Chapter 13
Wednesday.
The sun outside the window was still bright and beautiful.
Ye Qingyu, still unaware of what the day would hold, got up and went to work in a cheerful mood.
She stepped over the dark red bricks at the mouth of the alley and wound her way through the lane.
“No. 108, Fluffy Road.”
She murmured the words, finding a certain cuteness in the company’s address.
Fluffy Road was quite tranquil and peaceful in the early morning. It must have been washed by a spring rain last night, as the blue-green tiles all around were still damp, with an occasional drip-drip sound.
Ye Qingyu couldn’t help but think of the fine spring rain from her interview a few days ago.
Oh, right, I also ran into a large black dog in the alley that day…
She hadn’t seen it these past two days at work.
The moment the thought flashed through her mind, Ye Qingyu’s gaze suddenly sharpened—
At the corner ahead of the alley, a powerfully built, large black dog shot past, leaving behind an almost illusory afterimage.
A moment later, a small, beige bird flew past the same spot, chirping as if it were cursing.
…
Ye Qingyu sat down at her desk, and Gu Yue greeted her enthusiastically, “Morning, Ye Qingyu.”
“Good morning.”
Ye Qingyu paused, then couldn’t help but ask, “Gu Yue, have you seen a large black dog around here?”
Gu Yue glanced at Jin Can, her meaning clear. “Nope, only golden doggies around here.”
Jin Can’s ears twitched.
“Is that so.” Ye Qingyu didn’t press further. She turned on her computer and began a new day of slacking off.
Occasionally, she couldn’t help but glance toward the entrance of the work area.
Why hasn’t Boss Pei come to work yet today?
Ten minutes later, she got up to get water from the dispenser and finally heard a rustling sound from the doorway.
Her hands paused, and she immediately looked up.
The door was pushed open, but the person who appeared in Ye Qingyu’s line of sight was not the beautiful boss with long, reddish-brown curls and glistening peach blossom eyes that she had expected.
“You’re Ye Qingyu?”
A young woman with black hair walked into the work area. She approached her unhurriedly, her voice cool and distant.
Her facial features were deep-set, her looks severe and extremely aggressive. A pair of rare, jade-green eyes glinted with an incomparably sharp light.
Being watched by her was like being targeted by a wild beast, sending a chill through her entire body.
Ye Qingyu didn’t know when she had provoked this person, and that predatory gaze made her heart tighten.
But she showed no fear on her face, her dark eyes meeting the hostile gaze calmly.
Just as she was about to speak, something terrible happened in the next second—
A fluffy, beige bird’s head suddenly popped out of the black-haired woman’s jacket pocket.
“Jiu-ji.”
The crisp birdsong was clearly very cute, but when it hit Ye Qingyu’s eardrums, it made her breath hitch violently. She felt dizzy, blood rushing to her head.
Her vision went blank, leaving only that ball of beige fluff.
I must have committed heinous crimes against birds in my past life. Otherwise, why am I always so deathly afraid of them?
Her legs went weak. She stumbled back two steps in a daze.
But what was even more terrifying was that the little bird then flapped out of the woman’s pocket, beating its fluffy wings and flying straight toward her with a “jiu-jiu”—
“Don’t—”
Seeing the little bird get closer and closer, Ye Qingyu felt a bone-deep terror surge through her. As blood rushed through her limbs, her vision instantly went black.
With a soft thud, the human collapsed limply onto the floor.
“…” The black-haired woman, who had been trying hard to look fierce, froze, her pupils constricting.
The little bird landed on the back of the fallen human, chirping and stumbling, “Help, she’s… she’s dead?”
“Huh?!”
The small animals, stunned in their seats, finally snapped back to reality and scrambled from their desks to Ye Qingyu’s side.
“Oh no, oh no, what happened!”
“Why did she suddenly collapse?”
“Quick, send her to the hospital!”
For a moment, the work area was in a state of utter chaos.
“I’ll carry her to the hospital.” Wu Shu, realizing things were bad, transformed into a powerfully built black panther. She opened her mouth, intending to pick Ye Qingyu up, but found it difficult.
She shook her head. “Quick, get her onto my back!”
Gu Yue transformed into a pelican, her large pink beak opening and closing, eager to try. “I’ll clamp her on!”
She flapped her wings, her large beak about to clamp onto the waist of the fallen human, but her beak was held shut. “I told you, if you’re not eating it, don’t clamp it!”
In the end, the human was lifted onto the black panther’s back by everyone’s combined effort. The beige fluffball plopped down on top of Ye Qingyu’s head and, like a helmsman, shouted:
“Let’s go, a life is at stake, jiu!”
Fainting from shock is usually a brief affair. Three minutes after collapsing, Ye Qingyu groggily regained a faint bit of consciousness.
She vaguely felt her body being pulled and arranged in a messy fashion, lifted up and put down, finally landing on a strangely shaped, smooth fur sofa.
Her head was tossed back and forth in the process, and the little bit of clarity she had managed to regain was shaken away.
She bit her lip, trying hard to snatch a sliver of clarity from the spinning dizziness, but then she suddenly heard a “ji-ji-jiu-jiu” birdsong from above her head, accompanied by the warm weight of a fluffball…
Ye Qingyu’s heart stopped, and her blood rushed—
This time, she had fainted completely.
Pei the Red Panda, who loved to sleep in on rainy days, walked into the work area with misty eyes, yawning slowly, only to be met with this scene—
Her precious human, eyes squeezed shut, was draped over the black panther’s back, jostling with the panther’s every step, looking as if she might fall off at any moment.
And on top of her head, a beige fluffball was chirping out commands.
“No time to explain, I’m taking her to the hospital first…”
The black panther glanced at Pei Rong and, carrying Ye Qingyu, was about to rush out of the work area.
Pei Rong’s breath caught. With lightning speed, she grabbed the black panther’s long tail. “Get back here!”
…
Luo Bian’s tricycle shot out of the small building’s courtyard.
Everyone was now sitting in a circle in the back, with the unconscious human lying on a large dog bed in the center.
The dog bed was Jin Can’s contribution. She had urgently fetched it from the break room, and it served perfectly as a temporary mattress for Ye Qingyu.
Pei Rong sat by the bed, her brows slightly lowered, her peach blossom eyes a little misty.
She leaned over and gently smoothed the young woman’s messy hair, periodically checking Ye Qingyu’s breathing and feeling for a pulse on her wrist, repeatedly confirming that she was still alive.
The human I fell for at first sight among a crowd, she absolutely cannot have anything happen to her.
With this thought, she couldn’t help but look up and urge anxiously, “Faster.”
Luo Bian drove the tricycle so fast the tires were about to spark. “I’m driving, don’t you worry!”
Five minutes later, she flicked her hair and confidently brought the vehicle to a stop. “Here we are.”
Jin Can looked up, her puppy-dog eyes wide. “Isn’t this the pet hospital I used to live at?”
Gu Yue also said, “Yeah, yeah.”
Last time she had tried to clamp the neighbor’s goose, she had been fiercely pecked in return and had ended up lying in this hospital for a week.
“Oops.” Luo Bian immediately turned the steering wheel. “I drove to the hospital we usually go to out of habit.”
Pei Rong’s lips parted slightly, unconsciously revealing the tips of her sharp canines.
“I hear that spicy mantis shrimp dipped in wasabi is delicious.”
This time, Luo Bian really drove the tricycle until sparks flew.
They finally arrived at the nearest top-tier human hospital. Ye Qingyu was taken to the emergency room.
The staff member handling the admission asked, “Where are her documents?”
Everyone froze for a moment.
Jin Can took out the little dog license she always carried from the inner pocket of her jacket and handed it to the staff member with both hands, reluctant to part with it. “Excuse me, can this be used?”
The dog license still had her former master’s name on it, which was why she had always treasured it so carefully.
The staff member took it and saw that it was a license for a Golden Retriever. She couldn’t help but give Jin Can a complicated look.
This young lady is quite cute, but why does it seem like there’s something wrong with her intelligence?
She cleared her throat and said, “I need the patient’s ID card or medical card. If you don’t have it, may I ask where the patient’s family is?”
“I am,” Pei Rong said, her peach blossom eyes shining as she looked at the staff member seriously. “Can I handle the procedures on her behalf?”
“Yes, you can. Please fill out this form.”
The staff member looked at Pei Rong, thinking that this beautiful woman didn’t look like the patient.
She pointed to the “Relationship to Patient” column and said to Pei Rong, “What are you to her? Fill it in here.”
Pei the Red Panda held the pen and, without a second thought, wrote two fluid characters:
Master.
The staff member’s eyelid twitched.
