"If there is an afterlife, I would rather be a dog that is loved by others."
——God really helped her realize this wish. In a way she hadn't expected at all.
The wish came true. She has become a competition-level Bichon Frize in the palm of her hand, with imported milk powder, a constant-temperature nest, and being kissed and hugged every day—things that she struggled to get in her previous life, but now she has them without doing anything.
Until a van stopped on the side of the road and a net bag fell from the sky. She was thrown into an iron cage and huddled with a cage of terrified dogs. The dog dealer said: If you sell them by the pound, the white ones are not worth much.
This time, she wasn't going to wait to die.
She used a dog's body to pick the lock and fled into the night with a group of abandoned lives. There are no cheats, no systems, no cheats - just a heart that refuses to admit defeat after dying once.
Is it better to be a dog than a human?
No. It was after becoming a dog that she finally learned what she had not learned as a human - no longer praying to be loved, but to become her own light.
The power of the title "It's Better to Be a Dog" is that it is a complaint, a wish, and an epiphany.
Concept: "It's Better to Be a Dog" is not a story about "It's better to be a dog". It is a story of "what you have not learned as a human, you can learn as a dog" - what you learn is not to wag your tail, but to stand up. It took Lin Nian two lifetimes to understand: It's not that being a dog is better than being a human, but that once you learn to love yourself, everything will be better.