TICFL Chapter 2

“Fu Yirou, you don’t even listen to me now!”

 

“Mom, you don’t understand at all. Only Li Yan can make me feel at home.”

 

As soon as Fu Yiting stepped into the Fu residence, he heard a fierce quarrel breaking out in the living room.

 

Zhang Zhang shook her antennas and poked her head out.

 

Wow! Isn’t this the little girl I met in the public toilet today? We are destined to meet.

 

Fu Yirou’s brows were twisted like knots. She tried to persuade her mother, “He really loves me, you know? He made porridge for me.”

 

As if to prove that what she said was true, Fu Yirou took out a bowl of white porridge in a takeaway box from her Hermès cross-body bag.

 

She opened the bowl of cold porridge and took a couple of sips, and seemed to savour it. “I have never felt such warmth before!”

 

Zhang Zhang looked at the crazy lady in front of her, and then looked at the white porridge that she regarded as a treasure.

 

Today, Zhang Zhang hadn’t eaten yet. At this moment, she is just an ordinary greedy cockroach.

 

She watched as Fu Yirou took two sips of the bowl of porridge and then put it on the coffee table to show it to her mother. 

 

So Zhang Zhang quietly crawled out of Fu Yiting’s pocket and landed steadily on the edge of the disposable plastic bowl containing white porridge.

 

She stretched out her slender forelimbs, lightly dipped it onto the rice porridge, and took a taste.

 

Are you lying? This is just free porridge from a food stall.

 

Zhang Zhang was very disappointed and couldn’t help complaining.

 

At this moment, the quarrel between Fu Yirou and her mother was still ongoing.

 

Mother Fu: “You are simply stubborn.”

 

Fu Yirou: “You don’t understand anything at all!”

 

Seeing that the negotiation was futile, Fu Yirou angrily decided to go back to her room as a way to protest against her family.

 

Before leaving, she picked up the porridge on the table without even looking at it and drank it all in one gulp.

 

However, when Fu Yirou finished the bowl of porridge, she saw a dark, mysterious object at the bottom of the bowl.

 

It turned out that Fu Yirou’s recent actions had caused Zhang Zhang to accidentally fall into the bowl. Fortunately, the porridge had already cooled down, otherwise she would be a “mature” cockroach now.

 

At this time, Zhang Zhang was lying at the bottom of the bowl, waving her right forelimb, and using her left forelimb to imitate the gangster she saw today, stroking her somewhat blunt chin and even whistling.

 

She greeted: “Hi~little beauty~”

 

Although still no one could understand what Zhang Zhang was saying.

 

Fu Yirou: Ugh——

 

She vomited the porridge she had just drunk all over the floor.

 

Fu Yirou’s face was now covered in all kinds of colours, and she felt even more disgusted than if she had eaten a cockroach.

 

At this time, our cold and domineering boss Fu Yiting, said at the right time: “If you insist on being with that gangster, then the food you eat every day in the future will be like this bowl of white porridge today.”

 

Fu Yirou’s face turned pale when she thought of the cockroach just now.

 

Fu Yiting pressed his advantage, speaking each word slowly and deliberately: “Crawled over by countless cockroaches!”

 

“Ahhhhhhh!!!” Fu Yirou finally broke down and ran to the bathroom, vomiting non-stop.

 

She doesn’t want to drink plain porridge anymore!

 

At this point, Zhang Zhang had also licked clean the sticky rice porridge off herself and flew back into Fu Yiting’s pocket.

 

Fu Yiting gently touched Zhang Zhang’s shiny and oily shell with his finger, and Zhang Zhang lowered her head and nuzzled back like a docile kitten.

 

Fu Yiting looked at the cockroach in his pocket and fell into deep thought.

 

Fu Yirou was determined to get involved with that thug outside, and she was so stubborn that even ten oxen couldn’t pull her back (1).

 

This matter really gave the Fu family a headache.

 

I never expected that she would be dealt with by this little cockroach.

 

In Fu Yiting’s eyes, Zhang Zhang had made another great contribution.

 

Very well, little cockroach, you’ve successfully caught my attention. I’ll keep you around as a ‘mascot’ for the time being.”

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2. 十头牛也拉不回来 (Shí tóu niú yě lā bù huílái) is a Chinese idiom that means that someone is extremely stubborn or determined, to the point that even great force or effort can’t change their mind or make them stop.

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