Allergic To Furry Things But Can Pet Them Mentally – CH37

Chapter 37

“You know Big Brother Xiao Han too?” Tang Rong looked at the little boy with sparkling eyes.

Discovering a mutual friend while outside really was something worth being pleasantly surprised over.

Especially when it was a very, very good friend of his.

This time, the little boy was genuinely stunned.

Big Brother Xiao Han…?

Back when he had met the little crown prince in virtual space, the other side had indeed introduced himself by saying, “My name is Shen Muhan,” and he had replied, “My name is Yun Qi.” They had always addressed each other by their full names.

Actually, even before they met, his family had already told him the little crown prince’s name, and he had remembered it very clearly ever since.

But an intimate form of address like “Big Brother Xiao Han” was something he was seeing for the first time.

He had heard that the little crown prince was in poor health, was raised in Eden, rarely went out, had a solitary and strange personality, and had never been able to find a suitable playmate. The Emperor and Empress were often troubled over this matter.

Since Yun Qi was close in age to the little crown prince, his family had tried introducing him, after all, that was the imperial family.

The Yun family had only gradually secured its footing on the main planet because it had produced a few healers with decent aptitude. They styled themselves as a prestigious healer family, but something like healing talent was like intelligence—it was highly uncertain. Over the past century, the Yun family had produced only two particularly gifted healers: Yun Jian and Yun Yuan.

Unfortunately, one had married into the Tang family, whose spiritual power was damaged, while the other had severed ties with the family because he liked men and refused to continue the bloodline.

So the Yun family had no choice but to rack their brains trying to preserve their position.

Later, a little over five years ago, Yun Qi was born. Though his healing aptitude was not on the level of his aunt Yun Jian or his uncle Yun Yuan, it was still considered very good.

Unexpectedly, the Emperor and Empress had actually agreed to the introduction. They had probably taken a liking to Yun Qi’s aptitude.

The two had interacted a little in virtual space. Unfortunately, the other side truly did have a strange personality, and Yun Qi could not get along with him. In the end, the matter just faded away.

Still, Yun Qi had bragged about it for quite a long time, since there really were not many people who got to meet the little crown prince.

And now, this brat who had only recently been found on the junk planet and had not been back on the main planet for very long was acting in front of him like he had a very good relationship with the little crown prince, and was even turning around to ask him whether he knew the little crown prince too?

Yun Qi only found it funny.

Oh? He knew him too?

Thinking of how he had been choked speechless several times earlier, Yun Qi decided to strike back using the same method. “Yeah. Otherwise how would I have his photo? Since you know him too, you should have photos too, right?”

Tang Rong nodded.

He had taken lots of photos with the other children at kindergarten.

“Show me.” Yun Qi refused to believe it.

Tang Rong lowered his head, opened his optical brain, pulled up the album labeled Kindergarten, and showed him the photos inside that included Big Brother Xiao Han.

—Recently he had been learning some simple characters, and the album names had all been painstakingly handwritten by him stroke by stroke.

In the photos, Shen Muhan was practically always stuck right beside Tang Rong. There wasn’t a single photo where Shen Muhan appeared without Tang Rong. Even a blind person could tell that the two of them were especially close.

Yun Qi went completely silent.

No, wait, why did this person really know the little crown prince and have such a good relationship with him?!

Right at that moment, Tang Rong suddenly noticed something and switched over to the chat screen.

“Big Brother Xiao Han sent me a message.”

And it was actually a voice message.

Big Brother Xiao Han rarely ever sent voice messages when chatting. He almost always typed.

Tang Rong immediately and eagerly tapped the voice bar.

Shen Muhan’s voice instantly rang out: “What is Xiao Rong doing? So bored.”

Before, because after leaving virtual space he had always remained in snow leopard form, it had not been convenient for him to send voice messages. Today, he had tried returning to human form and, as if trying to cover his tracks, had deliberately sent over a voice message.

Tang Rong replied right away, “I came over to my maternal grandpa’s place and haven’t gone back yet.”

Then, suddenly thinking of something, Tang Rong glanced at Yun Qi, who was sitting beside him, and added, “I also ran into one of Big Brother Xiao Han’s friends here.”

If Big Brother Xiao Han knew about this, he would definitely feel pleasantly surprised too.

Yun Qi: “…”

At that moment, Yun Qi’s guilt reached its peak.

He… he might have always bragged behind people’s backs that he and the little crown prince were friends, but he knew very well that if the two of them had only spent less than one day together and had never been in contact again afterward, what kind of friends were they, really?

Saying it behind people’s backs was one thing—after all, the real person would never know.

But now…

On the other side, Shen Muhan impatiently tapped open Tang Rong’s voice reply and happily listened to it.

When he heard the latter half, the expression on his face gradually fell.

What kind of random friend was that? Why didn’t he know about this?

Shen Muhan immediately placed a video call.

Tang Rong was startled when he received the video call, but after realizing who it was, he directly chose Answer.

The moment Yun Qi saw Shen Muhan’s face appear, he instinctively shrank back. He very much wanted to flee the scene immediately, but his legs felt as though they were filled with lead, unable to move at all—it felt like whether he stuck his head out or pulled it back, the blade would fall either way.

Who would have thought that Tang Rong would directly turn the screen toward Yun Qi and say, “Big Brother Xiao Han, look.”

Shen Muhan’s brows drew together slightly, and his voice was completely flat. “Who is that? I don’t know him.”

Tang Rong let out a puzzled little eh?, and his head tilted along with it.

Yun Qi was so embarrassed he could die, but now that things had reached this point, he could only force himself to speak. “It’s me. Yun Qi. We met in virtual space before.”

Shen Muhan still wore a completely blank expression. After a few seconds, he slowly said three words: “No impression.”

In truth, he did remember. After all, that Yun-something had left him speechless for quite a while.

Who would have thought this person had actually been spreading rumors behind his back, claiming to be his friend? What a joke.

Rumors were one thing, but to spread them right in front of Xiao Rong—

He had said it before: Xiao Rong was the first friend he had ever made. This person spreading rumors like that was the same as directly damaging his relationship with Xiao Rong. Absolutely hateful.

Rather than go through the trouble of explaining that he and this person were not friends, it was simpler just to pretend he didn’t know him at all and end it there.

Which was not much different from the truth anyway.

Yun Qi had completely run out of words.

Tang Rong blinked, then slowly seemed to understand something. He turned the screen back upright, no longer aiming it at Yun Qi.

Since Yun Qi had that photo together with Big Brother Xiao Han and had confidently insisted that he knew him, then they probably really did know each other. But Big Brother Xiao Han had still said he didn’t know him, which meant there must be a reason on Big Brother Xiao Han’s side.

Compared with this unfamiliar little boy, Tang Rong would naturally side with Big Brother Xiao Han without question. If Big Brother Xiao Han said he didn’t know him, then that meant he didn’t know him.

Seeing this, the butler suddenly stood up. “If there’s nothing else, then we won’t stay and disturb you. It’s about time to eat, and I’ve already booked a restaurant to take Xiao Rong to.”

After hearing the butler say that, Shen Muhan on the other end of the call fell quiet and remained silent.

Yun Fangqian, who had originally been eavesdropping on the movement over there, loosened his grip on the data sheet in his hand and looked at Tang Rong, who still hadn’t hung up the video call, with his heavy-lidded, triangular eyes.

He had not expected that Tang Rong, having only just arrived on the main planet, would already have become friends with the little crown prince.

Then again, it did make sense. They both lived in Eden. The Tang family had served in the military for generations and had always had a good relationship with the imperial family.

Back then, although he had objected, in the end he had still not severed ties with his daughter, because the Tang family could bring benefits to the Yun family.

But he had always known that kind of benefit could never last. The little monsters she gave birth to would only tarnish the Yun family’s reputation as a healer clan.

When Yun Jian was still alive, a great deal of public criticism had already been aimed at the Yun family, saying they could not even soothe their own descendants and that they were going more and more downhill.

Those little monsters… not even the gods themselves could save them. He would never acknowledge them as his grandchildren.

Tang Rong and the little crown prince were the same age. It was perfectly normal that the Tang family had used connections to introduce him to the little crown prince. He just had not expected Tang Rong to be this capable, actually becoming very good friends with him.

And on the other hand there was Yun Qi… their first meeting had already fallen apart, and now he had lost this much face. Truly useless.

If it were not for the fact that Yun Qi’s aptitude was the best among this generation, Yun Fangqian would not value him so much.

Still, in a world where strength spoke for itself, an ordinary person could pull off all the tricks he wanted and it still would not matter. An ordinary person was still just an ordinary person. Without talent, they would only ever be trampled underfoot.

The Yun family had no use for ordinary people. What they needed was excellent healer blood.

Yun Fangqian lifted his chin and said to the servant, “See them out.”

…

Finally leaving the Yun residence, Tang Rong stretched lazily and comfortably, then curved his eyes and said to Shen Muhan on the other end of the video call, “Big Brother Xiao Han, Butler Uncle and I are getting ready to go eat at a restaurant, then walk around the mall afterward. Have you eaten lunch yet?”

A certain string inside Shen Muhan’s head was plucked at once. He quickly glanced at his mother, who was sitting in the chair beside him, and asked, “Which restaurant? And which mall? I’m getting ready to eat too.”

Tang Rong said, “A seafood restaurant, and the mall is near my house. It’s called Floating Isle.”

“Okay, hurry and go then. I’m going to eat too,” Shen Muhan said.

Once the call ended, Shen Muhan immediately ran over to his mother. If he had been in little snow leopard form right now, he definitely would have leapt into her arms and flopped over with his belly exposed, acting spoiled.

He was still a little unaccustomed to human form.

Teacher Tangyuan always felt that he seemed a little too much like a small adult, but that really wasn’t it—he simply wasn’t good at socializing in human form.

How could Han Zhi fail to understand what her son meant?

—He definitely wanted to meet Xiao Rong in person and go shopping together.

Han Zhi scooped him into her arms, sat him on her lap, and asked with unusual seriousness, “Are you sure your human form can last that long?”

Shen Muhan nodded. He had already maintained human form for the entire morning and had not felt anything wrong at all. Besides, even before Xiao Rong appeared, whenever he managed to change back into human form, he had always been able to maintain it for several days.

“As long as I can cuddle with Xiao Rong, I feel like I can keep human form forever,” he said.

Though it was only a guess, he felt the odds were high.

Han Zhi smiled and held him close, lightly rubbing her chin against his head. “Alright. In any case, Floating Isle Mall isn’t far from Eden, and it’s run by your cousin. I’ll contact him in a moment and have him keep an eye on you two to make sure nothing goes wrong. As for Xiao Rong’s side, you can make the plans yourself.”

Anyway, Tang Rong had already met the Yun family today, so there were no more lingering concerns there. Very soon, the family would tell him the truth about his talent, and her own son would also be able to reveal his identity—he would no longer need to keep pretending to be someone else’s pet.

“Okay!” Shen Muhan jumped straight out of his mother’s arms and happily ran off to message Tang Rong.

Han Zhi smiled helplessly, opened her optical brain, found a contact labeled Dummy, and placed a call to her nephew.

“Hello? Auntie Empress, why are you suddenly calling me? Is something the matter?” A young man’s voice, about twenty-five or so, came through from the other end.

Han Zhi briefly explained the two children’s plan to meet in person that afternoon.

The other side was silent for a moment, then asked, “The other child is from the Tang family?”

Han Zhi gave a soft mm. “What, do you have some connection with the Tang family?”

“No, no. It’s just… people on the star web have been talking about this matter lately, so I’ve kept seeing it everywhere.”

Han Zhi faintly sensed that there was something behind those words, but seeing that he had no intention of saying more, she didn’t probe.

This nephew was someone she could fully trust. Everyone had a few little secrets. That was normal.

“Then I’ll leave it to you.”

“No problem at all, no problem at all. If it’s left to me, Auntie, just rest easy.”

Once the call ended, Shen Yuchun bounced excitedly in place a few times, then rushed to the washroom in the office to splash cold water on his face, before immediately calling over his most capable assistant—and also his brother-like friend—and saying with great enthusiasm, “Xiao Qiu’s little brother is coming to Floating Isle this afternoon to play. Open every attraction in the children’s area—free of charge. Have people redo the whole setup right away, and put all the charges on my tab.”

The assistant who had hurried over thinking some major disaster had happened: “…”

Was this spendthrift lovestruck idiot ever going to stop?

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