All My Employers Are Little Animals

You might not believe this, but lately, I think I've been able to understand animals when they talk.

My name is Shi Jie. After observing them, I've figured out how to communicate with animals.

On a forum I created myself, I can even earn tips from them after completing the help requests they post.

I'm strong, tough, warmhearted, and know a bit of taekwondo. I've won the world sanda championship, and I earned double degrees in medicine and law at university.

To indulge my hero complex, I set up an online forum called Wanshiba.

From people in their nineties to crying babies, from dangerous situations to the most trivial matters, as long as someone posts a help request on my forum, I'll assess how urgent it is and head over to solve the problem.

I'm just a bit rigid and don't really understand the internet. Otherwise, how could I have run the forum for three months without getting a single customer?

While waiting for my business to take off, I kept busy with other things.

I look good and have a tall figure, so when directors need an extra, they'll often ask me to come by for a bit part and earn some pocket money.

But my face is too cold, and I can't manage exaggerated expressions. When I'm reciting lines, though, I can be very expressive.

A director said it was unusual that I could deliver such lovely lines with a straight face, and recommended me for part-time voice work in GL audio dramas.

Luckily, my voice is decent, so somehow I ended up with another source of income.

And so my side hustles flourished, while my main business went nowhere.

Then this afternoon, I was walking home from the recording studio when a size 43 foot kicked me right off my feet. When I rubbed my eyes and looked at the culprit, I found it was a tuxedo cat.

It looked down at me haughtily, one paw still fidgeting with something on the ground. I took a closer look and saw it was the new phone I'd saved for three months to buy.

Me: ...

Chief Black Cat, you can't break the law when you know it so well. Hand over the hostage, right now.

The tuxedo cat seemed to understand what I was thinking. It raised a white-gloved paw and, with a golf swing, smacked my phone right over to me.

Nice shot.

I picked up my phone, twitching my mouth, and ambled home. I didn't dare go up and pet the officer's black fur.

After I got home, my phone suddenly chimed with a notification sound I'd never heard before: "Ding ding."

Puzzled, I checked which app was mooing. To my surprise, it was Wanshiba, the forum I'd developed.

Wanshiba was incredibly excited. It had finally welcomed its first visitor.

I was happy for Wanshiba too, and excitedly tapped the little red dot on the forum to read the client's request carefully:

Fu Bao Can't Get Enough:

[My dear kitty's mother's fourth aunt and grandpa! Emergency! I found a thief!!! That despicable thief has been stealing my meat cans for days, and now they're even coming to steal the human I raised! Somebody help me! I'm willing to tip 200 Wanshi coins!]

On my forum, one Wanshi coin is equivalent to one yuan.

I couldn't possibly turn down 200 yuan for my main business's first earnings.

The client's wording was rather cute and silly, like she was imitating a cat. She was trying out a new kind of roleplay, and I understood and respected that.

After accepting the job, I sent the client a private message:

Beautiful Life:

"Hi there! Could you provide your exact address? I've accepted the job, and I'll definitely help you catch the thief."

Fu Bao Can't Get Enough:

"I live at Room 202, Unit 2, Building 1, Xingfu Residential Community."

Fu Bao Can't Get Enough:

"Come save me! I can smell that thief again!"

When I saw the address the client had given me, I froze. That almost never happened to me.

I lived at Room 201, Unit 2, Building 1, Xingfu Residential Community, directly across from 202.

So my first client... was actually my next-door neighbor?

The curly-haired beauty with the gold-rimmed glasses?

☆Reading Guide☆

1. Chapter One continues from the blurb.

2. A cozy, adorable short story, told in first person throughout.

3. Fictional setting: the protagonist and the little animals can communicate through the forum, bringing her all sorts of cute clients and letting her build her business at full speed.

4. The protagonist is loved by everyone. There is no official pairing, so feel free to ship whoever you like. Open ending.

5. There will be no romance in this story. Everyone has one-sided feelings for the protagonist, but she doesn't reciprocate any of them in this story.

6. An all-women world, with everyone presumed to be attracted to women (that is, a GL setting). Leave if that's not your thing.

Blurb screenshotted and saved as a record on February 4, 2026.

Theme: When your mind is free of worries, every day is a fine day.