Chu Hengyuan was slightly stunned. He subconsciously took the small puppet, but his eyes remained fixed on Rong Lan's face, unable to look away.
Every time his little girl smiled with such joy, she was incredibly beautiful. It was impossible not to focus on her.
Once the small puppet was in Chu Hengyuan's arms, it obediently meowed, as if responding to Rong Lan's words.
Rong Lan began to tidy up the papers and cat food on the floor. "Chu Hupo. It's a really nice name. It does seem a bit better than Chu Rongrong. No wonder the little kitten chose this name."
Chu Hengyuan came back to his senses. He looked down at the puppet in his arms, gently covering its face with one hand while using the other to support himself on the floor for balance. He leaned closer to the little girl, who was beaming with joy, and kissed the black hair on top of her head.
Rong Lan was so startled that her fox ears twitched, and she almost lost her balance and fell to the ground. If Chu Hengyuan had only kissed her hair, she wouldn't have reacted so strongly, but he had kissed her fox ears!
She felt as if her fox ears were on fire.
Before this, no one had ever kissed her ears, not even her parents or elder brothers!
Chu Hengyuan, who accidentally kissed a mouthful of fur, pretended nothing had happened. There was a gentle smile on his face. "Chu Hupo is really a nice name. Lanlan, it's our first child."
When the little girl said she wanted the small puppet to take the surname Chu, he knew she really liked this cat.
Of course, he was also starting to like the small puppet more and more. If he wasn't afraid that the elders of the Chu family would think he was crazy, he would even want to write the name Chu Hupo in the Chu family genealogy.
He regarded it as an early experience of being a father. After all, his little girl was a fluffy little thing, and their future children might be similar to the small puppet.
"Yeah, that's right! It's our first child!" Rong Lan coughed lightly. Her fox ears twitched slightly as she tried to suppress the heat radiating from them.
Although it was their first child, Chu Hengyuan didn't plan to be a kind - hearted father. While his little wife went into the bedroom to wash her face and brush her teeth, he held the puppet's paw and instructed, "Remember not to go into the bedroom. Stay in your cat bed obediently. Do you understand?"
"Meow~"
"Be a good girl. I'll buy you a cat castle in a while."
"Meow!"
That night, Tang Xingwei learned that the small puppet adopted by Rong Lan now had a well - known name - Chu Hupo.
Because the person who rarely posted on Moments posted a picture of a cat with the caption "Chu Hupo".
He immediately took a screenshot and sent it to the group chat with his friends.
- The small puppet I saved has really risen to a high position. Taking the surname Chu, isn't it like a little prince? Oh no, it's a female cat. It should be the princess.
A few people who were bored at night started chatting in the group.
- Didn't Hengyuan dislike cats and dogs? He used to complain that cats and dogs shed hair everywhere and were hard to clean.
- It's different this time. This cat was taken home by Rong Lan. He loves her, so he loves the things related to her.
- Loving her to such an extent? He even added the surname Chu to its name.
- I think Hengyuan even wants to write the name Chu Hupo in the Chu family genealogy.
- Hahaha, that might not work. If the name Chu Hupo could appear in the Chu family genealogy, Chu Chuan would explode with anger on the spot.
- Seriously, I'd like to see the scene of Chu Chuan exploding with anger.
When Chu Hengyuan had some free time and picked up his phone again, there were already over 99 messages in the group chat.
He scrolled through the chat history and learned that they had chatted about his cat for over a hundred messages. He silently sent a message.
- Shouldn't you guys show some love to your little niece?
The group, which had been quiet for ten minutes, became extremely noisy because of Chu Hengyuan's words.
- I'll cover Hupo's cat food for the next six months.
- I'll cover Hupo's cat litter for the next six months.
- Then I'll buy some small toys for Hupo.
- Dear brothers, sisters, could you buy the cat food, cat litter and cat toys in my pet hospital? I need your support.
Chu Hengyuan watched them enthusiastically discuss what kind of cat food the small puppet liked. He put his phone aside, turned over to face the little girl who had fallen asleep early, and closed his eyes.
Rong Lan had another dream.
This time, what she dreamed was very illusory. When she woke up from the dream and opened her eyes groggily, she only remembered that she seemed to have heard a very shrill cry, but she couldn't remember whose voice it was.
She even suspected that it was because she had been in contact with ghosts so often that she had such a strange nightmare.
This inexplicable dream made Rong Lan, when she arrived at the fortune - telling studio and saw the little ghosts waiting at the door, keep as much distance from them as possible.
After seeing these little ghosts so many times, she wasn't very afraid of them anymore, but she didn't want to have nightmares at all.
Si Mo saw the listless look of the little fox. After asking, he learned that she had a nightmare and didn't sleep well. His first reaction was also that it was because of too much contact with ghosts. But after thinking about it carefully, it didn't seem right. The little fox's cultivation had mostly recovered, and these little ghosts weren't evil spirits. In theory, they shouldn't have an impact on someone with cultivation.
But just to be on the safe side, he still ordered these little ghosts to stay away from Rong Lan.
Rong Lan sat on the wooden chair, propping her face with one hand on the table and swiping her phone screen with the other to check her bank card balance. She was so sleepy that she couldn't help yawning. "Two days have passed, and I still haven't received the 200,000 yuan transfer."
These ghosts were really talking big.
They came here every day to ask if she had received the money, but no matter how many times they asked, the answer was no.
"It's impossible! I've already appeared in my descendants' dreams one by one!"
"Yeah, me too. They promised very well in the dream."
"Could it be that there's a delay in bank card transfers now..."
Rong Lan yawned again. "No, there isn't." There was no way there would be a delay. She had received a transfer of over a million yuan from her sister Ranran without any delay, let alone just 200,000 yuan.
"Today is Friday. Si Mo and I won't be here on the weekend. If I still don't receive the transfer today, you'll have to come back next week." She reminded the five or six little ghosts huddled in the corner. Although they could move in broad daylight, sunlight would still have a certain impact on them. She was afraid that if she and Si Mo didn't come on the weekend and they waited outside the fortune - telling studio for two days, they might disappear.
"Let's wait a bit more. Maybe they're too busy with work to make the transfer. Let's wait until this afternoon and see."
"Yeah, yeah."