The Best Actress Is a Cat - Chapter 4

Tang Lili’s scream echoed throughout the entire set. The decorative lamp above her head had suddenly crashed down. She was lucky enough not to be directly hit, but the shattered glass still cut across her cheek.

It did not sound like a very serious injury, but the decorative lamp had smashed to pieces right by her feet, sending out many shards of glass. One of them left a rather deep wound on her face, along with countless shallow cuts.

As for the other parts of her body, because they were covered by her clothes, they were not scratched.

But Tang Lili stood there with blood all over her face, looking both wretched and pitiful.

The second female lead had originally been very close to Tang Lili. If Lin Duanduan had not pulled her away, her fate probably would not have been much better than Tang Lili’s. For a female actress, her face was truly important.

After the second female lead came back to her senses, she quickly thanked her. “Thank you, Duanduan!”

Lin Duanduan whispered, “Just give me tomorrow’s chicken drumstick.”

Actually, if she wanted to save Tang Lili, she could have. But Lin Duanduan was a very petty little cat. Every single eye roll Tang Lili had given her was deeply recorded in her heart. She would not take the initiative to save her.

The director reacted quite quickly. He hurriedly called people over and had Tang Lili sent to the hospital. The deepest wound on her face could not be considered light, and it was still bleeding nonstop. She had to be sent off quickly to stop the bleeding.

After the fright passed, Tang Lili had been crying the whole time, crying in a very broken-down way. After all, her face had been injured, and recovering from it would take some time. It might affect quite a few things.

For example, the variety shows she had already been confirmed to appear on.

She was currently popular, and there were many appearances she had to rush to.

Even putting those aside, this drama was not even halfway done filming yet.

Of course, her collapse might not have been only because of these things, but no one explored the deeper reason.

The director quickly had her sent to the hospital. Originally, they could eat after finishing this scene, but now that something like this had happened, the morning shoot naturally ended early.

Many people were discussing what had just happened. Only Lin Duanduan had eyes solely for the boxed lunches.

Her favorite food was fish, and second only to fish was chicken.

Chicken seemed delicious no matter how it was cooked. Stewed into chicken soup, it was rich and fresh. Made into spicy diced chicken, it was numbing, spicy, fragrant, and savory. Small snacks like popcorn chicken were Lin Duanduan’s absolute favorites. Of course, there were also the several ways her poop-scooper was very good at preparing chicken breast.

So chicken drumsticks were naturally no exception.

Lin Duanduan obediently sat on a small stool, waiting for her own boxed lunch. There were two chicken drumsticks today too! To Lin Duanduan, this was an extremely happy thing.

Not to mention, the second female lead really did pick the chicken drumstick out of her own boxed lunch and hand it to her.

Today, she could eat three chicken drumsticks in one go! Oh my god, what kind of immortal day was this!

Although Lin Duanduan was now being kept by a rich woman, she still cherished every portion of food. When she was very young, she had spent some time as a stray cat. A cat without a poop-scooper was very pitiful. There was no home to shelter her from wind and rain, no stable three meals a day, and wanting to have chicken drumsticks for all three meals was practically like dreaming.

The more miserable and pitiful the past had been, the more she had to cherish the present.

Lin Duanduan happily finished her share and quietly waited for work to resume in the afternoon. Although the female lead had been injured and hospitalized, filming would not stop, because wasted time was money.

With the female lead absent, they could first film some scenes involving other people and finish those scattered scenes before anything else.

Many of Lin Duanduan’s scenes were related to the female lead, so she was hardly called at all that afternoon. She happily played games the whole afternoon until the director said, “That’s it, that’s it. You can go home.”

Then she happily went home.

Today, the little cat was especially persistent. In the morning, she had really wanted to eat sweet shrimp, and that desire lasted all the way until night.

But at the same time, she was also not persistent. After taking the bus once in the morning, she lost interest in buses again. In the afternoon, she urged the driver to come pick her up. The driver could only change route temporarily and come over to get Lin Duanduan.

The car stopped by the roadside. Lin Duanduan opened the door and discovered that Ji Lan was also sitting inside the car. Ji Lan was holding a tablet and seemed to be talking to someone. A little cat would not care about that. She cried out and pounced over, her voice carrying a bit of a cat’s unique arrogance and softness. “Ah Lan, Ah Lan! Did you buy sweet shrimp?”

“Of course I did.” Ji Lan instinctively reached out with one hand to steady Lin Duanduan. The tablet in her hand was nearly knocked crooked by her. Helplessly, she said, “Slow down.”

“Okay.” Since there was sweet shrimp to eat, Lin Duanduan’s temper became very good. She practically stuck herself to Ji Lan and kept urging the driver, “Faster, drive faster, Uncle Driver.”

She wanted to go back early and eat sweet shrimp!

It was currently summer. Around July happened to be the season when Arctic sweet shrimp laid eggs. Arctic sweet shrimp tasted best at this time!

The meat of this cold-water shrimp was especially tender. Whether fried or boiled in hot pot, Lin Duanduan loved it very much.

Ji Lan straightened the tablet in her hand and continued giving orders. The company employees on the other side were all stunned. They had never seen Ji Lan like this before. Also… who was that woman who had flashed past the screen and thrown herself onto President Ji to act spoiled?

A group of people’s gossiping souls burned fiercely. They wished they could stretch their heads through the screen and carefully observe Lin Duanduan.

Unfortunately, Lin Duanduan never appeared in the camera again. She was lying on Ji Lan’s lap, stretching out her little paws to hook Ji Lan’s hair and play with it. Her attention had already been completely attracted by Ji Lan’s hair.

Before they even arrived home, Ji Lan closed the tablet, conveniently shutting away those people’s curiosity as well.

The two of them got out of the car. Lin Duanduan followed Ji Lan like a little tail. Ji Lan opened the door ahead of her. Once the door was open, Lin Duanduan slipped inside first, and Ji Lan followed right after.

“Ah Lan, go make dinner! I’ll close the door!”

Lin Duanduan was extremely attentive.

Ji Lan could not help smiling faintly, then went toward the kitchen. Lin Duanduan did not immediately close the door. She turned her head and looked at the blood-colored sunset, revealing a smile. Yet her eyes carried a touch of a beast’s unique innocence and cruelty.

“You’re not allowed to come in, okay? Otherwise, I’ll eat you.”

Outside the door, it was clearly empty, with nothing there at all. Yet a sudden gust of wind rose, even sweeping up a few leaves, as though some invisible thing was fleeing in a sorry state.

Only then did she heavily shut the door and enter the house. She began checking around everywhere to see whether anything that should not have come in had entered the house while she had been away all day.

Sigh. The little cat was protecting her delicate poop-scooper again today.

For some reason, Ji Lan seemed very prone to attracting those kinds of things. Almost every day when she came home, there would be some ghosts following behind her.

Lin Duanduan would become unhappy. This two-legged beast was now someone she was raising. That meant she belonged to her. Where did those lonely wandering ghosts outside get the courage to covet the human she raised?

But most things like ghosts did not taste good. Their texture was very dry and tough, like meat that had been overcooked. Some were also bitter, and some were astringent. They were not very easy to digest.

Back when Lin Duanduan had been a poor little cat, she would find some ghosts to eat when she was hungry. But now, she was a little cat who had sweet shrimp to eat! She did not want to eat any damned ghostly thing!

At this point, she absolutely had to complain. The ghost she ate yesterday had tasted so strange, like moldy sweet potato. She had swallowed it with great difficulty.

Sure enough, it was easy for cats to go from frugality to luxury, but hard to go from luxury back to frugality.

After Lin Duanduan scared away the lonely wandering ghosts outside and returned to the room, her poop-scooper had already taken out the sweet shrimp to thaw.

“How do you want to eat them?”

“Hot pot! Hot pot! Hot pot!”

Lin Duanduan loved eating hot pot very much! Especially spicy hot pot! But her poop-scooper always refused to let her eat it, probably because she thought cats could not eat spicy things, so it was best to eat as little of it as possible. But… she was clearly a cat demon!

Why did a cat demon have to avoid spicy food like an ordinary cat? She clearly could eat it!

But Ji Lan seemed completely unwilling to believe her on matters like this. She would only occasionally let her eat it once, and even then, it could only be mildly spicy.

Just thinking about it made Lin Duanduan want to cry cat tears. She had decided that after this drama finished filming, the first thing she would do would be to take her pay and go eat a super delicious, super spicy hot pot meal!

Lin Duanduan had originally thought her poop-scooper would refuse her. After all, Ji Lan had already refused her several times before.

Unexpectedly, Ji Lan actually nodded. “It just so happens that I bought hot pot base today.”

Lin Duanduan was immediately shocked. Oh my god! Could her poop-scooper have been possessed by something dirty? She even deliberately leaned closer and sniffed around Ji Lan’s neck, wanting to smell if anything was wrong.

Ji Lan glanced at her. “What are you doing?”

“I think you’re very strange today.” Lin Duanduan narrowed her beautiful cat-like eyes and said with complete certainty, “You haven’t been possessed by something dirty, have you?”

“Then there won’t be hot pot tonight.”

Lin Duanduan: !!

Are you a devil?!

Of course, Ji Lan was only scaring her. They still ate hot pot that night. Fresh vegetables were washed clean and arranged on white porcelain plates.

All of Lin Duanduan’s favorite things were there.

Chicken, fish, crab sticks, lotus root slices, potato slices, and baby napa cabbage.

There was also very thinly sliced beef, enoki mushrooms, and ingredients like assorted five-blessing slices.

Among them, there were relatively more vegetables. Although she was a picky little cat who usually hated eating vegetables, once many vegetables were placed into hot pot, Lin Duanduan felt that they had already transformed into another species.

They became delicious.

Especially baby napa cabbage.

Normally, she would not even touch it. But when eating hot pot, she especially liked adding baby napa cabbage at the end. Maybe it was because baby napa cabbage absorbed spice well, and after being cooked soft, it carried a unique fresh sweetness.

Lin Duanduan could eat a whole large plate all by herself!