Ke Meng drank for several minutes, until his stomach felt bloated, and had to stop.
Too full of water to have any appetite, he could only let Tangyuan eat the noodles alone.
Ke Meng went over to see how Tangyuan's noodles had turned out. Instead, he found a pot of deep, black water, with noodles so dark they almost blended into it.
"Seriously, why is it so black? How much soy sauce did you add?" Looking at the black noodles in the pot, Ke Meng lost every last shred of interest in eating them.
Tangyuan stayed silent. It had only realized it had added too much after seeing the pitch-black water.
Speechless, Ke Meng patted Big Fur Ball. "Then you can eat all of it."
Tangyuan barked and obeyed, picking up the pot of noodles and downing it in one go.
The fur around its mouth parted, and the black water and noodles poured into its mouth with a series of gulps.
Ke Meng watched the dog finish the noodles. Tangyuan even gave the pot a lick afterward, leaving not a single drop of oil at the bottom.
"Impressive." What else could Ke Meng say after seeing that? All he could do was call it impressive.
Ke Meng figured that if he ever made something disastrously inedible, Tangyuan could help dispose of it.
A handy helper around the house and a considerate little pet-he could search the whole world and never find a better one.
Ke Meng went to the bathroom, then returned to the bedroom to check on the two inanimate objects.
One was the Beast-Eared Girl figurine. Ke Meng said, "Wen Yushan, are you there? Twitch your right ear if you can hear me."
The Beast-Eared Girl figurine's fluffy right ear twitched. Somehow, it was oddly adorable.
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