There's a chat group for pets in my neighborhood.

Wang Chu was startled by Cui Ding's words, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and stammered for a long time without being able to give a coherent explanation.

He didn't believe it when he first heard the news, until he got his hands on the canned food from Fangzhou Yanxuan. Even though it was the exact same thing, the cats and dogs in Tiancheng Community treated it completely differently.

They weren't the only ones who were equally bewildered.

In just two days, pet shops and pet hospitals around Tiancheng Community have been hit by an unprecedented wave of returns.

Merchants who had stockpiled large quantities of pet snacks and food in hopes of making a fortune by following the trend are now overwhelmed with return orders and are so worried they're practically losing all their hair.

Cui Ding sat in his office, smoking one cigarette after another in silence, his already sparse Mediterranean hair now looking even more disheveled.

He racked his brains but couldn't understand why things had turned out this way.

"Something's not right, something's a hundred thousand times wrong! There's definitely something wrong with this!" He stubbed out his cigarette in the ashtray.

As the director of a pet hospital, he would never believe such nonsense as "pets only recognize Ark Choice".

Everyone gets their products from the same OEM factory, the formulas and production lines are exactly the same, and even the packaging bags are the same. So why does it become so popular in the hands of the mainland?

"That little bastard must have done something wrong!" Cui Ding gritted his teeth. He had lost such a large sum of money for no reason, and he was determined to find out what was going on.

Just then, a regular customer came to the lobby with his golden retriever, Wangcai, demanding a refund.

Cui Ding put on a smile and quickly went out to greet the customer, persuading him to come to his office.

"Sister Li, please calm down. There's definitely something fishy going on here. I suspect that Ark Selection is engaging in some kind of unfair competition!"

With a forced smile, Cui Ding poured a cup of hot water and handed it over.

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"I don't know anything about unfair competition. I just know I trust you. I've been a patron of your business for a long time. I bought these things because I trusted you, but my dog ​​Wangcai won't eat them at all. You definitely have to give me a refund!"

"Calm down, calm down." Cui Ding took out a can of dog food with an Ark Select sticker from Hello Pet Store, which he bought from the drawer, and then took out another can of the same type that he sold at his own store.

"Look, these two cans are exactly the same, even with the labels covered. A dog definitely can't tell them apart. How could it possibly prefer one and refuse the other?" Cui Ding tried to explain, but Sister Li wouldn't listen at all.

"How would I know if they're the same? I can't tell the difference. I only sell the kind my dog, Wangcai, eats!"

"Like this!" In front of the customers, Cui Ding tore off the stickers from Ark Select completely, then opened the two peeled cans at the same time and poured them into two identical stainless steel bowls.

"Sister Li, look! The meat is exactly the same, the taste is exactly the same. I bet your Wangcai is eating both of them now!"

Just as Sister Li was still half-believing and half-doubting, Old Man Smoking Golden Retriever Wangcai had already secretly tipped them off in the group chat.

Wangcai: "@My God, buddy, I'm at Meiji Pet Hospital right now, and that balding old man is testing me! He tore off your label and insists on proving that the two cans of food are the same. What should I do? Or should I stick to what we agreed on beforehand?"

Upon seeing the message, Lu Fang did not rush to reply. Instead, a plan instantly came to mind.

"Wangcai, listen to me. Now, go along with this plan and eat both cans of food clean, the more delicious the better, consider it an extra treat."

Wangcai: "Huh? Doesn't that just do what they want?"

"That's exactly the effect I wanted! You just need to do as I say."

With free canned food in front of him, Wangcai couldn't resist any longer. His mouth was watering. Now that he had Lu Fang's approval, he immediately pounced on it, taking bites from the left and right. In less than a minute, he had licked the two stainless steel food bowls until they were shiny and bright.

"Hahahaha! Sister Li! You saw that!" Cui Ding slapped his thigh excitedly: "I told you, this is a scam, there's absolutely nothing wrong with our canned food! Although I don't know how he managed to charm these pets with just a logo, his methods are definitely not normal."

"Maybe they added some kind of food-attracting agent that's bad for dogs!" Slandering others has become an instinct for Cui Ding.

Looking at her son Wangcai's pathetic state and listening to Cui Ding's persuasion, Sister Li scratched her head awkwardly and began to wonder if it was just her imagination.

Cui Ding believed he had finally found something to hold against Lu Fang, and all he had to do was tear off the label.

So he immediately sent Wang Chu to the lobby to gather all the customers who were queuing up for refunds, and even specially moved a small table to the center of the lobby.

"Dear neighbors! Please calm down!" Cui Ding stood in the center of the hall, cleared his throat, and announced with a righteous expression.

"I know you've all been fooled by Ark Selection these past few days. They're exploiting your love for pets, using scarcity marketing and psychological manipulation. Today, I'm going to expose the true face of this industry cancer in front of everyone!"

Under everyone's watchful eyes, Cui Ding confidently took out several sets of canned goods. In front of everyone, he held up the Fangzhou Yanxuan cans to make sure everyone could see them, then tore off the labels, and then took out his own Meiji Yanxuan cans and placed them on the table.

"As you can see, after removing the labels, these cans of food are exactly the same!"

"Now, let's randomly shuffle the positions of these cans." Cui Ding moved the cans to a different spot on the table.

"Look closely, everyone. Without the labels, they are absolutely identical..."

Before Cui Ding could finish speaking, the hall suddenly fell silent.

A Border Collie walked up to a few cans of food, sniffed them, and quickly recognized the unique scent on the cans – it was the mark made by Lu Fang!

Without hesitation, it bit into the canned meat and began to devour it. As for the canned food from Meiji Hospital next to it, it not only didn't touch it, but also pushed it away with disdain.

Not only Border Collies, but all the Corgis and Samoyeds in the store, without exception, precisely chose Ark Select's canned food, showing no regard for Meiji's products.

The air in the hall seemed to freeze at that moment.

Cui Ding's smile froze completely, his originally rosy complexion turned deathly pale, and his mouth was so wide open that a whole egg could fit inside.

"This...this can't be! They're all the same thing! This is unbelievable!"