IGTCDCN chapter 15

“Hello, President Tan.”

“Hello, President Tan!”

As soon as Tan Chen entered the company, he received quite a few surprised glances.

The reason was none other than that everyone was looking at the silvery-white cat excitedly following right behind him.

Tan Chen ignored these gazes on the cat and stepped into the elevator ahead of them.

Su Jiujiu, who was falling behind, was originally holding her head high and puffing out her chest to show her presence to all the employees, but seeing that the male lead had no intention of waiting for her, she immediately dashed into the elevator with the speed of a hundred-meter sprint.

The moment the elevator doors closed, Tan Chen lowered his head, “Not letting me hug you, and you’re still flopping over here with your little short legs?”

The few hundred meters had exhausted Su Jiujiu. If it weren’t for the unfinished Task 7, she wouldn’t have bothered to rack her brains thinking about how to assert her presence as the ‘second female lead’ in front of the male lead’s employees.

Since she had already strolled around a bit, she didn’t want to walk on her own again. Instead, she reached out her paws to grab Tan Chen’s pant leg, looking up, begging to be picked up.

Tan Chen remained unmoved: “Not picking you up. Your paws are very dirty.”

Su Jiujiu, in order to prove that her cat paws weren’t dirty, wiped all four of her paw pads one after another on his suit pants.

Tan Chen: “……”

He looked at his pant leg with disgust, but in the end, he bent down and picked up Dudu.

Perhaps after he didn’t refuse it following him to the company this morning, he had become increasingly indulgent towards it.

“Ding!”

When the elevator doors opened, Assistant Liu, standing outside, was surprised to see President Tan.

“Mr. Tan?” She looked at the cat in his arms. “This cat…”

Tan Chen was brief, “Mine.”

Assistant Liu knew this was Mr. Tan’s cat, but she hadn’t expected him to bring it into the office again.

She wisely didn’t ask more, and instead mentioned something else: “Mr. Tan, the new assistant reported for work today.”

Tan Chen was momentarily surprised, then remembered what Aunt Liu had mentioned last night. He hadn’t expected this person, who got in through connections, to arrive so quickly.

“Assign her some tasks, don’t let her sit idly.”

He somewhat understood his grandfather’s intention of putting this person into the company—after all, it was another junior he favored, hoping to get him acquainted with her, and ideally, for some feelings to develop.

In his grandfather’s eyes, a 28-year-old man who still had not dated or married should have already met someone. It was just that he kept refusing every time, which is why his grandfather came up with this roundabout scheme: sending someone to the company to gain experience was just a pretext; the real purpose was for them to meet and interact.

Assistant Liu immediately understood what the he meant: “Alright, I’ll first have her do some tasks to get familiar with the company.”

“Mm.”

Tan Chen walked toward his office holding a cat and ran into a stranger around the corner. Assistant Liu didn’t expect that just after mentioning the newcomer, she would appear next: “President Tan, this is the new assistant, Song Yawen. Yawen, this is President Tan.”

She’s here! The new female supporting character is here!

Su Jiujiu heard this familiar name and immediately lifted her head from Tan Chen’s embrace.

She saw a strikingly beautiful woman with a perfect figure standing opposite, dressed in a simple yet elegant work suit. Anyone with a keen eye could tell that her outfit and accessories were of a flashy, high-end brand.

Wow, no wonder she was the ‘connection’ personally placed by the male lead’s grandfather—totally fits the classic novel trope of the ‘villainous’ second female lead who’s beautiful, well-educated, and comes from a good family.

Seeing someone else’s setup, Su Jiujiu began to Contemplate.

“System, looking at it this way, how on earth did my original character become the second female lead?”

The system, scratching its head with its panda foot, replied, [Maybe it was evaluated based on overall ability.]

Could it be that the original character’s stats were even higher than this supporting character’s?

Looking at her own round, chubby cat body, Su Jiujiu suddenly felt a sense of imbalance. She saw the system still carefree, dangling its feet, and in a burst of anger, she reached out to push it.

The system was pushed back stumblingly: 【Why are you pawing at me!】

Su Jiujiu: “It’s all your fault, asking for some panda mimicry! Otherwise, I could’ve been a rich and beautiful woman too!”

The system felt wronged, but it didn’t say anything, so it could only hide in the corner and start crying.

“Hello, President Tan.” Song Yawen tucked the stray hair by her cheek and gave Tan Chen a generous yet slightly shy smile.

Tan Chen nodded politely, then didn’t look at her any further, walking past her toward his office.

This left Song Yawen, who was just about to introduce herself, stunned in place, but she quickly composed herself and gave assistant Liu a faint smile.

“Sister Liu, I just arrived. Please take good care of me.”

Assistant Liu adopted a professional demeanor: “Hmm, I’ve been quite busy recently. Someone will come to guide you later.”

Song Yawen hadn’t expected to run into a minor obstacle with Assistant Liu first, but since she still needed to interact with Tan Chen, she suppressed her feelings and graciously agreed.

It’s okay, there’s plenty of time ahead.

…..

Tan Chen originally thought that after bringing the cat into the office, it would keep bothering him.

But in reality, the cat was happily playing on the sofa by itself, even pouncing at the air.

From his perspective, it looked like it was just playing with the air, but from Su Jiujiu’s perspective, she was actually fighting with the system.

The system pressed down on Su Jiujiu and threw the Panda Fist: [I caught you pawing at me just now!]

Su Jiujiu rolled over and kicked the system hard: “I did paw, so what!”

The system was just a string of intelligent data; in terms of physical strength, fighting moves, and the ingrained tendency for brawls encoded in genes, it was no match for Su Jiujiu.

In the end, Su Jiujiu Victoriously pinned the system’s head: “The new female supporting character has appeared, quickly give me a new task!”

[You haven’t even finished your own daily tasks, go do this first]

Right.

She still had her own daily tasks to explore. Although the daily task reward was only 50 points, it was still fifty thousand yuan!

Converted, that’s like earning fifty thousand a day!

Thinking this way, Su Jiujiu immediately perked up.

Seizing a moment when Tan Chen wasn’t paying attention, she slipped out of the office. But she had only taken a few steps when she was scooped up by a pair of hands.

“Dudu, why are you out here?”

Su Jiujiu recognized that it was Assistant Lin’s voice and immediately became arrogant.

“Meow meow, meow meow meow!”

Quick, take me to the assistant’s office, I want to meet your new colleague!

Assistant Lin obviously couldn’t be on the same wavelength with it and thought it was especially happy to see him.

“I also want to play with you a little longer, but I still have work. How about I take you to the pantry to open a can of cat food?”

After saying that, he didn’t wait for Dudu to resist and directly carried it to the break room, even opening a can of cat food for it. “Dudu, be good and have a little snack here by yourself, I’m going to work!”

Assistant Lin patted Su Jiujiu’s cat head and was about to leave when he turned and saw the new employee who had just joined today walking in with a cup of tea.

Song Yawen smiled and directed her gaze at the cat: “Is this President Tan’s cat?”

“Yes, it’s called Dudu, and it’s very well-behaved.” Assistant Lin hurried back to his work, unable to chat any longer. “It’s very familiar with this floor. After it finishes its food, it will go back to President Tan’s office by itself. Don’t provoke it.”

“How dare I provoke President Tan’s cat,” Song Yawen teased, then watched as Assistant Lin left.

With that, the break room was left with only Su Jiujiu and Song Yawen—one cat and one person.

Su Jiujiu didn’t expect things to go so smoothly. She had just come out and ran into the female supporting character, and she could even be alone with her.

This is way too convenient for her to complete the task!

She just needs to think about what actions could show off her ‘green tea’ side, and she’ll get 50 points as soon as she does it!

While she was racking her brain, Song Yawen didn’t go get water, but walked over to the cat and placed the cup within reach of its paws. Su Jiujiu looked at the teacup in front of her, and her instinct to paw at it started twitching.

If it pushed the supporting character’s teacup off the table and broke it, would the system count that as completing the daily task?

Forget it, this cup looks expensive, it might not even be worth selling it for a loss.

Just as she was about to give up, Song Yawen’s hand reached over first, gently stroking the cat’s head: “Your name is Dudu, right?”

Su Jiujiu turned her head, proudly flicked her off, and gave her a disdainful meow.

Song Yawen was looked down on by a cat like this, but she wasn’t angry: “As expected, cats are just as proud as humans.”

But she was determined to conquer this little creature. Thinking this, Song Yawen swung her left hand in a new direction and instantly grabbed Su Jiujiu’s cat paw, forcibly pushing it to knock over her teacup. The expensive glass cup shattered on impact.

Su Jiujiu was stunned!

She saw the culprit quickly release her cat paw and cover her mouth, screaming in shock.

“Ah! Dudu, why are you pushing my teacup?”

Su Jiujiu’s big cat-like eyes widened, her paw still hovering in mid-air, trembling as it pointed at Song Yawen.

Scamming!

This is scamming!

Author’s note:
Su Jiujiu: Just a poor cat, no money at all!
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