The doors of the sky garage atop the skyscraper opened to either side, then slowly closed again as the black hovercar drove in.
The car door opened, and the Little Yellow Dog hopped down on its short little legs, scampering gleefully into the house and vanishing from sight in the blink of an eye.
Holding a bouquet of white hyacinths in his arms, Yan Beiyou walked to the garage entrance and sat on the low stool beside the shoe cabinet to take off his leather shoes.
Two pairs of matching slippers in the same color were set side by side on the top shelf of the shoe rack. His gaze swept over the slightly smaller pair before Yan Beiyou reached for the other, larger pair and put them on.
When he entered the living room, the Little Yellow Dog that had just vanished came sneaking back.
"Whine, whine—"
It rubbed against Yan Beiyou's feet, opened its mouth to bite its owner's trouser leg, and made aggrieved, dissatisfied noises.
Yan Beiyou lowered his head and glanced at the Companion Beast clamped stubbornly onto his trouser leg. "He isn't here."
Reaching into his pocket, Yan Beiyou took out something and tossed it directly into the air.
If the black-and-white Mushroom Egg had expressions right now, it would probably have looked utterly bewildered.
It had been sleeping sweetly in its alpha father's pocket when, upon opening its eyes, it found itself flying in an arc. Before it could intimately greet the floor, a Little Yellow Dog came rubbing over after catching its scent.
Having spent the entire heat period in its omega father's room, the whole egg had been steeped in the omega's rich, cool-scented pheromones. That was nearly lethally attractive to a certain alpha's Companion Beast.
The Mushroom Egg darted left and