Stunned! My Cat Turned Out to Be a Female CEO - Chapter 22:

Chapter 22: Do You Feel Like Being Pampered?! Dogs Are Indeed Dogs!

Lu Fei looked at the cat, who bared its teeth at him as if trying to scare him, and clicked his tongue. “Show some respect to your master.” The moment the words left his mouth, the cat bristled with anger. Lu Fei chuckled and reached out to rub its head, gripping the back of its neck gently. “Look at how good I am to you, and yet you still get angry.”

“I’ll order takeout first, and I’ll buy you some meat today,” he added casually.

Meat?

“Meow,” Xu Yan responded instinctively, confused. That was it? Just one sentence about not running away? No scolding? She was dumbfounded. Dog man, I used your cup to wash my paws! I even scratched up your sofa! Shouldn’t you at least be furious?!

While Xu Yan was still stunned, Lu Fei pulled out his phone and ordered a medium-spicy lamb fried rice noodle. He also bought two kilograms of beef and two kilograms of chicken breast from the nearby supermarket, asking the delivery guy to bring them together. Including the meat, the total was nearly 190 yuan. The cost of living in the imperial capital was indeed sky-high.

Once the order was placed, Lu Fei put down his phone and looked at the cat. “Keep scratching if you want. I bought the sofa myself. If you tear it up, I’ll just buy a new one. The cup is also yours. You can use it to wash your paws anytime.” The sofa only cost 3,000 yuan—nothing that couldn’t be replaced.

“Meow!” Xu Yan was left speechless. She slapped Lu Fei lightly with her paw and ran into the corner, glaring at him with mixed emotions. She had been working hard, scratching the sofa until her paws were sore, just to make him angry. She had been hoping to see him upset, to see that distressed look on his face. Just imagining it made her feel better.

But… Lu Fei wasn’t angry at all!

Instead, it was she who ended up frustrated.

On top of that, she couldn’t understand the complex feelings that welled up inside her. She had been born with a silver spoon, heir to the trillions owned by the Mingyu Group. Since she could remember, everyone around her had already defined her identity—Miss Xu, CEO, future Chairwoman. Her father, Xu Aimin, treated her well but placed strict expectations on her. “You are the future chairwoman of Mingyu Group. You must do better than anyone else,” he often reminded her.

As a child, Xu Yan hadn’t fully grasped these concepts. She simply followed the family’s arrangements, growing up, studying, surrounded by classmates, teachers, and friends who always knew her identity first before knowing her as a person.

Xu Yan never liked that feeling. Just like when people would say she should act like a man and take responsibility, be like a woman and be gentle, or behave like a student and be obedient. Who said men had to be responsible, women couldn’t be fierce, or students couldn’t be rebellious? But by the time she understood these things, she had also accepted her role and responsibilities within the massive Mingyu Group.

But the dog man… was different.

Just now, when Lu Fei spoke those words to her, she actually felt… pampered? Even though she wasn’t the CEO in his eyes, and even when she did something wrong, he didn’t scold her. It was the same over the past two days—she wasn’t the CEO, just a stray cat, yet Lu Fei still searched for her, cared for her, regardless of her identity.

She couldn’t figure out why he did this, and the more confused she became, the more obvious the strange feeling inside her heart grew.

How annoying.

It made Xu Yan irritated.

Lost in thought, she snapped back when she heard Lu Fei imitating her cat cry, “Ha!” from afar.

Xu Yan was stunned. What the…? Her eyes turned cold, a trace of murderous intent flashing in them. Dogs will always be dogs. Is this how a normal person talks to a cat? Sure enough, she and Lu Fei would have to fight to the death one day for this to end.

Lu Fei walked over. Xu Yan tried to run, but the moment she jumped down, he grabbed her by the stomach, lifting her midair, leaving her with no way to escape.

“I think you have too much free time,” Lu Fei teased. “Come, let me take a couple of breaths.”

He grabbed her front paws, pressed her down, and buried his face into her stomach, taking a deep breath. “Ahh… that’s the stuff,” he said with satisfaction.

After a day of work, nothing beat coming home and taking a puff of cat belly. It was pure bliss.

Xu Yan lay there, expressionless. She wanted to resist, but the dog man was too strong, firmly holding her down by the paws. She couldn’t escape. Well, it wasn’t like this was the first time. She comforted herself silently. When she finally kills this dog man one day, no one will know she was ever held and rubbed like this.

Life wasn’t easy, and CEO Xu sighed quietly.

After rubbing her for a while, Lu Fei carried her to the sofa and tore open a cat treat strip. “Come on, have some? Master is rewarding you.”

Xu Yan stared at Lu Fei as if he were an idiot. Being rubbed was already the limit of what she could tolerate. Asking her to take the initiative to lick food from his hand? Dream on! This was her bottom line.

Though, admittedly, her bottom line was flexible and had been broken many times, this time was different!

No matter how fragrant the cat strip was, she had her dignity.

Lu Fei waved the treat in front of her, but seeing how stubborn she was, refusing to open her mouth, he gave up. “Fine, let me teach you how to read the stock market.”

He grabbed her front paws with one hand, pulling her into his arms. “This is the stock price, this is the share, and this is called amplitude.”

Xu Yan struggled. Dog man! Who allowed you to hold me like this?!

But when Lu Fei started talking about financial knowledge, she stopped struggling and decided to listen. After all, this was her purpose for being here. If the dog man taught her something useful, she could just leave after learning it.

Lu Fei finished the basics, then said, “The rest is about keeping an eye on the news and identifying key points. For example, Colan Pharmaceuticals. If you look at their recent news, the stock is going to rise. I estimate an 8% increase.”

Xu Yan blinked slowly, forming a mental question mark.

She understood everything up until now.

But how did he jump to that conclusion so fast? It was like she had just lowered her head, and the math teacher had already written the answer on the blackboard.

Xu Yan felt numb.

Can you not use the language of your dog world? Can you explain it in a way humans can understand?!