His Online Friend Is a Cat

A socially anxious, easygoing, innocent little cat vs. a workaholic, scheming CEO

Miao Xiaohui graduated from one of the country's top two universities and landed a job at a state-owned enterprise. She's an accountant making three thousand a month. Well, a junior accountant. No, a little cat.

She's a little cat who has been living in human form for many years.

Work is boring. Her only hobby is spending money fixing up her little cat nest.

She realized that all the things she likes best come from a pet-supplies company called Love It.

And the company's marketing director is her college classmate, Wen Hang.

Perfect.

At their class reunion, Miao Xiaohui worked up the courage to ask him for one thing in person: his email address.

As soon as she got home that night, she started sending him feedback on the products and little suggestions.

At some point, Wen Heng began finding a rambling email about the company's products in his inbox every day.

"The mouse in the cage is so childish. Could you put more effort into making it? Don't make it so ugly."

"That butterfly-chasing cat teaser is okay, but could it go faster? Or maybe you could make one with an adjustable speed."

"The felt maze box is fun. But the material on top picks up fur so easily."

"..."

At first, Wen Heng ignored the messages and acted as if he hadn't seen them.

Gradually, he couldn't help reading them a few more times, and eventually began replying.

And so the president of Love It Pet Supplies, a global top 500 company, and a bona fide workaholic CEO, started an online romance through email.

Later, he brought pictures and finished samples of new, unreleased products and arranged to meet the other person in real life.

As expected, the other person turned out to be an adorable young woman.

What he didn't expect was that her first words after they met were that she'd sent the emails to the wrong person.

So who had you meant to email in the first place?

[A genuinely socially anxious introvert x a man who chases her relentlessly and is more devious than a sieve]

#Wait, who are you?#

#He thought they were dating, but they weren't#

#Wrong person, right person#

#The story of a little cat who used email to land herself a CEO#

Content warnings:

1. Both leads have only been with each other. Since the heroine is a little cat, the hero hasn't even held another cat (*^_^*). The hero's younger brother is just a plot device. This is a 1v1 story, with no brothers fighting over a woman.

2. Reproductive incompatibility. There are no children in this story.

3. The heroine is genuinely easygoing and a little haughty, and really hates going to work. Passing off work doesn't mean she lacks a sense of responsibility. Please don't project real life onto the heroine and criticize her for not doing her own work and handing it off to others. The little cat already works hard enough. I won't accept blame.

4. A slow-burn story about a little cat's everyday life. All the worldbuilding serves the plot. Any descriptions of the experience of using pet products are speculation, so please don't take them seriously. If you call me illogical, I'll genuinely get upset. Please don't tell me if you drop the story.

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★ Ice-and-fire fiction | Food and daily life | Ancient person in the modern world | Running a business

An imperial chef from the Tang Dynasty: an adorable young woman, a sunny soul with a slow-on-the-uptake nature

A modern police officer: a cool guy, a smoldering, poker-faced block of ice

Luo Yan is a female official in the Tang palace's Shangshi Bureau. Her Luo family cooking is so masterful that everyone in the palace praises it.

When she opens her eyes again, she's become an unlucky unemployed person in modern society: her parents are dead, she's buried in debt, her rent is due, and she's got less money in her pockets than she does skin on her face.

But no matter. She has a skill, so she won't starve wherever she goes.

After a great deal of effort, she gets a secondhand food cart and sets up a "Great Tang Snack Stall."

Before long, the whole food street goes wild. People line up early in the morning before the stall even opens, just to get a taste of "Cherry Biluo." Even food bloggers come from far and wide.

The cart becomes a shop, and the shop becomes a freestanding building. Her account balance goes from two digits to seven.

Her business is thriving.

The only thing giving her a headache is a uniformed officer who keeps hanging around her stall every day.

Hey, you only arrested me once, so why are you staking out my stall every day?

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Yan Xu is the head of a criminal investigation squad, and everyone on the team agrees he's an iron-faced King of Hell.

Somewhere along the way, he started going to the food street every day, and all sorts of little snacks began appearing on his desk.

Sweet and savory, they're all from that Tang Dynasty snack stall.

The team members: Heh heh.

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Later, when CCTV's "The Inheritance of Flavor" comes to interview Luo Yan, they ask how she can perfectly recreate flavors from a thousand years ago.

She smiles at the camera. "Maybe it's because I was a person from the Tang Dynasty in my previous life."

In front of the television, Yan Xu touches the pocket containing a rough draft of a secret recipe she casually wrote down. The handwriting seems to carry the grace of a thousand years ago.

Never mind. He won't expose her. Besides, in this life, he's decided to stick around for this good food.

Content warnings:

1. The foods in this story have been carefully researched through archaeology. For the sake of the plot, they'll be written as tasting better than modern versions. I won't accept objections.

2. Both leads are each other's first. Their romance is puppy love, and they won't be forced into a relationship. This is a slow burn.

3. I'll add more if I think of anything.

Please add the new story to your reading list (づ￣3￣)づ╭❤~

Theme: Humans and animals living together in peace.