After Du Ruan's thirteenth failed attempt to force a kiss on Du You, she stomped her foot in frustration and glared with wide, round eyes.
“You actually rejected me? Do you know who I am?”
“I do.” Du You smiled gently, but her voice was perfectly calm. “You're my direct supervisor in the cat food sales department.”
“The person even the boss has to bow and scrape to.”
“The prettiest woman in the whole company.”
Du Ruan beamed with pride. “Then why are you still...”
“The little cat I brought home when I was fourteen.”
The woman who had been throwing her weight around and demanding a kiss from Du You immediately wilted.
Du Ruan drooped her little cat head, her round cat eyes filling with tears of grievance.
“So you always knew. Why did you still reject me?”
A cat just wants to kiss you.
A cat just wants to date you.
What did the cat do wrong?
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Ten years ago, Du You found a weak little cat.
The cat was beautiful and barely alive. Her patterned fur was soaked and bedraggled by the rain, and she looked as if she might not make it.
Du You didn't have time to think about what her mother would say. She took the cat straight home and named her Ruanruan.
Ruanruan was adorable, alert, and obedient. She was Du You's perfect little cat, keeping her company through the summer and autumn of her fourteenth year.
Just as Du You was looking forward to getting Ruanruan spayed and growing old together...
Ruanruan went missing.
Even though Du You had secured the windows, she had always been careful about closing the front door.
Though she couldn't let it go, the heartbroken Du You had no choice but to carry her memories of Ruanruan with her and grow up on her own.
Until ten years later.
Du You had grown from a student into an office worker. Her monotonous job was suddenly brought to life one day by the arrival of a new boss.
Du You wasn't the type to read too much into things.
But the first time she saw her new superior, Du Ruan, with her upturned, round cat eyes, haughty expression, and a blown kiss from across the room...
She saw the shadow of that cat in her young boss.
Theme: Face life with kindness and gratitude.