Chapter 191 Qiaoqiao and "Marshmallow"
When she opened the door, Yu Qiaoqiao discovered that Chen Yan was "fighting" with a cat in the living room.
The cat was quite large, with soft fur and snow-white body, except for its head and ears which were grey. At this moment, it was stretching out its two paws, fiddling with Chen Yan's hand which was reaching out to it.
After pushing Chen Yan's hand away, she glared at Chen Yan fiercely and then turned away.
As a result... Chen Yan did not let it go, and reached out to pull its big tail.
The cat meowed again, turned around and started to fiddle with Chen Yan's hand.
It looked like they had repeated this action more than once. But Chen Yan had a smile on his face that showed he never got tired of it.
Yu Qiaoqiao looked at the cat on the sofa, then looked at Chen Yan. She put down her bag and asked curiously, "Chen Yan, is this your cat?"
Hearing Yu Qiaoqiao's voice, Chen Yan realized belatedly that Yu Qiaoqiao had returned home.
He looked towards the door and said to Yu Qiaoqiao with a smile, "This is not my meow. It's yours."
Yu Qiaoqiao, who was changing her shoes, looked up in surprise, "Mine?"
Chen Yan nodded and said, "Didn't you say before that you like cats? So, today, your sister Manman and I went to the pet store and chose this cat for you."
"How is it? Do you like it?"
Hearing Chen Yan say this, Yu Qiaoqiao covered her mouth in surprise for a moment, then she looked at the beautiful cat on the sofa with surprise and nodded repeatedly, "I like it! I like it so much!"
"Thank you! Chen Yan!"
After saying that, she quickly changed into slippers and trotted to the sofa.
Yu Qiaoqiao ran to the sofa, perhaps afraid of disturbing the cat, so she slowed down her pace. Then she slowly came to the cat, squatted down, and looked at it happily with her big eyes.
Marshmallow seemed to have sensed Yu Qiaoqiao's gaze. It raised its eyes and looked at her coldly with its star-like eyes, then yawned and lay down again.
Chen Yan looked at Yu Qiaoqiao with a bit of worry, fearing that Yu Qiaoqiao could not accept Marshmallow's cold personality.
But Yu Qiaoqiao seemed not to notice this. Her eyes were shining with excitement and her little hands were eagerly reaching out to touch the marshmallow.
After being hesitant for a while, Yu Qiaoqiao looked at Chen Yan pitifully and asked, "Can I touch it?"
Chen Yan nodded, "Okay. It's very well behaved."
Chen Yan didn't lie. Although Marshmallow was aloof, he was indeed very obedient. If Chen Yan hadn't been naughty and always pulled its tail, it wouldn't have been "aggressive" to Chen Yan.
After getting Chen Yan's affirmation, Yu Qiaoqiao quickly reached out and gently touched Marshmallow's body.
Perhaps because she was afraid of melting the marshmallow, Yu Qiaoqiao moved it so gently that it looked like she was just brushing it.
But after touching it, she felt like she had received the best gift in the world. She looked at the marshmallow with shining eyes and exclaimed softly, "Oh my God. It's so beautiful..."
Finally, after gently brushing it several times, Yu Qiaoqiao finally became bolder. She gently placed her hand on Marshmallow's head and touched its fur.
Marshmallow felt Yu Qiaoqiao's caress, opened his eyes, looked at Yu Qiaoqiao with his blue eyes, called out "meow~", shook his head, avoided Yu Qiaoqiao's hand, and lay down again.
Yu Qiaoqiao turned her head pitifully and looked at Chen Yan.
Chen Yan, who had experienced this countless times, smiled and said, "It's okay. It's just like that."
Yu Qiaoqiao got affirmation, and then she was able to carefully roll up the marshmallow again.
Maybe because Yu Qiaoqiao had petted him too much, Marshmallow raised his eyes to look at Yu Qiaoqiao, his eyes as bright as stars met hers, and he gave a cold "meow~".
Yu Qiaoqiao looked at it pitifully with her big eyes.
Marshmallow stared at her.
After a moment, it lowered its eyes, then lowered its head and gently licked Yu Qiaoqiao's hand.
Yu Qiaoqiao's eyes widened, and she looked at Chen Yan with surprise, and said in surprise, "Chen Yan! Chen Yan! It likes me!"
Chen Yan also looked at this scene with a little surprise.
This cat... actually showed goodwill to Qiaoqiao?
Will it surrender if I stroke it a few more times?
Thinking of this, Chen Yan carefully reached out and grabbed the marshmallow's tail.
The boy who was licking the marshmallow in Yu Qiaoqiao's hand suddenly raised his head, turned around, looked at Chen Yan, and meowed fiercely!
Chen Yan withdrew his hand awkwardly.
Bah! This bastard favors girls over boys...
If you weren't a female cat, I would have castrated you.
At this time, a sound was heard downstairs, and Lu Man, wearing pajamas and applying a facial mask, came downstairs.
Seeing Lu Man coming down, Yu Qiaoqiao quickly said to her happily, "Sister Manman! Thank you for giving me the cat!"
Lu Man was wearing a facial mask and speaking in a muffled voice. She waved her hand nonchalantly and said, "You're welcome. As long as you like it."
"How is it? Pretty, isn't it?"
Yu Qiaoqiao nodded vigorously, her eyes radiating love from the inside out, "Yeah!"
Lu Man applied the mask and said, "It's called Marshmallow, and it's a ragdoll cat. As soon as I saw it, I knew you would like it."
"It has a good temperament, not annoying, but sometimes very heartwarming. It should be a good companion for you."
Yu Qiaoqiao picked up Marshmallow, who lazily lay on Yu Qiaoqiao's slightly irregular panda. Yu Qiaoqiao happily said to Lu Man, "Thank you, Sister Manman! I love it very much!"
Chen Yan glanced at Yu Qiaoqiao who was happily playing with the cat, and then looked at Lu Man.
Lu Man winked at Chen Yan proudly, as if to say: See! I made the right choice!
Chen Yan was stunned for a while before he suddenly understood Lu Man's intention in choosing this cat.
The first is being pretty. Girls are visual animals, and beauty is everything.
Second, it is not annoying. Yu Qiaoqiao is quite busy during the holidays, and she cannot take care of the cat every day after school starts. Therefore, if the cat is not annoying, it will make the cat feel less uncomfortable, and Yu Qiaoqiao will also feel relieved, so that she will not think about the cat every day and lose focus on work and study.
The third is spirituality. Knowing the appropriate response to Yu Qiaoqiao. Combined with the second point, there will be a "different" sense of accomplishment, ahem...
Chen Yan looked at Lu Man, and for the first time he felt that Lu Man was actually very smart and could think things through so thoroughly.
Even I didn't think of this at the time.
But she wasn't so smart before?
After thinking for a while, Chen Yan felt that: Maybe she was really good to Qiaoqiao, so she put her heart into it.
It seems that the relationship between the two sisters is still very good.
Chen Yan was a little happy.
At this moment, Lu Man's heart...
'Look! I knew Qiaoqiao would like it! Its beautiful appearance and noble, cool temperament are exactly like mine, how could anyone not like it! Hahaha!'
…
I played with Yu Qiaoqiao and Lu Man for a while, and secretly ate a few cotton candies.
Before Marshmallow cried out, Chen Yan smiled and trotted out of the villa.
Strolling back home, Chen Yan felt that his day was very fulfilling.
What’s even more fulfilling is that tomorrow is the beginning of next month. The store will be refreshed and there should be new [Photo Paper]. Then I can see the potential of that new game.
After this month, "Love Is Not Blind" will be released next month.
By then, my net worth should officially exceed 500 million!
Chen Yan feels that his career and life are getting better and better.
…
After Chen Yan left, Yu Qiaoqiao lay on her lap with Marshmallow, stroking its fur gently while looking at her phone. She asked Lu Man, "Sister Manman, why is Marshmallow different from other ragdoll cats?"
She looked at the online reviews of Ragdoll cats and said puzzledly, "Online people say that Ragdoll cats are gentle, emotional, loving, like to be accompanied by others, are very friendly to people, and like to cling to people."
"But Marshmallow doesn't seem to like to talk to people."
Lu Man was wearing pajamas, curled up on the sofa with her legs curled up, staring at the TV intently .
Hearing what Yu Qiaoqiao said, she said nonchalantly, "Because it knows that it is different from other cats. It is the most beautiful cat in the world. Unless you are really nice to it, it will ignore you."
Hearing what Lu Man said, Marshmallow raised his head from Yu Qiaoqiao's legs, looked at Lu Man with bright eyes, and called softly, "Meow~".
Yu Qiaoqiao looked at this scene in surprise, and then said, "Sister Manman, it seems you are right. Marshmallow is responding to you!"
Lu Man waved her hand nonchalantly and said proudly, "Of course."
Yu Qiaoqiao asked curiously, "But why do you know it so clearly?"
Lu Man raised his head proudly and snorted softly, but said nothing.
'I can tell you, that's what I am like!'
…
Late at night, Yu Qiaoqiao's room.
Yu Qiaoqiao was lying on the bed, soundly asleep. While she was sleeping, her pink lips were slightly open, and she was murmuring in her sleep, "Cotton, cotton candy. Delicious..."
After a while, her door shook slightly.
After a moment, the door was pushed open from the outside.
A small white figure walked in.
It looked at Yu Qiaoqiao in the moonlight, jumped lightly, and then came to Yu Qiaoqiao's bed.
After coming to the bed, it tilted its head, looked at Yu Qiaoqiao curiously, and stretched out its tongue to gently lick Yu Qiaoqiao's face.
Yu Qiaoqiao felt a slight itch on her face while she was sleeping. She stretched out her hand and raised it, "Ugh~ Don't eat me."
Marshmallow looked at Yu Qiaoqiao curiously again, then it tilted its head and "thought" for a moment, then it crawled into Yu Qiaoqiao's arms, leaned against Yu Qiaoqiao, closed its eyes, and fell asleep quietly.
Under the moonlight, its cat's face is full of tranquility...
…
[Yu Qiaoqiao's Favorability: 146] (Chen Yan's gift is really good +6)
[Lu Man’s Favorability: 171] (Chen Yan only plays with cats, humph! -1)
[Wealth value: 31423] (buy cat + 28770)
【Professional Wealth: 0】
[Cash: 8933...50,000+] (Buy cat - 28770 Withdraw + 50 million "in progress...")
[Fixed assets: 1492...50,000]
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The next day, Yu Qiaoqiao woke up in the sunshine. She rubbed her eyes cutely, and then she felt as if there was a plump, warm and soft thing in her arms.
She lifted the quilt and was surprised to find Marshmallow curled up in her arms.
The girl who woke up early looked at the cat on her bed with surprise and said happily, "Marshmallow! Why are you here?!"
Marshmallow must have woken up early. It opened its bright eyes, looked at Yu Qiaoqiao coldly, then yawned, turned around and ignored Yu Qiaoqiao.
It looked like... it didn't come into the room on its own, nor did it come over to accompany Yu Qiaoqiao on its own.
Yu Qiaoqiao hugged it happily and touched its head. Only after Marshmallow angrily covered her face with its paws did she finally stop.
Yu Qiaoqiao laughed “hehe”.
She felt that this was the best gift she had ever received in her life...
…
at the same time.
Chen Yan had just climbed out of bed.
He didn't wake up naturally, but was woken up by the phone call.
Picking up the phone, Chen Yan took a look and found that it was his right-hand man: Song Chuang calling.
Chen Yan answered the phone while yawning, "Hello, Mr. Song, what's going on?"
Song Chuang said, "Mr. Chen, there is indeed something."
"I got the news last night that the Xu brothers held a preview yesterday."
"I don't know what movie it is. But I screened the movies they are shooting or buying, and I guess it should be "Overheard 3" or "A Love So Beautiful" or "Love in the Valley of Departure."
"Among them, Overheard 3 has a higher chance of making a profit. This movie is of the right genre, has a strong cast, and is a series. Judging from the performance of the first two movies, it should make around 200-300 million yuan."
"I guess they are planning to use this movie to release at the same time as ours to target us and squeeze our schedule."
Hearing Song Chuang's words, Chen Yan said "Oh" and asked, "Then what are you going to do?"
Song Chuang said, "I want to return to Tiandu today and meet with the heads of various theaters and have a chat."
"Find out what they are saying."
"If the theaters really prefer the Xu brothers, I am prepared to sign a minimum guarantee agreement with them."
"Since the estimated box office of Overheard 3 is 300 million, let's sign an agreement to guarantee a minimum box office of 300 million!"
"If our movie box office is less than 300 million, then we will compensate them for their screening fees based on the 300 million box office standard."
"If the box office exceeds 300 million, the agreement will be automatically terminated and the normal profit sharing will be carried out."
"This way, our terms will be equal to those of the Xu brothers. Plus, the film scheduling contract has already been signed, so they shouldn't break the contract."
"And I watched the quality of our film yesterday, 300 million is definitely no problem!"
"It's just that we haven't finished the film yet and can't hold a preview, so we are in a passive position..."
After hearing what Song Chuang said, Chen Yan thought about the Xu Brothers Pictures that had been making trouble, and then thought about the box office range shown on the [photo paper].
He said carefully, "Let's not say 300 million. Let's say 500 million!"
"Give them a guaranteed box office of 500 million! If there is one cent less, we will make up for it according to their share."
Hearing Chen Yan's words, Song Chuang exclaimed "Ah?" in surprise.
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