Chapter 82 Extra 1 (Daily Life): "Gu Lin wears them too."

01. About Gu Linlin

Ji Tong had been wanting to bring Gu Linlin back to the Peninsula Apartment for quite some time.

After searching for the cat all night again, Ji Tong made up her mind to give it a check-up and deworming, and bought some supplies from the vet before bringing the cat back to Peninsula.

“It’s indeed a bit hot in Anjing in July and August. It’s good to bring it home so you don’t have to come out to look for it every few days. It’s just that Xiao Yi is too stubborn. He made a fuss when he was in the hospital, so he can’t be kept locked up all the time. You should observe him more.” Sister Yang from the pet hospital was still a little worried. “By the way, have you bought cat litter?”

"I bought it."

"Where's the cat bowl?"

"I bought it."

"You should have cat food and a cat food scoop. Let me think what else... Oh right, do you have a cat care pad? It might pee on it."

"Yes, I've bought water bowls, litter boxes, grooming tools, nail clippers, combs, scratching posts, and pet wipes. The apartment windows have also been sealed off."

Sister Yang: "?"

Pet supplies are easy to buy, but sealing windows isn't something that can be done in a short time.

This was no spur-of-the-moment decision.

Ji Tong told the truth: "I originally planned to bring it back during the summer vacation."

Even Sister Yang, who had worked in the pet industry for half her life, couldn't figure out Gu Linlin's personality. She said that Gu Linlin was wild, but she was quite well-behaved in front of Ji Tong. During the time she was hospitalized, she was able to barely complete the examinations by being wrapped in clothes that smelled like Ji Tong. In half a month, she "ruined" more than ten of Ji Tong's coats.

It's said to have a good temperament, but it can't be kept in the sea garden.

Sister Yang always thought that this stubborn little thing couldn't be kept as a pet, until she discovered that Gu Linlin was very likely the kind of kitten with high demand from a specific breed of cat.

In layman's terms, it's not that they can't be domesticated, but that the conditions for domestication are demanding. They recognize people and become attached to them, but only to one person. They need a specific person to accompany them every step of the way in a specific, enclosed environment.

Sister Yang discovered it, and so did Ji Tong.

So when the condition of "staying by the side at all times" was met, Ji Tong immediately brought the cat home.

That is, the summer vacation at Anhui University.

Ji Tong decided to spend two months correcting Gu Linlin's stubborn temper.

On the first day after bringing the cat home, Ji Tong and Gu Lin slept on the sofa, living room bed, and with the cat in the cage.

The day after bringing him home, Ji Tong and Gu Lin slept on the sofa in the living room, on the bed beside him.

On the third day after bringing it home, Ji Tong and Gu Lin slept on the sofa by the living room window.

On the fourth day after bringing it home, the mythical beast was released from its cage.

Gu Linlin, who had just been released from its cage, did not patrol its territory, play with toys, eat snacks, or jump around like it did at the pet hospital. It just lay quietly at Ji Tong's feet, as well-behaved as a native.

So Ji Tong lowered his guard and, after ignoring someone for almost a week, finally moved back to the master bedroom.

With her clothes half off, Ji Tong's hand had just touched Gu Lin's waist and the edge of his pants, preparing to deeply comfort her boyfriend, when a hoarse, mocking meow and the sound of claws scratching at the door ripped through the silence.

"Where did that truck horn come from? No—wait! It sounds like Gu Linlin is calling! Stop kissing... I'm going to check!" Ji Tong sprang up and rolled off the bed using both hands and feet.

In three seconds, only Gu Lin remained in the master bedroom.

His pajamas were all unbuttoned, hanging down on both sides of his waist and abdomen. He sat with one knee bent, exuding anger and looking gloomy.

Gu Lin took out a cigarette from the bottom shelf of the bedside table after a long time, flicked it off with the cigarette pack on his lips, held it in his mouth for three or four minutes, barely suppressing his anger, and got out of bed.

Ji Tong was in the living room, holding Gu Linlin and checking her over.

I checked his whole body thoroughly, but I was still not satisfied. I checked the security footage and, after confirming that he hadn't bumped or been hurt, I was speechless and at a loss.

"What time is it? Why are you still calling?"

"Look at this cat, it's meowing all night!"

"The sound of other people's electric drills during renovations isn't as loud as yours."

"Do you know that noise levels in residential areas should not exceed 60 decibels during the day and should be below 45 decibels at night?"

"If you call me that again, I'll change your name to Gu Drill."

Ji Tong gave it a scathing scolding, but her hands didn't stop. After combing its back and scratching its chin, she went to rub its ears.

Gu Dianzuan listened quietly to the instruction.

But the quiet didn't last long. As soon as Ji Tong got up and turned around, just as he was about to head to the master bedroom, he started snoring loudly again, as if to say, "If you dare to walk around, I'll start the renovation."

"I'm ready."

"I'm going to scream like I'm about to die."

Ji Tong: "..."

Out of the corner of Ji Tong's eye, he saw Gu Lin leaning against the door, looking expressionlessly in the direction of him and Gu Linlin.

…His pajamas weren't even buttoned up; they were just lying there open.

He looks like a male ghost.

Despite the sweltering summer heat, Ji Tong shivered.

He pursed his lips four times, clenched his fists seven times, and ruffled Gu Linlin's hair into a mess before daring to turn around and look at Gu Linlin.

“…Sleep here.” Ji Tong pointed guiltily to the sofa.

"Is it okay to have one last day?"

Ji Tong: "·-·".

Gu Lin smiled and said calmly, "I'm fine with anything, it's up to you."

If Ji Tong were standing close, she could see that the upper half of Gu Lin's face was not smiling.

Unfortunately, his mind was preoccupied with Gu Linlin, and he didn't notice.

"Okay, I'll go lay it... Where are you going?"

Ji Tong watched as Gu Lin turned and went back to the master bedroom.

When he came out again, Gu Lin had two familiar little items in his hands, as well as a rug.

The moment Ji Tong saw the rug, his scalp tingled: "The security camera, the living room isn't..."

The next second, Gu Lin took out his phone, turned the surveillance camera around to the back, turned it off, walked over on the carpet, grabbed Gu Linlin by the back of the neck, picked up the cat with a cold face, put it in the cage, turned off the light, and walked towards Ji Tong.

For a fleeting moment, Ji Tong felt that Gu Lin wasn't carrying Gu Linlin, but rather him.

"Gu Lin, I think... um!"

Gu Lin didn't say a word the whole time. At first, Ji Tong could still call Gu Lin's name intermittently, but later she was too weak and kept calling him "Brother Lin" and "Brother" incoherently. Finally, Gu Lin spoke.

Their skin was pressed together. Gu Lin leaned down, brushed aside the wet hair that was sticking to Ji Tong's ear, and slowly kissed his earlobe before speaking his first words.

It was an extremely "nasty" statement.

"Whose cat is this that meows so loudly at night?"

Ji Tong's pupils dilated, and his back trembled as if it had exploded.

Gu Lin finally smiled, and this time it was a genuine smile.

"Cover it up." Gu Lin's voice grew even lower.

"Gu Linlin will hear you."

Ji Tong reflexively raised her hand to cover her ears, but instead covered her mouth, the word "Gu Lin" escaping between her lips.

Because of Gu Linlin's incoherent shouting, Ji Tong paid a heavy price.

The pain was so intense that his legs trembled at the sight of the blanket.

After twenty-two days of gradual desensitization exercises, Ji Tong finally ushered in a milestone night—

Gu Linlin can now sleep through the night alone without being locked in her cage and without making a sound.

Ji Tong almost burst into tears.

Once the sleep problem is solved, everything becomes much easier.

The next day, after Gu Lin returned to his apartment from Professor An Dalin's place with the USB drive, he saw Ji Tong sitting cross-legged on the carpet with a bunch of scattered pet interaction buttons in front of him.

Ji Tong is recording according to the instructions.

He had just finished recording a bunch of lines when he heard the door open. He turned around, saw Gu Lin, paused for a moment, and suddenly changed the line he was about to record, "Go out to play," to "Welcome home."

After recording the audio, Ji Tong pressed the button in front of Gu Lin.

The message "Welcome home" was then played through the internal clicker.

Gu Lin changed into slippers, walked over, and sat down on the carpet: "How many have you recorded?"

Ji Tong pointed to the pile on the left and said, "They've all been recorded over there. Listen to them."

Gu Lin pressed each button one by one.

The first option is "Sleep," the second is "Drink Water," the third is "Eat," the fourth is "Snacks," and the remaining options include a series of buttons covering everything from a kitten's physiological needs to its social needs, such as "No," "Pet," "Hug," "Angry," and "Uncomfortable."

The last button Gu Lin pressed was "Kiss".

As soon as he finished pressing the button, Ji Tong, as if she had been waiting for him, immediately cupped his face and kissed him.

Gu Lin raised an eyebrow and pressed it again.

Ji Tong blinked and kissed him on the other side of his cheek.

Gu Lin raised his hand again, but this time Ji Tong was faster than him, pressing the "No" button and warning, "Try pressing 'Kiss' again."

Gu Lin removed his finger from the word "kiss".

That's more like it.

Ji Tong tossed out a sentence, "These few haven't been recorded yet, don't mess them up," and was about to go back to continue recording when suddenly a voice exploded in his ear, "Go to sleep."

Ji Tong: "???"

Gu Lin said slowly, "I didn't press 'kiss'."

Ji Tong: "…………"

So you're going to press "Sleep"?!

Ji Tong: "What time is it now... no, how old are you?"

Ji Tong's frontal nerve twitched rapidly. He looked down and searched around, finding the button on the far right. He pressed it three times in a row: "Click," "Click," "Click."

"angry--"

"angry--"

"angry--"

Three shouts of "I'm angry!" echoed through the living room.

Gu Lin chuckled softly, while Ji Tong glared at him.

He kept provoking me.

"Too many," Gu Lin teased her boyfriend, then casually dialed a few buttons. "Let's learn a few first."

Ji Tong didn't intend to teach it all at once; she just bought a lot of buttons and thought she could record them all at once. Hearing Gu Lin say this, she nodded and casually said, "Then you pick a few out, and I'll record the rest first."

When Ji Tong finished fiddling with it and turned around, Gu Lin had already picked out three.

“You don’t need to learn these three,” Gu Lin said.

"Which three?" Ji Tong pressed down casually.

Say "touch", "hug", and "kiss" respectively.

Ji Tong: "..."

Gu Lin said calmly, "It's not needed."

Although Ji Tong found it hard not to suspect the motives behind someone taking out those three buttons, Gu Linlin ultimately did not use "touch," "hug," or "kiss."

More precisely, most of the buttons were not used.

Because only two are used—

One is "snacks", and the other is "meals".

By the time Ji Tong realized something was wrong, Gu Linlin had already gained 1.4 pounds.

On the day it was weighed, Ji Tong posted a message on her WeChat Moments.

[JT: I bought a bunch of interaction buttons and spent half a month teaching how to press them, but all I can press are "snacks" and "eat" [crying emoji]]

Within just two minutes, there were thirty comments. Ji Tong clicked on them to take a look—

[Ah Yuan: It's true what they say, the rope always breaks at its thinnest point; fate is playing tricks on this gluttonous pig.]

[Mingying: It's true what they say, the rope always breaks at its thinnest point; fate is playing tricks on this gluttonous pig.]

[Senior Tu Jing: It's true what they say, the rope always breaks at its thinnest point; fate is playing tricks on this gluttonous pig.]

The only difference was that she was a senior student who also owned a cat.

[Qin Fei, a senior student: It's similar to mine. Mine only knows how to press the "freeze-dry," "canned food," and "go out to play" buttons; the other buttons are never used, haha.]

Ji Tong: "".

The cat didn't actually use the remaining buttons, but Ji Tong would sometimes use them.

At certain specific times.

For example, last night.

When Ji Tong was so tired that she didn't want to say a word, she raised her hand and pressed a button on the bedside table.

The word "take a shower" was then emitted through the clicker of the button.

Gu Lin chuckled softly and carried the person towards the bathroom.

Make the best use of resources.

-

Ji Tong gradually desensitized Gu Linlin, who used to be inseparable from Ji Tong and Gu Lin, can now stay in the apartment alone, but only for half a day at most. Ji Tong doesn't dare to go far, so she goes to the Anhui University Library with Gu Lin to sit and occasionally glance at the surveillance footage.

The young couple got so engrossed in raising their pet in the apartment that they forgot about the world and even their uncle who lived in Haiyuan.

Early in the morning, Song Zhenshu woke up from a nightmare covered in cold sweat.

Even ten minutes after waking up, my head still felt heavy.

Yesterday, Song Zhenshu had just finished a video call with Ji Tong. The uncle and nephew chatted for almost half an hour, and finally Ji Tong hugged Gu Linlin's hand, said goodbye, and hung up the video call.

Perhaps his subconscious remembered the scene, because Song Zhenshu dreamed that Ji Tong appeared at Haiyuan holding a little girl and said to him, "Uncle, actually I didn't go home for summer vacation because I have a baby. I just gave birth yesterday. It's a little girl, nicknamed Linlin. She just turned two years old today."

"Look how cute she is."

"Linlin, come here and call him Uncle."

The old man was startled awake.

Song Zhenshu went downstairs to the refrigerator and drank a whole bottle of cold water. He then drank another bottle, but still couldn't resist, so he took out his phone and dialed his nephew's number.

The phone rang four or five times before it was answered.

"Uncle," Ji Tong was clearly still half asleep, his words mumbled from exhaustion, "What's wrong?"

"What time is it? Still sleeping?" Song Zhenshu said.

Ji Tong propped her head up and glanced at the alarm clock on the bedside table: "It's only 7:30, why can't I sleep?"

Song Zhenshu paused for a few seconds, then changed the subject: "...When are you going back to Haiyuan? I'll have Aunt Yang make you some red mushroom and conch soup."

"Didn't we say yesterday that Gu Linlin can't be separated from someone for the time being?"

"..."

Song Zhenshu closed his eyes; he couldn't hear the word "linlin" at all now.

"What kind of boy is he, spending his summer vacation not at home with his uncle, but living outside all the time?"

“You should be glad you’re my nephew, not my niece,” Song Zhenshu paused menacingly, then gritted his teeth and said, “If you were a girl, I might become an uncle next year, right?”

"No," Ji Tong said, half-conscious.

Won't?

Although Song Zhenshu didn't know why Ji Tong said "no," she subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing Ji Tong's affirmative voice: "No, not at all..."

The next second—

"Gu Lin wears them all."

“……………………?”

"I'm so sleepy, Uncle. I was working on my thesis proposal yesterday and didn't get to sleep until after 1 a.m. I'll call you back when I wake up."

"Bye-Bye."

Just before Ji Tong hung up the phone, she vaguely heard a heart-wrenching scream—

"Ji Tong!!!!!!!!!"

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Tongtong: While I was unconscious, my uncle asked me a question, and I answered him. That's all.

Here's another chapter of my daily life [kissing emoji]

The wedding epilogue will have to wait. Next, I might update a childhood sweetheart "what if" storyline, but it won't be very long. Deepest bow! [kissing emojis]