The Cat Ghost was a mass of resentment formed from countless cats that had been tortured to death. In fact, even before Qi Gu's talisman summoned it, it had already been secretly following Jiang Haojie.
Of course, it could have used illusions on Jiang Haojie directly to make him suffer, but it had seen how obsessed he was with his reputation. It wanted to destroy the honors Jiang Haojie had earned through the deaths of its fellow cats!
Having seen so much, the Cat Ghost naturally knew how important the internet was to humans.
To take revenge, the Cat Ghost kept up with the times and spent several months hanging around an internet café, watching humans skillfully operate computers. Most people went there to play games, and watching from the sidelines left the Cat Ghost utterly baffled. It also had to endure the overwhelming stench of secondhand smoke in the air.
It was almost ready to decide this had been a stupid idea when a middle-aged woman in her forties began appearing frequently at the café. She operated the computer with clumsy movements completely different from everyone else's, stopping every so often to look at the instructional video in front of her. It seemed to be a tutorial for human office software.
The Cat Ghost promptly chose to keep its eyes on this middle-aged woman.
Later, through conversations between the woman and the daughter who brought her meals, the Cat Ghost gradually learned about her past. It was a clichéd story, really: her husband had died young, and she had raised her daughter alone. Now she was getting older and could no longer do that sort of physical labor, while her daughter was only in high school and still needed tuition money.
With her daughter's encouragement, the middle-aged woman planned