The Spoiled Little Beauty is Always Abusing the Protagonist [Quick Transmigration] 74p2

Chapter 74: The Little Orange Cat is Raised by a Big Dog (3-2)

The stray dog didn’t even have time to react before it was kicked in the head. It was stunned for a few seconds, then scrambled up, enraged, and barked fiercely, baring its teeth at the muscular German Shepherd in front of it.

The German Shepherd was very unreasonable. It hadn’t said a word since it arrived, just kicked it and then picked up a brick to throw at it. The stray dog was actually already scared.

The dog in front of it was all muscle, with an air of a king. It was so scared its legs were trembling. Although it didn’t understand why the other dog didn’t just pounce on it and tear it to shreds when it was clearly no match, the stray dog still tucked its tail and lowered its head in submission, whimpering for mercy.

Ji Yan glanced at his paw and expressionlessly wiped it on the ground. He turned and walked towards the little orange cat hiding in the grass.

“It’s done.”

He was completely nonchalant.

Shu He looked up and said in a small voice, “So it has submitted to you?”

Ji Yan frowned. “If it submits to me, does that mean I have to prepare food for it?”

“I don’t know.” Shu He shook his head in confusion, then thought about it and felt it wasn’t wrong. “You prepare food for me too. Why can’t you prepare it for it?”

“No.” Ji Yan said coldly and expressionlessly, “I prepare it for you because we’re the same kind. Does it not have hands and feet? Can’t it find its own food?”

Shu He retorted in a small voice, “What same kind? I told you I’m not human.”

“Oh, then I’ll just consider it an offering to Lord Cat.” Ji Yan stepped forward and picked up Shu He by the scruff of his neck, letting out a low growl. “Lord Cat, bless me.”

Shu He’s limbs were curled up, and he was completely powerless as he was carried by Ji Yan. Although Ji Yan was used to carrying him like this, he was still a human at heart, and he had a strange feeling that his teeth would pierce the cat’s neck.

So after carrying him for a while, Ji Yan put Shu He down. Shu He scrambled onto his front leg and held on, refusing to walk on the hot ground himself.

“…”

After returning to the hallway, the two discussed moving.

It was called a discussion, but it was actually Lord Cat’s autocratic decision. He unilaterally flicked his tail and said he wanted to move to another neighborhood. Ji Yan vaguely guessed that he wanted to continue role-playing, and sure enough, he was right.

There were many more stray dogs here than in the previous place.

Shu He made a grand promise, telling Ji Yan to form a dog pack. Once it was done, he would definitely turn him back into a human.

This role-playing session lasted longer than ever before.

In three months, the little orange cat was seven months old and had gained a lot of weight. When he walked beside Ji Yan, he always held his head and tail high, like a boss.

And all the stray dogs in the area had submitted to Lord Cat King.

Yes, on the surface, they submitted to Ji Yan, but the real boss was Shu He! Lord Cat King had become the biggest winner behind the scenes. Ji Yan seemed to be completely unaware and was still diligently contributing to Lord Cat King’s dog pack enterprise.

Besides the dog pack, Shu He also formed a cat team.

The cats in this area were very enthusiastic.

The moment they saw Shu He, they would pick him up by the scruff of his neck and take him to the wild cat den. There was a mother cat here that had just given birth. Shu He was pushed around and squeezed into the mother cat’s arms, looking up in confusion.

Later, he learned that these cats thought he was a kitten and wanted him to drink milk.

When Ji Yan followed Shu He’s scent and found him, he saw his middle-schooler Lord Cat King surrounded by several muscular adult cats, another scene of cat bullying.

The German Shepherd’s brow furrowed. It bent its front legs into an attack stance and let out a ferocious bark, scaring the big cats so much they jumped two meters high. The scene instantly became chaotic. Cats were running and falling, and one even tried to pick up Shu He by the scruff of his neck and carry him away.

This familiar scene.

Ji Yan pounced forward. The big cat was so scared it loosened its jaw. It wanted to run, but it forced itself to stop and stood in front of Shu He, letting out a sharp hiss, staring at Ji Yan.

All its fur was standing on end.

The cat and dog could attack at any moment. The atmosphere instantly became tense, with an undercurrent of turmoil.

Shu He, who was being blocked by the big cat, gently flicked his tail and meowed, touching the big cat’s back with his paw.

The big cat didn’t dare to turn around or get distracted.

Its eyes were still fixed on Ji Yan.

The German Shepherd’s paws dug into the mud. Just as it was about to attack, a little orange cat jumped over the big cat’s head. Ji Yan’s expression relaxed. He gathered the orange cat into his arms and glanced contemptuously at the big cat.

The big cat was in disbelief.

“Mew.”

Shu He turned around and told the big cat to go with the cat team. He was going home with Ji Yan. The big cat was confused and said that cats should play with cats, that he should go with them, not with this dog.

Shu He shook his head and nudged the big cat’s paw with his little head. The big cat had no choice. It was still worried, so it kept looking back at the departing figures of the cat and dog.

Phew.

Back home, Shu He quickly dove into the cat food, eating until the tip of his tail was held high, revealing the two obvious fluffy things behind him.

The cat team was easy to subdue.

He wanted the cats to call him Lord Cat King, and they did. Now he was Lord Cat King. Shu He happily flicked his tail back and forth, picked out some cat food, and rubbed against Ji Yan a few times.

The German Shepherd stared at the little orange cat and gently pressed its paw on its soft little belly. With a push, the little orange cat unexpectedly and dazedly fell into the cardboard box behind it.

“Cats go into heat.”

Ji Yan, for some reason, thought of this potential problem. As he spoke, he lowered his head and gently sniffed Shu He’s little cat scent, licking his fluffy fur. “What will you do when you go into heat?”

Shu He waved his little paws in confusion. He was tickled by Ji Yan’s licking and kicked the dog’s face with his leg. Then he struggled to get into the cardboard box and said it probably wouldn’t happen, that he was a cat demon and probably wouldn’t go into heat.

Ji Yan frowned. “This act has…”

It’s been so long, and you’re still acting?

After a pause, Ji Yan looked at the little orange cat’s round eyes and swallowed the rest of his sentence. He sat down in front of it and played along. “A cat demon is still a cat. Of course it will go into heat.”

Shu He: “You’re a dog too. Dogs also go into heat. How old are you? Why haven’t you shown any signs?”

“…”

Ji Yan was silent for a long time.

Shu He lay on the edge of the cardboard box, his fluffy head tilted up to look at him. His whiskers poked the cardboard box. He didn’t understand why he had suddenly stopped talking.

“…I told you before, the dog I’m in has an owner.” Ji Yan said in a flat, matter-of-fact tone, as if he didn’t care at all. “So, the dog has been neutered. It won’t have a heat cycle.”

Shu He’s eyes widened. “You’ve already been neutered!”

“…”

Ji Yan’s teeth ground together slightly. He stared at him and said, word by word, “Not me, the dog. I’m very healthy.”

After saying that, Ji Yan himself felt it was strange. Why was he explaining this? He ground his teeth again and closed his dog eyes. “We’ll find a chance to go to a pet store and see. There should be free neutering events for stray cats.”

Shu He twitched the tip of his tail.

He pulled his paws back and curled up in a corner of the cardboard box, shaking his head quickly and muttering in a small voice, “No, no.”

“It’s just the cat being neutered.” Ji Yan reasoned calmly. “You’ll still be fine, just like me.”

Shu He nibbled on his paw. “I don’t want to be like you.”

Ji Yan: “…”

“Besides, I’m not a stray cat.”

Shu He quietly turned his head to face the corner of the cardboard box, his fluffy head bumping against it again and again. He let out a soft meow, which translated in Ji Yan’s mind as, “You’re raising me. I’m not a stray cat. I’m a happy Lord Cat King.”

Ji Yan was slightly stunned for a few seconds.

Shu He had never said anything like this before. It had always seemed like a matter of course that Ji Yan would raise him. But now, he seemed to hear a hint of mutual dependence in his words.

They were indeed, mutually dependent.

Ji Yan stepped on the ground and stood up on his hind legs, inexplicably walking around for a few steps, his head lowered, not knowing what he was thinking or what the emotions he was feeling at this moment meant.

After a long while, Ji Yan said slowly, “Then what will you do? What will you do when you go into heat? What if a female cat tries to seduce you? You’re a human. Can you really do it…”

Shu He: “I’m Lord Cat King.”

“…”

Ji Yan sat back down opposite Shu He.

He frowned and asked solemnly, “How old are you really?”

Shu He covered his eyes with his paws and continued to bump his head against the cardboard. “Lord Cat King is, of course, five thousand years old.”

This role-playing had gone on for too long.

So long that Ji Yan was starting to believe it. But his reason, just like his firm belief that he was still a human and not a dog, still existed.

Although he didn’t know why Shu He wouldn’t tell the truth, Ji Yan had his own ways of getting information. And this method was as simple as it could be.

Ji Yan lifted his eyes and stared at the soft, fluffy little orange cat huddled in the corner of the cardboard box. After a moment, he slowly brought up some topics that would only be learned in university, chatting with Shu He in a casual manner.

Shu He, completely unaware, meowed and revealed all his secrets. Ji Yan brought up some extracurricular topics. After a moment, he was certain.

Not a middle-schooler.

Not a high-schooler.

This was a cultured Lord Cat King.

At least an adult.

For some reason, the huge rock hanging in Ji Yan’s heart fell. He took two steps forward and pulled Shu He out. Shu He fell into the cardboard box, his round cat eyes glancing at him listlessly.

“Don’t think about it.” It was Ji Yan who had first brought up this scary topic, but now he was the one comforting him. “Maybe you’ll turn back before you go into heat. Maybe you’re a disabled little cat and won’t have a heat cycle. Maybe…”

Ji Yan lowered his voice. “If you turn back, come find me here. Can you take me with you?”

Shu He scratched his fluffy little belly with his paw and pouted. “You don’t want to work hard anymore? You want to eat dog food?”

Ji Yan stared at him, silent.

Shu He mumbled, “Maybe you’ll be the one to turn back first.”

“If I turn back first, I’ll definitely come find you right away. After all, you’re not a stray cat.” Ji Yan reached out his paw and gently touched the tip of Shu He’s soft ear.

There was a small tuft of fur on the tip of the little cat’s ear.

He had heard somewhere that if a cat had such a tuft of fur on the tip of its ear, it meant it was a smart cat.

Shu He’s ear tickled. He turned over, got up, and jumped onto Ji Yan. Ji Yan didn’t even blink. He was used to it. Not only that, but he also turned his head and told Shu He to be careful not to fall.

How could he fall?

The one standing on him was the tree-climbing champion of this neighborhood! Lord Shu He!

“You underestimate me.” Shu He sat on him and mumbled, “It doesn’t matter who turns back first. We have a more important task now.”

“What?”

Shu He was being mysterious and didn’t say.

He just said that they had to go out at night. They were going to a place that was quite far away. Ji Yan asked if it was the next city. The little cat’s legs would probably be rubbed raw before they got there.

It wasn’t that far.

Shu He continued to be mysterious. The tiny furball followed beside the German Shepherd. Accompanied by the rhythmic chirping of summer insects, he looked up at the road ahead. There were no streetlights there; they seemed to be broken and waiting for repair.

A human would probably have a hard time seeing the road, but a cat’s vision was good. Shu He spotted a corner and jumped onto a small rock to talk to Ji Yan. He said it would probably take a few hours, but if they ran, they might get there in an hour.

Ji Yan asked what was so urgent.

The cat’s tail was held high, but it didn’t answer. Its round pupils dilated in the darkness, staring ahead.

Ji Yan turned his head and squinted into the darkness.

**

Lin Yin always felt like someone was following her.

She nervously clutched her phone, her fingers trembling as she sent a message to her friend. Her pace quickened.

It was dark all around. The streetlights were broken. She turned on her phone’s flashlight, but her anxiety only grew, not easing at all.

Lin Yin was almost running.

At the same time, she keenly heard the person behind her also speed up. The sound was especially clear in the darkness. Lin Yin’s breathing was rapid, her mind numb, her heart beating so fast it felt like it would jump out of her chest.

The footsteps suddenly closed in—

“Ah!”

Lin Yin screamed in fear and whipped around, throwing her phone. She saw a dark figure. Before she could get a clear look at the person’s face, a small, chubby orange cat leaped from a tree by the roadside, meowing as it kicked the man with its paws.

“Meow!”

Lin Yin’s breathing was rapid, and her vision was already starting to blur. She swallowed hard and stumbled to the ground. Her phone, which had been thrown to the side of the road, wasn’t broken. The light from the back of the phone clearly illuminated the man’s face, which was bleeding from the cat’s scratches.

Not only that, but there was also a majestic, muscular big dog behind him!