Chapter 8

Chapter 8

Xie Chen bent down and scooped the little kitten sitting on his foot into his arms.

“All right.”

His long, handsome fingers touched the corner of Bai Li’s eye as he gently instructed, “Wipe away those tears.”

Bai Li sniffled, his pair of wet eyes staring at him without blinking.

Fortunately, the Master holding him now looked a bit more normal again.

Xie Chen lowered his gaze, his eyes resting on the little kitten’s, absentmindedly thinking—

The tears in those eyes were shed for him.

How strange.

Since his parents both disappeared, everyone around him—except Uncle Xie and a few others—had been eager for him to die soon.

But this little kitten, who had only met him a few times, repaid even the smallest kindness with such devotion.

At this moment, though his face showed nothing, Xie Chen felt deeply touched inside.

Bai Li, held in his arms, clenched his little paws tightly around his fingers, still obediently holding back tears.

After a while.

Xie Chen, who usually stayed in the music room all night, rarely opened his door and left in the middle of the night.

The corridor outside was long. Xie Chen played with the little kitten for a bit. After that, he put Bai Li back in his cat nest and prepared to rest.

But just as he walked away, Bai Li hurried after him.

He didn’t want to sleep alone tonight.

Half a minute later.

As soon as Xie Chen opened the bedroom door, a white shadow swiftly dashed past his feet.

He pressed the switch, and the bright incandescent light illuminated everything in the room, including the round kitten’s little bottom peeking from under the curtain.

Xie Chen: “...”

He changed into slippers, his expression complicated as he looked at the curtain. He understood the little fellow’s intention to hide himself, but only hiding the head while leaving the bottom exposed—what kind of hiding was that?

“Ahem.”

Xie Chen cleared his throat and pretended to approach the silly little kitten who had only hidden his head.Bai Li trembled nervously, his chubby little body shaking when he heard footsteps approaching.

Can't see him, can't see him.

Bai Li faced the wall, trying to hypnotize himself with his mind—and along the way, hypnotize Xie Chen too!

Xie Chen sat on the bed, staring at the tense round bottom under the curtain, unsure whether to expose him or not.

The man and the cat standoff lasted a while. In the end, Xie Chen pressed his temple and, following his principle, mercilessly picked up the little kitten and carried him out.

Bai Li, lifted by the scruff: “Meow!”

Put me back!

Xie Chen ignored his meows and locked the door, speaking calmly, “Go back to your cat nest and sleep.”

No matter how special this little kitten was, no living thing was allowed to stay overnight in his bed—or rather, in his room.

Bai Li watched the bedroom door close before his eyes, his beautiful amber eyes full of loneliness.

“Meow ow.”

I can sleep on the floor.

Bai Li meowed softly. He simply couldn’t trust the Master, who was messing with medicine alone in the room. What if he took more medicine again?

Xie Chen listened to the meowing outside the door, completely unmoved.

He turned off the light, pulled back the covers, and lay down.

Even though he had taken medicine, like before, he still didn’t feel any sleepiness at all.

The night was narrow and long, breeding all kinds of unbearable, cruel, and violent thoughts.

Xie Chen closed his eyes, struggling hard to suppress those dark emotions.

After an unknown amount of time,

He fell from unbearable wakefulness into a familiar nightmare—in the nightmare, he was as if trapped in a hellish realm…

“Meow ow, ow!”

Master, open the door!

Outside the door, Bai Li suddenly cried out urgently. He twitched his little nose, sensing the increasingly dense cold aura gathering in the air.

Those auras surged into the bedroom like a black tide. Bai Li anxiously ran around in circles. The Master was inside—the filth would harm him.

In his panic, Bai Li looked up at the door handle.

“Click—”

With a leap, he hung onto the doorknob and used his body weight to press it down.

Luckily, the door wasn’t locked, only normally closed, so Bai Li successfully opened the door.As soon as he entered the room,

Bai Li saw Xie Chen completely shrouded in a black tide. Without thinking, he jumped straight onto the bed and even stepped on Xie Chen’s chest.

“Meow oo!!!”

The demon pill activated, Bai Li’s fur bristled all over. He let out a threatening roar from his throat and fiercely swatted at the sticky black mist with his paws.

Since coming down from the mountain, Bai Li had noticed that in the human world, there were many black mists that affected human emotions. If caught by the black mist, there would be very bad reactions.

This black mist wasn’t only in the human world; over the years, the spiritual energy on their demon mountain had also been diminishing.

It was said that the spiritual energy on their demon mountain was fading because they had lost a treasure.

The older brothers and sisters went down the mountain to seek that treasure to save the demon mountain.

Bai Li wasn’t entrusted with such a difficult mission to find the treasure. As the little baby of all the demons on the mountain, Bai Li was already satisfied to have found his fiancé and succeeded in transforming.

“Meow meow.”

After swatting the black mist for a long time, Bai Li was so tired he could barely lift his paws.

He sat heavily on Xie Chen’s chest, forcing himself to keep going, continuing to swipe his paws.

The black mist gradually thinned.

Xie Chen, who had been plagued by insomnia and nightmares for years, suddenly no longer saw the familiar hellish realm in his sleep. Instead, it was replaced by a place so beautiful it seemed like a fairyland.

In that place, he found rare tranquility and peace.

Xie Chen slept well, but Bai Li was exhausted.

Finally, when dawn came, Bai Li looked at Xie Chen peacefully asleep on the bed. He rubbed his eyes with his paws, yawned, and jumped off the bed.

The Master didn’t allow him to sleep in the room.

Bai Li still remembered being locked outside the door. After jumping down, he tiptoed out quietly, even closing the door behind him, pretending he hadn’t come in.

“Meow.”

So sleepy.

Bai Li’s paws felt light, his little body swayed unsteadily, and after much effort, he finally made it back into his cat nest.

It was still a bit early, but Bai Li was too sleepy and his head tilted as he fell asleep in the cat nest.

Meanwhile, Xie Chen, who rarely had such a good dream until dawn, had no idea that the little kitten he had taken in had guarded him all night.

“Kitty.”

At 8:30 in the morning, Uncle Xie squatted lovingly in front of the cat nest.

“Awake yet? Let’s go eat breakfast.”Bai Li: “Huff huff huff.”

Not fully awake yet.

Uncle Xie looked at the little kitten curled into a ball in the cat nest, his heart about to melt.

The rule in the Xie family was that they had to be good to cats. Although Uncle Xie had liked cats for many years, without Xie Chen’s permission, there had never been any cats at home.

This time, finally, the family had a cat—and such an adorable little kitten. Uncle Xie squinted his eyes, feeling extremely satisfied inside.

At Uncle Xie’s call to eat, Bai Li’s ears twitched, and at the same time, his stomach rumbled.

“Kitty, wake up.” Hearing the purring, Uncle Xie reached out and patted his head: “Let’s go eat cat food. I fried some fresh little dried fish for you.”

Little... little dried fish.

Bai Li slowly opened his eyes, and his gaze met Uncle Xie’s.

Uncle Xie opened his hands to him: “Come, let’s go eat the little dried fish.”

Bai Li recognized Uncle Xie, who, like Master, was especially kind.

He shook his head, climbed out of the cat nest, and placed his paws in Uncle Xie’s palm.

Uncle Xie held him and went to the dining room with practiced ease. On the table was a bowl of freshly fried golden little dried fish.

The little dried fish were crispy and tasty. Bai Li pressed them down with his paws and ate a few bites at a time.

“Kitty, drink some milk.”

Uncle Xie worried he might be too dry from eating and pushed the prepared special cat milk powder in front of him.

Bai Li gulped down almost half the bowl of milk, then ate some more dried fish.

Full and satisfied, Bai Li hiccuped softly, tilted his face up, letting Uncle Xie wipe it for him.

“So obedient.”

Uncle Xie looked at the little kitten cooperating to have his face wiped and couldn’t help but sigh.

He had seen stray cats on the roadside before, but those strays were fierce. Even if given food, they wouldn’t allow anyone close.

Not to mention like now, letting someone pinch their paws and wipe their face.

After eating breakfast here, Bai Li wanted to go back.

There were still little things being treated with Da Hui at the hospital, and Mei Mei also needed to work with him.

He couldn’t just be a useless little cat here.

“Meow ao!”

Before leaving, Bai Li tugged on Uncle Xie’s pant leg. When Uncle Xie looked down, Bai Li immediately flopped over and spread out his belly, inviting Uncle Xie to pet him.

He had no money, so this was the only way he could repay Uncle Xie’s dried fish and milk powder.Uncle Xie didn’t know Bai Li was about to leave. Seeing his actions, he was so charmed he wanted to fry ten more bowls of little dried fish for him.

After Uncle Xie just started petting Bai Li’s back a few times, faint sounds came from upstairs.

Uncle Xie sensitively caught the noise and immediately stopped.

“Kitty, you go play by yourself first.”

Uncle Xie packed up all the little dried fish, put them in a bag, and hung it around Bai Li’s neck.

“If you’re hungry, eat this. I’m going to check on Master.”

Smelling the aroma of the dried fish, Bai Li bowed gratefully: “Meow meow.”

Thank you!

Uncle Xie turned and went upstairs. Bai Li, wearing the bag of dried fish, watched his back disappear at the stairs, then ran outside quickly.

He was leaving.

Just right—the dried fish could be brought to Dandian and the others as breakfast.

Although the Xie family had strict security,

it was still hard to stop a tiny kitten the size of a palm from sneaking out.

Not long after,

Bai Li ran out carrying the dried fish. He didn’t know the way well and relied entirely on his cat hypnosis skills to ask passersby for directions.

Near the hospital entrance, Bai Li saw a large poster by the roadside. It featured the popular star Tan Yi endorsing a product.

Bai Li looked at the handsome face of Tan Yi on the poster and tilted his head.

He had an older brother named Bai Yi, whose name differed by one character.

That definitely wasn’t his brother.

Bai Li withdrew his gaze, suppressed his longing for his third brother Bai Yi, and with his short little legs, continued toward the hospital.

Sigh.

As Bai Li ran, he couldn’t help but think: his older brothers and sisters couldn’t find him, and he couldn’t find his fiancé.

Life was so hard.

Being a little kitten was hard too.