You Have to Take Responsibility for Me

[Complete! Begging for a five-star review, sob. My next story is Returning to the Fold. Please add it to your reading list~] Bo Chu went away to film for three months. When she returned home, she noticed her cat's belly was getting bigger and bigger. She rushed the cat to the vet in the middle of the night, only to be told it was two months pregnant. The kitten she'd had for three or four months had somehow gotten knocked up by a tomcat! Bo Chu was both furious and heartbroken. She spent the whole night going through the footage and finally found the culprit. Fuming, Bo Chu posted a video on Weibo showing how the tomcat had entered her home and seduced her innocent little cat, calling on her followers to condemn him. But the day she posted the video, both the tomcat and Shen Xilin trended at the same time. Bo Chu opened Weibo and saw that everyone was tagging Shen Xilin under her post. So the tomcat belonged to Shen Xilin. - Shen Xilin had been a child star for ten years. He was a good actor with no scandals, yet he never expected to incur a "love debt" this way. The other party in this "love debt" was his high school classmate. He opened Bo Chu's WeChat and hesitated all afternoon before sending her a message: "Have the kittens. I'll take responsibility." Then he sent another: "I'll pay for the cat food." - After the "tomcat" incident, Bo Chu and Shen Xilin gained a surprising number of unconventional CP fans who shipped them as "Mom and Dad's Love Story." But apart from following each other on Weibo and fan-edited pairing videos, the two barely appeared together. The CP fans were tormented beyond endurance, secretly scavenging for scraps to feed themselves. They noticed they had the same high school teacher, the same schoolmates, matching photo backgrounds, matching poses, matching rings and necklaces... and, in the end, matching pajamas. CP fans: "!!!" They'd found real evidence! [A not-so-wealthy flower of the human world X a not-so-serious actor who is everyone's white moonlight] Warnings: 1. No real-life inspiration, no real-life inspiration. Please don't associate this story with any real person. Thank you. 2. The male lead's cat just likes to go for walks. Someone accompanies it when it goes out, and it wears a leash. The cats are cared for when the leads travel to film. They aren't left to roam freely, and the leads didn't deliberately leave them unspayed or unneutered. 3. A cat's pregnancy lasts around two months, but the story uses three months for plot reasons. If that bothers you, please click away. 4. There is no identity reveal. Please don't make up warnings before you've finished reading. Thank you, kind soul. 5. The story is a slow burn, low-key, and focused on everyday life. Upcoming story: Returning to the Fold When Qiao Yang attended her brother's wedding, she met one of her sister-in-law's relatives. His name was Shen Hexing. His features were cool, but he wasn't aloof, and a warm smile always played at the corners of his lips when he spoke to people. Friends and family told her that he was a lay Buddhist who practiced while keeping his hair, and that he would eventually shave his head and become a monk. Qiao Yang fell in love with him at first sight. Ignoring everyone's advice, she tried every way she could think of to win him over. But Shen Hexing had a compassionate heart, and no matter how much she flirted with him, his devotion to Buddhism never wavered. In a fit of anger, Qiao Yang went abroad to study. - Three years later, Qiao Yang returned after graduating and was invited to teach dance in C University's acting department. She became a university colleague of Shen Hexing. A friend teased her, "With your grades, you could work at any theater. Why go teach at C University?" Qiao Yang replied seriously, "To educate the next generation." Her friend asked, "Then do you still like Shen Hexing?" Qiao Yang rolled her eyes. "How could I? Why would I fall for a monk?" [Monk X Enchantress] Theme: Cats are friends to humankind