Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Nine: The Little Tail That Was Forgotten (1/2)

Although he was a professional designer, Xiao Yu hadn’t worked on his engagement ring which looked more like something out of a horror story.

For the fifteenth time, Xiao Yu thought about this issue. For the sixteenth time, he lifted his left hand to examine the pink diamond ring, foolishly giggling for five minutes. For the seventeenth time, he mocked its terrible design. For the eighteenth time, he kissed the diamond ring Yan Jin designed himself. For the nineteenth time, he rolled around the bed. For the twentieth time, he rolled himself back into the blankets.

“Meowww.”

Faye couldn’t stand watching Xiao Yu’s silly antics any longer and swiped Xiao Yu’s exposed head.

Xiao Yu shrieked and jumped up, pulling the little kitty off his head.

“Keep doing that and I’ll send you back,” Xiao Yu threatened darkly.

Faye didn’t show any trace of fear.

Two hours ago, Xiao Yu had remembered that he’d left Faye at the pet store two days ago and asked Yan Jin to help retrieve her.

When Yan Jin had carried this tyrannically arrogant kitty back, she had appeared completely well-behaved and cute. Even her screeches had changed to pleasant mewling. Naively, Xiao Yu had believed the pet store had trained her and that Faye would stay obedient and adorable.

Who would have guessed, no sooner had Yan Jin walked away that Faye revealed her true self. Grumpy that Xiao Yu had suddenly abandoned her at the pet store for so long, Faye had crazily started whacking Xiao Yu.

After her sweet display, Faye had looked a lot more intimidating with her retractable claws extended out of her previously gentle paws. Fortunately, Xiao Yu managed to muster up a defense in time to avoid being mauled. In the end, Xiao Yu had to agree to all sorts of unfair conditions to placate the angry animal.

“I say, is it possible you’re a human just the same as me?”

Xiao Yu rubbed the fur under Faye’s neck, imagining what Faye’s real identity would be.

It was similar to the feeling that had caused Yan Jin to start doubting Fishy’s identity. Faye acted so much like a human. It was hard to believe a small kitten could understand Xiao Yu’s bargaining with Faye earlier.

But Faye responded just the same as always.

“Meow.” I’m just a kitty; no way do I want to become a human.

The firm denial once again swayed Xiao Yu’s suspicions.

Indeed, Xiao Yu had already pestered Faye about it to such a degree. If Faye really were a human she would have admitted it by now.

After all, Faye wasn’t like Fishy who needed to hide his identity.

Xiao Yu managed to convince himself, but just in case he still warned Faye, “Faye, if you’re really a human, no matter what difficulties you have, you must tell us as soon as possible. At least for hamsters, if the human cannot return to their original form before the hamster reaches its lifespan, the human dies too. It might be true for cats as well…”

“Meow meow.” Nope nope nope.

Annoyed, Faye impatiently batted aside Xiao Yu’s hands and went to go play with the ball of yarn somewhere else. Clearly, Faye had no interest at all in the subject.

……

Xiao Yu encountered an unexpected issue when he reported to YL on Monday to sign the contract as originally planned.

It wasn’t YL’s issue though. YL currently seemed strong from the outside, but internally their chairman was missing. The gossiping employees had long since learned from Shao Yue’s blabbing about the secret relationship between Yan Jin and their rival company’s chief designer. Every day they eagerly awaited Yan Jin’s return from his “honeymoon” with their new chief designer.

The issue was with Xiao Yu himself, or rather, Mr. Mystery.

Ever since his identity had been clarified, Xiao Yu hadn’t logged onto Fish and Hamster – You Can’t Have Both. The only time he’d used it was to contact Yan Jin. Since then, he hadn’t wanted to use it for the life of him.

In the past few days, Xiao Yu had accepted Yan Jin’s opinion that the Mr. Mystery behind Fish and Hamster – You Can’t have Both was himself all along. Taking a deep breath, Xiao Yu had logged on and discovered he’d forgotten someone for almost two months.

Nannan.

On top of their collapsing master-student relationship, the incomplete requests Xiao Yu had left for Nannan was already enough for Nannan to go crazy. The first month Nannan had sent messages in every possible way to Xiao Yu. Xiao Yu guessed Nannan had already given up by the second month since the last message was dated March 30th. All it said was, “Master, when are you returning? I miss you a lot. crying.jpg.” Before this last one, there were hundreds of previous messages.