"Leaving your post without permission during working hours. That's a deduction from your salary and performance pay."
The assistant had no real authority, while Chang Yu held all the power. "Also, company employees aren't allowed to bring dogs. If you want to bring one, get yourself into my position first."
Cradled in Chang Yu's arms, Yan Junye had support for his entire canine body. Unfortunately, his paws weren't long enough to hug Chang Yu like a human.
He could only rest his paws on Chang Yu's shoulders, supported by the hand Chang Yu had beneath his bottom.
Being held always made him smug, and he gave the bespectacled man a challenging look.
The more he looked, the more convinced he became that he must have been blind to choose this man as a potential owner.
He wasn't even as commanding or charming as Chang Yu.
Money and power really were wonderful things.
Looking again at where the Shiba Inu had long since vanished, Yan Junye couldn't help wagging his tail twice. He even stuck out his tongue and rubbed it against Chang Yu's ear ingratiatingly.
He gave a few quiet barks.
[The glasses guy and the Shiba Inu's owner are in cahoots. There's a mole in your company, so watch out.]
[Whatever you do, don't go bankrupt before I've even left. That would make my dog life even more miserable than my human life.]
As a human, although he had died suddenly, at least food and clothing hadn't been a problem before his death.
Chang Yu began to feel grateful that he made Xiaotu brush his teeth every day. Otherwise, his obsession with cleanliness really would have flared up.
As for bankruptcy, that was impossible.
He happened to have been investigating the bespectacled man lately, and now he could be almost completely certain.
Putting all that aside, why did Chang Yu feel as though Xiaotu really had become much more affectionate toward him?
Could last night have made this dog develop some special feelings for him?
He would rather do without those feelings.
Yan Junye simply thought Chang Yu had looked incredibly handsome when he put the bespectacled man in his place and rescued him. He hadn't thought anything more of it.
Back at the company, he pestered Chang Yu into taking him upstairs instead of staying on the first floor.
Otherwise, he feared the man with the dark circles would hurt an adorable big dog like him.
After work that evening, when the car was brought over for cleaning, Yan Junye stood nearby, his eyes fixed on the supermarket next door.
"What do you want to eat?" Chang Yu put Xiaotu on a leash. "Let's take a look."
Chang Yu rarely went to supermarkets himself, and there was hardly anything at home.
Whatever Xiaotu pointed his paw at, he took, treating it as stocking up.
In the car, the food was only two centimeters away from Xiaotu. He rummaged through it with his paws and sneakily pulled out a bag of spicy strips.
If Chang Yu really was cruel enough to deny him dinner, he could hold out on this bag of spicy strips.
The trouble was, the only place on a dog's entire body where he could hide anything was his mouth. Just as he was about to put the spicy strips in his mouth, a cloth landed on his head.
"That's dirty. Wipe it before putting it in your mouth." Otherwise, he would never let Xiaotu lick him again.
Yan Junye: "..." Since he'd been spotted, there was no need to hide it anymore.
They ran into the Samoyed again in the residential complex. This time, Yan Junye didn't hide; instead, he went over to chat with her.
Like a scumbag of a dog, Yan Junye raised his head and spoke with particular pride. "The Shiba Inu came to Evergreen Company today and seriously told me she liked me and wanted to be with me."
The Samoyed's adorably goofy expression changed at once. "I pursued you first! You can't agree to be with her!"
Yan Junye wagged his tail slightly without saying anything.
The Samoyed had forgotten all those old incidents, but at this critical moment, she actually remembered them again.
"The Shiba Inu's owner isn't nearly as good as mine. I heard a dog say they'd seen the Shiba Inu's owner paying for sex. Not just in the car, either. He even took the person home."
"The Shiba Inu's owner has no shame at all. When he goes drinking and eating with his disreputable friends, he even talks about taking the person he paid for sex upstairs to do it while his wife was asleep."
"Just think, if you went to a family like that, you'd have to put up with those disgusting people touching you every day. It would make a dog feel filthy all over."
The Samoyed shook her head as she spoke.
Hearing the gossip, Yan Junye immediately perked up. "Oh? The Shiba Inu's owner even took someone he paid for sex home to do it with his wife right there? He really knows how to have fun."
"It's true. A dog saw them get out of the car and go upstairs." The Samoyed then sincerely suggested:
"You really should choose fluffy me instead of that Shiba Inu who's stiff all over and no fun to pet."
Yan Junye only said, "Thank you, but I definitely won't choose the Shiba Inu."
The Samoyed winked at the golden retriever, then walked past him with her tail raised and left.
Her owner had told her that, as the female, she needed to show restraint and not be too forward.
Chang Yu had also heard the Samoyed's gossip.
Paying for sex, huh? That made things very easy.
Gan Junda's wife's family background was not to be underestimated. If her father found out, Gan Junda would be in for it.
He would make sure Gan Junda's dirty affairs spread throughout the entire wealthy neighborhood, becoming common knowledge just like Ke Yichun's.
Yan Junye was still thinking about how to get the information across to Chang Yu.
Communicating across species really was difficult.
As Chang Yu sat at his computer working, he watched Xiaotu pace in anxious circles.
Although he knew, he couldn't say so outright. He would have to see how Xiaotu hinted at it.
Seemingly having come up with an idea, Xiaotu bit his trouser leg and led him to the kitchen.
He pointed a paw at the water dipper, then opened his canine throat and belted out a song.
Chang Yu: "..." That really was abstract. If he acted as though he understood, would he seem a little abnormal?
He went back to sit at his computer, but left his phone on the coffee table.
Yan Junye seized the opportunity. With his back to Chang Yu, he clumsily used his paws to type the six Chinese characters for "Shiba owner solicits prostitutes."
Perfect. Surely Chang Yu would be able to figure it out now?
Only after seeing Xiaotu leave the coffee table did Chang Yu slowly rise. He hadn't expected him to be so clever, knowing to use a phone to alert him.
In front of Xiaotu, he called his assistant and told them to investigate which clubs Gan Junda had been visiting lately.
Before Yan Junye could give more than a few satisfied nods, he heard Chang Yu ask in a puzzled tone, "Why is this page showing on my phone?"
Yan Junye immediately turned and walked away, wagging his tail twice to indicate that he knew nothing and shouldn't be asked.
Chang Yu smiled and turned off his phone's screen.
As for dinner, of course Xiaotu would get to eat, given his good behavior.
But it wasn't food Xiaotu liked. He was having the same dinner as Chang Yu.
Eating vegetables and some protein at night wouldn't make one fat.
Yan Junye found the food tasteless.
-"Sure enough, there's a reason Chang Yu has such a good figure. I could tell last night. Those legs, tsk, tsk."
Chang Yu: "..." Could he stop bringing up last night?
Every mention made him want to teach the dog in front of him a lesson.
And was this dog really not doing it on purpose?
No matter how he looked at it, it seemed as though he had been eyeing his legs for a long time.