Chapter 61

  This "Meng Meng Hamster Adventure" turned the painting style of "Entertainment Circle Murder Case" into a hamster statue that shocked the hamsters squatting on the edge of the components.

  In his mind, the scene of IM Company and Hua Tong Company's press conference played out like a projector, after which the camera quickly cut back to an hour ago when he and his master were squatting in the guest room listening to the wall corner, saying what they heard Xu Qianqian say next door.

  "Alright, even if the theme song 'Who's Listening' was an opportunity I missed myself, have you ever thought about why no matter what I want, Yuan Jinran always pops up and competes with me? I've known since middle school that there's a person named Jiang Luocheng in the high school department. In college, I followed your footsteps into W University. I liked you first, Jiang Luocheng. Yuan Jinran is a man, but he still has to pop up and compete with me for you."

  ……

  The role in "Mysterious Seed" was only prepared for an Asian, because the character's positioning wasn't clear, so the invitation was sent to both me and Yuan Zhenran - this is a tailor-made role, how many people can walk out of the country and get such a tailor-made role? I really wanted this role, what right does he have to come and compete with me for it?

  ……

  Why does he always have to compete with me for everything?

  When Jiang Luocheng said that he had fallen into a coma, the role of "Mysterious Seed" was almost in your hands, Xu Qianqian's answer was -

  That's because he became a vegetable, serves him right.

  At that time, Xu Qianqian's voice sounded trembling, with a thread of excitement.

  “……………”

  The more I think about it, the colder my heart becomes.

  At this moment, there is only one thought in his mind: Is Xu Qianqian crazy?

  Everyone knows that, given the current overall situation, it is generally very difficult for Asians to get a decent role in Hollywood blockbusters, even if they are just participating - even if the production side of "Mysterious Seed" promises to tailor-make roles for selected actors, but at least from what can be seen, this is just a publicity stunt. In order to cater to the huge market of China and attract box office sales, it uses propaganda phrases such as "the first Chinese person to play an important role in Hollywood", deceiving everyone into buying tickets and witnessing this so-called "historic moment".

  Actually, thinking about it, the entire script of the movie was already written. What kind of existence is worth portraying or remembering in a plot that can be tailored to an actor at any time and inserted into the script?

  It's just a vase or a useless thing with a nice-sounding name.

  With only a 5% chance of helping the actor break into the European and American film circle, the remaining 95% is just a role that will end in nothing but ridicule after making a big fuss. At that time, Jian Ran was willing to take on this script, and it was Fang Yu who said "Anyway, you can go and show your face, take some money and spend it, there's nothing wrong with that" before indicating his willingness to give it a try, he even had some reluctance...

  Such a role has become an indispensable "fragrant rice cake" in Xu Qianqian's eyes.

  Oh, this idea can't be told to others, I'll just think about it calmly and expressionlessly. If Xu Qianqian finds out that he actually doesn't have much feelings for this role, she'll probably reenact her previous anger when she said he shouldn't enter the music industry, scolding him for being disgusting... Who knows, she might even go to the hospital to whip his corpse.

  This woman is really crazy.

  Thinking quietly and solemnly.

  If he wasn't crazy, he couldn't think of any other reason why Xu Qianqian would do such a thing - he did believe that it was something the woman had done on impulse, after all, who knew that he would go to the back door of IM company that day, and... if she deliberately wanted to kill him, he wouldn't be alive now, but Xu Qianqian stopped at this.

  She's probably scared too.

  But afraid of being useless, doing wrong things should be punished - he Yuan Zhenran is not the Holy Father who handles affairs with the idea of "knowing mistakes and correcting them", and that woman has not corrected her mistakes either. Just an hour ago, she was secretly trying to slander him and scold him as "disgusting". Such a person, he can't think of any reason to let her go.

  And how much pain did he endure from being smashed like that, how much blood did he shed while lying under the billboard, how many tears did his mother shed by his bedside, and how much money did his agent and record label lose because of this? Not to mention him personally, ah, becoming a hamster, delayed his pursuit of women for so long. His wife, who was new to the entertainment industry's red lights and green wine, might just run off with some unknown thing, what would happen then? Who would be responsible?

  Above.

  It seems that his plan to end his hamster career should be put on the agenda ahead of schedule.

  It's like this, only today, Hamster Ah Fei finally found a new life goal after the failure of "Jiang Chuan you zao ma actually you raise hamsters is human" which was to: Discuss how hamsters can die peacefully without pain or attachment and not make their owners sad.

  He couldn't wait for Xiao Hei to come and find him to tell him about the feasibility of "Hamster turning into a living person".

  One day, he saw in the news that the foreign singer Xi De had recently stopped all his promotional activities and devoted himself to learning Chinese from scratch at a prestigious university - when he saw this news, Jian Ran's heart almost collapsed.

  Let's not discuss whether this guy is Xiao Hei or not, the key point is how long it will take for this foreign friend to learn Chinese, which is one of the top three most difficult languages in the world. I'm afraid that by the time he masters Chinese, Xu Qianqian will have already walked the red carpet at the Oscars.

  He suddenly realized he had to take action - if you can't be a dragon, then be a worm.

  It turned out to be Yuan Jiren again.

  No big deal, at worst it's just one dead mouse.

  ……

  It wasn't long after visiting Xu Qianqian's villa that one day, Jiang Chuan opened his computer to find that the self-proclaimed hamster from his house, Stoka, had sent him an email again. This time, Mr. Stoka was not there to expose any secrets, but rather to tell Jiang Chuan a strange story.

  Garfield and Odie got lost, found their way to a pet store, and were taken in by the kind-hearted owner... Although they had food and drink, Garfield was still worried, worrying that his owner Jon would miss him and be heartbroken, so he couldn't eat or sleep well... until one day, his owner walked into the pet store, saw cats and dogs that looked just like Garfield and Odie, confirmed it was them, and reunited as a family, taking them back home.

  Jiang Chuan, I heard your hamster died.

  Hamsters all look the same, why don't you go to a pet store and buy another one like Jon Arbuckle did, even if you name it Xiao Hei, I believe it will also get along with you.

  Jiang Chuan was quite perplexed when he first received this email.

  But he quickly reflected and then replied with another email to Mr. Stoka.

  Isn't what you said a joke from the internet? The ending of the story should be Garfield saying: I will never ask why Jon walked into that pet store that day.

  This passage is telling us that sometimes pretending not to know something can bring more happiness.

  What else do you want to express?

  After Jiang Chuan sent this email, he had no idea that on the second day, a certain hamster sat in front of his computer, scolding and slamming its fist with a pen.

  Who the hell taught my wife to go online and watch Douyin videos?!?!

  Can't enjoy some soul chicken soup happily anymore?!

  Can't you let the hamster die in peace?!

  "Tell me, after I die, don't be sad, just go buy another hamster that's the same and play with it, okay?" Such a ridiculous statement was met with a slap in the face. "Some things are better left unknown for happiness." What is this nonsense? Are you telling me to pretend I didn't know that Xu Qianqian slapped me in the face and covered me in blood, and then just pretend to be like a hamster, happily eating, drinking, shitting, sleeping, and living my whole life?!

  The hamster flipped over its triangular white eyes, picked up the pen and came back, and typed a line of words on the computer with a click-clack sound.

  How would you rather your remaining hamster die?

  Send an email.

  As expected, the next day, when the hamster opened the reply email, it saw its owner's concise response, just one word: Get out.

  Jian Ran: "......"

  He is truly sincere and genuinely asked this question with a sense of urgency!!!

  After realizing Jiang Chuan's aversion to the topic, Jian Ran reorganized his language and tried to continue the discussion in a gradual and indirect manner. However, just as he had finally typed out a long passage and was about to send it, including the question "How do you think your remaining hamster would die if you were more accepting?" in the form of a winding mountain road, he discovered that... Jiang Chuan had already blocked him.

  Blocked you.

  He's really ruthless.

  Email communication failed, and for the past two days, he had been sleeping poorly and eating little due to the mixture of anger towards Xu Qianqian and worry about Jiang Chuan in his heart. Even the hair on his back had fallen out in a patch - he almost felt that if he continued to worry like this, he wouldn't need to think about how to die in a way that would be more comfortable and less disturbing for Jiang Chuan, and himself could also rest easy, as this problem was almost going to get a perfect solution that had nothing to do with his personal will.

  Until this day.

  The hamster was crouched in its cage, holding a vegetable ring and looking dejected. Mr. Fang Yu, the agent, arrived - looking at that face which seemed especially happy and silly because it didn't know anything, the hamster silently smashed the vegetable ring against the wall of the cage. The vegetable ring made a small "slap" sound, attracting Mr. Fang's attention. He walked past Jiang Chuan, who was sitting on the sofa reading a book, and came to the front of the hamster's cage. Peering into the cage, under the hamster's cold stare, Mr. Fang raised an eyebrow as if he had discovered something new and said: "Oh, this hamster has a bald spot on its back."

  "Recently, Ah Fei hasn't been in good spirits," Jiang Chuan put down the book in his hand with a sigh. "I don't know what's wrong with him either, I took him to the pet hospital and they couldn't figure it out."

  "Is Xiao Hei no longer lonely?"

  "Hmm." Jiang Chuan thought for a moment, "I don't know."

  "Oh my, you're talking about this fat guy again. At first, when there was one less hamster in the cage, even I, as the agent, felt a bit annoyed," Fang Yu opened the cage and poked at the face of the milk tea-colored hamster inside, then suddenly stopped and smiled, "Every time I see that only one gerbil is left in this cage, at first it feels like something's missing, but later on... hmm, I don't know when it started, but after seeing it so many times, I just got used to it."

  Jiang Chuan didn't respond, but instead turned his head and thoughtfully looked at the hamster cage behind him, then slowly said "oh".

  But what he didn't know was that this simple conversation with Agent Mr. had given Jian Ran a great inspiration.

  He thought he had suddenly found a perfect solution to how to die in peace and without guilt, which would not make Jiang Chuan sad.

  ……

  The next day, after Jiang Chuan let the hamster out for some fresh air, it played on its own on the table for a while, ate and drank to its heart's content, rubbed its round belly, then jumped down from the table and ran to the bottom of a cabinet in a corner. It slept soundly, sprawled out in all directions, until it heard Jiang Chuan calling its name outside, rummaging through boxes and moving all the furniture he could move to find it. The hamster poked out its head, saw the man frowning slightly with a look of anxiety, felt a pang of sympathy, and finally couldn't resist crawling out from under the cabinet and running over to hug Jiang Chuan's ankle.

  This time, Jian Ran disappeared for half a day.

  On the third day, after Jiang Chuan severely warned the hamster not to run around, Jianran still followed yesterday's routine and ate his fill, then took advantage of Jiang Chuan's inattention and hesitated for a moment before slipping out of the door and into the corridor. He hid in Jiang Chuan's shoes from daytime until the early hours of the next morning - during which he heard Jiang Chuan searching for him inside, with the sounds of searching continuing intermittently from evening to 3 am before finally stopping.

  As dawn broke, Jianran poked his head out of Jiang Chuan's shoes, rolled back into his cage, and lay down in the food bowl to eat something, then fell asleep in a most conspicuous place.

  This time, Jian Ran disappeared for a whole day.

  Jiang Chuan was extremely angry, and directly locked the hamster's cage door. He made a phone call to Fang Yu to inform the agent that the hamster had been found, and then scolded the innocent agent for the hamster's recent unreliable disappearance behavior. After that, he locked the hamster in its cage for two days as punishment.

  On the fifth day of his plan, Jiang Chuan released it from its cage.

  This time, Jianran ran even further, and then relied on the food stuffed in his body to support himself for two days in the shadow of the safe passage staircase before returning home. When he returned home, Jiangchuan's terrifying expression told the hamster that if it weren't for its small size, Jiangchuan might have slapped it by now... Jianran never believed what people said about how when someone is angry to the extreme, their eyes emit a green glow as if they could spit fire, but at that moment, he saw Jiangchuan and he believed.

  He knew Jiang Chuan was very troubled.

  Sometimes, when such troubles are perfectly conveyed to the hamster, he also becomes troubled - sometimes even troubled to the point of producing "Xu Qianqian whatever, it's fine to just quietly spend the short life of this hamster for three or five years" - but very quickly, when he wakes up and realizes what he is doing, he quickly abandons this idea that only a loser would have.

  He knew he had to be ruthless.

  Then, after being locked up and closed, Jian Ran tried to disappear for half a day again - this time, he didn't go far, but instead squatted under the closet where he first hid, watching Jiang Chuan. Soon, he found that compared to his first disappearance for half a day, Jiang Chuan seemed much calmer this time, although he still called Fang Yu to tell him to come and find the hamster. However, he was no longer exposing his emotions on his face like before. On the phone, Fang Yu also said reassuringly, "It's only been half a day, didn't it used to be two or three days? Don't worry, it's fine."

  Jiang Chuan hung up the phone, turned his head, and saw the hamster lying behind him. He fell silent for a moment, then stretched out his hand - the hamster jumped from the back of the sofa to his palm, holding his face with both paws, and rubbed its fluffy head against his cheek.

  He heard the man softly sighing and rubbing his eyebrows with a tired hand: "Ah Fei, don't run around anymore."

  Jian Ran: "......"

  Sorry.

  But it's just like this, and it's very good.

  ……

  It's like boiling a frog in warm water.

  It quietly consumed Jiang Chuan's patience, disappearing at irregular intervals and then reappearing silently - the longest time it was gone for five days. At first, Jiang Chuan searched everywhere for it, but he also had his own work to attend to, notifications to rush through, scripts to read, and promotional activities for "Republic of China Strange Record" that he couldn't miss. Every day, the man could only spare a short time after returning home to search for the hamster with a flashlight in the house, corridors, and courtyard.

  On the sixth day, when it appeared calmly, it saw Jiang Chuan let out a sigh of relief and brought a large pile of things for it to eat. However, this time, he did not get angry again, nor did he lock it up, but instead sat there staring at the hamster for a while, reached out his hand to touch its back, and then turned around without saying anything to do his own thing.

  At this moment, he suddenly realized that the opportunity he had been waiting for had finally arrived.

  He spent the whole afternoon with the man, and the cat would squat on Jiang's leg as he read documents; when Jiang stood up to stretch his legs, it would jump into his pocket; even when Jiang went to take a bath, it followed him from the gap in the door and got soaked - in short, wherever Jiang went, the cat followed, and couldn't be shooed away.

  At dawn, the hamster fell asleep with its owner.

  When the people around him made a gentle, even snoring sound, the hamster squatting beside his head opened its eyes - it had jumped down from the pillow and onto the quilt, crouching in front of its master who was already fast asleep. It gazed at him for a long time, as if trying to carve that face into its brain. Finally, as if having made up its mind, the hamster stretched out its small paws and touched the warm tip of the man's nose, then withdrew its paws, turned around, and resolutely jumped off the bed.

  ……

  I knew this was the last time.

  As the grand finale of "Hamster Ah Fei's Footprints".

  At this moment, when he was consciously aware that he was about to take action, he suddenly became bewildered: he didn't know what method he should use to leave.

  At first, he thought of jumping off the building, this twenty-something-story high-rise apartment flying down, not smashing into a meat pie would be unforgivable to the earth's gravity. However, when he stood by the window and looked down, he suddenly heard the sound of the man in the room turning over in his sleep, and he hesitated again: after he disappeared, Jiang Chuan would always search every corner with a flashlight, it was hard for him to imagine what the man would think when he saw this blurry mass of blood and flesh under their window.

  After all, everything he has done in these days is just to make Jiang Chuan feel that Ah Fei is only missing and not dead.

  It's just like Fang Yu said, "Habit" is a terrible thing - with hope in his heart, waiting for Ah Fei to come home day after day, over time, the man will eventually forget about this matter - and this whole process doesn't even involve much pain. The pace of life is so fast, and celebrities' work is so busy, it won't take a month before he'll forget about the hamster.

  But before he forgot, Ah Fei was still alive in his heart.

  Yes, in my humble opinion, there probably isn't a better plan than this one.

  “……”

  The hamster silently withdrew his paws, turned around and jumped down from the window. When he squeezed out of the gap under the door and came to the dark corridor, he found that at this time the corridor was illuminated by the bright moonlight and the starry sky, making it as bright as daytime. It was midsummer, with a warm breeze carrying the fragrance of night-blooming flowers blowing across the corridor. Standing quietly on the corridor for a while, thinking "Is this not the most beautiful night to think about suicide?", he suddenly heard the croaking of frogs from the pond downstairs.

  The hamster squatting in the corridor trembled with the sudden sound, looked around to confirm that there was nothing, and then let out a sigh of relief, muttering to himself: Where did this dead frog come from.

  But very quickly, suddenly realized, this seems to be a hint ——

  He thought of that day in Xu Qianqian's villa, the dream he had dreamed.

  He hid, hiding under the lotus leaf, although anxious to jump out and tell Jiang Chuan that he was here, but in his dream, he couldn't move, could only watch cruelly as Jiang Chuan searched for him everywhere - just like what he had been doing these days, to make Jiang Chuan adapt to his so-called escape game of disappearance.

  In the dream, Xiu Qianqian tells Jiang Chuan that Ah Fei will not come back - just like at this time Zhen Ran is about to embark on a new journey, in order to avenge Xiu Qianqian's murder and risk abandoning his life as a hamster;

  In his dream, he seemed to be quietly sinking into the water on a starry night like this...

  There is a pond downstairs.

  As long as it sinks into the pool, unless Jiang Chuan drains all the water in the pool, he will never find the body of "Hamster Afei".

  The process of rushing towards death does not allow for any hesitation.

  After crawling down tens of floors of stairs to the poolside, when it lies down by the pool, the hamster can even see the fish in the pool, which seem to never sleep or rest, swimming up and gathering around, curiously blowing bubbles, staring at the fluffy face lying by the pool through the water surface - they gather around as if expecting it to throw some bread crumbs like humans do to fill their bellies.

  However, it was obvious that these poor fish did not expect that after hearing the "splash" and " splash" of two consecutive water sounds, this fluffy fool would throw himself down like this.

  Everything in the dream seemed to be replayed again, the gurgling sound of bubbles by my ear, strings of small bubbles emerging from my nose, ears and mouth - oh, the only difference was that I found with a start of surprise that the summer pool water could also be so cold, and this icy degree seemed even more vivid than that scene in the dream.

  He opened his eyes and gazed at the sleep that was drifting further and further away from him, shattering the moonlight reflected on its surface.

  When his whole body was cold and suffocating with a sense of oppression, he felt that a certain part of his fingertips was warm, which made that part particularly noticeable.

  He thought for a moment, then silently said "oh" in his heart, and only then did he remember that the second toe of his right paw was the one he had touched Jiang Chuan's nose with earlier.

  In the end, he left with the body temperature on Jiang Chuan's body.

  Really good.

  Accidentally, I became more confident about being able to wake up as a human again.