BMQTVC Chapter 2: Don't Leave Me Behind

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Lin Sifei woke up to the aroma of breakfast.

Last night, she had fallen asleep in the laundry basket, but this morning, she found herself curled up on the sofa with a towel covering her.

She pawed at the towel—so, the villain wasn’t that cold-hearted after all; they even covered her with a towel.

“Meow~” Lin Sifei eyed the height of the sofa. She was sure that if she jumped down, she’d break a bone, so she could only meow to announce her presence.

Hearing the sound, Luo Ke didn’t even lift her head and continued eating breakfast. A housekeeper wearing an apron walked over, placed a cat bowl on the ground, and then picked Lin Sifei up.

“Come on, Mimi, time for breakfast.”

Lin Sifei was full of question marks. Since when was she called Mimi? She tilted her head back and meowed, protesting the name.

“Drink up.” The housekeeper didn’t pick up on her feelings and pushed the bowl closer to her face.

With no other choice, Lin Sifei lowered her head and drank the milk.

The housekeeper smiled at Luo Ke. “Miss Luo, this little cat is so well-behaved. What’s its name?”

Lin Sifei breathed a sigh of relief. So, Mimi wasn’t her name.

Luo Ke wiped her mouth with a napkin. “No name. It’s a friend’s cat—I’ll be returning it today. Wu Ma, please make sure to clean up the cat hair later.”

“Yes, Miss Luo.” Wu Ma glanced at Lin Sifei with a hint of reluctance.

Lin Sifei was so shocked she stopped drinking. Wait, they had even taken a bath together—how could Luo Ke just disown her like that? She was so heartbroken she almost choked on the milk.

Before she could react, a shadow loomed over her. She looked up to see Luo Ke standing beside her with a cold expression.

Lin Sifei’s fur bristled immediately, turning her into a fluffy ball.

Luo Ke frowned and picked her up by the scruff of her neck. Lin Sifei let out a painful “meow,” her legs kicking wildly.

Luo Ke was startled and quickly placed her back on the sofa.

Lin Sifei whimpered, panting and motionless. Who said grabbing a cat by the scruff didn’t hurt? She almost died from the pain.

Luo Ke crossed her arms and frowned at her.

Wu Ma chuckled. “Miss Luo, you’ve never held a cat before, have you? She’s small—just let her lie in your arms.”

Wu Ma scooped up Lin Sifei and nestled her into Luo Ke’s arm.

The sudden lift off the ground frightened Lin Sifei, and her claws instinctively extended, digging through the fabric and into Luo Ke’s arm.

“Hiss—” Luo Ke drew in a sharp breath, her brows knitting together.

Lin Sifei’s tail trembled. She had just scratched her sponsor again—even though she was about to change sponsors soon.

“You’d better bring the carrier.”

Luo Ke placed Lin Sifei into a carrier and carried it out the door.

She wasn’t gentle at all, causing Lin Sifei to be tossed around inside. If not for her claws gripping onto the mesh, she would have been knocked silly.

“Meow!” Lin Sifei let out an angry cry at Luo Ke. Since she was about to change owners, there was no need to please this villain anymore.

Luo Ke’s footsteps paused for a moment, and then the carrier steadied.

Lin Sifei curled up inside, waiting to be delivered to Bai Xingrui’s home. According to the book, Bai Xingrui loved cats and owned several. Though she later went bankrupt due to the female lead, she still moved to a small town with her cats and opened a shop.

Luo Ke carried the carrier upstairs and rang the doorbell.

Bai Xingrui, her hair tousled, appeared at the door. When she saw Luo Ke, she immediately tried to shut the door, but Luo Ke—

Luo Ke braced her arm against the door and forcefully pushed it open.

She placed the carrier directly on the table, while Bai Xingrui pretended not to see it. With an awkward smile, she poured Luo Ke a glass of water. “Why are you here so early?”

“I've delivered the cat. Goodbye.” Luo Ke turned to leave.

“Hey, wait!” Bai Xingrui stopped her. “Just wait a sec—I need to take out the trash. Can you hold the door for me when I come back?”

“Don’t you have your keys?”

“Aiya, I don’t have any pockets, and I don’t want my keys touching the trash. It’ll just be a moment—help me out.”

Luo Ke sighed in resignation and sat on the sofa, pulling out her phone to check some documents. “Hurry up, I have to get to work.”

“Right, right, just a second.”

Lin Sifei crouched inside the carrier, watching her new owner dash out like the wind.

Not long after, Luo Ke’s phone vibrated with a notification. She opened it to see a voice message from Bai Xingrui.

As soon as she played it, Bai Xingrui’s gleeful laughter burst through. “Hahaha! Sorry, Luo Ke, I made a last-minute decision to go on a world tour, so I can’t take the cat. My bad~”

Luo Ke listened to the message with a cold expression and immediately called her back. “If you’re not coming back, what about all the cats you have?”

“Oh, I sent them to my parents ages ago. I told you—I’m going on a world tour.”

Luo Ke pursed her lips. No wonder she hadn’t heard any cat noises. “You don’t want this cat? Do you believe that I’ll leave it here to starve to death right now?”

“Go ahead, it’s not my cat anyway.”

Inside the carrier, Lin Sifei’s eyes widened in shock. Wasn’t this person a cat lover? How could she be so heartless?!

“My flight’s about to take off. You figure out what to do with the cat.”

Luo Ke took a deep breath as she stared at the ended call. Then, she turned to look at Lin Sifei in the carrier.

Lin Sifei’s fur stood on end. She immediately pressed her legs together, tilted her head slightly, and put on her cutest cat smile, desperately trying to win over her owner.

After a long stare, Luo Ke stood up and walked out the door.

No way—was she really going to leave her here to starve?!

Lin Sifei threw herself against the carrier door, meowing frantically. Don’t abandon her—she didn’t want to die!

As the security door slowly closed, Lin Sifei let out a desperate, wailing cry. She stared at the carrier lock and stretched out her paw, struggling to pry it open. The lock finally popped loose. She didn’t care about the height of the table and jumped down in a panic.

She crashed onto the floor, tumbled over, then quickly scrambled up and dashed toward the door.

With a loud thud, Lin Sifei felt like she had nearly broken her neck.

Lying on the ground, she looked up to see Luo Ke standing in the doorway, having just pulled the door open. Pain, grievance, and fear surged all at once, and her eyes instantly reddened. Tears began streaming down her face.

Luo Ke sighed, crouched down, and picked her up. She took out a handkerchief and gently dabbed at the corners of her eyes.

Lin Sifei was still trembling. After experiencing the brink of abandonment, she finally understood—she had to be extremely careful. A single decision from a human could mean the end of her life.

She sniffled and held back her tears, striking a cute pose for Luo Ke. She even thought about rubbing against her for affection but remembered that Luo Ke didn’t like it, so she stopped.

Luo Ke carried her back to the table, looked at the opened carrier door, and fiddled with it twice before latching it shut again. Then, holding the empty carrier in one hand and the cat in the other, she walked downstairs.

Re-entering the car, Luo Ke glanced at her watch. There was no time to take the cat home, so she had no choice but to drive straight to the company.

At the airport, Bai Xingrui watched a live feed on her phone. Seeing Luo Ke take the cat with her, she let out a sigh of relief and tapped on the figure on the screen. “So stubborn—clearly softhearted.”

As the airport announcement played, she smiled, put away her phone, and dragged her suitcase inside.

—

Lin Sifei was no longer in the carrier but sitting in the front passenger seat. Luo Ke’s driving skills were impeccable—the ride was smooth and steady.

After a while, boredom set in. Lin Sifei leaned against the window, pawing at the glass while watching the world outside.

Everything looked the same as her original world, except for the unfamiliar celebrities on the billboards.

She stared at the advertisements, then down at her cat paws. Was she really going to live the rest of her life as a cat? She had loved acting so much. Her manager must be devastated, and her fans—how heartbroken they must be.

With a sigh, she curled up in the seat. Right now, she was just a pet, dependent on others, living at their mercy.

While she was lost in her melancholy, Luo Ke had already parked the car.

She picked up Lin Sifei and carried her into the elevator. The employees inside smiled and nodded. “President Luo.”

Luo Ke gave a slight nod, pressed the floor button, and glanced at her watch.

Lin Sifei lay in the crook of her arm, curiously turning her head to look around. She noticed that people had formed a large empty space around Luo Ke, their expressions frozen in a mix of awkwardness and unease, as if they wished they could escape the elevator.

Lin Sifei sighed again—this must be the power of a villain’s presence.

She clung to Luo Ke’s arm and looked up at her cold, expressionless face. Another sigh. With that attitude, it was way too easy to offend people.

Just as she furrowed her little cat brows, her vision suddenly went black. A hand had covered her eyes and pressed her head back into Luo Ke’s shoulder.

Lin Sifei gave a small kick to Luo Ke’s arm but obediently stopped moving.

The elevator arrived at their floor, and Lin Sifei felt the subtle rise and fall of Luo Ke’s steps as they walked. Something was poking her back uncomfortably. She shifted her position and reached out with a paw to push against it.

The rough, textured surface under her paw startled her. Realizing what she had just touched, she yanked her paw back instantly, her face heating up.

Lin Sifei covered her face with her paws. Then, recalling what she had just touched, she quickly moved them away, her whole body practically steaming with embarrassment.

Luo Ke’s office was at the right end of the hallway, just past the secretary’s desk.

Seeing her approach, Assistant Zhao stood up and handed over a document. “President Luo, Chen Corporation just called. Their president has an urgent matter, so this morning’s meeting needs to be rescheduled. There are also adjustments to these other appointments…”

Luo Ke nodded and gave a few instructions. “Move the department meeting to this morning, especially the business discussion—have the department head focus on that report.”

“Understood, President Luo.”

Taking the documents, Luo Ke entered her office and set Lin Sifei down on the carpet before sitting at her desk to work.

Lin Sifei wandered around the office. Bored out of her mind, she yawned and curled up beside the sofa to nap.

By the time she woke up, it was already noon. She rubbed her eyes and looked around—there was no one in the office. Feeling a bit anxious, she circled the room before running to the door.

Luo Ke’s office had a heavy wooden door, and Lin Sifei…

Lin Sifei couldn't open the door with her own strength.

She raised her front paws and scratched at the door while meowing loudly.

Suddenly, the door swung open. Looking up, she saw Secretary Zhao standing outside. Lin Sifei immediately meowed even more enthusiastically.

“Oh? You’re awake.” Secretary Zhao bent down and picked her up. “President Luo is in a meeting.”

As she spoke, she placed a small piece of sliced apple into a bowl for her. Lin Sifei smacked her lips and sat obediently on the secretary’s desk, nibbling on the apple.

Seeing her behave so well, Secretary Zhao felt reassured and went back to her work.

Ring, ring, ring— The phone rang. It was a call from the meeting room requesting two additional sets of documents.

Secretary Zhao responded, “Understood, I’ll print them out and bring them over.”

Once the documents were ready, she picked them up and glanced at the cat sitting alone on the desk. “Oh no,” she muttered, “President Luo told me to take care of you—I can’t leave you here alone.”

Looking around, she saw that the other secretaries were busy. With no other choice, she scooped up the cat with one arm and grabbed the folder with the other before heading toward the office.

As she passed the elevator, the doors slid open, and a woman with a high ponytail stepped out. Her eyes lit up when she saw Secretary Zhao.

“Secretary Zhao, hello.”

Secretary Zhao gave a slight nod and continued walking.

The high ponytailed woman quickly caught up and glanced at the cat in her arms. “Are you heading to the meeting room too? Looks like we’re going the same way. Here, let me carry the documents for you.”

She reached out, but Secretary Zhao sidestepped slightly. “These are for President Luo—it wouldn’t be appropriate for you to take them.”

The woman’s smile stiffened for a moment, and she scratched her head. “I didn’t think about that. Then how about I carry the cat for you?”

“No need. You’re carrying documents too, and the cat isn’t heavy. We’ll just walk faster.”

Lin Sifei lifted her head, glancing at Secretary Zhao’s polite yet distant smile, then looked over at the high ponytailed woman. Did Secretary Zhao not like her?

She soon got her answer. After handing over the documents, Secretary Zhao rolled her eyes at the high ponytailed woman’s departing figure.

A man happened to catch this and gave her a knowing look.

Secretary Zhao scoffed and turned away. The man quickly caught up with her. “Zhao Min, don’t let your personal feelings show too much at work.”

“I just don’t like her. If it weren’t for the board members protecting her, do you think she’d have gotten into the company? Total nepotism.” She snorted, stroking Lin Sifei’s head.

“You know Yan Yafei has connections, yet you still provoke her? Just making trouble for yourself.” The man sighed. “Anyway, if this deal goes well, President Luo will definitely hand out bonuses. That should make you happy, right?”

“Assistant Lin, really? Is this deal that important?”

“Of course. Haven’t you noticed that President Luo is personally overseeing it?”

The two huddled together, excitedly discussing the size of the potential bonus—meanwhile, Lin Sifei was completely frozen in shock.

That high ponytailed woman… was the female lead?!

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