I was approached by a cat-eared girl.

It can't be that one person wants to go to this kind of activity center for retired cadres to play mahjong, and the other doesn't want to go, that's why they argued.

This is outrageous.

He looked at the girl, carefully considered his words, and then spoke up to defuse the situation, "My name is Chen Shuo, I'm his friend. I don't know what you two were arguing about. How about this, I'll talk to him for you another day, and you shouldn't..."

Mind your own business.

"......"

Chen Shuo was momentarily speechless. He gave Nie Xi a helpless look. Although he really wanted to help her out of the predicament, he could tell that this woman was not only angry, but also had a bad temper. In this situation, the more he tried to persuade her, the worse it would get.

"We have something to do, but she wants to eat hot pot. Um... do you two want to come along?"

"No need, you can go."

"Okay, see you later."

Chen Shuo pulled Bai Xiaoqi away from this troublesome place. After they had gone some distance, he couldn't help but look back at the two of them. He initially thought they had run into Nie Xi arguing with his girlfriend, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that something was not right.

The woman looked at Nie Xi as if she were an enemy, her eyes filled with impatience and anger.

Do couples do this?

Chen Shuo withdrew his gaze and then noticed that Bai Xiaoqi beside him was still looking back, her small face unusually solemn, and she seemed to want to say something but hesitated.

"what happened to you?"

Bai Xiaoqi withdrew her gaze, remained silent for a long time, and finally spoke up, "That woman is dangerous."

Upon hearing this, Chen Shuo suddenly stopped in his tracks.

Chapter Sixty-Eight: The Old Lady

Chen Shuo turned his head to look behind him. They had already walked quite a distance, and he could hardly see the two people. He tried hard to recall what the girl looked like. No matter how he looked at her, she was just a pretty young girl. She had nothing to do with the word "danger" at all. At most, she just had a bad temper.

"Do you mean she's in danger, or that she's inherently dangerous?" Chen Shuo asked.

"She gave me a dangerous feeling."

Bai Xiaoqi recalled the feeling of standing next to her just now, and felt a strange, indescribable flutter in her heart.

I wanted to describe it, but I was at a loss for words, so I simply used a very vivid analogy: "If I were still a cat, I would definitely bristle when I saw her."

Hearing this, Chen Shuo was stunned. Cats often bristle when they are frightened or feel threatened.

So, who exactly is that woman?

After thinking for a moment, he took out his phone to call Nie Xi to remind her.

But then I thought about it again and realized I didn't know how to remind her. I couldn't exactly say, "My girlfriend said that the woman next to you is dangerous, you should stay far away from her."

Isn't that crazy?

If I make another call, that woman might overhear, which would only add fuel to the fire.

After much deliberation, Chen Shuo decided to exit the call and start sending messages.

Seeing his actions, Bai Xiaoqi asked, "Who are you messaging?"

"Nie Xi, I'm going to send a message to that guy you just saw to get him away from that woman."

"I don't think it's necessary. Although that woman is dangerous, she probably won't do anything to your friend. I feel she's a good person."

"Why do you see everyone as a good person?"

Chen Shuo, who was editing a message on his phone, looked up and asked, "The reason?"

"Because she smelled similar to the older sister I used to meet."

"What sister?"

“When I was a cat in the mountains, I fell into the river one day and met a tall, big, and very imposing older sister. She saved me and gave me food, but she didn’t talk much and seemed cold.”

Tall, big, imposing, cold, and doesn't like to talk.

Upon hearing these adjectives, Chen Shuo naturally conjured up an image of a stunningly beautiful, voluptuous, and icy older sister in his mind.

Moreover, some of the words sounded very familiar; she seemed to have said those words the morning she came to his door.

Thinking about it this way, the human form that this girl wanted to become was modeled after this mature woman.

It's even quite possible that they want to become exactly like the other person.

"You mean this Su Yu is very likely related to the older sister you met, perhaps by blood?"

"I don't know, but I guess so." Bai Xiaoqi shook her head. "I wasn't very smart back then. I had only just developed sentience not long ago. Anyway, I think they all smelled pretty much the same."

Chen Shuo instinctively wanted to say that you're not very smart now, but he swallowed the words back and asked, "How many years ago are you talking about?"

Bai Xiaoqi continued to shake her head, "I don't know, it should be several decades."

"Decades?!"

Chen Shuo was surprised, "Aren't you an old lady?"

"You're the old lady!"

Bai Xiaoqi kicked him, and Chen Shuo couldn't dodge it. He took the hit squarely and winced in pain. "Stop messing around, I won't dislike you."

As he spoke, he looked back again, wondering if he should go back and ask if this Su Yu's grandmother or maternal grandmother were still alive.

I doubt he's gone; decades have passed. Of course, he might still be alive, but he'd be at least in his seventies or eighties.

Looking down at the WeChat message he was about to send, Chen Shuo silently deleted it. Although his cat-girl's reason was ridiculous, he still chose to believe her. After all, this girl's intuition was always quite accurate, especially when it came to distinguishing between good and bad.

But after thinking about it, he still sent four words.

【be safe.】

.......

“Ms. Su, I understand your eagerness to play mahjong, and I am well aware that I did make a promise, but I said before the matter was resolved, not after asking that question…”

As Nie Xi was speaking, she suddenly felt her phone vibrate in her pocket and paused. "Could you please wait a moment?"

Upon seeing the words "Be careful," Nie Xi frowned. Before she could think about it further, she heard Su Yu sneer, "Your friend's message to you was very timely. You should indeed be careful, because I really want to beat you up right now."

No, he definitely can't guess what you're thinking.

Nie Xi put her phone back in her pocket and said calmly, "We were confronted in the street and they saw us. There are two possibilities. First, they know your real identity and told me to be careful."

But that possibility is extremely slim, so I'm more inclined to believe the second possibility: he doesn't know your real identity, and his reminder is to remind us to be careful.

"we?"

"Yes." Nie Xi nodded. "In other words, it means you're worried that I'll get you pregnant."

"..."

"I kill you."

Enraged, Su Yu raised her hand to take his life, her palm rapidly approaching Nie Xi's forehead.

"Killing me will get you into big trouble."

Before she could finish speaking, her slender white hand stopped abruptly as if a pause button had been pressed, and then the gold-rimmed glasses on Nie Xi's nose shattered violently, shards of glass littering the ground.

"I hate your glasses."

"But I like it very much."

Nie Xi took off the glasses without lenses, put them in her pocket, and then took out a pair of intact gold-rimmed glasses from her pocket. "So I always carry a few spares with me."

As he spoke, he put on his glasses and looked at Su Yu, who was clearly enraged, and said, "Our bureau has files on both of you. Your sister is the most dangerous. She has a cold and unpredictable personality, and is always elusive. No one knows what she is thinking or doing."

And you, frankly, your assessment is simple: you're just drifting through life. For the past two years, you've become obsessed with mahjong, and it seems nothing else can interest you. So, I think since you just want to drift through life, you must really hate trouble, right?

“…”

Su Yu remained silent, simply staring coldly at him. Despite having only met him twice, she found herself constantly being swayed by this man, her emotions filled with nothing but negativity.

I really want to get rid of him, but once I do, there will only be endless trouble waiting for me.

He's right, I really hate trouble.

That's why I can only stay here...

She thought of a human term: impotent rage.

Thinking of this, Su Yu took a deep breath to calm herself down.

"Director Nie." She deliberately emphasized her words, and then continued, "You guessed right, the girlfriend of your friend that we just met is the same person I mentioned last time, the one who's either human or demon."

But I can tell that she used to be a cat, and she was on the path of seeking to become human. Something must have gone wrong, which is why she has this neither-human-nor-demon aura.

"To be granted the title of 'Transformer'..."

Nie Xi's expression was somewhat surprised. There are indeed mountain spirits that follow the path of seeking titles, but very few seek titles simply to transform into humans. In fact, not a single one has appeared in the past few decades or even centuries.

After all, those who seek a title can be greedy and demand more, directly seeking divine intervention or even becoming demons. The only loss is the lifespan of the person being questioned, but the beneficiaries are all them.

The path of seeking enlightenment and becoming a human, however, can destroy years of cultivation in an instant. All that is gained by giving everything is to become a true human.

How can being human compare to being a demon?

A lifespan of hundreds or thousands of years, and magical power beyond the norm—these are all exclusive to demons, not to mention that demons can also transform into human form.

To be honest, Nie Xi couldn't understand it at all. Since he joined the Administration Bureau five years ago and started dealing with demons, he had never encountered anything so special.

Is it because of kindness, that one cannot bear to see the person being questioned lose their luck or even their lifespan?

So who is this person being questioned? Chen Shuo?

Although there was no evidence, Nie Xi was already certain that this person was her childhood friend.

The course of events can even be deduced: he was banished, then the cat, having just taken human form, had nowhere to go and was taken in by him; the two developed feelings for each other and confirmed their relationship.

He took the script from Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio and did what Xu Xian did.

Chapter Sixty-Nine: I Am a Cat-Eared Girl

Thoughts raced through my mind. Although I still couldn't determine what species the other was, it no longer mattered.

Nie Xi didn't plan to investigate further. As long as she didn't pose a danger, that was enough. Moreover, through the brief contact just now, she could basically confirm that she was not a threat and looked quite harmless.