IGTCDCN chapter 20

All Su Jiu could do was play dumb and hope the guy was just asking casually, and that he’d forget everything when he sobered up tomorrow.

Anyway, she hadn’t been caught on the spot, and Tan Chen was drunk tonight too, so it was the perfect excuse!

Sure enough, after staring at her for a long time, Tan Chen also felt like he was losing his mind a bit.

Even though Dudu usually seemed a bit clever, she was still just an ordinary cat—there was no way she could turn into a human.

Maybe it’s just the different lighting from outside to inside that made him dizzy and hallucinate.

“Forget it, what am I thinking.”

He put the cat back on the shelf and started taking off his pants.

Su Jiujiu blinked, and the male lead was left wearing only a plain pair of boxer shorts.

Seeing him about to take off more, she gasped.

Can she really be looking at this?

She lifted her cat paw to cover her eyes and peeked through the gap to see Tan Chen bend down, hook the edge of his underwear, ready to take it off…

The next moment, Tan Chen flicked her forehead.

“Cat paw isn’t even closed, what are you sneaking a peek at?”

At this point, Tan Chen thought Dudu was just too humanlike. He didn’t continue taking off his clothes, and instead grabbed Su Jiujiu by the back of her neck and walked toward the bathroom door.

Before Su Jiujiu was thrown out, she clung tightly to the door, her gaze at Tan Chen full of accusation.

Weren’t we supposed to take a bath together?

Tan Chen chuckled, “So reluctant? You little naughty cat.”

Maybe it was because of that illusion he got when he first came home, or maybe because Dudu was a smart and unusually human-like little female cat. After Tan Chen took off his clothes and sobered up a bit from the alcohol, he started feeling uncomfortable.

“Meow!”

I’m not naughty!

Su Jiujiu swore to defend her reputation, but Tan Chen obviously didn’t care about her pitiful little reputation. He then tossed her out of the bathroom and closed the door without mercy.

The cat squatted at the bathroom door, listening to the sound of water inside, and let out a sigh in unison.

“What a shame, we almost got to see the full view.”

[Exactly, exactly!]

The two perverts reached an agreement, both feeling a little more at ease with each other.

By the time Tan Chen finished his shower, the cat had already returned to its little nest under the bed in the bedroom, sleeping sprawled out in all directions.

Tan Chen drank too much tonight. Even though he looked calm on the outside, the drunkenness made him act differently from usual—things he normally wouldn’t do, he did today.

Like crouching next to the cat’s bed to watch it sleep.

“How can you sleep so soundly?” he poked the cat’s paw. The cat kept its eyes closed and licked its mouth, probably dreaming of something tasty.

On a whim, he just picked up the soundly sleeping cat and placed it by his pillow.

[Ding! A supporting female character who doesn’t flirt with the male lead isn’t a good supporting character. Congratulations to the host for becoming the male lead’s bed companion… System error, system error, automatic correction… Congratulations to the host for becoming the male lead’s bedside cat, reward points 300! Current points 3600, victory is just ahead, please keep up the good work!]

A series of system notifications about huge points being credited didn’t wake Su Jiujiu at all. She turned over, snuggled into Tan Chen’s arms, and slept even more soundly.

…..

The next day, she was woken up by the noise in the living room. As Su Jiujiu opened her eyes, all she saw was a blur of white.

She reached out and stepped, and the warm touch instantly brought her back to full consciousness.

Tan Chen’s abs! He was actually sleeping shirtless!

But then again, why was she on Tan Chen’s bed? She doesn’t even have sleepwalking issues, right?

Could it be that he carried her up there himself last night?

That made sense, after all, the male lead was different from usual when he was drunk last night, so it wouldn’t be surprising if he did something like that.

However… Su Jiujiu looked at a few strands of hair that had fallen into her blanket and sighed worriedly.

Sigh, she didn’t know if the male lead would give her the cold shoulder when he saw so much cat hair stuck on his black silk bedsheets after waking up.

She admired the handsome guy’s sleeping posture for a while before jumping off the bed and sneaking out through the crack of the bedroom door.

Assistant Lin knew that President Tan had come back drunk last night, so he arrived early, preparing breakfast and a hangover soup.

Honestly, when it comes to daily life, he really is thoughtful.

Su Jiujiu jumped onto the table, eating the cat food Assistant Lin had prepared for her, while unilaterally forgiving his “little mistake” from yesterday.

“Dudu, has President Tan woken up yet?” Assistant Lin sat at the dining table, feeding the cat while waiting for President Tan to start work.

“Meow meow.”

Not yet.

Assistant Lin knew that talking to a cat was like trying to play music to a cow, but owning a cat makes you enjoy talking to them as if they actually understand.

Su Jiujiu really could understand. What she was worried about now was that no one else could understand her.

Just like yesterday, she got bullied and couldn’t even complain! As a victim, she had to watch the perpetrator run rampant, while she could only lick her own paws painfully. She bit fiercely into a small fish snack, with a touch of sorrow in her eyes.

While eating, Assistant Lin suddenly glanced behind her: “Good morning, President Tan.”

“Mm, morning.”

A slightly hoarse voice spoke, footsteps stopping behind her.

Su Jiujiu was twisting her cat head and fiercely chewing on a small dried fish with her back teeth when, unexpectedly, a large hand stroked down her back from top to bottom, the warmth of the palm lingering in her fur.

She shivered violently, shaking the fur on her body.

What are you doing! What are you doing! Harassing me in the morning like this!

Tan Chen’s head still hurt a bit, but it didn’t stop him from noticing the cat’s impatience, and the hand he had originally intended to withdraw reached out again.

“You shed an entire bed’s worth of cat fur, and I still didn’t mind you.”

Su Jiuju immediately felt guilty. She admitted that this body did tend to shed a lot, and cleaning it up was a real hassle.

Moreover, she had even crawled into his wardrobe yesterday, and she hoped the male lead wouldn’t remember that…

“You even got into my wardrobe? Auntie will have to clean it all over again today.”

See, he knows exactly what to mention!

Su Jiuju buried her cat head deeper and deeper, almost down to her chest.

Tan Chen saw this scene and thought to himself, ‘As expected.’

This cat is indeed a bit more human-like than an ordinary cat. Just as one person was withdrawing and the other was suspicious, Assistant Lin’s interjection broke the silence.

“President Tan, did you let Dudu onto your bed?”

He was secretly surprised, recalling how before, Assistant Liu had emphasized to him that president Tan likes cleanliness and rarely lets anyone encroach on his personal space. He didn’t expect that so soon, he would even let a cat sleep on his bed.

Sure enough, no one could resist the power of the cat .

“Mm, remember to have the aunt come over today to clean the bed and the wardrobe.”

“Okay.”

Tan Chen reached out, scooped up the cat, and held it in his arms, sitting at the dining table in place of Su Jiujiu.

He looked at the small fish in the bowl that had been half-bitten: “Why aren’t you eating anymore?”

Su Jiujiu pawed at his arm with both paws, looking dejected and refusing to look at him.

——You scared it.

Tan Chen saw that it didn’t respond, so he pinched a small dried fish from the bowl and fed it to Su Jiujiu.

“Do you want to eat?”

Su Jiujiu turned her head proudly… then turned back to bite the small dried fish and continued chewing with relish.

A handsome guy feeding me—so fragrant!

Assistant Lin saw that President Tan sat down only to feed Dudu, so he quickly pushed the congee over and reached out to take the cat.

“President Tan, I’ll feed her. You just got up, have some congee.”

Tan Chen shook his head, only now showing a hint of hangover fatigue. His brows were lightly furrowed, and his gaze only relaxed a little when it landed on the cat in his arms.

“Go grab the files from my study,” he said.

Even on weekends, President Tan would handle company affairs, and Assistant Lin was long used to this. Yesterday, he had already placed the important documents in the study, so now it was a good time to get them.

After he got up and left, Tan Chen suddenly moved the dried fish from his hand.

Su Jiujiu bit at nothing and looked up at him in dissatisfaction.

“Meow meow meow?”

What are you doing?

Tan Chen looked at it seriously: “Did someone come into the house yesterday?”

Damn, you still remember this after sobering up?Su Jiujiu calmly licked her paws, pretending not to understand.

Tan Chen wasn’t going to let it off so easily.

He had lived with it for a month and had long understood its thoughts—whenever it felt guilty, it would pretend to be grooming itself to act clueless.

“There was a girl in the living room yesterday.” He scratched the cat under its chin. “The cat ears and tail she was wearing were exactly like your fur, and even on her face…”

He recalled the vague glimpse from yesterday and suddenly remembered the panic on that girl’s face… and the obvious cat markings on her cheeks.

Such a specific impression didn’t seem like something he made up himself.

“Could it be that someone was cosplaying in my house?” He kept scratching the cat under its chin. “Then who was she planning to show it to, hmm?”

Su Jiujiu tilted her head back, squinting her eyes in enjoyment: ‘Gulp gulp gulp , I don’t understand, I don’t understand.’

Tan Chen scratched for a while but still got no response from the cat, so he simply raised his hand and pinched its cheeks, turning the plump cat face into a melon-seed shape.

“Pretending to be dumb with me?”

Su Jiujiu flailed her limbs helplessly, unable to resist.

Looking at the cat’s silly appearance, Tan Chen thoughtfully released her face, then suddenly stared at her for several more glances.

“Could it really be that I was mistaken?”

He laughed at himself, feeling that he had really lost it just now, actually suspecting something so mystical just because Dudu was too clever.

Just then, Assistant Lin brought out the documents, and he tossed aside the last bit of confusion in his mind, focusing on going through the files.

Su Jiujiu, seeing that she had finally dodged a bullet, didn’t dare to stir up trouble anymore and quietly stayed in the corner of the dining table, continuing to eat her cat food.

Tan Chen frowned as he looked, saying, “There’s still a report missing.”

Assistant Lin is currently not involved in the company’s specific business, so he didn’t expect to miss one. Upon hearing this, he immediately said, “Shall I have someone send it again?”

“No need.” Tan Chen picked out the document and tossed it aside, “It’s not a particularly urgent project, have someone follow up on Monday.”

Just because he himself was willing to work overtime on the weekend, it didn’t mean he had to make his employees work overtime together for a non-urgent project.

Just as Assistant Lin was about to agree, he received a WeChat message on his phone.

“President Tan, Kaven said he mistakenly took the report home and has had it sent over today.”

Tan Chen nodded: “Have them come up.”

“Okay.”

After a while, Su Jiujiu, who was still buried in her meal, heard the sound of the door opening, followed by a voice familiar beyond familiarity.

“President Tan, I’m really sorry. Yesterday I didn’t check carefully, and one report was missing from the documents I delivered.”

Su Jiu Jiu suddenly looked up, and across the huge living room, she could see a hateful figure.

It was Song Yawen again!!!

That annoying woman, after kicking her around, actually had the audacity to show up at her door without a shred of guilt! 　​​

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