Allergic To Furry Things But Can Pet Them Mentally – CH94

Chapter 94

The system promptly reminded him: [Host, host—when you see Mom suddenly come back to life, you have to act especially shocked and completely unable to believe it.]

Before this, the system had already coached Tang Rong on how he should react after his mother revived, and Tang Rong had rehearsed it countless times in his head.

So after hearing that, Tang Rong stopped worrying about his heavy head and the little braid on top of it, and immediately threw himself into the performance.

First, he rubbed his eyes and looked at his mother, murmuring to himself, “Am I dreaming?”

Then he reached out and touched her. Once he realized she was real, he widened his eyes even more in astonishment.

After that, he threw himself into her arms, wrapped himself around her, and buried his little face in her embrace so he would not have to worry about his expression slipping.

The whole sequence flowed smoothly, as if he had practiced it over and over.

But the moment he really buried himself in his mother’s arms, Tang Rong felt his eye sockets turning hot and damp.

The system praised him: [Host, I’m giving your acting full marks!]

It was not entirely acting, either. Even though he had known beforehand that his mother would come back to life, actually seeing a living, breathing Mom standing right in front of him still filled him with shock and joy.

Mom smelled sweet and lovely.

Mom’s embrace was soft.

So this was what it felt like to have a mother?

At last, he was a little cub with a mama.

“Mom, how did you come back to life? I’m not dreaming, right?” Tang Rong wrinkled his nose, which had gone sour from emotion, not forgetting to deliver the final line the system had taught him.

The little cub’s voice was soft and sweet, tinged with a faint sob that made him heartbreakingly pitiful.

Yun Jian quickly patted his back and soothed him, “You’re not dreaming. Mom doesn’t know either. Maybe Xiao Rong brought Mom back.”

The system explained: [They’ve already successfully followed the guidance and guessed that it was your healing ability that brought Mom back. They think maybe your mother never truly died, and was only sleeping the whole time.]

The system added: [There are still lots of questionable points, of course, but no one will suspect you, and they won’t be able to dig out the truth anyway. Don’t worry. Just keep acting dumb.]

Feeling the gentle strokes on his back, Tang Rong lifted his little head and gazed at his mother with tear-bright eyes.

His mother was looking down at him too.

His mother’s eyes were the exact same color as his.

No wonder she was his mother.

He was Mom’s baby.

Yun Jian’s heart softened into a puddle under his bright, shining gaze. Unable to resist, she lowered her head and planted several quick kisses on his forehead and cheeks.

Her little baby was soft and fragrant. For the past few days she had wanted to kiss him every day, over and over. If she had not kept restraining herself, she might have kissed his little face swollen.

Tang Rong naturally leaned in and gave her a few kisses on the cheek in return.

Although his eyes had turned damp at first, the overwhelming happiness quickly washed everything else away. In the eyes of a little cub not yet five years old, there was now nothing but boundless joy.

He had a mother now!

…

As soon as Tang Zheng’en learned that Tang Rong had woken up, he rushed over at once with the little snow leopard. The butler and the doctor came with him too.

“Miwu!” After not seeing him for three days, the little snow leopard immediately curled itself into Tang Rong’s arms and rubbed against him impatiently.

“Baby, this is my mom,” Tang Rong said proudly at once, lifting the little snow leopard and introducing it to her.

“Meow.” It knew.

These past few days, it had been waiting every day for Xiao Rong to wake up, so that once Xiao Rong’s mother saw its mother, they could sit down together and discuss its betrothal with Xiao Rong.

Yun Jian’s brows curved in a smile. She lifted a hand and rubbed the little snow leopard’s head.

The doctor then carried out a full set of physical checks on Tang Rong again. Only after confirming that there was absolutely nothing wrong did he leave.

Tang Zheng’en sat down beside his wife, took one of her hands in his, and said, “I just sent messages to Xiao Yao and Xiao Fei and told them to hurry back. I haven’t told the others yet—I’m still thinking about how to break the news to them.”

Over the last three days, he had already told his wife everything that had happened over the past four years. But he had not yet had the chance to work out with her exactly how they should reveal the truth to the rest of the family.

At first, he had kept it secret because he was afraid everything might vanish like a bubble, like some fragile dream. He had also feared something might happen to Xiao Rong.

But now Xiao Rong had finally woken up too, and Yun Jian was still perfectly fine. It was time to tell the family everything.

Yun Jian gave a little sound of thought, pondered for a moment, and then said, “We can do it one by one. I want to see each of their reactions separately.”

The truth was, she was also afraid they would all burst into tears at once and she would not be able to comfort them all.

Tang Zheng’en nodded. “Okay.”

When Tang Hu arrived, Yun Jian was in the middle of undoing the little braids on Tang Rong’s head.

Just as she was taking apart the final little plait, the door opened. She looked up, and their eyes met.

Tang Hu froze for a second. His mind whirred rapidly, then finally reached a conclusion that left him oddly silent, his gaze full of tangled emotion.

He strode over, reached out, and pinched Yun Jian’s cheek. Then he turned to Tang Zheng’en, who was sitting nearby, and said, “Dad, where did you order this ultra-realistic robot modeled after Mom? It even knows how to braid Xiao Rong’s hair. I heard these kinds of companion robots aren’t actually very good for little kids. They can make them overly dependent and anxious.”

Tang Rong blinked at him.

A robot… Mom?

The system was on the verge of laughing itself insane.

But to be fair, it really was easy to mistake her for one.

Yun Jian caught Tang Hu’s hand with an amused smile and asked, “How about I braid your tail too?”

Tang Hu jumped as if shocked. “Damn, they even programmed that? I’m not braiding my tail. You’re not my mom.”

He was, in fact, somewhat resistant to a robot in his mother’s form. In his heart, nothing could ever replace his mother.

“I’m not your mom? Then who am I?” Yun Jian arched a brow. “Hurry up and switch back. Let me count and see whether you’ve lost any tails over these past four years—whether you’re still supposed to have nine.”

The expression on Tang Hu’s face slowly vanished. He looked at Yun Jian, then at Tang Zheng’en. “Dad, that kind of joke isn’t funny.”

Tang Zheng’en let out a deep sigh. “Xiao Hu, she really is your mother, not a robot. I know it sounds unbelievable. I’ll explain the details to you slowly.”

Tang Hu’s eyes turned red instantly. He knew his father would never joke about something like this. And that meant… that meant…

Tang Hu raised his head again and met those familiar pale green eyes. His vision blurred from the tears at once.

This really was his mother.

He blinked rapidly, but no matter how hard he blinked, the tears would not stop. In the next second, his whole body vanished into thin air, and a snow-white little nine-tailed fox burrowed out from beneath his clothes.

Yun Jian bent down right away, scooped him into her arms, and began touching the tails behind him one by one with her fingers.

“One, two, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Oh no, baby, there are only eight tails left. Did you go and chew tail-breaking grass again?”

The little nine-tailed fox clung tightly to its mother’s clothes, its tears soaking into its fur.

He was already sixteen, not six anymore. He would not be fooled again.

But this time he cried even harder than he had as a child.

Back then, it had been because he was scared.

This time, it was because of the impossible reunion after separation by life and death.

Tang Rong, who was sitting nearby, suddenly asked nervously, “What is tail-breaking grass? Why does Brother Xiao Hu only have eight tails left?”

His face was full of unconcealed worry. Clearly, he genuinely thought the little nine-tailed fox really only had eight tails.

Yun Jian could not help curling her lips.

Her little baby was cute too.

Tang Zheng’en and the butler both wore expressions that said they were trying not to laugh.

Even the little nine-tailed fox stopped crying, because he had not expected his little brother to fall for it too and walk right down the same old road he had.

…As expected of his biological little brother.

The system quickly muted itself, afraid that its laughter would be so loud it might scare the host.

Naturally, after laughing, it still did not explain the truth to Tang Rong right away. It was eagerly looking forward to the fun developments still to come.

The gloomy atmosphere lightened almost at once.

Yun Jian smiled and teased him, “It’s just a kind of grass that makes little animals’ tails fall off after they eat it.”

Tang Rong immediately thought of the little dog whose tail had broken off earlier. The worry on his face deepened.

“Will Brother Xiao Hu’s tail grow back?” he asked.

Yun Jian nodded and continued her serious nonsense, “When Brother Xiao Hu was little, he loved chewing random flowers and grass. Back then one of his tails fell off too, but it grew back later. It’s fine, don’t worry.”

The little nine-tailed fox: “……”

Please stop bringing up his dark history.

Tang Rong finally let out a little breath of relief. As long as it could grow back, that was good. Then, in the next second, he quickly used his wrist to curl up the little snow leopard’s long tail, hugging it tighter as he solemnly warned, “Baby, don’t eat random grass in the future.”

A fox had many tails, so losing one would not be that obvious. But the little snow leopard only had one tail. If it broke off, how ugly would that be?

Tang Rong imagined what the little snow leopard would look like without a tail, and his brows furrowed even more deeply.

The little snow leopard, who had seen through everything from the very beginning and had not been fooled in the slightest: “……Mi.”

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