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Chapter 1: What unexpected events did a cat feeder capture in California?
There are so many things that you wouldn't even think have cameras, but they do. And they're potentially recording you. And it sounds nefarious. It's not all nefarious. It's just unexpected is all. Like ovens, a lot of smart ovens, they have cameras inside the oven to utilize AI to detect what type of food you're putting in there so that they can cook it to completion without you having to think.
which I guess inside the oven is much less invasive than, say, like a robot vacuum. Those things have cameras and as they roam around cleaning your hardwood floors, the camera is scanning to make sure that there's no obstacles in the way, like you getting out of the shower butt naked. Even those little automatic pet feeders for your cats, they typically come with cameras.
And I do think that that's a feature that a lot of people want. They want to see their cats eating. They want to make sure that their cats are getting fed if they're at work. Unless you're this guy who posts on Reddit. Okay, so this is kind of a complicated one, but here goes. My girlfriend got a new job.
So she got one of those auto feeders for her cat because she's going to be away a lot more now. And it's like a doctor feeder. So it has a camera in it and it can connect to Wi-Fi.
What's a doctor feeder you say?
I think it's one of those fancy cat feeders. And he says it can connect to Wi-Fi. She can actually look at the camera while she's at work and even talk through it and send the cat treats. And it comes through the cat feeder. I said initially, I don't like the idea of you having a camera in the living room. But she was like, it's my place, so you shut the fuck up. So I did. I shut the fuck up.
Anyhow, flash forward a couple of weeks on a Friday. I get out early and I was supposed to go to her place that night. But I just went out like two in the afternoon to chill until she got back home from work. I lay down on the couch, I completely forget about the camera and I eventually start self-pleasuring because that's something that I just do.
And apparently she's at work talking to her colleague about this cat and decides that she wants to show her colleague how she feeds it a treat and see if the cat comes over. So she turns the camera on with her colleague over her shoulder and here I am on the couch Just beating it. She's obviously very pissed off. Like, how often do you do this? Which is not often.
And she would say things like, you violated my space and all of this. And we've been fighting on and off for a few weeks now. And then to top it off, her colleague found my Instagram and has been liking some of my photos.
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Chapter 2: What alarming actions did Tony take in the early morning hours?
Like, even ones that my girlfriend's not even in. And it's just kind of got me thinking, like... Am I the asshole? I mean, that feels honestly more like a user problem than a cat feeder with a built-in camera problem. The cat feeders will just capture the cat sprinting to the feeder typically.
And you'll hear the food come out, the kittens being startled by the new... There's a lot of viral cat feeder videos. The cat food will tumble out and then the kittens will get so scared they jump like three feet in the air like a circus animal. It's usually just like more on the wholesome spectrum.
People just love the cat videos, which is exactly why Tony and Ivy, this is a couple with two cats. They get a cat feeder. So Tony and Ivy and their two cats and they get that cat feeder and they put it in their house. And on this particular day, this cat feeder is picking up something, just a lot of things, alarming things.
But there's no built-in system to call the authorities because something is alarming or even call the people who own the pet feeder. All this cat feeder does is just record.
So this computer records by itself?
Yeah.
Oh, like a security camera?
Almost. They keep a data log. A little past midnight at 1221, the wife, Ivy, she's in her 20s. She walks into the kitchen to close up shop for the night, if you will. I mean, she's cleaning up. She's turning off all the lights. And by 104 a.m., it just seems like the whole house is going to bed. The lights are off. There's not really action.
The cat camera is not picking up anything, but it's just downstairs. It sees the living room. It sees the kitchen, but it's not seeing the entirety of the house. And then 4.43 a.m. This is really early in the morning. Tony, the husband, suddenly appears in the cat feeder camera and his shirt looks like, almost like he's been painting. There's just deep red colors everywhere, some sort of pigment.
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Chapter 3: How did Ivy and Tony's relationship appear to others?
So with that being said, let's get into it. Chinese is arguably one of the hardest languages to learn, and I'm not just saying that as somebody who has been trying to half-heartedly learn this language for the past 12 years of my life being with my Chinese husband. I just know how to say the very important stuff like, yes, no, thank you, and that's way too expensive.
But there are words in the Chinese language that mean one thing, but also sound like another thing, and there's a lot of these. So for example, cup. Sounds like tragedy.
Can you say cup? Sure. I guess cups is like 悲剧.
How do you say tragedy?
Tragedy, 悲剧.
So it sounds so much alike that there are now sayings in Chinese where they say life is like a cup. If it's washed, it breaks. Life is like a tragedy. If it's washed, it breaks. It's like a play on words. They say porridge sounds like like. So on social media, a lot of younger people will say things like I porridge you instead of I like you. Can you say porridge?
Oh, I like porridge. I like porridge. I like porridge.
The fruit pear sounds a lot like pressure, they say. So people will say like you feel a mountain of pear. So the fruit, the pear.
Does it sound like pressure?
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Chapter 4: What led to the tension between Ivy and Tony before the incident?
It's going to get snatched up. So regardless if the house number is 714, because 714, it sounds in Chinese like Wife will die. Regardless of that fact, you're going to want to get the house. January 15th, 2024. Police are inside a house, 714, trying not to flinch at the metallic scent. The officers testified later that you walk into the house and it smells like blood.
There's no other way to describe it. Everything smells like blood. You can't smell anything else because everybody's house has a very unique scent. Not that that is important to the officers, but it can tell them a lot. If you smell lots of feces and urine, you could probably come to the conclusion that there is someone that is not well kept here and maybe not even a mentally good state.
If you smell other things like the scent of a dead body, you can also, people pick up on the smells. They can't even smell anything but that strong eye-watering metallic scent. They're performing a wellness check when they find a suspect in a nearly catatonic state. That's the only way they can describe it. Just there on their knees staring.
The officers, they broke down the door and there's just a suspect on their knees staring at the wall. It doesn't matter that the officers are slamming down the doors to get in. They're just all screaming like, get your hands in the air. None of it matters. The suspect, it seems like they saw nothing, heard nothing, don't care about anything. They're just catatonic. They're just staring.
They're staring, staring, staring. And right next to them is a dead body. The police, they walk the suspect out with their hands firmly behind the back. They're walking past a little cabinet and this cabinet has a bunch of trinkets on top. They're guiding the suspect out of the house like a dog. And the suspect leans down onto the cabinet.
So he leans towards the cabinet and with their mouth bites the top of this picture frame and chucks it like a dog ripping apart a squeaky toy. Just chucks it onto the floor. The picture frame shatters everywhere. There's glass everywhere. And inside the picture frame is a photo of Ivy. The same Ivy that is now caked in blood laying on the bedroom floor.
Her face is completely unrecognizable and she's dead.
The photo, is it just Ivy in there?
Just Ivy. The wife of the house is now dead. Tony and Ivy are a 27-year-old couple from China, and they put $500,000 down on this house. They mortgage the rest, which is a pretty substantial down payment. They're able to afford it considering both of them are software engineers at Google. They buy the house one year into getting married. They get two cats.
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Chapter 5: How did Ivy's friends react to the couple's relationship dynamics?
He has a very slender build. He has a very unassuming face. The most noticeable thing about him is that he's six feet two inches tall, but other than that, he just kind of looks like a software engineer. He also has a very rigid look to his face. It's not necessarily cold, but he appears guarded.
He doesn't seem like the type, and by all accounts, people say he is not the type, to engage in small talk in the elevator. He's not gonna be smiling at you when you're a random coworker that gets into the Google elevator and he's in there. He's probably gonna give you like a curt nod, if anything. Whereas his wife, Ivy, she looks a lot softer. She's not super expressive, people say.
She's also not very expressive with her face, but she looks a little bit more open. People say that she's the type that will smile at your jokes, even though they're really not funny, but it's not like a over the top, like, oh my
god you're so funny like where did you learn that joke it's just like a very polite smile so that you don't feel awkward she also has very bookish qualities to her she feels very approachable and unapproachable all at once the way everyone describes her is she's the one that will get you coffee one day in the office And then she's going to remember your coffee order three years later.
And you're not even her friend. You're just like the person that works in the room next to her. She feels very approachable in that sense because she's very kind and sweet, but also unapproachable because she will probably score in like the top 1% of an Ivy League school at all times and somehow be the smartest person in the room at the same time.
And you feel like you can't talk to them because maybe you feel insecure that you're not that smart. But she doesn't make you feel that way. The two of them, they get married in 2022. In 2023, they buy this $2 million house in the Bay Area. And both of them are now working at Google as software engineers.
But just because everything appears to be near perfect from the outside does not make it true. Do you know people who are obsessed with their first loves? It's like a thing, okay?
They don't marry their first love in the way that... I mean, the way that they think about their first love, you would think that they're possessed to the point where they almost idolize their first love in a way that everybody around them is very confused.
They talk about their first love as if this is a member of Blackpink, an idol that is untouchable, somebody that would never grace planet Earth ever again. And everyone around them is just thinking, I mean, they're great, but like, are we talking about the same person right now? Because this is so crazy. I don't know what you're saying.
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Chapter 6: What role did social media play in the couple's lives?
But they remember this relationship. And so there's almost this very annoyance that people have in China of when guys are always haunted by either the white moonlight or the red rose, and it's just like, get over yourself. It's not that big of a deal. There's even books written about this in China where a female author writes about how men tend to have two loves, the white rose and the red rose.
They have two love interests and they're going to pick between one of them. So the white rose is the first love. But if he marries his first love, she's no longer going to be the white rose. She becomes a grain of sticky rice on his clothes, just dull and irritating.
and then he's going to yearn after because he married the white rose he's going to yearn after the red rose the red rose is the passionate mistress that makes him feel alive and sensual and burning with love but here's the thing if he had chosen the red rose and doesn't marry the white rose if he married the red rose she will become mosquito blood on the wall sordid marriage he will consider her ugly and venomous even
And then he will daydream and idolize about what life would have been like had he married the White Rose. The eternal, pure, moonlight-before-his-bed type of woman.
It is a very deep outlook on males' need to conquer women, stating that this is the type of system where no real woman can win because the moment she's possessed by the man, she gets downgraded and then the other woman is almost like mythologized. Yeah.
It's about how men only fantasize about those who he cannot conquer and how men tend to construct women as symbols and then they blame the woman once they become symbols for them. But it's also just a very interesting concept and I'm sure it's not taken seriously, but it's so widely known that people will even use the categories to determine what kind of ex they were.
So like your last ex, are they your white rose or your red rose? To the point that the question can even be asked at dinner parties. Would you rather be a white rose to your ex or a red rose to your ex?
Like asking a girl. Yeah.
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Chapter 7: What were the circumstances surrounding Ivy's tragic fate?
Okay.
There's even memes about it with some people hating the concept of the white rose because a lot of girls have been compared to a guy's first love. And it's really fucking annoying because typically first loves, they say, It's not even a real relationship. So like you're in this relationship when you're in middle school, high school, sometimes college.
You never even have a real relationship with that person to see all the bad things that come from being in a relationship because there's a lot of hardship. So, of course, you idolize the relationship that has no disappointment in it because you weren't old enough to be disappointed by the relationship.
It's just people are saying it's very annoying to be compared to the first love in relationships.
That's so interesting. These are very, like, Chinese-specific struggles of, you know, couples and relationship. I know exactly what they're talking about, though.
Yeah, and I feel like you don't really hear that a lot in the U.S.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because in China, like, I think even up until— Okay, so before college, relationships were pretty much forbidden by school and by parents. You're not allowed to publicly be dating, right? Very different from here. So there, a lot of these relationships is, like, underground. It's forbidden.
Mm-hmm.
so it's like very subtle you you pass a no maybe you you look at someone you you you barely touch hands when you're going out like it's this very subtle type of relationship so people have this like very pureness frame of lens when you're looking back at it maybe it's very bizarre it's really weird yeah it's really weird because i feel like in the u.s when you think of relationships in high school you're like oh
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Chapter 8: How did the community respond to the events surrounding Ivy and Tony?
I mean, it was simple, but effective. I read it all. The virtual sex, the I love yous, the secret meetings. I had my soon to be ex-husband's password and I would occasionally snoop on his phone to ease my mind. But in three years, I never thought to check Google Docs. In a shared document, you can type back and forth like a chat, even leaving comments to things.
And it gets updated in real time because typically people use it to collaborate on work or school projects. And it's unconventional. But that's the whole point. That way, nobody will know who you're talking to. Your partner is going through your text messages. Highly unlikely they're going through your Google Docs to make sure you're doing anything weird there. So
She's just letting everyone know, hey, just so you know, check the Google Docs.
Wow. Well, we know someone who use cash transfer app, right?
Yes. So there's like this cash transfer app where you can message someone, I guess, to like send money. And they were using that chat, which is crazy. But it's not public, but still. And Google Docs is also, I think both of them are equally so insane, especially if it's titled like Google Docs. If it's titled something as boring as like budget sheet for Q2, Q3, who's going to look at it?
If you want to look at something very private, someone's inner thoughts, something that they're hiding, you might even go through the Apple Notes app. You're not going to go into Google Docs. You're not going to go through somebody's Google Docs unless you're Ivy and you happen to stumble upon a Google Doc file between Tony and his first love from college, Jung, the ex-girlfriend.
It is a nearly 20,000 word document detailing how Tony and Jang the ex-girlfriend miss each other, how right before Tony proposed to Ivy, he had first asked Jang the ex-girlfriend if she would consider transferring to work at Google instead of working at Waymo, which is all part of the same umbrella company. But instead of working at Waymo, yes, that's like the driverless cars.
She works at Waymo. Transfer to Google, move to the Bay Area because she's working at Waymo in Seattle. moved to the Bay Area and they could buy a house together. They talk about how Jang, the ex-girlfriend said, no, I don't wanna do that. And that's why he does everything else with Ivy instead.
So once the ex-girlfriend said no, he proposes to Ivy, he gets married to her and they buy a house in the Bay Area together. but he would still be commenting and writing in the Google Doc saying things like, I miss the old days, which is already bad enough because, you know, why are they still talking to each other?
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