Chapter 2 of 93

Chapter 2

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The sun broke through the clouds. The morning sun shone through the glass window and spilled into the coffee shop.

Pei Shiyi curled his two folded legs to avoid the sunlight. “What about a loan?”

This was a way most relevant to modern society that he could think of.

After he reminded him, Egg Yolk’s eyes lit up. “Boss! We can apply for a financial subsidy! Last month there was a non-human self-employment incentive activity, the host department is the non-authority. Participating in that activity can let us receive subsidies and loans, the procedure is much simpler than going through the bank. Oh yeah, and poverty alleviation! Poor demons can receive it!”

The Abnormal Management Bureau, full name Abnormal Phenomenon Management Bureau, Responsible for non-human beings and all events that can not be explained by science, usually also responsible for communication with the human government, could be said to be the boss of all demons and monsters.

Feng Huang told him about this point more than a dozen times before leaving, so Pei Shiyi had some understanding of the Abnormal Management Bureau.

Pei Shiyi’s favourability towards the AMB immediately rose to the max. He installed the AMB app under the guidance of Egg Yolk, found the entrepreneurial incentive activities and clicked on it.

The activity, which started last year, was aimed at non-humans who started their own businesses, with a range of support initiatives underneath: loans, subsidies and even entrepreneurial guidance.

If Pei Shiyi could apply for this subsidy, then the cat cafe will at least be much more relaxed in terms of funding.

Pei Shiyi read the instructions on the webpage at a glance, made sure he met the situation and signed up for the incentive activity. After filling out two forms, a dialogue window popped up.

“Hello, your application has been successfully submitted and will be reviewed within two hours.”

Now that the application had been submitted, the opening of the cat cafe was considered a certainty. If Pei Shiyi were to regret it just now, it would already be too late. Pei Shiyi calculated the three elements of the cat cafe: cats, desserts and mood.

Renovation can fix the mood, designers and pastry chefs could be found online, so the question was: what about cats?

Pei Shiyi had never visited other cat cafes, but if the spirit of relaxation and indulging in the sniffing of cats was a selling point, the cats in the cat cafe at least shouldn’t be too timid and couldn’t be too young.

From Pei Shiyi’s point of view, the two kittens in the store were too young. They just learnt to walk and their bodies weren’t that good, not suitable for work at all.

The cats that the cat cafe needed: beautiful with a good personality, they also needed to be adult cats. Where could he find so many cats that met this requirement in such a short amount of time?

Pei Shiyi said with a headache, “Cat’s aren’t easy to find.”

Egg Yolk cautiously said, “Actually, I have a friend… I can try sending her a message to see if she is willing to come over. But boss, that friend of mine is rather aloof, not the type to be clingy and coquettish, but they have a good temper and doesn’t reject humans.”

Pei Shiyi said, “How about you ask them first, meals and housing are provided, salary is hard to determine. The only thing I can additionally provide is cultivation guidance.”

Egg Yolk froze, then excitedly said, “Then she will definitely be willing to come!”

He didn’t exactly know what Pei Shiyi was, but from the fact that the other party was able to maintain a stable human form, his cultivation must be stronger than a small demon like himself, who could not even transform. Also, there were too few big demons that were willing to teach small demons. Big demons either focus on their own children and descendants or are alone. Most of the small demons like Egg Yolk fumble and practice haphazardly.

If the boss used cultivation practice as the cat cafe’s welfare, even if the salary, food and accommodation weren’t included, there would be countless small demons stepping through the threshold of their home.

Egg Yolk treaded his paws, his excitement was uncontrollable.

“By the way,” Pei Shiyi asked, “What kind of cat is your friend?”

Egg Yolk said, “A Linqing Lion Cat, a girl called Yun Chao.”

The lion cat was a valuable cat breed that used to live in rich households in ancient times. Nowadays, when all kinds of foreign cat species are popular, the popularity of lion cats is far less than that of American and British Shorthairs and even less famous than the Ragdoll, which was famous for its looks and known as the “walking money”.

But in fact, the lion cat’s beauty was by no means inferior to that of the Ragdoll and that big fluffy collar was even more desirable. The most valuable pure white, gold and silver-eyed lion cat was even more beautiful. Egg Yolk’s friend was a snow-white fur, yellow and blue-eyed lion cat.

Egg Yolk sat up and raised both front paws and gestured, “Boss, although Yun Chao is aloof, she’s very pretty! She’s this big! It’s all fur and her fur collar is this big and her almost eyes are like a mandarin ducks! She will be enough if you put her here! No one could resist such a stunningly beautiful cat.”

Of course, Pei Shiyi had seen a lion cat before, he had raised one before and knew how beautiful this cat was. When it sat up, it looked like it was from a painting. When it lies down on a sofa in a pile of pillows and blankets, most people would choose to climb up and spend some quality time with the cat.

Pei Shiyi imagined that scene and said, “No one can resist beautiful creatures.”

He slightly smiled and leaned over to rub Egg Yolk’s protruding belly. “However, our Store Manager Egg Yolk is also very attractive.”

This feeling was truly amazing.

Pei Shiyi twiddled his fingers. Egg Yolks thick fat was very charming. He now had a good understanding of the popular cat-sucking culture, but he also probably understand the kind of atmosphere customers would want to feel most when they come to the coffee shop.

Egg Yolk puffed up his chest, rubbed his chin against Pei Shiyi’s hand, quite proud, and then cocked his tail and went to call Yunchao.

At this time, the application submitted by Pei Shiyi also passed, and the other party called through the cell phone number he left.

“Hello, is this Mr Pei, Pei Shiyi?”

A particularly soft female voice came from the other end of the phone.

Pei Shiyi said, “Yes, is this the AMB?”

The other party said, “Here’s the thing, your application has been approved by us, but will you have time to come to our bureau within the next three days to go through formalities? We will also verify your condition, If there is no mistake, our assistance will be in place as soon as possible.”

Pei Shiyi, “Okay, I can go tomorrow.”

“Alright, the AMB is at your service between 8 am and 6 pm. Please bring a printout of your application to office 7 on the 66th floor at the AMB tomorrow to go through the formalities.”

Pei Shiyi hung up and Egg Yolk also came over with the phone, so excited that the flesh on his stomach was shaking. “Boss, Yun Chao agreed, she said she could arrive the day after tomorrow.”

In this way, the cat cafe now had two cats. If he can’t recruit enough cats, for the time being, he could just open the first floor and use the second floor as a rest area.

Pei Shiyi said, “It’s going well. They just replied to our application and should be able to verify our situation within a few days, the funds should be able to be approved. As for what will happen after we open… it shouldn’t be too bad.”

Egg Yolk held his tail high and touted, “It definitely won’t be bad! With you, boss, we won’t have much pressure to advertise! If you and Yun Chao stand at the door, we will definitely get a lot of customers!”

He was really excited. This broken and small cat cafe had been his place of survival, but unfortunately, the business of the cat cafe wasn’t very good and was struggling to make ends meet. Now with a new boss, everything seemed to have changed for the better.

Pei Shiyi said, restrained, “It won’t be that exaggerated… I’m not a peacock, I can’t stand in front of the store and show off… I have to leave a way out for other stores.” Although he was related to the peacock, he still couldn’t show off.

Pei Shiyi was tall and slender, his body shape looked thin. Such a person was undoubtedly a little sick and weak, but this weakness was not visible in his appearance. On the contrary, he was born with straight brows and phoenix eyes. The whole person had vitality as if he was struggling out of infinity from the depths of his bones and blood.*

Pleasing to the eye, this kind of enthusiasm of unbridled growth made people feel refreshed and happy just seeing him.

Even if Egg Yolk judged him with the aesthetics of a cat, the other party’s appearance was impeccable.

In this society where there are those who have a low resistance to good looking people*, with such a face, he already won at the starting line!

……

The next day, Pei Shiyi took the subway to the AMB

The Bureau had branches all over the world, but the main office happened to be in Yu Chuan City, only one stop away from the cat cafe. The main office was hidden in an office building that looked like an ordinary twelve-story building with the name “Zhangwei Group” written on the front door. Only non-humans could see a line of small golden letters from underneath Zhangwei Group, it was the “Abnormal Phenomenon Management Bureau”.

The whole building was enveloped by a formation and the interior must be hiding another dimension. Just standing outside the gate, you could feel the faintly amounts of heavy aura in the building that carried a subtle water aura.

Pei Shiyi’s gaze fell on the name of the group at the gate- Zhangwei, the far north where the candle dragon lived.

He raised his eyebrows slightly and guessed what the real identity of the AMB probably was.

Pei Shiyi stood at the door for a while, ready to go in, when the sound of steady footsteps came from behind him. He turned around, only to see a tall man walking in with his back to the light in the morning sun. His eyes were slightly drooping and he didn’t look at the road at all. He walked straight to the elevator, took out a card and swiped it. The display board in front of the elevator was slightly lit, showing that the elevator was slowly descending.

His features were impeccably handsome and his expression was incomprehensibly misanthropic.

Out of the appreciation of beautiful things (face)1, Pei Shiyi recalled the other person’s expression- mournful and decadent, giving a pillow could make him hibernate in place. But the good thing was that he had good skin, his decadence was also pleasing to the eye.**

The other party felt his gaze and raised his gaze to look at Pei Shiyi when he walked into the elevator. Probably because Pei Shiyi’s gaze was too present, he looked at Pei Shiyi again before the elevator closed.

Pei Shiyi knocked his forehead, remembered that he was here to do business, took his documents and went to the front desk.

The two girls at the reception desk kept their heads down from the time the man came in, and only when Pei Shiyi walked up to them did they hastily put up a sweet smile. “Hello, this is the Zhangwei Group, can I help you?”

Judging from the actions of the man who just swiped his card, not just anyone could enter the elevator, they must pass the authentication.

The receptionist hurriedly said, “This is your first time here, right? Please give me your ID card, and you can enter from the elevator after verification.”

Pei Shiyi handed out his ID card.

The receptionist took the ID card, put it on the card-punching machine-like instrument, and after tapping a few buttons, returned the ID card to Pei Shiyi. “Swipe your card in front of the elevator and press the floor button directly after entering the elevator.”

Pei Shiyi did not expect that the realm of the immortals, demons and ghosts would also use high technology. Under the novelty, he looked at the card punching machine several times, and only then walked towards the elevator.

As soon as he entered the elevator and raised his head, the slogan “Realise the harmonious coexistence of humans and non-humans, and create a better society” was posted directly above in red letters on a white background.

Pei Shiyi, “…”

From the outside, Zhangwei Group only had twelve floors. After swiping the card to enter the elevator, the row of buttons went from one to sixty-six.

The floor Pei Shiyi needed to go to was the top floor and there were no “people” in the corridor. All the open offies were emitting a variety of auras, demons, monsters, jiangshi, monks and everything. The closed-door was closed because of the barrier on the door, so the aura would not leak.

Pei Shiyi frowned.

He hurriedly found office 7 and knocked on the door to enter. He was slightly stunned after entering -the man he had seen in the hall was also in the office, with a wilting strange animal by his side.

The foreign beast resembled a leopard, its facial features looked somewhat like a human, but it had a pair of cow-like ears, brilliant gold fur covered in rose patterns, extremely long tail, coiled several times around its body, two eyes, one closed, one open, and from a distance, it seemed to only have one.

This was a Zhu Qian, a powerful beast and good at archery. When Pei Shiyi was young, there were big demons around him who were kept as pets. When he had nothing to do, he liked to pinch the Zhu Qian’s tail and touch it vigorously.

It’s similar to raising cats in the modern era, but the Zhu Qian was much more ferocious than a cat.

And the man was saying something to a young man with glasses behind another desk.

Pei Shiyi took a glance and withdrew his gaze, taking his printed application to the desk where the “Business Incentive Working Group” sign was placed.

“Sorry to interrupt, I’m Pei Shiyi. I applied for the startup incentive yesterday.”

The Long Que was watching the confrontation between their boss and the head of the poverty alleviation group. Suddenly, they heard an extraordinarily clear voice and when they turned their head to see the person, their eyes immediately lit up. The other party not only had a handsome appearance but also very amiable.

The Long Que softly said, “Hello, I am a Long Que. I have already read the application you submitted. You are opening a cat cafe and are having problems with your capital turnover, right?”

Pei Shiyi said, “Actually, there is also a bit of a problem in the recruitment of employees.”

Long Que said, “Shortage of manpower?”

Pei Shiyi, “We’re still lacking cats.”

The Long Que was stunned. “…A lack of cats?”

Pei Shiyi nodded. “The cats already in the cat cafe all can cultivate. If I take in other cats, I also hope that they can be a kitten that has gained spiritual awareness, otherwise, it needs to be taken care of separately in the daily operation and it will be quite troublesome.”

This was what he was thinking about last night. Egg Yolk and Yun Chao are both cat demons and for now, it was more appropriate to recruit other cat demons.

The Long Que slapped his thigh, “That’s good! You can also help us solve the problem of difficult employment for untransformed demons!”

“What a coincidence, our poverty alleviation group next door has a cat right now! Just now our boss was still discussing where that cat is going with the group leader, this is good. We’ll simply give it to you.”

The Long Que reached out and pointed.

Pei Shiyi followed and look over. The Long Que was actually referring to the Zhu Qian lying on the ground!

The Zhu Qian with a human face and leopard body, “??”

How could he say that he was a cat just because he looked like a leopard?

Pei Shiyi propped his chin with one hadn, walked around the Zhu Qian with interest, feeling that the Long Que’s proposal was wonderful.

The head of the poverty alleviation group held the frame of his glasses and said approvingly, “It’s actually a very good idea, don’t you think so Director?”

The man’s eyes moved slightly, not looking at Zhu Qian. Instead, his gaze fell on Pei Shiyi. Probably because of sleepiness, his gaze was light and wightless, as if he could at any time drift to a corner. “Not for the time being.”

Pei Shiyi was stunned.

The Long Que blurted out, “Why not, boss?”

The man stepped closer to Pei Shiyi. He was slightly taller than Pei Shiyi, his eyes drooped slightly, but his eyes were calm and not contemptuous.

Pei Shiyi is not used to being so close to a person and subconsciously leaned back a bit.

Instead, the man leaned down slightly and sniffed at the nape of Pei Shiyi’s neck, followed by lifting his eyes and saying coldly, “All non-humans with enough cultivation to cause serious damage have to register with the bureau, but I don’t remember an aura like yours.”

Pei Shiyi had a lot of goosebumps after being sniffed by him, lowered his voice, gritted his teeth and said, “Sorry for being disrespectful, I didn’t know your bureau director was actually related to dogs.”

For the winged clan, intertwining necks was one of the most intimate positions.

Unfortunately, Pei Shiyi’s original body was one with long feathers and could fly.

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This is a Lion cat, aka Linqing Lion cat

This is a Zhu Qian

There isn’t an image I could find for a Long Que, but it is similar to a phoenix, but less beautiful.

*整个人有仿佛从骨血深处挣扎出无限的生机- this is what it said in chinese, but i am not quite sure what it means. If you have a better translation, please tell me!

**给个枕头就能原地冬眠过去。不过好在有一副好皮囊，颓丧也赏心悦目。- please help me for this as well!

颜狗- means someone who has low resistance to those with beautiful faces.

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