Chapter 196 Let’s see who’s cooler

At this moment, Cheng Xiaoxiao suddenly felt warm in her heart, and she felt that Qin, who was in front of her, became lovelier as well.

“Yes, I’m ready. Let’s do this!”

Raising her head, Qin gazed at Cheng Xiaoxiao firmly with a posture looking like she was ready to sacrifice herself.

“Pfft…” Cheng Xiaoxiao finally revealed her first genuine smile in these past few days. Plus, Cheng Xiaoxiao’s laughter was extremely loud, scaring Qin, who had her eyes closed while she waited for Cheng Xiaoxiao to cast the spell, to such an extent that she opened her eyes.

“Don’t worry, and you don’t have to be so nervous. It’ll be over soon, and you won’t feel nothing as well.”

Wiping the tears that came out when she was amused by Qin, Cheng Xiaoxiao comforted Qin while laughing.

She was indeed impressed by Qin’s simple and honest character.

So up until now, Qin had thought that she would be in great pain when Cheng Xiaoxiao cast the spell, but even so, she still resolutely chose to reincarnate without any hesitation.

“Good luck. You surely will live long and healthy in your next life.”

As the jade pendant flashed with orange light, Cheng Xiaoxiao waved her paws hard at Qin, who was in the light. In order to make sure Qin could see her, Cheng Xiaoxiao even waved both her front paws in turn, and the upper half of her body was also in an upright position.

In the light, Qin moved her lips. It was not until the light disappeared and Qin was put into the jade pendant that Cheng Xiaoxiao realized that Qin seemed to be saying goodbye to her silently.

Besides, Cheng Xiaoxiao also realized that Qin was repeating two words—and that was—’thank you’.

Smiling, Cheng Xiaoxiao shook her head as she kept calling Qin an idi*t.

Now, of the “idiot trio”, Wan Xia was gone, and Qin was gone as well, leaving only Cheng Xiaoxiao behind.

After that, Cheng Xiaoxiao lay back down next to the birdcage, ignoring the jade pendant on her neck that was emitting a bright orange light.

If this were any other day, she would be so happy. After all, she could return to her human form with spiritual energy, and then she could sneak out and play.

However, Cheng Xiaoxiao was not in the mood right now. Feeling demotivated, she reached her paws into the birdcage and poked at the dirty, crimson-colored coat.

When Cheng Xiaoxiao saw a Persian cat pattern on the coat, her paws, which were not moving much, paused. With her dark eyes, she stared at the pattern for a long time, in trance.

After a very long time, Cheng Xiaoxiao finally came to her senses.

Initially, she wanted to use her paws to touch the Persian cat pattern that was stained. However, she decided not to do it at last when she saw the dirt, blood, and food crumbs on her paws.

After contemplating for a moment, Cheng Xiaoxiao hooked the coat out of the birdcage and laid the Persian cat embroidery at her front.

Then, she slowly put her head onto it and gently stroked the embroidery over and over again.

“I seem to have missed you a little.”

Cheng Xiaoxiao thought in her heart.

When Chu Yunshen came in, this was what he saw—the Persian cat was bending down with its face pressed against the ground. Fortunately, there was a dirty little dress on the floor, at the least.

What a dirty cat!

For these past two days, Chu Yunshen basically did not relax his brows at all. At this moment, he frowned again, and his perfect lips were pursed into a straight line.

Deliberately, Chu Yunshen entered with heavy footsteps, and when he walked in front of the Persian cat, he found that it had fallen asleep in this strange posture.

With that, Chu Yunshen smiled helplessly, and his eyebrows that were once tightly knitted were now released.

Bending down, he gently picked up the cat that had its butt sticking out. Before he picked it up, he did not forget to pat its butt intimately.

As soon as Chu Yunshen held the cat in his arms, the cat let out a groan and opened its eyes.

When she saw herself lying in Chu Yunshen’s arms, Cheng Xiaoxiao let out a shrill scream and struggled to jump to the ground in a panic. In the chaos, she accidentally stepped on the crimson coat and even fell.

Meanwhile, Chu Yunshen’s face had already turned dark watching the series of reactions of the Persian cat when it woke up. When he saw the cat falling, he quickly bent down to pick it up again.

When Cheng Xiaoxiao saw Chu Yunshen’s hand coming over, she started to run frantically again. She didn’t even care when the crimson coat got stuck on her leg and scurried to elsewhere.

Worrying that the Persian cat would fall again, Chu Yunshen stopped what he was doing and stood back up.

“What do you want?” Chu Yunshen slightly sighed as if he didn’t know how to deal with the cat.

What did she want?

Wasn’t it him who was trying to do something to her?!

Cheng Xiaoxiao became super angry upon seeing Chu Yunshen.

She might have been too emotional just now, causing her to close her eyes and get lost in thoughts while lying on the coat earlier.

Fine!

Cheng Xiaoxiao admitted that she fell asleep for a while, but she was so tired because she didn’t sleep much last night.

She only took a nap for a moment, but how could Chu Yunshen take advantage of her when she was unconscious?

Suddenly, she smelled that Chu Yunshen hadn’t changed his clothes yet.

Hold me? In your dreams!

W—wait a minute…

Just now, wasn’t she holding the coat Wan Xia made before she fell asleep?

So here came the question, where was the coat?

Chu Yunshen saw the Persian cat stumbling on the ground while glaring at him with wide eyes. Suddenly, it jumped up like it had been electrocuted, and then it frantically tried to free the little crimson coat from her claws.

Once again, Chu Yunshen reached out to help, but as soon as he bent down and reached out, the Persian cat would bare its teeth and stop its movement to hiss at him.

Then, when he stopped moving, the cat would stop hissing and continue to fiddle with her little coat.

After repeating this several times, and until the Persian cat picked up the little coat from the ground happily, Chu Yunshen still did not get to touch the cat he had been missing for this whole time.

Hence, Chu Yunshen became a little impatient, and anger appeared in his deep eyes.

“What do you want?”

Chu Yunshen’s tone was extremely cold. In a daze, Cheng Xiaoxiao seemed to have gone back to the time when she first met Chu Yunshen. It had been a very long time since she last heard him talking to her with this tone.

At once, Cheng Xiaoxiao froze on the ground and stopped moving.

It seemed that this method was effective.

Softening his gaze, Chu Yunshen reached out toward the Persian cat again.

However, he did not expect the cat to extend its sharp claws and scratched his wrist when he was almost reaching its soft hair.

After scratching Chu Yunshen, Cheng Xiaoxiao hid in the corner under the bed without looking back, not giving him a chance to react.

Of course, Cheng Xiaoxiao was angry. What did she have to compromise?

After all, it was not her who slept in the same bed with another woman. Plus, she did not lose her temper with Chu Yunshen as well. How could he speak to her so coldly?

Besides, she, Cheng Xiaoxiao, had her own pride.

She was not an accessory to Chu Yunshen, nor was she a pet that was at his beck and call. She was a person with an independent personality!

Wasn’t Chu Yunshen obviously declaring war on her with such attitude?

Great! Let’s compete and see who was cooler then!

If he, Chu Yunshen, was so capable, why didn’t he crawl under the bed to catch her then?

Speaking of this bed!

Why was it still so smelly?!

As Cheng Xiaoxiao was still angry, she sat on the floor and extended her claws to scratch the bedboard above her head.

In an instant, Cheng Xiaoxiao screamed out in pain as it hurt a lot.

Earlier, Cheng Xiaoxiao was in so much pain that she stood up directly, and she was now holding her paw that was hurting and bounced in place several times.

Every time she jumped, her head would knock on the bedboard, causing her to scream out in pain again.

What did she do to deserve this?!

At once, Cheng Xiaoxiao didn’t know whether she should rub her head first or continue holding her paw.

After the Persian cat scratched Chu Yunshen’s wrist, he wanted to give it a stern look, but he didn’t expect the cat to hide in the corner again.

What a dirty cat! You know, the worker in charge might not have cleaned that corner entirely.

Chu Yunshen bent down in disgust. Then, he deliberately lowered his head to peek at the Persian cat under the bed.

However, before he could see the cat, there was a whine from the cat under the bed. Then, there was the sound of a heavy object hitting the bedboard. Following that was the sound of the cat constantly gasping, and it sounded like the cat groaned a few times as well.

What was this cat doing again? Wasn’t it screaming just now?

After hesitating for a while, Chu Yunshen decided to go and take a look at the Persian cat. However, he couldn’t find a good way to get the cat out since it was hiding inside.

“Come out. I won’t be mean to you anymore.”

It had been a while since Chu Yunshen’s black boots had stopped in front of the bed, but it was not until now that he finally spoke.

Under the bed, Cheng Xiaoxiao was covering her head, and hence she couldn’t hear his words clearly. Naturally, she was not able to distinguish the emotions in his voice.

Noticing that the Persian cat did not respond for a long time, Chu Yunshen pondered for a moment as he thought that the cat was still angry with him. At that moment, Cheng Xiaoxiao saw his black boots move unconsciously.

“I shouldn’t have treated you like that just now. Come out. I won’t force you anymore.”

This time, Cheng Xiaoxiao heard him clearly. Chu Yunshen was admitting defeat to her!

After knowing Chu Yunshen for so long, this was the first time she saw him giving in to someone.

With that, she became very excited, and she could not help but move forward a little.

But soon, Cheng Xiaoxiao stopped and even moved back a little.

No, a girl must act in a reserved manner!

“Cheng Xiaoxiao, can you please have some dignity? Can you not compromise so easily?”

Cheng Xiaoxiao gently patted her burning cheeks with her two paws, and the pain coming from those paws made her groan again.

“Meow…”

After that, Chu Yunshen’s black boots moved even more frequently by the bed, and one could see how irritated the owner of the boots was from the movement of his footsteps.

To go out, or to continue hiding under the bed?

Shakespeare had once said that this was a question!

If she chose to go out, she would have to face Chu Yunshen head-on. According to his personality, she was afraid that she would not have a good end.

However, if she chose not to go out, Cheng Xiaoxiao felt that her fate would only be even worse unless she decided to spend the rest of her life under this bed.

Well… she should probably check the situation first.

If something seemed wrong, she would pull the same trick and run just like how she did just now.

That seemed possible.

Tentatively, Cheng Xiaoxiao slowly moved from under the bed to the side of Chu Yunshen’s boots. Then, she decided to wait here and observe his expression before making the next move.

All of a sudden, Chu Yunshen felt something pulling the hem of his robe and looked down, only to find that it was the Persian cat that was hiding under the bed.