The Wayward Boy Is a Cat

Qi Li opened a cat cafe and unlocked the door promptly at eight every morning. There was a beautiful calico cat near the neighborhood. Its fluffy fur looked like a cloud, and its lovely three colors were so pale it seemed like a hazy ink painting. One day, he noticed something strange about the cat. It had gotten clingier, but its temper was getting worse and worse. Ye Qinnian was a stray cat from the tree-lined road nearby, and one of the few wild cats who could take human form. Recently, he had accepted an invitation to work at a cat cafe in human form. But two-legged creatures were so strange, especially this man named Qi Li. Hadn't he said before that being a server at a cat cafe meant wearing a maid outfit, stepping on customers' shoulders to massage them, sitting on their laps, and calling them "Master"? He had only changed into the outfit and hadn't even started working when the other man stopped him with a dark expression and shouted at him: "Ye Qinnian, what are you doing?!" Qi Li had been getting a headache lately. A young man had shown up out of nowhere, insisting he wanted a job, and Qi Li couldn't get rid of him no matter what. Helpless, he could only agree. But on his first day, the other man showed up in a strange maid outfit with a little bell of his own. Whenever he saw a customer, he tried to sit in their lap and even step on their back. If Qi Li hadn't stopped him in time, who knew what might have happened? Qi Li suspected the boy had mistaken his cat cafe for some kind of disreputable establishment and was about to go astray, so he decided to teach him a lesson. Qi Li exhausted every argument, until his mouth was dry, but the boy wouldn't say a word. He just glared stubbornly at him, looking plainly aggrieved, indignant, and disbelieving. Qi Li: "..." How had it ended up looking like he was the one in the wrong? Was he really wrong to teach this kid to make an honest living??? Qi Li (gong) x Ye Qinnian (shou) The two-legged creature doesn't understand a cat's desire to repay a kindness. He mistakes the boy for a runaway teenager who, in a fit of pique, has left home and is about to go into the sex trade, so he desperately tries to teach him right from wrong. Coming soon: "It's Okay to Be a Beta" Yue Chen is a famously irresistible Alpha in his social circle, but he has a problem when it comes to dating: his possessiveness toward his partners is so extreme it's practically pathological, and he always gets dumped in less than a month. Xu Wanyu is a famously honest Beta in his social circle, but he has a problem when it comes to dating, too: he's so obedient to his partners that they always cheat on him in less than a month. Then one day, after knowing each other for years, they suddenly see each other in a new light... Yue Chen: After searching for so long, my perfect partner was right by my side all along. Xu Wanyu: Hmm... he's a little crazy, but it's not a big deal. - Yue Chen (gong) x Xu Wanyu (shou) Alpha gong, Beta shou. Everyday-life story, with a little bullying the honest guy on the side () Theme: Warm moments in life can help people find the strength to keep going