Allergic To Furry Things But Can Pet Them Mentally – CH62

Chapter 62

System: […]

For some reason, the system suddenly didn’t dare answer.

It could read its host’s thoughts, and it knew that he had already guessed that the little snow leopard was Shen Muhan. For the moment, he simply couldn’t digest that information on his own, which was why he was deliberately asking it—deep down, he wanted someone to share the burden with him.

That alone showed just how much the little snow leopard and Shen Muhan meant to him.

Compared to his family’s well-meaning concealment, this kind of concealment from his best friend of the same age was even harder for him to accept.

Because even if he learned that his family were those fluffy creatures, it wouldn’t really change how they got along. But if he learned that the little snow leopard was Shen Muhan, then he would lose his Baby—his little pet friend who had been with him day and night.

Their relationship was simply too close.

Wanting to avoid getting dragged into this, the system thought for a moment and deliberately answered with a question instead:

[Do you have any suspects?]

Tang Rong lightly grabbed a bit of the black soft fur and tried sliding his hand deeper into it, touching the warm body that was trembling slightly from pain.

Only after finishing that did he answer the system in his mind.

“It’s Big Brother Xiao Han, right?”

The system really wanted to be playful and lighten the mood with something like, Bingo, congratulations, you got it right, but when it saw Tang Rong lowering his head slightly, lips pressed together, thinking only about how he was going to punish the little snow leopard and Big Brother Xiao Han, it suddenly didn’t dare say anything.

It had noticed it long ago—its host actually had a faint little streak of hidden darkness beneath all that innocence.

The system answered meekly:

[Yes.]

Tang Rong didn’t say anything more to the system. His attention was drawn instead to the body under his hand, which had gradually stopped trembling, and he continued gently stroking it with his little hand.

He didn’t know what exactly his power was, nor did he know how to use it. All he could do was clumsily feel his way forward, trying to make his family hurt a little less.

…

The next day, Tang Rong woke up on the little bed beside the black wolf’s cage, with the little lion, little nine-tailed fox, and little bird curled up beside him.

Nearby were two simple beds, one occupied by the butler and the other by Lin Fei, both of them still in their clothes, making do for the night. Tang Rong had been sandwiched between them and had slept deeply the entire night.

Grandpa Tang Yinsheng, meanwhile, had been ordered by the doctor to return to the hospital first.

The little black dog that had led the way yesterday had also already left.

Tang Yao’s injuries this time had really been far too severe, and the whole family had been very worried.

Fortunately, with Xiao Rong appearing and staying by his side, stroking him and keeping him company, his recovery had indeed gone much more smoothly.

The moment Tang Rong woke up that morning, he instinctively looked toward the cage and discovered that at some point, the black wolf had turned around. Now it faced them, staring in this direction, and met his gaze directly.

The moment it realized he was awake and their eyes met, the black wolf’s ears instantly perked up—well, one of them did. The other ear had been injured and was wrapped in bandages, so it couldn’t stand up.

Even though it was a huge, fierce beast, such a cute little movement made Tang Rong’s heart itch terribly. He wanted very much to reach out and touch those ears, which were bigger than his hand. They definitely had to feel wonderful.

But the healers and doctors had already said that, for now, he still couldn’t casually go near the elder brother inside the cage. There was the risk of an accident or being attacked. They had to wait until he could fully return to his juvenile form before it would be safe to interact freely.

The butler was already awake and sitting on the bed watching him. Lin Fei, meanwhile, sat on the bed on the other side, combing her hair. Last night, Butler Uncle had already introduced Lin Fei’s identity to him—she was his elder brother’s fiancée, and also his future sister-in-law.

Seeing him awake, Lin Fei smiled and waved to him.

“Xiao Rong, come here. Let sister comb your hair too.”

Tang Rong had a very good impression of her, so he immediately got up and went over to her, directly ignoring the three fluffy creatures curled up on the bed.

—He still hadn’t forgiven them, so he wasn’t going to pet them for the time being.

Under the desperate, yearning gazes of the three fluffy creatures, Lin Fei slowly combed Tang Rong’s messy bedhead smooth, flattening every single stray tuft, then reached out and gave his head a light ruffle.

What an adorable little child.

Tang Yao had been nowhere near this cute when he was little.

Then Lin Fei’s eyes fell on the little hair tie around her wrist, and suddenly she had an amusing idea. With a few swift movements of her hand, she quickly tied a little upward-curving tuft of hair to one side of Tang Rong’s head.

Tang Rong tilted his head in confusion, and the little tuft swayed along with him.

So cute… Lin Fei’s heart was about to melt. It made her feel as if she had gone back to the days before she turned into a venomous woman.

Back then, just like Tang Qiu, she had found Tang Yao, that dog-type straight man, annoying. But Tang Qiu stuttered and would always get flustered and angry when arguing with him, so Lin Fei, unable to stand it, would lash back at him for both of them.

Over time, she and Tang Yao turned into a bickering pair of happy enemies, and their feelings rapidly deepened during adolescence. Her tongue grew sharper and sharper too—of course, only toward Tang Yao and people she disliked.

Once the hair was done, a little robot brought them breakfast.

Tang Yao was injured and couldn’t eat breakfast. He could only drink specially prepared nutritional liquid.

Lin Fei deliberately carried the plentiful breakfast over to him and leaned in close, speaking in a voice too soft for Tang Rong to hear.

“Want some? Bark like a dog and I’ll let you eat.”

Tang Yao: “…” Thanks, but no thanks.

A few seconds later, an optical brain screen appeared in front of him. To make the effect stronger, he even had the AI read the message aloud once:

“Eat less of that. You’ll get fat.”

The last time they met, Lin Fei’s face had gotten a little rounder, and he had merely said that her face looked rounder—he hadn’t even said it looked bad. But she had immediately gotten upset and retorted that his muscles weren’t as solid as before and his waist wasn’t as good either, then dragged him from daytime till night, saying it counted as exercise for losing weight, and then her face wouldn’t be round anymore.

In truth, she looked good no matter what.

He knew Lin Fei was teasing him on purpose, and he also knew she wanted to hear him respond without sounding listless, as proof that he was in decent condition. So after thinking about it, he answered that way to reassure her.

What he had really wanted to say was Even dogs wouldn’t eat this, but since little brother was here, he didn’t want to say something like that.

Little brother seemed to like dogs quite a lot.

Once he changed back into his juvenile form, little brother would definitely like him. Lin Fei always said that even though his spirit form was clearly a wolf, he acted like a dog. It wasn’t really a dog, of course, but they were both canines, so the difference wasn’t that great.

But Tang Rong, hearing that, frowned and suddenly seemed to think of something. He looked toward the cage and slowly said,

“Big Brother, don’t be a straight man. It’ll make Sister-in-law unhappy.”

Tang Yao was stunned.

Damn.

Where had little brother even learned a term like that?

Lin Fei was on the verge of bursting out laughing.

…

After a full day of companionship and soothing on Sunday, Tang Yao’s condition finally stabilized completely. He rarely lost control now; he just still couldn’t immediately return to his juvenile form.

It was all thanks to Tang Rong. Even though he had been more badly injured this time than ever before, he had also recovered faster than ever before.

Seeing that Tang Rong had spent a great deal of energy because of this, the butler promptly took him back, not wanting to overtax his body.

Going back together with them was the little lion, carrying the weight of having come to apologize on behalf of its “children.”

The three fluffy creatures huddled together meekly in the car and still failed to earn any pats from the little child.

Once they got home, Tang Rong immediately spotted a familiar gift box.

Whenever Second Sister and Third Brother sent him presents, they always packaged them in exactly this kind of box.

Tang Rong glanced at the three fluffy creatures whom he had left out in the cold for an entire day and night, then picked up the gift box and opened it.

…

When the little snow leopard returned carrying a bag of warm steamed buns on its back, what it saw was a whole bunch of fluffy creatures on the carpet, all dressed in all sorts of little clothes.

During the time it had been away, it hadn’t dared contact Xiao Rong on the optical brain to apologize, because it didn’t know how things were progressing on Xiao Rong’s family’s side. It had thought that if it came back carrying buns and apologized while bearing the “bun burden,” together with that Anger-Free Card, it would have a better chance of earning Xiao Rong’s forgiveness.

At that moment, Tang Rong was holding a small bow in his hand, and his gaze landed on it.

“Baby, you’re finally back.”

A chill ran down the little snow leopard’s spine.

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