Chapter 6
As soon as the little cat stepped out of the room, he encountered the butler.
The little cat lifted his head and greeted the butler grandfather:
“Meow.”
Butler Liu smiled, bent down, and patted the little cat’s head. He said to the white kitten:
“While you were watching cartoons, the young master already found several tutors for you. I just contacted them one by one. We’ll go through them one at a time.”
The little cat’s eyes widened in disbelief upon hearing this.
One tutor wasn’t enough? There were several?
Even after the butler left, the little cat didn’t stop cursing Li Jingxing silently in his heart.
Fuming, the little cat ran back to the sofa to continue watching cartoons. After a while, he suddenly pondered aloud:
“System, if I kill him now, will our mission be considered complete?”
The little cat was already considering the feasibility.
The system panicked: “Darling, don’t mess around!!”
The little cat squinted his eyes, holding a grudge.
After a while—
“By the way, what daily tasks did you say I need to do again?” the little cat asked.
The system, accustomed to the cat’s erratic thinking, listed the daily tasks in front of the little cat: “Mostly things like taking care of his daily needs—waking him up warmly in the morning, making a loving breakfast, comforting him when he’s down, giving small surprises from time to time, and so on.”
“Oh.”
The little cat scratched his claws on the leather sofa.
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At 4:30 a.m., the entire villa awoke to a sharp cat’s cry.
The little cat first groomed his fur, then went to Li Jingxing’s door, repeatedly knocking and meowing.
“Meow-wow-wow!”
After a long time, Li Jingxing, dragging his weary body and rubbing his forehead, opened the door; his face was full of pain.
“Do you need something?”
His heart, already exhausted from the long night, was startled awake.
The little cat looked up confidently and meowed: “Meow-wow.”
Time to get up.
Cats get up at this hour.
The little cat flicked his tail tip nonchalantly and turned to leave.
After being woken, Li Jingxing couldn’t fall back asleep. He glanced at his phone—still no new friend requests. He pinched his forehead and went to wash up.
Soon after, once Li Jingxing finished grooming, the substitute cat somehow dragged a bowl of cat food and freeze-dried snacks over to him and looked up at him with pleading little cat eyes.
Li Jingxing said: “...I’m not eating that.”
The little cat looked confused and asked the system: “Didn’t you apply a filter for him? Why won’t he eat cat food?”
The system screamed: “Even if the filter is turned up 180 times, he’s human! He can’t possibly nibble on cat food with you! He still has some human sanity!”
After all, they couldn’t just apply a filter and have the male lead end up in a psychiatric hospital.
The little cat felt a bit disappointed and pulled the cat food back.
She had originally wanted to feed her human cat food, but her human said cats and humans are different—cat food would be fatal for humans, so she gave up.
Recalling the earnest and serious look in her human’s eyes when saying that, the little cat wasn’t convinced. She pushed the cat food toward Li Jingxing again:
“Meow!”
Try it!
The butler chuckled nearby: “Young master, she even prepared breakfast for you.”
Li Jingxing looked at her with a complicated expression for a moment and said: “You don’t have to be so attentive. I won’t develop feelings for you.”
The little cat glanced sideways at him.
Li Jingxing had a simple breakfast and then said to the cat: “You’ll come with me to the company later. It’s about time to find you a job.”
The little cat was puzzled.
The butler reminded in time: “Young master, you forgot. The little cat hasn’t been to school yet. How can she work?”
The little cat’s expression tightened.
The little cat also felt uneasy.
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Li Jingxing said: “Then it’ll be part-time study and part-time work.”
The little cat cursed silently.
The butler had grown very tolerant of the young master’s mental state. Ever since he realized the young master was not quite right mentally, he understood everything the young master said.
The butler smiled and asked: “Young master, what’s the little cat’s name? She’ll need to be enrolled for classes.”
Li Jingxing paused and looked at the little cat:
“You’re called... Xiaobai?”
“Meow-wow!”
I’m called Sai Tianxian.
The little cat answered loudly.
You can also call me Tianxian.
The little cat even struck a cool pose to go with her name.
“Let’s just call her Xiaobai,” Li Jingxing said to the butler.
The butler looked at the wide-eyed little cat and smiled: “Alright, Xiaobai it is.”
Xiaobai thought to herself: Whatever.
You annoying humans.
After breakfast, the little cat got into the same car as yesterday and followed Li Jingxing to his company.
Assistant Xiao Wang was waiting at the company entrance. When he saw them arrive, he immediately came forward to open the door for Li Jingxing, then moved to her side and, while Li Jingxing wasn’t paying attention, rubbed the little cat’s head with a smile.
The little cat said: “...Meow.”
Hearing the meow, Li Jingxing turned around and saw the unbothered assistant and Xiaobai jumping out of the car.
He walked over, frowned, and told the cat: “Don’t make a fuss at the company entrance and attract attention.”
Li Jingxing warned the cat: “Although I revealed your existence on social media last night, you know well that I have no feelings for you.”
The little cat was speechless.
The little cat cursed silently.
After cursing humans, she cursed the system’s ridiculous plot and idiotic filter.
Li Jingxing stared at her for a moment, then suddenly took out his phone and searched online:
“What does it mean when a cat opens its mouth at a human but makes no sound?”
The top answer: If you see your cat open its mouth to meow without sound, congratulations, your cat loves you very much.
Li Jingxing sighed, rubbed his forehead, and smiled bitterly.
He knew it.
This cat was really something...
Li Jingxing poked the little cat’s head and said in a complicated tone: “Don’t love me too much. I... can’t give you what you want.”
The little cat was confused.
Her ears! Her ears!!
The cat’s ears were already dirty!
The little cat’s ears twitched back, and she meowed loudly.
The system only heard censored beeps, showing how filthy the cat’s curses were.
Li Jingxing looked puzzled. It seemed the cat not only made noise but was even more intense.
Does she love him that much?
Li Jingxing said coldly: “I can give you money, but not love.”
The little cat stopped meowing.
She seriously suggested to the system: “I don’t think it’s a filter problem. You should find time to exorcise him. He can’t keep going like this.”
The system, weary, replied: “Let’s just get through it and finish the task as soon as possible.”
Seeing the cat no longer reacting and perhaps feeling a bit sad, Li Jingxing tried patting her head and sighed softly.
He told assistant Wang to put a collar on her. The collar was studded with jewels, looking especially magnificent, especially against her pure white fur, making her appear even more noble.
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“Let’s go to my office,” Li Jingxing said to the cat.
Meanwhile, the secretaries in the CEO’s office were busy but couldn’t resist gossiping in their small group chat:
Secretary A: “What did the announcement from President Li at midnight mean? I didn’t dare like it.”
Secretary B: “It’s about raising a cat, right? You know, cat owners always end up showing off their cats.”
Secretary C: “You’re oversimplifying. Yesterday, President Li attended a banquet with a mysterious female companion. I heard from an insider that he urgently asked Xiao Li to work overtime and pick out a dress to be delivered to the banquet hall. Looks like he’s struck by love. So maybe the cat is connected to that mysterious woman?”
Secretary D: “That makes sense. If he posted a photo together, that’d be too obvious. Posting a cat pic lets everyone know he has a girlfriend, but also shows his exquisite taste.”
Everyone felt they had uncovered the truth and gossiped wildly in the chat. The messages kept updating. Finally, when President Li arrived with a cat, all eyes turned toward them.
Sai Sai, under so many gazes, confidently walked forward on her little paws.
As she neared one of the young men, he secretly took a photo of her.
The little cat was puzzled.
Shortly after, photos of the “prince cat” began spreading inside the company.
“Honestly, that prince cat really looks noble.”
“President Li is so extravagant, putting jewels on the cat.”
“What a beautiful cat, she could be on a magazine cover.”
Meanwhile, Sai Tianxian didn’t know her photos were widely circulated inside the company. She was glaring fiercely at the tablet in front of her, which was playing first-grade elementary school lessons.
Li Jingxing told the cat: “I don’t have high expectations. Finish the elementary courses this week. Your teacher will come soon. You’ll study in my break room.”
The little cat didn’t want to listen. She even tried to turn and leave, but Li Jingxing pressed her head down, forcing her to stay in front of the tablet.
“Okay! Okay! Study!” he said.
The little cat silently grumbled to the system: “This counts as extra work. You guys have to pay me a subsidy.”
System 0521: “Darling, we don’t have that precedent.”
“I’m about to have a meltdown! I’m about to have a meltdown!” the little cat rolled around.
System 0521 searched through the plot but found no such scene. This was indeed an extra task. She hurriedly comforted the soon-to-strike cat:
“You’ll get a subsidy, don’t worry, Tianxian. I’ll apply for it now. Hurry up and study. Once you learn it, following the plot will be easier.”
The little cat protested even more vehemently to the system.
This ridiculous plot was enough to make anyone want to run away; who wants to study?
Seeing the cat freeze in place, Li Jingxing thought she had submitted. He placed the cat and tablet in the break room and left a black card beside her.
“I told you I won’t treat you badly in life. This is your card—no limit. Buy whatever you want.”
After the system’s explanation, the little cat was stunned.
She looked at the card and then at the human before her. The man curled his lips into a cold smile:
“Cat, have you never seen this much money before?”
The little cat tapped her paws.
Yes, human.
The little cat surrendered before money.
Li Jingxing rubbed the cat’s head again and turned away; he had a lot of work to handle.
After he left, the whole cat was excited, carrying the black card and wondering where to put it. She kept asking the system in her heart:
“System, system, if I go out with this card, can I buy an entire mall and turn it into a cat café?”
System 0521: “You can, host.”
“Can I replace all the floors in the mall with scratching boards?”
System 0521 sighed: “Of course, even the ceiling can be changed.”
The little cat happily tapped her paws back and forth. After centuries of poverty, her little brain couldn’t think of what else to buy. But now she was a rich cat—she couldn’t remain unnoticed any longer. She would take the male lead’s black card and go explore the world!
...And, by the way, teach him a lesson.
Let him know what it means for money to always run out.