After Becoming Pregnant With The Empress Cat's Cub - Chapter 33

“Crematorium… pursuit of the wife? BE (Bad Ending)?”

Ju Rin looked at Lan Ye with growing confusion in her eyes. “What does that mean?”

Lan Ye waved her hand dismissively. “Don’t worry about what it means.”

She looked at Rin, her gaze incredibly serious.

“In short, you’d end up miserable! So remember, if there’s a situation where you have to choose between two people to save, you can only choose me.”

She wouldn’t bother asking the cliché question of who Rin would save if she and someone else fell into the water.

She had to save her!

Even if that ‘someone else’ had saved Rin’s life before.

Repaying a debt of gratitude was Rin’s business, she couldn’t drag Lan Ye into it.

This reminded Lan Ye, usually, when characters with this kind of setting appeared in stories, there was bound to be trouble. Lan Ye had to deal with the trouble in advance.

She didn’t want to encounter those infuriating plots where the lead says, ‘She saved me, I must save her, but you, my love, we can die together…’

Whenever Lan Ye saw such plots, she felt angry on behalf of the ‘lover’ who had their fate decided for them. That wasn’t love, that was a grudge.

Anyway, she could never like someone who would give up on her life.

You only get one life.

She wasn’t a “love brain” if she could live, she wasn’t going to die. If anyone tried to take her down with them… Lan Ye looked at Ju Rin, her gaze becoming quite fierce.

Ju Rin paused. This human… she was taking a hypothetical so seriously, acting as if Rin had already made a decision and specifically, the decision not to save her.

Lan Ye looked at Rin. This girl right here was a “love brain,” so she had to give her an early warning. In her world, life came first.

“Did you get that? If it’s a choice between two, you must save me!”

Ju Rin: “…”

She felt she needed to remind the other party just how ridiculous this hypothesis was.

“You are a swimming champion.”

The implication was, why would a champion need saving if they fell into the water?

Lan Ye knew she wasn’t. She couldn’t swim, wasn’t a champion, and hadn’t even stepped into a pool. This was another thing she needed to warn her about, lest an accident actually happen and Rin mistakenly think she could swim.

“I’ve injured my brain. I’ve forgotten how to swim.”

Ju Rin clearly didn’t believe that swimming was a skill one could simply forget due to amnesia.

Lan Ye looked at this “love brain” and felt they were getting sidetracked.

“Don’t worry about whether I can swim or not. This is just a hypothesis. It could be falling into a fire pit. Even if it’s falling into a toilet, you have to save me first.”

Ju Rin: “…”

She really couldn’t imagine a scenario where this human and Mi Can would both fall into a toilet… and she just happened to be there on the scene.

Lan Ye watched the dazed Rin. “Well? Did you remember?”

Ju Rin snapped back to reality and looked at the human, feeling that this human’s mind was truly incomprehensible. Also, this question was completely devoid of logic.

She was just an ordinary human, while Mi Can was a Super-S rank Beastman. If they both encountered danger, how could she possibly go to save Mi Can?

In fact, Mi Can would never let herself fall into such a choice.

As someone so competitive, if Mi Can were in a dangerous situation with a human, she would likely consider it a disgrace if she couldn’t rescue the human herself. How could she let Rin save her first?

They would protect the human together.

This was a trait built into the powerful blood of Beastmen, the instinct of the strong.

“I will definitely protect you, except in one situation.”

Ju Rin looked at the human. Though she didn’t know why Lan Ye was worried about not being saved, since she wanted peace of mind, Ju Rin was willing to give a promise.

Except there was one situation where she might not be able to protect her…

“Oh? What situation?”

“Falling into water.”

This was also why she had been so nervous when she saw that photo of the human in a swimsuit, she couldn’t swim.

Lan Ye blinked. “Huh? Why?”

Ju Rin frowned, looking at the human who seemed unaware of Beastman traits, and explained clearly.

“I can’t swim. Neither can Mi Can.”

Lan Ye’s eyes widened, full of astonishment. The formidable Rin, who could ‘whoosh’ into a flash and knock down a robber with one punch, or ‘bang’ open a heavy palace door with one kick, this powerful person actually couldn’t swim!

She had thought Rin was an all rounder!

Ju Rin was already used to the human’s ignorance. Seeing her shocked expression, she explained this Beastman characteristic.

Lan Ye was even more surprised after listening. It was so magical. Beastmen uniformly couldn’t swim and were afraid of water… they couldn’t even use their unique spiritual power in the water.

This wasn’t just a characteristic, it was a weakness. It was as if, during the evolution process, this powerful race had been intentionally balanced.

Lan Ye felt this wouldn’t do, she would have to rely on herself then. After giving birth to the kitten, she would learn to swim. It shouldn’t be that hard.

“Wait for me to relearn it.”

Lan Ye looked at Rin, her eyes sparkling.

“In the future, if you fall into the water, I’ll save you.”

Upon hearing these words, Ju Rin’s heart suddenly jolted. It was as if a image flashed through her mind, blurry, like countless images stacked together, chaotic as a blade. A burst of pain hit her mind!

In that pain, she seemed to hear the human’s words repeating infinitely in her head!

“In the future, if you fall into the water, I’ll save you.” “In the future, if you fall into the water, I’ll save you.”

Ju Rin felt as if she had actually fallen into water, a sudden pressure weighed on her heart. She found it hard to breathe and instinctively hunched over, lowering her head.

She clutched her neck and took a breath. Only then did the rapid, dense echoes in her mind stop.

Beneath the amber eyes and the color of pain was a sea of confusion.

The words just now… the repeating words in her head…

So familiar.

Perhaps she had heard them somewhere before.

Ju Rin’s eyelashes trembled as she looked at the human who had spoken.

After making the promise, Lan Ye had gone to grab a tissue to wipe her hands. She didn’t notice Rin’s abnormality. Only after her hands were clean did she look back at Rin.

“I’m full. Oh, right, my phone is dead. Do you have a charger?”

As the words landed, Lan Ye noticed something was wrong. Why had Rin’s face suddenly turned so pale? Even her lips were white.

In the depths of those amber eyes, the light was trembling.

“What’s wrong with you?”

Ju Rin looked at her, her gaze so intense it seemed she wanted to pierce through the human’s skin. She suppressed the fluctuations of her spiritual power and spoke with difficulty.

“Have we… met before?”

Lan Ye looked confused, not knowing why Rin had suddenly become like this. She looked a bit scary.

“What’s wrong?”

Ju Rin repeated the question. Right now, she only wanted to know if she had seen this human before.

“Have we met before?”

Lan Ye: “Before? How long before?”

Ju Rin: “Before that night you broke into my room.”

Lan Ye: “No.”

Lan Ye was certain about this. They couldn’t have met before the night they slept together. She had just transmigrated into this world that night.

Lan Ye looked at her. “What’s wrong? Why are you suddenly asking this?”

Ju Rin looked at the human’s expression, as if trying to discern if she was hiding anything. Clearly, she was telling the truth.

Ju Rin didn’t know whether she was disappointed or relieved. She didn’t know why the question had popped up either, it was just that when the human spoke, she felt a strange sense of familiarity. Moreover, the spiritual power reaction she just had was very abnormal.

Why did she have such a big reaction to those words?

It was just a promise from a human.

Ju Rin stabilized her spiritual power and recovered from the discomfort. Looking at the human’s concerned eyes, she waved her hand.

“It’s nothing.”

Lan Ye felt something was wrong. “Have you seen someone who looks like me before?”

Ju Rin looked at her, there was no such face in her memory.

Lan Ye took Ju Rin’s silence as hesitation. Could someone really look that much like her? Lan Ye suddenly thought of the original owner of the body… looking at the photos, they did look alike. If Rin had seen someone similar, it was probably the original owner.

In any case, it couldn’t be her.

“We definitely haven’t met before. Someone like you, if I had met you, I’d recognize you even if you turned to ash.”

Ju Rin: “…”

The strange emotions from before were completely replaced by speechlessness.

She thought they truly couldn’t have met. Nor could they have spoken. With how ridiculous this human was, she definitely wouldn’t have forgotten.

Ju Rin quickly gathered her emotions, treating the earlier anomaly as a result of using too much spiritual power today.

“What did you say just now?”

Lan Ye: “I said even if you turned to ash.”

“Not that sentence,” Ju Rin interrupted. “Phone is dead?”

Lan Ye nodded. So you did hear me, why ask?

Ju Rin stood up. “Follow me.”

With that, she took the lead and walked out.

Lan Ye caught up, bringing the two food containers she had packed. Upon stepping out, she handed them to the first guard she saw, asking her to pass them to “Little Landmine” (Xiao Dilei) to share.

On her first day of work, sharing some snacks was a good way to foster friendly relationships with colleagues.

As for the boss, Lan Ye glanced at Rin walking ahead. She had already secured that relationship. However, since the boss was leaving the palace soon, she still needed to find another connection for Little Landmine.

Lan Ye thought of someone.

In the guards’ breakroom far away, Qiao Zi sneezed three times in a row, feeling a bit uneasy. Since learning today that the person she brought back was a pregnant woman, she had been anxious, praying that nothing would happen to her. Otherwise, she might not be able to wash her hands of the matter.

She called a subordinate over, wanting them to go to the Princess’s chambers to check on the human’s status, when someone came to say the King was looking for her.

Qiao Zi hurried out of the breakroom toward the King’s study.

In the wide corridor, the sound of footsteps seemed to echo. Lan Ye felt Rin’s palace was really too quiet. It would be a bit scary at night.

She looked up at the ceiling, thinking it might be better to install some speakers and play some music. She quickened her pace to walk beside Rin and made the suggestion.

Ju Rin: “…”

Lan Ye felt it was a good idea. “Don’t you think it’s too quiet?”

“I don’t.” She liked the quiet.

Lan Ye: “But I feel it’s too quiet.”

Ju Rin hesitated to speak. With this human around, how could it ever be considered quiet?