Doctor Gu’s Orange Cat Boyfriend - Chapter 20

【Stop! You wicked woman!】

Hidden in the shadows, Lin Xiaomiao didn’t hesitate. She lunged from beneath the car, determined to stop her even if it meant revealing himself!

But at that critical moment—

“Click!”

Every light in the underground garage suddenly flashed on!

“Miss Qiao, what are you doing to my cat?”

Qiao Weiwei’s raised foot froze mid-air.

She slowly turned her head and saw Gu Chaoyu standing in the light not far away.

“Dr… Dr. Gu?” Qiao Weiwei’s voice trembled. She immediately withdrew her foot, waving her hands frantically to explain, “I… I wasn’t… I saw it hiding under the car and wouldn’t come out. I was afraid it was in danger, so I wanted… wanted to get it out…”

Gu Chaoyu paid no attention to her excuses.

walking straight past her to the Bentley. He slowly crouched down.

“Orange, don’t be afraid. Come here.”

Hearing Gu Chaoyu’s voice, Orange (No. 2) let out a “meow” and darted out from under the car, burrowing straight into his arms.

Gu Chaoyu gently stroked it, then picked it up tenderly, cradling it against his chest.

“Miss Qiao, do you know how I found this place?”

Qiao Weiwei instinctively shook her head.

“I went to the surveillance room,” Gu Chaoyu said calmly. “From the moment you pretended to leave to when you entered the stairwell, the cameras captured everything clearly. That scene just now, where you lifted your foot here. It should be on the surveillance replay too.”

“Miss Qiao, you needn’t come to my clinic anymore. I can heal your body, but not your heart.”

Qiao Weiwei felt darkness swirling before her eyes, nearly losing her balance.

Lin Xiaomiao, hiding under the car, witnessed every detail.

[Gu Chanoyu…]

[He’s so handsome…]

[For the sake of Orange, he actually… he actually did that…]

Gu Chaoyu cradled the cat, casting a cold glance at the dazed Qiao Weiwei before turning to leave without another word.

Lin Xiaomiao watched his figure vanish into the garage exit before snapping back to reality. He hurried home and transformed back into human form.

At the same time, Lin Mucí’s phone buzzed with a message from Gu Chaoyu: Orange has been found.

“Gu Chaoyu!” Lin Mucí raced to Gu Chaoyu’s apartment, snatched the cat from his arms, and cradled it against his chest, inspecting it from head to toe. “You found him! Thank goodness! Is he okay?”

“He’s fine, just a bit shaken.”

“From now on, we have to watch over our ‘Orange’ together. We can’t let bad people bully it anymore.”

…

Lin Mucí returned home, still floating on cloud nine.

His mind felt like it was playing an old film reel, endlessly looping the image of Gu Chaoyu in the garage.

Especially that final line—

“From now on, we have to take good care of our ‘Orange’ together.”

【!!!!!!】

【Our Orange…】

【It’s ‘we’! ‘We’! Aaaaaah!】

Lin Mucí covered his burning cheeks, his heart racing like crazy.

He admitted it. He was pathetic.

Gu Chaoyu had probably just said it offhand, without any deeper meaning. But he couldn’t help but read into it, couldn’t stop his heart from racing.

That image of the man under the lights, holding the cat while facing off against Qiao Weiwei, it was just… perfect!

Boyfriend material… no, husband material through and through!

Just as he was drowning in his own pink fantasy bubble, his phone dinged, popping up a green message bubble.

It was his cousin, Su Wanqing.

【She-Devil】: Little Ci, this empress will grace your home tonight. Prepare dinner immediately and come out to greet me.

【She-Devil】: Just wrapped up a business deal nearby. Dropping by for a surprise inspection of your living conditions. Arriving at 7:30.

Reading this, Lin Mucí’s pink bubble shattered into a thousand pieces.

He bolted upright from the sofa, glancing at the time on his phone: 6:45.

Glancing around his “doghouse”…

Takeout boxes piled in the corner of the coffee table, strands of hair plucked while typing and fur shed by Orange (No. 2) “complemented” each other on the floor. His sweatshirt from yesterday lay tossed on the couch, and a pair of underwear he hadn’t bothered to put away still hung over the balcony chair…

【Holy shit! I’m screwed! The She-Devil is coming!】

【Isn’t she supposed to be working in the east part of town?! How did she suddenly end up near my place?!】

【A surprise inspection? More like a full-scale raid!】

Lin Mucí jolted awake, every cell in his body sounding a Level 1 emergency alert!

Su Wanqing, his dear cousin was a woman who was decisive and efficient at work, yet meddled in his life more than his own mother. Every time she visited, it was like a government inspection. She could nitpick everything from cobwebs on the ceiling to three-month-old ketchup in his fridge.

If she saw this mess now, she’d turn into a verbal machine gun, tearing him to shreds!

“No way. I need to go into battle mode immediately!”

With that, he rolled up his sleeves, swiftly clearing the trash from the coffee table, shoving all the dirty laundry into the washing machine, and frantically vacuuming cat hair and strands of hair off the floor.

As he frantically wiped down the table, his hand brushed against a water cup.

He glanced at it instinctively. A gray mug.

He remembered clearly that Gu Chaoyu had the same model at home, only in blue. He’d spotted it during his last visit and found it so appealing that he’d impulsively ordered an identical one in a different color online.

【…Why did I buy this mug again?】

Lin Mucí shook his head, unable to recall.

He set the mug aside and turned to tidy the throw pillows on the sofa.

One, two… Wait, this pillow looks strangely familiar?

Oh, right. Gu Chaoyu had an identical one on his sofa.

Lin Mucí: “…”

【Holy crap! When did I buy so many matching items from his place?!】

He scanned the room, growing increasingly alarmed.

The same green plants, the same scented candles, even the doormat at the entrance was from the same brand!

【What the hell am I doing?! Have I unknowingly turned my home into a couple’s matching set?!】

【If that woman Su Wanqing saw this, her X-ray-like eyes would definitely spot something fishy!】

【No way! I have to hide this stuff!】

Like a thief, he quickly shoved the gray mug into the deepest corner of the cabinet, stashed the throw pillow in the wardrobe, and even temporarily removed the doormat, replacing it with an old one.

Only after finishing all this did he exhale a long sigh of relief.

“Ding-dong—”

His phone buzzed again.

Lin Mucí assumed it was his cousin nagging him again, but when he picked it up, it was Gu Chaoyu.