The Little Jealous Cat Who Transmigrated into a Delicate Beauty - Chapter 24
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Joy following the fear of loss was more than Susu could control. Yet, she didn’t want to acknowledge the little cat immediately, so she buried her face in her pillow and began to sob uncontrollably.
Her thin back trembled with each hitch of her breath. Ye Qingqing was terrified. With a sudden turn, she transformed into her human form and crawled toward her, her fingertips lightly touching the girl’s shoulder.
The girl twisted her body away, crying even harder.
Ye Qingqing’s hands froze in mid-air, her expression filled with confusion. Lately, she had been frantically studying human knowledge, but at this moment, the vocabulary available in her brain was still pitifully small.
She brushed a lock of stray hair from her forehead and reached out a small hand to gently stroke Susu’s back.
“Hmph! You human, This King was kept in solitary confinement by you for an entire day. Instead of apologizing to This King, you actually expect This King to coax you!”
Susu kept her face buried and continued to cry, refusing to cast even a single glance at her.
Left with no other choice, Ye Qingqing decided to try and appease this human using the etiquette of Planet Cat.
She moved half an inch closer and knelt. Leaning forward, she pressed her body against the girl’s back, then hooked her hands over Susu’s shoulders and climbed up. She draped herself entirely over the girl, rubbing her small head gently against the nape of Susu’s neck.
“Meow~”
The girl’s sobbing frame paused for a second; her limbs grew visibly stiff.
Ye Qingqing meowed again, her small tongue lightly licking the area between the girl’s neck and shoulder.
She remembered that whenever her Father King was angry, her Mother Queen would lie on her back and groom her fur.
The former Queen was a Golden Tabby with an incredibly strong sense of territoriality. Whenever another cat approached the King, she would fly into a grand rage.
The King, being a Silver Tabby, wasn’t short-tempered either, but she was always indulgent indulgent, indulgent, and indulgent again toward the Queen’s unreasonable tantrums.
Ye Qingqing had grown up in an environment where these two female cats spent their days licking each other. She had inherited her Father King’s stubborn temper, but she had also picked up her Mother Queen’s tricks for coaxing cats through osmosis.
Now, she attempted this method to comfort this tiny human, wanting only for her to stop being so sad.
Finally, under her persistent licking, the girl stopped crying entirely.
Susu sat up abruptly. Instinctively, Ye Qingqing wrapped her arms tightly around Susu’s shoulders, clinging on like a burr to keep from falling.
Susu shook her shoulders.
“Move aside. I don’t want an disobedient cat like you!”
Her throat was hoarse, making her words sound light and airy.
Ye Qingqing was light; hanging off the girl’s back in human form, she swayed back and forth like a living bell.
“This King refuses! I’d like to see what you can do about it!”
She wanted to argue her point properly, but when she opened her mouth, she only had a few words at her disposal, repeating the same phrase over and over.
Susu felt the warmth and softness pressed against her back. After a brief struggle, she gave up.
Feeling it was no longer fun, Ye Qingqing let go and slid down Susu’s back.
Susu kept her back turned, refusing to acknowledge her, so Ye Qingqing poked her head around, tilting her face at a 45-degree angle to look at her.
“Meow~”
Susu finally lost her temper or rather, her resolve. Seizing the moment when the cat was off guard, she flicked Ye Qingqing’s forehead.
Ye Qingqing clutched her head in pain and rolled around on the bed.
“You actually dared to hit This King! On Planet Cat, This King is a ruler of a region! Even the Tabby Ministers have to walk around me when they see me, yet you dared to hit This King!”
Susu couldn’t help but let out a “pfft” of laughter, amused by her antics.
“Poop King!”
Seeing that the human was happy, Ye Qingqing became happy too, and her arrogant feline nature resurfaced.
She did a backflip to stand up, hands on her hips, and spoke with her nose in the air.
“You human! How many times has This King warned you? Do not call me Poop King! Do not call me Poop King!”
Susu laughed thoroughly now, her bad mood completely dissipated. Her peach-blossom eyes, reddened from crying, looked even more charming, and her fair skin glowed under the lamp, making it impossible to look away.
She curled her lips into a faint smile, her voice soft and sweet.
“You eat a lot, and you poop a lot. If I don’t call you Poop King, should I call you Food King?”
Ye Qingqing tilted her head, eyeing her sideways.
“Hmph, This King has a name!”
Susu teased her on purpose.
“Oh? Really? Then what is the Poop King’s name?”
Ye Qingqing lifted her chin again and snorted through her nose: I’m not telling you!
Susu suppressed her curiosity and feigned a look of disinterest.
“Fine then. Since the Poop King won’t say, I won’t ask. Children grow up and inevitably have their little secrets. From now on, I’ll just keep calling the Poop King… Poop King!”
Ye Qingqing’s ears flattened back in a panic.
She lowered her nose slightly, her cat-like pupils staring intently at the person in front of her.
“You are not allowed to call This King ‘Poop King’!”
Susu only offered a shallow smile and said nothing.
Ye Qingqing tilted her head back again, crossing her arms over her chest and looking down her nose at her.
“Hmph! Seeing as you’re so pitiful, This King will tell you! But as a condition, you must tell This King a secret in exchange!”
Curious about what secret she wanted to trade, Susu smiled and agreed.
At this moment, officially telling this human her name made Ye Qingqing feel a bit nervous. She puffed out her chest.
“Listen well. This King is named Ye Qingqing. ‘Ye’ as in leaf, and ‘Qingqing’ as in light and graceful. My Mother Queen said that when This King grew up, I would surely be a cat of agile prowess!”
“The moment I finished my first month, I stationed in the forest with my Father King. At four months old, I led troops alone to defend our homeland. Eight months later, when the Orange Clan invaded, This King personally twisted the heads off 4,500 fat cats! From then on, I became famous with one strike. Whenever a battle turned dire, This King was the first to rush to the scene. Thus, I hold the title of the Tabby God of War!”
She pulled her collar down slightly and crouched, moving closer so Susu could see clearly.
“Look, these are the honors left behind from my battles. Every tooth mark is a record of my combat achievements!”
Susu looked at the rows of scars punctures left by sharp fangs and her heart suddenly throbbed with pain.
She tried her best to hold back her tears, her peach-blossom eyes fixed unblinkingly on that spot.
Seeing the human so “obsessed” with her battle records, Ye Qingqing felt even more proud.
She turned around and whipped up the back of her shirt.
“Look, the truly great battle records are here. Whenever This King couldn’t win a fight, I would turn my back and let them bite. This area isn’t fatal. I would wait for the opportunity to bite back at their necks, and those idiots would drop dead on the spot…”
She continued to chatter boastfully about her exploits when suddenly, her entire body was pulled into an embrace from behind.
Susu pressed her face against the scars, her soft palms gently stroking the tooth marks on her back.
“Did it hurt?”
Ye Qingqing’s body froze.
Did it hurt? Her Father King and Mother Queen had once asked her the same question.
When she was young, she only cared about earning merit and charged forward whenever there was danger. By the time she grew old enough to understand, there was no turning back for the Tabby God of War. The safety of her clansmen was more important than anything. When you fight for survival on the edge of your teeth, there is no such thing as “hurt” or “not hurt” staying alive is the glory!
Susu held her in her arms, squeezing tightly. Her crystalline tears wetted Ye Qingqing’s back as she made a silent vow in her heart.
Qingqing, don’t be afraid. From now on, I’ll protect you. If anyone dares to hurt you again, I’ll take their lives!
Ye Qingqing stayed well-behaved for less than thirty seconds before she began to struggle.
“Aiyah, you human! Let go of This King quickly! This King is about to be strangled to death by you!”
As she struggled, Susu loosened her grip. Ye Qingqing shrunk her body and slipped out from under her arm, moving back half a step with a wary look.
“No more petting This King!”
Susu forced her sadness away and nodded repeatedly in agreement.
Ye Qingqing slapped her forehead, suddenly remembering something.
“Right! Now it’s your turn to exchange a secret with This King!”