Lose My Heart to the Lovely Kitten Princess - Chapter 43

Chapter 43 Do as you wish
“Hey, guys.”

Bai Wuchang had just come back from making coffee and had yet to take a seat. Instead, he leaned against his table and took a sip before turning back to tell Hei Wuchang that the coffee beans that the Netherworld got this time wasn’t too good. Then Cheng Xiaoxiao’s voice came from behind.

Bai Wuchang was caught by surprise. He looked at Hei Wuchang before turning back slowly. Then he looked at Cheng Xiaoxiao and gently coughed before he said, “Miss Xiaoxiao, sorry,” then he straightened his body and walked over to Cheng Xiaoxiao and continued unhurriedly, “We don’t have any reincarnation quota yet.”

“It’s not about that,” said Cheng Xiaoxiao as she raised the jade pendant in her hand, “Bai Wuchang, I have a question for you.”

“What question?” asked Bai Wuchang as he looked at the jade pendant in Cheng Xiaoxiao’s hand.

“This jade pendant turned me into a human yesterday,” said Cheng Xiaoxiao as she looked at Bai Wuchang with her eyes brightly lit, “Although it only lasted a minute, I’m certain I transformed into a human being!”

Cheng Xiaoxiao’s eyes shone even more brightly as she said, “I thought about it carefully. Each time I catch a ghost, the jade pendant will become brighter. After I transformed into human form, the jade pendant became darker. I used to think the jade pendant was malfunctioning, but now I get it. That green light isn’t any ordinary light. It can probably absorb spiritual power from the spirits when they are caught, right?”

Bai Wuchang simply looked at her without responding, so Cheng Xiaoxiao continued to ask, “The more ghosts I catch, the more spiritual power the jade pendant gains. Then I can get to stay human for a longer time, right? Bai Wuchang, say something, will you?”

Cheng Xiaoxiao kept asking him. Then Bai Wuchang turned his head and glanced at Hei Wuchang before he slowly said, “Miss Xiaoxiao, just do as you wish with it.”

“Do as I wish?” asked Cheng Xiaoxiao perplexedly.

Bai Wuchang smiled and said calmly, “I can’t explain it to you.”

“What’s with all the mystery?” said Cheng Xiaoxiao as she looked at Bai Wuchang before turning her eyes to Hei Wuchang. The moment Hei Wuchang made eye contact with her, he immediately picked up a document and started to work on it.

“Then I can do as I wish?” said Cheng Xiaoxiao to Bai Wuchang once again.

Bai Wuchang nodded and replied, “Mhm.”

After Cheng Xiaoxiao cut off communication with the Netherworld, Hei Wuchang raised his head from the thick stack of documents before him and asked, “Can Cheng Xiaoxiao activate the spiritual power in the jade pendant?”

“Leave her be,” said Bai Wuchang. He took a sip of now cold coffee. Then he looked in the direction where Cheng Xiaoxiao disappeared and said deeply, “Whether she has the chance to transform into a human being will depend on her fortune.”

“Sigh,” sighed Hei Wuchang before he continued to work on the mountain of paperwork before him.

Cheng Xiaoxiao hid the jade pendant beneath her fur and pondered deeply about what Bai Wuchang said.

So she had free reign to use the jade pendant, right?

In an instant, Cheng Xiaoxiao’s fur exploded in excitement. Her hopeless life was suddenly filled with optimism.

Rather than waiting for Hei Wuchang and Bai Wuchang to come up with her reincarnation quota, she could take matters into her own hands. Correction, her four paws. She could change into a human if she worked hard catching ghosts!

Cheng Xiaoxiao’s eyes glinted, and she became filled with drive.

Now she had to find more wandering spirits to catch.

Prince Jing’s residence only had 20 to 30 ghosts, and she had caught them all.

She caught slightly over 100 spirits at Huangquan Forest and Luohun Forest respectively. After catching another 20 to 30 ghosts at Prince Jing’s residence, she became human.

Then she had to catch about 300 ghosts before she could take human form for a minute.

Cheng Xiaoxiao’s fur quickly sank back down, and she slumped her head.

It was truly an impossible task.

CREAK!

The door suddenly opened.

“Little fellow,” said Xiaowu as he led an old man with a white beard into the room. He checked the bed and noticed it was empty.

Xiaowu immediately scoured the room and finally spotted the lion cat sitting in front of the cage. Then he bent over to scoop the lion cat into his arms and said, “Don’t move.”

He gently pressed the struggling lion cat down.

Then he glanced at the old man nearby and said, “Get over here.”

“Yes, Sir,” replied the old man as he took out a measuring tape and walked over to Cheng Xiaoxiao slowly.

Cheng Xiaoxiao looked at the old man inexplicably while he measured her.

“Meow!”

She hissed loudly at Xiaowu threateningly.

Xiaowu asked the old man as he pressed her down, “Are you done taking measurements? The little fellow has a bad temper.”

“I just need her waist measurement. Sir, please lift her arms.”

The old man wiped the sweat from his brow. He almost got scratched by the cat’s razor-sharp claws while he measured her.

So the moment Xiaowu lifted the lion cat by her arms, the old man held both ends of the measuring tape with both hands and wrapped it around her waist. Then he removed it and checked the markings, and noted it down on a piece of paper.

“Sir,” said the old man as he put the measuring tape away into his box. He wiped his brow of sweat and said, “I have all her measurements.”

“Mhm. Use the fabric that Prince Jing gave you. Do it as soon as you can.”

Xiaowu placed Cheng Xiaoxiao back onto the ground. If he didn’t put her down soon, she was going to scratch him!

“Yes, Sir. I can probably finish it tomorrow,” replied the old man as he bowed.

“Mhm. Go on then,” said Xiaowu to the old man behind him as he looked at the lion cat glaring at him.

“Yes, Sir,” said the old man before hurrying out with his box.

Cheng Xiaoxiao perplexedly looked at the old man leaving with his box as she thought about the measurements he had just taken.

She couldn’t help frowning as she wondered why Xiaowu needed her measurements.

“Meow!”

Did he take measurements of her so that they could make her a new cage?

“Meow!”

Don’t go!

Tell her what was going on!

Cheng Xiaoxiao instantly jumped and pounced onto Xiaowu when he made his way out. Then she glared at Xiaowu hard before letting out an angry hiss.

“What is it? I’m busy,” asked Xiaowu. He took a step back and attempted to leave from the side. Cheng Xiaoxiao turned to stand before him again.

“Meow!”

Cheng Xiaoxiao meowed. Then she glanced at the cage at the corner of the wall and shook her head at Xiaowu.

Xiaowu looked quizzically in the direction Cheng Xiaoxiao glanced. Then he looked at her and asked, “That’s a cage. What about it?”

“Meow meow!”

Cheng Xiaoxiao shook her head.

Xiaowu noticed the apprehension in Cheng Xiaoxiao as she shook her head vigorously like a rattle. Then he probed, “You don’t want a cage?”

“Meow.”

Cheng Xiaoxiao nodded firmly. Xiaowu could be rather smart.

“Meow!”

If Xiaowu made her another cage, she would scratch him to death.

After Cheng Xiaoxiao finished meowing, she brandished her claws at Xiaowu.

“Oh God. Fine.”

Xiaowu glanced at the lion cat by his feet and obediently walked towards the corner of the wall and picked up the cage.

“There. Are you happy now?”

Since she didn’t like the cage, he decided to remove it.

Prince Jing didn’t seem like he wanted to continue punishing the little fellow, so there was no point leaving the cage in the room.

“Meow?”

Cheng Xiaoxiao looked at Xiaowu standing by the door and smiling to her ingratiatingly.

Fine, she had to take back what she said about Xiaowu being intelligent.

After Xiaowu left, Cheng Xiaoxiao found a chance to jump out the window and escape the room.

She certainly couldn’t keep hanging around in the room expecting ghosts to turn up, right?

Cheng Xiaoxiao sauntered around Prince Jing’s residence all day but couldn’t find a single ghost.

This time, she didn’t wreak havoc in the kitchen.

She merely spent a little time lying atop the kitchen wall to take in the scent of the tasty food.

She had to catch ghosts as quickly as she could and say goodbye to her cat form. Then she could finally eat some real food instead of just gazing at it from a distance.

After lying for a while, Cheng Xiaoxiao jumped off the wall. She wanted to keep walking around and see if she missed any place out.

“AHHH!”

Since Cheng Xiaoxiao didn’t expect someone to stand at the bottom of the wall, she leaped without looking.

She only noticed someone standing beneath her after she jumped, but it was too late, and she could only come crashing on that person.

“Where did this little fellow come from?”

A pair of fair, slender hands suddenly stroked Cheng Xiaoxiao on her back. She turned and wanted to scratch it but made eye contact with a pair of dark gentle eyes.

Those dark eyes seemed smiley.

The person before her seemed roughly 14 years old. He was dressed in a beautiful brocade outfit with some dirt on the corner of his garments.

A gold hair ornament held up his dark hair. He had dark eyes, pink lips, and looked kind. His lips curved up at the perfect angle, and he felt warm and sunny.

Cheng Xiaoxiao held her paws up for a while but didn’t scratch him in the end.

She couldn’t bring herself to scratch him because of his warm smile.

“Little fellow, are you hungry?” asked Chu Hongyi after he noticed that the little fellow must have just jumped out of the residence’s kitchen.

“Meow.”

Cheng Xiaoxiao’s tummy startled to rumble.

Now that he mentioned it, she realized she ran out without taking any breakfast.

“Let’s go. Prince Xuan will get you some food.”

Chu Hongyi smiled happily like a gleeful child.

The youth’s innocence attracted Cheng Xiaoxiao. It was the first time she had seen anyone smile so refreshingly that it felt like a spring breeze.

She unconsciously followed the youth in search of food.

But Cheng Xiaoxiao immediately struggled in Chu Hongyi’s arms when she realized he was heading to Chu Yunshen’s study.

“Little fellow?” asked Chu Hongyi as he held onto the cat a little more tightly, “We’ll be there in no time. Be good.”

Then Chu Hongyi kicked Chu Yunshen’s study door open gently.

She was done for!

Cheng Xiaoxiao hung her head and snuggled into Chu Hongyi’s arms and was bereft of all hope.

“Brother Yunshen,” greeted Chu Hongyi. He had failed to detect her hopelessness. Instead, he looked at Chu Yunshen sitting behind his table reading, and said, “Look at what I found?”

Chu Yunshen swiftly raised his head when he heard Chu Hongyi’s voice. He narrowed his eyes when he caught sight of the lion cat in Chu Hongyi’s arms. Then he glanced at the dirt on the corner of Chu Hongyi’s robes and said indifferently, “Did you climb in over the wall again?”

“Mhm,” answered Chu Hongyi. He helped himself to a chair and sat down with the cat in his arms. Then he said to Chu Yunshen, “I tried to visit so many times, but you refused to let me in.”

“I’ve been busy lately,” said Chu Yunshen to Chu Hongyi while he kept his eyes on the lion cat in his little brother’s arms.