Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

  Several days later.

  Zhang Zian was really perplexed. What happened exactly in the night when Richard was sick? Why did he wake up in the next morning only to find that Richard’s real name had been unlocked? He had vaguely guessed Richard’s identity, he was just not quite sure. The Navigation Elf said that if he could figure out the identity of one Elf, the likability of the Elf would be enhanced greatly. But that occurred too abruptly, he didn’t seem to have done anything special, and he was able to increase its likability to the friendly level?

  The most perplexing was that he may have fallen asleep on the sofa without covering up with a blanket when he was going to stay up all night taking care of Richard. After getting up in the morning, he found he had a stuffy nose and was coughing, which seemed to be the symptoms of a cold that he would suffer from for a few days.

  Sun Xiaomeng came to the pet shop every day in the morning and in the evening to check Richard’s body, and usually she just stayed in her clinic to work. Richard’s condition had been stabilized, and full recovery was only a matter of time. Besides, there were appointments waiting for her at her pet clinic.

  There were medicines decocting on the gas stove. Richard still needed to take medicines for days until he was fully recovered.

  Zhang Zian complained to Sun Xiaomeng that he had gotten a cold, but she simply replied that she was just a veterinarian, not a doctor. She didn’t dare to give prescriptions to him randomly, but asked him to visit another doctor.

  Suddenly, Zhang Zian’s position in this pet shop seemed to have fallen into the abyss.

  It was absolute retaliation!

  He only made some jokes about her, how can Sun Xiaomeng be so petty?

  Richard was slowly pecking at the dried fruits and vegetables prepared by Zhang Zian, and it seemed to have good appetite.

  “Hey, what happened exactly at that night? I’ve been asking you several times, and you never answered me. Does your friendly likability mean nothing?” he patiently asked Richard.

  About this issue, he had asked Richard several times, but Richard always avoided talking about it.

  After finishing the dried fruits, Richard drank some water, and stared at him with meaningful looks that made him feel nervous.

  “Are you asking why my likeability towards you has been promoted to the friendly level?” asked Richard.

  “That’s right,” he answered.

  “And that’s why you are an idiot. What you should think about is, why did you catch a cold?” Richard seemed to give an irrelevant response.

  Zhang Zian asked confusedly, “Is there a direct relationship between these two issues?”


  “Certainly,” said Richard assuredly, “Have you not heard of a saying that a cold can be transmitted by kissing?”


  Zhang Zian was speechless.

  He sniffed and pointed to himself, “I have a cold.”


  Then he pointed to Richard, “And you have recovered from a cold.”


  Richard hopped a few small steps towards him with a dubious look, “You still don’t understand?”


  “Damn it! Gay parrot, you stay away from me!”


  Zhang Zian retreated a few steps back, wiping his mouth while backing away, “F**k! Did you…while I was asleep that night…did you…”


  “Quack! I took your first kiss!” exclaimed Richard, flapping its wings cheerfully.

  Zhang Zian was cursing it furiously inside his heart!

  “I’ve been saving my first kiss for more than two decades. How can it easily be taken away by a gay parrot?!” he roared in grief and indignation.

  “Quack! It’s too late, I’ve already taken it, and you are mine now!” Richard pressed towards him closer, “By the way, do you want to further enhance my likability? Let me give you some tips. Do you have soaps in your bathroom? Safeguard soaps will do…”


  “Shut up! Shut up! “Zhang Zian tightened his butt. What a malicious bird!

  “You’re so annoying!” Fina angrily opened its eyes and reprimanded them, “Don’t disturb me while I’m sleeping!”


  Snowy Lionet immediately echoed maliciously, “That’s right! Your Majesty is right! If you want to display your affections, go get a room in a hotel! What’s the deal with you paying ‘lip service’ in front of us?”


  “I’m not going to a hotel with it! Besides, are you going to pay for the room rates?” Zhang Zian glared at Snowy Lionet bitterly. There’s no good for him to continue such nonsense with the gay bird and the lesbian cat, because they would certainly lead him to have increasingly dirtier conversations. Also, he wondered whether he had overthought it, he felt a bit awkward when the words “lip service” came out from the mouth of Snowy Lionet.

  “Forget it. I’m going downstairs.”


  Zhang Zian came down to the first floor. Looking at the brand-new storefront, his bad mood because of losing his first kiss was swept away.

  Thanks to Guo Dongyue and the renovation workers’ commitment in these days, the decoration of his shop had been basically completed, with only some finishing touches that would take up to two days.

  Most of the workers had already left, leaving only one worker standing on a chair to wire the newly installed ceiling lamp.

  Looking around the shop, he felt that it was just like Cinderella had turned into a princess. There were few changes to the overall layout, but since Guo Dongyue had fully utilized the unused space, the entire shop appeared a lot more spacious—for example, the pet supplies and pet food had been previously randomly piled on the ground or stacked on the storage racks by Zhang Zian, but thanks to Guo Dongyue, who installed well-arranged wooden shelves on the wall, such things could be placed on the wall, thus freeing up the space on the ground.

  When decorating the shop, to solve the poor lighting issues, Guo Dongyue had also installed many hidden wall lights, enhancing the warm atmosphere for the shop with their soft rays of light.

  Most importantly, there were finally French glass doors in his shop—one was at the entrance, and one was separating the front and back areas in between, and both of them were the automatically sliding type. Since the glass doors were installed, even Zhang Zian could feel the temperature inside the shop had increased by several degrees. A few days ago, strong winds swept through the city, with afterwinds continued blowing these days, the outdoor temperature plummeted. Winter was coming, and seeing the bleak streets outside where wind was blowing and leaves were flying, he felt lucky that he had these doors installed in time.

  The pets and display cases that he moved to Sun Xiaomeng’s clinic had also been moved back to the shop. Since the shop had became spacious, he felt it looked empty even when his pet and display cases had returned. Galaxy and the kittens had larger spaces to play, but the puppies were still left inside the display cases, looking outside eagerly.

  “If you build it, they will come.”


  Zhang Zian was looking forward to his bright future. With such a classy pet shop, he could definitely attract some fair-skinned, rich and gorgeous ladies, right?

  Just when he was immersed in his fantasy while looking out into the distance, the automatic inductive door glided open, with a person rushing in from the outside.

  “Zhang Zian! Hurry! Give me a red envelope, for I highly recommended your shop and am bringing you a customer! You should thank me!” Zhao Qi excitedly rushed into his shop carrying her bag, followed by a short young man that Zhang Zian had never met before.

  Zhang Zian looked at her, and silently sighed in his heart. How come she was the first customer again?

  In his eyes, Zhao Qi was indeed fair-skinned, and as for her look…not too bad. But speaking of wealth, she was completely a stingy person!

  What an unlucky year for him!