Chapter 36

Chapter 36

Chapter 36 First Release on Jinjiang Literature City

Daniel didn’t understand what this little kitten was meowing about, but he could understand what Xie Chen said.

“Xie, you really have good taste.”

Daniel flattered him, praising, “The watch you chose is from the Big Bang series. This watch is inlaid with a total of 1,280 diamonds, 1,280 diamonds, Xie, you should know the quality is quite impressive.”

Bai Li, sitting in Xie Chen’s arms, tried to digest Daniel’s introduction.

After a while,

Bai Li still didn’t understand anything about this Big Bang universe but didn’t want to look ignorant in front of Master, so he pretended to understand and nodded, “Meow meow.”

Wrap it up.

Xie Chen stroked the soft fur on the kitten casually and said to Daniel, “How much is it? I want it.”

“When I bought it, it was 72.56 million. This watch has collector’s value. I’ll charge you 80 million. That’s not too much, right?”

Bai Li: “…”

Bai Li was stunned: “Meow?”

How much?

Daniel didn’t mind the kitten’s meows but smiled and repeated the price to Xie Chen, “80 million, Xie, you probably don’t care about that little amount.”

80 million.

This time Bai Li clearly heard it.

His whole little cat self was dumbfounded. The originally swollen mood suddenly popped like a punctured balloon—

“Pop.”

The balloon burst.

The cat was gone.

“Meow, meowoo.”

Bai Li lowered his head, counting the units of 80 million on his paws, and when he looked up, his beautiful amber eyes were filled with despair.

I don’t have 80 million.

After working a month, the boss only paid eight thousand.

The little kitten’s meow was faintly tinged with tears, and his eyes were brimming with tears.Xie Chen’s throat tightened. Intending to tease the kitten with a mischievous thought, when he heard the kitten sobbing, regret instantly replaced it.

“Cough.”

He messed up again.

Clearing his throat, he patiently coaxed the kitten just as he had teased him before: “Li Li, don’t be sad. We’re joking with you. This watch isn’t 80 million.”

Bai Li, feeling like a useless cat who couldn’t afford a watch, looked at Xie Chen with teary eyes: “Meow?”

Really?

“Really.”

Xie Chen was now very experienced at fooling the kitten: “This watch is unwanted. Look, aren’t there lots of watches here? They have so many because they’re hard to sell.”

“Xie, I—”

Daniel was dumbfounded listening to Xie Chen say no one wanted his watches and opened his mouth to argue.

His watches had value but no market; he kept them and wouldn’t sell unless the price was high enough…

How did it come out of Xie Chen’s mouth that they couldn’t be sold?

Xie Chen, coaxing the kitten, glanced coldly at Daniel.

Daniel shut up: “Alright, fine, I won’t say anything.”

He saw the naked threat in Xie Chen’s eyes!

Forced to stay silent, Daniel crossed his arms and watched the usually proud Xie gently coo at the kitten.

Tsk.

Really unusual.

Daniel almost wanted to record this scene and show it to those who feared Xie.

Bai Li was surprisingly sharp this time.

“Are you lying to the kitten?”

Bai Li looked up, heartbroken, and said to Xie Chen, “This watch is shiny; maybe it really is expensive.”

“Not expensive.”

Xie Chen’s eyes unintentionally landed on his own ring while coaxing the kitten.

“Look, isn’t my ring shiny too? This one isn’t expensive.”

“Three bucks.”

Bai Li sniffled, stretching out his paw to touch the ring he had bought.

Xie Chen: “?”Xie Chen was momentarily stunned. After a long while, he found his voice again: “Li Li, what did you just say?”

Bai Li hung his head, his meows still tinged with sadness, but he honestly answered the master’s question: “The shiny ring, three yuan.”

Xie Chen had many guesses about this rough, poor-quality ring that couldn’t even be taken off.

Among those guesses, he had even wondered if it was bought by the little kitten in his arms.

But then he thought the possibility was low—how could the busy working kitten buy him a ring?

Now, the case was solved.

He calculated the time the ring appeared; back then, the kitten hadn’t been brought home by him yet.

Bai Li, who only bought buns for fifty cents each to eat, had bought him a ring costing three yuan.

“Silly Li Li.”

Throughout his life, Xie Chen had received countless gifts, none of which were inexpensive.

This ring, without a doubt, was the cheapest and poorest quality gift he had ever received.

Yet Xie Chen felt it was also the best gift he had ever received.

Since his parents disappeared, Xie Chen’s heart, tempered to cold hardness by the pack of wolves around him, was willing at this moment to melt and form a small warm world.

In that small world lived a palm-sized pure white kitten.

Cute and innocent, tempting him to want to possess forever.

“Meow.”

Bai Li, being called silly without reason, unhappily retorted: “I’m not silly.”

He just sometimes had a bad memory and often forgot things, but he wasn’t silly.

Xie Chen lowered his head and pressed his forehead against his, his voice low and pleasant, carrying indulgence: “Mm, Li Li isn’t silly, I’m the silly one.”

Silly enough not to have guessed first that the ring was from the little one.

Xie Chen was really patient and skilled at coaxing the kitten.

“Li Li, the shiny ring is only three yuan. You tell me, how much do you think the shiny watch costs?”

With this comparison, Bai Li finally believed a bit that the shiny watch might not be expensive.

“Th-thirty yuan?”

Bai Li boldly proposed a number. He hadn’t studied any luxury limited-edition famous watches; his perspective was limited to watches sold at night market stalls.

Those watches were all quite affordable.

“Li Li is really great.”Xie Chen opened his eyes and lied: “Got it right immediately.”

“Daniel, this watch, thirty yuan, let my kitten pay.”

Daniel: “???”

You’re dreaming.

Just as Daniel was about to call the police thinking there was a robbery, his peripheral vision caught Xie Chen’s glare, and his mouth twitched.

“Alright, alright, thirty yuan.”

Daniel looked at the little kitten in Xie Chen’s arms, pulled out a hundred-yuan bill with his paw, and meowed at him.

“Here’s the change.”

Xie Chen acted as the translator.

What else could Daniel do but give seventy yuan in change?

After handing back the change and secretly taking a bank card from Xie Chen’s hand, Daniel couldn’t help but complain, “Xie, are rich people always this playful?”

Haggling, letting the cat pay.

Anyone unaware might have thought just now that Xie was really communicating with this kitten.

Xie Chen impatiently lifted his eyelids, and the latter took out the watch and immediately fell silent.

“Really pretty.”

Bai Li liked shiny things. He touched the dial and the diamonds on the watch with his paw, happily saying, “I’m giving this to Master.”

“Yes, Li Li gave it.”

Xie Chen put on the watch, replacing his original equally expensive million-yuan watch.

Bai Li looked at Xie Chen’s wrist, then at this shiny watch, feeling they matched perfectly.

After buying the watch, Daniel gave Xie Chen the kitten-branded wearable phone.

That phone looked like a cat wristband; the screen used high-tech projection. The virtual projection screen was enlarged in front; if the cat wanted to use the functions, it just needed to extend its paw and operate the virtual screen.

Xie Chen put the phone on Bai Li’s front paw and helped him get familiar with the functions.

“This is the dial button. My phone number is stored here. Li Li, tap it once.”

Bai Li tentatively tapped to make a call.

The next second, Xie Chen’s phone really rang.

After testing the call button, there were other app functions.

“This is WeChat.”

Xie Chen registered a new WeChat account for Bai Li, with only himself on it.“Open WeChat, you can text chat with me, voice chat, and also video chat.”

One function after another, comparable to a normal smartphone—no, this was even more powerful than a smartphone.

Because, what Bai Li didn’t know was that the phone also had location tracking and other features installed.

Bai Li was taught by Xie Chen and became familiar with all the apps.

Finally, at Bai Li’s request, Xie Chen added Tan Yi’s phone number and WeChat for him.

“Master.”

Bai Li lovingly touched the phone, happier than when he got his salary: “With this, can I call you anytime I want?”

“Yeah.”

Xie Chen took out his own phone and was adding a note to Bai Li’s WeChat contact.

“You can call me anytime from now on.”

Seeing Xie Chen typing, Bai Li hurried over to look. He could recognize characters and understood what Xie Chen was writing.

[Li Li]

The note Xie Chen wrote for him.

Bai Li patted Xie Chen’s wrist, looking at him eagerly.

“Master, add a heart after Li Li.”

Earlier Bai Li had added a note for Xie Chen himself: [Li Li’s Master] with a heart at the end.

Xie Chen raised an eyebrow, looked at Bai Li’s note, and then directly rewrote it to echo Bai Li’s.

[Master’s Li Li] followed by a red heart.

After changing the note, even the profile picture—Bai Li wanted it to be the same as Xie Chen’s.

Xie Chen’s current profile picture was a random landscape photo.

Such a landscape photo wasn’t suitable for the little guy’s WeChat avatar; it looked too dull.

Xie Chen thought for a moment and got an idea.

He had many photos of Bai Li in his hands—various pictures of the little kitten working, all cute and endearing.

But Xie Chen didn’t use the kitten working photos; instead, he picked up Bai Li and took two pictures on the spot.

In the photos, only Xie Chen’s hand was visible, along with the little kitten showing its whole body.

Between the two photos, the hand’s position didn’t change, but the little kitten’s posture did a bit.

Xie Chen changed the new avatar and thought it wasn’t bad.Bai Li was very happy too.

“Master.”

He tilted his head back, his beautiful eyes full of Xie Chen, his meow carrying a hint of pride: “You used my photo as your avatar, does that mean you think I’m very cute?”

A smile flickered in Xie Chen’s eyes as he held the proud little kitten in his arms: “Yes, Li Li is very cute.”

Cuter than all the people, all the things, and everything he had encountered before.

Daniel couldn’t understand the interaction between humans and cats at all. He had just received some money today and was in a good mood.

Seeing the two about to leave, Daniel tried to keep them.

“Xie, do you want to have dinner here? I can cook tomato beef soup for you.”

Xie Chen had no interest in tomato beef soup and said coolly, “No need.”

Xie Bo had definitely prepared food at home, and Daniel’s eating habits didn’t suit him.

Not long after,

One person and one cat got into the car to go home.

Bai Li, unusually, didn’t sleep in the car; he was playing a mini-game on the phone.

The game was called Watermelon Slice. Normally it should have ads, but Xie Chen had paid, so there were no ads at all.

Bai Li was so addicted to Watermelon Slice that he couldn’t stop, and even after arriving at the villa and seeing Tan Yi, he was still reluctant to leave the game.

“Third Brother.”

Bai Li saw Tan Yi appear in Master’s villa, jumped down from Xie Chen’s arms, and went to find Tan Yi.

Tan Yi showed up uninvited, just because of his younger brother’s WeChat friend request.

“Where did he get WeChat?”

Tan Yi puzzled, letting his younger brother climb onto his lap, then looked up and asked Xie Chen.

“Third Brother, I have a phone!”

Before Xie Chen could answer, Bai Li raised his paw and proudly showed Tan Yi his phone.

“It can make calls, has WeChat, games, and can go online.”

Bai Li was so attached to his new phone he couldn’t put it down.

Tan Yi carefully looked over the new phone and felt a sudden pang in his heart.

“Li Li, how much did this phone cost?”

Tan Yi knew the value of such high-tech gadgets; buying one would cost quite a lot.

“Ten bucks.”Bai Li meowed crisply: “Master said this is something others don’t want, so I bought it really cheap.”

Tan Yi: “…”

How could this thing possibly be something others discarded?!

“Mr. Xie.”

Tan Yi’s gaze fell on Xie Chen: “This thing Li Li is wearing…”

“Others don’t want it.”

Xie Chen used the same excuse he gave the little kitten to fool the little kitten’s older brother.

But obviously, the little kitten’s older brother was not stupid.

“Name your price, I’ll transfer it to you.” Tan Yi was clear-headed; he didn’t want to owe Xie Chen any favors.

“Ten bucks.”

Xie Chen said coolly, “Li Li has already paid me, no need to pay again.”

He didn’t reveal the real price, and Tan Yi wasn’t sure what to give at that moment.

While they were at a stalemate, Xie Bo came out to greet them: “Master, Li Li, dinner is ready.”

“Tan Yi, you should stay too. There’s plenty of food, let’s eat together, it’ll be lively.”

Tan Yi looked at his younger brother on his lap and didn’t refuse.

He also wanted to personally taste what Xie family meals were like, to understand why Li Li loved it so much.

Half an hour passed.

Tan Yi, stuffed full, looked at his younger brother still focused on eating, his eyes full of bittersweetness.

No wonder his brother didn’t want to leave…

Xie family’s food really was delicious.

Of course, he was talking about the portions for himself and Li Li. Xie Chen’s dinner was vegetables, which looked unappetizing.

“Uncle Xie.”

Tan Yi sincerely thanked Xie Bo: “Thank you for taking care of Li Li, and your cooking is really good.”

Xie Bo chuckled: “I’m old now, I like cooking these things. If you like it, you can come eat with us at mealtime anytime.”

Tan Yi shamelessly said: “Then I’ll give you an extra living expense.”

Xie Bo didn’t need that money, but seeing Tan Yi insist, he just let it be.

One day later.Bai Li was held by Tan Yi, waving his paw at Xie Chen: “Master, I’m going out.”

He had agreed with Third Brother to spend these few days of vacation accompanying him at work.

Xie Chen nodded slightly, no emotion showing on his face.

Bai Li was a little reluctant to leave; if he left, how would Master sleep well at night?

But he had promised Third Brother, he couldn’t go back on his word.

The little kitten, full of inner struggle, was carried away by Tan Yi. He rested on Tan Yi’s shoulder, watching Xie Chen until Xie Chen’s figure completely disappeared from his sight, then he sat back in Tan Yi’s arms.

“Li Li, we have to sit in the car for several hours, you can sleep a bit.”

Their destination was a filming location in a neighboring city. Flying would be faster, but Li Li couldn’t transform; if they flew, he’d have to be checked in as luggage.

Tan Yi didn’t have a private plane and wouldn’t accept checking his brother in, so they had to take the car.

Bai Li wasn’t sleepy at all.

He looked out the car window, worried that Mei Mei and the others wouldn’t take good care of him, and also worried about how Master would sleep at night.

Sigh.

He was really troubled.

To cheer his brother up, Tan Yi simply played an old film with a great reputation in the circle.

Halfway through the film, the listless little kitten suddenly perked up.

“Meow!”

This interlude was sung by Master!

Tan Yi: “…”

Tan Yi was depressed—what to do if his brother was too clingy to outsiders?