Chapter 29: You’re Making Me, a Dignified CEO, Eat Cat Food?

Chapter 29: Chapter 29: You’re Making Me, a Dignified CEO, Eat Cat Food?

Seeing the little white cat hide under the sofa, Gu Yizhou just shook his head, unconcerned.

He casually tossed his backpack onto the sofa, then walked over to the balcony to open the window for some air.

He had closed it when he left in the morning, afraid Xiaobai might fall out the window while he was gone. After all, cats are naturally curious creatures—hence the saying, "curiosity killed the cat!"

"Huh?"

After opening the window, Gu Yizhou suddenly noticed that the fresh cat food he had put out this morning hadn’t been touched.

He asked, a little confused, "Xiaobai, why aren’t you eating? Do you not like this food?"

Huddled under the sofa, Yan Luoxi heard Gu Yizhou’s words.

’Eat cat food?’

’You’ve got to be kidding me, you jerk.’

’I’m the CEO of Tidal Group, and you expect me to eat something like cat food?’

’Let me tell you, no way! Absolutely not! I’d rather die than eat that stuff!’

Yan Luoxi couldn’t help but roll her eyes, thinking haughtily.

"This..."

"If she doesn’t eat her food, this can’t go on."

Gu Yizhou muttered to himself.

After a moment’s thought, he took a cat treat stick from a storage box, walked over to the sofa, and crouched down. He called out to Xiaobai under the sofa, "Xiaobai, Xiaobai... come on out. Daddy has a yummy treat for you!"

He was trying to lure the little stray, Xiaobai, out to check if she was feeling unwell. Otherwise, why hadn’t she eaten a single bite of cat food since yesterday?

Yan Luoxi, however, stared at him as if he were an idiot. Her expression seemed to say, ’You idiot. You think you can trick me out with that?’

But a single sentence Gu Yizhou suddenly uttered made her entire body tense up. Her eyes went wide as she froze on the spot.

"Uh..."

Seeing that Xiaobai was completely ignoring the treat in his hand and was even giving him a look of contempt, Gu Yizhou felt a little awkward.

"She won’t even eat a cat treat?"

"Could she be going into heat?"

"I remember Uncle Li on the first floor has a little tomcat named Xiaohua. Maybe I should go borrow him for a... breeding session?"

Gu Yizhou mused to himself.

’You... you damned man, you’re unbelievable!’

After a long silence, Yan Luoxi was left utterly speechless.

’In... in heat...’

’How could that jerk even think of that!’

She was completely exasperated.

But!

She was also genuinely terrified that Gu Yizhou would actually go and borrow that tomcat!

She didn’t know about other people, but that jerk Gu Yizhou was definitely the type to do something like this!

The thought of being seen by a tomcat...

Yan Luoxi couldn’t help but shiver!

"MEOW!!"

’No way!’

’The mental image was too horrifying to even contemplate!’

After some thought, she had no choice but to reluctantly crawl out from under the sofa.

"Huh?"

Surprised to see her suddenly emerge, Gu Yizhou said, "Xiaobai, you’re out?"

"Meow~"

Yan Luoxi meowed at him reluctantly. She wanted nothing to do with this damned man!

However, just because she wanted to ignore Gu Yizhou didn’t mean he was going to ignore her.

The next thing she knew, Gu Yizhou had her by the scruff of the neck and was lifting her up.

"Come on, Xiaobai, Daddy’s going to give you a little check-up!"

He got up, sat on the sofa, and held the little white cat, beginning to check her condition.

"MEOW~!"

Feeling Gu Yizhou’s large, warm hands stroking her body, Yan Luoxi cried out and began to struggle.

"Xiaobai, be good!"

"Daddy’s just checking you over, don’t make a fuss!"

Seeing how frantically the little white cat was struggling, Gu Yizhou tried to soothe her.

As he spoke, he began to gently scratch under the little white cat’s chin with his finger.

A pleasant, tingling sensation shot straight to her head, and Yan Luoxi’s struggling body instantly went still.

’There was nothing she could do!’

’She didn’t want to give in!’

’But!’

’It just felt too good!’

Seeing Xiaobai calm down, Gu Yizhou smiled. While one hand kept scratching her, the other didn’t stop its work. He checked the little white cat’s fur but found no wounds or anything of the sort. Her body was impeccably clean. She didn’t even have that musky "cat smell" most cats have; instead, she had a faint, fresh scent of jasmine.

This greatly surprised Gu Yizhou!

Xiaobai had been sneaking out for the past two days, after all!

Logically, her fur should have been at least a little dusty. But Gu Yizhou found her to be perfectly clean. Even her four little paws were soft and pink, just as they were the day she’d had her bath—exceptionally clean!

’This...’

’This doesn’t make any sense!’

Gu Yizhou was extremely puzzled.

’Could it be... Xiaobai’s original owner also lives in this complex, and she’s been sneaking out to go back to her other home?’

He wondered to himself.

He was sure he’d seen similar cases online before!

A pet cat, found on the street and taken in, actually still had an owner. As it happened, both owners lived in the same residential complex, so the little cat ran between the two homes every day, eating at one house and then the other. The original owner only discovered the situation by chance. When the story hit the news, netizens were in stitches!

’What a classic double agent—a two-faced, backstabbing cat!’

’Could Xiaobai be in the same situation?’

’Otherwise, it just doesn’t add up!’

Although Gu Yizhou knew that cats were very clean animals that often washed their faces and licked their fur.

But!

Xiaobai was just a little *too* clean!

So clean it was as if she came back every day only after having a bath!

But then Gu Yizhou had another thought. ’No, that’s not right either.’

He had found Xiaobai in his company’s parking garage. His apartment was a twenty-minute scooter ride from his office, so it wasn’t realistic for Xiaobai to run all the way over there from here.

But!

This situation still left Gu Yizhou completely baffled.

’Forget it!’

’No use overthinking it!’

’When I have time one of these days, I’ll just wake up early and secretly follow her to see what’s going on!’

Gu Yizhou decided.

"Meow~!"

When the damned man suddenly stopped what he was doing, Yan Luoxi, who had been enjoying herself, opened her eyes and let out a displeased meow.

The meaning was clear: ’You jerk! Get back to scratching me!’

The sound snapped Gu Yizhou back to his senses. He looked down at the little white cat in his arms. Seeing her dissatisfied expression, it was obvious she was telling him to keep petting her.

He didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

"Alright, alright, I’ll keep scratching. Happy now?"

"You sure know how to enjoy yourself, you silly little cat."

Gu Yizhou shook his head with a helpless smile.

With that, he resumed scratching her.

Midway through scratching, Gu Yizhou suddenly remembered the special instructions the young female vet at the animal hospital had given him that day...