The night the movie wrapped, Yu Yuan got half drunk and spent the whole night hugging the set's dog, Xiao Hei's food bowl, crying with envy.
The next morning, she woke up as a puppy, just as she'd wished.
Yu Yuan, on the verge of a breakdown, cursed the heavens, but all that came out was a few tiny puppy barks. A pile of fat puppy bottoms crowded around her, nearly pushing her out of the cage.
Just as she resigned herself to fighting for milk, she suddenly heard a familiar voice.
Pei Yanqing, filming a reality show, walked into the pet shop with a camera crew following behind him.
The man wore a clean shirt and looked refined and gentle. The night before, they had parted on bad terms at the movie's wrap party, and just a week earlier their fans had fought their 108th online battle.
Overnight, they had become a person and a dog, worlds apart.
Still, they knew each other. Yu Yuan wiggled her butt frantically to get noticed, and finally stood out from the other puppies, getting picked as the show's mascot.
Warm hands lifted her from the cage. Yu Yuan reluctantly lay in the man's arms, but then he suddenly lifted her up to check if she was male or female.
As the puppy let out a sudden howl, Pei Yanqing smiled at the camera. "It's a girl. I'll call her Taro Ball."
Yu Yuan, halfway through her howl: "?! How much does he have to hate me?!"
Later, Yu Yuan found out that he had discovered her identity long ago.
Yu Yuan, stunned: "... How much does he have to love me?!"
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Only after becoming the show's mascot did Yu Yuan realize that the number of her rivals on the show was so high, she suspected the production team had simply used her fans' industry blacklist of people they'd most like to assassinate.
Even worse, the rivals who used to exchange eye rolls with her whenever they met now spent all day calling her "puppy" in deadly sweet voices and trying to pet her.
By comparison, Yu Yuan still preferred Pei Yanqing.
He was quiet and thoughtful, had the same cleanliness obsession as her, and made all sorts of little doggy lunch boxes for her.
Most importantly, he didn't lose his mind and obsessively sniff her.
So Yu Yuan followed him around all day.
They had to eat together and sleep together, and even when they went out, she had to ride in a dog backpack.
Pei Yanqing's fans wailed: "I never thought I'd be this jealous of a dog!"
Later, Yu Yuan switched to a routine where she was human by day and a dog by night.
By day, she promoted a new movie with Pei Yanqing. At night, they met again on the variety show in a different way.
Pei Yanqing's fans: "By day I'm jealous of Yu Yuan, and at night I'm jealous of Taro Ball. What kind of cursed fate is this?!"
Yu Yuan (Taro Ball), held in Pei Yanqing's arms as he stroked her head: You never saw this coming, did you? We're actually a love story between a human and a dog that never ended.
[A little sweet, adorable puppy story]
Guiding principle: Treat animals with care.
