That night itself he got a call saying that the constructions were almost over and the solar sheets were being installed tomorrow.

“I’ll come over early. Oh, what do you want for breakfast?” Zou Yue excitedly whispered.

“Boa bun.” the other side of the line went blank.

Zou Yue excitedly rolled around in his bed. Today he got to meet Fan Xui as well as have a cake with him. “Wow, he is really friendly. Who named him the cold ice of apocalypse?,”

In the apocalypse time, this legendary fan Xui was called the cold is of the ability users, not because he could wield ice powers, it was because he was very cold to everyone. Including his best friend Qian and that white lotus Liwei.

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He was known for being stoic and expressionless.

Even through his personal observation these rumours did not differ, but now that he met Fan Xui before the apocalypse all of these rumours seem to have shattered. The man was friendly, kind and kinda shy with strangers.

“Maybe his shyness was dubbed as cold attitude… that’s sad,” he mumbled. A soft think nuzzled against his cheeks. “Trexa gran!!” he giggled as he kissed its head.

The rat pushed his face away with her cute paws.

“Aww look at your paws~ they look so darn cute!!” he held her paws with his finger and gently squeezed them.

The rat let him do whatever, just silently watched him.

“Trexa gran…. when are you going to have a child. I wish to see the predecessors of my little La Trexa.”

The rat kicked his face and screeched loudly.

“My little shy maiden. You are going to find a man soon, anyway. Ohhh wait, maybe I can find you one in the store. I can buy a male rat so that you can get busy and….”

The rat slapped his face with his huge tail and ran back to its cage, squeaking loudly.

“Ow..” Zou Yue quizzically glanced at her dark cage. “Looks like she is too shy…”

The rat who was named as the shy one glanced at him with its beady eyes from inside its cage, planning a grand plan to punish him for all the humiliation.

The next day Zou Yue woke up to find something like black flecks on his face. Confused, he flicked it off.

He dazedly stumbled to the bathroom.

“ahhhh!!! What is this!!!” his mother’s loud scream came from inside his room.

“Mum!!!”‘ hurriedly tying the towel around his waist Zou Yue ran out. “Mum! What’s wrong!!!”

His mother glared his way and then at the cage in the corner. “Yue… look at this. This rat pooped everywhere on your bed.” She showed him the black flecks.

“poo…..”

Only then did he remember that this black flecks were all on his face. “Trexa gran… did you poo on my face?”

The rat proudly walked on top of his bed.

“Oh dear lord, Zou Yue, it’s not too late let’s get a dog or a cat at least they can be trained,” his mother urged him with a wronged expression.

Hearing this, the rat’s expression went wide eyed. It slowly got closer to him and hugged his thumb cutely and glanced up whist blinking its eyes.

“sigh…. it’s okay, mum. I can clean up,” he placated his mum and sent her out of the room and only then did he look at the little rat. “Trexa gran…”

The rat anxiously shook its limbs as it sat down on the bed.

“Why did you do that?”

Trexa gran stood up and started to gesturing something with its arms. It kept moving and pointed at the picture of a male idol on his calendar. She the crossed her hand in a no sign.

“You…. don’t need a male rat?”

Trexa gran nodded swiftly.

“oh.. is that why?”

The rat nodded once more.

“I see… I won’t force you to mate anymore,” he said, gently caressing its grey fur. “But you can’t poo on me like that. It’s so unsanitary..”

Trexa nuzzled against his hand and scurried into the bed. It started to pick up the small pebbles of poo and tossed it into the litter box in its own cage.

Proudly, she pointed to the now clean bed.

“Good girl.” Zou Yue gently kissed her head.

The rat jumped onto his shoulder and nuzzled against his wet hair.

“Do you want a bath as well?”

Trexa froze and ran away into her cage.

“I’ll take that as a no.”

Zou Yue swiftly finished up his bath and got ready for the day. His mother had made some fresh porridge. He ate a bowl and left to see his house.

On the way there in the cab, he did some online shopping. Now that the house constriction work is finished, it was time to start collecting materials.

Online shopping was the easiest source to buy all the good she needed, but some items he needs in bulk.

“I heard there is a farmers market nearby. I’ll ask to uncle if I can buy some rice in bulk,” he mumbled to himself.

Soon his cab reached his new house. Just from the look on the outside he was very satisfied. The exterior was painted in pleasant beige. He paid off the cab and happily ran in and saw the middle aged man bending near the pond.

“Uncle~”

“I have a name kid, its Bohai, BOHAI!!” he grunted in annoyance.

“Yes yes, uncle Bo,”

Bohai sighed loudly. “Let’s take a look around first.”

Zou Yue happily hopped over to the now cleaned pond. They had dug the pond deeper that he had expected. “It looks deep,”

“Its ten feet. it took a lot of effort to clean it up.” Bohai grumbled.

The pond was cleaned. The bottom was cemented, and tiles were stuck on. At least knee level water was filled up. “Wow you guys filled it up as well,”

“Actually, we didn’t. This place has a natural spring from under.” Bohai climbed down the small ladder that they had installed and gestured to the small spot in the corner. Water was seeping through the tiles and it filling the pond up naturally.

Zou Yue’s eyes started to shimmer. ‘Fresh water!!! Oh my god this house is a treasure trove!!!!’ exited he climbed down and jumped over to the area it was leaking. With his hands cupped, he caught a handful. “It looks clean,”

“It tastes good as well. But you should get it tested with the water authority before drinking it,” Bohai mumbled and climbed up. “Come on kid, we have a lot more ground to cover,”