Chapter Thirty-Seven

  Jiang Chuan: “......”

  Jian Ran: "......"

  Everyone: "......"

  The hamster perched on the broad shoulders of the tall man gave its master a deep, tender kiss on the cheek. As it withdrew its fluffy head from its master's handsome face, there was an instant of silence in the crowd - then, under everyone's gaze, Jiang Chuan let out a light cough and expressionlessly turned his face away.

  He paused for a moment and casually picked up the hamster on his shoulder and put it into his pocket.

  Everyone: "......"

  Assistant sister A: "... Jiang Chuan's face turned red."

  Assistant Xiao Ge B: "Did you see it too? I thought it was just my eyes playing tricks on me..."

  Assistant sister c: "Oh my god!!!! Jiang Chuan's face is red!!!!!!"

  "Jiang Chuan, what's with the affectionate display with that fat hamster? You're even blushing... blush for nothing! What happened to the Jiang Chuan who was so expressionless when that pretty photographer girl asked for your phone number?! Is he dead?! Frightened, Fang Yu exclaimed, "Quickly put it back in its cage, it's bitten someone and still wants to... do you want to give it a little red flower?!"

  Jiang Chuan raised his hand to rub his ear, which was still a bit itchy from the mouse's pinch earlier. He lazily glanced at Fang Yu and said with a slight opening of his thin lips: "Why shout so loudly? I'm not deaf."

  Fang Yu: "......"

  "Besides, it's not red."

  "Huh?"

  Jiang Chuan: "You're the one who's blushing."

  Fang Yu: "......"

  That lazy and arrogant look of denial about having a red face, compared to the guy who had a flush on his face just now, was worlds apart. For a moment, the three words "反差萌" (reverse difference cute) flashed into the minds of the people present, and there was another tense suffocation. At that moment, everyone suddenly understood why Director Jiang and the producer were so determined to use this newcomer - although he looked taciturn and unapproachable, this newcomer would definitely become popular in the future.

  Having been in the entertainment industry for many years, as an employee of a film and television company, most of the people present had had deep contact with this circle - whether it was overnight fame and then becoming arrogant, or struggling for a long time but still being a small unknown and unsuccessful has-been. They had seen all sorts of stars, each with their own unique style, and yet at this moment, they could each find something they liked in Jiang Chuan's performance.

  "You have no idea how cute he looked when his face turned red just now!"

  "That glance from the corner of your eye is really cool!"

  "What a joke! Wasn't it a serious discussion with someone about the moment when the ring was taken out of the box, and the upright and unyielding image is even more fascinating?!"

  "I like those who are normally quiet and can't utter a fart, but when they say something, it's very sharp."

  This is indeed extremely rare.

  What's even more rare is that from his tone of voice and eyes, you can tell he's not acting.

  Having said what needed to be said and done what needed to be done, Jiang Chuan turned around and walked towards the hamster cage. First, he confirmed that Xiao Hei was still inside, behaving itself. The man let out a sigh of relief, took the hamster out of his pocket and put it back in the cage - watching as it scurried up to the top floor of the little wooden house and settled in. Only then did Jiang Chuan start to bend down and seriously study the loosened cage door, seemingly very puzzled as to why the screws had come loose again when he was certain he had tightened them last time.

  In fact, he didn't know that from the day he tightened the screw, every time he had nothing to do, he would fiddle with it. As the saying goes, "a drop of water can pierce a stone", and over time, even the screws that were originally very tight began to loosen slowly... Zhen Ran rolled around in his quilt, letting his owner study the screw outside, while he himself was quietly excited about successfully stealing a kiss from someone else, his little heart beating uncontrollably.

  Just then, it felt a shadow suddenly enveloping the second floor - immediately afterwards, another thing jumped down from the second floor and rolled into its small nest, being pressed flat, stunned, lifted its paws to push away the little black thing on top of itself: "Get out get out! What are you doing!"

  "I just saw," Xiao Hei's voice was devoid of emotion, "you and Master playing kissy face."

  "... " was so directly exposed, it's also very embarrassing, and he coughed dryly, saying, "What nonsense, you're blind to say that ---"

  Before he could finish speaking, his mouth was covered by a paw with an unfamiliar hamster scent. In the darkness, he only saw that black-bellied creature slightly leaning in towards him: "Are you crazy? No matter how good-looking your master is from a human perspective, he's still a human."

  "What?"

  Xiao Hei let go of his paws and glanced at Jian Ran with a faint smile: "The ball below him is bigger than your whole mouse."

  "What? What?"

  What's under the ball?

  The chubby milk tea blinked its eyes, staring at the black belly in front of it for a while, seemingly taking half a day to react to what this guy was saying. The two hamsters stared at each other silently for a while, and in Xiao Hei's calm mouse eyes, Jian Ran finally got his point - in that instant, he only heard a loud "rumble" in his brain, the whole mouse stunned on the spot, tongue-tied: "... you... you..."

  Xiao Hei: "What's with you?"

  "You scoundrel!!!!!!!!!!"

  Xiao Hei: "Hmph."

  "I am human!!!! Do you understand anything?!"

  Xiao Hei: *silence*

  Jian Ran: "......"

  After a few seconds of silence, the black-bellied rat looked at Jian Ran with a crazy gaze for a while, then shook his head and muttered something like "crazy" and "beyond salvation". He slid down to the next floor to drink water, leaving Jian Ran alone in the wind after shouting "I am human" and being labeled as a "madman".

  ……

  The conversation with Xiao Hei gave Jian Ran some important inspiration.

  For example, after he finally came to his senses and became a hamster, wasn't he a bit too easy-going about the arrangement of fate - he had never even thought of telling some people who could help him that Yuan Jin Yan had accidentally turned into a hamster... Although the matter sounded absurd, it was indeed true.

  And if he can prove himself as "Yuan Jinyan" rather than "Jiang Afei", his future days might be much better.

  The people who used to surround him would reappear around him, and at least he wouldn't have to jump up and down in the cage to get a bite of an apple - Fang Yu, Jiang Chuan, and even his old mother would raise him like a human being, worshiping him like a Buddha (thinking too much) ... To be honest, he had been eyeing Jiang Chuan's soft-looking bed for a long time, and sleeping in the cotton every day was still very lonely. If he had the chance, he also wanted to jump on Jiang Chuan's big pillow.

  To tell trustworthy people that you are Yuan Jinyan.

  Once he had made up his mind, Jianran's thoughts became active, as if he had finally found the goal of his mouse life after becoming a hamster... So in the following time, Jianran thought about how to convey the information "I am Yuan Jianran" all the time, and he didn't remember when Jiang Chuan finished work, when he carried him out of the dressing room with the cage, or when he got home.

  Even healthy dinner time was missed.

  At this moment, in the hamster's mind, one moment it was his own cute self holding a pen and writing on paper with one stroke at a time, and another moment it was himself secretly using Jiang Chuan's computer to tap out a lively melody on the keyboard... actually, using a computer should be faster, Jian Ran thought.

  The more he thought about it, the more excited he became. As a result, when he closed his eyes and decided to sleep until dawn before thinking again, he heard an unknown chicken crowing sound coming from somewhere.

  Don't ask him why there are people raising chickens in the entertainment company's staff building.

  In short, as a hamster who loves eating, drinking, urinating, defecating and sleeping the most, he was surprisingly excited all night in his empty fantasy.

  The next day was the twenty-ninth of the twelfth lunar month.

  It was early in the morning when the doorbell of Jiang Chuan's house rang. The hamster, who had been excited all night and was now struggling to stay awake, poked its head out with two dark eye circles, looking resentful, wondering who was disturbing its peaceful sleep. At the same time, it saw Jiang Chuan walking out of the bedroom with a messy light-colored hairdo, yawning continuously, glancing at the peephole, and then showing an impatient expression as he opened the door.

  "Happy New Year! Good morning! Hot and fragrant tofu flower!"

  Jiang Chuan glanced at the agent's tofu flower in his hand, sniffed the tip of his nose, and slightly narrowed his still sleepy blue eyes. After a few seconds, he seemed to react slowly and stepped aside to let Fang Yu enter. Fang Yu walked straight into the house with various food bags in her hands, sat down at the dinner table, and Jiang Chuan kept his hand on the door handle, turned around, and watched as Fang Yu opened the buns, steamed buns, fried dough sticks, soy milk, and tofu flowers one by one. The aroma of food instantly filled the entire living room.

  Hamsters lying on acrylic boards are drooling.

  Jiang Chuan: "Fang Ge."

  Fang Yu happily replied with a straw inserted into a wonton soup: "Huh?"

  Jiang Chuan: "Are you used to being Yuan Jinyan's nanny?"

  "Yes."

  Jiang Chuan: “......”

  Jian Ran: "......"

  Jiang Chuan looked at Fang Yu with a somewhat appreciative gaze, and frankly acknowledged his nanny. He then turned around and walked into the house like a ghost to wash his face and brush his teeth. While waiting, Fang Yu ate breakfast while taking out her phone and typing away, staring intently at the screen. After a while, Jiang Chuan came out of the house refreshed after his shower, pulled out a chair and sat down, took a bite of a pastry, seemed to think it was too oily, put it down, swallowed the bite in his mouth, and asked: "What brings you here?"

  "Look at you."

  Jiang Chuan raised an eyebrow.

  Fang Yu smiled and said: "I have a flight back to my hometown this afternoon, I'll take the opportunity to give that bracelet to Jianran's mother. After New Year's Day, you stay at home and play with Ah Fei. Then in the afternoon, you come with me to the supermarket to buy some food. During the Chinese New Year, all the vegetable markets, shopping malls, and street vendors are closed here. As an international friend, if you haven't prepared anything, don't starve yourself..."

  "Get to the point."

  "Let me show you something." Fang Yu handed his phone to Jiang Chuan, "Yesterday's incident with Xu Qianqian was reported by Li Gou again."

  Jiang Chuan was a bit curious and leaned over to take a look. At the same time, he heard Fang Yusheng start reading in a tone that suggested he thought Jiang Chuan might not recognize Chinese characters: "Dog Master's Exclusive Scoop - Yesterday afternoon, the props team for 'Republic of China Strange News' had to redo their work, and a group of people rushed off in a flurry. In the afternoon, Director Fang invited everyone to have afternoon tea, and Xu Qianqian said her phone was left in the makeup room, so she went back alone. When she didn't return after half a day, everyone went to look for her, and when they opened the door, they saw Xu Qianqian with one hand grasping Jiang Chuan's hamster, ready to smash it to death, and in her other hand was the bangle that Yuan Jinyan had bought as a gift for his mother - tsk, tsk, tsk, Miss Xu, you're so short on money that even this cheap bangle is worth stealing? No pictures, believe it or not, that's what happened."

  Jiang Chuan: “......”

  Jian Ran: "......"

  "Hahaha, this Li dog is being scolded badly! Early in the morning, a group of Xu Qianqian's fans counterattacked with all sorts of insults... Then Jingyan's fans also reached their climax, a bunch of silly kids below were crying like idiots, saying that this was Jingyan's heirloom and almost got snatched away by that woman - heirloom? Drunk! Hahaha!"

  He walked around in circles inside the cage.

  In my mind, compared to typing "I am Yuan Zhenran, I am Afei, I speak for myself" on the computer, wouldn't it be more effective in highlighting one's identity to type "Fang Yu, you ungrateful and treacherous person, return my villa and my sports car"?