Beneath the Bridge of Sorrow, spring waves ripple green; where once a fleeting beauty's reflection lingered.
—Two poems about Shenyuan Garden, by Lu You (Song Dynasty).
Zeng Zhaoying is an ordinary person.
Her mother was a beast tamer, and her father was a professor at an ordinary university.
She didn't really care whether or not she had awakened her beast tamer talent. In her opinion, even without the beast tamer talent, she understood beast taming better than most people.
Beast taming relies not only on combat awareness and intuition, but also on data analysis, strategic planning, enemy and ally analysis, and handling of multiple contingency plans.
Indeed, Zeng Zhaoying once believed that data was omnipotent. Data could bridge the gap between ordinary people and beast tamers; a mindless beast tamer could never defeat a smart ordinary person.
Cheng Huaijin: "It's a good thing you don't know Astaria, otherwise you two would definitely be birds of a feather."
Zeng Zhaoying: "Ms. Ross is the creator of mechanical beasts. I have a long way to go to reach her level. Do you know her? Could you introduce her to me?"
Cheng Huaijin: "I don't know him!"
The more one learns about beast tamers and their pets, the more even Zeng Zhaoying has to admit that beast tamers do have an advantage over ordinary people.
The most obvious difference is that while their fellow beast tamer colleagues could work for a week straight without sleep, Zeng Zhaoying couldn't.
Their physical fitness levels are worlds apart.
It wasn't until Cheng Huaijin was chatting with Zeng Zhaoying at the research institute and Zeng Zhaoying fainted in her arms that she learned that Zeng Zhaoying was seriously overworked.
Cheng Huaijin gave Zeng Zhaoying a small bottle of green liquid and said mysteriously, "It's good stuff. Just drink one drop a month."
The Wood Dragon's Energy Liquid is truly a wonderful thing. Zeng Zhaoying accepted her friend's kindness and worked even harder on her research.
At the age of 38, Zeng Zhaoying became the director of the China Pet Animal Research Institute, the second ordinary person to become a director in history.
Influenced by Cheng Huaijin, she devoted her life to the research of pet autonomy and successfully invented a device that can voluntarily break the contract.
This invention faced considerable opposition, but fortunately, Cheng Huaijin, then director of the China Pet Management Bureau, honorary president of the Galaxy Beast Tamer Association, and vice chairman of the Interstellar Beast Tamer Alliance, fully supported the device's market launch, saving countless abused pets.
[So far away, I cannot see you; as dusk falls, my sorrow remains.]
—From "Xianghe Songs: The Great Embankment Song" by Zhang Jianzhi (Tang Dynasty).
Xia Chouyu was frail and sickly from childhood, and would pant after taking just one step.
Nobody dared to play with him.
His family was very wealthy. If he were a beast tamer, his family could have contracted the best pet beasts to prolong his life, but unfortunately, he wasn't.
He is an ordinary person.
That's fine too; dying early means being reborn sooner.
Xia Chouyu liked to stand alone on the top floor of the hospital and look down.
We are all ants, and I am no different.
It was an ordinary night. Xia Chouyu finished her late-night emo and prepared to go to sleep.
A girl burst into his hospital room, her cunning eyes catching his eye.
Xia Chouyu didn't know how the girl in the VIP ward on the top floor had managed to get in; all he knew was that the girl was very interesting.
She said her name was Aya and that she had come to retrieve her stolen belongings.
Xia Chouyu asked her what had been taken from her.
Aya said it was the heart.
The security guard then asked if any suspicious persons had entered or left, and Xia Chouyu said no.
It turns out the girl had killed someone.
interesting.
...
What happened next was beyond Xia Chouyu's expectations; Aya personally created a mechanical body for him.
His bodily functions were damaged, and all his organs had died, but the mechanical body gave him a new life.
No, it was Aya who gave him a new life.
He became a follower of Aya and lived wholeheartedly for her.
...
Xia Chouyu had long since become numb to the number of lives lost at his hands.
He couldn't even count how long he had lived; he only knew that every day he lived, he had to live for Aya.
Until Aya found the mechanical life form called "Little Bug".
Xia Chouyu didn't understand. Wasn't he a mechanical life form?
Why does Aya only want the original and not him?
He could also change his name to "Little Bug".
The material used to create Xia Chouyu is the latest human-grade metal, which allows Xia Chouyu to experience all the tactile sensations that humans possess.
For example, warm blood, scalding fire, sweet sugar... and cold hands.
The hand that crushed her heart was both familiar and strange; Aya was still the same as always.
Cold-blooded and ruthless.
Aya's only bit of tenderness was reserved for Xiaochong.
He had known all along.
He only regretted that he wasn't a small insect.
If there is an afterlife, he would rather die in the winter when he is 18.
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