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Zhou Jingcheng hurried after him. "Pizza, come back! Why are you running?"

Everyone turned to look. Let's see who was screaming.

Oh, so it was that patient guy who raised a Beagle. Hahahahaha.

Little Beagle was so cute. What was wrong with giving him more exercise every day?

Everyone turned their heads left in unison, watching Shi Jihan and Zhou Jingcheng run out of view one after the other.

Then they all turned right in unison, welcoming the pair as they came back one after the other.

Watching them leave, welcoming them back, watching them leave, welcoming them back—they spun around again and again.

Someone even recorded a video and posted it online: [Welcome the Beagle Demon King]

Everyone loudly gossiped.

"Will these two be able to compete in national-level marathons in a few years?"

"Haha, seriously."

"Thanks to Little Beagle for training our national athletes."

Shi Jihan & Zhou Jingcheng: "..."

[ Ding, Malice Points +5 ]

By the time Pizza finally collapsed from exhaustion and stopped, Shi Jihan's legs had gone weak. He braced himself against a tree trunk and panted heavily, his soul practically ascending to heaven.

Zhou Jingcheng was tugging Pizza's two huge ears, trying to discipline him, while Pizza kicked wildly at him with his hind legs.

Shi Jihan simply could not understand it. How did this man and this dog still have the energy to fight?

"C-can we, now," his throat dry, he swallowed, "go, go eat?"

"Eat," Zhou Jingcheng said. "I'm hungry."

Shi Jihan finally caught his breath. "Didn't you just say you were full?"

Zhou Jingcheng gripped the leash tightly and sneered. "You pissed it out of me. I digested it."

They randomly found a packed restaurant, and a table had just opened up when they entered.

The air-conditioning inside soothed Shi Jihan's frazzled mood. He pulled out a menu and fanned himself with it, then his gaze froze.

He accurately caught the key words on the menu.

Bacon and fried eggs, 88 yuan per serving.

Iced cola, 68 yuan per serving.

Shi Jihan: [Damn it, getting rich left me behind, but inflation landed right on my head?]

He hid his face behind the menu and secretly crooked a finger at Zhou Jingcheng.

"This, and this... Mm, get one of this too." Zhou Jingcheng had been ordering, but when he saw Shi Jihan's little gesture, he questioned him with his eyes.

Shi Jihan blinked at him: So expensive.

Zhou Jingcheng fell into thought.

Shi Jihan blinked again: Let's change restaurants.

Zhou Jingcheng suddenly understood.

He turned to the baffled server. "We'll start with those. By the way, is there a pharmacy nearby?"

The server repeated, "A pharmacy?"

Zhou Jingcheng hummed and pointed at Shi Jihan with a nod. "My friend seems to have an eye condition."

Shi Jihan abruptly sat up straight: ￥R^%#&^%$@#!!

Only Zero-Zero-Zero could hear the string of censor beeps.

Zero-Zero-Zero was deeply melancholy. Thanks to the host's constant guidance.

Eggs floated through the sky, while cursing skills rose in its heart.

Zero-Zero-Zero said: [Host, Dianjia Bro seems to be treating. Show off your manners.]

Shi Jihan had just wanted to say, "I have no manners, only a sharp mouth," but his brain processed Zero-Zero-Zero's words first.

Dianjia Bro, treating!

Zhou Jingcheng's image immediately magnified infinitely in his heart. Like the Leshan Giant Buddha, Zhou Jingcheng's butt landed heavily in Shi Jihan's heart, holy light shining all over him.

What a good person. A truly great person.

Shi Jihan immediately sat up properly, putting his legs neatly together and lightly resting his hands on his knees. He gazed fervently at the generous great man, and when Zhou Jingcheng looked up, he flashed him a brilliant smile. Two tiny dimples appeared in his cheeks, sunlight stolen by the moon shimmering within them.

Just try not to fall for me.

The moment Zhou Jingcheng looked up, he met Shi Jihan's overheated gaze. He paused slightly, then awkwardly lowered his eyes and continued studying the menu in his hands.

...Why was he smiling so prettily at him?

Trying to get his attention, huh?

When Shi Jihan saw Zhou Jingcheng look away right after his smile, a question mark slowly popped up over his head: ?

What did that mean? Was the menu better-looking than him?

How could that be?!

He said: [What's going on? My long eyelashes like golden French fries, my soft, plump lips like strawberry daifuku, my high nose bridge like a crispy ice cream bar—and he won't look?]

Zero-Zero-Zero: [...Host, if you're hungry, just eat. You can shut up.]

Shi Jihan huffed, speared three French fries, and stuffed them into his strawberry daifuku.

The two finished dinner, each occupied with their own thoughts.

At the table, only Pizza was truly happy. Zhou Jingcheng had just tied his two long ears atop his head with a hair tie when Pizza lowered his head and bit off more than half the mountain of meat. Then he chased his plate with his head, munching with loud clatters as he ate from one end of the table to the other.

Zhou Jingcheng glanced at him. "Digging dirt with an excavator?"

Pizza directly turned his butt toward him.

Zhou Jingcheng immediately lost his appetite.

By the time they finished eating, night had fully fallen. The amusement park lights came on one after another, making it even prettier than it had been during the day.

The two left the restaurant, and Zhou Jingcheng pointed at a nearby shop. "Let's check out this—"

Shi Jihan ground his teeth. "If you say pharmacy, you're dead."

Zhou Jingcheng smoothly changed course, his finger sliding seamlessly toward another shop. "Let's see what this souvenir store sells."

The souvenir store had all sorts of goods, everything one could possibly want. There was even a clown mascot handing out flyers inside.

Shi Jihan spotted an adorable lion headpiece at once. He bought one for himself, then put another over Pizza's head.

His phone vibrated madly. The cameraman following them urged him: [Boss, we don't have enough footage today. Hurry and take a few more shots.]

[Yeah, yeah, just at this angle. Lift up your beloved dog.]

Shi Jihan lifted Pizza to a position slightly lower than himself.

The cameraman took one look and thought the angle was perfect. There was no need for editing—using half the body of the woman standing behind them, the forced perspective made it look like a kissing photo.

He raised his camera and snapped away.

Excellent. Very blurry. Truly worthy of Nikon.

It successfully focused on the mosquito in front of it.

Zhou Jingcheng had just walked from the blind box section to the accessories section when he saw one large and one small lion head staring at each other.

"What are you two doing?" he asked.

Shi Jihan glanced at him, inspiration striking. He lifted Pizza high into the air, bathed in sacred light, and began chanting, "Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba! Sithi uhm ingonyama!"

The shoppers around them trembled all over, staring in horror at this extrovert who had suddenly begun performing a ritual.

Shi Jihan bared his little canine teeth and happily carried Pizza around for everyone to see. "The Lion King! Haven't you watched it?"

The introverts all backed away, shaking their heads repeatedly. "N-no, we haven't."

They were terrified that if they shook their heads too slowly, they would be the ones lifted up next.

Were you social bandits not a little too terrifying?

[ Ding, Malice Points +0.13 ]

[ Ding, Malice Points +0.42 ]

[ Ding, Malice Points +0.21 ]

Listening to the notifications in his ear, Shi Jihan was extremely satisfied.

This was what shameless him deserved.

He turned to find Zhou Jingcheng... Hm? Where was Zhou Jingcheng?

He held Pizza up and spun around again. "Wasn't he just here?"

Zhou Jingcheng had casually found something to cover his face. The instant Shi Jihan began chanting, he fled the scene and hid in the shadows.

Too embarrassing.

He was a respectable man.

He glanced at the clown mascot pressed close beside him, casually removed its mascot head, and put it on his own. "Borrowing this, thanks."

I'll be taking that.

The staff member touched his suddenly bald head: ?

Who was that? Where had this lunatic come from?

And why had two of them shown up at once?

Zhou Jingcheng heard Shi Jihan's voice and figured he had already left. He still wanted to stand silently in the corner and wallow for a while, reflecting on why he had lost his mind enough to come to an amusement park, when the park-wide loudspeakers suddenly began making an announcement.

"Little Zhou Jingcheng, little Zhou Jingcheng, your father has gotten separated from you."

"I repeat, your father has gotten separated from you. Please report to the plaza service center immediately after hearing this announcement. Please report to the plaza service center after hearing—"

The crowd began whispering.

"Who? Zhou Jingcheng? Why does that name sound familiar?"

"Could it be Shi Jihan's Zhou Jingcheng? A domineering CEO came to an amusement park too?"

"Probably just someone with the same name. President Zhou is how old already? How could he get lost? It's not like he's an idiot, hahahahaha."

When the clown staff member saw that lunatic who had snatched his mascot head, he suddenly lost all strength and means, sliding down the wall bit by bit.

He was shattered.

[ Ding, Malice Points +10 ]

Shi Jihan became a father without pain. Listening to the ten-point windfall, he said to Zero-Zero-Zero: [See? Even Dianjia Bro can't lose his father. After we got separated, he must have been so anxious and sad to score a full ten points.]

Zero-Zero-Zero said darkly: [Aren't you afraid he'll come strangle you to death later?]

Shi Jihan's smile stiffened.

Oh no. He had been having too much fun these past few days and had nearly forgotten the ending Dianjia Bro had given him.

Planting bananas in the Australian desert.

[H-he probably won't, right?] That was what he told Zero-Zero-Zero, though he could not help trembling with fear.

He cautiously opened the task that had refreshed today.

[ Randomly Ruin Zhou Jingcheng: 28/1, Completed ]

[ Congratulations, you have received the hidden achievement, "Ruining Him Isn't a Crime" ]

An unprecedentedly high completion rate.

Shi Jihan: Seems like I might have gone a little overboard QAQ

Dianjia Bro was going to hate him to death.

The service center staff looked at this young man who had become a father so early and comforted him. "It's okay. Your son will definitely be found soon."

Shi Jihan did not dare nod and acknowledge that son.

As the two spoke, a tall, upright figure approached from the distance. Long legs carried him up the steps as he strode toward them.