Why bother with dating when you already have a cat?

Although Xiaoyu still streams PUBG, her streaming time is now split equally with Yuanshen's.

Because this was her first time playing a game like Madoka Magica, she was playing slowly. In addition, she had been busy with the cat café recently, so she had only just reached the Inazuma Kingdom.

Even so, Xiaoyu's fan base grew rapidly.

Now that it's almost the end of October, Xiaoyu's fan count has exceeded 350,000, and it's estimated that it will reach 400,000 by next month.

But right now, they are simply documenting everything from deciding to open a cat cafe to save stray cats, to exploring potential locations, planning and preparing, and then to the planning and decoration of the cat cafe, all in video form.

After some editing, it was posted online using a secondary account.

The result surprised both of them.

Originally, I just thought I could do as much online traffic generation as possible.

However, to everyone's surprise, when the fourth episode of the video was released, which was the one showing the cat cafe's renovation in full swing, the data exploded instantly.

In just one day, it has already garnered more than two million views, and the potential of this video is clearly not limited to that.

The account's followers also skyrocketed, leaving Ai Qing and Xiao Yu somewhat astonished. They felt that it would reach 100,000 followers in a few days, which seemed a bit outrageous.

Perhaps this is the charm of "virtual cat petting".

Of course, this is also related to Xiaoyu's original intention.

Many people also think that Xiaoyu is just putting on a show, simply because a cat died, she wants to open a cat cafe to help stray cats find employment.

Isn't it really all about making more money?

Having experienced the cheating incident last time, Xiaoyu has obviously become somewhat immune to such things and simply ignored these comments.

Ai Qing smiled with relief as she saw that she was gradually adapting to the situation.

After all, exposing yourself on the internet and gaining exposure means that you will inevitably expose a part of yourself to the public for others to read and criticize.

“This is a good thing. Time will prove your actions.” Ai Qing patted her head and then said, “And since this account has taken off, it’s another way to subsidize the cat cafe.”

"Once we have this account, we can also use Sister Qian's connections to ask the cat food and cat litter vendors she knows if they need advertising or something, and we can even collaborate with them."

"If you can make money through the internet and then use that money to support your physical cat cafe, that would be a good thing."

In this way, the cat cafe will not have much operating pressure, and it will not need to think too much about attracting customers, and the cats in the store will not be too tired.

Thinking of this, Ai Qing looked at Xiao Yu and said, "Now that the store's opening date has been set, you have two more things to do recently."

"What else?" Little Fish asked, blinking.

"One of them is one of our employees. Don't try to save money on this. At least hire two. Ask Sister Qian if she has any recommendations."

After saying that, Ai Qing turned to the topic and said, "The other thing is your live stream."

"The original time was from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm, but it will be changed to 8 pm to 10 pm from now on."

"The cat cafe closes at 7 p.m., so the timing is right. You can come to the cat cafe whenever you want during the day, and you can also stay here to continue your studies."

"Hmm..." Upon hearing the last sentence, Xiaoyu's face immediately fell.

I never imagined that even with multiple jobs, I still couldn't escape the fate of pursuing further education.

Ai Qing doesn't usually have much to do, so she could easily bring her laptop to the cat cafe to write.

Being surrounded by cats might even help him brainstorm ideas for his new book.

Thinking of this, Ai Qing's thoughts immediately fell on her new book.

Xiaoyu then called the cats inside the house, and they gradually returned to their cat beds.

Xiaoyu closed the doors to the cat's nest, made sure there was enough cat food and water, then locked the shop door and went home with Aiqing.

"Brother, how's the preparation for your new book going?"

"I've written a bit of the beginning, and I'm still revising it." Ai Qing slumped onto the sofa. When Xiao Yu asked her, her mind was filled with images of the new book. She instinctively hugged her cat tightly to gather material.

He didn't expect the new book to do very well, and the title was also quite conventional, tentatively titled "The Daily Life of a Cat Cafe After the Revival of Spiritual Energy".

Of course, for someone like him who specializes in writing about cats, he doesn't think about that much.

To be honest, when Ai Qing discovered that Xiao Yu's main account was approaching 400,000 followers and her secondary account was approaching 100,000 followers, she didn't have high expectations for the success of her new book.

After all, with Xiaoyu's current fan base, she could probably earn tens of thousands of yuan just by taking on a single advertisement...

How well does his new book have to perform to match this level of advertising revenue?

Unexpectedly, a possibility I had never even considered actually occurred in such an ordinary way.

Could it be that he'll be the one living off a woman in the future?

Chapter 191 Real Employee Training

On October 28th, Qidian's premium author, Corner Flower, launched her new book.

The well-known columnist, Elle Sky, also mentioned it briefly in a column.

The theme of spiritual energy revival is not new these days, but there have been similar works that combine spiritual energy revival with slice-of-life stories before, but they are not common.

After all, slice-of-life stories are already a niche genre, focusing more on character development and the details of daily life, and lacking the clear goals and exciting moments of level-up stories.

In terms of specific writing techniques, there are still considerable differences.

However, Ai Qing has always maintained this style since he started writing books, so it would be quite difficult for him to write a traditional leveling-up story.

"Look at your cousin, and then look at yourself."

At Ai Huijun's house, Ai Qing's aunt was sitting on the sofa with her daughter watching TV.

She glanced at her phone halfway through, then turned to look at her daughter, Li Qiqi, who was sprawled on the sofa eating snacks and watching TV. She couldn't help but say something.

"They earn over 20,000 yuan a month now, what about you?"

“I don’t have such high expectations of you. If you could just find a stable job, I wouldn’t say a word to you.”

Li Qiqi was already used to her mother's excuses, so she just rolled her eyes at her and said, "I just got home, I've been so busy before."

"You're busy with your volunteer work, right? I don't know what's so great about cats and dogs, everyone likes them so much." Ai Huijun shook her head, indicating her incomprehension.

"Why are you suddenly talking about your cousin?" Li Qiqi turned to look at her mother and kicked her leg with her toes. "Didn't you tell me before? I even read his novel. It's quite interesting. I thought boys only liked those fighting and killing novels."

“Isn’t this another new novel he wrote?” Ai Huijun said, shaking her phone. “His mother is promoting it on her WeChat Moments again. I’m an old person and can’t quite understand the title, but I know it seems to be related to his cat café.”

"What? What?" Li Qiqi quickly took out her phone, found her aunt Yao Qiang's WeChat Moments, and saw a new post from her.

My son's new book is still in its early stages, so there's not much left yet. I'll have to start reading it from the beginning, haha ​​(smiley face)

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Good guy.

Li Qiqi suppressed a laugh, already able to imagine the expression on her cousin's face when he saw this post on WeChat Moments.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but open the Qidian Reading APP, find Ai Qing's new book's WeChat Moments, and directly post a screenshot of Yao Qiang's post.

[Go, cousin, for your new book! Even if it's just for your aunt's love, please finish it well!]

【screenshot】

After posting this comment, Li Qiqi immediately started kicking her legs wildly and couldn't help but laugh hysterically on the sofa.

It will earn you 20,000 a month!

snort!

However, after glancing at the title of the new book and noticing the words "cat café" on it, Li Qiqi remembered what her mother had just said and couldn't help but ask.

"Mom, what's this about the cat cafe you mentioned earlier?"

“It’s your cousin’s shop,” Ai Huijun said, recounting how Ai Qing came to him to rent a shop. “Look at him, they’re both cat lovers, but they can make money while playing with cats. Unlike you, you’ve even lost a lot of money.”

"Oh dear, how can that be the same?" Li Qiqi frowned upon hearing this. "The cats in cat cafes are all purebred cats with very good looks, quite different from stray cats. Otherwise, why would anyone be willing to spend money to pet cats?"

"Then why do you like stray cats so much? And why did you go to an adoption center and volunteer for a year or two?" Ai Huijun said, then suddenly remembered, "But your adoption center closed down, didn't it?"

“Yes,” Li Qiqi said with a hint of helplessness, “After all, relying solely on government subsidies and social donations is simply not enough to make ends meet.”

Li Qiqi had no choice.

She had already used her spare change to help the adoption center, but it was just a drop in the ocean for the hundreds of pets there.

The fate of those truckloads of cats and dogs that were sent away recently is not hard to imagine.

Li Qiqi forced herself not to think about these things too much, and recently she has been staying at home to rest every day, which has helped her recover a little.

“But I heard from your cousin that the cats in his shop are all stray cats. I don’t know if they are the purebred cats you mentioned,” Ai Huijun said.

"Really?" Li Qiqi asked incredulously. "Can you really make money from that?"

“What’s wrong with that?” Ai Huijun rolled her eyes at her. “That shop belongs to their family, so at least they won’t lose money.”

"Is that shop near my uncle's neighborhood?" Li Qiqi immediately became interested and quickly got up from the sofa to ask.

"Yeah, what's wrong?"

"What's your name?"

“How would I know? Anyway, it’s just on that street, and it’s the only cat cafe there,” Ai Huijun said. “Turn right after exiting the North Gate, and it’s just a few steps away.”

"OK!" After confirming the information, Li Qiqi immediately tried to do a somersault on the sofa, but failed and rolled off the sofa in one go. She put on her slippers and rushed to the door without stopping.

When Ai Huijun saw the slouchy guy suddenly get up, she looked surprised and asked, "What are you doing? Going now? Their store isn't even open yet."

"Huh?" Li Qiqi was taken aback for a moment, then blinked and turned her head to ask, "Do you know where my cousin lives?"

"Unit 1, Building 2, North District, right? 1801?" Ai Huijun had worked as a real estate agent for Ai Zhongguo before, so she remembered the location of their apartment very clearly.

"Okay!" After writing down the address, Li Qiqi immediately changed her shoes and set off without saying another word.

……

At 10 a.m., Xiaoyu was conducting employee training at the cat cafe.

After getting up in the morning, I did the Vajra Kung Fu. After having breakfast with Ai Qing, Xiao Yu gave Ai Qing a big mouthful of warm water so that he could stay home and write in peace.

He then went downstairs to the cat cafe.

As for employee training, it certainly doesn't refer to training human employees.

In the past few days, she has only managed to recruit one person recommended by Xiao Youqian. This person used to work at a milk tea shop, so she recommended him to be in charge of sales in the beverage section.