Chapter 45: You Are The Cutest Baby In The World

Su Li returned home and set the cats down on the floor before starting to tidy up the room, planning to give the sofa cover a quick wash.

Hearing the occasional “meow” in her ears helped ease her mood.

Whenever a cat rubbed against her feet, she would gently pat its head and play with it for a while.

Maybe because she was already skilled at giving massages, even the cats couldn’t resist her touch.

They’d lie down with their limbs stretched out, purring contentedly.

After playing with the cats for a bit, Su Li began preparing their litter boxes, beds, and mats.

She opened the Kangaroo delivery app and quickly started picking out the things she needed.

Since it was already quite late, even though same-day delivery was possible in S City, she couldn’t count on it arriving tonight.

Still, the Kangaroo app allowed her to choose certain essentials that could be delivered quickly by food couriers straight to her door.

“Ding dong.”

“Ding dong.”

“Ding dong.”

She had just completed her order when her phone began vibrating non-stop in her hand.

Just as she expected, the pop-up notifications were from Xiao Yuyu.

[Cute Little Fish Roll: Log on!]

[Cute Little Fish Roll: Log on!]

[Cute Little Fish Roll: Log on!]

[……]

Even though the messages were just repeats, she didn’t bother hitting the “+1” button— Xiao Yuyu had copied and pasted each one manually, managing to flood the chat to 99+ messages in a short time.

Su Li noticed that Xiao Yuyu’s latest message had been sent exactly at the time they had agreed on— down to the second.

She wasn’t sure whether Xiao Yuyu had been watching a stopwatch or something, but it felt like the moment the clock hit the agreed-upon time, she instantly hit send on the prewritten message.

[Chang Li: 1]

Su Li scrolled through the chat window to make sure there were no other urgent messages before replying.

Even though a game session with Xiao Yuyu took 20 minutes and only earned her 500 yuan— much less cost-effective than servicing Jin Ke’er or Bai Huizi— Xiao Yuyu was a long-term client.

And when Su Li had nothing else going on, she didn’t mind earning whatever she could.

Each cat needed at least 20 square meters of space to roam.

With multiple cats, the space requirement grew even more significant.

Cats needed their own territory to avoid stress from territorial conflicts.

Su Li wanted her cats to live well.

Right now, she could only house five of them.

If she wanted to take in more, she needed to earn more money — much more.

Even with over three million yuan in savings in her account, it still didn’t give her a sense of security.

As an emotional therapist, her career depended on her youth— until she could figure out how quickly her body aged, this job was essentially a “youth-limited” one.

She didn’t know whether, once her body started aging, she could still rely on it to make a living— even if her energy remained high and she had exceptional self-healing abilities.

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[Cute Little Fish Roll: Baby, this is the game I grinded for you~]

[Chang Li: Thank you, baby]

Su Li didn’t fully understand what she was looking at, since she hadn’t been keeping up with the in-game events.

But judging from the number of rune fragments and gold coins, it was definitely more than what Xiao Yuyu had sent her last time.

Xiao Yuyu had given her full access to the account.

All Su Li had to do was log in by scanning the code whenever they played together.

[Cute Little Fish Roll: Baby, I sent you a new skin— go check it out.]

Following the instructions, Su Li opened the in-game mail and saw a little girl in a dress with light blue hair.

It was the character she usually played.

There wasn’t much difficulty with it.

She just had to stick close to Xiao Yuyu, protect her, and ride on her head when her ultimate was ready.

The ultimate provided a shield.

Once it broke, she just had to hop off and wait for the cooldown.

It wasn’t mechanically difficult, and she didn’t need to do much else.

Playing a match with Xiao Yuyu wasn’t hard.

The real job was managing her emotions and backing her up when she flamed teammates.

One thing she had to be careful about: the ultimate could not be used on other teammates— even if they were low on HP— otherwise, Xiao Yuyu would get very upset.

Serving the client was her duty— it was her bottom line.

So Su Li didn’t think much of it.

Even if it wasn’t exactly right, as a companion player, it was her job to take care of the client’s feelings.

[Chang Li: Thank you baby, this skin is so cute, I love it so much!!!]

Su Li stared at her reflection on the phone screen.

Her face was completely blank.

She had no idea what kind of image Xiao Yuyu conjured up in her mind when reading her messages— maybe she imagined her being genuinely happy?

[Cute Little Fish Roll: Really? Baby, I’m glad you like it. Just use that skin for me today, okay?]

[Chang Li: Mhm, baby, I’m already logging in. Just invite me when you’re ready.]

After replying, Su Li glanced at the cats, each one doing their own thing, then opened the game.

“Hey hey, baby, can you hear me?”

A soft, sugary loli voice came from the phone’s speaker.

Su Li nodded and put on her headphones.

She used to wear them because she was afraid of disturbing Chi Qingya and getting scolded.

Now, it was to avoid bothering her cats.

“I can hear you, baby. Let’s start. Are you feeling sad, baby? Your voice sounds like you’re about to cry.”

Su Li immediately picked up on the slight tremble in Xiao Yuyu’s voice.

She sounded distracted, like she was forcing herself to sound upbeat.

Even though she could sense the effort behind that tone, Su Li knew what she had to do— go along with her and offer comfort.

“Baby… wuwuwu… today… today, a really close friend yelled at me.”

“I didn’t even do anything wrong. I treated her like my best friend, and she still said that to me.”

“She called me… called me a ‘big flying pillar’… said I was naturally gross. That my whole loli act just made her want to gag.”

“She even said she had to run to the bathroom to puke. Said my emoticons were disgusting.”

“She said only maggots could understand the beauty of shit, and that normal people never could…”

Hearing the hurt in the soft, whimpering voice coming through her headset, Su Li went quiet.

She tried to think of something comforting to say, but no words came to mind.

After a moment passed and she realized she had to say something, she finally spoke slowly:

“Baby, don’t pay attention to what they say. You’re definitely not a big flying pillar.”

“You are the cutest baby in the whole world!”

There was no response on the mic for a long while— only the sound of quiet sobbing, growing just a little louder.