Carefully taking the Linglong Dog, the beautiful woman's expression gradually shifted from surprise to shock.
Some details of grooming could not be seen at a glance.
A thousand-yuan grooming session and a ten-thousand-yuan one both left a beast looking clean from a distance, but touching it and examining it up close made the differences clear.
Just like now.
Before holding the Linglong Dog, the beautiful woman had acknowledged Xu Ran's grooming skills, but she had not believed they could truly match Beast Broth's. She had merely thought his techniques were unique and made the Contract Beast very comfortable during grooming.
Only after examining the condition of the Linglong Dog's fur and the skin beneath it up close did she realize how shallow her earlier thinking had been.
At this moment, every strand of the Linglong Dog's fur shone with a lively sheen beneath the lights, its surface seemingly coated in a smooth film that felt intoxicating to the touch.
Beneath the silky fur, the Linglong Dog's follicles and skin were as delicate as a newborn's. The faintly pink skin left the beautiful woman marveling.
Humans and Contract Beasts alike aged with time, and the skin and hair, which had the most contact with the outside world, bore the brunt of it. No amount of care could fully restore their original condition.
Yet Xu Ran seemed to have accomplished precisely that.
Had she not seen it herself, the beautiful woman would have thought Xu Ran had cut off all the Linglong Dog's fur and grown an entirely new coat. How else could fur that had already suffered irreversible damage have the texture of new growth?
She could not achieve such grooming results, and neither could Beast Broth.
Beyond the grooming results, the precision of Xu Ran's trimming far exceeded her imagination