All the hair on Da Mi's body stood up. It was afraid even when facing someone who was a hundred times bigger than it.

However, in order to protect its little master, it rushed forward fearlessly.

Its fur was blown up, making itself look a lot bigger, like a fluffy ball of fur.

However, the princes in front of it didn't even take the little prince Xiao Ping seriously, so how could they be afraid of it?

In their eyes, this cat was as weak as an ant, just like Emperor Xiao Ping.

"Where did this weird thing come from?" a prince said with disgust.

"I've seen this cat. It often plays with Old Sixteen."

He was the emperor's sixteenth son. They didn't even want to remember his name and just called him Old Sixteen.

The prince sneered and a vicious idea came to his mind.

He reached out to grab the cat's tail, but was scratched on the base of the palm by Big Cat's claw.

"Hiss - beast!" The prince threw Da Mi to the ground. Da Mi let out a wail, spit out blood, and fell to the ground.

The prince was still not satisfied. He looked at Emperor Xiao Ping who was lying on the ground unable to move. With a look of anger on his face, he grabbed Da Mi's tail, picked up the seriously injured Da Mi, and swung it in front of Emperor Xiao Ping's eyes for a few times.

"You ignorant beast, I'll show you what happens if you offend me!" He sneered, swung Da Mi around a few times, and then let go and threw Da Mi into the lake next to him.

With a "splash", Da Mi was drowned in the cold lake water before he even had the chance to take a last look at his owner.

"Big Mi——" Emperor Xiao Ping looked at the disappearing little figure, his heart broken with pain, his body shaking.

He struggled to get up, and could no longer see or hear the scenes around him or the curses and ridicules in his ears.

The only thing in his mind was Da Mi. He jumped into the lake desperately to look for Da Mi.

No, nothing at all——

He sank underwater and tried hard to open his eyes wide, but he couldn't see even a hair of Da Mi. The water was icy and heavy, so he slowly closed his eyes.

When he opened his eyes again, he saw his mother crying beside the bed.

"Mom, where is Da Mi?" His voice was hoarse and not as clear as before.

When his mother saw him wake up, she stopped crying and was surprised and delighted. "Son, you finally woke up. I thought you would not make it and would leave me alone..."

Her eyes turned red again and tears oozed from the corners of her eyes.

"Mom, where's Da Mi?" He was very nervous. He grabbed his mother's hand and kept repeating, "Mom, where's Da Mi? Where's Da Mi?"

His mother held his little hand and said, "You are almost dead, why are you still thinking about the cat? You are in this trouble because, first, you didn't listen to me and acted too aggressively outside, and didn't know how to keep a low profile. Second, it's because of the cat. If you didn't jump into the lake to find it, how could you have caught typhoid fever and walked through the gates of life and death?"

"Remember my words in the future. Don't show off again. Listen to me. Say you can't recite the books you can recite, and write worse. When the teacher tests you, make more mistakes. Also, stay away from the prince and his men. Don't offend them again. I'm afraid that if you do it again, your life will be in danger."

This time, Emperor Xiao Ping understood and comprehended his mother's words.

His innocent eyes were tinged with despair, "Mother, Da Mi is dead, right? If I don't listen to mother, mother and I will be like Da Mi, right?"

The mother looked sad and said, "Good child, don't stand out and don't ask for anything. We have to save our lives, so this is the only way."

He lowered his head and said, "I'll remember this, kid."

His carefree, unbridled pride seemed to have gone with Da Mi.

After he recovered from his illness, he went to the study again. His intelligence and quickness had completely disappeared. He became taciturn and had no desires. He could no longer answer the teacher's questions. He just sat in the last corner of the study every day, staring blankly at the bluestone floor under his feet.

Later, he learned that when he sank into the lake that day, the prince and his companions saw that something was wrong and ran away in a hurry. It was Xiao Dezi who was tending to flowers and plants by the lake who saved him.

Xiao Dezi was a young eunuch with no backing and no master, so Emperor Xiao Ping asked for him and kept him by his side.

The queen is a vengeful person. The prince was scratched by her cat. How could she let them go?

Later, the queen caught a minor mistake made by my mother and had her beaten with twenty sticks. My mother was seriously injured and had to lie in bed for two months before she dared to get out and walk.

From then on, he became even less talkative. Just like his mother, he kept his true feelings hidden in layers and lived quietly in the Lanxin Pavilion, as if there was no prince like him in the palace.

After the memory was played, the light on the entire screen gathered into a bright white dot and disappeared in the center of the screen.

Su Wanti's face was covered with tears, and her fists were clenched so tightly that they made a creaking sound.

She was born in the end times, a world with serious pollution, energy depletion, and scarce resources. There was not enough food for people to eat, let alone raise pets.

At the beginning of the end of the world, there was a food shortage and small domestic animals were quickly eaten up by humans. Later, all edible wild animals were also eaten up by humans.

Later, keeping pets became a privilege of the powerful and wealthy. Ordinary people could not even see cats, dogs, guinea pigs, parrots, snakes, and lizards, the small animals that were once kept as pets.

What ordinary people can see are horrible rats, mutated cockroaches and some weird-looking mutant animals that have mutated after being affected by nuclear radiation. These animals only attack humans and eat them as food. Humans avoid them and will never tame them or keep them as pets.

It was the first time that Su Wanti saw normal animals after she traveled to this small world.

It turns out that normal little animals are so cute.

On the farm, she lived alone in a small courtyard, which was often visited by some furry uninvited guests.

They are all kittens and puppies raised by nearby farmers.

Su Wanti still remembers the feeling when she first touched the kitten. It was furry and warm. The kitten was very friendly. It raised its little head, squinted its eyes and purred at her.

At that moment, Su Wanti felt very happy.

So, even though she had never met Da Mi, she could still empathize with the young Emperor Xiao Ping.

"92, what happened to those princes later?" Her eyes were red and her voice was filled with anger.

[In the struggle for succession, these princes died or were injured. The crown prince was deposed, the tenth and fourteenth princes initiated a coup and were executed, and the seventh and ninth princes formed a clique and were exiled to the border, and were not allowed to return to the capital for the rest of their lives.]

After hearing about the tragic end of these people, Su Wanti's anger dissipated a little.

Fortunately, these princes with bad character did not sit on the throne.

She didn't believe that a prince who had no sympathy for the weak animals around him could feel love for the people of the world whom he could not see.

It seems that this experience had an extremely serious negative impact on Emperor Xiao Ping, and his character was changed because of it.

Su Wanti frowned and thought for a moment, then said, "92, find me a cat that looks like Da Mi. I can be useful to you."

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