After school, he was then offered himself to a succubus.

I just remembered a ghost.

Zhang Chen couldn't contain himself any longer; his heart was pounding as he looked at the new version of Bai Nuoyan.

To describe it as a lotus emerging from the water is entirely apt.

Especially since Bai Nuoyan hasn't completely turned back; her cat ears and tail are still there.

So it's possible to keep a tail and ears when you become human?

The silver-haired, truly gentle catgirl—Zhang Chen really couldn't control himself from that gun.

Small animals are so much more comfortable...

No, no, this is Bai Nuoyan! Calm down...

Zhang Chen quickly opened [Fate View] and saw the black aura rising from the silver-haired girl's body. His evil thoughts finally cooled down.

It's more serious than Tu Shan Han Su and Li Yinuo.

Maybe...within three years, or even less.

So now... is it just pretending? Pretending that you've regained your memories... pretending that you're an immortal.

Zhang Chen stared at Bai Nuoyan, who suddenly started wiping away tears, and for a moment he didn't know how to pretend anymore. How could he get information out of her?

"When did you recover...?"

The girl's voice echoed in the bathroom once more, and her tears instantly burst forth, mingling with the water on her cheeks.

"Was it from the beginning...why did you hide it from me?"

"say!"

"Why did you hide it from me! Do you think this is funny? Who am I? Just a cat?!"

She suddenly threw off her bath towel, pounced on Zhang Chen, pinned him down, and slapped him hard several times.

"I'll beat you to death! Beat you to death! Beat you to a pulp! Beat you to a pulp! You're so annoying... I hate you so much! I hate you the most, I hate you the most, I hate you the most..."

Zhang Chen struggled slightly.

"Don't push me! Disgusting!" Bai Nuoyan slapped him down, her two tiger teeth gleaming coldly.

Zhang Chen was left dizzy and disoriented by the immense force. His body was still too weak... Even with all the power-ups, he still couldn't resist Bai Nuoyan's violent rule...

Controlling the yang energy was risky because the little cat might faint from the heat, so they had no choice but to endure it for now.

Bai Nuoyan seemed to still be angry, and while crying, she straddled his neck and pushed his head directly into the water.

"Urururu..."

"I hate you! You kill mice! I hate you! You provoke me! I hate you! You're so annoying! You've provoked me!"

The girl grabbed his head, pressing it into the water one moment and onto the phrase "How could you get a tiger?" the next, wailing and crying with tears streaming down her face.

"Pfft, wait..."

"Urururu..."

"I'm going to drown, you wait... ooh ooh ooh..."

Zhang Chen is going to die. Even though Bai Nuoyan is awesome and good-looking, he's really going to drown.

"..."

After an unknown amount of time, Zhang Chen was held in Bai Nuoyan's arms, looking dazed and convulsing, almost as if he were dead.

The girl was still sobbing.

"You've become weaker," she sobbed.

Zhang Chen had just coughed up a mouthful of water when Bai Nuoyan fed him a mouthful.

He didn't care about being dirty anymore and quickly said:

"...I've only recovered temporarily, let me go."

The cat clenched its paws, glaring at him. "What do you mean by 'temporarily recovered'... So, so you didn't actually remember me at all?"

"Well... I vaguely remember, but Bai Nuoyan, what have you been doing these past few days? If there's danger, then don't..."

"None of your business," she scoffed.

"You're only fit to breed with me now. I don't need you to remember me. All that old saga is just disgusting..."

"Bai Nuoyan, do you know that you can only live..."

"I told you it's none of your business." Bai Nuoyan released him. "Will you remember what I'm about to say?"

"perhaps..."

"So whatever I do to you now, you'll never know."

"..."

Zhang Chen's Adam's apple bobbed.

"Hehe, look how scared you are? You dog of a man." Bai Nuoyan slapped him and then pressed his head into her arms.

"The tree of sorrow you planted has withered." Her delicate body suddenly trembled slightly again, and her voice became low.

"I will save it."

"The Bitter Love Tree will allow me to meet you in my next life. Until then, you must live. I will use my last life to extend your life by another hundred years, do you hear me?"

Zhang Chen fell silent.

There's a lot of information, but it's not impossible to connect the dots.

"Will you still be yourself in your next life?" he asked.

"None of your business." Bai Nuoyan remained stubborn. "I'm just doing this to get revenge on you. Don't think I have any feelings for you. This life isn't enough; I'll make you wish you were dead in my next life..."

She spoke through gritted teeth, biting Zhang Chen's shoulder with each word, tears streaming down her face.

"Also, I will have your children and take good care of them. If I come back in the next life and any of them are gone, I will take your life."

"I hate you to death, Zhang Chen. Every day I wish I could crush you into pieces and stuff you into my body..."

I can see that.

"Do you know how much I hate you? Prepare to raise my children for the rest of your life... How about that? Being raped by your apprentice and then having to raise her children for the rest of your life, isn't that painful? Let me tell you, in the next life, I'll make you raise another brood, and the life after that, and the life after that, for all eternity. You can't escape it. I'll haunt you forever. I'll make sure you never die. I'll make sure you're tormented by me forever. I hate you, Zhang Chen, I really hate you..."

Bai Nuoyan's small mouth hovered in an awkward mouth shape, unable to speak for a long time. Even though Zhang Chen didn't understand lip reading, he could tell what she wanted to say.

It's not hatred.

But hatred can indeed last longer than love. In this thousand-year wait, perhaps it is necessary to learn to hate someone.

"..."

Bai Nuoyan hesitated, wanting to speak but holding back, while Zhang Chen remained silent.

It's almost time for CD.

His imagined "immortal mode" would involve Bai Nuoyan being intimidated by his aura, then prostrating herself and saying, "I'm sorry, Immortal Brother, I'll never dare to lay a hand on you again, meow!"

"Little White, I know I was wrong, meow! From now on, I'll take care of bathing you, meow!"

How could things have turned out like this! He's not Cao Cao, why did he have to fight the Battle of Red Cliffs!

All I can say is that silence is the dry heave of tonight.

Well, it wasn't a complete loss. At least we learned about Bai Nuoyan's exact lifespan and what she wanted to do: have children, revive the tree, and then take revenge on us for eternity. That was her lifelong wish.

The conditions for "shared destiny" are a bit difficult to meet; it's harder to fool a woman like Lin Yinmeng whose mind is only focused on sex.

The Bitter Love Tree... needs to be investigated carefully.

Both Li Yinuo and Bai Nuoyan were talking about this thing, so it definitely can't be ignored.

So, Bai Nuoyan's trip to find herbs during this time had nothing to do with prolonging life; it was simply to revive the Bitter Love Tree, and the Tu Shan Cold Crisp was also...

He pondered this.

After Zhang Chen reacted and the beautiful girl stopped jumping on his face, he saw a soaking wet cat shake off the water, pry open the doorknob, and slip out.

The ground was covered with her adorable little plum blossom footprints.

Zhang Chen choked on a few mouthfuls of salt water, dried himself off, and went outside. Bai Nuoyan just happened to be pushing the door open with a hair dryer.

Eyes facing each other.

"You didn't wash my cat properly, and it ran back to me to complain. Can't you put a little more effort into it?" Bai Nuoyan said coquettishly.

"Is that so?" Zhang Chen pretended not to know. "I remember washing myself properly."

"You still want to poke its ass with a cotton swab?" Bai Nuoyan said coldly, "You really want to."

"...How did you know?"

"There are so many questions, but if you know, you know."

"Oh." Zhang Chen moved closer to her, trying to act normal, and reached out to ask, "Let me use the hairdryer."

"Didn't I just blow it for you?" Bai Nuoyan asked, frowning.

How can that be the same?!

There was nothing he could do; Bai Nuoyan wouldn't give it to him, so Zhang Chen had to wipe himself with a towel.

Bai Nuoyan lay down on his bed, sprawling out in a rather unladylike manner, staring at the ceiling and muttering:

"Zhang Chen, do you know what the best way is to take revenge on an enemy with whom you have a blood feud?"

"What?"

"Have his children."

"...curious".

"Only in this way can that person remember this humiliation, remember me forever, and never forget me."

"..."

Bai Nuoyan rolled over, curled up with her knees drawn up to her chest, and said, "Tonight, you can sleep in my bed and I'll sleep on the floor."

"Can I sleep in the bed?" Zhang Chen asked.

"cannot."

"I won't touch you, you know my self-control..."

"I will touch you," she said.

Zhang Chen chickened out and took out a bamboo mat from the wardrobe. However, there wasn't much space on the floor, so he simply placed it on the windowsill and slept next to the window.

"The lights are off." Zhang Chen knocked on the wall.

Bai Nuoyan remained silent, but then turned over again, which could be interpreted as agreement.

Even the cicadas in the dilapidated neighborhood seemed to be resting, making the summer night exceptionally quiet.

In a daze, Zhang Chen felt someone hug him from behind.

"When I was little, I was always sick. There was someone who would often feed me lots and lots of medicine," the girl behind me whispered.

"He's heartless. He said he would dump all the medicine residue on the road so that passersby could take away my pain."

"I called him a bastard and wouldn't allow him to transfer his illness to others. I cursed him for many years until my illness gradually got better."

"I just realized that he only dumped the dregs of the medicine on the path leading to the backyard, a path that he walked alone every day."

The girl hugged him even tighter.

"From that day on, I hated him. I knew he was a hopeless idiot."

Zhang Chen tried to hold her hand, but the girl dodged away and instead placed her hand on his, holding it tightly.

That's how cats are; their paws can only stay on top.

He decided to hold the girl's hand and stay up all night.

Zhang Chen looked out the window, waiting for the sky to lighten. The weather was a bit cool, but her body temperature was very high.

So this is what it feels like to be hated.

It's like he walked around the whole school again and again, just to catch another glimpse of the girl he loved.

Then, they missed each other at close range.

"Phew~~"

Time always seems to fly by when you're sleepless.

...

In the blink of an eye, more than a week has passed since that night of embracing.

In the early morning, Zhang Chen nudged Bai Nuoyan, who was sleeping soundly. This cat had been sleeping in his bed every day since she entered immortal mode.

"Wake up! Two weeks of military training have already ended. You still have to attend at least one 8 AM class, right?"

"I'm pregnant, so I don't have to go to class." Bai Nuoyan turned over and continued sleeping.

"I'm still a father, so theoretically I don't need to go to class, but I still have to take exams. Aren't you afraid of failing?"

"I'm the top scorer in the college entrance exam." Bai Nuoyan kicked him. "Get out! Don't bother me, you're making my back hurt every morning!"

"..."

Zhang Chen had no choice but to pack up and leave, carrying a thick notebook with him, which he would flip through from time to time, even while rushing to leave in the morning.

The above is his recent research on the "bitter love tree".

During this time, no matter how he asked Li Yinuo and Tushan Hansu, neither of them was willing to tell him. He could only rely on himself to inquire from various monsters.

He almost conceived an egg with Lin Yinmeng in exchange for as much information as possible.

In conclusion, he discovered that monsters knew very little about these academic subjects, far less than humans had.

I need to find someone knowledgeable... Shen Nianxi, I guess... I've been avoiding him lately, and he even blocked me on QQ.

Could it be that I hurt her when she scratched me last time...?

"Excuse me, are you from the music video...?"

As soon as he arrived at the school gate, a girl tried to chat him up, but Zhang Chen's mind was filled with nothing but female monsters, female monsters, female monsters... *sigh*

"I'm sorry, I'm not interested in humans," he politely declined.

"Huh? You know about monsters too?" the girl asked in surprise.

Zhang Chen paused.