"Lanlan, help serve the rice. I'll carry the dishes out," Chu Hengyuan said, handing the bowl and rice spoon in his hand to Rong Lan.
Rong Lan reached out to take them and served two full bowls of rice.
After the rice and dishes were carried out, the little Ragdoll was already munching on cat food.
While chewing on the tender sliced chicken, Rong Lan stared at the little Ragdoll eating cat food in the living room. "Is our little kitty too well - behaved? Kitties from other families would come and beg for food when their owners are eating."
She had watched TV shows where kitties would run to the dining table and act cute to beg for food when their owners were about to eat. Their kitty not only didn't come over but also showed no interest in their food and didn't even glance at them.
Chu Hengyuan laughed. "Maybe it's because it hasn't adapted to the new environment or the new owner yet. It's afraid of being abandoned again, so it doesn't dare to misbehave."
He also thought their new family member was extremely well - behaved. It was just right, as he liked well - behaved and worry - free pets.
"You're right... How about I hug it to sleep tonight? I'll give it a bit more sense of security so that it won't have to worry about being abandoned by humans anymore," Rong Lan suggested excitedly.
Chu Hengyuan's hand paused. Looking up and seeing the expectation in his girl's eyes, he gritted his teeth and agreed. "If Lanlan wants to hug it, then do it."
He wouldn't refuse such unimportant things that his girl wanted to do.
He could only pin his hopes on the little Ragdoll that had just made an agreement with him. He hoped the Ragdoll still remembered what he had said and would show a bit of resistance when Rong Lan wanted to take it to bed. Rong Lan was afraid that the little kitty wouldn't adapt to the new environment, so she always wanted to go along with the kitty. As long as it showed resistance, Rong Lan wouldn't force it to sleep with her.
However, the fact proved that the little kitty was not reliable.
Chu Hengyuan coldly glanced at the Ragdoll cat that was snuggled up with his little wife in the same quilt without a care in the world. He thought to himself that it wouldn't get any dried fish or cat food cans this week.
"Good night, brother," Rong Lan tucked in the corner of the quilt, hugged the little Ragdoll tightly in the same quilt as her, and obediently said good night to Chu Hengyuan.
Chu Hengyuan sighed silently in his heart. Without showing any sign of unhappiness on his face, he leaned over and gently kissed her cheek. "Good night, Lanlan."
After saying good night to each other, Chu Hengyuan turned off the light in the room.
However, he didn't close his eyes to sleep. Instead, he stayed up until 3 a.m. After making sure the person beside him was in a deep sleep, he carefully reached into the girl's quilt and picked up the little Ragdoll curled up on her abdomen.
His movements were very gentle and didn't wake up Rong Lan, who always slept deeply, but they did wake up the soundly - sleeping Ragdoll cat.
Fortunately, the Ragdoll cat was well - behaved enough. It seemed to know that its new owner was having a good rest. Although it was picked up out of nowhere, it didn't meow at all.
Chu Hengyuan held the Ragdoll cat with one hand, lifted the quilt with the other, got out of bed without even putting on his shoes, and tiptoed out to the living room with the cat. He put the cat into the cat bed he had temporarily made with a quilt.
"You're not well - behaved," he squatted in front of the Ragdoll cat, looking into its cat pupils that seemed to glow in the dark. "No dried fish or cat food cans for you this week."
The little Ragdoll seemed to understand what Chu Hengyuan said and meowed once.
Chu Hengyuan raised his eyebrows. "Are you dissatisfied? We made an agreement. Since you agreed to it, you should do things according to the agreement obediently."
The little Ragdoll stopped meowing and lay down in the simple cat bed, seemingly not wanting to pay attention to Chu Hengyuan.
Chu Hengyuan thought it was convinced by him. He washed his hands and went back to the room to sleep.
It was not until the next day that Chu Hengyuan realized that the little Ragdoll was not convinced but simply scorned his words.
The usually extremely well - behaved Ragdoll cat showed off for once. It carried the dried fish that Rong Lan had bought after work and walked around in front of Chu Hengyuan, seemingly mocking him. Even if it didn't listen to him obediently, it could still eat dried fish. Its mommy had bought it for it, and it didn't need the dried fish he bought.
Chu Hengyuan, who could remain calm even in the face of a great crisis, was almost driven mad by the little Ragdoll. But although he was angry, he couldn't confiscate the little Ragdoll's dried fish, or it would surely tell Rong Lan on him immediately.
He took a deep breath, squatted in front of the Ragdoll cat that was elegantly enjoying the dried fish, and put his hand on the cardboard boxes not far away. "These are the cat climbing frames, cat beds, and cat toys that I bought for 5,000 yuan. You can choose not to listen to me. I really can't stop Lanlan from feeding you dried fish, but I can use the excuse that our family's financial situation is not so good to return all these things."
The little Ragdoll abandoned the half - eaten dried fish, walked up to Chu Hengyuan on its short legs, and rubbed against his leg. "Meow!"
"Acting cute with me won't work. Moreover, I've taken a fancy to a very luxurious cat castle recently. There are many empty rooms in our house, and it can definitely fit a castle. Whether I'll buy the castle or not depends on your performance," he didn't believe that he couldn't make the little Ragdoll listen to him this time.
"Meow~"
Sure enough -
Both tough and soft tactics worked.
This time, as soon as Rong Lan carried the little Ragdoll into the room, it ran out to the living room on its own.
"Hey? Does the little guy not want to sleep with me anymore now that it has a new cat bed?" Rong Lan followed the little Ragdoll out to the living room. Her fox ears drooped sadly.
Chu Hengyuan, who was sitting on the living - room sofa drying his hair, glanced at the sensible Ragdoll cat. "Maybe it's not because of the new cat bed. Maybe the little Ragdoll just isn't used to sleeping with people. Didn't it run out to the cat bed in the living room in the middle of the night last night?"
When Rong Lan woke up in the morning and didn't see the Ragdoll cat, she asked him where it was. His excuse was that the little Ragdoll had run out to the cat bed in the living room in the middle of the night and stepped on him, waking him up.
The girl always believed what he said and didn't doubt the authenticity of this matter.
Thus, the little Ragdoll got a new cat persona of liking to sleep in its cat bed by itself. This persona was forcefully imposed on it by Chu Hengyuan.
"Then let the little guy sleep outside by itself. I'm also afraid of crushing it when sleeping with it," Rong Lan squatted down and stroked the soft little kitty. "By the way, our little Ragdoll still doesn't have a name."
Only then did Chu Hengyuan remember that they hadn't named their new family member yet. But naming wasn't his forte. "Lanlan, think of a name. I'm not very good at naming."
"Neither am I..." She had never named anyone before.
One person and one fox frowned.
"How about we each come up with two names and then let the little Ragdoll choose by itself?" Chu Hengyuan suggested.
Rong Lan nodded her little head in agreement. "Okay. I'll go to the study to get paper and a pen." With that, she dashed off to the study.