time you don’t have to run on the exercise wheel.”

“Squeakk?” Really?

Xiao Yu tilted his head as he studied Yan Jin’s untrustworthy looking face. His gaze was filled with suspicion.

Yan Jin reached out a hand to pet Xiao Yu’s little head and did not expect a paw to suddenly grab his thumb.

Xiao Yu stood on Yan Jin’s left hand, desperately holding onto Yan Jin’s right thumb, then snuggled his little head against it.

“Squeakk.” You need to keep your promise.

Yan Jin couldn’t help but laugh: “You wily thing. What else can you do besides acting cute?”

“Squeak.” I can also give you a muwah.

Xiao Yu was prepared to do as he said and he moved toward Yan Jin’s finger.

Who knew that Yan Jin would suddenly pull his right hand away? Xiao Yu couldn’t brake in time, and his momentum caused his whole hamster body to spring forward. Then, his unique three parted lips, which belonged to the rodent species, crashed into something soft.

This contact could not have lasted for more than one second, but to Xiao Yu, that one second was an eternity.

It lasted long enough for him to clearly see the playfulness in Yan Jin’s eyes as he stared down at Xiao Yu. Yan Jin’s long eyelashes, which casted an indistinct shadow, made his heart beat unsteadily.

The room instantly descended into stillness.

Yan Jin was the first to speak: “Alright, seeing as Fishy is being this forward, I’ll forgive you this time.”

Those words caused Xiao Yu, who was already red from embarrassment, to explode into a hedgehog.

“Squeakkk!” That was a mistake. A mistake!