Renee Jennings was already experienced with this.

This kind of situation called for a live stream.

After waking up and eating breakfast, she changed out of her pajamas and sat cross-legged in the living room, wearing a red sweater and black pants.

At 10:30, Renee Jennings picked up her phone.

Slider swam around excitedly. "Hey family, we’re finally going live again!"

Renee Jennings opened Douyin and was shocked to see her follower count was approaching two million. Her pretty eyes filled with disbelief.

’I haven’t streamed in days, but my follower count is still going up?’

It wasn’t just her follower count; her private messages had piled up too.

Renee Jennings did a quick scan, and her attention was caught by a private message from three days ago. It was from a user named "Milk Tea with 30% Sugar."

Her gaze hardened slightly as she tapped on it to read the full message.

[Milk Tea with 30% Sugar: Hi Renee Jennings, I think Bubbles’s owner, Lana, who you posted about, is the Lana I know. She’s my high school classmate. We keep in touch occasionally, but when I messaged her last month, she didn’t reply. I thought she might have just missed it, so I sent another one later, but she still didn’t answer. I asked our other friends, and they said she hasn’t replied to them either. It’s really strange.]

After reading the entire message, Renee Jennings’s brow slowly furrowed.

She replied to "Milk Tea with 30% Sugar": [Hi, thank you for telling me this. I wanted to ask, do you know Lana’s boyfriend?]

She remembered Bubbles saying that Lana had left him with a friend because she was going on a long trip with her boyfriend.

Renee Jennings waited for a moment, but the message was still marked as "unread."

With only nine hours left on the countdown timer in front of her, she followed "Milk Tea with 30% Sugar" back and then started her live stream.

Renee Jennings adjusted her phone’s angle. The stream already had a thousand viewers.

"Hello, everyone," she greeted.

[Hi, streamer! You’re live so early today!]

[First!]

[I finally caught you live, ahhh!]

[What’s going to happen today? I’m so excited!]

[Finally found you, good thing I didn’t give up~]

Renee Jennings glanced over the bullet comments, a faint smile playing on her lips. "Thank you all for your support. Today, I’ll be connecting with two viewers who own pets to hear their fur babies’ wishes."

The viewer count had already surpassed five thousand.

Renee Jennings began accepting calls.

The first person to connect was a user named "Coke and Ice."

A simple, pretty face appeared on the split screen. The woman had shoulder-length black hair, half-tied up. When she smiled, two dimples appeared on her cheeks.

"Hi, streamer! I can’t believe my luck, I actually got through!" Coke and Ice said, her face full of pleasant surprise.

A hint of a smile appeared in Renee Jennings’s eyes. "Coke and Ice, do you have a pet?"

"I do." Coke and Ice walked over with her phone to a white Pekingese. "This is my son. His name is Dumpling."

Renee Jennings greeted the dog, "Hello, Dumpling. I’m Renee Jennings."

Dumpling stared at Renee Jennings on the phone screen for a moment, then turned his head away, uninterested.

Coke and Ice ruffled Dumpling’s fluffy head. "Streamer, my Dumpling has been acting a little strange lately. Could you help me figure out why?"

"Strange how?" Renee Jennings asked.

Coke and Ice: "He’s been staring at the air conditioner all the time lately. I don’t know why."

"Staring at the air conditioner?" Renee Jennings looked at Dumpling and asked, "Dumpling, is there something in the air conditioner?"

"Yeah!" Dumpling replied.

Renee Jennings: "Can you tell me what’s inside the air conditioner?"

Dumpling blinked, looking at Renee Jennings again, a shocked expression appearing on his fluffy face. "Huh? You can understand me?"

"I can." Renee Jennings smiled and met his gaze. "Your owner is very worried about you. Can you tell me why you keep staring at the air conditioner?"

"Okay." Dumpling nodded and barked softly a few times. "The other day, Second Grand-uncle came into Mom’s room and put something in the air conditioner. I don’t know what it is."

"Second Grand-uncle?" Renee Jennings asked Coke and Ice, "Do you have a second grand-uncle?"

Coke and Ice looked surprised. "Why are you suddenly talking about my second grand-uncle?"

Renee Jennings: "Dumpling saw your second grand-uncle put something inside the air conditioner in your room."

"Huh?" Coke and Ice frowned. "Why would my second grand-uncle put something in my AC? Was he adding refrigerant?"

[You don’t even need to use the AC in this weather! Why would he add refrigerant now?]

[I have a wild idea... could it be a hidden camera?!]

[A camera is very likely.]

[My friend had someone come fix her AC last time, and they secretly installed a camera inside it.]

Coke and Ice saw the viewers’ comments and suddenly felt a little scared.

"No way..." she said hesitantly. "Why would my second grand-uncle install a camera in my room?"

Although that’s what Coke and Ice said, she was growing more and more frantic.

She ran into the bedroom and shook the sleeping man awake. "Honey, wake up! Quick!"

Coke and Ice’s husband opened his eyes and frowned. "What’s wrong?"

"Dumpling said Second Grand-uncle put something in our bedroom’s air conditioner," she said nervously.

"Huh?" Coke and Ice’s husband rubbed his eyes, feeling like he was still dreaming. "What are you talking about, honey? How could Dumpling talk?"

"The streamer translated for me," Coke and Ice explained. "She can understand animals."

Coke and Ice’s husband couldn’t help but laugh, reaching out to pinch his wife’s cheek. "Are you being silly? Did you get scammed on a live stream again?"

"No," Coke and Ice said, exasperated. "This streamer is the real deal. She wouldn’t lie."

Her husband didn’t take it seriously at all. He just rolled over, ready to go back to sleep.

[Ah, her husband doesn’t believe her!]

[His reaction is pretty normal, to be honest. If someone told me that, I wouldn’t believe them either.]

[Seriously, you have to take this kind of thing seriously.] 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

[Why don’t you grab a ladder and check it yourself?]

[Yeah, it doesn’t hurt to look. What if there really is a camera?]

Coke and Ice looked at the comments, feeling her own confidence waver.

She threw off her husband’s blanket and raised her voice. "Get up! I’m going to get angry if you don’t get up right now!"

Coke and Ice’s husband immediately got out of bed, smiling placatingly. "Don’t be mad. I’ll listen to you, alright?"

He put on a jacket, grabbed a stool to stand on, and reached up to open the air conditioner’s cover.

"Do you see anything?" Coke and Ice asked nervously.

"Nope," her husband said, shaking his head.

Just as he said that, he let out a "Huh?"

"What is it?" Coke and Ice asked again.

Her husband frowned, picking up a small object that looked like a pinhole camera. "What’s this?"

"Let me see." Coke and Ice took it from her husband’s hand and showed it to the viewers on the stream. "What is this?"

[Oh my god, that’s a pinhole camera!]

[Girl, call the police!]

[Thank god you connected with the streamer today. Otherwise, who knows how long it would have taken you to find that...]