Why bother with dating when you already have a cat?

"Huh? It's Zhenzhen." Ai Qing was stunned for a moment, then recognized her.

This is Kong Fuzhen, the younger brother of Kong Fugui.

He is a little over ten years old and only in the fifth grade of elementary school.

"Brother Ai Qing." Upon seeing Ai Qing, Kong Fuzhen immediately took off his schoolbag, unzipped it, and took out a full stack of textbooks. "Brother asked me to bring these to you."

"Oh, okay." Ai Qing remembered that she had indeed asked Kong Fugui to see if his younger brother still had his old textbooks. "Thanks, please come in and sit for a while?"

"No need, I just happened to be passing by after school. My mom is waiting for me downstairs," Kong Fuzhen said earnestly. "I have to go now. Goodbye, Brother Aiqing."

"Alright then." Ai Qing reached out and took the thick stack of textbooks. "Then be careful on your way home, and come visit sometime."

Kong Fuzhen and his brother are completely different people. After politely nodding goodbye, he closed the door and turned to walk towards the elevator.

Inside the room, Ai Qing held a pile of books, turned to look at the little fish squatting on the ground, and smiled warmly: "When will you become human? Little Fish Class is about to officially begin."

……

March 21st, Saturday.

The new book has entered the second round of recommendations, which is cause for celebration.

The textbooks that Xiaoyu needed have also been delivered.

Unfortunately, she didn't transform last night. She only turned into a human in the middle of the night after I had fallen asleep. How could I possibly concentrate on teaching her to read?

I should just go to sleep.

I feel like things have finally settled down, and I'm slowly getting used to the little fish turning into a human.

It should be much easier once I teach her to read and speak.

In the afternoon, the little fish turned into a human again, and I finally caught it, pressed it down on a chair, and opened its first-grade elementary school Chinese textbook.

However, I seem to have overestimated Xiaoyu's ability to learn words.

Even children who have just started elementary school can already speak in daily life, and some have even learned a lot of words in kindergarten.

They have acquired the most basic language communication skills.

Xiaoyu's current situation is actually more like the language level of a three- or four-year-old child.

I originally wanted to start with pinyin, but it didn't work very well.

Let's start by teaching her some common words and phrases.

And for some reason, once I started teaching her to read, the time it took for her to turn into a human was shortened rapidly, only about fifteen minutes, before she turned back into a kitten.

So even kittens hate going to class?

Does this prove that the little fish can actually control itself to transform into a human and then back into a cat?

Further research is needed.

Unfortunately, I wanted Xiaoyu to put my dirty clothes from yesterday on me so I wouldn't have to wash them.

In just over ten minutes, it turned back into a kitten, and I still had to throw the clothes in the washing machine.

……

However, what Ai Qing didn't know was that Xiao Yu was still unable to stop the consumption of the warm current.

In cat form, the little fish can continuously accumulate warm currents.

But once she chooses to become human, the warm current in her body will be continuously depleted until it is completely exhausted, at which point she will turn back into a kitten.

When it came to reading and writing, the reason why the time it took for the little fish to become human was greatly shortened was simply because she was trying hard to control the warm current flowing into her brain in order to make herself a little smarter.

If Xiaoyu knew that Ai Qing thought she was avoiding studying, she wondered if she would feel wronged and angry.

Chapter 37 The Cat That Stole Food

The clattering of the keyboard echoed in the bedroom.

Because around 9 a.m., the upstairs renovation started, and the sizzling and rumbling noises never stopped.

So when Ai Qing was writing, she put on headphones, turned the background music of "Yuan Shen" up to the maximum, and became completely immersed in the world of the novel.

A small, pure white fish lay on its side on the windowsill, basking in the bright sunlight outside.

A golden halo fell upon her, instantly tinting the tips of her fluffy cat fur with a faint golden hue.

With the influx of light, her heterochromatic eyes shrank to the size of pinholes, turning her entire eye into a gem of azure and amber.

Looking from a distance, one can almost see the ripples in the depths, like a reflection in a lake.

Xiaoyu yawned with her mouth wide open on the windowsill, then turned over and turned her gaze towards the room, her eyes landing on Ai Qing.

In the past, Xiaoyu was ignorant and always liked to climb onto Ai Qing's lap to disturb his thoughts when he was typing.

Little Yu is so smart now. Although she can't recognize all the characters yet, she can already roughly understand the meaning of Ai Qing's sentences of up to ten characters.

After becoming human, I can occasionally utter a few words to express my thoughts, albeit with difficulty.

However, at least when she sees Ai Qing typing, Xiao Yu has learned to stay quietly by her side and not disturb her.

Anyway, since I was leaning against the windowsill, very close to Ai Qing, the warm current flowing into my body was about the thickness of a little finger.

The little fish estimated that the warm current would fill up in a few more minutes.

So she secretly glanced at Ai Qing and saw that he looked serious, sometimes frowning and sometimes relaxing, his hands moving as fast as a phantom and as slow as a tortoise crawling.

Judging from this, he is indeed completely immersed in it.

Once Xiaoyu confirmed it was safe, she secretly got up from the windowsill, stretched in front of Ai Qing, jumped onto the table, and then onto the bed, looking like she was just moving to a different place to rest.

Once Xiaoyu was behind Ai Qing and confirmed that Ai Qing wasn't paying attention to her, she carefully went to the door, jumped lightly, and pressed down the bedroom doorknob.

The door opened.

Because she was wearing headphones, Ai Qing didn't hear the bedroom door open at all.

Seeing that no one had discovered her trickery, Xiaoyu's face lit up with joy, and she quickly slipped through the crack in the door and into the living room.

At the same time, she instantly released the restriction of the warm current, letting it fill her entire body in an instant.

The next moment, a cute girl wearing a dress and white sneakers appeared in the living room.

Unfortunately, the little fish hasn't fully learned to walk on two feet yet.

Even without Ai Qing watching her, she instinctively lay down on the ground and began to crawl.

Although it's quite unsightly, when applied to a small fish, all that's left is cuteness.

As for why he sneaked into the living room to become human... well, that was obviously to skip class.

Ever since Xiaoyu discovered that every time she transformed into a human, Ai Qing would grab her and make her sit on a chair to seriously learn to write, Xiaoyu grew to hate learning to speak more and more.

She could have learned it herself.

Now, while Ai Qing is typing, she sneaks out to use up the warmth that's almost overflowing in her body so she can skip today's Chinese class!

and……

The little fish crawled quickly through the living room, a greedy smile on its lips, until it reached the cabinet near the kitchen.

Before, she was just a little kitten, only able to drool over the snacks in the transparent cabinet.

Ai Qing strictly controls her diet. Besides cat food, she can only eat freeze-dried food, cat treats, or dried fish every two or three days.

So every time Xiaoyu watched Ai Qing walk towards the cabinet, her face was full of anticipation.

As for this time...

Hehe ~

The little fish is not the same as it used to be!

Now the little fish can open the cabinet by themselves!

With that thought in mind, Xiaoyu had already climbed to the bottom of the cabinet, held onto the cabinet door with both hands, and carefully stood up.

Although she is still a little unsteady on her feet, simply standing up straight is not very difficult for Xiaoyu now.

She stood up unsteadily, and her slender figure was immediately accentuated by the dress, revealing her fair legs and white shoes that showed off her white ankles, making her truly attractive.

There's a small bulge in my lower back area that looks a bit odd.

Ai Qing said she would cut a hole, but in the end she didn't.

First, it's inconvenient to cut the fish while wearing it.

Secondly, the dress itself is quite loose, and since Xiaoyu is very thin with a small waist, her tail isn't too tight when she stands upright.

Now that it stood up straight, the little fish's tail twitched a few times inside the dress, and a tuft of white hair at the end peeked out from the hem of the dress.

When the little fish wobbled, its tail swayed along with it, and even perked up alertly, causing the hem of its skirt to be lifted up a little.

She turned her head to peek through the crack in the bedroom door to make sure there was no other noise from Ai Qing.

She then turned back and, with a few clumsy attempts, finally managed to unlock the cabinet door, just like she had seen Ai Qing unlock it.

The little fish rubbed its fingers together with anticipation, its heart pounding, and finally extended its devilish claws.

As for what to eat, it's definitely her favorite dried fish.

Although cat treats and freeze-dried food are also delicious, dried fish is still the one that Xiaoyu likes best.

But if you want to eat dried anchovies, you have to wait at least a week.

This made things quite difficult for the little fish.

Fortunately, things are different now than they used to be.

After receiving the dried fish packaging, the little fish quietly lay back down on the ground.

With a package in its mouth, it crawled quickly on all fours to hide behind the sofa.

After confirming that everything was safe, Xiaoyu couldn't wait to open the packaging, take out a dried fish, and take a big bite.

……

At 10 a.m., Ai Qing stretched in her chair, glanced at the time, saved the draft, and then got up to make lunch.

As soon as I stood up, I noticed that the bedroom door had been opened a crack.