hanging basket
"Why ask such a question?" Yun Jin met his gaze, her heart tightening. She quickly explained, "I meant the same species, nothing more. Don't overthink it."
Shen Yi looked at her quietly for a while, chuckled softly, turned around, and said in a relaxed tone while starting the car, "Just kidding, did I scare you?"
Yun Jin knew all too well that Shen Yi'an's words meant he was unhappy.
She leaned forward, getting closer to him, and cautiously poked his back with her hand, tentatively asking, "Shen Yi'an, were you... jealous just now?"
A silence fell over the car, broken only by the hum of the engine starting.
Then, Yun Jin heard a very soft but clear response.
"Yeah, a little."
He actually admitted it frankly, without being stubborn.
Yun Jin was taken aback at first, swallowed the words she had prepared, then sat up straight and raised one hand as if to swear an oath.
"There's really nothing between Qiqi and me. We're definitely not in a state of 'brothers in misfortune.' I swear to God."
Seeing Yun Jin's serious expression, Shen Yi'an shook his head and took Yun Jin's hand: "You don't need to swear like that, I know."
"You suddenly see a stranger, looking disheveled, in your house, and you seem quite worried about him."
“I’m not worried about him, I’m worried about you,” Yun Jin leaned back in her seat, looking at the black roof of the car. “After all, Qi Qi is an old monster who hasn’t really matured yet, so it’s understandable.”
"Old monster, how old are you? You look about the same age as us," Shen Yi'an asked in confusion.
"You can't tell her exact age just by looking at her, but I don't know either," Yun Jin said, sticking out her tongue.
“Then you…” Shen Yi’an hesitated.
Yun Jin raised her hand and gestured five: "Shen Yi'an, I'm actually five hundred years old, do you believe me?"
I don't believe it.
"Why?"
"Because you are not mature at all."
“Shen Yi’an, you…”
——
It was a pleasant afternoon, and the temperature of the sunlight was just right.
Yun Jin, now in cat form, lay comfortably in the bamboo hanging basket, swaying back and forth. Her fluffy tail bounced up and down in the air, and sunlight filtered through the gaps in the basket, casting patches of light.
The ultimate comfort made Yun Jin exclaim, "Shen Yi'an, who invented this hanging basket? How can it be so comfortable?"
Shen Yi'an was lying on the sofa next to her, scrolling through his phone with his legs crossed. Hearing her words, Shen Yi'an didn't even look up: "I don't know who invented it, but I bought it. What's wrong with my taste?"
"Yes, yes, you're a great hero." Yun Jin curled up into a ball, ready to take a nice afternoon nap.
However, the cat's bedtime ritual is quite complicated. Yun Jin kept adjusting her position, stepping on the left and lying on the right... but nothing felt right, and it just didn't feel quite right.
Just as she was adjusting her position dramatically to find a balance, she suddenly exerted too much force and lost her balance!
"Meow—" Yun Jin cried out in surprise, carefully slipping and falling flat on her face, knocking over the hanging basket in the process.
The basket tipped over and fell to the ground, and Yun Jin rolled out like a fluffy ball.
"What happened? Did you fall?" Upon hearing this, Shen Yi'an quickly put down his phone and got up to help her.
At this moment, the cat's pride exploded. Yun Jin smoothly avoided Shen Yi'an's hand, instantly straightened herself, and said calmly, "It's okay, I'm fine."
She raised her chin and kicked the rolling basket back, as if everything was under her control.
Shen Yi'an's hand froze in mid-air as he looked at Yun Jin, who was pretending to be dead, and couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Then, he nodded in agreement and said, "Okay, okay, you didn't fall, you just wanted to give me a performance."
Yun Jin gave a soft hum, raised her tail, and swayed it slightly in the air. With elegant cat steps, she walked to the side, and only after making sure that Shen Yi'an couldn't see her did she quietly rub the spot where she had bumped her head with her paw.
It still hurts a little.
But a cat's pride is an extremely important thing, even more important than its life.
Shen Yi'an walked over and quickly put the broken basket back together. In the process, he inevitably got cat hair all over his hands.
Some of the cat hair was in the hanging basket, while some flew in the air like snow.
Yun Jin had just come out from behind the sofa when she was suddenly pulled into Shen Yi'an's arms, who even cushioned her a few times.
"Shen Yi'an, what are you doing?" Yun Jin revealed her claws as a threat.
Shen Yi'an hugged her and came to a serious conclusion: "Yun Jin, have you gained weight? You seem to have gotten a whole size bigger than before."
"No way," Yun Jin bristled as if her tail had been stepped on. She pressed her paws against Shen Yi'an's face, even the tips of her paws were pressing hard. "I just have long fur, which makes me look fluffy, not fat."
“That’s true,” Shen Yi’an nodded seriously, “but look, the air is full of your cat hair.”
Taking advantage of Yun Jin's distraction, Shen Yi'an quickly buried his face in her white belly and rubbed against her.
"Hey, Shen Yi'an—" Yun Jin was very unhappy about this sneak attack and gave Shen Yi'an's ear a warning bite.
"Hehehe." Shen Yi'an let out a triumphant laugh, but when he raised his face, it was covered in cat hair.
"bite--"
The phone screen on the sofa lit up, displaying the name "Yun Chen," and kept vibrating.
Yun Jin's ears perked up, and she rolled over and jumped off Shen Yi'an's arms: "Wait, I need to take this call."
Shen Yi'an felt a little regretful that such a beautiful moment had been interrupted, and said softly, "Okay."
The figure of Sanhua on the ground slowly grew larger, and soon Yunjin walked into the courtyard with the phone in her hand.
"Hey, Yun Chen, what's wrong?" Yun Jin squatted down and tugged at the green grass on the ground.
"Nothing, did you receive the package?" Yun Chen's somewhat sullen voice came from the other end of the phone.
Yun Jin immediately became alert, threw away the grass in her hand, and raised her voice several octaves: "Are you unhappy? Who bullied you, Qi Yu?"
Soon, Qi Yu's cheerful voice came from the other end of the phone: "Yun Jin, it has nothing to do with me, I didn't do it."
And the sound of Yun Chen whispering for him to leave.
What happened?
"It's nothing, I haven't been sleeping well these past few days, and I feel a bit listless." The voice on the other end of the phone sounded a little hoarse.
"Yun Chen, when you're out and about, you need to take good care of yourself. Don't eat junk food, don't stay up late all the time, and eat more vegetables..." Yun Jin murmured.
"Stop, stop, stop, sis. First of all, I know that, and secondly, you can't even do these things yourself, so don't tell me what to do." Yun Chen quickly interrupted Yun Jin's rambling.
"Alright, you've really grown up. You're not cute at all anymore. Back then, you were such a tiny little thing, and you would do whatever I said..."
"If you say another word, I'm hanging up." Yun Chen's cold voice came from the other end of the phone, and Yun Jin immediately turned her phone back.
Actually, being an older sister isn't bad. Although Yun Jin was also very young at that time, she could pretend to be an elder by arriving a few minutes earlier.
“Okay,” Yun Jin continued squatting down to pull the weeds, “What’s the meaning of the package you ordered? Is it for me?”
"Actually... I was planning to adopt... a cat."
"Huh? Yun Chen, are you out of your mind?" Yun Jin tilted her head and asked incredulously, "We're cat demons ourselves, why would we adopt kittens?"
"Keep your voice down, Qi Yu is still next to me," Yun Chen said, covering the microphone and making a crackling sound.
“Alright, can you tell me why you have this strange behavior? My dear sister.” Yun Jin lowered her voice a little.
"What's so strange about that? Besides, it's a failure. That cat doesn't want to come with me. Oh well, never mind it." Yun Chen's voice was a little impatient.
Yun Jin always felt that her gloom was related to this little cat.
Could it be that Yun Chen has taken a liking to a stray male cat?
No, no.
Yun Chen's judgment isn't that bad.
But what if...
"You've taken a fancy to... a stray male cat?" Yun Jin lowered her voice. "Yun Chen, you can't do that! You can't let your romantic thoughts cloud your judgment..."
"You..." Yun Chen on the other end of the phone was speechless for a moment. After taking a deep breath to calm himself down, he finally spoke, suppressing his anger, "Are you out of your mind? How can you look at your sister like that?"
"Ah, is that not what you meant?" Yun Jin breathed a sigh of relief. "That's good, you scared me to death, hahaha."
"..."
"So, what's the matter that you called?" Yun Jin changed the subject.
"The person in charge of the 'Amazing Furry Kids' program called me and said they wanted to sign a new contract."
"No, I don't want to film even one episode right now, and we're not even running our account anymore," Yun Jin quickly refused.
“I know, sis, don’t worry,” Yun Chen said calmly. “The process of the negotiation is not important. Anyway, the result is that our contract will be completely over once we finish filming the remaining three episodes.”
"I remember the remaining three episodes were supposed to be six episodes, right?"
"There must have been some problems with his show, so they cut everything out in order to end it as soon as possible."
"This is great news! I was worried about some kind of penalty for breach of contract, which made me anxious for a while."
"Yun Chen, you have no idea how much your older sister has been losing sleep because of this. I'm really suffering so much..." Yun Jin said, her voice trembling with feigned tears.
"Stop, your performance ends here," Yun Chen said, already used to it. "I'm just curious, why did he just cancel this show without saying he wouldn't film it? The ratings seemed pretty good."
"I don't know, when are you coming back?"
"Let's wait another month."
"Okay, I'll wait for you at home, Yun Chen."
Yun Jin felt a huge weight lifted off her shoulders after hanging up the phone. Great, only three more phases until she was free.
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