IGTCDCN chapter 6

Just as Su Jiujiu was silently crying, Tan Chen walked over to her.

Step by step, step by step, step by step, getting closer and closer, he was coming! He reached out!

He… grabbed the back of her neck again and lifted her into the living room.

Su Jiujiu felt her lifeline being squeezed, suspended in the air, sinking into melancholy.

Why do the turning points in life come so unexpectedly?

Clearly, he wasn’t even upset about her sneaking food just now—he even made her a special cat meal and looked at her with such deep eyes… If it weren’t for that phone call from Li Jiaojiao, right now she should be in the male lead’s arms, not hanging from his hand!

System: [My condolences.]

After Tan Chen carried the cat into the living room, he hesitated for a moment, but in the end, he stopped in front of the cat bed and let go.

Su Jiujiu jumped up, landed perfectly, and immediately turned around, giving him a look of reproach as if he were a faithless man.

Tan Chen was originally still upset because of Li Jiaojiao, but after meeting those accusing cat eyes, he froze for a moment.

He just felt that they carried an even stronger sense of dependence, maybe even a hint of grievance, though he wasn’t sure if he was seeing it right.

But he couldn’t respond to that dependence. After all, he never planned on keeping a pet and didn’t have extra attention to give it. He had originally thought to send it away in three days, but now it seemed that when Li Jiao Jiao came over tomorrow, he could get her to take the cat back.

Although he didn’t dislike cats, he hated Li Jiaojiao using the cat to get close to her own little schemes.

Since it was going to be sent away anyway, he didn’t want the cat to get any closer and immediately acted coldly, saying, “Remember your activity area, don’t run around at night, got it?”

Tan Chen tossed out this line coldly and then turned to enter his bedroom, leaving only a cat scratching at the door outside.

Of course, Su Jiujiu didn’t dare to really scratch the door; she just squatted at the door, meowing plaintively, trying to let her cries reach the room and arouse the male lead’s pity.

Unfortunately, the room was too soundproof, and Su Jiujiu’s meows fell completely on deaf ears.

A whole day! A whole day’s effort, all wasted because of a single phone call!

Very good, as expected, the supporting female characters are all meant to hurt each other. No system push needed, Su Jiujiu already wants to fight to the death with Li Jiaojiao tomorrow!

The cat angrily scratched the door, the door creaking with a grating sound, scaring her into quickly retracting its claws.

Hmph, and then there’s Tan Chen; he really is the male lead, so cold and unmoved.

In the future, when encountering the female lead and bringing someone home, if you have the ability, mark a territory and coldly say—”This is your area for tonight, remember not to run around, understand?”

The system heard her thoughts and blushed like a red-and-white panda: [Host, you’re really annoying. This kind of imprisonment play usually only happens in tiny worlds where a little wife elopes while pregnant and is forcibly loved by an obsessive male lead!]

Su Jiujiu: “???”

Su Jiujiu: “Do you think saying things like this makes you innocent?”

…..

Su Jiujiu ultimately did not choose to settle in that shabby cat nest.

She curled up on that sofa that looked expensive at first glance, even pulling a blanket made of some unknown material but also seemingly costly over herself.

Even though she would be kicked out tomorrow, she slept very soundly.

Not even Tan Chen’s footsteps or the ringing of the video intercom at the door could wake her.

It wasn’t until a familiar yet annoying voice stepped into the room that Su Jiuju suddenly snapped awake.

“Brother Tan, I got up so early just to see you… oh no, to see the cat. Let me in!” Li Jiaojiao said, carrying a big bag of pet supplies, her pampered fingers red from being squeezed.

She deliberately showed her reddened fingers in front of Tan Chen: “So many things, it really hurts!”

Unfortunately, her alluring glance was thrown at a blind man. Tan Chen ignored her hand and said bluntly, “No one asked you to come so early.”

Li Jiaojiao was unyielding: “Song Yijiang said, Brother Tan, you like diligent people. Besides, if you come a bit later, won’t you have to go to work?”

“Why didn’t Song Yijiang tell you not to keep coming to me for no reason?”

Tan Chen’s words were merciless, making Li Jiaojiao’s eyes fill with tears immediately.

“I…”

Su Jiujiu nestled her head in the blanket, only quietly lifting a small gap to eavesdrop.

She only heard the conversation between the two people ahead, not knowing what happened afterward.

Li Jiaojiao’s originally low spirits lifted again, and she followed Tan Chen into the door.

After Li Jiaojiao came in, she didn’t forget her main purpose—after all, she only got in under the pretense of caring about the cat. So the first thing she did was carry a big bag over to the cat’s nest.

She thought the cat was still in the nest and was about to call it, but the next moment she froze awkwardly in place.

“……”

Oh no, what was this cat’s name again?

She froze for a full five seconds before turning around and tentatively asking Tan Chen, “Tan gege, have you given this cat a name?”

Tan Chen glanced at the cat bed and recalled the name he casually came up with yesterday: “Feidu.”

“Feidu?” Li Jiaojiao laughed out loud without holding back, only to realize afterward that Tan Chen was staring at her with a straight face.

Out of her sight, Su Jiujiu was also hiding in the blanket, watching her eerily.

Under dual pressure, Li Jiaojiao gave a dry laugh twice: “Good name, good name.”

After speaking, she quickly turned her head towards the cat’s nest, trying to conceal the earlier ridicule. “Feidu, Feidu, come out quickly! Look at what I brought for you!”

Li Jiaojiao opened the bag in her hand and took out various types of cat treats one by one, along with several styles of cat wands, clearly having prepared thoroughly.

Tan Chen, who was watching, was stunned.

You need so many things just to raise a cat?

But no matter how she called, the cat didn’t come out of the cat bed. By the end, Li Jiaojiao was getting a bit impatient and directly bent down, kneeling on the carpet, and reached her hand into the cat bed, trying to grab the cat out.

“Feidu, if you don’t come out, I’ll just have to grab you…”

Until she reached out and grabbed nothing, falling into confusion.

Where’s the cat?

There’s no cat in the cat bed?

Could it be that Brother Tan threw the cat away last night?

Li Jiaojiao quickly stopped herself from thinking that: impossible, if Brother Tan had really thrown the cat away, he wouldn’t have let her come over.

Maybe the cat ran somewhere else.

“Brother Tan, it seems like the cat isn’t in the cat bed.”

Not in the cat bed?

Tan Chen was momentarily stunned. His eyes quickly scanned the surroundings, trying to spot the cat.

Nothing.

Last night, all the doors except the living room and kitchen were closed. Could it have run into the kitchen again?

Tan pondered for a moment and then turned directly towards the kitchen.

Li Jiaojiao wanted to follow him, but she was also wary of what Song Yijiang had warned her earlier — Tan Chen didn’t like anyone casually entering his private space.

She sulkily gave up, comforting herself: it’s okay, at least Brother Tan let you in! That’s the biggest progress!

Thinking this, Li Jiaojiao felt all warm and happy inside, and she found a spot on the sofa where she could see the kitchen door at a glance.

And her hand happened to rest on the blanket next to her. Just then, the blanket under her hand suddenly twitched.

Li Jiaojiao was startled: “What the heck?”

Why is the blanket moving?

The texture she just felt was so weird!

“Brother Tan, is it that in your house…”

She didn’t even finish her sentence when the blanket in her eyes bounced again, and a silvery-white shadow leapt out from under the blanket.

In Li Jiaojiao’s eyes, a cat moving so fast that only a blurry afterimage remained spread all four paws, bared its ferocious teeth, wore an evil cat-like grin, and charged straight at her face.

“Aaaaaah!”

A scream pierced through the sky.

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