Lose My Heart to the Lovely Kitten Princess - Chapter 46

Chapter 46 Qixia’s County Princess Wan Xia
Meng Po had no intention of rushing her. Instead, she poured the soup into the pot and continued stirring it.

The old lady mumbled by herself standing next to Meng Po, “Back in the day, our house was struck by fire. Dad saved me first because I was the nearest to him. After we came out of the fire, it became worse, and it was impossible to go back inside. In the end, Mom got burned to death.”

She put all the blame on her father after they lost their mother.

So her father suffered her scolding solitarily after her mother died.

Now she wanted to wait for him and tell him, “Dad, I’m sorry.”

“Go on then,” said Cheng Xiaoxiao as she held the jade pendant before the old man, “Everything is over now.”

“My wife and daughter,” said the old man while a tear trickled down the corner of his eye. Then he transformed into black smoke and entered the jade pendant, “We will finally get reunited.”

“Did he really get reincarnated?”

The ghosts hiding at the corner of the wall couldn’t suppress themselves. A couple of them floated over first. Then the rest swarmed over behind them.

“Granny Cat Demon, help me!”

“Granny Cat Demon, help me first!”

They scrambled to surround Cheng Xiaoxiao without any fear for her.

“Be quiet,” said Cheng Xiaoxiao softly before jumping back onto the altar, “Queue up one by one.”

“You,” said Cheng Xiaoxiao pointing her paws at a roughly 30-year-old woman standing the closest to her, “You will go first.”

“I lost my kid when he was three years old. I… I just want to know whether he is alive and well?” said the woman as she hurried over to the altar anxiously and looked at the lion cat hopefully.

Cheng Xiaoxiao could see that the thread on her back was connected to a youth located in a mountain village in the distance.

The youth was collecting medicinal herbs with a bamboo basket on his back.

“He’s alive and doing well.”

Cheng Xiaoxiao turned the jade pendant around and showed it to the woman. The woman could see a young man with a basket on his back and a sickle in hand, searching for medicinal herbs on the mountain.

“That’s good. That’s good,” replied the woman nonstop with her eyes red. Then she transformed into black smoke and floated into Cheng Xiaoxiao’s jade pendant.

Cheng Xiaoxiao’s jade pendant instantly turned brighter after the woman’s spirit entered it.

It seems she was spot on. Each time she caught a ghost, the jade pendant’s spiritual power would increase.

Cheng Xiaoxiao only finished catching all the ghosts in the abandoned temple in the afternoon.

But a voice suddenly called for her just as she was leaving, “Wait!”

Hmm?

Did she leave a ghost out?

“Are…are you really Granny Cat Demon?” asked a roughly ten-year-old ghost of a child as he floated out.

Cheng Xiaoxiao turned and walked over to the child’s spirit and said, “Why are you hiding here? Everyone has gone for reincarnation, so you need to hurry up too.”

Cheng Xiaoxiao noticed that the thread behind the spirit was connected to an empty spot outside the abandoned temple.

How could there be nothing behind him?

Cheng Xiaoxiao closed her eyes and chanted in her heart, “Hear my order, jade pendant and open my eyes.”

When she opened her eyes once again, she stared at the empty spot outside and saw a cat skeleton buried deep underground.

All the cat bones were shattered, and it seemed as though it had gotten beaten by something hard.

Cheng Xiaoxiao closed her eyes and chanted again. Now she could see the image of the cat before it died.

The cruelty she witnessed made her fur stand up erect.

A strong, burly man was hitting the tricolor cat with a stick.

Then the tricolor cat lay on the ground on its last breath.

How could someone be as cruel as him?

He took it all out on the stray cat merely because he was in a bad mood.

A little boy suddenly appeared with a bun in his hands. He fought with the man, but the little boy wasn’t his match.

Just as Cheng Xiaoxiao was about to go on watching, the spirit suddenly said with his child-like voice, “I can’t leave. If I leave, then it won’t be able to find me anymore.”

Cheng Xiaoxiao turned to look at the ghost floating next to her.

“Granny Cat Demon,” said the little boy’s spirit as he squatted before Cheng Xiaoxiao. He reached his arm out and used it as measurement before he continued, “Can you help me find a tricolor cat? It’s about this big and has black, white and yellow fur. The cat is really smart, just like you!” His eyes glinted as he stared at Cheng Xiaoxiao.

Cheng Xiaoxiao looked at his innocent eyes. She wanted to speak up but swallowed her words. The little boy clearly buried his cat outside the temple.

But he…

The little boy recollected something and said slowly, “I saved it from wild dogs while I was out begging for food.”

The little boy’s spirit noticed the quizzical look in the white cat’s eyes. He shrugged nonchalantly and said as he smiled, “Since young, I never had parents. I had to go out and beg for food when I got hungry.”

He floated over and sat on the altar. He dangled his legs over the altar and smiled with his eyes shining brightly as he told the white cat, “Then I had it for company. Each time I managed to beg for any food, I would split it with the cat. When it found any food in the trash, it would give it to me too. We depended on each other, but…”

The little boy’s spirit paused, and a look of agony suddenly emerged in his eyes as he continued, “One day, it fell sick, so I left it at the temple and went out to beg on my own. I was very lucky that day and managed to get food quickly. But after I hurried back to the temple, I couldn’t find it anywhere. I have been waiting for it here since. I know it will definitely look for me! See, I even saved it a bun.”

Cheng Xiaoxiao watched as the little boy took out an old rock-hard bun from behind the god’s statue and felt a little bad for him.

“I asked a lot of other ghosts, but no one saw it,” said the little boy’s spirit as it floated to Cheng Xiaoxiao, “Granny Cat Demon, if you can help those spirits get reincarnated, then you must have some way to help me find it, right?”

“It’s dead,” said Cheng Xiaoxiao. She didn’t want to lie to him.

“…”

The boy’s spirit went quiet for a long time. Then he floated back into the corner and smiled with tears in his eyes and said, “You’re lying.”

“You’ve always known it was dead,” said Cheng Xiaoxiao as she looked at the little boy’s spirit. He had suffered several fractures, and there was a gaping hole at the back of his head.

“Meow.”

Cheng Xiaoxiao walked into the shadows and found the little boy’s spirit shrinking into the corner. She rubbed his hand with her head.

The little boy’s spirit looked at the white lion cat and reached his hands out gently. Then he touched her head cautiously and said, “Why did you go out? I was going to come back quickly. Why did you go out?”

“Meow.”

Cheng Xiaoxiao meowed gently at the boy a couple of times.

“Boohoo!”

The little boy’s spirit hugged Cheng Xiaoxiao and wailed like a child. No, he was a child to begin with.

After he was done crying, his spirit changed into black smoke and floated into the jade pendant.

Then Cheng Xiaoxiao realized that he simply needed someone to listen to him.

Since he was born, the only friend he had was the cat. Yet, he witnessed his cat get killed, then he got beaten to death, and no one was able to help him find it.

Now that he had said all he wanted to say, his unfinished business was done, and he was ready to get reincarnated.

As Cheng Xiaoxiao walked out of the abandoned temple, she placed her paw on the empty spot with a heavy heart.

She could keenly understand the little boy’s sense of loneliness.

After her mother died, she didn’t even have a cat for company.

She often thought about her mother and cried in her sleep at night.

On her way back to Prince Jing’s residence, Cheng Xiaoxiao was in a daze.

Cheng Xiaoxiao suddenly heard the sound of a horse neighing. Then she looked up to see hooves hanging overhead two meters away from her.

Just as the hoofs were about to land on her, a pair of hands carried her up.

“Are you okay?” said a gentle voice from overhead.

Cheng Xiaoxiao was still recovering from shock when she caught sight of the woman who suddenly appeared before her.

She wore her hair in a flying fairy bun with golden flowers scattered over her hair.

Two ribbons hung from her head and fluttered gently in the wind, giving her an elegant aura.

The woman had lovely brows and bright eyes and seemed utterly mesmerizing.

She wore a red satin belly wrap and a red gauze dress.

Her ivory skin and slender arms could vaguely be seen through the translucent gauze.

But why did she look so familiar?

“Miss Wan Xia, are you okay?”

An anxious voice suddenly came from beside them. Cheng Xiaoxiao turned to see a maid in pink running over hurriedly from the rouge shop.

“I’m fine,” replied the woman called Wan Xia as she smiled gently to her maid, “Don’t worry.”

“How could you drive so recklessly? Do you know who she is? She’s Qixia’s County Princess! If you hurt her, you’ll have to pay with your life!”

“Qin,” said Wan Xia gently calling the maid dressed in pink.

Then the maid shut her mouth and pouted as she said, “Miss, he almost hurt you.”

“Let him go,” said Wan Xia. She walked over to her horse carriage with the cat in her arms.

“Thank you, Your Highness!” said the driver nonstop while he wiped his sweat and got off the horse carriage to bow, “Thank you, Your Highness!

Was she Qixia’s county princess, Wan Xia?

She became famous overnight because of her taoyao dance!

Fortunately, she didn’t blame him for the accident. After he thanked her, he drove off in the horse carriage immediately.

Everyone knew Wan Xia was from Prince Qing’s residence, so Cheng Xiaoxiao ought to quickly leave and avoid this hotbed of trouble.

“Little fellow, do you know how dangerous that was?” asked Wan Xia as she touched Cheng Xiaoxiao’s head while the cat was in her arms.

“Meow.”

Cheng Xiaoxiao finally came to herself. Wan Xia had just saved her.

So Cheng Xiaoxiao rubbed Wan Xia’s hand with her head to thank her.

“Oh wow, Miss! Why is the cat dressed in clothes?”

Qin was back in the horse carriage too. She craned her neck out and looked at the cat in Wan Xia’s arms.

Wan Xia insisted on getting off the horse carriage for a walk earlier on.

Then she found some good rouge and stopped to see.

A horse suddenly neighed, and before Qin realized what had transpired, she noticed that Wan Xia was gone.

When Qin turned to find Wan Xia, she saw her bending over to save a white cat from getting stepped by a horse. If not for the driver’s quick reaction, Wan Xia would have gotten trampled by the horse.

If Miss Wan Xia got hurt, Prince Qing would skin Qin alive!

“Little fellow, are you lost?” asked Wan Xia as she raised the cat and rubbed the cat’s nose gently, “Why don’t you come home with me?”

“Meow!”

Let her go!

Cheng Xiaoxiao suddenly remembered she had to hurry home to Prince Jing’s residence. Or else, Chu Yunshen would come home to find her missing again.

“Meow meow!”

Hurry up and let her go!

Cheng Xiaoxiao quickly struggled.

“Be careful, Miss!’ said Qin in shock. The cat had flashed her sharp claws out, so she hastily snatched the lion cat from Wan Xia and threw her aside and said, “You don’t know any better! Miss Wan Xia just saved you!”