The Best Actress Is a Cat - Chapter 2

When Lin Duanduan ate, she still had a cat’s instincts. Ji Lan had taught her countless times, but she still did not like using chopsticks. At first, she would obediently hold the chopsticks and pick up the chicken breast that had been cut into small pieces, placing them into her mouth. But once she got excited from eating, she would forget all about it, drop the chopsticks, and try to grab the food with her hands.

Whenever that happened, Ji Lan would quickly grab her wrist, forcefully pick the chopsticks back up, and stuff them into her palm. “Use the chopsticks.”

Lin Duanduan: QAQ

Why make things difficult for a little kitty!

She had to change poop-scoopers! She absolutely had to change! But the cat meals Ji Lan made were so delicious… Lin Duanduan fell into deep thought. In the end, she still awkwardly pinched the chopsticks and went to pick up the salmon with great grievance.

Lin Duanduan, who turned her grief and indignation into appetite, ate until the corners of her mouth were covered in oil. Ji Lan sighed helplessly, always feeling that before she had even dated anyone, she had already been promoted into an old mother.

She had no choice but to help Lin Duanduan wipe the oil from the corner of her mouth. “Eat slower.”

By this time, Lin Duanduan had already finished all the salmon on her plate, as well as more than half of the chicken breast. Her eating movements suddenly stopped. She bit the chopsticks and stared blankly at Ji Lan. After a while, she carefully spat out the chopsticks that were covered in saliva, picked up a piece of chicken breast, and held it in front of Ji Lan.

She looked exactly like a mentally challenged child feeding her mother in return. It was practically moving enough to shake heaven and earth.

Ji Lan’s expression became extremely complicated. She had originally been somewhat mysophobic, but after raising Lin Duanduan, she had been forcibly cured day by day. Still, a cat’s saliva…

“Ah Lan, eat.” Lin Duanduan still remembered who her owner was. She also remembered that after Ji Lan had finished cooking, she had barely eaten anything. Although Lin Duanduan was reluctant to part with it, she was still very obedient and fed her owner in return.

“Duanduan, you eat it. I ate something earlier…” After a moment of silence, Ji Lan still refused Lin Duanduan. Before she had even finished speaking, Lin Duanduan had already decisively pulled her hand back and eaten that piece of chicken breast herself.

Ji Lan: …

After dinner, President Ji went to wash the dishes. Lin Duanduan stretched lazily and was about to sneak into the bedroom. Ji Lan seemed to know what she wanted to do and raised her voice. “Duanduan, you’re not allowed on the bed before taking a bath!”

Lin Duanduan: !!

As everyone knew, cats did not like water, and Lin Duanduan was no exception. She was instantly frightened. Her clothes scattered, and a relatively normal-sized orange cat emerged, meowing and yowling as it charged toward the bedroom.

She absolutely did not want to bathe!

Just as she rushed to the bedroom doorway, she slammed on the brakes, because in that instant, Lin Duanduan sensed a special aura. She tilted her head and became a little unhappy.

Ji Lan was her owner.

Ji Lan could make delicious cat meals, brush her fur, and stroke her chin. She was Lin Duanduan’s current favorite two-legged beast. But now, someone wanted to bully her two-legged beast.

The orange cat lowered her body slightly, assuming a hunting posture. The cat’s beautiful round vertical pupils instantly lit up. Her eyes were usually a very beautiful blue, like a vast sky with open clouds, or like a calm, waveless sea.

But at this moment, her vertical pupils faintly shone with a trace of gold. Her sharp little claws extended, flexing slightly. Then, after the thing in front of her discovered her, she pounced swiftly at it.

After Ji Lan finished washing the dishes, she worried that Lin Duanduan would act up again and jump onto the bed without bathing, so she quickly left the kitchen. She took off her apron and draped it on the rack, wiping her hands as she walked toward the bedroom. From a distance, she saw Lin Duanduan’s long tail swaying back and forth. Her head was pressed into a corner, and no one knew what she was doing, but at least she had not gotten onto the bed.

Ji Lan instinctively called out, “Lin Duanduan.”

Lin Duanduan turned her head back with her plump orange-cat face. In that instant, Ji Lan broke down, because she saw what looked like a black thing by Lin Duanduan’s mouth, something like a mouse’s tail.

Immediately afterward, Lin Duanduan made a swallowing motion.

Ji Lan: …

Her scalp went numb. In that instant, her mysophobia made her entire body feel uncomfortable, as if something were crawling across her skin. Ji Lan’s pupils constricted, and in a tone mixed with all sorts of emotions, she said, “Lin Duanduan… did you eat a mouse?”

Lin Duanduan hurriedly shook her head. It wasn’t a mouse! How could it be a mouse?

She obediently meowed and walked toward her poop-scooper, originally intending to claim credit. However, Ji Lan reacted even faster. She swiftly pulled out two sterile gloves, put one on each hand, then hooked her hands under Lin Duanduan’s armpits and lifted her up.

Lin Duanduan: Meow meow meow?

Ji Lan carried Lin Duanduan into the bathroom at lightning speed. Because her movements were too urgent, the bathroom door even made a loud bang when it closed.

The moment Lin Duanduan saw the small bathtub specially prepared for her, all her fur puffed up. She instinctively wanted to run, but Ji Lan grabbed the scruff of fate at the back of her neck. While holding her, Ji Lan filled the bathtub with water.

Lin Duanduan’s cries were incredibly miserable. “Meow meow meow! Meow-ow-ow! Ow ow ow!”

Anyone who did not know better would think Ji Lan was abusing a cat. But as soon as Ji Lan thought of the scene where Lin Duanduan had seemingly eaten a mouse, she felt like she could not breathe. She quickly filled the tub, then picked Lin Duanduan up. “Duanduan! You are not allowed to eat mice! If you don’t take a bath and brush your teeth, then tonight you can only sleep in the cat bed!”

Lin Duanduan: !!

She felt extremely wronged. Clearly… clearly, she had just eliminated a fierce ghost for her poop-scooper. It was bad enough that Ji Lan did not praise her, but she even disliked her!

Even if she did not take a bath, she was still a cute little kitty!

Ji Lan completely ignored her grievance. She reached out and tested the water temperature. After making sure it was just right and would not scald Lin Duanduan, she prepared to put her into the water.

Lin Duanduan truly cried as though someone were abusing a cat. Her soft little paws were still flailing wildly in the air. Just as she was about to be put into the water, Lin Duanduan suddenly realized something. With a whoosh, she changed from a little kitty into a person.

The bathtub Ji Lan had specially prepared for her was not large. When Lin Duanduan changed into human form, Ji Lan could not support her all at once, so she fell into the bathtub.

The tub had originally been seventy percent full, and the water immediately overflowed. Lin Duanduan had a slender figure, so forcing herself into this bathtub was really a bit difficult for her. Her fair legs were flawless, resting over the edge of the bathtub. The water happened to cover her chest, and as the ripples moved, her graceful curves were faintly visible.

Ji Lan was splashed all over with water, but she remained calm. She had not been raising a cat for long, but Lin Duanduan caused so many incidents that Ji Lan had already been completely tempered by her.

If she did not become a little Buddhist about it, she might have already died of anger.

Ji Lan remained unmoved in the face of beauty, and was even quite heartless. “Are you taking a bath, or are you sleeping in the cat bed?”

Lin Duanduan lowered her head and played with the water. Probably because she sensed that Ji Lan, who looked very calm, was actually still a little angry, she became a bit cowardly and pitifully stretched her hand toward Ji Lan.

Ji Lan: …

“Change back first.”

“My fur will get wet!” Lin Duanduan stretched out her hand. “Ah Lan, help me wash.”

Ji Lan lowered her head and happened to see her long legs resting on the edge of the bathtub. Lin Duanduan arched her feet. Her toes were very cute and somehow made people think of a cat’s soft paw pads. Her toenails were also pink and tender, like round little shells.

Ji Lan, who had still been very calm just now, probably imagined the scene of helping this version of Lin Duanduan take a bath. That bit of calm instantly vanished like smoke. “Change back… hurry.”

Lin Duanduan: QAQ

The two of them struggled in the bathroom for at least two hours before the soaking-wet Lin Duanduan cat was finally wrapped in a towel and carried out by Ji Lan.

Ji Lan was very tired. Whether Lin Duanduan struggled or not, she still had to bathe, and the final result was the same either way. How could Lin Duanduan be so good at causing trouble!

Ji Lan was mentally exhausted from all the fuss, while Lin Duanduan had become obedient again. Nestled inside the towel, she meowed in a soft, sweet voice.

Lin Duanduan hated hair dryers and drying machines. Ji Lan also knew that, as a cat demon, she did not get sick that easily. So after every bath, Ji Lan would not quickly blow her dry. She would simply change to a new dry towel and wipe her fur until it was half-dry, then wait for it to dry naturally.

Ji Lan still had work to do that night. She opened her computer and went to work, first putting Lin Duanduan into the blankets. Although Lin Duanduan could turn into a human, to her, she was a cat first and a demon second.

So her original form was the most comfortable. Outside, she could only maintain human form, but once she returned home, she preferred to be a cat. Besides, as a cat, she did not need to wear clothes. It was so comfortable!

Lin Duanduan rolled back and forth under the blankets, unable to sleep. In the end, she quietly ran over to Ji Lan’s side again, jumped onto her lap, and curled herself into a circle there.

Ji Lan instinctively reached out with one hand to stroke her fur, while her other hand continued typing away on the keyboard. Despite how glamorous a big president might look on the surface, behind the scenes, she was actually busier than anyone else. This was very normal. The kind of president who did no serious work all day, whose company existed as nothing more than background scenery, and who only entangled herself with the female lead while casually saying things like “the weather is cold, let the Wang family go bankrupt,” only existed in TV dramas.

Lin Duanduan was very comfortable from being stroked, and a purring sound came from her throat. She narrowed her beautiful eyes and gradually melted into a puddle.

Very soon, she fell asleep on Ji Lan’s lap. Ji Lan only noticed after finishing her work. Afraid of waking Lin Duanduan, she carefully picked up the cat and slowly moved to the bedside. First, she tucked the cat in her arms under the blanket, then changed into her own pajamas and got into bed as well.

Ji Lan circled Lin Duanduan in her arms and fell asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow.

The next morning, when Ji Lan woke up, the cute little kitty in her arms had turned into a completely naked Lin Duanduan. She was wrapped around Ji Lan like an octopus, her arms around Ji Lan’s neck and her legs around Ji Lan’s waist. Their bodies were pressed tightly together, almost suffocatingly close.

Yet Lin Duanduan did not feel that there was any problem at all. She let out a small yawn, rubbed her head against Ji Lan’s chest, and her half-asleep eyes looked as if they were covered in a layer of mist. Those cat-like eyes that always seemed so charming lifted lazily.

“Ah Lan, I want sweet shrimp!”