It took Hao Ren ages to piece together what had happened and confirm he had heard correctly. "Roll," that utterly shameless idiot of a cat, had finally succumbed to temptation when she saw Doudou lying on the table sunning her tail and launched an attack on the little one. But when she bit down, she failed to even scrape off a single one of Doudou's scales, while Little Merman retaliated by ripping out a large patch of fur from the stupid cat. When Hilda said she "couldn't stop it," she hadn't meant that she had failed to protect Doudou. She meant that she had failed to protect the cat...
"Your cat got into a fight with your fish, and then your fish beat the cat to tears..." Becky's eye twitched as she looked at Hao Ren. "What species is this little thing, anyway? It's over half a foot long."
Hao Ren didn't even know what to say. After putting Doudou back in her basin, he hurriedly examined Roll for injuries. Fortunately, it looked like Doudou had only given her a light lesson. Aside from pulling out a few tufts of fur, she hadn't done anything serious enough to leave the stupid cat battered and broken. Considering the little one's strength—she could lift a table laden with dishes as if it weighed nothing—beating up a cat or dog really was child's play for her!
Roll let out a pitiful meow in Hao Ren's arms. When she turned her head and saw Doudou, she couldn't help shivering and revealing a face full of terror. No matter how wild and unruly she usually was, she definitely wouldn't ever target Doudou again... Hao Ren even suspected that from now on, she wouldn't dare eat fish anymore.
He put the stupid cat back on the