Chapter 9
After carrying back more than a dozen boxes in a row, Xu Xiaozhi sat on the carpet in the living room of her room and adjusted the live stream camera angle to face herself directly.
【Caught off guard!】
【Oh oh oh, so awesome! Ape roar, possessed by Tarzan!】
【The little streamer’s looks totally hit my cuteness spot!】
The second viewer to enter the live stream today, a netizen nicknamed “I’m a Rogue,” was crying in front of the screen.
He just knew it!
With his skill at judging people by their voice, the little streamer had to look like a fresh lotus emerging from clear water.
Her long black hair was casually tied up, stray strands tucked behind her ears. Her slender face was fair and delicate, and under her elegant brows, her eyes were clear and bright like a sunny autumn sky.
She wore the simplest white T-shirt. Her graceful, long neck revealed prominent collarbones, and her arms were slender.
Ah ah ah, he adored her so much. He loved the little streamer’s face.
He quickly replaced his banned account with a new one and registered as 【Crazy for Xiaozhi, Mad for Xiaozhi, Banging Head Against the Wall for Xiaozhi!】
“Cough, don’t let the comments get too crazy!” Xu Xiaozhi’s cheeks flushed red as she hugged a box. “Today I’m doing a non-traditional kind of unboxing for everyone.”
【What’s unboxing?】
“Um, unboxing is when you show everyone something you bought, but before you open it, no one knows what’s inside the box.” She quickly sliced open the delivery box.
“This is the skeleton of a hamster cage for Doudou and Meimei, made of solid wood, custom-sized: two meters long, one meter wide, one meter high, with glass all around so you can see the hamsters inside.” Xu Xiaozhi assembled the cage frame and stood it on the floor.
“Doudou and Meimei?” she replied to the comments, “I’ll introduce the whole family later. For now, Doudou and Meimei are in a simple hamster cage.”
【Aren’t hamsters usually solitary? Can they live together?】
“Of course not. The cage has clips so you can install a glass divider in the middle.” Xu Xiaozhi searched inside the delivery box. “Here it is!”
Eight thick glass panels of different sizes were installed one by one onto the hamster cage. The triangular roof was made up of two glass pieces, one of which could be lifted to make it easier for her to take care of the hamsters.
“Let’s open the second package,” Xu Xiaozhi sat back down. “Let me see… This big box contains hamster bedding: summer materials like corn husks, wood chips, poplar sawdust, cork pellets, Timothy hay, and coconut fiber bedding.”
【So many kinds.】
“This package…” She arranged the bedding bags neatly and continued opening the next one. “Oh, it’s the hamsters’ little houses.”
【What? They even have their own little houses!】
【Isn’t it enough to have a place where they can dig?】
The viewers watched as Xu Xiaozhi pulled out one, two, three—countless houses.
“These are ceramic, like mushroom houses, cloud-shaped, flower-shaped, and little cactus-shaped houses,” she showed them one by one in front of the camera, the colorful little houses delicate and exquisite.
“There are also wooden ones, with two floors, ladders inside, decorated with bark on the outside to mimic real treehouses.”
【Oh my, how can there be so many things!】
【So many houses, can they even live in all of them?】
【I want to shrink down and live inside too!】
“This is just the beginning. There are still many hamster toys!”
【What? Toys too? Streamer, can you please send one to me as a pet?】
【Leave it to me upstairs!】
Various hideouts, swings, tunnels, mazes, balls, running wheels, hammocks, and ladders were unpacked by Xu Xiaozhi, along with many ceramic food bowls and automatic feeders, all displayed clearly before the camera.
【So convenient, such good quality! With all the technology in the stars, they should easily develop stuff like this!】
【Hamster aliens can shapeshift, who even needs these things?】
【To be honest, hamster aliens really do need them!】
He Shu, a hamster alien, watched the live stream carefully, afraid to miss a single moment. Although they could shapeshift, their innate nature still made them love digging and hoarding food.
But the reality was harsh—they had never imagined that their natural instincts could be satisfied in such a way.
If they could replicate the exact same products, their small, just-started, slow business factory at home…
He Shu’s heart surged as he nervously dialed his uncle’s phone. “Uncle, the Star Network live stream room number is XX12138. I think our factory is about to get flooded with orders!”
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“Meow!”
“Tch, so noisy! Are you going to let me sleep or not!”
【Who, who is speaking?!】
【That deep voice, OMG!】
【Wait, why can I understand it?!】
The viewers saw a furry ball emerging from the room behind Xu Xiaozhi, trembling as it slowly walked toward her.
In their minds, the little figures first cupped their faces with both hands, gazing affectionately at the little kitten, then suddenly jolted awake in shock.
【Wait, did I just imagine that?】
【No, that hoarse, and cold voice has pierced my heart—I definitely did not mishear!】
Miaomiao and Chouba were still playing downstairs. Xu Xiaozhi thought she had heard wrong because the soft meowing was so quiet. She turned around with joy on her face. “Ah, Beishan, how did you get down here?”
The bedside table was still quite high for the little kitten, and she was a bit worried that the kitten might have fallen somewhere.
“Heh, what’s difficult for me?” Beishan said, as if it was nothing—though the back of his head still throbbed a little, this minor injury was nothing to fear.
“Beishan?” Xu Xiaozhi immediately reacted.
“Woman, who gave you the right to name me without asking?” His voice deliberately rose at the end with a bubbly tone.
At the same time, seeing that she had noticed him, his steps toward her slowed down.
To Xu Xiaozhi, these words sounded like “meow… meow meow… meow meow meow.”
She didn’t expect that the little kitten she found would be so expressive.
Seeing the little kitten had already reached the carpet but stopped walking, Xu Xiaozhi stretched out her arms and pulled the kitten into a hug.
“What are you doing, what are you doing? Kidnapping a citizen cat!” Beishan meowed in a deep mature male voice, but his words always sounded so cheesy.
【To be honest, just hearing Beishan’s voice made me feel fine, but then I listened to what he said and I deflated again!】
【Shouldn’t the real question be why we can understand what Beishan is saying???】
The comment section exploded like a skyscraper suddenly rising, for a moment, Xu Xiaozhi’s live stream heat almost became the top in the whole forum.
“Woman, I know you covet my good looks, but this—”
The little cat kept meowing non-stop. Xu Xiaozhi became happier the more she looked at him, this showed his body was much better now and he had the strength to talk again. She lifted the chattering kitten to her face and then leaned down to give a “mua!“
Beishan’s eyes widened, staring at Xu Xiaozhi’s face like he didn’t quite understand what was happening. When she moved a little, Beishan immediately covered his mouth with both paws!
【Little streamer, what are you doing?!】
【Let go of that cat, I’ll take over!】
【Doesn’t anyone think the little streamer is super cute in front of animals?】
After a while, Beishan seemed to finally react and kept meowing without stop!
“Damn it! My first kiss was stolen by you, woman. Don’t think that saving me means you can just throw yourself at me—I’m not that kind of cat!”
“You, you, you… you’re too much! You’ve sullied my purity. I… I’m not going to like you just because you kissed me!”
“I’m going to bully your dog, your cat, and your two noisy little mice to death!”
“Woof!” Two animals—one yellow and one white, one big and one small—appeared at the door, Chouba showed up with Miaomiao.
“Stupid dog!” Beishan rolled his eyes. If it weren’t for that dumb dog, he wouldn’t have let that monster run away. Now, he was seriously injured, reverted to kitten stage, and had to endure harassment from this woman.
“Woman, you should know, I’m only by your side because of this stupid dog. When the time is right…” Beishan gave what he thought was a cool, domineering smile, “Heh heh heh…”
The viewers watching the whole thing:
【Heh heh heh~】 That’s the sound of merciless mockery from the viewers.
【Is Beishan about to put on a show called “The Dominant Handsome Cat Falls in Love with Me, Heartless Owner Don’t Run”?】 This was a comment from a quietly sarcastic viewer.
【Is this cat a chatterbox?】 A comment hitting the nail on the head.
Seeing Chouba and Miaomiao, Xu Xiaozhi quickly put down Beishan.
Beishan: ?
One moment you’re forcing love on me, the next you ignore me—hah, fickle woman.
Xu Xiaozhi took some wet wipes from the bar by the door and wiped the four paws of Chouba and Miaomiao one by one. “Look at you two, covered in mud. Chouba, where did you take Miaomiao?”
“Chouba, you’re not allowed on the bed tonight. This paw is healed, now the next one.”
Chouba whimpered and rested his head on her shoulder.
Beishan: “Tch—”
Xu Xiaozhi brought out two simple mouse cages from the room, sat down in front of the camera, and said, “Alright, now that everyone’s here, I can finally introduce our whole family to you all…”
Viewers: 【Looking forward to it… sitting in a row for a big meeting!】
“First up, our cool guy, golden retriever Chouba, dun… dun dun… dun dun dun…” Xu Xiaozhi even hummed the little tune from The Lion King when Simba is lifted up.
Chouba sat proudly, as if knowing he was being introduced.
“Many viewers are curious about Chouba’s name. Actually, it means ‘ugly’ in dialect. When we picked him up, he was only three months old and covered in mud.”
“Because he had skin disease, we shaved all his fur off. Our mother thought he was too ugly, so she gave him that name.”
【Sobbing, I feel so sad—Chouba had a tough childhood.】
【It’s okay, those tough days are over now. The little streamer is raising Chouba so well!】
“Next is our family’s cute star, Miaomiao!” Xu Xiaozhi waved her hands above Miaomiao’s head, as if sprinkling flowers. “Miaomiao is still little, a short-haired, short-legged kitten with stripes. Doesn’t he look like a cat caterpillar?”
“Meow~” Miaomiao softly meowed.
【Aww, cat caterpillar~】
Beishan now wore a serious expression. He tried to sit upright, but his body condition still wouldn’t allow it. He wobbled and looked at Xu Xiaozhi with pity in his eyes.
“This woman is really pitiful, talking to thin air for so long?” Is this a strange quirk?