Pet Romance

Chapter 1…
Shen Qian is a woman who has lost her memory. Her memories before the age of twenty are a complete blank. She only remembers waking up from a hospital bed, with a middle-aged woman rushing towards her, calling her “Qianqian” incessantly. That woman claimed to be Shen Qian’s mother. Shen Qian told her she had lost her memory, but her mother just smiled, not seeming particularly distressed by Shen Qian’s amnesia. Shen Qian had no father; in her subsequent memories, she lived with her mother, dependent on each other. Shen Qian’s family was not well-off; her mother had no stable job, and with the ongoing medical expenses, they were stretched thin. After waking up, Shen Qian recuperated for about a month or two before picking up her textbooks again, returning to her senior year of high school, studying with unwavering focus for a year. However, Shen Qian was already quite old by then; she was twenty when she regained her memory. Shen Qian was curious about how she lost her memory, and her mother reluctantly mentioned it was due to a fall down the stairs. Shen Qian believed it. She also asked about her past, and her mother would recount trivial matters, but there wasn’t a single photo in the house for her to reminisce over. In the early years, Shen Qian was still curious about her past, mainly because of the nine evenly spaced ear piercings on her left ear, from the earlobe to the cartilage, suggesting they were all pierced at once and were quite old, while her right ear only had one ordinary piercing. But as time passed, her curiosity waned. She thought, the past is the past; without memory, so be it. What matters is living well now. Yes, she was doing quite well. Although her grades weren’t great, she managed to get into a second-tier university, studying the least popular major. Shen Qian would eventually become a veterinarian, a doctor who treats animals. A girl named Jingjing from the same alley often remarked that Shen Qian was pitiful, unable to treat humans and relegated to treating animals. Indeed, Shen Qian’s fate was quite tragic; she initially wanted to be a farmer, choosing agricultural university, but due to her grades, she was assigned to veterinary science. That was one thing, but she was then taken under the wing of a professor specializing in “animal hybridization,” becoming his last disciple, spending days studying the crossbreeding of different animal species. After years of diligent study, Shen Qian had acquired some skills. She graduated and started working at a small veterinary clinic as an obstetrician for animals, essentially an animal nanny.