Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
For the next few days, Zhao Yao went around as the Headless Horseman. He spread the news on the cat web as he helped the cats who were addicted. He used illusions to help the supercats endure the pain of quitting the poisonous catmint. When he finished helping all the cats, he had completed his task of defeating the crooks and was awarded 1000*2 experience points. He was awarded an additional 2000*2 for curing all the patients.
Upon completing this task, Zhao Yao’s experience points in the BOOK became BOOK: Lv6 (39342/20000)
However Zhao Yao did not level up the Book, he just kept the experience points. Currently, Elizabeth’s cover page was Lv8: (2000/50000). He wanted to collect experience points so that he could level Elizabeth up to Lv9 immediately and see if he could strengthen Elizabeth’s Sixth Sense illusion.
Meanwhile, the market for catmint and Elizabeth’s live stream popularity were increasing steadily. Every time the catmint market grew by 1%, he would have one chance at the lucky draw at the end of the month. There was about one week left until the end of the month, Zhao Yao decided to focus all his attention on the catmint market to accumulate more chances for the lucky draw.
This required Zhao Yao to discuss with the Cat Kings. He had to introduce them to Dust Ball’s catmint.
That day, Zhao Yao was going out to promote the catmint again. When Elizabeth saw him she meowed, “Zhao Yao it is the weekend. Aren’t you going to rest?”
“Nope, I am not going to rest. I have to meet the Stadium Cat King for business.” He stuffed a bun into his mouth and went out. “I have asked Bai Quan to buy some imported salmon for you guys to eat. Consider it a Labor Day gift.”
As Elizabeth watched Zhao Yao leave, she was absorbed by her thoughts, “Zhao Yao has been so busy recently. This is the first time I’ve seen Zhao Yao work so hard.”
Diana whispered in her ear, “Furthermore, he brings Roly Poly with him everywhere. They even sleep together and bathe together. It is so suspicious.”
Elizabeth was surprised. “What? That’s happening?”
Diana suggested, “Sister, it is not that I want to speak badly about you but you are too arrogant sometimes. As cats, there is a time to be arrogant and a time to be intimate with humans. If you keep giving him the cold shoulder, there’s a possibility that you might fall out of favor and become a stray again.”
“Stray cat?” Elizabeth turned her head and recalled her days as a stray cat.
She had no internet and electricity. Every day she had to scramble around for leftover food. She had to endure hot summers and cold winters, always had an empty stomach and lived on the constant fear of being attacked by humans, dogs, and cats. She didn’t even have time to clean her fur.
Remembering all of that, Elizabeth shivered and called for the cats under her to gather.
Immediately, all the cats in the Extradimensional Belly who belonged to the cat café gathered in front of Elizabeth.
“Zhao Yao has been working tirelessly to give us a good life. He has been working so hard. It’s about time we repay him.”
Elizabeth raised her head and stood confidently, looking at the cats gathered below her, she continued, “Furthermore, the second anniversary of my adoption is coming soon. I have decided to prepare a gift for Zhao Yao. Any ideas on what I should give him?”
A female cat suggested, “Give him a red packet. Zhao Yao likes money.”
Elizabeth shook her pink paws and rejected the idea. “All our money is from Zhao Yao. What is the point of giving it back?”
Another female cat said, “Why don’t we clean up the place? When Zhao Yao returns to a clean Extradimensional Belly, he will definitely be happy.”
Elizabeth thought about it and the image of Zhao Yao lying comfortably on a rubbish-filled sofa playing his mobile games appeared in her mind. She shook her head. “Nope, next idea?”
Catherine said, “Why not bake a cake for Zhao Yao. Don’t they all say to capture a man’s heart, start by capturing his stomach?”
Elizabeth tilted her head and thought about it. She pictured Zhao Yao’s happy face when he saw the cake as he stroked her head and said, “This cake is delicious. Elizabeth did you make it especially for me? What a good girl, I will support you on your stream tonight.”
After picturing that, Elizabeth smiled and nodded. “Let’s make a cake! I will give a cake to Zhao Yao!”
The supercats in the Cat café started to get busy. The good thing was that in the 18th storey building, there was a kitchen, gas, oven, and all the equipment needed.
Elizabeth and her sisters were researching and watching videos on how to bake a cake at night. At the same time, they ordered the ingredients they needed online secretly and asked for them to be directly sent to Matcha’s construction site.
For the next few days, Elizabeth worked during the day on her live stream and at night went to prepare the cake after Zhao Yao fell asleep. She only slept two to three hours every day. Although she tried her best, no matter how hard she tried, she still failed. Elizabeth started complaining, “Why is baking a cake so hard?”
Diana’s eyes lit up and said, “Why not make a salmon cake? Don’t humans like to eat salmon too?”
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Zhao Yao changed into the Headless Horseman and told the University Cat King, “The catmint produced by Dust Ball has a long history. It can be dated back to the Qing dynasty. Did you know that Empress Dowager Cixi had a white Persian cat?”
“Yeah, I know.” The Cat King answered, “I have seen it in the movies. A sexy white cat.”
“The catmint she consumed was the same kind of catmint that Dust Ball is producing today. One hundred years ago catmint of this quality was only found in the royal palace. You couldn’t try it even if you wanted to.” As he spoke, Zhao Yao opened a bag of catmint and handed it to the Cat King. “Come try it.”
Looking at the cat’s satisfied face while trying the catmint, Zhao Yao asked, “How is it?”
“It is good.” The Cat King indulged in it. “The taste is so pure.”
“Our catmint is all handmade with an old recipe. There are no chemicals added throughout the fabrication process. We are selling quality and healthy products.
Even human food is unsafe for consumption nowadays. Think about the quality of your canned cat food. Everyone is so concerned with their health now. Do you think such a traditional, natural, and green catmint would not be a great hit?”
Zhao Yao asked, “So? Shuini, do you want a batch of them?”
Shuini nodded his head without stopping. “Yes, yes.”
After setting up a business route for the entire University district, Zhao Yao returned contently to the Extradimensional Belly. Once he was back, a supercat notified Elizabeth immediately. Elizabeth rushed over and told Zhao Yao. “Zhao Yao! Zhao Yao! I have a gift for you.”
“Oh do you?” Zhao Yao looked at Elizabeth surprised. “What kind of gift is it?”
“Come with me and you will know.” Elizabeth reached out her paws and dragged Zhao Yao out of his sofa.
Zhao Yao laughed and felt like he was being pulled away by a daughter pulling her dad. He followed her to one of the kitchens in the 18th storey building. Elizabeth opened the door with her head and shouted excitedly. “Tada! Zhao Yao this is the seafood cake I made especially for you.”
On the table was a palm-size cake made with large amounts of salmon, roe, and sea urchin.
On the cake was written, “Zhao Yao, you have worked hard!”
At least it was supposed to be like that.
Now, there was only Matcha on the table. He was licking his paws which had leftover salmon on it. More than half of the cake has been eaten and there were several paw prints on it.
Seeing Elizabeth and Zhao Yao, Matcha lifted his head and said, “Elizabeth, this cake was not bad. You should change the roe to caviar. It is too salty now. You can let me taste it again after you make it.”
