After Transmigrating into the Villain’s Cat, I Dominated the Entertainment Circle – Chapter 65

The Road to Engagement is Difficult

For the Cat’s Sake

“Come in.” Luo Ke leaned against the cabinet by the lounge door, her arms crossed.

Zhao Min pulled the door open a crack, feeling as though she wanted to cry but had no tears. “President Luo, can I not come in?”

“What do you think?” Luo Ke walked over to her desk, pulled out her chair, and sat down.

Zhao Min walked over, shivering and trembling. Luo Ke glanced at her. “What was it you came back to say just now?”

“Ah, Yuan Mo—President Yuan—is no longer serving as CEO. Old President Yuan will be taking over the company again. He wants to discuss this collaboration with you in person, and the time is set for next week.”

Luo Ke nodded. “No problem. Check the schedule. He’s coming to discuss a collaboration, so we need to show enough sincerity. Let them decide the time and place as much as possible.”

“Understood.”

“Also…” Zhao Min pursed her lips. “He also wanted to ask when the engagement ceremony will be held. He’s already picking out a gift.”

“Soon.” Luo Ke closed the folder. “Now, let’s talk about what just happened.”

“Nothing happened just now!” Zhao Min made a zipping motion across her lips. “I won’t tell anyone that President Luo came to the office so early and brought her girlfriend with her, and that they were… doing other things.”

“You seem to know quite a lot.” Luo Ke steepled her fingers, looking at her with a smile.

Zhao Min immediately stood up straight and bowed her head.

“I’m deducting this month’s bonus. I hope you’ll learn to knock before entering next time.”

“Yes, President Luo.” Zhao Min walked out with a pained expression.

She closed the door and sniffled sorrowfully. The next second, she shot over to Special Assistant Lin’s side and frantically shook him awake.

“Wh-what’s wrong?!” Special Assistant Lin woke with a start.

Zhao Min leaned in with a mysterious look on her face. “I’m going to tell you a secret.”

Special Assistant Lin leaned closer, ready for the gossip. “What secret?”

Zhao Min curled her lips into a smile and whispered in his ear, “President Luo brought her girlfriend to the company for some Office play¹.”

“For real!” Special Assistant Lin’s illusions were shattered. “Impossible. President Luo isn’t that kind of person. She’s extremely serious and dedicated to her work.”

“So dedicated that she’s been leaving early a lot recently.”

Special Assistant Lin was speechless. “Anyway, I don’t believe it.”

Just as the words left his mouth, a woman in a black dress pulled open the office door and came running out, deng deng deng².

“Hey, you!” Special Assistant Lin stood up to stop her, but the office door opened again. This time, it was Luo Ke who walked out.

Luo Ke walked to the secretary’s desk and looked at Zhao Min. “Secretary Zhao, regarding your recent delusion problem, I can introduce you to a very authoritative doctor. Don’t worry, you’re a company employee who’s been under too much stress lately. Just relax, and don’t go around hiding an illness and avoiding the doctor³.”

“No, I…”

Before Zhao Min could explain, Luo Ke had already patted her on the shoulder and turned to go back inside.

Zhao Min turned to look at Special Assistant Lin, who wore a sympathetic expression. “It might not be delusions. It could just be a stress-induced hallucination. Talking to a therapist will help.”

“No, didn’t you just see a woman run out?”

Special Assistant Lin spread his hands. “Was that President Luo’s girlfriend? What a shame. If I’d known, I wouldn’t have been sleeping. I missed seeing her face.”

He shook his head regretfully and sat back down to work.

Zhao Min pointed at him, then at Luo Ke’s wooden office door, then in the direction Lin Sifei had run, and finally back at herself.

She pouted, her face a mask of misery. “I’ll definitely remember to knock next time.”

---

After leaving the company, Lin Sifei was on the phone with Luo Ke, pouting as she complained, “I was hoping to stay with you, and now look what’s happened.”

“You could just turn back into a cat and run back.”

“Great idea!” Lin Sifei’s face lit up, but then she looked down at her things and her head drooped dejectedly. “But what about my clothes, my phone, and my bag?”

That was indeed a problem. Luo Ke also frowned in thought. “Then just forget about them. We’ll buy new ones.”

Lin Sifei stood helplessly by the side of the road. “With a full set of things like this, anyone who found them would suspect something bad had happened.”

She tilted her head back and thought for a moment. “I’ve got it. Wait for me at the company.”

After saying that, she hung up the phone directly.

Luo Ke: ?

Lin Sifei put her phone in her bag and took out a notebook to write a line of text. She then placed the open notebook vertically inside her bag so that a section of it would stick out.

Next, she found an empty alley, transformed in a corner, and used her cat paws to wrap her clothes around the outside of the bag. Then, she bit down on the clothes and ran toward Luo Ke’s building.

She ran to the entrance, slipped into the security room, dropped the bundle, and let out a soft miao.

“Huh? Where’d this cat come from?” The security guard bent down and saw the notebook in the bag amidst the clothes. He pulled it out, took one look, and immediately placed the clothes and bag on the table.

【President Luo’s cat. President Luo asked for these things to be held for her.】

Seeing that her things were put away safely, Lin Sifei happily trotted into the company. As soon as she entered, the surrounding employees all looked at her. “Xiao Xiao is here! So cute.”

Lin Sifei didn’t get lost in the hands petting her and quickly slipped into an elevator. Because of her special status, everyone was careful not to step on her.

Not many people got off the elevator on Luo Ke’s floor, so Lin Sifei easily slipped through the gaps between people’s legs and joyfully bounded into Luo Ke’s office.

Zhao Min looked up and saw the cat opening the door by hanging on the handle, tilting her head in confusion. When did the cat get out?

But the thought passed in a flash, and she lowered her head to look at her documents again.

Lin Sifei slipped through the door and pushed it shut with her butt.

She meowed as she jumped onto Luo Ke’s desk. She’d learned her lesson this time and would absolutely not turn back into a person. Otherwise, if she got caught again, it’d really turn into a paranormal event.

Luo Ke didn’t dare risk it either. She rubbed her head. “By the way, President Yuan called to ask about our engagement date. When do you want to set it for?”

Lin Sifei frowned in thought, then typed on the keyboard: Let’s wait until the movie is released. I want people to be stunned by my acting, and then I’ll bombard them with the news of our engagement.

“How long until the movie is released?” Luo Ke looked at her, meeting her confused little eyes, and smiled helplessly. “Alright, I’ll ask Director Chen.”

Luo Ke dialed Director Chen’s number. “Director Chen, I’d like to ask when the movie can be released.”

“About that… President Luo, you’re being a bit too hasty. We’ve only just started post-production⁴. With all the other procedures, it’ll be half a year at least.”

“Half a year?!” Luo Ke exclaimed in shock. She shouldn’t be getting engaged then; she’d be getting married directly in half a year!

Lin Sifei heard the timeframe and agreed it was a bit long. Her eyes darted around, and she continued typing.

【If the money is in place, nothing is a problem.】

Luo Ke breathed a sigh of relief. “Director Chen, if the funds are sufficient, post-production shouldn’t take that long, right?”

On the other end of the line, Director Chen’s eyes lit up when he heard this. “Of course! Post-production is done by people, after all. If I hire more people to split the work, it’ll definitely be much faster.”

Luo Ke opened her mouth to add more investment but was slapped by Lin Sifei’s tail.

Spendthrift⁵! Director Chen is making a demand as wide as a lion’s mouth⁶.

Lin Sifei continued typing. 【We invested so much before, where did all the money go?】

Luo Ke read it out loud just as it was written.

“Well, President Luo, filming requires a lot of money. And you know me, I like to create high-quality masterpieces.”

【Bullshit. He’s clearly just blowing on hairs to find faults⁷. He insists on shooting everything on location, does an insane number of NGs⁸, and all the props in the movie’s houses are expensive. All the money was wasted.】

Luo Ke looked at the line of text, did her best to embellish it with her own words, and inquired about Director Chen’s extravagant spending. She expressed the dissatisfaction of the great investor and finally, subtly indicated that this way of doing things was not right.

“Yes, the problems President Luo mentioned do exist. I’ll pay attention to them in the future.”

Only then did Luo Ke ask, “How much more money do you think is needed for post-production? I want the movie released as soon as possible.”

“Here’s the thing, President Luo. Even if we finish the movie ahead of schedule, we’ve already missed the National Day holiday⁹ slot. I have high hopes for this film, and I’m hoping for a Spring Festival¹⁰ release. So the price doesn’t need to be particularly high, because we still have plenty of time.”

“Spring Festival is also very late,” Luo Ke said, very displeased.

But Director Chen wouldn’t budge. The number of moviegoers during the Spring Festival slot skyrocketed; there was no way he would change it.

Luo Ke helplessly pinched the bridge of her nose.

Lin Sifei hugged her arm, looking at her with big, watery eyes.

Luo Ke sighed and poked her on the forehead. “You, you, all you know is how to act cute.”

She conceded into the phone, “Then we’ll release it during Spring Festival.”

She hung up and reached out, messing up all the fur on Lin Sifei’s body. “I have to wait nearly two months.”

Lin Sifei, her fur a complete mess, let out a howl and pounced on her.

That’s no excuse for messing up my fur!

The person and the cat staged a full martial arts scene¹¹ in the office, ending with President Luo getting scratched with three bars¹² and Lin Sifei bumping her head on a plaster decoration.

Luo Ke took out the povidone-iodine and skillfully applied it to her face in the mirror. Meanwhile, Lin Sifei held her head, burying it in her paws without a word.

Luo Ke laughingly poked her with the wooden end of the cotton swab. “You didn’t get knocked stupid, did you?”

Lin Sifei immediately lifted her head from her paws and glared at her. “Miao!”

Luo Ke immediately put down the cotton swab and smilingly rubbed the spot between her eyes. “Alright, alright, don’t be angry.”

“Does your head still hurt?”

“Miao~” It hurts—

The rubbing made her forehead throb with a dull pain, and tears immediately welled up in her eyes.

Luo Ke’s heart ached. She instantly let go and began to blow gently. “There, there, it doesn’t hurt.”

Lin Sifei looked up at her and sniffled. Fine, I’ll forgive her.

Her eyes darted to the three stripes on Luo Ke’s face, and she felt a little guilty. She subconsciously extended her claws and looked at them. They do seem a bit sharper lately. Maybe I should trim them.

She had only meant to pat her, but her claws had come out by reflex.

She lay on the desk, staring at her nails in a daze. Speaking of which, my cat claws and human nails aren’t connected. I trimmed my human nails a long time ago for… that what-what¹³ with Luo Ke, but my cat claws haven’t changed.

She stretched out a paw to knead the fat on her belly.

Could it be that my human fat and cat fat aren’t connected either?!

Luo Ke blew for a while and noticed she was spacing out, then saw her reach out to rub her belly.

“Don’t even think about it. You can’t rub the fat away.”

Lin Sifei: -_-## She’s asking for another scratching.

---

The author has something to say:

To the familiar little cuties, making a heart gesture

---

---