The Little Chef Adopts the CEO's Cat

This novel will be locked and re-released from Chapter 1 on April 24, 2024. If you've already read it, please be careful not to buy it again! Xia Ji is a doomed cannon-fodder character in a novel. After bullying the heroine, she is punished by the male lead, falls gravely ill, and dies. A cook named Xia Ji transmigrates into her, and decides to keep her distance from the male and female leads. She won't get involved in their melodramatic love story, and will rely on her own cooking skills to live a peaceful life. She also picks up a little cat to raise, except there's something a bit off about it. It's picky, haughty, and loves to fight. It can even understand human speech! But it's so pretty... Xia Ji decides to overlook these unimportant details and raise this adorable cat demon. When some hooligans cause trouble at Xia Ji's little restaurant, a group of bodyguards in black suddenly appear, scaring the hooligans so badly they wet themselves. Only then does Xia Ji learn that the cat is the pet of a powerful man from a wealthy family. Though she can't bear to part with it, Xia Ji has no choice but to return the cat to its owner. To her surprise, the cat runs back that very night, bringing a pile of expensive gifts with it. Xia Ji: I feel like the cat is keeping me! The male lead from the novel won't leave Xia Ji alone. He insists she bullied the heroine and says he'll avenge her, refusing to listen to Xia Ji's explanations. He makes a bold declaration: "I'll make you understand what it's like to be bullied!" But when he sees the cat, the male lead can barely speak. His eyes go wide, and he cries out in disbelief, "Uncle!" Xia Ji: Do all you modern people make cats your uncles? Even stranger, the cat meows at the male lead, and he turns and runs without looking back! Later, Xia Ji finally figures out that the cat can turn into a human. He's also the designated heir to the mighty Meng family, born with a silver spoon in his mouth and treated like royalty his whole life. The most hardship he's ever known was probably the few days he spent wandering before he met her. Still, she can't quite connect the arrogant little cat with Meng Zeyun, the devastatingly handsome and ruthless young master of the Meng family. Whenever she sees Meng Zeyun, one thought inevitably comes to mind: Thank goodness I never took the cat to get neutered. The World Chefs Association holds a cooking competition to crown the world's top chef, with the entire event broadcast live around the globe. Viewers are surprised to discover that one of the guests is Meng Zeyun, heir to the Meng family, who is famously discreet and has barely ever appeared in a photograph. Xia Ji represents China in the competition, and the comments are full of jeers. Words like "trophy wife," "You're nothing without a man," and "rigged" fill the comment section. Meng Zeyun shows no reaction, until Xia Ji wins the grand prize. Facing the cameras, Meng Zeyun announces: "Everyone who has insulted Mrs. Meng will receive a letter from the Meng Group's lawyers. The Meng Group will seek compensation for reputational damages, and neither the Meng Group nor any company that does business with us will ever hire these people." Xia Ji blinks and looks to the side. Those people don't seem to know that her kitty is both vindictive and fiercely protective. A person with ulterior motives learns that Xia Ji is just the owner of a little restaurant. They assume she must have used some underhanded means to snare the young master of the Meng family, and do everything they can to obtain evidence, hoping to ruin Meng Zeyun's reputation. One day, they finally succeed, only to hear a very strange conversation through the bug. "Don't touch my tail!" "Fine, you can touch it once. I want steamed yellow grouper for dinner!" "Meow~ Master, did I make a nice sound?" That was definitely Meng Zeyun's voice! Who could have guessed that the impeccably dressed young master of the Meng family was like this in private? This is explosive! I'll expose him! I'll ruin Meng Zeyun! The eavesdropper trembles with excitement, then looks up and finds a group of bodyguards and a Tibetan Mastiff staring back. My next novel: The Supporting Female Character Lies Flat and Gossips Every Day Blurb: Su Zhan is a supporting female character in a domestic intrigue novel. Relying on her beauty, she schemes to marry the male lead and uses cruel methods against the heroine. When her plot is exposed, she's sentenced to exile and dies a miserable death along the way. When Su Zhan read the story, she hated the character so much she could grind her teeth. She cheered when the supporting character met her tragic end, but never imagined she would wake up as Su Zhan. Luckily, the story has only just begun. She hasn't done anything disastrous or made an enemy of her elder half-sister, the heroine. Su Zhan decides to be decent, lie flat, and never covet the heroine's male lead or anything else that belongs to her! She worked herself to death in her previous life. In this one, she just wants to lie flat. Scheming in the household? No thanks. It's not for a lazybones. As it happens, she's bound to a gossip System. She can gossip and watch the drama every day, live as a pampered young lady, and have people wait on her. Isn't that much better than being a corporate drone? What Su Zhan doesn't know is that people can hear her and the System gossiping. The Su family notices that Su Zhan has become very strange lately. She usually stays in her courtyard with the doors shut, and she's unusually well-behaved when she pays her respects. She's nothing like her former competitive, attention-seeking self. Stranger still, they can hear her thoughts! Su Zhan's father has never liked her, thinking she is far too eager to compete for everything. Then one day, when Su Zhan comes to pay her respects, he hears her thoughts: [Is Concubine Sun having an affair because Father is old and can't perform anymore?] Following the directions in Su Zhan's thoughts, her father catches the adulterer in the act. But the news that he can't perform spreads like wildfire... The principal wife is grateful to Su Zhan for dealing with that vixen, Sun, and rewards her with a heap of gifts. She even invites her to tea, where she hears Su Zhan's thoughts: [The principal wife is actually a good person. She just loves supporting her family. Wait, does she know that her own brother is teaming up with outsiders to swindle her?] After that, whenever her family comes around to beg for money, the principal wife claims to be ill and refuses to see them. The heroine and elder half-sister hears Su Zhan's thoughts: [What a shame. If Elder Sister got married six months later, she could take the female official exam and become an official. That'd be way more interesting than fighting over household matters, especially since the Shen family is a whole mess.] Her elder sister, Su Ling: I'm not getting married! Su Zhan has a grand time gossiping every day. She just thinks her family is being a little too good to her. They send her so many gifts and rewards that she can't possibly eat or use them all. She quietly saves what she can't use, planning to buy a house and land and keep it as her private fund, giving her lazy life a secure foundation! Outsiders keep waiting for the Su family to become a laughingstock, but they discover that the family hasn't fallen. In fact, it's doing better and better. The children's marriages are all excellent, especially Su Zhan's: the Grand Princess personally selects her to serve in her residence, an honor usually reserved for an imperial prince's consort! Theme: Protecting animals is a virtue