[A down-on-his-luck, pitiful country dog bottom + a play-the-pig-to-eat-the-tiger giant panda top]
Yu Qingzhou, an unsuccessful orphan and painter, had just been kicked out by his landlord for failing to pay rent. The very next moment, clutching all his belongings, he came across a badly injured giant panda on the verge of death in the alley by his rental apartment.
Yu Qingzhou had a kind heart. He crouched down and used his only suitcase to make the panda a nest. The next second, the world spun around him. When he opened his eyes again, both his hands had turned into fluffy little paws.
He had entered an infinite-flow animal world plagued by disasters and scarce supplies, and become a country dog who had only recently left the nest!
And with terrible luck, he drew the worst D-rank skill in the System's history: [Begging for food: Act pitiful, be shameless, ask for what you want, and if they won't give it to you, steal it!]
Yu Qingzhou looked at the hailstones as big as goose eggs, temperatures above fifty degrees, and blizzards that piled up half a floor's worth of snow overnight. Trembling in his fluffy dog body, he couldn't control his animal instincts. He slowly lifted his right hind leg, squeezed his eyes shut, and thought he was already pretty pitiful as it was.
To survive, he rallied and began begging for food.
He knocked on Miss Fox's treehouse. "Hello, could... could you give me something to eat? Otherwise, I'll... I'll just pretend I never knocked."
His attempt to act pitiful failed, and Miss Fox shut the door.
He knocked on Mr. Python's cave. "Hey, old geezer, cough up some food! Um... c-could you? If not, I'll, I'll get out of your hair..."
His attempt to be shameless failed, and he nearly got beaten up.
Despondent, Yu Qingzhou was about to curl up under a bridge and wait to die when he ran into the giant panda again.
The high-level player who had speedrun his way through the game and owned half the supplies in the animal world had put three pounds of blush on his face and two pounds of paint on his body. His eyes glistening with tears, he whimpered pitifully, "I'm injured, and I've got a fever. It hurts... I'm cold... Please, please take me in!"
Heng Yunzhang: My wife doesn't know how to act pitiful, so I'll show him how.
Theme: Protect biodiversity
