Pet King

Dong!

Famous felt a sudden jerk in its body like it had missed its step and fallen off a cliff. Thinking that it was a landslide caused by the rain, Famous instinctively stood up; it woke up in a shock and had planned to give its last struggle.

As a result, it knocked its head on the roof of the cage.

As it stood up with a lot of force, the impact knocked the stars out from its eyes.

Before its eyes was no longer the mountain village in the rain, but the cabin of a plane and the jerk from earlier was from the plane landing.

Shaking its head, Famous seemed to have recalled something as it hurriedly looked down to the lower half of its body.

Famous had heard that one would wet their bed if they dreamt of a rain… but it dreamt of a rainstorm, so shouldn’t it be flooded now?

Fortunately, the inside of the dog cage was still dry, and not like the image of the flood it had in its mind…

Moments later, Famous heard a slight hiss. It was the sound caused by the internal and external pressure balance of the airplane from opening the cabin door.

Soon, the ground crew pushed its cage off the plane, indicating the end of the long flight journey.

Zhang Zian dragged his heavy suitcase, completed the pet consignment procedures, and retrieved Famous.

“Did I sleep for very long?” Famous asked and yawned. “Where are we now?”

“We’re already back in the Binhai City Airport. I had planned to ask if you would like to eat something during the transfer of flights, but you were sleeping very soundly, so I didn’t wake you up,” Zhang Zian answered.

Famous didn’t know that it had slept so hard. It had even slept through the transfer of flights, and slept all the way till they reached Binhai City.

The sky was already dark outside. The long flight journey and the entire process of waiting and transferring flights took up almost an entire day, so being able to sleep through it was actually not a bad thing.

There were reporters waiting at the exit of the airport and immediately surrounded Zhang Zian the moment they saw him—or more accurately, the moment they saw Famous. Since there weren’t many dogs in the airport, Famous was easily recognized.

Zhang Zian answered a few simple questions to satisfy the reporter’s curiosity. He then let the reporters take a few pictures of Famous before he rejected further questions and interview requests using the excuse that they were exhausted from their long journey.

On the bus to the Berlin Airport, Director Feng Xuan gave Zian some advice as a person with experience––he reminded Zian not to sour his relationship with the media, but at the same time, not to satisfy all their interview requests. Too much exposure in such a short time would leave Famous completely exposed under public attention, and too much was never good as the public would soon lose interest in it. Instead, it was better to maintain a certain sense of mystery and appear in front of the camera with a slightly cool attitude to keep them interested.

Zhang Zian was now enlightened and was really grateful to Feng Xuan for his guidance. Otherwise, he really wouldn’t know how to deal with the media.

Zian called for a taxi outside the airport and made his way back to the Amazing Fate Pet Shop.

Although he had only been away for twelve days, Zian felt as though he had been away for much longer.

Lu Yiyun, Wang Qian, and Li Kun had already clocked out of work and the shop door was locked, but there were still reporters waiting outside by the door.

The reporters were mainly the local media reporters. Zhang Zian repeated what he did earlier––he answered a few simple questions and told them to come back again another day. He also warned them to not block the entrance of his shop or it would influence his business, and anyone who did not heed his warning could forget about getting an interview.

After sending off the reporters, he pulled open the shutter door and brought Famous into the shop that they had been away from for some time and closed the shop door again.

There were a lot of gifts at the entrance of the shop; there were also two flower baskets sent by the neighborhood committee, and the four treasures of the study from Binhai Studio. The gifts had filled up the area around the cashier counter and on the name cards on those gifts had names that Zian was not familiar with––he had never seen them before.

It was probably like the saying, “No one would bother about the poor living downtown, but there would still be visitors for the rich living in the deep mountains, right?”

Zian glanced over to the opposite of the cashier counter. The floor had a light white mark, indicating that something that had been placed there for a long time has been moved away, which was the Holy Cat statue.

Zian carried his luggage up to the second floor and knocked on the door to the living room. “Pi, I’m back. Are you inside?”

The living room door was still locked very well.

With a bang, the door opened.

“Zhi zhi!” Pi excitedly jumped out and started gesturing to Zian.

“I’m fine, how have you been, Pi?” Zhang Zian put down his luggage and looked around the room. It was no different from when he left.

“Zhi zhi!” Pi nodded its head and looked behind Zian.

“Famous is downstairs. Do you want to congratulate it in person? Go on and look for it, I’ll be clearing up some stuff before heading down.” Zian was relieved after seeing that Pi was safe and sound. It had lived well in the shop all by itself for the past few days.

Pi did not walk down the stairs, but instead, it playfully slid down the stair rails. Pi was more lively than ever.

Zhang Zian opened up his suitcase and sorted his things. Those that required washing were thrown into the washing machine and the others were kept in his closet.

After he was done sorting his things, he took out his phone and pondered about where he should place the mermaid. It seemed like the only place for her in the house was the bathtub––anywhere else and she would become a dried fish.

Zhang Zian did not usually use the bathtub. Besides, there was another one in the bathroom of his parent’s bedroom, so he could always use that one when needed.

Zian filled up sixty to seventy percent of the bathtub with warm water. He touched the water to feel that the temperature was just about right. He just didn’t know if the mermaid would prefer the sea water.

Pointing his phone towards the bathtub, Zian started up the game and selected the mermaid, then pressed “Release.”

With a splash, a light blue figure fell into the water, splashing out a lot of water from the bathtub.

“Woah!”

She stuck her head out of the water and wiped off the water on her face before looking to her left and right. “Where is this? It’s so shabby-looking!”

It was hard to say whether or not she was just like a child or someone who spoke rashly without hesitation, but she was actually just like an uneducated, naughty child.

But truthfully speaking, it was really shabby. After all, it was a design from more than ten years ago. The design on the tiles was old and the paint on the bathroom cabinet was also partially peeled off.

“This is China, Binhai City, Amazing Fate Pet Shop, also my home.” Zhang Zian said, “You better be content, most Chinese people do not have a bathtub in their house and if I was one of them, you would have to sleep in the washtub!”

She glanced over at the washtub on the floor. Her mouth half-open as she said in shock, “How can I sleep in there? It’s too small!”

If you were to ignore that a long, light blue fishtail was about three-fifths of her body, the image of her now was just like a standard beauty bathing picture. Whether it was her creamy skin, bright eyes, or even the seaweed-like, dark green, curly hair of hers, if this image were to be posted on Wang Haige Forum’s free talk zone to be scored by mean netizens, and out of ten of them, nine would give her full marks.

It was a pity that no matter how beautiful she was, she was still just a fish.

No matter what, Zhang Zian would never be tempted by a fish… That would just be too crazy!