Now Hiring Cats and Dogs

○ Check out my other completed novels in my author's profile~ Lin Chunxiao is sick at home, yet her unscrupulous boss forces her to work remotely. Then a stroke of luck falls into her lap: a kind deed she did years ago earns her a cat-and-dog cafe in the city center. At the donor's recommendation, she downloads a management game and discovers that everything in the game can appear in real life! She places an order for a "deep-cleaning service" in the game shop, and a professional cleaner shows up at her cafe moments later! She draws a golden retriever from the employee gacha one second, and the next, an adorable big golden retriever appears in the shop, squinting and grinning at her! W-wait, this game and this shop are anything but ordinary! For the first time in her life, Lin Chunxiao feels that the Goddess of Luck has blessed her too. Following the management game's guidance, Lin Chunxiao names her shop "The Wandering Rest Stop" and resolves to make it a place where lost souls can find a moment of peace. During another gacha draw, Lin Chunxiao gets the ability to speak with cats and dogs, and discovers that all the cats and dogs drawn from the gacha share a secret. As she uncovers their secrets, Lin Chunxiao learns about their pasts and tries to make up for their regrets. Along the way, she befriends many customers, and the emptiness inside her is gradually filled. As she heals others, she is healed in turn. Gacha draws, quest completion, cooking delicious food, making friends, hiring new cat and dog employees... Lin Chunxiao looks at her cozy little shop, which is thriving more every day, and smiles with satisfaction. - A slow, cozy slice-of-life story with some food and shop-management elements (not a major focus). Extremely high fluffiness levels. Cold weather calls for something fluffy! Important notes: 1. For the sake of fun, the cats and dogs in this novel are given human thoughts and emotions. In real life, please don't project human thoughts and emotions onto cats and dogs. They don't have much brainpower and don't understand the complex rules of human society. 2. This story doesn't fully follow the real-life habits of cats and dogs, and the author is not an expert in animal behavior. Please don't nitpick or imitate anything in the story. - Coming soon: "Has the Zombie King Been Converted by the Do-Gooder Today?" Chi Cheng is an ordinary recent graduate on her way to report to her new company when she's forced to bind with a Zombie King System. The Zombie King System brags about its own excellent judgment, claiming it can see Chi Cheng has the potential to become a zombie king. It then forces a quest on her: bite a living creature. Chi Cheng has no idea how it figured that out. Either way, no means no! No forcing people into deals! She argues with the System and demands that it leave her body. The next second, a commotion breaks out ahead. Someone suddenly twists their body into a pretzel, lets out a strange "huh-huh" sound, then bites down hard on the neck of the person beside them, tearing off a chunk of flesh. Right afterward, the person bitten by the strange individual also starts making "huh-huh" sounds. "Zombies! They're zombies!" The panicked crowd flees, screams pierce the air, and the world falls into chaos in an instant. Chi Cheng swallows nervously and asks, "What do I get for completing the quest?" The System says, "You can exchange it for one hour of being a zombie. You'll keep your reason during that hour, and zombies won't attack you." Isn't that basically a one-hour get-out-of-death-free card? How many supplies can she gather in an hour? She's in! But her legs are too weak to run, so how is she supposed to find someone to bite... The next second, someone grabs Chi Cheng by the wrist and drags her along. "Hurry! It's dangerous here!" Chi Cheng's eyes light up. Don't worry, she'll only take a tiny bite! - On an unspecified date, Lin Qianjun is in a car accident and on the brink of death when he binds with a Do-Gooder System and survives. The Do-Gooder System says that in a few days, the world will become a zombie-ridden apocalypse. He has to find the Zombie King, care for it, love it, protect it, and convert it, so it will let go of its hostility toward humanity and create a shared community of humans and zombies, joining hands to build a bright future. Lin Qianjun wants to ask, "Are you out of your mind?" But he has to bow his head while under someone else's roof. The System saved his life, and it can take it back at any moment. That day, the System tells him to witness the birth of the first zombie, saying that only by understanding zombies firsthand can he learn how hard their lives are and put himself in their shoes. When he arrives at the assigned location, the Do-Gooder System suddenly issues his first little quest: [Rescue the girl whose legs have gone weak with fear and take her away from the zombie's birthplace. Quest reward: none. Failure penalty: your life will be reclaimed.] Lin Qianjun grits his teeth and rushes over to lead the girl away. "Hurry! It's dangerous here!" The next second, she bites down hard on his shoulder. - ·Good-natured, big-hearted pseudo-zombie-king heroine x a slacker, do-gooder, genuinely long-suffering male lead Theme: Every species is a miracle of life, and every life deserves respect.