Chapter Thirty-Six

  As everyone walked into the house, they immediately saw a female celebrity wearing high heels with one hand bleeding and the other hand raised, holding a hamster as if to throw it. Next to them on the dressing table was an open brown paper bag and a luxury goods packaging box... Upon closer inspection, the female celebrity's hand had a luxury brand wristband that was this year's most popular spring fashion item.

  Everyone fell silent.

  Then the first reaction is: Where's my phone? I want to take a picture.

  At this moment, probably no one would have thought that such a large group of people would suddenly come back to life. Xu Qianqian was caught off guard and stood frozen in place like a statue, maintaining the "Heroic Explosion Fortress" pose. Turning her head around, she stared straight into the eyes of someone who was equally shocked, and they locked gazes for three seconds, awkwardness piercing through the sky.

  Fortunately, he was quick to react. While the people behind him were still in shock and unable to move, he was the first to respond. He forced out a surprised expression, quickly walked up to block Xu Qianqian, and said in a panicked voice: "Qian Jie, what's wrong with your hand? Ah, why are you holding a hamster? Did it bite you? Put it down quickly, put it down..."

  Xu Qianqian's expression changed again, and upon hearing the assistant's words, she seemed to have come back to her senses. She tossed the hamster that had been tightly grasped in her hand onto the dresser with not much gentleness. The round ball of fur rolled around on the table, and the suffocating feeling that had almost shifted its internal organs finally eased a bit. It got up, shook its butt, and took in a breath of fresh air with great force, seeming to have a sense of relief at having narrowly escaped death.

  At this time, Jiang Chuan and Fang Yu, who were still sulking about the "dessert" incident and walking at the back of the team, happened to arrive in front of the dressing room. The two heard the keyword "hamster" and were stunned for a second, looking at each other. As soon as they looked up, they saw that the crowd in front of them had parted like Moses parting the sea, revealing a path.

  Fang Yu swept a glance over the situation in the room, just in time to see Xu Qianqian roughly throwing the hamster onto the dresser - this scene also entered Jiang Chuan's eyes behind him without exception. Fang Yu subconsciously felt that something was about to go wrong.

  Unexpectedly, seeing his own hamster being thrown like that, Jiang Chuan only paused for a moment, then asked expressionlessly: "What's wrong?"

  That voice was low and deep, obviously a newcomer, but at this time, no one in the scene, including Wang Mo, dared to answer him directly - after a long silence, a voice that couldn't be heard clearly from someone's sister rang out: "Chuan Ge, your hamster seems to have run out and bitten Qian Jie..."

  Jiang Chuan nodded and walked into the house. At this time, Xu Qianqian saw Fang Yu and Jiang Chuan arrive, and for a moment, there was a flash of panic in her eyes. However, as an actress, she perfectly concealed her unease before anyone could notice it. Suddenly, her eyes turned red, and two tears squeezed out from them. Then, in a small voice, she said: "Fang Ge, Jiang Chuan, you've come at the right time... I was just about to go back and get my phone, but when I got it, I wanted to go find you guys again. Suddenly, I heard a 'bang' sound, and I thought what was that? When I turned around, I saw Jiang Chuan's hamster running out of its cage, tearing things apart here. Because it tore too hard, it knocked over the hair gel bottle..."

  She said as she pointed to the dresser behind her, where a hamster was indeed perched next to an overturned bottle of hairspray.

  Xu Qianqian picked up the hair gel bottle.

  "I originally wanted to pick up the hair gel bottle and leave, but when I walked closer, I found that this hamster was gnawing on a gift box...". Xu Qianqian said while holding up the ring that had quickly been taken off her hand, blocking everyone's view for an instant. She spoke while squeezing out two tears, "As soon as I saw it, I knew that inside should be S's accessories. Thinking back, this is Yan Ge's old dressing table, and this thing was probably left here because he didn't have time to take it away before he left..."

  Fang Yu heard this and glanced at the ring in Xu Qianqian's hand, discovering that it was indeed the same ring he had bought with Jian Ran at a duty-free shop abroad before coming to G city, originally intending to bring it back home as a birthday gift for his mother during the New Year, but after Jian Ran's accident, everything around him became a mess and he ended up forgetting about the ring.

  It turned out that he had left it in the dressing room.

  In his heart, he was complaining about being careless, while at the same time feeling quite uncomfortable. Fang Yu slightly furrowed his brow and said "oh" as he reached out to take the metal ring - the moment he touched the inner circle of the ring, he felt a body temperature - it was clear that someone had worn it recently and only taken it off a short while ago. He paused for a moment, then looked up and glanced at Xu Qianqian.

  Xu Qianqian lowered her eyes, just in time to loosen her hand, letting the ring fall into Fang Yu's palm. She continued in a voice that didn't change at all: "I was thinking, what if this pair of rings has some important significance? I hurriedly wanted to retrieve it before the warehouse mouse gnawed on it... Who knew, who knew it actually bit me! I bled so much, it hurts..."

  Xu Qianqian's voice became softer and softer.

  Throughout the whole process, Jiang Chuan listened with a poker face. When Xu Qianqian said that the hamster was going to knock over the ring holder, he shifted his gaze and glanced at the hamster squatting on the dressing table - the latter flipped its triangular white eyes, lifted its hind legs, and silently kicked the hair gel bottle that had just been picked up again with a "bang" sound. The hair gel bottle fell onto the dressing table, rolled around in a circle, and then landed on the ground, making three loud "thud" sounds.

  "Thud" "thud" "thud", three loud thuds, each one louder than the last, perfectly expressing the hamster's growing indignation at being wronged.

  Jiang Chuan picked up the gift box that had been opened on the table and felt around, but didn't see any signs of "hamster bites". He then lifted the ribbon to examine the edges carefully, but there were no signs of gnawing or hooking. The entire box was open - unless it had been bitten through by a hamster, this kind of lid and box could be completely closed with a tight seal. To open the box and take out what's inside, someone must have done it intentionally.

  The man slightly narrowed his azure eyes.

  At this time, although it was also quite unpleasant, in this circle where you can't see the top and bottom, theoretically still wanting to maintain the principle of peaceful coexistence, Fang Yu saw his reaction and had no bottom line in her heart. She quickly stretched out her hand to grab Jiang Chuan and pulled him back: "Ah, Miss Xu is also worried, it's okay if nothing happens, Jiang Chuan, we——"

  "Miss Xu," said Jiang Chuan, "this kind of box, Ah Fei at home should not be able to open it."

  Fang Yu: "......"

  Xu Qianqian: "......"

  Everyone: "......"

  He actually said it out loud!!

  Everyone present was overjoyed and excited, but no one expected that Lian Fangyu would obviously want to calm things down. This newcomer actually dared to raise doubts - yes, Xu Qianqian was clearly talking nonsense. When the door opened earlier, everyone saw the ring on her hand clearly. If she just wanted to "protect" the ring from being damaged, it seemed unnecessary to go to such extremes?

  "I was the one who opened the box," Xu Qianqian stuttered, "but I saw it gnawing at it and was afraid it would damage the things inside, so I took them out to check..."

  Jiang Chuan heard this, but didn't respond. Instead, he gently picked up the hamster from the dressing table and placed it in his palm. The hamster suddenly burst into a performance, pretending to be on its last breath, opening its mouth and sticking out its tiny tongue as if it was dying. It lay limply in Jiang Chuan's palm, allowing him to lift it up and examine it from all sides before finally settling back into his palm, where it remained lying on its side with its eyes closed.

  Fang Yu rushed over and saw Jian Ran lying weakly in Jiang Chuan's palm, completely believing it to be true with a look of urgency: "Aiya, what happened to this little fatty? It was fine just now, wasn't it?... Now it seems like it's not going to make it——Xu Xiaojie, you didn't use too much force when you caught it, did you? Hamsters are so small, if you hurt it, that wouldn't be good..."

  Xu Qianqian's face turned bright red.

  Jiang Chuan chuckled softly and poked the rounded buttocks of Haozi, who was lying in his palm: "Ah Fei, get up."

  Jian Ran: "......"

  Under Fang Yu's silent gaze, the hamster, who was originally stretching its neck and legs as if it were going to stand on its hind legs, suddenly flipped over and crawled up onto Jiang Chuan's palm. It shook its buttocks in his hand before quickly climbing up his arm with a powerful climbing technique that exceeded the abilities of an ordinary hamster, all the way up to Jiang Chuan's shoulder.

  Jiang Chuan was originally tall.

  And now, he has thoroughly become a small mouse standing on the shoulders of giants, looking down at all living things.

  Stunned and speechless.

  "Miss Xu, first of all, I want to apologize for my pet mouse biting you. As you just saw, a mouse usually doesn't like to bite people under normal circumstances. If next time you could pay a bit more attention to the way you grab it, you won't have such trouble. And if you need to get vaccinated, I'll take full responsibility for the cost."

  He said as he turned his head and glanced at Fang Yu, who immediately understood what he meant: I don't have money, you lend me some.

  In this case, Fang Yu could only endure the pain and nodded silently.

  Right after that, Jiang Chuan continued, "I heard that not long ago was Yuan Zhenyan's mother, Yuan Mei's birthday. I suppose the bracelet you took out was also something he wanted to give his mother as a birthday gift. The bracelet has been 'protected' by you, and when he wakes up, he will surely thank you properly."

  The sound of Jiang's words fell.

  Xu Qianqian's face turned from white to red and then black, the entire dressing room was silent.

  Just then, Jiang Chuan felt that his earlobe seemed to be pinched by something, he "hmm" and subconsciously turned his head around, and was hugged by the hamster who stretched out its body and kissed him on the face with a "smack".