Dating should happen after get off work.

After get off work, "after get off work".

"Let's get a cat together!"

On a sweltering early July night, Xia Xiaoman slammed her hand on the table and stood up, her voice louder than the rock music on the radio.

"cat?"

Jiang Sheng remained in the position of drinking his cocktail, looking at her with surprise.

The large orange cat, which was curled up on Jiang Sheng's lap, obediently raised its head and looked at Xia Xiaoman.

At the same time, looking at her were Li Youhe, who was quietly reading "Killing Commendatore," and Lu Sanqian, who was scrolling through his phone.

Clearly, everyone's eyes were conveying the same message—Are you alright?

Jiang Sheng put down his cup, slipped his hands under the big orange cat's armpits, and lifted the cat up in front of him like pulling a radish.

"As for cats, isn't there one here?"

"Meow," the orange cat meowed in agreement.

Xia Xiaoman deflated like a punctured balloon, resting her chin on the table with a displeased expression, and looked at Jiang Sheng with a blank stare.

"But Lao Huang only lets you hug him."

It's strange, Old Huang is a cat that has been fed by many families. It's usually very well-behaved when you pet it, but when you try to hug it, its body becomes as slippery as jelly.

It's impossible to pick it up.

Besides the shop owner, Lao Zhou, only Jiang Sheng can hold it.

This made Xia Xiaoman extremely jealous.

"It's decided!" Xia Xiaoman stood up and raised her right hand. "Let's have a meeting! The topic is 'getting a cat'!"

Jiang Sheng always felt that this was a silly idea that Xia Xiaoman came up with on a whim.

But when he looked at the other two's performance—Li Youhe placed the bookmark on the page she was reading and put away the novel, and Lu Sanqian also turned off his phone screen.

The two women looked on with great interest, and it was clear without them saying a word that they agreed with the plan to get a cat.

After downing his cocktail in one gulp, Jiang Sheng roughly calculated that just considering the question of what breed of cat to keep and where to keep it would be an extremely complicated process.

It's not that I'm not interested; raising a cat with friends is certainly an option.

After thinking it over, Jiang Sheng nodded.

"Alright, let's start the meeting then."

"Yay!"

Xia Xiaoman raised her arms and shouted, then slyly opened the bag she was carrying.

It's more like a cloth bag than a handbag, sacrificing all aesthetics for practicality; its advantage is that it can hold a lot.

Just as Jiang Sheng had a premonition that she might pull out something drastic, Xia Xiaoman took out a wooden plaque with the three characters "Bai Jiazhen" written on it.

This was recorded once last Saturday on the way to Jiang Sheng's house.

She placed the wooden plaque beside her and clasped her hands together in a devout prayer.

Seeing the others' questioning looks, she smiled and explained, "Since it's a meeting, Xiaobai has to attend too!"

Did she know she was dead and being worshipped?

Jiang Sheng asked.

"Hey! I'll video call her! Let her participate in the discussion remotely!" Xia Xiaoman said enthusiastically.

Well, how should I put it?

If Xia Xiaoman isn't naturally masochistic, then she must be a submissive.

He enjoys being scolded by Bai Jiazhen.

To make a video call, place your phone against the wooden sign and wait for the other party to answer.

The phone rang a few times...

pass!

They actually answered the phone!

"You'd better really have something to tell me."

Bai Jiazhen's cold voice came from the phone.

In the video, she is wearing a white lab coat, and through the coat, you can vaguely see that the lining is a black uniform. The phone seems to be leaning against her workstation, at a distance that is just enough to accommodate her entire body.

She sat on a chair, propping up half her face, her black hair cascading down to one side like a waterfall, her long, shapely legs encased in black stockings, making her look exceptionally alluring.

Her lips were bright red, suggesting she was wearing light makeup, but it couldn't hide the fatigue left on her face from working overtime. She wasn't looking at the screen but was dealing with the documents in her hands.

After a long pause, the phone finally made a sound, and the person glanced over.

After making eye contact with Jiang Sheng, who was sitting directly opposite him, his expression subtly changed, as if...

"Why is it that the video sent from Xia Xiaoman's phone features a slug?" Bai Jiazhen said calmly.

"This time it's a slug," Jiang Sheng greeted her with a smile. "The nicknames you give people are still so cute."

"Is this a popular joke among slugs lately?"

Bai Jiazhen was the most elegant woman Jiang Sheng had ever met, or rather, she possessed a fatal attraction.

This stems from Bai Jiazhen's somewhat aloof personality.

Not a mean or mean person, Bai Jiazhen is actually a very nice person, mature and generous, just a bit sharp-tongued.

With that pretty face that seems uninterested in everything, she utters "vicious" words that are almost cute, which inexplicably arouses a strange desire to conquer her.

Jiang Sheng quite liked Bai Jiazhen—especially after they slept together.

It wasn't anything serious. The process was simply meeting, drinking, getting drunk, the atmosphere becoming ambiguous, my brain becoming out of control, plus her verbal provocation, so I took her to a hotel and had sex with her.

After that, they naturally acted as if nothing had happened, and the friends continued their relationship. They were all adults and not so bad at taking a joke.

Jiang Sheng has done this kind of thing many times.

But Bai Jiazhen was different. Jiang Sheng cherished the friendship between them, especially since it was her first time.

In the days that followed, Jiang Sheng tried his best to be accommodating to her and maintain the relationship. Fortunately, the relationship did improve considerably. For Bai Jiazhen, the manifestation of a good relationship was that her words became even more adorable (and venomous).

"Little White! I miss you so much!"

Xia Xiaoman leaned her face close to the side of the phone, smiling as she looked at her.

On the other side, Li Youhe greeted Bai Jiazhen in the video with a slight smile. Xiao Lu also appeared in the video, but in the far corner, waving her hands in front of her chest with a slightly shy smile.

Bai Jiazhen sighed, put down the documents in her hand for the time being, and faced the camera directly.

"What's up?"

"Hello, business!" Xia Xiaoman practically shoved her face into the screen. "Can't I call you if there's nothing important?"

"No, or at least shouldn't be."

"That's going too far!"

"Xia Xiaoman's been clamoring to get a cat." Jiang Sheng brushed Xia Xiaoman's head aside, picked up his phone, switched to the front-facing camera, and pointed it at the wooden sign. "I want to discuss this with you... This is your ID tag, do you like it?"

Then you can see the girl in the video slightly frowning, her eyelashes trembling slightly as her emotions intensify.

"Is the slug there?"

"I'm here."

Jiang Sheng switched his phone back to the front-facing camera and looked at Bai Jiazhen with a smile.

"Help me deliver the fatal blow to Xia Xiaoman, then dump her body in international waters."

"receive."

"How could you do this!" Xia Xiaoman snatched the phone, rubbing her face against the screen. "I love you so much, Xiaobai!"

Even through the screen, you could hear Bai Jiazhen's long sigh.