The company has a private elevator for Xie Chen, and the two of them quickly went to the floor where the office was located.
Most of the people they met on the road, besides greeting Xie Chen, would also kindly praise Bai Li.
Bai Li, who was initially a little scared, became less afraid after being praised by those people.
"Didn't I say? Everyone will like you."
Seeing that the little guy was no longer afraid, Xie Chen patted his head and said casually.
Bai Li hugged Xie Chen's large hand, and with her courage growing, she began her adventure.
"Sir, do you come here to work every day?" he asked.
"Um."
Xie Chen pushed open the office door and added, "I come to work whenever there's nothing else."
Bai Li tilted her head and asked curiously, "Is the gentleman's salary high?"
Xie Chen paused.
How should he answer this question? After all, all the net profits generated by the Xie family belong to him.
After a few seconds of pause, Xie Chen gave a general answer: "Great."
Having received this answer, Bai Li didn't press the matter further. He happily shared with Xie Chen, "Our salaries are quite high now."
The seafood restaurant owner pays him a basic salary, and he often receives tips when delivering orders. All in all, when he gets paid, he'll earn a lot this month!
The office has wooden floors and is kept very clean.
Bai Li jumped down from Xie Chen's arms and was about to explore every corner of the office when Xie Chen's secretary knocked on the door and came out.
"Boss, this is today's..."
Secretary Anna paused briefly, but quickly continued, "These are the documents that need to be processed this morning, and you have a meeting at 10:30. The meeting materials have been prepared for you."
Anna reported her work to Xie Chen in an orderly manner.
Xie Chen glanced at the document: "Put it down."
"OK."
As Anna was about to leave, she glanced at the tiny kitten peeking out from the corner of the table. She was so charmed that she had been momentarily distracted while giving her work report.
"Ahem, boss, do you need me to have someone buy some food for your cat?" Anna asked tentatively.
"Need not."
Xie Chen didn't even look up, and calmly refused, "There's food in his snack box."
After Xie Chen pointed it out, Anna noticed that there was indeed a box on Xie Chen's desk. Inside the box were small compartments containing dried fish, dried meat, and other snacks.
Besides the food, there were also several boxes of goat milk nearby.
Not only were there food and drinks, but soon after, someone also brought cat litter.
"Meow meow".
When Bai Li saw the cat litter, she ran to hug Xie Chen's leg and begged him to put the cat litter in the bathroom.
He's a particular cat; when he was with Xie Chen, he always made sure to put the litter box in a place where no one could see it.
Xie Chen raised an eyebrow, intentionally teasing him.
"What? Can't I put the cat litter here?"
"No, no."
Bai Li, unusually, started acting spoiled. He sat on Xie Chen's feet with his chubby bottom, tugged at Xie Chen's trouser leg with his paws, tilted his head back, and kept meowing and begging, "Sir, please put the cat litter in the bathroom, please put it there, please put it there."
He didn't want his husband to watch him use the cat litter box.
Seeing the kitten's eyes welling up with tears as it begged, Xie Chenxin realized something was wrong; he seemed to have gone too far with teasing.
"good."
He bent down, scooped the kitten into his arms, and soothed it gently, saying, "I'll put the cat litter in the bathroom for you right now."
Bai Li's mood improved as she watched the cat litter being placed properly.
"Thank you, sir."
He doesn't hold grudges, and even rubbed against Xie Chen's face to thank Xie Chen for helping him put out the cat litter.
"Lili, you can play by yourself. I have to go to work."
Xie Chen opened his snack box and placed it on the coffee table. He also used a tablet on the coffee table to open a video website for him, letting him choose any video he wanted to watch.
Bai Li sat on the sofa and chose a classic animated film—
Cat and mouse.
He kept the volume low, afraid of disturbing Xie Chen.
The two, one human and one cat, soon started doing their own things.
Bai Li ate dried fish while watching Tom and Jerry. Xie Chen, on the other hand, sat in front of the computer screen, occasionally tapping on the keyboard or signing documents he had reviewed.
The office was filled with harmony.
Meanwhile, in a department downstairs, the department head was banging on the woman's desk, yelling, "Huang Fang, what's wrong with you today? Why are you making so many mistakes?"
Huang Fang felt embarrassed after being reprimanded by her team leader in front of everyone.
"Team leader, I'm sorry, I'll work harder from now on."
Huang Fang blushed and apologized to the team leader.
The team leader snorted coldly: "We need to do a summary now, and no one can afford to make any more mistakes."
Huang Fang nodded, and even after the team leader walked past her, the blush on her face lingered for a long time.
"Sister Huang."
A colleague who was on good terms with her gently advised her, "Don't take what the team leader said just now to heart."
Knowing that Huang Fang could sometimes be a bit stubborn, her colleague kindly offered some advice: "The team leader is afraid of making mistakes. Our summary has to be sent to the boss, and you know how strict he is. I feel scared just looking at him."
Huang Fang only listened to a few sentences of what her colleague said.
For example, she heard the word "boss"...
That's right, Huang Fang clenched her fists silently, thinking to herself that the team leader might have scolded her like that because of the boss.
She offended the boss's cat, which had just appeared that morning, and was immediately scolded.
What a coincidence!
Huang Fang attributed all the reasons for being reprimanded to others, but did not reflect on her own work attitude at all.
She glared at the team leader with a hint of resentment. The team leader had just been appointed, and in terms of qualifications within the company, she was clearly the more suitable candidate. Yet, in the end, the person chosen was someone with even shorter tenure than her.
All these pent-up resentments caused Huang Fang to lose her composure, and she made several small mistakes at work, which angered her team leader so much that he gave her a severe scolding.
"I really don't know what's wrong with you. You're a senior employee, and even a newbie wouldn't make such a basic mistake."
The team leader was so angry her head was throbbing. She pressed her temples, but in the end, she left still fuming.
Huang Fang watched her retreating figure, biting her lip tightly, feeling utterly humiliated.
upstairs.
Xie Chen worked for a while before realizing that something was wrong.
Lili was curled up on the sofa, seemingly too well-behaved. At first, I could hear him eating dried fish, but now, apart from the sounds of cartoons, there was no other sound.
Xie Chen felt something was wrong. He looked up at the sofa and called out, "Lili."
Bai Li did not reply.
The back of the sofa completely covered the petite Bai Li.
Xie Chen couldn't see what he was doing, so he got up and went over to check on him himself.
Upon closer inspection, I discovered that the little kitten, curled up in a ball, had tears welling up in its beautiful amber eyes.
Xie Chen: "?"
Xie Chen was taken aback, squatted down, and asked in a low voice, "Lili, what's wrong?"
Bai Li remained silent, holding back her words.
He not only remained silent, but also buried his head and refused to look at Xie Chen.
Xie Chen was completely baffled, not knowing what was wrong with the little guy.
"Lili, be good, tell me, why are you crying?"
Bai Li buried her head for a moment, then let out a muffled sound, her voice still carrying a hint of sobbing.
"Meow meow".
I didn't cry.
Bai Li would never admit that she cried because she was angry at watching Tom and Jerry.
He stubbornly insisted, "These are physiological tears."
The knowledge point that his third brother just taught him is that physiological tears are not crying.
Xie Chen picked up the kitten, who had shed physiological tears, and sat it on his lap, patiently coaxing it, "Okay, Lili, you're not crying anymore. So, Lili, tell me, why do you have physiological tears?"
Bai Li sniffed and complained, feeling wronged: "The cartoon is acting out nonsense."
"Cats aren't that stupid."
He pointed to the Tom and Jerry cartoon still playing on the tablet, where Tom was in a terrible state.
As a fellow cat, Bai Li watched Tom being brutally beaten by a little mouse, and he didn't find it funny at all. He only felt that this was bullying cats and smearing cats' reputation.
After Xie Chen figured out the reason, he found it both funny and pitiful that the little guy looked so wronged.
"Let's watch another video."
Xie Chen patted his head reassuringly and decisively replaced the cat and mouse game with something else.
"Lili, do you want to watch Ultraman?"
Xie Chen remembered that many boys loved watching this. Lili, this little kitten, had a clear, boyish voice beneath her meows. He figured he'd like to watch it too.
Bai Li, who had never watched Ultraman before, nodded and asked Xie Chen to play the classic Ultraman Tiga for her.
This time, Bai Li was completely captivated.
Seeing that he was no longer crying from anger, Xie Chen finally felt at ease.
At 10:30, Xie Chen took the documents and went to the conference room for a meeting.
Bai Li was so engrossed in watching TV that she only heard Xie Chen say he was going to the conference room; she didn't remember anything else.
Xie Chen's meeting lasted a very long time.
Now that autumn has arrived, they have many projects to complete.
The meeting had been going on for over an hour and was still not over.
Bai Li rubbed her eyes and stopped looking at the tablet. The tablet was out of power, and the screen, which had been lit up just moments before, had gone dark.
"Meow?"
gentlemen.
Unable to watch the tablet, Bai Li turned to look for her husband.
The office was empty except for Bai Li, the only cat there.
He jumped off the sofa in a daze, wandered around the office, but couldn't find his husband.
"The meeting room..."
Bai Li thought of the words she seemed to have heard and squeezed out of the office door.
He was still unfamiliar with this company, so not being able to see his husband made him very uneasy.
The meeting room is not on this floor.
Bai Li couldn't find it on this floor, so she went downstairs alone to search floor by floor.
As luck would have it, he went down too far and ended up running into Huang Fang, who was on the phone, in the stairwell of some unknown floor.
Huang Fang lowered her voice: "You really can offer me double the salary?"
"Of course I have experience. What kind of place is the Xie family? The fact that I've been able to work here for so long, isn't that enough proof?"
"No, what you're saying, I can't do. At most, I've only reached the finance level; I can't offer you anything more..."
"Three times, three times the salary?"
"Okay... I'll help you."
As Huang Fang was speaking, Bai Li, who was passing by, couldn't understand what she was saying, so she turned to leave.
But the stairs were high, and Bai Li accidentally bumped her head on one of them.
"Meow."
He clutched his head and reflexively cried out.
"Who's there?!"
Huang Fang, who was on the phone, suddenly hung up and walked over in her high heels.
"It's you again."
Huang Fang stared at the kitten with ill intent. Her colleague had praised the kitten for being cute earlier that day, but she didn't find it cute at all. Instead, she thought it was a jinx that was deliberately bringing her bad luck.
The femme fatale looked at her innocently and said, "Meow."
Stop looking at me!
Feeling uncomfortable under Huang Fang's gaze, Bai Li meowed and backed away, clearly wary of her as well.
This place was a blind spot for surveillance cameras. Huang Fang stared at the cat without blinking, wondering if she would get caught if she kicked the cat a few times in this spot.
After weighing the pros and cons, she managed to suppress the impulse.
The cat will meow randomly.
If it attracts people, then it's not worth the loss.
"Little beast."
She muttered a curse under her breath and turned to leave.
As for the phone call being overheard, she wasn't worried. What she said was beyond a cat's comprehension, and even if it did, it wouldn't report anything to Xie Chen later.
That phone call helped Huang Fang recover somewhat from her afternoon slump.
Her colleague even asked her with a smile, "Sister Huang, you seem to be in a much better mood. Did something good happen?"
Huang Fang smiled and said, "My son did well on his exams and I think he'll get an award certificate at the end of the semester. I'm thinking about whether to reward him with a computer."
Upon hearing this, her colleague immediately congratulated her: "I really envy you, your son's grades are quite good. By the way, I heard your daughter is also consistently in the top three of her grade, how did you reward her?"
Sister Huang's smile froze. She didn't answer the question directly, but said a few other things before returning to her workstation.
As soon as she left, someone whispered to the colleague who had just left, explaining the facts to her.
"Don't mention her daughter in front of Sister Huang. She's old-fashioned, sexist, and thinks her daughter is a money-loser. She doesn't care about her daughter at all."
"She doesn't even want to pay for her daughter's schooling."
"So that's how it is... Sigh, what a pity for such an excellent young lady."
While Sister Huang was being talked about, Bai Li, who had been called a little beast, pulled a cat-like face and went to Xie Chen, wanting him to coax her.
"Little beast" is an insult, Bai Li recognized it. Was that woman calling him that?
After searching for another ten minutes or so, Bai Li found the conference room.
The meeting room door was closed, and the room was well soundproofed, so no sound could escape.
Bai Li didn't go in directly. He sat at the entrance of the conference room, his chubby little body standing guard like a door god.
The meeting finally ended at 12:36.
The person who stepped out first accidentally bumped into Bai Li.
"Thud—"
Bai Li, who had fallen asleep while waiting for her husband at the door, rolled around a few times and rolled into the conference room.
The person who accidentally bumped into the cat was immediately startled.
He'd heard from others that the boss had brought a cat to the company today!
Moreover, the boss is particularly fond of that cat.
"No way, are my feet really that unlucky?!"
The man hurriedly approached, his face filled with anxiety as he tried to check on the cat.
Before he could bend down, a pair of hands had already picked up the dazed little kitten from the ground.
"Meow."
The kitten, still half-asleep, had a blank look in its beautiful amber eyes.
"Boss, I'm sorry, I didn't see the cat at the door just now."
The young man who encountered Bai Li apologized to Xie Chen in a hesitant tone.
Xie Chen frowned after hearing his words.
"It's not your fault."
He said, "You can leave now."
The little guy was sitting by the door when someone bumped into him. How could he possibly pin the blame on the other person?
“Lili”.
After everyone left, Xie Chen lowered his eyes and reminded the careless little kitten, "Don't sit by the door next time. You're so small, it's not easy for others to see you."
If the little guy gets kicked again someday, he'll probably be in tears.
Bai Li, still half asleep, nodded slowly, indicating that she had remembered.
He hadn't slept well yet; although he had rolled around on the floor a few times, he was still sleepy.
"Meow, meow meow."
Sir, it's time to sleep.
Around noon is within the normal resting time for kittens.
Xie Chen carried him back to his office. Instead of going out for dinner, he asked Anna to order food.
When Bai Li heard that Xie Chen had ordered food, she fought off her sleepiness and decided to wait for the meal.
Human food tastes good; he wants to eat the food his master ordered later.
While waiting for the food, Xie Chen watched the little guy sitting on the table, his head bobbing sleepily, but his eyes still trying to stay open, and he found it amusing.
“Lili”.
Xie Chen, being rather irresponsible, grabbed Bai Li's tail to tease him, intending to rouse the little kitten, but unexpectedly—
He went too far.
Xie Chen, who had never owned a cat before, did not know that a tail has an irresistible allure for a cat.
In short, cats will treat their wagging tails as toys, such as cat toys.
Especially since Bai Li's tail was still in Xie Chen's hand, being swayed back and forth in front of Bai Li.
The sleepy little kitten stared intently at the wiggling cat toy.
After watching for about ten seconds, just when Xie Chen was completely unprepared, the little kitten let out a loud yelp and bit him hard.
Xie Chen: "..."
Xie Chen's heart skipped a beat when he saw the force of that roar.
Oh no, things are going to get bad.
He was right; the kitten, which had bitten its own tail hard, was completely stunned.
A distinct pain came from its tail, and the kitten's blank expression slowly turned into shock.
My tail, my tail hurts so much!
"Ugh."
The kitten, jolted awake by the pain, spat out its tail, tilted its head back, and meowed at Xie Chen. This time, its beautiful eyes were truly brimming with tears.
Author's Note: Thank you, Boss: I'm going to chop off my hand right now.
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