The Villainess's Heartthrob Script: I Can Talk to Animals

Chapter 178: Chapter 178: There’s a Pervert Among the Housemates

Renee Jennings gave him a small smile. "Hi, Richie. Do you have a pet?"

"No." An apologetic look appeared on Richie’s face. "I’m sorry, but can you please not end the call just yet?"

"What’s wrong?" Renee Jennings watched him, a flicker of confusion in her eyes. "Is there something I can help you with?"

Richie nodded hurriedly. "Yes, yes! You’re so smart."

Renee Jennings blinked. "Then go ahead and tell me about it."

Richie opened his mouth, but he seemed to find it too embarrassing to speak. He remained silent for a long moment.

[What’s going on?]

[If you’ve got something to say, just say it! Don’t waste everyone’s time!]

[You can get on the stream without a pet? Then I’m totally joining next time!!!]

Richie saw the live comments, and his face instantly flushed red. Awkward and at a loss, he said, "I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to waste everyone’s time. It’s just that this matter is really..."

Renee Jennings finished for him, "Private?"

"A little." Richie took a deep breath, mustered his courage, and said, "This is what happened..."

Richie had just graduated from college. He wanted to stay and build a life for himself in Zenvia, refusing to listen to his parents’ plan for him to return to his hometown for work.

To prove he could make it on his own, he didn’t ask his family for any financial support.

He wanted to save money, so he found a room in a house shared with several other people.

But ever since he moved into this house, strange things had started to happen.

Richie felt exhausted every day when he woke up.

[Maybe you’re just staying up too late and not getting enough sleep?]

[What’s so weird about feeling tired? I’m tired every day.]

"That’s not it." Richie hastily explained, "My sleep schedule is very regular. I get back from the gym at nine every day, read for an hour, and go to bed right at ten."

Renee Jennings, who hadn’t gone to bed early in ages, couldn’t help but comment, "You’re very self-disciplined."

"It’s my only good quality," Richie said with a shy smile before continuing, "I wake up at seven, so I’m getting at least eight hours. There’s no way I’m not getting enough sleep."

Renee Jennings raised an eyebrow slightly. "That is strange, then."

"And there’s something even stranger..." Richie’s cheeks instantly turned bright red. "Every night, I dream that a woman is kissing me..."

Standing to the side, Rhea Dempsey instinctively reached out and covered Renee Jennings’s ears.

Renee Jennings: "..."

[Hahahaha, whose hand is that?]

[LMAO, this isn’t for kids!]

Renee Jennings turned her head and gave Rhea Dempsey a helpless look. "Mom, really, you don’t have to do that."

"It was an automatic reaction. Sorry about that," Rhea Dempsey said with an awkward laugh.

[So that’s the streamer’s mom! Haha, that’s hilarious!]

[In her mom’s eyes, the streamer is still a little kid who can’t listen to stuff like this.]

After that little interruption, Richie became even more embarrassed.

Not daring to look at the screen, he asked in a low voice, "Um, can I turn my camera off? I’ll turn it back on after I finish explaining."

Renee Jennings saw that his ears and neck were completely red and agreed with a smile, "Of course."

Richie looked incredibly relieved. "Thank you!"

He let out a sigh of relief and continued, "At first, I just thought I was a healthy young guy, and having dreams like that was normal."

[Hahaha, now that his camera’s off, the cute guy isn’t so timid anymore.]

[He was so embarrassed before. His blushing face was so cute~~~]

[Aww, the streamer shouldn’t have let him turn off his camera!]

Richie hurriedly explained, "Please understand, everyone. I can’t keep talking if I don’t turn it off..."

"It’s alright, they’re just joking," Renee Jennings said softly. "Please continue."

"Okay." Richie took a sip of water. "I figured it was normal, so I didn’t think much of it. But then one day, while I was showering after the gym, I discovered I actually had a hickey!"

Renee Jennings raised an eyebrow. "How are you so sure it was a hickey?"

"I didn’t know at first. A friend from the gym was the one who told me." Richie’s voice dropped even lower. "He showed me one his girlfriend had left on him... It looked exactly the same!"

He sighed, his tone aggrieved. "I don’t even have a girlfriend, but these things are just appearing on me out of nowhere. The way everyone looks at me has changed."

[That’s so creepy. It couldn’t be a ghost, could it?]

[A pervy female ghost...]

"No way, right?" Richie said, terrified. "Don’t scare me, you guys. I get scared easily."

Renee Jennings frowned slightly. "Does this happen often?"

"Yes! Almost every single night!" Richie sounded extremely troubled. "One time, it was even on my neck. I was too embarrassed to even go outside!"

Renee Jennings asked, "Then have you thought about getting a security camera?"

[Yeah! Get a camera and you’ll have your answer!]

[Honestly, that’s pretty terrifying. It would be even scarier if it were happening to a girl...]

"I did buy a camera," Richie said, sounding even more aggrieved. "But for some reason, they always break right away. I’ve bought three or four of them, and they all just stop working."

[Cameras don’t break that easily. Something fishy is definitely going on!]

[Is it a ghost or a person?]

Renee Jennings thought for a moment, then asked, "Have you tried staying awake all night? If someone enters your room, you could catch them in the act."

"I actually tried that, too," Richie said with a wry smile. "I even drank several cups of coffee one night, but I still ended up falling asleep. Besides, this sort of thing doesn’t happen when I sleep somewhere else."

[Then it’s not a ghost, it’s a person!]

[One of the housemates must be a pervert. And who knows if it’s a man or a woman... If it’s a man, that’s just... I can’t even imagine!]

Renee Jennings was also getting curious about what was really going on.

She said softly, "Richie, how would you like me to help you?"

Richie turned his camera back on, his expression solemn. "I’d like to borrow a pet to keep in my room, to have it watch and see what’s happening. Then I’d like to ask you to find out what it saw. I only moved in a month ago, and I signed a one-year lease."

Renee Jennings raised an eyebrow slightly. "Is your room clean? Are there any cockroaches?"

Richie, not understanding why she would suddenly ask such a thing, said awkwardly, "Well, it’s a shared house with a lot of different people, and some of my housemates don’t always take out the trash after cooking or getting takeout... so yeah, there are definitely cockroaches."

Renee Jennings smiled. "That’s perfect."

"Huh?" A look of confusion crossed Richie’s face. "How... How is that perfect?"

’They’re disgusting,’ he thought.

"Go find a cockroach in your room right now and catch one alive," Renee Jennings said. She paused for a moment before adding, "And remember to be polite about it."

Richie: "..."

[Don’t tell me... Streamer, you can communicate with cockroaches?]

[Holy crap, what kind of genius did I subscribe to?!]

Richie saw the live comments, and his eyes suddenly lit up. He immediately stood up. "I’ll go look for one right now."

He usually saw cockroaches scurrying around all the time, but now that he actually needed one, he couldn’t even find a single dropping.