Just then, the man’s voice sounded from behind her.
“What are you doing?”
The little cat stiffened, then slowly, carefully shifted her body to block the marks on the sofa.
She blinked her round eyes. Even though she no longer looked like a kitten, those heterochromatic eyes still managed to pull off a perfectly innocent expression.
“I didn’t do anything, meow.”
Chi Yan could see clearly. The marks on the sofa were obviously scratch marks.
He raised a brow, a flash of amusement passing quickly through his peach-blossom eyes, though he didn’t hold it against the little cat.
Chi Yan began looking through the scripts Sister Chen had brought.
As expected of a top-tier agent, Sister Chen’s eye for scripts was razor sharp. The roles she filtered out were all excellent—characters with instant appeal that would attract fans at a glance.
And they were basically all from well-known directors.
Chi Yan only needed to choose one from them.
As he was reading, suddenly a warm, cautious presence appeared beside him.
From the corner of his eye, he saw that at some point, the girl had scooted up to him, craning her neck to look at the script in his hands.
Chi Yan : “Finished buying clothes?”
Li Wan shook her head instinctively, not noticing the indulgence hidden in his tone.
She hesitated for quite a while, then—just like back when she was still a kitten—rested her head on the man’s shoulder.
“Brother.
“I’ll definitely treat you better from now on.”
After all, Chi Yan treated her very well, and he even bought her so many clothes.
She had never owned this many clothes before.
And besides… he really was quite pitiful.
The little cat clenched her fists determinedly. She decided that once she started working and earning money, she had to support her butler just like people supported their elderly parents.
After all, she wasn’t overthinking it. The world really was too cruel to her butler.
Thanks to her efforts, the online opinion about him was already much better than it had been in the original novel.
But the main issue was that Chi Yan’s personality often wasn’t very likable. No one could say for sure how things would go in the future.
Luckily—
He met her, a kind and capable little cat.
If he really ended up infamous one day and was kicked out of the entertainment industry, she could still feed him.
Uwuuu.
Little cat is so good.
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But she didn’t expect the heartless two-legger to not even lift his eyes before raising a finger and pushing her forehead away.
“No need.” The man expressionless: “You just need to shed less fur.”
Li Wan: “……!!”
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The little cat wanted to provide for a human in old age—cat is good.
The human didn’t appreciate it and even blamed the little cat for shedding—human is bad!!!
Cats are good, humans are bad!!!
Hmph!!!
Maybe it was because Chi Yan’s mother had called earlier during the day.
That night, his condition was very bad.
After dinner, when he went upstairs to return to his room, Li Wan noticed his face didn’t look good. Worried, she wanted to follow him.
But the man didn’t hesitate. He directly shut the door, leaving her outside.
Li Wan: “……”
This treatment wasn’t even as good as when she was still a kitten.
The girl stormed back to her room. The sheets laid out on her bed were the new ones she’d bought today, washed and dried before putting on.
They had a scent, light and pleasant, probably because her butler was worried a little cat’s nose couldn’t handle strong fragrance.
Li Wan rolled around on the bed, burying herself in the soft blankets, then pulled out her phone to play games.
Damn! She couldn’t play games when she was a kitten, she missed it so much!!
Just as she was excitedly playing, the floor-to-ceiling windows suddenly lit up, then went dark again. Two seconds later—
*Rumble*
Thunder rolled across the sky in the distance.
Rain started pouring down.
Li Wan frowned, climbed up, and looked outside the windows.
The rain was really heavy, mixed with lightning and thunder, quite scary.
…She wondered how Chi Yan was doing.
She remembered the original novel saying that Chi Yan’s father died on a stormy night like this, so whenever it rained with thunder, his nerve pain would worsen.
Li Wan felt worried.
She bit her lip, couldn’t resist, and quietly slipped out of her room to go downstairs and fetch a cup of hot water.
The butler’s door wasn’t locked. She knocked twice, no response. Her heart skipped. She simply pushed the door open.
The room was dim, but since turning human, Li Wan’s vision hadn’t worsened much.
She could barely make things out.
The bed was empty.
She looked around the room and eventually found the two-legger in the same corner as last time, sitting on the floor.
His breathing was heavy.
Sweat rolled slowly down his pale forearms.
He looked like he was in a lot of pain.
Li Wan felt like something tapped lightly against her heart.
A little painful. A little suffocating.
How pitiful… her butler.
She pressed her lips together, put the water down, quickly found painkillers in the drawer, and handed them along with the cup to him.
“Take the medicine, Brother. Once you take it, it won’t hurt.”
The little cat crouched in front of the human, clumsily trying to comfort him in a small voice.
Fortunately, this time he was much more agreeable. He stared at her for a while, but didn’t treat her like an intruder invading his private space. He accepted the medicine and swallowed it quickly.
Li Wan set down the cup and went to pull him up.
“Let’s go back to bed, okay? The floor is cold, Brother.”
The girl’s voice was soft and gentle, like the only source of warmth in the dark night.
Chi Yan’s pitch-black pupils locked onto her.
This cat was very good.
Good in every way.
It was just that… if only she couldn’t turn into a human, it would be even better.
Humans were too cold and fickle. No matter how deep the feelings, they could turn to ashes at any moment.
They could betray him at any moment.
But a little cat was different.
A cat couldn’t hunt on its own; without him, it wouldn’t survive.
It couldn’t leave his side.
…And even if it wanted to leave, he could easily imprison it right beside him.
His gaze was far too focused, the darkness in his pupils growing thicker, carrying a hidden, dangerous meaning—like a beast in the night staring down its prey.
He had already locked precisely onto his target.
But the fragile, soft little cat sensed nothing at all, looking at him in confusion.
“What’s wrong? Brother?”
Brother.
A faint question suddenly surfaced in Chi Yan’s mind.
Who taught her to call him that?
The little cat’s voice was sticky-soft, clinging to the ends of her words as if she were acting spoiled, or as if she were…
Seducing.
The thought appeared abruptly, making the muddled-headed monster pause for a second before quickly forgetting that little interruption.
Adam’s apple rolling slowly, in a place the little cat couldn’t see, the hidden predator quietly revealed its fangs.
But the little cat didn’t know.
All she knew was that the weak, helpless two-legger squeezed her wrist even harder. It hurt a little.
The poor two-legger, he was already hurting this much.
Her clear heterochromatic eyes unknowingly showed a hint of sympathy.
After hesitating for a moment, she reached out and gently tapped the top of the well-disguised beast’s head.
Softly she said, “Pat pat pat. Don’t hurt anymore.”
Her tender voice was like sunlight piercing into a dark hell, warm enough to let something soft sprout in one’s chest.
Someone like Chi Yan, listening to this, actually felt as though something lightly poked at his heart.
“Wanwan.”
The monster disguised his voice as human, speaking calmly.
Li Wan blinked her round eyes. “Mm?”
“When will you turn back into a cat?”
Li Wan didn’t understand why he suddenly asked this. She tilted her head and thought for a while before replying uncertainly.
“I don’t know.
“It doesn’t feel like I’m going to turn into a kitty anytime soon.”
After those words, the room fell silent again.
A flash of lightning lit up the world for an instant before plunging it back into darkness.
Li Wan grew unsure. The look she saw in the man’s eyes just now… seemed a little frightening.
But when she looked again, those peach-blossom eyes had returned to their usual indifference.
Later on, Li Wan pulled him onto the bed, tucked him in, and after patting the blanket over him, she turned and went back to her own room.
Once back, she fell asleep immediately, completely unaware that her phone had been left in Chi Yan’s room.
Chi Yan only saw it the next morning.
He wasn’t any good person. He didn’t possess the virtue of ‘never snooping through someone’s phone.’ He unlocked Li Wan’s phone with her password.
It was a new phone, with nothing much to look at.
But by chance, he accidentally tapped into the text messages.
The little cat had actually sent someone a message yesterday. She even saved that person’s name as ‘Bad Mother’.
Chi Yan raised a brow and opened it.
He was far too familiar with that phone number. One glance and he recognized it. It was his cold, heartless biological mother.
Looking at the content, he quickly figured out what the little cat had been thinking when she sent it.
She may not have known the exact motive behind his mother’s call, but she’d guessed it had something to do with his bad mood.
The little cat was venting on his behalf.
With lowered eyes, he read the little cat’s almost childlike messages. The harshest words she used were ‘idiot’.
It had the ridiculous feeling of a kindergarten kid trying to curse someone.
But as he read, his chest inexplicably warmed.
Like a damp quilt finally laid out under the sun—soft, warm again.
Reading on, he couldn’t hold it in anymore; a low chuckle slipped from his throat.
Then he lifted a hand to cover his cheek, though he couldn’t hide the growing curve of his lips.
Stupid cat.
Sister Chen was a manager who did everything by strict procedure.
On the fourth day, she arrived on schedule to ask Chi Yan about the script.
“Have you chosen? If you have, I’ll tell the director right away. Don’t delay too long, people don’t like being kept waiting.”
Chi Yan didn’t hesitate. He pushed one script toward her. “This one.”
It was a crime investigation drama. Based on screen time, it was considered a dual-male-lead series. The role Sister Chen-jie picked for him was one of the two main characters, the detective chasing criminals.
Chen Jie picked it up, glanced at it, and frowned.
“Why did you choose this one?
“To be honest, I don’t recommend it. Your status is too high. A show where the main character and supporting character have almost the same amount of screen time… it’s very hard for someone like you to pull off.”
“Not to mention, the supporting character with more scenes is a serial-killer villain. If you play the protagonist, one wrong move and the audience will scold you.”
But after thinking for a moment, Sister Chen still reluctantly agreed to his idea.
“Fine. This script is decent, and the character setup is pretty likable.
“Besides, with Director Zhu there, just act well. Even if you get criticized, it won’t be a big problem.”
But Chi Yan shook his head. “I don’t want to play the protagonist.”
Chen Jie raised an eyebrow.
“I want to play the villain—the serial killer.”
Chen Jie frowned again.
“You…
“The risk is a bit too high.”
On the other side, the little kitten playing on her phone heard them and peeked her head out.
Chi Yan took the initiative to hand her the script. The little kitten pointed at the role inside. “You want to play this one, Brother?”
Chi Yan nodded, a faint smile rippling in his peach-blossom eyes. “What do you think?”
Li Wan didn’t hesitate much. “Sounds great.”
After all, in the original story, he was a complete villain anyway, so it counted as the right specialty for him.