Allergic To Furry Things But Can Pet Them Mentally – CH39

Chapter 39

Let’s turn the clock back to a little earlier.

After proudly thumping his chest and making his guarantee, Shen Yuchun immediately called over his people to measure both his and Shen Muhan’s body data. Once the measurements were done, he leisurely began explaining his plan to Shen Muhan.

—He would wear a custom-made mascot suit shaped like a snow leopard, give Xiao Rong flowers, cuddle with Xiao Rong, and give him a surprise.

Compared to simply handing over a purchased gift, wearing a mascot suit in the shape of an animal the other person liked made the whole thing much more meaningful.

“Back when your cousin here was still a student, I wore a mascot suit exactly like this when I gave the first bouquet of flowers to the girl I had a crush on,” Shen Yuchun said proudly.

Shen Muhan nodded blankly. Somehow he felt there was something a little strange about that sentence, but for the moment he couldn’t figure out what exactly was strange, so he didn’t think too deeply about it and instinctively asked, “Then later…?”

Shen Yuchun answered at once, “Later, of course, she happily accepted them.”

It was just that… she had no idea the person inside the mascot suit was him.

And she also had no idea that he had spent the entire afternoon in that mascot suit handing out flowers to all sorts of people, just to build up to giving the flowers to her.

It was simply because she was too introverted and socially anxious. He didn’t dare take off the mascot head for fear of scaring her, and besides, he had still been in the middle of losing weight back then and hadn’t been confident enough.

Afraid Shen Muhan would keep asking, Shen Yuchun promptly slung an arm around his shoulders in a friendly way and reassured him once again, “Don’t worry. He’ll definitely like it.”

…

And now, back to the present.

The big mascot and the small mascot had both fallen flat right in front of Tang Rong. Luckily, they hadn’t landed on him.

After recovering from the shock, Tang Rong immediately stepped forward, wanting to help them up.

Helping fallen people up—well, once you’ve done it once, the second time comes naturally.

Off to the side, the bodyguards and others disguised in casual clothes as ordinary visitors saw this and stopped just before stepping forward, choosing instead to keep watching a little longer.

Although the smaller mascot had fallen down, the flowers in its hand were still gripped tightly, not let go.

Fortunately, the flowers were handmade crochet pieces, so they wouldn’t be ruined by a fall.

Inside the mascot suit, Shen Muhan’s mind had gone blank. Feeling someone helping him up, he stood up in a daze with that borrowed support.

Only after getting back on his feet did he realize that the one who had helped him up was actually Tang Rong.

Shen Muhan’s mind went even blanker.

The mascot suit had terrible visibility and restricted movement badly. Since he was already more used to being in snow leopard form, stuffing himself into this suit had made his walking clumsy. The moment he saw Tang Rong, he got so excited and hurried too fast, and that was how he fell.

…He… he’d embarrassed himself in front of Xiao Rong again.

After helping the mascot up, Tang Rong didn’t say anything. From his point of view, this mascot was a stranger who happened to fall in front of him, and he had only helped out of kindness. He still needed to find Big Brother Xiao Han. Big Brother Xiao Han had already been waiting at Entrance A for a long time.

He really couldn’t delay any longer.

With that thought, Tang Rong lowered his head and directly opened his optical brain, placing a video call to Big Brother Xiao Han so they could meet up quickly.

A few seconds later, the mascot standing in front of him suddenly moved, and a virtual screen popped up in front of it.

At the same time, the video call connected.

On his own optical brain screen, Tang Rong saw a giant familiar mascot head—it was in the shape of a little snow leopard.

Tang Rong: 0.0?

Tang Rong was stunned for a moment, then finally realized something. He lifted his head in surprise, eyes widening slightly, and looked at the small mascot standing in front of him.

Since his identity had already been exposed, Shen Muhan steeled himself and directly extended the flowers in his hand toward Tang Rong.

At the same time, Shen Yuchun, who had also fallen, climbed back up on his own. Luckily, the mascot suit was thick, so the fall hadn’t hurt much.

Instinctively, he looked toward his younger cousin and Tang Rong, and just happened to catch the moment Tang Rong accepted the flowers from the small mascot.

He knew it! Of course it was going to work!

“Thank you, Big Brother Xiao Han,” Tang Rong said, holding the little flowers in his hands. “Why are you wearing this?”

“I wanted to give you a surprise.” Shen Muhan’s voice sounded a little muffled through the mascot suit.

“…Do you like it?” Shen Muhan hesitated and added.

Tang Rong nodded quickly, his eyes growing brighter—he really liked this surprise.

Then Tang Rong immediately asked, “Can we take photos together?”

The little mascot nodded.

Seeing this, the butler volunteered and began taking pictures for the two little ones.

One was of them holding hands. Another was of the mascot hugging Tang Rong from behind. Another was of Tang Rong turning his head and planting a kiss on the mascot’s face…

The butler’s brows drew together ever so slightly, but when he saw that it was his own child who had taken the initiative to kiss—and that the mascot suit was still in the way—his brows soon smoothed out again.

Inside the mascot suit, Shen Muhan felt dizzy in the head, hot in the ears, and on the verge of suffocating in there.

At the side, the large mascot deliberately barged into the frame and gathered the two little children together, taking several more photos with all three of them in the picture.

Who knew whether Xiao Qiu would see these photos… hehe… better to take them first and worry later.

The butler did not know the identity of the person inside the large mascot suit and simply assumed it was one of the little crown prince’s attendants there to protect him.

Just as the photo-taking was about to end, a child’s voice suddenly rang out. “I want a photo with the mascot too! I want flowers too!”

It was a little boy about five or six years old.

Through the eyes of the mascot suit, Shen Muhan glanced at the boy, then held Tang Rong’s hand and shifted behind him a little.

He was Xiao Rong’s personal mascot, and all the flowers were for Xiao Rong too.

Earlier, while waiting for Xiao Rong, some kids had taken the chance to ask for photos with him, and he hadn’t bothered about it. If they wanted photos, fine. It didn’t delay anything. But now that he had found Xiao Rong, he wanted to play with Xiao Rong and had no time to waste on irrelevant people.

Who would have thought that the little boy would suddenly stride forward and directly snatch the flowers out of Tang Rong’s hand, then say arrogantly to him, “It’s my turn now! Move aside!”

His tone was extremely unfriendly, even laced with the gleeful malice of someone enjoying bullying others.

In the very next second, the little boy was lifted by the collar.

A displeased voice came from inside the large mascot suit. “Whose brat is this?”

The father of the unruly boy, who had been watching nearby, immediately stormed over with the same arrogant attitude. “What are you doing?! Is this how you treat customers? Put my kid down right now! Believe it or not, I’ll file a complaint against you! My older brother is the manager here. If you don’t want to lose your job, watch your attitude!”

Now it was finally clear why this little brat was so rude and overbearing. Turns out the whole family had no manners and plenty of arrogance.

Shen Yuchun was so angry he laughed. Not only did he not let go, he also raised his other hand, snatched the flowers back from the boy, and returned them to Tang Rong.

What he hadn’t told Shen Muhan was that this wasn’t even his first time wearing a mascot suit and pretending to “accidentally” run into Tang Qiu. He had long since become highly skilled at moving around freely in a mascot suit.

Including using it to educate naughty children when the parents wouldn’t.

The reason he had fallen earlier was only because the lower part of his vision was a blind spot. He had accidentally tripped over Shen Muhan, who had already fallen. In order to avoid landing on top of Shen Muhan, he had deliberately twisted his body, which was why he’d fallen even more awkwardly.

Tang Rong still hadn’t fully reacted to the sudden turn of events. In the span of a few seconds, the flowers had vanished from his hand and then returned to it again. Holding the little flowers in one hand and Xiao Han’s hand in the other, he blankly backed up a few steps toward Butler Uncle, afraid that he and Big Brother Xiao Han might get caught up in all this.

Shen Muhan was furious too. If he were in snow leopard form right now, he definitely would have lunged forward and bitten someone with an angry aowu. But now he was in human form and still trapped inside the clumsy mascot suit. Luckily, his cousin had vented his anger for him first.

Seeing that the other side still refused to put down his child, the naughty boy’s father charged forward. But before he got close, security guards from the entrance stopped him.

The naughty kid struggled too, kicking and biting, but once Shen Yuchun lifted him even higher, he quieted down a lot—he was scared of falling.

The naughty kid’s father kept cursing, assuming the staff were all in it together. He immediately opened his optical brain and called his manager older brother.

Before long, the manager came over in a great show of anger, only to completely collapse the instant he saw what was happening. He rushed forward and directly slapped his useless younger brother across the face.

The naughty kid’s father was stunned stupid by the slap.

“Apologize. Now.” The manager looked at him with a face as cold as frost.

He then turned to Shen Yuchun in the mascot suit and said in a cowering tone, “I’m so, so sorry, Brother Shen. My useless little brother was blind and offended you. And my nephew too… he’s been naughty and troublesome since he was young. I promise I’ll discipline him properly later.”

Shen Yuchun was young and normally had no airs about him at all, so the staff liked to call him Brother Shen, which felt more familiar and friendly.

In truth, Shen Yuchun didn’t just own this one mall. He had even started doing business on other planets too. Yet for some reason, he was especially fond of coming to this particular mall, and most of the staff here knew him by sight and had spoken to him at least a few times.

Shen Yuchun ignored the manager completely. Instead, he set the naughty child down on the ground about one meter away from Tang Rong and said, “Apologize.”

The naughty boy was already scared out of his wits. Trembling, he stammered out several apologies, his eyes already turning red around the rims.

Tang Rong didn’t actually feel that he himself had been wronged. But he knew that if it weren’t for the big brother inside the large mascot suit being so formidable, he definitely would have been wronged. And not just him—Big Brother Xiao Han would have been wronged too. This was a bad child, and his father was a bad adult too. Tang Rong didn’t want to forgive them, so he said nothing.

Afraid Tang Rong might be frightened by the scene, Shen Yuchun released the child and had people clear the area, no longer in the mood to continue teaching them a lesson.

Naturally, Tang Rong wasn’t scared by such a minor scene at all. After all, back on the junk planet, he had witnessed plenty of chaotic situations, even some with blood involved. He wasn’t a fragile child.

It was probably because all the attractions in the children’s area had been opened today, with lots of activities as well, so many parents had brought their children here. Once there were enough people, naturally all kinds would be mixed in.

Luckily, bad kids were only a minority.

Far more of the other children were polite and well-behaved.

Once the area was cleared, the mall quickly returned to its former order. Everyone came and went happily again, enjoying a pleasant and leisurely weekend.

A few more children, seeing the mascots, came over curiously and wanted to take photos.

Unlike the naughty child and his obnoxious father, they all politely asked in advance whether they could take a photo together. When refused, they simply nodded and left without causing any further disturbance.

After all, the small mascot had been holding the hand of one particular little child the entire time. The two looked as if they were together, and since there was no stall or merchandise being sold nearby, it didn’t look like they were mascots being used for promotion either. They might simply be out playing in costume.

Shen Muhan directly raised the hand that was holding Tang Rong’s and said, “Sorry, I’m his personal mascot. I don’t take photos with anyone else.”

Nearby, Shen Yuchun—currently surrounded by several children taking pictures with him—looked over in disbelief.

Damn, his little cousin was still so young, and yet he was already this smooth?!

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