After Becoming Pregnant With The Empress Cat's Cub - Chapter 21.1

Lan Ye smiled: “Then let’s go. It’s still early, let’s go sit at your place first.”

She still had to find a chance to pin the person down and do whatever she wanted.

It was a pity tickling didn’t work, she had to think of another way to take her down.

While she was wondering if a sneak attack from behind had any chance of success, a deep blue car drove rapidly toward her. Ju Rin pulled her to the side, and the car screeched to a halt right where Lan Ye had been standing.

Lan Ye looked over in surprise, inside the lowered window was a familiar face.

That police officer.

“She will take you back.”

Rin’s voice came from beside her. Lan Ye turned her head: “Huh? What about you?”

“I have some things… I might need to leave for a while.”

Lan Ye was surprised: “What things?”

Why so sudden?

Ju Rin’s expression was normal. When she received Si Qing’s message, she had already prepared her excuse.

“Regarding the move I mentioned before, I need to go finalize some things.” As she spoke, Ju Rin’s gaze toward Lan Ye took on an extra layer of weight. “Are you sure you want to go with me?”

Lan Ye didn’t hesitate: “I’m sure.”

She was always a person of her word.

Ju Rin nodded: “Good.”

Lan Ye: “How long will you be gone?”

Ju Rin: “Not sure.”

Lan Ye: “Oh, okay.”

She wanted to say something else, but her wrist was grabbed.

Ju Rin took the gift pack from Lan Ye’s hand, opened the back door, tossed it into the back seat, and then led her around the front of the car to the passenger side, opening the door and stuffing Lan Ye inside.

Lan Ye blinked, watching her close the door and stride around the front of the car, looking as if she were in a great hurry.

“Be careful,” Ju Rin instructed Si Qing as she walked to the driver’s side window.

“Yes.”

Si Qing nodded in response. Once the Princess moved out of the way, she didn’t waste any words, floored the accelerator, and drove off quickly.

When the Princess sent the address, she had already issued the order to escort this human home safely.

Lan Ye watched Si Qing in silence until Si Qing felt something was wrong and turned to look at her: “What is it?”

After asking, Si Qing realized a problem: this human’s reaction was a bit unusual…

From being stuffed into the car to her driving away, this human hadn’t asked a single question, and hadn’t even said goodbye to the Princess… It seemed she knew they were in a hurry… she was very cooperative…

Lan Ye stared at the police officer, observing her seriously. She had felt something was off last time, it seemed Rin could order this officer around.

Now she was certain: Rin could indeed make this officer do things, she could even act as her driver.

She spoke up slowly: “Do you know who, generally speaking, can have the police at their beck and call?”

“Who?” Si Qing asked instinctively, wondering why this human was mentioning this.

Lan Ye smiled: “Criminals.”

Si Qing: …

She understood why this human asked the question and the meaning behind her words. She was also impressed that this human, who didn’t seem like the type to think in circles, would ask a probing question like that.

She had said it before, this human was not simple!

“Don’t misunderstand, Prince… ” Si Qing nearly slipped up in her surprise and quickly swerved the conversation back. “Phone call. Rin called me and asked for a favor, requesting that I take you home.”

She added: “She’s a good person, not some criminal.”

“She’s definitely not as good as you, you just met someone and you come act as a driver just because they called and asked?”

Si Qing smiled awkwardly: “Actually, we’ve known each other for a long time. We’re… friends.”

Lan Ye: “Why did you pretend not to know each other before?”

Si Qing: “Are you interrogating me?”

It felt like the world had turned upside down this human, whose identity was suspicious in all sorts of ways, was interrogating her, the police officer.

Lan Ye: “I’m just concerned about you.”

Si Qing: “Concerned about me?”

Lan Ye: “Yeah, you’re my wife’s friend, which makes you my friend by extension. Isn’t it right for me to be concerned about you?”

“Wife?” Si Qing felt a very subtle sensation upon hearing this term. It felt… how should she put it? An ordinary human calling the Princess “wife”…

If the people in the palace heard this, they would probably explode.

“Why are you so surprised?” Lan Ye looked at her suspiciously. “You didn’t know we’ve registered our marriage?”

“I knew…” Si Qing already knew. “I wasn’t surprised. I just didn’t react for a moment.”

Lan Ye: “By the way, give me your contact information. Since you’re Rin’s friend, you’re welcome to attend our wedding.”

“Wedding?” Si Qing was truly surprised this time. “Your wedding?”

“What? Is it so surprising to have a wedding after getting married?” Lan Ye felt this police officer had some serious issues.

Si Qing shook her head: “No, I’m just a bit surprised.”

Lan Ye: “Surprised at what?”

Si Qing: “Nothing.”

Lan Ye: “Look into my eyes!”

Si Qing instinctively turned her head to look at Lan Ye.

“You have a secret!” Lan Ye stated with certainty.

Si Qing gulped, becoming nervous.

“Alright, stop looking.” Lan Ye was sure this person had a problem.

Si Qing: “Huh?”

Lan Ye reminded her: “You’re driving.”

Si Qing snapped back and quickly looked forward, half the car was already over the solid line. Fortunately, there were no cars behind them.

Lan Ye: “With a driver who has no sense of safe driving like you, Rin must have run into trouble, right?”

Si Qing: “!!! You were the one who told me to look!”

How had she become someone with no sense of safe driving!

Lan Ye: “I tell you to look and you look. I tell you to tell the truth, why don’t you?”

Si Qing: !

She was momentarily speechless.

A breath of air seemed to be stuck right in the middle of her chest, unable to go up or down!

Just as she finally exhaled and was about to explain, the radio in the car crackled.

“Attention all units, attention all units. A robbery of a watch from a lone kitten has occurred on Xuebing Street. The suspect resisted arrest and fled after assaulting an officer, currently escaping from Xuebing Street toward Xianbei Street. Colleagues in the vicinity, please proceed to assist immediately!”

Si Qing glanced at the navigation map, a right turn ahead would lead to Xianbei Street, but the direction to take this human home required a left turn further ahead.

She instinctively turned to look at Lan Ye.

Lan Ye: “Why are you looking at me? Go catch the bad guy!”

A criminal who robs a lone kitten of its watch is simply despicable! They must be caught!

“But…”

“No ‘buts.’ Turn right!”

At the intersection, Si Qing instinctively followed Lan Ye’s instruction and jerked the steering wheel to the right, heading toward Xianbei Street.

After straightening the car, Si Qing’s eyelid twitched, wondering why she was following this human’s directions.

There was no time to overthink. Since she was already driving toward Xianbei Street, she accelerated while pressing the radio button.

“Officer Si Qing has arrived at Xianbei Street. What are the suspect’s specific characteristics?”

As she spoke, she looked out the car window for any suspicious individuals.

The radio quickly responded: “The suspect stole a small motorcycle after fleeing. The body is white. The suspect is wearing a black hoodie. The stolen helmet has the owner’s name printed on it. Hakimi.”

Lan Ye blinked. Hakimi?

Seeing the three characters gradually becoming clear in the rearview mirror, Lan Ye’s eyes lit up. A small white motorcycle, a black hoodie, and the name on the helmet, it all matched.

Also, that police car turning out of the small alley was clearly chasing this motorcycle!

Seeing the motorcycle was about to pass them, Lan Ye didn’t have time to shout to Si Qing.

There was a loud “Bang!”

Si Qing’s heart skipped a beat. After an emergency brake, she hurriedly turned to look at the passenger seat.

The passenger door was wide open and had been deformed by the impact!

Another loud “Bang!” Si Qing hurriedly looked ahead.

She saw a person lying on the ground.

Before Si Qing could figure out what had happened, sirens wailed from behind, and soon a police car stopped in front of her car.

Her colleagues scrambled out and directly handcuffed the person struggling to get up from the ground.

Black clothes, white helmet, it was the suspect!

Si Qing was completely bewildered. She turned to look at Lan Ye, who was firmly secured in the passenger seat by her seatbelt.

Lan Ye grinned: “Do you know what this teaches us?”

Si Qing: “Hmm?”

Lan Ye: “When opening a car door, you must always pay attention to the situation behind you. For safety’s sake, open a small crack first, and once there’s no problem, push the door open.”

Si Qing looked confused.

Lan Ye gave her the look one gives a fool: “Otherwise, an accident like that will happen.”

Si Qing finally realized what had occurred.

Lan Ye had opened the door unexpectedly, stopping the robber.

Lan Ye: “Give me your hand.”

Si Qing instinctively held out her hand, palm up.

Lan Ye sighed, they really had no chemistry.

She adjusted Si Qing’s hand so her palm was facing her.

Slap~

A high five.

“The Kitten People Justice League, first mission perfectly accomplished~”

Si Qing: “Kitten People Justice League?”

Lan Ye: “Yeah, the name I just gave our duo. Why, don’t you like it?”

Si Qing: “Since when do we have a duo?”

Lan Ye: “Just now.”

In the end, Lan Ye went back to the police station as a helpful citizen who assisted in the arrest.

As for why she was in a police vehicle, Si Qing explained that she was the victim of yesterday’s robbery.

Today, she was supposed to go and ask her some questions related to yesterday’s case.

In short, it was all a coincidence.

Including the fact that, quite coincidentally, the owner of the stolen motorcycle was also Lan Ye’s friend.

When Hakimi learned it was Lan Ye who helped catch the thief who stole her bike, her eyes were full of respect.

“Lan… Lan… Lan Ye, you’re so amazing.”

“It was nothing.”

Lan Ye waved her hand, feeling her image become even more glorious.

“How much did that little motorcycle cost?”

Since she was being glorious, she might as well be thorough; she was responsible for Hakimi’s motorcycle being scrapped.

“I’ll compensate you.”

Si Qing finished her report and came out just in time to hear this, adding: “And a police car.”

Lan Ye: …

The price of glory was a bit high.

Fortunately, in the end, the police said they would cover the losses, including the repairs to the police car and the compensation for the motorcycle.

As a helpful citizen who assisted the police in catching a criminal, Lan Ye was even awarded a “Helpful Citizen Bravery Award.”

Holding the certificate, the police organized a group photo.

It so happened that the publicity department had been short on material lately, they planned to promote this incident well, emphasizing police civilian cooperation.

Lan Ye didn’t yet know she was about to be on the news. After taking a photo with the victim kitten and seeing the little kitten was all alone, Lan Ye bumped her watch against the other’s returned children’s watch.

These watches added friends by bumping into each other.

“If anyone bullies you in the future, just call me and give a ‘meow,’ and our Kitten People Justice League will mobilize immediately.”

Lan Ye pointed at herself and Si Qing next to her.

Si Qing, who had been inexplicably drafted into a duo: ?

Could she apply to withdraw?

Hakimi looked envious, she really wanted to join.

Victim kitten: “Meow~”

A good person.

After everything was over, Hakimi wanted to go to a repair shop to see if her little motorcycle could still be saved, so she left first.

Si Qing changed to a different car to take Lan Ye home.

On the way, Lan Ye sent the photo of her holding the award to Rin.

Caption: 【Greatness needs no words.】

After the message was sent, she received no reply until she was almost home.

Lan Ye opened her photo album and scrolled to the photo of the copy of the insurance policy Rin had bought before they went to class.

Looking at the signature, Lan Ye turned to look at Si Qing.

“Is the thing Rin is doing… dangerous?”

“Huh?” Si Qing was once again surprised by the human’s sudden words.

Lan Ye: “Do you really think I believed her when she said she was going to finalize a moving address? What move is so urgent?”

Si Qing glanced at Lan Ye and then quickly looked back at the road: “Then why didn’t you ask her yourself back then? Ask her clearly.”

Lan Ye: “You don’t understand. When two people are together, you can’t keep prying into things the other doesn’t want to say. Leaving each other some space helps cultivate feelings.”

Si Qing: “But you keep prying into me.”

She didn’t want to say anything either.

Lan Ye: “What space do you need? Besides, we’re just partners, what ‘feelings’ do we need?”

Si Qing: …Why did she feel a bit slighted?

Lan Ye: “Well? Is it dangerous?”

Si Qing: “Don’t worry, she won’t be in danger.”

Lan Ye: “Okay.”

Then she wouldn’t increase the insurance coverage.

As night fell, Lan Ye, who had finished washing up and was lying in bed, opened her watch to check her messages.

Rin still hadn’t replied to her.

Had she not seen it, or had she seen it and chose not to reply?

Thinking about it, Lan Ye scrolled up, found a previously sent message, and clicked copy.

【Late night welfare, about to be released. Press 1 to accept, press 0 to unsubscribe. Counting down three seconds, if no reply, acceptance is assumed.】

Lan Ye was using the same old trick, wanting to determine if the other person hadn’t seen the message or was just not replying.

This time, before she could even start the countdown, she received a reply.

【1】

Lan Ye: ???

She stared at it twice to be sure.

What was going on? Why was it a 1?

“Meow~~ Meow meow~~ Meow meow meow~~~ [Red Heart]”

“Babe~ it’s cold~~ wear more clothes~~~ [Red Heart]”