Chapter 15 of 93

Chapter 15

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Young People

The leopard cat bad guy had been left behind. Li Tong and her best friend carefully sat at the low table. Luckily they were early, the cat cafe had just opened and there were only a few people there, otherwise, the good seats with cats would have been taken long ago.

The cat cafe had just opened at this hour, Sponge Cake wasn’t awake when Bao Jin dug him out of bed. He was young after all, and always didn’t get enough sleep, so when he came to the cat cafe he couldn’t hold on and fell asleep on the table.

Of course, Pei Shiyi was reluctant to call him. Anyways, the fluff’s just had to stay in the cat cafe during work hours and didn’t need to be awake all the time.

Sponge Cake, who just woke up, had tears in his eyes and yawned as he withdrew his paw, pressing it to his mouth. Standing up in a daze, he was a little confused by the situation.

Li Tong’s trembling right hand landed gently on Sponge Cake’s tail. Sponge Cake cocked his head to look at his tail. The girl’s hand was slender and soft, resting on his tail, not daring to put force.

The golden British shorthair’s coat was short and dense and unlike the longhaired cat’s soft and fluffy coat, it felt real to the touch.

Sponge Cake moved his tail and rested it softly on the back of Li Tong’s hand. “Mi.”

Oh right, I’m at work right now.

Sponge Cake rubbed against Li Tong’s arm, stepped gently a few times and called twice at Li Tong’s best friend to keep the other girl’s attention on him.

It’s still business as usual during working hours.

The dedicated Sponge Cake shook his fur in place and allowed the girls to pet him.

Li Tong’s heart was about to melt, but not long after, her eyes were drawn to another snowy white fluff ball- only to see a white cat of amazing size jumping down from the climbing frame. It was such a big one, yet it landed extremely lightly. The long flowing fur was like a falling cloud, truly illustrating the word “immaculate”.

The white cat walked past a bunch of low tables, a man tried to pet the white cat, but it twisted its head to avoid him and flapped its tail impatiently, without even moving its eyes.

The man showed a disappointed expression.

Her best friend whispered, “The beauty’s temper is pretty bad.”

Li Tong also whispered, “But it’s really beautiful, like a fairy.”

The bad-tempered beauty was too good looking, even if she was cold and indifferent, she still tickled their hearts. When the white cat came over, Li Tong just couldn’t resist extending her hand.

She was even prepared to be scratched, but she didn’t expect the white cat to stop in its tracks and glance up at her.

The different coloured pupils showed lines like ice cracks, like a vast sea of stars, almost capturing people. The white cat slowly turned around and slowly walked towards Li Tong.

Li Tong, “!!!”

When her fingers touched the satin-like fur, Li Tong smiled.

This cat cafe was not as bad as her best friend said, she thinks it’s the best she’s ever been to.

The kitties are so sweet.

That night, Li Tong returned home dizzy with dozens of photos and not only followed Xian Chan’s account but also left a message under the video:

Li Dudu: Ahhhhhhhh I went to the cat cafe! As soon as we walked in, we met the shop manager and he found us a seat, he’s a genius. We went there for Copper Coin at first, but the leopard cat was really lively, leaping all the time and sniffing the drinks and cakes we ordered! Yun Chao is very big and has a strong aura. I was afraid of being scratched by her at first but she turned out to be quite good-tempered.

Underneath the video, there were a handful of comments like this latest one, with all those who had experienced the cat café first-hand giving positive reviews in the comments, which felt more like a pyramid scheme than anything1. Some of them even published articles on the J site, showing pictures of themselves taken at the Cat Café: the food that makes your fingers tingle and the plushness that you can’t forget at first glance.

Many of these were comments left by students from Yu Chuan University. They themselves were J Station users who had found the video on their homepage and were surprised to find that their favourite cat cafe actually had an official account on the video site they liked to hang out on. With a feeling of the fact they will never meet in life, they ran to the bottom of the video and left a comment, showing off a tragic 360-degree, deathless flair for those who couldn’t come to the cat cafe in person from a distance.

The muffin was like a little adult, but very cute. Like Egg Yolk, he will entertain guests and felt almost as good as a baked cake.

Fondant was the little princess! Do you know how sweet and pampered she is?!

The netizens who couldn’t go in any shape or form: wu wu wu, we don’t know.

Such unanimous praise, and also in a sincere way not like a water army, scratched the hearts of many netizens who originally did not intend to go to the cat cafe- i-it’s so good looking, why not wait for some time and ask someone to go together to have a look?

Just take a look, it may be a bit expensive, but isn’t that what money is for.

Even Xiao Zhou, who knew the power of the internet, could not have imagined that such a video would bring in new customers for the cat cafe, not many but a few every now and then.

Online publicity was cheap and effective, but also rarely this effective. This after all was not a movie or goods that could be bought online, but a non-chain physical store. Even if the netizens were in the same city, they may not actually move, let alone those far away.

Xiao Zhou was also surprised to have this almost immediate effect.

With a good start, the account should be operated more carefully. Xiao Zhou had been doing self media for several years and knew very well what such a good start meant. Maybe in less than a year, the account could bring considerable income for the cat cafe.

Zhou Yan closed the comment section and planned to go to Pei Shiyi to discuss making a video introducing the cat café and placing it on J Station as well as other websites to open up awareness for cat café.

……

“Hello, is this Boss Pei?”

When Pei Shiyi picked up the phone, the voice of Kong Fanyang, the designer of the cat cafe, came from the other end of the phone.

Pei Shiyi gave Zhou Yan an apologetic smile and gestured for him to wait for a while. Zhou Yan nodded understandingly and waited for him to finish his call.

“I am Boss Pei.”

Kong Fanyang, “Boss, didn’t I say earlier that I had participated in a theme design competition? Our cat cafe has passed the preliminary selection, and the day after tomorrow at two o’clock in the afternoon there will be a team of judges coming over to take photos and do an inspection. It will not affect the normal operation of the shop.”

Pei Shiyi had almost forgotten about this, and was a bit surprised when he first heard him. “Is it that strict? They even have to come on site and do an inspection?”

Kong Fanyang laughed, “It’s not really that rigorous, it’s just a small event organised to get attention. Otherwise we won’t be able to make it past the preliminary selection just with photos.”

It’s true that it was just a small event on the internet, not a formal design competition. Rather than a designer competition, it was a decorating beauty pageant. If it was a store, it could also give them a little publicity, and the crew makes a bit of advertising money in between, so all’s well that ends well.

With a certain level of interest and generous prizes, it was an event that many designers and shop owners were happy to participate in, an offline store pyramid scheme in disguise.

Kong Fanyang said, “We will come and record some footage then, which will be cut into a video to be broadcast on the show, which will also give the cat cafe a boost and the top three will all get prizes. There’s no need to prepare anything in advance, just a little bit of cleaning up is fine.”

Pei Shiyi indicated that be understood and curiously said, “Which website will the show be broadcast on? I’d like to pay attention to it.”

Kong Fanyang said, “The rights were bought by J Station, the name of the show is ‘Small World’, you can see it by searching directly on J Station.”

This was quite a coincidence. Pei Shiyi thanked Kong Fanyang and hung up the phone to tell Zhou Yan the news.

Zhou Yan said, “I’ve heard of this documentary! The official is very good at playing stunts, and there’s quite an audience for it on J Station!” He reeled in his excitement. “We’ll shoot the video first, and it won’t be long before the video from ‘Small World’ is released, so then it’ll just be free publicity for us!”

Zhou Yan was like a jar of chicken blood, ready to make a high quality video.

Pei Shiyi patted his shoulder, “Go for it, I believe our account will become a rising star in J station, let’s be the most popular cat cafe in Yu Chuan together!”

Zhou Yan, in the heat of the moment, cheered and ran to get his camera and took a shots of Fondant who was chasing a ball, scaring Fondant into thinking he was possessed by a ghost and hiding behind Yun Chao.

Fondant grabbed Yun Chao and urgently called out, “Meow meow meowuuu-”

The two-legged beast is possessed!

Yun Chao blocked Fondant and with a swing blocked the camera, her paws patted the carpet impatiently, signalling that Zhou Yan should go away.

Zhou Yan braked sharply to stop narrowly in front of Yun Chao, nodded and said, “Good evening, boss. Take care of your rest, boss. Goodbye boss.”

This boss was not the shop manager, but in the shop was notoriously bad-tempered and had a serious preference for women over men. If he dared to come any closer, he will definitely be smacked by the big hairy tail.

Pei Shiyi watched the excitement, picked up his cup of tea and took a sip, lamenting, “Ah, young people.”

Unedited

This part mentions Amway, which is a multi-level marketing company, and upon further research, it seems that they use Amway as a pseudonym for a pyramid scheme.

Hello there! Just a quick note that you probably shouldn’t enter aircon right away after you’ve been in the sun for a long time or after exercise as you can get a cold from the instant change in temperature!

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