Chapter 13
"Okay, great result, everyone's happy. I'm so glad my little sweetheart is the work that earned you a ticket to the competition!" Zimei said jokingly, looking at the two of them hugging each other.
Ning Wensong only noticed her current posture when she felt her gaze, and hurriedly struggled to jump down.
"Oh, next time you come to me for styling, I'll give you a 20% discount, hehe." Ning Wensong said, raising her hand to make an eight. She was really generous.
"Okay, I'm going abroad for a while now. I'll make time to hang out with you next time I come back!" Zimei picked up Xiaotian, called the driver, and left together. Just before getting into the car, she turned around and ran back to give Ning Wensong a big hug.
"Keep it up! I really like you!" Zimei shouted, her silvery laughter making Ning Wensong feel even better.
Shen Che stared at the departing car with a dark expression. Why did everyone have to stick close to A Song? He had just hugged him for a while.
"Alright, I'm going to make some late-night snacks. You go see which phone you want, and I'll take you to buy it tomorrow. Or, just buy it on your phone. I'll take you out to play tomorrow." Shen Che pulled Ning Wensong's hand and led her back to the top floor.
Ning Wensong couldn't calm down for a long time, and only when she remembered the final payment did she ask curiously, "How much did she pay in the final payment?"
“30,000.” Chen Che calmly stated a number, which he felt was still too little.
But he forgot that Ning Wensong had never seen so many people. After hearing this, she stood there stunned, muttering to herself, "I'm going to become a rich woman, I'm going to..."
Shen Che sighed and rubbed his forehead in exasperation. What would her reaction be if he wanted to transfer everything under his name to her in the future?
"I'm going to cook. Take a break and have some snacks." Chen Che patted her head, saying he would make something nice to celebrate later.
He walked to the refrigerator, looked at the ingredients and thought for a moment, then decided to make sauerkraut fish, since he happened to have a seasoning packet.
Chen Che was showing off his skills in the kitchen, while Ning Wensong was looking for her phone on her phone.
"There are so many phone models now, I need to find one that takes good photos. Hmm, let me take a look." Ning Wensong muttered to herself as she picked out her phone, she was really overwhelmed by the choices.
Just a second before eating, Ning Wensong finally picked out her favorite dish, quickly placed the order, and felt better when she saw that it would be delivered the next day.
"Dinner's ready, stop looking at your phone!" Chen Che called out; she was almost completely absorbed in it.
Looking at the appetizing dishes, Ning Wensong chatted with Shen Che with a smile, "Hmm, what if I run out of inspiration again after today? Luckily, I didn't choose to make one dish every three days."
"How exhausted would you be to make one every three days? Let's not talk about that now, let me tell you about the schedule." Chen Che watched the person in front of him shoveling rice into his mouth. No chef would dislike this.
Chen Che thought about the Creative Competition. "I checked, the preliminary round is in two months. I was thinking of taking you back to our hometown after this month to find some inspiration. Trust me, you will definitely find it."
The affirmative tone piqued Ning Wensong's curiosity. "Then I really have to look forward to it. I'll start imagining what it's like there every day." Inspiration came flooding in.
"Next, we'll find cat models for you based on your inspiration. It'll be a bit difficult, it depends on your inspiration, but with Gu Ci and the others, it shouldn't be a problem." Shen Che pondered deeply, determined to have Ning Wensong style the best cats. He could start contacting people to look for some in the near future.
“Okay! I’ll listen to you,” Ning Wensong said with relief.
Nights always pass quickly; you live a magical life in your dreams, only to return to reality when you open your eyes.
"..." Ning Wensong was a little suspicious of what her subconscious was thinking every day. She actually dreamed that after winning the championship, there was a handsome man on her left and a beautiful woman on her right.
Could it be that subconsciously I wanted both men and women to come? No, no, no, it must just be a dream arising from my divergent thinking.
After waking up, Shen Che squinted at Ning Wensong's little actions, finding them more and more adorable, and all his sleepiness vanished.
"Alright, stop playing with your tail. Go wash up. Once your phone arrives, we'll go out and have some fun, like hiking." Shen Che hadn't hiked in a long time and thought Ning Wensong needed to exercise too.
Logically speaking, a cat demon shouldn't have any problem climbing a mountain, right?
Shen Che never imagined that what he had in mind would come back to haunt him so easily just a few hours later.
After being urged to get up, Ning Wensong was lazy and kept thinking about her phone, checking it ten times a minute.
Then, with a "beep," the voice rang out, "Chen Che! My phone's here, I'm going downstairs." The last sentence was spoken in a high-pitched tone.
Shen Che is now easily amused; Ning Wensong has truly changed him a lot.
They've only known each other for a short time.
If Ning Wensong could stay with him forever...
Ning Wensong ignored his little schemes, rushed downstairs, grabbed the delivered package, and started opening it.
For Ning Wensong, a mobile phone is a very private thing. She had been using Chen Che's phone for a while and was afraid of seeing something she shouldn't have. But unexpectedly, Chen Che's phone was as clean as if it had been formatted. The photo album only contained a few landscape photos and cat pictures.
Because of Ning Wensong, his phone now contains many apps and her beautiful photos.
"Finally! My phone, hehehe." Ning Wensong was overjoyed. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Shen Che coming downstairs and rushed over to show it off.
"Look, the phone I picked out for myself! We're sure to have a great time today." Ning Wensong was looking forward to a truly relaxing day of fun.
Climbing mountains is nothing to be afraid of, it's a piece of cake.
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Three hours later.
Sending off the green hills.
Ning Wensong numbly lifted her foot and put it down. Looking at the temple that seemed so far away and close to the clouds, she couldn't take it anymore and collapsed onto the steps.
"Why didn't you tell me sooner that this mountain is a ladder mountain?" she said, panting, her legs and stomach aching.
Shen Che hadn't expected her to be so physically weak, but it was all his fault. If he had told her beforehand, Ning Wensong wouldn't have been so exhausted.
"I'm sorry, how about I carry you up? I'll discuss it with you every time from now on." He had climbed this mountain many times, and with Ning Wensong's weight added, it wasn't tiring.
Ning Wensong stared in disbelief. She looked back at the ladder they had climbed, which could now be described as a ten-thousand-foot-high ladder.
"It's okay...it's okay, I'll be fine after I rest. It's just that this repetitive and monotonous climbing is really annoying." She tried to calm herself down.
Maybe if we just hold on a little longer we'll reach the summit.
Seeing her like this, Shen Che didn't push her any further. When you reach the top, even the most tired body will be overwhelmed by the pleasure in your heart.
They started again, and Shen Che, worried that Ning Wensong wouldn't be able to keep going, tied a rope around their bodies. "Keep going, climb to the top of the mountain, and I'll take you out for hot pot tonight!"
"Hot pot! Okay! I will try my best to climb up!" Ning Wensong was suddenly full of motivation. She thought that she would take one step at a time and climb directly over Chen Che.
Chen Che followed behind her with trepidation, afraid that she might lose her balance.
Sure enough—it only took an extra half hour to get tired.
Ning Wensong was sitting on the top step, gripping the pillar with both hands and panting heavily.
She suspected her heart rate had spiked to 180.
"Chen Che, I'm afraid that if I stand up now, I'll faint and fall down these long steps. If I do, I'll be turned into pieces..." Ning Wensong said weakly, his face already showing an abnormal redness.
Looking at her like this, Shen Che felt a little regretful; he should have carried her up.
He handed Ning Wensong an energy drink from his backpack, saying, "You'll get dehydrated if you don't drink it soon. Let's sit here for a while." Then he sat down next to Ning Wensong.
The towering mountains in the distance, like the many hardships experienced in a past life, appear, when viewed from the summit, partially obscured by clouds and mist, losing their former rugged and treacherous grandeur, yet seeming remarkably calm and gentle. (1)
Ning Wensong looked at everything before her. She couldn't remember much about the past anymore, but the happy life she was living now gave her a real sense of reality.
"Chen Che, I haven't said it many times yet, thank you. Where would I be now if it weren't for you? Would I have drowned in the very beginning, or would I never have become a human and would have remained a stray cat?"
Ning Wensong's final joke could happen at any time.
Shen Che didn't want her to keep recalling the past; even cats were considered demons now, so fatalism held true.
“Listen to me, fate is a mysterious thing. Perhaps you were unknown in your past life so that you could accumulate experience for now; your sudden transmigration might be because this place needs you, so you came; you became a cat, perhaps so that you could better integrate, meet me, and meet us. Isn’t that right? Fate has guided us to meet.” A deep and convincing voice rang in Ning Wensong’s ears.
It soothed the many fears in her heart.
"That's true. If none of this had happened, I'd still be nobody, but now I'm famous all over the internet, right? We'll get better in the future." Ning Wensong was actually quite easy to understand, but she tended to overthink things. Scenes of her time with Chen Che flashed through her mind.
"I really can't wait to go to your hometown. Are all the cats there like you?"
Upon hearing this, Shen Che thought for a moment and said, "No, some of them are quite abstract. You'll understand later." He didn't want to tell her in advance, in case he found out that those brainless cats weren't going back with him.
“Alright, I’m rested. Let’s go see the scenery together!” Ning Wensong stood up first and reached out his hand to Chen Che, who was sitting down.
Shen Che looked up at Ning Wensong, who was bathed in sunlight and appeared to be wearing a golden robe, and placed his hand on her.
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Chang Zhai.
"Are you guys crazy? You gave me a rag doll? It was a cat yesterday!" Chang Qian tore the green dinosaur in her hand to pieces in front of He Ran.
He Ran shuddered. How could he have known the cat would turn into a rag doll? Had he really seen wrong?
"Mr. Chang, no, let me explain. When I went there yesterday, it was all cats, brought over in cages. Besides, after you got it yesterday, didn't you think about opening it to take a look? I swear to God, it really is a cat!" He Ran no longer cared about the design drawings. Liu Xing's incident had made him a little scared, and he just wanted to quickly learn how to design.
Chang Qian: I just wanted to put him in the cage to scare him, so he wouldn't dare to run away again...
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