The pushover offended a top-tier boss

The kitten meowed again, I don't know if it understood.

Ye Zhenzhen carefully picked up the kitten and put it in the pocket of her coat. The pocket was large enough for the little kitten to curl up inside. The kitten curled up into a ball, shivered, and then slowly calmed down.

The taxi arrived, and the driver, a woman in her forties, paused for a moment when she saw a cat's head peeking out of her pocket.

"Young lady, this kitten is so small, it must be nursing, right?" The older woman glanced at it in the rearview mirror. "It looks about a month old, about the same age as my kitten."

"What kind of milk should it drink?" Ye Zhenzhen asked humbly.

"Goat milk powder, not cow milk," the older woman said knowledgeably. "Pet stores sell it. When they get a little older, they can eat softened cat food, and you can also feed them some egg yolks to supplement their nutrition."

"Okay, okay, thank you." Ye Zhenzhen thanked them as she opened the food delivery app and placed an order at the pet supply store—goat milk powder, a litter box, cat litter, kitten food, a soft kitten bed, and a cat toy. Her fingers flew across the keyboard, afraid of missing anything.

The car stopped at the entrance of Yuyuan Garden. Ye Zhenzhen held the kitten in her hands and carefully placed it inside.

She found a small, unused porcelain bowl in the kitchen. She had bought it before, intending to use it for dipping sauces, but had never used it. She mixed half a bowl of goat milk powder with warm water, stirred it with a small spoon, and carried it to the living room floor.

The kitten smelled the milk, its nose twitched, and it wobbled to the bowl. It lowered its head and began to drink, sip by sip. It drank very quickly, choked a little, let out a burp, and a ring of milky white stains appeared around its mouth, like a white mustache.

Ye Zhenzhen squatted down beside him, resting her chin on her hand, watching the little thing burying its head in its milk, unable to suppress the smile on her lips.

This is the scene that Zhou Huaijin saw when he opened the door.

Ye Zhenzhen squatted on the living room carpet, in front of her a dirty cat. The kitten was buried in a small porcelain bowl and drinking milk like crazy. Ye Zhenzhen was beside her, resting her chin on her hand, with a loving mother's smile on her face.

He stood in the entryway, changed his shoes, walked over, and immediately frowned.

"Ye Zhenzhen, where did this cat come from?"

"I found it." Ye Zhenzhen looked up, her eyes shining. "It was wandering outside and was starving to death."

Zhou Huaijin looked down at the cat. Its white fur was stained with ash, its ears were black, and its paws were stuffed with mud.

"Let's adopt it," Ye Zhenzhen tentatively suggested.

"No." Zhou Huaijin's tone left no room for negotiation.

"It's so small!" Ye Zhenzhen exclaimed anxiously. "If you don't take it in, it will freeze or starve to death outside! Look how pitiful it is—"

"No, it's too dirty." Zhou Huaijin frowned and took half a step back.

"It'll be clean after a wash!" Ye Zhenzhen picked up the kitten and held it up in front of him. "Look how cute it is—"

The kitten was held in mid-air, its four short legs kicking wildly, letting out a weak, babyish "meow."

Zhou Huaijin's expression remained unchanged.

"Even if something is cute, you can't keep it at home."

He didn't like cats much. When he was a child, Zhou Chenyu picked up a stray cat from the alley. The cat was covered in fleas and scratched several of his shoes. It would run around the room at night, meowing and keeping him awake. Zhou Chenyu got tired of it after three days, and eventually, cleaning up the litter box and feeding it became his job.

Ye Zhenzhen acted as if she hadn't heard, shielding the kitten behind her with an extremely firm attitude: "No, I want to keep it."

"As long as the cat is here, I am here."

Zhou Huaijin took a deep breath.

"Ye Zhenzhen, stop being a scoundrel. I'm the one who calls the shots in this house."

With her laziness, how could she possibly take good care of a pet? It's just a whim, she's childish, and after a few days the novelty wears off, he'll be the one cleaning up the mess again.

Ye Zhenzhen's eyes immediately reddened.

"Then I'll move to Phoenix Garden with the cat, okay?!" Her voice rose, trembling with a hint of defiance. "I'll move there right now!"

"The apartments there were just handed over to owners; the formaldehyde levels are too high, so it's uninhabitable," Zhou Huaijin said in a low voice.

"I don't care." Ye Zhenzhen squatted on the ground, hugging the cat. "Then poison me, then poison the kitten. We'll die together anyway."

There was a three-second silence in the living room.

Zhou Huaijin closed his eyes briefly and raised his hand to rub his temples.

This is really... getting more and more outrageous!

"Take it with you and go to the vet first."

Ye Zhenzhen suddenly raised her head, her eyes were still red, but the corners of her mouth had turned up.

She stood up, tiptoed, hugged him, and gave him a loud and forceful kiss on the cheek.

"Thank you, boss!"

Zhou Huaijin turned her head away in disgust.

He didn't agree to this thing moving in.

Raising one is troublesome enough, and now there's another little trouble.

I spent over an hour at the hospital. It was another physical exam, blood test, and X-ray.

The vet said the kitten is generally healthy, but it is somewhat malnourished and anemic.

After a bath, deworming, and the first vaccination, the dirty little white cat had transformed into a clean little white dumpling when it left the vet.

Ye Zhenzhen held the kitten in her arms, resting her chin on the kitten's head.

"I love kittens so much!" she said excitedly as she petted the cat. "But the apartment I rent is too small to keep one. The landlord won't let me keep one either. My dream is to have my own house and a cat."

"It finally happened today!"

Ye Zhenzhen happily held the kitten up in front of Zhou Huaijin.

"Boss, why don't you give the kitten a name?"

Zhou Huaijin glanced at the cat and frowned in disdain: "I don't care."

Ye Zhenzhen pouted, looked down at the little white dumpling in her arms, and thought for a moment.

"What are you calling me?"

She looked up again, her eyes lighting up: "How about we name her Zhou Zhou?"

Zhou Huaijin's brows furrowed sharply: "Ye Zhenzhen."

"It's not your Zhouzhou," Ye Zhenzhen explained guiltily. "Its surname is Zhou, and its name is Zhouzhou."

She looked at the kitten earnestly and said to it, "Now that you've taken the leader's surname, you'll have someone protecting you from now on."

Ye Zhenzhen has many ulterior motives. Now that the kitten has taken his surname, it's not easy to chase it away.

hee hee~

Zhou Huaijin looked at the cat, a little white dumpling with blue eyes, and it meowed in a childish voice.

"no."

"That's fine." Ye Zhenzhen hugged the cat back to her arms, and then explained in a fake tone, "It's different, this is Xiao Zhou, and you are Lao Zhou."

Zhou Huaijin's face darkened even further.

Seeing this, Ye Zhenzhen sweetly hugged the person and gave them a kiss: "Thank you for agreeing, boss! You're so kind, mwah mwah mwah mwah."

She raised the kitten's paw and waved it at him, saying, "Xiao Zhou and I both like you very much!"

Looking at that heartless yet feigningly obsequious face, Zhou Huaijin swallowed his resentment.

But he had no intention of letting her off so easily.

"Ye Zhenzhen, how should I thank you?" He pinched her cheek.