You are a cat demon

This rabbit was too clever for its own good. It probably led you to this side of the lake to make you fall so it could buy time to escape, but instead it fell flat on its face and couldn't get up for a long time.

As for you, although you were unsteady and nearly fell when you first arrived on the ice, your four legs almost not obeying your commands, and you almost did a split, your sharp claws, like ski poles, firmly pinned your limbs to the ice. You stumbled a bit, but quickly regained your balance. Then, you slowly and deliberately walked towards the wild rabbit still crawling on the ground.

The hare, which was struggling to stand up, was terrified when you slowly approached. Its legs seemed to go weak with fear, and it wobbled and stumbled, falling two steps after one.

You caught it effortlessly, first snapping its tendons in its four legs with a few bites.

You keep your word.

The sound of bones breaking greatly satisfies your desire for revenge; the desperate squeak of a rabbit on the verge of death is even more beautiful than the song of a lark.

You brought a sumptuous meal to the whole family, and your mother looked at you with admiration. Even your eldest son, who had never really paid much attention to you since childhood, admired you greatly.

Drinking a mouthful of piping hot rabbit blood in the freezing cold is an incredibly blissful experience, especially if you've gone to great lengths to catch this wild rabbit, running until you're almost out of breath, and the meat is sweeter and more delicious than any rabbit meat you've ever eaten before...

Winter in Shennongjia is very long, especially for carnivorous monsters like you. But your family is exceptionally lucky. Although you didn't catch much prey this winter and didn't know where your next meal would come from, even if you only picked up a few frozen birds or dug up a few small mice, you could at least be in a state of semi-starvation, which was enough to keep you alive.

You can't describe the excitement you felt when you saw green shoots emerging from the ground.

For months you've been used to the stark white snow, and it's no exaggeration to say you're almost sick of it. Suddenly, a splash of green appears in your field of vision, as if the whole world has brightened up. Like a stranded fish returning to the stream, like cracked soil finally receiving rain, you're so happy you're practically wagging your tail high.

Spring is coming soon, which means you can leave your mother and live independently.

Female cat demons raise their kittens alone until they are about one year old. Once the kittens' claws and teeth have hardened and they have fully mastered hunting skills, they can be considered for expulsion. The kittens born last spring are almost all of suitable age to leave home. Another important reason for letting them leave in late winter and early spring is that the weather is still cold and prey is scarce. Many kittens die before spring truly arrives—it's a brutal elimination process, and the female cat demons feel no pity. Only those who have survived the test of life and death are qualified to become true cat demons.

It is time for you and your brothers and sisters to part from your mother.

That day, there were no arguments, no fights, only silence and stillness. From that moment on, you and your brothers and sisters, including your biological mother, became the most familiar "strangers," separated by vast distances. Even if you were to meet again under a tree or by a pond in the future, you would not exchange a word, and might even fight tooth and nail for a bite of food.

You've gone far enough, and when you glance back casually, you see your mother still standing on a rock, staring intently at your departing figures...

You feel like you've used up all your good luck.

You've had a string of misfortunes this past month.

Just two days after you left your mother to survive, you found a pheasant with an injured wing by a small pond. Before you could even enjoy it, it was snatched away by a pack of jackals. Furious but helpless, you tried your luck elsewhere, but found nothing all day. You wanted to find a place to live, but most of the caves and tree hollows in the jungle were occupied by other creatures you couldn't afford to offend. Eventually, you hunted a hare that had come out to sunbathe and took over its burrow, expanding it a bit. But after only a few days, a pair of fox demons came knocking. Outnumbered, you had to abandon the burrow and flee, even nearly having your tail bitten off. Even going to the lake for a drink resulted in a slip and a fall. Winter hadn't completely ended; the lake water was icy cold, and your wet fur was covered in a thick layer of frost, leaving you shivering. Then, a month later, you had to fight a one-eyed cat demon to the death. Fortunately, this time, you won…

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When you see the one-eyed cat demon's corpse lying alone in the grass, already rotting and stinking, its severed leg infested with maggots, you finally feel a sense of triumph.