Adorable Pet Daily Life Ch. 132

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Once they signed the contract, the deal was officially set. Zheng Jiamei grabbed Ethan's face and gave it a squish, saying, "Our Ethan's gonna be a star!"

Wang Bo said, "Wasn't he already a star?"

Ethan was already famous around here—especially after he bravely saved a kid who fell into the river last year. Everyone in the neighborhood adored him.

Because of Ethan's commercial gig, the hospital was full of cheerful vibes too.

Right then, Wang Wei came in from outside and said, "I think I just saw the old owl."

"No way," Wang Bo ran out first.

Shen Luo didn't think it was likely either, because he'd already told the owl not to come into the city anymore. It had only been a few days—was it already failing to survive out there?

Not long after, Wang Bo came running back. "Boss, it's real. I recognize him—he's on a tree."

Shen Luo had no choice but to go out. He found the tree, and just as he saw clearly that it was indeed the owl perched on it, the dark figure swooped straight toward him. Shen Luo quickly raised his arm, letting the owl land on it.

That was when he noticed the owl had something in its beak. His first reaction was: is it trying to repay me with a dead rat or something? But looking closer—turns out it was a sparrow. A bloody, injured sparrow.

Shen Luo reached out his hand, and the owl dropped the sparrow into it—like it was saying, this sparrow's hurt, help it.

Shen Huo felt pretty comforted by the owl's trust, but tossing down a sparrow like this—he honestly didn't know what to say.

He took both birds to the hospital and handed them over to Wang Bo. They'd check the owl first, then look at the sparrow. That bloody mess of a sparrow—no one even knew if it was alive or not!

Turned out the owl was totally fine. It had already been vaccinated at the hospital, and the antibodies were still working, so there was no concern about it carrying any disease or whatever.

The owl stayed for a bit, then quickly flew off again. Since it had delivered the sparrow, the hospital had no choice but to do its best to treat the little bird.

The sparrow looked like a wreck, but after they washed the blood off, they realized it wasn't that bad. The injuries weren't serious, and the blood didn't even seem to be the sparrow's. If it had really lost that much blood, it'd be dead by now.

Wang Bo disinfected it, applied medicine, wrapped it up, and set it up in an isolation room.

Shen Huo started wondering if he should set up a separate ward just for wild animals. After all, pets and wild animals were different. Wild ones lived in more complicated environments, ate all sorts of sketchy stuff, and might be carrying dangerous germs or parasites. Meanwhile, house pets were pampered and definitely didn't have the same level of resistance.

The sparrow stayed completely limp the whole time, and Shen Huo figured it had probably passed out from sheer terror. Must've just barely escaped some life-or-death situation.

Once Wang Bo finished treating it, he put it into a small enclosure. When the sparrow finally came to, it started flapping around inside the cage like crazy, bumping into everything and crying out in panic—like it still thought it was in danger.

Shen Huo had no choice but to try and calm it down. But the sparrow seemed completely stuck in freak-out mode. No matter how many times Shen Huo reassured it, it stayed scared out of its mind. Luckily, it soon got too tired to keep flailing and stopped to rest.

It took a lot of effort for Shen Huo to finally get the sparrow to believe it was actually safe. Once it calmed down, he let out a small sigh of relief.

Sparrows were incredibly skittish birds—any little noise could send them flying. But they were also kinda dumb. If they saw food, they'd go for it, no matter the risk. Shen Huo was honestly speechless dealing with how stupidly cute sparrows could be.

He'd met plenty of dumb-cute animals before, each with their own flavor of ridiculous. Sparrows just came off as plain dumb. The cute part... not really feeling it yet.

After signing the contract, Shen Huo had to take Ethan to shoot a commercial.

Like most car ads centered around "family" themes, they didn't hire any big-name celebrities. Same thing here. The guy in the ad looked successful and handsome, and the woman was pleasant to look at—not drop-dead gorgeous, but very easy on the eyes. Then there was a pair of grandparents and two kids, making up the full family unit. Ethan, of course, was the family's pet.

This was Shen Huo's first time seeing a professional indoor commercial shoot up close. It was pretty legit. But honestly, Shen Huo thought the final commercial and the filming setup were like the difference between a product photo and what actually gets delivered. The real set was shockingly barebones.

The ad's concept focused on family and how spacious the car was, so there was a scene of everyone getting into the car at the front door.

Only, the entire street scene was built on set, and only a tiny part of it was actually constructed. They said everything else would be added in post. That's when Shen Huo finally realized all those classy setups and fancy interiors in commercials were just fakes.

This scene was super simple: the dad carried the kids into the car and buckled them up, the mom helped the grandparents in and buckled them up too, and lastly, Ethan had to hop in as well. Everyone in the car had to look super happy.

After rehearsing twice, they began the official shoot. Ethan was super smart. Once Shen Huo explained everything clearly, he knew exactly what to do. In fact, he even did an extra trick—jumping in through the window. It was such a hit that the ad's creative director changed the plan on the spot and made that the new entrance shot for Ethan.

This kind of commercial wasn't hard to shoot. Once everyone got into position, the man just had to symbolically turn the steering wheel, and the rest of the family smiled at each other or looked happily out the window. That was it.

They wrapped that scene up in half a day. Next came a beach scene.

Shen Huo didn't have much to do except keep an eye on Ethan. Ethan's role was basically to play with the two kids—like getting buried in the sand by them or running around in a game of tag. The whole point was to show the joy of family life.

The set for this scene was also pretty simple. They'd probably add the ocean in post using a green screen or something. But at least there was plenty of sand.

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