229 YOU ARE MY DOG
Note: this chapter contains a flashback scene.
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[“You will sleep here from now on,” Mrs. Huang announced when the two of them arrived at her house.
The chubby woman lived in a big house, and the other houses near her house were also big. But, the environment was very quiet, and even when Bai Chen arrived at the woman’s house, he didn’t see anyone in the other houses.
The woman led him into her house. Carrying a bag filled with his clothes, she led him into a room that would be his bedroom from now on. Bai Chen expected that he would get a room all to himself without needing to share it with anyone, and perhaps he guessed it quite accurately since he didn’t see any children in the house.
Even when the woman told him where he could sleep at night, he still didn’t see any children there. True, no other children would be sharing a room with him, but when he and the woman arrived at the room where he could sleep at night, they were both greeted with loud barks.
Yes, more than ten dogs lived in that room.
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Bai Chen was shocked when he saw the situation inside the large room. There was no denying that the room was indeed spacious, and there were also three large dog kennels in the room. Each kennel was used by more than three dogs, and they all started barking as soon as they saw two people arrive in the room.
In fact, the dogs weren’t small at all. They were large, and most of them had black and brown fur. It seemed that they were hungry when the woman and Bai Chen arrived in the room. They immediately barked as they tried to get out of the cages, and even their saliva fell on the floor, adding to the dirty situation in the room.
Yes, the room was indeed dirty with dog feces and urine. Even if there was a litter box in each kennel, it seemed the dogs were too careless, and that was why they didn’t always defecate in the litter box. Instead, they disobeyed by defecating out of the box, and that was why the whole room got dirty and smelly.
Bai Chen even needed to cover his nose with his little hand when he couldn’t stand the smell anymore, but then he ventured to ask the woman while looking at the woman standing beside him, “I need to sleep here, Mom? But, there’s no bed in this room.”
Bai Chen was very obedient. He still remembered how Mrs. Xu asked him to see the chubby woman as his mother before he left the orphanage today, and even if it felt strange on his tongue when he had to address her like that, he still did that as he was afraid if the woman would get angry with him.
Unfortunately, it was the way he called the woman “Mom” that caused the woman to be angry with him.
“Who asked you to call me that?!” The woman shouted angrily, and even the dogs stopped barking upon hearing her loud voice. “The orphanage director asked you to do that, right? Did you see her at my house now? She’s not even here, so you can only listen to my orders!”
Bai Chen looked confusedly at the chubby woman. He didn’t have any bad intentions, but it seemed that the woman was very angry right now, and that was why he looked even more frightened after hearing that angry scream.
When they were still in the orphanage, the woman looked gentle and kind, but after they arrived home, the woman had completely changed, and that was why Bai Chen was more than afraid at this time.
He was still very young, but he could somehow understand the situation, and that was the reason why he didn’t feel safe around that woman.
Bai Chen didn’t even dare to look at the woman anymore, and that was why he lowered his head so that he could only see his bare feet on the cold marble floor. The woman asked him to take off his shoes right after the two of them entered the house, and that was why Bai Chen felt that his little feet were a bit cold now. However, he did not dare to voice his protest, and that was why he remained silent while biting his lower lip.
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“Stop saying nonsense and go to your cage now!” The woman spoke again, and Bai Chen even flinched because she was still using the same high tone when speaking to him.
The woman just asked him to go to his cage, but he didn’t understand the meaning. Therefore, he ventured to peek at the woman, and he could see how the fat woman was frowning at him. Her face showed no tenderness at all, instead, it was just a cruel expression plastered on her chubby face.
At this moment, Bai Chen didn’t know what to do, and that only made the woman angrier. Her face turned red with fury, and she threw the bag containing Bai Chen’s clothes on the floor before reaching out to grab Bai Chen’s arm, and she dragged the boy into one of the cages in the room.
The four dogs were even bigger than Bai Chen’s body, and Mrs. Huang forced Bai Chen into the cage. The cage was indeed dirty and smelly, but Bai Chen was thrown into it, and his bottom fell hard onto the floor covered in dog feces and urine.
“You should know that I brought you here just to be my dog, and that’s why you don’t have to call me ‘Mom.’ Be an obedient dog, and you should be friends with my other dogs too!”
That was what Mrs. Huang said to him one last time before she turned her body and left the room without looking back. At that moment, Bai Chen was forced to shift to the corner of the cage as the other dogs started growling at him and moving toward him.
He could only cry miserably, “Don’t! Please don’t eat me! Please! Please help me!”]