Jing Yuan had asked you to take care of his cat, you had asked about it and he said there was no problem and it was basically a cat.. You didn’t question what he meant by that and decided to go meet him, you were walking and were still questioning what he meant by ‘basically a cat’..

You finally get to where you were supposed to meet him at and you see him standing next to a lion. A literal lion. But however lions are considered very big cats so he wasn’t lying when he said it’s basically a cat.

"This is Mimi."

He says gesturing to the lion next to him.