IGTCDCN chapter 23

Song Yawen didn’t expect someone to kick her from behind. She was already in a cautious mood trying to open the door, and now she lost her balance and tumbled face-first toward the toilet.

Even though the bathroom was spotless, it couldn’t prevent her face from getting dangerously close to the toilet seat. Just as she was about to fall in, Song Yawen panicked and braced herself on the floor, pulling her face back from the rim.

Once the crisis passed, anger immediately surged to her head, and she spun around sharply: “Who?!”

Before Song Yawen could even see who was standing behind her, she was drenched in water.

Her eyes were shielded by the curtain of water, making it impossible to open them. She instinctively wiped her face wildly, and the faint, strange smell made her nerves nearly snap.

Outside the stall stood a woman whose face couldn’t be seen clearly. She was holding a bucket from the restroom, and what the water in it was for—who knew? It certainly didn’t look like it was meant for anything clean.

“What are you doing!!!”

The sharp female voice was on the verge of breaking; just listening, one could tell how furious she was.

Su Jiujiu tossed the water bucket in her hand and, taking advantage of Song Yawen wiping her face, dashed out of the bathroom in a flash.

“System, system, quickly help me block the surveillance outside!”

The system replied formally: [You need 100 points to redeem the surveillance function.]

“Redeem, redeem, redeem!”

She had already exchanged her 500 points for a one-minute limit body—was she still unwilling to spend this one minute?

In case Song Yawen checks the surveillance later, sees her own face, and reports it to Tan Chen, wouldn’t he then realize that everything he saw that night wasn’t a ‘hallucination’!

So Su Jiujiu spent these hundred points very decisively.

[Redemption successful, the surveillance near the corridor outside the bathroom has been temporarily blocked, valid for one minute. Current remaining points: 3300.]

Hearing this number, Su Jiujiu felt a pang of pain for a second. Even though she’d mentally prepared herself in advance, being scammed for one minute of human body in exchange for 500 points still stung a lot.

600 points, she’s going to have to save for a long time!

[Congratulations to the host for completing Autonomous Task 12: Automatically triggered the female supporting character ‘bullying’ event, fought to the death with other female supporting characters, acted decisively and in a despicable manner, showcasing your unparalleled viciousness and solidifying the position of the number one female supporting character in the entire story! Reward points: 1000, current points: 4300.]

The system’s second alert beep sounded again, and the points rolled in with a clatter. Su Jiujiu was stunned for a moment, then quickly grinned from ear to ear. Even though she was still on the ‘run,’ her mood was as thrilling and exhilarating as riding a roller coaster.

“This is awesome! Spending these six hundred points was totally worth it, and there’s still some surplus left!”

She didn’t expect that just getting her revenge would trigger a task with such high rewards.

Right after jumping into the next-door restroom, she quickly darted through the gaps at the bottom of the stalls while anxiously asking the system to transform her body.

Once she became human, Su Jiujiu’s first move was to step out of the stall and kick Song Yawen right in the butt.

Then, feeling it wasn’t enough, she casually grabbed a nearby bucket of sewage and dumped it all over her.

This was well done, even the system had to applaud her: 【The reward for independent tasks should be higher than the rewards for tasks issued by the system because this is a new direction the host has explored on her own, which aligns with the character setting better than the tasks we issue!】

At the moment, she was too busy fleeing to think much, so Su Jiujiu took this to heart and would ponder it later once she returned.

“Stop!”

Su Jiujiu turned her head and saw Song Yawen had already rushed out of the bathroom and was running after her.

“Hey, is she about to go crazy right now?”

The system crouched on her shoulder and looked back, completely agreeing: [Exactly, she’s so mad her face is turning green! Run faster and shake her off, find a corner with no one around and switch back, anyway she’s not in the mood to care about a little cat right now.]

“Okey dokey.” Su Jiujiu sped up crazily, sprinting down the office hallway.

Luckily, this floor is spacious enough, with only the CEO’s office and the secretarial department. The former is still working in the office, and the latter mostly holds meetings in the conference room. Otherwise, with the way she’s rushing, she would have bumped into someone a long time ago.

[Hurry hurry hurry, your timed human form only has eight seconds left!]

Su Jiujiu was startled, her heart tightening as she saw a corner ahead. “System, let me change back after I dash past that corner.”

She didn’t want to turn into a human right in front of Song Yawen.

【Okay.】

Two seconds later, Su Jiujiu dashed around the corner, all set to turn back into a cat, but when she looked up, she saw two men not far away—Tan Chen with his back to her, and Assistant Lin facing her.

Assistant Lin noticed someone coming, glanced twice, and felt like he hadn’t seen this person at the company before.

Su Jiujiu was so scared that she hit the brakes, and the moment her eyes met Assistant Lin’s, she instantly turned and ran back.

“Ah……”

The noise was so loud that Tan Chen couldn’t help but turn his head, just in time to catch a glimpse of a familiar girl’s profile. Before he could get a clear look, the girl had already quickly disappeared around the corner.

“Did the company get a new employee? I don’t think I’ve ever seen her before,” Assistant Lin muttered.

He was just about to continue his report when he saw President Tan shove the documents back into his arms and chase in the direction the girl had disappeared.

“President Tan……”

What’s going on? Why is he chasing after a girl?

Su Jiujiu didn’t even realize that Tan Chen had seen her and had personally chased after her. Her mind was entirely focused on not letting Tan Chen discover her, even if it meant running back and bumping into Song Yawen.

When she turned the corner again, just half a meter away was the pursuing Song Yawen.

A wolf in front, a tiger behind.

Su Jiujiu: ……

The less time Su Jiujiu had, the more she had no choice but to grit her teeth and rush toward Song Yawen.

Song Yawen didn’t expect her to run back, and immediately showed a fierce expression: “You dare…”

Before she could finish her words, the person in front reached out, shoved her aside, and slipped past her, faster than a cat.

Being teased over and over again, Song Yawen was so angry that she completely lost her temper.

“Bitch! Stop right there!”

As soon as she yelled this, she saw Tan Chen passing by next to her.

Tan Chen heard her words clearly, but he had other things on his mind, so he just gave her a light glance before following the girl’s figure ahead. That quick look just now—he had to be sure of one thing.

Song Yawen: “President Tan, I’m not…”

She didn’t expect life to be so dramatic—one moment she’s yelling something that ruins her image, and the next, President Tan actually hears it.

Seeing Tan Chen act indifferent toward her, Song Yawen instinctively thought about running after him to explain.

“Hurry, hurry, hurry! Can someone check what’s going on behind me?” Su Jiujiu, who was running at the front, didn’t have time to turn around and could only let the system help her check the situation behind.

The system, crouched on her shoulder, twisted its clumsy body and got startled instantly: [The male lead has caught up! The evil supporting female is chasing the male lead!]

Su Jiujiu: “???”

Su Jiujiu almost lost it: “No, what the heck is going on? Why did Tan Chen catch up? Wasn’t the supporting female chasing me? Why is she chasing him now?”

Are the three of them staging an office deathmatch? Does any of this make sense? Is this something a cold CEO would do? Is the workplace really this casual and dramatic?

[Whether it makes sense is not important; what matters most is that you only have two seconds left.] The system gave a death notice in her ear.

“Help!!!” Su Jiujiu summoned all her strength and barely, just barely, sprinted around another corner in the last second.

Just as she turned the corner, the last second ended, and the first thing to appear was cat ears, a cat tail, and cat markings on her face.

…..

Tan Chen had long legs and took big strides, covering three steps in two, quickly leaving Song Yawen who was following behind him.

The corridor wasn’t very long, and even if he was a few seconds slower than the girl in front, he was still almost right behind her as they turned the corner.

But strangely, after the corner, there was no one in sight—the girl who had been running at the front just vanished into thin air. Just like that ‘illusion’ he saw at home last time. The more this happened, the more puzzled Tan Chen felt.

He took a few steps forward and, at the doorway of an empty conference room with its door wide open, caught a glimpse of a fleeting shadow.

The shadow vanished quickly, leaving only a silver and white tail sticking out the door, which swung left and right for a moment before quickly retreating back into the conference room.

Tan Chen was quick and agile, taking long strides to catch up and grabbed the tail.

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Kotha: I translated this chapter in a hurry, so the translation might be a little rough 🫣🫣