Even Cats Have to Make a Living

【Coming soon: The Handsome Guy, but a Husky. Blurb at the bottom!】 Jiang Yiyi is a cat person. With a tabby grandpa suffering from dementia at home and a pack of stray cats and dogs waiting to be neutered, eighteen-year-old Jiang Yiyi is so broke he can barely afford food, let alone school. Luckily, he catches the wave of online streaming and uses his extraordinary talent to give pet owners online consultations. On the first day of his clinic, nobody shows up. Then a police officer enters his livestream to call him a fraud and asks why a police dog keeps gasping for breath, even though the hospital can't find anything wrong. Jiang Yiyi meets the German Shepherd's gaze through the screen. “He's faking it.” The officer asks, “What did you say?” Jiang Yiyi replies, “He thinks work is too stressful. There's a Samoyed at that hospital, and he's fallen for it. Oh, he wants the Samoyed to be his emotional support dog.” The viewers all laugh at the streamer, certain he'll soon get banned. But before long, the officer returns and thanks Jiang Yiyi solemnly. “You were right. The dog's about to retire, so we've already had him neutered.” Viewers: “What? A real miracle doctor?!” Jiang Yiyi is quiet and bad at explaining himself, but by repeatedly shutting down doubters on the spot, he manages to claw his way to the top of the livestream rankings. He thought he was just trying to make enough money to get by. He never expected to end up on the police department's auxiliary roster, where he'd support his family, solve cases, and catch the eye of a certain someone. Qu Zhengyu is a glorious people's police officer: tall, handsome, and strong. Unfortunately, small animals can't stand him. That doesn't matter, though, since he doesn't care much for the little things either. One day at work, he spots a tuxedo cat with four white paws like it's wearing gloves and a beautiful heart-shaped marking at the base of its tail. Most importantly, the cat isn't afraid of him! Qu Zhengyu decides he wants to adopt it and follows it all the way home, only to discover it already has an owner. Then the owner comes out: a gorgeous young man with a great figure. Love at first sight is only natural, so Qu Zhengyu immediately decides to take in both the man and the cat. The Qu family is rich and powerful, dripping with money. But with a rough father, a fierce mother, and a sister who's a hardcore butch lesbian, the whole family is so unpleasant that even cats and dogs hate them. Put them together and they wouldn't amount to half a soft-hearted person. So when Qu's father sees his perpetually single son bringing home an eighteen-year-old young man who's not the least bit soft, his face stretches longer than a donkey's. It isn't long before he learns Jiang Yiyi's true identity. Qu's father rubs his hands together, grinning until his gums show. “Oh, he's a cat person! What a misunderstanding. Why didn't you say so earlier? Come on, take him out for a walk with Dad!” 【Reader's Guide】 1. A complicated father figure and an adorable, handsome tuxedo cat who's occasionally a little eccentric. 2. Ten-year age gap. The kitten has just graduated high school and turned eighteen, and will continue his studies later. 3. Set in a fictional world. Please don't scrutinize the professions or cases too closely. 4. Not a pure wish-fulfillment novel, and it may be a slow burn! 5. Please don't treat this as documentary literature or nitpick the details. 【The Handsome Guy, but a Husky】 Jiang Lin is the kind of kid other parents brag about: cool and handsome, top of his class, and so perfect he hardly seems human. What people don't know is that Jiang Lin is a shapeshifting husky. Before she died, his mother made him promise over and over: Don't let anyone discover you can transform, and don't let anyone find out your brain isn't quite right. So Jiang Lin spent six years nervously pretending to be normal in the Jiang family. Everyone thought the illegitimate son they'd brought home was so serious and aloof that he must be difficult to deal with. The disabled old man of the Bai family wants to arrange a marriage alliance, and he chooses Jiang Lin. “Do your best to serve the Bai family,” the Jiang family patriarch says pointedly, certain that his clever son understands the hint: together, they can strip the Bai family of its inheritance. Unfortunately, all Jiang Lin's handsome, arched brows conceal is a brain that retains only the “important” part: Do your best to serve the Bai family. Strip them of their inheritance (X), become an office drone (check). On his first day with the Bai family, Jiang Lin receives an order from his father: “Find out everything about the Bai family and uncover their weaknesses.” We dogs are the best at finding things! Jiang Lin makes sure to remember. A month later, Jiang's father finally gets an update. Jiang Lin says, “I found seventeen. Three in finance, five in the supply chain, and nine in overseas operations.” Jiang's father perks up. “Send them to me!” Jiang Lin says, “I've already fixed them.” Jiang's father: “…” Who the hell told you to fix them?! Jiang's father is so furious he nearly passes out. Then, after thinking it over, he gets it. This is a deliberate show of loyalty to lull Bai Yueqing into a false sense of security? As expected of my son: devious and cunning. He gives another order: Keep a close eye on Bai Yueqing. Don't miss a thing he does. Jiang Lin remembers that too. * Bai Yueqing is a venomous snake you don't want to cross, an irredeemable lunatic. He hates his fiancé. This elite is a hypocritical show-off, stiff and mechanical as a robot. Every morning, Jiang Lin gets up at six without fail. Bai Yueqing assumes he's handling confidential documents sent over by the Jiang family. He checks the security footage. Jiang Lin is memorizing One Hundred Ways to Talk Like a Smart Person. Bai Yueqing: “…” There is something wrong with this guy. And after enough time, how could he not realize? Jiang Lin isn't even human. Have you ever seen the sun at four in the morning? Bai Yueqing has. Because a sneaky little puppy sat on his balcony, staring at him all night with a pair of wise, white eyes. * After his identity is exposed, Jiang Lin stops pretending altogether. Every morning at six, the husky jumps onto the bed and smacks Bai Yueqing awake with a paw. At seven, he brings over Bai Yueqing's tie in his mouth. At eight, he pushes the wheelchair to take him to work. In the evening, he sits on the desk and supervises him working overtime. Bai Yueqing is forced to live a life more regimented than a dog's. Then one day, his mental illness finally erupts. The madness he'd suppressed for years comes surging back. Everything irritates Bai Yueqing, and suddenly he thinks it wouldn't be so bad if the world were destroyed. Then a little dog jumps onto the bed, curls up against his chest, and whimpers as it sings him a doggy song: “Dogs have fur all over, dogs walk around on doggy paws...” Bai Yueqing closes his eyes. Fine. He'll live one more day. Theme: Rescue cats and dogs. It's everyone's responsibility!