The little puppy didn’t understand what was happening — it only knew that the mom and dad who once loved it now wanted to kill it, and that its older sister was the one who had protected it.
But even so, it had been locked away, only to be taken out recently when its sister rescued it.
Ruan Xingyao heard the puppy whimpering as it asked:
【Am I going to die? Have Dad, Mom, and Sister already decided they don’t want me anymore?】
The little one sounded so pitiful that Ruan Xingyao’s heart ached.
She gently held the puppy in her arms and softly asked the girl, “What’s this little baby’s name?”
The girl replied, “Laicai.”
Such a simple, unpretentious name — just like a college girl would choose.
Ruan Xingyao smiled, gently pinching Laicai’s tiny paw. “That’s a good name — very lucky.”
As she spoke, she was already searching through Laicai’s memories.
Soon, Ruan Xingyao looked back at the girl with a smile and said, “You’re very lucky. Laicai hasn’t been implanted with a camera, and there’s nothing dangerous in its body.”
The girl froze in shock for a few seconds.
Then, after several long moments, she lifted her hand to cover her face and began to sob uncontrollably.
Ever since she had watched Ruan Xingyao’s livestream and learned about that monstrous dog factory in Ming City, countless people had realized they were victims.
When her parents heard the news, their first reaction had been to kill Laicai.
It was only after she knelt before them, banging her head on the floor and begging desperately, that Laicai was spared — barely.
She didn’t even know how she had survived these past days.
Following her parents’ orders, they had locked Laicai in the car shed, while she herself was locked inside the house, forbidden from seeing it.
In forty-degree heat, with no air conditioning — just a dog bowl half-filled with water.
When she finally managed to sneak out to rescue it, even that bowl had been licked dry.
Now, finally hearing Ruan Xingyao’s confirmation that Laicai was safe, the girl could no longer hold back her emotions.
Laicai didn’t understand what was going on; it only knew that its sister was crying miserably.
Struggling in Ruan Xingyao’s arms, it whined, desperate to return to her.
【Sister! What’s wrong? Sister! Don’t cry!】
【Human! Let me go! I want to be with my sister!】
But Ruan Xingyao didn’t release it right away.
Instead, she quietly infused it with a bit of spiritual energy to calm it down.
She was giving the girl time — time to settle her emotions.
Though her tears kept falling, the girl knew this wasn’t the moment to lose control completely.
After a few dozen seconds of crying, she wiped her face and steadied her breathing.
She bowed deeply to Ruan Xingyao and said, “Thank you, Starry.”
Ruan Xingyao smiled. “Looks like you’re planning to keep raising it, huh?”
The girl nodded firmly, promising, “I will! I’ll take good care of it!”
Seeing the sincerity in her eyes, Ruan Xingyao smiled again and handed Laicai over to Yi Wenxue.
“Seventeenth Senior Brother,” she said, “give our little Laicai a bit of good luck.”
Yi Wenxue could only sigh helplessly — but what could he do? He could only spoil her.
Ruan Xingyao then said to the girl, “Promise me — even if one day you or anyone else changes their mind, give it to me instead. Don’t hurt it, okay?”
She trusted this girl, believed that she would keep her word.
But judging from Laicai’s memories, whether the girl’s parents could still treat it kindly as before… that would be a true test of human nature.
The girl understood what Ruan Xingyao meant.
She thought seriously for a few seconds before saying, “Starry, I’ll protect Laicai.”
If her parents could no longer love Laicai like before, she would move out with it — after all, she was financially independent now.
Ruan Xingyao smiled. “Thank you.”
Next came the second visitor — it was ‘Eats Four Eggs a Day.’
He didn’t come alone; his girlfriend was with him.
In his arms was their Bichon puppy, its eyes covered with a black cloth.
“Starry,” he said anxiously, “you must have a way to help our baby, right? Please, help us.”
After connecting to the livestream that day, he had been thinking about it constantly.
He loved his puppy deeply and couldn’t bring himself to do anything cruel.
So, he could only blindfold it — self-deceiving perhaps, but it made him feel that at least this way, the puppy wouldn’t accidentally record anything anymore.
Not long after the livestream, his girlfriend came across a clip of it.
She immediately rushed to his house, insisting they face this together.
After discussing it, they decided that as long as Starry could remove the camera from the puppy’s eyes, they would keep and love it forever.
Ruan Xingyao took the puppy from him and said gently, “Don’t worry, leave it to me. I’ll return your baby to you safe and healthy in a moment.”
She untied the black cloth covering the puppy’s eyes and, without hesitation, extracted the ultra-micro camera from its eye.
Both “Eats Four Eggs a Day” and his girlfriend had still been holding onto a tiny shred of hope — perhaps it was all a hoax, an exaggerated trick to make the Starry seem more powerful.
But now, as they watched Ruan Xingyao take out an actual ultra-micro camera with their own eyes, both of them felt their scalps tingle and a chill race down their spines.
It was all real.
Every bit of it.
Ruan Xingyao handed the tiny camera to Chen Yu for processing.
Yi Wenxue then naturally took the puppy and began to heal it.
Very soon, its eyes were restored, and even the psychological trauma it had suffered from being trained in the dog factory was completely healed.
It became once again a healthy, lively little Bichon puppy.
Ruan Xingyao looked at “Eat Four Eggs a Day” and his girlfriend, and asked her routine question:
“Have you both decided that you’ll keep raising it from now on?”
Both of them nodded firmly and promised Ruan Xingyao, “Streamer Starry, as long as the puppy isn’t in danger, we’ll take care of it forever.”
Ruan Xingyao still reminded them, “Alright, I believe you. But if one day you ever decide you don’t want to keep it anymore, don’t hurt it—just hand it over to me, okay?”
The two nodded again and promised earnestly, “We’ll never hurt it.”
Ruan Xingyao smiled slightly, ready to move on to the next case.
At that moment, “Eat Four Eggs a Day” asked, “Streamer Starry, everyone online is waiting for an update about this. Would you like to start a livestream?”
That way, everyone could see how Ruan Xingyao solved the problem, and it would also calm people’s anxieties.
Ruan Xingyao honestly hadn’t thought about livestreaming.
But after hearing him say that, she realized he had a point — if she started a livestream, not only could she give everyone an explanation, but she could also earn a bit more money.
So, Ruan Xingyao turned to Chen Yu and said, “Chen Yu, help me start the livestream.”
— The end of the Chapter–
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