The Cub Comes from Planet Meow 105

Chapter 105: Meow [Finale]

Both were boys who had gone through puberty, so they weren’t unfamiliar with the touch of fingers and the friction of palms, but the feeling of oneself and others was still very different.

Both were relatively inexperienced, exploring together, their palms rubbed red and burning hot.

They didn’t dare to kiss passionately anymore, afraid their lips would be swollen tomorrow and they couldn’t face people, so they could only peck lightly like dragonflies skimming the water.

Pure and greedy.

After cleaning up in the bathroom and returning to the soft bed, Jing Mi wrapped himself in a slightly thick quilt and burrowed into Wang Qiyou’s arms. The air conditioner temperature in the bedroom was set low, and the two shared warm and affectionate body heat.

Wang Qiyou kissed the soft top of his head lightly and rubbed his cheek against it, as if nuzzling a kitten.

Three months passed, and Jing Mi’s hair grew longer again. He didn’t trim it anymore, but didn’t plan to grow it too long either, just intending to keep a mullet, enough to tie a small topknot.

Jing Mi was looking at his phone, which blatantly displayed 18+ content. He smacked his lips and said: “Actually, we can also use mouths… try it later.”

After all, they grew up together and had been dating for three months. They had long lost their initial shyness, and some bold words could be said blatantly.

Wang Qiyou snatched his phone away quickly, a hint of forbearance in his voice, biting his ear lightly, and said: “Stop looking.”

If he continued looking, he was afraid he couldn’t help but drag him into the bathroom to toss him around for a long time and “try” it today.

It was already very late, and they had to get up early tomorrow to register at school.

Sometimes being too diligent and eager to learn wasn’t a good thing.

Jing Mi nestled obediently into his arms. “Then let’s sleep. I can’t sleep with you tomorrow night.”

His voice carried a bit of coquettish grievance.

Wang Qiyou was also reluctant to part. Accustomed to sleeping clingingly with Mimi, suddenly living in a university dormitory and lying on a cold hard bed alone, he was afraid he wouldn’t be able to sleep.

It’s hard to go from luxury to frugality.

Hope the puppy doll Mimi gave him could accompany him to sleep smoothly.

…

The next day, Wang Shao drove Wu Yuan, Wang Qiyou, and Jing Mi to Wang Qiyou’s school to report.

The school had four-person dormitories. The other three roommates had already arrived, all tall boys.

Jing Mi helped Wang Qiyou carry his bag and came to the dormitory with him. Three pairs of eyes fell on them in unison. One of them, with a particularly outgoing personality, smiled and said: “Let me guess which one is our last roommate.”

Jing Mi found it amusing and looked at him with a smile.
Wang Qiyou didn’t say anything, waiting quietly for his result.

That person finally said slowly: “I hope it’s this student with light yellow hair, but I feel his name is not this one.”

Jing Mi smiled and asked: “Why do you hope it’s me?”

That person: “Because you look like my type.”

Jing Mi didn’t expect him to give such a direct answer and was a bit stunned.

Wang Qiyou’s face darkened instantly. He let go of the suitcase in his hand, held Jing Mi’s hanging hand, and declared sovereignty: “I am Wang Qiyou, this is my boyfriend.”

As the words fell, that person’s expression froze for a moment, then he showed an apologetic and awkward smile, “Sorry about that.”

Those who don’t know are not guilty. The other party’s attitude was sincere, so there was nothing to fuss about.

It was just that every time Jing Mi came to school to find Wang Qiyou afterwards, Wang Qiyou would deliberately avoid this roommate.

Puppies are also very territorial.

His own bone cannot be coveted by anyone.

…

A few days after Wang Qiyou started school, Jing Mi also went to University A to report.

Jing Zhi and Jiang Suifeng specially took leave to send him there together. After registering smoothly, they strolled around the campus with him again.

“Your Little Papa and I used to date here often. Opposite is the lake, surrounded by weeping willows, people outside can’t see inside.”
“The food in this cafeteria was the best at that time. Don’t know how it is now. Let’s go taste it at noon later.”
“We used to live in this dormitory building. There was no curfew at that time, now need face recognition.”
…

Jing Mi looked fresh.

Fresh about the new campus, and also fresh about his papas’ past university life.

Suddenly, a soft ball stopped his footsteps.

It was a Dragon Li cat cooling off under the shade of a tree.

Jing Mi strode over immediately, bent down, and touched it.

A senior sister aside saw this and reminded kindly: “This is Senior Sang Sang. It scratches people, be careful.”

There were quite a few cat seniors in the university campus. Almost all had their own names, were neutered, fed by someone, and were an indispensable part of the campus.

This Dragon Li cat named Sang Sang had tabby patterns all over its body, without a bit of white. Its tail drooped, eyes narrowed, indeed looking a bit fierce.

But Jing Mi wasn’t afraid because he used to be a kitten. After returning to Earth, cats were close to him and never attacked him, even the fiercest cats.

However, Jing Mi still withdrew his hand and thanked the senior sister for her kind reminder.

That night, Jing Mi talked on the phone with Wang Qiyou while searching for information about the cat seniors in University A, reading with relish, planning to stroll around the campus and find cats with Wang Qiyou when free.

He whispered to Wang Qiyou: “If only I could have escaped from that bad guy’s home earlier and lived in University A, then everyone would call me Senior Mimi.”

Wang Qiyou imagined that scene, his eyes curving unconsciously, his heart melting from cuteness.

Jing Mi’s voice continued: “At that time, Papas hadn’t graduated from school yet. I could even secretly watch Papas date… I would secretly get familiar with Papas, and when Papas graduated, they could take me home directly.”

Wang Qiyou smiled and asked: “What about me?”

Jing Mi thought for a moment and said: “You were still a police dog at that time. You came to patrol University A, and we had a secret rendezvous.”

Wang Qiyou’s voice became inexplicably resentful: “I want to have a rendezvous with you now.”

Jing Mi wanted it too.

Although not a long-distance relationship across provinces, the feeling of not being able to meet was really torturous.

School started and things were busy. The next meeting would probably be in a week or two.

The class schedule hadn’t come out yet. When the schedule came out, they could plan the date time.

Recently, Grandpa Jiang’s condition wasn’t very good again, and he had decided to transfer back to City C. Spending the remaining days in a familiar place was living one day at a time; continuing treatment was just suffering. Jing Mi not only video called Wang Qiyou but also video called Great-Grandpa every day without fail, showing him his new school, new dormitory, and new food.

In the video call, the black cat, also old, was curled up beside Great-Grandpa. The two old guys looked at him on the screen with smiles. Jing Mi always felt his nose sour suddenly while chatting.

Grandpa Jiang passed away after the National Day.

This year’s National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival overlapped, so the long holiday was a day or two longer. Jing Mi just went to City C to see him with Wang Qiyou. Grandpa Jiang even said the two were tanned after military training. Jing Mi smiled and said no matter how tanned they were, they weren’t as black as Little Treasure. The old black cat heard its name and let out a hoarse “meow.”

After the National Day ended, not long after returning to City A, Grandpa Jiang closed his eyes forever on a gentle afternoon.

The old cat seemed to sense something. It rarely jumped on Grandpa Jiang, but this time it curled up on his lap rarely, pressing tightly against his chest.

Grandpa Jiang lay on the recliner with a smile on his face, holding an opened Little Dragon Man milk candy in his hand, containing the sweet candy in his mouth.

Jing Mi and his papas took the earliest high-speed train to City C immediately, taking more than a week off to attend Grandpa Jiang’s funeral, crying until their eyes were swollen.

According to the burial custom in their hometown, the coffin had to be placed at home first, waiting for burial.

The day before the burial, the old cat jumped onto the coffin, curled up on it, and closed its eyes forever too.

Cats’ lifespans are short, but for Grandpa Jiang and Little Treasure, accompanying each other on the last journey of life was already a rare fortune.

Before burial, they put Little Treasure into the coffin too, pressing tightly against Grandpa Jiang.

Jing Mi threw some paper money into the fire, staring at the flickering flames in a daze.

This wasn’t his first time experiencing separation and death, but the ones leaving before were all cats. This was the first time an important human relative around him passed away.

He could reunite with deceased cats on Planet Meow, but he couldn’t reunite with Great-Grandpa anymore.

He once asked the Cat God: Cats have Planet Meow, dogs have Planet Woof, will humans have Planet Human?

The Cat God didn’t give him a definite answer, just recommended an animated movie made by humans called Coco.

The movie said: Death is not the end, forgetting is.

Humans have brain capacities far exceeding animals, can remember many things for a long time, and can construct bizarre worlds.

Perhaps, Planet Human exists in human minds. As long as the memory and longing for the deceased exist, the deceased will never disappear.

…

After the funeral, before returning to City A, Jiang Yuanyuan took out a letter addressed to Jing Mi’s family.

In the letter was Grandpa Jiang’s beautiful handwriting.

He said he was sorry for obstructing Jing Zhi and Jiang Suifeng before, almost breaking them up.
He said he was very happy to see Mimi get into university and be with the person he liked.
He said he was going to see his eldest brother, tell him their story, tell him about this diverse and inclusive new era, everything is getting better and better.

Tears fell rustlingly, becoming bits and pieces of memories.

Starting from that snowy winter.

…

Every story has an end because every life has a limit. Precisely because of this, every minute and second of the present is cherished extra.

And the storyteller often freezes the ending at the most perfect moment.

In the summer of graduating from senior year, Jing Mi nestled in Wang Qiyou’s arms, rewatching the timeless classic movie Kikujiro with him.

Jing Mi smiled and said: “Remember what you said when you were little?”

Wang Qiyou: “What?”

Jing Mi: “I said I wanted to name my story Jing Mimi’s Winter, and you said The Cub Comes from Planet Meow was more appropriate because there are countless springs, summers, autumns, and winters.”

Wang Qiyou still had some impression of this, rubbed his chin lightly on top of Jing Mi’s head, and said: “This is your story. What should our story be called?”

“Called—” Jing Mi dragged out the last syllable.

Wang Qiyou waited expectantly.

“Let’s Get Married!”

…

The wedding was held lively. Jing Mi and Wang Qiyou wore suits. Even Jing Mi, who rarely touched alcohol, couldn’t help drinking a little.

But he really couldn’t hold his liquor well; feeling dizzy after drinking a little.

He saw his papas off stage. Their faces were no longer young as he grew up, but their eyes were still full of happy love.

Different from Great-Grandpa’s era, his papas could form a family together without being drowned by spit.
But different from their era, his papas couldn’t hold a wedding openly.

There would be a little regret, but in front of so many years of happiness, that little regret was nothing.

The two children got their marriage certificates as soon as they graduated. They also got their marriage certificates later and attended the two children’s wedding. It was already very, very complete.

On the wedding night, Jing Mi was slightly tipsy, and Wang Qiyou was also drunk. Changing clothes, they slept embracing each other on the bed in the new house.

In the dream, they went to another country together.

Jing Mi found himself turned into the form of a beige Scottish Fold kitten, and Wang Qiyou beside him also turned back into the form of a German Shepherd puppy.

They wore a small and exquisite bow tie around their necks respectively, exactly the same color as the bow tie on the wedding suit during the day. Under their feet were soft pure white clouds, carrying them floating towards a high cloud bridge.

It was a cloud bridge connecting Planet Meow and Planet Woof. Countless cat and dog heads poked out from the clouds.

Amidst meows and woofs, interspersed with countless four-character blessings:

“Happy Wedding!”

Here, they held a grand wedding from Planet Meow and Planet Woof again.

The Cub Comes from Planet Meow -Happy Ending-