Chapter 14: The Breakthrough

There is a saying that being curious about a person of the opposite sex is often a harbinger of falling in love.

Curiosity may be considered a good thing in human terms, but bar ...

Curiosity kills the cat.

Selene's head instantly recalled the saying, which might have been a metaphor, but was now unusually realistic.

She didn't resist lifting a paw and slapping her face in an attempt to clear her head.

People have turned into cats. Why did they still have the heart to know anything about men? Did they really want to fall in love with species?

Sigh.

Selene sighed in her heart, and silently jumped down from the balcony chair again, walked out of the balcony, and returned to the dining room.

It just so happened that the three people in the dining room had almost eaten.

Faye couldn't stay here for a moment, and the moment she saw Selene, she immediately got up and thanked Rowan, picked up the orange cat, and ran back across the street as if she had her feet on the ground.

Faye didn't breathe a sigh of relief until the door closed.

She looked down at the spirited orange cat in her arms, her mood was a million times more complicated, and it took her a while before she spoke.

"I see that you seem to be fine, so I'll go back to school first."

Selene immediately looked up at this, her head shaking like a rattle.

Then she struggled and jumped off of Faye, running to find her cell phone.

"I have something else to tell you."

Faye raised an eyebrow: "What is it?"

Selene organized her words and typed her idea of wanting to do self-publishing into a memo on her phone, showing it to Faye.

"... You're a real talent." Faye was furious and laughed after reading it, "You've become like this, even if you don't hide from people, you want to film yourself making videos to make money? You're not afraid to die! Have you fallen into the eye of money?"

"What else?"

"If I don't make money, who will support me?"

"Mom, Dad or you?"

"..." Faye was speechless for a moment, and only after a while did she speak seriously: "I can."

As if to prove the possibility of this matter, Faye thought for a while, and then said: "Another year I graduated from graduate school, I checked, my professional and educational into the big factory research and development post a year 200,000 or have, by the time you find a job, make money to support a you are still more than enough."

Selene froze for a few seconds, resolutely raised her claws and typed another row of words.

Faye was still a bit embarrassed after saying those words, but when she fixed her eyes on Selene's words, she was immediately enraged.

"I don't want to be bound to you for the rest of my life."

"You!" Faye's face reddened with anger, "But you're beautiful! You make it sound like I want to be tied to you!"

Selene was at peace and continued typing.

"It's okay, if you don't want to, I'll think of something else."

"..." Faye skimmed her head after taking a deep breath, wanting to say something, and finally said in a twisted voice, "Tch, I didn't say I didn't want it at all... ..."

A flash of realization and a smile flickered in Selene's eyes.

"Then come when you're free, I'll arrange what I'm going to record in advance, it won't take you long"

Faye didn't look closely at what Selene had typed because her own cell phone was ringing non-stop.

"I know, I know, I know, okay, I really have to go." Faye's brow furrowed slightly before she nodded in Selene's direction, picked up the phone, opened the door and walked quickly towards the elevator.

"Faye what the hell are you up to! Where'd the people go? I just realized you're not here in person! That data set is due tomorrow ah ..."

Selene's hearing at this point was perfectly capable of hearing how angry the girl screaming at the top of her lungs on Faye's phone was.

Her grumpy sister, however, was turning a deaf ear at that moment, and took out her softest tone, and deliberately lowered her voice, replying:

"I'm sorry senior sister, I'm in a bit of a hurry, I'll be right back now."

But it was really gentle without words.

...

The voice gradually faded away.

The room returned to silence, as if the bustle just now was all an illusion.

Selene stood still, a little bit in a trance.

I don't know if it was an illusion, but she always felt that the house, which was already very big, had now become even bigger, making her look extra small.

And the life that she thought she had gotten used to was suddenly a bit uncomfortable again.

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Two days later.

Selene was still dreaming when she heard the loud doorbell, one after another, like a continuous tide burying her straight away.

Who is it? Disturbing sleep!

With a monstrous amount of resentment, Selene rubbed her eyes and walked to the electronic screen of the visual doorbell, only to realize that the visitor was Faye.

She opened the door.

"You really are, what time is it, ah, still sleeping so much, the phone can't be reached, I can only get the security guard to help me press the elevator, and I'm still being trolled for being too careless ..."

Faye complained while carrying a big bag and small bag and squeezed into the door.

Selene looked at the light purple suitcases lying on the floor, and a question mark slowly appeared on her head. "What's the situation? What's all this?"

"My luggage." Faye crossed her arms, quite literally, "Starting today, I'm staying here."

Selene:...?

Faye was very self-conscious as she pulled her suitcase and headed in the direction of the second bedroom.

"Don't you have another room vacant, it just so happens that my roommate and I had a fight and had no place to stay, so I came to join you. You shouldn't mind, right, sister."

Hearing this address, Selene froze in place.

She subconsciously looked out the window and realized that the sun wasn't beating up in the west before picking up in a trance, "... Whatever."

"Well, that's happily decided then, someone will deliver the bed I ordered later, so you remember to say hello to the security guard."

... This guy.

Selene shook her head helplessly, went back to her bedroom and grabbed her phone, tapping on the homeowners group.

By the time the dust had settled, it was close to evening.

Before she turned into a cat, Selene took out the "script" she had written and began to introduce Faye to the "recording" they would be doing in the evening.

"This is my studio." Selene led Faye to the room she had carefully set up.

The pet communication buttons were on the floor, set into colorful non-slip mats, and she had recorded the buttons based on the "words" that other pet bloggers had set up.

"What the hell is this?" Faye curiously crouched down and poked one of the buttons with her hand.

A female voice with a mechanical feel rang out.

"Snacks."

"Eh?" Faye quickly pressed the other buttons again as if she had discovered a new continent.

"Orange."

"Okay."

"Eat."

"Angry."

"Happy."

...

When Faye came back to her senses, she realized Selene was looking at her with a very creepy look.

"Ahem." Faye stood up and said in all seriousness, "What for, I'll try it out for you if it works well or not."

Selene spat quietly, "I think it's more appropriate for you to be the cat."

"What did you say?" Faye didn't hear.

Selene took it in stride, "No, complimenting you on your intelligence."

Faye gave a suspicious look and swept her eyes at Chiyun and asked in a bad mood, "I'm already smart, why do I need you to praise me? By the way, what do you want me to do?"

"Oh, let's see ..."

Selene reads the first episode "script" she wrote.

"You don't have to do anything, when it's time for me to go to the snack button, you cooperate and go press a 'yes' and just give me the snacks, which I've put on this shelf."

Faye frowned, "That's it?!"

"Yeah."

Faye looked at Selene with a look of stupidity, "Are you sure people watch this kind of video? And you can make money off of it?"

"That's for sure."

Although Selene answered Faye's question with affirmative words, her weak eyes still revealed that she actually had no idea.

Faye was speechless at this, but in order not to blow her own sister's self-confidence, she still held back the thought of spitting and nodded helplessly.

"Alright, just do as you say."

-

Three in the morning.

The darkened room was lit with a faint light, covering only the circle of the couch.

The image that appeared looked like a cartoon full of whimsy.

An orange cat was holding a tablet, a pair of plush paws were tapping away at the screen, the ghostly green cat eyes staring at the screen were like two large searchlights in the darkness.

Cutting the video was quite a bit harder than she thought it would be.

Selene reached out with her paw and grabbed a handful of dried fish, clicking it into her mouth as she watched the video footage in silent contemplation.

Originally it should be quite simple. Anyway, adding some subtitles emoticons will be finished, but it ... is the first time they recorded this kind of video to cooperate with the camera. It is inevitable to bump and bruise.

Selene looked at herself in the video and was frantically pressing a button.

"Anger! Get angry! Get angry ..."

And her sister is even more childish, pressing a certain button furiously against her.

"Happy! Happy! Happy ..."

...

Selene lifted a paw to her forehead.

There was a lot of recorded material, but half of it wouldn't be used, and what would be used would have to be cut out of the mishaps in the middle of it, and probably cut out Faye's "stick reading," and then re-dubbed and added to the track when she was human again.

God, it's a lot of work.

Luckily, she was a cat now and didn't have to sleep at night, so she had plenty of time to cut the video.

Selene put down the small dried fish in her hand and turned her head to unwrap another bottle of her newly purchased pet goat's milk, and just as she stuck the straw in and shivered a mouthful of it, she froze in place before she could marvel at the sweetness of the goat's milk.

That said, was she 007 in disguise?

-absolutely, or the kind that didn't pay overtime!

"Angry."

"Angry."

"Angry."

After pressing the button, Selene jumped to the side of the cat climbing frame to "parkour" for a while, before bouncing back to the sofa, gritting her teeth and continuing to cut the video.

Who said being a cat was easy? Damn it, it's not easy at all!

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"Bro, look at the video link I sent you!"

Even after going to school, Mason's presence on Rowan's side was still high.

He sent all sorts of messages over every day.

Either trolling the cafeteria food is hard to eat, or trolling the topic is too difficult, or the roommate is too annoying and the teacher is too strict ... Anyway, it's just all kinds of daily life on campus.

Seeing that the daily topics were used up, Mason changed to a new way and started to share interesting videos he saw on the internet every day.

Rowan also admired Mason's persistence and his ability to find topics, but in his heart, he also clearly knew why he was doing this.

It was nothing more than worrying about him.

It was a shame, to say the least, that he was such a big man and was causing a little kid in school to worry so much.

Perhaps, did he have to change that as well?

Looking back, Rowan had clicked on the video link Mason had sent him.

It was still a familiar cute video.

In the center of the screen, a tiny orange cat was crouching in front of a row of buttons, and it lifted its paw and pressed at one of the buttons.

"Snack."

A mechanical female voice immediately sounded.

After pressing it, the orange cat looked in a certain direction with anticipation, appearing to be looking at its owner.

"Fine, fine, want a snack right."

A hand appeared on the other side of the screen, and a freeze-dried jellybean was casually tossed at the orange cat, and after doing so, the hand pressed another button on a button.

"Okay."

The freeze dried flew in a throwing arc, and was again taken into the mouth of the orange cat after a well-executed leap.

Rowan thought that was the end of the video, but to his surprise, the orange cat finished his snack and then walked in front of the button again.

It pressed "happy".

More than being surprised that the orange cat in the video could still express its emotions, Rowan was ... more surprised that he recognized the orange cat's identity as Tangerine, the kitten owned by his next door neighbor.

It was also the same cat that was now on his cell phone screensaver.

In fact, he recognized it the other day when he was asked by his neighbor to feed him at her house.

Whether it was the orange fur with a beautiful pattern, or the pair of bright green eyes that were extraordinarily agile, or the four unusually cute "white gloves", all of them could prove their identity.

Seeing that Mason had sent a few more voice messages, Rowan opened them one by one.

"Crap, crap, crap, brother, did you notice that! It's Selene and her cat in the video eh!"

"Just how come not many people seem to be watching it? The cat is so cute!"

"Say, Selene didn't mean this when she said she works from home, did she? Can we make money from this?"

"No, no, no, I'm going to get all my classmates to like and vote for her right now."

...

Rowan clicked into Selene's homepage and clicked on a couple other videos Selene had posted.

Rowan didn't hold back a slight curl of his mouth when he saw the cat meal Orange was eating in the first video.

Just as he thought, the last time Selene hurried over to him to learn how to pick bones, it was to make cat rice.

Rowan reached for his phone and stared at the screensaver for a while longer, took a deep breath, and made a decision.

-

"This is your big money-making scheme?"

Selene looked down at the dismal data of the video site's backend on her phone and was silent for a few seconds before skillfully switching to a memo.

"It's just started, it's normal to have bad data!"

"Is it?" A skeptical light bubbled in Faye's eyes.

The orange cat at the table lifted its head and nodded vigorously, blinking in an attempt to budge.

"You can see it's still going up, and people are commenting."

"Though it's going up more slowly and there are fewer comments ..."

The last few videos posted on her account were nowhere near as good as the first video's numbers, with the number of views fluctuating between a few thousand and ten thousand, but Selene wasn't discouraged at all.

In her experience, she thinks the quality of her videos is over the top, it's just the exposure that's missing.

The first video that exploded was a shortcut, but if she wanted to do this right, she couldn't just think about shortcuts.

She had not expected Liao Liao a few videos would be able to become, do self media. The main thing is a to have patience, in order to build up a thick and thin.

But understanding is one thing. Really see the dismal data. She is still a little lost.

Just as Selene wanted to close the video site, she suddenly realized that red dots popped up in her background, and the like alerts were rising.

"What's going on?" Faye, who was standing to the side, also noticed.

Selene tapped into the comments section of her video to take a look and realized what was happening.

A painter named "Tariq" retweeted her video on Weibo and drew a cute four-panel cartoon on behalf of "Tangerine". The content of the cartoon was her video.

Selene was a bit confused, although she had thought of mobilizing her own contacts that she had saved from her previous job to attract a flow to her account.

However, it seemed that ..., an artist with millions of followers, was not within her network, was it?

Wait, why does this painter's avatar look so familiar?

Selene clicked the artist's Weibo avatar to enlarge it, and found that it was a pot of flowering cactus.

Well, this miniature cactus she seems to have seen on someone's desk. She even secretly lifted her paw and pressed on the cactus with a meat pad at that time, so she was very impressed.

... mystery solved.

It turns out that this good Samaritan who does good deeds without leaving his name is the next door neighbor.

Mason is introduced to his cousin to make a living by painting, but he is not a bit too big for this curry, just forwarded her video, and she has a lot more plays on this video, and even the fans have risen a lot.

Selene turned her head to look at her front door and sighed, how did she feel that she owed this favor more and more.

However, now was not the time to think about how to return the favor, since people sent a field to the east wind, then she was bound to seize this hard-won opportunity.

Selene decisively pulled over the tablet Luckily, she had saved quite a few videos overtime in the past few days, and there were quite a few already edited videos in the folder at this time.

She picked out the episode she thought was of the highest quality and uploaded it to the platform.

Not only that, Selene also opened WeChat and contacted the pet bloggers that she had previously worked with and had a pretty good relationship with one by one.

She asked them to help her repost her video on F-site and Weibo, striving to maximize the use of this sudden wave of traffic.

Only when she was done did Selene plop down on the couch and turn on her tablet's "Cut Fruit" game for her nightly entertainment.

She'd done all she could, and now it was time to "listen to God".

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