Pet King

“Thank you and Famous for cooperating with us for the program! We’re terribly sorry to have taken up a lot of your time.”

“You’re welcome. You don’t have to mention it,” Zhang Zian said.

“Then we will take our leave first. Once the program’s broadcast schedule has been fixed, we will inform you about it.”

“Okay, see you! Be careful on the road.”

Woof!

The polite words and Famous’s bark could be heard coming from downstairs.

Not knowing what dream she had, Sihwa suddenly woke up. She looked around in a blur only to find herself still in the narrow bathroom.

“Ouch!”

She had maintained the same position for a long time so her neck was a little sore. She massaged her neck and wiped off the saliva from the corner of her mouth.

When her eyes swept to the phone, her mind was still lagging, so she wondered how the phone had made its way there. After a short period of confusion, she remembered that she seemed to have fallen asleep while broadcasting live…

“Wah!”

She picked up the phone, pressed the power button, and immediately let out a plaintive cry. The phone’s battery was completely used up until it automatically shut down by itself.

“Wuuu. How did this happen! I just wanted to take a short nap…” She was deeply regretful.

It had to be noted that it was just past noon, and it was still too early to sleep through the night. How was she going to get past this long day?

When she didn’t have a phone, she would always float on the water and stare at the ceiling of the bathroom, or lean against the window to look at the pedestrians outside, or cautiously look out for Fina’s sneaky attacks. But ever since she got the phone, aside from sleeping, she was always holding onto the phone…

Right! Fina!

“Fi… Fina! Are you there? If you’re there, come upstairs!” she shouted towards the outside. Her voice lacked confidence.

She knew that Fina was definitely there because Fina rarely went out. However, Fina did not often come to the second floor unless she needed to use the toilet, but it rarely required the toilet. Actually, it should be said that those few cats rarely required the toilet, so to bump into them was a matter of luck.

But every time Fina came up, Sihwa always begged it to help her charge the phone, even if it’s only for a few minutes. After all, charge it for five minutes, one’s call can last for two hours…

“Fina! Fina!” she shouted a few times and did not receive a response, so her voice started getting higher and higher, and soon it broke the limit.

The aforementioned limit referred to the limit of the human ear because Sihwa had accidentally discovered a pattern. Sometimes, Sihwa would happily sing while she was playing with her phone, but she might have gotten carried away and sang a little too high. Although Zhang Zian was completely indifferent to her singing, Fina would be mad and reprimand her: “So noisy! Shut up!”

After it happened once or twice, she seemed to have grasped a pattern—when she was singing in a sharp, high-pitched voice, Zhang Zian wasn’t able to hear her, but Fina and the other felines were able to hear her. It was probably because a cat’s hearing was much sharper than humans.

That skill allowed her to avoid Zhang Zian and secretly have Fina charge the phone for her.

She was very proud when she discovered that trick. Who said she was an idiot? She was clearly very smart!

Sure enough, not long after, Fina appeared by the door of the bathroom in anger. It glared at Sihwa. “It is nap time. What crazy stunt are you pulling?”

Sihwa had expected that Fina would be angry, and the consequences of Fina’s anger were very serious. She had already submerged her body under the water in advance, only leaving her mouth out of the water. She carefully said while blowing out bubbles, “Fi… Fina, don’t be angry. I just called you here…”

“You are not allowed to call this queen just because you are too bored!” Fina angrily said, “Do you think that this queen has so much time like you?”

“But… but aren’t you taking a nap?” Sihwa asked sullenly.

“Taking a nap is for the sake of staying alert at night in case an incident happened in this queen’s palace!” Fina glared at her.

Sihwa smiled disapprovingly. “Hehe! Fina, you are telling a joke again. This is just a small, broken shop, what can happen?”

“Hmph! What do you know?” Fina said coldly. “Before you came to the sacred palace, an incident had just happened here at the sacred palace. An evil statue went missing, and it has not been found yet—if this queen was here during that time, I would not allow such a strange thing to happen under the eyes of this queen! It’s an insult to the dignity of this queen!”

“Yi? Yi? Something here has gone missing? Fortunately I was not there at the time, so I won’t have to be treated like a suspect. Hehe!” Sihwa laughed foolishly.

Fina glanced at Sihwa’s fishtail. She was too lazy to respond to her—treating one as a suspect was an insult to the word “suspect.” Where were they going to hide what they stole?

“That… Fina, can you charge the phone for me?” Sihwa stuck out an arm from the water, picked up the phone that had no battery, and tried to hand it to Fina.

“What time is it now? You have already used up the battery? Are you eating the electricity?” Fina said with a sigh. “This queen is not here just to charge the phone for you!”

“Today’s an unexpected situation. I tried playing around with the live broadcast and fell asleep halfway. After I woke up, the battery was all used up…” she said pitifully. “Help me, Fina! This is an emergency!”

“You’re really an idiot!” Fina was speechless.

“It won’t happen again next time. So help me this time, okay?” she continued to softly plead.

Fina knew that if it doesn’t satisfy Sihwa’s request, Sihwa would definitely continue to cry out for it. It would disturb its sleep, and even the other cats would be implicated.

“The next time you dare to use up the battery so early, this queen will try the taste of garlic stewed catfish!” Fina glared at her fiercely, then opened her mouth to receive the phone and leaped outside. She had also deliberately bit Sihwa’s finger.

“It hurts!” Sihwa was rubbing her finger and complaining that it hurt, but she was very happy inside because the phone would return a better phone after 18 minutes.

Fina temporarily went downstairs. It took a short nap before it returned back upstairs. It handed over the phone that was charged up to thirty or forty percent of battery to Sihwa, before it returned to her nap with a peace of mind.

Sihwa happily started up her phone.

“Hm, what should I play now in the afternoon?”

While she was pondering, she heard Zhang Zian, who was at the door of the bathroom, say, “Play, play, play! You only know how to play! When are you going to return the rent you owe me?”

“Cheh! Cheapskate!”

Sihwa’s good mood suddenly vanished.

Zhang Zian walked in and washed his hands under the faucet. He had just performed a series of classic plots in the Dog Warrior film with Famous on the grass, so his hands were all covered in dirt.

“Didn’t you claim to bring in millions of dollars daily by broadcasting live?” Zian said as he washed his hands. “How many fans do you have now? I’ll bet that there’s not more than ten, right?”

“Wu!” Sihwa was poked at her pain spot. She immediately frowned. Why does this guy always say things that others don’t want to hear!

“It’s… it’s still okay I guess. I started broadcasting for the first time today, and there were… there were a hundred fans!” She told a lie, and clearly, there wasn’t even a ghost in the broadcast channel before she fell asleep!