The unattainable beauty was driven to depravity and madness by a wicked seed.

"……may be."

"Yes, that's it. Why did you say 'maybe'—" Shen Qinghuai's eyelids twitched before he could finish speaking, "Is there someone else in the family?"

"without."

What was that sound just now?

"I'm humming."

"It's not you."

"It's me."

Shen Qinghuai lowered his long eyelashes slightly, and when he saw Lu Sui poking his chest, he laughed and said, "Then let me hear Xiao Bao hum a couple more times."

"..." Lu Sui paused her poking motion. "I don't want to hum."

After he finished speaking, he didn't want to hum anymore, but Shen Qinghuai heard more humming sounds. He looked up and saw a black patch crawling out of the corner where Lu Sui had been playing hide-and-seek yesterday.

"Xiao Bao, what's that?"

Lu Sui looked back and said, "It's probably a puppy."

"Where did it come from?"

Lu Sui shook his head repeatedly. "I don't know, it was here when I woke up."

Shen Qinghuai hummed in agreement and said with certainty, "Xiaobao went out this morning. You found it."

"..."

Shen Qinghuai carried Lu Sui over and asked, "What did Xiaobao do this morning?"

"Supermarket, to buy things."

"What did you buy?"

"Fruit, and the candy you like."

"Anything else?"

"……without."

Shen Qinghuai placed Lu Sui on the opposite sofa, then went over and picked up the puppy. The puppy was entirely black, with black paw pads and a black tongue. Its belly was round and bulging, and there was still milk stuck to its mouth. It was too small, probably only about twenty days old.

Should I feed Xiaobao warm or cold milk?

Lu Sui looked away, "...I didn't feed it, it drank it by itself."

"That puppy is so clever! Does it drink warm or cold milk?"

"It's hot."

"How much did you drink?"

"Forty milliliters."

"Remembering it so clearly, could it be that Xiao Bao was observing it the whole time?"

"Absolutely not."

Shen Qinghuai smiled as he went to the bathroom, put on gloves, and used toilet paper to help the puppy urinate and defecate. He dried it off, put it in a cardboard box, and collected all the trash. He then took some alcohol to disinfect the corner of the sofa, praising Lu Sui for his kindness and skill throughout. Lu Sui remained silent. After finishing, Shen Qinghuai squatted down in front of Lu Sui and pinched his fingers, asking, "Xiao Bao, do you want to have a dog?"

"I don't want to." Lu Sui glanced at the cardboard box and said, "It's so dirty, throw it out."

"It won't survive if we throw it out. We'll take it to get checked out in a bit. If Xiao Bao doesn't like it, we can give it to someone else or take it home to Mom. We're just missing a guard dog at home."

Less than half an hour later, Shen Qinghuai took Lu Sui to the vet. The puppy was fine and healthy. He bought some goat milk powder, puppy food, feeding tubes, and diaper pads.

After returning from eating out, Shen Qinghuai fed the puppy. After feeding it, he used a cotton swab to stimulate it to urinate and defecate in circular motions. After cleaning it up and putting it back in its box, Lu Sui squatted down to watch while he went to wash his hands. When he saw Shen Qinghuai coming over, he turned half a circle to the left, turning his back to him.

Shen Qinghuai wanted to laugh, "Xiao Bao can watch if he wants to."

"In no mood."

Lu Sui started refuting her point with a single sentence.

Shen Qinghuai didn't understand what he was thinking. He tackled him to the ground, thought for a moment, and then said softly, "You said before that if I kept a cat, you would strangle it."

Seeing Lu Sui freeze, Shen Qinghuai knew he had touched on a crucial point and continued, "Now you've gone and brought the dog back yourself. Do you think I'd laugh at you?"

"……Um."

"No, I'll just think Xiao Bao is amazing. Where did you find him?"

"PARKING LOT."

"This dog was in the parking lot, and so many people came and went without picking it up, but Xiao Bao brought it back. Even though he thought it was dirty and troublesome, he still nursed it. He's really amazing."

"I said that before..."

"The past is the past, and the present is the present; they can't be confused. Besides, Xiao Bao was probably just saying things in anger back then. I know you're soft-hearted." Shen Qinghuai shook Lu Sui. "Do you want to touch it?"

"No, it poops."

"It's already been wiped clean."

"No."

"Its little paws are so cute to squeeze. Did you see what color they are?"

"Black, all black."

"Hmm, this kind of dog is called a Five Black Dog. Xiao Bao, give it a name."

Lu Sui asked, "Can you remember it?"

"Of course it can. We'll know when we call it a few more times."

When Lu Sui asked what the name was, Shen Qinghuai told him to decide. He shook his head and said he didn't know. In the end, Shen Qinghuai took him to pet the dog. The dog's little body was warm and didn't smell like a dog, only like milk. It had been whimpering for a while before stopping, but now that it saw someone coming, it started whimpering again.

"Is it wound up?"

"It's not that it's wound up; it's because it's too small, just like a baby who only feels safe when held by its mother."

After Shen Qinghuai finished speaking, the puppy became very quiet. He added, "You see, it smells a familiar scent now, so it's stopped barking."

"familiar?"

"Because you brought it home and even fed it milk."

"You fed it too."

"Our home is another unfamiliar environment for it, and you were the first person to feed it milk, so it treats you as its mother."

Upon hearing this, Lu Sui handed the dog to Shen Qinghuai, saying, "I don't want to be a mother."

"Then I'll take it?"

"You are not a dog."

"It's just a name... What should I do? It seems like it only lets you hug it."

"I didn't hug him."

"It seems to only allow you to touch it."

Lu Sui stood up to wash her hands, saying as she went, "I hate it."

The nameless dog never got a pat from Lu Sui. It ate its fill, slept, and whimpered when it woke up. It still needed to be fed and urinated. Shen Qinghuai was afraid of disturbing Lu Sui's sleep, so he suggested going to the living room. Lu Sui wouldn't let Shen Qinghuai leave. With red eyes, he said that Shen Qinghuai had a puppy and didn't want him anymore. He wanted to throw the puppy back to where he found it today.

Something seemed off about him, so Shen Qinghuai kissed Lu Sui's forehead and realized he had a fever. He asked him what he had been doing all day.

Lu Sui said the dog had gotten his clothes dirty, and he was afraid the dog would climb to another place and fall to its death, so he didn't dry his body much after taking a shower and came out without drying his hair. The dog was in the corner of the sofa, and the air conditioner was blowing directly on him, making him very cold. The dog was climbing everywhere, so Lu Sui pulled it back and went to the bathroom to wash his hands, but the dog was not well-behaved at all, and Lu Sui washed his hands more than a dozen times.

Shen Qinghuai gently touched Lu Sui's face, fed him his medicine, turned up the air conditioning temperature in the room a little, covered him with a summer blanket, and sat him on the soft cushion on the floor, pulling the box containing the puppy to his side.

I fed the dog twice, each time about 20-30 milliliters, not too much, but even so I still had to help it urinate and defecate. Lu Sui wouldn't get down, so I could only quickly help it and then put it in a plastic bag. Just as I was about to pick Lu Sui up and move it to the side, Lu Sui cried and said it smelled so bad and that it was going to die from the stench.

Shen Qinghuai coaxed Lu Sui to sit on the bed first, while he packed up all his things and took the dog out. He sealed the box, leaving only a small opening, and ignored the dog's whining. He went back to the bedroom, sprayed air freshener, disinfected, washed his hands, and then came back to hug Lu Sui and lie down.

"Why are you so good to it?" Lu Sui asked, sobbing, staring intently at Shen Qinghuai.

Shen Qinghuai couldn't bear to see Lu Sui so aggrieved, and his own eyes reddened. "Because you were the one who picked him up, you'd be heartbroken if he died,"

"Don't be sad."

"Okay, don't be sad. I've already thrown it out. Now I'll just hug you."

I don't like dogs.

"If I don't like it, I won't keep it. I'll take it with me when I leave tomorrow and give it to someone else."

"Dogs are so annoying. I'm not a mom, I'm a guy."

Shen Qinghuai wiped away Lu Sui's tears, "Yes, our Xiaobao is a boy."

"How do you know?" Lu Sui felt his words were a little out of control, but he couldn't quite put his finger on why.

"Of course I know."

"How do you know?"

"Because I..." Shen Qinghuai was momentarily speechless. He looked at the pitiful-looking Lu Sui and asked in a low voice, "Does Xiao Bao really want to know why?"

"Um."

"Then I'll demonstrate it for you, okay?"

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How will it be demonstrated...?

It's already rated 9.1, so happy! ♡