Chapter 29

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Don’t look at me, Look at the Cats

The reunion of the childhood enemies, Copper Coin and Yin Zhou, was not really a coincidence.

Meng Ji were extremely difficult beasts to breed and their numbers were scarce. There were only a handful of them in the whole of China, and almost all of them lived in the snowy regions, so there was probably only one Meng Ji in the whole of Yu Chuan, a juvenile Meng Ji. So the Meng Ji that fought with Copper Coin in Yu Chuan was unlikely to be another Meng Ji.

As soon as Copper Coin met Yin Zhou’s eyes, he immediately recalled the feud back then.

Thinking to back then, before he left the mountain to enter the human realm to work, he lived on a mountain with Yin Zhou, and for some reason, this short, stubby little fatty just didn’t see eye to eye with him. When he thought about it, he could not remember where he had offended the other party.

It was fine now, the friends were reunited and they met at the cat cafe. This little fatty was also a leopard and clashed with him in this setting, in case he also turned out to be a leopard cat, then he, Copper Coin, will not be unique.

The Copper Coin laid down on the ground, tongue out, and began to play dead – it was expected for the AMB director to leave, but why did another ingrate come? How could he live like this? Just let him die.

Yin Zhou hid behind Pei Shiyi, hugging Pei Shiyi’s calf, his gaze extra alert.

Pei Shiyi held back his smile. Just as the cats of the cat cafe basically all arrived, only Miss Penny was still sleeping upstairs, he took Yin Zhou’s big paws and brought him out from behind, introducing him to the others one by one. “This is Egg Yolk, the shop manager of the cat cafe, if you have any discomfort, you can approach him or me; this is Yun Chao, isn’t she beautiful? And Fondant and Sponge Cake, in terms of age, you guys shouldn’t be too far apart, Sponge Cake is a bit younger…”

The cats quietly crouched in a semi-circle, whoever Pei Shiyi said, they came forward a little, even the twisted Copper Coin gave Pei Shiyi some face, although he only shuffled forwards a little, at least moved.

It was the first time Yin Zhou had seen so many cat demons in different shapes and sizes, and the different scents that poured into his wet nose made Yin Zhou, who had been protecting his own territory all the year-round, uncomfortably nervous.

Egg Yolk walked over and tried to smell him.

Yin Zhou bounced up violently, bounced twice in quick succession and retreated back behind Pei Shiyi.

Egg Yolk: ??

It turns out that that silly cat Copper Coin wasn’t lying, he can really jump! A jumping cat!

Fondant was a little timider and was so frightened by Yin Zhou that she fell back against Yun Chao, getting a loving lick from her.

Pei Shiyi crouched down and rubbed Yin Zhou’s head, waiting for him to become less stiff before he gave him a very light push.

This thick ball of fur went into the circle of cats step by step.

Copper Coin shrank at the very end of the circle with a face worse than death.

Bao Jin sat next to Copper Coin and patted his head, following Pei Shiyi’s usual technique of calming the tortoiseshells.

Pei Shiyi opened his hand. “Why are you patting him like a dog, be gentler.”

Copper Copper, backed up by his boss, also gave Bao Jin a half-deadly sneaky glare: That’s right, if he gets pet silly, won’t he get bullied by the Meng Ji later?

Bao Jin, “…”

Director Bao’s hand froze in mid-air and he looked at Pei Shiyi in disbelief- this bird was usually looking for a fight, but why did he start a fight today?

Was he being treated like this just because he wiped his hand at the AMB?

This light tap, not even having the strength of a mosquito bite, made Bao Jin’s heart pile up, and when he looked back, Pei Shiyi had actually coaxed Copper Coin and Yin Zhou and was discussing what form to let Yin Zhou appear in the cat cafe.

It was mainly Yin Zhou that thought about this issue, unilaterally.

It’s not like Pei Shiyi brought Yin Zhou back to add a new cat to the cat cafe, but him saying “I want to take care of Yin Zhou” at the AMB wasn’t nonsense either.

Yin Zhou, “I-I don’t want to be raised for nothing, I want to work.

Even Copper Coin could work, so of course, he could as well.

The pre-pubescent leopard had a reluctance to express his pride.

Pei Shiyi went along with him and said, “How about a silver tabby cat?”

He searched for a few pictures of silver tabby cats and the American Short Hair was the closest in appearance to the Meng Ji breed, with a silvery grey coat and black markings and a robust physique, though aggravated by Yin Zhou’s large hairy tail almost as long as his body and the thick paw pads.

The ever-dedicated Sponge Cake, well aware of human preferences, also said, “But then Brother Yin Zhou’s big tail would be gone.”

The tabby cat’s tail was certainly not small, but how could it compare to the Meng Ji’s? Living in the high mountains, the Meng Ji was a great leaper and had a large tail to maintain its balance.

Even Sponge Cake, who thought he was no longer a child, couldn’t help but look at the big tail a few more times, let alone a human.

Yin Zhou looked hesitant, “Is it okay for me to look like this then?”

He was in a shrunken state, about the size of a house cat, could he pretend to be one? He would love to be liked too.

“That’s not okay,” Pei Shiyi nudged his little ears. “A little leopard is also a leopard, not like a cat.”

What’s more, the Meng Ji was born exactly like a human protected animal, the snow leopard, one of the most famous beasts behind bars. He knew how to raise real leopards, but there was no need to show that here, right?

Yin Zhou glanced sideways as Copper Coin, who dressed as a leopard cat, climbed onto the cat climbing frame. “’No! You can’t! No way! I’m already a leopard cat, it’s not good for either of us for you to clash with me, cats in cat cafes should be diverse and have character to be remembered by humans.”

Yin Zhou grunted, “I don’t want to look like you either. That short whatever is quite good.”

He looked at the photo Pei Shiyi had found for a moment, turned in place and appeared in front of the cats as an extraordinarily beautiful shorthair.

But… Copper Coin took a look from above and suddenly laughed maniacally. “You have short legs!”

The Mengji, in order to keep balance, not only had a long and thick tail but also… four somewhat short little fat legs. The front limbs were slightly shorter than the hind limbs, and the short thick little fat legs were not yet obvious on the Mengji’s otherwise short and strong body. But little Yin Zhou changed before carefully observing and missed the leg part. So the beautiful shorthair that appeared in the eyes of the crowd had four short little fat legs.

Yin Zhou, “…”

The underage Mengji was so young and enraged that he jumped onto the cat climbing frame. The Mengji’s amazing jumping ability allowed him to get to the top of the climbing frame in three or two jumps and he was soon rolling with Copper Coin and beating each other up.

Bao Jin pondered and asked the other cats, “Does Copper Coin get beaten up a lot at the cat cafe?”

Egg Yolk, “…Um, he’s often beaten by Yun Chao.”

Yun Chao asked back, “Am I not allowed to beat him?”

Immediately, Egg Yolk succumbed to the boss’s intimidation. “You can, you can.”

Pei Shiyi took one look and knew that the two paws on the climbing frame didn’t have their claws out and hadn’t started biting yet, so he leaned back on the cushion to watch the fun. “Serves him right, call him an asshole.”

Bao Jin said, “Then according to you, you also grew up to…”

Pei Shiyi interrupted him. “Thanks for your concern, no one can beat me, or do you want to try?”

Bao Jin, “Your hazard statement is in two parts and I haven’t signed the second one yet.”

Pei Shiyi, “…Childish.”

Bao Jin internally thought: He didn’t know where he got the nerve to call people childish.

……

The humiliated little Yin Zhou was unable to avenge his short-leggedness in the end – the staff of the cat cafe had already come to work, and when the sound of footsteps and talking came from outside, the senior cats who were watching the action stretched themselves out and greeted Pei Shiyi one after another.

Egg Yolk whispered, “Boss, well go over first.”

Pei Shiyi said, “Mhm, go.”

Egg Yolk liked to make his rounds of the cat cafe before going to work, and Pei Shiyi didn’t hold him up, putting on his shop manager’s sign and sending him out.

Little Yin Zhou also wanted to follow him, but after two steps he looked down at his short legs, feeling ugly and not daring to change back.

Pei Shiyi stepped forward to pick him up and moved to Yin Zhou’s ear and whispered, “Look at Copper Coin, he can’t jump like you with his long legs, so you see long legs alone are useless. Doesn’t Yun Chao still beat him? Sister Yun Chao just likes you.”

Little Yin Zhou twitched his ears twice and his eyes lit up.

What could be more comforting to a face-saving leopard than to know that his rival was inferior to him?

Yin Zhou was instantly cured and held his head high and meowed at Pei Shiyi.

The Mengji doesn’t growl and his purr was more like a bolder cat’s purr, which was very pleasant to listen to.

Pei Shiyi picked up Yin Zhou and looked around, and suddenly said, “A dwarf cat is also very good, let’s not compare ourselves to others.”

Dwarf cats were also originally mutated and there was no limit to the length of their legs, there were those that were close to the ground and of course slightly shorter, wouldn’t it be just right to have Yin Zhou be a little munchkin with short legs?

Yin Zhou was bewildered.

When Pei Shiyi tapped his forehead and placed him on the ground, Yin Zhou’s fierce animal features had faded away. Pei Shiyi retained most of Yin Zhou’s features, making him look like a small, dwarf cat with black rosettes on a white background. The whole cat was short and stumpy, completely to scale, and quite close to the more popular ground-hugging short legs on the internet.

Small short legs paired with a sturdy body on Yin Zhou, his big head and big nose gave him a naive look.

When Yin Zhou first started to change, Pei Shiyi didn’t even consider the body proportions, and it was only thanks to Copper Coin speaking out that Pei Shiyi felt that something was wrong.

It must be an extremely poor experience to have a small short leg on stilts all year round to disguise long legs.

After the change, Yin Zhou’s destroyed proportions went from short and fat to relatively normal, and Yin Zhou definitely did not adapt to it. Moreover, this changed image was required to be maintained for a long time, should Yin Zhou be allowed to live his life in such a twisted manner?

Pei Shiyi brought the cat back to be pampered and loved, how could he possibly make the cat uncomfortable?

He picked up little Yin Zhou and kissed his head. “Doesn’t this look good too?”

Yin Zhou listened to the human voice, not daring to speak, and cocked its head in Pei Shiyi’s hand. “Ow?”

Pei Shiyi put him in front of Bao Jin. “Let Director Bao say it, if our Yin Zhou is cute or not.”

Yin Zhou lifted his fluffy little round face to look at Bao Jin, his light golden eyes were still bewildered. He still didn’t know what had changed in him. Pei Shiyi’s cultivation was so high that even when the technique of transformation was added to Yin Zhou, he didn’t feel anything wrong.

Pei Shiyi smiled with arched eyebrows, fearing that Bao Jin would say the wrong thing, and gave Bao Jin a special wink: Don’t stand still, quick, say something nice.

He was naturally affectionate, and when he was solemn, he suppressed that bright colour without fail, but if he smiled, even if it was just a glance, it seemed that there were thousand years of friendships in it.

Director Bao didn’t think he had a problem with his fixation and firmly believed it was because the bird was shaking his feathers too much and was so dazzling the dragon’s eyes were flashed.

This was not Pei Shiyi’s fault. He was not trying to seduce anyone on purpose. Who told them to be gorgeous or beautiful, in short, to look good, Pei Shiyi is a full-fledged adult phoenix, and he had the problem of exuding charm everywhere. After a long time, even if he didn’t deliberately tease, he always meant a little teasing.

It’s just Pei Shiyi put on such an expression, and also called people to look at the cat, it is really difficult for Director Bao.

Bao Jin only felt the back of his hand, which had just been patted by Pei Shiyi, start to burn again as he avoided Pei Shiyi’s gaze. “Yeah, cute.”

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Hi guys! Sadly due to personal reasons, I will no longer be translating this novel, kind of because I’m getting bored of it. I will be taking a break until next year when I graduate, so if anyone wants to pick this up, go ahead! Just let me know!!! If the novel hasn’t been picked up during the time I’m away, I’ll continue translating! See you call next year. – sn

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