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Chapter 4: This Really Was a Cat (1/2)
Shen Cheng had a modest dream—to open a Cat café in Lingshi City.
For this dream, Shen Cheng gave up the opportunity of pursuing a postgraduate degree. He had started working before even graduating from university.
He had delivered food, served tables, worked as a chef, and tutored students.
The decisive factor that allowed Shen Cheng to open the Cat café lay with another person—his junior schoolmate, Lin Yuhui, who was one year below him.
Previously mentioned, the storefront for Shen Cheng to open the Cat café was rented from a friend, who happened to be this junior schoolmate.
As a schoolmate who also studied at Lingshi City University with Shen Cheng, Lin Yuhui shared a long-standing and deeply connected relationship with him, which could even be described as familial.
After Shen Cheng graduated, Lin Yuhui, upon hearing his entrepreneurial intentions, rented him the first floor of the two-story house her late parents left her in Lingshi City for the café. She also allowed Shen Cheng to live in the upper-story room, providing him with considerable convenience.
Of course, there was also a little self-interest mingled in Lin Yuhui’s actions…
In other words, Lin Yuhui was not only a junior schoolmate but also Shen Cheng’s landlord.
At that moment, Shen Cheng’s landlord was sitting cross-legged on the sofa in the upstairs living room, looking down at Shen Cheng, who was seated before her, along with an unknown Cat Girl.
Shen Cheng’s face was stiff as he sat uneasily.
The Cat Girl was unsure about what happened, but she leaned against Shen Cheng with a panicked expression.
Lin Yuhui maintained a smile on her face, a smile that sent a shiver down Shen Cheng’s spine.
“Huihui, actually… I can explain…” Shen Cheng said with an embarrassed smile to Lin Yuhui, attempting to buy himself another second.
“Senior, shut up!” Lin Yuhui interrupted Shen Cheng with a grim expression, then turned to the Cat Girl kneeling beside him and asked coldly, “What is your relationship with him?”
Hearing Lin Yuhui’s question directed at the silly cat, Shen Cheng inexplicably felt a sense of foreboding.
Sure enough, fearing his landlord for some unknown reason, the Cat Girl timidly responded, “I… I am Master’s pet nya…”
As soon as she finished, Shen Cheng felt the surrounding temperature drop several degrees, causing him to shiver. He immediately raised his hand towards Lin Yuhui, attempting to calm the situation, “I really can explain this!”
“Fine, you have three minutes. If you can’t explain properly, I will go down and smash your shop!” Lin Yuhui was truly angry at this point.
Her dream of being a boss had hardly begun, yet reality had someone else grabbing the lead so quickly?
Moreover, it happened right in her own home!
Lin Yuhui’s utterly genuine tone and demeanor heightened Shen Cheng’s sense of crisis. Quickly, he straightened up, pointed at Cat Girl, and said solemnly, “First of all, she is a cat, a real cat!”
“…”
The surrounding temperature seemed to drop a few more degrees.
“Do you think I’m… an idiot?” the landlord’s icy voice asked. Shen Cheng thought he heard a slight grievance in her tone. “Or are you saying you have no intention of explaining seriously to me?”
“I… I can prove it!” Shen Cheng was equally flustered. Under the bewildered gaze of Cat Girl, he lightly pulled her cat ears, and then…
“Phew—”
“Ow nya~”
Watching Cat Girl collapse softly into his arms, blushing and breathing slightly, Shen Cheng turned smugly and said, “See, these cat ears are real…”
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