Reincarnated as a Tabby Cat: Daily Life with the School Beauty Empress

Chapter 44 Night Visit

After finishing their meal and clearing away the dishes, the two sat on the sofa in the living room.

Murong Hui took out a box of tea from her bag; it was her own, the Murong family's ancestral spiritual spring tea, said to have calming and sleep-inducing properties. Su Qianxue boiled water and brewed two cups.

The aroma of tea filled the living room.

The two chatted casually. They talked about training, cultivation techniques, and gossip about the academy: which instructor was the fiercest, which cafeteria had the best food, and how the senior student who opened a business in the third year had supposedly earned tens of thousands of spirit stones.

As the conversation went on, the topic drifted off.

The night outside the window was dark. The lights of the capital city stretched out in the distance, looking like another world through the glass.

"So sleepy." Murong Hui yawned, curled up in the corner of the sofa, her eyelids already drooping. "I don't want to leave. Can I sleep here tonight?"

Su Qianxue glanced at her.

"The guest room is at the end of the corridor, and the blankets are on the top shelf of the closet."

"Yeah." Murong Hui gave a weak hand gesture, got up from the sofa, and dragged her feet toward the corridor.

Halfway there, she turned back and said, "By the way, do you have any extra pajamas? I didn't bring any to change into."

Su Qianxue got up and went to the bedroom to find a clean set of pajamas and handed it to her. These pajamas were all issued by the academy, and there were several sets.

Murong Hui took it, yawned again, waved her hand, and went into the guest room.

The door closed.

Yichen squatted on the sofa armrest, his bright green cat eyes staring intently at the closed door.

Something was churning wildly in my head.

Murong Hui stayed overnight.

[Murong Hui — in the guest room — took a bath, then changed clothes — and went to sleep.]

[Daily interaction points are capped at a little over 1,000 per day. But what if you trigger "unlock new scenes"? Last time, kneading in Teacher Qingfeng's arms earned me 2,000 points. A candlelight dinner earned 8,000. These large sums all depend on triggering new scenes.]

Now, a brand new scene awaits Cat Lord to unlock.

He flicked his tail.

The scene of "cuddling with the owner" was already triggered during the day in the training grounds. But that was while the user was awake. What if they were asleep?

[Could it be a different scenario? Like "keeping the owner's friend company late at night" or something like that?]

The more I think about it, the more I feel there's potential.

After taking a shower, Su Qianxue came out with her hair wrapped in a towel, sat on the edge of the bed and began to flip through the book "Mingxi Heart Sutra".

As usual, Yichen jumped onto the bed, crawled under the covers, and found a spot to lie down.

and so on.

Be patient and wait.

An hour later, Su Qianxue closed the manual and turned off the lights.

His breathing gradually became long and deep.

Yi Chen waited another twenty minutes to confirm that Su Qianxue was completely asleep.

He silently crawled out of the covers, jumped off the bed, and landed on the wooden floor with all four paws without making a sound. After reaching the sixth level, his control over his body was so precise that it extended to every single toe.

Walk through the corridor.

The guest room door wasn't closed properly, leaving a crack. Murong Hui was probably used to not locking the door.

Yichen squeezed through the crack in the door.

The guest room was dark. The curtains were drawn, and only a sliver of the capital's light peeked in through the gaps, barely enough to make out the outlines of anything.

Murong Hui was already fast asleep.

She lay in bed on her side, one hand under her face, breathing lightly and evenly. The loungewear Su Qianxue lent her was a size too big; the neckline was loose, revealing most of her shoulder and a section of her collarbone.

On the chair beside the bed, Murong Hui's clothes, which she had changed out of, were folded into a pile: training clothes, jacket, and pants. Her shoes were neatly arranged next to them.

On top of the chair, there was a light purple undershirt...

Yichen's cat-like eyes lit up briefly in the darkness.

[Calm down. Cat Lord is here to get down to business. Warmth points, warmth points are the core objective. Everything else is secondary.]

He gave himself three seconds to mentally prepare himself.

Then she nimbly jumped onto the bed.

Murong Hui shifted slightly, changing her position to lie on her back. The blanket slipped down to her waist.

The loungewear was only buttoned up at the top two buttons, leaving a large gap in the middle.

Yichen swallowed a mouthful of cat saliva.

[I'm just a cat. I'm just a cat. Cats crawling into bed is instinct. Instinct. Nothing wrong with that.]

He carefully stepped onto the blanket, inching closer to Murong Hui. He took each step cautiously, making sure he wouldn't wake her.

Arrived.

He first squatted down next to Murong Hui's arm, listened intently for a few seconds, and found that her breathing was steady and she hadn't woken up.

Then, drill.

He buried his head in the blanket.

The bed was warm. Murong Hui had a faint floral scent mixed with the fragrance of spiritual spring tea. The soft fabric of her loungewear clung to her body, and Yi Chen rubbed against her through the seams.

In the darkness, his cat's head bumped into something soft.

It was even more direct than Teacher Qingfeng's time. Through the thin layer of loungewear fabric, the fabric felt warm to the touch, with distinct undulations.

Yichen placed its front paws on it and subconsciously made a stomp motion.

It's an instinctive, conditioned reflex, kneading action that felines learn from a young age. They gently knead, alternating between their front paws, one on the left and one on the right.

[Ding! Congratulations, host! You have unlocked a new scene: keeping your master's friend company as they fall asleep late at night! Warmth points from Murong Hui +2000!]

Yichen's spirits lifted.

[It's here! Two thousand! The new scene is indeed calculated independently!]

Murong Hui groaned softly in her sleep, her body shifting slightly, but she didn't wake up. Her hand unconsciously reached out and rested on Yi Chen's body, as if she were hugging a plush toy in her sleep.

With a quick movement, she pulled Yichen, the cat, into her arms and then wrapped her inside her pajamas.

Yichen's face, his entire cat-like face, was buried directly in that softness.

Warm. Soft. Elastic. And there's the sound of a heartbeat, not far away, thump, thump, thump.

[Ding! Warmth value +200!]

[Ding! Warmth value +200!]

[Ding! Warmth value +200!]

The system displayed three consecutive notifications.

Yichen, the cat, was completely smitten.

[Can it continue to be given? How often should it be given?]

He remained motionless in Murong Hui's arms, occasionally pawing lightly at the ground, maintaining a "kneading" motion.

Thirty seconds later, [Ding! Warmth value +200!]

Again.

What?! Once every thirty seconds! That's four hundred per minute! Four thousand in ten minutes! Twenty-four thousand per hour!

Fireworks exploded in Yichen's cat head.

[Cat Lord is rich!!! This is practically a bubble bath from another world! Just stay here for an hour tonight, and you'll have 24,000 points! That's over 26,000 warmth points for one night!]

[Adding the previous stock of 23,000, the total is nearly 50,000!]

[50,000! The evolution threshold is 50,000! Cat Lord can evolve into an Emperor-level being in one night!!!]

His tail trembled with excitement, but he remained motionless, afraid of waking Murong Hui.

Murong Hui slept even more soundly, a slight smile even on her lips, probably having a sweet dream.

Five minutes passed. Ten minutes passed.

The warmth level notification sounded steadily every thirty seconds, like a money printing machine roaring in Yichen's mind.

【+200. 】

【+200. 】

【+200. 】

Nestled in Murong Hui's warm embrace, listening to the system notifications, Yi Chen felt this was the happiest night he had ever experienced since his transmigration.

Twenty minutes later, he started to feel sleepy.

It's so comfortable. The bed is warm, the embrace is soft, and the rhythmic sound of my heartbeat is like a lullaby.

His eyelids started to droop.

Thirty seconds later, snoring began.

The cat's purring sound signaled that Yichen had fallen asleep.