Later, at some unknown point, Bai Ronglan stopped putting up with it. It seemed that without much effort, she managed to send Bai Rongran abroad. Although she didn't do anything major after that, just sending Bai Rongran abroad was not quite in line with Bai Ronglan's usual character.
While his group of good - for - nothing friends were chattering away, he even explained to them that his little fiancée probably had a penchant for feigning weakness to gain an advantage. Her sudden action might be because Bai Rongran had touched on her interests and she had no choice but to act.
This was his preconceived notion of her.
Now it seemed that it wasn't as simple as feigning weakness to gain an advantage?
Was the person lying beside him really Bai Ronglan?
His finger stopped in mid - air. Before it could touch the little girl's hair, it first encountered something fluffy and soft. Even though Chu Hengyuan considered himself able to remain calm, goosebumps involuntarily popped up on his arm.
He couldn't see what he was touching, but the feeling on his fingers told him that there seemed to be a pair of ears on top of the little girl's head.
Those ears were drooping limply. He traced the outline of the ears to feel their general shape. Based on his limited experience with small animals, he could only think that they might be cat ears.
Chu Hengyuan frowned, changed his position, and lay in his own quilt. He propped himself up on the bed with the elbow of one arm, while the other hand carefully traced the shape of the ears. No matter how much he touched, he was sure they were cat ears.
Could his little wife be a cat demon?
No wonder when they registered their marriage at the Civil Affairs Bureau, she subconsciously wrote 'Ronglan' as her name. At that time, he thought she wanted to sever ties with the Bai family. Now it seemed he had thought too much. The most likely scenario was that Ronglan was her real name. She was Ronglan, not the eldest daughter of the Bai family, Bai Ronglan, who had been swapped into the Bai family since childhood.
The little ear he was gently holding in his palm twitched. It scared Chu Hengyuan so much that he immediately withdrew his hand, afraid that she would suddenly wake up.
However, Ronglan was sound asleep and didn't even realize that her fox ears had been touched over and over again by Chu Hengyuan.
Chu Hengyuan slowed his breathing. After making sure the little girl was still in a dream, he reached out and touched those soft ears again.
It had to be said that the feeling of those fluffy ears was really good. If he wasn't afraid of waking the little girl up, he would have wanted to pluck a hair from the ear. He couldn't see the ears, perhaps because the little girl had done something. But if he could see the hair plucked from the ear, he could be sure that the ears were real.
What kind of ears were these...
Cat ears?
That didn't seem right. Did cats like to eat chicken? His little girl seemed to think that life would lose its meaning if she didn't eat chicken for a meal. She must love chicken deeply.
What kind of species liked to eat chicken...
Foxes?
Chu Hengyuan withdrew his hand, picked up the phone on the bedside table, and opened the Baidu browser. He had never raised a pet and knew too little about them. He really didn't know if foxes liked to eat chicken.
Searching on Baidu for 'what do foxes like to eat', the answer was that foxes liked to eat small animals like mice and birds, as well as egg - based foods. He ruled out the wrong option of foxes. His little girl only liked to eat chicken. He had made egg - based foods for her before, but her preference for them was just so - so. Not to mention mice and birds, he was sure his little girl wouldn't even take a look at them.
He continued to search for 'what animals like to eat chicken'. The results were diverse. Some said tigers liked to eat chicken, some said weasels liked to eat chicken, and some said leopard cats liked to eat chicken.
Although Chu Hengyuan had never touched a weasel's ears, he thought he could rule out this obviously wrong answer. His little girl couldn't possibly be a weasel.
After ruling out the weasel, there were two options left: tigers and leopard cats.
How was he supposed to compare these two options? Go to the zoo, find tigers and leopard cats, and touch their ears?
Forget it. Life was more important. He had to live well to make roast chicken for his little girl...
The alarm clock rang at eight in the morning. Ronglan reached out to turn it off. Opening her eyes, she saw Chu Hengyuan still sleeping with his eyes closed.
Normally, when the alarm clock rang, Chu Hengyuan would also open his eyes. What was wrong with him today? Ronglan rubbed the corners of her eyes and immediately wasn't sleepy anymore. She reached out and poked Chu Hengyuan's face. "Didn't brother sleep well last night?"
Chu Hengyuan, who had stayed up until five in the morning and only slept for three hours, was sleepy. Without even opening his eyes, he grabbed the little girl's mischievous hand. "I had insomnia last night and went to sleep very late. I can't take Lanlan to work today."
Ronglan struggled out of his grasp. Seeing how sleepy he was that he could barely open his eyes, she took the opportunity to reach up and touch her fluffy ears, tidying up the fur on them. "Then you sleep well. I'm going to work!"
"Go. Pay attention to your safety." The person who had spent two hours looking up information on his phone at dawn was so tired that his eyes could hardly open.
Ronglan ruffled Chu Hengyuan's messy hair, lifted the quilt, and got out of bed.
After Ronglan left, Chu Hengyuan slept until ten o'clock and was woken up by the alarm he had set.
He turned off the alarm, opened his eyes, and got out of bed.
It took him half an hour to get himself ready. He grabbed his keys and phone and went out, heading straight for the pet hospital run by his friend.
Just as Tang Xingwei lifted the lid of his lunch box, he saw Chu Hengyuan calmly push the door open and come in. Tang Xingwei was shocked and almost suspected that there was something wrong with his glasses today. "Why are you here?"
Chu Hengyuan was as at ease as if he were at home. He pulled out a chair in front of the table and sat down, glancing at his friend's lunch box. "Is this what you eat for lunch?"
Tang Xingwei looked at Chu Hengyuan, then at the lunch box in front of him. He silently took off his glasses, rubbed his baby - face, closed his eyes and prayed for three seconds, then opened his eyes and put on his glasses. But he still saw the expressionless Chu Hengyuan sitting across from him. He was completely flustered. "It wasn't an illusion? You've always disliked small animals. You've gone to the hospital to find the second brother and the law firm to find the fourth brother, but you've never come to my pet hospital. Did you take the wrong medicine?"
Chu Hengyuan knew his friend would react so strongly. He said calmly, "I've made an appointment with someone in a nearby shopping mall. I just dropped by to ask you a question."
Tang Xingwei patted his chest. "I knew you weren't here specifically to see me. Go ahead. What do you want to ask me?" He picked up his water cup, thinking of taking a sip to calm his nerves.
However, the next words from Chu Hengyuan made him spurt out the water he had just taken into his mouth.
"Is there any way for me to touch the ears of a tiger and a leopard cat?" After spending two hours looking up information, he was more and more convinced that Ronglan was a feline.
"Pfft—"
Chu Hengyuan leaned back expressionlessly and stared at his coughing friend speechlessly.