131 Cash In ? (1/2)

At 11.55 pm that night, Zhao Yao was beside himself. He was not playing with his cats or his computer games. He was just lying on the sofa in the living room with his eyes glued to the ceiling. He was waiting for the clock to strike 12.

”Under normal circumstances, I should be able to receive the experience points from my monthly mission at 12 am which signified the start of a new month.”

Regardless of the number of experience points received, Zhao Yao was confident that he could upgrade his cats by 1 or 2 levels.

He took out his BOOK and stared at it.

His book was lv3 at the moment. Because of the ”X2 Exp Card” which he had been using, his experience points had already accumulated to lv3(1204/2000).

Matcha who was also affected by the card had reached lv4 (660/2000).

Zhao Yao only received one diamond each day for completing his daily missions. However, he had to use two diamonds every day to purchase the ”X2 Exp Card” for both his BOOK and Matcha. Hence, he had used up many of his diamonds and was left with just 5.

He decided to only purchase the ”X2 Exp Card” for his BOOK starting from next month. By using the diamond he earned from his daily missions on his BOOK, he could save the remaining five diamonds for any emergencies.

Other than the ”X2 Exp Card” in diamond hall, there was also ”Power Up Card” which could be activated at a critical juncture.

Zhao Yao then flipped to the pages on Dust Ball and Elizabeth.

Elizabeth was not given the ”X2 Exp Card” and was currently lv3 (498/1000). If Zhao Yao added the points from the BOOK to Elizabeth, she could level up instantly.

Meanwhile, Dust Ball was currently lv3(330/1000). She could also level up instantly if Zhao Yao decided to pump the points from the BOOK to her. After all the time that they had spent together coupled with the power of Celestial Beats and the lure of catmint, her loyalty had increased to 95, just 5 points short of 100.

While Zhao Yao was immersed in his thoughts, the clock had unknowingly struck 12 and the new month had begun.

The words beneath the monthly mission panel also changed.

There was a tick right next to the mission which signified the completion of the task. Under the reward section, it wrote that after deducting the utility bills and the money spent on cat food and the automatic self-cleaning litter box, the profit was RMB 102,333 and he could earn 200 experience points. He could collect the points by clicking on the button which would automatically refresh the mission for the month.

Zhao Yao would earn 100 experience points for every RMB 50,000 earned. He immediately exchanged one diamond for an ”X2 Exp Card” in diamond hall and used it on the BOOK before receiving the points from the monthly mission.

Instantly, 400 experience points were added to the BOOK, and it now read, Book: lv3(1604/2000)

Zhao Yao sighed as he thought, ”What a pity I spent the first half of the month improving the café's popularity. I did not earn enough money to upgrade the book by 1 level. However, these 400 points should be sufficient for me to upgrade both Dust Ball and Elizabeth to level 4.

Thankfully, I managed to cut my cost to the lowest. If I spend just a few thousand more, my profit would have dipped below RMB 100,000 and the experience points earned would reduce by half.

And there's still the problem of rental and tax. If I had to pay them myself, the experience points earned would be zero.”

However, this was a problem which Zhao Yao could not avoid. A cat café's operating cost had always been significantly higher than typical cafes. Hence it was rare to see a cat café occupying such a central location.

Furthermore, Zhao Yao only bought and fed his cats with the most premier cat food. One month worth of cat food was equivalent to the amount of money 20 college students spent on food.

Zhao Yao started extrapolating the café's business based on its steadily climbing popularity and believed that the profit and experience points earned next month would be way more than this time. The corner of his mouth quirked up at the thought of it.

He could never resist a mission which allowed him to gain both experience points and money.

”Now, it's time to add the experience points to the cats. Let's start with Elizabeth.”

Zhao Yao's entire face lit up as he thought about upgrading Elizabeth. Matcha gave him an excellent ability when he was upgraded to level 4 the previous time. Zhao Yao eagerly anticipated what Elizabeth could give him.

He transferred the experience points from the BOOK to Elizabeth, and she leveled up instantly. It now read lv4(0/2000).