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Chapter 38 – Pay off debt

After finishing work late at night and returning to the hotel, Qin Chen, who had been filming all day, came out after washing. He didn’t see a cat on the sofa or bed but the sound of the keyboard ‘click click’ came to the other side of the curtain.

Qin Chen’s still warm hand lifted the curtain and saw Xu Jian squatting on the computer desk which was turned on.

Xu Jian was tapping on the keyboard. After many practices, his typing speed and accuracy have improved a lot.

The light of the computer screen reflected on Xu Jian’s face. Qin Chen inexplicably saw seriousness and solemnity from the cat’s face that was as round as a plate.

Qin Chen saw in his periphery, on the big screen was a chatbox, and the note was ‘DoubenDoubenDou’.

With a raised brow, Qin Chen secretly guessed ——this note, is the other party a girl?

Is it a girlfriend?

Pulling the chair next to him and sitting down, Qin Chen looked at Xu Jian who heard the noise and turned his head and asked:

“Chatting with friends?”

Seeing that it was Qin Chen, Xu Jian breathed a sigh of relief while spitting in his heart that he walked without a sound like a cat while nodding his head:

Qin Chen asked again. “Girlfriend?”

As soon as his voice fell, the white cat head and tail shook together, and the meaning of denial wasn’t too obvious.^[1]said sarcastically

Raising his paw and pressing the enter button to send the message, Xu Jian moved not-so-obviously, and then turned to look at Qin Chen:

“Meow?”

Girlfriend? What are you thinking?

If Chen Doudou knew that he was treated as a woman by Qin Chen, he would be so angry that he would jump on the spot.

Knowing that he had misunderstood, Qin Chen said:

“Because you often chat with them.”

Qin Chen felt that Xu Jian had become a cat and had to type with difficulty to send a message to that person called ‘DoubenDoubenDou’. Therefore, this person must be very important to him.

When he heard Qin Chen’s words, Xu Jian slightly tilted his head to look at him, the meaning in his eyes: Is that so? 
After becoming a cat, Xu Jian’s entertainment activities are much less. Although he’s not considered as an Internet addict youth, he also has the common problem of young people——cellphones don’t leave their bodies.

Before he was worried about Qin Chen, he used a computer secretly. Now, he can finally surf the internet openly. Naturally, he will not let go of this opportunity.

Hence, after returning to the hotel door, as long as there are no outsiders, Xu Jian will use the computer to get on the Internet.

Qin Chen specially bought a laptop for him to type and to communicate, but Xu Jian felt that the laptop’s built-in keyboard wasn’t easy to use, so he used the hotel desktop more often than the laptop.

Anyway, now that we’re talking about it……

Xu Jian took a step back, and then patted the place where he was sitting just now with his paws, patting on one side and calling Qin Chen on the other:

“Meow~ meow meow.”

Come here.

Xu Jian even meows with a pat, but it wasn’t difficult for Qin Chan to understand his meaning. With a little effort on his long legs, he even slid over with his seat.

Not knowing whether it was intentional or not, Qin Chen temporarily lost his strength under his feet, his whole body leaned forward, and came to a close face-to-face with Xu Jian.

Qin Chen’s nose is less than a half-inch away from Xu Jian’s. One person and one cat were face-to-face.

Looking at the abruptly enlarged face in front of him, Xu Jian’s breathing stagnated.

After a brief daze, Xu Jian raised his two front paws and pasted them on both of Qin Chen’s cheeks, then pushed out with force:

“Meow meow…….”

I told you to come closer a little bit but you didn’t have to get too close, right?!

The distance between the two was so close that Xu Jian can clearly count the other’s distinct eyelashes, inwardly cursing:

A big man, what’s with his quite long eyelashes?

Extremely fine eyelashes?

Qin Chen was pushed by Xu Jian to increase the distance between the two, with a smile in his eyes, he slowly said:

“Sorry, I didn’t control the strength well.”

Looking at Qin Chen’s face without the slightest bit of apology, Xu Jian: “……”

I suspect that you just did it on purpose but there is no evidence.

At that moment, Xu Jian suspected that Qin Chen would directly knock him over, and in an instant, he even planned the route in his heart to escape the cat crash scene. 

One person and one cat stared at each other for a few seconds, and finally, Xu Jian took the lead to admit defeat. He went to the mouse, and raised his paw, and pulled to the scroll wheel to turn up his chat record with Chen Doudou.

Seeing Xu Jian with inflexible meat pads mastered a mouse bigger than his two cat paws combined, Qin Chen didn’t even think to help at all and watched him work with leisure. 

After moving the cursor to open the ‘see more chat history’, Xu Jian scrolled up again, scrolling and staring at the screen, and finally stopped at a certain place and didn’t move.

Xu Jian turned his head and gestured for Qin Chen to look at the screen.

Qin Chen paid attention to Xu Jian’s movement throughout the process. Seeing this, he turned his head and saw that the mouse cursor stopped on the words ‘10,000’ in the chat record.

Qin Chen looked at it carefully and saw that Xu Jian took the initiative to mention the 10,000 that he borrowed from DoubenDoubenDou before. Although the other party said he wasn’t in a hurry, Xu Jian still said he would pay it back the soonest.

This message was sent two days ago.

Qin Chen understood and asked:

“The 10,000 you said before, did you borrow it from him?”

Xu Jian nodded: Mm-hmm.

Xu Jian was quite embarrassed to mention this 10,000 to Qin Chen.

Qin Chen has shown great kindness to him. The time he ate, lived, and used added up is more than this figure. Reasonably speaking, he shouldn’t ask Qin Chen for money again.

It made him look particularly heartless.

But Xu Jian couldn’t help it. He knows Chen Doudou’s economic conditions, 10,000 isn’t much for Chen Doudou but it’s still quite a lot.

In addition, Chen Doudou is also a person who can’t save money. Xu Jian is worried that he (CD) will lend him (XJ) a sum of money. If he has been delayed for a long time, he won’t have any money to use, and he is too embarrassed to mention it himself.

So Xu Jian wanted to return it to him as soon as possible.

Xu Jian has also made up his mind that when he becomes a human next time, he can seize the time to reissue all kinds of documents, bank cards, and at that time, he can return the money back to Qin Chen.

Even if he doesn’t change back to being a human, he can also use his cat body to receive advertisements to pay back the money.

Xu Jian wanted to explain but as soon as he touched the keyboard to type after nodding his head, he heard Qin Chen spoke:

“Okay, ask him to send his card number or account number. I will help you transfer the money to him.”

Xu Jian’s paw paused, and finally typed with ‘one paw flick’——

I will pay you back.

After typing, Xu Jian turned his head, the cat face solemnly looked at Qin Chen and also nodded heavily, that means:

I will definitely pay you back!

Looking at every word on the screen fall, Qin Chen smiled and asked:

“Return what, you don’t owe me. Don’t forget that I still have the advertising fee for your previous cat food commercial. I’ll transfer it to you next time when it’s convenient for you.”

Hearing this, Xu Jian hurriedly shook his head and typed: No need.

Qin Chen raised his tone and gave an ‘Mm’.

Xu Jian added: It’s also expensive to raise me.

Xu Jian meant it was quite expensive for Qin Chen to raise him, so there’s no need to give the advertising fee.

Seeing Xu Jian’s words, Qin Chen was stunned for a moment and then became happy. He raised his hand to help him smooth his hair on his back, and teased:

“You earned this advertising fee, so it’s natural to give it to you. Don’t worry, you can’t exhaust me. I can still afford to raise you.”

After listening to this, Xu Jian looked up at him, and he also didn’t give a meow. Qin Chen added with a smile:

“Of course, if you really feel sorry in your heart, to pay off your debts, you can use your voice……”

Hearing this, Xu Jian instantly widened his eyes, quickly got up and broke free from Qin Chen’s hand, and looked at him incredulously and cautiously, “Meow……”

Pay off debt with one’s body? This cat grandfather can only sell meng not his self! 

Moreover, you have a pure little cat in front of you! You perverted plush control, what the heck is in your head every day!

You won’t even let off the cat??

The soft touch in his hand suddenly disappeared, Qin Chen looked at Xu Jian slightly puzzled, facing the other party’s full of vigilant cat’s eyes.

After pausing for a few seconds, Qin Chen realized with hindsight that Xu Jian had misunderstood, and finished what he said earlier:

“……you can meow a few more times a day for me.”

Xu Jian took a few more steps back, looking at Qin Chen with more complicated eyes——

The body isn’t enough to cover the debt. I can’t believe you even want me to meow to you!

Pervert!
(E/N: Wth. Qin Chen, you’re so easy to please, I can also meow!! T/N: lmaoooo I can also meow)

Looking at Xu Jian’s eyes, Qin Chen knew that the other party still didn’t understand what he meant, so he had no choice but to say:

“I’m talking about the sound of your voice, not that body body!”

[Xu Jian misunderstood Qin Chen and thought he said body on the parts “…you can use your voice” & “…you can meow..” (do meowing voices/sounds) but he actually meant voice. 声(shēng) not 身(shēn)]

Xu Jian was stunned. “Meow meow?”

The sound of the voice?

Raising his hand to poke at the frozen Xu Jian’s forehead, Qin Chen also felt amused:

“What kind of nonsense is in your head every day?”

Qin Chen felt that Xu Jian’s brain hole was too big that he didn’t know what to say to spit about his unbridled brain hole for a moment.

Xu Jian, who was poked on his forehead, finally turned around——Meow, I misunderstood!

The atmosphere was very awkward for a moment.

To Qin Chen’s smile that is not a smile but a teasing expression, Xu Jian just wanted to disappear in place.

Just when Xu Jian was so embarrassed that he wanted to step on his right palm with his left paw, he heard Qin Chen speak unhurriedly again:

“But even if you want to pay off the debt and want to pay back with your body, you’ll have to wait until you become human again. My taste is not as heavy as you think.”

Xu Jian: “!!!!”

I don’t want to pay back with my body. I already said that this cat grandfather only sells meng, not his self!

After understanding Xu Jian’s little grief and indignation, Qin Chen held back his laugh in his heart but has a solemnly appeasing the cat that was about to explode look outside:

“Just kidding.”

Xu Jian: “……”

It’s not funny at all!

Qin Chen, who is looking at the cloud and the light breeze as if nothing had happened and then thinking back to his big reaction, Xu Jian: “……”

Very angry.

Xu Jian felt that Qin Chen was deliberately teasing him, and the more he thought about it, the angrier he became. In the end, he wasn’t reconciled to it and shouted at Qin Chen viciously.

Listening to Xu Jian’s fierce milky cat cry, Qin Chen wasn’t threatened at all, and also felt quite a pity——

Forgot to video.

A mistake.

…………

After Xu Jian mentioned the 10,000, Qin Chen transferred the money to Chen Doudou that night.

Xu Jian asked Chen Doudou for the card number which was typed with Qin Chen’s help.

The cat typing is indeed very cute but it tests patience, so Qin Chen did it for him in the end.

Xu Jian, who was dismissed for typing slowly on the side, looked at his pink meat pad, his expression had a hint of hating iron for not becoming steel——

My disgraceful paw ah!

…………

Three days after the ‘paying debt with one’s body’ incident, Qin Chen received a message from Tang Li, saying that he was coming to the city where he was filming tomorrow for a business trip to do some business. He would drop by to visit the group of the big Film Emperor Qin and asked if he needed to bring anything.

Qin Chen wanted to say that he didn’t need anything but when he lowered his eyes and saw the white cat beside him, he changed his mind and replied:

[Bring me a cat teaser stick.]

That afternoon, Xu Jian looked at the strange man who was waving a cat teaser stick in front of him, smiling brightly and incessantly calling out ‘Milk’. He turned his head to look at Qin Chen with an absent-minded look:

Who is this?

Xu Jian felt dizzy by the waving green teasing stick.

Qin Chen pulled the corner of his mouth and said to Xu Jian:

“This is my friend Tang Li who came to visit the group.”

Tang Li was wondering if he bought a fake cat stick. After waving for such a long time, Milk had no reaction at all. Hearing Qin Chen abrupt introduction, he looked around and when he saw that there was no one else, he didn’t understand and asked:

“Who are you talking to?”

Qin Chen: “My cat.”

Tang Li suspected that there was something wrong with his ears:

“Who?”

The author has something to say:

Jian Cat: The ways of the world are hard, there are people hitting on the cat’s attention, scary. [Holding my tail tightly.JPG]

Qin poop scooping officer: ……forget it, we won’t talk about it until you become human again.