A Kitten Licks the Wound

P1: Lin Xuju accidentally became a volunteer cat and was lucky enough to take part in a poverty-relief project between the human and cat worlds.

But it had three problems.

Its recipient kept trying to give it away.

Its recipient was terribly poor.

Its recipient seemed to have feelings for it.

Lin Xuju fell into deep thought about that third point.

It's just a little cat!

An adorable, sweet, and affectionate one x a miserable, cold, and aloof one

P2: Lin Xuju spotted a flaw in the plan.

It was helping others out of poverty.

But it was broke, too!

It had to work hard to earn points to woo... ahem, raise its man, while also leading all the cats to prosperity.

It couldn't open a mouse-catching company, so it could only put its hopes in its breathtaking beauty.

But...

When it modeled in human form, it had to hide its tail before it even got paid.

When it filmed in cat form, people often paid it off with a bag of dried fish.

Lin Xuju was at its wits' end. Working under the table was so hard!

P3: A set of photos shot to the top of the trending searches.

Behind all the sweet, sweet, sweetness filling the screen, Lin Xuyu's brow darkened with rage.

"Why, you... Sang Fuzhi, how dare you find a stand-in!"

But before he could even leave the runway, he ran into the stand-in herself.

The woman who wanted to take his sister's place was rummaging through the studio of Sang Fuzhi.

She's even made it onto the LN runway. Ha.

He folded his arms and sneered. "You, come here!"

"Do you know who I am?"

Lin Xuju turned around nervously. "Y-you're from the Cat Control Bureau?"

Lin Xuyu: ?

Three lives of good fortune, and twice you've turned your eyes my way.

P.S. Some warnings first.

1. A sweet 1v1 romance. The female lead in the past and present is the same person!

2. The male lead has some mental health issues, but all the descriptions of them are based on the author's internet searches and wild speculation :)

3. This novel is set in a fictional world. The magazines and clothing brands are all made up, though I couldn't bring myself to invent some place names, so I kept the real ones.

4. I hope all you sweet readers enjoy the story!

Please add my new novel to your collection!

The System tells Zhou Ke that she's the villainess in a wealthy-family romance full of scheming green tea types, and that she has a tragic ending.

According to the plot, she has to fawn over the male lead until her tongue is raw, go crazy for him, lose her mind over him, and send his parents to prison.

Zhou Ke: ? What the...

System: Don't be scared! The story's gone off the rails! Your mission is to find the green tea whose tea-acting score is off the charts and win her (or his) heart!

After failing to identify the green tea twice, Zhou Ke was ready to sing a farewell song, but the System announced that she'd completed her mission.

Zhou Ke: I haven't even found the green tea yet, so how did I win their heart???

The System enunciated each word: "The first requirement for being a green tea is..."

After being poisoned by green tea types over and over, Zhou Ke answered without thinking: "Being disgusting."

"No, no! Look at the root of the word!"

Zhou Ke fell silent for a moment. "...Being fresh?"

"Bingo!"

Before the word had even faded, she stiffly looked down at the man sleeping peacefully with his head in her lap...

Damn! Right under the lamplight!

"I'm alone at the hospital. Could you come keep me company? But it's so late. Won't your boyfriend get angry...?"

Gu Xingqian slowly read the message aloud. He gave a disdainful laugh and murmured in her ear,

"With tricks like that, how could you ever win over Sis?"

A straight-laced, steel-willed woman who studies how to spot green tea types x a high-level green tea who stays under the radar until the very end

Theme: Contributing to the ongoing development of friendly relations between the human and cat worlds!