IGTCDCN chapter 7

The piercing scream tore into the kitchen, and Tan Chen, who was looking for the cat, was startled so badly that his heart raced for a second.

What’s going on this time?

He walked out of the kitchen and saw Li Jiaojiao standing in the living room, staring eye to eye with the cat crouched on the sofa.

When Li Jiaojiao saw him come out, tears immediately welled up in her eyes: “Brother Tan, this cat is going to scratch me!”

The cat, seeing him come out, also turned its head at just the right time, and for a rare moment, its cat eyes were full of tears.

“Meow meow meow!”

Damn it, this woman is going to crush me!

Tan Chen had never seen such a strange scene and felt that letting Li Jiajiao in was simply a mistake. “What on earth is going on?”

“It was hiding in the blanket, and after I sat on the sofa, it suddenly jumped out and tried to scratch me!”

“Meow meow meow meow meow meow!”

I was sleeping soundly under the blanket, but she insisted on sitting down, almost squashing me. I got scared and startled her!

One person and one cat each stuck to their own version of the story. Oh no, due to the language barrier, Tan Chen could only understand Li Jiaojiao’s reason for now.

“Li Jiaojiao, you brought this cat here yourself.”

Tan Chen obviously had no intention of siding with her. “Now you’re telling me it scratched you, but it’s only been a day—are you saying it already forgot about you?”

“Meow meow!” That’s right, that’s right!

Su Jiujiu proudly lifted her cat’s head and raised her paw to lick it.

Tan Chen sent it a glance, understanding in his heart that this cat surely isn’t innocent either, but he wouldn’t bother arguing with a cat.

Li Jiaojiao hurriedly explained, “No, it’s just that it really just…”

“Alright, the cat’s been found, just take it back.”

As soon as these words were spoken, both the people and the cat froze.

Su Jiujiu lowered her proud head and silently wept at her white cat paw: perhaps this is the fate of a supporting female character—she completed her mission before it even began, causing the male lead to develop dislike for both her and the third female lead, ready to drive them away.

Meanwhile, Li Jiaojiao completely forgot the earlier conflict with the cat and looked at Tan Chen in surprise: “Brother Tan, why are you suddenly asking me to take it back?”

Tan Chen didn’t originally want to make things so clear, but Li Jiaojiao really couldn’t read a situation, so he had to say it straight: “Because it caused me trouble.”

“It, it caused you trouble? Was it too noisy or too naughty? Or should I go back and switch to another cat to send to you, Brother Tan…”

Before she could finish, Tan Chen interrupted: “It’s not the cat’s problem, it’s yours.”

“The trouble it caused me is you.”

Li Jiaojiao staggered as if struck by a lightning bolt.

“How could I possibly be a trouble? Brother Tan, do you think I’m a trouble?”

Tan Chen didn’t answer her, but his expression gave her the answer.

Li Jiaojiao took a deep breath, calming her emotions, feigning strength, her eyes brimming with tears as she looked at him: “Brother Tan, you, Song Yijiang, and I grew up together since childhood, so why is your attitude towards me so harsh?”

“We’ve clearly been together all this time!”

Even if she was about to be sent away, Su Jiujiu never missed out on any gossip.

At this moment, she was turning her head from side to side, enjoying the drama from both sides.

When the male lead spoke, she mentally applauded him: very good, the male lead should show his own style, always stay true to himself when facing the supporting female character’s sweet tricks, and leave all special treatment for the female lead!

After the supporting female character spoke, she kept nodding: ‘Ah, well, what the third female said kind of makes sense. If she were the male lead, this line would have already triggered his memories and brought out the old feelings.’

But Tan Chen was different; there wasn’t a hint of emotion on his face.

“You’re not wrong.” He nodded slightly. “But we just grew up together; we didn’t actually accompany each other until now.”

“More accurately, back then you were just clinging to Song Yijiang’s side, occasionally paying a little attention to me next to you. After I went abroad, we lost all contact.”

“Until you suddenly reached out again when I returned to the country.”

Li Jiaojiao hadn’t expected him to reveal it so directly, and for a moment, her expression stiffened.

“B-but that was all when we were kids…”

Tan Chen retorted, “So you also know it happened when we were kids?”

“I didn’t want to put it so bluntly, but after returning to the country, my attitude was very obvious, and you still kept bothering me and wasting my time.”

The story between Tan Chen, Li Jiaojiao, and Song Yijiang is really simple. Since their elders knew each other, they grew up together from childhood.

When Song Yijiang was a kid, he was very lively, and on top of that, he was cute, so he was already getting along with everyone in kindergarten. Plus, the Song family was powerful and prominent back then, and the elders at home liked to have the kids try to please Song Yijiang.

Li Jiaojiao was the same way; she knew from a young age who to play with and kept clinging to Song Yijiang.

Tan Chen was just a tagalong. He had a gloomy personality and got along reasonably well with Song Yijiang.

When he was young, the elders sent him to live in the old Tan family house next to the Song family, and he became familiar with the young Song Yijiang.

Back then, kids all liked playing with Song Yijiang, and no one made a point of introducing Tan Chen as someone from the Tan family, so not many paid him any attention.

Li Jiaojiao was no exception either.

After Tan Chen went abroad for high school, she seemed to have forgotten about this person, until he returned to the country after graduation.

Only then did she learn that he was a member of the Tan family, and in just a few months, she became particularly enthusiastic, repeatedly using Song Yijiang’s name to get close to him in various ways.

It was only because Song Yijiang considered that she had grown up with him since childhood that he kept intervening and advising, preventing his friend from completely driving her away.

“B-But I really like you, Brother Tan…”

Although there was also a bit of a family background reason—her family wanted her to maintain good relations with the Tan family—the biggest reason was that after Tan Chen returned to the country, he really became so handsome!

When she was little, she had only focused on liking the lively and spirited Song Yijiang, never paying attention to Tan Chen, who always seemed very dull and gloomy.

But who would have thought that in just a few short years, after Tan Chen went abroad once, he would reveal such an astonishing appearance?

If it weren’t for Song Yijiang’s introduction, she would have almost failed to recognize the person she knew as a child.

One moment of inattentiveness, and Li Jiajiao had spoken all her thoughts out loud.

Tan Chen: “…”

Su Jiujiu, who was eating melon on the side, said: “…Meow?”

Is he really that handsome?

She turned her head and took a careful look at the male lead.

Sigh! He really is handsome!

This was already the second time Su Jiujiu marveled at the male lead’s ‘outstanding looks!’ She had never thought that the description of the male lead in the novel would appear on a real person’s face.

Hmm, she slightly began to understand Li Jiaojiao.

But Tan Chen didn’t understand, and he didn’t want to bother figuring out whether what Li Jiaojiao said was true or not.

“You don’t need to tell me this. Besides Song Yijiang, we’re not really close.”

“Take your cat with you, don’t come back.”

As he said the second sentence, he instinctively glanced at the cat on the sofa, only to see it staring at his face with its mouth open, looking completely silly.

What a pity.

A rare cat that’s a bit dumb.

Luckily, Su Jiujiu didn’t know Tan Chen’s true thoughts, otherwise, the sadness of it being sent away right now would be mixed with a huge amount of anger.

Tan Chen’s words were too harsh. Li Jiaojiao tried several times to explain but ended up closing her mouth in frustration.

She gave him one last struggling look: “Once I take it away, you’ll never see it again.”

Tan Chen, unusually, added a line: “Where are you going to throw it?”

Li Jiao jiao looked at the cat and remembered the earlier conflict with it, and let out a cold laugh without holding back: “Of course, throw it back where it came from and let it fend for itself.”

This was the truest Li Jiao jiao—no restraints from Song Yijiang, no pretending to be nice in front of Tan Chen, completely reckless, saying whatever came to mind, not that heartless but not exactly kind either, not that smart but definitely never letting herself take a loss.

Tan Chen frowned when he heard this.

Seeing a chance, Su Jiujiu quickly snuggled up to the male lead, looking up at him pitifully, hoping he would have a last-minute change of heart and not let her be taken away by this ruthless woman.

Tan Chen paused for a second: “Then take it away.”

Su Jiujiu: “?”

She watched helplessly as she was roughly shoved into the cat bed, and then Li Jiaojiao grumblingly carried her away along with the cat bed.

“So useless, you can’t even keep a man.”

She heard Li Jiaojiao disdainfully say that about her from above.

Su Jiujiu immediately refused to accept it, poked her head out of the cat nest, and opened her mouth to retort with Li Jiaojiao. “Meow, meow meow meow! Meow meow, meow meow meow meow!”

If you have the ability, if you have the ability to hook the male lead, then don’t let her get in the way, causing such great harm to a little kitty. Is it easy being a little kitty!

Li Jiao Jiao saw a cat still daring to be so arrogant and roar at her, which made her even angrier.

“What are you meowing about? What, still want to argue with me? Let me tell you, when I get home, I’ll throw you straight into the garbage dump so you can eat trash, you trash cat!”

The person and the cat argued from Tan Chen’s house to the doorway, and from the doorway to the elevator.

The system excitedly jotted down notes on its little notebook: Great, the host did very well. The second female lead should get into a fight with the third female lead—that way, it can leave a deep psychological impact on the male lead and let the kind-hearted female lead come to heal him!

“Ding.”

The elevator doors opened. Li Jiajiao carried the cat nest into the elevator and looked up toward Tan Chen’s house, but she couldn’t see anyone there anymore.

She looked down and noticed that the cat in the cat bed was doing exactly the same thing as her, which immediately made her laugh angrily.

“What, you still can’t let go?”

Su Jiujiu turned her head and ignored her; she was in a really bad mood right now.

The biggest downside of being turned into a cat is having no control over your own life. If she left the male lead’s house and got casually sent away by the female supporting character, she might never be able to see the male lead again or complete her mission.

If she can’t complete the tasks, she can’t exchange for a body; if she can’t exchange for a body, she can’t make progress on the tasks; and if she can’t make progress, she won’t be able to return to the real world.

This annoying book-hopping!

Annoying Li Jiao Jiao!

Obviously, Li Jiao Jiao also found this cat extremely annoying, almost wanting to toss it downstairs, but she was afraid that getting too close would alert Tan Chen.

So she had no choice but to carry the cat bed to the roadside and message the driver to come pick her up.

During the wait, the system finally sent a notification sluggishly.

【Beep! Congratulations, host, Task 4 progress 100%, you’ve earned 200 points!】

【Beep! Congratulations, host, you’ve completed the daily task, activating the advanced green tea behavior—It’s not my fault, she started it first! Reward: 50 points!】

She completed two tasks in a row. The first was obviously done when she and Li Jiao Jiao were blaming each other in front of the male lead over the “sneak attack” incident; the second was probably this morning’s series of events, which achieved the goal of Task 4, like successfully leaving a “psychological shadow” on the male lead or something…

Getting 250 points all at once not only made up for the 100 points she spent earlier but also gave her an extra 150 points. All in all, she now has 400 points.

But none of this could make Su Jiujiu happy.

Just because of these 250 points, she completely lost the chance to earn points up close with the male lead while doing tasks.

The driver had already driven the car over. After Li Jiao Jiao got in with the cat, she kept a sullen face, and the cat beside her lay in its cat bed listlessly.

“Go home!”

The driver didn’t dare to ask more and could only drive with his head down. The flashy luxury car drove out of the community and paused briefly at the gate while departing.

No way! She can’t just sit there and wait to die!

Su Jiujiu watched the apartment getting farther and farther away, suddenly stood up, climbed to the car window, and took the chance while the driver hadn’t fully sped up yet to leap out of the car window.

She landed perfectly, then darted into the flower bed along the road, disappearing without a trace.

It wasn’t until the car sped up that Li Jiaojiao realized the cat was gone.

“Where’s the cat? When did it run off!”

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