The Cat I Picked Up Turned into a Demanding Client!

(Main story complete; bonus chapters in progress…)

Serious on the surface but clingy underneath Gu Shian x lazy, sarcastic Shen Changqing

Shen Changqing had always wanted a cat, but his terminal laziness and chronic procrastination had kept him from doing anything about it.

Then one day, after a client had tormented him with demands like “a black that's colorful,” fate took pity on him. He found a drenched little kitten right outside his door.

Damn it, this is clearly my cat. It came all the way to my doorstep, so obviously it wants to be mine!

Guided by the principle of “act fast or miss out,” he scooped the kitten up and took it home.

“If nobody comes to claim you, then you'll be my cat from now on, An'an.”

That's right. He hadn't even put up the printed found-pet notice, and he'd already named the kitten.

The next day,

he learned that the cat he'd found actually belonged to his neighbor. But could someone tell him

why the person living next door was that impossible client from work?!

After a round of perfectly civil negotiations, they reached a cat-sharing agreement:

One cat, two owners.

As day after day passed together, Shen Changqing gazed at the furry little ball in front of him, sometimes lively and sometimes quiet, and fell into deep thought.

Why did it feel like his cat had a split personality?

Then, one day, he got the whim to install a pet camera at home and witnessed something shocking:

His cat had turned into his impossible client right in front of everyone's eyes?!

Shen Changqing: So that means the cat heard every single thing I said about my client!

Gu Shian had once had a crush on a “senior” at university.

She lent him an umbrella and left him a photograph.

After years of searching without success, Gu Shian met someone who looked just like “her.”

Only this person was a man, and he was Gu Shian's client.

And he'd turned into a cat and been taken home by him?

He made himself at home at his client's place, and got to hear all sorts of complaints about himself along the way.

But why was this junior becoming more and more like that “senior” he'd known back then?

Reader's Guide

1. A light, fluffy romantic comedy, ending with one person and two cats (one person) living happily ever after.

2. Serious on the surface but clingy underneath Gu Shian x lazy, sarcastic Shen Changqing

Preview of the next novel

Updating…

Before a domineering protagonist becomes an almighty powerhouse, he always has a brother willing to risk life and limb for him.

By a stroke of luck, Xie Qinglan was transmigrated into the role of that brother.

Even more fortunately, this guy would later kick the protagonist straight into the Ten Thousand Demons' Abyss.

Before he could enjoy his new life as a young master cultivating immortality, the System informed him that he was the vicious cannon-fodder destined to die horribly. Xie Qinglan silently drew his knife, ready to eliminate the protagonist, this looming threat.

What? He has to raise the protagonist, too?

Xie Qinglan: Raise him myself just so I can stab him in the back? Someone else can do it.

System: If you don't, you'll die anyway.

Xie Qinglan: …

I'll provide the resources, but don't ask where they came from.

So he launched a “support program” for the young protagonist that was really just forced labor.

The protagonist fights, I land the finishing blow. Once we're done, we split the loot twenty-eighty.

Watching the protagonist eagerly offer him their spoils, Xie Qinglan did his best to keep a cold expression as he stuffed them into his own bag, then casually tossed a little back.

Xie Qinglan: I'm a vicious cannon-fodder character. What's wrong with taking a little extra?

Xiao Jin: He always thinks of me. He's such a good person.

Everyone else, who hadn't gotten a thing: You two are having a great time! Give us our treasures back!

Xiao Jin had a wonderful brother who'd risk anything for him.

When Xiao Jin was gravely injured, he went to endless lengths to scour the world for spiritual herbs to treat him. When Xiao Jin was framed for harming a fellow sect member and was about to have his cultivation crippled, he turned the situation around and proved his innocence…

Xie Qinglan: Thanks, but if something happens to you, I die too.

After realizing his heart raced whenever he was near his good brother, Xiao Jin asked a senior fellow disciple how he should act around him.

Some unknown senior: A brother is just a wife! He likes you!

Xiao Jin nodded. “I see.”

After his brother stabbed him in the back, Xiao Jin went to that senior again.

The senior: He likes you too much and feels insecure. That's why he did it!

Xiao Jin: Got it.

After successfully betraying Xiao Jin and making his getaway, Xie Qinglan stood in a bamboo grove, staring at a sea of notices seeking a wife.

Wait, is it fashionable these days to call your enemy your cultivation partner?

Reader's Guide:

1. Brooding, obsessive, hardworking top x cold-faced, adorable, laid-back bottom

2. Younger top

Theme: Don't make life difficult for your clients for no reason.