IGTCDCN chapter 13

Tan Chen grabbed Su Jiujiu’s cat paw that was being licked, and with his other hand lifted her cat head, stopping her from pretending to be clueless.

“What were you just doing?”

Su Jiujiu’s cat head was held up by a few of Tan Chen’s fingers, unable to lower it, so she could only tilt her head innocently and let out a soft meow.

“Meow~”

I didn’t do anything, I was just saying hi to a beautiful girl.

Tan Chen didn’t get an answer from the cat, but he had only asked symbolically, and afterward, he naturally found the same excuse as Su Jiujiu.

“It’s greeting you; it seems to remember you.”

Greeting?

What cat greets someone like that!

Li Jiaojiao felt that she was naturally at odds with this cat; she didn’t like it from the first moment she saw it, and now she felt even less favorable.

She held back her anger and said, “Since you’ve already taken it back, do you still have to bring up that I lost it?”

Tan Chen remained silent for a moment. He suddenly realized that it was meaningless for him to keep dwelling on this matter with Li Jiaojiao.

Even if the cat had died because she abandoned it, she would merely worry about being misunderstood and would not reflect on her behavior of using a cat as a tool.

He didn’t want to talk to her any longer and just hung up the video call. Right as the call ended, the innocent Su Jiuju immediately heard a pleasant mechanical voice.

[Congrats, Host! You’ve completed Task 8 on your own: A supporting female who isn’t arrogant, overbearing, or provocative isn’t a proper supporting female. You successfully staged a provocative scene in front of the third female lead and caught the male lead’s attention. Reward: 200 points. Current points: 600!]

Su Jiujiu immediately raised her cat paw and began to count: one point is worth one thousand yuan, so 200 points amount to 200,000 yuan. Does this mean she earned 200,000 yuan with just a devilish smile?

She hadn’t managed to complete the afternoon’s Task 7 yet, but judging from the accumulated points so far, they were already worth 600,000 yuan! In her previous world, 600,000 yuan would have been enough for her to pay a down payment at home!

Low cost and high return—Su Jiujiu felt motivated once again!

“System, when is Task 9…”

Before she could finish a sentence, her meowing caught Tan Chen’s attention.
He raised his big hand to cover its head and rubbed it firmly with his palm: “Was that on purpose just now? Who did you learn this bad habit from?”

Su Jiujiu was all about money, and she was about to jump off the table to avoid his hand.

She wanted to find a quiet corner to carefully check the remaining tasks in the system and finish them early so she could go home to buy a house!

Tan Chen felt for the first time that a cat could be so resistant to him, and he immediately grabbed it back into his arms.

“Are you going to tell me or not?”

“Meow!”

Ah, right, right, right, I’m doing this on purpose! Nobody taught me, it’s just my nature to be this naughty! So let go of me quickly, you stinky litter-scooper!

Even though he was holding the cat, it kept wriggling wildly in his arms, like a village girl being forcibly taken.

The more it struggled, the less Tan Chen wanted to let it go, and when he couldn’t get an answer, he made up his own excuse.

“Could it be because it spent some time with Li Jiaojiao? So it learned these habits by observation?”

They say that similar things repel each other. If a person and a cat share similar traits, it’s normal to feel mutual aversion at first sight.

He lifted the still-struggling cat over his head: “What, am I wrong?”

Su Jiujiu suddenly hovered in the air. Looking down from the cat’s perspective, even from such a deadly angle, the male lead’s appearance was still very striking—his superior jawline, delicate yet completely masculine eyebrows and eyes, and focused, smiling gaze could almost make this lustful cat faint, making her momentarily forget about her 600,000 yuan.

Su Jiujiu slyly stretched out her paw and pressed it on Tan Chen’s lips.

Wow!

Warm to the touch!

She, intoxicated by desire, pressed again and again on the male lead’s lips, her fuzzy paws feeling perfectly at home on them, with each strand of cat fur scratching into Tan Chen’s heart.

Tan Chen squinted his eyes, feeling the ticklish sensation on his lips, and did not push away the paws of this lustful cat; instead, he let her fiddle with his lips.

Just as Su Jiujiu thought he didn’t mind her actions and was about to become even more bold, the cat paw was suddenly grabbed by a warm, big hand.

Probably thinking of returning the favor in kind, Tan Chen, after grabbing its cat paw, forcibly pressed its paw back onto its mouth.

“You have no idea what your paw has been doing, and you just press it on my mouth like this?”

Su Jiujiu’s mouth was pressed by her own cat paw, and seeing the male lead’s disdainful expression, she immediately felt completely defeated!

“Meow, meow meow!”

What do you mean! Are you looking down on me? My cat’s paws have never dug through any poop!

But obviously Tan Chen was looking down on that very thing; he thought the cat’s paws might have dug through lots of dirty things, so he forcefully pressed its paws against its own mouth.

Just as Su Jiujiu was about to continue protesting, Aunt Liu came out from the kitchen carrying the prepared cat food.

“Dudu’s cat food is ready!”

Aunt Liu brought out a delicate little dish. Su Jiujiu saw from afar the luxurious ingredients inside, totally on a different level from the leftover diet meal that Tan Chen had that day.

Immediately, Su Jiujiu leapt up from the table and did a roll on it. She was super excited, letting out a series of cute, coaxing meows at Aunt Liu.

After putting down the little dish, Aunt Liu understood perfectly, picked her up, ran her hands along her back a couple of times, and then let her go eat.

After Su Jiujiu finished expressing her friendliness, she turned to the cat’s food and started eating hungrily.

“Meow!”

This was honestly the best meal she had ever had in this world!!!

Plump shrimp, sweet mussels… hmm? She seemed to have even eaten some crab leg meat, and there was even some crab roe!

Aunt Liu spoke at the right moment: “I just steamed a hairy crab for you, it took a bit of time, but you weren’t starving, right?”

There really was a hairy crab! And it was really made for this little kitten to eat!

Su Jiujiu was instantly moved to tears. She put down the cat food she had barely touched and ran over to Aunt Liu, rubbing against her like crazy.

“Wow, this cat really is something!” Aunt Liu said, surprised at the cat approaching her so willingly. After letting it rub against her for a while, she gently pushed it away. “Alright, go eat. I just made you some cat food, no need to be so clingy.”

Even as she said that, the smile on Aunt Liu’s face didn’t fade at all.

She had also waited on quite a few cat owners, perhaps all cats that were raised in luxury. Sometimes they wouldn’t even appreciate carefully selected items, let alone this simple cat food, which was just for the little master’s cat…

“Why is it so clingy to you?” Tan Chen suddenly asked.

Aunt Liu was momentarily stunned, not understanding the little master’s meaning at first, but when she realized it, she immediately understood.

She thought of the apartment she had seen this afternoon when she first arrived. Inside, there was nothing except a cat bed, which didn’t even have a fixed place and seemed to be carelessly thrown in the living room; there was also a pile of cat food and canned cat food on the side, obviously untouched and unopened. This hardly looked like a household that raised cats.

“Young master, if you take care of it sincerely, it will naturally become close to you.”

Tan Chen had already finished his food a long time ago, and now he was resting his chin in his hand, watching the cat eat. The cat nearly buried its entire head in the bowl, eating with great relish.

He chuckled and reached out to pet it: “What? Could it be that I’m mistreating you?”

What he said made no sense at all—he hadn’t really fed it more than a few times.

Su Jiujiu seemed to have eyes in the back of its head; its round little body flashed, instantly dodging Tan Chen’s touch.

After he petted nothing but air, Tan Chen complained, “Why won’t it let me touch it?”

Aunt Liu chuckled: “Perhaps Dudu is eating right now and doesn’t want to be disturbed.”

Yet Tan Chen felt a sense of unfairness; just moments ago, this cat would interrupt its meal to nuzzle Aunt Liu a few times, but when it came to him, it turned away without a second glance.

Can a single meal really make such a difference? It seems that it is not only a flirtatious cat but also a greedy one.

Tan Chen thought expressionlessly.

Aunt Liu made just the right amount. Su Jiujiu, still a little tipsy, licked the cat food off her plate and only then noticed that the living room was empty.

Strange, when did they leave?

She jumped off the dining table, ready to find Tan Chen and the kind aunt who had cooked for her, and followed the sound to the study.

Maybe because there was no one else at home, the study door wasn’t fully closed, and she could faintly hear Aunt Liu’s voice.

“Young master, the master means to have someone start working at the company first, and if it really doesn’t suit them, they can be transferred later.”

Su Jiujiu’s ears perked up. Who? Sending who to the company?

Tan Chen’s voice sounded very indifferent: “If she has the ability, she can apply to the company herself. My company does not support idlers.”

“Master said that the young lady is an outstanding student from the Finance Department of C University abroad. Her family is well-off and has provided her with excellent education. She just graduated this year, and even gaining some experience at young master’s company would be good.”

“Since she is so outstanding, why come to our company to polish her skills? She could study abroad for a few more years and then return to take over the family business, wouldn’t that be even better?”

“Sigh, this is exactly what master means. Young master, please don’t make it difficult for me…”

Su Jiujiu barely managed to hear these words clearly, and immediately a strong premonition surged within her.

“System, who is this again? This character didn’t appear in the original text, right?”

She remembered that in the novel she had transmigrated into, the female lead only appeared after the second and third female leads had completely exited the scene. She was also mistakenly recruited into the male lead’s company, and because of her insufficient abilities, she made several mistakes, causing the male lead to have a certain prejudice against her and subsequently always made things difficult for her.

Although the female lead looks like a delicate little white flower, she’s actually very tough at heart and handles all the pressures from the male lead really well, successfully making him change his mind and take the first step toward love.

Right now, though, this female second lead who was accidentally turned into a cat hasn’t left the story yet, so the female lead clearly won’t show up this early. The person Tan Chen and Sixth Aunt were talking about sounds like they have an impressive background, definitely not the ordinary type we usually see with classic female leads.
Here’s the problem: the person preparing to get into the company through the back door is definitely not the female lead, so who is she? It doesn’t sound like a character who has no role in the original story.

After a few seconds of system lag, it responded: [Oh, here’s the situation: because your tasks for the supporting female character were completed too quickly, and you drove the third female lead away before fully clashing with her, this caused a lack of competitive female supporting characters around the male lead, thereby missing plot points that would have had a significant impact on the male lead’s character development.]

【So the world consciousness automatically intervenes, making the female supporting characters who appear in the mid-to-late stages show up earlier, preserving important early plot points, and ensuring that the male lead falls in love with the female lead later on.】

“Female supporting characters really are all tools, moved wherever needed,” Su Jiujiu murmured, “What kind of female rivalry scene is this…”

The system comforted her: 【Be satisfied, host. The host next door plays a male supporting character in an old-style male-oriented story. Although he is a favored one of heaven, he was slapped in the face countless times by the grassroots male lead, and even had a tooth knocked out in public.】

【The competition over there is even more intense.】

The system self-mockingly remarked, 【After all, we are outsourced, and can’t get our hands on the key parts involving the male and female leads.】

Su Jiujiu: “…There’s no need to be so sincere and heartfelt.”

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