Chapter 9
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However, as he listened, Jingxing Li’s expression began to change. He hung up the phone and checked which number had purchased shares in Mica Games Company.
Within fifteen minutes, Jingxing Li stormed out of his room, holding his tablet in anger. After looking around for a moment, he glanced at the cat outside, who had resumed playing on the slide. “Li Xiaobai, come here!”
The cat outside ignored him completely, as if he hadn’t called.
The little cat heard Jingxing Li’s voice, but since there were many cats named Xiaobai in the world, and although she was called Xiaobai, she wasn’t called Li Xiaobai. Humans definitely weren’t calling her.
Thinking this, the little cat watched Jingxing Li’s darkened face as he personally came out and grabbed her.
The little cat meowed, “Meow?”
What is it?
This time Jingxing Li was truly angry, but faced with such an innocent little cat face that resembled Ming Xuan’s so much, he found it hard to punish her.
Jingxing Li sneered coldly and tapped the cat’s head twice.
“You even bought stocks? Holding five percent now? Let’s see how you attend the shareholders’ meeting.”
After saying this, he stormed off in frustration.
He still had to clean up the mess the cat had caused.
The little cat covered her head: ?
“Meow-woah!”
Who is this person?
But what’s this human talking about a shareholders’ meeting? The little cat asked the system and, after hearing the system explain the rights involved in a shareholders’ meeting, her eyes lit up. She pawed the slide and said, “Navigate for me, I want to attend the shareholders’ meeting!”
System 0521 replied unhurriedly, “...The prerequisite for attending a shareholders’ meeting is that you have to be a person.”
“Turn on the filter, you give them the filter!” the little cat demanded loudly.
System 0521 said coldly, “There’s no filter that big, give up.”
The little cat stomped her paws in frustration and ran back to her cat house to sleep.
Her room had already been tidied up today, right across from Jingxing Li’s room.
As soon as she entered, System 0521 began helping her measure: “Wow, your room’s about a hundred square meters.”
The little cat also loved this room. Every corner was decorated with toys she liked, even an aerial track and a hat tree attached to the ceiling.
The whole room was just to her liking.
The little cat jumped onto the hammock and swung a few times, then noticed she even had a small garage with several toy cars parked inside.
“Wow!”
Excited, she jumped down and circled the little cars a few times.
She had already seen other cats and dogs in the villa neighborhood driving these. She had watched for a long time, never expecting that Grandpa Butler had actually bought her several.
This cat life was just too joyful!
The next day,
The familiar sound of meowing and scratching at the door rang out again. Everyone was somewhat used to it.
Jingxing Li got up and saw a pet-sized car parked at his door, though he didn’t know when it had arrived.
Jingxing Li said, “Who bought you a car?”
The little cat puffed out her chest proudly. “Meow!”
Grandpa Butler bought it for me!
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Jingxing Li guessed as much and looked toward the butler. “Uncle Liu, you don’t have to be so good to her in the future. She’s just a surrogate family cat.”
Even though the butler had already learned the whole story from Assistant Xiao Wang, hearing the phrase “surrogate family cat” again was still hard to accept.
The butler gently said, “Young master, all the other cats around have toy cars. If Xiaobai doesn’t have one, she’ll be bullied.”
“She’s just a white cat, and white cats get ostracized in the cat community. If all the other cats have toy cars but Xiaobai doesn’t, she’ll be bullied even more.”
Jingxing Li was surprised. “White cats get bullied?”
He casually searched on his phone, and after looking through the information, he glanced at the snowy white fluff ball that looked like a snowball, and a faint trace of pity appeared in his eyes.
At such a young age, with sick parents and a gambler brother, how did she manage to be so strong and support the whole family?
How much of life’s weight did such a fragile little cat’s shoulders truly bear?
The little cat meowed, “Meow?”
She felt the human’s gaze was strange, making the fur on her body stand on end.
She watched as the human came over and patted her little cat head, saying,
“Since you have a hard appearance and have suffered a lot, I’ll treat you better from now on.”
The little cat was utterly confused.
Having confidently named herself “Sai Tianxian” (Racing Immortal), she was immediately infuriated by that phrase.
“You have a hard appearance? Your whole family looks rough!”
She was the cat boss; all the cats had to surround her and praise her as the most formidable cat in the entire neighborhood.
Angry to no end, she nearly jumped up to yell, but Jingxing Li suddenly pressed her head down.
“You don’t need to say words of gratitude, I already know them. Just do your duty as a surrogate from now on.”
The little cat: “...”
He’s crazy; I won’t argue with him.
The little cat flicked her tail impatiently and left.
Jingxing Li didn’t have to go to the office today. He searched for cases of white cats being bullied on his phone, frowning more and more.
It was definitely right to assign two assistants to Xiaobai; maybe even more were needed.
The little cat had already jumped into the car, ready to go out and play, when a noblewoman entered at the door.
The little cat stopped the car and looked at the human, then loudly meowed toward the back:
“Meow!”
Someone’s home!
Hearing the cat’s meow, Jingxing Li instinctively looked over and saw his mother enter with Lin Sheng.
Madam Li showed displeasure the moment she saw the cat, and seeing her son staring at the cat at the door made her even less pleased.
Approaching Jingxing Li, she said, “Where did you get such a cat? Running wild at home with no manners at all.”
Madam Li had already guessed that the cat might belong to the person her son liked. But since that person hadn’t gained her approval, it didn’t count.
Getting into the Li family was not so easy.
Madam Li looked at the garden, which had been beautifully arranged but now had a large slide awkwardly placed.
To be able to put a slide in the garden, it was obvious this cat was deeply cherished, and its owner even more so.
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Just thinking about it made Madam Li upset.
Her son had been infatuated with Zhou Mingxuan and followed whatever she said. But Zhou Mingxuan had broken ties with him—yes, broken ties, not even a breakup. Seeing her son so down for so long, she had made some inquiries and was furious: Zhou Mingxuan had a boyfriend at the time, and her son had been desperately trying to be the other man.
And after all that, he still hadn’t succeeded!
Jingxing Li had caused that couple to break up and had failed to secure the position himself.
She heard that the boyfriend had done well later, founding a game company that went public. Young people loved that game, and the company’s stock price kept rising.
Every time Madam Li thought about it, she felt dizzy with anger.
She had cultivated him carefully from the start, giving him an elite education, only for him to chase after a girl like that?
She had been strict with him from childhood, rarely interfering in his romantic affairs, but clearly, non-interference was no longer an option.
If he found another girl like Zhou Mingxuan, she might really lose her mind.
Lin Sheng had grown up under her care, was deeply devoted to Jingxing Li, and came from a comparable family background —the perfect choice for a daughter-in-law.
She had been trying to matchmake Jingxing Li and Lin Sheng, hoping they would develop feelings. But now, Jingxing Li had somehow found a “mysterious girlfriend” to slap Lin Sheng’s face and stood her up.
She suspected Jingxing Li was deliberately resisting her arrangements. That was fine—young people often acted like that. When he grew up a bit, he’d know what suited him.
What worried Madam Li most was that this cat wasn’t just any cat—it was Zhou Mingxuan’s cat.
Jingxing Li hid this from her because he feared her opposition to him maintaining contact with Zhou Mingxuan.
Madam Li narrowed her eyes and scrutinized the white little cat happily running around. She could even see a bit of Zhou Mingxuan’s shadow in the cat.
This was intolerable. This was at least ninety percent Zhou Mingxuan’s cat. It looked like Zhou Mingxuan; how could it not be?
They say cats and their owners resemble each other after spending enough time together.
Madam Li was on high alert, thinking to get rid of the cat quickly so Jingxing Li wouldn’t be so infatuated with Zhou Mingxuan all day.
System 0521: “Hmm? Because of close blood ties, your surrogate filter seems to have affected the male lead’s mother too.”
Little cat: “Meow?”
System 0521: “Right now, the male lead’s mother’s favorability toward you is -10. Perfect! You can smoothly enter the storyline of being tormented by a wicked mother-in-law.” System 0521 was delighted.
Little cat: “?!”
What kind of system is this?
Not serious at all!
The more Madam Li looked at the cat, the more displeased she became. She said to Jingxing Li,
“Whose cat is this? Why pick such a cat to raise? If the family background isn’t noble, fine, but it’s so plain-looking, no markings at all.”
Little cat: “Meow???”
System, don’t stop me! I want to go up and give her two punches to wake her up!
Jingxing Li’s expression darkened at her words. He picked up the snarling little white cat, covered her ears with his hand, and disapprovedly said to his mother,
“Xiaobai has had to suffer a lot from a young age. Mom, is it necessary to hurt her heart further now? You do so much charity every year. Now that you see a cat struggling to support her family, where is your kindness?”
Lin Sheng beside them: “...”
She didn’t know why, but it felt like they had their own private language system that she couldn’t break into.
Besides, what on earth were they talking about? What was wrong with this little cat’s appearance? Such a beautiful little lion cat, fluffy and pure white, with little cat eyes as bright as sapphires, ears twitching—clearly lively and clever. When they came in, the little white cat even barked at the house, showing she knew how to guard it. Where else would you find such a smart little cat?