Why bother with dating when you already have a cat?

After all, I spend most of my time as a kitten, and sometimes when I first become human, I still subconsciously retain some of my cat-like habits.

This afternoon, she turned into a person on my desk and even subconsciously kicked her legs, trying to jump from the desk onto the bed.

Fortunately, my desk was against the wall, but the frame still trembled from her kicking.

Hopefully, she'll keep getting smarter.

……

Friday, January 4th.

Even now, it still feels like a dream.

Looking at the average number of subscriptions in the backend, it has already risen to 2700.

A week earlier, the figure was 1700.

Just one week of strong promotion for the new book brought me over 10,000 favorites.

I just glanced at it, and it already has almost 30,000 favorites.

The ratio of favorites to average subscriptions is about 10:1, which is considered healthy.

But these are not the main points.

The key point is that my book seems to have the potential to reach the standard of a masterpiece?

3000 average subscriptions!

When I first started reading the book, I never even thought about this.

If the average subscription exceeds 3000, and I update 6000 words a day, wouldn't my monthly royalties take off?

I just did the math, and if the average subscription is 3000, I can earn around 7500 yuan in royalties in just the two weeks since I published the book.

Add to that the full attendance bonus of 1500, and that's 9000 yuan!

This doesn't even include the money spent on tips.

Quite a few readers tipped me this month, I don't know if it was a thousand yuan or more.

If that's enough, wouldn't I be earning over 10,000 yuan a month just from writing fees in half a month?

I think it's best to keep a low profile, so I won't tell my family about this.

……

Saturday, April 4.

Yesterday morning, feeling good, I took Xiaoyu out again.

This time we had no destination; we just took her for a stroll around the streets to familiarize her with the surrounding environment.

I'd like to say something that makes me a little ashamed.

I'm not very familiar with the Jinpan Yuntingfu area.

I lived here when I was a child, but back then it was still a rural area. Because of industrialization, there were many factories around, and most of the people on the street were migrant workers from other places.

Later, Linping District gradually developed along with Hangzhou, and the industrial zone continued to expand outwards. With the improvement of various protection standards, the environment here has improved a lot.

Coupled with the disorderly expansion of the real estate market, countless residential buildings have sprung up in this area north of Linping Mountain.

A dozen years ago, this place could still be called the countryside.

It's already in the city area.

During this time, I was in junior high school, high school, and university, and I was not involved in the development process of this area at all.

It wasn't until I went for a walk with Xiaoyu today that I realized how unfamiliar I am with this place...

It's as if I've never lived here.

Even the high school I know best has been renovated and rebuilt.

The old teaching building with its yellowed brick walls is gone forever.

What remains is just a brand-new, clean, and beautiful building.

The former campus and dormitory area were separated by a road.

What shocked me the most was that my high school actually dug a very spacious underground passage so that students could return to their dormitories after school without having to cross the road.

The two narrow paths around the school have now been transformed into two-way four-lane main roads.

Everything was clean and spacious.

It's just not the same as I remember it.

Xiaoyu asked me why I felt this way, but I couldn't explain it.

This is probably what they mean by feeling melancholic in spring and autumn.

After all, development is always a good thing. The teaching buildings are more beautiful, the roads are wider, the traffic jams on weekends have been improved, and we can turn on the air conditioning instead of the electric fan during class.

Everything is fine.

Unfortunately, it's no longer my student days.

I originally wanted to take Xiaoyu to visit my junior high school, but I decided against it in the end.

……

……

Late April.

Sitting in front of the computer, Ai Qing kept refreshing the data in the author's backend, her eyes fixed on the number "2999".

A few seconds later, he couldn't wait to exit the page and then click back in, waiting for the moment it would change.

However, Xiaoyu was not seen in the bedroom.

On the contrary, from outside, you can hear some noises coming from the direction of the kitchen from time to time.

Little Fish is cooking in the kitchen right now.

After about half a month of training, Xiaoyu has learned to cook five or six dishes.

They also learned the correct way to cut vegetables, and no longer touch the flames on the stove with their hands. They also know that pots cannot be held directly by hand, but can only be picked up by the handle to avoid burning their hands.

The hot water is on the left side of the sink. Don't be silly and move the faucet to the left, or you'll get burned without even knowing why.

Unused food should be put back in the refrigerator to prevent it from spoiling, and it can be used again the next day.

Small fish have a strong ability to adapt and learn.

With the support of warmth, their acceptance and comprehension far exceed those of ordinary children.

She carefully prepared three dishes, then carried the plates to the living room, placed them on the dining table, took off her apron, and headed towards the bedroom.

"Dinner's ready, you can... ah!"

She had barely stepped into the bedroom and was only halfway through her sentence when Ai Qing wrapped her arms around her slender waist, lifted her up, and spun her around twice in mid-air.

"Haha! Little fish, little fish, look!"

Ai Qing could hardly contain her excitement. She picked up Xiaoyu and sat her down on a chair. Then she bent down and touched the mouse, repeatedly drawing circles on the number "3000".

"This number means that, on average, 3000 readers have paid to read the entire book I have written so far."

The little fish blinked, understanding the meaning but not quite grasping what it truly meant.

"To put it simply," Ai Qing knew she wouldn't understand, so she explained it to her in a concise way, "If I maintain this performance, I can earn enough in a month to buy several thousand of the fish you like to eat."

"If you eat two a day, it will take you several months to finish them."

Convert the average subscription rate into royalties, and then convert the royalties into fish.

Little Fish immediately understood the meaning behind it, her eyes lit up, and she looked up at Ai Qing with admiration in her eyes: "Wow! Amazing! So many fish!"

Chapter 72 Confession

Little Fish has been in a good mood lately.

Or rather, she was actually always in a good mood and never in a bad mood.

Two months ago, she was just a carefree little kitten.

Eating and drinking every day, petting and hugging Ai Qing, the day just passed by like that, completely unaware of the passage of time, living a repetitive and simple life every day.

She couldn't understand the concept of "boring," but she felt that spending her free time basking in the sun every day was very pleasant.

If I could live like this forever, that would be so comfortable.

But all of this changed after I became human.

Especially when she gradually learned to speak and could understand what Ai Qing was saying, Xiao Yu was suddenly hit on the head by a huge world.

The amount of information I receive every day is thousands or even tens of thousands of times greater than when I was just a kitten.

She learned what cats and humans were, what the differences were between herself and Ai Qing in the past, and what the differences were now.

She learned that this was called a bed, that was called a table, and the place she liked to lie on was called a windowsill, next to which was a window.

A transparent wall that allows you to see the outside scenery while still being able to touch something is called glass.

The tallest thing in the bedroom is called a wardrobe, which is used to store clothes.

Clothes are things that humans wear to keep warm.

She has seen mountains, roads, skyscrapers, and sunrises.

They also learned to cook and tasted delicacies that only humans could enjoy.

This is a completely different new world.

Almost every day, the little fish is refreshing its worldview and learning all sorts of new knowledge.

What was common sense to Ai Qing was something that Xiao Yu needed to understand and learn from scratch.

Such days are fulfilling and joyful, but occasionally they can also cause Little Fish distress.

After all, people will get tired if they study at a high intensity all the time.

But now the warm currents are accumulating more and more, and the time it takes to become a person is getting longer and longer.