Peninsula: My pet is my idol

After saying goodbye to Jin Zhiyuan, Tang Xin still had a wide grin on her face.

The muscles in his face looked frozen, and the corners of his mouth never relaxed.

This brief date involved virtually no physical contact. The two didn't even hug or hold hands.

but……

Swearing is cleaner than lies, and eye contact is more intimate than an embrace.

As the two parted, Jin Zhiyuan gave Tang Xin a…

Hair tie.

It carries the scent of a woman's hair and is currently worn on Tang Xin's wrist.

This practice is essentially a declaration of sovereignty by the girl.

It's childish, but beautiful.

Even after returning home, he still happily twirled his wrist, grinning foolishly at the black hair tie.

The little cat, Yuan, perched on his shoulder, shyly pushing his face away in an attempt to distract him.

And the other three...

Zhang Yuanying and An Youzhen had a fight, and at Tang Xin's house, Xiao Zhu Ying and Xiao Gou An were still ignoring each other.

Meanwhile, Xiao Shemin hid inside Tang Xin's clothes, using his body heat to keep warm.

My third winter in Seoul seems to be warmer than the previous two.

……

a few days later.

Tang Xin took a taxi to a villa on the outskirts of Seoul.

A big shot in the exotic pet community, A, has taken in all of the baby pets of the deceased big shot, B.

Why are there only larvae?

Because B's family believes that adult pets that have been raised for a long time should be buried with B, while young pets can be given away.

That family has a very peculiar way of thinking.

Many pets have been adopted one after another, but Tang Xin came to pick up his snake.

And after seeing his own snake...

"Wait a minute, boss! Wasn't it supposed to be a juvenile pet?"

"Oh, it's like this," Boss A explained, "Boss B keeps a lot of pythons and boas, but this is the only snake he keeps. His family thought this adult snake was also a juvenile python, so they sent it to me along with the others. Now the pythons and boas have all been taken by other people in our group. Do you want this one?"

"I can't take this, hyung!" Tang Xin glared and said, "This snake must be two meters long!"

"It's not two meters tall, it's at most one and a half meters," Boss A said casually.

"1.5 meters is still quite long! I'm afraid it would swallow my tiny cat whole if I kept it at home!"

"Huh?" Boss A asked in surprise, "Do you let your snakes roam freely?"

"Uh..." Tang Xin then realized that her way of raising pets was a little different from others, and quickly added, "It's also boxed, but I was just saying."

"There's nothing to worry about. This snake is very docile and easy to keep."

Tang Xin looked at the black snake in the box.

Black pine forest snake.

A large snake, belonging to the Colubridae family and the Pine Snake genus. Its value is in the five figures (RMB).

Some unscrupulous merchants will sell the "black king snake," a species of king snake with a price tag of three or four figures, as the black pine forest snake.

The black pine forest snake that Boss B has is definitely the authentic version with some variations.

It is entirely black, with reflective scales.

People unfamiliar with snakes might be startled at first glance, thinking it's some kind of highly venomous snake.

That's not actually the case; this snake eats meat and is not poisonous.

After packing the black pine forest into a box, Tang Xin, under the hospitality of Boss A, visited the various exotic pets and reptiles kept by the latter.

Tang Xin didn't find lizards, spiders, or anything like that novel, because his acceptance threshold had increased since joining the exotic pet community.

Until Tang Xin saw it with her own eyes...

"Holy crap? A cheetah?"

"Cheetahs are very affectionate; just think of them as larger, more emotionally stable pet cats."

"Holy crap? A tiger?"

"You're so tiny, don't you think you're adorable? Haha, you'll have to be sent to the zoo when you get a little bigger."

"Holy crap... this... a three-meter-long... water! python!"

"Haha, they're just temporarily being kept at my place at the zoo, um... you know what I mean."

Tang Xin: "..."

The exotic pet community is one where the lower limit is average, but the upper limit is extremely high.

The more successful a person is, the more they have an almost obsessive "desire to conquer".

Various ferocious beasts and rare animals are imprisoned in their own viewing cages, which perfectly satisfies these big shots' desire for conquest.

Wild beasts that ordinary people dare not approach are under my control; rare animals that society calls for protection are under my rules.

This sense of detachment—being accompanied by danger and disregarding the rules of real society—is...

Only those who have experienced it know how amazing it is.

Big Shot A received a great deal of emotional value from Tang Xin.

The little snake Min poked its head out from around Tang Xin's neck, its two-finger-sized head resting just on Tang Xin's ear.

"Is that your pet Burmese python?" asked the big shot, surprised.

Tang Xin couldn't lie to this expert on snakes, so he could only nod.

"Well, yours is quite peculiar." Boss A became interested: "Human body temperature is too high for snakes, how come it could stay wrapped around you like that? Can I take a look?"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Shemin quickly hid inside Tang Xin's clothes and did not show herself again.

Tang Xin laughed and said, "Burmese pythons are all very shy and afraid of people, haha."

"Haha, all of us snake keepers are pampered. But yours is quite different from ordinary snakes. You're lucky, Tang Xin." Boss A praised a few times and continued to show Tang Xin around.

During the exchange of snake-raising experiences, Tang Xin deliberately pretended to be a novice scholar and repeatedly asked for advice.

Men of that age, like Boss A, are all "fond of giving advice".

If the other party talks too much, they will stop scrutinizing the abnormality of their blasphemous little snake.

In fact, Tang Xin didn't need to use any of the snake-raising techniques he learned; his own blasphemous snakes were very easy to raise.

He didn't do anything special about raising snakes.

Boss A's driver took Tang Xin home.

This journey to retrieve the snake was a profound experience for him.

As far as he knew, Boss A wasn't actually the most awesome one in the exotic pet community...

What the hell did I join in this group?!

Am I the only working-class person in this group who hasn't achieved financial freedom yet?

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The Shadowland Corner Man, the Stern Father, the Piercer.

This is the name Tang Xin gave to the Shadow Serpent, also as a tribute to Grandpa Miyazaki.

Snakes are not very intelligent, and their beast souls are even more shallow and weak.

The process of refining the soul thread went smoothly.

And this time, the soul thread will connect to...

"A, Miyawaki Sakura; (New character added, will have a special 'Sakura-Yanagi' interaction later)"

"B, Liu Zhimin; (One soul, two bodies, dual connection, relatively complete memory transfer)"

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