Chapter 3 - Senior Sister, Please Take Care of Me!

[ Translator: Zky, Proofreaders: Lynn ]

Xiao Man and the others found a restaurant near the movie theatre to eat. Mi Lin and Chu Fanxi lived far away, so they didn’t go together with Xiao Man. After eating, they were strolling the street and preparing to go back. The three said goodbye at the subway station.

Mi Lin asked: “Man, are you still living outside by yourself?”

(T/N: her name is “xiao man,” so the person is simply calling her “man”)

“Yes, you used to live in the dormitory. You know what? Living alone is peaceful.” Xiao Man said, “But recently, there is a stray cat in the community. I don’t know what’s wrong, but it is always meowing in the middle of the night making me feel sad.”

Chu Fanxi dramatically asked, “It’s not a wild one, right? Man, please be careful. Female cats like to scratch people the most! ”

“Maybe it’s because of the winter? But why? ” Chu Fanxi take a look around,” The cold weather is to blame, it’s too cold now. Man, if you happen to meet one, will you give it something to eat? It’s time to do good deeds.”

“Let’s talk about it, that thing is dirty, I can’t stand it.” The subway that Xiao Man was waiting for arrived at the station while they were talking, and she followed the crowd into it, “Then, I’m going now you guys. Be careful on the road.”

Xiao Man didn’t like cats, in fact, she was actually a little afraid of cats. She was scratched by a neighbour’s cat while playing with a neighbour’s cat when she was little. It scratched her with its claws when she gave it’s tail a little pinch.

The cat’s claws were not long so, it didn’t hurt much when she was scratched. What hurts the most was the rabies vaccine that Xiao had to take when her parents took her to get it afterwards. Xiao Man didn’t cry when she was scratched by the cat, but she cried faintly during the injection. From then on, it left a deep shadow in her young heart, causing her to be afraid of such soft and fluffy animals.

Feed a cat? forget it. Xiao Man touched her arm with lingering fear and recalled the fear of being vaccinated by the amiable nurse that day. Some things were enough to experience just once, and she didn’t want to experience such horrible memories again.

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Yu Miaoyin was awakened by the freezing weather. She felt herself lying on the hard concrete floor, surrounded by a soft long blanket, but the blanket was no longer warm. Yu Miaoyin felt that her eyes were obscured by something, and she couldn’t open them no matter how hard she tried. Yu Miaoyin wanted to stand up, but her limbs were limp without any strength. She could only clawed the ground in vain a few times and finally gave up.

Where am I? Yu Miaoyin tried to remember what happened on the road. She only remembered watching a movie with her senior sister, and later received a call from her crying mother, and later…and later she didn’t know what happened.

Yu Miaoyin tried again but still couldn’t open her eyes. She opened her mouth and tried to make a sound to call for help.

“Meow…”

A sound as faint as a gnat came from Yu Miaoyin’s throat, and she quickly shut her mouth in fright.

What is this? Yu Miaoyin thought it was a prank. After waiting for a long time, she pricked her ears and listened carefully, confirmed that there was no other sound around, and opened her mouth.

“Meow…” The cat cry came again, Yu Miaoyin was completely in panic, who used black magic on her? How come she couldn’t speak at all? It was like one would be in awe while watching a fantasy movie? Yu Miaoyin stretched out both hands vigorously, lowered her head and pulled on her eyelids several times, and finally opened her eyes, which made her even more shocked.

Yu Miaoyin looked like an animal in the arms of a furry thing, only it had been dead for a while, and her body was cold. She crawled out of the animal’s arms while holding her breath to make her body a bit smaller and looked up. She saw a cat staring at her.

Yu Miaoyin looked around again, the magnified iron railings, the magnified security door, everything and the cat were magnified, she blinked countless times, and she felt that she had accidentally entered the kingdom of giants by mistake.

No, you have to escape from this horrendous place! Yu Miaoyin tried to get up again, but she couldn’t use her strength at all to balance herself and fell to the ground again. This time, Yu Miaoyin discovered something unusual again—her hands had become shorter.

Yu Miaoyin strenuously stretched out her “hand” in front of her eyes to use the remaining light to see herself. However, she only saw a small hairy paw.

“Meow–” Yu Miaoyin yelled out in shock, but it was a cat-cry.

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C alm down.

Yu Miaoyin lay on the cold ground for a long time and finally accepted the reality. For some reason that couldn’t be explained by science, she seemed to really … have turned a cat. It seemed that she was left to die by the cat’s mother after it gave birth to her. A pregnant cat with milk.

That was not good for reincarnation. But reincarnation as a new-born milk cat, unable to stand up. Yu Miaoyin’s placed her four small paws on the ground to endeavour to stand up a few times. She carefully looked at the dark place, after ten minutes, she finally confirmed this place was the corridor of a residential building. I just don’t know what residents here . Would they throw me away if they found out? Or would they take me home?

If it was the latter, of course it would be the best, but if it was the former… Yu Miaoyin thought dejectedly, there was an 80% chance of her starving to death after or be eaten by other stray animals and reborn.

She was in random space, and the iron door at the top of the stairs was suddenly being pushed open.

Good chance! Yu Miaoyin once again used the strength of breastfeeding and climbed a few centimetres outside, pulling her young throat towards the top of the stairs to cry for help, even though she was starving to death since she was born and had not eaten a mouthful of milk.

Xiao Man opened the rusty iron door in the corridor and walked to the door of her rented apartment. Once she was in front of her door, she took out the key to open the door. Suddenly, her ears moved keenly seemingly to pick up a sound. Xiao Man stopped and listened carefully, and sure enough, there was a string of very faint calls from the bottom of the stairs.

Could it be a rat in the building? Xiao Man picked up the broken broom in the corridor, turned on the flashlight that came with her phone, walked under the stairs with her shoulder up a bit, and raised the broom to strike toward the direction where the sound came from.

The light from the flashlight shone ahead, and Xiao Man’s entire body suddenly shook, and she was covered in goosebumps. She straightened up in fright and hit her head against the narrow staircase with a “boom”.

“Hiss…” The broom fell off her hand, and Xiao Man crouched on the stairs covering her head crying out painfully. It took her a long time to come back to compose herself.

Xiao Man crawled out of the stairwell, patted her chest a few times, and took a breath to calm down. Then she gathered her courage to pick up the broom and used the phone to take a picture of the thing in the stairwell.

It was a scrawny ginger-yellow striped cat lying on the ground on its side, with four claws overlapping and motionless, with sharp teeth exposed outside its mouth. Xiao Man poked at the thing with the broom, but it still didn’t move. It was dead. There was a kitten lying next to the big cat. It had just been born, with sparse hair without a hint of color. The little mouse-like noise was just made by the kitten.

“Meow…Meow…” Yu Miaoyin looked up ecstatically at the tall figure that appeared in front of her. The corridor was too dark and the new-born kitten had poor eyesight. Yu Miaoyin wasn’t able to see clearly. She could only aim a desperate look toward this person, trying to win a little bit of sympathy from this person who would take herself home without letting her starve to death outside.

The kitten didn’t even open its eyes. If she ignored it, maybe it would starve to death. Xiao Man put down the broom and squatted in a distance from the corridor, looking at the two cats. The big one and the small one. One was dead and the other one was alive, making noises intermittently. She couldn’t just let such a small fragile life perspire but how could this little life be a cat?

There were many kinds of animals, such as puppies, rabbits and turtles, any of which would be good, all were very cute. But this thing was a cat, Xiao Man felt goosebumps when she saw the cat.

Forget it, don’t worry about it. Taking this little thing back was not just a matter of giving a meal. If you pick it up, you have to be responsible for it. If you raise it for a few days and throw it away, it is better not to pick it up at the beginning.

Xiao Man stood up and clapped her hands, sighed and thought, C at, cat, you can’t blame me for being cold-blooded, but who made you into a cat?

Yu Miaoyin felt that the person seemed to be leaving, and cried out even more miserably, meowing and meowing incessantly, crawling out with all four paws on the ground, and the tender belly quickly rubbed and bled on the concrete floor.

(T/N: I’m crying here, please just pick her up~)

Don’t go, save one’s life is better than build a seventh-level Buddha, understand? Okay, even if she is no longer a human, then a discount, level 5…level 5 head office, is okay right?

“Woo…” Good sister, don’t go, take me back, I’ll be obedient, please rub it, and give it to the nursing home. Even If you take it back, you can’t even eat it.

Xiao Man shuddered when she saw the stubborn little crawling towards her, then took several steps backwards, turned her head decisively, opened the door and entered her apartment. She then closed the door with a “bang”, Yu Miaoyin was lying on the ground, obviously felt the floor shook several times.

“…” Yu Miaoyin’s paw touched her bloody belly. Because her vision is not really clear, she’s trying desperately to pretend to be pitiful and cute. The saying that humans love little animals the most? All lies!

It’s cold. It hurts.

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Yu Miaoyin instinctively retracted the four small paws. Her palm-sized body curled up into a small ball. Her body was already cold, and her worn-out belly was aching. Yu Miaoyin had a foreboding that she might really feel the pain this time. Reincarnation at birth.

How can a cat treat herself if she is injured? Yu Miaoyin thought for a while, Did she have to lick the wound with her tongue? She stuck out her tongue hesitantly and licked her unbearably painful belly…

Yuck! Yu Miaoyin spat and stuck out her tongue, her mouth was full of dirt!!

After ten minutes or so, Yu Miaoyin heard the sound of the door lock turning again, her ears moved, and she looked up in hope, her pink nose sniffing the air as if she could smell the aroma of milk?

“Although cats can’t drink milk, you will starve to death if you don’t eat now, right? Just drink it.” Xiao Man put the porcelain bowl with warm milk in front of the kitten. After she went back just now, she pondered about it and felt a bit uneasy watching a little life starving to death. She gritted her teeth and heated a bowl of milk and brought it out.

After hearing this voice, Yu Miaoyin didn’t dare move as if she had been frozen. Isn’t this… isn’t this senior sister? Could it be that she happened to be reborn near the senior sister’s house?

“By the way, you are small, you shouldn’t be able to eat by yourself.” Xiao Man said to herself,

“Yes!”

She turned back, took a small wooden spoon, scooped a bit of milk, and lifted it carefully, passing it carefully across the distance to the kitten.”Drink quickly, you will die if you don’t eat.”

It’s really the senior! Yu Miaoyin was confused, and even the wound on her belly was forgotten for a while.

How could a kitten who was just born less than a day eat by herself? Xiao Man was heartbroken, thinking that the cat’s hair was not all grown and couldn’t even scratch itself, so she held the cat in her hand.

After the first step, the second step was much easier. Xiao Man opened the cat’s mouth after a moment’s hesitation and fed it the milk from the small bowl.

Not to mention, this cat’s body was soft and warm, holding it in her hand felt really good, like holding a freshly steamed glutinous rice dumpling.

“Miwu…” Yu Miaoyin places a half bowl of milk. She warmed it in the palm of the senior sister’s hand, and finally plucked up the courage to turn around and bring her bloody belly in front of Xiao Man.

“Meow…” Senior sister, my belly hurts.

Yu Miaoyin really relied on her current form, shamelessly turning within the palm that was holding her, selling meng.

(T/N: finally chapter 3 is out~! thanks again to Lynn for proofreading it :D)